Quiner, E. B. The Military History of Wisconsin: A Record of the Civil and Military Patriotism of the State, in the War for the Union. Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1866. CHAPTER I. ACTION OF THE STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1861. State Administration of 1860 and 1861 — Resources — Legislature of 1861 — Governor's Message — Laws Passed— Fort Sumter— Popular Excitement — Call for 75,000 Militia— Governor's Proclamation — First Tender of Service — Only one Regiment—Reserve Regiments Authorized — First Regiment Organized— Captain Little — Proclamation to Women of Wisconsin — To the People — Companies Tendering Service — Surgeon General Wolcott — Adjutant General Utley — Camp Randall — Second, Third and Fourth Regiments — Defense of Washington — Meeting of Loyal Governors — Governor's Letter to President Lincoln— Generals King and Schurz — Two more Regiments Accepted — Patriotic Women — Letter to Governor Randall 33 CHAPTER II. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1861 — CONTINUEd Extra Session of the Legislature — Governor's Message — Laws Passed — State Military Departments — Third and Fourth Regiments — Six Regiments Accepted- Fifth and Sixth Regiments— Letter to President Lincoln — Seventh and Eighth Regiments — Cavalry Authorized — Sharpshooters — State Agents — Circular to Loyal Governors — State Bonds— Letter to Secretary of War— More Infantry Accepted — Artillery Wanted — First, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Regiments- Letter to Secretary of War — Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Regiments — $203,000 Reimbursed —Correspondence — First Cavalry— Second Cavalry—More Artillery Accepted — Third Cavalry — Consolidation of Companies — Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Regiments — Recruiting Discontinued — Letter of Captain Eddy —Report of Gov. Randall — Biographical Sketch of Gov. Randall— Close of 1861 71 CHAPTER III. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1862, New State Officers — Legislature Meets — Governor's Message — Laws Passed — Eleventh and Twelfth Batteries — Recruiting Service Discontinued — Battle of Shiloh — Fourteenth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth Regiments Engaged — Expedition to Pittsburg Landing — Death of Governor Harvey — Biographical Sketch— Twentieth Regiment— Legislature Re- assembles — Governor Salomon's Message — Laws Passed — State Sanitary Agents — Call for 300,000 more — Monster meeting in Milwaukee — Twenty-first to Thirty-third Regiments Authorized — Extra Session of Legislature — Governor's Message — Laws Passed — 300,000 Militia to be Drafted — Draft Ordered — Draft Riots— Thirty-fourth Regiment — Close of 1862... 109 CHAPTER IV. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1863. State Military Officers — Legislature Meets — Governor's Message — Laws Passed — Number of Regiments Furnished —Thirteenth Light Artillery— Heavy Artillery Battalion— Six Months Men Wanted — Enrolment Act — Provost Marshal General's Department— State Districted- Thirty-fourth Regiment Mustered Out — Thirty-fifth Regiment— Harvey Hospital Established — Quotas and Credits —Settlement of Credits — Results of Draft of 1863 — Negro Soldiers— Call for 300,000 1 More — Towns, etc., to be Credited — Big Bounties — Sixteenth Regiment — Biographical Sketch of Governor Salomon— Close of 1863 150 CHAPTER V. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1864. State Officers Elect in 1864 — State Military Officers — Legislature Meets — Governor's Message — Laws Passed — Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg— Re-enlistment of Old Regiments — Call for 500,000 more — Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Regiments— Veteran Re-enlistments — Veteran Regiments ordered General Sherman— One Hundred Day Troops Organized — Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Regiments — Call for 500,000 Men for One, Two and Three Years — Excessive Quota — Enrolment Lists Corrected — Quota Reduced — Error Corrected — Forty-second Regiment — Fifth Regiment Re- organized— Forty-third Regiment — Heavy Artillery Regiment— Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Regiments — Draft in September— Result— Another Call for 300,000— Close of 1864 168 CHAPTER VI. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1865. Military Officers of the State — Resignation of Quartermaster General Lund — Legislature Meets — Extracts from Governor's Message — Laws Passed — Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Regiments — Change in Manner of Recruiting — Recruiting Agents Authorized — Quota under Call of 19th December — Reduced— Apportioned to Congressional Districts — Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Regiment—Draft Ordered — Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Regiments — Last Regiments Raised in the State — Correspondence between Grant and Lee — Surrender of the Rebel Army— Final Overthrow of the Rebellion — Recruiting Discontinued — Orders for Mustering Out of Regiments — Biography of Governor Lewis — Adjutant General Gaylord — Quartermaster General Lynch 183 CHAPTER VII. SANITARY OPERATIONS OF THE STATE. Surgeon General's Department — His Duties — Expedition to Pittsburg Landing- Second Expedition — Expedition to Perryville Battle-field — To Murfreesboro — Visit to Vicksburg— To Washington Hospitals— Expedition to Chickamauga Battlefield — Visit to Army of Potomac —Visit of Governor Lewis and Surgeon General Wolcott to Hospitals for Transfer of Sick and Wounded— United States Hospitals in Wisconsin — Sanitary Agents — Soldiers' Aid Societies —Wisconsin Soldiers' Home — Soldiers' Orphans' Home — Bureau of Employment 208 CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL MILITARY OPERATIONS— EASTERN DIVISION. Wisconsin Organizations in Eastern Division — Skirmish at Falling Waters — First Battle of Bull Run — Bolivar Heights — Winchester— Peninsula Campaign —Banks' Retreat — Battle of Cedar Mountain — Gainesville — Second Bull Run — South Mountain — Antietam— Fredericksburg — Chancellorsville — Marye's Heights — Gettysburg — Rappahannock Station — Battles from the Rapidan to Petersburg — Weld on Railroad — Explosion of the Mine — Ream's Station — South Side Railroad — Hatcher's Run — Fort Stedman — Five Forks — Evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond — Pursuit of Lee's Army— Sailors' Creek — Surrender— Sherman's March from Savannah —Averysboro — Bentonville- Johnston's Surrender — "Johnny Comes Marching Home," '. „ 247 2 CHAPTER IX. GENERAL MILITARY OPERATIONS— CENTRAL DIVISION. Wisconsin Organizations in the Central Division — Bowling Green — Nashville — Huntsville — Bragg's March on Louisville — Battle of Perryville — Jefferson Pike — Stone River — Spring Hill— Tullahoma— Dug Gap — Chickamauga— Chattanooga — Mission Ridge — Dalton — Buzzard's Roost — Resaca — Dallas— Kennesaw Mountain— Atlanta— Jonesboro—Lovejoy's Station— Allatoona— Destruction of Atlanta — Sherman's March to Savannah — Battle of Nashville — General Wilson's Campaigns in Alabama and Georgia 320 CHAPTER X. GENERAL MILITARY OPERATIONS— WESTERN DIVISION. Wisconsin Organizations in Western Division — Battle of Frederickton — Pea Ridge —New Madrid — Island No. 10 — Shiloh — Siege of Corinth— Battle of Iuka — Corinth — Bayou Cache — Prairie Grove — New Orleans Captured— Vicksburg Bombarded in 1862 — Sherman's Attempt — Arkansas Post — Grant's March on Vicksburg — Port Gibson — Jackson — Champion Hills — Black River — Investment of Vicksburg — Surrender — Jackson— Yazoo River — Teche Expedition — Port Hudson Surrenders — Little Rock Captured — Second Teche Expedition — Carrion Crow Bayou — Texas Expedition — Honey Springs — Battle of Helena-Meridian Expedition — Red River Expedition — Fort de Russey — Sabine Cross Roads — Pleasant Hill — Cane River — Alexandria— General Bailey's Dam — Jenkins" Ferry — Price's Raid in Missouri — Fort Morgan— Siege and Capture of Mobile 377 CHAPTER XI. REGIMENTAL HISTORY— FIRST INFANTRY, (THREE MONTHS.) Regimental Roster — Ordered to Chambersburg — Hagerstown— Skirmish at Falling Waters — March to Martinsburg — Bunker Hill — Charlestown— Upper Potomac--— Mustered out — Regiment Reorganized — Regimental Roster— Skirmish on Granny White's Pike — Rogersville — Battle of Perryville — Jefferson Pike — Stone River— Hoover's Gap— Chickamauga — Resaca— Dallas — Kennesaw Mountain — Atlanta — Jonesboro — Return to Wisconsin — Muster out — Statistics 423 CHAPTER XII. REGIMENTAL HISTORY— SECOND INFANTRY AND IRON BRIGADE. Regimental Roster— First Battle of Bull Run— King's Brigade — Roster of the Sixth Regiment— Roster of the Seventh Regiment— Organization of the "Iron Brigade" — Operations near Fredericksburg — Beverley Ford — Battle of Gainesville —Second Bull Run— South Mountain- Antietam — Fredericksburg — Fitzhugh's Crossing— Chancellorsville — Gettysburg— Veteran Re-enlistments— Battles of the Wilderness— Spotsylvania— North Anna — Cold Harbor — Second Regiment Returns Home— Mustered out — Statistics — Independent Battalion — Subsequent Brigade History— Assault on Petersburg — Battle at Weldon Railroad — Hatcher's Run — Dabney's Mills — Five Forks — Capture of Lee's Army — March to Washington—Grand Review — Sent to Louisville — Return to Wisconsin — Mustered out— Iron Brigade Dissolved— Statistics 438 CHAPTER XIII. REGIMENTAL HISTORY— THIRD INFANTRY. Regimental Roster — Skirmish at Bolivar — Occupation of Frederick — Pursuit of Jackson — Fight at Buckton Station — Retreat of General Banks — Battle of Cedar Mountain — Antietam — Chancellorsville — Fight at Beverley Ford— Gettysburg— Sent to New York — Transferred to Army of the Cumberland —Veterans Re-enlist— Veteran Third on Furlough — Battle of 3 Resaca— Dallas — Pine Knob — Kennesaw — Atlanta — March to Savannah — March to Goldsboro— Battle of Averysboro — Bentonville — Surrender of Johnston's Army — Homeward Bound