Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment was organized at Camp Perry in Cranston, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 29, 1861 under the command of Captain Miles G. Moies.
The battery first served unattached, Department of North Carolina, to December 1862.
Artillery Brigade, XVIII Corps, Department of North Carolina, to May 1863.
District of St. Marys, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to January 1864.
Artillery, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to June 1864.
Artillery Brigade, XXIV Corps, Department of Virginia, to June 1865.
Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery mustered out of service on June 27, 1865.
Moved to Annapolis, Md, Attached to Burnside's Expeditionary Corps to April 1862.
Moved to Norfolk, Va., October 30-November 5, then to Point Lookout, Md., November 23–24, and duty there until January 1864.
Expedition from Yorktown to New Kent Court House in support of Kilpatrick's Cavalry March 1–4.
Butler's operations on the south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4–28.
Duty at Aiken's Landing October 7-November 8, 1864, and at Chaffin's Farm before Richmond until April 7, 1865.