Battery M, 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
Battery "M" was organized at Detroit, Mount Clemens and Dearborn, Michigan and mustered into service on June 30, 1863.

The battery was mustered out on August 1, 1865.

Total strength and casualties
Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 261 men on its muster rolls.

The battery endured 18 fatalities during the war; three soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded and another 15 enlisted men who died of disease.

Commanders

 * Captain Edwin G. Hilliar