| Unit Name: | Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment |
| Dates: | October 1, 1861 to August 1, 1865 |
| Country: | United States |
| Allegiance: | Union |
| Branch: | Artillery |
| Battles: | 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]