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The 1st Wisconsin Infantry initially mustered 810 men and added no recruits. In its initial 3 months of service, it lost 2 men killed in action or mortally wounded, and one killed accidentally for a total of three fatalities, a death rate of 0.37 percent. [2]
The 1st Wisconsin was mustered out of service on October 19, 1898, in Wisconsin. At the time of mustering out, the unit consisted of forty-nine officers and 1,224 enlisted men. [ 2 ] The 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry is perpetuated by both the 127th Infantry Regiment and the 128th Infantry Regiment .
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.
In August 1861, the enlistments of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry expired and Fairchild was appointed captain in the 16th U.S. Infantry as well as major of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The 2nd Wisconsin served in the brigade commanded by General William T. Sherman until the general reorganization of the Union army following the ...
On May 17, 1861, he was made colonel of the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Months) and took part in the battles of Battle of Hoke's Run (also known as Falling Waters), July 2, 1861, and of Edmunds Ferry, July 29, 1861. He was mustered out on August 21, 1861.
Ward was among the first volunteers for the Union Army, responding to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. He was enrolled in Company I of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, [1] and marched to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in June of 1861.
As the 1st Wisconsin Infantry had only been mustered on a three-month enlistment, they were dismissed back to Wisconsin and mustered out on August 22, 1861. [5] After returning to Wisconsin, Proudfit re-enlisted for a three year term and was commissioned adjutant of the 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The 12th Wisconsin Infantry mustered into ...
The 1st Wisconsin Infantry went east to Washington, D.C., and engaged in the Battle of Hoke's Run, but their three month enlistment expired in August 1861, and the unit returned to Wisconsin. [ 2 ] Cantwell re-enlisted and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company C in the 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in November 1861.