16th Wisconsin Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Madison, Wis., and mustered in January 31, 1862. Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 13, thence moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-20. Attached to 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--
* April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss, April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth until September 17. Battle of Corinth, Miss., October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Ordered to Grand Junction November 2 and duty there until November 28. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad to December 28. Moved to Moscow and duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad until January 10, 1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 10, thence to Young's Point, La,, January 17, and to Lake Providence March 8. Action at Old River, Lake Providence, February 10. Provost duty at Lake Providence until August. Pin Hook and Caledonia Bayou, Macon, May 10. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Near Lake Providence June 9. Moved to Red Bone Church August 1 and duty there until February 5, 1864. Garrison duty at Vicksburg until March 4. Veterans on furlough March and April. Non-veterans on duty at Vicksburg until April 5, then joined Regiment at Cairo, Ill. Veterans moved to Cairo, Ill., April 20-22. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., May 4, thence march to Ackworth, Ga. via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., May 5-June 8. 
* June 8-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
** Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
** Brush Mountain June 15. 
** Assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27. 
** Nickajack Creek July 2-5. 
** Howell's Ferry July 5. 
** Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 
** Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. 
** July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia 
** July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
** Ezra Chapel July 28. 
** Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. 
** Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. 
** Lovejoy Station September 2-6. 
* Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. 
* November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
** December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
* January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
** Pocotaligo, S.C., January 14. 
** Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River January 25. 
** Barker's Mills, Whippy Swamp, February 1. 
** Salkehatchie Swamp February 2-5. 
** Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto, February 9. 
** Orangeburg February 11-12. 
** Columbia February 16-17. 
** Averysboro, N. C., March 16. 
** Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. 
** Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. 
** Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. 
** Occupation of Raleigh April 14. 
** Bennett's House April 26. 
*** Surrender of Johnston and his army. 
* March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. 
* Grand Review May 24. 
* Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 7. 
* Mustered out July 12, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 141 En-. listed men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 248 Enlisted men by disease. Total 399.
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 1-48)
* (Pages 704, 715, 721, 723, 835, 847, 1680)
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