Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

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Battery "D" West Virginia Light Artillery
Flag of West Virginia
ActiveAugust 20, 1862 to June 27, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
EngagementsBattle of Winchester
Battle of New Market
Battle of Piedmont

Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

Battery D was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia on August 20, 1862.

Battery D was mustered out on June 27, 1865.

Casualties

The 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment lost 33 men, killed and died of wounds; 131 men, died of disease, accident or in prison; total deaths, 164 men. (all 8 batteries)

[Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox]

Commander

Captain John Carlin

References

See also

  • West Virginia Units in the Civil War
  • West Virginia in the Civil War