Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment

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|dates= April 17, 1861 to July 3, 1865

|country= United States

|allegiance= Union

|branch= Artillery

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Battle of Raymond
Battle of Jackson
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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, Illinois on April 17, 1861 for three months state service. The battery was reorganized for three years Federal service as Battery A on July 16, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 3, 1865.[http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilart1.htm#bate The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Total strength and casualties

The battery lost 15 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 22 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 37 fatalities.

Commanders

Captain James Smith - resigned November 27, 1861.
Captain Charles M. Willard - promoted to major.
Captain Francis Morgan - mustered out May 24, 1862.
Captain Peter P. Wood - mustered out July 23, 1864.{{cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/acm/art-1a.htm |title=Roster of Battery a 1st Illinois Light Artillery |accessdate=2007-07-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101135711/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/acm/art-1a.htm |archivedate=2008-01-01 }} Illinois in the Civil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20180729174206/http://www.batterya.org/history.htm The History of Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery]
[http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm#Arty The Civil War Archive: Illinois Artillery]

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Category:1861 establishments in Illinois

Category:Military units and formations established in 1861

Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865

Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois

Category:Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War