2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery

{{Infobox Military Unit

| unit_name = 2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery

| image = Flag of Minnesota.svg

| caption = Flag of Minnesota

| dates = March 21, 1862, to August 16, 1865

| country = United States

| allegiance = Union

| branch = Artillery

| equipment =

| colonels_of_the_regiment =

| battles = American Civil War

}}

2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery was a Minnesota USV artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The battery was mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on March 21, 1862.

The 2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery was mustered out at St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 16, 1865.

Commander

Captain William A. Hotchkiss - February 14, 1862, to August 16, 1865

Casualties and total strength

The 2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery lost 1 officer and 5 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds received in battle and 19 enlisted men died of disease. Total fatalities were

25.[http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmncav.htm]

References

{{Cite book |editor1-first=C. C. |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-link=Christopher Columbus Andrews |publisher = Printed for the state by the Pioneer Press Co |location = St. Paul, Minn |title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865 |date = 1891 |ol=7088819M }}
{{cite book

| last = Jones

| first = Robert Huhn

| title = The Civil War in the Northwest

| publisher = University of Oklahoma Press

| date = 1960

}}

External links

[http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmncav.htm The Civil War Archive Website]
[http://sites.mnhs.org/civil-war/ Minnesota Historical Society page on Minnesota and the Civil War]

2nd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery

Commander

Casualties and total strength

References

External links

See also