2nd Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery - Total Strength and Casualties

Total Strength and Casualties

The 2nd Independent Battery initially recruited 153 officers and men. An additional 42 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 195 men.

The regiment suffered 12 enlisted men men who died of disease, for a total of 12 fatalities.

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