11th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery explained

Unit Name:	11th Indiana Independent Light Artillery Battery
Dates:	December 17, 1861 - November 21, 1864
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Artillery
Size:	Battery
Command Structure:	Army of the Ohio Army of the Cumberland
Battles:	American Civil War Siege of Corinth Battle of Nashville Battle of Murfreesboro Battle of Franklin Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Lookout Mountain Battle of Missionary Ridge Battle of Resaca Battle of New Hope Church Battle of Jonesboro
Disbanded:	November 21, 1864
Commander1:	Arnold Sutermeister
Commander1 Label:	Captain

The 11th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery, generally known as the 11th Indiana Battery, was an artillery battery in the Union Army during the American Civil War.^[1] It served in several important campaigns in the Western Theater, including the Battle of Chickamauga in late 1863.^[2]

Recruited at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in late 1861, the 11th Indiana Battery was mustered into service on December 17, 1861, at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was ordered to report for duty in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 6, 1862.^[3] The battery was consolidated with the 18th Indiana Battery on November 21, 1864.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments

External links

• 11th Indiana Battery Light Artillery Homepage

Notes and References

1. John Otto, History of the 11th Indiana Battery, corrected with an outline history of the Army of the Cumberland, during the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Fort Wayne, Indiana: W.D. Page, Printer and Publisher, 1894.
2. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uninarty.htm#11th Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. (1908).
3. John Otto, History of the 11th Indiana Battery during the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865, Read at the First Reunion of the Battery, Oct. 9, 1883, at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
4. Indiana Commissioners, Chickamauga National Military Park, Indiana at Chickamauga, Indianapolis, Sentinel Printing, Co., 1900, pp. 295–98.
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=zGBC3bqfiyAC&pg=RA2-PA529&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 Theo T. Scribner, Indiana's Role of Honor, Chapter XVII.