The Civil War in the East

1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, Battery D

Rhode Island's Battery D lost 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 12 men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

 

Organized at Providence

September 4

Mustered in

September 14

Left State for Washington, D.C.

September

Duty at Upton's Hill, Va., Defenses of Washington. Attached to McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac

1862

March

Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac

March 9-16

March to Fairfax C. H.

March 29

To Bristoe, then to Falmouth

April

Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

May 25-29

McDowell's advance on Richmond

June 2-11

Pursuit of Jackson. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

July 24-27

Reconnaissance to Orange C. H.

August 5-8

Expedition to Virginia Central Railroad

August 5-6

Action at Thornburg's Mill or Massaponax Church

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 28

Battle of Gainesville

August 29

Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September

Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac

September 16-17

Antietam

October 30-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February

At Falmouth

February 19

Moved to Newport News

March 19-29

To Covington, Ky., then Lexington, Ky. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio

May 8

Moved to Camp Nelson, Ky.

June

Attached to 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. Ohio

July 12

To Cincinnati, Ohio

August 15

To Camp Nelson

August 16-
October 17

Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee. Attached to Artillery Reserve, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. Ohio

August 16-
September 4

March over Cumberland Mountains to Loudon, Tenn. Attached to Artillery. 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio

October 7-10

March to Blue Springs

October 10

Action at Blue Springs

October 13-17

March to Knoxville, Tenn.

October 20-22

To Loudon

October 28

To Lenoir Station

November 4-December 23

Knoxville Campaign

November 16

Campbell's Station

November 17-December 4

Siege of Knoxville

November 29

Repulse of Longstreet's assault on Fort Saunders

December 5-14

Pursuit to Rutledge

December

Operations in East Tennessee

1864

February - March

Veterans on furlough

March 20-April 7

Movement to Washington, D.C. Attached to Reserve Artillery, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

May

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

June

Garrison duty at Fort Lincoln, Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to 1st Brigade, Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington

August to December

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Reserve Artillery, 19th Army Corps, Army Shenandoah, Middle Military Division

September 19

Battle of Opequan, Winchester

September 21

Strasburg

September 22

Fister's Hill

October 19

Battle of Cedar Creek

October

Duty in the Shenandoah Valley

December

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 19th Army Corps, Army Shenandoah

1865

March

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Shenandoah

July 17

Mustered out