~Welcome to the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry~ Company K
History
The 6th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service July 16, 1861 for a term of three years. It saw severe fighting in the 1862 Northern Virginia Campaign, fighting at Brawner's Farm during the early part of the Second Battle of Bull Run. During the subsequent Maryland Campaign, the 6th attacked Turner's Gap in the Battle of South Mountain, and then suffered considerable casualties battling Hood's Texas Brigade in the D.R. Miller cornfield at Antietam.
During the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, Lt. Col. Rufus R. Dawes led a counterattack on Joseph R. Davis's Confederate brigade of Mississippians, many of which were sheltered in an unfinished railroad cut west of town. The 6th forced the surrender of over 200 enemy soldiers. The regiment later served that year in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns.
The regiment participated in the Grand Review of the Armies on May 23, 1865, and then mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky on July 2, 1865
Company Role
We will have a Realistic Regiment and want as much realism as possible. The company will have realistic names and formations from the time period. We are some of the elitist Units in the Union and will take the role of being in that situation. We will take the most dangerous positions and we wont retreat until we must for fear of being completely destroyed.
~6th Wisconsin RanksOfficers:
Captain
1st Lieutenant
2nd Lieutenant
Nco's:
Sergeant Major
1st Sergeant
Sergeant
Corporal
Enlisted:
Private
Volunteer
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