The Civil War in the East

4th Maine Battery (G)

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

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

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps

May 4-June 15

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

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 C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army.

June 17

Mustered out