4th Maine Battery

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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
December Duty at Augusta
1862
March 14 At Portland
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 Army Corps, Army of Virginia
August 9 Battle of Cedar Mountain Va.
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
August 30
Battle of Bull Run
September Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac
September 16-17
Battle of Antietam
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 Army Corps
June 30-July 6 Moved to Monocacy Junction, then to South Mountain, Md.
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 Army 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 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 Mustered out