Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
Flag of West Virginia
Active	October 1, 1861 to August 1, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	Battle of Kernstown I First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Droop Mountain Battle of Piedmont Battle of Lynchburg Battle of Cool Spring Ashby Gap Battle of Kernstown II

Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Battery B was organized at Ceredo in western Virginia on October 1, 1861.

Battery B was consolidated with Battery E, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment on December 31, 1864.

The 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment lost 33 men, killed and died of wounds; 131 men, died of disease, accident or in prison; total deaths, 164 men. (all 8 batteries)

[Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox]

• Cpt Samuel Davey (October 1861 through March 1862)
• Cpt John V. Keeper (April 1, 1862 through December 31 1864)

• The Civil War Archive
• Theodore Lang, "Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865", The Deutsch Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1895 pp 311 - 312

• West Virginia Units in the Civil War
• West Virginia in the Civil War

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