From Wikipedia.
The 19th Wisconsin was organized in Madison, Wisconsin, at Camp Randall and mustered into Federal service April 30, 1862, and mustered out August 9, 1865 in Richmond, Virginia.
This was the regiment initially assigned to guard the Confederate prisoners captured at Island No. 10 at Camp Randall and it was a member of this regiment that shot and killed George Washington Spears on May 16, 1862.
During the war, 2 officers and 41 enlisted men were killed in action or mortally wounded.
Three officers and 115 enlisted died from disease.
Horace T. Sands was its colonel.
They left Camp Randall after the remaining prisoners were transferred to Chicago's Camp Douglas prison.
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