2nd Wisconsin Cavalry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Milwaukee, Wis., December 30, 1861, to March 10, 1862. Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 24, 1862. Duty at Benton Barracks, Mo., until May 15. Moved to Jefferson City, thence to Springfield, Mo., and duty there until June 14. Attached to Steele's Command, Army of Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to July, 1862. District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of the Tennessee, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to February, 1863. 3rd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 5th Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to June, 1863. Bussey's Cavalry Brigade. Herron's Division, 13th Army Corps, to August, 1863. Cavalry Brigade, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1864. Winslow's Cavalry Brigade, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee, to July, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Military Division Gulf, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to November, 1865.

SERVICE.--March to Batesville, Jacksonport and Helena, Ark., June 14-July 12, 1862, and duty there until January, 1863. Action at Yellville, Ark., June 25, 1862. Near Fayetteville July 15. Expedition from Helena to Moro August 5-8 (Detachment). Near Helena August 11. Near Helena September 19-20. Expedition against Arkansas Post November 16-21. Expedition to Yellville November 25-29. Expedition from Helena to Grenada, Miss.. November 27-December 5. Oakland, Miss., December 3. LaGrange, Ark., December 30. Lick Creek, Ark., January 12, 1863. Clarendon Road, near Helena, January 15. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., February 4, and duty there until May. Nonconah Creek, near Memphis, April 4. Expedition to Coldwater April 17-20. Horn Lake Creek May 18 (Co. "L"). Expeditions to Hernando, Miss., May 23-24, 26 and 28 (Detachments). Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 10-13.

• May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10.
• Clinton July 8.
• Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
• Canton July 12.
• Expedition to Yazoo City July 12-21, 1863 (Detachment).
• Bolton's Depot July 16.
• Grant's Ferry, Pearl River, July 16.
• Briar Creek, near Canton, July 17.
• Duty at lied Bone Church until April 27, 1864.
• Action at Red Bone Church September 25, 1863.
• October 10, 1863 - Action at Ingraham's Plantation, Mississippi
• July 15, 1864 - Skirmish at Port Gibson, Mississippi
• Red Bone April 21, 1864.
• Moved to Vicksburg April 27, and duty there until December.
• Salem May 29 (Detachment).
• Worthington's and Sunnyside Landings, Fish Bayou, June 5.
• Old River Lake or Lake Chicot June 6.
• July 2-10, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Pearl River, Mississippi
• Clinton July 4. Jackson July 5-6.
• Clinton July 7.
• September 29-October 3, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Rodney and Fayette, Mississippi
  • October 1, 1864 - Skirmish at Port Gibson, Mississippi (detachment)
  • October 2, 1864Skirmish at Fayette, Mississippi (detachment)
  • July 12-21, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi (detachment)
• Cole Creek October 3.
• Expedition from Natchez to Woodville October 4-11.
• Woodville October 5-6.
• Fort Adams, La., October 5 and 7.
• Operations in Issaqueena and Washington Counties October 24-31.
• November 6-8, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Gaines' Landing, Arkansas and Bayou Macon, Louisiana
• November 23-December 4, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi

Concord Church December 1. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., December 8. Grierson's Expedition to destroy Mobile & Ohio Railroad December 21, 1864, to January 15, 1865. Franklin Creek December 21-22, 1864. Egypt Station December 28. Expedition from Memphis to Marion, Ark., January 19-22, 1865 (Detachment). Duty at Memphis, Tenn., until June. Expedition into Northern Mississippi March 3-11. (Part of Regiment ordered to Grenada, Miss., May 9, and duty there until June 24, when rejoined Regiment at Alexandria, La.) Ordered to Alexandria, La., June. March from Alexandria to Hempstead, Texas, August 8-26, and duty there until October. March to Austin, Texas, and there mustered out November 15, 1865. 1st Battalion (Cos. "A," "D," "G" and "K") served detached June 13, 1862, to September, 1864. Ordered to Cassville, Mo., June 13, 1862, and duty there until October, 1862.

• June 23, 1862 - Skirmish at Pineville, Missouri

Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1863. District of Rolla, Dept. of Missouri, to August, 1864. District of North Missouri to September, 1864. Duty at Osage Springs, Mo., October, 1862, to December, 1862. Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., December 7. Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren, Ark., December 27-29. At Forsythe, Mo., until March, 1863. At Lake Springs until June, 1863. At Rolla until September, 1864. Lane's Prairie, Mo., May 26, 1864. Scout in Phelps and Marias Counties August 1 (Co. "A"). Rejoined Regiment at Vicksburg, Miss., September, 1864.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 24 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 284 Enlisted men by disease. Total 312.

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Sources

• Wisconsin. Adjutant-General's Office. Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Volume 1. (Madison, 1886). (Pages 50-90)
• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 779, 782, 783, 787, 788, 789, 802, 1667)