8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
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| 8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery | |
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| Active | January 8, 1862 to August 10, 1865 |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Artillery |
| Engagements | Battle of Iuka Battle of Corinth Battle of Perryville Battle of Stone's River Battle of Chickamauga Siege of Chattanooga |
The 8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, nicknamed the "Lyons' Pinery Battery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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[edit] Service
The 8th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin on January 8, 1862.
The battery was mustered out on August 10, 1865.
[edit] Total strength and casualties
The 8th Independent Battery initially recruited 161 officers and men. An additional 102 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 263 men.[1]
The battery suffered 1 officer and 1 enlistedmen men killed in action or died of wounds and 26 enlistedmen men who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities.[2]
[edit] Commanders
- Captain Stephen J. Carpenter
- Captain Henry E. Stiles[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, WI 1907
- ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.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.
- ^ http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1384 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.
