Battery "M" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

Battery "M" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery

Michigan state flag
Active June 30, 1863 to August 1, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Artillery

Battery "M" Michigan Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

Battery "M" was organized at Detroit, Mount Clemens and Dearborn, Michigan and mustered into service on June 30, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on August 1, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 261 men on its muster rolls.[1]

The battery endured 18 fatalities during the war; three soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded and another 15 enlisted men who died of disease.[2]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04. Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)
  2. ↑ 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 July 4, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04. Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)

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