16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

Index card for Nelson Knapp, 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 16th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service January 31, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

The 16th Wisconsin suffered 6 officers and 141 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 4 officer and 248 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 399 fatalities.[1]

The six-man color guard were all killed on April 6, 1862. They are memorialized with cenotaphs at what was the apex of the Shiloh Military Cemetery overlooking the Tennessee River.[2]

• Colonel Benjamin Allen
• Colonel Cassius Fairchild

• George F. Caldwell, politician
• Jacob Fawcett, later became a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
• Norman L. James, businessman and legislator
• Sylvester W. Osborn, politician
• Horace Patch, politician
• George Myron Sabin, jurist
• Wiley Scribner, politician and acting governor of Montana Territory

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

• Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.
• Bear, Edwin C. The Vicksburg Campaign. 3 volumes, Morningside Press, 1991. ISBN 0-89029-308-2.
• Cozzens, Peter. The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-2320-1.
• Magdeburg, F. H. Wisconsin at Shiloh. Wisconsin Shiloh Monument Commission, 1909.
• McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
• Quiner, E. B. The Military History of Wisconsin. Clarke & Co., 1866. ISBN 0-9674777-0-0.