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2nd Battery,

1st Maine Light Artillery

Muster In: November 30, 1861 at Augusta
Muster Out: June 16, 1865 at Augusta
Length of Service: Three Years, seven months

Engagements

  • Cross Keys, VA - July 8, 1862
  • Cedar Mountain, MD - August 9, 1862
  • Second Bull Run, VA - August 29, 1862
  • Chantilly, VA - September 1, 1862
  • Chancellorsville, VA - May 3, 1863
  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1, 1863
  • Rappahannock Bridge, VA - November 7, 1863
  • Wilderness, VA - May 5, 1864
  • Spotsylvania, VA - May 7, 1864
  • Fredericksburg Pike, VA - May 19, 1864
  • North Anna, VA - May 23, 1864
  • Cold Harbor, VA - May 31, 1864
  • Petersburg, VA - June 15, 1864
  • Thoroughfare Gap, VA - August 17, 1864 ca.

    Casualties

    5 killed or died of wounds
    26 died of disease

    Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

  • Civil War Correspondence
  • Civil War Index for Soldiers and Sailors
  • Civil War Muster Rolls
  • Civil War Obituaries
  • Civil War Photos (Mostly Officers)
  • Cemetery Index
  • General Law Pension
  • Graves Registration Cards

    Civil War Records Unique to the Second Battery, First Maine Light Artillery

  • Enlistment Papers 1862-1864 (Box 44)

  • Muster and Descriptive Rolls 1863-1864 (Box 175)

  • Post War Post Office Addresses
  • List of men mustered out on a single muster roll
  • Clothing Book, Volume marked Co. B.
  • 3 Newspaper Clippings re: 2nd Battery at Gettysburg (1880's)
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