Battery "F" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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Battery "F" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery
Michigan state flag
Active	January 9, 1862 to July 1, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	Battle of Nashville

The Battery "F" 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 "F" was organized at Detroit and [[Coldwater, Michigan] and mustered into service on January 9, 1862.

The battery was mustered out on July 1, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 246 men on its muster rolls.^[1]

The battery lost 1 officer and 9 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 23 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 33 fatalities.^[2]

[edit] Commanders

• Captain John S. Andrews^[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/1stf.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

[edit] References

• The Civil War Archive