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Battery B, 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

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Battery "B" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
ActiveSeptember 10, 1861 to June 14, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
Equipment10-lb. Parrott rifles
EngagementsBattle of Resaca
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The Battery "B" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

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

The battery was mustered out on June 14, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

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

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

Commanders

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 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. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2007-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

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