5th Battery,

1st Maine Light Artillery

Muster In: December 4, 1861 at Augusta
Muster Out: July 6, 1865 at Augusta
Length of Service: Three Years, seven months

Engagements

Second Bull Run, VA - August 29, 1862
Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 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
North Anna, VA - May 23, 1864
Cold Harbor, VA - May 31, 1864
Petersburg, VA - June 15, 1864
Winchester, VA - September 19, 1864
Fishers Hill, VA - September 22, 1864
Cedar Creek, VA - October 19, 1864
Thoroughfare Gap, VA - date??
Casualties
18 killed or died of wounds
17 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 Fifth Battery, First Maine Light Artillery

Enlistment Papers 1862-1864 (Box 44)

Muster and Descriptive Rolls 1863-1864 (Box 176)

Post War Post Office Addresses

List of men mustered out on a single muster roll

Clothing Book, Volume marked Co. E.

Manuscript account of the 5th Me. Battery at Gettysburg by Maj. G. Stevens, Sept. 20, 1889, 6 pages.
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