The 41st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an
infantry
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regiment
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that served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War
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. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as
Hundred Days Men
The Hundred Days Men was the nickname applied to a series of regiments of United States Volunteers raised in 1864 for 100-day service in the Union Army during the height of the American Civil War. These short-term, lightly trained troops freed vet ...
, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.
Service
The 41st Wisconsin was organized at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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, and mustered into Federal service on June 8, 1864.
The regiment was mustered out on September 24, 1864.
Casualties
The 41st Wisconsin suffered 18 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 18 fatalities.
The Civil War Archive
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Commanders
* Colonel
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In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, a colon ...
George B. Goodwin
See also
* List of Wisconsin Civil War units
The state of Wisconsin enrolled 91,327 men for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War, 77,375 in the infantry, 8,877 in the cavalry, and 5,075 in the artillery. Some 3,802 of these men were killed in action or mortally wounded, ...
* Wisconsin in the American Civil War
With the outbreak of the American Civil War, the northwestern state of Wisconsin raised 91,379 soldiers for the Union Army, organized into 53 infantry regiments, 4 cavalry regiments, a company of Berdan's sharpshooters, 13 light artillery bat ...
References
The Civil War Archive
Notes
Military units and formations established in 1864
Military units and formations disestablished in 1864
Units and formations of the Union army from Wisconsin
1864 establishments in Wisconsin
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