United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island
Rhode Island’s Battery F lost 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 17 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861 |
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| October 29 | Organized at Providence |
| November 7 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| November | Duty at Camp Sprague and at Camp California, near Alexandria, Defenses of Washington |
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1862 |
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| January | Moved to Annapolis, Md. and Attached to Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps |
| January 9 | Burnside’s Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C. |
| February 7 | At Hatteras Inlet |
| February 26 | At Roanoke Island |
| March 11-14 | Moved to New Berne, N. C. |
| March 20 to May 18 | Picket and outpost duty as Cavalry |
| April | Assigned to Dept. North Carolina |
| March 31 | Action at Deep Gully |
| April 19 | Trent Road |
| July 24-28 | Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville |
| October 29-30 | Expedition to Little Washington |
| November 2-12 | Expedition from New Berne. Assigned to Artillery Brigade, Dept. North Carolina |
| November 2 | Action at Rawle’s Mills |
| November 11 | Demonstration on New Berne. |
| December 11-20 | Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro. |
| December 14 | Kinston |
| December 16 | Whitehall |
| December 17 | Goldsboro |
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1863 |
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| January | Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| April 7-10 | Expedition for relief of Little Washington |
| April 9 | Action at Blount’s Creek |
| April 13-21 | Expedition to Swift Creek Village (Section) |
| April 17-19 | Expedition to Washington |
| May | Assigned to Defenses of New Berne, N. C., |
| July 4-8 | Expedition to Trenton |
| July 6 | Actions at Free Bridge and Quaker Bridge |
| July 25-26 | Expedition to Winston |
| July 26 | Pattacassy Creek, Mt. Tabor Church |
| October 10-16 | Expedition to Elizabeth City |
| October 30-November 5 | Moved to Norfolk, Va. Assigned to the District of St. Marys, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
| November 23-24 | To Point Lookout, Md. |
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1864 |
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| January 24 | Moved to Yorktown, Va. Assigned to U.S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
| February 6-8 | Wistar’s Expedition toward Richmond. |
| February 7 | Ball’s Cross Roads and Bottom’s Bridge |
| March 1-4 | Expedition from Yorktown to New Kent C. H. in support of Kilpatrick’s Cavalry. |
| March 9-12 | Expedition into King and Queen County. |
| April | Assigned to Artillery, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond. |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrow field Church. |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 | Battle of Drewry’s Bluff |
| May 16-June 15 | On Bermuda Hundred line |
| June | Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps |
| June 15-18 | Before Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin |
| September 28-30 | Battle of Chaffin’s Farm |
| October 7 | Duty at Aiken’s Landing |
| November 8 | At Chaffin’s Farm before Richmond |
| December | Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
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1865 |
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| April 7 | Moved to Richmond |
| June 27 | Mustered out |