38th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
The 38th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 56 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 56 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864 |
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Battalion of four Companies (A, B, C and D) organized at Madison, Wis. |
April 15 |
Mustered in |
May 3-7 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May |
Camp at Arlington, Va. attached to Casey's Provisional Brigade, 22nd Army Corps |
May 30-June 1 |
Moved to White House, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. Battalion temporarily attached to 1st Minnesota Infantry. |
June 9 |
Guard supply train to Cold Harbor |
June 10-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 12-15 |
Movement across James River to Petersburg |
June 16-18 |
Assaults on Petersburg |
June 16 to April 2 |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 26 |
Company E joined |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
September |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
October 1 |
Companies F, G, H, I and K joined regiment |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
1865 |
January 29 |
Received Rebel Peace Commissioners Stephens, Hunter, Campbell and Hatch through lines under flag of truce |
March 25 |
Fort Stedman, Petersburg |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 3 |
Occupation of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 21-25 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 6 |
2nd Battalion mustered out |
June-July |
1st Battalion on duty at Arsenal, Washington, during trial and execution of President Lincoln's assassins. |
July 26 |
Mustered out |
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