Battery "D" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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Battery "D" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery
Michigan state flag
Active	September 17, 1861 to August 3, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Equipment	10 pdr Parrott rifles
Engagements	Battle of Perryville Battle of Stone's River Battle of Chickamauga

The Battery "D" 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 "D" was organized at White Pigeon, Michigan between September 17 and December 7, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on August 3, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 314 men on its muster rolls.^[1]

The battery lost 2 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 39 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 41 fatalities.^[2]

[edit] Commanders

• Captain Alonzo F. Bidwell^[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/1std.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

[edit] References

• The Civil War Archive