6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery

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6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
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ActiveOctober 2, 1861, to July 3, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Artillery
Engagements Siege of Corinth
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Nashville

The 6th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, nicknamed the "Buena Vista Artillery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 6th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin, on October 2, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 3, 1865, at Madison, Wisconsin.

Total strength and casualties

The 6th Independent Battery initially recruited 157 officers and men. An additional 85 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 242 men. [1]

The battery suffered 1 officer and 6 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 22 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 29 fatalities. [2]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, Wisconsin 1907
  2. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.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.
  3. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1375 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.

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