8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery

8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery
Active	January 8, 1862, to August 10, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	Battle of Iuka; Battle of Corinth; Battle of Perryville; Battle of Stone's River; Battle of Chickamauga; Siege of Chattanooga

The 8th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, nicknamed the "Lyons' Pinery Battery," was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 8th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Racine, Wisconsin, on January 8, 1862.

The battery was mustered out on August 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 8th Independent Battery initially recruited 161 officers and men. An additional 102 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 263 men.[1]

The battery suffered 1 officer and 1 enlisted man killed in action or died of wounds and 26 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities.[2]

Commanders

Captain Stephen J. Carpenter
Captain Henry E. Stiles[3]

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Notes

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 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=1384 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.

References

The Civil War Archive

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2007-04-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 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] ttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/results.asp?image_id=1384 Wisconsin Historical Society after Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. 2 vols. 1886.