Battery D was organized Cairo, Illinois on December 17, 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment.

2nd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, 5th Division, XVI Corps, to December 1863.

Veterans and recruits were transferred to Battery K, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery Regiment.

Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 12–16.

Action at Davis Mills, Wolf River, Mississippi, December 21.

Moved to Memphis, Tennessee, then to Vicksburg, Mississippi, January 1864.

Ordered to Decatur, Alabama, March 1864, and duty there until November 1864.