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Battery G, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment

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The original officers of the company were Captain Chatham T. Ewing; 1st Lieutenant, Alfred Sickman; 2d Lieutenant, Jacob Huggins. Lieutenant Sickman was killed December 13, 1861, in the battle of Allegheny Mountains, and Howard Morton who did gallant service on the occasion was promoted to his place.
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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)
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Lieutenant Huggins resigned early in 1862, and Samuel J. Shearer, a brave and capable officer, succeeded him.
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and converted to an independent battery on May 26, 1863. The men were recruited in
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instead of their home state, fearing that no more men would be accepted for
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Battery "G" West Virginia Light Artillery

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Lang, Theodore F., Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865, Deutsch Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1895, pg. 384
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