The Civil War in the East

19th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

 

The 19th Wisconsin 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 Wistah'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, and

Company 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