12th Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery

12th Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, U.S. Volunteers
12th Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, U.S. Volunteers
Active	February and March, 1862 to June 26, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	siege of Corinth; Battle of Iuka; Battle of Port Gibson; Battle of Raymond; Battle of Jackson; Battle of Champion Hill; Siege of Vicksburg; Battle of Allatoona; Battle of Bentonville

The 12th Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 12th Independent Battery was mustered into service at St. Louis, Missouri, in February, 1862 as a part of a Missouri light artillery regiment under the authority of Governor Henry but was transferred to Wisconsin state service.

The battery was mustered out on June 26, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 12th Independent Battery initially recruited 99 officers and men. An additional 212 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 311 men.[1]

The battery suffered 1 officer and 10 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds, and 23 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 34 fatalities.[2]

Most of the battle losses occurred at the Battle of Allatoona Pass, October 5, 1864, where the 12th was the only Union artillery present. First Lieutenant Marcus Amsden, who commanded the battery in this fight, fell mortally wounded; Sergeant Sylvester Bartow, Corporal Alva P. Hamilton, and Private David C. Davey were killed in action, and Privates Charles C. Baker, Joseph W. Chase, and Samuel H. Doolittle also died of their wounds.[3]

Commanders

Captain William A. Pile - March 1, 1862 - July 18, 1862, when his commission was revoked[4]
Captain William Zickerick - July 18, 1862 - June 7, 1865[5]

Notes

"1907 Wisconsin Blue Book - Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, Wisconsin 1907
http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.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.
'Wisconsin Losses in the Civil War', page 239: Wisconsin Historical Society https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/tp/id/41088
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1398 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume I, p. 246. 2 vols. 1886.
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume I, p. 246.

References

The Civil War Archive

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[1] "1907 Wisconsin Blue Book - Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, Wisconsin 1907

[2] ttp://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.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.

[3] 'Wisconsin Losses in the Civil War', page 239: Wisconsin Historical Society https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/tp/id/41088

[4] ttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1398 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume I, p. 246. 2 vols. 1886.

[5] Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume I, p. 246.