1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment

 

Batteries B, C and D served outside the Eastern Threater. The Regiment (including Batteries B-D) lost 4 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 77 enlisted men by disease, a total of 83.

 

Timeline of Battery A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment

August, 1861

Organized as Company K, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. Detached from Regiment , and assigned to duty as Heavy Artillery at Forts Corcoran, Marcy and Ethan Allen, Defenses of Washington, D.C.

October 10

Rejoined Regiment

December 9

Permanently detached as Battery "A," 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. Attached to Military District of Washington

May, 1862

Attached to Whipple's Command, Military District of Washington

February, 1863

Attached to Defenses of Alexandria, 22nd Army Corps

April

Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

May

Attached to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

December

Attached to 4th Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

March, 1864

Attached to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

May

Attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps. Assigned to duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., at Forts Cass, Buffalo, Ellsworth, Worth, Rodgers and Willard

July 11-12

Defense of Washington against Early's attack

August 18, 1865

Mustered out

Timeline of Batteries E - M, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment

September and October, 1864

Organized and ordered to Washington, D.C. attached to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

December

Attached to 4th Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps. Assigned to duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C.:

Company E at Fort O'Rourke

Companies F and I at Fort Ellsworth

Company G at Forts Lyon and Ellsworth

Companies H and K at Fort Lyon

Company L at Fort Willard

Company M at Forts Lyon, Weed and Farnsworth

June 26, 1865

Mustered out