5th U.S. Artillery, Battery I

Battery "I" 5th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The battery was attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, V Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1863.

Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., XXII Corps, to November 1863.

Artillery Brigade, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1865.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.

Movement from Harrison's Landing to Centreville August 16–28.

Consolidated with Battery C, 5th U.S. Light Artillery November 1863.

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27–28.

Duty at Washington, D. C. The crest of the coat of arms of the 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (formerly the 5th U.S.

Artillery), depicting hands grasping a wheel with a gun superimposed on it, commemorates the service of Battery C and Battery I, combined under Lt. Richard Metcalf at Spotsylvania, 4–24 May 1864.

This is purported to be the only recorded instance in the Civil War of a battery charging on breastworks.