The Battery "D" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service Battery "D" was organized at Coldwater, Michigan between September 17, 1861 and December 9, 1862.
Battery was engaged at: Hoover's Gap, Tn / Chickamauga, Ga / Chattanooga, Tn / Mission Ridge, Tn/ Nashville, Tn
The battery was mustered out on August 3, 1865.
Total strength and casualties The battery lost 2 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 39 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 41 fatalities.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.
Total Enrollment—334..... Killed in Action—1..... Died of Wounds—1..... Died of Disease—39
Total Casualty Rate—11.9%
Commanders Captain Alonzo F. Bidwell Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007) Captain Josiah W. Church (Captain Bidwell having resigned on August 2, 1862.) Captain H.B. Corbin (Captain Church having been promoted to major in the regiment on March 3, 1864) Captain Jesse Fuller (July 15, 1865, until they were mustered out in Jackson, Michigan, on August 3, 1865)
See also List of Michigan Civil War Units Michigan in the American Civil War
Notes
References The Civil War Archive