The battery was organized at Mound City, Kansas and mustered in for a three years on July 24, 1861, under the command of Captain Thomas Moonlight.
Because both regiments did not complete organization, recruits to the artillery were reassigned and consolidated by authority of Special Orders No.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Department of the Missouri, to February 1863.
District of Columbus, Kentucky, 6th Division, XVI Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to November 1863.
Defenses of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, District of Nashville, Department of the Cumberland, and 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XX Corps, Department of the Cumberland, to November 1864.
2nd Colored Brigade, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1865.
Reserve Artillery, District of Nashville, Department of the Cumberland, to July 1865.
Attached to Lane's Kansas Brigade and operations about Fort Scott and on line of the Marmiton August and September 1861.
Post duty at Nashville until January 1865, and at Chattanooga, Tennessee, until July.