Battery B, 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
Appearance
Battery "B" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment | |
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Active | September 10, 1861 to June 14, 1865 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Artillery |
Equipment | 10-lb. Parrott rifles |
Engagements | Battle of Resaca March to the Sea Battle of Bentonville |
The Battery "B" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
[edit]Battery "B" was organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan between September 10 and December 14, 1861.
The battery was mustered out on June 14, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
[edit]Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 240 men on its muster rolls.[1]
The battery lost 1 officer and 1 enlisted man killed in action or mortally wounded and 35 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 37 fatalities.[2]
Commanders
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007) - ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiarty.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Retrieved June 19, 2007.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
References
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Categories:
- Units and formations of the Union army from Michigan
- 1865 disestablishments in Michigan
- Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War
- 1861 establishments in Michigan
- Military units and formations established in 1861
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
- American Civil War unit and formation stubs