The 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 13th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 29, 1863. After the regiment was mustered, it marched to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving on February 12, 1864, before moving on to Baton Rouge on February 17, where it was assigned to Fort Williams for garrison duty.
The regiment was mustered out of service on July 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties The 13th Independent Battery initially recruited 156 officers and men. An additional 32 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 188 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 14 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 14 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 Richard R. Griffithhttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1398 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