Chicago Board of Trade Independent Battery Light Artillery

The Chicago Board of Trade Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

[1] It was sponsored by the Chicago Board of Trade, from which the battery took its name.

[2] In March 1863, the battery changed from mounted field artillery to "flying" horse artillery, the only battery of flying artillery in the Union Western armies.

[1] During its term of service, the battery lost 10 enlisted men killed in action or died of their wounds and 9 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 19 fatalities.

[3] This article about a specific military unit of the American Civil War is a stub.