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Civil War Battery
Battery B
Battery B was organized at Grand Rapids, and was raised with the 2d Cavalry, but did not go to the field with it. It was mustered into the service of the United States with a strength of 110 officers and men, on November 26th, 1861. Its officers were: Captain, William H. Ross, Detroit; First Lieutenant, William S. Bliss, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Albert R. F. Arndt, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Cuthbert W. Laing, Detroit.
It left the State for the field in command of Captain Ross, on the 17th of December, 1861, clothed and mounted, but without guns. The battery first met the enemy in the battle at Pittsburg Landing, April 6th, 1862, where it became heavily engaged, doing efficient and gallant service, but after a severe struggle, being attacked repeatedly by an overwhelming force, it was cut off from its infantry support, losing four of its six pieces, with 52 officers and men prisoners in the hands of the enemy, including Captain Ross and Lieutenants Bliss and Arndt.
Artillery
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