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 |
|