6th Battery,

1st Maine Light Artillery

Muster In: February 7, 1862 at Augusta
Muster Out: June 17, 1865 at Augusta
Length of Service: Three Years, four months

Engagements

Cedar Mountain, MD - August 9, 1862
Second Bull Run, VA - August 29, 1862
Chantilly, VA - September 1, 1862
Antietam, MD - September 17, 1862
Blackfords Ford, VA - September 19, 1862
Gettysburg, PA - July 1, 1863
Rappahannock Bridge, VA - November 7, 1863
Mine Run, VA - November 26, 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
Sulpher Springs, VA - date??
Casualties
13 killed or died of wounds
27 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 Sixth 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 to G.

Typescript account of the 6th Me. Battery at Gettysburg by Capt. Dow, 3 pages
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