Battery "E" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= December 6, 1861 to July 30, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles= Battle of Nashville

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

ervice

Battery "E" was organized at Grand Rapids, Albion, and [Marshall, Michigan] and was mustered into service on December 6, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 30, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 333 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

The battery lost 33 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 33fatalities. [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 John H. Dennishttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1ste.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]