Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service Battery "M" was organized at Detroit, Mount Clemens and Dearborn, Michigan and mustered into service on June 30, 1863.
The battery was mustered out on August 1, 1865.
Total strength and casualties Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 261 men on its muster rolls. Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)
The battery endured 18 fatalities during the war; three soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded and another 15 enlisted men who died of disease.https://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 July 4, 2007.
Commanders Captain Edwin G. Hilliar Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)
See also List of Michigan Civil War units Michigan in the American Civil War
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References The Civil War Archive