5th Maine Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
[2] The battery was attached to 2nd Division, Department of the Rappahannock, to June 1862.
2nd Division, III Corps, Army of Virginia, to September 1862.
Artillery Brigade, VI Corps, to December 1864.
Artillery Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah, to July 1865.
[1] Duty at Augusta until March 10, 1862, and at Fort Preble, Portland, Me., until April 1.
Moved to Front Royal, Va., May 25, 1862, and to Manassas June 17.
Ordered to Washington September 7, to refit, and duty there until October 24.
Ordered to Washington, D.C. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.
Near Winchester until December 28, and at Stevenson's Depot until January 10, 1865.
[1] Two infantrymen of the Fifth Maine Battery are highlighted in the third chapter of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955).