title: Battery "M" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
text: # 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
  