Battery "B" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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Battery "B" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery
Michigan state flag
Active	September 10, 1861 to June 14, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Equipment	10-lb. Parrott rifles
Engagements	Battle of Resaca March to the Sea Battle of Bentonville

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

Contents 1 Service 2 Total strength and casualties 3 Commanders 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References

[edit] Service

Battery "B" was organized at Detroit, Michigan between September 10 and December 14, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on June 14, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 240 men on its muster rolls.^[1]

The battery lost 1 officer and 1 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 35 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 37 fatalities.^[2]

[edit] Commanders

• Captain William H. Ross^[3]

[edit] See also

• List of Michigan Civil War Units
• Michigan in the American Civil War

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ http://www.michiganinthewar.org/artillery/1stb.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

[edit] References

• The Civil War Archive