Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment was an
artillery battery
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that served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War
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.
Service
Battery B was mustered into service at
Chicago, Illinois
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on May 2, 1861 for three months' service. The battery was re-mustered for three years service at
Cairo, Illinois
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on July 16, 1861.
The battery was mustered out on July 23, 1864 at
Chicago, Illinois
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. Veterans and recruits were transferred to
Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment
Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment, originally known as "Smith's Chicago Light Artillery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
Battery A was mustered into service at Chicago ...
. The battery was recreated in March, 1865 by the redesignation of
Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery
Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery was an artillery battery from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized on 17 June 1861 as Company G, 19th Illinois Infantry Regiment, it was detached as an independe ...
.
Total strength and casualties
The battery suffered 9 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 17 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 27 fatalities.
Commanders
*Captain Ezra Taylor - promoted to
major
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* Major (rank), a military rank
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.
*Captain
Samuel Eddy Barrett
Samuel Eddy Barrett (1834–1912) was a Chicago industrialist and major in the American Civil War.
Biography
Samuel Eddy Barrett was born on May 16, 1834 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. He moved to Chicago, Illinois and in 1857 founded the manu ...
- promoted to major.
*Captain Israel P. Rumsey - Mustered out with the battery.
[ Illinois in the Cvil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls]
See also
*
List of Illinois Civil War Units
Infantry units
In recognition of Illinois’ six regiments' service in the Mexican War, regimental numbers for infantry in the Civil War began at seven.
* 7th Illinois Infantry Regiment
* 8th Illinois Infantry Regiment
* 9th Illinois Infantr ...
*
Illinois in the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, the state of Illinois was a major source of troops for the Union Army (particularly for those armies serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War), and of military supplies, food, and clothing. Situated near ma ...
Notes
References
The Civil War Archive
Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois
Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War
1861 establishments in Illinois
Military units and formations established in 1861
Military units and formations disestablished in 1864
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