title: Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
text: # Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
  
  Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  Battery B was organized at Ceredo in western
  
  Virginia on October 1, 1861.
  
  Battery B was consolidated with Battery E, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment on December 31, 1864.
  
  ## Casualties
  
  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]
  
  ## Commander
  
  * Cpt Samuel Davey (October 1861 through March 1862)
  * Cpt John V. Keeper (April 1, 1862 through December 31 1864)
  