[4] The ratification of the Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783, presented the Continental Congress with the question of providing the newly independent United States with a peacetime Regular Army.
[5] A compromise was found when the Congress finally settled on the expedient of provisionally organizing a single regiment to remain in service.
The field units which had composed the Continental Army were disbanded in November 1783, and Jackson's Regiment was the force which succeeded them.
On March 17, 1777, the company, then commanded by Captain John Doughty, was assigned to Lamb's Continental Artillery Regiment.
The Invalids, a body of physically disabled Continental Army veterans, were organized as a regiment of eight companies under the command of Colonel Lewis Nicola.
[11] The organization of the United States Army changed frequently in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; but on June 1, 1821, the company that had been commanded by Major Doughty in 1784 was designated Company "F," 4th United States Regiment of Artillery.
[6] The company received a different designation in that year and, in a further reorganization on May 31, 1907, it became Battery "D," 5th United States Field Artillery Regiment.
The battery served in France in World War I as an element of the 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
[12] The following is a list of officers of Jackson's Regiment, with the rank of captain or higher, which served from November 1783 to June 1784.