49th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

49th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Wisconsin flag
Active December 24, 1864, to November 8, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements None

The 49th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 49th Wisconsin was organized at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin and mustered into federal service between February 8, 1865, and March 6, 1865.[1] It left the state on March 8, 1865, and was assigned to duty in western Missouri. Companies B, C, and D were mustered out on November 1, 1865, and the remaining companies were mustered out on November 8, 1865.[2]

Casualties

The 49th Wisconsin suffered 54 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 54 fatalities.[3]

Commanders

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Charles E. Estabrook (Ed.). Records and Sketches of Military Organizations: Population, Legislation, Election and Other Statistics Relating to Wisconsin in the Period of the Civil War. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., 1914, p. 180.
  2. ↑ Estabrook, p. 164.
  3. ↑ The Civil War Archive


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