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Battery "A" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

The Battery "A" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment, also known as the "Loomis' Battery" or the "Coldwater Artillery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Battery "A" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
Loomis Battery Memorial in Coldwater, Michigan.
ActiveApril 23, 1861 to July 12, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
Equipment10-lb. Parrott rifles
EngagementsBattle of Cheat Mountain
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stones River
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga

Service edit

Battery "A" was a pre-war militia unit that tendered an offer of service and was enlisted as a body on April 23, 1861, and re-mustered in for three years' service on May 28, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

Total strength and casualties edit

The battery suffered 1 officer and 11 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 28 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 40 fatalities.[1]

Commanders edit

  • Captain Cyrus O. Loomis
  • Captain Francis E. Hale

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ 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.

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