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Sixth Wisconsin Infantry.
Iron Brigade —
Wadsworth's Division--First 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 | 2 | | 2 | 1 | | 1 | 18 |
| Company | A | 1 | 28 | 29 | | 13 | 13 | 193 |
| | B | 2 | 25 | 27 | | 9 | 9 | 191 |
| | C | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 12 | 12 | 179 |
| | D | 1 | 28 | 29 | | 6 | 6 | 208 |
| | E | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 14 | 14 | 185 |
| | F | 3 | 17 | 20 | | 9 | 9 | 151 |
| | G | 2 | 23 | 25 | | 13 | 13 | 202 |
| | H | | 19 | 19 | | 11 | 11 | 220 |
| | I | | 37 | 37 | | 15 | 15 | 196 |
| | K | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 10 | 10 | 197 |
| Totals | 16 | 228 | 244 | 1 | 112 | 113 | 1,940 |
244 killed == 12.5 per cent.
Of the 1,058 men originally enrolled, 179 were killed == 16.9 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 867; missing and captured, 112; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 20.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862 | 14 | North Anna, Va. | 3 |
| Manassas, Va., August 30, 1862 | 11 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 2 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 16 | Petersburg, Va., June 18 | 10 |
| Antietam, Md. | 40 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 5 |
| Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va. | 5 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 12 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 41 | Dabney's Mills, Va., Feb. 6, 1865 | 24 |
| Wilderness, Va., May 5-6, 1864 | 15 | Gravelly Run, Va. | 9 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 8th | 3 | Five Forks, Va. | 7 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 10th | 12 | Picket Line, Va., Aug. 31, 1862 | 1 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 12th | 3 | Prison guard, Salisbury, N. C. | 1 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 13th | 6 | Detail, Artillery Service | 4 |
Present, also, at
Cedar Mountain;
Rappahannock;
Groveton;
Fredericksburg;
Chancellorsville; Haymarket;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy; Boydton Road;
Appomattox.
notes.--The regiment left
Wisconsin July 28, 1861, proceeding to
Washington, where it was assigned to the brigade which was destined to fill such a glorious place in the annals of the war. The Sixth had the advantage of a year's drill and discipline before it was called upon to face the enemy in a general engagement, its first battle occurring at
Manassas--August 28th and 30th--where it lost 17 killed, 91 wounded, and 11 missing. The regiment lost at
South Mountain, 11 killed, 79 wounded, and 2 missing; and at
Antietam, three days after, 26 killed, and 126 wounded. Under command of
Colonel Dawes, it won merited distinction at
Gettysburg in the battle of the first day; all histories of that field mention the manoeuvre — and the part taken in it by the Sixth--by which a part of a Confederate brigade was captured in the railroad cut. The casualties at
Gettysburg were 30 killed, 116 wounded, and 22 missing. Upon the reorganization of the Army in March, 1864,
Wadsworth's Division was transferred to the Fifth Corps, and with it the
Iron Brigade under
General Cutler.
The regiment lost at the
battle of the Wilderness, 8 killed, 40 wounded, and 15 missing; at
Spotsylvania, 10 killed, 68 wounded, and 5 missing; at
Hatcher's Run (Dabney's Mills), 13 killed, 81 wounded, and 7 missing; at
Gravelly Run, 5 killed, 34 wounded, and 32 missing.
Major Phillip W. Plummer was killed at the
Wilderness.
