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.
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1861
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| 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 |
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1862
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| 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 |
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1863
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| 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 |
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1864
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| 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 |
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1865
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| March | Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac |
| April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
| April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| June 17 | The 4th Maine Battery mustered out |