12th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
- 12th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 12th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= February and March, 1862 to June 26, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=
siege of Corinth
Battle of Iuka
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Jackson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Bentonville
The 12th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 12th Independent Battery was mustered into service at St. Louis, Missouri in February, 1862 as a part of a Missouri light artillery regiment under the authority of Governor Henry but was transferred to Wisconsin state service.
The battery was mustered out on June 26, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 12th Independent Battery initially recruited 99 officers and men. An additional 212 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 311men. [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 10 enlistedmen killed in action or died or wounds and 23 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 34 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 William A. Pile
*Captain William Zickerick [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1398 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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