13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
- 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= December 29, 1863 to July 20, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=
The 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 13th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 29, 1863 and spent its entire service in garrisons at New Orleans, Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The battery was mustered out on July 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 13th Independent Battery initially recruited 156 officers and men. An additional 32 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 188men. [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 14 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 14 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 Richard R. Griffith [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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