The Civil War in the East

3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment lost 9 officers and 158 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 113 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

monument to the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

June 19

Organized at Fond du Lac, Wis. and mustered in

July 12

Ordered to Hagerstown, Md.

July 18

To Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Attached to Stone's Brigade, Dept. Shenandoah

August 18

Moved to Darnestown

September 12

To Frederick, Md.

October

Attached to Stiles' Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac

October 11

Action at Harper's Ferry, W. Va. (Companies A, C and H)

October 16

Bolivar Heights (Companies A, C and H)

1862

February 25

March to Sandy Hook

March 12

Occupation of Winchester, Va.

March 22-25

Advance toward Manassas. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps

March 23

Battle of Winchester (Compaaany A)

April 1-2

Advance from Strasburg to Woodstock and Edenburg attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah

April 1-2

Edenburg

April-June

Operations in the Shenandoah Valley

May 23

Buckton Station (Company G)

May 24

Middletown and Newtown

May 25

Winchester

May 26-June 6

Retreat to Martinsburg

June

Duty at Front Royal attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia

July 6

At Little Washington

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 27-30

Guard trains of the army during Battles of Manassas

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

September-October

Duty at Maryland Heights

October 30

Defenses of the Upper Potomac at Antietam Iron Works

December 10

March to Fairfax Station and duty there

1863

January 18

Moved to Stafford Court House

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29

Germania Ford

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 9

Brandy Station and Beverly Ford

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel William Hawley. It brought 260 men to the field, losing two killed and eight wounded.

 

From the monument: "This regiment went into position on the part of the line on the evening of July 1st. On the evening of July 2d it moved to the left to reinforce the 3d Corps; returned to this position the same night and remained until the morning of July 5."

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va.

August 16-September 5

Duty in New York during draft disturbances

September 24-October 3

Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. transferred to the Army of the Cumberland

October-December

At Stevenson, Ala., and Decherd, Tenn., guarding railroad

December 21

Regiment veteranized

December 25

Veterans on furlough February 9, 1864

1864

January-April

At Fayetteville, Tenn.

April

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

May 1 -

September 8

Atlanta Campaign

May 8-11

Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 14-15

Battle of Resaca

May 19

Cassville

May 25

New Hope Church

May 25-June 5

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

June 10-July 2

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain

June 11-14

Pine Hill

June 15-17

Lost Mountain

June 15

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

June 17

Muddy Creek

June 19

Noyes Creek

June 22

Kolb's Farm

June 27

Assault on Kenesaw Mountain

July 4

Ruff's Station

July 5-17

Chattahoochie River

July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek

July 22-August 25

Siege of Atlanta

August 26-September 2

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge

September 2-November 15

Occupation of Atlanta

November 15-December 10

March to the sea

December 9

Montieth Swamp

December 10-21

Siege of Savannah

1865

January to April

Campaign of the Carolinas

January 29

Robertsville, S.C.

March 16

Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro, N. C.

March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville

March 24

Occupation of Goldsboro

April 10-14

Advance on Raleigh

April 14

Occupation of Raleigh

April 26

Bennett's House. Surrender of Johnston and his army.

April 29-May 19

March to Washington, D.C. via Richmond, Va.

May 24

Grand Review

June 11-16

Moved to Louisville, Ky.

July 18

Mustered out