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The 19th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 41 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 115 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
Organized at Madison, Wis.
April 30 Mustered in
June 2 Left State for Washington, D.C.
June 8 Moved to Hampton, Va.
June 29 To Norfolk, Va.
July-April Garrison duty at Norfolk, Va., attached to District of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
1863
April 14 Ordered to Suffolk, Va. and attached to Reserve Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps
April 14-May 4 Siege of Suffolk
April 24 Action at Edenton Road, Suffolk
May 15-18 Operations on Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad
May 17 Near Providence Church
June 17 Moved to Norfolk
June 18 To Yorktown. Attached to Wistar’s Independent Brigade, 7th Army Corps
June 24-July 7 Dix’s Peninsula Campaign
July Garrison duty at Yorktown attached to Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
August 16 At Newport News
October 8-11 Moved to New Berne, N. C.
Outpost and picket duty at New Berne, N. C., attached to Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
1864
January 18-February 10 Operations about New Berne against Whiting
February 1-3 Beech Grove and Batchelor’s Creek, New Berne
April 19-24 Expedition to relief of Plymouth (Company A)
April 26-28 Moved to Yorktown and assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina.Company A detached at Evans’ Mills,Company B at Brier Creek, andCompany F at Havelock Station until February, 1864
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 5 Occupation of Bermuda Hundred
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16 Battle of Drury’s Bluff
June 16-July 20 Bermuda Hundred. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps
June 15 Assault on Petersburg
June 16-17 Assault on Port Walthal
June-August In trenches before Petersburg
August At Norfolk, Va.
August 13 to October 10 Veterans on furlough. Non-Veterans assigned to provost duty at Norfolk, Va.,
October Regiment moved to Aiken’s Landing, thence to Chafflin’s Farm and operations against Richmond from north side of the James River. Atached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps
October 27-28 Battle of Fair Oaks
December Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps
1865
April 3 Occupation of Richmond and provost duty there
April 28 Non-Veterans mustered out
May-July Provost duty at Fredericksburg, Va.
July 24 Provost duty at Warrenton, Va. attached to 1st Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps
August 4 Moved to Richmond, Va.
August 9 Mustered out