Military Academy, finishing in the top of his class of 1833. The younger King graduated from Columbia and then enrolled in the U.S. Born in New York City, he was the son of Charles King, one-time president of Columbia College, and named for his grandfather, Rufus King, a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention. The commander was Brigadier General Rufus King of Milwaukee. Of the four regiments remaining only the 2 nd Wisconsin had arrived at Washington early enough to fight at First Bull Run. But when the 7 th Wisconsin arrived at the war front in August 1861, the Army transferred the 5 th Wisconsin from the brigade instead of the 19 th Indiana. In the first weeks at Washington in 1861, the provisional brigade included the 5 th Wisconsin and Governor Alexander Williams Randall of Wisconsin had hoped to form an all-Wisconsin unit. Artillery was also attached to the brigade for much of the war and volunteers from the infantry regiments were selected and trained to serve the battery. Composed originally of the 2 nd, 6 th and 7 th Wisconsin and 19 th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments, it was reinforced after Antietam in October 1862 by the 24 th Michigan Volunteer Infantry.

The Iron Brigade was one of the most celebrated military organizations of the American Civil War.

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