Battery "K" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= November 21, 1862 to July 22, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=

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

ervice

Battery "K" was organized at Detroit, Michigan between November 21, 1862 and February 20, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on July 22, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 209 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 3, 2007)

The battery lost 3 officers and 1 enlistedman killed in action or mortally wounded and 14 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 18fatalities. [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 C. Schuetzhttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stk.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 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]