title: Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
text: # Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
  
  Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  Battery D was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia on August 20, 1862.
  
  Battery D was mustered out on June 27, 1865.
  
  ## 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
  
  Captain John Carlin
  
  