43rd Wisconsin
Infantry Regiment
RosterBattles involving 43rd InfantryAssignments for 43rd Infantry- Organized on Sep 1 1864 at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, WI
- Enlistment term: 1 year
- Mustered out on Jun 24 1865 at Nashville, TN
Available statistics for total numbers of men listed as:
- Enlisted or commissioned: 917
- Transferred in: 8
- Killed or died of wounds: 2
- Killed or died of wounds (Enlisted men): 1
- Died of disease (Officers): 2
- Died of disease (Enlisted men): 72
- Disabled: 13
- Deserted: 40
- Discharged: 18
- Mustered out: 766
- Transferred out: 3
Historical notes and Reports:
Forty-third Infantry
WISCONSIN
(1 YEAR)
Forty-third Infantry. -- Col., Amasa Cobb, Lieut.-Col., Byron Paine; Maj., Samuel B. Brightman.
This regiment was organized at Milwaukee in the summer of 1864. The first company was mustered in Aug. 8, the last on Oct. 8, and the regiment left the state Oct. 9.
It was sent to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Johnsonville for guard and garrison duty. Col. Cobb, member of Congress from the 5th district, was appointed commander of the post, and Lieut.-Col. Paine, who was chief justice of the supreme court, succeeded to the command of the regiment.
The enemy opened fire on the place and gunboats early in November, but it being wholly an artillery engagement the 43d was compelled to he in the trenches without action. It left Johnsonville Nov. 30, encamped at Decherd on the Chattanooga road, and remained in that vicinity until the close of the war, engaged in guarding the railroad and dispersing guerrillas.
It was mustered out June 24, 1865. Its original strength was 867. Gain by recruits, 38; substitutes, 8; total, 913. Loss by death, 70; desertion, 40; transfer, 1; discharge, 39; mustered out, 763.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 70
Forty-third Infantry
WISCONSIN
(1 YEAR)
Forty-third Infantry. -- Col., Amasa Cobb, Lieut.-Col., Byron Paine; Maj., Samuel B. Brightman.
This regiment was organized at Milwaukee in the summer of 1864. The first company was mustered in Aug. 8, the last on Oct. 8, and the regiment left the state Oct. 9.
It was sent to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Johnsonville for guard and garrison duty. Col. Cobb, member of Congress from the 5th district, was appointed commander of the post, and Lieut.-Col. Paine, who was chief justice of the supreme court, succeeded to the command of the regiment.
The enemy opened fire on the place and gunboats early in November, but it being wholly an artillery engagement the 43d was compelled to he in the trenches without action. It left Johnsonville Nov. 30, encamped at Decherd on the Chattanooga road, and remained in that vicinity until the close of the war, engaged in guarding the railroad and dispersing guerrillas.
It was mustered out June 24, 1865. Its original strength was 867. Gain by recruits, 38; substitutes, 8; total, 913. Loss by death, 70; desertion, 40; transfer, 1; discharge, 39; mustered out, 763.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 70
Battles (where losses incurred) involving 43rd Infantry Regiment
| Location | Date | Killed | Wounded | POW | Missing | Losses |
| Johnsonville, TN | Nov 5 1864 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Brigade, Division, Corps, and Army assignments for 43rd Infantry Regiment
| From | To | Brigade | Division | Corps | Army/Department | Comments |
| Oct 1864 | Dec 1864 | Nashville & Northwestern RR | Post Murfreesboro | District Nashville | Military Division of the Mississippi | New Organization |
| Dec 1864 | Mar 1865 | 3 | Defenses Nashville & Chatt. RR | District Nashville | Military Division of the Mississippi | |
| Apr 23 1865 | Jun 1865 | 3 | 1st Sub District District | Middle TN | Department of Cumberland | Mustered Out |
Roster for 43rd Infantry Regiment - 925 men
Source: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers; War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865; Volumes I and II; compiled by Authority of the Legislature, under the direction of Jeremiah M. Rusk, Governor & Chandler P. Chapman, Adjutant General; Democrat Printing Company, State Printers; Madison, Wisconsin; 1886
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| Noble - Zellhoeffer | |
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