Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment

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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