Excerpt from Records and Sketches of Military Organizations: Population, Legislation, Election and Other Statistics Relating to Wisconsin in the Period of the Civil War An endeavor has been made to gather in this volume in con venient form for reference, a record of the actions, campaigns and other movements in the civil war in which Wisconsin men took part, and to include the efforts of the people of the state, through the legislature and the courts and other organized agen cies, to uphold and support the forces of the Union in the man ner prescribed by the law and the constitution. The first section of the book embraces a list of the actions and campaigns in which Wisconsin troops were actually and ac tively engaged in contact with the enemy, giving date and ref erence to the organizations engaged; and reports, if any, made by the commanders of the regiments or batteries which furnish an account of the actions in question.', Notes are added, giving references to Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies which contain all the official reports printed and avail able. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In 1962 the Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission reprinted pages 589-705 of Willis Brewer's Alabama which contain brief historical sketches of the military organizations raised in Alabama for Confederate service. The limited number of copies ordered by the Centennial Commission failed to meet the demand for them while the Commission was in existence; nor has the demand diminished since the close of the Centennial years. In an effort to answer requests for the information which Mr. Brewer compiled, the Alabama State Department of Archives and History made a limited number of the excerpts from Brewer's Alabama available as a reprint in 1966. We have made numerous changes / additions to Brewer's original work based on our own research and more recent findings. They provide an introduction to the study of Alabama men who organized to serve in military units during the Civil War. We have also included a section on How to Research Alabama Civil War Soldiers and an extensive bibliography of available books on Alabama history and the Civil War.