48th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

...when the 48th was ordered to assemble at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. After, they mustered out of the service of the United States on December 30, 1865. Then, they marched to...

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50th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

...April 18, 1866. In late June, the regiment returned to the state and was mustered out of the service of the United States and disbanded. Casualties The regiment lost 1...

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51st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

...16 men to disease during their service. For Further Research Search our collections for photos and artifacts from Wisconsin in the Civil War. Read about other Wisconsin Civil War regiments....

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52nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

...Ft. Leavenworth, KS. In Kansas, the unit was mustered out of the service of the United States on July 28, 1865. Proceeding to Madison, WI, they were disbanded on August...

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Oneida Warrior James K. Overman on racism and rescuing pilots

...hundred percent Native American." "I want to tell you something, Indian. There are no Indians who are going to ever fly my f-----g airplanes." Wow. My dream was to take...

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Distinguished Lecture Series: An Army Afire

...discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Confronting what some saw as an existential threat, the fundamentally conservative institution of the US Army took strikingly progressive actions, though in service of a...

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