3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery

3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery


caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= October 10, 1861 to July 20, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Artillery
equipment=
battles=
siege of Corinth
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga

The 3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery , nicknamed the "Badger Battery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 3rd Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin on October 10, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 20, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 3rd Independent Battery initially recruited 170 officers and men. An additional 67 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 237men. [http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html 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, WI 1907

The battery suffered 6 enlistedmen men killed in action or died of wounds and 21 enlistedmen men who died of disease, for a total of 27 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 Lu H. Drury [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1362 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886. ]

ee also

*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm The Civil War Archive]


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