1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Milwaukee, Wis., May 14, 1898, with 50 officers and 976 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to Second Brigade, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps, May 23

• Movements:
  • Left Milwaukee May 20; arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., May 23
  • Left Jacksonville September 7; arrived at Milwaukee September 10
  • Furloughed for thirty days September 10

Mustered out of the service of the Untted States at Monroe, Janesville, Fort Atkinson, Darlington, Beloit, Racine, Madison, and Milwaukee, Wis., October 19, 1898, with 49 officers and 1,224 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-none. Enlisted men-died of disease, 40.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps