2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
ActiveJune 11, 1861 – July 2, 1864
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
SizeRegiment
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
ColonelS. Park Coon
ColonelEdgar O'Connor
ColonelLucius Fairchild
ColonelJohn Mansfield
Insignia
I Corps badge (1st Division)

The 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. It suffered the largest number of casualties as a percentage of its total enlistment of any Union Army unit in the war.[1]: 65 

  1. ^ Dawes, Rufus R. (1890). Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Marietta, Ohio: E. R. Alderman & Sons. Retrieved September 28, 2020.