The Civil War in the East

2nd Maine Battery (B)

 

The Second Maine Battery lost 1 officer and 4 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 26 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.

 

The battery is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the Second Maine Battery at Gettysburg

1861

November 20

Organized at Augusta and mustered in; Duty at Augusta

1862

March 10

At Fort Preble, Portland, Me.

April 2

Ordered to Washington, D.C. and camp at Capital Hill

April 20

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division (McDowell's), Dept. of the Rappahannock

April 20-27

Moved to Potomac Creek, Va., then to Belie Plains

May 9

Moved to Falmouth

May 25-30

To Manassas and Front Royal

June

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps. Army of Virginia

June 16

Moved to Manassas

July 5

Warrenton

July 9

To Waterloo

August 5

To Culpeper C. H.

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 21-23

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 25-27

Plains of Manassas

August 28

Thoroughfare Gap

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September 1

Battle of Centreville

September

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 11 -
October 13

Duty in the Defences of Washington

October 13 -
November 23

Operations in Maryland and Virginia

November 23 -
December 9

Camp at Brooks Station

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February - April

Camp near Fletcher's Chapel

April 28 - May 8

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29 - May 2

Operations at Fitzhugh's Crossing

May 2-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 1st Army Corps

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded by Captain James A. Hall. It brought to the field 127 men serving six Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 18 wounded.

August 2-
September 16

At Norman's Ford

September 17

Moved to Culpeper, thence to the Rapidan River

November 5

Attached to Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps

1864

April 25

Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

May 3

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 10

Ny River

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey River

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 15

Before Petersburg

July

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 9th Army Corps

August

Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

September 17

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

September 17

Moved to City Point and duty in the defences at that point

1865

May 3

Moved to Alexandria, Va.

May 31

To Augusta

June 16

Mustered out