1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (three months service)

1861

Organized at Milwaukee under Colonel John C. Starkweather

April 27

Mustered into State service

May 17

Mustered into United States service

June 9

Left State for Harrisburg, Pa.

June

Camp at Hagerstown attached to Abercrombie's 6th Brigade, Negley's 2nd Division, Patterson's Army.

June 29-July 1

Moved to Williamsport, Md.

July 2

Action at Falling Waters

The regiment lost two men killed or mortally wounded.

July 3

Moved to Martinsburg

July-August

Duty at Charlestown, Harper's Ferry and guarding fords of the Monocacy River

July 29

Edwards' Ferry, Md.

August 21

Mustered out

The regiment was reorganized for three years service and served in the west for its entire career