Battery "L" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= April 11, 1863 to August 22, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=

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

ervice

Battery "L" was organized at Coldwater, Michigan and mustered into service on April 11, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on August 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 1 enlistedman killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 27 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 29fatalities. [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 J. Thompsonhttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stl.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]