1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment, Batteries E – M

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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 under the command of Colonel Charles C. Meservey, Lieutenant Colonel Jacob T. Forster, and Majors L.H. DruryRichard W. Hubbell, and David C. Fulton.

Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd 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 under the command of Captain Justus H. Potter.
  • Companies F and I at Fort Ellsworth under the command of Captain Erastus Cook.
  • Company G at Forts Lyon and Ellsworth under the command of Captain Henry F. Rouse.
  • Companiesy H under the command of Captain Charles S. Tayler at Fort Lyon
  • Company K under the command of Captain Wallace H. Jennings, also at Fort Lyon
  • Company L at Fort Willard under the command of Captain P. Henry Ray
  • Company M at Forts Lyon, Weed and Farnsworth under the command of Captain Ira H. Ford.
1865
June 26 Batteries E – M of the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment mustered out