1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Months)

The 1st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (3 Month) was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
ActiveApril 16, 1861 –
August 22, 1861[1]
DisbandedAugust 22, 1861
Country United States
BranchInfantry
SizeRegiment
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
ColonelJohn C. Starkweather

Service

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 Falling Waters on July 2.

The regiment was mustered out on August 22, 1861.

Total enlistments and casualties

The 1st Wisconsin (3 Months) 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 .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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See also

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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