Battery "C" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= November 23, 1861 to June 22, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment= 10 pdr Parrott rifles
battles= Battle of Iuka
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
March to the Sea

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

ervice

Battery "C" was organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan between November 23 and December 17, 1861. The battery was mustered into Federal service on November 28, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on June 22, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 235 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

The battery lost 3 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 34 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 Alexander W. Deeshttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stc.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]