First Battery Light Artillery (A)

Organized at Portland and mustered in December 18, 1861. Moved to Lowell, Mass., December 19, and duty there till February, 1862. Moved to Boston February 2, and there embarked on Steamer "Idaho" for Ship Island, Miss., February 8, arriving there March 10. Duty at Ship Island till May 8. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf, to September, 1862. Weitzel's Reserve Brigade, Dept. Gulf, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. Gulf, to January, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to February, 1865. 2nd Division, Army Shenandoah, to July.

SERVICE -- Moved from Ship Island, Miss., to New Orleans, La., May 8-15, and provost duty there till September, 1862. Duty at Camp Parapet September 1-October 24. Operations in La Fourche District October 24-November 6. Action at Georgia Landing, Labadieville, October 27. At Thibodeauxville till January, 1863. Expedition up the Teche January 11-18. Action with Steamer "Cotton," Bayou Teebe, January 14. At Camp Stevens, Brashear City and Bayou Boeuf till April. Operations in Western Louisiana April 9-May 14. Teche Campaign April 11-20. Fort Bisland, near Centreville, April 12-13. Jeanerette April 14. Expedition from Opelousas to Barre Landing April 21. Siege of Port Hudson May 23-July 8. Thompson's Creek May 25. Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Surrender of Port Hudson July 8. Koch's Plantation, Donaldsonville, July 12-13. Moved to Baton Rouge August 3, and duty there till September 18. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 18. At New Iberia till January 7, 1864. Moved to Franklin January 7, thence to Brashear City and New Orleans January 18-20. On Veteran furlough February and March. Moved to Annapolis, Md., April 15-19, thence to Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., April 20. Duty there and at Forts Smith and Strong, Defences of Washington, till July. Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12. At Camp Barry till July 30. Ordered to Tennallytown July 30, and join 19th Army Corps at Monocacy Junction August 1. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28. March to Middletown August 6-15; to Winchester, thence to Berryville August 15-17, and to Halltown August 21. At Berryville August 28-September 18. Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty near Cedar Creek till November 9, and near Winchester till December 30. At Stevenson's Depot till January 14, 1865; at Manchester till April 14, and at Winchester till July 9. Moved to Portland, Me., July 9-13. Mustered out July 15, 1865.

Battery lost during service 2 Officers and 13 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 28 Enlisted men by disease. Total 43.

from "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer, 1908