36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin.svg
ActiveMarch 23, 1864 July 12, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel Frank A. Haskell
ColonelJohn A. Savage Jr.
ColonelHarvey M. Brown
Colonel Clement Warner
CaptainAustin Cannon
CaptainGeorge A. Fisk

The 36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Their entire service was spent in II Corps, with the Army of the Potomac in the eastern theater of the war.

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Service

The 36th Wisconsin was organized at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into federal service on March 23, 1864.

The regiment was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

Casualties

The 36th Wisconsin suffered 7 officers and 150 enlisted men killed or fatally wounded in action and 3 officers and 182 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 342 fatalities.

Salisbury Prison, otherwise known as Camp Lee North Carolina. Many men from the 36th Wisconsin were sent there. Due to the conditions they experienced many died. The camp dug 13 trenches to dispose of the dead that is now a National Cemetery. The 36th had many buried in those mass graves. [1]

Commanders

Colonel Clement Warner. Colonel Clement Warner - WI Volunteer Infantry.jpg
Colonel Clement Warner.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. Names of Soldiers Who In the Defense of The American Union, Suffered Martyerdom in the Prison Pens Throughout the South, Roll of Honor (XIV), Quartermaster General’s Office, General Orders No. 7, February 20, 1868, 2025