3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin.svg
ActiveJune 19, 1861 July 18, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel Charles Smith Hamilton
Colonel Thomas H. Ruger
Colonel William Hawley

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. They participated in many significant battles in the eastern theater of the war, including Antietam and Gettysburg, but were then detached as part of the detail sent to New York to put down the New York City draft riots. They were then transferred to the western theater of the war with XII Corps and served in the Atlanta and Carolinas campaigns.

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Service

The 3rd Wisconsin assembled at Camp Hamilton, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service on June 19, 1861. Its first commander was Col. Charles Smith Hamilton.

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry was a part of Gen. Nathaniel Banks' army during Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862. Later in the year, the 3rd Wisconsin took part in the fighting around the Cornfield during the Battle of Antietam. In 1863, after the Battle of Gettysburg, the 3rd was sent to New York, to help control the New York City draft riots.

The regiment participated in the Grand Review of the Armies on May 24, 1865, and then mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 18, 1865.

Commanders

Charles S. Hamilton, ca. 1861 CSHamiltonBGgen.jpg
Charles S. Hamilton, ca. 1861
Thomas H. Ruger Thomas H. Ruger.jpg
Thomas H. Ruger
William Hawley, ca. 1861 Capt William A. Hawley.jpg
William Hawley, ca. 1861

Total enlistments and casualties

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry initially mustered 979 men and later recruited an additional 940 men, for a total of 1919 men. [1] The regiment lost 9 officers and 158 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 2 officers and 113 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 282 fatalities. [2]

3rd Wisconsin Infantry, Company Organization [3] [4]
CompanyOriginal MonikerPrimary Place of RecruitmentCaptain(s)
AWatertown RiflesCities of Watertown and Shullsburg, Fond du Lac, Good Hope, Shields, Hustisford, Stockbridge, Prairie du Chien and Winneconne
  • Darius S. Gibbs (resigned)
  • Henry Bertram (transferred)
  • Ralph Van Brunt (mustered out)
BScott's VolunteersCity of Oshkosh and Winnebago County
  • John Walter Scott (promoted)
  • George W. Stevenson (promoted)
  • William M. Snow (woundedresigned)
  • Wilson S. Buck (woundeddischarged)
  • John E. Kleven (mustered out)
CGreen County VolunteersGreen County
  • Martin Flood (promoted)
  • Silas E. Gardner (resigned)
  • Abner Hubbell (actingmustered out)
DWaupun Light GuardCity of Waupun and Fond du Lac County
  • Andrew Clark (discharged)
  • Lyman B. Balcom (woundedresigned)
  • Charles R. Barager (mustered out)
EWilliamstown Union RiflesCity of Williamstown and Dodge County
  • Gustavus A. Hammer (discharged)
  • Julian W. Hinkley (mustered out)
FGrant County Union GuardsGrant County
  • George W. Limbocker (resigned)
  • Emanuel J. Bentley (resigned)
  • James W. Hunter (DOW)
  • Charles R. Barager (transferred)
  • Jasper Woodford (mustered out)
GNeenah GuardsCity of Neenah and Winnebago County
  • Edwin Lathrop Hubbard (promoted)
  • Ephraim Giddings (mustered out)
HLafayette RiflesLafayette County
  • George J. Whitman (woundeddischarged)
  • Thomas Slagg (resigned)
  • John M. Schweers (mustered out)
IShullsburg Light GuardCity of Shullsburg and Lafayette County
  • Howard Vandegrift (resigned)
  • Moses O'Brien (DOW)
  • Nahun Daniels (detailed; mustered out)
  • William Freeborn (acting; discharged)
KDane County GuardsCity of Madison and Dane County
  • William Hawley (promoted)
  • Warham Parks (promoted)
  • Thomas E. Orton (KIA)
  • Alexander D. Haskins (mustered out)

Notable people

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References

Notes

  1. 3rd Wisconsin Archived March 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Civil War Archive
  3. Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office (1886). Roster of Wisconsin volunteers, war of the rebellion, 1861-1865. The Library of Congress. Madison, Democrat printing co., state printers.
  4. Eastabrook, Charles E. (1912). Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of Wisconsin for the Years 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 (PDF). Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Publishing Co. pp. 38-40.