The Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was organised at Camp Salomon, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and mustered into the service of the United States on the 14th of September 1862. On the 19th the regiment proceeded to St Paul as a part of the force to be used in suppressing the Indian uprising there. The command was detached and assigned to various posts in that state. In the latter part of November the Twenty-fifth was relieved and was compelled to make a march of upwards of three hundred miles to Winona, MN, and finally reached Camp e Randall, Wisconsin, on December the 18th. On May the 9th, as a part of the Seventeenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, it took its place in line of battle at Resaca. From that time it was a part of the army, following General Sherman in the Atlanta, Savannah and the Carolina Campaigns. Like other forces with Sherman the regiment was almost constantly on the march and in frequent contact with the enemy during the AtlantaCampaign, took part in many engagements, among which were; Resaca, May 15, 1864; The advance on Dallas, May 18 to 25; battles of Dallas, New Hope Church and PumpkinVineCreek, May 25 to June 5; Assault on Kennesaw Mountain, June 2; Atlanta, July 21-22; Jonesborough, September 1; Lovejoy Station, Sept. 2-4, 1864.
Accompanying the army of the Tennessee, the Twenty-fifth left Atlanta on the 15th of November on the 'March to the Sea.' Participated in the siege of SavannahDecember 10 to 21, 1864. On the 13th of January, 1865, the Twenty-fifth commenced the march through the Carolinas, participating in various minor engagements and in the battle of Bentonville March 19-20, 1865, and was actively engaged until the surrender of Johnston on April 26, 1865. The regiment took part in the Grand Review at Washington, D.C., May 24, went into camp at that city, where the regiment remained until June 7, when it was mustered out of service and returning to Madison, Wisconsin, was disbanded June 11, 1865. Research Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
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