37th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

37th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Flag of Wisconsin
Active	April 9, 1864 – July 26, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Engagements	American Civil War Siege of Petersburg Battle of the Crater Battle of Boydton Plank Road
Commanders
Colonel	Samuel Harriman
Colonel	John Green

The 37th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 37th Wisconsin was organized at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service on April 9, 1864.

The regiment was mustered out on July 27, 1865.

Casualties

The 37th Wisconsin suffered 7 officers and 149 enlisted men killed or fatally wounded in action and 2 officers and 89 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 247 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

• Colonel Samuel Harriman
• Colonel John Green

See also

• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive

External links

• The sword and gun: a history of the 37th Wis. Volunteer Infantry : from its first organization to its final muster out (1865) at the Internet Archive