Maps
Civil War
Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

Potomac Campaigns
of the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
In Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia - in 1861-61-63
The Battlefield of Gettysburg
July 1st - 2d - 3d 1863
Showing the Movements of the 12th Army Corps
 The following map, was donated in memory of Dell Whelan, by the Whelan family.
THANK YOU.

The handwritten note on the top of the first map states:

Lecture March 18th, 1897
to the Battalion on the Battle of Gettysburg
by Gen. Bryant, Dean of University of Wisconsin."

The first map has a Memoranda on it, which states:

The regiment arrived at Harpers Ferry July 18, 1861, from Wisconsin. Served in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, 2 years, 2 months and 16 days - in the Army of the Shenandoah under Gen Banks; the Army of Virginia under Gen Pope; the Army of the Potomac under Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, also under Gen Canby in New York City during the draft riots of August 1863.
The Brigade in which it served was composed of the 2nd Mass; 27th Indiana; 3rd Wisconsin; 107th New York and the 18th New Jersey - and was successively commanded by Generals Geo H Thomas; A.S. Williams; Geo H. Gordon; Geo. W. Greene and Thomas H. Ruger.
Battery M. 1st New York Light Artillery was attached to the __ Brigade during the whole war. The Regiment left Bealton Sta. Virginia, October 3rd, 1863 with the 12th Corps to join the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga Tennessee.

 

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** Ruth Shaw Worthing, The History of Fond du Lac County, as told by its Place-Names, 1976.
** The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880.
** Portrait and Biographical Album of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Acme Publishing Company, 1889.
** A. T. Glaze, Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond du Lac from Early Times to the Present, Fond du Lac: P. B. Haber Printing Company, 1905.
** Maurice McKenna, ed., History of Fond du Lac County, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912. 
** Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 
** Plat Book of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, C. M. Foote & Co.  1893