1st Maine Battery 1st Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 1st Maine Battery was organized in Portland , Maine and mustered in for three years ' service on December 18 , 1861 . The battery was attached to 3rd Brigade , Department of the Gulf , to September 1862 . Weitzel ' s Reserve Brigade , Department of the Gulf , to January 1863 . Artillery , 1st Division , XIX Corps , Department of the Gulf , to January 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Division , XIX Corps , to April 1864 . Camp Barry , Defenses of Washington , XXII Corps , to July 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Division , XIX Corps , Army of the Shenandoah , Middle Military Division , to February 1865 . 2nd Division , Army of the Shenandoah , to July 1865 . The 1st Maine Battery mustered out of service July 15 , 1865 at Portland , Maine . Detailed service . Moved to Lowell , Mass . , December 19 , and duty there until February 1862 . Moved to Boston February 2 , and there embarked on steamer " Idaho " for Ship Island , Miss . , February 8 , arriving there March 10 . Duty at Ship Island until May 8 . Moved from Ship Island , Miss . , to New Orleans , La . , May 8 – 15 , and served provost duty there until September 1862 . Duty at Camp Parapet September 1 - October 24 . Operations in La Fourche District October 24 - November 6 . Action at Georgia Landing , Labadieville , October 27 . At Thibodeauxville until January 1863 . Expedition up the Teche January 11 – 18 . Action with steamer " Cotton " , Bayou Teebe , January 14 . At Camp Stevens , Brashear City , and Bayou Boeuf until April . Operations in western Louisiana April 9 - May 14 . Teche Campaign April 11 – 20 . Fort Bisland , near Centreville , April 12 – 13 . Jeanerette April 14 . Expedition from Opelousas to Barre Landing April 21 . Siege of Port Hudson May 23 - July 8 . Thompson ' s Creek May 25 . Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14 . Surrender of Port Hudson July 8 . Koch ' s Plantation , Donaldsonville , July 12 – 13 . Moved to Baton Rouge August 3 , and duty there until September 18 . Western Louisiana Campaign October 3 - November 18 . At New Iberia until January 7 , 1864 . Moved to Franklin January 7 , then to Brashear City and New Orleans January 18 – 20 . On veteran furlough February and March . Moved to Annapolis , Md . , April 15 – 19 , then to Camp Barry , Washington , D . C . , April 20 . Duty there and at Fort Smith and Fort Strong , Defenses of Washington , until July . Repulse of Early ' s attack on Washington July 11 – 12 . At Camp Barry until July 30 . Ordered to Tennallytown July 30 , and joined XIX Corps at Monocacy Junction August 1 . Sheridan ' s Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7 - November 28 . March to Middletown August 6 – 15 ; to Winchester , then to Berryville August 15 – 17 , and to Halltown August 21 . At Berryville August 28 - September 18 . Battle of Opequan , Winchester , September 19 . Fisher ' s Hill September 22 . Battle of Cedar Creek October 19 . Duty near Cedar Creek until November 9 , and near Winchester until December 30 . At Stevenson ' s Depot until January 14 , 1865 ; at Manchester until April 14 , and at Winchester until July 9 . Moved to Portland , Me . , July 9 – 13 , 1865 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 43 men during service ; 2 officers and 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 28 enlisted men died of disease .