United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine > 4th Maine Battery


The 4th Maine Battery lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 22 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
December 21 Organized at Augusta and mustered in under the command of Captain O’Neil W. Robinson, an attorney from Bethel, Maine.
December Duty at Augusta
1862
March 14 At Portland, Maine.
April 1-3 Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the defences of that city attached to the Military District of Washington
June 28 Ordered to Harper’s Ferry and attached to 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia
August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16-
September 2

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 20-23 Fords of the Rappahannock
August 24 Sulphur Springs
August 29

Battle of Groveton (Brawner Farm)

August 30

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

September Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 16-17

Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)

The battery brought 104 men to field armed with six 3-inch Ordnance Rifles.

September Duty at Maryland Heights
October 13 On the Upper Potomac
December 10 At Bolivar Heights
1863
April 7 At Maryland Heights
May Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Corps
June 30-July 6 Moved to Monocacy Junction, then to South Mountain, Maryland.
July 6-24 Pursuit of Lee
July 23 Wapping Hetghts, Va.
August 1 Camp near Bealton
September 15 On Culpeper and Warrenton Pike attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps
October 10-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 12-13 Culpeper
October 15 McLean’s Ford
November 7 Kelly’s Ford
November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27 Payne’s Farm
December At Brandy station
1864
April Assigned to the Artillery Brigade, 6th Corps
May 4-June 15

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-21

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

May 23-27

North Anna River

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June Major O’Neil returned to Maine on recruiting duties due to poor health. He would die at his father’s home in Bethel on his 40th birthday, July 17.
June 17

Siege of Petersburg begins

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

July-April Duty in the trenches before Petersburg at various points from the James River to the Weldon Railroad
August Assigned to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac
1865
March Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac
April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 6

Sailor’s Creek

April 9

Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.

June 17 The 4th Maine Battery mustered out