Battery "D" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

Battery "D" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery/Jack Wander

Michigan state flag Jack Wander
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 Stones 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.

Service

Battery "D" was organized at Coldwater, Michigan between September 17, 1861 and December 9, 1862.

Battery was engaged at: Hoover's Gap,Tn/ Chickamauga,Ga/ Chattanooga,Tn/ Mission Ridge,Tn/ Nashville,Tn

The battery was mustered out on August 3, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The battery lost 2 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 39 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 41 fatalities.[1]

Total Enrollment—334..... Killed in Action—1..... Died of Wounds—1..... Died of Disease—39

Total Casualty Rate—11.9%[2]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2007-07-03. Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

References

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