Delaware Civil War Union Artillery Units

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The following information comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site. The web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * 1st Delaware Light Artillery, see Nield's Independent Battery, Delaware Light Artillery


 * 1st Delaware Heavy Artillery, see Ahl's Battery, Delaware Heavy Artillery.


 * Ahl's Battery, Delaware Heavy Artillery Organized at Fort Delaware July 27, 1863. Mustered out July 25, 1865.


 * Crossley's Half Company, Delaware Artillery "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Nield's Independent Battery, Delaware Light Artillery Organized at Wilmington, Del., August 30, 1862. Mustered out June 23, and discharged from service July 5, 1865

The following information comes from *Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Delaware, 1609-1888. Two Volumes. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: L.J. Richards, 1888. Google Books. (Family History Library .)


 * First Delaware Battery, Field Artillery Organized at Brandywine Hundred, August 1862. Mustered out July 3, 1865


 * Second Delaware Battery, Field Artillery Organized at Wilmington, Delaware, June 1863. Muster out date not listed.