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7th Wisconsin Battery,1863.

A composite of portraits and two camp scenes of the Seventh Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery. View the original source document: WHI 33614

The 7th Wisconsin Light Artillery, also known as the "Badger State Flying Artillery," was organized at Racine and mustered into service on October 4, 1861.

From Racine it moved to St. Louis, Missouri, on March 15-16 and then to New Madrid, Missouri, on March 19-21, 1862. From Missouri the regiment moved through Tennessee and Mississippi. It participated in some smaller engagements, the Battle of Brice's or Tishamingo Creek, and the repulse of Forrest's attack on Memphis. The battery mustered out on July 6 and was honorably discharged in July 20, 1865.

It lost 29 men during service. One officer and nine enlisted men were killed and 19 enlisted men died from disease.

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[Source: Estabrook, Charles E, ed. Records and sketches of military organizations: population, legislation, election and other statistics relating to Wisconsin in the period of the Civil War. (Madison, 1914?)]