“Did Wisconsin have Cavalry in the Civil War?”
No cavalry, but Wisconsin had an eagle named “Old Abe.”
The Story of “Old Abe,” famous Wisconsin War Eagle on 101st Airborne Division patch -
http://www.army.mil/article/91178/
We used to visit the original ‘Old Abe’ when I was a kid; he was stuffed and in one of the upper rooms of the Capitol.