25th Wisconsin Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at LaCrosse, Wis., and mustered in September 14, 1862. Ordered to St. Paul, Minn., September 19, and assigned to duty on northwestern frontier at New Ulm and other points in Minnesota until November. March to Winona, Wis., 300 miles, November 27-December 13. Moved to Camp Randall, Wis., and duty there until February, 1863. Left State for Cairo, Ill., February 17, thence moved to Columbus, Ky., and duty there until April. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to May, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Kimball's Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, to August, 1863. Helena, Ark., 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Arkansas, to January, 1864. District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, January, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 27, 1863, thence to Memphis, Tenn., and to Young's Point, La., May 31-June 4. Moved to Haines' Bluff June 16, thence to Snyder's Bluff and duty there until July 25.
- May 18-July 4, 1863 -
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi - Expedition to Greenville June 25-July 1.
- Gaines' Landing, Ark., June 28.
- Ordered to Helena, Ark., July 25, and duty there until February 1, 1864.
- Moved to Vicksburg February 1.
- February 3-March 2, 1864 -
Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi - Moved to Cairo, Ill., thence to Waterloo, Ala., and march to Decatur via Florence, Athens and Mooresville March 10-April 16. Operations against Forest March 16-April 14.
- May 1-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign- May 8-13, 1864 -
Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia - May 14-May 15, 1864 -
Battle of Resaca, Georgia - Advance on Dallas May 18-25.
- May 25-June 5, 1864 -
Operations in Bartow County, Georgia - Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
- Assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27.
- Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
- Ruff's Mills July 3-4.
- Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
- Decatur and battle of Atlanta July 22.
- July 22-August 25, 1864 -
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia - Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
- Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
- Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
- May 8-13, 1864 -
- Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
- November 15-December 21, 1864 -
The Savannah Campaign- Montieth Swamp December 9.
- December 10-21, 1864 -
Siege of Savannah, Georgia
- January 1-April 26, 1865 -
The Carolinas Campaign- Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River, S.C., January 20.
- Rivers and Broxton Bridges, Salkehatchie River, S.C., February 2.
- Salkehatchie Swamp February 2-5.
- River's Bridge February 3.
- Columbia February 16-17.
- Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21.
- Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
- Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
- Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
- Bennett's House April 26.
- Surrender of Johnston and his army.
- March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19.
- Grand Review May 24.
- Mustered out June 7, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 46 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 7 Officers and 402 Enlisted men by disease. Total 460.
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Notes
Sources
- Wisconsin. Adjutant-General's Office. Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Volume 2. (Madison, 1886). (Pages 282-311)
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 704, 705, 707, 715, 721, 723, 779, 785, 835, 1684)
