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The 12th Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an
artillery battery In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to fac ...
that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


Service

The 12th Independent Battery was mustered into service at St. Louis, Missouri, in February, 1862 as a part of a Missouri light artillery regiment under the authority of Governor Henry but was transferred to Wisconsin state service. The battery was mustered out on June 26, 1865.


Total strength and casualties

The 12th Independent Battery initially recruited 99 officers and men. An additional 212 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 311 men. The battery suffered 1 officer and 10 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds, and 23 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 34 fatalities. Most of the battle losses occurred at the Battle of Allatoona Pass, October 5, 1864, where the 12th was the only Union artillery present. First Lieutenant Marcus Amsden, who commanded the battery in this fight, fell mortally wounded; Sergeant Sylvester Bartow, Corporal Alva P. Hamilton, and Private David C. Davey were killed in action, and Privates Charles C. Baker, Joseph W. Chase, and Samuel H. Doolittle also died of their wounds.


Commanders

*
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William A. Pile - March 1, 1862 - July 18, 1862, when his commission was revoked * Captain William Zickerick - July 18, 1862 - June 7, 1865Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume I, p. 246.


See also

* List of Wisconsin Civil War units * Wisconsin in the American Civil War


Notes


References


The Civil War Archive
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