Battery H, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
# Battery H, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

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

## Service

Battery H was raised at Maryland Heights, Maryland on January 4, 1864.

Battery H was mustered out on July 11, 1865.

## 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)

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

## Commander

Cpt James H. Holmes

