1st Wisconsin
Infantry Regiment - 3 months
RosterBattles involving 1st Infantry Regiment - 3 monthsAssignments for 1st Infantry Regiment - 3 months- Organized on May 17 1861 at Camp Scott, Milwaukee, WI
- Enlistment term: 3 months
- Mustered out on Aug 21 1861 at Milwaukee, WI
Available statistics for total numbers of men listed as:
- Enlisted or commissioned: 825
- Killed or died of wounds: 1
- Died of disease: 1
- Prisoner of war: 1
- Disabled: 20
- Deserted: 1
- Discharged: 15
- Mustered out: 784
Historical notes and Reports:
First Infantry WISCONSIN
(3-MONTHS and 3-YEARS)
First Infantry. -- Cols., John C. Starkweather, George B. Bingham; Lieut.- Cols., Charles L. Harris, David H. Lane, George B. Bingham, Henry A. Mitchell; Majs., David H. Lane, George B. Bingham, Henry A. Mitchell, Donald C. McVean, Thomas H. Green.
This regiment was organized as a 90-day regiment under the proclamation of April 16, 1861, with a numerical strength of 810, and left the state June 9. It led the advance on Martinsburg, participated in the battle of Falling Waters, and was mustered out Aug. 22, 1861.
It was reorganized as a three year regiment and mustered in Oct. 19, with a strength of 945. Col. Starkweather was placed in command of the 28th brigade, Sept. 3, 1862, and Lieut.-Col. Bingham was advanced to colonel, Maj. Mitchell to lieutenant- colonel, and Capt. Donald C. McVean was appointed major.
The regiment participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. It was mustered out Oct. 21, 1864.
The original organization of 810 lost 91 by death, desertion, transfer and discharge, and mustered out, 719.
The reorganization numbering 945, was increased by recruiting, drafting and reenlistment of veterans to 1,508; losses, by death, 235; by desertion, 57; by transfer, 47- by discharge, 298; mustered out, 871.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4
Report of Col. John C. Starkweather, First Wisconsin Infantry.
HDQRS. 1ST REGT. WIS. VOLS., 2D DIV., 6TH BRIG., Martinsburg, Va., July 4, 1861.
DEAR SIR: I have the honor of reporting for your information and that of the War Department, that on the 2d day of July, 1861, when en route for Martinsburg, within a short distance of Hoke's Run, at about 10 o'clock a. m. of that day, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers being in advance of the column's main body, I detailed Company B, Capt. H. A. Mitchell, to deploy to the right and left of the road as skirmishers in advance of the column, being sustained on the road by the cavalry. After such deployment had been made and an advance forward of about a quarter of a mile, firing was heard in continued long volleys from a large body of the enemy's troops, which was well replied to by Company B and McMullin's Rangers. The strength of the enemy being too great, however, for the skirmishers engaged, I deployed Company A, Capt. George B. Bingham, to their assistance, and kept them all in position, doing great execution, until ordered to fall back slowly, so as to allow the artillery to work more effectually, who had in the mean time been placed in position on the right. The companies rallied upon the center, and fell back slowly and in perfect order keeping up their firing upon the enemy, and after reaching the head of column I deployed the whole right wing, Companies A, B, C, D, and E, assisted by Company F, of left wing, upon the enemy's left front as skirmishers, sending at the same time the balance of the regiment by companies to the front by the road. The skirmishers, sustained by the left four companies, turned the right flank of the enemy, and with the assistance of the artillery, drove the enemy's right flank in, and routed them from the woods. The whole regiment was then rallied on the color company, and deployed immediately to the front and in advance of the column as skirmishers, sustaining such position until a halt was made by the whole column. My regiment was most handsomely sustained in the outset by the artillery and Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteers, Col. Jarrett, and afterwards by them and other troops in the column.
The field officers, Lieut.-Col. Harris, Maj. Lane, and Adjutant Poole, are entitled from me to great praise for their promptness and great efficiency in the skirmish. Officers and men all behaved with the utmost bravery, and are entitled to great credit as raw troops.
The casualties consist in the death of Private George Drake, of Company A; Sergeant W. M. Graham, Company B, dangerously wounded, being shot in three separate places; Color Sergeant Fred. Hutching, wounded in the leg, belongs to Company E, color company; Privates William Matthews, P. O. Pummer, and Henry Young, of Company G, wounded; first two in the legs, other in the head; and Sol. Wyse, of Company K, taken prisoner by the enemy's cavalry on the extreme right of skirmishers, when deployed to the front, just as a halt was ordered and a rally being made on the center.
I have the honor to be, yours, to command,
JOHN C. STARKWEATHER,
Col., Comdg. First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.
Col. ABERCROMBIE, Commanding Brigade.
Source: Official Records
CHAP. IX.] OPERATIONS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY. PAGE 182-2
[Series I. Vol. 2. Serial No. 2.]
First Infantry WISCONSIN
(3-MONTHS and 3-YEARS)
First Infantry. -- Cols., John C. Starkweather, George B. Bingham; Lieut.- Cols., Charles L. Harris, David H. Lane, George B. Bingham, Henry A. Mitchell; Majs., David H. Lane, George B. Bingham, Henry A. Mitchell, Donald C. McVean, Thomas H. Green.
This regiment was organized as a 90-day regiment under the proclamation of April 16, 1861, with a numerical strength of 810, and left the state June 9. It led the advance on Martinsburg, participated in the battle of Falling Waters, and was mustered out Aug. 22, 1861.
It was reorganized as a three year regiment and mustered in Oct. 19, with a strength of 945. Col. Starkweather was placed in command of the 28th brigade, Sept. 3, 1862, and Lieut.-Col. Bingham was advanced to colonel, Maj. Mitchell to lieutenant- colonel, and Capt. Donald C. McVean was appointed major.
The regiment participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. It was mustered out Oct. 21, 1864.
The original organization of 810 lost 91 by death, desertion, transfer and discharge, and mustered out, 719.
The reorganization numbering 945, was increased by recruiting, drafting and reenlistment of veterans to 1,508; losses, by death, 235; by desertion, 57; by transfer, 47- by discharge, 298; mustered out, 871.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4
Report of Col. John C. Starkweather, First Wisconsin Infantry.
HDQRS. 1ST REGT. WIS. VOLS., 2D DIV., 6TH BRIG., Martinsburg, Va., July 4, 1861.
DEAR SIR: I have the honor of reporting for your information and that of the War Department, that on the 2d day of July, 1861, when en route for Martinsburg, within a short distance of Hoke's Run, at about 10 o'clock a. m. of that day, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers being in advance of the column's main body, I detailed Company B, Capt. H. A. Mitchell, to deploy to the right and left of the road as skirmishers in advance of the column, being sustained on the road by the cavalry. After such deployment had been made and an advance forward of about a quarter of a mile, firing was heard in continued long volleys from a large body of the enemy's troops, which was well replied to by Company B and McMullin's Rangers. The strength of the enemy being too great, however, for the skirmishers engaged, I deployed Company A, Capt. George B. Bingham, to their assistance, and kept them all in position, doing great execution, until ordered to fall back slowly, so as to allow the artillery to work more effectually, who had in the mean time been placed in position on the right. The companies rallied upon the center, and fell back slowly and in perfect order keeping up their firing upon the enemy, and after reaching the head of column I deployed the whole right wing, Companies A, B, C, D, and E, assisted by Company F, of left wing, upon the enemy's left front as skirmishers, sending at the same time the balance of the regiment by companies to the front by the road. The skirmishers, sustained by the left four companies, turned the right flank of the enemy, and with the assistance of the artillery, drove the enemy's right flank in, and routed them from the woods. The whole regiment was then rallied on the color company, and deployed immediately to the front and in advance of the column as skirmishers, sustaining such position until a halt was made by the whole column. My regiment was most handsomely sustained in the outset by the artillery and Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteers, Col. Jarrett, and afterwards by them and other troops in the column.
The field officers, Lieut.-Col. Harris, Maj. Lane, and Adjutant Poole, are entitled from me to great praise for their promptness and great efficiency in the skirmish. Officers and men all behaved with the utmost bravery, and are entitled to great credit as raw troops.
The casualties consist in the death of Private George Drake, of Company A; Sergeant W. M. Graham, Company B, dangerously wounded, being shot in three separate places; Color Sergeant Fred. Hutching, wounded in the leg, belongs to Company E, color company; Privates William Matthews, P. O. Pummer, and Henry Young, of Company G, wounded; first two in the legs, other in the head; and Sol. Wyse, of Company K, taken prisoner by the enemy's cavalry on the extreme right of skirmishers, when deployed to the front, just as a halt was ordered and a rally being made on the center.
I have the honor to be, yours, to command,
JOHN C. STARKWEATHER,
Col., Comdg. First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.
Col. ABERCROMBIE, Commanding Brigade.
Source: Official Records
CHAP. IX.] OPERATIONS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY. PAGE 182-2
[Series I. Vol. 2. Serial No. 2.]
Battles (where losses incurred) involving 1st Infantry Regiment - 3 months
| Location | Date | Killed | Wounded | POW | Missing | Losses |
| Falling Waters, WV | Jul 2 1861 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Brigade, Division, Corps, and Army assignments for 1st Infantry Regiment - 3 months
| From | To | Brigade | Division | Corps | Army/Department | Comments |
| Jun 1 1861 | Jul 31 1861 | 6 | 2 | | Department of Pennsylvania | Mustered Out |
Roster for 1st Infantry Regiment - 3 months - 824 men
Source: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers; War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865; Volumes I and II; compiled by Authority of the Legislature, under the direction of Jeremiah M. Rusk, Governor & Chandler P. Chapman, Adjutant General; Democrat Printing Company, State Printers; Madison, Wisconsin; 1886
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