Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. It suffered the largest number of casualties as a percentage of its total enlistment of any Union Army unit in the war. [1]: 65
The 2nd Wisconsin Infantry was mustered into service on May 12, 1898, at Camp Harvey in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a strength of 49 officers and 972 enlisted men. [2] They proceeded to Camp Thomas, near the old Chickamauga battlefield in Tennessee, to prepare for battle in the Caribbean. [1] The regiment was stricken by an outbreak of Typhoid ...
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.
The 19th Indiana was eventually transferred to the 20th Indiana Infantry Regiment in October, 1864. The 2nd Wisconsin left the brigade once they mustered out in 1864. The 24th Michigan was transferred up north to Camp Butler (Illinois) for guard duty in February, 1865. The 6th Wisconsin and 7th Wisconsin fought together until the end of the war.
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;
The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army that has served for more than two hundred years. It was constituted on 12 April 1808 as the 6th Infantry and consolidated with 4 other regiments in 1815 to form the present unit.
The 4th Infantry Battalion, Wisconsin National Guard, was organized on 25 April 1884 from Milwaukee companies. [3] They were expanded and in 1890 redesignated as the 4th Infantry Regiment which was activated for Federal service in the war with Spain. They were reorganized on 10 June 1899 as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Infantry Regiments in the ...
18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 19th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 20th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 23rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 24th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 25th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 27th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment