Wisconsin Twenty-Third Infantry

The Wisconsin Twenty-Third Infantry, under Colonel Joshua J. Guppey, Lieutenant Colonel William F. Vilas, and Major Edgar P. Hill, was engaged at Port Gibson on May 1; Champion's Hill on May 16; Big Black River Bridge on May 17; in skirmishes on May 19 and May 20; in the assault on May 22; and in the siege from May 23 to July 4. Its aggregate casualties were 55, with 5 killed, 47 wounded, and 3 missing. Lieutenant Andrew J. Mc Farland and Lieutenant John Starks were mortally wounded. The regiment served in the 1st Brigade, 10th Division, 13th Corps.

Vicksburg, Mississippi · United States