The Civil War in the East

3rd Maine Battery (G)

The 3rd Maine Battery lost 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 14 to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

 

Organized at Augusta

December 11

Mustered in

December

Duty at Augusta

1862

March 19

At Portland, Me.

April 1-8

Moved to Washington, D.C.

April 8

Camp at Capital Hill

April 14

Assigned to duty as Pontooneers, McDowell's Dept. of the Rappahannock. Duty with Pontoon Train at Falmouth, Va., Washington. D.C., and at Alexandria, Va.

June

Assigned as Pontooneers, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September

At Fort Lincoln, attached to 1st Brigade, Haskins' Division, Defences of Washington

1863

February

Battery assigned to 1st Maine Heavy Artillery as Company M

March 28

In the Defences with 1st Maine Heavy Artillery attached to Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps

1864

January-February

On Veteran furlough

February 23

Detached from 1st Maine Heavy Artillery and reorganized as 3rd Battery

March 25

Moved to Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, 22nd Corps

July 5-9

Moved to City Point, then to Petersburg front

July 9

Siege of Petersburg. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

August

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

October 25

Moved to City Point, Va.

1865

May 3

Moved to Washington, D.C.

May 17

At Fairfax Seminary

June 2

Ordered to Augusta, Me.

June 17

Mustered out