31st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 31st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 31st Wisconsin was organized at Prairie du Chien and Racine, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service December 24, 1862.

Companies A-F were mustered out on June 20, 1865. Companies G-K followed on July 8, 1865.

Casualties

The 31st Wisconsin suffered 23 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 112 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel Francis H. West
• Colonel Isaac E. Messmore

Majors

Robert B. Sevenson

Captains

Company A: Henry A. Chase

Company B: Nathaniel B. Treat

Company C: Ira D. Burdick

Company D: Ornsby B. Thomas

Company E: Daniel B. Dibble

Company F: Charles W. Burns

Company G: Farlin Q. Ball

Company H: Edward K. Buttrick

Company I: John B. Vliet

Company K: Edwin Augustus Bottum

See also

• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

Notes

1. ↑ Union - Wisconsin Infantry (Part 3)

References

• The Civil War Archive
• Message of the Governor of Wisconsin Together with the Annual Reports 1863