31st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 31st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
The 31st Wisconsin was organized at Prairie du Chien and Racine, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service December 24, 1862.

Companies A-F were mustered out on June 20, 1865. Companies G-K followed on July 8, 1865.

Casualties
The 31st Wisconsin suffered 23 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 112 fatalities.

Colonels
Francis H. West

Isaac E. Messmore

Majors
Robert B. Sevenson

Captains
Company A: Henry A. Chase

Company B: Nathaniel B. Treat

Company C: Ira D. Burdick

Company D: Ornsby B. Thomas

Company E: Daniel B. Dibble

Company F: Charles W. Burns

Company G: Farlin Q. Ball

Company H: Edward K. Buttrick

Company I: John B. Vliet

Company K: Edwin Augustus Bottum