Item No. 4121630

Framed albumen photograph featuring about 120 men of the 7th Maine Battery posed together in front of a large building. The officer seated at center is Captain Adelbert B. Twitchell, commanding the battery. The bearded officer to left of Twitchell may be Lieut. Lorin E. Bundy. Image is captioned “7th Maine Battery” with imprint of S.W. Sawyer, Bangor, Maine. Undated. Measures 5 1/4” x 7 1/8” on 7 1/2” x 9 1/2” mount, housed in decorative frame, 10 3/4” x 12 3/4”. Toning to image and mount with some water staining visible in margins of mount, particularly left edge and bottom left corner, as well as area near bottom right corner. Water staining extends into left edge and bottom portion of photograph. Some creasing, few tears visible along edges of mount. Frame with some surface wear, nicks.

The 7th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 30, 1863. It served briefly in the Washington Defenses as part of the 22nd Corps. In preparation for Grant’s Overland Campaign, the battery was reassigned to the 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac, in April 1864, and saw extensive action at Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg during the bloody summer fighting. Helping to break the entrenched Confederate Army at Petersburg in April, the Maine boys joined in the pursuit of the beleaguered Army of Northern Virginia before mustering out on June 21, 1865.