The Civil War in the East

Batteries E - M, 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 or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 77 enlisted men by disease.

 

1864

September - October

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

1865

June 26

Mustered out