16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment | |
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Active | January 31, 1862 – July 12, 1865 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Union Army |
Role | Infantry |
Size | Regiment |
Engagements | American Civil War
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Commanders | |
Colonel | Benjamin Allen |
Colonel | Cassius Fairchild |
The 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service[]
The 16th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service January 31, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on July 12, 1865.
Casualties[]
The 16th Wisconsin suffered 6 officers and 141 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 4 officer and 248 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 399 fatalities.[1]
The six-man color guard were all killed on April 6, 1862. They are memorialized with cenotaphs at what was the apex of the Shiloh Military Cemetery overlooking the Tennessee River.[2]
Commanders[]
- Colonel Benjamin Allen
- Colonel Cassius Fairchild
Notable members[]
- George F. Caldwell, politician
- Jacob Fawcett, later became a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
- Norman L. James, businessman and legislator
- Sylvester W. Osborn, politician
- Horace Patch, politician
- George Myron Sabin, jurist
- Wiley Scribner, politician and acting governor of Montana Territory
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Union Regimental Histories: Wisconsin. Civil War Archive.
- ^ "The 16th Wisconsin at Shiloh | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing". American Civil War Forums.
Further reading[]
- Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.
- Bear, Edwin C. The Vicksburg Campaign. 3 volumes, Morningside Press, 1991. ISBN 0-89029-308-2.
- Cozzens, Peter. The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-2320-1.
- Magdeburg, F. H. Wisconsin at Shiloh. Wisconsin Shiloh Monument Commission, 1909.
- McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
- Quiner, E. B. The Military History of Wisconsin. Clarke & Co., 1866. ISBN 0-9674777-0-0.
Categories:
- Military units and formations established in 1862
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
- Units and formations of the Union Army from Wisconsin
- 1862 establishments in Wisconsin
- American Civil War unit and formation stubs