11th Massachusetts Battery

11th Massachusetts Battery
ActiveAugust 25, 1862 – May 29, 1863
January 2, 1864 – June 16, 1865
Country United States
BranchUnion Army
TypeField artillery
SizeBattery
Part ofSecond term: Artillery Brigade, IX Corps
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Current
commander
Captain Edward J. Jones

The 11th Massachusetts Battery (or 11th Battery Massachusetts Light Artillery) was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was formed in response to President Abraham Lincoln's August 1862 call for 300,000 men to serve for nine months. Several months after completing their first term of service, the battery was reorganized for a second term of three years (though the war ended before they could complete this term). It was recruited by Captain Edward J. Jones of Boston and consisted almost entirely of men from that city. The battery served a largely uneventful first term as garrison troops mostly in Centreville, Virginia. During their second term they were involved in heavy combat being part of the Army of the Potomac during Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.