Battles
The 8th Wisconsin Infantry along with their mascot Old Abe The War Eagle attended numerous battles and lesser engagements during the war:
- Fredericktown, Missouri - 21 October 1861
- New Madrid and *Island #10 - March & April 1862 Union General John Pope captures Point Pleasant, Missouri, and provokes Confederates to evacuate New Madrid. The Confederates abandon arms and provisions, valued at one million dollars, during their escape across the Mississippi River to the eastern bank and to Island No. 10.
- Point Pleasant, Missouri - 20 March 1862
- Farmington, Mississippi. - 9 May 1862
- Corinth, Mississippi. - 28 May 1862
- Iuka, Mississippi. - 12 September 1862
- Burnsville, Mississippi. - 13 September 1862
- Iuka, Mississippi. - 16–18 September 1862
- Corinth, Mississippi. - 3–4 October 1862
- Tallehatchie, Mississippi. - 2 December 1862
- Mississippi Springs, Mississippi. - 13 May 1863
- Jackson, Mississippi. - 14 May 1863
- Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi. - 22 May 1863
- Mechanicsburg, Mississippi. - 4 June 1863
- Richmond, Louisiana. - 15 June 1863
- Vicksburg, Mississippi. - 24 June 1863
- Surrender of Vicksburg- 4 July 1863
- Brownsville, Mississippi. - 14 October 1863
- Fort Scurry, Louisiana. - 13 March 1864
- Fort De Russey, Louisiana. - 15 March 1864
- Henderson's Hill, Louisiana. - 21 March 1864
- Grand Ecore, Louisiana. - 2 April 1864
- Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. - 8–9 April 1864
- Natchitoches, Louisiana. - 20 April 1864
- Kane River, Louisiana. - 22 April 1864
- Clouterville and Crane Hill, Louisiana. - 23 April 1864
- Bayou Rapids, Louisiana. - 2 May 1864
- Bayou La Monre, Louisiana. - 3 May 1864
- Bayou Roberts, Louisiana. - 4–6 May 1864
- Moore's Plantation, Louisiana. - 8–12 May 1864
- Mansura, Louisiana. - 16 May 1864
- Battle of Maysville, Louisiana. - 17 May 1864
- Calhoun's Plantation, Louisiana. - 18 May 1864
- Bayou De Glaise, Louisiana. - 18 May 1864
- Lake Chicot, Arkansas. - 6 June 1864
- Hurricane Creek, Mississippi. - 13 August 1864
- Pursuit of Price, Jackass Cavalry September - October 1864
- Nashville, Tennessee. - 15–16 December 1864
- The Mobile Campaign March - April 1865
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Famous quotes containing the word battles:
“These battles sound incredible to us. I think that posterity will doubt if such things ever were,—if our bold ancestors who settled this land were not struggling rather with the forest shadows, and not with a copper-colored race of men. They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods. Now, only a few arrowheads are turned up by the plow. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)