A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Noah was a Corporal in Company "G", 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded at Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1862.
The Battle of Shiloh, also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was the second great engagement of the Civil War. The battle, fought in southwestern Tennessee, resulted in a victory for the North and large casualties for both sides. In February, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had taken Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland. The Confederates had acknowledged the importance of those forts by abandoning their strong position at Columbus, Kentucky, and by evacuating Nashville, Tennessee. Grant's next aim was to attack the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and to that end he encamped his troops on the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing.
At that point, General A. S. Johnston, commanding Confederate forces in the west, and General P. G. T. Beauregard were collecting a force aimed at recovering some of their recent losses. Since Union troops were planning an offensive, they had not fortified their camps. To their surprise, General Johnston seized the initiative and attacked Grant before reinforcements could arrive. The battle was fought in the woods by inexperienced troops on both sides. Johnston was mortally wounded on the first afternoon. Despite a rallying of Northern troops and reinforcements for the South, the battle ended the next day with the Union army doing little more than reoccupying the camp it had lost the day before, while the Confederates returned to Corinth, Mississippi. Although both sides claimed victory, it was a Confederate failure; both sides were immobilized for the next three weeks because of the heavy casualties - about 10,000 men on each side.
The Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin, and its muster into the service of the United States was completed on the 31st of January 1862. The Sixteenth left the state March 13 for Pittsburg Landing, TN, which was reached on March 20. It disembarked and went into camp.
On the 6th and 7th of April it participated in the Battle of Shiloh, being one of the first regiments to be attacked. Later the Sixteenth took part in the siege of Corinth, MS, April 29-June 10, 1862, and in the battle of Corinth, October 3-4, 1862. It was a part of the Union forces gathered at Grand Junction, TN for the advance on Vicksburg, MS. In the latter part of January the Sixteenth embarked at Memphis and moved down the river to Lake Providence, LA, where a landing was made February 1, 1863. From that place and Red Bone Church, MS, the Sixteenth was engaged in guard duty and minor expeditions until February 1864, when it returned to Vicksburg.
On the 8th of June 1864, the regiment joined Sherman's army near Acworth, GA, and moved to the front where it took part in the movements of the Army of the Tennessee until the surrender of Atlanta. It participated in the battles of Atlanta, GA, July 21, 1864; Jonesborough, GA, September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station, GA, September 2, 1864. On November 15, 1864 it accompanied Sherman's Army on the "March to the Sea" entering Savannah, GA, December 21, 1864. In the early part of January, with the Army of the Tennessee to which it belonged, it started on the campaign in the Carolinas and took part therein until the surrender of Johnston, April 26, 1865. It participated actively in many of the minor engagements of that campaign and in the battle of Bentonville, NC, March 19-21, 1865.
After the surrender of Johnston the Sixteenth marched to Washington and participated in the Grand Review and thereafter went into camp near that city. Here a small portion of the men whose terms had expired were mustered out and the regiment was transferred to Louisville, KY, where it remained until mustered out July 12-returning to Madison, WI, and was disbanded August 1, 1865.
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