Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
# Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

## Service

Battery "M" was organized at Detroit, Mount Clemens and Dearborn, Michigan and mustered into service on June 30, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on August 1, 1865.

## Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 261 men on its muster rolls.

The battery endured 18 fatalities during the war; three soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded and another 15 enlisted men who died of disease.

## Commanders

* Captain Edwin G. Hilliar
