Battery "K" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

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Battery "K" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery
Michigan state flag
Active	November 21, 1862 to July 22, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery

The Battery "K" 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 "K" was organized at Detroit, Michigan between November 21, 1862 and February 20, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on July 22, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 209 men on its muster rolls.^[1]

The battery lost 3 officers and 1 enlistedman killed in action or mortally wounded and 14 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 18 fatalities.^[2]

[edit] Commanders

• Captain John C. Schuetz^[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 July 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/1stk.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 3, 2007)

[edit] References

• The Civil War Archive