The battery was organized at
Detroit,
Michigan as the 9th Michigan Battery in response to Lincoln's July 1862 call for 300,000 three-year volunteers and mustered into service on 29 August with 168 officers and men, mostly from
Lenawee County. Jabez J. Daniels of
Hudson was appointed captain. The other officers were
First Lieutenants Addison Kidder of Hudson and Luther R. Smith of Detroit and
Second Lieutenants Lewis R. Gage of Detroit and Thomas J. Limbocker of
Trenton. It was raised together with and initially attached to the
5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment. The battery departed Detroit for Washington, D.C., on 4 December with the 5th Michigan Cavalry, equipped with four
Parrott rifles and two howitzers. Arriving at its destination on 11 December, the battery joined the
Army of the Potomac. The battery saw its first action in the
Battle of Aldie on 27 April 1863, suffering no casualties. It returned to
Fairfax Court House three days later and when the
Gettysburg campaign began marched from Fairfax Court House to
Drainsville on 24 June. Continuing via
Frederick and
Taneytown, Maryland, the battery arrived at
Gettysburg on 2 July. It fought in the
Battle of Gettysburg on 3 July with the loss of one man killed and four wounded. Another was wounded two days later, before the battery marched from the battlefield on 8 July for
Berlin, Maryland via
Creagerstown and
Boonsboro. From Berlin the battery moved to
Warrenton Junction via
Uniontown, Virginia and Piedmont. After its arrival at Warrenton on 25 July, the battery moved forward to rejoin the army at
Culpeper Court House. The battery was ordered to
Nashville, Tennessee on 27 October to join the
Army of the Cumberland, arriving at its destination on 12 November. Daniels resigned in December and Smith succeeded him as captain on 15 December; Smith commanded the battery for the rest of its existence. The battery remained at Nashville with the army reserve artillery until 7 March 1864, when it began a march to
Whiteside, Tennessee to join the army for the
Atlanta campaign. The march took ten days, and the battery remained at Whiteside until 28 April, when it joined General
Daniel Butterfield's Third Division of
XX Corps at
Lookout Valley for the advance towards
Atlanta. The advance steadily proceeded until the 19 May
Battle of Cassville, in which Battery I was engaged without loss. At
Cassville, the Parrotts of the battery were emplaced in the sector of the Third Division on two knolls, potentially enfilading the Confederate line on the ridge east of Cassville. Late that day, the battery contributed to the Union bombardment against the ridge, which forced a Confederate retreat without a fight. The battery later fought in the
Battle of New Hope Church on 27–28 May, the Battle of Lost Mountain on 17 June, the Battle of Culp's House on 1 July, the
Battle of Marietta on 3 July, and the
Battle of Peachtree Creek on 20 July. The battery participated in the
Siege of Atlanta from 22 July to 25 August and the Battle of Turner's Ferry on 29 August, before returning to
Chattanooga, Tennessee in November. Battery I remained there until July 1865, when it departed for Detroit, where it was mustered out on 14 July 1865. Of the 213 men carried on its rolls, the battery lost two killed in action, two mortally wounded, and 14 died of disease. 23 were invalided out of service. ==Commanders==