6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
- 6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= October 2, 1861 to July 3, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=
siege of Corinth
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Nashville
The 6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, nicknamed the "Buena Vista Artillery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 6th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin on October 2, 1861.
The battery was mustered out on July 3, 1865 at Madison, Wisconsin.
Total strength and casualties
The 6th Independent Battery initially recruited 157 officers and men. An additional 85 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 242men. [http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, WI 1907
The battery suffered 1 officer and 6 enlistedmen men killed in action or died of wounds and 22 enlistedmen men who died of disease, for a total of 29 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.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.]
Commanders
*Captain Henry Dillon
*Captain Thomas R. Hood [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1375 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886. ]
ee also
*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm The Civil War Archive]
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