Alfred Brink enlisted as a Private in the Third Independent Battery, Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery on October 13, 1861 for three years. This unit served in the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater of the Civil War and saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The battery was armed with two 12pdr howitzers and four 10pdr Parrott rifled guns.
PVT Brink was with his battery in the advance on Shiloh, TN (unit not present at battle); the advance on and "siege" of Corinth, MS; Buell's operations toward Chattanooga, TN; the Kentucky Campaign (present but not engaged in the Battle of Perryville); the Battle of Stones River, TN (heavily engaged); the Tullahoma Campaign, TN; and the Battle of Chickamauga, GA.
On September 20, 1863 at Chickamauga, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was in the path of Longstreet's assault, losing 5 guns and taking 26 casualties. The survivors retired with the rest of the Army of the Cumberland into Chattanooga. Having sustained such damage, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was never reorganized as a full battery but was subsequently used for garrison duties and detached services, including duties at Fort Negley in Chattanooga and Lunette Palmer of Fortress Rosecrans in Murfreesboro, TN.
Perhaps looking for more active service, PVT Brink volunteered to be detached to Battery M, 1st IL Light Artillery, with 28 other members of the 3rd Wisconsin Battery, in April 1864 for the Atlanta campaign. He participated in the Battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, among others. He returned to the 3rd Wisconsin Battery at Chattanooga in about September 1864.
PVT Brink mustered out of the battery upon completion of his three year enlistment on Oct 10, 1864.
Battery reunion muster records list his last known address as Troutdale, Oregon. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Camp 204, Dept of Nebraska.
Per FindAGrave contributor KEFleming, "There is no marker, other than a GAR marker, for Alfred. He is buried next to his first wife, Almira."
PVT Brink was with his battery in the advance on Shiloh, TN (unit not present at battle); the advance on and "siege" of Corinth, MS; Buell's operations toward Chattanooga, TN; the Kentucky Campaign (present but not engaged in the Battle of Perryville); the Battle of Stones River, TN (heavily engaged); the Tullahoma Campaign, TN; and the Battle of Chickamauga, GA.
On September 20, 1863 at Chickamauga, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was in the path of Longstreet's assault, losing 5 guns and taking 26 casualties. The survivors retired with the rest of the Army of the Cumberland into Chattanooga. Having sustained such damage, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was never reorganized as a full battery but was subsequently used for garrison duties and detached services, including duties at Fort Negley in Chattanooga and Lunette Palmer of Fortress Rosecrans in Murfreesboro, TN.
Perhaps looking for more active service, PVT Brink volunteered to be detached to Battery M, 1st IL Light Artillery, with 28 other members of the 3rd Wisconsin Battery, in April 1864 for the Atlanta campaign. He participated in the Battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, among others. He returned to the 3rd Wisconsin Battery at Chattanooga in about September 1864.
PVT Brink mustered out of the battery upon completion of his three year enlistment on Oct 10, 1864.
Battery reunion muster records list his last known address as Troutdale, Oregon. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Camp 204, Dept of Nebraska.
Per FindAGrave contributor KEFleming, "There is no marker, other than a GAR marker, for Alfred. He is buried next to his first wife, Almira."
Alfred Brink enlisted as a Private in the Third Independent Battery, Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery on October 13, 1861 for three years. This unit served in the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater of the Civil War and saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The battery was armed with two 12pdr howitzers and four 10pdr Parrott rifled guns.
PVT Brink was with his battery in the advance on Shiloh, TN (unit not present at battle); the advance on and "siege" of Corinth, MS; Buell's operations toward Chattanooga, TN; the Kentucky Campaign (present but not engaged in the Battle of Perryville); the Battle of Stones River, TN (heavily engaged); the Tullahoma Campaign, TN; and the Battle of Chickamauga, GA.
On September 20, 1863 at Chickamauga, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was in the path of Longstreet's assault, losing 5 guns and taking 26 casualties. The survivors retired with the rest of the Army of the Cumberland into Chattanooga. Having sustained such damage, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was never reorganized as a full battery but was subsequently used for garrison duties and detached services, including duties at Fort Negley in Chattanooga and Lunette Palmer of Fortress Rosecrans in Murfreesboro, TN.
Perhaps looking for more active service, PVT Brink volunteered to be detached to Battery M, 1st IL Light Artillery, with 28 other members of the 3rd Wisconsin Battery, in April 1864 for the Atlanta campaign. He participated in the Battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, among others. He returned to the 3rd Wisconsin Battery at Chattanooga in about September 1864.
PVT Brink mustered out of the battery upon completion of his three year enlistment on Oct 10, 1864.
Battery reunion muster records list his last known address as Troutdale, Oregon. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Camp 204, Dept of Nebraska.
Per FindAGrave contributor KEFleming, "There is no marker, other than a GAR marker, for Alfred. He is buried next to his first wife, Almira."
PVT Brink was with his battery in the advance on Shiloh, TN (unit not present at battle); the advance on and "siege" of Corinth, MS; Buell's operations toward Chattanooga, TN; the Kentucky Campaign (present but not engaged in the Battle of Perryville); the Battle of Stones River, TN (heavily engaged); the Tullahoma Campaign, TN; and the Battle of Chickamauga, GA.
On September 20, 1863 at Chickamauga, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was in the path of Longstreet's assault, losing 5 guns and taking 26 casualties. The survivors retired with the rest of the Army of the Cumberland into Chattanooga. Having sustained such damage, the 3rd Wisconsin Battery was never reorganized as a full battery but was subsequently used for garrison duties and detached services, including duties at Fort Negley in Chattanooga and Lunette Palmer of Fortress Rosecrans in Murfreesboro, TN.
Perhaps looking for more active service, PVT Brink volunteered to be detached to Battery M, 1st IL Light Artillery, with 28 other members of the 3rd Wisconsin Battery, in April 1864 for the Atlanta campaign. He participated in the Battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, among others. He returned to the 3rd Wisconsin Battery at Chattanooga in about September 1864.
PVT Brink mustered out of the battery upon completion of his three year enlistment on Oct 10, 1864.
Battery reunion muster records list his last known address as Troutdale, Oregon. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Camp 204, Dept of Nebraska.
Per FindAGrave contributor KEFleming, "There is no marker, other than a GAR marker, for Alfred. He is buried next to his first wife, Almira."
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