7th Maine Light Artillery Battery

7th Maine Light Artillery Battery
7th Maine Light Artillery Battery
Active	December 30, 1863, to June 21, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	Overland Campaign; Battle of the Wilderness; Battle of Spotsylvania Court House; Battle of Totopotomoy Creek; Battle of Cold Harbor; Siege of Petersburg; Second Battle of Petersburg; Battle of the Crater; Second Battle of Ream's Station

7th Maine Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 7th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 30, 1863.

The battery was attached to 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August 1864. Artillery Brigade, IX Corps, to June 1865.

The 7th Maine Battery mustered out of service June 21, 1865, at Augusta, Maine.

Detailed service

Left Maine for Washington, D.C., February 1, 1864. Duty at Camp Barry until April 25. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va., May 3-June 15, 1864. Battles of the Wilderness May 5–7; Spotsylvania May 8–12; Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21; North Anna May 23–26. Ox Ford May 23–24. Line of the Pamunkey May 26–28. Totopotomoy May 28–31. Cold Harbor June 1–12. Bethesda Church June 1–3. Before Petersburg June 16–18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864. Ream's Station August 25. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Pegram's Farm October 2. Garrison, Fort Welsh, until November 30, and Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell) and Battery 21 until April 3, 1865. Assault on and capture of Petersburg April. 2-3. Pursuit of Lee April 4–9. At Farmville April 10–20. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 20–28, and camp near Fairfax Seminary to June 5. Grand Review of the Armies May 24. Moved to Augusta, Me., June 5–8.

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 40 enlisted men during service; 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 27 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Captain (Brevet Major) Adelbert B. Twitchell

Notable members

Private James A. Roberts - lawyer and New York state politician

References

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Lapham, William Berry. My Recollections of the War of the Rebellion (Augusta, ME: Burleigh & Flynt, Printers), 1892.
Twitchell, Albert Sobieski. History of the Seventh Maine Light Battery, Volunteers in the Great Rebellion (Boston, MA: E. B. Stillings & Co.), 1892.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.