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The 37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 149 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 89 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.

1864

April 9 Organized at Madison, Wis.
April 28 Companies A-F left State for Washington, D.C.
May 17 Companies H and I join regiment on Maryland Heights
May 18 Duty at Washington, D.C. Attached to Casey’s Brigade, 22nd Army Corps
May 30-June 1 Moved to White House, Va.
June 10 Guard supply train to Cold Harbor
June Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
June 12-15 Movement across James River to Petersburg, Va.
June 16-18 Assaults on Petersburg
June 16 to April 2 Siege of Petersburg
July 30 Mine Explosion, Petersburg
August 18-21 Weldon Railroad
September Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps
September 29-October 2 Poplar Springs Church (Peeble’s Farm)
October 27-28 Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run

1865

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 21-24 Moved to Washington, D.C.
May 23 Grand Review
June Provost duty at Washington and Alexandria
July 26 Mustered out