16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

16th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
File:Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin flag
Active	January 31, 1862 to July 12, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Shiloh Battle of Corinth Vicksburg Campaign Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Atlanta Atlanta Campaign March to the Sea Carolinas Campaign Battle of Bentonville

The 16th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 16th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service January 31, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

Casualties

The 16th Wisconsin suffered 6 officers and 141 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 4 officer and 248 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 399 fatalities.[1]

The six man Color Guard all were killed on 6 April 1862. They are buried at what was the apex of the Shiloh Military Cemetery overlooking the Tennessee River.

Colonels

• Colonel Benjamin Allen
• Colonel Cassius Fairchild

Notable members

• Wiley Scribner, politician and acting governor of Montana Territory

See also

• List of Wisconsin Civil War Units

References

• The Civil War Archive

• Ballard, Michael B., Vicksburg, The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi, University of North Bearss, Edwin C., The Vicksburg Campaign, 3 volumes, Morningside Press, 1991, ISBN 0-89029-308-2.
• Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.Cozzens, Peter, The Darkest Days of the War,The Battles of Iuka and Cornith, The University of North Carolina Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8078-2320-1.
• Magdeburg, F.H., Wisconsin at Shiloh, Wisconsin Shiloh Monument Commission, 1909.
• McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
• Quiner, E.B., The Military History of Wisconsin, Clarke & Co., 1866, ISBN 0-9674777-0-0.