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First battery Massachusetts Light Artillery.
（1)
Maj. Asa M. Cook (3 months).
（2)
Capt. Josiah Porter.
（3)
Capt. Wm. H. Mccartney.
| Officers. | Men. | Totals. |
| Number on rolls,— |
| 3 months, | 9 | 107 | 116 |
| 3 years, | 8 | 261 | 269 |
| Enlisted men (included above) commissioned in battery,— |
| 3 years, | – | 3 | 3 |
| Enlisted men (included above) serving elsewhere within battery,— |
| 3 years, | – | 1 | 1 |
| Totals, | – | 4 | 4 |
| Actual total of members of battery,— |
| 3 months, | 9 | 107 | 116 |
| 3 years, | 8 | 257 | 265 |
| Killed and died of wounds, | – | 71 | – |
| Died by accident or disease, | – | 122 | – |
| Died in Confederate prison, | – | 1 | – |
| Total losses, | – | – | 20 |
| Casualties by Engagements. |
| 1862. |
| June 30, Glendale, Va., | – | 3 | – |
| 1863. |
| May 3, Chancellorsville, Va., | – | 1 | – |
| 1864. |
| June 5, Cold Harbor, Va., | – | 1 | – |
| Oct. 19, Cedar Creek, Va., | – | 2 | – |
| Totals, | – | – | 7 |
Active also at
Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27, 1862;
Malvern Hill, Va.;
Fredericksburg, Va., 2 wounded; Franklin's Crossing, June 5, 1863;
Gettysburg, Pa.;
Mine Run, Va.;
Spotsylvania (
Laurel Hill),
Va., 2 wounded;
Opequon, Va., 4 wounded;
Fisher's Hill, Va., 1 wounded.
The First Battery Massachusetts Light Artillery was recruited in
Boston during August of 1861, largely from the old
Boston Light Artillery, or
Cook's Battery,
Maj. Asa M. Cook, which was mustered into the U. S. service May 18, 1861, and was the only Massachusetts battery serving under the first call for troops.
The First Battery left the
State Oct 3, 1861, spent the winter of 1861-62 in camp about
Washington, was present at the siege of
Yorktown, Va., and at
West Point.
It entered the
Peninsular campaign as part of the 1st Division, 6th Corps, and took part in the battles of
Mechanicsville and
Gaines' Mill, Va.; it was active also at
Glendale and
Malvern Hill, Va.; engaged in the march to
Fredericksburg, Va., in November and in the
battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
The battery was in camp at White Oak Church, Va., during the winter of 1863; engaged in the
battle of Chancellorsville,
Va., May 3, 1863,
Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863, and
Mine Run, Nov. 30, 1863; in winter quarters at
Brandy Station during the winter of 1863-64; many of the men enlisted here for an additional term of service.
The battery was engaged on the
Po River on May 9, 10 and 11, 1864, and in operations in the Shenandoah Valley, also the battles of Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, Va. Having lost 40 men sent home during August, the battery was active in the battles of
Opequon and
Fisher's Hill, Va.; after this engagement the veterans not reenlisted left the battery, while the remaining men participated in the engagement of
Cedar Creek, and, after a short interval, 85 of these were transferred to the 9th Mass. Battery, there completing their term of service.
The battery lost in all 55 horses in action.
It was mustered out Oct. 19, 1864.
