The Buffalo County Rifles joined the 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union. Under the command of General Ulysses S Grant for most of the war, they were part of the First Brigade of the First Corps of the US Army of the Potomac. After the battle at Stone Mountain the brigade took on the name "The Iron Brigade" because they "stood like iron" in the face of withering enemy fire.
Through histories, memoirs and letters you'll learn more about their war experiences and yearnings to return home to their families & farms and the rivers, bluffs and valleys of Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
Do you have family information or artificats you would share in the development of this exhibit? Please contact Dorothy Peterson, curator of the Alma Area Museum, at 608-685-3554.