1st Rhode Island Light Artillery / Battery F

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Providence October 29, 1861. Left State 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. Unattached, Dept. North Carolina, to December, 1862. Artillery Brigade, Dept. North Carolina, to January, 1863. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to May, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, N. C., to November, 1863. District of St. Marys, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1864. U.S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to June, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--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 till 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, thence 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 C. H. in support of Kilpatrick's Cavalry March 1-4. Expedition into King and Queen County March 9-12. Butler's operations on 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. Mustered out June 27, 1865.
Battery lost during service 10 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 17 Enlisted men by disease. Total 27.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 1632-1633)
1
1
1
1
1
1