10th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

10th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 10th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry


caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= October 14, 1861 to October 25, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga

The 10th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 10th Wisconsin was raised at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service October 14, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on October 25, 1864 and the Veterans and later recruits transferred to the 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Total Enlistements and Casualties

The 10th Wisconsin initially mustered 1,029 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] The regiment lost 5 officers and 91 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 1 officer and 147 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 244 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf1.htm#10th]

Colonels

*Colonel Alfred R. Chapin
*Colonel John G. McMynn

References

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

ee also

*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units


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