title: Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
text: # Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment
  
  The Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  Battery F was originally raised as Company C, 6th West Virginia Infantry Regiment and converted to an independent battery on April 8, 1863.
  
  Battery F was absorbed by Battery A, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment September 14, 1864.
  
  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)
  
  Captains were Thomas A. Maulsby first George W. Graham 2nd
  
  [Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox]
  
  