The battery was organized at Camp Joe Holt from the Louisville Legion and mustered in at Camp Muldraugh's Hill for a three-year enlistment on September 27, 1861, under the command of Captain David C. Stone.
The battery was attached to Rousseau's Brigade, McCook's Command at Nolin, to December 1861.
Artillery, 3rd Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
Artillery, 1st Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863.
Battery "A" 1st Kentucky Light Artillery mustered out of service on November 17, 1865.
Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August.
Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22.
At Murfreesboro, Tenn., till March 1864, and at Nashville, Tenn., as Garrison Artillery, until November 1864.