1st Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 1st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry


caption=Wisconsin flag
dates= September 1, 1861 to July 19, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Selma

The 1st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was organized at Ripon and Kenosha, Wisconsin between September 1, 1862 and February 2, 1862 and mustered into Federal service on March 10, 1862.

The regiment participated in the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on May 10, 1865.

The regiment was mustered out at Edgefield, Tennessee on July 19, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry initially recruited 1,124 officers and men. An additional 1,417 men were recruited as replacements, for a total of 2,541 men. [http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~wirockbios/Blue1907/1907-5-WICW.html The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1907 Democratic Printing Company, State Printer, Madison, WI 1907

The regiment suffered 6 officers and 67 enlisted men killed or died from wounds in action, and 7 officers and 321 enlisted men men who died of disease, for a total of 401 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwicav.htm#1stcav The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Colonels

*Colonel Edward Daniels - December 3, 1861 to February 5, 1863
*Colonel Oscar H. LaGrange - February 5, 1863 to July 19, 1865

ee also

*List of Wisconsin Civil War Units

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm The Civil War Archive]
* [http://www.1stwisconsincav.org/WrittenCavHistory.htm 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Reenactors website]