Battery I, 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

[2] The battery departed Detroit for Washington, D.C., on 4 December with the 5th Michigan Cavalry,[3] equipped with four Parrott rifles and two howitzers.

After its arrival at Warrenton on 25 July, the battery moved forward to rejoin the army at Culpeper Court House.

[4] The battery was ordered to Nashville, Tennessee on 27 October to join the Army of the Cumberland, arriving at its destination on 12 November.

The 140-mile (230 km) march took ten days, and the battery remained at Whiteside until 28 April, when it joined General Daniel Butterfield's Third Division of XX Corps at Lookout Valley for the advance towards Atlanta.

Of the 213 men carried on its rolls, the battery lost two killed in action, two mortally wounded, and 14 died of disease.