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First Wisconsin Infantry.
Starkweather's Brigade —
Baird's Division--Fourteenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | 1 | | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | | 17 | 17 | 142 |
| | B | | 8 | 8 | | 17 | 17 | 118 |
| | C | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 12 | 12 | 132 |
| | D | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 9 | 9 | 125 |
| | E | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 10 | 10 | 159 |
| | F | | 17 | 17 | | 10 | 10 | 102 |
| | G | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 18 | 18 | 148 |
| | H | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 22 | 22 | 142 |
| | I | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 16 | 16 | 145 |
| | K | | 19 | 19 | | 11 | 11 | 158 |
| Totals | 6 | 151 | 157 | 1 | 142 | 143 | 1,386 |
157 killed == 11.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 428; missing or captured, 108; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 32.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Nashville, Tenn., March 9, 1862 | 2 | Dallas, Ga. | 10 |
| Chaplin Hills, Ky. | 77 | Kenesaw, Ga. | 6 |
| Jefferson, Tenn. | 2 | Chattahoochie, Ga. | 1 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 1 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 1 |
| Dug Gap, Ga., Sept. 11, 1863 | 1 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 5 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 44 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 3 |
| Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 1 | Place unknown | 2 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Hoover's Gap, Tenn.; Jones's Ford, Tenn.;
Missionary Ridge, Tenn.;
Dalton, Ga.
notes.--Originally a three months regiment which, upon its return, reorganized on a three years enlistment.
It left the
State October 28, 1861, proceeding to
Kentucky, where it joined
Negley's Brigade.
It wintered at
Munfordville, Ky., remaining there until February 14, 1862, when it marched to
Nashville.
While encamped near there its picket line was attacked, March 8th, in which affair one of the regiment was killed.
The regiment made several long marches back and forth through
Tennessee during the summer of 1862, and then, returning to
Kentucky, participated in the battle of Chaplin Hills, October 8, 1862.
It was then in
Starkweather's Brigade,
Rousseau's Division,
McCook's Corps, and its loss amounted to 58 killed, 132 wounded, and 14 missing; total, 204, out of 407 engaged.
The regiment was present at
Stone's River, but having been posted in the reserve, sustained but slight loss.
At
Chickamauga it was in the Second Brigade, First Division (
Baird's), Fourteenth Corps, sustaining a loss of 27 killed, 84 wounded, and 77 missing or captured; among the killed were five line officers.
It went into winter-quarters at
Chattanooga, and in May, 1864, joined
Sherman's advance on
Atlanta; the division was then under command of
General R. W. Johnson.
Although reduced in numbers, it participated in all the battles of the First Division, and was present at the fall of
Atlanta.
It was mustered out October 13, 1864, the recruits and reenlisted men, 368 in number, having been transferred to the Twenty-first Wisconsin.
