The battery was organized in February 1862 at Chicago and guarded prisoners until June 1862.

The battery spent the remainder of the war on guard duty in West Virginia without seeing any major actions.

Attached to Railroad District, Mountain Dept., West Virginia, to July, 1862.

Mulligan's Brigade, Scammon's Division, West Virginia, to December, 1863.

Duty at New Creek, Petersburg, Romney, Cumberland, Md., Harper's Ferry and other points in West Virginia guarding line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, June, 1862, to July, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 10 Enlisted men by disease.