6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 6th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry


caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= July 16, 1861 to July 2, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Cedar Mountain
Battle of Groveton
Battle of Second Bull Run
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of Weldon Railroad
Battle of Five Forks

The 6th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.

ervice

The 6th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service July 16, 1861 for a term of three years. It saw severe fighting in the 1862 Northern Virginia Campaign, fighting at Brawner's Farm during the early part of the Second Battle of Bull Run. During the subsequent Maryland Campaign, the 6th attacked Turner's Gap in the Battle of South Mountain, and then suffered considerable casualties battling Hood's Texas Brigade in the D.R. Miller cornfield at Antietam.

During the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, Lt. Col. Rufus R. Dawes led a counterattack on Joseph R. Davis's Confederate brigade of Mississippians, many of which were sheltered in an unfinished railroad cut west of town. The 6th forced the surrender of over 200 enemy soldiers. The regiment later served that year in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns.

The regiment participated in the Grand Review of the Armies on May 23, 1865, and then mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky on July 2, 1865.

Total enlistments and casualties

The 6th Wisconsin Infantry initially mustered 1029 men and later recruited an additional 601 men, for a total of 1,630 men. [ [http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html 6th Wisconsin] ] The regiment lost 16 officers and 228 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 1 officer and 112 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 357 fatalities. [ [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf1.htm#6th Civil War Archive] ]

Colonels

*Colonel Lysander Cutler - May 28, 1861, to November 29, 1862 - promoted to brigadier general.
*Colonel Edward S. Bragg - March 10, 1863, to June 25, 1864 - promoted to brigadier general.
*Colonel John A. Kellogg - December 10, 1864, to July 14, 1865 - mustered out.

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm The Civil War Archive]

Notes

ee also

*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units
*Iron Brigade
* Herdegen, Lance J., "Those Damned Black Hats!" The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign", Savas Beatie LLC, October 2008. http://www.savasbeatie.com


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