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Battery “C,” 1st Rhode Island Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Providence and mustered in August 25, 1861.

Left State for Washington, D. C., August 31.

Attached to Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.

3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1864, and Army of the Shenandoah to November, 1864, Camp Barry, 22nd Corps, Dept. Washington, to December, 1864.

Service.

Duty at Camp Sprague, Defenses of Washington, till October, 1861, and at Hall's and Munson's Hills till March, 1862.

Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-16.

Moved to Alexandria, thence to Fortress Monroe, Va., March 16-23.

Action at Howard's Bridge April 4.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Hanover C. H. May 27.

Operations about Hanover C. H. May 27-29.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Battles of Mechanicsvills June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge and Malvern Cliff June 30; Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28.

Battle of Bull Run August 30.

Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17.

Shepherdstown September 19.

At Sharpsburg till October 30.

Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

At Falmouth, Va., till April 27.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Operations at Franklin's Crossing June 5-13.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-4.

At Warrenton, Va., till September 15.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Rappahannock Station November 7.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

At Brandy Station till May, 1864.

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May-June.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12: Spottsylvania C. H. May 12-21; North Anna River May 23-26.

Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Before Petersburg June 16-18.

Siege of Petersburg June 16-July 9.

Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23.

Moved to Washington, D. C., June 9-11.

Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12.

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to November.

Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.

Fisher's Hill September 22.

Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.

Duty at Winchester and Kernstown till November, and at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, till December.

[1632] Consolidated with Battery “G,” 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, December 23, 1864.

Battery lost during service 19 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 8 Enlisted men by disease. Total 27.

1908.

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