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

Service

Battery D was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia on August 20, 1862.

Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

Battery D was mustered out on June 27, 1865.

Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

Casualties

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)

Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

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

Commander

Captain John Carlin

References

The Civil War Archive

See also

West Virginia Units in the Civil War

West Virginia in the Civil War

Units and formations of the Union Army from West Virginia

Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War

1862 establishments in Virginia

Military units and formations established in 1862

Military units and formations disestablished in 1865