31st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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31st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
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ActiveDecember 24, 1862 July 8, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel Isaac E. Messmore
Colonel Francis H. West

The 31st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 31st Wisconsin was organized at Prairie du Chien and Racine, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service December 24, 1862.

Companies A-F were mustered out on June 20, 1865. Companies G-K followed on July 8, 1865.

Casualties

The 31st Wisconsin suffered 23 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 112 fatalities. [1]

Commanders

Majors

Robert B. Sevenson

Captains

Company A: Henry A. Chase

Company B: Nathaniel B. Treat

Company C: Ira D. Burdick

Company D: Ornsby B. Thomas

Company E: Daniel B. Dibble

Company F: Charles W. Burns

Company G: Farlin Q. Ball

Company H: Edward K. Buttrick

Company I: John B. Vliet

Company K: Edwin Augustus Bottum

See also

Notes

  1. Union - Wisconsin Infantry (Part 3)

References