2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Contact: Gary Van Kauwenbergh, (608) 274-0736

NOTE:     You can join the 2nd Wisconsin anytime, but our annual Meeting is on the first Saturday after Super Bowl weekend.  For specifics on this years time and location, call Gary at the number above, or e-mail garyvank@aol.com

The 2^nd Wisconsin Skirmish team represents the original Iron Brigade regiment of that moniker that sustained the highest percentage of losses of the 2,000 Union Army regiments.  For additional unit history, see:  2^nd Wisconsin Infantry, and 2nd Wisconsin Flags

In today's 2nd Wisconsin, you can compete with muskets, carbines, revolvers, smoothbores, Henrys, mortars and cannons.  Our group is a family oriented team with a large roster.  We have numerous husband-wife, father-son pairs, and even a grandfather-grandfather pair on the roster. 

With a large roster, every member doesn’t need to attend every skirmish, but if you’d like additional skirmishes many of our members also belong to the 114^th Illinois Infantry of the North South Skirmish Association (N-SSA).   The team also maintains an affiliation with the reenactors of the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Association, Inc.  Our uniform guidelines match theirs, so you can skirmish and reenact without buying separate uniforms.

Additional information on the 2nd Wisconsin, along with useful information about everything from buying the equipment  you'' need, cleaning muskets and loading your ammunition in a nine-page .pdf document we give to our new members.  New Member Information

Click on picture to enlarge.  Click right and left arrows to scroll through all pictures available.

Photos from today's 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Skirmish Team:

Team photo at CWSA Nationals in Missouri

Team photo at CWSA Nationals in California

Team Photos at CWSA Nationals in Lake Mills, WI

2004 Team Photo

Dinner before the ball at Boscobel, WI

2009 Team Photo

Rev. Fred Cook with harem...

Opening Cerimonies at Bristol, WI

2nd Place Carbine Team Award

First Place Revolver Team Award

Mike Young receiving certificate of appreciation

Lee Arnold and grandson, 2005 at Boscobel, WI

Gary Van Kauwenbergh on mortar, 1999

Memorial Day cerimony

Roy Nelson and Gary Van Kauwenbergh at Wade House reenactment

Opening Cerimonies, near Oconomowoc, WI

Gary Van Kauwenbergh

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Team photo at CWSA Nationals in Missouri

Links to Published images of original 2nd Wisconsin soldiers and artifacts (click 'enlarge' once you're there):

Flags & Hardee hat	Company C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry	2nd Wisconsin Infantry Band
Co A images	Officers of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, 1862	2nd WI Band, 1862
Co C  Soldiers	2nd Wisconsin Officers' Mess, 1862	Drummer Briggs & Fifer Ming, 1862
Cpl Cornelius Wheeler, Co I, 1861	Ltc Lucius Fairchild, 1863	Musician Edwin E. Finney, 1862
Sgt Cornelius Wheeler, Co I	Col Thos. Allen	Pvt Frederick Lythson
Sgt George E. Smith, Co. E	BG Rufus King	Cpl Walker Rouse, Co E., 1861
Pvt Wm. H. Boyd, Co E, 1861	Cpt Julius F. Randolph	Pvt Marion F. Humes, Co F, 1861
Pvt Silas Coster, Co B, 1862-3	Cpt  Wilson Colwell	1SG George H. Stevens
Pvt Alvin N. Bugbee, Co E, 1861	Cpt Nathaniel Rollins, Co. H	Miner's Guard Flag of Company I
Pvt Richard Lester, Co E, 1861	Cpt Gabriel Bouck, 1861	1887 Iron Brigade Reunion
Pvt Alvin N. Bugbee, Co E, 1861	1Lt Lyman H. Smith, Co E,1861	1896 Iron Brigade Reunion
Cpl Walker Rouse, Co E, 1861	2Lt Henry B. Harshaw, 1864
Pvt Edwin Atkinson, Co D, 1862	2Lt Heman B. Jackson, Co E, 1861
Pvt Johann Sebastian Ostertag, Co E	Thos. P Russell, 1st Asst. Surgeon, 1861
Pvt Robert Beecham, Co H

     

Team Documents (click on icon to view document)
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Musket Team Statistics		☼	☼	☼	☼	☼	☼	☼	☼
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