1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (3 Months)

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1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin.svg
Flag of Wisconsin
ActiveApril 16, 1861 –August 22, 1861 [1]
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel John C. Starkweather

The 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served a three-month enlistment in the Union Army during the first months of the American Civil War. The regiment was later re-established as a three-year enlistment.

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Service

Sketch of Col. John C. Starkweather leading the 1st Wisconsin Infantry at the Battle of Hoke's Run, July 1861. The Battle of Hoke's Run.jpg
Sketch of Col. John C. Starkweather leading the 1st Wisconsin Infantry at the Battle of Hoke's Run, July 1861.

The original 1st Regiment Wisconsin was raised at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1861, and mustered into Federal service May 17, 1861. The regiment was moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 9. It was assigned to Abercrombie's 6th Brigade of Negley's 2nd Division, Patterson's Army. It spent its service guarding the upper Potomac River crossings. Its only engagement was at the Hoke's Run on July 2.

The regiment was mustered out on August 22, 1861.

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Total enlistments and casualties

The 1st Wisconsin Infantry initially mustered 810 men and added no recruits. 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] One of the fatalities was Second Sergeant of Company B, Warren M Graham, 18 years old, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Watrous (2003), p. 34.
  2. ↑ 1st Wisconsin Archived March 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Page 15 of Memoirs of Mary Louise Foster Graham 1819 - 1908
  4. ↑ "Civil War changed Wisconsin" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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