Battery F , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Battery F , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . The battery briefly served as cavalry , March 20 to May 18 , 1862 . Service . The battery was organized at Camp Perry in Cranston , Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on October 29 , 1861 under the command of Captain Miles G . Moies . The battery first served unattached , Department of North Carolina , to December 1862 . Artillery Brigade , Department of North Carolina , to January 1863 . Artillery Brigade , XVIII Corps , Department of North Carolina , to May 1863 . Defenses of New Berne , North Carolina , to November 1863 . District of St . Marys , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , to January 1864 . U . S . Forces , Yorktown , Virginia , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , to April 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Division , XVIII Corps , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , to June 1864 . Artillery Brigade , XVIII Corps , to December 1864 . Artillery Brigade , XXIV Corps , Department of Virginia , to June 1865 . Battery F , 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery mustered out of service on June 27 , 1865 . Detailed service . Left Rhode Island for Washington , D . C . , November 7 . Duty at Camp Sprague and at Camp California , near Alexandria , defenses of Washington , until January 1862 . Moved to Annapolis , Md , Attached to Burnside ' s Expeditionary Corps to April 1862 . Burnside ' s Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island , N . C . , January 9 - February 7 , 1862 . At Hatteras Inlet until February 26 , and at Roanoke Island until March 11 . Moved to New Berne , N . C . , March 11 – 14 , and duty there until October 1863 . Picket and outpost duty as cavalry March 20 to May 18 , 1862 . Action at Deep Gully March 31 . Trent Road April 19 . Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville July 24 – 28 . Expedition to Little Washington October 29 – 30 . Expedition from New Berne November 2 – 12 . Action at Rawle ' s Mills November 2 . Demonstration on New Berne November 11 . Foster ' s Expedition to Goldsboro December 11 – 20 . Kinston December 14 . Whitehall December 16 . Goldsboro December 17 . Expedition for relief of Little Washington April 7 – 10 , 1863 . Action at Blount ' s Creek April 9 . Expedition to Swift Creek Village April 13 – 21 ( section ) . Expedition to Washington April 17 – 19 . Expedition to Trenton July 4 – 8 . Actions at Free Bridge and Quaker Bridge July 6 . Expedition to Winston July 25 – 26 . Pattacassy Creek , Mt . Tabor Church , July 26 . Expedition to Elizabeth City October 10 – 16 . Moved to Norfolk , Va . , October 30 - November 5 , then to Point Lookout , Md . , November 23 – 24 , and duty there until January 1864 . Moved to Yorktown , Va . , January 24 . Wistar ' s Expedition toward Richmond February 6 – 8 . Ball ' s Cross Roads February 7 . Bottom ' s Bridge February 7 . Expedition from Yorktown to New Kent Court House in support of Kilpatrick ' s Cavalry March 1 – 4 . Expedition into King and Queen County March 9 – 12 . Butler ' s operations on the south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4 – 28 . Swift Creek or Arrow field Church May 9 – 10 . Operations against Fort Darling May 12 – 16 . Battle of Drewry ' s Bluff May 14 – 16 . On Bermuda Hundred line May 16 - June 15 . Before Petersburg June 15 – 18 . Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 , 1864 to April 2 , 1865 . Battle of Chaffin ' s Farm September 28 – 30 , 1864 . Duty at Aiken ' s Landing October 7 - November 8 , 1864 , and at Chaffin ' s Farm before Richmond until April 7 , 1865 . Moved to Richmond April 7 , and duty there until June 25 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 27 men during service ; 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 17 enlisted men died of disease .