The 34th Wisconsin Infantry was composed of men drafted by state authorities under General Order No.

Anneke, a famous Forty-Eighter of German origin, had been a former Prussian officer and artillery commander during the 1849 revolutionary war in Palatinate and Baden, Germany.

Although Anneke was arrested and later dismissed from military service, he was probably innocent and a victim of denouncement and slander.

Most of his friends from the German 1849 campaign served as generals in the Union, for example Carl Schurz, August Willich, Ludwig Blenker, and Franz Sigel.

[3] The 34th Wisconsin suffered 1 officers and 18 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 19 fatalities.