30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 30th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The Regiment was recruited under the call of July , 1862 , for three hundred thousand men . The first man to sign enlistment papers for the new regiment was James Berry , of Captain David С Fulton ' s Co . D , on July 21 , 1862 . The enlistments closed August 23 , 1862 , with a full regiment of 1020 men . Many of the enlistment papers were made out for the Twenty - fifth Regiment , but volunteering was so brisk that thirteen full regiments were raised , from the Twenty - first to the Twenty - third , inclusive , within thirty days from the call . The regiment was mustered into the United States service , October 18 , 1862 , at Camp Randall , Madison , Wis . As mustered in , the regiment was composed as follows : Co . A , Captain Samuel Harriman , and Co . D , Captain David С Fulton , from St . Croix , Polk and Pierce Counties ; Co . F , Captain Martin A . Driebelbis , from Pierce County ; Co . I , Captain Napoleon B . Greer , from Eau Claire County ; Co . K , Captain John Klatt , from Chippewa County ; Co . C , Captain A . A . Arnold , from Trempealeau County ; Co . G , Captain Asa B . Swain , and Co . H , Captain Andrew Bedal , from Waushara County ; Co . B , Captain Lewis S . Burton , and Co . E , Captain Edward Devlin , from Iowa and Lafayette Counties . The regiment was composed of as good material as was ever assembled . The average age of the men was twenty - five years and six months ; their average height was 5 ft . 7 7 - 10 inches . They were lumbermen , farmers and miners , inured to hard work and privation . A majority were used to handling arms , many of them being hunters . A number were Indians from the Chippewa Reservation . Nearly nine - tenths were born in the United States . All were patriotic , and ready for active service . All expected to be at the front with Grant within sixty days . That they were not , was not the fault of any one , officer or man , in the regiment . It was the exigencies of the service and the accident of time , that we were not in place of the 25th , 28th , 29th or 32d , all of which were mustered in about the same time . The following record of the services of the regiment is quoted largely from the report of Adjutant General August Gaylord for the year 1865 : The regimental organization was completed October 18 , 1862 , at Camp Randall . Subsequently regimental headquarters remained at Camp Randall , while portions of the regiment were almost constantly detached in the performance of various kinds of duty . On the 2d of May , 1863 , companies D , F , I and K , under command of Lt . Col . Bartlett , were ordered to the Upper Missouri , on the Indian expedition under General Alfred Sully . These companies served with this command at different points on the river , from Sioux City , Iowa , to Fort Pierre , Dakota Territory , until the l0th of August , 1863 when companies I and К were ordered to report at Camp Washburn , Milwaukee , Wis . , leaving companies D and F at Fort Pierre ; these companies arrived at Milwaukee ou Sept . 12 , 1863 . On the 26th of May , companies G and E left Camp Randall , the former for Superior , Wis . , and the latter for Bayfield , Wis . , in anticipation of trouble with the Indians at these points . They remained at these stations , respectively , until the middle of August , when they were recalled ; arrived on August 31 at Camp Washburn , which was placed under command of Major John Clowney , of this regiment . The remaining companies , at various times , were sent to various parts of the state to maintain order during the enrollment and draft , under the Conscription Act . Colonel Daniel J . Dill was Post Commandant at Camp Randall during this time . In the month of December , 1863 , the regiment was transferred to Camp Washburn , and subsequently to Camp Reno , at Milwaukee , Wis . , where the headquarters of the regiment were established . In the month of March , 1864 , detachments of the regiment were ordered to various points in Dakota Territory and Northwestern Minnesota , and in General Sully ' s campaign against the Sioux Indians , moving from point to point during the summer , performing many very long and difficult marches through an extremely wild and arid country , and participating in several engagements with the Indians . On 1 October 1864 , detachments of the 30th Wisconsin were stationed at various places in Dakota Territory as follows : Companies A , C , F , and H , under the immediate command of Colonel Dill , at Fort Rice , of which Post Lieutenant Colonel Bartlett was placed in command ; Companies B , E , G and К under command of Major Clowney , at Fort Wadsworth , near Coteau des Prairies ; Company D , under command of Captain Fulton , at Fort Sully , and Company I , under command of Captain Greer , at Fort Union . Companies A , C , F and H , commanded by Colonel Dill , left Fort Rice , Dakota , Friday , October 12 , 1864 , and descending the Missouri river in flat boats built by themselves , arrived November 2 , 1864 , at Sioux City , Iowa , where they were joined by Company D , under command of Lieutenant Lewis O . Marshall , Captain David С . Fulton having been promoted Major of the First Battalion Heavy Artillery , on the 14th of October . Continuing their journey down the river they arrived at St . Joseph , Mo . , November 17 , 1864 . Company H having been detained by floating ice , Captain Bedal abandoned his boat a few miles above St . Joseph , and marched his command to the city , rejoining the other companies November 23d . Leaving St . Joseph on the 24th of November , and proceeding by rail , they arrived on the following day at Quincy , Ill . , and thence proceeded by way of Springfield , Ill . , and Indianapolis , Ind . , arriving on November 29 , 1864 , at Louisville , Ky . , where they went into camp . Companies B , E , G and K , under command of Major Clowney , left Fort Wadsworth , Dakota Territory , on the 29th of September , 1864 , en route for Fort Snelling , Minn . , where they arrived on the 20th of October , having marched upwards of four hundred miles in twenty days , making an average of 20½ miles per day . This march indicates better than words can express , the vigor and hardiness of the men composing the Thirtieth Regiment . Embarking on steamboats at Fort Snelling , Minn . , on October 20 , they descended the Mississippi to St . Louis , Mo . , where they arrived on the 26th , and were quartered in Benton Barracks . They left St . Louis on the 29th of October , and arrived next day at Paducah , Ky , at the mouth of the Tennessee River . Here they were employed in guard duty until December 6 , 1864 , when they again embarked and proceeding up the Ohio River , landed at Louisville December 10 , where they rejoined the balance of the regiment , with the exception of Co . I , which still remained at Fort Union , Dakota Territory . On the 12th of December 1864 , the nine companies of the Thirtieth left Louisville by rail , and next day went into camp at Bowling Green , Ky . Here the Regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade , Second Division , Military District of Kentucky . Colonel Dill took command of the Brigade , and Major Clowney that of the Regiment . On the 10th of January , 1865 , the Regiment left Bowling green for Louisville , arriving on the 12th , where they were assigned to duty as guard to the military prison in that city . On the 20th of January , 1865 , Companies A , D and F , under command of Captain Meacham , of Co . F , were detached as provost guard in the city . On the 8th of February , 1865 , Companies B , E and G , under command of Major Clowney , proceeded by rail to Frankfort , Ky . , sixty five miles from Louisville , under orders to assume the duties of permanent garrison of that city . Company B , on the 30th of March , moved from Frankfort to Georgetown , Ky . , near which they were stationed as garrison , under command of Lieutenant William H . Gill . Lieutenant Colonel Bartlett rejoined and assumed command of the Regiment at Louisville in the latter part of February , 1865 , and on April 17 , 1865 , Colonel Dill was appointed Provost Marshal General of Kentucky . Company В rejoined the command May 27 , and early in June Companies E and G returned to Louisville , where Company I also rejoined the Regiment June 22 , 1865 , having been relieved from duty at Fort Union , Dakota Territory , June 4 . During the service of the Regiment in Kentucky it was engaged in running down and capturing the numerous bands of guerrillas which infected the Department . The notorious Sue Mundy was captured after a desperate resistance , and with many others hung by sentence of Court Martial which was in continual session for the trial of these assassins . The regiment was mustered out of service at Louisville , Ky . , September 20 , 1865 , and immediately started for home , arriving at Madison , Wis . , September 25 , 1865 , where it was paid and disbanded . Casualties . The 30th Wisconsin suffered 2 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds , plus another 2 officers and 65 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 69 fatalities .