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Union Soldier with Rifle, 1886 ca.

Oil on linen study of a Union Civil War soldier with a rifle. The painting was created by one of a group of German panorama painters active in Milwaukee during the 1880s. This study may be by F.W. Heine who donated sixteen preliminary studies to the Wisconsin Historical Society. View the original source document: WHI 78368

Only Co. G of the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters regiment was from Wisconsin. It was organized at Camp Randall in Madison and joined its regiment in Weehawken, N. J., en route to Washington, D.C.

It was assigned to special service on the outposts or picket lines at many of the war's major engagements.

Co. G fought in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Hanover Court House, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Malvern Hill, Cold Harbor, Second Bull Run, Petersburg and Fredericksburg before being mustered out on September 22, 1864.

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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?)]