24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 24th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= August 15, 1862 to June 10, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville
The 24th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 24th Wisconsin was organized at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service August 15, 1862. Under the command of Major General Arthur MacArthur (father of General Douglas MacArthur). September 5th 1912 when Major General Arthur MacArthur died while address his old unit the original 24th Infantry United States flag was then drapped over their former commanding officer and thus the tradition of burial flags was born.
The regiment was mustered out on June 10, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Casualties
The 24th Wisconsin suffered 8 officers and 103 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 87 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 201 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf1.htm#24th]
Colonels
ee also
*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm The Civil War Archive]
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