Battery "G" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= January 17, 1862 to August 6, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles= Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg

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

ervice

Battery "G" was organized at Kalamazoo, Michigan and mustered into service on January 17, 1862.

The battery was mustered out on August 6, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 320 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

The battery lost 4 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 41 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 46fatalities. [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 Charles H. Lampherehttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stg.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]