Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three-year enlistment in December 1861 under the command of Captain Charles D. Owen.
The battery was attached to Sedgwick's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862.
Reserve Artillery, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1863.
4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to July 1863.
Camp Barry, XXII Corps, Department of Washington, to December 1864.
Artillery Brigade, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.
Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery mustered out of service on June 24, 1865.
Duty at Camp Sprague, defenses of Washington, D.C., until January 3, 1862.
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30.
Cover retreat of Pope's army from Bull Run to Washington, D.C., August 31-September 2.
Moved to Harpers Ferry, W. Va., September 22, and duty there until October 22.
Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 18.
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to November.