Battery "H" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment (8th Battery Michigan Light Artillery)
Michigan state flag
ActiveMarch 6, 1862 to July 22, 1865
Country United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
SizeArtillery battery
Nickname(s)De Golyer's 8th Michigan Battery
EngagementsBattle of Raymond
Battle of Champion Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Samuel De Golyer

Battery "H" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment also known as 8th Battery Michigan Light Artillery, was an artillery battery from Michigan that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit also went by the name De Golyer's Battery or De Golyer's 8th Michigan Battery after its commander, Captain Samuel De Golyer.

Marker at Vicksburg National Military Park

Service

Battery "H" was organized at Monroe, Michigan and mustered into service on March 6, 1862.

The battery was mustered out on July 22, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 336 men on its muster rolls.[1]

The battery lost 2 officers and 3 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 42 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 47 fatalities.[2]

Commanders

  • Captain Major F. Lockwood
  • Captain Samuel De Goyer[3]

See also

Captain (Then Lt.) Marcus D. Elliot assumed command after the death of Captain DeGoyler, 8 August 1863.

Captain (Brevet) William H. Justin assumed Command during the Battle of Atlanta and the Battle of Lovejoy Station in August 1864.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

References


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