Fifth Battery, First Maine Light Artillery

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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