Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The battery was re-mustered for three years service at Cairo, Illinois on July 16, 1861.
Veterans and recruits were transferred to Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment.
[1] The battery suffered 9 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 17 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 27 fatalities.
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