HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
Green Lake, Adams, Chippewa, Dodge, Dane 
and Lafayette. The regiment was nearly full 
on the 26th of December, and was afterward 
fully equipped by the State, as were also the 
other regiments. The numerical strength of 
the 16th at the above date was about 900. 
'This regiment, one of the largest that left 
Wisconsin, had its organization  completed 
about the middle of February, 1862, and left 
Camp Randall on the 13th day of March, under 
orders for St. Louis. Here they remained but 
one day, embarking on the 15th for Fort Henry, 
Tenn., to join Gen. Grant's command. Previous 
to their arrival, Gen. Grant had moved his com- 
mand to Savannah, at which place the regiment 
joined him, on the 20th of March. 
They took part in the battle of Shiloh, on 
the 6th and 7th of April. They were posted as 
the advance-guard of the army, in which posi- 
tion they exchanged the first shot with the 
enemy, and afterwards nobly did their duty 
during that terrible first day's battle. Capt. 
Saxe was killed at the first fire; and Capt. Pease 
received a mortal wound, from the effects of 
which he died on the 22d of April. Col. Allen, 
Lieut-Col. Fairchild, and Captains Train and 
Wheeler were wounded.    The total loss in 
killed and wounded at this battle was 245. In 
no action of Wisconsin regiments had more 
bravery and-determined resistance been shown 
than in the action of this regiment in that mem- 
orable contest. The coolness and intrepidity of 
the field-officers-in connection with whom 
should be mentioned Adjt. Sabin, and in which 
they were nobly supported by the whole regi- 
ment-bhas already become a prominent item in 
the history of this war. The many aftempts of 
the enemy to entrap the regiment on the morn- 
ing of the 6th instant were most gallantly re- 
pulsed, and, by the coolness of the colonel, 
most ingeniously thwarted. 
They participated in the siege of Corinth un- 
der command of Gen. Halleck, and, after its 
occupation by our troops, were stationed in the 
vicinity during the summer, and took part in 
 
the battle of Corinth on the 3d and 4th of Oc- 
tober, where their loss was thirty-five in killed 
and wounded. 
After their return from the pursuit of the 
enemy which followed this battle, they were 
stationed for a short time at Grand Junction, 
from which place they marched, on the 28th of 
November, in the direction of Holly Springs. 
On the 30th they were engaged in the battle in 
front of the rebel stronghold on the Tailahatchie, 
which resulted in the surrender of the enemy's 
fortifications at that place, which were entered 
by our troops on the 1st of December.  The 
regiment at this date numbered 499.  Having 
become so reduced, it was deemed advisable by 
the commanding general to consolidate the ten 
companies into five, which was doile. Col. Al- 
len returned to Wisconsin, where, assisted by 
his surplus line officers, he recruited five addi- 
tional companies from among the drafted men 
in camps of rendezvous. At the close of 1862, 
the regiment was near Grand Junction, Tenn. 
The 16th regiment left Moscow, Tenn., on 
the 10th of January, 1863, and engaged on duty 
on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad; was 
subsequently transferred to Lake Providence, 
and took part in cutting a canal to the lake, 
where tlley remained until about August 1, at 
which time they moved down the river to Vicks- 
burg, and, on the 28th of September, marched 
to Red Bone Church, twelve miles from Vicks- 
burg. Here Lieut.-Col. Fairchild was placed in 
command. They remained until February, 1864, 
when they moved into the fortifications at 
Vicksburg, and acted as a part of the garrison. 
On the 4th of March they were joined by three 
companies which had been recruited in Wis- 
consin. 
The old companies re-enlisted, and on the 6th 
left Vicksburg for Wisconsin, on veteran fur- 
lough, arriving at Madison on the 16th, where 
they were publicly welcomed by the State offi- 
cers and members of the legislature.  After 
their thirty days' respite from military matters, 
 
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