3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery explained

Unit Name:	3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
Dates:	October 10, 1861, to July 20, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Artillery
Battles:	Siege of Corinth Battle of Perryville Battle of Stone's River Battle of Chickamauga Siege of Chattanooga

The 3rd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery , nicknamed the "Badger Battery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 3rd Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin, on October 10, 1861.

The battery was mustered out on July 20, 1865.

The 3rd Independent Battery initially recruited 170 officers and men. An additional 67 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 237men.^[1]

The battery suffered 6 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 21 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 27 fatalities.^[2]

Web site: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin . 2007-04-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070326062654/http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html . 2007-03-26 . 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.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1362 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.