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After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator. Ezra T. Sprague was a sergeant in Co. K during the three months regiment. He went on to serve as adjutant of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and was then colonel of the 42nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. He received an honorary brevet to brigadier general and later served as a Wisconsin ...
The 1st Wisconsin was mustered into service on May 14, 1898, at Camp Harvey in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a strength of fifty officers and 976 enlisted men. The regiment moved to Camp Cuba Libre in Jacksonville, Florida , and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division of the 7th Army Corps commanded by Fitzhugh Lee .
The state of Wisconsin enrolled 91,327 men for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War, 77,375 in the infantry, 8,877 in the cavalry, and 5,075 in the artillery. Some 3,802 of these men were killed in action or mortally wounded, and 8,499 died from other causes; the total mortality was thus 12,301 men.
The four regiments of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in federal service for the War with Spain were as follows: 1st Infantry mustered in 14 May 1898, at Milwaukee; mustered out 19 October 1898; 2nd Infantry Regiment mustered on 12 May 1898, at Madison; mustered out 11–21 November 1898;
On February 27, 1863, the brigade, now under the command of Brig. Gen. Solomon Meredith, was redesignated the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, I Corps. The 6th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan took part in the attacks at Fitzhugh's Crossing, April 29, 1863, losing a combined total casualty list of 58.
Wisconsin furnished approximately 15,000 men, and another 8,000 troops came from Michigan. [5] The division was made up of the 125th and 126th Infantry Regiments (63rd Infantry Brigade) and the 127th and 128th Infantry Regiments (64th Infantry Brigade), as well as three artillery regiments within the 57th Field Artillery Brigade. On 4 August ...
The Sigel Regiment: A History of the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865. Campbell, California: Savas, 1998. Tucker, W.H. The Fourteenth Wisconsin Vet. Vol. Infantry (General A.J. Smith's Command) in the Expedition and Battle of Tupelo; Also, Wanderings Through the Wilds of Missouri and Arkansas in Pursuit of Price ...
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