The 5th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 5th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin, on October 10, 1861.
The battery was mustered out on June 6, 1865.
Total strength and casualties The 5th Independent Battery initially recruited 155 officers and men. An additional 70 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 225 men. 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
The battery suffered 1 officer and 5 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 1 officer and 18 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 25 fatalities.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.
Commanders Captain Oscar F. Pinney Captain Charles B. Humphrey Captain George Q. Gardner Captain Joseph McKnighthttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1371 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.
See also
List of Wisconsin Civil War units Wisconsin in the American Civil War
Notes
References The Civil War Archive