previous next

5th Wisconsin Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Madison, Wis., and mustered in July 12, 1861.

Ordered to Washington, D. C., July 24.

Attached to King's Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Hancock's Brigade, Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.

Light Division, 6th Army Corps, to May, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, to January, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, to February, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August.

Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to December, 1864, and Army of the Potomac to July, 1865.

Service.

Camp on Meridian Hill till September 3, 1861.

Detached to construct Fort Marcy on north bank of the Potomac. At Camp Griffin, near Washington, D. C., till March 9, 1862.

Lewinsville, Va., September 10, 1861.

(Cos. “B,” “C” and “G” ).

Reconnoissance to Lewinsville September 25.

March to Flint Hill March 9, 1862, thence to near Alexandria March 16, and moved to Fortress Monroe March 23-25.

Reconnoissance to Warwick Court House March 27.

Advance from Newport News to Warwick River and toward Yorktown April 4-5.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Reconnoissance toward Yorktown April 16.

Lee's Mills, Burnt Chimneys, April 16.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Duty at White House till May 18.

March to near Richmond May 24 and picket duty on the Chickahominy till June 5.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Garnett's Farm June 27.

Savage Station June 29.

White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Moved to Alexandria August 16-24, thence march to Centreville August 29-30.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Sugar Loaf Mountain September 10-11.

Crampton's Pass, South Mountain, September 14.

Battle of Antietam September 16-17.

At Williamsport September 18-22.

Expedition to intercept Stuart's Cavalry October 11.

At Hagerstown October 13-31.

March to Aquia Creek November 3-18.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

At White Oak Church till April, 1863.

“Mud March” January 20-24.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Operations about Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.

Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.

Salem Heights May 3-4.

Banks' Ford May 4.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-4.

Near Fairfield, Pa., July 5.

About Funkstown, Md., July 10-13.

Detached duty at New York, Albany and Troy August-September during draft disturbances. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Rappahannock Station November 7.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Duty at Brandy Station till April, 1864.

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 4-June 15.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.

Assault on the Salient, “Bloody Angle,” May 12.

North Anna River May 23-26.

On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Before Petersburg June 17-18.

Siege of Petersburg till July 9.

Weldon Railroad June 22-23.

Moved to Washington, D. C., July 9-12.

Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 12.

Non-veterans ordered to Wisconsin July 16 and mustered out August 3, 1864.

Veterans consolidated to a Battalion of three Companies. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.

Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.

Provost duty at Winchester, Va., and at Cedar Creek, Va., till December.

Seven new companies organized September, 1864, and left State for Winchester, Va., October 2.

At Alexandria till October 20, then joined Regiment at Cedar Creek.

Moved to Petersburg, Va., October 1-4.

Siege of Petersburg December 4, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.

Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.

Sailor's Creek April 6.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army.

March to Danville April 23-27, thence to Richmond, Va., and Washington, D. C., May 18-June 2.

Corps Review June 8.

Mustered out June 24 (three Companies) and July 11, 1865 (Regiment).

Regiment lost during service 15 Officers and 180 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 132 Enlisted men by disease. Total 329.

1908.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
W. H. F. Lee (2)
Totopotomoy (1)
Stuart (1)
W. F. Smith (1)
Philip H. Sheridan (1)
King (1)
Hancock (1)
Early (1)
Troy August (1)
Bloody Angle (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
May 4th (4)
May 12th (3)
April 9th (3)
March 9th, 1862 AD (2)
November 7th (2)
September 22nd (2)
August 16th (2)
July 24th (2)
July 12th (2)
July 9th (2)
July 1st (2)
May 28th (2)
May 26th (2)
May 18th (2)
May 5th (2)
May 3rd (2)
April 27th (2)
April 16th (2)
April 5th (2)
July 11th, 1865 AD (1)
July, 1865 AD (1)
April 2nd, 1865 AD (1)
February 7th, 1865 AD (1)
February 5th, 1865 AD (1)
December 4th, 1864 AD (1)
December, 1864 AD (1)
September, 1864 AD (1)
August 3rd, 1864 AD (1)
April, 1864 AD (1)
February, 1864 AD (1)
January, 1864 AD (1)
May, 1863 AD (1)
April, 1863 AD (1)
February, 1863 AD (1)
May, 1862 AD (1)
March, 1862 AD (1)
October, 1861 AD (1)
September 10th, 1861 AD (1)
September 3rd, 1861 AD (1)
July 12th, 1861 AD (1)
December 15th (1)
December 12th (1)
December 2nd (1)
December (1)
November 28th (1)
November 26th (1)
November 18th (1)
November 8th (1)
November 3rd (1)
October 31st (1)
October 22nd (1)
October 20th (1)
October 13th (1)
October 11th (1)
October 9th (1)
October 4th (1)
October 2nd (1)
October 1st (1)
September 25th (1)
September 19th (1)
September 18th (1)
September 17th (1)
September 16th (1)
September 14th (1)
September 11th (1)
September 10th (1)
September 6th (1)
September (1)
August 30th (1)
August 29th (1)
August 24th (1)
August 7th (1)
July 16th (1)
July 13th (1)
July 10th (1)
July 5th (1)
July 4th (1)
July 2nd (1)
June 30th (1)
June 29th (1)
June 27th (1)
June 25th (1)
June 24th (1)
June 23rd (1)
June 22nd (1)
June 18th (1)
June 17th (1)
June 15th (1)
June 12th (1)
June 11th (1)
June 8th (1)
June 5th (1)
June 2nd (1)
June 1st (1)
May 31st (1)
May 24th (1)
May 23rd (1)
May 21st (1)
May 8th (1)
May 7th (1)
May 6th (1)
May 2nd (1)
April 29th (1)
April 23rd (1)
April 6th (1)
April 4th (1)
April 3rd (1)
April 2nd (1)
March 28th (1)
March 27th (1)
March 25th (1)
March 23rd (1)
March 16th (1)
January 24th (1)
January 20th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: