Battery "B" Kentucky Light Artillery (U.S.A.)

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1861-10-08

Dissolution Date

1864-11-16

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"Battery "B" Kentucky Light Artillery (U.S.A.)" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00010790, (accessed April 3, 2025).

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Organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky. Mustered in on October 8, 1861. Mustered out on November 16, 1864. Commander(s): Captain John M. Hewitt.

One of the constituent batteries of the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment. Also known as the 2nd Kentucky Battery.

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium to the War of the Rebellion, Vol. II (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1196.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 506-507, 520-521.
R. M. Kelly, The Union Regiments of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1897), 681-683.

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