29th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 29th Wisconsin was organized at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service September 27, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 22, 1865, at Shreveport, Louisiana.

The 29th Wisconsin suffered 1 officer and 76 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 242 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 322 fatalities.

• Colonel Charles R. Gill (September 27, 1862 – July 9, 1863) resigned.
• Colonel William A. Greene (July 9, 1863 – January 26, 1865) resigned.
• Lt. Colonel Bradford Hancock (January 26, 1865 – June 22, 1865) mustered out with the regiment.

• David Whitney Curtis was first lieutenant in Co. D and then captain of Co. A. Later in the war, he was detailed to the staff of General James R. Slack. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator.
• Charles A. Holmes was captain of Co. F throughout the regiment's four years of service and was wounded at Champion Hill. After the war he served in the Nebraska state legislature and the University of Nebraska board of regents. His wife, Jennie Florella Holmes, became prominent in the women's suffrage movement.
• John James Knowlton was a corporal in Co. I. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator.
• Francis Persons, half brother of James H. Persons, was enlisted in Co. I and was killed at Champion Hill.
• James H. Persons was a sergeant in Co. I, and was taken prisoner at Champion Hill. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator.
• Gerrit T. Thorn was lieutenant colonel of the regiment, but resigned after only a few months of service. After the war he became a Wisconsin state senator.
• George Weeks was enlisted in Co. A and later commissioned first lieutenant, he resigned in June 1863, but re-enlisted with the 36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and was commissioned captain of Co. B in that regiment. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator, and was later sheriff of Dane County, Wisconsin and warden of the Waupun Correctional Institution.

• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

• 29th Wisconsin Infantry History at the Wisconsin Historical Society
• The Civil War Archive