First Wisconsin Calvary
(1861-1865)
Unit History

(Compiled in November, 2007 by Donald Joseph Schulteis)

Document Development

This history of the First Wisconsin Cavalry was transcribed from the book Wisconsin In The War Of The Rebellion by William DeLoss Love published in 1866. Mr. Love acknowledges his sources of information: very much to J.R. Barnett [Company I] Lieutenant by commission, Colonel Daniels, Colonel La Grange, Major Jones [2nd Battalion], and Stanley E. Lathop [Company M]. Prose which may be characterized as "bells and flourishes" were omitted. The transcriber also took the liberty changing the words "rebel" to "Confederate" and "enemy" to "rebel." Casualties were identified from the book Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion 1861-1865, Volume 1, published in 1886.

Additional Sources:

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture at http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/item-detail.aspx?type=Category&item=Military1

CWSAC Battle Summaries at http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/mo020.htm2

eHistory Archive; Introduction To Civil War Cavalry, Article written by: Alethea D. Sayers at http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/regimental/cavalry.cfm3

The Civil War Archive at http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwicav.htm4

You may also wish to read the book American Civil War Diaries 1863-1865 by Robert S. Merrill of Company K. It will provide a different perspective on the war; concern for food and clothing and not that much concern for the skirmishes and battles themselves. On the other hand, Mr. Merrill was in few confrontations and when he was, he was generally not in the front lines. So, having something to eat and being warm were his primary concerns.

Background3

U. S. cavalry regiments were organized as follows: each regiment contained 12 troops (company), each troop consisting of 100 men, commanded by a Captain, a 1st Lieutenant, a 2nd Lieutenant, and a Supernumerary Lieutenant. In 1863, changes were made to create a more flexible cavalry. The squadron was dropped, along with the supernumerary Lieutenant, and battalions, usually of four troops, were formed. These were handier on the march (shorter columns) and were a better size to detach than a full regiment.

A regiment was commanded by a Colonel, and had a Lieutenant Colonel, 3 Majors, and staff of an Adjutant, a Quartermaster, a Commissary, and a regimental Surgeon and assistant. The noncommissioned officers included: one Sergeant-Major, one Quartermaster Sergeant, one Commissary Sergeant, one saddler Sergeant, a chief farrier or blacksmith, and two hospital stewards.

Each troop [company], which now numbered 82-100 men, had its 1st Sergeant., Quartermaster Sergeant., a Commissary Sergeant, in addition to five Sergeants, eight Corporals, two teamsters, two farriers, one saddler, one wagoneer, and two musicians [buglers].

Unit History

According to a report of Adjutant General Utley, the First Wisconsin Regiment owes its origin to the energy and perseverance of Professor Edward Daniels of Waukesha, Wisconsin. His permit from the General Government to raise a regiment of cavalry was followed by a commission as Lieutenant Colonel from Governor Alexander W. Randall on 30 June 1861. The work of recruiting at once commenced. [LC Daniels was authorized to recruit and organize one battalion of cavalry in Wisconsin. Later he was authorized to raise two more companies. In October, the Governor was authorized to complete the regiment with the organization of six additional companies. This occurred from 01 September 1861 to 02 February 1862.]

Ripon, Wisconsin was at first the place of rendezvous but Camp Fremont was deemed unsuitable for winter quarters. The regiment was moved to Camp Harvey in Kenosha on 23 November 1861. Here the organization was completed and the last company mustered into the United States service on 10 March 1862. The roster, when the regiment left the state, was as follows:

Commanding | Edward Daniels
Major 1st Battalion | O.H. La Grange
Major 2nd Battalion | Henry Pomerly
Major 3rd Battalion | William H. Torrey
Adjutant | Charles W. Burbank
Surgeon | Horatio N. Gregory
1st Assistant Surgeon | Charfles H. Lord
2nd Assistant Surgeon | H.W. Cansdell
Quartermaster | James C. Mann

First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment Organization

First Battalion: Companies: | A, B, C, D
Second Battalion: Companies: | E, F, G, H
Third Battalion: Companies: | I, K, L, M

Company | Captains | 1st Lieutenants | 2nd Lieutenants
--- | --- | --- | ---
A | Thomas H. Mars | Levi Howland | William J. Phillips
B | Henry S. Eggleston | Frank T. Hobbs | John T. Consaul
C | James W. Decker | Alex J. Burrows | Charles F. Huxford
D | Nelson Bruett | Fernando C. Merrill | George W. Frederick
E | R.H. Chittenden | Augustus J. Hunt | Thomas W. Johnson
F | John Hyde | Newton Jones | Henry W. Getchell
G | Nathan Paine | Steven V. Shipman | Joseph E. Mosher
H | Lewis M.B. Smith | James M. Comstock | William S. Cooper
I | William M. Hoyt | Joseph H. Morrison | William G. Cooper
K | Algernon S. Seaton | Gilbert D. Coyle | Joseph E. Atwater
L | Henry Harden | Hiram Hillard | Talbot C. Ankeny
M | Thomas J. Conatty | George W. Barter | John A. Owen

Squardon = two companies

Charles L. Porter was the first 2nd Lieutenant of Company D but he resigned 02 September 1861. Oscar H. La Grange was the first Lieutenant Colonel but was not commissioned until after the regiment left the state.

(Action Summary 1862: May 10-11 Expedition to Bloomfield, Mo.; May 10 Action at Bloomfield; May 15 Chalk Bluffs; May 16-20 Operations in Dunklin County; July 9-22 Expedition to Madison, Arkansas; July 10 Scatterville; Guerrilla Campaign against Porter's and Poindexter's forces July 20-September 10; July 23 West Prairie; July 29 Bloomfield; August 2-3 Jonesboro, Arkansas(2nd Battalion); August 3 Jackson, Langnelle's Ferry, and Scatterville; At Cape Girardeau until October 3; August 20-27 Scout to Wayne, Stoddard, and Dunklin Counties (Detachment); August 29 Bloomfield; September 11 Bloomfield; October 3 Moved to Greenville; October 19 Moved to Patterson; Expedition after Greene's guerrillas October 20-November 3; Duty at Patterson until January, 1863)4

On 17 March 1862 the regiment started for St. Louis. Arriving in St. Louis they were quartered in Benton Barracks until 28 April when, having been furnished with horses and other equipment, they embarked for Cape Girardeau, Missouri. [The regiment moved down the Mississippi on transports to Cape Girardeau. From Cape Girardeau, the headquarters was moved to Bloomfield, Missouri fifty miles south-west. The Regimental Adjutant, Charles Burbanks was mustered out on 25 March 1862 and Lieutenant Stephen Shipman of Company G acted as Adjutant. Colonel Daniels was placed in command of the post.]

Regiment Assigned to Vandever's Brigade, District of Southeast Missouri

[On 10 May 1862, a force of six squadrons proceeded to Bloomfield, Missouri. Major Henry Pomeroy was then placed in command of the post and was appointed Provost Marshal. From this time until the regiment left South Missouri, they were engaged in scouting in various directions repeatedly encountering the rebels. Ten miles south of Bloomfield, a rebel camp was broken up. A few days later, Confederate Colonel Phelan and about 100 men were captured.]

[Henry La Fever of Company K and Oscar F. Willis of Company I were lost in early May, Henry on 01 May and Oscar on 03 May.]

Confederates Jeffries and Miller, with their followers, were pursued into Arkansas across the St Francis River to Chalk Bluff. On 15 May 1862 eighty of the Confederates made a stand against twenty members of the regiment from Companies A and D under the command of Major Oscar La Grange and the Confederates were driven off. Killed in this action were Solomon Howard of Company D. Two of Company A who died of their wounds were Lieutenant William Phillips on 18 May and Daniel McCloughry on 22 May. Four were wounded among them Lieutenant Fernando Merrell of Company D who received several wounds. Dr. Horatio Gregory, the regimental surgeon, soon after was shot while watering his horse and he died on 09 June 1862.

On 21 May 1862 a detachment under the Command of Colonel Daniels proceeded to Kennett in Dunklin County. There they learned a Confederate steamer loaded with supplies was in the vicinity. The detachment penetrated the swamps of the "Panhandle" reaching Little River at Homersville where they captured the steamer Daniel B. Miller loaded with sugar, molasses, whiskey, and fifty Confederate soldiers, who were made prisoners.

From Bloomfield, as a residence of rendezvous, the regiment was scattered in various scouting expeditions.

On 08 July 1862, Colonel Daniels with Lieutenant La Grange, Major Torrey and six squadrons of troops, along with a train of 30 wagons left Bloomfield in the direction of Arkansas. Garrisons remained at Bloomfield (fifty men under the command of Captain Hyde) and Cape Girardeau (sixty men under the command of Lieutenant Shipman). A handful of men were assigned to guard the stores left at camp in West Prairie. [Of the latter group Edward Houes of Company B was killed on 23 July.]

Following Crowley's Ridge, the regiment came to Scatterville on 10 July 1862 where Company I under the command of Captain Harnden attacked and routed a detachment from Confederate Colonel Allen's command. Some twelve Confederates were killed, twenty wounded and twenty-five taken prisoner. The remainder of the 200 men were driven beyond the White River. Other Confederates were dislodged from Greenboro, Jonesboro, Harrisburg, Taylor's Creek, and Madison.

[On 19 July 1862 Daniel Pasko of Company B was lost near Wittsburg, Arkansas.]

When the unit was between Wittsburg and Madison on 29 July 1862, Captain Porter of Company I was ordered to detach twenty-three men and take the sick, who had been left on the march, and return with them to Bloomfield. On 01 August 1863 Company I surprised a Confederate encampment of eighty-five men under Confederate Captain Adair which, after a few shots, fled leaving behind horses, arms, camp equipment and eleven men were taken prisoner. By daylight the next morning the Confederates returned with reinforcements and Captain Porter was obliged to surrender losing five killed, two wounded, eight became prisoners and eight were missing. [Soldiers lost from Company I were Frank Obermeier, Benjamin Rattell, Peter Schucke, John Sourby, and Edward Stanley.] Of the rebels, seventeen were killed, four of them lieutenants and four wounded including one captain and one lieutenant.

Skirmish at Jonesboro

| Location | Craighead County |
| Campaign | La Grange's Expedition into the Arkansas Delta |
| Dates | August 1 and 2, 1862 |
| Principal Commanders | Lieutenant Charles Porter (US); Captain Mitchell A. Adair, Captain Edward M. Allen (CS) |
| Forces Engaged | Company I, First Wisconsin Cavalry (US); Company I and H, Thirtieth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, and Fourth Missouri Home Guard (CS) |
| Estimated Casualties | 8 killed, 3 wounded (US); 1 killed (CS) |
| Result | Confederate victory |
| Description: In 1862, Jonesboro was a small hamlet and the Craighead County seat on Crowley's Ridge. Captain Mitchell A. Adair, fresh from the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Corinth, was sent home to Jonesboro (Craighead County) with some of the Twenty-third Arkansas Infantry for rest and relaxation. Memphis, Tennessee, fell into Union hands in June 1862 and Adair and his men were not able to rejoin the Twenty-third Arkansas on the east side of the Mississippi River. As there was no local Confederate force to protect local property and citizens, Adair and the men of Craighead County volunteered and helped form Company I of the Thirtieth Arkansas Infantry on July 2, 1862, at Jonesboro. They were assigned to the Fifth Regiment Trans-Mississippi under the command of Major General Thomas C. Hindman. In late July, Major Henry S. Eggleston of the Second Battalion, First Wisconsin Cavalry, ordered Lieutenant Charles L. Porter to take a detachment north from Wittsburg (Cross County) and survey the counties. Eggleston was under the command of the newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Oscar H. La Grange and Major General Samuel R. Curtis, commanding officer of the Army of the Southwest. Camped at Wittsburg, Porter foraged and scoured the country in all directions, arresting and examining suspicious characters, relaying dispatches, picking up the sick along the road, removing pockets of resistance, and seizing contraband property. Porter's orders included taking twenty men of Squadron I, Second Battalion, back to Chalk Bluff in Clay County. Adair and his men were camped two miles south of Jonesboro. The Confederates had received reports of Union troops coming along the ridge to attack all the county seats in northeast Arkansas. Adair expected the invasion to come from the north, but Porter was traveling north on the old Military Road. Porter and his men surprised the Confederates by slipping past the pickets, catching the Confederates at rest, and so neither side had casualties. Porter could not wait to report to Eggleston the totals of the first recorded conflict in Craighead County. He had overrun seventy-five Confederates, taking twenty-four prisoners, thirty horses, and three wagons. The rest of the Confederates escaped into the underbrush. The Union soldiers marched their prisoners back to the north up the Military Road to Jonesboro. The First Wisconsin Cavalry locked their prisoners in the new Craighead County Courthouse. The skirmish was one of the few that took place on the grounds of a county courthouse. All night, the remaining Confederates made plans for the daylight raid. Although the Confederates were out gunned, they had double-barrel shotguns with buckshot and a few good rifles they had seized at Shiloh and Corinth. Federal troops were using Belgian rifles and Springfield muskets, which were better at long range. The morning of August 2nd was hot as the Confederates set up a surprise attack. Adair gave the order to fire, and as the battle raged, the Union troops, who were trying to retreat and hold their ground at the same time, had to keep firing to give their comrades a chance to get to their horses. Some of the Confederates who had been at the Battle of Shiloh had learned the "Rebel yell" and used it so as to confuse the Federals even more. Augustus Ellison of the Fourth Missouri Home Guard was killed by Federal gunfire at the junction of Union Street and Washington Avenue. He was the lone Confederate killed in action. Union soldiers were not expecting an attack, especially one at dawn, and were not familiar with their surroundings, there-by allowing themselves to be run out of town in the confusion. Federal soldiers suffered eight deaths, but in the end, the skirmish proved a rather isolated incident in the Civil War history of Arkansas.1 |

Back to the main group.

[Richard Hill of Company E was lost on 31 July 1862 crossing the L'Anguille River.]

The train left Wittsburg on 02 August 1862 marching to L'Anguille Ferry and camped on the north shore of the stream. On Sunday morning 03 August 1862, Major Eggleston with one hundred-thirty men, at Hodges' Ferry on the L'Anguille River, between Madison and Helena were attacked by a Confederate party of 500 Texas Rangers under the command of Colonel Parsons. Thirty-eight of the rebels were killed and some wounded. Major Eggleston lost fifteen men killed: [Captain George W. Dunmore, Company B: Mathias J. Bushnell, Bradley B. Brown, Samuel W, Banker, Francis W. Hazzard, Erastus F. Mead, William P. Ware; Company E: William F. Mills; Company F: Edward Ochaner; Company I: William H. Abell; Company K: Philander Truesdell; Company L: Nicholas Friddel, Carey Webb; Company M: Enoch Young. Charles Hoag of Comapny E and Adrian Horton of Company I died later of their wounds; Charles on 20 November and Adrian on 05 August 1863.] Thirty were wounded.

Skirmish at L'Anguille Ferry

| Location: | St. Francis County |
| Campaign: | LaGrange's Expedition in to Arkansas |
| Date: | August 3, 1862 |
| Principal Commanders: | Major Henry S. Eggleston (US); Colonel William Henry Parsons (CS) |
| Forces Engaged: | First Wisconsin Cavalry; Commander Oscar LaGrange (US); Twelfth Texas Cavalry; General Thomas Hindman's Command (CS) |
| Estimated Casualties: | 17 killed, 40 wounded (US); 2 killed, 9 wounded (CS) |
| Results: | Confederate Victory |
| Description: On August 3, 1862, a skirmish took place at L'Anguille Ferry just north of Marianna (Lee County). The skirmish was in direct response to a Union victory at the Action at Hill's Plantation, which took place July 7. The Confederate victory at L'Anguille Ferry resulted in Union troops in eastern Arkansas remaining near the Mississippi River until the following year. One of the regiments so affected by the Action at Hill's Plantation in Woodruff County was that of Colonel William H. Parsons of Texas. He planned to avenge his loss to the Union at Hill's Plantation. With the blessing of General Thomas C. Hindman he went searching for a target. The First Wisconsin Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Edward Daniels, was the closest. Daniels and his army were on Crowley's Ridge just south of Wittsburg (St. Francis County) traveling south to Helena (Phillips County) to help in the defense of the Mississippi River and Helena's port. The Federals had the numbers and equipment to push the Confederates out of the way on their journey south; the Confederates were only effective when using hit and run tactics. The lead group, with Commander Oscar LaGrange in charge, reached Marianna on July 29. The rear command, the Second Battalion of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, was under newly promoted Major Henry S. Eggleston. It was loaded down by a train of baggage wagons and liberated slaves from the Delta. Eggleston issued an order to admit no more contraband under age fifteen to the camp for they could handle no more liberated slaves. The Second Battalion left Wittsburg the morning of 29 July 1862 and arrived at the L'Anguille Ferry on August 2. The troops made camp and waited for orders to cross the river. Eggleston reported that he had twenty-seven wagons, 130 men (sick and well), and about 100 contraband horses and mules. The camp was half a mile from the crossing. He placed twenty-four pickets and camp guards besides the horse guard. Colonel Parsons's plan was to divide the Twelfth Texas Cavalry into five squadrons. Parsons and Major Lochlin J. Farrar would lead four squads, while Lieutenant Colonel Bell Burleson and a fifth squadron would circle from the southwest to position themselves north of the Federal soldiers. This was to cut off any retreat northward up the Military Road. Lieutenant Woinder N. Kenner led the advance that morning. The Texans got so close to the pickets that the Federals thought they were more Union soldiers coming into the camp. Most of the guards, who had been on duty all night, were tired, with some of them sleeping. One of the pickets awoke, was surprised to see the Confederates, and fired his weapon. This resulted in the order from Parsons to charge. Parsons, with more than 600 Texas Calvary, attacked from all directions. After severe fighting for half an hour, the Federals started to yield. The Wisconsin men thought they were being attacked by Missourians, the only troops they knew to be in the area, though soon the Confederates got close enough that the Union troops could see the Texan dress and brass insignia upon their enemies. The Federals soon fled to the woods and streams for cover. The Confederates captured seven wagons, all the horses and mules, and burned or destroyed everything of value not taken. Union losses totaled seventeen killed, forty wounded, twenty-five captured, and eight missing. Parsons reported that he had lost two killed and ten wounded. Reverend George W. Densmore, the chaplain for the First Wisconsin, was mortally wounded as he exited his tent. La Grange sent a report to General Samuel R. Curtis that an African American brought news of the attack at L'Anguille Ferry at 9:40 a.m. on August 3. La Grange and Major William H. Torrey, with 200 men, marched as fast as they could to a point eight miles north of the ferry, hoping to surprise the Texans. La Grange reported to General Samuel Curtis that they came upon the site of the skirmish and found that the rebels were gone and that all that was left was burning wagons. He also said a considerable amount of stock was taken, and the regimental desk and many papers were lost to the rebels. The Federals had their hands full taking care of their wounded. They loaded them on the steamboat Hamilton Belle for the journey to Helena (Phillips County) and buried many comrades at the battle site. The Confederate victory at L'Anguille Ferry resulted in Union troops staying close to Helena and defending the port so the Mississippi River would be in Federal control, at least to that point. It would be another year before Vicksburg, Mississippi would fall and the Union would then have control of the entire Mississippi River.1 |

Early in August, the expedition reached Helena, where, diminished by deaths and replenished by recruits, it remained until 22 September 1862 when it was ordered back to Cape Girardeau. Scarcely were they back when the regiment was ordered to Greenville seventy-five miles west under the command of Captain Algernon S. Seaton.

[In Helena, Arkansas, Sergeant William Ramsdale was killed on 08 August 1862, and Charles Skinner died on 22 October of wounds he received that day. In September of 1862 Abner Hiland of Company E and Henry Van Valen of Company H were killed in Bloomfield.]

On 19 October 1862 they moved to Patterson ten miles distant. On the next day, a scouting party was formed consisting of the Twelfth Missouri, a battery, a company of infantry, and the First Wisconsin Cavalry. On the second day out, reports came that Colonel Boone, with a company of six hundred men was encamped ten miles distant. The force went in immediate pursuit. For the next several days, they pursued, prepared to attacked, but no rebels.

Attached to Cavalry Brigade, General Benton's Division of Southeast Missouri to June, 1863

On 22 November 1862 the regiment was inspected by Brigadier General Davidson to whose command it had been attached. Soon thereafter, a battalion was ordered out under the command of Major Torrey to march against Colonel Phelan who was reported to be near Boomfield, Missouri. The colonel was surprised with his body guard of thirteen men asleep on the floor of his own house by Sergeant Milton Martin of Company F. Having secured their prisoners, the troops charged into Bloomfield after the main body, but the Confederates had retreated. This was the second time Colonel Phelan was captured by the First Wisconsin Cavalry.

On 11 December 1862 the brigade was ordered out with five days rations. Under heavy rains and bad roads they went to Centerville and Boonesville erecting fortifications and gathering corn for provision trains between Pilot Knob and Van Buren.

About 28 December 1862 a small party of infantry, 20 men with wagons, had been sent out by General Benson to gather corn. Confederates in large numbers surrounded them, took them prisoner and started for Pocahontas. The news reaching camp, 200 infantry and eighty cavalry started in pursuit. The cavalry included men from companies D and M of the first Wisconsin under Captain Jones and men from the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry under Colonel Hartman. Contact was not made.

1863

(Action Summary 1863: January Moved to Alton and West Plains; February 4. Batesville; February At West Plains, Pilot Knob, and St. Genevieve until March; March 10 Moved to Cape Girardeau; March 24-April 1 Scout from Bloomfield to Scatterville; Operations against Marmaduke April 17-May 2; April 24 Whitewater River (Co. "E"); April 26 Cape Girardeau; April 27 Near Whitewater Bridge; April 29 Castor River, near Bloomfield; April 29-30 Bloomfield; April 30-May 1 Chalk Bluff, St. Francis River; May 31-June 13 Moved to Nashville, Tennessee; June 19 Triune; Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7; June 23 Eaglesville and Rover; June 24 Middleton; June 27 Fosterville, Guy's Gap, and Shelbyville; July 2 Bethpage Bridge, Elk River; July 13-22 Expedition to Huntsville; August 15 At Huntsville and Fayetteville, Alabama until August 15; August 31 At Larkinsville until August 31; Chickamauga (Georgia) Campaign; September 11 Reconnaissance toward Rome, Georgia; September 12 Apine and Dirt Town; September 18 Near Stevens' Gap; September 19-20 Battle of Chickamauga; September 22 Boy Valley and Lookout Church; September 22 Missionary Ridge and Shallow Ford Gap; Operations against Wheeler and Roddy September 30-October 17; October 2 Anderson's Cross Roads; October 13 Maysville, Alabama; November 20 Camp at Winchester; November 20 Movement to Murfreesboro, Tennessee; December 14 Move into East Tennessee; November 24-28 Operations about Dandridge and Mossy Creek; December 24 Mossy Creek Station; December 24 Pack's House, near New Market; December 26. Mossy Creek; December 28 Talbot Station; December 29 Mossy Creek, Talbot Station)4

02 January 1863 the regiment received marching orders to Van Buren which they reached on 07 January. The regiment was ordered to meet General Davidson at Alton. With an episode to Thomasville, and back to Alton, the regiment reached West Plains where the divisions of General Davidson and Benton were already encamped. The combined force was some 17,000 strong. The First Wisconsin was detached from General Benton's force and sent on in advance to Pilot Knob. Here the men were paid four months dues. Almost immediately Major Pomeroy was ordered by General Davidson to proceed with a regiment of cavalry to St. Genevieve and occupy that point as a military post surveying camping grounds for the remainder of the Army. The First Wisconsin were selected to do so.

On 10 March 1863, the First Wisconsin, via transports, was sent to Cape Girardeau.

The First Wisconsin was now attached to General McNeil's command and stationed at Bloomfield, Missouri. Confederate Jeff Thompson's forces were to the east and General Marmaduke's forces were at St. Francis at Chalk Bluff.

Colonel Daniels in August of 1862 had been taken with spotted fever and lay helpless until October. He reported to General Curtis in November and started to join his regiment in January of 1863 but the exposure, with feebleness brought on pneumonia, which led to a dangerous chronic disease. He was diagnosed by army surgeons as incurable. His resignation was accepted on 05 February 1863.

With Colonel Daniels' resignation, Lieutenant Colonel La Grange succeeded him in position and command and Major Pomeroy was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

The next movement was to Bloomfield, then to Chalk Bluff, where they had a successful engagement with the rebels and returned to Cape Girardeau.

On 10 April 1863 the unit was on its way back to Bloomfield. On 21 April came marching orders for Dallas, Missouri. Confederate insurgents, in strong force, were marching having attacked Patterson and routing the whole garrison. With the arrival of General McNeil's forces, the column began a rapid march, entering the town at nine o'clock in the morning. Here it was determined that Patterson and Greenville were in possession of the rebels and a strong force was marching upon Fredericktown. To learn the strength and position of the rebels, Company G under the command of Captain Paine was sent to reconnoiter the Fredericktown Road. About 18 miles out, they encountered a small party of rebels, captured twelve, with their horses and mules, and returned to camp. From the prisoners it was learned that 20,000 men under Marmaduke and Burbridge were at Dallas ready to march upon Pilot Point and St. Genevieve. News soon came that Bloomfield and Jackson were also in the Confederate hands.

Being surrounded and with only 1,500 men, a retreat towards Cape Girardeau was ordered and the unit arrived there on 24 April 1863.

[On the 24 April 1863, Company E, under command of Captain Stephen Shipman, was stationed to guard a bridge across Whitewater River located on the Bloomfield Road some sixteen miles from Cape Girardeau. One column of Marmaduke's army which numbering some 3,000 men approached. A body of about 300 men moved above the bridge, some distance, crossed the river, and took possession of the only road through the swamp in the rear of Captain Shipman's position. The Confederate whole force then moved against the bridge, which Captain Shipman found it impossible to hold. He therefore attempted to retreat to Cape Girardeau under cover of the darkness. Falling into an ambuscade set by the rebels, Captain Shipman ordered his men to cut their way through; he and Lieutenant Ogden leading the charge. In the attempt, Captain Shipman was severely wounded having his thighbone badly shattered by a pistol ball. He was taken prisoner with several of his men. Lieutenant Ogden, with twenty-two men, succeeded in cutting their way through and escaped to the Cape. Captain Shipman was paroled and sent into Cape Girardeau under a flag of truce where by superior surgical aid, his life was saved without amputation of the limb. The casualties reported were 4 killed. [Sylvester Corbin and Warren Gale were killed and Henry Barden and Charles Durant died of their wounds; Henry on 15 May and Charles on 11 June 1863.]

The morning of 25 April 1863 the whole available force was drawn up in line of battle. The scouts reported no advance by the Confederates so the remainder of the day was spent at rest. At 11 o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived from Marmaduke demanding an unconditional surrender of the town with twelve hours for consideration. General McNeil returned an immediate reply to the effect, "not while a fort remains standing or a soldier lives to defend it." At ten o'clock the next morning, Lieutenant Comstock of Company H, commanding the outpost, discovered the rebels and retired skirmishing with the them until under the protection of Fort B.

The great bell in the cathedral had just ceased it tolling when the loud thunder of the cannons at Fort B, answered by Marmaduke's hostile cannons in the direction of Jackson Road told the story that the battle had begun. General McNeil ordered a reconnaissance on the Jackson Road to determine the exact position of the rebel forces in the woods. Companies I and G of the First Cavalry was ordered to do so. Another battery was posted on the eminence between Fort B and the timber covering the rebels. Its first shot silence the most efficient rebel gun. Every shot thereafter seemed to strike where it was needed most.

To support the battery were placed the First Nebraska Infantry, the First Wisconsin Cavalry, except two or three companies of carbineers who deployed in front as skirmishers. For a time the battle was carried on chiefly by the artillery, the First Nebraska, and the carbineers. At last the Confederates prepared to make a dash upon the battery and Colonel La Grange rode before the line of the First Wisconsin Cavalry preparing them for the charge they were expected to soon make. The withering fire of the Nebraskans proved sufficient to drive the Confederates back.

Union General Vanderver was known to be approaching from Pilot Knob and troops from Bird's Point were also on their way. Neither though could arrive to help in the fight that day. Another hour of vigorous cannonading and Marmaduke sent a second summons to surrender receiving the same reply as the first. At this juncture the arrival of a transport at the levee, heralded by he loud whistle, accompanied by the shrieking of fifes and the roll of drums told that succor had at last arrived. Shortly, a long column of blue uniforms appeared at the escarpment of the ridge which flanked Fort B.

Marmaduke made a demonstration in the direction of Fort D and was again repulsed with heavy loss. He then sent his third and final demand for surrender threatening terrible destruction if the demand was not immediately complied with. General McNeils reply in part, "never saw such impudence in a white man". Marmaduke withdrew his forces and retreated on the Jackson and Bloomfield roads.

[At Cape Girardeau, Sergeant Michael O'Neil of Company C and George Bradfield of Company I were killed and Christian Bjornensen and James Clark, both of Company G, died later of their wounds.]

Cape Girardeau

| Location | Cape Girardeau City |
| Campaign: | Marmaduke's Second Expedition into Missouri (1863) |
| Date(s): | April 26, 1863 |
| Principal Commanders: | Brig. Gen. John McNeil [US]; Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke [CS] |
| Forces Engaged: | Garrison plus some reinforcements [US]; cavalry division [CS] |
| Estimated Casualties: | 337 total (US 12; CS 325) |
| Result(s): | Union victory |
| Description: Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke sought to strike Brig. Gen. John McNeil, with his combined force of about 2,000 men, at Bloomfield, Missouri. McNeil retreated and Marmaduke followed. Marmaduke received notification, on April 25, that McNeil was near Cape Girardeau. He sent troops to destroy or capture McNeil's force, but then he learned that the Federals had placed themselves in the fortifications. Marmaduke ordered one of his brigades to make a demonstration to ascertain the Federals' strength. Col. John S. Shelby's brigade made the demonstration which escalated into an attack. Those Union forces not already in fortifications retreated into them. Realizing the Federals' strength, Marmaduke withdrew his division to Jackson. After finding the force he had been chasing, Marmaduke was repulsed. Meant to relieve pressure on other Confederate troops and to disrupt Union operations, Marmaduke's expedition did little to fulfill either objective.2 |

Pursuit was made the next day arriving at the Whitewater River, the advance party under Major Torey found the bridge gone, destroyed by the retreating rebels. The next morning, the Wisconsin boys repaired the bridge in three hours; the engineers determining it would require a day and a half to do the same. By this time the Confederates were five miles away and the distance growing. Heavy rains, felled trees and broken bridges further impeded the progress. By nightfall, the advance unit was within reach of the rebels but a broken bridge near Castor River detained them until morning. Companies G and H repaired the bridge, skirmishing at the same time with sharpshooters on the opposite bank.

Three miles from Bloomfield the Confederate pickets were driven in by the advance guard of Companies G and H, and near Crooked Creek, a sharp skirmish ensued. In the morning the attack was renewed. The Confederates had retreated destroying the bridge and obstructing the creek and leaving a rear guard of sharpshooters to dispute passage. Companies I and M were detailed to clear the creek. The bridge was soon repaired and the troops entered Bloomfield without opposition.

After a few hours of rest, the regiment went on, marched all night, stopped two hours at St. Luke, and then on again. Twice during the day was the rear of the rebels overtaken, engaged, and repulsed. At "Four Mile" both parties seemed determined to make the most of their last opportunity. A fierce battle ensued, the rebels fled, and the Federals still pursued. At St. Francis River, a brisk duel of artillery took place until Marmaduke and his forces crossed the river and were under the protection of Chalk Bluff.

The Union loss during this series of battles was estimated at not more than twenty-five killed and one hundred wounded. [William Fenton of Company H was killed.] The Confederate loss could not have been less than 1,500.

Skirmish at Chalk Bluff

| Location: | Clay County |
| Campaign: | Marmaduke's Second Expedition into Missouri |
| Dates: | May 1–2, 1863 |
| Principal Commanders: | Brigadier General William Vandever (US); Major General John Sappington Marmaduke (CS) |
| Forces Engaged: | Second Division, Army of the Frontier and forces under command of Brigadier General John McNeil (US); Marmaduke's Cavalry Division (CS) |
| Estimated Casualties: | Unknown |
| Result: | Confederate tactical victory, Union strategic victory. |
| Description: Chalk Bluff in Clay County, where Crowley's Ridge is cut by the St. Francis River, was an important transit point during the Civil War between northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel. It was the site of the last engagement of Major General John Sappington Marmaduke's fighting withdrawal from his second Missouri raid, April 17–May 2, 1863, as the Confederate forces held off an initially determined but ultimately faltering Union pursuit to escape back into Arkansas across the St. Francis River on a makeshift floating bridge. Marmaduke entered Missouri with 5,000 men, of whom 1,200 were unarmed and 900 dismounted, planning to trap Union Brigadier General John McNeil at Bloomfield, Missouri. McNeil's troops evacuated Bloomington ahead of Marmaduke and withdrew into the fortifications of Cape Girardeau. Marmaduke demonstrated against Cape Girardeau on April 26 with Colonel Joseph Shelby's brigade, but he found himself facing a second front that evening when Union Brigadier General William Vandever's Second Division of the Army of the Frontier appeared from the west and routed Colonel Robert C. Newton's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment encamped on the road between Jackson and Dallas. Marmaduke made a fighting retreat from Cape Girardeau to the St. Francis River. Lieutenant Charles Dow of the First Iowa Cavalry wrote of the latter part of the retreat that the Confederates "would make a stand on the crest of every hill." The Union commanders repeatedly bungled their opportunities to bag Marmaduke. On April 27, McNeil failed to trap Marmaduke by not promptly executing Vandever's orders for a flanking march on the Confederates at White Water Bridge, where a sharp engagement took place. Pursuing Marmaduke toward Bloomfield, a small number of the Union troops crossed the Castor River on April 29 after a hot three-hour fight with a rear guard composed of Colonel Gideon W. Thompson's Sixth Missouri Cavalry. The pursuit entered Bloomfield on April 30, and McNeil was given a command made up of the freshest Northern troops to pursue Marmaduke down the military road that ran along Crowley's Ridge to Chalk Bluff. In the meantime, Marmaduke was making final preparations for his escape. On April 21, Lieutenant Colonel Solomon G. Kitchen's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, accompanied by Missouri State Guard Brigadier General Merriwether "Jeff" Thompson, had secured the Missouri bank of the St. Francis at Chalk Bluff when it captured Captain Richard M. Hulse and twenty-three men of Company H, McNeil's Second Missouri State Militia Regiment. Jeff Thompson, along with Major Robert Smith of Marmaduke's staff and Major Robert Lawrence of Shelby's staff, supervised the construction of a bridge across the St. Frances River at Chalk Bluff. With frontier know-how, a floating log bridge twice as long as the river‘s breadth was built and guyed in place with grape vines and a few ropes. In addition, a sturdy log raft was constructed to transport the artillery. Colonel George W. Carter's Texas cavalry brigade and Shelby's Missouri cavalry brigade, along with Colonel John Burbridge's Missouri cavalry brigade, fought a series of final rear guard actions, beginning at Four Mile, located four miles up Crowley's Ridge northeast of Chalk Bluff, in order to allow the Confederates to escape across the river into Arkansas. A strong Confederate defensive position was established at Gravel Hill, a mile and a half below Four Mile, or two and a half miles above Chalk Bluff, and a late afternoon attack there on May 1 led by the Second Missouri State Militia was repulsed. That night, the Confederates quietly left their positions and withdrew across the St. Francis. In the dark of night, the infantry crossed the rude bridge in a procession regulated by the strictest officers standing with pistols in hand. Jeff Thompson made twenty crossings with his raft to get the dismounted Confederate artillery across, the wheels and cannon of each piece transported on one trip and the trail and axle on another. The horses were made to swim across. By sunup, Marmaduke's whole command was safely across, with the exception of a few skirmishers left to delay the Union advance, and the bridge was cut loose from the Missouri bank of the river. On the morning of May 2, the Union troops advanced to the St. Francis crossing to find that their prey had escaped. Two hundred picked riflemen stationed on the Arkansas shore, directed by Arthur St. Clair of Shelby's command, along with artillery, fired on the Union troops, and McNeil, the original object of the entire raid, was unhorsed. The action concluded as fierce artillery fire was directed across the river from Union guns with little effect. As is often the case in the Civil War west of the Mississippi, exact casualty figures are not available for this particular battle. Marmaduke reported that his casualties for the entire raid—April 17–May 2, 1863—into Missouri were thirty killed, sixty wounded, and 120 missing. The official Union return of casualties showed twenty-three killed, forty-four wounded, and fifty-three captured or missing. The Skirmish at Chalk Bluff, in spite of Marmaduke's successful escape across the St. Francis River, marked the end of an ineffective attempt to disrupt Union dominance in southeastern Missouri. From these events, a careful observer should have learned that, however daring a cavalry raid might be, it was not going to affect the ultimate outcome of the war.1 |  |

On 07 May 1863 the regiment with other troops entered Cape Girardeau after an absence of nearly two weeks. On 31 May 1863 they embarked on government transport for their long desired field, Tennessee. They went down the Mississippi River, up the Ohio, then up the Cumberland until the docking of the Dickey near Eddyville brought them to their feet again. Here they encamped a week and then reached Nashville on 15 June 1863. At Nashville they were joined by Companies G and M who had come to Louisville and from their by rail, escorting exchanged Unionists. Reinforcements had arrived from Wisconsin; fresh horses and new carbines (Merrill's patent) had been furnished, so that in number and appearance First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment was equal to any veteran regiment in the field. General Granger so much desired to retain it as provost guard for the city that an order from Rosecrans, requiring it at the front, was countermanded.

[On 17 May 1863, Company M lost two men, Chauncy Brown and James Crowfoot.]

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864

[On 04 June 1863, Company D lost Thomas Prattoo crossing the Cumberland River near Eddyville, Kentucky.]

On 18 June 1863, with new marching orders, the regiment left for Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Before this march had been completed, a strong force of Confederate cavalry was reported as being in the way. After camping at the old battle field of Stone River, the regiment joined the Union forces at Triune. The First Wisconsin was now ranked in the Army of the Cumberland, under Major General Rosecrans; cavalry corps. Major General D.S, Stanley; first division, General R. B. Mitchell; second brigade, Colonel E.M. McCook. The regiments in the brigade were, the First Wisconsin Cavalry, Second and Fourth Indiana, and Second Tennessee. From this time the history of the regiment is mostly that of the brigade, frequently that of the division, and sometimes of the whole cavalry corps.

After the battle of Stone River in late December 1862, General Rosencrans held his army at Murfreesboro five and a half months. This long inactivity produced dissatisfaction and complaint at Washington and throughout the country. But on 24 June 1863, he set out to drive General Bragg and the Confederate army back into Georgia and rescue East Tennessee from the rebels. He made demonstrations that should lead the Confederates to suppose he was about to attack their center and left. Then, with the mass of his army, he passed on the other side of them , capturing Hoover's Liberty, and other gaps, after much hard fighting, while at the left our forces bravely carried Shelbyville, all of which compelled the rebels to fall back to Tullahoma. Then General Rosecrans took measures to pass around that place, and strike the communications of the Confederates in their rear. This flanked them successfully, and they fled towards Bridgeport, Alabama. The Federals pursued, an General Thomas advance, which was Negley's division, fell upon the rear of the Confederates, under Hardee, near the crossing of Elk River. A severe engagement ensued but the Confederates crossed, burned the bridges, and still retreated. Meanwhile General Crittenden's corps were moving on Chattanooga by a route that obliged the Confederates to cross the Cumberland Mountains. The other Federal corps pursued them by a direct route and on the morning of 04 July 1863, reached the foot of the mountains and discovered them in full retreat on Chattanooga, where, though much demoralized, they immediately began to fortify.

Battle of Chattanooga

| Location: | Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga |
| Campaign: | Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign (1863) |
| Date(s): | November 23-25, 1863 |
| Principal Commanders: | Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant [US]; Gen. Braxton Bragg [CS] |
| Forces Engaged: | Military Division of the Mississippi [US]; Army of Tennessee [CS] |
| Estimated Casualties: | 12,485 total (US 5,815; CS 6,670) |
| Result(s): | Union victory |
| Description: From the last days of September through October 1863, Gen. Braxton Bragg's army laid siege to the Union army under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans at Chattanooga, cutting off its supplies. On October 17, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant received command of the Western armies; he moved to reinforce Chattanooga and replaced Rosecrans with Maj. Gen. George Thomas. A new supply line was soon established. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman arrived with his four divisions in mid-November, and the Federals began offensive operations. On November 23-24, Union forces struck out and captured Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain. On November 25, Union soldiers assaulted and carried the seemingly impregnable Confederate position on Missionary Ridge. One of the Confederacy's two major armies was routed. The Federals held Chattanooga, the "Gateway to the Lower South," which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.2 |  |

In summary, the regiment joined in the movement of Rosecran's army from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga. Marching toward Murfreesboro to unite with the main army, they shared an engagement with the Confederates near Middleton, and as they came out of it, General R.B. Mitchell, their division commander, said, "The First Wisconsin is by a long odds the best regiment in the division at skirmishing." They took part in the five mile charge and battle near Shelbyville in which the Confederates lost severely and their generals, Wheeler and Martin, escaped only by plunging into the water to cross the river. They accompanied Thomas' corps in the march across the mountains and over the Tennessee River. They ascended Racoon Mountain at an angle of fifty degrees. They took part in the battle of Chickamunga.

On 01 October 1863, with three days rations, they started on a scouting expedition under General McCook to save a supply train in the Sequatchie Valley. Soon after they came upon the Confederates under Wheeler whom they drove and fought and drove and fought and drove again. The Confederates loss was thirty-seven killed and wounded, and forty-two made prisoner. Among the latter were two captains, a lieutenant, and two majors of Wheeler's staff. The Federal's loss was four wounded , one prisoner, and three missing. The pursuit was continued over the Cumberland mountains to Murfreesboro and then south to Shelbyville, Uniontown, and Rogersville. The Federal garrison at McMinnville was captured by the Confederates but before crossing to the south side of the Tennessee River, they were overtaken and defeated with a loss of two hundred and fifty killed and wounded.

On 20 November 1863 the regiment moved by way of Muefreesboro towards East Tennessee, crossed the mountains and the river on 16 December then encamped near Knoxville. From there they went too Strawberry Plains where they forded the Holston River and soon engaged in heavy and successful skirmishing with the Confederates. Proceeding towards Dandridge, they came upon a battle and took part sweeping the rebels from the field, Colonel La Grange heading the brigade in a charge with glittering front, without firing a single carbine.

[In Mossy Creek, Tennessee in late December 1863, Company H lost Jasper Talbert and Company L lost Haton Crook. Christ Rassmessmer of Company D was wounded and died later on 03 January 1864.]

1864

(Action Summary 1864: January 11-12 Near Mossy Creek; January 16-17 Operations about Dandridge; January 16 Bend of Chucky Road, near Dandridge; January 17 Dandridge; Operations about Dandridge January 26-28; January 27 Fair Garden; January 28 Swann's Island; February 17-22 Expedition from Motley's Ford to Murphey, North Carolina; April 2 Cleveland; April 13 Mink Springs, near Cleveland; Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign May 1-September 8; May 3 Catoosa Springs; May 7 and 9 Varnell's Station; May 9-13 Demonstrations on Dalton; May 13 Tilton; May 14-15 Battle of Resaca; May 19 Cassville; May 23 Stilesboro; May 24 Burnt Hickory; May 25-June 5 About Dallas; May 26 and May 30-June 1 Burned Church; June 3-4 Ackworth; June 6 Big Shanty; Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2; June 15-17 Lost Mountain; June 27 Assault on Kenesaw; July 1 Howell's Ferry; July 2-5 Nickajack Creek; July 6-17 Chattahoochie River; July 22 Beachtown; Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25; July 27-31 McCook's Raid on Atlanta & West Point Railroad; July 28 Campbellton; July 30-31 Newnan; August 11-15 Expedition to Jasper; August 18-October 17 At Cartersville; September 1-8 Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler; November 14 At Calhoun; November 14 Ordered to Louisville, Ky., duty there until December 4; Pursuit of Lyon from Paris to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, thence march to Nashville, Tennessee; December 6, 1864, to January 8, 1865; 1864 December 16. Action at Hopkinsville, Kentucky; December 16. At Chickasaw, Alabama until December 16.)4

On 24 January 1864 they moved to Dandridge and on 17 January were suddenly attacked by a portion of Longstreet's forces issuing from the woods. They dismounted, rushed into the timber and cleared it of the foe. But Confederate reserves stood upon a hill beyond, who in overwhelming numbers bore down upon them and pressed them back. The Fourth Indiana came up and the Confederates were forced to take again the brow of the hill. Mounted Confederates charged the Indiana who gave way which in turn caused a general retreat, better put, an unorganized retreat. The regiment clearing the valley and up the hill found their horses to be missing. As soon as darkness made it safe to leave, the First Wisconsin moved quietly to the rear and answered to the roll-call. As the night deepened, many returned, some as stragglers from the fight, some as escaped prisoners until the final loss to the regiment was recorded as thirty-two men killed, wounded, and missing. [Among them was Be Brail of Company L who was killed and Captain Wallace W. La Grange of Company D and Ashur Morgan of Company E who died later of their wounds.] Having as far as possible brought in and cared for their disabled comrades, they started about midnight with the division for Knoxville.

This was the severest engagement in which the First Wisconsin had then participated and the first time they had been compelled to flee before the Confederates.

[On 03 March 1864 in Murphy, North Carolina, Albert Henman and George Potter of Company L were killed.]

At Cleveland on 12 March 1864, the regiment were joined by four hundred recruits from Wisconsin under Lieutenant Colonel Torrey, who assumed command. Colonel La Grange was leading the brigade.

[In Cleveland, Tennessee on 13 April 1864 William Slater and Jared Stevens both of Company L were wounded and later died.]

On 03 May 1864 they advanced to join in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. [On this day, Samuel Greenwood of Company H and Andrew Keller of Company E were killed.] On 09 May they went to Varenell's Station to attack a Confederate force located three miles away. After the battle had continued some time with varying fortune, our troops fighting now on foot and then on horseback, Colonel La Grange ordered a charge, leading it in person. A terrible volley was poured out from concealed earthworks and checked the advance. A regiment of Texas Rangers charged upon the flanks of the retreating column and captured every straggler in an instant. It was here that Colonel La Grange was taken prisoner and also Captain G.O. Clinton and four of his company. Though the engagement continued but two hours, the Union loss was severe: one hundred and thirty-six killed, wounded and prisoners from a brigade of nine hundred; forty-eight from the First Wisconsin alone. They had encountered the whole of Wheeler's cavalry, supported by a division of infantry.

[On 09 May 1864 near Poplar Springs, Georgia Ichabod Howland of Company C, Joseph Gesser of Company G and George Weaver of Company L were killed.]

The First Wisconsin Cavalry were present in line of Battle while Federal forces moved upon Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost, and Rocky Face Ridge, and once, on 11 May 1864, the Confederates made a dash at them, and were immediately repulsed. They were also in the skirmish which opened the battle at Resaca.

The First Wisconsin were connected with Mc Cook's division of cavalry. On 07 May 1864, General Thomas moved from Ringgold toward Tunnell Hill, which place was carried by Palmer's corps after a short skirmish. On 08 May 1864, Howard carried a ridge near Buzzard Roost, but found it too narrow for operations to carry the pass near it. On the same day McPherson passed through Snake Creek Gap; on 19 May Hooker followed him, and on the 11 May nearly all the remainder of the army. The objective of this movement was to flank Johnson out of Dalton, rather than meet him in battle at that strongly fortified place. Johnson soon saw that if he remained at Dalton his communication would be cut off, and he therefore left his cherished position on 12 May and retreated on a short line to Resaca, which was eighteen miles further towards Atlanta, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad.

Battle of Resaca

On the morning of 14 May 1864, the Federals pressed upon the Confederates in their Resaca entrenchments. At ten o'clock Palmer undertook to force the Confederates from an elevated position in front. Running into difficulty, it became necessary to retreat, which they made, suffering a loss of 1,000 men. About the same time, a portion of Howard's and Schofield's troops took an important position of the rebels on their outer line. At three o'clock in the afternoon Johnson made an attack, with the view of turning the Federal left flank. Stanley's men were driven back, but Hooker came to the rescue in time to drive the rebels back into the works.

Meanwhile McPherson carried a hill at the Confederates's left, from which cannon could pour an enfilading fire upon Confederate lines, and command the railroad and trestle bridges. On 15 May 1864, Sherman took measures to capture two hills, commanding each other at the Confederate right. During the night on 15 May, the Confederates quietly evacuated Resaca and retreated toward Kingston, thirty-two miles further south.

Battle of Dallas

The cavalry division under Stoneman and McCook pursued the Confederates in their retreat from Resaca and the whole army quickly followed, crossing the Oostanaula River. At Adairsville, thirteen miles below Resaca, Newton's division , of the fourth corps, had a skirmish with the rebels, and found them in larger force at Kingston on 18 May 1864. At Cassville, five miles from Kingston, the rebels had fortifications; but Sherman flanking process induced Johnson to evacuate on the night of 19 May, crossing the Etowah River, and retreated again towards Atlanta. On the same day General J.C. Johnson, of Palmer's corps, occupied Rome, fifteen miles west of Kingston, and captured forts, heavy guns, stores of supplies, mills, and foundries.

Sherman moved towards Dallas located forty miles below Kingston. The roads were rough and marching was slow. Johnson took a shorter route and with the larger part of his army reached Dallas first.

[William Gerets of Company G was killed on 23 July 1864 in Old Church, Georgia.]

On 25 May 1864 the Federals were engaged in forming their line. From that time until 04 June, when the Confederates evacuated, heavy skirmishes and battles occurred daily along the line, and the firing was nearly incessant, and at times terrific.

On 28 May 1864, the Federals having thrown up defenses four miles from Dallas, they were attacked by the Confederates in force, at General McPhrtson's right. Three times the Confederates attacked and three times they were repulsed. The Confederates retreated leaving 2,000 wounded and killed. This was the principal battle of Dallas occurring on 30 May 1864.

The First Wisconsin Cavalry participated in the advance upon Dallas. On 23 May 1864, their division marched in a southerly direction, fording the river Etowah after a skirmish with the rebels upon its banks. In the middle of the afternoon encountering a Confederate force strongly entrenched on a spur of the Alatoona Hills. To develop their numbers and position, a detachment of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry was sent forward as dismounted skirmishers, followed closely by the First Wisconsin Cavalry in line of battle. Passing over the open field and through a narrow belt of timber, from which the Confederates were soon driven, they had reached the entrenchments when the Confederate batteries opened fire, but dong no harm. Late in the afternoon a charge was made by the Confederates driving back the skirmishers and capturing Company L.

On 26 May 1864, a detachment of the First Wisconsin Cavalry under Captain Comstock was sent to take and hold a small village called Burnt Hickory three miles nearer Dallas. The taking was accomplished without loss, except to the Confederates who had one killed and twenty men taken prisoner. The position was held against the attack of a body of Confederate cavalry until 3 o'clock when the division came up. A scout was then sent farther and reported a considerable Confederate force, both infantry and cavalry and just beyond it a large supply train passing rapidly to the south. To capture or destroy the train, the Second Indiana Cavalry was sent forward as skirmishers supported by one battalion of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, the brigade battery, and the Eighteenth Indiana also accompanying. An attach ensued although the objective was not met. The first Wisconsin Cavalry lost one killed and six wounded. The impact to other Federal forces was not identified. The Confederates lost some 30 killed among them the colonel of the Fourth Georgia, forth-four prisoners, plus a number wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Stewart of the Second Indiana Cavalry, commanding the brigade was taken prisoner and Captain Harnden commanding the First Wisconsin Cavalry battalion was severely wounded.

Battle of Kenesaw Mountain

On 04 June 1864, a detachment of the First Wisconsin Cavalry occupied Ackworth having previously defeated a body of Confederates who held the place. On 06 June with the brigade, they participated in a sharp skirmish and occupied Big Shanty. From there on 09 June they marched on a reconnaissance to the front. On 14 June they were camped in an orchard near Ackworth which they left on 16 June joining with the right wing of thr army in its attack upon Lost Mountain. From this point the Confederates retreated, and on 17 June, the Second Brigade pursuing on the south side of the mountain until ordered to the rear for the protection of communications at Ackworth. They returned on 20 June to a position south of Lost Mountain.

On 01 July 1864 the division was ordered to reconnoiter south of Powder Springs. At the Sweetwater two Confederate brigades were encountered, who retreated and were followed some six miles by Stoneman's cavalry. The first division went into camp at Howell's Ferry on the creek.

Siege of Atlanta

The First Wisconsin Cavalry served as read guard to the union forces as they clustered around Atlanta having frequent and successful engagements with the rebels. On 27 July 1864 they left their camp at Mason's Church, crossed the Chattahooche River, and constituted a part of McCook's force on his raid south of Atlanta. At Rivertown, McCook, with the main column, passed on to Palmetto. Major Phine with the First Wisconsin was ordered to take the road up the river to Campbelltown, fight their way through by Fairburn and join the command at Fayetteville. The route being several miles nearer the main army of the Confederates and masking the movement of the main column.

Proceeding on the Fairburn Road, at first with but little resistance, the Confederate skirmishers gradually increased until as the force advanced, falling back on their reserves forming in line of battle. It was at this point that Major Paine charged at the head of three companies with such impetuosity as to break through the rebel lines and crush the Confederate's reserve column in wild confusion. While fighting hand to hand, he was shot through the breast and fell giving his last word of command, "forward."

But willing as the troops would have been to obey, it was impossible. The full force of the Confederates, hitherto shut out by the thick chaparral lining the road was now more apparent and from the behind their breast-works such a continued volley was poured in as to sweep down the front ranks and throw all into confusion. The troops retreated to the cover of the thicket.

[In addition to Major Pane, the regiment lost Ellers Brown and John Parsons of Company C.]

Supposing McCooks whole force was engaged, the Confederates contended themselves with continuous firing through the thicket. Here the regiment remained for half and hour then discovering the Confederate's attempt to reach their rear, the regiment fell back and crossed the river. No pursuit was attempted. Deeming it unsafe to join the main column, already six hours in advance, Captain Smith sent forward couriers to report the regiment and proceeded with the pontoon train to Marietta. The Confederate force encountered was afterward found to be Armstrong's cavalry some 2,000 strong. The loss to the regiment was Major Paine and a private killed; Lieutenant Warren wounded and captured; and ten men missing.

The main expedition, with the second brigade under Lieutenant Colonel Torrey of the First Wisconsin as advanced guard, penetrated to Lovejoy's Station on the Macon Railway and destroyed railroad communications and a large amount of Confederate property, besides securing hundreds of prisoners. They were at last interrupted in their work, surrounded, overpowered and compelled to retreat. The prisoners were abandoned and the column, cutting its way to the Chattahoochee River, escaped.

From Marietta the regiment moved ten miles south-west from where they were stationed covering the return stragglers from General McCook's forces doing so until 07 August when they marched to the railroad across the Chattahoochee River. On 10 August 1864 the regiment was put in motion towards Cartersville, on the Etowah, there to rest and remount as fast as possible. They had less than two hundred mounted men, as many more dismounted but otherwise unfit for duty, making only half of the eight hundred that marched out of Cleveland , Tennessee at the opening of the campaign. The greater part of the latter were distributed in hospitals from the Chattahoochee to Madison, Wisconsin.

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to July, 1865

[The regiment lost Martin Fridersdorf of Company L who was killed in Puiaski, Tennessee on 27 September 1864.]

Hood's plan of campaign to the north having been developed, they left Cantersville, Georgia on 17 October 1864 and reached Louisville on 08 November where they remounted. Under Major Harnden they moved on 04 December for Nashville. At Hopkinsville they shared in a successful engagement with 2,000 Confederate troops under Lyon. Had La Grange been in command of the division instead of McCook, the pursuit would have been so rapid and wise that the rebels would probably been captured. La Grange with a few pushed on and saved Elizabethtown from pillage and fire.

1865

(Action Summary 1865: Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Alabama to Macon, Georgia; March 22-April 24; April 1 Centreville, Alabama; April 2 Selma, Alabama; April 10 Lowndesborough, Alabama (Companies "A" and "B"); April 12 Montgomery, Alabama; April 14 Columbus Road, near Tuskegee, Alabama; April 16 Fort Tyler, West Point, Georgia; April 20 Macon, Georgia; May 10 Irwinsville, Georgia; Capture of Jeff Davis At Macon and Nashville, Tennessee until July; Mustered out at Edgefield, Tennessee 19 July 1865)4

They reached Nashville on 05 January 1865 having marched six hundred and sixty miles since leaving Louisville a month before. Be easy marches they proceeded to Waterloo, Alabama. On 22 March 1865 they moved with General Jameson's large cavalry expedition which soon captured six Southern cities. One portion moved on Tuscaloosa and the other on Selma at that time the principal manufacturing towns of the Confederacy. Here they destroyed a considerable amount of property.

Before reaching Selma, a severed engagement was had with Forrest at Plantersville, and one battalion of the First Wisconsin under Major Shipman put to flight a force at Centerville and captured fifteen prisoners. [In this engagement, the regiment lost Denning Thomas of Company E.]

Having occupied Montgomery, Alabama Colonel La Grange had command of the second brigade which moved toward West Point. Near that place the Confederates were drawn into a strong fort which, situated on the summit of a hill, overlooked the town. While the Fourth Indiana Cavalry attacked the town, The First Wisconsin, Second Indiana and Seventh Kentucky, having dismounted, advanced upon the fort. The battery and sharp shooters swept the summit of the fort until storming columns crossed the surrounding ditch. Lieutenant Colonel Harnden, commanding the First, and one hundred of his men were the first to pass the ditch where they lay upon the embankments some twenty minutes waiting for others to cross. While waiting they fired at the rebel heads that appeared above the works. When all were ready, they charged the parapet where a desperate hand to hand fight ensued until the Confederate commander, General Tyler was killed and his men then surrendered. Among the loss was Lieutenant Sheldon E. Vosburg, [Godfrey Geurges, Washington Dolph, and Valentine Brandt of Company A, George Condeman and William Carson of Company E and Edgar Wyman of Company H.] Lieutenant Colonel Harnden was wounded in the thigh. The fort was blown up and immense quantity of property were destroyed in the town.

[The Battle of West Point was fought on April 16, 1865 in West Point, Georgia. This battle was fought at Fort Tyler seven days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, making it one of the last battles of the Civil War east of the Mississippi and Fort Tyler the last Confederate fort captured by the Union.]

He next advance was to Macon learning of Lee's surrender along the way.

[Edwin Taylor died crossing the Tennessee River near Chickasaw, Alabama on 05 May 1865.]

On 06 May 1865 Lieutenant Harnden was ordered by General Croxton to proceed in search of Jefferson Davis. He left in the evening with one hundred fifty-two men in his command They marched all day in hot weather and over very dusty roads advancing fifty-five miles to Dublin. Lieutenant Clinton took a side road sixteen miles and rejoined the main unit at eleven at night. They passed many mounted and armed Confederates returning home from Johnston's surrender. When questioned, knowing or not, they would give no information on Davis's party.

At midnight a Negro came to Colonel Harnden and gave him a rational account of Davis and his wife and train. They had passed through the town, Davis going through the outskirts and rejoined the train afterwards. Lieutenant Lane with forty-five men was left at Dublin to watch the vicinity. Harnden moved at early dawn the next morning with his remaining one hundred and six men advancing forty-five miles in the rain partly through swamps. Before light on 09 May 1865, Harnden resumed the march and at Abbeville fell in with Colonel Pritchard of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. Colonel Pritchard said he was also in search of Davis but had been ordered to camp there and guard the ferry and patrol the river. He further said he had heard nothing of Davis on his way until informed by Colonel Harnden. Colonel Harnden declined Colonel Pritchards offer of additional men and went forward. At nine clock in the even, being satisfied that they were near the Davis party, and afraid of giving him an opportunity to escape in the darkness, Harnden halted until three the next morning. Moving forward then, the advanced guard of the detachment, under Sergeant Hussey, before light, they came upon armed men who ordered them to halt. Supposing them to be Confederate pickets, they retreated and were fired upon. Harnden advanced with a larger force and more firing on both sides followed. Sergeant Howel captured a prisoner from whom it was learned that their foe were Michigan troops who had just arrived and surrounded the train. Three of the Wisconsin had been wounded and two of the Michigan killed and one officer wounded.

Pritchard acknowledged to Harnden that after Harnden left their meeting, he selected some of his best mounted men, took another way, and had just arrived.

[There is much contention regarding the action of Colonel Pritchard regarding the capture of Jefferson Davis. Prichard's memoirs from documents and notes were published in 1964 by John A. Fox. It deals 5 percent on the incident and 95% on Pritchard and hearsay surrounding him. Harnden also published his memories regarding the incident http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/library/books/jeffdavis/index.cfm and http://www.suvcw-wi.org/camps/c2_se_2002.pdf. It details 80 percent facts, 19 percent hearsay and 1 percent on Harnden. One needs to read both accounts before they make up their mind as to what happened in the early morning hours of 09 May 1865 and on the day that preceded it.]

The First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment left Macon, Georgia on 24 May 1865 reaching Nashville, Tennessee 14 June 1865.

[James Coadington of Company E was lost on 25 May 1865 and Louis Mathwig of Company I on 08 June 1865.]

On 19 July 1865, the regiment was mustered out and soon after was paid and disbanded.

The muster out roster was the following:

Colonel | Oscar H. La Grange
Lieutenant Colonel | Henry Harnden
1st Major | Stephen V. Shipman
2nd Major | Newton Jones
3rd Major | Levi Howard
Quartermaster | Asa Kinney
Commissary | Albert J. Morehead
Surgeon | Nathaniel S. Robinson
Chaplain | George C. Fox

Company | Captains | First Lieutenants | Second Lieutenants
--- | --- | --- | ---
A | Amos B. Hudson | Charles L. Hewitt |
B | Edward D. Town | Francis R. Easterly | Orson T. Clinton
C | Horace A. Chase |  |
D |  | Lewis D. Phelps | Theron H. Lane
E | Paul C. Stillman |  |
F | Milton Martin |  |
G |  |  | John H. Barnes
H | James L. Sprague | Jonathan Willard | Nicholas S. Chambers
I | (no commission officers in this company at time of muster out)
K | Charles S. Wicks | Eben S. Chase | Pardon B. Lamerauk
L | John L. Steward | James M. Waterman | James L. Ackley
M | (no commission officers in this company at time of muster out)

Regimental Statistics:

Original Strength | 1,124 |  |
Gain-by: |  | Losses: |
Recruits 1863 | 295 | By Death | 366
Recruits 1864 | 597 | Deserted | 91
Recriuts 1865 | 164 | Transferred | 67
Substitutes | 83 | Discharged | 634
Draft in 1863 | 202 |  |
Draft in 1864 | 76 |  |
Re-enlistments | 61 |  |
Total | 1,478 | 1,158
Mustered out | 1,444 |  |

The following was obtained from the Web site of the Wisconsin Historical Society's
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865.
(www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/).

Roster Field and Staff Positions 1861-1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Colonels |  |
Edward Daniels | Ripon | 03 Dec 1861
Oscar H. La Grange | Green Lake | 05 Feb 1863
Lientenant Colonels |  |
Henry Pomeroy | Ripon | 05 Feb 1863
William H. Torrey | Green Bay | 01 Mar 1864
Henry Harnden | Rome | 06 Jan 1865
Majors, First Battalion |  |
Henry S. Eggleston | Ripon | 12 Jun 1862
Thomas H. Mars | Kenosha | 11 Dec 1862
Nathan Paine | Oshkosh | 28 Sep 1863
Majors, Second Battalion |  |
Newton Jones | Fort Atkinson | 25 Feb 1865
Majors, Third Battalion |  |
Levi Howland | Kenosha |
Adjutants |  |
Charles W. Burbank | Milwaukee | 02 Nov 1861
Hiram S. Town | Ripon |
Quartermasters |  |
James C. Mann | Janesville | 01 Oct 1861
James T. Cleveland | Beaver Dam | 29 Dec 1863
John W. Boughton | Appleton | 06 Jul 1864
Asa Kinney | Ripon | 25 Feb 1865
Commissaries |  |
Herman J. Schulteis | Milwaukee | 18 Jun 1863
John McPherson | Oconomowoc | 04 Apr 1864
Albert J. Moorhead | Brookville,Pa. | 25 Feb 1865
Surgeons |  |
Horatio N. Gregory | Ft. Atkinson | 15 Aug 1861
Ernest Kramer | Madison | 27 May 1862
Horace T. Persons | Albany | 24 Mar 1863
Nathaniel S. Robinson | Neenah | 11 Jul 1865
First Assistant Surgeons |  |
Charles H. Lord | Watertown | 07 Nov 1861
Thomas P. Russell | Oshkosh | 27 Mat 1862
Egbert H. Winston | Evansville | 04 May 1863
Second Assistant Surgeons |  |
Henry Cansdell | Whitewater | 10 Dec 1861
Henry J. Young | Sheboygan Falls | 08 Aug 1862
J.H.Turner | Berlin | 10 Jun 1863
John C. Rudd | Madison | 26 May 1864
Chaplains |  |
George W. Dunmore |  | 01 Mar 1862
Enos M. Phillips | Sparta | 10 Dec 1862
George H. Fox | Whitewater | 12 Nov 1864
Adjutant, First Battalion |  |
Richard L. Gove | Waukesha | 30 Dec 1861
Adjutant, Second Batalion |  |
Edwin F. Brooks | Madison | 26 Dec 1861
Adjutant, Third Battalion |  |
George O. Clinton | Brodhead | 26 Dec 1861
Master, First Battalion |  |
John Taylor | Waupun | 04 Jan 1862
Master, Second Battalion |  |
Wallace W. La Grange | Ripon | 04 Jan 1862
Master, Third Battalion |  |
Lalamand H. Rann | Whitewater | 04 Jan 1862

Roster Non-Commissioned Officers

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Sergeant Major, First Battalion |  |
George G. Seaton |  | 01 Jan 1862
Sergeant Major, Second Battalion |  |
Peter J. Williams |  | 10 Jan 1862
Sergeant Major, Third Battalion |  |
Alonzo Holcomb |  | 10 Jan 1862
Sergeant Majors |  |
H. Smith Schuyler |  |
John A. Baker |  |
Charles P. Goodrich |  |
Walter O. Hargrave |  |
Quartermaster Sergeant, First Battalion |  |
Charles N. Hoag | Green Bay | 01 Nov 1861
Quartermaster Sergeant, Second Battalion |  |
Henry E. Potter |  | 24 Oct 1861
Quatermaster Sergeant, Third Battalion |  |  |
F. Alexander Blood | Kilbourn City | 18 Sep 1861
Quartermaster Sergeants |  |
Jessee A. Atwood | Ripon | 26 Oct 1863
Webster A. Bingham | Watertown | 16 Sep 1861
Commissary Sergeants |  |
William H. Ramsdale | Berlin | 20 Aug 1961
Hiram Calkins | Wausau | 15 Aug 1861
Horace Hobart |  | 12 Oct 1861
Eugene P. West | Ft. Atkinson | 15 Aug 1861
Samuel L. Orvis | Kenosha | 02 Dec 1861
Hospital Stewards |  |
John A. Reed | Menomonie | 22 Oct 1861
John R. Deacon |  | 15 Aug 1861
Uriah H. Cowan | Decatur | 05 Jan 1864
Burdett H. Phelps | Ripon | 01 Sep 1864
Chief Buglers |  |
Albert M. Townsend | Ripon | 01 Sep 1861
Chester H. Smith | Midland | 15 Aug 1861
Richard Smith | Plainfield | 25 Aug 1861
Thomas L. Palmer | Monroe | 19 Oct 1863
Saddler |  |
William T. Gurnee | Neenah | 25 Sep 1862

Roster Company Commissioned Officiers 1861-1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company A |  |
Captains |  |
Thomas H. Mars | Kenosha | 02 Sep 1861
Alonzo Holcomb | Chiicago, Ill. | 11 Dec 1862
Amos B. Hudson | Beaver Dam | 25 Jan 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Levi Howland | Kenosha | 02 sep 1961
Justus Williams | Ft. Atkinson | 07 Apr 1864
Charles L. Hewitt | Ft. Atkinson | 25 Feb 1965
Second Lieutenants |  |
William J. Phillips | Sparta | 02 Sep 1861
Josiah Bent | Kenosha | 01 Jun 1863
Chester M. Leonard | Kenosha | 07 Apr 1864
Sheldon E. Vosburg | Ft. Atkinson | 25 Feb 1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company B |  |
Captains |  |
Henry S. Eggleston | Ripon | 22 Aug 1861
George O. Clinton | Broadhead | 26 Sep 1862
Edward D. Town | Ripon | 25 Feb 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Frank T. Hobbs | Milwaukee | 31 Aug 1861
George Brown | Ripon | 12 Jun 1863
Francis P. Easterly | Monroe | 25 Jan 1865
Second Lieutenants |  |
John T. Consul | Stevens Point | 31 Aug 1861
Orson P. Clinton | Pewaukee | 25 Jam 1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company C |  |
Captains |  |
James W. Decker | Beaver Dam | 28 Aug 1861
Levi Hwoland | Kenosha | 20 Oct 1862
Horace A. Chase | Beaver Dam | 25 Feb 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Alex J. Burrows | Beaver Dam | 03 Sep 1861
James C. Mann | Janesville | 25 Mar 1862
Second Lieutenants |  |
Charles F. Huxford | Oak Grove | 03 Sep 1861
Charles A. Pettibone | Beaver Dam | 20 Oct 1862
John W. Warren | Beaver Dam | 07 Apr 1864

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company D |  |
Captains |  |
Nelson Bruett | Jefferson | 02 Sep 1861
Wallace W. La Grange | Ripon | 22 Aug 1863
First Lieutenants |  |
Fernando C. Merrill | Jefferson | 02 Sep 1861
George K. McGunnegle | St. Louis | 17 Dec 1862
Lewis D. Phelps | Berlin | 06 Jan 1865
Second Lieutenants |  |
Charles L. Porter | Beloit | 02 Sep 1861
George W. Frederick | Milwaukee | 14 Nov 1861
Fred A. Smith | Waukesha | 08 Jul 1862
James Crocker | Beaver Dam | 07 Apr 1864
Theron W. Lane | Utica | 06 Jan 1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company E |  |
Captains |  |
Richard H. Chittenden | Ripon | 02 Oct 1861
Augustus J. Hunt | Beaver Dam | 08 Jul 1862
Stephen V. Shipman | Madison | 20 Nov 1862
Paul C. Stillman | Lima | 25 Feb 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Charles N. Hoag | Green Bay | 08 Jul 1862
Hiram S. Town | Ripon | 26 Sep 1862
John Ogden | Winona, Minn. | 21 Nov 1862
Second Lieutenants |  |
Thomas W. Johnson | Butte des Morte | 02 Oct 1861

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company F |  |
Captains |  |
John Hyde | Kenosha | 28 Sep 1861
James M. Comstock | Summit | 19 Jul 1863
Milton Martin | Wautoma | 25 Feb 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Newton Jones | Ft. Atkinson | 28 Sep 1861
Peter J. Williamson | Appleton | 08 Dec 1862
Second Lieutenants |  |
Henry W. Getchell | Baraboo | 08 Dec 1862
John L. Church | Wyoming, NY | 07 Apr 1864

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company G |  |
Captains |  |
Nathan Paine | Oshkosh | 16 Nov 1861
Charles F. Robinson | Clinton | 28 Sep 1863
First Lieutenants |  |
Stephen V. Shipman | Madison | 16 Nov 1861
William Sandoa | Windsor | 28 Sep 1863
Second Lieutenants |  |
Joseph E. Masher | Delavan | 16 Nov 1861
George G. Seaton | St. Paul, Minn. | 26 Sep 1862
John H. Barnes | Appleton | 28 Nov 1864

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company H |  |
Captains |  |
Lewis M.B. Smith | Summit | 13 Dec 1861
James L. Sprague | Mukwonago | 07 Mar 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
James M. Comstock | Summit | 03 Dec 1861
Amos B. Hudson | Beaver Dam | 04 Aug 1863
Jonathan Willard | Ontario | 25 Feb 1865
Second Lieutenants |  |
William S. Cooper | Caldwell Pr'ie | 23 Dec 1861
Frank A. Blood |  | 03 Sep 1863
Nicholas S. Chambers | Wonewee | 25 Feb 1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company I |  |
Captains |  |
William H. Hoyt | Milwaukee | 03 Jan 1862
Charles L. Porter | Beloit | 26 Sep 1862
Charles A. Pettibone | Beaver Dam | 29 Sep 1863
First Lieutenants |  |
Joseph H. Morrison | Ft. Atkinson | 03 Jan 1862
William W. La Grange | Ripon | 26 Sep 1862
H. Smith Schuyler | Green Bay | 30 Sep 1863
John Baker | Stevens Point | 30 Apr 1864
Second Lieutenants |  |
William G. Cooper | Chicago, Ill. | 03 Jan 1862
John Little |  | 10 Oct 1862
Edward D. Town | Ripon | 30 Apr 1864

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company K |  |
Captains |  |
Algeron S. Seaton | St. Paul, Minn. | 03 Dec 1861
Charles S. Wicks | Chicago, Ill. | 28 Nov 1864
First Lieutenants |  |
Gilbert D. Coyle | Dakota, Iowa | 30 Nov 1861
Eben S. Chase | Ripon | 28 Nov 1864
Second Lieutenants |  |
Joseph E. Atwater | Hebron | 08 Mar 1862
Charles W. Clinton | Brodhead | 01 Oct 1863
Henry E. Staples | Hartford | 07 Apr 1864
Pardon B. Lameraux | Mayville | 03 Dec 1864

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company L |  |
Captains |  |
Henry Harnden | Rome | 01 Jan 1862
John L. Stewart | Rosendale | 25 Feb 1865
First Lieutenants |  |
Hiran Hilliard | Milwaukee | 01 Jan 1862
Thomas Bateman | Emerald Grove | 28 Feb 1863
James M. Waterman | Rosendale | 25 Feb 1865
Second Lieutenants |  |
Talbot C. Ankeny | DeSota | 24 Feb 1862
Thomas B. Roberts | New York City | 30 Apr 1864
James L. Ackley | Sullivan | 25 Feb 1865

Position/Name | Residence | Date
--- | --- | ---
Company M |  |
Captains |  |
Thomas J. Connatty | Kenosha | 23 Jan 1862
Newton Jones | Ft. Atkinson | 20 Nov 1862
First Lieutenants |  |
George W. Barter | Kenosha | 23 Jan 1862
John A. Owen | Appleton | 01 May 1862
Second Lieutenants |  |
John Ogden | Winona, Minn. | 01 May 1862
Columbus Caldwell | Lind | 20 Nov 1862