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10th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
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10th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery Flag of Wisconsin (1866-1913).pngborder February 10, 1862 – September 30, 1865 United States 1865 23px Union Artillery Artillery Battery American Civil War
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The 10th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 10th Independent Battery was mustered into service at New Lisbon, Wisconsin, on February 10, 1862.
The men who did not reenlist were mustered out on April 26, 1865, in Madison, Wisconsin, while the remainder were transferred to the 12th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery on April 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 10th Independent Battery initially recruited 47 officers and men. An additional 121 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 168
men.http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html 1907 Wisconsin Blue Book - Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion 2007-04-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070326062654/http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html 2007-03-26 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 3 enlisted men killed in action or died or wounds and 25 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 28 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 Yates V. Beebehttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1392 https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092907/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1392 2007-09-29 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.
See also
American Civil War
List of Wisconsin Civil War units
Wisconsin in the American Civil War
Notes
External links
The Civil War Archive
Category:Military units and formations established in 1862
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Category:1862 establishments in Wisconsin