11th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 11th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

11th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin
ActiveOctober 18, 1861 – September 5, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
SizeRegiment
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
ColonelCharles L. Harris
Wisconsin U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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Survivors of Co. H, 11th Wis. Vet. Vol. Infantry Taken during the twenty-third national encampment of the G.A.R., August 28, 1889. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Service

The 11th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service October 18, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on September 5, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama.

Total enlistments and casualties

The 11th Wisconsin initially mustered 1,045 men and later recruited an additional 622 men, for a total of 1,667 men.[1] The regiment lost 8 officers and 80 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 4 officers and 253 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 280 fatalities.[2]

The Regiment's officers included Angus R. McDonald (1832 - 1879) of Mazomanie, Wisconsin, a native of the isle of Eigg in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. At the time of his death, Capt. MacDonald was the last direct descendant of Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.1698 - 1770), who is widely considered, along with Sorley MacLean (1911 - 1996), to be one of the two most important writers in the history of Scottish Gaelic literature.[3][4]

Sgt. Daniel B. Moore of Company E was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving Lt. McDonald's life during the Battle of Fort Blakeley on 9 April 1865.[5]

Commanders

See also

References
  1. "1907 Wisconsin Blue Book - Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion". March 26, 2007. Archived from the original on March 26, 2007.
  2. "Union - Wisconsin Infantry (Part 1)". www.civilwararchive.com.
  3. Father Charles MacDonald (2011), Moidart: Among the Clanranalds, Birlinn Books. Pages 136-137.
  4. Christopher C. Wehner (2008), The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History, McFarland. Page 158, 163, 171.
  5. Christopher C. Wehner (2008), The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History, McFarland. Page 158.


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