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Summary Information
Register of Wisconsin National Guard Field Artillery Regiment, 126th. Battalion, 1st Records
1917-1992
- Register of Wisconsin National Guard Field Artillery Regiment, 126th. Battalion, 1st,
WVM Mss 863
1.4 linear ft. (3 archives boxes and 5 oversized folders) of papers, 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized folder) of photographs.
Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)
The records of the 1st Battalion, 126th Field Artillery of the Wisconsin National Guard and its predecessor unit, Troop E, 105th Cavalry. Materials on the 105th Cavalry contain documents providing a look at the activities of a Wisconsin National Guard unit stationed in Kenosha between the World Wars. Personnel correspondence reveals that unit members needed to take time off from their civilian jobs to participate in training exercises. Enlistment records reveal details about the men enlisting in the Guard in the years leading up to World War II and focus largely on attendance at annual training. Military ball programs reveal a social aspect to this unit; they gathered annually with their families and friends for dancing and refreshment. The 126th Field Artillery documents relate to the unit following World War II. Less comprehensive than the 105th Cavalry materials, this series focuses on several events in the unit's history. Newspaper articles, programs, letters of support, and correspondence detail local resistance to a federal plan to remove the unit from the Wisconsin National Guard troop structure due to low enlistment rates. Other materials relate to the unit's armory, including its dedication, an attempted robbery, and controversy over a wall painting deemed objectionable by many veterans. The collection also contains documents regarding the unit's time spent at Fort Lewis, Washington during the Berlin Crisis, training activities, and two fairly complete unit histories. Photographs contain over forty shots of artillery vehicles and equipment that were taken at an unidentified event and shots of Wisconsin governor Walter Kohler's visit to the unit in 1951.
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