3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteerinfantryregiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. They participated in many significant battles in the eastern theater of the war, including Antietam and Gettysburg, but were then detached as part of the detail sent to New York to put down the New York City draft riots. They were then transferred to the western theater of the war with XII Corps and served in the Atlanta and Carolinas campaigns.