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Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

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Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
Flag of West Virginia
ActiveApril 8, 1863 to September 14, 1864
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
EngagementsBattle of Kernstown II

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

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Battery F was originally raised as Company C, 6th West Virginia Infantry Regiment and converted to an independent battery on April 8, 1863.

Battery F was absorbed by Battery A, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment September 14, 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)

Captains were Thomas A. Maulsby first George W. Graham 2nd

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

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