title: Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
text: # Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
  
  The Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  Battery C was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia between January 25, 1862 and March 30, 1862.
  
  Battery C was mustered out on June 28, 1865. It had a total of 173 men, with 106 enlisting from Washington County, Ohio, and 67 from West Virginia.
  
  The 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment lost 33 men, killed and died of wounds; 131 men, died of disease, accident or in prison; total deaths, 164 men. (all 8 batteries)
  
  [Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox]
  
  ## Command Structure
  
  OFFICERS Frank Buell 1st Captain (killed at Freeman's Ford, August 22, 1862)
  
  STAFF SERGEANTS
  
  LINE SERGEANTS
  
  CORPORALS
  
  BUGLERS
  
  ARTIFICER
  
  CASUALTIES
  
  