3rd Maine Battery was an artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 battery

Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems...

 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 3rd Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine

Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the capital of the US state of Maine, county seat of Kennebec County, and center of population for Maine. The city's population was 19,136 at the 2010 census, making it the third-smallest state capital after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota...

 and mustered in for three years' service on December 11, 1861.

The battery was assigned to duty as Pontooneers, McDowell's Department of the Rappahannock, April to June 1862. Pontooneers, III Corps, Army of Virginia

Army of Virginia

The Army of Virginia was organized as a major unit of the Union Army and operated briefly and unsuccessfully in 1862 in the American Civil War. It should not be confused with its principal opponent, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E...

, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, Haskins' Division, Defenses of Washington, to February 1863. Battery assigned to 1st Maine Heavy Artillery

1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment

The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It suffered more casualties in an ill-fated charge during the Siege of Petersburg than any Union regiment lost in a single day of combat throughout the war...

 as Company M, March 28, 1863. Attached to Haskins' Division, XXII Corps, to February 1864. Detached from 1st Maine Heavy Artillery and reorganized as 3rd Maine Battery February 23, 1864. Attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, XXII Corps, April to July 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-History:The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861, but was then only the size of a corps . Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern Virginia, under Brig. Gen...

, to August 1864. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.

The 3rd Maine Battery mustered out of service June 17, 1865 at Augusta, Maine.

Detailed service

Duty at Augusta until March 19, 1862, and at Portland, Me., until April 1. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 1-8. Camp at Capitol Hill until April 14. Duty with Pontoon Train at Falmouth, Va., Washington. D.C., and at Alexandria, Va., April to November 1862. Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Second Battle of Bull Run August 30. At Fort Lincoln, Defenses of Washington, until March 28, 1863, and in the Defenses with 1st Maine Heavy Artillery until January 1864. On veteran furlough January and February. Moved to Camp Barry March 25, and duty there until July 5. Moved to City Point, then to Petersburg front July 5-9. Siege of Petersburg July 9-October 25. Moved to City Point, Va., October 25, and duty in the defenses at that point until May 3, 1865. Moved to Washington, D.C., May 3-17. At Fairfax Seminary until June 2. Ordered to Augusta, Me..

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 17 enlisted men during service; 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 14 enlisted men died of disease.

See also

• List of Maine Civil War units
• Maine in the American Civil War
  Maine in the American Civil War
  During the American Civil War, the state of Maine was a source of military manpower, supplies, ships, arms, and political support for the Union Army...