Show 1 r rt a. a t 1 WISCONSIN AT SHILOH Six Days After L Leaving Its State New Inexperienced Regiment Engaged in Famous Battle On March 30 1862 the Eighteenth Wisconsin left Milwaukee J and proceeded pro pro- to Pittsburg Landing and became be be- came a part 4 of General Grants Grant's force which six days from tho the time Ume the new mew inexperienced regiment left Its state one of the tho great gleat battles of the war began that of Shiloh writes wIltes Col J. J A. A Watrous In the Mil 1 Sentinel The Eighteenth reached Pittsburg Landing on April 5 and was placed with the tho o of Gen B. B M. M Prentiss which occupied th the most advanced position of ot any troops in the line The soldiers put up their tents but their rations having I run orun o out t they went to bed hungry as a great many others did during the war Early the next morning the pickets ln tn front of at Prentiss' Prentiss division were driven in The did splendid did service in that its first battle lighting fighting like veter veterans ns Thirty were tilled kilted and 95 wounded man many of the theJa Ja latter dying One ono hun hundred red and ana seventy live of 01 the men and ten or twelve twel of the om officers cers ers were made prisoners at the time tho the most of General Prentiss' Prentiss division was was captured Yet there were enough left deft to make a body of ot to partial participate pate in the second days day's battle which resulted In driving back the enemy and giving Grant a victory The Eighteenth was in MacArthur's MacArthurs MacArthur MacAr thurs thur's s 's division and but for the fact that Gen Charles S S. Hamiltons Hamilton's sue suc- attack of the enemy at luka Iuka would have been In that battle Ham Hamilton ilton defeated the enemy before MacArthur's MacArthurs MacArthurs MacArthurs MacArthur's Mac Mac- Arthurs Arthur's division re reached ched the field The The regiment regiment was constantly on duty participated In various raids burned bridges and destroyed railroads It II bad had important work in connection with the battle of Corinth h In October i 1862 1802 and was given another opportunity opportunity to show Its Its good mettle In Inthis Inthis Inthis this engagement it lost five killed and nd 21 wounded It was on the reserve atthe at atthe atthe the battle of Champion Hills but had I several killed and a number wounded The Tile regiment acted as sharpshooters during luring a portion of the Vicksburg campaign losing ten killed and seven wounded After the capture of Vicksburg Vicksburg Vicks Vicks- burg It remained there until Septem her ber 11 going from froin there to Helena Ark It Joined Grant at Chattanooga on November 19 1863 having marched miles through Mississippi J Alaba J r rr af r wn L i Hold the Fort for I I. I Am 1 Coming ma and a a portion of to do t I co 60 The Eighteenth took part in the battle of Mission Ridge and joined In Inthe inthe inthe the pursuit of the enemy go so pO far as Ringgold Ga It was on duty at Hunt Huntsville Ala until May 1 I 1864 when It Jt joined Sherm Sherman m In his great campaign from Chattanooga to At lanta Tanta The was one one of the regiments at Alto Altoona na Pass Pass' and to fight the battle battlo bearing that same name and It is said that no troops o ol 01 that small force fought more mote valiantly valiant valiant- ly ty than the Wisconsin soldiers That was the battle which brought out the remark by Sherman Hold the fort for Cor I am coming coining The Confederates s sought fought ought persistently for that pass pass and though the Union force Coree was small the enemy left 1500 killed and wo wounded The Eighteenth had some killed and wounded here The Eighteenth re enlisted but was unable to take of th the thir thir- ty-day ty furlough until the following November In January 1865 It re reo returned returned turned to Chattanooga and end in time was sent to General Shermans Sherman's army In tn the Carolinas The Eighteenth had three different colonels J. J J S. S Alban killed at Shiloh Shi Shi- lob Job Gabriel Bouck resigned on January January Jan Jan- uary 4 1864 and Charles H. H Jackson who was mustered out at the end of the war Its first t adjutant was vas the late tate Judge Gilbert S. S Park of Stevens Stevena Point Park Parle afterward became captain of or company G and served until tho the end of the the war Another captain of or orthe the Eighteenth was vas vas' the tho late State Se Senator ator William J. J Kershaw He Ho retrained re le trained ho regiment a short II time and went o out t as a major with one tf sf the later companies I Ij j T |