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Battery "A" 1st Regiment Michigan Light Artillery

Battery "A" 1st Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery
Flag of Michigan.svg
Michigan state flag
Active April 23, 1861 to July 12, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Artillery
Equipment 10-lb. Parrott rifles
Engagements Battle of Cheat Mountain
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone River
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga

The Battery "A" Michigan Light Artillery, also known as the "Loomis' Battery" or the "Coldwater Artillery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Battery "A" was a pre-war militia unit that tendered an offer of service and was enlisted as a body on April 23, 1861, and re-mustered in for three years' service on May 28, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

The battery suffered 1 officer and 11 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 28 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 40 fatalities.



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