53rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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53rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
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ActiveMarch 1865 June 10, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Lt. ColonelRobert T. Pugh
Wisconsin U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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The 53rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army near the end of the American Civil War.

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Service

The regiment was organized at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered in during April, 1865. Right away it was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri. After St. Louis, it then went to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On June 10, 1865, the regiment was absorbed into the 51st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. During its service the regiment lost eight men to disease. [1]

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  1. Dyer (1959), Volume 3. p. 1,689.

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