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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 .
He was commissioned captain of Company A in the 14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, serving under his former law tutor, David E. Wood, who was the first colonel of the new regiment. [3]: 598 This time, Ward and his regiment were ordered to the western theater of the war, and attached to the Army of the Tennessee, under Ulysses S. Grant.
After the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered for service in the Union Army and was enrolled in Company A of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. [2] He served through the first three years of the war, participating in the battles at Perryville, Stones River, and Hoover's Gap. [3]
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 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.
The 1st Wisconsin Infantry left Wisconsin in October 1861, heading to the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, for service in the western theater of the war. While in central Tennessee, Putnam was promoted to corporal and color guard for the company, and served in that capacity at the Battle of Perryville in October 1862. [ 1 ]
He was initially enlisted as a private in the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. He re-enlisted with the 11th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment after the expiration of his first three-month term and was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment. He then transferred to the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and served as adjutant. In 1863, he was ...