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1 PHOTO ALBUM WITH 40 GEM SIZE PHOTOS FROM THE 19TH WISCONSIN UNION INFANTRY, OF WHICH 30 ARE IDENTIFIED, MANY CASUALTIES OF BATTLE OF FAIR O AKS This is a 2 1/2 inch x 3 ¼ inch album with 40 gem size tintypes (1" x ¾") all identified to C ompany C of the 19th Wisconsin Infantry. All the images are in military uniforms and some with slouch hats and kepis. Under each photo is written the name of the soldier, some in ink a nd some in pencil. The identified soldiers are: N AME, DATES OF SERVICE 1 st Lt. William R.V. Frisby - 1/07/1862 to 12/11/ P romoted from Sergt. Capt. Alonzo H. Russel - 01/07/1862 to 08/09/1865 Sergt. Alexander T. Mc Dougal - 01/21/1862 to 04/29/1865 William Davis - 02/01/1862 to 04/29/1865 Judson Phelps - 03/04/1862 to 07/29/ POW 10/27/1864 F air Oaks VA Sergt. William Munz - 03/04/1862 to 08/09/1865 Charles Smith - 03/04/1862 to 08/28/ P OW 10/27/1864 Fair Oaks VA. Henry S. Bingham - 01/22/1862 to 04/29/1865 C hristopher Murray - 03/04/1862 to 10/27/ K illed 10/27/1864 Fair Oaks VA. Chantey Hamar - 02/05/1862 to 04/29/1865 Galusha B. Fields - 03/04/1862 to 08/09/ C omm Sergt 11/11/1864 Caleb Coon - 01/27/1862 to 04/29/1865 Samuel T. Bullen - 03/04/1862 to 08 /09/1865 John Cottinger - 03/04/1862 to 01/27/ POW 10/27/1862 Fair Oaks Va., Died of D isease as a POW. Leon A. Fourrie - 06/20/1862 to 06/26/1865 J ohn Ashton - 02/24/1862 to 04/29/1865 Andrew Wroak - 03/04/1862 to 10/17/ K illed 10/27/1864 Fair Oaks VA. J ohn Miller - 03/31/1862 to 05/22/ POW and Wounded 10/27/1864 Fair Oaks VA., L eg Amputated Charles Bremer - 01/30/1862 to 05/26/ D ischarged for Disability Morrison Stevens - 02/05/1862 to 06/ 12/ Wounded 5/13/1864 at Drewry's Bluff, D ied of wounds 6/12/62 Horace Hall - 02/08/1862 to 04/29/1865 George W. Beardsley - 03/04/1862 to 08/09/ P OW 10/27/1864 Fair Oaks Va. George Johnson - 02/01/1862 to 04/29/ W ounded 5 /22/1864 Drewry's Bluff VA. Christian Wruk - 12/07/1863 to 08/09/1865 Casper Zeigler - 02/11/1862 to 10/17/ D ischarged for Disability Benjamin S. Blowers - 02/06/1862 to 07/29/ D ied of Disease 07/29/1864 T homas Jones - 02/04/1862 to 04/29/1865 Henry C. Gosling - 02/01/1862 to 04/29/1865 Guy O. Brown - 03/04/1862 to 08/09/1865 David H. Howard - 03/21/1862 to 03/31/ Two others have more than one p ossibility because they have a first initial and last name. They are: Ellis Mason - 02/13/1862 to 08/29/1865 Eli Mason - 02/13/1862 to 05/30/ D ischarged for Disability Jasper Potter - 03/04/1862 to 08/09/ W ounded 5/11/64 Drewry's Bluff Joseph Potter - 01/31/1862 to 05/30/ D ischarged for Disability. The pencil names can be seen on a couple more h ave the equipment/technology that would? N ineteenth Infantry W ISCONSIN ( 3- Y EARS) but I can't make these out but perhaps you

2 Nineteenth Infantry. -- C ols. Horace T. Sanders, Samuel K. Vaughn Lieut. - Cols., Charles Whipple Rollin M. Strong, Samuel K. Vaughn, Majs., Alvin E. Bovay, Rollin M. Strong, S amuel K. Vaughn, Amos O. Rawley. This regiment was organized in the winter of , at Camp Utley, Racine, and was o rdered to Camp Randall on April 20 to guard Confederate prisoners sent from Fort Donelson. It was mustered in April 30, 1862, left the state June 2, and was on garrison duty at N orfolk, Va., until April 14, I t was then on picket and guard duty at various points for about two weeks, when it was assigned to duty at W est Point and Y orktown until the middle of August, and at Newport News until Oct. 8. It was then divided by companies for outpost and picket duty at points near N ew Berne, N. C., and was in several small engagements with the enemy. It was ordered to Yorktown, April 28, 1864, and on May 12 the right wing, acting as a skirmish line, covered the 3 rd brigade. It accompanied the general advance upon F ort Darling, c arried the first line of the enemy's works, and occupied the road in the rear of F ort Jackson, where the next day the regiment was united. It was compelled to fall back by the furious a ssault of a heavy force, but it did so in good order. I t took part in the operations about Petersburg, doing siege and picket duty in the trenches. In August the veterans were sent home on furlough but returned in October, and participated in the engagement at Fair Oaks, a force of less than 200 men being engaged and suffering a loss o f 136 wounded and captured. They were joined by the non- veterans and the regiment was kept on picket duty in front of Richmond until April 3, 1865, when it entered the city and planted the regimental colors upon t he city hall. It was on provost duty at Richmond, Fredericksburg and Warrenton until Aug. 4, a nd was mustered out at Richmond Aug. 9, Its original strength was 973. Gain by recruits, 187; substitutes, 54; veteran reenlistments, 270; total, 1,484. Loss by death, 136; desertion. 46; transfer. 152; discharge, 345; mustered o ut, 805.

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John Cottinger - 03/04/1862 to 01/27/ POW 10/27/1862 Fair Oaks Va., Died of D isease as a POW. Leon A. Fourrie - 06/20/1862 to 06/ 26 /1865 P vt

John Cottinger - 03/04/1862 to 01/27/ POW 10/27/1862 Fair Oaks Va., Died of D isease as a POW. Leon A. Fourrie - 06/20/1862 to 06/ 26 /1865 P vt PHOTO ALBUM WITH 40 GEM SIZE PHOTOS FROM THE 19TH WISCONSIN UNION INFANTRY, OF WHICH 30 ARE IDENTIFIED, MANY CASUALTIES OF B ATTLE OF F AIR OAKS. AT THIS BATTLE THE REGIMENT NUMBERED ONLY 189 OFFICERS/MEN

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