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13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
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13th Independent Battery WisconsinLight Artillery Flag of Wisconsin (1866-1913).pngborder December 29, 1863 – July 20, 1865 United States 1865 23px Union Artillery American Civil War July 20, 1865 Captain Richard R. Griffith
The 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 13th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 29, 1863. After the regiment was mustered, it marched to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving on February 12, 1864, before moving on to Baton Rouge on February 17, where it was assigned to Fort Williams for garrison duty.Civil War Index - 13th Wisconsin Light Battery https://civilwarindex.com/armywi/13th_wi_light_battery.html 2026-09-12 civilwarindex.com
The regiment was mustered out of service on July 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 13th Independent Battery initially recruited 156 officers and men. An additional 32 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 188
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 14 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 14 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 Richard R. Griffithhttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1398 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
References
The Civil War Archive
Category:Military units and formations established in 1863
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Category:1863 establishments in Wisconsin