25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment


The 25th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 25th Wisconsin was organized at La Crosse, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service September 14, 1862.
In a January 1863 letter to his sister, Union soldier Chauncey H. Cooke, a private from the regiment's Company G, gave his reasons for fighting for the Union in the war, stating that "I have no heart in this war if the slaves cannot go free."
The regiment was mustered out on June 7, 1865.

Casualties

The 25th Wisconsin suffered 3 officers and 46 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 7 officers and 402 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 460 fatalities.

Commanders