6th Maine Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
[1] The 6th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on January 1, 1862, under the command of Captain Freeman McGilvery.
[2] The battery was attached to 2nd Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to August 1862.
3rd Division, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, August 1862.
Artillery, 2nd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June 1863.
4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to September 1863.
Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.
Camp at East Capitol Hill and at Forts Buffalo and Ramsey, and at Falls Church, Va., until June.
Ordered to report to General Banks at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Duty at Harpers Ferry, Cedar Creek, and Little Washington, Va., June to August 1862.
Duty at Sandy Hook, Md., and at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., until December.
March to Warrenton Junction, Va., July 18-August 2, and duty there until September 16.
Ordered to reserve artillery at City Point April 3.