Battery "B" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Battery "B" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= September 10, 1861 to June 14, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment= 10-lb. Parrott rifles
battles= Battle of Resaca
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

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

ervice

Battery "B" was organized at Detroit, Michigan between September 10 and December 14, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on June 14, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 240 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

The battery lost 1 officer and 1 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 35 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 37fatalities. [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.]

Commanders

*Captain William H. Rosshttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stb.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

ee also

*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]