Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives has three original books from the 6th Maine Battery - General Orders, Morning Reports, and the Company Descriptive Book. Discipline in the battery appears to have been strict. Special Orders dated 20 July 1863 relate to punishment for pillaging, keeping the men within earshot of the carriages, and prohibiting absence except with permission by Lt. Rogus or Lt. Edwin B. Dow. The battery incidentally had formerly been commanded by Freeman McGilvery, who was promoted to command the battalion. General Orders issued 15 December 1863 at Camp near Brandy Station spells out the daily schedule: Reveille 6 am, Roll Call 6 1/4, Grain Call 6 1/2, Breakfast 7, Water Call 7 1/2, Groom Call 8 1/4, Guard Mount and Sick Call 9, Feed Hay 11, Dinner Call 12 noon, Groom Call 3 pm, Water Call 3 3/4, Retreat 4 1/2, Feed Call (Grain) 4 3/4, Supper 5, Feed Hay 6 1/2, Roll Call and Tattoo 8, Taps 8 1/2 "when all lights to be extinguished except in the guard tent." The Morning Reports book notes June 30 in Frederick/Taneytown, and that two horses died on the march, and states that Maddocks and O'Hearn straggled on the march. The Company Descriptive Book notes that Lt. Dow commanded the battery at Gettysburg, and that 1Lt Wm. H. Rogers was also present. Eight men are listed as wounded in that battle, including John Annis (born in Elsinore, Denmark), and George Maddocks. Of course most of the men of the battery were from Maine, but there are quite a few from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, four from England, ten from Ireland, one from Scotland, some from New Hampshire, three from New York, and one each from Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.