Battery B , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Battery B , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The battery was organized in Providence , Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 18 , 1861 under the command of Captain Thomas F . Vaughan . The battery was attached to Stone ' s Brigade , Division of the Potomac , to October 1861 . Artillery , Stone ' s ( Sedgwick ' s ) Division , Army of the Potomac , to March 1862 . Artillery , 2nd Division , II Corps , Army of the Potomac , to June 1863 . Artillery Brigade , II Corps , to June 1865 . Battery B , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery mustered out of service on June 13 , 1865 . Detailed service . Left Rhode Island for Washington , D . C . , August 23 . Duty at Camp Stone and along Upper Potomac until February , 1862 . Operations on the Potomac October 21 – 24 , 1861 . Battle of Ball ' s Bluff October 21 . March to Harpers Ferry , W . Va . , February 25 – 26 , 1862 , and duty there until March 7 . Moved to Charlestown , thence to Berryville March 7 – 10 . Advance toward Winchester March 13 – 14 . Return to Harpers Ferry , then moved to Washington . D . C . , and Hampton , Va . , March 22 - April 1 . Siege of Yorktown April 5 - May 4 . Battle of Fair Oaks ( Seven Pines ) May 31 - June 1 . Seven days before Richmond June 25 - July 1 . Peach Orchard and Savage Station June 29 . Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30 . Malvern Hill July 1 . At Harrison ' s Landing until August 16 . Movement to Fortress Monroe , then to Alexandria and Fairfax Court House August 16 – 31 . Cover retreat of Pope ' s Army from Bull Run to Washington August 31 - September 2 . Maryland Campaign September . Battles of South Mountain September 14 , and Antietam September 16 – 17 . Moved to Harpers Ferry September 22 , and duty there until October 30 . Reconnaissance to Charlestown October 16 – 17 . Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth , Va . , October 30 - November 17 . Battle of Fredericksburg December 11 – 15 . Duty at Falmouth until April 27 , 1863 . Chancellorsville Campaign April 27 - May 6 . Maryes Heights , Fredericksburg , May 3 . Salem Heights May 3 – 4 . Banks ' Ford May 4 . Gettysburg Campaign June 11 - July 24 . Battle of Gettysburg July 1 – 4 . Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13 – 17 . Bristoe Campaign October 9 – 22 . Auburn and Bristoe October 14 . Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7 – 8 . Mine Run Campaign November 26 - December 2 . At Stevensburg , Va . , until May 1864 . Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6 – 7 . Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May – June . Battles of the Wilderness May 5 – 7 ; Spotsylvania May 8 – 12 ; Spotsylvania Court House May 12 – 21 . Assault on the Salient May 12 . 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 , 1864 to April 2 , 1865 . Jerusalem Plank Road June 22 – 23 , 1864 . Deep Bottom July 27 – 28 . Strawberry Plains , Deep Bottom , August 14 – 18 . Ream ' s Station August 25 . Hatcher ' s Run October 27 – 28 . Dabney ' s Mills February 5 – 7 , 1865 . Appomattox Campaign March 28 - April 9 . Fall of Petersburg April 2 . Sayler ' s Creek April 6 . High Bridge and Farmville April 7 . Appomattox Court House April 9 . Surrender of Lee and his army . Moved to Washington , D . C . , May 2 – 15 . Grand Review of the Armies May 23 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 29 men during service ; 1 officer and 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 15 enlisted men died of disease . Legacy . Battery B , 1st Battalion , 103rd Field Artillery Regiment , Rhode Island National Guard traces is origins to this battery .