3rd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery

3rd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery

Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems...

that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

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The battery was mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

between February 2 to May 1, 1863 from members of the 6th

6th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 6th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that fought in the Union army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th Minnesota was mustered into Federal service at Camp Release and Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between September 29 and November 20, 1862.It was mustered...

, 7th

7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 7th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army that served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Elijah Evan Edwards was chaplin of the 7th Minnesota Infantry. -Service:...

, 8th

8th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 8th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.-Service:...

, 9th

9th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 9th Minnesota Regiment Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.-Service:...

, and 10th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

10th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 10th Minnesota was recruited into Federal service at Garden City, Winnebago Agency, Fort Snelling and St...

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The 3rd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery was mustered out at St. Paul

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

on February 27, 1866.
The 3rd Minnesota Light Artillery Battery lost no men killed in action or died of wounds received in battle and 4 enlisted men died of disease.