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CHRONOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL 
 
 HISTORY or THE CIVIL WAR. 
 
 In this compilation of dates and localities of the Civil War, all matter has been gathered from the 
 
 most reliable sources. Battles, Skirmishes, Raids, Expeditions, Engagements of every 
 
 description in which the two elements of the factional struggle encountered 
 
 each other are included. Those who participated in them will 
 
 be gratified to find on record for the first time, many an 
 
 action heretofore omitted from other records. 
 
 "*o*-- 
 
 1859. Oct. 16.— John Brown, with 10 white 
 men and five negroes, took possession of the 
 United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., 
 napturing about 60 citizens and killing several. 
 
 Oct. 17. — Col. Robert E. Lee (afterwards 
 Commander-in-Chief of the rebel army) with 
 the assistance of United States marines, made 
 Brown and the survivors of his party prisoners 
 of the State of Virginia. 
 
 Oct. 27. — Beginning of the trial of John 
 Brown. 
 
 Dec. 2. — John Brown hung at Charleston, 
 Va. 
 
 1860. Nov. 6. — Abraham Lincoln elected 
 President. 
 
 Dec. 3. — President Buchanan issued a mes- 
 sage, affirming the right of the State to secede 
 forcibly in a revolutionary manner, and denied 
 the right of the Cwverment to prevent by force. 
 
 Dec. 20. — South Carolina seceded ; soon after, 
 senators and Federal officers from that state 
 resigned and United States property was seized. 
 
 Dec. 26. — Major Robert Andenson, with 111 
 soldiers, removed from Fort Moultrie to Fort 
 Sumter in Charleston harbor to secure a .stronger 
 position. 
 
 1861. Jan. 8.— The Star of the West, on 
 her way to reinforce Fort Sumter, was fired on 
 from a battery on Morris Island. — Mississippi 
 seceded. 
 
 Jan. 11. — Florida and Alabama seceded. 
 
 Jan. 19. — Georgia seceded. 
 
 Jan. 26. — Louisiana .seceded. — "If any man 
 attemjits to haul down the American f]ag, shoot 
 him on the spot." (Dispatch of .John A. Dix, 
 Secretary of the Treasury, to his agent at New 
 Orleans.) 
 
 Feb 1.^— Texas seceded. 
 
 FicB 4. — -Peace Congress at Wiishingtoii. — • 
 Convention of seceded statfs at Montgomery, 
 Ala. 
 
 Feb. 9. — Southern confederacy organized, 
 with Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Ste- 
 phens as President and Vice-President. The 
 
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 1861 — FEB. 18 — APRIL 19 — 1861. 
 
 constitution adopted favored slavery and pro- 
 hibitid tariffs. 
 
 Feb. 18. — General Twiggs surrendered U. S. 
 property to the rebels in Texas. 
 
 March 4. — Abraham Lincoln inaugurated 
 President. — Confederate flag, composed of three 
 horizontal bars, the outer ones red and middle 
 one white witli blue union and bearing a circle 
 of nine stars, adopted. 
 
 April 12. — The war of the rebellion was in- 
 augurated by the bombardment of Fort Sum- 
 ter, which began about 4:30 a. m., and was 
 continued all day and (at intervals) through 
 the following night. (The signal gun for the 
 assault was fired by a man, named Edmund 
 RufSn, who asked the privilege, and who com- 
 mitted suicide after the war, because he would 
 not live under the U. S. Government.) The 
 firing on the fort (which did not respond) was 
 from 17 mortars and .30 large guns, mainly 
 columbiads. On the following morning — 13th 
 — Fort Sumter began to return the fire at about 
 7:30 o'clock, Captain Doubleday firing the first 
 gun. Soon after, the officers' quarters took fire 
 and, before noon, the flames had enveloped 
 nearly all the woodwork of the fort; most of 
 the powder in the magazines had to be rolled 
 out to prevent explosion, and the fort's fire 
 was, practically, silenced. Shortly after mid- 
 day, the flngstock was sliot away, but the flag 
 was nailed to the fragment of the standard 
 remaining, and displayed from the ramparts. 
 A flag of truce was sent to the fort by the 
 assailants, and terms of capitulation were agreed 
 on. At 1 2:55 p. m., the fire-consecrated standard 
 was lowered ainiij a salute of 50 guns, and the 
 garrison marched out with the honors of war. 
 They were permitted to take their private prop- 
 erty, their arms and their flag. No one was 
 injured within the fort; no loss of life occurred 
 among the rebels and only five were reported 
 as having been injured. The evacuation was 
 
 not completed until two o'clock on Sunday, 
 April 14th, and, on the same day, Major Ander- 
 son and his men, sailed for New York. 
 
 April 15. — President Lincoln issued a pro- 
 clamation calling for 75,000 volunteers and 
 ordering those who had combined for purposes 
 of rebellion to disperse and return to their 
 homes within twenty days, and a'so convened 
 an extra session of Congress to assemble July 
 Fourth. On the following day, replies were 
 received from Governors Magoffin of Kentucky, 
 Jackson of Missouri, Harris of Tennessee and 
 Letcher of Mrginia, peremptorily refusing to 
 furnish troops for the service under the pro- 
 clamation. 
 
 April 17. — The first regiment from the 
 North — the Massachusetts 6th — started for 
 Washington. — An ordinance of secession was 
 adopted in Virginia in a secret session of the 
 assembly to take effect on its ratification by 
 popular vote ; and Letcher, the Governor, 
 issued a proclamation, recognizing the confed- 
 eracy. 
 
 April 18. — The arsenal at Harper's Ferry 
 was burned by the United States forces under 
 Lieu'enant Jones to prevent its occupation by 
 the rebels; during tlie conflagration, two sol- 
 diers were killed. — The harbor of Norfolk, A'a., 
 was obstructed by tlie sinking of vessels to 
 prevent the exit of United States war vessels. — 
 Pennsylvania volunteers arrive 1 at Washington 
 and the Massachusetts 6th passed through New 
 York, the Massachusetts 4th at the same time 
 reaching the latter city, as did also, the garrison 
 from Fort Sumter. 
 
 April 19. — The passage of the Massachusetts 
 6th tlirough Baltimore, resulted in a riot, in 
 which the first Union soldieri were killed in 
 the war. The city was, practically, in the hands 
 of a mob ; an escort of police, headed by the 
 Mayor, was tendered the troops and was ac- 
 cepted, but proved powerless. The casualties 
 
1861 — APRIL 20 — APRIL 29 — 1861. 
 
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 were on the \>art of the troops two killed, seven 
 wounded (one mortally) ; among the rioters 13 
 were killed and many wounded. Proclamations 
 were issued by both Governor and Mayor with 
 the avowed purpose of quieting the disturbance ; 
 in consequence of the excitement both officials 
 advised the President that no more troops 
 could pass through Baltimore without fighting. 
 Luther C. Ladd, Summer H. Needham and 
 Addison C. Whitney were the Massachusetts 
 soldiers killed and their bodies were sent to 
 Massachusetts by special request of Governor 
 .John A. Andrew. — The first capture of a vessel 
 was made by the rebels; the steamship, Star of 
 the West, was seized off Indianola, Texas, and 
 placed in the hands of a prize crew. — The Pres- 
 ident issued a blockade proclamation closing 
 the ports from South Carolina to Texas. 
 
 April 20. — The branch mint at Charlotte, 
 N. C, was seized by the rebels ; also the arsenal 
 at Liberty, Mo.; and a number of bridges on 
 the Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland were 
 burned. — The navy yard at Gosport was de- 
 stroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of 
 the rebels and the fleet of United States war 
 vessels stationed there were scuttled, with the 
 single exception of the Cumberland, which was 
 towed out; the names of the destroyed vessels 
 were the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Columbus, 
 Merrimac, Raritan, Columbia, Germantown, 
 Plymouth and United States. 
 
 April 21. — With a view to prevent the oc- 
 currence of any disturbance of a character 
 similar to the Baltimore riot, the Government 
 took possession of the Philadelphia & Balti- 
 more railroad, and 4,000 troops left New York 
 for Washington. 
 
 April 22. — The rebels seized the United 
 States arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C, and at 
 Napoleon, Ark. On the other hand, the Union 
 sentiment at the South found expression in 
 West Virginia, and at Lexington, Ky. At the 
 
 latter point, a Union mass-meeting was held 
 under circumstances of much discouragement, 
 and was addressed by Senator .John .J. Critten- 
 den, author of the once famous measure, known 
 as the " Crittenden Compromise." In the ad- 
 joining State of Tennessee, .John Bell, formerly 
 a Presidential candidate, declared himself, un- 
 equivocally, in favor of the rebellion. 
 
 April 23. — Movements at Elk Ridge, Va. 
 April 24. — Fort Smith, Ark., was seized by 
 rebel troops, under command of Solon Borland. 
 — Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, convened 
 the legislature in extra session, the object of 
 the executive call being to consider the advis- 
 ability of secession. 
 
 April 25. — The first surrender of United 
 States troops occurred at Saluria, Tex., where 
 450 regulars, commanded by Major Sibley, 
 surrendered to Colonel Van Dorn. — Governor 
 Letcher, of Virginia, issued a proclamation, 
 declaring Virginia a member of the Southern 
 confederacy. — Arming of the first Illinois troops 
 at the United States arsenal, at St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 April 26. — The Governor of Georgia issued 
 a proclamation, prohibiting payment of debts 
 due to Northern creditors, directing the amount 
 so owed to be paid into the State treasury. In 
 North Carolina, the executive called an extra 
 legislative session ; while Governor Burton, of 
 Delaware, called for Union volunteers. 
 
 April 27. — A proclamation liy the President, 
 supplementary to that of April 19th, extended 
 the blockade to the ports of North Carolina and 
 Virginia. 
 
 April 29. — The Governor of Tennessee con- 
 fiscated the bonds and money in the office of 
 the United States collector, of Nashville ; and 
 the rebel authorities seized the steamships Ten- 
 nessee, Texas, and Hermes at New Orleans. — 
 The legislature of Maryland rejected the ordi- 
 nance of secession, the vote in the senate being 
 unanimous. 
 
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 1861 — MAY i— MAY 17—1861. 
 
 May 1. — The North Carolina legislature, 
 having been convened by proclamation, passed 
 the bill for the assembling of a State conven- 
 tion to pass upon tiie question of secession. 
 
 May 2. — The Ellsworth Fire Zouaves and 
 the New York 69th arrived in Washington. 
 
 May 3. — Two proclamations were issued ; 
 one by President Lincoln, calling for 42,000 
 three-years volunteers, 18,000 seamen, and 
 directing the addition of eight regiments to 
 the regular army ; the other was by Governor 
 Letcher, of Virginia, calling out the militia to 
 defend the state from Northern invasion. 
 
 May 4. — Southern Union sentiment found a 
 new voice; a committee of the Maryland legis- 
 lature visited President Lincoln with words of 
 sympathy. — An enthusiastic Union meeting 
 was held in Preston, W. Va., and Union dele- 
 gates to a Ijorder State convention were elected 
 in Louisville, Ky., by a majority of 7,000. 
 
 May 5. — The Union forces under General 
 P)Utler, took possession of the Relay House be- 
 tween Baltimore and Washington. 
 
 May 0. — Virginia admitted to the Southern 
 confederacy. — The convention in Arkansas 
 adopted an ordinance of secession and the 
 Kentucky legislature convened in obedience to 
 the call of Governor Magoffin. — The passage of 
 what was commonly styled " The War and Pri- 
 vateering Act," was made known by the rebel 
 congress. 
 
 May 7. — Major Anderson was appointed and 
 commissioned by the President to repair to 
 Cincinnati to mueter in all volunteers from 
 Kentucky and West Virginia. — At a meeting 
 of Unionists at Kno.xville, Tenn., an attempt to 
 raise the National flag resulted in a riot; and, 
 Governor Harris announced the formation of a 
 nnlitary league between Tennessee and the 
 Southern confederacy. 
 
 May 10. — Major General Robert E. Lee was 
 placed in command of the rebel forces in \'ir- 
 
 ginia.— In St. Louis, (Camp Jackson) a brigade 
 of Missouri State militia, which had, under 
 orders of Governor Jackson, gone into camp, 
 nominally, "for instruction," but in reality 
 with treasonable intent, and who were under 
 command of General Frost, surrendered to the 
 United States regulars commanded by General 
 Lyon.— Issuance of orders from Washington to 
 administer the oath of allegiance to all army 
 officers. 
 
 May 11.— An effectual blockade of the port 
 of Charleston, S. C, was established.— An en- 
 thusiastic meeting was held at Wheeling, W. 
 Va., to advocate the division of the State. 
 
 May 13. — Union troops under command of 
 General P>utler took possession of Federal Hill, 
 Va. — A convention composed of delegates from 
 35 counties assembled at Wheeling, Va., with 
 the avowed purpose of considering the expedi- 
 ency of the separation of the west portion of the 
 State from the eastern counties.— The English 
 Government issued a proclamation on neu- 
 trality. 
 
 May 14.— At Baltimore, a schooner, laden 
 with arms for the rebels was seized and the 
 United States gunboat, Quaker City, captured 
 the Argo with a cargo of tobacco, valued at 
 §180,000. 
 
 May 15. — The first call for volunteers from 
 Maryland under the President's proclamation 
 was issued by Governor Hicks. 
 
 Uay 16.— The fortilication of Arlington 
 Heights was ordered by General Scott. — A 
 rebel force near Liberty, Mo., was dispersed.— 
 The arrest of the traitors at Washington was 
 commenced and followed on the succeeding day 
 by the arrest of the rebel spies. 
 
 May 17. — Express packages, destined for 
 the South, were stopped at Washington ; rebels 
 assembled at Potosi, Mo., were dispersed ; and 
 a domiciliary search for arms was 'commenced 
 at St. Louis.— On the part of the rebels, Harper's 
 
1861— MAY 18— JUNE 3—1861. 
 
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 Ferry was fortified and the issue of treasury 
 notes by tlie confederate Government, as cur- 
 rency, was authorized by the rebel congress. — 
 The capture off Key West, of the yacht Win- 
 cliester, by the Federal war vessel, Crusader, 
 took place. 
 
 May 18. — Arkansas was formally admitted 
 into the Southern confederacy. 
 
 May 19. — An engagement occurred between 
 the U. S. steamers and the rebel batteries at 
 Sewall's Point on tlie Potomac. — Two schooners 
 carrying rebel troops, were captured near Wash- 
 ington on the same river. 
 
 May 20. — A seizure of telegraphic dispatches 
 was made throughout the North by order of 
 the general Government. — In North Carolina, 
 the ordinance of secession was adopted. — In 
 Kentucky, Goveruor Magoffin issued a pro- 
 clamation of neutrality. — Activities at Clarks- 
 burg, W. Va. 
 
 May 22. — The fortifications at Ship Island 
 were destroyed to prevent their falling into 
 rebel hands. — Movement at Clear Springs, Md. 
 
 May 24. — A general movement of troops 
 into Virginia occurred. — The rebels evacuated 
 Alexandria which was occupied by U. S. troops. 
 — On the occasion of the occupation, Colonel 
 Ellsworth, while hauling down a rebel fiag from 
 the Marsliali House, was shot by the rebel 
 landlord who, in turn, was instantly killed by 
 private Brovvnell. Ellsworth was buried from 
 the White House at Washington. — Negroes be- 
 came "contraband of war." 
 
 May 25. — A slight skirmish resulted from 
 an attack by rebel troops on the r2th New 
 York Infantry, along the outposts of the Vir- 
 ginia line. 
 
 May 27. — General McDowell assumed com- 
 mand of tlie troops at Washington. — A blockade 
 of the mouth of tlie Mississippi and of the port 
 of Mobile was commenced. — Exercise by the 
 President of the extraordinary power of the sus- 
 
 pension of the writ of habeas corpus occurred 
 at Baltimore. — General Cadwallader refused 
 to produce the body of John Merriman in 
 obedience to a writ signed by Chief Justice 
 Taney, alleging by way of return, that the pris- 
 oner was charged with treason, and that he was 
 authorized by the President to suspend the writ 
 of liabeas corpus in his case. Cadwallader was 
 arrested for contempt. — A Border-State conven- 
 tion met at Frankfort, Ky. 
 
 May 28. — U. S. vessels blockaded the port of 
 Savannah, Ga. 
 
 May 29. — An advance of U. S. troops towards 
 Harper's Ferry was followed by a retreat of the 
 rebels towards Martinfcburg. — Jeff Davis reached 
 Richmond. 
 
 May 30. — A retreat of the rebel forces was 
 made from Williamsburg, Md., and Grafton, 
 Va., the latter point being at once occupied by 
 the 1st Regiment of Virginia under Colonel 
 Kelley.— The 14th Ohio (Colonel Steedman) 
 crossed the Ohio and occupied Parkersburg. — 
 About 200 citizens of Southern Illinois left for 
 the South with the avowed purpose of joining 
 the rebel army, and four steamers carrying 
 rebel troops sailed from New Orleans for Fort 
 Smith, Ark. 
 
 May 31. — A bloodless engagement occurred 
 at Acquia Creek, Va., between a rebel battery 
 and the U. S. gunboat, Freeborn. 
 
 June 1. — A charge was made through Fair- 
 fax C. H., Va., by fifty-two dragoons of the 2nd 
 U. S. Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant 
 Tompkins and 2ud Lieutenant Gordon, the reg- 
 ulars being accompanied by three officers and 
 two privates, of the 5th New York Volunteers; 
 two Union soldiers were killed, and an unascer- 
 tained numljer of i-ebels; five prisoners were 
 cajitured. — Activities at Williamsport, Md. 
 
 June 3. — A rebel camp, 2,000 strong, was 
 surprised at Philiippi, Va., by Union troops 
 under command of Colonel Kelley, of the 1st 
 
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 1861— JUNE 5 — JUNE 24 — 1861. 
 
 Virginia, aided by Colonel Crittenden, com- 
 manding a force of Indiana volunteers; 15 
 rebels were killed and 10 captured ; on the 
 Union side two were killed, two reported miss- 
 ing and two wounded, among the latter being 
 Colonel Kelley. — Death of Senator S. A. Doug- 
 las at Chicago. — Movement at latan. Mo. 
 
 June 5. — At Pig Point, Va., the "Harriet 
 Lane" was fired on by the rebels while she was 
 engaged in a reconnoissance and five of her men 
 wounded. — Activities at Newport News, Xa. 
 
 June 6. — Movements at EUicott's Mills, Md. 
 
 Ju^NE 8. — An advance made by U. S. troops 
 under General Patterson from Chambersburg, 
 towards Harper's Ferry. 
 
 June 10. — An attack was made on the rebel 
 forces under General Magruder at Big Bethel 
 by the Union troops under General Pierce, 
 whose command consisted of regiments under 
 Colonels Duryee, Townsend and Bendix ; Union 
 losses were 14 killed and 45 wounded, among 
 the former being Major Winthrop and Lieu- 
 tenant Greble; the admitted rebel loss in killed 
 was 17. 
 
 June 11. — A skirmish occurred at Romney, 
 Va.; the Union forces under Colonel Wallace, 
 surprised and routed 500 rebels and lost no 
 men. — The West Virginia Convention met at 
 Wheeling to consider the expediency of form- 
 ing a separate State. 
 
 June 12. — Movements at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 June 14. — The rebels evacuated and burned 
 Harper's Ferry, removing the armory machin- 
 ery to Richmond, and burned the railcoad 
 bridges. 
 
 June 15. — The U. S. brig, Peony, brought 
 into New York (he rebel privateer. Savannah. 
 — In Missouri, General Lyonocoupied Jefferson 
 City ; the rebel General, Price, retreated to 
 Booneville. 
 
 June 16. — A skirmish occurred at Seneca 
 Mills, Md., the Union forces being commanded 
 
 by Major Everett; no losses were reported on 
 the side of the National troops. Three rebels 
 were reported killed. 
 
 June 17. — A battle occurred at Booneville, 
 Mo., between the Union forces commanded by 
 General Lyon and the rebels under Sterling 
 Price; the latter were routed, losing 50 men: 
 the reported Union loss was two killed and eight 
 wounded. — A column of U. S. troops, under 
 General Patterson, crossed the Potomac at 
 Williamsport, Md. — At Vienna, Va., a train 
 transporting Union soldiers, including the Isl 
 Ohio under Colonel McCook, was fired upon by 
 rebels; eight soldiers were killed; the fire was 
 returned, resulting in an estimated loss of six. 
 — The West Virginia Convention at Wheeling 
 unanimously voted its independence of the 
 rebellious action of the State. 
 
 June 18. — At Camj) Cole, Mo., a company of 
 Home Guards was attacked and 52 killed. — 
 Skirmish at Edwards Ferry, Va., in which 300 
 of the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry engag'^d. — 
 Skirmish at Independence, Mo., the State troops 
 being involved. — The local militia resist the 
 rebels at New Creek, W. Va. — Activities at 
 Conrad's Ferry, Md. 
 
 June 19. — Piedmont, Ya., was occupied by 
 the rebels. — At Liberty, Mo., rebels were cap- 
 tured by a detachment of troops connected with 
 General Lyon's command. — Movements at New 
 Creek, W. Va. 
 
 June 20. — Frank H. Pierpont was elected 
 governor of West Virginia at Wheeling in 
 the convention, and Major-General McClellan 
 assumed command of the I'nion forces in that 
 section of the Stsite. — Disturbances at Clarks- 
 ville, W. Va. 
 
 Junk 21. — A convention of loyalists of East- 
 ern Tennessee assembled at Green ville. 
 
 June 22. — Inauguration of balloon recon- 
 noissances. 
 June 24. — The popular vote of Tennessee 
 
1861— JUNE 26 — JULY 10 — 1861. 
 
 15 
 
 having ratified tlie ordinance of secession, Gov- 
 ernor Harris issued a proclamation declaring 
 the State out of the Union. — Activities at Car- 
 ters Creek, Lynn Haven, Kansas, and on the 
 Rappahannock River in Virginia. 
 
 June 26. — A skirmish occurred at Patter- 
 son's Creek, Va., between parts of Colonel Wal- 
 lace's command and rebel cavalry. One Union 
 and 17 rebel soldiers were reported killed. — 
 The Wheeling government was recognized by 
 the President as the lawful government of Vir- 
 ginia. — Movement of the rebels in the vicinity 
 of Frankfort, Mo. 
 
 June 27. — An engagement took place be- 
 tween the gunboat Frteboru and the rebel 
 batteries at Matthias Point, in which Captain 
 Ward, of the navy, was killed — J. C. Fremont 
 r^iturned from Europe, and U. S. Marshal Kane 
 was arrested at Baltimore for treason. 
 
 Ju.NE 28. — The steamer St. Nicholas was 
 captured in the Potomac by rebels. — Move- 
 ments of rebels at Cumberland Fort and Point 
 Lookout, Md. 
 
 June 29. — Activities at Falls Church, Va., 
 and at Bownes, Md. 
 
 July 1. — The rebel privateers, Sumter and 
 Petrel, escaped the blockading squadrons; the 
 former from the mouth of the Mississippi and 
 the latter from Charleston harbor. — In an en- 
 gagement at Buckhannon, Va., the rebels lost 
 23 killed and 2U0 prisoners. — Military move- 
 ments at Farmington, Mo. — John C. Fremont 
 was commissioned Major General in the regular 
 army and ranked next to McClellan. 
 
 July 2. — In an engagement at Martinsburg, 
 Va., the Union forces, including the Lst Wis- 
 consin and 11th Pennsylvania Infantry under 
 General Patterson, routed the rebels under Gen- 
 eral Johnson; three Union soldiers were killed 
 and 10 wounded ; 30 rebels were reported killed 
 and wounded and 20 were made pris>;ncrs; this 
 action is commonly known as Falling Waters. 
 
 — A new West Virginia Legislature was or- 
 ganized at Wheeling. 
 
 July 3. — A company of 94 rebels was cap- 
 tured at Neosho, Mo. — The Governor of Arkan- 
 sas called out 10,000 men "to repel invasion." 
 
 July 4. — In a skirmish between the 9th New 
 York and the rebels near Harper's Ferry, the 
 Union loss was two killed and three wounded. 
 — The Louisville & Nashville railroad was 
 seized by the rebels. — Congress assembled at 
 Washington, onlj' six Senators and five Repre- 
 sentatives of the opposition members being 
 present. 
 
 July 5. — In a battle at Carthage, Mo., in 
 which the opposing commanders were Sigel, 
 and Price and Jackson, the loss of the former 
 was 13 killed and 31 wounded ; the rebels lost 
 250 killed and wounded.— At Newport News 
 a company of the 9th New York engaged in a 
 skirmish. 
 
 July 6. — In an action at Middle Fork Bridge, 
 Va., 45 men of the Ohio 3d cut their way 
 through an ambuscade of about 300 rebels. 
 
 July' 7.— An action which was reported a 
 drawn battle occurred at Brier Forks, Mo. — An 
 infernal machine was found in the Potomac 
 River. — The 8th New York engaged in an ac- 
 tion at Great Falls, Va. 
 
 July 8. — At Bealington, W. Va., the rebels 
 were defeated with a loss of 20 killed and 40 
 wounded, the Union loss being two killed and 
 six wounded. 
 
 July 9. — Fremont was appointed to the com- 
 mand of the Department of the West. 
 
 July 10. — In a battle at Laurel Hill, Va., in 
 which the Union troops were under Colonels 
 McCook and Andrews and the rebels under 
 Colonel Pegram, the latter were routed and the 
 Union loss was one killed and three wounded. 
 — In a sharp skirmish near Monroe Station, Mo., 
 Colonel Smith defeated the rebel Harris, and 
 took a number of prisoners. 
 
16 
 
 1861— JULY 11— JULY 27 — 1861. 
 
 July 11. — General Rosecrans, with the 8th, 
 10th and 13th Indiana and the 19th Ohio de- 
 feated Pegram's force at Rich Moantain, Va., 
 capturing the camp equipage, several cannon 
 and a number of prisoners, and killing over 
 100 men; the I'nion loss was 11 killed and 35 
 wounded. 
 
 July 12. — Pegram surrendered to McClelian 
 with about 600 men, and the Union troops oc- 
 cupied Beverly, Va. — A rebel defeat occured at 
 Barbersville, W. Va. 
 
 July 13. — A battle occurred at Carrick's 
 Ford, W. Va., the Union force being under 
 command of General Morris, and the rebels 
 under General Garrett; the latter was utterly 
 routed with great loss, and the leader killed ; 
 the Union loss did not exceed 50 in killed and 
 wounded, and the action extinguished rebel 
 power in West Virginia. — Union troops oc- 
 cupied Fairfax C H., Va. 
 
 July 15. — In a skirmish at Bunker Hill, 
 Va., the rebels were routed. — Movements at 
 Martinsburg, Va. 
 
 July 16. — The rebels were routed in a skir- 
 mish at Melville, Mo., after firing into a train. 
 — Tighlman, a negro, brought the rebel schooner 
 Warring into the port of New York, afler kill- 
 ing three of the rebel prize crew. 
 
 July 17. — At Hcarrytown, Va., an action re- 
 sulted disastrously to the Union force, wiio lost 
 nine men killed and 38 wounded, besides nine 
 missing.— In a skirmish at Fulton, Mo., the 
 rebels under Harris were driven back by Colonel 
 McNeil's troops, the loss to the latter being 
 heavy, and including 200 prisoners. — A skir- 
 mish took place at Martinsburg, Mo., and mili- 
 tary movements occurred near Fairfax Church, 
 Va. 
 
 July IS. — In an engagement wliich occurred 
 at Harrisonville, Mo., the Union force under 
 Major Van Horn defeated the rebels and lost 
 one man; the rebel loss was about 20, — Battle 
 
 of Blackburn's Ford. In a reconnoissance 
 under General Tyler, three hours' liard fight- 
 ing took place; General Beauregard drove the 
 former back to Centreville, with a loss of 19 
 killed, 38 wounded and 26 missing; the official 
 report fixed the rebel loss at 15 killed and 50 
 wounded. 
 
 July 19. — General Patterson was superseded 
 by General Banks in command on the Poto- 
 mac—Movement at Newmarket, Va. 
 
 July 21.— Battle of Bull Run. 18,000 Union 
 troops under General McDowell attacked 27,000 
 rebels under Johnston, Lee and Beauregard, the 
 division commanders of the Union force being 
 Heinlzelman, Tyler and Hunter. After a hot 
 contest of 10 hours, at a moment when victory 
 seemed certain to the Union force; the latter 
 was seized with a panic, and retreated toward 
 AVashington in disorder. The official Union 
 loss was 479 killed, 1,011 wounded and 70U 
 prisoners; the official reported rebel loss was 
 393 killed and 1,200 wounded, and the rebel 
 captures included 26 pieces of artillery, 5,000 
 sm'all arms and a great amount of baggage. — 
 Military activities at Winchester, Va. 
 
 July 22. — General McClelian was placed in 
 command of the army of the Potomac— At 
 Forsytlie, Mo., General Sweeney worsted a rebel 
 command. — Skirmish at Etna, Mo. — General 
 disorganization of the army of the Potomac, 
 the three months men returning home in great 
 numbers. 
 
 July 24. — At Blue Mills, Mo., the State 
 troops engaged in a slight action. 
 
 July 25. — Military movement at Charles- 
 town, Va. 
 
 July 26. — Missouri troops engaged in a skir- 
 misli at Lane's Pr;iirie. — The infantry and 
 cavalry, Missouri troops, engaged in an action 
 at Harrisonville. 
 
 July 27. — At Fort Fillmore, Major Lynde 
 surrendered 750 soldiers to 250 Texans. 
 
GEN. U. S. GRANT. 
 
1861 — AUG. 1— AUG. 20—1861. 
 
 17 
 
 Aug. 1. — McClellan began the re-oi-ganiza- 
 tion of the army. — The rebels fell back from 
 Harper's Ferrj' to Leesburg. — The privateer 
 Petrel was sunk by the St. Lawrence, her crew 
 being captured. 
 
 Aug. 2. — Congress passed a bill authorizing 
 the raising of 500,000 men.— At Dug Creek, 
 Mo., General Lyon defeated the rebels under 
 Ben McCulloch, inflicting a loss of 40 killed 
 and 44 wounded ; the Union loss was eight 
 killed and 30 wounded. — At Pokonoke Sound, 
 N. C, rebel vessels and stores were sunk. 
 
 Aug. 3. — The U. S. troops established a' mili- 
 tary ca{)ital at Me-ssilla, N. M. 
 
 Aug. 5.— The U. S. blockading steamer Dart 
 bombarded Galveston, Texas, against the pro- 
 test of foreign consuls. — In an engagement at 
 Athens, Mo., the rebels were defeated with un- 
 known loss ; the Union loss was three killed 
 and eight wounded.— At Point of Rocks, N. C, 
 two rebels were captured in a skirmish, seven 
 prisoners were taken and 20 equipped horses 
 captured. -General Lyon reached Springfield, 
 Mo. 
 
 Aug. 7.— Hampton, Va., was burned by com- 
 mand of Magruder.— The privateer York was 
 burned by the gunboat Union. 
 
 Aug 8. — The rebels were driven out of Lov- 
 ettsvilie, Va. 
 
 Aug. 9.^A rebel attack on Potosi, Mo., was 
 repulsed. 
 
 Au(i. 10.— Battle of Wilson-'s Creek, Mo., 5,000 
 Union troops under General Lyon attacked 
 22,000 rebel troojis under McCulloch. General 
 Lyon commanded one of his columns and 
 Colonel Sigel the other; the latter was driven 
 back and General Lyon was killed. The rebel 
 force withdrew and the Union loss was 223 
 killed, 731 wounded and 292 missing; the re- 
 ported rebel loss was 421 killed, 1,317 wounded 
 and three missing. 
 
 Aug. 13. — Grafton, Va., was occupied by the 
 
 Union troops under Captain Dayton, 4th Vir- 
 ginia, without loss, 21 rebels being killed and 
 wounded. 
 
 Aug. 14.— a mutiny occurred in the 79th 
 New York regiment at Washington ; several 
 soldiers were arrested and severely punished, 
 the remainder being disgraced and deprived of 
 their colors; the regiment regained its name 
 and colors by bravery in action, September 
 10th. 
 
 Aug. 15. — GO men of the 2nd Maine were 
 sent to the Dry Tortugas, to work on the fortifi- 
 cations as punishment for mutinous conduct. 
 
 Aug. 16. — Colonel Hooker's regiment of Ill- 
 inois troops surprised a rebel camp near Fred- 
 ericktown. Mo., capturing prisoners, camp 
 equipage, etc. — At St. Genevieve, Mo., the 
 United States troops captured |58,000, wliich 
 was taken to St. Louis. — Commercial intercourse 
 with the rebel states, interdicted by the Pres- 
 ident. — The passport system was established. 
 
 Aug. 18. — The town of Commerce, Mo., 
 having been threatened by rebel batteries, it 
 was occupied by Union troops, the rebels re- 
 treating without fighting. — Skirmish at Bruns- 
 wick, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 19. — At Charlestown, Mo., the Union 
 troops under Colonel Dougherty, and a detach- 
 ment of rebels from Jeff Thompson's command, 
 engaged in a fight, the formpr losing one killed 
 and six wounded ; 20 rebels were killed and 
 wounded, 17 prisoners were captured and a 
 number of horses. 
 
 Aug. 20.— At Hawk's Nest, Kanawha, Va., a 
 force of rebels under General Wise, attacked the 
 barricades of the 8th Ohio and were repulsed. — 
 McClellan assumed personal command of the 
 Army of the Potomac, and appointed staff 
 officers. - General Butler assumed command of 
 the forces in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe. — 
 At Lookout Station, Md., a skirmish occurred, 
 in which seven soldiers were killed aud 
 wounded. 
 
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 1861 — AUG. 21— SEPT. 3—1861. 
 
 Aug. 21. — An engagement took place at 
 Boyd's Point, Va., in which forty rebels were 
 killed and seventeen taken prisoners ; the Union 
 loss was one killed and six wounded. — A band 
 of rebels, called tlie Coast Guard, seized the 
 light iiouse and all the other government prop- 
 erty at Key Biscayne, Florida. 
 
 Aug. 26.— The 7th Ohio, under Colonel Tay- 
 lor, were surprised while at breakfast at Sum- 
 mersville, \'a.; the regiment fought their way 
 out through four times their number; three 
 captains and other officers were killed, but the 
 total numerical loss was slight. — The joint mili- 
 tary aud naval expedition, under General But- 
 ler and Commodore Stringham, left Fortress 
 Monroe for the North Carolina coast. — Captain, 
 afterwards Commodore Foote, was ordered to 
 the command of Western river fleets. 
 
 Aug. 27.— a skirmish at Ball's Cross Roads, 
 Ga., took place, in which two companies of the 
 23d New York Infantry were engaged. — At 
 Wayne C. H., W. Va., a slight skirmish oc- 
 curred. 
 
 Aug. 28. — The bombardment of Forts Hat- 
 teras and Clark at the entrance to Pamlico 
 'Sound, N. C, was commenced by tlie united 
 military forces of General Butler and Com- 
 modore Stringham. — On the following day the 
 forts surrendered; 765 prisoners were taken 
 and 30 pieces of cannon; 1,000 stand of arms 
 and three rebel trading ve.ssels were captured. 
 About 450 Union troops under Major Brocker 
 were attacked at Lexington, Mo., by a large 
 force of rebels under Colonel Reed and a sharp 
 skirmish ensued, resulting in the repulse of the 
 rebels.— In New Mexico some important arrests 
 were made, the writ of habeas corpus was sus- 
 pended by Colonel Canby and Fort Stanton 
 was abandoned and fired by U. S. troops, under 
 orders from the same officer. 
 
 Aug. 30. -Fort Morgan at Ocracoke Inlet, 
 N. C, was abandoned by the rebels. 
 
 Aug. 31. — At Munson's Hill, Va., a skirmish 
 occurred, in which two Union soldiers were 
 killed and two wounded.— The Captain-General 
 of Cuba, by proclamation, admitted rebel vessels 
 into Cuban ports and promised them protection. 
 
 Sei't. 1. — A tight occurred at Boone Court 
 House, W. Va., in which the rebels were routed 
 with a loss of about 30 killed and several pris- 
 oners were taken ; six Union soldiers were 
 wounded, and the city was burned by the 
 Union troops. — A skirmish took place near 
 Bennett's Mills, Mo., between the rebels and 
 the Union Home Guard. Two of the latter 
 were killed and eight wounded, one mortally ; 
 the rebel loss was unknown. 
 
 Sept. 2.— Near Fort Scott, 80 mules having 
 been captured by 600 rebel raiders under Gen- 
 eral Rains, Colonel Montgomery of the Kansas 
 Volunteers, gave chase, overtook the rebels 11 
 miles from the fort, and, after a fight lasting 
 two hours, was obliged to retreat.— An attack 
 was made by two regiments of U. S. troops 
 under Colonel Grossman on a rebel camp at 
 Worthington, Va., but being outnumbered, was 
 obliged to retire, losing two men. — In the port 
 of New York, Surveyor Andrews seized 26 
 vessels belonging to persons in the rebel States ; 
 their aggregate value was $2,000,000.— The Sec- 
 retary of the Treasury offered the 7-30 loan and 
 appealed to the people of the Union to take the 
 bonds.— The rebels burned to the water's edge 
 and sunk the U. S. floating dock at Pensacola; 
 the object was to use the dock to obstruct the 
 channel, but the guns of Fort Pickens prevented. 
 — At Dallas, Mo., the State troops engaged in a 
 skirmish. — The loth Massachusetts skirmished 
 with rebels at Beher's Mills, Va., and four Union 
 soldiers were killed and nine wounded. 
 
 Sept. 3 -Several bridges on the line of the 
 Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad, having been 
 injured by rebels, a passenger train broke 
 through one of them ; seven non-combatants 
 
1861— SEPT. 4 — SEPT. 12 — 1861. 
 
 19 
 
 were killed and a large number shockingly 
 mangled and otherwise injured. 
 
 Sspr. 4. — A rebel force under General Polk 
 occupied Columbus, Ky., avowedly to prevent 
 the neutrality of tlie State from being broken. 
 — On the Mississippi River, off Hickman, Ky., 
 shots were exchanged between U. S. gunboats 
 Tyler and Lexington and the rebel gunboat 
 Yankee, the latter being supported Ijy batteries 
 on shore. — At Shelbina, Mo., aljout 1,100 Union 
 troops, under Colonel Williams, of Iowa, were 
 attacked by about 1,500 rebels, commanded by 
 Martin Green ; having no cannon, the Union 
 forces were compelled to retire, abandoning a 
 number of horses and a part of their camp 
 equipage. —The first capital sentence on a Union 
 soldier was passed upon a Vermont private by 
 a court-martial. The offense was " sleeping on 
 his post "; President Lincoln pardoned him, and 
 he was afterwards shot in battle. — The rebels 
 attempted to cross the Potomac at Great Falls, 
 Va., but were repulsed with some loss by the 
 sharp-shooters of the 7th Regiment of the Penn- 
 sylvania Reserve Corps. Only one Union soldier 
 was killed. 
 
 Sept. 6. — General Grant, with two regiments 
 of cavalry and two of infantry, supported by 
 two gunboats, took possession of Paducah, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 7. — Columbus, Ky., was strengthened 
 by the rebels under Pillow and Polk, whose 
 forces numbered about 7,000 ; Paducah was also 
 reinforced by Union troops. — Rebel troops under 
 Jeff" Thompson occupied the Missouri shore of 
 tlie Mississippi opposite Columbus, l^lockading 
 the river. — At Petersburg, Va., three companies 
 of Ohio Volunteers engaged in a fight. 
 
 Sept. 9. — General A. Sydney Johnson was 
 assigned to the command of the rebel depart- 
 ment of the West, including the Upper Missis- 
 sippi River. — Movements at Cape Hatteras, N. C. 
 
 Sept. 10. — A battle took place at Carnifex 
 Ferry, Va., between the rebels under General 
 
 Floyd and a portion of the force of General 
 Rosecrans, consisting of the 10th, 12th and 13th 
 Ohio regiments commanded by Colonels Lytle, 
 Lowe and Robert L. McCook. After a fierce 
 contest, lasting all day, the Union troops slept on 
 their arms. During the night, Floyd evacuated 
 his position, burning the bridge behind him, 
 abandoning his wagons, horses, camp fixtures, 
 a supply of ammunition, 50 head of cattle and 
 all his officers' baggage ; 25 Union prisoners 
 were recaptured, 15 Union soldiers were killed 
 and a large number wounded ; the rebel loss 
 was unknown. — Activities at Summersville, W. 
 Va., and at Norfolk, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 11. — An advance was made across the 
 Potomac at Lewinsville, Va., by several detached 
 companies of infantry, two companies of cavalry 
 and Griffen's battery commanded by Colonel I. 
 I. Stevens for purposes of reconnoissance; re- 
 turning, they were attacked near Falls Church 
 by rebel cavalry under Stuart. A sharp skir- 
 mish followed, the Union loss being reported at 
 six killed and eight wounded ; the rebel loss was 
 not ascertained ; one rebel cavalry officer was 
 made prisoner. — The Kentucky Legislature or- 
 dered the rebel troops to leave the State. 
 
 Sept. 12. — An engagement occurred at Cheat 
 Mountain, Va., in which Colonel John A. Wash- 
 ington was killed. He was proprietor of Mount 
 Vernon and a rebel. — A rebel camp at Peters- 
 burg, Va., was attacked and broken up by a 
 small force of Union soldiers — infantry and cav- 
 alry from New Creek, W. Va.; the camp and its 
 equipage were destroyed, a number of rebels 
 were killed and wounded and several prisoners 
 were taken, as well as horses, arms and am- 
 munition and supplies. — At Black River, in 
 Southeastern Missouri, a battalion of Indiana 
 cavalry under Major Gavitt engaged a rebel 
 force under Benjamin Talbott ; the rebels were 
 routed with a loss of five killed and four pris- 
 oners, besides 35 horses and a quantity of arms. 
 
20 
 
 1861 — SEPT. 13 — SEPT. 20 — 1861. 
 
 — In northern Missouri, the rebel troops under 
 Green were scattered by General Pope's com- 
 mand. — In reply to an action of the Kentucky 
 Legislature, the rebel General Buckner, issued 
 a flaming address to the "Freemen "of Ken- 
 tucky, appealing to them to rally for their own 
 defense against Lincoln usurpation. 
 
 Sept. 13. — Union forces under Sturgis occu- 
 pied St. Joseph opposite the Kansas border. — 
 One thousand rebels under Colonel Brown at- 
 tack the intrenchments of the Home Guards at 
 Booneville, Mo., under Captain Epstein and 
 were defeated; 12 rebels, including Brown, 
 were killed and 30 wounded ; one of the gar- 
 rison was killed and four wounded. — An all- 
 night skirmish occurred at Elk Water, Va.; the 
 attack was made by rebels under Anderson, 
 and earl}' in the Tuorning two Union regiments 
 cut their way through and dispersed the rebels, 
 capturing four prisoners. — An artillery skirmish 
 took place near Hhepherdstown, Va.— Rebel 
 troops advance from Yorktown, Ya., toward 
 Newport News, the rebel gunboat Yorktown 
 ran down the James River to support the land 
 forces and aft*r reaching a position within three 
 miles of the Neuse was forced to retire under 
 the shells of tiie Sawyer, the land forces also 
 retreating. 
 
 Sept. 14. — The rebel privateer, Judah, was 
 cut from under the guns of the batteries of 
 Pensacola and burned by a force from the U.S. 
 steam frigate, Colorado, under Lieutenant Rus- 
 sell ; the Union loss was three killed and 15 
 wounded. — Activities near Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 15.— The pickets of the 28th Penn- 
 sylvania, under Colonel Geary, were attacked 
 by 450 rebels opposite Pritcliard's Mills, Md., 
 and, after two hours' fighting, were driven 
 back with a loss of eight or ten, one soldier 
 being killed. 
 
 Sept. 16. — Fort Oregon on Ocracoke Inlet, 
 N. C, was destroyed by a U. S. naval expedi- 
 
 tion from Hatteras Inlet, under Lieutenants 
 Ma.xwell and Eastman. — The rebels evacuated 
 Ship Island and the position was occupied by 
 Union troops.— Rebel troops under Sterling 
 Price laid siege to Lexington, Mo., held by a 
 small force of Union soldiers under James Mul- 
 ligan ; the first assault was repulsed with severe 
 loss.— In Baltimore important military stores 
 were seized by the U. S. Marshal. 
 
 Sept. 17. — Tlie rebels were routed in a skir- 
 mish at Morristown, Mo., all their tents and 
 supplies, besides 100 horses, falling into the 
 hands of the Union troops; the latter lost three 
 killed and six wounded. Colonel Johnson was 
 slain, pierced by nine bullets; the rebel loss was 
 unknown. — A railroad train, transporting a 
 portion of the 19th Illinois, Colonel Turchin, 
 was precipitated down an embankment near 
 Huron, Ind., by the giving way of a bridge, 26 
 being killed and 112 being badly injured; foul 
 play was suspected. — 4,000 rebels under General 
 Atchinson attacked a j>art of the 3d Iowa under 
 Lieutenant Colonel Scott, en route from St. 
 Joseph to Lexington, Mo., at Blue Mills' Land- 
 ing; after a sharp skirmish Union re-inforce- 
 ments arrived and the rebels fell back; but 
 their object in delaying re-inforctments to 
 Colonel Mulligan had been accomplished. 
 
 Sept. 18. — A skirmish occurred between the 
 Barboursville Home Guards and the rebels un- 
 der Zollicoft'er without material results. 
 
 Sept. 19. — A slight running fight occurred 
 between the Boone Union Guards and the Bit- 
 terwater Blues at Bardstown Junction, Ky. — 
 Activities at Loudon, Va., and Glasgow, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 20. — The Union troops under Colonel 
 Mulligan surrendered at Lexington to an im- 
 mensely superior force of rebels under Price 
 after 59 hours fighting; the water supply had 
 been entirely cut off. A considerable sum in 
 gold fell into the hands of the rebels, who cap- 
 tured 1,600 prisoners. The LTnion loss was 39 
 
1861 — SEPT. 21 — SEPT. 30 — 1861. 
 
 21 
 
 killed and 120 wounded. — A skirmish occurred 
 below Fort Holt, Ky., and at Mayfield, the rebels 
 evacuated the place.— The 6th Indiana under 
 Crittenden arrived at Louisville, being the first 
 Union regiment to enter the city for its defense. 
 — A skirmish occurred near Seneca Creek, Va., 
 in which one Union soldier was killed and 
 several wounded. 
 
 Sept. 21.— AtPapinsville, Mo , General Lane's 
 command rou'ed a rebel force after a severe 
 fight, killing 40 and cupturing 100 with all the 
 supplies; the attacking party lost 17 killed and 
 40 wounded. — A detachment of jayhawkers, 
 who had sacked the town of Humboldt, Kan., 
 were pursued, overtaken and defeated by a 
 Union force from Fort Scott ; their leader was 
 killed and on his person was found an order 
 from McCulloch for the enrolment in the rebel 
 service of the Qnawpaw Indians. — In Louis- 
 ville, Ky., General Crittenden called out the 
 State militia to resist rebel invasion.— Skir- 
 mishes took place at Elliot's Mills, Mo., in 
 which the 7th Iowa Infantry was engaged. 
 
 Sept. 23. — At Mechanicsville Gap, Va., the 
 rebels were defeated with a loss of 15 killed and 
 30 wounded, the Union loss being three killed 
 and 10 wounded. — The 4th and Sth Ohio en- 
 gaged in a skirmish at Komney, Va. 
 
 ShPT. 24. -The Count de Paris and the Due 
 de Chartrcs, grandsons of Louis Phillipj)e, were 
 ajipointeil on the staff of General McClellan, 
 with the rank of captain.s. — The 28th Penn- 
 sylvania, under Geary, drove 500 rebels from 
 Point of Rocks after a sharp fight. — A rebel 
 cavalry raid was made on Warsaw, Ky., and 
 State arms seized ; the Union citizens rallied, 
 and in a skirmish one rebel was killed and 
 several on both sides were wounded. — General 
 Prentiss assumed command of tlie United States 
 forces at St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 25.— At Lewinsville, Va., a Union force 
 under Baldy Smith and a force of rebels from 
 
 Falls Church engaged in a skirmish ; Griffin's 
 and Mott's batteries replied to the assault, and 
 the rebels retired. — Smithland, Ky., was occu- 
 pied by Union troops; this, with the occupation 
 of Paducah, virtually blockaded the water con- 
 nections of Tennessee and Kentucky. — A de- 
 tachment of Woolford's Kentucky cavalry cap- 
 tured 17 Kentuckians under James B. Clay, 
 while en route to join Zollicoffer. — At Chap- 
 mansville, W. Va., a skirmish occurred between 
 Colonel Enyard's Kentucky volunteers and a 
 party of rebels under Colonel W. J. Davis; the 
 latter were intercepted by Colonel Pratt's Ohio 
 regiment, and 47 prisoners taken. The re- 
 ported Union loss was four killed and eight 
 wounded; aliout GO rebels were killed and 
 wounded. — A rebel battery made an attack at 
 Freestone, Va. 
 
 Sept. 26. — A sharp skirmish occurred at 
 Lucas Bend, Ky.; 25 of Stewart's U. S. cavalry 
 engaged about 40 rebel cavalry of Jeff Thomp- 
 son's command ; the entire rebel force were 
 killed, wounded and captured, with a large 
 quantity of arms. — Cynthiana, Ky., was occu- 
 pied by the Union troops. 
 
 Sept. 27. — 12,000 troops, commanded in per- 
 son by General Fremont, started from St. Louis 
 on an expedition up the Missouri River. 
 
 Sept. 28. Munson's and Upton's Hills, Va., 
 were evacuated by the rebels and occupied by 
 the Union troops. 
 
 Sept. 29. — During an advance on a rebel 
 work near Munson's Hill, a collision occurred 
 between Colonel E. D. Baker's California Regi- 
 ment and the 69th Pennsylvania, each mistak- 
 ing the other for the enemy ; before the error 
 was discovered nine men were killed and 
 wounded, including three officers. — The occu- 
 pation of Lexington, Mo., was commenced by 
 Price's rebel forces. 
 
 Sept. 30. — The rebel works opposite Berlin, 
 Md., were shelled by a detachment of Colonel 
 
22 
 
 1861 — OCT. 1 — OCT. 11 — 1861. 
 
 Geary's Pennsylvania Regiment and, having 
 been evacuated by the rebels, were occupied by 
 the Union troops. 
 
 Oct. 1. — A cainp ol secessionists near Char- 
 leston, Mo.f was broken up, and about 40 pris- 
 oners taken. — The propellor Fanny was cap- 
 lured oil" Ilatteras Inlet, near Cliicamocomico, 
 N. C, by rebel armed tugs and 30 men of the 
 0th New York were taken prisoners. — John Ross, 
 a Cherokee chief, advised his people to join the 
 Southern (Confederacy, 1,000 Creek Indians hav- 
 ing already attached (liemselves to the rebels. 
 
 Oct. 2. — Colonel McNeil, Assistant Provost 
 Marshal of St. Louis, by proclamation notified 
 the St. Louis Savings Association that $33,000 
 on deposit witii them to the credit of the Chero- 
 kees was forfeited to the United States, in 
 consequence of the Irilje having united with 
 the rebels. — 3,200 United States regulars sta- 
 tioned in California, were ordered East. — In a 
 fight at Ciiapmansviile, Va., 60 rebels were 
 killed and 70 taken {irisoners. 
 
 Oct. 3. — Evacuation of Lexington, Mo., by 
 Price was completed. — A reconnoissance in force 
 was made from Cheat Mountain, Va., by Union 
 troops under C.eneral Reynolds, who encoun- 
 tered rebel troops belonging to Lee's command 
 under General H. A. Jackson at Greenbrier, Va. 
 An hour's skirmish ensued ; the rebels were 
 driven from the field, losing about 200 in killed 
 and wounded ; 13 rebels were taken prisoners; 
 the reported Union loss was eight killed and 
 32 wounded. 
 
 Oct. 4.— At ILitteras, N. C, the rebels under 
 Colonel Barlow, surprised the 20th Indiana and 
 the latter had a narrow escape from capture. 
 They were shelled from their position on the 
 following day by the gunboat Monticello. — At 
 Alimosa, N. M., a band of rebel guerrillas from 
 Texas were routed by New Mexican volunteers 
 and U. S. regulars. — At Buffalo Hill, Ky., a 
 sharp skirmish occurred with 20 Union loss 
 and a rebel loss of 50. 
 
 Oct. 5. — Four thousand rebels landed at 
 Chicamocomico, N. C, and drove the Union 
 forces, but re-embarked and departed during 
 the night, having meanwhile been shelled by 
 the United States steamer Monticello. — Military 
 movement at Chincoteague Inlet, Va. 
 
 Oct. 6. — In a skirmish at Flemington, Ky., 
 the rebels under Colonel Holliday were defeated 
 by the Union Home Guards under Lieutenant 
 Sadler. 
 
 Oct. 7. — An artillery duel occurred between 
 rebel batteries on the Mississippi river and the 
 U. S. gunboats Tyler and Lexington, three 
 miles above Goluml)Us, K\'. — 57 Union pris- 
 oners taken at Bull Run were released and re- 
 turned to Fortress Monroe — the first exchange 
 of prisoners. 
 
 Oct. 8. — In advancing the Union lines south 
 of the Potomac, a rebel picket guard was sur- 
 prised three miles be^'ond Falls Church, Va.; 
 three were killed and one taken prisoner. — 
 General Robert Anderson having been com- 
 pelled by ill-health to relinquish his command 
 in Kentucky, General W. T. Sherman was ap- 
 pointed to succeed him. — The first condemna- 
 tion of a blockade runner was made in the U. S. 
 Admiralty Court by Judge Ware in the ca.se of 
 the British schooner, William Arthur. 
 
 Oct. 9. — An attack was made on Wilson's 
 Zouaves at Santa Rosa Island, Fla., by about 
 1,500 rebels; the Zouaves, with aid from Fort 
 Pickens, repelled the attack, killing and wound- 
 ing a large number: the Union loss was 13 
 killed and 21 wounded. — At Bolivar, Md., three 
 companies of the 3d Wisconsin, attacked by 
 1,600 rebels, held their position until reinforced. 
 
 Oct. 11. — The rebel privateer Nashville, vni- 
 der Lieutenant Pegram, escaped from Charles- 
 ton harbor, S. C. — 57 prisoners were released 
 and exchanged for those already received at 
 Fortress Monroe. — At Dumfries, \'a., and at 
 Qnantico, Md., rebel movements occurred. 
 
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 Oct. 12. — In the Southwest Pass of the Mis- 
 sissippi River, an attempt was made to destroy 
 the U. S. blockading fleet by a rebel fleet, con- 
 sisting of six gunboats, the ram Manassas and 
 a number of Are ships. The U. S. vessels es- 
 caped the latter by running down stream, after 
 which the rebel gunboats and ram were driven 
 back; the latter being disabled and much in- 
 jured. — The rebel steamer, Theodoi-a, ran the 
 blockade of Charleston, S. C, having on board 
 Mason and Slidell, accredited ministers from 
 the quaxi Richmond government to England 
 and France. — At Chelsea, Kan., Union troops 
 under P. G. D. Morton, captured a train of 21 
 wagons, 425 cattle, 28 ponies and 35 rebels, en 
 route for the Indian encampment in the rebel 
 lines. — At Cameron, Mo., in a skirmish between 
 a small force of Union soldiers under Major 
 James and the rebels, the latter were routed ; 
 the Union loss was one killed and four wounded ; 
 the rebel loss was eight killed and wounded 
 and five prisoners. — At Upton Hill, Ky., the 
 30th Indiana engaged in a skirmish. — At Bay- 
 lis' Cross Roads, La., the 79th New York en- 
 gaged in an action. — Activities at Winfield, Mo., 
 and Hurricane Bridge, Va. 
 
 Oct. 13. — A cavalry skirmisii occurred at 
 Beckwith's Farm, near Glaize, Mo., Major 
 Wright commandmg the Union forces, the reb- 
 els being led by Caj^tains Lowell and Wright. 
 The latter were surprised and routed with a 
 loss of 20 killed and 30 prisoners ; the Union 
 loss was very small. — Movement at Lebanon, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 14. — Major Wright's cavalry captured 
 45 rebels under Captain Roberts, at Lynn 
 Creek, Mo. — The oatli of allegiance was ad- 
 minis'tered to tlie inhabitants of Chincoteague 
 Island, \'a. — A large navnl force left New York 
 for Virginia. 
 
 Oct. 15. — Jeff" Thompson's troops captured 
 20 Union soldiers at Potosi, Mo. — Three vessels 
 sailed from New York in pursuit of the Nash- 
 ville. 
 
 Oct. 16.— At Bolivar, Va., 400 men of Colonel 
 Geary's 28th Pennsylvania regiment routed the 
 rebels after several hours of uitermittent fight- 
 ing, the Union loss being four killed and eight 
 wounded. — A Union force, under Major Gavitt, 
 drove Jeff Thomson's troops from Tronton, Mo., 
 and occupied the town, thereby obtaining pos- 
 session of an important strategic point ; 11 Union 
 soldiers were killed, and the rebel loss was three 
 times as great. — Major White's cavalry re-cap- 
 tured and occupied Lexington, Mo., surprising 
 the rebel gai'rison, who escaped. — A skirmish 
 occurred at ^\'^arsaw, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 18. — The rebels were repulsed in an at- 
 tack on Harper's Ferry, Va. 
 
 Oct. 19. — At Big Hurricane Creek, Mo., a 
 Union force, under Colonel Morgan, defeated 
 the rebels, losing 14 and killing 14, capturing 
 eight prisoners. — Negro "contrabands" were 
 first employed in connection with U. S. service 
 at Fortress Monroe by General Wool. 
 
 Oct. 21. — A disastrous defeat of the Union 
 troops occurred at Ball's Blufl", Va.; Colonel 
 Baker, with his California brigade crossed the 
 Potomac, and was suddenly attacked by 5,000 
 rebels, under General Evans, who held the ad- 
 vantage in force and position. Baker's com- 
 mand was driven back to the river. No pro- 
 vision had been made for sucli an emergency, 
 and those who refused to surrender, were either 
 drowned or slaughtered ; 455 were taken pris- 
 oners, 223 were killed and 2G6 wounded. The 
 rebel loss was estimated at 300. Colonel Baker, 
 one of the bravest and most noble spirited men 
 in the volunteer army, was among tlie slain. — 
 Commodore Dupont and General Sherman left 
 New York with sealed orders on a combined 
 military and naval expedition. — -At Frederick- 
 town, Mo., a large rebel force, under General 
 Jeff Thompson and Colonel Lowe, were defeated 
 by Plummer's force. After two hours fighting, 
 the rebels fled and were pursued 22 miles ; 200 
 
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 1861 — OCT. 22 — NOV. 7 — 1861. 
 
 rebels, including Lowe, were killed, and a large 
 number wounded. — In an attack on Camp Wild 
 Cat, Laurel Co., Ky., 6,000 rebels, under Zulli- 
 coffer, were repulsed by a Union force, under 
 General Scboepf, who lost four killed and 31 
 wounded. « 
 
 Oct. 22.— At Buffalo Mills, Mo., 22 rebels 
 were killed and SO w>undeil. — An action oc- 
 curred at Goose Creek, Va.; losses not reported. 
 
 Oct. 23. — Li a skirmish at West Liberty, 
 Mo., 1.5 rebel soldiers-were killed and wounded, 
 and six were captured. — Lieutenant Grayson 
 routed the rebels at Hodgesville, Ky., and was 
 wounded with .seven of his men. 
 
 Oct. 24. — Mason and Slidell were formally 
 received at Havana by the authorities in 
 Cuba. — The second excliange of prisoners took 
 place at Columbus, Ky., and Cairo, 111. — The 
 writ of habeas corpus was suspended in the 
 District of Columl)ia. 
 
 Oct. 25. — Near Springfield, Mo., a detach- 
 ment of Fremont's body guard, under Zagonyi, 
 charged 2,000 rebels and routed them, killing 
 106 and Ciipturing 27; the Union loss was 
 about 60. . 
 
 Oct. 26. — Near Romney, Va., a force under 
 General Kelley routed the rebels after two 
 hours fighting ; many prisoners were captured, 
 a great amount of liaggage,and all the cannon, 
 ammunition and wagons. — At Plattslmrg a 
 Union victory was accomi)li.'^hed. — Fremont and 
 Sigel, witli tiieir command.s, arrived at Spring- 
 field, Mo. — In a skirmish at Saratoga, Ky., the 
 i)4t]i Illinois were engaged. — The 7th Missouri 
 Cavalry were engaged in a skirmisli at Spring 
 Hill. 
 
 Oct. 28.— At Dyer's Mills, Mo., 400 rebels 
 oftered to lay down their arms and return home 
 if secured against arrest by Union troops; Gen- 
 eral Henderson assented to their terms. — Near 
 Butler, Mo., a rebel train was captured by a 
 force under General Lane. 
 
 Oct. 29. — Dupont and Sherman sailed from 
 Fortress Monroe for Port Royal with SO vessels 
 and 25,000 men. 
 
 Oct. 30. — Removal of prisoners of state from 
 Fort La Fayette, New York, to Fort Warren, 
 Boston. 
 
 Oct. 31. — General Scott requested to be 
 placed on the retired list. 
 
 Nov. 1. — General Scott was retired on full 
 pay and McClellan was appointed his successor. 
 — Colonel Mulligan was the first Union pris- 
 oner exchanged under formalities, and General 
 Frost, the rebel officer, captured by Lyon at 
 Camp .Jackson, St. Louis, was released. — A skir- 
 mish occurred at Renick, Mo. 
 
 Nov. 2. — Fremont was relieved of his com- 
 mand in Missouri. — At Platte City, Mo., a force 
 under Major Josephs routed the rebels under 
 Silas Gordon and captured 30 prisoners. — The 
 Bermuda ran the blockade at Savannah, Ga. — 
 Military activities at Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
 Nov. 3. — Union men in East Tennessee de- 
 stroyed several important railroad bridges and 
 the rebels hung several Union men in retalia- 
 tion. — A rebel movement occurred at Houston, 
 Mo. 
 
 Nov. 5. — Prestonburg, Ky., was occupied by 
 Union troops under General Nelson. 
 
 Nov. 6. -At Little Santa Fe, N. M., 120 
 Union soldiers under Captain Shields were cajv 
 tured at Corrotowan Creek. 
 
 Nov. 7. — Battle of Belmont, Mo. The Union 
 troops under Grant and McClernand, who had 
 crossed from Cairo, were driven back to their 
 transports by the rebels under (Jeneral ("heat- 
 ham ; a hot tight was carried on more than six 
 hours with heavy loss on both sides. — Forts 
 Walker and Beauregard at Port Royal, S. C, 
 were captured by the expedition under Dupont 
 and Sherman after five hours engagement; the 
 Union loss was eight killed and 23 wounded, 
 and 2,500 rebel prisoners were taken. For the 
 
1861 — NOV. 8 — NOV. 24 — 1861. 
 
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 first time since April 14th, the United States 
 flag floated over South CaroUna soil. — The pri- 
 vateer, Royal Yacht, was hoarded by a party 
 from the Santee and burned in Galveston har- 
 bor after a sharp conflict. 
 
 Nov. 8. — CaptainWilkes, United States Navy, 
 commanding the steam sloop of war, Jacinto, 
 overhauled the British sail steamer, Trent, con- 
 veying Mason and Slidell to England and 
 France. The rebel envoys were transferred to 
 the Jacinto. — At Piketon, Ky., General Nelson's 
 brigade routed the rebels, losing six killed and 
 24 wounded ; the rebel loss in killed and 
 wounded was 409, and 2,000 of their soldiers 
 were captured and considerable property. 
 
 Nov. 10.— At Guyandott, West Virginia, 600 
 rebel cavalry under Jenkins made a descent on 
 150 Union soldiers. The citizens of the town 
 treacherously lured the Federal garrison into 
 their houses, and they were afterwards assaulted 
 by the raiders and their hosts, male and female, 
 and massacred in cold blood ; only 50 escaped. 
 An hour later Colonel Ziegler arrived with a 
 regiment of regulars and burned the town. — At 
 Taylor's Ford, Tenn., the loyal citizens defended 
 the U. S. flag. 
 
 Nov. 11. In a skirmish near Kansas City, 
 Mo., the troops of Colonel Anthony were de- 
 feated by the rebels and lost 16 in killed and 
 wounded. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
 Little Blue, Mo. 
 
 Nov. 12.- In a skirmish near Romney, Va., 
 two Union soldiers w^ere killed and 12 rebel 
 prisoners taken. — A detachment of New York 
 cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Occoquan 
 Creek, Va. 
 
 Nov. 14.— At McCoy's Mills, Va., a detach- 
 ment of troops under General Benham, over- 
 took, attacked and defeated the rear guard of 
 General Floyd's rebel army and killed 15. — A 
 military movement occurred at Point of Rocks, 
 Md. 
 
 Nov. 15.— The Jacinto arrived at Fortress 
 Monroe with Mason and Slidell.— In a skirmish 
 at Cypress Bridge, Ky., the Union loss was 25 
 killed and wounded. 
 
 Nov. 18.-3,000 rebel troops inAccomacand 
 Northampton Counties, Va., disbanded and the 
 Union forces under General Dix took posses- 
 sion of the peninsula. — A skirmish occurred at 
 Palmyra, Mo. 
 
 Nov. 19.— Warsaw, Mo., was burned by the 
 rebel troops.— The rebel privateer, Nashville, 
 captured the Harvey Birch near the English 
 Channel, burned the vessel to the water's edge 
 and took the crew as prisoners to an English 
 port. — A skirmish occurred at Wirt, W. Va. 
 
 Nov. 20.— The rebel General Floyd aban- 
 doned his camp near Gurley River, W. Va., de- 
 stroying a large proportion of the camp prop- 
 erty and abandoning 10 wagon loads of arms 
 and ammunition. 
 
 Nov. 22. — Bombardment of the fertifications 
 at Pensacola, Fla., by Fort Pickens and the U. 
 S. fl.ee(s; Fort McRae was silenced. Fort Baran- 
 cas and the navy yard much damaged, and 
 Warrenton destroyed. The Union loss was two 
 killed and 13 wounded. The action occupied 
 two days. 
 
 Nov. 23. — The advance of General Butler's 
 expedition for New Orleans sailed from Port- 
 land, Me.— The representatives of U. S. soldiers 
 in rebel prisons were authorized to draw their 
 pay as if in service.— Rebel movements at War- 
 wick, Va. 
 
 Nov. 24. — At Lancaster, Va., Colonel Moore 
 defeated the rebels under Colonel Blanton, kill- 
 ing 13 and capturing several prisoners and los- 
 ing one killed and two wounded. — Tybee Is- 
 land, S. C, was occupied by the Union forces; 
 a panic in consequence prevailed in Charleston, 
 which was placed under martial law and the 
 Mayor called on the citizens to aid in the de- 
 fense of the city.— Mason and Slidell were 
 
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 1861 — NOV. 26 — DEC. 11 — 1861. 
 
 placed iu Fort Warren, Boston.— An unim- 
 portant movement occurred at Buckingham, Va. 
 
 Nov. 26. — The convention to organize the 
 new State of West Mrginia assembled at Wheel- 
 ing. — Unimportant movements took place at 
 Drainsville, Va., and Little Blue, Mo. 
 
 Nov. 27. — An emancipation Act was passed 
 bj' the Wheeling convention. — At Liverpool, 
 England, an indignation meeting was held to 
 protest against Captain Wilkes' action in board- 
 ing the Trent. 
 
 Nov. 29. — An expedition under General 
 Phelps left Fortress Monroe, destined for the 
 Gulf.— The terror at Cliarleston, S. C, induced 
 planters in the vicinity to destroy large quanti- 
 ties of cotton. — At Black Walnut Creek, Mo., 
 Major Hough defeated the rebels, killing 14 
 and capturing five. 
 
 Nov. 30. — General Price issued a proclama- 
 tion at Neosho, Mo., calling 50,000 Missourians 
 to his aid. — 1,200 Creek Indians revolted against 
 the authority of the rebels. 
 
 Dec. 1. — In a skirmish at Hunter's Chapel, 
 Va., General Blenker defeated the rebels, with 
 a loss of one killed. — Military movements took 
 place at Tallahatchie, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala. 
 
 Dec. 2.— At Fort Holt, Ky., and Ford's Point, 
 Mo., an artillery duel occurred, in which the 
 rebel gunboats and Union batteries were en- 
 gaged. — On the .James River four Union gun- 
 boats and the rebel ironclad, Patrick Henry, sup- 
 ported by a shore battery, engaged in a naval 
 skirmish which lasted two hours. 
 
 Dec. 3.— In a reconnoissance near Vienna, 
 Va., companies D., F. and M., of the 3d Penn- 
 sylvania Cavalry, under Captain Bell, were 
 surprised by 300 rebels, and fought their way 
 through, with a loss of about -45.— At S.ilem, 
 Mo., the Union garrison, under Major Bowen, 
 was surprised by 300 rebels, and a street fight 
 ensued, in which the rebels were repulsed; the 
 Union loss was 15 killed and wounded. 
 
 Dec. 4. — General Phelps' expedition reached 
 Ship Island. — At St. Louis, General Halleck 
 ordered all spies found within the Union lines 
 to be shot. — Queen Victoria prohibited the ex- 
 portation from {British ports of arms and other 
 war supplies. — In a skirmish at Anandale, Va., 
 a detachment of New Jersey troops engaged, 
 and at Dunksburg, Mo., the citizens took part 
 in a skirmish. — An action took place at Whij> 
 poorwill Bridge, Ky. 
 
 Dec. 5. — In a skirmish at Brownsville, Ky., 
 the Home Guards defeated the rebels, under 
 General Hinchman, killing three and wound- 
 ing five. — A naval reconuoissance sent up the 
 Wilmington River, Ga., and captured a rebel 
 battery. — Senator Sumner presented the first 
 petition in the Senate for the emancipation of 
 the slaves. 
 
 Dec. 6. — At Nashville, Tenn., a riot occurred 
 during an attempt to enforce a draft for the_ 
 confederate army ; the boxes containing the 
 names were destroyed. 
 
 Dec. 7. — At Mississippi Sound, a naval en- 
 gagement took place between the gunboats New 
 London and De Soto and two rebel vessels 
 trying to run the blockade between Mobile and 
 New Orleans. — At Dam No. 5, on the Potomac, 
 the rebels were defeated, with a loss of 12 killed. 
 — At Olathe, Mo., two Union soldiers were killed 
 in a skinuish. — A Union Indian fight occurred 
 at Bushy Creek, Ark. 
 
 Dec. 8. — Beaufort, S. C, was occupied by 
 Union troops. 
 
 Dec. 9.— The rebel batteries at Free Stone 
 and Shipping Point, Va., were silenced by the 
 United States flotilla on the Lower Potomac, 
 aided by the batteries at Budd's Ferr}'. A 
 boat's crew was landed, which destroyed the 
 rebel works and buildings contiiining stores. 
 
 Dec. 11.- a great fire occurred at Charles- 
 ton, S. C. — At Bertrand, Mo., Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Rhodes defeated the rebels and lost 
 
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 but one man. — Minor affairs occurred at Ossa- 
 baw Sound, and Sliarpesburg, N. C. 
 
 Dec. 12. — Military movements took place on 
 Green River, Ky. 
 
 Dec. 13. — At Camp Allegheny, Va., a battle 
 took place, in which the forces were respectively 
 led by Milroy (Union) and Johnson (rebel) ; 
 darkness terminated the action, and the rebels 
 fled before daybreak ; the Union loss was 140 
 in killed, wounded and missing. — Military 
 movements occurred at Butler, Md. — A deserter 
 named Johnson was shot, which was the first 
 military execution in the army.— In an action 
 at Papinsville, Mo., General Pope captured a 
 rebel camp, taking prisoners, camp fixtures and 
 wagons. 
 
 Dec. 15. — A rebel raid was made upon Platte 
 City, Mo., and unimportant activities occurred 
 at Berlin, Md. 
 
 Dec. 17.— Battle of Munfordville, Ky. The 
 rebels under General Bragg were defeated, the 
 Union loss being 27 killed and wounded and 
 that of the rebels much larger. 
 
 Dec. 18. — A detachment of Pope's command 
 under Jeff C. Davis captured a rebel camp at 
 Milford, Mo., with 1,300 prisoners, and losing 
 two killed and eight wounded. — A small rebel 
 camp was captured on Edisto Island, S. C. 
 
 Dec. 19. — A rebel attack was made on Geary's 
 Pennsylvania troops, which was repulsed. — 
 Warlike movements occurred at Ripley, Va., 
 and Point of Rocks, Md. 
 
 Dec. 20.— At Drainsville, Va., a foraging 
 party under General Ord, and rebels under 
 Stewart engaged in a fight in which the latter 
 were routed with heavy loss in kdled and 
 wounded, and losing 30 prisoners; the Union 
 loss was seven killed and 60 wounded. — In a 
 skirmish at Hudson, Mo., a Union force under 
 Colonel McKee defeated a rebel force, captur- 
 ing 10 and killing 17. 
 
 Dec. 22.— At Nashville, Tenn., $1,000,000 
 
 worth of stores belonging to the rebels were 
 burned. 
 
 Dec. 23. — The rebels were defeated near 
 Newport News, Va., losing 10 killed ; six Union 
 soldiers were wounded. 
 
 Dec. 14. — Further enlistment of cavalry was 
 stopped by the War Department, the force being 
 sufficient. — A skirmish occurred at Wadesburg, 
 Mo. 
 
 Dec. 25. — The rebel military authorities blew 
 up the lighthouse on Morris Island, in Charles- 
 ton harbor, S. C. — Rebel movements in Mobile 
 harbor. 
 
 Dec. 26. — Movements at Columbia, Ky. 
 Dec. 27. — Mason and Slidell were surren- 
 dered to the British authorities. — Fort Stanton 
 was garrisoned. 
 
 Dec. 28. —At Mount Zion, Mo., General Pren- 
 tiss' forces dispersed the rebels under Colonel 
 D'Orsey, losing three killed and 11 wounded ; 
 35 prisoners were captured, 95 horses and 105 
 guns, while the loss in killed and wounded 
 was about 150. — A cavalry fight occurred at 
 Sacramento, Ky. — At Sewall's Point, Va., mili- 
 tary movements occurred. 
 
 Dec. 31. — The rebels intrenched at Biloxi, 
 Miss. 
 
 1862. Jan. 1.— A battle occurred at Port 
 Royal Island, S. C, in which a Union brigade 
 under Gimeral Stevens defeated an attacking 
 party of rebels and lost three killed and 11 
 wounded. — The bombardment of the forts in 
 Pensacola Bay, Fla., re-opened and included 
 attacks on Fort Pickens, Fort Barancas and 
 Warren ton. 
 
 Jan. 3. — Big Bethel, Va., having been evacu- 
 ated by the rebels, was occupied by the Union 
 troops. — A cavalry action occurred at Hunne- 
 well. Mo. 
 
 Jan. 4. — Near Bath, Va., 15,000 rebels under 
 Jackson attacked the 5th Connecticut, guarding 
 the Baltimore & Ohio track, and drove them 
 
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 1862— JAN. 6 — FEB. 6 — 1862. 
 
 across the Potomac, capturing a number of 
 prisoners. — The command of Major Webster 
 defeated the rebels at Huntersville, W. Va. 
 
 Jan. 6. — Military operations occured at Han- 
 cock, Md. 
 
 Jan. 7.— At Blue Gap, Va., Colonel Dun- 
 ning's troops routed 2,000 rebels, killing 15 
 and taking 20 prisoners. — A skirmish occurred 
 30 miles east of Sutton, W. Va., and the rebels 
 were routed, losing 22 killed and wounded and 
 a quantitj' of cattle and horses. — At Paintsville, 
 Ky., a body of Union troops under Colonel 
 James A. Garfield, dispersed the rebels under 
 Humphrey Ahirshall. 
 
 Jan. 8.— At Silver Creek, Mo., Union troops 
 under Major Torrence defeated the rebels under 
 Colonel Poindexter, and lost three killed and 
 10 wounded. — Tlie 10th Iowa engaged in a 
 fight at Charleston, Mo. — A cavalry skirmish 
 took place at Cheat River, W. Va. 
 
 Jan. 9.— In a skirmish at Columbus, Mo., a 
 body of Kansas cavalry was engaged. 
 
 Jan. 10. — The retreating rebel force under 
 Humphrey Marshall were overtaken by Gar- 
 field's troops at Prestonburg, Ky., and the 
 rebels were defeated, losing 50 in killed and 
 wounded, with 25 prisoners, the Union loss 
 being two killed and 25 wounded. 
 
 Jan. 11.— Over 100 vessels of all clas.ses, car- 
 rying 5,000 troops, sailed from Fortress Monroe 
 for North Carolina under command of General 
 Burnside and Commodore Goldsboroush. — 
 Near Columbus, Ky., the Union and rebel gun- 
 boats were engaged on the \[ississippi River.— 
 Destruction of tlie bridges of the Louisville & 
 Nashville railroad by the rebels. 
 
 Jan. 17.— The Burnside expedition arrived 
 at Hatteras, N. C. 
 
 Jan. 19. — General Thoma.s' forces routed 
 those of Zollicoffer and Crittenden at Mill 
 Spring, Ky., in an engagement which lasted 
 several hours. The Union loss was 39 killed 
 
 and 127 wounded, and the rebels lost 231 killed 
 and wounded, 150 prisoners, 10 cannon, 100 
 wagons, 1,200 horses and mules, 1,000 muskets, 
 arms, ammunition and stores and several boats. 
 Zollicoffer was killed by a pistol shot fired by 
 Colonel S. S. Fry. 
 
 Jan. 22. — Cavalry skirmish at Knob Noster, 
 Mo. 
 
 Jan. 23. — At Southwest Pass on the Missis- 
 sii)pi River, military movements took place. 
 
 Jan. 26. — The rebels constructed fortifica- 
 tions at Benton, Ark. — At Bloomfield, Mo., an 
 unimportant affair took place. 
 
 Jan. 27. — The rebel authorities peremptorily 
 refused to receive the commissioners sent from 
 the North to provide for the comfort of Union 
 prisoners. 
 
 Jan. 28. — An unimportant naval engage- 
 ment between U. S. and rebel gunboats took 
 place near Savannah, Ga. 
 
 Jan. 29. — Mason and Slidell landed at 
 Southampton, England, but met with a very 
 cold reception. — At Occoijuan, Va., the 37th 
 New York Infantry and 1st New Jersey Cavalry 
 engage in a skirmish. — Reconnoissance at Stono 
 Inlet, N. C. 
 
 Jan. 30. — Ericsson's Monitor was launched 
 at Green Point, L. I. 
 
 Jan. 31. — At Charleston, S. C, the confeder- 
 ate ironclads Palmetto State and Chicora pre- 
 pared for an attack on Fort McAlister and 
 other points, their movements being known to 
 history as a raid. 
 
 Feb. 1. — \\\ mil niportant skirmish occurred 
 near Bowling Green, K}'. 
 
 Feb. 3. — The English authorities ordered 
 the rebel privateer Nashville to leave South- 
 ampton ; the U. S. sleamer Tuscarora attempted 
 to follow and was stopped by a British frigate. 
 
 Feb. 6. — At Fort Henry, Tenn., the rebel 
 works were captured by seven gunboats under 
 Flag Officer Foote after a figlit of more than 
 
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 aa hour and the eommandant with his men 
 were made prisoners, the main body of the 
 rebels escaping. 
 
 Feb. 7. — Union troops under General Lander, 
 the successor of Baker, occupied Romney, Va. 
 — At Fairfax C. H., Va., the command of 
 Colonel Friedman worsted the rebels, killing 
 one and capturing 12, only one Union soldier 
 being wounded. — Tiie Union batteries on 
 Maryland Heights shelled Harper's Ferry. , 
 Feb. 7. — Fighting was commenced at Roan- 
 oke Island, N. C, which continued two days. 
 The rebel works on the island were defeirded 
 by six batteries, mounting an aggregate of 4.2 
 heavy guns, manned by a force of 250 and by 
 eight two-gun gunboats. In the first day's 
 fighting, the U. S. vessels under Commodore 
 Goldsborough disabled the gunboats and silenced 
 several heavy guns attached to the batteries. 
 During tlie succeeding night General Burnside 
 landed -1,000 troops for the purpose of making 
 a combined attack in the morning. Fighting 
 was renewed at daylight and about 1,000 
 additional infantry ti'oops were landed, a com- 
 bined military and naval attack behig made 
 on the rebel works. The defense of the works 
 by the garrison may be fairly characterized as 
 heroic, and many of the rebel fortifications had 
 to be carried at the point of the bayonet. On 
 the afternoon of the Slh, the garrison surren- 
 dered, having lost about 80 in killed and 
 wounded, while the Union loss was 50 killed 
 and 175 wounded. The Federal troops cap- 
 tured 2,527 prisoners, 40 cannon, 3,500 stand 
 of arms, besides about 75 tons of ammunition 
 together with other war material. — Rebels in- 
 trenched at Germantown, Tenn. 
 
 Feb. 8. — A small force of Union troops 
 under Captain Smith defeated a rebel detacli- 
 raent at Linn Creek, Va., capturing 17 horses 
 and 12 prisoners; the Union loss was reported 
 atone killed and wounded; the rebel loss in 
 killed and wounded was reported at 15. 
 
 Feb. 9. — A detachment of General Grant's 
 forces engaged the rebels near Fort Henry, 
 Tenn. ; 30 prisoners were taken and five rebels 
 were reported killed, but the victory was 
 obtained by a loss of 39 Union soldiers killed 
 and 23 wounded. 
 
 Feb. 10.— At Elizabeth City, N. C, a rebel 
 battery was silenced and a fleet of rebel gun- 
 boats destroyed, captured or driven off by 
 Union gunboats attached to the Burnside ex- 
 pedition under Commodore Rowan. — The re- 
 turn of a reconnoitering expedition by Union 
 gunboats up the Tennessee River as far as 
 Florence, Ala., occurred; during the recon- 
 noissance three steamers were captured. The 
 expedition was accorded enthusiastic greeting 
 by the inhabitants on the river. 
 
 Feb. 11. — A part of Burnside's command 
 occupied Elizabeth City, N. C, the rebels hav- 
 ing evacuated and partly burned the town. 
 
 Feb. 12. — The investment of Fort Donelsou, 
 Tenn., was commenced by 40,000 troops under 
 Grant, the fort being garrisoned by about 
 19,000 men. — Edenton, N. C, was occupied by 
 the Union forces. 
 
 Feb. 13.— Battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn. 
 The attack on the works commenced at 7:30 in 
 the morning, the garrison making a vigorous 
 reply. Reinforcements of 8,000 men arrived 
 during the night and the action of the Union 
 troops was supported by four gunboats under 
 Commodore Foote. On the 14th, .several 
 sorties were made by the rebels and in one a 
 Union battery was captured which was at once 
 retaken. In the afternoon tiie gunboats were 
 obliged to retire down the river, being disabled, 
 having lost nine killed and 45 wounded. On 
 the 15th, the battle raged all day and the center 
 works were stormed and carried by the Union 
 troops. Darkness put an end to the figliting 
 and the National flag floated over the redoubt. 
 During the night Pillow and Floyd decamped 
 
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 1862 — FEB. 13— FEB. 23—1862. 
 
 with 5,000 troops, leaving General Buckner to 
 continue the fight or surrender. On the morn- 
 ing of tlie 16tli, wliite flags appeared on the 
 rebel works. In the correspondence between 
 the commanders relative to the terms of sur- 
 render. Grant insisted that it should be "un- 
 conditional." The capitulation followed, 13,- 
 829 prisoners, 3,000 horses, 48 Held pieces, 17 
 siege guns, 20,000 stand of arms and a large 
 quantity of stores being captured. The official 
 reports give a loss of 281 killed and 1,007 
 wounded to the rebels, and report t^ie Union 
 loss as 446 killed, 1,735 wounded and 150 
 prisoners. 
 
 Fki!. 13. — Union troops occupied Springfield, 
 Mo , which had been abandoned by the troops 
 of Sterling Price who left his sick behind. 
 
 Feb. 14 — At Blooming Gap, Va., the com- 
 mand of General Lander defeated the rebels, 
 killing 13, wounding 20 and taking 56 prison- 
 ers, his own loss being seven killed. — At Flat 
 Lick Ford, Ky., Colonel Munday's men en- 
 gaged m a skirmish without loss, but killed 
 and wounded eight rebels and took several 
 prisoners. 
 
 Fkb. 15. — The rebels having evacuated 
 Bowling Green, Ky., 8,000 troops under General 
 C. M. Mitchell, occupied and fortified the place. 
 A skirmish occurred at Venus Point, Md. 
 
 Feb. 16. — Warsaw, Mo., was garrisoned by 
 Union troops. ) 
 
 Feb. 17.— At Sugar Creek, Ark., 13 Union { 
 soldiers were killed and wounded. I 
 
 Feb. 19. — The gunlioats of tiie Burnside ex- 
 pedition attacked Winton, N. C, which was 
 abandoned l)y the inhaliitunts and burned. — 
 At Independence, Mo., a skirmish occurred 
 between the Union troops and the guerrillas of 
 Quantrell and Parker. ' 
 
 Feb. 20. — The naval force under Foote oc- I 
 cupied Clarksville, Tenn., the rebels retreating ' 
 on the approach of the gunboats, after an 
 
 unsuccessful attempt to burn the railroad 
 bridge. — While making an attemjit to reinforce 
 Fort Donelson, 1,000 rebels marched into the 
 Union lines and were promptly made prisoners. 
 Feb. 21. — William Goodwin, convicted of 
 taking negroes from the cojst of Africa with 
 the intent to sell them into slavery, was hung 
 in the city of New York, this being the first 
 execution of a slave trader in 40 years. — The 
 United States Regulars under Colonel Canby 
 j were defeated by Texan rebels under the com- 
 mand of Colonel Steele at Valverde, on the Rio 
 Grande, N. M.; the fight lasted all day. Dur- 
 ing its progress a section of U. S. artillery dis- 
 played bravery of the highest order, standing 
 to their guns until literally cut to pieces, and 
 Captain Alexander McRae sealed his heroism 
 with his life; the six guns attached to the bat- 
 tery were not captured until after tiie death of 
 their defenders ; 62 Union soldiers were killed 
 and 140 wounded; the rebel lo&s was not as- 
 certained. 
 
 Feb. 23. — Military necessity compelled the 
 rebel evacuation of Nashville, Tenu., which 
 was on the same day occupied by Union troops 
 under General Nelson. Circumstances of great 
 excitement attended the departure of the con- 
 federate forces and the removal of the State 
 government. Rebel soldiers were guilty of 
 many acts of rapine and pillage, and were only 
 prevented from burning the cit}- b}' the de- 
 termined opposition of armed citizeii.s. The 
 railroad bridge across the Cumberland was 
 burned and the wires of the suspension bridge 
 were cut, but neither of these acts of vandalism 
 served to prevent the entrance of the Union 
 troops. The rebel governor Harris, before his 
 flight, delivered an inflammatory address to a 
 meeting of citizens, urging them to meet him 
 at Memphis; his remarks awakened no enthu- 
 siasm and he left iii ajiparent di.sgust. — CJalla- 
 tin, Tenn., was occupied by General Buell's 
 
1862 — FEB. 24 — MARCH 8 — 1862. 
 
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 troops, while Fayetteville, Ark., was captured 
 by General Curtiss. 
 
 Feb. 24. — Mud Town, Ark., was occupied by 
 the 5th Missouri Cavalry, who captured a quan- 
 tity of stores which had been poisoned and 42 
 officers and men were taken ill and several 
 died. — The 37th New York engaged in a skir- 
 mish at Occoquan, Va. 
 
 Feb. 25. — Columbus, Ky., was evacuated. 
 
 Feb. 26. — Military possession was taken of all 
 telegraph lines and army intelligence was pro- 
 hibited from passing over the wires; private 
 messages were not interfered with, if of a pri- 
 vate nature. — In a skirmish at Key tesville. Mo., 
 the cavalry were engaged. 
 
 Feb. 28. — A skirmish occurred at Charleston, 
 Va. 
 
 March 1. — -At Sykestown, Mo., a detachment 
 of Illinois troops engaged in an action. 
 
 March 2. — Two of Commodore Foote's gun- 
 boats went up the Tennessee River to Pittsburg 
 Landing, silenced a rebel battery and landed a 
 small Union force, which charged the rebels 
 and drove them from their works. On the ar- 
 rival of rebel reinforcements the Union soldiers 
 retreated to the boats ; they lost five killed and 
 five wounded, and killed and wounded more 
 than 200 rebels. —A part of Commodore Du- 
 pont's Heet, assisted by the troops, took posses- 
 sion of Brunswick, Ga. 
 
 March 3. — Preparations for tlie occupation 
 of Fernandina, Fla., which was abandoned by 
 the rel.)els. (March 3d to March 7th.) — Military 
 activities at Martinsburg, Va.— An infantry 
 and two cavalry regiments engaged in a fight 
 at New Madrid, Mo. 
 
 March 5. — The 63d Pennsylvania Infantry 
 engaged in a skirmish at Occoquan, Va. — Mili- 
 tary movements occurred at Bunker Hill, Va., 
 Pineville, Mo., and Fort Beauregard, 8. C. 
 
 March 6.— Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. Van 
 Dorii, Price and Ben McCuUoch, with 35,000 
 
 troops, including 2,000 Indians, attacked the 
 forces of Sigel and Curtiss, Asbooth and .Jeff C. 
 Davis; at the end of the first daj* the troops 
 slept on their arms. Tiie battle continued the 
 next day with heav}' loss, McCulloch being 
 killed. The fighting was resumed the next 
 day — Saturday — and the rebels were routed be- 
 fore sunset and closely pursued. Nearly 2,000 
 prisoners were captured, and the Union loss 
 was 212 killed, 926 wounded and 170 missing, 
 while that of the rebels was 3,600 killed and 
 wuunded. The various parts of this action 
 are recorded as Benton ville, Leetown, Elkhorn 
 Tavern and Sugar Creek. 
 
 March 6. — Operations were begun at Berry- 
 ville which covered several days.— Movements 
 occurred at St. Mary's, Fla., and Smith field, Va. 
 
 March 7. — Geary's troops occupied Lees- 
 burg, Va. — A skirmish occurred at Fox Creek, 
 Mo.; the evacuation of Centerville, Va., took 
 place, and at Acquia Creek, Va., gunboat move- 
 ments occurred. 
 
 March 8. — The Army of the Potomac was 
 made into five corps. — Activities took place at 
 Occoquan, Va., Keytesville, Mo., Waterford, 
 Miss., and Wheatland, Mo. — Action in Hamp- 
 ton Roads. The rebel ironclad ram, Merrimac, 
 attacked the Cumberland, sinking her with 
 most of her crew. The Congress was next 
 attacked and surrendered after having been 
 set on fire; the Minnesota started to relieve the 
 Congress, but ran aground, and was attacked 
 by the ram and an engagement between the 
 two lasted until dark. Two gunboats were dis- 
 abled and the Union losses were very heavy ; 
 100 were killed and 50 wounded on the Cum- 
 berland ; 94 were killed and 29 wounded on 
 the Congress ; on the Minnesota, six were killed 
 and 25 wounded, and on the gunboats five were 
 killed and wounded ; the rebels took 40 pris- 
 oners from the Congress which burned all night 
 and then blew up. - In a skirmish near Nash- 
 
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 1862 — MARCH 9 — MARCH 21—1862. 
 
 ville, Tenn., the 1st Wisconsin Infantry and 
 4th Ohio Cavalry engaged. 
 
 March 9. — The Merrimac again appeared in 
 Hampton Iloads. During the niglit Ericsson's 
 steam floating battery Monitor arrived from 
 New York and the two ironehids were engaged 
 in a three-hours' figlit. The Merriinac retired 
 in a damaged condition and was towed away 
 to the protection of a rebel battery at Sewall's 
 Point. Lieutenant Worden, commander of the 
 Monitor, was injured in iiis ej'es whicii was the 
 only casualty on the "Yankee Cheese Box"; 
 24 were reported killed and wounded on the 
 Merrimac. — The rebel fortifications at Cockpit 
 Point, on the Potomac, were occupied by the 
 Union troops, and one of the obstructions to 
 the channel removed. — A skirmish occurred at 
 Mountain Grove, Mo., and activities were in 
 operation at Point Pleasant, W. Va. 
 
 March 10. — The rebels evacuated Manassas 
 Junction, Va., which was occupied by the 
 Union troops. — Rebel troops from Texas, under 
 Sibley, took military possession of Santa Fe, 
 N. M. — Cavalry skirmishes occurred at Burke's 
 Station, Va., and Jacksboro, Tenn. — Mditary 
 movements occurred at Brunswick, Va. 
 
 March 11.— In a cavalry skirmish at Win- 
 chester, Va., 4,000 rebels were dispersed and 
 the town occupied by tiie Union troops.— St. 
 Augustine, Fla., with an adjacent fort, was 
 occupied by Commodore Dupont without firing 
 a shot, and the National Hag was displayc'<l 
 volun'arily by the city autliorities. The 5th 
 Iowa and 1st Nebraska Cavalry engaged in a 
 skirmish at Parish, Tenn. 
 
 March 12.— Jacksonville, Fla., surrendered 
 to Dujiont and raised the stars and stripes. — A 
 cavalry force from New Lebanon, Mo., attacked 
 a rebel band, killing 13, wounding five and 
 capturing about 25 j)risoners. — At Lexington, 
 Mo., the 1st Iowa Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 
 March 13.— At New Madrid, Mo., the rebel 
 
 garrison evacuated the place, abandoning a 
 large quantity of ammunition and arms, beside 
 camp equipments and the troops of Pope took 
 possession. In the skirmishing previous to the 
 departure of the rebels, 50 Union soldiers were 
 killed. — A movement occurred at Williamsport, 
 Md. 
 
 March 14. — The troops of Burnside, after a 
 long and tedious march, attacked the rebels, 
 numbering 12,000, at New Berne, N. C, and, 
 alter three hours' hot contest, drove the latter 
 in confusion, making extensive captures, in- 
 cluding two steamboats and several sailing ves- 
 sels. The Union loss was 91 killed and 466 
 wounded. — In a movement at Point Pleasant, 
 W. Va., an infantry force was engaged. 
 
 March 15. — Activities occurred at Dumfries, 
 
 March 16. — Commodore Foote attacked 
 Island No. 10, on the Mississippi River, the 
 siege lasting 23 days. (The result of the bom- 
 bardment may be found under date of April 
 7tli.) — Near Pittsburg Landing a detachment 
 of the 4th Illinois defeated a squad of rebel 
 cavalry, inflicting heavy loss; four Union sol- 
 diers were wounded. — At Black Jack Forest, 
 Tenn., about 500 Union cavalry defeated 1,000 
 rebels; the Union loss was 25 in killed and 
 wounded, and the rebel loss was four times as 
 great. — Near Pound Gap, in the Cumberland 
 Mountains, a detachment of Garfield's forces 
 routed a rebel camp, capturing a quantit}' of 
 equipments and stores. 
 
 March 17. — The rebel steamer "Nashville" 
 escaped from Beaufort, N. C. 
 
 March 18. — Acquia Creek, Va., was evacu- 
 ated by the rebels. — A skirmish occurred at 
 Salem, Ark. 
 
 March 20. — Beaufort, N. C, was occupied 
 by Burnside without opposition. 
 
 March 21. — General Butler arrived at Ship 
 Island. — Burnside's troops occupied Washing- 
 
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 ton, N. C. — At Mosquito Inlet, Fla., a gunboat 
 action took place and a military movement 
 occurred at St. Augustine. 
 
 March 22. — In West Virginia, the rebels 
 attacked a portion of General Shields' troops 
 and retreated after the skirmish, in which 
 Shields was slightly wounded. — At Indepen- 
 dence, Mo., the 2nd Kansas Infantry was 
 engaged in a slight skirmish. 
 
 March 23. — General Jackson, commanding 
 12,00U rebels, was induced by a strategy of 
 General Shields to attack an apparently unsup- 
 ported force near Winchester, and encountered 
 10,000 Union troops and was driven in confu- 
 sion after five hours' fight ; 300 prisoners were 
 captured and 270 rebel dead were buried by 
 the Union troops. The Union casualties in- 
 cluded 103 killed, 440 wounded and 24 miss- 
 ing. — The investment of Fort Macon, N. C, 
 was commenced by the Union forces. — The 6tli 
 Kansas Cavalry were involved in a skirmish 
 at Carthage, Mo., and military activities took 
 place at Morehead City, Ky. 
 
 March 24. — Commodore Dupont sent an 
 expedition to Warsaw Sound, Ga., which occu- 
 pied the abandoned rebel works at Skidaway 
 and Green Islands. — Activities occurred at 
 Shipping Point, Va., and Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 March 26. — Quantrell with 200 guerrillas 
 attacked a detacliment of Missouri militia at 
 Warrensburg, Mo., and was repulsed. — A heavy 
 skirmish took place at Humansville, Mo., and 
 15 rebels were killed. — A skirmish occurred at 
 McMinnville, Tenn. 
 
 March 27. — The forces under Shields and 
 Jackson engaged in a skirmish near Strasburg, 
 Va. 
 
 March 28— About 1,300 Union soldiers 
 under Colonel Stough fought 1,100 Texans at 
 Apache Canon, N. M. ; the loss on both sides 
 bein^ heavy. — The 28th Pennsylvania engaged 
 in a skirmish at Middleburg, Va. 
 
 March 29. — A skirmish took place near 
 Warrensburg, Mo., in which the 1st Iowa Cav- 
 alry, under Captain Thompson, defeated the 
 guerrilliis under Parker and Walton, who were 
 both captured with 25 of their men. 
 
 March 31. — Colonel Buford, with a detach- 
 ment from the 27th and 42nd Illinois, and the 
 15tli Wisconsin, with a detail of cavalry and 
 artillery, dispersed a rebel garrison at Union 
 City, Tenn., with heavy loss of soldiers and 
 supplies. — The Baltimore and Ohio railroad 
 was reopened throughout its entire extent. — 
 Military movements took place at Watts' Creek, 
 Va., and Warrenton, Va. 
 
 April 1. — A portion of the 2nd Illinois Cav- 
 alry having been surrounded by a body of 
 rebels, between Corinth and Farmington, Miss., 
 gallantly cut their way out, losing only five in 
 killed and wounded ; the rebel loss was es- 
 timated at 49. — Skirmish at Putnam's Ferry, 
 Mo., in which the 5th Illinois Cavalry, 21st and 
 38th Illinois Infantry engaged. — At Thorough- 
 fare Gap, Va., the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry 
 ensaged in a skirmish. — Action at Stafford 
 C. H., Va., and at Stony Creek, Tenn. 
 
 April 3. — Appalachicola, Fla., was occupied 
 by the Union forces. 
 
 April 4. — Pass Christian on the Gulf coast, 
 northeast of New Orleans, was occupied by the 
 Union troops. — The Army of the Potomac, 
 umler General McClellan, advanced toward 
 Yorktown, Va. — Skirmishing preliminary to 
 the great battle which was soon to follow, took 
 place near Pittsburg Landing. — Skirmish at 
 Great Bethel, Va., and at Crump's Landing, 
 Tenn. 
 
 April 5. — An advance detachment of the 
 Army of the Potomac attacked the rebel works 
 at Yorktown, Va. ; three Union soldiers were 
 reported killed and 22 wounded. 
 
 April 6. — General McClellan's lines on the 
 Peninsula at this time extended across the 
 
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 1862 — APRIL 6— APRIL 12 — 1862. 
 
 neck of land from the York to the James and 
 liis troops occupied Shipping Point on Poquesin 
 Bay, which had been abandoned by the rebels, 
 presumably to avoid battle. 
 
 April 6-7. — Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg 
 Landing. Before daylight about 45,000 rebels, 
 iod l)y Albert Sidney Johnson and Beauregard, 
 suddenly attacked the Union forces, 35,000 
 strong, under General Grant. During the first 
 day's conflict, the United States troops were 
 driven back to the river with great slaughter, 
 losing also about 2,500 prisoners (among whom 
 was General Prentiss), 36 pieces of artillery, a 
 large amount of camp equipage, etc. The 
 army was saved from total defeat through the 
 rashness of the rebels, who, flushed with suc- 
 cess, approached too near the river, when the 
 gun1)oats opened ilre ujwn them with deadly 
 uH'ect. The confederate success on the first 
 day was not achieved without heavy loss. 
 General Jolmson himself being among the 
 'slain. During the night of the 6th and morn- 
 ing of the 7th, the Union army was strongly 
 reinforced. Fighting was resumed early on 
 the morning of the 7t]i, and at about 4 o'clock 
 in the afternoon began the rebel retreat, which 
 soon assumed the proportions of a partial rout. 
 Several Union prisoners and some cannon 
 were retaken. The fighting on both sides had 
 been desperate and the loss fearful. The 
 Union losses ofiicially reported were: killed, 
 1,674; wounded, 7,721 ; missing and prisoners, 
 3,963; total, 13,298. The rebel loss as re- 
 ported by Beauregard was 1,728 killed ; 8,012 
 wounded and 959 missing. 
 
 April 7. — After 23 days' intermittent bom- 
 bardment by Commodore Foote's flotilla. Island 
 No. 10 (commanded by General Markad) sur- 
 rendered. At the surrender, 17 oHicers, 300 
 privates in good health, 100 sick and 100 
 steamboat hands were made prisoners. In ad- 
 dition were captured 70 guns, besides several 
 
 steamers and other property, to the value of 
 nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. The 
 operations on the mainland had been carried 
 on by General Pope, who headed off the rebel 
 retreat and captured several more prisoners, 
 comprising four generals, 25 field officers, 204 
 line officers and over 6,000 pi'ivates, besides 
 10,000 arms, 2,000 horses and mules, 1,000 
 wagons, etc., besides about $40,000 worth of 
 provisions and ammunition. — Action at Law- 
 renceburg, Ky. 
 
 April S. — A rebel camp near Elizabeth City, 
 N. C, was surprised and routed by an expedi- 
 tion consisting of troops from Roanoke Island ; 
 80 prisoners were taken, one rebel soldier killed, 
 and a large quantity of arras, tents, etc., cap- 
 tured.— Fight near CorintI), Miss. 
 
 April 9. — A conscription was ordered by the 
 rebel congress. — Skirmish at Owens River, Cal. 
 —Activities at Jacksonville, Fla. 
 
 April 10-11. — Attack upon and surrender 
 of Fort Pulaski, Ga. The Union l)atteries on 
 Tj'bee Island, commanded by Gillmore, opened 
 fire on the fort whose garrison was commanded 
 by Colonel Olmstead. The rebels surrendered 
 after a bombardment of 30 hours, to General 
 Hunter. The prisoners taken numbered 360 
 and a large amount of garrison equipments 
 and ammunition were also captured. — The rebel 
 ram, Merrimac, again appeared in Hampton 
 Roads with several smaller heavily armed 
 vessels ; three small Union trading vessels were 
 captured, but no other damage was done.— Near 
 Yorktown, Va., a rebel re]>ulse took j)lace, in 
 which seven Union soldiers were killed and 
 wounded. — General Mitchell's troops occupied 
 Huntsville, Ala. — Slavery was abolished in the 
 District of Columbia. 
 
 April 12. — Skirmishes occurred at Little 
 Blue River, Mo., and at Monterey, Va.; move- 
 ments also took place at Pocahontas, Ark., and 
 at Stevens, Ga. 
 
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1862 — APRIL 13 — APRIL 25 — 1862. 
 
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 April 13. — Commodore Foote, with the Mis- 
 sissippi River flotilla, arrived at Fort Pillow 
 and on the following day opened fire on the 
 works. — Activities occurred at Needliam's Cut- 
 off, on the Mississippi, in Tennessee. 
 
 April 14. — Military movements occurred at 
 Pollocksville, N. C, Qrbana, Md., Lowey's Point, 
 Va., Diamond Grove, Walkersville, N. C, and 
 Montevallo, Mo. 
 
 April 15. — A fight occurred at Pechacho 
 Pass, D. T., and at Peratto, N. M.— In the 
 vicinity of South Mills, N. C, military move- 
 ments occurred covering several days. 
 
 April 16. — A detachment of rebels from 
 Lee's army made a night attack on the Union 
 position at Lee's Mills, Va. The assault was 
 repelled by a Vermont regiment, and the Union 
 troops drove the rebels from their intrench- 
 ments, but were finally compelled to retire. 
 The Union loss was 35 killed, 120 wounded 
 and nine prisoners; the rebel loss was 20 killed, 
 75 wounded and 50 prisoners.— Near York- 
 town, Va., the United States artillery opened a 
 duel with the rebels with slight advantage. — 
 Activities at Savannah, Tenn., and White Marsh 
 Island, Ga.; in the latter, the 8th Michigan and 
 a Rhode Island battery were engaged. 
 
 April 17. — At New Market, Va., a part of 
 the advanced guard of General Banks' com- 
 mand from Mount Jackson occupied the place. 
 — A skirmish occurred at Holly River, W. Va. 
 
 April IS.— At Fredericksburg, Va., a run- 
 ning fight took place, in which the 2d New 
 York Cavalry drove 3,000 rebels who burned 
 20 schooners, three steamboats and two bridges 
 in their flight. The Union loss was eight killed 
 and 17 wounded. — The attack on Forts Jackson 
 and St. Phillips at the mouth of the Mississippi 
 was commenced by the combined Dnion fleet 
 under Farragut and Porter. The activities con- 
 tinued until the 28th, the fleets passing the 
 forts and capturing New Orleans, where a force 
 
 under General Butler was landed. On the 28th 
 two companies of the 4th Wisconsin and a 
 detachment from the 21st Indiana went to the 
 rear of the forts, which completed the line of 
 investment, and the forts surrendered without 
 further resistance. — An action took place at 
 Edisto Island, S. G. 
 
 April 19. — Capture of Camden, N. C, by 
 General Reno with 2,500 men and a loss of 127 
 in killed, wounded and missing. — A skirmish 
 occurred on a canal near Elizabeth City, N. G, 
 500 men of Burnside's command being engaged 
 and driving a Georgia regiment; the Union loss 
 was 11 killed and many wounded. — In a skir- 
 mish at Talbot's Ferry, Ark., the 4th Iowa Cav- 
 alry were engaged. — A slight action took place 
 at Sparta, Tenn. 
 
 April 21. — Santa Fe, N. M., was occupied by 
 the Union troops. 
 
 April 22. — Slight skirmish at Lee's Mills 
 with a Union loss of two killed and two 
 wounded. — Near Paratura, N. M., General Can- 
 by's forces attacked a garrison of Texan rebels. 
 — Skirmishes took place at Harrisonburg, Va., 
 and Grass Lick, W. Va. 
 
 April 24. — Farragut's fleet passed Forts .Jack- 
 son and St. Phillips under a rain of shot and 
 shell. In the engagements 13 rebel gunboats 
 and three transports were destroyed. The 
 Union fleet lost only one vessel, and anchored 
 within 20 miles of New Orleans. The Union 
 loss included a little more than 200 in killed 
 and wounded; the rebel loss was nearly 400 
 killed and wounded and 400 prisoners. — Action 
 at Pea Ridge, Ark. 
 
 April 25. — Farragut demanded the surren- 
 der of New Orleans, and the rebels destroyed 
 $3,000,000 worth of cotton and shipping.— Fort 
 Macon, N. G, was bombarded for 11 hours by 
 three gunboats and a force commanded by 
 General Parks of Burnside's army, and surren- 
 dered ; the Union loss was one killed and two 
 wounded. 
 
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 1862— APRIL 26 — MAY 9 — 1862. 
 
 April 26.— A rebel outwork near Yorktown, 
 Va., was assaulted and destroyed by one com- 
 pany of the 1st Massachusetts witli a loss of 
 three killed and 13 wounded. — At Neosho, Mo., 
 Major Hubbard, commanding 148 men of the 
 1st Missouri, defeated 600 rebel Indians, killing 
 and wounding 30, capturing 60, and a large 
 amount of arms. — The 5th Kansas Cavalry had 
 a skirmish at Turn Back Creek, Mo., and the 
 troops under A. J. Smith, made a reconnois- 
 sance to Lick Creek, Miss. 
 
 April 27.— A skirmish took place near Hor- 
 ton's Mills, N. C, and at Purdy, Tenn., a mili- 
 tary movement occurred. 
 
 Ai'KiL 28. — Formal surrender of New Orleans 
 and also Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. — A skir- 
 mish, in which 22 men of the 10th Wisconsin 
 engaged, took place at Paint Rock Railroad 
 Bridge, Ala. — Three regiments, including the 
 16th and 42nd Ohio and the 22nd Kentucky, 
 engaged in a skirmish at Cumberland Moun- 
 tain, and the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, had a fight at 
 Monterey, Tenn. — At Bridgeport, Ala., General 
 Mitchell's forces routed the rebels and inflicted 
 a loss of 72 killed, a large number wounded 
 and 350 prisoners. — ^Movements took place at 
 Edisto, S. C. 
 
 Ai'Kir, 30. — The siege of Corinth, Miss., was 
 commenced by the army under Halleck. 
 
 May 1. — General ^Mitchell occupied Ilunts- 
 ville, Ala. — A slight skirmish took place at 
 Clark's Hollow, W. Va.— At Pulaski, Tenn., 
 Morgan's guerrillas captured a small force of 
 Union troops. — At Farmington, Miss., an action 
 occurred with no decisive results, although si.x 
 Illinois regiments and three Michigan regi- 
 ments, a company of sharpshooters and an 
 Illinois battery, were engaged. 
 
 May 4. — The rebels having evacuated York- 
 town and Gloucester, Va., those points were 
 occupied by McClellan's army. — A rebel iron- 
 clad was captured in running the blockade at 
 
 Charleston, S. C. — A skirmish took place at 
 Licking, Mo., and at Cheese Cake Church, Va. 
 — The pursuit of the rebels from Yorktown 
 was vigorously pressed. 
 
 May 5.— Battle of Williamsburg, Va. This 
 action was one of the most fearful of the war 
 up to this date. The rebel loss was about 3,000 
 and the Union loss 500 less. Hancock's troops 
 gained a decided advantage in the early stage 
 of the fighting, displaying great bravery. The 
 liattle throughout was desperate on both sides, 
 Sickles' and Hooker's men suffering heavy loss. 
 Reinforcements arrived a little after noon and 
 soon after, Hancock with his Western troops, 
 secured a victor}'. The enemy fled during the 
 night. — Skirmishes took place at St. .losephs, 
 La., at Lebanon, Tenn., and at Dresden, Ky. 
 
 May 6. — McClellan's army occuj)ied Wil- 
 liamsburg. — Military movements occurred at 
 Harrisonburg, Va. 
 
 May 7. — At West Point, Va., a detachment 
 of Lee's army was defeated by the troops be- 
 longing to the expedition under Franklin and 
 Sedgwick ; the rebels retreated with a loss of 
 800. — A Union repulse occurred at Somerville 
 Heights, Va., with a loss of 29 Union soldiers. 
 — Activities occurred at Giles C. II., Va. 
 
 May 8. — The Union gunboats ran past the 
 rebel ram Merrimac and ascended the James 
 River. — Sewall's Point was bombarded by the 
 Monitor and Union gunboats. — The Union 
 command under Milroy and Schenck had a 
 severe engagement near McDowell, Va., losing 
 40 killed and 120 wounded; the rebel loss was 
 jn'oliably much greater. — At Corinth, Miss., a 
 hot action took place, which involved the 7th 
 Illinois Cavalry under Major Arlington, who 
 was killed ; this action is also known as Glen- 
 dale. 
 
 May 9. — General Pope's forces fought the 
 rebels under Price and Van Dorn at Farming- 
 ton, Miss., and retired to avoid a general en- 
 
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 gagement, losing IGO killed and wounded. — 
 Near Athens, Ala., a skirmish occurred in 
 which five Union soldiers and 13 rebels were 
 killed. — In the Shenandoah Valley, the forces 
 of Banks drove the rebels back to Staunton. — 
 Bnrnside sent a steamer up the Chowan River 
 which captured or destroyed $50,000 worth of 
 provisions designed for rebels. — The gunboats 
 up the James River bombarded Fort Darling. — 
 Pensacola navy yard burned. — Skirmishes oc- 
 curred at Elkton Station, Ala., and at Slaters- 
 ville, Va. 
 
 May 10. — Gosport navy yard was burned 
 and Craney Island abandoned by the rebels. — 
 General Wool with his forces occupied Norfolk. 
 — Stoneman's advance readied New Kent C. H., 
 Va. — A gunboat action resulting in Union 
 victory occurred near Fort Pillow. 
 
 May 11. — The rebels destroyed the Merri- 
 mac. — The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry engaged in 
 a skirmish at Bloomfield, Mo., and at Cave 
 City, Ky., military movements occurred. 
 
 May 12. — Occupation of the rebel position 
 at Pensacola. — Natchez surrendered. — Blockade 
 raised at Beaufort, N. C, Port Royal, S. G, and 
 New Orleans, La., to go into effect June 1st, 
 1862. — At McDowell, Va., another action took 
 place with a loss of 20 killed and 177 wounded 
 and a rebel loss of 240.— In a skirmish near 
 Monterey, Tenn., the Union forces killed 10 
 rebels and lost two soldiers. — The advance of 
 McClellan's army reached White House, hav- 
 ing skirmished at Cumberland, Va. — Military 
 movements occurred at Holly Rivei', W. Va., 
 Rogersville, Ala., and Ready Creek, Tenn. 
 
 May 14.— Near Trenton Bridge, N. C, the 
 command of Colonel Armory defeated the 
 rebels and killed 10. 
 
 May 15. — A gunboat action took place at 
 Fort Darling, Va. — Skirmishes at Linden, Va., 
 Princeton, W. Va., Chalk Bluffs, Mo., and 
 Batesville, Ark., took place. 
 
 May 16.— At Trenton, N. C, an action took 
 place in which six rebels were killed and a 
 number wounded ; Major Fitz Simmons in 
 command of the Union force was wounded and 
 five of his men captured.— An action took 
 place at Piedmont, W. Va. 
 
 May 17.— On the James River, the fleet of 
 Goldsborough made an attempt to pass Fort 
 Darling which was unsuccessful.— Actions took 
 place at Russellville, near Corinth, Miss., and 
 on the Black River, Mo. 
 
 May 18.— a division of the Army of^the 
 Potomac arrived at Bottom's Bridge, 15 miles 
 from Richmond; the bridge had been de- 
 stroyed and the rebels opened fire without 
 material damage.— Combined land and naval 
 movements up the Paraunky River prepara- 
 tory to operations north of Richmond, and 20 
 rebel schooners were captured.— At Princeton, 
 Va., where operations had been in progress 
 three days, the forces of General Cox were de- 
 feated, losing 30 killed and 70 wounded. — Suf- 
 folk, Va., occupied by the Union troops. — Near 
 Searcy Landing, Ark., the command of Oster- 
 haus defeated the rebels, who lost about 100. 
 
 May 19. — Stoiieman's division reached Cold 
 Harbor. — A skirmish occurred near Newbern, 
 N. C, five Union and 11 rebel soldiers being 
 killed. 
 
 Mw 20. — A division of the Army of the 
 Potomac reached New Bridge, eight miles from 
 Richmond. — At Moorefields, Va., Union troops 
 under Downey killed four rebels and captured 
 12. 
 
 May 21. — Four Union vessels shelled Cole's 
 Gate Island, S. C, and attacked Keawah Island 
 in the same locality. — A skirmish occurred at 
 Phillil)'s Creek, Miss. 
 
 May 22. — McClellan's army advanced in 
 force ; an engagement followed, the Union 
 troops driving back the rebels, sustaining small 
 loss and killing, wounding and capturing 150. 
 
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 1862 — MAY 23 — MAY 30—1862. 
 
 The advance was continued, and the rebels 
 dislodged from Ellison's Mills by an artillery 
 action. — Skirmishes occurred at Florida, Mo., 
 on the White River, Ark., and near Newbern, 
 N. C. 
 
 May 23. — A sudden and furious attack was 
 made on Front Royal, Va., and the Union 
 troops were defeated with great loss of prison- 
 ers. — At Strasburg, Va., the rebels attacked 
 the force of General Banks and won a victory. 
 — At Lewisburg, Va., 3,000 rebels made an 
 attack on the command of Crook and were 
 repulsed with a loss of more than 200, besides 
 cannon and arms and the Union loss was only 
 10 killed and 40 wounded. — Mechanicsville, 
 five miles from Richmond, was occupied by a 
 part of the Army of the Potomac after an 
 artillery duel ; Negley's brigade reached a point 
 five miles from the rebel capital and, after this 
 movement, MeClellan's command was prac- 
 tically five miles from Richmond. 
 
 May 24. — Skirmishes took place at Middle- 
 town, Newton and New Bridge on the Chicka- 
 hominy. — Activities at Fort Craig, N. M. 
 
 May 25. — Battle of Winchester, Va. General 
 Banks was attacked by an overwhelmingly 
 superior force of rebels and recommenced his 
 retreat after two hours' hard fighting. The 
 women of Winchester fired upon the retreating 
 , Union troops and the men on the sick in the 
 ambulances. The enemy, by occupying Berry- 
 ville, having cut off Bank's retreat on Harper's 
 Ferry, the latter was compelled to proceed wes- 
 terly via Mill Creek and Martinsburg to the 
 Potomac, being hotly pressed by the rebels on 
 both ilank and rear; the retreat was most mas- 
 terly; 35 out of the 53 miles were traversed in 
 one day; and out of 500 wagons, he lost but 50 
 from all causes. 
 
 May 26.— General Banks' forces arrived at 
 Williamsport, Md.; on the same day General 
 Fremont's troops took up their march for his 
 
 reinforcement.— General McDowell extended 
 his pickets eight miles along the Bowling Green 
 road toward Richmond. 
 
 May' 27. — Near Hanover C. H., a skirmish 
 took place in wliich 54 Union soldiers were 
 killed and 194 were reported as wounded and 
 missing. About 300 rebels were killed and 
 wounded, and 500 prisoners captured. — A skir- 
 mish took place at Big Indian Creek, Ark., and 
 Osceola, Mo. 
 
 May 28. — A rebel defeat occurred near 
 Corinth, Miss., the Union loss in killed and 
 wounded being 25 ; 50 dead rebels were left on 
 the field. — Information reached the Union army 
 that the rebels were increasing their forces on 
 the James River, and that arrangements were 
 being made to remove the non-combatants in 
 Richmond to a place of safety.— Skirmishes 
 took place at Wardensville, Va., and at Bayou 
 Cache, Ark. 
 
 May 29. — General Fitz John Porter's division 
 having been sent by General McClellan on an 
 expedition to the north of Richmond, a detach- 
 ment under General Morell captured Hanover 
 C. H., after a spirited contest, killing and 
 wounding 400 and taking 600 prisoners. The 
 Union loss was 379, of whom 53 were killed. — 
 General Porter next cut the Virginia Central 
 railroad in three places, and a cavalry force 
 destroyed the bridge across South Anna River, 
 cutting off the rebel troops opposite McDowell's 
 division from the main force at Richmond. — A 
 gunboat reconnoissance up the Appomattox 
 advanced to within five miles of Parkersburg. 
 — A rebel advance in great force was made in 
 the neighborhood of the Chickahominy. — Gen- 
 eral Beauregard evacuated Corinth, Miss., and 
 the place was, on the following day, occupied 
 by General Pope's command. — A skirmish oc- 
 curred at Pocotaligo, S. C. — Activities at Gates- 
 ville, N. C, and at Ashland, Ky. 
 
 May 30. — A brigade of Union troops re-en- 
 
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 tered and occupied Front Royal, Va. — A fight 
 took place at Booneville and Tuscumbia Creek, 
 Miss. — Evacuation of Corinth, Miss. 
 
 May 31.— The first battle of Fair Oaks, Va., 
 sometimes called the battle of the Chickahom- 
 iny. About 10 o'clock a. m. the rebels attacked 
 the Union advance under General Casey, which 
 had been thrown across the river and over- 
 powered the division, which was forced to give 
 way, losing camp, boats, etc. Reinforcements 
 under Generals Couch and Heintzelman checked 
 the rebel advance and, later in the day. Gen- 
 erals Kearney, Richardson and Sedgwick's 
 forces, arriving on the scene of action, the rebel 
 troops were driven back with great slaughter. 
 Darkness ended the day's conflict which was 
 renewed at daybreak and continued until near 
 sunset of the next day. Four brillant bayonet 
 charges were made by the Union troops, in one 
 of which the enemy was driven a mile over 
 the swampy ground. Effective use was made 
 of a lialloon held in position 2,000 feet in mid 
 air, from which, by means of a telegraph wire. 
 General McClellan was informed of everything 
 which transpired during the battle. Twelve 
 hundred rebel dead wei'e left on the field and 
 the total confederate loss was admitted to be 
 8,000 in killed, wounded and missing, includ- 
 ing five generals. General Joe Johnston him- 
 self, being among the wounded; official reports 
 gave the Union loss at 800 killed, 3,627 wounded 
 and 1,217 missing and prisoners, besides several 
 pieces of artiller3^ The Union troops main- 
 tained their position. — A skirmish took place 
 at Neosho, Mo., and Washington, N. C. 
 
 May 31. — A Union cavalry force under Colo- 
 nel Elliott, sent by General Pope to Barnesville, 
 Miss., captured eight locomotives and 26 cars 
 loaded with rebel supplies, 10,000 stand of arms 
 and a number of prisoners, who were paroled. 
 — Little Rock, Ark., was occupied by the Union 
 troops, the governor and legislature fleeing in 
 
 haste.— General Banks again advanced into the 
 Shenandoah Valley, passing through Martins- 
 burg and capturing several small parties of 
 confederates south of that place. 
 
 June 1. — -General Fremont's advance over- 
 took the retreating rebels under Jackson near 
 Strasburg, Va., and, after some skirmishing, 
 occupied the town, the Union loss in killed and 
 wounded being 12.— An unsucce,ssful attack on 
 a rebel battery of rifled guns at Grand Gulf, 
 Miss., was made by a part of Farragut's fleet. 
 — Movements at Seabrook, S. C, and at Pig 
 Point, Va. 
 
 June 2. — General Wool was transferred to 
 the Department of Maryland with headquarters 
 at Baltimore, General Dix, (U. S. V.) who had 
 formerly been stationed at Baltimore, being 
 appointed to the command of a corps including 
 the fortress.— Activities at Bunker Hill, Va. 
 
 June 3. — General Sigel assumed command 
 at Harper's Ferry. — Skirmish at Legare's Point, 
 S. C. 
 
 June 4. — A report was received from General 
 Pope, announcing his pursuit of the retreat- 
 ing rebel forces south of Corinth, Miss., and the 
 capture of a large number of prisoners and 
 arms; the rebel Beauregard, however, in his 
 official report, denied having met with any 
 serious loss. — A body of Union troops, under 
 General Benliam landed on James Island, S. G; 
 some opposition was encountered and a rebel 
 force was discovered of more than 20,000.— 
 Union troops under General Negley defeated 
 the rebels under General Adams near Jasper, 
 Tenn., capturing 25 prisoners and killing and 
 wounding 12. — Skirmish at Blacklands, Miss. 
 
 June 5. — After bombardment, tlie rebels 
 evacuated and burned Fort Pillow on the Mis- 
 sissippi, thus opening the river to the passige 
 of Union gunboats towards the South. — A com- 
 parative panic seized upon Memphis, Tenn., 
 with the advance of the Union troops ; a large 
 
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 1862 — JUNE 6— JUNE 14—1862. 
 
 quantity of cotton was burned on the Missis- 
 sippi sliore above tlie city, and at a mass raeet- 
 iug of tlie citizens, resolutions favoring surren- 
 der were adopted. — Skirmish at Trouter's Creek, 
 N. C. 
 
 June 6. — About daybreak, eight rebel gun- 
 boats which liad left Memphis attacked a Union 
 flotilla. One hour's fight ensued. Several of 
 the attacking fleet were sunk, the rebel crews 
 in more than one instance, preferring to go 
 down with their boats to a surrender which 
 they considered disgraceful. On the Union 
 side, the only serious casualty was the mortal 
 wounding of Colonel Charles EUett. At the con- 
 clusion of the naval engagement, flag-ofticer 
 Davis demanded the unconditional surrender 
 of the city of Memphis which demand was at 
 once complied with by the authorities.— A 
 small force of rebels at Harrodsburg, Va., was 
 routed by a detachment of General Fremont's 
 Corps. — A skirmish occurred at Harrisonburg, 
 Va. 
 
 June 7. — Commodore Farragut's .squadron 
 from the lower Mississippi arrived at Vicks- 
 burg. Miss., where it was joined by Porter's 
 mortar fleet whicli had descended the river. — 
 The rebel batteries at Chattanooga, Tenn., were 
 silenced by General Mitcliell's advance. — By 
 order of Mijor-General Butler, William B. 
 Mumford was hung in New Orleans for haul- 
 ing down the American flag. -California volun- 
 teers under General Carleton, arrived at Tuc- 
 son, having occupied all the Arizona forts with- 
 out resistance, the works having been evacu- 
 ated by the rebels several days previous ; Gen- 
 eral Carleton was appointed military governor 
 of the new territory. 
 
 June 8. — Another attack was made on the 
 rebel battery at Grand Gulf, Miss., by a portion 
 of Farragut's squadron, the battery being 
 silenced.— A battle was fought at Cross Keys, 
 Va., between the rear of Stonewall Jackson's rebel 
 
 force and a portion of the command of Fremont 
 in which the former was defeated with con- 
 siderable loss; the Union loss was 125 killed 
 and nearly 400 wounded. 
 
 June 9. — While en route to co-operate witli 
 Fremont, Shields, with 3,500 soldiers was at- 
 tacked and defeated by about 16,000 rebels un- 
 der General -lackson at Port Republic, Va. 
 Shields made good his retreat but the loss on 
 both sides was heavy ; the reported Union loss 
 was 67 killed, 361 wounded, 574 missing, while 
 the rebel loss was believed to be about the 
 same. — Union troops occupied Grand Junction, 
 Miss., about 41 miles west of Corinth, the forcjs 
 of Beauregard having retreated through Gun- 
 towMi. — A skirrai.sh took place at Baldwin, Miss. 
 Ji'NE 10. — In an engagement on James 
 Island, S. C, the Union troops defeated the 
 rebels, the loss being about 17 on both sides in 
 killed and wounded. — A skirmish took place at 
 Monterey, Ky. 
 
 June 12. — In a skirmish near Village Creek, 
 Ark., the force under Colonel Brackett defeated 
 the rebels under Captain Hooker; 13 Union 
 soldiers were wounded, the rebel loss being 28 
 in killed, wounded and prisoners.- At Mount 
 Jackson, W. Va., mili'ary movements occurred. 
 June 13.— A rebel battery near St. Charles, 
 Ark., was captured by a Union gunboat expedi- 
 tion from Mempliis. A rebel shot exploded a 
 boiler on the gunboat Mound City, the vessel 
 being destroyed and only 50 out of a crew of 
 175 were rescued ; 125 rebels were killed and 
 wounded and 30 prisoners taken. — The rebels 
 cut the railroad and telegraph at White House 
 in the rear of General McClellau's command. — 
 A skirmish took place at Old Church, Va. 
 
 June 14. — Tiiree several attempts were made 
 by the Union forces to dislodge the rebels from 
 their intrenched position on James Ishmd, S. C, 
 but the assailants were finally repulsed with a 
 loss of over 600 in killed, wounded and missing. 
 
CHrCACO PHOTO-GRAVURt CO. 
 
GEN. W. T. SHERMAN. 
 
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1862— JUNE 15— JUNE 27—1862. 
 
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 The attack was led by General Benham, the 
 defense being conducted by Colonel Lamar. — 
 A skirmish took place at Tunistall Station, Va. 
 
 June 15. — Three hours skirmishing took 
 place in front of the division of Sumner ; mys- 
 terious rebel movements were observed in front 
 of the position of McClellan, and rumors were 
 rife of a rebel advance from Richmond towards 
 l^'redericksburg with the design of marching on 
 Washington. — Action at Secessionville, S. C. 
 
 Junk 17. — Union troops, belonging to the 
 command of Halleck occupied Holly Springs, 
 Miss. — A skirmish took place at St. Charles, 
 White River, Ark., and at Warrensburg, Mo. 
 
 June 18. — Skirmishing all along the line 
 before Richmond, which was continued through 
 the followingday.— Union forces occupied Cum- 
 berland Gap.— Near Smithville, Ark., Union 
 forces under Major Zeley defeated the rebels 
 under Captain Jones, wounding four and cap- 
 turing 15 prisoners; the Union loss was three 
 killed and four wounded. — A skirmish took 
 place on the Williamsburg road, Va. — Activities 
 occurred at Manchac, La. 
 
 June 20.— G,000 Union troops left Norfolk, 
 \'a. — President Lincoln signed the bill forever 
 ]irohibiting slavery in the territories. 
 
 June 21.— A skirmish occurred at Battle 
 Creek, Tenu. 
 
 June 22. — Military movements occurred at 
 Cold Water, Miss., and at Raceland, La. 
 
 June 24. — An action occurred at Bolivar, Va. 
 
 June 25.— On this date the seven days' fight- 
 \n^ before Richmond commenced and a brief 
 synopsis is given. The advance of Hooker's 
 forces resulted in the battle of Oak Grove in 
 which the Union loss was 200; the confederate 
 pickets were withdrawn half a mile nearer 
 Richmond. June 2Gth, the rebels under Jack- 
 son attacked McCall's division near Mechanics- 
 ville and forced the Union troops to retire to the 
 Chickahominy. June 27th, the rebel advance 
 
 on Gaines' Mills was repulsed, the Union troops 
 under Porter pushing to the south side of the 
 Chickahominy and joining the main body of 
 McClellan's army. The Union loss was more 
 than 1,500. June 29th, fighting was renewed 
 at a point between the battle field of Fair Oaks 
 and Peach Orchard Station. The fighting 
 lasted five hours with terrible carnage and the 
 Union troops fell back from Peach Orchard. 
 While weakened by fatigue, they were attacked 
 near Savage Station by a large and fresh body 
 of rebels. The exhausted troops repulsed the 
 attack and made several gallant charges. June 
 30th saw the commencement of the battle of 
 White Oak Swamp or Glendale, which continued 
 nearly the whole day. The artillery firing was 
 very effective. The Union troops fell back to 
 the James River whei'e the Union gunboats 
 opened fire on the rebels. July 1st closed the 
 fighting, the last battle taking place at Malvern 
 Hill and lasting about two hours. The rebels 
 were repulsed at every point and the base of 
 operations of the Union army was removed to 
 the James River. The total Union loss in the 
 seven days before Richmond was 15,224. 
 
 June 25. — Slight actions occurred at Ger- 
 manto\vn,Tenn.,and at Little Red River, Ark. 
 — General Grant was placed in command of 
 Western Tennessee. 
 
 June 26.— Battle of Mechanicsville, Va.— The 
 rebels burned several of their gunboats on the 
 Mississippi. 
 
 June 27.— Battle of Gaines' Mills, Va.— A 
 skirmish took place at Village Creek, Ark., in 
 which the Union force of Colonel Brackett lost 
 two killed and 31 wounded. — A portion of the 
 lower Mississippi fleet attacked and passed the 
 rebel batteries at Vicksburg, Miss., losing 50 in 
 killed and wounded. — Petitions were offered by 
 the governors of 18 loyal States to the President 
 to call out more troops for the speedy suppres- 
 sion of the rebellion.— Skirmishes took place at 
 
42 
 
 1862— JUNE 28 — JULY 22 — 1862. 
 
 William's Bridge, La., at White House, Va., at 
 Powhattan, and Moorefield, W. Va. 
 
 June 28. — Action on Golden's Farm. 
 
 June 29. Battle of Peach Orchard Station, 
 Va., and Savage Station. — Skirmishes at Willis' 
 Church. 
 
 June 30. — Actions occurred at Luray, Xa.., at 
 Fort Darling and Bottom's Bridge. 
 
 July 1. — A cavalry skirmish without results 
 occurred near Boonesville, Miss., and an action 
 took place at Morning Sun and Russcllville> 
 Tenn. 
 
 July 2. — A cavalry action occurred at Mil- 
 ford, Va. 
 
 July 3. — City Point, Va., which had been 
 made a shelter for rebel sharpshooters, was de- 
 stroyed by the Union forces and a skirmish 
 took place at ElvingLon Heights, Va. 
 
 July 4. — Activities on the James River in 
 which a detachment of McClellau's command 
 captured three small batteries and a rebel gun- 
 boat was taken the same day. — A cavalry ac- 
 tion took place at Grand Haze, Ark. —Maine 
 cavalry engaged in an action at Sperryville, Va. 
 
 July 6. — At Grand Prairie, Ark., a slight 
 skirmish took place. — ^At Bayou Cache, Ark., a 
 Union force under Colonel Hovey, and a force 
 of Texans under Albert Pike engaged in an 
 action which had been brought on liy a rebel 
 attack on the Union force descending the Wiiite 
 River and the assaulting party was routed with 
 heavy loss. 
 
 July 8.— Burnside united his command with 
 that of McCIellan. — .\ skirmish took place at 
 Black River, Mo. 
 
 July 9. -Hawkin's Zouaves with the aid of 
 Union gunboats captured Hamilton, N. C. — 
 Skirniislies took place at Aberdeen, Ark., and 
 Tompkinsville, Ky. 
 
 July 10. — An action occurred at Scatterville, 
 Ark. 
 
 July 11. — General Curtiss' troops reached 
 
 Helena, Ark. — Active movements took place at 
 New Hope, Ky., and at Pleasant Hill, Mo. 
 
 July 12. — Butler confiscated 5,000 negroes 
 employed by the rebels on the Vicksburg 
 canal. — At Fairmount, Mo., at Lebanon, Ky., 
 and Culpeper, Va., military movements were 
 in progress. 
 
 July 13. — A rebel attack on Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn., was made by about 4,000 rebel guerrillas, 
 which resulted in the surrender of a Michigan 
 regiment and the loss of a large number of 
 Union soldiers ; $30,000 worth of Union arms 
 and stores were destroyed by the guerrillas, 
 whose loss was proportionately heavy. Gener- 
 als Crittenden and Duffield were captured. — 
 An action took place at Fairfax, Va. 
 
 July 14. — Pope assumed command of the 
 Arm}- of Virginia. — John Morgan's guerrillas 
 captured Cynthiana, Ky. — Miller's Union cav- 
 alry routed the rebels near Fayetteville, Ark., 
 with heavj' loss. — A skirmish took place at 
 Batesville, Ark. 
 
 July 15. — General Blunt's troops defeated 
 the rebels in Indian Territory. — The rebel iron 
 clad, Arkansas, escaped the blockade of the 
 Yazoo River and ran the gauntlet of the Union 
 fleet on the Missi.ssippi, taking refuge under 
 the rebel batteries of Vicksburg; she threw a 
 shell ou the Tyler and killed several Wisconsin 
 soldiers. 
 
 July 17. — -A detachment from Pope's com- 
 mand occupied Gordonsville, Va. — Activities 
 at Cynthiana, Ky. 
 
 July' 18. — Actions took place at Newburgh 
 and Columbia, Tenn. — Near Memphis, Mo., the 
 rebels were defeated in a skirmish. — An action 
 took place at Trenton, Tenn. 
 
 July 19. — Activities occurred at Booneville, 
 Miss. 
 
 July 22. — The canal at Vicksburg not prov- 
 ing a success, the siege of the city was aban- 
 doned to await the rise of the water in the fall. 
 
1862 — JULY 25 — AUG. 5 — 1862. 
 
 4c{ 
 
 — A raid was made into Florence, Ala., by rebel 
 guerrillas. — Arrangements were made on the 
 James River for the exchange of prisoners. — 
 At Florida, Mo., the rebels defeated the Union 
 troops under Major Caldwell and inflicted a loss 
 of 26 men. — Movements occurred at Carmel 
 Church and on the North Anna River, Va. — 
 In a skirmish near Decatur, Ala., the rebels 
 were defeated, losing 40 killed and wounded. — 
 Active movements occurred at Sumnersville, 
 Va., and a skirmish took place at Trinity, Ala. 
 July 25. — A skirmish took place near Orange 
 C. H , in which the command of General Gibson 
 inflicted a loss of 17 in killed and wounded on 
 the rebels. — In a skirmish at Sante Fe, N. M., 
 the 3d Iowa Cavalry were engaged and skir- 
 mishes took place on Cortland Bridge, Ala., at 
 Big Piney and Mountain Stone, Mo. 
 
 July 26. — Movements took place at Madison, 
 Va., and Richmond, Ky. — In a skirmish at 
 Young's Cross Roads, N. C, two regiments of 
 infantry and cavalry wei'e engaged. — Military 
 operations occurred at Greenville, Mo., and 
 Buckhannon, W. Va. 
 
 July 27. — At the mouth of the Arkansas 
 River a number of river boats were captured 
 by Curtiss' command. — Near Bolivar, Tenn., 
 Captain DoUin's force routed a body of rebels, 
 capturing 13 with slight loss. — Iowa cavalry 
 skirmished at Brown's Springs, Mo., and mili- 
 tary movements occurred at Beaver Dam, Va. 
 July 28. — In a battle at Moore's Mills, Mo., 
 the rebels were defeated with a loss of 52 killed 
 and 100 wounded, most of whom were left on 
 the field ; the Union loss was about 40 in killed 
 and wounded. — Grand Junction, Miss., was 
 captured by the rebels. — Skirmishes took place 
 at Bayou Bernard and Cherokee Nation. 
 
 July 29. — At Brownsville, Tenn., Captain 
 Dollin's command engaged in a fight and lost 
 four killed and six wounded. — Humboldt, 
 Tenn., was occupied by the rebels. — Skirmishes 
 
 took place at Russellville, Ky., and movements 
 were in progress at Luray, Va., and Bolinger's 
 Mills, Mo. 
 
 July 30. — A skirmish occurred at Paris, Ky. 
 
 July 31. — Near Mount Sterling, Ky., an ac- 
 tion took place in which 13 guerrillas were 
 killed and 195 captured. — A gunboat action 
 took place at Toggin's Point, Va. 
 
 Aug. 1. — A skirmishing party from McClel- 
 lan's command crossed the Potomac at Harri- 
 son's Landing, and destroyed houses and woods 
 which had sheltered rebel sharpshooters. — 
 Skirmishes took place at Newark, Mo., and at 
 Canton, Miss. 
 
 Aug. 2. — Embarkation of Burnside's com- 
 mand at Fortress Monroe for Acquia Creek, Va. 
 — A reconnoitering expedition from Pope's 
 command occupied Orange C. H., Va., losing 
 four killed and 12 wounded. — An indecisive 
 action took place at Ozark, Mo. — ^A skirmish 
 occurred in Coahoma county, Miss., in which 
 the 11th Wisconsin was engaged. — At Austin, 
 Mi.ss., the 8th "Indiana was engag'id. 
 
 Aug. 3. — 4,000 Union troopd attacked the 
 rebels near Memphis, Tenn., and were defeated 
 with heavy loss. — Arrival of Burnside's expe- 
 dition at Acquia Creek. — Halleck ordered 
 McClellau to leave the Peninsula.— Skirmishes 
 and other activities occurred at Chariton Bridge, 
 Mo., at Jonesboro and L'Anguille Ferry, Ark., 
 and in the latter the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was 
 engaged. 
 
 Aug. 4. — Activities occurred near Alexan- 
 dria, La., on the Wiiite River, Ark., and at 
 Sycamore Church, Va., a cavalry force was en- 
 gaged in a skirmish. — A draft of 300,000 men 
 to serve for nine months was ordered, and an- 
 other draft to fill the preceding call for 300,000 
 men. — Activities occurred at White Oak Swamp 
 Bridge, Va., and Sparta, Tenn. 
 
 Aug. 5. — A reconnoissance was made from 
 Malvern Hill, Va., and another on the James 
 
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 1862 — AUG. 6 — AUG. 11 — 1862. 
 
 River, which resulted in the withdrawal of the 
 rebel fleet. — Near Baton Rouge, La., 7,000 rebels 
 attacked 3,000 Union troops under General 
 Williams, and retreated after six hours' fighting 
 with a loss of 600. — Near New Market, Ala., 
 General Robert L. McCook, while being con- 
 veyed in an ambulance, was attacked and shot 
 and his death occurred the next day. 
 
 Aug. 6. — The ram Arkansas was sunk by 
 the Essex on the Mississippi River near Vicks- 
 burg. — Stuart'.s troops captured 75 Union pri.s- 
 oners near the Mattapony River, Va. — A por- 
 tion of the Vii'ginia Central Railroad near 
 Fredericksburg, with stores for the rebel army, 
 was destroyed by a detachment from Burnside's 
 command. — Movements near Monticello, Mo., 
 and at Beach Greek, Va.,and Tazewell, Tenn. — 
 The 3d Wisconsin engaged in a skirmisli at 
 Montevallo, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 7. — A skirmish occurred near Wolf- 
 town, Va., and the rebels crossed the Rapidau 
 at Bennett's Ford. — At Kirkville, Mo., a Union 
 victory was obtained by the Union.troops under 
 Colonel McNeill.— The force of Colonel Faulk- 
 ner routed the rebels near Trenton, Tenn., kill- 
 ing 20 and wounding three. — At Fort Fillmore, 
 N. M., General Canby's troops worsted tlie 
 rebels. — Orders were issued by Secretary Stan- 
 ton for the arrest of persons interfering with 
 enlistments; lie also prohibited persons liable 
 to draft from leaving the country, their county 
 or state, and the same order suspended the writ 
 of habeas corpus in such cases. — At Huntsville, 
 Ala., General Rousseau ordered the arrest of 12 
 prominent secessionists, one of whom was placed 
 on board each Union military train on account 
 of such trains being fired into by the rebels. — 
 A rebel attack occurred at Portland, Mo., and a 
 skirmish took place at Panther Creek, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 9. — The rebels under Jackson, after 
 two days' march from the Rapidan, attacked 
 the Union troops under B:inks near Cedar 
 
 Mountain, Va. The rebel advance was rapid 
 and the mountain sides were soon occupied. 
 About five o'clock p. m., the rebels pushed for- 
 ward in strong force. Banks advancing to meet 
 them and, by six o'clock the engagement had 
 become general. The battle was very severe 
 and lasted for over an hour and a half, when 
 it was terminated Ijy darkness, although a 
 desultory artillery fire continued throughout 
 the night. General Banks barely maintained 
 his position but, at daylight on the following 
 morning, the rebels fell back two miles and the 
 attack was not resumed. The Union loss was 
 about 1,.500 in killed, wounded and missing, 
 including 200 prisoners, among the latter 
 being General Prince and among the wounded 
 Generals Augur and Geary. The rebel loss 
 was equally heavy. — Rear Admiral Farragut 
 destroyed Donaldsonville, La., the rebels hav- 
 ing fired on the Union vessels from the shelter 
 of the lijuses. — Movement took place at Cul- 
 peper, Va. — A rebel attack by General Stevens 
 on General De Courcey, took place at Tazewell, 
 Tenn., and was repulsed with heavy loss to the 
 assailants. The Union loss was three killed, 
 15 wounded and 57 prisoners. — Skirmishes 
 took place at Stockton, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 10. — An action took place at Neuces, 
 Texas. 
 
 Aug. 11.— At Kinderhook, Tenn., Colonel 
 McGowan's force had a skirmish with the reb- 
 els under Anderson, killing seven and captur- 
 ing 27 prisoners. — At Compton's Ferry, Mo., a 
 skirmish took place.— At Clarendon, Ark., Gen- 
 eral Ilovey with six regiments defeated a supe- 
 rior rebel force, capturing GOO and the loss of 
 life on both sides was heavy. — From Corinth, 
 Miss., General Grant issued an order prohibit- 
 ing the return of fugitive slaves. — General But- 
 ler at New Orleans, by order, confiscated the 
 property of .lohn Slidell, rebel envoy to France, 
 and disarmed all male citizens. — Skirmishes 
 
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1862 — AUG. 12 — AUG. 22 — 1862. 
 
 45 
 
 took place at Taborville, Ark., and at Indepen- 
 dence, Mo., and Salisbury, Tenn. — The "2nd 
 Wisconsin Cavalry skirmished at and about 
 Helena, Ark. 
 
 Aug. 12. — Near Gallatin, Tenn., Union troops 
 under Colonel Miller defeated the band of the 
 guerrilla, Morgan, killing six and wounding 
 many. — General Jackson's command, having 
 fallen back after the battle of Cedar Mountain, 
 a body of Pope's cavalry under Buford started 
 in pursuit and on 
 
 Aug. 13. — An indecisive skirmish occurred 
 not far from Cedar Mountain. — Rebel guerrillas 
 under Quantrell and Hughes took possession 
 of Independence, Mo., and Morgan's raiders 
 were again beaten near Williamsport, Tenn. — 
 In a steamboat collision on the Potomac, 80 
 Union soldiers were lost. — Activities took place 
 at Swansboro, N. C, and also at Clarendon, 
 Ark. — Draft ordered to begin Sept. 1st. 
 
 Aug. 14. — General Breckenridge, by order of 
 Van Dorn of the rebel army, threatened to raise 
 the black flag. — The entire army of the Poto- 
 mac was in motion under McClellan to evacuate 
 the peninsula. 
 
 Aug. 15. — At Merri weather's Landing, Tenn., 
 Union troops under Colonel T. W. Harris, de- 
 feated a force of rebels under Captain Banfield, 
 killing and wounding 20 and capturing 9 pris- 
 oners. — By General Order No. 107, issued from 
 the U. S. War Department, " no officer or pri- 
 vate soldier might, without proper authority, 
 leave his colors or ranks to take private prop- 
 erty or enter a private house under penalty of 
 death." 
 
 Aug. 1G. — An engagement took place at 
 Lone .Jack, Mo., between the Union forces under 
 Major Foster and the rebels, the former's Io.ss 
 being 160 in killed and wounded and the lat- 
 ter's 110. — Union garrison at Baton Rouge was 
 withdrawn. — The evacuation of Harrison's 
 Landing, Va., was completed by McClellan's 
 
 army, his retreat having been concealed by 
 strategy ; his advance (on the retreat) reached 
 Williamsburg, Va , and, on the following day, 
 Hampton, Va., by which time his rear guard 
 had safely crossed the Chickahominy.^The 1st 
 Louisiana Infantry (Union) was organized at 
 New Orleans. — Skirmishes occurred at Haines 
 Bluff, Miss., and Hopkinsville, Ky. 
 
 Aug. 18. — A guerrilla force under Morgan cut 
 off railroad communication with the North. — 
 The 5Stli and 76tb Ohio Infantry captured the 
 rebel steamer Fair Play at Milliken's Bend, La. 
 — At Red Wood, Minn., a company of the 5th 
 Minnesota Infantry was massacred by Indians. 
 
 Aug. 19. — At Clarksville, Tenn., the 71st 
 Ohio, Colonel Rodney Mason commanding, 
 surrendered to an inferior force of rebels with- 
 out firing a gun ; the officers were held re- 
 sponsible.— In an action near Hickman, Ky., a 
 rebel force was defeated with a loss of four 
 killed and 19 captured ; the 2d Illinois Cavalry 
 were engaged and two soldiers were wounded. 
 — Skirmish at Rienzi, Miss. 
 
 Aug. 20. — A Union force under Major Price 
 routed the rebels near Union Mills, Mo.— At 
 Edgefield Junction, Tenn., a troop of Morgan's 
 guerrillas were defeated. — An important cavalry 
 fight occurred at Brandy Station, Va. 
 
 Aug. 21.— At Pinckney Island, S. C, a skir- 
 mish took place, in which the Union force lost 
 10 killed and wounded and 32 prisoners. — The 
 army under Rosecrans left Corinth for luka. — 
 In a fight with Indians at Fort Ridgely, Minn., 
 two companies of the oth Minnesota and the 
 Renville Rangers were engaged at intervals for 
 two days. — The cavalry of the Army of Vir- 
 ginia engaged in an action at Kelley's Ford, 
 Va. — Military movements occurred at Bowling 
 Green, Ky. 
 
 Aug. 22.— Near Gallatin, Ky., 800 Union 
 troops under General .Johnson attacked a large 
 force of Morgan's cavalry and were defeated ; 
 
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 1862 — AUG. 23— AUG. 30—1862. 
 
 100 Union soldiers were killed, 64 wounded and 
 so many taken prisoners that scarcely one-half 
 the force returned to their rendezvous. — Arrival 
 of McClellan's command at Alexandria. — The 
 42nd Illinois engaged in a skirmish at Cort- 
 land, Tenn.— At Crab Orchard, Ky., the 9th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in an action. 
 
 Aug. 23. -Artillery firing along the Rappa- 
 hannock induced General Pope to fall back. — 
 A skirmish took place at Catlett's Station, Va. — 
 Skirmishes occurred at Big Hill, Ky., and the 
 actions on the Rappahannock were at Waterloo 
 Bridge, Lee's Springs, Freeman's Ford and 
 Sulphur Springs, Va., and the latter actions 
 covered three days. 
 
 Aug. 24. — Military actions took place at La- 
 mar, Dallas, and Cape Girardeau, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 25. — A rebel attack on Fort Donelson, 
 Tenn., was repulsed by four companies of the 
 71st Ohio Infantry and the 5th Iowa Cavalrv. — 
 At Bloomfiold, Mo., the 13th Illinois Cavalry 
 was engaged in a skirmish.— At New Uim, 
 Minn., an Indian figlit occurred and military 
 movements took place at Shelby Farm, Va.; 
 the former continued two days to Aug. 26. — 
 The rebels under Evvell, numbering 10,000, 
 drove in the Union pickets at Manassas Junc- 
 tion, overpowered the force at Bull Run Bridge 
 and pu,shed on towards Alexandria.— Rebel 
 works destroyed at City Point, Va.— An action 
 occurred at Cumberland Iron Works, Tenn., in 
 which the 71st Ohio Infantry and 5tli Iowa 
 Cavalry were engaged. — A cavalry engagement 
 took place at Madisonville and Harrodslnirs, 
 Ky., and another cavalry figlit occurred at 
 Rienzi and Kossuth, Mi.ss., in which the 2nd 
 Iowa and 7th Kansas Cavalry were engaged. 
 
 Aug. 27. — Pope marched northward from 
 Warrenton Junction, and his forces, which had 
 been joined by Hooker's division, encountered 
 Ewcll at Kettle Run. The fighting continued 
 until dark and a Union victory resulted. — A 
 
 skirmish took place at Battle Creek, Tenn., and 
 at Waterford, Miss. — The 33rd Ohio Infantry 
 engaged in a skirmish at Fort McCook, Ala. 
 
 Aug. 28. — .\t Readyville, Tenn., the com- 
 mand of Colonel Murphy defeated the rebels 
 under Forrest. — Near Centerville, Va.., an attack 
 by the rebels under Jackson on the troops under 
 McDowell and Sigel, was repulsed with a loss of 
 many prisoners and heavy casualties in killed 
 and wounded. — A cavalry fight took place at 
 Shady Springs, Va. — A movement occurred at 
 Hernando, Miss. 
 
 Aug. 29. — Second battle of Groveton and 
 Gainesville, Va. An advance was made on the 
 troops of .lackson and Longstreet by those of 
 General Sigel. The engagement became gen- 
 eral about half-past six in the morning and 
 before noon the Union position became critical, 
 when the commands of Kearney and Reno ar- 
 rived, and in the afternoon the force of Hooker 
 arrived, and at six at night the victory was with 
 the Union troops, the enemy falling back after 
 having lost heavily and inflicting severe loss. — 
 On this date the battle of Richmond, Va., be- 
 gun. General Monson's brigade, Army of the 
 Ohio, attempted to check the advance of the 
 rebels under Kirb}' Smith, and a two days' battle 
 ensued : the fighting on August 29th was favor- 
 able to the Union force ; the action of the second 
 day resulted in the withdrawal of the Union 
 force with a loss of 200 killed, 700 wounded 
 and 2,000 prisoners, the estimated rebel loss 
 being 750 in killed and wounded. — Two com- 
 panies of the ISth Ohio and one of the 9th 
 Indiana engaged in a skirmish at Manchester, 
 Tenn. 
 
 Aug. 30.— Second battle of Bull Run. The 
 troops of Ileintzelman, Porter, McDowell and 
 Banks under Pope, were engaged with the 
 whole rebel army under Lee on the historic 
 field of Bull Run, and were defeated, the Union 
 loss being 800 killed, 4,000 wounded and 2,000 
 
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 prisoners; the rebel loss in killed and wounded 
 being 3,700. — Near Bolivur, Tenn., a Union 
 force under Colonel Leggett engaged 400 rebel 
 cavalry, and for seven hours tlje Union troops 
 repulsed every charge. They wore reinforced 
 and the rebels withdrew, the Union troops also 
 falling back within their picket lines. The 
 Union loss was five killed, IS wounded and 64 
 missing. — A hot action took place at McMinu- 
 ville, Tenn., and at Buckhannon, Va. 
 
 Aug. 31. — Bayou Sarah, La., was burned by 
 the crew of the Essex, the inhabitants having 
 fired on the vessel. — Activities occurred at 
 Weston, AV. Ya., and at Stevenson, Ala. ; the 
 !J4tli Ohio was engaged at Yates' Ford, Ky., 
 and, at Toombs' Station, Tenn., the 54th Illinois 
 and 7th Missouri had a fight. 
 
 Sept. 1. — A rebel attack was made on Ger- 
 mantown, Va., which was repulsed and a simi- 
 lar afl'air atChantilly met with a similar result; 
 the fighting in both places was very severe, 
 General Kearney was killed and General Ste- 
 vens and the rebels were driven a mile, leaving 
 their dead and wounded. — At Britton's Lane, 
 Tenn., the force of Colonel Dennis fought the 
 rebels four hours, whose total loss was 400 ; the 
 Union loss was five killed, 78 wounded and 92 
 missing. — Burnside's array evacuated Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va. — The Union forces evacuated 
 Lexington, Ky. — A rebel attack on Louisville 
 was anticipated and the alarm in Cincinnati 
 and Covington, Ky., was great; the entire male 
 population of the latter place was organized 
 into companies for service under General Lew 
 Wallace. — Near Natchez, Miss., a series of 
 movements were commenced which occupied 
 IG days, and a skirmi.sh took place at Paris, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 2. — In a skirmish near Plymouth, N. 
 C, the rebels were defeated. — Near Slaughters- 
 ville, Ky., a cavalry force gained a Union vic- 
 tory. — A cavalry skirmish took place at Mor- 
 gansville, Ky. — The 1st Minnesota was involved 
 in a skirmish at Vienna, Va. 
 
 Sept. 3. — All the troops of the Army of Vir- 
 ginia were brouglit within McClellan's lines. 
 Pope submitted the report of his campaign, 
 blaming several of his subordinates for his de- 
 feat and asking to be relieved of his command ; 
 he was a.ssigned to the Department of the North- 
 west. — Indian fights occurred at Acton and 
 Hutchinson, Minn., and also at Fort Abercrom- 
 bie, D. T. — A cavalry action took place at 
 Geiger Lake, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 4. — The northward movement of Lee's 
 troops commenced, his army crossing the Poto- 
 mac near Poolesville, Md., in force, and Governor 
 Curtin called out the militia force of Pennsyl- 
 vania to repel the invasion of that State. — 
 Kirby Smith at Lexington, Ky., ordered the 
 acceptance of the confederate money at face 
 value. — At Cumberland Gap, Tenn., a rebel 
 defeat occurred. 
 
 Sept. 5. — McClellan's forces moved from 
 Washington to the upper Potomac on the 
 Maryland side. 
 
 Sept. 6. — The advance of Lee's army reached 
 Frederick, Md.— At Washington, N. C, the 
 Union garrison was surprised and the attacking 
 party was driven out, the Union loss being 
 eight killed and 36 wounded, and the rebel lo.ss 
 being five times as great. During the engage- 
 ment, the magazine of a Union gunboat ex- 
 ploded, killing and wounding 18. — In an action 
 near Martinsburg, Va., a Union victory occurred 
 and 50 rebels were captured. — Buell's troops, 
 numbering 24,000, occupied Nashville, Tenn., 
 in anticipation of the rebel force under General 
 Hood, which was moving northward. — Clarkes- 
 ville, Tenn., was retaken and 15,(k00 rebels 
 driven out. — Union- troops occupied Covington 
 and Newport, Ky., preparatory to the defense 
 of Cincinnati. — The Alabama captured the Oc- 
 mulgee, her first victory as a privateer. — The 
 1st New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmish 
 at Cacapon Bridge, Va. — A cavalry fight oc- 
 
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 1862— SEPT. 7— SEPT. 15 — 1862. 
 
 curred at La Grange, Ark.— At Olathe, Mo., and 
 at Chapmansville, W. Va., skirmishes took pkice. 
 
 Seit. 7. — General Banks was assigned to the 
 command of tlie fortifications around Wash- 
 ington, and McClellan took the field at the head 
 ^ of tlic Army of the Potomac. — Tlie rebels oc- 
 cupied Frederick, Md., in force.— Acquia Creek, 
 Va., was evacuated by the Union troops. — At 
 Martinsburg, ^'a., a rebel attack was made on 
 General AVliite and rejml.^ed with heavy loss. 
 Tlie Union loss was two killed and JO wounded. 
 — Rebels captured Shepherdsville, Ky., taking 
 85 Union prisoners. — The 3rd Indiana and 8th 
 Illinois Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at 
 Poolesville, Md. — At Clarkesville, Tenn., the 
 11th Illinois, 13th Wisconsin, 71st Ohio Infan- 
 try, with the 5th Iowa Cavalry and two bat- 
 teries engaged in a fight. — The array of McClel- 
 lan reached Rockville, Md. 
 
 Sept. 9. — Stuart's cavalry received a repulse 
 at Edward's Ferry, Va., with a loss of 90 men. 
 — An unsuccessful attempt was made by the 
 rebels to capture Williaiusburg, \'a. — The 42nd 
 Illinois engaged in a skirmish at Columbia, 
 Tenn. — A cavalry action took place at Nolan.s- 
 ville, Md., and a fight occurred at Des AUe- 
 mands. La. 
 
 Sept. 10.— At Fayette C. H., W. Va., 5,000 
 rebels attacked the Union garrison, who cut 
 their way through and escaped, losing 100 in 
 killed and wounded.— Gauley Bridge, Va., was 
 evacuated by the Union troops. — The gunboat 
 Essex bombarded Natchez in retaliation for 
 having ])een fired into and the city surrendered. 
 — Colonel Grierson's men attacked the Union 
 force near Cold water, Miss., and inflicted a lo-ss 
 of four killed and 30 wounded. 
 
 Sept. 11. — Pennsylvania militia occupied the 
 Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania and .Mary- 
 land. — New Market, Va., and Sugar Loaf Mount- 
 ain, Md., were occupied by Union troops. — 
 Rebels took possession of Hagerstown, Md., 
 
 Maysville, Ky., and Bloomneld, Mo. — Activities 
 took place at Cotton Hill, W. Va., and Ridge- 
 ville. — Business in Cincinnati was suspended 
 and citizens were in readiness for military duty, 
 rebel movements in Kenton County, Ky., caus- 
 ing much apprehension. 
 
 Sept. 12. — McClellan's advance entered Fred- 
 erick, Md. — A sharp fight occurred near Mid- 
 dletown, Md., the Union loss being 80. — West- 
 minster, Md., was abandoned by tlie rebels. — 
 Bloomfield, Mo., was retaken by the Union 
 troops. — A military movement took place at 
 Charlestown, W. ^'a., which was evacuated by 
 the Union forces, the officer in command being 
 unable to hold the position on account of the 
 withdrawal of the forces to aid in the expulsion 
 of the rebels from Maryland. — Colonel Ford 
 abandoned his position at Maryland Heights. 
 — The rebels demanded a surrender of Mun- 
 fordville, Ky. — An action took place at New- 
 tonia and at Palmyra, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 14. —Capture of Harper's Ferry by the 
 rebels. Colonel Miles surrendering the garrison, 
 comprising 11,000 prisoners and a large amount 
 of arms and ammunition, the commandant 
 being killed. — McClellan's army overtook the 
 rebels at South Mountain, Md. ; Burkettsville 
 Gap was occupied and, in the action which en- 
 sued, the loss on both sides was very heavy, the 
 Union army losing 443 killed and 1,806 
 wounded ; the rebel loss was 500 killed, 2,343 
 wounded and 1,500 prisoners. — The advance of 
 Longstreet reached Boonesboro, Md. — Mun- 
 fordville, Ky., surrendered to the rebels, the 
 garrison of 4,000 defending the place until the 
 ammunition was exhausted. — Three New Eng- 
 land regiments engaged in an action a Pont- 
 chatoula. La. — Activities took place at Bacon 
 Creek, Ky., at Fayette, W. Va., and at Bolivar, 
 Va. 
 
 Sept. 15. — Rebel pursuit at Boonesboro, Md. 
 — The rebels in front of Cincinnati fell back to 
 
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 49 
 
 Florence, Ky. — 8,000 rebels attempted to de- 
 stroy the railroad bridge across the (ireen 
 River, and were repulsed after 20 hours' fight- 
 ing with heavy loss. — Actions took place at 
 Shelburne, Mo., and Paris, Ky. 
 
 Sept. 17.— Battle of Antietani. The forces 
 engaged on each side numbered about 100,000 
 men ; the fighting began about daylight and 
 raged until dark, the rebels being driven late 
 in the day and during the night they retreated. 
 General Mansfield was killed and Richardson 
 and Rodman were seriously wounded. Hooker, 
 Meagher, Hartsuff, Sumner, Sedgwick, French, 
 Ricketts, Dana and Duryea were wounded. Mc- 
 Cleilan's report made the Union loss 2,010 killed, 
 9,416 wounded and 1,043 missing. He placed 
 the rebel loss at more than 25,000. The rebels 
 lost 40 Hags and 13 guns, and no Union flag or 
 gun was captured by the rebels. — Kirby Smith 
 retired his forces from Florence, Ky., to join 
 (Tcneral Bragg and a slight skirmish occurred. 
 — In a skirmish at Falmouth, Ky., one Union 
 soldier was wounded. — A rebel defeat occurred 
 near Burhamville, Tenn. — Cumberland Gap, 
 TeiHi., was evacuated by the l^nion troops, who 
 rendered the Gap impassable before leaving it. 
 — Kilpatrick defeated the rebels at Leesburg, 
 Va. — Active movements took place at St. Johns, 
 Fla., and at Goose Creek, Va. 
 
 Sept. 18.— Rebel evacuatiou of Sharpesburg, 
 Md. — The citizens of Hagerstown, Md., assisted 
 in burying the dead on the litld of Antietam. 
 
 Sept. 19. — The rebels evacuated Harper's 
 Ferry, leaving 300 sick and wounded, and de- 
 stroying all government stores. — Rebel defeat 
 at Owensburg, Ky. — Military action at Hickory 
 Grove, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 19. — Late in the afternoon Rosecrans 
 attacked Price south of luka. Miss., and a 
 sharp fight followed. The fighting was re- 
 sumed in the morning and resulted in a Union 
 victory, The Union loss was 135 killed and 
 
 507 wounded.— Near Shirley's Ford, Mo., the 
 Union troops under Colonel Ritchie defeated 
 the rebels, who lost about 60 in killed and 
 wounded. 
 
 Sept. 20. — Actions occurred at Shepherds- 
 town, Va., Helena, Ark., and Williamsport, Md. 
 — At Bolivar, Miss., the Queen of the West 
 with several transports and the 33rd Illinois 
 regiment, engaged in an action. 
 
 Sept. 21.— At Blackford's Ford, Va., a con- 
 siderable action occurred. Colonel Barnes, 
 commanding a brigade, crossed the Potomac 
 witliout orders, and, being attacked by a supe- 
 rior force of rebels, was forced to retire, sustain- 
 ing a loss of about 50 in killed and wounded 
 and missing. — Union cavalry under Colonel 
 McCook drove the rebels out of Munfordsville, 
 Ky., and occupied the place. — At Shepherds- 
 ville, Ky., Colonel Granger defeated the rebels, 
 killing five and capturing 28.— A cavalry skir- 
 mish occurred at Cassville, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 22. — President Lincolu issued the 
 Emancipation Proclamation. — General Nelson, 
 in command of Louisville, K}'., ordered the 
 women and children to leave the city in antici- 
 pation of rebel attack and declared martial law. 
 — The rebels were defeated at Sturgeon, Mo., by 
 the Union force under Captain Cunningham. 
 — Colonel R. B. Price's troops defeated Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Green's rebel force at Ashley's Gap, 
 Va., capturing three prisoners, among them 
 the commander. 
 
 Sept. 23. — The 55th Ohio Infantry engaged 
 in an action at Wolf Creek Bridge, Miss. — An 
 action occurred at Sutton, Va. — Minnesota 
 troops engaged in a fight at Wood Lake, Minn. 
 
 Sept. 24. — General Buell with his troops ar- 
 rived at Louisville, Ky. — Movements took place 
 at Sabine Pass, Ark. 
 
 Sept. 26.— The U. S. Ram, Queen of the 
 West and two transports having been fired into 
 by the rebels at Prentiss, Miss., (seven having 
 
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 1862 — SEPT. 27— OCT. 6—1862. 
 
 been killed and many wounded), the town was 
 shelled and burned. — Actions occurred at Cam- 
 bridge, Mo., and Warrenton Junction, Va. 
 
 Sept. 27. — Six hundred rebel cavalry raided 
 Augusta, Ky., defended l>y 120 Union soldiers, 
 nine of whom were killed and 15 wounded 
 before they surrendered ; the town was fired ; 
 tile rebel loss was 90 killed and wounded.— An 
 action occurred at Buffalo, W. Va. 
 
 Skpt. 28. — Military movements took place at 
 Black water, Va. 
 
 Sept. 29.— At Louisville, Ky., Jeff C. Davis 
 shot General Nelson under great provocation, 
 was arrested and released without trial.— KeLel 
 activities occurred at Sharpesburg, Md. 
 
 Sept. 30. — At Newtonia, Mo., the Union 
 troops under General Solomon were defeated 
 with a loss of 50 killed and wounded and the 
 capture of 100 prisoners. — A rebel defeat oc- 
 currei at Russellville, Ky., and a loss of 45 
 was intiicled. — A skirmisli took place at Ship- 
 ping Point, Va., and activities occurred at New- 
 port, Ky., Grayson and Bluffton, Ark. 
 
 Oct. 1. — Buell's army left Louisville, Ky.,to 
 encounter the rebels under Bragg. — At Galla- 
 tin, Tenn., the command of Colonel Stokes de- 
 feated a rebel force, killing 40, wounding many 
 and capturing 39. — PI easanton's cavalry crossed 
 the Potomac at Shepherdstown, Va., notwith- 
 standing the resistance of Wade Hampton's 
 cavalry, losing 12 wounded and three prisoners ; 
 the rebel loss was 60 killed and wounded and 
 nine prisoners. — Skirmishes occurred at Mar- 
 tinsburg, Va., and Batchelor Creek, N. C. 
 
 Oct. 2. — Rebel evacuation of Shelby ville, Ky. 
 — General Bragg occupied Lexington, Ky. — 
 Skirmishes occurred at Olive Hill, Ky., and 
 Hamilton, N. C, also at Floyd's Fork, Ky., and 
 Baldwin, Miss. — Morgan's cavalry assaulted the 
 Carter County Home Guards and was rej)ulsed 
 with a loss of 20. — General Morgan (Union) ar- 
 rived at Greensburg on the Ohio River. — At 
 
 Franklin on the Black Water River, Va., the 
 lltii Pennsylvania Cavalry defeated a body of 
 rebels. — A rebel fort was captured in a gunboat 
 expedition up the St. John's River, Fla. 
 
 Oct. 3. — On this date a succession of engage- 
 ments took place near Corinth, Miss. ; 28,000 
 rebels under Van Dorn, Price and I^ovell at- 
 tacked the Union defenses and drove the troops 
 of Ord, Hurlbut and Leach into the town. The 
 battle was renewed on the 4th, and before noon 
 the rebels were retreating in disorder. The 
 Union loss was 315 killed, 1,812 wounded and 
 232 missing; the rebel loss was 1,423 killed 
 and 5,092 wounded, with 2,268 prisoners in- 
 cluding 137 officers; colors, artillery, small 
 arms, ammunition, accoutrements, wagons, 
 etc., w'ere captured by the Union troops in great 
 quantity. 
 
 Oct. 4. — Bardstown, Ky., was evacuated by 
 the rebels and occupied by Crittenden's corps. 
 — Lexington, Ky., evacuated by the rebels. — 
 Galveston, Texas, was occuj)ied by the Union 
 troops. 
 
 Oct. 5. — Battle of Hatch ie River. Generals 
 Ord and Hurlbut overtook and whipped the 
 rebels, capturing 28^ prisoners and quantities 
 of spoils, losing about 500 in killed and wounded 
 and continuing the pursuit. — Rebel defeat at 
 Fayetteville, Ark. --Occupation of Jacksonville, 
 Fla., by Union troops. — Activities occurred at 
 Glasgow, Ky., Fort Point and Leesburg, Ky., 
 and Pawpaw and Galveston, Texas, and at 
 Madisonville, K}'. 
 
 Oct. 6. — At Lavergne, Tenn., the rebels 
 opened an artillery tire and were silenced by 
 Palmer's brigade ; the infantry became engaged 
 and the rebels fled in wild disorder after a fight 
 of 30 minutes, losing 80 in killed and wounded ; 
 the Union loss was IS killed, wounded and 
 missing. — A cavalry action occurred at Ciiarles- 
 ton, \'a. — General Buell with a large Union 
 force reinforced Crittenden at Bardstown, Ky. 
 
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 Oct. 7. — Rebel guerrillas under Quantrell 
 and Childs were defeated near Sibley'.s Land- 
 ing, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 8. — Battle of Perry ville. Bragg's troops 
 attacked the corps of General McCook, whose 
 force under Rousseau and Jackson, numbered 
 14,000, the confederate array being much 
 stronger. The rebels retreated, fleeing in the 
 night towards Harrodsburg, Ky. The Union 
 loss exceeded 3,200 in killed, wounded and 
 missing, while the rebel loss was 1,200 killed 
 and 3,000 wounded besides 200 prisoners. 
 
 Oct. 9. — In a battle near Lawrenceburg, Ky., 
 Colonel Parrott's Union troops defeated the 
 rebels with considerable loss and lost six killed 
 and IS wounded. — The rebel Stuart ordered an 
 invasion of Pennsylvania. — At Aldie, Va., a 
 cavalry skirmish occurred. 
 
 Oct. 10.— J. E. B. Stuart with 1,800 cavalry 
 crossed the Potomac at McCoy's Creek, captured 
 tiie horses of the videttes, surprised and cap- 
 tured the signal station between Hancock and 
 Hagerstown, passed Mercersburg at noon and 
 reached Chambersburg, Va., at dark. The 
 town surrendered to Wade Hampton's force ; 
 about 300 sick and wounded soldiers were 
 paroled and property seized. — On the 11th, the 
 rebels evacuated Chambersburg and proceeded 
 to Eramettsburg, doing all mischief possible 
 along the B. & 0. track. On the 12th, they 
 passed tlu'ough Hagerstown and charged Stone- 
 man's troops near Poolesville, driving* them 
 across the Monocacy. They advanced to White's 
 Ford and reerossed the Potomac and the Union 
 troops arrived just in time to witness the ar- 
 rival of the last rel)el raider on the opposite 
 side of the river. — The rebels were driven by 
 General Schofield across the Missouri line into 
 Arkansas. — An Indian fight occurred on the 
 Upper Missouri. — A skirmish took place at 
 Hanerville, Va. 
 
 Oct. 11. — Near Helena, Ark., the rebels were 
 
 defeated by the command of Major Rector. — 
 Nashville, Tenn., was threatened by a large 
 rebel force. — An action took place at La Grange, 
 Ark., and a gunboat fight took place on the 
 Cape Fear River, N. C. — Activity of Stoneman's 
 troops on the Monocacy and an action at Caca- 
 pone Bridge, Va. 
 
 Oct. 12. — An action occurred at Hyattstown, 
 Md., and Darnestown, Ky. 
 
 Oct. 13. — A slight skirmish took place at 
 Paris, Va. 
 
 Oct. 14.— In a fight at Stanford, Ky., 14 
 rebels were taken prisoners and several killed. 
 — Skirmishes occurred at Hazel Bottom, Mo., 
 and Caseyville, Ky. 
 
 Oct. 15. — A company of the 7th Pennsylva- 
 nia Cavalry, under Lieutenant Williams, de- 
 feated the rebels in a skirmish near Garsville, 
 Va. — At Taylor's Bayou, Fla., a naval engage- 
 ment occurred. 
 
 Oct. 16. — In a reconnoissance near Charles- 
 ton, Va., the Union loss was one killed and 
 eight wounded ; the rebel loss was greater. 
 
 Oct. 17. — An action occurred on the Tennes- 
 see shore opposite Island No. 10, in which the 
 attacking force of rebels were defeated with a 
 loss of 15 men, including the leader, who were 
 taken prisoners. The action occurred after dark 
 and the rebels fired on each other. — One hun- 
 dred rebels surrendered to General Stahel at 
 Thoroughfare Gap, Ga. — A skirmish occurred 
 'at Sabine Cross Roads, La. 
 
 Oct. 18. — Morgan's cavalry dashed into Lex- 
 ington, Ky., and out again, killing six and 
 capturing 120. — Quantrell raided and burned 
 Shawneetown, Kansas. — A cavalry engagement 
 took place at Haymarket, Va. — An infantry 
 action occurred at Helena, Ark. 
 
 Oct. 19. — A brigade of Union troops at- 
 tacked Forrest's cavalry near Nashville, Tenn., 
 dispersing the force and capturing prisoners 
 and supplies. The 78th Pennsylvania was 
 
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 1862— OCT. 20 — OCT. 29 — 1862. 
 
 conspicuous in the action for tlieir bravery. — 
 At Gallatin, Tenn., and at Commerce in the 
 same State, military movements occurred. 
 
 Oct. 20. — Morgan's guerrillas captured a 
 wagon train near Bardstown, Ky. — At Marsh- 
 field, Mo., the 10th Illinois Cavalry skirmished 
 with the rebels and a Missouri cavalry regi- 
 ment were in action on the Auxvois River, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 21. — The rebel forces in West Virginia 
 left the Kanawha Valley and went into East 
 Tennessee after destroying tlie salt works. — An 
 expedition was sent into Loudon county, Va., 
 by General Slocum and 32 rebel cavalry were 
 captured, including their captain ; 1.5 rebels 
 were injured. — At Woodville, Tenn., a detach- 
 ment of the 2nd Illinois cavalry under Captain 
 J. J. Mudd, captured 40 rebels, 100 horses and 
 a number of mules. — An Indian fight occurred 
 at Fort Cobb, I. T. 
 
 Oct. 22. — General Terry made an unsuccess- 
 ful attempt to capture the Charleston & Savan- 
 nah railroad. — A large force of Union troops, 
 composed of Eastern regiments, had a fight 
 with Beauregard's troops near Pocotaligo, S. C, 
 and lost 30 killed and 180 wounded. The 47th 
 Pennsylvania suffered heavily. — General Bragg 
 escaped from Kentucky to Tennessee without 
 fighting. — At Maysville in Northwestern Ar- 
 kansas, General Blunt routed 5,000 rebels after 
 an hour's fight and caj)tured all their artillery, 
 many horses and part of the rebel transjtorta- 
 tion and gairison equipments, — The 4th Penn- 
 sylvania Cavalry skirmished at Hedgeville, Va. 
 
 Oct. 23.-At Waverly, Tenn., the 83rd Illi- 
 nois defeated the rebels, losing one killed and 
 five wounded, and killing, wounding and 
 capturing 70.— At Shelby Depot, Tenn., Colonel 
 Stuart with the 55th Illinois made a reconnois- 
 sance and defeated a rebel force. — A cavalry 
 engagement under E. McCook took place at 
 Point Lick, Ky. — Military movements took place 
 at VVarrenton, Va., and Indian River, Fla. 
 
 Oct. 24. — In a skirmish at Grand Prairie, 
 Mo., the reliels were defeated, the Union loss 
 being three wounded. — A cavalry engagement 
 took place at Catlett's Station, Va., and General 
 Terry's troops skirmished at Blackwater, ^'a. — 
 An unimportant action occurred at Morgan- 
 town, Ky. 
 
 Oct. 25. — A skirmish took place near Ma- 
 nassas Junction, Va., in which 17 Union sol- 
 diers were captured. — The Army of the Potomac 
 began to move to a position east of the Blue 
 Ridge. 
 
 Oct. 26. — A body of rebels under Gen. Henrj' 
 A. Wise of Virginia moved from Richmond 
 along the peninsula. — Activities occurred at St. 
 Mary's River, Fla , and at Donaldsonville, La., 
 and Indianola, Texas. 
 
 Oct. 27. — Burnside's command crossed the 
 Potomac. — General Pleasanton's cavalry drove 
 the rebels at Snicker's Gap, Va. — General Weit- 
 zel's troops met the rebels at Labadieville, on 
 Bayou LaFourche, La., on the way from Donald- 
 sonville, La., and routed them in an infantry 
 charge lasting half an hour; the Union loss 
 was 18 killed, 74 wounded, and the rebels lost 
 six killed, 15 wounded and 208 prisoners. — At 
 Pittman's Ferry, Mo., the command of Colonel 
 Lewis defeated the rebels, killing several and 
 capturing 40 prisoners. 
 
 Oct. 28.— At Fayetteville, Ark., Colonel Her- 
 ron, commanding two Union cavalry regiments, 
 attacked a superior force, the rebels executing 
 a hasty retreat after an hour and abandoning 
 their camp equipage and wagons; five Union 
 soldiers were wounded. — Skirmishes occurred 
 at Clarkson, Mo., and at Williamsburg, Ky. 
 
 Oct. 29. — In a cavalry skirmish near Peters- 
 burg, Va., the rebel cavalry under Stuart de- 
 feated a body of Union troops under Iswick. — 
 Near Butler, Mo., Colonel Seaman's force en- 
 gaged the rebels and captured 16 with 200 
 head of cattle. — Plre at Harper's Ferry. 
 
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 Oct. 30 — Buell was superseded by Rose- 
 crans in command of tlie 14th Army Corps — 
 Burnside's troops joined the command of Sigel 
 near Manassas .Junction, Va.— Leesburg, Va., 
 was occupied by Stoneman's division. — General 
 Mitcliell died at Port Royal, S. C. 
 
 Oct. 31. — Furtlier movements of the Army 
 of the Potomac in Virginia near Berlin. — 
 Pleasanton's cavalry occupied all the gaps in 
 the Blue Ridge. — Cavalry movement at Aldie 
 and Maysville, Va., and also at Franklin. 
 
 Nov. 1. — General Pleasanton's cavalry en- 
 gaged in a five hours' skirmish at Philomont, 
 Va., and lost one killed and 14 wounded and 
 occupied the position. Pleasanton sent a force 
 after the retreating rebels and overtook them 
 near Bloomfield, where another skirmish oc- 
 curred. — At Germantown, Tenn., a skirmish 
 occurred and detachments of Union troops 
 participated in activities at Pungo River, 
 Swan's Quarter and Middletown, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 2. — Pleasanton's cavalry drove the 
 rebels beyond Union, Ya. — The batteries of 
 Hancock's command drove the rebels from and 
 took possession of Snicker's Gap, Va. — An ex- 
 j)edition under Foster left New Berne, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 3. — Reconnoissance through Snicker's 
 Gap ; a skirmish followed in which the Union 
 cavalry drove the rebels in confusion across the 
 Shenandoah River. After four hours' fight 
 Pleasanton's cavalry occupied Upperville, Va. 
 — General Stahel's cavalry drove the rebels out 
 of Thoroughfare Gap, Va. — Am^aig the hills of 
 Webster county, Ky., Colonel Foster's men 
 captured 25 prisoners, horses and war material, 
 killed three rebels and wounded two without 
 loss. — Skirmishes occurred at Rawles' Mills, N. 
 C, and a gunboat action occurred at Bayou 
 Teche, La. — A cavalry action took place at 
 Ilarrisonville, Mo., and unimportant move- 
 ments occurred at Ripley and Orizeba, Miss., 
 and also at Belle River. 
 
 Nov. 4. — Occupation of Ashley's Gap, Va., 
 by the Army of the Potomac. — Foster's expe- 
 dition occupied Hamilton, N. C. — Actions oc- 
 curred at Bolivar, Va., and King's Bay, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 5. — McClellan superseded by General 
 Burnside. — At New Baltimore, Va., 1,500 Union 
 soldiers drove the rebels. — Near Barbour, Va., 
 Pleasanton and Stuart had a cavalry fight and 
 the rebels fell back. — Near Nashville, Tenn., a 
 general skirmish took place and the rebels re- 
 treated. — Twenty-five hundred guerrillas under 
 Morgan made a dash on Colonel Snick's camp, 
 north of Cumberland, Tenn., and received a 
 repulse. — At Piketon, Ky., the rebels were 
 routed with a loss of SO prisoners and a quan- 
 tity of war material. — A cavalry action took 
 place near Greenville, Ky. 
 
 Nov. 6. — Warrenton, Va., was occupied by 
 Reynolds' command ; prisoners were taken and 
 army supplies. — Skirmishes took place at 
 Leatherwood and Garrettsliurg, Ky. 
 
 Nov. 7. — An unsuccessful rebel attack was 
 made upon Bayard's command at Rappahan- 
 nock Station. — General Burnside assumed com- 
 mand of the Army of the Potomac and Gen- 
 eral McClellan issued his farewell address. 
 
 The first enlistment of negro troops took place 
 at Port Royal, S. C. — Movements at Beaver 
 Creek, Mo. — An action took place at La Grange, 
 Ark. 
 
 Nov. 8.— The 5th U. S. Cavalry under Lieu- 
 tenant Ashe, charged the rebels near Gaines' 
 Cross Roads, Va. ; eight Union soldiers were 
 wounded; a number of confederates were killed 
 and five of their wounded taken prisoners. — 
 General Fitz .John Porter was ordered to Wash- 
 ington to answer charges preferred against liiin 
 by General Pope. — The Union troops under 
 Colonel Lee defeated the rebels at Hudsonville, 
 Miss., killing 16 and capturing 175 prisoners. 
 — An unimportant action took place near Mari- 
 anna, Ark., in which the Union troops were 
 
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 1862 — NOV. 9— NOV. 24—1862. 
 
 commanded by Captain Perkins. The Uqion 
 loss was one wounded; the rebels lo.st five and 
 several wounded. — Tlie advance of Rosecrans' 
 army reached Gallatin, Tenn. — A cavalry en- 
 gagement occurred at Hudsonville, Miss. 
 
 Nov. 9. — The Union troops under Captain 
 Ulric Dablgren made a das'n into Frederick- 
 town, Va., and captured two wagon loads of 
 grey cloth, etc. The Union loss was one killed 
 and four mi.ssing; the rebels lost three killed, 
 several wounded and 39 prisoners. — A portion 
 of Grant's army occupied La Grange, Tenn. — 
 General Butler confiscated all the property in 
 La Fourche, La., recently taken possession of 
 by U. S. troops, promising protection, however, 
 to loyal citizens in holding their own property ; 
 that of rebels was to be worked for and on ac- 
 count of the United States. — St. Mary's, Fla., 
 was shelled and burned by the U. S. gunboat 
 Mohawk, for treachery of the inhabitants in 
 firing on the ship after communicating under 
 flag of truce. — Activities occurred at Halltown, 
 Va. 
 
 Nov. 11.— Near La Grange, Tenn., Colonel 
 Lee in command of Kentucky and Michigan 
 cavalry, captured 134 rebels, killing 10 and 
 losing two men. — Near Garrettsburg, Ky., Gen- 
 eral Riinsom's expedition captured a rebel force 
 and lost three killed and 17 wounded, and the 
 defeat ended in a rout, the rebels being driven 
 out of Kentucky. — Morgan's guerrillas were 
 defeated near l^ebanon, Tenn. — Near Hunts- 
 ville, Tenn., the Tennessee Home Guards under 
 Captain Duncan defeated the rebels. — General 
 AfcClellan retired to New Jersey. — Ileavj' ex- 
 change of prisoners; the rebels surrendered 
 three brigadiers, 18 colonels, 19 lieutenant- 
 colonels, 431 captains and 545 lieutenants and 
 received 27 colonels, 17 lieutenant-colonels, 467 
 captains, 1,085 lieutenants; the exchange 
 of privates was about 21,000 and a balance of 
 6,000 privates was due the United States. — 
 Action at New Berne, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 12. — Hooker assumed command of the 
 5th Army Corps. — At Holly Sitrings, Miss., the 
 2nd Illinois, 2nd Iowa, 3rd Michigan and 7th 
 Kansas Cavalry under Colonel Lee occupied 
 Hollj' Springs, after a skirmish in which four 
 rebels were killed. — A skirmish occurred near 
 Wliite Sulphur Sjjrings, Va. 
 
 Nov. 13. — At Calhoun, La., a slight action 
 occurred. 
 
 Nov. 14. — A Union force passed Snicker's 
 Gap, Va. 
 
 Nov. 15. — Warrenton, '\'^a., was evacuated by 
 the rebels and occupied by the Army of the 
 Potomac. — In an artillery skirmish near Fay- 
 etteville, Va., the troops of Sturgis engaged 
 the rebel batteries. 
 
 Nov. 17. — Burnside's troops occupied Fal- 
 mouth, Va. — At Cove Creek, N. C, the 3rd New 
 York Cavalry had a severe fight and the Union 
 flying artillery shelled the rebels from their 
 position. — The 104th Pennsylvania Infantry 
 engaged in a skirmish at Gloucester, Va. 
 
 Nov. 18. — A cavalry skirmish occurred, in 
 which Colonel Hawkins defeated the rebels at 
 Rural Hill, Tenn. — Military movements oc- 
 curred at Helena, Ark., and Little River, ^[o. 
 
 Nov. 19. — A bkirmish took place at Black- 
 water, Mo. 
 
 Nov. 20. — An action occurred at CliarUs- 
 town, Va. 
 
 Nov. 21. — General Sumner demanded the 
 surrender of Fredericksburg, on account of the 
 firing of citizens on the Union troops, but 
 rescinded the order on the following day on 
 being assured that the offense should not again 
 occur. — A skirmish occurred at Bayou Bonnet 
 Carre, La. 
 
 Nov. 23. — Reconnoissancefrom Fortress Mon- 
 roe to the Chickahominy. — A skirmish took 
 place at Onslow, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 24. — A cavalry and infantry skirmish 
 took place at Beaver Creek, Mo. 
 
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 Nov. 25. — At Sinking Creek, Va., a rebel 
 camp was surprised by the '2nd Virginia Cav- 
 alry and 118 prisoners were captured, besides 
 arms, sabres, horses, loaded wagons and camp 
 property; two pickets were killed and, with 
 this exception, not a shot was iired. — Fortifica- 
 tion on the Mississippi at Port Hudson. — Cav- 
 alry raid occurred at Poolesville, Md.— Slight 
 actions occurred at Winchester, Shepherdstown 
 and Zuni, Va. 
 
 Nov. 26. — Twenty guerrillas dashed into 
 Urbana, Md., pillaging a store and killing one 
 citizen. — At Summerville, Miss., the 7th lihnois 
 Cavalry engdged in a skirmish. — At Berry ville, 
 Va., movements occurred. 
 
 Nov. 27. — A skirmish occurred near La- 
 vergne, Tenn., without decisive results. — A cav- 
 alry skirmish occurred at Carthage, Ark., and 
 also at Rienzi, Miss. 
 
 Nov. 28.— At Cane Hill, Ark., the troops of 
 the frontier made a forced march, attacking 
 Marmaduke's troops en route for Missouri. 
 The battle raged over 12 miles of ground and 
 the rebels retreated to ^'an Buren, Ark. — Two 
 detachments of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry 
 on picket on the Rappahannock were captured 
 by a greatly superior force of rebels. — The 
 action referred to under this date as Cane Hill, 
 included also Bo.ston Mountain and Boones- 
 boro. Ark. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
 Cold Water River, Miss. 
 
 Nov. 29.— At Snicker's Ferry, Va., General 
 Stahel with 300 cavalry scattered the rebels, 
 killing 50, capturing 40 and taking 80 head of 
 cattle and horses. — A cavalry expedition to the 
 fork of the Mingo and St. Francis Rivers cap- 
 tured a rebel officer and 10 privates. —An 
 action occurred at Plaquemine, La., and at 
 Waterford and Lumpkin's Mills, Miss.— Activ- 
 ities occurred at Yellville and Abbeville, Miss. 
 
 Dec. 1. — An expedition from Suffolk, Va., 
 under General Peck, recaptured the celebrated 
 
 Pittsburg Battery, held by the rebels at Frank- 
 lin, Va. 
 
 Dec. 2. — General Geary's command en route 
 to Winchester, defeated the rebels near Charles- 
 ton, killing and wounding 70 and capturing 
 145 prisoners. — Grenada, Miss., was occupied 
 by 20,000 Federal troops under General Hovey ; 
 the rebels desti'oyed 15 locomotives and 100 
 cars. 
 
 Dec. 3.— At Oxford, Miss., Colonel Hatch 
 captured 92 prisoners with a loss of 20 killed 
 and wounded. — The rebels abandoned their 
 fortihcalions at Abbeville, Miss. — General Geary 
 den:anded the surrender of Winchester and 
 the rebels complied. 
 
 Dec. 3. — The 1st Indiana Cavalry engaged 
 in a skirmish at Oakland, Miss. — A slight 
 action occurred at Princeton, K}'. 
 
 Dec. 4. — The rebels were driven on the 
 Rappahannock in an action between the Union 
 gunboats and rebel batteries. — Skirmishing at 
 Tuscumbia, Miss. — Cavalry action at Water 
 Valley, Miss. 
 
 Dec. 5. — A rebel attack on Helena, Ark., 
 was repulsed. — A considerable tight occurred at 
 Coiieeville, Miss., and a cavalry action occurred 
 at Reed's Mountains, Ark. 
 
 Dec. 6. — Banks' expedition left New York 
 for New Orleans. — Rebel activities occurred at 
 Hackett's Point, Va., and at Chicot Pass, Ark. 
 — The 93rd Ohio engaged in a skirmish at 
 Lebanon, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 7.— Battle of Prair'e Grove. The forces 
 under Blunt and Herron defeated 28,000 rebels, 
 who retreated during the following night, 
 abandoning their dead and wounded ; the 
 Union loss was about 1,000 and that of the 
 rebels 1,500.— Morgan's guerrillas captured the 
 104th Illinois, 106th and 108tii Ohio, and a 
 detachment of the 2nd Indiana Cavalry at 
 Hartsville, Tenn., killing 55 and wounding 100. 
 Tlie rebel loss was about tiie same.— At Prairie 
 
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 1862 — DEC. 9 — DEC. 20 — 1862. 
 
 d'Ann a plight action occurred. — At King 
 George C. 11., Va., GO of tlie 8tli Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry were attacked by 3UU rebels ; 40 of the 
 garrison escaped. 
 
 Deo. 9.— Concordia, Ark., was burned in 
 retaliation for the burning of tlie Lake City 
 tiie day before. — The Union gunboats at Port 
 Royal were attacked by rebels, who were driven 
 off. — Sharp actions occurred at Lavergne and 
 Brentville, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 10. — Plymouth, N. C, was destroyed by 
 the rebels during an engagement. — An action 
 occurred at Indian River, Fla. 
 
 Dec. 11. — Leesburg, Va., was occupied by 
 the Union troops. — Bombardment of Frede- 
 ricksburg, Va., which was partially destroyed) 
 the Union troops meanwhile crossing the Rap- 
 pahannock on jioutoon bridges, whose construc- 
 tion was retarded by rebel shooters, who were 
 dispersed by a Union force sent over the river 
 in boats. — At Dumfries and Warrensburg, Va., 
 military movements occurred. 
 
 Dec. 12. — Askirmisli took place near Corinth, 
 Miss., the rebel loss exceeding that of the Union 
 troops. — At Franklin, Tenn., General Stanley 
 defeated the rebels, losing one man, killing five 
 and wounding 10. — Activities in the vicinity 
 of Nashville. — Skirmishes at Little Bear Creek, 
 Ala. — Foster's expedition started for Goldsboro, 
 N. C. 
 
 Dec. 13. — Battle of Fi'cdericksburg, Va. 
 Burnside's army attacked the fortifications 
 which proved impregnable, the arrangements 
 permitting an enfilailing fire from above ; every 
 charge of the Union troops was repulsed and 
 nightfall found the armies in the same position 
 as in the morning. Tiiere was no figiiting on 
 the 14th, and, on the night of the loth and the 
 morning of the 16th, Burnside's army with- 
 drew across the Rappahannock, effecting the 
 retreat and removing the pontoon bridges with- 
 out the knowledge of the rebels. The Union 
 
 loss was 1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded and many 
 prisoners. — Foster's expedition engaged the 
 rebels near Southwest Creek, N. C, retiring to 
 Kinston, where he was again attacked and 
 driven with loss.— ( )n the Yazoo River the gun- 
 boat Cairo was sunk by a torpedo. — An action 
 took place at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Dec. 14. — About 400 rebel cavalry raided 
 Poolesville, Md., capturing one-half of the gar- 
 rison. — Banks' expedition arrived at New Or- 
 leans. — Skirmishes occurred at Coffeeville, 
 Miss., at Woodsonsville and Wireman's Shoals, 
 Ky., at Ringgold, Ga., and Helena, Ark. 
 
 Dec. 15. — At Bear ^Vallow, Ky., a rebel 
 movement took place. 
 
 Dec. 16. — General Foster moved from Kin- 
 ston to White Hall, N. C, ami routed the rebels 
 after a three hours' figiit. — Slightaction at New 
 Haven, Ky. 
 
 Dec. 17. — Occupation of Baton Rouge, La., 
 inimediately following the evacuation of the 
 ])lace by the rebels.— General Foster's command 
 drove the rebels out of Goldsboro after a short 
 light; "after destroying the railroad communi- 
 cations the expedition pushed on to New Berne, 
 arriving December 20th. 
 
 Dec. 18.— a cavalry action, involving the 
 11th Illinois, 5tli Ohio and 2ud Tennessee Cav- 
 alry took ]>lace at Lexington, Tenn. — The same 
 troops, assisted b)' the 43rd and 61st Illinois, 
 engaged in an action at Jackson, Tenn., repell- 
 ing the rebels. — A skirmish took place at Com- 
 merce, Miss. 
 
 Dec. 19. — At Occoquan, Va., a body of rebel 
 cavalry made a raid on the 10th New York 
 Cavalry, capturing 30 prisoners and six sutlers' 
 wagons.— Rebel cavalry movement at Rijdey, 
 Va. 
 
 Dec. 20.— Surrender of Holly Springs, Miss., 
 to the rebels by Colonel Murphy, including 
 2,000 prisoners ; $2,000,000 worth of war sup- 
 plies were destroyed ; this caused an entire 
 
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 change in the plans on Vicksburg.— Destruc- 
 tion of the railroad near Jackson, Tenn., by 
 rebel cavalry.— At Trenton, Tenn., Forrest cap- 
 tured a body of cavalry and infantry troops. — 
 Activities at Halltown, Va., and Humboldt, 
 Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 21. — An expedition under Carter left 
 London, Ky., for East Tennessee, and, on the 
 same day, destroyed important railroad com- 
 munications and captured 550 prisoners and 
 700 stand of arms.— At Davis Mills, Miss., a 
 rebel defeat occurred and many small arms 
 were taken. — Active movements occurred in 
 the vicinity of Nashville. 
 
 Dec. 22.— At Isle of Wight C. H., Va., a 
 cavalry skirmish took place. 
 
 Dec. 23. — Sigel's command repulsed a rebel 
 attack on Dumfries, Va. 
 
 Dec. 24. — Morgan's guerrillas defeated Dick- 
 ey's troops near Munfordville, Ky. — A de- 
 tachment of the r2tli Michigan Infantry en- 
 gaged in a skirmish at Middleburg, Miss. — At 
 Glasgow, Ky., a detachment of the 2nd Michi- 
 gan Cavalry had a skirmish. — Movements oc- 
 curred at Dallas and Delhi, Ga., and at Joiner's 
 Bridge, Ky. 
 
 Dec 25. — At Munfordville, Ky., Morgan's 
 guerrillas were defeated in turn by Colonel 
 Gray, nine rebels being killed and 22 wounded. 
 — In an action at Green's Chapel, Ky., soldiers 
 of the 4th and 5th Indiana Cavalry defeated a 
 body of rebels. — At Bear Wallow, Ky., another 
 cavalry engagement took place. 
 
 Dec. 26. — At Nolansville, Tenn., McCook's 
 corps. Army of the Cumberland, made an ad- 
 vance. — The 2nd Michigan Cavalry engaged in 
 a skirmish at Bacon CVeek, Ky. 
 
 Dec. 27. — At Dumfries, Va., Colonel Canby 
 routed the rebels under Stuart and Lee, inflict- 
 ing a severe loss. — A body of Pennsylvania 
 cavalry was surprised and captured at Occo- 
 quan, Va. — Three hundred and fifty rebels 
 
 were captured at Elk Fork, Tenn., by half 
 their number of Union troops. — 2,800 of Mor- 
 gan's guerrillas attacked 250 soldiers belonging 
 to the 91st Illinois and compelled the garrison 
 to retreat. 
 
 Dec. 28. — Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. On 
 the 26th an expedition under Sherman moved 
 up the Yazoo River and landed, and on the 
 following day an assault was made on Haines' 
 Bluff, auxiliary to the attack at Chickasaw 
 Bayou. A slight advantage was gained in the 
 action on the 28th, and the movement was 
 abandoned by Sherman the next day, princi- 
 pally on account of the failure of Grant, whose 
 plans were frustrated by the disaster at Holly 
 Springs, and it was decided soon after to aban- 
 don the attempt, which had been made at a 
 cost of 191 killed, 982 wounded and 756 miss- 
 ing. — Van Buren, Ark., was captured by the 
 forces of Blunt and Herron, the rebels having 
 fled on the approach of the Army of the 
 Frontier, which had defeated two regiments of 
 rebel cavalry at Dripping Spring. — A cavalry 
 action took place at Muldraugh's Hill, Ky. — 
 A reconnoissance took place at Suffolk, Va., 
 and at Occoquan, Va. ; two Pennsylvania cav- 
 alry regiments were engaged.— At Clinton, La., 
 an action took place in which Western troops 
 were engaged. — At New Madrid, Mo., a skir- 
 mish took place. 
 
 Dec. 29. — A Kentucky cavalry regiment en- 
 gaged in an action at Stuart Creek, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 30. — At Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn., a 
 sharp action took place under Sullivan, who 
 fought the rebels under Forrest. The rebels 
 lost a thousand men while the Union loss was 
 239. — Two cavalry regiments belonging to the 
 expedition of Carter in East Tennessee de- 
 stroyed a bridge at Carter's Station. — A detach- 
 ment of soldiers east of Knoxville, Tenn., de- 
 stroyed railroad communication and captured 
 400 rebel prisoners.— A wagon train near Je*"- 
 
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 1862 — DEC. 31— JAN. 7 — 1863. 
 
 ferson, Tenn., was attacked by rebels. This 
 action was preliminar}' to tiie battle of Stone 
 River, and is known to liistory as Jefferson 
 Pike.— The Monitor foundered ott' Hatteras. 
 
 Dec. 31.— Battle of Stone River, or Murfrees-- 
 boro, Tenn. Tiie skirmish which had been 
 mentioned near Stuart's Creek, which continued 
 two days with a loss of 70 Union soldiers, was 
 preliminary also to the action at Stone River 
 proper which continued two days. At daylight 
 of the last day of the year the onset became 
 general and continued with great fury. After 
 desperate fighting and severe loss, McCook's 
 corps fell back, and, after another rail}', the 
 Union army was again driven by the enemy. 
 January 1st, the fighting was continued with 
 slight advantage to the Union force. January 
 2nd, the fighting was desultory until 4 o'clot-k 
 in the afternoon, when the rebels advanced 
 with reinforcements, and a desperate fight of 30 
 minutes occurred witli the odds in tlie rebel 
 favor, but Negley moved up, checked llie rebel 
 advance and drove the enemy back to a wooded 
 hill where a futile attempt to stand was made. 
 In this repulse the rebels lost over 2,000 men, 
 the Union loss being 455. January 3rd, the 
 88th Indiana and 3rd Ohio carried a rebel 
 redoubt in a bayonet charge. During the fol- 
 lowing night, the rebels under Bragg evacuated 
 Murfreesboro, retiring to Tullalioma. 43,500 
 Union troops were engaged at Stone River, the 
 Confederates numbering 62,000 ; the total 
 Union loss was 1,474 killed, 6,813 wounded 
 and 222 prisoners. The rebel loss was 12,000 
 killed and wounded and 3,500 prisoners. 
 
 1863. Jan. 1. — Emancipation Proclamation 
 went into effect. — Near Lebanon, Ky., Morgan's 
 guerrillas made a raid and were defeated, losing 
 several killed and 90 prisoners, besides war sup- 
 plies. — Near Red Mound, Tenn., a complete 
 rout of Forrest's troops took place after 12 days 
 skirmishing with Union troops under Sullivan. 
 
 The Union loss was 20 killed, 100 wounded and 
 60 missing, the rebels losing 700 in killed, 
 wounded and prisoners. Forrest's troops num- 
 bered 7,000 and the Union forces 3,000 infantry, 
 a company of cavalry and six guns, while the 
 rebels were all mounted and had 11 pieces of 
 artillery. — A rebel surprise by land and water 
 took place at Galveston, Texas. The garrison 
 was captured and the gunboat, Harriet Lane, 
 was boarded and her officers and crew nearly 
 all killed. The flagship, Westfield, was blown 
 up, Commodore Renshaw and Lieutenant Zim- 
 merman perishing in the explosion. — An action 
 took place at Lavergne, Tenn., and Baton 
 Rouge, Ij&. 
 
 Jan. 2. — A detachment of Stuart's cavalry 
 dashed into Dumfries, Va., capturing army 
 supplies. — At Moore field, W. Va., the rebels at- 
 tacked the Union position and were repulsed 
 after capturing 60 Union prisoners. — A rebel 
 camp near La Grange, Ark., was captured. 
 
 Jan. 4.— Rosecrans' forces occupied Mur- 
 freesboro, Tenn. — Clarkesville, Tenn., was re- 
 captured with a quantity of provisions. — Gen- 
 eral Sherman was superseded by McClernand. 
 
 Jan. 5. — The cavalry of the Army of the 
 Cumberland engaged with the rebels of Bragg's 
 army in Middletown, Tenn. — A skirmish oc- 
 curred at Hardy Co., Va., 33 Union prisoners 
 being captured. — Near Little River, N. C, a 
 party of rebel skirmishers was defeated and 
 captured without Union loss. — The MonUiuk 
 and Passaic arrived safely at Beaufort, N. C. — 
 Military movement at Jupiter Inlet, Fla. 
 
 Jan. 6. — An English steamer loaded with 
 arms, presumably for the rebels, was captured 
 by the Pocahontas off Mobile. 
 
 Jan. 7 — Battle of Springfield, Mo. Marma- 
 duke, with 5,000 rebels, attacked the town and 
 was repulsed by the Home Guards. Reinforce- 
 ments arrived on the next day and the rebels 
 retired with a loss of 300. The Union loss was 
 
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 59 
 
 17 killed and 50 wounded, General Brown, the 
 commander, losing an arm.— Lieutenant W. B. 
 Gushing and 25 men landed near Fort Gaswell, 
 N. C, and captured a rebel redoubt. — A rebel 
 force attacked, captured and destroyed a con- 
 struction train near Antioch, Tenn. — Colonel 
 Moore, witli 100 men of the 2nd Illinois Cavalry, 
 destroyed a rebel camp at Hontoon's Mills 
 near Ri]>ley, Tenn., killing 16 and capturing 
 40 prisoners. — A Union force destroyed a rebel 
 train at White House, Va., captured the mail, 
 cut the telegraph and burned all the river craft 
 and the commissary stores, the depot and other 
 buildings. — Further movements at Jupiter 
 Inlet. 
 
 Jan. 9. — At Providence Gliurch on the Black- 
 water, Va., a cavalry force defeated the rebels. 
 — Exchange of prisoners in which 26,000 
 Union soldiers were released. — The rebel 
 secretary of war declared that the Union pris- 
 oners taken at Stone River would be held in 
 close confinement until General Butler was sur- 
 rendered to be punished. 
 
 Jan. 10. — Near Hartsville, Mo., a body of 
 Western troops attacked 4,000 rebels under 
 Marmaduke and Porter and drove them five 
 miles; the rebels made a circuit into Harts- 
 ville, and were driven out. This action has 
 been called Wood's Fork and was concluded 
 Jan. 11th. The Union loss was 35 killed and 
 wounded, an-d the rebel loss was 150. — A body 
 of rebels near Catlett's Station, Va., was attacked 
 and defeated with heavy loss. — Galveston, 
 Texas, was bombarded by a Union gunboat. — 
 Fort Hindman was invested by the gunboats of 
 tlie Mississippi squadron and the corps of 
 McClernand and Sherman. 
 
 Jan. 11.— Fort Hindman, Ark., surrendered 
 unconditionally by the rebels. 4,720 prisoners 
 were captured and the armament and stores. 
 129 Union soldiers were killed and 831 wounded. 
 The rebel loss was estimated at 5,500. — At Mill 
 
 Creek, Tenn., Wheeler's cavalry destroyed the 
 railroad bridge and captured a squad of Union 
 soldiers.— The Hatteras was sunk off the coast 
 of Texas by the Alabama. 
 
 Jan. 12.— The steamer Charter was destroyed 
 at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., by a detachment of 
 Wheeler's cavalry.— Rebel raid at Holly Springs 
 and outrages on the citizens. — A brigantine, 
 which had been captured by the privateer. 
 Retribution, was recaptured from the prize crew 
 by the wife of the captain, who made the rebels 
 drunk, put them in irons and took the vessel 
 into the port of St. Thomas.— The 2nd Wiscon- 
 sin Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Lick 
 Creek, Ark. 
 
 Jan. 13.— Col. Daniel Ullmann of the 78th 
 New York Infantry was made brigadier and 
 empowered to raise a brigade of negro troops. 
 — Four boats with wounded troops were cap- 
 tured on the Cumberland River, the men robbed 
 and three of the boats burned. 
 
 Jan. 14.— At Bayou Teche, near Patterson- 
 ville. La., the gunboats Calhoun, Diana, Kins- 
 man and Estrella, assisted by Weitzel's brigade, 
 had a fight with the rebel steamboat Cotton and 
 a land force. The Cotton was destroyed, but 
 the Union commander, Buchanan, was killed 
 by a sharpshooter. — The Queen of the West 
 was captured by the rebels on Red River. 
 
 Jan. 15. — 17 Union couriers of the 2nd Wis- 
 consin Cavalry were captured between Helena, 
 Ark., and Clarendon.— Mound City, Ark., was 
 burned by the Union troops because it was a 
 rendezvous for guerrillas. 
 
 Jan. 16. — Three Union steamers were cap- 
 tured at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., by Wheeler's 
 cavalry. — The Columbia stranded at Masonboro 
 Inlet, N. C, and surrendered to the rebels. — 
 The rebel privateer Orato run the blockade of 
 Mobile and sunk the brig Estelle of Boston, 
 proceeding to Havana pursued by the Oneida. 
 — Duvall's Bluff and Des Arc, Ark., were cap- 
 
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 1863— JAN. 17— JAN. 31 — 1863. 
 
 tured by the 24th Indiana and the gunboat 
 DeKalb on tlie Wliite River witli 150 prisoners 
 and arms. 
 
 Jan. 17.— The .3rd New York Cavalry drove 
 1,300 rebels from Pollocksville, N. C, and 
 occupied the town. 
 
 Jan. 19. — A reconnoissance was made by the 
 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry to Burnt Ordinary, 
 Va., during which 12 Union cavalry dashed 
 among 100 rebels to recapture pri.«oners. — A 
 cavalry skirmish took jJace near Clifton, La. — 
 Military movements at Wash Channel. 
 
 Jan. 21. — An expedition sailed from Hilton 
 Head for Ossabaw Sound, Ga. — Two blockading 
 vessels, the Morning Liglit and Velocity, were 
 captured off Sabine Pass by rebel steamers. — A 
 rebel camp near Columbia, Mo., was broken up 
 by Union troops. 
 
 Jan. 22. — The privateer Orato departed from 
 Havana and captured the brig Windward. 
 
 Jan. 23.— At Fish Springs, Tenn., a band of 
 loyal Tennesseeans were attacked by the rebels 
 under Polk. Several were killed and wounded 
 and three prisoners captured were hung, in- 
 cluding Taylor, the Union leader. —Arkansas 
 Post was evacuated by the Union troops after 
 blowing up the fortifications at Fort Ilindman. 
 • Jan. 24. — Near Woodbury, Tenn., the rebels 
 were defeated with a loss of 35 wounded and 
 100 prisoners captured. — General Foster started 
 from New Berne for Kingston, N. C. 
 
 Jan. 25. — The first regiment of colored vol- 
 unteers was organized at Port Royal, S. C. — 
 A rebel repulse took place on the railroad near 
 Nashville, Tenn. — Foster's troops made a cap- 
 ture near Kingston, N. C. — An attack on a con- 
 struction train near Murfreesboro, Tenn., was 
 repulsed l)y the guard, with tlie assistance of a 
 detachment of the 10th Michigan. 
 
 Jan. 26. — Hooker succeeded Burnside in the 
 command of the Army of the Potomac. — Tlie 
 gunboat Chillicothe shelled the lower batteries 
 
 at Vicksburg. — A detachment of the 5th New 
 York Cavalry .skirmished at Mi<ldleburg, Va., 
 defeating the rebels. — Au Indian fight occurred 
 at Bear River, Washington Territory, during 
 which the cold was so intense that about 150 
 of the soldiers had their feet frozen. 
 
 Jan. 27. — In an action at Bloomfield, Mo., 
 the rebels were driven out and 52 prisoners 
 captured.— A cavalry force belonging to Weit- 
 zel's brigade routed a rebel force at Indian 
 Village, La. — Fort McAlister on the Ogeeche 
 River, Ga., was bombarded without results. 
 
 Jan. 28.— Near Van Buren, Mo., a steamer 
 and 300 rebels were captured. 
 
 Jan. 29. — General McClernanil landed oppo- 
 site Vicksburg. — A skirmish occurred at Pinos 
 Altos, Arizona Territory. 
 
 Jan. 30.— At Dyersburg, Tenn., the 22nd 
 Ohio defeated the rebels, inflicting a loss of 34. 
 — At Deserted House near Suffolk, Va., Pryor's 
 command was defeated by a force under Cor- 
 coran and Spear, the loss on both sides being 
 about 100. — Tlie gunboat, Lsaac Smith, was 
 captured while aground at Stono River, S. C. 
 
 Jan. 31. -Two rebel defeats occurred at 
 Rover and Middleton, Tenn.; in the former 
 the rebel cavalry of Wheeler was routed with 
 35 killed and wounded and 300 prisoners cap- 
 tured ; at the latter jilace a rebel camp was 
 broken up and 100 jirisoners captured. — The 
 Union troops under Jeff. C. Davis occupied 
 Slielbyville, Tenn.— Union troops were attacked 
 in Morgan count\', Ind., while arresting desert- 
 ers, which was accomplished. — The rebel iron 
 clads. Palmetto State and Chicora and three 
 small steamers, attacked the blockading fleet off 
 Ciiarleston, disabling two vessels and killing 
 an<l wounding 43 men. Beauregard declared 
 the blockade raised, but on the stxme day tlie 
 English steamer Princess Royal was captured, 
 while running the blockade at Charleston with 
 a full cargo of arms and supplies for the rebels. 
 
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 Feb. 1.— Attack on Fort McAlistcr, Ga., by 
 the Moiitauk, supported by the Union gun- 
 boats; the attack was unsuccessful. — Franklin, 
 Tenn., was occupied by Union troops. — A rebel 
 attack was made on Island No. 10, which was 
 repulsed by the gunboat Era. 
 
 Fee. 2. — The rebel garrison at Warrenton, 
 Va., was surprised and captured by Wyndham's 
 cavalry brigade. 
 
 Feb. 3. — At Mingo Swamp, Mo., a cavalry 
 force under Major Reader, routed the rebels, 
 killing nine and wounding 20. — Tiie Union 
 garrison at Fort Donelson, Tenn., repelled a 
 rebel attack of Wheeler's cavalry, killing and 
 wounding a.d capturing over 600 with a loss 
 of 126.— A Union reconnoissance was made 
 into Eastern Tennessee, the command of Rey- 
 nolds occupying Liberty, Auburn and Lebanon 
 and driving the rebels in every direction. 
 
 Feb. 4.— a brigade of cavalry under Colonel 
 Warring defeated the rebels under Marmaduke. 
 — Another rebel defeat took place on Lake 
 Providence, La. 
 
 Feb. 5. — A jxarty of guerrillas were routed 
 on Bear Creek, Mo., by the Missouri militia. — 
 A trivial skiruiish occurred near Stafford's 
 Store, Va. 
 
 Feb. 6. — The Union troops raided Middle- 
 burg, Va., capturing several prisoners. — In a 
 skirmish near Millwood, Va., the rebels were 
 defeated. — A mail coach was captured l)y the 
 rebels near Winchester, Va., which was recap- 
 tured on the same day. 
 
 Feb. 7.— A detachment of the 5th Pennsyl- 
 vania Cavalry was sent out from Williamsburg, 
 Va., drawn into a rebel ambush and routed 
 with a loss of 35 killed, wounded and captured. 
 —The rebel guerrilla, Dawson, with several of 
 his men, was captured near Dyersburg, Tenn. 
 Feb. 8. — The Queen of the West captured 
 three rebel steamers on the Red River.— 600 
 rebels were captured at Lebanon, Tenn., and a 
 
 band of guerrillas was routed at Independ- 
 ence, Mo. 
 
 Fer. 9. — Near Summerville, Va., the rebels 
 were routed by Knox' battalion of cavalry. 
 
 Feb. 10.— In a fight at Old River, La., the 
 rebels were defeated with a Union loss of eight 
 killed and wounded. — A band of loyal Dela- 
 ware and Shawnee Indians took possession of 
 the rebel agency at Wachita, Texas, killing the 
 agent and capturing 100 disloyal Indians, many 
 horses and Pike's treaties between the Indians 
 and the rebel government. — An unimportant 
 action took place at Gloucester Point, Va. — The 
 Missouri Home Guards repulsed a rebel attack 
 at Bone Yard, Tenn. 
 
 Feb. 12. — At Bolivar, Tenn., 11 rebels were 
 killed and wounded in a skirmish. 
 
 Feb. 13. — In a skirmish near Charleston, Va., 
 the rebels retreated. — The Indianola pa.ssed the 
 batteries at Vicksburg. — At Smithfield, Va., the 
 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
 mish. 
 
 Feb. 14. — Union cavalry was surprised at 
 Anandale, Va., and 15 were killed and mi.ssing 
 and several wounded. — The Queen of the West 
 grounded near Gordon's Landing on the Red 
 River in Louisiana in range of a rebel battery 
 and was abandoned, after havnig her steam 
 pipe cut by the enemy's shot. — The 1st Michi- 
 gan Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Brents- 
 ville, Va. 
 
 Feb. 15. — A Union force defeated the rebels 
 at Arkadelphia, Ark., losing two killed and 12 
 wounded. — At Gainesville, Tenn., 250 cavalry 
 defeated 500 of Morgan's guerrillas, killing, 
 wounding and capturing 36, with 50 horses and 
 arms. — The rebels attacked the Union train 
 near Nolansville, Tenn., and were repulsed with 
 loss. 
 
 Feb. 16.— Near Roraney, Va., a detachment 
 of soldiers was captured while guarding a 
 wagon train. — An attack on Union infantry by 
 
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 1863 — FEB. 18 — MARCH 4 — 18bJ. 
 
 Forrest's cavalry near Helena, Ark., was re- 
 pulsed. 
 
 Feb. 18. — Union mortar boats opened fire on 
 Vicksburg. — Clifton, Tenn., was destroyed by 
 the Union forces. — At Frankfort, Ky., a dis- 
 loyal convention was dispersed. 
 
 Feb. 19. — Hopefield, Ark., opposite Memphisj 
 was burned because it had become a guerrilla 
 nest. — Near Cold water, Miss., the 1st Indiana 
 Cavalry routed a force of reljels without loss.— 
 An action occurred at Spring River, Mo. 
 
 Feb. 20. — The 5th Illinois Cavalry dispersed 
 a force of rebels at Yazoo Pass, Miss., and five 
 soldiers were wounded. — Rebel guerrillas 
 raided Shawneetown, Ky.— In a gunboat recon- 
 noissance up the Rappahannock a rebel battery 
 was silenced. 
 
 Feb. 21. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
 Prairie Station, Miss., the 2d Iowa Cavalry 
 winning. 
 
 Feb. 22. — Tuscumbia and Florence, Ala., 
 were occupied by a cavalry brigade. — The mili- 
 tary expedition througli Yazoo Pass reached 
 Moon Lake. — A skirmish took place at Gates- 
 ville, Va. 
 
 Feb. 23. — At Deer Creek, near Greenville, 
 Miss., a sharp action took place. — A skirmish 
 took place at Athens, Ky., resulting in the rout 
 of the rel)els, the guerrilla Morgan's brother, 
 being captured. — 700 rebel cavalry raided Win" 
 Chester and other towns in Eastern Kentuckv. 
 —Actions took place at Hazel Green, Miss., and 
 Straw Hill, Va. 
 
 Feb. 24. — The Indianola was captured near 
 Grand Gulf on tlie Mississip]pi liy the rebel 
 rams. Queen of the West and William H. Webb 
 and two armed steamers. 
 
 Feb. 25.— Averill's cavalry routed the rebels 
 near Harlwood Church, Xa.., and they escaped 
 across Keiley's Ford. — The rebels weredisperseil 
 at Licktown, Ky.— An action took place at 
 Tappahanuock and Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Feb.' 26. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
 Woodstock, Va., on the Strasburg Road, the 
 Union loss being 200 killed, wounded and pris- 
 oners. — Near Woodburn, Tenn., rebel guerrillas 
 captured and rifled a Government train and 
 started the locomotive under full steam, in a 
 fruitless attempt to wreck an aj)proaclung pas- 
 senger train. 
 
 Feb. 27.— The 2nd New York Cavalry routed 
 the rebels near New Berne, N. C, and captured 
 48 rebels, losing one soldier. 
 
 Feb. 28. — The rebel steamer Nashville was 
 destroyed by the ram Montauk under the guns 
 of Fort McAlister. 
 
 March 1. — Near Bradyville, Tenn., the 
 guerrillas of Duke were routed by a cavalry 
 command, detached fnmi Rosecrans' army 
 under General Stanley, the Union loss in killed 
 and wounded being 15, and that of the rebels 
 47 beside 89 prisoners. — At Bloomlield, Mo., a 
 Union raid resulted in the capture of tlie rebel 
 Marshall and 20 prisoners. — A cavalry skir- 
 mish took place at Aldie, Va., and Mosby's 
 guerrillas captured 50 Union prisoners. 
 
 March 2.— On the Salem turnpike, near 
 Murfreesboro, Tenn., Morgan's cavalry was 
 i defeated by United States Regulars. — Near 
 Petersburg, Tenn., the rebels were defeated 
 with a loss of 12 killed and 20 wounded. — 30 
 of Mosby's guerrillas were captured near Aldie, 
 Va. — At Eagleville, Tenn., a skirmish took 
 place. 
 
 March 3. — Bombardment of Fort McAlister 
 for eight hours without sul)stantial results. — 
 The iron-clad, Indianola, captured by the rebels, 
 was blown up on the approach of a sham 
 Monitor, sent past the \^icksburg batteries by 
 the Union forces from above. — An action took 
 place at Charlotte, Fla. — At Owne's \'alley, 
 Tenn., a cavalry skirmish occurred. 
 
 March 4. — Near Chapel Hill, \a., the rebels 
 were routed with a loss of 84 in killed and 
 
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 wounded. — At Skeet, N. C, a detachment of 
 the 3rd New York Cavalry defeated the rebels, 
 killing 28 and losing IS. 
 
 Mauch 5. — Near Franklin, Tenn., an engage- 
 ment which was known as the battle of Thomp- 
 sonville or Spring Hill took ]>lace. The force 
 of Van Dorn, estnnaled at 20,000, attacked five 
 infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments 
 and a battery. After a desperate fight, the 
 Union force surrendered, losing 100 killed, 300 
 wounded and 1,300 jirisoners. The rebel loss 
 was over 400. 
 
 March 7.— At Unionville, Tenn., the com- 
 mand of Colonel Minty defeated the rebel cav- 
 alry, inflicting a loss of 50 killed and 180 
 wounded. — A Union expedition from Belle 
 Plaine, Va., returned to that place, having cap. 
 tured a large quantity of stores and prisoners. 
 
 March 8. — Mosljy's guerrillas dashed into 
 Fairliix, Va., and captured General Stoughton 
 with 30 officers and privates and their equip- 
 ments. — The 42nd Massachusetts caj)tured a 
 company of rebel cavalry near New Berne, N. C 
 
 March 9. — In an action below Port Hudson, 
 a small rebel force was captured. — Near Bolivar, 
 Tenn., 18 guerrillas were taken. — In a. skirmish 
 on Comity River, La., the rebels were dispersed. 
 — A trifling action occurred at Blackwater 
 Bridge, Va.— At Franklin, Tenn., the l-25th 
 Ohio engaged in an action. 
 
 March 10.— Grierson, with detachments ot 
 the 6th and 7th Illinois Cavalry, routed 400 
 guerrillas, killing 25 and taking many prison- 
 ers. — Colonel Minty's 4th Michigan Cavalry 
 made a capture at Rutherford's Creek, Tenn. — 
 A colored regiment under Col. T. W. Higgin- 
 son, assisted by another colored regiment, oc- 
 cupied Jacksonville, Fla. 
 
 March 11.— At Greenwood, Miss., the Union 
 expedition up the Yazoo Pass, including gun- 
 boats and a land force, had a skirmish without 
 results. — The guard of a forage train repulsed 
 a guerrilla attack, 13 miles from Paris, Ky. 
 
 March 12. — An armed reconnoitering expe- 
 dition under Gordon Granger returned to their 
 point of departure, after driving Van Dorn 
 beyond the Duck River; in the skirmishes 
 which occurred the Union loss included nine 
 soldiers. 
 
 March 13.— The Union fleet bombarded 
 Fort Pemberton at Greenwood, Miss., without 
 success and withdrew. — At Spanish Wells, S. C, 
 the rebels burned a U. S. signal station.— Near 
 Berwick City, La., the IGOth New York Infan- 
 try dispersed a rebel force. 
 
 March 14. — A rebel bombardment of New 
 Berne, N. C, was terminated after four hours 
 by the appearance of Union gunboats — Ad- 
 miral Farragut with a fleet of eight gunboats 
 made a night attack on the batteries at Port 
 Hudson without results. The Mississippi ran 
 aground, 05 of her crew were lost and she was 
 abandoned and burned. — Colonel Minty's com- 
 mand made a reconnoissance of 11 days and 
 returned to Murfreesboro, Tenn., on this date, 
 with 50 prisoners. 
 
 March 15.— U. S. officers took possession of 
 the steamer Chapman, as she was about to sail 
 as a rebel privateer from San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 March 16. — A land force under Sherman 
 and a naval force under Porter started on an 
 expedition up Steele's Bayou, Miss., and was 
 absent six days. 
 
 March 17. — Near Franklin, Va., a Union 
 repulse occurred, with a loss of 17 killed and 
 wounded. — At Kelley's Ford, Va., the cavalry 
 under Averill defeated a force under Fitz Hugh 
 Lee, fighting four hours and capturing bO 
 prisoners. 
 
 March 18. — Near Berwick Bay, La., the 
 rebels were routed with a loss of 30 killed and 
 wounded. — A United Stales gunboat was sunk 
 while attempting to pass the Vicksburg bat- 
 teries. 
 
 March 19. — Skirmish on the Duck River, 
 
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 Tenn. — The English steamer, Georgiana, laden 
 with confederate military stores, was captured 
 off Charleston, S. C 
 
 March 20. — At Vaught's Hill, near Milton, 
 Tenn., a battle occurred between six regiments 
 under Colonel Hall, and a large rebel force 
 under Wheeler and Morgan, the latter being 
 defeated with a loss of 200, tlie winners losing 
 48 soldiers. 
 
 March 21. — Two thousand guerrillas at- 
 tacked the Union trooj)s at Cottage Grove, 
 Tenn., who were repulsed and pursued several 
 miles. — At Seneca, Va., a slight Union defeat 
 occurred. — Return of the expedition to the 
 Yazoo after movements up tlie baj'ous, in 
 which large quantities of cotton, corn and some 
 houses were destroyed. — Admiral Farragut's 
 flagship, with the Monongahela, passed War- 
 renton, Miss , and anchored near Vicksburg. 
 
 March 22. — At Blue Springs, Mo., Quan- 
 Irell's guerrillas defeated the Missouri militia. 
 — Rebel cavalry cajitured Mount Sterling, Ky., 
 with 200 men of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry. 
 March 23. — An expedition under Rust re- 
 inforced Jacksonville, Fla. 
 
 March 24. — Pontchatoula, La., was occupied 
 by six Union regiments, the rebels retiring. — 
 A skirmish occurred at Danville, Ky. 
 
 March 25.— At Brentwood, Tenn., 5,000 
 rebels under Wheeler, Forrest and Wlieaton, 
 attacked a garrison of 300, who were captured 
 with all the stores. Gen. Green Clay Smith 
 came to the relief of the garrison, pursued tiie 
 rebels and recaj)tured all the stores, which lie 
 destroyed. — Two Union rams were disabled in 
 an attempt to run the batteries at Vicksburg. — 
 Dupont's fleet sailed from Hilton Head for 
 Charleston, S. C. 
 
 March 26. — An expedition returned to Carth- 
 age, Tenn., after capturing prisoners and sup- 
 plies at Rome, Ga. — Jacksonville, Fla., was 
 evacuated and burned. — Admiral Farragut 
 bombarded Warrenton, Miss., without results. 
 
 March 28. — The U. S. gunboat Diana with 
 detachments of the 12tb Connecticut and 160th 
 New York, was captured by the rebels otf Pat- 
 tersonville. La. — On the Amite River, La., two 
 Maine regiments engaged in a skirmish. — Cole's 
 Island, near Charleston, S. C, was occupied by 
 the Union troops. — A foraging expedition re- 
 turned to Belle Plain, Va., after accomplishing 
 their purpose. — The steamer Sam Gaty was 
 stopped at Sibley, Mo., by rebel guerrillas, who 
 killed a number of passengers and committed 
 wholesale robbery, besides murdering 20 
 negroes and destroj'ing government property. 
 — A skirmish occurred at Hurricane Bridge, 
 W. Va. 
 
 March 29. — A detachment of the 6th Illinois 
 Cavalry was attacked by guerrillas near Sura- 
 merville, Tenn., who were repulsed after killing 
 40 soldiers. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
 Williamsburg, ^'a. — An expedition en route to 
 Jacksonville, Fla., engaged in a skirmish at 
 Baldwin- 
 
 March 30. — A rebel force attacked \^'^ashing- 
 ton, N. C, which was garrisoned by Foster and 
 were driven ofif by Union gunboats. — Rich- 
 mond, La., was captured by the Union troops. 
 — At Somerset, Ky., General Gilmore, with 
 1,200 men, routed 2,800 rebels under Pograra, 
 killing, wounding and capturing 300 with little 
 loss. — At Point Pleasant, W. Va., the rebels 
 drove out the Union garrison, who recaptured 
 the place on the same day. — An Indian fight 
 took place at Tahliquab, I. T._The 3rd Wis- 
 consin Cavalry engaged in a skirmish on The 
 Island, Mo. 
 
 Aritir, 1. — Admiral Farragut, with three 
 boats, passed the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf, 
 Miss. — At Richmond, Va., a riot occurred, in 
 which 3,000 women participated, the mob 
 breaking into confederate stores, and seizing pro- 
 visions, bread and clothing. Jeff Davis made 
 
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 II speecli and promised- cessation of grievances. 
 — Detachments of tlie 5th Vermont and 5th 
 New Yoi'k Cavahy engaged Mosby's guerrillas 
 at Broad Run, Va. — A cavalry fight took place 
 at Chalk Bluff, Ark. 
 
 April 2. — In an action of two days at Wood- 
 l)ury, Tenn., Ohio Cavalry dispersed 1,200 
 rebels. — At Snow Hill, Ky., Stanley's troops 
 I'outed Morgan's rebel cavalry with small loss, 
 tlie rebel losses amounting to 110 with 300 
 horses. — A portion of Farragut's fleet ascended 
 the Red River, destroying rebel gunboats on the 
 way. Rebel attack on the gunboat St. Clair by 
 rebels above Fort Donelson. — The Japan left 
 Greenock, Scotland, for the coast of France, 
 received an armament, hoisted the rebel flag 
 and proceeded to sea under the name of the 
 Georgia, as a rebel privateer. 
 
 April 3. — A skirmishing party returned to 
 Fayetteville, Ark., after four successful skir- 
 mishes with the rebels. — At Reading, Penn., 
 Knights of the Golden Circle were arrested. 
 
 April 4. — An attempt was made at Wash- 
 ington, N. C, to capture the rebel battery at 
 Rodman's Point on the Pamlico River. — 
 Lieutenant Fitch, commanding the gunboat 
 Lexington, burned Palmyra, Tenn., in retalia- 
 tion for firing into the St. Clair. — Two cavalry 
 encounters occurred at Madison and in Farral 
 county, Ark. 
 
 April 5. — An expedition of 8,000 Union 
 troops started for New Berne, N. C, to reinforce 
 Foster at Washington, N. C. — Steele's expedition 
 started for the Black Bayou, Miss. 
 
 April 6. — At Green Hill, Tenn., the Union 
 cavalry dispersed a rebel camp, killing five and 
 cajituring 15 and the camp equipments and 
 returning to Nashville. — Gunboats arrived at 
 Pass a rOutre, La. 
 
 April 7. — First attempt to recapture Fort 
 Sumter. Nine iron clads and other vessels 
 under Dupont opened fire on Fort Sumter. The 
 
 firing from the rebel batteries was terrific and 
 incessant for three hours. — A cavalry expedi- 
 tion left Murfreesboro, Tenn., destined to move 
 through Alabama and Georgia, for destructive 
 purposes, but were pursued by Forrest's cavalry 
 and, after a severe fight at Cedar Blutt", sur- 
 rendered to Forrest. 
 
 April 8. — Near Clarksville, Tenn., the 
 steamers Saxonia and Lowell were destroyed 
 by a force of 1,200 rebels. — At Broad River, 
 S. C, the steamer George Washington was fired 
 upon and a shot exploded the magazine, destroy- 
 ing the vessel with 29 men. — A cavalry fight 
 occurred in St. Francis county, Missouri. 
 
 April 9. — A skirmish took place at Blount's 
 Mills, N. C. — EastPascagoula,La., was occupied 
 by a colored regiment; a cavalry attack was 
 repulsed, the rebels losing 70. — Execution of 
 Captain A. G. Webster as a spy at Camp Lee 
 near Richmond. 
 
 April 10.— At Franklin, Tenn., 1,500 rebels 
 under VanDorn attacked the command of Gor- 
 don Granger and were repulsed with a loss of 
 300 dead, who were left on the field. — The 
 rebels were routed near Germantown, Ky. — 21 
 LInion soldiers of the 5th Iowa Cavalry were 
 captured near Waverly, Tenn. 
 
 April 11. — A Union cavalry camp was 
 routed near Williamsburg, Va. — A raiding 
 force under Colonel Streight left Nashville, for 
 Georgia. — Unimportant actions at Mount Ver- 
 non, Ky., and Blackwater, Va. 
 
 April 12. — Dupont's fleet returned from 
 Charleston harbor to Port Royal. — The 5th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry were surjirised at AVhit- 
 taker's Mills, Va., but the rebels were driven 
 off by the fire from Fort Magruder.— Activities 
 at Irish Bend and Bisland, in w'hich three 
 divisions of the 19tb Corps were involved. — 
 The beginning of the siege of Suffolk, which 
 continued to the 4th of May. 
 
 April 13. — A transport ran the batteries be- 
 
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 1863-— APRIL 14 — APRIL 23 — 1863. 
 
 low Washington, N. C, carrying aid to General 
 Foster.— The 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry drove 
 a large rebel force near Suffolk, Va. — Steele's 
 expedition returned to the point of departure, 
 after destroying 3,000,000 dollars worth of 
 property belonging to the rebel government 
 and to citizens in sympathy with the guerrillas. 
 — Weitzel's command captured New Iberia, La. 
 The Diana, which had been captured, and the 
 Hart, an iron clad, were destroyed by the rebels 
 when abandoning the place. The Union loss 
 was about 300 and that of the rebels much 
 larger. This is also known as the battle of 
 Bayou Teche. 
 
 April 14.— The Union gunboats, Stepping 
 Stone, Mount Washington and Commodore 
 Barney, after four hours cannonade, silenced 
 a heavy battery on the Nansemond River, Va., 
 the Union loss being 23 in killed and wounded. 
 
 April 15.— Franklin, La., was occupied by 
 the Union troops. — The siege of Washington, 
 N. C, was raised by the rebels after an invest- 
 ment of three weeks. — A dash by mounted 
 Union infantry was made into Pikeville, Ky., 
 and 17 rebel officers and 61 privates captured. 
 — 200 Indians were captured at Spanish Fork 
 Canon, Utah.— A cavalry skirmish took place 
 at Dunbar's Plantation, La. 
 
 April 16. — Admiral Porter, with 11 vessels, 
 ran the Vicksburg batteries at night, losing the 
 Henry Clay. — Stoneman's expedition left Fal- 
 mouth, Va. — An Indian fight occurred on the 
 Watonwan River, Minn., in which a detach- 
 ment of the 7tli Minnesota was engaged. 
 
 April 17. — At Vermillion Bayou, La., a de- 
 tachment of the .19th Corps drove the rebels, 
 who burned a bridge. — A skirmish took place 
 near Suffolk, Va. — Grierson left La Grange, 
 Miss., on a raiding expedition ; the force in- 
 cluded 100 cavalry and, after marching 800 
 miles, reached Baton Rouge, La., May 1st. — 
 Rebel stores were destroyed at Okalona and I 
 
 Newton, a train carrying 3,000 shells to Vicks- 
 burg was exploded and the confederate 
 ordnance works at Enterprise were destroyed, 
 the whole loss being estimated at §6,(i00,000. 
 
 April 18. — A reconnoitering party at Sabine 
 Pass, Tex., was captured by ambushed rebels. — 
 200 Union troops repulsed 3,000 rebels at Fay- 
 etteville. Ark. — A cavalry brigade engaged in a 
 fight at Hernando, Miss. — At Hill's Point, Va., 
 a skirmish incident to the siege of Suffolk 
 took place. — Activities at Cape Romain Inlet, 
 S. C. 
 
 April 19. — A Union victory occurred in a 
 fight with rebel cavalry near Xoncona, Tenn. — 
 A rebel battery at West Branch on the Nanse- 
 mond was stormed and captured with five 
 cannon and 161 prisoners. — The Union force 
 which fought at Hernando, engaged in another 
 skirmish at Coldwater, Miss. — At New Albany, 
 Miss., the 7th Illinois Cavalry, connected with 
 Grierson's command, engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 April 20. — Bute La Rose surrendered to an 
 attacking force of Union gunboats. — At Patter- 
 son, Mo., 3,000 rebels attacked a Union force 
 under Colonel Stuart and were repulsed ; the 
 Union loss was 50. — At Opelousas, La., a Union 
 force made an unsuccessful attack. —At Helena, 
 Ark., a cavalry skirmisli took place. — The 5lh 
 Indiana Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at 
 Selina, Ky. — Minty's cavalry brigade captured 
 McMinnville, Tenn. 
 
 April 21.— At Berryville, Va., several rebels 
 were captured. — West Virginia admitted into 
 the Union. 
 
 April 22. — Rebel guerrillas entered Tomp- 
 kinsville, Ky., killed five Union soldiers and 
 burned several buildings. — On the Strasburg 
 Road, A'^a., a sm;ill rebel force was defeated. — 
 At Palo Alto, Miss., Grierson's raiders engaged 
 in a skirmish. 
 
 April 23. — At Tuscumbia, Ala., the Union 
 troops allacktd the rebels and captured the 
 
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 place. — A gunboat attack took place at Chucka- 
 tuck, Va. 
 
 Apkii, 24.— At Webber Falls, Ark., a rebel 
 camp was captured. — A skiriuisb took place 
 near Suffolk, ^^a.-At Beverly, Va., 1,000 Vir- 
 ginia loyalists were defeated by the rebels 
 under Imboden and Jackson. — The 1st Wiscon- 
 sin Cavalry engaged in an action at White 
 Water, Mo. — At Duck River Shoals the Lexing- 
 ton and Monarch silenced the rebel batteries. 
 
 April 25. — At Greenland Gap, W. Va., a 
 garrison surrendered to 15,000 rebels, their 
 building having been tired after they had re- 
 pulsed three attacks and killed a number of 
 rebels, exceeding the number of the entire 
 garrison. 
 
 April 26.— Battle of Cape Girardeau. 8,000 
 rebels under Marmaduke and Burbridge at- 
 tacked McNeill's command and were repulsed 
 with heavy loss. — A LTnion raid was made upon 
 Ueer Creek, Miss., resulting in great destruction. 
 
 April 27. — Llooker began his movements on 
 Fredericksburg, Va. — 2,000 rebel cavalry occu- 
 pied Morgantown, W. Va. — Near Franklin, 
 Tenn., a Union cavalry force surprised a Texas 
 command, captured more than 100 prisoners 
 and destroyed eight wagon loads of arms. 
 
 April 27. — Movements in Streight's raid, 
 Ga., and Stoneman's raid, Va. 
 
 April 28. — Three corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac crossed the Rappahannock at Kelley's 
 Ford and General Meade advanced to Chancel- 
 lorsville, Va. — Near .Jackson, Mo., Marmaduke's 
 force was overtaken and badly defeated. — An 
 unimportant skirmish took place near Mill 
 Spring, Ky. — At L^nion Church, Miss., an action 
 connected with Grierson's raid took place. — A 
 skirmish occurred near Dover, N. C, and at 
 Town Creek, Ala. 
 
 April 29. — Fitzhugli's Crossing. The 1st 
 corps of Hooker's army skirmished with the 
 rebels during this and the day following, while 
 
 effecting a passage over the Rappahannock. 
 The remainder of the army, six corps, crossed 
 at the various other fords above. — Fairmount, 
 W. Va., was attacked and captured by 500 
 rebel cavalry, who compelled the surrender of a 
 gallant garrison of 300 Union troops. — Porter's 
 fleet silenced the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf, 
 Miss.— At Bloomfield, Mo., the 1st Wisconsin 
 Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 April 30.— The 6th New York Cavalry, 
 while reconnoitering near Spottsylvania C. H., 
 Va., were surrounded by four rebel regiments 
 and cut their way out.— Actions took place 
 near Snyder's Bluft', Miss., the Union troops 
 effecting a landing. — Grant's forces crossed the 
 Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, Miss. — Rebel 
 Ijatteries were silenced by the Union gunboats 
 on the Nansemond River, Va. —On this date 
 the movements at Chalk Bluff, Mo., and Day's 
 Gap, Ala., commenced. 
 
 May 1 — 4. — Battle of Chancellorsville. On 
 the 1st day of May, the Union armj' com- 
 menced movements at 11 o'clock in the fore- 
 noon, which were designed to precipitate action 
 witii Lee's forces, and the two armies encoun- 
 tered each other about two and a half miles 
 from Chancellorsville, the various movements 
 continuing through the day without de- 
 cisive results. On the 2nd, Stonewall Jackson 
 with 40,000 men attacked the right wing of 
 Hooker's army under Howard, which point he 
 gained by a flank movement. That part of the 
 command broke and a panic ensued. A dis- 
 astrous defeat was prevented by the resolute 
 bravery of Bushbeck's and McLean's brigades, 
 which obstinately defended their positions. 
 May 3rd, the engagement was resumed and, 
 after a bloody battle, the Union troops forced 
 back and drove the rebels, occupying the in- 
 trenchments from which they had been driven 
 the previous day. On the following day the 
 battle was renewed and the Union troops were 
 
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 1863— MAY 1— MAY 5 — 1863. 
 
 hard]}' pressed. During tlie night a consulta- 
 tion was held between Hooker and his corps 
 commanders and a retreat was ordered. It 
 was begun and successfully consummated after 
 one o'clock a. m., May .5tli. The Rappahannock 
 was crossed without the knowledge of the con- 
 federates. All the Union dead and many 
 wounded were left on the field. The estimated 
 Union loss was 15,000 and that of the rebels 
 not far from the same figures. No historian 
 should pass even the most incomplete account 
 of the battle of Chancellorsville, without pausing 
 to pay tribute to the memory of Major Peter 
 Keenan, commanding 400 men of the 8th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, who charged 10,000 
 rebels at the sacrifice of his life and those of 
 nearly the whole of his command, thereby 
 preserving the army from utter ruin and his 
 country from an ineffacable disgrace. By this 
 plan of General Pleasanton, the advance of 
 Stonewall Jackson after the rout of the 11th 
 Corps was checked. — Battle of Port Gib.^on, 
 Miss. General Grant defeated 12,000 rebels 
 under General Bowen and the latter left 1,550 
 killed and wounded on the field ; 500 rebels 
 were captured and the reported Union loss was 
 about 850. The rebels fled across Bayou 
 Pierre, destroying the bridges behind them, 
 which were rebuilt by Grant, whose forces con- 
 tinued the pursuit. — At Monticello, Ky., Carter's 
 brigade drove out the rebels and occupied the 
 place. — A Union defeat occurred near La 
 Grange, Ark.— At South Quay Bridge on the 
 Nansemond Kiver, Va., the U9th New York 
 defeated a strong rebel force and lost 41 men. 
 May 1. — A cavalry skirmish in the course of 
 Grierson's raid occurred on the Tickfiiw River, 
 Miss., in which the 7th Illinois Cavalry was 
 engaged. — At Rapidan Station, Va., Averill's 
 cavalry division connected with Stoneman's 
 command engaged in a skirmish, and the 1st 
 Maine Cavalry, belonging to the raiding expe- 
 
 dition of Stoneman, engaged in a skirmish at 
 Louisa C. H., Va. 
 
 May 2. — Fredericksburg, Va., was occupied 
 by Union troops. — .\n armed reconnoissance 
 up the Nansemond River was made by a strong 
 force under Getty, supported by a battery. — 
 Marmaduke's command was driven into Ar- 
 kansas. — Grierson's expedition reached Baton 
 Rouge, La., after a successful march. — Heavy 
 skirmish at Blount's Farm, La., during 
 Streight's raid. 
 
 May 3.— Charge at Marye's Heights. A suc- 
 cessful assault was made on tlie rebel intrench- 
 ments in the rear of Fredericksburg by a part 
 of General Sedgwick's command. In spite of 
 the terrific fire of the rebel batteries, the Union 
 troops, with dauntless courage, crossed the 
 works, capturing eight guns and 800 prisoners. 
 — Mosby's guerrillas were routed near Warren- 
 ton Junction, Ya. — A troop of colored raiders 
 returned to Beaufort, S. C, having captured 
 and liberated 800 slaves and destroyed 
 §2,000,000 worth of rebel property.— Near 
 Gadston, Ala., 1,500 soldiers belonging to 
 Streight's raiding force were captured. This 
 was the termination of the movement. — .\t 
 Hankenson's Ferry, Miss., a division belonging 
 to the command of Grant, engaged in a skir- 
 mish. 
 
 May 4.— The fleet of Admiral Porter took 
 po.ssession of Fort de Russy, La., at the mouth 
 of the Red River, which had been evacuated 
 by the rebels. — During Stoneman's raid, the 
 5th New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmisli 
 at Shannon Hill, Va., and the 12tli Illinois 
 Cavalry at Tunstall Station, \'a. 
 
 May 5. — An advance on the rebel works on 
 the Nansemond River was made by three 
 columns of Union troops, and it was found 
 that they had been abandoned during tlie pre- 
 vious night. — Arrest of C. L. Vallandigham at 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 
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 May 6. — Admiral Porter occupied Alexan- 
 dria, Miss., witliout resistance. — At Tupelo, 
 Miss., a reljel attaclc was made on a Missouri 
 and Kansas Cavalry regiment, wliicli was de- 
 feated with a loss of 90 prisoners and a large 
 quantity of arras. — The U. S. gunboat, Cuyler, 
 captured the Eugenia off Mobile, Ala. 
 
 May 7. — A reconnoissance toward White 
 House, Va., resulted in the recapture of several 
 prisoners taken by the rebels at Fredericks- 
 Ijurg. — A force belonging to Stoneman's expe- 
 dition arrived at Gloucester Point, Va., having 
 marched ai'ound Lee's army. — Farragut's gun- 
 boats bombarded and dismantled the rebel 
 batteries at Washington, Miss. 
 
 May 8. — Bombardment of Port Hudson, 
 La. — A raiding expedition left Helena, Miss., 
 and returned after 10 days, reporting the de- 
 struction of a large amount of rebel stores and 
 other property. — Stoneman rejoined Hooker on 
 the Rappahannock, after one of the m»st 
 brilliant, daring and efficient cavalry raids of 
 the war. 
 
 May 9. — Resumption of the bombardment 
 of Port Hudson without result. — Tlie vicinity 
 of Stone River, Tenn., was scouted by the 2nd 
 Lidiana Cavalry under Colonel E. M. McCook, 
 guerrillas were dispersed and a large number 
 of prisoners were captured. 
 
 May 10. — At Civiques' Ferry, La., a skirmish 
 took place, in which three infantry regiments 
 were supported by a battery. — The assault on 
 Port Hudson was renewed and the batteries 
 silenced. — Death of Stonewall Jackson. 
 
 May 11. — At Horseshoe Bend and Bottom 
 Narrows, Ky., a seven hours' engagement took 
 place and 4,000 rebel guerrillas under Morgan 
 were defeated with a loss of more than 100, 
 the Union loss being 25. — Crystal Springs, Miss., 
 was captured and burned by Union cavalr}'. — 
 At Mount Vernon, Ark., a cavalry skirmish 
 took place under Colonel Clayton. 
 
 May 12. — At Raymond, Miss., the rebels 
 were defeated by McPherson, the rebel loss 
 being 900, and the Union loss about half that 
 number. — An expedition left Amite River, La., 
 on an expedition into Mississippi. They routed 
 the rebels at Tickfaw, pursued them to Camp 
 Moore and destroyed a bridge over the Tangi- 
 palio River. — Military operations at Hammond 
 Station, La. — Colonel Breckenridge made a 
 brilliant dash into Linden, Tenn. — Between 
 Franklin and Woodbury, Ky., a body of 
 Union troops routed a squad of mounted rebels. 
 — At Fourteen Mile Creek, Miss., an infantry 
 skirmish connected with the Vicksburg cam- 
 paign took place. 
 
 May Id. — At Pontchatoula, La., the command 
 of Colonel Davis dispersed a body of guerrillas 
 and Choctaw Indians, capturing 17 of the 
 latter and destroying the camp. — Evacuation 
 of Yazoo City, Miss., by the rebels. — At South 
 Union, Ky., the rebels were defeated. — The 2nd 
 Illinois Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Hall's 
 Ferry, Miss. 
 
 May 14. — Jackson, Miss., was captured by 
 Grant's command after three hours' obstinate 
 fighting. — Joe Johnston retreated northward, 
 leaving 450 killed and wounded ; the Union 
 loss was 286. After three days Grant aban- 
 doned the city, after destroynig such buildings 
 as could be of use to the rebels. — Near War- 
 renton Junction, Va., a Union scoutiug force 
 engaged in a skirmish with the Black Horse 
 Cavalry. — Destruction of Hammond Station, La. 
 
 May 15. — Infantry skirmishing near Cars- 
 ville and Suffolk, Va., without results and ex- 
 tending through two days. — At Edward's Sta- 
 tion, Miss., Grant's troops defeated the rebels 
 under Pemberton. — Destruction of Camp Moore, 
 La. — At Jolinson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio, 
 two men were executed for enlisting rebels 
 within the Union lines. 
 
 May 16. — Champion's Hill. After five hours' 
 
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 1863— MAY 17— MAY 25—1863. 
 
 desperate figliting Grant defeated remberton ; 
 more than 5,000 rebels were killed, wounded 
 and captured, and the Union loss was 426 
 killed, 1,842 wounded and 280 missing.— A re- 
 caj)ture of a company of United States cavalry 
 took place at Piedmont Station, Va. — At Berry's 
 Ferry, \^i., a skirmisli took place, in which 
 Union prisoners captured by Mosby were re- 
 taken. — At Cripple Creek, Tenn., a brilliant 
 cavalry dash was made by General Palmer. — 
 The privateer Cuba was destroyed by the gun- 
 boat DeSoto off the harbor of Mobile. — Vallan- 
 digliam was sentenced to Fort Warren, Boston. 
 M.\Y 17.— At the Big Black River Bridge, 
 General Pemberton was again defeated with 
 great slaughter by General Grant; the latter 
 captured 3,000 prisoners and lost 273. — Pem- 
 Ijerton retreated to Mcksburg. — Commencement 
 of cavalry skirmishing near Fayetteville, Va., 
 which continued four days. 
 
 May 18. — Grant's army crossed the Big 
 Black River on pontoon bridges and invested 
 Vicksburg; Haines' Blufi' was abandoned by 
 the rebels and occupied by Porter. — Near Sher- 
 wood, Mo., 45 Union soldiers were attacked by 
 200 guerrillas, and 32 of the Union force were 
 killed, wounded or captured. — The Crescent 
 City with the 3rd Iowa Infantry on board was 
 attacked by guerrillas. — The 170th New York 
 Infanlry engaged in a skirmish at C'arsville, 
 \'^a.— Investment of Vicksburg by the land 
 forces under Grant and the fleet of Porter. 
 
 May 19. — Near Winchester, Va., the rebels 
 were defeated in a skirmish. — At Richmond, 
 Ray Co., Mo., a body of guerrillas defeated the 
 home troops and drove them out. — Unsucces.s- 
 ful assault on Vicksburg. 
 
 May 20. — The rebels were defeated in a skir- 
 misli at Fayetteville, \'a. — Near Fort Gibson, 
 Ark., and Fort Blunt, I. T., an Indian brigade 
 with the assistance of the Glh Kansas and 3rd 
 Wisconsin Cavalry defeated the rebels, killing j 
 
 100 and losing 4G. — Unsuccessful assault on 
 Vicksburg. — Union cavalry raid on the Rappa- 
 hannock below Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 May 21. — A general assault on the works at 
 Vicksburg was repulsed after nine hours' severe 
 fighting, and a Union loss of about 2,000 killed 
 and wounded. — A skirmish between guerrillas 
 and Missouri troops occurred at Plattsville, Mo. 
 — At Middleton, Tenn., a considerable action 
 occurred in which both infantry and cavalry 
 were engaged. — At Snyder's Bluff and Walnut 
 Hills the rebel batteries were captured by 
 General Steele. 
 
 May 22. — Another assault on Vicksburg was 
 repulsed with terrible slaughter among the 
 Union troops. — A rebel camp at Gum Swamp, 
 N. C, was captured and desti-oyed. As the 
 Union force was retiring, the rebels were rein- 
 forced and a severe fight followed, resulting in 
 the repulse of the rebels with a loss of 200, the 
 Union loss being 67. — Kilpatrick's cavalry re- 
 turned to Gloucester Point, after a successful 
 raid in two counties in A'irginia, a Union gun- 
 boat having operated in conjunction with the 
 land forces. — Actions occurred at Bachelor's 
 Creek, N. C, and near Austin, Miss. — The Pres- 
 ident changed Vallandigham's sentence to ban- 
 ishiuent within rebel lines. 
 
 May 24. — Austin, Miss., was destroyed in re- 
 taliation for an attack on a vessel belonging to 
 Ellett's command. — Lieutenant Walker started 
 up the Yazoo River on a sccoikI exjiedition. — 
 At Shawnee Creek, Kan., a wagon train was 
 captured by guerrillas. 
 
 May 25. — A force of rebels crossed the Cum. 
 berland River at Fishing Creek, Ky., and met 
 with a repulse. — At Senatobia, Miss., the rebels 
 were routed and driven south of the Talle- 
 hatchie. — General Corcoran cut the Norfolk and 
 Petersburg Railroad. — A skirmish occurred at 
 Helena, Ark., in which the 3rd Iowa and 5th 
 Kansas Cavalry engaged. — An action took place 
 at Franklin, La. 
 
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 May 26.— The 17th Indiana Cavahy under 
 Wilder returned to Murfreesboro, after an ex- 
 tended scout to Mc'Minnville, Tenn., having 
 routed the rebel cavalry, captured many jaris- 
 oners and destroyed property. — Colonel Corwin 
 left Coiinth on an expedition into Alabama. — 
 The U. S. gunboat Cincinnati was sunk while 
 attempting to pass the Vicksburg batteries, 40 of 
 her crew being lost. — A cavalry action took 
 ]ilace at AVoodbury, Tenn. 
 
 May 27. — Siege of Port Hudson, La. Gen- 
 eral Banks assaulted Port Hudson along the 
 whole line, the columns being commanded by 
 Sherman, A\'eitzel, Grover, Paine and Auger ; 
 Arnold commanded the artillery and Farragut 
 the gun and mortar boats. The action of this 
 day was unsuccessful, the Union loss in killed 
 and wounded being 800. The 1st Louisiana 
 negro regiment acquitted themselves with great 
 bravery. — At Lake Providence, La., a colored 
 regiment engaged in a skirmish. — At Big Elk 
 River Bridge, Miss., a skirmish occurred. 
 
 May 28. — Return of Clendennin's scouting 
 party on the Rappahannock and the Potomac 
 to Hooker's headquarters after 11 days, in 
 which a great amount of mischief to the rebels 
 was wrought. — The 54th Massachusetts Regi- 
 ment of colored troops, the first sent from the 
 North, left Boston for Hilton Head, S. C— In a 
 skirmish near Doniphan, Mo., a slight Union 
 defeat took place, the Union loss being 80. — 
 Bluffton,S. C, was destroyed. — A rebel victory 
 occurred near Somerset, Ky. 
 
 May 29. — Stuart's cavalry was routed near 
 Thoroughfare Gap, Va. — A successful raiding 
 party returned to Lake Providence, La. 
 
 May 30. — A cavalry engagement took place 
 at Greenwich, Va., the U^nion force i)ursuing 
 and defeated a body of rebels. — Near Kettle 
 Run, Va., a forage train of 14 cars was de- 
 stroyed. — A rebel camp near Carthage, Tenn., 
 was captured. — Four U. S. gunboats took pos- 
 
 session of Tappahannock, Va. — Return of a 
 successful expedition from the Teche country 
 to New Orleans, which brought in G25 wagons, 
 1,500 cattle, 3,120 mules and 5,975 negroes. 
 
 May 31. — Colonel Corwin returned to Cor- 
 inth, having defeated Roddy's guerrillas on the 
 27th, at Florence, Ala., and destroyed factories, 
 mills, foundries and a large amount of ammu- 
 nition and arms. — The rebels defeated the 
 Union militia in Lincoln county, Mo. — 16 
 rebels were captured near Monticello, Ky. — 
 The gunboat, Alert, burned accidentally at the 
 Norfolk navy yard. 
 
 June 1. — A reconnoissance in search of Joe 
 Johnston under E. P. Blair, which started May 
 29th, returned without success. — Skirmishing 
 occurred in Howard county. Mo. — James' Island 
 was evacuated by the rebels. 
 
 June 2. — West Point, Va., evacuated by the 
 Union troops. 
 
 June 3. — Admiral Foote relieved Admiral 
 Dupont from the command of the South At- 
 lantic squadron. — A regiment of colored troops 
 left Beaufort and went up the Coosaw' River, 
 destroying a million dollars worth of property 
 and returning with a thousand negroes for the 
 Union service. — The rebel privateer, Florida, 
 captured the ship, Tacony, of Philadelphia, 
 and the rebel command was transferred to the 
 captured vessel ; the Florida was burned. — 
 Continuation of the bombardment of Port 
 Hudson. — Skirmish near Winchester, Teim. 
 
 June 4 — Near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wheeler 
 was repulsed by two Indiana regiments. — Sim- 
 ultaneous rebel charges were made at Franklin 
 and Triune, Tenn., and both commands were 
 defeated. — A rebel force was defeated at Sarto- 
 ria, Miss. — An expedition from Yorktown, Va., 
 proceeded to Walkertown and thence to Ay left's 
 Inlet, where they destroyed a foundry, mills and 
 stores. — Rebel guerrillas were defeated near 
 Fairfax, Va. — Lynnsport, La., was destroyed 
 
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 1863 — JUNE 5— JUNE 20—1863. 
 
 by Union gunboats. — At Bluffton, S. C, the 
 48tb New York engaged in a skirmish. — A 
 cavah-y engagement took place at Frying Pan, 
 ^'a. — At Clinton, La., Grierson's cavalry en- 
 gaged in a skirmish. 
 
 .Junk 5. — A fight took place at Deep Run^ 
 Va., which was a Union success, 150 rebel 
 sharpshooters being captured. — Another por- 
 tion of the same command made a successful 
 reconnoisfance of the rebel position at Frank- 
 lin's Crossing on the Rappahannock. In the 
 skirmishing, 75 Union soldiers were killed and 
 wounded and 96 rebel prisoners captured. — 
 On the Warwick River,. Va., a detachment of 
 the 6th New York Cavalry destroyed 23 boats 
 and a schooner. — A rebel guerrilla force was 
 routed at Lil)erty, Tenn. 
 
 June 6.— In a railroad accident near Nicho- 
 lasville, Ky., 18 Union soldiers were injured. — 
 The rebel General McCulloch, with 2,500 troops 
 attacked the 2.3r(l Iowa and 575 colored soldiers 
 at Milliken's Bend; 100 negroes were killed 
 in cold blood, the rebels refusing to take them 
 j)risoners. Tiie entire Union loss was 500 and 
 that of the rebels 725, who were repulsed, leav- 
 ing 125 dead on the field.— An action took 
 place at Shawneetown, Kan. — The 67th Penn- 
 sylvania Infantry engaged in an action at 
 Berryville, \'a. 
 
 June 8. — .Skirmishes occurred at Culpeper, 
 Va., and Brunswick, Mo. 
 
 June \). — At Monticello and Rocky Gap, Ky., 
 a cavalry action took place in which the Union 
 loss was 4 killed and 26 wounded, the rebels 
 losing 20 killed and SO wounded. — An engage- 
 ment between the troops of Pleasanton and Lee 
 occurred at Brandy Station and Beverly Ford 
 resulting in the killing and wounding of 500 
 Union soldiers and a rebel loss of 700. 
 
 June 11. — A cavalry skirniisji, supported bv 
 a U. S. battery of artillery occurred at Middle- 
 ton, V'a., the rebels suffering a loss of eight killed 
 
 and 42 wounded. — Skirmishes and other mili- 
 tary movements occurred at Orleans, Md., 
 Poolesville, S. C, Slate Creek, Va., Seneca, S. C. 
 and Darien, Ga. 
 
 June 13. — Battle of Winchester, Va. Ewell, 
 with a large force advanced upon Milroy, who 
 had been lying some time at "Winchester with 
 7,000 troops. After a heavy hght, Milroy 
 retreated to Chanibersburg, Pa., having lost 
 2,300 men captured, a considerable number in 
 killed and wounded and with his command 
 utterly broken and routed. — Skirmishes took 
 place at Wil.sons' Creek, Mo., Eunice, Ark., 
 and Alligator Harbor, Fla. 
 
 June 14. — Military movements took place at 
 Hagerslown, Md., Fairfa.x, and Martinsburg, 
 Va. 
 
 June 15. — Activities occurred at Greencastle, 
 Ky., Chanibersburg, Pa., New Kent, Va., and 
 at Richmond, La. 
 
 June 16. — A severe skirmish occurred at 
 Triplett's Bridge, Ky., with a Union loss of 15 
 killed and 30 wounded. — Activities took place 
 at Fleming's, Teiui., Harper's Ferry, Md., 
 Littles Town, Penn., and at Riclimond, Miss. 
 
 June 17. — Kiipatrick's cavalry raided Aldie, 
 Va., suffering a loss of 24 killed, 41 wounded 
 and 89 missing ; the rebel loss was 100 wounded. 
 Movements at Chattahoochie, Ga., Paoli, Kas., 
 Point of Rocks, Md., Warsaw Sound, Ga., Cory- 
 don, Ky., Orleans, Md. — In a skirmish at West- 
 port, Mo., 14 were killed and si.x wounded. — 
 The rebel gunboat Atlanta was captured by the 
 U. S. iron clad, Wcehawken, the rebels losing 
 one killed, 17 wounded and 145 prisoners. 
 
 .Iune 18. — SkirniislR'S took place at Middie- 
 burg, Va., Ripley, Tenn., Pocahontas, Miss., 
 Fernando, Miss,, and at Philoniont, Va. 
 
 .Junk 20. — Activities occurred at Frederick, 
 Md., and South Quay, Va.— In a skirmish at 
 Rocky Crossing, Miss., the Union loss was seven 
 killed, 28 wounded and 30 missing.— A fight 
 
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 73 
 
 occurred at La Fourche Crossing, La., in which 
 the Federal loss was eight killed and 40 
 wounded ; the rebels lost 35 killed and 150 
 wounded. 
 
 June 21. — Pleasanton's cavalry met the 
 rebels at Upperville, Va., and won the day 
 with a loss of 94 wounded ; the rebel loss was 
 20 killed, 100 wounded and CO missing. — 
 Skirmishing took place at South Mountain, 
 Va., Cypress Bend, Miss., and Middleburg, Va. 
 
 June 22. — In a skirmish at Hill's Planta- 
 tion, Miss., the Union loss was four killed and 
 10 wounded. 
 
 June 23. — A skirmish took place at Brashear 
 City, La., resulting in a Union loss of 46 killed, 
 40 wounded and 300 missing; the rebel loss 
 was three killed and 18 wounded. At Boston 
 Mountain, Ky., and at Thibodeaux, La., skir- 
 mishes occurred. 
 
 June 23 to 30. — In the course of Rosecrans' 
 campaign from Murfreesboro to Tullahoma, 
 fights occurred at Shelbyville, Middleton, 
 Hoover's Gap, Beech Grove, Liberty Gap, Elk 
 River, Tenn., and Winchester and Tullahoma 
 were occupied. 
 
 June 24. — Skirmishes took place at Hanover 
 C. H., Va., West Point, Va., Shippensburg, Pa., 
 Panola, Miss., Thibodeaux, La., Cold water 
 River, Miss. 
 
 June 25. — Skirmishes occurred at Wartrace, 
 and Duck River, Tenn., Carlisle, Pa., and Fair- 
 fax, Va. 
 
 June 20. — The Union forces, commanded by 
 Colonel Spear, captured the command of Gen. 
 W. F. Lee at South Anna, Va., with 300 horses 
 and 35 wagons, loaded with supplies and 
 munitions of war. 
 
 June 27. — Activities took place at Fairfax 
 and Anandale, Va., Portland, Md., Wrights- 
 ville, Tenn., and at York, Pa.; the rebels de- 
 manded $100,000 of the citizens at the latter 
 place. 
 
 June 28. — At the points named under this 
 date various movements occurred ; South Anna 
 and Rockville, Va.; Hillsboro and Hillsboro 
 River, Ark., Columbia, Pa., Sporting Hill, Pa., 
 Rover, Tenn., Oyster Point and Pinola. 
 
 June 29. — Skirmishes took place at Wrights- 
 ville, Tenn., Hagerstown, New Windsor, Sykes- 
 ville, Reistertown, Md., Mariottsville, Ga., 
 Dechard, Tenn., and Goodrich's Landing. 
 
 June 30. — Skirmishes occurred at Sporting 
 Hill and York, Pa., at Cashtown, Pa., Columbia, 
 Tenn., Maryland Heights, Md., and Cabin 
 Creek, Kas. 
 
 July 1. — Battle of Gettysburg. After the 
 fight at Chancellorsville, the two armies re- 
 mained for some time inactive. Rumors of 
 preparation in the rebel army for an invasion 
 of Maryland or Pennsylvania prevailed during 
 the latter days of May, and in June reconnois- 
 sances by details from the Federal army began. 
 Engagements took place at Beverly Ford and 
 Brandy Station and, at the latter place, letters 
 were captured which indicated that Longstreet 
 was already advancing Northward. It was dis- 
 covered that cavalry were massing on the upper 
 Rappahannock and, before Hooker was aware, 
 the rebel movement was far advanced. There 
 were also indications that Washington might 
 be the objective point of the rebels, and Hooker 
 disposed his command for the protection of the 
 Federal capital. The main army of Lee ad- 
 vanced into Pennsylvania in two divisions, and, 
 on the 27th of June, one column was 13 miles 
 from Harrisburg. The other passed Gettysburg 
 on the 28th and advanced to a point 30 miles 
 south of Harrisburg. On the 2Sth, York was 
 placed under a levy of $100,000 in Treasury 
 Notes and a large amount of supplies. On the 
 same date, Lee ordered a concentration of his 
 forces on Gettysburg. Hooker's command had 
 advanced to Fredei'ick, Md., and, on this date 
 he asked to be relieved, when General Meade 
 
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 1863— JULY 1— JULY 1—1863. 
 
 was appointed to tlie command of the Army of 
 the Potomac. The army was put in motion 
 the next day and Reynolds was ordered to move 
 forward to Gettysburg. .July 1st he sent Gen- 
 eral Buford with a cavalry force of 6,000 on a 
 reconnoissnnce. He followed closely to find 
 that Buford was liotly engaged with the i-ebels 
 and JKudly pressed. With the 1st Corps, com- 
 prising 8,000 men, he dashed into the town and 
 formed his lines under cover of Seminary Hill, 
 opposing his weary soldiers against 20,000 
 rebels fresh from rest and inaction. He sent an 
 urgent message to General Howard, in command 
 of the 11th Corps comprising 15,000 men, and 
 continued the struggle against the fearful odds. 
 He fell early in the fight and General Double- 
 day, assuming the command, held the Spartan 
 troops until one o'clock, when two divisions of 
 Howard's command arrived on the field. That 
 general ordered his remaining forces to occupy 
 Cemetery Hill, foreseeing that a retreat was 
 inevitable. The rebels charged the Union 
 troops through the streets of Gettysburg and 
 considerfble confusion ensued when, suddenly, 
 an artillery fire opened from Cemetery Hill and 
 the rebel advance was checked. At one o'clock 
 in the morning General Meade arrived on 
 Cemetery Ridge witli the main part of the Army 
 of the Potomac. On the morning of the 2nd 
 of July General Lee found himself confronted 
 by the bulk of the Army of the Potomac. Ac- 
 tivities wore delayed until about four in the 
 afternoon, wIkt Longstreet hurled his force 
 against the LTnion "left" with the purpose of 
 occupying Round Toj) Hill. The fighting was 
 terrific ; for a time it seemed as though the 
 Union lines must yield but, reinforcements ar- 
 riving, the Federal troops dashed down upon 
 the rebels, and with fierce cries, drove them in 
 utter rout over the sharp and rolling stones. 
 Meanwhile, General Ewell had been massing 
 his troops to take the Baltimore road. About 
 
 sundown he attacked the 11th Corps, which 
 was posted just northeast of Cemetery Hill, 
 and he gained a fooihold there which might 
 give him control of the desired position in 
 the morning. Such w;is the situation when 
 night fell. Early on the morning of the 3rd, 
 General Slocum made a vigorous attack on 
 Ewell, with a determination to regain the po- 
 sition lost the day before. The engagement 
 soon became general ; rebel sharp-shooters were 
 posted in the houses of Gettysburg, and per- 
 formed eftlsctive service in picking off Union 
 officers. This necessitated the shelling of the 
 houses, but, fortunately, only a few were de" 
 stroyed. Ewell's resistance was stubborn, but 
 before noon he was driven back with fearful 
 loss, and the Union lines were re-established. 
 For two hours hardly a gun was fired. Lee, 
 becoming convinced of tlie uselessness of 
 further attempts on the Ihiion right, deter- 
 mined on a desperate onslaught on the Union 
 left center, held by Hancock and in line of 
 Meade's heailquarters. About two o'clock the 
 silence was broken by the thunder of 200 rebel 
 guns. The scheme was understood by the 
 Union commanders, and every Union gun on 
 Cemetery Ridge and to the right and left, was 
 placed in position to act at the moment of a 
 crisis. The rebels followed their artillery on- 
 set with an infantry charge, and a line four 
 miles in length rolled forward in a billow of 
 battle, until it was near enough for a deadly 
 and effective fire from the Union guns, and 
 Meade hurled against it his lines of infantry 
 in unison with the cannonade with such terrific 
 force, that at four o'clock in the afternoon of 
 July 3rd, the day was won at Gettysburg. On 
 the 4th, the dead were buried, the wounded 
 were cared for, and in the afternoon, the rebel 
 trains began to move vSuutliwanl, and at dark 
 the remainder of the rebel army was in motion. 
 Lee took a position at Williamsburg, but re- 
 
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 tired as Meade advanced, and continued liis 
 retrograde until he reached theRappaliannock. 
 The Union losses at Gettysburg included 2,834 
 killed, 13,709 wounded and 6,643 missing. 
 The aggregate rebel loss was 31,621. 
 
 July 1 — Skirmishes and other affairs inci- 
 dent to war occurred at Dechard, Tenn., Cabin 
 Creek, Kas., Baltimore and Baltimore Cross 
 Roads, Ky. ; and at 
 
 July 2. — Beverly, Bottom's Bridge, Hunters- 
 town, Rock Creek and Spriffgs, Va. 
 
 July 3. — Skirmishes occurred at Cashtown 
 and Manchester, Pa., Cowan, Tenn., Morris 
 Ferry and Farm, Suffolk, Va., and at Harper's 
 Ferry, Md. 
 
 July 4. — Surrender of Vicksburg, Miss., by 
 General Pemberton to General Grant. The 
 casualties of the siege (lasting SO days) in- 
 cluded 8,575 killed and wounded on the Union 
 side and 10,000 confederates killed and 
 wounded ; 27,000 prisoners surrendered who 
 were paroled on the spot. — At Helena, Ark., an 
 engagement between General Prentiss' division 
 of the 16th Corps and the U. S. gunboat Tyler, 
 and the confederates under Generals Price, 
 Holmes and Marmaduke, took place, in which 
 the latter were defeated with a loss of 173 
 killed and 687 wounded, 1,000 prisoners being 
 taken; Union loss: killed 57, wounded 117 
 and missing 32. — Skirniishes at Tebb's Bend, 
 Ky., Middletown, Md., and Rockey Hill, Va. 
 
 July 4 and 5.— At Bolton and Birdsong 
 Ferry, Miss., General Sherman's forces captured 
 2,000 confederates, forming the rear of Johns- 
 ton's army. — In a cavalry skirmish at Monterey 
 Gap and Smithsburg, Md., and Fairfield, Pa., 
 Kilpatrick's cavalry lost 30 in killed and 
 wounded ; confederate loss was 30 killed and 
 800 wounded. 
 
 July 5.— Skirmish at Lebanon, Ky., with a 
 loss to the Union force of eight killed and 15 
 wounded ; confederate loss, three killed and six 
 wounded. 
 
 July 5.— Skirmish at AVade's Point, Va., and 
 at Chambersburg, Mo. 
 
 July 6.— At Quaker's Bridge, N. C, a fight 
 occurred, in which six regiments and two bat- 
 teries (Union) were involved. — At Hagerstown 
 and Williamsjjort, Md., Kilpatrick's cavalry 
 had a skirmish with the rebels. 
 
 July 7. — In a cavalry encounter at luka, 
 Miss., the Union force lost five killed and three 
 wounded. — Skirmishes took place at Corinth 
 and Natchez, Miss., Cumberland, Ky., and 
 Lookout Mountain and Valley, Tenn. — At 
 Boonesboro, Mo., a skirmish took place be- 
 tween the cavalry of Buford and Kilpatrick, 
 resulting in a loss to the latter of nine killed 
 and 45 wounded and covering two days. 
 
 July 8. — Affair at Antietam, Md. 
 
 July 9.— Surrender of Port Hudson by Gen- 
 eral Gardner to General Banks after an invest- 
 ment of 45 days. During the campaign and 
 siege 5,000 prisoners had been taken, and, on 
 the date mentioned, 6,400 prisoners of war 
 marched out of the city. This removed the 
 last barrier to the free navigation of the Missis- 
 sippi River by the U. S. Government. — An en- 
 gagement at Jackson, Miss., was followed by 
 others at Bolton Depot, Canton and Clinton, 
 Miss., within a week, and including a loss of 
 100 killed, 800 wounded and 100 missing to 
 the Union forces engaged, and to the confeder- 
 ates, 71 killed, 504 wounded and 764 missing. 
 
 July 10. — Admiral Dahlgren commenced 
 the attacks on the forts in Charleston harbor, 
 supported by a land force under General Gil- 
 more. Fort Wagner was attacked and surren- 
 dered September 6th. Between the two dates, 
 the Union loss was 1,757 killed, wounded and 
 missing; confederate loss, 561. Skirmishes, 
 etc., at Boonesboro, Sharpsburg, Md., Salem, 
 Ind., Morris Island, S. C, also at 
 
 July 11. — Antietam, Funktown, Md., and 
 Vienna, Mo. 
 
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 1863— JULY 12— JULY 17 — 1863. 
 
 July 12. — Skirmishes and other activities 
 occurred at Funktown and Hagerstown, Md., 
 and at Natchez, Miss. — An encounter between 
 the Union soldiers and confederates at Jackson, 
 Miss., involved a loss to the former of 300 
 killed and wounded. On the same day, an en- 
 gagement took place in the vicinity, with a 
 Union loss of 13 killed and wounded, while 
 that of the confederates included 175 killed 
 and wounded and the release of 400 conscripts. 
 — A skirmish at Ashby's (mp involved a Union 
 loss of two killed and eight wounded. 
 
 July 13. — At Yazoo City, Miss., the division 
 of General Herron with three gunboats, made 
 an attack and captured 250 prisoners. — In an 
 engagement at Jackson, Tenn., between four 
 regiments of Union cavalry and several regi- 
 ments of confederate troops, the casualties to 
 the former were two killed and 20 wounded, 
 and that of the latter included 38 killed and 
 150 wounded.— At Donaldson ville, La., an at- 
 tack on the rebels was made by portions of 
 Weitzel's and Grover's divisions of the l!>th 
 Army Corp.s, in wliieli the attacking force met 
 with a loss of 450 killed, wounded and miss- 
 ing.— The draft in New York commenced on 
 the 11th and on Monday the 13th, the riot 
 began with the destruction of the building in 
 which it was prosecuted and, simultaneously, 
 robbery, malicious acts towards citizens and 
 general defiance to law and order supervened. 
 The scenes of confusion continued four days 
 and the disturbance was finally quelled by 
 troops ordered from the army in Virginia to 
 New York; 1,000 persons had been killed 
 among the rioters. and about 50 of the opposers 
 of the riot. $2,000,000 worth of property was 
 destroyed. — Skirmishes, etc., took place at Bin- 
 Miami, Harrison and HarrisDu's Island, Ohio, 
 at Venice and Williamstown, \'a., and at 
 Williamsport, Md. 
 
 July 14.— The 3d Cavalry Division of the ' 
 
 Army of the Potomac attacked the rebels under 
 General Pettigrew at Falling Waters, Md.; the 
 rebel commander was killed together with 125 
 soldiers and 1,500 prisoners were captured. The 
 Union loss was 29 killed and 36 wounded. — 
 An engagement occurred at Elk River, Tenn., 
 with a Union loss of 10 killed and 30 wounded; 
 confederate loss, 60 killed, 24 wounded and 100 
 missing. — Skirmishing, etc.: Williamsport, Md.; 
 Williamsburg, Va.; La Fourche, Ark.; Fort 
 Powluittan, Va.; Cbillicothe, Mo.; Chattanooga, 
 Tenn.; Red River, La. 
 
 July 15. — President Lincoln issued a procla- 
 mation, ajipointing Aug. 6th a day of National 
 Tlianksgiviiig for the LTnion victories of Gettys- 
 burg and Vicksburg. — In a skirmish at Pulaski, 
 Ala., the confederate loss was three killed and 
 50 missing. — An encounter with the rebels at 
 Ilaltown, Va., resulted in a loss of 25 L^nion 
 soldiers and 20 confederates. — Skirmishes at 
 Charleston, Va., and Hickman, Ky. 
 
 July 16. — Tlie steamer Imperial arrived at 
 New Orleans from St. Louis ; .this was the fir.st 
 trip made on the Mississippi River in two years. 
 — A skirmish occurred at Shepherdstown, Va., 
 in which the rebels lost 25 killed and 75 
 wounded. — Skirmishes occurred at Elk Creek, 
 Ark., Piketon, Mo., and James Island, Va. 
 
 July 17. — At Honey Springs on Elk River, 
 Ark., a hot engagement took place between 
 General Blunt with 3,000 infantry, 250 cavalry 
 and four pieces of artillery and General Cooper 
 with 6,000 rebels; after several hours' heavy 
 fighting the rebels were defeated, leaving the 
 Federals in possession of the field and 150 of 
 their dead, 77 prisoners and 400 wounded, 
 whom they afterwards removed. Cabell arrived 
 too late for tlie fight with 3,000 Texans and 
 rctirrd during the night. The Union loss was 
 17 killed and GO wounded. The rebel supplies 
 and munitions of war were also captured. — A 
 fight occurred at Wytheville, W. Va., with a 
 
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 loss of 17 killed and 61 wounded among the 
 Union soldiers and a confederate loss of 75 
 killed and 125 missing. — Six regiments of in- 
 tantr\', four of cavalr}- and a battery of artillery 
 encountered the rebels in force at Canton, Miss., 
 forcing them to evacuate the town. — Skir- 
 mishes, etc.: Elk Creek, Ark.; Huntsville, Ala., 
 Corinth, Miss. 
 
 July 18. — The action known as "Potter's 
 cavalry raid" to Tar River and Rocky Mount, 
 N. C, resulted in a Union loss of 60 wounded. 
 — Skirmishes, etc.: Morris Island and Holly 
 Springs, Miss. 
 
 July 19. — The Union forces, commanded by 
 Colonels Tolland and Powell, destroyed the 
 Virginia and Tennessee railroad at Wytheville, 
 Va., and lost 65 in killed and wounded. Con- 
 federate loss, 75 killed and 150 prisoners. — 
 Skirmishes occurred at Sparta, Tenn., Cooley- 
 ville, Miss., and Greenville, ]\Io. 
 
 July 20. — Skirmishes at Guiger's Creek, Pa.; 
 Gregg's Creek, and Pomeroy. 
 
 July 22. — Skirmish at Brashear City, La. 
 
 July 23. — In an encounter with the rebels 
 at Manasses and Chester Gaps, Va., the Union 
 force lost 30 killed and 80 wounded. The con- 
 federate loss was 300 killed and 60 prisoners. 
 An unimportant affair transpired at Front 
 Royal, Ya.. 
 
 July 24. — Skirmishes took place at Brashear 
 City, La.; Washington, Ohio; Big Mound, Miss., 
 and Charleston, S. C. 
 
 July 26. — In a skirmish at Pattacassey 
 Creek, N. C, three Union soldiers were killed, 
 and 17 wounded. They belonged to the force 
 of General Hickman. — An affair of small mo- 
 ment took place at Smyrna, Tenn. 
 
 July 27. — Collision at Lexington, Tenn. 
 
 July 28. — Affair at Richmond, Ky. 
 
 July 29. — Skirmishes on this and the follow- 
 ing dates at the following places: Natchez; 
 Paris, Ky.; Paris, Va.; St. Catharines, Mo. 
 
 July 30 and 31. — Fairfax, and Paris, Va.; 
 Paris, Ky.; Winchester, Ky.; Stanford, Ky. 
 
 Aug. 1. — Actions to August 3d, at Rappa- 
 hanock Station, Brandy Station and Keiley's 
 Ford, Va., with a Union loss of 16 killed and 
 134 wounded. — Skirmishes at Aldie, Va., and 
 Bird's Point, Mo. 
 
 Aug. 3 — At .Jackson, La., three regiments of 
 U. S. colored troops had an encounter with the 
 rebels in which they lost two killed, two 
 wounded, and 27 missing. — Skirmishing took 
 place at Smith's Island, and Jackson, N. C. 
 
 Aug. 5. — In a naval engagement on the 
 James river, at Dutch Gap, Va., in which the 
 U. S. gunboats. Commodore Barney and Co- 
 hassett were engaged, the loss on the Union 
 side was three killed and one wounded. — Skir- 
 mish at White Oak Bridge, Va. 
 
 Aug. 6. — Slight skirmish at Fairfax, Va. 
 
 Aug. 7. — In an action at New Madrid, Mo., 
 the Union loss was one killed and one wounded. 
 
 Aug. 9. — A cavalry encounter took place at 
 Sparta, Tenn., in which the Union force lost six 
 killed and 25 wounded. — Small affair at Wood- 
 ville. Mo. 
 
 Aug. 11. — At Accatink, Va., an unimportant 
 skirmish occurred. 
 
 Aug. 12. — On Point Rock River, Md., an 
 affair of no consequence occurred. 
 
 Aug. 13. — A considerable engagement took 
 place at Grenada, Miss., in which several Union 
 regiments were engaged ; casualties not obtain- 
 able. 
 
 Aug. 14.— At West Point, on the White 
 river. Ark., an action took place, in which the 
 32d Iowa Infantry was supported by the United 
 States gunboats, Lexington, Cricket and Mar- 
 iner. The town was shelled and the Union 
 loss included two killed and seven wounded. — 
 At Poolesville, S. C, an affair took place with- 
 out important results. 
 
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 1863— AUG. 15 — SEPT. 5 — 1863. 
 
 Aug. 15. — Skirmishes occurred at Pasquo- 
 tonk and Hertford. 
 
 Aug. 16. — A slight engagement witiiout re- 
 suits took place at Bridgeport, Ky. 
 
 Aug. 17. — Fort Sumter fired on ; attacks fol- 
 lowed on the 20th and 22d. 
 
 Aug. 18. — At Pocahontas, Ark., a slight affair 
 occurred. 
 
 Aug. 21. — Quantrcll, with a guerrilla force 
 of 300, raided Lawrence, Kansas, destroying the 
 finest Iniiidings and at 10 o'clock in the morn, 
 ing 140 men hal been slaughtered, 24 wounded 
 and 240 buildings pillaged and burned and, 
 when the rebels took their departure, the flames 
 were raging. — On the same day unimportant 
 scrimmages occurred at Chattanooga, Tenn., 
 and Leestown, Va. 
 
 Aug. 22.— At Pocahontas, Ark., Gen. Jeff C. 
 Thompson, (rebel) and staff, together with 100 
 prisoners were captured. 
 
 Aug. 23.— Skirmish at Shell Mound, Miss., 
 without important results. 
 
 Aug. 24. — In a skirmish at Coyle's Tavern 
 in the vicinity of Fairfax C. H., Va., two Union 
 soldiers were killed and tliree wounded; the 
 confederate loss was two killed and four 
 wounded. — At Fredericksburg, Va., Little River, 
 Mo., and Corbin's Bridge, skirmishes of little 
 moment took place. 
 
 Aug. 25. — Averill, with a cavalry force, made 
 a raid in West Virginia, which occupied five 
 days, and in wliicli were slaughtered three 
 Union soldiers and 10 others wounded. — At 
 
 PerryviJle, Ky., a slight encounter occurred. 
 
 Davidson with a considerable cavalry force 
 made a six-days' raid on Brownsville, Texas. 
 — A skirmish took place at Bayou Metoe and 
 Austin, Ark., in which 13 Union soldiers were 
 killed and 72 wounded. 
 
 Aug. 2G.— In a cavalry dash into We.st \'ir- 
 ginia, a lively skirmish occurred at itucky Gap 
 in the Allegheny Mountains, in the vicinity of 
 
 Wliite Suljihur Springs, in which the Union 
 loss was 1(3 killed and 113 wounded; confeder- 
 ate loss, 156 killed and wounded.— A consider- 
 able encounter occurred at Perryville, Ark., 
 also at Vinegar Hill in the series of actions 
 under General Gilmore on the forts in Charles- 
 ton harbor. 
 
 Aug. 27. — Skirmishes occurred at Hartwood 
 Church, Va. ; Bayou Metoe, Ark. ; Clark's Neck, 
 Ky. ; Vicksburg, Miss. ; also at 
 
 Aug. 29. — Bottom's Bridge, Va. ; Maysville, 
 Ala., and 
 
 Aug. 30. — At Stevenson, Ala., and Falling 
 Waters, \'^a. 
 
 Aug. 31. — At Vandalia, Ind., a riot was 
 threatened; at Austin, .\rk., a slight cavalry 
 skirmish took place. 
 
 Sept. 1. — In a scrimmage at Barbee's Cross 
 Roads, Va., the 6th Ohio Cavalry encountered 
 a force of rebels, and lost two men killed and 
 four wounded. — In Arkansas, at Devil's Back 
 Bone, known also as Fort Smith and Cotton 
 Gap, a sharp encounter occurred conducive to 
 the general results of Steele's operations to se- 
 cure the State to the United States. — At Fort 
 Royal and Knoxville, Tenn., unimportant 
 affairs occuri-ed. 
 
 Sei>t. 2. — Skirmishes at Kingston, Tenn., 
 and Port Conway, Va. 
 
 Sept. 3. — On this date, two infantry regi- 
 ments and one cavalrj' regiment, had a fight 
 with the Indians at Wliite Stone Hill, Dak. 
 Ter., which continued until the night of the 5th. 
 Sept. 4. — Continuation of theafiairat Knox- 
 ville, Tenn. 
 
 Seit. 5. — In a skirmish at Limestone Station, 
 Tenn., in which five coinpunies of the lOOlli 
 Ohio Infantry was involved, the action resulted 
 in a loss to the command of 12 killed and 20 
 wounded ; confederate loss, 6 killed and 10 
 wounded.— At Moorelield, W. Va., the 1st West 
 Virginia Infantry sustained an attack from 
 rebel invaders. 
 
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1863— SEPT. 6— SEPT. 19 — 1863. 
 
 79 
 
 Sept. 6.— At Brandy Station, Va., a cavalry 
 encounter occurred. — The beginning of tlieend 
 of tlie actions in Charleston harbor was mani- 
 fest. 
 
 Sept. 7. — Evacuation of Fort Wagner. Two 
 fruitless assaults were made on Fort Wagner 
 by the ironclads under Admiral Dahlgren. 
 Heavy siege guns were placed in position, and 
 the land forces under Gilmore made another 
 effort to accomplisli the desired result, and met 
 with repulse witli great loss, especially to tlie 
 colored regiments. Other batteries were placed 
 in position and the work carried on, the 
 "Swamp Angel" sending shells into the city of 
 Charleston. (The gun burst on the 36th round.) 
 An order was issued by (iilmore to carry the 
 fort by storm, but the entrenchments were 
 evacuated by the rebels on the 7th, after a 
 bombardment of three weeks. Fort Gregg 
 surrendered or was evacuated, and 26 heavy 
 guns were captured. Meanvhile, Charleston 
 had been persistently shelled and Fort Sumter 
 reduced to shapeless ruin. — At Cumberland 
 Gap, Ky., and Aforgan's Bend, skirmishes took 
 place; also at Bear Skin Lake, Mo., at Ashley's 
 Mills, Ark., and on tlie Atchafaylaya River, La. 
 Sept. 8. — On this day and on the 9th and 
 10th, operations were carried on at Chattanooga, 
 Tenn., including an overlooking of the situa- 
 tion at Lookout Mountain. — Skirmishes, etc., at 
 Baton Rouge, La., Bath, Va., Frick's Gap, Pa., 
 Trenton, Tenn., Sabine Pa.ss, La., and Winston's 
 Gap, Md. — A night attack on Fort Sumter was 
 made. 
 
 Sept. 0. — Skirmishes, etc. : Dardanelle, Ark., 
 Fort Moultrie, S. C, Tilford, Cumberland Gap, 
 Tenn , Weber's Falls, Ind. Ter. 
 
 Sept. 10. — Kiioxville, Tenn., was occupied 
 by the Union force under General Burnside. — 
 At Fort Smith a skirmish occurred. — At Little 
 Ruck, Ark., and Brimstone Creek, Tenn., skir- 
 mishes occurred. — Little Rock, Ark., surren- 
 
 dered to the Union troops under General Steele. 
 — At Graysviile, Ga., a squad of cavalry be- 
 longing to the Army of the Cumberland en- 
 countered the rebels. 
 
 Sept. ll.^Skirmishes, etc. : Pine Bluff, Ark., 
 Moorefield, \V. Va., Stevens' Gap, Ringgold, 
 Ga., Waldron, Ark. ; at Ringgo'd, the Union 
 loss was eight killed and I'J wounded ; confed- 
 erate casualties, three killed and IS missing. 
 
 Sept. 12. — In an action at Sterling's Planta- 
 tion, La., the Union troops lost three killed and 
 three wounded. 
 
 Sept. 13. — At Culpeper, Xa., an encounter 
 resulted in a Union loss of three killed and 40 
 wounded ; confederate loss, 10 killed, 40 
 wounded and 75 mi.ssing. Skirmishes, etc. ; 
 Swallow Bluff and Paris, Tinii. ; Grant's Blufl', 
 Ind.; Lett's Tan yard, Ga. In the latter, Wil- 
 der's mounted brigade sustained a loss of 50 
 killed and wounded and the confederates the 
 same. 
 
 Sept. 14. — Cavalry skirmish at Rapidan 
 Station, in which the lo.ss to the Union troops 
 was eight killed and 40 wounded. — In a similar 
 encounter at Vidalia, La., the P^ederals lost two 
 killed and four wounded ; confederate loss six 
 killed and 11 wounded. — The 5th Kansas Cav- 
 alry fought two days at Brownsville, Ark. — A 
 skirmish took place at Seneca Station, Ind. Ter. 
 Sept. 15. — Cavalry skirmishes at Hendrick's, 
 Miss., and Smithfield, Va. — A scrimmage oc- 
 curred at Dover Landing, Miss. 
 
 Sept. 16. — At White Plains, Va., a skirmish 
 occurred. 
 
 Sept. 19. — Battle of Cbickamauga, Ga. This 
 battle was conducted by the Army of the Cum- 
 berland under Major-General Rosecrans, and 
 included the 14th Army Corps, General Thomas 
 commanding, the 20th Corps under General 
 McCook, and the 21st Corps, commanded by 
 General Crittenden with the Reserve Corps 
 under General Gordon Granger. The opposing 
 
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 1863 — SEPT 21 — OCT. 1 — 1863. 
 
 confederate force was commanded by General 
 Bragg, re-enforced by Longstreet, sent from tlie 
 rebel army on the Potomac for that purpose, 
 Buckner's division was also attached to Bragg's 
 command, and, contrary to all the rules of war, 
 Pemberton's men, paroled by Grant at \"icks- 
 burg, increased the rebel forces. Battle was 
 precipitated by the 14th Corps, and by 10 o'clock 
 in tlie morning of the first day, the troops on 
 both sides were heavily engaged. The rebels 
 were first driven back, which was followed by 
 a like result to the Union force. In many parts 
 of the field the contest was virtually waged band 
 to hand, batteries being taken and retaken on 
 both sides, and j)risoners in considerable num- 
 ber. Night came on without decisive results. 
 On the morning of the 20th, a dense fog ob- 
 scured the positions of the armies, and when 
 it lifted, Bragg's army was discovered massed in 
 line of battle on tlie right. The Union left was 
 re-enforced, and, Longstreet, discovering the 
 weakened condition of the Federal right, made 
 an attack there and on the center with dis- 
 astrous results to (lie Union troops. At this 
 point Tboniiis won hi.s title of "Rock of Chick- 
 anuiuga." Me held his troops inflexibly and 
 secured tlie '•Key" to the situation in the 
 AVestern Division. He made a successful re- 
 sistance to the repeated assaults on his troops 
 and, at night, the Army of the Cumberliiud 
 withdrew to tlie enti'enchments at Ciiattanooga 
 leaving their dead ;iiid wounded on tlie field. 
 Chickamauga is considered as one of the 
 hardest fought and bloodiest conflicts of the 
 reljellion. While tlic advantage was to the 
 rebels ostensibly, it was entirely fruitless to 
 them. Bragg's army was weakened beyond 
 rejiair, his loss being 2,380 killed, 13,412 
 wounded and 2,000 missing. The casualties in 
 the Union commands were 1,644 killed, 9,262 
 wounded and 4,945 missing. — On this date 
 slight skirmishes occurred at Lafayette and | 
 
 Rossville, Ga., and also at Perryville, Ky., and 
 at Fort Smith, Ark. 
 
 Sei'T. 21. — Slight cavalry engagements took 
 place at White's Ford, Va., and Bristol, Tenn. 
 Sept. 22. — In a cavalry skirmish at Madison 
 C. H., Va., 21 Union soldiers were killed and 
 wounded. — A similar action took j)lace at 
 Blountfeville, Tenn., with a loss on the I'nion 
 side of five killed and 22 wounded and to tlie 
 rebels, 165 killed, wounded and missing. — A 
 skirmish at Rockville, Md., resulted in a con- 
 federate loss of 34 killed and wounded. — At 
 Carter's Station and Johnson's Depot, Tenn., 
 slight actions look place. — A small skirmish 
 occurred at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. 
 
 Sept. 23. — Skirmishes took place at Rich 
 Mountain, Va., and Fort Fisher, N. C. 
 Sept. 21. — Skinni.sh at Zollicoffer, Tenn. 
 Sept. 25. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
 Upperville, Va., and a military movement 
 occurred at Donaldsonville, La. — A cavaliy 
 skirmish occurred at Redbone Church, Mo. 
 
 Sept. 2G. — A cavalry fight occurred at Cal- 
 houn or llaguewood Prairie, Tenn., with a 
 Union loss of 66 in killed, wounded and mi.ssing. 
 Sept. 27. — In a skirmish at Moffatt's Station, 
 Ark., the Union casualties were two killed and 
 two wounded ; confederate, five killed and 20 
 wounded. 
 
 Sept. 2S. — A skirmish occurred at McMinn- 
 ville and Blue Springs, Tenn. — An attack was 
 made on Fort Sumter. 
 
 Sept. 29. — A skirmish occurredat Morganzia, 
 La., in which the Union loss was 14 killed, 40 
 wounded and 400 missing. — Military actions 
 also occurred at Pasquotonk River and at 
 Moore's Bluff and Mill, \'a. 
 
 Sept. 30. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
 Swallow's ISlutf, Tenn., and another at Fort 
 Johnson. 
 
 Oct. 1. — In an action at Fort Simi)kins, 
 Anderson's Gap, Tenn., 38 Union soldiers were 
 killed and wounded. 
 
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 Oct. 2. — At Anderson's Cross Roads, Tenn., 
 McCook's cavalry attacked the rebels and sus- 
 tained a loss of 70 killed and wounded ; the 
 confederates lost 200 killed and wounded. — A 
 slight skirmish occurred at Franklin, La. 
 
 Oct. 3. — In a skirmish at McMinnville, 
 Te)in., the Union loss was seven killed and 31 
 wounded ; confederate loss, 23 killed and 
 wounded. — At Thompson's Cove, Tenn., a con- 
 siderable cavalry skirmish occurred. 
 
 Oct. 4. — In a fight at Neosho, Mo., the Union 
 loss was one killed, 14 wounded and 43 miss- 
 ing. — Skirmishes took place on this date at Ver- 
 millionville and Newton, La.; Blue Springs, 
 Mo.; Murfreesboro Road, Tenn. 
 
 Oct. 5. — The rebels attacked a stockade at 
 Stone River, Tenn., and wounded six Union 
 soldiers and captured 44. — lu a skirmish at 
 Glasgow, Ky., the Union loss was three 
 wounded; the confederate loss, 13 wounded. — 
 Skirmishes occurred at Harper's Ferry, Va.; 
 Blue Springs and Wartrace, Tenn., and at New 
 Albany, Miss. 
 
 Oct. 6. — Massacre at Baxter's Springs, Ark. 
 Quantrell's guerrillas, disguised in Federal 
 uniforms, assaulted General Blunt, command- 
 ing the Army of the Frontier, escorted by about 
 100 cavalrymen and colored troops, en route 
 for Fort Scott. The general escaped with 15 
 men; the remainder were captured, robbed and 
 murdered in cold blood. — At Fort Blair, Ark., 
 Shelbyville, Tenn., and Brownsville, Mo., slight 
 skirmishes took place. 
 
 Oct. 7. — A fight near Farmington, Tenn., 
 resulted in a Union loss of 15 killed and 60 
 wounded ; the confederate loss was 10 killed, 
 GO wounded and 240 missing. — Military move- 
 ments occurred at Como, Miss., and on the Red 
 River. 
 
 Oct. 8. — Skirmishes took place at Raccoon 
 Ford, Ga.; New Hope Church, and Charles- 
 town, ^'a., at Carthage, Tenn., and Salem, Miss. 
 
 Oct. 9. — Skirmishes occurred near Pulaski, 
 Tenn., and at Fort Scott, Ark. 
 
 Oct. 10. — A cavalry encounter at Rapidan_ 
 Va., resulted in a Union loss of 20 wounded. — 
 Pleasanton's cavalry attacked the rebels at 
 .James City or Robertson's Run, Va., and lost 
 10 in killed and 40 wounded.— Cavalry and in- 
 fantry of the Army of the Ohio encountered 
 the rebels at Blue Springs, Tenn., and sustained 
 a loss of 100 in killed, wounded and missing; 
 the confederates lost 66 killed and 150 missing. 
 — Skirmishes occurred at Vermillion Bayou, 
 La., and at Ingham's Plantation, Miss. 
 
 Oct. 11.— At Henderson's Mill, Tenn., the 
 5th Indiana Cavalry had an encounter with the 
 rebels which cost them a loss of 11 in wounded; 
 they inflicted a loss of 30 on their opponents. — 
 Skirmishes occurred at Whitaker's Mills, Zol- 
 licoffer's Heights, Rheatown and at Brazos 
 Island, Texas. — On his way to Chattanooga, 
 escorted by the 13th U. S. Infantry, General 
 Sherman's train was attacked by rebels at Col- 
 liersville, Tenn. ; reinforcements arriving the 
 rebels were repulsed; 15 Union soldiers were 
 killed and 50 wounded. 
 
 Oct. 12. — Fight at Jeffersonton, Va.; Union 
 loss 12 killed, 80 wounded and 400 missing. — 
 In an action at Ingham's Mills and at Wyatt, 
 Miss., the respective losses were: Union, 45; 
 confederate, 50; the actions continued on the 
 13th. — On the same date a fight took place at 
 Warrenton Springs, (Culpeper) Va., in which 
 the Union force lost eight killed and 46 
 wounded. — On the same date a cavalry and in- 
 fantry encounter from La mine's Crossing to 
 Merrill's Crossing, in Missouri occurred, the 
 Union force losing 16 killed, and the confeder- 
 ates 53 killed and 70 wounded. — On the same 
 date a cavalry division of the Army of the 
 Ohio encountered the rebels at Blountsville, 
 Tenn., and lost six in wounded ; confederate 
 loss eight killed and 26 wounded. — On the 
 
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 1863— OCT. 13 — OCT. 24 — 1863. 
 
 same date, detachments of two regiments of 
 West Virginia ^'olul)teers met the rebels at 
 Builtown, Va.,and inflicted a loss of nine killed 
 and GO wounded. — Skirmishes took place at 
 Brandy Station, Va., and Coldwater River, 
 Miss. 
 
 Oct. 13. — On the Big Black River, Miss., 
 General McPherson made a cavalry and infantry 
 reconnoissance. — Skirmishes occurred at Win- 
 chester, Ya., Belltown, Tenn., and Maysville, 
 Ala. 
 
 Oct. 14. — In a fight at Auburn, Va., a de- 
 tachment of the Army of the Potomac lost 11 
 killed and 42 wounded ; confederate lo.ss, 8 
 killed and 24 wounded. — At Bristoe Station, 
 Va., General Warren, with detachments from 
 the 5th Corps and a cavalry division, defeated 
 Hill's Corp."!, capturing 500 prisoners; the Union 
 loss was 51 killed, 329 wounded and that of the 
 rebels was 750 killed and wounded and 450 
 missing. — At Salt Lick, Va., a detachment of 
 West Virginia volunteers fought the rebels, 
 
 Oct. 15.— At Liberty Mills, Va., a fight oc. 
 curred, in which the Federal loss was two killed 
 and 25 wounded; confederate loss, 60 killed 
 and wounded. — On the same date, a skirmish 
 occurred at Blackburn Ford and Hedgeville, 
 Va. — In a series of encounters at Canton, 
 Brownsville and Clinton, Miss., the confederate 
 loss was 200 in killed and wounded. Three 
 days were occupied in the several fights. 
 
 Oct. 16. — In a skirmish at Cross Timbers, 
 Mo., the confederate loss was two killed and 
 eight wounded. — At Martinsburg, Va., a slight 
 collision with the rebels took place. 
 
 Oct. 17. — Two blockade runners were de- 
 stroyed in Tampa Bay, Fla., by U. S. gunboats 
 Tahoma and Adela. — Skirmishes at Cliantilly 
 and Accatink and Rapidan, Va., and Chnton, 
 Miss., and at Humansville, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 18. — In a scrimmage at Charlestown, 
 \V. Va., the 9th Maryland lost 12 killed, 13 
 
 wounded and 379 missing.— The 34th Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry attacked the rebels at Berrys- 
 ville, Va., supjjorted by the 17th Indiana Bat- 
 tery, in which they lost two killed and four 
 wounded ; confederate loss, five killed, 20 
 wounded. — A slight affair took j)lace at Sharps- 
 burg, Md. 
 
 Oct. 19.— At Buckland's 'Mills, Va., Kilpat- 
 rick's cavalry attacked the rebels, sustaining a 
 loss of 20 killed, 00 wounded and 100 missing, 
 while that of the confederates was 10 killed and 
 40 missing. — A slight skirmish took place at 
 Gainesville, Va. 
 
 Oct. 20.— Rosecrans was relieved of the com- 
 mand of the Army of the Cumberland, and 
 Geneial Thomas made his successor.— On the 
 same date a heavy skirmis-h took place at Phila- 
 delphia, Tenn., in which the Union force lost 
 20 killed, 80 wounded and 354 missing; the 
 confederate casualties amounted to 15 killed, 82 
 wounded and 111 missing. — At Hay market, 
 Va., and Barton Station, Miss., unimportant 
 actions occurred. 
 
 Oct. 21. — A skirmish occurred at Cherokee 
 Station, Ala., in which the losses to the Union 
 side were seven killed and 37 wounded ; the 
 other .side lost 40 in killed and wounded. At 
 Opelousas, La., a detachment of Banks' troops 
 from the 19th Corps met the rebels.— At Ver- 
 million, La., and W^arrenton, Xix., there were 
 actions of small account. 
 
 Oct. 22. — At Beverly Ford, Va., six Union 
 soldiers were killed in a scrimmage with the 
 rebels.— Slight affair at Columbia, Ky., also at 
 New Madrid Bend, Tenn. 
 
 Oct. 23. — Danville, Tenn., raided by rebels. 
 — At Tullahoma, Tenn., a supply train was 
 attacked by rebel bushwhackers and defended 
 by an Indiana regiment. 
 
 Oct. 24. — Skirmishes, etc.: Adairsville, tia., 
 Beverly, Ra])pahanock Station and Bealton, 
 ^'a., and Sweetwater, Tenn. 
 
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 Oct. 25.— Tlie 5tli Kansas Infantry and 1st 
 Indiana Cavalry liad a fight with tlie rebels at 
 Pine Bluff, Ark., in which their loss was 11 
 l:illed and 27 wounded; confederate loss, 53 
 killed and 164 wounded.— Skirmishes at Col- 
 liersville, Tenn., and Creek Agency, Ind. Ter. 
 
 Oct. 26.— In a skirmish at Cane Creek, .Via., 
 two Union soldiers were killed and six wounded; 
 the rebels lost 10 killed and 30 wounded. — At 
 Philadelphia, Tenn., a slight skirmish occurred. 
 — In a cavalry skirmish at Vincent Cross 
 Roads, Miss., the Union force sustained a loss 
 of 14 killed and 25 wounded.— Skirmish at 
 Brown's Ferry, Tenn.; Union loss five killed 
 and 21 wounded.— In a heavy encounter at 
 Wauhatchie, Tenn., between the 11th Corps 
 (2nd Division), 12th Corps and confederate 
 troops, the Union loss was 76 killed, 339 
 u'ounded and that of the rebels 300 killed and 
 1,200 wounded.— At Charleston, S. C, the 
 Federal attacks continued and a reconnoissance 
 took place at Lookout Mountain. 
 
 Oct. 28. — Skirmishes, etc.: Clarksville, Ala., 
 Leiper's Ferry, Tenn., and Arkadelphia, Ala., 
 and Greenville, Mo. 
 
 Oct. 29. — Fight at Cherokee Station, Ala., in 
 which the 1st Division of the 5th Corps engaged 
 the rebels. — At Lookout Mountain operations 
 still continued. 
 
 Oct. 30. — During the closing days of this 
 month and for a number of days in early 
 November, the operations in the valley of the 
 Tennessee continued. — In the course of the 
 month of October, several steam raiDS, built by 
 the Lairds in England for the confederates, were 
 seized and held by the British Government. 
 
 Nov. 1. — Actions at Washington, N. C, and 
 Fayetteville, Tenn. 
 
 Nov. 2. — At Waynesville, N. C, and Brazos 
 de Santiago, Texas, slight encounters took place. 
 
 Nov. 3. — Heavy cavalry action at Grand 
 Coteau, variously designated as Carrion Crow 
 
 Bayou, Bayou Bourbeaux and Bayou Teche. 
 The 23d Wisconsin achieved much of the final 
 success of this event in which General Bur- 
 bridge of the 19th Corps was attacked by a 
 heavy rebel force and driven until reinforce- 
 ments enabled him to return the compliments 
 of the confederates, with a loss of 26 killed, 124 
 wounded and 576 missing; the confederate 
 loss being 60 killed, 320 wounded and 05 miss- 
 ing. — Action at New Lawrence. — At Bayou 
 Queue, La., an action preliminary to that at 
 Grand Coteau resulted in a heavy loss to both 
 forces. — In a skirmish at Centerville and Piney 
 Factory, Tenn., the confederate force lost 15 
 killed. — In a fight at Colliersville and Moscow, 
 Tenn., seven Union soldiers were killed and 57 
 wounded ; confederate loss, 100 wounded ; the 
 action lasted two days. 
 
 Nov. 4. — Skirmishes at Fort Brown (con- 
 tinuing two days), at Swan's Quarter, N. C, 
 Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and Medley's Ford, Little 
 Tennessee River. 
 
 Nov. 5. — Skirmishes at Point Isabel and 
 Brownsville, Texas, and Mill Point in West 
 Virginia. 
 
 Nov. 6. — Skirmishes at Rogersville, Tenn. 
 — In a fight at Droop Mountain, Va., the Union 
 loss was 31 killed and 94 wounded ; confederate 
 loss, 50 killed, 250 wounded and 100 missing. 
 — The Federal garrison at Rogersville, Tenn., 
 was attacked by rebels from Virginia. 
 
 Nov. 7. — Fight at Rappahannock Station, 
 Va. At this point the rebel intrenchments 
 were strong and defended by heavy guns. 
 General Russell asked to be permitted to make 
 tlie assault, stating that two regiments of his 
 command could accomplish the desired result 
 and the attack was accordingly made by the 
 5th Wisconsin and 0th Maine. The latter was 
 employed as skirmishers, the former being in 
 close supporting distance and the works were 
 taken at the bayonet's point. Union loss, 370 
 
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 1863— NOV. 8— NOV. 17—1863. 
 
 killed and wounded; confederate loss, 11 killed, 
 98 wounded and 1,629 missing. — A heavy 
 skirmish at Kelley's Ford, Va., resulted in a 
 Union loss of 70 killed and wounded and a 
 confederate loss of five killed, 59 wounded and 
 2.59 missing. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
 Stevensburg, Va., in which a detachment of 
 the Arm}' of the Potomac was engaged. 
 
 Nov. 8. — Skirmishes at Clarksville, Ark. 
 (two Union soldiers killed), Muddy Run and 
 Sulphur Spring, Tenn. 
 
 Nov. 0. — At Bayou Sara, Miss., a small action 
 took place. 
 
 Nov. 11. — The 6th Mississippi, Colored 
 Troops, attacked the rebels at Natchez with a 
 loss of four killed and si.K wounded ; confeder- 
 ates lost four killed and eight wounded. 
 
 Nov. 12.— Skirmish at Roseville, Ark. 
 
 Nov. 13.— In a skirmish at Trinity River, 
 Cal., an action took place in which the Cali- 
 fornia Mountaineer Infantry participated. 
 
 Nov. 14. — A struggle occurred at Huff's 
 Ferry, Tenn., in which the Union loss was 25 
 wounded. — An engagement at Marysville, 
 Tenn., resulted in a Union loss of lOU in killed 
 and wounded. — A cavalry skirmisli took place 
 at Rock ford, Tenn. 
 
 Nov. 15. — Skirmish at Loudon Creek, Tenn., 
 (near Knoxville), in which the Union loss was 
 four killed and 12 wounded ; confederate loss, 
 six killed and 10 wounded. — .\t Lenoire, Tenn., 
 and on the Ilolston River, skirmishes occurred, 
 in which infantry and cavalry were engaged. 
 (These were preliminary to the approaching 
 siege of Knoxville). — Slight skirmishes took 
 place at Summersville, Va., and Hear Creek, 
 Mo. ; also at Morton's Ford, Ala., and Corpus 
 Christi, Texas. 
 
 Nov. 16.— Skirmishes at Campbell Station, 
 Lavergne, and Gallatin, Tenn., and Charges 
 City Cross Roads, Va. 
 
 Nov. 17.— Siege of Knoxville. The move- 
 
 ments preliminary to the active operations 
 against the city commenced on the 14th. 
 Grant had operated strategetically to draw 
 Longstreet to Knoxville, and f'le Union forces 
 were disposed accordingly. After falling back 
 to Lenoire, Burnside designed to continue the 
 movement until he arrived at CampbelFs Sta- 
 tion. Longstreet made an unsuccessful attempt 
 to reach that j>osition first and, while Har- 
 tranft's division engaged the rebels there on the 
 16tli, Burnside hastened towards Knoxville. 
 He formed in line of battle in a position which 
 covered the approaches to Knoxville, and was 
 there attacked. The rebels were repulsed with 
 a loss of 570 killed and wounded, the L^nion 
 casualties being 60 killed and 340 wounded. 
 On the same daj', Longstreet assaulted the rear 
 of Burnside's position, who fell back to one 
 equally secure. Longstreet repeated his at- 
 tempt with vigor, but was forced to withdraw. 
 At night, Burnside retired to the intrench- 
 ments within the city. On the 17th, skirmish- 
 ing continued on the Lenoire Road, and on the 
 18th, the direct attack on the city was made, 
 falling principally on Sanders' cavalry, the 
 purpose being to drive them into the city and 
 to follow with a charge. The cavalry resist- 
 ance lasted three hours, and when they were 
 forced back, the onset of Longstreet was checked 
 by the batteries at Rebel Point. Sanders re- 
 newed the conflict against fearful odds, and he 
 fell about four o'clock in the afternoon, the 
 position he bad so strenuously defended being, 
 soon after, occupied by the enemy. This ad- 
 vantage was of no practical account to Long- 
 street, and he determined to cease active opera- 
 tions, but to reduce by regular siege. Burnside 
 was supplied with the "sinews of war" beyond 
 the knowleilge of the rebel chief, and after 
 several tlays. Grant's success at Lookout Moun- 
 tain and Mission Ridge, increased the peril of 
 the rebels. Realizing this, Longstreet attacked 
 
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 Fort Sanders on the morning of the 29th of 
 November, to meet witli terrible punishment, 
 and, after six days of repeated reverses and 
 great loss, retired. 
 
 Nov. 17. — Sicirmislies, etc. : Willow Creek, 
 S. C. ; Mount .Jackson, \'a. ; Mustang Island, 
 Texas. 
 
 Nov. 18. — Skirmishes, etc. : Newmarket, Va.; 
 Germania Ford, Alexandria, La. ; Bridgeport, 
 Ala. ; Carrion Crow Bayou, La. 
 
 Nov. 19. — Lincoln made his celebrated speech 
 at the dedication of a National cemetery at 
 Gettysburg, Pa. — In a skirmish at Union City, 
 Tenn., the Union force sustained a loss of one 
 killed ; the confederate loss included 11 killed 
 and 53 prisoners. 
 
 Nov. 20. — A skirmish of little account took 
 place at Abbeville, La. 
 
 Nov. 21. — At A\'aterproof, La., the steamer 
 Welcome was attacked by a rebel squad. 
 
 Nov. 23.— Battle of Lookout Mountain and 
 Missionai'y Ridge. General Grant's armycom- 
 ])rised the Army of the Cumberland, the 11th 
 and 12tli Corps of the Army of the Potomac 
 under Hooker, and the Corps of Sherman. The 
 confederate forces were commanded b}' General 
 Bragg. On the 23rd, General Thomas seized 
 Orchard Knob and the next day General Hooker 
 took Lookout Mountain. Meanwhile, Sherman 
 was attacking the rebels intrenched on Mis- 
 sionary Ridge. On the 25th, Bragg disposed 
 his force to repel Sherman, and Grant ordered 
 Thomas to attack the point whence Bragg had 
 withdrawn his troops. In accordance with 
 this, an attack was made on the rifle pits at the 
 base of the ridge, and the glorious onset which 
 resulted in the cajiture of the summit and the 
 l)lanting of the Union colors thereon. The 
 success of the [Tnion arms was wholly due to 
 the enthusiasm under which the charge up the 
 heights was made. The captured batteries of 
 the rebels were turned against them, and Grunt 
 
 ordered an immediate pursuit of the fleeing 
 troops of Bragg, who made a feeble resistance 
 at Ringgold and fled. The situation at Knox- 
 ville precluded a continued chase of Bragg's 
 army. In these actions, the loss to tlie Union 
 army was 6,000. That of the confederates, in- 
 cluding prisoners, was 9,000. Their loss in 
 guns, small arms, provisions and ammunition 
 was heavy. — Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill and 
 Citico Creek, Tenn. 
 
 Nov. 24.— A skirmish took place at Sparta, 
 Tenn., resulting in a slight confederate repulse. 
 — At Barnwell's Island, S. C, a regiment of 
 colored troops encountered a rebel squad. 
 
 Nov. 25.— A cavalry and infantry regiment, 
 supported by a battery, had a lively skirmish 
 with the rebels. 
 
 Nov. 26.— Mine Run, Va. In the several 
 actions at Raccoon Ford, New Hope, Robert- 
 son's Tavern, Bartlett's Mills and Locust Grove, 
 between the rebels under General Lee and Gen- 
 eral Meade commanding the Army of the 
 Potomac, consisting of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th 
 and 6th Corps, and the 1st and 2d Cavalry 
 Divisions of the army, the Union loss was 100 
 killed and 400 wounded, while the rebels lost 
 about the same number as nearly as can be as- 
 certained. These operations lasted two days. 
 — Skirmishes occurred at Beersheba Springs 
 and Kingston, Tenn., at Bonfouca, La., Gireen- 
 ville and Warm Springs, N. C, Rapidan Sta- 
 tion and Brandy Station, Ya., Chickamauga, 
 Ga. 
 
 Nov. 27. — Andersonville confederate military 
 prison established by Capt. W. S. Winder at 
 Andersonville. A strong stockade was erected 
 and fortified with eartliworks. Feb. 15, 1S64, 
 the first Union prisoners were taken there. The 
 aggregated number of Union soldiers confined 
 there was 49,485. August 9th of the same 
 year, 33,006 prisoners were within its enclosure. 
 The number of escapes was 328. 14,460 pris- 
 
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 1863— NOV. 27— DEC. 18—1863. 
 
 oners died tliere. Henry Wirz, the command- 
 ant of the prison, was tried after the close of 
 the war and executed Nov. 10, 1865. The 
 National Government took charge of the ceme- 
 tery and placed it in a condition suited to the 
 dead heroes, whose hodies honored their resting 
 place. — At Cleveland, Tenn., 200 confederates 
 were captured by a cavalry brigade without 
 casualties on either side. — In a fight at Ring- 
 gold and Taylor's Ridge, Ga., the Union loss 
 was 68 killed and 351 wounded; rebel loss, 50 
 killed, 200 wounded and 230 missing. — At 
 Matagorda Bay and Island, operations were 
 carried on, covering a period of four days. — At 
 Orange C. H., Va., skirmishing was in opera- 
 tion four days. — An action took place at Bay- 
 port, Fla. 
 
 Nov. 27. — An action of considerable import- 
 ance occurred at Fort Esperanza, Texas; an 
 assault on the works continued two days. 
 
 Nov. 28. — Skirmishes at Louisville, Tenn., 
 and Washington, N. C. 
 
 Nov. 30. — Skirmish at Salversville, Ky., at 
 Doboy Sound and River and Pass Cabello; the 
 latter occupied two days. — At Dalton, Ga., a 
 slight skirmish occurred. 
 
 Dec. 1. — A cavalry skirmish at Ripley, Miss. 
 — Activity at Chattanooga, Tenn., and May- 
 nardsville, Tenn., the latter occupying parts of 
 I wo days. 
 
 Dec. 2.— In a fight at Walker's Ford, W. ^'a., 
 the Union loss was nine killed and 39 wounded; 
 rebel loss 25 killed, 50 wounded. — Skirmishes 
 at Indianola, Texas, Watson's Ford, Va., Wolf 
 River Bridge, Miss., (including several days), 
 Pocahontas, Miss., and Lafayette, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 3. — Skirmish at Salisbury, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 4. — Continuation of the skirmishing at 
 Lafayette. — The actions at Ripley and Moscow, 
 Miss., and at Salisbury, caused a loss of 175 in 
 killed and wounded in the Union forces and 15 
 killed and 50 wounded in the rebel forces. 
 
 Dec. 6.— Skirmish at Clinch Mountain, Tenn. 
 
 Dec. 7. — A cavalry skirmish at Creelsboro, 
 Ky., and Celina, Tenn., resulted in a rebel loss 
 of 15 killed. 
 
 Dec. 8. — Averill's raid in southwestern Vir- 
 ginia, occupying 13 days. The L'uion force 
 captured 200 prisoners and lost six killed and 
 five wounded. — A cavalry skirmish at Prince- 
 ton, Ark. 
 
 Dec. 9.— At White River, Ark., and Charles 
 City Court House, Va., skirmishes occurred, 
 the former continuing at intervals for several 
 days. 
 
 Dec. 10. — Shackelford's cavalry encountered 
 Longstreet at Bean's Station and Morristown, 
 Tenn. A sharp fight took place, the Union 
 loss being 700 killed and that of the rebels 
 932 killed and wounded and 150 prisoners. — 
 At Moresburg, Tenn., on the same day, a de- 
 tachment of the same force (the Army of the 
 Ohio), fought a rebel detachment. — A slight 
 affair took place at Elizabeth City, N. C. 
 
 Dec. 12.— At Big Sewell and Meadow Bluff, 
 W. Va., a skirmish took place, in which the 
 12th Ohio Infantry was engaged. — At Decatur, 
 Ala., and La Fayette, slight atfairs occurred. — At 
 Duval's Blufl', Ark., the Stli Missouri Cavalry 
 had an encounter with the rebels. 
 
 Dec. 14. — At Bean's Station, Tenn., the 
 cavalry of the Army of the Ohio encountered 
 the rebels. — At Kinston, N. C, a small Union 
 force had an engagement. 
 
 Dec. 15. — At Sangster's Station and Fairfax, 
 Va., skirmishes occurred. 
 
 Dec. 16. — Skirmish at Doboy River. 
 
 Dec. 17. — A cavalry raid on Rodney and 
 Port Gibson, Miss., took place with slight losses 
 and was in progress seven days. 
 
 Dec. 18.— At Indian Town, N. C, the U. S. 
 colored troops and North Carolina soldiers had 
 a skirmish.— An action of small importance 
 took place at Clinton Forge, Va. 
 
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 87 
 
 Dec. 19.— a fight at Barren Rock, Ind. Ter., 
 between the rebels and Union Indian regiments 
 resulted in a confederate slaughter of 50. 
 Dec. 21.— Skirmisliesat Middleburg, Miss. 
 Dec. 23. — Skirmisli at Jacksonport, Ark., 
 and at Luray, Va., the latter extending over 
 two days at intervals. 
 
 Dec. 24. — Cavalry skirmish at Bolivar and 
 Suminerville, Tenn., the Union loss being three 
 kil^sd and eight wounded.— Skirmishes at 
 Columbus, Ky., and Centerville, Mo. 
 
 Dec. 25.— General Dodge captured 50 of 
 Forrest's guerrillas at Pulaski, Tenn. — Skirmish 
 at La Fayette, Tenn., in which the 117th Illinois 
 Regiment was engaged. — Skirmishes at Bear 
 Creek, N. C, Stono River and Inlet, N. C, 
 Bealton and Culpeper, Va. 
 
 Dec. 26. — At Port Gibson, Miss., the skir- 
 mishing continued. 
 
 Dec. 27. — The cavalry of the Army of the 
 Tennessee skirmished with the enemy two days. 
 Dec. 28. — Colonel Lai bold captured 121 pris- 
 oners from the rebel Wheeler at Colliersville, 
 Tenn., sustaining a loss of two killed and eight 
 wounded ; the rebels lost eight killed and 39 
 wounded.— Skirmishes took place at Charles- 
 ton, Ya., Calhoun and La Fayette, Tenn. 
 • Dec. 29. -At Talbot's Station and Mossy 
 Creek, Tenn., a brigade of infantry, several 
 cavalry regiments and a battery were engaged 
 in a considerable action without decisive results. 
 — A skirmish at Williamsport, Md. — Three 
 companies of the loth Maine and the gunboat 
 Sciota attacked the rebel gunboats in Matagorda 
 Bay, Texas. The action continued on the fol- 
 lowing day. 
 
 Dec. 30. — A skirmisli took 
 Augustine, Fla., resulting in a 
 one killed and six wounded ; rebel loss six 
 killed. — At Greenville and Washington, N. C, 
 skirmishes occurred, also at Waldron, Ark. 
 1861. .L\N. 1. — At Rectorstown and L(aidon 
 
 place at St. 
 Union loss of 
 
 Heights, Va., the rebels were met by the 1st 
 Maryland Cavalry of the Home Brigade, the 
 latter force meeting with a loss of 29 killed and 
 41 missing; the rebel loss was four killed and 
 10 wounded. The affair was extende<l through- 
 out 10 days at intervals. 
 
 Jan. 2.— Skirmishes at Moorefield and Alle- 
 ghany Junction, W. Va., and at Patterson's 
 Creek. 
 
 Jan. 3. — At Jonesville, Va., a fight occurred 
 in which the Union loss was 12 killed and 48 
 wounded; rebel loss, four killed and 12 
 wounded. 
 
 Jan. 4. — At Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a 
 fight took place between a California regiment, 
 Apache Indians and citizens with the Navajos. 
 — A small affair transpired at Harper's Ferry, 
 Xii. 
 
 Jan. 6.— At Winchester, Va., a cavalry force 
 made a slight demonstration. 
 
 Jan. 7. — A skirmish occurred at Martin's 
 Creek, Ark., the Union loss being one killed 
 and one wounded. — A skirmish at Madison- 
 ville. La. 
 
 Jan. 8. — Cavalry skirmish at Petersburg, W. 
 Va. 
 
 Jan. 9. — Infantry encounter at Turman's 
 Ferry, Ky. 
 
 Jan. 10. — Cavalry action at Strawberry 
 Plains, Tenn. — Cessation of the cavalry raids 
 at Loudon Heights, Va. 
 
 Jan. 11. — Skirmishes at Bull's Gap, Teiui., 
 and Lockwood, Ky. 
 
 Jan. 12. — At Mayfield, Ky., companies A 
 and B, 58th Illinois Infantry, engaged in a 
 skirmish, resulting in a Union lossof one killed 
 and one wounded, and a rebel loss of two killed. 
 Jan. 13. -McCook's cavalry engaged in a 
 skirmish at INIossy Creek, Tenn., and sustained 
 a loss of 14 killed. 
 
 Jan. 14. — Skirmish at Bealton, Va., with a 
 Union loss of two killed and a rebel loss of 
 
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 1864— JAN. 15 — FEB. 1 — 1864. 
 
 three killed and 12 wounded. — Cavalry engage- 
 ment at Terrisville. Tenu. — Action of two days 
 continuance at Dandridge, Teun., involving 
 cavalry and infantry. 
 
 Jan. 15. — Skirmish at Saint Catherine's, 
 Miss.; 72d Illinois \'olunteers.— Skirmish 
 near Seviersville, Tenn. 
 
 Jan. 16 — 17. — Cavalry and infantry skirmish 
 at Grand Gulf, Miss. 
 
 Jan. 17.— Cavalry skirmish at Lewisburg, 
 Ark. 
 
 Jan. 18.— Skirmishes at Strawberry Plains, 
 and Newmarket, V-d., and at St. Mark's, Fla. 
 
 Jan. 19. — Skirmish at Branchville, Ark., in 
 which the 5th Kansas Cavalry engaged. — 
 Skirmish at Plolston River, Tenn. 
 
 Jan. 20.— At Island No. 76, Miss., Battery F, 
 Colored Light Artillery, had a scrimmage with 
 an attacking rebel force. — A detachment of the 
 20th Connecticut Infantry skirmished at Tracy 
 City, Tenn., and lost two men killed. — Matters 
 assumed a lively aspect at Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 Jan. 21. — Skirmish at Chuckatuck, Va. — In 
 the vicinity of Dalton, Ga., the 28th Kentucky 
 and 4th Michigan Cavalry encountered a force 
 of rebels, and made a dash among them. 
 
 Jan. 22. — At Armstrong Ferry, Tenn., a 
 skirmish took place. 
 
 Jan. 23. — In a skirmish at Rolling Prairie 
 Ark., 11 Union soldiers were killed, (lltli 
 Missouri Infantry.) — At Brandon Farms, Va., 
 actions occurred on the 23d and 25th. 
 
 Jan. 24. — Cavalry skirmish at Baker Springs, 
 Ark., in which the 2d and 6tli Kansas Cav- 
 ah-y were engaged ; the I'nion force- sustaining 
 a loss of one killed and two wounded ; confed- 
 erate loss was six killed and two wounded. — 
 At Tazewell, Teini., the 34th Kentucky, 116th 
 and llStli Indiana \'olunteers, 11th Tennessee 
 Cavalry and 11th Michigan Battery engaged, 
 with a confederate loss of 31 killed. 
 
 J.\N. 25. — Skirmishes at Athens, Ala., and 
 Corinth, Miss. 
 
 Jan. 26. — At Florence, Ala., the 72d Indiana 
 Infantry under Col. A. 0. Miller, had a slight 
 encounter with rebels. — Skirmish at Alton, 
 Miss. 
 
 Jan. 27.— Sturgis' Cavalry Division, Army 
 of the Ohio, fought at Kelley's Ford, Tenn., 
 and sustained a loss of 100 killed and wounded 
 inflicting a loss to the rebels of 68 killed and 
 cajituring 100 confederates. — Skirmish near 
 Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 Jan. 28. — A portion of the 14th Corps, Army 
 of the Cumberland, fought at Tunnel 1 1 ill, 
 Ga., with a loss of two wounded ; rebels lost 32 
 wounded. — Skirmish at Scottsville, Ala. — 1st 
 California Cavalry have a skirmish in the 
 Oregon Mountains. 
 
 .Jan. 29. — A lively action occurred at Medley 
 W. Va., in which the Union loss was 10 killed," 
 70 wounded ; rebel loss, 100 killed and 
 wounded. — Skirmishes at Danville, ^'a., and 
 Windsor and Cumberland Gap,- Tenn. 
 
 Jan. 30. — Operations in the vicinity of Pe- 
 tersburg, \'a. — (Kit Carson had an encounter 
 with the Indians at Canon de Chelly.) 
 
 Jan. 31. — .\ctions at Chuckatuck, Va., Dal- 
 ton, Ga., and Ringgold, Ga. 
 
 Jan. 30. — Federal supply train guarded by 
 Colonel Snyder, captured near Petersburg, \\'. 
 Va., and 80 Union soldiers were killed and 
 wounded. — General Rosser (confederate) made 
 a successful raid into Harding County, Xa., in 
 the Valley of the Shenandoah, capturing stores 
 and 270 prisoners. 
 
 Feb. 1. — In an encounter at Smithfield, Va., 
 90 Union soldiers were captured. — In the sev- 
 eral actions at Bachelor Creek, Newport Bar- 
 racks and New Berne, N. C, the Union troojis 
 lost 16 killed, 50 wounded and 280 missing; 
 the rebels lost five killed and 30 wounded ; 
 they covered a period of two days. — At A\'al- 
 dron. Ark., the 2d Kansas Cavalry were en- 
 gaged in a skirmish, and at New Creek Valley, 
 
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 89 
 
 W. Va., an infantry regiment had an encoun- 
 ter with rebels. — On the same day an expedi- 
 tion started up tlie Yazoo River, in Mississippi, 
 including colored troops (cavalry and infantry), 
 the lltli Illinois Infantry, and a portion of 
 Admiral Porter's fleet; the expedition lasted 
 until March 8th. 
 
 Fki!. 3. — Skirmishes at Patterson's, Spring- 
 tield, W. Va., and North Branch, Belton, Miss., 
 Saltpetre Cave, Va., Lebanon, Ala., Liverpool 
 Heights, Miss., (Yazoo expedition). — The Merid- 
 ian expedition, under General Sherman. The 
 purpose of this movement was to destroy pub- 
 lic property in Mississippi, and to disperse a 
 force of rebels collecting to recapture Vicks- 
 burg. On this day an advance was made to 
 Jackson and from there to Meridian, the force 
 meanwhile devastating the country. An ex- 
 pected cavalry reinforcement failing to join 
 him there, Sherman fell back to Canton, fol- 
 lowed by hundreds of Union refugees and ne- 
 groes. Large organizations of rebels were dis- 
 persed and not a railroad or public building 
 w'as left intact. During the expedition en- 
 counters occurred at Meridian, Champion's Hill, 
 Raymond, Clinton, Jackson, Decatur, Chunky 
 Station, Lauderdale Spring and Marion, Miss. 
 The Union loss was 56 killed and 1.38 wounded; 
 rebel loss 503 in killed and wounded and 212 
 prisoners. — Fight at New Berne, N. C, between 
 the forces under General Foster, Union, and 
 General Picket, confederate, resulting in a loss 
 to the former of 212 in killed and wounded, 
 and to the latter of 300 in killed, wounded and 
 missing. 
 
 Feu. 4. — At Clinton, Miss., a confederate bat- 
 tery was defeated witli a loss of 15 killed and 
 30 wounded to the Union force. (Yazoo expe- 
 dition). — Skirmishes at Rolling Prairie, Mo., 
 Hot Springs, Ark., Moorefield, W. Va., and 
 Canton, Miss. — On this date occurred the Mer- 
 idian skirmishes at Champion's Hill, Baker's 
 Creek, Raymond and Bolton Depot, Miss. 
 
 Feb. 5. — General Wistar led a raiding force 
 of 1,500 towards Richmond without decisive 
 results, the rebels having been warned. — Skir- 
 mish at QuaUown, N. C, in which the 14th 
 Illinois Cavalry was engaged, losing three 
 killed and six wounded; 50 confederates were 
 captured. — Meridian skirmishes at Clinton and 
 Jackson, Miss. — Skirmish at Cape Girardeau, 
 Mo.— Troubles at Jacksonville, Fla.— At Wyatt's 
 Miss., the 114th Illinois have a skirmish. 
 
 Feb. 6.— a fight occurred at Morton's Ford, 
 Va., a part of the 2d Corps being engaged ; 
 the Union loss was 10 killed and 201 wounded ; 
 the rebel loss was 100 in killed, wounded and 
 missing. — The 7th Indiana Cavalry had a 
 skirmish at Bolivar, Tenn., losing one killed 
 and three wounded ; the rebels lost 30 wounded. 
 — Skirmishes at Orange C. IL, and Bottom's 
 Bridge, Va. 
 
 Feb. 7. — At Barnett's Ford, Va., the cavalry 
 force of General Merritt had a skirmish, and 
 lost 20 killed and wounded.— In a skirmish at 
 Vidalia, La., the confederate loss was six killed 
 and 10 wounded.— Slight affair at New Berne, 
 N. C, and Camp Finegan. 
 
 Feb. 8. — Meridian skirmish at Morton, Miss. 
 — 4th Wisconsin Cavalry skirmish at Donald- 
 sonville. La. — Skirmishes at Rome, Ga., Tunnel 
 Hill, Ga., and Martin's Creek, Ala. 
 
 Feb. 9. — Cavalry encounter at Morgan's Mills, 
 Ark., the Union casualties being one killed and 
 four wounded ; confederate loss, 65 killed and 
 wounded. — Actions at Barber's Place, St. Mary's 
 River, Lake City and Gainesville, Fla., by the 
 Massachusetts Mounted Infantry and Massa- 
 chusetts Independent Battalion of Cavalry, 
 continuing five days, and resulting in a Union 
 loss of four killed and 16 w^ounded ; the rebel 
 loss was four killed and 48 wounded.— Slight 
 action at Jacksonville, Fla.— Near Point Wash- 
 ington, Fla., a detail from the 7th Vermont In- 
 fantry had a skirmish. 
 
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 1864— FEB. 10— FEB. 22 — 1864. 
 
 Feb. 10. — Smitli's raids from Germantown, 
 Tenn., into Mississippi. This was the cavalry 
 movement which was intended to co-operate 
 with Sherman's Meridian expedition, and was 
 composed of Smitii and Grierson's cavalry 
 divisions. The time occupied included 15 days, 
 and 45 Union soldiers were killed and 267 
 wounded ; the rebel loss was 50 killed and 300 
 captured. 
 
 Feb. 12.— Skirmish at Rock House, W. Va., 
 resulting in a confederate loss of 12 killed and 
 four wounded. — At Caddo Gap and Scott's Farm, 
 Ark., and I^iike City, Fla., skirmishes took 
 place, also at Decatur and Chunky Station, 
 Miss., (Meridian expedition). 
 
 Fet.. 13. — Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill, Ga., 
 Pontotoc and \'icksburg. Miss., and South Fork, 
 Va. 
 
 Feb. 14. — At Gainesville, Fla., Captain Rob- 
 erts of the Massachusetts cavalry attacked the 
 rebels, who lost 100 in killed and wounded. 
 The same force skirmished at Lake City, Fla. — 
 In a skirmish at Ross' Landing, Ark., the 
 Union loss was 13 killed and seven wounded. 
 — A skii-mish at Brentsville, Va., resulted in 
 the loss of four Union soldiers killed and one 
 wounded. — At Waterproof, La., the 49th U. S. 
 Colored Troops and the Union gunboat Forest 
 engaged the rebels, losing eight killed and 14 
 wounded. — Meridian, Miss., occupied by the 
 forces of General Sherman. — Skirmish at Wayne 
 Court House, W. Va., Hillsboro, Ga., Quitman 
 and Enterprise, Miss., and Canton, Mies., on the 
 Yazoo expedition. 
 
 Feb. 16. — At Laudersdale, Miss., a skirmish 
 occurred. — Fort Powell, (Dauphin's Island) Ala., 
 defended Grant's Pass. — Skirmish at Okalona, 
 Miss. (Smitli's cavalry raid). 
 
 Feb. 17. — Action at Marion, Miss.; Meridian 
 expedition. — The Ilousatonic destroyed in 
 Charleston harbor by a torpedo boat. — Skir- 
 mishes at West Bay, Fla., and Tiptonsville, P"'la. 
 
 Ffb. 18. — Skirmishes at East Bay, Fla., and 
 Baldwin, Fla. 
 
 Ffb. 19.— At Grosse Tete Bayou, La., the 4th 
 Wisconsin Cavalry engaged the rebels, inflict- 
 ing a loss of four killed and six wounded, their 
 own casualties including two wounded. — Skir- 
 mish near Batesville, Ark., with a Union loss 
 of three killed and four wounded, the rebel loss 
 being six killed and 10 wounded. — Skirmishes 
 at Aberdeen and Egypt, Miss. 
 
 Feb. 20. — Olustee, Fla. A fleet of steamers 
 and one gunboat was sent by General Gilmore 
 to repossess Florida, and he allowed his com- 
 mand to be inveigled into a fight on ground 
 selected by the rebels, sustaining severe defeat 
 and losing 193 in killed and 1,175 wounded 
 and 460 missing. The rebel loss included 100 
 killed and 400 wounded. — Skirmish at Holston 
 River, Tenn., the respective Union and rebel 
 losses being five killed and wounded and 15 
 killed and wounded. — Skirmishes at Saint 
 Mark's, Fla., West Point and Prairie Station, 
 Miss., Philomont, Va., Strawberry Plains, and 
 Sanderson. 
 
 Feb. 21. — Skirmisliing at Canton, Quitman 
 and Enterprise, Miss., at Hillsboro, Ga., and 
 Lake City and Saint Mark's, Fla. 
 
 Feb. 22.— Tunnel Hill, Ga. General Pal- 
 mer's troops encountered General Wheeler 
 with a rebel force of cavalry and captured 300 
 prisoners ; Union loss, 75 killed and wounded ; 
 confederate loss in killed and wounded heavy. 
 — A lively cavalrj' action transpired at Mul- 
 berry Gap, Tenn., resulting in a loss to the 
 Union force of 13 killed and wounded and 256 
 captured ; the lOtli Tennessee, (Union), was 
 opposed to a large force. — Mosby's guerrillas 
 defeated a detachment of the 2d Massachusetts 
 Cavalry at Draine.'^villc, Xn., inflicting a loss of 
 seven wounded and 57 captured ; Mosby lost 
 two killed and four wounded. — Skirmishes at 
 Powell's River Bridge, Johnson's Mills, Cumber- 
 
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 land Gap, Calfkiller Creek, Tenn., Ivy Mills, 
 Miss., Luna Landing, Ark., Wilmarsh Island, 
 8. C— In an action at Johnson's Mills, Tenn., 
 prisoners captured from the 5th Tennessee 
 Regiment (Union) were slaughtered. — Skir- 
 mishes at WarrentoAvn, Va., and Joy's Farm. 
 Feb. 23.— Taylor's Bayou, Tenn. 
 I'^EB. 25.— The action begun at Tunnel Hill, 
 was continued until this date and to the 27tli 
 (if February and included conflicts at Buzzard's 
 KuDst, and Rocky Face Gap, with a Union loss 
 of 17 killed and 272 wounded; confederates 
 lost 20 kiUed and 120 wounded. 
 
 Feb. 26. — At Fort Powell, Ala., activities 
 were carried on and skirmishes took place at 
 Upperville, and Goose Creek, Va. 
 
 Feb. 27. — Foraging, detachments from two 
 Iowa regiments skirmished near Canton, Miss. 
 — Another action took place at Saint Mark's, 
 Fla. 
 
 Feb. 28. — Kilpatrick's raid from Stevens- 
 burg to Richmond, Va. The cavalry chief 
 advanced with 5,000 soldiers to make an at- 
 temj)t to release the Union prisoners at Belle 
 Isle, and in Libby. The effort was lost but 
 much confederate property was destroyed, many 
 miles of railroad torn up and some prisoners 
 were taken. The Union loss was 330 killed 
 and wounded and missing; the rebels lost 500 
 men. — The 7th Tennessee Cavalry had a skir- 
 mish at Dukedom, Ky., and a skirmish took 
 place near Yazoo City, Miss. — Skirmishes at 
 Spott.«*ylvania and Charlottesville, Va., at Ra- 
 venna, Miss., and Baldwin, Fla. 
 
 Feb. 29.— Skirmish at New Berne, N. C. — 
 At Taylorsvilie, Va., one of the actions of Kil- 
 initrick's raid took place. 
 
 March 1- — At Standardsville, and Burton's 
 Fork, Va., a cavalry raid under General Custer 
 took place, in which tlTe Union force lost 10 
 wounded, and captured 30 rebels.— Skirmishes 
 at Saint Mark's, Fla., and Black River, Miss. 
 
 (Yazoo expedition). — Skirmishes at Brook's 
 Turnpike by Kilpatrick's Cavalry. 
 
 March 2. — The Mississippi squadron under 
 Porter had an action at Harrisonburg, La.; 
 Union loss two killed and 14 wounded. — Kil- 
 patrick raids near Walkertown, Va. 
 
 March 3. — 7th Michigan and 1st Vermont 
 Cavalry under Kilpatrick raid Tunstall Station, 
 Va. 
 
 March 4. — Grant made Lieutenant-General ; 
 the office was re-created for him, it having been 
 vacant since it was conferred on General Wash- 
 ington. — Skirmish on Chowan River, N. C. — 
 Skirmish at Rodney, Miss. 
 
 March 5. — Fight at Panther Springs, Tenn., 
 with a Union loss of two killed and eight 
 wounded ; 22 were captured by the rebels, 
 whose loss was 30 wounded. — In a conflict at 
 Yazoo City, the losses were six killed and 20 
 wounded in tiie Union force, the confederate 
 casualties being much larger. — The Mississippi 
 Marine Brigade had an encounter at Coleman'.s, 
 Miss. — At Ely's Ford, Va., and Liverpool 
 Heiglits, insignificant military affairs transpired. 
 
 March 6. — At Flint Creek, Ark., the 14th 
 Kansas Cavalry had a skirmish. 
 
 March 7. — At Decatur, Ala., the troops of 
 the Army of the Tennessee, under General 
 Dodge, had an indecisive action with the rebels. 
 — Skirmishes at Cherry Stone, Brandon Farms, 
 Ga., and on the Plankatank River. 
 
 March 8. — Skirmish at CarroUton, Va. 
 
 March 9. — At Suffolk, Va., a skirmish took 
 place between the 2d U. S. Colored Cavalry 
 and the confederates, in which the former lost 
 eight killed and one wounded ; the rebels lost 
 25 wounded. — Skirmish at Bristoe's Station, Va. 
 
 March 10. — Skirmislies at Palatka, Fla., and 
 at Cabletown, \'a. The latter involved the 1st 
 New York Veteran Cavalry. 
 
 March 13. — Skirmishes at CarroUton Store, 
 Va., by New York and Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
 
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 1864— MARCH 14— MARCH 30—1864. 
 
 at Semmesport, La., Natchitoches in the Red 
 River expedition and Indiauola, Texas. 
 
 March 14. — Detachments of the 16th and 
 17th Corps and Porter's Mississippi Squadron, 
 attacked Fort de Russj', La., sustaining a loss 
 of seven killed and 41 wounded. The confed- 
 erates were defeated, with a loss of five killed 
 and four wounded and 300 prisoners, besides a 
 large amount of munitions of war and ordnance 
 stores. — A Free-State Government organized in 
 Arkansas. 
 
 March 15. — Skirmish at Clarendon, Ark., 
 the Federal force losing one killed and three 
 wounded. — Action at Alexandria, (Red River 
 expedition). 
 
 March 16.— In a fight near Fort Pillow, 
 Tenn., the rebels were defeated with a loss of 
 50 killed and wounded. — Action at Shreve- 
 port, La. 
 
 March 17. — At Manchester, Tenn., the 5th 
 Tennessee Cavalry attacked the rebels and 
 killed 21. 
 
 March 18. — The same Union force attacked 
 a squad of rebels at Calf killer Creek, Tenn. — 
 At Monticello, Ark., the 7th Missouri Cavairv 
 had a skirmish. 
 
 March 19.— Activity at Port Royal, S. C. 
 March 20. — The 5th Tennessee Cavalry 
 made another attack on the rebels at Beer- 
 sheba Springs, Tenn. 
 
 March 21. — At Henderson's Hill, La., the 
 troops of General Mower, including detach- 
 ments of the 16th Corjis and the cavalry divi- 
 sion of the 19th Corps, attacked a confederate 
 camp and captured 282 prisoners.— Skirmish 
 at Magnolia, Miss. — General Banks attacked 
 the rebels near Alexandria, La., and took 306 
 prisoners. 
 
 March 24. — At Union City, Tenn., Forrest 
 attacked the 5th Tennessee Cavalry and took 
 450 prisoners. 
 
 March 25. — Paducah, Kv., was held bv Col. 
 
 S. G. Hicks with a garrison of 650 men. For- 
 rest attacked and the garrison retired to Fort 
 Anderson where a stand was made, assisted by 
 two Union gunboats. Forrest demanded im- 
 mediate surrender without conditions, adding, 
 "if you surrender you shall be treated as pris- 
 oners of war ; but if I have to storm your 
 works, you may expect no quarter." Hicks 
 refused and the rebels made three assaults, 
 losing 1,500 men and the rebel General 
 Thompson. Forrest retired on the 26th. The 
 Union loss was 14 killed and 46 wounded. 
 The town was nearly destroyed in the bom- 
 bardment. 
 
 March 26. — Skirmish at Longview, Ark., in 
 which the 28th Wisconsin, 5th Kansas and 7th 
 Missouri Cavalry engaged. — On the same date, 
 the 2d Kansas Cavalry had a skirmish at 
 Danville, Ark. — At Canton, Miss., (Black River) 
 a slight skirmish took place. 
 
 March 28. — At Charleston, 111., the copper- 
 heads attacked the 54th Illinois Infantry, re- 
 turning to the front from veteran's furlough. 
 The regiment lost two killed and eight wounded. 
 The attacking party lost three killed, four 
 wounded and 12 were taken prisoners. — Activ- 
 ity at Fort Powell, Ala. — Skirmish at Cane 
 River, La. (Red River expedition). — At Arka- 
 delphia. Ark., the cavalry of the 7th Corps 
 made a movement to advance. 
 
 March 29. — In a skirmish at Bolivar, Tenn., 
 the Union loss was eight killed and 35 wounded ; 
 the 6th Tennessee Cavalry were engaged. 
 
 March 30. — At Mount Elba, Ark., the force 
 recorded on the 28th had a skirmisii, the 
 aggregate losses of the several actions from the 
 26th to the oOth including four Union soldiers 
 killed and 18 wounded; the rebel loss was 12 
 killed, 35 wounded and 300 prisoners. — At 
 Grosse Tete Bayou, La., the 118th Illinois In- 
 fantry had a skirniish. — Skirmishes at Natchi- 
 toches, La., and Monticello, ^lo. — Riots at 
 Matloon, 111. 
 
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 March 31— The 3d U. S. Cavalry (colored), 
 had a skirmisli ;it Snydersville, Miss., losing 16 
 killed and three wounded; the confederate loss 
 was three killed and seven wounded. — Action 
 at Ball's Ferry, Va. 
 
 April 1. — At Augusta, Ark., in a skirmish, 
 the 3d Minnesota Infantry and Sth Missouri 
 Cavalry lost eight killed and 10 wounded, and 
 inflicted a loss of 15 killed and 45 wounded. — 
 Slight 'skirmish on the Rappahannock, Va. — 
 Skirmishes at White Rivei-, Ark., and Grant's 
 Pass, Ala. — A collision occurred at Fitzhugh's 
 Woods, Va. 
 
 April 2.— At Spoonville, Ark., the 29th 
 Iowa, 50th Indiana and 9th Wisconsin Infantry 
 and the 1st Missouri Cavalry, belonging to 
 Steele's expedition, had a skirmish and lost 10 
 killed and 35 wounded ; rebel loss, 100.— Skir- 
 mish at Crump's Hill, La., by the regiments of 
 the Red River expedition, in which the Union 
 loss was 20 wounded ; 35 rebels were lost. — 
 Skirmishes at Camden, N. C, Antoine, Texas, 
 Cleveland, Tenn., and Pen.saco]a, Fia. 
 
 April 3. — At Okalona, Ark., another action 
 was had, iji which Illinois and Missouri cavalry, 
 and Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio infan- 
 try participated ; the Union loss was 16 killed 
 and 74 wounded ; the rebels lost 75 in killed 
 and wounded. 
 
 April 4. — Compti, La., was made famous by 
 a skirmish in the Red River expedition, and 
 the Federal loss was 10 killed and 18 wounded. 
 — Skirmish at Plymouth, N. C— The tight at 
 Elkin's Ford, Ark., was commenced and the 
 skirmishing continued at intervals for three 
 d;iys. Three infantry regiments, one cavalrv 
 regiment and a battery were engaged and the 
 loss was five killed and 33 wounded on the 
 Federal side. 
 
 April 5.— At Roseville, Ark., detachments 
 of the 2d and 6th Kansas Cavalry had a 
 guerrilla skirmish, and lost 19 killed and 11 
 
 wounded; the confederate casualties included 
 15 killed, 25 wounded and 11 prisoners.— At 
 Stone's Farm, Ark., 26 men of the 6th Kansas 
 Cavalry were attacked by guerrilbis, and 11 of 
 them were captured and massacred, among 
 them Surgeon Fairchilds.— Skirmish at Grand 
 Ecore, La., (Red River expedition). 
 
 April 6. — In a skirmish at Quicksand, Ky., 
 one company, 14th Kentucky ^'olunteers, had 
 a skirmish and lost 10 men killed and seven 
 wounded.— Skirmishes at Fort Plalleck, Ind. 
 Ter., Columbus, Mo., and Shreveport, La. (The 
 activity at the latter place continued three 
 days).— Skirmish at Peach Hill, Va. 
 
 April 7.— At Wilson's Farm, La., the ad- 
 vance cavalry of the 19tli Corps in the Red 
 River expedition, engaged the rebels with a 
 loss of 14 killed and 39 wounded, the rebel loss 
 being 40 wounded men and 100 prisoners. — 
 At Harney Lake ^"alley, Ore., a skirmish took 
 place, in which the 1st Oregon Cavalry was 
 engaged.— Detachments from Illinois cavalry 
 and infantry and a battery were engaged m a 
 skirmish at Plain's Farm, near Port Hudson, La. 
 April 8.— Battle of Sabine Cross Roads or 
 Mansfield. The advance of Banks' army en- 
 gaged in heavy skirmishing with the rebels in 
 a line of battle that was, practically, an ambus- 
 cade, the forces being disposed in a wedge 
 shape. After the first onset the wings of the 
 rebel c immand closed about the Union troops 
 and confusion resulted. A complete rout was 
 prevented only by the timely arrival of rein- 
 forcements. The Union troops engaged num- 
 bered about 8,000, and the losses aggregated 
 2,000 in killed, wounded and missing. The 
 rebels pursued three miles and a half, when 
 they were checked by General Emery's division. 
 Tlie rebel loss at Mansfield numbered 3,500. — 
 A Missouri battery became involved in a skir- 
 mish at Pembescott Bayou, Ark.— At Wolf 
 River, Tenn., Grierson's cavalry had a skirmish. 
 
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 1864— APRIL 10 — APRIL 18 — 1864. 
 
 — At Cane lliver, La., the advance of the Red ! 
 River expedition met ihe reliels in force, and 
 tlie hitter were put to flight with a loss of 600 
 prisoners. 
 
 April 10.— The troops belonging to Steele's 
 expedition had a heavy fight at Prairie d'Ann, 
 Ark., in which the Union loss was 100 killed, 
 wounded and missing. Several days were oc- 
 cupied in the conflict.— At Little Cacapon, Va., 
 a company of the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry 
 engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 April 12. — At Pleasant Hill Landing, La., 
 the 17lh Corps, assisted by the gunboats Lex- 
 ington and Osage, had a considerable fight, 
 resulting in a loss to the Federals engaged of 
 seven wounded. The rebel loss included 200 
 killed and wounded. (Red River expedition.) 
 — The massacre at Fort Pillow took place on 
 this date. The garrison included 19 officers 
 and 538 men, 262 of whom were negroes, com- 
 manded by Major L. F. Booth. Forrest attacked 
 the fort suddenly, no intimation of it reaching 
 the garrison, until the onset was made and the 
 Union pickets driven in. Major Booth was 
 killed early in the struggle and was succeeded 
 by Major W. V. Bradford, who retired with the 
 force within the intrenchments. The artillery 
 defense included six guns and aid was received 
 from a gunboat. In the afternoon, Forrest sent 
 in a flag of truce demandiiig surrender without 
 conditions and the commandant asked an hour 
 for consideration. Meanwhile the rebels, re- 
 gardless of the flag, were taking an advantage- 
 ous position. As soon as the reply was com- 
 nmnicated the confederates rushed over the 
 fortications, raising the cry: "No quarter." 
 Indiscriminately of age or sex the slaughter 
 was pressed until nightfall and renewed at day- 
 light, about oUO people being killed in cold 
 blood.' The 'entire Union loss was 350 killed, 
 00 wounded and 164 missing. The confederate 
 loss was 80 killed and wounded. — At Fremont's 
 
 Orchard, Col. Ter., two cavalry companies had 
 a scrimmage with the Indians. 
 
 April 13.— Steele's raiders had a skirmish 
 at Moscow, Ark., losing five killed and 17 
 wounded. The rebel loss was 30 killed and 
 wounded. — Kentucky infantry encountered a 
 rebel force at Paintsville, Ky., and fought the 
 next day at Half Mount, Ky. — A slight afl'air 
 took place at Columbus, Mo. — Skirmishes at 
 Indian Bay, Ark., Florence, Ala., Cleveland, 
 Tenn., Paducah, Ky., Grand Ecore, La., and 
 Wayne C. H., W. Va. 
 
 April 14. — An infantry skirmish took place 
 at SmitJi field, Va., the losses being to the 
 Union and confederates engaged, five and six 
 respectively. — The 6tli Kansas Cavalry raided 
 Dutch Mills, Ark. (Steele's expedition). 
 
 April 15. — Advance of Steele's force on 
 Camden, Ark., the place being occupied the 
 following day. — At Bristoe's Station, \'a., a 
 cavalry action occurred with inconsiderable 
 loss. — Another force of Steele's command raided 
 Liberty, Ark. 
 
 April 16. — Skirmi.sh at King's River, Ark., 
 and at Scullyville, Indian Territory, in which 
 the Indian Home Guards were engaged. 
 
 April 17. — At Plymouth, N. C, an import- 
 ant engagement took place in which the 85th 
 New York, 103d Pennsylvania and the 16th 
 Connecticut Infantry under General Wessels, 
 assi.>^ted by a strong naval force under Lieu- 
 tenant Commander Flusser, fought three days 
 for j)ossession of the western entrance to .\lbe- 
 marle Sound, the action resulting in the defeat 
 of the Federal troops. The loss to the latter in- 
 cluding Flusser was 20 killed and 80 wounded ; 
 the confederate loss was about 500. — The same 
 day a skirmish took place at Decatur, Ala., 
 with slight loss, in which the 2otli Wisconsin 
 engaged and two were wounded. 
 
 April 18. — A forage train, escorted by the 
 18th Iowa, 79th U. S. Colored Infantry and 6th 
 
1864— APRIL 19 — APRIL 30—1864. 
 
 95 
 
 Kansas Cavalry, was attacked at Poison Springs 
 near Camden, sustaining a loss of 113 killed, 
 SS wounded and 68 missing. (Steele's expedi- 
 tion). — Slight .skirmish at Bokken's Mills, S. C, 
 two soldiers being killed and 18 wounded. 
 
 Aprii, 19. — At Natchitoches, La., the 4th 
 Brigade, Cavalry Division, lOlli Corps, Red 
 River expedition, had an encounter with bush- 
 whackers and guerrillas. — The 45th Kentucky 
 was involved ni a skirmish at Pound Gap, Ky. 
 — Skirmish at Burkesville, Ky. 
 
 April 20. — A regiment of colored troops had 
 a skirmish at Waterproof, La. 
 
 April 21. — At Cotton Plant, Cache River, 
 Ark., the troops of Steele's expedition had a 
 skirmish. (98th Missouri Cavalry). — The 2d 
 Wisconsin Cavalry had a brush with bush- 
 whackers at Red Bone, Miss., one man being 
 killed and six wounded. 
 
 April 22. — Three companies of the 3d 
 Rhode Island Cavalry on tran.sj)orts at Tunica 
 Bend, Red River, were attacked from the 
 banks, suffering a loss of two killed and 17 
 wounded. 
 
 April 23. — In a skirmish at Nickajuck Trace, 
 Ga., a detachment of the 92d Illinois Infantry 
 was engaged in which they lost five killed and 
 nine wounded and 22 taken prisoners. — Two 
 divisions of Banks' array had an encounter at 
 Moneti's Bluff, La., and at Cloutiersville, the 
 latter extending into the following day. It 
 was a determined movement of the confed- 
 erates to prevent the Federals crossing the Cane 
 River and the advance had sharp work to 
 repulse and drive back the rebels. General 
 Banks was iu possession of the rebel plans and 
 pushed his command through swamps and 
 almost impenetrable morass, steadily advancing 
 and arriving at Alexandria on the 26th, having 
 suffered a loss of 350 killed and wounded. The 
 confederate loss in killed and wounded was 
 about 400.— At Swan Lake, Ark., the 5tli 
 
 Kansas Cavalry, belonging to Steele's expedi- 
 tion, was engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 April 24.— At .Jacksonport, Ark., the 1st 
 Nebraska Cavalry repulsed the rebels. 
 
 April 25. — The rebels attacked a forage train, 
 escorted by several infantry regiments and a 
 battery and captured the wagons and guard 
 while en route from Little Rock to supply 
 Banks' army ; the encounter transpired near 
 Pine Bluff; 2,000 prisoners were taken. — At 
 Mark's Mills, General Pagan's force, 6,000 
 strong, attacked the rear of a supply train of 
 240 wagons, cut off the advance from the rear, 
 compelling the surrender of both columns and 
 inflicting a loss of 250 killed and wounded, and 
 the destruction or capture of the wagons, the 
 negroes being shot after surrender, the rebels 
 never taking colored prisoners. The rebel 
 casualties were small. — Skirmish at Wautauga's 
 Bridge, Tenn., in which the lOlh Michigan 
 Cavalry was involved, losing three killed and 
 nine wounded. 
 
 April 26. — Steele's troops again encountered 
 the rebels at Moro Creek, Ark., sustaining a loss 
 of five killed and 14 wounded. — At Alexandria, 
 a Missouri Cavalry regiment and a New York 
 regiment of infantry became involved in a skir- 
 mish. (Banks' expedition.) 
 
 April 28.— At Offett's Knob, Mo., the 1st 
 Missouri Militia Cavalry had a brush with guer- 
 rillas. 
 
 April 29. — At Princeton, Ark., two infantry 
 regiments, one cavalry and a battery belonging 
 to Steele's expedition, had a short, sharp skir- 
 mish without loss. 
 
 April 30. — Jenkins' Ferry. Steele's division, 
 which had suffered heavily in incessant skir- 
 mishing through the entire march from Little 
 Rock to make connection with Banks, was at- 
 tacked on the Sabine River in Arkansas by the 
 consolidated forces of Kirby Smith and Price — 
 5,000 Union soldiers against 20,000 rebels— 
 
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 1864— MAY 1— MAY 5 — 1864. 
 
 a battle of about eight hours' duration ensuing, 
 whicli was one of the sharpest contests of the 
 war in the southwest, hut resulted in a victory 
 of the Union force which saved Little Rook and 
 Arkansas to the U. S. Government. General 
 Salomon of Wisconsin won the honors by deter- 
 mined bravery, and the j)ursuit of the rebels 
 was prevented only by lack of supplies. 1,175 
 Union soldiers were lost and about 2,000 rebels. 
 — Activities at Little Washington. 
 
 May 1. — In the early days of May, 'le 
 operations of the Union armies were to be co; • 
 bined. Sigel commenced his movements up 
 the valley of the Shenandoah on the 1st day of 
 the month. — The 7th U. S. Inf jv, Colored 
 Troop-s, had a skirmish at JacksOrtville, Fla., 
 losing one man killed. — At Hudnot's Planta- 
 tion, La., and near Alexandria, a skirmish took 
 place between cavalry of the 13th and 19th 
 Corps, resulting in a loss of 33 killed, 87 
 wounded and the loss to the rebels included 
 2.') killed and 100 wounded. — At Ashwood's 
 Landing, La., the 64th U. S. Colored Troops 
 skirmished with guerrillas. — At Clinton, La., a 
 slight affair occurred. 
 
 May 2. — Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey, 
 of the 4th Wisconsin commenced the construc- 
 tion of a dam for the release of 10 gunboats 
 and two tugs imprisoned by low water on the 
 Red River. The work was concluded on the 
 8th and resulted in tlie safe passage of the fleet 
 five days later, with the loss of one man and 
 insignificant injuries to the boats. — Fight at 
 Governor Moore's Plantation, La. ; Union loss 
 two killed and 10 wounded.— 7th Kansas Cav- 
 alry encountered a small force of reliels at 
 Memphis, Tenn.— Skirmish at Harrisonburg, 
 La. 
 
 May 3.— Red Clay, Ga. The 1st Cavalry 
 Division of the Army of the Cumberland was 
 engaged and lost 10 killed and wounded. — 
 Skirmish at Richland, Ark., involving the 2d 
 
 Arkansas Cavalry, the command losing 20 in 
 killed and wounded. — A cavalry engagement 
 took place at Bolivar, Tenn. — At Baton Rouge 
 La., a cavalry encounter occurred in which the 
 4th Wisconsin was engaged. — The r20th Ohio 
 Lifantrj' and 73d U. S. Colored Troops on 
 board tlie transport City Belle, were attacked 
 by rebels on the banks of the Red River near 
 Snaggy Point, La., and the loss and suffering 
 was severe, the soldiers abandoning the trans- 
 port, and many were murdered and captured 
 by the pursuing rebels. — Preparations in the 
 Army of the Potomac for operations in the 
 Wilderness. 
 
 May 4. — In a fight at Doubtful Canon, Ari., 
 a detachment of the otli Califurnia Infantry 
 and the 1st California Cavalry lost one killed 
 and six wounded, and inflicted a loss of 10 
 killed and 20 wounded. — Hancock took posi- 
 tion at Chancellorsville. — Kautz cavalrj' raid 
 commenced from Suffolk, Va., on the Wcldon 
 railroad and included the movements at Wall 
 Bridge, Stony Creek Station, Jarrett's Station 
 and White's Bridge, to City Point, which was 
 reached on the 12th. — Marye's Heights, Orange 
 C. H. and Bermuda Hundred were occupied. — 
 Yazoo expedition in Mississijjpi commenced ; 
 the 3d U. S. Cavalry, Colored, 11th, 72d and 
 76th Illinois Infantry being detailed aJid the 
 5th Illinois Cavalry and 7th Ohio Battery. 
 Actions took place at Vaughn and Benton, a 
 slight loss being sustained. The expedition 
 consumed nine days. 
 
 May' 5. — The U. S. gunboats Ceres, Commo- 
 dore Hull, Matabesett, Sassacus, Seymour, 
 Wydusing, Miami and Whitehead, attacked 
 the rebel ram Albemarle, on the Roanoke 
 River, N. C, with a loss of five killed and 20 
 wounded ; the rebels lost 56 prisoners. — The 
 transport Warner, steamer Covington and gun- 
 boat Signal, liaving the 56th Ohio Infantry on 
 board were attacked by rebels at Dunn's Bayou 
 
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 on the Red River. The soldiers fought as long 
 as possible and the residue abandoned the 
 boats, making their way to Alexandria through 
 tlie woods. More than half the command was 
 lost. — Battle of the Wilderness. The rebel 
 General Ewell, with his division, disputed the 
 occupation of the Wilderness and a terrific 
 fight ensued, which was participated in by the 
 2d, 5th, 6th, 9th and Cavalry Corps of the Array 
 of the Potomac under Hancock, Warren, Sedg- 
 wick, Burnside and Sheridan, Major-General 
 Meade commanding. It was practically a 
 hand-to-hand struggle, and at dark was not at 
 an end. The rebel General Hill had joined in 
 the contest and, during the ensuing night, 
 Longstreet made connection with Lee's army, 
 and there was no alternative but to continue 
 the conflict and urge matters to a determina- 
 tion on the 6th, the fight being resumed as 
 soon as day broke. The fighting was no less 
 vigorous than on the previous day, but at the 
 close both armies were indisposed to renew ac- 
 tive hostilities, although no decisive state of 
 affairs had been reached. The killed of the 
 Union army was 5,597, wounded 21,463 and 
 missing 10,677. Brigadier-Generals Wads- 
 worth, Hayes and Webb were among the killed. 
 The loss of the rebels was 2,000 killed, 6,000 
 wounded and 3,400 missing. The confederate 
 generals Jenkins, Pickett and Jones were killed 
 and Longstreet, Pegram, Stafford and Hunter 
 wounded. — Action at Craig's Meeting House, Va. 
 May 6. — Sherman commenced his move- 
 ment on the 27th of April. On the 6th day of 
 May, the three branches of his command were 
 in position. Three corps of the Army of the 
 Cumberland, two corps of the Army of the 
 Tennessee and one corps of the Army of the 
 Ohio, were located respectively at Ringgold and 
 Red Clay. Preparations were put in progress 
 for the triumphant campaign known to history 
 forevermore as the " March to the Sea ;" the 
 
 days from the 5th to the 9th inclusive were 
 made conspicuous by the movements by way 
 of Ship Gap, Villanow, and Snake Creek Gap, 
 Tunnel Hill, and the sharp actions at Rocky 
 Face Ridge and Buzzard's Roost. An effort 
 was made to compel the evacuation of Dalton 
 but failed and, May 13th, General Sherman 
 dec' ed to move towards Resaca. Skirmishing 
 c imenced on the 14th, the rebels having 
 taken possession of the city. Calhoun was 
 threatened and a force sent against the railroad 
 to cut off' c munications. Resaca was aban- 
 doned by A . rebels and occupied by the Fed- 
 eral troops. At Ley's Ferry a slight action 
 took place on the 15th, and, on the same day, 
 an action occurred at Tanner's Bridge. On 
 the daj'^ following. May 16th, another fight 
 took place at Rome Cross Roads ; a two days' 
 encounter occurred at Adairsville and included 
 the minor actions at Graves' House and (Jalhoun. 
 May 18th, the Army of the Cumberland was 
 in action at Rome, and, on the 19th, the 20th 
 Corps was involved at Cassville. The action 
 there continued until the 22d ; on the 24tli the 
 fight at Kingston, in which three regiments of 
 Union infantry and one regiment of cavalry 
 were engaged, took place. On the 25th, the 
 series of operations known as the battle of Dal- 
 las, New Hope Church, Burnt Hickory, Pump- 
 kinvine Creek and Allatoona Hills commenced, 
 and was concluded on the 4th of June without 
 decisive results. May 25tli, a fight occurred at 
 Cassville Station followed by a skirmLsh at 
 Burned Church. From the 5th to the 9th of 
 May, the Union casualties included 200 killed 
 and 637 wounded. In an assault on Resaca, 
 600 were killed and 2,147 wounded. The total 
 loss at Dallas in the nine days' operation, was 
 2,400. The Army of the Cumberland was 
 commanded by General Thomas, that of the 
 Tennessee by McPherson and that of the Ohio 
 by Schofield. General Johnston was the guid- 
 
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 1864 — MAY 7 — MAY 9—1864. 
 
 ing spirit of the rebels. The confederate loss 
 was variously estimated, but doubtless reached 
 6,500 in round numbers from May 6th to June 
 4th. — The gunboat, Commodore Jones, attacked 
 the rebels on the James River near City Point ; 
 Union loss, "23 killed and 4S wounded. — De- 
 tachments of the 10th and ISth Army Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac, encountered the rebels 
 at Chester, Va., on the Richmond i Petersburg 
 Railroad, and sustained a loss of 4S killed and 
 256 wounded : the rebel loss was 50 killed and 
 •200 wounded. — At Princeton, W. Va., the forces 
 under General Crook made an advance. 
 
 Mat 7. — A portion of the 16th Army Corps, 
 belonging to Banks' Red River expedition, met 
 the rebels at Bayou La Mourie, La., and lost 10 
 killed and 31 wounded. — At Benton, Miss., the 
 Yazoo expedition had an engagement, in which 
 three Illinois regiments and an Ohio battery 
 were in action. — Tunnel Hill, Ga. — Mill Creek 
 and Dug Gap. — Stoney Creek Station, Va. — An 
 unimportant action at Tazewell, Tenu. 
 
 May 8. — The ^d Division of the cavalry corps 
 of the Army of the Potomac engaged the rebels 
 at Todds Tavern, Va., and inflicted a loss of 
 40 killed and 1-50 wounded. — The movements 
 which culminated in the battle of Spottsylvania 
 Court House commenced. Lee moved his com- 
 mand forward on the night of the 7th and 
 reached the place in advance of Grant. On the 
 Sth, Lee's forces made their position sure and 
 sharp fighting ensued. On the 9th, desultory 
 skirmishing was continued, the confederates at- 
 tacking various points where Federal batteries 
 were being placed. On the 10th, Grant made 
 heavy demonstrations on the rebel lines and 
 sent his deathless despatch, "I propose to fight 
 it out on this line if it takes all summer" to 
 Washington. The three days' indeterminate 
 battle had already cost 10,000 men, "the flower 
 of the Army of the Potomac." The 11th found 
 the Federal forces in preparation for hard work 
 
 to drive the confederates from what seemed an 
 impregnable position. Hancock's corps made 
 a dash at the rebel center and the battle thus 
 precipitated raged all day and part of the night 
 without decisive results. The fighting con- 
 tinued six days longer and Grant withdrew to 
 the North Anna River. — The cavalry connected 
 with the command of General Crook made a 
 dash at Jeffersonville, Va. — Actions at Snake 
 Creek Gap and Buzziird's Roost. 
 
 May d. — Sheridan's raid toward Richmond 
 commenced as soon as Grant had taken his 
 position at Spottsylvania. He was sent by his 
 chief to cut off Lee's communications. He took 
 a large cavalry force and destroyed a portion of 
 the Virginia Central r;^iIroad, considerable roll- 
 ing stock, 1,500,000 rations and set free 400 
 Union prisoners en route to Libby prison. An 
 assault was made on the outer works about 
 Richmond. During the raid, the Union force 
 engaged the rebels at Beaver Dam Station, 
 South Anna Bridge, Ashland and Yellow 
 Tavern. The loss of the Federals was 50 killed, 
 174 wounded and 20<) missing : the rebels lost 
 heavily in killed, wounded and prisoners. The 
 confederate general, J. E. B. Stuart, was killed 
 and General Gordon was wotinded. — At Dalton 
 and at Varnell's Station, Ga., actions took place. 
 — The 6th Ohio and 1st New Jersey regiments 
 belonging to Sheridan's command, raid Childs- 
 bury, Va. — An action was commenced by the 
 10th and ISth Corps of the Army of the -James 
 at Arrowfield Church, or Swift Creek, which 
 continued tmtil the following day. The Union 
 loss was 90 killed and 400 wounded ; the reljel 
 loss was 500 killed and wounded. — On the 
 same day, the 12th, 23d, 34th and 36ih Ohio, 
 9th, 11th, 14th and 15th West Virginia Infantry 
 and 3d and 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, Army 
 of West Virginia, had a tight at Cloyd's 
 Mountain and New River Bridge, Va. Union 
 loss, 126 killed, 3S5 wounded: confederate loss 
 
1864 — MAY 10 — MAY 16—1864. 
 
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 600 killed and wounded and 300 missing. Tlie 
 action extended over two days. — Four infantry 
 and one regiment of mounted soldiers engaged 
 in a skirmish at Cove Mountain, Va. The 
 fighting occupied two days. — Skirmish at 
 Beaver Dam Station, Va. 
 
 May 10 Action at Ground Squirrel Church 
 
 Bridge, on the South Anna, Va. (Sheridan's 
 raid.]— Skirmish at Dardanelle, Ark., in which 
 tiie 6th Kansas Cavalry was engaged. — Move- 
 ments at Appomattox, Va., and New Btrne, N. C. 
 
 May 11. — At Ashland, Va., the 1st Massa- 
 chusetts Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — At 
 Yellow Tavern, Va., the 1st and 3d Divisions, 
 Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, made a 
 raid. (Sheridan's command.) 
 
 May- 12. — Battle of Fort Darling at Drury's 
 Bluff, Va. Butler was in command of the 10th 
 Corps under AV. F. Smith and the 18th under 
 Gilmore ; the comhined forces numbered 25,000 
 with 3,000 cavalry under Kautz and with this 
 force the fort was attacked ; it was the extreme 
 southern point of the defenses of Richmond, 
 and was held by Beauregard with 20,000 men. 
 The outer lines were carried and, after two 
 days' deliberation, Butler determined to make 
 a general assault on the fort on the morning of 
 the 16th. At midnight before, a fog arose and 
 the rebel chief quietly assembled his entire 
 command in the dense darkness and, before 
 dawn, made an assault on the sleeping Union 
 camps, moving his troops through a gap which 
 was guarded weakly by a small cavalry force. 
 Beauregard's plans were frustrated by the fog, 
 his generals failing to perform their alloted 
 work. However, Butler ordered a general 
 retreat. Beauregard attempted to follow, but 
 a heavy rain came on and, by nightfall of the 
 16th, was within his intrenchmente. The 
 Union loss was 422 killed, 2,580 wounded and 
 1,400 prisoners. The rebel loss was 400 killed, 
 2,000 wounded and 100 missing. While the 
 
 action at Fort Darling was in {)rogress and the 
 infantry engaged there, the cavalry of General 
 Kautz were doing effective service on the line 
 of the Richmond & Lynchburg railroad. — At 
 Meadow Bridge, Va., the 1st and 3d Divisions 
 of the cavalry corps belonging to Sheridan's 
 command made a dashing raid. 
 
 May 13.— The battle of Resaca, Ga. (See 
 previous date.) — At Pulaski, Tenn., the 11th 
 U. S. Colored Troopshad a skirmish. — AtTiltou, 
 Tenn., the 1st Division of Cavalry belonging to 
 the Army of the Cumberland had a sharp 
 skirmish with the rebels. — In an engagement 
 at Point Lookout, Va., a detachment of colored 
 troops and seamen from the flotilla of the " 
 Potomac engaged in a lively encounter with 
 the confederates. 
 
 May 14. — The troops belonging to Banks' 
 Red River expedition had an engagement at 
 Mansurara, La. The action occupied two days. 
 — At Rood's Hill, Va., a portion of the Army 
 of West Virginia engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 May 15. — Sigel and Breckenridge met at 
 Newmarket, Va., and the Union force was de- 
 feated, falling back and leaving behind the 
 trains and a hundred prisoners, 120 dead, 560 
 wounded and 240 missing ; the rebel loss was 
 85 killed and 320 wounded. — A skirmish took 
 place at Mount Pleasant Landing, in which the 
 Union loss was three killed and five wounded. 
 — At Tanner's Bridge, Ga., the L^uion force lost 
 two killed and 16 wounded.— At Ley's Feny, 
 Ga., part of the 16th Corps of Sherman's army 
 was in action. 
 
 May 16.— At Rome Cross Roads, Ga., the 16th 
 Corps of the Army of the Tennessee, belonging 
 to Sherman's command, had a tight. — At 
 Ashepoo River, S. C, the 34th U. S^ Colored 
 Troops engaged in a slight action. — At Pond 
 Creek, Ky., the 39th Kentucky Infantry en- 
 countered bushwackers.— At Clear Creek, Mo., 
 two companies of the 15'ih Kansas Cavalry 
 
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 1864— MAY 17 — MAY 24 — 1864. 
 
 fought guerrillas.— Tlie division of General 
 Tyler, 5th Corps, took position on the Freder- 
 icksburg road preparatory to taking part in the 
 battle at Spottsylvania Court House. — At Smoky 
 Hill, Col., one company of colored troops and a 
 Colorado baltery encountered bushwackers. — 
 At Belcher's MilLs, Va., the 3d New York, 5th 
 and 11th Pennsylvania and the 1st District of 
 Columbia Cavalry engaged in an action ; the 
 force belonged to the command of Kautz — 
 Hardee, commanding the confederates, attacked 
 the Union rear under Howard at Calhoun. — At 
 Adairsville, Jackson, a detacliment of the con- 
 federate cavalry of General Polk fought the 
 advance of the army of General Thomas under 
 Newton. 
 
 May 17. — The Armies of the Cumberland, 
 Ohio and Tennessee moved southward in the 
 third part of the plan of Shermau. The com- 
 mand of Jeff C. Davis captured eight guns 
 and valuable property of the confederates. — A 
 skirmish took place at Madison Station, Ala , 
 in which the 3d Division and 15th Corps of the 
 Army of the Tennessee engaged. — At Kings- 
 ton, Ga., the 2d Cavalry Division of the Army 
 of the Cumberland had a fight. — At Bayou de 
 Glaize, La., portions of the 16th and 17th In- 
 fantry Corps and cavalry belonging to the 19tli 
 Corps of the army under General Banks, had 
 an encounter with the rebels, whom they re- 
 jiulsed, inflicting a loss of 500 killed and 
 wounded, their own casualties amounting to 60 
 killed and 300 wounded. General Smith moved 
 his command to the rear and attacked, defeated 
 and pursued the rebels. The loss of the con- 
 federates in this action was 325 in killed and 
 wounded and 250 prisoners. 
 
 May 18. — The 1st Oregon Cavalry had a 
 skirmish at Crooked River, Oregon, with the 
 Indians. 
 
 May 19. — Skirmish at Fayetteville, Ark., in 
 which the 6th Kansas Cavalry were engaged. — 
 
 In a skirmish at Welaka and Saunders, Fla., a 
 dehichment of the 17th Connecticut Infantry 
 fought tlie rebels. — The action at Cassville, Ga., 
 begun, the 20th Corps, Army of the Cumber- 
 land, being engaged two days. 
 
 May 20.— At Downer's Bridge, Va., the 5th 
 New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — 
 At Milford Station, Va., the 1st Cavalry Division 
 of the Army of the Potomac made a raid. 
 
 May 21. — A skirmish, in which the 2d 
 Colorado Cavalry participated, occurred at 
 Snia's Hills, Mo. — At Mount Pleasant, Miss., 
 two soldiers of the 4th Missouri Cavalrj' were 
 killed in a skirmish. 
 
 May 22.— At Old River, La., the 6th Mis- 
 souri Cavalry engaged in a slight skirmish. — 
 On the Mattapony River, Va., activities were 
 progressing towards the finale of the plans of 
 Grant. 
 
 May 23. — The actions on the North Anna 
 River, including Jericho Ford, Taylor's Bridge 
 and Tolopotomy Creek, were participated in by 
 the 5th, 2d and 9th Corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac, commanded by General Meade. They 
 covered three days and involved a loss to the 
 Union force of 223 killed, 1,460 wounded and 
 290 missing. The loss to the rebels was 2,000 
 in killed and wounded. — At Horse Landing, 
 St. John's River, Fla., the steam tug Columbine 
 was captured by the rebels. The 35th U. S. 
 Colored Troops and the sailors on the tug were 
 engaged. 
 
 May 24. — In a skirmish at Holly Springs, 
 Miss., the 4th Missouri Cavalry was engaged. 
 At Kingston, Ga., the 50th Ohio and 14th 
 Kentucky Infantry with the 2d Kentucky 
 Cavalry, engaged in a lively skirmish, in which 
 the Union force lost one killed and two 
 wounded. — At Wilson's Wharf Landing, Va., 
 a well conducted skirmish took place, in which 
 the 1st D. C. Infantry and 10th U. S. Colored 
 Troops and Battery B, U. S. Colored Artillery, 
 
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 inflicted a loss on tbe confederates of 20 killed 
 and 100 wounded. — In a skirmish at Nashville, 
 Tenn., the Union loss to the 15th U. S. Colored 
 Troops amounted to four killed and eight 
 wounded. — At Sahine Pass, La., a slight skir- 
 mish took place. — The activity of the rebels at 
 Gaines' Cross Roads and Landing became 
 marked. — At Fort Powhatan, N. C, the colored 
 troops were assaulted by rebels and repulsed 
 tliem. 
 
 May 25. — The action at Dallas, Ga., com- 
 menced. — At Cassville Station, Ga., the 1st and 
 11th Kentucky Cavalry were engaged. 
 
 May 2G. — At Burned Church, Ga., the cav- 
 alry of the 1st Division of the Army of the 
 Cumberland fought with a detachment of the 
 rebels. — At Laue's Prairie, Mo., two comj^anies 
 of the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry had a skirmish. 
 — A torpedo explosion occurred on Bachelor's 
 Creek, N. C, in which the 132d and 158th 
 New York Infantry and 58th Pennsylvania 
 lost 35 killed and 19 wounded. — In a lively 
 fight at Decatur and Moulton, Ala., the 1st, 3d 
 and 4th Oliio Cavalry, 3d Brigade, 4th Divi- 
 sion, 16th Corps, were engaged, with a loss of 
 48 killed and wounded, the rebels losing 60 in 
 killed and wounded. The action included 
 several days. 
 
 May 27. — The movements of the Army of 
 the Potomac on this date are known to history 
 as the passage of the Pamunkey River. At 
 dark of the 26th, the withdrawal of the troops 
 to the North Anna commenced, and was effected 
 without the knowledge of the rebels. At nine 
 in the morning, General Sheridan reported 
 himself at Hanover Town. On the Hanover 
 Court House Road a rebel cavalry force was en- 
 countered and driven back to Crump's Creek, 
 five miles away. The road from Sheridan's 
 position was occupied by Union cavalry to 
 Atlee's Station and Richmond. At noon. Gen- 
 eral Russell reported his arrival at the south 
 
 side of the Pamunkey and, 24 hours later, the 
 6th Corps had crossed. The 2d Corps followed. 
 The 5th had crossed earlier and at midnight 
 the 9th Corps was in position. On the morn- 
 ing of that day a severe engagement was begun 
 at Hawes' Shop, and the fighting there was 
 continued until late in the evening, when Cus- 
 ter's brigade carried the intrenchments and 
 drove the rebels. A series of fights occurred 
 on the 28th, 29th 30th and 31st, in the attempt 
 of Grant to force the front lines of the rebels. 
 The loss was 1,607 in killed, wounded and 
 missing, that of the confederates being much 
 larger. Grant made a flank movement and, 
 on the 1st day of June, took possession of Cold 
 Harbor. — At San Carlos River, Cal., an engage- 
 ment took place, in which Company K, 5th 
 California Infantry was involved. 
 
 May 28 —At Little Rock, Ark., the 57th 
 U. S. Colored Troops had a skirmish.— At 
 Pleasant Hill, Mo., the 2d Colorado Cavalry 
 became involved in a slight skirmish. — At 
 Jacksonville, Fla., the 7th U. S. Colored Troops 
 were engaged.— The 1st, 3d and 4th Ohio 
 Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought 
 at Moulton, Ala. 
 
 May 29. — The action belonging to the cross- 
 ing of the Pamunkey River, known as Tolopo- 
 tomy Creek or Salem Church, was fought by 
 the 2d and 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
 and continued to the 31st of May. 
 
 May 30. — The 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac, fought at Hanover 
 Court House, Va. ; a skirmish also took place 
 at Ashland, Va., in which the same troops 
 under General Wilson were engaged. The loss 
 in both were 26 killed and 130 wounded. — At 
 Old Church, Va., the 1st Division of the Cav- 
 alry Corps, Army of the Potomac, had an en- 
 gagement. The command was under General 
 Torbett and the loss was 16 killed and 74 
 wounded.— At Dardanelle, Ark., a slight skir- 
 mish took place. 
 
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 1864— MAY 31— JUNE 9—1864. 
 
 May 31. — A convention of persons wlio be- 
 lieved the measures of the Administration too 
 lenient, was held at Cleveland, Ohio, and John 
 C. Fremont was nominated for President and 
 .John C. Cochrane for Vice President. Later, 
 the action was rescinded and adhesion to the 
 Administration of Lincoln and .Johnson was 
 advised. 
 
 June 1. — Grant's possession of Cold Harbor 
 cost 2,000 men. On this date the rebels made 
 two determined efforts to dislodge Sheridan's 
 troops, to meet with repulse and heavy loss. 
 Sharp fighting was maintained until the early 
 afternoon of the 3d, when the activities be- 
 longing properly to the battle of Cold Harbor 
 came to an end. The losses of the Army of 
 the Potomac were 1,905 killed, 10,570 wounded 
 and 2,456 missing. The confederate losses 
 were reported and estimated considerably less, 
 the holding of the place being accomplished at 
 heavy cost to the Union troops. Brigadier- 
 Generals Brooks and Byrnes were killed and 
 Tyler and Stannard wounded. — A slight skir- 
 mish occurred at Greentown, Mo. 
 
 June 2. — The 10th Corps, Army of the Po- 
 tomac, fought Longstreet's reserve at Bermuda 
 Hundred, sustaining a loss of 25 killed and 100 
 wounded. — The engagements on the Pamunkey 
 referred to above, took place at Gaines' Mills, 
 Salem Church and Hawes' Store, Va. The 
 cavalry of Sheridan was engaged. — At Ossabaw 
 Sound, Ga., an engagement of slight moment 
 took place. 
 
 June 3. — A detachment of the 3d Missouri 
 Cavalry had a skirmish at Searcey, Ark. — At 
 Panther and Buffalo Gap, W. Va., Hayes' 
 Brigade, 2d Division, Army of West Virginia, 
 had a sharp encounter with the rebels with a 
 loss of 25 killed and wounded to both. — At 
 Ackworth, Ga., the 2d Division of Cavalry, 
 Army of the Cumberland, belonging to Sher- 
 man's troops, were engaged. — A slight skirmish 
 occurred at Georgetown, Va. 
 
 Ji'NE 4. — Slight action at Jasper, Tenn. 
 
 June 5. — At Piedmont or Mount Crawford, 
 W. Va., the troops of General Hunter encoun- 
 tered General W. F. Jones and defeated him, 
 taking 1,500 prisoners and three guns. Hun- 
 ter lost 130 killed and G50 wounded. The 
 rebels lost 4G0 killed and 1,450 wounded, the 
 commander being among the former. 
 
 June 6. — Active operations were in progress 
 at Atlanta, on the Chattahoochie at Columbia, 
 Ark., and at Chicot Lake in that State. The 
 latter is variously known as Old River Lake, 
 Ditch Bayou, Columbia and Fish Bayou. The 
 16th Corps of Steele's command was involved 
 and the loss was 40 killed and 70 wounded. 
 The rebel loss was 100 killed and wounded. — 
 At Greenland Gap Road, near Moorefield, W. 
 Va., the 22d Pennsylvania Cavalry made a raid. 
 — Slight activities at Ackworth, Ga., and 
 Staunton, Va. 
 
 June 7. — National Republican Convention 
 was held at Baltimore, which took a decided 
 stand on the war question, strenuously oppos- 
 ing any comjiromise. Abraham Lincoln was 
 nominated for President and Andrew Johnson 
 for Vice President. — At Ripley, Miss., the cav- 
 alry of General Sturgis' command made an ad- 
 vance and had an engagement ; the skirmish- 
 ing in the expedition to Guntown connnenced 
 on the 5th of the month and lasted until the 
 10th. — Skirmish at Rienzi, Miss. 
 
 June 8. — At Lost Mountain, Ga., and Paris, 
 Ky., activities took place. 
 
 June 9. — Sherman moved from New Hope 
 Church to Ackworth and fortified and gar- 
 risoned Allatoona Pass, making it a base of 
 supplies. Johnston transferred his army in 
 accordance with the operations of the Union 
 force and intrenched. Meanwhile, Sherman 
 gave his attention to making ready for a pro- 
 tracted series of operations, receiving reinforce- 
 ments, collecting provisions and putting in 
 
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 order railroads and highways in readiness for 
 possible emergencies. The veterans and cav- 
 alry that made connection with his command 
 on the Sth, supplied his former losses and the 
 deficit made by soldiers left behind on garrison 
 dut}'. On the 9th he took position at Big 
 Slianty, half way between Ackworth and Ken- 
 esaw and, two days later, McPherson, Schofield 
 and Thomas, with their commands, were in 
 position for the fights which made the period 
 until the 30th famous. Sherman assaulted the 
 lines of the rebels in every manner known to 
 modern warfare. The fighting at the various 
 points is known to histoiy under the name of 
 Kenesaw Mountain, and included the engage- 
 ments which will be found on the dates on 
 whicli they occurred. The fighting was heavy 
 and, on the 14th, Pine Mountain was abandoned 
 by Johnston. The Union general pressed up to 
 the new position selected by the rebel com- 
 mander, Kenesaw being the poiiit d'avantage. 
 On the 22d, Hooker was suddenly attacked by 
 Hood near Gulp's House and at first was in the 
 lurch, being driven b}'^ the rebels. Soon, how- 
 ever, the Union lines rallied and Hood was 
 driven back in great confusion, leaving his dead 
 and wounded and losing many prisoners. On 
 the 24th the order was issued for the attack of 
 Kenesaw, which was carried into effect on the 
 27th. On that day Thomas and McPherson 
 made the assault in their fronts, after a period 
 of vigorous use of the heavy artillery. They 
 met with repulse with heavy loss and another 
 flank movement became a necessity. The en- 
 tire loss of the fighting of more than twenty 
 days, aggregated 1,370 killed, 6,500 wounded 
 and 800 missing, the rebels losing 1,100 killed 
 and 3,500 wounded and missing. Generals 
 Harker and Dan. McCook on the Union side 
 were killed, the rebels losing General (Bishop) 
 Leonidas Polk. — At Point of Rocks, Md., the 
 2d U. S. Colored Cavalry had a skirmish, in 
 
 which they lost two men killed. — At Mount 
 Sterling, Ky., Burbridge's Cavalry of the Divi- 
 sion of Kentucky engaged in a figlit in which 
 they lost 35 killed and 150 wounded ; the 
 rebels lost 50 killed and 200 wounded and 250 
 captured. — At La Fayette, Tenn., the 7th Kan- 
 sas Cavalry engaged in a skirmish of little ac- 
 count. 
 
 June 10.— Gen. S. D. Sturgis with 9,000 
 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, the latter com- 
 manded by Grierson, the former comprising 
 the bulk of the command of Gen. A. J. Smith, 
 advanced through West Tennessee, under 
 orders to find and disperse the force of Price. 
 They crossed into Northern Mississippi and en- 
 countered the rebels at Guntown on the Mobile 
 railroad, Grierson's cavalry meeting that of 
 Forrest, and the dauntless Union cavalry chief 
 pushed the cavalry of Forrest back upon his 
 infantr)-. Sturgis, with the infantry of the 
 Federal command, was some miles distant, but 
 hearing of Grierson's position, pushed forward 
 on the double quick. The excessive heat so 
 exhausted the troops that they were totally un- 
 fit for the business of precipitate action, and 
 defeat awaited them. They were routed and 
 their trains captured. Between three and four 
 thousand prisoners were taken by the rebels. 
 The action is also called Brice's Cross Roads. — 
 In a fight near Petersburg, Va., a portion of the 
 10th Corps and the cavalry force of Kautz were 
 engaged and lost 20 killed and 67 wounded. — 
 At Cynthiana and Kellar's Bridge, Ky., the 
 168th and 171st Ohio (100-day men) encoun- 
 tered the guerrillas under John Morgan and 
 suffered heavily, losing 21 killed and nearly a 
 thousand captured. — On this date occurred the 
 engagement at Old Church, Va., in which the 
 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Poto- 
 mac, were in action. Morgan raided Frankfort, 
 Ky., and was confronted by the enrolled militia 
 and citizens. — At Lexington, Va., on this and 
 
104 
 
 1864— JUNE 11— JUNE 15—1864. 
 
 the following day, the 2d Division of the Army 
 of AVest Virginia engaged in an indecisive ac- 
 tion, in which the Union loss was six killed and 
 18 wounded.— At Cane Creek, Ala., the 106th 
 Ohio Infantry skirmished with guerrillas.— At 
 Lexington, Ky., the 4th Kentucky Cavalry 
 skirmished without decisive results.— At Prince- 
 ton, Ky., an action took place.— The 2d New 
 .Jersey Cavalry fought at Corinth during the 
 ( luntown expedition. 
 
 June U. — Another action took place at 
 ('ynthiana, Ky., in which the cavalry of the 
 Division of Kentucky had a skirmish with 
 Morgan's force. They captured 400 of the 
 raiders and killed and disabled 300 more, losing 
 150.— At Wilson's Landmg, Va., the 1st U. S. 
 Colored Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — At 
 Ripley, Miss., the 3d and 4th Iowa, 2d New 
 .Jersey and 4th Missouri Cavalry have a lively 
 engagement during the Guntown expedition. — 
 At Trevillian Station, Central R. R., Va., the 
 1st and 2d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of 
 the Potomac had an engagement, in which 8.5 
 were killed, 490 wounded and IGO missing; 
 rebel loss was 370 missing. Two days were 
 consumed in this action. 
 
 June 12. — The heaviest part of the action 
 mentioned on the 11th occurred on this date. — 
 At McAfee's Cross Roads, the cavalry belonging 
 to the command of Sherman, (Army of the 
 Cumberland) engaged in a fight. — At Kings- 
 villc. Mo., a scouting detail from the 1st Mis- 
 souri Militia Cavalry encountered the rebels. — 
 Activities at Gordonsville, Va. 
 
 June 13.— At White Oak Swamp Bridge, the 
 cavalry connected with the commands of Gen- 
 erals Wilson and Crawford engaged in a heavy 
 skirmish, losing 50 killed and 250 wounded. — 
 At White Post, W. V., the 6th West Virginia 
 Cavalry had a slight engagement.— An en- 
 counter between Union soldiers aud rebels took 
 place at Wilcox' Landing, N. C. 
 
 June 14. — Pine Mountain fight during the 
 general engagement at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. 
 — At Lexington, Mo., a detachment of the 1st 
 Missouri Militia Cavalry engaged a small rebel 
 force and lost eight men in killed and one 
 wounded. — At Buchanan, near Lexington, Va., 
 the Army of West Virginia made an advance. 
 
 June 15. — The cavalry force of General Wil- 
 son encountered the rebels in aheavy skn-mish 
 at Samaria Church and Malvern Hill, Va. The 
 killed were 25 and the wounded three in num- 
 ber; the rebels lost 100 killed and wounded. — 
 At Moscow, Tenn., in an engagement between 
 the 55th U. S. Colored Troops and the rebel 
 guerrillas, the loss was insignifioant. — Com- 
 mencement of activities preparatory to the siege 
 of Petersburg, Va. The feasibility of the cap- 
 ture of the city was not apprehended until the 
 opportunit}' had ])assed and it became evident 
 that it was, practically, the key to the advance 
 on Richmond. On the 15th, matters approached 
 a focus at that place and battle was in fierce 
 progress on the next day. Disaster waited on 
 the rebel arms and, on that day, the work of 
 taking the city seems to have been assured if 
 the correct view of aff'airs had been taken. But 
 by nooTi of the next day the rebels were again 
 on the defensive and the fighting throughout 
 that day was indecisive, and resulted only in 
 the inauguration of the siege which was not 
 terminated until April 2d, 1865. When the 
 fighting was renewed by the Union troops on 
 the IStli, it was found that the rebels were in an 
 impregnable position for the nonce. The troops 
 engaged in the three days' encounters included 
 the lOtli and 18th Corps, Army of the .James 
 under Butler, the 2d, 5th, 6th and 9th Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac commanded by Meade. 
 The loss in killed was 1,298, wounded 7,474 and 
 1,814 missing. Baylor's Farm, Va., was in- 
 cluded in the above action on the 15th. — At 
 Tunica, on the Red River, the troops of Banks' 
 
1864 -JUNE 16— JUNL 19 — 1864. 
 
 105 
 
 expedition had a skirmish witli tlie rebels on 
 the banks of the river. 
 
 June 16. — At Otter Creek, Va., the troops of 
 Hunter's comnumd, Army of We.?t Virginia, 
 skirmished with guerrillas and lost three killed 
 and 15 wounded. — At Wier Bottom Creek, Va., 
 (Siege of Petersburg,) the 2d Division, 10th 
 Corps, Army of the James, engaged in one of 
 tlie fights included in one of the actions out- 
 lined above. — At Golgotiia, Ga., the 2d Corps of 
 Sherman's army had a fight.— Walthal, Va., 
 was the scene of one of the engagements before 
 Petersburg in which the 1st Division of the 
 10th Corps was engaged. — At Pierson's Farm 
 the 36th U.'S. Colored Troops fought the rebels. 
 
 June 17. — Lynchburg, Va. Hunter had been 
 reinforced by Crook's division of infantry and 
 Averill's cavalry, making his command 18,000 
 strong, with 30 guns. He pressed towards 
 Lynchburg, destroying Staunton and the fac- 
 tories of the rebels and helping himself to such 
 supplies as his troops needed. It is said that 
 the troops waded in tobacco that was ruth- 
 lessly scattered in the streets. The Virginia 
 Central railway was destroyed for several miles 
 and the railroad shojis and supplies burned, 
 the culverts and bridges being ruined beyond 
 repair. On the 12th, Crook's advance met and 
 repulsed McCausland's forces; Hunter took 
 possession of the town. At Waynesboro, 
 Duffie's cavalry tested the mettle and position 
 of the rebels and moved by a different route. 
 They broke the railroad at Amherst Court 
 House and repulsed Imboden, who followed. 
 The rebel cavalry lost about 100 prisoners, in- 
 cluding 17 officers; 400 horses were taken and 
 two iron furnaces, and large quantities of com- 
 missary stores were destroyed and a part of 
 Imboden's train, which was returning by White 
 (xap. The loss of Duffie was not serious. The 
 delay saved Lynchburg, which had been 
 reached and its outposts taken on the 17th by 
 
 Cook and Averill. Early's infantry made a 
 sally to meet the attack but was driven back, 
 the Union soldiers showing conspicuous bravery, 
 the 116th Ohio planting their colors on the 
 breastworks of Early. Hunter became assured 
 that Lynchburg was invulnerable and, at night, 
 of the 17th, withdrew. The Union loss was 
 100 killed, 500 wounded ; the rebels lost 200 in 
 killed and w'ounded. — At Nose Creek, Ga., an 
 action took place. — At Quaker Church, Va., a 
 slight engagement occurred. 
 
 June 18.— An action took place at Bards- 
 town, Ky. 
 
 June 19. — During the battle known as Kene- 
 saw Mountain, a fight took place at Pine Knob. 
 — The capture of the Alabama at Cherbourg, 
 France. The rebel war steamer arrived in 
 French waters eight days before. Three days 
 later, the Kearsarge entered the bay. Semmes, 
 the commander, decided on a fight and, on the 
 morning of the 19th, took a position at the limit 
 of neutral waters, escorted by the iron clad 
 Couronne, a French vessel. The Deerhound, 
 an English yacht, was at hand to see the sport. 
 When the Kearsarge had passed a distance of 
 seven miles she turned to give battle and 
 steamed straight for the Alabama. Within a 
 mile, the latter opened fire on the Kearsarge, 
 which sheered around and gave a broadside 
 with great effect. The steamers made a series 
 of concentric circles, the Kearsarge endeavoring 
 to prevent this course in vain. At the seventh 
 revolution, the Alabama, perceiving the hope- 
 lessness of her case, headed for the shore, five 
 miles away. Two miles would bring her within 
 French waters but the attempt was too late. 
 She became disabled, the Kearsarge taking a 
 raking position and firing across her bows and 
 Semmes run up the white flag. A small boat 
 containing an officer came alongside the Kear- 
 sarge and stated that she surrendered and -was 
 fast sinking. The boats of the conqueror were 
 
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 1864— JUNE 20 — JUNE 22 — 1864. 
 
 lowered to save the enemy's men from drown- 
 ing, and Captain Winslow requested llie com- 
 mander of tlie Deerhound, which approaclied, 
 to aid in the rescue. The men and ofhcers of 
 the Alabama took to the water and 40, in- 
 cluding Semnies, were j)icked uj) by the Deer- 
 hound, which steamed for Cheibourg and her 
 passengers e.scaped cajiture through the clem- 
 ency of Winslow. The latter took 70 prisoneis 
 and had the satisfaction and honor of ridding 
 the eai'th of a rebel privateer which had been 
 the terror of the American shipping for a long 
 period. The lo.ss in killed and wounded on 
 the Kearsaige was three; that of the Alabama 
 included nine killed and 21 wounded. 
 
 June 20. — The fighting in front of Peters- 
 burg, \'a., was continued without accomplish- 
 ing determinate results. From the 18th, when 
 the siege proper began, to the 20th, the loss of 
 the Federal forces before the city amounted to 
 112 killed and 506 wounded, Generals Cham- 
 berlain and Egan being among the latter. The 
 number of missing was 800 in round numbers. 
 — General Abercrombie of the Army of the 
 Potomac was attacked by a purlion of the force 
 of General Wade Hanijiton, and the affair was 
 terminated by the arrival of General Sheridan. 
 The attacks were made in the vicinity of White 
 House and continued until the 24th. — At Lib- 
 erty, Va., tlie 2d Division of Cavalry, Army of 
 West Virginia, were engaged. — At Powder 
 Spring, Ga., the cavalry of the Army of the 
 Cumberland fought one of the engagements 
 mentioned in the account of the march of 
 Sherman above. — At Lattamore's Mills, Ga., 
 the cavalry mentioned had another encounter 
 in the same campaign, or Kenesaw Mountain. 
 
 June 21. — At Salem, Va., the 2d Division of 
 Cavalry, Army of West Virginia, commanded 
 by Averill, encountered the rebels, sustaining a 
 loss of six killed and 10 wounded. The con- 
 federate loss was 10 killed and wounded. — On 
 
 the .James River at Dutch Gap, a naval engage- 
 ment occurred in the neigiiborbood of the 
 canal. — At Buford's Gap, Va , the 23d Ohio 
 Infentry had a skirmish with a loss of 15 killed. 
 — At White House Landing, Va., portions of 
 the 1st and 2d Divisions, Cavalry Corps, Army 
 of the Potomac, drove the rebels, wiio were at- 
 tacking the position of Abercrombie. — At Pine 
 Bluff, Ark., the 27th Wisconsin, belonging to 
 General Steele's force, had a lively skirmish. — 
 Skirmishes at Aiken's Landing, S. C, Kingston, 
 N. C, Davis' Farm, Va. — Lincoln visited the 
 army and the situation was discussed ijetween 
 him. General Butler and General Grant. 
 
 June 22. — The movements against the \'ir- 
 ginia railroads were put in progress. The 6lh 
 and 2d Corps started for the line of the Weldon 
 railroad, and the forces of General Barlow were 
 attacked by the rebels who inflicted ruinous 
 results. The fight continued through the day, 
 a large number of Union soldiers was killed 
 and wounded, and 2,000 jirisoners were taken 
 by the rebels. The corps rallied and made an- 
 other attempt to accomplish effective work on 
 the 23d. Meanwhile, Sheridan's cavalry was 
 assailed at White House, fifty miles away, and 
 narrowly escaped destruction. On the 25th he 
 succeeded in crossing the James with an enor- 
 ' mous wagon train, the rebels worrying the rear 
 of the command. The fighting was urgent 
 during the passage from the Pamunkey, but 
 Sheridan preserved his trains. — The cavalry of 
 Wilson and Kautz started at two o'clock on the 
 morning of the 22d for the Danville railroad. 
 They struck the Weldon at Ream's Station, 
 which they destroyed and did other mischief. 
 They swept across to the Lynchburg road and 
 commenced tearing up the track at Suther- 
 land's Station, and destroyed the track to Ford's 
 Station, a distance of 22 miles, burning loco- 
 motives and depots. On the 23d, Kautz started 
 for Burksville, the intersection of the Rich- 
 
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 JUNE 23- 
 
 JUNE 29—1864. 
 
 107 
 
 mond & Dauville and Petersburg* Lyncliburg 
 railroads. At tliat point lie destroyed depot 
 and cars and commenced tearing up the track. 
 In the afternoon he was attacked by a rebel 
 force and at night the rebels retired. On the 
 24th, AVilson and Kautz started for Meherrin 
 on the Danville road, the troops of Wilson 
 crossing the country and those of Kautz follow- 
 ing the track of the railroad. From Meherrin 
 they went to Keysville, destroying the road and 
 stock as they advanced. At Staunton they 
 were interrupted in their devastating progress 
 by a strong rebel force and failed to destroy 
 the bridge. They set out on their return, an- 
 noyed by attacking forces of rebels at various 
 points. At Stony Creek the confederates op- 
 posed them in great numbers, and in the night 
 Kautz started for Ream's Station to find it in 
 the possession of the rebels. Wilson soon 
 joined him, but their combined forces only en- 
 countered disaster. In disordered condition 
 the troops of Kautz started for their old camps 
 which they reached on the 30th, exhausted 
 and worn out, many sleeping in their saddles. 
 Wilson arrived at the Union lines on the 1st 
 of .July in no better condition than his col- 
 league. Notwithstanding the terrible cost of 
 the destruction of the railroads, it accomplished 
 the pur]iose sought. Grant's report very sin- 
 gularly omitted mention of this attempt on the 
 Weldon railroad mentioned in the first part of 
 this section under the same date. The loss to 
 the Army of the Potomac was reported to an 
 early historian as 5,316 in 10 days from the 
 20th to the 30th of July, but it is not certain 
 whether this includes the cavalry losses, there 
 being no battles, but rather heavy skirmishing. 
 It has been estimated that the losses in the 
 several cavalry raids on the roads and the en- 
 counters with the rebels aggregated about 3,000. 
 — At White River, Ark., three companies of 
 the 12th Iowa Infantry, aided by the gunboat 
 
 Lexington, skirmished with the rebels and lott 
 two killed and four wounded, the rebel loss 
 being about the same.— The action at Gulp's 
 House (Kenesaw Mountain) took place on this 
 day.— At St. Mary's River, Fla., a slight skir- 
 mish occurred. 
 
 June 23.— At .Jones' Bridge, Va , the 1st and 
 2d Divisions, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Po- 
 tomac, and 2Sth U. S. Colored Troops were at- 
 tacked by the rebels, the same action including 
 that at Samaria Church, and occupying two 
 days. The Union loss was 54 killed and 235 
 wounded. The rebels lost 250 killed and 
 wounded.— Wilson's raid at Nottaway C. H. — 
 At Collinsville, Miss., a train on the Charleston 
 & Mississippi Railroad was attacked by bush- 
 whackers.— At La Fayette, Tenn., an action of 
 little importance occurred. 
 
 June 24. — At White River, Ark., the steamer 
 Queen City and gunboats had an engagement 
 with the rebels. The steamer was captured 
 first and blown up. The tinclads Tyler and 
 Naumkeag and unarmored boat Fawn followed 
 with a deliberate attack and drove the rebels 
 from their position.— An action at Staunton 
 Bridge, Wilson's raid. 
 
 June 25. — The 11th Missouri, 9th Iowa and 
 3d Michigan Cavalry, the 126th Illinois In- 
 fantry and Battery D, 2d Missouri Artillery, 
 engaged with the rebels at Clarendon on the 
 St. Charles River, Ark. The loss to the Union 
 troops was about 200 ; that of the rebels being 
 the same in missing.— At Point Pleasant, La., 
 the 64th U. S. Colored Troops had an action of 
 little importance. 
 
 June 27. — General assault at Kenesaw 
 Mountain.— At Charleston, W. Va., the 1st 
 Division of the Army of West Virginia fought 
 the rebels. 
 
 June 28. — At Stony Creek, Va., Wilson's raid. 
 
 June 29. — Ream's Station, Va., Wilson's raid. 
 —Action at Lafayette, Ga., in which the 4th 
 and 6th Kentucky Cavalry engaged. 
 
108 
 
 1864— JULY 1— JULY 7—1864. 
 
 JiLY 1. — Action at Seabrcok Isliuid, S. C. 
 
 Jui.Y 2. — A skinnisli took ])la<.'e at Pine Bluff, 
 Ark., in which the 64th U. S. Colored Troops 
 were engaged with a loss of six killed. — A sharp 
 engagement occurred on James' Island at Fort 
 .Tohnston, in which the troops of the Depart- 
 ment of the South suffered a loss of 19 killed, 
 97 wounded and 135 missing. — The 3d Iowa 
 Cavalry became involveil in a skirmish at 
 Salisbury, Miss. — At Nickajack Creek, Ga., 
 Sherman's troops engaged the rebels and sus- 
 tained a loss of 60 killed and 310 wounded, the 
 rebel loss being 100 killed and wounded; the 
 action covered about three days; the regiments 
 of the Armies of the Cumberland and the Ten- 
 nessee were involved. — At White Point a slight 
 action occurred. 
 
 July 3. — In an expedition from Vicksburg 
 to Jackson, Miss., which included six days, tlie 
 1st Division of the 17th Army Corps was 
 engaged in several skirmishes in which the 
 aggregate Union loss was 150 wounded, and 
 the rebel loss was 200 wounded. — The 10th 
 West Virginia and 1st New York Cavalry 
 engaged with the rebels at Leetown, Va., re- 
 sulting in a loss of three Union soldiers killed 
 and 12 wounded. — At Ilammack's Mills, W. 
 Va., a detail from the 153d Ohio National 
 Guard lost three killed and seven wounded in 
 a rebel attack. — Skirmishes, etc., at Platte City, 
 Mo., Martinsburg and Wincliester, Va. 
 
 July 4. — At Searcy, Ark., a detachment of 
 Arkansas cavalry engaged in a raid. — At Vicks- 
 burg, Miss., a regiment of colored troops sus- 
 tained a loss of one killed and seven wounded 
 in a skirmish. — Skirmishes, etc., in Clay county, 
 Mo., and Point of Rocks, Md.— The 2d Wis- 
 consin Cavalry encountered the rebels at 
 Clinton, Miss., while en route to Jackson. — In 
 an action near Port Gibson, Miss., two regi- 
 ments of Union soldiers lost six killed and 18 
 wounded. — At Bolivar and Maryland Heights, 
 
 Va., the troops under General Sigel commenced 
 an action which included three days with a 
 loss of 20 killed and SO wounded. 
 
 July 5. — The advance of General A. J. 
 Smith against Forrest at Tupelo commenced, 
 the Union force leaving La Cirange, Tenn., and 
 marching to the place where the rebels were 
 concentrated and Forrest was defeated with a 
 loss to the L'nion forces of 85 killed and 567 
 wounded; the confederate loss was 110 killed 
 and 600 wounded. — The troops of General 
 Foster fought the rebels at John's Island with 
 a loss of 16 killed and 82 wounded ; rebel loss, 
 20 killed and 30 wounded. — In a .skirmish at 
 Hagerstown, Md., two Union soldiers were 
 killed and six wounded. — Slight affair at 
 Mechauicstown, Md. — The 2d Wisconsin, 5th 
 and 11th Illinois Cavalry with three Illinois 
 infantry regiments and a colored cavalry regi- 
 ment set out on an expedition to Jackson, Miss. 
 — Tlie 2d Colorado Cavalry engaged in an 
 action on the Little Blue River, Mo., and lost 
 eight killed and one wounded. — At Mount Zion 
 Church, Va., the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry 
 had an engagement of slight importance. — The 
 Armies of the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland 
 prepared to move across the Chattahoochie 
 River. 
 
 July 7. — At the mouth of Soap Creek, Gen- 
 eral Schofield, commanding the Army of the 
 Ohio, surprised the confederate guard ; Gar- 
 rard's cavalry moved to Rosswell and destroj'ed 
 factories engaged in maimfacturing cloth for 
 the rebel armies; an infantry division from the 
 command of Thomas moved to his su])port at a 
 ford and the entire command of McPher.'^on 
 took position; Howard's corps constructed a 
 bridge at Power's Ferry and moved to a posi- 
 tion on the right of Schotield ; in these move- 
 ments, during which Johnston crossed the river 
 and took his position at Peach Tree Creek and 
 on the river, covering Atlanta, the loss to the 
 
1864— JULY 8— JULY 17—1864. 
 
 109 
 
 Union force was 80 killed and 450 wounded. — 
 In a skirmish at Solomon's Gap and Middle- 
 ton, Md., the Union troops lost five killed and 
 20 wounded. — Skirmishes and other activities 
 occurred at Ilager's Mountain, Md., Clinton 
 and Ripley, Miss., and Harper's Ferry, Md. 
 
 July 8. — An unimportant affair occurred at 
 Parkersville, ^"a. 
 
 July 9. — Early's raid. — General Wallace se- 
 lected a position at Monocacy, Md., to check the 
 operations of the restless rehel who attacked 
 and defeated the Union force ; troops from 
 Pennsylvania and New York, convalescent 
 veterans from the hospitals at Washington and 
 Smith's corps from the Ai'my of the Potomac 
 moved to the defense of Washington and Early 
 retreated after having inflicted a loss of 90 
 killed, 579 wounded and the loss of a consider- 
 able quantity of supplies which he captured ; 
 the loss in killed and wounded of the rebels 
 was 400. — During this movement slight skir- 
 mishes took place at Rockville, Darnestowu, 
 Reistertown and Cockeysville, Md. 
 
 July 11. — Rousseau's raid in Alabama and 
 Georgia. — The movement of Johnston across 
 the Chattahoochie caused the despatching of 
 Rousseau with a cavalry force and two pieces of 
 artillery from Decatur, Ala., and a part of the 
 command crossed the Coosa July 13th and 
 were attacked at Stone's Ferry by General 
 Clayton, commanding a force of rebel cavaliy; 
 they were routed and the Union troops pro- 
 ceeded to Selma, where they dispersed a camp 
 of 700 rebel conscripts and moved on to the 
 West Point railroad at Chewa Station where 
 Clayton was again encountered and driven with 
 a loss of 40 killed and a large number of 
 wounded ; great quantities of supplies were 
 captured and the railroad destroyed. — Rousseau 
 arrived at Marietta July 22d, having destroyed 
 25 miles of railroad; he brought in 400 mules 
 and 300 horses and sustained a loss through- 
 
 out of 12 killed and 30 wounded.— At Tenally- 
 town near Washington, during Early's retreat, 
 a slight skirmish took place. — A slight action 
 took place at Magnolia, Miss.— At Pontotoc, 
 Miss., in the expedition to Tupelo, the 8th 
 Wisconsin, 5th Minnesota and the Uth Mis- 
 souri Infantry with the 2d Iowa Cavalry, had 
 an encounter with the rebels. 
 
 July 12. — Early made a threatening move- 
 ment on Fort Stevens, a remote fortification be- 
 longing to the defenses of Washington, and was 
 driven by a brigade of the 6th Corps after a hot 
 engagement, in which the Union loss was 54 
 killed and 319 wounded. — At Petit .Jean, Ark., 
 a company of Arkansas cavalry have a slight 
 action.— At Lee's Mills, Va., a detachment from 
 the Army of the Potomac encountered the 
 rebels, sustained a loss of three killed and 13 
 wounded and inflicted on the rebels a loss of 25 
 killed and wounded. 
 
 July 13. — In the Tupelo expedition, the 
 forces of Smith engaged in a sharp action at 
 Harrisburg, Miss. 
 
 July 14. — In Rousseau's raid on the Coosa 
 River, Ala., the 8th Indiana and the 5th Ohio 
 Cavalry encountered the rebels under Clayton. 
 — In a skirmish at Ozark, Mo., the 14th Kansas 
 Cavalry sustained a loss of two men killed and 
 one wounded. — At Farr's Mills, Ark., the 4th 
 Arkansas Cavalry engaged in an action. 
 
 July 15. — At Stone's Ferry on the Talla- 
 poosa River, Ala., the rebels contested the 
 crossing of Rousseau's troops. — An engagement 
 connected with the Tupelo expedition took 
 place at Oldtown Creek, Miss. 
 
 July 16. — At Grand Gulf on the Mississippi 
 River the 72d and TGth Illinois Infantry, 2d 
 Wisconsin Cavalry and 53d U. S. Colored 
 Troops were attacked by the rebels on their 
 way to Texas ; the action covered two days. 
 
 July 17. — At Fredericksburg, Mo., the 2d 
 Colorado Cavalry encountered the rebels. 
 
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 1864— JULY 18— JULY 22 — 1864. 
 
 July 18. — Battle at Windiester, Va. Gen- 
 eral Early attacked the thiioii troops under 
 Torbett, stationed to cover the withdrawal of 
 Sheridan, who did not con.sider the position at 
 Winchester defensible and who deemed it wisest 
 to move his command back to Berryville ; 
 Torbett held his troops until the withdrawal 
 was accomplished, losing [)~ in killed and 
 wounded from his infantry force, witli 200 
 prisoners, and also sustained a loss of 50 cav- 
 alry. — At Auburn, Ga., the !Hh Ohio and 4th 
 Tennessee Cavalry have a skirmish. — In the 
 action at Chewa Station the 8th Indiana, 5th 
 Iowa and 4th Tennessee Givalry engaged in an 
 action which has been mentioned above in 
 connection with Rousseau's raid. — During 
 Early's retreat the actions already mentioned 
 — Snicker's Ferry, Island Ford on the Shenan- 
 doah River, Va. — occurred on tliis date. — The 
 cavalry of the Army of West Virginia forced 
 their way through Ashby's Gap. 
 
 July 19. — Action at Darkesville, Va. Union 
 loss 37 killed and 175 wounded. 
 
 July 20.— Battle of Peach Tree Creek. The 
 rebel army was posted on the west bank of 
 Peach Tree Creek, their line extending from 
 Turner's Ferry to the Augusta road ; the com- 
 mand had been turned over three days previ- 
 ous to Hood by General Johneton-mider orders 
 from the confederate Secretary of State, by 
 whom he was relieved of his command because 
 he had failed to check the progress of Sher- 
 man's army. Johnston remained with Hood 
 at headquarters and explained his plans for 
 the defense of Atlanta, until the afternoon of 
 the 18th. On that day, McPherson reached 
 a point seven miles east of Decatur and de- 
 stroyed four miles of railroad; Schofield ar- 
 rived at Decatur the same day, and Thomas 
 constructed bridges over Peach Tree Creek and 
 moved his troops across in the face of the 
 enemy. Hood ordered an attack on the lines 
 
 of Thomas .July 20th, and, after a stubborn 
 contest, withdrew his troops, sustaining a loss 
 of 1,113 killed, 2,-500 wounded and 1,183 miss- 
 ing, most of whom were prisoners ; the lose to 
 tlie Army of the Cumberland formed an ag- 
 gregate of l.GOO killed and wounded.— Slight 
 action at Gonzales, Tex. 
 
 July 21. — Construction of tlie pontoon 
 bridges at Deep Bottom, Va., by the command 
 of Butler. — Unimportant skirmish at Hender- 
 son, Ky. 
 
 July 22.— Battle of .\tlanta. Hood's attack 
 On the Army of the Tennessee under McPher- 
 son. General Hood was a fighter and not a 
 strategist; his attack on the Army of the Cum- 
 berland having failed, the movement of the 
 Army of the Tennessee to the right of his po- 
 sition would necessitate the evacuation of At- 
 lanta if not checked, and Hood abandoned the 
 position to which he had withdrawn after the 
 battle of Peach Tree Creek, and on li)e night of 
 the 21st, he pushed his lines close to Atlanta. 
 The movements of McPherson at the same 
 time, and the fact that Blair had pushed for- 
 ward and taken a commanding position within 
 two miles of Atlanta, gave the Federal army 
 an advantage, which was increased by the 
 strengthening and contracting of Sherman's 
 entire force, and the battle of Atlanta followed, 
 the rebels being driven from the field with 
 great slaughter, the general fighting by the 
 Federal forces being rendered mostettective by 
 the enlilading fire from the Ijatteries from 
 Schofield's command, which poured continu- 
 ously upon the rebels until they retired. Tlie 
 cavalry under Garrard had been employed in 
 the destruction of the Augusta railroad west of 
 Atlanta, and this movement, coupled with that 
 of Rousseau on the West Point railroad, left to 
 the rebels but one line of communication — the 
 Macon railroad. To reach this, Sherman 
 transferred his army to the west of Atlanta. 
 
1864— JULY 23— JULY 27—1864. 
 
 HI 
 
 The reports of the commanding general of the 
 battle of July 22c), give the aggregate of 
 killed and wounded and prisoners at 3,722, and 
 estimates the rebel loss at 8,000. ]\IcPherson 
 was killed. — The (ith U. S. Colored Artillery 
 encounter the rebels at Vidalia, La. 
 
 July 23. — General Crook, in command at 
 Harper's Ferry, moved up the valley with a 
 small force and encountered Earlj' at Kerns- 
 town, sustaining defeat and being driven back 
 to Martinsburg with a loss of 1,200 in killed 
 and wounded, the aggregate rebel loss being 
 600. The action included two days. 
 
 July 24. — At Carrolton Landing, Caroline 
 Bend, Miss., the 6th Michigan Artillery, on 
 board the Clara Belle, had an encounter with 
 the rebels on the shore. 
 
 July 25.— At Cortland, Ala., the 18th Mich- 
 igan and 32d Wisconsin Infantrj' engaged in 
 a continuous skirmish with the rebels, who 
 had attacked a wagon train, and gave them a 
 successful thrashing, foiling all their efibrts to 
 capture the supplies. 
 
 July 26. — In a fight at Wallace's Ferry on 
 Big Creek, Ark., the 15th Illinois Cavalry and a 
 company of colored artillery, and the 60th and 
 56th U. S. Colored Infantry, engaged in a 
 sharp action, losing 16 killed and 32 wounded, 
 the rebel loss being 150 killed and wounded. — 
 At Des Arc, Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry 
 had a slight skirmish. — At Haxall's Landing, 
 Va., Early's cavalry and a small force of Union 
 cavalry met in an unimportant scrimmage. — 
 The 25th Mounted Ohio Infantry sustained a 
 rebel attack at St. Mary's Trestle, Fla.— Stone- 
 man's raid. General Stoneman, in command 
 of 5,000 cavalry, and General E. M. McCook, in 
 command of 4,000 cavalry, commenced the 
 movement known to history under the caption 
 which has been given. The two cavalry com- 
 manders, moving respectively to the left and 
 right, were under orders from General Sherman 
 
 to meet on the night of July 28th, on the Ma- 
 con railroad, near Lovejoy Station, a consider- 
 able distance south of Atlanta, and eflerlually 
 destroy the railroad, which, it has been stated 
 already, was the only line of rebel communi- 
 cation. McCook moved down the west bank of 
 the Chattahoochie to a location near River- 
 town, crossed the river and destroyed a portion 
 of the West Point railway, and, at Fayttteville, 
 destroyed a large rebel wagon train, and after- 
 wards accomplished much destruction at Love- 
 joy's; Stoneman disregarded all instructions, 
 ignored the main purpose of his movement, 
 and did not effect the junction with McCook. 
 He was surrounded by the rebels under Iver- 
 son, and, despatching a large portion of his 
 command, (a part of which returned to Sher- 
 man) he surrendered with the small force he 
 had retained. No advantage was gained. 
 Stoneman had asked permission to press on to 
 Macon and Anderson ville and release the Union 
 prisoners there held. He reached Macon but 
 made no attempt on the town, and, although 
 some damage was done to the railroad, it was 
 not sutliciently effective to cut off the rebel 
 communication. McCook succeeded in extri- 
 cating himself, but lost about 500 of his force. 
 The 1st Wisconsin, 6th and Sth Iowa and 2d 
 and 8th Indiana, were incorporated in McCook's 
 command in his raid to Lovejoy Station. 
 
 July 27. — At Mazzard Prairie, Fort Smith, 
 Ark., 200 soldiers of the 6th Kansas Cavalry 
 were attacked by a greatly superior force ; the 
 rebels killed 12, wounded 17 and captured 150 
 Union soldiers, and sustained a loss of 12 killed 
 and wounded. — The Army of the James began 
 the passage of the river Deep Bottom and 
 drove the rebels from Bailey's Creek and also 
 captured a rebel battery on the Newmarket 
 Road. Sheridan encountered Kershaw's cav- 
 alry and fought him with a dismounted force. 
 — The aggressive movements of the Union 
 
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 1864— JULY 28— JULY 30—1864, 
 
 forces at the points nanud and at Malvern 
 Hill, convinced Lee that Richmond was the 
 objective point of the Federal movements. — 
 The colored troops in Florida at Whiteside, 
 Black Creek, sustained a rel)el assault. 
 
 July 28. — Hood's attack on Sherman's 
 tronjis at Ezra Church, Ga. On the 27th of 
 July, the Arni}- of the Tennessee was trans- 
 ferred to a position in which it prolonged the 
 Federal lines, and on the morning of the 28th 
 firing commenced from the rebel position. 
 About noon an attack was made on the- corps 
 of Logan by the rebels under General Cheat- 
 ham, who rejieated their assaults until late in 
 the afternoon, each of them being repulsed 
 with great loss to the rebels ; Logan's loss was 
 less than 700 ; Cheatham abandoned the field, 
 leaving 642 killed and 1,000 of his men were 
 missing and prisoners; he had 3,000 wounded 
 men to look after. — Several regiments of Min- 
 nesota, Iowa and Dakota troops had a sharp 
 tight with the Indians at Tah-kah-o-kuty, Dak. 
 Ter. — At Atchafalaya River, a portion of the 
 19th Corps have an engagement. — At West 
 Point, Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry had a 
 skirmish with the rebels. — At Campbelltown, 
 Ga., a portion of McCook's cavalry, while re- 
 tracing their route after their encounter at 
 Lovejoy's with the rebels, engaged in a success- 
 ful skirmish with a rebel cavalry force. — At 
 Flat Shoals, Ga., a detachment of Garrard's 
 cavalry in Stoneman's raid engaged in a skir- 
 mish. — Unimportant affaiis at Chambersburg, 
 Pa., and Four-Mile Creek, Va., and at Palmetto 
 Station, Ga. (On this date the continuous siege 
 of the city of Atlanta, lasting until Sept. 22d, 
 was commenced.) 
 
 July 29. — In a skirmish at Clear Springs, 
 Md., the confederate loss was 17 killed and 
 wounded. — At Fort Smith, Ark., a slight skir- 
 misli occurred without casualty on either side. 
 — The cavalry belonging to McCook's com- 
 
 mand met the rebel cavalry at Lovejoy Station, 
 Ga. (This affair has been treated previously.) 
 July 30. — E.xplosion of the mine at Peters- 
 burg, Xa. The explosion took place at half 
 past 3 o'clock in the morning. It was wholly 
 a surprise to the rebels and the discharge of 
 8,000 pounds of powder created a cavity which 
 has gone into history as "the crater ;" the con- 
 cussion had hardly ceased before the head of 
 Ledlie's division began to move for the breach ; 
 the deep excavation, rt'ilh its sides of loose sand 
 into which protruded the beams and timbers 
 of the fort, presented a seemingly impassable 
 obstacle, and all militar}' order was abandoned, 
 the soldiers pressing forward in great confusion. 
 A considerable space on the sides of the top of 
 the crater had been abandoned by the rebels 
 and upon these the advancing brigades crowded 
 until the breach was filled with a disorganized 
 mass of soldiers; a single regiment climbed 
 the slope and advanced toward a point beyond 
 which was the object of the assault but, not 
 being sujjported, the command fell back to the 
 crater. The rebels sjieedily recovered from the 
 first shock and with great dispatch planted 
 batteries to sweep the approaches to the crater. 
 The position of the Federal troops was most 
 dangerous and in their withdrawal the destruc- 
 tion from the mortar shells, musketry and 
 artillery which poured upon them was fearful. 
 In addition, they were suffering from having 
 been crowded into the narrow slaughter pen 
 where they had been eight hours without water 
 under the fierce rays of the midsummer sun. 
 The loss in killed and wounded was 2,100 and 
 1,900 soldiers were taken prisoners, and nothing 
 was gained to the Federal forces. — The 2d 
 Cavalry Division of Davis' Brigade, Arm}' of 
 the Potomac, encountered the rebels at Lee's 
 Mills, Va., and in the engagement lost two 
 killed and 11 wounded. — Early's cavalry de- 
 stroyed the defenceless city of Chambersburg, 
 
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1864— JULY 31 — AUG. 7 — 1864. 
 
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 Pa., and 'fled Southward. — McCook's cavalry 
 engaged in a skirmish at Newman, Ga. — The 
 cavalry under Stoneman willidrew a sliort 
 distance from Macon without action. — At 
 Lebanon, Ky., one company of the 12tli Ohio 
 Cavalry engaged in an unimportant brush with 
 the rebels. 
 
 July 31. — At Hillsboro, Ga., Stonernan's 
 cavalry engaged with the rebels. 
 
 Aug. 1 — Skirmish at Rolla, Mo., in which 
 the oth Missouri Cavalry (State troops), were 
 engaged. — At Cumberland, Md., a detachment 
 of the force under General B. F. Kelley have 
 an encounter with the rebels. 
 
 Aug. 2. — A skirmish took place at Green 
 Springs, W. Va., in which the 153d Ohio In- 
 fantry were engaged and sustained a loss of one 
 killed, five wounded and 90 missing, the con- 
 federate loss being five killed and 22 wounded. 
 — An engagement took place at Osceola, Ark., 
 in which the 2d and 3d Missouri (State troops) 
 and 1st and 6th Missouri Cavalry were engaged. 
 
 Aug. 3.— Slight skirmish at Elk Shute, Mo., 
 in which a detachment of troops under Colonel 
 J. L. Burris were engaged. 
 
 Aug. 4. — Action at New Creek, Va.; unim- 
 portant. 
 
 Aug. 5. — At Donaldsonville, La., the 11th 
 New York Cavalry were assaulted by the rebels 
 and lost 60 prisoners. — Fort Gaines attacked. 
 Two days previous General Gordon Granger 
 joined Admiral Farragut with 1,500 men, who 
 were landed at Dauphin Island and marched 
 under cover of the fleet and, on the 4th, in- 
 trenched williin half a mile of Fort Gaines. 
 On the 5tb, the fleet of 15 vessels steamed up 
 to Fort Morgan, Farragut being lashed to the 
 rigging of the Hartford. Forts Morgan and 
 Gaines simultaneously opened fire on the fleet 
 and the Tecumseh was sunk in the channel by 
 a torpedo, with 120 men, only 10 of whom were 
 rescued. After an hour's engagement in which 
 
 the flagship took the lead, the fleet passed the 
 forts and entered the bay. The confederate 
 fleet disputed their progress and a lively naval 
 action ensued. The Union vessel, Metacomet, 
 captured the rebel gunboat, Selma, and the 
 rebel ram, Tennessee, surrendered after two 
 hours fighting with 20 officers and 170 men ; 
 Admiral Buchanan was seriou.sly wounded and 
 10 of her crew were killed or wounded ; the 
 rebel gunboat, Morgan, escaped and the Gaines 
 fled for protection under the guns of Fort 
 Morgan. The Federal loss was 52 killed and 
 17U wounded. Fort Powell was evacuated on 
 the same day and was blown up by the rebels 
 to prevent its occupation by the Union forces. 
 The action continued until the surrender of Fort 
 Gaines on the 8th and of Fort Morgan, August 
 23d. — Sherman's army made a crossing on the 
 North Fork of Utoy Creek ; the movement of 
 the three armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland 
 and Ohio, occupied two days. — A movement of 
 troops took place on the Jerusalem Plank Road, 
 Va. — In Missouri, the State Militia engaged 
 with assaulting parties of rebels, the skirmish- 
 ing continuing at intervals for three days. — 
 The 2d Cavalry Division of the Army of the 
 Cumberland changed position east of Decatur, 
 Ala.— At Cal)in Point, Va., the colored troops 
 defended the position from rebel assault. 
 
 Aug. 6. — At Plaquemine, La., a skirmish 
 occurred, in which the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry 
 and the 11th Heavy Artillery engaged. 
 
 Aug. 7. — At Moorefield, Va., a considerable 
 fight took place in which the 14th Pennsyl- 
 vania, 8th Ohio, 1st and 3d West Virginia and 
 1st New- York Cavalry engaged, resulting in a 
 Union victory with a loss of nine killed and 22 
 wounded, the rebels losing 100 killed and 
 wounded and 400 missing.— On this date, the 
 cavalry of the 16th Corps under Hatch and the 
 infantry under Mower commenced a series of 
 movements on the Tallahatchie River, in- 
 
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 1864 — AUG. 8— AUG. 17—1864. 
 
 eluding the actions at Abbeville, Oxford and 
 on Hurricane Creek, extending to the 14th of 
 August. — At Tah-kah-o kuty Mountain, Dak. 
 Ter., a threatened movement of the Indians 
 was repressed. 
 
 Aug. 8. — In Dakota Territorj' four regiments 
 of infantry, including the 8th and 2d Minne- 
 sota and the 6th and 7th Iowa, supported by 
 two battalions of cavalry, rout a considerable 
 force of Indians. — At Uldtown, \'a., an unim- 
 portant action took place. 
 
 Aug. 9.^An explosion of ammunition oc- 
 curred at City Point, Xa., killing 70 Union sol- 
 diers and wounding 130. 
 
 Aug. 10. — The cavalry raid under Torbett 
 commenced on this date; at Sulphur Springs 
 Bridge, Berryville Pike and White Post, Va., 
 a cavalry division of Sheridan's command 
 under Torbett, dispersed the rebels, consisting 
 of stragglers from the command of Early ; the 
 Union troops lost 34 killed, 90 wounded and 
 200 missing; the movement occupied two days. 
 — The United States steamer Empress was fired 
 on by confederate batteries and sustained a loss 
 of six killed and 12 wounded. — The 2d and 
 6th Kansas Cavalry engaged in a raid. 
 
 Aug. 12. — A detail from the 7th Iowa Cav- 
 alry engaged in a skirmish with guerrilla 
 squads on the Little Blue River in Dakota 
 Territory. — At Montauk, in Missouri, a raid by 
 rebel guerrillas took place. 
 
 Aug. 13.— At Snicker's Gap, Va., the 144th 
 and 149th Ohio engaged in a skirmish in 
 which they lost four killed, 10 wounded and 
 200 prisoners; the rebel loss was two killed 
 and three wounded ; the Ohio regiments were 
 engaged in guarding a supply train when 
 attacked. — At Shawnee Mound, Mo., an unim- 
 portant action took place. 
 
 Aug. 14.— At Gravel Hill, Va., the 2d Cav- 
 alry Division of the Army of the Potomac, a 
 detachment from Sheridan's command, encoun- 
 
 tered the rebels with a loss of three killed and 
 18 wounded. — Battle of Strawberry Plains, 
 Grant and Leo commanding their respective 
 forces. August loth, a detachment of the Army 
 of the Potomac under Hancock, Birney and 
 Gregg crossed the James to Deep Bottom and 
 pressed on towards Richmond, reaching the 
 rebel line of intrenchments in the afternoon of 
 the 14th, where an attack was made bj* two of 
 Hancock's divisions which was repulsed. L'ntil 
 the 18th, a series of rapid, but indecisive en- 
 gagements were kept up while Hancock endeav- 
 ored to find a weak point. These were of no 
 particular advantage to the immediate pur- 
 pose, but they prevented reinforcements being 
 sent to Early and weakened the rebel strength 
 at Petersburg and thereby conduced to a sub- 
 sequent movement against the Weldon rail- 
 road. The aggregate Union loss was 400 
 killed, 1,755 wounded and 1,400 missing; tiie 
 rebels lost 1,000 in killed and wounded. — At 
 Dalton, Ga., an active skirmish occurred which 
 covered two days. — The action at Hurricane 
 Creek under Hatch and Mower, cavalry com- 
 manders of the 16th Army Corps, occurred. 
 
 Aug. 15. — In an action at Fisher's Hill, Va., 
 the 6th and 8th Corps and the 1st Cavalry Di- 
 vision of the Army of the Potomac, in an en- 
 gagement with detachments of Early's com- 
 mand, lost 30 from their fighting force in 
 wounded. — At West Point, Miss., an unimport- 
 ant action took place. 
 
 Aug. 16. — At Crooked Run, Front Royal, 
 Va., the cavalry force of General Merritt at- 
 tacked the rebels under Lomax and Wickham, 
 and inflicted a loss of 30 killed, 150 wounded, 
 and 300 prisoners ca}itured ; their own loss be- 
 ing 13 killed and 58 wounded. — At Smoky 
 Hill Crossing, Kas., a cavalry action took place. 
 
 Aug. 17. — At Winchester, Va., the New Jer- 
 sey brigade belonging to the 6th Corps, witii 
 Wilson's cavalry, engaged in a tight while on a 
 
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 reconnoissaiice, in which they sustained a loss 
 of 50 killed and 250 missing.— In a skirmish at 
 (Jainesville, Fla., the 75th Ohio Mounted In- 
 fantry received a heavy assault in which they 
 lost 16 killed, ."0 wounded and 102 missing. — 
 At Cleveland, Tenn., the 6th Ohio Heavy Artil- 
 lery were engaged in an unimportant action. 
 
 Aug. 18. — On this date General Warren 
 struck the AV'eldon railroad four miles helow 
 Petersburg; leaving Oriffin's division to hold 
 the position, he moved with the divisions of 
 Ayres and Crawford a mile up the road and 
 encountered the rebels in line of battle. His 
 situation was critical, as his movements had 
 left him practically isolated, and the command 
 of Ayres was assaulted by the rebels, who ap- 
 jiroached by an unknown road on his left and 
 drove the troops back for a time, when Ayres 
 rallied his command and repulsed the attack- 
 ing force. Warren intrenched his position on 
 the railroad and, on the 19th, Lee attacked 
 Warren with a large force. By some mishap a 
 space between Warren and Burnside had been 
 left open into which a rebel division under 
 Mahone entered, striking Warren's left and 
 gaining his rear. The rebels pushed on to 
 Warren's left which was thrown into confusion 
 and 2,000 Union prisoners were captured. At 
 an opportune moment Warren, who held his 
 center firm, was reinforced by 2,000 men from 
 the 9th Army Corps and he succeeded in forc- 
 ing the rebels back into their lines. Every- 
 thing was quiet on the 20th and Warren 
 strengthened his position. On the morning of 
 the 21st, Lee opened the action with a terrific 
 fire from 30 massed guns, under cover of which 
 a heavy infantr}' force moved on Warren's 
 front and, at the same time, an assault was 
 made on his left. The attack on the center 
 was repulsed and the result of the attempt to 
 turn Warren's left flank was especially dis- 
 astrous to the rebels, who broke in confusion 
 
 and in their flight left 500 prisoners behind. 
 In the three days struggle the Union loss was 
 212 killed, 1,155 wounded and 1,166 missing, 
 in addition to the 2,000 prisoners taken on the 
 19th. The confederate loss was 4,000 in killed 
 wounded and missing. Generals Saunders and 
 Lamar were killed and the Weldon railroad 
 was destroj'ed for 12 miles south of the posi- 
 tion held by Warren. — Kilpatrick's raid on the 
 Macon railroad was begun on this date. Kil- 
 patrick commenced operations in front of 
 Atlanta, destroyed the road to West Point 
 and advanced to Jonesboro, where he met the 
 rebel cayalry under Ross and, after repulsing 
 them, destroyed a portion of the road and, on 
 the same day, he was attacked by a body of in- 
 fantry and cavalry which stopped h\A opera- 
 tions there and he went on to Lovejoy's Station 
 and there defeated the rebels, capturing four 
 guns and returned thence to Atlanta with a 
 large number of prisoners. The Union loss in 
 killed and wounded was 400. During this raid 
 the localities where actions occurred are speci- 
 fied as Fairburn, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's. 
 
 Aug. 19.— At Snicker's Gap Pike, Va., Mos- 
 by's guerrillas captured a detachment of the 
 5th Michigan Cavalry, killing 30 and wound- 
 ing three in the fight and afterwards putting 
 the prisoners to death. — Company B, 83d Illi- 
 nois Mounted Infantry, in a skirmish with 
 guerrillas at Pine Bluff", Tenn., lost eight killed. 
 — At Martinsburg, Va., a company of the com- 
 mand of Averill had an engagement with a 
 portion of the command of Early. — About this 
 date a company of the 115th Ohio Infantr\- 
 received a rebel charge at Block House No. 4 
 on the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad in 
 Tennessee. — At Red Oak, Ga., the cavalry of 
 Kilpatrick engaged the rebels during the raid 
 on the Macon railroad. 
 
 Aug. 20. — In the same movement the action 
 at Lovejoy's Station occurred on this date. — 
 
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 1864— AUG. 21 — AUG. 26 — 1864. 
 
 At Stewart's Landing on the Tennessee River 
 an action occurred. 
 
 Aug. 21. — Battle at Summit Point, Berrj-- 
 ville and Flowing Springs, Va. Early, having 
 been reinforced, determined to attack Sheridan, 
 who was proceeding through Smithfield to- 
 wards Charleston, and, on the 20tli, disposed 
 his troops for a combined attack. On the 21st 
 Sheridan's pickets on the Opequan were driven 
 in and Early at once pressed against the 6th 
 Corps and a sharp engagement ensued, the 
 Union loss being 37 killed, 175 wounded; the 
 confederate loss aggregating 300 killed and 
 wounded and 200 prisoners.— Fori'est's cavalry 
 dash into Memjjhis. The city was gua'rded by 
 Wisconsin and Illinois troops, principally com- 
 posed of 100-day recruits. The invasion was 
 made in the night when the men were asleep. 
 As soon as possible the regiments were under 
 arms. Forrest penetrated to the headquarters 
 of General Washburn but was forced to retire. 
 — In a skirmish at Oxford Hill, Miss., which 
 continued at intervals through the 22(1 the 
 confederates lost 15 killed. — At Duvnl's Bluff, 
 Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry had a slight 
 skirmish. 
 
 Ai!G. 22. — At Canton, Ky., and Rodgersville, 
 Tenn., skirmishes occurred. 
 
 Aug. 23. — Skirmish at Abbeville, Miss., with 
 a Union loss of 20 wounded and 15 rebels 
 killed. — Surrender of Fort Morgan with the 
 garrison under Cokmt-l Page. 
 
 Aug. 24. — Fight at Bermuda Hundred, in 
 which the 10th Corps, Army of the James, en- 
 gaged, with a loss of 31 wounded, the rebel 
 loss being Gl in killed, wounded and missing. 
 — In a skirmish at Fort Smith, Ark., the Union 
 loss was one killed and 13 wounded. — The 9th 
 Iowa and 8th and 11th Missouri Cavalry fought 
 the rebel cavalry at Jones' Hay Station and at 
 Ashley Station, sustaining a loss of five killed 
 and 41 wounded, the aggregate confederate 
 
 loss being 60 killed and wounded. — Action at 
 Clinton, Miss. — At Halltown, Va., a portion of 
 the 8th Corps of the Army of the Shenandoah 
 took position after the tight at Summit Point. 
 
 Aug. 25. — Battle at Ream's Station. The 
 Federal troops under Hancock occupied iu- 
 trenchments at this point, which were too weak 
 to sustain an attack which was made upon 
 them by a strong force under Hill, preceded 
 I by a rebel movement which had pushed the 
 cavalry some distance to the left. Hancock's 
 force repelled two assaults, when the rebels as- 
 sumed another position and made an im- 
 petuous charge of the most disastrous character, 
 seemingly, but the broken lines rallied and a 
 series of encounters were maintained until 
 night when Hancock withdrew, and the rebel 
 forces, having no idea of the real situation, also 
 retired. The loss to Hancock's force was 127 
 killed, 546 wounded and 1,7(>0 missing; the 
 confederate loss was 1,500 killed and wounded. 
 — On the 25th, actions at Smithfield and Shep- 
 herdstown, Va., in which the 1st and 3d Cav- 
 alry Divisions, Army of the Potomac, engaged 
 General Early, with his infantry and cavalry, 
 excepting the command of Fitz Hugh Lee, 
 which had been sent to AVilliamsport, and also 
 his artillery force attacked Sheridan, and were 
 compelled to retreat after rough handling; the 
 Union loss was 20 killed and 61 wounded and 
 that of the rebels was 400 in the aggi'egate. — 
 At Conee Creek, Clinton, La., a cavalry action 
 took place. — At Leestown, Va., and Sacramento 
 Mountain, New Mexico, actions occurred. 
 
 Aug. 26.— At Bull Bayou, Ark., the 3d Wis- 
 consin and 9th Kansas Cavalry, while on a 
 scout, were engaged in a skirmish. — At Hall- 
 town, Va., Sheridan, with the 1st and 2d Divi- 
 sions of the 8th Corps of the Army of West 
 Virginia, took position in the best place for de- 
 fense in the Shenandoah Valley; the move- 
 ment occupied two d;iys. 
 
1864— AUG. 27 — SETPT. 2—1864. 
 
 117 
 
 Aug. 27. — At Owensboro, Ky., a slight skir- 
 mish occurred in wliieh a colored regiment was 
 engaged. — On the 27th, the Federal and rebel 
 troops met at Holly Springs, and in the several 
 encounters on tliat day and the next, one Union 
 soldier was killed and two wounded. 
 
 Aug. 28. — At Fort Cottonwood, Nev., the7lh 
 Iowa Cavalry had a fight with Indians. — In 
 Howard county. Mo., Company E, 4th Missouri 
 Cavalry, State Troops, had a skiraiisli. 
 
 Aug. 29. — A part of the Gth Corps, with 
 Torbett's Cavalry, Sheridan's command, had a 
 tight witii a detachment of Early's command 
 at Smithfield, Va., and sustained a loss of 10 
 killed and 90 wounded ; 200 rebels were killed 
 and wounded. — A colored regiment sustained 
 an attack at Ghent, Ky. — At Wormly's Gap, 
 \'a., a detachment of troops from the 9th Ohio 
 Infantry, commanded by Captain Blazer, skir- 
 mished with a detachment of Eai'ly's troops. — 
 At Artluir's Swamp, Va., the 2d Cavalry Divi- 
 sion of the Army of the Potomac, engaged in 
 a series of skirmishes extending throughout 
 two days. 
 
 Aug. 31. — A slight skirmish took place at 
 La Grange, Tenn. — At Block House No. 5 on 
 tlie Nashville & Chattanooga Railway in Ten- 
 nessee, a detachment of Ohio troops were at- 
 tacked by the rebels and lost three men ; they 
 repulsed the assault and the rebels retired witli 
 a loss of 25 wounded. — Beginning of the action 
 at Jonesboro. A large portion of the day 
 was passed by General Logan, General Blair 
 and General Ransom, with their several corps 
 in strengthening and arranging tlieir lines for 
 battle, and the Army of the Tennessee was at- 
 tacked by Hardee about the middle of the after- 
 noon who retired, leaving more than 400 
 dead on tlie field ; he also lost a thousand men 
 in wounded and GOO missing. The Union loss 
 was 1,149 in killed and wounded. The battle 
 continued the next day. Meanwhile, the Union 
 
 forces of Sherman's command under Stanley, 
 Schofield and Thomas, with a jiart of Davis' 
 Corps, were engaged in the destruction of the 
 railroad at several points. Sherman discovered 
 the advantage and ordered his three corps to 
 move on .lonesboro. In the afternoon of Sep- 
 tember 1st, there was some skirmishing, and 
 on the morning of the 2d, Hardee was in full 
 retreat and Sherman pursuing. 
 
 Sept. 1. — Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler. 
 During the action related in which Sherman's 
 troops were engaged, Wheeler had been en- 
 gaged in raiding Sherman's communications, 
 but to small purpose. He had been held in 
 check by the command of Colonel Laibold 
 until the force of General Steedman had turned 
 his course into East Tennessee, and, on this 
 date, Rousseau and Granger, uniting their 
 commands with Steedman, started after him, 
 and, in the course of a week, had driven jjim 
 from Tennessee; the respective losses of the 
 Federal and rebel forces engaged were 40 killed 
 and wounded and 300 killed, wounded and 
 captured. 
 
 Sept. 2. — Soon after midnight following the 
 battle of .Jonesboro, the booming sounds in the 
 direction of Atlanta, which was 20 miles from 
 the position of Sherman, indicated that the 
 rebels were taking decisive measures, and in 
 the course of the day the command of Slocum 
 entered Atlanta to find that it had been evacu- 
 ated. The fall of Atlanta was an irreparable 
 loss to the South. It was the culmination of a 
 long series of military movements and was the 
 third of a series of Union triumphs, each of 
 which formed a decided step forward in the 
 Union cause, and the general effect of the loss 
 of Atlanta to the South and its gain to the 
 North was most wliolesome. On the 7th of 
 September, Sherman reached Atlanta with his 
 entire army ; he had lost 1,500 men during his 
 pursuit of Hardee and had captured 3,000 
 
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 1864— SEPT. 3 — SEPT. 13 — 1864. 
 
 prisoners and several batteries. Tlie force of 
 Slocum, on arrival at Atlanta, captured 200 
 rebels.— On tliis date, active skinnislinig at 
 Lovejoy's on tlie line of the Macon railroad 
 commenced in which the 4tli and 23d Corps 
 were engaged. The losses were not heavy and 
 the skirmishing continued until the 6th of the 
 month. On his withdrawal from Atlanta, 
 Hood moved to Lovejoy Station and was fol- 
 lowed by the corps mentioned. — Skirmish 
 at Franklin, Tenn., between Rousseau and 
 Wheeler's guerrillas. — At Big Shanty, Ga., 
 the 9th Ohio Cavalry, while changing position, 
 were attacked on a railroad train. 
 
 Sept. 3.— Early's retreat. On this date, 
 Early started towards Berryville in his attempt 
 to recross the Blue Ridge and was pursued by 
 the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac under 
 Merritt and Wilson who engaged in a fight 
 with Anderson. General Early hastened on 
 the 4th to the assistance of Anderson, leaving 
 Gordon at Winchester; on the 4th a heavy 
 action took place in which Torbett, who was 
 returning from the left, was engaged ; the rebels 
 were compelled to withdraw and the entire 
 command of Early crossed the Opequan. In 
 these two fights the Union loss was 30 killed, 
 182 wounded and 100 missing; the rebel loss 
 included 25 killed, 100 wounded and 70 miss- 
 ing. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., a regiment of 
 colored troops defended a position. — At Triune, 
 Tenn., a detachment from Rousseau's force 
 engaged in a slight skirmish.— Activities at 
 Perryville, Tenn.— At Darkesville, Va., the 3d 
 Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac 
 engaged in a skirmish with Early's stragglers. 
 
 Seit. 4.— Capture of Jolm Morgan at Green- 
 ville, Tenn. The 13th and Oili Tennessee Cav- 
 alry and 10th Michigan Cavalry were encamped 
 about 18 miles from Greenville and, on the 
 night of September 3d, were ordered to move 
 to Greenville. Two miles from that place a 
 
 force was deployed between the pickets and the 
 town and were captured without a shot. Several 
 thousand rebels were camping in the streets 
 and were charged by a company from the 13th 
 Tennessee and, on being aroused from sleep by 
 44 men, ran in every direction in general con- 
 fusion. The Union men took a battery and 
 afterwards one of the men, J. G. Birchfield, was 
 informed that General Morgan was in the city. 
 The soldier informed his captain who, with his 
 squad of 20 men, surrounded the building. 
 Soon after, a man in his shirt sleeves ran across 
 the yard and was immediately fired on and fell. 
 This was Morgan. (This is a certified account 
 of the capture and death of the guerrilla chief, 
 Morgan). 
 
 Sept. 5. — At Campbellsville, Tenn., Rous- 
 seau's cavalry, in pursuit of Wheeler, engage 
 in a skirmish. 
 
 Sept. G. — At Searcey, Ark., a detachment of 
 the 9th Iowa Cavalry had an engagement with 
 a loss of two killed and six w'ounded. — At Mat- 
 tamoras, ^'a., a movement took place. 
 
 Sept. 7. — At Ready ville, Tenn., a slight affair 
 in the course of Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler 
 took place, in which a detachment of the 9th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry participated. — At Dutch 
 Gap, Va., and near Pine Bluff, Ark., actions 
 took place. 
 
 Sept. 10.— Fort Sedgwick, on the Jerusalem 
 Plank Road, known in history as "Fort Hell," 
 and one of the intrenchments in the triple line 
 that surrounded Petersburg, was captured by 
 the Union forces with a loss of 20 wounded 
 and they captured 90 prisoners; the 99th Penn- 
 sylvania, 2d U. S. Sharpshooters and 20th 
 Indiana Infantry were engaged. — A gunboat 
 action at Bonsecour Bay, La. 
 
 Sept. 13.— At Locks Ford, Va., Torbett's 
 cavalry charged the rebels and captured 181 
 prisoners, sustaining a loss of two killed and 18 
 wounded ;. this was a cavalrv action. 
 
1864 — SEPT. lb— SEPT. 23 — 1864. 
 
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 Sept. 16. — At Sycamore Cliurcli, Va., the 
 cavalry divisions ol Gregg and Kautz engaged 
 the rebel cavalry under Wade Hampton and 
 lost 400 in killed, wounded and missing; the 
 aggregate rebel loss was 50 killed and wounded ; 
 the J St District of Columbia and 1st Pennsyl- 
 vania Cavalry were engaged in the action. — On 
 this date a fight was begun at Fort Gibson in 
 the Indian Territory, in which a colored in- 
 fantry regiment and the 2d Kansas Cavalry 
 wne involved, the Union loss being 38 killed 
 and wounded and 48 missing; tlie skirmishing- 
 continued throughout the 16th, 17th and ISlh. 
 
 Sept. 17.— A cavalry action at Fairfax Sta- 
 tion, in which the loth and 16th New Yoik 
 Cavalry were engaged. — At Belcher's Mills, the 
 cavalry force of Kautz and Gregg engaged in 
 an action in which they lost 25 wounded. 
 
 Sept. IS.- At Martinsburg, Va., the 2d 
 Division of Cavalry in the Army of West 
 Virginia, engaged in a cavalry action with the 
 troops of Early, who liad been sent to that 
 place in force. — At Fort Cottonwood, the 7th 
 Iowa Cavalry engaged in a skirmish with the 
 Indians. 
 
 Sept. 19. — Battle of the Opequan, also known 
 as Winchester and Fisiier's Hill, Va. ()n this 
 date the encounter of the forces of Sheridan 
 and Early which had been imminent, came to 
 a focus. The respective armies were so posted 
 that action could be precipitated by either, but 
 the resfiective commanders were not disjmsed 
 to attack the other in a position of his own 
 choosing. A difference of opinion between 
 Grant and Sheridan existed, the former desiring 
 to hold the latter in check, as defeat would 
 leave Maryland and Pennsylvania open to 
 invasion, but he yielded his judgment on 
 examination of Sheridan's plans. The latter 
 proposed to throw his forces on the rear of the 
 rebel army but, on learning that Early had sent 
 a destroying force to Martinsburg, he changed 
 
 his plans and made an attack on Early's troops 
 left at Winchester. The fighting commenced 
 on the morning of the lOih, Early having 
 returned with his divisions and the contest 
 raged with great fury through the day, both 
 sides being repeatedly d-riven from and regain- 
 ing their position. The battle hung for some 
 time in even .scales. Sheridan finally made a 
 furious charge which broke the rebel ranks 
 and sent them flying in confusion. The shat- 
 tered lines entered Winchester at nightfall 
 closely pursued. They continued their flight 
 and halted at the intrenchments at Fisher's 
 Hill. The loss to Sheridan's troops was 653 
 killed, 3,719 wounded and 618 missing; 3,600 
 confederate prisoners were captured ; in the 
 hospitals at Winchester 2,000 w'ounded rebels 
 were found, besides those which were with- 
 drawn with the army and the dead from Early's 
 command considerably exceeded the Union 
 loss. — At Cabin Creek, I. T., three regiments of 
 Kansas Cavalry and two companies of Kansas 
 Indian Home guards were attacked while 
 escorting a train. 
 
 Sept. 21.— At Front Royal Pike, Va., and 
 Luray in the valley of the Shenandoah, the 3d 
 Division, Cavalry Corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac, the cavalry under General Wilson, 
 charged the rebels on the Pike and drove them 
 six miles up the valley. 
 
 Sept. 22.— Battle of Fisher's Hill. On the 
 morning of this date the Federal columns con- 
 fronted Early who was flanked and attacked in 
 the rear by General Crook. The united action 
 was an entire surprise and the greatest con- 
 sternation ensued, the rebels breaking and 
 fleeing. The rout was complete and the victory 
 was achieved with little cost, the Union loss 
 being 297 in killed and wounded ; the rebel 
 loss was not much greater but they lost 1,100 
 prisoners. 
 
 Sept. 23. — In an action at Athens, Ala., 
 
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 1864 — SEPT. 24 — SEPT. 27—1864. 
 
 three regiments of colored cavalry and a 
 Tennessee cavalry regiment engaged in a 
 heavy skirmish and were reinforced by the 
 18th Michigan and 102d Ohio Infantry. Gen- 
 irul Forrest frightened the garrison into sur- 
 render and 950 soldiers were taken [)risoners; 
 the confederate loss was five killed and 25 
 wounded. — In a skirmish at Rockport, Mo., in 
 wliich several companies of State Militia were 
 engaged in skirmish, the Union loss was 10 
 killed. — Actions of similar character took place 
 at Blackwater, and Bloomfield, Mo. 
 
 Sei't. 24. — The 1st Division, Cavulry Corps 
 of Sheridan's force under Wilson and Merritt 
 moved to Luray, skirmishing with Mosby's 
 guerrillas and inflicting considerable loss. — At 
 Fayette, Mo., the Missouri State troops engaged 
 in a skirmish and lost three killed and five 
 wounded, the rebel loss numbering six killed 
 and 30 wounded. — At Fredericktown, Mo., the 
 State militia had a skirmish with guerrillas. — 
 An unimj)ortant affair took place at Surry C. 
 H., Va. — A cavalry scrimmage took place at 
 Bull's Gap, Tenn. — Price's invasion of Missouri. 
 The rebel raider entered Southwestern Missouri 
 and his movements necessitated immediate 
 operations for the protection of St. Louis, which 
 was the base of supplies for a huge army. On 
 this date, he was advancing Northward and 
 throwing out his divisions in various directions, 
 and the Missouri State cavalry with the cav- 
 alry of A. J. Smith's command, the Kansas 
 State troops and the cavalry of the Army of 
 the Frontier under Blunt, were immediately 
 set in motion to check his progress. 
 
 Sept. 25. — At Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., 
 a colored regiment of infantry and the iHh In- 
 diana Cavalry bad a skirmish. — At .lohnson- 
 ville, Tenn., and at Henderson, Ky., unimport- 
 ant actions occurred. 
 
 Sei't. 20. — At Vache Grass, Ark., the 14th 
 Kansas Cavalry sustained an attack from the 
 
 rebels wliile guarding a train. — .U Brown's 
 Gap, ^'a., two cavalry divisions of the Army of 
 the Potomac skirmished with the forces of 
 Early, retreating after the battle of Fisher's 
 Ilill. — At Richland, Tenn., a troop of colored 
 infantry sustained a rebel attack. — At Pulaski, 
 Tenn., Rousseau endeavored to have a fight 
 witb Forrest who declined the engagement and, 
 on the following day, the Union general pushed 
 on after him. 
 
 Sept. 27. — The 2d Division of Cavalry, Army 
 of West Virginia, moved to Weyer's Cave, Va., 
 in pursuit of Early. — At RoUa, Mo., Ewing 
 made an effort to take a position to check the 
 movements of Price. — At Centralia, Mo., the 
 guerrillas under Price attacked a railroad train 
 on the Northern Mi-ssouri railroad and slaught- 
 ered three companies of the o9th Missouri 
 Infantry under Major Johnson, killing 122 men 
 in cold blood, only two escaping death. — At 
 Mariana, Fla., an action took place in which 
 the 7th Vermont Infantry and 2d Maine Cav- 
 alry, with a colored regiment, were engaged, 
 sustaining a loss of 32 wounded ; the con- 
 federate loss being 81 missing. — At Carter's 
 Station, Ark., a force of cavalry and mounted 
 infantry under General Ammen engaged in a 
 fight. — At Fort Rice, Dak., a detachment of the 
 6th Iowa Cavalry, engaged in escorting a 
 United States train, were attacked by Indians. 
 — Fight at Pilot Knob, Mo. The garrison at 
 Ironton, consisting of 100 men under Ewing, 
 made an obstinate and successful stand against 
 three times their number under Price. At 
 night, the rebels had gained position and the 
 surrender of the post would have been a neces- 
 sity, but Ewing blew up his magazine, spiked 
 bis heavy guns and moved toward Rolia. 
 During the action of the 27tb, Price lost 1,500 
 in killed, wounded and missing, the Union loss 
 being but 28 killed, 56 wounded and 100 miss- 
 ing. 
 
1864— SEPT. 28— OCT. 2 — 1864. 
 
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 Sept. 28.— Battle of New Market Heights, 
 also called Chapin's Farm and Laurel Hill. 
 Capture of Forts Harri.son and Gilmoj-e. Gen- 
 erals Ord and Birney, with two corps of the 
 Army of the James crossed the river and 
 made a fierce assault on the line of intrench- 
 ments near Chapin's Bluff. Fort Harrison was 
 captured and the rebels made a desperate at- 
 tempt to retake it, as it was the main defense 
 in that part of the confederate lines and occu- 
 pied a commanding position. The attempt 
 was unsuccessful and Butler thereby held a 
 secure position from which to threaten Rich- 
 mond, and Lee was obliged to maintain a 
 larger force on the James than before. An at- 
 tempt to take Fort Gilmore proved abortive 
 and the action of that day closed with a loss to 
 tlie assaulting division of 594 killed and 
 wounded. Meanwhile, skirmishing was carried 
 on, on the New Market Road, and the actions 
 between the armies continued throughout the 
 ■29th. On the 30th, another desperate attempt 
 was made by the rebels to retake Fort Harri- 
 son. The losses to the Union side were 394 
 killed, 1,554 wounded and 324 missing; the 
 rebel loss was about 2,000. — At Clarksville, Ark., 
 the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
 mish. — Sheridan's troops engaged in a skirmish 
 at Waynesboro, Va., with a squad from Early's 
 command. — Attack on Fort Sedgwick and de- 
 fense by the 3d Division of the 9th Army 
 Corps. 
 
 Sept. 29.— A skirmish occurred at Center- 
 ville, Tenn., in which the Union loss was 10 
 killed and 25 wounded; a Tennessee cavalry 
 regiment was engaged. — In a fight at Leesburg 
 and Harrison, Mo., in which Price's command 
 was engaged, two Union regiments and one 
 battery was engaged. This action continued 
 two days. 
 
 Sept. 30. — Battle of Poplar Springs Church 
 or Pi-eble's Farm. General Warren, with four 
 
 divisions, captured rebel fortifications on the 
 farm which he held while Gemral Parke ad- 
 vanced to meet a furious rebel charge. A thou- 
 sand Union prisoners were captured. Reinforce- 
 ments checked the rebels and the fortifications 
 were held by the Federal command ; Parke's 
 loss in killed and wounded aggregated 485, 
 while the rebel loss was 900 in killed, wounded 
 and missing. This action extended through 
 October 1st. (The confederate loss has never 
 been fully ascertained. The attack was made 
 by Hampton's cavalry.) — At Arthur's Swamp, 
 Va., a cavalry action under Gregg took place, 
 resulting in a loss of 60 wounded and 100 miss- 
 ing.— -At Huntersville, Va., an action took place, 
 in which a detachment of Sheridan's cavalry 
 was involved. 
 
 Oct. 1. — Athens and Huntsville, Ala. The 
 73d Indiana Infantry and detachments of the 
 12th and 13th Indiana Cavalry engaged in ac- 
 tivities with General Buford in Northern Ala- 
 bama. — At Franklin, Mo., the Missouri State 
 troops engaged in a skirmish with Price's 
 guerrillas.— Spear's cavalry brigade and Ter- 
 ry's brigade made a reconnoissance on the 
 Charles City Cross Roads ; these troops belonged 
 to the Army of the .James. — At Yellow Tavern 
 on the Weldon railroad, the 3d Division of the 
 2d Corps of the Army of the Potomac com- 
 menced a movement, in which they were en- 
 gaged five days. — At Sweet Water, Moses and 
 Powder Spring Creeks, Ga., the cavalry of the 
 Army of the Cumberland commenced a move- 
 ment which covered three days. 
 
 Oct. 2. — A portion of cavalry detached from 
 the commands of Custer and Merritt's cavalry. 
 Army of the Potomac, had a fight at Waynes- 
 boro, Va., and suffered a loss oi 50 killed and 
 wounded.— At Saltville, Va., a heavy action 
 occurred, in which 13 cavalry regiments and 
 mounted infantry were engaged, in which the 
 Union loss was 54 killed, 190 wounded and 104 
 
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 1864— OCT. 5— OCT. 11—1864. 
 
 missing; the rebel loss was 18 killed, 71 
 wounded and 21 missing. At Gladesville, 
 Pound Gap, Va., two Kentucky cavalry regi- 
 ments engaged in a scrimmage. 
 
 Oct. 5.— Near Memphis, Tenn., a company I 
 of the 7th Indiana Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
 mish. — Battle at Allatoona, Ga. At this point a 
 million of rations were stored preparatory to 
 the operations of Sherman in the campaign 
 which he proposed to open in the spring. Hood 
 attacked the position which was held by a gar- 
 rison of 890 men under Colonel Tourtellotte. 
 General Sherman, in anticipation of an attack, 
 had arranged a system of signals and he or- 
 dered, through tliat method, the reinforcement 
 of the post by General Corse, and, on the night 
 of the 4th, Rowett's Brigade, with 165,000 
 rounds of ammunition, reached Allatoona in 
 season. The garrison was increased to 1,900 
 men. Rowett repelled the first charge from the 
 western spur of the ridge and continued to re- 
 pulse repeated assaults. Tourtellotte delivered 
 a fire from his position on the east which broke 
 the rebel ranks and the assaulting force retired, 
 after losing 231 killed, 500 wounded and 411 
 missing ; the Union loss was 142 killed, 352 I 
 wounded and 212 missing. — In a skirmish at ; 
 Jackson, La., the 23d Wisconsin Infantry, 1st 
 Texas and 1st Louisiana Cavalry and the 2d 
 and 4th Massachusetts Battery engaged in an 
 action, in which they lost four killed and 10 
 wounded. — At Fort Adams, La., the 2d Wis- 
 consin Cavalry with a regiment of colored cav- 
 alry, engaged in a skirmish while performing 
 heavy scouting duty. — At Big Shanty and Ken- 
 nesaw the troops of Sherman moved into posi- 
 tion. 
 
 Oct. 6.— The GOth Illinois Infantry, with 
 two regiments of Kansas Cavalry, engaged in 
 a fight at Florence, Ala. — At Prince's Place on 
 the Osage River in Missouri, the State troops 
 contested the progress of Price's guerrillas. — ; 
 
 An action occurred at Woodvrlle, Miss., and 
 another at Clinton, La. 
 
 Oct. 7. — At Darkeytown, Va., a skirmish 
 occurred and at Bahia, S. A., the rebel privateer 
 Florida was captured by the steamer Wachu- 
 sett, Captain Collins, and taken to Hampton 
 Roads and sunk. 
 
 Oct. 8. — The rear guard of Sheridan's force 
 under Custer, was subjected to the attacks of 
 the stragglers from Early's force in the vicinity 
 of New Market, and was ordered by the chief to 
 prepare to attack the rebel cavalry and whip 
 them or get whipped. — Raid of McCook's cav- 
 alry at Hopkinsville, Ky. 
 
 Oct. 9.— Battle of Tom's Brook. Torbett 
 completed his preparation to move in pursuit 
 of the rebel cavalry, and two hours after day- 
 light had obeyed the command of Sheridan to 
 the letter, giving the rebels entire satisfaction ; 
 he routed and chased them 20 miles, captured 
 11 guns and 330 prisoners, and inflicted a loss 
 of 100 in killed and wounded, his several divi- 
 sions losing altogether nine- killed and 67 
 wounded. This was one of the most important 
 victories in that campaign. 
 
 Oct. 10. — Price's invasion of Missouri. On 
 the 7th, Price reached Jefferson City but did 
 not dare to attack, and moved to California and 
 Booneville ; his progress was contested by Mis- 
 souri regiments of cavalry under Sanborn, who 
 made an attack on the rear guard of Price at 
 Versailles, while Price was still moving west- 
 ward. — At South Tunnel, Tenn., the rebels 
 attacked a regiment of colored infantry. — At 
 East Point, Miss., two infantry regiments sus- 
 tain a loss of 16 killed and 20 wounded in a 
 rebel attack. 
 
 Oct. 11. — At Stony Creek Station, Va., the 
 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry had a slight skir- 
 mish. — At Narrows, Ga., the division of Gar- 
 rard skirmished with the rebels. — At Fort Uon- 
 elson, Tenn., an active skirmish took place, in 
 
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 which a battery of heavy artillery was engaged, 
 the respective losses to the Federal and rebel 
 troops being 13 and 26 in killed and wounded. 
 — Slight actions at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., and 
 Fort Nelson occuri'ed on this date. 
 
 Oct. 12. — At Greenville, Tenn., an action 
 occurred. — A garrison stationed at Resaca, Ga., 
 under Colonel Weaver was attacked by Hood's 
 force and summoned to surrender, but the com- 
 mandant sent him a spirited answer and was 
 soon after reinforced, and Hood moved a por- 
 tion of his command to Tilton and Dalton and 
 captured a garrison at the latter place. At 
 Tilton, the garrison was bravely defended and 
 only surrendered when the defenses were torn 
 to pieces. At Mill Creek Gap a similar trans- 
 action occurred. (These two latter actions took 
 place on the 13th but belonged to the same 
 movement.) At Tilton, 400 prisoners were 
 captured and at Mill Creek Gap, where the 
 115th Illinois Infantry were on duty, five were 
 killed, 36 wounded and the remainder captured. 
 
 Oct. 13. — At Strasburg, Va., the cavalry 
 forces under Emory and Crook made a recon- 
 noissance in force and sustained a loss of 214 
 in killed, wounded and missing. — At Darby- 
 town Road, Va., on the 7th of October, an ac- 
 tion commenced on this highway, in which a 
 cavalry force under Kautz was attacked by two 
 infantry brigades and a brigade of cavalry, and 
 lost 72 in killed and wounded and 202 missing. 
 Kautz moved to the protection of the 10th 
 Corps and was followed b\' the rebels, who 
 made an attack on the infantry command ; the 
 movements continued until the 13th, when 
 General Butler made a reconnoissance in force 
 but without material results save that of find- 
 ing the position of the rebels to be invincible. 
 In the movements after the 7th, the loss was 
 105 killed and 502 wounded. — At Piedmont, 
 Va., a rebel cavalry squad awaited the arrival 
 of a portion of Sheridan's command under 
 
 General Wright. — At Poolesville, Md., a slight 
 action occurred. 
 
 Oct. 15. — Price's invasion of Missouri. In a 
 fight of seven hours at Glasgow, Mo., Price 
 captured the place and a number of prisoners 
 belonging to Missouri regiments and a detach- 
 ment of the 17th Illinois Cavalry ; the Union 
 loss was 400 in killed, wounded and missing, 
 and the rebel loss was 50 in killed and wounded. 
 — At Bayou Biddell, La., an action took place 
 in which a colored regiment was engaged. — 
 At Snake Creek Gap, Ga., a part of the Army 
 of the Tennessee followed the rebels to this 
 point, which was blockaded by the confederates, 
 but the obstructions were removed by Howard's 
 troops while Stanley crossed the bridge north 
 of the Gap. — At Sedalia, Mo., two regiments of 
 Missouri cavalry contested the advance of 
 Price's invaders. — At Mossy Creek, Tenn., a 
 slight action occurred. 
 
 Oct. 10. — The Army of the Tennessee drove 
 the rebels from Scrip's Gap, Taylor's Ridge, 
 Ga., and captured a few prisoners. 
 
 Oct. 17. — At Cedar Run Church, Va., a de- 
 tachment of the first Connecticut Cavalry, in- 
 cluding three officers and 20 men, were at- 
 tacked by Rosser and tlie whole confederate 
 army under Early moved out to protect Rosser 
 who had been led by his scouts to believe that 
 Custer's brigade occupied the position. 
 
 Oct. 18. — At Peirce's Point, Blackwater, Fla., 
 the 19th Iowa and 2d Maine Infantry, with the 
 1st Florida Cavalry, bad an engagement with 
 the rebels. 
 
 Oct. 19.— Sheridan's Ride. The battle of 
 Cedar Creek opened while Sheridan was at 
 Washington under special orders ; his com- 
 mand was in position on Cedar Creek. Early 
 had determined upon a surprise and at 1 o'clock ■ 
 on this date moved forward, the command 
 stripped of everything which could make a 
 clatter. In accordance with the plans for the 
 
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 1864— OCT. 20 — OCT. 2f — 1864. 
 
 combined action of the infantry and cavalry, 
 the attack was made on Torbett's division, tlie 
 advance of tlie confederate cavahy being aideii 
 by the thick fog, and before the Union troops 
 were fairly awake an infantry division under 
 Kershaw, which liad crept over a hill, covered 
 every part of the fortifications. Kershaw's 
 troops took seven loaded guns and turned them 
 on the Union force, which had turned to retreat 
 in confusion. Emory, Crook and Wright, with 
 their divisons of cavalry, advanced to the pike 
 and made every efibrt to arrest the movement 
 of the Union troops, but did so in vain, and the 
 confusion and terror of the flying infantry 
 spread dismay through the cavalry and the en- 
 tire force broke and the command of Early 
 moved to the camping ground of Sheridan. 
 Sheridan was returning and reached Winches- 
 ter about seven o'clock in the morning where 
 he heard the guns from the conflict. He rode 
 hurriedly forward to Mill Creek where he met 
 the troops and trains from the broken lines. 
 (On this incident the immortal poem of Read 
 is founded; at this writing it is uppermost in 
 the minds of the American people, the cavalry 
 chief having been witliin a few days laid to rest 
 at Arlington, August 21, 1888.) Sheridan ral- 
 lied the fugitives under orders and a promise 
 to go back "and lick them out of their boots." 
 The invincible spirit of the great cavalry com- 
 mander inspired the infantry of his command 
 and the reorganized force turned to obey and 
 to witness the fulfillment of his promise. The 
 whole Union line responded to Sheridan's order 
 to advance after the retreat of Elarly began, and 
 the confederates broke in confusion and became 
 a confused mass of fugitives, losing many prison- 
 ers. At Cedar Creek, the infantry were checked, 
 but the cavalry continued the pursuit and, 
 when a bridge broke down, the way was at once 
 blocked with the impedimenta of artillery and 
 trains which were collected by the troops under 
 
 Custer and Deven ; 2-1: rebel guns were taken 
 and the Union batteries recaptured with all 
 ambulances and 5G belonging to the rebel com- 
 mand, the spoils including a number of battle 
 flags. Early succeeded in retaining 1,420 pris- 
 oners captured in the morning who were sent 
 to the rear and immediately dispatched to Rich- 
 mond. The Union loss was 560 killed, 3,425 
 wounded and 1,870 missing, including the 
 number stated as captured. The rebel loss was 
 much greater and Early's array was no longer 
 a power in the valley of the Shenandoah. — At 
 Lexington, Mo., Price attacked Curtiss, in com- 
 mand of the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, with the 
 5th, 11th, 15th and 16th Kansas Cavalry. — 
 Confederate activities at !Middletown, \a., and 
 at Middkton, Md. — At Strasburg, Va., the cav- 
 alrj' under Crook made a reconnoissance. 
 
 Oct. 20. — At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a 
 detachment of troops belonging to the com- 
 mand of General Blunt of the Army of the 
 Frontier commenced a series of movements 
 which occupied six days and in which detach- 
 ments of Indians and Texas Cavalry were dis- 
 persed. — At Little River, Tenn., the cavalry 
 and a part of the infantry of the 15th Corps of 
 Logan moved to a position preparatory to a re- 
 organized campaign. 
 
 Oct. 21. — Price's invasion of Missouri : Battles 
 of Little Blue and Independence, Mo. General 
 Curtiss was pursued from Lexington to Inde- 
 pendence and fell upon General Blunt's Kansas 
 division in force and drove the Federal troops 
 to the Big Blue River; Pleasanton drove Price's 
 rear guard to Independence on the 22d and 
 made a charge at nightfall which was suc- 
 cessful. He sent a force under McNeal to Santa 
 Fe to head off Price's guerrillas and, on the 
 morning of the 23d a general engagement 
 was fought on the Big Blue by Pleasanton and 
 Marmaduke and Fagan, the latter being rein- 
 forced by Shelby and the rebels were driven. — 
 
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 At Harrodsburg, Ky., a regiment of colored 
 cavalry sustained an assault. 
 
 Oct. 22. — At White River, Ark., a regiment 
 of colored troojis was attacked. The rebel 
 gunboats attacked the Union batteries on the 
 James River in Virginia and tli^ assault was 
 repulsed with a loss of 11 rebels. — 40 rebels 
 raided St. Albans, Vt., murdering several citi- 
 zens and taking $200,000 from the banks. 
 
 Oct. 2.3. — In a skirmish at Hurricane Creek, 
 Miss., the Union loss was one killed and two 
 wounded ; the 1st Iowa and 9lh Kansas Cavalry 
 were engaged. — At Westport, Mo., a skirmish 
 took place between Pleasanton's cavalry and a 
 force under Marmaduke. — At Princeton, Ark., 
 a Missouri cavalry regiment was engaged in a 
 skirmish. 
 
 Oct. 24. — At Cold water Grove, on the Osage 
 River, the Kansas Cavalry of Blunt's command 
 skirmished with the troops of Price. 
 
 Oct. 25. — At Mine Creek on the Osage 
 River, in the pursuit of Price, the rear guard 
 of the rebels under Marmaduke were routed 
 and the rebel commanders, Marmaduke and 
 Cabell, were captured. — At Fort Scott, a scout- 
 ing expedition had an engagement with a 
 party of rebels attacking a train. 
 
 Oct. 26.— Battle of Decatur, Ala. After 
 Hood's evacuation of Atlanta, his movements 
 were of a character calculated to perplex Sher- 
 man and the Army of the Cumberland under 
 Thomas was detached to look after his move- 
 ments. The rebels moved to the Tennessee 
 River and made an attempt to cross at Decatur, 
 Ala.; in the afternoon. Hood attacked the gar- 
 rison which was commanded by Colonel Doolit- 
 tle, whose forces included his own regiment, 
 the 18th Michigan, 102d Ohio, and 68th Indi- 
 ana Infantry, and a regiment of colored troops. 
 Colonel -Doolittle repulsed the cliarge and, 
 vi'hen reinforcements arrived, a sortie was 
 made from the garrison under the protection of 
 
 the guns of the fort and the rebels were dis- 
 lodged with considerable loss. The casualties 
 in the Union force were 10 killed, 45 wounded 
 and 100 missing, and the confederate loss ag- 
 gregated 400 killed and wounded. — At Milton, 
 Fla., the 19th Iowa Infantry and the 2d Maine 
 Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — Actions at 
 Stone Mountain, Ga., and AVinfield, La. 
 
 Oct. 27.— Battle at Hatcher's Run. The 
 fight commenced b}' a charge on the confeder- 
 ate force by the 9th Corps under General 
 Parks, the entire Army of the Potomac being 
 on the alert for the action. The confederates 
 were overborne and were driven from the field, 
 leaving behind them nearly a thousand pris- 
 oners. The Union loss was 15G killed and 
 1,047 wounded, while that of the rebels in- 
 cluded an aggregate of 800. — Battle of P^air 
 Oaks. In support of the movement at Hatch- 
 er's Run, General Butler had been instructed 
 to make a demonstration on the north side of 
 the James. The rebel skirmishers were pushed 
 back and the fortifications were repeatedly as- 
 saulted until nightfall to no purpose. General 
 Weitzel moved across through White Oak 
 Swamp to the Williamsburg Road near Seven 
 Pines, within seven miles of Richmond, where 
 the rebels were found in force and strongly 
 intrenched. The Union charge was repulsed 
 with a bloody loss. On the 28th, General 
 Grant ordered a flank movement to the rebel 
 right, to be followed by a movement north to 
 obtain possession of the South Side railroad. 
 The object of this attack on the intrenchments 
 was to hold the attention of the rebels to in- 
 sure the purpose of the flank movement re- 
 ferred to. In this battle, which is known as 
 Fair Oaks, 120 Union soldiers were killed, 783 
 wounded and 400 were missing ; the confeder- 
 ate loss was 60 killed, 311 wounded and 80 
 missing. The entire maneuvre was a failure. 
 
 Oct. 28. — An action took place at Fort Hei- 
 
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 1864 — OCT. 29— NOV. 12—1864. 
 
 man, Teiin., on the river, in which the Union 
 gunboats j)articipated. Forrest attacked the 
 Undine, captured and burned her. — At Fay- 
 etteville, Aik., tlie 1st Arkansas Cavalry sus- 
 tained a raid from rebel cavalry. — Destruction 
 of the ram Albemarle. Lieutenant Gushing, 
 who had perfected a ])lan for the destruction 
 of the ram, moved to carry it out on the night 
 of October 27th, taking with him a picked 
 crew of 13 men, and he planted a torpedo un- 
 der lire from the enemj-'s infantry on the shore. 
 When the torpedo exploded, his own boat was 
 in the immediate vicinity, and Gushing and one 
 com])anion were the only persons who escaped ; 
 all others of the party were shot or captured and 
 he received a bullet in his wrist. The explo- 
 sion sunk the Albemarle and secured the re- 
 capture of the riymouth, which was surren- 
 dered to the naval squadron the next day; 
 among the results was the acquisition of the 
 command of the North Carolina sounds, and 
 the release of a fleet of 16 vessels which had 
 been watciiing the Albemarle. — At Morristown, 
 Tenn., Gillem's cavalry was attacked by a force 
 under the confederate Colonel Vaughn, which 
 resulted in a loss of eight killed and 42 
 wounded to the Union force, the confederate 
 loss being 240 missing. — At Newtonia, Mo., the 
 cavalry of Colonel Blunt in pursuit of Price, 
 skirmished throughout two days and inflicted a 
 loss of 250. 
 
 Oct. 29. — At Beverly, West Virginia, the 8th 
 Ohio Cavalry engaged in an action, in which 
 they inflicted a loss of 17 killed and 27 
 wounded and 92 missing, and themselves sus- 
 tained a loss of eight killed, 25 wounded and 
 13 missing. 
 
 Oct. 30. — At Brownsville, Ark., the 7th Iowa 
 and 11th Missouri Cavalry engaged in action 
 with slight loss. — At Muscle Shoals, Ala., a 
 cavalry division of the Army of the Cumber- 
 land, (command of Thomas), engaged in a 
 
 skirmisli with a detachm-ent of Hood's com- 
 mand. — At Ladija, Terrapin Creek, Ala., a 
 cavalry force under Garrard engaged in an ac- 
 tion. 
 
 Oct. 31. — At Plymouth, N. C, the steamers 
 Commodore lUlI, Shamrock, Otsego, Wyalus- 
 ing and Tacony withdrew from surveillance 
 of that part of the North Carolina coast. 
 
 Nov. 1. — The lOtli Missouri Cavalry engaged 
 in a skirmish at Union Station, Tenn., sustain- 
 ing slight loss ; the series of actions included 
 four days. — At Black River, La., a batteiy of 
 heavy artillery (colored troops) engaged in an 
 action. 
 
 Nov. 3. — At Vera C'ruz, Ark., one company 
 of the 40th Missouri Infantry engaged in an 
 action. 
 
 Nov. 5. — In a flglit at Fort Sedgwick, in 
 which the 2d Corps engaged, the Union loss 
 was 15 in killed and wounded and the confed- 
 erate loss was 50. — On the 4th, a detachment 
 of Hood's army attacked Johnsonville, Tenn., 
 which was an important base of supplies; the 
 place was defended by the 11th Tennessee 
 Cavalry, the 43d A\'isconsin Infantry and a 
 regiment of colored troops ; tlie Union loss 
 was slight and the rebels were repulsed, the at- 
 tack lasting two days. — At Big Pigeon River, 
 Tenn., a raid was made by a North Carolina 
 regiment of mounted infantry. 
 
 Nov. 9. — Atlanta, Ga. The 2d Division of 
 the 20th Corps of the Army of the Cumber- 
 land engaged in a skirmish at this point, and 
 inflicted a loss on the confederates of 20 killed 
 and wounded ; a detachment moved to Ma- 
 rietta. — At Shoal Creek, Ala., the 5th Division 
 of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, engaged 
 in a flght with Hood's troops. 
 
 Nov. 10. — The same force were engaged at 
 Pine Barren Ridge. 
 
 Nov. 12. — At Newton and Cedar Springs, 
 Va., Merritt's, Custer's and Powell's cavalry 
 
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 had a brush with the enemy, in which they 
 lost 84 wounded and 100 missing, the rebel 
 loss being 150; in this action Rosser, with his 
 command, was driven across Cedar Creek, and, 
 on the 13th, Early, with his command, had 
 moved away to Middleton. — At Front Royal, 
 Va., Powell routed and drove a rebel l)rigade 
 under McCausland. — Activities at Nineveh, Va. 
 
 Nov. 13. — At Morristown, E. Tenn., General 
 Gillem was attacked by a force of 300 under 
 Breckenridge and his command dispersed ; this 
 disaster was the result of the sejiaration of 
 Gillem from Thomas' command. — At Panther 
 Springs, Tenn., an action took place. — At Bull's 
 Gap, Tenn., the 8th, 9th, and 13tli Tennessee 
 Cavalry engaged in a skirmish, in which the 
 rebel and Union loss was respectively 36 
 wounded and five killed. 
 
 Nov. 14. — The 15th Corps under Howard 
 commenced a movement to the crossing of the 
 Ockmulgee and pursued the movement three 
 days, also building pontoon bridges. This 
 was the real start of Sherman's march to 
 the sea. — At Cow Creek, Ark., a series of skir- 
 mishes commenced on this date, in which col- 
 ored troops and Union Indians engaged, cov- 
 ering a period of 14 days. 
 
 Nov. 15. — At Clinton, La., Liberty Creek, the 
 expedition under General Lee commenced op- 
 erations. 
 
 Nov. 16. — At Lovejoy Station and Bear Sta- 
 tion, Tenn., Kilpatiick, with a cavalry force, 
 drove the rebel skirmishers, and, on arrival at 
 the station, dismounted his men and carried 
 the works on foot, and captured 50 prisoners. — 
 At Cotton Hills, West Virginia, a slight action 
 occurred. 
 
 Nov. 17.— The iOOth Pennsylvania Infantry 
 engaged in a skirmish at Bermuda Hundred 
 with a loss of 10 wounded and 120 missing, 
 and a confederate loss of 10 wounded. — At Ab- 
 erdeen and. Battle Creek, Ala., the 2d Iowa 
 
 Cavalry had a skirmish. — The 15th Corps un- 
 der Howard marched through McDonough, 
 Ga. — Movements in the vicinity of Covington, 
 Ga. 
 
 Nov. 18. — At Meyerstown, Va., a detachment 
 of the 91st Ohio Infantry lost 60 killed and 
 wounded in a skirmish, and the rebels lost 10 
 killed and wounded. — At Rutledge and Social 
 Circle, Ga., activities of the Union cavalry and 
 infantry connected with the commands of 
 Thomas and Kilpatrick. 
 
 Nov. 19. — At Bayou La Fourche, La., the 
 11th Wisconsin Infantry, with a regiment of 
 colored troops, while on an expedition, engaged 
 in a skirmish. — At Walnut Creek, N. G, a 
 slight skirmish took place. 
 
 Nov. 20. — At Macon, Ga., three regiments of 
 cavaJry under Kilpatrick made a feint on Ma- 
 con, destroying a train of cars and tearing up 
 the railroad track ; this movement was made 
 to divert the attention of the rebels from How- 
 ard. — The 14th Corps of Sherman's command 
 moved to Milledgeville, Ga. — At Greensboro, 
 Ga., a rebel movement occurred. — At Brook- 
 ville, Ga., activities occurred. 
 
 Nov. 21. — At Liberty and Jackson, La., the 
 4th Wisconsin Cavalry and the 1st Wisconsin 
 Battery engaged in an expedition with marked 
 success. 
 
 Nov. 22. — The rebel militia umler Cobb 
 moved from Macon to Griswoldsville, and at- 
 tacked Walcott's infantry brigade and a por- 
 tion of Kilpatrick's cavalry, and encountered 
 severe punishment, losing 2,000 troops; the 
 Union loss was 62 killed and wounded ; Wood's 
 division of infantry (Union) were engaged. — 
 At Rood's Hill, Va., Torbett's cavalry engaged 
 in a skirmish, with a loss of IS killed and 52 
 wounded. — Hatch's cavalry, belonging to the 
 command of Thomas, raided Lavi'renceburg, 
 Campbellville and Lynnville, in East Tennes- 
 see, and lost 75 in killed and wounded, the 
 
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 1864— NOV. 24 — NOV. 30 — 1864. 
 
 rebels losing 50 in killed and wounded. — At 
 Rolling Fork, Miss., a colored cavalry regiment 
 engaged Avith tlie rebels. — At Clinton, Ga., the 
 loth Corps of Sherman's command under How- 
 ard advanced toward Gordon. 
 
 Nov. 24. — Sherman commenced to move 
 from Milledgeville, Ga. — Schofield continued 
 his movement on a parallel line witJi Hood in 
 the vicinity of Columbia and Duck River and 
 meanwhile, the skirmish between Capron's 
 brigade and Forrest's cavalry was in operation 
 at Columbia ; the Union line of battle was 
 formed near Bigby Creek and the movements 
 referred to contin.ued in East Tennessee until 
 the 28th ; at times, skirmishing took place and 
 the garrison at .lohnsonville received orders to 
 go to Clarksville with Ihe su{)plies which were 
 stationed there ; all efforts to bring Forrest to 
 action were futile. — On this date, the 1st Ala- 
 bama Cavalry led the advance of the Army of 
 the Tennessee across the Oconee River at Ball's 
 Ferry. — Activities at Jackson, Miss. 
 
 Nov. 2.5. — At Pawnee Forks, Kansas, a com- 
 pany of the 1st Colorado Cavali'y had a skir- 
 mish with the Indians, while escorting a train. 
 — At St. Vrain's Old Fort, a cavalry company 
 defended the movements of a train. — Attempt 
 to fire the city of New York. 
 
 Nov. 26. — At Sandersville, Ga., the con- 
 federates opposed the passage of Howard's 
 corps across the Oconee and inflicted a loss 
 which included 100 missing, the casualties in 
 the confederate command being the same. — 
 At Sylvan Grove, Waynesboro and Brown's 
 Cross Roads, the command of Kilpatrick con- 
 tinued the movements inaugurated and ojier- 
 ated on a plan to deceive the rebels as to Sher- 
 man's movements. On the night of the 26th, 
 Kilpatrick's command was attacked at Sylvan 
 Grove and made a stout resistance. It had 
 been a part of his plan to relieve the prisoners 
 at Millen, but they had been removed. He lost 
 
 in the movement 46 wounded, the confederate 
 loss being 600 killed and wounded.— At Decatur, 
 Ala., Granger commenced tlie withdrawal of 
 his garrison, and also from Athens and Hunts- 
 ville, and his movement continued until the 
 29th. — At Madison Station, Ga., a regiment of 
 colored troops engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 Nov. 27.— At Big Black River Bridge, on 
 the Mississippi Central railroad, a cavalry and 
 artillery command under Colonel Osband en- 
 gaged in a skirmish. 
 
 Nov. 29.— At Spring Hill, Tenn., the 4th 
 Corps and cavalry take position preparatory to 
 the battle of Franklin. — Cavalry skirmish at 
 Big Sandy, Col. 
 
 Nov. 30.— Battle of Franklin. The artillery 
 attached to Wagner's l)rigades opened the battle 
 of Franklin which was followed by infantry fire 
 from the same command. This move was dis- 
 astrous and precipitated the action of the rest 
 of the army. Two colonels. White and Opdycke, 
 on seeing the rout of Wagner's forces, made 
 headlong charges which had excellent effect 
 and after that the charges of the rebels were 
 repeatedly repulsed. The fighting began late 
 in the afternoon and continued until late in 
 the night. The Union loss was 189 killed, 1,033 
 wounded and 1,104 missing. The rebels were 
 ordered forward with the recklessness which 
 characterized Hood's entire movement after 
 supplanting Johnston and his lo.«s in killed and 
 wounded was much greater, 1,750 being killed' 
 3,800 wounded and 702 missing. The greater 
 part of the missing was from Wagner's brigade. 
 The confederate loss in officers was great; that 
 of the Union force was hardly large enough to 
 mention, only two officers being wounded. — At 
 Grahamsville or Honey Hill, S. C, General 
 Hatch moved for action, anticipating that the 
 operation would be useful to the plans of Sher- 
 man. — He landed at Boyd's Neck and attempted 
 to fulfill his purpose, but the rebels defeated his 
 
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 oV)ject by strategy and he unexpectedly met 
 their forces and was forced backtohisintrench- 
 nients at Boyd's Neck. Tlie Union loss was 65 
 killed and 645 wounded ; the confederates re- 
 ported their loss as less than 50.— At Bermuda 
 Hundred, Va., the pickets belonging to a col- 
 ored regiment repeatedly sustained the assaults 
 of rebels. 
 
 Dkc. 1.— Skirmishing and fighting in front 
 of Nashville commenced on this date and con- 
 tinued until the 14th, prior to the general en- 
 gagement. The army ol Schofield, that of A. 
 J. Smith, the troops of Steedman, Granger, Mil- 
 roy and others were ordered to Nashville or 
 Murfreesboro and, during the time mentioned, 
 affairs advanced to a condition which left the 
 Federal forces in advantageous position for the 
 battle of Nashville. — Gregg's cavalry attacked 
 Stony Creek Station on the Weldon railroad 
 and captured 175 prisoners ; the cavalry suffered 
 a loss of 40 wounded. — At Yazoo City, Miss., a 
 skirmish took place in which a detachment of 
 the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry was engaged under 
 Lieutenant Colonel Dale, who fought a large 
 body of rebels with 250 men, 25 of the Wiscon- 
 sin .soldiers were missing, five were killed and 
 nine wounded.— Skirmish at Tangipaho, La. 
 
 Dec. 2. — At Rocky Creek Church, Ga., the 
 3d Kentucky and 5th Ohio Cavalry moved in 
 the advance of Sherman. — At Buckhead Creek 
 the position was held by the two regiments 
 previously mentioned, while Kilpatrick's com- 
 mand crossed, and the bridge was afterwards 
 burned. Kilpatrick attacked Wheeler on this 
 date and drove him, and Kilpatrick succeeded 
 in delivering to Wheeler a satisfactory "return 
 blow."— Block House No. 2 at Miil Creek, Chat- 
 tanooga. The Union garrison was attacked by 
 rebels and sustained a loss of 12 killed, 46 
 wounded and 57 missing; the action continued 
 two days. 
 
 Dec. 3. — At Thomas Station, on the Savan- 
 
 nah Road, the 22d Illinois Mounted Infantry 
 sustained a loss of three in a skirmish.— Sher- 
 man reached Millen and cut railroad communi- 
 cations between Savannah and Augusta. Kil- 
 patrick drove Wheeler across Briar Creek.— 
 Movements of tlie rebels and Federal troops at 
 Charlestown and in the vicinity of Waynesboro, 
 Va. 
 
 Dec. 4.— At Block House No. 7, the garrison 
 under General Milroy was attacked \>y rebels, 
 the loss to both sides being about 100 in killed 
 and wounded.— The 25th Ohio Infantry, while 
 endeavoring to hold a position on the Coosaw 
 River, S. C, engaged in a skirmish.— At States- 
 boro, Ga., a foraging party detailed from the 
 15th Corps became involved in a skirmish.— 
 Overall's Creek ; movement of Sheridan's troops. 
 
 Dec. 5.— Forrest atU^cked Murfreesboro which 
 was defended by Milroy's troops, and was de- 
 feated and compelled to retire with heavy loss, 
 his infantry alone losing 218; 207 prisoners 
 were captured, while the Union loss was 30 
 killed and 175 wounded. The actions covered 
 three days. 
 
 Dec. 6.— At White Post, Va., in a rebel as- 
 sault on 50 of the 21st New York Cavalry, 30 
 were wounded.— At Deveaux's Neck, S. C, a 
 fight occurred in which ten regiments of infan- 
 try, a battery and several United States gun- 
 boats were involved, in which the Union loss 
 was 39 killed, 390 wounded and 200 missing; 
 the confederate loss being 400 killed and 
 wounded ; the fight continued three days. 
 
 Dec. 6. — At Hatcher's Run, three cavalry 
 regiments and a division of the 3d Corps en- 
 gaged in a series of actions which occupied two 
 days, and the Union loss was 125 killed and 
 wounded. The raid of Custer and Merritt to 
 Gordonville commenced ; the movement occu- 
 pied 20 days, and 43 men belonging to their 
 respective commands were wounded. 
 
 Dec. 7.— At Ebenezer Ci-eek, Cypress Swamp 
 
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 1864— DEC. 8 — DEC. 15—1864. 
 
 and at Eden Station cm tlie Ogeeche River, the 
 troops connected with Slierman's army, ad- 
 vanced in their march to the sea ; in the former, 
 the 9th Michigan and 9th Ohio Cavalry formed 
 the rear guard of the left wing, and took up 
 pontoon bridges to prevent refugees following, 
 and in the latter, the troops referred to were the 
 15th and 17th Corps of the right wing of the 
 command. — At Sister's Ferry, Ga. (Savannah 
 Riverj, the rebels prepared to oppose the pro- 
 gress of Sherman's army. — Milroy fought For- 
 rest and Bates, driving them, and capturing 
 200 prisoners ; the Union loss was 200 kil'ed 
 and wounded. — Warren started to destroy the 
 Weldon railroad at a point which should sever 
 railroad communication between Wilmington 
 and Savannah. The movement occupied six 
 days and 20 miles of road was destroyed, when 
 the rebels were encountered in force, and the 
 expedition returned, having marched a hundred 
 miles in six days ; the 2d Division of the Cav- 
 alry Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the 
 5th Corps and 3d Division of the 2d Corps of 
 the Army of the Potomac were engaged. 
 
 Dec. 8. — Action at Nottaway, Va. 
 
 Dec. 9. — An expedition went into Western 
 North Carolina in pursuit of rebels, in which 
 the 3d North Carolina Infantry was occupied 
 five days. — At Fort Lyons, in Ind. Ter., an 
 engagement occurred, in which a colored cav- 
 alry regiment was engaged, and 500 Indians 
 were massacred. — The 14th Corps of the left 
 wing of the Army of the Military Division of 
 the Mississijipi engaged in an action at Cuyler's 
 Plantation, Montieth Swamp, Ga. — In an ex- 
 pedition to Hamilton, N. C, the 27th Massa- 
 chusetts and 9th New Jersey Infantry, 3d Cav- 
 alry and 3d New York Battery engaged in a 
 skirmish ; this action was connected with the 
 expedition previously mentioned, and included 
 a skirmish at Foster's Bridge and Butler's 
 Bridge in Jackson county, N. C. — During the 
 
 expedition of Warren on the Weldon railroad, 
 cavalry skirmishe.s occurred at Bellefield and 
 Hicksford, Va. — Movements in the vicinity of 
 Florence, Ala. 
 
 Dec. 10. — At Blooraingdale, N. C, a rebel 
 movement took place. 
 
 Dec. 12. — At Elkton, Ky., a movement was 
 made by the cavalry commanded by General 
 E. M. McCook. 
 
 Dec. 13. — Fort McAlister. The investment 
 of Savannah River to the Ogeeche was com- 
 pleted on the 12th, and on this date an at- 
 tack was made on Fort McAlister. The attack- 
 ing column was formed of a portion of How- 
 ard's troops under General Hazen, and, within 
 15 minutes after the first charge, the stars and 
 stripes supplanted the confederate flag ; the 
 Union loss was 24 killed and 110 wounded, the 
 rebel loss being 84 killed and wounded. The 
 Great Ogeeche River was placed under control 
 of Sherman and the sea was practically reached, 
 the rear of the right of Sherman's command 
 obtaining a base on the sea. 
 
 Dec. 14. — At Bristol, Tenn., a detachment of 
 cavalry under General Burl^ridge (Stoneman's 
 raid) engaged in the destruction of the Virginia 
 and Tennessee railroads. — At Memphis, Tenn., 
 the 4th Iowa Cavalry was attacked by rebels, 
 and lost three killed and six wounded. — At 
 Mount Aii'y, Ky., an action occurred. 
 
 Dec. 15. — The battle of Nashville commenced 
 in the early morning, and the attack of Steed- 
 man on Hood's right was made with great vigor. 
 At nightfall, tlie victory was clearly with the 
 Union army, and ajijiearances seemed to in- 
 dicate that Hood would retreat. The action 
 continued through the 10th, and, before the 
 close of the afternoon, the entire rebel army 
 was in precipitate flight; at nightfall, the vic- 
 tory was complete, and orders were issued for 
 immediate pursuit. Hood's army was routed 
 completely, his wagons being abandoned and 
 
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1864 — DEC. 15— DEC. 21 — 1864. 
 
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 his soldiers flinging aside everything tliat could 
 2)ossibly impede their movements, while the 
 confused mass of fugitives fled in wild disorder 
 through Brentwood Pass. The 4th Corps was 
 close in pursuit and followed until darkness 
 concealed the retreating rebels. The dead and 
 wounded of the confederate army were left on 
 the tield, and in the morning the pursuit was 
 continued. Four miles north of Franklin, the 
 rear of the flying column was overtaken by 
 Wilson, and the force was dispersed and more 
 than 400 j/risoners captured. A cavalry force 
 liad anived there and Hood was obliged to 
 abandon Frank lin , leaving 2,000 of h is w ounded 
 in the hospital The disorganized remnant of 
 liis command crossed the Tennessee, December 
 27th, falling back to Tupelo, Miss., where Hood 
 resigned his command and was never again a 
 power in the rebel army. The Union loss was 
 400 killed and 1,740 wounded ; the rebel loss 
 was very heavy in killed, wounded and miss- 
 ing; 8,000 prisoners had been taken, 53 siege 
 guns and thousands of small arms had been 
 seized by the forces of Thomas, and a rebel force 
 about 40,000 strong had been killed, captured 
 or routed in confusion and dismay. 
 
 Dec. 15. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jackson's 
 division, belonging to Rousseau's command, cap- 
 tured a railway train going thither from Stev- 
 enson, Ala. — Movements at Pascagoula, Miss. 
 
 Dec. 16. — At Hopkinsville, Ky., two bri- 
 gades from McCook's division of cavalry en- 
 gaged in a movement. — At Overton's Mills, 
 Tenn., a portion of the battle of Nashville took 
 place, already referred to as Brentford. — Rebel 
 activity at Pollard, Ky. 
 
 Dec. 17.— At Mitchell's Creek, Fla., a col- 
 ored regiment had a fight and another colored 
 regiment engaged in an action at Pine Barren 
 Creek, Ala., their united loss in killed, wounded 
 and missing being about 75.— At Millwood, 
 Va., the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, while on 
 
 a scouting expedition, engaged in a skirmish. 
 — Thomas followed the flying rebels through 
 the Brentwood Hills to the Franklin Pike ; 
 Wilson overtook the rear guard at Hollow Tree 
 Gap with the 5tli and 7th Cavalry Divisions; 
 the former force was the 6th Cavalry division 
 of the same army.— At Ashbysburg, Ky., Mc- 
 Cook's cavalry skirmished wiih the rebels. 
 
 Dec. 18.— Action at Franklin Creek, Miss. 
 
 Dec. 19. — At Rutherford Creek, Tenn., a 
 pontoon bridge was laid, the operation giving 
 the rebels a considerable advantage. — Move- 
 ment at Duck River. — At Hardeeville, S. C, 
 General Foster protected his position. 
 
 Dec. 20. — At Lacy's Springs, Custer's cav- 
 alry engaged in a skirmish and lost two killed, 
 22 wounded and 40 missing. — At Madison C. H., 
 Va., a brigade of Michigan cavalry belonging 
 to the Army of the Potomac engaged in a 
 skirmish. 
 
 Dec. 21.— Stoneman's raid. On the 9th of 
 December, Stoneman started to clean the rebels 
 out of East Tennessee. He moved from Bean's 
 Station, Tenn., to Saltville and went also to 
 Abingdon, Wytheville, Glade Spring and 
 Marion, Ga. One of his commands met the 
 rebels at Kingsport, as stated above ; at Bristol, 
 another force was encountered by the brigade 
 of Burbridge and the rebels retreated. Bur- 
 bridge moved to Abingdon which was also 
 reached by Gillem on the 15th, and on the 10th 
 they overtook the rebels at Marion, routed the 
 force and captured the artillery, trains and 198 
 prisoners. Wytheville, its stores and supplies, 
 lead works and railroad bridge were destroyed, 
 and Stoneman moved on to the capture and 
 destruction of Saltville and the salt works; he 
 captured two locomotives, siege guns and am- 
 munition and returned to Knoxville with his 
 own and Gillem's command and Burbridge fell 
 back into Kentucky. 
 
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 1864— DEC. 22— JAN. 11—1865. 
 
 Dec. 22.— At Liberty Mills or McLean's 
 Ford, Va., an unimportant action took place. 
 
 Dec. 23.— At Lynnville, Tenn., tlie cavalry 
 of Thomas continued the jnirsuit of Hood's 
 army. — At Jack's Shop, near (Joidonville, Va., 
 a cavalry division of the Army of the Potomac 
 and one from the Army of Virginia engaged in 
 a movement. — At Buford's Station, Tenn., the 
 pursuit of the rebels by the cavalry of Thomas' 
 army continued. 
 
 Dec. 24.— At Elizabethtown, Ky., the 1st 
 Wisconsin Cavalry overtook the rebels flying 
 from the pursuing columns of Thomas and 
 Colonel La Crange with 20 picked men charged 
 400 rebels and captured 11 prisoners. — At Moc- 
 casin Gap, Va., the 8th Tennessee Cavalry 
 connected with Stoneman's raid engaged in a 
 (lash. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., the rebels at- 
 tacked a garrison of colored troops. 
 
 Dec. 25. — Assault on Fort Fisher, N. C. The 
 city of Wilmington was under the protection of 
 the fort which was located at the mouth of the 
 Cape Fear River; this was one of the principal 
 forts of the confederates and was assaulted by 
 the Nortli Atlantic squadron commanded by 
 .Vdmiral Porter, and the 10th Corps of the 
 Army of the James under Butler. Tlie Iwm- 
 bardment commenced on the 24th and was 
 continued to some purpose on the morning of 
 the 2r)th, which was Sunday and Christmas. 
 The Union loss was eight killed and 38 
 wounded, while the confederates lost three 
 killed, 55 wounded and 280 prisoners. — At 
 Verona, Miss., the 7th Indiana Cavalry en- 
 gaged witii the fleeing rebels arriving from 
 Hood's army. 
 
 Dec. 27. — At Decatur, Ala., General Steed- 
 man was established over a provisional depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Dec. 28. — At Egypt Station, Miss., a heavy 
 action took place, in which the 2d Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, the 4th and 11th Illinois Cavalry, the 
 
 7th Indiana, the 4th and 10th Missouri, the 2d 
 New Jersey, 1st Mississippi and 3d U. S. Col- 
 ored Cavalry were engaged, and in which the 
 Union loss was 111 killed and wounded and 
 the confederates lost 500 prisoners. 
 
 Dec. 29.— At Pond Spring, Ala,, the 15th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, with detachments of 
 Tennessee Cavalrj' and from three Indiana 
 cavalry regiments, engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 Dec. 31. — In the skirmishing and fighting 
 in front of Petersburg, Va., the Federal force 
 lost 40 killed and 329 wounded during the 
 month. 
 
 1SG5. J.\N. 1. — General Butler relieved of 
 the command of the Army of the James. 
 
 Jan. 2.— In a skirmish at Franklin, Miss., in 
 which the 4th and 11th Illinois and a coloi'ed 
 cavalr}' regiment engaged, the Union force lost 
 four killed and nine wounded, and the confed- 
 erate loss in killed and wounded was 50. — At 
 Nauvoo, Ala., the same force of cavalry, men- 
 tioned December 29tli, captured and destroyed 
 Hood's supply and pontoon train. 
 
 Jan. 3. — The same troops engaged in a skir- 
 mish with Hood's command at Thorn Hill, 
 Ala. 
 
 Jan. 5. — At Smitliticld, Ky., a cavalry regi- 
 ment was attacked by the rebels. 
 
 Jan. 6. — At Owensboro, Ky., an action took 
 place, in which a colored cavalry regiment was 
 engaged. — Activities at Hawesville and Hen- 
 derson, Ky. 
 
 Jan. 7. — At Julesburg, I. T., a company of 
 the 7th Iowa Cavalry engaged in a fight with 
 the Indians. 
 
 Jan. 8. — At SkipwiUi's Landing, Miss., on 
 the Mississippi River, an action took place. — 
 At Scottsboro, Ala., 54 men belonging to a col- 
 ored regiment engaged in a skirmish. — At Ivy 
 Ford, Ala., a colored regiment sustained au as- 
 sault. 
 
 Jan. 11.— At Beverly, W. Va., the 34th and 
 
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 8th Ohio Cavah'y stationed there as a garrison 
 were .surprised by Rosser and 583 prisoners 
 captured, 25 being killed and wounded. 
 
 Jan. 13.— Capture of Fort Fisher, N. C. 
 The bombardment was commenced on the 13th, 
 continuing all night and tiirough the 14th ; on 
 the loth the assault was made successfully and 
 the fort captured. The Union loss was 184 
 killed and 749 wounded ; the rebels lost 400 
 killed and wounded and 2,083 captured. 
 
 Jan. 14. — Pocotaligo, N. C. In the move- 
 ment of Sherman's troops from this place a 
 skirmish occurred, in which the 17th Corps, 
 Army of the Tennessee, were engaged and sus- 
 tained a loss of 25 wounded. The movement 
 continued until the 16th — At Reed Hill, Ala., 
 the 15tli Pennsylvania Cavalry continued to 
 harass Hood's disorganized soldiery. At Dar- 
 danelle, Ark., the 2d Kansas and Iowa Cavalry 
 regiment engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 Jan. 15. — At Federal Hill, Va., rebel activi- 
 ties occurred. , 
 
 Jan. 16. — Explosion at Fort Fisher. This 
 disaster was caused by the carelessness of the 
 soldiers who approached the magazine with 
 burning candles ; 25 soldiers were killed and 
 66 wounded. — On this date Fort Caswell, to- 
 gether with all the works on Smith's Island in 
 the vicinity of Smithville, and Reeve's Point 
 was abandoned in consequence of the fall of 
 Fort Fisher; all armaments were captured. 
 
 Jan. 18. — In the vicinity of Columbus, Ky., 
 the Tennessee Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 Jan. 19. — At Half Moon Battery, Sugar Loaf 
 Hill, N. C, a detachment from the Army of 
 the James were engaged in the destruction of 
 the railroad. 
 
 Jan. 21. — Activities at City Point, Va. 
 
 Jan. 24. — At Fort Brady, Va., a detacl^ment 
 from the Army of the James on gunboats 
 broke the chain which had obstructed Dutch 
 Gap Caual. 
 
 Jan. 25. — On this date two Corps of the 
 Army of the Tennessee made a demonstration 
 against Combahee Ferry and the railroad bridge 
 across the Salkahatchie, the river having been 
 con.stituted the rebel line of defense covering 
 Chai'leston on the south. The rebels were held 
 at this point until after Howard's army was on 
 the move and on the 1st of February, the main 
 body of the army moved westward up the Sal- 
 kahatchie. Howard crossed the river in the 
 face of the enemy at River's and Beaufort's 
 Bridges. The rebel situation on the 3d of the 
 month was carried by Mower's and Smith's 
 divisitn. The confederate killed and wounded, 
 numbering 88, wore sent back to Pocotaligo. 
 The 15th Corps crossed at Beaufort's Bridge 
 almost without resistance and the rebels fell 
 back to Branehville, S. C. ; the columns of 
 Sherman occupied the South Carolina railroad 
 connecting Charleston with Augusta, and the 
 entire Union loss through this movement, 
 which occupied from January 25th to February 
 9th, was 138 killed and wounded. — At Simp- 
 sonville, Ky., an engagement occurred between 
 the rebels and a regiment of colored cavalry. 
 
 Jan. 29. — An expedition started into western 
 North Carolina, which was principally com- 
 posed of the 3d North Carolina Infantry; this 
 movement occupied about two weeks. 
 
 Jan. 30. — Movement of Union troops at 
 Sister's Ferry, Ga. 
 
 Feb. 2.— At Midway, Barnwell Co., S. C, 
 and at Whippy Swamp, Beaufort Co , S. C, ac- 
 tivities connected with the movements of the 
 Union troops in South Carolina took place. 
 
 Feb. 4. — At Little River, Tenn., a slight ac- 
 tion occurred. 
 
 Feb. 5. — Dabney's Mills or Hatcher's Run, 
 Va. The railroads being cut, the rebels brought 
 supplies to Petersburg on wagon trains ; to in- 
 tercept these trains and to put an end to these 
 operations, General Gregg with his cavalry was 
 
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 1865 — FEB. 7 — FEB 7—1865. 
 
 ordered to march with Warren'.s Corps for the 
 purpose of turning tlie rebel lines at Hatch- 
 er's Run, and lie went by way of Keanx's Sta- 
 tion to Dinwiddie C. H., and moved up and 
 down the Boydton plank roads on which the 
 trains were reported to be. General Warren 
 cro.'sed the Run and General Humphries, in his 
 advance to assist the movement, was furiously 
 assaulted. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the 
 rebel jirtiilery opened on Ilumpliries' infantry 
 in a desperate manner, only to be repulsed. 
 Gregg found that the Boydton road was of but 
 little use; Warren sent a force up the stream, 
 through swamps, which drove before them 
 a force of rebels to Dabney's Mills. A division 
 under Ayres, which was advancing to support 
 ('rawford, was driven upon him by a rebel force 
 which had moved unexpectedly to the loft of 
 the Union force, and both commands fell back 
 to the Run, hotly pursued by the rebels, who 
 were met by a fire from Humphries' intrench- 
 ments, and they fell back within their lines. 
 The Union loss was 232 killed, 1,062 wounded 
 and 186 missing. Generals Morrow, Smythe, 
 Davis, Gregg, Ayres, Sickles and Gwynn were 
 wounded. The confederate loss was 1,200 
 killed and wounded. General Pegram being 
 among the .slain.— At Moorefield,Rosser captured 
 a rebel train of 95 wagons, with valuable stores. 
 — At Orange C. H., Va., activities occurred. — 
 On Rowanti Creek, Va., the troops referred to 
 ill the first mention under this date, occupied 
 positions. 
 
 Feb. 7. — Sherman's advance northward. 
 The left wing of the army, with Kilpatrick's 
 cavalry, crossed the Savannah River on this 
 date under orders to move to Coosawatchie on 
 the Cbarleston Road and to Robertsville, on 
 the road to Columbia. Two divisions of the 
 20th Corps under Jackson and Geary had 
 crossed the river at Purisburg, had readied 
 Hardeeville, S. C, and established communica- 
 
 tion with Howard at Pocotaligo. Tlie general 
 features of tlie march through tiie Carolinas 
 were a repetition of that through Georgia. The 
 operations of the rebels, defensive and otl'en&ive, 
 were of the same character, and Sherman 
 rightly estimated ihat strongly foitified and 
 important posit idiis would be held by the 
 rebels to the bitter end, and that the route be- 
 tween Augusta, Ga., and Charlestown would be 
 clear, with the exception of the operations of 
 Wheeler's cavalry and the local organizations 
 of armed rebels. Kilpatrick moved to Black- 
 ville, WillLston and Aiken along the Soutli 
 Carolina railroad, losing slightly, taking 100 
 prisoners and killing and wounding 240 rebels, 
 and entirely destroying the road between Edisto 
 and Blackville, and Slocum reached the latter 
 place on the lOtli. The destruction of the road 
 was continued to Windsor, and, on the 11th, the 
 entire army was concentrated midway between 
 Augusta and Charleston, the position being of 
 eminent advantage, as the rebel forces covering 
 these two points would be thus divided. The 
 right wing of the army reached Orangeburg on 
 the 12th, carried the intrenchments, drove the 
 garrison across the Edisto, and the force was 
 flanked immediately. General Blair pushed 
 on to the railroad and commenced its destruc- 
 tion, and Slocum advanced westward, covered 
 by Kilpatrick. Felj. KJtli, Sherman's arm}' 
 was in sight of Columbia from the south bank 
 of the Congaree ; Slocum crossed the Saluda at 
 Zion Church and pushed on to AVinnsboro, 
 destroying the railroad communication near 
 Allston, while Howard moved on Columbia 
 from the north. On the 17th, the corps was 
 crossing a jtontoon bridge laid on Broad River, 
 and, during its i)assage, the mayor of Columbia 
 rode out and surrendered the city to General 
 Stone, who took possession with his brigade. 
 General Hampton, commanding the rearguard, 
 ordered the burning of the cotton stored in the 
 
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 citj', and it was stacked in the streets, with all 
 the bands removed ; the fierce gale blew 
 tufts of burning cotton hither and thither, and 
 the city was soon an uncontrollable mass of 
 flame. Every effort was made to arrest the 
 fire, but it was not checked until the morning 
 of the 18th. Slocum reached Winnsboro on 
 the 21st, and on the 2od, the 20tli Corps crossed 
 the Catawba River. The same night, Kil- 
 patrick made a feint on Charlotte, whither 
 Beauregard had retreated with the rebel cav- 
 alry. On the 26th, the 20th Corps reached 
 Hanging Rock. Slocum pushed on toCheraw, 
 N. C, which was 70 miles southwest of Char- 
 lotte. Feb. 22d, Kilpatrick reported 18 of 
 his men murdered and left in the highway, 
 with threatening labels attached to their per- 
 sons, and the cavalry commander was ordered 
 to retaliate man for man. The right wing 
 pushed on to Peay's Ferry, and a detachment 
 was sent to destroy communications on the 
 Wateree and between Florence and Charleston, 
 which was prevented by rebel cavalry. March 
 3d, Sherman's army had reached Cheraw, N. 
 C. The losses on both sides were small. 
 
 Feb. 8.— At Shallotte Inlet, N. C, move- 
 ments following the surrender of Fort Fisher 
 took place. — Kilpatrick reached Branchville, 
 S. C. — Destruction of the railroad to Williston, 
 S. C, by Kilpatrick's command. 
 
 Feb. 9. — Skirmish at Binnaker's Bridge, 
 South Edisto River, S. C; 17th Corps, Army of 
 the Tennes.see. — On this date, the 11th Ohio 
 and 7th Iowa cavalry engaged in a fight with 
 Indians at Rush Creek, I. T. 
 
 Feb. 10. — In a fight at James Island, in which 
 the forces of General Gilmore engaged, they lost 
 about 80 men, and effected the possession of the 
 island. The rebel loss was about the same. 
 
 Feb. 11. — In a fight at Sugar Loaf Battery, 
 Federal Point, N. C, a detachment from the 
 Army of the James being engaged, 14 Union 
 
 soldiers were killed and 114 wounded. — Attack 
 on Orangeburg, S. C, by Sherman's army. — At 
 Honey Hill, Ga., the rebels tired on a detach- 
 ment of Union soldiers. 
 
 Feb. 15. — On this date, Sherman's army ar- 
 rived at Lexington, S. C. A part of Sheridan's 
 command crossed Water Lick Creek, Va. 
 
 Feb. 16. — The colored troops at Cedar Creek, 
 Fla., were assaulted by the rebels. 
 
 Feb. 17. — Evacuation of Charleston. This 
 movement was commenced on the night of this 
 date, and occupied two days.— Attack on Fort 
 Anderson on the Cape Fear River, N. C, and 
 capture of Wilmington. On this date. Admiral 
 Porter attacked Fort Anderson on the Cape 
 Fear River. The river had been previously 
 dragged for torpedoes, and the flotilla, compris- 
 ing five vessels, the Montauk, Pawtuxet, Lena- 
 pee, Unadilla and Pequot, had been variously 
 disposed on the stream. On the 18th, a large 
 force of gunboats took possession and bombarded 
 the fort, which was silenced at three p. m., the 
 Union firing being maintained until evening. 
 During the night of the I8th,the fort was aban- 
 doned, the flying rebels removing six field 
 pieces. Ten heavy guns were captured, and in 
 the engagement throughout, the Union loss 
 was three killed and four wounded. On the 
 20th and 21st, the search for torpedoes beyond 
 the fort was continued, and the gunboats passed 
 on to attack the batteries nearer Wilmington, 
 which was evacuated on the 22d. On the 
 20th, two guns and 375 rebel prisoners were 
 caj)tured. The rebels fired their stores and 
 General Cox entered the town. The entire 
 Federal loss was about 200 in killed and 
 wounded. The rebel loss was much greater. 
 Fort Strong on Big Island was bombarded and 
 the rebels driven from the fort. 
 
 Feb. 18. — Forts Moultrie and Sumter in 
 Charleston Harlwr abandoned. — At Fort Jones, 
 Ky., a battery of colored artillery engaged in 
 an action. 
 
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 1865 — FEB. 20— MARCH 8 — 1865. 
 
 Feb. 20. — An action took place at Fort 
 Myers, Fla. — At Town Creek, N. C, a part of 
 the Army of the Ohio drove the rebels flying 
 from Fort Anderson to this place. Cox occu- 
 pied the place on tliis date and ca{)turcd the 
 •armament. 
 
 Fei5. 21. — Activities at Cumberland, Va. 
 
 Feb. 22. — In a skirmish at Douglas Land- 
 ing, Pine Bluff, Ark., the Union loss was 40 
 wounded and the rebels lost 26 wounded; the 
 13th Illinois Cavalry was engaged. 
 
 Feb. 23. — Activities at Georgetown, S. C, 
 and at Fort White. 
 
 Feb. 24. — Movements of troops at Camden, 
 Mo. 
 
 Feb. 26— At Mount Clio, S. C, a detach- 
 ment of mounted infantry under the noted 
 scout. Captain Duncan, engaged in a thrilling 
 adventure. — At Lynch Creek, S. C, the advance 
 of the IStli Corps. 
 
 Feb. 27. — Sheridan moved up the Shenan- 
 doah Valley from Winchester to destroy the 
 Central Railroad and the canal, to take Lynch- 
 burg, and afterwards to join Sherman or Grant 
 as circumstances decreed. On the 28th, he 
 i-eached Staunton and desj)atched several 
 brigades to drive Early from Waynesboro. The 
 attack was made on the morning of March 2d, 
 and nearly all of Early's force and supplies 
 were captured, the prisoners numbering ],(>G7; 
 the Union loss being 35 killed and wounded; 
 this was the end of Early's power in the Shen- 
 andoah, and Sheridan's troops commenced 
 operations by destroying the railroad and canal. 
 On the 3d of March the troops took possession 
 of Charlotteville and the railroad to Gordons- 
 ville and Lynchburg was destroyed. On the 
 6th of March active operations on the canal 
 were commenced and the destruction was made 
 a success. March 10th, Sheridan readied Co- 
 lumbia and determined to join Grant and ar- 
 rived at White House on the 19th. 
 
 Feb. 28. — A colored regiment sustained an 
 assault in the defen.ses at Chattanooga. 
 
 Makch 1.— At Clinton, La., the 4th Wiscon- 
 sin Cavalry entered on a foraging expedition. 
 
 Makch 3. — Howard arrived at Cheraw. — At 
 Chesterfield, S. C, movements of Sherman 
 took place. 
 
 March 6. — The 4th Wisconsin Cavalry en- 
 gaged in a skirmish at Olive Branch, La., and 
 lost three killed and two wounded. — Two regi- 
 ments of colored troops engaged in a heavy 
 skirmish at Natural Bridge, Va., and lost 22 
 killed and 46 wounded. — At Fredericksburg, 
 Va., movements of the Army of N'irginia. — At 
 North Fork in the Shenandoah, a portion of 
 Sheridan's cavalry, commanded by Colonel 
 Thompson of the 1st New Hampshire Cavalry, 
 engaged in lively action in the destruction of 
 the canal. 
 
 March 7. — Kilpatrick reached Rockingham, 
 N. C. 
 
 March 8. — At Wilcox' Bridge or Wise's 
 Fork, N. C, the divisions of Palmer, Carter and 
 Ruger engaged in an action of heavy calibre. 
 The fighting on this date was without results 
 and information was received of a heavy rebel 
 force in front; on the 10th, the rebels made an 
 attack in force after keeping up the skirmish- 
 ing on the previous day. The fight was a 
 sharp one, about 16,000 rebels being included 
 in the attacking corps. Bragg retreated with 
 his force on the night of the 10th, the battle 
 being without practical results excepting the 
 demonstration to the rebels of the determined 
 and invincible character of the columns of 
 Sherman. The Union loss was 80 killed, 421 
 wounded and 600 missing; the confederates 
 lost 1,500 killed. This action is known to his- 
 tory as the battle of Kingston. — Kilpatrick's 
 troops at Laurel Hill, N. C. — At Jackson, N. C, 
 activities occurred connected with the destruc- 
 tion of the Weldou Railroad. 
 
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1865— MARCH 9— MARCH 21 — 1865. 
 
 137 
 
 Marcpi 9. — On the night of this date, Wade 
 Hampton dashed into Kilpatrick's camp and 
 captured his headquarters and some of his 
 guns. Kilpatrick rallied, retook the guns and 
 re-occupied the camp. This was a complete 
 surprise because of the night, the soldiers being 
 in sound sleep. Hampton took several hundred 
 prisoners whom he afterwards released and the 
 rebels lost more than a hundred killed and 
 wounded, who were left on the field. This ac- 
 tion took place near a village called Solemn 
 Grove, Moore Co., N. C. — Hardee crossed the 
 Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, N. C. — At 
 Grant's Creek, N. C, activities connected with 
 the reunion of the different divisions of Sher- 
 man's army took place. 
 
 March 11. — Skirmish at Beaver Dam, N. C. 
 — Johnston arrived in person at Fayetteville. — 
 At Clear Lake, Ark., a detachment from Com- 
 pany A, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry were led into 
 an ambush, in which two were killed and three 
 wounded. 11 missing were reported. — (Stone- 
 man's raid).- 
 
 March 15. — At the South Anna River in 
 Virginia, the 5th U. S. Colored Cavalry engaged 
 in a skirmish. — Activities at Moore's Cross 
 Roads, Va. — Movement at Brandenburg, Ky. 
 
 March 16. — Battle of Averysboro, N. C. — 
 Sherman's army was on the Cape Fear River; 
 he had hitherto maneuvered to divide the rebel 
 forces, but they had concentrated under the 
 command of .Jolmston, and, on this date, an 
 attack was made on the left and center of Har- 
 dee's intrenched lines, and a brigade acting as 
 rear guard was routed with more than a hun- 
 dred dead left on the field and more than 200 
 captured. Repeated charges were made, and 
 night onlj' closed the fighting, and Hardee re- 
 treated. The Federal loss was 77 killed and 
 aV>out 500 wounded, the rebel loss being about 
 the same and most of their wounded left to the 
 care of the Union force. For two or three days 
 
 Sherman's strategic movement continued, and, 
 on the 19th, troops began to concentrate for the 
 fighting at Bentonville. The battle at Averys- 
 boro was a hard one for the Union troops, the 
 nature of the ground being swampy and diffi- 
 cult to traverse, and the victory which was 
 gained, proved to the rebels the uselessness of 
 endeavoring to cope with an army who had 
 been engaged for months in making their way 
 over many miles of similar territory. — Activi- 
 ties in the vicinity of Kinston, N. C, and at 
 Taylor's Bayou, La. ; Schofield leaves Kinston, 
 to join Sherman. 
 
 March 18. — A colored regiment engaged in 
 an action at Boyd's Station, Ala. — Hardee 
 reaches Smith field, N. C. 
 
 March 19. — Battle of Bentonville. On this 
 date the corps of Logan approached Benton- 
 ville, and soon after the cavalry and artillery 
 fighting commenced. The lett flank of .John- 
 ston's army declined to meet the corps of Lo- 
 gan, which was practically assuming the de- 
 fenses. On the 20th, three corps of Sherman's 
 army were in an impregnable position in front 
 of the command of Johnston, who retreated to 
 Smitlifield unimpeded, as the great invader at 
 the head of the Union troops did not desire a 
 general engagement at this point. The Union 
 loss in this approach on Bentonville was 191 
 killed, 1,168 wounded and 287 missing. The 
 confederate loss in killed, wounded and missing 
 was over 3,000. — On this date, a movement 
 took place at Morris' Farm, N. C, on which a 
 position was held in the Bentonville fight. 
 
 March 20. — Stoneman's raid into southwest- 
 ern Virginia and North Carolina. This move- 
 ment progressed from this date to April 23d. — 
 Three brigades under Gillem moved from Vir- 
 ginia to North Carolina. 
 
 March 21. — Goldsboro occupied by Scho- 
 field. — At Cox's Bridge and Mount Olive, in 
 that vicinity, activities occurred connected with 
 
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 1865 — MARCH 22 — MARCH 31 — 1865. 
 
 the military movements of Sherman's column. 
 Gillem's advance reached Marion, Va. — Military 
 movements at Plantersville, Ala., and at Padu- 
 cah, Ky. — On this date Wilson moved south- 
 ward from Chickasaw, Ala. This movement 
 occupied from Jhirch 22d to April 24th. The 
 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
 mish at Hamilton, Va. 
 
 March 22. — Activities at Ream's Station, 
 Va., and Paducah, Ky. 
 
 March 23. — Action at Sumterville, S. C. 
 
 March 24. — Redrock, Arizona Ter. ; a regi- 
 ment of New Mexico cavalry engaged in a 
 scrimmage. — On the same date at Cox's Bridge, 
 N. C, the command of General Terry laid a 
 pontoon bridge and Sherman entered Smith- 
 field, N. C. 
 
 March 25. — Attack on Fort Steadman. Gen- 
 eral Lee's command commenced operations at 
 Fort Steadman at the break of day, and the 
 storming party, moving upon the redoubts, 
 carried them and overwhelmed the garrison in 
 ihe fort, capturing the guns and turning them 
 upon the Federal troops. As soon as General 
 Parke learned of the affair, he ordered a move- 
 ment to recapture, and before eight o'clock in 
 llie morning, important advantages had been 
 gained, and soon after that hour Fort Stead man 
 was again in the possession of the Federal 
 army; nearly 2.000 prisoners were captured 
 and the Union loss in killed, wounded and 
 missing was about 1,000. In connection with 
 this action the forces of Humphries at City 
 Point were placed under arms and reconnois- 
 tances made in readiness to assault the rebel 
 intrenchments and heavy artillery and mus- 
 ketry fire was kept up. In this action the 
 train was laid for the victorious operations on 
 the 2d day of April. — Activities at Hatcher's 
 Run, Ya., at Fort Fisher, N. C, at Fort Has- 
 kell and Hare's Hill. — On the same date an 
 action occurred at Pollard, Ala., between Gen- 
 
 eral Steele and the rebel General Clayton, in 
 which the latter was seriously wounded and 
 130 prisoners captured. — At Pine Barren Creek, 
 Ala., the cavalry of Steele advanced previous 
 to the action mentioned. 
 
 March 26. — Siege of Mobile. This action 
 commenced on this date and terminated April 
 9th. — Stoneman reached Boone, N. C. — Military 
 movements at Mitchell's Creek, Fla. 
 
 March 27. — Investment of Spanish Fort. — 
 Kilpatrick made connection on this date with 
 the forces of Grant, and the Army of the 
 James, with a cavalry force, made a secret 
 movement. 
 
 March 29.— At Quaker Road, Va., the 5th 
 Corps under Warren moved to position and 
 one of his columns under Gritfin encountered 
 the rebels in force and a sharp fight took place, 
 involving a loss of about 400 on eacli side, the 
 rebels being driven back to their intrenchments. 
 The troops moved on Vaughn Road near Grav- 
 elly Run, and on this day Siieridan placed his 
 command in position south of Hatcher's Run, 
 which was also crossed by Humphries and 
 Warren. 
 
 March 30. — At Halifax Road the move- 
 ments continued on Hatcher's Run and on the 
 Dabney Mill Road, the rebels being driven, 
 and the Crow House intrenchments occupied 
 by the Federal troops. — Movements on Cham- 
 berlain's Creek, Va. 
 
 March 31. — On the morning of this date, 
 the corps of Warren was in sight of White Oak 
 Road, ^'a. ; the position wa.* sutb that regular 
 Inie of battle could not be foriufd, Imt the divi- 
 sions were so disposed that they could change 
 front for action in any direction. A fierce at- 
 tack was made by the rebels with slight advan- 
 tage, but Griffin's division held its ground and 
 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the rebels had 
 ceased their onset, and when Warren resumed 
 the otfensive he met little opposition ; only two 
 
1865 — APRIL 1 — APRIL 2 — 1865. 
 
 139 
 
 of his brigades were involved to an}' extent and 
 an entire confederate regiment was captured 
 and soon after the rebels had retreated to their 
 breastworks and a victory was won. Warren's 
 loss was 177 killed, 1,134 wounded and 556 
 missing. The confederate loss in killed and 
 wounded was about 1,00(1. — Dinwiddle C. H., 
 Va. After the fight at White Oak Roads, 
 Warren moved to Dinwiddie and attacked the 
 rebels on one side while Sheridan operated 
 against them on the other, and soon after mid- 
 night, the rebel force was compelled to retire 
 towards Five Forks, having lost 400 in killed 
 and wounded ; the Union loss was 67 killed 
 and 354 wounded. — At Montevallo, the troops 
 belonging to Wilson's command on his raid in 
 Alabama, engaged in the destruction of a rail- 
 road ; the work included iron works and roll- 
 ing mills and was chiefly performed by Crox- 
 ton's brigade, a skirmish taking place at Trion 
 and King's Iron Works. — At Six Mile Creek 
 near Montevallo, Roddy's cavalry engaged in a 
 skirmish and captured 50 prisoners. 
 
 April 1. — Battle of Five Forks. This action 
 was fought by Warren's corps and the 1st, 2d 
 and 3d Cavalry Divisions under Sheridan. 
 The first assault was made on the rebel left, 
 which was soon driven in nearly to the center 
 with a loss of more than half of the confed- 
 erate force captured and the balance surged 
 down the White Oak Road in a demoralized 
 mass. GrifRn and Ayres pressed on the left 
 and Crawford pushed upon the rear. A deter- 
 mined etibrt was made to stop the latter and 
 the brigade of Coulter was terribly cut, but the 
 movement was in vain, and almost the entire 
 force surrendered to Crawford. Another at- 
 tempt to make a stand was made a mile beyond 
 the Forks and proved equally futile. The 
 Union loss was 124 killed and 706 wounded, 
 the rebel loss being 8,500 killed, wounded and 
 captured. — At Triana, Ala., a battle took place, 
 
 in which the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division ot 
 the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of 
 the Mississippi, Wilson's raid, engaged. In 
 this movement Wilson's force encountered 
 Forrest at Ebenezer Church and gained com- 
 plete victory, capturing two guns and 200 pris- 
 oners, the victors pressing on and destroying 
 communications to Burnsville in the direction 
 of Selraa. — At Boone, N. C, an action took 
 place in which a part of the troops connected 
 with Stoneman's raid were engaged. — At Mount 
 Pleasant, Ala., a detachment of cavalry under 
 Canby engaged in a skirmish. 
 
 April 2.— Fall of Petersburg. The troops 
 connected with this action included the 2d, 
 6th and 9th Corps of the Army of the Potomac 
 and the 24th Corps of the Army of the James. 
 The assault commenced just before daybreak, 
 the advancing columns being accompanied by 
 " Pioneers " with axes and details of artillery- 
 men to man any guns which might be cap- 
 tured. The whole front outer line was carried 
 by Wilcox's command who made the assault in 
 this place to induce the confederates to concen- 
 trate and the feint was successful. The signal 
 for general assault was given at half- past four 
 in the afternoon, and the troops moved forward 
 without heeding a hailstorm of bullets and car- 
 ried the line by storm, Hartranft's division cap- 
 turing 12 guns and 800 prisoners. The divi- 
 sion of Potter drove the rebels on the left and 
 the simultaneous attacks which had been made 
 in other quarters had been equally successful, 
 and the Federal troops occupied Petersburg. 
 The Union loss was 296 killed, 2,565 wounded 
 and 500 missing; the confederate loss was 
 about the same and over 3,000 of their soldiers 
 were made prisoners of war. — Activities at Fort 
 Fisher, Fort Welch and New Berne, N. C— 
 Battle of Selma. In this action the garrison 
 numbered 7,000 and was placed under the com- 
 mand of Forrest; the fortifications were carried 
 
140 
 
 1865— APRIL 3 — APRIL 6 — 1865. 
 
 by the division of Long, tlie Union loss being 
 40 killed, 260 wounded ; the rebel loss in- 
 cluded 2,700 prisoners, 32 siege guns and a 
 quantitj' of stores captured ; 25,000 bales of 
 cotton had been previously burned. 
 
 April 3. — Surrender of Richmond. At 
 nightfall of April 2d, orders were issued for 
 the Union army to assault the Petersburg and 
 Richmond lines in the early morning of the 
 3d, but it was discovered before daylight that 
 all the intrench ments in the vicinity of those 
 two cities had been abandoned and that Lee 
 was in retreat towards Danville and a little 
 after eight the confederate capital was surren- 
 dered to General Weitzel witli 600 prisoners 
 who were chiefly sick and disabled. — At Salem, 
 N. C, a force under General Palmer of Stone- 
 man's command fought the action known as 
 the battle of Salem. — Military movements at 
 Deep Creek, Va. — At Amelia C. H., Va., (Jet- 
 tersville), Lee began the concentration of his 
 forces and Grittin marched to that place. — 
 Activities at Sutherland Station, Va., connected 
 with the movements of Lee's retreating armj'. 
 — At Wytheville, Va., the 12th Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry of Stoneman's command engaged in a 
 skirmish and large quantities of supplies were 
 destroyed with 90 miles of railroad and railroad 
 bridges. — At Northport, Ala., a body of troops 
 connected with Wilson's raid engaged in a fight. 
 — At Namozin Church and Willicomack, Va., 
 the division of Custer engaged in a sharp scrim- 
 mage and lost 10 killed and 85 wounded. 
 
 April 4. — Tuscaloosa, Ala., captured by Wil- 
 son's command. — At Deep River Bridge, N. C, 
 the forces connected with Stoneman's raid en- 
 gaged in a cavalry skirmish. — At Bethanj' and 
 Fairhaven, W. Va., slight movements occurred. 
 
 April 5. — At Amelia Springs, Va., Crook's 
 cavalry, Sheridan's command, engaged in a 
 fight with Fitz Hugh Lee, the Union loss being 
 20 killed and 9G wounded. — On the same date 
 
 at Paine's Cross Road, a reconnoissance by 
 Davies of Crook's division took place; this was 
 previous to the action already mentioned on 
 this date. — At Howe's Cross Roads a movement 
 took place. 
 
 April 6. — Pursuit of Lee. On the morning 
 of this date Lee and Longstreet made connec- 
 tion at Rice's Station and were joined soon after 
 by Fitz Hugh Lee, Ewell, Anderson and Con- 
 don. General Grant notified Meade on the 
 evening before that he should attack Lee in 
 the early morning and ordered an advance of 
 the 2d, 5tli and Gth Corps. Sheridan was also 
 ordered to move forward. General Ord had 
 been on the march three days and had de- 
 stroyed High Bridge and other highway and rail- 
 road communications and General Humphries 
 sent a force to Flat Creek to attack what 
 he supposed to be the rear of Lee's army. On 
 the 6th Gordon's corps was attacked in a run- 
 ning fight of about 15 miles, the pursuit being 
 continued with remarkable swiftness and system, 
 accompanied by artillery so disposed as to be 
 ready for effective business. The movements 
 were continued, the corps of Gordon while in 
 flight relieving itself by abandoning all im- 
 pedimenta and on Little Sailor's Creek made 
 an attempt to secure foothold for a stand ; in 
 the onset the action was very sharp, resulting 
 in a decided victory which was the last straw 
 that broke the camel's back and made it ap- 
 parent that the end was at hand. Pursuit was 
 resumed the next morning. Nearly 6,000 
 prisoners had been captured and the rebels 
 must have lost about 7,000 in killed, wounded 
 and captured. The Union loss was about 
 1,200 in killed and wounded. — Skirmi.«h at 
 Burksville, Va. — At Sidney Swamp, Ala., a 
 cavalry fight, in which Wilson's troops engaged, 
 took place. — General Read engaged in a sharp 
 fight at Burke's Junction and his force surren- 
 dered to the rebels; General Read, Colonel 
 
1865— APRIL 7 — APRIL 12 — 1865. 
 
 141 
 
 Westburn and many other officers wei'e killed 
 and the loss to the command was fearful. 
 
 April 7. — Continued flight and pursuit of 
 Lee. 
 
 Aprii, S. — Lee's flight continued and General 
 Grant, through these two days, conferred with 
 Lee, proposing surrender which was rejected. 
 
 April 9. — Surrender of Lee. The confer- 
 ence between Lee, Longstreet and Mahone re- 
 sulted in the decision of Lee to hold a confer- 
 ence with Grant which was equivalent to sur- 
 render. Appomattox C. H., was fixed upon as 
 place of surrender and the terms were ar- 
 ranged in a house belonging to a man named 
 McLain and, in an insignificant village of less 
 than a hundred souls, arrangements were con- 
 cluded which practically terminated the Civil 
 War. The last fighting was done on the 7th 
 near Farmville before arrangements were en- 
 tered upon and, on tlie 9t]i at daj'break, an 
 attack was made on Gordon's command on the 
 Lynchburg Road ; Crook was attacked a little 
 later, both of which actions resulted in the 
 retiring of the rebels. General Ord was pre- 
 paring for a decisive action, his divisions 
 moving on the double quick, when a white flag 
 from General Lee arrested the movements and 
 he acceded to a request of the rebel chief to 
 suspend hostilities until he could confer with 
 General Grant and the Union force was sounded 
 to halt by the bugles. About 4 o'clock in the 
 afternoon the rebel surrender was announced. 
 — At Sumterville, S. C, the troops of the 
 Department of the South engaged in an action. 
 — Surrender of Spanish Fort. The bombarding 
 of the fort was carried on actively on the day 
 preceding this date for 14 hours and at nigiit- 
 fall the 8th Iowa under Colonel Bell fought the 
 decisive action on the parapet. The Union 
 infantry carried a portion of the garrison by 
 storm and before the hand-to-hand contest was 
 over an entire brigade had taken possession 
 
 and commenced to intrench. Under feint of a 
 determined resistance the garrison abandoned 
 the fort, moving to Fort Huger and crossing 
 the Appaiachie. A part of the force was inter- 
 cepted by Canby's troops and 500 prisoners 
 were captured. Canby took possession of the 
 fort April 9th. — Fort Blakely was carried by 
 assault at nightfall of the 9th and about .'i.SOO 
 men were captured ; the Union loss was 054 
 killed and wounded. — Fort Tracy was occupied 
 by the rebels flying from Spanish Fort. The 
 siege of Mobile included Forts Spanish and 
 Blakely. The fortifications about the city were 
 very strong. The attack was made by Canby 
 commanding the Army of the West Mississippi, 
 one cor[)S marching from Fort Morgan up the 
 east side of the bay to a small stream called 
 Fish River. A landing was secured and the 
 remainder of the command was brought to the 
 same point in transports. At the same time a 
 column under General Steele left Pensacola, 
 directing its march upon Blakely, a port near 
 the mouth of the Blakely River. A short 
 distance below Blakely lay Spanish Fort on 
 whose defense the city depended. It became 
 a necessity that the communication by water of 
 the city with the fort be cut off while the army 
 made the land investment. The virtual sur- 
 render of the city was made at nightfall of the 
 8th. The Union loss was 213 killed, 1,211 
 wounded and that of the rebels 500 killed and 
 wounded and 2,952 captured and missing. 
 
 April 10. — Sherman's army began its ad- 
 vance on the Neuse River. 
 
 April 11. — Evacuation of Forts Huger and 
 Tracy. — Destruction of the railroad towards 
 Lynchburg, Va., by Stoneman's troops. — Move- 
 ment towards Montgomery by Wilson's forces. 
 — Evacuation of Mobile. 
 
 April 12. — Surrender of Mobile. — In the 
 campaign 5,000 prisoners were taken and the 
 entire loss of Canby was less than 1,500 killed 
 
142 
 
 1865— APRIL 13 — MAY 13 — 1865. 
 
 and wounded. — The news of Lee's surrender 
 received by Sherman at Sinithheld, N. G. 
 Movements of Sherman's army in the advance 
 to Grant's Mills, N. C. — Formal surrender of 
 Montgomery and movement of the same cav- 
 ah'y force under Wilson to Georgia. — Release 
 of Union prisoners at Salisbury, N. C. 
 
 ApRii, 1,3. — Canby's troops moved to Whistler 
 Station, Ala. — Occuj)ation of Kaleigh, N. C, by 
 Sherman's troops. 
 
 Ai'KU. 14. — Flag of truce from Johnston to 
 Sherman, i)reliminary to surrender. — Assassina- 
 tion of President Lincoln. -^Conference of Sher- 
 man and .Johnston at Durham Station, N. C, 
 and arrangements for a meeting on the 17lh. 
 
 April 16. — Columbus, Ga., occupied by 
 Upton's troops and the caj^ture of 1,200 pris- 
 oners. — Confederate ram .Jackson destroyed by 
 the same force, with the arsenal, navy yard, 
 railroad stock and a large quantity of cotton. — 
 Fort Taylor, West Point, Ga., taken by Mc- 
 Cook's command and 300 prisoners taken. — 
 Cavalry action at South Vovk, Oregon. 
 
 ApRir. 17. — At Durham Station, N. C, con- 
 ference between Sherman and .Johnston. — Con- 
 ference between Mosby and Hancock. 
 
 April 18. — Continuation of the conference 
 between Sherman and Johnston. — Military 
 movements at Boykin's Mills, S. C. 
 
 April 20. — Macon, Ga., surrendered to Wil- 
 son, and Croxton's brigade made connection 
 with Wilson at that place. 
 
 April 23. — Arrival of Grant at Morehead 
 City, N. C, where he communicated with Sher- 
 man. 
 
 April 26. — Surrender of Johnston to Sher- 
 man. — Wade Hampton's Cavalry withdrew and 
 refused to surrender. — Movement of the Federal 
 troops from Raleigh. — General Halleck ordered 
 the generals of the Army of the Potomac to 
 move their commands into the department 
 where Sherman was operating. 
 
 April 28. — The troops of the Array of the 
 Potomac arrived at Danville, Yd., en route to 
 assist Sherman. — Explosion of the Sultana with 
 a loss of 1,320 lives, mo.st of whom were return- 
 ing Union prisoners. In 1888 the rebel en- 
 gineer confessed that it was deliberate. 
 
 M.w 4. — Movement at Citronville, Ala. — 
 Activities at Germania Ford, Va. — Movements 
 at Coltonville, Ala. — Skirmish at Nana Blutf. 
 — Burial of Lincoln at Springfield, 111. 
 
 May 10. — Capture of Jeff Davis at Trwins- 
 ville, Ga. In fact, the flight of Davis com- 
 menced on the day following the surrender of 
 Lee. Danville, the new capital, was abandoned 
 and, on the 11th, Davis reached Greensboro, 
 N. C, and soon after was in consultation with 
 Johnston and Beauregard. He insisted that 
 Johnston resume hostilities, but the latter re- 
 fused. Davis received no attention at Greens- 
 boro, and on the 14tii he went to Charlotte, 
 where the news of the assassination of Presi- 
 dent Lincoln and of the surrender of Johnston 
 was received. Davis started for Texas, passing 
 through Abbeville, S. G, Washington, Milledge- 
 ville and Macon, Ga., and the forces of Wilson 
 were ordered to j)ursue and were soon dispersed 
 from Kingston to Florida. May 7th, a detach- 
 ment of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, stationed 
 at Dublin, ascertained that Davis was on the 
 Jacksonville road, and he was pursued to the 
 Ockmulgee River ; it was learned at Abbeville 
 that he was on the way to Irwinsville. Colonel 
 Pritchard of the 4th Michigan reached Irwins- 
 ville at two o'clock on the morning of this date, 
 and learned iiis whereabouts and captured him 
 at daylight, while attempting to escape in 
 women's clothing. — Surrender of Sam Jones to 
 Wilson's Cavalry. 
 
 M.w 11. — Surrender of Jeff Thompson to 
 General Dodge at Chalk Bluff, Ark. 
 
 M.VY 13. — Last engagement of the war at 
 Boco Chico, Texas. lu a light at Palmetto 
 
1865— MAY 23 — SEPT. 11—1867. 
 
 143 
 
 Ranch, in which the 34th Indiana, 2d Texas 
 Cavahy and a regiment of colored troops were 
 engaged, the Union loss was 118 killed and 
 wounded. The last volley of the war was tired 
 on this day in hattle by a colored regiment. 
 
 May 14. — All the confederate troops east of 
 the Mississippi River surrendered to General 
 Canby on this date. 
 
 May 23.-24. — Grand Review at Washington. 
 
 May 24. — Movements connected with the 
 cessation of hostilities at Duval's Bluff, Fort 
 Manahasset and Fort Griffin. 
 
 May 25. — Movements of troops at La Bone 
 Pass, La., and at Sabine Pass. 
 
 May 26. — Surrender by Kirby Smith of all 
 the troops in the department west of the Missis- 
 sippi River and in Texas. 
 
 June 1. — Movements of troops at Browns- 
 ville, Texas. 
 
 June 2. — Movements at Galveston, Texas, 
 and at Alexandria, La. 
 
 June 26. — Blockade rai.sed. 
 
 July 9. — Execution of the conspirators, 
 David E. Harold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis 
 Payne Powell and Mrs. Mary E. Surratt; 
 Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel A. Mudd and 
 Samuel Arnold were sentenced to hard labor 
 for life at the Dry Tortugas ; Edward Spengler 
 was sentenced to hard labor for six years. 
 These were the coadjutators of Wilkes Booth. 
 
 Aug. 22. — Mi-ssissippi rej)ealed her ordinance 
 of secession, having previously declared slav- 
 ery abolished. 
 
 Sei'T. 13. — South Carolina nullified her se- 
 cession ordinance, declared that slavery was 
 abolished and also set the example of repudi- 
 ating her war debt. 
 
 Oct. 2.5. — Georgia followed in the wake of 
 South Carolina in the matter of repudiation of 
 her State debt, declaration of the abolishment 
 of slavery and repealed her secession ordinance. 
 
 Oct. 28. — Florida repealed her secession or- 
 dinance. 
 
 Nov. 10. — Execution of Henry Wirz for 
 atrocities perpetrated on Union prisoners at 
 Andersonville. 
 
 1866. Feb. 10.— Texas declared slavery 
 abolished, repealed her secession acts, and also 
 repudiated her State debt. 
 
 April 2. — President Johnson issued a proc- 
 lamation declaring the war at an end. 
 
 July 23. — Senators and representatives from 
 Tennessee formally admitted to Congress ; they 
 were the first from the reconstructed States. 
 
 July 25. — The office of Lieutenant-General 
 was conferred on General Grant. 
 
 1867. May 13. — Jefferson Davis released 
 from Fortress Monroe ; Horace Greeley and 
 others signed his bail bond for $100,000 at 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 Aug. 20. — President Johnson declared by 
 proclamation that the United States were once 
 more in full possession of peace and good order. 
 
 Sept. 7. — President Johnson issued a jjroc- 
 lamation granting amnesty and the franchise 
 to nearly all the white citizens of the South. 
 
 During the war about 1,500 vessels were cap- 
 tured or destroyed for violation of the blockade ; 
 most of these were condemned and, when the 
 claims were adjudicated, the prize money and 
 that paid to the United States approximated 
 $50,000,000. The claimants numbered nearly 
 20,000. IjCss than 500 Union vessels were 
 captured or destroyed by the confederate 
 privateers. 
 
144 
 
 STATISTICAL HISTORY. 
 
 The muster out of the soldiers at the close of 
 the war was as remarkable as any other of its 
 features and was accomplished in a manner 
 that commanded the admiration of the whole 
 civilized world. Tlie system was so conducted , 
 that before the expiration of January, 1866, 
 almost 1,000,000 soldiers had gone peaceably 
 to their homes. There were still some regi- 
 ments on the frontiers, sent to other service in 
 the interest of the United States, and the small 
 number of consequent mutinous movements 
 eminently manifested the admirable discipline 
 of the volunteer service. When the disbanding 
 was completely finished, the civil ranks of life 
 had re-absorbed more than a million of lives. 
 But, notwithstanding this tremendous influx, 
 it was hardly noticeable in its effect on business 
 or society. 
 
 The aggregate number of enlistments in the 
 Union army was 2,678,967 and that of tlie con- 
 federate army in round numbers (for no other 
 are available) is estimated at 2,000,000. The 
 proportion of crippled included a little more 
 than 400,000 on both sides. More than a 
 million men were killed or permanently dis- 
 abled. 
 
 The array disbursement during the war was 
 aiore than $1,100,000,000. 
 
 From the beginning of the war until after 
 tliclinal disbanding, the cases treated medically 
 numbered 5,825,000 in round numbers. Of 
 these 166,623 were fatal ; 273,175 were wounded 
 and of this number 33,777 died. This dis- 
 crepancy shows how small a proportion of men 
 died in battle of those who took the chances of 
 war in climates to which they were unaccus- 
 tomed. Thousands died of disease in the 
 
 Chickahominy swamp.s, to which numbers the 
 casualties of war were comparatively small. 
 
 The experiences of this war were of the 
 greatest value to tlie nations of the world as a 
 school of instruction in every department of 
 warfare. Missiles of every description were ex- 
 perimented with and the art of murder accord- 
 ing to the rules of war was reduced to a demon- 
 stration. The additions to the supplies of war 
 formed an immense array of articles whose 
 statistical detail would make a chapter of 
 curiosities. 
 
 Nor should the work of the Commissions be 
 forgotten or overlooked. The Sanitary Com- 
 mission commenced its work on the day Presi- 
 dent Lincoln issued his first call for troops, and 
 societies were organized in Bridgeport, Conn., 
 and Charlestown, Mass. The press and the 
 pulpit lent their efforts to the furtherance of 
 the work and in tlie large cities great sums 
 were raised to facilitate its operations. The 
 story of the Sanitary Commission is written on 
 the hearts of thousand.s of soldiers who were its 
 beneficiaries. The work of the Cliristian Com- 
 mission was no less valuable to the service. 
 And beside its labors to elevate the morale of 
 the army, it was a blessing in another sense, 
 for it fed no man's soul which had a hungrier 
 or more needy body and its ministrations fell 
 like the dew of heaven where they were sorely 
 needed. As a fitting close to this sunnnary of 
 the war let honorable mention be made of the 
 Women of America, who bore their share of the 
 burdens uncomplainingly under the sorest 
 trials and whose personal ministrations in the 
 hospitals, in the commissions and as adjuncts 
 at home can never be estimated. 
 
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 i BIOGRAPHIGAIrJ 
 
 
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 EN.JAiM[N FRENCH BRY- 
 ,,^ANT, La Crosse, Wis., De- 
 / j):irhnent Coinniander of 
 ^ Wisconsin, (1890-91),Grancl 
 i^ipyjArniy of tlie Republic, a 
 '~"^- in'oininent citizen and at- 
 torney of the Badger State, 
 'J was born Sept. 3, 1837, at Rockland, 
 f Maine. He belongs to stock which 
 ". J located on the Atlantic border in an 
 I'ly pei'iod and which earned an in- 
 ^if;^ disputable title to the heritage of 
 p^ American citizenship by service in 
 WP the wars which decided the right of 
 ■Ay the people of the New World to exist 
 as a Nation. On both sides his fore- 
 fathers fought in the Revolution. In his 
 veins courses the blood from two pure straijis 
 of descent, his parents having been i of Eng- 
 lish and Scotch linenge. ISlicah Bryant, his 
 paternal grandfather, was born on Martiia's 
 A'ineyard, that fact alone telling a whole his- 
 tory' ; and he descended from Puritan ancestors 
 of the right stam]), wlio believed in a man's 
 po.sscssing his manhood intact and preserv- 
 ing his privileges as such from the domina- 
 tion of other men. His sons had Bible names, 
 transmitted to thoni from earlier genera- 
 tions, tliat of the father of Colonel Bryant 
 being Benjamin, which became his heritage 
 
 according to family custom. Benjamin Bryant, 
 senior, was born April 2s, 180:!, at Industry, 
 Maine, and married Lucy F. French, who was 
 born in .luly, 1805, at Chesterville, Maine. Her 
 first ancestor reached the New World in 16G5 
 and settled at Ipswich, Mass. The senior 
 Bryant was a physician and a graduate from 
 the first homceopathic college established in 
 America at Philadelphia. He practiced his 
 profession in Maine and afterwards in Oliio, 
 continuing in its active duties as long as he 
 was able to do so ; and his useful, generous life 
 terminated soon after he became disal)led, after 
 he had jiassed his allotment of life by several 
 years. He died at Wakeman, Ohio, in Feb- 
 •ruary, 1879; his wife died Sept. 18, 188(:), at 
 the advanced age of 81 years in Kingsland, 
 Indiana. She was a woman of uncommon 
 strength of character and intelligence and 
 reared her six children as the typical mothers 
 of the country did, in reverence of good, in 
 eschewment of evil and in infiuences of the 
 type which constitute the best maturity in the 
 world. John E., Benjamin F., Lucy \., Thomas 
 C, Mary E. and Luella F. were the names of 
 the children who came to her home and heart 
 in succession and survived infancy and only 
 Lucy and Luella are deceased. The sons all 
 became soldiers when their country required 
 their services. 
 
146 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Two brolliers of Colonel Bryant, John E. and 
 Thomas C, were soldiers in the civil war. The 
 former was a Captain and Brevet Lieutenant- 
 Colonel iu the 8th Maine Infantry, and served 
 tiiree years. The latter enlisted in 1863 in the 
 3d Ohio Cavalry and served in the ranks until 
 the end of the war. 
 
 Until he was 16 years old, young Bryant was 
 under the shelter of the home roof-tree, obtain- 
 ing a rudimentary education in the common 
 schools. After 1853 he lived successively with 
 his mother's people and at home. In 1854 he 
 attended the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at 
 Kent's Hill, Maine, and remained a student 
 there four years, attending two terms in each 
 year, and alternating study with farm work. 
 During his winter vacations he taught school 
 and, altogether, passed the years of his prepar- 
 atory for the w'ork the world had in prospect 
 for him as a typical New England boy, born to 
 a heritage of effort, without reference to the 
 circumstances of his ])arents. He educated 
 liimself in the most thorough manner with a 
 full understanding of the prospective value to 
 himself of such a course. He was fitted for 
 matriculation at the celebrated Bowdoin College 
 in his native State, when, in 1859, he registered 
 for a course in its classic halls. It was his in- 
 tention to take his degree with the class of '63 
 and lie matriculated with tijat j)urpose, Imt the 
 all'airs of nations do not hinge on individual 
 plans and in the summer of 1861 he went to 
 Ohio, whither his father had removed. He 
 entered tlie law ofiice of Kennan & Stewart at 
 Norwalk, Huron Co., Ohio, in the fall of 1861. 
 In the winter of 1861-2 he taught school and in 
 the spring resumed his law studies. The con- 
 dition of affairs in the country in the summer 
 of 1862 made it apparent to him that, if his 
 labors and aspirations were to be of any avail 
 it must be at a cost of which he had little 
 dreamed when he began his preparations for a 
 
 life-wurk which should rank fairly witii what 
 otlier men had accomplished, and he deter- 
 mined to enlist, as events in the Eastern army 
 foretold of disastrous days worse than those 
 which had come and he decided accordingly 
 tliat his duty was jilain before him. 
 
 Aug. 'J, l.S()2, he enlisted in Company A; 
 lOlst Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and on the 
 organization of the regiment was made Ser- 
 geant. Aug. 30th, with Colonel Leander Stem, 
 the command was mustered into the U. S. 
 service at Monroeville and was ordered to the 
 front Septem1»er 4th. From rendezvous to Cin- 
 cinnati and Covington to remain there in an- 
 ticipation of Kirby Smith's invasion a few days, 
 was the outline of movement until a return to 
 Cincinnati was made and thence the command 
 moved to Jeffersonville, crossed the river, and 
 went to Louisville, whither Buell's army was 
 coming. October 1st, the 101st Ohio became a 
 part of the 31st Brigade under Col. Wm. P. 
 Carlin, the division being commanded by Oen. 
 Robt. Mitchell and the corps under General 
 Gilbert, with General Buell in chief com- 
 mand. The latter was in clo.se ])nrsuit of 
 Bragg, forcing him to change his route and 
 meanwhile the Western troops were pouring in 
 at difl'crent points ready for the fray whicli 
 was innnincnt. The confederates massed at 
 IVrryville and on the Slh, battle was pre- 
 cipitated there where Colonel Bryant was in his 
 first action with the rebels. He was in the 
 pursuit to Crab Orchard, being frequently under 
 tire, the rebels making every effort to i)reserve 
 their supply trains. The 101st Ohio returned 
 to Danville and went south to Lebanon Junc- 
 tion and on the 26th of October encountered a 
 snow storm. Their next move was to Bowling 
 Green, arriving aliout the last of October and, 
 Rosecrans having succeeded Buell, orders were 
 received to move to Nashville. Thence a re- 
 moval south was made and, Dec. 26, 1862, after 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 147 
 
 performing military and miscellaneous dut)^ 
 a movement was begun which preceded the 
 battle of iStone River. Carlin's Brigade now 
 formed a part of General Jefi' C. Davis' Divi- 
 sion of the Right Wing of the Array of the 
 Cumberland. It was Friday and the troops 
 marched until about four in the afternoon, the 
 brigade advancing and driving the rebels in 
 their front about two miles where they made a 
 stand' at Knob Uap on the Nolansviile Pike. 
 The brigade was confronted by a body of 
 mounted infantry, supporting a batter}^ on 
 which the brigade opened fire, drove the rebels 
 and took two guns, Sergeant Bryant being one 
 of the first of the Union soldiers to reach the 
 spot. The command camped on the field and 
 advanced all the next day. Saturday night, 
 Dec. '27tli, they were near Triune, spent Sunday 
 there and on Monday marched nearer the bat- 
 tle field of Stone River. At night they con- 
 fronted the rebel lines and Tuesday morning 
 formed line of battle and advanced. At even- 
 ing the brigade charged a battery which was 
 driven liack, and during an hour and a half 
 the command was under sharp artillery fire 
 from both sides. A picket line was formed 
 under cover of darkness, and on Wednesday 
 luorning they were attacked by the rebels and 
 the battle of Stone River was open, Dec. 31st. 
 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 
 the fighting went on, and on Sunday morning 
 the rebels gave up the contest. In this battle 
 the 101st Ohio lost its Colonel and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel killed and five line officers and 212 
 men killed and wounded. The command 
 buried the dead and went into winter quarters, 
 taking part through the following months in 
 several expeditions. In .January, 1863, Ser- 
 geant Bryant became First Lieutenant, his rank 
 to date from .January 4, 1863. In June, 1863, 
 the Right Wing had become the 20th Corps, 
 and the Army of the Cumberland moved out 
 
 on the Tullahoma campaign. The 101st Ohio 
 was in the action at Libert}' Gap, in which the 
 rebels were driven after a stubborn contest. 
 Tlie command of Rosecrans followed up after 
 Bragg, the 101st Ohio reaching Winchester, 
 Tenn., July 3d, where it remained until August 
 when the Chickamauga campaign opened. 
 The command went to the Tennessee River, 
 crossing the mountains and halting at Steven- 
 son, Ala. The last day of August they crossed 
 the Tennessee at Capertons' Ferry, moved 
 southward, crossing another mountain range 
 into Wills' Valley, being then west of Lookout 
 Mountain, the whole of the 20th Cor]is being 
 on the march. They crossed Lookout to 
 Broomtown Valley, which is forty miles south 
 of Chattanooga, and a portion of the command 
 went to Alpine, Ga. Sunday, September 12th, 
 the 101st Ohio moved out of Broomtown V^al- 
 ley and recrossed Lookout Mountain back to 
 Wills' Valley, reaching there the next day. 
 Wednesday another move onto Lookout was 
 made and thence northeast to the Trenton 
 road. Thursday morning the whole corps de- 
 scended into McLemore's Cave, uniting with 
 the balance of Rosecrans' army and taking 
 position on the right, and on Friday night at 
 dark the command moved north marching 
 until midnight, antl going into camp on Chick- 
 amauga Creek. Saturday morning they passed 
 Crawfish Springs and kept moving under 
 orders until tlie headquarters of Rosecrans 
 were reached at Widow Glenn's Cottage. They 
 turned east until they reached the line of 
 battle reinforcing and taking position on the 
 right, where they fought all day. Sunday 
 morning the command again took position on 
 the right and fought all day. He went into 
 the battle of Chickamauga in command 
 of his company with 15 men and three 
 were left after the termination of the fight, 
 12 being killed or wounded. His com- 
 
148 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 mand remained in Chaltanooga until Oct. 'iij, 
 LSGo, when orders were received to move to 
 Bridgeport, Ala., wliere it remained until tlie 
 latter part of January, 1864, when thej' went 
 again to Chattanooga and tlien.ee to Ooltewah, 
 remaining there until the opening of the At- 
 lanta campaign. The brigade now foiiued a 
 part of tlie 4th Corps. March 19, 1804, Lieu- 
 tenant Bryant was commissioned Cajitain of 
 Company A, and soon after he went on de- 
 tached service until winter, when lie rejoined 
 his regiment in East Tennessee. The com- 
 mand remained there until tlie close of the 
 war, and in Aj)ril went to Nashville and parti- 
 cipated in the last review on the field where 
 the battle of Nashville had been fought. The 
 101st Ohio remained at Nashville until shortly 
 subsequent to June 12, 1805, and the final dis- 
 charges bear date at Nashville, Tenii., June 12, 
 18G."i, but moved as a regiment to Cleveland, 
 Ohio, where the men were mustered out and 
 ])aid off" June 20, 1865. During the whole of 
 the active service of Colonel Bryant he was not 
 injured and was not an inmate of a hosjiital. 
 
 After he assumed again the relations of 
 civil life, he resumed his law studies in Ajiril, 
 18G0, was admitted to the Bar in Huron county, 
 Ohio. He jiracticed there two years and in 
 1868 located permanently at La Crosse, Wis- 
 consin. He lias advanced in his profession as 
 an honorable, high-toned and jiersevering busi- 
 ness man deserves, and his abilities have been 
 recognized and utilized by his generation. 
 From 1870 to 1874 he served as County Judge 
 and was three times elected District Attorney 
 of his county, serving two years in each. He 
 acted two years as United States Pension Agent 
 and also ofllciated as Postmaster at La Crosse 
 under President Arthur from 1882 to 1885. 
 Since the Order of the Grand Army has been 
 prominent as a })crmanent in.stitution, he has 
 been actively engaged in its interests, and was 
 
 a charter member of \\'ilson Colwell Post at 
 La Cro.sse, of which he was Commander two 
 terms. He has served one year as Senior \'iee 
 Commander of the Department of Wisconsin, 
 and was elected Department Commander in 
 Marcli, ISno. He was also one of the incor- 
 porators of the Wisconsin ^'eteran^s Home at 
 Waupaca, Wis., of which he was for three 
 years Treasurer and is still a Trustee. He is 
 a member of the Order of Masonry. Gov. C. 
 C. Washburn and also Gov. W. E. Smith ap- 
 pointed him aide-de-camp on their stafi' with 
 rank of Colonel. 
 
 July 12, 1804, he was married at Nortli 
 Fayette, Maine, to Augusta A., daughter of 
 Richard and Harriet Stevens. Her father is 
 deceased, Ijut her mother is an inmate of lier 
 family. 
 
 ^^ EORGE W. DRAKE, first \\'isconsin 
 ^ soldier killed in the War of the Re- 
 bellion. This name, which will live 
 forever on the pages of tliehistoiy of Wisconsin 
 and grace those of the annals of the country for 
 which he was a martyr, represents one who was 
 but a boy when he fell at Ahirtinsburg, or Falling 
 Watei's, \'a. He was born Aug. 25, 1842, in 
 the city of PhiladeljJiia. He resided in Mil- 
 waukee after he was 13 years old and was in 
 the employ of a railroad cor])oration when the 
 war between the North and South began. He 
 enlisted in April, 1801, in Company A, 1st Wis- 
 consin Infantry and was among the first to 
 hasten to the aid of the Nation. June iltli fol- 
 lowing he left the State for scenes of prospective 
 warfare in Virginia and, July 2d, in the skir- 
 mish named above, he was the only soldier 
 killed on the field. The fatal bullet pierced 
 his breast, passed through his body ami was 
 afterwards removed from his knapsack. His 
 death was almost instantaneous and his dying 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 149 
 
 breath faded ui the words "what will mother 
 say?" His innate nobleness of character rose 
 to the sublimity of the higliest chivalry in the 
 supreme moment when, knowing himself to be 
 in tlie border-land of the infinite he remembered 
 what her faithful mother lieart would suffer. 
 His body was tenderly cared for, prepared for 
 burial and laid beside the remains of a soldier 
 of the Revolution on the banks of the Potomac 
 at Williamsport, Md. This sacred obligation 
 was discharged by Captain Kennedy, a I'uionist 
 resident in that vicinity who had fought in 
 1812, and there he still lies, his friends, on 
 learning the circumstances of Captain Ken- 
 nedy's considerate kindness, declining to 
 disturb the dust of him whose short record as 
 a hero honors this page. Battle-scarred veterans 
 of the Civil War at Milwaukee have acknowl- 
 edged their veneration of his memory in the 
 name of G. A. R. Post Geo. W. Drake, No. 223. 
 lie was the son of "William and Martha .Jane 
 (Carr) Drake. The former was a native of Phil- 
 adelphia and died in Milwaukee, May 10, 1886, 
 wlierc he had been a respected citizen since 
 1S55. The wife and mother survives and is a 
 lady who has won a reputation for womanly 
 character excelled by few of her generation. 
 She was born in Philadelphia and represents 
 some of the stanchest blood in our composite 
 Nationality. Her father fought in 1812, and 
 in every generation, her ancestors were distin- 
 guished for patriotism. James Carr, her brother, 
 went to "\'irginia about the date of the war in 
 charge of a force of laborers to fulfil a railroad 
 contract and, with his men, enlisted as soon as 
 his services were needed by his country. Mr. 
 Carr and all his men, with one exception, were 
 killed at Bull Run. His young wife died, 
 broken hearted, six months afterwards. 
 
 J||?r ARION F. HUMES, first Wisconsin 
 
 ^^^iiV ^*^^f''6i' to fall in l)attle in the 
 : .AOV. (jj^.jl \y.jj. jjg ^^.,,j. |jQ,.j^ peh. 17, 
 
 1843, in Janesville, Wis., and was inherently a 
 son of the Commonweallh. He typified the 
 spirit which fostered his inheritance as a citizen 
 of the Republic in his enrolment as a soldier 
 in defense of his country when still a boy. It 
 is a remarkable fact that the catalogue of Wis- 
 consin martyrs is led by the names of two 
 youth, instead of by those of reflective, experi- 
 enced men. 
 
 Marion F. Humes was the son of Amos and 
 Susan Ann (Vreeland) Humes and was fifth in 
 order of birth of a family of seven children. 
 It is remembered of his last days hi Wisconsin 
 that he was making every possible struggle to 
 ht himself, as he expressed it with tears on 
 being disappointed in obtaining a position at 
 Milton to work to pay his way in college "for 
 doing some good in the world." 
 
 But he won a prouder distinction than that 
 of a student. He enlisted in April, 1861, in the 
 "Belle City Rifles" which was mustered in as 
 Company F, 2d Wisconsin Infantry. On many 
 pages of this work the story of that gallant 
 organization is told and he was the first to win 
 distinction on the field of Bull Run. .July 21st, 
 when advancing in the line of battle, a round 
 shot from a six-pound field piece struck the 
 ground, ricochetted and pa.ssed through the 
 ranks of Company F, shattering the gun of a 
 man in front and carrying away the arm of 
 Marion Humes. He started for the hospital, 
 which his comrades believed he reached, but 
 nothing is definitely known about his fate. All 
 the particulars of him afterwards are in the 
 realm of mystery, save that he came not back. 
 
 But on historic pages, in the hearts of sur- 
 viving friends and relatives and in frequent 
 mention with hushed breath and quivering 
 lips, his venerated memory lives. 
 
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 UFUS KING, the first Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral appointed to the command of 
 Wisconsin troops during tlie war, was 
 of old and distinguished family, lie was horn 
 in New York city, Jan. 2()th, 1813, the eldest son 
 of Charles King, LL. D., who was for years 
 President of Columhia College, and grandson 
 of Kufus King, twice minister to Enghiml and 
 I'niled States Senator from New York. The 
 latter was the son of Richard King, a vvealthy 
 ship-owner of Scarborough, Maine, and re- 
 moved to Massachusetts shortly before the 
 revolutionary war : was delegate of that com- 
 monwealth at the ratification of the constitu- 
 tion at Philadelphia, subsecjuently removed to 
 New York and purchased the homestead at 
 Jamaica, Long Island, where his descendants 
 still reside. 
 
 General King's mother was Eliza Gracie of 
 Elizabelhtown, New Jersey, a woman of rare 
 accomplishment and M'orth. His early educa- 
 tion was at the hands of an old French soldier- 
 scholar, who had emigrated to New York after 
 Waterloo, but, when only fourteen years of age 
 King was prepared for West Point, where he 
 was graduated in 1833 at the age of nineteen, 
 standing fourth in rank in a large and brilliant 
 class, and was commissioned in the C'orps of 
 Engineers. As Lieutenant King his first dut}* 
 was in connection with the building of Fortress 
 Monroe — his associate being Lieutenant Robert 
 E. Lee, with whom he was soon afterwards sent 
 to survey the boundary line between Ohio and 
 Michigan, in 1835. This was his first look at 
 the wilderness of the West, and one he bore in 
 mind. In September, 183(5, he resigned from 
 the army to take the position of Assistant 
 Engineer of tlie New ^'ork and Erie Railway, 
 and held it until nearly 1839, when the new 
 enterprise became crippled in its finances and 
 King returned to Albany, N. Y. Governor 
 AVilliam II. Seward was just entering on his 
 
 first term, and King received at his hands the 
 ajjpointment of Adjutant-tieneral of the State, 
 which, despite his youth, he filled with marked 
 credit for four years, through both of Seward's 
 terms. During this i)eriod he was brought 
 frequently under the notice of Thurlow Weed, 
 who detected the inherent editorial stuft' in him 
 (Charles King had been for years editor of the 
 New Yoik Amerkait) and he became associate 
 editor of the Albany Eietiing Journal under 
 Weed's tutelage. In 1844, the proprietors of 
 the Seiitinel, an infant paper, in the infant town 
 of Milwaukee, Territory of Wisconsin, souglit 
 Thurlow Weed's advice as to the selection of 
 an editor to take entire charge, and Rufus King 
 in the fall of 1845, moved to Milwaukee with 
 his young wife and baby boy and took the 
 helm. He threw himself heart and soul into 
 every enterprise that promoted the growth and 
 welfare of his adopteil home. He was member 
 of the convention that framed the final consti- 
 tution of Wisconsin; first (and, for all the 
 j'ears there were no emoluments attached to 
 the ofiice, only) Superintendent of Public 
 Schools; a leader in every meeting; an author- 
 ity nn many a (juestion in the growing State, 
 and all the time he labored at his paper until 
 in a few years the Milwaukee Sentinel had no 
 rival in the Northwest. With the defeat of 
 Winfield Scott and the dissolution of the Whig 
 party, General King devoted himself to the 
 task of building up the new Republican and 
 Anti-Slavery organization that was fostering in 
 the East. There are many to-day who call him 
 the father of tlie Republican party in the Bad- 
 ger State, but he was the last man to think it 
 himself or to seek personal reward. His whole 
 career was an e.xamj)le of tirele-ss effort for 
 principle, party and jirogress utterly to the ex- 
 clusion of any thought of self. 
 
 Naturally, General King warmly advocated 
 the nomination of Mr. Seward for the Presi- 
 
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 dency in 1860, but when Abraham Lincoln lie- 
 came the choice of the party, the Scndnd was 
 his staunch supporter. Soon after the inaugu- 
 ration on the 4th of March, 1861, King was ap- 
 pointed Minister to Rome, as delightful a berth 
 as the new President could tender him. All 
 Milwaukee seemed to rejoice in his good for- 
 tune, for no man had done more to win the 
 affection and esteem of his feliow-citizens, and 
 the farewell banquet was something long re- 
 membered. The new diplomat's baggage was 
 aljoard the steamer at the New York pier wlien 
 the l)oom of Sumter's guns startled the nation- 
 King speeded to A\"ashington and asked for 
 service with the army ; was directed to return 
 at once to Wisconsin to organize the brigade 
 required from the Badger State ; was com- 
 missioned Brigadier-General of Wisconsin Vol- 
 unteers on May 7th, and to the same rank in 
 the United States service. May 17th, 1861, 
 being summoned at once to the defenses of 
 Washington, where in the summer of 1861, in 
 camp at Kalorama Heights, he organized the 
 command of Wisconsin and Indiana troops 
 destined to win in fiercest battle the proud title 
 of the "Iron Brigade." A month was spent in 
 drill and preparation ; then in September the 
 brigade was ordered up the Potomac to Chain 
 Bridge, where one of his favorite regiments — 
 the 5th Wisconsin — was transferred to give 
 General Hancock an equal command, but it 
 was immediately replaced by the arriving 7th, 
 and in the winter of 1861, King's brigade went 
 into camp around Arlington House and the 
 General occupied rooms under the roof tree of 
 his old friend Lee. Early in the spring he was 
 promoted to the command of as fine a Division 
 as the Army of the Potomac contained, con- 
 sisting of his old brigade and those of Generals 
 Hatch, Doubleday and Patrick, and it was 
 King's Division that first entered the works of 
 Manassas, where McClellan made liis tardy ad- 
 
 vance. Being in McDowell's Corps, the divi- 
 sion was detained in front of Washington 
 during McClellan 's operations on tlie Peninsula, 
 and its first sharp service was along the line 
 of the Rapidan, when Lee, Longstreet and 
 Jackson leaped forward to crush Pope before 
 McClellan could reinforce him. The evening 
 of August 28tli, King's Divi-sion — all alone on 
 the Warrenton turnpike — -was suddenly and 
 fiercely assaulted by Jackson's Corps between 
 Gainesville and Groveton. The attack fell 
 mainly on the Wisconsin brigade, which, for 
 over an hour, stood like a rock against the 
 charges of an overwhelming force from Ewell's 
 and Taliaferro's Divisions. Darkness put an 
 end to the fight, and late at night, after being 
 urgently advised by three of his brigade com- 
 manders that it was his only chance of saving 
 the division from being surrounded by Jack- 
 son's Corps with the coming morn, King or- 
 dered a withdrawal towards Manassas. He 
 had infiicted fearful loss to the enemy, but the 
 Iron Brigade had lost 40 per cent. Doubleday 
 had suffered severely. It was impossible to 
 find McDowell, the Corps Commander, or Pope, 
 and, all ignorant that Sigel's men were not far 
 distant on his right. King fell back. No orders 
 of any kind — -from any quarter, reached him 
 that night, but in his official report General 
 Pope made it appear that he had sent King 
 repeated orders to hold his ground, and infer- 
 entially it was reasoned that he received them 
 and disobeyed. Although Pope has since pub- 
 licly admitted that he never even sent orders 
 to King, but that all were sent to McDowell, 
 and though letters from the War Department 
 fully exonerated him, both in Wisconsin and 
 in Congress the affair was utterly misrepre- 
 sented and by many ignorant, and a few de- 
 signing people, King was accu.sed of having, 
 against orders, abandoned the field. Some such 
 report, with evident design, was brought to the 
 
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 ears of McClellaii as tlie division was about 
 moving in to the attack at South Mountain, 
 and he directed that King be relieved and 
 granted leave of absence on the ground of evi- 
 dent ill health. Though speedily restored to 
 duty and given important command at York- 
 town he never regained his health or s])irits. 
 Our diplomatic affairs were becoming en- 
 tangled abroad. Ciovernor Kaudall, who was 
 occupying King's post at Rome, desired to re- 
 turn, and in the fall of 1863, the President 
 called on his minister to proceed to liis station 
 at the Paj>al court. Here King remained 
 rendering important and faithful service to the 
 Nation, returning to the United States in 1SG7 
 and receiving a cordial welcome from his Mil- 
 waukee friends. After serving a year or two 
 as Deputy Collector of the port of Xew York 
 City, he there died of pneumonia October 13, 
 1876, and was buried among five generations 
 of his race in the old church-yard at Jamaica, 
 Long Island. 
 
 General King left a wife, son and daughter 
 to survive him. Of his character it is recorded 
 by a contemporary who knew him well that as 
 engineer, editor, .soldier and diplomatist, he did 
 honor to them all, but his chief title to remem- 
 brance was his own noble manhood, fervent 
 patriotism and affectionate disposition which 
 enshrinid his image in the heart niches of 
 hosts of ardent admirers. In writing he had 
 an easy, graceful style of great purity and ele- 
 gance; was just, generous and honorable in all 
 he expressed; and though often wielding a 
 partisan pen, his vigorous blows were given 
 with the mace of a templar knight. It was 
 not within the possibilities of his noble nature 
 to willingly wound a friend, and even for the 
 bitterest foe he always had Christian chaiity. 
 Captain Charles Kixci, V. S. A. 
 
 "T^r OX. CAPTAIN] 
 '' IP)-1I '"t'^i'^^'it at Trc 
 
 INLINDSEYJ. SMITH, 
 
 roy ('enter, Walworth 
 Co., Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, 
 No. 171, at East Troy, where he is a prom- 
 inent business man, was born .Jan. 8, 1840, 
 in Lafayette, in the same county in which he 
 lives. His father, Sylvester G. Smith, was born 
 in Berk.shire, Ma.ss., June 10, 1796, and was the 
 son of Willard Smith, who fought in 1812. 
 The latter is supposed to have been of English 
 origin. The mother, Diana Ward before mar- 
 riage, was born in Onondaga County, New 
 York, in February, 1803. She went with her 
 husband to Detroit, Mich., in 1836 and the 
 next year to Walworth County, Wis., where 
 they fixed their permanent abode on a farm. 
 The senior Smith died in June, 1878, and the 
 decease of the mother took place in February, 
 1852. Their children were nine in number 
 and five died in early infancy. Sarah grew to 
 womanhood and died in Minnesota in 1872. 
 Three are living of wlmm two are daughters — 
 Caroline W. and Ada N. The latter was the 
 wife of Harrison N. Montague, a memlier of 
 Company A, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, who 
 died uf injuries ret'eived in the service. 
 
 Caj)tain Smith passed his earlv youth at 
 home as an assistant on the farm, obtaining a 
 practical and available education in the district 
 school. When he was 18 years old he was 
 competent to teach and engaged in that occupa- 
 tion two successive winter.s, passing the in- 
 tervening summers on his father's farm. 
 When he attained his majority he was attend- 
 in<r a term of school at Miltim Academv in 
 Rock Counly. He farmed and taught alter- 
 nately until he decided to eritcr the military 
 service of his country. Aug. 15, 1862, he 
 enlisted in Company I, 28th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry and September 8th was elected First 
 Lieutenant of his company. October Hlh he 
 was nuistereil in at Milwaukee and, after a few 
 
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 weeks passed in Wisconsin in State service in 
 quieting tlie draft rioters on which service his 
 regiment was detailed, lie left the State for 
 Colunil)US, Ky., where active warfare was 
 imminent. The command went to Union 
 City and back to Columbus and went tlience in 
 January to Helena to be assigned to the 2d 
 Brigade, 13th Division and 13th Army Corps. 
 The following detail was for St. Charles on the 
 Wliite River expedition and a part of the com- 
 mand went to Duvall's Blutl to reconnoiter, 
 the regiment returning to Helena. In Feb- 
 ruary they were in another expedition which 
 had for its ultimate object the accomplishment 
 of one of Grant's plans, having been trans- 
 ferred to the 1st Brigade of the same division 
 and corps. The command was in j^rospect of 
 activities of lively character, but the expedition 
 had little practical results and returned once 
 more to Helena. The regiment was in the 
 sharp action at Helena, July 4th, in which one 
 of the triumphs of the Union troops over over- 
 whehning numbers was achieved through the 
 bravery and discipline of the regiment, in con- 
 junction with the artillery and gunboats on the 
 river. The 28th remained at Helena until 
 August and in that month Lieutenant Smith 
 was mustered as Captain of his company, his 
 commission to date from May 1, 18G3, and he 
 accompanied the regiment witli the expedition 
 against Little Rock. Until the first of Novem- 
 ber, the command operated on the Saline River 
 and in other localities in pursuit of Marmaduke 
 and in other military service. They went into 
 winter quarters at Pine Bluff and in March were 
 again in active warfare in wliicli they were 
 successful, capturing one day more than 300 
 pri-soners. On the last day of November, 1863, 
 they were relieved and returned to Little Rock. 
 During a portion of this time Captain Smith 
 was ranking officer and was in command of 
 the regiment. Much heavy marching was 
 
 accomplished throughout the various expedi- 
 tions and transfers of the command in which 
 the Captain was always at the head of his men. 
 In January, 1865, he was in an expedition to 
 the Saline River and after again returning to 
 Ijittle Rock, orders were received to move to 
 join the forces whose destination was the assault 
 on the defenses of Mobile. They proceeded to 
 Algiers and went to Mobile Point and thence 
 on the tedious march to Spanish Fort and 
 passed nearly two weeks in the trenches before 
 Spanish Fort, going thence to Blakely before 
 daylight on the morning of the 9th of April 
 to find it had also surrendered. Returning to 
 Mobile, they remained until orders were re- 
 ceived for Texas and the command proceeded 
 on transports to Brazos Santiago, and suc- 
 cessively to Clarksville and Brownsville, and 
 were mustered out at the latter place alter per- 
 forming heavier duty tiian in warfare in 
 camp and patrol duty and in interminable 
 marches, over almost impassable roads and 
 through hitherto almost untraversed territory. 
 When they arrived at Madison they were 
 finally paid off and tiieir connection witii mili- 
 tary life brought to an honorable termination. 
 Captain Smith resumed operations on his 
 farm (which he still retains in his possession) 
 and followed agriculture exclusively as a call- 
 ing until 1875 when he embarked in other 
 enterprises, including grain buying and traffic 
 in other farm products, and, a little later, he 
 also commenced the sale of lumber in which 
 his business has increased to large pi'oportions. 
 He also handles brick, coal and builders' sup- 
 plies and is considered one of the solid, reliable 
 and substantial business factors of Troy Center. 
 In 1880 he served as a member of the State 
 Legislature, fulfilling the duties of the position 
 in a manner every way creditable to his abili- 
 ties and experience. He belongs to the Order 
 of Odd Fellows and has been a member of tlie 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Order of Good Templars since lie was 18 years 
 old. 
 
 He was married in 1871 to Helen M. Stewart, 
 of La Grange, a native of Walwoitli county and 
 the daugliter of James and Margaret (Guthrie) 
 Stewart. ■ Their ciiildren are named Roliin L., 
 Mary D., Clara L., Carol W., Harold B. and 
 Osmer. The mother died in 1SS7. 
 
 3<t^ 
 
 •Sr'AMES DARLING, Genoa Junction, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post, No. 27, at 
 Geneva Lake, was born at Poughkeepsie, 
 Dutchess Co., New York, Sept. 26, 1844. His 
 father and mother, Philo and Elizabeth (Har- 
 rington) Darling, were both natives of the 
 State of New York. Tlie former was a farmer 
 and located on a farm in 1849 in Kenosha 
 county, Wisconsin, where he died Feb. 22, 1886. 
 The mother died on the old farm in that 
 county in 1873, aged 62 years. They had six 
 children who survive them. Paltic is the wife 
 of Louis Rollow. Sarah is the widow of John 
 Bohart, a soldier in the civil war. James is 
 third in order of birth. Augusta is the widow 
 of Henry Ray, who was also a soldier; she 
 lives in Delavan, Wis. Jane M. (Mrs. E. Sher- 
 man) lives at Genoa Junction. Frank is a 
 farmer on the homestead in Kenosha county. 
 James was hardly five years of age when his 
 parents removed from the place of his birth to 
 Wisconsin, and until he was 18 he encountered 
 the experiences of the ordinary farmer's boy. 
 At the age mentioned he went to Clinton, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farm laiior until he en- 
 tered the army. Sept. 28, 1864, he enlisted in 
 Company F, 8th Iowa Infantry, was mustered 
 at Davenport and joined the regiment at Mem- 
 phis, Tenn., the command being engaged in 
 patrol duty on the railroad. About March 1, 
 1865, he went with the regiment to New Oi-- 
 
 leans and thence to Dauphin's Island, where 
 they were placed on a transport and went to 
 Fish River; landing and making the terrible 
 march to the trenches of Spanish Fort, where 
 he was wounded by a shell and a minie ball at 
 the same moment. The former missile shat^ 
 tered his thigh and a piece entered liis stomach. 
 The minie ball penetrated his abdomen and 
 passed out beneath the short ribs. He was 
 taken from the field hospital to a hospital at 
 New Orleans, and was there about a month, 
 receiving a furlough of (iO days, May 1, 1865. 
 After its expiration he was sent to a hospital at 
 Davenport, Iowa, where he was mustered out 
 Sept. 28, 1865. He returned to Clinton and 
 was unable to do any work. He went back to 
 Kenosha county, where he operated as a farmer 
 and tried to recover his health. In 1870, he 
 removed to Walworth county, where he has 
 occupied his time as an agriculturist, and is 
 the owner of a farm near the limits of Genoa 
 Junction. Oct. 12, 187(i, he was married to 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Fuller) Greer. She was born 
 at Genoa Junction, and is the daughter of 
 Joseph and Mary A. Fuller, natives of the 
 State of New York. Her parents are farmers 
 near Genoa Junction. They have eight sur- 
 viving children and one deceased ; Mrs. Dar- 
 ling is the third in oi-der of birth. She is the 
 mother of four children born as follows: 
 Myrtie, at Bloonifield, Oct. 24, 1871; Elizabeth 
 A., at Randall, Kenosha county, Sept. 3, 1873 ; 
 Joseph Philo, May 13, 1876, at Genoa Junction. 
 Louis E. was born April 17, 1882, and died 
 when 20 months old. Mrs. Darhng was first 
 married to Gustavus Adolphus Greer, who was 
 a soldier in Company D, 95th Illinois Infantry, 
 and died April 29, 1866, leaving a daughter 
 named Gustavie May, who was born May 14, 
 1866. She is an estimable young lady and 
 and lives with her parents. Mrs. Darling is a 
 prominent nicmber of the Woman's Relief 
 
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 155 
 
 Corps, and, witli her husband, takes an active 
 interest in all matters pertaining to the well- 
 being of both Orders. 
 
 RTIS McBRIDE, Brodhead, Wis., mem- 
 ^ ber of G. A. R. Post, No. 102, was 
 born at Columbus, Bartholomew Co., 
 lad., March 27, 1837. His parents, P^zekiel 
 and Mary (Hampton) McBride, were both of 
 Southern birth, the father being a native of 
 Nashville, Tenn., and tiie mother of ^'irginia. 
 The McBride family is of Scotch descent and 
 has been known in the several wars of the 
 country. General McBride, one of the rebel 
 officers at the battle of Pea Ridge, resigned his 
 commission in the rebel army on the death of 
 his son, Lieutenant McBride, who was shot in 
 that action. A brother of Mr. McBride, David, 
 was a soldier and fought on that field, and saw 
 his cousin's body after death. It is still a bitter 
 thought that in more than one instance frater- 
 nal and kindred blood contested title to rights 
 on battle fields. General Wade Hampton is 
 the cousin of Mr. McBride, being the son of 
 his mother's brother. His parents were mar- 
 ried in the South, where they engaged in agri- 
 culture until 1845, when they removed to a 
 farm near Monroe, W^is., and they are now 
 residing in retirement in that village enjoying 
 a competency. They had 10 children and the 
 son who is represented in this sketch is the only 
 survivor. Two of his brothers were in the 
 service. .James enlisted in Company B, 31st 
 Wisconsin and served three years. David 
 served in Company A, 0th Iowa Infantry 
 through his enlistment. 
 
 When he was llj years old, Mr. McBride 
 founded the basis of his own fortune by work- 
 ing as a farm laborer for a short time, and as 
 soon as possible became the proprietor of a 
 
 farm of his own. It was situated near Monroe, 
 and he was resident thereon until he became a 
 soldier, enlisting Jan. 27, 1864, in Company C, 
 3d Wisconsin Infantry, was mustered at Madi- 
 son and joined the regiment at Fayette ville, 
 East Tennessee. In March, he went to join 
 the command of Sherman, and had his first 
 taste of rebel powder in one of tlie actions in 
 the vicinity of Dalton, Ga. They were in a 
 slight action at Kingston and also at Buzzard's 
 Roost, going thence through Snake Creek Gap, 
 where 100 soldiers could have driven them 
 around the mountains. In May they made 
 connection with Sherman and on the 14th 
 were in line of battle at Resaca. The bulk of 
 the fighting there took place on the 15th, but 
 Mr. McBride was in the- six days' successive 
 fighting at Dallas. May 25th he received a 
 bullet in the knuckles of his right hand and 
 was obliged to withdraw from the field. It 
 was near night and he lay down near a spring, 
 placing his hand in the water, and, overcome 
 with fatigue and loss of blood, fell asleep. He 
 was aroused in the morning by officers who 
 sent him to the field hospital ; the spring was 
 red with the admixture of the blood he had 
 lost and he was very weak. After arrival at 
 the hospital, his case loolced unimportant and 
 more serious cases received attention, the phy- 
 sicians advising him to keep his hand in cold 
 water, which he did until he arrived at Nash- 
 ville, and, after seven days' delay, he received 
 medical treatment. An attempt was made to 
 remove the ball but it held the fort and does 
 still, the arm being withered, the fingers and 
 wrist stiff and the whole side benumbed and 
 threatened with paralysis. At Nashville he 
 was detailed for Murfreesboro, and about .July 
 9, 1864, he received a 30-day furlough which 
 was extended to 60 days. He reported at 
 Madison, was examined and held there 
 until April 24, 1863, under General Order of 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the War Department, when he was assigned to 
 tlie Veteran Reserve Corps, Company 137, 2d 
 Battalion, and sent to Detroit, where the com- 
 mand was occuj)ied in camp duty, and lie re- 
 mained tliere unable to perform much duty 
 until final discharge, July 28, 18()5, by special 
 instructions from the Department. 
 
 He returned to his Wisconsin home whtn- 
 he has given every possible attention to the 
 recovery of the use of his hand but in vain. 
 
 He was married at Monroe, Aug. 20, 18G0, to 
 Emma Williams, a native of Wales. She was 
 the daughter of John and Emma (Jones) Wil- 
 liams, who removed to America in 1840, when 
 the daughter was five years old, (she having 
 been born July 4, 1835), and located in Rock- 
 ford, 111., where they were pioneer settlers. 
 Her father died while she was young and her 
 mother is still living; one brother and two 
 sisters yet survive. Henry Williams was a 
 soldier in Company B, 31st Infantry and resides 
 in Monroe. Rachel married Edward Craig of 
 Warien, 111.; Joanna married James E.Sher- 
 man of Greenwood, Kansas; Jane married 
 Bate GrilHth of Brownton, A\'i.«. The wife of 
 Mr. McBride died Dec. 23, 1888, leaving six 
 children, l)orn as follows: Artis Edward, July 
 20, 18(;l : John E.,Man. 3, 18G3; Clarence, 
 April 11, Lsr,.-); George, Sept. 22, 1867; Frank, 
 Oct. 16, 1869; Nellie B., Sept. 27, 1876. 
 George is the father's assistant on the farm and 
 the daughter is the manager of the house- 
 keeping, although only 13 years old. Mr. 
 McBride was devotedly attached to his wife, 
 who endured with him all the vicissitudes at- 
 tendant U])on his army life, and her loss is one 
 whicli he will feel keenly until he joins her. 
 He i)urchased a farm near Monroe, and there 
 and in the village of Monroe he lived until 
 1881, when he purchased his property near 
 Bi'odhead, and which includes 20 acres within 
 the corpoi-ation un which he proposes to pass 
 
 his declining years. He is a soliil farmer of 
 excellent reputation. 
 
 '>^<^mB^^^^ 
 
 TW" I RAM A. 
 TF^^r Wis., niei 
 JLr^ 201, wasl 
 
 SHELDON, r.urlington 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 Ijorn in I'tica, Macomb Co., 
 Mich., May 13, 1835. His parents, Orson and 
 Rose Ann (Lippitt) Sheldon, were both Ameri- 
 can by birth and of English origin. Mr. Shel- 
 don is one of seven children — four boys and 
 three girls — and four still survive, Julia E. 
 (Mrs. L. W. Conkey), \\'illiam C, H. Eugene 
 and Mr. Sheldon of this .sketch. Orson Shel- 
 don was born in Rupert, \'i., Aug. 12, 1807, 
 and was the son of Chauncey and Lucy (Whit- 
 ney) Sheldon, the Ibimer being a soldier 
 through the whole extent of the war of 1812. 
 Orson Sheldon is the oldest of 10 children and 
 has two sisters living. He resides with his son 
 in Burlington, and, although he is in his Sod 
 year (188'J) he still retains undimished his 
 mental and physical faculties. 
 
 The family moved from Michigan to Bur- 
 lington, Wis., in 1842 in the month of Decem- 
 ber, where the son obtained a good common 
 school education, which he supplemented with 
 a year of study at Beloit College. In 1859 he 
 established his relations to the hardware busi- 
 ness at Burlington, which he has since con- 
 ducted there. Aug. 28, 1861, he joined the 
 I'tley Guards, and, on the reorganization of the 
 1st Wisconsin Infantry, was assigned to Com- 
 pany C, with the commission of Second Lieu- 
 tenant and accompanied the regiment from 
 Camp Scott, Milwaukee, to Jefferson vi lie, hid., 
 crossing to Kentucky with the expectation of 
 soon encountering Kirby Smith who was 
 threatening that locality, lie went in com- 
 mand of his comjiau}' to service at West Point, 
 Elizabethtown and Nolansville, performing 
 
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 varied military duty and constructing bridges, 
 meanwiiile watching rebel movements, the in- 
 dications showing threatened trouble on the 
 border. Lieutenant Sheldon received i)roiuo- 
 tion to First Lieutenant Feb. 22, 1862, and on 
 the 6th of the following August he was made 
 Captain of Company C. March 8th he fought 
 at "Granny White's Pike," where his company 
 lost their blankets, and through the ensuing 
 summer he assisted in the varied military duty 
 in which his regiment was involved ; and was 
 next in action Oct. 8, at Perryville, where he 
 had the satisfaction of assisting in a triumph 
 over the rebels whose strength exceeded that 
 of the Union troops. His regiment was in 
 McCook's Corps and Ransom's Division. His 
 company lost seven men killed and 13 wounded. 
 He was next in heavj^ action at Stone River, 
 where he was in the several days' action, lielped 
 to win another victory and mourned the loss 
 of another considerable number of his men. 
 The regiment was assigned after this action to 
 the 14th Corps which moved southward under 
 Thomas and, en route, was in frequent skir- 
 mishing and other military duty. September 
 10-20 he fought at Chickamauga, going into 
 action with .31 men, of whom 10 answered to 
 their names after the fight was over. I>ut his 
 .sorrow was mitigated by the splendid courage 
 they had manifested. The command went to 
 Chattanooga to prepare for a continuation of 
 hostilities, where they performed hard labor 
 and suflered many hard.ships, resulting from 
 their being almost wholly cut otf from supplies. 
 Mr. Sheldon recalls the severities of the pre- 
 liminary conflicts before Chickamauga in view 
 of the sharpness of those contests and also that 
 at Mission Ridge. When the Atlanta campaign 
 commenced, with his recruited company, he 
 started to connect with the troops of Slierman, 
 fought at Resaca, at Dallas and in the several 
 positions in Georgia known as Kenesaw Moun- 
 
 tain where its situation was one of the most 
 dangerous. July 20th, through the action at 
 Peach Tree Creek, the regiment was in a similar 
 situation. They remained in the trenches 
 before Atlanta until they went to fight at 
 .Jonesboro, where the company again lost 
 heavily ; and afterwards returned to Atlanta, 
 and remaining about two weeks, were ordered 
 to Nashville preparatory to proceeding to Mil- 
 waukee to be mustered out Oct. 13, 1864, their 
 term having expired. 
 
 With his military laurels, in wiiich he takes 
 just pride, Captain Sheldon retui'ned to Bur- 
 lington and resumed the duties of his business 
 and his citizenship. He was married Feb. 28, 
 186.5, to Paulina A. Bristol and they have had 
 two children named Robert H. and Mabel. 
 The son is deceased, his death having occurred 
 -Jan. 21, 1877. The daughter is completing a 
 liberal education at the Northwestern Univer- 
 sity at Evanston, 111. She is a promising young 
 lady and the light of her father's home. The 
 mother died Sep. 12, 1888. Captain Sheldon 
 was the first man to suggest the feasibility of 
 raising an entire volunteer company for the 
 war, when the Government fixed a recruiting 
 office at Burliufjton. 
 
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 .,r^-j;^ APTAIN PETER J. MISEREZ, Darien, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, No. 3, was born at 
 La .Joux, Canton of Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 
 15, 1829. His father, .Joseph Miserez, was a 
 machinist, and was descended from a Spaniard 
 who left his native country and located in 
 Switzerland. He married Genereuse, daughter 
 of Francis Reutf, who, with four brothers, 
 fought in the German contingent of the army 
 of Napoleon, and afterwards went with his 
 family to Switzerland. Peter was the only 
 
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 cliild and lost his I'atlier wlien five months 
 old. His mother married again and he re- 
 mained in his native land until 1S4!». In 
 the spring of that year, when he was not quite 
 •20 years old, he sailed for America and landed 
 at New York. He proceeded to Ft. Wayne, 
 Ind., where he remained a year, working at 
 the trade of a shoemaker, which he learned in 
 Switzerland. In 1850 he went to Notre Dame 
 University, and after a year of study there 
 went to South Bend, Ind., where he remained 
 until 18o7, when he went to Mound City, Kan- 
 sas, as correspondent of the New York TVibune, 
 the Kansas troubles having again come to the 
 front. He was thereabout three months when 
 he went to Warrensburg, Jackson Co., Mo., 
 where he continued to reside until the Spring 
 of 18G1, operating meanwhile as correspondent 
 of the Tribune and becoming prominently 
 known as a decided Abolitionist. The war 
 troubles coming on, he was compelled to leave 
 Missouri and returned to Kansas, where he en- 
 listed as soon as possible. May 14, 18(51, in 
 Company F, 2d Kansas Infantry. The regi- 
 ment became famous in the Missouri warfare 
 under General Lyon whose coolness and cour- 
 age preserved Missouri to the Union. The regi- 
 ments participated in the fights at Forsythe, 
 Dug Springs, Wilson's Creek and Shelbina. 
 and in all other miscellaneous service involved 
 inits movements during that period. Oct. 31, 
 ISO I, Captain Miserez was mustered out at 
 Leavenworth, his term having expired long 
 before. In .June, 1862, he again enlisted in 
 Ct>inpany K, 12th Kansas Infantry, and was 
 mustered in as First Lieutenant of his com- 
 pany. The regiment remained at Leavenworth 
 several months, and CapUiin Miserez was de- 
 tailed to the command of the Post at Kansjis 
 City, which was established there May 1, 1SG3, 
 and he remained there two months, and was 
 next detailed to the charge of the military 
 
 prison in the same city (under General Ewing), 
 and was on duty there until November, when 
 he went with bis regiment to Fort Sniilli, Ark., 
 and was there assigned to the command of 
 General Thayer. In the sjiring of 1804, the 
 regiment was assigned to the commaftd of 
 General Steel and went on the Red River ex- 
 pedition. Captain Miserez, who had been com- 
 missioned Captain and was acting as Adjutant, 
 was in the movement to Shreveport to make 
 connection with the expedition, and be was in 
 the fisrbt at Prairie d'Ane and at .lenkins' Ferrv, 
 where he received a gunshot wound in his 
 right shoulder. He was then acting as Fii-st 
 Lieutenant and was the second junior officer 
 on the field, all others, with the exception of 
 Captain James Chestnut, being either absent 
 or disabled. After Jenkins' Ferry, the regi- 
 ment returned to Little Rock, Ark., thence to 
 Fort Smith and to Little Rock for muster out, 
 remaining there until the close of the war, the 
 Captain being discharged June 30, 1865. His 
 experiences in the Army of the Frontier would 
 fill a volume, and his duties of all varieties 
 were sometimes anything but agreeable even 
 to a man who recognizes and discharges his 
 duty at all hazards. He had the honor of 
 hanging "Jim Vaughn," one of Quantrell s 
 most distinguished guerrillas. The regiment 
 disbanded at Lawrence, and Captain Miserez 
 located at Kansas City, where he was made 
 Marshal of the Criminal Court and of the 
 Court of Common Pleas, and ofliciated as such 
 two years, after which be I'eceived the appoint- 
 ment of local agent of the Post t^ftice Depart- 
 ment and officiated in that capacity seven 
 years. He went thence to Phillips county, 
 Kansas, and remained two years on a soldier's 
 homestead claim, and in 1884 went to Concor- 
 dia, Cloud county, Kansas, where he remained 
 until 1889 when he removed to Darien, where 
 the parents of Mre. Miserez reside. He is do- 
 
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 iiig a prosperous business us a (kuiler in hoots 
 and slioes. lie was married in 1(S52 to Mary 
 .1 , daugliter of John B. Ronlo of South Bend, 
 and they liad six cl:ildren. Louise, the lirst- 
 horn, is deceased, as is tlie second child who 
 died unnamed. Emma, Mrs. Garver, lives in 
 San Francisco, CaL ; Mrs. Wm. Culver is a 
 resident of l>os Angeles, Cal. ; Mrs. Ilattie 
 Gingles lives at Aldrieh, Neb.; Joseph T/)uis 
 is an attache of the Santa Fe railroad, stationed 
 at El Paso, Texas. After the death of his first 
 wife, Captain Mi.serez was married to Mrs. 
 Margaret Frye, daughter of Bariiaid lluber 
 of Darien. 
 
 A\'ID CU.VK;, I'almyra, Wis., charter 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 138, 
 was born Sept. 28, 1833, in Ciiili, 
 Monroe Co., New York, and is the son of Wil- 
 liam and Margaret (Rush) Craig. In both lines 
 of descent the son represents one of the best 
 strains in American nationality, Ijoth his 
 parents being descended from forbeai's who 
 came to America from the North of Ireland in 
 1709, the ancestors in the paternal line being 
 David ('raig and Kugh Rush. The oi'iginal 
 stock from Scotland went to the North of Ireland 
 in IGUi* to esca])e the persecutions of the Scot- 
 tish "kirk" only to find themselves in a worse 
 condition from the inhabitants, who were 
 liostile to them and, in J70!t, the Scotch-Irish 
 began to emigrate to America. The elans 
 Craig and Rush were jn-ominent in all the 
 early struggles (jf Scotland and hardly a 
 romance has been written, founded on Scottish 
 history, whicli has not mentioned these families. 
 William Craig became a soldier in the war of 
 1812 when scarcely 19 years old and Sej)t. 20, 
 1846, he removed to a farm in Palmyra, Wis- 
 consin, (when his son was 13 years old), and 
 
 where he died in 1877 ; the mother's demise 
 occurred in 1838, before her son was five yeai-s 
 old. He remained on the home farm in 
 I'almyra until he was 20 years old and in July, 
 1801, he went to Iowa and, Aug. \r,, 18G2, 
 enlisted in Company K, 2.5th Iowa Infantry. 
 He was mustered at Mu.scatine, Sept. 19, 1862, 
 and went to Helena, Ark., and performed mili- 
 tary duty, skirmishing and raiding through 
 the winter. In the .spring of 1803 be went to 
 Milliken's Bend and was occupieil in all the 
 varieties of duty in the X'icksburg campaign, 
 going to Grand Gull'. He was in the Red 
 River expedition and when the regiment was 
 sent to join the Ea.stern troop.s, his regiment 
 was (;onnected with Sheridan's comniaml in 
 the Army of the Shenandoah and the division 
 went thence to the relief of General Geary at 
 Savannah. The next movement was to report 
 to General Terry at Wilmington, and they went 
 thence by ve.ssel to Morehead Harbor; and on 
 the way to join Sherman at Goldsboro, they 
 foraged for llu! command of Sheridan. At 
 Goldsboro, Mr. Craig was detailed to go with a 
 squad of .soldiers as escort for a supjjly train 
 and after returning he accompanied the com- 
 mand to Savannah and Augu.sta, returning a 
 month later to Savannah for muster out, July 
 17, lilO,5. Mr. Craig went to Davenport, where 
 he was finally discharged Aug. 2, 1805. Fol- 
 lowing is the complete roster of battles in which 
 he took a soldier's j)art iind which represents 
 far more than the manifest exhibit of names 
 and dates ; it will be observed that the in- 
 cluded territory compassed most of the im- 
 portant localities of the hottest j)ortion of the 
 rebellion, from the Mississijjjii River to the 
 Atlantic sealjoard : The Red River expedition 
 with its dangers, incessant marches and un- 
 remitting skirmishes, a detail of which would 
 swell the whole list incredibly; the campaign 
 with Sheridan in the valley of the Shenandoah 
 
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 forms one of the most thrilling episodes in the 
 whole liistory of the war. Mr. Craig fought at 
 Port Gibson, May 1, 18G3; Champion's Hill, 
 May 16, 1S()3; siege of Vicksburg from May 
 19 to July 4, 1863 ; siege of Jackson, from .Inly 
 9 to 14; Carrion Crow Bayou, Nov. 3, 1863; 
 Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864 : 
 Cane River, April 23, 1864: Middle Bayou, 
 May 5, 1864; Marksville, May 1"., 1864; Win- 
 chester, Sept. 19, 1864; Fisher's Hill, Sept. 22, 
 1864 ; Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. 
 
 In the spring of 1866 Mr. CVaig engaged in 
 the warehouse business at Palmyra in which 
 he operated nine years and was then compelled 
 bv impaired hoaltii to close active connection 
 with business life, lie became assistant Town 
 Treasurer and was afterwards elected to the 
 cliief office and served seven consecutive 
 years. lie has also officiated four years as 
 Town Clerk. He has been connected with the 
 Order of Odd Fellows since 1868. 
 
 He was married Dec. 26, 1858, at Buena 
 Vista, Richland Co., Wis., to There.sa A. Cran- 
 dall. She is the daughter of Samuel and Ada 
 (Goodrich) Crandall. Mr. and Mrs. Craig are 
 the parents of two children named Willie <). 
 and Jennie M. The former is head clerk in a 
 railroad office at Millbank, Dak., and the latter 
 is the wife of George A. Leadbetter, of Rome, 
 Jefierson Co., Wis. The purenls are both 
 members of the M. E. Church and are of ex- 
 cellent social standing. A. J. Craig, a brotlier 
 of Mr. Craig, has been State Superintendent 
 and also member of the .Vssemlily of Wisconsin. 
 
 AMUFJ> SUTCIJFFE, Elkliorn, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 76, was 
 born at Uttersfield, Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land, Aug. 14, 1826, and is the son of William 
 and Eliza (Wood) Sutclitfe, who, about 1839, 
 
 emigrated to America with their family, land- 
 ing at the port of New York. After a residence 
 of several years in southern Massachusetts the\' 
 went to Kenosha, ^^'isconsin, where their son 
 remained a few years. About 1847 he went to 
 Elkhorii where he engaged in painting and 
 that has been liis occupation when able to work. 
 Me has been a bus}-, active man and only re- 
 tired from active life when approaching age 
 compelled. Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany 1, 28th Wisconsin Infantry, and went into 
 rendezvous at Milwaukee until the regiment 
 started for the South. His health failed and 
 he was obliged to take counsel of tlie surgeon 
 and returned home on a furlough. His di.s- 
 ability w'as one that totally unfitted him for 
 military duty and he received honorable dis- 
 charge May 26, 1863. 
 
 Mr. SutclifFe has been twice married. His 
 first wife, to whom he was married in IS-JO, 
 W'as named Mary Wise and they had two 
 children — a son and a daughter. John W. 
 resides in Kansas and Eliza A. is Mrs. W. M. 
 Simmons, of Elkhorn. The second wife, Mary 
 Goody before marriage, was born in England 
 and came to America when 23 years old. She 
 was a resident of Chicago until her marriage. 
 
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 ^I^HOMAS DEVEREAUX, Eagle, Wis., 
 vly was l)orn in County Wickluw, Ire- 
 '^ land, June 9, 1824. His parents, 
 Michael and Catherine (Burns) Devereaux, 
 were natives of that t'ountry, and his father 
 was the son of a man whu was born in France. 
 Mr. Devereaux is one of 10 children of whom 
 four sons and a daughter emigrated to America. 
 He came to this country in 1848, and after re- 
 maining a year in the city of New York went 
 to Springfield, Mass., wliere he was 14 years a 
 resident. He then went West, locating for a 
 
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 time at Mukwonago where his brother resided, 
 and soon after decided to enter the array. He 
 enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Company B, 28th 
 \yisconsin Infantr}', and after being mustered 
 in at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, went to 
 Port Washington, whither the regiment went 
 to assist in controlling tlie draft rioters. He 
 returned to Milwaukee and went to Columbus, 
 Ky., leaving the State December 10th, expect- 
 ing to enter into immediate active service, but 
 went to Union Cit}-, where Mr. Devereaux was 
 detailed to go to Fort Hickman to obtain war 
 munitions left by rebels, and went to Island 
 No. 10 to find the guns spiked. He went after- 
 wards to Helena, where he was in the hot fight 
 of July 4, 1863. Prior to that he was in sev- 
 eral expeditions, one of which went to Duvall's 
 Bluff and afterwards to the Yazoo Pass expe- 
 dition. At Helena he was seriously injured by 
 a fall, by which he sustained injuries to his 
 head and one arm ; the physician decided that 
 his hand must be amputated, but its owner in- 
 sisted on retaining it and taking his chances. 
 He was afterwards detailed to manage a gang 
 of negroes in the construction of a piece of 
 highway. After the fight at Helena, the com- 
 mand went to Little Rock by way of Duvall's 
 Bluff, and afterwards pursued Marmaduke's 
 troops, returning to Little Rock. The next 
 movement was to Pine Bluff, where they went 
 into winter cpiarters, and afterwards Mr. 
 Devereaux was in the action in which the 
 rebels assaulted the regiment. In this action 
 and the expedition of which it was a part the 
 regiment captured 320 prisoners. The regi- 
 ment went into c^uarters at Pine Bluff' and left 
 there in December for Little Rock. Afterwards 
 Mr. Devereaux was in a long march to the Sa- 
 line River, returning to Little Rock where 
 orders were received to join General Canby at 
 New Orleans, whither they journeyed on the 
 White and Mississippi Rivers and went to Al- 
 
 giers, La., and thence to Mobile Point where 
 they were assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3d Divi- 
 sion and 13th Army Corps. Mr. Devereaux 
 went thence with the regiment to the terrible 
 march on Fish River to Spanish Fort, where 
 he was in the trenches 13 days, and on the last 
 at midnight, started on the double quick to the 
 assistance of Fort Blakely after the surrender 
 of Spanish Fort to find Blakely had surren- 
 dered just before their arrival. The regiment 
 went next to assist in the closing scenes in 
 Alabama and returned to Mobile on one of the 
 transports surrendered by Dick Taylor on the 
 Tombigby River. Soon after, the command 
 went to Texas, landing at Brazos Santiago. 
 Thence they went to Clarksville ; and Browns- 
 ville was their final point of removal where 
 they were mustered out Aug. 2, 1865, and 
 returned to Wisconsin where, at Madison, Mr. 
 Devereaux took final and formal leave of mili- 
 tary life. He returned to Mukwonago where 
 he remained until March, 1866. He bought a 
 homestead in Eagle which he afterward sold 
 and purchased the small place on which he is 
 at present resident. He was married to Mary 
 Malone in 1859 at Springfield, Mass. She is a 
 native of Dublin, Ireland, and came to America 
 when seven years old. They have two chil- 
 dren. Thomas H. is a clerk with the whole- 
 sale firm of Montgomery Ward & Co., in Chi- 
 cago, 111. A daughter, Mary A., wife of Philip 
 Belan, lives at Little Prairie. The parents are 
 practically childless through the fate which 
 overtakes all parents who rear their children 
 to maturity. Mr. Devereaux still maintains 
 his active relations with business, working at 
 his trade and gardening on his place- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ^v^j^> APTAIN FREDERIC KUSEL, Water- 
 town, Wis., member of 0. D. Pease 
 Post No. 94, was born Nov. 1, 183!t, at 
 Douiitz, now in the province of Mecklenburg, 
 Germany. He was 10 years ol<l when lie came 
 to America with his parents and the family 
 located at Watertown, Wis. His father, Daniel 
 Kusel, was a tinner in his native country and 
 established his interests in that line of business 
 at Watertown, the son becoming acquainted 
 with its details. He went South about the time 
 he attained his majority and when secession 
 ruled tlie hour, he was at Galveston, Texas, en- 
 gaged in the tin and hardware business. In 
 18()1 Captain Kusel was waited on by a com- 
 mittee of citizens, who requested him to sign 
 the papers declaring the State out of the Union, 
 but he declined on the ground that he was not 
 a citizen of Texas, and stated that he desired 
 to return to Memphis where he belonged. Tliis 
 he did because his life would be jeopardized if 
 it became known that he was a citizen of the 
 North. He .secured pas.sage on the "Alexander 
 Scott," a freight boat which stopped at Baton 
 Rouge and took possession of the equipments 
 and stores of the U. S. arsenal there. The 
 booty was left at Memphis and the boat was 
 presented with a rebel flag, bearing nine stars. 
 Following is an extract from the presentation 
 speech of the Mayoi-: "There she rises with as 
 yet but nine stars. If our sister States have 
 not the good will and courage to come up and 
 join us, we have the powerful hand to bring 
 them out." The larger guns were conveyed to 
 Island No. 10 and the boat proceeded to Cairo, 
 where the Unionists put an uncomfortable rebel 
 aboard to get rid of him. Mr. Kusel went to 
 St. Louis, and about the same time the strategy 
 of General Lyon secured Camp Jackson to the 
 Union and the city became loyal. Soon after, 
 he returned to Wisconsin and resumed his con- 
 nection witli his father's business. In the sum- 
 
 mer of 1862, associated with C. A. Menges, he 
 commenced recruiting for the service of his 
 countr}', and raised a company for the 20lii 
 Wisconsin Infantry. August 11th they re- 
 ceived commissions as recruiting officers from 
 Governor Salomon and three days later re])orted 
 103 men ready for duty. August ISth Mr. 
 Kusel was commissioned First Lieutenant of 
 Company E, his associate being made Second 
 Lieutenant of the same. The regiment was 
 ready for active service on the 23d and on the 
 30th started for Missouri. September 6th they 
 started on their weary route to Rolla, and 
 marched thence to Springfield under the most 
 burdensome conditions, many falling out, 
 utterly worn out b}' tlieir burdens and the 
 heat. At Springfield the heavy Rus.-;ian guns 
 were exchanged for the lighter Austrian rifles. 
 Another forced march to Cross Hollows followed 
 where activities were expected, but the rebels 
 fled and soon after a march was made to 
 Fayetteville, Ark. Tlie 20th was there first 
 placed in orders for set battle and went into 
 action after a heavy march without other 
 rations than a small sujiply of whiskey. The 
 Missouri Mounted Infantry had been driven 
 back by rebels ; half the 20Lh Wisconsin were 
 deployed as skirmishers and soon after were 
 lying down, while an artillery duel followed. 
 They charged a battery a half hour later, cap- 
 turing it with a loss of about 300 men. Lieu- 
 tenant Kusel received seven bullets in his 
 clothing and another which inflicted a flesh 
 wound in his hip. Tlie rebels approaching in 
 solid column, the regiment was forced to fall 
 back, and meantime destroying such guns of 
 the battery as they could. Tiie command was 
 saved from utter disaster by the arrival of 
 General Blunt. In this action the 20th Wis- 
 consin won its deathless renown, and Prairie 
 Grove leads its roster of glory. December 27th, 
 with six days' rations, a forced march to Van 
 
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 165 
 
 Buren was begun and 10 miles from that place 
 they captured several hundred prisoners, a 
 ferryboat and two steamboats loaded with sup- 
 plies. Tlie victors carried away what they 
 could of the cargoes and destroyed the rest with 
 the boats. On the last day of the month they 
 returned to Prairie Grove battle field and, a 
 week later, crossed the White River, went 
 through Arkansas to Lake Springs, Missouri, 
 and went into camp while the command was 
 being recruited. Orders were received about 
 the first of -June to move to take part in the 
 \^icksburg campaign, whither they went via 
 Rolla to St. Louis and by steamboat to ^'icks- 
 burg. Lieutenant Kusel was actively engaged 
 in the siege until the surrender when, as Cap- 
 tain of Company E, he had the happiness of 
 celebrating the National Anniversary in the 
 city of the rebels, protected by the flag of his 
 country. July 12th they started up the Yazoo 
 River and on the route a gunboat was lost by 
 striking a torpedo, but the guns were saved. 
 The "20th" landed at the plantation and went 
 to the rear of the city, which surrendered with 
 several hundi-ed prisoners, who were paroled. 
 After some daj'S passed in provost dutj', the 
 regiment returned to "N'icksburg. The day fol- 
 lowing, they went to Port Hudson, thence to 
 New Orleans and into camp at Carrolton. Cap- 
 tain Kusel was there seized by illness and re- 
 turned to AVisconsin on a furlough. Some 
 time later, he went to Madison for medical ex- 
 amination, was informed that his ultimate 
 recovery was doubtful and was advised to resign, 
 which he did Oct. 2, 1863. 
 
 On the first of .January, 1804, he formed a 
 partnership with his brother, D. H. Kusel, and 
 they have since prosecuted the hardware busi- 
 ness at Watertown. Captain Kusel is a repre- 
 sentative of the besl order of citizenship in 
 Wisconsin. He is a man who has continued 
 to honor his relations with his adopted country 
 
 and his claims have been recognized by his 
 townsmen. He has served the municipal in- 
 terests of Watertown several years as its Mayor 
 and in 1881 he was elected to the Senate of 
 Wisconsin. He declined a renomination on 
 account of his business relations. 
 
 Captain Kusel was married March 4, 1864, 
 to Maria Bodeen and their children include a 
 daughter and four sons. 
 
 AM PENN LYON, .Jus- 
 kipreme Court of Wiscon- 
 Idier of the civil war 
 and resides at Madison. (1889). His father, 
 Isaac Lyon, was the son of a Revolutionary 
 patriot and a soldier of 1812. His j^aternal 
 grandfather and great grandfather were sol- 
 diers of the Revolution, and the latter died in 
 captivity in a British prison. In line of descent 
 from both parents Judge Lyon is of Quaker ex- 
 traction and reveres above all other tenets those 
 
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 of the Society of Friends. His mother, Eunice 
 Coffin, was descended from a family which 
 was resident on Nantucket Island from about 
 1630, and traces are still to be found there of 
 some of the generations. 
 
 Judge Lj'on was born in Chatham, Columbia 
 Co., New York, Oct. 28, 1822, and obtained, ac- 
 cording to his own graphic statement, an edu- 
 cation in "common schools which were very 
 common." He was a boy of that period, 
 brought up with a sense of the responsibiHties 
 in life, and became early impressed with the 
 understanding that the carving of his future, 
 if he should have one worth while, was wholly 
 in his own hands. His youthful associations 
 formed in his mind the conviction that educa- 
 tion was the mould of manhood and, not how 
 mucli, but how well he could acquire the fitting 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 he felt to be a uecessity, was the desideratum, 
 even wlien opportunities were few and when 
 ambition seemed only aroused to be thwarted, 
 so limited were his advantages. "They also 
 serve who only stand and wait" became essen- 
 tially true in his case and he availed himself 
 of positions of labor when avenues of improve- 
 ment such as he would have liked were closed. 
 Through all his busy, honorable life he has 
 recognized the dignity of eHbrt, nor has he 
 waited for convenience, and he lives to reap 
 the reward in the estimation of his genera- 
 tion. He received no systematic instruc- 
 tion in "book learning" after he was 11 
 years old, l)ut he persistently studied in his 
 leisure moments at home and in such avenues 
 as were then considered, and justly, as the best 
 possible basis of a disciplined mentality. Until 
 he was 18 he had opportunities to study, which 
 he improved, and what he learned was very 
 thoroughly acquired. He had a small ex- 
 perience as a clerk, which was valuable to him 
 through the opportunities the position afforded 
 to observe affairs which he felt a need of un- 
 derstanding. 
 
 When he was 18 he removed to Walworth 
 County, Wisconsin, where lie passed several 
 years in farm labor, meanwhile continuing his 
 studies, and he acquired a very comprehensive 
 knowledge of the commentaries of Kent and 
 Blackstone. Afterwards he read law with Hon. 
 Geo. Gale, of Elkhorn, and, after an interim of 
 enforced inactivity from diseased eyes, he com- 
 pleted his preparations for the profession of an 
 attorney under the guidance of Hon. C. M. 
 Baker, of Geneva, and was admitted to practice 
 in the Territorial Courts in 18-10. He com- 
 menced his business at Hudson (Lyons) and 
 also served as a magistrate in the now town. 
 In 1850 lie became associated with C. P. Barns, 
 of Burlington, Wis., where he pursued the prac- 
 tice of his profession until 1855, when he re- 
 
 moved to Racine. He was elected District Attor- 
 ney in 1854, and he officiated in that capacity 
 four years. In 1859 he was member of tlie As- 
 sembly from that District and received the very 
 unusual compliment of l>eing made Speaker of 
 the Lower House, having never been before a 
 member of any legislative body. He w'as liis 
 own successor in the next election and was 
 again made Speaker. 
 
 He was a born and bred patriot and no other 
 than " United America" had ever been pre- 
 sented to his thoughts as a possibility; and 
 when the refrain of every note borne on the 
 breezes told of fratricidal war, he was ready for 
 his country's service. He enlisted a company 
 and, Aug. 7, 18G1, was commissioned its Cap- 
 tain, the organization being assigned to the 8th 
 Wisconsin Infantry as Company K, and he was 
 a part of the history of that regiment until he 
 was commissioned Colonel of the loth Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry. During the months of his re- 
 cruiting and in rendezvous at Camp Randall, 
 he was a faithful student in the tactics of mili- 
 tary service. Leaving the State for active duty 
 on the field October 12th, only a few days 
 elapsed before he was leading his troops to vic- 
 tory at Fredericklown, Mo. A little later he 
 was in action at New Madrid and afterwards 
 pursued the rebels on Iheir evacuation of Island 
 No. 10. He was in the action at Farmington, 
 fought before Corinth and passetl the time 
 which intervened before he went lo his charge 
 of the 13th Wisconsin in varied military duty. 
 He joined the 13th Wisconsin at Fort Henry 
 early in October after a brief stay in Wiscon- 
 sin, and towards the close of the same month, 
 made connection with the force under Ransom, 
 j)reparatory to an expedition to attack Morgan 
 at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Morgan was not 
 there, but a slight compensation for the disap- 
 pointment was had in the action in the evening 
 of November 6th, when a force of rebels under 
 
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 167 
 
 Woodward was attacked near Garrettsville and 
 severely punished, tlie confederates escaping 
 in the darkness with a loss of 4G killed and 
 wounded. Colonel Lyon returned to Fort 
 Henry and, during the remainder of the year, 
 was engaged in expeditions in pursuit of For- 
 rest and his guerrillas. February 3d, at four in 
 the afternoon, he received intelligence of the 
 attack on Donelson, some IG miles distant, and 
 in half an hour his soldiers were moving to re- 
 inforce the garrison there. They arrived to 
 find that a victory had been accomplished. 
 The regiment waa retained there as a part of 
 the right and front of the Army of the Cum- 
 berland. During the spring and summer en- 
 suing, the service performed by the 13th un- 
 der the management of Colonel Lyon was one 
 that receives little due on historical pages, but 
 in this instance its value was incalculable, as 
 the locality and the wandering bands of de- 
 tached and malicious rebels made the situation 
 one of great danger from the formation at short 
 notice of considerable bodies of desperate out- 
 laws. Tliis danger to the L^nion troops there 
 was wholly overcome by the efforts of the sol- 
 diers under the command of Colonel Lyon. 
 When the Army of the Cumberland moved 
 forward, the 13th left Fort Donelson August 27th 
 for Stevenson, Ala., where Colonel Lyon was put 
 in command of the post and the small garrison 
 there stationed. The defenses were meager 
 and the position one of peculiar danger, being 
 easily accessible to the enemy under General 
 Bragg. However, Colonel I^yon and his troops 
 jierformed the service expected of them and 
 held the position until the Army of the Cum- 
 berland was relieved by the arrival of Hooker 
 with reinforcements from the Army of the 
 Potomac about the tirst of October. Oct. 20, 
 1863, Colonel Lyon left Stevenson with his 
 regiment and passed the winter in quarters at 
 Edgefield opposite Nashville, where the com- 
 
 mand veteranized and whence the soldiers 
 went to Wisconsin on furlough, returning to 
 their former camp March 25th. They per- 
 formed garrison duty there until the last of 
 April, when they proceeded again to Steven- 
 son, where Colonel Lyon was a second time 
 made Commandant of the post. On the re- 
 organization of the army the 13th had been 
 assigned to the Fourth Array Corps. .June 6th, 
 Colonel Lyon left Stevenson for Claysville, Ala., 
 and disposed his troops for the defenses of the 
 fords and crossings of the Tennessee River to 
 protect the movements of Sherman, who was 
 effecting the changes which prefaced the At- 
 lanta campaign. In the latter days of August 
 he was sent to Huntsville, where his peculiar 
 abilities in making the most of his resources 
 were in demand, and he was invested with 
 almost plenipotentiary power over the situation, 
 being empowered to make such disposition of 
 his troops, (consisting of considerable forces of 
 infantry and cavalry and one battery,) as his 
 judgment dictated. All the important points 
 along the river from Huntsville to Stevenson 
 were under his supervision, and he performed 
 the duty required of him in a manner that 
 afterward received suitable recognition from 
 the general Government. He remained at 
 Huntsville until the practical suspension of 
 hostilities brought about by events in the East 
 and, about the first of April, he resumed per- 
 sonal command of his regiment which passed 
 the early summer in East Tennessee and after- 
 wards went to Texas in July, arriving at Green 
 Lake on the 16tli of the month, where Colonel 
 Lyon was mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. He 
 was breveted Brigadier-General of U. S. Vol- 
 unteers, his commission to date from October 
 26th. In the splendor of the actions of the 
 forces under Grant and Sherman the services 
 of troops at points of apparently less prominence 
 have welbnigh been ignored. That performed 
 
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 by the 13th Wisconsin was of a cliaracter 
 entithng it to a recognition no less conspicuous. 
 The vigilance unceasing and the forethought 
 and judgment required of every man constituted 
 a service which a conscientious biographer, en- 
 gaged in compiling annals for the benefit of 
 those wlio shall examine the only records made 
 singly in behalf of the Union soldiers, rejoices 
 in placing on permanent record. In the duties 
 on the several fields to which he was summoned, 
 Colonel Lyon displayed a sagacity and ma- 
 turity of judgment such as was needed at many 
 a point during the great struggle. He held 
 hi^iself inflexibly and unremittingly to the de- 
 mands of the several situations which required 
 untiring watchfulness and the exercise of cor- 
 rect judgment at exactly the right instant. 
 The advantages to the general result of his 
 management are not to be estimated. 
 
 Prior to his release from military obligations, 
 Colonel Lyon was made Judge of the 1st Circuit 
 of Wisconsin and, on the first of December, 
 1865, he entered on the duties of the position, 
 serving for five years. July 4tli, 1866, he de- 
 livered the address at Madison when the sur- 
 render to the State of the Wisconsin battle 
 flags by the regiments which had borne them 
 was made, and his review of events of the war 
 and in behalf of the soldiers who brought back 
 the banners to the State was a masterly effort. 
 
 In 1870 he was a candidate for Congress from 
 the 1st District but was defeated. In January, 
 1871, he was appointed to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the death of Byron Paine, Associate 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. 
 In April following, he was elected to fill the 
 unexpired term and the full term succeeding. 
 He was re-elected in 1877 and again in 1884 
 and is serving ni the latter at this writing. 
 His position is that of senior of four associates. 
 In 1871 Judge Lyon added to his duties those 
 of law lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, 
 
 which he continued two years. At commence- 
 ment, 1872, he received from the institution 
 the degree of LL. D. 
 
 The life work of Judge Lyon as a citizen, 
 soldier and jurist is elaborated on many pages 
 of many volumes which will be in existence as 
 long as the Government continues. Every line 
 of appreciation of his character is amply 
 merited. He is a ripe scholar : he is a man 
 who has borne his res])onsibilities among men 
 conscientiously, without fear or favor of any 
 ollier's opinion. He is a typical jurist and 
 such as are becoming a necessity and whose 
 lack will, in time, cause a revolution in the 
 profession. Above all written law, he respects 
 the native independence of manly convictions ; 
 and he has a keen discrimination in matters of 
 detail which are too often lost sight of in the 
 heat of important cases. It may be said of him 
 that, while he recognizes the majesty of law, he 
 yields only to the sublimity of equity. 
 
 In 1847 he was married to Adelia C, daugh- 
 ter of Dr. E. E. Dunconib, of St. Thomas, 
 Canada. Two of their five children survive. 
 Clara Isabel married J. O. Hayes and resides 
 at San Jose, CaL A son, named for his father, 
 was born in 1861, and resides at Hurley, Wis. 
 
 Tiie portrait of Judge Lyon appears on page 
 164. As the similitude of a man who typifies 
 one of the highest ideals of manhood it is in- 
 serted in this volume by tiu' pul)lishers with 
 intense gratification. 
 
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 "ILLIAM L. HENRY, Eagle, Wau- 
 kesha Co., Wisconsin, a soldier of 
 i^^^iL. the civjl war and formerly a 
 member of the G. A. R. Post at Eagle, was born 
 June 15, 1829, at Middlesex, Yates Co., New 
 York. Lie is the son of \'erus and Hattie 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 169 
 
 (Crane) Henry, both of whom were natives of 
 Connecticut. In the paternal Hne he is of 
 Scotch descent and in the maternal lineage 
 comes from the Holland Dutch. When he was 
 12 3'ears of age he went to Eagle, Wisconsin, 
 where he had two married sisters and remained 
 three j'ears. He returned to his father's home 
 and four years later persuaded his parents to 
 remove to Wisconsin. Thej' did so in 1845, 
 and located on a farm near Eagle where he 
 remained until he was about of age. His 
 father died in 1854 and his mother survived 
 until 1888, when, she died at the age of 98 
 years; she retained a full use of her faculties 
 and was in firm health until her death. 
 
 After a stay of six years with his parents 
 after their removal to Wisconsin, Mr. Henrj' 
 began business as a shoe dealer at Eagle which 
 he started about the date of the completion of 
 the St. Paul railroad through that place. He 
 sold out in five years and went to the pineries 
 where he passed three years, engaged alter- 
 nately in lumbering and teaching. He re- 
 turned to Eagle and was married in 1858 to 
 Elizabeth E., daughter of .John A. and Margaret 
 (McDonald) Logan. The former was a native of 
 Nova Scotia and the mother was born in Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, After his marriage, Mr. Henry 
 was engaged for seven years in the livery busi- 
 ness at Eagle. Feb. 15, 1865, he enlisted in 
 Company E, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
 mustered at Madison with the rank of Sergeant. 
 The regiment left Madison for Louisville, and 
 went thence to Athens, Alabama, as guard on 
 the Nashville & Decatur railroad, where it was 
 stationed until about the time of discharge. 
 Mr. Henry acted much of the time on detached 
 duty in command of squads of soldiers per- 
 forming guard and patrol duty at various points 
 on the railroad. He was mustered out at Nash- 
 ville, Sept. 27, 18G5, and reached Madison on 
 the 2d day of the next month wliere his con- 
 
 nection with military life was finally severed. 
 He returned to Eagle and, acting on the ad- 
 vice of physicians, went to Fort Atchison, Iowa, 
 where he operated three years as a merchant. 
 He went thence to Jacksonville in the same 
 State and after passing a year there as a hotel 
 keeper, he returned to Eagle and engaged in 
 farming and, latterly has been occupied also in 
 expressing merchandise from Eagle to Mil- 
 waukee by teams. To him and his wife three 
 children have been born — two sons and a 
 daughter — Edgar L., George W. and Nettie C. 
 The latter is a teacher at Philips, Price Co., Wis. 
 
 ^^^UGENE D. ODELL, Darien, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, was 
 
 born Oct. 15, 1843, at Painted Rock, 
 Chemung Co., New York, and he is the son of 
 John A. and Betsey (Boughton) Odell. His 
 father w^as born in Steuben County, New York, 
 Dec. 13, 1815, and followed the profession of a 
 farmer to which he was impelled by the failure 
 of his eyesight which precluded his following 
 his business as a millwright and sawyer. He 
 resided in Bradford County, Penn., and removed 
 to Chemung county and in 1846 located in 
 Walworth County, Wisconsin. He died Sept. 
 3, 1888, at Harvard, Illinois. His parents, 
 Robert and Hester Odell, were of Scotch-Irish 
 descent and were born in America. The 
 mother was born in Bradford County, Penn., 
 and was married in 1837 at South Creek in her 
 native county. She became the mother of 
 three sons who became soldiers and one gave 
 his life for his country. The sketch of Larmer 
 G. Odell is to be found on another page. 
 Robert, the eldest, enlisted in Comjiany M, 3d 
 Wisconsin Cavalry enrolling Jan. 1, 1862, and 
 died at Fort Scott, Kansas, Feb. 11, 1863. The 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 motlier died at Richmond, Walwortli county, 
 when her son of this sketch was three years old. 
 He resided with his grandparents until the 
 second marriage of his father in 1850, when he 
 returned home and remained until 1857, the 
 date of his entering upon an apprenticeship to 
 learn the husiness of a printer in the office of 
 the Walworth County Republican. In Decem- 
 ber, 1858, he went to Crystal Lake, 111., where 
 he attended school until the fall of 1850, when 
 he became a member of the household of ('. A. 
 Wheeler, a farmer of Piano, III., with whom he 
 remained until he entered the array. Aug. 2, 
 1861, he enrolled in a company which was 
 mustered as Company A, Light Dragoons of 
 the 36lh Illinois Cavalry. Nov. 7, 186:3, the 
 company was consolidated with Company I, 
 15th Illinois Cavalry and in January, 1865, it 
 was again consolidated with Company M, 10th 
 Illinois Cavalry. After enlistment, Mr. Odell 
 was in rendezvous at Camp Hammond, Aurora, 
 111., and went thence in September to Benton 
 Barracks at St. Louis and thence to Rolla, Mo., 
 where the company engaged in scouting service 
 until December, 1861, when, in conjunction 
 with other cavalry commands they went as 
 advance to the Gasconade River and awaited 
 the arrival of Curtiss with the main army. 
 Jan. 13, 1862, they entered Springfield, Mo., 
 will! tlie command, having a brush with the 
 rebels at that time. They went next to Osage 
 Springs, where they made connection with 
 Sigel's command and wenttoBentonville, Ark., 
 whither that officer conducted liis supply trains 
 in apprehension of the movements of \'an Dorn, 
 Price, McCulloch and Pike. About midnight, 
 orders were received to consolidate the forces 
 which had been scattered the better to facilitate 
 subsistence and, soon after, the commanding 
 general discovered that he was surrounded and 
 determined to cut his way out and, collecting a 
 body guard of 500 cavalrymen, (Mr. Odell being 
 
 one) he gave the requisite orders and that 
 action constituted the first day's fight at Pea 
 Ridge, one of the hardest fought and most 
 complete victories of the war. The battle raged 
 two days afterward ; the pursuit lasted two 
 days longer and they went thence to Forsythe, 
 Batesville and to Little Rock, where orders 
 were received to make a forced march to Cape 
 Girardeau. Tliey went on the river to Ham- 
 burg Landing and thence hurried forward to 
 the siege of Corinth. The company of Mr. 
 Odell was assigned next to the service of Gor- 
 don Granger and acted as messengers and in 
 escort duty, going from that to the service of 
 General Stanley and succes.sively to General 
 Beaufort and General Rosecrans. Mr. Odell 
 fought in the battle of luka, Sept. 19, 1862, 
 near the latter officer and also at the second 
 fight at Corinth, October 3d and 4th. He was 
 in the pursuit to Hatchie River where Hamil- 
 ton took command when Rosecrans relieved 
 Buell. Mr. Odell's company remained in Hamil- 
 ton's service until they joined Grant at Oxford, 
 Mi.ss., who was in readiness for the movement 
 on Vicksburg. Dec. 19, 1862, with 14 com- 
 panions, Mr. Odell received orders to go to the 
 base of supjily at Holly Springs for cavalry 
 supplies and on the morning of the 20lh, Colonel 
 Murphy surrendered, the loss of the stores com- 
 pelling Grant to wholly change his plans. Mr. 
 Odell received immediate parole and went to 
 Memphis and thence to St. Louis, Mo., to await 
 exchange, which he received about June 20, 
 1863, and he entered the service of General 
 Lanmann as escort and the command under 
 that officer was engaged in guarding a ford on 
 Black River, having several skirmishes there. 
 Not long after, Mr. Odell was detailed to do 
 messenger duty for Colonel Parks and on going 
 to Warrenton with .despatches he ascertained 
 that the city had surrendered. He was pre- 
 sented by his colonel with a horse, which had 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 171 
 
 been taken from the rebels. The whole com- 
 niand received orders to concentrate at Vicks- 
 burg and went to New Orleans. In September, 
 
 1863, they went to Morganzia Bend and were 
 in an engagement there on the 29th, when Mr. 
 Odell lost his horse in the action. He was 
 afterwards taken witli the ague and sent to 
 New Orleans and went into the camp of dis- 
 tribution in charge of a company and operated 
 in that capacity until Jan. 22, 1864, when he 
 veteranized, re-enlisted in the company in which 
 he first enrolled, being ignorant of the con- 
 soHdation in Company I, 15th Illinoi.s. He re- 
 ceived his furlough and on the way home was 
 taken with diphtheria and went to tlie Marine 
 Hospital in Chicago, where he passed most of 
 his furlough, going thence to Piano, and not 
 being able to go back with his command, his 
 furlough was extended to 90 days. He made 
 connection with his company at New Orleans, 
 July 8, 1864, and in August they received 
 orders to connect with the 15th Illinois at 
 Helena, Ark., and were afterwards known 
 as Company I, 15th Illinois cavalry. The 
 official records show that from Dec. 1, 1863, 
 to Dec. 1, 1864, Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, 
 G, H, I and L captured and killed more 
 rebels two to one than their entire muster roll 
 during the war exhibited names. In .lanuary, 
 
 1864, the consolidation with tiie lOtli Illinois 
 took place and they were mustered out with 
 that regiment. From Helena the command 
 went to Duvall's Blufl' and to Brownsville and 
 in the spring to New Orleans, where they re- 
 mained until July, when they went to Shreve- 
 port on the Red River, and there his old lung 
 disease again made itself manifest and he went 
 successively to New Orleans to the hospital and 
 to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, and, three 
 weeks later, was detailed to the Government 
 printing office where he was mustered out as 
 "absent and sick" Nov. 22, 1865, received or- 
 
 ders to join his regiment and was mustered 
 out at Cairo. Jan. 5, 1866, he received his final 
 discharge. He went to Springfield and ex- 
 pected to work at his trade, but his health 
 failed and he returned to Delavan and engaged 
 in carriage-making. July 1, 1867, he went to 
 River Falls and again embarked in the same 
 business until the entire failure of his health, 
 when he sold his property and in 1883 removed 
 to Darien. During his active business life he 
 had acquired a thorough knowledge of law, 
 and in 1884 he established a pension claim 
 agency. He has been admitted to practice in 
 all the departments at Washington and devotes 
 his entire time to his business as claim agent. 
 He records with pride that he has never lost 
 a claim which he presented, which is sufficient 
 manifest of the care and judgment he exercises 
 to conduct his business with justice. He has 
 had the satisfaction of placing many much 
 needed dollars in the possession of the heroes 
 of the civil war. In 1885 he was a clerk in the 
 Wisconsin Assembly and on his return home 
 was elected Justice of the Peace, which position 
 he still holds. Physically, he is but a wreck of 
 a man, his sickness of 1864 costing him the use 
 of his right lung, and to the efforts and minis- 
 trations of a faithful wife he owes all the com- 
 fort he has in existence. He is popular with 
 his friends and in liis business relations and is 
 known as an enterprising business man. In 
 political affiliation he is a Republican. June 
 23, 1868, he was married to Orrell A. Thayer, 
 of River Falls, and their children are Mabel Z., 
 Raymond C, Lulu N., Robert E., Bessie A. and 
 Larena. Mrs. Odell is the daughter of Josiah 
 and Matie (Stone) Thayer, and her parents 
 were born respectively in Massachusetts and 
 Connecticut. They were married at Thomp- 
 son's Hill, Conn., Sept. 4, 1848, and started for 
 Republic, Seneca Co., Ohio, where they resided 
 16 years and where seven children were born 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to tliem, of whom Mrs. Odell is the oldest. In 
 1864 the}' went to River Falls and the father 
 died Ahirch 18, 1889. The mother is 70 years 
 old. 
 
 HARLES EDWIN BUELL; a leading 
 citizen of Lake Geneva, Wis., a solid 
 business man and a prominent mem- 
 ber of the Order of the Grand Army, is the repre- 
 sentative of William Buell, who formed the 
 connecting link between the family in England 
 and that wliich has been resident in America 
 nearly three hundred years, and from whom 
 Mr. Buell is seven generations removed. Wil- 
 liam Buell was born in Chesterton, Hunting- 
 tonshire, England, in 1610, and emigrated to 
 America in 1630. He was a genuine New 
 England Puritan, located in Dorchester, Mass., 
 and died in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 23, 1661 ; he 
 was married in 1640 and to him and his wife 
 the following children were born : Samuel, 
 .Sept. 2, 1641 ; Mary, Sept. 3, 1642; Peter, Aug. 
 19, 1644; Hannah, .Jan. 8, 1647; Hepzibah, 
 Dec. 11, 1649; Sarah, March 21, 1654; Abigail, 
 Feb. 12, 1656. Samuel Buell was born at 
 Windsor, Conn., and died at Killingworth in 
 the same State, .July 11, 1720. He was married 
 Nov. 13, 1662, to Deborah Griswold ; she was 
 born June 28, 1646 and died at Killingworth, 
 Feb. 7, 1719. Their children were born as fol- 
 lows: Samuel Buell, (Captain), July 20, 1663; 
 Deborah, Oct. 18, 1665; ILumah, Sept. 6, 1667; 
 Mary, Nov. 20, 1669; John, (Deacon), Feb. 17, 
 1671 ; Mannah, May 4, 1674; William, Oct. 18, 
 1676; David, (Major), Feb. 1, 1679; .Josiah, 
 March 16, 1681 ; Meliitable, Aug. 22, 1682 : 
 Peter, Dec. 3, 1684 ; Benjamin, in 1 6S6. Samuel 
 Buell (3d) was born at Windsor and died at 
 Killingworth, Nov. 2, 1732 ; he was married to 
 Judith Stevens in 1686 and she died Oct. 31, 
 1732. Their eleven children were born as fol- 
 
 lows: Samuel, May 29, 1687; Samuel, (Cap- 
 tain and Ensign), March 8, 1690; Josiah, (Lieu- 
 tenant and Captain), March 7, 1692; Deborah, 
 Jan. 24, 1694; Mary, May 17, 1696; Daniel, 
 (Lieutenant and Deacon), June 19, 1698 ; 
 Nathaniel, Sept. 29, 1700 ; Lydia, March 9, 1703 ; 
 Mehitable, May 8, 1705 ; Lucy, May 25, 1708 ; 
 Jo.seph, Aug. 24, 1710. Joseph Buell was born 
 at Killingworth, removed to Somers and died 
 at Newport, N. H., about 1780. He was mar- 
 ried April 10, 1733, to Anna (Submit) Colton, 
 who died at Newport, Dec. 27, 1772. He was 
 afterward married to Miss Lane, of Newport. 
 Of the first marriage twelve children were born 
 as follows : Matthew, March 10, 1734 ; Thank- 
 ful, March 20, 1736; Joseph, Sept. 1, 1738; 
 Samuel, Nov. 29, 1740 ; Mehitable, July 6, 1743 ; 
 Josiah, Nov. 7, 1745; Anna, Aug. 22, 1748; 
 .Tudith, March 12, 1750; Lucy, April 8, 1753; 
 Thomas, May 15, 1756; Joanna, .Jan. 23, 1759; 
 (the name and birth of the twelfth child are 
 unknown.) Thomas Buell was born at Somers, 
 removed to Newport and Lebanon, N. Y., and 
 died on a farm near EarlviUe, Oct. 1, 1820: he 
 was married in December, 1779, to Irene, 
 daughter of Captain John Blodgett, of Hart- 
 ford, Conn.; she was born Jan. 31, 1760, and 
 died .March 17, 1839 ; their children included 
 ten sons and three daughters, born as follows: 
 Darius, Sept. 14, 1780; Samuel, Scjtt. 21, 1782; 
 Thomas, March 8, 1785; Ro.\ie, Jan. 22, 1787 ; 
 Eli, Feb. 14, 1789; Ira, Jan. 10, 1791; Elijah, 
 Sept. 17, 1792; Irene, Sept. 13, 1794; Joseph, 
 May 21, 1796; Irene, June 24, 1798; John B., 
 May 21, 1800 ; Chauncey, March 6, 1803 ; Orrin, 
 June 28, 1805. Ira Buell, father of Charles 
 Edwin, was born at Newport, and removed with 
 hi.s family to Lebanon, N. Y., the journey being 
 j)erformed in sleighs through a rough, sparsely 
 .settled country and consumed si.v weeks. With 
 his bi'ollier's help he cleared a piece of land 
 from heavv timber and erected a habitation. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 173 
 
 Later, lie went to Plynioutli, N. Y., wliere he 
 married Cliloe, duugliter of Abrani Holcomb, 
 Sept. 21, ISK). They passed the first years of 
 their married life in iveeping the "tavern" at 
 tiie "settlement" and afterwards went to a farm 
 in tlie vicinity about 1S4G. They removed 
 thence to Earlville and the father engaged in 
 the manufacture of Trask's Magnetic Ointment. 
 In 1849 they went to Wisconsin, locating on a 
 farm on the west side of Bloom Prairie, town 
 of Linn, and there the father died Aug. 16, 
 1874, aged 83 years, seven months and six days. 
 The mother was born Aug. 2, 1798, and died 
 June 17, 1884, aged 85 years, 10 months and 
 15 days. Following is the record of their chil- 
 dren : .Joseph Sidney, born March 7, 1819; 
 Harriet Amelia, Jan. 3, 1821 ; Per.sis Annette, 
 April 5, 1823 ; Helen Maraud William Wallace 
 (twins), March 21, 1826, (died Nov. 17, 1826); 
 William Ira, Oct. 28, 1828 ; Henry Clark, Dec. 
 20, 1832; Charles Edwin is the youngest. 
 
 He passed his early life in school and went 
 to AVisconsin with his parents when about 13 
 years of age. During several winter seasons 
 he attended a school of advanced grade at 
 Elgin, 111., and passed the intervening seasons 
 on the home farm until he commenced teach- 
 ing. He was occupied in that business three 
 seasons and was on the homestead until he 
 entered the army" when the exigencies of 1862 
 made it apparent that "men were needed at the 
 front." He enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, from Lake 
 Geneva in Company C, 22d Wisconsin Infantry 
 under Colonel Utley ; went to Cincinnati and 
 thence into Kentucky to head off Bragg who 
 was threatening that section and later, after re- 
 peated change of base, to Danville, passing a 
 part of the winter looking after John Morgan 
 and his guerrillas. In the spring of 1863 the 
 regiment went to Louisville and thence to Nash- 
 ville and in March the brigade was ordered on 
 a I'econnoissance to search for the enemy and 
 
 found Van Dorn at Spring Hill. An engage- 
 ment followed at Thompson's Station in which 
 the bulk of the command was captured by the 
 combined forces of Forrest, Xan Dorn and 
 Wheeler, including about 6,000 rebels. Mr. 
 Buell was taken to Columbia, stripped of cloth- 
 ing and valuables at Tullahoma, and went with 
 hundreds of prisoners to Libby. He was ex- 
 changed May 15th, went to City Point and 
 thence to Annapolis, whence, after recruiting 
 and receiving supplies, he went to St. Louis, and 
 proceeded thence to Nashville and Murfreesboro 
 where he performed guard and camp duty and 
 other obligations pertaining to a provost guard 
 of which he was in command, and in February, 
 1864, went to join the army at the front, 
 making connection with the corps of Hooker 
 for the Atlanta campaign. He fought at Re- 
 ! saca, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Culp's 
 Farm, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, 
 and the siege of Atlanta, until the fall of the 
 city. At Resaca he was put in command of 
 Company H, (whose officers were all killed or 
 wounded), and held the position until Novem- 
 ber, commanding during the s^jege, the com- 
 pany registering eight set battles and innumer- 
 able skirmishes while under his management. 
 Mr. Buell enlisted as a private, and was made 
 Orderly Sergeant on the organization of his 
 company. At Brentwood, Feb. 28, 1862, he 
 was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and, 
 April 18, 1864, he was commissioned First 
 Lieutenant as the command was about starting 
 for the Atlanta campaign. Feb. 27, 1863, he 
 was discharged as Sergeant to take his commis- 
 sion as Lieutenant and received final discharge 
 June 12, 1865, at Washington, after attending 
 the regiment to Savannah on the march to the 
 sea, taking part in the activities, and went 
 to Goldsboro and Raleigh, going on the long 
 foot race through Virginia and Washington to 
 be mustered out after the Grand Review. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 He returned to Lake Geneva and worked on 
 the farm about two years, becoming meanwliile 
 a married man. In 1868, be became an assist- 
 ant in the Bank of Geneva, with his father-in- 
 law, and has since been an attache of that in- 
 stitution, wliich is the leading financial house 
 in tlie city, and of which he is cashier (1889.) 
 He was appointed Postmaster at Geneva and 
 served under his commission as such eight 
 years, between 1870 and 1879. 
 
 He was married Dec. 23, 1867, to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of E. D. and Alma Richardson, by 
 Rev. Dr. .Tohn McNamara. Mrs. Buell is a 
 native of Geneva, where her father located 
 July 24, 1842, when that section of Wisconsin 
 was in its pioneer days; he has since been con- 
 nected with the development of the county 
 and has been a leading financier for many 
 years. Mr. and Mrs. Buell have two children ; 
 Helen Mudge was born Nov. 11, 1868; Kittie 
 May was born May 31, 1877. In his Grand 
 Army connection, Mr. Buell has served three 
 terms as Commander of his Post, and in 1889, 
 (current year) as Adjutant. He is also Treas- 
 urer of the Odd Fellows Order at Lake Geneva. 
 He has been a member of the School Board 
 about 20 years and is now Treasurer ; he has 
 served his generation in other capacities, acting 
 many years as member of the Village Board 
 and was President of that body when the vil- 
 lage was incorporated a city. In all his active 
 interests he is a loader in all projects which 
 promise advantage to the place and his influ- 
 ence is felt in all circles to which he belongs. 
 
 SCAR B. ROBERTSON, Burlington, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 201, was born at Walton, Delaware 
 Co., New York, March 1, 1833, and is tlie son 
 of William and Susan (Butler) Robertson. 
 
 There were eight children in his father's 
 family, born as follows: William, Cornelia, 
 Addie, Elizabeth, Mary, Frances, Andrew J. 
 and Mr. Robertson of this sketch. The parents 
 were natives of America and were respectively 
 of English and Scotch descent. The father 
 died about the year 1835 at Walton, and when 
 the son was 11 years of age he accompanied his 
 mother to Honey Creek, Walworth Co., Wis. 
 The family located on a farm and Oscar went 
 to school and made himself as useful as pos- 
 sible until he was about 15 years of age, when 
 he went to serve an apprenticeship to acquire 
 a knowledge of the trade of a painter. He fin- 
 ished his trade and remained there in all about 
 seven years. He went tiience to Weyauwega, 
 Wis., where he remained until called to resume 
 charge of the farm by the death of his mother, 
 which occurred Jan. 11, 1856. He remained at 
 Honey Creek, engaged in farming and also in 
 working at his trade. His business was inter- 
 rupted by the advent of war, and as events 
 progressed he did not like the outlook and de- 
 termined to enter the army. Feb. 15, 1862, he 
 enlisted as a bugler in the 9th Battery, Com- 
 pany H, Captain C. H. Johnson, and was mus- 
 tered into service at Burlington. March 19, 
 he stai'ted for Benton Barracks with the com- 
 mand, where they received their equipment of 
 six pieces of artillery. Their next move was 
 to Leavenworth, Kas., and on the 26th of 
 Anril the whole command started for their long 
 march of more than 500 miles to Denver, Col., 
 where they arrived in 32 days. There the bat- 
 tery was divided into sections. The riglitwent 
 to Fort L'nion, New Mexico, under Capt. Dodge. 
 The second section went to Fort Larned, Kas., 
 and the left, to which Mr. Robertson belonged, 
 went to Fort Lyon, Col. This involved another 
 long march. It was frontier service, and as the 
 rebels were there, many varieties of fighting 
 were experienced as well as that of repuls- 
 
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 ing the Indians, wliicli was very satisfac- 
 tory work with the hattery. Mr. Robertson 
 remained witli the battery there until ordered 
 cast to Fort Larned, Kas., and again engaged 
 in a long march. Oct. 14, 18(>4, the command 
 went to Shawneetown to join Blunt in resisting 
 the encroachment of Price, who had that sec- 
 tion again under menace. lie was in the fight 
 at W^eston, Mo., with Ahirmaduke, in whicii a 
 retreat to avoid Price's flank movements be- 
 came necessary. They followed Price, who was 
 driven across the Ai-kansas River as far as Fort 
 Scott, and Mr. Robertson was in the action in 
 which Marmaduke was captured October 24th, 
 and where Price narrowly escaped. Tlie battery 
 returned to Fort Leavenworth, Kas., and re- 
 mained thei'e until mustered out .Jan. 26, ISGo. 
 He returned to his home and resumed his 
 former occupation. The following spring he 
 removed to Burlington, where he has since 
 pursued his business as a painter. He was 
 married Oct. 13, 1866, to Julia A., daughter of 
 Jonathan and Mary (Turner) Trott and their 
 children are named "William and Ursula. The 
 mother died Nov. 19, 1887. 
 
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 ICy YMAN A. RICHARD.SON, Milton 
 '^o'^l Junction, Wis., a member of G. A. R: 
 ^^ Post No. 60, was born May 4, 1844, in 
 the State of New York. His father, Alanson 
 Richardson, died when he was 12 years old, 
 and he became wholly an orphan, his mother 
 having died in his infancy. Two years later, 
 he chcse J. M. Hanchet, of Janesville, as 
 guardian. Mr. Richardson has been a resident 
 of Wisconsin since the fourth year of his life, 
 his parents having removed to Johnstown in 
 1845. He remained under the charge of Mr. 
 Hanchet and operated as a farm laborer until 
 he entered the army. Sept. 16, 1861, he en- 
 
 listed in Company B, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and left the rendezvous at Janesviile in Feb- 
 ruary following for Kansas. He went succes- 
 sively to Leavenworth and Fort Scott, the march 
 to the latter location being one of extreme 
 hardship from the frozen rain which made the 
 ground so slippery that the "boys" aided their 
 progress with their fi.xed bayonets; Mr. Rich- 
 ardson froze both ears, and only saved them by 
 packing in snow. He tried to obtain shelter in 
 a barn, but it was filled and the night was 
 passed in fruitless endeavors to obtain rest. 
 The warmer weather melted the snow next day 
 and they did not find the mud any improve- 
 ment, but the roads were good when they 
 reached the fort. Mr. Richardson had an en- 
 counter there with a rebel who proposed that 
 the "Yankee" should leave, but Mr. Richard- 
 son found means to turn tlie tables on him and 
 he did some fine running. Some time was 
 passed in moving from place to place in Kan- 
 sas, and once Mr. R. expected to go to Texas, 
 but orders were received to reinforce Corinth, 
 Miss., and a forced march was made to Leaven- 
 worth, whence the command went by boat 
 down the river. They were held by a snag 
 over one day in the Missouri Riv'er, and when 
 they reached Cairo, the battle at Corinth was 
 over. Mr. Richardson was on guard duty at 
 Columbus, Ky., when he was taken sick, and 
 was extremely ill, his friends being notified 
 of the impossibility of recovery. But he lived 
 to I'esume military duty. His company was 
 stationed in a fort to prevent smuggling 
 on the river and it sometimes became his 
 duty to search traveling apparatus. Once 
 while going through a valise, its owner of- 
 fered him §1,000 to let him pass without in- 
 spection. The individual was taken to the 
 provost marshal, who, after a private interview, 
 permitted him to pass. Mr. Richardson sup- 
 jioses he had gold for buying cotton and that 
 
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 the p. m. was bribed. The command went to 
 Fort Henry and afterwards to Donelson. Here 
 Mr. Kicliardson was one of a party on picket, 
 who discovered a number of unexploded shells 
 which they piled up and surrounded with 
 wood. It was fired and made an interesting 
 occasion in several senses, as a squad of cavalry 
 and regiment of nifantry were sent to see what 
 the commotion meant. But they made no dis- 
 coveries and went back in wonder. The duty 
 of the regiment called its members to various 
 points in Tennessee and Mr. Richardson veter- 
 anized .)an. 20, 1864, at Nashville, whither he 
 returned after his furlough. He was a skilled 
 draftsman and was detailed at Department 
 Headquarters, Army of the Cumberland, in 
 the ofKce of the topographical engineer as clerk. 
 He remained there some time and, Dec. 22, 
 1864, was specially detailed as draftsman and 
 was engaged in making maps and plans of 
 fortitications. When General Thomas sent a 
 cavalry force under General Rousseau to cut 
 the Montgomery & West Point Railroad, he 
 accomj)anied the command to prepare notes 
 for a map of the locality. He went via Decatur^ 
 Blountsville and Ashville, and crossed the 
 Alabama River at 10 Island under heavy firing 
 and a detachment was sent down the river to 
 flank and drive them away. Talladega and 
 Dade.ville were passed and the railroad cut be- 
 tween Cheraw and Opelika — 30 miles. A re- 
 turn was maile to Marietta, where Mr. Richard- 
 son parted witli the chief and staff and went to 
 Nashville, making his roundabout journey of 
 about 500 miles on horseback in 15 days, 
 traveling mostly night and day. His company 
 went to the front leaving him to make three 
 maps of the country traversed by the detail 
 referred to. He had a comparatively easy time 
 for several weeks and was afterwards employed 
 as draftsman until ordered home to be mus- 
 tered out. Mr. Richardson was an expert pen- 
 
 man before the war and applied his natural 
 abilities in drawing to the duties of his position 
 in the service wMth success. Mr. Richardson 
 has taken an active part in his Post since it was 
 chartered, having held nearh' all positions; in 
 1889 was .Junior A'ice-Commander. April 8, 
 1889, he was elected Town Clerk of Milton. 
 
 He was married Dec. 7, 1871, at Johnstown 
 Center, to Mary A. Williams. Sjie was born 
 March 5, 1852, in Lima, Rock Co., Wisconsin. 
 Her father was a native of Genesee Co., New 
 Yurk. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard- 
 son were born as follows : Mary A., May 30, 
 1873; Minnie A., Sept. 24, 1875; Maud M., 
 Dec 25, 1876. • 
 
 OHN ADAM SCHNEIDER, Racine, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, No. 17, 
 was born in Saxony, Germany, Jan. 16, 
 1840. "Das Vaterland" was also the birthplace 
 of ills parents, Nicholas and Ettie Margaretta 
 (Bittdorf) Schneider. His father was born in 
 1804 and was a shepherd by calling. Mr. 
 Schneider is the oldest child and his brothers 
 were named Charles and Henry and his only 
 sister Loui.-^e. In 1843 the family came to the 
 United States, traveling in a sailing vessel to 
 New York and thence to Milwaukee on the 
 lakes and by canal. They went to Milwaukee, 
 and a year later went to Elkhorn, Walworth 
 county, and there the father worked on the 
 Racine cfe Mississippi railroad until the re- 
 moval to Racine, and the parents are still re- 
 siding there. While in Elkhorn the son 
 worked at the blacksmith's business for a time, 
 after which he attended school. He went to 
 Racine where he worked as a molder with Mr. 
 Skinner and completed his trade with J. I. 
 Case, with whom he remained until he deter- 
 mined to enter the army. He enlisted Aug. 
 
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 177 
 
 •21, 18G2, ill Company D, 26th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry and was mustered into service Septem- 
 ber 16th. He went to Washington witli the 
 regiment, which crossed the Potomac, and 
 was assigned to the lltli Corps under Sigel, be- 
 ing connected with tlie 2d Brigade and 3d Di- 
 vision. Thej' went to Centerville tlirough 
 Thoroughfare Gap to Gainesville, where the 
 corps was ordered to join the command of 
 Burnside at Fredericksville, reaching tliere on 
 the day after the retreat of December 13th. 
 They went into winter quarters at Round 
 Brook Station and passed the time in preparing 
 for the spring campaign. Mr. Schneider was 
 in all the disastrous fighting at Chancellors- 
 ville (in the command of Howard), and he 
 relates that when they were moving in the re- : 
 treat that General met them and begged them 
 to make a stand, but it was impossible and they 
 pressed on to Chancellor House. The company 
 and regiment suffered severely. In the morn- 
 ing the retreat was continued across the Rap- 
 pahannock and the command went into camp 
 at Aquia Creek, remaniing there until oidered 
 in pursuit of Lee, tiien making his invasion of 
 Penn.sylvania, and Mr. Schneider was next in 
 battle at Gettysburg, his brigade being on the 
 right of Randall's Corps. They were driven 
 back to Cemetery Hill, formed in line of battle 
 later in the day and fought nearly all day of 
 the 8d of .July, which decided the victory for 
 the North and Lee betook himself towards the 
 setting sun. The command followed him 32 
 miles to Middletown and went thence to Hagers- 
 town to reinforce Kilpatrick. They went to 
 Warrenton .Junction where they remained 
 engaged in picket and patrol duty, going later 
 to Rappahannock Station and commenced 
 preparations for winter quarters when they re- 
 ceived orders to accompany the 12th Corps to 
 the Army of the Tennessee and they moved 
 successively to Columbus, Ohio, Bridgeport, 
 
 Ala., and in October crossed the Tennessee 
 River and took part in the tight at \Vauhatchie. 
 Their next move was to the Lookout Valley 
 and with another regiment the 26tli was on the 
 reserve and witnessed the actions of three of 
 the most brilliant days in history, which con- 
 cluded with the masterly victory at Mission 
 Ridge. Tliey pursued the rebels for a few days 
 and went next to the relief of Burnside at Knox- 
 ville. Longstreet proved himself as slippery as 
 bad done the other leaders in the rebel army, 
 and the command returned to the Lookout 
 Valley, where they remained until January, 
 went thence to Whitesides on the Chattahoochie 
 and in the spring, the two corps fi'om the Army 
 of the Potomac joined the 20th Army Corps 
 and the 26th went on the Atlanta campaign 
 with the 3d Brigade and 1st Division. Mr. 
 Schneider was in the actions at Resaca, at 
 Cassville, at New Hope Church, J)allas and 
 Kenesaw. July 20th he fought at Peach Tree 
 Creek, where the 26th had a close engage- 
 ment with the 33d Mississippi. Sherman 
 left the corps to operate against Atlanta, 
 where the 26th was deployed as skirmishers 
 and they were the first troops to enter the city, 
 where they camped until November 19th, when 
 they started on the route to the sea and were 
 in all the contingencies of every description of 
 that memorable tramp across to Savannah. 
 Mr. Schneider was in the action at Averys- 
 boro, where the Corps assisted the 14th under 
 Kilpatiick anil was afterwards in the fight at 
 Bentonville, going thence to Goldsboro, to 
 Raleigh, to Richmond, to Washington and to 
 the Grand Review, after which Mr. Schneider 
 was mustered out June 13, 1865. He was in 
 the collision on the Baltimore railroad and was 
 taken from a dangerous position between two 
 cars, but unhurt. The entire trip to Milwau- 
 kee was a perfect ovation, the people of Pitts- 
 burg, Cleveland, Detroit and Grand Haven re- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ceiving them with the greatest enthusiasm. At 
 Milwaukee they were entertained at a l)anquet 
 at Turner Hall. For four years Mr. Schneider 
 was inactive from rheumatism contracted in, 
 the army, but has recovered and is one of the 
 most skillful molders in the employ of the .J. I. 
 Case T. M. Co. He was uominated in 1886 on 
 the labor ticket, and being supported by the 
 Democrats, received the election to the posi- 
 tion of slieritr. He was married in 1872 to 
 Anna, daughter of Wenzel Truscha, and their 
 surviving children are named Charles H., 
 Florence and Arthur. Their tirst-born child 
 is deceased. Mr. Schneider is a member of 
 the Masonic Order and also of several other 
 social organizations. 
 
 
 OHN F.IULKNER, Genoa .Junction, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, at Lake 
 Geneva, was born Sept. 13, 1813, at Wall- 
 kill, Orange Co., New York. His father, 
 Matthew Faulkner, was a farmer and fought 
 under Jackson in the war of 1812, receiving a 
 wound at New Orleans Jan. 8, 1815. He mar- 
 ried Martha Robinson and died at the age of 
 06 years in 1831 in Orange county. His wife 
 was the daughter of Thomas Robinson, a native 
 of Edinburg, Scotland, whence he came to 
 America. The wife and mother died in 1833 
 on the old homestead when 86 years old. She 
 was the mother of 17 children and her son of 
 this sketch is the sole survivor. Michael Faulk- 
 ner, paternal grandfather, was a native of 
 Ireland and was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 war. He received a shot through the lungs at 
 Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) and saved his life 
 by lying down in a spring of running water, 
 which ciiecked the How of blood until he could 
 receive medical attention. Mr. Faulkner passeil 
 his early days on his father's farm, obtaining 
 
 little schooling. When 14 years old he went 
 to the city of New York to learn the trade of a 
 mason in which he was occupied six years and 
 he served his master fifteen years after the ex- 
 piration of his apprenticeshi]). In the spring 
 of 1847 he enlisted in the Mexican war, enroll- 
 ing in Company K, 6th U. S. Infantry, and 
 sailing from New York for Galveston, Texas. 
 The command marched to Matamoras and to 
 Point Isabel, going thence to Fort Brown, 
 crossed the Rio Grande, marched to Monterey, 
 Buena Vista and Vera Cruz, where a contin- 
 gent of the command was met which had come 
 by way of New Orleans, and the whole division 
 marched by the Bay of Tampico, fighting at 
 Cerro Gordo April 18th, and on the 22d, Perote, 
 town and castle, were occupied by the troops of 
 Worth. March 15th they went to Pueblo, re- 
 maining three months while negotiations for the 
 termination of hostilities were discussed. Mr. 
 Faulkner was in the after movements of his 
 command, and wiien General Scott took formal 
 possession of the city of Mexico he was with 
 his troops. They marched l)ack to Tampico, 
 thence to .\capulco, where tiiey remained about 
 tiiree months and returned to Mexico, where 
 Worth was placed under arrest and his com- 
 mand taken by General Cadwaliader. They 
 went leisurely back to Xertx Cruz, passing three 
 months en route, and there took passage for St. 
 Louis, and Mr. Faulkner was discharged from 
 Jefferson Barracks in November, 1848. He had 
 been a soldier in the regular army two years 
 before going to Mexico, his captain being D. 
 Walker. As a veteran of the Mexican war, he 
 received the Government badge with the fol- 
 lowing roster of battles inscribed on it: Tobas- 
 co, Vera Cruz, Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Cerro 
 Gordo, Cherubusco, Chepultepec and San Pas- 
 cual. After his discharge he returned to New 
 York, where he engaged in the business of a 
 mason until his removal to his present place of 
 
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 abode' in 1855, where he was occupied as a 
 mason until he again became a defender of his 
 country's honor. June 17, 1861, he enhsted in 
 Company A, oGtli Illinois, the quota from Wis- 
 consin being filled and no enlistments going on 
 at that point. The regiment was under Colonel 
 Grissell and Company A was commanded by 
 Captain Baldwin. Mr. Faulkner was mustered 
 at Aurora, 111., and sent with the regiment to 
 Rolla, Mo., and performed military duty in 
 that locality in which the Union troops were 
 endeavoring to guide the ship of State through 
 the swelling tide of rebellion, and remained 
 there through the fall until he contracted 
 pleurisy of serious type and was discharged on 
 surgeon's certificate in January, 1862, at Rolla. 
 He had friends at Richmond, 111., with whom 
 he remained until he re-enlisted. Soon after 
 reaching Richmond he attemj^ted to enlist as a 
 marine on the gunboat Thomas Benton, but 
 her complement was filled, and in March, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company K, 8th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, at Cairo, 111. Many of the mem- 
 bers were his friends and he went with the 
 regiment to Saxton, Mo., and thence to New 
 Madrid, crossing the river to the Kentucky 
 shore to liold the rebels in check from re- 
 inforcing at Island No. 10. The military duty 
 he performed through the spring was of varied 
 character, and on the Dth of Ma^' he was in the 
 fight at Farmington. He took part in the 
 siege of Corinth, and was in the charge in 
 which the troops drove the rebels, and was 
 next in action at luka. He fought again at 
 Corinth and spent the winter in heavy labor at 
 various points, beside performing all necessary 
 military duty. In March he accompanied the 
 command to the rear of Vicksburg, where he 
 worked on the famous canal and took part in 
 the battle of Jackson. He was in the move- 
 ments of the regiment in connection with 
 Grant's operations on the Mississippi and 
 
 against '\''icksburg, participating in the siege 
 until he became ill from rheumatism and 
 diarrhea, when he was again discharged on 
 surgeon's certificate of disability Nov. 6, 1863. 
 He returned to Richmond as soon as able and 
 10 days after his arrival there again re-enlisted 
 Feb. 3, 1864, in the Gth Illinois (Elgin) Battery. 
 After receiving equipments and drill in heavy 
 and light artillery practice beside infantry tac- 
 tics, the battery was sent to Kuoxville, Tenn., 
 and soon after to Chattanooga and through to 
 Atlanta, whence they returned to Chattanooga, 
 and in December, 1864, was in the battle of 
 Nashville. The battery went thence to Louis- 
 ville, Ky., journeyed thence to Cincinnati and 
 Washington, whence they went to Newbern, 
 N. C, preparatory to joining the command of 
 Sherman, who was crossing the State of 
 Georgia, and then went fi'om Newbern to 
 Kingston and moved with the troops of Sher- 
 man through the Carolinas to Charlotte ; they 
 connected with the command of Kilpatrick at 
 Rolla, Mo. There Mr. Faulkner was mustered 
 out and was discharged at Chicago, Nov. 27, 
 1865. 
 
 He returned to Richmond and worked at his 
 trade there until 1871, when he located in Wis- 
 consin. In 1872 he was married in Erie, Pa., 
 to Mrs. Mary Coppersmith, who had two chil- 
 dren named .John and Ella. The former is 
 postmaster at Genoa Junction and the latter 
 has been for several years a successful teacher. 
 Mrs. Faulkner is the daughter of Herman Pat- 
 terson. Her brother, William, was a soldier in 
 a Pennsylvania regiment and was wounded in 
 the Wilderness. With her husband and chil- 
 dren, she is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
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 'ILBER PERSONS, Whitewater, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 3-4, was bora May 22, 1810, 
 in Byron, Wyoming Co., New York. He is 
 tlie son of Franklin and Mary (Rowley) Persons, 
 and in the maternal line represents the old 
 Puritan stock of the date of the settlement of 
 tliis country. On tlie father's side, Mr. Persons 
 is of mixed English and Gaelic extraction, but 
 considers himself as belonging to the genus 
 Yankee, as both his grandsires fought in tlie 
 war of the Revolution and one of thein in the 
 war of 1812. His parents belonged to the 
 agricultural class and he was reared to the same 
 business. In 1844, his father removed his 
 famify to Wisconsin, settled in Waukesha 
 county on a farm, removed thence to .Jefferson 
 county near Rome, where he remained eight 
 years, and permanently settled in Rock county, 
 where the son was brought up, receiving the 
 common school education only whicli was ac- 
 cessible in those days. When he was 22 years 
 old, he determined to enter the army and he 
 enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, in Company K, 13lli 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment 
 as a recruit. The command was at Fort Henry 
 and soon after he made connection therewith 
 lie went to Fort Donelson. He performed duty 
 there as a soldier and experienced some of the 
 fate of war in heavy marching, scouting and 
 skirmishing. He was in a chase after Morgan 
 and went successively to Forts Henry and 
 Donelson. He went next in pursuit of Forrest, 
 and was afterwards engaged in guard duty 
 until intelligence was received of the attack on 
 Donelson, when he moved there to find the 
 rebels repulsed. The entire history of tlie 13th 
 is that of Mr. Persons, as he was witli the com- 
 mand to which lie belonged tliroughout until 
 his discharge June 21, 18G5, excej)t a short 
 time passed in hospital at Nashville with 
 measles. He made the long march of nearly 
 
 300 miles from Donelson to Stevenson, where 
 he remained guarding the depots of supplies 
 until he went into winter quarters at Edgefield, 
 and in the spring he went to East Tennessee to 
 perform guard duty. His jegiment was there 
 assigned to the 1st Brigade, 4th Division and 
 20th Army Corp.?, and expected to go to Atlanta 
 but was assigned to duty on the Tennessee. 
 In guard there and on the Memphis tfe Charles- 
 ton railroad, and in other duty to prevent the 
 rebels' interference with Shorman's jilans or 
 communications, in skirmishing with and 
 searching for Forrest, two months were passed. 
 When Hood attacked Nashville, Mr. Persons, 
 with the regiment, performed hard service in 
 constructing obstacles to prevent the rebels 
 crossing the river, while Stead man's forces won 
 an easier victory and wore the glory. In March, 
 with the 4th Corps, to which the 13th had been 
 assigned, Mr. Persons went to Knoxville en 
 route to Jonesboro, expecting to go to Virginia, 
 but to turn back to Nashville when news of 
 Lee's surrender was received. There he was 
 ill and discharged as stated. 
 
 He returned from the war to .Johnstown, 
 Rock County, Wis., where he resumed farming. 
 Seventeen years later, in 1882, he became con- 
 nected with the marble works in A\'hitewater 
 and is the representative salesman of that in- 
 stitution. Dec. 25, 1SC5, he was married to 
 Hattie C. Henderson, of Bradford, Rock Co., 
 Wis., and their children are named Fred W., 
 May E., Leverett W., Wallace C. and Laura B. 
 
 RANK HOLMES, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., 
 member of the G. A. R Post, No. 15!>, 
 
 was born in Cazenovia, Madison Co., 
 New York, .July 7, 182G. His parents, Benja- 
 min and Ruth (Edgerton) Holmes, were natives 
 of the same State, and were respectively of 
 
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 181 
 
 Holland and English ancestry. His fatlier 
 was a mason by trade and also a farmer, and 
 the son was reared at home on the farm, re- 
 ceiving a limited common school education 
 and, at the age of 15, in 1843, he took charge 
 of his own affairs. He went to New Bedford 
 where he signed on board the whaling ship 
 Adelaide, and was absent on his voyage three 
 years. He regards his seaman's protection 
 papers as among his most valued relics of that 
 long ago past. After his return he was 
 variously occupied and learned the business of 
 a painter. In 1849, lie caught the gold fever 
 and joined the Cayuga Joint Stock Company, 
 and started for a trip around the " Horn." At 
 the southern point of South America they 
 purchased their own vessel which they manned 
 and proceeded to Sau Francisco. Mr. Holmes 
 was occupied about a year in painting and then 
 went into the mines where he remained a year. 
 He was in the United States assay office three 
 years and one year was employed in the 
 "Branch Mint." He returned to his native 
 State and in the Fall of 1855, he came to Wis- 
 consin, locating on a farm near Ft. Atkinson, 
 where he pursued agriculture until he decided 
 he was needed in tlie military service of his 
 country. Oct. 26, 18G1, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany E, od Wisconsin Cavalry at Janesville, 
 and was in rendezvous in that city until March 
 ■26th, when he went to St. Louis, Mo. He re- 
 mained at Benton Barracks, until May 3d, when 
 the regiment started for Leavenworth, Kas., 
 wliere equipments as cavalry were received and 
 the regiment distributed nito battalions and 
 sent to different points. The 1st Battalion, to 
 which Company E was assigned, remained in 
 Leavenworth on special provost duty until 
 September, when the command went to Fort 
 Scott, Mr. Holmes having been appointed Cor- 
 poral in .June. In October, the company went 
 to connect witli the forces of General Blunt in 
 
 the Army of the Frontier, in readiness to take 
 part in the coming conflicts with the combined 
 Indians and rebels. Mr. Holmes fought at 
 Cane Hill and Prairie Grove ; in the latter he 
 was detailed in charge of a mountain howitzer 
 and with another in the same detail, fired 21 
 shots, receiving orders from General Blunt to 
 suspend firing, as they were killing too many 
 of the enemJ^ He took part in the Boston 
 • Mountain raids and went afterwards to Van 
 Buren still in charge of the howitzer. He 
 fought successively at Fort Blunt, Cabin Creek, 
 and Honey Springs, after which he was again 
 in regular cavalry service of the frontier, fight- 
 ing, raiding and dispersing guerrillas until his 
 return to Van Buren, after which he was in 
 the Indian raids to Waldron. He was in the 
 activities on the Arkansas River and in several 
 raids. In June, 1863, he received while at 
 Forsythe, a short furlough and rejoined his 
 company at the same place. He passed the 
 winter of 1864 in quarters at ^^an Buren, 
 where they engaged in building telegraph 
 lines, and Mr. Holmes was in tlie detail after 
 supplies for that work to Little Rock, where he 
 witnessed the hanging of the rebel spy, David 
 0. Dodd. He did not veteranize but remained 
 with the non- veterans, who passed a severe 
 summer deprived of all comforts, and where 
 he was taken ill from the combined effects of 
 exposure and hunger, and went to the hospital 
 at Van Buren, Aug. 1, 1864, where he re- 
 mained until October of the same year. He 
 rejoined the company at Little Rock and again 
 engaged in the same sort of duty as before. 
 He was, soon after, sent to St. John's College, 
 (which had been converted into a hospital) at 
 Little Rock, where he stayed until sent home 
 for discharge with the non- veterans, Feb. 15, 
 1865, after a connection with the army of 
 three years and four months. Mr. Holmes 
 belongs to a race, which for three generations 
 
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 furnished soldiers for their country, his grand- 
 father having fought in tlie Revolution, his 
 father in 1812 and himself having been an en- 
 listed man for the Mexican war. He enrolled 
 one day to be discharged the next on the 
 declaration of peace. After the war, Mr. 
 Holmes was variously engaged until 18S1, 
 when finding himself disabled for contest with 
 the world he retired and has since been occu- 
 pied with his garden. He has served the 
 township of Koshkonong as Treasurer. He 
 was married March 4, 1856, to Rexaville A. 
 Bartholomew, and tlieir children are named 
 Cora, Marion, Ella, Herbert, Rodell and Ernie. 
 Mr. Holmes is a strong Republican in political 
 faith. 
 
 ^^ ERDINAND J. G. KRUEGER, be- 
 
 1^^ longing to Robert Chivas Post, No. 2, 
 ^ Milwaukee, is a native of Prussia, 
 where he was born April 15, 1841, and whence 
 his parents, Johanu Gottlieb and Maria Sophia 
 (Elizabeth) Krueger, emigrated with their fam- 
 ily in 185G. They located in Manitowoc, Wis- 
 consin, where the son passed the intervening 
 years until he became a soldier. He entered 
 the army on attaining his majority, enlisting 
 in Company F, 2Gtli Wisconsin Infantry, en- 
 rolling Aug. 17, 1802. Thereafter he was 
 a part of the history of the first German 
 regiment from the Badger Htate, and the 
 earlier details of the muster, departure 
 from Wisconsin, drill at Washington, and 
 en route to scenes of activity, may be found 
 on many other pages of this work. The 
 roster of Mr. Krueger includes 15 names, which 
 glorify the name of every man who fought in 
 any, none being unimportant and eacli afford- 
 ing its share in the grand results, which secured 
 a united country to those who had sought the 
 privileges of their manhood denied to them 
 
 under the form of government where they had 
 their birth. Mr. Krueger marched to the field of 
 disaster at Chancellorsville, fouglit three days 
 at Gettysburg, and, when fighting Joe Hooker, 
 led his contingent to the Army of the Tennes- 
 see, Mr. Krueger was one of his command. He 
 was in the fight at Wauhatchie, and scaled the 
 heights at J.,ookout and Mission Ridge, and 
 was in the surging throng that fought the 
 battle above the clouds on the 25th of Novem- 
 ber — the action in which the volunteer spirit 
 which won the final victories asserted itself 
 triumphantly. More than any other action of 
 the war was it proven at Mi.ssion Ridge that 
 God's cause is never lost. Mr. Krueger 
 marched to Knoxville, back to old headquar- 
 ters at Lookoutj and went, after the winter 
 was over to the Atlanta campaign. He was in 
 the reconnoissance at Buzzard's Roost and 
 fought at Resaca. He was in the movements 
 at Cassville, and in action again at New Hope 
 Church. (Action near Dallas.) He was at 
 Pine Knob, Lost Mountain, and in the other 
 actions belonging to the affair known as Kene- 
 saw, and helped win distinguished honor for 
 his regiment at Peach Tree Creek. He fin- 
 ished his military record in the conquering 
 columns of Sherman, performing service at 
 Savannah, Averysboro, Bentonville, (ioldsboro 
 and Raleigh, and niaile the long march to the 
 country's capital where the officials re- 
 viewed the war-worn and war-stained vet- 
 erans before they again became citizens and 
 entered uj)on the rest and peace they had 
 earned. 
 
 Mr. Krueger was reared a farmer, and, before 
 and after the war engaged in that business at 
 Manitowoc. He became a resident of Milwau- 
 kee in 1887 and has since maintained the 
 wholesome, honest character lie established in 
 his boyhood and early manhood on the ^\'is- 
 consin shore. He comes of sturdy Teutonic 
 
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 183 
 
 stock, and represents races tenacious of life 
 and liardy. His father still lives and is 86 
 years of age. His mother died Aug. 21, 1874, 
 at Manitowoc, still the site of the family home- 
 stead. His ancestors were identified with 
 the European wars, his grandfather, Martin 
 Kreiser (maternal line) having fought in the 
 Prussian service through the seven years war. 
 Gottlieb'Michael Krueger, his brother, enlisted 
 on the same day in the same company, marched 
 and fought beside him until Gettysburg where 
 he was wounded. He recovered and went 
 West with the " 26th " and was killed at Mari- 
 etta, Ga., .June 22, 1S64. Julius Krueger, a 
 cousin, enlisted on the same day in the same 
 comjxmy and died in the hospital at Chatta- 
 nooga, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1863, of disease. 
 
 Mr. Krueger was married in 1866 to Louisa 
 Margaretha ]Mueck, and their children are 
 named Henrietta, Anna, Maria, Louis and 
 Augusta. 
 
 LBERT MITCHELL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 ^ member of Robert Chivas Post, No. 2, 
 was born in the city of Philadelphia. 
 His father, Aljram Mitchell, died when he w'as 
 four years old and he was brought up to the 
 age of 15 years by his uncle, Samuel Schull, in 
 Bucks county. He had had an idea of striking 
 out for himself from the date his ideas com- 
 menced and had kept close account of the re- 
 ports of opportunities for young men in the 
 Great West; in 1855 he came to Milwaukee, 
 settling permanently and being variously oc- 
 cupied until the second year of the war. Aug. 
 20, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 24th Wis- 
 consin Tnfantr}-. He passed his preliminary 
 season in Camp Sigel and was there mustered 
 into service. Within a month after leaving the 
 State he went into action and lias since rejoiced 
 
 that his name was among those of the defenders 
 of the flag at Perry ville. He was in the sub- 
 secjuent movements of his command until the 
 fight at Stone River, finishing one year and 
 commencing another on that field. In the fol- 
 lowing summer, the regiment was re-assigned 
 with the 1st Brigade, General Lytle, the 3d 
 Division, General Sheridan and the 20th Army 
 
 I Corps, General McCook — all names which are 
 honored second to none on the pages of historj-. 
 Mr. Mitchell was in all the movements of that 
 command through the summer and fought at 
 Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th. He 
 went to Chattanooga where Sheridan mentioned 
 the character of the figliting and was in the 
 gallant action at Mission Ridge, where the 
 
 I regiment elicited special comment for bravery. 
 (At this action Robert J. Chivas, whose name 
 designates Post No. 2 in Milwaukee, was killed.) 
 The 24th Wisconsin was placed in the new 4th 
 Corps resulting from Grant's reorganization of 
 the army and marched to relieve Burnside at 
 Knoxville. He was in the pursuit of Long- 
 street and went next to Newmarket and after- 
 wards was in a severe skirmish in the vicinity 
 
 j of Dandridge. Tlie next movement took him 
 to Plain Cross Roads again and thence to 
 Loudon, Tenn. In the spring he went to the 
 work of war under Sherman and fought at 
 Resaca, May 14th. At the battle of Chick- 
 amauga, wliile endeavoring to capture a rebel 
 Hag, he was injured by a blow from a clubl)ed 
 musket in the hands of a rebel. He lay un- 
 conscious two hours and, on recovery, found 
 his regiment, after a night's search. After 
 Resaca, the results of his injury became so 
 serious that he was sent to the field hospital at 
 Chattanooga and thence to Nashville. He re- 
 turned home on a furlough and was finally 
 discharged at Milwaukee, July 4, 1865, for dis- 
 ability. While lying on the field, suffering 
 fi'om the IjIow referred to, a rebel attempted to 
 
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 finish liini with his bayonet and his face still 
 bears the scar of this last atrocity. A comrade, 
 Dan Hutcliinson, attempted to aid him but was 
 driven away and while he was crawling on his 
 hands and feet the bayonet act was performed. 
 Mr. Mitchell was married Dec. 25, 1866, to 
 Carrie Shupe, daughter of .John A. Shupe. 
 Mr. Mitchell is in the employ of the United 
 States in the Government building in Mil- 
 waukee. He is descended from the Pennsyl- 
 vania Dutch of Bucks county, in that State. 
 
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 FRANCIS L. ANDRUS, Troy, Wal- 
 worth Co., Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 171, was born in Connecticut, 
 near the city of Manchester, and is the son of 
 Elisha L. and Clarissa (Dean) Andrus. The 
 family is of long establishment in Connecticut, 
 whither the first ancestors, John and Mary 
 Andrus, emigrated in 1640 and in 1G4.5 John 
 Andrus is named on the records of "Farming- 
 towne," formerly Tunxis, as one of 84 pro- 
 prietary owners of that town. He died in 1072 
 and his wife in 1694. His son John has no 
 considerable data from which to give an ac- 
 count, but he died before 1713, aged about 78 
 years. His son Stephen was the first clerk of 
 Easlbury School Society, officiating from 1731 
 to 1743, when his son Elisha (1st) was his suc- 
 cessor. He married Sarah Gillett and his .«on 
 was born July 10, 1700, was married Feb. '), 
 1726, and died Jan. 29, 1750. Elisha (2d) was 
 born May 4, 1730, and married Jerusha Keeney, 
 who died March 13, 1825, her husband having 
 died exactly 12 years earlier on the same day 
 of tlie month. Their son, Eli.sha (3d), was 
 born Aug. 17, 1755, and was married in July, 
 1780, to Mary Skinner, who was horn in No- 
 vember, 1761. She died Feb. '25, 1797, and 
 Oct. 18th, of the same year, her husband mar- 
 
 ried Phebe Hollister, who died Nov. 26, 1834. 
 Elisha Andrus (4th) was born Oct. 15, 1789; 
 was captain of a militia company: was married 
 Feb. 4, 1812, to Sarali Wallace, born Jan. 5, 
 1797, and he died Aug. 29, 1870. Elisha (5th) 
 was the oldest son of the captain aforesaid and 
 the father of Islr. Andrus of tiiis sketch. He 
 was born May 31, 1813, and married Clarissa 
 Dean, Aug. 27, 1843. He died Marclr6, 1854. 
 She was born in Connecticut, the daughter of 
 Sprowell and Clarissa Dean, her descent being 
 Engli.sh and Scotch. Slie is still living on the 
 homestead in Troy, where she settled with her 
 liusband on coming to Wisconsin in 1845, 
 exactly 200 years after his first ancestor was 
 recorded as a landholder on this continent. 
 Her sons were born in the following order: 
 Francis Leroy, Sept. 7, 1844 ; Arthur D., March 
 29, 1849; Aaron Sprowell, Feb. 22, 1853. (Mr. 
 Andrus is the po.sse.ssor of an elaborate genealogy 
 of his family, published by C. A. Andrews, of 
 Chicago.) His parents located on a farm in 
 Troy, where he grew to youth, and in 1854 the 
 mother removed with her children to Racine 
 to oljtain the advantages of the schools. Their 
 youth was there passed and wlien the war 
 came on the two elder sons were eager to enlist 
 as their country's defenders. But Francis was 
 20 years old when he enrolled at Racine with 
 his brother Artlmr, May 11, 18(14, in Company 
 E, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, under Cajitain F. 
 P. Lawrence. They were mustered at Milwau- 
 kee and went to Mem])his, where they remained 
 several months, performing such military duty 
 as the situation demanded, consisting chiefiy 
 of guard and camji duty with picketing in the 
 vicinity. Mr. Andrus had a lively experience 
 at the time of Forrest's night raid on the city 
 and was made Sergeant June 3, 1864; he re- 
 ceived honorable discharge Sept. 22, 1864. He 
 returned to Racine and, Feb. 9, 1865, enlisted 
 again in Company K, 49th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 
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 under Captain A. J. Cheney, being mustered 
 as 1st Sergeant. He went witli tlie regiment to 
 Rolla, Mo., where he did duty until his com- 
 pany were sent on detached service to Fort 
 Wyman, where he guarded Government stores 
 until ordered to St. Louis, August 14th, and 
 he performed all varieties of guard duty in 
 various portions of the city until he was mus- 
 tered out Nov. 8, 1805. He acted under all 
 conditions in a manner that reflected the high- 
 est credit on his character and was made 2d 
 Lieutenant by brevet for bravery and manly 
 conduct. After returning to Racine, the re- 
 united family went back, in 1867, to the home- 
 stead at Troy. Mr. Andrus was married Oct. 
 6, 1869, to .Jennie E., daughter of John and 
 Mary Nobes, and a native of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 She died Oct. 30, 1880, and is survived by a 
 son named Eugene L., who was born .June 24, 
 1870, and is at school at Valparaiso, Ind. 
 Four young children died witliin a short time 
 of diphtheria. Mr. Andrus was again married 
 Sept. 30, 1889, to Mary V. Watrous, who was 
 born in' East Troy, in 1863. Mr. Andrus is a 
 member of the Masonic Order, St. James Lodge. 
 He is also a prominent Good Templar. He is 
 a man of firm principles and has always ex- 
 erted every influence in favor of the best in- 
 terests of the community of wliich he is a 
 member. In all the relations of life, whether 
 social, business or public affairs, he sustains 
 his repute for integrity and elevation of char- 
 acter. 
 
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 OHN H. MILLER, Racine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
 Hanover, Germany, Sept. 25, 1836, and 
 he was the only child of his parents, John and 
 Mary Ann Miller. A\'hen he was nine j-ears 
 old he came to America with his uncle, ^\'il- 
 
 liam Miller, with whom he went from New 
 York to Dayton, Ohio. He was employed first 
 on the canal and afterwards worked in his 
 uncle's distillery. In 1854, when 18 years old, 
 he came to Wisconsin, locating in Racine, 
 whither he traveled on the lakes. He passed 
 some time as a farm assistant and then went 
 into Dickey's establishment to learn the trade 
 of blacksmith. In 1859, he entered the employ 
 of tlie St. Paul railroad and worked for that 
 corporation as a blacksmith until he entered 
 the army. Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany A, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, and went 
 from Camp Utley to Cincinnati, where Kirby 
 Smith had stirred up the fears of the com- 
 munity, being close by in Hardin county, Ky., 
 without any ostensible business. The regiment 
 was sent to Covington and remained until the 
 first week in October, when they went to Camp 
 Smith and was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 
 General Burbridge. Within 24 days they made 
 four removes and the 31st found them in the 
 brigade of Colonel Coburn of the 33d Indiana. 
 They went next to Nicholasville, after moving 
 in a dozen different directions trying to keep 
 trace of Morgan and Bragg. They went next 
 to Danville, whence they made several raids. 
 In January they started for Nashville and 
 stopped on the route at Fort Donelson, expect- 
 ing to reinforce the garrison which had been 
 attacked by Forrest, who had been repulsed the 
 previous day and the troops pressed on to 
 Nashville, thence to Franklin and March 3d 
 Mr. Miller was in the reconnoissance to ascertain 
 the probable intentions of Van Dorn and 
 Forrest. On the 4th, he was under Lieutenant 
 Colonel Bloodgood at Thompson's Station, 
 escaping the capture in which most of the 
 brigade was involved. He went^to Brentwood 
 Station an^l March 25, 1863, tiie guard was 
 surprised by Forrest before seven in tiie morn- 
 ing and the entire force captured. They were 
 
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 marched through the cold T\'aters of Duck 
 River, taken to Columhia, paroled, went to 
 Tulluhoma to be robbed and thence on cattle 
 cars to Richmond, remaining a day at Libby. 
 They were "swapped" for rebels at City Point, 
 went thence to Annapolis and in a couple of 
 weeks, equipped with many necessaries, started 
 for St. Louis to await exchange, after whicli 
 they joined their regiment. They went to 
 Nashville and Louisville and to Murfreesboro 
 where they performed picket, parole and camp 
 duty until the spring of 1(SG4. There Mr. 
 Miller was taken ill, suilering with diarrhea 
 and also some difficulty with his limb which 
 he thought had been caused by the exposure 
 on his march to prison. His surgeon ordered 
 his -discharge, but he refused to return home 
 without his regiment. He was sent to a farm 
 in the vicinity whore he tried fresh milk and 
 digging in the earth, which was of great benefit 
 to him. He joined his command at Lookout 
 Mountain, when the regiment was about to go 
 to the front, whither he went on the railroad. 
 Wlienhis regiment arrived, betook his gun and 
 went into the ranks, where he remained until 
 after tlie action at Buzzard Roost, when he was 
 placed on detached duty in the ambulance corps. 
 He was found unfit for this service, and 
 refusing the surgeon's instructions to obtain 
 his discharge and return home, he man- 
 aged to remain with the regiment until the 
 surrender of Atlanta. He went to hosj)it.al 
 until the command moved on the march to the 
 sea, when he obtained a horse and went 
 through the State to Savannah, through the 
 Carolinas to Richmond and Washington, and 
 remained at Alexandria during the Review, 
 being unable to Join the parade. He was 
 nuislered out June 12, 1865, and returned to 
 Racine, where, he performed such light work 
 as was possil)le. He weighed on return 115| 
 j)Ounds ; his weight on entering the army was 
 
 185 pounds. Since 1878 he has worked for 
 the J. I. Case T. M. Co. He was married Aug. 
 1, 18G1, to Mary Ann, daughter of .Jacob Fox. 
 The births of their children occurred in the 
 following order: Christine L., (now Mrs. Har- 
 ris), Aug. 7, 1866; .John V., June 8, 1875; 
 Emma, Feb. 13,1878; Albert, April 23, 1881. 
 The mother was born Dec. 14, 1842. Mr. 
 Miller is a typical citizen of the Republic. He 
 is giving his attention to the education and 
 training of his young children, fully under- 
 standing the value of right education and dis- 
 cipline for those on whom will devolve the re- 
 sponsibilities of a government like that of his 
 adopted country, the United States. 
 
 ORMAN McMARCLEY, Eagle, Wis., 
 was born in Sharon, (now Seward), 
 Schoharie Co., New York, May 2, 
 1819. His parents were named Frederick and 
 Isabel (McFarland) McMarcley, and the former 
 was the son of a soldier of the Revolution — 
 Michael McMarcley. His brother, Martin 
 McMarcley, was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 Norman McFarland, his maternal grandfather, 
 was a Scotti-sh Highlander, who married Mar- 
 garet McLean, and made one of the voyages 
 to this country which were common in its 
 early days, consuming 14 weeks. Isabel 
 (McFarland) McMarcley was born in Schenec- 
 tady Co., New York, and became the mother 
 of 1(1 children. Both parents died in the Em- 
 pire State. Mr. McMarcley was their second 
 child and he left his native State in 1844, go- 
 ing to Mineral Point, Wis., where he worked 
 as a cari)enter and joiner about seven months. 
 He returned to his former home in New York, 
 remained five years and in 1841) fixed his resi- 
 dence at Eagle. Aug. 2, 1862, lie enlisted in 
 Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 187 
 
 known before tlie close of the war as one of 
 the best equipped and best drilled batteries in 
 tiie service. He was mustered into service in 
 Pahnyia, .Jefferson Co., Wis., and went to Fort 
 Cass, \'a., remaining there six months; subse- 
 quently went to Fort Ellsworth, remaining 
 a half year, and after some time at Fort Worth 
 went to Alexandria, where the battery con- 
 tinued until the close of the war. In Novem- 
 ber, 1864, Mr. JSIcMarcley was mustered out 
 for disability and returned to Wisconsin. He 
 had been subjected to the hardest kind of 
 labor in light and heavy artillery dn'l and in- 
 fantry practice, besides working as a carpenter 
 on the fortifications. He was married June 
 30, 1852, to Lucinda Reeves of Eagle, who was 
 l)orn in Rome, Oneida Co., New York, Dec. 25, 
 1832, and is the daughter of William and 
 Mary (Casler) Reeves. She is of mixed Hol- 
 land Dutch and English extraction, her fiither 
 having been of the former and her mother of 
 the latter nationality. Her only daughter, 
 Alzina, was born .Jan. 2, 1854. 
 
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 "ILLIAM BURT, Kenosha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 ^3iL. 230, was born in Greenwich, 
 England, June 4, 1835. His father and 
 mother, William and Caroline (Gasleyn) Burt, 
 were of English origin and were the parents 
 of 16 children, of whom only 5 are living. 
 Susan resides in Brooklin, Iowa, Laura near 
 Joliet and Mary Louisa, Robert and William 
 reside in Kenosha. The family removed to 
 the United States in 1843, locating first at Mil- 
 waukee, and successively at Racine, where the 
 father engaged in the business of a carriage 
 trimmer. He removed to Kenosha in 1853 
 and died there in 1885. The mother died in 
 1861. The son learned the trade of a painter 
 
 and engaged with J. I. Case at Racine until 
 1853. He returned to work in his factories in 
 1856, remaining until he entered the army. 
 Aug. 18, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, 22d 
 Wisconsin Infantry, for three years and went 
 into rendezvous at Camp L'tley, Ricine. He 
 was mustered in September 2d and loft the 
 State for Cincinnati on the 16th. He went 
 from the city of jiork to Covington, thence to 
 Nicholasville and to Danville, Ky., reaching 
 that place in December after a series of con- 
 tinual movements, and from there they 
 operated in foiling the plans of Morgan. 
 Colonel Utley was a decided abolitionist and 
 sturdily refused while in Kentucky to recog- 
 nize anybody's claims to property in man, in 
 which the regiment sustained him. But there 
 was plenty of excitement through this fact and 
 the men were glad to receive orders to go to 
 Louisville, and they went successively to Nash- 
 ville and towards Spring Hill, where they had 
 an encounter with the rebels. Marcli 4th the 
 action at Thompson's Station took place, which 
 was a disastrous affair for the 22d Wisconsin. 
 More than 200 of its members were either 
 killed, wounded or captured, and among the 
 latter were the colonel, 11 commissioned officers 
 of tlie command and a number of soldiers, in- 
 cluding Mr. Burt. 
 
 They were taken to Columbu.s, Teun., kept 
 three days in an old log house where lialf a 
 hundred wounded soldiers were confined on 
 the first night and in the morning it was found 
 that more than a dozen had passed beyond the 
 reach of rebel malice. From the woods in the 
 vicinity they were marched to Tullahoma, sent 
 thence on box cars to Richmond and incarcer- 
 ated in Castle Thunder. Two guards on the 
 car, containing 70 men, on which Mr. Burt was 
 placed, had whiskey enough to make them 
 reckless and they lay down to sleep in front of 
 the side doors. Somebody suggested their 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 need of fresh air and they were rolled out. 
 Tlieir fate afterward was not known. En 
 route, Mr. Burt stole a bone, thinking that the 
 marrow would be good for soup in his need, 
 hut on arrival at Castle Thunder he was placed 
 in a tower whose center was monopolized by a 
 supporting pillar and he remained there 24 
 hours without being able to obtain a comfort- 
 able position. After 11 days at Libby he was 
 exchanged and went to City Point, thence to 
 Fortress Monroe and A.nnapolis,where two weeks 
 were passed in recruitiug and obtaining fresh 
 clothing and other necessaries. He joined his 
 regiment at St. Louis, and went successively to 
 Nashville, Franklin and Murfreesboro, where 
 they were detailed to duty on the river and re- 
 mained through the winter. In the spring 
 they were assigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Divi- 
 sion and 20th Corps and moved in front of 
 Resaca. Mr. Burt was injured during the 
 fight by being stepped on by a horse, went to 
 the rear and thence to the convalescent camp 
 at Kingston, where he remained a month. 
 After return to the command he operated in 
 skirmishes, foraging expeditions and other 
 military service, and afterwards fought at 
 Dalla.s, Pine Knob and Lost Mountain. Mr. 
 Burt states his belief that (tcneral Sherman 
 himself sighted the gun which killed General 
 Polk at Lost Mountain, as he saw him take 
 chafge of one of the guns, sight it and direct 
 the artilleryman to fire. The shot struck in 
 the midst of the spot where Polk and his staff 
 were standing. Mr. Burt was in all the actions 
 in the immediate vicinity of Kenesaw, fought 
 at Peach Tree Creek and went to the trenches 
 in front of the city until the regiment moved 
 to the Ciiattahoocliie River and threw vip breast- 
 works while Sherman moved to the right of the 
 city. Cue morning the pickets ran in, driven 
 by rebels who were in front of Union troops and 
 that dav Atlanta surrendered. The command 
 
 remained near Atlanta until Sherman moved 
 to the sea, when the regiment accompanied the 
 troops to Savannah. Mr. Burt was in the 
 activities at Averysboro, went to Goldsboro and 
 Raleigh and to llichiuond, where Mr. Burl was 
 badly burnt on his foot and leg and was sent 
 to Alexandria. He saw the Grand Review in 
 an ambulance and was mustered out at Wash- 
 ington, -June 16, 1865. He retui'ned to Keno- 
 sha and went, soon after, to the employ of Fish 
 Brothers at Racine. Five years after he en- 
 gaged with the Bain Wagon Company at 
 Kenosha, where he has since operated. Mr. 
 Burt is a much respected citizen of Kenosha 
 and honors in his private life his long service 
 as a soldier. He was married July 4, 1865, to 
 Mary Devlin. 
 
 EOR(iF C. BROWXELL, Palmvra, 
 
 p|^ Wis., a former soldier of the war, was 
 
 born at Lawrence, St. Lawrence Co., 
 New York, .July 18, 1842. His father and 
 mother, Clark and Laura (Simonds) Brnwneli, 
 both of whom were descended from New York 
 families of long standing, removed to Sullivan, 
 Wisconsin, when the son was about two years 
 of age. His father worked at his business as a 
 blacksmith and when his health failed, about 
 1854, returned to Lawrence. The family con- 
 sisted of four children, Mr. Brownell of this 
 sketch being the oldest and the only son. His 
 father died in Lawrence at about the age of 40 
 years and the mother survived to the age of 60. 
 Minnie, the oldest daughter, married G. B. 
 Stacy, a prominent lawyer of Nicholville in 
 her native county. Louisa is the wife of Hiram 
 Rose and Jjaura married Myron Munson, both 
 still being residents of St. Lawrence county. 
 ' Mr. Brownell passed his boyhood and youth in 
 farm labor in the .summer and attending district 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 189 
 
 scliools and occasionally a school of higher 
 grade until he was 18, when he determined to 
 become a soldier. He was infused with the 
 patriotism inculcated in the educational in- 
 stitutions of those days and, when enlisting in 
 his county commenced under the impetus of 
 the assault on the flag at Sumter, lie had but 
 the one thouglit and he enlisted in April, 1861, 
 in Company F, 16th New York Infantry, for 
 two years or during the war and afterwards re- 
 enlisted for two years or the war. His regiment 
 was mustered at Albany and went immediately 
 to Washington, going into camp at Capitol 
 Hill. About a month was passed there, the 
 soldiers obtaining a knowledge of military 
 tactics and later the command crossed the 
 Potomac, going into camp at Fort Ellsworth. 
 They went thence to build Fort Lyon and were 
 engaged in that work when they were ordered 
 to the front and went into the fight at Bull 
 Run. Returning to Fort Ellsworth, they pre- 
 pared for the campaign to Manassas in the 
 spring and marched to Fairfax C. H., to hear 
 of the evacuation under the protection of the 
 Quaker guns, and returned to Alexandria. 
 The regiment were ordered with the command 
 of Sedgwick to West Point, where they landed 
 May (ith and on the next day, in the action in 
 M'hich the rebels were defeated, Mr. Brownell 
 was wounded, receiving a shot through the left 
 thigh, being in the skirmish line early in the 
 action. He was taken prisoner and conducted 
 to a plantation in the vicinity. It was the 
 home of a rebel physician named Vernon P. 
 Jones and Mr. Brownell received professional 
 care of the best type. After the repulse of the 
 rebels, his company turned their attention to 
 ascertaining his whereabouts and his captain, 
 major and colonel came to the house to attend 
 to the matter of removing him North. But he 
 was in no condition to be moved and finding 
 that he must be left, Gol. Jos. Howland gave 
 
 him $10 and his captain, John C. Gilmore, gave 
 him |5 to be certain he might need for nothing. 
 He remained on the plantation 10 weeks and 
 then went to Williamsburg and obtained trans- 
 portation to Fortress Monroe, where he entered 
 Chesapeake Hospital and remained there until 
 finally discharged Sept. 14,1862. He returned 
 to Baltimore, obtained his paj' and went home 
 to St. Lawrence county. As soon as able to 
 work he learned the business of a harness 
 maker in which he was occupied there until 
 1866, when he went to Sullivan in -lefferson 
 Co., Wisconsin, with his family and engaged 
 in farming until 1879. In that year he went 
 to Whitewater, removing to Palmyra in 1883 
 and that has since been his place of residence. 
 He was married in 1864 at Potsdam, New 
 York, by Rev. Samuel Call of the M. E. Church, 
 to Olive, daughter of Francis and Mary Lee. 
 She was born in the State of New York and her 
 family and ancestors were natives of tlie same 
 commonwealth. Mr. and Mrs. Brownell have 
 three children, born as follows: Ella M., Sept. 
 20, 1867 ; Ira G., March 25, 1876 ; Frank W., 
 Jan. 1, 1879. The father, mother and oldest 
 daughter are members of the Free Methodist 
 Church at Palmyra. 
 
 LVA J. SWARTS, Genoa Junction,Wis., 
 ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
 born in Newstead, Erie Co., New York, 
 June 13, 1848. His parents, Michael and Mary 
 Jane (Cox) Swarts, are both living and have all 
 their lives belonged to the agricultural class. 
 The father was born near the Susquehanna 
 River, where his ancestors for several genera- 
 tions were born before him. The family is of 
 German origin of early date in this country, as 
 Mr. Swarts has lost all traces of the founder of 
 his familv in America. The father and mother 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 reside on a larm about 12 miles south of Lin- 
 coln, Neb. Tl ley are aged respectively 77 and 
 72 years. The maternal grandsire, John Cox, 
 was born in England and came to Darien,New 
 York State, where lie married a lady of Irish 
 birth, who had her nativity in the city of Dub- 
 lin. Mr. 8 warts is one of 12 children, six of whom 
 are living. lie is the oldest survivor and 
 the others are named in order of birth: Oliver 
 was born Aug. 5, 1S45, and resides in Nebraska; 
 William, born March 4, 1854, lives in the same 
 State; Frank, born June 18, 1855, is employed 
 on the Atchison & Nebraska railroad in the 
 capacity of foreman ; John, born June 27, 1858, 
 lives in Nebraska; Nellie, born Sept. 14, 18G8, 
 is the wife of Lay nor Sheldon of the same 
 State in which her parents live. 
 
 The family removed to Brighton, Kenosha 
 county, in ISGO, when the son was about 12 
 years old, locating on a farm on which they 
 lived three yeans, and removed thence to Lake 
 Co., Illinois, to a farm on which they lived 14 
 years, removing thence to their present place 
 of abode in 1872. Mr. Swai'ts remained with 
 his parents until he entered the army. He 
 passed his early days like the average farmer's 
 son, attending a short term of school in winter 
 and working during the remainder of the year. 
 He enlisted wlien 15 years and Id munlhs old, 
 enrolling from Milwaukee, Jan. 20, 1864, in 
 Company G, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, belonging 
 to the Iron Brigade. lie Joined the command 
 at Culpeper, and, after reaching that point, 
 the regiment was ordered to tlie front, where 
 he had his first taste of rebel ])owder, shot and 
 shell in the light in the Wilderness. This was 
 a terrific experience for a boy of less than K!, 
 associated with valiant veteran soldiers of the 
 war, and he was under fire seven consecutive 
 hours. He was next in hot action at Laurel 
 Hill,(Spottsylvania C. H.)and fouglitat Jericho 
 Pass, Nor lb .\nna, Bethesda Chureh, Cold Har- 
 
 bor and in the trenches at Petersburg, where 
 he was exposed to rebel fire every day and 
 worked on the fortifications every night, wit- 
 nessing the explosion of the mine July 30th. 
 A piece of shell hit his right ankle and he was 
 picked up at night ; from the field hospital he 
 was sent to City Point, where he remained a 
 week before the surgeons permitted his re- 
 moval. He went thence to Whitehall to a hos- 
 pital 10 miles from Philadelphia, where he re- 
 mained under treatment until Jan. 1, 1865, 
 when he was allowed to rejoin his command. 
 He found the regiment on the march and he 
 accompanied the command to fight at Hatch- 
 er's Run, Bo^'dtown, Five Forks, South Side 
 Railroad, and all the hot work in which the 
 Ii'on Brigade participated until the closing 
 scenes of the drama at Appomattox. He went 
 with the brigade to Washington, passed in the 
 Grand Review and after a week in camp started 
 for Wisconsin by way of Louisville, Kv. Ar- 
 riving at Madison they were feted by tlie citi- 
 zens and July 16th were there released from 
 military obligations to the State and country. 
 Mr. Swarts assisted on his father's farm until 
 the following spring and went thence to the 
 business of a lumberman at Ludington, Mich. 
 He returned to Wisconsin and was married 
 I)ee. 11. IStiG, to Inez Z. Strong. She was burn 
 in Lake Co., 111., and is the daughter of 
 Chauncey and Eunice J. (Lehigh) Strong. Her 
 father was born in the State of New York of 
 Irish descent, being in the third generation 
 from an Irish nobleman whose sons came to 
 America and founded the Strong family in this 
 country'. He married a lady of American 
 descent. When Mrs. Swarts was five years old 
 her father went to California and was never 
 again heard from ; it is supposed that he was 
 murdered for his money, of which he had a 
 considerable amount. Tiie mother of Mrs. 
 Swarts was well-born and well-connected. The 
 
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 family included three eliildien. Ciiarlotte mar- 
 ried Harry Stark, of Chicago, and Judsnn 
 Irving Strong lias been a resident of Colorado 
 since 1879. Homer Ellsworth, the only child 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Swarts, was born Sept. 1, 18G8. 
 One child born to them, died in infancy. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Swarts went to Tloca, Neb., and 
 engaged in farming two years, when he went 
 to Marathon Co., Mich., and was interested in 
 lumbering a year. In 1880 he located on a 
 farm in Bloomfield, A\'a]worth county, and in 
 1887 he commenced agricultural operations 
 where he now resides. Mrs. Swarts is a mem- 
 ber of the M. E. Church and the family ranks 
 among tlie leading social element of Genoa 
 Junction. In character and career, Mr. Swarts 
 belongs to the best type of citizenship. His 
 ai'my record is one that reflects the greatest 
 credit on his patriotism and sense of obligation 
 as a citizen of a Republic. He holds two 
 valuable relics of the war, one of which is a 
 ring cut from a piece of the root of a laurel 
 tree under which Lee surrendered. The other 
 is a fragment of the flag of the 7th Wisconsin 
 which was torn from the banner at the battle 
 of Five Forks. 
 
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 -./*\/- 
 
 ACON J. HAND, (ieneva Lake, Wis., 
 a member of G. A. R. Post, No. 27, 
 
 y was born at Lyons in the county in 
 
 which he resides, Sept. 22, 1843. His parents, 
 Harvey and Martha (Twentamon) Hand, were 
 of English and Scotch parentage respectively. 
 Three brothers Hand were passengers on the 
 Mayflower to this country, and in the maternal 
 line, his grandmother Twentamon was a sister 
 of General Winfield Scott. Mr. Hand was 
 reared on his father's farm until he was 13 
 years old, when he went to Milwaukee and en- 
 gaged in the Alliance shops, where he passed 
 six months of each vear and attended school 
 
 alternately until 1859, when, in company with 
 his brother and cousin, he started for Pike's 
 Peak. He was in Denver when there were but 
 two houses and he remained in Colorado until 
 j September, when he went to California and re- 
 mained there two weeks. He traveled through 
 (ireat Salt Lake, going to the Pacific coast, and 
 on his return went by the isthmus. He made 
 two subsequent trips to the Golden State with 
 horses, journeying thither overland and return- 
 ing to New York by water. He then returned 
 to his former position in the shops at Milwau- 
 kee, which he left to enlist; and he enrolled 
 Aug. 15, 1862, in Company C, 22d Wisconsin 
 Infantry, under Colonel Utley, his captain be- 
 ing W. C. Smith. (Afterwards Major.) He 
 was an old Mexican veteran. The regiment 
 was mustered in at Racine and went to Cincin- 
 nati, crossing the river on pontoons to Coving- 
 ton to fight the rebels who were threatening 
 the locality, and went thence to Nicholasville 
 and Danville, where the regiment lost many 
 men by disease. Not long after they went to 
 Louisville to head off Bragg, going on a forced 
 march. Mr. Hand was taken with measles on 
 the first day out, but he could neither be left 
 nor go back and he kept on the march, going 
 165 miles in five days. At Louisville orders 
 were received to go to Nashville. They had a 
 lively time trying to get through the streets of 
 Southern cities with the throngs of negroes 
 which followed; Colonel L^^iey's abolition no- 
 tions making the camps a rendezvous for fugi- 
 tives. The mayor forbade their leaving the city 
 with their sable attendants and the captains on 
 the boats refused to take them aboard. On 
 their way to Nashville they stopjied at Donel- 
 son, expecting to take part in the fight, but 
 Forrest had been repulsed the day previous, 
 and they went on to Nashville. In tw'o weeks 
 they went to Brentwood Station and thence to 
 Franklin, and on the 3d of March thev were 
 
192 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ordered to a recoiinoisance at Spring Hill to as- 
 certain the whereabouts of Xnn Dora. He 
 was found to be at Thompson's Station, and at 
 8:3U on the morning of the 5th, battle was pre- 
 cipitated along the line. The 22d was support- 
 ing the 18th Oliio Battery until 4:30, when dis- 
 aster overtook them, 2,200 soldiers and 11 com- 
 missioned oth'cers being captured. Mr. Hand 
 was among the prisoners, and on the way to 
 Columbia, while passing through a cornbrake, 
 he lay down and was passed unnoticed. He 
 returned to Franklin and found Lieut-Colonel 
 Bloodgood and 100 of the regiment. Blood- 
 good organized the dismembered command 
 and went to guard the trestle at Brentwood, 
 where on the morning of the 25th, before light, 
 Forrest surrounded and captured the whole 
 force. Mr. Hand was in charge of sick com- 
 rades and while tlie rebels were rifling the 
 camp, they made their escape, going to Nasli- 
 vilU'. They remained at the ZoUicoffer House 
 a week and when volunteers were called for to 
 accompany the paymaster to Clarksville, Mr. 
 Hand, with a comrade named Goodwin, went 
 on the transj)ort. En route, they were attacked 
 by the rebels on the Eclipse, who shelled them 
 without much damage for some time, but they 
 were finally riddled, two men being injured. 
 They reached Clarksville in the night and they 
 were awakened from sleep in the morning to 
 find tlie rebels bombarding the fort. Not being 
 under command, they returned to Nashville 
 and on the way the force accompanying burned 
 Palmyra above Donelson. At Nashville Mr. 
 Hand obtaineil a general pass from General 
 Lyon and reported to General Bear at Franklin ; 
 was assigned to camp without command and 
 was in a fight of two days' duration, the rebels 
 under Van Dorn, Wheeler and Forrest with- 
 drawing when re-enforcements arrived. Mr. 
 Hand was next assigned to the signal cori)s 
 near Brentwood and was, soon after, sent three 
 miles into the country, ill with small pox. He 
 
 returned to Franklin and witnessed the hang- 
 ing of two rebel officers who assumed the Union 
 uniform, fov;ght in the fort several days and 
 went thence to Nashville and Murfreesboro, Mr. 
 Hand being in charge of an ambulance corps. 
 Dec. 15, 1863, lie was discharged by surgeon's 
 order for disability, although he had never 
 lost a day of service and he returned to Lyons, 
 where he was under medical treatment three 
 months. In April, 1S()4, he returned to the 
 Army of the Tennessee and was sworn into 
 service as an engineer on the road from Nash- 
 ville to Bridgeport and al.'^o operated on the 
 Louisville & Nashville railroad and, .lune 18, 
 181)5, he resigned and came home. He per- 
 formed little work until the following year 
 when he engaged as engineer on the Milwaukee 
 it La Crosse railroad and in April, 1SG7, he 
 engaged to run the engine on the mail packet 
 (h'ay Eagle from Keokuk, Iowa, to St. Louis. 
 In 1SG8 he went to work in the machine shop 
 at Milwaukee and bought a farm in the same 
 year in Lyons on which he resided 10 years. 
 His impaired health compelled him to sell the 
 farm in 1878 and he went to Lake Geneva, 
 where he has since been engaged in buying 
 and selling stock and farm produce. July 25, 
 1868, he was married at Lyons to Adelia, 
 daughter of Richard and Martha Short. Her 
 father was a soldier and enlisted in Company 
 E, 19th Wisconsin Infantry, .Ian. 26, 1862; 
 he veteranized ; served as a corporal ; was cap- 
 tured at the battle of Fair Oaks, Oct. 27, 1864, 
 and taken to Libby prison where he died March 
 7, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Hand have had the follow- 
 ing children: Eleanor M., Irving S., Burton A., 
 Jesse R., Adaline, Willie L., Lillie M. and 
 Martha A. The two youngest are twins. The 
 oldest is in Kansas. Mr. Hand belongs to the 
 Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 72 at Monroe. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 193 
 
 BONALD D. SCOTT, Walertown, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
 born June 5, 1824, in Cornwall, Stor- 
 mont Co., Ontario, Canada, and is tbe son of 
 Duncan and Cbristina (McDonald) Scott, both 
 of whom were of Scotch birtli and descent and 
 emigrated to the Dominion of Canada in ex- 
 treme youth and were there married. They 
 became the parents of 11 children, of whom 
 Donald was sixth in order of birth. While he 
 was under the authority and direction of his 
 father, he remained on the home farm, work- 
 ing as assistant, but on reaching his majority, 
 he went to the State of New York, where he 
 obtained employment on a railroad then being 
 built between Vermont and the Empire State. 
 Later, he engaged as a contractor and operated 
 in that capacity in building tbe great tunnel in 
 Ohio on the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanes- 
 ville railroad. He went afterwards to Water- 
 town, Wis., (1855), where he engaged as a con- 
 tractor to build 20 miles of the railroad now 
 known as the Milwaukee & St. Paul, the por- 
 tion lying between Watertown and Columbus, 
 About the time of its completion, the hostilities 
 of the civil war precluded the possibility of a 
 reflective man's operating in any extensive 
 capacity until the consequent effects on busi- 
 ness were counteracted in some manner, and he 
 applied to Governor Randall for a commission 
 to raise recruits. His papers were dated Oct. 
 15, 1861, and he proceeded under its authority 
 in the capacity of a Lieutenant, to enlist men. 
 He interested about 200 men in their country's 
 cause and went into rendezvous at Camp Ran- 
 dall. March 11, 1862, he was commissioned 
 Captain and, March 18th, when mustered, his 
 company was assigned to the 17th Wisconsin 
 Infantry as Company D, and remained in Madi- 
 son until ordered to St. Louis. From tliere 
 they went in April to Pittsburg Landing where 
 they arrived the day following the battle and 
 
 camped until ordered to join the movement to 
 Corinth. They had been assigned to the 6th 
 Division and in May to the command of General 
 Mc Arthur. Captain Scott and his company 
 were participants in all the hardships before 
 Corinth and the siege of that place, meanwhile 
 numbering camps, and reaching the number of 
 10 before Beauregard quitted the city. The 
 company performed provost duty in the cap- 
 tured city and was again united with the regi- 
 ment on the Chewalla road, prior to the battle 
 of Corinth, where the ITtli Wisconsin distin- 
 guished itself in a charge which is remembered 
 as one of the most remarkable of the war. 
 Bodies of rebels were making their way forward 
 until they were in the front of the regiment, 
 when General McArthur ordered the 17th to 
 stop their onset and they expelled tbe rebels 
 from their midst; when the latter received re- 
 inforcements, only by contesting every inch of 
 the ground did the regiment save itself from 
 capture. This was on the 3d of October and 
 prior to this action September 19th, the regi- 
 ment was in the fight with Price and Van Dorn 
 at luka. Colonel Scott wishes to record that 
 Price was altogether right when he made the 
 statement that "Great pride could be taken in 
 the thought that I or my ancestors fought at 
 Corinth." Company D was in all the sub- 
 sequent movements that followed Corinth, fight- 
 ing with the rear guard of Price's army in the 
 pursuit until orders were received to return and, 
 later on, the command went to Grand .lunction 
 and when intelligence of the disaster at Holly 
 Springs, Miss., reached them they went about 
 30 miles on the double-(iuick to that place. 
 Orders for Grand .Junction were received and 
 they moved to that place on the double-quick, 
 more than 40 miles. They remained there 
 vnitil ordered to Memphis, Tenn., in .January, 
 1863, and the Colonel states that while 
 quaitered there he experienced the cold- 
 
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 est weather from wliicli he ever suffered. 
 The regiment was connected with the command 
 of Grant and was a part of his plan for the 
 siege and caj)ture of Vicksburg ; and tlioy went 
 to Young's Point where they assisted in Iniild- 
 ing canals until tliey went to Lake Providence 
 on the same service, for which Captain Scott 
 was particularly fitted by his former operations 
 as a railroad builder. He and his command 
 also assisted in constructing tlie canal at Milli- 
 ken's Bend. They left that place to connect 
 with tlie troops of McPherson who was fighting 
 at Champion Hills and were ordered to pursue 
 a flying force of rebels. They went to Black 
 River Bridge and assisted in laying the floating 
 bridges, marching afterwards to the rear of 
 \'icksburg. They were in the trenches before 
 tliat jilace 80 days and their first service after 
 taking position was on the 18th of May, when 
 they held a ravine under a murderous tire. 
 They covered the retreat of the Illinois regi- 
 ments, which was an action of the same char- 
 acter as that at Corinth. The history of the 
 brigade is matter of record on many noted 
 pages and afforded an example of the grit and 
 discipline of the 17th and the other regiments 
 of which it was composed. It was the first 
 body to enter the captured city July 4th as an 
 honor it had earned. From there the regiment 
 went to Natchez, where it received cavalry 
 equipments and performed much unrecognized 
 work until about 300 men went to Trinity on 
 an expedition. July 2'.), 1863, Captain Scott 
 was commissioned Major and he was in 
 command of the detail and t)n consulta- 
 tion, it was decided to destroy a rebel 
 steamer with stores captured on the Black 
 River. This took place ou the 2d of Septem- 
 ber. At Trinity, Colonel Malloy of the 17th, 
 called for volunteers to swim the river to obtain 
 possession of the small boats which were on the 
 opposite bank and wbicli the people refused to 
 
 bring over in obedience to orders. At the word, 
 soldiers were in the water in spite of the 
 alligators and the firing from the banks. An 
 order to bombard the town was issued and in a 
 few minutes a white flag was flying, when the 
 Mayor and others made haste to bring over the 
 boats. The command was next in action at 
 Fort Beauregard and after sacking it and 
 destroying a considerable amount of other 
 j)roperty, the 17th returned to Natchez, 
 ^hijur Scott went in October to \'icksburg, 
 where the regiment veteranized. After liis 
 furlough he, with his regiment, was assigned 
 to the command of G neral Sherman prepara- 
 tory to the Atlanta campaign, and was con- 
 nected with the 'Id Brigade, 3d Division and 
 17th Army Corps. Soon afterward they were 
 reassigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, un- 
 der General Leggett, after which Major Scott 
 was acting Lieutenant Colonel until his com- 
 mission to that position Sept. 24, 1864. A long 
 march signalized the commencement of the ex- 
 j)eriences of the regiment in connection with 
 one of the most remarkable movements of the 
 war. The 17th fought in all the actions, was 
 in the skirmisliing, and at Kenesaw was in all 
 the movements of McPherson's Corps. July 
 21st, the action under General Leggett, which 
 changed the name of Bald Hill to that of the 
 commander, took place, in which the 17th was 
 pi-ominent. On both this ami the following 
 day, the regiment was heavily engaged until 
 the cessation of activities at Atlanta, and was 
 present at the battles of Jonesboro and Love- 
 joy's, after which tliey camped at Atlanta, 
 where Major Scott was promoted as stated. He 
 afterwards chased Hood and went to Marietta 
 and Atlanta and, soon after, Sherman's mai'ch 
 to Savannah was begun. The experiences of 
 the regiment were of no different ciiaracter 
 from those told on many pages of this volume, 
 and included much foraging, scouting, wad- 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 ing swamps and building roads until tlie 
 actions in the vicinity of Savannali, tlie occu- 
 pation of the city and the triumphant marcli 
 tlirougli Nortli Carolina to Goklsboro, and after 
 the surrender of Johnston came the movement 
 to A\'ashington, taking in the capital of 
 Virginia en route. After the Grand Review, 
 Ma}- ■24th, Colonel Scott accompanied his com- 
 mand to Louisville, where he received muster 
 out July 14, 1865. He received l)ut one injury 
 while in service and that was from a misstep, 
 which caused a sharp end of a sapling to enter 
 his limb between the knee and ankle, inflicting 
 a gash three inches long, which has never been 
 healed and which has troubled him ever since. 
 This occurred on the field of >Shiloh. 
 
 After his return to civil life he engaged in 
 building railroads as a contractor and has con- 
 structed many miles, including portions of the 
 Northern New York, the Rutland & Burling- 
 ton (Vt.), Springfield, Ohio, Cincinnati, Hamil- 
 ton ifc Dayton (Ohio), Cleveland & Ohio, AVis- 
 consin, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Milwaukee & 
 Prairie du Chien, St. Paul & Duluth, Stillwater 
 Branch, also a tunnel under the Mississippi at 
 Dubuque. 
 
 He was married in 1856 to Miss Catharine 
 McGillis, of Quebec, Canada, but she survived 
 their union less than eight months. In 1866 
 he was married to Emma Stewart Leonard, of 
 Watertown, and their two children are botli de- 
 ceased. Politically, Colonel Scott is a Democrat. 
 
 ^-^^^ymBm^>^- 
 
 WILLIAM DEMPSTER HOARD, 
 Governor of Wisconsin, (1889), a 
 resident of Fort Atkinson, and 
 meml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 159, was born in 
 Stockbridge, Madison Co., New York, Oct. 10, 
 1836. His father, Rev. William B. Hoard, was 
 a native of the same county in the Empire 
 
 State, as was his wife, Sarah Catherine AN'hite, 
 before marriage, and both were representatives 
 of stock which fought in the wars of tlie Revo- 
 lution and of 1812. The mother's father was a 
 soldier in 1812, and Captain Jesse Sawyer, great 
 grandfather of Governor Hoard, commanded a 
 company of Green Mountain Rifles in the 
 Revolution. The father was a clergyman of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, belonging to 
 the Oneida Conference. He was also, as was 
 customary in pioneer days, a farmer and reared 
 his sons to that calling, giving tiiem such edu- 
 cation as was possible, and until he was 16 
 William was sent to common school. He had a 
 fine musical taste and a voice which has always 
 been a source of delight to him and wiiich he 
 cultivated in his boyhood as best he could, at- 
 taining an understanding of vocal culture which 
 he utilized in teaching singing school in the 
 winters and alternated that vocation with farm 
 labor in the spring, summer and autumn. 
 .Such was the rovTtine of bis life until the era of 
 the Nation's history marked by the year 1861. 
 In 1857, when he attained his majority, he 
 located in Oak Grove, Dodge Co , Wisconsin, 
 and, since that date, when he felt that he had 
 assumed the duties of a son of the State, he has 
 been devoted to her service, with the exception 
 of a short interim. He early formed a deter- 
 mination to give practical expression to his 
 sentiments regarding the factional action of the 
 South, and within a month after the assault at 
 Sumter, in May, 1861, he enrolled in Company 
 E, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, at Jefferson, and the 
 details of the history of that command are his, 
 until after the capture of New Orleans, when 
 he was discharged for disability incurred in the 
 severities of the exposures to which that regi- 
 ment was subjected. Little has ever been said 
 regarding the passage from Ship Island to New 
 Orleans, where the usage rivaled that of the 
 Black Hole of Calcutta in a sense-, and with re- 
 
198 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 suits approximately fatal. He returned to his 
 native State, where he was occupied in tlie 
 nursery business until Oct. 1, lS64,\vhen here- 
 enlisted in Company A, 1st New York Light 
 Artillery. He joined the command as a recruit 
 and served in the capacity of a private until his 
 discharge and muster out, .July '1, 1805, after 
 tlie end of the war. He came to Wisconsin 
 within the year again and located at Columbus 
 and operated there until 1870, engaged in tlie 
 business of a nurseryman and in hop culture. 
 In accord with a plan lie iiad been considering 
 in the year last mentioned, he went to Lake 
 Mills and e.stablished the .lefFerson County 
 W(/o(i, devoted j)rincipaliy to farming interests, 
 and entered upon a vigorous agitation of dairy- 
 ing interests, and also became prominent iis a 
 lecturer in the same avenue, as he had had 
 thorough practical training in that pursuit in 
 New York. He continueil to urge the claims 
 of tlie industry in Wisconsin and, in 1872, he 
 issued a call to the dairymen of the State to as- 
 semble in convention at Watertown for the pur- 
 ])Ose of organizing a State Dairymen's Associa- 
 tion. Six interested parties responded ; Mr. 
 Hoard was elected Secretary and acted in that 
 capacity until 1S74, when he resigned. The j>re- 
 vious year he had fixed his permanent resi- 
 denceat Fort Atkinson. In 1878 he was made 
 President of tlie Northwestern Dairymen's As- 
 sociation, an organization embracing the entire 
 section known as "Tiie Norlli west,*' and has 
 been re-elected at every subsequent convention 
 of the association. 
 
 The journal known as "Hoard's Dairyman" 
 was commenced in 1884 and has extended its 
 circulation steadily from that date until it is 
 acknowledged authority in all the dairy dis- 
 tricts of the United States and Canada. (Jov- 
 ernor Hoard lias been a prime factor in the 
 establishment of the "Farm Institute" sys- 
 tem, which -has come to be recognized as a 
 
 most effectual method of agricultural educa- 
 tion. In the course of his career as a 
 lecturer in this field he delivered about 350 
 addresses to Wisconsin farmers and has, be- 
 sides, operated largely in convention work of 
 varied type in other States and Canada as oc- 
 casion has demanded or suggested. He pre- 
 sided at the great Inter-State Agricultural Con- 
 vention held at Jackson, Miss., in 1887, receiving 
 from the citizens there a public testimonial of 
 their appreciation of his labors. He has been 
 President of the Wisconsin Editorial Associa- 
 tion two years and has come to a prominent 
 position as a newspaper man in the Badger 
 State and, although ])ublisliing a journal with 
 a specific purpose, his infiuence in the craft is 
 properly recognized. In fact, whatever Gov- 
 ernor Hoard does, he does with the might of a 
 man of honest convictions which sum up 
 energy, intelligence and skilled judgment. 
 
 Governor Hoard has never been a politician 
 in any sense in which tliat term is commonly 
 ajiplied. He exercises great energy in j)ressing 
 wliatever engages his interest and wdiich he 
 believes to possess claims demanding the at- 
 tention of refiective friends of the common 
 welfare ; and in the jiolitical arena might have 
 won distinction at an early period of his life. 
 He served as Sergeant-at-Arms in the Wiscon- 
 sin Senate in 1872, but had already fixed on 
 the business to which he devoted his time until 
 his nomination for the place of chief executive 
 of Wisconsin in 1888. In the spring of that 
 year he was named by the Milwaukee Sciitind 
 for nomination by the Kcpublican gubernatorial 
 convention, which was received with favor 
 throughout the State and supported by other 
 journals, and he received the nomination on 
 the first ballot in the convention of August. 
 He received 175, 669 votes against 153,423 for 
 the Democratic candidate, 14,373 Prohibitionist, 
 and 0,196 on the Labor ticket. In a less 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 199 
 
 prominent capacity he has acted in tlie munici- 
 jial oliices at Fort Atkinson and in every posi- 
 tion of trust has exercised the traits of char- 
 acter whose recognition has called hiin to places 
 of honor, because places of trust. 
 
 Governor Hoard is a man whose entire record 
 reflects honorably on his manly character. 
 " He is ready to act " is perhaps his best tribute 
 of worth. His sensibilities are keen, his tastes 
 correct, his character spotless. In temperament 
 he is genial, warm and reliable. His intellect 
 is far above the average and in his intercourse 
 with the public he has made and bound to 
 himself a constituency of friends whose fidelity 
 to him is rivaled only by liis to them. He 
 never fails to win a friend — never loses a friend. 
 
 He was married Feb. 9, 18(30, to Agnes E., 
 daughter of William and A. E. (Edgerton) 
 Bragg, of Lake Mills, Wis. Tliey have three 
 sons named Albert Louis, Ralj)h Artiiur and 
 Frank Wai'd. 
 
 The portrait of Governor Hoard is presented 
 on page 196. 
 
 IDXEY W. HART, Whitewater, Wis., 
 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 190, at 
 Manchester, Iowa, was born in Geneva, 
 Ashtabula, Co., Ohio, and is the son of Elijah 
 and Cynthia (Williams) Hart. He is of almost 
 unmixed Yankee origin, save a half strain of 
 Pennsylvania Dutch l)lood he inherits from his 
 mother. His parents belonged to the agricul- 
 tural class and he was reared to that calling, 
 which he followed until his lawful service to 
 his father was rendered and until he entered 
 the army at the age of 26 years. He felt it his 
 duty from the beginning of the struggle to be- 
 come a soldier and he enlisted Aug. 20, 1861, 
 in Company F, 2d Ohio Cavalry. He joined 
 his regiment in rendezvous at Cleveland, where 
 
 he drilled and received instruction in cavalry 
 tactics. After passing the time from Decem- 
 ber, 1862, to February, 1863, at Camp Denison, 
 tlie regiment received orders to go to Foit 
 Leavenworth, and thence went on a long march 
 to Fort Scott, where they were assigned to the 
 Western Department under General Hunter. 
 The headcjuarters were at Fort Scott, where the 
 regiment was divided into battalions; a part 
 remaining there performing provost duty and 
 one company being detailed as body guard to 
 General Blunt. Company F was assigned to 
 escort trains between the forts, and its members 
 were in constant activity, defending their 
 charges from the Indians and rebels, tlie for- 
 mer being allies of the confederates. They 
 went as far as Fort Gibson. They had frequent 
 encountei'S witii the gueri'illas of Quantrell and 
 Coffey and onh' escaped destruction l)y alert- 
 ness. They had lost their Colonel by promo- 
 tion in the spring of 1862, and in the fall of 
 the same year Colonel Kauntz assumed com- 
 mand of the regiment. The new official sum- 
 moned the regiment together and under orders 
 from the Secretary of War, the command, leav- 
 ing all equipments at Leavenworth, retgrned 
 to Columbus to receive new outfits throughout 
 in the way of ecpiipments. All the soldiers be- 
 longing to the regiment were subjected to 
 medical examination, and such as were con- 
 sidered permanently disabled were discharged. 
 Mr. Hart, who had been promoted to the posi- 
 tion of Corporal, was condemned as to health 
 on surgeon's certificate, and received honorable 
 discharge Feb. 9, 1863, and returned to his for- 
 mer home, where he remained in idleness, en- 
 deavoring to recruit his health. When he was 
 well he went to Wisconsin, locating at White- 
 water and entering the employ of H. A. Conger 
 & Co., as representative salesman. After a time 
 he again determined to enli.st and enrolled in 
 Company E, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, 
 
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 Sept. 1, 1864. He joined tlie command at 
 Madison, whence it was .sent to tlic defenses in 
 and about the Federal capital, Battery E being 
 a.ssigned to duty at Fort Lyon, Alexandria. 
 Tiie labor of the several varieties of drill was 
 severe and Mr. Hart continued at Fort Lyon, 
 acquiring a knowledge of every sort of military 
 service except cavalry, until the end of the 
 war, and received his discharge as Sergeant (to 
 which he was elected on the formation of the 
 organization,) -June 2G, ISGo. Soon after re- 
 ceiving his pay at Camp Washburn, Milwau- 
 kee, he went to Iowa, wliere he established 
 himself in the hotel business, operating in that 
 avenue many years. In 1889 he returned to 
 Whitewater, locating permanently. He was 
 married Feb. 13, 1856, to Caroline P. Cole, of 
 Painesville, Oliio. Their only child is named 
 Elmer S. Hart. Mr. Hare is a member of the 
 Order of Msisonry, is a Republican of decided 
 stamp and records himself as one of the Aboli- 
 tionists of the old Western Reserve. 
 
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 LIVER A. FRIDDLE, Mdton, Wi.s., 
 ■ a member of G. A. R. Post No. (SO, 
 was V)ftrn Jan. 24, 1840, in Germany. 
 In 1849 Tiis parents came to America, locating 
 in .Jefferson Co., Wis., where they lived and 
 died. In ISoC) the son removed to Janesville, 
 residing there until ISlil. When the first shot 
 of the rebellion called from Sumter for de- 
 fenders of the insulted flag of a united Nation, 
 Mr. Friddle felt it his duty to enter the army. 
 He enlisted April 20, 1801, in Company D, 2d 
 Wisconsin Infantry (Captain Ely), was mustered 
 .June lull, left Wisconsin on tlie 20th and 
 reached Washington June 2.5th. He camped 
 on Glh street, moved across the Potomac July 
 2d, started for Richmond July 10th, and two 
 davs after was in line as reserve at Blackburn's 
 
 Ford. In that action Company B suffered the 
 loss of one mortally wounded and two others 
 injured. Tiie regiment lay at C^jnterville 
 until July 21st and on that historic day he was 
 engaged during the forenoon in supporting 
 Pickett's battery. In the afternoon he went on 
 the double-quick to "the right'' and thence to 
 the opposite side of the field, leaving equip- 
 ments on the way. The regiment was badly 
 disorganized in the action, Mr. Friddle becoming 
 separated from his command and making his 
 way to the rear as he best could, with his gun 
 and shoes in either hand. He found a jtortiun 
 of the "2d" at Centerville and went to Fort 
 Corcoran. He went thence, later, to Calorama 
 Heights where the consolidation was made, 
 which afterwards became famous as the "Iron 
 Brigade." (Mr. Friddle's recollection is that it 
 received its distinguishing title after South 
 Mountain.) Here he was ill of mea.sles and re- 
 joined his company in Virginia. He performed 
 .scout and camp duty until he went into winter 
 quarters at Camp Tillinghast, in the rear of 
 the Arlington House, and on ground now 
 known as the "National Cemetery." He passed 
 the time in guard duty about the headquarters 
 of Generals McDowell and King, (see sketch), 
 and in picket and .scout duty until spring, when 
 he was in the movement to Manassas of wooden 
 gun notoriety. Mr. Friddle participi\ted in the 
 severe duties jierformed in the vicinity of 
 Fredericksburg under McDowell and was 
 among the re-enforcements which moved to 
 support the action at Cedar Mountain, but ar- 
 rived too late for action. August 28th he was 
 in the hot fight at Gainesville, engaged in the 
 all-day struggle in which the "Big Hat" 
 brigade passed the day without re-enforcements. 
 The wounded were provided for but the dead 
 lay unburied more than a year. Mr. Friddle 
 carried a wotnided comrade named Joe Trum- 
 blie to the rear and also others during the 
 
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 201 
 
 action. He was in the " 2d Bull Run " two 
 days after, the brigade fighting Iheir way out 
 of an ambuscade, so to speak. September 14th, 
 he fought at South Mountain where the clothing 
 was torn from his shoulders by a sliell. Sep- 
 tember 17th he was at Antietam, receiving- 
 three bullets in his clothing and kna[)sack,and 
 was the only man in liis company not killed or 
 wounded. He was in the operations of Burn- 
 side at Fredericksburg, participating in the 
 " mud campaign " and started in April, 1863, 
 with the command for active operations. He 
 crossed the Ra]ipahannock and wemto fight at 
 Chancellorsville. June 12tli the marcii to 
 Gettysburg commenced and on that date a de- 
 serter from the IDth Indiana, was shot. On the 
 first day on that field, the 2d Wisconsin under 
 Colonel Fairchild led a charge in which Mr. 
 Friddle was wounded at" the outset. A bullet 
 struck him in the left side and knocked liim 
 down. In a moment lie heard a sound and 
 saw General Reynolds with two of his staff 
 galloping forward. Almost instantly tliC Gen- 
 eral seemed sinking and slid off the left side of 
 his horse, the momentum of the animal causing 
 his body to slide along the ground. In another 
 moment Colonel Fairchild rode past toward the 
 rear, calling to know if his men were wounded. 
 Mr. Friddle answered "yes" and the Colonel 
 showed him his dangling, useless arm, hanging 
 loosely from his shoulder. Mr. Friddle hobbled 
 to the Lutheran Theological Seminary at the 
 rear, but was forced to move from his resting 
 place under the trees by the missiles of war 
 which fell thick and fast. On his way toward 
 the town he was overtaken and passed by a 
 stretcher bearing Colonel Fairchild, looking 
 like a dead man from loss of blood. 'Sir. 
 Friddle obtained siielter in town, but it fell into 
 the hands of the rebels and he jumped through 
 a window, escaping capture also by vaulting 
 over a high board fence. The needs of others 
 
 in worse condition left no time for him and he 
 was hurried to the rear, going to hospital at 
 Germantown where his injury first received 
 attention. He passed five months under treat- 
 ment and was recommended for the Veteran 
 Reserve, but he insisted on returning to his 
 regiment which he did in the winter following. 
 He veteranized and on his return from his 
 furlough he was taken sick at AVashington 
 about April 1st, found he had the small pox 
 and went to hospital north of Georgetown. 
 After 14 days he was sent to his regiment at 
 Culpeper and participated in the movements 
 of Grant in the spring campaign of 1804. May 
 5th, in the Battle of the Wilderness, he received 
 a bullet in his right thigh and was sent from 
 the field to West Hospital at Baltimore. His 
 wound was obstinate in healing and before it 
 entirely closed he went to join the " Independ- 
 ent Battalion " which had been organized, the 
 regiment proper having been mustered out 
 June 11th. He was in the activities of tiie re- 
 constructed 2d, a.ssisted in the destruction of 
 the Weldon railroad and fought at Hatcher's 
 Run. He participated in all the experiences 
 of the command until the close of the war, 
 took part in the Grand Review, and was mus- 
 tered out of service with his regiment at Madi- 
 son, July 14, 1865. In the fall of 1864 he was 
 made Sergeant and was afterward promoted to 
 2d Sergeant. He has been a resident of Milton 
 since the war, where he has operated as a 
 blacksmith. 
 
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 /^^ HARLES BANNISTER, Troy Center, 
 \v^xV/ ^^''^'^^'O'"''!^ ^0., Wis., a member of G. 
 ^i^ A. R. Post, No. 171, at East Troy, was 
 born Nov. 8, 1845, in Mukwonago, Waukesha 
 Co., Wis., and is the son of Dr. Charles B. and 
 Maria W. (Lawrence) Bannister. His father 
 was born at Bennington, A'ermont,.in 1816, and 
 
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 was reared to manhood in his native State, 
 wliere he studied inedieine witli his fatiier and 
 removed to Eagle, Wis., in 1842, where lie be- 
 came a pioneer farmer and physician. He is 
 still living and engaged in the practice of his 
 profession. The mother of Mr. Bannister was 
 born April 11, 1822, in Wampsville, Madison 
 Co., New York, and was married to Dr. Ban- 
 nister when she was 19 years old and accom- 
 panied him to Wisconsin. Her ancestors were 
 natives of the Empire State. In 18G6 the 
 family removed to Eagle, where she died June 
 June 21, 1878. Of their three children only 
 Mr. Bannister of this sketch is living. Emma 
 died in 1864, aged 16 years, and Venora died 
 some years later. Charles was reared as the 
 son of a pioneer on a farm in Mukwonago, and 
 when 17 years old enlisted in the 2Stli Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, but parental authority prevented 
 his departure with the command, although 
 every influence w_as brought to bear to that 
 effect. When he was 19, Feb. 10, 1865, he en- 
 listed in Company E, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 for one year or during the war. He was mus- 
 tered at Madison, went to Louisville, and thence 
 to Athens, Ala., where he was occui)ied until 
 his discharge in camp and guard duty on the 
 Nashville it Decatur railroad. He contracted 
 malarial fever, from which he was in hospital 
 several weeks, and also found entertainment in 
 chasing guerrillas. Sept. 27, 1865, he received 
 honorable discharge and returned to his home, 
 where he operated on the farm about two years. 
 Since that date he has been occupied in an im- 
 portant position by the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
 St. Paul radroad corporation. He was mar- 
 ried Sept. 18, 1870, to Esther Morrow, a native 
 of the North of Ireland. Her parents, Thomas 
 and Mary (Lackey) Moi'row, were of the race 
 of Scotch- Irish, coming to this country when 
 their daughter was five years old, and she was 
 the fourth in order of birth of their five chil- 
 
 dren. They located in Walworth, and the 
 father died in 1863; her mother is still living 
 in Troy. Mr. and Mrs. Bannister have four 
 sons, born and named as follows: Harvey, 
 Aug. 24, 1871; Byron B., Aug. lo, 1875; 
 Charles B., July 6, 1880; Harry H., April 27, 
 1882. Mr. Bannister is a prominent citizen of 
 Troy Center and is a member of Royal Arch 
 Masons at Elkhorn, Wis. 
 
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 j AMES D. LINZEY, Decatur, Green Co., 
 Wis., a charter member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 90, was born at Orangeport, Niagara 
 Co., New York, May 10, 1836. His father, 
 Datus Linzey, was born in the Dominion of 
 Canada, and went to the State of New York in 
 1829 where he married Eunice Patterson: he 
 lost his life by an accident while working on 
 the locks at Lockport, New York, when his 
 only child was three j'ears old, leaving his 
 wife unprovided for. She was born Jul}' 28, 
 1817, in Williamsfield, N. Y., and was the 
 daughter of Jessie and Pattie (Groves) Pat- 
 terson. Her father was born June 8, 
 1761, in Brimtield, Ma.ss., and was a patriot 
 of the Revolution, dying Dec. 11, 1852, in 
 Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y. Iler mother 
 was born in Colerain, Mass., July 5, 1790, and 
 died Feb. 7, 185;j. Mrs. Lin/.ej' is one of 
 four children — a sou and thi'ee daughters; 
 and only herself and a sister, Mrs. Lucy 
 Simon.s, survive; the mother learned the 
 business of a tailoress and sustained herself and 
 child, removing to Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, 
 where she still resides, aged 74 years. Tlic 
 father was the single member of his family 
 who removed to the States. 
 
 When her son was si.x years old the mother 
 of Mr. I>inzey went to Albion, N. Y., and when 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 203 
 
 he was 10 years old he took upon himself the 
 burden of his own support which he lias never 
 transferred to another. He liecame the friend 
 and assistant of a sporting man named Jerome 
 Hard}-, and rode his horses privately until he 
 was capable of doing so in a profitable manner 
 and, when lie was 13 years old, he rode a win- 
 ning race on a running horse in favor of his 
 employer, who retained his services several 
 years and lie rode the winning horse on many 
 occasions. The mother married James H. 
 Hart, of Ashtabula Co., Ohio. AVhen he was 
 19 years old Mr. Linzey engaged in an inde- 
 pendent enterprise as a horse trainer and 
 operated two years at Buffalo, going to St. 
 Louis, Mo., where he was pursuing his business 
 when the local interests were thrown in chaos 
 by the advent of civil war. He sold out (at a 
 sacrifice of §7,000) expecting to enlist in tlie 
 14th Missouri Infantry, but went to Illinois and 
 enlisted at Alton, May 28, 1861, in Company 
 D, 2d UHnois Cavalry. He was mustered at 
 Springfield, June 13th, and after a montii in 
 Cairo went successively with the regiment in 
 cavalry movements to Fort Holt, Ky., Bird's 
 Point, Mo., and Carbondale, 111., where the 
 troops drilled on the farm of General Logan. 
 In order to preserve the crops from injury the 
 cavalry drilled on a new piece of land where 
 stumps were abundant. Many accidents oc- 
 curred, Mr. Linzey being tiirovvn by a vicious 
 ]ior.«e and bis arm literally "smashed." His 
 aversion to tiie hospital was so great tiiat he 
 determined to bear everything and accompanied 
 his command to Fort Holt, Clarksville, Mo., 
 Cape Girardeau, Bloomington, Clarksville and 
 other places on the intermediate routes, per- 
 forming cavaliy service all the time. During 
 the spring and summer of 1862 the regiment 
 was constantly on tlie move until the fall of 
 New Madrid, where Mr. Linzey was placed under 
 guard and sent to the hospital, but made his 
 
 escape and rejoined his regiment at Memphis, 
 where he was taken to hospital again, to be 
 transferred six weeks later to hospital at Mound 
 City, 111., where he was discharged under Gen- 
 eral Order relieving all disabled men, Jan. 15, 
 1863. He went sti'aight back to his company 
 and reported to General Grant for duty, who 
 detailed him as a scout in secret service. He 
 was in the fight at Little Eock, carrying a mus- 
 ket and performed scouting duty thereabouts 
 for two montiis, when he was ordered to report 
 for duty to Colonel Hardy of the 14th Missouri. 
 After five months he went to Bloomington as a 
 scout for General Davidson and, two months 
 later, went to General Carr at Little Rock, re- 
 maining with him until July IS, 1865, — and was 
 captured twice by Quantrell and his Lieutenant, 
 Jesse James, on the same service, — when 
 he received final discharge. During his ex- 
 periences as a scout Mr. Linzey passed through 
 many perilous incidents, being captured once 
 at Circe, near Little Rock, and making his 
 escape after four days by eluding his captors. 
 Once he gave a guard a countersign and as he 
 rode past, the man's piece was accidentally dis- 
 charged which terrified his horse and he had 
 to run the gauntlet of a line of Union soldiers 
 who believed him a fugitive. His former resi- 
 dence in St. Louis, combined with his business 
 there wrought him much good, as his acquaint- 
 ances were ignorant of his entering the Union 
 army. The soldiers of the 14th Missouri con- 
 fiscated a vaiualile habit, saddle and bridle be- 
 longing to the daughter of General Price and 
 Mr. Linzey, formerly known to her father as a 
 horse dealer, kindly offered his services to re- 
 cover the property. General Price gave iiini a 
 pass which perijiitted him to visit any and all 
 rebel posts and he visited 57 camps and forti- 
 fications, ostensibly in pursuit of the l)usiness 
 which sent him forth in Union interests. The 
 pass had been countersigned by Jeff Davis, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 (ulio was buried on the clay this sketch was 
 transcribed, Dec. IJ, 1889). 
 
 After the war, Mr. Linzey went into the same 
 business at Barry, Pike Co., IIL, dealt in horses 
 two years, mariied and bouglitafarni on wliich 
 lie located. Tlie ne.\t year lie farmed in 
 McLean Co., III., and in 187U went to Brod- 
 head, Wis., and purcliased his agricultural 
 propertj' in tlie vicinity. He was married Oct. 
 20, 1867, to Emma, daughter of Andrew Booth, 
 and born in Pennsylvania, whence she was 
 taken by her parents when a year old to Barry, 
 where her mother is .still living aged 90 years; 
 her father died in 1873. One child born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Linzey died in infancy; Eunice 
 L was born Sept. 30, 1868 ; Hattie F., Dec. 7, 
 1869; Effie L., April 29, 1874; Jay IL, Feb. 20, 
 1880. 
 
 Mrs. Linzey is one of the charter members of 
 the Woman's Relief Corps at Brodliead and she 
 and her hu-!iaiid are prominent members of 
 the organizations to which they belong. 
 
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 ^v^=^ HARLES KNUTSON, (Army Register 
 K Hudson), Menomonie, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was born May 
 14, 1839, in Christiana, Norway, and is the 
 only son of Knud Halvorson and Bertha Maria 
 Peterson. His fatlier and mother died wliile 
 he was an infant and lie was reared by an uncle 
 and aunt, coming to America in 1861, landing 
 in the spring at Quebec and coming direct to 
 Menomonie, where he had relatives. He en- 
 gaged in the lumljer business and worked for 
 Ihe same tirin until he enlisted at Menomonie 
 and was mustered Sept. 13, .1862, in the 5tli 
 Wisconsin Infantry in Company K, which 
 was recruited at Menomonie by Captain 
 Mott, and he went from rendezvous at Madi- 
 son to the regiment, joining it just after 
 
 the fight at Antietam in Hancock's Bri- 
 gade, 1st Division, 6th Corps. After re- 
 maining in camp at Ilagerstown until De- 
 cember, they crossed the Rappahannock to 
 fight at Frederiek.sburg. At Hagerstown the 
 companies were reorganized, Mr. Knutson be- 
 ing jilaced in Company G. The winter was 
 passed at Belle Plain until the Mud Campaign, 
 after wliich the regiment remained there until 
 spring, when the " Light Division " was organ- 
 ized, including five regiments, and in April 
 went on the campaign of the Rappahannock, 
 forming the skirmish line on tiie Fredericks- 
 burg and Chancellorsville road. Mr. Knutson 
 was in the picket line and from the deep bed 
 of the road, which served as breastworks, at 
 ilaylight May 1st, he saw rebel heads jioji uji all 
 along tiie line, followed by the sort of inter- 
 course called " blackguarding." The firing 
 commenced about 11 o'clock and in a half hour 
 sujiport came, the lines being doubled. The 
 troops made their charge and drove tiie rebel 
 line, taking several prisoners. This opened 
 the road to Fi'edericksburg and ended the fight- 
 ing of May 2d, and on the 3d tiie regiment 
 marched into Fredericksburg, formed a line in 
 front of Marye's Heights, about 400 yards from 
 the line of rebel works, where they stayed two 
 hours drawing the fire of the batteries and 
 practically without protection. About 1 1 o'clock 
 Colonel Allen w'alked in front of them, under 
 fire, and addressed them as follows, which was 
 distinctly heard liy them: " Boys, do you see 
 those Heights? You have got to take them! 
 You think you cannot do it; but you can! 
 You will doit! Wiien the order " Forward " 
 is given, you will start at double-quick — you 
 will not tire a gun — you will not stop until you 
 get the order to halt ! You will never get that or- 
 der!" An order followed and the charge was 
 made on the double-quick amidst the shells of 
 the rebels and the firing from sharpshooters 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 behind stone walls. The rifle pits were first 
 taken and the men climbed to the top, taking 
 the Itatteries. Mr. Knutson was wounded just 
 as lie entered one of the rifle pits by a sharp- 
 shooter, the ball entering his right shoulder 
 and knocking liira down. By the time support 
 came he was on his feet and aided in taking 
 the batteries and remained with the regiment 
 during the day, loss of blood compelling him 
 to go to the Corps hospital at night to have 
 iiis hurt dressed. The command could not 
 hold the position sogaljantly taken, and retired 
 during (he night across the Rappahannock 
 River, Mr. Knutson remaining a few days at 
 hospital at Belle Plain and afterwards rejoining 
 bis companj'. In June the regiment crossed 
 the river and skirmished with the rebels while 
 their army was crossing on the way to Penn- 
 sylvania, and while on the march to Gettysburg 
 the gun and knapsack of Mr. Knutson were 
 carried for him to enable him to keep up, and 
 he arrived on that field with his regiment 
 about noon, July 2, 1863, after marching all 
 night. The regiment was held in reserve 
 through the succeeding fighting, exposed to 
 constant fire from the batteries. During the 
 night of July 3d they were in position on 
 Little Round To]) and Mr. Knutson, in the pur- 
 suit after the rebels on the 4th, had to take a 
 gun from the field. The regiment was in the 
 advance on the -retreat and went into camp 
 near Warrenton. About two weeks later the 
 command was ordered to New York to aid in 
 quelling the draft riots, and the companies 
 were distributed at various points. Company G 
 being stationed at Poughkeepsie, and there 
 drew clothes and money. About the middle 
 of October, the rebels cro-ssed the Rappahan- 
 nock and the regiment received orders to re- 
 turn to camp at Warrenton, and, November 
 7th, was in the charge on the fortifications 
 at Rappahannock Station, taking position 
 
 about 10 o'clock, 600 yards in front of the 
 works. A conference followed as to the best 
 plan of taking them, and General Russell snid 
 he could take them without aid from the 6th 
 Corps. Sedgwick told him to proceed and he 
 deployed half of the 5th Wisconsin and 6th 
 Maine on the skirmisli line and tlie other half 
 as support and gave the order to charge. While 
 moving on the double quick, the discovery was 
 made that the guns were not loaded nor 
 bayonets fixed, and they .stopped in the midst 
 of a sliower of shot and canister. The skir- 
 mishers charged and were repulsed, but the 
 support rushed forward and took the forts, cap- 
 turing a battery of six guns and many prison- 
 ers. Seven full regiments were defending the 
 forts and seven regimental colors were taken. 
 Mr. Knutson was struck by a ball on his foot 
 and by another in his haversack, whicli spoiled 
 the hardtack he had left. On the morning 
 after the battle they crossed tlie Rappahannock 
 and went into winter quarters at Brandy Sta- 
 tion. November '24th they were ordered out 
 to the Mine Run fight for naught and went to 
 the campaign of the Wilderness in the spring. 
 During the winter a call was made for naval 
 recruits and, as Mr. Knutson had had experi- 
 ence on the sea in his youth, he enlisted as a 
 sailor on the gunboat Proteus, and was sent to 
 Baltimore for examination and thence to the 
 naval station at Key West to the Proteus and 
 engaged in cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, and 
 participated in the bombardment of Galveston. 
 During the cruise the Proteus captured several 
 valuable blockade runners and returned to 
 ! New York after the war, leaving Key West the 
 1st of May. Mr. Knutson was placed on the 
 receiving ship. North Carolina, and was mus- 
 tered out June 7, 1860, and returned to Menom- 
 onie. He engaged with the firm for which he 
 had formerly worked, remaining with them 
 until the fall of 1888, engaged as a saw filer. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 In 1879-80 he was Town Treasurer. At tlie 
 election in tlie fall of 1888 he was tlie successful 
 candidate on the Republican ticket for Register 
 of Deeds of Dunn County and is serving in 
 that official position. 
 
 He was married June 14, 1867, at Menomo- 
 nie to Caroline, daughter of Ole Evenson, and 
 tiie oldest of ten children: she was very 
 patriotic and active in aiding tlie Cnion cause, 
 taking a deep interest in the soldiers and their 
 welfare. Her fatlier is a farmer by occupation, 
 has resided in Dunn County since 18.57, and is 
 one of the oMesl and most substantial citizens. 
 Mr. Knutson by marriage has one son, Oscar. 
 Mr. Knutson is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
 
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 ^v^Y^ HARLEB FRANTZ, Kenosha, Wis., 
 member of (J. A. R. Post No. 230, was 
 iKirn ill Minden, Westphalia, Germany, 
 .June 21, 1810, and is the son of Frederick and 
 Dora Frantz. 11 is father was a teacher in the 
 public schools of Minden 55 years and is now, 
 at the age of 82 years, living in retirement on 
 half pay in Minden where his wife died. In 
 1855 Mr. Frantz and his sister Dora came to 
 America. (His father's family included five 
 children, llerman, his twin brother, is the 
 only one deceased ; Fritz is the eldest; Dora is 
 Mrs. Henry ReinboU, of Kenosha; .Julia is the 
 youngest.) They landed at the port of New 
 York in February, ]8.")5, and went directly to 
 Kenosha. Mr. Frantz worked on a faiiii for a 
 short time, when he went to Ciiicago and en- 
 gaged as a clerk in a grocery and was so occu- 
 pied successively at St. Louis and Davenport, 
 Iowa, and linally returned in 1850 to Kenosha 
 where he engagccl in tlu' same occupation with 
 R. H. Winslow. 
 
 When the recruiting olliee for the Itth Wis- 
 consin Infantry was opi'Ut'd at Kenosha, he was 
 
 appointed recruiting officer and enrolleil a 
 number of men. On the organization of the 
 connnand he was made Second Lieutenant of 
 Company C, his commission dating Sejiteniber 
 7, 1861. He was mustered under it October 
 2<Jth and left the State Jan. 22, 1862, for Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, where he expected to take 
 part in the expedition under General Lane, and 
 a long march to Fort Scott was experienced to 
 little purpose. When they moved subsequently 
 to Baxter's Springs, they had plenty of mis- 
 cellaneous military duty in the way of lighting 
 guerrillas and rebel Indians. Through the 
 difficulties with Colonel Wier, the regiment 
 suffered needlessly from marching and when 
 transferred to Salomon's management they i)ro- 
 ceeded to Fort Scott. A\'lien the .Vrmy of the 
 Frontier was organiz.ed, the 9tb was assigned 
 to the 1st Brigade under Salomon. March 10, 
 1862, Mr. Frantz was promoted to First Lieu- 
 tenant of Company A. .V ]iart (if tlie regiment 
 were in the fight at Newtonia and sufiered 
 severely. The command afterwar<ls moved to 
 reinforce the troops fighting at Prairie Grove, 
 Mo., marching on the double-quick 55 miles in 
 a few hours to reach there at nightfall after the 
 battle was over, as it proved, the rebels muliiing 
 their wheels and retreating in the night. The 
 command remained at Prairie Grove or Rheas' 
 Mills ami was in various expeditions. Mr. 
 Frantz engaged as a scout and in forag- 
 ing and skirmishing until the regiment went 
 to St. Louis, where thej* performed guard 
 duty. They went thence to Helena and next 
 to Little Rock. Dec. 25, 1862, Lieutenant 
 Frantz was commissioned Captain of Comjiany 
 G. He was in an expedition to the White 
 River, going to Duvall's Hlutf. After several 
 raids and skirmishes through the winter, the\- 
 remained in the vicinity of Little Rock, Ark. 
 They had been assigned to the 7th Corps under 
 Steele who was ordered in March to join Banks 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 207 
 
 oil the Red River expeilitioii. While endeavor- 
 ing to do so, the regiment was constantly under 
 assault from guerrillas and fought in skirmishes 
 which partook of tiie character of battles in 
 importance. An action with the troops of 
 Marmaduke detained them until news was re- 
 ceived of tlie failure of Banks, wlien Steele set 
 out on his return to Little Rock with every 
 ])romise of a battle on tlie way. The outlook 
 was good for, April 80th at Jenkins' Ferr}', 
 Ark., the enemy under Kirby Smith and 
 Price, engaged the Union troops. The fight- 
 ing commenced before seven in the morn- 
 ing and while the Union troops were cross- . 
 ing the river, Captain Frantz was shot in his 
 left arm by a minie ball. He was taken pris- 
 oner and witii half a hundred wounded men 
 passed three days in a small log cabin. On the 
 first morning a dozen were found dead. The 
 rest were marched to Princeton, where Captain 
 Frantz sutt'ered amputation of his arm, the 
 regimental surgeon having been retained with 
 the wounded. Four weeks later he went with 
 the others to Tyler, Texas, to the stockade 
 prison, where they were exchanged in February, 
 1865, and marclied thence to the mouth of the 
 Red River, barefooted and under strict guard. | 
 Their prison fare was about a pint of cornmeal 
 daily and a small amount of meat once a week. 
 Sometimes they had nothing but unground corn. 
 They went thence to New Orleans and, four 
 weeks later, joined their regiment at Little 
 Rock. Captain Frant/. received a furlough, as 
 he was very feeble and after his arrival at home 
 was discharged under General Order No. 15, 
 issued May 15th for the discharge of all officers 
 then on furlough. Pie proceeded to St. Louis, 
 Mo., where lie was mustered out. He returned 
 to Kenosha where he resumed the duties of 
 civil life and gave his attention to recovering 
 his health. His straightforward career in 
 private as iu soldier's life recommended him 
 
 for po.sitions of trust and, in the spring of 1S6G 
 he was elected City Treasurer and was twice re- 
 elected. In the fall of 1868 he was elected 
 Register of Deeds. He was appointed Post- 
 master at Kenosha, was re-appointed suc- 
 cessively in 1873, 1877 and 1881, and field the 
 position until August, 188G, when his successor 
 was sworn in. In .January, 1887, he was ap- 
 pointed to a position in the land office at Madi- 
 son, in which he served until June following, 
 when he met with an accident which disabled 
 him for life. He was crossing the track at 
 Kenosha depot when the cable of a gravel 
 train broke and struck him in the back, throw- 
 ing his body into the air. He was taken home, 
 remained unconscious several weeks and did 
 not leave his bed for seven months. Captain 
 Frantz has borne his misfortune with the same 
 fortitude and courage which characterized his 
 career as a soldier. He has always been an 
 honored citizen of Kenoslia, commanding the ■ 
 respect and confidence of the community and 
 his name honors the page of history. 
 
 He was married Feb. 17, 1870, to Angeline, 
 daughter of Joseph and Angeline (Brooks) 
 Martin and their children are named Charles 
 G., Albert W., Ralph H., Mamie C, Lulu B. 
 and Dora M. The parents of the wife and 
 mother died in Kenosha. 
 
 ILLIAM A. LOGAN, Eagle, Wis., 
 a prominent business man and 
 ■^^jL. formerly a member of Franklin 
 Bigelow Post, No. 167, while it was in exist- 
 ence, was born Oct. 11, 1842, in Nova Scotia, 
 and is the son of John A. and Margaret (Mc- 
 Donald) Logan. The father was born in Nova 
 Scotia and the motlier in Glasgow, Scotland. 
 Their family included eight children and three 
 sons and two daughters are still living. Wlien 
 
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 William was ahinU t'uur years olJ his parents 
 removed to Bangor, Maine, and three years 
 later they located in Waukesha Co., Wis. 
 Soon after the father and oldest daughter died, 
 leaving seven children for the motiier to pro- 
 vide for as hest she could. The son, being a 
 boy of independent character, when eight years 
 old went to live with a fanner, with whom he 
 remained until the family was reunited under 
 the roof tree of John Oriflilh, a farmer, to 
 whom the naother was married. William at- 
 tended school when opportunity served and 
 worked on t!ie farm until he entered the army. 
 He enlisted Nov. 11, 18lJl, in Company K, 1st 
 Wisconsin Cavalry, at Eagle and went to Keno- 
 sha, where he was mustered at Camp Harvey, 
 going thence to St. Louis, and, after passing the 
 intervening time until April in Henton Bar- 
 racks, the regiment went down the river on 
 transports to Cape Girardeau and operated dur- 
 ing the following summer in scouting and skir- 
 mishing with the guerrillas of Quantrell, Mar- 
 inaduke and Mosby. June 12, 1862, Mr. Logan 
 was seriously injured by a fall from his horse, 
 which cri]>pled his right arm and shoulder. 
 No medical aid was at hand, the surgeon. Dr. 
 Gregory, having been killed on the 11th day 
 of the month at Chalk Bluffs by a rebel sharp- 
 shootei-. After five days Mr. Logan went to 
 Bloomfield, 30 miles distant from the camp, 
 where for the first lime his injuries received 
 medical attention. He remained a day in hos- 
 pital, received a 20-day furlough and returned 
 to Eagle, reporting at Madison on the expira- 
 tion of his leave of absence. He was there ex- 
 amined and discharged as unfit for militiiry 
 duty, July 22,1862. He carried his arm in a 
 sling nearly a year and, after supervising the 
 work on his mother's farm through the sum- 
 mer of 1803, in the fall of 1SU4 he went to 
 Washington, D. C, to enlist in a battery of 
 Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, but the command 
 
 was filled and, after staying at the Capital 
 some time, he returned to Eagle. He learned 
 that the 4t)th Wisconsin Infantry was in process 
 of organization and, Feb. 7, 1865, he enlisted in 
 Company E and went from camp of rendezvous 
 at Madison to Louisville, en route to Athens, 
 Ala., where the regiment was assigned to duty 
 on the Nashville & Decatur railroad. He 
 served as Corporal of his company and was oc- 
 casionally engaged with the rebels in slight 
 encounters, his military service there compar- 
 ing very favorably with his earlier experiences. 
 He was mustered out at Niishville, Tenn., Sep- 
 tember 27th, and was discharged at Madison 
 three or four days later. 
 
 He returned to Eagle, Wis., and engaged iij 
 farming. In the fall of IsOtihe married Mary 
 L. Ackley, a resident and native of Walworth 
 county. Mrs. Logan is the daughter of Charles 
 and Louisa (Bunker) Ackley, farmers of Wal- 
 worth county, where the father is still living. 
 He was formerly a lake caj)tain. The mother 
 died in 1808. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Logan went to Winnesheik Co., Iowa, and re- 
 turned after a year to Eagle. He engaged 
 again in farming and also in expressing mer- 
 chandise to Milwaukee, in which he was en- 
 gaged until 187"), when he became interested 
 in lumber business at Eagle, in which he 
 operated 13 years. The firm with which he 
 was connected dissolved partnershi]) and Mr. 
 Logan was occupied in a hotel at Waukesha 
 three summers. In 1887 he engaged in lum- 
 ber interests at Eagle, and in October, 1888, he 
 commenced to buy grain for F. Kraus A Co , 
 of .Milwaukee, grain merchants, and is managei' 
 of the elevator at Eagle. His family includes 
 three daughters, named Anna M., Gertrude L. 
 and Edith M. Mr. Logan is a member of the 
 Order of Modern W'oodmen. He had three 
 brothers in the civil war. George enlisted July 
 31, 1862, in Company A, 24th Wisconsin In- 
 
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 fuiitrj', and fought at Perryville, Stone River 
 and Cliickaniauga, being shot to deatli in the 
 latter tiglit, Sept. 20, 1863. John A. Logan 
 enlisted in Company I, 13th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, an<l died from injuries received in serv- 
 ice. Robert M. was a member of the 7th Bat- 
 tery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, and is now 
 (1889) Clerk of tlie Circuit Court at Philips, 
 Price Co., Wis. He is also engaged in lumber 
 business. 
 
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 c;/,A\^ HARLES E. HARRIS, Palmyra, Wis., 
 'O^; u former soldier of the civil war, was 
 i)orn near Newburg, Orange Co., New 
 York, (Jet. 7, 1841, and in 1856 accompanied 
 his parents, Abram and Eliza A. (Mitchell) 
 Harris, both of whom were natives of New 
 York, to .Jefl'erson Co.,^\'is., and they afterward 
 located at Palmyra, where the father is still 
 living on a farm. The mother died about 
 1885. Mr. Harris passed his childhood and 
 youth on the farm and at school and learned 
 tiie trade of a harness maker. This was his oc- 
 cupation until he entered the army. Aug. 11, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company A, 1st Wisconsin 
 Heavy Artiller}', and was mustered into service 
 at Madison. The battery was sent forward 
 thence to Arlington Heights and successively 
 to several forts in the defenses of Washington, 
 the company being detailed with heavy guns 
 to attempt to reach Manassas during the second 
 tight at Bull Run, but reached there in time 
 only to perform some effective service on the 
 Loudon railroad. The battery returned to 
 Washington and during the Hnal months of its 
 stay in the defenses of the Capital was stationed 
 at Battery Rogers, where Mr. Harris performed 
 severe labor in heavy and light artillerj' drill 
 and in infantry practice. He was mustered 
 out in August, 1865. He returned to Wiscon- 
 
 sin and located at Palmyra, where he passed 
 three months in recruiting his healtii, finally 
 resuming his trade. Later lie went to Rome in 
 .Jefierson county, where he conducted a harness 
 shop. Four years after he returned to Palmyra, 
 purchased a home and, a few years later, went 
 to Whitewater, where he was again occupied in 
 harness making until he hxed his permanent 
 abode at Palmyra. He was married at Oak 
 Hill, in 1866, to Adelia Brockway, a resident 
 of Palmyra and a native of Ohio. Her father 
 died in the Buckeye State when she was young 
 and after her mother's second marriage she ac- 
 companied her to Wisconsin ; her mother died 
 at Wauwatosa in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Harris 
 have two daughters and two sons, named Eva, 
 (Mrs. Stahl): Frank, (with the C. M. & St. P. 
 R. R.); William and Ida. Mr. Harris is occu- 
 pied in farming; while a resident at Whitewater 
 he became a men:ber of the G. A. R. Post of 
 that place. 
 
 NTHONY HAMMOND, a charter mem- 
 A ber of G. A, R. Post No. 27, at Lake 
 Geneva, Wis., where he is a resident, 
 was born in Ripon, North Riding, Yorkshire, 
 England, .Jan. 16, 1838, in a house and on a 
 farm on which his ancestors had lived for 
 generations and whose succession had passed 
 through four descendants named John, the last 
 being his father. John and Elizabeth (Black- 
 man) Hammond, his parents, whose family 
 comprised 11 children — six sons and five 
 daughters — lived and died on the home place. 
 Fo\u' only of the sons came to America. Mr. 
 Hammond passed his early life in the manner 
 his ancestors had done, going to school a few 
 weeks in the winter and working on the farm 
 summers. When he was 14 years old he was 
 apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmith 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and, six uiontlis before liis indentures ex- 
 pired, he came to America with his brotlier 
 Ciiristoi)her, two others, named Jolin and Ed- 
 mund, liaving preceded them in their removal 
 to the New World. He was just at manliood 
 when lie became a part of the New World, with 
 its Ijusiness and its hurrying rush for place, 
 and, after lantling at the port of New York, 
 with his l)r()ther, he hastened to Racine, where 
 he was occupied in gardening two years. His 
 brother John died in 1862; Edmund lives in 
 Nevada; Christopher is a wagon maker in 
 Burlington, Racine county. Mr. Hammond 
 resided in Racine until 18G7. He was occu- 
 pied in vaiious employments until he obtained 
 a situation as clerk in a drug store where he 
 was interested when he enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, 
 in Company A, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel 
 Utley. After leaving the State the regiment 
 went to Cincinnati which was in a considerable 
 state of alarm from the threatening movements 
 of Kirby Smith in Northern Kentucky, and, 
 after crossing to Covington, they made various 
 changes of base, finally going to Danville and 
 tlience to Louisville and Nashville. In March 
 they were in the reconnoisance to Spring Hill 
 and in the action on the next day, Mr. Ham- 
 mond escaping the general disaster which over- 
 took tlie bulk of the troops at Thompson's 
 Station only to be captured by Forrest, March 
 25tli, while guarding a trestle at Brentwood 
 Station, being taken before day and marching 
 to Columbia. Thence they went to TuUahoma 
 where they were stripped of everything which 
 could be available to the rebels, sent to Rich- 
 mond in cattle cars and passed a short time in 
 Libby, whence they went on parole which they 
 had received at Columbia to Annapolis and, 
 after being clothed and supplied with other 
 necessaries, they went to Baltimore and Pitts- 
 burg en route to St. Louis, where they awaited 
 exchange and went thence to join their com- 
 
 mand at Murfreesboro in time to take jiart in 
 the Atlanta campaign. There Mr. Hammond 
 was assigned to the 9tii Ohio Battery and he 
 was in the tight at Resaca, Buzzard's Roost and 
 the various struggles known as Kenesaw Moun- 
 tain. He fought at Culp's Hill, at Big Shanty 
 and Peach Tree Creek and was in all the mis- 
 cellaneous movements of the regiment until the 
 fall of Atlanta in September. Ilis health had 
 been failing and after the evacuation he was 
 sent to Chattanooga to hospital No. 4, rejoining 
 his company after two months at Goldsboro, 
 the march to the sea having been accomplished. 
 The actions in the Carolinas were the only 
 tights in which his regiment was in\'olved in 
 which he did not participate. He accompanied 
 the command through Virginia to Alexandria 
 and Wa.shington and received honorable dis- 
 charge .lune 12, 1865. He returned to Racine 
 where he engaged in railroad work and he re- 
 mained until 1867, wlien he went to Elkhorn 
 and thence after nine years to (iencva Lake, 
 o])erating in both ))laces as a blacksmith and 
 he is still engaged in that calling. 
 
 He was married at Delavan, Wis., Aug. 8, 
 1871, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and 
 I)iantha( Black man) Percy, a native of Vermont. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have had several 
 children, two of whom died in early childhood. 
 Mary E. was born .July 8, 1872; Ann S., Aug. 
 12, 1875; Chrisloi)her in 1881. The parents 
 are communicants in the Episcopal Church at 
 Geneva Lake. 
 
 UGENE BARTLETT, a manufacturer 
 ^ of Brodhead, Wis., ami a member of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 90, was born in 
 Schuylerville, Saratoga Co., New York, .Jan. 7, 
 1844. He traces his origin to an ancestor who 
 came to this country on one of the voyages of 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 211 
 
 the Mayflower and whose descendants settled 
 for successive generations in Massachusetts. 
 His father and mother, L. G. and .Jane A. 
 (Ellsworth) Bartlett, are still living in Brod- 
 head. Natlian Bartlett, great grandfather of 
 Eugene, resided at Royalston, Mass., and there 
 married: his family included three sons nnd 
 three^ daughters named Silas, Tra, Nathan, 
 Sallie, (Mrs. Van Patent); Elizabeth, (Mrs. Col. 
 Fisher), and Nancy, (Mrs. Gregory). Nathan 
 Bartlett was born in Royalston, and married 
 ^hiry Miller, removing to Vermont about ISlO, 
 and there engaged in farming until 1845, when 
 he went to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in 
 Newark, Rock county, which his son, L. C. 
 Bartlett, had located the previous year. He 
 died on the place at the age of 86 years. His 
 family comprised 11 children, of whom his 
 son, L. C, was sixth in order of birth. The 
 latter was born at Waterford, Caledonia Co., 
 Vermont, .Jan. 20, 1821, and resided in the 
 Green Mountain State until 1854, when he went 
 to Wisconsin, and after residing at Beloit two 
 years went to Albany, Greeii county, and in 
 1868 fixed his permanent residence at Brod- 
 head, engaging in the manufacture of wagons 
 and sleighs and other stock of the same char- 
 acter, and is still actively occupied in the 
 prosecution of his business, associated with his 
 son. He is in firm, sound health and gives his 
 personal attention to the details of his affairs 
 daily. The mother of Mr. Bartlett is the 
 (laughter of Charles and Mary Ellsworth ; her 
 marriage took place in 1823 ; her children in- 
 cluded six sons and a daughter, all iif whom 
 are living, named in the order of their birth as 
 follows: Eugene, George W., .John E., Emmett, 
 Kate, (widow of H. T. Stewart of Brodhead), 
 William and Charles. 
 
 .John E. and Eugene enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, 
 in Comjiany F, 31sl Wisconsin Infantry. After 
 being mustered in in October, the company 
 
 went to Prairie du Chien and performed guard 
 
 duty over rebel prisoners and engaged in' drill 
 practice until the final organization at Racine 
 in .January, 1863; tliey left the State March 1st 
 and went to Columbus, Ky., to Fort Halleck 
 and were engaged six months in garrison and 
 picket guard on the river and scouted and skir- 
 mished about six months. In Septeml)er they 
 went to Nashville, thence to LaVergne and 
 Murfreesboro and, until .June, the latter place 
 was headquarters while they picketed the in- 
 tervening distance to Normandy. They per- 
 formed important service, scouting in the sur- 
 rounding country and keeping it clear from 
 rebels and removed to Nashville and did patrol 
 and guard duty; -July 5th they were transferred 
 to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 20th Army 
 Corps, receiving orders to connect with troops 
 for the Atlantic campaign. July 21st they 
 entered the Union line of battle and Mr. Bart- 
 lett was in all the fighting of whatever char- 
 acter through the siege of Atlanta. After the 
 surrender he went with the regiment into the 
 fortifications, where recruiting for the march 
 to the sea took place and in November joined 
 the forces of Sherman for the Great March. 
 During its course, Mr. Bartlett experienced all 
 the vicissitudes and dangers incident to such a 
 journey and after reaching Savannah lived on 
 a pint of rice and roasted acorns daily while 
 awaiting the subsidence of tlie water. After 
 the surrender of the city they moved within 
 and remained some time, making expeditions 
 to the surrounding country in the interest of 
 the Union Government. Thence they marched 
 through South Carolina, crossing into North 
 Carolina at Cheraw and proceeding towards 
 Goldsboro. At Averysboro they were in action 
 in which the 31st lost heavily, but the rebels 
 were driven to Bentonville, where the regiment 
 was again in action and sutt'ered greater losses. 
 Reaching Goldsboro, after 65 days of marching, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF' 
 
 during wliieli they had torn up railroads, 
 destroyed rel^el su{)plies, burned villages and 
 had been in u driving rain more than a third 
 of the time, they were in almost as distressed 
 condition from hunger and privation and ex- 
 posure as the multitudes who hud been rclciised 
 from the rebel jtrisons in anticipation of the 
 arrival of Union troops at the various points. 
 Many were barefooted and all were in tattered 
 clothing, which was replaced at CJoldsboro, and 
 they started for Rideigh and were in pursuit of 
 the fleeing rebels when intelligence of the sur- 
 render of Johnston was received. Mr. Bartlett 
 accompanied his command to Richmond, 
 marching thence to Washington, and he was 
 in the Grand Review, remaining in Virginia 
 two weeks, after which he was mustered out 
 and returned to Madison, where he was paid 
 and discharged .luly 8, 1865. He returned to 
 Albany where he resumed connection with the 
 business of a manufacturer and in 1868 went to 
 B rod head. 
 
 He was married at Albany, Sept. 30, 1866, to 
 Augusta Davidson, a native of the State of New 
 York. Mortimer, born Aug. 29, 1870, is the 
 only cliild. Mrs. Bartlett is prominent in 
 society in Brodhead and is an active worker in 
 the Woman's Relief Corj)s. The position of the 
 family is second to none in the vicinity and 
 the business firm is considered one of the most 
 substantial of the locality. 
 
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 OllN 11. llOLh.ANI), (ienoa .lunctiou. 
 Wis., a soldier of the civil war, was born 
 at Somerset, Crawford Co., Pa., Nov. 14, 
 1826. llis father and mother, .lohn H. and 
 Anna (Dearborn) Holland, were born in the 
 State of New York, llis fatiier was a .sailor 
 and a ship carjienter and died of yellow fevei' 
 at Michigan City, Ind., where he had gone to 
 build a pier. The son was three years old and 
 
 in the next year his mother died. When 
 wholly orphaned he was taken in charge by his 
 uncle, .John Dearborn, with whom he remained 
 until be was 13 years old, when be went to 
 work on a farm and also performed such other 
 labor as opportunity offered. He had a brother 
 and sister, named Anna Charlotte and Peter 
 Joseph, of whom he has lost all trace. In 1844 
 he went to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, returning after 
 five months to Penn.sylvania and, in the spring 
 to New York, whence he went to Kenosha, Wis., 
 in 18ol and, soon after located in Bloomfield, 
 Walworth County, engaging in farm labor until 
 he entered the army. Aug. 10, 1S6"2, he en- 
 listed in Company H, 95tli Illinois Infantry 
 and was mustered at Rockford, 111., whence he 
 went to the seat of war. The command was 
 sent to Jackson, Tenn., via Chicago and Cairo, 
 and two weeks later went to Grand Gulf, the 
 regiment being sent in pursuit of Price and Mr. 
 Holland was in a fight at Coldwater. After- 
 wards lie accompanied the command down the 
 river and worked on bridges and performed 
 other military service en route to Abbeville, 
 where he was taken sick and sent to Holly 
 Springs hospital, where he leinained about one 
 month. When Murjihy surrendered, Decem- 
 ber 20, 181)2, the sick were sent to La Grange 
 and Memjihis, Tenn.: and Mr. Holland re- 
 mained at the former place until his discharge, 
 April 6, 1863, on surgeon's certificate of perma- 
 nent disability. He returned home and was 
 wholly unable to rise from his bed or chair for 
 three months, when he became able to move on 
 crutches. The next year he was able to work 
 a little and during the following year was com- 
 pelled to sell the place and he moved to Genoa 
 .Junction, where he opened a meat market and 
 continued its management from 1870 to 1886, 
 when he retired from active and regular busi- 
 ness. He is alllicted with a spinal disease 
 causing paralysis. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 213 
 
 He was married Jan. 1, 1846, at Lancaster, 
 Erie Co., New York, to Jeanette, (laughter of 
 John and Kate (Goodcourage) Scliermerhorn. 
 She was born in New York of ancestors wiio 
 belonged to the early settlers of the city and is 
 a lineal descendant of the family on her father's 
 side which was allied to Aneka Jans, and she 
 is an heir to the Trinity church estates in the 
 great metropolis. Mr. and Mrs. Holland are 
 the parents of 10 children, of whom five survive. 
 Harriet A. is married to Warren Palmerston, 
 of Genoa Junction ; Warren is a farmer in Lake 
 County, Illinois; Marcy 0., resides at Geneva; 
 he was five years a member of the regular 
 army, enlisting Sept. 19, 1876, and receiving 
 discharge in 1881, from Company K, 2d U. S. 
 Cavalry. He enlisted soon after the Custer 
 massacre. Wallace L. is a blacksmith of 
 McHenry Co., 111.; Elmer E. is a painter and 
 resides at Genoa Junction. 
 
 ENJAMIN GASSER, a resident of 
 Watertown, Wis., and a member of 
 0. D. Pease Post, No. 94, was born 
 Feb. 11, 1832, in Berne, Switzerland. His 
 father's name was John Gasser. The son 
 learned the trade of a shoemaker in his native 
 country and at nineteen came alone to 
 America. He passed iive years in Milwaukee 
 when he removed to Watertown and established 
 his business as a shoemaker. In 1860, he 
 went to Brookfield, Wis., and remained there 
 until he entered the military service. March 
 7, 18G5, he enlisted in Company H, 48th Wis- 
 consin Infantry and made connection with the 
 command at Milwaukee. Fifteen days later 
 he left the State for St. Louis and a week later 
 left Benton Barracks under orders for Paoli, 
 Kansas. There the eight companies which 
 had been mustered were distributed to dififerent 
 
 points, Company H going to Olathe. About 
 three montlis after it moved across the plains 
 to Fort Earned where the company performed 
 guard duty, protecting the settlers and fort 
 from Indians. The march there, after being 
 disappointed in expectation of being mustered 
 out after the war had closed, was particularly 
 severe, being nearly 300 miles in extent late in 
 the season. About the middle of December 
 the company went to Fort Leavenworth and 
 thence to Madison, where it was mustered out 
 Jan. 3, 1866. 
 
 Mr. Gasser returned to his farm at Brookfield 
 where he managed his property and engaged 
 also in shoemaking. He returned to Water- 
 town in 1873, where he has since worked at 
 his trade. 
 
 He was married in 1859 to Magdalene Win- 
 zenried, and they have seven children — six 
 daughters and a son. Two of the former are 
 married. 
 
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 ARLAN PAGE GOODMAN, White- 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 34, was born in Bethlehem, 
 Albany Co., New York, June 11, 1843, and his 
 father, Stephen Goodman, was born in the 
 same place, Dec. 11, 1816. The latter was a 
 carpenter by trade and the son of a sire born 
 in the North of Ireland of Scotch descent 
 and a Presbyterian in iiiitli. Stephen Goodman 
 married Sarah Crosby Runnels, daughter of 
 Jacob and Phoebe (Crosby) Runnels, whose 
 mother was a Quakeress and both her parents 
 were of English origin. They were married 
 at Salesville, Sharon, New York, by a Baptist 
 minister named Toppings, Dec. 9, 1834. Feb. 
 6, 1854, they started with their family for Pal- 
 myra, Wisconsin, where they arrivetl on the 
 10th and located on a farm on which the 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 fatlier died, Nov. 13, 1861. He was a good 
 man in name and in nature, an Abolitionist 
 of radical stripe and a firm l^eliever in the 
 Lincoln administration. The son i-emained on 
 the farm until he was 19 years old when he 
 determined to enlist and Aug. 19, 1S62, he did 
 so in Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Ar- 
 tillery, the only regiment of that character the 
 State sent to the war. He went to Madison 
 and thence to Washington where he joined his 
 company at Fort Cass. The period was one of 
 exceeding excitement there, as McClellan had 
 been driven from the Peninsula and the dis- 
 aster to Pope's troops soon after, ai'oused the 
 greatest alarm regarding the Nation's capital 
 city. The duties to which Colonel C. C. 
 Meservy's command was subjected were ex- 
 tremely laboriou.s, as the emergency would 
 permit of little delay for red tape or anything 
 else, and, in addition to their three-fold drill, 
 including infantry, heavy and light artillery 
 practice, they were assigned to heavy labor on 
 the fortifications and Mr. Goodman assisted in 
 the construction of six of the forts in the chain 
 about Washington. At the time the command 
 was inspected by the British officers they re- 
 ceived the highest commendations for cleanli- 
 ness and perfection of drill and discipline. 
 Sometime in July, Mr. Goodman was attacked 
 with typhoid fever, which, developing into the 
 malignant type, he was sent to Battery Rogers' 
 huspital, where he remained under the care of 
 Dr. Burkey two months. ( )n the organization 
 of the regimental band, which was detailed 
 from the several companies, he was connected 
 therewith and played one of the leading in- 
 struments. After his return from the hospital 
 he was seized with fever and ague, from which 
 he suffered during the remainder of his term 
 of enlistment. One of the special details on 
 which he served was that which was sent to 
 Fort Buffalo in anticipation of the invasion of 
 
 Lee, 40 men being detailed for the duty. After 
 his return to Wisconsin, he resinned his occu- 
 pation of agriculturist which he continued 
 until 1870, when he disposed of his property 
 and engaged in the business of a grocer and 
 Imtcher. He continued to operate in these 
 until 1875, when he learned the business of 
 photography, in which he has since been 
 engaged. He remained in Palmyra three 
 years, occupied in that avenue of business, 
 when he removed to Whitewater and estab- 
 lished a prosperous and profitable trade. He 
 is a good type of the American Itusiness man 
 and honors his record as a soldier in his daily 
 life. 
 
 July 6, 1SG5, while still a soldier, lie was 
 married to Caroline L. Pease and tlieir only 
 child is named Charlotte Lucinda. Mr. Good- 
 man is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, 
 of the A. O. U. W. and of tlie Good Templars. 
 His brother, Lieut. E. Goodman, was one of 
 the 1st Wisconsin soldiers to enlist in the war, 
 and fought at Bull Run. He was in the 2d 
 Wisconsin Infantry and on the conversion of 
 his company into artillery he was commis- 
 sioned Lieutenant. Another brother, Stephen 
 0. Goodman, served through the war in a 
 Minnesota regiment. 
 
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 WILLIAM STRUEBIG, Lieutenant 
 in charge of the Northwest Police 
 Station at Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 2, was born Nov. 14, 
 1844, in Lesser Braun.schweig, Germany, and 
 the next year after his birth his parents, 
 Charles Henry and Louisa (Waltman) Strue- 
 big, came to America, landing at New Orleans 
 Octol)er loth. They removed successively to 
 St. Louis, Red Bud, Randolph Co., Illinois, and 
 Waterloo in the same State, and, in 1856, to 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 215 
 
 Freedom, in the Sucker State, where the senior 
 Struebig engaged in the business of hotel 
 keej)ing. He was a soldier in the Mexican 
 war, and fouglit in the civil war, enhsting in 
 ISGl and rising to the rank of Captain in Com- 
 pany C, 44tli IlHnois Infantry, being made 1st 
 Lieutenant on organization. He was wounded 
 at Fort Donelson and resigned his commission. 
 After being reheved from miHtary obHgations 
 to his adopted country, he engaged in the sale 
 of groceries at St. Louis as a wholesale dealer 
 and lost his business by fire. In 18G4, after his 
 son received discharge from the army, the 
 family removed to Milwaukee, where the 
 father established his business as a rope maker. 
 He is a citizen of this country who does honor 
 to its history of progress and success. He ful- 
 filled his obligations to his own country and 
 brought to America the integrity, thrift and 
 capacity to perform his share of the work the 
 New World had for liim to do. He and his 
 wife, aged respectively 75 and 73 years, are 
 still living, as are their six children. Minnie 
 is the wife of Herman Rohr of Milwaukee; 
 William is second in order of birth ; Anna mar- 
 ried Herman Fahn of Milwaukee; Eda is mar- 
 ried to Henry Schuch of Milwaukee ; Ida is 
 wife of Otto Riemer, Inspector of Police of Mil- 
 waukee; Robert lives in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 In 1S58 William Struebig left home to go to 
 Belleville, 111., to learn the l>usiness of a 
 l)rewer, where he was occupied when he en- 
 listed, Aj)ril 17, 1861, in Company C, 9th 
 Illinois Infantry. He was one of the earliest 
 to oiler his services as a soldier and was mu.s- 
 tered at Cairo and sent to service at once and 
 was with Lyon in routing the rebels from Camp 
 .lackson, a movement that saved Missouri to 
 the Union. (Lj-on suspected the character of 
 Camp Jackson, where the citizens were playing 
 at military maneuvers and visited the camp in 
 woman's dress, inspected the whole business. 
 
 and on his return mustered his forces and com- 
 pelled the surrender of General Frost with his 
 bogus command, May 10th). The operations 
 lasted throughout the day, several being in- 
 jured and about 1,000 prisoners were captured. 
 Going thence to Cairo the regiment performed 
 military duty until mustered out, July 20, 
 1861. Mr. Struebig returned to Belleville, and, 
 on July 27th, re-enlisted in Company B, 12th 
 Missouri Infantry, for three years. This regi- 
 ment was partially recruited in Illinois and, 
 Aug. 8th, Mr. Struebig was mustered in at St. 
 Louis, leaving there September IGth for Jeffer- 
 son City and participated in the variety of mili- 
 tary <luty prevalent in Missouri, where portions 
 of the people were rebels and no route could be 
 traversed by any command without skirmish- 
 ing ; and the 12th skirmished all the way to 
 Sedalia, that sort of service continuing until 
 spring. Mr. Struebig was again in Lyon's 
 command and fought at Wilson's Creek, where 
 one of the bravest officers of the Union was 
 killed, and the 12th went afterwards to Rolla 
 in November, and from there many raids were 
 made and much fighting with bushwhackers 
 accomplished until January, 1862, when the 
 command returned to Springfield. It was as- 
 signed to the Western Army of Curtiss and 
 went through the Indian Territory to Texas, 
 the command gaining the title of "Lost Army." 
 From January 13th to July 14tli the regiment, 
 with others, drew no rations, subsisting on the 
 country and absolutely having no bread in that 
 time. July 14th they arrived at Helena, Ark., 
 and took possession of the town, which com- 
 pelled the evacuation of Memphis, and the regi- 
 ment remained in the vicinity until December, 
 when it went to take part in the plans of Grant 
 for taking Vicksburg. It was on the gunboat 
 Cincinnati in the Yazoo Pass expedition and 
 got into Moon Lake, going to bombard Fort 
 Pemberton in vain and returned to Milliken's 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Bend, where the troops were concentrating, 
 went next to Young's Point, remaining until 
 May, engaged in tlie assault on Vicksburg 
 across the river. Mr. Strueljig fought at 
 Grand Gulf and Port Gihson, going tlience 
 to fight at Jackson. May 18th, the r2th went 
 to the trenches at ^^icksburg and operated 
 there until the surrender, July 4th. He was 
 in the after movements to Jackson and Canton, 
 moving to the Big Black River and there 
 camped until October, 1863. The next re- 
 moval was made to Memphis and Corinth to 
 reinforce Rosecrans and the command was in 
 constant skirmishing all the way to Chatta- 
 nooga. It was in the fighting at Lookout 
 Mountain, aided in the charge at Mission 
 Ridge, went to Ringgold and Dalton and 
 thence to camp at Woodville, Ala., remaining 
 until May, 1864. The 12th took part in the 
 Atlanta campaign, fought at Kenesaw Moun- 
 tain, Dallas, and in the later operations when 
 McPherson was killed, Peach Tree Creek, Re- 
 saca and all others of the campaign. (In the 
 fight at Poa Ridge, March 7, ]862, he was 
 wounded by a gun.^hot through his right ankle, 
 went thence to Pilot Knob, to hospital at 
 Helena and remained until he joined his regi- 
 ment at Milliken's Bend. No important move 
 having occurred during his absence, he can 
 justly claim record in the whole service of his 
 regiment). He enlisted as a private and was 
 promoted to Orderly Sergeant, jiassing through 
 all the intermediate grades. He received hon- 
 orable discharge Sept. 20, 1864, by virtue of 
 expiration of his period of enlistment, having 
 as good a record as any man in the service, 
 with two full terms of enlistment served 
 throughout. 
 
 October 1st, the reunited family removed to 
 Milwaukee and he engaged in business with 
 his father until 18()7, when he went to Denver 
 City, Col., and remained until 1871, going 
 
 theuce to Califorrtia and returning to Milwau- 
 kee in 1872. In 1874 he was appointed on the 
 city police force and has been promoted through 
 all grades to his present position. In June, 1887, 
 he was appointed lieutenant of the force and 
 placed in charge of the station named. Mean- 
 while he had served eight yeai"S as special 
 detective of police. He was married in 1867 in 
 Milwaukee to Minnie Scheffel, who died in 
 April, 1879, leaving three daughters — Eda, 
 Ajina Ellen and Friede. In January, 1881, 
 Mr. Struebig was married to Johanna Grassow, a. 
 native of Germany. Their sons are named 
 Willie, Albert and Arthur. He is a member of 
 the Sons of Hermann and of the Turnverein. 
 
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 HARLES HENRY MARSH, Ft. Atkin- 
 son, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 159, was born in Circle ville, near 
 Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1842. (His enlist- 
 ment papers state his birth-place as Cleveland, 
 as he did not know at their date that he was 
 not born in the city. He takes this opportunity 
 to make the correction.) He is the son of Sum- 
 ner J. and Mary R. (Wilgas) Marsh and his 
 father was a native of Massachusetts. His 
 mother was born in Delaware. They were 
 married in Circleville in 1840 and in 1842 re- 
 moved to Cleveland, where his father followed 
 the trade of a mason. In 1846 the fomily re- 
 moved to Wisconsin and loc^vted in Hebron, 
 Jefferson County. In June, 1861, father and 
 son enlisted in Company E, 4th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. The father served about six months 
 and received discharge as unable to jierform 
 military duty, at the Relay House, Md. The 
 son remained in service and was mustered 
 July 2, 1861 ; he was a particii>ant in all the 
 exciting experiences en route to the front, and 
 went to Ciimp on Federal Hill in Baltimore and 
 
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 thence to Eastern Virginia in July. In Febru- 
 ary following, he accompanied the regiment to 
 Fortress Monroe preparatory to connection with 
 the command of General Butler. The regiment 
 started thence on the Constitution and pro- 
 ceeded to Ship Island, enduring hardships of 
 the worst description en route. After three 
 months on a sandy, barren island exposed to 
 malaria and other difficulties, the regiment 
 embarked on the Great Republic for the mouth 
 of the Mississippi River, for service in the as- 
 saults on Forts St. Phillips and Jackson. After 
 the vessel had proceeded as far as possible, com- 
 panies E and G were placed on small boats and 
 despatched to the rear of Fort Jackson. They 
 lost their way and wandered fruitlessly through 
 the abysmal swamp in closest connection with 
 alligators and other sources of comfort until 
 morning, when they made their way to the fort 
 to find it had surrendered. The route to New 
 Orleans was quickly traversed and Mr. Marsh 
 preserves a vivid recollection of the chase to 
 the city. Companies E and G were the first to 
 enter and to face the howling mob. They per- 
 formed needed duty in several particulars, one i 
 of which was the release May 2, 1862, of the 
 editor of the Picayune. They remained some 
 time in quarters in the Custom House, re- 
 moving thence to Baton Rouge. An expedition 
 to ^'^icksburg was made and there Mr. Marsh 
 was in his first action. He thinks the revolu- 
 tion among the officers prevented the taking of 
 that place at that time. En route there a stop 
 was made at Grand Gulf which showed the 
 white ttag and, after the boats liad pa.ssed on, 
 rebel treachery was displayed in the attack on ' 
 tiiem with grape and canister from six pieces 
 of concealed artillerj'. On the return, revenge 
 was taken in the burning of the place. In the 
 first visit there, Mr. Marsh captured a rebel flag. 
 Mr. Marsh was also in the second expedition to 
 Vicksburgaud in the fight afterwards at Baton 
 
 Rouge. He was taken sick there and sent down 
 the river on a hospital boat to Baton Rouge, 
 thence to New Orleans to Charity hospital 
 where he received discharge as disabled in 
 Deceml)er, 1S62. 
 
 He returned to Wisconsin and, soon after, ob- 
 tained the situation of clerk in a dry goods 
 store, where he remained until his re-enlistment. 
 He enrolled Aug. 2G, 1804, and received a com- 
 mission as a recruiting officer from the Gov- 
 ernor and through his efforts in filling the 
 quota of the township fairly earned a commis- 
 sion, of which he was depi'ived by the usual 
 process in such instances and which is politely 
 called "red tape." The organization was as- 
 signed to the oStli Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
 pany G and he joined the regiment in front of 
 Petersburg in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. 
 He arrived there the day following the ex- 
 plosion of the mine and was first in decided 
 action on the Weldon railroad. He was in the 
 fighting, lasting three days, at Pegram's Farm, 
 and returned to the trenches at Petersburg 
 where the regiment was assigned to the 1st 
 Brigade, 1st Division and 9th Army Corps, and 
 for nine months Mr. Marsh experienced all the 
 vicissitudes of the siege. He participated in 
 the several actions at Fort Stead man and at 
 Fort Mahone, where he was in the charging 
 columns and, in the capture of the latter, was 
 in command of his company. He was in the 
 subsequent actions and was among those who 
 first entered the city. He was in the chase 
 after the rebels and witnessed the collapse of 
 the Great Struggle at Appomattox. There he 
 was asked for a cup of coffee by General- Lee, to 
 whom he also supplied some hardtack, and the 
 fallen rebel remembered to be polite to the 
 Union Sergeant who gave him refreshments, 
 thanking him and assuring him of the excel- 
 lence of the fare. Mr. Marsh accompanied the 
 troops to Washington, participated in the Grand 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Review and received honorable discharge at 
 Alexandria, June 2, 1865. His record of actions 
 includes 17 names in both enlistments. 
 
 He returned to Wisconsin and resumed liis 
 duties as a clerk in wliich lie was occupied 
 until 1S83 when he engaged in the sale of 
 groceries in his own interest. Since liis first 
 discliarge he has been in unsettled health from 
 the exposures and malaria. In 1SS3 he located 
 at Ft. Atkinson. 
 
 He was married in lSG-4 to Mary Anderson 
 who survived two years and left one cliild 
 named Clarence B. In 180!), he was married 
 to Mary Wheeler, of Oshkosh, who lived five 
 years and died without children. In 1884, Mr. 
 Marsh was again married to Rosa Kemp and 
 their children are named Louis H., Sumner S. 
 and Mertie. It should have been stated in the 
 proj)er place that the father of Mr. Mar.sh, after 
 his discliarge from the 4th Wisconsin, re-en- 
 listed in Company K, 18th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and was fatally injured by being crushed under 
 a cais.son at Shiloli. He died March 19, 18G4, 
 at Madison. 
 
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 DWIN W. PARSONS, 
 
 Eagle, 
 
 Wis., 
 
 was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Eagle, 
 Waukesha Co., Wis., and he is the son 
 of Jonathan Parsons. His father was born in 
 New Ham]ishire; his mother was a native of 
 Yorkshire, England, and was 11 years of age 
 when she came to America from England with 
 her parents in 1828. The son pa.ssed his early 
 life on his father's farm near Eagle, which was 
 the homestead for many years, and before he 
 was of age he entered the army of tlie United 
 States. He enlisted in March, 1S64, in Battery 
 •B, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. He went 
 from Milwaukee to Madison and from there to 
 Chattanooga, and thence to Fort Clay at Lex- 
 ington, Ivy., where lie remained nearly all the 
 
 time until the close of the war. He engaged 
 in the duty common to artillery companies and 
 acquired a complete knowledge of light and 
 heavy artillery practice and also of infantry 
 tactics, engaging in work on the fortifications 
 and in guard duty. For several weeks he was 
 in the office of the Provost Marshal at Lexing- 
 ton. He received honorable discharge .\ug. 
 30, 1865, and returned U> Eagle wliere he en- 
 gaged in farming and has also been interested 
 in livery and in other business. 
 
 He was married Dec. 31, 1869, to Mary A., 
 daughter of John Kilts. With her husband, 
 Mrs. Parsons is a native product of the Badger 
 State, both having been born within its borders. 
 They have eight children named Bessie J., 
 Edna, Gertrude, Minnie, George and Greely 
 (twins), Ray and Roy (twins). Mr. Parsons 
 was a member of I'ranklin Bigelow Post during 
 its active life. 
 
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 II^IMOTIIY SHANAHAN, Delavan, 
 I y Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, 
 '^ was born March 25, 1843, in County 
 Cork, Ireland, where his parents, Cornelius and 
 Margaret (O'Brien) Shanahan, were born, mar- 
 ried and had eight children, of whom Timothj' 
 is the youngest. When he was 11 j'earsold his 
 father came to America and established a home 
 for his family, who joined him the next year, 
 when the son was 12 years old. The family 
 became scattered, the daughters marrying and 
 settling in various places, while the parents 
 went to Missouri, where they remained until 
 after the close of the war, when their son sent 
 for them and they pa.ssed the remainder of their 
 lives at his home in Delavan. Mr. Shanahan was 
 very young when he went to Missouri, where 
 he remained about a year, and went thence to 
 Randolph, A'ermont, where a sister resided. 
 While there he became 17 years old and soon 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 after the war came on and at the first call for 
 troops he decided to enlist. The Green Moun- 
 tain State thrilled with patriotism and he en- 
 listed at Northfield, in June, 1861, in Company 
 K, 4th Vermont Infantrj'; was mustered at 
 Brattlehoro, and accompanied the regiment to 
 Washington, going into Camp Griffin at the end 
 of the Chain Bridge. When the spring cam- 
 paign opened and the movement known as the 
 Peninsular campaign commenced, his regiment 
 was with Hooker's command. He went 
 through the Manassas movement and returned 
 after the second Bull Run to Alexandria. He 
 was in the seven days fight on the Chicka- 
 hominy and fought at Antietam and in the 
 actions on the Rappahannock, 1st and 2d 
 Frederickshurg, and in the latter was taken 
 pi'isoner, taken to Belle Isle at Richmond, was 
 paroled after two months, went to Fortress 
 Monroe and to Annapolis and, as soon as ex- 
 changed, rejoined his regiment. He was 
 offered a furlough, but yielded his privilege to 
 a comrade, Jerome Charic, Company K, 4tli 
 Vermont, who went home in his place and Mr. 
 Shanahan had occasion to be glad he did so, 
 for the man was killed in his first battle after 
 his return to the army in the Wilderness. Mr. 
 Shanahan fought at Gettysburg, fought in the 
 next spring in the battles of the Wilderness, at 
 Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor, 
 and was with the portion of the Army of the 
 Potomac which went to look after the rebel 
 movements in the valley of the Shenandoah, 
 fought at Cedar Ci'eek, Fisher Hill and then, 
 after his time had expired, in the battle of 
 Winchester, September I'Jth. (In this action 
 several Vermont soldiers were killed whose 
 terms of enlistment had expired). Mr. Shana- 
 han was discharged about the 21st of Septem- 
 ber at Brattleboro. . Immediately after his dis- 
 charge he went to Delavan, where he remained 
 in the family of his brother-in-law, James Hen- 
 
 nessy, a Mr. Sheldon, who was drafted, offered 
 Mr. Shanahan $1,000 to take his place as a 
 substitute. He refused the money but went in 
 his stead, reporting for service at Madison, 'Feb. 
 15, 1865. The AVisconsin 5th was reorganizing 
 and he met Colonel Allen (who was recruiting 
 for that command) who recognized him as hav- 
 ing fought at Marye's Heights. Mr. Shanahan 
 had been assigned to the 22d Wisconsin and 
 expected to serve therewith, but Colonel Allen 
 knew all he had passed through and obtained 
 an appointment for him as drill master and 
 escort for soldiers who were going as I'ecruits 
 to their several commands. He acted in this 
 capacity until the close of the war with the 
 rank of Sergeant. (Once, when escorting a 
 party of drafted men to the front, one of them 
 offered him |500 for an opportunity to escape, 
 but he refused and the man jumped from the 
 train to secure his freedom and was retaken). 
 He was finally discharged June 24, 1865, at 
 Madison. On his return to Delavan, he en- 
 gaged in farming, in which he has since been 
 occupied, together with other enterprises. Mr. 
 Shanahan is a man who has a record of which 
 he is justly proud. One of his most prized 
 possessions is the Memorial published by Ver- 
 mont for all her soldiers. 
 
 He was first married in 1868 to Ann Holmes 
 of Delavan, and she died about 1879, leaving 
 four sons, named William C, Timothy J., 
 Thomas and John. Jan. 10, 1880, Mr. Shana- 
 han was again married to Mrs. Mary (Ken- 
 nedy) Dowling, and they have one son named 
 Cornelius. 
 
 
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 T^^TENRYC.HL 
 Tr^r burg, Wis., 
 ^ ^ of G. A. R. 
 
 [ UNT, Postmaster at Reeds- 
 3., a merchant and member 
 
 R. Post No. 18, was born 
 Jan. 27, 1840, in Bradford, Pennsylvania. His 
 parents, A. 0. and Calista R. Hunt were 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 born respectively in 1809, and the mother 
 died in the State of New York wliither the 
 household had removed in 1848. The father 
 was a prominent business man in Pennsylvania 
 and also in Reedsburg, whither lie removed 
 with his family in 1854 and where his al)ilities 
 brought him into contact with public aifairs in 
 the capacity of an officeholder and he was oc- 
 cupied in the discharge of such duty at the 
 time of his death in 1877. Mr. Hunt of this 
 sketch is one of a family of three sons and three 
 daughters. (His father re-married and from 
 the second marriage five children were reared.) 
 Of the first, three children survive; Albert C. 
 enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment and was after- 
 wards assigned to a U. S. Battery ; he resides in 
 Virginia; Helen married John Macomber. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is the oldest living child of his 
 mother; he obtained a common school educa- 
 tion and was variously occupied after his first 
 youth was passed until he was 20 years of age, 
 when he went to Bloomington, 111., and engaged 
 as a farm assistant in 1860 until the first call 
 for trooj)S after tlie attack on the Union Hag at 
 Sumter. He enlisted April 21, 1801, remained 
 a short time at Bloomington and went to .Joliet 
 where the command was organized and he was 
 assigned to C'omj>any C, 20th Illinois Infantry. 
 June 13th lie was sworn into the U. S. service 
 for three years and went to camj) at Alton, 
 going thence to Jefferson Barracks to be 
 equipped and sent with the regiment to Cape 
 Girardeau. After being stationed there a 
 month or two, the command went to Bird's 
 Point oj)posite Oairo to move thence with a 
 section of the celeljrated Taylor's Battery to 
 Cape Girardeau on the river defenses, and he 
 was first in action at Fredericktown, Mo., Oct. 
 21, 1801, against the notorious Jeff. Thompson 
 and C'olonil Lowe, the attack being made by the 
 Federal force. The 20th Illinois lost several ' 
 men and returned to Bird's Point, going in 
 
 February towards Columbus to make a feint 
 movement. The regiment was next in the 
 movement to Fort Henry, going thither on 
 transports and the day following the taking of 
 the fort went to Donelson, and in action there 
 Mr. Hunt received a bullet in his breast. But 
 he remained with the regiment in its sul)sequent 
 movements and went to fight at Shiloli, April 
 Bth and 7th, 1862, his regiment taking an 
 active and conspicuous part in the action and 
 suffering heavily in killed and wounded. He 
 was acting Corporal and on the day after the 
 termination of the battle he was promoted to 
 Sergeant of liis company, as a testimonial to 
 his services on the field. He went to Jackson, 
 Tenn., the town and railroad being taken 
 to hold open communication for the troops of 
 Grant. Here Mr. Hunt was detailed as Clerk 
 in the Commissary Department and remained 
 in that service at Jackson a year. He after- 
 wards went to \'icksburg, where he o&iciated 
 in a similar capacity until the expiration of his 
 term of service and received discharge at Spring- 
 field, III., June 24, 1864. 
 
 He resumed connection with civil life at 
 Reedsburg, where in 1866 he began business as 
 a merchant, and he has maintained his com- 
 mercial relations uninterruptedly ever since. 
 He is considered one of the leading substantial 
 business men of the city and is justly esteemed 
 and honored in all his relations to j)ublic and 
 ])rivate life. He received his appointment as 
 Postmaster in August, 1885, and is still serv- 
 ing in that incumbency. He has been Town 
 Treasurer and has held other official positions 
 in his municipality; in 1884 he was the can- 
 didate of his party for State Senator. He was 
 a charter member of his Post and its first Com- 
 mander. He belongs to the Masonic Order 
 and to the A. O. U. W. 
 
 He was married July 9, 1864, at Reedsburg, 
 to Mary J. Smith, a daughter of Milo and 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 221 
 
 Elizabeth (Crandall) Smith, born in the State 
 of New York. Two children have been added 
 to tlie household circle of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. 
 Clinton W. is a graduate of Lake Forest Sem- 
 inary in Illinois and is a student in the Law 
 Department of the University at Madison, 
 whence he will take his degree in 1890. (Cur- 
 rent year.) Mabel, born April 4, 1875, is at- 
 tending school at Reedsburg. 
 
 /c^ HARLES DAEVEL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 l^J^xVy '""^'^ber of (i. A. R. Post No. 2, was 
 ^» — ^ born Dec. 14, 1836, in Holsteiu, 
 Prussia. His father, Charles Daevel, was en- 
 gaged in railroad business in Germany and 
 never left his native land, dying there about 
 1852. The mother I'emained in her native 
 country until about 1884, when she joined her 
 only son in Milwaukee, where she died in 1888, 
 aged 79 years. In March, 1857, the son came 
 to America, having passed the required time in 
 school and learned the j^ainter's business, 
 which he followed there according to law until 
 the period for conscription arrived and he 
 decided that if he took part in military service 
 it would he from choice and not from com- 
 pulsion, and found a home and business in Mil- 
 waukee. He went South in 1858 and operated 
 in Memphis and at New Orleans at his trade 
 until the period of the war, when he found his 
 opinions were in the way of safety and as he 
 had no sympathy with rebellion or what it in- 
 volved, he came North witli all j)0ssible speed 
 in 1861. On reaching Milwaukee he enlisted 
 in what was known as the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry 
 Company, an independent oi'ganization which 
 was organized in -July, 1861, and which was 
 sent to St. Louis, with the expectation of being 
 appointed body guard of General Fremont, but 
 that oflicer had been relieved and they were 
 
 not accepted, as cavalry was not wanted by the 
 authorities there. They were assigned to the 
 Benton Hussars, otherwise the 5th Missouri 
 Cavalry. They remained at Carondelet and 
 practiced military drill, l)eing sent to the front 
 in .January, 1862, going into guerrilla and other 
 cavalry service against the army of Price. The 
 first heavy battle in which Mr. Daevel fought 
 was the three days' action at Pea Ridge, where 
 he had the satisfaction of partaking in a 
 triumph. With the command of Curtiss they 
 went across the country to Helena and on that 
 expedition became known as the " Lost Army ;" 
 they subsisted on the country and for six 
 months never had any bread. They learned 
 for the first time that man can live without 
 bread. They reached Helena about .July 14th 
 and remained several months and there many 
 of their number died from malarial diseases 
 contracted in tlie districts through which they 
 had passed. They went next to Cape Girardeau 
 on transports and thence to Pilot Knob, where 
 the 4th and 5th Missouri Cavalry were con- 
 solidated and " dubbed " the 4th Missouri. At- 
 tached to the command of Jeff C. Davis they 
 engaged in guerrilla service, meeting Marma- 
 duke and ^^an Dorn with others in action in 
 the work laid out for them by Price. In 1863 
 they went by boat to Columbu.s, Ky., and 
 stayed there until February, 1864, scouting and 
 performing other duty and in that month 
 (10th) went on Grierson's raid to Okalona where 
 they received a sound thrashing by Forrest and 
 lost many men and field pieces. Harper's work 
 on the war gives the 4th Missouri great j^raise 
 for gallant conduct in this engagement, claim- 
 ing that they saved the entire command from 
 capture. They returned to Memphis and, 
 under Grierson, took part in the fight at Gun- 
 town wliere they suffered severely from Forrest 
 again and returned to Memphis. (Mr. Daevel 
 had enlisted as a private and in the course of 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 bis service was promoted through all the grades 
 of office until just prior to the battle of Gun- 
 town, he was made Second Lieutenant.) About 
 100 men, conspicuous for bravery . and en- 
 durance, were selected with Lieutenant Daevel, 
 for service under A. J. Smith in his movement 
 to Brownville, Ark., designed to aid in the ex- 
 pulsion of Price from Missouri for the last time. 
 He was driven out and from Cape Girardeau 
 the detail took boats to Jefferson City and 
 ci'ossed the country, meeting Marniaduke, with 
 the tag end of the army of Price and defeated 
 him. Pleasanton liere took connnand and 
 drove the rebels to the Osage River, where 
 Marraaduke made another stand and was cap- 
 tured. Following Price across tlie Arkansas 
 River, the command returned to Missouri 
 and, after some rest, took boat for Caron- 
 delet, disembarking on account of ice, going 
 to Louisville and there applied for leave to re- 
 join the regiment, as the time of many of tlie 
 men had expired sometime before. They re- 
 ceived permission and Lieutenant Daevel, who 
 had veteranized, went with them to ^'icksburg, 
 where the regiment was stationed and they re- 
 mained with it until tlie close of the war, when 
 they were sent to New Orleans. Li May, 18G5, 
 the Order for all officers who were willing to be 
 mustered out was issued and Lieutenant 
 Daevel, availing himself of the privilege, re- 
 signed and returned to Milwaukee. 
 
 His first business engagement was in the 
 firm of Solomon Bros., commission merchants, 
 and, two years later, he engaged with Fette it 
 llaertel in the coal trade. In 18G8, he started 
 in his own interest in the same business, in 
 connection with an associate, tlie Ih-in style 
 being Sander & Daevel, which changed after 
 seven years to Uhrig & Daevel, this relation 
 being in existence until 1881), when Mr. Daevel 
 established his present proprietorship in the 
 coal business. lie is a member of the Masonic 
 
 Order, of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, 
 (Royal Arcanum), Sons of Hermann and Turn- 
 verein. 
 
 He was married in LS6G to Louise Firing, 
 daughter of Henry Firing, and she died in 
 1S7G, leaving three children. Tlie oldest is a 
 daughter named Martha ; Alfred is employed 
 by the Pritzlaff Hardware Co. ; Willie is a 
 collector for his father. In 1877, Mr. Daevel 
 was married to Bertha, daughter of Henry 
 Oellrich, and they have a child named Emma. 
 The mother died in 1883 and Mr. Daevel was 
 again married in 1885 to Johanna Falkenstein. 
 
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 EROME A\HITF, Kenosha, Wis., mem- 
 (^11 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 230, was born 
 July 28, 1833, in Oneida County, New 
 York. He is the oldest son of Joseph and 
 Philena (Topliff) White, and has three surviv- 
 ing brothers named Jay, Ilenr}' and Judsoii. 
 The family went to Kenosha in June, 1813, 
 making their journey thitlier on tiie Erie 
 canal and around the lakes. The parents were 
 respectively of English and Scotch origin, and 
 the father died in 1878 ; the decease of the 
 mother took place Jan. 25, 1885. The son re- 
 ceived a common school education and studied 
 civil engineering, in which he was operating 
 when the country called for soldiers. He was 
 a musician and determined to enlist in that 
 capacity, which he did in 1861 in the 1st Wis- 
 consin Infantry on its reorganization. The 
 regiment was mustered in October and went 
 to the front in November, going to Louisville. 
 Ky.,and Mr. White accompanied the command 
 as bugler through all its movements until he 
 was mustered out in June, 1802, under the 
 General Order which dismissed all musicians 
 from the service. The regiment was assigned 
 to the brigade of General Negley at Camp 
 
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 Negley, after going from Louisville to West 
 Point and Elizabethtown. He went to Ash- 
 ville, passed the winter, went to Columbia, to 
 Biglej' Creek, to Rogersville, and to Bainbridge 
 Ferry, afterward to Florence, returning to 
 Columbia. Mr. White went to Nashville for 
 muster out and returned to Kenosha, where, 
 after recuperating ior a time, he commenced 
 recruiting for Battery D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy 
 Artillery, under a commission from Governor 
 Lewis, and when the command was organized 
 was made Lst Duty Sergeant. Orders were re- 
 ceived to go to New Orleans, where they re- 
 mained until February 9th and moved thence 
 to Fort .Jackson. Until .June, 1863, they were 
 engaged in fort and drill duty, including the 
 varied methods of infantry, light and heavy 
 artillery, beside heavy laljor, sucli as all forti- 
 fications require. On the occasion of the visit 
 of Admiral Farragut to I'^ort Jackson, he was 
 requested by the man himself to turn his gun 
 over to a subordinate, which lie did, and con- 
 ducted the naval hero through the fort, after 
 which tlie otHcers were drawn up in line to re- 
 ceive him formally. AVhile stationed tliere, 
 many of the battery died of spotted fever. 
 From Fort .lackson the battery went to Ber- 
 wick Bay, whore they ojierated against the 
 guerrillas, and while there Mr. White was com- 
 mis.sioned, Aug. H, 1S()4, '2d Ijieutenant of Com- 
 jiany H, .50th Wisconsin Infantry, and ordered 
 to report to Madison. He was sent thence to 
 Benton Barracks in pursuit of the regiment and 
 went to join his command at Miami, Mo. In 
 .lune, 1865, he went to Fort Leavenworth and 
 thence to Fort Rice, Dak. They went from 
 there up the Missouri to Omaha, where 150 of 
 the coniinand deserted. He was sent by 
 Colonel Clark, with other officers, to bring them 
 in, which they did with tlie exception of about 
 30; the refugees were court-martialed, sentenced 
 to 30 days confinement and pardoned. ^Ir. 
 
 White remained at Fort Rice until June, 1866, 
 when he went to Madison and was mustered 
 out June 14, 1866. He returned to Kenosha, 
 engaged as a clerk for a time, and in 1872 en- 
 gaged under General Wilson at Keokuk in the 
 service of the government on the public works 
 at Des Moines. Subsequently he went to 
 Wichita, Kas., and was engaged with the 
 Southwestern Stage Company 13 years. In 
 1884 he returned to Kenosha. He was married 
 Aug. 3, 1868, to Selena B., daughter of William 
 and .Jane Sexton of Hamilton, 111., and their 
 only child, James, is a resident of Chicago. 
 Mr. White was again married, Dec. 6, 1886, 
 to Mrs. Helen Smith of Kenosha. Although 
 he was not wounded in the war, he still suffers 
 from disabilities incurred in the service. 
 
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 ICLIARD H. CHUTE, of Eau Claire, 
 Wis., Commander of G. A. R. Post 
 (Eagle) No. 52, in 1800, was born 
 March 14, 1843, at Woburn, Mass. He is the 
 only boy of five children born to his parents, A. 
 P. and Sarah M. (Chandler) Chute. Ariel P. 
 Chute, his father, was born May 16, 1800, in 
 Massachusetts, and died Dec. 18, 1887, at 
 Sharon, in the Bay State. His wife, who is 
 still his survivor, was born Dec. 13, 1805, and 
 is the daughter of Peleg Chandler; slie lives 
 at Sharon, Mass. The Chute family is of 
 Puritan descent and came to America in 1643. 
 The father of Mr. Chute was a minister of the 
 Consresrational Church and was an able and 
 earnest worker in religious circles. The 
 daughter Ellen married Dr. A. E. Bacon ; 
 Frances P., Esther A. (deceased) and Sarah B. 
 were the names of the other sisters of Mr. 
 Chute. He pursued a course of study at home 
 until he was 16, when he became an assi-stant 
 in the bookstore of the noted firm of Little, 
 
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 Brown & Co., of Boston, and remained in that 
 connection until he entered the army. Aug. 
 7, 1862, he enlisted and during the same 
 month he was mustered into U. S. service at 
 Lyunfield, Mass., in Company C, 35th Massa- 
 chusetts Infantrj'. After a few days in camp, 
 the regiment received orders to proceed to Vir- 
 ginia to be assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Di- 
 vision and 0th Corps, going into camp at 
 Alexandria. The first engagement in which 
 Mr. Cliute particii)ated was at South Mountain, 
 soon after starting for the scenes of war in 
 Maryland, and, in the action of kSeptember 
 14th, the regiment lost about lialf a hundred 
 men. He was again in action at Antietam 
 wliei'c his regiment formed a part of the 
 assaulting column on tiie Burnside Bridge, 
 losing 283 men. The regiment went iiext to 
 to the Rai)pahannock campaign and was in 
 the fight at Fredericksburg, going afterwards 
 to connect with the Army of the Oiiio. They 
 operated for a time in the State of Kentucky 
 and in the spring of 1SG3 received orders 
 to connect with Grant for the Yicksburg 
 campaign. They went thither under Gen- 
 eral Parke and their operations were con- 
 fined chiefly to the movements in the Yazoo 
 campaign, and the regiment performed guard 
 duty on the river and held Johnston back from 
 troubling the troops of Grant, trying to make 
 their way to ^^icksburg. After the surrender, 
 the regiment went after the rebel cliief as far as 
 •Jackson and was in the figlit with him there, 
 returning to Vick.sburg. Later, tiie command 
 crossed into Kentucky and tlience to Tennessee 
 and while at Grab Orchard, Ky., Mr. Chute ob- 
 tained a furlough, going home to Chelsea, 
 Mass. During his absence he was promoted 
 for meritorious conduct to Second Lieutenant 
 and assigned to Company F, 59th Massachusetts 
 Infantry, to rank from Dec. 4, 1863. After 
 acting for a time as recruiting officer he re- 
 
 ceived orders to proceed to Reedville, Mass., the 
 rendezvous for recruiting forces and there was 
 placed on the staff of Gen. R. A. Prince of the 
 State MiHtia. When his command, the 59th, 
 was completed he was ordered to report to regi- 
 mental headquarters in Virginia and was com- 
 missioned First Lieutenant Feb. 18,1864. His 
 regiment was assigned to his former brigade, 
 division and corps and stationed for a time at 
 Rappahannock Station, guarding a railroad. 
 In tiie spring of 1864 tlie command went to the 
 camj)aign of the Wilderness and fought at 
 Spottsylvania and on the North Anna River. 
 During the last named engagement, Lieutenant 
 Ciiute was placed on the staff of General Lcdiie 
 and while carrying dispatches from head- 
 quarters he was taken prisoner, which ended 
 his war experiences on the field. He was taken 
 to Richmond, confined at Libby and was sent 
 thence in about three weeks to Macon, Ga. 
 After about the same time there he was trans- 
 
 '] ferred to Savannah and passed nearly two 
 months in a tent with other prisoners. Charles- 
 ton furnished his next hotel de rigeur (severity), 
 the purpose of humane and considerate rebels 
 being to place liim and others sent there at the 
 
 * same time in a position to expose them to the 
 firing from the Union gunboats and attacking 
 parties on the city of Ciiarleston, the City of 
 Roses and the hotbed of rebellion. The Swamp 
 Angel was aimed at St. Michael's and the rebel 
 autliorities notified the commanding general, 
 Gihnore, that 2,500 Union officers were j^iaced 
 in range of tiie sliells as they should fall in the 
 city. Three months were passed there, when 
 they were paroled. During the imprisonment 
 of Mr. Chute he had been promoted to Captain, 
 on .lune 23, 1864. He received a furlough afti'r 
 recruiting a little at Annapolis and went iiome, 
 arriving on Christmas eve. He was whollj' 
 disal)k'd and was discharged wliUe on ])aro]eby 
 .special order of the War De])artment, his j)ai)ers 
 being dated in February, 1865. 
 
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 In the autumn of 1866 he went to St. Louis 
 and engaged with Lamb & Quinhui, commis- 
 sion merchants, remaining in their employ two 
 years. Li 1868 he engaged with the Eau 
 Claire Lumber Company at St. Louis and he 
 has since operated in their interest, coming to 
 Eau Claire and taking charge of the business 
 of the company there, known as the Mississippi 
 River Logging Company. 
 
 He was married Nov. 6, 1867, at Georgetown, 
 RLiss., to Susie, oldest daughter of Humphrey 
 and Rebecca (Horner) Nelson. Five children 
 as follows have been born to them: Arthur L., 
 Mary N., Richard IL, Robert W. and Rebecca. 
 Mary died when about three years old. 
 
 Mr. Chute is a true son of New England. He 
 is a man of training in business avenues and 
 intellectual to an uncommon degree. Li poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and enthu.siastic and 
 active in all that pertains to the advancement 
 of liis party. 
 
 /^^ HARLES FREDERICK STIMM, Ke- 
 %v^I^y nosha, Wis., Commander in 1889 of 
 vSx^ G. A. R. Post No. 230, was born .Ian. 
 14, 1848, in Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha county, 
 where his parents, Charles F. and Catherine 
 (Vollmer) Stimm, .settled on their emigration 
 from Germany in 1844. They were of pure 
 German extraction and the father died in 
 Chicago in 1865; the decease of the motlier 
 occurred in Rochelle, III., in 1870. Their 
 family included several ciiildren named Mar- 
 garet, Mary, .lulia, Emma, Catherine, Rosa, 
 Augustus, Ada and Henry, all still surviving 
 excepting tlie last named. While still a youth 
 Mr. Stimm commenced to learn the trade of a 
 wagonmaker with the Peter Wood Company at 
 Kenosha which su.spended business before the 
 termination of his apprenticeship. He en- 
 gaged with the \\'hitaker Skein and Engine 
 
 Company at Kenosha and, when his former 
 employers resumed business, he resumed his 
 connection Avith them for the brief period in 
 which they conducted business. He then ob- 
 tained employment with the Bain Wagon Com- 
 pany at Kenosha where he has retained his 
 relations with the exception of the period he 
 passed in the war. In December, 1863, he en- 
 listed, and, after passing about a month at Camp 
 Randall, he was mu.stered in Feb. 2, 1864, and 
 was assigned to Company C, 26th Wisconsin 
 Infantry and joined the regiment at White- 
 .sides, Tenn. Colonel Winckler, whose sketch 
 appears on another page, was in command and 
 about the last of April the regiment went to 
 Lookout Valley, having been transferred to 
 the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 20th Corps, 
 preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. Mr. 
 Stimm was in the several figiits at Buzzard's 
 Roost, Resaca, Cassville, Pumpkin Vine Creek, 
 Pine Knob and Kenesaw. .lune 22d, when his 
 regiment was under severe fire at Kenesaw, he 
 felt himself somewhat ambitious to give the 
 rebels as good as they sent and suddenly found 
 himself alone, far in advance of the Union 
 lines. Bullets were Hying and he concluded to 
 join his comrades, which he did on the double 
 quick. He skirmi.shed at Big Shanty and 
 Burnt Hickory, and also at Kenesaw Pass, 
 where Hooker's advance was attacked by .John- 
 ston, the 26th losing 45 men and Colonel 
 Winckler receiving a ball in his hat. The 
 next movement was to the Chattahoochie 
 River, remaining there a few days, exchanging 
 civilities with rebels in the way of tobacco and 
 other small things. July 20th, they crossed the 
 river and were preparing dinner when Ihej^ 
 were attacked by the 33d Mississippi. In the 
 action the latter lost its State and regimental 
 colors, and after it was over 137 of its soldiers 
 received burial by the Union troops. All the 
 superior officers were killed. The brigade was 
 
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 commanded by Colonel Wood iuid 113 rounds 
 were fired. Mr. Stimni was in the battle at 
 Peach Tree Creek and went on the 22d to a 
 position with his company in front of Atlanta 
 and fought that day. During a lull in its 
 course, a sharpshooter, stationed beliind a 
 stump, was making liimself particularly dis- 
 agreeahii; when (ieneral ylierman came along. 
 He asked a gunner if he could not stop that 
 fellow, and immediately the stump and the 
 hidden scamp flew into tlie air. General Sher- 
 man expressed his .satisfaction over the success 
 of his suggestion. On that day McPherson 
 was killed. The regiment remained a few 
 days on the field, and was nnder constant can- 
 nonading. The next orders were to cro.ss the 
 Chattahoochie River, and protect the crossings 
 and wliile there the troo]is voted for the 
 President. After the fall of Atlanta they 
 commenced the march into the city and 
 afterwards joined Sherman in his marcli to 
 the sea, on which Mr. Stimm participated in 
 all the excitements of change which character- 
 ized the movement, lie was in several actions 
 in the vicinity of Savannah and at Averysboro 
 and Bentonville. He was at Raleigh, April 
 13, 18(15. While there they hoard of the fall 
 of Richmond and were celebrating it when an 
 Orderly rode up to the speaker with a dispatch 
 announcing the assassination of Lincoln. Mr. 
 Stimm was in the march to Richmond and 
 Alexandria, where they prepared for the Grand 
 Review and after it, were oi'dered to Company 
 C, 3d Wisconsin InfaJitry at Louisville, Ky., 
 (June 10, 1865), returning to Milwaukee on a 
 cattle train to be mustered out July 15, 18G5. 
 The father of Mr. Stimm was one of the first 
 to enlist, enrolling in the 11th Illinois Cavalry 
 and remaining in the service three years : he 
 was with Grant at N'^icksburg. 
 
 Dec. 11, 1873, Mr. Stimm was married to 
 Anna M. Schwann; .she was born Nov. 14, 
 
 1851, in Kenosha and is the daughter of 
 Matthias and Gertrude Schwann, who were 
 born respectively Sept. 9, 1822, and Oct. 11, 
 1817, in Germany; their children were named 
 Christopher, Anna, Herbert, Charles and 
 Helena. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Stimm are Matthias, William, Benjamin and 
 Helena M. 
 
 Mr. Stimm is one of the leading citizens of 
 Kenosha; in 1887 he was elected Mityor of liis 
 city and served his term with honor. He is a 
 member of St. George and St. Michael's Be- 
 nevolent Associations. 
 
 ^^^m'e^mi>\ 
 
 ILLTS P. CLARKE, Postmaster at 
 Milton, Wis., a member of G. A. 
 R. Post No. ("JO, was born at Una- 
 dilla Forks, Otsego Co., New York, May 15, 
 1842. He traces his ancestry back to John 
 Clark, who died in England in 1559. The son 
 of the latter, .John Jr., was born in 1541, his 
 son Thomas in 1570, and the latter was the 
 father of Joseph, the first wlm settled in 
 America. He was born in 1618, came to this 
 country in 1()37, located at Newport, R. L, and 
 died in 1694. His son Joseph was born in 
 Newport in 1642, was ordained an elder in 
 1712 and died in 1726. Thomas Clark, son of 
 the latter, was Ijorn at Westerly, R. I., in 1686 
 and died in 1767. Joshua Clark, son of Thomas, 
 was born at Ilopkinton, R. I., in 1717 and died 
 in 1793. His son Henry was born in the same 
 place Dec. 2, 1756, and was the father of Oliver 
 P., grandfather of Mr. Clarke of this sketch and 
 father of Erastus P. The latter married Mary 
 j J. Peck, a native of Cumberland county. New 
 Jersey, and who was a representative of an 
 English house which settled in New Jersey in 
 an early period of the history of this country. 
 The .son marrieil Lucy A. Clarke, a descendant 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 227 
 
 from another line of his own original stock and 
 traced her origin back to Joseph Clark, who 
 was their common ancestor. The male repre- 
 sentatives, beginning with Henry Clarke men- 
 tioned, were clergymen of the Seventh Day 
 Baptist denomination. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Clarke I'emoved to Milton 
 in 1856 and he has been a resident there since 
 that date. He was one of the first to enroll as 
 a soldier in Wisconsin, when his yonng blood 
 was stirred by the assault on his country's Hag 
 at Sumter, but his mother was ill and he under 
 age. He submitted to his father's wishes and 
 returned home. (He enlisted April 24:, 1861). 
 He was a student at Milton Academy and com- 
 pleted his studies there during thesinnmer fol- 
 lowing. His mother having recovered he de- 
 termined to enlist, and, accordingly, Oct. 7, 
 1861, he went into the ranks of Company K, 
 loth Wisconsin Infantry. Soon after going 
 into camp near .lanesville he was made Corporal 
 and, Aug. 1, 1862, was promoted to Sergeant. 
 He was made First Sergeant Feb. 15, 1865. 
 His commission as First Lieutenant was dated 
 March 24, 1865, and bore the signatures of Gov. 
 J. T. Lewis and Lucius Fairchild, Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 In a brief sketch of a man's military career, 
 few will take cognizance of the excessive labor 
 jierformed aside from regular service. The 
 territory traversed by the soldiers of the " 13th " 
 includes that from Wisconsin to Kansas, thence 
 to Tennessee and from there to the Gulf of 
 Mexico. Mr. Clarke went with his command 
 to Leavenworth, to Fort Scott, to Lawrence, to 
 Fort Iviley, back to Leavenworth and thence to 
 Columlius, Ky., and performed heavy military 
 duty until he went to Fort Henry and later, 
 marched to Fort Donelson. He saw much 
 guerrilla service and made all the laborious 
 marches in which the command were engaged 
 during the winter, with Fort Henry as head- 
 
 quarters. He returned to Fort Donelson and 
 went tiience again to Fort Henry, operating on 
 the Tennessee Eiver until the last attack on 
 Fort Donelson, whither he went, reaching that 
 fort soon after the repulse of the rebels. Aug. 
 27, 1868, the long march to Stevenson, Ala., 
 was begun by the " 13th " and Sergeant Clarke, 
 in charge of a sick squad, proceeded with them 
 to Nashville, thence to Franklin and rejoined 
 the regiment at Columbia, Tenn. The com- 
 mand passed the winter at Edgefield, doing 
 provost duty under Assistant Marshal, .John T. 
 Fish. .Jan. 16, 1864, Mr. Clarke veteranized 
 and enjoyed his furlough at home. Returning 
 to the front, he performed military duty on the 
 Tennessee River. In .June, while aiding in the 
 demolition of a building he received an injury 
 to his back which unfitted him for military 
 duty for some months, and he has since suf- 
 fered from its effects. During his first period 
 of inactivity in the field, he acted as clerk at 
 post headc[uarters at Whitesburg and Hunts- 
 ville. In Marcli, 1865, he went to Jonesboro, 
 Tenn., where he received his commission as 
 Lieutenant. The regiment had been attached 
 to the 4th Army Corps, and at this place re- 
 ceived the news of Lee's surrender. The vet- 
 erans of the regiment went with General Sheri- 
 dan to Texas, and camped for a time at Green 
 Lake on the Gulf. On his arrival in the " Lone 
 Star State," Lieutenant Clarke was detailed as 
 Acting Adjutant of the regiment. In Septem- 
 ber he accompanied the command to San An- 
 tonio, where he was mustered out Nov. 24th, 
 and returned to Wisconsin as superior officer of 
 his company, the captain remaining in Texas. 
 He received final discharge, Dec. 28, 186-5, and 
 returned to Milton. 
 
 He was variously engaged until the spring 
 of 1875 when he opened a drug store and has 
 since prosecuted his relations therein. His 
 energy and abilities have made him prominent 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 in his citizenship and in tlie Post to which he 
 belongs. He has served several years as Town 
 Clerk and is (Juarlcrmaster of the Post, (1880). 
 lie has acted as Chairiuan of the Rock Connty 
 Soldiers' Relief Commission since its organiza- 
 tion and been Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
 of Milton College since 1877. He has also 
 served seven years as Treasurer of the Wis- 
 consin Pharmaceutical Association. He took 
 charge of the postoftice at Milton in October, 
 1889; previous to Cleveland's administration 
 he had served two years in the same capacity. 
 His marriage to Miss Clarke took place Oct. 
 15, 18G7 ; a daughter, Bessie E., was born to 
 them .June 29, 1873, and a son, Ray W., May 
 27, 1879. He has been a member of the Odd 
 Fellows Order since 1872 at this place (Milton) 
 and lias passed the chairs in his Lodge. 
 
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 ERNARD W. DOYLE, Milwaukee, 
 Wis., member of Robert Chivas Post 
 No. 2, was born May 1, 1839, in Al- 
 bany, New York, and is the son of Patrick and 
 Ann (Mackin) Doyle. Tlie senior Doyle was 
 born in Belfast, Ireland, and his wife was a 
 native of Newry in the same country. He was 
 a stone-cutter by trade and came to America in 
 1832, locating at Saugerties, New York, remov- 
 ing thence to Albany and afterwards to Mil- 
 waukee, arriving in the latter place in 1844. 
 His family included five children, named Ber- 
 nard, Felix, Kate, Rose and Mary; all are liv- 
 ing except Rose. Patrick Doyle enlisted as a 
 soldier in the war with Mexico in 1847 and lust 
 his life in the battle of Cherubusco in the 
 charge on the castle. The wife and naother 
 survived until 1880. 
 
 The eaily life of the eldest son was passed at 
 home, and at 14 he became an apprentice in 
 the office of the Milwaukee Sentinel; and after 
 
 serving his time he traveled, as wi\s the cus- 
 tom, antl worked in all the i)rincipal cities of 
 the United States, following this mode of life 
 for several years. He returned to Wisconsin 
 when the war came on and August 22, 18()1, 
 enlisted to be mustered into the service in 
 Company H, 11th Wisconsin Infantry. After 
 passing a few weeks in Camp Randall, Madi- 
 .son, he accompanied the regiment to Sulphur 
 Springs, Mo., and the command was then scat- 
 tered along the line of the Iron Mountain rail- 
 road, Com])any H being detailed as guard of a 
 bridge near Irorfton. The next spring the 
 11th was brigaded with the o3d Illinois and 
 tlie 1st Indiana Battery, commanded by Colonel 
 Hovey. The brigade was in the command of 
 General Steele and was sent down througii 
 Missouri after the rebels under Price and Har- 
 dee, encountering them at Bayou Cache, Ark., 
 where, .July 7, 1802, a heavy engagement and a 
 Union victory took j>lace. Heavy marching 
 througii a malarial district followed, which 
 wius severer than any fighting, and the regi- 
 ment joined C4eneral Curtiss in the interior of 
 Arkansas at Batesville after Pea Ridgu, tiie 
 army being en route to the Mississippi. Mov- 
 ing to Helena, they were in camp until the 
 fall, going thence to Sulphur Sjirings. Mr. 
 Doyle had been ill some time without relief 
 and was sent to hospital at Pilot Knob, Mo., 
 where he remained until the following June, 
 (18(33,) when he secured a discharge on sur- 
 geon's certificate of disability. 
 
 He returned to Milwaukee where, after re- 
 cuj)erating until able, he engaged again as a 
 printer. He has always been deeply interested 
 in politics, and not liking the tenets and 
 practices of the old parties, he adojited the 
 principles of the (ireenback element and "stut'k 
 to his colors'" until him.self and Robert Schil- 
 ling were the only representatives of the party. 
 In 1882, in connection with others, he under- 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 231 
 
 took the organization of a Labor party, called 
 the Trades Assembly party, which succeeded 
 in electing the municipal ticket at two ditl'er- 
 ent times. Subsequently, on the dismember- 
 ment of that organization, he became one of 
 the foremost organizers of the People's party. 
 In tiie fail of 188G he received the nomination 
 of the party for the position of Register of 
 Deeds and was elected, and; after serving two 
 years in that office, left it with a clean record. 
 His next movement was to buy an interest in 
 the Young Churchman Publishing Co., of 
 which he is superintendent. 
 
 He was married May 1, 1S71, to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Owen O'Hase, and tlieir surviving 
 children, eight in number, are named Annie E., 
 James, William B., Eugene, Fannie, Catherine, 
 Rose and Alice. 
 
 (.,r^y^ OLONEL .JEROME A. WATROUS, 
 Milwaukee, Wis., one of the most 
 prominent citizens of the Cream City, 
 editor and proprietor of the Sunday Telegraph, 
 one of the foremost workers in the Order of the 
 Grand Army and a member of Post No. 1, E. 
 B. Wolcott, was born in Conklin, Broome Co., 
 New York, Sept. 6, 1840. His father, Orin J. 
 Watrous, was born in Bridgewater, Susque- 
 hanna Co., Pehn., and traced his origin to one 
 of three brothers Watrous, Englishmen, who 
 settled in what became the State of Connecticut, 
 in aljout the 17th century. Two of them were 
 married to Welsh women and the third had a 
 Scotch wife ; from the latter came the house of 
 which Colonel Watrous is a representative in 
 direct line and all the people in this country 
 bearing that name are allied to one of the 
 fraternity referred to. Major Ansel Watrous, 
 father of Orin .1., went from Connecticut to 
 Pennsylvania early in the 19th century. The 
 
 latter mentioned to his. grandchildren the facts 
 of his uncles being soldiers in the Revolution. 
 The father was a lumberman and miller and 
 married Jane E. Smith, the issue of their union 
 being six children named in order of birth : 
 Ansel, Henry 0., J. A., Demis L., Eliza J. and 
 Katherine M. The motlier was born in Frank- 
 lin, Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania, and her 
 forefathers were of American stock for several 
 generations. The father removed his house- 
 hold and interests to Wisconsin in 1844 and 
 lived at Sheboygan Falls until removal to 
 Forest, Fond du Lac county, in 1847, and in 
 the next year went to Brothertown, Calumet 
 county. In 1849 another removal was effected 
 to what is now Hayton, in that county, where 
 the family settled on primeval land and there 
 "Jack " assisted his father and brother in clear- 
 ing the first half acre and to build thereon the 
 pioneer's palace, a board slianty. Tliere the 
 father died the next year and the mother re- 
 turned with her flock to the neighborhood of 
 friends in New York. During the next six 
 years her son worked on a farm summers and 
 obtained three months' schooling each year, 
 except the last, when he worked for $0 a month 
 and taught school in the winter. In July, 1857, 
 he returned to Calumet Co., Wisconsin, and per- 
 formed pioneer labor two summers, teaching 
 also two winters. In April, 1859, he entered 
 Lawrence University at Appleton and, after 
 studying a term, he became an attache of the 
 ofKce of the Appleton Crescmit to learn the 
 " black art " and before the expiration of a half 
 year assisted in the local department ; before he 
 had been connected with the paper two years 
 he had become one of its publishers and editors. 
 The advent of war pushed personal considera- 
 tions out of his mind and wlien the roar of 
 cannon from Sumter announced that men were 
 needed at the front, he enlisted, vainly hoping 
 to go with the first troops that left the State. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 The company disbanded and Colonel Watious 
 again enrolled June 24, 1801, and went to 
 rendezvous at Camp Randall, where the com- 
 pany was assigned as "E" to the 6th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry. July 10, 1S61, he was mustered 
 and left the State on the 23d to become a mem- 
 ber of one of the most famous organizations in 
 the whole volunteer service — the Iron Brigade 
 — then King's Brigade, McDowell's Division, 
 Army of the Virginia. Early in the spring it 
 became 1st Brigade of the 1st Division and 1st 
 Army Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, re- 
 maining such until the consolidation of the 1st 
 and 5th Corps in 1804, when the organization 
 became 3d Brigade of the 4th Division and 5th 
 Corps, dating its title of Iron Brigade from the 
 battle of South MounUiin, Sei)t. 14, 1802. The 
 first battle in which the regiment engaged was 
 on the Kappahannock, Aug. 24, 1862. Colonel 
 Watrous had been made Ordnance Sergeant of 
 the brigade in January preceding and he held 
 the position until a week after the battle of 
 Antietam, (Sept. 17th) when he was made 
 Division Ordnance Sergeant, and occupied the 
 place until August, 1804. Meanwhile, he had 
 been under rebel tire in every action of his com- 
 mand from that already named to the fights on 
 the Weldon railroad except Gainesville and 
 South Mountain, when the duty of obtaining 
 supplies of ammunition called him elsewhere. 
 His roster includes Rappahannock River, Sec- 
 ond Bui! Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitz- 
 hugh's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Cettysburg, 
 Mine Run, the AVilderness, Laurel Hill, Spott- 
 sylvauia. Cold Harbor, Petersburg, siege of 
 Petersburg, and the fights on the A\'eklon rail- 
 road. About the last of August, 1804, he was 
 made Sergeant Major of the 0th and on the 
 19th of October was commissioned First Lieu- 
 tenant and Adjut^mt and in that capacity was 
 in the work of destruction on the Weldon rail- 
 road, where miles of track were destroyed, other 
 
 property rendered useless and many prisoners 
 captured. On the return the regiment was 
 rearguard and had four brisk skirmishes with 
 the advance of the rebels. About the beginning 
 of March, Colonel Watrous was made Adjutant 
 General of the Iron Brigade, then commanded 
 by the late General Julm A. Kellogg. On the 
 31st day of March his horse was killed under 
 him and he was taken prisoner, conveyed to 
 Libby prison and was one of the last to be re- 
 leased on the afternoon of April 2d, the day 
 before the occupation of Richmond by the 
 Federal troops. For gallant conduct at Gravelly 
 Run, on the day he was captured, he was 
 brevetted Captain and, by virtue of being a 
 paroled prisoner he was mustered out May 20, 
 1805, four years, lacking a month, after his 
 service commenced. 
 
 June 22d, after leaving Washington, Colonel 
 Watrous purchased a half interest in the Jack- 
 son Cou'idy (Wis.) Baivtier at Black River Falls. 
 For a year he was the factotum of the estab- 
 lishment, setting about half the type, doing 
 nearly all editorial work and press work, solicit- 
 ing for his subscription list, managing the 
 finances of the enterprise, and "set" his 
 editorial matter from tiie case without "copy," 
 simply for want of time to write it. He re- 
 mained editor and one of tlie publishers of the 
 paper until August, 180U. In the summer of 
 1866 he was appointed to fill a vacancy as 
 Sciiool Suj)erintendent of Jackson county and 
 in the fall was the successful candidate for the 
 Assembly for the District composed of Jackson 
 and Clark counties. He was the youngest man 
 in the Legislature and served on three standing 
 Assembly Committees and on Sjjecial Commit- 
 tee to investigate the affairs of the State Insane 
 Asylum at Madison. In 1809 he severed his 
 connection with the Baniier and l)ecame one of 
 the editors and publishers of the Fond du Lac 
 CommomvcaUli, and, a year later, aided in found- 
 
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 233 
 
 ing tlie daily Commonwealth, remaining in 
 that connection seven years. In 1878 he hegan 
 his connection with The Milwaukee Sunday 
 Telegraph as a contributor, and in July follow- 
 ing bought a third interest in that journal, be- 
 coming, after two months, a half owner. Since 
 1885 he has been its editor, L. J. Spice owning 
 the other half interest and being business man- 
 ager. Colonel Watrous was made Pension 
 Agent in 1885 and held the incumbency until 
 April, 1889. In the fall of 188i», October 31st, 
 he was appointed Collector of Customs of the 
 Port of Milwaukee by President Harrison. He 
 has been a Republican editor for 25 years and 
 has been active in the interests of his party. 
 He served eight years as a Colonel in the Na- 
 tional Guard and three years as a Brigadier 
 General. He is advanced in Masonry, havmg 
 taken all the degrees conferable up to the 
 33d, and he is a Knight of Pythias, and be- 
 longs to the Elks, in which Order he has served 
 as Exalted Ruler of Milwaukee Lodge ; he 
 is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the 
 National Union and Knights of Honor, 
 and of numerous other organizations of more 
 or less prominence, in all of which he is 
 one of the most popular and genial membei'S. 
 If he were allowed to speak his encomium, he 
 would say, " I have distinguished myself as a 
 hard worker and am proud of my record as 
 such." Prominent and popular in the G. A. 
 R., outspoken and fearless as an editor and 
 irreproachable as a man and citizen, the com- 
 pilers of this work record in this connection 
 that they regard his simple sketcii an honor to 
 their pages. Long flourish honest "Jack" 
 Watrous, whose portrait appears on page 230. 
 
 USSELL BROUGHTON, M. D., Brod- 
 head. Wis., member of G. A. R,. Post 
 No. 90, was born May 10, 1842, at 
 Racine, Wis. He comes of stock which dates 
 its origin in America to forbears who were a 
 part of the earliest history of the country, and 
 incorporated them.selves with its most per- 
 manent institutions, and their descendants 
 have sustained the lustrous prestige of their an- 
 cestors. One of them states that "Three 
 Broughton Brothers, named Waite, John and 
 Thaddeus, came from England to America. 
 That subsequently the two latter returned to 
 England unmarried and the former remained 
 and settled in America, and from him .sprang 
 all of the numerous family of Broughtons now 
 to be found in America." 
 
 John and Amanda (Griffin) Broughton, the 
 parents of Dr. Broughton, were both natives of 
 Rensselaer Co., New York, the father I)eing 
 born May 6, 1817, and is the son of a Baptist 
 minister, named Russell Broughton, who mar- 
 ried Hannah Phillipps, surviving until the age 
 of 92 years. John Broughton followed the 
 business of a millwright and removed to 
 Racine, Wis., in 1841, removing thence, in 
 1842, to Albany, Greene Co., Wis., where he is 
 still living on a farm; he was the third settler 
 in the township and encountered all the priva- 
 tions of the average pioneer, clearing his farm 
 from the primeval forest, living in homely 
 style and rearing his children as became his 
 character and record, which liave erected for 
 him the best possible remembrance — the per- 
 manent respect and admiration of the people 
 among whom he has lived and struggled. He 
 served his generation as Chairman of the Board 
 of Supervisors many years and in several 
 other official positions recjuiring the highest 
 order of judgment and executive ability, such 
 as is a necessity in the formative period of a 
 municipality. His first experience as a Badger 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 State agriculturist was in the total loss of his 
 first crop by inundation, and lie leased land 18 
 miles from liis home, whither he went daily or 
 camped out. Tlie mother was born in 1S20 and 
 is one of 10 children, all of whom are living, 
 the youngest being 55 years old. 
 
 Dr. Broughton comes of stock on bolli sides 
 remarkable for tenacity of life, his paternal 
 grandsire dying at !J2 and his maternal grand- 
 parents at the same age. Until he was 19 
 years old he jmssed his time in the vocations 
 and ways of the average son of the pioneer set- 
 tlers in Wisconsin. In 1861 he became a 
 student at Milton College, paying the expenses 
 of his course by teaching at intervals and was 
 within one term of being graduated wlien he 
 entered the army. May 10, 1S()4, he enlisted 
 in Company C, 40th Wisconsin Infantry; was 
 mustered at Camp Randall, Madison, and went 
 at once to Alton 111., and to Memphis, Tenn., 
 the regimental headquarters until the com- 
 mand was discharged. He performed detached 
 duty as train escort and on guard at ^"icksburg, 
 Holly Springs, Wolf River, Hatchie and New 
 Grenada, as the emergencies of the locality de- 
 manded, and was at Memphis when Forrest 
 made his raid. All that the experience of the 
 doctor lacked was the one item of blood ; all the 
 other concomitants of service on the borders of 
 rebellion were abundant. Stress of some kind, 
 privation and disease were the order of tilings, 
 and when Dr. Broughton was mustered out, 
 Sept. 16, 1S64, he was ill in his bed. He passed 
 a year in recuperating and after teaching a 
 terrn of school went to Milwaukee and entered 
 the Commercial College of R. ('. Spencer, 
 whence he was graduated in 1865. He con- 
 ducted a select school at Albany the following 
 winter and in tlie spring went to Conover, 
 Iowa, and operated one year in a warehouse. 
 In 1866 lie returned to Evansville, Wis., and 
 entered upon the study of medicine under Drs. 
 
 Evans and Smith, also matriculating at Rush 
 Medical College in Chicago, devoting three 
 years to unremitting preparation for his profes- 
 sion and took his degree at that institution 
 Feb. 3, 1869. He has conducted his interests 
 as a medical practitioner at Brodhead since he 
 first assumed the dignities of his profession and 
 has steadily won his way in business and in 
 the estimation of his patrons and friends, as a 
 careful and conscientious disciple of medicine 
 and as one who recognizes above all other con- 
 siderations his relations witli his kind. No 
 more popular or inliuential member of societj' 
 exists in Brodhead and all, whetiier comrades, 
 friends or beneficiaries of his skill, are certain 
 of symjiathy in troulile of whatever character, 
 of good fcllow.ship in social hours and of 
 thorough reliability in whatever emergency in 
 Dr. Broughton. Tlie honest biograjiher of a 
 man is always just, as such work lives after 
 both; this must relieve tiiis generation whose 
 fancy leads it to suspect fulsomeness in the 
 adequate delineation of a man wlio has not yet 
 become a memory. 
 
 Two days prior to his graduation, Feb. 1, 
 1869, he was married to Julia A., daughter of 
 Daniel and Ellen (Bemis) Smiley; the wife was 
 born Jan. 9, 1846, at Janesville. Her father 
 was born in Ciiautauqua Co., New York, in 
 1812, was a miller by calling, married in his 
 [ native State, and in 1839 joined tlio pioneers 
 of tlie Badger State, buying land in the vicinity 
 of Janesville and later became interested in the 
 mining regions of Wi-sconsin. Finally he lo- 
 cated on a farm near Albany, where he passed 
 his days in prominent usefulness. He was one 1 
 of the first County Commissioners; was Poor ' 
 Commissioner 18 years, and in 1865 was elected 
 to the Assembly. He acted as Assessor and in | 
 other official capacities, and died Feb. 20, 1886, 
 leaving a wife, four daughters and two sons. 
 The motiier belonged to a prominent and influ- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 ential familv in Ouiatauqna ooanty. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Brciughton hare two sons, named William 
 Simmons and James Roffiell, the former bom 
 Jan. 23, 1874, and the latter Nov. 12, 1876. 
 \¥ith the exception of one rear. Dr. Brooghton 
 has served his Post as Sui^eon since its organi- 
 zation : he has been a member of the Masonic- 
 Order since 1867, advancing to the degree of 
 Royal Arch Mason. He belongs to the State 
 Medical SocJetr, and has served as Medical 
 Examiner of the Pension Board at Brodhead. 
 He is the second of eight children h>om to his 
 parents, all of whom sarvire, and are named 
 John A.. Albert, William. Mrs. Delilah Enfield. 
 Ikigene, E-ossell, Hannah and Mis. Harriet 
 Graham. 
 
 :^ EOBtJE P. CAR^L\N, Lake Geneva, 
 * Wis., formerly a soldier of the war, 
 and one of the earliest to enroll after 
 ihe fall of the flag at Sumter, was bom at 
 Bell's Forge. Blair 'then Huntington) Co., Pa., 
 Jane 1, 18-32, and is the son of Samuel Oliver 
 and Sarah (PutsgTove)Carman.who were natives 
 resp>ectively of Allegany (New York) and 
 Blair counties. The latter was of German and 
 the fcMiner <rf English descent. The father 
 was the son of Lewis Carman and was a 
 teacher and shoemaker: he started in 1S3S to 
 remove with his family to Allegany oounty. 
 New York, by the wat^r route ; while at Steu- 
 benviUe on the Allegheny River he left his 
 family to attend to some matters on the boat 
 and was never again seen by them : it was 
 supposed that he was drowned in the river. 
 The mother was the daughter of George and 
 Sai^ Putegrove. The grandfather Carman took 
 the mother and her little son and daughter 
 to New York State, where they remained 
 a year and then weut back to Pennsylvania 
 
 where the daughter died when about three 
 years old. The son was apprenticed in child- 
 hood to his uncle at Logansville to learn the 
 business of a tailor and remained with him 
 until about 15 years old, when he went to 
 Philadelphia and p»erfect^ his knowledge of 
 his business. He then went to Hollidaysburg, 
 Pa., and worked at his trade until 18-52 when 
 he went to Williamsport, returning to the 
 former place after a year. He was occupied in 
 the interests of the Pennsylvania railroad cor- 
 poration until the first year of the war. He 
 had become interested in public events and 
 hastened to enroll, within 10 minutes after the 
 receipt of the news of the lowering of the 
 United States colors at Sumter, in Company 
 A, 11th Pennsylvania Lifantry, enlisting April 
 16, 1S61. (The oi^nization was originally 
 the "Woodward Guards.") April 17th he went 
 to Harrisburg and thence to Westchester where 
 two weeks were pased in military drill and 
 his command went next to Havre de Grace 
 and were detailed to guard the GDvemment 
 property there. About a month later they 
 went to Baltimore and thence to ChamVjers- 
 burg, where they were instructed in military 
 tactics and were brigaded with the Ist Wiscon- 
 sin, General Starkweather ; 11th Indiana, Gen- 
 eral Wallace ; 4th Connecticut : 11th Pennsyl- 
 vania, Colonel Garrett, Brigade Commander, 
 Colonel Abercrombie. (AU these officers were 
 afterwards generals.) They went successively 
 to Hagerstown and Williamsport Md., and on 
 the morning of July 2. 1S61. waded the Poto- 
 mac at Hokes" Run or Falling Waters where 
 they found a foree of rel>els under Colonel 
 Jackson. Several hours of fighting, (which 
 looked at that date like a htige battle i, followed 
 and the command went back to Martinsburg;, 
 thence to Williamsport for supplies and again 
 to Martinsburg, removing towards Wincbesf-w 
 with the exj^ctation of a fight, but Fitgohn 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Porter advised differently and the route was 
 ciianged to Harper's Ferry, where tlie regi- 
 ment remained until the expiration of its time, 
 hut remained hy request of General Patterson 
 until the arrival of tlie three j'ears men. Mr. 
 (/arman was mustered out at Harriehurg about 
 the middle of August and went home to re- 
 enlist at Williarasport, Pa., in Company H, 8th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, enrolling Sept. 1, 1861. 
 He awaited muster about two weeks but con- 
 cluded to enter an infantry command and 
 went to Harrisburg where he received a 
 friendly telegram asking his presence at Louis- 
 burg, Pa., where be found a body of ()5 soldiers 
 and was offered the position of Orderly Ser- 
 geant of Company K, 51st Pennsylvania In- 
 fantry, Col. John F. Hartranft. They were 
 mustered at Annajiolis, Md., Nov. 10, 1861, 
 drilled on the grounds of the naval school and 
 at Parole Camj) until the first of .January, 1802, 
 Mr. Carman meanwhile succeeding by promo- 
 tion to the position of Second Lieutenant. When 
 the Burnside expedition was j)lanned the 51.st 
 I'ciinsylvania was assigned to it and embarked 
 on the "Scout" for Fortress Monroe and joined 
 the fleet in Hampton Roads, sailing thence to 
 Hatteras, N. C, under sealed orders. When 
 they arrived there a Cape Hatteras storm was in 
 progress and the schooner was driven to Flor- 
 ida, making Hatteras February 7th and on 
 the morning of the 8th they took part in the en- 
 gagement on Roanoke Island, assaulting Fort 
 Defiance, which was taken that day; and at 
 night the United States flag was the only banner 
 in sight. The portion of the action in which 
 Mr. Carniiin took part was that in which O. 
 Jennings Wise, son of Governor Wise of Vir- 
 ginia, was killed. On the 12th of March Mr. 
 Carman went with the troops to Slocum's 
 Creek where preparations were made for the 
 attack on Newbern, which was taken March 
 14th. Not long after he was with a de- 
 
 tail which went to Elizabetli City for the 
 purpose of removing the obstructions placed in 
 the Dismal Swamp canal by the rebels, but be- 
 came involved in a fight at Camden and re- 
 treated, burning bridges and other property 
 and taking a number of guns. The command 
 remained at Newbern until July 1st and started 
 to re-enforce the Army of the Potomac, but the 
 orders were countermanded on arrival at Hat- 
 teras Tnlet, and on return to Newbern they took 
 transports for Fortress Monroe. The last of 
 July, they left Newport News for Aquia Creek 
 and Fredericksburg, went thence with Poi)e to 
 the support of Banks at Cedar or Slaughter 
 Mountain, arriving in time to assist a little and 
 ! was in the actions at Kelley's Ford, Rappahan- 
 nock Station, Sulphur Springs and Warrenton. 
 There was almost incessant fighting until the 
 second l)attle of Bull Run in which Mr. Car- 
 man fought and September 1st, he wasatChan- 
 tilly. The next action was at South Mountain, 
 Sei)tember 14th, and on the 17th the 51st was 
 again in battle at Antietam. July 12, 1862, 
 Mr. Carman was promoted to First Lieutenant 
 and on the 29th of August was made Captain 
 of his company on the battlefield of Bull 
 Run, l)y Special Order of his command- 
 ing general, Jesse L. Reno. At Antie- 
 tam, Captain Carman's company was the 
 first to cross the Burnside Bridge and ascend 
 the heights where he received a shot in each 
 arm, but did not leave his command. His 
 regiment went thence to Pleasant Vallej', 
 crossed the Potomac and afterwards the Rappa- 
 hannock and fought at Stevensville and again 
 at White Sulphur Spi'ings, (Warrenton). Cap- 
 tain Carman was at the head of his men Decem- 
 ber loth in the fight at Fredericksburg, and 
 was not again in action until June, 1863, when 
 orders were received to re-enforce Grant at 
 Vicksburg, where the command arrived on the 
 17th and, July 3d, went to the Big Black, 
 
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 237 
 
 driving Jolmston into Jackson wliicli was 
 taken, tlie rebel cliief making his escape. Tlie 
 regiment was ordered to Cincinnati to connect 
 witli the Department of the Oliio and Captain 
 Carman was with his men at the battle of 
 Knoxville. He was in the several skirmishes, 
 (in reality, battles) of Loudon Creek, Lenoirs 
 and Campbell Station (November Kith) and 
 was under the siege of Longstreet six days at 
 Knoxville. He fought again later at Straw- 
 berry Plains, Rutledge and Blaine's Cross 
 Roads and veteranized Dec. 28, 1863, taking 
 his veteran furlough, reaching home about 
 February 7th. He immediately entered on 
 recruiting service and raised 550 men in 15 
 days. March 10th he went to Harrisburg with 
 a company of 167 men, stayed at Annapolis 
 until the middle of April and joined the Army 
 of the Potomac at Warrenton -Junction, and 
 was in the tights of the Wilderness May 5th, 
 6th and 7th ; on the Sth went into the action at 
 Spottsylvania C. H., with 95 men and after it, 
 40 men and one lieutenant answered at roll- 
 call ; three of the missing were prisoners and 
 the remainder killed and wounded, principally 
 the former. Sixteen recruits were received and 
 on the following day they fought in the battle of 
 the " Po ", losing two men. The command was 
 in the fighting on the North Anna River, 
 among the actions being the skirmish at Shady 
 Grove Church and activities hardly ceased until 
 the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1st. The 51st 
 covered the movement of the 9th Corps to the 
 Chickahominy and Captain Carman was in 
 command of his regiment at the crossing of the 
 James, June 16th, preparatory to moving to 
 the trenches at Petersburg, taking position that 
 evening. On the 17th, 17 of his men were 
 killed by one solid shot ; they were repulsed 
 but took a four-pound gun without orders. ()n 
 the 18th they were in an exj)Osed position on 
 Cemetery Hill, retiring to the rear when re- 
 
 lieved. (In a movement to Jerusalem Plank 
 Road, June 22d and 23d, Captain Carman was 
 on duty as a staff officer.) His command was 
 in the fights on the Weldon railroad after the 
 mine explosion July 30th, going to Yellow 
 House and was afterwards in the work of 
 destruction on the Virginia railroads, fighting 
 at Ream's Station August 25th. September 30th 
 and October 1st he was in the action at Preble's 
 Farm or Poplar Grove Church, and in the 
 movement towards Hatcher's Run which was a 
 failure as was tlie action there on the 27tli of 
 October. Nov. 16, 1864, Captain Carman was 
 mustered out at Preble's Farm, his term having 
 expired. As soon as he arrived home, Novem- 
 ber 20th, he was mustered into service in the 
 Department of the Provost Marshal of the 18tli 
 District of Pennsylvania with headquarters at 
 Williainsport, doing duty as a Government 
 detective, watching for de.serters en route to 
 Canada. March 20, 1865, he received final dis- 
 charge after more than four years' service. 
 
 On resuming connection with civil life he 
 engaged in his former lousiness at his former 
 place of abode and in 1869 went to Marengo, 
 Iowa; three years later, went to Davenport; a 
 year after went to Mt. Vernon and remained 18 
 months ; stayed a year at Dewit, Iowa, and at 
 Marion two and a half years, going thence to 
 Cedar Rapids, where he remained until the fall 
 of 1880. Meanwhile, he hail been tempurarily 
 ill Minneapolis, Keokuk and Chicago. In the 
 spring of 1884 he went to Oshkosh and to 
 Geneva in June of that year, when he pur- 
 chased his present business, which he is suc- 
 cessfully conducting. He was married in 1853 
 at Williainsport, Pa., to Rachel E. Lyon, a 
 native of the Keystone State. She died in the 
 spring of 1873 at Rock Island, 111., leaving 
 three children, two of whom survive, named 
 Lillie and Rachel B., the former the wife of 
 Jas. Robinson, of Boston, and the latter of Ed- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ward Sargent, of Rockford, 111. Dec. 23, 1873, 
 Mr. Carman was married to Mary E. Bingham, 
 of Cliicago. Captain Carman is a Royal Arch 
 Mason and belongs (o the Odd Fellows. 
 
 A paragraph elaborating the character of 
 Captain Carman and eulogistic of his military 
 career might fittingly be added to the account 
 of his life, Ijul the most glowing words could 
 not enhance the luster of his patriotism nor 
 make more conspicuous his service to his 
 country. A brief sunnnary shows that he rose 
 from a private to a captaincy, and served more 
 than once in the c^ijjacity of the highest officers 
 of liis regiment in the exigencies of battle 
 which pushed him forward at the fearful cost 
 of the lives of his superiors in command. For 
 such duty lie makes no ckiims beyond the bare 
 stsitement that he fnlfilled all demauds on him 
 as a soldier. 
 
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 TIS H. THAYER, Palmyra, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 138, 
 was born at Salem, Washington Co., 
 New York, Aug. 1"2, 18ol. His j)arents, Ruel 
 and Mary (Williams) Thayer, were born respect- 
 ively in Sturbridge, Worcester Co., Mass., and 
 in Whitesboro, New York. The father was a 
 soldier in 1812 under Colonel Harkness; was a 
 slioemaker by trade and removed with his 
 family to Waukesha county in 184o, and he 
 took a farm from the tiovernment on which he 
 died in LS47; the mother died Feb. 7, 1876. 
 They were the parents of seven children of 
 whom five survive. The paternal grandfather, 
 Oliver Thayer, was a cabin boy on a British 
 mau-of-war before coming to this country; he 
 was a soldier under Putnam, and his grandson 
 has the old (^ueen Anne musket he carried in 
 service. The grandfather Williams came to the 
 country in the course of the war, as a British 
 soldier, but being disgusted with a cause into 
 
 which he had been forced, and sympathizing 
 with the colonists, he deserted and became the 
 first rebel in the family, fighting through the re- 
 mainder of the contest in the Continental army. 
 The farm on which his father settled is now 
 in the possession of the son and he remained 
 at home with his parents until he enlisted. He 
 determined to do so after the first regiments 
 liad marched to the scene of war and he en- 
 rolled in September, 1861, in Company D, 1st 
 Wisconsin Infantry (reorganized) for three years' 
 service. He was in connection with his com- 
 mand aliciut 21) months and was discharged 
 March 9, 1863. During the period he was 
 able to [)erform military duty lie was with his 
 regiment in Negley's Brigade and performed 
 all marches and labor required of him until he 
 became ill and received his discharge. When 
 he entered the army he weighed 200 pounds 
 and his weight on his return was 1*8 pounds. 
 He returned to his farm where he resumed 
 labor as soon as recovered, and he has since 
 been engaged in agriculture. About 18.S.5, with 
 his brother and sister, he removed to Palpiyra, 
 where they have since resided. His brother, 
 Ruel, enlisted at Palmyra in Company E, 46th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, Feb. 8, 1865, and was mus- 
 tered at Madison, going thence to Athens, Ala., 
 where he performed guard, camp, picket and 
 patrol duty on the railroad until discharged 
 Oct. 10, 1865, when he returned to Waukesha 
 county and removed to Palmyra, Wis., with 
 his brother as stated. He is also a member of 
 Post No. 138 at Palmyra. 
 
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 ^JT^yJ^ILLIS HYDE, Genoa Junction, 
 '^^ Wis., Member of (J. A. R. Post 
 {p3iL. No. 27, at Geneva, was born in 
 Warren Co., New York, Jan. 24, 1847, and is 
 the son of Newton and Lola Ann (Willis) Hyde. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 The son was brought up on his father's farm, 
 attending school when not required on the 
 farm. He accompanied his parents to Wiscon- 
 sin in 1850 and there resided on a farm until 
 1859, when they went to Boone Co., 111., and he 
 was with them there until he determined to 
 enlist, when lie returned to Wisconsin to carry 
 out his resolution, being but 17 years old. Jan. 
 20, 1864, he enlisted at Lake Geneva in Com- 
 pany K, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, "Iron 
 Brigade," a fact which displays the quality of 
 his pluck, as that organization was one always 
 certain to be where war was thickest. He was 
 mustered at Madison and joined his regiment 
 at Culpeper, Va., and he was in the hospital at 
 Judiciary Square, Washington, and afterward 
 at Chestnut Street hospital in Philadelphia, ill 
 with bilious intermittent fever and mumps 
 until the battles on the Weldon i-ailroad, in 
 which he was for the first time in action. He 
 was afterwards in the duties of his command at 
 the siege of Petersburg, and in February fought 
 at Halclier's Run, and, about the middle of the 
 month, went to City Point to be ordered back 
 to old quarters where the regiment was, with 
 the 6th AVisconsin, and, afterwards, with the 
 91st New York, constituted "The 1st Provisional 
 Brigade." March 29, 1865, they were in 
 line of battle preparatory to the fight of 
 Gravelly Run, which was fought on the 
 31st, and they were again in action on April 
 1st at Five Forks, and followed the rebels 
 to Appomattox, where Mr. Hyde had the 
 satisfaction of being a witness of the sur- 
 render of Lee and the collapse of the con- 
 federacy. After the Grand Review in May, the 
 regiment was assigned to the command of 
 General Logan as the " Provisional Division," 
 and they reported to " Black .Jack " June 22d 
 at Louisville. Mr. Hyde was mustered out 
 July 3, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was 
 promoted to Corporal in the course of his serv- 
 
 ice, in which he saw some of the most im- 
 portant of the war. 
 
 He returned after muster out to Blaine, 
 Boone Co., 111., and in the winter of 1866-7 the 
 family removed to Sharon, Walworth Co., Wis., 
 and Mr. Hyde entered the employ of the C. & 
 N. W. R. R. corporation, remaining with them 
 about 10 years, when he removed to Genoa 
 Junction, and has since remained in their em- 
 ploy as foreman of a section. 
 
 He was married Sept. 1, 1872, at Allen's 
 Grove, Wis., to Florence, daughter of Cyrus 
 and Lydia (Bruce) Lippitt, a native of Darien, 
 Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde have two children, 
 named Hattie M., (born at Darien, Wis., Sept. 
 5, 1873) and Earl D., (born April 10, 1884). 
 Mr. Hyde is a trusted and esteemed man and 
 is pleasantly located at Genoa Junction. 
 
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 TEPHEN WOLVERTON, Ft. Atkin- 
 son, Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 159, was born Oct. 5, 1822, in 
 Montgomery Co., New York, and is the son of 
 Asher and Jane (Kennedy) Wolverton, both of 
 whom were descended from ancestral stock 
 which fought in the Revolution. The families 
 of both were probably settlers in New Jersey, 
 the father being of pure English extraction. 
 The latter was a surgeon in the war of 1812. 
 He removed when iiis son was quite young to 
 Genesee county, New York, and thence to 
 Rochester when he was about 18 years old. In 
 1845 he went to Herkimer county and in 1848 
 settled in Wisconsin. In 1850 he returned to 
 Herkimer county where he changed his former 
 occupation of farming to that of a teamster 
 and he also sold paper and rags. Later he 
 went into flour and feed business at Little Falls, 
 in which he engaged from January, 1862, until 
 he determined to enter the army, which he did 
 
240 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Aug. 13, 1862. He enrolled in Company H, 
 121st New York Infantry at Little Falls when 
 he was 39 years of age. Noveniher 17th of 
 the same year he was discharged fidin his oli- 
 ligations on account of debility from neivous 
 disease. Tlic regiment was in rendezvous at 
 Fort Herkimer and Mr. Wolverton was there 
 until Aug. 30th, when the command wunt to 
 New York, ariiving Sunday morning, August 
 30th, i)roc,eeded thence to Philadelphia and 
 successively to Baltimore and Washington and 
 thence to immediate duty at Fort Lincoln. 
 Sunday, Septemher 7th, tiiey started on the 
 chase of Stonewall .Jackson. Here Mr. Wol- 
 verton made acquaintance with the privations 
 of the rank and file. Each man had three 
 hardtack which was served for three days' ser- 
 vice and, scant as were his own sup})lies, he 
 divided with an Irishman who seemed the 
 hungriest man in the command. The day 
 after his enlistment he had been promoted to 
 Sergeant, and on this march while in cliarge of 
 a squad of men near Sugar Loaf Mountain, 
 they became so exhausted that he was com- 
 jielled to place tiie entire number on duty. 
 The next day the officers of the regiment were 
 so exhausted by the marching and privations 
 that they were sick and the command of the 
 soldiers devolved on him. His comrades were 
 falling out in all directions and he did the l)est 
 he could to aid them. He received a sunstroke 
 and remained unconscious for many hours. 
 The surgeon l)le<l him and failed to properly 
 bandage the incision in his arm and, while en 
 route to Frederic City, he bled nearly to death. 
 The two causes combined jiroduced nervous 
 prostration of incurable character. After the 
 battle of South Mountain, lie found himself in 
 a house between two and three miles from 
 Frederic City whither he was taken after 10 
 days' stay at Frederic Junction. Thence he 
 was sent to Philadelphia, where he received his 
 
 final discharge. He had expected to recover 
 and remain with his command but the sur- 
 geons were peremptory, and he returned to 
 Little Falls, where he remained two years, un- 
 able to perform any labor, and has been an 
 invalid all his life. He removed to Wi-sconsin 
 in 1871) and was on the last train that cro.s.sed 
 Asiitaliula River i)ri()r to the accident there. 
 He located near Jetfer.son where he resided 
 until his removal to Ft. Atkinson. 
 
 .July 23, 184.J, he was married to Mary S. 
 Bennett, a representative of ancestry who 
 fought in the Revolution. They have had 
 seven children, three of whom survive. Their 
 names are Alva B., Mary J. and Stephen. Two 
 brothers of Mr. Wolverton were in the confed- 
 erate service. One of them was the owner of 
 40 slaves who joined the command of Sherman 
 on the way to the sea; himself was a physician 
 and was compelled to serve in that capacity ; 
 he was his father's namesake. Thomas, the 
 elder, was a colonel in the Mexican war. 
 
 AMES .JEIIIAL CRKJER, Whitewater, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
 was born Nov. 20, 1838, in the State of 
 New York, and is the son of William and Mary 
 A. (Dixon) Criger. His father was of German 
 parentage and was born in the Empire State 
 and his mother was a native of Virginia. 
 Their union took i)lace in New York. Tlie 
 father was a manufacturer and died when his 
 son was 14 years old. Until he was 21, Mr. 
 Criger was engaged in agriculture and then 
 learned the Inisiness of a coojier. He entered 
 tiie army under the first call of the President 
 for 75,000 troops, enrolling April 22, 1861, and 
 was the seventh man to enlist from White- 
 water. He enrolled under the name which is 
 given above and went into rendezvous as a 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 241 
 
 member of Company A, 4th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry at Camp Utley, Racine, and left the 
 State July 15th. Colonel H. E. Payne mani- 
 fested the material of which he was made by 
 settling a difficulty on the railroad which re- 
 fused to transport his men, by taking posses- 
 sion of a locomotive and calHng for an engi- 
 neer from his ranks, who took it to Elmira. 
 Thence the command went to Harrisburg, 
 where intelligence of the disaster at Bull Run 
 was received and the colonel borrowed equip- 
 ments for his men, who proceeded to Baltimore, 
 and marched through the streets of that city 
 by moonlight, their guns loaded with ball and 
 buckshot, bayonets fixed, bands playing, colors 
 flying and tlie men in high spirits. From 
 camp there they went to the Relay House, 
 where Mr. Criger was taken with typhoid fever, 
 and went to the general hospital at Baltimore, 
 where he suffered five relapses and when he 
 recovered his regiment was at Baton Rouge, 
 La. The command was actively engaged in 
 military operations and thence he went to 
 Vicksburg, where he worked on the canal. He 
 was again seized with illness and went to a 
 hospital boat on the river, thence to hospital 
 at Baton Rouge, where he remained until 
 recovery and rejoined his regiment. He was 
 in tlie action at Bonne Carre Point, went to the 
 reconnoisance at Bayou Plaquemine, went later 
 to Port Hudson and back to Baton Rouge and 
 was in the military operations which were fol- 
 lowed by the battle at Camp Bisland. He was 
 with the regiment when it supplied itself with 
 cavalry mount and operated as such in the 
 chase after the Texas cavalry and captured 
 Dick Taylor's stragglers. He was afterwards 
 in tiie fight at Port Hudson where the rebels 
 had placed obstacles which they believed in- 
 surmountable. He was also in a cavalry expe- 
 dition under Grierson and after the surrender 
 of Port Hudson, the regiment was converted 
 
 into cavalry, and Mr. Criger was in all the 
 service afterward performed by the command 
 until he was discharged for disability. He 
 performed hard service on guard, camp, skir- 
 mish, picket and forage duty, I'e-enlisted under 
 the name of James J. Criger and veteranized 
 at Baton Rouge where he remained. After 
 the fight at Baton Rouge he had been made 
 Corporal and after veteranizing he was 
 promoted to Sergeant Major. Before his time 
 expired he was taken sick again and was sent 
 to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, and thence to 
 Madison where he was honorably discharged 
 under the General Order, relieving such sol- 
 diers as were permanently disabled. He re- 
 turned to Whitewater and, after recovery, re- 
 sumed his business. Li 1866 he established 
 his enterpri.se as a marble cutter in which he 
 has since operated with success. During his 
 veterans' furlough, April 27, 1864, he was mar- 
 ried to Sarah M. Edmunds of Whitewater and 
 their children are named Fred H. and H. 
 Frank. Mr. Criger is an Odd Fellow and (1889) 
 is Adjutant of Post No. 34. In political prin- 
 ciples he is a Prohibitionist. 
 
 UNCAN McGregor, Professor and 
 President of the State Normal School 
 of Wisconsin at Platteville, Wis., was 
 born Aug. 12, 18.36, in Perthshire, Scotland. 
 His clan was one of the most prominent in 
 "Auld Scotia," and his parents were both born 
 in Perthshire. Malcolm McGregor, his father, 
 married Catherine Kennedy, and they were the 
 parents of eight children, seven of whom are 
 still living and named in order, Donald, 
 Duncan, John, Alexander, Katie, Charles and 
 Malcolm. The family removed to America in 
 1857, when Duncan was 21 years old. The 
 mother died in 1852, five years prior to the 
 
242 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 emigration of the family to the United States. 
 Tlie father is still living on a ftxrm in Hancock, 
 Wisconsin. In his native land he was a 
 shepherd and farmer and reared his sons to 
 that calling, giving his children as good educa- 
 tion as was possible while in Scotland. Duncan 
 attended the common scliools in earliest youth 
 and later a private school of excellent charac- 
 ter, alternating winter school with summer 
 labor on the hills of his native country, assist- 
 ing with the herds and on the farm until he 
 was 15 years of age. He was then sent to the 
 Perth Academy three years and afterwards 
 entered the University at Aberdeen, Scotland, 
 where he studied three years and came to 
 America with his father. They settled in the 
 woods of Waupaca Co., Wisconsin, where he 
 learned all the experiences of the pioneer, aided 
 his father one year and engaged in the calling 
 common to the country — lumbering and raft- 
 ing. He was then occupied tliree years in 
 teaching winters and farmed summers. He 
 afterwards, in ISfil, entered Lawrence Univer- 
 sity at Appleton and took his degree in 1862, 
 being at the time engaged as Principal of the 
 High School at Waupaca, and filled the position 
 until he became interested in recruiting for 
 the war. In August, 1864, he enlisted a com- 
 pany and was mustered as Captain of Company 
 A, 42d Wisconsin Infantry. The command 
 left the State September 20th to report at C'airo, 
 111., where Corapanj' A performed post and gar- 
 rison duty throughout the rest of the war. The 
 remaining companies were sent to the secession 
 districts of Illinois, and when the war closed and 
 troops were mustered out the 42d Wisconsin 
 returned to the State for final release from mili- 
 tary obligations. During his service Captain Mc- 
 Gregor with his company acted as escort and 
 on provost duty on the Mississippi River, going 
 as far south as New Orleans. He was mustered 
 out Aug. 3, 1865. 
 
 He acted one year after his return home as 
 Principal of the High School at Waupaca, and, 
 in August, 1807, was elected Professor of Matii- 
 ematics of the State Normal School at Platte- 
 ville. Later he succeeded to another position in 
 the chair of Theory and Practice of Teaching, 
 and since 1880 has been President of the insti- 
 tution. 
 
 It goes without saying that he has grown in 
 favor and popularity as an instructor, and as a 
 gentleman of culture and abilities he is univer- 
 sally admired and esteemed. One of his com- 
 mand says in a private letter regarding Cai> 
 tain McGregor (of whom this sketch is very 
 meager, owing to his native modesty and reti- 
 cence, in both of which traits he is to the manor 
 born, being a typical Scotchman of the 
 iiighest type) : " Our dear Ca]>tain McGregor is 
 an honor to our Nation and one of God's noble 
 and honored men." 
 
 He belongs to the Order of Masonry, has 
 been Master of his Lodge, Iligii Priest of Chap- 
 ter No. 2 and Grand High 'Priest of the Royal 
 Arch Chapter; he also belongs to the Order of 
 Knight Templars and is serving a fourth term 
 as Foreign Correspondence Committee of the 
 Grand Lodge. He is a member of the Congre- 
 gational Church. He w^as married at Wau- 
 paca. Wis., Dec. 2G, 1866, to Annie, daughter of 
 Richard H. Bowman. She was born in London 
 of pure English extraction in the paternal line 
 and Welsii in the descent of her mother. Alice 
 K., Grace, Libljie, Jes.sie and Richard are the 
 names of the children of Professor and Mrs. 
 McCiresfor. The latter is a communicant of the 
 Episcopal Church; the former is a staunch 
 Republican. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 243 
 
 UGUSTUS GORDON WEISSERT, a 
 h representative soldier of the volun- 
 teer forces and a prominent member 
 of the Milwaukee Bar, was born Aug. 7, 1844, 
 at Canton, Stark Co., Ohio. When he was six 
 years old his parents removed to Racine, Wis., 
 wiiere he obtained a good elementary education 
 and was graduated from the high sciiool. Later, 
 he pursued a general course of study at the 
 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and after- 
 wards entered the Law Department whence he 
 was graduated with the degree of LL. B. He 
 resided at Racine until he went to New York 
 to continue his studies, the year previous to 
 entering the army, and was but little more than 
 a lad when he became a soldier. At 17 he 
 enlisted in Company K, 8th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, enrolling Sept. 10, 1861, having been 
 several times theretofore rejected on account of 
 his age and stature. The "Eagle" regiment, 
 organized September 4th at the rendezvous at 
 Camp Randall, Madison, was mustered into 
 U. S. service on the 13th and left the State 
 October 12th, being the first Wisconsin regi- 
 ment to receive orders for the West. After a 
 few days passed at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, 
 orders were received to move to Pilot Knob 
 and, on the 20th, the "8th" was assigned to 
 the command of Colonel Carlin and on the 
 next day young Weissert had the satisfaction of 
 particijiating in a victory at Fredericktown, Mo. 
 He performed military duty at Pilot Knob, and 
 went later on an expedition up the St. Francis 
 River. The next removal to Sulphur Springs 
 took place Oct. 25th, and in January orders 
 were received to join Gen. Grant's forces at 
 Cairo for the Fort Donelson campaign. Until 
 March the time was passed there, the regiment 
 being in gray uniform and in practical retire- 
 ment in consequence. When equipped in 
 regulation blue, the command made connection 
 with the forces of General Pope and occupied 
 
 the rifle pits near Point Plea.sant, Mo., and 
 afterwards took part in the siege of New Madrid, 
 going, April 7th, in pursuit of the rebels after 
 the action at and siege of Island No. 10 and 
 afterwards, to the rear of C'orintii via Hamburg 
 Landing, with Poi)e's army. The regiment 
 moved on the 1st of May, 1862, to a position 
 near Farmington where they were in the brunt 
 of the action on the 9th and won the warmest 
 commendations from the superior officers for 
 perfect discipline and marked bravery. Pope's 
 command was assumed by Halleck and. May 
 28th, 1862, the regiment followed his leader- 
 ship to the siege of Corinth and had, on that 
 date, a skirmish at Booneville. From Septem- 
 ber 13th to the 20th it was in the reserve but 
 was under fire at luka, and fought at Corinth 
 October 3d and 4th, where the regiment lost 
 heavily. The 2d of November found the com- 
 mand en route to Grand Junction and left that 
 place in December to co-operate with Grant, 
 performing varied duty through the winter 
 and early spring. (Dec. 18th the regiment was 
 assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 15tli 
 Corps, Army of the Tennessee.) March and 
 April were passed in marching and severe duty 
 in preparing for the events ])lanned and con- 
 summated by Grant for the capture of Vicks- 
 burg. May 14th, young Weissert fought under 
 Sherman at Jack.son and participated in the 
 assault upon and subsequent movements in the 
 .siege of Mcksburg until July. On his roster 
 are also Mechanicsburg, May 25th, the action 
 of May 22, Richmond, La., June 15th, Canton, 
 October 13th, Sherman's Meridian expedition 
 January 27, 1864, and all possible varieties of 
 military duty incident to the most memorable 
 campaign of the war. After veteranizing in 
 the spring the regiment made connection with 
 the command of Banks as "Sherman's con- 
 tingent" in the Red River expedition and 
 Weissert was with his regiment in the charge 
 
244 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 at Fort Scurry, March 16th. Two days later, 
 he fought at Fort de Russj', at Hendersou's 
 Hills, March 21st, Natchitoches, March 31st, 
 Pleasant Hill, April iHli, Bayou Rapids, May 
 4th, Marksville, May 14th and 16th, Bayou De 
 (ilaize, May 17lli to 19th, and returned again 
 to Mcksburg later in the month. He was in 
 the expedition to Greenville, Miss., and fought 
 at Chicot, June 3d and 6th. He went after- 
 wards to St. Charles, Duvall's Bluff and to 
 Brownsville, arriving there September 2d. On 
 the 17tli he was in the pursuit of Price through 
 Arkansas and Missouri, making a march of 816 
 miles, and fought at Nashville, Dec. 15th and 
 16th. Mr. Weissert was made Sergeant Major 
 of the 8th and was made Captain by brevet to 
 rank from June 6, 1864, his commission having 
 been granted " for conspicuous Itravery during 
 the Red River expedition and for gallantry at 
 Lake Chicot, June 6th, 1864, and at Nashville, 
 Dec. Kith, 18G4." In the latter action he was 
 severely wounded by a sharpshooter, receiving 
 a ball in his left leg. The circumstances under 
 which it was received are prima facie evidence 
 of the fact that the volunteer soldiers had quite 
 as much to do with the success of tlie Union 
 arms as the commanders. When the army 
 was in the line of battle at Nashville, Sergeant 
 Major Weissert traversed the lines to ascertain 
 whether his regiment was properly supplied 
 with ammunition, and when the duty was com- 
 pleted, he received orders from Colonel Britton, 
 the comiiiandcr of the 8th, to remain with 
 headquarters at the rear to make up the regi- 
 mental returns, then 15 days behind, on account 
 of the constant campaigning of the regiment. 
 About the same moment tho order to advance 
 was given and wlien the Colonel chanced some- 
 time later, to go along the line, he found 
 Sergeant Major Weissert in his position with 
 the regiment. He reminded him of his Order 
 and received the folldwing reply from the 
 
 Sergeant Major : " I deemed this my place 
 and thought I would go with the regiment, and 
 finish the reports after the battle." Soon after 
 he was with the advance of the line wliich 
 opened the battle of Nashville, on the extreme 
 right Dec. 15th, 1864. About two in the after- 
 noon, the " 8th " was witli Hubbard's brigade 
 in a charge on a fort, the command capturing 
 more prisoners than the brigade numbered. 
 Soon after, Sergeant Major \Vei.ssert was 
 wounded as stated, while his regiment was pre- 
 paring to charge the second Hne of rebels, and 
 was carried to the rear and sent from the field 
 hospital to New Albany, Ind. When able, 
 lie was removed to Wisconsin under special 
 requisition from the Governor of Wisconsin for 
 his return to the jurisdiction of that common- 
 wealth. 
 
 After the battle of Nashville and the subse- 
 quent campaign and pursuit of Hood's Army, 
 the 8th with a large number of the troops be- 
 longing to Thomas' army, were ordered to 
 Mobile and took an active part in the siege and 
 capture of that rebel stronghold. They then 
 went to Montgomerj', the capital of Alabama, 
 then to Selma, and were finally nuistered out 
 at Demopolis, Ala., Sept. 17, 1805. 
 
 Commander WeLssert was appointed to a 
 cadetship at the U. S. Military Academy at 
 West Point, but having been unable to accept 
 the aj)pointment on account of wounds received 
 in the battle, declined the .same. He has suf- 
 fered niueii from the wound, which has never 
 healed, the bullet still remaining in the leg. 
 
 Commander Weissert is the son of Michael 
 and Magdalene (Bernard) Weissert. His father 
 belonged to the commercial class and marrietl 
 a daughter of France who came to this country 
 in childhood. Her family supjilied several 
 soldiers to the service of Napoleon who became 
 distinguished in the bloody history which that 
 commander wove for Continental Europe. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 245 
 
 Commander Weissert was married Nov. 24, 
 1869, to Mary E. Travitwin and their daughter, 
 Florence E., is their only child. George C, a 
 promising son, was drowned when 15 years old. 
 
 Commander Weissert belongs to the foremost 
 ranks of the legal fraternity of Wisconsin. He 
 read for his profession under the guidance of 
 Hon. W. P. Lyon, (see sketch), for many years 
 one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of 
 Wisconsin and was admitted to practice in the 
 Circuit Courts of the State in 1869. In the fol- 
 lowing year he was admitted to practice in the 
 higher court of the State and in the Federal 
 and Supreme Courts of the United States. He 
 held by appointment from the Government 
 several civil positions, and he was a number of 
 years an influential and jirominent member of 
 the Milwaukee School Board. He was, for a long 
 time, Chairman of the High School Committee 
 and the splendid building which adds its share 
 to the fine appearance of the Cream City is 
 largely due to the persistent and untiring ef- 
 forts of Commander Weissert. He refused a 
 third appointment in view of professional duty 
 and a contemplated visit to Europe. 
 
 He became a member of the Order of the 
 Grand Army in 1866, and has been several 
 times elected to represent his Post (E. B. Wol- 
 cott) in the Department Encampments. He 
 was one of the representatives of the Depart- 
 ment of Wisconsin at St. Louis in 1887 at the 
 National Encampment, and was actively prom- 
 inent at Columbus in securing the Encamp- 
 ment of 1889 for Milwaukee. He has been for 
 years a Trustee of Wolcott Post. Feb. 17, 1888, 
 he was elected Commander of the Wisconsin 
 Department for one year. 
 
 In February, 1SS9, he was unanimously 
 elected to succeed himself as Department Com- 
 mander. He was selected by the Citizen's 
 Committee having in charge the preparations 
 and arrangements for the 2;jd National En- 
 
 campment at Milwaukee as President of the 
 Executive Council, and presided at all the 
 meetings of that body, wiiich made the en- 
 campment such a success. During its session 
 he was unanimously elected Senior Vice Com- 
 mander-in-Cliief of tlie G. A. R., and, since his 
 promotion he has visited many of the other 
 Departments and done excellent work in the 
 interest of the Order. 
 
 At this writing, 1889, Commander Weissert 
 is at the acme of life. In the prime of man- 
 hood, successful in Inisiness, popular among 
 his feliow-men, trusted by his former comrades 
 in arms, he evidences the representative Amer- 
 ican citizen. He is descended from ancestral 
 stock synonymous with liberty in a struggle 
 for freedom which forms one of the most glori- 
 ous pages in the history of the world and, in 
 his career and private life alike, he sustains the 
 prestige of his descent, his nationality and his 
 heritage of patriotism. 
 
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 n^SAACMcCANN, Mayor of Richland Cen- 
 /r| ter, Wis., in 1889 and member of G. A. 
 ^ R. Post No. 33, was born July 4, 1847, in 
 the township of Columbia, Meigs Co., Ohio. 
 His father, Patrick McCann, and his mother, 
 (Deliah Teeter before married,) were both natives 
 of Barljer Co., Virginia, whence they removed 
 to Ohio about 1830. Three children survive 
 them named Joseph, Ellen and Isaac. The 
 sister resides with her brother at Richland 
 Center and the brother Joseph lives in Wash- 
 ington Territory. Mr. McCann was reai'ed on 
 the farm of his father and he received little 
 technical education. Like the best type of 
 self-made men in the West, he Ijas gathered 
 from observation and association with the best 
 quality of manhood a training which has been 
 of more practical avail than any academic edu- 
 
246 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 cation could have conferred. He was em- 
 ployed by the iron companies in the vicinity 
 of liis native place until the outbreak of the 
 war, when he was among the first to enroll as 
 a three months soldier in April, 1861, in Com- 
 pany H, 87th Ohio Infantry, enlisting at Co- 
 lumbus. The command was sent to Baltimore, 
 arriving in that city soon after the catastrophe 
 to the Massachusetts 6th and remaining 20 
 days through the period of threatening and 
 discontent on the part of the inhabitants. Tlie 
 regiment went thence to Harper's Ferry and 
 up the Valley of the Shenandoah, receiving 
 rebel compliments in the way of bullets at 
 Sandy Hook, Bolivar Heights and Maryland 
 Heights and returned to Harper's Ferry to 
 be taken by the rebels. As his time had ex- 
 pired he was permitted to go North and, as 
 soon as possible after his return home, he 
 again enlisted in Company — ,37th Ohio In- ■ 
 fantry, at Chillicothe, Ohio, went to camp at 
 Cleveland and about 10 days later went to Pa- 
 ducah, Ky., en route to join Siierman and was 
 in the movements prior to tlie siege of Atlanta, 
 being injured in the vicinity of Buzzard's 
 Roost in course of transportation. He was on 
 a train which struck torjjedoes placed on the 
 track by the rebels and many soldiers were 
 wounded, himself among the number. He was 
 sent to Camp Denison at Cleveland and there 
 discliarged for disability, and his injuries j)re- 
 vented his re-eidisting, although he made sev- 
 eral attempts afterwards. 
 
 He removed West as soon as the war was 
 over, locating in Richland Center in 1865. He 
 first engaged in buying stock and afterwards 
 in buying ties and timber for a railroad cor- 
 poration and finally becoming interested in 
 real estate in which he has done a large busi- 
 ness ever since. He is serving his second term 
 as Mayor of Richland Center and had previ- 
 ously officiated as Chairman of the Town 
 
 Board two terms. Mayor McCann has been 
 one of the most efficient and laborious officials 
 in the service of the city, having secured the 
 water works in a manner which proved a 
 great saving and has been equally wise in his 
 administration of matters generally. He has 
 been a candidate for the legislature and was 
 defeated by but a small majority. His gener- 
 osity to the poor is a matter of common knowl- 
 edge and his efforts to ameliorate the condition 
 of the needy class form one of his best com- 
 mendations. He is a Knight of Labor and 
 decidedly the friend of the working man. 
 
 He was married in 1866 to Jennie Carpen- 
 ter, the daughter of Solomon and Rebecca 
 Carpenter, who was born in \'irginia. Three 
 children born to them are deceased and they 
 have adopted two children to rear in place of 
 those they have lost. 
 
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 ^RANK A. ROSS, Columbus, Wis., Sec- 
 
 retary of the Columbus Mill Co., and 
 member of Frank A. Haskel Post No. 
 146, (i. A. R., Department of Wisconsni, w.as 
 born May 4, 1843, at Great Falls, New Hamp- 
 shire. His paternal ancestry is of Scotch 
 origin, the clan having been prominent in the 
 histt)ry of that country in the days when Scot- 
 land thought freedom worth struggling for, and 
 in the maternal line Mr. Ross is of English ex- 
 traction. His fatlier, Huntress Ross, married 
 Susan W. Chadburn about 1842 and their chil- 
 dren luimbered si.K. Frank is the oldest; Hat- 
 tie is liie wife of G. R. Gotl'; Clias. H. is cashier 
 of a bank in New L-lm, Minn.; AVm. E. C. is 
 cashier of a bank in Blue Earth City, Minn.; 
 two sons named Asa and Ossian are deceased. 
 In 1850 the senior Ross went to Wisconsin with 
 his family, whither he journeyed in pioneer 
 style in wagons, bringing the household belong- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 247 
 
 iugs. He located at first in Columbus and 
 afterward went to Wausliara county and 
 founded the village of Ross' Corners. He was 
 a man of stii'ring nature and quick to see an 
 opportunity, and he established a mercantile 
 business, the town name being afterward 
 changed to Coloma. In 1886 he went with his 
 younger children and wife to Appleton, and 
 there the motlier died. The father retired 
 from active business and passed his time alter- 
 nately in Florida and the Northern States. 
 
 Mr. Ross was a studious boy, and after the 
 family removed to \\'aushara county he re- 
 turned to Columbus and was a student there 
 until the war. He was still under parental 
 authority and his appeals to be permitted to en- 
 list were denied, but when he became of age he 
 took matters in his own bands and enrolled in 
 the 8th Wisconsin Battery in February, 1864. 
 His choice was decided by the fact that several 
 acquaintances were members of that organiza- 
 tion and he joined the command at Nashville 
 in winter quarters, the battery having gone 
 thither at"ter the fight at Lookout Mountain and 
 Mission Ridge. Wiien the recruits and veterans 
 joined them in April, they went to Murfrees- 
 boro and held position in Fort Ro.secrans until 
 the close of the war. Hood was worrying the 
 Union forces and planning for the taking of 
 Nashville, and, during the siege there, Forrest, 
 with a considerable force, attacked Murfreesboro, 
 Dec. 5, 1864. The force at Murfreesboro in- 
 cluded Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other 
 troops, beside the 8th Wisconsin Battery, and 
 the siege proper lasted until the 8th, oO Union 
 soldiers being killed and 175 wounded. The 
 rebels were finally witlidrawn, prol)ably con- 
 cluding that the siege did not accomplish the 
 purpose of calling oft" the troops of Thomas 
 from Nashville. In August, 1865, the battery 
 returned to AVisconsin and Mr. Ross was mus- 
 tered out at Milwaukee. 
 
 He entered the Commercial College at Mil- 
 wavikee and completed a course there and after- 
 wards oljtained a position in a bank in Roches- 
 ter, Minn. He went thence to Appleton, where 
 he was employed in the express office about a 
 year. Later he went to Milwaukee and acted 
 as railroad messenger for an express company 
 and afterwards as clerk on one of the boats of 
 the Goodrich Transportation Company on the 
 lakes. In the spring of 1870 he went to Colo- 
 rado and spent seven years in trading in 
 cattle. Selling out his interest in that enter- 
 prise he engaged in the mercantile business, in 
 which he passed about three years. In 1879 
 he returned to Wisconsin and again entered 
 the employ of the Goodrich Transportation 
 Company, with whom he operated about three 
 years. In the winter of 1885-6 he returned to 
 Columbus, where he entered upon the duties of 
 his present position. 
 
 He was married in 1873 at Bailey's Harbor, 
 Door Co., Wis., to Laura A., daughter of Wil- 
 liam R. and Cynthia (Case) Higgins. She died 
 at Columbus, April 7, 1888, leaving two chil- 
 dren. Harry H. is the older and Chas. F. is 
 three years of age. Mr. Ross is a member of the 
 Business Men's Association of Columbus. He 
 is a man of excellent business capacity and 
 esteemed and respected for integrity. 
 
 y^^ LLIOTT R. STILLMAN, Milwaukee, 
 ^^^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, 
 
 ^»i=i^ E. B. Wolcott, was born in Rochester, 
 New York, March 6th, 1844, and he is the son 
 of Edwin A. and Jane (Cochrane) Stillman ; bis 
 father was a native of Middletown, Conn., born 
 in 1813 of English lineage, the son of a 
 purser in the navy in the war of 1812, who 
 lost his life by Indian massacre. The senior 
 Stillman was, by profession, a civil engineer 
 
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 and is li\'ing in Ontario county, New York. 
 The wife and mother was horn in 1818 in the 
 North of Ireland and is the daughter of the 
 Rev. James Cochrane, a Presbyterian minister 
 who removed to the United States with his fam- 
 ily in 1827, locating temporarily in Rochester 
 and afterwards in Detroit, becoming President 
 of Dearborn College. Her grandfather, Hon. 
 James Craig, was an M. P. ; she is still living. 
 Mr. Stillman is the oldest of their children, 
 his brothers and sisters being named in order 
 of birth James A., Alice B., Florence G., John 
 C, Edwin S., Jennie (deceased) and Mabel. 
 
 When he was 17 years old Mr. Stillman en- 
 listed at Canadice, Ontario Co., New York, Aug. 
 16, 1861, and was mustered into United States 
 service 10 days after in Company B, 85th New 
 York Infantrj'. From rendezvous atElmira he 
 went to Washington December 1st, camj)ed on 
 Meridian Hill and in the spring went on the 
 campaign of the Peninsula, in the 3d Brigade, 
 2d Division and 4th Corps. He had iiis first 
 smell of rebel powder on the road to Yorktown 
 and fought at Williamsburg, moving after- 
 W"ards to the swamps of the Chickahorainy, the 
 brigade being assigned to duty on the Wil- 
 liamsburg road and marching to take part in 
 the battle of Seven Pines, repulsing the 
 rebels, who left their colors on the tield. After 
 holding the position without support three 
 hours, orders came for every man to look out 
 for himself. The loss of the regiment was 
 about 80 and the flag was in rags. The regi- 
 ment was next stationed at While Oak Swamp 
 to protect the Charles City roail and was in 
 line of battle at Malvern Hill and, in the re- 
 treat to Harrison's Landing, protected the rear. 
 From the T/anding the command went lo New- 
 port News and in October, 1862, was ordered 
 to Suffolk, engaging in raiding until the latter 
 part of November, when a movement to New- 
 hern, N. C, was efifected and the regiment was 
 
 in the expedition under Foster to Kingston 
 and Goldsboro in December, returning to win- 
 ter quarters at Newbern. In the spring the 
 brigade was ordered on garrison duty at Pl}'- 
 mouth, making frequent excursions into the 
 interior. Mr. Stillman veteranized at Ply- 
 mouth Jan. 1, 1864, and was in the fight from 
 April 17th until the 2Uth in which the gun- 
 boats and fleet were in action, co-operating 
 with the land forces. On the 20th the brigade 
 was captured, with the exception of Company 
 A of the 85th, which was on detached duty. 
 They were taken at once to the stockade prison 
 at Andersonville, where Mr. Stillman's hard 
 experience commenced, although he did not 
 succumb, but resolved to outwit or outlive the 
 Southern confederacy (with a little c). He es- 
 caped much through his constant contact with 
 clean, sweet earth, as he gave his attention to 
 the work of tunneling and believes that his 
 life was thus saved, although he did not escape, 
 the only chance he had being frustrated by a 
 betrayal by a L'nion soldier. The class who did 
 such things, who stole the miserable jiroperty of 
 their fellow prisoners and tried to benefit them- 
 selves through others sufferings, deserve ever- 
 lasting odium. Some of them were tried, con- 
 demned, their sentence being submitted to and 
 approved by General Sherman, the rebels send- 
 ing the communications and erecting the gal- 
 lows on which six were hung. Of the regi- 
 ment, 446 were taken to Andersonville and 
 only 153 lived to see "God's country" again, 
 more than half of the number dying within a 
 year. Mi-. Stillman saw 32,UUU soldiers at An- 
 dersonville at one time, 13,000 of whom died, 
 more than half the number in seven months. 
 September 5, 1864, they were sent to Charles- 
 town, and a month later to Florence, where 
 they were paroled March 1, 1865. When Mr. 
 Stillman started for Annapolis he was in any- 
 thing but dress toggery and nobody would 
 
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 have suspected that his attire, under any other 
 circumstances, would have been dignified by 
 the name of clothes. Aljout the middle of 
 March he received a 30-day furlough and while 
 he was at home, the rebellion collapsed. June 
 7, 1865, his connection witii military life ceased 
 at Elmim, where he was discharged as Sergeant 
 Major. (While in service he was recommended 
 for West Point, but his capture and imprison- 
 ment prevented his going.) 
 
 He passed a year in Ontario county and in 
 1866 started West. He made his first stop at 
 Burr Oak, Mich., and engaged in lumbering. 
 About 1875 he went to the north of the .State 
 and engaged in making staves and headings. 
 In 1878 he removed to Milwaukee and prose- 
 cuted the same enterprise and at this writing, 
 (1890) employs about 100 men. 
 
 He was married July 4, 1868, at Quincy, 
 Mich., to Mary L., daughter of .James Dickey, 
 and their only child is named Minnie. The 
 wife and mother died April 14, 1872, and, 
 March 4, 1874, he was again married to Lillian 
 E., daughter of William and Oatherine (Yates) 
 Stevens. Their children are named Gertude, 
 Clara and E. B. Wolcott. Mr. Stillman is a 
 Mason and in 1889 Commander of his Post, in 
 which he has held the various offices. He is a 
 Republican. 
 
 IGNATZ KOSER, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post 0. D. Pease, was born 
 in Baden, Germany, May 15, 1825. In 
 July, 1852, he came to America, and, after a 
 residence of two years in the city of New York, 
 he removed to Fort Atkinson. Aug. 15, 1862, 
 he enlisted in Company D, 29th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. The following autumn he went from 
 Camp Randall, INIadison, to Helena, Ark., 
 where his command passed the winter, the 
 regiment losing several men by sickness. He 
 
 was in the movements of his regiment prior to 
 the spring, engaging in the heavy labor to 
 which it was assigned and performing guard 
 duty. In April he marched to make connec- 
 tion with the army of Grant and was first in 
 battle at Port Gibson, where he fought May 1st. 
 He was in the fight on the 16th at Champion 
 Hills and went thence to the siege of Mcks- 
 burg. The surrender occurred about nine in 
 the forenoon and an hour later the "29th" was 
 under orders to proceed to Jackson, a distance 
 of 40 miles east. He was acting as Sergeant in 
 command of a picket line near a fort in the 
 vicinity occupied by rebels, when a bullet 
 struck his left cheek, passing out of his ear, 
 entirely destroying the hearing. The same 
 bullet struck a man near him in the throat, but 
 without much damage. Mr. Koser remained 
 with his squad, stationing them in an orchard; 
 after two volleys by the rebels, firing ceased for 
 the night and his line was drawn in. Three 
 days later the rebels withdrew and the regi- 
 ment returned to Vicksburg. In August, the 
 regiment was transferred to the Gulf Depart- 
 ment and Mr. Koser was in the Teche expedi- 
 tion, after which he was a participant in the 
 movements including the heavy marching and 
 journeying to Texas. He fought at Sabine 
 Cross Roads and in the skirmishing afterwards 
 during the retreat to Alexandria; assisted in 
 the building of the celebrated dam under 
 Bailey and took part in the closing operations 
 at Spanish Fort. He went to Mobile and re- 
 turned to Shreveport, La., where he was mus- 
 tered out June 22, 1865, after serving his entire 
 perioil of enlistment. 
 
 He was married in New York in 1852 to 
 Bertha Heister, and they have had ten chil- 
 dren, one being deceased. He is a farmer 
 with a good property near Fort Atkinson. 
 
 Mrs. Koser represents the large class of 
 women of tlie North to whom the war brought 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 privation and exertion to which the hardships 
 of war were trifles. Left with six small chil- 
 dren and without means she carried a harden 
 of which no adequate notice has heen taken. 
 Food, fuel and clothing, beside the sheltering 
 roof, must be provided through the mother's 
 efforts. Slie had her firewood to prepare for 
 use, and the first winter all her fingers were 
 frozen. During her enforced idleness in con- 
 sequence, her oldest daughter, a child of ten, 
 performed all household duties, including the 
 cutting of the wood, all chores and the family 
 washing. The child was ill with typhoid fever 
 the next summer and nobody but her motlier 
 could do anything for her in her delirium, 
 strangers frightening her and making her 
 wild. The next winter came and the family 
 was without stores uf food, wood or supj)lies of 
 any kind, and little prospects of being able to 
 earn any. Flour was five dollars a hundred, 
 fiictory cloth 70 cents a yard and only starva- 
 tion seemed pos-sible. Neighbors did what 
 they could, but it was very little, and when the 
 daughter returned daily from the postottice 
 with no letter from her father she traversed 
 her journey to her home in bitter tears. 
 
 Mr. Koser was in the military .service of his 
 own country six years, belonging to the guard 
 of Charles Frederick during the Revolution of 
 1848. His knowledge of war matters proved 
 valuable, and he was made a Corporal soon 
 after his enlistment, and afterward Sergeant. 
 
 ^h 
 
 ENRY D. BALDWIN, Shullsburg, 
 ^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. ! 
 96, was born at New Diggings, Lafa- 
 yette Co., Wis., May 7, 1842, and is the son of 
 William and Nancy (Cooper) Baldwin. His 
 father was born in Maryland and the mother 
 in Virginia; they became residents of Wiscon- 
 
 sin in 1832, settling where the son was born 
 and there, in the days of the very first 
 things in Wisconsin, his life beginning six 
 years before the Territory became a State and 
 where his parents resided under Territorial 
 regime IG years, he grew to manhood. He 
 received a good common school education and 
 was engaged in mining up to the period of the 
 war. He was among the first to enlist from 
 Sliullsburg (the place being a nest of secession 
 did not send soldiers very fast), enrolling in 
 April, 1861, as soon as he had an opportunity. 
 His company was not able to get into the two 
 first regiments and he belonged to Company T, 
 3d Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling for three 
 years. He was mustered at Fond du Lac, June 
 29th, and left the State, .luly 12tii for Mary- 
 land. Mr. Baldwin was with his regiment in 
 the work of taking the bogus Legislature of 
 Maryland, was with the detail to Harper's 
 Ferry and went next to Charlestown, where 
 .lohn Brown was hung. (While at Maryland 
 Heights, Mr. Baldwin saw the detachment of 
 rebels under Johnston move to the support of 
 the confederates at Bull Run. While at Fred- 
 erick, Maryland, the captain who took Brown 
 at the arsenal was made a i)risoner with a 
 number of others and Mr. Baldwin was one of 
 his guards). He was in the pursuit of Jackson 
 up the Shenandoah, fought at Buckton Station, 
 entered Winchester with Banks' command and 
 was in battle at Cedar Moiuitain, Antielam and 
 Chancellorsville, and was there wounded May 
 3, 1803, by a bullet in the left thigh. He was 
 sent to hosj^ital at Washington and was fur- 
 loughed for 30 days, returning to Wisconsin. 
 During his stay there the enrollment for the 
 draft was made and Mr. Baldwin, whose parole 
 was extended for the purpose, accomjili.shed the 
 work alone, although such was the sentiment 
 prevailing, and so deep was the bitter feeling 
 against the war, tliat a regiment was sent 
 
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 thither to protect the officers, but Mr. Baldwin 
 had finished tlie business before tlieir arrival. 
 He was afterwards assigned to the 2d Battalion, 
 Invalid Corps, and did not again join the 3d 
 Wisconsin. He received honorable discharge 
 on the expiration of his term of enlistment in 
 1864. He immediately enrolled in the U. S. 
 Navj' on the gunboat Choctaw and served as a 
 sailor until tliu close of the war. He was dis- 
 charged in March, 1865, at Memphis, Tenn., 
 and returned to his former business of mining 
 in Lafayette county. I 
 
 He is the owner of one-third of an interest i 
 in a mine which is in a prosperous condition. 
 Mr. Baldwin has be^n married and is the 
 father of the following children — Arthur, 
 JLirry, William, Thomas and Cora. Mr. Bald- 
 win is one of the substantial citizens of Shulls- 
 burg and is a Republican in political senti- 
 ment. 
 
 ^^^DWARD H. COLEMAN, Chippewa 
 =* Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 68, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in 
 Rochester, New York. His father, Henry 
 Coleman, was born .June 6, 1814, at Ghent, on 
 the Hudson River, and married Persis Mar- 
 shall, who was born June 11, 1816, and who is 
 still living at Chippewa Falls. The senior 
 Coleman was a native of Nantucket, Mass., of 
 American ancestry who belonged to the Friends 
 or Quakers. In tlie maternal line, Mr. Cole- 
 man's family dated to New Hampshire stock. 
 Eight children were included in the family, 
 named in order Elizabeth M., Henry (deceased). 
 Marietta (deceased), Edward H., Marietta (2d), 
 Henry (2d), Erne.st and Charlotte, the latter 
 being also deceased. In 1856, the family re- 
 moved to the West, locating at Chippewa Falls, 
 Wis., where the father engaged for some yeai's 
 
 in the business of a miller. In 1866, he was 
 elected Municipal .Judge and held the position 
 until 1873. 
 
 When he reached his majority, Mr. Coleman 
 of this sketch determined to enter the army, 
 enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, at Chippewa Falls, and 
 was mustered into Company K, 30th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, Sejttember 15th, following. From 
 Camp Randall the regiment went to St. Louis 
 in May, 1863, and thence up the Missouri in 
 boats, stopping first at Fort Randall. Mr. Cole- 
 man was seized with smallpox and placed in 
 an old Government sawmill, where heremanied 
 10 weeks with little care or medical attention. 
 He rejoined his company and went up the 
 river to where Fort Pierre now is and remained 
 there about two weeks. Orders were received 
 for the return of the company to Wisconsin, 
 and at Milwaukee and La Crosse it was occu- 
 ])ied in looking after drafted men, escorting 
 them to their regiments and giving them other 
 wholesome attention. The company was occu- 
 pied in this duty until the spring of 1864. 
 Orders were received to proceed to St. Paul 
 and they marched to the James River in Da- 
 kota and began the construction of a fort called 
 "Wadsworth." After six weeks orders were 
 received to join Sherman and a start was made, 
 but the company was switched oft' at Paducah, 
 Ky., and went thence to Hickman, Ky., 
 and there the command voted for Lincoln. 
 They also skirmished and captured about 300 
 guerrillas and were ordered thence to Nash- 
 ville, but stopped at Bowling Green to guard 
 railroad bridges, in w'hich duty they were oc- 
 cupied until February, 1865, and went thence 
 to Louisville, which was headquarters from 
 that time. Their principal service was in 
 guarding the military prison and running rebel 
 prisoners from Nashville and Columbus to In- 
 dianapolis and Cincinnati. Afterwards they 
 engaged in chasing guerrillas out of Kentucky 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and among those they captured was the no- 
 torious Sue Monday, wlio was tried by court 
 martial and hung. Later, the company per- 
 formed patrol duty at Louisville and remained 
 there until mustered out Sept. 20, 18G5. Du- 
 ring their service, Col. Daniel J. Dill endeav- 
 ored to have the company assigned to his per- 
 sonal commaml, which consisted of only three 
 companies, the others being distributed at 
 various points on detached duty. 
 
 Mr. Coleman returned toChipjiewa Falls, ob- 
 tained a position in the post ofHce for a year 
 and engaged afterwards in rafting for five 
 years. In 1874, he went to California and en- 
 gaged in the quicksilver mines at Oeeanica, re- 
 maining there about two and a half years, and 
 returning thence to Chippewa Falls. In 1877, 
 lie was appointed Clerk of the Municipal Court 
 and officiated in that capacity four years. In 
 the sj)ring of 1879, he was elected City Clerk 
 on the Republican ticket and in 1880 was re- 
 elected. After his release from public life he 
 engaged in the sale of furniture in which he 
 was occujned until the fall of 1888. During 
 that season he was elected Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court and is still holding that incumbency. 
 He was married .June 20, 1879, at Chippewa 
 Falls, to Mary R., daughter of Jeremiah and 
 Ann (McGuire) Bowe, and their children are 
 Mary P., Elizabeth and Henry J. Mr. CoUiiiaii 
 is a staunch Republican and a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias and A. 0. U. W. 
 
 Green county. The parents are both still liv- 
 ing. (1890). The son grew to manhood in 
 Green county and received a common school 
 education, and the first imjiortiint event of his 
 live was his becoming a soldier of the civil war. 
 He jsnlisted Aug. 19, 1864, at Madison, Wis., 
 for one year or during the war in Company F, 
 42d Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment was 
 variously assigned. Company F being retained 
 on duty at Cairo, and Mr. Staley performed 
 garrison duty wholly until the close of the w'ar, 
 when he returned to Madison .June 20, 1865 ; 
 he was in hospital about a month. A brother 
 was a soldier in a Miiniesota regiment. He 
 was married Nov. 29, 1860, to Leonia, daughter 
 of Francis and Julia M. Larotjue, her jiarents 
 being natives of France. The children of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Staley are named George, Frank, 
 Jo)ias, Delia and Eugene. Mr. Staley is one of 
 the substantial farmers of Green county, own- 
 ing a fine place which is a credit to the quality 
 of his agricultural principles, being well im- 
 proved and stocked, with buildings of modern 
 style. lie is a man of unassuming and modest 
 character, thoroughly reliable, thrifty, and is 
 esteemed as a good citizen. 
 
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 ERFMIAH STALEY, a farmer of Day- 
 ton, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 121, was born Sept. 19, 1843, in New 
 Jersey. His father, Jonas Staley, married Han- 
 nah Cronn and both were natives of New Jer- 
 sey. The household removed to Wisconsin in 
 1854, locating in Dane, and thence removed to 
 
 [^LIGMAS S. HELLER, of Menomonie, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 58, was born Sept. 23, 1840, iii Salona, 
 Clinton Co., Pa., and his parents, David and 
 Sarah (Wilson) Heller were natives of that 
 State, the paternal line being of (German ex- 
 traction ; the mother was of English descent. 
 The family included Wm. F., Martin W., 
 Thomas S., James E., .lohn A. and Mary, the 
 last named dying young. Thos. and John A. 
 still survive. In 1858 they removed to Dunn 
 Co., Wis., and improved a farm, the father 
 also keeping a hotel at Dunnville and practic- 
 
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 ing dentistry. In 1860 he was elected and 
 served as Count}' Treasurer. He and his wife 
 are deceased. 
 
 In 1857 the son went to Burlington, Iowa, 
 and graduated at tlie Commercial College, sub- 
 sequently operating as bookkeeper at Reed's 
 Landing, Minn. A year later he went to Al- 
 legheny College at Meadville, Pa., and returned 
 to Dunnville in 18(30 where he became pro- 
 prietor of the Tainter House, acting also as 
 Deputy County Treasurer with his father. He 
 went to Washington to the inauguration of Lin- 
 coln and returned full of the enthusiasm of 
 the war which he felt was irajjending. He 
 went to Burlington, Iowa, and enlisted June 13, 
 1861, in Company G, 1st Iowa Cavalry, and 
 was mustered July 31st following. The regi- 
 ment received orders to report immediately to 
 St. Louis, furnished their own horses and re- I 
 ceived other equipments at Benton Barracks. J 
 The first service of Mr. Heller was in the 
 march to Springfield under Fremont. He was 
 taken sick with fever aiid was sent to hospital 
 to an old church where men were dying at a 
 fearful rate. He left there as soon as possible j 
 and went to Sedalia, suffering a long illness. ■ 
 He joined his company in tlie fall and was en- 
 gaged in cavalry service, fighting Price and 
 his bushwhackers under Marmaduke. The 
 regiment fought at Prairie Grove (see sketch I 
 of Henry Starr), followed to Van Buren, drove 
 the rebel cavalry and assisted in cajHuring a 
 large amount of rebel supplies and four steam- 
 boats. The regiment remained in that vicin- 
 ity until General Schofield came to take charge 
 of the expedition, which was reported to 
 be against his orders. On the return into 
 Missouri they met the rebels after defeat 
 at Cape Girardeau, fought briefiy, followed 
 the enemy the next day down the St. Francis 
 River where Mr. Heller was detailed with a 
 comrade to reconnoiter through a swamp, re- 
 
 turning safely, after which the command went 
 to the Iron Mountain country. During this 
 campaign Mr. Heller was called to St. Louis 
 by Col. A. G. Bracket of the regular service, 
 who had conceived a strong liking for the 
 young soldier and was placed on detached duty 
 as Clerk in his department. He acted with 
 Asst. Com. of Musters at Headquarters, Dept. of 
 Missouri, from June 3, 1863, to the date of his 
 transfer to the office of tlie Provost Marshal 
 General under Col. J. P. Sanderson and served 
 in that connection until he was mustered (Jut 
 Jul)' 22, 1864, on account of expiration of term. 
 He returned to Menomonie and managed 
 the Menomonie House about a year, when he 
 sold out and went to Chicago and elsewhere, 
 returning to Menomonie in 1868. He obtained 
 a position in an office and in 1870 served as 
 Assessor. He was elected Town Clerk for sev- 
 eral terms. About 1873 he became interested 
 in the business of insurance which has since 
 engaged his time and abilities and of which 
 he has made a success. In 1887 he was made 
 Mayor of the city and served his term with 
 ability and credit. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics. He was married May 4, 1864, at Terra 
 Haute, Ind., to Mary Helen, daughter of Jas. 
 R. and Frances A. Tillotson, who is now de- 
 ceased. Following is the record of the births 
 of their children: — Walter (deceased), Grace, 
 now Mrs. Walter A. Clark ; .James T., Rose, 
 Helen E. (deceased), Ida May, Margaret Ange- 
 line and Thomas W. 
 
 J)RA M. HOWARD, Edgerton, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 137, was born in 
 A.shtabulaCo., Ohio, July 31, 1836. ha 
 G. Howard, his father, was born in New York 
 State, July 3, 1806, and was the son of George 
 Howard, a native of England, who came to 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 America in his young maniiood and married 
 Martini Ilowenslielt, a native of Pennsylvania, 
 of Holland Dutch parentage. The mother of 
 Mr. Howard, Mary Maria Mills prior to mar- 
 riage, was born in Tompkins Co., New York, 
 Nov. 3, 1817. Her parents were born and 
 reared in Gla.sgow, Scotland, and emigrated 
 to America .soon after they were united in 
 inairiage. They went to Wisconsin in 1840, 
 located at first in Jefferson county, remaining 
 18 months and going thence to Beloit. After 
 nine years, the}' moved to Muscoda, Grant 
 county, afterwards to Sauk county, and from 
 there to Beloit, where father and son worked 
 two years on the farm of a man named Brooks. 
 In 1850 they went to Fort Atkinson, where 
 both were similarly engaged, the son working 
 for Amos Pritchard nearly two years. His 
 })arents removed to Okie, and in the spring of 
 IXOl he went to AValwortli county, and in the 
 fail to New vi lie, Rock county, where he re- 
 mained until he entered the army. He en- 
 li.sted Aug. 14, 18G'2, in Coui])any E, ood Wis- 
 consin Infantry, went into rendezvous at 
 Racine, and thence to the South, leaving the 
 vState November 12th, for Memphis, via Cairo. 
 The command moved to Yocono Creek, Miss., 
 thence to Moscow, Tenn., and, after two 
 raontlis, to Mempiiis, performing a march of 
 40 miles, and from tiicre to Coldwater, Miss., 
 where Mr. Howard was in his first fight, his 
 lieutenant being killed. (The Post at Edger- 
 ton, Henry S. Smith, is named in his lionor.) 
 The regiment returned to Memphis, and, May 
 Gth, Mr. Howard obtained a oO-day furlough 
 on account of the dangerous illness of his 
 father, with whom lie remained until he was 
 out of danger, when the son rejoined his regi- 
 ment in the ritle pits at Vicksburg to take 
 varied and almost constant part in the activi- 
 ties there until the sui'render, July 4th. On 
 the 5th he marched to Jackson, Miss. July 
 
 lith he was in the tight with .h)e Johnston, 
 and when it was found on the following day 
 that the rebels iuvd fled, the command re- 
 turned to Vicksburg and remained until Sep- 
 tember, when it moved to Natchez, returned 
 to Mcksburg after two months and stayed 
 there and at Redbone Church until February, 
 when the regiment again moved to Meridian, 
 Miss. A retrograde movement took them to 
 Black River Bridge, where they fell into line 
 with Banks for the Red River expedition. Col- 
 onel J. B. Morse, in command of a portion of 
 the lirigade composed of" non-vets" of the 3d 
 Iowa, 41st Illinois and the complement of the 
 33d Wisconsin, went on the transport, Rob 
 Roy. On this trip the rebels were more active 
 tlian entertaining, attacking them from the 
 banks, Imt the gun-boats sent their compli- 
 ments in such sliape as to drive them away in 
 all instances. He was in all the actions on the 
 route and Vwick again, there being l)ut few 
 days on which there was not a fight of more 
 or less importance. He fought at Fort de 
 Russy, Grand Ecore, M'ent to Natchitoches, 
 thence to Cloutiersville and was in the fight at 
 Cane River. He went later to Bayou Clotile 
 and to Alexandria. He returned with his 
 regiment to Vicksburg, went thence to Mem- 
 ])his, to Pontotoc, and to Tujielo, where he 
 was in another sharp action, thence to Oldtown 
 Creek and La Grange, and next up the White 
 River ,to St. Ciiarles. Later he went to 
 DuvaU's Bluff, thence to Brownsville, Ark., 
 and from there across the country to Cape 
 Girardeau. Tiie next move was to St. Louis 
 on transports, and from there to an expedition 
 up the Mis.souri River. The object of this was 
 to take a hand in the movements of Price in 
 Missouri and the foix-e returned to St. Louis 
 in charge of rebel prisoners. (About 700.) 
 They went next to help whip Hood at Nash- 
 ville, and after following Lim across the Ten- 
 
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 nessee they went to Eastport, Miss. In the 
 spring they li3.d a little fight at Corintli, went 
 to New Orleans and the defenses of Mobile, 
 wliipped the rebels at Cedar Point, marched to 
 Spanish Fort ; from and after the cessation of 
 activities there they went to Montgomery, 
 Ala., and thence to Tuskegee, and to Mont- 
 gomery again, returning to Vicksbiirg to be 
 mustered out, receiving that official act August 
 8th, and returning to Wisconsin for final ar- 
 rangements. Mr. Howard was married May 
 9, 1866, at Janesville, Wis., to Mrs. Margaret 
 McGiffin of Rock county. Their only child 
 died at the age of 14 months. Mr. Howard 
 worked as a farmer until he engaged in his 
 present business at Edgerton. 
 
 AVID H. JOHNSON, Evansville, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 41, was born in Greene, Chenango Co., 
 New York, July 14, 1821, and is the son of 
 Nathaniel Johnson, whom he supposes to have 
 been born in Ireland, and who married Rhoda 
 Noi-ton, a native of this country ; she was 
 the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. She 
 was a mother of that period and brought up 
 her children with a knowledge of what the 
 settlers of the country had undergone. She 
 related that she had heard the story of her 
 father's comrade who, failing to extinguish his 
 light at "taps", when called to account by his 
 superior officer, answered that he was writing 
 to his wife. "Is there more space?" was the 
 inquiry. "Add to your letter that you will be 
 shot at sunrise for disobedience in camp." The 
 addition was made and the soldier suffered 
 death at sunrise. 
 
 In about 1825, the senior .Johnson removed 
 with his family to Sparta, Erie Co., Pa., where 
 he cleared two farms 10 miles apart from a 
 
 state of nature in conjunction with his sons. 
 He died on one of them in 1849, his wife hav- 
 ing died the previous year. About 1835 tlie 
 son went to Cattaraugus county in his native 
 State, where he engaged with the corporation 
 building the New York & Erie railroad, then 
 in its incipiency. The company failed and he 
 lost his six-months' earnings. In 1840 he con- 
 tracted for 40 acres of land on which he worked 
 as a farmer and in 1855 he removed his in- 
 terests to Rutland, Dane Co., Wisconsin, where 
 he again engaged in agriculture and operated 
 there until he entered the army. When the 
 famous " oth " Wisconsin Infantry was in pro- 
 cess of reorganization he enlisted, his enroll- 
 ment dating in 1864, and he joined the 700 men 
 under Col. T. S. Allen in front of Petersburg. 
 The recruits remained two weeks at Soldiers' 
 Home, Washington, for equipments, and when 
 they arrived at the long bridge, which is a 
 mile long, their officer halted them and spoke 
 to this effect: "Boys, when you are across this 
 bridge, you will be on the sacred soil of Vir- 
 ginia, and if you go hungry it will be your 
 own fault if you can find anything to eat." 
 The command was under orders for the Valley 
 of the Shenandoah where the "Battalion," the 
 independent organization formed from the re- 
 enlisted men of the former command, awaited 
 them at Winche.ster and whither the "700" 
 under Colonel Allen marched from Washing- 
 ton and Alexandria. They went via Martins- 
 burg to Cedar Creek, where Jubal Early was 
 expected to attack. Before he had been in 
 camp long enough to make coffee, Mr. Johnson 
 was ordered on picket and after his weary 
 marches he went to take his place, passing 
 through a swamp on his hands and knees over 
 an old mill-dam to the position where he was 
 placed as outpost guard. His blistered feet, 
 sore and lame condition, prevented his stand- 
 ing, but between sitting and lying down he 
 
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 managed to discliarge liis duty. The attack of 
 Early occurred the next day to meet witli re- 
 pulse, and Sheridan drove the rebel force to 
 within three miles of Lynchburg. The regi- 
 ment returned to cjimp after three days' picket 
 duty and early in December went to Petersburg 
 via Washington. Mr. .Johnson was there sent 
 to Judiciary Square hospital, ill with bowel 
 disease, diabetes and jaundice. When recov- 
 ered he rejoined his command at Petersburg 
 about the last of February, 1S65. He jiassed 
 the time in camp, forage and other duty, until 
 the movement known as Fort Fisher, when one 
 cold night, the rebels dispersed the pickets 
 with firing, yells and other demonstrations. 
 The pickets lost all their possessions and saw 
 their blankets flying like banners of defiance 
 in rebel hands. In the charge proper on tlie 
 fort, the 5th Wisconsin charged through a 
 black ash swamp, led by Colonel James ^L 
 Bull. Colonel Allen discovered a flank move- 
 ment intended to cut off his rear and halted 
 them ; "About face ! Forward ! Double quick I" 
 was his order and they were safe from 
 capture, returning to camp the next morn- 
 ing after passing the night in earth- 
 holes they dug for beds. April 1st, the 6th 
 Corps moved forward. The oth Wisconsin ad- 
 vanced about two o'clock in the morning, drove 
 in the rebel pickets, following them up as the}' 
 fell back. 'I'hey foj-med within the fortifica- 
 tions and orders to charge were issued. Mr. 
 Johnson and a comrade named James Winters 
 pusiied their way through an embrasure and 
 came up to a rebel with hi.s hand on tlie lan- 
 yard of a 12-pounder. Winters pressed his 
 cocked rifle against his breast, saying "Shoot 
 and I will blow your heart out." The brave 
 man in a bad cause shut his eyes and pulled 
 the rope, at the cost of his life. The Cor{)s took 
 about 1,400 prisoners that morning. Among 
 the killed was a comrade beside Mr. John.son, 
 
 who was cut in two by a solid shot which struck 
 him in the region of the hips. In a charge at 
 Fort Henry they were six times repulsed, but 
 the seventh was a success, the 22d Massachu- 
 setts assisting. Tliey moved to another line of 
 works, where 650 were captured. Wiien the 
 troops entered Petersburg, (Colonel Allen 
 claims) the colors of the 5th Wisconsin were the 
 first in position above the captured works. The 
 chase began on the following morning, Lee 
 having withdrawn in the darkness. About 14 
 miles out the work of destruction began, when 
 General Grant promised a furlough to the man 
 who shot another man in the act of firing 
 property. A skirmish took place at High 
 Bridge and at Sailors' Creek; the soldiers 
 charged across on pontoons and pressed forward 
 to a battery, capturing six pieces. They went 
 into camp next day on a plantation where an 
 (lid man of SO years made his appearance 
 itaring his breast and asking them to shoot 
 him, as they had taken "his boys, his crops, 
 his property of every description, and all the 
 mischief they could do him further was to 
 shoot him." But they took care that he was 
 made comfortable. 
 
 The da}' following the surrender of Lee the 
 6th Corps proceeded to Burkesville Station, 
 preparatory to starting two days later to Dan- 
 ville, whence they expected to go to join the 
 forces of Sherman and aid in the repression of 
 the final struggles of tiie confederacy. Their 
 first march was 112 miles long and theirsecond 
 125 miles in extent. After news was received 
 of the surrender of Johnston the Gth Corps took 
 possession of the printing presses, flouring mills 
 and other property necessary to the comfort 
 and support of the soldiers, and papers were 
 issued, flour made ajid matters placed in as 
 good condition for the Union troops as possible. 
 After the repairing of the railroad they went 
 to Richmond, whence the 5th Wisconsin joined 
 
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 in the foot race to Washington, and after arrival 
 there in tlie (irand Review. The regiment was 
 mustered out in -Jnly, I860, at Madison. Mr. 
 •Johnson left the regiment at Stoughton to re- 
 turn home, being ill, and on reporting at Mad- 
 ison, was sent liome again and liis discharge 
 ]i;ipcrs and pay sent to him. Several j'ears 
 elap.sed before he was in any degree recovered 
 and he has never been in sound health since. 
 He conducted a hotel at Cooksville two years 
 prior to his removal to Evansville. 
 
 He was married Dec. 10, 1843, to Mary .Jane 
 Lacy of Cataraugus Co., N.Y., whence her parents 
 removed from Genesee county in tlie same 
 State. They had three sons. William L. and 
 Willard, twins, were born Feb. 20, 1S4.5. Duane 
 C. was born Sept. 30, 1848. Willard died Sept. 
 28, 1846. Botli surviving sons are married. 
 William resides on a farm not far from Evans- 
 ville, and Duane is in the employ of the C. 
 & N. W. railroad, residing at Elroy. The lat- 
 ter enlisted in his fatlier's absence, but did 
 not muster, as his mother refused her consent. 
 The sons, aged respectively IG and 19, man- 
 aged the farm while their father was in the 
 war. The mother died Feb. 27, 1882. Mr. 
 •Johnson is sexton of the Evansville cemetery 
 and has secured a burial lot for the soldiers of 
 that vicinity. 
 
 LTVER PERRY CARPENTER, 
 A\'hitewater, Wis., member of G. A. 
 R. Post No. 34, was born Sept. 1, 1843, 
 and is the son of Edward H. and Thankful 
 (Wilcox) Carpenter. His birth took place in 
 Norway, Herkimer Co., New York, and he was 
 reared to the calling of his ancestors before 
 him — that of farmer. In the jiaternal line he 
 is of English descent and on his mother's side 
 is of French lineage. The latter died when 
 her son was seven years old and he remained 
 
 in the care and control of his father, who re- 
 moved with his family to Wisconsin in 1849, 
 locating in Palmyra. In September, 1861, the 
 son enlisted, enrolling in Company F, 1st Wis- 
 consin Cavalry. He was in rendezvous at 
 Ripon and Kenosha and went thence to St. 
 Louis, after passing the winter in drill. 
 From Benton Barracks he went to Cape Girar- 
 deau and thence to Bloomfield to engage in 
 scouting, skirmishing and other military dut}'^ 
 in southeastern Missouri, where Mr. Carpenter 
 became acquainted with all varieties of cavalry 
 service, to which no human pen has ever done 
 justice within the limits of a historical sketcli. 
 He fought Quantrell's guerrillas, went on raids 
 against Marmaduke and marched to L'Anguille 
 Ferry, where he was with a train which was 
 attacked by 600 Texans, Sunday, Aug. 3d, who 
 annihilated the camp and the men were in 
 straits to escape. Mr. Carpenter reached a 
 canebrake and forcing his way through, suc- 
 ceeded in getting into a corntield. A negro 
 assisted him to make his escape and at last, 
 after many narrow chances he crossed the river 
 in a canoe, encountered a band of guerrillas 
 and, after sometime in hiding in a wood, made 
 connection with his regiment. The command 
 went to Helena, where he was taken sick and 
 he remained at Overton Hospital four weeks. 
 He rejoined his command at Cape Girardeau, 
 whence, under orders from Governor Harvey, 
 he was sent home for 30 days, which time was 
 extended to 90 days. In April, 1863, he was 
 again at his post with his regiment and fouglit 
 Marmaduke at Cape Girardeau. The rebel 
 chief was forced to retreat towards Bloomfield 
 Avhere a severe skirmish ensued, after which 
 Marmaduke was permitted to take his leave. 
 In the spring of 1863, the regiment was sent to 
 join Rosecrans at Nashville, and Mr. Carpenter 
 became connected with the Department of the 
 Cumberland. There he was detailed to take 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 cattle to Murfreesboro where he was again 
 taken sick and went to Wincliester Hospital, 
 where he remained two months, and again 
 made connection with his regiment at Bridge- 
 port. He was again detailed to go to Nash- 
 ville after horses and to escort recruits, the 
 regiment going to Cleveland, Tenn., to winter 
 quarters. He passed the winter in drilling the 
 recruits and in the spring joined McCook's di- 
 vision, being under the command of the great 
 cavalry captain, Kilpatrick. The regiment 
 moved with La Grange to the Atlanta cam- 
 paign, and Mr. Carpenter fought at Resaca, 
 Kenesaw, Rome, Burnt Hickory, Marietta, Lost 
 Mountain, Franklin, and aided in the destruc- 
 tion of 800 wagons at one time; and after 
 reaching Atlanta received honorable discharge 
 in October, 1864, and returned to Wisconsin. In 
 January, 1865, he enlisted and was discharged at 
 Madison the month following. After his tinal 
 retirement from the army he entered the em- 
 ploy of the C. M. & St. Paul R. R., remaining 
 with them 10 years and engaging with the C. 
 & N. W. corporation. Finall}', he located at 
 Whitewater and lias since been engaged with 
 the Esterly Manufacturing Companj'. He 
 was married .June 13, 1865, to Miss Barbara 
 Rae, and their children are named Addie E., 
 Maggie E. and Tina L. Mr. Carpenter is 
 warmly interested in Grand Army work, and 
 believes it the duty of every ex-!;oldier to con- 
 nect himself with tliat organization. 
 
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 OSEPH A. MONROE, Waukesiia, Wi.s., 
 a member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
 born in New Berlin, Wis., in 184.3. He 
 is the son of P. V. and Cordelia (Rathinirn) 
 Monroe, and he was an inmate of his father's 
 family until he entered tlie armj'. Aug. 15, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company B, 28th Wiscon- 
 
 sin Infantry. Until November, he passed the 
 time at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, and went 
 thence to Port Washington to quell the draft 
 riot. December 20th following, he accom- 
 panied the regiment to Columbus, Ky., and 
 thence to Helena, Ark. He was a participant 
 in the White River expedition and also in the 
 Yazoo Pass campaign, returning to Helena, 
 where the regiment was in the gallant action of 
 .July 4th, in which 15,000 rebels were repulsed 
 by one-fifth that number. In August, the regi- 
 ment was assigned to the Army of Arkansas 
 under General Steele ; marched to Little Rock ; 
 remained there until November with little ac- 
 tivity and went thence to Pine Bluff to winter 
 quarters. While there a rebel spy obtained 
 entree to their camp; platted the situation, 
 stole a cavalry horse and was taken while at- 
 tempting to decamp; he was tried by court 
 martial and executed. Active military opera- 
 tions commenced in tlie spring and in March 
 the regiment, while holding a bridge at Mount 
 Elba, was attacked by 1,500 rebels who were 
 repulsed with a loss of 320 prisoners. The 
 ensuing summer was passed in military dutj' 
 of various kinds, and in February, 1865, orders 
 were received for a movement down the Mis- 
 sissippi River. Assignment to the command 
 of General Canby was made and the "28th" 
 started for Mobile Point, made a heavy march 
 to Fish River and took position before Spanish 
 Fort. During the passage of the Gulf, the 
 steamer Belvidere, carrying the command, was 
 exposed to a severe storm — an experience old 
 sailors shrink from. The march over the 
 almost impassable roads was no less memor- 
 able, the first part being over deep sand under 
 a hot sun. Those who fell out escaped the ex- 
 perience of t\'ading through an alligator 
 swanij), where the water for miles was more 
 than knee deep. Rest at night was obtained 
 by leaning against a tree. Their breakfast was 
 
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 hardtack and cold water and they waded on to 
 encounter a dense forest. Tliat night they had 
 coffee for the first time in 36 hours. But the 
 phicky regiment endured 14 days of siege and 
 afterwards marched to assist at Blakely. At 
 Spanish Fort many were injured by torpedoes, 
 which the rebels had planted about the fortifi- 
 cations. After a twelve-mile forced march in 
 obedience to a call from General Steele, they 
 were approaching Blakely when the)' met a 
 darkey who announced, "needn't go any furder, 
 gemmen, the fort's done took." After a rest of 
 three days they went to Mobile, marching over a 
 shell road to expected battle, but the rebels bad 
 spiked their guns and 'gone. The last day of 
 May they went to Texas, camping at Clarksville 
 and vicinity until August, when they went to 
 Brownsville to be mustered out on the "23d of 
 that month. Two days later they started to 
 return to Wisconsin. 
 
 Mr. Monroe resumed his occupation as a 
 farmer. He is an honorable and just man 
 and sustains his soldier's record in his private 
 career. His marriage to Lydia A. Killip took 
 place Nov. 2G, 18G5, and their children are 
 named Publius Virgil and Floda. Mr. Mon- 
 roe is prominent in the Order of Good Temp- 
 lars and in temperance work generally. 
 
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 ERMAN LEROY ALLING, Fort 
 Atkinson, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 ;^ost No. 159, was born March 29, 
 1843. In his father's line he is of Yankee ex- 
 traction and descended from ancestors born in 
 the State of New York on the side of his 
 mother. He is the son of Charles Edward and 
 Mary B. (Cushman) Ailing and was born in 
 Vernon, Oneida Co., New York. He is one of 
 four children and his parents were farmers, to 
 which calling their son was reared. In 1848 
 
 they removed to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, 
 where they located on a farm. On this the son 
 completed the years of his minority. He had, 
 meanwhile determined to enlist, and as soon as 
 he was his own man, took steps to that end. 
 Sept. 2, 1864, he enlisted as a soldier and made 
 connection with Company E, 1st Wisconsin 
 Heavy Artillery, joining his command at Camp 
 Randall, ]\hulison. The battery went to Fort 
 Lyon at Washington, whence he received honor- 
 able discharge July 13, 1865. During his 
 period of service he was engaged in garrisoning 
 the several forts to which he was assigned, in 
 practice with the heavy siege guns at Fort 
 Lyon, and in acquiring a knowledge of in- 
 fantry, heavy and light artillery tactics. On 
 his return to Wisconsin he went to work on his 
 farm, where he operated three years. Then 
 he sold his place and removed to Fort Atkinson, 
 where he has been variously occupied since. 
 He was married Nov. 6, 1867, to Eliza Jane. 
 Smith, and their children are named Mary 
 Olive, Ormun Edward and Alma Matilda. Mr. 
 Ailing is a member of the A. 0. U. W. and 
 Society of Modern Woodmen. At this writing 
 he is Officer of the Day in his Post. He is a 
 staunch Republican. 
 
 y,^^\x AL^^ERT SPENSLEY, attorney at 
 Mineral Point, Wis., member of G. A. 
 R. Post No. 125, was born at Stockton, 
 England, Jan. 2, 1846. He is the son of Harker 
 and Ruth Spensley, who emigrated to the New 
 World and located at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1848, 
 and the home there was maintained a year. 
 They removed thence to Shullsburg, Wis., in 
 1849, and remained there until they removed to 
 Mineral Point in 1857; both parents died there, 
 the demise of the father occurring in 1876, 
 when he was 63 years old, and that of the 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 mother in 1877, at the age of 60 years. Only 1 
 two of their children (out of seven boys) arrived 
 at maturity; Mr. Spensley had one brother sur- 
 viving named John, wlio lived until 1884 and 
 died at San Antonio, Texas. The fatlier, 
 Marker Spensley, was a miner and farmer and 
 was the first station agent at Darlington, Y'ork- 
 shire, England, on tlie first railroad in that 
 country. Mr. Spensley attended the schools at 
 Sliullsburg and he also attended a seminary at 
 Mineral Point, and tlie Western Union College 
 at Fulton, 111., for two years, but enlisted 
 before completing the collegiate course. He 
 was one of a company that was raised from the 
 students of that college, which became Company 
 D, 140th Illinois Infantry. He enrolled as a 
 private. May 5, 18()4, and was made Sergeant 
 on organization, and was mustered at Spring- 
 field, 111. The regiment was first in rendez- 
 vous at Dixon, and from Springfield went to 
 Memphis, going to Lafayette, Tenn., remaining 
 on guard duty most of the summer and scout- 
 ing, watching the operations of Forrest so far 
 as possible. Not a night pas.sed without the 
 firing on the pickets by guerrillas, and the regi- 
 ment remained there and in Mississippi until 
 Price made his attempt to resume sway in Mis- 
 souri. Attached to tiie command of A. J. 
 Smith, tlie regiment went on the chase, skir- 
 mishing, and afterwards, the rebels having 
 been driven out of the State, they returned to 
 St. Louis and thence to Cliicago for muster out 
 Nov. 10, 1804. Mr. Spensley returned to 
 Mineral Point and about the first of the next 
 year went to Poughkeepsie and entered East- 
 man's Commercial College, completing his 
 course in July, 1865, and returning to Mineral 
 Point. He clerked in a dry goods store for 
 several months and, Jan. 1, 1867, began read- 
 ing law under tlie direction of Hon. M. M. 
 Cothren of that place. In the fall he went to 
 Columbia Law Scliool in New York, whence he 
 
 was graduated in 1869 after completing the two 
 years course of lectures. On his return to 
 Mineral Point, the law firm of Lanyon & Spens- 
 ley was established, continuing one year. Mr. 
 Spensley connected himself witii the Mineral 
 Point railroad and was auditor thereof five 
 years, and its attorney six years, until the 
 railroad was sold to the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee & St. Paul railway company in 
 1880. The former firm of Lanyon & Spens- 
 ley was then re-established and dis.solved in 
 1886, when Mr. Spensley entered into a law 
 partnership with Charles Mcllhon, under the 
 firm name of Spensley et Mcllhon, whicii still 
 exists. He has served two years as Mayor of 
 Mineral Point, has been Chairman of the 
 Board of Supervisors of Iowa county, and in 
 1884 was elected delegate to the National Re- 
 publican Convention at Chicago, 111., from the 
 Third Congressional Di.strict of Wisconsin. He 
 is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging 
 to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. 
 He has been Master, High Priest and Com- 
 mander in the various Bodies. He is a mem- 
 Ijer of the Wisconsin Commi.ssion of Fisheries. 
 To his adopted country Mr. Spensley has been 
 a true son, serving as he could in her war, and 
 in liis citizenship fitting himself for rank in its 
 best grade, wliicli he has continued to hold 
 from his youth. His family occupies a prom- 
 inent social standing, and he is regarded with 
 the highest esteem in tlie community. Mrs. 
 Spensley is a member of the W. K. C. Her 
 marriage to Mr. Spensley took place Oct. 13, 
 1869. Slie was Miss Clara J. Cobb, daugiiterof 
 George \V. Cobb, manager of the Mineral Point 
 railroad from its construction until its sale. 
 Three children, named Harker George, Calvert 
 Frederic and Ruth Antoinette, liave been horn 
 to Mr. and .Mrs. Spensley. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 261 
 
 AMUEL YATES BRANDE, Kenosha, 
 
 Wis., was born Oct. ], 181S, in Castle 
 Donington, Leicestershire, England. 
 His father, William Brande, was a clergyman 
 of the Baptist Church and gave him an excel- 
 lent education. His oldest son, William, con- 
 ducted a school at Northampton, England, in 
 which Mr. Brande of this sketch was educated. 
 The family included 11 children, of whom 
 Thomas, Harriet, Mary and Samuel are living. 
 The deceased are Maria, Mary Ann, Jane, 
 Sarah, Frederic, Silas John and Mary. In 
 1832 the father removed his family to the 
 United States, coming hither on the ship 
 Columbia. They first located on a farm in 
 Susquehanna Co., Pa., where the father 
 preached and attended to his farm duties. He 
 removed in 1841 to Salem, New York, where 
 the father took charge of a school, and thence 
 he went to Wisconsin, and after 1843, resided 
 near Kenosha on a farm, where he died in 
 1850. His widow, whose name before marriage 
 was Sarah Yates, survived him 10 years. 
 
 Mr. Brande was the sixth in order of birth 
 of his parents' children, and on his arrival in 
 this country secured a position as teacher of a 
 school in Auburn, Pa., at the earl}' age of 16, 
 which he conducted three years, and went next 
 to Montrose, where he became an apprentice to 
 learn the business of a cabinet maker. After 
 three years he established his business in 
 Waterford, New York, where he conducted it 
 about a year, when his shops l.)urned down. 
 Finding himself wholly crippled by the event 
 he started for the West to begin the world 
 again and traveled on the Erie canal and the 
 lakes, landing at Kenosha (Southport), Wis., in 
 November, 1842. He engaged there in the same 
 business which he had before conducted until 
 1849, when he became a candidate on the Free- 
 Soil ticket for Register of Deeds and served two 
 years. Ho was defeated for a second term by 
 
 11 votes on the ground that he was foreign 
 born. His experience while in that office 
 taught him the importance of a system which 
 had a show of clear titles to land ; and he pur- 
 chased an interest in a defective set of abstract 
 books of lands in Kenosha count}' and opened 
 an office in Kenosha, combining that interest 
 with real estate, and he has since conducted the 
 same with success. Upon the inauguration of 
 the internal revenue system, he was appointed 
 U. S. Assessor, which position he occupied 
 eight years, when he resigned. He was made 
 Secretary of the City Debt Association, and, 
 during his coimection therewith, the debt of 
 $1,500,000 was reduced to $200,000. Mr. 
 Brande held the office 14 years and had pre- 
 viously served as Alderman three years. He 
 had become known as a thorough patriot and 
 a decided Republican, and, when Sumter was 
 
 ' attacked, was made Secretary of a meeting of 
 citizens who issued the following circular: " To 
 the Lovers of the tlnion and Constitutional 
 Government in Kenosha County : The at- 
 tempt of traitors to overthrow the Government 
 
 ' of the United States has culniinate<l in an at- 
 tack upon the Government troops and in levy- 
 ing actual war upon us. In response to the 
 
 I call of the President of the United States, and 
 
 ' fired by devotion to their country, the patriotic 
 citizens of Kenosha, at a meeting held Friday 
 evening, the 19th instant, resolved to raise men 
 and money to assist in thwarting the purposes 
 of the conspirators; and with cheers and un- 
 conquerable devotion to the cause, subscribed 
 the sum of $3,500 toward a fund for the bene- 
 fit of the volunteers and appointing a commit- 
 tee to take the matter in charge. The Com- 
 mittee of the meeting and the Committee of the 
 Common Council held a meeting on Saturday 
 afternoon, the 20th instant, and organized by 
 nominating H. B. Towsley, President, and S. 
 Y. Brande, Secretary; then it was resolved that 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the joint Committee, consisting of H. B. Tows- 
 ley, ?. H. Wood, F. Robinson, 0. C. Slides, and 
 S. Y. Brande, and the Committee of the Com- 
 mon Council, consisting of Messrs. M. H. 
 Pettit, Levi Grant, Sylvester Baldwin, and P. J. 
 A\'olfe, to individually secure further subscrip- 
 tions to the fund and that Messrs. Grant, 
 Wolfe and Wood be especially charged witli 
 that duty. Resolved also, tliat Messrs. Bald- 
 win, Pettit and Wolfe be appointed a visiting 
 committee and that the Secretary be instructed 
 to prepai'e a circular embodying the proceed- 
 ings of the meeting and requesting the people 
 of tlie county to co-operate by subscription and 
 that a call of 10 per cent, of the amount sub- 
 scribed be made forthwith and tiie Secretary 
 directed to collect the same. The Committee 
 confidently appeal to the people of this county 
 to co-operate with them by the apjwintment 
 of sub-Committees, or in such other way as 
 may seem best. In the mean time subscrip- 
 tions to the fund mav be made to any of the 
 Committee or at the office of the Secretary in 
 the city of Kenosha. Cash subscriptions are 
 preferred, but let none who have flour, butter, 
 wood or any other articles that can be applied 
 to the supj)ort of the families of our brave 
 volunteers, neglect to lay the offering on the 
 altar of liis country. " Breathes there a man 
 with soul so dead. Who never to himself has 
 said, Tliis is my own, my native land?" De- 
 posits of these articles can be made at the 
 office of the Secretary and the receipt of the 
 same will be duly acknowledged, as also the 
 ap])lications made. On behalf of the Joint 
 Committee, S. Y. Brande, Secretivry." (Pub- 
 lished in the Kenosha Tribune and Telegraph 
 Ai)ril 22, 1861, a few days after the firing on 
 Sumter.) LIpon the publication of the circular, 
 a call for a meeting of the women of Kenosha 
 county was published in tlie newspapers of 
 Kenosha to form a Soldiers' Aid Society. At 
 
 that meeting, which was held at the house of 
 the Secretary of the Committee, just seven 
 ladies responded, viz: Elizabeth M. Brande, 
 Caroline D. Pettit, Maria Simmons, Emma E. 
 Simmons, Jane Briggs, Charlotte Schoff and 
 Martha D. Selleck. The}' proceeded to form 
 a society for the purpose of .sending aid to the 
 soldiers going to, and while in the field, and 
 to their wives and families left behind during 
 tluur absence. At that meeting, Caroline D. 
 Pettit (widow of Lieutenant-(iovernor Pettit, of 
 Wisconsin) was elected President. Elizabeth 
 M. Brande was elected Vice-President, Char- 
 lotte Schoff, Secretary; Jane Briggs, Treasurer 
 and Maria Simmons and Emma E. Simmons, 
 Directors. This organization was kept up and 
 furnished tents, provisions, medicines, clotliiug, 
 hosi)ital delicacies and supplies to the boys 
 in tlie field, having an oversight of the fami- 
 lies of soldiers absent in the field or sutt'ering 
 from any cause, and did noble and generous 
 work without any other pay than that of pa- 
 triotic satisfaction. It will be seen, as Mrs. 
 Brande puts it, that the women followed the 
 example of tlie men, as after the election of the 
 officers there was but one private left. This did 
 not la.st long, however, as it soon became popu- 
 lar. A large amount of money was raised, of 
 which Mr. Brande was made custodian until 
 the State took charge of such funds. He iis- 
 sisted in the organization of Comi^any C, 1st 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and was active in recruit- 
 ing the 17th, 36th Wisconsin Volunteers and 
 1st Wisconsin Cavalry. He humorously refers 
 to two days spent in cutting cabbage for 
 pickles for soldiers. Mr. Brande is more than 
 three score and ten at this writing. (1889.) 
 Ho is a .sami)le of the spirit brought to these 
 shores by those who really and truly adopted 
 the country as their own and to which the per- 
 niaiKMicy of our institutions are wholly due. 
 He was married Nov. 15, 1844, to Elizabeth N., 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 265 
 
 daughter of Samuel and Roxana (Sprague) 
 Holmes, former residents of Cortland Co., New 
 York. She is of American birtli and English 
 descent. The surviving children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Brande are named Flora and Ilattie E. 
 The former is the wife of G. W. Hoyt, a mer- 
 chant in Ciiicago. The grandfather of Mrs. 
 Brande was a soldier in the Revolution and 
 her father was a Captain of New York Volun- 
 teers in 1812. The activity of Mrs. Brande 
 in the relief of soldiers and their families is a 
 just evidence of her love of country and char- 
 acter in all her family and social relations. 
 
 •Si* 
 
 4 
 
 LBERT HENRY HOLLISTER, Mad- 
 ^ ison. Wis., a prominent business 
 man and member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 11, was born Sept. 23, 1843, in Pendleton, 
 New York ; he is the son of Perez S. and An- 
 gelina Theresa (Clarke) Hollister, to whom six 
 children were born, viz.: Perez S., Lauren N., 
 Eliza P., Francis M., Albert H. and MarietteL., 
 the latter now Mrs. Isham. The oldest daugh- 
 ter is Mrs. Harden and Lauren is deceased ; he 
 died at Tonawanda, N. Y., in early manhood. 
 The senior Hollister's grandfather was a soldier 
 of the Revolution and the maternal grandfa- 
 tiier, Pendleton S. Clarke, fought in the war of 
 1812. (The latter was once the owner of the 
 beautiful Grand Island in Niagara River and 
 was very popular with the people, being named 
 Governor and bearing the title until hisdeatli ; 
 Heni-y Gorton, who married the daughter of 
 Lauren N. Hollister, owns about 800 acres on 
 the island in 1889.) In the paternal line he is 
 descended from Lieutenant John Mollister, a 
 native of England, who settled in Glastonbury, 
 Conn., in 1G42, and his mother l:)elonged to the 
 descendants of the celebrated Adam Clarke. 
 She died when he was three years old and his 
 
 father becoming partially tjlind about the same 
 time, the lad found himself not only with the 
 problem of his own support on his hands but 
 also witli tlie I'esjionsibility of adding what he 
 could to tliat of those who were more helpless 
 than himself. He obtained a situation in a 
 grocery for three years, attended school a year 
 and, at the age of 12 years, became an assist- 
 ant of Dr. ^'an Buren of Pendleton, from 
 which association he dates his taste for his 
 chosen business — that of a pharmacist. When 
 he was 14 he went to Milwaukee whei"e he was 
 employed a short time by his brother, and, 
 later, he became a pupil at Allen's Grove 
 Academy, an adjunct of Beloit College, where 
 he studied two terms, under Professor Mon- 
 tague. 
 
 Under the pressure which sent a large pro- 
 portion of the youth of Wisconsin into the 
 ai"my, he decided to enlist and enrolled Aug. 
 14, 1862, in Company F, 22d Wisconsin Infan- 
 try at Waterford, Racine county, and joined 
 the regiment in rendezvous at Camp Utley, 
 Racine. September 15th, in anticipation of 
 the threatening movements of Kirby Smith, 
 the regiment proceeded to Cincinnati. On the 
 22d, they crossed tiie river and camped near 
 Covington, Ky., until they moved October 7th 
 to assist in the battle of Perryville, arriving 
 there after the battle was done. The regiment 
 pursued a restless course of procedure, moving 
 to Camp Gilmore, Eagle Creek, Georgetown, 
 Lexington and Nicholasville, where they per- 
 formed provost duty about a month. Jan. 
 26th, 1863, they started for Louisville and went 
 on transports to Nashville. They went thence 
 to Brentwood Station and in March, Mr. Hollis- 
 ter took part in a reconnoissance towards 
 Spring Hill. Through somebody's blunder 
 the movement proved disastrous, a large pro- 
 portion of the regiment — more than 200 — were 
 captured with Colonel Utley and 11 other com- 
 
266 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 missioned officers. The remainder of the regi- 
 ment, induding Mr. Ilollister, went on the 8th 
 of the same month to Brentwood Station and 
 on the 25th were attacked hy Forrest and com- 
 pelled to surrender to superior numbers. With 
 23 others, Mr. Ilollister was conducted to Co- 
 lumbus, Tenn., over mountains and fording 
 streams to quarters in an old church used for 
 a hospital. His comrade died by his side and 
 the conditions were such as to convince him 
 that a like fate would soon be his, and he 
 bribed an attendant with a five dollar green- 
 back to obtain leave for him to go witii tbe 
 next squad sent to Richmond. The jilan worked 
 and he went there to meet the officers of his 
 command. After 42 days at Libby, he was ex- 
 changed and sent in broken health to An- 
 napolis to recruit. He remained there until the 
 spring of 1804 when he appeared before Gen- 
 eral Casey's Board of Exauiiuers and passed 
 the required regulations for assignment, and 
 was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 30th 
 U. S. Colored Infantry. He was placed on de- 
 tached service at Camp Birney where he passed 
 sometime in recruiting and organizing troops 
 for service. He joined his regiment at An- 
 napolis in Burnside's Corps, and was with his 
 command under Grant through the campaign 
 and battles of the Wilderness — Spottsylvania 
 and Cold Harbor — and went thence to the 
 trenches in front of Petersburg, where he suc- 
 cumbed to tlie effects of rheumatic fever con- 
 tracted at Camj) Birney, ])ut wliicli be struggled 
 with in order to gratify his desire to press on 
 to Richmond with the great Infantry Captain. 
 From Petersburg he was sent to Annapolis and 
 thence to Camp Cadwallader. While there. 
 General Cummings proffered him, through 
 the infiuence of Simon Cameron, a commis- 
 sion in the regular army, which be declined 
 because he did not desire to follow a 
 military life. (Simon Cameron died on 
 
 the day on which this sketch was 
 prepared in 1889.) Mr. Hollister remained 
 there until the war was over and resigned his 
 commission June 12, 1865. He arrived in Wis- 
 consin just in time to meet his regiment — tbe 
 22d Wisconsin Infantry — and saw it mustered 
 out of service. He engaged in the sale of 
 drugs at Clinton, Wisconsin, where he con- 
 ducted a successful business till his removal to 
 Madison in 1875. He established a prosperous 
 business at the capital in the same line and 
 and has been prominent in the advancement 
 of pharmacy to a degree which evidences liis 
 entbusiasm in his chosen calling. He has 
 been instrumental in lifting the vocation to its 
 present advanced position in "Wisconsin, and to 
 his efforts is mainly traceable the organization 
 of tbe Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association. 
 He was named its first President but declined 
 in favor of the successful candidate, Mr. Dadd. 
 He rendered efficient service in securing the 
 enactment of tbe State Pharmacy Law, and he 
 has been identified with tiie administration of 
 the same in his capacity of member of the 
 Board of Pharmacy, on which he is still serv- 
 ing. (1889.) Associated with others, lie se- 
 cured the establishment of a Department of 
 Pliarmacy in the State University at Madison, 
 and, in addition to his efi'urts in Wisconsin, he 
 has taken an active interest in the affairs of 
 National Pharmacy. In 1885 he was elected 
 Vice-President of the American Pharmaceuti- 
 cal Association and in 1886 President uf the 
 National Retail Druggists' Association. In 
 point of interest and eifort in the advancement 
 of the dignity of his business, Mr. Ilollister is 
 second to none. Therein he disjilays his 
 energy and ability and his efforts have been 
 supplemented by the success his perseverance 
 deserves. In all respects he is a man who is a 
 credit and honor to the citizenshij) of Wis- 
 consin. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 267 
 
 He is prominent in Grand Army matters 
 and sustains an unflagging interest in its well- 
 being. He was made Commander of C. C. 
 Washburn Post when it numbered about 40 
 members, with about $14 in its treasury. Its 
 meetings were in a room in the basement of 
 the Cn])itol and when he handed his posi- 
 tion to iiis successor, it had 100 members, $300 
 and a hall of its own. The first camp-fire dur- 
 ing his administration was a marked success. 
 
 He belongs to all the bodies of Masonry, to 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and is 
 master in the A. O. U. W. He is Treasurer of 
 the Modern Workmen. He is connected with 
 financial matters at Madison, was one of the 
 organizers of the Capital City Bank and is 
 still one of its directors. He has extended his 
 business interests beyond the place of his resi- 
 dence and is interested in a drug and jewelry 
 business in the famed city of Hurley and has 
 also mining relations in the north part of the 
 State. He is also a director in the North 
 Western Building and Loan Association at 
 Madison. Dr. Hollister was the first to suggest 
 the feasibility of the Monona Lake Assembly 
 and took the initiatory in establishing the or- 
 ganization at Madison. He was at the head of 
 its management until it became a recognized 
 and permanent success. He has been many 
 years prominently connected with Sunday 
 School work. His portrait is given on page 
 2G4. 
 
 He was married in 1864 to Jenny, a daugh- 
 ter of Cyrus and Mary (McDuffie) Farnsworth, 
 now living in Darien, aged respectively 86 and 
 77 years. Mrs. Hollister is a native of Darien, 
 Wis., and All)ert Sherman, only cliild, died 
 June 3, 1873, aged seven years; the demLse of the 
 mother occured in April, 1875. In the fall of 
 1876 Mr. Hollister was married to Kittie E. 
 Van Hoesen. Mrs. Hollister is serving (1890) 
 a second term as President of the Woman's 
 
 Relief Corps. She is a descendant of the Hol- 
 landers who settled on the Hudson River in 
 New York in its earliest period. 
 
 OHN PEIFER, Racine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
 Leisenich, Germany, Feb. 2, 1844. Ger- 
 many was the birth-place of his parents, John 
 P. and Mary Peifer, and they had three chil- 
 dren named Anton, Margaret and John. The 
 family emigrated to the United States in 1855, 
 and the mother died the same year. They 
 located at Milwaukee, where the father lost the 
 use of his eyes and the two sons were placed 
 in the family of Michael Miller, where they 
 remained until tlie recovery of the father, 
 when they were taken to their home and sent 
 to school until John was 14 years old, when he 
 engaged as a farm assistant and remained in 
 that business until he entered the army. 
 Aug. 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 22d 
 Wisconsin Infantry, at .Janesville, Wis. From 
 the rendezvous at that place he went to Cin- 
 cinnati, (threatened and alarmed by the move- 
 ments of Kirby Smith), crossed the Ohio to 
 Covington, went into Camp Bloodgood, to 
 Camp Smith, Camp Gilmore, Eagle Creek and 
 to Lexington, and after the 31st of October 
 was assigned to the 1st Brigade under Coburn, 
 and to the 1st Division of Granger's Army of 
 the Kentucky. They went successively to 
 Nicholasville and Danville, to Louisville and to 
 Nashville, going after two weeks to Brentwood 
 Station, marched to Franklin, and on the 3d 
 of March moved in the direction of Spring 
 Hill to find out what the rebels were trying to 
 do. All the previous movements through 
 Northern Kentucky were for the purpose of 
 ascertaining the probable plans of Bragg and 
 Morgan, and after the terrific action and ter- 
 
268 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 rible loss of 1,100 men from the command at 
 Thomjjson's Station, on tlie 25th of March, they 
 were surprised at Brentwood Station by 
 Forrest at daylight and the force of several 
 hundred were all taken jirisoners. Tiiey were 
 taken to Columbia, thence to Tullahoma and 
 loaded like cattle on box cars, arriving at 
 Libby Prison to remain a day. They went to 
 Fortress Monroe and to Annapolis, where they 
 received clean clothes and started for St. Louis 
 to await exchange. Mr. Peifer went liome on 
 a furlough and joined his regiment aiter ex- 
 change at St. Louis about June 1, 1803. They 
 went to Franklin and thence to Murfreesboro 
 where they performed garrison duty about 
 nine months. At Resaca, in the forward 
 movement to Atlanta, Mr. Peifer was wounded, 
 a Ijullet bitting him in the leg and it is still 
 there. One of his comrades, the " file cover," 
 immediately behind him was killed and 
 15 wounded. He went to hospital on the 
 field, thence to Nashville, Louisville and St. 
 Louis, and to Madison, Wis., and wiien re- 
 covered joined tiie regiment again at Atlanta 
 as it was about to move in the march to the sea. 
 He accompanied, acting as train escort and 
 forage scout and was in the siege of Savannah, 
 going after the surrender of the city to the 
 several points of notoriety in the Carolinas, 
 being at Averysboro, Goldsboro, Raleigh, and 
 going, after Johnston's surrender to Riclimond 
 and to camp at Alexandria, wiience he went 
 to the Review and was mustered out June 12, 
 18G5. After his return to Racine, Mr. Peifer 
 was a clerk in a grocery uliout two years and 
 then entered the woolen mill of Blake & Com- 
 pany, and is now in the finishing department. 
 His industry, efficiency and relial)ility liave 
 made iiim a valuable adjunct to tlie firm, wiio 
 accord to him the highest degree of confi- 
 dence. He was married July 17, 1865, at 
 Milwaukee, to Catherine E., daughter of 
 
 Nicholas and Wallnirga (Mertz) Ladrach. Her 
 fatiier was born in Berne, Switzerland, and 
 came to America in 1845, locating at Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, whence he moved to Waukesha, 
 Wis., and died there. The mother also died 
 there. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ladracli 
 were named John, Mary, Catherine and Wil- 
 liam. Mary and William are deceased. The 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Peifer were named 
 Mary E., Catherine, John J., William P., Dora 
 and George H. William and George are liv- 
 ing and an adopted daughter in the family is 
 named Veronica. 
 
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 1 
 
 Cx EWIS ROLLOW, Genoa Junction, 
 '^^ ^\'is., nieml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 27, 
 y^ a merchant and a prominent citizen 
 of the locality where he resides, was born in 
 Monroe, Mich., Nov. 27, 1S37. His parents, 
 Lewis and Adeline Sopina (Theresa) Rollow, 
 were both l)orn in (Janada, and the father 
 represented a line of ancestors who had been 
 for more than 200 years residents of Montreal. 
 The grandfather, Lewis Rollow, was a tanner 
 nnd passed his entire life in that city. The 
 father, Lewis Rollow, was a shoemaker, and, 
 when about 21 years of age, located in the city 
 of Rochester, N. Y., where he worked at his 
 trade and bought land, repeating that business 
 in Monroe, Mich., where he located a consider- 
 able quantity of land. He was married in 
 Rochester in 1834, and two years after went to 
 Monroe, and after that lived alternately in 
 Monroe and Rochester, attending to his pro- 
 jirietary interests. He was born in Montreal in 
 1812, and died in Rochester in 1857. The 
 mother was the daughter of Peter and So])hia 
 Theresa, who were farmers of St. Johns, near 
 Montreal. She is still living at Genoa Junc- 
 tion. She is the survivor of two daughters, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 269 
 
 and her three sons are still living. Frank and 
 Charles Hollow are farmers in Hiawatha, 
 Brown Co., Kansas. Peter Theresa, uncle of 
 Ml'. Rollow, came in early life to the United 
 States and enlisted in the Seminole war. 
 
 When he was 14 years old, Mr. Rollow had 
 become a practical boot and shoemaker. At 
 that age he went to Erie, Pa., and worked three 
 years ; went thence to Buffalo, and after four 
 years commenced the life of a journeyman 
 mechanic and went successively to Albany, 
 Syracuse and New York city, returning again 
 to Rochester. He came to Genoa Junction in 
 1862. Soon after, he went to Lake Geneva, 
 where he enlisted Aug. 11, 18G2, in Company 
 C, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Utley. He 
 went from rendezvous at Racine to the Ohio 
 River, and immediately after reaching Cincin- 
 nati, crossed to the Kentucky side and passed 
 the time from September 18th to December 
 12th in looking after the whereabouts and 
 maneuvers of Morgan and other guerrilla chiefs 
 until the date last named, when the regiment 
 went to Danville. There they received orders 
 to proceed to Nashville, and went thence via 
 Louisville, Fort Donelson and Franklin, Tenn., 
 and while reconnoitering for Van Dorn, they 
 came up with him at Spring Hill, March 3d. 
 During the next two days the activities were 
 lively, and on the Hftli, two-thirds of tlie com- 
 mand were captured, including 11 commis- 
 sioned officers. A part of the 22d, under the 
 Lieutenant Colonel — IMoodgood — escaped, and 
 while trying to make their waj' to Franklin, 
 encountered a colored camp, where instructions 
 were obtained. Arriving there they were re- 
 organized by Bloodgood and proceeded to guard 
 the station at Brentwood, where they received a 
 morning call from Forrest, March 25th, and 
 were nearly all captured before breakfast. They 
 went to Columbia, where they were paroled, 
 taken to TuUahoma, where they were deprived 
 
 of all equipments and clothing ; sent thence to 
 Richmond, and after a short detention at 
 Libby, went to Fortress Monroe, were placed on 
 a truce boat and taken to Annapolis. Thence, 
 after receiving the supplies their necessities de- 
 manded, they went to St. Louis. While 
 awaiting exchange, Mr. Rollow took a fur- 
 lough, and, after being at home three 
 weeks, was summoned to his command 
 which went, after re-organization, to Franklin 
 and Nashville, going afterwards to Murfrees- 
 boro, passing about seven months in military 
 duty of diversified character. At Murfrees- 
 boro the regiment was assigned to the 2d 
 Brigade, 3d Division and 20th Army Corps. 
 Mr. Rollow, with the command, started on the 
 campaign on the Chattanooga River. He 
 was in the fight at Resaca and in the activities 
 and skirmishes of daily occurrence at Dallas 
 and Kenesaw until .Tune 16th, when, at Lost 
 Mountain, near Golgotha Church, he was 
 wounded, a minie ball taking off the thumb 
 and little finger of the right hand. He was 
 sent to hospital at Chattanooga, three days 
 later went to Nashville and later to George- 
 town and thence to I^ouisville where he re- 
 mained in hospital until discharged as perma- 
 nently disal)led Nov. 19, 1864. He returned 
 to Genoa .Junction where he worked at his 
 trade and in 1868 went to Salem, Kenosha 
 county. Ten years after he returned to Genoa 
 Junction, where he embarked in his present 
 commercial enterprise, dealing in boots and 
 shoes and gentlemen's furnishing goods. 
 
 He was married in Wheatland, Kenosha 
 Co., Wis., I^ec. 24, 1864, to Hattie, daughter of 
 Pbilo and Elizabeth (Harrington) Darling. 
 She was born in Dutchess Co., New York, 
 of old New York stock. Her father was a 
 farmer and located in Wisconsin in Kenosha 
 county in 1849. In 1850 he removed to Mound 
 Prairie, Walworth county, where he died in 
 
270 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 February, 1888. The mother died previously. 
 The only brother of Mrs. Rollow, was a soldier 
 in the 8th Iowa Iiifaiitrj'. Two cliildren born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Rollow died in infancy, leav- 
 ing tliem childless. Mrs. Rollow is prominent 
 in the Woman's Relief Corps, and, with her 
 liusband, is active in all matters pertaining to 
 tiie interests of the soldiers. Both are welcome 
 members of the society in which they move 
 and are esteemed for their interest in moral 
 and social affairs. 
 
 11. BURDICK, City Editor of the 
 Lake Geneva News, Wis., member 
 • of U. A. 11. Post No. 27, was born at 
 Edmunson, Otsego Co., New York, July 24, 
 1839. His parents, Solomon C. and Martha M. 
 (Crandall) Burdick, were born respectively in 
 Rhode Island and New York. The family 
 originated in England. The grandfather, 
 Joseph Burdick, was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion. The grandsire Crandall was a miller 
 by vocation and the senior Burdick was a 
 cabinet maker. The latter removed his family 
 to Linn, Walworth county, in Wisconsin, in 
 June, 1843, and engaged in his calling of cabinet 
 maker, in which he has since been occupied, 
 and himself and wife are among the most 
 liighly regarded members of society at Lake 
 Geneva. Tiiej' are in a green old age, and 
 their good and useful lives have won for them 
 the enduring regard of the community to which 
 they have so long belonged. They are aged 
 respectively 77 and 7G years. (1889.) Six 
 of their cliildren survive, and the sketch of 
 another son, who was a soldier in the same 
 command with Mr. C. IL Burdick, appears on 
 another page. 
 
 When he was seven years old the parents of 
 Mr. Burdick removed to Wisconsin ami ho 
 
 worked as a farm assistant on his father's place 
 and attended school winters until he was 16 
 years old, when he became a student at the 
 academy at Genoa, after which he studied at 
 the academy at Walworth. He left his studies 
 in 18G0, and, June 2, 1861, he was married to 
 Almina M., daughter of Kiah and Emily 
 (Ward) Bailey, a native of Vermont. The 
 newly married people located on a farm m 
 Linn, Walworth county, and the husband was 
 an agriculturist until he determined to enter 
 the military service of the United States. He 
 enlisted Nov. 23, 1863, in Company F,'4th Wis- 
 consin Regiment, which was then at Baton 
 Rouge and had received equestrian equipments 
 and become a cavalry command. Baton Rouge 
 was headquarters for the command during the 
 succeeding months, and Mr. Burdick engaged 
 in almost const^ant scouting, skirmishing and 
 raiding, and in other dutj' incident to cavalry 
 service until June 27, 1864, when orders were 
 received to move to Morganzia, and from that 
 point the same service was performed, operat- 
 ing against the forces of Taylor as a cavalry 
 command. The activities were incessant and 
 Mr. Burdick remained with his company until 
 August, when be was sent to hospital at Baton 
 Rouge on account of injuries and consequent 
 illness. He was ordered thence to Madison, 
 where he was under treatment until he was dis- 
 charged under the General Order which re- 
 lieved all men permanently disabled, and he 
 was discharged June 9, 1865. He went back 
 to Walworth and, as soon as able, entered the 
 service of a Chicago house in the capacity of 
 traveling salesman, in which he was occupied 
 until 1872, when he became a salesman in the 
 furniture establishment of his fatiier at Lake 
 Geneva. He sustained his relations with his 
 father two years, when he became associated 
 with the management of the News as stated. 
 Mr. Burdick is a man of fine intellectual capa- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 271 
 
 city, which has been recognized in his poetical 
 efforts, some of wliich liave become well and 
 widely known and have elicited favorable 
 commendation. lie is the society correspond- 
 ent of the Inter-Ocean of Chicago and has con- 
 tributed many articles to the publications of 
 Frank Leslie. He has also been an accepted 
 contributor to the Voung Follcs and to t]ie Ourrent 
 at Chicago. Mr. Burdick contemplates issuing 
 a collected volume of hi.s poems for the benefit 
 of his friends. 
 
 To him and his wife seven children have 
 been born, three daughters and four sons. A 
 daughter died in infancy and a son at tlie age 
 of 14 yei\rs. Hugh A. Burdick is associated 
 in the practice of law with J. B. Simmons of 
 Lake Geneva; Emma is a teacher ; Martha A., 
 Ralph H. and Paul C. complete the list of sur- 
 viving children. 
 
 Mr. Burdick is an active Grand Army man 
 and has been a member of the Order of Odd 
 Fellows since 1S02 ; he also belongs to the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. In all these 
 organizations he has held positions of responsi- 
 bility and trust; in civil life he has officiated as 
 City Clerk. It is wholly unnecessary for a 
 biographer to add an elaborate qualification of 
 the character of Mr. Burdick. He is a man of 
 whom a simple account of his career suffices as 
 a testimonial of the highest character. 
 
 IRAM A. HOWARD, White Creek, 
 \^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 19, was born Feb. 19, 1844, at Me- 
 nomonee, Waukesha Co., Wis. Isaac and 
 Lucy (Holiday) Howard, his parents, were 
 born respectively in the States of New York 
 and Vermont, and both grandsires were sol- 
 diers of the war of 1812, and descended from 
 fathers who fought in the Revolution. They 
 
 were also connected with the York State 
 militia. The senior Howard removed his 
 interests to Wisconsin in 1841, and himself and 
 wife died in Menomonee. Mr. Howard is the 
 eldest of their 10 children. Louisa, Abram S., 
 Irena, Edwin S., (deceased), Lavina, Euphan, 
 James, Jane E. and Charles H. are the names 
 of the other children. The father was a 
 farmer and a ^uarryman and the son was 
 reared to both callings. His father became 
 Ijlind and his mother fell into ill healtii, and 
 their responsibilities devolved on him as old- 
 est son, and in his early youth he acquired 
 the self reliance and energy which have 
 formed his character. When he was 18 years 
 old he enlisted at Menomonee Aug. 19, 1862, 
 in Company A, 28th Wisconsin Infantry. He 
 was mustered at Milwaukee, his regiment go- 
 ing thence to Columbus, Ky., exjiecting imme- 
 diate service for whicli they were forwarded 
 without delay to Union City but returned with- 
 out seeing Forrest, who was never found where 
 he was expected. Their next principal move- 
 ment was to Helena, Ark., thence to the White 
 River, Duvall's Bluff, Helena, Yazoo Pass and 
 Helena, where Mr. Howard was in an ex- 
 traordiiiary conflict. The repulse at Helena 
 was a victory over which commanders 
 wrangled, but the volunteer soldiers of the 
 Union proved of what stuff they were made 
 by whipping decisively a force at least three 
 times as great and forcing the enemy to leave 
 their dead and wounded on the field; the Union 
 soldiers burying the former and giving the 
 latter all jwssible attention. Mr. Howard was 
 witii his regiment at Little Rock, went to 
 Duvall's Blufi', chased Marmaduke to the 
 Washita River, and joined Colonel Clayton's 
 command at Pine Bluff and went into winter 
 quarters. He went under the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel to the Saline River expedition which 
 sustained an attack from 1,500 rebels at Mount 
 
272 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Elba. He was in a second expedition to the 
 same point and returned to Pine Bluff to re- 
 main until the last day of November, 1864, 
 when he went witli the regiment to Little ! 
 Rock. He went again to Mount Elba, returned 
 to Little Rock and went to New Orleans to 
 connect with the movements against the de- I 
 fences of Mobile. He was in the terrible 
 march to Fish River and went to duty in the 
 trenches at S})anish Fort, being constantly ex- 
 posed to rebel shot and shell until the surren- 
 der on the night of April Sth, after wbieh the 
 command moved on the double quick to 
 Blakely to find it already occupied by the 
 Federal troops. Thence, the 28th went up 
 into Alabama where Dick Taylor with his 
 gunboats was building breastworks, and after 
 the surrender, the regiment went with the gun- 
 boats, back to Mobile. On the last day of May 
 they went to join the troops in Texas, landed 
 at Brazos Santiago, went to Clarksville and 
 Brownsville on the Rio Grande and were mus- 
 tered out Aug. "23, 1865. Mr. Howard was 
 sometimes quite sick but he never lost a day of 
 service nor went to hospital. He was de- 
 tached and placed on the Pioneer Corps, per- 
 forming excessively hard dut}- in prei)aring 
 the way for the march to and in front of the 
 intrenchments at Spanish Fort, which were of 
 peculiarly aggravating character, trees having 
 been felleil and interwoven, forming an almost 
 impassable barrier. 
 
 After leaving tlie army Mr. Howard re- 
 turned to Menomonee, where he engaged in 
 farming until about 1870, when he went to 
 Clay Center, Clay Co., Kansas, and engaged in 
 farming there until about 1873. He went 
 thence to Milwaukee and o]>erated in the in- 
 terests of Sanger, Rockwell it Co. some years. 
 He returned to Menomonee where he resumed 
 operations as a quarryman in which enterprise 
 he found abundant success and which he con- 
 
 ducted until April, 1889, when he removed to 
 Waukesha. 
 
 In the spring of 1890 he located at White 
 Creek, where lie is occupied as a merchant and 
 hotel keeper. He has one of the best of 
 records as a soldier and citizen. 
 
 He was married at Menomonee, March 1, 
 1866, to Eliza, daughter of George and Nancy 
 (Pickle) Church, a native of Huron, Wayne 
 Co., New York. Her mother was born in the 
 the Mohawk valley and lier father in Vermont. 
 Both belonged to old families of Eastern stock, 
 the one being of Scotch-Irish descent and the 
 other of Holland Dutch extraction. The 
 record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Howard 
 is as follows: Rachel E. died in infancy ; 
 Emma married George Nefl"; Alfred and 
 Stephen H. are students ; Esther is the 
 youngest flower of the household. Mr. 
 Howard is Adjutant of his Post. (1890). He 
 is an active worker in his society relations, 
 which include a membership of 25 years in the 
 Order of Good Templars. He has acted six 
 times as Delegate to the Grand Lodge, has been 
 several times Di.strict Delegate and also Na- 
 tional Delegate. He and his wife belong to 
 the M. E. Church at Waukesha. 
 
 '^^"AMES FORNCROOK, Watertown, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
 born in Herkimer Co., New York, Aug. 
 11, 1839. His father, William L. Forncrook, 
 was a mechanic and his sou inherited his tastes 
 in that respect. The senior Forncrook married 
 Sallie Waterman and resided in the Empire 
 State until 1856, when he removed to Wiscon- 
 sin and changed his calling to that of a farmer. 
 Mr. Forncrook of this sketch became a compe- 
 tent machinist and carpenter, in which two- 
 fold callings he passed his life until the war. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 273 
 
 In 1863, he was drafted and, dreading to take 
 a part in the struggle under compulsion, he 
 paid the commutation, fee of three hundred 
 dollars. Not finding the contemplation of his 
 seeming sliirking of duty to his country agree- 
 able, he determined to enlist, although he had 
 furnished a better man in his place. .Jan. 4, 
 1SG4, with a brother and three brothers-in-law, 
 he enrolled as a soldier in Company D, 35th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, as a recruit. They joined 
 their regiment at Milwaukee and went to St. 
 Louis and thence to New Orleans by transport, 
 and went into camp at Fort Hudson. After 
 six weeks they went to Morganzia Bend, where 
 they awaited orders. The regiment was suf- 
 fering greatly from disease induced by the con- 
 dition of the country through wliich they had 
 passed and their hardships. They went thence 
 on the White River e.xpedition and performed 
 military duty at St. Charles, returning to Mor- 
 ganzia Bend. Later, they went up the river to 
 Duvall's Bluff, remaining there in winter quar- 
 ters. During this time, Mr. Fornerook went 
 on an expedition to Brownsville, near Little 
 Rock, where he performed duty a month, 
 returning to Duvall's Bluff. Their next move 
 was to take part in the attack on the defenses 
 of Mobile and participated in the work of 
 building a road to make their way there possi- 
 ble. He was on duty in the trenches 13 days 
 through tiie siege and capture of Spanish Fort 
 and marched on the run to aid at Blakely, which 
 capitulated about the time of their arrival. 
 They went thence again to Spanish Fort and 
 soon after to Mobile, and thence to Whistler's 
 Station to assist in dispersing the rebels. A 
 week later they went up the Tombigby River 
 to Mannahubba Bluff, where they learned of 
 the capture of the chief of the confederacy. 
 Their next move was to Mcintosh's Bluff' where 
 they proceeded to build a fort, and when Dick 
 Taylor surrendered and the fleet of guuboats 
 
 came into the possession of the Union soldiers, 
 they returned on them to Mobile where they 
 spent some time. In June, 1865, they went to 
 Te.xas, landing at Brazos de Santiago. Tliey 
 went next to Clarksville at the moutii of the 
 Rio Grande, and celebrated the National holi- 
 day on the extreme southern limit of the 
 United States. They went thence to Browns- 
 ville, there passed the fall and winter, and Mr. 
 Fornerook was in a detail on duty on a trans- 
 port. March 15, 1866, he was mustered out 
 and returned to Madison for final discharge. 
 His brother, William H. Fornerook, served in 
 the same command. 
 
 After his return he resumed his business and 
 is senior member of the firm of Fornerook & 
 Co., a house which is engaged in manufactur- 
 ing. His marriage to Frank M. Baker of 
 Pipersville, Wis., took place Nov. 4, 1860. Mr. 
 Fornerook has been an out-and-out Republican 
 since the day he cast his first vote for Lincoln. 
 He contracted a species of scurvy in the army 
 which still troubles him and also disease of the 
 kidneys. 
 
 /f^^ FORGE BUB, Watertown, Wis., mem- 
 1 / j|V ber of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was born 
 
 ^<^>^ in Alsace, France, April 14, 1840. 
 His parents, Jacob and Madeline, (Folger) Bub, 
 were both French in descent and emigrated to 
 America in 1854, when their son was 14 years 
 old. They settled iu Watertown soon after 
 reaching this country, where they lived, and 
 their son was there brought up a farmer, in 
 which calling he was occupied until he entered 
 the army. He enlisted Jan. 2, 1862, in Com- 
 pany K, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, and, after drill- 
 ing and performing preliminary military duty 
 at Janesville, in rendezvous, he accompanied 
 the regiment to St. Louis, March 26th, and 
 thence to Leavenworth, where cavalry equip- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ments were received and the cumiiaiiies dis- 
 tributed ill three battalions, Company K being 
 assigned to the Third. Witli otliers it remained 
 at Leavenworth, wlierc some nioiiths were 
 passed in scouting and fighting tlie guerrillas 
 of Quantrell. In Sei)teiiiber he went to Fort 
 Scott to connect with the Army of the Frontier. 
 He was tliere occupied in the same service and 
 *was in the fight at Cane Hill or Prairie Grove. 
 In .September and October, lS6o, he was in the 
 activities whicli took place, with \'an Buren, 
 Ark., as headquarters, and which included two 
 raids on Waldron, Mr. Bub assisting in driving ; 
 and disj)ersing the rebel Indians, and they ( 
 fought Colonel Brook and Colonel Alexander, 
 capturing the latter, and in trying to capture 
 some Indians, in fuil charge, the horse of Mr. 
 Bub fell, and he received the injury which 
 caused anchylosis of the ankle joint. The com- 
 pany passed the winter at \'aii Buren, and in 
 January Mr. Bub and the rest of the coinpany * 
 re-enlisted. He had been promoted to Corporal, 
 and after taking a 30-day fuilough, he rejoined 
 liis regiment at St. Louis, where he was taken 
 sick July Gth. The injuries to his left limb 
 asserted themselves, and he was oliliged to 
 take a rest from military duty of nearly a 
 month at St. Louis, and he was left there 
 by the regiment. He was not mustered 
 under his re-enlistment and returned to Wis- 
 consin. On his way he began to consider that 
 he was a well man, save the injury to hi^ limb, 
 which only troubled him at intervals, and on 
 arrival at Chicago he determined to enter a 
 service where he woulil be free from hardsiiips 
 of march and field, and he enlisted in the naval 
 service, enrolling on the boat Peri, a patrol on 
 the Mississippi River between Natchez and the 
 Red River. In this he remained until the 
 end of the war, engaged in almost constant 
 activity defending the boat from ambushed 
 foes on the river bank and fighting guerrilla 
 
 squads, who frequently api)eared and attacked 
 them. He was discharged in June, 1865, at 
 Mouud City, 111. 
 
 After his return to Wisconsin, he engaged in 
 the numufacture of wooden shoes, in which he 
 continued 17 years, and since has been var- 
 iously occupied. He was married in October, 
 1865, to Rosalie Klinkcr, and they have nine 
 children, named Eugene, George, Flora, Ed- 
 mund, Richard, Alfonce, Alexander, Cornelia 
 and Otto. Mr. Bub is a member of St. Henry's 
 Benevolent Society. 
 
 
 /^^ DWARD HUGHS JONES, Watertown, 
 =^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 0. D. 
 
 ^■^ — -* Pease, was born Dec. '25, 1820, in 
 Marcy, Oneida Co., New York. His father, 
 Ebenezer Jones, was born in ^\'ak's and came 
 to America prior to marriage with Martha 
 Hughs. He was a farmer and reared his 
 family on the farm. The mother was of mixed 
 Welsii and English stock and descended from 
 ancestors who were prominent in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. Mr. Jones was inarrieil to Mary 
 Bryant in Utica, New York, Dec, 2-1, 1842, and, 
 six years later, they began life in the Badger 
 State on a farm in the town of Bennett, in 
 Dodge county. Mrs. Jones is a relative of the 
 poet Bryant, and is lineally descended from 
 Miles Standish. 
 
 Oct. 10, 1864, Mr. Jones enlisted in Battery 
 (J, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artilleiy, ami was imis- 
 tere<i into service November 1st following. On 
 the 12lh he left the State for duty at Fort Lyon, 
 one of the defenses of Washington, and, after a 
 few weeks, was transferred to Fort Ellsworth. 
 He drilled as a liglit and heavy artilleiyman 
 and also became familiar with light infantry 
 tactics, adding to the tiiree-fold labors the duty 
 of the camj) and guard. Sometimes, even then, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 275 
 
 a restless spirit prevailed which led to adven- 
 tures. Oil one occasion a foraging party dis- 
 covered a wareliouse on the Potomac and they 
 crawled under it from the river side. With an 
 auger they investigated the floor and finally 
 struck an object and continued to bore. Sud- 
 denly a stream of molasses poured down, with 
 which they filled their canteens and went away, 
 leaving (lie molasses flowing. It was discovered^ 
 and also in the empty barrel was found the ' 
 body of a young negro girl, fearfully mutilated 
 and gashed. Conjecture invented a theory of 
 the deed being done where the molasses was 
 made, but a sure result was that many appetites 
 were spoiled permanently for molasses, among 
 them being that of Mr. Jones. He saw tiie 
 funeral of the girl, which was conducted l)y the 
 colored people. 
 
 Mr. Jones was on duty on the night of the ' 
 assassination of the President and watched the 
 signal lights on the hills on the Maryland side 
 and on Arlington Heights, as well as the rock- 
 ets that were fired from the Cajiital. The next 
 daj', a merchant from Alexandria asked several 
 members of a Pennsylvania regiment if they 
 were not glad the President was killed. As 
 answer they scattered his merchandise, dragged 
 him from beneath a bed, where he sought 
 secrecy, and delivered him to the j)roper 
 authorities. A little before the fall of Rich- 
 mond, the rebel pickets approached so near the 
 pickets near the Blue Ri<lge mountains that 
 the}' could talk, and some of the former came 
 across and traded tobacco, sugar and coffee with 
 the man who was stationed within one of Mr. 
 Jones. Not long after, a rumor of the approach 
 of Mosby became general and the command of 
 Mr. Jones was ordered back to tiie fort. In the 
 haste he fell, the sleety rain having rendered 
 secure foothold impossible, and injured his 
 right knee. He took his position at his gun, 
 but could not carry amunition and was trans- 
 
 ferred to serve the lanyard, which he did, while 
 several rounds were fired in the direction of the 
 supposed enemy. But the alarm was a false 
 one, Mosb}' being nowhere in that vicinity. 
 After the assassination of Lincoln, the injured 
 knee of Mr. .lones became worse and he was 
 ordered to the hospital. He went next to the 
 general liospital at Alexandria and thence to 
 Washington, where he was discharged in 1865. 
 He was on crutches for many months and has 
 a permanent lameness. Sept. 1, 1883, he quit 
 farming and rented the place, not being capable 
 of active labor from his injury. Since the in- 
 auguration of President Harrison he has ap- 
 plied for a pension. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had seven children, 
 four of whom are deceased. Their two sons 
 and a daughter are married and settled in the 
 West, leaving the parents alone. 
 
 yry^J/TiLLXAM W. CRANDALL, Chip- 
 pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. 
 ^3tL A. R. Post No. 68, was born in 
 Marion, Wayne Co., New York, March 30, 1825. 
 His father, John Plancock Crandall, was born 
 May 20, 1781, in Berkshire Co., Mass., and liis 
 wife, Elizabeth Calhoun before marriage, was 
 born at New Salem, Mass., Sept. 3, 1794, of 
 Scotch lineage. They died at Homer, Mich., 
 respectively in 1853 and 1865. John Crandall, 
 grandfather of William, was a soldier of the 
 Revolution, and fougiit through the entire 
 course of that war, being a j)ortion of the time 
 attaclied to the personal service of General 
 Washington ; he was born in Massachusetts of 
 Welsh descent; William Crandall is one of 10 
 children born to his parents as follows: — Oscar 
 F., Hannah (deceased), Horace (deceased), 
 Maria, Delora, William, Joseph, Mary, John S. 
 and Amanda F. 
 
276 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 The family removed to Homer, Mich., in 
 1836, and the son remained nnder parental 
 authority until he reached his majority and 
 attended common school until he was about "20 
 years old. He was then sent to the Academy 
 at Albion and in 1847 went to Chicago, engag- 
 ing as a bookkeeper for five years. Ho went 
 thence to a situation as a salesman in McIIenry, 
 111., and, five years later, he went thence to 
 Chi])pewa Falls, locating on a farm and was 
 occupied with agriculture until he entered the 
 army. Dec. 22, 1863, he enlisted, was mus- 
 tered Jan. 7, 1864, into Company A, 7th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, and went from Camp Rtmdal! 
 in February to join the regiment at Culpeper, 
 making connection therewith on the 27th, 
 becoming a member of the 1st Brigade, 4th 
 Division and 5th Army Corps. May 3d, the 
 command moved from Culpeper, crossed the 
 Rapidan and, on the morning of May 5th, Mr. 
 Crandall faced actual war for the first time at 
 the Battle of the Wildernes.s, and witnessed 
 and shared the horrors of a terrible conflict, in 
 which his immediate command suffered fear- 
 fully. He was in the continuous fight of the 
 successive days, in which the ofticers obtained 
 no chance to remove their swords or clothing 
 (see sketch of Colonel W. W. Robinson), fought 
 at Laurel Hill and at Spottsylvania on the 
 12th, in the "Bloody Angle," and returned to 
 Laurel Hill. May 13th, the command swung 
 to the left and crossed the North Anna River, 
 recrossed the second night afterwards, swing- 
 ing about to the left to the Pamunky, fought 
 at Cold Harbor June 3d, cros.sed after a few 
 days and moved to the Chickahominy and 
 camped for a time and crossed the James at 
 Wilcox' Landing. Thej' took position in the 
 trenches before Petersburg, June ISlb, and en- 
 countered the terrific experiences of the siege 
 until March 28, 1865, one of the most unap- 
 proachable experiences in the whole history of 
 
 the Nations of the earth. (See sketch of C. K. 
 Pier.) Mr. Crandall went to the Weldon rail- 
 road and was in the action at Yellow Tavern 
 and fought three days, aiding in taking the 
 rebel works. He wss in the subsequent move- 
 ments on the Weldon railroail and in action at 
 Hatcher's Run in February, 1S65. March 
 ■28th, the movement for the aggressive began 
 and on the 31st the battle of Gravelly Run 
 was fought. April 1st, Mr. Crandall was in 
 the action at Five Forks, which was the last 
 general engagement of his Corps. He was on 
 detached duty at the time, but obtained a 
 Spencer rifle and went into the hottest of the 
 fight ; he with others rescued Albert Connor 
 of Company A. (See sketch.) Pursuit of Lee 
 followed, occasional skirmishing occurring un- 
 til A]>pomattox was reached on the morning of 
 April ittli and Lee surrendered about four 
 o'clock in the afternoon. Afterwards the 
 lirigade marched liack to Black and White's 
 Station, camped, and guarded and repaired the 
 Petersburg & Lynchburg railroad two weeks, 
 went to Mechanicsville opposite Richmond, 
 crossed the James River on pontoons, passed 
 through the citj' and marched to Arlington 
 Heights, camping there until June 15th. Mr. 
 Crandall marched in the Grand Review and 
 left on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad with the 
 " Provisional Division" of General Morrow for 
 Texas, but only went as far as Louisville, going 
 into camp at Cold Springs near Jeilersonville, 
 Ind. He was mustered out July 2d, and 
 started for Wisconsin, taking final leave of 
 military life when paid at Madison on the 13th. 
 He was unable to labor until 1867 when he 
 engaged in farming. In 1S71, ho was elected 
 Register of Deeds for Chipj)ewa county and 
 served two terms. In 1875, he entered the 
 County Clerk's office as Deputy, and otticiated 
 in that capacity seven years, when ho was ap- 
 pointed In' the County Board to fill the vacancy 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 277 
 
 caused by the death of the Cbunty Clerk and 
 served a year. In January, 1883, he was a]> 
 pointed Postmaster at Chippewa Falls by Presi- 
 dent Arthur and he held the position four 
 years and two months. In January, 1SS9, lie 
 received the appointment of Deputy County 
 Treasurer. 
 
 April 26, 1852, he was married at Crystal 
 Lake, 111., to Amy, daughter of John and 
 Elizabeth Phillips, and their children are John 
 C, Mary, Lillie, James \V., William Pitt, and 
 Eugene Y. Mary and Pitt are deceased. 
 Lillie is the wife of William Fowler. Mr. 
 Crandall is a member of the Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and is a Rejmblican. 
 
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 /^^ EOPtGE J. TIIUM, Menomonie, Wis., 
 w /,,^ j' ^ member of C4. A. R. Post No. 58. 
 ^>«s=^^ was born July 15, 1837, in Nickers- 
 hausen, Germany, the son of George and 
 Mary (Haffner) Tiium. Annie, Louisa and 
 George were all the children, the latter being 
 the oldest, and he remained in his native land 
 until 16, subjected to the requirements of law 
 which controls the training of every male 
 child. In 1853 he came to the United States 
 on a sailing vessel aud landed at the port of 
 New York in March. He proceeded thence to 
 Buffalo and, six months later, went to Dane 
 Co., Wis., and engaged in farming. He went 
 uext toCreston, Minn., and a year later to Jack- 
 son Co., Wis., and there enlisted in the first 
 year of the war. He enrolled as a soldier of 
 the United Sttites Sept. 17, 18(;l, and was mus- 
 tered in, October 14th following, in Company 
 G, 10th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment 
 left the State November 9th, and was assigned 
 to the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and Corps of 
 Thomas. The company of Mr. Thum was 
 early in one of the most important services 
 
 which the regiment accomplished — that of cut- 
 ting railroad communications, preventing Beau- 
 regard's receiving reinforcements. Mr. Thum 
 was in all the miscellaneous service performed 
 by his command previous to the battle of 
 Perry ville, including the capture of Huntsville, 
 the marching and other movements including 
 guerrilla skirmi.shes, and, October 8th, he 
 fought at Chaplin Hills, where his company 
 lost 25 in killed and wounded. He was next 
 in action at Stone River on the first day and 
 afterwards went to Murfreesboro. He was in 
 the subsequent movements until the battle of 
 Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, and, 
 , after the opening of the fight, his company was 
 detailed to guard provision trains. Tliis was 
 all that saved him from the fate that overtook 
 most of the regiment, which was captured on 
 the 20th. The decimated command remained 
 at Chattanooga, aud in the fight at Mission 
 Ridge, supported Loomis' Battery, and in the 
 ^•eorganization in the spring went to Dalton, 
 Ga., and, after performing railroad duty, went 
 to fight at Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain 
 and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek in the 
 Atlanta campaign. Mr. Thum was in the 
 charge at Atlanta, July 22d, and was in the 
 trenches until the surrender. The command 
 went into the captured citj' and Mr. Thum re- 
 mained there until mustered out Nov. 3, 1864. 
 He had acted as Color Corporal about 18 
 months in Georgia, and in front of Atlanta his 
 company had only seven men fit for duty out 
 of 104, which was the first enlistment, and re- 
 cruits were received three times. He was not 
 reported sick or wounded while in service. 
 
 Mr. Thum returned to Melrose, Jackson 
 county, and engaged three years in farming 
 and lumbering, and in 1868 went to Lucas, 
 Dunn county, to engage in farming on his own 
 property. In 1883 he removed to Menomonie, 
 having been elected Sheriff in the fall of 1882 
 
278 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 on tlie Republican ticket. He served two 
 j'ears and as Under Sheriff two subsequent 
 years. In 1S8S he was again nominated by 
 the Republicans and elected Sheriff, which po- 
 sition he still holds. (1890.) He was married 
 Sei)t. 14, 18G1, at Melro.se, Wis., to Marietta, 
 daughter of Zelotes and Louisa Bliss. Edwin, 
 Mary, William, Henry and George are the 
 names of the children born to them. The 
 daughter is the wife of Ole Wicken. The mother 
 died May oO, 18S3, and Mr. Tiium was again 
 married in 1884 to Clara, daughter of Samuel 
 O. and Sarah (Chauncey) Hughes. Their only 
 child is named Carl. Mr. Tlium is a member 
 of the A. O. U. W. 
 
 OHN T. TINKER, Eau Claire, Wis., 
 member of Eagle Post No. 52, was born 
 Sept. 12, 1833, at St. Stephen.s, N. H.,and 
 is tlie son of Ferdinand and Hannah (Pineo) 
 Tinker. His father was l)orn Feb. 28, 1801, 
 in Ellsworth, Hancock Co., Maine, and his 
 wife was a native of Machias, \\'asliington 
 Co., Maine, born Nov. 7, LSOd The father 
 was a lumberman by profession and lioth 
 parents died in Calais, Maine. Their mar- 
 riage occurred at Calais and they had 13 chil- 
 children. Mr. Tinker of this sketch, passed 
 his youth at home attending school and he 
 learned the business of a millwright. In 1858 
 he went West and made a permanent location 
 at Eau Claire, where he engaged in lumbering 
 the first year, afterwards following his trade 
 and also operated in moving Iniildings. In 
 18G1 he received the appointment of Postr 
 master from President Lincoln and held the 
 position until lie enlisted. He nitere.sted him- 
 self in raising a company, and on organization 
 was made 1st Lieutenant. He was sworn in 
 Jan. 19, 1864, at Madison, in Company H, 
 
 16th Wisconsin Infantry, and went with the 
 recruits for the regiment to Camp Randall. 
 Feb. 26, 18G4, he started for the front at 
 Vicksburg and arrived there March 5th, and 
 on the 22d was ordered to Black River in an- 
 ticipation of a raid. May 4, 1864, the regi- 
 ment started for Clifton, Tenn., and went 
 thence to Huntsville, Decatur, Rome and Ack- 
 worth, Oa., and on going to Kenesaw en- 
 countered the rebels, where the tiring com- 
 menced ; the command formed line of battle 
 and a few days were spent in fortifying, dig- 
 ging rifle pits, etc., and Mr. Tinker j)artici- 
 pated in all the actions known under that 
 name. He was taken sick and sent to hos- 
 pital, joining the regiment two weeks later, 
 August 11th, at the front and was with the 
 command until some weeks later, unable to 
 do duty on account of a sore leg. After the 
 surrender of Atlanta he entered the city with 
 his regiment September 2d, and soon after 
 received a furlough to go home on account of 
 the sickness of his wife. On the expiration of 
 his 30-days' leave he reported at Madison for 
 duty November 1st, and was assigned to ser- 
 vice at Camp Randall. He was then put in 
 charge of drafted men and substitutes to take 
 them to the front to Sherman's command at 
 Atlanta by way of Nashville and Chattanooga, 
 joining the regiment at Mariett^i, Ga. Nov. 
 17, 1864, the 17th Corps started for the .sea and 
 Lieutenant Tinker obtained arms for his re- 
 cruits. On the march he was detailed to com- 
 mand the division of foragers and was in 
 charge of that body on the entire march to 
 Savannah. December 21st the command 
 entered that city, Lieutenant Tinker having 
 been detailed while on the siege to assist in the 
 construction of a fort to command the city, and 
 they mounted a 64-pounder, which performed 
 effective service on the rebel batteries. Janu- 
 ary 5th, the regiment was ordered to Beaufort, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 279 
 
 S. C, by boat, crossed tbe I'iver Coosa and bad , 
 an engagement near Poeotaligo. After leaving 
 tbat place skirmisliing followed in tbe swamps 
 nearly all the time, and they threw up works 
 near Columbia, S. C. Feb. 16, 1865, they ar- 
 rived at Columbia and when they left that 
 vicinity the town was burning. The march ! 
 was continued tlirough ^\'insboro and near i 
 thei'e a soldier from the oOth Illinois was found \ 
 with his brains knocked out and on a paper 
 pinned on his hand were the words, "death to 
 all foragers." This was made known to Sher- 
 man who ordered out some rebel prisoners, 
 made them draw lots and decided in that way 
 who should be shot. He then issued an order 
 that for every forager killed 10 rebels should 
 be shot. The 16th reached Bentonville after | 
 the fight there, went thence to Fayetteville and t 
 took possession of the town after a hard skir- 
 mish. Tbe town with the arsenal was destroyed, 
 and tbe march was resumed to Mill Creek. 
 Thence the command went to Goldsboro where 
 a review was had and the march Northward 
 was resumed, the column going to Raleigh, 
 arriving April l-lth. There the command 
 was reviewed by Grant and Sherman after the 
 surrender of Johnston, and, April 2ijlh, tbe 
 17th Corps moved towards Richmond, racing 
 with the two others. May lOtli Richmond 
 was reached and thence another march to 
 Washington was made. May 20th the regiment 
 went into camp at Alexandria, where Lieuten- 
 ant Tniker was detailed Judge Advocate of a 
 Court Martial. He witnessed the Grand Re- 
 view of tbe several corjis and afterwards was 
 on Court Ahirtial duty until June ITtb, when 
 the tribunal was dissolved by order of General 
 Leggett. Mr. Tinker went home on leave of 
 absence, arriving June 22d. He went thence 
 to Madison and was on duty there at Camp 
 Randall until mustered out Aug. 1, 1865. 
 
 After the M'ar he engaged in operations as a 
 
 millwright and bridge builder and in moving 
 buildings, in which several avenues he has niet 
 with success. He was mari'ied June 3, 1855, 
 at Calais, Maine, to Sarah D., daughter of John 
 Y. and Myra (^^ose) Jones, and following are 
 the names of their children: Mary R., Lizzie 
 T., Fannie and Freddie, (twins), William and 
 Arthur. Mary is married to W. C. Merrill, 
 of Albert Lea, Minn., and Elizabeth is the only 
 other survivor. Mr. Tinker is a Republican 
 in politics. 
 
 ^^ HARLES H. WULLENSAK, Water- 
 town, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 94, was born Oct. 13, 1836, in Al- 
 bany, New York. His ])arents, Charles and 
 Frances (Schneider) Wollensak, were of un- 
 mixed German ancestry and in 1848 removed 
 from the State of New York to Wisconsui, 
 locating on a farm near Watertown where their 
 son assisted his father on the farm as long as 
 bis legal obligations continued, after which he 
 engaged in farming until be entered tbe army. 
 March 23, 1865, he enlisted in Company F, 
 51st Wisconsin Infantry, going into rendezvous 
 at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, and was there 
 engaged in drilling and performing military 
 duty until he was taken sick. He was in tbe 
 hospital under the surgeon's care when his 
 company received orders to proceed to St. Louis 
 to join the several comi^anies of the regiment 
 which iiad already been sent forward and be 
 remained in tbe bospital until somewiiat recov- 
 ered, when be started for the front with Com- 
 pany G. On reaching Chicago the surgeon in 
 charge ordered him to return to Milwaukee 
 where he was finally discharged May 12th. 
 Andrew J. Wollensak, his brother, enlisted 
 Aug. 12, 1862, in Company B, 2'.ltb Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and was connected with the history 
 of that regiment until he was sent to hospital 
 
280 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 at Natchez, Miss., wliere he died of disease, 
 Aug. 13, 1863, a year and a day after enlist- 
 ment. 
 
 On his return to Watertown, Mr. Wollensak 
 again engaged in farming near tiiat phice, tliree 
 miles distant from town on tiie acres on which 
 lie had been a pioneer in his boyhood. He was 
 married Jan. 1, l.S()3, to Louisa Mary Bushell 
 and their children are named ^h^ry Frances, 
 Ida Louisa, Laura Josephine, Stephen Charles, 
 Andrew Jolin, Clara Theresa and Edward Wil- 
 liam. Mr. Wollensak has been Junior Com- 
 mander of his Post and is a member of the 
 Order of St. Henry " Liebes-Freunds, " a benev- 
 olent society. 
 
 %/X^Y^ 1 LLI AM EHRMANN, Milwaukee, 
 ■^ ' Wis., member of Robert Miller 
 Post, was born Nov. 12, 1841, in 
 Muehlberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, CJermany, 
 and is the son of Martin and Johannah (Puet) 
 Elirniann, who removed with their faniilj' to 
 America and landed in Milwaukee Aug. 20, 
 1852. Wiien the .son was 14 he was aj)])ren- 
 ticed to learn the business of a tailor, in which 
 he was employed until he became a .soldier. 
 During the early days of the struggle he deter- 
 mined to enter the army and enlisted on the 
 lOtli ainiiversary of his arrival in America — 
 Aug. 20, 1862— in Company H, 26th Wisconsin 
 Infantry. He was mustered as a private and 
 was promoted through the grades to First Ser- 
 geant for bravery. He went from rendez- 
 vous with his regiment, and, after reaching 
 Washington, went thence to Gainesville, and 
 was at Falmouth on the Rappahannock when 
 Burnside retreated from his attempt to take 
 Fredericksburg. He was in his first battle at 
 Ciiancellorsville and fought in the following 
 activities, occurring while the Army of the 
 
 Potomac was keeping pace with Lee during the 
 hitter's invasion of the North. He fought at 
 Gettysburg and was wounded in the leg in the 
 first day's fight. He passed 24 days in the field 
 lu)sj)ital and went thence to Llarristjurg, his 
 quarters being in a school building a])]iroj)ri- 
 ated to hospitiil j)urposes. He remained there 
 eight months and joined his command at Chair 
 tanooga, after it had been sent to the Depart- 
 ment of the West. He was in the fight at Re- 
 saca. May 14th, and afterwards fought at Burnt 
 Hickory, Dalton, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, 
 Savannah, Averysboro and Bentonville. He 
 made the Grand March with Sherman, encoun- 
 tered all the hardships of the movement which 
 severed the confederacy, and took ])art in the 
 foot race which closed the activities en route to 
 the Grand Review at Washington. He was 
 mustered out with his regiment at Camp Wash- 
 burn in Milwaukee, June 13, 1865. 
 
 His marriage to Julia LoefHer occurred Nov. 
 18, 1866, and their surviving children are 
 named William, .John, Nhirtin, (Justave, Henry, 
 Alfred and Mina. Three are deceased. He 
 still suffers from his wound, which has pre- 
 vented him following his business for some 
 years. He is a member of the Order of Druids, 
 also of the Sons of Hermann. 
 
 ^c:jryV^ ALTER Y. WENTWORTH, Ft. 
 
 Atkinson, Wis., member of G. 
 
 A. R. Post No. 159, was born 
 March [), lS31, in Lebanon, New York. He is 
 a representative of some of the oldest stock in 
 the country, which traces its origin to 1006, 
 and to the founding of the family in America 
 in 163!», when Elder William Wentworth, one 
 of the signers of the combination in Exeter, 
 England, came to this country with his colony 
 to find a home where freedom in religious 
 
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 opinion could be enjoyed. His descendants 
 furnished statesmen and governors to several 
 of the New England States and, when the 
 genealogy of the family was prejmred in 1870, 
 it sliowed more than 18,000 names of descend- 
 ants from the founder. The parents, .John and 
 Catherine (Ten Eyke) Wentworth were married 
 in Canajoharie, New York, and afterwards 
 settled on a farm in Lebanon, Madison county, 
 where their son was born and where he was 
 reared to the calling of his father until he was 
 16 years old. June 1, 1S47, the family started 
 for AVisconsin, traveling in jiioneer fashion and 
 arriving in the vicinity of Ft. Atkinson on the 
 10th day of the month. The father located on 
 a farm in Koshkonong on which he passed the 
 remainder of his life. The son operated as-a 
 farmer until he entered the army, and he en- 
 listed Sept. 15, 1864, in Company H, 1st Wis- 
 consin Heavy Artillery. He received honor- 
 able discharge July 13, 1865, under General 
 Order No. 94. He went from the rendezvous 
 at Madison to the defenses of Washington 
 where he arrived October 6th. He was in 
 different forts until the battery was stationed 
 permanently in Fort Lyon where it remained 
 throughout the war. Mr. Wentworth was 
 made acquainted with several varieties of drill, 
 including infantry with those of light and 
 heavy artillery, to say nothing of the labor in- 
 volved in the building of forts and practice 
 with the heavy ordnance belonging to the bat- 
 tery. The admirable condition of the battery 
 was made matter of public comment. The 
 colonel was in the habit of saying that he in- 
 tended to compliment them on account of 
 cleanliness and perfection of drill, and he did, 
 by taking back the best regiment from the 
 State. 
 
 After his retui-n to Ft. Atkinson, Mr. Went- 
 worth was variously engaged until he became 
 conductor of a club house on Lake Kosh- 
 
 konong, which is the property of a syndicate 
 of owners. It is known as the Black Hawk 
 Club and its membership includes wealthy 
 business men from different States. Mr. Went- 
 worth has occupied many jwsitions of trust, 
 among which are Town Treasurer, Constable, 
 City Marshal and, as he remarks, " he is six 
 feet anil a half inch in height and a straight 
 Republican from the ground up." He was 
 married Oct. 31, 1857, to Mary Josephine Rock- 
 well, and they have had five sons, three of 
 whom are living — Frank A., Clarence W. and 
 Albert Bening. 
 
 Mr. Wentworth was appointed State Game 
 Warden by Governor Rusk and reappointed by 
 Governor Hoard. He belongs to the Masons 
 and also to the A. 0. U. W. 
 
 f^^ERNANDO C. KIZER, Whitewater, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 34, was born at Stroudsburg, Monroe 
 Co., Pennsylvania, April 27, 1832, and is the 
 son of Charles and Sarah Jane (Dress) Kizer. 
 His parents were married in the Keystone 
 State of which they were natives, in 1826, and 
 the father was descended from stock that was 
 represented by several members in the war of 
 the Revolution. The paternal grandfather was 
 about then 12 years old and Mr. Kizer remembers 
 his accounts of hearing the cannon at German- 
 town. The father was a carpenter and when 
 the son was five years old removed to Wilkes- 
 barre. The latter was sent to the common 
 school and afterwards to Wyoming seminary, 
 preparatory to a collegiate course which plan 
 was brought to nought by the death of his 
 mother. From his 17tli to his 20th year he 
 was variously occupied and in 1852 he came 
 West, remaining about 18 months, after which 
 he returned to his native State and resumed 
 
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 his studies: lie was afterwards engaged several 
 terms in tuacliing in his native district, and in 
 1855 he determined to Hx liis residence per- 
 manently in the West and located at White- 
 water, where he has since been prominently 
 idenlitied with tlie best interest of the i)lace. 
 He was a member of the Committee which 
 formulated the charter under which the vil- 
 lage was incorporated. On the breaking out 
 of the war he signified to the governor his 
 desire to aid as he best could in the suppres- 
 sion of the rebellion and that official sent him 
 a Lieutenant's commission and authority to 
 act as a recruiting officer, which he did with 
 such good effect that a company was soon 
 raised and in readiness for orders. It was sent 
 to Janesville to report to Col. Barstow and 
 was assigned to the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry as 
 Company D, Mr. Kizer going with it as First 
 Lieutenant. Orders were received for St. Louis 
 and on the way to Chicago tlie train was 
 derailed, and 11 men of the command killed 
 and 10 wounded. Mr. Kizer relates the diffi- 
 culty experienced in freeing the injured from 
 the wreck. From St. Louis they went to Fort 
 Leavenworth where equipments were received 
 and the companies assigned to their respective 
 battalions, Company D being connected with 
 the 3d under Captain Shaw and stationed at 
 Atchison. Meanwhile, Mr. Kizer was detailed 
 on a military commission on which he served 
 until August and then rejoined his company. 
 He was soon after ])laced in command of an 
 ordnance train to Fort Leavenworth. He 
 joined his battalion at Fort Scott and jtroceeded 
 South with General IJlunt in the Army of the 
 Frontier. He was again sent on a scouting ex- 
 pedition to Arkansas, and in command of 100 
 men had a sharp skirmish near Cane Hill, 
 Nov. 26th. He was in tlie action at that place 
 and fought the forces of Marmaduke. The bat- 
 talion was at Prairie Grove, where Mr. Kizer 
 
 commanded Company Eand a two-gun battery 
 connecteil therewith. -Jan. "2, 1863, \'an Buren, 
 Ark., was reached, prior to which the baV 
 tallion was engaged in contesting territory with 
 guerrillas and bushwhackers. A return was 
 maile to Rheas' Mills, and in February an- 
 other raid was made towards Huntsville. 
 Arriving at a point 30 miles from Springfield, 
 Mo., they received a remount and new e(juip- 
 ments. Mr. Kizer received an appointment on 
 the staff of the brigade commander and acted 
 as such during the raiding and scouting which 
 followed. From this time until they camped 
 at Forsythe, Mo., they were continually en- 
 gaged in scouting and raiding and made two 
 midnight expeditions after guerrillas, capturing 
 a considerable numljer, and Lieutenant Kizer 
 was sent in charge of 150 rebels to Forsythe. His 
 regiment went next to Springfield and Salem, 
 Mo., and after three weeks he went to Rolla 
 where he received a 20-day furlough. He 
 rejoined his regiment at Fort Scott and was 
 placed in charge of the Adjutant's office, 
 remaining there four weeks and going thence 
 in charge of a detail of 50 men to Humboldt, 
 Kas. He was engaged in scouting until No- 
 vember, when he was sent to take command of 
 Company D, at Lumbard's Crossing, where 
 they built a stockade fort and remained during 
 the winter of IS63-4. He was there relieved of 
 his command and detailed to take charge of 
 a court martial which convened at Fort Scott 
 and, on its dissolution, he rejoined his com- 
 mand and was again engaged in scouting and 
 raiding in the border counties of Missouri and 
 occasionally escorting trains to Fort Gibson 
 until September, 1864. August 31st he was 
 commissioned Captain. At the date previously 
 mentioned the force was ordered to join Gen- 
 eral Curtiss, who was engaged in repulsing Price 
 in his last attempt to regain Missouri and the 
 rebel was driven to the Arkansas River, a dis- 
 
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 taiice of 400 miles. Al)out 58 of the com- ': 
 pany's horses were lost in the struggle. They 
 returned to Lumbard's Crossing on the Dry 
 Wood, remaining there until Feb. 6, 1865, 
 when Mr. Kizer received detached orders to 
 proceed to Wisconsin with the non-veterans, j 
 While absent on this duty the cessation of hos- 
 tilities precluded the necessity of his return 
 and lie was mustered out in the spring of 1865. 
 He was married March 5, 1862, to Miss A. R. 
 Caswell of Oswego county, New York, and 
 their children are named Leora L., Fitz Henry 
 and Fernando C. One child is deceased. . 
 
 The character of Mr. Kizer can receive no 
 embellishment from the hand of a historian. 
 Recognizing his duty as a man under all cir- 
 cumstances, he has striven to do it. He has 
 secured the confidence of his generation, whom 
 he has served faithfully in all matters entrusted 
 to his care. He has .served in most of the 
 municipal positions of Whitewater and in 1888 
 his district gave him a majority far in advance 
 of his ticket as Assemblyman. He is earnestly 
 interested in the order of the Grand Army, 
 has been Commander of his Post three terms, 
 delegate to the State Encampment and was a 
 member of the Militar}^ Court of the Legisla- 
 ture to decide tlie appropriation for the Sol- 
 diers' Home at Waupaca, which he considers 
 one of the most honorable positions lie has 
 held. He belongs to the Knights of Honor. 
 
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 IJSHA RICE REED, Madison, Wis., 
 irr77r~>" member of G. A. R. Post No. 41, at 
 Evansville, Wis., was born Dec. 5, 
 18o5, in Geauga Co., Ohio. William Reade, 
 his first ancestor in America, was born in 
 Gravesend, Kent Co., England, in 1(;05, remov- 
 ing to the New World and settling in Wey- 
 mouth, Mas.s., in 1G35. He was a member of 
 
 the "General Court" of the Bay State and his 
 son and namesake changed the family name 
 to Reed. The latter was also a member of the 
 General Court twice and was a speculator in 
 lands, marrying Esther Thompson, whose an- 
 cestors came over in the Mayflower. The early 
 stock was thoroughly Puritan. William (2d) 
 was born Oct. 16, 1639, and died 1706 ; his son 
 .John was born .July 10, 1687, and located in 
 Abingdon, Mass., about 1708; and his son, 
 Ezekiel, born in that place Nov. 14, 1721, was 
 a soldier in the French and English war, 
 fought at Quebec in 1759 and died in 1763 
 after the close of the war while on shipboard, 
 and was buried at sea on his way home. His 
 son, Samuel, Ijorn Dec. 25, 1756, was bound to 
 Deacon Whitmar.sh, a shoemaker; he was sent 
 by the deacon as a substitute in the Revolu- 
 tion and he served three years; he removed to 
 Chesterfield, Mass., about 1778, where his son 
 .Joseph was born, May 26, 1793 ; the latter was 
 a fifer and drummer and was in the war of 
 1812 ; in 1813 he married Wealthy Williams, 
 born in A''ermont in 1795, settling in Orleans 
 Co., New York ; about 1833 he moved to 
 Geauga Co., Ohio, where his son, Mr. Reed of 
 this sketch, was born. In 1845, he settled in 
 Magnolia, Rock Co., Wisconsin. He was edu- 
 cated at Evansville Seminary and enlisted 
 April 21, 18G1, in the 2d Wisconsin Infantry, 
 Company H. The regiment became a part of 
 the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Reed was 
 wounded in the first battle of Bull Run in the 
 left shoulder and forced to leave the field. He 
 reached Centerville where the ball, which had 
 broken the point of the shoulder blade, was 
 extracted. The next day, with Edwin L. Reed 
 of the same company (no i-elation), he went to 
 Fairfax C. H., where, exhausted, they went 
 into a building with other wounded and were 
 taken prisoners. They were taken to Rich- 
 mond and placed in a large building erected 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 by the Catholics as an almshouse. Mr. Reed 
 was soon well ami was detailed as nurse, being 
 occupied in that capacity until sent to Libby 
 prison, which was managed l)y Winder and 
 Wirz, the latter of Andersonville notoriety. 
 Nov. 25, 1801, 500 prisoners were sent to Tus- 
 caloosa, Ala., the " Dutch Sergeant" Wirz, with 
 150 men guarding the train. March 1, 18()2, 
 they were jiaroled and started Northward. At 
 Weldon, N. C, the guard was suddenly doubled 
 and the cars were switched to Salisbury, where 
 they were held three montlis longer, lOJ 
 months altogether. A])out 1500 men were at 
 Salisbury and about the last of May, 1862, all, 
 except officers and sailors, were agfiin paroled, 
 delivered to General Burnside at Newbern, 
 N. C, and sent by sea to New York. Mr. Reed 
 relates that these were the first victims of the 
 war, and that there was comparatively little 
 suffering, as they were well treated and com- 
 fortably sheltered. He reached hi.s home in 
 Wisconsin, .June 26th, to find that his friends 
 believed him a dead man. His comrade, E. L. 
 Reed, died in Richmond and was reported liy 
 the rebel Secretary of War; the name was trans- 
 mitted to Washington, and sent to Wisconsin. 
 The change in an initial led the family to be- 
 lieve that Elisha Reed was dead and they con- 
 templated a funeral, when his father received a 
 letter from liim and the funeral was indefin- 
 itely postponed. But the news of his being 
 alive did not spread as the news of his death, 
 and he was received by many as one from the 
 grave. 
 
 After exchange he rejoined his regiment and 
 in the first day's figlit at Gettysburg was hit 
 five times. Two of the bullets entered cither 
 thigh and he was assigned to tlie ^■eteran Re- 
 serve Corps and placed on <luty in Washington, 
 D. C. He was discharged at the expiration of 
 liis three-years' enlistment and returned to 
 Wisconsin to find his family removed to Ray 
 
 Co., Missouri, whither he followed and resided 
 at home until he returned to Washington to 
 marry Isabella O., only daughter of E. F. 
 Brown, U. S. Commissioner, Commissioner of 
 the Court of Claims, etc., which event took 
 place in 1866. They went to Kansas, return- 
 ing to Washington in 1868 and in 1870 lociited 
 at Madison, Wis. Three children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Reed are living — two sons and a daugh- 
 ter; their oldest and youngest born children 
 are deceased. 
 
 The Reed blood seems to have had good 
 fighting material in it; the father, grandfather 
 and great grandftither were soldiers, and many 
 of the family were in the civil war. Samuel A. 
 Reed, a cousin in Company E, 5th Iowa Infan- 
 try, was wounded in the head at Champion's 
 Hill and thrown into a trench for burial, but 
 the party detailed to cover the bodies with 
 earth discovered signs of life, fished him out, 
 returned him to be healed and to fight from 
 the ranks to a captain's commission ; he after- 
 ward practiced law until he became insane 
 from the improper treatment of the wound in 
 his head. 
 
 
 ^IIOMAS B. COCHRANE, of Eau 
 Claire, Wis., member of Eagle Post 
 No. 52, was born May 2, 1845, in tiie 
 city of New York, and is the son of .lames and 
 Prudence (.Jones) Cochrane. Mis father was 
 born in 1810 in Glasgow, Scotland, and died 
 Dec. 23, 1879, at New York. The mother was 
 liorn at Tarrytown, N. Y., in 1815, and was a 
 descendant of .Jolm Paul .Jones; she died in 
 New York in 1850. The senior Cochrane came 
 to America in 1812 and became a sailor, being 
 a de.scendant of the celebrated Admiral Dun- 
 donald of the British navy, and later lie was in 
 the Mexican war in the naval service, acting as 
 engineer on the steamers Colonel Harney, Mis- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 souri and Minnesota. He was captured during 
 tlie war with Mexico and held some time. His 
 son has liis testimonials from Commodores 
 Perry, Sands and N'anderbilt and others. Mary, 
 James, Agnes, Thomas and Jones are tlie names 
 of the famil}' of children, and all are living. 
 
 Mr. Cochrane passed his youth in school and 
 was engaged in securing his education when 
 the war came on. He enlisted from his books 
 April 19, 18GI, in Company F, 9th New York 
 Infantry, Colonel Hawkins' Zouaves, and was 
 mustered May 4th. The command went to 
 Newport News, and, after three months, joined 
 the other companies of the regiment which had 
 preceded them to Cape Hatteras, N. C. They 
 remained there until the Burnside expedition, 
 which they joined, and Mr. Cochrane was in his 
 first fight at Roanoke, Feb. 7-8, 1802. The 
 fighting of the rebels in defense of their works 
 was of a character which commanded the ad- 
 miration even of Union foes and the battle was 
 a hard one, the fortifications being taken at the 
 bayonet's point. (While at Newport News, the 
 command was in the action at Big Bethel, June 
 10, 1861.) While at Roanoke, the regiment 
 was in several expeditious and saw some severe 
 service, among which was the fight at Camden, 
 where the loss was heavy. At Winston they 
 destroyed the town and also saw hard fighting 
 at Plymouth. On being ordered to Washing- 
 ton to join the Army of the Potomac, the com- 
 mand was assigned to the !)th Corps and went 
 to the activities in Maryland, fighting at South 
 Mountain and Antietam in the 1st Brigade, 3d 
 Division of Burnside's Corps, being in the 
 charge on the stone bridge known to history as 
 Burnside's Bridge. The lo.ss in the regiment 
 was heavy at the bridge, but after crossing and 
 charging up the hill toward Sharpsburg, it was 
 fearful. Tlie next engagement was at Fred- 
 ericksburg and the command passed the winter 
 near the Rappahannock performing mixed mili- 
 
 tary duty. In the spring the regiment fought 
 in tlie ))attle of Suffolk and started for home 
 immediately afterwards, their time having pre- 
 viously expired. The well known epi.sode of 
 losing their arms because they demurred at 
 serving beyond their enlisted period, was 
 shared by Mr. Cociirane, but tlie action which 
 sent them to New York apparently in disgrace 
 was properly understood and appreciated by 
 citizens and soldiers and di-splayed the martinet 
 spirit which was making itself felt in the army 
 in its true light. When they steamed to the 
 wharf the 16th New York Infantry had stacked 
 their arms for them and a triumphal proces- 
 sion followed through the streets of the city 
 with drums beating, banners flying and loud 
 cheering over the brave command. Mr. 
 Cochrane reached liome May 8, 1863, and in 
 December he re-enlisted at New York in Com- 
 pany C, 25tli New York Cavalry, and went to 
 rendezvous at Saratoga Springs. About the 
 middle of January, 1864, the regiment went to 
 Washington, and a montli later moved to 
 White House Landing and performed patrol 
 duty, being yet unmounted. The regiment 
 was placed in command of the medical supplies 
 when the change of base was made. June 20th 
 Wade Hampton's cavalry began a series of 
 attacks near White House Landing, lasted four 
 days, and on two of these the command was in 
 action, being relieved by the arrival of Sheridan. 
 (See Statistical History, page 105.) After Sheri- 
 dan's arrival tlie regiment went with him on 
 foot to fight at Charles City C. H., on the 24th 
 and was ordered thence to Fort Stevens to fight 
 Early July 9th, after the Washington raid. 
 When relieved by the 6th Corps they returned 
 to their camp, received tligir mount and joined 
 Sheridan in the capacity of equipped cavalry. 
 They went to Harper's Ferry and were 
 assigned to Custer's Brigade, participating in 
 the fight at Halltown, Va., August 26th, at 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Smithfield (Sumiiiit Point) on the 29th and 
 went to the Slienandoah to fight at Win- 
 chester, September iritii, at Ash by 's Gap on 
 tlie 22d, in tlie Luray Valley on the 24th (with 
 Mosby's guerrillas), at Port Republic on the 
 27th, at Waynesboro on the 28th and at Wood- 
 stock, October 9th. December 12th tlie regiment 
 was in a scrimmage at Newton and went to 
 winter (juarters at Cedar Creek, skirmishing 
 much of the time while there. About the 
 last of F'ebruary Sheridan commenced the 
 work against Early and after putting an end 
 to Early's depredations in the Shenandoah 
 valley, the regiment started to join the com- 
 mand of Grant. Arriving at Newmarket 
 the command was detailed to guard a lot of 
 prisoners and escorted tlie band back to turn 
 them over to the " regulars." . They went 
 thence to Newton and were discharged .lune 
 4, 1865, and mustered out at Hart's Island in 
 New York Harbor. During the campaign of 
 1865 Mr. Cochrane was made Quartermaster's 
 Sergeant and was acting Quartermaster. 
 
 After the war lie went West and located at 
 Eau Claire, purchasing a farm and engaging 
 in farming. In 1873 he'returned to his native 
 State and engaged for 12 years in plumbing 
 and gas fitting business, returning to Eau 
 Claire in 18S5. lie commenced operations in 
 fanning and also in mercantile transactions, 
 relinquishing the latter in 1889. He is en- 
 gaged in farming and in the imjirovement of 
 stock, rearing .lersey and Ilolstein cattle. He 
 was marrieil March 27tb, 1867, to Susan, 
 daughter of Martin and Catherine (Hunt) 
 Turner. Their children are Benton, Sarah H., 
 Addie, Susan and Almeron. The father of Mrs. 
 Cochrane was born iij Delaware Co., New York, 
 June 19, 1818, and is now living ; the mother 
 died Dec. 9, 1851, in New York. Grace A., 
 Thomas P., Sarah L. and Prudence are the 
 names of the children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 
 ' Cochrane. Mr. Cochrane is a member of the 
 Masonic Order and a Rcjniblican in politics. 
 He served as Commander of Post D. H. Kim- 
 ball, No. 100, at New York City and has an 
 elegant gold medal presented to him by the 
 Post. It is inscribed on one side with the 9tli 
 Corps Badge and on the reverse with the list of 
 battles in which the Corps took part. A dia- 
 mond pendant is attached to the badge. In 
 1SS4 he was elected Presi<lont of the Hawkins' 
 Zouaves Association and was at the head of 
 that body at the funeral of General Grant, 
 in .\ugust, 1885. 
 
 ^^^>m'i^mi>' 
 
 ETER PERRATLT, Menomonie, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
 born April 22, 1840, in Becancour, 
 Canada, and is the son of Moses and Alice 
 (Derville) Perrault. His parents were born in 
 the Dominion, where the father was in the 
 lumber business, and he is still living in the 
 same place, where his wife died before the son 
 left home. This occurred when the latter was 
 16 years old, and, in 1857, he went to. Menomo- 
 nie and obtained employ as a lumberman. In 
 1858 he went to Chippewa Falls, returning to 
 Menomonie a year later and maintaineil his 
 residence there until he entered the army. 
 .July 14, 1862, heenli.sted and was mustered at 
 Madison, August 14th, in Comjtany A, 5th 
 A\'isconsin Infantry', leaving Madison soon after 
 for the front and joining the regiment just 
 after the battle of Antietam, in Marjdand. He 
 was in the subsequent march to Fredericks- 
 burg, skirmishing thither and accompanying 
 the od Brigade, 1st Division and 6th Corps. 
 He was in the skirmish line in the action 
 there, and also supported a battery. The 
 command crossed the river after fighting three 
 
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 days, went to winter quarters, went out in 
 .Juimiiry to "stick in the mud" with Burnside, 
 returned to camp at Stafford C. H., and went 
 into the " Light Division " designed for sudden 
 operations without " impedimenta." Mr. Per- 
 ruult was in tlie cliarge at Marye's Heiglits, in 
 which his regiment lost 185 men, and was 
 wounded in the right arm and side hy a 
 minie ball. He went to Ilarwood hospital at 
 Washington and joined his regiment after the 
 battle of Gettysburg, reaching his command in 
 time to take part in the chase of July 5th. He 
 went into camp at Warrenton and went next 
 to New York to aid in enforcing the draft at 
 several points in that State and was ordered 
 back in time to take part in another Rappa- 
 hannock campaign. November 2(3th he was 
 in the tight at Mine Run and in the spring 
 fought all through the Wilderness campaign, 
 including Spottsylvania — two battles — Laurel 
 Hill, Cold Harbor and North Anna River, 
 during which time the fighting took place on 
 each of seven successive days. After Cold 
 Harbor the regiment went to the trenches at 
 Petersburg and passed tlie time there chietiy 
 until ordered to the Shenandoah valley, in 
 Sheridan's command. The brigade was sta- 
 tioned to protect the operations of the advance 
 up the valley, and, Sept. 19, I8l)4, Mr. Perrault 
 was in the fight at Winchester, where Sheri- 
 dan "licked them out of their boots." The 
 regiment re-joined the forces in the hell of the 
 trenches in front of Petersljurg, went out in 
 February to reconnoiter at Hatcher's Run, 
 fought in the charge at Petersburg, April 2d, 
 also at South Side railroad and at Little 
 Sailor's Creek, April 7tli. This was another 
 complete victory and was followed up by the 
 chase to Appomattox. Soon after reaching* 
 Sheridan's connnand, Mr. Perrault was as- 
 signed to the Pioneer Corps in which he 
 served until there was no longer need of such 
 
 services. After Lee surrendered he went with 
 his regiment to North Carolina to aid Sherman 
 but on reaching Danville news of Johnston's 
 surrender was received and a return to A\'ash- 
 
 ! ington was made, where the command took 
 [lart in the Review, and returned to Madison 
 to be discharged and to take final leave of mili- 
 
 I tary service June 21, 18G5. 
 
 I Returning to Menomonie, Mr. Perrault en- 
 gaged with Knapp, Stout & Co., in charge of 
 the filing department and was occupied in his 
 vocation there until 1871, when he became by 
 purchase the proprietor of the City Hotel, 
 which be has conducted since that date, with 
 the addition of an extensive livery business. 
 He was married Dec. 25, 1867, to Agnes, 
 daughter of Levi and Leora (Leich) Vance and 
 
 j their children have been named Leora, Lena, 
 Emma, Thomas, Helen, Jessie, Levi and Peter, 
 and of these Leora, Lena and Emma are living. 
 
 ! Mr. Perrault is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
 and is a Republican in politics. 
 
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 EROME B. GALLAHER, Chippewa Falls, 
 g]| Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 
 was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Litchfield, 
 Connecticut. His father, John M. Gallaher, 
 was born on the Island of Jamaica, where his 
 father was a planter until the liberation of the 
 blacks. The mother of Mr. (iallalier, Maria 
 Keyes before marriage, was a native of Litch- 
 field, Conn. She died in LitchfieM autl her 
 husband afterwards removed his family to 
 Litchfield, Ohio, where he engaged in the 
 manufacture of cloth, and he went to Warsaw, 
 Lid., where his demise occurred. Li the pa- 
 ternal line, Mr. Gallaher is of mixed French 
 and Scotch lineage. He is one of eight chil- 
 dren, all of whom are living. They are named 
 
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 Harriet, Eliza, Maria, John, La Franque, 
 Jerome -and Mary and Martha — twins. When 
 he was 19 years old Mr. (Jallalier undertook 
 the solution of the problem of life for himself 
 and went to Warsaw, Ind., and engaged in 
 running an engine about three years. He 
 went to Fort Wa^'ue in the same State, and 
 there eonimenced to learn the business of a 
 photographer, engaging in his apprentices! lip 
 March 4, 1S57. After two years he moved to 
 Auburn, Ind., and established the business in 
 his own interests and managed a growing and 
 prolital)le enterprise until he felt enlistment to 
 be a duty he couM no longer defer and he en- 
 rolled as a soldier at Warsaw in December, 
 1803, went to rendezvous at Michigan City and 
 in February was mustered into Company G, 
 l'29th Indiana Infantry. When ordered to 
 the front he jiassed a few days in camp at 
 Louisville, Ky., and went thence to Chatta- 
 nooga, to lind himself a member of the 2d Bri- 
 gade, 2d Division and 2od Corps. Passing 
 through Bridgeport, the regiment went to the 
 field of Uesaca and tiiere Mr. Gallaher was 
 made Corporal. (Here the color bearer was 
 shot througli tlie chest, went home and in a 
 year was back to his former position.) After 
 Resaca the regiment followed after Johnston 
 and was in the engagements at Kenesaw 
 Mountain, fighting daily at .some new puint, 
 was at Burnt Hickory, Buzzard's Roost, Big 
 Shanty, and, July -Ith, was at Smyrna, or 
 Nickajack Creek. He fought at Peach Tree 
 Creek July 20tli and was in the figlit at At- 
 lanta, after which he received a commission 
 frum Governor Morton of Indiana, as 2d 
 Lieutenant. (The opposing forces were under 
 Hardee.) After the fall of Atlanta Mr. 
 Gallalier was in the action at Lovejoy's, went 
 back to Atlanta, and from there to Duck River, 
 passing live days in skirmishing before the 
 fight came on. He was next in action at 
 
 Franklin fighting Hood, and went thence to 
 Nashville, the weather being severely cold and 
 the troops suflering greatly. Hooil was trying 
 to cut ofi' communications and they received 
 orders to cam]) at.Johnsonville and went thence 
 soon after to Allatoona Pass but reached there 
 too late for the battle. Going back to Frank- 
 lin they went to Clifton and Fort Anderson 
 where the rebels had placed torpedoes and 
 after the skirmish there they went to Morehead 
 City and thence to Kingston, where they had 
 a tight with Johnston's troojys and would have 
 been annihilated by a greatly superior force 
 if Siierman had not arrived with relief. This 
 was the last regular fight in the service of the 
 regiment and they moved in all the activities 
 of their column until they reached Goldsboro, 
 Mr. Gallaher having been promoted to Ser- 
 geant, and on arrival at Raleigh, N. C, he was 
 made Regimental Quartermaster and was mus- 
 tered out as such Aug. 25, ISOo, at Indian- 
 apolis. 
 
 He returned to Warsaw and went thence to 
 Black River Falls, Wis., and ojjerated there 
 nearly eight years as a photographer. He 
 afterwards passed two years in the same busi- 
 ness at Neillsville, and, in 1872, went to Chip- 
 jiewa Falls, where he establi.slied himself per- 
 manently in a prosperous and popular business. 
 He was married Aug. 15, 1858, in De Kalb 
 Co., Ind., to Margaret J., daughter of James L. 
 and Eliza (Collins) Ferguson. They had two 
 children — Mary M., (Mrs. Ickstead) ami Helen 
 J., (Mrs. Gregg). Mr. Gallaher is a member of 
 the Masonic Order and of the Odd Fellows, in 
 which he luus taken all the degrees; he also 
 belongs to the A. O. U. W. He is an inde- 
 pendent Republican in politics, and receives a 
 pension. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 291 
 
 /^^ LIJAH SWIFT, Eau Claire, Wis., a 
 ^ prominent business man and a soldier 
 in the volunteer service of the civil 
 war, was born Nov. 19, 1831, at Falmouth, 
 Mass. He is the representative of stock which 
 is traceable in both lines to the earliest history 
 of New England and whose generations have 
 supplied to the country some of its best stock 
 for the founding of a nation and for securing 
 its perpetuity. 
 
 William Swift, the founder of the family, 
 was a native of Booking, Essex Co., England, 
 and came to Massachusetts with the Boston 
 Company, settling in Sandwich in 1631. He 
 died in 1643, leaving several children, the old- 
 est being William (2d) who was the father of a 
 son named William (3d) born Aug. 28, 1654. 
 His son William (4th) was born .January 24, 
 1679, and his son William (5th) was born in 
 1719. His son, William (6th) was born at Fal- 
 mouth Feb. 17, 1747. He was great grand- 
 father of Mr. Swift of this sketch and his son 
 Elijah was born Aug. 16, 1774; the father, 
 Oliver C. Swift, was born May 4, 1797, at Fal- 
 mouth. Oliver C. Swift married Eliza (Robin- 
 son) Jenkins, a descendant from John llobin- 
 son, pastor of the church at Leyden, Holland, 
 whose members reached America as " The Pil- 
 grims " on the Maytiower, Dec. 20, 1620. Their 
 surviving children are recorded as follows : 
 Elizabeth, born in February, 1829, was married 
 to George Marston, Attorney General of Massa- 
 chusetts ; Adeline C, born in May, 1830, mar- 
 ried C. E. Whitin (a cotton manufacturer) of 
 Whitinsville, Mass. ; Mr. Swift is next in order 
 of birth ; Oliver F. was born in April, 1840. 
 The father was principally engaged in the 
 business of a shipping merchant. He died 
 Jan. 20, 1874 ; the mother died Oct. 18, 1880, 
 at Falmouth, Mass. Mr. Swift was nurtured 
 in a New England home of noble tyjie and he 
 received the education and training common 
 
 to people of the best class. After obtaining 
 a thorough preliminary education, he matric- 
 ulated at Harvard College and was graduated 
 thence in 1852, after pursuing a full course of 
 four years. He remained a resident graduate 
 about a year and went thence to Boston for 
 business training in a practical manner in a 
 commission house, where he was occupied one 
 year. According to the custom of those days 
 he was sent abroad to complete his training by 
 a voyage and visiting foreign countries; and 
 on his return encountered shipwreck, arriving 
 home after a drifting passage of 142 days, 
 meanwhile supplied with the barest necessaries 
 of life. He engaged soon after his return in 
 the business of obtaining live-oak ship timber 
 from South Carolina and Florida. In this he 
 passed about four years, when the war swept 
 away his accumulations and business. He was 
 of true New England blood and the war bore 
 to him an indisputable message. He listened 
 to the voice from which no New England son 
 of a New England sire ever flinched and en- 
 listed at Falmouth, Mas.s., and, Aug. 13, 1862, 
 was mustered at New Bedford, Mass., in Com- 
 pany H, 38th Massachusetts Infantry. On 
 organization he was made Sergeant and, after- 
 wards, was created Quartermaster to rank as 
 First Lieutenant. He went with his regiment 
 in that capacity to Baltimore in the early part 
 of September, the regiment being stationed 
 near the city as guard for a bridge. With 
 General Ingraham's brigade, the regiment went 
 to Ship Island with the command of Banks, 
 starting Oct. 27th, 1862. He acted as Quarter- 
 master of the brigade and, on landing at Ship 
 Island, was made (Quartermaster of the troops 
 in process of transportation. After a few weeks 
 he was constituted Quartermaster of the 3d 
 Brigade, under General Emory, Division Com- 
 mander. In February, 1863, he was made 
 Quartermaster of the Plaquemine expedition, 
 
292 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and on the 1st of March after, was appointed 
 Quartermaster of the 3d Division, llHli Ami}' 
 Corps, to fill a vacancy, pending the arrival 
 from Washington of the regular aj)- 
 pointce. April 23, 1863, he \v;is appoint- 
 ed on sj)ecial service under tlie Chief 
 Engineer of the Department of the Gulf and 
 engaged in opening a passage through the 
 obstructions at Bayou Sorel, to form direct 
 communication between the Mississijipi and 
 Atchafalaya Rivers. This duty occupied about 
 two montlis. He was then detailed to go from 
 Spriugtield Landing to tlie rear of Purl Ikul- 
 son to direct the construction of sand batteries, 
 in aid of tiie operations of General Banks in 
 the siege of tliat place. Here he was wounded 
 and taken prisoner. He was conveyed to 
 Liberty, Miss., and a month after was released 
 or re-captured by a raiding party, wiio con- 
 ducted him to Natchez. He was sent to hos- 
 pital to recover and was assigned to duty, as 
 soon as able, as Assistant Quartermaster under 
 Chief Quartermaster, Colonel Chandler, of the 
 troops in tlie Held of the Gulf Dej)artinent. 
 Tliis appointment was dated (,)ct. 11, 18G3. 
 He passed the winter in the field in Western 
 Louisiana and on the 11th of April, 1864, was 
 instructed to collect from Prophet's Island and 
 organize a body of negroes into a colony and 
 establish them at Cat Island, Mississippi Sound, 
 and there to build a saw-mill and set tilings 
 in ojieration for the manufacture of lumijer for 
 the proposed use of General Banks in Texas. 
 
 After his work was linislied in August, he 
 found his Corps was reniuvcd to \'irginia and 
 he sent numerous j)etitions lo be relieved and 
 allowed to join his regiment. His request 
 having been at last granted, he sailed for the 
 North and reported to his Colonel at Berryville, 
 Va., Sept. 7th, 1864. On the next day, he was 
 detailed as Stafl' Quartermaster at head- 
 quarters of the 19th Army Corps. In that 
 
 capacity he passed through the Shenandoah 
 campaign with Sheridan and in the spring of 
 1865 he was assigned to duty, after the reor- 
 ganization of tlie corps, at the headquarters of 
 Brevet Major-General Birge, 1st Division, ISth 
 Army Corps, at CJoldsboro, N. C, and was there 
 placed in charge of property abandoned by 
 Sherman's troops as they passed through that 
 State. Soon after he accompanied (ieneral 
 Birge to Savannab, and. May 8th, was 
 placed by General Grover in ciiarge of 
 the Civil Fund of the "District of the 
 Savannah." Afterward he was occupied as 
 Recorder of a Military Commission to take the 
 complaints of citizens. After the war he re- 
 turned to Boston and was mustered out June 
 30, 1865. He passed a year in assisting bis 
 father to close his business and subsequently 
 went to Wisconsin, locating at Oshkosh, where 
 he commenced operations in j)ine lands, logs 
 and lumljer. In 1870 he went to Eau Claire 
 and has since been engaged in similar occupa- 
 tions making himself known as a business 
 factor of that section of the Badger State. 
 
 He was married Sept. 28tli, J86'J, to Myi-a J. 
 Bliss (nee Evans) of Willouglihy, Ohio, and 
 who died at Palatka, Florida, in February, 
 ISSl. To them three children were born : 
 Eliza Robinson, July 10, 1870; Oliver F., Nov. 
 21, 1874, (died in May, 1882); Elijah Kent, 
 Dec. 10, 1878. 
 
 September 11, ISSO, Mr. Swift was married 
 to Fannie A., daughter of Francis and Cor- 
 nelia M. (Graves) Wetherbee, of New England 
 lineage. Mr. Swift is a Republican in political 
 affiliation. 
 
 His portrait on j)age 2'JO is that of a stauncli 
 patriot, an honored citizen and a man who has 
 been identified with the development of Wis- 
 consin for a quarter of a centur}'. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 293 
 
 /^^ EORGE H. CHASE, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 p member of the business firm of E. 
 Chase & Sons, a prominent citizen of 
 tlie C'ream City and a member of G. A. R. Post 
 E. B. Wolcott, was born July 27, 18,38, in the 
 town of Lake, Milwaukee Co., Wis., and has 
 been most of liis life a resident of the Badger 
 State iuul a true son of the comraonwealtli. He 
 traces his forbears to the earliest history of the 
 country, his ancestor, Aquilla Chase, reaching 
 America from Cornwall, England, about the 
 year 1680 and settling on the " Hampshire 
 Grants," and from him and two brothers, who 
 accompanied him, the dynasty of the Chase 
 family, in all its diffusion, is descended. Its 
 generations comprise representatives of many 
 vocations and individuals who have made the 
 name distinguished through learning, political 
 position and religious connection. The noted 
 bishop, Philander Chase, belongs to the strain 
 from wiiich Mr. Chase of this sketch comes in 
 direct lineage, and also Salmon P. Chase of 
 Ohio, Governor of that State, and afterwards 
 Chief .Justice of tiie United States. 
 
 Mr. Cliase is tlie son of Dr. Enoch Chase and 
 Nancy M. (Bromley) Chase. The former is a 
 native of Derb}% Vermont, and the latter of 
 Platt.sburg, New York. Slie is still living and 
 is the daughter of a Major in the war of 1812 
 and a granddaughter of an officer in the Revo- 
 lution. Her family was prominent in the set- 
 tlement of tiie country, and in the several gen- 
 erations since has supplied many men prom- 
 inent in intellectual and professional circles. 
 Dr. Chase received a New England education 
 and completed his medical studies at Dart- 
 mouth College, whence he was graduated in 
 •June, 1831, and he afterwards attended med- 
 ical lectures at Bowdoin College in Maine. His 
 finances were at low ebb, as was the case with 
 most farmers' sons of New England, and he 
 eked out expenses by teaching and practicing 
 
 the most rigid economy, all of which had the 
 usual results — to mould his character firmly 
 and make of him the very best material for 
 citizenship in tlie Republic. He is a pioneer 
 in two States — Michigan and Wisconsin. After 
 graduating, he started for Chicago, but his 
 money proved insufficient and he stopped in 
 Coldwater, Mich., (which was then about a year 
 old) and he practiced medicine there in the 
 pioneer community until 183.5. Soon after 
 reaching Coldwater he was commissioned 
 "Adgutant of Militia" by Michigan's boy Gov- 
 ernor, Stephen T. Mason, then 20 years of age. 
 Dr. Chase started for Milwaukee in 183.5 by 
 team and traversed a portion of the country 
 covered with primeval forests, being obliged to 
 cut a road for the passage of his team, which 
 was the first to reach the Kinnikinnic River, 
 and slept on the ground the night after his ar- 
 rival, passing the second night in a store build- 
 ing. He built a shanty and returned to Cold- 
 water for his wife, who died Jan. 5, 1837, leav- 
 ing a daughter, who now lives in Vermont — 
 Mrs. Julia Brown. Dr. Chase was married Sept. 
 24, 1837, to Nanc}' M. Bromley, and they be- 
 came the parents of 10 children, five of whom 
 are living. Mr. Chase of this sketch is the oldest 
 son; Lucien enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Com- 
 panj' B, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, and lost his 
 life by disease incurred in the service ; Hannah 
 married Samuel Burrell of St. Louis ; Anna is 
 the wife of George O. Sweet of Chicago ; Clarence 
 and Clifford are members of tiie firm of E. 
 Chase & Sons. 
 
 Mr. Chase of this sketch was his father's as- 
 sistant on the farm, which was obtained from 
 the Government and which is still in possession 
 of the family and is the homestead. In 1860 
 he caught the gold fever and went to Colorado 
 and was located at Central City engaged in 
 mining until the excitement in 1861, attendant 
 upon the movement ot Colonel H. H. Sibley, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 renegade West Pointer, who headed 2,300 
 Texas Rangers in the invasion of New Mexico. 
 The military organization wliich afterwards be- 
 came tlie 1st Colorado Cavahy deserves a 
 special account as matter of liistory, as it was 
 one of the bravest, most efficient and disin- 
 terested commands in the United States service. 
 Mr. Chase enlisted Sept. 4, 18G1, in Company 
 II, of that command, and went immediately 
 into .service, although the regiment was not 
 mustered into the L'nited States service. 
 The command proceeded to the seat of war 
 in New Mexico, and Mr. Chase was in 
 the several actions which terminated the inva- 
 sion \vhicli had for its ultimatum the transfer 
 of United States autiiority to tlie confederate 
 power and the invasion of Colorado. (See 
 sketch of ,J. Mc. Bell.) Mr. Chase was in the 
 several skirmishes and fought March 2Sth at 
 Apache Canon ; he w;is in the skirmish at Fort 
 Craig May 24th, fought at Glorietta, Sante Fc 
 and Los Lunas — Kit Carson's old home — and 
 at Canon Los Alamos. The regiment remained 
 there, performing distinguished service and 
 aiding so conspicuously in quelling the inva- 
 sion of Sibley that the command obtained 
 recognition and was mustered into the United 
 States service as regular cavalry. Mr. Chase 
 was commissioned Lieutenant after the return 
 of the command to Colorado, and the first serv- 
 ice performed by Mr. Chase under his commis- 
 sion was to accompany seven Ute chiefs as far 
 as St. Joe on their way to Washington for con- 
 ference with the U. S. authorities, among wlion) 
 was Ouray, the friend of the Government and 
 the especial friend of Mr. Chase. During his 
 service in Colorado, he was twice instrumental 
 in saving the chief's life and always received 
 from liim demonstrations of gratitude. Mr. 
 Chase was on duty at St. Joe, Mo., during the 
 three-months stay of the Indians in Washing- 
 ton and served in guerrilla warfare in Missouri, 
 
 returning from St. Joe in escort of his charges 
 back to Colorado. About that time the Indians 
 of tlie Plains became troublesome and the 1st 
 Colorado Cavalrj' was actively engaged in 
 quelling their frequent outbreaks. He was 
 occupied in this specie of border warfare until 
 the close of the war, and has the satisfaction of 
 knowing that his command made many good 
 (dead) Indians. He was mustered out Nov. 3, 
 1865, as Second Lieutenant of Company H. 
 
 Soon after he returned to Milwaukee, going 
 a little later to Minnesota where he engaged in 
 farming from 1807 until 1870. He went 
 next to Colorado and was interested in min- 
 ing at Georgetown until 1873. In that year he 
 again returned to Milwaukee and was occujned 
 three years in laying asphaltum pavements. 
 In 1876 the present firm of E. Chase & Sous 
 was formed, the business being founded by Mr. 
 Chase and his father, the other brothers being 
 admitted as they attained their majority. The 
 office of the firm is located on Lincoln Avenue, 
 just outside the city limits in the town of Lake, 
 a suburb of Milwaukee. They are engaged in 
 an extensive business. 
 
 Mr. Chase was married in 1867 to Helen A. 
 Smith, a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and who 
 died at Money Creek, Minn., Jan. 7, 1869, leav- 
 ing a son named Lucicn D., born Nov. 1, 1808; 
 he is an emploj'e of the corporation known as 
 the "^hllleal)le Iron Works" of Milwaukee. 
 In 1872, Mr. Chase was again married in Money 
 Creek to Anna Rebecca, daughter of Hiram 
 and Salome (Burkstresser) Keeler; they have 
 four children named Enoch, Mary, Horace and 
 Helen. 
 
 Mr. Chase is a popular man in his genera- 
 tion ; his lively temjierament and jirominent 
 characteristics as a gentleman of liirth and 
 breeding make him a valued friend and com- 
 panion. He is a Democrat and lias been some- 
 wliat prominent in politics. In 1886 he was 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 295 
 
 elected to the Assembly of Wisconsin and 
 served one term. In 1888 lie was a nearly 
 successful candidate for the senate of Wiscon- 
 sin. He is a member of the Masonic Order 
 and belongs to the Blue I^odge, Chapter and 
 Council. He is an active working member of 
 the Order of the Grand Army and is Aide 
 (1890) on the staff of General Alger, National 
 Commander. He is a member of the Loyal 
 Legion and is Past Commamler of Post E. B. 
 Wolcott. He belongs to Juneau C^lub and 
 other political and social organizations in Mil- 
 waukee. 
 
 ^' — r^=:tlr=n — 'x- 
 
 A. RICKEMANN, Racine, Wis., 
 ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 born in Baden, Germany, Aug. 17, 
 1840, and is the son of George A. and Cathe- 
 rine (Renner) Rickemann. He is one of nine 
 children of whom Eleanor, Henry, Nicholas 
 and Margaret came to America. The father 
 was a farmer and was drowned in the river 
 Rhine while his son was in early youtli. The 
 latter was a pupil in the public schools of his 
 native country and emigrated to America in 
 1853. He located in .Jefferson county, Wis., 
 where the motlier died in 1877. The son went 
 to school in .Jefferson count}' until 1854, when 
 he went to Racine to learn the trade of cabinet 
 making. He served his full time and went to 
 Pike's Peak in 1859. He remained in the 
 mines a short time and returned to Monroe, 
 Wis., where he engaged in cabinet making un- 
 til the date of the war, when he went to Shulls- 
 Ijurgh and enrolled, being one of the first to 
 rush to arms when the flag went down at 
 Sumter. He enlisted April 19, 1861, in Com- 
 pany I, 3d Wisconsin Infantry and was in ren- 
 dez.vous at Camp Hamilton, Fond du Lac, until 
 July I'Jtii, when he started for the scenes of 
 activity at the front. At the date of the first 
 
 Bull Run, the regiment had not been equipped 
 and they went to Maryland, receiving their 
 " sinews of war " at Harper's Ferry, after which 
 they went to settle legislative difficulties at 
 Frederick City and helped Maryland to remain 
 in the Union, much to her disgust. In the re- 
 pulse of the rebels, who attacked a foraging 
 party from the regiment, many of the com- 
 pany wei-e injured. In the spring, the com- 
 mand went up the Shenandoah valley and took 
 part in the retreat after Winchester. The regi- 
 ment suffered some lo.ss and after the removal 
 to Williamsport, Little Washington and Cul- 
 peper C. H., Mr. Rickemann fought in the hot 
 action at Cedar Mountain. The regiment was 
 cut off the main army during the Manassas 
 movement of McClellan and joined it during 
 the second fight at Bull Run. At Antietam, 
 September 17th, Mr. Rickemann sustained in- 
 jury from a bullet wound in his thigh and he 
 I was at the hospital at Chester, Pa., two months 
 \ and recovered in time to fight at the disastrous 
 battle of Chancellorsville. He was in the hot 
 fight at Beverly Ford where the rebels met dis- 
 aster of serious kind. He was in the move- 
 ments of the regiment until Gettysburg was 
 reached and helped obtain possession of Gulp's 
 Hill. When the command was ordered to 
 assist at Little Round Top, the rebels took pos- 
 session of the position where they were found 
 when the 3d Wisconsin returned at nightfall. 
 Tlie regiment formed in front of a swale called 
 Wolf's Hill, where ibey remained all niglit 
 and were in the charge which restored Gulp's 
 Hill to the Union troops. After the fighting 
 of the third day, Mr. Rickemann was in the 
 chase after the retreating rebels for nearly a 
 week and afterwards went to hospital at Anna- 
 polis, where he remained while the regiment 
 was absent at New York to aid in quelling the 
 draft riots. He rejoined his company at ^\'^ar- 
 trace, Tenn., on Christmas day, 1863, after it 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 had been assigned to the Army of the Cumber- 
 land and was ahnost immediately in the fight 
 at Kesaca. lie fought in everj' engagement in 
 which his reginiont participated until within 
 18 miles of Atlanta. Among them were Cass- 
 ville, Buzzard's Roost, and the several actions 
 at Konesaw Mountain. At New Hope Church 
 he was hit in the arm bj' a spent l)all. On 
 starting out he was made a member of the 
 color guard in which he served as long as he 
 continued in the service. He was discharged 
 at Mariettn, Ga., .July 1, 1804, his term having 
 expired. 
 
 He returned to Rome, Jefferson county, Wis., 
 where he worked at his trade al)Out a year and 
 removed to Racine and engaged in the busi- 
 ness of a grocer in w^hich he has continued. 
 He was elected Alderman for four years in 
 1879, and then was candidate for Mayor. In 
 the fall of 1888 he was elected County Treas- 
 urer and is serving a two-years' term. He is a 
 member of the Masons, Kniglits Templar and 
 Royal Arcanum, lie was married May 4, 
 1808, to Catherine, daughter of Philip Hick 
 and their children are named Geo. W., Fred- 
 erick, Amanda, Catherine, Minnie and Hugo. 
 
 ^m 
 
 ^>2 
 
 EWIS CARPENTER, Whitewater, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
 < was born .Inly 7, 1842, in Rice Co., 
 Ind. His parents, . lames and Lueretia (Humes) 
 Carpenter, were natives of tliat State as were 
 their jiai'cnts and belonged to tiie agricultural 
 class. They disposed of their jirojierty in the 
 Iloosier State when their son was in childhood, 
 and removed to a farm near W'hitewiiter, on 
 which he remained uutd lie entered the service 
 of his country as a soldier. He enlisted when 
 he was 19 years old in Company D, 28th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, enrolling Aug. 21, 1802. He 
 
 accompanied the regiment from Camp Wash- 
 l)urn to the suppression of the draft riots in 
 Wisconsin, and in December moved to the scene 
 of activity at Columbus, Ky., going thence 
 soon after, to Union City in anticipation of a 
 fight but returned disappointed to Columbus. 
 There he worked on the fortifications and per- 
 formed military duty, going thence to Helena, 
 Ark., whence, after a short ]ieriod, he was en- 
 gaged in the White River expedition. Later 
 he went on the Yazoo Pass expedition. In the 
 latter he saw much dangerous service and was 
 in the struggle with the rebel batteries when 
 the regiment was sent to the suj)port of an In- 
 diana regiment. Wiien the expedition was 
 finally aliandoned, every man in the command 
 had contracted enough malaria to make him a 
 pension subject all his natural life. They were 
 in poor condition to sustain the action with the 
 rebels on the 4th of July, when 15,000 confed- 
 erates attacked their force, numbering about 
 one-third as many. But the victory at Helena 
 that day was one of the greatest of the war. 
 After it was over Mr. Carjienter was sent to the 
 hospital where he passed three weeks under 
 the care of Dr. Smith and then joined the 
 regiment to take part in the movements and 
 marching and heavj' labors, and in the fall 
 passed another month sick in hospital. He 
 was in the expedition to Mount Elba and had 
 the pleasure of returning to Pine Bluff with a 
 large number of cnplured rebels. He remained 
 there until December, going in January again 
 to Mount Elba and returning to Eittle Rock. 
 He was again in an expeilition to White River, 
 and his next important service was with the 
 command under orders to proceed to the attack 
 on the defenses of Mobile. He was in the ter- 
 rible march of 45 miles over an indescribable 
 road and arrived at Sj>anish Fort to go imme- 
 diately into the trenches where lie passed 
 nearly two weeks, going the day after the sur- 
 
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 297 
 
 render, to Blakely to find it in the hands of 
 the Union soldiers. He was in the subsequent 
 movements of the regiment in Alabama on the 
 Tombigby River and, when Dick Taylor sur- 
 rendered the rebel fleet, went thereon to Mobile 
 wiience, after camping some weeks, he went to 
 Brazos Santi;igo, Texas, tlience afterwards to 
 Clarksville and Brownsville, where he was 
 mustered out Aug. 23, 1865. Notwithstanding 
 his several attacks of illness, Mr. Carpenter 
 took part in all the battles of his regiment and 
 in nearly all the skirmishes. He returned to 
 Whitewater, located on a farm and followed 
 that occupation nearly fifteen j'ears, after 
 which he went to the village of Whitewater 
 which has since been his place of abode. He 
 married Anna Pierce and their children are 
 named Frances Lucretia, Edward and William. 
 
 /^^ HARLES K. BROWN, Ciiippewa Falls, 
 %W^/ ^^^^■' member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 
 
 ^'•ii-^ was born Feb. I'd, 1831, in Carlisle, 
 Schoharie Co., New York. He comes of New 
 England stock, his grandfatlier, George Brown, 
 having been a native of Rhode Island and a 
 patriot of the Revolution. Charles Brown, 
 senioi', son of George, was born May 3, 1790, in 
 Schoharie county, married Nancy Van Dresser, 
 removed to Walworth Co., Wis., in July, 1841, 
 and died there; he was of English lineage and 
 his wife was of Holland descent, born July 4, 
 1805. She died in 1889. Their children were 
 George W., Henry P., Charles K., Lucy, Helen 
 M., Joseph I., and all are living but Henry. 
 
 In his youth Mr. Brown possessed a ram- 
 bling disposition and enlisted Dec. 23, 1863, at 
 Lafayette, Chippewa county. He went to Camp 
 Randall and was mustei'ed into United States 
 service in January, 1864, in Company A, 7th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, going to the front soon 
 
 after. He found the regiment and went 
 into winter ([uarters at Culpeper. May 4th, 
 camp was broken for movement to the battle of 
 the Wildei'ness, the regiment liaving been with 
 the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 1st Corps. In 
 the reorganization tlie regiment was assigned 
 to the 5th Corps. Mr. Brown was a partici- 
 pant in all the actions included in the success- 
 ive days' fighting and including Spottsylvania 
 and Laurel Hill. May 8th, about 10 o'clock in 
 the morning, he -was wounded by a musket 
 ball, and, while making his way to the rear, 
 another ball struck him in his side, passing 
 through the eighth rilj and cutting oil a piece 
 of his backbone in its passage through his 
 body. Pie went to field hospital and received 
 examination by five surgeons, who pronounced 
 him hopelessly injured. Two soldiers watched 
 him who had instructions to bury him as soon 
 as dead. The following morning an old sur- 
 geon visited him and gave him an examina- 
 tion, dressed his wounds and had him placed 
 on a stretcher to be taken to an ambulance, but 
 not finding one he was put in a mule wagon 
 and carried all day to a field hospital and laid 
 on the ground preparatory to an operation. lie 
 was asked if he would take chloroform or ether 
 and he replied that he would take neither, as 
 he came into the war to find out whether he was 
 a coward and he knew he was not. He was 
 offered whiskey and after drinking twice, his leg 
 was amputated. The next morning he was 
 taken to Fredericksburg and carried to a house 
 which was formerly occupied by the mother of 
 General Washington. He was there fed on 
 hardtack until he protested, when he received 
 some soft bread thi'ough the interference of Dr. 
 Wolcott of Wisconsin. He lay there without 
 dressing on his back until the wound was filled 
 with maggots, when he comj)lained to a chap- 
 lain and told him in plain terms that it was a 
 shame to take a man South, shoot him all to 
 
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 pieces and then wait for maggots to carry him 
 out of tlieir sight through tiie ke3'iiole. He 
 was properly attended to and from this liospital 
 was conveyed to Harvard hospital at Wasliing- 
 ton, where he nearly lost his life. The leg 
 fracture extended nearly to the formation of 
 the knee joint and a part of the hall, through 
 lack of skill of the surgeon, was still in the j)or- 
 tion that was not amputated, hut it was finally 
 removed. July 15, 18G4, he was discharged 
 and started for home. In New York he dis- 
 covered that gangrene had set in, the discovery 
 heing made in the rooms of the New England 
 Aid Society, wlu-re lie had gone for a luucli 
 and where he had his wound dressed. He was 
 placed on the cars and proceeded to Cleveland 
 Oiiio, where he was taken in charge hy the kSani- 
 tary Commission and treated eight weeks, he- 
 ing at death's door six days of that time. As 
 soon as possihle he started for home in Wal- 
 worth county where gangrene had again to he 
 liuriied out and, after three weeks, he went to 
 Chippewa Falls and after treatment from Octo- 
 her, I8t)4, to Fehruary, ISfio, he underwent a 
 second amputation. Meanwhile he had the 
 wound opened six times ami fragments of bone 
 removed. Prior to the operation he was told 
 that he had one chance in a tliousand to sur- 
 vive and he told them hi: would take it, as he 
 could not live as he was. The main artery 
 gave way seven times during the amputation, 
 but the eighth time it held — his only chance, 
 as the bleeding had been so profuse that 
 aiiDtlur would liave co.st his life. Six weeks 
 after he was out of danger. But his hack has 
 continued to give him great trouble, sometimes 
 di.'<a])ling him for three months. He has sin(;e 
 lived at Chippewa Falls and has been variously 
 engaged when able to attend to any kind of 
 business. 
 
 He was married in September, 1856, in Wal- 
 worth county, to Nancy M., daughter of Peter 
 
 and Ann Wessell, from Schoharie county, and 
 they had tliree children, named Mary E., Carrie 
 U. and Maud, all of whom are married. 
 Mr. IJrown is a member of the Odd Fellows and 
 is a Ke])ublican in his political affiliations and 
 receives a pension. 
 
 UCUSTUS E. NEEDHAM, Watertown, 
 ^ Wis., a former soldier of the civil war, 
 was born in ^h^s.sachusetts, Dec. 29, 
 1833, and is the son of Joseph and Eliza (Howe) 
 Needham, and claims Yankee ancestry of un- 
 mixed j)urity. He remained in his native 
 State until the year after his majority, engaged 
 in varied employment as long as he remained 
 under his father's authority, and afterwards 
 obtained a complete understanding of the trade 
 of a carpenter. In 1855 he went to Wisconsin, 
 where be pursued his business as a contractor 
 and builder until the second year of the war, 
 when, becoming convinced that the struggle 
 was of gi'eater moment than at first antici- 
 j>ated, he determined to enlist. He enrolled as 
 a soldier at Watertown Aug. 14, 1862, as a pri- 
 vate in Company B, 29th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and" went into rendezvous at Camj) Randall. 
 The regiment was mustered Se])tember 27tli 
 and left the Sttite for Cairo November 2d. He 
 went from Cairo to Helena where the perma- 
 nent camp was made across the river and 
 whence be participated in the several expedi- 
 tions to the White Iliver, the Yazoo River and 
 the St. Francis River, in which he saw much 
 service of a varied character without being 
 engaged in actual battle. Mr. Needham was a 
 participant in all the varied experiences of his 
 brigade which were of heroic character from 
 the fact that it was composed of veteran regi- 
 ments, the 29th being the only one of recent 
 enlistment. He was on the gunboats when 
 
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 tliey made a run past the rebel batteries in 
 April and soon after fought at Port Gibson. 
 At Champion Hills lie saw tlie capture of the 
 rebel batteiy wliich has been the subject of 
 disfjute. After the tight, his brigade was left 
 to bury the dead and he remembers seeing 31 
 dead artillerymen and two officers, l)ehiud 
 whose bodies lay 10 dead horses. During this 
 action he acted in the cajiacity of Corporal to 
 whicli he had been promoted and he was after- 
 ward made Sergeant. He was not in the fight 
 at Jackson, being in the convalescent hospital, 
 having previously been ill and in iiospital. 
 When the regiment returned to Vicksburg he 
 joined it there and obtained a furlough on 
 which he went home and remained several 
 months. During his absence the regiment 
 had been transferred to the Department of the 
 Gulf and he found it in camp near Franklin, 
 La. He passed about two months in the 
 varied service in which the regiment was en- 
 gaged, marching and skirmisliing until the 
 command went into camp at Algiers, opposite 
 New Orleans. They remained there until Jan. 
 5, 1864, going next to Decrow's Point and 
 returning within a month to Algiers. The 
 regiment was next detailed to accompany the 
 Red River expedition and Mr. Needham was 
 in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, where his j 
 company suffered severely ; going into action 
 with 35 men and returning with 16 able to 
 answer at roll-call. He was in tlie difficult and 
 dangerous return to Grand Ecore, going to 
 Alexandria, to Cloutiersville, and to many points 
 of less moment. In May he was with tlie force 
 that aided in the construction of Bailey's dam 
 across the Red River in which service tiie regi- 
 ment won the special commendatioji of the , 
 authorities. He was in the subsequent move- 
 ments until the regiment was ordered to take 
 part in the attack on the defenses of Mobile. 
 He made the heavy march to take position 
 
 before Spanish Fort, whence they went to rein- 
 force A. J. Smith at Blakely, returning to 
 Spanish Fort about the time of its surrender 
 and marched jjack to witness the events that 
 followed the capitulation of Blakely. They 
 went next to Mobile and Mr. Needham states 
 that the explosion there was distinctly heard. 
 At Mobile he was again taken ill and went to 
 hospital where he received a furlough and re- 
 turned to Wisconsin May 19, 1865. July 20th 
 he received honorable discharge with his regi- 
 ment at Madison. 
 
 After the war he resumed his business as a 
 builder whicli he pursued until 1884 when he 
 became a dealer in lumber. He is a substan- 
 tial and respected citizen and has justified in 
 his private life his character as defender of the 
 United States flag. 
 
 He was married in 1859 to Alzina Queen. 
 Their children are named Jennie, Nellie and 
 Fred. Three brothers of Mrs. Needham were 
 in the Union service and ail survived. Mr. 
 Needham is a Republican. 
 
 ^^f^g^l^^^-^ 
 
 OHN S. GEORGE, General Agent of the 
 (;^[| C. & N. W. R. R., resident at Milwaukee, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, (E. 
 B. Wolcott) was born May 4, 1845, in Theresa, 
 Jefferson Co., New York, and is the son of Silas 
 L. and Caroline (Flower) George. His father 
 belonged by birth and descent to stock promi- 
 nent in the history of the Empire State in its 
 earliest period. Mr. George's paternal grand- 
 father, (whose name he bears,) was a soldier in 
 the Revolution and prior to that period the 
 family dates their location back to Castle 
 Bungay, England. Tlie mother was a sister 
 of Hon. R6swell P. Flower, Congressman, and 
 who was a Presidential candidate for the sup- 
 port of the Democratic Convention of 1884. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Mr. George was still a boy in school when the 
 war came on and he resolved among the first 
 to go to the Hghting if there should l)e such a 
 thing, endeavoring to enroll in the three 
 months service, to be rejected on account of his 
 youth. Hut his second attempt was successful, 
 for he enrolled Sept. 13, 1861, in Company 
 B, 2d New York Cavalry. The regiment was 
 ready for muster and lie went immediately after 
 organization to Arlington Heights, performing 
 vidette duty in guarding Washington the fol- 
 lowing winter. In tlie spring the regiment 
 joined the Army of Virginia in time for the 
 battle of Falmouth where the regiment lost 
 heavily. From that on Mr. Geoige was in all 
 the service of Ins regiment until he received 
 his discharge, wliicli includes tiie heaviest 
 portion of the work accomplished by the Army 
 of the Potomac at that period, the cavalry be- 
 ino; always in condition for action, and receiv- 
 ing orders accordingly. Mr. George was in the 
 actions of Cedar Mountain, Brandy Station, ■2d 
 Bull Run, South Mountain, Autietam, Fred- 
 ericksburg, Chancellorsville and all includetl 
 sicirmishing, of which no account is in exi.s- 
 tence. (It is a well known fact that cavalry 
 service had not been made a feature of the war 
 up to tlie time of Scott's retirement and re- 
 j)orts of their service after they became a part 
 of the army forces suffered accordingly.) Mr. 
 George accompanied his regiment undei* Kil- 
 patrick on the raid towards Richmond and 
 was discharged on the recommentl of the 
 Corps Commander to take a position under a 
 commission as 'M Liiutenant, issued by Gov- 
 ernor Seymour to date in May, 1SG3. His 
 health was such that he did not return to ser- 
 vice. (When he enlisted he was a stalwart 
 youth, weighing 182 pounds and when he was 
 discharg(;d he weighed 02 j>ounds.) 'On pass- 
 ing the required surgical inspection he was 
 declared unfit for duty and afterwards Gov- 
 
 ernor Seymour sent him a commission in the 
 9th New York Cavalry, dated Feb. 24, 1804, 
 but he did not muster under it. 
 
 He was but 18 years old when his work as a 
 warrior was finished. He was, after his leav- 
 ing active service, discontented to have no part 
 in what seemed to him the most important 
 matter with which a man could be connected, 
 and he became a clerk for Captain George 
 H. Smith, in the Department of the 
 Commissary General with headquarters at 
 Harrisburg, entering upon the duties of the 
 position al)out the date of the Ijattie of tiettys- 
 burg and he remained in tiiat employ until 
 about the first of .January, 18G5. He returned 
 to Watertown. He had received more than a 
 good education in the common schools, had 
 studied in the Wcsleyan University at Gouv- 
 erneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York, and when 
 he enlisted was on the cars on his way to 
 \\'atertown College, .sending home his trunk 
 anl marching within a few days to war. In 
 1866 he obtained a position in the Custuni 
 House at Cajie ^'incent, ojx-rating there a year, 
 when he went to Avon, New York, and en- 
 gaged in the publication of a newspaper, of 
 which he was editor and proprietor — the Avon 
 Journal — and conducted the paper two years. 
 In the fall of 1869— Sej)!. 12th— he went to 
 Chicago to enter the office of the East Chicago 
 Freight Station of the C. & N. W. R. R. cor- 
 ]K)ration. In 1870 lie wivs transferred to the 
 city ticket office, which was burned in tlie 
 great fire of 1871. After business was, in 
 a measure, resumed, he sold tickets at the Wells 
 street depot, and, June 1, 1872, was made agent 
 of the company at Watertown, .Jeilersun Co., 
 Wisconsin, which position he held until April 
 1, 1873. At that date he was again promoted 
 to agent at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and, Ajuil 1, 
 1874, he was made ticket and jiassenger agent 
 of the corjwration at Milwaukee. In 1876 he 
 
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 was appointed General Agent of all the busi- 
 ness of the corporation in Milwaukee and still 
 holds the position. 
 
 He was married April 7, 18G8, to Margaret, 
 daughter of John and Margaret A. Morton. 
 Her parents were natives of Aberdeen, Scot- 
 land, and her father belonged to a line of mer- 
 cliants; after coming to America he built and 
 managed a tlouring-mill at Avon, N. Y., whei'e 
 Mrs. George was born. 
 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. George, of whom but one survives — 
 Charles Henr3^ An infant died unnamed ; 
 Roswell Flower died when Hve years old and 
 I'hillip Raney when 10 months old. 
 
 (leorge W. Flower, uncle of Mr. George, was 
 a Captain in the 35th New York Infentry, was 
 wounded at Antietam and mustered out on 
 account of his injuries; he was made Colonel 
 of Heavy Artillery, but a shattered knee pre- 
 vented his completing his service with his 
 commantl ; he was afterwards a Colonel in the 
 National Guards of his State. John S. George 
 fan uncle) was a Captain in the regiment in 
 which his nephew made his tirst attempt to 
 enlist. James Morton, brother of Mrs. George, 
 was a soldier in the civil war; he was a student 
 at the Racine College, pi-eparing for the Epis- 
 copal ministry and went iiome to enlist. 
 
 Mr. George has been as prominent in the 
 duties of his citizenship as of his office. He 
 has been Alderman of the 7th Ward, and in 
 1880, he was on the Democratic ticket for Sen- 
 ator but, being in a triangular fight against the 
 Repul)lican and Trades-Labor candidate.s, was 
 defeated. He has lieen a Trustee of the Public 
 Librarj' of Milwaukee and holds at jiresent the 
 same position in the management of the Emer- 
 gency Hospital ; he is a very prominent 
 member of the Order of Masonry, having held 
 the office of Generalli.ssimo of the Command- 
 ery of Knights Templar and also belongs to 
 
 all the different bodies in Milwaukee. His 
 business affairs have prevented his becoming 
 an office-holder. Among his personal interests 
 he is a stockholder of coal mines in Iowa and 
 Wyoming and iron mines in Wisconsin. He 
 owns interests in the lake navigation and in 
 dock privileges in the city. 
 
 Socially, Mr. George is second to none ; his 
 genial, straightforward temperament makes 
 him popular among his friends and in his 
 business the record of his varied relations with 
 the railway corporation of which he has been 
 for more than 20 years a trusted attache 
 presents the true estimates of his merits. 
 
 j,,;^- AMUEL L. ALEXANDER, member of 
 >^^^^ G. A. R. Post No. 58, at Menomonie 
 where he resides, was born Feb. 24, 
 1847, in Mifflin Co., Pa., which was also the 
 birthplace of his father, James Alexander, in 
 1808, whose wife, Lavinia Frasic before mar- 
 riage, was born in 1812 in Juniata county in 
 the same State. The parents lived and died 
 on the homestead. The great grandfather and 
 great grandmother Alexander moved into 
 Mifflin county with a cow which served as a 
 beast of burthen for all their earthly posses- 
 sions. They were from Scotland and on the 
 place where they located their descendants 
 lived for generations. The Frasic blood was of 
 Holland Dutch origin. The senior Alexander 
 was one of six children named Catherine, 
 Rosanna, Hattie, Pattie, Mary and .James, and 
 all are dead but Mary of tiiat generation. 
 James Alexander was the father of nine chil- 
 dren named Eliphas, Mary, William, Maggie, 
 Samuel, Ann, Sarah, .Jane and James, all liv- 
 ing but .lames, who died in 18S9. Samuel re- 
 mained under parental authority until he 
 assumed allegiance to the military regime of 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the Government in war. He enlisted in July, 
 1864, when 17 years old at Milroy, MitHin 
 County, and was mustered at Harrisburg Aug. 
 25tli following, into Company K, 205th Penn- 
 sylvania Infantry. He was in camj) at Harris- 
 burg but a short time when ordered to Wash- 
 ington, going into camp at Arlington Heights 
 for two weeks, moving thence to Prince George 
 C. H. near City Point, the regiment being con- 
 signed to the ■2d Brigade, 3d Division, and 9tb 
 Army Corps. Two months were passed in the 
 construction of fortifications under the direc- 
 tion of the Provisional Brigade and the regi- 
 ment went next to Petersburg, establishing 
 themselves in winter quarters in November, 
 18()4. In March the regiment took part in 
 frustrating the operations of the rebels wdien 
 they took Fort Steadman and was in the action 
 at "Fort Damnation" (Fort Mahone) which broke 
 the strength of the rebellion. The compan)' lost 
 11 men in the awful storm of every conceiva- 
 ble missile devised by desperate rebel ingenu- 
 ity. In the winter Mr. Alexander was in the 
 reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run and after the 
 surrender of Petersburg his regiment guarded 
 the Union trains, following up the pursuit of 
 Lee. (In the taking of Fort Mahone, the 
 relu'ls advanced to meet the lines, tiling out of 
 Fort Sedgwick, believing victory to be easy, but 
 when the " grays " had come within a stone- 
 throw the Union .soldiers rose to their feet, 
 hurled them.selves upon them, drove them into 
 the fort and fought for pos.session until they 
 drove out the rebels whom they kept out with 
 their own guns.) The command went to Appo- 
 mattox, where Mr. Alexander witnessed the 
 surrender of Lee. They went thence to Burkes- 
 ville and City Point, where they took trans- 
 ports to Washington and to camp at Alexan- 
 dria. They were a part of the Review May 
 23-4, 1865, and Mr. Alexander was detailed to 
 Cliestnut Hill, as Ward Master of Mower hos- 
 
 pital, where he was mustered out Aug. 5th fol- 
 lowing. During tiie whole of liis service he 
 was not injured or reported sick. 
 
 On returning home he engaged in farming 
 for three years, went thence to Ashtabula Co., 
 Ohio, and engaged in the manufacture of brick 
 until 1881, when he went to Minneapolis, 
 Minn., in the same vocation. In 1884 he went 
 to Menomonie and in 1885 organized the Wis- 
 consin Red Pressed Brick Company, of which 
 he was made Superintendent, and still holds 
 the position. The concern is in a flourishing 
 condition, and in 1889 the output was 8,0U0,UU0 
 brick, sold chiefly in St. Paul, Minneapolis and 
 Duluth. 
 
 Mr. Alexander was married Oct. 30, 1872, at 
 Jefterson, Ashtabula Co., Oiiio, to Clara .J., 
 daughter of Edward and Sibyl Miner. Two 
 children have been born to them — Fred and 
 Dale. Mr. Alexander belongs to the A. O. U. 
 W. and is a Republican in politics. 
 
 
 LLOUIS AMMAN, Whitewater, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
 was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 
 13, 1843, and is the son of Joseph A. and Mary 
 Amman. His father was a farmer, to wliicli 
 trade he had been apprenticed according to the 
 law of his country and he afterward engaged 
 in agriculture, removing to America in about 
 1840 and soon after came to Wisconsin, locating 
 on a farm three miles from Jefferson, in the 
 county of that name. At the age of 10 years 
 the son assumed tiie ciiarge of his own affiiirs 
 and worked on a farm and at shoemaking, 
 which was his business until he entered tlie 
 army of his adopted countrj-. He enlisted in 
 the 24th Wisconsin Infantry, but his mother 
 refused to sign tiie necessar}' pajiers and he w:is 
 compelled to defer his plan until be enrolled 
 
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 as a soldier Dec. 19, 1863, in Company H, 27th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment 
 as a recruit at Little Rock, Ark., where he took 
 iiis initiation into the details of military life. 
 He went thence with the regiment towards 
 Shreveport to make connection with the army 
 of Banks preparatory to taking part in the Red 
 River expedition. Tlie march there was one 
 of his severest experiences, the roads being 
 almost impa.ssable anil tlie weather extremely 
 hot, a fact which told on the men, as they were 
 in many instances unaccustomed to such a high 
 temperature. Many of them accomplished the 
 journe}' on bare feet, among whom was Mr. 
 Amman. Shortness of rations made it all the 
 more unendurable. During the march he was 
 engaged in heavy skirmish duty, and after ar- 
 rival at Camden he operated in several actions 
 of the same kind, the guerrillas under Price, 
 Kirby Smith, Marmaduke and other leaders 
 being more lively than agreeable. The Red 
 River expedition having come to nought, the 
 regiment started to retrace its steps to Little 
 Rock, and when near tlie Saline River, at Jen- 
 kins' Ferry, was attacked b}' rebels in the rear. 
 The action was severe, particularly from the 
 fact of a turbulent river confronting them 
 while their rear was under lire. But the rebels 
 were repulsed and the march resumed. During 
 its progress rations were short and Mr. Amman 
 relates that he saw Colonel Krez dismount 
 from his horse to pick up a nubbin of corn, 
 wipe the mud from it on the skirts of his coat 
 and eat it with relish, and probably more won- 
 der that it had escaped the sharp eyes of the 
 men. Mr. Amman was barefooted and his feet 
 became raw and sore, which his captain ob- 
 serving he gave him the use of a pony, on con- 
 dition that he would feed him and share his 
 back with others. This he did and arrived at 
 Little Rock, where he was deprived of the ani- 
 mal. His feet were still swollen and he ob- 
 
 tained a pair of No. 12 shoes which he tried to 
 put on. An old darkey saw his dilemma and 
 remarked, "Massa, I has a clean pair of socks I 
 can give yer," and Mr. Amman tried to draw 
 the shoes over them but was obliged to cut 
 them down until only a strip of leather re- 
 mained and he bound the sandals, so to speak, 
 on with strings and proceeded in comparative 
 comfort. Mr. Amman states that from the 
 morning of the fight at Jenkins' Ferry, no ra- 
 tions were issued for three days, and he wishes 
 to pay tribute to the virtues of army hardtack, 
 which he thinks he never appreciated until he 
 received a supply at Little Rock, where rations 
 were issued. Owing to his exposure and hard- 
 ship he was seized with fever and was under 
 the surgeon's care six weeks, being absent from 
 duty two months from May, 1SG4. When he 
 became convalescent he was seized with rheu- 
 matism but went with the regiment to Pine 
 Bluff. He was here occupied in the discharge 
 of military duty and contracted malarial fever, 
 which caused his relief from duty, but he did 
 not go to hospital. He accompanied the com- 
 mand to Little Rock and was detailed as guard 
 along the line of railroad, the companies being 
 distributed for the purjiose. When the regi- 
 ment was again consolidated it went to New 
 Orleans to Camp Algiers, and thence to Fort 
 Morgan on the Mobile expedition. Here he 
 suffered every other daj' with ague. He was 
 afterwards in the assault on Spanish Fort, and 
 went on the double quick to Blakely, reaching 
 there a few minutes too late, the rebel flag 
 going down just before arrival. From Spanish 
 Fort they went to Mobile, marched to Whistler's 
 and thence up the Tombigby, where they re- 
 mained on the forts until Dick Taylor sur- 
 rendered a large number of vessels for which 
 the soldiers prepared wood and after the news 
 of Lee's surrender, proceeded on their prizes to 
 Mobile. They went next to Texas and cele- 
 
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 brated the National holiday on the southern 
 extremity of the United States. They thence 
 went to Brownsville, where they performed 
 guard duty until mustered out August 19, 1S()5. 
 Mr. Amman returned to Whitewater and re- 
 sumed his business as a shoemaker in which 
 he lias since been engaged. He was married 
 .Ian. 1, ]8()9, to Mary Strange of Whitewater, 
 and their ciiildren are named Nettie, Cari-ie M. 
 and Howard. 
 
 /^^ EORGE HENZE, Watertown, Wis., 
 \^,^ -il member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
 ^i^^^ liorn .Ian. 9, 1841, in the province of 
 Hanover, Prussia. His parents, George and 
 Dorothy (Roettger) Henze, emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1854, and came direct from their port of 
 landing to Wiscon.siii, buying a farm in Dodge 1 
 county, in the town of Siiield.s. When the son 
 was 18 years old lie came to Watertown, where 
 he remained until he was 21. A few months 
 later, Aug. 12, 1802, he enlLsted in Company E, 
 20th Wi-sconsin Infantry. He entered the 
 army as a private, was promoted through all 
 tlu! gnides and was made Second Lieutenant, 
 Sept. 12, 1864. His first promotion was to Cor- 
 poral ; he was made Sergeant, Nov. 15, 1802; 
 First Sergeant, June 23, 1803, and was mus- 
 tered out under his commission July 14, 1805, 
 at (Jalveston, Texas. 
 
 The regimental rendezvous was at Madi.son 
 and the muster into service took jilace Aug. IS, 
 18(')2, the regiment leaving tlie State a week 
 later. To St. Louis and Rolla, Mo., they jour- 
 neyed to make connection with the Army of the 
 Frontier, under (leneral Herron,and Mr. Henze 
 participated in the Missouri cam])aign, includ- 
 ing the laborious nuirching, in wiiicii the regi- 
 ment* and division engaged until a long and 
 heavy one of 1 12 miles was made into Arkansas. 
 This was preparatory to the battle of Prairie 
 
 Grove, wliich was the first action in wliich Mr. 
 llenze took part. He was afterwards in the 
 siege of Van Buren ami in the attack on that 
 place and went thence on a long march to 
 Rolla, where orders were received to j)roceed to 
 the position at X'icksburg, in which they re- 
 mained, taking part in the varied service there 
 until July 4th. The position of the 20tli was 
 on the left, and after the capitulation of the 
 city he went with his command to the Yazoo 
 expedition, and was engaged in ail the varied 
 .service of that campaign. From there he went 
 to Port Hud.son, where the command arrived 
 just after the surrender. The next orders were 
 for New Orleans and they went thence to Mor- 
 ganzia Bend. He was in the affair at Atcha- 
 falaya Bayou, going soon after to New Orleans 
 to embark for Brownsville, Texiis, where he 
 aided in the building of Fort Brown, and in 
 the fall of the same year, 18C3, he was .sent to 
 Wisconsin on recruiting service. He remained 
 in this duty three months, rejoining his regi- 
 ment at Brownsville. After much service of 
 desultory character, Mr. llenze accompanied 
 his regiment again to New Orleans, going 
 thence to the vicinity of Mobile, where he was 
 again in activities of excitingstamp. He partici- 
 pated in the capture of Fort Morgan and in the 
 sub.sequent taking of large quantities of stores 
 of lumber and cotton. This was one of the 
 most impoi-taut occurrences of the war in that 
 locality. Mr. Henze went into camp in the 
 vicinity of I'^ast Pascagoula, which was evacu- 
 ated December 31st, and afterwards performed 
 heavy duty until he went to the trenches of 
 Spanish Fort, where he was under incessant 
 fire until April 9th, when he was among those 
 wlio took possession of the abandoned fort. 
 Soon after he went to Blakeley ami thence to 
 Mobile. The regiment went next to Galveston 
 and did military duty until mustered out. 
 Mr. Henze has been variously occupied 
 
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 since the war and is now (1889) operating as an 
 accountant witli one of tlie prominent business 
 firms in tlie city. He has served liis townsmen 
 as City Marshal two years and as Treasurer the 
 same lengtli of time. 
 
 He was married in Octoljer, 1805, to Amelia 
 Nicolai and they have six children, named 
 George, William, Augusta, Amelia, August and 
 Lizette. Mr. Henze is Adjutant of his Post, is 
 an Odd Fellow and Turner and belongs to the 
 Mutual Benefit Association. 
 
 ^,^^^^^+H<. 
 
 EN.JAMIN ZOELLE, Watertown, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
 
 born in Baden, Germany, March 27, 
 1840, and his parents, Jolm Martin and Mag- 
 dalena (Stahl) Zoelle, were also natives of the 
 same country. Thej' emigrated to America in 
 1853 and came directly to \\'isconsin, locating 
 in Milford, Jefferson county. They were far- 
 mers and the son was reared to the age of 15 
 on the homestead. At that age he commenced 
 learning the business of a butchei', going after 
 a time to Illinois where he resided as a citizen 
 until the war. He was awakened to the emer- 
 gency in the dajs when the Nation was 
 startled to its foundation by the action of the 
 Soutli in firing on the flag. Within tlie first 
 month of April he enlisted in Company — , 13th 
 IlHnois Infantry, Colonel Wyman command- 
 ing. May 24th, lie was mustered into service 
 for three years or during the wai'. He went 
 from rendezvous to St. Louis and thence to 
 Rolla, Mo., where he was occupied in general 
 military duty, his company making frequent 
 excursions into the sunounding country. At 
 the time General Fremont was organizing tlie 
 Army of Missouri, he went to ypringfield and 
 returned again to Rolla. He went again to 
 Springfield, thence to Cross Hollows near Pea 
 
 Ridge, lieing assigned to the command of Gen- 
 eral Curtiss. But he jiarticipated in the pur- 
 suit of Price and was afterward in camp at 
 Batesvilie, Ark. While here, three fiatboats 
 were built to transport the command down the 
 river, his company being detailed for the ser- 
 vice. They were loaded with supjilies. All 
 went smoothly until July 4th, when they were 
 assailed by rebels and the National holiday 
 was celebrated by the men in arms. The cap- 
 tain was wounded liy a ball in the back of the 
 head and a messenger was sent for aid who ap- 
 peared with howitzers and shelled the cane- 
 brakes. A series of exciting incidents followed 
 and they were compelled to sink the boats to 
 prevent their being taken. Mr. Zoelle was de- 
 tailed to accompany the captain and a wounded 
 comrade^ to Arkansas, iiimself having been 
 attacked by intlammation in the eyes. After 
 a tedious march he was relieved of his ciiarges 
 and joined his company on the Osage River. 
 They soon after crossed the river on wagons 
 and alter a day of marching crossed another 
 stream and he was detailed to return witli the 
 wagon for a fisli seine. He was accompanied 
 by four butternut-clothed individuals and they 
 traveled by night, encountering often deserted 
 campfires, which they decided were remains 
 of guerrilla watchfires. They came to a small 
 village which was the residence of his com- 
 panions and finding it occupied by troops, they 
 were obliged to assume a confidence they 
 were far from feeling, when they were re- 
 lieved by ascertaining that the soldiers be- 
 longed to a Union cavalry regiment, scouting 
 there. They liad captured a number of pris- 
 oners and a lieutenant and himself occupied 
 the wagon the next morning, a start lieing 
 made for lieadquarters. He carried his mus- 
 ket and the officer a revolver, the prisoners 
 inarching before them. They overtook the 
 army en route to Helena. Communications 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 were cut off and supplies were short for several 
 days. An expedition was planned to the White 
 River, but being abandoned a return was made 
 to Helena. After some time tliey joined Sher- 
 man up to Yazoo River and Mr. Zoelle was in 
 the fight at Cliickasaw Bayou, December 27-8-9, 
 1862. (After tiie tight at Cliickasaw Bayou 
 tlie rebels refused to recognize the flag of truce 
 and the wounded lay all night on the field; in 
 the morning many of them were found stripped 
 of their most valuable clothing.) Here the 
 regiment lost its colonel and in the confusion 
 caused by companies becoming intermingled, 
 they lost also their colors and another mistake 
 prevented their re-taking them. At Arkansas 
 Post, the regiment fought bitterly, remember- 
 ing their experiences previous. Thence the 
 regiment went to Young's Point opposite Yicks- 
 burg, where a lively skirmish took place. Mr. 
 Zoelle passed the winter there incanij), making 
 an expedition meanwhile up the river to 
 Greenville, and was occupied in canal building 
 and other duties pertaining to tiiat service, the 
 regiment suffering greatly from small-pox. 
 The marching on the expedition referred to 
 was very severe and the hardshijis burdensome. 
 It was about tlie date of the practical oj>era- 
 tions of the Emancipation Proclamation and 
 the collection of darkies from the neighboring 
 plantiUions grew larger than the numbers of 
 the expedition. Finally they took the able 
 bodied into their service, enlisting them as sol- 
 diers. The regiment afterwards went from 
 Young's Point to Milliken's Bend pre])aratory 
 to starting for Grand Gulf, and being assigned 
 to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 15th Army 
 Cori)S. May 14, 1863, Mr. Zoelle fought at 
 .Jackson and marched thence to the siege of 
 Yicksburg, where he was taken sitk, lint was 
 in the activities there until the capture, July 
 4tli. Meanwhile he went to Duvall's ]51ufi to 
 look after Johnston, many of the command 
 
 suffering sunstroke on the way. The regiment 
 was in camp near Black River after the capitu- 
 lation, where he was very ill and narrowly 
 escaped the hospital. In the fall the command 
 went to Memphis and Tuscumbia, where he 
 was in a fight, Oct. 27, 1803. During the 
 entire movement the men sk'j)t on their arms 
 everv night and were commonlv called out in 
 the night and formed in line of battle. Mr. 
 Zoelle was sent to Nashville to Cumberland 
 hospitid and in May rejoined his regiment at 
 Madison Station, Ala. Here, while waiting for 
 transportation, they were attacked and sur- 
 rounded by Forrest anil his men, but succeeded 
 in ridding themselves of the raider. Twenty- 
 four were cai^tured, together with everything 
 except their discharge papers, their equip- 
 ments being amongst the spoils. Mr. Zoelle 
 received final disciiarge June 21, 18i)4, at 
 Springfield, 111. Since the war he has been a 
 resident of Watertown and vicinity and vari- 
 ously engaged. 
 
 He was married in 1871 to Mary Ford of 
 Watertown and the}' have seven children — 
 Frank, Benjamin, Edward, Mary, Laura, Ray 
 and Ilinry. Pius Zoelle, a brother of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, fought through the war in 
 the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry. He is now de- 
 ceased . 
 
 EV. SABIN IIALSEY, one of the 
 most prominent members of the 
 Wisconsin Conference and member 
 of G. A. R. Post E. B. Wolcott, No. 1, was born 
 in Irwin, New York, Dec. 22, 1843. His father 
 and mother, William B. and Roxana (Wright) 
 Ilalsey, were of American birth but of English 
 and I'rench descent. He became a resident of 
 Wisconsin in 1855 and dates the beginning of 
 his history with his conversion in 186(j. He 
 determined to enter the ministry, and, with 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 that purpose in view, he took a course of study 
 at Evanston, 111., where he recieved a thorough 
 training in theological branches. He pursued 
 more advanced studies at Garrett Biblical In- 
 stitute and received the degree of D. B. in 1870. 
 In 1888, the same institution conferred on him 
 the degree of D. D. In 1869 he united with 
 the Wi.scon.sin Conference and has since been 
 actively engaged in his calling. He has main- 
 tained an unbroken connection with the inter- 
 ests of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wis- 
 consin and his name is inseparably connected 
 with the progress that denomination has made. 
 He has tilled some of tlie most important pas- 
 torates within the borders of the State, and 
 has, in most instances, tilled a full term of 
 three years. He has officiated two terms as 
 Presiding Elder and at this writing (1889) is 
 occupying that position in the Milwaukee 
 District. Also within the present year he has 
 served as Wisconsin delegate to the General 
 Conference in his native State. During a 
 period of five years Mr. Halsey acted as As- 
 sistant Secretary of the Wisconsin Conference, 
 and has been for many consecutive years the 
 efficient and popular Secretary of that 
 Body. In 1884 he was elected to the General 
 Conference, in which he had the distinction 
 of serving as Assistant Secretary under Dr. 
 Monroe. In all his relations with tlie Church 
 of which he is one of the most conspicuous 
 figures of the period, Mr. Halsey has sustained 
 his high character. During his connection 
 with the Wisconsin conference the affairs of 
 the Church have been such as to demand of 
 her prominent leaders the wisest judgment and 
 must unbiased relations. In the history of the 
 Church in Wisconsin, the name of Mr. Halsey 
 will appear in a style consonant with the high- 
 est type of manhood and Christianity. He is 
 a man of broadgauge ideas and principles in 
 his relations with his fellow men and his coi-- 
 
 rect judgment in emergencies, his unswerving 
 allegiance to his professional connections and 
 \ his adherence to the line of action in life have 
 made him one of the most prominent per- 
 sonages in society and the Church. He is a 
 man of whom Milwaukee is proud, both for 
 personal character and executive abilities. 
 
 When the call for 100-day troops was 
 made he enrolled, May 27, 1864, in Company 
 F, 41st Wisconsin Infantry. He left the State 
 June 15th, having been promoted June 8th to 
 Principal Musician and served in that capacity 
 through his term, as well as in the duties of a 
 soldier in guard and garri.son .service at Mem- 
 phis, where he had the experience of the mid- 
 night raid of Forrest. He returned to Mil- 
 waukee with his regiment on the expiration of 
 his term and was mustered out Sept. 23, 1864. 
 
 OHN SCANLAN, Menomonie, Wis., char- 
 ter member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
 born June 28, ISoS, in Detroit, Mich., 
 and his parents, Michael and Bridget (Dono- 
 ban) Scanlan, were natives of County Clare, 
 Ireland. After innnigration to America they 
 lived successively in Canada and Detroit, where 
 the father died in 1839 and the mother in 1844. 
 Their six children were named Mary, James, 
 Ann, Michael, Elizabeth and John. Mr. Scan- 
 lan resided for a time, after the death of his 
 mother, with his grandfather in Canada and at 
 15 went to Detroitand began an apprenticeship 
 to the ship carpenter's trade. After a year he 
 engaged in teaming, and in 1855 went to Buf- 
 falo, thence to Chicago and Grand Haven, en- 
 gaging in the pineries through the winter. In 
 the spring he became a sailor before the mast, 
 spending the next winter in Canada. The next 
 spring he went to the Lake Superior country, 
 and finding he had been deceived in the busi- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 nL->.s prospects of that couulrv, lif wtiil lu .St. 
 Croix l'\ills, wlicre he passed a season. In tlie 
 winter he was engaged on Snake River in .Min- 
 nesota, went again to the pineries and came 
 down-^vith the drive in the spring to Stillwater, 
 and when he came to Wisconsin he obtained 
 employment in harvesting in Pierce county. 
 He hunted and trapped on the Eau Galle and 
 pa.«sed a winter in the employ of Knajip, Stout 
 <fc Co., and in the spring engaged in logging 
 with C. C. Washburn and remained in Menom- 
 onie until he entered the army. He enlisted 
 Aug. 24, 1862, in Company K, 5th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and went to Washington and thence 
 to Bakersville to join the regiment tlie last of 
 Septendjer. Tlie regiment was assigned to 
 Hancock's LSrigade and 1st Division, Mr. Scan- 
 Ian being in Company H, the regiment having 
 been reorganized. Briefly stated the following 
 are the movements of Mr. Scaulan, the experi- 
 ences covering as much history of the supjires- 
 sion of the rebellion as those of any other 
 man connected with the regiment in a sub- 
 ordinate capacity. He performed picket duty 
 at New Baltimore, moved to White Plains, 
 thence to light at Fredericksburg, from there to 
 winter quarters at Aquia Creek and to stick in 
 the mud in midwinter with Burnside, to the 
 second Rajjpaliannock camj)aign in the sjiring, 
 going into Fredericksburg and the charge at 
 ^hu•ye's Heights, to Salem Church and to camp 
 seven miles below Fredericksburg, where Cap- 
 tain Bissell took command of the company, 
 Captain Turner having been killed. Gettys- 
 burg comes next on his roll of honor and he 
 was with the 6th Corps on Round Top, through 
 tlie two last days of the action, went thence on 
 the pursuit of the 5th, going to camp at War- 
 renton, Mr. Scanlan having been made Cor- 
 poral on the march to the most famous battle 
 field of the war. Thence he went to New York 
 to assist in enforcing the draft and his company 
 
 went to Troy after being stationed in the liar- 
 bor in New York and to Albany, (at Castle Gar- 
 den Mr. Scanlan was promoted to Sergeant) and 
 at Troy guarded a number of substitutes who 
 gave the command some trouble. In New 
 York the rioters were feared and the company' 
 was under orders to go on the double quick 
 from City Park to City Hall at the first tap of 
 the bell. Another campaign being imminent 
 on the Itappahannock, the regiment returneil 
 just in time to get into a fight at Rappahannock 
 Station, going without knapsacks and into the 
 charge on the forts, which they took with guns 
 and 800 prisoners, principally " Lee's Tigers." 
 The regiment camped across the river on the 
 farm of .John Minor Botts and went to figiit at 
 Mine Run, November 2(ith. In May, 18()4, Mr. 
 Scanlan went to the Wilderness campaign, 
 fought there successively frum the 5th to the 
 12th of the month and on the last day at Spott- 
 sylvania he was wounded, a musket ball strik- 
 ing his right annas he fired. The ball entered 
 the lower portion of the arm, shattering llie 
 bone, following to injui'e the cullar bone and 
 breast bone and inflicting three distinct and 
 severe injuries. He was taken to field hospital, 
 where the fractured bone was removed and he 
 went successively to hospitals at Fredericksburg 
 and Alexandria and received a furlough in 
 October for 30 days and after that another, 
 when he returned to Wisconsin. He went after- 
 wards to Madi.son and from there to Camp 
 Distribution at Baltimore in Fort McHenry. 
 He went thence to Alexandria, whence con- 
 valescents w'ere being sent to the front. He 
 took oft' his bandages and succeeded in passing, 
 but on the boat his condition was discovereil 
 and he was sent to Carver hospital at \\'ashing- 
 tou and was discharged June 25, 18(35. He re- 
 turned to Dunn county, where he had located 
 a claim which he imjtroved and where he 
 lived until his removal to Menomonie in 1873. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 309 
 
 (His farm is in tlie town of Dunn.) While 
 there he served a term as Assessor, and he has 
 also held otlier municipal offices. He was mar- 
 ried Oct. 1, 1SG5, to Winnifred, daughter of 
 .James and Winnifred (Newcomb) Monahan. 
 .Their children are named Minnie F., born Oct. 
 1, 1S(jG; William Albert, born Oct. 18,1867; 
 Emma E., born Oct. 5, 1870; James A., born 
 Aug. 21, 1872 William married Thekla 
 Miller, May 14, 1887. Emma died May 17, 
 1884. Mr. Scanlan is a Republican and a 
 member of the A. O. U. W. 
 
 EV. .JAMES HALL, Whitewater, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. .34, was 
 ^'^iV' l)orn in Jjiverpool, England. He 
 early became an orphan and, through a dis- 
 astrous fire all records of his ancestry were 
 lost. He was placed at school and graduated 
 at an institution called the New Connection \ 
 College, which was under the au.spices of the 
 Congregational Church. He came to America 
 when about eighteen years of age, in 1846. 
 He located in Massachusetts, and while at 
 Stoughton Corners was invited to supjdy a va- 
 cancy at North Easton, Mass., and labored 
 there five years in succession. In 1853 he 
 came to Wisconsin and operated as an agent of i 
 the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. ' 
 After a service of two years lie assumed charge 
 of a society in West Troy, Walworth county, 
 and soon after went to the same duty at Oak 
 Creek. He was next pastor of a church at 
 Brooktield, Waukeslia county, where he was 
 located for four years. On the advent of the i 
 war lie saw a new Held of duty and decided to 
 enlist. He enlisted May 17, 1864, in Company 
 B, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, and went into 
 rendezvous at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, 
 where he was mustered into service. He went 
 
 thence to Cairo, 111., and to Memphis, where he 
 was made Sergeant, and when the regiment 
 reached its destination it was at once placed 
 on all varieties of military duty pertaining to 
 camp life in a district infe.sted with guerrillas 
 and bushwhackers. Picket guard was a post 
 of extreme danger from the conditions in a 
 country where the enemy knew that undrilled 
 and undisciplined troops had been sent to re- 
 place veterans and they were constantly prowl- 
 ing in the outskirts of Memphis, trying to 
 find some point of weakness. Mr. Plall found 
 plenty of opportunity to assist in the duties of 
 the chaplain as well as to perform all duty to 
 which he was assigned. He acted as nurse 
 when he could do so and when Forrest made 
 his attack Aug. 21, 1864, was in the ranks 
 throughout the assault and repulse. As soon 
 as it was over he found his services as a man 
 were in immediate requisition, as several had 
 been severely injured, and he also assisted at 
 the burial services of the killed. He devoted 
 himself entirely and without thought for him- 
 self to the wounded and sustained injury from 
 hernia from vvhicli cau.se he was soon himself 
 under medical treatment and from which, as 
 from other injuries, he has continued to suffer 
 since his discharge. At the date of his enlist- 
 ment he was 37 years of age and as he has ad- 
 vanced in life his injury has made such prog- 
 ress as is common in such cases. At the date 
 of his enlistment he was in unbroken health, 
 but his age prevented his recuperating wholly 
 and as he has advanced in life his infirmities 
 have also increased. It should have been 
 stated that he received his discharge Sept. 22, 
 1864. He entered again at once on the duties 
 of his former calling and officiated at Center, 
 Rock county, at Leon, LaCrosse county, in 
 Syracuse, Nebraska, in vSeattle, Washington 
 Territory, and at Farwell, Mich. June 15, 
 1885, he located at Whitewater, where he has 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 since held himself in readiness to attend to 
 ministerial obligations. 
 
 Mr. Hall is a lineal descendent from the Rev. 
 Rohert Hall of England. He has been thrice 
 married. His children In' his former consorts 
 are named Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary Ann and 
 Roxana. His present wife was tlie widow of 
 Thomas Van Zandt, a soldier in the civil war 
 and a member of the 1st Wisconsin Heavj- 
 Artiller)', who died June 13, 1876, and his 
 widow became the wife of Mr. Hall December 
 15, 1888, at Palmyra, the Rev. William 
 Bennett officiating. 
 
 ACOB H. NEAR, Puicine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, wa.^ born Dec. 
 10, 1827, in Oneida county, New York, 
 near L'tica. His father and mother, Bernard 
 and Eleanor (Tarpenning) Near, were respect- 
 ively of German and Dutch parentage, but of 
 American birth. Jacob H., George W., Julia 
 A. and Nancy C. were the names of their chil- 
 dren. The sons received their education in 
 the district school in the winter and worked on 
 the farm in the summer seasons. Tiie family 
 moved to the West in 1845 and located on a 
 farm in the township of Mount Pleasant, Wis., 
 where the mother died in 184!t and the father 
 in February, 1858. Tiic son remained on the 
 farm five years and went to Racine to learn the 
 trade of a carpenter in 1850. He worked at 
 that business until he determined to enter the 
 army. Aug. 11, 1862, he enrolled as a soldier 
 in Company A, 2'2d Wisconsin Infantry. He 
 remained in rendezvous with the connuand at 
 Camp Utiey until September I6lh, went .south- 
 ward under orders for Cincinnati and thence to 
 Covington and, during the fall and winter, 
 skirmished and looked after the movements of 
 the rebel leader.'!, Morgan and Bragg, in the 
 
 vicinity of Nicholasville and in other portions 
 of Kentucky, afterwards going to Danville. 
 While at Nicholasville, Companj* A was de- 
 tailed to guard l)ridges acros.? the Kentucky 
 River, the regiment belonging to the 2d Bri- 
 gade, 3d Division, 20th Army Corps. The 19th 
 Michigan, S5th and 33d Indiana and 22d Wis- 
 consin composed the brigaile. Jan. 26, 1863, the 
 regiment left Danville for Louisville and in 
 February was ordered to march to Brentwood 
 Station to guard the railroads. March 3d, Mr. 
 Near was in the reconnoissance to Spring Hill 
 and was in the action at Thompson's Station 
 where the colonel and 11 other commissioned 
 officers were captured with 243 men of the 
 regiment and a large proi)ortion of the entire 
 brigade. Mr. Near was under Lieutenant Colo- 
 nel Bloodgood and went with him to the de- 
 fense of the trestle work at Brentwood ; and on 
 the morning of the 25th they were assaulted 
 b}' Forrest, the entire command being cap- 
 tured. They were taken to Columbia where 
 they signed the parole and went thence to Tul- 
 lahoma, where they were stripped of every- 
 thing like decent garments. They proceeded 
 to Richmond, remained a day at Libby and 
 went to City Point where they were "swapped " 
 for a boatload of greasy rebels and went lo 
 Annapolis where they received new clothes 
 and food. Mr. Near took actual measurement 
 of the rations he received and they consisted 
 of a -piece of corn bread and bacon, the two 
 together being the width and thickness of two 
 fingers. From Annapolis they went to St. 
 Louis to await exciiange (June 1st) and from 
 there went to camp at Nashville, where they 
 remained until July and procceiled thence to 
 Franklin and Murfreesboro to perform garrison 
 duty. Feb. 24, 1864, they started for Nash- 
 ville, remained until April 19th and started for 
 Lookout Valley. Mr. Near was thereafter with 
 Sherman's immediate command and fought at 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 Resaca, Dallas Woods, Golgotha Church, the 
 several actions at Keuesaw Mountain, Powder 
 Springs Road, Peach Tree Creek and (July 
 20th) in the latter action, Hood's first sally, tl)e 
 regiment was dejiloyed as skirmishers. The 
 loss was light in Comi>any A and they re- 
 mained in front of Atlanta until July 28th 
 when they were ordered to the right to re-in- 
 force Howard. No action took place and they 
 returned to their old position, going later to 
 the Chattahoochie where they had a skirmish 
 with rehel artillery. After the fight at Jone.s- 
 Ijoro they returned to Atlanta and the regiment 
 was among the first troops to enter the city. 
 They remained there until November lOtii 
 when the march to the sea was begun. Mr. 
 Near belonged to the foraging detail until he 
 reached Savannah where he was in a detail 
 to run a ricemill. He also assisted in the cap- 
 ture of a gunboat loaded with supplies for the 
 rebels in Savanna!) and in January' went on 
 the Northward march through the Carolinas. 
 After leaving Savannah, Mr. Near was detailed 
 as escort for the ambulance trains in wliich he 
 continued until he had marched tiirougli \'ir- 
 ginia to Richmond and Washington for the 
 Grand Review and was mustered out June 12, 
 18(35. In January, 1S63, he was promoted to 
 Corporal and in March, 180o, he was made 
 Sergeant. After his return to Wisconsin he 
 again located at Racine where he worked for 
 the railroad one year, engaged six years in his 
 own business and from 1869 to 1880 he worked 
 in tlie separator department of the J. I. C. 
 Threshing Ahichine Co. He then engaged as 
 a contractor and builder and in 1882 again 
 engaged in the carpenter department of the 
 same branch of the factories of J. I. Case &Co. 
 lie was married March 21, 1850, to Rachel, 
 daughter of James and Rachel Langlois, and 
 their children were named Rosalind E., Charles 
 E., Francis L., Carrie, Ida M., James E., Clif- 
 
 ford H., John, Ada and Arthur L. Clifford, 
 John and Ada are the only survivors. Mr. 
 Near is a member of the Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. It should have been mentioned that the 
 father of his mother was a soldier in 1812 and 
 received a fatal wound at Sacketts Harbor. 
 
 v>\\ ANIEL BOWEN DAVIS, Milwaukee, 
 5y\'l and a member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 1, E. B. AA^jlcott, was born Nov. 20, 
 1835, in Cardiganshire, Wales, and is the son 
 of Thomas B. and Frances (Owen) Davis, with 
 whom he came to America in 1852. They 
 located in Waukesha county in the Badger 
 State and, six years after, the son removed lo 
 Milwaukee. Under the call for additional 
 troops in the summer of 1SG2 he enlisted, 
 enrolling in Company I, 24th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, August 21st. He served with his regi- 
 ment until the muster out, after the war was 
 closed. He fought at Perryville, Stone River, 
 Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and went to the 
 relief of Burnside at Knoxville, assisted in 
 raising the siege of Longttreet, afterwards 
 fighting at Da nd ridge and going thence to 
 Loudon. In May, 1864, he, with his regiuient, 
 joined the army of Sherman, preparatory to 
 the Atlanta campaign and was in the several 
 actions in Georgia known as Rocky Face Ridge, 
 Resaca, Pleasant Hill, Dallas, and in the battle 
 of Kenesaw Mountain. He was in action again 
 at Peach Tree Creek and went thence to the 
 trenches before Atlanta. He was in the move- 
 ments which had for their object the destruc- 
 tion of the only means l)y which supplies 
 could reach the rebels — the destruction of the 
 Macon railroad — and went next into active war- 
 fare at Jonesboro He accompanied the " 24th " 
 in subsequent operations, performed military 
 duty at Chattanooga and went thence to aid in 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 checking the progress of Hood. He was in 
 numerous skirmishes and fought at Franklin. 
 He was in the two days' fighting before Nash- 
 ville and joined in the cliase after rebels. The 
 remainder of tlie time of his enlistment was 
 passed in winter quarters and the movements 
 of the following spring, the regiment being at 
 Blue Sjirings when intelligence of the end of 
 the Groat Struggle reached the conmiand. Mr. 
 Davis returned to Milwaukee. 
 
 He was married June 30, 1860, to Winnifred 
 CJrittith. Their children numlier seven — de- 
 ceased and living. Jo.seph, Thomas, Esther, 
 Pearl ami Owen are dead ; only two — Daniel 
 AV. and Humphrey — are left to brighten the 
 home of the parents. Mr. Davis is a sj)lendid 
 specimen of his race in jjhysical development, 
 and traces his Welsh descent with justifiable 
 pride. He belongs to the Order, Knights of 
 iionor, No. 300, at Milwaukee. 
 
 3€Wf 
 
 /^^ DWIN M. DEPUY, Waukeslia, Wis., 
 
 iTTTy-— V member of (i. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
 ^ born April 5, 1825, in Avon, Living- 
 ston Co., New York. The family in this coun- 
 try springs from one of three brothers, who 
 came to America with La Fayette to fight in 
 the Revolution, two returning with him to 
 France, and the grandfather of Mr. Depuy 
 settling here. His onl}' sou, Moses AL, was the 
 father of Edwin ; the father was born near 
 Kingston, New York, and was a soldier of 1812, 
 losing all his property in (hat war. He died 
 at Lima, Ind., in ]S(>2, aged 73 years. He 
 married Elizabeth Hedges and they reared 13 
 children to maturity. The sons were born in 
 the following order: William H., Sylvanus, 
 Edwin ^L, Leander ; the latter was a soldier in 
 the Mexican war and afterwards in the 18th 
 Wisconsin Infantry in the rebellion, receiving 
 
 a wound at Shiloh. Maria, Harriet, Mary Ann, 
 Amanda and Elizabeth are deceased ; Hannah, 
 Nancy and Rsther make up the list of daugh- 
 ters : Gardner, a son, died in infancy. The 
 mother of Mr. Depuy was of English extrac- 
 tion and one of the heirs to the contested es- 
 tates of the Hedges family in England ; .she 
 was the daughter of Christopher Hedges and 
 went with her husband to what is now Mar- 
 shall, Calhoun Co., Mich., in 1835, from New- 
 York, and there the parents made their home 
 <luring their remaining years; both are biu'ied 
 at Lima, Ind. 
 
 When 18 years old Edwin went to Wisconsin 
 and gave his- attention to acquiring laud, be- 
 coming the proprietor of several farms liefore 
 he was 21 3-ears old. During the winter of 
 1843-4 he attended school at South Prairieville, 
 and located on a farm in Mukwonago, on 
 which he lived until 1852, when he assumed 
 the management of the hotel " Mukwonago," 
 and traded the property the next year for a 
 large farm in Walworth count)' and still owns 
 a part of it. He resided at East Troy from 
 1853 to 1883, meanwhile becoming a soldier. 
 Aug. 20, 1802, he enlisted from East Troy in 
 Company K, 28th Infantry, was mustered at 
 Milwaukee and went with the regiment to 
 Columbus, Ky., encamping there a short time 
 and going thence to Helena, Ark. (The night 
 of arrival at Columbus the regiment was or- 
 dered out to guard the railroad in expectation 
 of an attack from Forrest.) At Helena, Mr. 
 Depuy was first in action, an attiick being made 
 by 18,000 rebels attacking 3,800 Union troops 
 on the morning of July 4, 1863; the loss of 
 the rebels was nearly that of the entire L^nion 
 force — about 3,500, and at least 500 were killed 
 and buried on the field, 1,500 being sent North 
 to jirison. The total loss of the Northern 
 troops was al)Out 200. The army supj>lies were 
 saved and rebel batteries were prevented 
 
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 "planting" at the battle, which was material 
 aid for Grant at Vicksburg. The Union sol- 
 diers buried the rebel dead and cared for their 
 wounded. In August, 18G3, the regiment went 
 to Little Rock, took tlie place and went tlience 
 to Pine Bluff to reinforce General Clayton. 
 The command performed garrison duty until 
 the fall of 1864, and was in constant service j 
 against rebel guerrillas. They raided in all I 
 directions, captured a great number of rebels 
 and property, and in the fall of 1864, formed a 
 jiart of the expedition to Mobile, joining the 
 forces at Algiers, La. The 28th was in the 
 siege of Spanish Fort and went thence after the 
 capitulation to E'ort Blakely, wliicli had just 
 succumbed to the LTniou arms. Returning to 
 Mobile Bay, the command was present when ; 
 the explosion of the magazine took place there, 
 went thence to Whistler's Station and remained 
 in Alal)ama until sent to Brazos de Santiago at 
 the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas, going 
 a week later to Clarksville and afterwards to 
 Brownsville, and was mustered out Aug. 23, 
 1865. Mr. Depuy returned to his home in 
 Walworth county and in 1883 removed to 
 Waukesha. He is a commercial traveler and 
 has been on the road a number of years. 
 
 He was married at Mukwonago, Wis., Jan. 
 28, 1849, to Catherine, daughter of David and 
 Elizabeth (Snyder) Lyke. Her family is de- 
 scended from Holland stock, her grandfather, 
 James Lyke, being a soldier in 1812. Her two 
 brotiiers, Julius G. and Hiram F., were soldiers 
 in the war of the rebellion. They were in the 
 28th Wisconsin Infantry and the former died 
 on the Yazoo expedition ; the latter is a busi- 
 ness man of Oconomowoc, AVis. ; he was a 
 lieutenant in the service. Two uncles of Mrs. 
 Depuy were also in the rebellion going out in 
 New York regiments ; they were Thomas and 
 William Lyke and the former was a colonel. 
 Following is the record of the children of Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. Depuy : Emma married H. Cleveland ; 
 Ella married N. J. Randolph; Frank and 
 Charles are in the mines of New Mexico ; 
 Willie was in the employ of a railroad cor- 
 poration and is deceased ; Carrie and Hattie 
 are the youngest. ^ Mrs. Depuy is an active 
 member of the Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
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 ACOB DITSCHLER, Watertown, Wis., 
 gll charter member of G. A. R. Post No 94, 
 was born in Darmstadt, Germany, June 
 21, 1845. His parents emigrated to America 
 in June, 1847, his father, being a tradesman, 
 and becoming involved in the affairs which 
 preceded the revolution of 1848, found it ex- 
 pedient to find a new home. Tlieir names 
 wei'e Louis and Maria (Dampmaiin) Ditschler 
 and the family landed at the j)ort of New Or- 
 leans where they remained two years and went 
 thence to Cincinnati, where the father died. 
 The mother removed afterwards to Hamilton 
 and Cincinnati going thence to Peoria, III., and 
 from there to Milwaukee. There the son 
 learned the trade of a printer and was engaged 
 in the manufacture of cigars when the war 
 came on. He had heard war talked ever since 
 his memory commenced and he desired to 
 know it experimentally. During the absence 
 of the three-months men lie determined to 
 enter the army and, on the 8th of October, 
 1861, he enrolled in the ranks of Company B, 
 1st Wisconsin Infantry. From Camp Scott, 
 Milwaukee, he went with the command as a 
 drummer boy, being but 16 years old, going to 
 Jetfersonville, Ind., and was in all the march- 
 ing and changes between that time and the 
 battle of Perryville, in which he was a partici- 
 pant, traversing a large portion of Kentucky 
 and doing all sorts of duty. His company 
 were on picket when attacked on Granny 
 
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 White's Pike, and were the first soldiers killed 
 in Tennessee. July 4, 1862, he was in camp at 
 Battle Creek, meanwhile skirmishing with 
 Morgan's men, who had captured their sutlers. 
 At Mt. Pleasant he disi)0sed of his drum and 
 made his ajijiearance, equipj)ed for the business 
 of a soldier. July 31st the}' received new 
 equipments and, Oct. 8, 1862, Mr. Ditschler was 
 in his first regular battle. After the disaster 
 to tiie 21st Wisconsin, the 1st took the lead and 
 Mr. Ditschler was in the dash in which a fiag 
 was taken from the 1st Tennessee and in the sav- 
 ing of the Union guns. For this seivicetlie 1st 
 Wisconsin received proper acknowledgment in 
 the shape of a new stand of colors willi 
 guidons. He was in tlie fight at Htoiie River 
 where he had a novel experience. He was on 
 a skirmish line which look advantage of a 
 cover in the .shaj)e of an oak opening. 
 TlirdUgh tlie iiiglit of the first day he and liis 
 comi-ades exchanged salutations, until, towards 
 morning, he received no resjmnses, and when 
 daylight came on he discovered that he was 
 alone with about 40 dead rebels. He gave the 
 order to fall Iwck which he proceeded to obey. 
 He was in the service afterward in the vicinity 
 of Murfreesboro, and in the chase after Bragg, 
 fought at Hoover's Gap, Tullaboma and 
 pressed across tiie mountains, and was in the 
 special duty performed by the command at 
 Dug Gap. He was in the battle at Cliicka- 
 mauga, where he is proud to record he fought 
 under " Pap Thomas." Ivirly in the morning 
 of tiie lUlh, he received a bullet in the calf of 
 his right leg hut be did not leave his post. He 
 went to Chattanooga to suffer from tiie priva- 
 tion of scanty supplies when army hard tack 
 because more precious than gold. He was in 
 the charge at Mission Ridge with the 14th 
 Corps and afterwards prepared for the Atlanta 
 campaign with Sherman (May 7th). He was 
 in the several actions called under the general 
 
 name of Dallas, at Pumpkin Vine Creek, Ack- 
 wortb. Big .Slianty and at Kenesaw. He was 
 in the figlit at I'each Tree Creek and in the 
 trenches until the caj)itulation of Atlanta. 
 During the siege he went in his cai>acity of 
 Corporal, to wliich he had been j)romuted, witii 
 a squad to relieve a picket guard, when he and 
 his men found they had lost their way, but 
 they succeeded in detaching themselves from 
 the rebel lines into which they had wandered 
 without losing a man. He was in the move- 
 ment to destroy the Macon railroad and fought 
 at Jonesboro, returning to iVtlanta. He was 
 mustered out at Mdwaukee on account of ex- 
 piration of term of enlistment, Oct. 14, 1864. 
 .\fter his return to Wisconsin he engaged in 
 tiie manufacture of cigars, which he continued 
 until 187'J, when he removed to Watertown 
 and commenced the sale of liquors in which 
 he has since operated. He was married Maj' 
 25, 1870, to Augusta Smith of Watertown, and 
 four of their five children are living. They 
 are named Antone, Clara, Eddie and Elsie. 
 [ Ferdinand died when seven years old. Mr. 
 Ditschler is a member of the Turnverein, of 
 the Sons of Honor and of the Harugari Society. 
 
 
 
 ^^^ EORtiE J. COLLINS, Chippewa Falls, 
 "^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 68, was born April 21, 18:J3, in (now) 
 Ritchie Co., West Virginia, where his j)arents 
 were born respectively in 1808 and 1810. His 
 fatlier and mother, Jacob and Sarah Collins, 
 never left their native State, where they reared 
 11 children, all of whom are still living and 
 named in order Keniier B., George, Mary Ann, 
 Loreiia, Frances, John, Benjamin, Evelina, 
 Eliza, Floyd and Anna. Jacob Collins de- 
 scended from Irish ancestry and his wife from 
 Holland Dutch. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 315 
 
 When 20 years old, in 1853, George left 
 home to begin his life struggle with the world 
 and went to Burlington, Iowa, engaging in 
 farming for six months and going thence 
 to Ciiippewa Falls within the same year. His 
 first occupation there was in the pineries 
 and he was employed in lumbering until he 
 entered the army. Sept. 27, 1864, he was 
 mustered into Company D, 18th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, which he joined as a recruit after 
 camping at Madison. He expected to find the 
 regiment at Knoxville, Tenn., but on arrival 
 there found tlie command was in the columns 
 of Sherman and on the way through Georgia 
 to Savannah. With other recruits he went to 
 Nashville and embarked on a steamer for 
 Louisville ; re-embarked there for further 
 transportation on their way, but at Madison, 
 Indiana, were frozen in and took the cars 
 for Cincinnati, going on to Baltimore and An- 
 napolis, where they took a steamer for More- 
 head, N. C, and went thence by cars to New- 
 bern. They marched to Kingston, and fought 
 with the rebels there in a small action and 
 were reinforced by Sherman. The regiment 
 was in the 15th Army Corps in the 1st Brig- 
 ade, 3d Division, and went to Goldsboro 
 and Raleigh, arriving at tlie latter place April 
 14th, and, when the troops were ordered out 
 to fight Johnston, who was dodging the 
 inevitable surrender, Mr. Collins went with the 
 command which was halted a few miles 
 out, the intelligence that Sherman and the 
 rebel chief were making terms of peace having 
 been sent to the troops. Orders to be ready 
 were received at four o'clock in the morning for 
 active service and it looked like war, as it was 
 perfectly well known what was the desperation 
 of the rebels, who felt that their last hope 
 was in the balance. After the news was 
 received the command went back to camp 
 and two weeks after started on the homeward 
 
 route, reaching Alexandria May 22d, after 
 going to Petersburg and Richmond, and on the 
 24th Mr. Collins was in the Grand Review 
 at Washington. Afterwards they went into 
 camp in order to await the formalities of 
 closing their regimental books and after two 
 weeks were mustered out and sent to Wisconsin 
 to be discharged and paid July 3, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Collins returned to Chippewa Falls 
 which has since been his place of residence. 
 For two years he operated in his own interests 
 as a lumberman and then engaged in the 
 livery business. In 1873 he sold out and 
 has since pressed his interests in the sale of 
 flour and feed. 
 
 Mr. Collins is a Republican in political 
 faith. His father was a soldier of the civil 
 war and died in 1882; the mother of. Mr. 
 Collins is still living in Virginia, and receives 
 a pension from the United States. 
 
 TVjJjTENRY DEW 
 MivT^r water. Wis., 
 
 DEWEY PATTEE, White- 
 member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 34, was born Dec. 16, 
 1844, in Underhill, Chittenden Co., Vermont, 
 and is the son of Richard and Sophronia (Har- 
 mon) Pattee. He is of genuine Yankee origin 
 and is a representative of ancestry who settled 
 in New England in its earliest days. His 
 father was a phy.sician and practiced his pro- 
 fession in the town and county where the son 
 was born and where they remained until the 
 latter was three years old, when the removal to 
 the West was effected. A location was made at 
 Palmyra, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where 
 the father engaged in his former business and 
 where he continued to practice until his death, 
 which occurred about 1875. When the sou 
 was 11 years old he took the management of 
 his affairs upon his own hands and was vari- 
 
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 ously employed until he came naturally into 
 the business of a liveryman from his love for 
 horses, in which he was occupied when he de- 
 cided to become a soldier. In December, 1861, 
 he enlisted in the 11th Wisconsin Infantry us 
 a musician and joined the regiment in ren- 
 dezvous at Madison, whence he accompanied 
 the command by way of Chicago to St. Louis 
 and thence to Sulphur Springs, Mo., where he 
 passed the winter. He remained connected 
 with the band until the general order abolish- 
 ing such organizations was promulgated and 
 then he entered the ranks. He went succes- 
 sively to Pilot Knob and Batesville, where the 
 regiment connected with the force of General 
 Curtiss. He endured all the exposure and want 
 of that campaign, which was one of the most 
 prominent in that respect in the history of Wis- 
 consin regiments. He was in the fight at Ckjt- 
 ton Plant or Peach Grove, where the regiment 
 won distinguished lienor for bravery and cool- 
 ness in facing overpowering numbers. He 
 afterwards marched 65 miles to Helena, suffer- 
 ing much en route. Later he went to Oldtowu, 
 where he contracted malarial disease and was 
 sent home. His recovery was slow and during 
 his convalescence he engaged in varied busi- 
 ness until he decided to re-enlist and lie en- 
 rolled in Company F, lOtii IlHnois Cavalry, 
 joining his regiment as a recruit, after serving 
 on detached duty as guard over drafted men 
 and substitutes in the interest of the State at 
 Springfield. His first experiences in tiie army 
 had given him a distaste for Missouri and 
 Arkansas and on enlisting he had made a re- 
 quest to be assigned to some command wiiich 
 would take him to some other field, but to his 
 great disgust he found himself connected with 
 a regiment stationed at Brownsville, Ark. He 
 remained in camp during the following winter 
 and in the spring went to Duvall's liluO" and 
 thence down the Mississippi River to New 
 
 Orleans. He performed guard and other mili- 
 tary duty at Algiers until he received his final 
 discharge under an order relieving men of his 
 class in the army, receiving his release from 
 military obligations to his country in 1865. 
 He returned to Palmyra, Wis., and removed 
 thence to .Jefferson and located later at White- 
 water. This has since been his residence with 
 the exception of a j'ear passed at Stuugbton, 
 and he has operated as a tinsmith. 
 
 He was married in 1866 to Ella Phebe Hub- 
 bard of Rockford, 111. Their children are 
 named Nora, Adele, Mina, Wheeler, Nellie, 
 George Henry and Arthur. Mr. Pattee is a de- 
 cided Republican and is a member of the A. 0. 
 U. \V. and of the Masonic Order. 
 
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 "P^TANS E. LUND, M( 
 ^ \r^!^t member of G. A. I 
 -^" "^ was born near the ci 
 
 Menomonie, Wis., 
 R. Post No. 58, 
 ;\\y of Christiana, 
 Norway, Jan. 5, 1831, and is the son of 
 Andrew and Carolina Lund. His father 
 had been an officer in the Norwegian army 27 
 years when he resigned and became a farmer. 
 The children were named Martin, Inga, Hans, 
 Bertha and Carrie. All are living in Wiscon- 
 sin. The son received tlie education common 
 in his country and learned the business of 
 a carpenter, coming to America in the fall 
 of 1856 and going from New York to Lafayette 
 Co., Wis., where he attended school. In the 
 spring of 1857 he went to Menomonie and 
 worked at his trade. In tiie wintur he returned 
 to Lafayette county and again went to school. 
 In the spring of 1858 he fixed bis permanent 
 residence at Menomonie. His parents came 
 to the United States about 1868 and located in 
 Lafiiyette county, in Argyle, and died there 
 a few years later. In April, 1861, Mr. Lund 
 : enlisted in Company K, 5th Wisconsin lufan- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 317 
 
 try, went to Washington, to Meridian Hill to 
 King's Wisconsin Brigade, thence across the 
 Chain Bridge and engaged in building fortifi- 
 cations until transferred to Hancock's Bx'i- 
 gade and Smith's Division, going into winter 
 quarters at Camp Griffin. Mr. Lund was 
 4th Corporal of his company when the com- 
 mand moved in the spring to Fairfax C. H., 
 whence they went to Alexandria, and he 
 was in the skirmishes at Young's Mills and 
 Lee's Mills and went forward to figiit at 
 Williamsburg, after the siege of \orktown. 
 They followed the rebels and went next to the 
 campaign of the Chickahominy and he was in 
 action at Golden's Farm .June 28th. In the 
 subsequent action at Seven Pines, the Captain, 
 Wm. Evans, was killed. The regiment was in 
 the rear in the retreat when tlie change of base 
 period arrived and was under fire at Savage 
 Station, White Oak Swamp and at Malvern 
 Hill, covering the feints to Harrison's Landing, 
 where tliej^ arrived about night. Fi'om that 
 point the regiment went to P'ortress Monroe, 
 Mr. Lund being sick but keeping up with his 
 regiment. From Fortress Monroe they went 
 to Alexandria, and started thence to Pope's 
 assistance at Bull Run. On the march be- 
 tween that field and Centerville they met 
 Pope's army on the retreat and returned next 
 day to Alexandria. The regiment was next 
 in the movement to check the progress of Lee 
 into Maryland and was in skirmishing nearly 
 every day prior to the fight at South Mountain, 
 and Mr. Lund fought there and at Antietam, 
 the regiment being under fire without return- 
 ing it. His next engagement was at Fred- 
 ericksburg and he was afterwards in camp 
 at Belle Plain until the next engagement on 
 the Rappahannock, April 28th, while the battle 
 of Chancellorsville was hanging in the balance, 
 but did not take part in the action, as he was 
 sick in hospital with fever. When the regi- 
 
 ment was preparing for the campaign through 
 Pennsylvania to Gettysburg the surgeon told 
 him he would not be able to go there as he 
 had not been fit for duty for some time and 
 that he must either go to hospital or be dis- 
 charged, and he strongly advised the latter. 
 He received honorable discharge in .June, 186.3, 
 and returned to Wisconsin, where he passed 
 some time with his sister in Lafayette county 
 and returned afterwards to Menomonie. He 
 recruited his health and was able to work 
 for some time. He belongs to the Order of 
 Masonry. He was married March 4, 1867, 
 to Louisa, daughter of Arnold and Irene 
 Barbour, at Durand, Pepin Co., Wis., and they 
 have had five children, of whom two are 
 living — Bertha and James. Mr. Lund is a 
 Republican in politics and receives a pension. 
 
 ^^^^^^^ 
 
 AMES D. BLACK, Racine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born Feb. 
 18, 1844, in Winchester, Va. His father, 
 Geo. W. Black, was a blacksmith by trade and 
 the son of a soldier of the war of 1812. He 
 was of mixed Scotch descent. He married 
 Elizabeth Stipe and their family included three 
 sons and three daughters, all of whom are liv- 
 ing. They are named Martha F., William, 
 Mary, .James, Albert and Anna. In June, 1844, 
 the family removed to Marseilles, Illinois, and 
 in 1845 located in Ogle county in that State. 
 The father worked there about 30 years at his 
 trade and died in 1887. The mother died in 
 the same place. She was the daughter of a 
 soldier of 1812 and was born in Winchester, 
 Va. Mr. Black received his education in the 
 district schools and went to serve an appren- 
 ticeship to the carpenter's trade when 16, but 
 changed that occupation for farming, in which 
 he was engaged when the war disturbed his 
 
318 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 plans. When 17 years old, Aug. 16, 1861, he 
 enli.sted at Mt. Morris, Ogle county, in Com- 
 pany n, 34th Illinois Infantry. He was mus- 
 tered in at Carap Butler in September follow- 
 ing, under Col. E. N. Kirk. The regiment 
 went from camp to Cinciiuiati, which was 
 threatened liy Kirhy Smith, and thence to 
 Louisville and through the northern part of 
 Kentucky and to the Soutli, watching rebel 
 movements and skirmishing. At the Green 
 River it was assigned to the 5th Brigade under 
 General Wood and the 2d Division under Alexan- 
 der McCook. They went to Nashville in prep- 
 aration for the fight at Pittsburg Landing, 
 which they reached on the 6th of April to 
 fight on the 7th at Sliiloh. The loss in the 
 first action was heav}'. Company H losing five 
 by one shell, the Captain and First Lieutenant 
 being wounded and the Second Lieutenant 
 killed. The position was on the right near the 
 church. They went to the siege of Corinth 
 under Ilalleck and skirmished on the way, 
 fighting at Farmington. Mr. Black was in the 
 fight with Beauregard on the 28th of May 
 where his regiment lost 20 men, Company H 
 losing four. That night Ct)rinth was evacu- 
 ated and the Union troops took possession next 
 morning for a two-weeks stay. They went 
 thence under Buell up the Tennessee, marched 
 to Battle Creek the last of June and two 
 months later moved in the Kentucky cam- 
 paign. They went to Louisville to head off 
 Bragg who went to Beardstown and they 
 }>ushed on to Louisville, where they remained 
 until they went to Frankfort, having been as- 
 signed to the 20th Corps under McCook. They 
 fought Morgan's men at Clayville and went 
 from Frankfort to Perryville, where they ar- 
 rived the day after the fight. Bragg fell back 
 through Cumberland Gap and the regiment 
 went to Crab Orchard and thence to Nashville. 
 They were there skirmishing and in various 
 
 service till the holidays, when they started for 
 Murfreesboro to fight from December 31st to 
 Januarj' 3d, on the night of which day the 
 rebels retreated. Company H lost its captain 
 and four other men, also losing seven taken 
 prisoners. After a stay of six months they 
 went on the Tullahoma campaign. They ar- 
 rived there July 4th and went next on the 
 Chickamauga campaign, and Mr. Black was in 
 the fight September lUth and 20th. His regi- 
 ment fell back to Chattanooga, going thence to 
 the Sequatchie valley to guard the Union lines. 
 Two weeks later they went into camp at Moc- 
 casin Point and saw the battle on Lookout 
 Mountain Nov. 24, 1863. They crossed above 
 Chattanooga, joined Sherman and fought at 
 Mission Ridge on the 25th. After the victory 
 the command followed the rebels to Ringgold, 
 Ga., and went thence under Jeff. C. Davis to 
 Knoxville to the relief of Burnside. They 
 
 ' marched back to Chattanooga, ISO miles, and 
 went into quarters at Kossville, Ga., where they 
 
 j re-enlisted for three years. In May they started 
 
 I on the Atlanta campaign, and Mr. Black was 
 in the action at Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost, 
 Resaca, Dallas, Georgia, New Hojje Church and 
 Kenesaw Mountain, the regiment losing heav- 
 ily in tlie several engagements there. He 
 received there two flesh wounds and still car- 
 ries a ball in his leg. He returned to Chatta- 
 
 1 hoochie and went thence to the actions near 
 Atlanta, fighting July 20t]i at Peach Tree 
 Creek and two days later at Atlanta. He also 
 fought at Jonesboro, his command losing many 
 men. They returned to Atlantti and soon after 
 started after Hood whom they chased to Gray- 
 ville. They returned to Atlanta and went with 
 Sherman to the sea, encountering all the vicis- 
 situdes of that movement. From Savannah 
 tliey went northward to the Carolinas, and Mr. 
 Black was in the action at Bentonville, March 
 19, 1865. He went thence to Raleigh, Golds- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 319 
 
 boro, Richmond and Washington and to the 
 Grand Review. He went to Louisville and 
 Chicago where he was discharged as Sergeant 
 to which he had been promoted in 1862 for 
 bravery in action. He returned to Ogle county 
 but felt lost without excitement and went to 
 the service of the frontier, gtiing to Leaven- 
 worth and Fort Laramie, where he fought the 
 Indians. He returned to Ogle county in 1866. 
 He was variously engaged for some time, 
 going in 1868 to Marshalltown, Iowa, and a 
 year later returned to Shannon, Carroll Co., 
 III. Two years later he went to the employ of 
 tlie St. Paul Railroad and has been with the 
 corporation since, operating at various points, 
 at one time being superintendent of their 
 water-works. In 1876 he removed to Racine 
 and engaged in their car department. He was 
 married .July 9, 1874, to Sophronia, daughter 
 of Robert Chitty, at Shannon, 111., and they 
 have had three children named Oscar H. and 
 Arthur E., (twins) and Mildred. Mr. Black is 
 a member of the Masonic Order. 
 
 ^SB 
 
 EN.JAMIN F. CRAM, Madison, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 11, was 
 l)orn Dec. 27, 1830, in Plainfield, Sul- 
 livan Co., New Hampshire. He is of English 
 lineage, his ancestral stock having originated 
 in that countrj' and the founder of the family 
 in America came hither in the early days of 
 New England history. In the maternal line 
 he represents a soldier of the Revolution, his 
 grandfather Cnmmings, having fouglit in that 
 struggle in boyhood. His father, .lonathan 
 Cram, was born June 2, 1773, at Salisbury, N. 
 H., and was the son of .Jonathan Cram, a min- 
 ister of the Baptist denomination. Pie married 
 Betsey Cumniings and their children were 
 Lucy A., Jonathan E., Benjamin F., William 
 
 B., Hannah E. and an infant. The father 
 lived on one farm in Plainfield for more than 
 a half century and removed to Wisconsin in 
 the spring of 1842, locating in Prairieville, 
 now Waukesha, Waukesha county, where he 
 purchased an improved farm and he died 
 thereon June 10, 1861, the demise of his widow 
 occurring in December, 1862. 
 
 The son attended the common school and 
 was his father's assistant until he reached his 
 
 ; majority, after which he was a student three 
 seasons at Prairieville Academy, subsequently 
 entering Carroll College at Waukesha and 
 reached the third term of the junior year. He 
 taught school in Illinois and Wisconsin and 
 
 1 began the study of law with Hon. Isaac P. 
 Walker, of Waukesha. April 20, 1861, he left 
 his studies to enlist in Company F, Waukesha 
 Guards, for three months, but before the com- 
 pany was accepted the quota was full, and on 
 the second call for three years' men, with his 
 company of which he was 2d Sergeant, he en- 
 listed and was mustered May 10, 1861, as Com- 
 pany F, 5th Wisconsin Infantry. About the 
 20th of June, 1861, the company occupied Camp 
 Randall at Madison and was mustered as U. S. 
 soldiers July 13th. Five days after Bull Run 
 
 1 the command was en route to Washington by 
 way of Harrisburg and Baltimore and went 
 into camp at Kalorama Pleights. (Prior to 
 leaving the State, Company F was ordered to 
 Milwaukee to assist in quelling the bank riot- 
 ers). At Camp Kalorama the regiment was 
 placed in King's Brigade with the 2d Wiscon- 
 sin and 19th Indiana regiments with also a 
 Massachusetts regiment, and Mr. Cram states 
 that the separation of the 5tli Wisconsin from 
 what was designed by King as the Wisconsin 
 Brigade, was due to a feud between Colonel 
 Cobb and Major Larrabee, the latter leading 
 
 I the regiment and purposely guiding it across 
 
 j Chain Bridge to a wrong position, Colonel Cobb 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 not observing as the march was made in the 
 night and tlio regiment being on the marcli, 
 left in front. After building Fort Marcy the 
 regiment went into Hancock's Brigade and to 
 Camp Griftin to winter quarters. December 
 Gth, Mr. Cram was detailed on recruiting ser- 
 vice and returned to Grant Co., Wis., rejoined 
 his regiment at Yorktown and marched to 
 the field of Williajnsburg, the regiment taking 
 a position in advance and fighting directly 
 against the 5tii North Carolina Infantry, which 
 had from 1,000 strong only about 100 men left 
 after the battle was over. McClellan himself 
 complimented the regiment for gallantry on 
 the field, and witii Franklin's Corps tiie ath 
 went to the Chickahominy swamps. June 2Sth, 
 it was in the fight at Golden 's Farm, and in the 
 seven days' retreat the 5th was under fire at 
 Savage Station, White Oak Swamp and Malvern 
 Hill, Mr. Cram acting as Orderly Sergeant. 
 The regiment was in the 1st Division, Sd Bri- 
 gade and Oth Corps, and remained at Harri- 
 son's Landing, the hottest place in the history 
 of the soldier, until August 8th, when the 
 comman<l marched to Fortress Monroe, whence 
 they embarked on the transjiorts for Alexan- 
 dria and moved thence to assist Pope at 
 Manassas but too late, onl}' to check the re- 
 treat of the Union troops and the advance of 
 the rebels. Septenii)er 1st, McDowell's Corps 
 was attacked by the rebels at Cliantilly and 
 General Kearney was killed ; the gallant Irish- 
 man rode in front of the 0th Corps 
 receiving tiie cheers of the brigade and 
 passed on to his death. The 5tli was 
 in its next engagement at Antietam as 
 reinforcements and after the action Mr. Cram 
 was one of a detail to go to Wasliington to 
 escort convalescents, rejoining his regiment to 
 go to Hagerstown, Md. The command went 
 into winter quarters at Belle Plain and in mid- 
 winter enjoyed all the delights of the "mud 
 
 march." In Februry, 1863, the regiment was 
 placed in the "Light Division" for obvious ser- 
 vice, and Mr. Cram was made Orderly Sergeant; 
 March 1st he was promoted to Second Lieuten- 
 ant, and on the '28tli of April the regiment 
 started for the campaign of Chancellorsville, 
 crossed the Rsippahannock on pontoons and took 
 position for the charge on Marye's Heights. 
 Lieutenant Cram was in command of his com- 
 pany and was in the storming party with 
 Colonel Allen. After taking the works the 
 "Division" marched toward Salem Church, en- 
 gaging in frequent skirmishing, laying on arms 
 through the night and fought at Salem Ciiurch, 
 holding the field while the regiments withdrew 
 and forming the rear in the movement across 
 the river. There a new brigade, consisting of 
 the 5th Wisconsin, the Oth Maine, 49th and 
 119th Pennsylvania, was formed, with General 
 Russell in command. The Gth Corps reached 
 Gettysburg July 2d after a march of 40 miles, 
 taking position at right angles with the line on 
 the left, lay all night on their arms and moved 
 in the morning after being exposed to artillery 
 fire til rough the 3d of July. They took posi- 
 tion at the foot of Hound Toj), climbed the hill 
 and remained through the day. The Corps 
 followed Lee to Warrenton, skirmishing with 
 the rebel rear guard. From Warrenton the 
 5th went to New York to aid in (pielling the 
 draft riots, Company F going to Governor's 
 Island, Albany and Goshen. They returned in 
 time for the charge at Rappahannock Station 
 Novendjer 8th and were called from quarters 
 to fight at Locust Grove (Mine Run), November 
 24th. Grant reviewed the command in the 
 spring, and May 4th the regiment started for 
 the Wilderness to take part in the actions there, 
 and in these Lieutenant Cram participated un- 
 til June 1st, when he was wounded in his foot 
 by a rifle ball, the missile pa.ssing througii it 
 under the instej), and, at the field hosi)ital, 27 
 
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 pieces of bone were removed. He was taken to 
 the new Hallowell hospital at Alexandria and 
 after three months was sent to Madison and 
 was mustered out Aug. 18, 1864, as First Lieu- 
 tenant, his commission as such having been 
 issued Jan'y 24, 1864. 
 
 He returned to Waukesha and passed 18 
 months in caring for his wound. In 1865, at 
 the request of Gen. Allen, he was appointed to 
 a position in the Land Office at Madison, which 
 he occupied about 10 years. Jan. 1, 1872, 
 he was ajipointed by Governor Washburn 
 Quartermaster General with the rank of 
 Brigadier on the gubernatorial staff. Jan. 1, 
 1882, he returned to the Land Office under ap- 
 pointment by the Commissioners of the Public 
 Lands at the beginning of Governor Rusk's ad- 
 ministration, and has since continued to dis- 
 charge the duties of the place. 
 
 He was married Oct. 27, 1868, at Madison to 
 Mrs. Rachel Tappan, daughter of Captain 
 Henry B. and Janet (Mclndoe) Staines. Mrs. 
 Cram is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and was 
 educated at Toronto, Dominion of Canada. 
 She is an accomplished musician and excels as 
 a vocalist, having filled a position in Grace 
 Church as soprano for 23 years. She and her 
 husband are comnmnicants in the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
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 LT^^L^ALLACE W. BURNETT, Eau 
 
 ^ '^?W ^"'"''^' ^^'^^•' member of G. A. 
 '^ R. Post No. 52, (Eagle) was born 
 July 9, 1850, at Cleveland, New York, and 
 is the son of John H. and Martha Jane (Martin) 
 Burnett. His father was born Nov. 8, 1820, 
 at Olisco Center, Canandaigua Co., New York, 
 and the mother was born in Cleveland, in Sep- 
 tember, 1823, dying in September, 1859. They 
 were both of New England stock and English 
 ancestry, and, in early life the senior Burnett 
 
 was a merchant; later he became a minister 
 of the M. E. Cliurch for which hehadcai'efully 
 studied and was in the ministry until 1864, 
 when he enlisted and was made Ciiaplain 
 of the 186th New York Infantry. He enrolled 
 at Sacketts' Harbor and was with the regiment 
 until the action at Hatcher's Run in February, 
 1865, where he contracted a cold from which 
 he never recovered. He was discharged on 
 account of disability and in October, 1865, 
 went West to Jackson Co., Wis., and went 
 later to Oshkosh, where he engaged in preach- 
 ing but was finally obliged to stop on ac- 
 count of his health. He moved to a farm 
 in Monroe county and moved thence to Eau 
 Claire where he still lives. Floretta S., Sarah 
 E., Wallace W. and Martha A. were the names 
 of the children of the family. 
 
 The son was 14 years old when he enlisted, 
 Aug. 22, 1864, at Sacketts' Harbor, N. Y., in 
 Company I, 186th New York Infantry, and 
 was mustered at the same time. He went 
 with the recruits immediately to the front 
 by way of New York and, after 10 days left 
 that city for City Point, Va., and three weeks 
 later went to the action at Hatcher's Run and 
 participated in the action there Oct. 27, 1864. 
 His regiment was in the 2d Brigade, 2d Divis- 
 ion and 9tli Army Corps. From this action 
 the regiment went to the trenches at Petersburg. 
 (Wiiile at Hatcher's Run he was taken sick, 
 sent to hospital and was at City Point when the 
 regiment went to Petersburg, but he stole 
 out of his bed and followed the command.) 
 The regiment performed picket and other duty 
 and whatever the soldiers did they never 
 escaped the hell of rebel fire which was inces- 
 sant. (See sketch of C. K. Pier). April 2d, 
 1865, Mr. Burnett was in the action which 
 ended in the surrender of the city, his 
 command being in front of the line of rebel 
 works, three tiers deep. One half the com- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 pany were killed or wounded. He followed 
 the flying foe and was engaged in almost con- 
 stant skirmishing while the rebels were grad- 
 ually yielding and they gave up the re- 
 bellion at A])poniattox. Mr. Burnett was near 
 headquarters and had a good sight of tlie rebel 
 chieftain and the men wlio laid down their 
 arms and stained and ragged battle Hags with 
 tears. After the surrender and while on the 
 march back he fell out, as his feet were dis- 
 abled an<l tliere were no ambulances. It took 
 him three weeks to get to his regiment at City 
 Point and he went thence to Fortress Monroe. 
 W'lien the body of Booth was brought there he 
 had a look at the murderer of the President. 
 He was in the Grand Review and returned 
 to Portress Monroe and was mustered out. He 
 went to Sacketts' Harbor for pay and final 
 discharge. 
 
 After tiie war he joined his father in Jackson 
 count}' on a farm and went to school nearly all 
 the time for three years. Seven years later he 
 located at F^au Claire and engaged in the sale 
 of musical instruments and music dealers' 
 goods generally, and in his enterj)rise has met 
 with (lie success he deserves. He has built up 
 his trade until he carries a fine assortment 
 of the best pianos, organs and all musical 
 instruments to meet the demands of his 
 patrons. He was married March 10, 1882, to 
 Jennie, daughter of Cj'rus and Mary 
 Young, of Minneaj)olis. Maud L., Wallace W. 
 Roy O. and (Juy Young are their children. In 
 the spring of 1888 Mr. Burnett was elected 
 Alderman on tlie Republican ticket and has 
 pushed the interests of the city with active 
 energy. He is a member of tlie Odd Fellows 
 Order and has held the several official posi- 
 tions. He has also become a member of the 
 Patriarchal Circle. 
 
 The enlistment and services of Mr. Burnett 
 deserve special mention. He was a mere 
 
 child and only his father being in the same 
 service secured such a privilege for the lad. 
 But he comes of patriotic stock, his grand- 
 father Martin having been a Colonel iu 1812 
 and receiving a severe wound. The pa- 
 triotism of the soldier of 1812 was transmitted 
 to the sire and son. 
 
 Francis m. Moguire, Chippewa 
 
 Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. G8, was born at East St. Giles 
 Parish, East Canada, Oct. 5, 1833. His father 
 and mother, James and Hannah (Cleary) Mc- 
 Guire, were born in Ballyshannon, County 
 Donegal, Ireland, and came from the Green Isle 
 to Canada in 1830. Their children were named 
 James, Patrick, Louis, Giles, Francis, Michael, 
 John, Mary Ann, Margaret and Antiiony. 
 About 1856, Mr. McGuire left the Dominion 
 and prospected for a time in the West, going 
 successively to St. Paul, Stillwater, Prescott and 
 Eau Claire, living 21 years at the latter place 
 engaged in lumbering and logging. When the 
 war came on he interested himself in the work 
 of recruiting a company, which was called the 
 Eau Claire Eagles, and, July 7, 1861, was mus- 
 tered into service on organization at Madison 
 as Second Lieutenant of Company C, Captain 
 J. E. Perkins and First Lieutenant Victor Wolf. 
 From this company the regiment was after- 
 wards known as the "Eagle Regiment," which 
 carried the American bird througii its service 
 and brought him home to be exhibited for 
 benevolent purposes and he earned at the fairs 
 at Chicago and Milwaukee about $20,000. The 
 bird was brought from the woods and sold to 
 Dan McCann, living at Juneau Falls, on the 
 Chippewa River, for a bushel of corn. He 
 brought the eaglet to Eau Claire and offered it 
 to the company ; it was finally bought by Mr. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 McGuire for $3.50 and presented to the com- 
 pany. Money was raised afterwards ostensibly 
 for payment for the eagle, but it was not ap- 
 propriated to that purpose. Mr. McGuire re- 
 mained with the regiment at Madison until 
 marching orders were received, when, on ac- 
 count of a ditticulty with the First Lieutenant, 
 he resigned his commission. He and his Cap- 
 tain, John E. Perkins, who was killed at Farni- 
 ington, were on the best of terras, but the 
 trouble between him and tiie Lieutenant was 
 one that would grow more irreconcilable in time 
 and he had no other alternative but to resign. 
 
 He returned to Eau Claire and resumed his 
 lumbering engagements, remaining there un- 
 til 1S79, when he became a resident of Chip- 
 pewa Falls. He established a livery business 
 and has since continued its management. He 
 is also United States Mail Messenger and has a 
 'bus and transfer line, and is doing a good 
 business. 
 
 He was married in Eau Claire in April, 1863, 
 to Edith, daughter of E. U. and Maria (Freray) 
 Daniels. They have had four cliildren, named 
 in order of liirth Lewis, Daniel O., Francis and 
 Arthur. Francis died in infancy. Mr. Mc- 
 Guire has always voted the Democratic ticket 
 until Harrison's campaign, when he cast a 
 Republican vote. 
 
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 ^RANK FISHER, Milwaukee, Wis.. 
 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 18, at 
 Manitowoc, Wis., foreman of Geo. C. 
 Cribb Manufacturing Company at Milwaukee, 
 was born in Budin, Austria, June 2, 1840. The 
 father and mother, Joseph and Anna Fisher, 
 removed their family to America in 1847, 
 theirs being the first Bohemian familj' to settle 
 in Wisconsin. Mr. Fisher, senior, built a house 
 at Milwaukee, where he worked at his trade as 
 
 wagon maker until 1851. In that year he 
 purchased a farm in Manitowoc county on 
 which they lived until 1855 when the farm was 
 sold and they moved successively to Manitowoc 
 Rapids and Manitowoc City. The mother died 
 in the town of Franklin in that county in 1863 
 while her .son was in the army ; the ftither 
 died at Manitowoc in 1880. Four children of 
 the family reached mature life ; Gabriella mar- 
 ried Charles Bresler of Manitowoc; Joseph is 
 in the employ of George Dyer of Milwaukee ; 
 Caroline is deceased. 
 
 According to the custom of his countrymen, 
 Mr. Fisher received his education in English, 
 Bohemian and German, living at home until 
 he was married in 1880 in Manitowoc to Car- 
 olina Mendlik, a native of Austria and daughter 
 of John and Veronika (Janaushek) Mendlik, 
 her family removing to America in 1853. 
 About a year afterwards, Mr. Fisher removed 
 to Manitowoc and enlisted Aug. 20, 1862, in 
 Company F, 26th Wisconsin Infantry, going to 
 Milwaukee for muster at Camp Sigel. He left 
 the State Sept. 17, 1802, with a regiment wliich 
 consisted almost whollj' of Germans and he 
 was in his first fight at Chancellorsville, having 
 previously camped at Alexandria and Fairfax 
 C. H., drilled and performed other military 
 duty, marching to Gainesville and Falmouth, 
 passing the winter at Stafford C. H., and going 
 to the famous "Mud Party" in .January, mov- 
 ing with the regiment across the Rappahannock 
 and Rapidan and reaching the field of Chan- 
 cellorsville tired out in common with a regi- 
 ment that was placed in an exposed position 
 without protection, and under the deadly attack 
 which followed when the rebels saw their ad- 
 vantage. Mr. Fisher escaped after running 
 extreme risks and was afterwards with his 
 regiment at Gettysburg and, when the regi- 
 ment with the 11th Corps under Hooker, was 
 transferred to the Army in Tennessee, he ac- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 companied the command and was in the fight 
 October 26, 1863, at W'aiiliatchie, went tlience 
 to the relief of Grant's army at Cliattanooga 
 and was in tlic fight above the clouds at Mission 
 Ridge November 24th and 25th. He fought 
 at Resaca May l^jlh, 14tli and 15th, and at 
 Dallas on the 25th and in the several actions 
 at Kenesaw Mountain in June, including the 
 action of the 22<l where the regiment suffered 
 severely, lie was in the siege of Atlanta and 
 fought at Peach Tree Creek and afterwards 
 was under constant fire in the trenches, lie 
 moved to the sea willi Sherman and was in the 
 siege of Savannah December 21st, starting 
 Northward in January, being at the burning 
 of Columbia Feln-uary 17th and fighting at 
 Averysboro, March 16tli, and Bentonville, 
 March IDth, going to Goldsburo and Riileigh, 
 thence to Richmond and Washington and the 
 (h'and Review and was mustered out at Wash- 
 ington June 13, 1865, as Corporal of his com- 
 pany, having been promoted by Colonel, after- 
 wards General Winkler. (See sketch.) Mr. 
 F'isher was only absent from his command after 
 he was wounded and his career in the army was 
 remarkable for narrow escapes. At Mission 
 Ridge a Ijall passed through his hat and at 
 Atlanta another shot cut through the boot on 
 his left foot. Before leaving Milwaukee he pur- 
 chased a small portfolio which he carried in- 
 stead of a knapsack and which he had with 
 him at Kenesaw Mountain, filled with papers 
 and an oil blanket and some clothing and in 
 the action a minie ball struck this wilii a 
 force which carried it through the package, 
 shattei'ing a wooden pipe into 30 pieces and 
 burying itself in. Mr. Fisher's side. lie was 
 carried in an ambulance to field liospital and 
 before he became conscious, the ball, as flat as a 
 25-cent jnece, had been cut out, a remarkable 
 fact and showing the force of the missile, as a 
 minie ball is large and heavy. Mr. Fisher was 
 
 taken next to hospital at ChatUinooga where 
 he remained seven weeks, joining his regiment 
 at Atlanta. He has still the jiortfolio with its 
 contents. 
 
 After being discharged at Milwaukee he 
 went back to Manitowoc, that city being his 
 home until 1888, and he engaged in ])uying 
 grain and produce and in the sale of agricul- 
 tural imi)lements. In the year named he re- 
 moved to Milwaukee and entered his present 
 employ, wdiere he operates as foreman of tlie 
 salesroom of a large agricultural in)i)lement 
 house. Mr. Fisher is a mendjer of the Masonic 
 Order, Blue Lodge and Chapter and Council at 
 Manitowoc. 
 
 The family of Mrs. Fisher brought six of 
 their seven children to America, the oldest son, 
 Charles, remaining in Austria. The family 
 first settled in Milwaukee, removing afterwards 
 to farms near Racine and Manitowoc where the 
 father died ; the mother is also deceased. The 
 six ciiildren are recorded as follows : Theresa 
 married Wenzel Pettran of Milwaukee; John 
 lives in Manitowoc ; Rudoljih served in the 5th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded at the 2d 
 battle of Bull Run and died near there in 
 hospital of wounds ; Mrs. Fisher is next in 
 order of Ijirth ; Henry was a soldier in tlie 2Gth 
 Wisconsin Infantry ; Louis is in Oklahonui. 
 Charles Fisher, only son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fisher, is a book-keeper in the eni])loy of 
 " Morawetz," a hatter of Milwaukee; an only 
 daughter is named Emma. Siie is an accom- 
 plished young lady and the family are social, 
 intelligent and noted for hospitality. 
 
 OYES T. KELLY, Racine, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 born June 7, 1837, at Farinersviile, 
 Seneca Co., New York. His father, John 
 Kelly, was born Jan. 31, 1778, and was the son 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 of Jolin Kelly, a soldier of the Revolution. 
 He fought in 1812 and was at Buffalo soon 
 after that place was burned by the British. In 
 1841 he removed to Caledonia, Racine Co., 
 Wis., where he died .June 25, 1865. He was 
 for a long time the proprietor of the old Farm- 
 ersville tavern. His father was horn Dec. 26, 
 1743, and died Sept. 19, 1826. Four children 
 were included in the family and the son grew 
 up on the farm and attended the i)ublic schools 
 of Racine county at a time when that portion 
 was a dense wilderness, not a house being in 
 sight of that of his father, whiph is still stand- 
 ing near Franksville. (1889.) 
 
 Mr. Kelly was engaged in farming until he 
 became a soldier and he enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, 
 in Company H, 22d Wisconsin Infantry. From 
 the rendezvous at Camp Utley he went to Cin- 
 cinnati and crossed the Ohio to Covington. 
 (As they were leaving Dr. Parks met them j 
 and gave each man a testament.) They 
 made many movements through northern 
 Kentucky, engaged in endeavoring to keep 
 track of several rebel leaders witliout much 
 success and when the command reached Nich- 
 olasville, Mr. Kelly was taken sick witli typhoid 
 j)neumonia. After he was convalescent he 
 went to hospital No. 3, at Lexington, .Jan. 5, 
 1863, remained there until March od when he 
 joined his regiment; March 8-9 he went with 
 the command of Lieutenant Colonel Bloodgood 
 to Brentwood Station, being in Granger's Re- 
 serve, 2d Division and Brigade, Army of Ken- 
 tucky. There Forrest and Van Dorn surprised 
 them about seven in tlie morning of March 
 25tli and tliey were all cajitured. Their captors 
 swung around Franklin with them to avoid the 
 Union troops and on their route the prisoners 
 were compelled to wade Duck River which was 
 cold and deep ; Mr. Kelly, on account of recent 
 illness, was permitted to ride on a horse belong- 
 ing to a Texan ranger. From Columbus they 
 
 went to Shelbyville and at Tullahoma they 
 were stripped of nearly all their clothes. April 
 4th they arrived at Bristol and went to Lynch- 
 burg whence they went to Richmond and re- 
 mained one day at Libby Prison. They were 
 paroled, sent to City Point and transferred to 
 the Union lines and went to Annapolis, where 
 they were re-clothed. From Annapolis they 
 went to Baltimore May 1st and thence to Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., where the citizens received them 
 substantially, giving them an excellent supper, 
 which they needed. They went to Cincinnati 
 and to St. Louis where they arrived at Benton 
 Barracks May 5th. About June 1st they were 
 exchanged and Mr. Kelly went to Camp .Jack- 
 son and thence to Nashville. From there he went 
 to Murfreesboro and did garrison and other artil- 
 lery duty until the regiment joined the com- 
 mand of Sherman with the 20th Army Corps. 
 He was in the action at Resaca where his lieu- 
 tenant was wounded. After the battle he was 
 detailed to accompany the wounded from tlie 
 field hospital to Bridgeport, Ala., and remained 
 there until August 26th when General Thomas 
 sent him to look after the telegraph lines in 
 Tennessee. Falling ill, Mr. Kelly left that 
 .service and went to Camp Detachment at Chat- 
 tanooga. In November, 1864, he was detailed 
 as clerk at headquartei's at Chattanooga ; went 
 thence to Nashville ; was there during the bat- 
 tle ; returned to Chattanooga in December, 
 remaining there in the capacity of headquar- 
 ters' clerk until he was ordered to Milwaukee 
 to be discharged June 15th, 1865, under sur- 
 geon's certificate of disability. 
 
 The inflexible abolition principles of Colonel 
 Utley were the cause of much excitement while 
 he was in command of his regiment. There 
 was almo.st incessant disturbance at headquar- 
 ters on account of the colored people. One 
 day a black man came in and appealed to Colo- 
 nel Utley for protection. Soon after, a portly 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 man in an elegant carriage drove up and de- 
 manded his "nigger." Colonel Utley pointed 
 the man out and told his claimant that if he 
 wished to go he could take him. Tlie darkey 
 stated emphatically that he did not wish to go 
 and Colonel Utley told the slave owner that he 
 would have to take the man iiimself. He 
 looked unutterahle disgust and went away 
 without interfering with the black man. He 
 was the chief justice of Kentucky. 
 
 After his discharge, Mr. Kelly remained a 
 short time in Racine and went to Auamosa, 
 Iowa, where lie operated as a photographer 
 and portrait and landscape painter, having 
 obtained a high degree of skill in that line of 
 artistic work before he entered the army. He 
 went subsequently to Sparta and La Crosse 
 and in 1883 located at Racine. He makes a 
 specialty in enlarging portraits and lias a wide 
 reputation in liis avenue of business. At the 
 American Photographers' Convention at Min- 
 ne'apolis in July, 1888, he took first prize for 
 black and white portraits executed with tlie air 
 brush. He was married in Caledonia, Wis., 
 in 1800, to Hannali A., daugliter of .lohn and 
 Mary Howard, and their children were named 
 Byron .J. and May E. Tlie wife died Jan. 22, 
 1867, and July 25, 1868, Mr. Kelly was again 
 married to Mary T., daughter of Robert Davis, 
 at Cieneva. Tiieir children were named Myra 
 A., Eva, Willie M., Irvin M., (dec), Ernest G., 
 (dec), Harvey R., Lillian !>., Minnie M. and 
 Edna R. 
 
 EVI J. ADAMS, Brodhead, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Tost No. 90, was l)orn 
 f in the town of Magnolia, Rock Co., 
 Wis., May 10, 1845. He is fourtli in line of 
 descent from iiis first paternal ancestor in this 
 country, wiio came from Germany and set- 
 tle<l in Pennsylvania, and whose second 
 
 son, G. W., was the grandfather of Mr. Adams 
 of this sketch. He was a cooper and married 
 Catherine Baker, rearing 13 children. The 
 survivors are Mrs. Catherine Rogers, Mrs. 
 Caroline Miller, Jerry, John and Jacob. The 
 senior Adams is living in retirement at Brod- 
 head after a useful and busy life as a farmer 
 and mechanic. In the early portion of the 
 19th century the grandparents removed from 
 Pennsylvania, (Harrisl)urg), to Indiana, and 
 10 years later went to Ohio. In 1839 they 
 went to Magnolia, settling on a farm. In 1842 
 they went to Green county and in 18G6 to 
 Kansas, where the grandfather soon died 
 and the family returned to Wisconsin. The 
 grandmother died in Green Co., Wisconsin, 
 aged 84 years. During the stay in Ohio, 
 the senior Adams married Sarah Squires, a 
 native of Steuben Co., New York. They 
 had ten children, of whom eight are living, 
 whose record is as follows: Mrs. Catherine 
 Reily was formerly the wife of David E. Cas- 
 tator, who died from injuries received while 
 serving in the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. Mrs. 
 Mary E. Creglow lives in California : Mrs. 
 Hester A. Crall lives in Wisconsin ; Augu.stus 
 W. died at Stevenson, Ala., of disease con- 
 tracted while serving in the 13th Wisconsin 
 Infantry; Sarali J. Kirkpatrick lives in Wis- 
 consin ; Levi J. is next in order of birth ; 
 Mrs. Rachel K. Allen and Mrs. Addie P. 
 Cleveland live in Wisconsin; Ruth P. died in 
 infancy ; John J. lives in Iowa. The mother 
 died in Spring Valley, Sept. 21, 1858, aged 73 
 years; the father is still living in Brodhead. 
 Mr. Adams was reared on the farm and 
 attended school until he entered the army. 
 Although but 17 years old he connected him- 
 self with a command that saw veteran service 
 throughout its experiences. He enlisted Feb. 
 27, 1864, in Company D, 36th Wisconsin 
 Infantrj', and was mustered with his regiment 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 at Cainp Randall, Madison, and set out for 
 Washington and the scenes of activity at 
 the front. May 10, 18G4. The command 
 j)roceeded immediately up the James River, 
 and thence to Belle Plain Landing. • The follow- 
 ing morning they ]iushed on to join the troops 
 at .Spotts^'lvania and were in the reserve on 
 the ISlli of May. Mr. Adams was in the 
 heavy labor of tlirowing up fortifications 
 and was in an action on the 23d on the North 
 Anna River. He was in the fight at Tolopot- 
 omy Creek on the .jOtli and went with his 
 command to the fight at Cold Harbor, going 
 after the action to the trenches at Petersburg 
 and after fighting on the ISth until the third 
 charge, he was wounded in the right arm, and 
 was named in the dispatches as injured. He was 
 at City Point a week, went thence to New York 
 and was furloughed July 30th, and returned 
 to the regiment about the middle of Septem- 
 ber. He went to David's Island in New York 
 Harbor and thence to Bedloe's and a week 
 later went to City Point and joined his regi- 
 ment in the rear of Petersburg. He again 
 fought in the trenches until the 24th of the 
 month, when he was in the fight at Hatcher's 
 Run. Februarj^ 5th he was again in an action 
 at Hatcher's Run and after the fall of Peters- 
 burg joined in the chase after the rebels 
 and was present when Lee surrendered, his 
 command dividing tlieir last rations with the 
 famished rebels and going 36 hours without 
 food. He went next to Washington where he 
 was in the Grand Review and afterwards 
 passed several weeks at Jetf'ersonville, Ind., and 
 was discharged July 12, 1805. 
 
 He returned to Brodhead and engaged in I 
 fanning until 1881, when he left the farm and 
 his calling as an agriculturist, having become 
 quite blind. In 1886 his sight was wholly 
 gone, the result of his wound, his eyesight be- 
 ginning to fail immediately after his injury. 
 
 Pie was married in Albany, Wis., Dec. 24, 1865, 
 to Martha, daughter of William and Esther 
 M. (Graves) Griffin, who were born respectively 
 at Hoosac, Rensselaer Co., New York, and 
 Greenfield, Mass., the latter being descended 
 from English parents — William and Martha 
 (Clifford) Graves. The daughter was Iwrn .Ian. 
 26, 1844, in Hoosac, and came West with lier 
 parents in 1854, the family locating on a farm 
 near Albany in Green county, where the 
 parents are still resident. Mrs. Adams is the 
 eldest of their nine children, eight of whom 
 are living. Julia F. married Edwin Atkinson, 
 a member of the 2d Wisconsin Infantry, and is 
 deceased ; the brothers and sisters are named 
 in order of birth: Mrs. Emily A. Peeljles ; 
 Mrs. Mary E. Stock; William A.; Abhie ; 
 Mrs. Stella Dunn; George L.; Eugene. The 
 record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Adams 
 is as follows : Alicia May, born Feb. 23, 1867, 
 died when seven years old ; Willie W., born 
 Dec. 30, 1870 ; Jessie G., .Ian. 27, 1873 ; Edith 
 M., March 28, 1876; Sarah E., July 29,1880; 
 Ida Belle, Aug. 23, 1882. Mr. Adams is a 
 charter member of his Post; and with his wife 
 belongs to the Wisconsin Grange. 
 
 
 ILLIAM EDWARD DERVIN, 
 Watertown, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 94, and one of the 
 prominent Grand Army men in Wisconsin, was 
 born March 19, 1840, in Herkimer Co., New 
 York, and is the son of John and Margaret 
 (O'Donnell) Dervin, who were natives of Ireland, 
 were there married, and thence the father came 
 to America in 1829, the mother following after 
 nine years with three children. After the ar- 
 rival of his family, the father removed to Penn- 
 sylvania, and afterwards, in 1848, removed to 
 Wisconsin. The son was brought up on a farm 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and, in 1848, began to realize the experiences 
 of a pioneer in a new country and he engaged 
 in farming until April, 1857, when lie com- 
 menced to learn the business of a machinist, 
 but finding the occupation distasteful he re- 
 sumed his connection with agriculture, in which 
 he was occupied until he entered the arm}'. 
 Nov. 2, 1861, he enlisted in Oimpany F, 1st 
 Battalion, IGth U. S. Infantry, and went into 
 rendezvous at Camp Thomas, three miles north 
 of C!olumbus, Ohio. About the 1st of Feb- 
 ruary, 1862, he went to the front, going to 
 Northern Kentucky by way of Cincinnati, and 
 passed his first night on rebel territory on the 
 farm of the confederate General, Ruckner, 
 where Company F lost its first man, Henry 
 Benty, by accident. The command marched 
 to West Point, Ky., passing Fort Donelson soon 
 after its surrender and perfoi'med guard duty 
 at Nashville, where Mr. Dervin was on guard 
 in the Capitol, Feb. 28, 1862, and also guarded 
 the residence and tomb of James K. Polk, his 
 widow treating him personallj' with the great- 
 est kindness and bringing him a glass of wine 
 with her own hands. He was also detailed as 
 guard at General Buell's headquarters and act^ 
 ed in this capacity in the different places where 
 headquarters were stiitioned. At Pittsburg 
 Landing he was detailed on transportation by 
 team and had a miserable experience, the roads 
 being rendered almost impassable by heavy 
 rains, and he passed a whole night in cold rain 
 and mud, without food or drink from noon on 
 Sunday until Monday morning. After the vic- 
 tory he helped bury the dead and care for the 
 wounded. As a result of tiie expo.«ure he was 
 attacked with catarrh and dyspepsia, from 
 which he is still suffering. Abont the 1st of 
 July he reached Huntsville, Ala., nn<l was made 
 Orderly to Captain C. C. Gilbert, Insjiector Gen- 
 eral of the Army of the Cumberland, and re- 
 turned with him to Nashville; they went 
 
 thence to Jonesville by boat and at Harpeth 
 Shoals the}' were notified of danger of capture 
 and went back to Nashville, riding across the 
 country and arriving the next morning. Mr. 
 Dervin went next to Gainesville and afterwards 
 to Louisville, remaining there until August 
 25th, when he went to Richmond, Ky., with the 
 horses of the Captain and himself. While he 
 was there the fight at Rodgersville near Rich- 
 mond, Aug. 30, 1862, took place, where General 
 Nelson was wounded, and after Mr. Dervin's 
 return to Louisville, he witnessed the shooting 
 of Nelson in the Gault House by Jeff C. Davis. 
 Nelson lived about 20 minutes. While acting 
 as Orderly to Captain Gilbert, Mr. Dervin was 
 sent with di.spatches to General Boyle and was 
 stopped by a patrol guard of 13 men and or- 
 dered to barracks; he refused to comply, a 
 fight followed and Mr. Dervin passed the guard, 
 running towards Boyle's headquarters to find 
 liimself in another scrimmage with another 
 guard of 11 men, raw recruits, who did not 
 know that an Orderly with dispatches must not 
 be hindered, and Mr. Dervin drew his revolver, 
 after being roughly handled, but was prevented 
 from firing by Lieutenant Harrington of the 
 22d Kentucky, wlio caught his arm; he hopes 
 this account will meet the attention of that 
 officer and wishes him to receive his sincere 
 thanks for preventing murder. But Mr. Der- 
 vin was locked up in tiie barracks prison witli 
 disreputable characters and he rebelled, bring- 
 ing on another skirmish with authorities in 
 which several officers joined. (On taking 
 inventory, Mr. Dervin found that in 
 the street encounter he had lost §41 in 
 greenbacks, a silver-mounted revolver and 
 his vest.) He had no alternative but to sur- 
 render, the officer in charge refusing to send 
 to headquarters to ascertain who he was, but 
 lie found opportunity to send a letter to Gen- 
 eral Gilbert by an apple-boy, to whom he gave 
 
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 a dollar and iu a few minutes orders for his | 
 release came from his superior officer. He de- j 
 manded liis property, but his money and vest 
 had not been turned over by the officer of the 
 guard. On the order of the General the money 
 was made good by the commandant of the 
 barracks and, three weeks after, he recovered 
 his revolver from the lieutenant who had taken 
 it from him. He acted as Orderly with Gilbert 
 at Perryville, liis chief being in command of a 
 corps. Mr. Dervin went on to Nashville and, 
 under special order for all detached men to 
 return to their regiments, he took leave of 
 General Gilbert Nov. 27, 1802. He reported 
 to Captain Barry of Company F, and was soon 
 after made Corporal. He was in the skirmish- 
 ing prior to and at the battle of Murfreesboro, 
 and was carried from the field by the 1st and 
 2d Sergeants of his company, having received 
 three minie balls and two Mi.ssissippi rifle 
 bails; the latter breaking the fibula of his 
 right leg, also cutting the cord in the buck of 
 the leg and making a fracture on the side of 
 tlie tibia. He lay on the open field until Sat- 
 urday night and on Sunday morning, .Jan. 4, 
 1863, awoke in pain and hungry. He ate a 
 small quantity of food and gave all the money 
 he had — two dollars — to be taken to Nashville, 
 a distance of 26 miles, over corduroy roads in 
 swamps, and after lying all night on the side- 
 walk in the rain without food, he was finally 
 admitted to hospital No. 20, where Dr. Fish 
 gave him the kindest attention. He was sent 
 to Louisville for examination for furlougii and 
 condemned as permanently disabled. He re- 
 ceived final discharge and returned to his 
 home. He has suffered ever since from his 
 injuries and also from the disea.ses mentioned, 
 being disabled about eight-tenths of his ca- 
 pacity to labor. As soon as able to attend to 
 business he engaged in the sale of groceries, 
 associated with his brother, until March, 1864, 
 
 when he went to Missouri. He was occupied 
 there in a sawmill until he met with an acci- 
 dent; he stumbled on his injured leg, which 
 flew back and threw him on a circular saw 
 which nearly took his arm off. He was laid up 
 more than a year and found himself obliged 
 to learn a trade, and he has since o{)erated as a 
 painter, paper-hanger and whitener. He has 
 served three times as Delegate to Department 
 Encampments ; he has also served under Com- 
 mander Weissert as Assistant Inspector of the 
 Department of Wisconsin. Mr. Dervin claims 
 blood connection with the new prime minister 
 of Germany through their mothers, both being 
 named O'Donnell and there being but one 
 stock of that name in Iieiand. It is not a 
 matter of pride, as he states that he " would 
 rather be a Corporal in tlie LT. S. service than 
 prime minister of an Empire." 
 
 Mr. Dervin was married Feb. 10, 18G7, to 
 Mary B. Dillon of St. Louis, Mo., and their 
 children are named Alice, William T., Marga- 
 ret Eugenia and Arthur. The oldest son is 
 assistant postmaster at Watertown and the 
 oldest daughter is a teacher in the city. .James 
 Dillon, deceased, father of Mrs. Dervin, was a 
 soldier in the 59th Illinois Infantry ; he emi- 
 grated to America w'hen his daughter was 
 about two years old. Mr. Dervin is an excel- 
 lent citizen and sustains in private life the 
 quality of his career as a soldier, i-ecording 
 " that he left -the service of his country with 
 the greatest reluctance." 
 
 ULIUS N. BARTLETT, Watertown, Wis., 
 Senior Vice-Comniander of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 94, (1889) was born May 30, 1833, in 
 Riga, Genesee Co., New York. He is of English 
 descent in the paternal line and suj)j)oses tliat 
 his great grandfather, Josiah Bartlett, one of 
 
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 the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 
 was born in England. His father, Crowell 
 Bartlett, was Ijuru Oct. "20, 1810, and died 
 Maivh 14, 18SU. His mother, Marietta E. 
 Miner, before marriage, was born in Lenox, 
 Mass., April 23, 1812, and was of a Scotch 
 family. The niariiage of tiie parents took 
 place Nov. 9, 1831. Jacob, father of Crowell, 
 was a native of New Hampshire. 
 
 Julius was reared on a farm and accompanied 
 liis parents to Wiscon.sin in the fall of 1847. 
 They located on a farm in the uncleared forest 
 in Milford, Jefferson county, where he did pio- 
 neer work on lUO acres of heavy timber. When 
 he was 21 years old he went to tlie west village 
 of Waupun to paint in a plow and fanning mill 
 factory, going home in tlie fall and in 1855 
 went to Hlack River Falls where he spent two 
 years and, returning to liis fatlier's place, 
 worked on the farm until he determined to 
 l>ecome a soldier. Aug. 11, 1802, he enlisted 
 in Company B, 29th Wisconsin Infantry, and 
 went into rendezvous at Camp Uamlall, wliere 
 he remained until he left the State for Helena, 
 Ark. At Watertown, while on duty, lie took 
 cold and was sent to the hos2)ital with tonsilitis, 
 where Dr. Addison removed the tonsils. On 
 his recovery, about January, 18(33, he rejoined 
 ills regiment in time to take part in the White 
 River exjiedition where the entire regiment 
 was on guard duty through a \\lK)le night and 
 until 11 o'clock the next day. Bloody flux, 
 sore throat and other difficulties, resulting 
 from exjjosurc in a snowstorm, .sent him again 
 to hospital at Helena and lie was discharged 
 Feb. 11, 1803. He was sent to Memphis where 
 Mrs. Harvey met him with her carriage and 
 carried him in her arms to the Beal street hos- 
 pital where he received the best possible treat- 
 ment under her personal supervision. When 
 he started for Wisconsin he was unable to walk 
 alone and on the boat was discovered in u help- 
 
 less condition by a man on board named Jones, 
 from Toledo, Ohio, who took him in his arms, 
 carrieil him to his berth, took care of him all 
 night and until arrival at Cairo, going with 
 him to Chicago. There he was taken in charge 
 by another man who carried liim to a restiiu- 
 rant which he conducted, given some milk and 
 placed in a bed to rest until it became neces.sary 
 for him to set out for his destination. Pie was 
 taken to the depot and found that his host 
 would accept no compensation. On arrival at 
 Milford his brotlier-iu-law took him to his 
 home where his careful sister placed him on a 
 feather bed, but he was so unaccustomed to 
 such luxuries that he was ol)liged to ask for 
 blankets on the floor. His recovery was very 
 slow and months elapsed before he could per- 
 form any labor. In 1803 he apj)lied for a pen- 
 sion to be rejected. (The application was re- 
 newed in 1866 to meet the same fate but, under 
 the administration of Corporal Tanner, it was 
 allowed within 30 day.s, his papers bearing 
 date of April 27, 1889). In the fall he accompa- 
 nied a Deputy Provost Marshal to serve papers 
 on drafted men where trouble had been threat- 
 ened, the cojiperhead fraternity predominating 
 there. But, although they were " hard citizens " 
 no trouble was had. He was married Feb. 22, 
 1800, to Sarah J. Fitch of Watertown. Her 
 father was born in England and her mother in 
 Pennsylvania. Three children were born of 
 their union of whom one survives — William — 
 who takes care of his parents. 
 
 WhBERT S. HEARN, jn-oprictor and 
 editor of the Dodgeville, Wis., 
 Vhmnkk, Postmaster at tliat place 
 and member of G. A. R. Post No. 109, was 
 born near Cadiz, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1846. His 
 father, Launcelot Hearu, was born in Maiy- 
 
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 land and went, in boyhood, to Oliio. The ma- 
 ternal grandparents went from Virginia to 
 Cadiz in 1802 and in the latter jilace the 
 rnotiier, (Barbara Urquhart, before marriage) 
 was born. To her and her husband 11 chil- 
 dren were born. Five sons were in the ser- 
 vice: John G. enlisted in the 28th Kentucky 
 Infantry and served three years; he was a 
 slaveholder in Tennessee at the commencement 
 of the war and a i-ailroad contractor ; came to 
 Louisville, Kentucky, in May, 1861, and en- 
 listed in the Union army ; was captured by 
 John Morgan at Gallatin, Tenn., Aug. 11, 1862, 
 with 300 of his regiment, and sent to Camp 
 Chase, Columbus, Ohio, as a paroled prisoner; 
 was afterwards exchanged and served with his 
 regiment, participating in the Atlanta cam- 
 paign and in the battles of Franklin and 
 Nashville under General Thomas. Edward H. 
 was a Lieutenant in Company E, 16th Ohio 
 Infantry ; he was a newspaper man until 1860, 
 and jjracticed law ; he died in the service at 
 Nashville ; James F. was in Missouri when the 
 war broke out, came home and enlisted in 
 Company B, 30th Ohio in 1861, and served 
 three years ; he is deceased. William, third in 
 order of birth, died in 1859. W. B. Hearn is 
 proprietor of the Cadiz Republican and a mem- 
 ber of the Ohio Legislature. Melville H. i.s 
 deceased ; he enlisted in Company 1, 13th Ohio, 
 April 19, 1861, was a Sergeant and was mor- 
 tally wounded Sept. 10, 1861, at Carnifex Ferry, 
 W. Va., died seven days later at field hospital 
 and was buried in the vicinity. Ezra died at 
 the age of 19 years. Eliza is deceased ; Aman- 
 da is Mrs. S. B. Patterson ; Mary is unmarried. 
 Mr. Hearn entered a i^rinting office when 
 14J years old and was there employed when 
 lie enlisted in the three months service. He 
 enrolled at Cadiz, June 10, 1862, in Company 
 E, 88th Battalion, (short regiment) and was 
 mustered at Columbus where he performed 
 
 duty at Camp Chase during the greater part of 
 liis period of enlistment, guarding rebel pris- 
 oners. He was on one excursion across into 
 Kentucky, (being one of three who made con- 
 nection with Company A to capture Morgan), 
 reporting at Lexington. He was chiefly on 
 detached duty, and was anxious to see actual 
 service, but had occasion later to change his 
 mind. He was mustered out at Columbus 
 about Sept. 26, 1862, his term having expired. 
 (While guarding prisoners at Camp Chase, his 
 brother John was brought in.) Aug. 29, 1864, 
 he re-enlisted in Company B, 180th Ohio In- 
 fantry and was mustered in the same camp as 
 formerly. He went with his regiment to Elk 
 River and Dechard, Tenn., remaining until 
 January, 1865, when the command was at- 
 tached tothe 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23d Corps, 
 sent to New Berne and Wilmington, N. C, 
 opening the way for Sherman's army. He was 
 in a fight at Wise's Fork, N. C, where he first 
 saw actual warfare, his earlier service inclu- 
 ding only scouting and skirmishing with bush- 
 whackers. The regiment joined Sherman at 
 Goldsboro and went with the marching hosts 
 to Raleigh where .lohnston surrendered. The 
 regiment went thence to Charlotte, N. C, and 
 performed provost duty until July 13, 1865, 
 when they started for Columbus to be mustered 
 out on the 25th. 
 
 On his return home, Mr. Hearn engaged as 
 foreman of the Steubenville (0.) Gazelle, and 
 was there occupied a year. He then accepted 
 position as foreman of the Bepublican office at 
 Cadiz. In April, 1869, the Republican was pur- 
 chased by himself and brother, the present 
 proprietor, Mr. Hearn continuing with it until 
 February, 1874. At that date he went to 
 Dodgeville, Wis., where he bought the Dodge- 
 ville Chronicle, (established in 1858), taking 
 possession on March 2, 1874. Sept. 28, 1889, 
 he was appointed Postmaster at Dodgeville 
 
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 and entered upon his duties in October of the 
 same year. 
 
 He was married at Cadiz, Oliio, to Anna E., 
 daughter of William N. and Margaret (Tiernan) 
 Carson. Mrs. Hearn is a native of Jefferson 
 Co., Ohio; they have had three children named 
 Alice (born Sept. 17, 1873), AVillie (born at 
 Dodgeville, Feb. 4, 1878, died Sept. 12th fol- 
 lowing), and Clara B. (born Dec. 13, 1871'). 
 Mrs. Hearn is an active member of the W. U. 
 C. at Dodgeville. 
 
 T. PRIDEArX, lumber merchant at 
 Mineral Point, Wis., and member of 
 • G. A. R. Post No. 125, was born at 
 Dodgeville, Wis., Sept. 4, 1842. His parents, 
 Henry and Ann (Treloar) Prideaux, were both 
 natives of England and in the paternal line 
 tradition states that the descent is French. 
 They were married in England, and after the 
 birth of one child, ^\'illiam, they came in 1837 
 to America. Elizabeth A. is the second in 
 order of birth; (her husband, .John .J. Leece, 
 was a soldier in Company C, 31st Wisconsin 
 Infantry;) Richard, .]ane, B. T., Sarah, Francis 
 J. (deceased), and Mary H. are named in their 
 order of birth. The parents located at Dodge- 
 ville, Wis., and afterwards removed to Linden, 
 Iowa county, subsequently returning to Dodge- 
 ville, which has been the place of abode since. 
 The father died in July, 1883, aged 70 years 
 and the mother is still living. The senior 
 Prideaux was a miner, W()rking in the mines 
 in this country and in 1850 went to California, 
 remaining several years in the Golden State, 
 returning to Wisconsin in 1863 and going back 
 to California to remain two years. The son 
 obtained his education in the schools of Dodge- 
 ville and there learned the business of a tinner. 
 In 1870 he established himself at Mineral 
 
 Point, combining the business of a tinner and 
 hardware merchant until 1883, when he sold 
 out and went to Lake Mills to engage in the 
 hardware business, which he sold at the end of 
 two years, returning to Mineral Point and liuy- 
 ing his present interest with J. I). Martin, 
 which firm is still doing a prosperous business 
 under the style of J. D. Martin & Co., and in 
 addition to all commodities of the lumber busi- 
 ness, traffic in other builders materials. 
 
 Aug. 14, 1802, Mr. Prideaux enlisted from 
 Dodgeville in Company C, 31st Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and went into camp at Prairie du 
 Chien, where he was mustered. A portion of the 
 regiment went to Madison and the remainder 
 to Racine, being stationed at those places to 
 make up the complement. LIpon going to the 
 front the regiment went to Columbus, Ky., 
 drilled and performed other duty, and there 
 Mr. Prideaux was taken sick, j)laced in the regi- 
 mental hospital and after four weeks was sent 
 home on a furlough, rejoining his command at 
 Murfreesboro. The regiment went thence to 
 Nasliville and did provost dut\' and, July 20, 
 1864, received orders to join the command of 
 Sherman, whom they met at Peach Tree Creek, 
 and on the day of that battle were attached to 
 the 20th Corps and fought through the cam- 
 paign under the grim old commander, who 
 to-day, (1889) is the sole representative of the 
 old war hor.ses remaining. The 31st went on 
 the march to the sea. Mr. Prideaux was in all 
 the activities of his regiment througliout the 
 siege of Atlanta, and participated in all the ex- 
 periences which overtook his column in the 
 footrace to Savannah ; he fought at Averysboro 
 and Benton ville, and ou tiie marcli through the 
 Carolinas was continually under lire. After 
 reaching the North, after tramjjing through 
 ^'irginia, Mr. Prideaux was in the Granil Re- 
 view and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., 
 receiving discharge and jiay at Madison, July 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 333 
 
 7, 1865. At Columbus Mr. Prideaux was de- 
 tached from his company and performed pro- 
 vost duty, and aftiT his return after his illness 
 he did not lose a day of service until hnally dis- 
 
 charged. 
 
 He was married at Mineral Point in 1872 to 
 Louisa, daughter of James and Mary Martin. 
 She was born in Mineral Point and her parents 
 were from Cornwall, England. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Prideaux have four surviving chidren; Iva 
 Bernice was born in October, 1880; Nettie in 
 March, 1882; Jessie in July, 1885; Benjamin 
 Harrison in December, 1887. Henry E. and 
 Guy S. are deceased. Mr. Prideaux has been 
 Adjutant of his Post three years ; he is a Chap- 
 ter Ma.son and has taken the Council degrees; 
 he is present Master of the Blue Lodge, having 
 held the position two years. 
 
 ^IHr 
 
 r,^ HARLES C. CUNNINGHAM, Monroe, 
 Wis. Soon after the close ot the Rev- 
 olutionary war, John Duidap Cun- 
 ningham, the grandfather of Mr. Cunning- 
 ham, wiiose name leads this account, came to 
 America from London. He was a representa- 
 tive of the ancient, noble and honored house 
 of Glen Cairn, which carried on its heraldic 
 in.signia the motto " Over ; Fork Over. " He 
 was the betrothed of a lady of noble connec- 
 tion who severed the alliance on learning that 
 he intended making the New World his home, 
 and she sent the engagement ring to his sister 
 at Paisley, Scotland. He ai)i)lied his fortune 
 to the development of business opjjorlunities 
 in New York, making several trips to the Old 
 World, his sister Eliza accompanying him to 
 America. He had an intimate friend named 
 James Scott to whom he loaned a considerable 
 sum of money. One day, at Newburgh on the 
 Hudson, he met Angelia, daughter of Colonel 
 
 Huyck, a friend of Washington, fell in love 
 with and in 1798, married the celebrated 
 beauty, whose ancestors came from Holland. 
 Their children, James Scott and Catalina, were 
 born respectively in June, 1799, and February, 
 1801, the mother dying soon after the birth of 
 the daughter, Catalina. The sister referred 
 to above, married Judge Yates of Albany 
 and in their family the two motherless children 
 were reared. Not long after, their father went to 
 Charleston to attend to his business with James 
 Scott and died just before the vessel reached 
 port. His body was taken in charge by Scott, 
 buried and then his friend, possessing himself 
 of his money, papers and a miniature of his 
 wife painted on ivory and cased in gold, de- 
 parted from the country and was never after- 
 wards heard from. The associations of the 
 orphaned children in the family of Judge 
 Yates were of the highest type socially and 
 James Scott Cunningham studied law with his 
 uncle. But he disliked the profession and de- 
 voted himself to the manufacture of fine cabi- 
 net work as soon as he was master of his own 
 time. He located his business in New York, 
 where he assisted in the manufacture of the 
 first organ of Trinity Church, which was 
 burned in the great fire ni that city. In 1822 
 he married Cynthia, only daughter of Peter 
 Wyckoff, one of three brothers who cajne from 
 Holland long before the war of the Revolution 
 and settled in New Jersey, near New Bruns- 
 wick. His ancestors were French who fled to 
 Holland during the Reign of Terror in France. 
 Of the marriage, eight children were born, 
 named in order, Matilda Gertrude, Catalina, 
 James Alexis, Eliza Yates, Fanny, Herman 
 Leonard, John Dunlap and fJharles C. The 
 latter was born in the City of New York Dec. 
 10, 1841. 
 
 His parents removed in 1857 to near Monti- 
 cello, Wis., where Mr. Cunningham utilized his 
 
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 fine education in teaching, as favorable oppor- 
 tunities occurred. (He lias since met many, 
 l)roniinent in the broad West to whom he had 
 taught the rudiments of education and who 
 remembered hitn with the most gratifying 
 interest.) He remained under parental author- 
 ity until he enlisted at Monroe, Sept. 19, 18G1, 
 in the 5th Wisconsin Battery. The following 
 roster of the engagements in which Mr. f'un- 
 ningham participated forms a fine outline of 
 the military service performed by the com- 
 mand to which he belonged. It includes New 
 Madrid, Mo., Farmington, Miss., Perryville 
 and Lancaster, Ky., Nolensville, Stone River, 
 Liberty Gap and Tullahoma, Tenn., Chicka- 
 mauga, Ga., Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Buz- 
 zard'sRoost, Tenn., Resaca, Rome, Dallas Woods, 
 Big Shanty, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, 
 Smyrna Camp Ground, Vining's Station, Peacii 
 Tree Creek, Ga., the ^L^rch to the Sea and the 
 fight at Bentonville, N. C. This involved the 
 movements in a route which might be called a 
 circle. Mr. Cunningham traver.sed Illinois, 
 Missouri, Mississij)pi, Kentucky, Tennessee, 
 Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia 
 and the States on the return to Wisconsin, a 
 distance and journey which would look appal- 
 ling to a man setting out upon it for a 
 trip of observation. But when it is considered 
 that it was a necessity and under military 
 stringencies with all the risks and dangers of 
 operations in the country of an eneni}-, its pro- 
 portions may be comprehended. Mr. Cunning- 
 ham drilled in light and heavy artillery prac- 
 tice and in infantry tactics, aided in building 
 fortifications (sometimes under rebel lire); at 
 Stone River he was cajitured to l)e retaken by 
 Union cavalry after a few hours, and, soon after, 
 while separated from his command, was chased 
 by a Te.xan ranger on horseback, and was 
 entirely without side arms; his pursuer shot a 
 soldier near liim, but on observing his youth- 
 
 ful appearance remarked " tliat he would spare 
 his young life." Dec. 27, 1S03, he veteranized 
 and took his furlough of 30 days, which he spent 
 in Wisconsin. At Atlanta he was ill and was 
 granted bj' General Thomas a 30-day furlough. 
 On his return he found communications had 
 been cut off and, soon after, orders were issued 
 for all absent men on their way to tlieir respec- 
 tive commands to remain at Nashville, but he 
 made his way on toji of a freight car to Atlanta, 
 where he cast his maiden vote for Lincoln. 
 En route he made the acquaintiince of relatives 
 of (iovernor ^'ance of North Carolina, who 
 assured him of assistance if he should be taken 
 prisoner. But he refused unless his comrades 
 could have the same aid, especially Clark 
 Baker. He was in the final parade at Wash- 
 ington and received honorable discharge .June 
 14, 1865. 
 
 After resuming connection with civil life, ho 
 engaged in farming in Sylvester Townshij), 
 selling out in .June, 1875, wlien he removed to 
 Vineland, N. J., and engaged in fruit farming. 
 He went later to Tarrylown on the Hutlson and 
 to Keyport, N. J., but returned to Vineland in 
 a vain hope of restoring the health of his wife; 
 she died in August, 1882, and Mr. Cunning- 
 ham traveled a j'ear through the South. He 
 has the habits, tastes and culture of a gentle- 
 man and since the death of Mrs. Cunningham 
 has indulged his inclinations to pursue, so far 
 as possible, the life of an artist. 
 
 In all his journeyings he takes sketches 
 of scenery and on reaching his home in 
 Monroe he finishes them in oil, his collection 
 containing scenes endeared to him through 
 personal association. 
 
 He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, 
 Order of United Workmen and Odd Fellows. 
 His character is one that renders him a reliable 
 friend; his culture and inherited and acquired 
 refinement make him a profitable acquaintance. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 335 
 
 and his genialiW and general good comrade- 
 ship secure for liim the contidence and esteem 
 of tliose wlio, with himself, made common 
 cause of their country's need. 
 
 He was married at Orangeville, 111., Nov. 1, 
 1SG8, to Keziah, daughter of George and 
 Lucinda (Forsyth) Eley. She was born in Ohio 
 and died in Vineland, N. J., Aug. "24, 1882. 
 She was the mother of five children, three 
 surviving her. Herman Leonard was born 
 April 24, 1870; George Eley was born .Jan. 25, 
 1872; Gertrude Leslie was Ixirn .July 2u, 1874; 
 (lenevieve and Harry died in infancy. 
 
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 ILAS S. HAYFORD, Whitewater, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, was 
 born at Parma, Monroe Co., New York, 
 March 8, 1842, and is the .son of Solomon and 
 Sabrina (Hyde) Hayford. His parents were 
 Yankees and were farmers, the son being 
 brought up as a farmer's son until lie became 
 a soldier, which he did at the nge of 19 years. 
 Dec. 18, 18G1, he enlisted in Company I, 10th 
 New York Infantry, which was one of the first 
 commands to reach the scene of activities on 
 tiie breaking out of the war and which lie 
 joined as a recruit, at Fort Corcoran, Va. In 
 the spring of 18G2 the command moved under 
 McCiellan to the campaign of the Peninsula 
 and Mr. Hayford was in the action there April 
 4th. On that day of the siege he was taken 
 sick and sent to hospital at New York City, 
 where he remained four weeks, when he re- 
 ceiveil a furiougii to return home and remained 
 there until July 7th. When he left Fort Cor- 
 coran for Yorktown, the march was made 
 through a heavy rainstorm and the tramp of 
 40 miles so injured him as to cause his illness. 
 He rejoined his regiment at Harrison's Land- 
 ing, Va., the command being there to take part 
 
 in the actions that followed the peninsular 
 campaign. After the expiration of eight days 
 he was again taken sick and sent to West Phila- 
 delphia hospital where he remained seven 
 months. His regiment was then with Burn- 
 side at Falmouth, whither he returned and 
 where he remained until the expiration of his 
 term ; lie was mustered out at Rochester, 
 (where he enlisted,) May 11, I860. He re- 
 sumed farming, conducting his operations as 
 best he could in his disabled condition until 
 1872, when lie removed to Wisconsin, locating 
 in Whitewater. He was married Sept. 25, 
 1860, to Martha A. Muuger of Parma, New 
 York, and they have five surviving children. 
 The eldest is married and is now Mrs. Ellen 
 Fuller. The others are named Cecil S., Edwin 
 R., Frederick A. and Florence N. Mr. Hay- 
 ford is an enthusiastic supporter of Grand 
 Army work and was a charter member of the 
 Post at ^\'ilitewater. 
 
 ILLIAM C. LAMORE, Belleville, 
 ^ll Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 
 ^^IL No. 121, was born in Richmond, 
 Chittenden Co., \'ermont, March 24, 1824. His 
 father, Lewis Lamore, was of French descent 
 and the mother, Lucy Lamore, was born of 
 Connecticut lineage. The son was 12 years 
 old when he bade farewell to the Green Moun- 
 tain State and he resided in Wellington, Darien 
 Co., Ohio, whither he went with his parents 
 and when 21 years old, went to Wisconsin and 
 located in Rock county, removing from Janes- 
 ville to Belleville in 1886. 
 
 He enlisted at Cooktown, Rock count}', in 
 December, 1863, in Company K, 2d Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, and joined the battalion about the 
 first of .January at Rolla, Mo., and was engaged 
 in e.scorting mail and supply trains and in ser- 
 
336 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 vice against bushwliackers, skirmishing and 
 scouting in numberless instances, wliich have 
 never been otHcially recognized as service, as 
 must always be the case in cavalry command. 
 But the regiment had tiie satisfaction of burn- 
 ing two rebel bridges on the Black River and 
 of destroying large quantities of rebel supplies. 
 Tliey felt that their work was a success and Mr. 
 Lamore is specially gratified to record that he 
 was with the rcconnoitering force under Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Dale, who was wounded after a 
 severe fight near Yazoo City. This was in 
 December, 1864, and Mr. Lamore was with the 
 regiment at New Grenada, La., to pai'ole pris- 
 oners. In July the command was sent to 
 Louisiana and Texas to aid in the reconstruct- 
 ing of afl'airs, and it was engaged in that i)usi- 
 ness under (Jeneral Custer until tlie last of Oc- 
 tober when they started for home and Mr. La- 
 more was mustered out at Madison in Decem- 
 ber, 1865. 
 
 He was married July 1, 1847, to Charlotte, 
 daughter of John W. and SojJironia Fisher, 
 and their children are named Wallace B. and 
 Ida. Mrs. Fi.sher was born in the State of New 
 York. Since the war Mr. Lamore has been 
 variously engaged in business, has operated in 
 agriculture and selling shoes, and is now the 
 proprietor of the only livery and sale and feed 
 stables in Belleville. 
 
 *esS^i§3H>8 
 
 y^f^L^ILLIAM H. EVANS, attorney at 
 ^^W Prairie du Chien, Wis., mendjer 
 
 J#aL of ( ;. A. n. Post No. 37, was born 
 at Petersburg, \'a., Nov. 3, 1842, and is the son 
 of Joseph and Mary (Hall) Evans. His ear- 
 liest ancestor in the father's line went from 
 Wales to Ireland, whither the father came to 
 America in 1836, locating in tlie city of 
 
 New York, where he was married. He was a 
 gunsmith and followed his business in several 
 of the large cities of this country and linally 
 located at Clayton, Crawford Co., Wis., in 1850, 
 where he settled on a farm on which he 
 worked as a i)ioneer and followed his trade. 
 He was prominent in the settlement of the mu- 
 nicipal affairs in the town and county which he 
 assisted to organize, officiated as School Super- 
 intendent, served as Justice more than 20 
 years and lived until Nov. 22, 1889, about a 
 week before the compilation of this sketch. He 
 was 82 years of age. The mother is living in 
 Ohio. Three of' their children lived to ma- 
 turity: Phebe A., wife of D. M. Twining, Maria 
 now deceased, and Mr. Evans of this account. 
 The son was raised to manhood under the 
 circumstances mentioned in his father's career, 
 received such education as the schools of that 
 period afforded, and attended school in Cincin- 
 nati, Galena, Natchez, St. Louis and other 
 places where his father was in business prior 
 to coming to Wisconsin. Pie engaged in farm- 
 ing after removal to Wisconsin until lie en- 
 listed. Aug. 15, 1862, he enrolled in Company 
 1), 31st Wisconsin Infantry, being mustered at 
 Prairie du Chien, going thence to rendezvous 
 at Racine, Nov. 14, 1862, where the winter was 
 passed. March 1, J863, the regiment started 
 for the front, and j>assed the summer in mili- 
 tary duty at Fort Halleck, Columbus. The 
 service included encounters with guerrillas, 
 scouting and skirmishing, expeditions of varied 
 character and camp duty until orders were 
 received to proceed to Nashville, after which 
 the regiment was broken up for detached ser- 
 vice, the organization being retained at Mur- 
 freesboro. The company to which Mr. Evans 
 belonged was stationed at Fostervillc, re- 
 mained there until April 22, 18G4, went to 
 Wartrace, went thence after guarding a bridge 
 until June Gtli to Nashville and stiirted for 
 
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 337 
 
 active warfare in front of Atlanta, July 16th, 
 arriving at Peach Tree Creek July 20t]i, and, 
 taking position in the trenches hefore the city, 
 remained under fire until the close of the 
 campaign, Sept. 4, 1S64. (July 30th he was 
 wounded slightly in the head by a bullet 
 which knocked him over, and of which a fur- 
 row is traceable in the skull. He was incapac- 
 itated from duty but a short time.) Mr. Evans 
 was attacked with chronic bowel complaint 
 on the march to Peach Tree Greek, and 
 although he was in the movements around 
 Atlanta he grew constantly worse until lie was 
 removed from active service by an order of 
 General Sherman, which relieved all men suf- 
 fering fi'om any ailment, preparatory to the 
 movement through the rebel country to the 
 sea. Mr. Evans was sent to Nashville, and a 
 month later, put on detached duty as Mounted 
 Orderly in the personal service of the Pro- 
 vost Marshal at Nashville. June 9, 1865, he 
 started to connect with his regiment, but on 
 arrival at Louisville found the regiment had 
 gone home and he proceeded to Madison to be 
 discharged July 7, 1865. 
 
 Tie returned to the occupations of civil life, 
 working his farm and manufacturing lime 
 and lumber, meanwhile preparing for admis- 
 sion to the Bar, which ceremonial was per- 
 formed in 1873. In the same year he was 
 elected to the Legislature and served a term. 
 In 1875 he was a candidate for District Attor- 
 ney and the following year was elected to office. 
 In 1877 he located his home and law business 
 at Prairie du Chien and has officiated as Dis- 
 trict Attorney eight years — four terms — and in 
 1887 was made City Attorney. Mr. Evans 
 represents an excellent tyjte of citizenship. 
 He has inherited the sturdy integrity of his 
 Welsh forbears and the candid, free and 
 hearty temperament of the race of Scotch- 
 Irish to which his mother Ijelonged. (Her 
 
 father, James Edwards, was born in Ireland, 
 was a rebel in 1798 and was killed by the 
 officers of the king. His wife was Mary 
 Edwards before marriage.) 
 
 Mr. Evans was married at Rising Sun, 
 Crawford Co., Wis., to Mary J., daughter of 
 Michael and Catherine (^IcGuii'e) Flanagan, a 
 native of County Galway, Ireland. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Evans have eiglit living cliildren as 
 follows : Joseph P., born March 4, 1868 ; 
 William M., Sept. 6, 1870 ; Frederick J., .Jan. 
 3, 1872; Mary Ellen, Oct. 16, 1873; Francis, 
 May 17, 1877; Catherine E., March 15, 1879; 
 Cliarles P., Jan. 18, 1882 ; Norah C, Feb. 17, 
 1884. Frances Mary and Eugene died in 
 infancy. 
 
 ^^ W. ROGERS, Proprietor of the Fenni- 
 ^^^^ more House at Fennimore, Wis., a 
 ''^'is^^* member of G. A. R. Post No. 173, 
 was born in Yates County, New York. His 
 parents, Joseph G. and Minerva (Noble) Rogers, 
 were born in Vermont, were married there and 
 removed successively to Pennsylvania, New 
 York, White Pigeon, Michigan, and, in October, 
 1842, to Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, and, 
 after 14 years to Lancaster in Grant county. 
 Both died there, having been the parents ot 
 nine children. L. N. Rogers, a resident of 
 Grant county, is the oldest ; Lucinda Brown 
 died in 1843 ; Livona married Wiliard C. Roff 
 of Newark, New Jersey; Geo. P. died in 1842; 
 Francis E., Mrs. Mariette McCreary, L. C. 
 Rogers, S. W. and Emma M., wife of E. S. 
 Morse, are the others. David Noble, maternal 
 grandfather of Mr. Rogers, was very wealthy 
 and his deep interest and understanding of the 
 financial resources of tlie Government induced 
 him to equip and pay a regiment through two 
 
338 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 years of tlie Revolution, but lie was never 
 reimbursed. Tlie father of Mr. Rogers served 
 through the war of 1812 and one of his daugh- 
 ters, Mrs. E M. Morse, is the occupant of land 
 for wbith he received a warrant from the 
 United Stiites. He was a cooper and died in 
 18S7 at 80 years of age; his wife died April 
 15, 1879, aged 81 years. 
 
 Mr. Rogers was reared on a farm and obtained 
 a common school education, and he was engaged 
 in his iju.siness as an agriculturist when the war 
 came on. He eidisted Aug. 14, lt>62, in Com- 
 pany A, "iOth Wisconsin Infantry. He was 
 mustered at Madison and went thence to bar- 
 bracks at St. Louis, where he drilled and per- 
 formed other military duty until he sutt'ered 
 sunstroke, was taken to the hospital and re- 
 mained unconscious nine days. When able to 
 travel, he went to St. Louis where he enjoyed 
 the privilege of sleeping in a slave-peu. He 
 went on toS|)ringfield, was taken sick and pros- 
 trated 14 days. The attack was made at Spring- 
 Held by Marmaduke and Ilindman while 
 Mr. Rogers was convalescent, and he assisted 
 in the defense. He rejoined his regiment at 
 Forsythe, Ark., and, soon after found himself 
 in pursuit of bushwhackers and guerrillas in 
 Missouri and Arkan.sas; this service continued 
 until June 3d, when the regiment moved to 
 take position in the trenches near Vicksburg, 
 anil Mr. Rogers served there, chiefly in labor 
 under rebel tire, until the fall of Vicksburg. 
 On the night of his arrival there he was on 
 picket and could see tlie shells dropping into 
 the city. He was afterwards in the expedition 
 to Yazoo City and went to Port Hudson and 
 Morganzia. The regiment was ordered to 
 Spanish Fort, but tlic illness of Mr Rogers 
 prevented his going and he was sent home on 
 sick furlough; after his arrival in Wisconsin 
 he was desperately ill for three months and 
 finally reported to the Provost Marehal of Wis- 
 
 consin and was ordered to Harvey hospital, 
 whence he was assigned to the 14tjth Company, 
 2d Batteiy, \'eteran Resei've Corps, and after- 
 wards performed duty in hospital. Later he 
 went to hospital at Prairie du Chien, where he 
 was nuistered out Aug. 18, 1865. 
 
 On returning to his home he resumed farming 
 for two years, when he set up the lousiness of a 
 tinner in Fennimore, selling out at the end of 
 two years. He traveled sometime for his health, 
 meanwhile selling his farm and he afterwards 
 entered into jiartnershij) with Mr. Loney in 
 trade. This relation was dissolved after two 
 years, and he conducted his interests singly 
 until 1877, Mhen he went out of the busines.s. 
 He spent some time in the employ of the rail- 
 road corporation wliieh was running a new 
 road through Fennimore and in 1879 went to 
 Dakota, took uj) a homestead and tree claim 
 and remained there six years. He then re- 
 turned to Fennimore and invested his capital 
 in the hotel of which he is present proprietor. 
 He has probably traveled by team as much as 
 any man to be found. He made lii'^ first 
 journey from Rushville, New York, to White 
 Pigeon in a wagon and in 1842 traveled with 
 an o.\-team thence to Brookfield Junction, Wis- 
 consin, and to Fennimore in 1857 with two 
 yoke of cattle. His journey to Dakota and 
 back was made with a team. He belongs to 
 the fraternity of Masons and with his wife, is 
 a member of the M^ E. Church. He was mar- 
 ried at North Lancaster, in Marcli, 1857, to 
 Mary F., daughter of George and Eleanor Luce, 
 and a native of \'enango Co., Penn-sylvania. 
 Artilla, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, is 
 the wife of Dr. A. B. Bailey, a physician at 
 Fennimore. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 341 
 
 ILLIAM CHESTER SWAIN, Mil- 
 ^W waukee, Wis., member of E. B. 
 Wolcott Post No. 1, was born : 
 April 22, 1832, at Halifax, Vermont. That 
 place was also the birthplace of his father, 
 Cliipman Swain, the father of the latter being 
 Joseph Swain, a native of Wenham, Mass., 
 born in 1754, who married Millicent, daughter 
 of James Barrett, Jr., the son of Colonel James 
 Barrett, who was a militia commander in the 
 battle of Concord in 1775, June 17th. Rev. 
 Joseph Swain, the father of Joseph, wa.>i born at 
 Reading, Mass., in 1723, was a clergyman of 
 the Congregational church and preached about 
 40 years at A\'enham, Mass. His father, John 
 Swain, was born in Reading in 1(J98, and was 
 the son of Benjamin Swain, born in the same 
 })lace in 1668, his father, Major Jeremiah Swain, 
 having been born at Charlestown, Mass., in 
 1641. He was famous in the King Philip war 
 and at one time was in command of the whole 
 body of Colonial troops. His father, Jeremiah 
 S., came from England to Charlestown ni 1638, 
 and was one of the founders of Reading about 
 1644. Elizabeth Chipman, wife of Rev. Joseph 
 Swain, was the daughter of Rev. John Chip- 
 man, who preached 60 years in Beverly, Mass., 
 and was the grandson of John Chipman, who 
 came from England and married Hope, daugh- 
 ter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tillie, i)as- 
 sengers on theMayMowerand who were married 
 in America. Deucy Gilbert Swain, mother of 
 Mr. Swain, was seventh in descent from William 
 Gilbert, who was " made a freeman " in Wind- 
 sor, Conn., in 1640 ; her motlier, Hannah Fox 
 before marriage, was, according to a family 
 tradition, descended from the author of " Fox' 
 Book of Martyrs." Chipman Swain was a 
 farmer until he became Superintendent of the 
 Vermont State prison at Windsor, serving 
 from 1842 to 1845; he was also Sheriff of 
 Windham county for 14 years, and a pension 
 
 agent for the soldiers of the Revolution. Four 
 of his ten children died in infancy. Jerusha 
 E., George G., Lucy A., William C, James P. 
 and Samuel ii. reached mature life. Jerusha 
 became a missionary among the Cherokee 
 Indians, laboring as such ten years. George 
 went to Wisconsin and was Assemblyman 
 from Sauk county for three years ; he is 
 now Fuel Agent of the C. & N. W. R. R. for 
 Iowa ; James P. was a Lieutenant in the 8th 
 New York Cavalry and died after parole from 
 a rebel prison in 1864 ; Samuel G. served in 
 the 12th Wisconsin Infantry and was 2d Lieu- 
 tenant of a colored regiment ; he is a postal 
 clerk between Chicago and VV^inona, Minn.; the 
 three brothers enlisted in three different regi- 
 ments from different States about the same 
 time, neither knowing of the others' purpose. 
 Mr. Swain was reared at home and, when 15, 
 began to learn the printing business in Wind- 
 sor, serving a regular apprenticeship, according 
 to custom. From 1858 to 1860, he was fore- 
 man of the office of the Albany Statesman and, 
 ni the year last named, went to Pittsfleld, Mass., 
 and assumed charge of the printing depart- 
 ment of the Berkshire Counttj Eagle. In 1861, 
 in company with Elijah Ilobart of Albany, he 
 began his first work in the war and they re- 
 cruited a company for Berdan's Sharpshooters, 
 of which his comrade was made Captain and 
 himself, 2d Lieutenant. The organization was 
 consolidated with the 03d New York as Com- 
 pany B, rendezvoused at Albany and in March, 
 1862, was sent to Washington and assigned to 
 Casey's Division, Palmer's Brigade, and Keyes' 
 (4tli) Corps. The command went to Fortress 
 Moiu-oe, Newjiort News and the Peninsular 
 campaign, fighting at Williamsburg first after 
 skirmishing on the way thither, and the regi- 
 ment was afterwards on duty at White House 
 and Harrison's Landing after the retreat. Mr. 
 Swain was in the actions at Antietam, Fred- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. 
 At Warreiiton he was dutached and sent to 
 draft rendezvous in New York harbor, where he 
 remained altout a year and a half. For several 
 niontlis he was engaged in transporting drafted 
 men to tlieir respective comniands and was 
 afterwards made chief engineer on Hart's 
 Island, wliere his term of enlistment exj)ired, 
 in November, 1864. He was discharged and 
 hastened to the side of his dying brother in 
 hospital at Annapolis, and, after accompanying 
 his body to Wisconsin, he returned to New 
 York and was commissioned Captain of the 
 24th U. S. Colored Regiment, in April, 1865. 
 He went with his command to I'oint Lookout 
 as guard for rebels and after they were paroled, 
 remained in cliarge of the Point until he was 
 mustered out, Oct. 1, 1SG5. 
 
 He went to Wisconsin and bought a farm in 
 Sauk county on which he raised hops until 
 1868, a disastrous year for his business, which 
 he alfandoned and engaged as foreman of the 
 printing ollice of the Daily News, at Milwaukee. 
 In 1878 he opened an office in his own belialt, 
 the tirm being Symes, Swain & Co.; their rela- 
 tions continued until 1885, when it became 
 Swain & Tate, as at present. (1890.) They 
 transact a general book and job printing busi- 
 ness. He is a member of the Masonic Frater- 
 nity and bus served as Deputy Crand Master 
 of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, as Grand 
 High Priest of the Grand Chapter and as 
 Eminent Commander of the Commandery ; -for 
 eight j^ears he has presided over one of the 
 Scottish Rite Bodies of Milwaukee, and for 
 seven years has acted in tiie capacity of Re- 
 porter of Correspondence for the Grand Cliapter 
 and the fJrand Commandery. 
 
 He was married June 14, 1877, at Lake Mills, 
 Wis., to Olive E., daughter of Edwin S. and 
 Olive S. (Egerton) Brayton, who is a represent- 
 ative of old Puritan stock. Three children 
 
 were born of this union, the youngest of whom, 
 Cieorge C, died in infancy; Catherine E. and 
 Mary B. survive. The wife and mother died 
 .June 6, 1886. The portrait of Mr. Swain ap- 
 pears on page 340. It is an honor to the mili- 
 tary records of the soldiers of the Union. 
 Descended from Puritan ancestors, reared un- 
 der New England iniluences, fighting to pre- 
 serve his heritage of liberty, bringing his 
 manhood's strength and ambitions to the de- 
 velopment of the West, Mr. Swain represents 
 American citizenship of the iiighest type. 
 
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 ACOB WARNER, Monticello, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born 
 in Madison Co., New Y''ork, May 4, 1837, 
 and is of Holland Dutch extraction in both 
 lines of descent. His father and mother, Jacob 
 and Maria (Collyer) Warner, were both born in 
 the State of New York. The former was a 
 tanner and currier and removed to Wisconsin 
 ill 1845 ; he located on a farm in Sylvester, 
 Green county, effecting a later removal in 1854 
 to a farm near New Gliirus where the father 
 died .Jan. "26, 1861 ; the mother died Feb. 15, 
 1882, at the home of her son in Muiitircllo, 
 aged 84 years. 
 
 Mr. Warner ])assed his early life as a farmer 
 boy until he enlisted Jinie 7, 1861, in Coiiij)any 
 C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry and was a member 
 of one of the first companies that left the 
 county, enlisting for three years. He was 
 mustered at Fond du Lac, and left the State 
 July Pith for Hagerstown, Md., and Harper's 
 Ferry, performing picket duty on the Potomac 
 and engaging in one little scrimmage at the 
 Ferry. In the fall the regiment went to Fred- 
 erick City, Md., where their presence prevented 
 the convening of the legislature which intended 
 to vote the State out of the Union. In March, 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 343 
 
 1862, they crossed into Virginia, going to 
 C!liarleston and Winchester, where Banks was 
 in a fight. The 3d followed the enemy, re- 
 turning to StraslKirg wliere they had a smart 
 skirmish with rebel cavalry, moving back to 
 Winchester and Mr. Warner was in the succes- 
 sive activities until Martinsburg was reached. 
 Theii- next action was at Cedar Mountain and 
 they afterwards marched to Manassas, where 
 they witnessed the second Bull Run fight. 
 They were sent forward to the defense of 
 Washington, received orders to follow the rebels 
 to Antietam, and Mr. Warner took part in that 
 splendid . battle. Ke afterwards performed 
 picket duty on the Potomac until January, 
 
 1863, when they went into camp at ytaiford C. 
 ir., and in the spring went to the campaign on 
 the Rappahannock. He was in the activities 
 along the river prior to tlie final disaster at 
 Ghancellorsville, where he was wounded May 
 4th, a l)all striking him in the left ankle. The 
 Union troops withdrew, leaving their wounded 
 and dead and 13 days after his comrades came 
 under flag of truce and removed him. The 
 wounded were all prisoners of war and as soon 
 as possible were paroled by rebel officers. Mr. 
 Warner was taken to the field hospital where 
 his foot was amputated and he was sent to hos- 
 pital at Washington where he remained until 
 his leg had healed, when he received honora- 
 ble discharge, miinis a good foot, Aug. 25,1863. 
 He had four Ijrothers in the civil war and, let 
 the biographer arrest the pen a moment to call 
 attention to the quality of Ijlood and patriotism 
 which sent five sons from one familj' to defend 
 the flag, -lohn I. Warner enlisted in 1862 in 
 the 3d Wisconfsin Cavalry; Andrew enlisted at 
 the outbreak of the war, enrolling for three 
 months and re enlisting for three years in the 
 same company and regiment ; he was wounded 
 in the left leg ; William H. enlisted in 1862 in 
 Company K, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, wa 
 
 taken sick at Nashville and died in the hospi- 
 tal. James L. enlisted in the 2d Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, was discharged with heart disease 
 May 13, 1863, and on recovery re-enlisted in 
 Company A, 27th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
 with his command until killed in front of 
 Petersburg, June 19, 1864. Mr. Warner was a 
 good soldier and is an enthusiastic Grand Army 
 man. He wishes to record that, when Jackson 
 attacked his command at Winchester, several of 
 his comrades were captured, named Philip 
 Morris, Robert McFarland and John Waldo. 
 
 Mr. Warner was married March 14, 1865, to 
 Cynthia, daughter of Noah and Marion Eliza- 
 beth Chapman and who died July 13, 1870, 
 without children. Mr. Warner was again mar- 
 ried Aug. 21, 18—, to Charlotte E. (Martin) 
 Date. She has three children by a former 
 marriage who form an interesting family. The 
 mother was born May 9, 1850. Her parents 
 were l)orn in England and came to America in 
 1849. 
 
 AVID GOODRICH JAMES, Richland 
 Center, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 33, was born in Deerfield, 
 Rockingham Co., N. H., Aug. 3, 1843, and re- 
 moved to Richland county, Wis., in 1855, with 
 his )iarents, George H. and Louise E. (Hurd) 
 •James. After he had passed his boyhood, he 
 assisted on his father's farm until he became a 
 soldier. He enlisted Oct. 13, 1861, in Company 
 F, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, and left the State 
 March 12, 1862, for St. Louis, where the regi- 
 metit was assigned to the command of Grant, 
 who was conducting the campaign prior to the 
 battle of Pittsburg Landing, which was the first 
 initiation of Mr. James into regular warfare. 
 The 16tli Wisconsin was in the extreme front 
 of the Division of General Prentiss and was 
 among the first of the Linion forces under arms 
 
344 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to repel the rebel atUxck. The gallantry of the 
 16th Wisconsin is matter of public record and 
 every man in the command distinguished liim- 
 self for bravery. Mr. .James was next in the 
 siege of Corinth, went to luka and going after- 
 wards to fight October 3d and 4th in the battle 
 of Corinth. In November the regiment had 
 become so decimated by sickness and the 
 severities of war that it was consolidated into 
 five companies, Mr. James, who had been pro- 
 moted to Corporal, being assigned, Nov. 3, 1862, 
 to Comi)any C. (In the spring of 1S64 the 
 complement of the regiment was filled by the 
 addition of five companies.) November 28th 
 the regiment removed South and com- 
 menced the camjiaign which iiad Vicks- 
 burg for its ultimatum, whicli was rendered 
 futile by the surrender of the stores at Holly 
 Springs, the loss of which arrested the advance 
 and the IGth went to Moscow, and thence in 
 .buHiary to Memphis and A'ieksburg and in 
 February to Lake Providence. Mr. James en- j 
 gaged with his command in labor on the canal, 
 also took part in several skirmishes and per- 
 formed other military duty until August, when i 
 the regiment went again to Vicksburg and 
 about the last of Septemlicr went to Redbone 
 Church, and performed guard duty on tlie Big ! 
 Black River through the winter of 1863-4. In 
 the spring Mr. James passed his veteran fur- ! 
 lough in Wisconsin and in Ajiril went to ren- 
 dezvous at Camp Randall, Madison, the regi- 
 ment assembling at Cairo on the 22d of that 
 month and was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3d 
 Division and ITth Corps, going to Clifton, Tenn.; 
 the Division marched thence to join Sherman at 
 Ackworth, Ga., marching 320 miles to join the ' 
 great commander, June 8, 1864, having in the 
 train 1,100 cattle for army use. AVhile on the 
 route they encountered Forrest, but no action 
 occurred. June 10th the advance was begun 
 and five days after the series of actions known 
 
 to historj' as Kenesaw Mountain began. Mr. 
 James was in the trenches throughout June 
 and moved July 10th to Sweetwater Creek, 
 taking position on the 20th in line of battle. 
 He was in the fight at Bald Hill under Leggett, 
 (for whom the hill has been named) the 12th 
 and Kith Wisconsin and 20th Illinois making 
 the charge and driving Pat Cleyburn's Division, 
 who had never before suffered defeat, the Wis- 
 consin regiments performing distinguisliing 
 service. July 22d Mr. James was on the skir- 
 mish line with his company and was captured 
 by the rebels and taken to Andersonville, July 
 28th, remaining there until September 12th, 
 when he made his escape and wandered about 
 for two weeks, when he was rec^ij)tured. Dur- 
 ing his absence his company was exchanged 
 and he lost liis chance, being taken next to 
 Florence. He made his escape again and after 
 two weeks of wandering was chased down by 
 bloodhounds and taken back to Florence, sen- 
 tenced to receive 50 lashes an<l only escaped 
 this additional punishment by an accidental 
 change of the guard. Fel>. 17, 1865, the cere- 
 mony of parole was gone through and the 
 Union prisoners were taken to Wilmington, 
 tiience to Ringgold and Goldsboro and thence 
 to the North Branch of the Cape Fear 
 River, the advancing columns of Sher- 
 man having spread terror through the 
 rebel camps in Georgia and North Caro- 
 lina and at the place last named the rebels 
 abandoned them to whatever fate might over- 
 take them, although not a man was able to 
 stand upright or walk. Mr. James was crawl- 
 ing on his hands and knees, bare-footed and 
 bare-headed and covered with rags ; and when 
 the Union prisoners from Florence were dis- 
 covered by a Union cavalry command, it is 
 safe to .say their eyes never before encountered 
 such a wretched mass of humanity. Mr. 
 James was in a small squad, of whom 18 men 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 345 
 
 died the first night after receiving rehef. Mr. 
 James went to Aiinapohs, passing two weeks 
 in a storm on the Atlantic, was sent to i)arole 
 camp at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, where 
 lie was fnrloughed to go home and he pas.sed 
 througli Madison on the day of Lincoln's fu- 
 neral. When he was captured he weighed KiS 
 pounds ; when he reached home he weighed 
 G9 pounds. The record of Mr. James in his 
 connection with the war of the rebellion is 
 one to which this meager account is wliolly 
 inadequate. When he was mustered out Sept. 
 19, 1865, it was with the rank of Captain 
 by Brevet, dating Oct. 3, 1862, and his papers 
 state " for conspicuous bravery manifested by 
 him at the battles of Corinth, Miss , and Bald 
 Hill before Atlanta, Ga., at the latter of which 
 he was taken prisoner while endeavoring to 
 hold a rifle pit long enough to enable a 
 wounded comrade to go to the rear." 
 
 He returned to Richland Center, learned 
 the tinner's trade and in 1806 became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of G. H. & N. L. James which 
 was changed to G. H. & N. L. .James & Co. 
 In 1881 he became sole proprietor and has 
 since conducted the leading hardware business 
 at Richland Center. He also deals in farm 
 machinery, wagons and other articles incident 
 to his line of business in his locality. He 
 has been prominent in local municipal poli- 
 tics and has served as a delegate to National 
 and State Republican Conventions. He was 
 one of the chief contractors in building the 
 railroad to Richland Center and has been 
 prominently connected with all public en- 
 terprises for the benefit of his locality. Li 
 May, 1881, he was made Post Master and 
 served until 1885. He has been Commander 
 of his Post and was elected Junior Vice Com- 
 mander of the Department of Wisconsin in 
 1889. He was promoted to Senior Vice Com- 
 mander in September, 1889, and now occupies 
 
 the position. He is advanced in the Order of 
 Masonry to the Royal Arch degree. 
 
 His first wife, Ada (Briggs) James, to whom 
 he was married in 1868, died in November, 
 1869, leaving a son named Oscar B. In- 
 1872 Mr. James married Laura, a sister of his 
 former wife, who is the mother of tliree daugh- 
 ters named Ada, Beulah and Veda. 
 
 
 -$ 
 
 f^^ DWARD N. MARSH, Baraboo, Wis., 
 
 t77^^— v> member of G. A. R. Post No. 9, and 
 a prominent real estate dealer, was 
 born June 16, 1833, in Onondaga Co., New 
 York. In the paternal line he is of English 
 lineage, and on the mother's side the blood is 
 Scotch, her birth having occurred in the High- 
 lands, and she accomj)anied her parents to Nova 
 Scotia, where she was married. Joshua Marsh, 
 grandfather of Mr. Marsh, was born at Brain- 
 tree, Mass., March 15, 1745, and was married 
 March 24, 1770, at Londonderry, Nova Scotia, 
 to Margaret Corbet, a native of Plymouth, 
 Mass., born Jan. 28, 1752. Joshua Marsh, 
 father of Mr. Marsh of this sketch, was born 
 at Conway, N. S., Aug. 5, 1779, and was mar- 
 ried Nov. 1, 1807, at Cornwallis, N. S., to 
 Elizabeth Pal meter, a native of that place, born 
 .Jan. 3, 1788, and they had 11 children. Fol- 
 lowing are their births: John Palmeter, Nov. 
 3, 1808; Peleg, Nov. 23, 1810; Alexander, 
 April 23, 1813; Margaret, (deceased), Nov. 3, 
 1815; Susan, March 23, 1818; Mary, Aug. 
 23, 1820 ; Lavinia, (deceased), Feb. 12, 1823 ; 
 Joshua, Jr., July 20, 1825 ; Ann, (deceased), 
 May 11, 1827; Abigail, May 4, 1830 ; Edward 
 Nelson, June 16, 1833. Mar}' married Nathan 
 Paddock, now of Colorado ; Susan is the wife 
 of Mr. Kendall ; Abigail married Henry Wil- 
 lard of Baraboo ; John is in Oregon ; Peleg 
 resides at Baraboo, as does Ale.Kander, and 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Joshua lives in California. Mr. Marsh is the 
 youngest. The family removed to Lake Co., 
 111., in May, 1843, and in 1849 their son went 
 to Barahoo, whither the other memhers of the 
 family removed in 1862, the parents residing 
 tiiere until their respective demises. In 1849 
 Mr. Marsh entered the employ of his Vjrother- 
 in-law, Mr. Paddock, in the lumhcr business, 
 and returned to Illinois in the spring of 1S51, 
 engaging there in fiirming, which he con- 
 tinued until 1854, when he visited Ononadaga 
 county, New York, where he met an old 
 acquaintance who was employed l)y parties 
 who were running boats on the lakes in cen- 
 tral New York, and he engaged in tliat business, 
 returning to Wisconsin in 1855. He was oc- 
 cupied in lumbering at Barahoo iuul vicinity, 
 and also as a photographer until impaired 
 health comjielled Jiim to obtain employ as 
 a hotel clerk, which was his occupation until 
 the fii'st call of the President for troops when 
 he was among the first to enrol. He enlisted 
 April 16, 1861, the day following the requisi- 
 tion on Wisconsin, entering his name at 
 Baraboo, in Company E, 1st Wisconsin Infan- 
 try, and left for Madison Ajiril 17th. l)cing the 
 only married man in his company. It was 
 Sunday and his minister, Mr. Thompson, dis- 
 missed the congregation to fnrnish music for 
 the occasion. Until -lune the time was passed 
 in camp <lnty at Milwaukee and the regiment 
 left the State on the 9th for Harrisburg 
 and went from Altoona direct to join Patter- 
 son, who was preparing for the encounter with 
 the rebels, the first in which Wisconsin troops 
 were in action and where George Drake was 
 killed. (See sketch.) Jackson was driven 
 towards Martinsbnrg ami the regiment re- 
 mained after Falling Waters near that place; 
 Mr. Marsh was again in line of battle July 15th, 
 marching afterwards to aid in the attempt 
 to check Johnston which was abandoned 
 
 by Patterson. He was afterwards in the 
 marcii to Charleston and Harper's Ferry and 
 to the Monocacy River to guard ferries and 
 received orders with his regiment to proceed to 
 Wisconsin for muster out, his term having ex- 
 pired more than a month l)efore. Mr. Marsh 
 was taken ill at Hagerstown and had not 
 recovered when he reached Wi.sconsin, but 
 bis interest in the progress of the wai' had not 
 diminished and he devoted mucli attention 
 to raising a company and was placed on 
 recruiting service. Meanwhile, he enli.sted in 
 the 23d Wisconsin Infantry but was thrown 
 out by the medical examiners. He continued 
 to enlist men designed for service in the 5th 
 Wisconsin Cavalry, an organization that never 
 existed in fact and the enlisted men were 
 distributed among other regiments. Mr. 
 Marsh was offered commissions in l)oth 
 the 23d and 6th Wisconsin Infantry but could 
 accept neither on account of physical disability. 
 But he accomjianicd about 800 unassigned 
 recruits to Leavenwortii, Kansas, where about 
 300 wore mounted and commanded by Lieu- 
 tenant Ehle, the remainder being under Mr. 
 Marsh, who was also mounted. All went to 
 Fort Scott where Mr. Marsh was attacked with 
 hemorrhage, and was cared for by an Indian, 
 who had a little knowledge of medicine, tliere 
 being no physician available. Soon after ar- 
 rival the troops were sent to ((uell the Indian 
 disturbances on the plains, bvit Mr. Marsh was 
 detailed for service in the Commissary Depart- 
 ment, where he continued until impaired health 
 imperatively demanded his discharge in 1864. 
 He returned to Baraboo and m 1865 started 
 an enterprise at Devil's Lake, Sank Co., Wis., 
 where he transacted business until 1868, wiien 
 he sold his resort which had become popular 
 beyond his hopes or expectations. He bought 
 hotel property in Baraboo which he managed 
 until 1870 when he again sold and went to 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 347 
 
 Mauston, Wis., and conducted the interests of 
 a iiotel a year. He went next to Elkhart, 
 Sliehoygan Co., Wis., and initiated anotlier 
 enterprise in tlie way of a summer re-sort. He 
 erected a large hotel which he managed until 
 1874. In that year he engaged in the same 
 husiness at Milwaukee, struggling through the 
 period of financial stringency, his affairs finally 
 going hy the board and he was glad to obtain 
 a position on the ]iolice force in which he 
 operated from 1876 to 1877; he went next to 
 Colorado and managed a hotel at Fairplay in 
 South Park, which he conducted successfully 
 two years and returned to Baraboo. He gave 
 ills attention to securing a considerable acreage 
 in Dakota on which he lived four years and he 
 has since lived in the city of 13araboo. -Jan. 1, 
 1890, Mr. Marsh became associated with B. N. 
 Robinson in real estate business under the 
 style of Marsh & Robinson, and they at once 
 engaged as real estate and collection agents in 
 which interests they have initiated their busi- 
 ness under the most auspicious circumstances. 
 Mr. Marsh has been an Odd Fellow since 1876 
 and he has been prominent in the affairs of his 
 Post, holding several offices and recently served 
 as Junior Vice-Commander. 
 
 He was married at Baraboo, Sept. 1, 1855, by 
 Rev. Warren Cochrane, to Mary A., daughter 
 of Philip and Mary (May) Blake, a native of 
 Devonshire, England, whence she accompanied 
 her parents to America in childhood. The 
 two daughters of the Marsh household are 
 named Effie May. and Mabel A. 
 
 ^«f«^ll^3*i*^" 
 
 AVID D. DAVIES, druggist at Spring 
 Green, Wis., a soldier of the civil 
 war, was born at Blanpant, Cardigan- 
 shire, Wales, Nov. 30, 1840. His father, whose 
 name he bears, died when he was three years 
 
 of age, leaving five children, his son of this 
 sketch being the youngest. Daniel and Thomas, 
 the two oldest, came to America about 1851 
 and settled at Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pa., 
 where they were joined m 1853 by John, Da- 
 vid and a sister named Maggie, now the wife of 
 Elias Lewis of Girard, Ohio. The mother, 
 (Eleanor Jones before marriage) took a second 
 husband, with whom she came to America in 
 1860 and died at Spring Green Oct. 14, 1881. 
 
 In the fall of 1854, the family removed to 
 Johnstown, Cambria Co., Pa., where they re- 
 sided until their immigration to Spring Green. 
 They started on their journey in July, 1856, 
 and reached their destination, Sunday, Aug. 3, 
 1856. (The railroad was not yet completed 
 and that section of the Badger State was in its 
 primeval condition ; the town, which is the 
 abode of Mr. Davies and his unbroken trio of 
 brothers, not having readied the dignity of 
 municipality.) 
 
 Despite the necessity of exertion for self- 
 maintenance, Mr. Davies recognized that of ob- 
 taining such education as he could, and he 
 alternated school attendance with farm labor 
 until 1863, when he became a clerk with S. N. 
 Vedder, postmaster and merchant, and oper- 
 ated as such until he entered the army, Feb. 1, 
 1865; he enlisted at Madison, Wis., in Com- 
 pany E, 4yth "Wisconsin Infantry ; was mus- 
 tered at Madison, March 6, 1865, and left the 
 State two days later in the ca[)acity of 2d Ser- 
 geant of his conii)any for St. Louis. There 
 the command was ordered to Rolla, Mo., where 
 it performed provost duty, Company E being 
 detailed for special service at that place. In 
 July the company was recalled to the regiment 
 and detailed with Company D as permanent 
 guard in the city of St. Louis, where Mr. Da- 
 vies performed all varieties of military" duty 
 save actual warfare, until discharged. His ap- 
 pointment as 2d Sergeant was dated March 6, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 1865; April 6tli lie was promoted to Orderly 
 Sergeant at Rolla, Mo., and, July 2-ttli, lie was 
 coiiinussioiied 2d Lieutenant and was dis- 
 charged as such, Nov. 8, 1805, at Benton Bar- 
 racks, St. Louis. 
 
 He returned to civil life, clierishing a hope 
 of pursuing a course of commercial study in 
 Chicago, hut a good opening for business pre- 
 senting itself, he changed theoretical aspira- 
 tions for practical and, Dec. 23, 1865, associated 
 with a brother, purchased the interests and 
 relations of a general merchandise enterprise 
 of Col. W. H. Hamilton, successor of S. N. 
 \'edder. The partnershij) lasted four years, 
 when Mr. Davies became sole proprietor by 
 purcha.se, being appointeil postmaster at the 
 same time, and ba.s since conducted his atl'airs 
 singly. His native energy, sterling character 
 and business capacity have resulted in the 
 erection of a substantial business, in which the 
 transactions include traffic in drugs, groceries 
 and merchandise. 
 
 He has found time for the duties of office 
 and citizenship; from the date of his business 
 investment, Dec. 23, 1865, he served as jiost- 
 master to Dec. 25, 1885, a period of 20 years, 
 when he resigned voluntarily. He was re- 
 tained in active connection with the office until 
 Keb. 10, 1886. Sim-e 1877, he has been Notary 
 Public; on the organization of the G. A. R. 
 Tost No. o'J at Spring Green, he was made 
 Commander and served two terms. He has 
 served as N'illage Treasurer nine years and he 
 had discharged the duties of his official posi- 
 tions in a manner whit'li urged his nomination 
 as cantiidate for Assemblyman on the Kepub- 
 lican ticket for the 1st District of Sauk county. 
 It took the combined efforts of Democrats, 
 Pnibibitionists and Anti-Pruhibitionists to de- 
 feat him ; he lost the election by only 60 votes, 
 making a gallant fight and with the consola- 
 tion of knowing that the best social element 
 
 regretted the defeat. His career is one which 
 shows the possibilities open to honesty, indus- 
 try and well-directed energies in America. 
 When little more than 20 years old, he had 
 served his adopted country as a soldier and had 
 settled himself to his life work as a civilian 
 and factor of the business community and has 
 risen unaided save by his own exertions. 
 
 He was married Dec. 31, 1867, to Mattie E., 
 daughter of George and Dotha (Footc) Green, 
 a native of New York. Their children were 
 born as follows: Charles G., Jan. 18, 1876; 
 Stella, Jan. 7, 1878; Pearl, Ajiril 4, 1880; two 
 children died in infancy. Mr. Davies is a 
 charter member of Centenary Lodge, No. 100, 
 A. 0. U. W., at Spring Green, and has served 
 as Recorder and Master Workman, and is hold- 
 ing the position of Past Master Workman. He 
 has been Treasurer of Sj)ring Green Auxiliary 
 American Bible Society 23 years since its or- 
 ganization in 1867. He has been Delegate to 
 County and State Conventions and is present 
 Secretary of the Soldiers' Relief Committee for 
 Sauk county, serving a second term. 
 
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 ■^■i 
 
 OHN A. THOMAS, Clerk of Grant Co., 
 Wis., resident at Lancaster, a former sol- 
 dier of the civil war and once a member 
 of the G. A. R., was born at Smithfield, Fay- 
 ette Co., Pa., Nov. 23, 1844. His father, Daniel 
 Thomas, was a native of one of the Eastern 
 border Stiites; he was a merchant in the Key- 
 stone Slate, where he married Elizabeth Ochil- 
 tree and be died there in 1847. Following is 
 a brief record of his children: — William O., 
 deceased, was the oldest; Orlando was a soldier 
 in Company F, 8d Wisconsin Infantry; Fran- 
 cis was a soldier in Company H, 5th Wisconsin 
 Infantry and became disabled in the service ; 
 was afterwards in U. S. mail service and died in 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 349 
 
 1866 ; James M., a soldier in Company H, 7tli 
 Wisconsin Infantry, returned iiome and died 
 in 1870; Mr. Tliomas of tliis sketch is the fifth 
 son; Sarah is Mrs. O. P. Wells and Louisa 
 married J. P. Chandler. The mother died in 
 Wisconsin in 1880. 
 
 Mr. Thomas was the charge of his mother, 
 who remained unmarried, until he was 11 
 years old when he found a home with a neigh- 
 bor and friend of his father, J. M. Thompson, 
 going to school a year. His first employ was 
 in a drug store in Uniontown, Pa., where he 
 operated until I860, and in September of that 
 year he joined his mother in Grant county, 
 Wisconsin, whither they had gone several 
 years before. One of his brothers was a mer- 
 chant at Montfort and he found occupation in 
 his service and remained with him until he 
 entered the office of his uncle, Major Ochiltree, 
 as Deputy Register of Deeds of luwa county, 
 with head(juarters at Dodgeville, and he con- 
 tinued in that connection until he decided to 
 enter the army. He enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, 
 in Company C, 31st Wisconsin Infantry, fol- 
 lowing the example of all his brothers who 
 had enrolled early in the course of the war. 
 The regiment was mustered at Prairie du 
 Chien and sent to Racine, where he was as- 
 signed to his regiment (then unfilled.) He 
 performed most varieties of military duty, save 
 that of actual warfare, prior to going to the 
 front at Columbus, Ky. L'util the siege of 
 Atlanta the command was engaged in miscel- 
 laneous duty, picketing, guarding the river 
 tlnough the hot summer which disabled most 
 of the reginjent, scouting, marching to Nash- 
 ville, thence to La Vergne, Tenn., and to Mur- 
 freesboro, making that place headquarters for 
 a long line of patrol guard on the Nashville 
 & Chattanooga R. R., which scouted 30 miles 
 and performed other duty meanwhile. The 
 regiment was united at Murfreesboro, prepara- 
 
 tory to a return to Nashville. July 5, 1864, 
 tiie regiment was ordered to make connection 
 with tiie troops on the Atlanta campaign, in 
 which Mr. Thomas was a i^ailicipant througli- 
 out ; the 31st worked on the fortifications and 
 was constantly under fire until the return of the 
 command to the Chattahoochie River. The 
 regiment entered the city of Atlanta after the 
 evacuation and, after passing the intervening 
 time in escort duty for foraging trains and in 
 other military relations, the command marched 
 out of l)Uining Atlanta to accompany Sherman 
 across Georgia. At Montietli's Swamp a hidden 
 battery was discovered which was taken by the 
 regiment with the camp and all the stores 
 while under heavy fire. After moving North- 
 ward in January (the command having been 
 detained by heavy floods), it was in the fight at 
 Averysboro and Bentonville ; his company 
 being the color bearing company, was in the 
 hardest part of the work, the contest at Ben- 
 tonville being particularly severe. While at 
 Atlanta, Mr. Thomas was detailed at the head- 
 quarters of the Division Adjutant-General's 
 office, where he kept books and performed 
 other clerical duty until end of service. He 
 marched to Goldsboro and Raleigh, thence to 
 Richmond and Washington and was in the 
 Grand Review. The regiment went afterwards 
 to Louisville, Ky., and he was discharged June 
 20, 1865. 
 
 He returned to Wisconsin and located at 
 Lancaster in 1866, passing the years until 1873 
 in clerking and as Deputy Register of Deeds. 
 In that year he went to Montfort and engaged 
 in settling the mercantile estate of his hrother, 
 and in 1874 commenced the sale of drugs. He 
 was made Postmaster and officiated 12 years, 
 also acthig as Town Clerk. In 1886 he was 
 elected to his present incumbency and was re- 
 elected in 1888. Mr. Thoniiis belongs to that 
 class of useful and active members of the com- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 munity styled "self-made men." He lias 
 pushed liis own way with little assistance and 
 occupies a foremost rank in citizenship. He 
 was a member of the Post which once existed 
 at Lancaster. He was married at Montfort, 
 \Vis.,Sei)t. 30, 1S75, to Lucille F., daugliter of 
 Gottfried and IjUcinda (Schnee) Hess. Her 
 father was born in Prussia and her mother was 
 of German descent. Frank, Fern, Florence 
 and Etta are the names of the children of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Thomas. 
 
 #<f*^JH^^€^'#^ 
 
 ILLIAM A. WY8E, attorney and 
 ^hiyor of Reedsburg, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 13, is one 
 of the most j)roniiuent (i. A. R. men in Wis- 
 consin ; he has held the various official posi- 
 tions in his Post, lias served as Assistant Quar- 
 termaster General with Commander Weissert of 
 the Department of Wisconsin, and is at present 
 (1890) one of the Aides on the .staff of General 
 R. A. Alger, National Commander. Mr. Wyse 
 was boin at Claremont, New Hampshire, July 
 7, 1844, his parents, David A. and Mary A. 
 (Watson) Wyse, both having been natives of 
 the Old Granite State. He is of Scotch descent 
 in the paternal line, his grandfather Wyse hav- 
 ing come to America from the Highlands of 
 Scotland. David A. Wyse died when his son 
 was two weeks old, and in 1844 'the latter ac- 
 companied his mother to Sauk Co., Wis., and 
 she is still living and a member of his family. 
 Mr. Wyse passed his early days on a farm, ob- 
 taining such advantages of eilucation as he 
 could in a newly .settled country and began 
 teaching school when he was 14 years old, act- 
 ing as instructor of the first school established 
 in Honey Creek in Sauk county. Mr. Wyse 
 was determined to obtain a liberal degree of edu- 
 cation and he entered uj)on a coui"se of study 
 
 in the University at Madison. All the educa- 
 tional institutions in the country lost a large 
 percentage of their students at the very begin- 
 ning of the war, which fact attests the degree 
 and quality of the patriotism inculciited bj' the 
 systems of instruction then in vogue. Mr. 
 Wyse enlisted in a company which became 
 Comiiany K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, April 17, 
 1861, two days after the call for troops from 
 Wisconsin reached the Governor of the State. 
 Mr. Wyse was mustered at Milwaukee and left 
 the State June 9th, going to Washington and 
 thence to Maryland, where the regiment joined 
 the command of General Patterson, who was 
 arranging his plans for a speedy meeting with 
 the rebels, which occurred July 2, 1801, and 
 Mr. Wyse was an eye witness of the death of 
 George W. Drake, the first Wisconsin soldier 
 killed ill the war and whose sketch is on 
 another page. Mr. Wyse was in the marching 
 afterwards and was once in line of battle, ex- 
 jiecting immediate action, but the rebels failed 
 to materialize, and, after marching back to 
 Maryland and to Monocacy Creek, he was dis- 
 charged Aug. 21, 1861, after having served 
 more than a month beyond his period of enlist- 
 ment. He resumed his studies at the Univer- 
 sity, but the news from the battle fields and the 
 calls for more troops again stirred in him the 
 spirit of enthusiasm as a son of the Republic ; 
 and he again enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, at Milton, 
 in Company K, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, for 
 tiiree years. After camping at Janesville, the 
 regiment went to Kansas, leaving the SUite 
 Jan. 18, 1862, under orders to proceed to take 
 part in two expeditions that were abandoned 
 and which movements involved hundreds of 
 miles of fruitless marching to Fort Scott, with 
 the purpose of joining Lane's expedition, thence 
 to Fort Riley with the exi>ectation to go to New 
 Mexico, but counter orders again sent the com- 
 mand towards Corinth, and on landing at 
 
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 351 
 
 Columbus, orders were again changed and the 
 regiment was placed on duty on the route of 
 railroad to Corinth and afterwards went to Forts 
 Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee River. 
 In September Mr. Wyse was in liis first action 
 which was, simply, a big skirmish at Rickett's 
 Hill, in wliich the Union arms were victorious. 
 He was in the scouting and searches after guer- 
 rillas afterwards until the scrimmage at Gar- 
 rettsville when chasing Morgan in November, 
 and again performed a large amount of march- 
 ing for which the regiment 1)ecame dis- 
 . . . i 
 
 tinguished. In December he was in the raid ! 
 
 after Forrest and in February he made a run- 
 ning march to get to Fort Donelson, but the 
 rebels were already repulsed. He passed tlie 
 summer there and went thence in August to j 
 Stevenson, Ala., having another experience in j 
 marching nearly 300 miles. The position at 
 Stevenson was one of great danger to the Union 
 troops until re-inforcements arrived from the 
 East under Hooker. The emergency of this 
 situation was one that takes very little promi- 
 nence in history, as the Nation generally 
 did not understand that all that had been 
 accomplished and all that had been sacrificed 
 would have been lost if the troops that held 
 the Tennessee River had been of less cour- 
 ageous spirit, for the whole Western army 
 was, practically, at the mercy of the rebels, 
 only it is to be supposed the latter did not know 
 their advantage. Mr. Wyse veteranized Jan. 
 19, 1864, and returned to Wisconsin on 
 veteran furlough ; and, after his return was in 
 the same sort of service as formerly, the 13th 
 becoming the leading regiment from Wiscon- 
 sin in foot racing over long distances, through 
 rough ciiuntry and in dangerous situations, 
 defending important points, re-inforcing, erect- 
 ing defenses, patrolling railroads, building 
 roads and bridges and trying to keep tally 
 of the slip})ery rebel, Forrest, who never 
 
 did anything for which preparations had been 
 made, but who was always on the evasive. 
 Mr. Wyse was in the action at Decatur, went 
 to Huntsville and to Stevenson, going thence 
 after Hood's repulse at Nashville to Hunts- 
 ville and was in the fight at Paint Rock 
 Bridge. After February, 1865, the marching 
 was resumed in Tennessee, and in June the 
 command went to New Orleans and thence 
 to Texas. At Green Lake much suffering was 
 experienced, owing to bad water, and when 
 the march to San Antonio was ordered the 
 endurance of the men was taxed to the last 
 extreme. They camped near San Antonio and 
 Mr. Wyse was there mustered out Nov. 24, 
 1865, and returned to Wisconsin. In both 
 services he was promoted to Sergeant. 
 
 He was a schoolboy of 16 when he entered 
 the service, in which lie remained continuously 
 with the exception of two months in the year 
 1861, and is one of those whose time was 
 the longest on record in this work. With the 
 e.xception of a .short time passed in .service as a 
 mounted scout he was with his regiment con- 
 tinuously. 
 
 On resuming connection with the life of a 
 citizen he engaged in the studj' of law with J. 
 S. Tripp, with whom he read two years and 
 afterwards went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he 
 entered the Law Department of the University, 
 took the prescribed course, and was admitted 
 to the Bar of Wisconsin in 1867. He formed 
 an association with Hon. G. Stevens at Reeds- 
 burg, Wis., and their relations were in ex- 
 istence two years. In 1869 Mr. Wyse went to 
 Spring Green in Sauk county and practiced his 
 profession three years. At the end of that time 
 he went again to Reedsburg and resumed his 
 business which be has prosecuted since without 
 intermission. He was married at Reedsburg, 
 Sei)t. 25, 1S67, to Mary E., daughter of Dr. N. 
 I A\\ and Sarah A. (Stewart) Sallade, and they 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 have had a family of eiglit children, three of 
 wliom died in infancy. Lena L. is a clerk in 
 the postoffice at Reedsljurg; the others are named 
 in order of birth, Belle, William H., Mary E. 
 and James N. Mrs. Wyse and her oldest 
 daughter are prominent and active members 
 of the Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
 Mr. Wyse is one of tlie foremost men in 
 Keedsburg in public spirit, disinterestedness 
 in pul)lic service and in tlie interests of the 
 city. He formerly held the offices of Village 
 and City Clerk and was City Attorney several 
 years. He has been Chairman of the County 
 Board of Supervisors since 1885, tiie towns 
 represented being 11 in number, and he 
 has been a member of the Board nine years. 
 He lias been a meml)er of the Soldiers' Relief 
 Committee since its organization. He was a 
 charter member of liis Post and has filled most 
 of tlie chairs. He is a Mason of the 32d 
 Degree and lias served in all otficial relations 
 of the Order. He also belongs to the A. O. LT. 
 W. He is a leader in his profession and from 
 his war record and interest in Grand Army 
 matters is deservedly popular among his 
 comrades. 
 
 Wj^ LMON A. CURTIS, Menomonie, Wis., 
 '/>t\^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
 J(s^^>i\^ born Sept. 14, 1827, at Farmington, 
 Trumbull Co., Oliio, where his parents settled 
 after marriage on a farm. He is the son of 
 Ethan and Aurelia Ann (Strong) Curtis and the 
 former was of old American stock, the latter 
 being of Scotch descent. Both died on the 
 homestead. Their children were named Aure- 
 lia A., Celestia, Ethan, Joel S., Almina, Olive, 
 Almon and Lucy E. The fatlier dieil whin 
 the son was about seven years old and the lat- 
 ter remained at home until he was nearly 19 
 years old, attending school as he could and in 
 
 winter seasons. He started in 1846 for the 
 West and made his first location in La Salle 
 Co., 111., returning after the winter was over to 
 Ohio and entered an apprenticeship as a car- 
 penter and joiner, with lii.s brother-in-law. He 
 went, after serving his indentures, to N'aii Wiit 
 count)' and look a contract to get out i)ridge 
 timber and railroad , ties and also in laying 
 track. After the road was done he assumed 
 charge of a division and, after two years, re- 
 moved to Dunn county. Wis., in 1856. He 
 took a claim in the town of S]iring Brook, 
 which he improved and on whicb lie lived un- 
 til 1871. In February, 1864, he enlisted and 
 was mustered into the U. S. service at Madison, 
 l)eiiig assigned to Company K, 36th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, Feb. 26,1864. He started from camp 
 for the front June 10th, and joined tlie Army 
 of the Potomac after the Battle of the Wilder- 
 ness, and became a member of the 2d Brigade, 
 1st Division and 2d Corps. At Washington 
 the recruits went aboard a steamer and went 
 to Belle Plain, where Mr. Curtis was taken sick 
 and was .sent to Washington to iiosj)ital, re- 
 maining about a month, when he went to Balti- 
 more and thence to Annapolis; his disease 
 having been typhoid pneumonia, his recovery 
 was slow and he started for his regiment, going 
 to Camp Distribution and was placed in a bat- 
 talion made up of convalescents from the hos- 
 ])itals. ^\'llile there Early made his attack 
 July 9th at Monocacy, which lasted several 
 days, the hospital corps holding the rebel in 
 check until the arrival of tlie 6tli Corps, when 
 Early retreated. Mr. Curtis was wounded on 
 the second day of the action, receiving a shot 
 through the wrist, went to Camp Distribution 
 and thence to lios]>ital at Alexandria, where his 
 arm was amputated above the elbow, after all 
 eftbrts for 20 days to save it had failed. He 
 remained in lios]>it{i! until discliarged Oct. 6, 
 1864, and returned home to his farm, on which 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 353 
 
 he lived until 1871. In tliat year he removed 
 to Kansas and engaged in fanning two years, 
 when he returned to his old farm and remained 
 thereon until 1876, wiien he fixed his abode at 
 Menomonie. He is engaged in selling 
 machinery and in veterinary practice, in whicli 
 he is successful. He has had charge of the 
 stock of Captain Tainter for two years, the herd 
 consisting of thoroughbreds. He is the owner 
 of a fine Percheron, known as Dan Greel3^ 
 
 Mr. Curtis was married in Vienna, Ohio, 
 Nov. 22, 1850, to Lucy A., daughter of Moses 
 and Cornelia(French) Hatch, and tliey liave had 
 seven children, named Alfred, Albert L., Emer- 
 son A., .Juliet C, (Mrs. .J. B. Lutz), Murilla, 
 (Mrs. F. L. Wilcox), Hattie D., (Mrs. James 
 Rol)bins), and Annie B., (Mrs. Edward Bates). 
 The last two daughters are twins. Alfred and 
 Emerson are married and the former is in 
 charge of a large furniture factory at Eau 
 Claire ; Albert is a l^aggage agent on the rail- ' 
 road and Emerson is a successful builder. 
 They are all industrious, respected citizens. 
 Mr. Curtis is a Republican in politics; he re- 
 ceives a pension. 
 
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 W MAND .J. GRITZNER, resident at 
 '/^x\^ Watertown, Wis., was born .July 
 -Jif^"^^ 25, 1836, in tlie province of Upper 
 Silesia, Prussia. In 18.54 lie accompanied his 
 parents to America, landing at Hamilton, Can- 
 ada, and going thence to Buffalo and Chicago, 
 reaching the latter in 1855. In 1856 he went 
 to Watertown and learned the business of a 
 druggist. In 1858 lie went to Chicago and 
 entered upon the business of a barber in which 
 he was occupied until liis onli.stment as a sol- 
 dier. Sept. 3, 1860, he enrolled for five years 
 as a musician in the 3d U. S. Infantry Band, 
 proceeding to Newport Barracks, Ky., and was 
 
 transferred tiience to Government Island, N. Y. 
 Harbor. The command was sent thence on 
 the "Star of the South" to Indianola, Texas, 
 and was stationed at Fort Clark, marching to 
 that point 300 miles under the guidance of an 
 Indian. Five tribes of hostile Indians infested 
 that region and the musicians were assigned to 
 infantry companies and drilled, in order to be 
 qualified to assist when attacked by the red- 
 skins. No one was permitted to go more than 
 a mile from camp, where five companies of the 
 3d U. S. Infantry were stationed. Two com- 
 panies of U. S. dragoons were stationed at Fort 
 Inge about 50 miles distant. (Known now as 
 " Old Fort Inge.") About the first of 1861 a 
 massacre of settlers occurred with the lo.ss of 
 their cattle. February 18th, General Twiggs 
 surrendered the U. S. property in Texas to the 
 rebels and soon after the Te.x;as Rangers raised 
 the confederate Hag above Fort Clark. The 
 troops were marched to Indianola, shipped on 
 the " Star of the West," went to Havana, Cuba, 
 and thence to be incorporated with the army 
 of the North in defense of the flag. The roster 
 of battles of Mr. Grilzner includes the deathless 
 names of Bull Run, Siege of Yorktown, Gaines' 
 Mills, Malvern Hill, 2d Bull Run, Anlietam, 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Siege 
 of Petersburg from February, to the close of 
 the war April 9th, 18G5. This list will tell to 
 all generations the character of the service in 
 which he was a participant, and he needs no 
 other meed of honor. At the first Bull Run, 
 where he fought under General Sykes, his can- 
 teen and clothing were riddled with balls and 
 he narrowly escaped capture by the " Black 
 Horse Cavalry." He rau the same chances at 
 Chancellorsville, Mine Run and Aquia Creek. 
 He endured all the vicissitudes of war on every 
 field and skirmished countless times from Bull 
 Run to Appomattox, veteranizing in 1864 after 
 four years of service, enlisting m the regular 
 
354 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 service for three years more. He was assigned 
 to frontier and post duty, after tlie close of the 
 war, and received final discharge at Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, June 3d, 1SG7. During 
 his period of service on the Potomac and the 
 Peninsula, he was detailed commonly to the 
 " Stretcher Corps " and performed the duty of 
 bearing the wounded, dead and dying from the 
 battle fields, exposed to all the dangers of 
 active warfare, without the satisfaction of return- 
 ing coinj)liments in lead. He wasaLso detailed 
 to dress wounds and became so expert that he 
 was ill frequent demand as assistant at the 
 amputating tables. He suffered severe sickness 
 from typhoid fever at Fort Hamilton in 1864 
 and nearly lost bis life. 
 
 After leaving the army he went to Water- 
 town and opened bis business as a barber in 
 which he has since continued, assisted by his 
 only son, Max William. He was married Feb. 
 20, 1868, to Mrs. Bernardina (Bauricliter) See- 
 burg, widow of Peter Seeburg. He is a mem- 
 ber of O. D. Pease Post No. 94, at Watertowii. 
 
 '(i^'i^mi>^^» 
 
 OHN W. SMFLKER, Platteville, Wis., 
 a .soldier of the Civil War, was born 
 .Sept. 7, 1817, at Belfont, Center Co., 
 Pennsylvania. In the paternal line of descent 
 he is of II()lland Dutch extraction and his 
 mother's ancestors were Irish. Peter and Jane 
 Smelker, his parents, were natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania. He was reared to the business of a 
 cabinet maker and when 17 years old decided 
 to devote his business life to carpenter work, in 
 which he has been occupied until his retire- 
 ment about 1880. About the 1st of ^hiy, 1845, 
 he fixed his permanent residence at Platteville, 
 Wis. In 1852 he went to California- where he 
 remained four years. He was married at 
 Johnstown, Pa., Dec. 29, 1839, to Catherine, 
 
 daughter of Dr. Jacob and Susanna (Fox) Hor- 
 ner, all of Pennsylvania birth. 
 
 Sept. 9, 1802, he enlisted in a company which 
 he, with John G. Scott, raised for service and 
 which became Company E, 25th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. His colleague, J. G. Scott, was made 
 Captain and he was commissioned 1st Lieuten- 
 ant. After muster at La Crosse, the regiment 
 went to Minnesota on frontier service, (the In- 
 dians being troublesome) after which they went 
 to Madison. They went to the front in the 
 Civil War in February, 1803, and, at Coluni- 
 Ijus, Ky., the regiment was assigned to the lOth 
 Army Corps. They went to Cape Girardeau, 
 returned to Columbus and went next on the 
 Yazoo expedition. Mr. Smelker performed 
 duty on the rivers, the climate being so un- 
 wholesome as to leave less than 100 men fit for 
 duty, and thej' went next to Helena where they 
 performed provost duty until they joined the 
 expedition to Meridian. They were in the 
 siege of Vicksburg, went thence to Alabama 
 and to Tennessee, joining the command of 
 McPher.son. In A])ril, Lieutenant Smelker was 
 sent to Cairo, 111., with about 80 men in charge, 
 en route fiom Mound City hospital, Captain 
 Scott, who died soon after reaeliing his destina- 
 tion, being of the number. Mr. Smelker was 
 disabled, remained at Cairo alnnit five weeks 
 when he resigned and was honorably' dis- 
 charged about the first of .lune, 1804. (After 
 Captain Scott became disabled while at Helena, 
 Lieutenant Smelker discharged the duties of 
 the position of his superior officer while with 
 the command.) His sons, Theodore W., Erwiii 
 C. and J. P. Smelker were soldiers in the Civil 
 War. During liis active life, Mr. Smelker 
 served in many nnniicipal offices. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 355 
 
 'ILLIAM F. HEMPLE, Racine, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 17, was born at a place near 
 Berlin, Germany, Oct. 19, 1842, and is the son 
 of John and Caroline (Kurth) Hemple, wiio 
 were natives of Germany and their cliildren, 
 Minnie, William F., Charles, Amelia and 
 •John are all living but the eldest daughter. 
 In 1853 the family emigrated to the United 
 States and landed at New York, whence thej' 
 journeyed by the lakes to Racine, where the 
 father engaged for a time in farming, sub- 
 sequently removing to Stearns Co., Minnesota, 
 where he purchased a farm and was occu- 
 pied in the duty of its care until his death, 
 Sept. 1, 1888. The mother is still living 
 on the homestead with her daughter Amelia, 
 (Mrs. Cruger.) 
 
 Mr. Hemple was reared on the farm until 
 he arrived at suitable age when he entered the 
 siiops of Mitchell .fe Co. at Racine, to learn the 
 trade of blacksmith, where he operated until 
 he became a soldier. He enlisted Aug. 14, 
 1862, in Company H, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and went to rendezvous at Camp Utle}', where 
 he remained until September 16th, when he 
 accompanied the command to Cincimiati and 
 across the river to Covington, Ky. The regi- 
 ment made numerous marches and transferred 
 itself to many points iu tiie endeavor to keep 
 trace of Morgan and Bragg, who, with Kirby 
 Smith, kept the people of that locality in a 
 state of terrorism. The soldiers performed 
 guard, picket and other duty and finally went 
 to Louisville after a series of military ex- 
 periences in northern Kentucky. Orders were 
 received to move to Nashville and on the 
 route the command .stopped at Donelson to 
 reinforce the garrison there, (who had been at- 
 tacked by Price), if their services were required. 
 But the repulse had taken place the pre- 
 vious night and the troops pressed on to Nash- 
 
 ville. The regiment had been assigned to the 
 2nd Brigade, od Division of the 20th Corps and 
 was first in severe action at Thompson's 
 Station, after performing an immense amount 
 of marching, guard, picket and patrol duty and 
 all other varieties of military service con- 
 tingent on such conditions. In the action 
 at Thompson's Station March 5, 1863, Mr. 
 
 j Hemple was captured with the greater portion 
 of his company and a lai-ge portion of the 
 brigade, including Colonel Utley. He was 
 paroled at Columbia, robbed of everything 
 valuable at TuUahoma and went thence to 
 Libby for a few days, when he was sent to 
 
 j be "swapped" for a rebel, together with hun- 
 dreds of the command. At Annapolis he 
 received much needed clothing, went thence to 
 St. Louis and awaited exchange, rejoining 
 his regiment at Murfreesboro and went thence 
 to the actions in the Atlanta campaign. In 
 the fight at Resaca, April l.jtb, Mr. Ilemjile 
 was slightly wounded but, dreading tiie hospi- 
 tal, remained in camp and went into action on 
 the 21st. May 25th he was in the action 
 at Dallas, and .lune 16th fought at Gol- 
 gotha Church. He was in the several fights 
 at Kenesaw Mountain including Gulp's Hill, 
 June 22d, and was next in heavy fighting July 
 20tli at Peach Tree Creek, where he was in 
 the hand-to-hand fight with a Mississippi regi- 
 ment, pressing up the hill which lay between 
 
 ' the two, and he remembers with gratitude the 
 large blackberries of which he obtained a few 
 when he greatly needed them. September 2d, 
 the city of Atlanta was surrendered by the 
 authorities and the 22d continued there in 
 camp until November, when they moved 
 as escort to the trains of Sherman in the march 
 to tlie sea. They were in the vicinity of 
 Savannah in charge of the ricemills and also 
 assisted in the capture of a gun-boat loaded 
 
 ; with supplies for the rebels. The city sur- 
 
356 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 rendered December 21t:t, and in January tliey 
 started on their Northward route tlirough tlie 
 Carolinas. Mr. Pleniple fought at Averysboro, 
 March IGth, and at Bentonville on the liHli, 
 going thence toGoidsboro, to Raleigli, to Rich- 
 mond, to W'asliington and to the Grand Re- 
 view, and to be disciiarged June 12, 1865. 
 
 After the Una! arrangements at Milwaukee, 
 Mr. Jlempie returned to his old employ and 
 retains his situation there. He was married 
 June 1, 1871, at Racine, to Amelia, daughter 
 of Charles and l'ii(.'l>e Krenske. Their chil- 
 dren were named William, Emma, Mary and 
 Martha (twins), and Minnie. The two latter 
 are deceased. The mother died Nov. 27, 1881, 
 an<l tlie father was again married March 3, 
 1886. The children of this union are Reuben, 
 Jessie and Natalie. Mr. Ilemple is a mend)er 
 of tiie Lutheran Ohureh and is justly proud 
 of his family of children. 
 
 ^ENJAMIN F. PARKER, member of 
 ^ G. A. R. I'ost No. 1, at .Milwaukee, 
 Wis., and also a nK'ml)er of the Loyal 
 Legion, Wisconsin Commander}', was born July 
 27, 1839, at Conneautville, Pennsylvania. His 
 father and mother, Ledyard P. and Hannaii 
 (Thompson) Parker, had four children of wiiom 
 he is Hrst in order of birth, the, others being 
 David, Mary and Jane. The father died in 
 .Meadvilie, Pa., about tlie close of the war ami 
 the mother is a resident of Mauslon, Wis. 
 In the i)aternal line, Mr. I'arker traces himself 
 to early stock in the history of the country ; 
 his mother was of Frencli-American birth, her 
 father belonging to the latter and her mother 
 to the former nationality. The son attended 
 tlie schools of Meadvilie until he was 11, when 
 be entered the Meadvilie academy. In 1853 
 he went to Waukesha Co., Wis., to live with an 
 
 uncle who initiated him into a knowledge of 
 the business of a carpenter and builder. His 
 uncle removed to Waushara c-ounty where he 
 lived until he enlisted in .\pril, 18(11, at Mil- 
 waukee and was mustered into the " Wisconsin 
 Rifles," which was assigned to the 2il In- 
 fantry as Company K. The regiment went 
 from rendezvous at Camp Raiulali in the latter 
 part of June to Washington and was assigned 
 to Tyler's Division in iSlierman's Brigaile. Mr. 
 Parker was in the action at Bull Run and was 
 a participant in the exj)erienees of the 2d 
 which entailed all the credit of bravery on the 
 rank and tile and left the otiicers where the 
 ollieers left the command in action. After 
 
 return to Arlington 
 
 Heights, 
 
 Com J 
 
 lanv 
 
 drilled for artillery service, there being a scarc- 
 ity of that branch and the comj)auy became 
 Battery A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. It 
 was assigned to d uty at Fort Cass, there passed 
 I the winter of 1861-2 and in the following sum- 
 mer Mr. Parker, in his capacity of Corporal, 
 was selected to drill new recruits, arriving in 
 response to the call for additional 300,000 troops. 
 He was afterwards with the battery at Fort 
 Ellsworth ill gaiiison duty in the defense of 
 Washington. He was i)romoted to Sergeant 
 and, with two others of the same rank, received 
 orders to proceed to Wisconsin on recruiting 
 service for three batteries for the battalion of 
 which the 1st was to be the nucleus. Mr. Par- 
 ker was sUitioned at La Crosse and he enlisted 
 what was afterwards assigned as Battery C, be- 
 ing made Second Lieutenant of the command. 
 The battery was mustered at Milwaukee in 
 October and ordered in November to report to 
 General Thomas at Ciiattanooga, Tenn. He 
 was in command of the battery through the 
 lighting at Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Look- 
 out Mountain and all the service through 
 which the troops there passed, his proficiency 
 in military uiatttis placing him at the head in 
 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 emergencies. He passed the winter of 1863-4 
 in garrison duty, and performed the same there 
 until the spring of 1.S05, holding and guard- 
 ing the position, it being the base of supplies 
 and consequently the object of rebel craft and 
 malice and the situation was, until the arrival j 
 of Hooker from the East tilled with danger, ! 
 from the river being low and the troo[)s msuf- 
 ficient to guard it. At the date mentioned 
 the battery was sent to Athens, Tenn., and 
 later to Strawberry Plains. During the sum- 
 mer he was detailed for duty on the General 
 Court Martial at Greenville, Tenn., and in the 
 fall, in September, 1865, reported at Nashville 
 for muster out. He was promotetl at Chatta- 
 nooga to .Junior 1st Lieutenant in 1864, and in 
 the spring of 1865 to Senior 1st Lieutenant. 
 While at Chattanooga he was a Member of the 
 Council of .\dministration. 
 
 On his return to Wisconsin he settled at 
 Mauston and engaged in the sale of furniture 
 with O. F. Temple, their relations being .sev- ' 
 ered in 1873. While residing at Mauston he 
 joined the Oi'der of Good Templars and in 
 1873 was made Grand Secretary of Wisconsin, 
 to which he has been successively elected since. 
 At the meeting of the Grand Lodge at Toronto 
 in May, 1885, he was made Right Worthy 
 Grand Secretary of the World and has been 
 re-elected since that date. In 1881 he was 
 elected Secretary of the Good Templars' Mu- 
 tual Benefit Association and still holds the \ 
 incumbency. He is managing editor of the 
 Western Good Teitqjlar, a journal devoted to the 
 interests of the society in the Northwest, and 
 which is published at Milwaukee. 
 
 Mr. Parker has held a commission in the 
 Wisconsin National Guards since 1869 ; he 
 formed a company at Mauston, in which he 
 held the various ranks and was commissioned 
 Major of the 3d Battery of tlie W. N. G. in 
 JS81, In 1S83 be was ccn-miffciontd Liiuttn- 
 
 ant-Colonel and is now the ranking officer of 
 that grade in Wisconsin (1890.) He has taken 
 all the degrees in the Masonic Order including 
 the 32d. He belongs to Northern Light Lodge 
 at Mauston, No. 81, to Mauston Chapter No 33, 
 to Fort Winnebago Commandery No. 4 at Por- 
 tage, and to the Wisconsin Consistory, 32d 
 Degree at Milwaukee and to the Mystic Shrine. 
 He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and served 
 two years as Grand Master. He has attended 
 every meeting of the Grand Lodge since its 
 organization. In political affiliation he was 
 always a Republican until recently he has 
 acted with the Prohibitionists. 
 
 His marriage to Lucille W., daughter of H. G. 
 and Lydia A. (Combs) Penniman occurred at 
 Mauston Feb. 3, 1868. Their only child is 
 named Addie M. 
 
 ■)¥ OSEPH ADDISON CHAMBERLAIN, 
 Whitewater, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 34, was born in Cuba, Allegany 
 Co., New York, June 2, 1843. His father, 
 William H. Chamberlain, was of German origin 
 and married Amelia Pinkerton, who was of 
 Scotch lineage. Mr. Chamberlain regards him- 
 self as an American, pure and simple. The 
 senior Chamberlain was a farmer and died 
 when his son was a child of eight years. The 
 mother married again, and in October, 1851, 
 tlie boy accompanied her to Wisconsin, the 
 stepfather locating on a farm three miles south 
 of Whitewater. Mr. Chamberlain was a 
 thoughtful, reflective boy, and grevv up with 
 a knowledge of the progress of events and in 
 his early manhood became imbued with a 
 sense of duty to his country. When the first 
 call for ti oops was made, he speedily resolved 
 to enlist and, on the 21st of April, 1861, enrolled 
 as a soldier in C(.mj&ny A, 4lh Wisconsin In- 
 
358 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 lantry. lie went to rendezvous lit Racine and 
 was mustered into tlie United States service 
 July 15tli. The progress of the regiment to 
 the front was one of excitement ; at Corning 
 the colonel seized a locomotive to transport iiis 
 soldiers to Elniira and when the news from 
 Bull Run was received at Harrisburg the 
 enthusiasm of the men rose to fever heat. 
 Their colonel borrowed smooth-bore muskets 
 for them and on reaching Baltimore, the tide 
 of memories associated with that city aroused 
 their highest patriotism and they marched 
 through, fully equipped for action. They 
 went into camp south of the city and later, 
 went to Patterson Park, where they built bar- 
 racks and went into winter quarters. In the 
 spring of 18U2 they went to the Relay House, 
 thence to a raid to \'irginia East Shore and 
 afterwards to Newport News to join the com- 
 mand of Butler. Mr. Chamberlain endured all 
 the horrors of the passage on the transport to 
 Ship Island, the sufferings after arrival there on 
 the strip of sand, exposed to the hot sun and at- 
 tendant horrors. When Farragut's designs on 
 New Orleans were approaching a climax, the 
 regiment was transported there, started thither 
 on the Great Republic and was conveyed to the 
 rear of Fort St. Phillip in a small boat and 
 Mr. Chamberlain states that this was one of the 
 most dreadful experiences which he encoun- 
 tered. They were on a swamp in darkness 
 that rivalled Cimmerian blackness, surrounded 
 b}' alligatoi's, who made their j>roxiniity pain- 
 fully apparent b}' their varied noises. Day- 
 break brought them release and after the sur- 
 render of Fort St. Phillip, the command went to 
 take possession of New Orleans, Company A, 
 4th Wisconsin, being the first to enter the cap- 
 tured city. Mr. Chaml)erlain was at the taking 
 of Baton Rouge, went thence to Vicksburg, 
 back to Baton Rouge, again to N'ickburg, assist- 
 ing in the firing of Grand Gulf en route, and 
 
 he worked on the cimal until his return to 
 Baton Rouge, went tlience to Carrollton and 
 was afterward in a guerrilla tight at Bonne 
 Carre Point, returning to Baton Rouge. He 
 was next in the Teche expedition, fought in 
 the battle of Bisland and became a cavalryman 
 for practical puiposes at Opelousas, where the 
 •regiment foraged for equipments; and he con- 
 tinued in that service until another assault on 
 Port Hudson was ordered. The action was 
 severe and Mr. Chamberlain went next on the 
 ill-fated Grierson's raid. They were defeated, 
 pursued and a part of their men captured. 
 •June 14th, at four o'clock in the morning, the 
 regiment took position for another assault on 
 Port Hudson. Mr. Chamberlain was in the 
 advance skirmish line which, under cover of 
 smoke, reached a point two rods from the rebel 
 line. Discovering the situation they fell back, 
 his comrade i-eceiving four buckshot. Mr. 
 Chamberlain hid behind a stump, but was 
 driven thence by a storm of shot and canister 
 from a rebel four-pounder and, as his bayonet 
 responded to an invitation from a bullet, lie 
 took what he calls " leg-bail " according to the 
 best of his ability. As he reached his command 
 a rebel officer motmted a parapet and was fired 
 on. The 4th Wisconsin droj)ped at once to 
 hands and knees, Ijut too late to escape the 
 broadside returned and Mr. Chamberlain re- 
 ceived a bullet in his left thigh. He was 
 dragged through the sand by a comrade named 
 Ennis, who left him to obtain a stretcher. He 
 was on the edge of a road 30 feet wide which 
 he tumbled across and fell into a ditch for 
 safety. He was jworly cared for and his wound 
 received no proper treatment until he was 
 sent to St. James hospital at New Arline, where 
 he was well attended. He received honorable 
 discharge Sept. 23, 1863, but was unable to 
 ti'avel until October, when he returned to 
 Whitewater. He was on crutches two years 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 iuid then walked with a cane, being variously 
 employed until 1881, when he became a book- 
 keeper in tiie business house of G. W. Coburn. 
 He was married Sept. 23, 1864, to Mary C. 
 Carpenter; their children are named Harry, 
 Stella, Fannie, Lottie, Carrie and Freddie. He 
 is a Republican in political principle. 
 
 'OHN S. MONAT, Cliippewa Falls, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
 born Aug. 24, 1840, in the village of 
 Grosgcsliaidt, Bavaria. That country was also 
 the native land of his parents, .John George 
 and Catherine Monat. His mother died when 
 he was about 18 months old and in 1853 his 
 father removed to the United States, locating in 
 Erie Co., New York. In 1801 he removed to the 
 West and died on a farm in 1883, in Chippewa 
 Co., Wis. Mr. Monat took care of himself 
 after he was 16 years old and enlisted in Octo- 
 ber, 1861, at Chippewa Falls; he was mustered 
 into U. S. service Nov. 15th following, into 
 Company I, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, at Milwau- 
 kee, C. C. Washburn, Colonel. In March, 1862, 
 the regiment went to St. Louis, received arms 
 and horses at Benton Barracks and from there 
 moved to -Jefferson Cit}', the cavalrymen seeing 
 first service with guerrillas on the way. The 
 same experiences transpired on the way to 
 Springfield ; and on the way to Ozark Moun- 
 tains tliey met Crabtree's cavalry and defeated 
 them, following them about 20 miles. They 
 went next to the Arkansas border escorting a 
 train for Curtiss at Helena and met his troops 
 at Jacksonport. They crossed the White River 
 into Arkansas, marched to Augusta and Cotton 
 Plant, where the infantry of the command of 
 Curtiss had an engagement, and afterwards the 
 2d Cavalry followed Curtiss in his search for 
 Price to Helena where the rebels left one side 
 
 of the city as the Union troops entered it on 
 the other. From there the 2d scouted and per- 
 formed guard duty and, in April, 1803, went to 
 Memphis on transports. With that as head- 
 quarters thej' operated as scouts and there Mr. 
 Monat received a furlough. He rejoined his 
 regiment at ^'icksburg in June and was chiefly 
 engaged in scouting and looking after John- 
 ston's forces stationed on the left flank towards 
 Jackson, skirmishing nearly every day, and 
 also went to Canton, destroying railroads, driv- 
 ing out the rebels and burning the public 
 buildings. Tliey went back to Jackson and 
 thence to Vicksburg for the summer, going to 
 winter quarters at Redbone Church, where they 
 held open the Big Black River among other 
 military duties. In the spring of 1864 Mem- 
 phis Ijecame headquarters and they made a 
 raid on the Mobile & Charleston railroad, driv- 
 ing the rebels from the Big Black and destroy- 
 ing a bridge and followed up the railroad to 
 destroy rolling stock and everything they could 
 find. Finally the rebels rallied a force which 
 greatly outnumbered them and they retreated 
 to Yazoo City. The rebels attacked their out- 
 posts and Colonel Osborn sent word to the 
 enemy that if the firing was continued the gun- 
 boats in the river would shell the town. (The 
 cavalry had instructions to fall back to the pro- 
 tection of the gunboats if need be.) A force of 
 200 was detailed to reconnoiter and, meeting 
 the rebel pickets, they drove them in, also 
 drove in a larger force, crossed the creek and 
 met the skirmish line, receiving an order to 
 move upon them immediately. They found 
 them strong, dismounted and fought on foot, 
 driving them into an open field ; they fought 
 an hour and found they were surrounded by 
 rebels and the cavalry cut their way out. Com- 
 pany E was captured in this, the Yazoo City 
 fight, the rebels numbering about 1,400. The 
 same night the cavalry cros.sed the Yazoo, went 
 
360 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to tlie Little Sunflower, crossed the Yazoo again, 
 and marched to Vicksburg, and in tlie hitter 
 part of 18G4 went to Memphis. In February 
 the command was engaged in the raids under 
 Grierson on the Mobile & Charleston R. R. to- 
 wards Meridian, and went to Egypt, cajUured a 
 stockade after a hot fight, taking about 1,"2U0 
 prisoners, who were conducted to Vicksburg. 
 On this trip Mr. Monat had his feet frozen and 
 passed a month in hosjiital, joining his regi- 
 ment at Memphis. The regiment went to 
 Grenada to receive Forrest with hi.s paroled 
 command, having been taken by Colonel Funk. 
 Returning to Mem]>his, tlie regiment went to 
 Alexandria, La., to join Custer en route to 
 Texas, made camp at Hempstead, went thence 
 to Austin and were mustered out there Nov. 15, 
 18G5. 
 
 Mr. Monat returned to Wisconsin by Galves- 
 ton, New Orleans and the Mississippi River. 
 Returning home he formed a partnership in 
 the tanning business at Cadott witli his brother, 
 and when they lost their establishment by a 
 washout, he engaged- in lural)ering four years. 
 After passing some time in tlic pineries he was 
 employed in the building of the Court House, 
 and, on its comj)letion, was made janitor, which 
 position lie still fills. He was married Jujie 14, 
 1866, at Eau Claire, to Wilhelmine Pribbaw- 
 now, and their children were named Evander 
 J., Loviisa K., Walter J., Augusta, Laura, Hec- 
 tor, William S. and Edward H. Laura and 
 Hector died young. Mr. Monat belongs to the 
 Legion of Honor. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
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 ERTON HERRTCK, Hudson, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. lol, 
 was born Nov. 19, 1834, in Or- 
 leans Co., New York, and is a descendant of 
 English ancestry of long standing in the Em- 
 
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 jiire State. Luther H. Herrick, his grand- 
 father, was a native of that State as was his 
 father, Norman Herrick, who was born Jan. 
 16, 1806, in Madison cou'nty and there married 
 Catherine Russell; both himself and wife died 
 on the homestead. The son attended the jiri- 
 mary scliools and al.so the Genesee Wesleyan 
 Seminary and College at Lima, N. Y. He af- 
 terwards engaged in teaching in Genesee and 
 Orleans counties. In April, 1850, he went 
 West and settled in Hammond, St. Croix Co., 
 Wis., and engaged in farming, in which he was 
 occupied until he decided on the call of dutj' 
 to the ranks of the Union army. Aug. 11, 
 1862, he enlisted at Hammond and went to 
 rendezvous at Camp Randall where he was 
 mustered in October into Company A, 30th 
 Wisconsin Intantry. He remained about a 
 year with his regiment in camp at Madison 
 and Milwaukee, and in the spring of 1804, his 
 regiment was ordered to St. Louis and em- 
 barked on the 2oth of April on transports to 
 go up the Missouri River, passing over a goodly 
 number of tlie difficulties which almost render 
 the river unnavigable. They located and built 
 Fort Rice and, during the staj' there went to 
 the Bad Lands of Dakota to relieve Fisk's 
 party which had been attacked and corralled 
 by Indians. The march included about 250 
 miles. In October orders were received for the 
 command to move to Louisville to connect with 
 the forces of Sherman, preparatory to the 
 inarch to the sea. Owing to low water, they 
 were delayed, as it became necessary to con- 
 struct flat boats, and when Louisville was 
 reached Sherman had started. The winter was 
 passed in Louisville and at Bowling Green. 
 ; On March 4, 1865, Mr. Herrick having attained 
 the rank of 1st Sergeant, was commissioned 
 2d Lieutenant of Company K, 48tii Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and was discharged from Company 
 A, 30th Wisconsin Infantry to accept promotion 
 
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 and joined liis company at Milwaukee. The 
 regiment was at St. Louis where Company K 
 joined tlie others and performed guard, garri- 
 son and escort duty, until ordered to Fort Scott, 
 where Jjieutenant Herrick was put in command 
 of tiie stragglers' camp. In September the 
 regiment was ordered to Leavenworth for mus- 
 ter out, but the order was countermanded while 
 the regiment was on the way, and thej' were 
 sent to forts on tlie stage route to Santa Fe, N. 
 M., to relieve the soldiers whose terms of 
 service had expired. Company K was stationed 
 at Fort Lyon, Col., and, while there, Lieutenant 
 Herrick was made Quartermaster and Commis- 
 sary of the post. Li February the company 
 was relieved and sent to Leavenworth for mus- 
 ter out and thence to Madison to be discharged, 
 paid off and disbanded. November 9th, at 
 Fort Lyon, he was commissioned 1st Lieuten- 
 ant and mustered out as sucli March 24, 1865. 
 He returned to Hammond and engaged in 
 farming. Li the fall of 1866 he was nomin- 
 ated for County Treasurer on the Republican 
 ticket and elected to that position in St. Croix 
 county; he was subsequently re-elected twice, 
 serving six consecutive years. He then en- 
 gaged in lumbering and in the manufacture 
 and sale of lumber, his sawmill being located 
 at Hudson. In the fall of 1880 he was elected 
 to the Assembly from his district and served 
 through the 34th session. He has also served 
 several terms as member of the County Board 
 and has twice been made Chairman. The Post 
 to which he belongs was organized in March, 
 1884, and he was made first Commander. In 
 1889, he was Asst. Inspector-General of the 
 Department of Wisconsin, and in 1890 was 
 Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Commander-in- 
 Chief Alger. In 1889, he was Delegate to the 
 National Encampment, G. A. R., at Milwaukee. 
 He is also a member of the Commandery of 
 Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 
 
 He belongs to St. Croix Lodge No. 56, to St. 
 Croix Commandery No. 14, and to the Wiscon- 
 sin Consistory, Masonic Order. 
 
 He was married at Caryville, New York, 
 March 23, 1859, to Lois E., daughter of .John 
 Willard. Their children are named .John W., 
 Charles L., Frank N., Mary E. and Roljert A. 
 The two oldest sons are engaged in business, 
 the one at St. Paul, Minn., and the other at 
 Spokane Falls, Wash. 
 
 Mr. Herrick is one of the men who have 
 aided in the development of Wi.sconsin in 
 every sense. He is a public-spirited, first-class 
 citizen, honorable, a strict adherent to prin- 
 ciple and altogether worthy of the two States 
 to which he has belonged in citizenship — New 
 York and Wisconsin. 
 
 
 
 ESSE P. SMELIvER, attorney at Dodge- 
 ville. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 109, was born at John.stown, Pa., Aug. 
 4, 1844, and is the son of .John W. and 
 Catherine (Horner) Smelker. (In the sketch of 
 •John W. Smelker on another page ma}' be 
 found an account of the ancestors of Mr. Smel- 
 ker of this sketch.) 
 
 He was educated at Platteville Academy and 
 was still a student when he determined to en- 
 ter the army. May 5, 1864, he enrolled in 
 Company A, 41st Wisconsin Infantry, was mu.s- 
 tered at Milwaukee and sent to Mem])bis 
 Tenn., to replace veterans who had gone to 
 more active scenes and left their former i)laces 
 to be guarded bj' less experienced troops. The 
 regiment remained there during the summer, 
 performing garrison and guard duty every day 
 while in Memphis. Mr. Smelker received dis- 
 charge Sept. 23, 1864. The only actual fight- 
 ing of the quality to wliich the rebel chiefs, 
 who commanded the wandering tribes of that 
 
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 section of the Soutli, treated the 100-days men 
 and in whicli Mr. Smelker was a participant, 
 was in tlie midnight attack of Forrest. 
 
 Mr. Smelker returned to Platteville and at- 
 tended school until he again enlisted, Jan. 18, 
 180.5, in Company K, 47th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 After muster at Madison the regiment went to 
 Nashville and after a week there, went to Tulla- 
 homa, Tenn., where the command was detailed 
 "for garrison and other dut}'. Drill and other 
 military operations occupied the time and, 
 meanwhile, the hushwhiickers gave them atten- 
 tions which made it necessary to watch their 
 movements and several times they were under 
 arms to repel threatened invasion. Expedi- 
 tions went out against their foes. Disease was 
 rife in the command and many died willi in- 
 fectious sickness, such as measles and small- 
 pox, and also other diseases. The camp duties 
 were so monotonous that the men longed for 
 actual warfare as relief Mr. Smelker enlisted 
 as a private, was made Orderly Sergeant on 
 organization and on several records he is re- 
 ported as a Lieutenant, hut it is a mistake and 
 probably grew from the statements several 
 times promulgated that he was to receive pro- 
 motion. He was discharged Sept. 4, 1885. 
 
 On his second retui-n from the war to Platte- 
 ville, he began the study of law witli Paine & 
 Carter, reading under their guidance nearly 
 four years, and, in 18fi9, was admitted to the 
 Bar and has since been engaged in the active 
 prosecution of his legal business. He opened 
 his office at Platteville and practiced there until 
 the spring of 1870, when he went to Montfort 
 and was there in business a year. In July, 
 1871, he removed to Highland, Iowa C^., Wis., 
 remaining there practicing law until 1881, 
 when he located at Dodgevillc and established 
 bis law practice. In 1885 he was elected Dis- 
 trict Attorney of Iowa County, serving two 
 years. He was President of the village of 
 
 Highland several years and was also a member 
 of the County Board from Highland. He is 
 member of the Board of Iowa County at this 
 writing, (1889), and also a member of the Com- 
 mon Council of the city of Dodgeville. He also 
 served some time as President of the old village 
 of Dodgeville; he is an Odd Fellow, and is 
 President of the County Agricultural Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 He was married at Montfort, Oct. 3, 1873, to 
 Mary E., daughter of Sylvester B. and Ann E. 
 (Chandler) Green. Her parents were nativesof 
 Missouri, coming to Wisconsin when the State 
 was a territory. Mr. and Mrs. Smelker have 
 three children, nauied Roy C, born March 7, 
 1875; Nathalie, Jan. 3, 1879; Van Archibald, 
 Sept. 11, 1882. 
 
 <^^AVID W. CARLEY, M. D., member 
 :^^) of G. A. R. Post No. 101 at Boscobel, 
 Wis., was born April 30, 1823, in 
 Montgomery Co., New York. His i)aternal 
 grandfather was born in Ti-eland and ciime 
 thence to America, bearing the name of Mc- 
 Carly, which was afterwards changed to Carly 
 and again to Carley. He settled in New York 
 and his son Brookins, father of Dr. Carley, be- 
 came a farmer on the Mohawk River and a 
 tavern keeper of the old regime. He married 
 Rachel Bennett and they reared seven children 
 of whom the three oldest survive. Eliza is the 
 widow of Dr. Lanphear and lives atGalesburg, 
 III. ; James is a farmer near the latter men- 
 tioned place. Dr. Carley is the tiiird in order 
 of birth ; he received an academic education 
 in his native State and studied medicine there 
 about two years. He became ])rominent as an 
 educator, teaching in the Empire State seven 
 years and three years in Wisconsin, whither he 
 came in the spring of 1848. He located at 
 
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 Kenoslia where he engaged in teaching and 
 went afterwards to Whitewater and Beloit where 
 he was similarly occupied. He acquired a rep- 
 utation as a model disciplinarian and is known 
 as heing among the originators of the pre.sent 
 school system of Wisconsin. In the spring of 
 1852 he established the sale of drugs at Shulls- 
 burg, liaving continued to read medicine dur- 
 ing his experience as a teacher and afterwards 
 attended the prescribed course of lectures at 
 Rush Medical College in Chicago, whence lie 
 was graduated iu 185G. He immediately estab- 
 lished his business as a pliysician at Platteville, 
 Wis., and in the spring of 1857 located perma- 
 nently at Boscobel. Oct. 15, 1862, he was ap- 
 pointed Assistant Surgeon of the o3d Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, his commission being the result 
 of petitions signed by the members of the reg- 
 iment, two companies of which had been raised 
 at Boscobel and Fennimore. He was in ren- 
 dezvous with the command and sent fi'om 
 Camp Utley, Racine, to Memphis in charge of 
 the sick men of the regiment. He accompa- 
 uied the command in the southward move- 
 ment, went to Yocono Creek, back to Holly 
 Springs and to winter quarters at Mo.scow, 
 Tenn., where a considerable number of the 
 regiment died. He discharged the duties of 
 his position tlirough the summer of 1863, car- j 
 ing for his charges who were injured in the 
 skirmishing prior to the battle of Coldwater 
 and, after that engagement, went to Young's j 
 Point, Snyder's Bluff and to the siege of Vicks- ! 
 burg, the exposure of the command to constant 
 rebel lire of musketry, artillery and sharp- 
 shooters giving him plenty of work which so 
 affected his health that he obtained leave of ' 
 absence in the fall of 1863 and returned to 
 Wisconsin. He rejoined the regiment at \'icks- 
 burg to find the surgeons of higher rank ab- 
 sent on leave and he was placed in charge of 
 the regiment as chief medical authority. His 
 
 health failed utterly under his labors and he 
 was compelled to resign ; he was relieved in 
 February, 1864, but remained a week to assist 
 and advise his successor. He arrived home in 
 a helpless condition and as soon as able left his 
 bed to resume the active practice of his profes- 
 sion in which he has since continued, although 
 his health has remained impaired. He makes 
 no attempt to do country practice, being 
 obliged to confine himself to the city and to 
 office work. He has a justly earned reputation 
 as one of the best medical practitioners in his 
 section and has remained popular with mem- 
 bers of liis former army connections. He is 
 an Ancient Odd Fellow and is Past Grand in 
 the Order. He has been prominent in jiolitics, 
 having been originally a Whig, then an Aboli- 
 tionist and a decided Republican since the 
 organization of the party. 
 
 He has been three times married. His first 
 wife, Lucinda M. Green before marriage, died 
 at MifHin, Wis., in the fall of 1856, leaving a 
 child who is deceased. In the fall of 1857 Dr. 
 Carley married Marcia Kellogg and she died 
 in 1871, leaving three children, two of whom 
 are living. A daughter named Mertie D. is a 
 teacher at Whitewater, Wis., and a son named 
 Edward Payson is employed as a printer in 
 Milwaukee. Dr. Carley married Mary E., 
 daughter of George W., and Maria (Lopez) Par- 
 tridge, May 8, 1872. Mrs. Carley was a widow 
 with two sons. Her father was a native of 
 Massachusetts and her mother was of Spanish 
 birth, born on the island of Cuba and she died 
 while her daughter was in childhood. 
 
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 <<^ OLONEL ROBERT SCHOFIELD, 
 Kilbourn City, Wis., Commander of 
 G. A. R. Post, No. 50, was born Dec. 22 
 1837, in the township of Carlton, Orleans Co., 
 New York. His parents, Robert and Sallie 
 
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 (Curtis) Schofield, were descended from New 
 England stock of longstanding, and reared five 
 children. Tlie niotlicr died in Carlton and the 
 father aftei' that event reinovetl to J^slie, Ing- 
 ham Co., Michigan, where he died in 1874. 
 Thechildren were named Francis, Maria, Robert, 
 Betsey and Mary. All are living and married. 
 Colonel Schofield was reared to the calling of 
 his forefathers — that of a farmer — and received 
 a common school education. On attaining hi.s 
 majority he went to Adams Co., Wisconsin, re- 
 maining at Davis' Corners for a time, went 
 thence to Kilbourn City and afterwards to Mis- 
 souri, where lie was variously occupied, going 
 successively to Chillicothe and Trenton and 
 afterwards to Kansas. He returned to his for- 
 mer home in New York and went, after some 
 time, to Brattlehoro, Vermont. He was there 
 when the war became a fact that demanded 
 recognition and he enlisted at Brattlehoro in 
 July, 1801, in the 1st Vermont Cavalry, and 
 was mustered as a private at Burlington, where 
 the command received equipments. Soon after 
 he was made Orderly Sergeant, and, before 
 leaving the State, was promoted to First Lieu- 
 tenant. In the fall of 18G1 the regiment went 
 forward, and, after arrival at Washington, re- 
 ceived orders to join the troops in the Shenan- 
 doah N'alley. He was in an engagement March 
 n, 1862, at Winchester, and again on the 23d, 
 lighting at Strasburgon the 27th. In April he 
 was in the advance of Banks to Mount .Jackson 
 to the Covered Bridge and went with his chief 
 on the most masterly retreat of the war, during 
 which time they were engaged in continuous 
 fighting, until Banks had saved his trains, the 
 loss of which would have been irreparable di.s- 
 aster. He was in the engagement at U|)per- 
 ville, where his regiment held back Stonewall 
 Jackson's infantiy till Banks saved his trains, 
 and where Colonel Schofield lost his horse — 
 shot from under him. 
 
 In July, Pope assumed command of the 
 Army of the \'irginia, and the 1st Vermont 
 Cavalry participated in all the operations on 
 the liappahannock ant! Uapidan and fought 
 near Cedar Mountain in August, at Kelley's 
 Ford in the same month, and in other positions 
 on the Riippahannock ; going to the second Bull 
 Run to fight on the oOth, and after the relief 
 of Pope joined the movements after Lee in 
 Maryland. The names of his engagements 
 there include all the skirmishes never named, 
 as had been the case in every other situation, 
 and also included South Mountain, Antietam, 
 the hostilities through the winter and sjiring, 
 and also Gettysburg, the command follownig 
 to the engagements in Maryland again, where 
 Colonel Schofield was wounded July 12, I860, 
 at Hagerstown. At Gettysburg he was ranking 
 Captain and led the charge the cavalry made 
 on the left, and for which he was promoted to 
 Major. (His commission as Captain was re- 
 ceived while near Washington.) The action in 
 which he won his honors at Gettysburg is well 
 known, being an attack u])on a Texas regiment 
 sheltered behind a .stone wall ; his loss of men 
 was fearful, but the charge was a success and 
 gained an important point. In the pursuit he 
 was in the action at Fuuktown the day before 
 he was injured, having been driven from 
 Hagerstown on the 10th. Returning to Hagers- 
 town on the Pith he was determined to dislodge 
 the rebels, who were protected by earthworks, 
 and had the brim of his hat shot olf in the 
 charge; his horse was killeil under him and he 
 was taken jjrisoner. In the action he had lost 
 his left eye and was severely wounded in the 
 left leg by a bayonet thrust. His injuries were 
 so severe that the rebels Ciirried him in an am- 
 bulance, as they knew they had a fighter of no 
 small caliber and understood the value of hold- 
 ing him. Thus he was continually under the 
 fire of the Union troops, who were attack- 
 
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 ing the lines of rebels. His injuries 
 were not dressed for three days and 
 he traveled three weeks with the rebel army, 
 finally l)eing cared for at General Gordon's 
 headquarters by rebel surgeons. He went 
 thence lo Libby prison, where he received the 
 usual honors and a little more, being one of 
 the live Union officers selected to draw lots for 
 execution in the place of two rebels who were I 
 to be executed, and in retaliation for which, ' 
 Captains Sawyer and Flinn were to suifer 
 death. Colonel Schofield underwent the hor- 
 rors of Libby nine months, suffered the abuse i 
 of Turner and Ross and experienced all the ! 
 {irivations inflicted there. (It may be men- 
 tioned that one cookstove only was furnished 
 to provide for the necessities of 500 officers.) 
 Finally, he, with others, was taken from the 
 darkness and sent to Macon, Ga., (the sudden 
 exposure to light causing many to become 
 lilind) and he suffered greatly from his injured 
 eye. After a few months he was transferred to 
 Charleston on another humane plan of the 
 rebels, in which nearly 3,000 Union soldiers 
 were placed in a position to receive the fire 
 fronr the batteries on the islands in the harbor. 
 They were stationed in the old jail yard, which 
 was soon alive with greater numbers of grey- 
 backs, but of less mean caliber than their proto- 
 types. From Charleston they went to Columbia 
 and were placed in the pen there. (The cloth- 
 ing worn by Colonel Schofield was taken from 
 him by the rel)el who captured him and that 
 given him in exchnnge almost lost the sem- 
 blance of garments during his bondage. His 
 feet were frozen by exposure.) From Columbia, 
 after Sherman had been reported as on the way 
 to bring redemption to the prisoners, they 
 were sent to Raleigh and Wilmington for ex- 
 change, after 19 months of captivity. After 15 
 days rest, Colonel Schofield joined his regiment, 
 and found he had been promoted to Lieutenant 
 
 Colonel. The command was in the trenches of 
 Petersbui'g, where he was comissioned Colonel. 
 His regiment was with the army of the Potomac 
 in the vicinity of Petersburg until after the sur- 
 render, took part in the Grand Review and 
 went to Burlington, where Colonel Schofield 
 was mustered out. He went soon after- the war 
 to Killjourn City and engaged two years in 
 farming. He went thence to Chicago and be- 
 came interested in a wholesale and retail grocery 
 business, also engaging afterwards as a partner 
 in a commission iiouse on South Water .street. 
 His sight failing, he closed his business rela- 
 tions and returned to Kilbourn City, where he 
 now resides. From the war as relics. Colonel 
 Schofield brought home his last ration, and 
 his tin cup and fork, which he considers worth 
 their weight in gold. Contemporary opinion of 
 Colonel Schofield says of him " he is one of tlie 
 best men that ever lived." His war record is 
 one of the best, as he earned his promotions 
 and did not receive them by graded advance- 
 ment through disaster to superior officers. 
 Two horses were killed under him, and he 
 sustained a severe bayonet wound in his leg as 
 well as the loss of an eye. He is present Com- 
 mander of .John Gillespie Post and has been 
 an active worker in its interests. He was mar- 
 ried Nov. 25, 1S67, at Kilbourn City to 
 Josephine, daughter of Alanson and Lucretia 
 E. (Wakefield) Holly. Her father was a noted 
 journalist in the State of New York and a 
 pioneer of the press in Wisconsin, whither he 
 came in 1856 and opened an office in Kilbourn 
 City. His residence was the first building 
 erected there, and his newspaper office the 
 second. He served his generation as member 
 of the State Assembly from his district and was 
 an associate of Col. .J. A. Watrous and Horace 
 Rublee. He is identified with the history of 
 growth and progress in his section of Wiscon- 
 sin. Mrs. Schofield was born Feb. 16, 1841, at 
 
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 Warsaw, Wyoming Co., New York, and her 
 children were born as follows: — Grace Jose- 
 phine, April 22, 18G9; Marguerite Aurelia, 
 Jan. 12, 1871 : Miriam Hallie, Sept. 3, 1873; 
 Paul Wells, June 10, 1875; (died Dec. 13, 1879); 
 Robert Sciioheld, born March 31, 1881. All 
 but the first and last children were born at 
 Chicago ; Grace and Robert were born at Kil- 
 bourn City. 
 
 Jf^^ EORGE R. JONES, proprietor of the 
 1 /,^ j|' ^ Spring City Hotel at Waukesha, 
 \^^ Wis., was born Feb. 8, 1845, at Del- 
 phi, Indiana. He is of Welsh descent of early 
 date in this country, his father, grandfather 
 and great grandfather having been born in the 
 State of New York. They were of sound stock, 
 two of the generation of his father being .sol- 
 diers iu the war with Mexico, one being killed ; 
 two of the same generation served in the war 
 of the rebellion from 1861 to the close, in the 
 1st and 4th Wisconsin Infantr}'. Sterling 
 Jones, his father, was born July 10, 1812, and 
 married Elizabeth Sines, a native of Ohio, and 
 she is still living at Hudson Wis., aged 7(5 
 years, born in 1814. Her father, John Sines, 
 was a soldier in 1812. She became the mother 
 of 12 children and the following are living: — 
 Jerome, George, Henry B., Harvey, P^unice, 
 Sarah, the latter being the wife of N. H. Clapp, 
 a distinguished attorney of Stillwater, Minn., 
 and formerly a partner of Senator John 
 Spooner. Albert served in tlio 1st Wisconsin 
 Infantry and died at Louisville, Ky. Edwin 
 R., William, Wilber, Mattie and Ella are de- 
 ceased. George R. Jones was reared on his 
 father's farm and remained under parental 
 care until he entered the army. He had re- 
 ceived a good education in the common schools 
 and at Hinckley Academy at Hudson, Wis., 
 and was just of legal age when the war became 
 
 a fixed fact that called for recognition. At the 
 age of 18 he enlisted at La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 
 16, 1863, in Company A, 6th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry' and joined the regiment in the Iron Bri- 
 gade in front of Petersl)urg, preparing to go 
 into winter (juarters. His first fighting was 
 done on the Weldon railroad and he went next 
 to fight at Hatcher's Run in October, after 
 which be went with Warren to a raid on the 
 Weldon railroad returning to Petersburg and 
 was next in action at Hatcher's Run, February 
 6th. He received a gunshot wound through 
 his foot and while a comrade was assisting him 
 to the rear a bomb shell exploded and struck 
 liis side mutilating it in a terrible manner. 
 The cap was torn ott' his left liip and he was 
 thrown about 20 feet in the air and across a 
 creek. A comrade came and examined him 
 and repoi'ted him dead. But he was only un- 
 conscious and on coming to, the shots were fly- 
 ing so thickly around him that he rolled him- 
 self into the water for protection. His com- 
 rades saw him, fished him out and j)laced 1iim 
 on a rubber blanket to carry him to the rear. 
 A shot ploughed under him, cutting his back 
 and making a slit in his blanket through 
 which he slij)i)ed to the ground. His comrades 
 took two muskets and improvised a stretcher 
 on which he was carried to the rear. While 
 crossing Hatcher's Run, one of his bearers 
 slipped in a hole and he was thrown into the 
 ice cold water. When he was taken out the 
 cold was so intense that his clothes froze on his 
 body. He was carried to field hosjiital, jilaced 
 on some straw and lay until one o'clock at night 
 before,he received attention. All the time he 
 was being conveyed from the field the rebels 
 were in hot pursuit and the comrades with him 
 were on a run, while the pursuit and yells 
 were kept up. After his wounds were dressed 
 he was sent to City Point on a freight train, 
 suflering horribly and, after two days, he was 
 
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 sent on a hospital boat down the James River 
 to Jarvis hospital at Baltimore. On arrival it 
 was found that gangrene had set in in both 
 wounds in foot and side and when the surgeon I 
 saw his condition he declared that he could not | 
 live 4S hours. However, he disappointed them 
 in that respect and remained there until June, 
 when he was transferred on a stretcher from 1 
 Baltimore to Milwaukee and was placed in the 
 old Bethlehem House hospital, where he con- 
 tracted small pox, which he lived through in 
 the pest house. As soon as he had sufficiently 
 recovered for safety he received discharge, 
 having been ill with wounds and disease six 
 months and reaching home in August by aid 
 of crutch and cane. 
 
 When he was able to attend to business 
 he engaged in farming and also dealt in 
 horses and as.sisted his brother, who was 
 Treasurer and Sheriff of St. Croix county, 
 with headquarters at Hudson. He was vari- 
 ously engaged until 1870, when his health 
 became impaired from the effects of his suffer- 
 ings in the service and he took a trip South, 
 where he received medical treatment bj^ emi- 
 nent physicians who pronounced his case 
 hopeless his ailments including Bright's 
 disease and calculus of the kidneys, dropsy, 
 palpitation and dyspepsia. Having heard of 
 Waukesha, he determined to test the efficacy 
 of the springs there. He was accustomed 
 to hear his case spoken of in the most hopeless 
 manner, people remarking that his days were 
 numbered, but he had been at Waukesha but 
 a few days when the beneficial results were ap- 
 parent. In 1872 he removed his family there 
 for the sake of convenience and engaged in 
 life insurance business as he soou became able 
 to transact business. He also kept a boarding 
 house four years and was elected City Marshal 
 and Tax Collector, serving acceptaljly. In 1876 
 he went to Soutiiern Kansas and eniraged in 
 
 real e.state business and breeding improved 
 stock. While there he became Secretary of 
 the South Kansas Cane Growers' Association, 
 and of the Horticultural Society and School 
 Director. In 1880 he received the nomination 
 for Clerk of the Circuit Court, but over taxed 
 by his campaign labors, resulting in hem- 
 orrhage of the kidneys he withdrew his 
 name from the ticket. After all medical aid 
 had failed he was brought by his wife back to 
 Waukesha and in 48 hours after beginning 
 to di-ink the waters, the hemorrhage stopped 
 and he resolved to make the place his perma- 
 nent home. He purchased the interest of L. 
 N. Mowray and became proprietor of the 
 Mansion House which he managed two j^ears. 
 In 1882 he went to the West Indies and until 
 1887 he wintered in Florida. From the time 
 he first went to Kansas he acted as corres- 
 pondent of some of the leading journals of the 
 West, among which may be named the St. Paul 
 Globe and Minneapolis Tribune. In 1887 
 he resigned his position on those papers and 
 purchased the old Mansion House at Wau- 
 kesha. Within 80 days he had the elegant 
 new Spring City Hotel in readiness to receive 
 guests and it speedily became one of the most 
 prominent hostelries at Waukesha. Its 
 patrons are from the liest families of Wisconsin 
 and the Soutli. In every particular the house 
 is fitted for the comfort and convenience of 
 the guests, with baths and electric lights 
 and supplied with the life-giving waters of the 
 springs. For two years Mr. Jones has been 
 Treasurer of the Republican Club of Wau- 
 kesha ; he has served as Chancellor Com- 
 mander of the Knights of Pythias and is 
 holding the position of P. C. Commander 
 of that Order. He is a director of his Post 
 and a member of the Town Republican Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 He was married in 1867 to Ellen E. Savage, 
 
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 a schoolmate of his young days. She is a 
 native of Maine and daughter of D. A. and 
 Mary A. (Streator) Savage. Ira and Orrin are 
 their surviving cliildren, George Wesley hav- 
 ing died when an infant. 
 
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 'OHN CORY, a resident of Madison, Wis., 
 and a member of C. C. Washburn Post 
 No. 11, is a business citizen of energy 
 and integrity. He was born May 18, 1838, in 
 Essex Co., Vermont, and is the son of James 
 and Deborah (Morrill) Cory. His father was 
 born in New Hamjwhire and his mother in 
 Canada. His grandfather. Job Cory, was tlie 
 son of Timothy Cory, a native of England. 
 Several ancestors in the paternal line fought in 
 the Revolution. Mr. Cory removed with his 
 father's family in 1852, to Sun Prairie, Dane 
 Co., Wis., where he remained on his father's 
 farm until he was 17, when he went to tiie 
 northern part of Wisconsin, engaging in farm- 
 ing and lumbering, also attending school until 
 the breaking out of the war. lie then enlisted 
 in Company G, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, when 
 it reorganized for three years, the regiment 
 being assigned to the Department of Tennessee 
 where he remained on duty with the regiment 
 until the battle of Perryville was fought, Oct. 
 8, 1862, in which he was severely wounded in 
 his right elbow and left wrist. Being dis- 
 charged from the service on account of his 
 wounds, he returned to Sun Prairie about the 
 1st of February, 18G3, and attended sciiool the 
 remainder of the winter. During the years 
 1863-4, while in Sun Prairie, he, with others, 
 organized a company of State militia, entering 
 it as 2d Sergeant, but, soon after, (upon the 
 resignation of Cajitain P.urwell) was apjwinted 
 Captain by the unanimous vote of the com- 
 pany. In the following spring, he wont to 
 
 Watertown, Jeflerson Co., Wis., where bis 
 fiither hail moved, and attended the Academy 
 one term. In the fall he entered the Waterloo 
 Institute, continuing his studies until the spring 
 of 1S6-1, then worked at the carpenter trade 
 until September of the same year, when he, 
 with others, organized a company of heavy ar- 
 tillefy for one year, going into the service as 
 1st Sergeant and being promoted, after five 
 months to 2d Lieutenant of Company H, 1st 
 Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. The company 
 was stationed at Fort Lyon, Va., and was mus- 
 tered out in July, 1865. He was married to 
 Miss Anna L. Lyon of Medina, (formerly of 
 Utica, New York), July 26, 1865. They have 
 three children living — Mary E., Edwin L. and 
 Grace. Their first child, Willie M., died in 
 infancy. In 1870, Mr. Cory with his family, 
 removed to Madison, where he engaged in the 
 business of a contractor and builder, which he 
 still follows successfully. Two of his V)rot,hers 
 joined the army, one of whom, belonging to 
 the 74th Illinois, died in the service. The 
 other .served under (irant. The family are 
 members of the First Baptist Church. Mr. 
 Cory has held the office of Worthy Chief in 
 the Good Templars Order, Lodge No. 1, and 
 also as Chief in the Temple of Honor, in which 
 position he is officiating in 1890; he is also 
 Chief of Council in the latter, Madison Lodge, 
 No. 114. 
 
 /^^^ DWARD CRONON, La Crosse, Wis., 
 I v,,,^ I CommandeT of G. A. R. Post No. 38, 
 ^^=:i^ in 18!iO, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in 
 Sell agliti coke, New York, whither liis parents, 
 James and Honora (O'Connor) Cronon, emi- 
 grated from the shire of Limerick, Ireland, in 
 1830. The occupation of the fiither was that 
 of a weaver and merchant until his removal to 
 Wisconsin. The children were Timothy, Mary, 
 
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 369 
 
 Edward, James and David ; David and Mary 
 are not living. In May, 1856, Mr. Cronon re- 
 moved to La Crosse, where lie died on his farm 
 two years later ; his wife died in October, 1874. 
 The son was reared on land which Ins father 
 bought from the Government until he went to 
 serve an apprenticeship as a tinsmith ; in the 
 next year he engaged in lumbering and, in 
 1857, operated on the Mississippi River. In 
 1859, he went to Napoleon, Ark., and returned 
 in the spring of 1800, again operating on the 
 river and going back to Arkansas. In the 
 spring of 1861 he made his escape from Heces- 
 sia through the friendliness of a rebel lieuten- 
 ant who protected him until he was past the 
 lines. He reached La Crosse as soon as possi- 
 ble and, Sept. 19, 1861, enlisted in Company I, 
 8th Wisconsin Infantry, (Eagle regiment.) 
 From rendezvous at Camp Randall, the regi- 
 ment went to St. Louis ahout October 1st, and 
 was ordered to dut}' on the Iron Mountain 
 road, where the rebels under Jeff Thompson 
 were destroying road stock. Thence to Pilot 
 Knob and Fredericktown to fight for the first 
 time was the outline of Mr. Cronon's experience 
 and there, the command being in gray uni- 
 form, it was sent to the rear to prevent acci- 
 dents. After passing the winter in duty as 
 guard, they went to Cairo, preliminary to join- 
 ing Pope with Fort Donelson as objective point. 
 Mr. Cronon was in the several movements of 
 the command prior to the pursuit of rebels 
 after the abandonment of Island No. U), and 
 went to New Madrid. Embarking for Mem- 
 phis, orders were countermanded and Mr. Cro- 
 non was next facing rebel bullets and powder 
 at Farmington and went thence to the siege of 
 Corinth. After the evacuation he was in the 
 pursuit to Booneville, went thence to Camp 
 Clear Creek and performed military duty there 
 until Aug. 18, 1862, when a move was made to 
 Tuscumbia and thence to luka, followed by 
 
 Price to whom Colonel Murphy abandoned the 
 position ; he was arrested but afterwards re- 
 stored to his command which had been placed 
 under Colonel Mower. The Union force was 
 strengthened by the arrival of Rosecrans with 
 troops and the battle of luka was fought Sep- 
 tember 19th, the 8th Wisconsin being in the 
 reserve. Mr. Cronon was in the pursuit and 
 was next in action October 3d, at Corinth, the 
 rebels being commanded hy Van Dorn and 
 Price. Mr. Cronin was hit in the left arm by 
 a sharpshooter and was mentioned in the dis- 
 patches as wounded. He was conveyed to the 
 hospital where his arm was amputated, and he 
 received final discharge November 24th follow- 
 ing. He returned to La Crosse and engaged 
 in teaching which was his occupation about 16 
 years. July 1, 1889, he was appointed Deputy 
 Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2d Dis- 
 trict under E. M. Rogers, and is still perform- 
 ing the duties of the position. 
 
 He was married Jan. 11, 1877, to Anna A., 
 daughter of James and Mary (Bradberry) 
 Mellor, a native of Derby.shire, England. Her 
 father was in Company I, Sth Wisconsin In- 
 fantry and passed through all the experiences 
 of the regiment prior to the action at Nash- 
 ville, Dec. 15, 1864, in which he was killed. 
 Alice H., Daisy, James and Anna are the 
 names of the children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cronon. Mr. Cronon belongs to the A. 
 O. U. W. and to the Knights.of Pythias. 
 
 His brother David enlisted on the same day 
 with himself and passed safely through all 
 the service until June 6th, 1864, when he was 
 wounded. He had re-enlisted and was going 
 home on veteran furlough when he received 
 a gunshot wound, the gunboat being fired into 
 by guerrillas. He afterwards returned to his 
 regiment and served until the close of the war, 
 when he was mustered out in Alabama and re- 
 turned to Wisconsin. He died of paralysis 
 
370 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 July 7, 1868, at La CVosse, leaving a wife ; their 
 only child was born after his deatli. 
 
 Among the treasured papers of Mr. Cronon 
 is the following copy: To wlunn it may 
 concern — I hereby certify on honor that, dur- 
 ing the rebellion I was successively Orderly 
 Sergeant, 2d Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant and 
 Captain of Company I, 8th Regiment Wiscon- 
 sin \'olunteer Infantry, and subsequently 
 Major of said regiment; that in these posi- 
 tions I liad good opjiortunity to know and did 
 well know Edward Cronon, who was a soldier 
 in said company and regiment, and I know that 
 the said Edward Cronon was, at all times and 
 in all places a good soldier, always ready to do 
 his full duty in a prompt and cheerful manner. 
 I also state that, of my own knowledge, he was 
 offered promotion and refused it in said Com- 
 pany I, and that as both man and soldier 
 he was bighly respected by all who were in 
 contact with him. Also that he was in the 
 strict discharge of his duty when he re- 
 ceived the wound which caused the loss of his 
 arm and his dhscharge from the service. D. 
 A. Kennedy, Marshal, I^yon Co., Minn. 
 
 APTAIN GEORGE JEUCK, merchant 
 at Mineral Point, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 125, a prominent and 
 popular business man of the county, was born at 
 Hinterneilingen, Germany, Sept. 13, 1840. His 
 parents were Joseph and Clara (Miller) Jeuck, 
 and died in the " Vaterland." The former 
 was a farmer. The son came to America in 
 1856 when 16 years old, going direct to his 
 uncle's at Mineral Point. He had attended 
 school in Germany from six to fourteen years of 
 age and obtained a thorough knowledge of com- 
 mon brandies of education, and his first employ 
 in this country was in the trade of shoemaker 
 
 and he was occupied in this until he entered 
 the army, enlisting from Mineral Point. About 
 the first of April he joined the organization 
 making ready for the struggle that seemed 
 imminent, known as the "Miner's Guard " 
 whicli offered its services to Governor Randall 
 as soon as the requisition was made. The 
 regiments were full and tlie "Guards" were 
 assigned to the 2d Wisconsin as Company I, 
 and went to Madison as three-months men. 
 May 7tli a telegram was received from the \\'ar 
 Department, saying that no more three-months 
 men were wanted and most of the 2d Wiscon- 
 sin immediately re-enli.sted for three years. 
 He went to Washington, prepared for service in 
 drill and other duty and fought in the first 
 Bull Run, the opening battle of the war. In 
 the re-organization, the regiment was made 
 one of the most effective in the service, the 
 character of its men in the disaster showing 
 that tliey deserved leaders second to none in 
 the service and they received them. Colonel, now 
 General, Fairchild and Colonel Allen covering 
 their names with distinction. For a full record 
 of the service seen by Captain Jeuck reference 
 is made to multitudes of " Iron Brigade " men 
 in this volume, whose sketches have been com- 
 piled with a view of presenting as a whole a 
 complete history of tlie organization, .so far as 
 has been possible. Captain Jeuck was in tlie 
 activities which preceded Gainesville, fought at 
 Bull Run (2d), at South Mountain, Antietam, 
 Fredericksburg, (1862), Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (ISOo) and went to 
 take position between Washington and the 
 enemy, moving with the command to the 
 skirmishing in the later fail, after wliicli lie 
 was in the Wilderness and fought at Mine Run. 
 Besides these he was in the minor actions at 
 Blackburn's Ford, I^winsville, Orange C. IL, 
 the fights on the Rapidan and at Kelley's 
 Ford. He was promoted from Corporal to 3d 
 
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 Sergeant at Gettysburg for conspicuous gal- 
 lantry, capturing alone eight armed i-ebels, the 
 promotion being conferred on him above sev- 
 eral others in direct line. (He run upon the 
 rebels and, getting a bead on them, ordered 
 them to surrender, declaring he would shoot 
 the first wlio raised his gun, and he marched 
 tiiera to camp.) .July 1, 1863, he was brevetted 
 Captain. On his commission is the following : 
 "George Jeuck, late a Sergeant in Company I, 
 2d Wisconsin Infantry, is hereby promoted to 
 the rank of Captain by brevet, to rank as sucli 
 from .July 1, 1863, in recognition of conspicuous 
 gallantry displayed by him at the battle of Get- 
 tysburg and in tlie Battle of the Wilderness, at 
 the latter of which, having charge of the pro- 
 vost guard, numbering 33 men, he drove back 
 into the line of battle the forces of a retreating 
 brigade, forcing them to hold the line given 
 them." Signed by Governor Lucius Fairchild, 
 Secretary of State, T. S. Allen (before referred 
 to) and the As.st. Adj. Gen., -James K. Proudfit. 
 Captain Jeuck was never absent a day from 
 his command while in the service and, although 
 constantly under exposure in his various 
 actions was never injured. He received final 
 muster out at Madison, June 30, 1864. 
 
 After his return to civil life he was occupied 
 with liis trade until 1S6S, managing his own 
 interests most of the time. In the year men- 
 tioned he instituted a mercantile business in 
 connection with Mr. Harttert, who sold his 
 moiety to Mr. Mullen in 1872 and, after some 
 years the firm became .Jeuck Bros., Mr. Mullen 
 being bought out by William Jeuck. This is 
 the present style and the house is engaged in 
 the transaction of a most flourishing and popu- 
 lar business. In 1868 Captain Jeuck visited 
 his native land and brought back to America 
 with him liis brother and sister, Margaret, wife 
 of Frank Hilgar of Dubuque, Iowa. Clara, 
 widow of George Krekel of Germany, is also a 
 
 sister and they are the sole survivors of 
 the family. Captain Jeuck was married at 
 Mineral Point June 10, 1866, to Eliza, daugh- 
 ter of Richard and Dorcas Halligan, a native 
 of Cornwall, England, and who accompanied 
 her parents to America in early childhood. 
 Four children are included in the family of 
 Captain Jeuck — Clara, Willie, George and 
 Frank. The oldest son is a Lieutenant in the 
 Sons of Veterans Order. The Cajitain has 
 been Quartermaster of his Post since it was 
 organized ; he has served nine years as Alder- 
 man and as member of the School Board three 
 years ; he was one of the Trustees for the 
 Iowa County asylum at Dodgeville and has 
 served five years as Commissioner. He is a 
 leading citizen at Mineral Point and is a type 
 of the best citizenship of this Nationality, bring- 
 ing to this country his thrift, energy and 
 honorable character to add to the strength of 
 the Republic and to adopt her griefs as her 
 privileges ; he was a brave soldier and he is a 
 conscientious, straight-forward citizen ; he has 
 been prominently named in political circles. 
 
 T|r DOLPH WEBER, Racine, Wis., mem- 
 
 ^/vyV ^^^' '^^ ^' ^' ^' Post No. 17, was born 
 -J^?^^ Nov. 27, 1843, in Sinzig, Prussia, and 
 is the son of Phillip and Agnes (Fleischer) 
 Weber. His father was a shoe manufacturer 
 and both parents died while their children 
 were in early childhood. When the two 
 brothers, Adolpb and Anthony, were respect- 
 ively 13 and 12 years of age they came to 
 America and went to Racine. Adolpb at- 
 tended the public schools and became an 
 apprentice to learn the cabinet trade. During 
 the first months of the war himself and 
 brother became interested and determined to 
 enlist, although both were very young. They 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 enrolled Oct. 15, 1861, in Company I, 9th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, and were in rendezvous at 
 Camp Sigel, Milwaukee. The regiment left 
 the State January 22d for Furl Leavenworth 
 and went thence to Carap Scott on a long 
 march to join in the " Jim Lane " expedition 
 which did not materialize; and the}' went 
 tlirough the Cherokee Nation to Indian Terri- 
 tory to the vicinity of Baxter's Si)rings, engag- 
 ing in a numher of squahbies with the Indians 
 who were under rebel influence, niarcliing 
 again to take part in another expedition which 
 came to nought. They were engaged mean- 
 while in fighting busliwliackers and straggling 
 rebels under Quantrell, Marmaduke and Price. 
 After joining the Army of the Frontier they 
 were in the fight at Newtonia, where they lost 
 heavily in prisoners. This was their first regu- 
 lar battle and was fought September 20th. He 
 was in the battle at Prairie Grove, went to \'an 
 Buren and afterward engaged in foraging, 
 scouting and exj)editions of varieil character 
 near Rolla, going in September to St. Louis. 
 There Mr. Weber was promoted to Corjioral 
 and detailed to escort stragglers, deserters and 
 other unfortunates to their resj)ective regiments. 
 He left the undistributed men at \"icksbur!i 
 and rcgoined his regiment. On the i-eturn they 
 met coming down the river the " Huth " with 
 tlie paymasters for the army at Mcksburg 
 escorted by the Captain of Company ],9tli Wis- 
 consin, and 30 men. She was destroyed off 
 Columbus; five men of the company were lost 
 with several paymasters and all the money. 
 In the fall of 18Go the command went to 
 Helena and after a month to Duvall's Bluff 
 and were constantly tired into by bushwhack- 
 ers, until Colonel Jacolii found means to in- 
 form them that if they did not stop he would 
 destroy every habitation on his route. They 
 went next to Little Rock and performed mili- 
 tary duty until Jan. 1, 1804, when about 300 
 
 of the regiment re-enlisted and were formed 
 into Companies A, B, C and D. In March 
 they started with the expeditioi>under Steele to 
 assist Banks and were deterred from joining 
 him by the operations of the rebels, details 
 from Price's army constantly involving them 
 in skirmi.shes of heavy character. The return 
 was commenced when the news of Banks' de- 
 feat was received and the massed rebels soon 
 took their supply trains and cut off their 
 communications and they only had corn 
 rations. April 29th they reached the Sa- 
 line River and found every indication 
 of a heavy engagement with Kirby Smith's 
 troops, 20,000 strong. It was necessary 
 to light in order to save themselves from 
 entire destruction ; and action was commenced 
 early in the morning on the 30th, while the 
 trains, more than two miles long, were crossing 
 the river on pontoons. The rebels pressed them 
 hard, and finally orders were given to charge 
 upon them, which was done with so much 
 vigor that three guns were taken and some 
 prisoners. The retreat was finished, leaving 
 tlie wounded on the field. Anthony Weber and 
 Adolph were among them, and the former, 
 wounded in the leg, underwent ampuUition on 
 the field, where he died three days later and 
 was buried there. Mr. Weber was wounded in 
 the left log and injured in the other by the 
 same liall, and was taken to Princeton, Ark., 
 where six colored prisonere were crowded into 
 a small cabin. The white prisoners saw a rebel 
 make his way there and after he went away 
 everyone was found shot to death. The food 
 was hard corn and after a few days they liad a 
 little meat and hardtack. At Princeton they 
 were confined in churches and other public 
 buildings. Three weeks after they were taken 
 to Tyler, Texas, where they remained 10 
 months in a stockade prison. In February, 
 1805, they were marched 110 miles to Shreve- 
 
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 373 
 
 port, thence to the mouth of the Red River and 
 paroled. When they met the despatcli boats 
 there, a Union prisoner who had concealed him- 
 self on the transport came out, jumped over- 
 hoard and was taken to the despatch boat, 
 which fired a salute. From the Red River 
 they were taken to New Orleans and three days 
 later were on the way to their regiment. The 
 command were out in full dress uniform to re- 
 ceive them, the band playing " Home, Sweet 
 Home." Mr. Weber spent a furlough at home 
 and in June he joined his regiment and i-e- 
 mained at Camden, Ark., until fall, going to 
 Little Rock and j)erformed military duty until 
 Jan. 31, 1866, when he was mustered out, hav- 
 ing the rank of Sergeant, to which lie was pro- 
 moted soon after exchanged. 
 
 On his return to civil life he operated as a 
 carpenter, and in 18 — commenced the sale of 
 groceries and dry goods; continued in that busi- 
 ness ten years, and in 1881 engaged in the manu- 
 facture of sash, doore and blinds, with partners, 
 the firm style becoming Steelier, Weber & 
 Ileuttner Manufacturing Company. He was 
 married Oct. 1, 1867, to Barbara, daugliter of 
 \'alentine and Catherine Garrecht of Racine. 
 Their children were named Catherine, Elizabeth 
 Mary, Adolph, Barbara and Joseph. All are 
 deceased and their mother died March 18, 1879. 
 Mr. Weber contracted a second marriage with 
 Theresa, daughter of August and Agatha 
 Ziesel, and their children are Anthony, Wil- 
 liam, Joseph, Julia and Gertrude. In 1871, Mr. 
 Weber became interested in politics and was 
 elected Alderman of the 6th ward, to which 
 position he was re-elected three times. In 1885 
 he was candidate for Mayor of Racine on the 
 Democratic ticket. He was again nominated 
 in 1889 and was defeated by only 75 votes. In 
 1890 he was elected Mayor by over 700 ma- 
 jority. 
 
 
 ENRY OILMAN ROGERS, a promi- 
 mt business man of Milwaukee, 
 Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, was born April 28, 
 1841, in Milwaukee. He completed his educa- 
 tion at Beloit College, and, a few months after 
 attaining his majority, entered the military 
 service of his country. The progress of the 
 war during its first year of existence had 
 brought to reflective, prescient men the con- 
 viction that the movement of the South, at 
 first regarded as something like impetuosity, 
 which would cool in a few months, had method 
 in its madness and that a question as important 
 as the founding of the Republic was at the 
 fore for settlement and must be met. Probably 
 the history of enlistment in the summer of 
 1862 would make the most remarkable show- 
 ing of the real character of American citizen- 
 ship and its responsibilities that could be 
 brought forward. Every interest in the coun- 
 try was in peril ; all that had been accom- 
 plished and all the promise of the future hung 
 in the balance when the 24th Wisconsin en- 
 rolled, organized and hastened to the front. 
 Mr. Rogers enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, and on the 
 organization of Company B, 24th Wisconsin, 
 was made a Corporal. Bragg was marauding 
 Northern Kentucky and the regiment moved 
 southward to participate, in a little more than 
 a month after leaving the State, in the battle 
 of Perryville. They chased the fleeing rebels 
 and returned afterwards to Nashville to pre- 
 pare for further activities which they en- 
 countered at Stone River. Corporal Rogers 
 distinguished himself on the field and was 
 made Sergeant during the action. In May, 
 1863, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant 
 and passed the successive months on the march 
 to and in the vicinity of Chattanooga and the 
 Chickamauga until the battle of September 
 19th, in which he received five wounds. Two 
 
374 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 bullets struck his right arm and almost imme- 
 diately afterwards an explosive shot cut away 
 the second and third fingers of his left hand ; 
 a buckshot hit the same hand and severed the 
 cords of the little finger, holding its position 
 in tlie hand for two months and finally work- 
 ing itself out. A miuie ball took off the first > 
 joint of the first finger of the same hand. He 
 was hit ten different times during his term 
 of service but paid no attention to the near 
 approach of the deadly missiles. One bullet ' 
 ploughed through the top of his head gear, j 
 cutting off the hair from his head along its 
 track and a shot struck his right cheek on the , 
 facial bone; one shot hit his gun, glanced and j 
 struck his lip with little injury and, although 
 several other missiles came in his way to re- , 
 mind him of rebel civilities, he received such 
 slight results that he did not heed them. I 
 After the battle of Cliickamauga he went to i 
 field hospital of the 21st Army Corps, having 
 been wounded on the 20th, the second day of 
 the fight. He was injured on Sunday and | 
 first received medical attention Wednesday I 
 afternoon, not reaching the field hospital 
 of his own corps, the 20th, until the atternoou 
 of Friday. He remained in hospital until 
 Oct. 8, 1863, when he rode 60 miles over the 
 mountains to Stevenson, Ala., to return to 1 
 Wisconsin on a 60-day furlough, his arm rest- 
 ing on a i>illow during the ride. The scarcity 
 of supplies was felt by the wounded and 
 suffering in the hospitals as well as among l 
 the troops awaiting help at Chattanooga, and 
 his strong desire to reach some point where he 
 could receive proper care and food caused him 
 to take the risks of his journey, the aggrava- 
 tion resulting from its severities making neces- 
 sary an extension of his furlough to 90 days, 
 during which he was under treatment. He 
 had been offered the position of Lieutenant- j 
 Colonel of the 35th Wisconsin by Governor 
 
 Lewis, but his wounded condition prevented 
 his acceptance. He was uuable to rejoin* his 
 regiment and was mustered out Jan. 27, 1864, 
 at Madison, having been commissioned Lieuten- 
 ant of Company B, 24tli Wi.sconsin,to date from 
 Nov. 23, 1863. In addition to the actions 
 named, Mr. Rogers was in the scrimmages at 
 Guy's and Hoover's Gaps. 
 
 After his return to Milwaukee, he engaged 
 as soon as sufficiently recovered, in the real 
 estate business which he has since prosecuted. 
 He has always maintained his interest in the 
 military affairs of Wisconsin and was made 
 Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Regiment, Na- 
 tional Guards during the administration, of 
 Governor Ludington ; he was also made 
 Major of the 4th Battalion (4th Milwaukee, N. 
 G.) As soon as the Order of the Grand Army 
 was organized in Wisconsin, he connected him- 
 self with Post Phil. H. Sheridan, No. 9, Oct. 10, 
 1866, of which he was Commander and also 
 served in other positions. The Post surren- 
 dered its charter and in 1880 he became a 
 cliarter member of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1. 
 He is one of the oldest members in the State 
 and country and has always been actively con- 
 nected with the affairs of the Order. In 1874 
 lie was Assistant Quartermaster General of the 
 Wisconsin Department, Junior Vice Com- 
 mander in 1875, Senior Vice Commander in 
 1876 and was made Department Commander 
 in 1877, thus holding the positions in regular 
 sequence and his is the only instance in the State 
 of regular advancement. His wife, one of the 
 most prominent women in the Order of the 
 Woman's Relief Corps in Wisconsin, was made 
 Department President in 1886 and re-elected in 
 1887. Through her administration new life 
 was infused into the auxiliary of the Grand 
 Army by her energetic activity and unflag- 
 ging efforts to advance the material interests 
 of the organization. Many new Corps were 
 
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 375 
 
 added to the general Body and she organized 
 and systematized the workings of tlie Depart- 
 ment in a manner which has been felt far be- 
 yond her personal administration. She is a ' 
 woman who never does anything with which 
 she is connected in a half-way manner or with 
 half-iieartedness and, consequently, her influ- 
 ence is always felt. It is impossible in a 
 sketch like this to do fnll justice to the value 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers to the Department of 
 Wisconsin. Mrs. Eogers is a member of the I 
 National Pension Committee of the Woman's 
 Relief Corps and was in 1889 its Secretary. 
 Her activities in the charitable avenues of the 
 Order have never ceased, and at successive con- 
 ventions she receives recognition in her work 
 by appointment to sucli positions as best give 
 opportunity for benefit to the needy in the 
 Grand Army. 
 
 James H. Rogers, father of Mr. Rogers, who 
 traced his ancestry back to the settlers on the 
 Atlantic seaboard in an early period, went from 
 Keysville, New York, to Milwaukee ; he bought 
 Government lands which he held and which 
 have greatlj' increased in value in the rise of 
 property in the city. He married Sophia 
 Emily Fletcher, who belonged to the family of 
 the wife of Daniel Webster, and was born at 
 Alstead, N. H. In her father's line she was of 
 Quaker extraction and her forbears on her 
 mother's side were soldiers in the Revolution 
 and in 1812. Charles D. Rogers, brother of 
 Mr. Rogers, enlisted in the 15th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and was Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 
 regiment until his discharge for disability; he 
 was afterward made 2d Lieutenant of Company 
 B, 24th Wisconsin, promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
 and mustered out as Captain of his company. 
 Alexander H. and Jacob Rogers, cousins, were 
 non-commissioned ofiicers in Company D, 24th 
 Wisconsin. Oscar Gregory, another cousin of 
 Mr. Rogers, enlisted in the 29th Indiana, and 
 
 led his regiment home as Colonel, having 
 reached that position from the ranks. Frank 
 H. Fletcher, another cousin, was a Major and 
 Paymaster in the war. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Rogers and Laura Ger- 
 trude Butler, took place Oct. 11, 1864, and they 
 have two children, named Laura Butler and 
 William Henry. Rose died in infancy and 
 Charles Edward died when less than two yeai's 
 old. William and Lydia Ann (Squires) Butler, 
 the parents of Mrs. Rogers, were born respectively 
 in New York and Vermont. One of the great 
 uncles of Mrs. Rogers in the maternal line was 
 of the disguised ^jarty who made tea in Boston 
 Harbor and several others of the same genera- 
 tion fought in the Revolution and in 1812. 
 
 P)J OUKRITZ GATZ, member of G. A. R. 
 Post, No. 138, at Palmyra, Wis., where 
 he is a resident, was born May 8, 1838, 
 in Germany. His father, John Gatz, came to 
 this country with his family in 1844, and, as 
 the mother died soon after, the son lost nearly 
 all remembrance of her. She died in Milwau- 
 kee where he resided, having taken charge of his 
 own affairs after he was 14 years of age. The 
 father died about 1872. Mr. Gatz became a 
 shoemaker, and after learning his trade he 
 went to Washington county and worked at 
 Portage and New Lisbon, returning to the 
 southern part of the State and working at 
 Little Prairie, until lie enlisted Oct. 11, 1861, 
 in Company I, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, going 
 into rendezvous at Janesville, where he was 
 mustered, and left the State, Jan. 18, 1862, for 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, expecting to join the 
 Lane expedition and marched to Fort Scott. 
 This plan was abandoned and the regiment 
 went to Lawrence and thence to Fort Riley to 
 connect with another expedition which also 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 proved a failure, and they returiitd to Colum- 
 bus and performed railroad guard duty until 
 their removal to Fort Henry and Fort Donel- 
 son, and Mr. Gatz fought in the action at 
 Clarksville. Later, he was in the chase of 
 Morgan, and fought Woodward at Gurrettsville 
 on his return, and went to Forts Donelson and 
 Henry again, after a long march of nearly 200 
 miles. In December he was again engaged in 
 trying to find Morgan and after some months 
 of lively scouting he went with the regiment 
 on the double quick to Fort Donelson, (which 
 had been assaulted by Forrest) arriving just 
 after the repulse. Donelson was headquarters 
 for the regiment through the summer, the com- 
 mand performing garrison duty and scouting, 
 besides trying to keep watch of the guerrillas 
 and bushwhackers. In August they went to 
 Columbia and thence to Stevenson, preparatory 
 to taking position on the Chattanooga to guard 
 the scanty stores of the Union army and to 
 prevent rebel interference, the river being so 
 low that crossing was possible at any point. 
 They were relieved, after a dangerous experi- 
 ence, by the arrival of Hooker with two corps 
 from the army of Virginia. After veteranizing 
 and furlough the reunited regiment assembled 
 at Nasliviili; and were next engaged in garrison 
 and guard duty until the plans to operate 
 against Atlanta were matured, when the ex- 
 pectations of the loth to join therein were 
 balHed and they were again stationed to patrol 
 and guard the Tennessee River. -lune 4th 
 they went to Claysville, Ala., and were occupied 
 in the same duty and in thwarting tlie rebel 
 plans to intei'mjit Sherman's communications, 
 and ail that fall they were engaged in looking 
 after the depredations of Forrest and in protect- 
 ing the railroad from guerrillas. In Novem- 
 ber they went to the rear of Nashville wliieli 
 was in a state of siege from Hood and tliey 
 watched his motions and performed other duty 
 
 until his defeat, wlien lliey were stationed on 
 the railroad in guard and patrol duty until 
 March, when the command was ordered to j)ro- 
 ceed to connect with the army in ^'irginia, and 
 they were on their route thither at Jonesboro 
 when Lee surrendered. As soon as this intel- 
 ligence reached them, orders were issued for a 
 return and they went to Nashville, where they 
 were ordered to New Orleans. In June they 
 started for Texas, landing at Indianola, and 
 went thence to Green Lake, where the men were 
 seriously poisoned by the water. Tiiey next 
 made a long and painful marcii to San An- 
 tonio, where they were mustered out Nov. 24th 
 and returned to Madison for final disciiarge. 
 
 Mr. Gatz returned to Little Prairie and in 
 1874 removed to Palmyra, wliere he has since 
 been a resident. In 1860 he was married to 
 Mary, daughter of .John Chuckenberg, a native 
 of (Jermany and a resident of East Troy. Her 
 parents are farmers and nrv living at Eagle. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Gatz are the parents of seven 
 children, named Emma, Frank, Bertha, Mary, 
 John, Louisa and Edward. 
 
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 OHN T. DAVISON, Platteville, Wis., 
 gll Deputy Siierifr of Grant county, member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was born at La 
 Fayette, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., June 3, 1830. 
 His i'ather, Jacob Davison, was born in York- 
 shire, England, and came to America in youth. 
 He settled in Chillicotlie, Ohio, where he mar- 
 ried Susan Oldes, a native of Germany, wiio 
 came to America in childhood willi her 
 parents. The senior Davison lived some years 
 in the Buckeye State, removed to Indiana and 
 himself and wife died at La Fayette. Only 
 two of 13 children reared by them are living, 
 the sister of Mr. Davison being Mrs. Lucinda 
 Gregory of Platteville. His only brother was a 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 377 
 
 captain in the llSth Illinois Infantry and re- 
 turned on sick leave to his home, dying 24 
 hours after arrival. Mr. Davison was in boy- 
 hood when his parents died, he heing next to 
 the youngest child in order of birth. As was 
 the custom in those days, he was bound to a 
 Mr. Cleaver and was, soon after, placed with a 
 Mr. I'erkins, with whom he remained several 
 years. He was then bound to a man named 
 Matthews, with whom he lived four years, after 
 which he went to work as a nrason and cooper, 
 alternating these employments in winter and 
 summer. Feb. 24, 1849, he first made acquaint- 
 ance with Platteville, where he operated at his 
 trades. He is also a miner and prospector, 
 having employed laborers in mining for 35 
 years. 
 
 In August, 1864, he enlisted in company B, 
 43d Wisconsin Infantry, being made Sergeant 
 of his company and was mustered at Milwau- 
 kee. The regiment was sent South and as- 
 signed to the 4th Army Corps, expecting to 
 make the march to the sea with Sherman, but 
 the plan was frustrated by Hood, Johnsonville, 
 Tenn., the base of supplies for Union troops, be- 
 ing menaced by the rebel chief. The regiment 
 was detailed for the defense, and was subjected 
 to continuous shelling by the rebels for 48 
 hours. Hood withdrew (after his troops had 
 destroyed the Union gunboats and stores at 
 Johnsonville) to Nashville, whitlier the 43d 
 Wisconsin followed about the last of Novem- 
 ber, 18G4. The march was an exceptionally 
 hard one, being through almost unbroken wil- 
 derness. About the first of .lanuary, the regi- 
 ment went to Dechard, Tenn., and several com- 
 panies, including Company B, engaged in 
 guarding railroads, in patrol duty, protecting 
 citizens and fighting guerrillas. In .June they 
 returned to Nashville to be discharged and Mr. 
 Davison received his release from military obli- 
 gations at Milwaukee in July, 1865. He re- 
 
 turned to Platteville, in enfeebled health, 
 chronic diarrhea having set in about the time 
 of his discharge. (He was the only man of his 
 regiment who was able to do duty every day of 
 his period of service.) He has never wholly 
 recovered from the disease, and, in 1887, had 
 the misfortune to lo.se his left eye while at work 
 on the city hall in Platteville, and at the same 
 time he broke his left arm. He has acted as 
 Constable 17 years and is serving the fifth year 
 as Deputy Sheriff. He is still engaged in min- 
 ing for lead, which he has found a profitable 
 investment. 
 
 He was married at Platteville, June 29, 1851, 
 to Emeline, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
 (McFall) Angestine. Her parents were natives 
 of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have had 12 
 children, two of wlioni died in infancy. The 
 survivors are named Susan, David, Jacob, Wil- 
 liam, Edith, .Joiin, Cassie, Fannie, Vye and 
 Stella. Mr. Davison is a member of the A. O. 
 U. W., and is one of the highly respected citi- 
 zens of Platteville; he is still active and in full 
 vigor of life, showing no signs of encroaching 
 age. 
 
 HARLES W. GULLIFORD, grocer at 
 Reedsburg, Wis., a member of G. A. 
 R. Post No. 13, was born June 22, 
 1842, in Girard, Erie Co., Pennsylvania, whence 
 his parents, Daniel and Melissa (Johnson) Gul- 
 liford, removed to Sauk Co., Wis., locating on 
 Sauk Prairie, seven miles south of Baraboo, in 
 1846, two years before Wisconsin was a State 
 and at a time when the reign of first things 
 prevailed. Eight years later the family re- 
 moved to Westfield in the same county, where 
 the father still lives on a farm, aged more than 
 78 years; the mother died there Feb. 28, 1877, 
 aged a few days more than 61 j'ears. Of their 
 nine children five are deceased ; the survivors. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 named in order of birth are Catlierine, Mrs. « 
 Gattenwinkel of Riverside, CaL; Harriet, wife 
 of S. P. Sutton of Monroe, Wis.: Horace W. of 
 Rock Falls, Neb. Charles \V. was the next 
 and the only soldier in the family. His sister 
 Rosanna is deceased ; Sarah A. and Lorin died 
 while he was in tiie service; Vol etta died in 
 mature life and Ursula in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Gulliford was reared on his father's farm 
 until he entered the army, which he did within 
 the first months of the war, before he reached 
 his majority. Sept. 7, 1861, he enlisted in 
 Company I>, IJtli Wisconsin Infantry, enroll- 
 ing from Logansville, Sauk county; he was 
 mustered at Madison under Captain Giles Ste- 
 vens, of Reedsburg, October 30th, at Camp 
 Randall, starting .Jan. 11, 18(i2, for Fort Scott, 
 and experiencing at the outset some of the 
 severest of his experiences in traversing the 
 country as a soldier. A long march was made 
 to Kansas and from Fort Scott (after the aban- 
 donment of the project on which the regiment 
 was sent there) to Fort Riley in anticipation of 
 another expedition which proved futile, and 
 thence the command started for Columbus to 
 go to Corinth. Mr. Gulliford had been taken 
 ill at Fort Scott and as soon as recovered, re- 
 joined his regiment between Columbus and 
 Corinth, where he acted as guard on the rail- 
 road for a time and went thence to Mississippi, 
 expecting to tight in October and, after remain- 
 ing sometime engaged in guerrilla service was 
 in the movements which preceded and wliich 
 were closed by the capture of Holly Springs by 
 the rebels. He was in the battle at Cold water 
 and in the march to take position in the siege 
 of Vicksburg, afterwards being in tiie Kgiit at 
 Jackson, returning to Vicksburg. Soon after 
 he went on the Meridian expedition and had 
 the satisfaction of engaging in tlie work of de- 
 struction of rebel property and getting his lill 
 of the soi-t of service known as skirmishing 
 
 with guerrillas. Returning to Vicksburg he 
 went soon after to Natchez where he was ill in 
 hosj)ital with bowel complaint and other difh- 
 culties. While there he veteranized with about 
 600 men and received a furlough of 30 days 
 which he spent at home. He rejoined his 
 regiment and entered upon the Atlanta cam- 
 paign under Sherman, taking part in the sev- 
 eral actions known on historical pages as Kene- 
 saw Mountain, at Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill, 
 siege of .July 22d, and was in the action at 
 •Jonesboro, designed to cut off the communica- 
 tions of Hood through the destruction of the 
 railroads, and at Macon assisted in blowing up 
 80 car loads of ammunition. At Bald Hill the 
 regiment performed distinguished service, driv- 
 ing Texas troops who had never before known 
 reverses. His regiment went to Savannah in 
 one of Sherman's columns and Mr. Gullifonl 
 was in all the varied service of that campaign 
 which terminated at Savannah, to be resumed 
 in January. He went from Savannah to Beau- 
 fort, S. C, thence to fight on the Pocotaligo 
 River and witnessed the burning of Columbia, 
 where Sherman did not order the destruction, 
 but moved his headquarters when the confla- 
 gration threatened his comfort. At Goldsboro 
 the regiment took a rest which was mucli 
 needed, having been in active warfare of some 
 variety 5(> days. At Raleigh news of Lee's 
 surrender and Lincoln's assassination was re- 
 ceived, after which the foot race to Washing- 
 ton, through Richmond and Petersburg was 
 made, and, after camping at Arlington Heights, 
 the regiment marched in the Grand Review. 
 After camping at (Jeorgetown Heights the 12lli 
 went to Louisville to be mustered out, July 
 16th, and thence to Madison for discharge 
 from the State service. 
 
 On his return to Sauk county he purchased 
 a farm on which he pursued agriculture 12 
 years and sold the place, moving thence to 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 379 
 
 North Freedom, where he embarked in a mer- 
 cantile enterprise, managing his relations there 
 two and a half years. In 1882, he located at 
 Reedsburg, where he began his commercial re- 
 lations, which he has since maintained and 
 conducts a business which includes traffic in 
 the commodities common to the grocery and 
 restaurant trade. He has served as Chaplain 
 of his Post and was a magistrate one year in 
 Tuckertown, Sauk county. 
 
 He was married in the township of Wash- 
 ington, Sauk county. May 30, 186G, to Mrs. 
 Olive Tinker, a native of the State of New 
 York. There are no children from this union, 
 but Mrs. GuUiford has two daughters Ijy her 
 former marriage. Sarah A. is the wife of -John 
 Kozak, of Iowa, and Frances married Herman 
 Hackett, of North Freedom. Mr. Gulliford 
 and his wife are members of the M. E. Church 
 and she is a member of the W. R. C. of Reeds- 
 burg. 
 
 
 -S A •«• 
 
 OHN NEAVILL, Treasurer of Grant 
 County, Wis., (1889) resident at Lan- 
 caster, was born at Council Hill, Jo 
 Daviess Co., 111., Jan 31, 1844; his father, John 
 D. Neavill, was born in Tennessee and his 
 mother, Maria L. Meredith before marriage, 
 was a native of Ohio. The families of which 
 both were members had become residents of 
 Illinois prior to the marriage of the parents, 
 who died when the son was still in boyhood. 
 Only one other child grew to maturity — James 
 H. Both were reared by an uncle and aunt in 
 Potosi, Grant Co., Wis. 
 
 John Neavill remained with his uncle, pass- 
 ing his early life in obtaining an education and 
 HI assisting his uncle in mining. Pie was just 
 17 when the affairs of the South became prom- 
 inent in what that section of the country 
 threatened and he had become interested in 
 
 passing events when Sumter was fired upon. 
 He early determined to enlist and in Septem- 
 ber, 1861, he enrolled in Company F, 10th 
 Wisconsin Infantr}', at Potosi, but was not 
 mustered, as he was absent when that cere- 
 monial was performed and his name was not 
 answered. But he was in readiness when his 
 comn)and went to the front and he left the 
 State Nov. 9, 1861, for Louisville and was in 
 all the movements of the regiment, marching 
 through Northern Kentucky, performing mili- 
 tary duty at Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek, 
 Bowling Green and elsewhere, but as he had 
 not been mustered he was not paid and he 
 resolved to return home and his lieutenant 
 obtained transportalion for him to Wisconsin. 
 He engaged about a year in clerking and then 
 attended Tafton academy in Bloomington, 
 whence he was graduated in 1863. He ob- 
 tained a position as clerk in Lancaster and 
 went to Crawford county where he again 
 enlisted after clerking for a short time. He 
 enrolled Dec. 18, 1864, in Company F, 49lh 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered at 
 Madison. After passing a few days at St. 
 Louis the command went to Rolla, Mo., wliere 
 Mr. Neavill was occupied in camp, guard, 
 patrol and escort duty, having occasionally a 
 scrimmage with bushwhackers. In August 
 following, the regiment returned to St. Louis 
 and did police duty at various points in the 
 city until discharged. While on duty escorting 
 a train to Springfield, Mr Neavill was taken 
 with typhoid fever, placed in the Post hospital 
 at Rolla and remained there twelve weeks, 
 being removed as soon as convalescent to 
 Marine hospital at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. 
 Five weeks later his discharge was ordered by 
 the surgeons, which he received Sept. 27, 1865. 
 This siege of sickness left him a pliysical wreck 
 with spinal disease and he was in an almost 
 hopeless state when sent home. His recovery 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 was soon assured and as soon as able to exert 
 liiinself, he engaged in teaching terms of win- 
 ter school and managing a kiniber yard during 
 other portions of the year. Until 1886 teach- 
 ing has been his principal occupation. In that 
 year he entered the employ of the Cirant County 
 Herald as outside agent and j)ursued that 
 occupation until November, 1888, when lie was 
 elected to the position of which he is still the 
 incumbent, on the liepublican ticket. 
 
 He was married Sept. 14, 1875, at Potosi, to 
 Myra, daughter of David and Susan (Wright) 
 Goodrich, and they have four children, named 
 Anna V., James G., .Libbie M. and J. Rae. 
 
 Mr. Neavill is one of the solid men of his 
 county in character and enjoys the esteem of 
 his generation and the confidence of his political 
 associates to an extraordinary degree. In the 
 winter of 1875 he served under the Sergeant- 
 at-Arms of the Assembly of Wisconsin and in 
 1878 was Assistant Postmaster of the Senate. 
 He is a resident i)roj)ei- of Potosi of which he 
 is Village Clerk. He is a member of Belknap 
 Fuqua Post at Potosi in which he has been 
 prominent officially. 
 
 -^«f^|g»J>^ 
 
 Sj/^^^x HARLES COLEMAN, Clerk of the 
 court of Sauk Co., Wis., resident at 
 Baraboo, Adjutant of G. A. K. Post 
 No. 9 (1890), was born Dec. 3, 1844, at Spring 
 Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis. His parents, 
 Horace and .Juliet (Merrick) Coleman, were 
 natives of the State of New York and came to 
 Wisconsin in 1836, 12 years before the Com- 
 monwealth took on the dignity of Statehood 
 and in 1848 they removed to Delaware Co., 
 New York, whence they returned to Wisconsin 
 in 1854 and located in Sauk county. 
 
 Mr. Coleman received a good education and 
 was still a resident under his father's roof when 
 
 he decided to enter the army, although he was 
 not quite 18 years old. He enlisted Sept. 20, 
 1861, in Companj' E, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 his regiment being organized at Camp Randall, 
 Madison, and leaving the State Jan. 11, 1862, 
 under orders to rejiort at Weston, Mo., whither 
 the command went under circumstances which 
 convinced them that the way of the volunteer 
 soldier was anything but pleasant. They went 
 tlience to Leavenworth Citj' and e.\j)eeted to 
 join an expedition under General Lane, going to 
 Fort Scott, for that purpose, marching the 
 whole distance and when the project was aban- 
 doned marched to Lawrence and thence to 
 Fort Riley, expecting to go to New Mexico. 
 All the marching proved vain as the expedi- 
 tion was abandont^d and they marched back to 
 Leavenworth and received orders to go to Ten- 
 nes.see to take part in the activities near 
 Corinth, but when they landed at Columbus, 
 Ky., affairs had changed and the 12th W^iscon- 
 sin engaged in repairs on the route thither, in 
 scouting and other military duty until ordered 
 to go to Humboldt, Tenn., where four months 
 were passed in guarding the location while 
 Grant was forming his plans for the capture of 
 Yicksburg and in November they started to- 
 wards Holly Springs, expecting to tight, but 
 Van Duni retreated and Mr. Coleman was in 
 the various movements with the command 
 during the late fall and until Van Dorn suc- 
 ceeded in scaring Colonel Murphy out of Holly 
 Springs. He was afterwards in railroad duty 
 and in January was in a long march in Missis- 
 sippi and Tennessee and in February was 
 engaged in guarding the Memphis & Charles- 
 ton railroad. He wsis in the fight at Coldwater, 
 went back to Memphis and thence in May the 
 regiment went to \'icksburg and was on duty 
 in the siege under constant fire until the sur- 
 render of the city. Mr. Coleman was in the 
 fight at Jackson and went afterwards to Natchez 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 381 
 
 and Vicksburg wliere lie re-enlisted and after 
 veteran furlough the regiment re-organized at 
 Cairo and joined the army of the Tennessee 
 preparatory to the siege of Atlanta and Mr. 
 Coleman was in the fight at Kenesaw Mountain, 
 Nickajack Creek and other movements at 
 Kenesaw, was in tlie command of General 
 McPherson, and encountered the risks of war 
 (luring an entire month. Mr. Coleman was in 
 the action at Bald Hill, in the fight of .July 22d 
 and in the charge six days later, being con- 
 stantly under fire until the movement of Sher- 
 man in the destruction of the railroads, when 
 he was in the action at Jonesboro, and again 
 at Lovejoy's. He was in the marching after- 
 wards and in one of Sherman's columns, went 
 to Savannah, being actively engaged everyday 
 in the operations of that campaign which broke 
 in two the back bone of the confederacy. He 
 was in all the service performed by his regi- 
 ment on the Pocotaligo River, on the Salke- 
 hatchie and at Orangeburg, Cheraw and Fay- 
 etteville, witnessing the battle of Bentonville 
 and afterwards marching to Goldsboro, Raleigh, 
 Richmond and AVashington and, after the 
 Grand Review, went to Louisville, Ky., to be 
 mustered out July 16, 1865. During the last 
 year of his military service he acted as an 
 Orderly at the headquarters of General 0. O. 
 Howard. 
 
 After returning to Wisconsin he engaged in 
 farming and in 1878 obtained from the Govern- 
 ment a commission as Pension Examiner in 
 which office he has since served. He acted 10 
 years as Town Clerk of Excelsior and has 
 served the same length of time as Justice of the 
 Peace. In 1888 he was elected Clerk of the 
 Court, his efficient and faithful work in many 
 official positions recommending him to the 
 place. He is a genial and popular citizen and 
 one who has won a permanent place in the 
 confidence of the community. He was mar- 
 
 ried in Excelsior, Wis., in 1870 to Martha 
 Eaton, a native of the State of New York, and 
 their children are named Gracia and Lillie. 
 Mr. Coleman is a member of the Order of Odd 
 Fellows — subordinate Lodge and Encampment, 
 and he belongs to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. 
 
 /(^^^ A. DOVE, Richland Center, Wis., 
 f^^ Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 33, 
 ^:=^-* • (1890) was born at Potsdam, New 
 York, April 15, 1840. His father, Charles 
 Dove, was born in London, England, and, when 
 18 years old, enlisted in the English army, 
 coming to America to fight in the war of 1812, 
 and in 1814 deserted and crossed from Canada 
 into the States and settled at Potsdam where 
 he resided until death. He married Mary 
 Steeple, also A native of England, their union 
 occurring at Potsdam, where she also died. Mr. 
 Dove is the youngest of 10 children and one of 
 three brothers who enlisted. His brother 
 Henry was a soldier in the 16th New York In- 
 fantry, enlisting in April, 1861 ; he was dis- 
 charged for disability and re-enlisted in the 
 13th New York Cavalry, and served in the 
 same command until the close of the war. 
 William belonged to Scott's "900" Cavalry regi- 
 ment three years. Mr. Dove was reared on his 
 father's farm, receiving a good education. 
 When he was 19 years old he left home to en- 
 gage as a farm assistant in which he was occu- 
 pied until he enlisted at Potsdam, Sept. 6, 1864, 
 in Company H, 13th New York Cavalry. He 
 was mustered at Malone, New York, and sent 
 to Washington, where the regiment was on 
 duty in the defenses surrounding the city and 
 having repeated skirmishes with Mosby's guer- 
 rillas and in one engagement in which a small 
 body of Union troops encountered a squad 
 under Mosby himself, the guerrilla chief was 
 
382 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 wounded. The principal service of the 13th j 
 was in skirmisliing, guarding the defenses of 
 Washington and carrying dispatches. Mr. 
 Dove received liis final discharge, after being 
 in all the exciting events attending the murder 
 of the President, the j)aradc in Washington 
 and other events at the Capital, July 4, 1SG5. 
 
 After his return to Potsdam he engaged in 
 carpenter work in that vicinity until 1877, the 
 date of his removal to Streator, 111., and he 
 was there engaged in similar occui)ations until 
 1879, when he went to Richland Center, Wis., 
 and established his permanent residence. 
 About 1880, he began the sale of furniture, in 
 which he has built up a considerable business. 
 
 He was married at Hopkintown, New York, 
 in 1871. His second marriage to Saraii J., 
 daughter of .John and Alta (Sheldon) Hender- 
 son, occurred in 1879 at llolyoke, Mass. ; Mrs. 
 Dove is a native of St. Lawrence county. New 
 York. Mr. Dove joined the G. A. R. Post in 
 Richland Center in 1885, and has served two 
 years as Adjutant. He has always been a Re- 
 publican of decided stamp, but never an ofHce- 
 seeker. His business is in prosperous con- 
 dition, bis i)rivate character of the best quality 
 and he is considered a valuable meniber of tlie 
 business fraternity of Ricliland Center. 
 
 ONATHAN G. PELTON, M. I)., Spring 
 Green, Sauk Co., Wis., charter member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 39, was born in 
 Genesee Co., New York, July 15, 1825. His 
 parents, Ansel and Rebecca (Gates) Pelton, re- 
 moved with their family to Wisconsin in 1850 
 and located on a farm near Madison and botli 
 died on that homestead. Dr. Pelton is their 
 only son and cliild and he was educated in the 
 common schools and academy at Lima, New 
 York. He commenced his medical course by 
 
 reading in Rochester, N. Y., and completed his 
 studies by the prescribed regime at Geneva 
 Medical College, whence he was graduated just 
 before he was 21 years old. As soon as his pro- 
 fession was finished he entered upon the duties 
 of the hos])ital at Puffalo as resident j)bysician. 
 The establishment was instituted under tlie ef- 
 forts of Dr. Frank Hamilton, one of the leading 
 physicians of Western New York, and others, 
 and Dr. Pelton was j>laceil in charge. After a 
 year of service he went to Wales in Erie county 
 and a few months later to Cartersville, near 
 Rochester, practicing tliere four years and re- 
 moving to jNIadison, Wis., where he conducted 
 the business of his profession until 1803. Dur- 
 ing the first year of tlie war he was interested 
 in recruiting lor tlie service and, until he en- 
 tered the army liimself, he was active in that 
 work. He was commissioned Surgeon of the 
 19th Wisconsin Infantry, but about the time 
 that command left the Slate, his mother was 
 seized with fatal illness and he was detained at 
 home until too late to go to the front with that 
 command. He removed to Spring Green in 
 1863, and practiced medicine until Dec. 18, 
 1804, when he accepted a commission in the 
 47th Wisconsin Infantry. He left Madison 
 Feb. 27, 1865, for Louisville, Nashville, Tulla- 
 homa and that vicinity, where the regiment 
 was engaged in guard duty on the railroad and 
 in other military ojierations, and lie had a busy 
 time in looking jifter the health and sanitary 
 conditions of his cliarge. Contagious diseases 
 were rife at that point, which caused an un- 
 usual degree of sickness and disability. He 
 was mustered out with his command Sept. 4, 
 1865, and returned to his home at Spring 
 Green, where he re-estal)lished a prosperous 
 business as a physician. He has also been en- 
 gaged to some extent, as opportunity served, in 
 the practice of law. He has never taken active 
 interest in politics, hut lias always discharged 
 
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 383 
 
 the duties of citizenship in the most consistent 
 iiiaiuier known to hiui. 
 
 He was married in Wyoming Co., New York, 
 Aj)ril 23, 1S46, to Fannie E., daughter of Harry 
 E. and Olive S. (Coon) Randall. She was born 
 in the State of New York. Two children born 
 to Dr. and Mrs. PeUon died in infancy. Five 
 cliildren are living; Byron is the manager of 
 the farm ; Mary Helen is the wife of Cliarles 
 M. Bixby of Chicago ; Ann Elizabeth married 
 (ieorge A. Sweet of Minneapolis, ]Minn. ; Olive 
 married Edward Guyer of Spring Green ; Ella 
 Rebecca is the youngest; George Edward and 
 John L. are deceased. 
 
 Dr. Pelton is a leading citizen of his section 
 and, although advanced in years, is still 
 actively engaged in the affairs of this life. He 
 is well known for his charity in his profession 
 and is a member of the Board of Pension 
 Examiners; he also officiates as surgeon of the 
 C, M. & St. P. R. R. corporation. He has been 
 Pension Examiner for 15 years and also Med- 
 ical Director of the Department of Wisconsin 
 in the Order of the G. A. R. 
 
 '^»'OHN II. TROGNER, Monticello, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 113 was 
 born in Eewis Co., New York, Dec. J3, 
 1843. His father, Joseph Trogner, was born 
 in Austria in 1805 and married Elizabeth Beck, 
 also of German birtii. They came to America 
 while still young and about 1830 located in 
 Lewis county on a farm on which they resided 
 18 years and went to Wisconsin in 1S4S, where 
 they settled on a farm in New Glarus and on 
 which their respective deaths occurred. The 
 death of the father occurred Marcli 19,- 1887, 
 tiie demise of the mother having been in March, 
 1872. One of their six children is deceased; 
 Joseph D. was an enlisted man in Company K, 
 
 16th Wisconsin Infantry, and died in hospital 
 at Cairo, 111., 1SG4. Mr. Trogner of this sketch 
 is fourth in order of birth and his brothers and 
 sisters are Mrs. Sarah Schlimsten, Mrs. Mary 
 Rolfe, George W., (who enlisted in Company 
 D, 38th Wisconsin Infantry,) and Mrs. Lizzie 
 Bruner. 
 
 Mr. Trogner was live years old when he 
 came to Wisconsin and he remained on the' 
 farm until his twentieth birthday, Dec. 13, 
 1803, when he enlisted in Company K, 16th 
 Wisconsin Infantry. He was mustered at 
 Madison and joined his regiment March 4, 
 1864, within the fortifications at Vicksburg, 
 going successively to Black River, Vicksburg, 
 Cairo, Paducah and Clifton, Tenn., whence the 
 regiment went to Rome, Ga., to connect with 
 Sherman, effecting that purpose at Kenesaw 
 Mountain, where Mr. Trogner was in his first 
 fighting May 15th and for days thereafter was 
 in constant activity, moving during the month 
 of June in reconnoissance and skirmishing and 
 went early in July to position for the fight at 
 Bald Hill, (Leggett's Hill) where he received a 
 gunshot wound on the 21st of July, the ball 
 setting up a permanent residence in his hip 
 from which it has never been dislodged. From 
 the field hospital lie was taken to the hospital 
 at Rome, Ga., and after two months received a 
 30-day furlougli. When it expired he reported 
 at Madison, but was detained there as unable 
 I to rejoin his regiment and he was discharged 
 May 29, 1SG5. As soon as able after returning 
 to his liome he resumed farming, which he 
 pursued at intervals as his wound permitted 
 until 1877, when he commenced the manufac- 
 ture of flour at Monticello, which business he 
 conducted in person nearly 12 years. His 
 health becoming impaired, he withdrew from 
 actual contact with his business and passed 
 about a year in bed. As soon as a little better 
 he undertook light labor in flouring mills, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 which he continued until April 28, 1889, when 
 tlie furniture liouse of Gerber & Troguer was 
 formed by the purchase b}^ Mr. Trogner of a 
 half interest in the enterprise, which is the 
 only 'establishment of the kind at Monticello. 
 He was married in 1871 at Dayton, Wis., to 
 Esther, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah 
 Robey, who was a native of Oliio and died 
 without children in 1873. Mr. Trogner was 
 again married Nov. 1, 1875, to Hattie A., 
 daughter of Theo. Z. and Lucia (Harper) Buck, 
 and of their four children, Zala Verne, tlie 
 second in order of birtli, died in infancy, the 
 survivors being Ora, Eveline and AValter. Mr. 
 Troguer is Adjutant of his Post (1889) and has 
 held the position three years. He has also 
 served two years as Junior Vice-Commander. 
 He is prominent in temperance work, and has 
 been for years connected with the Temple of 
 Honor and Good Templars. He also belongs 
 to the Order of United Workmen. He bears 
 an excellent reputation as a business man and 
 upright citizen. 
 
 'ILLIAM HARRISON BEACH, 
 
 Suj>erintendent of Schools at 
 Madison, Wis., (1889) member of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 11, was born in Seneca Co., 
 New York, Oct. 8, 1835, and is tlie son of Elam 
 and Hannah (Edwards) Beach. His father was 
 born at Stratford, Conn., and the mother in 
 Albany in the Empire State. The Edwards 
 family traces its origin to a prominent adher- 
 ent of Cromwell who fled from England ou tlie 
 restoration of Charles II. in 1658 and located 
 in Connecticut. The ancestors of the Beach 
 family came from England and settled near 
 New Haven in 1G50. The grandfather of Pro- 
 fessor Beach, Isiat'l Beach, was a soldier at 
 Bunker Hill ; his father became a resideut of 
 
 Seneca County, New York, in 1818. The pa- 
 rents had six children of whom the subject of 
 this sketch was fifth in order of birth. In 
 1857, he entered Hamilton College, whence he 
 was graduated with honors in 1860. He re- 
 ceived prizes in mathematics and chemistry 
 and also as an essayist. His graduating effort 
 was the Philosophical Oration of his class. 
 
 The antagonism between the Nortli and 
 ] South came to a culmination in less than a 
 year after he finished his educational course ; 
 and he was among the first to recognize his re- 
 sponsibility and duty and made haste to give 
 tangible expression to the spirit which he had 
 received by natural inheritance and from his 
 relations to the work of the world of which he 
 had become cognizant in the yeai's of his pre- 
 paration for active participation therein. The 
 first regiment of cavalry authorized to be raised 
 was known as the Lincoln Cavalry, afterwards 
 assigned to the State of New York. (The op- 
 position of General Scott to cavalry had recog- 
 nized weight with the Administration, and Mr. 
 Lincoln authorized the organization of the 1st 
 New York Cavalry, which was also known 
 under the designations "Independent" and 
 "Lincoln.") 
 
 Mr. Beach joined the regiment in May, 1861, 
 enlisting in Company B, and rendezvoused witli 
 tho command at New York. In the summer, its 
 quartei's were transferred to the vicinity of the 
 Army of Virginia, and it remained at Wash- 
 ington, Alexandria and Fairfax Seminary until 
 the spring of 1862, engaged in all the variety 
 of duty incident to cavalry drill and service. 
 After passing through all the disasters and 
 heavy service of the Peninsula camj)aign, the 
 1st New York Cavalry went to Fredericksburg, 
 remaining a few weeks under Burnside. After 
 the repulse of Pope, the regiment returned to 
 Alexandiia and wont thence to Maryland for 
 active and unrcuiitting service, the soldiers 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 385 
 
 being almost constantly in the saddle. Septem- | 
 ber 12tli the regiment was one of the first to 
 enter the city in the advance of the troops of 
 McClellan. As the cavahy rode through the ' 
 streets through which Stonewall Jackson's had 
 so lately marched under the " Flag of Free- ] 
 dom," waved above their heads from its historic 
 "broken staff" by Barbara Fritchie, the Stars 
 and Stripes flew from multitudes of windows. 
 The cavalry brigade to which the regiment 
 belonged was sent to Gettysburg to watch 
 developments. Returning b}' forced marches 
 it arrived on the field of Antietam just before 
 the battle was over. In a spirited action at 
 Williamsport a few days later they gave a part- 
 ing salute to the rel^els as they retii'ed aci'oss 
 the Potomac. The regiment then reported to 
 General Kelly at Cumberland and were 
 assigned to duty on the Baltimore & Ohio R. 
 R., where their experiences were of the sever- 
 est character, hardly a night passing without 
 their picket posts being attacked, and, alto- 
 gether, some of the most thrilling adventures 
 of the command occurred while in this connec- 
 tion and service. Schemes for ascertaining con- 
 ditions and surroundings were constantly in 
 progress, and scouts and spies were constantly 
 in service for the benefit of the Union com- 
 manders. In one instance a detachment from 
 the 1st New York Cavalry made a dasli on Im- 
 boden at Cacapon Bridge, capturing the camp 
 of the rebel chief and more than 30 of liis com- 
 mand. They were occupied in this service un- 
 til orders came for a movement to the Shenau- 
 doali Valley. Arriving at North Mountain, 
 two Lieutenants with 27 men were sent on a 
 scout towards Winchester, the affair resulting 
 in an attack on a post of 40 rebels, of whom 15 
 were captured after a spirited chase of five 
 miles. The command was in camp at Win- 
 clu'ster and Berryville engaged almost daily in 
 
 When Ewell advanced in the movement of Lee 
 on his Gettysburg campaign, the Lincoln 
 Cavalry was the first of the Federal troops to be 
 intercepted and the onset was so unexpected 
 that the tents and all equipage were abandoned. 
 At Opequan Creek, a hand-to-hand encounter 
 took place, in which the fpiality of the fighting 
 was equal to much that has been made bright- 
 est on the pages of history. In no warfare the 
 world has ever known has descriptive justice 
 been accorded to the service performed by 
 cavalry and only in personal relations can any 
 adequate idea of its character be obtained. The 
 command of Milroy fought two days at Win- 
 chester and were overpowered as they attempted 
 to withdraw by a midnight retreat. But Ewell 
 had anticipated this attempt and a strong force 
 barred their path. After some desperate fight- 
 ing and heavy loss a portion of the brigade 
 escaped, crossed the Potomac at Hancock, going 
 thence to Bedford, Bloody Run and McConnells- 
 burg. At the latter place. Captain Abram 
 Jones of Company A, commanding a detail 
 from the regiment had a street fight and cap- 
 tured 30 rebels. Skirmishing constantly oc- 
 curred until after the battle of Gettysburg, and 
 as Lee was falling back, Captain Jones, with 
 120 men, made a dash on the rebel trains, cap- 
 turing 137 wagons, two guns and 700 prisoners, 
 most of whom were too weary to make an ef- 
 fort to escape. The quarters of the i-egiment 
 afterwards were at Martinsburg and Charles- 
 town, and in January, 1804, veteranizing took 
 l>lace, most of the command re-enlisting. 
 
 When the campaign of 1864 opened, the 
 regiment was assigned to the command of 
 Sigel and with "Boyd's" Cavalry, with which 
 it was brigaded, became famous. The special 
 service performed by the Lincoln Cavalry in 
 the scout u\) the Luray Valley would have 
 made it jTi-ominent in history, if no other con- 
 
 scouting ant! in contest with Mosby's gufrrillas. nection in tills rutxnd had <lone so. Tluonj, 
 
386 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 its operalioiis at Newmarket, the condition of 
 affairs was exposed, wliicli led to the substitu- 
 tion of Hunter in place of Sigel. But it cost 
 140 out of oUO men who ran into a trap set by 
 Imboden and Mosby, with 2,000 troops, includ- 
 ing cavalry, infantry a ntl artillery. Mr. Beach 
 was in all the activities of the operations tliat 
 followed. He fought at Port Republic, Pied- 
 mont, Staunton, Lynchburg and Salem, re- 
 treated tlinnigh West ^"irginia to the Ohio 
 River experiencing in this retreat all tliej)riva- 
 tions known to army men, starvation being 
 most prominent among the trials. From Park- 
 ersburg, they returned by rail to the Shenan- 
 doah, fought under Crook at Winchester, fell 
 back to Martinsburg and, after McCausland 
 burned Chambersburg, the command was as- 
 signed to the force of Averill, who received 
 orders to follow the devastator. Forced 
 marches, night and day, culminated in an 
 overtaking at Moorefield, before daybreak, 
 August Ttli, and the enemy's videttes, with the 
 entire j)icket force, was captured witiiout alarm. 
 One of McCausJand's camps was completely 
 routed, artillery, wagons and 450 prisoners be- 
 ing taken. The rear brigade of Averill's Divi- 
 sion was ordered to the front and to cross the 
 South Brancii of the Potomac River, which 
 was deep and rapid, its bottom being covered 
 with round stones; 130 men of the 1st New 
 York Cavalry under Ca])tain Jones were in the 
 advance, and the command under Major Gib- 
 son of the 14th Pennsylvania pressed across. 
 The cavalry followed a narrow, muddy road a 
 mile and a half, passing a corn Held to the left 
 in which the high corn hindered their seeing 
 what was beyond it. A party of rebels in the 
 road in front was driven back, and the 1st New 
 York Cavalry deployed in an open meadow, on 
 the further side of whicli about 1,000 rebels 
 were in line of battle, skirinisiiers in front and 
 Hankers on their right. Not a man of the little 
 
 band but knew tlie results of flinching at that 
 moment and when their captain ordered "For- 
 ward ; yell, men, yell," they charged straight 
 into the center of the rebel line, which broke 
 and fled. The Union Cavalry pursued several 
 miles, capturing many prisoners, whose saddle 
 bags were filled with the plunder from Ciiam- 
 bersburg. When Sheridan took command of 
 the aft'aics in the valley, the 1st New 
 York Cavalry was assigned to the force of the 
 " Great Captain " and Mr. Beacii was with the 
 troops that sent Early " whirling up the valley " 
 on the 19th of October, followed and fought 
 at Fisher's Hill, and the routed rebels were 
 pursued to Mt. Jackson. The devastation of 
 the valley by the Union troops after the victory 
 at Fisher's Hill is well known. Tiie 1st New 
 York accompanied Sheridan throughout the 
 closing scenes that preceded the end of tlie war. 
 In 18G4 Professor Beach was made 2d Lieu- 
 tenant, later was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
 and afterwards to Adjutant of tiie regiment. 
 He was mustered out as such July 7, ISfio, in 
 New York. 
 
 He returned to his home and was occupied 
 on the farm until 1807, when lie assumed 
 charge of the High School at Dubuque, Iowa, 
 as Principal, which he conducted until 1875, 
 the date of liis appointment as principal of a 
 school of a higher grade at Boloit, \\'is. In 
 July, 1884, he received a call to his present 
 position in which he is faithfully discharging 
 his obligations. He is a man of rare scholarly 
 attainments, an educator of experience and suc- 
 sess and a gentleman whose position in his 
 relations to Madison is of a type which reilects 
 creditably on his claims to recognition as a 
 man, soldier and patriot. 
 
 He was married Dec. 20, 1867, to Sarah M. 
 Peterson, of Canaga, New York ; she is a native 
 of the Empire State and is allied to a branch of 
 the \'anderliilt fainilv. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 387 
 
 Professor Beach is an active Grand Army 
 man, a member of the Wisconsin Commandery 
 of the Loyal Legion and belongs to tlie State 
 Historical Society ; he is an elder in the Pres- 
 byterian Church. The quality of the blood to 
 which he belongs is manifested by the brother- 
 hood of which he is one. Thompson Beach 
 served in the 50th New York Engineers and 
 Myron IL was a soldier in a three-months regi- 
 ment from Iowa. Pierson B. Peterson, a 
 brother-in-law, Adjutant of the 78th New York 
 Infantry, was mortally wounded at Antietam ; 
 Charles R. Peterson, a member of the same 
 company, in the fall of 18G2 in a skirmish at 
 Pohick Church had a rebel bullet flattened on 
 the clasp of his sabre belt ; was wounded and 
 his horse was shot at Hancock, and he was 
 taken prisoner at New Market ; Dr. Wilson 
 Peterson was in the war as a surgeon. 
 
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 y<^ DWARD L. DOOLITTLE, Menomonie, 
 
 Wis., 
 
 was born Dec. 17, 1826, in Canandai- 
 gua. New York. His father, Edward L. Doo- 
 little, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 22, 
 1799, and was the son of a settler of that 
 State, of English descent. His wife, Sarah 
 Williams before marriage, was born May 30, 
 1798, in New York of Scotch parentage, and 
 she and her husband both died in Canandaigua, 
 the former, Nov. 20, 1876, and the latter. May 
 21, 1861. Their children were Myron 0., 
 Amanda M., Edward L., Amos D., Stillman R., 
 Lyman W., John Adams, James Madison and 
 Mary A., all born in Canandaigua, and all liv- 
 ing but Lyman and Amanda. The son was 
 reared on a farm until he was 21 years old, and 
 in 1847 started to look at the promised land of 
 which he had heard so much — the West. He 
 iiad no intention of remaining, but he has 
 never returned to his native State. After pros- 
 
 pecting a while he located at Madison and 
 worked as a shoemaker until 1859, when he 
 went to Dunnville, Dunn county, and engaged 
 in farming near there. He was engaged in 
 agriculture when he entered the army, enlist- 
 ing in April, 1864, to be assigned to Company 
 G, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, March 20, 1864. 
 He proceeded immediately to the front and 
 found his regiment in "hell" in the trenches of 
 Petersburg. (See sketch of C. K. Pier.) The 
 first night he lay in the rifle pits and listened 
 to the .shrieking of shot and shell and made a 
 failure of sleeping. He fought days and 
 dodged .shot, and worked nights and dodged 
 shells with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 
 9th Corps, commencing duty on the day after 
 arrival as a Sergeant, in which capacity he had 
 been mustered. He was in the vai-ied activi- 
 ties until the explosion of the mine, July 30th, 
 and was in the assault on the crater, receiving 
 a wound from a bullet in the upper part of his 
 leg and from a shell in the lower leg. He re- 
 mained on duty until four o'clock in the after- 
 noon, when orders were issued for the men to 
 look out for themselves, which he found a difli- 
 cult matter as he could not run. He was taken 
 prisoner, reported mi.ssing and his friends sup- 
 posed he was dead. He was sent to Danville, 
 where he was given the privilege of taking 
 care of his wounds himself and was paroled 
 and sent to Annapolis, where he exjiected to 
 lose his leg as such was the decision of the 
 rebel surgeons. He remained in hospital at 
 Annapolis about two months, was furloughed 
 and went home; he went to Madison in De- 
 cember, rejoining his regiment in February, 
 where he left it — in the trenches before Peters- 
 burg. April 2d, he was in line in Fort Sedg- 
 wick ready for the assault on Fort Mahone, or 
 "Fort Damnation," where one of the boldest 
 charges of the war was made. But they drove 
 the rebels out and kept them out with their 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 own guns. He acted as Orderly Sergeant in 
 this action which was the virtual surrender of 
 the whole confederacy. With the exception of 
 six days passed in* Washington, Mr. Doolittle 
 was in the siege of Petershurg throughout after 
 rejoining his regiment and in unremitting ac- 
 tion. After a night at Petersburg he went in 
 the pursuit and followed the rebels to the 
 Southside railroad, going thence to Washing- 
 ton to the Grand Review in May after the sur- 
 render of the rebel chiefs. He was mustered 
 out at Delaney House, July 27, 1865, and re- 
 turned to Madison, where he was discharged. 
 June 13, 1865, he was commissioned 2d Lieu- 
 tenant, and, July 24th following, was made 1st 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 He returned home to Menomonie and en- 
 gaged about two years with the Knapp <fe 
 Stout Co. Company, and in 1868 was appointed 
 Under Sheriff. In 1872 he was elected Sheriff 
 on the Republican ticket and served two years. 
 He served two subsequent terms as Under 
 Slieriff and has acted in the capacities of City 
 Marshal and Deputy U. S. Marshal, also as 
 Deputy Sheriff. He was married July 4, 1849, 
 at Madison, to Naomi, daughter of R. M. and 
 Lavinia (Shrigley) Taffelmire. She was born 
 in Canada, her mother being a native of the 
 Dominion and her father of Michigan ; both 
 are deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Doolittle are named Myron F., Edgar S., Lida 
 E., Milton 0. and Sarah A. Tlie latter mar- 
 ried Franklin Taylor and is deceased. The 
 sons are all married. Mrs. Doolittle is a mem- 
 ber of tlio Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
 ■ ILL! AM CAMP SETTLE, Mon- 
 roe, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 112, was born a slave in 
 Rockingham Co., North Carolina, and, like 
 many of his peoi)le, has no knowledge of 
 
 paternity, ancestry or kin. When he was seven 
 years old, or thereabouts, he was bought by 
 Benjamin Settle, a planter near Moscow, Tenn. 
 His experience as tlie property of another man 
 was that of those whose stories have so often, 
 in the generations now gone, stirred to indig- 
 nation the best citizenship of tiie North ; he 
 has passed through " staking out, " " stripping 
 naked " and whippings that left deep furrows 
 in his flesh, and which were afterwards washed 
 with water mixed with salt and pepper for rea- 
 sons which every brutal villain who ever in- 
 flicted such outrages on the form of humanity, 
 understands better than any other. Tlie mas- 
 ter, Mr. Settle, was a rebel recruiting officer when 
 the civil war came on and when the Union 
 troops came near Moscow his estate on legs, 
 called William, some time in September, 1862, 
 appropriated a horse on which he rode to the 
 Union lines in the neighborhood and he en- 
 tirely forgot to go back. He found shelter and 
 protection with the 10th Iowa In fan trj' and fol- 
 lowed the fortunes of that command about a 
 year. He waited on officers and cooked and 
 also went into action at Ciiampion's Hill. In 
 a skirraisli with guerrillas he received several 
 wounds and still carries the bullets in his body. 
 He left the regiment and found employ among 
 the officers of General Quimby's staff", and after 
 the fall of Vicksburg went to Toledo, Tama 
 Co., Iowa. In August, 1864, he enlisted in 
 Company C, 60tii regiment, C. T., and went to 
 Davenport, Iowa, and thence to Helena, Ark., 
 to connect with the command. He went next 
 to Frazer's Point, on the Mississippi, where he 
 was in a skirmish and fought at Cotton Plant, 
 the troops being surrounded by Kirby Smitli, 
 but were relieved by a cavalry command. He 
 was taken sick at Little Rock, Ark., and was in 
 hospital two months. Witli this excejition he 
 served tliroughout with the regiment and was 
 honorably discharged at Jacksonport, Ark., 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 391 
 
 Sept. 12, 1865. He went again to Toledo, 
 Iowa, and engaged on a farm, working by the 
 month until 1877, when he engaged in the 
 business of a barber at Vinton, Iowa. After 
 three years lie went to Independence, in the 
 same State, and operated as a barber until he 
 went to Delhi, Delaware Co., Iowa, thence to 
 Grant Co., Wis., where he remained a year. In 
 1882 he went to Monroe, where he is engaged 
 in a good business as a barber, and enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of the community. He 
 is the first representative of his race who has 
 been admitted on these pages ; he is a worthy 
 man, whose little history shows all the features 
 of the war from its cause to its termination. 
 
 
 /^^ ENERAL JOHN BENTON CALLIS, 
 1' ^,^ j| ^ resident at Lancaster, Wis., a charter 
 ^<^>^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 132, 
 was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina, .Jan. 
 3, 1828. His paternal ancestry was of Hugue- 
 not origin and French nativity ; his mother, 
 Christina Benton before marriage, was of Scotch 
 extraction. His father, Henry Callis, was a 
 farmer and removed from North Carolina to 
 Tennessee in 1834 and thence to Grant county, 
 Wisconsin, in 1840. The parents were pioneer 
 settlers in Lancaster and there passed the re- 
 mainder of their lives. The General and two 
 sisters — Mrs. James Barnett and Mrs. Jeremiah 
 Garner of Lancaster — were their only children 
 and all are living. 
 
 The son obtained such education as was pos- 
 sible for the son of a pioneer, subjected to all 
 the hardships and privations which are the 
 earliest resources of an unsettled locality, but 
 they only served to stimulate his intellect, 
 inspire his ambition and impress his under- 
 standing with the responsibilities of a boy who 
 shall, in time, take his position as a laborer in 
 
 the world's work ; of which such boys proba- 
 bly have the best possible opportunity to know 
 what the world demands of them. Wiscon- 
 sin ranks many such on her roll of honor. 
 Young Callis cherished a hope of a profession 
 and studied medicine with Dr. J. H. Higgins 
 of Lancaster, but he was of too active a tem- 
 perament to be .satisfied with the routine of a 
 course of study in an office and, lacking the 
 i financial requisites for broad gauge prepara- 
 \ tion, he prefewed work and went to St. Paul, 
 Minn., in 1848, where he obtained a contract, 
 associated with John R. Irvin to build Fort 
 Gaines (now Fort Ripley) at the confluence of 
 the Crow Wing river with the Mississippi, 300 
 miles north of St. Paul. (In this he was asso- 
 ciated also with Captain Todd, a brother of Mrs. 
 Lincoln.) In 1851, he crossed the plains to 
 California, where he engaged in varied opera- 
 tions, mining at various points and selling 
 goods. In 1853 he went to Central America, 
 sailing from Grey town for New York, whence 
 he returned to Lancaster in the autumn of the 
 same year. He was occupied in mercantile 
 pursuits until the outbreak of Southern hostil- 
 ities, when his impetuous nature instigated him 
 to lay aside all personal considerations and he 
 was instrumental in raising a company which 
 was assigned to the 7th Wisconsin as Company 
 F, of which he was made Captain. It will 
 suffice to state that until after Gettysburg 
 the history of the 7th Wisconsin, in all its 
 brilliant and effective bravery, is that of Gen- 
 eral Callis, as he was identified with every suc- 
 cessive movement. The entire brigade, known 
 to history and to appreciative generations since, 
 as the " Iron Brigade, " was occupied in every 
 specie of military duty common to the opening 
 of one of the greatest conflicts ever known in the 
 history of the world, and the marvel of that 
 period is that more serious blunders tiian 
 occurred did not happen to defer and prolong 
 
392 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the ultimatum, which proved the latent 
 strength of a class of people wlio had never 
 considered the possibility of being called to 
 fight for their inlieritance of Union and Lib- 
 erty. In the fight at Gainesville, (claimed by 
 some as the field where the " Iron Brigade " 
 was christened in blood) all the field officers and 
 captains ranking Captain Callis were killed or 
 disabled and the command of the regiment 
 devolved on liini. (Aug. 28, 18G2.) He re- 
 tained that rehition in the succeeding move- 
 ments, conducting the operations of tlie 7th at 
 South Mountain and Antietam and on the 
 Rappahannock, figliting at Fredericksburg. 
 Early in 1S63 he was promoted to the rank of 
 Major, and accompanied the 7th in the expedi- 
 tions into Virginia. Before the month of i 
 March he was jiromoted Lieutenant-Colonel 
 and took j)art in the disasters of the spring 
 campaign, culminating in the battle of Chan- 
 cellorsville. At Gettysburg he received his 
 crowning lionors as a soldier who had risen 
 from the ranks, so to speak ; while at the 
 head of his command on the 1st day 
 of July, ISGo, he Mas slightly wounded, 
 about nine o'clock in tlie morning, but 
 did not abandon his post; and he con- 
 tinued to fight in the charge on the 
 ridge, which resulted in the capture of the en- 
 tire brigade of (ieneral Archer and in wliich 
 Colonel Fairchild was injured. In the after- 
 noon General Callis received a bullet in his 
 chest which injured the liver and passed into the 
 lung, where it still remains. lie lay on the 
 field 43 hours, the rebels, in their succeeding 
 movements, passing over him, and General ! 
 Early provided a guard for him as prisoner of 
 war, Init he was finally taken to tiie house of a 
 Mr. Buehler, in Gettysburg, wliere, three weeks 
 after, he was joined by Mrs. Callis, and the care- 
 ful nursing he received resulted in such im- 
 provement that he was able at the end of three 
 
 months to be placed on a rubber bed on a 
 stretcher and brought to Wisconsin. He re- 
 ceived mnster out Dec. 24, 1863, being wholly 
 incapacitated for the service on the field during 
 the remainder of the war. As soon as suffi- 
 ciently recovered to i-esume his interest in civil 
 life, he purchased a flouring mill at Annaton, 
 and managed its relations through an agent a 
 few months. His fierj- temperament was illy 
 satisfied with his inactivity, while there were 
 good fighting opportunities in the service he 
 found agreeable to his disposition, and, in 1804, 
 he connected himself with the Veteran Corps, 
 and wa.s appointed by President Lincoln Mili- 
 tary Superintendent of the War Department at 
 Washington, with the rank of Major. During 
 the raid of Early he was carried in an ambu- 
 lance to Fort Sumner, where he was in the 
 fighting made effective by timely aid from the 
 Gth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Soon 
 after the close of hostilities, when the Depart- 
 ment was conferring its testimonials of appre- 
 ciation of special gallantry. General Callis was 
 made Lieutentant-Colonel and Colonel, and, 
 later, Brigadier-General, for meritorious con- 
 dnct (luring the war and especially at Gaines- 
 ville, South Mountain and Antietam and Gettys- 
 burg. He was made a Captain in the regular 
 army, assigned to the 45th U. S. Infantry, and 
 stationed at Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted 
 in the reconstruction of affiiirs in his military 
 district, for which service he received the com- 
 mendation of the authorities at Washington. 
 During his connection with the Freedmen's 
 Bureau, he interfered with the punishment of 
 a colored girl at the whipping post by her 
 Legree, self-styled master, the brute having 
 never recognized the Emancipation Act, and 
 conducting his relations with his former slaves 
 precisely as if nothing had taken place. Gen- 
 eral Callis, by virtue of his authority as an of- 
 ficer of tlie Government, ordered him to desist, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 393 
 
 and on his refusing he thrust him tlirough on 
 tiie spot with his saber. The chivalry of 
 Huntsville appreciated the daring exliibited 
 by "tlie d — d Yankee " and presented him a 
 gokl watch, the scenes of the whipping and 
 "sword feat" being engraved on tlie back and 
 front of tlie tine hunting case. In the course 
 of the day on which the presentation by a 
 colored man took place, a drunken fire-eater 
 took it into his head he had been insulted by 
 General Callis and called on him with his 
 friends for an apology or to challenge to a duel. 
 General Callis tried expostulation until his tem- 
 per gave way, when, as the challenged party, 
 with a right to choice of conditions, he ordered 
 assistants to bring bowie knives and some 
 '■ horses " formerly used in repairs and a plank 
 on which himself and his Southern friend, 
 after having donned cavalry breeches with 
 buckskin seats were to be nailed face to face ; 
 and " then, " said Callis, between his teeth, " I 
 will cut your heart out, sir." This not suiting 
 tlie high-toned ideas of followers of the code, 
 they demurred and were ordered from the 
 office with more force than elegance. The dis- 
 comfited Southerner afterwards apologized for 
 his conduct and became the staunch supporter 
 of his former foe. 
 
 Feb. 4, 1868, General Callis resigned his 
 commission and devoted his attention to civil 
 pursuits. Soon after, he was elected to the 
 40th Congress from the 5th District of Ala- 
 bama, receiving a majority which demon- 
 strated his poj)ularity witii former ene- 
 mies, arising from their admiration of his 
 dauntless courage and fearlessness of danger 
 in the defense of his country and his principles 
 of patriotism. His seat was contested by Gen- 
 eral Burke, but his claim was sustaineil and he 
 transacted business as a legislator in the best 
 interests of his Southern constituency and in a 
 manner perfectly in keeping with his character. 
 
 July 21, 1868, he was made member of Com- 
 mittee on Enrolled Bills, and be was the father 
 of the original " Ku-Klux Bill," which passed 
 the House to be killed in the Senate of the 40th 
 Congress, but which was passed by the 42d 
 Congress. He introduced three bills providing 
 for the establishment of mail routes in Ala- 
 bama and five bills for the removal of political 
 disabilities from Southern citizens; he also in- 
 troduced a bill granting a loan of $5,000,000 
 of the 5 per cent, bonds of the United States 
 to the New Orleans & Selnia R. R. and Immi- 
 grant Association, and a bill granting lands in 
 the State of Alabama to the Tennessee & 
 Coosa R. R. Co. At the termination of the 
 40tli Congress, he resigned his seat and re- 
 turned to Lancaster. 
 
 He established a real-estate and insurance 
 business which he conducted until 1874, when 
 lie was elected to the Legislature of Wisconsin 
 as a reformer in politics. (In bis earliest polit- 
 ical connection, General Callis was an old-line 
 Whig ; he was then a member of the Republi- 
 can party and since 1872 has ranked as a 
 "Reformer." Among his treasured possessions 
 are a complete file of " Annals of Congress " 
 since 1790, and there is no bettor posted man 
 in the legislative histoiy of this country.) As 
 a member of the Assembly of this State he 
 served as Chairman of Committee on Incorpo- 
 rations and on State Laiuls, and was a member 
 of .loint Committee to settle the Excise Law — a 
 formulated bill passing both Houses. 
 
 From the foregoing the character of General 
 Callis may be inferred. His temperament is 
 impetuous, but his discretion is of a type to 
 preclude hasty and ill-advised action, although 
 in emergencies he is not a man to pause to 
 counsel with tardy caution. He is still a suf- 
 ferer from his wounds, the bullet in bis lungs 
 causing great pain and danger to life. But he 
 has, nevertheless, continued to take unabated 
 
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 interest in tlie affairs of active existence and 
 especially in matters relating to soldiers. He was 
 a member of the 2d Provisional Post of Nash- 
 ville, Teun., and afterwards a charter member 
 of the Post at Lancaster. Since coming of age 
 he has been a Mason and belongs to the Chap- 
 ter. He was for many 3'cars actively interested 
 in matters pertaining to the Order of Odd 
 Fellows, but of late years has not been identi- 
 fied with that fraternity. 
 
 He was married in 1855 to Mattie Barnett of 
 Lancaster. She was born near Pittsburg, Pa., 
 and is the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth 
 Barnett. Five children are recorded as follows : 
 Frank B., John B., Mrs. .Jeannette E. Meyer, 
 Mi's. Jessie B. McCoy and Mrs. Bessie E. McCoy. 
 
 The portrait of General Callis is presented 
 on page 390 with those of three comrades of 
 the Iron Brigade. 
 
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 "ILLIAM W. RYAN, Baraboo, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 9, was born July 4, 1827, on 
 his father's farm on which the family had 
 lived for generations in Kilcummin Parish, 
 County Kerry, Ireland, within full view of the 
 beautiful Killarney Lakes. His first schooling 
 was obtained in a common " hedge " school 
 until he was old enough to work. The fireside 
 tales and legends of war aroused in him a 
 longing to know the use of firearms and the 
 only way to gratify the folly was by experi- 
 mental knowledge and at 18 he set out for 
 London to enlist in the British service. He 
 found the opportunity he sought, with little 
 trouble, and went to Portsmouth where he 
 enrolled for 10 years in the Royal Sajij^ers and 
 Miners. Headquarters were at Woolwich, 10 
 miles from London, and Ixfure several years 
 
 had passed Mr. Ryan realized that he bad 
 exchanged 10 years of his young life for small 
 remuneration. Wearying of the monotony 
 and desiring to enter the ranks of life with men 
 of activity he determined in the fall of 1848 
 that he had fired at a mark long enough for 
 all practical purposes and invested £35 sterling 
 in obtaining his liberty and records it a large 
 price for useless experience. In July, 1849, he 
 went to London and was married to Ellen 
 Sheehan on the 16th by Rev. Father Colter at St. 
 George's Cathedral. Aug. 22, 1849, found him 
 on a sailing vessel bound for the city of New 
 York and there he " took his first breath of 
 unadulterated freedom since he was born." 
 His faithful wife joined him in 1851 and about 
 1856 they settled in Wisconsin in Dekorra, 
 Columbia county. 
 
 Mr. Ryan became at once an enthusiastic son 
 of the Republic, adopted all the issues of the 
 Nation and when rebellion threatened, felt in 
 duty bound to use all his influence to assist 
 enlisting. He was instrumental in raising a 
 company of volunteers in the township and 
 some progress was made in drill and military 
 knowledge, but the spring was not the season 
 to be away from the farm and, when Mr. Ryan 
 decided in June, 1861, to enlist he could only 
 rally six out of 40 men who had chosen him 
 as Captain. But, later, they all enlisted and 
 served honorably for their country. He enrolled 
 June 12th and was mustered Aug. 16, 1861, in 
 Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, Captain 
 George Bill enrolling him and CapUviu Mc- 
 Intyre mustering him as Orderly Sergeant. 
 His experiences are told with the records of 
 the soldiers of the 7th on many pages of this 
 work and, April 10, 1862, he was promoted 2d 
 Lieutenant of his company, to rank from Feb- 
 ruary 18th. July 10th, 1862, he was promoted 
 to 1st Lieutenant to rank from July 3d, and 
 was in conunand uf liir company in tlie battle 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 395 
 
 of Gainesville, August 28tli and in the suc- 
 cessive actions on the 29th and 30th. He was 
 in tlie subsequent movements in Maryland 
 and was in command of Company B at South 
 Mountain. The company had been fearfully 
 depleted in its late experiences, in which it 
 had lost the services of its ofticers, but Captain 
 Ryan records that a better disciplined or braver 
 lot of men never pulled a trigger ; it was hard 
 work at South Mountain to restrain them from 
 firing the last of their " 40 rounds " besides a 
 great number of others taken from the cartridge 
 boxes of the brave dead on the field. Cajitain 
 Ryan was much worn, but remained witli his 
 company until he reached the field of Antietam, 
 September 17th, when the regimental surgeon, 
 Dr. Cooper Ayres, sent him to the rear to re- 
 cuperate. 
 
 Cajitain Ryan led his company April 29th at 
 Fitz Hugh's Crossing when the 7th Wisconsin 
 was in line on the banks of the Rappahannock, 
 his command occupying a position on the ex- 
 treme left ; he saw two row boats crossing some 
 distance below and he " left faced " his company 
 thither, but records " there was no trouble in 
 stowing what was left of my brave boys in the 
 two small boats; I am not capable of doing 
 them Justice and it is the pride of my life to 
 have had the honor of commanding such men 
 on many a battle field." He was standing in 
 one of the boats issuing orders, when he was 
 shot through both lungs and was taken im- 
 mediately ashore, " the gallant and generous 
 Captain Hollon Richardson," coming to his 
 assistance. (See sketch.) That officer sup- 
 ported Lieutenant Ryan's head on his foot 
 while eagerly scanning the space for assistance 
 and while standing thus a shot took away the 
 boot heel of Richardson, who took not the 
 slightest notice of his danger but assisted the 
 wounded man to a stretcher, detailing a soldier 
 to nurse him at Fitzhugh hospital. Nine 
 
 days elapsed before Lieutenant Ryan realized 
 his injury, but when he recovered consciousness 
 he was lying on a feather bed brought to him 
 by Sergeant O'Connor, with pillows and bed 
 clothing such as he had known at home, and 
 Lieutenant Ryan believes they saved his life. 
 (See sketch of A. O'Connor.) Captain Ryan 
 writes : — " That God-send feather bed accom- 
 panied me to Washington where I presented it 
 to a poor old lady who was begging for alms, 
 and it was a God-send to her as well as to me." 
 He was sent afterwards to hospital St. Aloysius 
 and cared for by the Sisters and skilled sur- 
 geons until he obtained sick leave and went 
 home. He rejoined his regiment in October, 
 1863, at Beverly Ford, Va., and being unable 
 to perform military duty he was discharged by 
 Special Order No. 497, Nov. 9th, 1863. 
 
 Prior to the war, in 1858, Mr. Ryan purchased a 
 farm in the town of Dekorra, Wis., and was pro- 
 gressing in agricultural methods when he left it 
 to enlist, a crop of wheat lying cut and partly 
 bound when he marched to war. He lost the 
 place and after the war bought another in Lodi 
 township in Columbia county, hoping to recover 
 from his disability sufficiently to follow farm- 
 ing, which suited his tates. But he was com- 
 pelled to relinquish the hope and in 1870 
 commenced operations as foreman of a railroad 
 construction gang, then as contractor and in 
 I other capacities, always earning good pay but 
 never enjoying good health and, practically 
 gave up the business in 1880. In the same 
 year he sold his farm and removed to Baraboo. 
 To him and his wife three sons and two 
 daughters were born — four before the war and 
 one after and the father says with pride " all 
 were born under the glorious stars and stripes." 
 In presenting the picture of Lieutenant Ryan 
 in the group of four officers of the Irou Brigade 
 on page 390, the publishers desire to add a 
 personal tribute to the typical and generous 
 
396 
 
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 Irishman, who never forgot his comrades and 
 pays to each and all his meed of honor and 
 esteem. 
 
 RED L. WARNER, a soldier of the 
 Iron Brigade, resident at Randolph, 
 Wis., and a member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 100, Geo. H. Stevens, Fox Lake, Wis., and 
 belonging to the Lo3'al Legion, Wisconsin Com- 
 mandery, was born Aug. 24, 1839, at Cabot, 
 Caledonia Co., A'erinont, and he comes of good 
 old loyal New England stock which served in 
 the war of Independence, his grandfather 
 Warner having been a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion and a relative of Seth Warner of " Greeu 
 Mountain Boys" fame, one of the men who 
 stormed Ticonderoga with Ethan Alien. Oli- 
 ver A. and Relief (Osgood) Warner, the par- 
 ents, went with their family to Manchester, 
 New IIani])shire, when the sou was five years 
 old and thence later to Franklin in the Old 
 Granite State. When he was 17 they located 
 in the West, settling at Plover, Portage Co., 
 Wis. Their residence there continued until 
 their life journeys terminated, the early settlers 
 there remembering " Uncle Oliver " as a man 
 of sterling integrity and loyalty to his God, his 
 family and country and who sent two of three 
 .sons to light for the country his ancestors had 
 established. His son, Horace A., enlisted in 
 the 10th MassacluLsetts Infantry and psissed 
 through the Great Struggle with safety to his 
 life. 
 
 Captain Warner received the benefits of the 
 common school in Franklin until he was 12 
 years of age, when he obtained a situation as 
 clerk in a store in Nashua, New Hampshire 
 and went successively to Clinton and Holyoke 
 where he was employed in the popular avoca- 
 tion of factory hand until his j)arents removed 
 to Wisconsiji. He was then old enough to 
 
 begin in earnest his contest witli the world and 
 engaged for two or three years as a farm 
 assistant. He found it unsuited to his tastes 
 and engaged with John H. Morgan of Plover 
 as a clerk, where he was occupied when the 
 blood of his Revolutionary sires grew hot in 
 his veins when the news that " men were 
 wanted at the front " came to his senses as a 
 refrain to the story of disaster to the Union at 
 Bull Ivun. He was under an engagement to 
 serve a year, but with a throng of eager youth 
 and men, he went to Grand Rai)ids, A\'is., 
 where a company was organizing, to enlist, and 
 enrolled in the Grand Rapids Union Guards 
 under Caj)tain Samuel Stevens, in the State 
 service. At Camp Randall, Madison, whither 
 they were sent on the complement of the com- 
 pany being filled, they were mustered into U. S. 
 service and attached as Company G to the 7tli 
 Wisconsin Infantry. Tlie organization was 
 sent to Washington soon after, marched to 
 Chain Bridge and was brigaded with the 
 2d and Gth Wisconsin and 19th Indiana in 
 Rufus King's Brigade. After the battle of An- 
 tietam, Oct. 10, 1S<32, the 24th Michigan was 
 added to the organization, which was named 
 the Iron Brigade after the battle of South 
 Mountain by General McClellan. The suc- 
 cessive commanders of the brigade were CJen- 
 erals Gibbon, Cutler, Sol. Meredith, Robinson, 
 Bragg and Kellogg. Of all the history of the 
 gallant Ttli, Captain Warner was a part until 
 he was mustered out on the exj>iration of his 
 term, Sept. Iti, ].S()4, and his roster includes 
 Gainesville, 2d Bull Run, South Mountain, 
 Antietam, Frederickslmrg, Mine Run, Gettys- 
 burg, through the Wilderness with Grant in 
 1864, Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, the list 
 being immeasurably swelled by the hardships, 
 privations, marches, labors and skirmishes of 
 three years of incessant service, with no inter- 
 mission save a short furlough home in Janu- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 397 
 
 ary, 1864. He was not wounded, was not ill 
 nor in an ambulance or liospital and was not 
 a prisoner during the whole period, but saw 
 all the splendid service of his regiment and 
 brigade. In the summer of 18G4 he was de- 
 tailed as Judge Advocate of the General Court 
 Martial at 5th Corps head([uarters but did not 
 serve. 
 
 The Wisconsin 7th left the State Sept. 21, 
 1861, and after a winter at Fort Tillinghast 
 went on the Manassas campaign, returned and 
 engaged in the campaign of the Rappahan- 
 nock, going thence to attempt to reinforce 
 Banks in the Valley of the Shenandoah, but 
 failed to do so, and in Jul)', after an expedition 
 to ascertain the whereabouts of the rebels, 
 started again on a campaign to the Rappahan- 
 nock, the whole movement terminating in the 
 fight at Gainesville, where the regimental loss 
 was heavy. The second Manassas campaign 
 was a disaster and thence the command went 
 to Maryland. In October they were again on 
 the Ra})pahannock, and tried to overcome the 
 apparent bad fortune of Burnside by wading in 
 the mud in addition to other perplexities of ' 
 tliat General's plans in midwinter. In the 
 spring, in the cliarge of Fitz Hugh's Crossing, 
 the 7th again added to its laurels, marched 
 back after Chancellorsville and in June fought 
 at Brandy Station in a reconnoissance. Through 
 Pennsylvania after Lee was the next brilliant 
 movement of the 7th and its list of casualties 
 after Gettysburg is a fearful showing. Next 
 was the attempt to acquire a foothold in the 
 Wilderness, which was unsuccessful, and in the 
 following winter veteranizing commenced. In 
 the spring the .campaign of the Wilderness was 
 entered upon, but only added to the list of ef- 
 fort, while the regiments of the brigade grew 
 in honor and fame. In the trenches before 
 Petersburg the 7th encountered all the horrors 
 of dctcnninod conflict coming to an issue be- 
 
 tween desperation and valor ; and valor won, 
 although at an awful price. Tiie sketch of 
 C'olonel Pier on another page tells the story in 
 all its naked horror. Captain Warner's pro- 
 motions were severally dated as follows : Or- 
 derly Sergeant, Aug. 28, 1861 ; Second Lieuten- 
 ant, Feb. 8, 1862; First Lieutenant, July 30, 
 1862 ; Captain, Feb. 27, 1863, and in no other 
 regiment was the advancement of promotions 
 better deserved or more worthily won than in 
 the AVisconsin 7tli, whose storj' is one whose 
 luster can never be dimmed. 
 
 Captain Warner is engaged in the prosecu- 
 tion of a successful mercantile enterprise at 
 Randolph, Wis., which he has conducted since 
 1876. He was married -Jan. 21, 1864, while 
 home on a furlough, to Mary L., daughter of 
 Harmon and "Slary A. Mitchell of Plover, Wis. 
 Of their four children, two are buried in Rock- 
 ford, Iowa, and Hattie and Debbaare still mem- 
 bers of the household. 
 
 The portrait of Captain F. L. Warner ap- 
 pears on page 390. It is that of a brave and 
 modest soldier and officer of the 7th Wisconsin 
 and of the Iron Brigade. 
 
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 cj,,^^ APTAIN LEVI E. POND, U. S. Pen- 
 sion Agent at Milwaukee, Wis., whose 
 home is in Westfield, Marquette Co., 
 Wisconsin, is a descendant of one of the earliest 
 families of New England. The original pro- 
 genitor of the American branch, Samuel Pond, 
 came to this country in the early part of the 
 seventeenth century. It is recorded that he 
 was married in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 11, 1642, 
 and died March 14, 1654. The grandfother of 
 Captain Pond, Phineas Pond, was born in May, 
 1758, and married Rhoda Wood, who was born 
 in 1764. He served his country during the 
 Revolutionary War, and died near Mainsburg, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, in Ajn-il, 184G, at the 
 age of eighty-eight years. 
 
 The father of Captain Pond, William W. 
 Pond, the fourth son of Pliineas Pond, was 
 born in Vermont, Nov. 30, 1795. On the 24th 
 of October, 1822, he married Elvira D. Forbes, 
 and they became the parents of six children, all 
 of whom were born in the State of New York. 
 They were Lydia, William, Simeon, Levi E., 
 Esther M. and Similde. William W. Pond 
 died in 1863, aged sixty-seven years; Elvira 
 D. died Jan. 1, 1884, at the advanced age of 
 eighty-seven years ; and Esther M. died March 
 19, 1864, at the age of twenty-eight years. The 
 other members of the family are still living — 
 June, 1890. 
 
 Captain Pond was born in Addison, Steuben 
 Co., New York, March 8, 1833. His education 
 consisted of such as the common schools af- 
 forded, in a new country, in those days, and a 
 partial academic course of instruction at Union 
 Academy, in Tioga Co., Pa. The latter he se- 
 cured by hard work on a farm summers and 
 teaching school winters. In 1857, Captain 
 Pond, with liis parents and sisters, Esther M. 
 and Similde, came to Wisconsin, and settled on 
 a farm in Marquette county, in which county 
 ho has continued to reside the greater part of 
 the time since leaving the place of his nativity. 
 lie was reared to the occupation of farming 
 and followed that vocation in Wisconsin sum- 
 mers, and taught school winters, until the war 
 cloud of rebellion enveloped the Nation. 
 
 The guns from Ft. Sumter were to him a call 
 to duty, and on May 22, 1861, he enlisted in 
 Company E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, the regi- 
 ment becoming a part of the famous Iron Bri- 
 gade, which was composed of the 2d, 6th and 
 7th Wisconsin regiments, the 19th Indiana and 
 the 24th Michigan. He was elected First Ser- 
 geant of Company E, on it,s organization, and 
 on March 10, 1862, was commissioned Second 
 
 Lieutenant, with rank from the 20tli of Janu- 
 ary previous. He participated in nearly all 
 the engagements in which the famous brigade 
 took part, including Gainesville, second Battle 
 of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam.Clian- 
 cellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Peters- 
 burg and others. He was always ready to 
 share with the men under his command the 
 hardships and dangers incident to war. When 
 entering the engagement at Antietam, he took 
 the gun of a confederate sharpshooter, who had 
 been wounded, and used it at the right front of 
 his company in the hottest of the battle. His 
 enthusiasm and untiring devotion to the cause 
 of his countrj', and his gallantry on the field 
 of battle, won the admiration of his superior 
 officers, and the affectionate regard of all his 
 comrades. On Feb. 27, 1863, he was commis- 
 sioned Captain, with rank from Dec. 22, 1862. 
 At Gettysburg, Captain Pond identified his 
 name with a contest which is numbered among 
 the great and decisive battles of the world, and 
 his company distinguished itself throughout 
 that terrible conflict. As he was leading his 
 men in a charge, he received a bullet in his 
 right breast, and when he fell dismay became 
 apparent in the ranks of his company, but his 
 rallying cry, " Press on, boys ; never mind me," 
 inspired them with renewed courage and they 
 continued the charge with exasperated fury to 
 avenge the supposed death of their gallant and 
 beloved leader. Though severely wounded 
 and shattered in health, his desire to continue 
 in the service until the close of the war was so 
 great that in less than two months he was 
 again at the head of his command. He would 
 not take the advice of his friends and resign, 
 as long as he could march. In the campaign 
 from the Wilderness to Petersburg, when he 
 was unaV)le to keep up with his command on 
 foot, he was voluntarily assisted on the march 
 by Colonels Finnicum and Richardson of his 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 399 
 
 regiment with their private horses. On the 
 18th of June, 1864, while leading two com- 
 panies in the charge in front of Petersburg, he 
 received two gun-shot Avonnds wliich resulted 
 in ending his active service in tlie War of the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 Captain Pond was taken to the hospital at 
 Annapolis, Md., where he remained until the 
 latter part of August, when, with the assistance 
 of his wife and two comrades he was removed 
 to his home, weak and exhausted from wounds 
 and disease. During his confinement in the 
 hospital at Annapolis, his faithful wife was by 
 his side ministering to his wants, laboring with 
 a woman's love and devotion to bring him back 
 from what seemed the verge of the grave. 
 For many months after his return little hope of 
 his recovery was entertained, but his rugged 
 constitution and the kind care of loving hands 
 prevailed, and he was enabled again to engage 
 in active business, but he has never been able 
 to resume the duties of farm life. 
 
 In 1867 Captain Pond engaged in mercantile 
 business in Oshkosh, but in 1870 was the 
 victim of a disastrous fire by which be suffered 
 the loss of nearly all his stock. He represented 
 several business firms as traveling salesman 
 for a number of years with eminent success, 
 but his health not being equal to the labor 
 required he abandoned that business. In 1876 
 he moved to his old home in Marquette county, 
 and engaged in real estate and insurance busi- 
 ness and in aiding his comrades to secure their 
 just dues from the Government. He takes an 
 active interest in the prosperity of the com- 
 munity in which he lives and is a zealous and 
 efficient worker in tlie G. A. R., and in all 
 matters pertaining to the welfare of the veterans 
 who went forth to do battle for the preservation 
 of the Government. 
 
 In 1886 Captain Pond was elected State 
 Senator for the 27th District, comprising the 
 
 counties of Adams, Columbia and Marquette, 
 receiving a majority over his opponent of 
 1,344 votes, more than double that received by 
 his predecessor. His own county, always 
 strongly Democratic, gave him 366 majority, 
 which clearly indicated his personal popularity. 
 During the .session of the Legislature of 1887 
 he was a member of three important Commit- 
 tees — on " Military affairs," " Claims " and 
 "Fish and Game." He introduced Senate Bill 
 No. 24, Chapter 48, Laws of 1887, which pro- 
 vided for the erection of monuments in honor 
 of Wisconsin soldiers who fought and fell on 
 the battlefield of Gettysburg. On Feb. 17, 
 1887, Senator Pond made an effective speech in 
 the interests of the Bill, in which he paid a 
 high and well merited tribute to the bravery of 
 Wisconsin soldiers and portrayed the justice 
 and propriety of such memorials to their 
 courage and sacrifices on that renowned field. 
 The Bill passed by an almost unanimous vote 
 and the project was consummated by 21 Com- 
 missioners appointed bj' Governor Rusk under 
 the provisions of the measure. Captain Pond 
 acting as Chairman. When the monuments 
 were dedicated at Gettysburg, .June 30, 1888, 
 Captain Pond made a report of the labors of 
 the Commission and consigned the monuments 
 to the Governor of Wisconsin. 
 
 During the same session of the Legi-slature 
 he introduced a measure for the publication 
 and free distribution, to the soldiers of Wiscon- 
 sin, of a revised edition of the " Roster of Wis- 
 consin Volunteer Soldiers," and it became a law. 
 
 In the session of the Legislature of 1SS9, he 
 was a member of the Committee on "Public 
 Lands," and Chairman of the Committee on 
 "Charitable and Penal Institutions." He in- 
 troduced many meritorious measures during 
 that session, several of which were enacted into 
 laws. Among those presented by him was " A 
 Bill to provide for Statistical Reports from 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Commercial, Parochial and other Private 
 Schools and for the Publication of Summaries 
 of such Reports by the State Superintendent." 
 Another was known as Senate Bill No. 120: 
 "To provide for a Soldiers' Memorial Hall, and 
 making a contingent appropriation therefor." 
 When the latter came up for consideration, 
 Senators Pond, H. A. Cooper, W. S. Maine and 
 William Kennedy supported it by able and 
 eloquent speeches, and it passed the Senate by 
 a vote of 19 to 7, but it was killed in the As- 
 sembly in the rush and confusion of the closing 
 hours of the session. All measures tending to 
 promote the best interests of the veterans of the 
 War of the Rebellion received his cordial sup- 
 port, and the soldiers of Wisconsin owe him a 
 debt of gratitude for his constant and untiring 
 labors in their behalf. While a member of the 
 Senate he attended strictly to the interests of 
 his constituents, ably and consistently favoring 
 all measures for the good of tlie people, and as 
 ably and consistently opposing all schemes for 
 private profit at public expense. 
 
 Captain Pond was married Feb. 29, 1864, to 
 Miss Czarina O. Richards, who was born in Ti- 
 oga County, Pa., Sept. 9, 1833. Their union 
 was blessed with three children: Esther, who 
 was born Dec. 12, ISOf), died on the 3d of Jan- 
 uary following ; Flora INhiria, born May 30, 
 1867, died Aj.ril 20, 18()8 ; Levi Earl, their 
 only surviving child, was born Aug. 29, 1871. 
 Mrs. Pond and son accompanied the Captain 
 to Gettysburg in June, 1888, to view the fam- 
 ous battle field and witness the dedication of 
 the monument to the soldiers of Wisconsin. 
 The son, on that occasion, took a jdiotograpb 
 of the building where his father was tirst 
 placed after being wounded, also of the house 
 where Gen. Lucius Fairchild was taken when 
 liis arm was am])Utated, and of the residence 
 of the " Citizen Hero of Gettysburg, " John 
 Burns, who joined the ranks of the 7th Wis- 
 
 consin and fought bravely fot his home and 
 country until he fell, severely wounded. 
 
 On the 1st of March, 1890, Captain Pond 
 resigned the ofhce of State Senator to accept 
 the U. S. Pension Agency at Milwaukee, to 
 which he was appointed by President Harrison 
 Feb. 28, 1890. The importance and responsi- 
 bility of that position will be seen from the 
 fact that the Agency distributes the Nation's 
 grateful remembrances, in pensions, to about 
 28,000 disabled veterans, widows and depend- 
 ent heirs of deceased soldiers, at the rate of 
 nearly §6,000,000 per annum. Wisconsin, 
 Minnesota, North and South Dakota are in- 
 cluded in his district. 
 
 The record given here is a brief and imper- 
 fect one of an esteemed and honored son of 
 Wisconsin, who, as a veteran soldier, a citizen, 
 and a legislator, has the confidence and esteem 
 of all who know him. General Richardson, 
 whose biography is given in this book, says of 
 him," I have witnessed with pride and satisfac- 
 tion his conduct in camp, on the march, and 
 before the enemy ; I give it as my judgment 
 that no braver man ever graced the honored 
 rolls of the Seventh Regiment ; ever foremost 
 in the thickest of the tight, among the bravest 
 of the brave, I am proud to say he is one. " A 
 portrait of Caj)tain Pond will be found on page 
 390 with three other representatives of the vol- 
 unteer service of Wisconsin in the 7th Regi- 
 ment. 
 
 BANIEL A\'ERSTER, attorney at Prai- 
 rie du Chien, Wis., and one of the 
 prominent Grand Army men of tlie 
 Badger State, a member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 37, was born Sept. 4, 1844, in McGrawville, 
 Cortland Co., New York. His parents, Man- 
 sel and Lucinda Webster, are deceased and the 
 former was of Scotch and English descent 
 
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 while the latter was of English and Holland 
 Dutch lineage. When the son was six j'ears old 
 they went to Galena, Illinois, and after several 
 years located at Waukon, Iowa, settling later at 
 Harper's Ferr}', Iowa. Mr. Webster received the 
 education of a farmer's son and in the method 
 common to that class, attending winter terms 
 and working on the farm in summer. Later 
 he attended a private school of the best quality, 
 at Prairie du Chien, Wis., the tutor being a 
 college student secured for the purpose of 
 training a few sons of well-to-do families, 
 remote from schools of advanced character. 
 He had imbibed with his educational course 
 the sentiment which predominated in the 
 North, after the civil war came on especially, 
 and from the age of 17 he kept pace with the 
 progress of events, determining to enlist as 
 soon as possible. He found his ojtportunity 
 under tiie call for 100-day troops and enrolled 
 in May, 18G4, in Company C, 144th Illinois 
 Infantry. The regiment was assigned to gar- 
 rison duty and after the expiration of his 
 allotted term of enlistment, Mr. Webster was 
 discharged Oct. 25, 1864. He was then 20 
 years old. He passed four subsequent years in 
 teaching, and in 1868 he was admitted to prac- 
 tice as an attorney and located at Kasson, 
 Dodge Co., Minnesota, where he engaged in the 
 practice of his profession, and during his leisure 
 time acted as cashier of his cousin's bank. 
 After some time in Kasson he went to Harper's 
 Ferry, Iowa, and there engaged in the drug 
 and grocery business, but at the same time 
 embracing and utilizing every possible oppor- 
 tunity to complete a comprehensive acquaint- 
 ance with the elements of the common and 
 statutory law. His next removal was to a 
 locution near Conway Station, Arkansas, where 
 he resided from Nov. 1, 1873, to Dec. 1, 1874, 
 rented a farm or plantation and raised a 
 crop of cotton, netting him $900. In 1874 he 
 
 fixed his business and residence at Prairie du 
 Chien, Wisconsin. In the winter he returned 
 to Harper's Ferry, Iowa, and taught a term of 
 school, again returning to Prairie du Chien in 
 the spring of 1876 to engage in the practice of 
 law in partnership with his brotlier, M. M. 
 Webster. Their joint relations were continued 
 until 1881 when they were terminated by the 
 death of his brother and he has since con- 
 ducted his business singly except from 1885 to 
 1889, during which time he was in partnership 
 with G. L. Miller, then District Attorney, under 
 the firm name of AVebster & Miller. He is a 
 popular and prominent advocate and jurist 
 and has built up a large and prosperous prac- 
 tice. He has taken the higher degrees of 
 Masonry and belongs to the Blue Lodge, Coun- 
 cil and Chapter. He is prominent in the 
 Order of Odd Fellows and holds the position 
 of Grand Patriarch of Encampment No. 28, 
 and is Past Grand of Crawford Lodge No. 98. 
 He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
 Lodge No. 74, and belongs to Starr Lodge No. 
 15, A. 0. U. W., and is also a member of the 
 the Order of Modern Woodmen. 
 
 In the Grand Army of the Republic he has 
 taken an active interest since its permanent 
 organization. He was a charter member of Post 
 No. 37, and was elected the first Officer of the 
 Day; was also second Commander. He was 
 elected delegate to and attended the 20th 
 National Encampment at San Francisco and 
 served as Aid on the staffs of Commanders-in- 
 Chief Fairchild of Wisconsin and Warner of 
 Kansas. He also officiated on the staffs of 
 Wisconsin Department Commanders Fairchild 
 and Weissert. He is now (1890) serving as 
 Department Inspector on the stafi' of Depart- 
 ment Commander Bryant. (See sketch.) 
 
 Mr. Webster held the office of Police Magis- 
 trate of the city of Prairie du Chien for several 
 terms; in 1885 and again in 1886 he was 
 
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 elected Mayor, since whicli time he has held 
 the office of City Attorney. 
 
 Mr. Webster was married in Prairie du 
 Chien, Wis., in 1871 to Margaret Angeline, 
 daughter of William Dunlap, and their surviv- 
 ing children are named Gertrude C, Maggie 
 Maud and Daniel, Jr. Edith is deceased. 
 
 W. MILLARD, (known on his 
 enlistment as pajiers W. R. Mil- 
 lard), resident at Elroy, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 47, was born Aug. 
 4, 1843, in Earlville, La Salle Co., 111. His 
 parents, Philo B. and Alice (Wilson) Millard, 
 were natives of St. Lawrence Co., New York, 
 and went to Illinois about 1840, where they 
 "took up" land. About 1850 they went to 
 Racine, Wis., and there the mother died in 
 1859. In 1863 the father removed to Door Co., 
 Wis., and there passed his remaining years. 
 They had six children : Homer lives at Fort 
 Howard, Wis. ; Mary is the widow of William 
 Fuller, a soldier of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry; 
 Mr. Millard is the third in order of birth ; next 
 to him was a daughter who died in infancy 
 and a son named Herman also died ; Wilburn, 
 the youngest, lives in Sycamore, 111. 
 
 Mr. Millard passed his early life after the 
 fashion common to the sons of settlers in a new 
 country and, during the second year of the 
 war, in February, 1862, he went to the city of 
 New York with the intention of enlisting to go 
 with the Burnsido expedition, then preparing 
 for the vSouth, but not tinding matters as lie 
 had anticipated, he started homeward. He 
 reached Rome, New York, and enhsted under 
 Lieut. .John W. French for the 8th U. S. In- 
 fantry and was retained on recruiting service, 
 accompanying Lieut. French to Watertown 
 where they were engaged about two months 
 
 and went thence to Milwaukee to join Lieuten- 
 ; ant Cooper. Not long after, Mr. Millard went 
 to La Crosse to open a branch office and a 
 month after returned to Milwaukee where he 
 was relieved from recruiting service and went 
 ; to Governor's Island where he was assigned to 
 Company D. About a month afterwards he 
 went to Washington and thence to Maryland, 
 joining the regiment at Pleasant Valley in the 
 command of General McClellan just before 
 General Burnside superseded that officer. 
 
 The 8th Regiment performed provost duty at 
 General Patrick's army headquarters in the 
 field during the last campaign of McClellan 
 and conducted prisoners to the rear on occa- 
 sion, fighting for tiie first time at Fredericks- 
 bui'g. Mr. Millard was in the campaign of 
 the spring of 1863, fighting at Chancellors- 
 ville and Gettysburg and going after that 
 action to New York to assist in quelling the 
 draft riots. Prior to leaving the Army of the 
 Potomac the Sth was in the 5th Corps and aftei'- 
 wards had a skirmish with the rebels after chas- 
 ing them to Fairfax C. H., at a place called Cof- 
 fee Hill where they were suri:)rised but repulsed 
 their assailants. The command remained some 
 time in New York and went thence to Wil- 
 mington, Del., to perform service among the 
 guerrillas and bushwhackers and also engaged 
 in provost and other guard duty until tlie de- 
 tail left Wilmington and joined the regiment 
 at Baltimore, preparatory to going to Buffalo 
 in November, 1864, where trouble was antici- 
 pated during the election period. (Prior to 
 this the command was assigned to the Uth 
 Corps and were selected by Burnside as head- 
 quarters provost guard and went with him to 
 the Wilderness campaign, through which they 
 passed and were afterwards in front of Peters- 
 burg until they went to Buffalo as stated.) 
 They returned to Baltimore, where Colonel 
 Bumlbril took uommand, a lieutenant having 
 
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 hitherto been ranking officer and Mr. Millard 
 iuid never seen a higher officer in command. 
 Reaching Baltimore and resuming connection 
 with activities, Mr. Millard was on detached 
 duty as Mounted Orderly at the city of Balti- 
 more, where he was discharged in December, 
 1865. 
 
 He went home to Racine and remained witli 
 his brother and sister until the spring of 1866, 
 when he joined his father in Door county and 
 was variously engaged until 18G7. He went 
 back to Racine and worked on the old farm, 
 going thence with his brother to Fort Howard 
 and engaged in lumbering with his uncle, 
 staying a year in Green Bay. In 1868 he went 
 to Reedsburg and worked on a farm, going 
 again to Racine and Green Bay and back to 
 Reedsburg. He engaged in farming two years 
 and went to Washington, Sauk County, and 
 managed a farm six years. In 1877 he went 
 to Elroy and operated as a carpenter, in 1883 
 building a large skating rink which he run 
 one winter and tiien commenced his jjresent 
 business as a furniture dealer and undertaker. 
 His business is the first in its line in the city. 
 Mr. Millard is a charter member of his Post 
 and was its first Adjutant, serving two years. 
 He has been Commander two terms, is present 
 Junior Vice Commander and has served as de- 
 partment delegate, is one of the active members 
 of his Post and belongs to the Order of Odd 
 Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Millard was married at Reedsburg, 
 to Orcelia, daughter of Hiram and Fannie 
 (Allen) Parker, a native of the State of New 
 York ; they are the parents of two children ; 
 Claude C. was born Nov. 20, 1871 ; Lester L. 
 was born .June 16, 1876. 
 
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 v,^^\^ HARLES A. CHATFIELD, La Crosse, 
 Wis., charter member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 38, was born Sept. 24, 1838, at 
 Albany, New York. His father, Stephen T. 
 Chatfield, was born in England, which was 
 also the birthplace of the mother, Naomi 
 (Wilson) Chatfield. Both came to America in 
 youth, were married in this country and had 
 six children named Stephen, William, Melissa, 
 Charles, Jane and Caroline ; the two oldest are 
 deceased. The father died in Albany and the 
 mother resides in La Crosse. In 1849 the son 
 accompanied his parents to Brookfield, Wiscon- 
 sin, journeying thither on the lakes and re- 
 moving thence after two years to Michigan, sub- 
 sequently returning to Wisconsin. In 1856 
 the son went to Michigan and after operating 
 three years as a lumbei'man he went to Illinois 
 and was variously engaged until he entered 
 the army. He enlisted Sept. 25, 1861, and 
 was mustered at St. Charles, 111., on the same 
 day in Company F, 8th Illinois Cavalry. In 
 November the regiment went to ^\^lshington 
 and was stationed at Camp California, near 
 Alexandria, where Mr. Chatfield was taken 
 sick with typhoid fever, remaining in hospital 
 at Alexandria until discharged March 8, 1862, 
 the disease having involved the lungs and 
 caused hemorrhage. He returned to Cook Co., 
 111., and, Aug. 11, 1862, enlisted in Company 
 E, 113th Illinois Infantry, known in war history 
 as the Chicago od Board of Trade Regiment. 
 He remained in rendezvous at Camp Hancock 
 and, in November went to Memphis and thence 
 on the Tallahatchie raid, returning to Memphis. 
 In December he was on the Yazoo Pass expedi- 
 tion and fought at Chickasaw Bayou, with the 
 command of A. J. Smith. Mr. Chatfield was 
 in the movement to Napoleon and fought in 
 tlie hot battle at Arkansas Post; his next 
 movements were to Young's Point and thence 
 . to Lake Providence, returning to Young's 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Point to remain until May 7tli, when liis regi- 
 ment started on the Vicksburg campaign. 
 Tlie regnnent went to Carthage and Hard 
 Times Landing, thence to Grand Gulf and 
 fought at Raymond. Mr. Chatfield was in the 
 fight with Pemberton on the Black River, after 
 whicli his command moved to the rear of 
 \'icksburg and joined the line of investment. 
 The assault was opened on that day and skir- 
 mishing continued until the fight on tlie 22d, 
 after whicli the command occupied the trenches 
 until the surrender, having been under con- 
 slant fire 47 days. About the last of August 
 they went to Memphis and thence to Corinth 
 where the duty of Mr. Chatfield included pro- 
 vost guard and picket until spring, when he 
 went to Memphis and thence to the Guntown 
 raid under General Sturgis. Mr. Chatfield was 
 here cut off from his regiment, passing five 
 days and nights in a swamp and living on 
 mulberries. He returned to Memphis and was 
 there when Forrest made his midnight raid, 
 after which he went to Eastport with his com- 
 mand on transports and had a figlit, the com- 
 mand being driven back and returning to 
 Memphis. He was in the relief of the 8th 
 Iowa Infantry, doing camji, guard and jn-ison 
 duty until mustered out June 20, 1SG5. 
 
 He returned to La Crosse which has since 
 been his place of abode. He engaged some- 
 time in carpenter work and, later in the manu- 
 facture of soda water, ginger ale, IJutt'alo mead, 
 champagne cider, seltzer water, orange cider 
 and all kinds of carbonated drinks in which 
 he has eslablislied a wide reputation and in 
 which lie is still operating. He was married 
 in 1867 to Susie E., daughter of Abner and 
 Harriet Conkini and they liave five children 
 living, named Melissa E., Earl L., Charles A., 
 Edna E. and Lotta. Newton is deceased. Mr. 
 Chatfield passed through the war witliout suf- 
 fering injury except once, wlien a spent ball 
 
 struck him in the chest. At Camp Hancock 
 he was j)romoted to Corporal and afterwards to 
 5th Sergeant. Jan. 27, ISOo, he was made 2d 
 Lieutenant of his company and was afterwards 
 promoted to 1st Lieutenant to date from June 
 14, 1865. During the latter part of his service 
 he was actual commander of Company E. 
 
 
 ILLIAM J. REED, Hudson, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 151, was born Feb. 26, 1841. His 
 parents, Samuel and Jane (Boone) Reed, were 
 born respectively in counties Tyrone and Lon- 
 donderry, Ireland. The father was a tanner 
 by occupation and emigrated to America in 
 1833, locating at Prattsville, New York. In 
 1840 the family eft'ected a removal to Wiscon- 
 sin, locating first in ^\"aukeslla county and 
 afterwards removing to Algona, Iowa, in 1866, 
 where both parents still reside. Their children, 
 eight in immber, were named as follows : John, 
 Charles, Agnes, William, Mary, Samuel, Eliza- 
 beth and an infant that died unnamed. John 
 and Charles are also deceased. 
 
 Until the war Mr. Reed was busy attending 
 school and on his father's farm. He enlisted 
 at Ripon, Wis., Aug. 15, 1861, where he rendez- 
 voused to be mustered into Company A, 1st 
 Wisconsin Cavalry. In December, the com- 
 mand was transferred to camp at Kenoslia and 
 remained throughout the winter, leaving the 
 State March 17, 1862, for St. Louis. At Ben- 
 ton Barracks equipments were received and 
 tliey removed to Cape Girardeau, April 28th. 
 Considerable skirmishing occupied their atten- 
 tion, one action taking place at Bloomfield, 
 May nth, wiiicli resulted in the cai)ture of 
 Phelan and 100 bushwhackers. Afterwards 
 the regiment went to Chalk Bluffs, where they 
 bad a figbt, Comjiany A losing Second Lieu- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 tenant Phillips, private McClaughrey and sev- 
 eral wounded. They skirmished again on the 
 St. Francis River, acting as infantry. Their 
 next exploit was on Little River at Horners- 
 ville, where a steamer lay, loaded with supplies, 
 which was captured with some prisoners. They 
 went into camp at West Prairie, which they 
 left July 9th for Helena and during this march 
 a fight took place at Scatterville on the 10th. 
 Tliey were successively in action at Jonesboro, 
 Wittsburg and L'Anguille. The regiment, 
 which was in \'^andever's brigade, remained at 
 Helena until September 29th, when a move to 
 Cape Girardeau was made. The next removal 
 was to Greenville, Mo., and the regiment went 
 later to Patterson. The winter was passed in 
 scouting and skirmishing between Batesville, 
 Ark., and Greenville, and in the spring the 
 command moved successively to Pilot Knob 
 and St. Genevieve. In April, Mr. Reed was in 
 the action at Cape Girardeau, where Marma- 
 duke attacked with a large force. May 1st he 
 was placed on detached duty at headquarters 
 as Orderly for General McNeill and was in his 
 personal service until he was wounded. Two 
 months later he was with liis regiment and went 
 to Nashville and Triune, joining the Army of the 
 Cumberland, and the regiment accompanied 
 the cavalry column to Shelbyville, where the 
 rear of Bragg's army were captured. After 
 about three weeks tlie command moved on to 
 Winchester. There Mr. Reed was taken sick 
 and sent to field hospital at Winchester and 
 thence to hospital No. 15, at Nashville, where 
 he remained two months and was discharged 
 Oct. 17, 1863, for disability. He returned to 
 his home in Waukesha county, where he re- 
 mained, engaged in recruiting his health about 
 a year. He determined to again enter the ser- 
 vice and went to New York with the intention 
 of going into the navy, but failed in his plans. 
 He enlisted, Sept. 27, 1SG4, in the 20th New 
 
 York Light Artillery, joining his command on 
 Hart's Island ; he was assigned to detached 
 duty and remained in that service until the 
 close of the war, receiving his discharge May 
 6, 1865. He again returned to Waukesha and 
 in the fall went to Algona and there followed the 
 occupation of a printer about seven years, also 
 engaging a part of the time in farming. In 
 1877 he went to Hot Springs, Ark., and em- 
 barked in the sale of drugs, which he continued 
 eight months, going thence to Palarm, Ark., 
 where he remained about three years, engaged 
 in the sale of general merchandise. When he 
 sold out in 1881 he removed to Hudson, Wis- 
 consin, where he engaged in lumbering. He 
 is Adjutant of his Post (1890) and a member of 
 the Masonic Order. Mr. Reed is a man of 
 quiet tastes and domestic habits, preferring the 
 reserve of a comparatively retired life to the 
 excitement of a public career. In politics he 
 is a Republican. 
 
 He was married Dec. 9, 1876, at Appleton, 
 Wis., to Emma, daughter of Jonathan and 
 Mary (Johnson) Lewis. Her parents were 
 natives of New Jersey, and died at Appleton, 
 where they were many years resident. Her 
 brother, Horatio S. Lewis, was a soldier in the 
 28th Wisconsin Infantry, served through the 
 war and died in hospital at Little Rock, Ark., 
 March 31, 1865, from disease contracted in the 
 army. Mrs. Reed is a member of the W. R. 
 C. at Hudson, Wis. 
 
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 NDREW S. DOUGLAS, a prominent 
 !^ attorney of Monroe, Wis., member of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 102, was born at 
 Heuvelton, St. Lawrence Co., New York, June 
 19, 1840. His paternal grandfather, Andrew 
 Douglas, was born in Roxboroshire, Scotland, 
 and came to America in 1833, locating near 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Prescott, Canada. His son, Adam B., father of 
 Mr. Douglas of tliis sketch, was a captain in 
 the Hunter's Lodge, a secret organization of 
 of the Patriot War, (known also as Mackenzie's 
 War) in 1837, was arrested after the disaster, 
 made his escape and after a short residence in 
 St. Lawrence county, went to Chautauqua 
 county in. the same State, removing to Portage 
 City, Wisconsin, in 1852. In 1858 he went to 
 Milwaukee and a year later to Janesville, 
 thence to Green county and in 1879 fixed his 
 permanent residence at Monroe, Wis., where he 
 has since prosecuted his lifelong business as a 
 trainer of fast horses. Andrew Douglas be- 
 longed to the clan made famous in Scott's 
 " Lady of the Lake," and married Jane Cock- 
 burn, their family including three sons, only 
 one of whom married and who is the only sur- 
 vivor. The parents removed to New York 
 State from Canada after tlieir son's removal from 
 the Dominion, where the grandfather died, the 
 grandmother coming afterwards to Portage, 
 Wisconsin, where she died. Adam Douglas 
 was born in Scotland, Oct. 0, 1815, came to 
 America with his parents, and married Mary 
 A. Starring in St. Lawrence Co., New York. 
 She died in Forrestville, Chautauqua county, 
 Feb. 8, 1850, having given birth to four chil- 
 dren, of whom her son of this sketch is the 
 oldest. Margaret is deceased ; Adeline mar- 
 ried Lorenzo Hobbs ; Mary A. married Willis 
 Farmer. 
 
 Mr. Douglas became a proficient scholar in 
 the schools he attended and was graduated 
 , from the high school at .Janesville, .July 3, 1863, 
 to which he journeyed three miles to attend , 
 the daily sessions. He taught school through 
 the following winter and decided to enlist. 
 May 7, 1864, he enrolled in Company A, 40th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and passed through the 
 experiences common to the men assigned to 
 duty as preservers of what bad been achieved j 
 
 by their predecessors. From barracks and 
 camp at home he went to Memphis, Tenn., 
 wdiere he was assigned to detached service at 
 Helena, Holly Springs and La Grange, consist- 
 mg chiefly of guard, patrol and camp duty, 
 and also guarding trains. He was in the ac- 
 tion at Memphis when Forrest att;\cked the city 
 in the night and was mustered out September 
 16, 1864, at Madison. 
 
 He had previously decided to prepare for the 
 practice of law, and, May 7, 1865, entered the 
 office of Hon. H. A. Patterson of Janesville, 
 his preceptor being then in the enjoyment of a 
 popular practice there. Mr. Douglas remained 
 under his instructions until Feb. 15, 1866, 
 when he was admitted to the Bar of Wiscon- 
 sin. In June following he became the asso- 
 ciate of Judge Patterson and their joint relations 
 continued until October, 1867, when Mr. Doug- 
 las removed to Brodhead, Green county, opened 
 an office and conducted a prosperous business 
 as an attorney until his removal to Monroe in 
 April, 1869. In the previous year he had been 
 elected District Attorney, receiving the heaviest 
 majority of any candidate before the people in 
 that election. His discharge of duty was such 
 that he received four successive elections as iiis 
 own successor and, after an interval of four 
 terms was again elected, and has served as 
 District Attorney of Green county ten years. 
 He has also served many years as City Clerk 
 of Monroe, and has been one of the most 
 prominent members of the Republican party 
 in the county and State, actively engaging in 
 every successive canvass and exercising all his 
 influence and energies to substantiate his party. 
 He belongs to the fraternity of Masons, is a 
 Knight Templar and a Knight of Pythias. He 
 is prominent and popular in his profession, 
 possesses a genial and winning temperament, 
 which secures the confidence of those who con- 
 sult him iu business relations and wliich places 
 
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 him in tlie front rank in social standing. He 
 was married at Janesville, Nov. 11, 1868, to 
 Laura E., daughter of Jolm B. and Mary 
 (Davis) Welch. She was horn in Maine on a 
 farm which was a portion of a grant of Charles 
 I. of England, to her ancestors, who inliab- 
 ited it 200 years prior to her birth. Her 
 mother was born in Massachusetts and removed 
 with her husband to Georgia, going thence to 
 Janesville in 1855. Her father and mother 
 had five sons and three daughters, and died re- 
 spectively in New Jersey and Chicago. Mrs. 
 Douglas died in 1881 with diphtheria, leaving 
 three children. Arthur was born Oct. 16, 1870, 
 and is the manager of the telegraph office in 
 Hurley, Wis. ; Malcolm C. was born May 5, 
 1872, and is in his freshman's year at Madison 
 University ; Helen was born Sept. 8, 1876. 
 Jan. 10, 1883, Mr. Douglas was again married 
 at Monroe to Abbie E., daugliter of Michael 
 and Frances (Malia) Dowling, and they have 
 two children — Andrew, born Dec. 26, 1886, and 
 Margaret Frances, born March 7, 1889. Mrs. 
 Douglas is a member of the Woman's Relief 
 Corps connected with the Post at Monroe. 
 
 WlEXANDER IVEY, a leading mer- 
 >/-.^_\a chant at Lancaster, Wis., and one of 
 .Aif^X^ the prominent citizens of his county, 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 132, was born in 
 the shire of Cornwall, England, March 10, 
 1837. His parents, Joseph and Miriam (Eudey) 
 Ivey, were natives of England and came to 
 America in the year of their son's birth. His 
 father was a miner in his own country and 
 located near York, Pennsylvania, whei'e he en- 
 gaged as a collier and lost his life in the coal 
 mines. The mother married again, went to 
 Virginia and North Carolina and, finally, to 
 Grant county, Wisconsin, in 1846, and died the 
 
 same year. Mr. Ivey was her only child and 
 was cared for after her death by his uncle, re- 
 ceiving a common school education and he also 
 studied a year at Platteville Academy, his 
 educational training lieing the result of his own 
 efforts. He has conducted his relations with 
 the world since the age of 10 years and has dis- 
 charged bis trust witii credit. In the fall of 
 1857 lie engaged in mining, alternating that 
 employ with clerking and was so occupied until 
 1859, when he went to North Carolina, where 
 he was interested until secession became para- 
 mount. He found the situation distasteful and 
 hastened to Wisconsin and enlisted from British 
 Hollow ; he was sworn by General John B. 
 Callis, of whom a sketch is to be found on an- 
 other page. He expected to join the company 
 which General Callis was recruiting, but it was 
 already full. He enlisted Sept. 9, 1861, and in- 
 instead of entering upon liis expected enroll- 
 ment, went into Company D, 7tii Wiscon.sin In- 
 fantrj', and became a member of the command 
 that has come to be one of tlie most distin- 
 guished in history, — the Iron Brigade. After 
 muster at Madison, Mr. Ivey went with the 
 regiment. He drilled after arrival in Virginia, 
 was in the operations on the Rappahannock, 
 and was first in set battle at Gainesville, after 
 starting for the Peninsula and Richmond only 
 to be recalled. He had been in numberless 
 skirmishes and in many varieties of military 
 duty ])rior to this, and after it fought at the 
 second Bull Run. He participated in the 
 movements which preceded the fight at South 
 Mountain and after service there fought at 
 Antietam. He returned to Fredericksburg and 
 was under fire four days in December and 
 fought at Chancellorsville, being under con- 
 stant fire at the fords of the Rappahannock 
 River and on the disastrous field mentioned for 
 eight days. He was engaged in the retreat at 
 Rappahannock Station and was again in action 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 at White Sulphur Springs. He was next in 
 battle at Gettysburg, receiving on the first day 
 a bullet in his left leg which shattered the 
 bone. He was senior Sergeant in his com- 
 mand, and, in the absence of his Lieutenant, 
 who was wounded, acted in that position. He 
 was taken from the field in a blanket by his 
 comrades and placed behind a house, where he 
 remained until lie was taken to hospital in an 
 ambulance and underwent amputation. He 
 was there six weeks and, as soon as possible, 
 was sent to Philadelphia, remaining in that 
 city until May 14, 1864, when he was dis- 
 charged on surgeon's certificate of disability. 
 
 He returned to British Hollow and engaged 
 as clerk in a store. He was married at British 
 Hollow to Annie Eustice, a native of the place, 
 and moved soon after to Potosi, where he was 
 elected Town Clerk and also officiated as assist- 
 ant in a store. In the year following he was 
 elected Justice, and in May, 18(>5, he established 
 a mercantile relation with .John Wilson and, 
 soon after, became sole proprietor by purchase, 
 running the business alone until 1870, when 
 he formed a partnershij) with his present 
 business associate, Mr. Webb. In 1867 he was 
 made Postmaster at Potosi and held the posi- 
 tion until 1874, (the date of his election as 
 Treasurer of Grant county) which duties he 
 discharged four years, his personal business in- 
 terests being comlucted by Mr. Webb. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1879, Mr. Ivey started his business at 
 Lancaster, leaving his j)artner to close the l)usi- 
 ness at Potosi, after which their joint relations 
 were resumed at Lanc4ister. The firm is doing 
 an extensive business in general merchandise. 
 
 Mrs. Ivey is the daughter of George and 
 Philippa Eustice. The children born to her- 
 self and husband number seven, namely : 
 Miriam, Joseph E., Earl, Alexander, Leroy, Mil- 
 dred and Ned. 
 
 Mr. Ivey is prominent in his Post relations 
 
 and has served three terms as Commander. 
 He is present Quartermaster. (1889.) He was 
 Alderman of Lancaster in ISSO and Ijelongs to 
 the Odd Fellows and has served in all the 
 chairs of the Order; he is an Encamjiment 
 member. In character and standing he is 
 above reproach and is justly esteemed in all his 
 relations to the community of which he is a 
 member. 
 
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 II. VIVIAN, M. D., Mineral Point Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 125, was 
 • born at Camborne, Cornwall, England, 
 Jul}^ 27, 182."), and is the son of Henry Andrew 
 and Mary (Lean) \'ivian. The name is of 
 Roman origin so far as known and is mentioned 
 by Tacitus. The tradition holds that its earli- 
 est owner came from Normandy to England 
 and the familv is prominent in the history of 
 tin and cojiper mining in Cornwall, Andrew 
 Vivian, the grandfather of the doctor, being 
 the person who opened one of the most famous 
 mines in that locality, being a leading specula- 
 tor in those interests there. The fatlier was a 
 manager of mining interests and the family 
 was in good position and circumstances. Only 
 three of the five children of H. A. Vivian sur- 
 vive ; Richard, the oldest brother, was drowned 
 while bathing ; Henry A. resides in Chili, S. 
 A. ; he is a railroad superintendent ; Julia lives 
 in Cornwall, England ; Ellen is deceased. The 
 mother died about 1S31 and the father married 
 again. The second wife died without children 
 andofatliird marriage Hugh P., Fannie Mary 
 and Caroline were born ; they live in Cornwall, 
 and the son is the proj)rietor of the homestead. 
 Tlie father died in 1861. 
 
 Dr. Vivian is the third child of his parents; 
 
 he was educated in a grammar .school of his 
 
 native country, whence he was graduated and 
 
 I he also studied for liis profession in England, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 409 
 
 completing his course and obtaining a position 
 on a vessel as ship's surgeon to come to Amer- 
 ica, wliich he did in IS'IS. He expected to 
 come direct to Mineral Point via Quebec, 
 but remained in the Canadian quarantine sta- 
 tion at Grosse Isle to assist in caring for the 
 sick, ship fever having become epidemic on the 
 voyage. He was in charge of a puljlic hospi- 
 tal for ship fever inmates and he remained 
 until taken with the fever himself; he went to 
 a private hospital and there experimented on 
 the treatment of the disease, taking nothing 
 but cold water. When sufficiently recovered 
 to travel he started for Wisconsin, arriving at 
 Mineral Point about Sept. 14, 1847. He en- 
 tered immediately upon the practice of medi- 
 cine there and has continued that business 
 uninterruptedly, with the exception of his 
 army service and ten years on the Board of 
 Charities. In 1863 he was appointed member 
 of the Board of Enrollment and with Col. J. 
 G. Clark [see sketch] he organized the 3d Con- 
 gressional District. In the winter of 1864-5 
 he was commissioned Surgeon of the 50th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, commanded by Colonel Clark. 
 His relations to the preparation for the draft 
 were not completed, but as soon as that busi- 
 ness was accomplished he joined the regiment. 
 Pie left the State in April and went to Missouri, 
 where the different portions of the regiment 
 that had been sent forward as fast as mustered 
 bad been distributed. His headquarters were 
 at Miami, and he soon after went to Boone- 
 ville. The command was consolidated at Jef- 
 fenson City and ordered to Fort Leavenworth 
 to perform provost duty and went thence to 
 Fort Rice, Dak., arriving in October, 1865, to 
 be relieved in June, 1866, by regular army .sol- 
 diers and returned to Madison for discharge 
 .June '2ot\\ of that year. They were kept in 
 service six months longer than the term of en- 
 listment. The mutiny of the discontented 
 
 regiments was quelled by the 50th and the 
 great injustice of the relief of the mutinous 
 regiments and retention of the 50th was keenly 
 felt, as the commands referred to had not com- 
 pleted their terms. The history of the connec- 
 tion of Dr. Vivian with the 50th shows hiscare 
 and skill, as the stories of preceding regiments 
 were not repeated under his watchfulness, few 
 of his regiment dying, while the mortality in 
 otliers had been great. He exercised every 
 possible sanitary precaution and was rewarded 
 for his trouble bj' the healthy condition of his 
 charge. He had a severe contest with scurvy 
 but conquered it. 
 
 He resumed his practice at Mineral Point, 
 where he had a drug store, which he has made 
 one of the leading establishments in that sec- 
 tion of Wisconsin. In 1879 he was appointed 
 on the State Board of Charities, and in 1862-3 he 
 served in the State Assembly. His positions 
 always came to him unsought and have alwaj's 
 proved anything but sinecures. He has been 
 member of the County Board, was several 
 years Chairman and he was connected there- 
 with during the formative period of the county. 
 
 He was married at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 
 the spring of 1849 to Elizabeth, daughter of 
 .John and Jane Stansmore, residents of Corn- 
 wall, England. Amy was their only child. 
 Mrs. Vivian died in May, 1857, at Mineral 
 
 ; Point and Dr. Vivian nuirried Amelia, sister of 
 
 I 
 
 his tirst wife, in August, 1858. They have 
 four children named Stansmore, Frederick, 
 Alfred and Ella. The oldest son is an M. D., 
 and is his father's associate, the firm style be- 
 ing Drs. Vivian & Son. Two children died 
 while Dr. Vivian was in the service. Dr. 
 Vivian has been Surgeon of his Post since it 
 was organized, with the exception of a term as 
 Senior-Vice Commander until elected Com- 
 mander, which office he now holds. He is one 
 of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State and has 
 
410 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 served as Grand Patriarch of Wisconsin ; he 
 has acted as Chairman of the Court of Appeals 
 many years ; (the first organization of Odd 
 Fellows in the Northwest Territory was estab- 
 lished in Mineral Point about 1836.) Mrs. 
 Vivian and two daughters are members of the 
 W. R. C. Alfred Vivian organized the Sons of 
 Veterans' Corps at Mineral Point and has Ijeen 
 Captain since its establishment ; the corps was 
 in the naval battle at the National Encamp- 
 ment at Milwaukee in 1889 and won imieh fa- 
 vorable commendation. Fred N'ivian is the 1st 
 Lieutenant in the Corps. Dr. \'ivian has been 
 an uncommonly active adherent of the Repub- 
 lican party ; he lias served nearly every year 
 as State Delegate ; he is physician in the asy- 
 lum at Mineral Point whose location there he 
 secured and assisted in the preparation of 
 plans for the building. 
 
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 fSiE 
 
 AMUEL BABB, Chippewa Falls, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
 born .June 3, 1840, in Penobscot Co., 
 Maine, of jiarents who were of American Ijirth 
 and remote Englisli ancestry. His fatiier and 
 mother were Nathaniel and Abby (Brown) Babb 
 and his maternal grandfiither was a soldier in 
 1812; his father was a lumberman by occuj)a- 
 tion, dying in Maine in 18S2. The motlier is 
 living in Maine. William, .John II., Samuel, 
 Abby, Mary, Abner, Mary (2d), JNhvrtha, .James, 
 Martha (2d), and George Albert were their 
 children. The first Mary and first ^hvrtha 
 died young. In Sej)tember, 1801, Samuel 
 enlisted and was mustered November 12th in 
 Company E, 11th Maine Infantry, at Augusta. 
 He started next day for Washington, passed 
 the winter in camp, the regiment being as- 
 signed to Casey's Division, until March 28, 
 1802, went then to Alexandria and Newport 
 
 News and, April 17th, was ordered with his 
 conmiand to Yorktown, having a skirmish on 
 the 29th, Company E losing a man. May .")tli 
 he was in the fight at Williamsburg, crossed 
 tlie Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge May 23d, 
 and, May 31st, fought in the battle of Seven 
 Pines. The regiment was in the 3d Brigade, 
 1st Division, and fought from morning until 
 night, occupying the rilie pits until .June llh, 
 when a move was made to the Chinniies and 
 White Oak Swamp to fight June 30th, the 
 company losing heavily. The next move was 
 to Harrison's Landing, arriving August 16th 
 and the regiment went thence to Yorktown to 
 remain milil December 26th, doing garrison 
 duty and recruiting. On that date, in com- 
 pany with Negley's Brigade, the regiment 
 started for North Carolina, landing at More- 
 head City .Jan. 1, 1863, on account of ship 
 fever. January 20th they re-embarked for 
 Port Royal, arriving Feb. 10th and remaining 
 until April 4th, when another embarkation 
 took place for Charleston, where the regiment 
 was present at the naval engagement. The 
 next orders were for Fernandina, Fla., to re- 
 lieve the 9tli Maine Cavalry and they remained 
 there doing g;urison duty and practicing heavy 
 artillery and cavalry drill until October 6th 
 and embarking for Morris Island in Charleston 
 harboi', going to the front entrance and per- 
 forming duty at Fort Wagner, which was taken 
 from the rebels. The command spent six 
 months erecting Forts Sumter, Gregg and Sul- 
 livan on James Island and there Mr. ISabb re- 
 enlisted, took his furlougii and iijoincd his 
 regiment at Camp Distribution, Washington. 
 Prior to leaving Morris Island the regiment 
 had been assigned to the od Brigade, 1st Divi- 
 sion and loth Corps, joining Butler's command 
 at Gloucester Tdint May oth and landing at 
 Bermuda Hundred, particiixiting in an action 
 at Walthall Junction May 7th anil another at 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 411 
 
 Chester Station May 10th. Mr. Babb was in 
 tlie several actions near Richmond and fought 
 at Fort Darling and Bermuda Hundred where 
 the regiment lost 41 killed and wounded. Mr. 
 Babb was wounded in this action, a musket 
 ball entering his left arm near the shoulder, 
 passing down tiirough the lungs and out at the 
 right side of the back. He lay on tiie field 
 24 hours without attention and seeing his 
 wounded comrades carried off while lie was 
 wholly neglected, his life being so near gone as 
 not to be thought of as worth consideration. 
 Tlie regimental surgeon finally came along 
 and gave him an examination, sending him to 
 Hampton hosjiital. Mr. Babb had gone into 
 this action from choice as he was on detached 
 duty. He remained at Hampton about three 
 months, was transferred to David's Island in 
 New York harbor and remained until February, 
 when he joined his regiment on .James River, 
 at .Jones' Neck. He remained there a day and 
 was furloughed home as unfit for duty, and be 
 rejoined his regiment at Clover Hill near 
 Ilichmond. Not being able to fight he was 
 detailed wagon master and served in tiiat capac- 
 ity until mustered out, being with Grant's army 
 until Lee's surrender. After that he went with 
 100 wagons to Lynchburg with supplies from 
 the reliel canal boats and took them back to 
 feed botii armies, returning soon after to Rich- 
 mond, remaining there until Nov. 26, 1865. 
 He went next to Warrenton, remaining there 
 until .Jan. 26, 1866, went then to City Point and 
 was mustered out Feb. 2, 1866. 
 
 Going to Augusta, Maine, Mr. Babb engaged 
 in iunibering until October, 1868, when he 
 removed West. He located at Chippewa Falls 
 and engaged again in lumbering, in which he 
 lias since been occupied. He was married at 
 Alton, Maine, in January, 1866, to Malvina 
 Patterson, daughter of Samuel and Almira 
 Patterson, and she died May 11, 1868. Dec. 
 
 25, 1870, Mr. Babb was again married to Frances 
 E., daughter of Jeremiah G. and Betsey C. 
 (McCowan) Patten. Her parents were born in 
 Hamlin, Maine, and her grandfather, .James, 
 in Merrimack, N. H., the son of an early settler 
 in New England. Her maternal grandfather, 
 George McCowan, was born in Maine of Scotch 
 descent. Ider grandfather Patten was a militia- 
 man of New York and fought in 1812, com- 
 manding a company at the battle of Hampden 
 and dying Dec. 11, 1859. Her grandmother, 
 Elizabetii (Guptil) Patten, died May 2, 1851. 
 The issue of Mr. Babb's second marriage in- 
 cludes three ciiildren as follows: — George 
 .Albert, born Oct. 10, 1877 ; Samuel, Jr., born 
 Dec. 26, 1880 ; Edward Alexander, born March 
 12, 1886. 
 
 '>^«f^^l»?.'^<^ 
 
 ILLIAM R. PECKHAM, Treas- 
 urer of Richland Co., Wis., resi- 
 dent at Richland Center, member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 3.3, was born in 1841, in 
 Jefferson Co., Ohio, and removed thence to 
 Wisconsin in 1855, settling with his parents in 
 the town of Bloom. His father, William Peck- 
 ham, was born in 1804, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
 and died on the homestead which he purchased 
 from the Government in 1855, his demise oc- 
 curring in 1881. His wife was a native of the 
 same county in Oiiio, was born in 1809, and 
 survived her husband two years, her life ter- 
 minating on the homestead on which she lived 
 nearly 30 years. 
 
 Mr. Peckham was reared as the son of a 
 pioneer and remained at home until he reached 
 his majority, when he decided to enter the 
 army. He enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Company 
 B, 25th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment 
 went to St. Paul, Minn., whence five companies 
 were sent in one direction to quell Indian dis- 
 turbances and the remainder in another direc- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 tion, Company B being stationed at Alexan- 
 dria, Minn., wliere they performed military 
 duty until December, wben tbey started to 
 march to La Crosse in tlie winter and under- 
 went severer bardships than in any subsequent 
 marcb tbey made wliile in tlie service, over bad 
 roads and witb i^canty rations. Tbey readied 
 t'amp Randall, December 18tb, and in Febru- 
 ary started for tlie front and, reaching Colum- 
 bus, Ky., reiuaiiicd there about two inoutbs, 
 and in April went with the Hjtb Army Corps 
 to tight the rebel.>< under Marinaduke. They 
 were too late and returned to Columbus whence 
 they started for the siege of Vicksburg and 
 took position in the trenches, remaining until 
 June 25th, wben tbey started on an expedition 
 up the river to disj)er.se the guerrillas who were 
 giving trouble to the Union river cralt. In 
 July tbey went to Helena, where Mr. Peckbam 
 performed provost duty until February, 1864, 
 going to Vick.sburg to rejoin the 10th Corps 
 •and to accompany Shi'mian to the Meridian 
 expedition under Acting Colonel Jeriy Rusk. 
 Mr. reekham was in the work of destruction 
 accomjilislu'd during the march and on tiie 
 return ui' the regiment started from \Mcksburg 
 on the long route which terminated at Decatur, 
 Ala., whence tbey went in May to Iluntsville 
 and Chattanooga and joined the Army of the 
 Tennessee under McPberson ; they moved by 
 Snake Creek Gap to fight at Resaca and after- 
 wards at Dalln.'! Wooils, at l>ig Shanty, Peach 
 Orchard, Lost Mountain, Nickajack Creek, De- 
 catur, and Mr. Peckbam was in all the miscel- 
 laneous military duty performed by bis regi- 
 ment, and a.^sistiiig in the distniction of the 
 railroatls after the fall of Atlanta, having been 
 a month in the siege of that city and under 
 constant lire. He was with the columns of 
 yiierman in the i>ursuit of Hood and in the 
 long marches prior to leaving Atlanta on the 
 march to the sea, and was actively engaged in 
 
 the various duties incident to the campaign 
 until Jan. 3, 1805, when they passed through 
 Savannah and embarked for Beaufort, S. C. 
 January 13th, the march northward coni- 
 nienced and Mr. Peckbam was in several ac- 
 tions, including a skirmish ontbeSalkabatcbie 
 River. He was in the light at River's Bridge, 
 again at South Edisto, and was engaged in 
 marching and skirmi.sbing and in guard duty 
 until April, wben tbey started for Raleigh, N. 
 C, going thence to Richmond and Washington 
 via Petersburg and jiarticijiating in the Grand 
 Review, going thence to Crystal Sjirings to be 
 mustered out .lune 7th, and to return to \\'is- 
 consin. 
 
 He became a farmer of the best type and 
 be also engaged in buying stock, and was 
 operating in these avenues when be was 
 elected County Treasurer in 1884, and he has 
 been twice re-elected to the same position. He 
 is a man whose entire record is one which se- 
 cures the trust and cunlidence of bi.s genera- 
 tion, his abilities being of marked character 
 and equaled by his integrit}'. His army ser- 
 vice was one of constant duty and he has the 
 satisfaction to have been a nunilicr of one of 
 the Wisconsin organizations, which jierformed 
 as much continuous service as any other. He 
 belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge 
 No. 118, and has lield minor municipal ofKces. 
 He was married Oct. 26, 1865, to Catherine 
 Albaugh, a native of Carroll Co., Ohio, who 
 came to Bloom in Richland county in 1861 
 with her parents. Their children are named 
 John A. Logan, Milo E., Marian S. and Bertha 
 M. Mr. Peckbam is a Republican and, witb 
 his wife, belongs to the M. E. Church. The 
 family is in the best social standing and justly 
 regarded as an addition to the community to 
 which tbey belong in the best sense. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 413 
 
 ALSEY KNIGHT, a farmer at Monti- 
 cello, Wis., a former soldier of the 
 civil war, was born in tiie town of 
 Eagle, Allegany Co., New York, Oct. 12, 1815. 
 His grandfather, Richard Knight, took his 
 name from the title of knight conferred on 
 liini in Ireland, wiiere lie was born and whither 
 lie came to America as paymaster in the British 
 service in the Revolution. After the war he 
 settled near Cayuga Lake in the State of New 
 York, where he married and became the parent 
 of two sons — David and Richard. The latter 
 went to Canada after the war of 1812 and little 
 is known of him beyond the fact that he mar- 
 ried an<l had a lai'ge family. David, father of 
 Mr. Knight of this sketch was a soldier of 1812, 
 serving through it and fighting at the date of 
 the burning of J5ulfalo, where he was hit by 
 a liullet which cut across his face, leaving an 
 ugly mark. He married Katie Robinson and 
 of their nine children, Mr. Knight believes 
 himself to be the only survivor. The father 
 died when 84 years old about 1877. The 
 mother died while the children were young 
 and the father married again. After her deatli 
 Mr. Knight went to learn the business of a 
 wheelwright and blacksmith, after which he 
 operated again as a farmer and, finally learned 
 the trade of wagon-making. He removed to 
 Wisconsin and located at Monticello in 1856, 
 arriving on the first day of November. He 
 made the first wagon constructed in the place 
 and followed his trade until 1860, when lie 
 went to Tennessee and engaged there in the 
 same business, and managed the shop where lie 
 worked near Murfreesboro. On the fall of 
 Fort Sumter and the coiLsequent movements 
 towards secession which prevailed in the South, 
 he took his family back to Monticello, making 
 the journey with a team. He again settled on 
 his farm which he managed while working at 
 his business, until he entered the army. He 
 
 enlisted Aug. 31, 1864, in Company D, 35th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, was mustered at Madison 
 and joined the regiment at Brownsville, Ark., 
 which was, for sometime, headquiirters of the 
 command and where the regiment guarded the 
 railroad communications and endeavored to 
 watch the movements of Price. In December 
 the command wenttoDuvall's Bluff and passed 
 the winter until February, went thence to the 
 White River and down the Mississippi to New- 
 Orleans, proceeding thence to the defenses of 
 Mobile. Arriving at Spanish Fort Marcli 27th, 
 Mr. Knight was in the trenches there until its 
 evacuation, when he went with the command 
 to Blakely. He was next in the movement 
 which drove the rebel squadron up the Tom- 
 bigby river, and assisted in taking the rebel 
 gunboats on which the regiment went to Mobile 
 Bay, where he witnessed the surrender of the 
 water forces of the rebels. At Spanish Fort, 
 while lying on the ground to keep out of range 
 of the bullets, Mr. Knight came in contact with 
 some poisonous vegetable growth which made 
 him very ill and his discharge was ordered 
 but instead, through some misunderstanding, 
 he was sent to Texas and at Jonesville he re- 
 ceived his discharge, dated July 10, 1865. He 
 is and has been a great sufferer from the effects 
 of the poison from which he has never had 
 relief. His eyes have been so much affected 
 that he sees with difficulty and the sores on his 
 limbs have made him a cripple. After his 
 return home he tried to work at his trade until 
 1868, when he removed to his farm in Exeter, 
 where he remained until 1870. He then sold 
 the property and removed to his present home. 
 He was married -June 9, 1854, to Emma A. 
 Wood, a native of Rensselaer Co., New York, 
 and daughter of Samuel H. and Paulina 
 (Upham) Wood, both of whom died in the 
 State of New York. Mrs. Knight is the third 
 in order of birth of seven children named 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Sarah, Jolin A., Artemas A., Alida, Ida and 
 Martin G., wlio was a soldier in llie war, fight- 
 ing from its beginning to its end and being a 
 prisoner at Libby. The sons of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Knigiit are named Adelbert R. and George E. 
 The former is a druggist and jeweler at Dull 
 Rapids, Dak., and the latter is in the same lines 
 of business at Worthington, Minn. The father 
 has been and still is a much respected citizen; 
 he has performed his share of municipal duty 
 and is still a Justice although nearly SO years 
 old ; he is considered one of the reliable and 
 staunch men of the county, always proving 
 trustworthy and fh-nily balanced in principle. 
 (He was first married to Caroline Murdock in 
 1837 and she died without children in lcS52.) 
 
 EG A. RITTMANN, Racine, Wis., 
 member of Governor Ilarvev Post 
 
 ~-^ No. 17, G. A. R., was born in Ham- 
 
 burg, Germany, Nov. 5, 1844, and his i)arents, l 
 William C. and IVhiria (Vahn) Rittniann, were 
 natives of Germany and descendants of Ger- 
 man ancestors. The fatiicr was a furniture 
 dealer and served under the conscription in the 
 German army. The children were named 
 William C., Bertha, (now Mrs. Fixen of Ra- , 
 cine) Leo A., John Z., Agnes and Amanda O. 
 All are living. The parents came to the United \ 
 States and located at Racine in 1854, where 
 the father engaged in the furniture business, 
 in which he was occupied until his death. He 
 was born Nov. 2, 1808, and died Dec. 13, 1863. 
 The mother was born in Hesse Cassel, Ger- 
 many, Nov. 25, 1810, and is still living at Ra- 
 cine. Mr. Rittmann received his education in 
 the public schools and performed his first labor \ 
 with tlie Mitchell Wagon Mauuraduring Com- 
 pany. In the year 1801 when Camj) Utley 
 was established lie accepted a position in the J 
 
 Commissary Department going witli the 4th 
 Wisconsin Infantry to Baltimore as sutler's 
 clerk. He accompanied the regiment to the 
 Relay House and to Annapolis and came home 
 in October, 1861. He then engaged in the 
 sale of groceries and dry goods with Roggen- 
 bau & Fixen and endeavored to enlist in the 
 22d Wisconsin Infantry but failed. He finally 
 eni'olled in August, 1863, in Batter}' C, 1st 
 Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. The battery was 
 organized under Captain John R. Davis and 
 left Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, October 30, 
 1863, on the march to the front to rejmrt at 
 headquarters. Army of tlie C'unilu'rland, Chat- 
 tanooga. They received equijmients at that 
 point but were somewhat detained in reaching 
 Camj) Creighlon and went to Camp Wood 
 where they drilled in light ami heavy artillery 
 tactics. The army under General Grant, liav- 
 ing been reinforced by the Army of the Ten- 
 nessee under Sherman and the 11th and r2th 
 Corps undiT Hooker, had lu'ld itself in 
 readiness for "business," Battery C being as- 
 signed to the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 4th 
 Corps, and on the night of November 24th 
 they were roused for a forward movement and 
 were called to jirepare for immediate action ; 
 Battery C took position to aid in the assault on 
 Mission Ridge. Mr. Rittnuinn was in that 
 glorious action, helped drive the rebels from 
 their position and also to capture 35 out of 44 
 guns held there by the rebels and to turn their 
 batteries on them. Battery C gave the signal 
 for the advance of General Thomas' army and 
 shelled Braggs' headquarters. The second gun, 
 operated by J. E. Brown, dislodged a rebel bat- 
 tery, droi>ping a shot into the magazine and 
 killing all the men and officers. After holding 
 the Ridge and burning loyal fires all night, 
 the battery went to winter quarters in Camj) 
 Wood. In the spring they went to Fort Sher- 
 man, Tennessee, where thej' remained until 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 415 
 
 Hood threatened Nashville. A section of the 
 huttery, under Lieut. B. F. Parker, was detailed 
 with a brigade of troops to intercept General 
 Hood in case he came in the direction of Chat- 
 tanooga, but he went to Franklin. Mr. Ritt- 
 niann was then detailed as clerk in the Quar- 
 termaster's Department, where he remained 
 until the spring of 1865. He was then ordered 
 to report with his battery at Mouse Creek, Tenn., 
 which acted there as infantry to guard the 
 railroad. He was then detailed as a clerk in 
 the Brownlow U. S. general hospital at Knox- 
 ville, Tenn., and remained from June, 1865, 
 until October, 1865, when he was mustered out 
 at Nashville. He returned to Racine in No- 
 vember and was sick through the ensuing win- 
 ter from injuries in the service. In the spring 
 he went to Leavenworth, Kas., and returned to 
 Racine in tlie fall to engage as clerk in the 
 store of H. G. Winslow. In 1868 he was ap- 
 })ointed Revenue Collector with an ofHce at 
 Milwaukee and in the following year entered 
 the office of the New England Life Insurance 
 Co., of Boston, of which he took charge. 
 He then went into the employ of Goldsmith 
 & Co., carpet dealers in Milwaukee. A year 
 later he returned to Racine, and assumed 
 the management of the bookstore of Mrs. 
 A. .J. Peavy in which he remained until 
 the fall of 1872, when he established a 
 general news stand and soon after con- 
 nected therewith the sale of books and station- 
 ery. He associated a partner with himself at 
 the end of two years and their connection 
 lasted until 1878 when it was dissolved and he 
 went to Kenosha where he engaged in the 
 same business. In 1881 he went back to Ra- 
 cine, traveled two years and went to Dakota to 
 look after a quarter section of land he had 
 taken up. An accident prevented his arrival 
 there in season to take his second pajjcrs and 
 he lost his claim. In June, 1884, he engaged 
 
 in the establishment of Fixen & Co. as a carpet 
 salesman and has charge of that and of the 
 upholstering department. 
 
 He was married June 25, 1867, to Ellen M., 
 daughter of John and Rachel (Langlois) Gal- 
 lien. Their children are named Louis Ells- 
 woth, Gertrude M. and Ida M. Mr. Rittmann 
 has held various offices in Gov. Harvey Post 
 and is a member of the First Baptist Church 
 of Racine and the Order Royal Adelphi. 
 
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 ^ 
 
 y^^SAU B. BARNES, Platteville, Wis., 
 Ii,, ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was 
 ^^^i^ born in St. Clair Co., 111., Oct. 13, 
 1843. His father, William Barnes, was born in 
 Kentucky, and his parents removed to the 
 Sucker State when he was in boyhood ; and 
 there he grew to manhood, marrying Jane 
 "Wright about 1841. After the birth of their 
 son they went to Lafayette county, and after 
 five years more settled in Dane county, near 
 Mazo Manie, residing on a farm there about 15 
 years, until the fall of 1864, when they re- 
 turned to Illinois, locating for two years near 
 Decatur. Sept. 18, 1866, the mother died and 
 the father returned to Lafayette county, where 
 he was again married and went to Iowa, where 
 he still resides. Mr. Barnes is the eldest of 
 eight children. Mary, Delia, Henry, Jesse, 
 George (deceased, was an engineer and was 
 killed on his engine in the discharge of duty), 
 Joseph (died in infancy), and Anna, were their 
 names and such is the brief record of the other 
 children. Aug. 30, 1862, Mr. Barnes enlisted 
 in Company E, 23d Wisconsin Infantry. He 
 was mustered at Madison and left the State 
 September 15th for Cincinnati, preparatory to 
 service in Northern Kentucky, almost two 
 months being consumed in drill and other 
 military duty, including heavy marching 
 
416 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and a journey on the Ohio and Mississippi 
 Rivers to join Sherman's command. Mr. 
 Barnes was engaged in the work of destruction 
 near Dallas on the railroad and his next activ- 
 ity, after more traveling, was at Chickasaw 
 Bayou. He was in the fight at Arkansas Post, 
 (participating in a victory) and, in January, 
 went to Young's Point, La., where the winter 
 was passed in the greatest discomfort, most of 
 the regiment benig sick. In the spring, Mr. 
 Barnes went with the command to Grand Gulf 
 where preparations for an attack were made 
 which were not carried out, and the command 
 proceeded to Port Gibson and after that battle 
 took possession of the place, afterwards follow- 
 ing the rebels to Raymond. Mr. Barnes was 
 next in action at Champion's Hill in which en- 
 gagement his company and two others were in 
 the skirmish line. On the morning of May 
 16, 1SG3, while on tlie skirmish line, he re- 
 ceived a gunshot wound in his right thigh; a 
 knife in his pocket was cut into several pieces, 
 and the ball, which passed through his coat and 
 leg, carried with it a piece of knife-blade an 
 inch long which was imbedded in the flesh and 
 "held the fort" eight years, during which 
 time the wound was a running sore. The piece 
 of steel finally worked its way to the surface, 
 and Mr. Barnes removed it hiuKself. After 
 he was wounded, Mr. Barnes went to the field 
 hospital, thence to a farm house near the battle 
 ground and, two weeks later, proceeded to 
 Mempliis, where he was furlouglied and, after 
 spending 30 days at home went to the hospital 
 at Madison, where he was retained about aj'ear 
 without benefit. In tlie summer of 1864 he 
 was sent to Milwaukee, where he performed 
 provost duty until the war was over and was 
 discharged, June 25, 1865. 
 
 He went to Decatur, III., returned to La 
 Fayette county and engaged in farming until 
 1884, when he located at Platteville. He has 
 
 been prosperous in business and is considered 
 one of the substantial and reliable citizens of 
 the county and city. In all his course of life 
 he has conducted his relations with mankind 
 in accordance with unselfish and patriotic prin- 
 ciples and his comrades state that he was deeply 
 regretful that the decision of the authorities 
 sent him to the hosjiital after he was wounded 
 rather than to his regiment. 
 
 He was married at Elk Grove, La Fayette 
 Co., Wis., March 19, 1871, to Julia, daughter of 
 Lorenzo and Roxy (McOmber) McNett. The 
 only child of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes died in in- 
 fancy. They are members of the M. E. Church 
 and Mrs. Barnes belongs to the W. R. C. at 
 Platteville. 
 
 fj^^RANKLIN E. PEASE, Commander of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 58, in 1887, resident 
 at Menomonie, Wis., was born at Mad- 
 ison, Lake Co., Ohio, May 8, 1841. Peter Pease, 
 his father, was born April 12, 1795, at Stock- 
 bridge, Ma.ss., the son of Phineas Pease, born in 
 Connecticut Jan. 9, 1755. The latter was a 
 drummer in the Revolution, was of English 
 origin and his ancestry were among the early 
 settlers on the Atlantic seaboard ; he died at 
 Stockbridge, Mass., in 1836. Four brothers 
 located in 1634 at Salem, and from John, of the 
 quadruple fraternity, Mr. Pease is descended. 
 His father married Ruth II. Crocker, July 12, 
 1821, at Hrownhelm, Ohio; she was born in 
 Oneida county in the Empire State and from 
 their union 11 children were born, named in 
 order Amanda, Flavins, Eliza, Samantha, Mar- 
 garet, ^\'alter, P'rederick, Franklin, Herbert, 
 Lucius and Phineas. Herbert, Lucius, Phineas 
 and Margaret are not living. The father was 
 a builder by occupation and died in (^berlin, 
 Ohio, in 1801, his wife's demise having oc- 
 curred in 1858. The son was brought up at 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 417 
 
 home and learned his father's trade ; also, at 
 Oherlin taking the preparatory of a course of 
 study at one of the best educational institutions 
 ill the country — Oberlin College. He started 
 life on his own account in ISGO and went West, 
 locating at Menomonie and engaging in build- 
 ing. When he was 21 years old he enlisted, 
 enrolling in 1862 at Menomonie, being mus- 
 tered xVugust Htli following into Company K, 
 5th Wisconsin Infantry. He proceeded to 
 Washington and joined the regiment at Hagers- 
 town just after the battle of Antielam, where he 
 was transferred to Company H, the command 
 being in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 6tli 
 Corps. While on the march to the Rappa- 
 hannock campaign, near Charleston, Va., Mc- 
 Clellan was removed and Burnside assumed 
 the command. The 5th did little but skir- 
 mish in the fight at Fredericksburg, and in 
 .January got "stuck in the mud " with all who 
 participated in one of the most ill-advised 
 operations of that fruitless and disastrous cam- 
 paign. In the spring the regiment was as- 
 signed to the " Liglit Division" designed for 
 active service where speed was a consideration 
 and marched May 2, 1863, crossed the Rappa- 
 hannock, went to the south side and skir- 
 mished, driving in tlie rebels that night and 
 marched next morning through the city, tak- 
 ing position in front of Marye's Heights, where 
 Company H was on the skirmish line and 
 opened the engagement by a charge on the 
 stone wall, routing the rebels and capturing the 
 famous Washington Battery with many prison- 
 ers. (See sketches of oilier members of the 5th 
 Wisconsin.) The Heights were taken and the 
 force went on to fight at Salem Heights, six 
 miles l)eyoiul, w'here Lee was stationed in force 
 aiul where a .severe action took place. The 
 Union command lay there all night, completely 
 surrounded by rebels. Hooker being on' the 
 other side of the river. Sunday night the 6th 
 
 Corps cut its way out with small loss, recrossing 
 the river before daylight and joined Hooker's 
 army. They marched seven miles down below 
 Fredericksburg, where camp was established 
 and about the last of June orders were received 
 to move after Lee into Pennsylvania and the 
 5th Wisconsin reached the field of Gettysburg 
 on the night of July 2d, taking position on the 
 extreme left of Big Round Top, two companies 
 being on the left of Company H. In the morn- 
 ing, line of battle was formed on Little Round 
 Top, with the Devil's Den directly in front be- 
 low. This position was held during the re- 
 maining days of the battle, it being expected 
 that Lee would charge the hill after driving 
 Sickles to its foot. But he did not, and, after 
 the war, explained his reasons, saying he ascer- 
 tained that the 6th Corps was there. The 5tli 
 Wisconsin was in the advance in the pursuit to 
 Warrenton and afterwards went to New York 
 to quell the draft riots. Company H was on 
 Governor's Island, in the city of New York, in 
 Albany and on provost duty in Tro}', where 
 Mr. Pease was taken sick with typhoid fever ; 
 he obtained quarters in a private house 
 and lay there six weeks, receiving the 
 best of care. Meanwhile his regiment had 
 been ordered back to another Rappahannock 
 campaign and he found his company at Cul- 
 peper, the fighting being over at Rappahan- 
 nock Station. May 4th, 1864, the command 
 moved to the Wilderness and Mr. Pease was in 
 that fight ; he was in the charge at Spottsylva- 
 nia on May lOtb under Eustis, his company 
 losing eight men and capturing a line of rebel 
 works and it is his belief that proper support 
 at the proper moment would have prevented 
 the fight on the 12th. On that day the com- 
 mand was in the " Bloody Angle " all day and 
 the rebs fell back in the night. They marched 
 to North Anna River to find the action nearly 
 done, after which the corps took the advance 
 
418 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to Cold Harbor. The first night after support- 
 ing the line of battle all day, they passed into 
 the trenches and on the morning of June 6th 
 Mr. Pease received a ball in liis right temple. 
 He lay on the field until sundown when his 
 comrades came to bury him, but found he was 
 breathing and conveyed him to the field hos- 
 pital, thence to White House Landing and 
 there the ball was removed and the wound 
 dressed. He was sent afterwards to David's 
 Island hospital. New York iiarbor, and there 
 received a furlougli. He rejoined his regiment 
 after two months at Charlestown, W. Va., in 
 September and soon after joined Sheridan to 
 figiit at Winchester. Mr. Pease was assigned 
 to detached duty in the Quartermaster's De- 
 partment and went in December to Petersburg, 
 wliere he was on tlie same duty as Ordnance 
 Sergeant. He was still suffering from his 
 wound and after returning to his command he 
 was discharged Feb. 15, 1865. 
 
 He went to Ann Arbor, Midi., to have an oper- 
 ation performed on his head and remained in 
 that city seven years. He returned to Menom- 
 onie where he has since engaged in contracting 
 and building. Pie has served as member of 
 tlic Common Council (1887) and in the same 
 year was one of the Committee of the Gettys- 
 burg Memorial As-sociation, appointed by the 
 Governor. He was married .luly 26, 1865, at 
 Salem, Midi., to Mrs. Jeanette Ratiibun, 
 daughter of Hiram and Christiana (Castleman) 
 Wliittaker. Frederick, Lucius and Edmund 
 are the names of their childrem He has a 
 pension and is a member of .the Republican 
 party. , 
 
 
 4 
 
 R. 11. M. ROGERS, Chippewa Falls, 
 Wis., member of James Comerford 
 Post No. 68, was born June 1, 1837, 
 in Raymond, Racine Co., Wis, and is a direct 
 descendant from John Rogers, first martvr 
 
 under Bloody Mary. Following is the inscrii> 
 tion in a Bible owned by Dr. Rogers in relation 
 to his earliest known ancestor : " Mr. .John 
 Rorgers, Minister of the gofpel in London , was 
 the firl't Martyr in Queen Mary's reign, and 
 was burnt at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 153-1. His 
 wife with nine small children and one at the 
 breast, following him to the ftake; with which 
 forrowful fight lie was not in the leaft daunted, 
 but with wonderful patience died courageously 
 for the gofpel of Jesus Christ." This is given 
 as in the original with the spelling and punc- 
 tuation. Reuben Rogers, father of Dr. Rogers, 
 was born May 27, 1811, in New York, and mar- 
 ried Sally McNair, a lady of Scotch-Irish ex- 
 traction. The senior Rogers was a farmer and 
 w^as engaged in that business in Racine county 
 for si.x years, after which he moved to Wal- 
 worth county. Wis., where he lived two years 
 and moved from tiiere to Kane county. 111., 
 and engaged in the same calling, and in 1853 
 went to .Mauston, Juneau county, Wis., where 
 be died May 9, 1886. His wife died Nov. 4, 
 1878 ; she was born in Pennsylvania, July 7, 
 1809. Harvey N., Nancy A., David H., Mary 
 E., James II., Almira A., .Joiiii. R., Sarah J., 
 Martha M., were their children. Our subject 
 was engaged throughout his youth in assisting 
 his father on the farm until 18 years old, ob- 
 taining a good education in the common 
 schools, and early fixed on the medical profes- 
 sion for a vocation. At 18 he commenced his 
 studies at Wayland University at Beaver Dam, 
 Wis., and went thence to the Eclectic Medical 
 College of Pliiladelj)liia, wlience he was gradu- 
 ated in 1864. In looking for a location to es- 
 tablish his business he fixed on Muncie, Ind., 
 and opened an office there which he operated 
 until 1865, when he went to Cincinnati and en- 
 listed in January in the 86th Ohio Infantry. 
 He went to Columbus, Ohio, and after passing 
 five days at Todd Barracks went to Camp Cliase 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 419 
 
 where he was mustered out of tl>e ranks and 
 was commissioned Asst. Surgeon of the 177th 
 Infantry and performed duty there at the mili- 
 tary prison until April, when he joined his reg- 
 iment at Raleigh, N. C, in Sherman's army. 
 A few days later he went to Greensboro, N. C, 
 and remained there witli his command until 
 Juno 27th, proceeding atthat date to Cleveland, 
 Ohio, to be mustered out and paid July 7th. 
 
 Dr. Rogers fixed his residence and business 
 at Oronoco, Minn., and practiced there five 
 years, when he removed to Lake City, Waba- 
 sha Co., Minn., and remained a year. He went 
 thence to Zumbro Falls, where he practiced his 
 profession 15 years, removing thence to White- 
 hall, Trempealeau Co., Wis., in 1886. Three 
 years after, he removed to Chippewa Falls and 
 located his home and interests in the spring of 
 1889. 
 
 He was married Sept. 17, 1860, at Mauston, 
 Juneau Co., Wis., to Lucy, daughter of Orson 
 and Sarah Wright, and they have had five 
 children : — Ammie B. is Mrs. J. C. Boyce ; 
 Elliottson died young ; Elliottson H., Lutella 0. 
 and Mabel E. are unmarried. The wife died 
 at Lake City July 21, 1871. Dr. Rogers was 
 married a second time at Knight's Creek, Dunn 
 Co., Wis., Feb. 18, 1872, to Mary E., daughter 
 of Patrick and Margaret (Cotter) Conway. Dr. 
 liogers is a member of the Order of Masons 
 and is a decided Republican. David PL, his 
 brother, was a soldier in the 8th Illinois Cav- 
 alry and remained with the command until his 
 death from pneumonia; he was highly re- 
 garded in his command as a fearless and con- 
 scientious soldier. James H. enlisted at Maus- 
 ton May 10, 1861, in Company K, 6th Wisconsin 
 Infantry of the Iron Brigade. He was with his 
 regiment throughout its entire service and was 
 mustered out July 14, 1865 ; he distinguished 
 himself for bravery and devotion to duty. 
 
 ^ ENRY MAY, a citizen of Fort Atkin- 
 
 '*'"— ^-'1** son. Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 159, was born Sept. 18, 
 1829, in Walden, Germany. He is the son of 
 Adam and Abelona May. and was brought up 
 in his native land, subject to the regulations 
 which the law provides for the rearing of male 
 children. When he was 20 he was conscripted 
 and served six years. He passed two years in 
 the military school at Carlsruhe and enlisted 
 in the Guards of the Grand Duke, in which he 
 served until he came to America, arriving in 
 this country in October, 1860. He was em- 
 ployed in a foundry at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
 until his removal to Fort Atkinson in 1862. 
 He was occupied variously until he entered the 
 army and he enli.sted at Milwaukee Feb. 13, 
 1864, in the 4th U. S. Inf;lntr}^ He was sent 
 with other recruits to the command, stationed 
 at Bedloe's Island, New York, and thence to 
 AVashington and Alexandria, en route to the 
 army, then about to engage in the actions of 
 the Wilderness. May 4th he went into action 
 and witnessed all the dangers with their results, 
 which cost his command every man save forty- 
 five. Seven officers were killed. He fought 
 through the conflict and was next in action at 
 Spottsylvania Court House, going next to the 
 North Anna River. Activities were in progress 
 when he arrived and he went immediately 
 into battle, and skirmished through three da3'S. 
 He was in the operations near the Pamunkey 
 River and next fought in regular battle at 
 Cold llarljor. In June, 1864, he was in the 
 skirmish line at Cold Harbor, and next fought 
 at Hanovertown, where the shot and shell 
 came in a solid sheet, seemingly, and he 
 sheltered himself behind a small tree. The 
 limbs were cut off and fell so thickly about 
 him that he moved aside to reload, when a 
 ball struck him aljove his right eye and passed 
 through his brow carrying away liis left eye. 
 
420 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 That was his last view of the light of day. 
 He was conveyed to a small tent on the field 
 and remained there suffering indescribable 
 torture eigliteen successive days, his right eye 
 swelling to the size of an egg. He wenttlience 
 to Washington and, eight daj'S later, to Balti- 
 more, Md., where he remained until July 25, 
 1864, when he received discharge from the 
 army, lie returned to Fort Atkinson, where 
 lie has since remained in darkness, awaiting 
 patiently iiis restoration to eternal sight in a 
 land were brothers find no cause to inflict such 
 sull'erings as liis, on brothers. 
 
 His children were born in llic t'ollowing 
 order: — Henry, Dec. 19, 1859, in CJermany ; 
 William C. was born .June 29, 18Go; Chas. C, 
 March (J, 1866; .John, May 24, 1868; Caro- 
 line, Nov. 19, 1869; Louise, March 2, 1871; 
 Eddie, Feb. 18, 1872; Helen, .June 11, 1876. 
 The two last named are mutes. Fxeepting the 
 eldest child, all wei'e born in Fort Atkinson. 
 
 J^^ DW.Ull) E. BERRY, M. D., I'lalte- 
 IV'^rv- ^*' v'"*^' Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 
 ^"- — • No. 66, was born in the townsbij) of 
 Ellerj', Cliautauqua Co., New York, May 28, 
 1839. He is the son of Isaac and Hannah 
 (Hinnian) Berry, who were descended from an 
 old family in tlieState of New York. .Jonathan, 
 father of Isaac, went to Onomlaga county from 
 \\'asliington county as a Government surveyor 
 and subdivided the territory, forming Cliau- 
 tauqua county from the southern lialf. The 
 motlier died while iier children were small 
 and the son was reared by an uncle and aunt, 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. R. and S. M.(lvneeland) Berry. 
 He only knows of the existence of liis sister, 
 Mrs. Mary A. yjjringer of Homer, New York : 
 he had brothers, but after iiis father's death 
 they became lost to his knowledge and he be- 
 
 lieves they are not living. Mr. J. R. Berry, 
 
 his uncle, was a merchant and (•liauge<l that 
 vocation for that of hotelkeejier, which he 
 terminated on the death of his wife in 1856. 
 When he was 18 years of age. Dr. Berry left the 
 home of his adopted parents to enter Rusli 
 Medical College at Chicago, wiience he was 
 graduated in the year of his majority. He 
 had previously read medicine with Dr. W. D. 
 Carver and he returned to his office, remaining 
 until 1860, when he went to Shullsburg, Wis., 
 and formed a partnersbip with Dr. G. W. Lee, 
 nej)liew of the rebel chief, wlio was reared at 
 Fairfax, Va. Aug. 21, 1862, he enlisted, enrol- 
 ling in Company C, 33d Wisconsin Infantry, 
 Captain John E. Gurley, Lieutenants Budlong 
 and Weir and Colonel James B. Moore, with 
 F. S. Ixivell, Lt.-Colonel and Major II. II. 
 Virgin (afterwards Colonel by lirevet.) Dr. 
 Berry enrolled in the capacity of a private sol- 
 dier and served in the ranks until the siege of 
 Vicksburg, where he was commissioned hospital 
 stewanl and, soon after, the regimental sur- 
 geons having become exhausted, he was ap- 
 pointeil Hurgeon of the regiment. Briefly 
 stated, iiis roster of battles in which he served 
 as private and surgeon is as follows : — V^icks- 
 burg, Jackson, Coldwater, Fort de Russy, 
 Cloutierville, Marksville, Bayou Boeuf, Yellow 
 Bayou, Greenville, Cliiddo Cliadde Chute, 
 Alexandria, Bayou Roberts, Bayou La Maire, 
 Fowl River, Natchitoches, Nashville, Guntown, 
 Oldtown Creek and Tupelo, and afterwards 
 taking part in the capture of the defenses of 
 Mobile, Spanish Fort and Blakely. 'flie hi.s- 
 torv of the regiment tells of arduous service 
 which ranked the command as second to none 
 of the Wisctinsin regiments and Dr. Berry 
 drilled and niaicbed through all the territory 
 compassed by the regiment in the first months 
 of its service, traversing Tennessee preliminary 
 to the operations at \'icksburg, aiding in the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 421 
 
 feint movement there and never failing to be 
 at his post after being made Surgeon. He 
 marclied to Natchez, went back to Vici^s- 
 burg, thence to Hebron, from there to 
 the Meridian expedition, and next on 
 the Red River movement, whose lior- 
 rors and disasters can never Ije fully de- 
 scribed. He was in the action in which the 
 water batter}- was captured which was the ter- 
 ror of tlic river, was in the rear guard at Cane 
 River and acted as surgeon after that action, 
 and suggested to Bailey the maneuver to save 
 the gunboats. At Alexandria he visited an 
 engineer on the gunboat Avenger, where he 
 made a chance remarlf about the inability of 
 the fleet to return. Gen. A. J. Smith heard 
 him, directed him to report at headquarters 
 and his atlvice in the matter was followed. He 
 chased Forrest, went to the White River, and 
 from there to intercept Pi'ice before he should 
 reach Pilot Knob in his return to Missouri, con- 
 tinuing after the rebel chief until he was in 
 the hands of the Union authorities. He went 
 to Savannah and Eastport, took passage on the 
 "Kate Kinney " for New Orleans, camped on 
 Jackson's old field and Dauphin Island, made a 
 feint on Mobile and went to Fish River, his 
 regiment !>eing tlie first to enter Spanish Fort. 
 He went tiience to Blakely, Montgomery, to 
 Tuskegee, returned to Montgomery, sailed for 
 Vicksburg and was mustered out Aug. 9, 1865. 
 Dr. Berry resumed his practice at Shullslturg 
 and, in 1867, went to Platteville, since his field 
 of operation. He has always held the prestige 
 of liis connection with the 33d Wisconsin In- 
 fantry and has been of infinite benefit to the 
 " boys " of his command, liis notes and diaries 
 during liis service proving a "God-send" to 
 more tiian one of them who shared with him 
 tlie fate of war and de.served the advantages of 
 the protection of the country in whose behalf 
 they periled life and limb. His stock of remi- 
 
 niscences of his army life would make a fair vol- 
 ume if transcribed. 
 
 He was married at Shulisburg, July 3, 1866, 
 to Helen M., daughter of Dr. Geo. W. and Cor- 
 delia (Bishop) Lee, the former his business 
 partner before the war. Tliree children named 
 Mary Lee, Helen Cordelia and Ernest Everett 
 were born to them. Mrs. Berry died July 27 
 1879. 
 
 .>^*^^^+H« 
 
 J. HILLMAN, pliotographer at 
 Richland Center, Wis., and mem- 
 ijer of G. A. R. Post No. 33, was 
 born at Newburg, Orange Co., New York, 
 April 17, 1849, and is descended from early 
 settlers of the Bay State. His father, Levi C. 
 Hillman was of English lineage as was his 
 wife, Mary M. Shelley before marriage. The 
 father died in 1861 at Cannon River Falls, 
 Minn., whither he removed with his family in 
 1856 ; the mother is still living. Mr. Hillman 
 is the oldest of four children, one of whom is 
 deceased, named Charles J.; Mary I., married 
 J. L. Schofield, who was a soldier in the Stli 
 Minnesota Infantry ; Fred is a resident of 
 Cannon River Falls, Minn. 
 
 In 1851 the senior Hillman went to Califor- 
 nia and joined his family at Northampton, 
 Mass., whence they removed in 1856 to Cannon 
 River Falls, Minnesota; his health was im- 
 paired and he engaged in farming ; he died at 
 Cannon River Falls in 1861 when 39 years of 
 age. While at Northampton he was interested 
 in the hardware business. 
 
 Mr. Hillman received a common school edu- 
 cation and became the chief reliance of his 
 mother on the death of his father. He 
 endeavored to enlist in the early days of the 
 war but was rejected on account of extreme 
 youth and only succeeded April 3, 1865, from 
 St. Paul, Minn., in Company A, 2d Minnesota 
 
422 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Volunteer Infantry, although less than IG 
 years old. He joined the regiment at Alexan- 
 dria the command having reached that point 
 after tiie Southern campaign and awaited or- 
 ders. After being in camp two weeks, the 
 locality was changed to a position near the 
 Capitol and, during aljout three weeks, Mr. 
 Hillman was occupied in camji and guard duty 
 until ordered to Louisville, Ky., where he was 
 taken sick with diseases incident to army life 
 and went to hospital and, after three weeks, 
 was di.scharged July 14, 18G5, while at Brown 
 hospital, Louisville, Ky. While there " Mother 
 Bickerdlke" visited the boys and secured for 
 them improved food. She held a Major's com- 
 mission and made lively work for the otticials, 
 who, in their own interests, provided in the 
 meanest manner for their sick charges. 
 
 After his discharge, Mr. Hillman returned to 
 his home in Minnesota and attended the high 
 school at Cannon River Falls, and when about 
 20 years old began the business in which he is 
 now engaged at Northheld, Minn. Two years 
 later he established his business at Cannon 
 River Falls and in 1881 removed his interests to 
 Richland Center. 
 
 He was married at Cinnon River Falls, 
 Minn., Sejjt. 24, 1871, to Caro W., daughter of 
 Jeremiah R. and Caroline (Webster) Barnes. 
 Her father was a Congregational minister and 
 a brother of All)ert S. Barnes, the famous pub- 
 lisher of New York, and her brother is a noted 
 publisher of Cliicago. Of this marriage two 
 children have been horn, named Mabel Web- 
 ster and Charles Barnes. Both are students at 
 Richland Center. Mr. Hillman has been a 
 member of his Post since its organization and 
 has served in the offices of Quartermaster two 
 years. Commander two years, and has been an 
 Aide on the start" of Commander Weissert two 
 years. He is a leader in G. A. R. circles in 
 Wisconsin ai,d has beeti active in building up 
 
 the Post to wliicli he Ijelongs. He is jn'omi- 
 nent in temperance work and interested in the 
 municipal matters of his city, although not an 
 office seeker in any sense. 
 
 ygr DOLPH KUHLIG, deceased, Milwau- 
 
 '/^yX^ ^^^' ^^'^^^•' * former member of 
 -^^^"'^^^ Robert Chivas Post No. 2, was born 
 May 25, 1838, in Saalfeldt, Saxony, Germany, 
 and was the son of Gottfried Kuhlig. The lat- 
 ter was a soldier in the war of Germany with 
 Napoleon and he was a drummer boy in a bat- 
 tery at Leipsic when only 13 years of age. 
 The mother's name before marriage was 
 Christina Guilden. Mr. Kulilig came to 
 America in 1856, leaving Germany in June, 
 and landing in America August 2d. He 
 went West to Hartford, where he operated 
 in his business as a merchant tailor until 
 the advent of the civil war, when he de- 
 termined to enter the army, which he did 
 when the special call was made for Ger- 
 man troops. He enlisted among the very 
 first of those who responded to the call, enroll- 
 ing Aug. 20, 1862, in Company A, 26th Wis- 
 consin Infantry. September 17th he was 
 mustered and left the Stiite for Washington 
 Oct. 6tli. It is a well-known fact that this 
 regiment was hardly allowed time to acquire 
 military knowledge sufficient for necessary pur- 
 poses, as it was hurried immediately into ser- 
 vice. In the 11th Army Corps under Sigel 
 and in the 2d Brigade and 3d Division, it 
 went in November to Gainesville, and in De- 
 cember started to the assistance of Burnside at 
 Fredericksburg. After the failure of the move- 
 ment Mr. Kuhlig wasin quarters until the Mud 
 Campaign, after which he wasincamji through 
 the winter until the same operations were tried 
 in the spring. He vent to Fredericksburg, to 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 423 
 
 Marye's Heights, to Cliancellorsville and Get- 
 tysburg, and fouglit tliree days at Wauliatchie, 
 after the regiment went to the assistance of the 
 Army of the Tennessee under Joe Hooker. He 
 was at Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Re- 
 saca, Cassville, Dallas, Kenesavv Mountain, 
 Peucli Tree Creek, Atlanta, Savaiuiuh, Averys- 
 boro and Bentonville. He was in all the 
 skirmishes, during the interim of the battles 
 named and was wounded at Gettysburg on 
 the day on which the fighting began. Soon after 
 he was taken prisoner and through strategy and 
 the assistance of about 35 of his comrades 
 succeeded in capturing the same number of his 
 captors. At Kenesaw Mountain he received two 
 shots from a sharpshooter almost at the same in- 
 stant, one hitting him in the foot and the other 
 inflicting a severe wound in tiie head, which 
 left its traces. At Peach Tree Creek he was 
 nearly prostrated by sunstroke, the wound in 
 his head being still unhealed. On the follow- 
 ing day he received promotion to Corporal for 
 bravery on the field. On the marcli from 
 Goldsboro to Raleigh he again suffered from 
 the heat, was sent forward in an ambulance to 
 a deserted rebel hospital at Raleigh, went 
 thence to Newbern, N. C, and from there to 
 Washington, where he was able to participate 
 with his regiment in the Grand Review. On 
 his return to Wisconsin, the train collided with 
 a passenger train on the Baltimore &Ohio rail- 
 road and nine were killed and about 30 
 wounded, Mr. Kuhlig Ijeing among those 
 slightly injured. Mr. Kuhlig took a just pride 
 in having been a member of the Wisconsin 
 26th and was one of 26 of its members who 
 went in 1888 to see the dedication ceremonies 
 at Gettysburg of the splendid monument 
 erected by Wisconsin to the Gettysburg heroes 
 from the Badger State. 
 
 On his return to AMsconsin he went to Hart- 
 ford and found he was compelled by his inju- 
 
 ries to change his former occupation for that of 
 a clerk. He went to southern Illinois, where 
 he remained some years for the benefit of his 
 health and became a resident of Milwaukee in 
 1880, and from 1884 was employed in the 
 Water Department of the city up to the time of 
 his death, Oct. 19, 1889. He was married Oct. 
 12, 1865, to Sophia Kordes and they have had 
 13 children, three of whom — Waldo, Eda and 
 Albert — are deceased. Those surviving are 
 named Adolph, Laura, Frederick, Olga, Clare, 
 Paul, Anna, Fannie, Elsie and Nora. 
 
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 C. TAFT, Monticello, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born in 
 • the township of Springville, Susque- 
 hanna Co., Pa., Dec. 29, 1819, and is a descend- 
 ant of Samuel Taft, a native of England who 
 came to America with a brother, the latter 
 mysteriously disappearing soon after, his 
 friends never knowing his fate. Samuel Taft 
 had four children who were born in Rhode 
 Island : Sweting lived in his native State 
 throughout his life ; Perry went West at ma- 
 turity and was never heard from ; Guly mar- 
 ried Wm. Tucker and died in Pennsylvania. 
 Jonathan, father of S. C. Taft, was born in 
 Smithfield, R. I., March 13, 1772, went to the 
 Keystone State about 1812, where he married 
 Nancy Fox, Dec. 17, 1817, and in 1824, went 
 to New York and died on his farm in the town- 
 ship of Virgil, Cortland county, June 11, 1851. 
 The mother died at Monticello, at the home of 
 her son, March 11, 1862 ; she was born in Con- 
 cord, Vermont, Nov. 17, 1798, and was the 
 mother of four children. The oldest died in 
 infancy; Samuel is the second; John L., was 
 l)orn June 25, 1822, and resides in Ft. Worth 
 Te.xas ; Daniel B., born Sept. 28, 1826, died at 
 Monticello, Wis., Feb, 10, 1862. The mother 
 
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 was the daughter of Neliemiah Fox, whose 
 origin and birthplace beyond the fact of his 
 New England connection is problematical ; she 
 is the oldest of four children: Pamelia, Fox and 
 Neliemiah were the others. 
 
 Mr. Taft passed his minority under the 
 authority of his parents and learned the busi- 
 ness of a carpenter and millwright when 21 
 years old ; he married Elizabeth Grey, in the 
 town of Virgil, Cortland Co., N. Y., Sept. 
 28, 1843, who died June 28, 1846r she was the 
 daughter of Ogden and Susan (Barnes) Grey. 
 Mr. Taft was again married in Addison, in 
 Steuben county, Oct. 25, 1849, to Electa M., 
 daughter of Jos. and Gannie (Dickinson) 
 Fluent. Her father was born in Maine and 
 her mother at Pompey Hollow, Onondaga Co., 
 New York; the wife was born Jan. 27, 1825. 
 In 1853, Mr. Taft removed to Janesville, Wis., 
 and March 19, 1854, went with his family to 
 Monticello, where he has pursued his joint oc- 
 cupations of farmer, carpenter and millwright, 
 and, although 70 years old is still leading an 
 active and useful life. 
 
 Dec. 22, 1863, he enlisted at Monticello in 
 the 5th Wisconsin Light Artillery. (Some un- 
 accountable blunder registers his enlistment as 
 Jan. 7, 1804.) He was mustered at Ahidison 
 and went thence to Chattanooga with the re- 
 turning veterans. Connected with the 14th 
 Army Corps, they moved to Ringgold and 
 went through Snake Creek Gap to position for 
 the battle of Resaca, May 14th, where Mr. 
 Taft was in sharp action until ammunition was 
 exhausted. The next day he was serving his 
 gun all day and went on the IGtli to Rome 
 with the division, where he was again in ac- 
 tion. May 26th he went on the double (juick 
 to join the troops at Dallas, where the rebels 
 retreated. His next fight was between Big 
 Shanty and Kenesaw Mountain where Gen- 
 eral Polk was killed, in which action his bat- 
 
 tery did effective service, the rebels being un- 
 able to contend with the Napoleon guns of the 
 command. The battery was in the tight at the 
 crossing of the Cliattahooehie River and fol- 
 lowed in the battle at Peach Tree Creek, mov- 
 ing to the siege of Atlanta on the 22d of July 
 on which date McPherson was killed. The 
 battery served its guns throughout the siege 
 and went to Jonesboro to tight three hours. 
 He returned to Atlanta and remained with his 
 section until November, voting there for Presi- 
 dent. Pie had an attack of typlioid fever fol- 
 lowed by bowel comjjlaint, and refused to go 
 to hospital as long as possible but November 
 5th he was sent to hospital at Chattanooga, for 
 disal)ility and after two weeks at convalescent 
 camji went to Nashville, whence he was trans- 
 ferred to Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis; the 
 agent of Wisconsin transferred him to Prairie 
 du Chien, whence he went to Madison, expect- 
 ing to go to New York, but illness sent him 
 successively to hospital there and Prairie du 
 Chien in February, 1865, where he remained 
 until his regiment returned to Wisconsin and 
 he went to ^hulison to be discharged, June 7, 
 1865. 
 
 He returned to Monticello, where he has 
 j)assed the years in industry. Of the six 
 children born to himself and wife the two 
 eldest are deceased, both dying in infancy ; 
 Lucius E., born Sep. 21, 1850, died March 18, 
 1854 ; Elizabetii A., born Aug. 12, 1852, died 
 Ahirch 20, 1855; John 0. was born Nov. 20, 
 1854; Appleton R. was born Sep. 12, 1857; 
 Ogden G. was born Oct. 7, 1859; Franklin D. 
 was born Oct. 20, 1861. 
 
 Mr. Taft was the first Commander of his 
 Post and has served in successive ofHcial posi- 
 tions therein ever since its organization. He 
 was made a Mason in December, 1848, at Ad- 
 dison, N. Y., and is at present (1889) Worthy 
 Master of the Lodge at Monticello of which he 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 425 
 
 has acted as an official 10 years. In politics, 
 Mr. Taft is an " unmitigated Republican " ; his 
 first Presidential vole was cast for .James K. 
 Polk, after wliich he became a Free Soiler and 
 followed tlie line into the Republican ranks. 
 He has served in many important positions in 
 town matters and is now a Justice of the Peace. 
 He is a member of the Republican Club at 
 Monticello and is justly respected and honored 
 in the community of which he is a member. 
 
 ILLIAM GILLETT, Madison, Wis., 
 member of C. C. Washburn Post 
 No. 11, was born March 24, 1839, 
 in Derbyshire, England, and is the son of 
 George and ^lartha (Henderson) Gillett, the 
 former being still alive. The mother died 
 when her son was about nine years old, after a 
 residence of two years in America. The fam- 
 ilv is of unmixed English origin ami the 
 father of George Gillett was a soldier who dis- 
 tinguisiied himself in the British armj^, his 
 services being acknowledged by the govern- 
 ment in the form of a medal of honor for 
 bravery at Waterloo, which is still in tlie pos- 
 session of his son. George Gillett came to 
 America with his family in 1846 and located 
 on a farm in Springfield, Dane Co., Wis., where 
 the son was reared and remained until the 
 ]>eriod of the civil war. In the fall of 1861, 
 William and Robert Gillett, brothers, enlisted 
 in Company A, lltli Wisconsin Infantry, and 
 went to rendezvous at Camp Randall, Madison, 
 where the former was transferred to the band 
 to play the "Eb" tuba. Tlie history of the 
 regiment from the date of leaving the State, 
 November 19th, consisted of a movement to St. 
 Louis, next to Sulphur Springs, where rail- 
 road guard duty was performed through the 
 winter and other work necessary to the emer- 
 
 gency ; thence to Pilot Knob, to Reeves Station, 
 and southward to Jacksonport and Batesville. 
 The changes were made disastrous to the regi- 
 ment by the nature of the country, scarcity of 
 supplies and heavy labor. Mr. Gillett was in 
 the action at Bayou Cache and subsequently 
 underwent all the vicissitudes, of suffering 
 which made the military record of the 11th 
 Wisconsin remarkable. While on the march 
 through Arkansas, Mr. Gillett, with James 
 Bardsley and Mike Quenan, while foraging 
 four miles from camp, asked for dinner at a log 
 house, were invited in and assured that they 
 would be served as soon as potatoes could be 
 dug and the meal prepared. Meanwhile the 
 man of the house seated himself beside Bards- 
 ley on a lounge. Quenan stood to the left of 
 Bardsley and Gillett in front of the stranger. 
 Bardsley's revolver was in his belt outside his 
 coat, the weapons of Gillett and Quenan being 
 concealed ; the stranger asked Bardsley for his 
 repeater, who immediately gave it to him and 
 the stranger remarked that it was the first he 
 had ever seen but he handled it suspiciously 
 and gave it close examination. He wore a 
 broad brimmed hat and did not notice that 
 Gillett had drawn his revolver, cocked and 
 leveled it at the man's head, while he 
 ordered Bardsley to take the revolver ; as he 
 surrendered the weapon to Bardsley the 
 stranger remarked, "There is no danger." 
 " None now " said Mr. Gillett, " but you could 
 have easily taken us prisoners or put our 
 lives in peril. We are fully aware that we are 
 in an enemy's country. " When dinner was 
 ready the family refused to eat, which made 
 Gillett suspicious and he asked if the food was 
 poisoned, which was denied. During the meal 
 the stranger started to leave the room, but 
 (Jillett asked him to remain; and after they 
 had finished and paid their bill they insisted 
 on his accompanying them on their way, fear- 
 
426 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ing that lie would arouse the guerrillas in the 
 neighborhood. They arrived safely at camp 
 and afterwards learned that their host was a 
 furloughed confederate of the most rabid kind 
 and probably their wits had saved them from 
 capture and death. 
 
 Before leaving the State and while in Camp 
 Randall, Mr. Gillett injured his throat by 
 partially swallowing a piece of straw which 
 lodged in a gland and caused constant irri- 
 tation and coughing until his friends 
 thought he was dying with quick con- 
 sumption, and they advised him to remain 
 at home, believing that he would die before 
 reaching Chicago. He refused to remain be- 
 hind, saying " that he would follow his regi- 
 ment if he died before he arriv^ed in Chicago. " 
 In September, 1862, he was discharged and re- 
 turned to Wisconsin, whollv unfit for labor. 
 
 • 
 
 His system was permeated with malaria 
 and he has never fully recovered his health. 
 But he desired to remain in the army and 
 in the spring of 1863 he joined the brigade 
 band of General Blunt's command at Fort 
 Leavenworth, where he remained until Sep- 
 tember, 1865. On receiving his discharge he 
 returned to Springfield, Wis., and has since 
 been distinguished for his energetic endeavors 
 to earn his way in the world. He began farm- 
 ing on a small scale, but illness compelled his 
 withdrawal, and in 1867, he went to Iowa, 
 being the owner of §50. He built a cabin and 
 tried carpenter work, meanwhile teaching sing- 
 ing-school and -leading and instructing a brass 
 band. Mr. Gillett has worked at sash and 
 blind making, as a wheelwright, as a book 
 agenl, and selling musical instruments. He 
 has operated as a barber, and during every 
 enforced change in his business, lias acted in 
 some capacity as a musician. He has tuned 
 pianos and organs, manufactured violins and 
 invented a steam motor with a capacity of 700 
 
 revolutions per minute. He has also invented 
 several ditferent valves. He is a composer of 
 music and poetry, and is bugler and organist 
 of his Post. Incidentally he has acted as a 
 dentist, photographer and writing-master. He 
 is a member of the Masonic Order. 
 
 In 1863 he married Jane Ford, of Ma/.o 
 Manie, Wis., and tViey have seven children — 
 Alvah, Willie, Eva, Eddie, Freddie, Belleua and 
 Retta M. (J. B. Hiller and J. B. Ford, brothers- 
 in-law, also belonged to Company A, 11th Wis- 
 consin Infantry.) 
 
 Mr. Gillett is a strong Republican. He is 
 receiving a pension from the Government. 
 His brother, Robert, served in the same com- 
 pany and regiment and was witli the command 
 in all its marches and engagements until 1864, 
 when he was discharged for disability. He is 
 
 now living in Dane Co., Wis. 
 
 W LLEN M. SHORT, La Crosse, Wis., 
 '/nA^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 170 
 -^if^"^^ tit Dakota, Minn., was Iwrii April 28, 
 1847, at Bluffville, Carroll Co., 111. His father, 
 Ira Sliort, was born Oct. 3, 1803, in Tioga Co., 
 New York, and was a pioneer's son ; he engaged 
 during his business life there as a pilot on tiie 
 Susquehanna River and also owned a saw mill 
 in the heavj' lumber district of that portion of 
 the State ; he married Eliza A. Higgins, who 
 was born Sept. 2, 1814, in Trenton, New Jei-sey, 
 and died at Davenport, Iowa. Their children 
 were Abigail, Adeline, Jane, George L., Ira H. 
 Allen M., .Jerome E., Charles M. and Anna A. 
 All of them are living. Mr. Short received 
 such educational advantages as the }(ul)lic 
 .schools afforded and ardently desired to enlist 
 as soon as the war came on, but it was an im- 
 possibility, as he was only 14 years old. But 
 he kept up his ambition and efforts and en- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 427 
 
 rolled at Morrison, 111., Feb. 2, 1865, in Com- 
 pany B, 147tli Illinois Infantry, under Colonel 
 Sickles. The regiment was organized at Camp 
 Frye, Chicago, there drilled and fitted for intel- 
 ligent military duty. During the month after 
 enlistment, Mr. Short went with the regiment 
 to join the army in Georgia and it was assigned 
 to a brigade and division in the Corps of General 
 McCook. Dalton was reached under orders to 
 move directly there and the regiment did some 
 lively skirmishing in that vicinity. They 
 fought General Warford at Spring Place and 
 were in several affairs of light caliber afterwards 
 until the action at Pullen's Ferry, after which 
 they returned to Dalton, skirmishing all the 
 way back. After two weeTcs they were ordered 
 to Resaca and thence to Marietta to receive the 
 parole of their late foe, Warford. The regiment 
 mai'ched thence across the State to Albany and 
 after performing detached duty there two 
 months, went to Hawkinsville in the same 
 State. They went next to Savannah and per- 
 formed provost duty and went to Pulaski to 
 guard the interests of the planters. Mr. 
 Short was mustered out at Savannah, Jan. 20, 
 1866, and returned to Illinois to be released 
 from State obligations at Springfield. 
 
 He went back to Albany, Whiteside county, 
 and engaged in rafting on the river until 1871. 
 After that date he followed the occupation of 
 a pilot on the Mississippi River in a district 
 embracing the distance from St. Paul to St. 
 Louis. In 1872 he was commissioned master 
 and pilot and was captain first of the B. F. 
 Weaver. Subsequently he operated on the 
 Lumberman, Charles C. Chever, Dan Hine, Fly- 
 ing Eagle, Alfred Toll, Mary Barnes, Bareulis 
 Rex, David Bronson, .1. W. Mills, Natrona, .1. 
 H. Wilson, Pearl, Grand Pacific and others. 
 This is his employment in the season to date 
 (1890.) 
 
 He was married Dec. 19, 1872, at North La 
 
 Crosse, Wis., to Nellie, daughter of George and 
 Diana (Feloniz) Congdon. Her parents reside 
 at Dakota, Minn. Clinton and Grace are the 
 children of Mr. and Mrs Short. Mr. Short is a 
 memlterof theOdd Fellows and of the Brother- 
 hood of Upper Mississippi Pilots. He was 
 prominently active in the Grand Army in Min- 
 nesota and was offered the position of Depart- 
 ment Commander of Minnesota, but declined 
 on account of his business. 
 
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 /f^^ EORGE L. .lONES, Chippewa Falls, 
 \ ^, — ; l ' ^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 
 ^' — ^^ 68, was born .Ian. 26, 1834, in Cass- 
 ville. Wis., and is the son of Geo. W. and Sarah 
 (Thompson) Jones. His family is traceable to 
 Wales and in this country to the days of the 
 Revolution. The father was born in April, 
 1804, in South Carolina, and in childhood went 
 with his parents to Kentucky where he was 
 reared and married a native of the Blue Grass 
 State. In 1827 they went to AVisconsin, loca- 
 ting in Lafayette county, where the father en- 
 gaged in mining and farming. He was oc- 
 cupied there until the outbreak of the Black 
 Hawk war in 1832 when he enlisted and served 
 as 1st Lieutenant of his company. He went 
 afterwards to Clayton county, Iowa, and re- 
 sided several years, returning to Lafayette 
 county, Wisconsin. In 1845 he removed to 
 Dunn county and engaged actively in lumber- 
 ing and farming. In 1874 he went to Kansas 
 for his health and died at Emporia in 1875. 
 His widow died at Bloomer, Wisconsin, in 
 1876, at the residence of her son George. 
 
 Until the latter was 13 he engaged with his 
 father in lead mining and in 1852 went to 
 Menomonee to learn the trade of blacksmith. 
 In 1858 he went to Texas, locating at Port La 
 Vaca, engaging in stock raising, in which he 
 
428 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 operated until 1861, when, on account of his 
 principles, he became a refugee and came 
 North by way of New York. He readied 
 Bloomer, Wisconsin, and enlisted Aug. 9, 18G2, 
 being mustered in September in Company K, 
 30th Wisconsin Infantry. He was in camp at 
 Madison and remained in tlie State until May, 
 1863, engaged in provost duty. The command 
 was then ordered to the frontier in Minnesota 
 and Dakota and performed duty in quelling 
 the Indians under General Sully. The com- 
 mand had a liard time there and on the return 
 and reached Milwaukee in the fall to perform 
 provost duty until the spring of 1864, when 
 tlie regiment went again to the Northwest 
 frontier, operated again.st the Indians, built 
 forts and performed military duty of a miscel- 
 laneous character until ordered South to join 
 Sherman on the march to the sea. They 
 arrived too late in St. Louis for that service 
 and went to Paducah, Ky., to protect it against 
 Forrest, who was taking every advantage and 
 maneuvering to obtain entrance into Missouri. 
 Thence tlie regiment went to Louisville, Ky., 
 and from there to Bowling Cireen on the way 
 to Nashville, which was in a state of siege by 
 Hood. There intelligence arrived that Hood 
 was on the wing and they remained at Bowling 
 Green to prevent possible disaster, Hood's de- 
 moralized command and the guerrillas spread- 
 ing themselves everywhere in their scattered 
 fliglit, which ended in Hood's total extinction 
 as an army olficer. Jan. 12, 1865, tlie regi- 
 ment returned to Louisville and guarded a 
 military prison and hung guerrillas until Oct. 
 4tli, when they were mustered out and sent 
 home. 
 
 At the close of tlie war Mr. .loiies settled in 
 Bloomer where he established himself as a 
 blacksmith and carried on that business until 
 1881. In 1880 he started the Bloomer Work- 
 man, a weekly Greenback journal, and he pub- 
 
 lished it until May, 1887, when he moved his 
 journalistic enterprise to Chippewa Falls and 
 continued to issue his paper singly until 
 AuguiBt, 1889, when he associated with himself 
 his oldest son, J. E. Jones. October 6, 1889, 
 they started the publication of tlie Daily Work- 
 man and are engaged in pressing its interests. 
 The paper is Republican in sentiment and is 
 rajtidly gaining ground in pojiular favor and 
 circulation. It is an exponent of reforniatory 
 measures and liberal thought. He sold the 
 Weekly and Daily Workman April 6, 1890, and 
 bought the Shell Lake, Wis., Waicliman, and in 
 comjiany with his son, J. E.Jones, is now en- 
 gaged in the publication of that paper. Mr. 
 Jones is a member of the Odd Fellows. 
 
 He was married in June, 1869, at Bloomer, 
 to Mrs. S. J. Gage, and of this marriage eight 
 children were the issue, five of them, with the 
 mother, having gone from earth. Edgar J., 
 Melissa S. and John E. survive. Mr. Jones 
 was a second time married, Feb. 13, 1885, to 
 Mrs. J. B. Taylor. 
 
 ^^RLANDO CULVER, Commander of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 19, at Waukesha, 
 {]889j is the son of Richard and 
 Pauline (Harrison) Culver. His ancestry in 
 the paternal line of descent was originally Ger- 
 man, lint the nationality iias disappeared in the 
 several generations following, until Mr. Culver 
 regards himself a native Yankee. His pater- 
 nal great grandfather fought in the war of the 
 Revolution and his grandfather was an oflicer 
 in 1812, reaching the rank of Major. His ma- 
 ternal ancestors were also soldiers in both wars 
 and he belongs, in his mother's line, to the 
 family of the first President Harrison, her 
 father being his cousin and bearing the same 
 name — William Henry. He removed from 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 429 
 
 the State of Virginia to New York. The 
 parents of Mr. Culver were married in New 
 York in 1838 and remained there about 10 
 years, removing to Washington county, Wis- 
 consin, when their son was 10 years old. With- 
 in the first year, May 18, 1851, the father died 
 from the consequences of an injury he had re- 
 ceived from the kick of a vicious horse and, 
 in 1854, the mother with her four childen, 
 yielded to the solicitations of her son and located 
 near Waukesha, where, through their com- 
 bined efforts they succeeded in buying a small 
 farm, in paying for it and in taking proper care 
 of the younger children. The mother was a 
 resident thereon until her death in 18 — , when 
 she was on a visit to her daughter at Marine 
 City, Mich. From the age of 12, when his 
 father died, until he was 16 Mr. Culver devoted 
 liimself exclusively to the care of the family 
 and the younger children received a good edu- 
 cation while he secured the benefit of experi- 
 ence and laid the foundation of his business 
 career. When he was 10 he engaged as a har- 
 ness maker and carriage trimmer, in which he 
 was engaged when the war came on. He was 
 then just married and when he attended the 
 meeting held at Waukesha in relation to the rais- 
 ing of troops, was wholly undecided what to do. 
 He went home, and wlien his mother asked 
 him and his brother if either had enlisted, he 
 told her he had not because he did not know 
 what to do with his wife. The patriotic mother 
 told him to bring her to her home, which he did 
 May 6, 1801. He went to his day's work and 
 after it was over, at 6 o'clock in the evening, he 
 enrolled in Company F, 5th Wisconsin In- 
 fantr}'. Wlien he told the family that lie was 
 going to sign tlie papers of enlistment iiis 
 mother asked his brother Artemus if he would 
 allow his brother to go alone, and two of her 
 boys went to bed that night declared defenders 
 of the Hag. He was in rendezvous at Camp 
 
 Randall, Madison, and was mustered witli the 
 regiment, going to the front and performing 
 military <luty until he was taken ill and was 
 discliarged for permanent disability at Camp 
 Grifiln, in March, 1862. He returned to Wau- 
 kesha and purchased the business of his former 
 employer, who had enlisted, and remained at 
 home until May 15, 1864, when he enlisted in 
 Company B, 39th Wisconsin Infantry for 100 
 days. He was made First Sergeant on enroll- 
 ment, was promoted to Second Lieutenant .Julj' 
 27, 1864, and discharged Sept. 22, 1864, on the 
 expiration of his term. He performed all the 
 variety of duty common to that class of military 
 service, fighting in the repulse of Forrest. On 
 his return home he resumed business in his 
 shop, which he had not disturbed on leaving it 
 for service. Feb. 14, 1865, he again enlisted in 
 Company B, 48th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
 made First Sergeant on the organization of his 
 company. Feb. 19, 1866, he was mustered out 
 and on the 23d was made Second Lieutenant 
 of ills company. He went with his regiment 
 to St. Louis, thence to Paoli, Kansas, whence 
 the company went to Fort Scott. From there 
 they moved to Fort Zarah, performing some of 
 tlie longest and heaviest marching of the en- 
 tire war, which was all the more irksome as 
 they had expected to be niustered out when 
 ordered to Lawrence. Company B was sent 60 
 miles beyond Fort Lamed and thence operated 
 as escort for mail and government trains. This 
 involved encounters with the Indians on the 
 plains, a service which deserves much more 
 elaboration than is possible in a sketch like 
 tliis. 
 
 He resumed his business as a harness maker 
 in Waukesha, which he has prosecuted since, 
 and it is the only establishment of the kind in 
 Waukesha. He was married June 24, 1860, to 
 Annie Wells, daughter of the Rev. William 
 Wells, now of Portage, Wis., and their three 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 children are named Alice E., Annette and 
 Grace M. 
 
 Mr. Culver is a member of tlie Masonic fra- 
 ternity, of the Royal Arcanum, and Modern 
 Woodmen, and in both the latter he has 
 officiated 10 years as Treasurer. He has served 
 as City Marshal three terms, one term as Presi- 
 dent of the Village, three terms as Councilman, 
 one year as Town Treasurer, two years as Vil- 
 lage Supervisor, six years as Town Supervisor, 
 two years as City Treasurer, and also as Super- 
 intendent of the Poor. Mr. Culver is a man 
 whose abilities as a custodian of public interests 
 have recommended him for many positions of 
 trust, l)Ut lie has always considered the life of a 
 private business man in every way to be pre- 
 ferred. 
 
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 /HjIj^HOMAS J. CLEVELAND, II 
 
 ^ly Wis., member of G. A. R. Po 
 
 ^ 151, was born May 2, 1842, at I 
 
 fi^HOMAS J. CLEVELAND, Hudson, 
 
 ^st No. 
 1 Roscoe, 
 
 Winnebago Co., Illinois, and in bis veins flows 
 the mixed blood of English, Scutch and Welsh 
 ancestors. liis grandfather, Thomas Cleve- 
 land, was a native of New York ami his sou, 
 Daniel F., was also born in that State and mar- 
 ried Ann J. Nelson, of Welsh descent. He was 
 a carpenter and went West sometime in the 
 " forties," locating in the town of Roscoe, 111. 
 The children of his family were Emer J., AVil- 
 liam H., Sarah Iv, Hlooina J., Thomas J., 
 David A., Geo. W., Charles N. and Daniel E. 
 Emer .1. and Charles are not living. The 
 mother died in Minnesota in 1881. Wiien the 
 war came on the father enlisted in Comj)any 
 H, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, and was captured 
 by Morgan's guerrillas while returning to his 
 regiment with recruits. He was paroled and 
 went home. He went, after exchange, to La 
 Crosse to re-eidist but was rejected because he 
 
 had pa.ssed his prime, but, determined to re- 
 enter the service, he went to Madison and, Jan. 
 4, 1864, enlisted in Company D, 2oth Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, and served witii that command 
 until his regiment was disbanded on account of 
 expiration of term, when he was transferred to 
 the 12th ^\'isconsin Infantry, Company D, 
 June 2, 18(!5. He was wounded July 22, 
 1864, at Decatur, in the change of Wheeler's 
 dismounted cavalry, receiving a bullet in the 
 upper j)art of his leg. His son William enlisted 
 on the same day with his father in the 10th 
 and served three years. He veteranized and 
 went into Hancock's Veteran Reserve Corps, 
 remaining one year. David A. enlisted Jan. 
 12, 1865, in Company G, 44th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and was mustered out Aug. 28th, 1865. 
 Geo. W. enlisted Feb. 15, 1865, in the 49th 
 Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered out after 
 the war closed. Mr. Cleveland of this sketch 
 was an inmate of his father's household until 
 his enlistment as a soldier. He attended school 
 and also operated as a carpenter until he deter- 
 mined to enter the army. He eidisted June 
 25, 1861, at Mauston, Wis., going into rendez- 
 vous there until the recruiting of the com- 
 pany was completed, when he went to Madison 
 to be mustered July 16, 1861, in Company K, 
 6th Wisconsin Infantry. July 28, 1861, on 
 receipt of news of the disaster at Bull Run, the 
 regiment left the State, going to the front by 
 way of Harrisburg, thence after a few days to 
 Baltimore to Fort McHenry. While passing 
 through the streets of that city, having no 
 arms, they had Uiken the precaution to fill 
 their pockets with roc;ks, in readiness for self 
 defense. After two weeks there the regiment 
 went to Camj) Lyon at Washington. They 
 passed the winter at Arlington Heights and in 
 the spring went into the campaign under Gen- 
 eral Pope, fighting first at Ciainesville with 
 Jackson and Longstreet and were also in the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 431 
 
 fight at Bull Run. Company K suffered se- 
 verely in killed and wounded. The command 
 went to Maryland and followed the movements 
 of Lee until the battle of South Mountain, 
 September 14, 1862, where the regiment again 
 suffered heavily in action. (Mr. Cleveland adds 
 bis testimony that here the brigade earned its 
 distinguishing title of " Iron Brigade.") He 
 fought again at Antietam, three days later, the 
 regiment being in the right front in the action 
 and in the deploy at the opening of the tight. 
 His life was saved by his canteen, against 
 wliich a bullet was flattened in the course of the 
 action. Prior to this he was stunned by the 
 explosion of a shell and was reported dead. 
 The regiment moved to Harper's Ferry and 
 thence across the river to Fredericksburg and 
 fought there December 13th, where the brigade 
 was the last to cross on the pontoons, retreating 
 under heavy rebel fire. The winter was passed 
 at Belle Plain and they went in January to a 
 40-mile tramp in the mud to try to find out 
 what Burnside wanted to do, l>ut in vain, as that 
 commander never succeeded in making any- 
 body understand him and attributed his disasters 
 to that circumstance. Mr. Cleveland went also 
 to a raid on the Chesapeake to break up a camp 
 of smugglers. In April the brigade broke camp 
 for the spring campaign and, on the 29th he was 
 in the cliarge at Fitzhugh's Crossing, going on 
 to fight at Chancellorsville. After the disaster 
 the regiment crossed the Rappahannock and, 
 afterwards moved into Maryland after Lee. 
 The next action was Gettysbui-g. He went on 
 the double quick under Reynolds to support 
 Buford's cavalry on the Emmetsburg road, tlie 
 commander being killed. Tiiey were driven 
 back through Gettysburg and took a position 
 on Little Round Top after capturing a whole 
 rebel regiment and saving, in conjunction with 
 another New York regiment, the 147th New 
 York. Mr. Cleveland was taken prisoner on 
 
 the first day and recaptured by Union troops 
 on the 4th witli his rebel guard. He was in 
 the pursuit of Lee into Virginia and passed 
 the winter at Culpejier. There he veteranized 
 and took a furlough home. In the spring, 
 when the campaign opened, he was with his 
 command in the battles of the Wilderness, 
 Laurel Hill, Jericho Ford, Bethesda Church 
 and went to Cold Harbor and the Chickahom- 
 iny. In June he went to Petersburg and 
 fought on the ISth and afterwards took part 
 in the activities of the siege. He was in the 
 movements to the Weldon railroad, fought at 
 Hatcher's Run, went again on a raid on the 
 Weldon road and, in February, 1865, fought 
 again at Hatcher's Run. (At the date of the 
 riots in New York, the regiment was ordered 
 to proceed there but counter orders were re- 
 ceived at City Point, when they returned im- 
 mediately to Petersburg.) Mr. Cleveland was 
 in the action at Gravelly Run, March 31st and 
 was next in action after reporting to Sheridan 
 at Five Forks, and the command moved on 
 with the 5th Corps, following rebel movements 
 until the surrender at Appomattox. The 6th 
 returned to Petersburg, rested there a week and 
 went later to Washington to participate in the 
 Gran'd Review. Thence to Jeffersonville, Ind., 
 was the next order and Mr. Cleveland was 
 there mustered out July 16th. He returned to 
 New Lisbon, Wis., and logged on the Wiscon- 
 sin River, also acting as an engineer for about 
 two years, when he engaged in that capacity on 
 the C, M. & St. P. R. R., operating there about 
 two years, when he engaged in the same capac- 
 ity with the G, St. P., M. & 0. R. R. He is, in 
 1890, in charge of the railroad draw-bridge 
 across the St. Croix River, in which capacity 
 he has served 18 years. He belongs to the 
 Order of Odd Fellows and is a decided Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 He was married Sep. 8, 1865, at New Lisbon, 
 
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 to Sarah M., daughter of Allen Ball, and their 
 children are named Allen J., Avery F., Edwin 
 N., Maud F., Harry L., Freddie E. and Sadie 
 A. Maud is deceased. 
 
 6«?^I^T0*l 
 
 EORGE ELIAS SMITH, Racine. Wis., 
 ^ member of Ci. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 born in Belville, Canada, April 22, 
 1838. His father, Elias Smith, was of German 
 and Scotch lineage and l)orn May 27, 1814, in 
 the township of Fredericksburg, Canada. He 
 became a confirmed asthmatic in boyhood, 
 which caused him to make frequent change of 
 locality in search of health. In 1850, he lo- 
 cated at Appleton, Wis., went later to Berlin, 
 Wis., and with his wife now resides in Oswego, 
 Kansas, enjoying comparatively good health. 
 Mr. Smith is their oldest child ; Sal>rina Jane 
 married Lucius Shatton in 1861, and died at 
 Racine, Wis., in 1S7G; Edgar enlisted Sept. 7, 
 1861, in the 3d Wisconsin Light Battery, and 
 died of fever in hospital at Columbia, Tenn., 
 April 15, 1862 ; Josephine married C. U. Dor- 
 man and resides at Tulsa, Indian Ter. ; Louise 
 became the wife of Alex. Edgar and their home 
 is in Olivier, La. ; Herbert (the youngest *and a 
 mute) died of brain fever at Berlin, Wis. 
 
 While at Appleton a scholarship was pur- 
 chased of Lawrence University for George, who 
 entered upon the prei)aratory for a collegiate 
 course, but the plan was frustrated by sickness 
 and tinancial considerations and, after working 
 on a farm near Rijion, he went to Berlin, 
 where he secured further schooling and became 
 an apprentice in the foundry of Taylor Bros. 
 He completed his training in the employ of the 
 Eagle Cotton Gin Co., at Rridgewater, Mass., 
 where he cast his first vote in 18G0 for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. Impending war brought him 
 ba«k to Wisconsin in January, 1861, as he had 
 
 resolved to cast his lot with that of the country 
 in the war which he surely foresaw. He was 
 the second volunteer from Green Lake county 
 
 and the tenth of the 1049 Smiths who enlisted 
 to fight for the Union from Wisconsin. He 
 enrolled at Oshkosh April 19, 1861, in the com- 
 pany of Captain Gabe Bouck, which was in- 
 tended for three months service, but re-enlisted 
 on reaching Madison and was mustered into 
 the U. S. service June 11, 1861, as Company E, 2d 
 Wisconsin Infantry. July 2d found the regi- 
 ment in " Camp Pack," west of Fort Corcoran, 
 Va., where it was assigned to Sherman's com- 
 mand, including also the 13th, 69th and 7yth 
 New York, and placed in the division of Tyler. 
 When the advance to Bull Run was ordered, 
 Mr. Smith was suffering from cholera morbus, 
 but traveled to Vienna on the strength of 
 "Spencer's whisky ami Bouck's brandy," and 
 his ride in the arm}' wagon on a feather bed on 
 a load of fixed ammunition cured him of dis- 
 ease and of any desire to ride in an army 
 wagon. On the 18th, after a double-quick of 
 three miles, he wheeled into line of battle at 
 Blackburn's Ford, where, amid shriek of shot 
 and shell and groans of wounded and dying, 
 he was initiated into the horrors of war. The 
 unaccountable absence of field officers at the 
 time of the charge on the east side of Sudley 
 Road, at the first Bull Run, broke the regiment 
 into company squads that held their own 
 against odds and a cross fire until attacked in 
 right and rear by the fresh troops of Johnston. 
 In the rout Mr. Smith retired by the route he 
 came, and as " he sailed over the brow of a 
 friendly hill parting shots from the Johnnies 
 ' everlastingly ' knocked the dust out of iiis 
 clothes." He stacked arms at Centerville with 
 about 15U others and was preparing for rest 
 when an officer came tearing down the road 
 yelling : " Fall in ! Fail in ! and get to Wash- 
 ington or you'll be captured." The infantry 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 " got right away and the " right of way," but 
 only to be trampled on by artillery, driven by 
 cavalry that pressed on them terrorized by 
 stragglers in the rear who were struggling for 
 first place. Mr. Smith was too tired to care 
 much, and he says he hung himself in an 
 apjile tree to let the cj'clone pass, when he took 
 a bee line for P^ort Corcoran, where he found sev- 
 eral hundred of the regiment in the State tents 
 left in " Camp Pack." After dividing rations and 
 cleaning guns, preparations were in progress for 
 rest, when another onslauglit was made by offi- 
 cers who were unfortunate enough to keep their 
 mouths when they lost their heads, shouting 
 " get into the rear of the fort or you will be 
 captured." Derisive yells of "you go to hell! 
 We've beat the rebs the last 16 miles and if we 
 can't beat them the other two, let them take 
 us!" did no good and the officers liad their 
 way and the men lay in mud and rain without 
 tents, suffering untold misery, until Col. Park 
 Coon arrived, when permission was obtained to 
 recover the State tents. It is a curious com- 
 ment on this haste, tliat when, three days after, 
 the picket line was carefully re-established, not 
 a rebel was found within .seven miles. August 
 27th the regiment marched to Meridian Hill 
 and was assigned to Rufus King's Wisconsin 
 Brigade, wliich became the celebrated "Iron 
 Brigade." Mr. Smith kept up his warfare on 
 the rations, trees and greybacks and aided in 
 fort building until March 10, 1862, when the 
 2d marched out with " Little Mac." 
 
 '■ To find oud vere vent dose rebel sons of guns 
 Vat blayed on Mai- such awful puns 
 Mit dem stove pipe Quaker guns, 
 Dot (ley voiked mit so much skill 
 Upon der heights of Centerville." 
 
 When McDowell acceded to the command of 
 the Department of the Rappabannock, as a 
 member of the 1st Corps, Mr. Smith marched 
 and countermarched and dodged shot and 
 
 shell, which seemed to increase with the return 
 of each day, until a cyclone of lead swept 247 
 men from the ranks of the 2d (85 killed and 
 162 wounded) at Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862. 
 Mr. Smith has a distinct remembrance of his 
 efforts to cover the least possible amount of 
 territory and succeeded to such a degree that 
 he could only take liquid nourishment for 
 some daj'S after. His regiment was in the 
 second line of battle in the 2d Bull Run battle 
 and, although exposed to severe cross-fire, lost 
 only six men. After the action the brigade 
 went into camp at Upton's Hill, Sept. 2d. At 
 nine o'clock of the evening of Sept. 6th, a 
 forced march was begun, lasting through the 
 awful heat of the next day, resulting in the 
 deploying of the regiment in the fence corners 
 along the route and, when a halt was called at 
 night, only Lieut. Thomas, Corporal Ash and 
 Mr. Smith were left of Company E, and the 
 entire regiment, noted for little straggling, 
 stacked only 50 guns. But 238 men were in 
 line at Turner's Gap in the assault at South 
 Mountain, Sept. 14th and with a decimation of 
 nine killed and 17 wounded. The 2d led 
 Hooker's advance at Antietam on the 17tli and 
 held for an hour and a half one of the hottest 
 positions on one of the bloodiest fields of the 
 war. Of the 165 men from the 2d who entered 
 the fight 29 were killed and 49 wounded. The 
 regiment in retiring sustained its record nobly 
 by snatching the wounded from the field, 
 friend and foe alike being removed by tender 
 hands. After the action Mr. Smith, footsore, 
 covered with dirt and stains of powder, scarcely 
 able to stir, obtained permission to go to hos- 
 pital, but when he reached what he had hoped 
 to find a haven of rest, the sights and sounds 
 banished his ills so far that he never again 
 remembered them as such. The bravest sol- 
 diers on record in these and similar works 
 containing accounts of the soldiers of the> 
 
434 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Union on the fields where valor struck for the 
 Hag its triumphant blows, all stop to pay a 
 tribute to the patience and unselfish heroism 
 of the wounded of all degrees. Mr. Smith, it 
 may be remarked in passing, is a man of 
 marvelous tenderness of heart and though he 
 can charm an audience with his wit and humor 
 as he has done multitudes of times, his sym- 
 pathy can reach a chord in every human 
 heart whicli is brought in contact with the 
 magnetism of his words on tliis subject. The 
 Sunday Telegraph of 1885 published perhaps 
 the most eloquent account from his pen that 
 has appeared in any print, of what could have 
 been witnessed in the Keedsville hospital after 
 Antietam. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1862, the Iron Brigade occupied a po- 
 sition on Franklin's extreme left at Fitzhugh's 
 Crossing, where the soldiers of the command 
 were assailed by every conceivable missile from 
 the rebel batteries for three days, only two be- 
 ing killed in the regiment and nine wounded, 
 so wild was the shooting. (Mr. Smitli pub- 
 lished an article in 1886 in the Centurv Maga- 
 zine, describing some of the hits in this target 
 practice.) Mr. Smith excels as a dialect writer 
 and in 1884, at a camp fire in Racine, gave an 
 original poem descriptive of one of the raids of 
 the command on the lower Potomac after the 
 " Momentous Moment " of Burnside lost its 
 momentum in the mud and sent him back to 
 the command of a corps. 
 
 Mr. Smith performed duty in several expe- 
 ditions, and in that which went to the Hague 
 he finished his connection with service in the 
 ranks, l)eing appointed Clerk in the Regi- 
 mental (Quartermaster's office March 29, 1863. 
 March 9, 1864, he was detailed to Brigade 
 Quartermaster's office and officiated in that 
 position until muster out, in June, 1864. 
 Throughout his service the traits of Mr. Smith 
 were at the fore. Keen, observing, industri- 
 
 ous, quick to take note of an incident worth 
 storing either in memory or note book, he 
 made a collection with diary and brain which 
 has proved of infinite value to him and his 
 comrades of the war as a fount of reminiscence 
 and renewal of interest in what will be for 
 ages the theme of historian and poet, the Civil 
 War in America. His coi>ious notes, taken 
 "in the nick of time" have settled many 
 mooted questions and disputes in regard to 
 important issues. 
 
 On his return to civil life he assumed charge 
 of the drug store of J. McNish at Berlin, while 
 the proprietor served as 1st Lieutenant of Com- 
 pany B, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, later went 
 into the drug store of Dr. N. M. Dodson with 
 the intention of studj'ing medicine, but finding 
 a life of confinement inconsistent with his 
 habits of rugged exerci.se and that his health, 
 already inipaired by army service, would be 
 shattered altogether by inactivity he returned 
 to his trade, but was obliged to abandon it for 
 the lighter employ of pattern making. 
 
 There is no more prominent or popular man 
 in the Grand Army than " Comrade Smith." 
 Good fellowship, never failing good nature, 
 and an inexhaustible fund of wit and humor 
 with a reservoir of facts and information of ail 
 varieties make of him the best of fellows and 
 the most welcome guest at camp fire or en- 
 campment. He is an enthusiast in belialf of 
 the Iron Brigade and expects to see its claims 
 placed on the roll of fame where he believes 
 they belong. Every soldier who wore the 
 blue is dear to him ; every meeting with such 
 is hailed by him as an episode of the greatest 
 value to himself and in Wiscon.sin no one will 
 be more missed at the final "roll-call." He 
 has held office in Harvey Post since its organi- 
 zation in 1881 and was Commander in 1888; 
 he has held several Department offices and in 
 1889 was Aid-de-Camp on the staff of Com- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 435 
 
 mander-in-Chief Warner. He has no hopes in 
 politics, being a man of opinions and not afraid 
 to expre.ss them and would expect the poli- 
 ticians "to have his hide on the fence in no 
 time" if he invaded their ranks with an eye to 
 their emoluments. He takes pride in being a 
 laborer; he believes tliat the "great middle 
 class " is the world's balance wheel and in his 
 attacks on sham and hypocris}' is aggressive. 
 " Duty " is his polar star, and when he leaves 
 the world he hopes to be comforted by the 
 thought that it is no worse for his having lived 
 in it. 
 
 He was married .Jan. 1, 1867, to Henrietta 
 A., daughter of (3range Buell of Berlin, Wis., 
 and their children are named Grace Buell and 
 Ralph Elias. 
 
 ^^I^^^^-K^ 
 
 LBERT M. GREEN, Treasurer of Mon- 
 ^ roe Co., Wisconsin, is a native pro- 
 duct of the Badger State, having 
 been born at York, Green county, April 23, 
 1842. His great uncle, Nathaniel Green, was a 
 soldier in 1812. His father, William C, was 
 born in Rensselaer Co., New York, and died in 
 1874, aged 70 years. His grandfather, Samuel 
 Green, was born in the State of New York, 
 where his descendants lived many years and 
 where several children of his son William were 
 born. The latter married Johanna Phillips 
 who died in 1846, aged about 40 years. The 
 father was a farmer and teacher and came 
 alone to Wisconsin in the fall of 1838, removing 
 his family hither in the year following. Seven 
 of 12 children born to them are living. Two 
 died in infancy. William H. was in the 37th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, was w'ounded at Peters- 
 burg and died in hospital in Washington. 
 John M. was in the 3d Wisconsin Infantry, and 
 died at Fayetteville, Tenn., after veteranizing. 
 
 having been one of the first to enlist and hav- 
 ing served three years. Amy married Thomas 
 Biggs and is deceased. Rebecca married Clark 
 Hickock ; Jane A. married Duncan McDonald ; 
 Laura is Mrs. Decatur Stewart ; Martha mar- 
 ried Ralph Burnham ; Mr. Green of this sketch 
 is next in order of birth ; Charles was a soldier 
 in Company C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry, and 
 after his discharge re-enlisted in the 1st Wis- 
 consin Cavalry, serving throughout the war; 
 Isabel married Ed. Ruff. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Green was passed in 
 pioneer style on his father's farm, and he ob- 
 tained a fair education in the common schools 
 of tiie period. He was still in his minority 
 when civil war made its advent to interrupt all 
 plans of all classes, even those of schoolboys, 
 and his first independent action was his resolu- 
 tion to enlist, which he did Dec. 19, 1861, 
 in Company B, 18th Wisconsin Infantry 
 at York, then Pastville. He was in barracks at 
 Milwaukee, was mustered and left the State 
 with the regiment March 30, 1862. Within tlie 
 week he made acquaintance with actual war on 
 the terrible field of Shiloh, where his colonel 
 was shot to death. *He was among the cap- 
 tured and, after being stripped and deprived of 
 everything necessary to comfort and health, 
 was sent to Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; was paroled at 
 the end of two months and returned to Nash- 
 ville to await exchange. He was ill and was 
 left in the hospital at Nashville, recovering to 
 go to Parole Camp at St. Louis in September 
 and went thence to Superior to aid in quelling 
 the outbreaks of the Indians, a work 
 which was accomplished by the paroled 
 prisoners. Mr. Green rejoined his regiment at 
 Vicksburg, after being exchanged. September 
 11th he went with his command to reinforce 
 General Steele. On his return to Corinth he 
 was taken sick and went successively to hospitals 
 there, also at Nashville, and at Louisville, 
 
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 whence he was discharged Jan. 12, 1864 on 
 surgeon's certificate. His brotlier took charge 
 of liim and removed him to Ohio, many men 
 in the ho.spitals becoming victims to small pox, 
 which he escaped. As soon as able to travel 
 he went to Wisconsin to the homestead, of which 
 he became {proprietor and remained until the 
 fall of 188t5, when he was elected County Trea.s- 
 urer and was re-elected in 1889. Prior to the 
 dat« mentioned he officiated as Township 
 Treasurer and as Cliairman of the Town Board 
 several terms. He is a man of modest claims 
 and his abilities and reliable character are such 
 as to win and hold the confidence of those who 
 are responsible for the commitment of public 
 trusts. In his private, as in his pul)lic career, 
 he has deserved and received the confidence of 
 the community in which lie is an iKHiored 
 member. He belongs to Post No. 102 and to 
 the Order of Odd Fellows ; he also belongs to 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 He was married Dec. 6, 1864 to Ella C, 
 daughter of Henry and Huldah (Prince) Brown. 
 Her father died when a comparatively young 
 man and the family was brought to Wiscon- 
 sin by the widowed mother. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Green four children have been born who sur- 
 vive, one cliild dying while an infant. Ralph 
 P. was born Dec. 14, 1865; Grace was born 
 March 7, 1873; Amy was born May 14, 1879; 
 a babe was born Aug. 6, 1889. 
 
 IMON C. F. COBBAN, Chippewa Falls, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 
 was born Dec. 23, 1839, at Inverness, 
 Province of (Quebec, Canada, and is the son of 
 Robert and Mary (Anderson) Cobban, natives 
 of Aberdeen, Scotland. They emigrated to 
 Canada some years after marriage anil the 
 father died on his farm in Inverness in 186(), 
 the death of his wife having taken place in 
 
 1842. John, Robert, William, Mary Ann, 
 Juliet, Jessie, Alexander, James, Joseph, Simon 
 and .Rihannah were the names of their eleven 
 children. When the son Simon was 16 years 
 old he went to Vermont and enlisted in Janu- 
 ary, 1862; he was mustered Feb. 22, 1862, into 
 Company K, 3d Vermont Infantry. After be- 
 ing in camp at Burlington the command wont 
 to Yorktown, arriving just before the sur- 
 render, and he was in the fight on the 5th of 
 May at Williamsburg, whither the rebels had 
 retreated from Yorktown. This was a terrific 
 battle (see sketches of 5th Wisconsin soldiei-s) 
 and afterwards the regiment went to the 
 swamps of the Chickahominy in the 1st Brig- 
 ade and 2d Division. Mr. Cobban was in the 
 several actions, fighting at Savage Station and 
 accompanying the retreat to the James. He 
 was in the action at White Oak Swamp before 
 reaching the James and went into camp at 
 White House Landing. The next remove was 
 to Alexandria and from there to the second 
 Bull Run battle field, whence they marched 
 out, crossed Bull Run, and met the rebels about 
 dark, and fell back to Centerville, and the next 
 day to Alexandria. September 17th he fought 
 at Antietam, his command being stationed on 
 the left of the pike and suftering from sharp- 
 shooters. They followed up the rebels for 
 awhile and then went into camp near Fal- 
 mouth Landing, and he was next in action at 
 Fredericksburg, Dec. 11th. The regiment fell 
 back to White Oak Church where they lay till 
 the second battle of Fredericksburg and there 
 Mr. Cobban was taken sick and, with others, 
 was ordered to the hospital, but instead of going 
 they took up their quarters in an old church 
 where they remained until the regiment re- 
 turned from Fredericksburg, when he was dis- 
 charged as disabled, Feb. 10, 1803. He re- 
 turned to Vermont and recruited until Jan. 1, 
 1864, when he re-enlisted and was mustered 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 437 
 
 into Company C, 8th Vermont Infantry. He 
 was in camp at Brattleboro and subsequently 
 joined tiie regiment at Franklin, La., in the 
 2d Brigade, 1st Division and 19th Corps. The 
 regiment moved thence to Algiers, La., and to 
 Thibodeaux, where Mr. Cobban was on de- 
 tached duty as provost guard and was detailed 
 to escort rebels to New Orleans who were taken 
 as suspected of violating their parole. At 
 Algiers the command was joined liy the veter- 
 ans on a furlough and went to Fort Adams on 
 the Mississippi River, going thence to Mor- 
 ganzia Bend. They returned to Algiers and 
 started for the Gulf of Mexico under sealed 
 orders. When orders were opened they found 
 their destination to be Fortress Monroe. On 
 arrival there they were immediately ordered 
 to Washington, whence the regiment went to 
 the Valley of the Shenandoah and operated 
 with the 6th and 8th Corps during the sum- 
 mer of 1864. They were in an imj^ortant en- 
 gagement at Winchester, Sept. 19th, and dur- 
 ing the action the 8th Vermont made a heavy 
 charge on the rebels. In the action of 
 October 19th Mr. Cobban was on picket 
 duty when the fight opened and every 
 man on that picket was instructed to look 
 out for himself. A number of the regiment 
 were taken ])risoners and the company was so 
 much reduced that Mr. Cobban as Fifth Cor- 
 poral was-in command. (This was the fight in 
 which Sheridan rallied the troops to " lick 
 them out of tlieir boots.") The next move was 
 to Strasburg, where they camped and where 
 Mr. Cobban was relieved from the connnand of 
 the company and detailed as color guard. On 
 the next day they marched to New Market in 
 pursuit of the enemy and, during the remain- 
 der of the war, the regiment performed guard 
 duty in the valley. The Governor of Vermont 
 tried to have the regiment sent home, as tiiey 
 were drawing pay from the State, but, failing 
 
 in this, he had them transferred to the 6th 
 Corps, the 19th being ordered to Savannah. 
 When the 6th Corps came up from North Caro- 
 lina Mr. Cobban with tiie ^'ermont regiment 
 joined it and was mustered out at Washington 
 .lune 28, 1865. 
 
 He went West and located at Chippewa Falls, 
 obtaining employment as a lumberman and 
 mechanic for about six months, and afterwards 
 engaged about seven years in the manufacture 
 of doors and sash. Later he engaged in the 
 flour mill business, afterwards removing to a 
 farm near the city. In 1880 he built a block 
 of stores and an opei'a house, which burned 
 after four years, involving a loss of about $40,- 
 000, and he sold tlie ground and went to Mon- 
 tana, establishing a lumber yard at Butte City. 
 Six months afterward he returned to Chippewa 
 Falls and engaged in real estate, loans and 
 brokerage. He has also real estate interests in 
 Butte City, where he and his brother George 
 are erecting substantial brick blocks; he is also 
 connected with an extensive logging enterprise 
 near Tomahawk, Wis., where he is constructing 
 a two-mile railroad track for logging purposes. 
 
 He was married June 4, 1868, at Eau Claire 
 to Jeanette Mann, and their children are 
 named Edna M. and Eva. 
 
 ^Hf^ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 J^ESLEY F. GRINDELL, a prom- 
 inent citizen and business man 
 of Platteville, Wis., member of G. 
 .A. R. Post No. 66, was born at Platteville, Oct. 
 18, 1847, and is the son of William and Lydia 
 (Cook) Grindell. Mr. Grindell represents one 
 of the best strains in the nationality of this 
 country, his father having been born in the 
 North of Ireliind and was descended from the 
 sturdy, intelligent and upriglit Scotch-Irish, 
 who preserved their ancestral blood in purity 
 and furnished to this country some of its best 
 
438 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 intellect, its most reliable manliooil and 
 descendants who retained the characteristic 
 energy and integrity of their forbears. The 
 family first located in Canada on removal to 
 the New World and, in 1840, the senior Grin- 
 dell settled at Platteville. He was married in 
 Buffalo, N. Y., ills wife being the daughter of 
 David and Maria Cook and of German descent. 
 Mr. Grindell of tliis sketcli has had two broth- 
 ers: — Will R., a conductor on a railroad in 
 Nebraska, who was killed March 24, 1882, while 
 discharging his duties at Harvard, Neb., and 
 Samuel T., a business man at Omaha, Neb. 
 The mother died in 1855 and the father again 
 married in 1857 ; Margaret McMurray, a Ken- 
 tuckian by birth, became his wife, and seven 
 children were born to them, of whom six sur- 
 vive, named Lydia, Frederick, Clara, Thomas, 
 Mary and Edward; Emma is deceased. The 
 senior Grindell was a cabinet maker by trade 
 and established a prosperous business at Platte- 
 ville, which he is still conducting. (1890.) 
 
 Mr. Grindell obtained his education in the 
 common schools and afterward attended Knox 
 College at Galesburg, Til., but was obliged to 
 surrender his chances for an extended educa- 
 tional course by threatened ill-health. At the 
 time the war came on he was on the farm of 
 his uncle, and he enlisted three times only to 
 be rejected. Finally he enrolled in a service in 
 which he was accepted — the 100-daj'S men, — en- 
 rolling in Company A, 41st Wisconsin Inf;\n- 
 try, in the spring of 1864, his uncle, John Grin- 
 dell, being made First Lieutenant of the com- 
 ])any of which Peter .1. Schloesser was made 
 Captain. From Camp Kan<iall the command 
 went to Memphis and camped prej)aratory to 
 succeeding to the places of veterans who were 
 in demand elsewhere and whose work in the 
 past it became necessary to protect. Mr. Grin- 
 dell learned the tactics of infantry practice and 
 performed every specie of duty pertaining to 
 
 the service, partaking of the excitement and 
 actual business of war only at the time of For- 
 rest's celebrated midnight raid on Memphis. 
 He was in frequent excursions into tlie sur- 
 rounding country and also on scouting duty. 
 He was on picket tJie night of Forrest's raid, 
 acting as Lieutenant and was as much sur- 
 prised as any of the command. (Mr. Grindell 
 relates the efforts of mere boys to enlist and 
 their endeavors to deceive the enrolling officers 
 as to age. The common question was, " Well, 
 sonny, how old are you ? " the reply was almost 
 invariably " past eighteen," but the rejoinder, 
 containing an inquiry as to date of birth, pro- 
 duced a muddle that commonly resulted in 
 sending the would-be military hero home. Mr. 
 Grindell went through it all, even trying to en- 
 list as a musician, sitting uj) nights to learn the 
 flute. He preserves and prizes his certilicate 
 of acknowledgment from President Lincoln as 
 evidence of his willingness to stop rebel bullets 
 if such should be his tate.) 
 
 On his return home he engaged in the fur- 
 niture business, afterwards 0})erated as a baker 
 three years and resumed his former occupation 
 which has since engaged his energies. He is 
 among the social leaders in Platteville, where 
 he bears the repute of a high-toned and influ- 
 ential citizen. He has advanced through the 
 degrees of the Odd Fellows Order and belongs 
 to the several local organizations at Platteville. 
 He is a member of the Ma.sonic Chapter and is 
 prominent in local politics and official relations 
 to municipal affairs. 
 
 His marriage to Mary Jane, daughter of 
 William and Hannah (Clayton) Howdle, took 
 place June 18,1868. Mrs. Grindell is descend- 
 ed from English parents and is the mother of 
 two children, named Charles Clayton and 
 Lydia M. She is prominent in the Woman's 
 Relief Corps at Platteville. 
 
2. !M-o-iu. ^. >A. X^iy^^. 
 
 3. ^o-fi^Va-cL kJcpAi^e^t. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 441 
 
 
 JOHN AUGUST LINS, Eagle, 
 member of G. A. R. Post E. B. 
 Wolcott at Milwaukee, a prominent 
 citizen and a leading business man at Eagle, 
 was born at Wachstadt, Saxony, Germany, Oct. 
 3, 1840. Until he was 17 years old he resided 
 with his parents, John and Mary (Ehrhardt) 
 Lins, in his native place, engaged in the 
 acquirement of a thorough German education. 
 In 1857 the family emigrated to the New World 
 and soon after landing at the port of New York, 
 located on a farm in Franklin, near Milwaukee. 
 Four of their children are still living. After 
 his arrival in America, Mr. Lins was occupied 
 a year on the farm and when 18 years old he 
 obtained employ witli B. Stamm & Co., at Mil- 
 waukee, with whom be was engaged until he 
 went to St. Louis in 1859. There he was 
 employed in a hotel and in 1860 went to New 
 Orleans, and was engaged in business there 
 until the difficulties between the North and 
 South culminated in the assault on the emblem 
 of United States authority in Cbarleston harbor. 
 His principles were fixed and well-known and 
 the atmo.sphere of the Crescent City became 
 altogether unwholesome for an advocate of a 
 united country and he managed to make his 
 escape on the last boat that left for the Nortii 
 before the blockade proclamation went into 
 effect. He had hardly been tliree days in Mil- 
 waukee, when, June 8, 1861, he enlisted in 
 defense of the liberty of which he felt himself 
 deprived by his enforced abandonment of his 
 business in New Orleans. He enrolled in 
 Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
 mustered as Corporal. He left Camp Randall 
 July 26th for the scenes of active war in the 
 East and after arrival at ^\'asllington marched 
 across the Chain Bridge and where the regi- 
 ment was assigned successively to the brigades 
 of King and Hancock. The regiment was in 
 Smith's division and passed the winter in quar- 
 
 ters at Camp Griffin, preparing for the "On to 
 Richmond " movement. March 10th their 
 march began and they went to Lewinsville, 
 Vienna and Flint Hill, proceeding until intelli- 
 gence was received of the evacuation, in the vi- 
 cinity of Manassas, when they went into quarters 
 near Alexandria. On the 24th they started for 
 Fortress Monroe and on the 27tli they were in 
 a reconnoissance on the banks of the James. 
 Five companies were deployed as skirmishers, 
 driving in the rebel pickets and after camping 
 in the rebel lines they went to the Warwick 
 River, where the military activities in which 
 the command was involved through the event- 
 ful summer of 1862 without practical or satis- 
 factory results, commenced. April 16tli Mr. 
 Lins was in line of battle at Lee's Mills and on 
 the 5th of May was ni his first hot fight at 
 Williamsburg and his record with that of his 
 comrades was of such conspicuous character 
 that McClellan signalized their action and him- 
 self in the only address he ever made to his 
 soldiers, although he was an admirer of Na- 
 poleon in all his career in war. He said : 
 " My lads, I have come to thank you for your 
 gallant conduct the other day. You have won 
 laurels of which you may well be proud. Not 
 only you but the army, the country and the 
 State to wbich you belong. Through you we 
 won tlie day and Williamsburg shall be in- 
 scribed on your banners. I cannot thank you 
 too much, and I am sure the reputation your 
 gallantry has already achieved will always be 
 maintained." In regard to the military ser- 
 vice performed by Mr. Lins nothing stronger 
 can be affirmed than, first to state that he 
 fousht with tlie 5th Wisconsin and second, to 
 present in order his roster of battles with offi- 
 cial dates. He was in the campaign of the 
 Cliickahominy and fought June 28th at Gol- 
 den's Farm, at Savage Station on the 29th, 
 White Oak Swamp June 30th and Malvern 
 
442 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Hill July 1st. He was in action at Crampton's 
 Gap September 14tli, at Antietam on the 17tli 
 and at Fredericksburg December 12tb, 13tli, 
 14tb and loth, lie was in the movement to the 
 liai)jialuinock and was in the splendid charge 
 at Marye's Heights and in the fights of the 
 two next days (May 4th and 5tli); he went with 
 tlie command to take note of Lee's operations 
 towards Pennsylvania and fought July 1st, 2d 
 and 3d at Gettysburg ; November 7th he was 
 again at Rap])ahannock Station and, later in 
 the month (24tli), was in action at Mine Run 
 and Locust Grove. In May, 1864, he was 
 again in the Wilderness and on the 8th fought 
 at Spottsylvania C. H. On the 9th, 10th and 
 11th he was in action and after returning to 
 Cold Harbor went into the charge and was 
 severely wounded. lie went to various hospi- 
 tals and finally to Madison where he was under 
 treatment wlien his regiment was mustered out 
 August 3, 1864. 
 
 He returned to Eagle and after recruiting his 
 health he engaged in stock business with his 
 brother on his father's farm until 18G7, when 
 he embarked with S. E. Neustadtl in a com- 
 mercial enterprise wliicli inc]u<led the sale of 
 groceries and other merchandise. In 1869 the 
 partnership was dissolved and since that date 
 he has conducted his business relations singly. 
 In 1869 he erected the building in wliich he 
 operates and he has gradually widened liis 
 relations until he is now (1889) the leading 
 merchant at Eagle. His abilities and qualifi- 
 cations, as well as his high-toned and reliable 
 character have been recognized by his genera- 
 tion and he has served two years as County 
 Treasurer. He has acted as Chairman of the 
 Board of Supervisors several terms and in 1881 
 was elected Assemblyman from his District. 
 In 1885 and again in 1887 he was chosen as 
 State Senator, discharging his duties in a man- 
 ner and with an ability consistent with the 
 hopes and beliefs of his constituency. 
 
 He was married in 1872 to Mary Witte, wlio 
 was born in Waukesha county and is the 
 daughter of Charles and Sophia Witte. They 
 are childless. 
 
 In character Mr. Lins is what is understood 
 in its best sense as a representative citizen. 
 Born in a foreign country, liable to compulsory 
 military service, he recognized his duty to the 
 land of his adoption in her hour of llireatened 
 dismemberment and hastened to aid in sustain- 
 ing her unity and dignity among nations. He 
 never flinched from the demands of his obliga- 
 tions as a soldier, and he has manfully sus- 
 tained all his relations to the world in every 
 connection which he has formed. He is a 
 cultivated, genial, aflable gentleman, modest to 
 a fault and possessing the best traits of his 
 Teutonic ancestral stock, whose highest type he 
 represents. His jiortrait appears on page 440. 
 
 y^lTyjril^I-IAM HOGBIN, member of C 
 "'^^i ^' Washburn Tost, No. 11, resi- 
 ■^3iL. dent at Madison, Wis., was born 
 Sep. 24, 1834, in Dover, Kent Co., England. 
 His father, Robeit Hogbin, was one of twent}'- 
 one children born to his parents and traced his 
 descent in direct line to the Anglo-Saxon set- 
 tlers of his native land. He possessed the traits 
 of his ancestral stock and was a soldier of 
 Great Britain who fought in the IVninsuIar 
 Campaign which terminated in the battle of 
 Waterloo. Members of his family of his own 
 generation fought in tiie Crimea, and previously 
 in the war of the Revolution. The motlier 
 of Mr. Hogbin of this sketch was named Eliza- 
 betii and the family came to America in 1853, 
 driven from their native country by the ex- 
 igencies of Free Trade which left no iiope for 
 the laboring classes. 
 
 The father had been a resident of America 
 nearly a c^uarter of a century when he died, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 443 
 
 aged nearly 88 years; the demise of the mother 
 occurred six years before. 
 
 William Hogbin passed his youth in unre- 
 niunerative labor and received but nine months 
 schooling. When he was fourteen 3'ears old he 
 was apprenticed to a tailor and served seven 
 years in London. He came with his parents 
 to America, worked a year at his trade in 
 Utica, New York, and passed two succeeding 
 years as a clerk in tlie city market. He had a 
 natural genius for mechanical occupation and 
 in 1850 he went to Port Louise, Iowa, and run 
 a stationary engine in a grist-mill, removing 
 at the end of a year to Muscatine, where he 
 worked a year as a carpenter. Three succes- 
 sive years he worked at harness making in 
 Gardner, 111., where he was engaged when the 
 war came on. In tiie first year, 1861, he be- 
 longed to the Home Guards and in tlie fall of 
 1862, enlisted in Company E, 88th Illinois In- 
 fantry, which became distinguished in the his- 
 tory of the Civil War as the Chicago 2d Board 
 of Trade Regiment. The command was in 
 rendezvous at Camp Fuller, Chicago, and soon 
 after his enrollment, Mr. Hogbin went with the 
 regiment to Louisville and Cincinnati, Kirby 
 Smith's operations in Kentucky having be- 
 come alarming. Tlie regiment was suljjected 
 to much marcliing and miscellaneous military 
 operations, including numerous skirmishes 
 prior and preparatory to the battle of Perry ville, 
 Oct. 8, 1862, in which Mr. Hogbin had his first 
 experience in set battle. He was in the subse- 
 quent movements in Northern Kentucky, and 
 after camping at Bowling Green went to Nash- 
 ville to enter upon the Stone River campaign 
 under Rosecrans. He was in the preliminary 
 skirmishing in which the Union troops har- 
 assed the rear of the rebel army, in almost 
 daily action, and finally figliting at Stone River. 
 (The regiment lost 150 men in this engage- 
 ment.) It remained in that vicinity, engaged 
 
 in building fortifications and in ordinary mili- 
 tary duty until April, 1863, when the com- 
 mand, including several regiments, went on 
 a foraging and reconnoitering expedition 
 toward Columbia, Tenn. On the 19th day 
 out Mr. Hogbin was seized with liver complaint, 
 conveyed in an ambulance to camp and, soon 
 after, was transferred to the hospital in a per- 
 manently disabled condition. His regiment 
 went to the Chickamauga campaign, in which 
 several brigades were captured and transferred 
 to Southern prisons, a fate from which Mr. Hog- 
 bin was jireserved by his illness. He was sent 
 from the field hospital at Murfreesboro, after two 
 weeks, to Nashville and thence to Louisville 
 and New Albany, Ind. He was there trans- 
 ferred to the 5th Regiment Veteran's Reserve 
 Corps, and stationed at Indianapolis. These 
 regiments were organized on account of the 
 discovery of the conspii'acies and treasonable 
 organizations forming in Indiana among the 
 class of Hoosiers who sympathized and afllli- 
 ated with rebellion and whose military char- 
 acter plainly manifested that thej^ meant 
 business. Their most powerful combinations 
 were strongly centered at Indianapolis. The 
 experiences of the veterans among the rascally 
 traitors form interesting reminiscences and Mr. 
 Hogbin supplies details of a character which 
 exposes the barbarity and inhumanity of the 
 villains in a light fully paramount to that which 
 illustrates the hellishness of Southern atrocity 
 in rebel prisons. 
 
 July 5th, 1865, he was mustered out of service 
 and returned to Chicago. Soon after he went 
 to Dubuque, Iowa, where he engaged at his 
 trade and entered upon the duties of citizenship, 
 becoming active in school interests and temjier- 
 ! ance work. He belonged to the Orders of Good 
 Templars and Sons of Temperance, rising to 
 the positions of Deputy Grand Worthy Chief 
 of the former and Past Worthy Patriarch of the 
 
444 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 latter. He was a member of the Light Guards 
 until that body disbanded, when he joined the 
 Dubuque Rifles and was cliief officer of tlie com- 
 pany until his removal to Wisconsin in 1877. 
 
 In that year he settled at Madison and estab- 
 lished himself permanently in his former call- 
 ing. In 1879 he raised and organized a 
 company of State militia called the Lake City 
 Guards and in June of the next year he was 
 commissioned Captain. He is active in Grand 
 Army circles and has served three successive 
 terms as Chaplain of his Post. He now holds 
 the position of Officer of the Day ; he is a 
 Republican in politics and receives a pension. 
 
 He was married May 29, 1856, to Mrs. Mary 
 Catherine Knott, of Utica, N. Y.,an(l they have 
 one surviving child named Elizabeth Jane. 
 
 His wife's grandfather, Mr. Adle, was in the 
 war of the Revolution and in 1812. Her son by 
 first marriage, Walter S. Knott, was a sokiier 
 in Co. D, 19th Illinois (kvalry. He was very 
 young, having been born in 1848, but he served 
 through the war and was mustered out in June 
 18G6. He is now living in Dubuque and in a 
 prosperous business. He was a charter member 
 of the McHenry Post No. 7, of Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. Hogbin appears on page 
 440 with those of three comrades of the war. 
 
 APTAIN THOMAS H. PRICE, a florist 
 at LakeGcneva,Wis.,anda prominent 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
 born at West Felton, Shropshire (Salop) Eng- 
 land, on the border of Wales, Oct. l.'x 1835, and 
 is the son of David and Sai-ah Price, who were 
 natives of that locality and of mixed Welsh 
 and English blood, and they died on the old 
 homestead in West Felton. Only two of tlieir 
 seven children came to this country. William 
 was for many years a farmer near Rockford, 
 
 111., and now follows the same calling at 
 Howard, Kansas. When he was 12 years old, 
 Thomas was apprenticed to learn the business 
 which he has made his life's vocation and 
 served seven years, acquiring a complete knowl- 
 edge of horticulture and floriculture ami mar- 
 ket gardening in every detail and, when he 
 was 19 years old, he came to America and in 
 1857 came to the United States. He passed a 
 year in liis business at Cleveland, Ohio, enter- 
 ing the employ of General N. B. Buford, going 
 thence to Rock Island, 111., and from there went 
 to St. Joe, Mo., and there engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of ale and beer. 
 
 He remained there until rebellion and its 
 sympathizers put an end to business and Mr. 
 Price went to Omaha, Neb., and enlisted in 
 Company H, 1st Nebraska Infantry, and was 
 mustered into service at Omaha, July 4, 1861, 
 Colonel John M. Thayer, Captain George 
 F. Kenned J". The command went to St. Joe 
 for equipments and thence to Independence and 
 demanded the release of Union prisoners at 
 the hazard of a fight; the surrender of the 
 l>risoners was acceded. In August the regi- 
 ment went to Pilot Knob, and thence to Syra- 
 cuse to connect with Fremont on his march to 
 Springfield. When that officer was relieved, 
 with the rest of the grief stricken troops, the 
 regiment started to go to Syracuse and Com- 
 pany H and one company of Merrill's Horse 
 were left at Warsaw on the O.sage River to }>ro- 
 tect Government property. The insolent ag- 
 gressiveness of the citizens necessitated some 
 action and the troops secured as much property 
 as possible and destroyed the rest with the 
 town. (Mr. Price has, since the war, met and 
 discussed the event with one of the citizens.) 
 They were joined by the rest of the regiment 
 and went to winter quarters at Georgetown, go- 
 ing Dec. 28, 1861, to Warrensburg, Mo., on a 
 forced march to capture Price's supply train 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 445 
 
 and 1,700 rebels. (The men had a satisfactory 
 time en route to the rebel headquarters with 
 tlie " goodies" which Price designed for liiui- 
 seif.) In the sjiring of 18()2 the regiment 
 joined Grant on tlie expedition to Fort Henrj', 
 where Mr. Price was in action February 6th, 
 and also at Donelson on the 14th and 15th. 
 On the second day he was severely wounded in 
 tlie forehead, but dread of the hospital prevent- 
 ed his absence from liis company and he went 
 to the fight at Shiloh, April 6th and 7th. He 
 was with his company at the siege of Corinth 
 and, after the evacuation, went to Mempliis, 
 and soon after to Helena, Ark., to connect with 
 Curti.ss, going to Pilot Knob and Cape 
 Girardeau, and in the fight of April 26, 1863, 
 received a musket ball and two buckshot in his 
 right leg. The shot were removed at the village 
 and thence he went to hospital at St. Louis 
 and remained at Hickory street until August, 
 1863, when he asked for an examination before 
 the Military Board at Cincinnati, Ohio, for a 
 commission in a colored regiment. He passed 
 .satisfactorily, was granted the commission of a 
 First Lieutenant and assigned to Company G, 
 4th U. S. C. T. He received creilentials dated 
 Aug. 24, 1863, and went to Baltimore and was 
 sent thence to Yorktown, Va., and assigned to 
 Butler's forces. He went to Point Lookout 
 with his regiment to guard rebel prisoners and 
 in May joined the active troops of Butler, fight- 
 ing in the terrific actions of .June 17tli and 
 18th. He was detailed in charge of a colored 
 detachment at Dutch Gap and, September 2Sth, 
 returned to his regiment. He participated in 
 the battle of Deep Bottom, receiving a gunshot 
 wound in his left hand. In falling he broke 
 his right arm, his sword being strapped to his 
 wrist. He went to hospital at Fortress 
 Monroe, where lie was granted leave of 
 absence and returned to Rockiord, 111., going 
 thence to his command in front of Richmond, 
 
 and in December, 1864, to Fort Fisher, wdiere 
 the General and one or two of his smart aids 
 discovered that a long line of barracks looked 
 like a long line of troops in battle array, and 
 in January he went witii his men to one of the 
 most terrific actions of that campaign under 
 General Terry, the command taking the fort, 
 which might have been taken by occupation 
 simply, on the former occasion. Lieutenant 
 Price was placed in command of the Pioneer 
 Corps and went with a detail to carry shovels 
 to General Curtiss, which he relates as one of 
 the most aggravating experiences of his life, as 
 orders not to fire in return for a constant 
 stream of rebel shot, were peremptory. He 
 was promoted for this service to the rank of 
 Captain, his papers bearing date of Feb. 22, 
 1865; he fought at Wilmington, N. C, and at 
 Northeast Station, where a large number of 
 starved and naked Union men from rebel 
 prisons, turned loose to find their way to home 
 and friends, joined their ranks. They went to 
 Bentonville and fought at Cox Bridge (a part 
 of the fight at the last named place), joining 
 Sherman at Goldsboro and went to Raleigh 
 where .Johnston surrendered April 26tii. On 
 hearing of the assassination of President Lin- 
 coln, the colored troops were almost unmanage- 
 able, declaring that they would ask no quarter, 
 give none nor take any prisoners alive, and 
 what would have been done by them in an 
 action at Raleigh is open to conjecture. Cap- 
 tain Price was placed in command of a district 
 as Assistant Provost Marshal, with headquar- 
 ters at Mount Olive on the Wilmington road. 
 In October, 1865, he was assigned to the com- 
 mand of Fort Lincoln, at Washington, which 
 his men dismantled in the spring of 1866, re- 
 ceiving muster out May 4th. 
 
 He immediately went to his home in the old 
 country and was married June 25, 1867, to an 
 old acquaintance. He remained in England 
 
446 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 until May, 1873, and returned to Rockford, 111., 
 going in the next year to St. Luke's hospital at 
 Chicago where, after consultation which pointed 
 first to amputation, the ball which had l)ecn 
 in possession ten years was removed from his 
 leg after he had been on crutches a twelve- 
 month. After recovery he went to Lake Ge- 
 neva and engaged in farm work until 1879, 
 when he purchased a place within the city 
 limits and established a fine business as a 
 florist, in which he has operated ten years. 
 His grounds and fixtures are of commendable 
 character and in his profession he is unap- 
 proached by competitors, his thorough training 
 and experience giving his liusiness precedence. 
 He was married to Jane Kvans in the old 
 parish church at West Felton in which he was 
 baptized and where his forbears were buried. 
 The wife is the daughter of John and Nancy 
 (Hughes) Evans, and she is the only one of 
 her race who ever came to America. Captain 
 Price is a member of the order of Royal Arch 
 Masons and is Captain of hisChajiter. He has 
 been W. M. of the Blue Lodge and was a 
 charter member of his Grand Army Post of 
 which he was first Commander. He has since 
 held office therein successively. It should have 
 been mentioned in the proper connection that 
 he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel while in 
 the service and altho.ugh not mustered, served 
 in the official capacity of that rank. He is an 
 enterprising citizen and prominent in ail mat- 
 ters that pertain to the well being of the lo- 
 cality. His portrait will be found on page 440. 
 
 ONRAD DIPPLE, Watertown, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
 born in Germany (Dresden, Saxony) 
 Nov. 2, 1831, and after being educated accord- 
 ing to the laws of Germany, which included in 
 
 his case eight years in the public schools and 
 four years at the Polytechnic Institute at Dres- 
 den, he came, in 1849, to America and resided 
 in the State of New York until his removal to 
 ^\'at^'rtown, A\'is., in 1853. He wtxs occupied 
 as a mason until he was drafted in November, 
 1863. The stpuid included 29 men from the 
 5th and 6th Ward of Watertown, and he was 
 the only one who wont to the front. He re- 
 ported at Madison and served for a time in the 
 " Permanent Party," also as city patrol until 
 April, 1864, when he was assigned to Company 
 I, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, and went with the 
 recruits for that command to Washington. 
 June 3d he arrived at White House Landing 
 where the most remarkable vision he had ever 
 encountered, met his eyes. The Pamunkey 
 River at that point was crowded with every 
 possible variety of river craft incident to a posi- 
 tion which was made the base of supplies for 
 an enormous army. The racket was inde- 
 scribable both on river and shore; mule drivers, 
 trying to soothe their gentle charges with the 
 well-known vocabularies; wagon trains of 
 fabulous extent coming and going; colored 
 laborers rolling barrels and combining their 
 shouts with those of the owners of the toes they 
 crushed ; stretchers, on which were borne the 
 wounded l)eing transferred to the hospital 
 boats waiting for them ; ambulance trailis, 
 bringing in the dead and wounded from recent 
 battle-fields ; a camp of contral)ands among 
 whom preachers where shouting with fervor 
 and recruiting officers were busy; a camp of 
 
 I captured rebels brought in from the front; 
 
 I orderlies riding in every direction ; every con- 
 ceivable sound of the human voice commingled 
 with the noise from the river — and the dust 
 and smoke finished the scene. The deUiil for 
 the 37th found a quiet spot and camped, and 
 for a few days were occupied in guarding tlie 
 line of the Richmond railroad, where the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 447 
 
 sounds of battle at Cold Harbor reached their 
 ears. During one rainy night Mr. Dipple 
 walked his beat near 630 prisoners who slept 
 coinfortabl}^ while long trains of ambulances 
 bearing their ghastly freight, passed all night 
 and the next day through the camp and gave 
 the guard a foresight of what might be their 
 chance within a few hours. But there was an- 
 other lesson ; scores of men appeared who 
 were slightly wounded, limping, bandaged in 
 some part of their pei'sons, hair clotted with 
 blood, gaping cv;ts on their faces and typifying 
 every form of want and suffering, but without 
 murmuring. Near the camp were the embalm- 
 ing tents, where that guild drove a thriving 
 business and prepared the dead for transmis- 
 sion to graves among their kindred — when 
 they received a goodly sura for the service. 
 And the women of the Christian Commission 
 were there ; no one flinched from the worst 
 case ; heroine hands dealt comfort with touch 
 and voice to forms which had been those of 
 men; contested the citadel of life with mortifi- 
 cation and maggots in countless instances ; 
 performed the most revolting duty with cheer- 
 fulness which imparted courage and renewed 
 life to the suffering, and moistened lips growing 
 pale in the light of the dawn of eternity. Such 
 was the initiation of the recruits for the 37th 
 Wisconsin at White House Landing. 
 
 On the 10th of .June they were detailed to 
 escort a supply train to the front at Cold Harbor 
 and arrived there after a dismal march in the 
 heat over a road which bore evidence of every 
 kind as being the route of communication be- 
 tween a huge army and its base of supply. 
 Overturned army wagons, straying mules, and 
 decrepit trains blockaded and separated the 
 escort, a portion of wlioiu made connection 
 with the advance on the double-quick. A 
 vision of White House Landing and that trip 
 to the front at Cold Harbor ought to have been 
 
 indelibly and exclusively photographed on the 
 retinas of both eyes of Jeff Davis and all his 
 compeers of the confederacy (with a little c.) 
 The regiment was assigned to the 9th (Burn- 
 side's) Corps in the division of 0. B. Wilcox 
 and at evening, .June 12th, they took position 
 on the flank of the front line of works to listen 
 to the shrieking of shot and shell and to inspect 
 at leisure and speculate on the possibilities of a 
 line of rebel fortifications. Just as the com- 
 mand had settled to rest, orders came to make 
 ready for marching at a moment's notice, with- 
 out sound of voice or clatter of arms, with fixed 
 bayonets and muskets at trail. And thus com- 
 menced the stolen movement of the Union 
 army on the flank march towards Petersburg. 
 As they passed through the fields, the roads 
 being monopolized by the artillery in the man- 
 ner already described, they witnessed over 
 again the sights which terminated at White 
 House Landing. The troops turned South and 
 crossed the Chickahominy on pontoons. Gen- 
 eral Burnside held an inspection and gave or- 
 ders to move toward Charles City C. H., the 
 corps being delayed just before arrival there 
 and obtaining 12 hours' rest. June 15th, after 
 sunset, march was resumed and the James was 
 crossed at midnight on pontoons 2,000 feet 
 long, over a rapid current, 70 feet deep, and the 
 37th found itself in the advance, marching 
 along contentedly witli no thought of immediate 
 warfare in the lovely country, shining silvery 
 and beautiful under the summer starlight. A 
 little before day a sharp rattle of musketry sa- 
 luted their ears and they hastened forward to 
 witness the jubilation of a detachment of 
 colored soldiers over their capture of a new 
 rebel brass howitzer. They had been in a sit- 
 uation where they encountered a rebel battery 
 and went for it in fine shape, also capturing a 
 rebel colonel, and their joy knew no adequate 
 form of expression. The column marched, 
 
448 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 flanked the rebels and took U> pieces of artil- 
 lery, with a battle flag. June IGth the regi- 
 ment went into position in the trenches in 
 front of Petersburg " in attention " with the 
 Union batteries in the rear. They had marched 
 four days and three nights and during the last 
 24 hours without diinier or sup])er. About 6 
 p. m. the attack commenced and, two hours 
 later, the 37th formed a line to relieve the Ver- 
 mont brigade of the 6th Corps; and swung on 
 the doul)le quick with a right-wheel movement 
 into the rear of the (5th Corjis, which marched 
 to the right flank and left them confronting 
 the situation and they received at once the sa- 
 lutes of the rebels in the form of grape and 
 minie balls. Until midnigiit the Johnnies 
 poured forth their missiles in the most extrav- 
 agant manner, the storm passing over the 
 heads of the men lying prostrate and shrink- 
 ing from the "swishing" as the bullets cut the 
 air. The firing slackened slightly and the of- 
 ficers set their watches to the same moment. 
 At 3 o'clock in the morning a brigade on the 
 left moved to attack, tlie 37tli standing " at- 
 tention" and at tliree minutes past three, 450 
 rebels were taken, with four guns and four 
 flags. The rebs were consigned to tiie care of 
 the colored troops, and fed, while the 37tli pro- 
 ceeded to a meal which was a "break- fast" indeed. 
 hi tlic afternoon of the 17th, Mr. Dipple was 
 wounded by a minie ball in his right arm, 
 while making a charge on rebel breastworks, 
 and was mentioned in the ilispatciies as in- 
 jured. The color sergeant, \V. H. (Jreen, was 
 wounded and, with Mr. Dipple and others, 
 crawled olV the field on hands and knees, drag- 
 ging the colors in his teeth, under an incessant 
 storm of rebel bullets. The arm of Mr. Dipple 
 was amj)utated at the field hospital anil, tliree 
 days later, he drove an ambulance to City 
 Point, the train psissing through tlie camp of 
 the 450 rebels previously mentioned as cap- 
 
 tured. He went by steamer to Washington and 
 was assigned to Mount Pleasant hospital, two 
 miles north of the city. July 12th he was 
 among those who left the hospital to aid in the 
 defense of Washington against the threatened 
 attack of General Early, who assaulted Fort 
 Stevens, the position being held by the detail 
 from the hospital until a division of the Gth 
 Corps arrived and drove the rebels back. 
 More than 100 died in the hospital from ex- 
 citement and want of proper care during the 
 absence of their nurses, JSergeant Green among 
 the number. July 28th, Mr. Dipple was trans- 
 ferred to the general hospital at Little York, 
 Pa., where the citizens were a second time ter- 
 rorized by the expected collection of a levy of 
 $50,000 laid on them the year before, and half 
 of which was to be paid in a year. They pre- 
 pared their valuables for transportation to 
 Philadelphia, and the inmates of the hospitals 
 were det^iiled for duty. They patrolled the 
 streets and scouted the roads, and the levy was 
 made on Chambersburg and that city was 
 burned. Mr. Dipj)le was transferred in No- 
 vember to Harvey hospital at Madison, and re- 
 ceived final discharge Dec. 8, 1864, returning 
 to Watertown. He was occupied eight years in 
 teaching in the public schools and afterwards 
 became interested in agriculture. In 1881, he 
 entered a homestead of 160 acres in Taylor Co., 
 Wis., receiving letters patent from Chester A. 
 Arthur, who instructed the Land Comniisssoner 
 to credit him with three years' time for his mil- 
 tary service. 
 
 Li 1854 Mr. Dip{)le was married in New 
 York State to Loui.sa Herger, and their child- 
 ren, Louis and Lena, were born resjiectivelj' in 
 1857 and 1859. The mother died in 1861 and 
 the father was again married in 1862 to Mina 
 Geska. Mr. Dipple is Chaplain of the 0. D. 
 Pease Post, No. 94, G. A. K., Department of 
 Wisconsin, (1890.) 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 449 
 
 His picture may b6 seen on page 440. No 
 collection of portraits of soldiers of the Civil 
 War appearing on several pages of this work 
 presents the likenesses of a braver quartette nor 
 do any personal records exceed in interest and 
 value those which follow in successive order. 
 That of Mr. Dipple, is specially graphic and 
 vivid. 
 
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 ^^ ARTIN OSWALD, Register of Deeds 
 6@ jl©* '^^ Grant County, Wisconsin, 
 resident at Lancaster, member 
 of Sam Monteith Post at Fen ni more. Wis., of 
 which he was a charter member, was born in 
 Ilanz, Switzerland, Feb. 7, 1847. His father, 
 Jolni J. Oswald, came to America in 1856 with 
 his family, his son being the youngest of his 
 children. Three V)rothers and a sister had 
 preceded him. His wife was Anna Buchlei be- 
 fore her marriage and they reared five children 
 to maturity. Wieland is deceased ; he was a 
 soldier in the 3d Wisconsin Infantry ; (his death 
 was mysterious, having the features of suicide 
 or murder and it is probable that the latter was 
 the cause) ; Michael resides in Topeka, Kan., 
 where he is a harness maker of extensive 
 relations ; he was a soldier in the war ; John J. 
 is a hardware merchant at Lancaster ; he 
 served in Company F, 3d Wisconsin Infantry ; 
 Mr. Oswald was the fourth son and tliei'e was a 
 daughter, Nina, who went South as a nurse and 
 there met Lieutenant Jacob Seele, whom she 
 married ; she went to Galveston, Texas, and died 
 there of yellow fever. The senior Oswald was 
 seriously crippled and came to America under 
 medical advice and he died in 1SG4. The 
 mother died April 6, 1887, aged 80 years, at the 
 home of her youngest son, with whom she 
 resided after her husband's death. The latter 
 was a true son of the land of Tell and, when 
 
 the war came on instilled his principles into his 
 sons, all of whom served their adopted land. 
 
 Martin Oswald enlisted at Platteville, July 7, 
 1861, under the first call for troops, being then 
 14 years, five months and four days old, 
 enrolling for three months, but finding that 
 quota full and short time- enlistments stopped 
 by Order of the War Department, he enlisted 
 at Fond du Lac for three years. Musicians were 
 in demand and, on it becoming known that he 
 played Ijand music he was detailed to the regi- 
 mental band and accompanied the 3d Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry to Hagerstowu, Md. He was in all 
 the movements of that command until his dis- 
 charge July 22, 1862, under General Order 
 dismissing all regimental bands. He was in 
 the fight at Harper's Ferry, went up the Shen- 
 andoah Valley to join Banks, fought at Win- 
 chester, and went to Front Royal and Little 
 Washington, where he was released from mili- 
 tary duty. He returned to Platteville and soon 
 after went to British Hollow, where his brother 
 established a mercantile business, himself being 
 employed as clerk. When the 33d Wisconsin 
 was organized in 1862, he obtained an appoint- 
 ment as Drum-Major in October, but was not 
 permitted to go on account of his youth. (He 
 was able to go under his previous enlistment 
 because he was accompanied by his brother). 
 He received his appointment from Governor 
 Salomon, and was deeply disappointed over the 
 outcome, but he finally went to a clerk's 
 position at Dubuque, Iowa, where by dint of 
 much persuasion, backed by bis experience, he 
 succeeded in enrolling in Company F, 5th Iowa 
 Cavalry. The command being in wanf^of a 
 bugler, and his understanding that specie 
 of instrumental music, proved a decisive point 
 and he was taken, although less than 18 years 
 old. He started to join his command Feb. 18, 
 1864, and was with the regiment until dis- 
 charged, having the satisfaction of knowing 
 
450 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 that lie did not lose a day while in the service, 
 and never receiving an injur}', although his 
 regiment was in the activities of the raids dur- 
 ing the closing montlis of the war in the West. 
 Briefly stated, the following principal actions 
 manifest the character of the service in which 
 he was engaged: — Stragburg and Winchester, 
 Va.; Rousseau's raid, Columbus, Tenn., Frank- 
 lin, Nashville (last battle) chasing Hood after- 
 wards, in the Wilson raid and, when Davis was 
 at large, he went back 800 miles to intercept 
 him on a possible route. The skir- 
 mishes, the weeks passed in the saddle, 
 without rations save raw corn and scanty 
 supi)lies obtained by foraging in a country 
 already stripped of all apparent resources and 
 the dangers of being for weeks at a time in 
 guerrilla service : — this is the business of a cav- 
 alryman whicii always disappears from history 
 from causes beyond the control of statisticians 
 to depict. His fatlier died wliile he was ab- 
 sent and it is but fit that his memory be pre- 
 served in view of his allegiance to the cause of 
 freedom and equal rights. 
 
 While carrying dispatches from Millard's and 
 Wilson's headquarters at Nashville, he was 
 fired on by two scouts, his horse being killed 
 and he receiving a slight wound, but he es- 
 caped to the woods and succeeded in delivoing 
 his messages. 
 
 Tlie son Wiehuul had l^een Orderly Sergeant 
 in tiie National Guards of Switzerland and, 
 after his first discharge, when one of the Wis- 
 consin regiments was raised, one of the com- 
 panies marching in front of the house, tendered 
 him the place of Captain. But his parents 
 were alone ; all the others were in the service 
 and he remained to watch his father's declin- 
 ing years. 
 
 Mr. Oswald was discharged at ('linton, Iowa, 
 Aug. 11, 1865. He returned to Dubuque and 
 learned the trade of a marble cutter but was 
 
 obliged to abandon the business on account of 
 impaired health. He again entered the em- 
 ploy of a brother who was in mercantile busi- 
 ness at Mt. Hope, Wis., going thence to Bosco- 
 bel, working there for Parker, Hildebrand & 
 Co., remaining in that connection about five 
 years, going next to Fennimore and establish- 
 ing trade in his own behalf. He merged his 
 business into trade in hardware, which he dis- 
 posed of in 1887. In the fall of ISSS he was 
 elected Register of Deeds. Politically, he has 
 been identified for many years with the inter- 
 ests of his locality, and has served on the 
 School Board, being specially interested in ed- 
 ucational movements. He represented liis vil- 
 lage two years on the County Board and wixs 
 instrumental in forming the municipal regu- 
 lations of Fennimore ; he has acted 10 years as 
 delegate to the Republican Count}' Conven- 
 tions and also has been delegate to State Con- 
 ventions. He was married at Boscobel, to 
 Louisa, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Winter- 
 ling) Baumgartner. and they liave had four 
 children, one dying in infancy. Delphia, Net- 
 tie and Wieland survive. MV. Oswald is an 
 Odd Fellow and member of the Encampment ; 
 he was for two years District Deputy Master of 
 all German Lodges in the county and has held 
 all official positions in the t)rders to which he 
 belongs ; he was also on the staff of National 
 Commander Fairchild. He is a man of un- 
 common ability and deserves the best repre- 
 sentation on these pages for patriotism and cit- 
 
 izenshij). 
 
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 ELSON G. PLANK, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 10, w;is 
 born Aug. 22, 1838, in Denmark, 
 Lewis Co., New York. His jjarents, Jacob and 
 Mary A. (Stiison) Plank, belonged to the agri- 
 cultural class and reared their son to a knowl- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 451 
 
 edge of farming. He is of mixed blood, his 
 forefatliers being German and Scotch. His 
 paternal grandfather was a soldier in 1812. 
 During tlie first months of the war he was 
 deeply interested in the course of events and 
 determined to enlist, as he observed the neces- 
 sit}' of men of understanding being at the front. 
 In September, 1801, he enlisted in the 1st New 
 York Artillery, rendezvousing at Auburn, 
 Cayuga county. He was mustered there, went 
 thence to Wasiiington, was there equipped and 
 in camp at Capitol Hill during the winter, 
 crossed Chain Bridge, went to Alexandria and 
 by transport to Fortress Monroe, thence to 
 North Hampton, proceeding after two days up 
 the .James and Pamunkej^ Rivers to White 
 House Landing and to the front at Yorktown, 
 taking part in that siege. He fought at 
 Williamsburg, went thence to the Peninsula 
 campaign, and "On to Richmond," returning 
 to Harrison's Landing. While the army lay 
 in the swamps of the Cliickahominy, he con- 
 tracted malarial disease and was sent to Liberty 
 Hall hospital at Harrison's Landing in an 
 ambulance. He went immediately after to the 
 city of New York by vessel and one day after 
 was furloughed. He reported to the hospital 
 at All)any and received honorable discharge in 
 January, 1863, for general disability. As soon 
 as he recovered he enlisted again in Company 
 F, 186th New York Infantry, enrolling May 
 2.3, 1864. He was mustered in September fol- 
 lowing at Sacketts' Harbor, the place of rendez- 
 vous, and went thence to Albany and New 
 York, by transport to Fortress Monroe, up the 
 .James River to City Poi!)t and to the front for 
 assignment to the 9th Army Corps. He was a 
 participant in the activities in front of Peters- 
 burg and fought at Hatcher's Run, where the 
 inexperienced members of the regiment ac- 
 (juitted themselves with the coolnes^ and 
 bravery of veterans and won warm commen- 
 
 dations from the military authorities. He was 
 in the assault of April 2d under Col. Bradley 
 Winslow on " Fort Damnation " (Fort Mahone) 
 where they earned added laurels. Their major 
 led the pursuit, after the colonel was wounded, 
 and they were identified with the last days of 
 the rebellion, witnessing the finale at Appomat- 
 tox. He returned to Washington, marched in 
 the Grand Review and was mustered out at 
 Alexandria under special telegraphic order. 
 No. 22, June 2d, 1865. 
 
 He returned to his home and in the fall fol- 
 lowing removed to Green Bay, Wis., where he 
 was interested in the business of a carpenter 
 and joiner until 1886, when he entered the 
 employ of the Wisconsin Central railroad cor- 
 poration. His profession is that of stationary 
 engineer. He was married in April, 1861, to 
 Eliza Delawyer of Carthage, N. Y. Their 
 children are named Marietta and William. 
 
 ^IHp 
 
 GUIS MANZ, Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
 ber of Robert Ciiivas Post No. 2, was 
 
 if born in Undenheim, Germany, April 
 
 9, 1835, and is the son of Peter and Mary C. 
 ^lanz. His parents were of mixed German 
 origin and when he arrived at his majority, 
 knowing he was destined for the conscription 
 according to the law of his native country, he 
 started for America and landed at the port of 
 New Y'ork. He arrived June 30, 1856, and re- 
 mained there about one year, removing thence 
 to Wisconsin. Pie was a resident of Milwau- 
 kee county until the enlistment of the German 
 regiments, when he decided to enroll in defense 
 of his adopted land. He enrolled as a soldier 
 Aug. 21, 1862, in Company C, 26th Wisconsin 
 Infantry. He was mustered Sept. 17th following 
 and on the 6th of October went witii one of 
 the boasted regiments of the State to the scene 
 
452 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 of activities. His command was attached to 
 the lltli Corps under Sigel and went immedi- 
 ately to duty, marching in November to Gaines- 
 ville, and in December he went to take part 
 in the operations against Fredericksburg. He 
 returned from that fruitless business and was 
 afterwards called out to jtarticipate in the 
 famous mud campaign, after which the com- 
 mand was allowed to pass the remainder of the 
 winter in comfortable quarters at Stafford C. H. 
 He performed camp duty until the movement 
 which resulted in the tight at Chancellorsville 
 and on the 27th of April, at midnight, he was 
 equipped and ready for the immediate march. 
 He crossed the Rappahannock at Kelloy's Ford 
 and, on the 29th, the Rapidan at Germania 
 Ford. After hard marching he found himself 
 in position with his comrades west of Chancel- 
 lorsville. His corps was distributed along the 
 Fredericksburg road and he was not in action 
 until May 2d. In the liot fight of that day lie 
 received a bullet in his hand and before he 
 could settle his disturbed thoughts, he was be- 
 ing hurried to the rear by hordes of rebels. 
 There lie found he was a prisoner, but he re- 
 inaiiu'd in the place to which he bad lieen 
 driven through the night, suffering with his 
 hand. He proceeded tlience to a station where 
 he received a small quantity of corn meal and 
 hired darkies to cook it into a cake. He went 
 on to Richmond and, before i)eing incarcerated 
 in Libby, was stripped of everything he pos- 
 sessed of which a rebel could make u.so. He 
 was treated by a surgeon who desired to ampu- 
 tate.his hand, but he obstinately refused and it 
 was savech In a few weeks lie was exchanged 
 with his comrades of the 26tli in captivity and 
 they went to the Marine hospital at Annapo- 
 lis, whence they went to join their regiment in 
 the Army of the Tennessee, wliere it had been 
 transferred as a fighting regiment, which that 
 location very much needed. lie was a witness 
 
 of the battle of Chattanooga and tried to obtain 
 permission to go into the action, but his colonel 
 firmly refused to allow him, as he was still suf- 
 fering with his hand which was stiff and 
 unmanageable. Finallv, March 1, 1864, he 
 was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps 
 in which command he remained until Sept. 22, 
 1864, when he was discharged at Louisville, 
 Ky., with honor. He returned to Milwaukee, 
 where he was employed bj- the Government in 
 the mail service and he has been a capable 
 and reliable carrier since his appointment in 
 April, 1865. He is a prominent member of 
 the Carriers' Association, in which he has held 
 several positions of responsibility. He was 
 married May 14, 1865, to Augusta Thomas and 
 their children are named Augusta L., Louis A., 
 Emil S., Carl T. and Edmund. 
 
 HARLES H. BAXTER, a merchant of 
 Lancaster, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 132, was born at Stillwater, 
 Saratoga Co., New York, Nov. 15, 1841. His 
 father. Dr. Hiram Baxter, was born in the State 
 of New York and married Elizabeth Decker, 
 both being natives of Schoharie county. In 
 the paternal line the family is of English 
 descent, tracing to Richard Baxter, author and 
 minister, whose name is inseparably connected 
 with Christian literature. The mother was of 
 Holland Dutch lineage, being descended from 
 ancestors who settled in the Mohawk \'alley. 
 Dr. Baxter removed to Lancaster in 1856 and 
 was engaged in farming and in the practice of 
 medicine as long as be lived, his death oc- 
 curring in 1866, when he was about 61 years 
 old. The mother died at Lancaster in 1865. 
 Their family included four sons. William 
 died at Lancaster in 1885; he was a druggist; 
 Daniel W. was a soldier in Company K, 47th 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 453 
 
 Wisconsin Infantry ; Mr. Baxter of this sketch 
 was tlie third ; H. E. Baxter of Grant county 
 is tlie youngest. 
 
 Mr. Baxter was in boyhood wlien he came to 
 Wisconsin and received sucli education in the 
 common schools as was possible at that period 
 for the sons of farmers who assisted in the 
 labors of the farm. In 1860 he obtained a 
 position in a store in Lancaster and was there 
 occupied vuitil the second year of tlie war, 
 when he determined to become a soldier. In 
 August, 1862, he enrolled in Company C, 25th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, from Lancaster and was 
 mustered at La Crosse. He went to the frontier 
 service in Minnesota, where the Indians were 
 troublesome, his company being stationed at 
 Sauk Center and in the dead of winter orders 
 to report to Madison were received and the 
 command marched the entire distance in the 
 excessive cold, subsisting as the soldiers in the 
 South did, on the country, and securing such 
 quarters as was possible. In February the 
 regiment proceeded to Columbus, Ky., and, on 
 the 27th of April started for Cape Girardeau, 
 preparatory to proceeding to the .siege of Vicks- 
 burg. They mai'ched through the Yazoo val- 
 ley to Snyder's Bluff, remaining there and 
 guarding the river until ordered to Helena, 
 where a large number of the regiment were 
 seized with illness, contracted in the malarial 
 district in wliicli they had been stationed, 
 after being reared in the wholesome atmo- 
 sjjliere of Wisconsin. What the climate left 
 undone, was finished by the heat and in August 
 only 90 men were fit for duty. Mr. Baxter 
 was in the sui)sequent movements of the com- 
 mand until he was seized with chronic diarrhea 
 and taken to Mound City, Illinois, and was in 
 the hospital until his discharge in August. 
 He returned to Lancaster and remained until 
 the spring of 1864, when he had so far recov- 
 ered as to again enroll as a soldier, and he 
 
 enlisted in Company A, 41st Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and was mustered into service at Camp 
 Washburn, Milwaukee. He accompanied the 
 regiment to Memj)his, Tenn., where he per- 
 formed duty througli the summer. He served 
 on detached duty at the heaflquarters of the 
 Adjutant, being appointed a little later on the 
 staff of General Washburn, doing duty at head- 
 quarters until he was mustered out in Septem- 
 ber, 1864. He again returned to Lancaster 
 and in January, 1865, he received a Captain's 
 commission and was assigned to Company K, 
 47th Wisconsin Infantry. He was onlj' 23 
 years old and was one of the youngest men in 
 the Wisconsin troops to hold that rank. He 
 did yeoman duty in enrolling, recruiting 150 
 men in two days. After organization at Madi- 
 son orders were received to report to General 
 Thomas at Nashville and the command was 
 stationed at Tullahoma, where Mr. Baxter as 
 ranking officer was frequently in command of 
 the regiment. Later he was detached and 
 made Chief of Ordnance of the Middle District 
 of Tennessee on the staff of General Milroy. 
 After his chief was mustered out. Captain 
 Baxter was transferred to the staff of General 
 Van Cleve and held his former position 
 throughout the remainder of his term. He 
 was mustered out at Nashville and returned 
 to Madison to be finally relieved of military 
 obligations. The quality of courage and dar- 
 ing exhil)ited by Mr. Baxter was the cause of 
 his advancement from the ranks ; he was a 
 peculiarly boyish looking individual in youth 
 which always militated against his progress to 
 distinction and it was frequently remarked 
 that he was one of the boj^ captains of the 
 army. After his return to Lancaster he en- 
 gaged in business with George Howe in the 
 sale of merchandise, and he has since continued 
 in that interest, the firm now being Charles H. 
 Baxter & Co., a son being an associate. The 
 
454 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 latter conducts a branch store at Fenniniore 
 and the business transacted by the firm ranks 
 among tlie leading enterprises in that section 
 (if the State. In addition to general trade they 
 handle coal, lumber, live stock and all other 
 articles of traffic incident to tlie locality. They 
 own their buildings and are in a flourishing 
 condition. 
 
 Mr. Baxter was married in Lancaster, in 
 February, 1865, to Maria, daugliter of George 
 Howe, who was born in Clinton Co., New York, 
 and they have three children — George H. is his 
 father's associate ; Laura is a student at the 
 University at Madison ; Martha is the young- 
 est. Mr. and Mrs. Ba.xter belong to the Con- 
 gregational Church ; the former is a Repub- 
 lican in political faith and has acted as Chair- 
 man of the Central Committee 15 years and as 
 a member of the State Central Committee eight 
 years; in 1888 he was Mayor of Lancaster. He 
 is a Director in the Bank of Grant county at 
 Lancaster. He was for ten years President of 
 the Southwestern Veterans' Association, eight 
 times receiving a unanimous vote for the place. 
 He is a substantial citizen and has always been 
 identified witli tlie best interests of the com- 
 nninity to wliicli he belongs. I 
 
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 ASON W. HALL, Racine, Wis., member 
 of (j. A. R. Post No. 17, was born June 
 13, 1839, at Verona, Oneida Co., New 
 York. He is the son of Ehas and Elizabeth 
 (Mills) Hall. Ellas Hall was one of 10 chil- 
 dren, his brothers and sisters being named 
 Hiram, Dennis, Alonzo, John George, Ethan, 
 Almira, Amanda and Cynthia. His father was 
 born Nov. 5, 1812, in Rensselaer county. New 
 York, and was descended from pure American 
 ancestry. His mother was born Feb. 8, 1812, 
 and died in September, 1880, at Verona, where 
 
 the father died in 1883. The brother of his 
 mother, Benjamin Mills, was in the armory at 
 Harper's Ferry at the time of the raid of John 
 Brown, who took him prisoner. Her other 
 brothers and sisters were named John, Daniel, 
 David, James, Nathan, Francis, Catherine, 
 Lucy and Amj'. The four last named are the 
 sole survivors. The patermil grandfather of 
 Mr. Hall was a soldier of 1812. His father's 
 family included the following children — Mary, 
 Jason, Harriet, Harvey, Melvin, Daniel and 
 Emma, and are all living except Harriet and 
 Melvin. 
 
 Mr. Hall obtained his education in early j'outh 
 at the public schools and was variously occupied 
 until he was 21 years of age, when, in 1861, he 
 accompanied his uncle, James Mills, to Janes- 
 ville, Wis., to learn the sash, door and blind 
 business. This purpose was thwarted by his 
 entering the army. He enlisted in June, 1861, 
 in Company B, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, and 
 was mustered September Otli at Janesvilie 
 at Camp Tredway. He was made First Ser- 
 geant prior to his leaving for the front, whicli 
 he did Jan. 18, 1862. He accompanied the 
 regiment in all its fruitless marching from 
 Fort Leavenworth to Fort Scott, to Lawrence 
 and to Fort Riley, to take a part in two expe- 
 ditions which came to naught, and went down 
 the river to Columbus, Ky., where they per- 
 formed guard duty until August, when they 
 went to Fort Henry and later to Donelson. 
 Mr. Hall fought at Rickett's Hill and marched 
 to Donelson afterwards, a distance of 70 miles. 
 Until the last of October he jiorformed military 
 duty as a scout and in fighting the guerrillas 
 and bushwhackers under Morgan. He chased 
 the rebel chief to Ilopkinsville and fought 
 Woodward at (jarrcttsville, returning to Fort 
 Donelson and Fort Henry after a long and 
 wearisome march. He was in a chase after 
 Forrest and his next service was to go on the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 455 
 
 double quick to reinforce Fort Donelson. In 
 August his regiment started for a march of 
 nearly 300 miles to Stevenson, Ala., and de- 
 fended that point until assistance came, and 
 there Mr. Hall encountered one of the sharpest 
 experiences of the war, as the troop was 
 in danger of starvation from supplies being cut 
 oft'. The winter was spent at Nashville, where, 
 Jan. 4, 18G4, Mr. Hall was discharged to re- 
 enlist the following day, and after taking his 
 furlough he returned to Nashville. The regi- 
 ment was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 4th Divi- 
 sion, 20th Army Corps, a,nd did picket, guard, 
 post and garrison duty in Northern Alabanra, 
 performing every variety of military duty ex- 
 cept lighting in regular battle, with the pur- 
 pose of preventing rebel interference with the 
 plans of Sherman. In May, 1863, Mr. Hall 
 had been made Sergeant Major, and when he 
 re-enlisted he retained that position. The 
 liead(juarters of the regiment were at Hunts- 
 ville, Ala., and, Jan. 16, 1865, he was commis- 
 sioned Captain of Company B. He remained 
 with the company about two weeks when he was 
 detailed as Commissary on the stalf of General 
 T. J. Wood, the regiment having been assigned 
 to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 4th Corps, 
 General Beattie, Commander of the brigade, 
 General Stanley, Corps Commander and Gen- 
 eral Wood in command of the division. He 
 acted in his new capacity until about July 1st, 
 when he rejoined his company and was imme- 
 diately detailed as Quartermaster, a position on 
 the staff of General Stanley. He accompanied 
 the corps to Indianola, Texas, where the com- 
 mand disemlmrked for a long and painful 
 march to headquarters at San Antonio. Mr. 
 Hall operated there as Q. M. of Sub. Dis. of San 
 Antonio, Texas, on the staff of General D. L. 
 Stanley until his discliarge Nov. 24, 1865, but 
 remained in the department until April, 1866, 
 engaged in the adjustment of the business per- 
 
 taining to the late command. He returned to 
 Wisconsin and soon aftei- went to St. Louis, re- 
 turning to Janesville, and, Dec. 1, 1866, he en- 
 tered upon the duties of his relations to the 
 American Express Company, which he has 
 since conducted at various places in Minnesota 
 and since November, 1883, at Racine. Mr. 
 Hall is a member of several branches of the 
 Masonic Order, including Lodge, Knights Tem- 
 plar and Commandery. In all his relations — 
 in business, socially and as a citizen — he has 
 discharged the obligations of his manhood 
 uprightly and with honor. As a soldier, he 
 was one of the best. His abilities, his sturdy 
 adherence to the obligations of duty and his 
 firm, reliable character made him a valuable 
 adjunct to his command and his genial tem- 
 perament and evident good fellowship with all 
 made him prominent and popular in all iiis 
 relations with men. 
 
 He was married Oct. 22, 1878, to Martha J., 
 daughter of J. C. Foster of Verona, New York. 
 Their only child is named Lillian Edna. 
 
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 \^\ lis. MARY HUTCHINS, widow of 
 Ward S. Hutchins, a soldier of 
 
 residing at Monti- 
 
 C. t.VV^ J^ J]jg gjyj] ^y.j,. 
 
 cello, Wis., was born in Franklin Co., New Jer- 
 sey, Sep. 9, 1823. Her parents, Filamon and 
 Mary (Sarch) Parcel, settled in Franklin Co., 
 Ohio in 1830, going thence to Mercer county 
 and residing there until the daughter had 
 grown to womanhood ; her mother died there 
 at the age of 36 years and her father took an- 
 other wife, removing to Iowa, where he died, 
 aged about 63 years. Eight children were the 
 issue of the first marriage ; Swain, Charles and 
 Anderson were the names of the sous ; Ander- 
 son was a soldier in an Iowa regiment in the 
 civil war ; one sister of Mrs. Hutchins, Cynthia, 
 is still living. 
 
456 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 The first marriage of Mrs. Hutchins occurred 
 in Mercer Co., Oliio, where slie became the wife 
 of Porter Pratt iu 1840 and removed to Green 
 Co., Wisconsin, in 1844, when they located on 
 tlie farm now occupied by Mrs. Hutchins, 
 situated on tlie border of Monticello. Mr. 
 Pratt died there in November, 1852, five chil- 
 dren having been born to him and his wife. 
 Oliver is the oldest ; Ruth Hulda is deceased ; 
 Mary Melissa married Sidney Braden who was 
 a soldier in a AVisconsin regiment; Nancy and 
 James are the two youngest and the latter is 
 tlie manager of the farm. Oliver was a soldier 
 in the 5th Wisconsin Battery and lost his health 
 in the service; he was with Sherman through 
 his campaigns. 
 
 In 1855 her marriage to Mr. Hutchins took 
 place. He was the son of Samuel Hutchins and 
 his family never came to Wisconsin. Mr. 
 Hutchins enlisted Sep. 14, 1861, in Company E, 
 13th Wisconsin Infantry, and served with his 
 regiment until seixed with fatal illness. He 
 came liome on sick leave July lU, 1802, and 
 died April 28, 1863. Several times lie believed 
 himself so far recovered as to be able to rejoin 
 his regiment but always returned home before 
 reaching the command. 
 
 Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hutchins, of whom the youngest, Charles, died 
 nine days before his father, when about 18 
 months old. Cynthia married William Mur- 
 phy of Monticello; Sarah is the wife of E. A. 
 Loveiand. Mrs. Hutchins is approaching the 
 period allotted for human life, but is still in 
 womanly vigor and with faculties undimmed 
 by encroaching age and the sorrows of loss 
 and deprivation uhicii slie has encountered; 
 she is one of the pioneer women who have ad- 
 ded their quota to the help the country needed. 
 
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 T^s, EE McMURTREY, Richland Center, 
 
 I|0 ^^'®-' ™^'"^®'' ^^ ^- '^- ^- Post No. 
 
 l—^ 33, was born April 15, 1840, in 
 Wayne, La Fayette Co., Wis. His father and 
 mother, James W. and Abi (Williams) Mc- 
 Murtrey were natives respectively of Georgia 
 and Ohio ; were reared and married in Illinois 
 and removed to Wisconsin in 1838, ten years 
 prior to its admission as a State and where they 
 were, in every sense, pioneers. The father 
 spent his life in the pursuit of agriculture and 
 died in 1850. The family included four sons, 
 three of whom became soldiers, and one 
 daughter, the youngest. Amy, wife of Everett 
 Wilson, of Green Co., Iowa. Joseph, the oldest, 
 was a soldier in Company F, 16th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, enlisted Dec. 12, 1861, was wounded at 
 Shilob and discharged August 1, 1862; he re- 
 sides at Windom, Minn. Thomas lives in Cali- 
 fornia. John was a soldier in the 5th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry and was killed in leading the 
 charge at Marye's Heights with his company. 
 May 3, 1862. 
 
 Mr. McMurtrey was ten years old when his 
 father died and when he was 13 he undertook 
 the care of his own existence, becoming self- 
 supporting and conducting his own affairs 
 after that agi'. Until he entered the army he 
 was occupied with farming and, as soon as pos- 
 sible after the attack on Fort Sumter, lie 
 enrolled as a soldier, enlisting at Darlington, 
 April 24, 1861, in Company H, 3d Wisconsin 
 Infantry. From the date of his enrollment 
 the experiences of the regiment were his until 
 the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, 
 when a rebel bullet changed his relations to his 
 command and established a new order of things 
 in wiiicli the rebels took a direct part. Mr. 
 McMurtrey left the State July 12th for Hagers- 
 lown, Md., went to Harper's Ferry, thence to 
 Frederick to rout the make-believe legislature 
 and in the spring went with Banks to the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 457 
 
 Valley of the Shenandoah and participated in 
 the actions of that campaign until the battle 
 of Cedar Mountain in which he was wounded 
 and captured. He was taken to Libby prison 
 at Richmond and afterwards to Belle Isle 
 where he was paroled Sept. loth, and exchanged 
 on the 27th, rejoining his regiment in October 
 at Maryland Heights. The regiment was in 
 the 12th Corps and was rear guard of the Army 
 of the Potomac. Mr. McMurtrey did patrol 
 duty on the upper Potomac, was in the cam- 
 paign in the winter to the Rappaliannock, 
 returning to Stafford C. H. He was in the 
 movement April 27th to the Rappahannock 
 and in line of battle at Chancellorsville May 1st 
 with his regiment and received a bullet in his 
 le<r. He was on the field without assistance 12 
 days, except a little water given him by the 
 rebels and almo.st without food. On the 12th 
 day ambulances were sent from the Union lines 
 under flag of truce for the wounded on the 
 field and he was taken to field hospital and 
 thence to Corps hospital where he remained a 
 month, going thence to Fairfax Seminary 
 hospital and five days later to Chestnut Hill 
 hospital in Philadelphia where he was cared for 
 until the expiration of his term of enlistment, 
 when he was discharged June 22, 1864, and 
 sent home. 
 
 He located at Richland Center and in 1865 
 established his business as a stock buyer and 
 butcher which, with good judgment and wis- 
 dom he has since prosecuted, verifying the 
 principle that effort in a given direction per- 
 sistently followed, leads to success. His record 
 as a soldier and citizen has been of the best. 
 In the foi'mer capacity he stood to his guns, 
 passing through every possible experience of 
 war, wounded and a jirisoner, wounded and 
 starving and suffering on the field where he 
 was stricken down and after weary months in 
 hospital returned home to conduct an honorable 
 
 and useful career as a business man. He is 
 respected in his generation as he merits. He is 
 of Scotch descent, the name in the old country 
 being spelled McMurtrie and he is allied to the 
 \"irginia "Lees," from whom conies his christ- 
 ened name. 
 
 He was married at Richland Center Jan. 6, 
 1867, to Marie J., daughter of Thomas Lindley, 
 a native of Ohio and Melissa (Soule) Lindley, a 
 native of New York. Their two children are 
 named Amy Belle and Marvin. The former is 
 the wife of E, S. Glasier of Richland Center. Mr. 
 McMurtrey is a member of the Masonic Order ; 
 his wounds have been a source of trouble to 
 him since the war, pieces of bone continuing 
 to work out of his leg for 11 years after receiv- 
 ing his injury. 
 
 EV. CHARLES T. BURNLEY of 
 Hudson, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 151, was born Sept. 15, 1846, 
 at Nottingham, England. His father, Samuel 
 Burnley, was a manufacturer of woolen goods 
 in England. He married Sarah Taylor and 
 emigrated with his family to America and the 
 United States in the year following the birth of 
 his son — 1847. He located in the city of New 
 York and there established his business as a 
 maker of cloth. Charles is the oldest son and 
 child ; Selina married Louis Kleinfieldt ; Sarah 
 E. died in childhood ; Isabella died in infancy ; 
 George is still living. The father died in 1861, 
 in Oneida county, New York, and the mother 
 is living at Council Bluffs, Iowa. The business 
 of the senior Burnley was seriously injured by 
 the financial stringencies of 1856 and his son 
 felt it his duty to assume the responsibility of 
 maintaining himself, and he became a farm 
 assistant at the age of 14 years on a farm 
 owned by his father. Subsequently he went 
 
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 to Little Falls tuid obtained employment in a 
 woolen mill, having a fair understanding of 
 Ills father's vocation. When lie was !(> years 
 old he decided to go into the army and en- 
 listed July 25, 1803, at New York, went to 
 rendezvous at Staten Island and was mustered 
 into service in the following month in Com- 
 pany C, 18th New York Cavalry. Soon after 
 receiving cavalry equipments the • regiment 
 went to Washington to Camp Stoneman and 
 passed the winter in ])erfecting their knowledge 
 of military tactics and, during the time went 
 on a cavalry raid to Fairfax C. H., and also to 
 Port Tobacco. Mr. Burnley was made Corporal 
 while in Camj) Stoneman. In the spring of 
 18(>4 the 18th Cavalry embarked for New 
 Orleans from Alexandria, Va., to join the expe- 
 dition of Banks uj) the Red River. Mr. Burn- 
 ley, as Sergeant, experienced all the vicissi- 
 tudes and disasters of the ill-fated expedition, 
 fighting at odds at Sabine Cross Roads and 
 Pleasant Hill, and skirmished at the numerous 
 places where the retreat was harassed by rebels 
 of the most malicious type. At Grand Ecore, 
 the boats conveying the command were stuck 
 fast in the rapid and narrow stream, liually be- 
 ing released through the ingeimity of Colonel 
 Davis of Wisconsin. On this campaign Mr. 
 Burnley exhausted 16 horses, being almost con- 
 stantly engaged in scouting and skirmishing. 
 At Morganzia Bend a halt was made and there 
 tlie last action occurred with the rebels, who 
 had constantly harassed the rear of tlie retreat- 
 ing troops. Thence the command wmt to 
 Algiers. At Pleasant Hill the regiment had 
 been under fire from early morning until about 
 10 o'clock, in a position in the center; the com- 
 mand was relieved by the 8th Wisconsin, 
 which lost 80 men within 15 minutes. During 
 the fight Uen. A. .1. Smith had gotten matters 
 into a position in which he felt certain of vic- 
 tory, when a courier arrived with a message 
 
 from Banks, ordering a retreat. General 
 Smith made a few remarks whicli sounded 
 badly to ministerial ears, but obeyed. At 
 Grand Ecore, Mr. Burnley, with a detachment, 
 went to an island on a scout and succeeded 
 in securing a considerable amount of jtrop- 
 erty, leaving a conn-ade named McCauley as 
 guard. The expedition continued down the 
 river leaving the man, McCauley. Mr. Burnley 
 stating the fact to an officer, he was informed 
 that nothing could be done in the case. Mr. 
 Burnlej' told him if he would give him one 
 man he would bring him away in safety. He 
 was told that it would be at the risk of his life, 
 but he went and returned after dark in safety 
 with the guard. On aj)proacliing one of the 
 Union pickets he was ordered to halt and give 
 the password ; not hearing the order at first, he 
 nearly lost his life, but the man behind gave the 
 alarm in time to save him. From Algiers the 
 regiment went to Thibodeaux, turned over 
 their horses and rested several weeks, the com- 
 mand being much reduced. Only seven men 
 of his compan)^ were fit for duty. The next 
 move was to Bonnet Carre, where Mr. Burnley 
 was transferred to Company E and made Quar- 
 termaster's Sergeant. They went thence to New 
 Orleans and to Carleton to camp. Orders were 
 next received for the regiment to obtain their 
 mount and secure horses wherever they could 
 find them. This seemed a novel phase of war, 
 but he was stationed with his detail at the en- 
 trance of the St. Charles theater, New Orleans, 
 and when the coaches drew uji filled with 
 ladies they calmly removed the horses and took 
 them to camp for the use of Uncle Sam. Or- 
 ders were to take all horses not attached to 
 drays or express wagons. After some drill of 
 the unaccustomed steed.s, the regiment sttirted 
 on another Red River expedition on transports. 
 Soon, intelligence of the surrender of Lee 
 reached the command and not long after of that 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 459 
 
 of Kirby Smith. ^\'lnle moving up the river 
 tlie}' saw several dead bodies of soldiers floating 
 down, killed as was supposed on the exploded 
 boats. At Shreveport orders were received to 
 go across the country through Texas, and the 
 regiment marched through Austin and thence 
 to San Antonio and to camj). There Mr. Burn- 
 ley was mu.'^tered out Oct. 7, 1865, on account 
 of disability caused by a hurt while on his first 
 expedition uj) the river. On the route to 
 Grand Ecore he was crowded over the edge of 
 a bluff and fell with his horse 15 feet; the 
 animal was killed and himself injured, but he 
 believes the accident saved his life, for, on 
 the following day an engagement was had with 
 the enemy and the Sergeant who took his place 
 was killed. 
 
 After returning from the war he worked a 
 year or two in the Globe Woolen Factory at 
 Utica, N. Y. He then went to Whitestown 
 Seminary to enter upon a preparatory course 
 for college. He entered Hamilton College in 
 the fall of 1869 and was graduated with the 
 class of 73. In the fall of 1872 he w'as elected 
 Commissioner of Schools on the Greeley ticket 
 and served three years in that capacity in 
 Oneida county. After completing his collegiate 
 course and serving out his official term he en- 
 tered Aui)urn Theological Seminary and was 
 graduated thence in 1879. April 22d of that 
 3'ear he was ordained by the Cayuga Presbytery 
 and installed as pastor at Sennett. He re- 
 mained there eight years when he received a 
 call to Willmar, Minn., where he located in the 
 fall of 1885. He officiated there until Julj', 
 1888, when he accepted tiie charge of the Presby- 
 terian church at Hudson, Wis. He has been 
 its pastor only a short time, but has already 
 made his influence felt in the progress of the 
 society. He is a man of energy and piety and 
 one whose methods and manners insure his 
 popularity and efficacy. 
 
 He was married July 2, 1873, at Pascoag, R.- 
 I., to Grace, daughter of Rev. Mowryand Sally 
 S. (Sargent) Phillips. Their children are 
 named Plarold E., John P. and Charles T., Jr. 
 The father of Mrs. Burnley was a native of the 
 State of New York and her mother of Massa- 
 chusetts. Her mother is Jiving at Pro\ndence, 
 R. I. In both lines of descent she is of Eng- 
 lish lineage. 
 
 NTHONY LAWRENCE, member of C. 
 
 A C. AVashburn Post No. 11, Madison, 
 Wis., w-as born Dec. 4, 184.3, in the 
 Canton of Graubuenden, Switzerland, and is the 
 sou of Jacob and Margaret Lawrence. His 
 father was a native born "Switzer," and reared 
 his son in his own business of tanner and 
 currier and later, the latter performed the 
 duties of a clerk in Jiis brother's grocery. 
 
 As was common with the children of Switzers, 
 the immortal principles of liberty established 
 by William Tell in his native land were 
 instilled into his mind from his earliest con- 
 sciousness, and when the Civil War came on in 
 America the excitement in the Swi.ss Republic 
 was very great and awakened in Mr. Lawrence 
 an interest in the outcome which grew deeper 
 as the months of the conflict rolled away. In 
 1862 he put into practical operation his grow- 
 ing resolution to proceed to America to take an 
 active part in the Great Struggle. Sympathiz- 
 ing with the North, he entered the country 
 through the port of New York, and went 
 thence to Philadelphia with the purpose of 
 enlisting l)Ut decided to proceed to Madison 
 wdiere a brother resided. He found the 
 enthusiasm of war at its height; the barracks 
 in the city were crowded with soldiers and 
 throngs of men in uniform paraded the streets. 
 While the 3d Wisconsiu was at home on 
 
460 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 veteran furlough Mr. Lawrence determined to 
 enter its ranks and he enrolled January 1st in 
 Company F, and Feb. 4,1864, he accompanied 
 tlie command from the State. The regiment 
 went into camp at Fayetteville, Tenn., on the 
 lolli, where Mr. Lawrence performed general 
 military duty and assisted in the restoration of 
 law and order. More than 1,(500 citizens 
 of Lincoln county took the oath of amnesty. 
 Mr. Lawrence also partook of the experiences 
 of guerrilla warfare until the following spring, 
 wlien the regiment was assigmd to the 2d 
 Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps. 
 
 General Thomas H. Kuger, formerly colonel 
 of the 3d Wisconsin, was in command of tlie 
 brigade and on the 27th of April the regiment 
 started to join the army, wliich was being con- 
 centrated, preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. 
 They made connection therewith near Buzzard's 
 Roost afler a march of 120 miles. Five days 
 later Mr. Lawrence found himself confronting 
 the rebel forces at Resaca and was in the action 
 two days later, which resulted in a Union vic- 
 tory. The charge was made on the extreme 
 left, the position of the "3d," which received 
 the rebel advance in a manner which placed 
 the command in a high rank on the roll of 
 fame. The next day the rebels were in full 
 retreat, followed by the Union army and the 
 conflict was again renewed in the vicinity of 
 Dallas. Tn the battle there, ^fay 25, 1864, the 
 regiment again distinguished itself, its loss in 
 killed and wounded being 111. Mr. Lawrence 
 was again in action at Pine Knob, fought at 
 Powder Springs and in the heavy skirmisliing 
 at Kenesaw Mountain. (During the latter 
 operations the 3d Wisconsin was almost con- 
 stantly in the line of battle and exposed to 
 rebel fire.) He fought at Peach Tree Creek 
 July 22d and was in front under fire several 
 days until the evacuation of .Atlanta on the 
 first of September. Mr. Lawrence had been in 
 
 incessant service since May, receiving injuries 
 l)ut remaining with his command. In Novem- 
 ber the regiment started under Sherman for 
 Savannah, arriving at Milledgeville on the 
 27th, the city being entered by the od Wiscon- 
 sin and the 107th New York, the flag of the 
 former being raised on tiie Capitol. Moving 
 onward, the column camped near Savannaii, 
 December 22d, and soon after the Northern 
 movement commenced. At Robertsville, S. C, 
 Mr. Lawrence was in a skirmish and fought at 
 Averysljoro and Bentonville. They went to 
 Goldsboro and Raleigh where news of the sur- 
 render of Lee was received and where the capit- 
 ulation of Johnston took place. Three days 
 after the movement toward Washington began 
 and Mr. Lawrence was in the Grand Review at 
 the National Capital. 
 
 He was mustered out at Nhulison, July 17, 
 1865, and located in the cajiital city of Wiscon- 
 sin, which has since been his place of residence, 
 and wdiere he has operated as a machinist. 
 He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. 
 Lizzie Reitberger, a native of Switzerland, be- 
 came his wife May 11, 1870, and two of their 
 children, named Oscar and Mollie, are deceased. 
 The surviving are named Anthony, Mollie (2d), 
 Louise, Edward, Lillian, Reuljen and Caroline. 
 The parents are members of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Mr. Lawrence is a Republican in 
 politics ; he receives a pension. 
 
 ^f'^^^ ( )TTFR 1 FA) 1 .ENGST A DT, La Crosse, 
 ^p Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 
 38, was born Oct. 18, 1835, in Neheim, 
 Westphalia, Germany. His father, Nathan 
 Lengstadt, was born in the same jirovince in 
 1800, anil marrietl Henrietta Gottschaik, who 
 was born in 1799; their respective deaths oc- 
 curred at the ages of 54 and 84 ; their children 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 461 
 
 were named in successive order, Bertie, Jo- 
 hanna, Elias, Isaac, Joel, Gottfried, Herman and 
 Max. 
 
 Mr. Lengstiidt was educated according totlie 
 laws of his native land, attending school until 
 the age of 14 years, when he went to an ap- 
 prenticeship to learn the business of a saddler 
 and, after serving his time, operated as journey- 
 man. In 1861 he emigrated to the United 
 States, landing in July at Baltimore, Md., 
 whence he went to Wisconsin and engaged in 
 work at his trade in West Bend. After a few 
 months he went to La Crosse where lie worked as 
 a saddler until he entered the army of the land 
 in which he had sought a favorable chance to 
 enjoy the rights of manhood. His understand- 
 ing of the situation was manifest from his 
 speedy adoption of the troubles as well as the 
 privileges of the country and he was mustered 
 into U. S. service in .January, 1862, in Company 
 H, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry under Col. C. C. 
 Washburn. In March he started for St. Louis 
 and arrived on the 26th, after two days' travel. 
 After receiving equipments, the regiment went 
 to Jefferson City, Mo., and marched thence to 
 Springfield and from there the battalion of Mr. 
 Lengstadt went to join the command of Gen- j 
 era! Curtiss at Augusta, Ark. July Sth he was 
 in his first action at Cotton Plant, fighting in 
 the early morning, tlie regiment losing several 
 men. The next move was to Helena, which 
 was reached on the 12th and for nine months 
 the command remained there, scouting and 
 raiding and engaged in cavalry service of mis- 
 cellaneous character. In one of these, the bat- 
 tle of Oakland was fought in which Mr. Leng- 
 stadt was a participant. i 
 
 The action was lively as the rebels were the I 
 celebrated Texan Rangers. Orders were re- 
 ceived to connect witli the troops en route for 
 the fight at Arkansas Post but the action was 
 over before the detail arrived. In February, 
 
 1863, the movement to Memphis was effected 
 and four months were passed there before the 
 command moved to take part in the invest- 
 ment of Vicksburg. The colonel had been pro- 
 moted to Major-General and the regiment, on 
 going to Vicksburg reported to him in com- 
 mand of the cavalry' forces around Vicksburg, 
 taking position at Snyder's Bluff, Company H 
 acting as the body guard of General Washburn. 
 Tlie company remained there on duty until 
 the siege was over and after the surrender Mr. 
 Lengstadt was ill with chronic diarrhea and 
 was sent home on a furlough. After a few 
 months he reported to Madison for examina- 
 tion ; he was determined to rejoin his command 
 and pursuaded the doctor that there was noth- 
 ing the matter with him and that he desired 
 to return to his regiment as quickly as possible 
 and rejoined his company at Vicksburg, where 
 he re-enlisted in 1864. After a veteran fur- 
 lough he returned to Vicksburg and was made 
 Orderly Sergeant and remained in the vicinity 
 several months, performing desultory military 
 duty with a cavalry regiment. He went on 
 scouts and raids and also foraged, receiving 
 promotion in June, 1864, to 2d Lieutenant of 
 Company H, for excellent conduct. Two 
 months later he was promoted to 1st Lieuten- 
 ant and assumed command of Company H. 
 When Sherman organized his Meridian expedi- 
 tion Lieutenant L.engstadt accompanied and 
 participated in all the work of destruction and 
 in December was with Colonel Dale in his 
 famous fight at Yazoo City, and where the gal- 
 lant and reckless commander received a severe 
 wound while cutting the way out of the ene- 
 my's power, the rebel force greatly outnumber- 
 ing. Returning to Vicksburg on boats the 
 command went subsequently to Memphis, built 
 barracks, scouted and skirmished, foraged and 
 went on expeditions witli Grierson and other 
 leaders until after the surrender of Lee, when, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ill June, tlie regiment was ordered to Alexan- 
 dria to report to General Sheridan. The com- 
 mand made a long march through Louisiana 
 and Texas to Hempstead and thence to Aus- 
 tin to be mustered out Nov. lath. Mr. Leng- 
 stadt was discharged at Madison and there 
 paid off. 
 
 He was murried March 15, 18GG, at Cincin- 
 nati to Lena, daughter of J. Coleman, and tliey 
 have three children named Nathan, Albert and 
 Otto. Mrs. Lengstadt is a Houthern ladv with 
 whom her husband became acquainted wliile 
 a soldier in the Union service. He is a travel- 
 ing salesman in the interests of Seebach, Levi 
 & Lampert, of New York. He is independent 
 in politics and receives a pension. 
 
 :^Hi> 
 
 OBERT L. BURNS, Delavan, Wi.s., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, was 
 born in Yates Co., New York, Sept. 
 27, 1841. His paternal grandfatlier was ])oin 
 ill Scotland and married an American lady 
 who was born in New York. Henry and 
 Hannah (VVillard) Burns, the parents of Roliert, 
 were natives of tlie State of New York and 
 moved to Wisconsin in 1845, when their son 
 was four years old, and located at Big Foot 
 Prairie, Walworth county, on a farm, where he 
 was reared with six Ijrotjiers and sisters, of 
 wiioin he is the oldest. The father is still liv- 
 ing; the demise of the mother occurred in 
 December, 1885. Mr. Burns remained on his 
 father's farm until ho was of age and he then 
 fulfilled a determination which he had made 
 at the outset of the war to enlist and he did so 
 Aug. 2, 1862, in €omi)any C, !)5th Illinois 
 Infantry, an<l wont info rendezvous witli liis 
 regiment at Rockford, wliere he remained 
 until the command went to join the Army of 
 the West and aftiT being with the 'Jotli six 
 
 months he was transferred to Battery M, 1st 
 Missouri Light Artillery and in connection with 
 this he was a participant in 24 engagements, 
 of which the following statement gives an out- 
 line, and shows the variety and character of the 
 service he performed : they include Tallahat- 
 chie, Brownsville, Miss., Richmond, La., Champ- 
 ion's Hill, Miss., Siege of Vicksburg, 15 
 engagements with Bank's Red River expedition 
 under Gen. A. J. Smitii, Sabine Cross Roads, 
 Pontotoc, Harrisburg and Town Creek, Miss. 
 
 He was finally mustered out June 7, 18()5 at 
 Memphis, Tenn., after the close of the war and 
 returned to Wisconsin, where he resumed the 
 business of a farmer, after a military service of 
 nearly three years. He has since been occu- 
 pied on his farm at tlie head of Geneva Lake. 
 
 He was married Nov. 5, 1865, to Maria, 
 daughter of Abram and Betsey (Finkle) Har- 
 dendorf, who were natives of the State of New 
 York. Mrs. Burns was born in Montgomery 
 county and went to Wisconsin with her parents 
 when about IS years old. She was married in 
 Walworth county and is the inotlier of four sons 
 and six daughters, named in order of birth 
 Cora M., Carlos H., Josie E., George R., Alice 
 M., Artiiur \l., Anna M., Jessie P., Nellie and 
 Robert E. 
 
 fRA T. HUMISTON, a retired farmer, 
 resident at Moiiticello, Wis., and a mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born 
 Dec. 19, 1824, in Allegany Co., New York. His 
 paternal grandfather, John llumiston, was a 
 soldier of tlie Revolution and Abijah Heden, 
 maternal grandfather, fought in 1812 and was 
 killed at Sacketts' Harbor ; his widow married 
 Captain Daniel Tabor, in the same service. 
 The parents, Chauncey and Eunice (Heden) 
 llumiston, were botli born in the State of New 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 463 
 
 York and were botli of old Holland Dutch an- 
 cestors. The father was a clotliier by profes- 
 sion and was drowned in the Genesee river in 
 New York while bis son was in early cliild- 
 hood. The mother was twice married after his 
 death and in 1868, becoming a third tinu' a 
 widow, she came to the home of lier son in 
 Wisconsin, where she died in July, 1868. Mr. 
 Humiston is the oldest of her children ; Henry 
 A. was born Oct. 30, 1826, and served in the 
 Mexican war, dying in July, 1862, of diseases 
 contracted there ; Daniel T., born Sept. 3, 1831, 
 died Sept. 15, 1840 ; Sarah A. married William 
 A. Hicks ; she was born April 1, 1829. 
 
 Mr. Humiston was 8 years old when his 
 father died and be was bound (according to 
 custom) to Dr. William Stockton of Chautauqua 
 Co., New York, living with him until 1838, 
 when he took the management of his future 
 into his own bands. He tried bis fate and 
 fortune in many places, working six summers 
 on the Erie and Ohio canal and learning his 
 trade of blacksmith in tlie winters. In 1847 
 he established himself at Westtield, New York, 
 working at his trade until the next year when 
 he formed a partnership with a man named 
 Wilson at Bucklin's Corners, Chautauqua Co., \ 
 New York, and about a year and a half later 
 went into business alone, locating at Poland j 
 Center for two years. In tlie sj)ring of 1852 be i 
 went to Toweville and worked at bis trade 
 until April 27, 1856, when he removed to 
 Monticello, Wis. There he was in partnership 
 with E. C. Fessenden and afterwards with A. 
 S. Holway, which arrangement continued until 
 1861, when, November 7th, Mr. Humiston en- 
 listed in Company I, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry. 
 He was mustered at Milwaukee, went thence to 
 St. Louis, Jefferson City and Springfield, Mo. 
 At Jacksonport on the White River, the regi- 
 ment formed a junction with the division of 
 General Curtiss, taking a heavy supply train to 
 
 that commander and engaged in severe fight- 
 ing to make the transit safely with the needed 
 supplies. July 8, 1862, while near Cotton Plant, 
 Mr. Humiston was injured by a severe sun- 
 stroke, to which he refused to yield and went 
 into the action at Cotton Plant on the following 
 day, which was a great mistake. He w-as at- 
 tacked with fever and at Helena was obliged to 
 go into the hospital. Leaving Jacksonport, 
 the command went to Clarendon, continuing 
 cavalry service en route, driving rebels before 
 them and capturing the confederates at the last 
 named place. Here Mr. Humiston was obliged 
 to surrender to disease and withdraw from ac- 
 tive cavalry service ; he received an appoint- 
 ment from Colonel Stevens to act as Commis- 
 sary of the regiment, in which be served until 
 discharged. He bad been ma'de Sergeant at 
 the organization of his company, bis papers be- 
 ing dated Feb. 12, 1862, and signed by C. C. 
 Washburn, Colonel, to rank as such from Dec. 
 1, 1861. His second papers were dated at 
 Helena, Ark., Oct. 13, 1862, to rank from the 
 15th of the month and entitling him to author- 
 ity over all non-commissioned officers and en- 
 listed men of the regiment. The command 
 scouted in the vicinity of Helena and in other 
 localities until January, 1863, when a move 
 was made to Clarendon and St. Charles, thence 
 to Duvall's Bluft'and Helena, where they went 
 into camp and, March 1st, went to Memphis 
 where Mr. Humiston was discharged April 17, 
 1863. He had acted much of the time as 
 Lieutenant and it was the general desire that 
 he should be commissioned such, but he de- 
 clined. Since his return to private life he has 
 not performed much heavy labor, having been 
 a sufferer from his disabilities. 
 
 He returned to Monticello and exchanged 
 bis village property for a farm near the place, 
 where he prospered with the help of bis sons. 
 In 1882 be sold the place to his youngest son 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ami purcliased a home in tlio village to whii'h 
 he has retired from active concern inthealUiirs 
 of life. He was married at Stockton Corners, 
 (Jhautanqua Co., New York, Sept. 6, 184'J, to 
 Helen ^L, daughUr of Robert and Sabriiia 
 (Coe) Wood worth. She was six years old when 
 her parents went to that part of New York and 
 she is of Holland Dutch lineage, dating back 
 several generations in New York. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hnmistnn have been married 40 years and 
 their relations are still as tender as those of 
 young lovers. Their children are Robert C, 
 born Aug. Jl, lyHl, in Cliautauciua Co., New 
 York, and Fred. W., horn in the same place, 
 Aug. 31, 1854. Adah is an adopted daughter. 
 Mr. llumiston is a charter member of Monti- 
 cello Union, F. A. and A. M., No. 155. He is 
 prominent in his enthusiasm about the Order 
 in whose unwritten work he is thoroughly 
 posted. He is universally respected. 
 
 5<Sf 
 
 JOSEPH EIGEL, Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
 ber of Post No. 2, Robert Chivas, was 
 born in Muehlhausen, Alsace, Aug. 1, 
 1839, and was brought to America in the 
 following year by his parents, Hippolyte and 
 ^hu•y Ann (Hahn) Eigel, coming to Milwaukee. 
 In the spring of 1841 they located on a farm 
 six miles from the city, where the son grew to 
 the age of IS, at which time he resolved to see 
 and know of some other locality. He had 
 learned the business of a carpenter and went to 
 MiiniesoUi, where he remained until 1859, 
 when he started for the South. He passed 
 some time in St. Louis and Natchez, and finally 
 went to Memphis, where he operated until the 
 time came for him to makeadeci.sion for North 
 or South. He was in the employ of a man 
 named Brown, wdio entered the service of the 
 confederate government in the capacity of a 
 
 recruiting officer, and was by him informed 
 that he must take the oath of allegiance to the 
 South or leave the place within 24 hours. He 
 finessed in a way in which he believed he 
 would secure time to get out of danger, and 
 made liis way to St. Paul ; he records that 
 words cannot describe his satisfaction on getting 
 out of a place such as Memphis had become 
 under the new regulations. But his forced 
 departure from the place and the excitement 
 surrounding him resulting from the condition 
 of public att'airs, maile him eager to take a 
 hand in matters himself, and he resolved to 
 enlist. He ein-olled Sept. 16, 1861, at Newport, 
 in Company B, 3d Minnesota Infantry and was 
 mustered at Fort Snelling, Nov. 7th, following. 
 Soon after he went to Louisville, Ky., and 
 thence to Lebanon Junction where he per- 
 formed guard duty until the next spring, when 
 he went to Belmont. He was occupied in pro- 
 tecting railroad property until his command 
 was ordered to Nashville into camp. His fii-st 
 battle was on the last day of 1862 and the first 
 days of 18t)3 at Stone River, after the pursuit of 
 Forrest over the Cumberland Mountiiins. He 
 was in the action in wliich McMinnville was 
 taken and helped raise the Union tlag in the 
 town, going afterward to Pikeville. A return 
 was made to Stone River or Murfreesboro, which 
 Mr. Kigel calls a " wild goose chase" after For- 
 rest. During the engagement at Murfreesboro, 
 he was wounded by a ball in his right leg and 
 was captured by the rebels. He was taken to 
 Woodbury, Tenn., where he was paroled and 
 returned to Memj)his, his former home, where 
 he was in the hospital (No. 2) under treatment. 
 On recovering he went to Benton Barracks, St. 
 Louis and, alter about a month wsis exchanged, 
 going back to recruit at Fort Snelling. While 
 there several companies were sent to Northern 
 Minnesota to quell the Ci'ow Indians, who were 
 murdering the settlers, and Mr. Eigel was 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 465 
 
 among the number who went. He was a.ssigned 
 to the command of General Sibley and sent to 
 Fort Ridgely, and thence to Fort Ripley, 
 fighting in the Indian campaign in Minnesota 
 in 1803. At the fight at Wood Lake he was 
 again wounded, a ball striking his left hand 
 back of his thumb. He was on his knees at the 
 time and thought a comrade had hit his hand 
 with the butt of his gun. Pie saw the blood, 
 wrapped his hand in a handkerchief and fought 
 until the battle was over, using his left forearm 
 as a rest until his blouse sleeve was burned to 
 the shoulder. With other wounded he returned 
 to Fort Snelling where the bullet was cut from 
 the palm of his hand. He received honorable 
 discharge for permanent disability March 18, 
 1863. He was unable to do anything for two 
 years, but on recovery resumed his business as a 
 carpenter, which he followed until 1869. 
 About that year he returned to Milwaukee 
 where he is prosperously engaged in the prose- 
 cution of his business as a dealer in fiour, feed 
 and baled ha3^ Feb. 3, 1869, he was married 
 to Rosabella Krueger and they have had eight 
 children, one of whom is deceased. Her name 
 was Anna Katarina and she was the first-born 
 child. The others are named Charles, Joseph, 
 Annie Elizabeth, Jacob, Michael, .Joseph, 
 Charles, Rosa Katrina, Mary Wilhelmine, 
 and Stanislaus. Mr. Eigel is a member of 
 the society of St. Anthony. 
 
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 •-^Yv^TlLLIAM H. BLYTON, Sparta, 
 ^'t^I ^^'is., member of G. A. R. Post 
 #M. No. 30, was born Oct. 1, 1842, in 
 Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co., New York, 
 lie is of mixed Irish and Scotch descent, his 
 father and mother, although of American 
 birth, representing those nationalities. His 
 parents, Thomas W. and Elizabeth (McClure) 
 
 Blyton, had nine children of whom he is the 
 oldest. The brothers and sisters were named 
 Charles W., Olive (Mrs. Pierce), De Forrest, 
 Medora (Mrs. Finley), Manley, De Wilton, 
 Mary and Marissa (Mrs. Pitts), and they are 
 living with the exception of Manley, Charles 
 and Mary. The father of Thomas W. was in the 
 war of 1812 ; the latter entered the army during 
 the civil war, enlisting in the regiment in 
 which he had had two sons, replacing one who 
 had been discharged for disability. He enlisted 
 Sept. 13, 1864, in Company C, 19th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and joined the regiment in front of 
 Richmond. He left the State October 3d, with 
 the veterans and was in the reconnoissance 
 October 27th at Fair Oaks, in which the regi- 
 ment lost all but 80 men and afterwards per- 
 formed picket duty until April 3d, 1865, when 
 he was in the assault on the city and went in 
 with his regiment, the Lieutenant Colonel 
 raising the colors of the 19th on the City Hall 
 — the first regimental flag that flew in Rich- 
 mond. Both parents are still living at Dallas, 
 Wis. Charles W. enlisted with his brother, 
 passed through the same experience and re- 
 mained in the service until discharged for dis- 
 ability, June 15, 1863. He returned home and 
 died at Sparta in December of the same year. 
 The family removed to Sparta in October, 
 1854, and there the son attained to manhood, 
 obtaining his education and helping his father, 
 also operating as a clerk. Jan. 23, 1862, he 
 enlisted in Company C, 19tli Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and went into Camp Utley at Racine, 
 left there in June and went to Alexandria and 
 thence to Fortress Monroe to Camp Hampton 
 and after some weeks to Norfolk, where the 
 soldiers performed provost and picket duty 
 until the attack of Longstreet at Suffolk, 
 whither the regiment went April 14, 1863, and 
 remained there during the siege until June, 
 when the rebels were driven back. They went 
 
466 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 theuce to Norfolk again and were sent to 
 Yorktowu and did military duty in that vicin- 
 ity until the middle of August, returning then 
 to Newport News where they were assigned to 
 picket duty until October Sth. Their next 
 orders took them to Newbern, N. C, where they 
 were placed on outpost and picket duty until 
 April 2(3, 1864, and they engaged in constant 
 skirmishing. On that date they went back to 
 Yorktown to be assigned to the 1st Division, 3d 
 Brigade and IStli Army Corps. May 4th they 
 went up the .James in the command of Butler 
 and, until the capture of Richmond, the regi- 
 ment was in the operations referred to in the 
 statements regarding the service of the senior 
 Blyton. Mr. Blyton officiated as Commissary 
 Sergeant of his company after July 1, 1862, 
 and while at Norfolk, Oct. 22, 1864, was made 
 1st Lieutenant and assigned as Quartermaster ' 
 to the 2d U. S. I. and was sent after the close 
 of operations in the East to the frontier ; in 
 October, 1865, he was promoted to Quarter- 
 master at Fort Randall, Dak. In a fight with 
 Indians, Dec. 7, 1865, he was wounded in the 
 left arm, the bones of which were broken. He 
 remained at Fort Randall until June 20, 1866, 
 when he went to Fort Leavenwortii to be 
 nmstered out six days later. 
 
 He returned to Sparta and engaged in mer- 
 cantile interests until he interested himself in 
 insurance business, in which he has since 
 o{ierated with satisfactory results. He was 
 married at Sparta, Jan. 16, 1864, to Harriet E., 
 daughter of William and Harriet Washburn, 
 and their only child, Edgar Eugene, is the 
 assistant of his father in his business. The 
 mother died Nov. 9, 1881, and Mr. Blyton was 
 again married June 16, 1883, to Sarah E. 
 Burroughs. Mr. Blyton is a Republican and 
 officiated as Village Clerk from April, 1870, to 
 April, 1883, when he was made City Clerk and 
 has held the latter position continuously since, 
 
 (1889.) He was Supervisor of the 2d Ward in 
 1884, meanwhile, in 1883, having been elected 
 on the Republican ticket to the Assembly of 
 Wisconsin and again in 1885 and in 1889. 
 (Current year.) Mr. Blyton is a man of excel- 
 lent executive abilities, which, with his elevated 
 character and integrity, have secured for him 
 the confidence of the community of which he 
 is a member. He has served on the School 
 Board since 1885; he is also a member of 
 Sparta Lodge No. 94, Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
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 i^^USEBllS MORSE MILES, Chippewa 
 
 =* Falls, Wis., was born Feb. 15, 1847, 
 in Mercer Co., 111. His father, Isaac 
 Miles, was a native of Kentucky and a farmer 
 and brick manufacturer ; he married Elizabeth 
 Watkins and removed with his family to Me- 
 nard Co., 111., and later to Mercer county in 
 the same State, where he died in 1861 ; his 
 wife died in Chicago in 1889. They had ten 
 children named in order of birth John, Martha, 
 Mary, Elizabeth, Nancy, Isaac, David, Eusebius, 
 Sarah and Samuel. Only Elizabeth, Isaac, 
 David and Samuel are living besides Mr. Miles 
 of this sketch. He is of English extraction in 
 the paternal line and German in tlie maternal 
 line of descent. Prior to 17 years of age Mr. 
 Miles was engaged in obtaining his education 
 and in farm labor at home. Feb. 10, 1864, he 
 enlisted at Galesburg and was mustered on the 
 21st of the month into Company C, 11th Illi- 
 nois Cavalry and left Camp Butler at Spring- 
 Held for Vicksburg Feb. 29th. A year and a 
 half was spent in cavalry duty of the character 
 required by the exigencies in that locality in- 
 cluding scouting, skirmishing, raiding expe- 
 ditions to the Big Black River and the Missis- 
 sippi, and in August, 1864, Mr. Miles was de- 
 tailed on special scout service. With another 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 467 
 
 man selected from his company for this duty 
 lie acted as scout and was engaged in watching 
 for rebels and ascertaining movements in the 
 neigliborhood and arresting all suspicious char- 
 acters, looked after bridges and performed all 
 duty that came in the way of value to the 
 Union command, crossing the Big Black River 
 several times. During this period he was in 
 tlie Hgiit at Grenada., Miss., with Forrest and a 
 ]iortion of Stewart's cavalry. Kilpatrick was 
 in command of the cavalry and the company 
 lost three killed and several wounded. The 
 regiment was in Slocum's command, Army of 
 the Cumberland. From Vicksburg the com- 
 mand went to Memphis in 1865, performed 
 picket dot}' for some time and Mr. Miles was 
 detailed as picket orderly. In March he was 
 witli his regiment in the Grierson raids on the 
 Mobile & Ohio railroad and was in the sharj:) 
 fight at Egypt Station, Miss., which was a suc- 
 cess, a stockade being taken with 500 prisoners. 
 A return was effected by way of ^^icksburg 
 and, after two days, the command went to 
 Memphis. After a month they started on an 
 expedition to draw Kirby Smith away from 
 Banks, but no fighting took place. Returning 
 to Memphis the regiment went to White Sta- 
 tion and thence to LaGrange and performed 
 scout duty about three months, reconnoitered 
 and guarded the railroad. At Memphis they 
 turned over their horses and went to Spring- 
 field to be mustered out Sept. 25, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Miles returned to his old home in Mer- 
 cer county and after a few weeks went to Chip- 
 pewa Falls and subsequently engaged in the 
 pineries and, two years later, commenced 
 operations in his own interest, having acquired 
 a practical knowledge of the business. After 
 two years he engaged in mercantile operations 
 at Chippewa Falls and a year afterwards was 
 burned out. He opened a hotel at Big Bend 
 on the Chippewa River which he managed ten 
 
 years, sold out, moved to Chippewa Falls and 
 opened a real estate office which he has con- 
 tinued to conduct since. He also has given a 
 good deal of attention to the management of 
 his fine stock farm in Chippewa county near 
 Cartwright, where he is engage<l in the im- 
 provement of cattle and hogs. He was mar- 
 ried May 21, 1869, to Geraldine, daughter of 
 Isaiah and Sarah Chipman. They have had 
 two children. Franklin died when about a 
 year old ; Eugene H. died when 17 years old. 
 Mr. Miles is a member of G. A. R. Post No. 68 
 and belongs to the Masons. He is a Republi- 
 can of decided stamp. 
 
 
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 ^^ HARLES OTTILIE, M. D., La Crosse, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, 
 was born April 3, 1831, at Blanken- 
 burg, Germany, where his father, Carl Ottilie, 
 was born Dec. 12, 1795 ; he was a mechanic and 
 died about 1872. The early life of the sou was 
 passed at home and he received the benefit of 
 the best educational institutions of his native 
 country, finishing his education in the Univer- 
 sities of Berlin and Munich. He became a 
 resident of the United States in 1860, locating 
 at West Bend, Wis., where he entered upon the 
 practice of his profession as a physician. When 
 the civil war came on he interested himself in 
 the work of recruiting, raised a company and 
 was commissioned Lieutenant ; subsequently he 
 was commissioned A. A. U. S. Surgeon of the 
 9th Wisconsin Infantry, Sep. 26, 1862, and as- 
 signed to duty at Fort Scott, Oct. 19, 1862, after 
 the battle of Newton ia. He performed the 
 duties of his position in the general hospital 
 until Feb. 24, 1863, when he was relieved from 
 duty and in March, 1863, he resumed connec- 
 tion with his regiment in Missouri, the com- 
 mand being in pursuit of Marmaduke. In 
 
468 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 June he went to St. Louis and afterwards to 
 Helena, Ark., and in October went to winter 
 quarters at Little Rock, where the regiment 
 was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Divi.sion 
 and 7th Army Corps. Nov. 17th, 1803, Dr. 
 Ottilie was detailed to take charge of the medi- 
 cal department of the 77th Ohio Infantry as 
 surgeon and, Dec. 24th, joined that command 
 at Camp Denison where the regiment had re- 
 enlisted. He accompanied the command to 
 Little Rock, performing his duties as surgeon 
 until relieved, when he was detailed to take 
 charge of a supply train for the front April 11, 
 
 1864, and went to Camden, Ark., encountering 
 rel)el guerrillas on the way, and arriving April 
 22d. Banks had made his celebrated retreat 
 and Dr. Ottilie was detailed for service at the 
 corps hospital to look after the sick and 
 wounded wlio had been l>rought in. The reb- 
 els under Kirby Smith followed up their advan- 
 tage and precipitated the battle at Jenkins Fer- 
 ry where Dr. Ottilie received orders to prepare 
 hospital quarters for 500 men ; he was on the 
 field during the furious action of April 30th, 
 was taken prisoner with about 450 wounded 
 soldiers, remaining in the hands of the rebels 
 until November, when he was paroled ; he 
 reached Little Rock November 19th, and was 
 ordered to duty with his former command, (the 
 9th Wisconsin,) being promoted to field surgeon 
 and he remained in charge of the sanitary af- 
 fairs of the 9th Wisconsin at Camden until July, 
 1865 and, August 4th, he was made Senior Sur- 
 geon of the brigade. Jan. 5, 1866, lie was 
 placed in charge of the medical department of 
 the 3d U. S. Cavalry in adtiition to his duties 
 with the 9th Wisconsin, which, since Nov. 17, 1 
 
 1865, had consisted of an independent battalion, 
 and he continued the discharge of his duties 
 at Little Rock until he went with tlie com- 
 mand to Wisconsin to be mustered out Jan. 
 30, 1866. j 
 
 The service of Dr. Ottilie in the army of his 
 adopted country was of marked character from 
 his activity and interest in the well being of 
 those under his charge, and he secured the af- 
 fectionate confidence of the soldiers and tiie es- 
 teem of his superiors in authority. (The fol- 
 lowing certificate is added for the benefit of the 
 descendants of Dr. Ottilie to whom it will be valu- 
 able.) " Medical Directors' Office, Department 
 of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 15, 1865. 
 Extract from an Inspection Report of the 9th 
 Wisconsin Infantry. 'The surgeon deserves 
 commendation for the efficient manner in 
 which he performs all his duties. ' Respect- 
 fully forwarded for the information of the sur- 
 geon in cliarge of the 9th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 It is an agreeable duty to transmit extracts 
 of so commendatory a character. While it is 
 l)ut proper for every otticer to perform all his 
 duties, it is rarely that such testimony is pre- 
 sented as the above. (Signed.) Jos. R. Smith, 
 Surg. U. S. A. Med. Dep. of Ark. " 
 
 After leaving the army Dr. Ottilie went to 
 Germany and remained with his ])arents three 
 years, meanwhile studying in the hospitals at 
 Berlin and Munich and making a special study 
 of tlie eye. On his return to America he went 
 to West Bend and in 1871 he established his 
 business at La Crosse where he has risen to 
 prominence in liis profession. In 1n75-i1, he 
 was appointed city physician and in 1877 he 
 was ajipointed Surgeon of the U. S. ^h^rine 
 hospital at La Crosse, which was afterwards, 
 mainly through his efforts, combined with the 
 Sisters' hospital and the institution, thi'ougb 
 their combined interest and efforts has risen to 
 a high position as a retreat for the sick. It has 
 accommodations for 80 patients and the beds 
 are generally filled. Dr. Ottilie is a charter 
 member of his Post and lias served as its Sur- 
 geon. He was appointed Medical Director, G. 
 A. R., of the State under Commander Faircliild. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 469 
 
 He belongs to the Masonic Order and was one 
 of tlie founders of the local Body of the A. 0. 
 U. W. at La Crosse. He is a Repuljlican in 
 politics. 
 
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 15 -K- 
 
 'ANT, Madison, 
 ler of G. A. R. 
 No. 11, was 
 born Feb. 11, 1832, in Tenipleton, Worcester 
 Co., Massachusetts. His fatiier, George W. 
 Bryant, was born in the Bay State and his 
 mother, Eunice Norcross before marriage, was 
 a native of New Hampshire. Both grandsires 
 of Colonel Bryant were soldiers at Lexington, 
 Bunker Hill and Concord. 
 
 He received a good primary education and 
 fitted for college at Black River Academy, Lud- 
 low, Vt. He matriculated at Norwich Univer- 
 sity and was graduated in the class of which 
 Generals Dodge and Ransom, names pre-emi- 
 nently distinguished in military history, were 
 members. Seeing small prospects for activity 
 in a military career, young Bryant decided on 
 the profession of law and read in the office and 
 under the instructions of the Hon. Amasa Nor- 
 cross & Snow of Fitchburg, Mass. In 185G 
 he was admitted to the Bar in AVorcester, Mass., 
 and, a little later, located at Madison, forming 
 a partnership with Myron H. Orton, which re- 
 lation continued until 1861. The approaching 
 crisis in National affairs in the early months of 
 that year had aroused the enthusiasm of all 
 classes in the Badger State, and when the issue 
 of National integrity was in jeopardy, George 
 E. Bryant was one of the first to respond to the 
 cry of his imperiled country and his name leads 
 tlie list of honorable Captains who made haste 
 to offer their services to Governor Randall 
 when Wisconsin came gallantly to the front to 
 share in the suppression of the Rebellion. (It 
 is related of an old farmer of the vicinity that. 
 
 standing in the crowd in the evening of Sun- 
 day, April 14th, in front of the telegraph office 
 at Madison, awaiting intelligence from Fort 
 Sumter, as tlie evacuation by the United States 
 troops was announced, the old fellow shouted, 
 " Now, under God, the world will know whether 
 the United States be a Government or not." 
 Young Bryant stood near him and often men- 
 tioned the impression he received from the 
 words, aided by the deep current of patriotic 
 sentiment which prevailed.) 
 
 Captain Bryant had been active in the or- 
 ganization of the Madison Guards, which was 
 assigned to the 1st Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
 pany E, Captain Bryant, went for three months 
 and served five months. In the opening of the 
 activities of the conflict, the regiment was in 
 the van. A soldier of Company E was the first 
 to shed blood in honor of Wisconsin on Vir- 
 ginia soil at Martinsburg, where the first Wis- 
 consin soldier died. (See sketch of George W. 
 Drake.) 
 
 When Captain Bryant returned in August 
 to Wisconsin everj' nook of settled territory re- 
 echoed with the sounds of preparation for war. 
 Regiments were in process of organization and 
 Badger State boys were rallying to the call for 
 troops. In September the 12th Wisconsin 
 Infantry was organized and on the 27th Captain 
 Bryant was commissioned its Colonel. Leaving 
 the State .lanuary lltli following, en route for 
 the frontier, the command encountered the 
 severities of the season and on the way to 
 Leavenworth, Colonel Bryant marched, froze 
 and starved with his men and also in the use- 
 less plans of the ".Jim Lane " expedition and 
 the project which had New Mexico as an ulti- 
 matum on war-maps, returning to reach Leav- 
 enworth in May. The command proceeded to 
 Tennessee, expecting systematic and defined 
 warfare, to meet again disappointment and 
 to pass a Southern summer in repairing the 
 
470 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 devastations of rebels and in the performance 
 of scout duty incident to the localitj'. In 
 October the regiment made a forced march to 
 re-inforce General Hurlburt and returned to 
 prepare for the Vicksburg campaign. Through 
 November and December the comma lul 
 marched and counter-marched in unison with 
 the plans of Grant who was endeavoring to 
 substantiate his base of supplies at Holly 
 Springs. After the disaster there the r2th 
 Wiscon.sin entered upon anotlier marching 
 experience, performing, also, desultory military 
 duty until March, when a movement to Mem- 
 phis was made. Colonel Brj'ant commanding a 
 brigade, of which he had been chief from the 
 assignment of his regiment to the 3d Brigade. 
 April I'.'tli he was assigned to the command of 
 a force in an expedition through Mississippi 
 and Louisiana during which his troops achieved 
 a victory at Coldwater. Re-connecting with 
 Grant, Colonel Bryant commanded the brigade 
 until tlie regiment was ordered to position in 
 the investment of Vicksburg, and led his men 
 until the capitulation, after which he was again 
 in command of the brigade and in that capacity 
 participated in the fight at Jackson. The 12th 
 Wisconsin spent the fall at Natchez, preparing 
 for active service, returning thence to ^"icks- 
 burg and in .January, veteranized. 
 
 Ck)lonel Bryant engaged in the Meridian 
 campaign in which the marked bravery of liis 
 regiment elicited the warm commendations of 
 General Sherman and, on the return of the 12th 
 to Wisconsin the command was received with 
 an ovation. It returned to service to sustain 
 its record in the " On to Atlanta " movement 
 and fought at Kenesaw, Nickajack Creek, Bald 
 Hill, July 2'2d in the siege of the objective city 
 and afterwards at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's. 
 Colonel Bryant was at the head of the brigade 
 in the actions of July 22nd and at Jonesboro 
 and received the highest commendations of his 
 
 superiors for his effective leadership in critical 
 situations. His troops were pursuing Hood 
 when the War Department issued orders for the 
 muster out of officers whose terms were about 
 to expire and he returned to Chattanooga to 
 receive final release from military obligations 
 to his country, Nov. 6, 1864. 
 
 On his return to Wisconsin he sought a life 
 which afforded contrast and relief to the turmoil 
 of his career and he engaged in the improve- 
 ment of stock on his farm near Madison until 
 1866, when he was elected County Judge and 
 wasrhis'own successor in 1870 and 1874. In 
 the autumn of the latter year he was elected 
 State Senator, and served a biennial term. He 
 was Quartermaster General six years. Secretary 
 of Agriculture for Wisconsin five years and 
 Post Ma.ster at Madison four years, the last year 
 of his appointment being served under Cleve- 
 land. He was again appointed Post Master of 
 Madison by President Harrison March 1, 1890. 
 In 1880 he was one of the ".306" who voted for 
 Grant in the National Convention at Chicago. 
 
 He was married Sept. 27, 1858, to Susie A., 
 daughter of Arington and Ann (Weston) Gib- 
 son, a descendant of the earliest settlers of 
 Fitchburg, Mass. In both lines of extraction 
 she is of Scotch lineage and descended from 
 families of long standing in America. The 
 Weston line settled in Massachusetts. Her 
 great uncle was shot to death by a musket ball 
 at Bunker Hill while fighting with the butt of 
 his gun, his ammunition being exhausted. Her 
 father is .still living at her home at the age of 
 86 years. (1890.) 
 
 Colonel Bryant is a man who represents the 
 principles on which the Nation was founded 
 and in which he recognized that its perpetuity 
 rested — inllexible fidelity to the higher law. 
 As illustrative of his adherence to this " higher 
 law" it may be related as a fitting reminiscence 
 of him, that, on the occasion of the " Veteran 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 471 
 
 Ovation," having paid the customary honors to 
 the Executive of Wisconsin, he passed liis com- 
 mand in review before the representative of the 
 U. S. Government j>resent at the parade in 
 official capacity as Commander of United States 
 forces in Wisconsin, showing in this departure 
 from the wonted practice of other regimental ' 
 commanders his devotion and fealty to the 
 Union as well as to his adopted State. It was 
 this trait which achieved his success in his 
 military career. Persistence in a purpose was 
 his characteristic and it guided him to more 
 than one triumph on Southern fields. He led 
 a storming party at Bald Hill and his men 
 captured more rebels than they themselves 
 numbered, General Logan stating that more 
 dead rebels were piled on that field than he 
 ever before witnessed ; and Colonel Dayton of 
 Sherman's staff repeated the story in the later 
 years. It is mentioned by the biographer of 
 Colonel Bryant to impress on those who ex- 
 amine these annals after years have shown 
 the Great Struggle in all its enormity, to what 
 spirit the ultimate triumph of the Union sol- 
 diers was due. The South sent to the war men 
 versed in the art of fighting and who had been 
 reared to prefer conflict to anything on earth. 
 The soldiers of the Union went from lives of 
 peace to defend the principles transmitted from 
 their ancestors who fought at Lexington and 
 Bunker Hill. 
 
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 LBERT BLEUEL, Commander of Post 
 "^ Rank and File, No. 240 at Milwau- 
 kee, AV^is., of which city he is a resi- 
 dent, was born in Cassell, Germany, July 22, 
 1841. His father, Jolin Bleuel, was a German 
 in nativit)' and descent and belonged to a race 
 which served in every successive generation in 
 the armies of their country under the conscrip- 
 tion ; they were in the 30-years war and 
 
 he was in the army 15 years. He justly 
 thought his family had been soldiers by com- 
 pulsion long enough and, when the son was 17 
 years old, sent him to America, where he 
 landed at the Port of New York, .June U, 1858. 
 The name of the mother of Captain Bleuel be- 
 fore marriage was Mary Kuemmel. In 1859 
 Captain Bleuel went to St. Louis, Mo., where 
 he engaged in business until the disturbances 
 which arose through the hostilities between the 
 two sections of the country destroyed all other 
 considerations tlian those of war. Captain 
 Bleuel distinctly foresaw the results to the Na- 
 tion and, as soon as he knew of the existence 
 of actual hostilities being in progress, he proved 
 the quality of which he was made by enlisting 
 April 22, 1861, seven days after tlie Hag went 
 down from the battlements of Sumter. He 
 enrolled in Company A, 2d Missouri Infantry, 
 and was a participant in all the preliminary 
 skirmishes and battles which resulted, through 
 the determined bravery of the soldiery and the 
 strategy of the leaders, in saving Missouri to 
 the LTnion. He fought at Camp Jack.son, 
 Booneville and Wilson's Creek. August 7th he 
 was discharged from service, his three months 
 enlistment having expired. September 7th, he 
 again enlisted at St. Louis in the 1st Mis.souri 
 Horse Artillery which was afterward consoli- 
 dated into Company F, 2d Missouri Light Ar- 
 tillery ; he enrolled to serve the 2d gun and on 
 the organization of the company was made 
 Sergeant. He received honorable discharge Oct. 
 13, 1864, on the expiration of his term, on tiie 
 field at Marietta, Ga. 
 
 He was with the battery through all its ex- 
 periences, fighting at Pea Ridge, March 6-7-8, 
 1862, and was again in action through the pre- 
 liminaries to the assault at Vicksburg, Dec. 20, 
 1862 ; fought at Arkansas Post .Jan. 6, 1863 ; 
 through the skirmishes and marches and in 
 the trenches in the siege of Vicksburg until 
 
472 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 its surrender ; in the fights at Raymond and 
 Jackson ; at Canton and in the expedition to 
 Tuscumbia, Tenn. ; was in the fighting at Look- 
 out Mountain and in the charge at Mission 
 Ridge ; at Chattanooga and Ringgold ; and 
 through the Atlanta Campaigu. In the ac- 
 tions of all varieties succeeding the fall of At- 
 lanta and througii Georgia until he received 
 discharge, he was always at his post of action. 
 After being discharged he returned to St. Louis 
 and, engaged as a machinist until March 5, 
 1865, when he again enlisted in Company F, 
 4th Veteran Volunteer Infantry and was as- 
 signed to the 1st Army Corps. He was made 
 Corporal on the organization of the company 
 and served as such until his discharge, March 
 27, 1860. He joined the regiment in the val- 
 ley of the Shenandoah and took part in the 
 closing operations there, fighting at Winchester 
 and going to Washington, and succe-ssivel}' to 
 Columbus, Ohio, and to Louisville, Ky., where 
 he continued in the military service until he 
 was finally released after a service of four years, 
 five months and some days. 
 
 The war record of Captain Bleuel is one 
 which deserves special comment. He left his 
 native country to shun the necessity of enter- 
 ing an army which had no interest of his or 
 his family at stake. But, that he possesses the 
 true spirit of a patriot is amply proven by the 
 fact of his early enlistment and his repeatedly 
 entering the service after he had acquitted 
 himself like a true soldier and a man worthy 
 of all his adopted country could confer. 
 
 lie has a roster of 25 battles besides the 
 skirmishes, marches and privations. He went 
 to Mihvaukee after his final discharge where 
 lie has been occupied as a machinist and en- 
 gineer ever since. In 1870 he became a mem- 
 ber of the National Guard and enrolled in Com- 
 pany C, 4th Battalion, of which he was made 
 Captain in 1886. He has operated as engineer 
 
 uf the Adams Tobacco Factory for 16 years, 
 since 1875. He was married Sept. 19, 1866, to 
 Mary Strotliman, ami their children are named 
 Ida, Tillie, Emma, Addie, Amanda and Alice. 
 Captain Bleuel is a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias and of the South side Turnverein. 
 
 RKA CARPENTER, New Lisbon, 
 Wis., was born in the town of Prai- 
 rie Round, Kalamazoo Co., Michi- 
 gan, April 15, 1840, and is the sou of Ira and 
 Sarepta (Buckmau) Carpenter. The parents 
 were natives of the eastern portion of the 
 United States and were married in Ashttibula 
 Co., Ohio, afterwards emigrating farther West 
 and lociited about thirty miles from the site 
 of Chicago. They were on a farm there 
 through the Indian disturbances in Illinois, 
 the senior Carpenter doing his work on his 
 farm with his gun .strapped to his back, his 
 family lieing at Fort Dearborn. Soon after the 
 evacuation of Fort Dearborn, which was the 
 occasion of a treacherous massacre by the In- 
 dians, the family went to Michigan, which was 
 chiefiy Kalamazoo county in the western por- 
 tion. When the son was 15 years old they 
 went to Juneau Co., Wisconsin, and located on 
 a farm where the parents passed their remain- 
 ing years, dying respectively at 78 and 76 
 years. Their seven children all survive. They 
 are Albert, Harriet, George (a soldier in the 
 13th Michigan Infantry), Alva (enlisted in the 
 lUth Wisconsin Infantry, was rejected and 
 went to the front afterwards with the 38tli 
 Wisconsin Infantry), Orra, Mary and Emmett F. 
 Mr. Carpenter secured such education as was 
 possible in the several pioneer conditions in 
 which his boyhood was passed and was his 
 father's farm assistant when he enlisted, Sept. 
 5, 1861, at New Lisbon, in Company H, 10th 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 473 
 
 Wisconsin Infantry. He was mustered and 
 drilled in camp at Milwaukee and went with 
 the regiment to the front at Sliepherdsville, 
 Ivy., camped a while and went to Bacon Creek, 
 where he was ill with typhoid fever and went 
 l)ack to Louisville. As he was convalescing 
 from that disease it was discovered that he had 
 contracted small-pox. As soon as he felt able, 
 after passing through the scourge safely, he 
 applied for permission to guard city property 
 or to be gent back to his regiment, both being 
 denied. It was not decreed that he was unable 
 to go, so he took French leave of surgeons and 
 hospital and started on his own responsibility 
 for his regiment. Communication being cut 
 off, he was unable to go far and wrote to his 
 captain of the state of afiairs and went home, 
 staying a month. As soon as possible he made 
 his way to his regiment, although still very 
 weak, and started with his company to n:arch 
 to Perry ville. This was too much for his 
 strength and he was also attacked by chronic 
 diarrhea, soon becoming entirely incapacitated 
 for duty. After the battle of Perryville he 
 went with the regiment to Crab Orchard and 
 on the march was relieved of his accoutre- 
 ments and kept up with the march to Nash- 
 ville. On Christmas day, 1S62, he was sent to 
 hospital and remained until Feb. 9, 1863, when 
 he received honorable discharge on surgeon's 
 certificate and was sent home. For a long 
 time he was very ill and his recovery was not 
 expected for many months. After growing 
 somewhat better he bought his father's home- 
 stead and lived on it until 1883, when he 
 rented his farm and removed to the village. 
 He has established a jirosperous grocery, feed 
 and flour business and to it has annexed a 
 lumber yard which he is also conducting suc- 
 cessfully. Although he has never been a sound 
 man he is of active temperament and has 
 pressed his business interests in a lively man- 
 
 ner. He is a Mason of high degree, belonging 
 to Chapter No. 33. He has been Deputy 
 Sheriff of his county and, previous to removal 
 to New Lisbon, served on the Board of Super- 
 visors. He is a member of the Republican 
 party and receives a pension. 
 
 He was married in Vernon Co., Wisconsin, 
 March 10, 1861, to Emmeline G., daughter of 
 Albert and Lola M. (Thomas) Moses, a native 
 of Connecticut. Eva E., Etta A., Winnifred 
 M., Alice M. and Dora Isabel are the five 
 daughters who have been added to the home 
 of Mr. Carpenter. 
 
 L.;>o,HILLIP B. JEWELL, Hudson, Wis., 
 wr^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 151, was 
 born Oct. 25, 1816, at Hopkinton, N. 
 H., and is the son of Ezra and Abigail (Bick- 
 ford) Jewell. His father, the son of Barnes 
 •Jewell, a soldier of the war of the Revolution, 
 was born in Amesbury, Mass., and his mother 
 was of English descent, born in Hopkinton. 
 The father was a soldier in 1812 and a mill- 
 wright by occupation, conducting his business 
 chiefly in New Hampshire. Three of ten chil- 
 dren born to himself and wife are living. The 
 parents died respectively in 1854 at Hopkinton 
 and in 1879 at Star Prairie, Wis. 
 
 Mr. Jewell was about 30 years of age when 
 he left his father's household to commence an 
 independent career in the world. In 1847 he 
 went to Wisconsin and settled at St. Croix Falls, 
 where he passed five years in lumbering. 
 About 1852 he went to Hudson, and after two 
 years returned to his former home at St. Croix 
 Falls, where he passed two succeeding years. 
 In 185G he made a permanent location at Hud- 
 son and, at the date of the civil war, he was en- 
 gaged in the duties of lumber inspector of Dis- 
 trict No. 4. He enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, at Hud- 
 
474 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 sou, iu Couipauy A, 12tli Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and was mustered October 30tli following at 
 Madison. On Jan. 11, 1S62, the' regiment 
 started, uuder orders for Weston, Mo., and 
 there their first camp was made. February 
 loth the regiment started for Leavenworth and 
 went thence under orders to Fort Scott, expect- 
 ing to go ou Lane's Southwest expeditiou, but 
 counter orders sent them to Lawrence, whence 
 they moved to Fort Riley with the expectation of 
 going on another expeditiou, which also came 
 to naught, aud in May the command returned 
 to Leavenworth. At Fort Riley, Mr. Jewell 
 was made wagon master. His command went 
 to St. Louis from Leavenworth and received 
 orders for Columbus, Ky., the intention being 
 to go thence to the investment of Cbrinth, but 
 events had transpired rendering their assist- 
 ance unnecessary, and the soldiers were occu- 
 pied in repairing rebel depredations on the 
 routes of transportation until June, when a 
 conjunction with the command of Halleck was 
 made at Humboldt, Tenn., to remain at that 
 point about two months, engaged in scouting 
 and guard duty. Mr. Jewell was there taken 
 sick but remained with the regiment, which 
 moved to Jackson and LaGrange. At the lat- 
 ter place he was placed in charge of an ambu- 
 lance aud went to Holly Springs about the last 
 of November. Thence the regiment went to 
 Oxford and Yocono Creek, the troops of that de- 
 partment making their changes of base in ac- 
 cord with Grant's plans for securing Vicksburg. 
 The surrender of the supplies for the whole 
 army at Holly Springs by Colonel Murphy, 
 Dec. 20, 1862, rendered the whole movement 
 futile aud the regiment of Mr. Jewell went to 
 camp at Lumpkin's Mills, guarded a railroad 
 there, and in January, 1803, went successively 
 to Holly Springs, Moscow, Lafayette, Colliers- 
 ville and Neville Station, guarding the Mem- 
 phis A Charleston railroad until March aud 
 
 moved theuce to Memphis. In April the regi- 
 ment was iu the expedition to co-operate with 
 General Smith in a movement on the Cold- 
 water River, but it was a failure, and the com- 
 mand returned to Memphis to go in May to 
 Young's Point, crossed the river and went to 
 Grand Gulf, where they saw for the first time 
 the colored men iu soldiers' uniforms. A month 
 later the regiment moved to the rear of Vicks- 
 burg aud took position in the left of the invest- 
 ing force, holding their camp on a plantation 
 known as Magnolia Hall 60 days during the 
 siege. Mr. Jewell operated with the ambulance 
 corps until the surrender July 4th, taking part 
 in the Jackson expedition, returned to Vicks- 
 burg, thence to Natchez, aud in February, 1864, 
 to the Black River to go on the Meridian expe- 
 dition. This was for the purjiose of destruction 
 of stores aud routes, including a railroad bridge. 
 At Canton the regiment was in a sharj> skir- 
 mish, aud on its return to camp had marched 
 416 miles in 31 days. In March, 1864, the 
 veterans?, who had re-enlisted in January, took 
 their furlough, Mr. Jewell reporting at Madi- 
 son, where he was assigned to duty at Harvey 
 hospital, the officer iu command deciding that 
 he was not tit for duty iu the field, and he re- 
 mained in this service until his discharge, May 
 27, 1865. 
 
 He returned to his home in Hudson and 
 then engaged on the river as a pilot. In 1867 
 he was made Lumber Inspector of District No. 
 4, and held the position until 1886, when he 
 resigned. He is Senior Vice Commander of 
 his Post and belongs to the Republican jtarty. 
 Like all soldiers, Mr. Jewell remembers grate- 
 fully all attentions paid to the soldiers on their 
 return North, especially a reception given his 
 commaud at Chicago by some of the first ladies 
 of that city. 
 
 He was married in Hopkinlou in January, 
 1837, to Betsy Morrison aud their only child 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 475 
 
 died soon after birth ; the death of the mother 
 was almost simultaneous, and Oct. 21, 1841, 
 .Mr. .Jewell was again married at Warner, N. 
 H., to Hannah .Jane Fuller, and the}' have had 
 five children, named Marj- .Jane, (who died in 
 childhood), Hannah .Jane, George S., Mary D. 
 and Ada M. The mother died Oct. 18, 1875. 
 Mr. .Jewell was again married at Hopkinton to 
 Mrs. Ellen C. R. Spofford, daughter of William 
 Re.stieaux, Oct. 1.3, 1878. Bessie is the name 
 of their onh- cliild. The first wife of the father 
 of Mrs. .Jewell was the granddaughter of Paul 
 Revere of Revolutionary fame. Her grand- 
 father, Robert Restieaux, was the only member 
 of his family who came to this country from 
 France. Her motlier descended from Thomas 
 and Aquila Cha.se, who landed in America in 
 16.39. 
 
 Mrs. .Jewell is the President of the Woman's 
 Relief Corps at Hudson and discharges her 
 duties with all the interest of a wife and sister 
 of patriots. She has a son named William A. 
 Spofford, by her first marriage, living at Hud- 
 son and engaged as an engineer. 
 
 ILIJAM H. MOIiFORD, Chip- 
 pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 68, was born .June 
 3, 1847, in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, that 
 county being the birthplace of his father, .John 
 T. Morford, Feb. 27, 1818. The latter married 
 Esther Hazen, born near Sharpsville, Pa., Nov. 
 16, 1819. In the paternal lineage, Mr. Morford 
 is of mixed Englisli and Irish blood and in the 
 maternal line of pure English extraction. The 
 children, of whom he was one, were Mary D., 
 .James 0. (deceased), Hiram T., Nancy (de- 
 ceased), William, Isaac C, .James B., .John .J., 
 Lycurgus H. and Martha M. The family went 
 West in 1848, locating on a farm in Mer- 
 
 cer county, Illinois, and, when the war broke 
 out, father and sons enlisted. In August, 1862, 
 he and his sons William and Hiram enlisted in 
 Company E, 102d Illinois Infantry. The father 
 went through all the service of the regiment 
 and survived without injur}' except rheumatic 
 troubles. Hiram was wounded in front of At- 
 lanta by a shell in the left slioulder, was taken 
 to the rear and sent to hospital, rejoining the 
 regiment after the march to the sea. He is a 
 resident of Humiston, Iowa. The father is 
 still living on the old homestead in North 
 Henderson ; his wife died in April, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Morford was mustered into his regiment 
 Aug. 9, 1862, at Knoxviile, Illinois, and, after 
 remaining in camp six weeks, went to Louis- 
 ville, Ky., and thence after two months to Scotts- 
 ville, in the same State. Three months after 
 th^y went to Gallatin, Tenn., and built Fort Gal- 
 latin. In the spring of 1863 they moved to 
 Lavergne, Tenn., on the Nashville & Murfrees- 
 boro railroad and performed guard and patrol 
 duty, being mounted, and j)erforming cavalry 
 service, assigned to scouting and forage duty, 
 subsisting on the surrounding country. In 
 May, 1864, they were ordered to Cliattanooga 
 and there turned over their horses and were 
 assigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 20th 
 Army Corps. May 2d they moved toward 
 Buzzard's Roost, but the battle was over before 
 they reached the field. They continued on the 
 march until they reached Resaca and Mr. Mor- 
 ford was a participant in that action. His 
 company was placed on the skirmish line and 
 ordered to charge through a slough between 
 them and the enemy. They remained on the 
 slough bottom until night, when they retired 
 to the rear, carrying with them their dead and 
 wounded. In the morning, with four other 
 regiments, they were ordered to make a charge 
 on the celebrated four-gun battery in front of 
 the works. They took the guns and held the 
 
476 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 position until niglit, when the rebels withdrew, 
 leaving the Union troops in possession of every- 
 thing. They were next in action at Burnt 
 Hickory, relieving the 1st Division, the fight 
 continuing through the afternoon and until 
 after dark, when Compan}' E received orders to 
 relieve the skirmishers in front; they took a 
 position on a ridge in front and about da^'light 
 heard a sound of chopping. They were told it 
 was the Union troops building rifle pits and 
 the Captain issued orders to move to the sup- 
 port. They proved to be rebels who opened 
 tire on them and they got back the best they 
 could with seven wounded. They passed the 
 next daj' on picket, and on the following daj' 
 the rebels retreated. The command advanced 
 to the Chattahoochie, lay there two weeks and 
 became on familiar terms with the rebels on 
 the other side of the river. Tiiey then crossed 
 the river, extended their lines and did con- 
 siderable skirmishing. They took part in the ' 
 action at Peach Tree Creek, where they were in 
 line of battle when the firing commenced. The 
 regiment had halted and were cooking their 
 dinner, when the bugle sounded for immediate 
 action and they were placed on a ridge to make 
 an enfilading fire on a rebel line charging down 
 the hill, which slaughtered the I'ebels in 
 great numbers and compelled the force to fall 
 back. They formed again for another charge, 
 but finally retreated. The 10"2d moved to At- 
 lanta and engaged in skirmishing and build- 
 ing works until the battle, in which the corps 
 was actively engaged. After the evacuation 
 they went into camp, as was supposed for 
 winter, but in November they were ordered out 
 and moved on the 15th on the march to the 
 sea. After passing Milledgeville, Mr. Morford 
 was detailed with about 30 men from his regi- 
 ment to forage, with a lieutenant in command. 
 They were mounted on picked horses (picked 
 up on the route) and had an enjoyable time. Af- 
 
 ter being out some time they came to a grist 
 mill which was run by negroes where they 
 took possession of a large quanity of meal with 
 which the}' were about to decamp when a 
 jiarty of rebels came up. They started for the 
 woods about 30 rods distant, unloading their 
 meal as they went, with the rebels close in their 
 rear. Thej' had expected to make a stand on 
 reaching cover but their ranks were demoralized 
 and the lieutenant failed to-give the order to 
 halt; private Booth Abbott saved the squad from 
 capture by ordering a halt and with the com- 
 pany charged on the rebels, recapturing their 
 prisoners and killing two of the enemy. After 
 stai'ting to rejoin their command they were 
 again attacked, when they again dismounted 
 and repulsed the rebels, firing from behind a 
 fence, after which they remounted and reached 
 their command in safety. But they had lost 
 everything thej' had collected. They moved 
 on to Savannah, were there at the surrender 
 and, after two weeks started for the North, 
 marching through the Carolinas, the regiment 
 fighting at Bentonville, and with the 129t]i Illi- 
 nois, the 10'2d was in the fight where the rebels 
 made theii' last desperate attack under John- 
 ston and they took a large number of prisoners. 
 They went on to Columbia and thence to Ra- 
 leigh, N. C, where they heard of Johnston's 
 surrender. They moved to Richmond, thence 
 to Alexandria and camped until after the 
 Grand Review. Their next orders were to 
 Chicago for muster out June 0, 18G5. 
 
 The father and his sons retunicd home and 
 engaged in farming in Mercer county about 
 two yeai'S, when our subject removed to Chij)- 
 pewa Falls, where he engaged in the lumi)er 
 business. This has been his occupation since 
 and he has been in the employ of the C. L. C 
 Co., nine years. For a number of years he was 
 engaged in the woods, looking after the camps 
 and general interests of the firm, including the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 477 
 
 logging and otlier relations. He is a member 
 of the Masonic Order, and belongs to the Re- 
 publican party. He was married at Eau 
 Claire, Wis., July 3, 1873, to Altha F., daughter 
 of Isaiali and Sarah Chipman. The record of 
 their children is as follows: — Arthur, born -July 
 11, 1874; Roy M., born June 3, 1877; Cora E., 
 June 17, 1879; Minnie Grace, Feb. 26, 1886. 
 
 -^ili^ 
 
 ~Tc. lEUTENANT C. H. EGGLESTON, Fox 
 11^ Lake, member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 1 ^^ 100, was born Aug. 4, 1835, in Chip- 
 ping Norton, Yorkshire, England. His parents, 
 T. G. and Deborah (Austin) Eggleston, were of 
 English blood and breeding for centuries back 
 in lineage and removed to America with their 
 family within the year of their son's birth. 
 After remaining a time in the State of New 
 York, they went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, 
 two years later, 1839, went to Waukesha. 
 About 1855 they located at Fox Lake where 
 they still live. Of six children, Mr. Eggleston 
 is the only son. 
 
 He was still a member of his father's house- 
 hold when he decided to enter the army of the 
 United States, which was to him as his native 
 land, never having known any other. Aug. 
 13, 1862, he enlisted at Fox Lake in Company 
 E, 29th Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered 
 as a private in September following. He left 
 the rendezvous at Madison, November 2d for 
 Cairo and went thence to Helena, Ark., and 
 afterwards to Friar's Point, where things were 
 made entertaining by the antagonism of Gen- 
 eral Gorman, Commandant of the post and 
 Colonel Gill of the 29th Wisconsin, who took to 
 his service the principles under which he 
 enrolled as a soldier for the Union. The mem- 
 bers of the regiment were engaged in military 
 duty of miscellaneous character while in 
 
 Arkansas and alternated other experiences with 
 scouting with the guerrillas in the vicinity, 
 who were plenty and, as the population felt 
 themselves abetted by Gorman, there were 
 numerous bands of the fraternity carrying on 
 depredations in the immediate vicinity of the 
 Point. The 29th Wisconsin sustained the 
 opinion of Sherman, who said a Wisconsin 
 regiment was reckoned a brigade in the service 
 and when it was assigned to the brigade of 
 Colonel McGinnis with veterans who had won 
 the highest laurels possible, it was a testimonial 
 of merit which every man in the command 
 appreciiited. The assignment was made while 
 the regiment was on an expedition up the 
 White River, on which the command saw some 
 service. After this they passed some time in 
 work on the roads until Grant commenced 
 another Vickshurg campaign and, February 2, 
 1863, the 29th started to aid in opening a com- 
 munication to the Mississippi River by way of 
 the Yazoo. After this the command returned 
 to Helena and in April went to tlie rear of 
 Vickshurg. Mr. Eggleston was in the activities 
 which overtook the regiment in crossing the 
 peninsula below Grand Gulf, which had been 
 attacked in a fruitless effort to obtain possession 
 of the point of landing for the troops. Their 
 transports run the batteries and the troops again 
 went aboard and went to Bruinsburg, the 29th 
 being the first regiment to go ashore. They 
 started for Port Gibson and had a scrimmage at 
 Magnolia Church which was the opening of the 
 battle of Port Gikson. In this the regiment 
 was exposed to great danger in checking a flank 
 movement of the rebel foi'ce and Lieutenant 
 Eggleston received his first decoration as a 
 brave soldier and " Charles H. Eggleston " was 
 mentioned in the dispatches. He was shot 
 through the body, the bullet passing en- 
 tirely through his person and wounding 
 the right lung. He was injured about two 
 
478 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 o'clock in llie afternoon, and so fierce was the 
 rebel fire that he could not be removed for 
 several hours. He was taken to field hospital 
 and his wounds were not dressed until the next 
 da}'. After some days he was sent to Grand 
 Gulf and went with his regiment to Memphis. 
 While there (Jrant issued orders to furlough all 
 disabled soMiers and he went home for .SOdaj's. 
 Before the expiration of his leave he was 
 detailed on recruiting service in which he was 
 occujtied until March, 1864, when he rejoined 
 his command. The regiment had been loaned 
 to Banks for the Red River campaign and he 
 was just in time to participate in the fight at 
 Sabine Cross Roads. He renewed acquaintance 
 with the business of skirmishing all the way 
 back on the retreat and after arrival at Alex- 
 andria engaged in raiding. He was one of the 
 assistants on Bailey's fiimous dam, which 
 released the Union gunboats, in which service 
 the 29th again made a record for faithfulness 
 and endurance. June and July were passed in 
 tlie interior of Louisiana in varied service, 
 including skirmishing, and heavy marching. 
 August was passed at Morganzia and the 
 following months at St. Charles on the White 
 River. After other expeditions the command 
 went in November to anotlier and, later to 
 Memphis. In December they went on another 
 raid to Moscow, returned to Memphis and went 
 next to New Orleans. Preparations were made 
 for participation in the assaults on the works 
 at Mobile and, March 17, 1SG5, they started for 
 Spanish Fort and on the "iTth were in the 
 trenches under fire. They were in an escort 
 of supplies for Blakely and reached Spanish 
 Fort again on the day of surrender. They 
 went back to Blakely to find it had surrendered 
 and afterwards took position in Mobile, 
 being the second regiment to enter that 
 city. The explo.sion of the magazine killed 
 ami wounded several of the regiment, tinguisbed commands in the civil war. The 
 
 Leaving Mobile, the 29th went to New 
 Orleans and thence to Shreveport to receive 
 the surrender of Kirby Smith and Mr. Eggles- 
 ton was there mustered out witii his command 
 June 22, LSGo. He received final discharge at 
 Madison, July 7th and returned home. His 
 commission as 2d Lieutenant was dated May 
 3, 1864, and was for bravery at Port Gibson, 
 May 1, 18G4. July 2, 1864 he was commis- 
 sioned 1st Lieutenant and was mustered out as 
 such, having performed his duties as recruit- 
 ing officer un<lcr it. He is Commander of his 
 Post (1890) and was a charter member of the 
 organization. He is a member of the Order 
 of Odd Fellows, has l)een prominent in muni- 
 cipal affairs and has served seven years on the 
 Board of tlie village and one year as President. 
 He is actively interested in educational mat- 
 ters and is Trustee and Secretary of Downer 
 College at P"ox Lake. He was married Oct. 9, 
 1866 at Bennington, Wyoming Co., New York, 
 to Susie Blaisdell, who is active in the Woman's 
 Relief Corps. 
 
 Since his return to private life Mr. Eggleston 
 has been occupied in the relations of a lumber- 
 man of extensive proportions, engaging in 
 operations which include all l)ranches of that 
 business. 
 
 ^ETH D. STEELE, Platteville, Wis., 
 *^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was 
 born at Geneva, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1836i 
 and is the son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Loomis) 
 Steele. His father was a soldier of 1812 in the 
 command of General Jackson and fought at 
 New Orleans in the capacity of a Lieutenant ; 
 he was a teacher by profession and taught at 
 Galesburg Academy a number of years. His 
 wife was a sister of Colonel Loomis, commander 
 of Loomis' Battery, which was one of tlie dis- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 479 
 
 fathei' died Aug. 10, 1840, aged a little more 
 than 49 years ; the mother died Jan. 24, 1836, 
 aged 35 years. Six children lived to mature 
 life named Minerva, Samuel, George, Elizabeth, 
 Wilbur and the subject of this sketch, whose 
 life was the price of that of his mother. At 
 this writing, 1889, only George survives of the 
 brothers and sisters of Mr. Steele. He was a 
 soldier in a California regiment, serving four 
 years and two months, and is blind from in- 
 jury from the explosion of a shell. 
 
 The senior Steele removed his family to 
 Galesburg, 111., when Seth was an infant and 
 died while the boy was still young. The latter 
 was cared for by his eldest sister until he was 
 about nine years old wlien he became a mem- 
 ber of the family of Edward Whipple and he 
 went to Wisconsin and located when about 16 
 years of age. He was variously employed un- 
 til he enlisted and enrolled Sep. 5, 1861, in Com- 
 pany I, loth Wisconsin Infantry. He was mus- 
 tered at Milwaukee in the company of Captain 
 Overton, who was succeeded by Captain Perry. 
 The command was sent to Louisville, Ky., 
 and thence U) Shepherdsville, whence Mr. Steele 
 accompanied the regiment through all the ser- 
 vice in that locality, going successively to 
 Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek, Bowling Green, 
 Nashville and Murfreesboro and took part in 
 the operations on the military railroad of the 
 rebels. He was in the marching and move- 
 ments afterward until the affair at Paint Rock 
 Bridge when he was one of the 26 men de- 
 tailed for that service, in which they held the 
 place against 400 rebels four hours, eight of 
 the number receiving injuries, one man. Ser- 
 geant William Nelson, having seven wounds; 
 he was in command, and the names of others 
 recalled by Mr. Steele were C. McManus, .John 
 Camp, George Travis, John Travis, William 
 and John Reed. All the men in this service 
 belonged to the 10th Wisconsin and this state- 
 
 ment is made here to correct a historical error 
 which has appeared in other works. Mr. 
 Steele was injured to an extent that sent him 
 to the hospital at Larkinsville, Ala., and six 
 weeks later he was detailed for service on the 
 train between Huntsville and Stevenson in 
 charge of the division mail, which position he 
 held until the retreat of Buell. He made con- 
 nection with the regiment at Stevenson and 
 when the engagement there took place, with 
 other disabled men he was sent to Nashville. 
 He followed the regiment to Louisville where 
 he was again obliged to surrender to his inju- 
 ries and went to Park Barracks, where he was 
 discharged Oct. 22, 1862. He was so enfeebled 
 that he was supported while signing the ne- 
 cessary papers. At that time he was constantly 
 spitting blood and five physicians decided him 
 unfit for further duty. He returned to Platte- 
 ville and, on recovery resumed labor, acting as 
 a stone and brickwork contractor, in which he 
 is still engaged. He was married in Paris, 
 Grant Co., Wis., Sept. 27, 1863, to Lou, daugli- 
 ter of Isaac and Jane (Largent) Richards. Her 
 father was born May 7, 1816, and is still liv- 
 ing; her mother was born Sept. 25, 1817, was 
 a native of Ohio, and died in March, 1878. She 
 is the oldest of seven ciiildren ; twins were 
 born Nov. 22, 1843, and named Emmeline and 
 Caroline; Mary was born April 15, 1846; John 
 Henry, Aug. 22, 1848 ; James (deceased), born 
 Jan. 1, 18—, and Ella, born Aug. 8, 1861. The 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Steele were James, 
 born Aug. 1, 1864, died Sept. 27, 1864; Willie, 
 born Aug. 6, 1865; Charles, Marcli 22, 1869; 
 Ada, born Jan. 13, 1873; May, Oct. 4, 1875; 
 George E., Aug. 18, 1878 ; Daisy, May 8, 1880. 
 Mrs. Steele is an active member of the Woman's 
 Relief Corps. 
 
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480 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 APTAIN YATES V. BEEBE, New 
 
 Lisbon, Wis., cliief engineer of tlie 
 Goodyear, Neillsville & Northern H. 
 R., member of G. A. K. Post No. 61, was born 
 April 6, 1820, in Washington Co., New York. 
 He is unique on the ]iages of this work, being 
 a veteran of three wars, including the Seminole 
 war in Florida, tlie Mexican war and the civil 
 war. He is the son of R. C. and Eliza (Hale) 
 Beebe, both of wliom were natives of New 
 York. He was reared on a farm and educated 
 in the common schools until he was 19 years 
 old, when he entered tlie military service of 
 his country. The Seminole war in Florida be- 
 gan in 1817 and lasted until the capture or re- 
 moval of the tribe in 1842. That country being 
 the possession of Spain rendered the war a per- 
 plexity to the United States until tlie purchase 
 the following year, but the Indians kept up 
 their hostilities until the date mentioned. The 
 seven years' war began in December, 1835, and 
 from that date recruits were constantly going 
 there until the war closed. Captain Beebe en- 
 listed in September, 1839, at Whitehall, New 
 York, in Company I, 1st U. S. Artillery, and 
 went to Florida on the shij) Albatross, landing 
 at Tampa Hay. He was in all the operations 
 of his command until the close of the war, 
 wiien he was transferred to service in Maine in 
 the period of anticipated trouble with Canada 
 during the settlement of the boundary question. 
 His military experience there was only nomi- 
 nal and he availed himself of the opportunity 
 offered to go on detached service with a survey- 
 ing party and obtained the rudiments of his 
 profession in practical experience. His enlist- 
 ment was for live years and terminated in 
 1844 ; he did not receive his discharge, but re- 
 mained in Maine, lumbering and surveying 
 until the date of the Mexican war, in 1846, 
 when he re-enlisted in the same company and 
 regiment, enrolling in August, 1846. The 
 
 organization took passage in the brig Potter 
 and landed at Brazos Santiago, where the main 
 army under Scott and Taylor joined them. 
 The command went thence to Vera Cruz and 
 Mr. Beebe was in the fight there March 29, 
 1847. April 18tli he was in tlie action at 
 Cerro Gordo and went thence to the defenses 
 of Mexico. He fought at Cliapultepec Septem- 
 ber 13tli and on the next day was with Scott's 
 army when the triumplial entry into the city 
 was made. After some delay caused by arrang- 
 ing terms of indemnity the command went to 
 New Orleans and to New York, where Captain 
 Beebe was mustered out in 1848. After a stay 
 at his old home he joined his brother in Illi- 
 nois and bought a farm in Boone county in 
 1849 and in 1851 sold and located in .luneau 
 county, Wisconsin, on a farm which he still 
 owns. When the civil war came on he began 
 to organize his battery and was mustered into 
 the U. S. service in February, 1862, at Milwau- 
 kee. The battery went into camp at Racine 
 and thence to Benton Barracks, Marcii 20th. 
 They were there equipped with horses and 
 guns and went to Pittsburg Landing and Cap 
 tain Beebe first led tlu' lUth Wisconsin Bat- 
 tery in that action. The command was next 
 in the siege of Corinth, went thence to luka 
 and marched the long distance to Nashville. 
 The battery was in the tight at Stone River 
 and returned to Nashville, went thence in the 
 spring to service in guarding forage trains and 
 engaged in duty near Nashville and Murfrees- 
 boro until September, when a remove to the 
 Chattahoocliie River was made ; they engaged in 
 guard duty during the campaign of Chatta- 
 nooga and remained in that vicinity until the 
 spring of 1864. May 9th the battery reported 
 to General Kilpatrick for duty with the 3d Cav- 
 alry Division and went to the campaign of 
 Atlanta in the xVrmy of tlie Cumberland. They 
 were in the actions of Resaca and Calhoun Ferry 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 481 
 
 and operated as guard at vVdairsville and Car- 
 terville Ferry until Aug. 3, 1864, when tliey 
 went to Sandtown. They were with Kilpatrick 
 at Red Oak and Jonesboro and performed 
 vaUant service at Lovejoy's. The battery was 
 with the cavah'y corps of Kilpatrick in all the 
 rapid movements of the closing of the Atlanta 
 campaign, tigbtiifg afterwards in September 
 and October and keeping up with the restless 
 Kilpatrick in his raids and fights at Powder 
 Springs and V^an Wirt and in the skirmishes 
 between times and went to ihirietta after a 
 march in Georgia of 230 miles. With the 
 command of Kilpatrick, Captain Beebe led his 
 ' men through the campaign of Sherman to the 
 sea and commenced the march by a fight on 
 the 16th of November. On the 27tii they 
 fought again and on the 28tii, knocking the 
 rebels out for the last time of any importance 
 before reaching Savannah. .January 28th 
 they started Northward and fought on the 
 Salkahatchie, on the North Edisto and near 
 Hornsboro. March lOtli they had a fight with 
 Wade Hampton and skirmished all the way to 
 Averysboro. At Goldsboro, the battery dis- 
 banded, its time having expired and Lee hav- 
 ing surrendered. They went to New York 
 where they received intelligence of the assassi- 
 nation of the President and Captain Beebe was 
 mustered out at Madison April 26, 1865. 
 
 He went to New Lisbon and resumed his 
 connection with the affairs of civil life. He has 
 followed the profession of a surveyor and civil 
 engineer ever since he has been in civil life and 
 has served two terms as County Surveyor in 
 Boone Co., Illinois, and four terms in the same 
 office in Juneau county. He has been in other 
 official positions in local affairs and is operating 
 actively also in connection with the railroad as 
 stated. His military record includes 03 bat- 
 tles, but he received only slight and insignifi- 
 cant wounds. At Contreras, Mexico, and at Stone 
 
 River he suffered slight injury, receiving a bul- 
 let in his foot at the former place and in his 
 leg at the latter. He has served ten years as 
 an enlisted man ; two years he was a private 
 and eight years a non-commissioned officer, 
 being 1st Sergeant in the Regulars and was 
 Captain three years. He is 70 years old in 
 this current year, is still active physically, and 
 mentally is in his primal vigor. He is a man 
 whose record as a soldier and civilian honors 
 the Badger State and her records will cherish 
 his memory as long as they endure. 
 
 He was married in Boone Co., Illinois, Dec. 
 18, 1849, to Julia, daughter of John and Olive 
 Winkler. She died in 1885 leaving four child- 
 ren. Edwin is a resident of California ; Nettie 
 married John J. Hughes, a banker of New Lis- 
 bon; Dedie is her father's housekeeper and 
 Willie Grant is a student at Madison Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 >f«f«l^^&^^-^ 
 
 IS^fL^lLLIAU M. FOGO, senior editor of 
 ^jf^l/ the Republican and Observer, pub- 
 ^^ lished at Richland Center, Wis., 
 was born June 18, 1841, in Columbiana county, 
 Ohio, whence he removed with his parents, 
 John and Jane (Dreghorn) Fogo, to Wisconsin 
 in 1853. The son obtained an excellent educa- 
 tion in his native State and in Wisconsin and, 
 after coming to the latter State, fulfilled a long 
 cherished desire to become a printer, by enter- 
 ing on an apprenticeship in the office of the 
 Richland County Democrat, where he was still 
 occupied when he enlisted, Dec. 12, 1861, in 
 Company F, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry. He 
 accompanied the regiment from Wisconsin 
 March 24, 1862, and performed cavalry service 
 until his health failed a year later, when he 
 was discharged for disability. He remained at 
 home until August, 1864, when he re-enlisted 
 in the 42d Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling for 
 
482 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 three years or during the war and on the 
 organization of the command was made Ser- 
 geant Major, the date of his apjiointment being 
 Sept. 15,1804, and he jjerformed duty in tliat 
 cai)aeity with the regiment at Cairo and in 
 Southern lUinois. Mr. Fogo returned to Wis- 
 consin and was mustered out in June, 18(35, 
 after the close of the war. 
 
 As soon as lie could resume connection with 
 the aflairs of civil life, he became one of the , 
 proprietors of the Richland Counlij Observer, 
 which relation he continued a year and went 
 thence toCalumet county, where he established 
 the Calumet Rejkdor, a journal which he con- 
 ducted a year. He went next to Iowa, and 
 purchased an interest in the Howard County 
 Times, maintaining his connection therewith 
 until his return to Richland Center in 1873, 
 when he became editor and a proprietor of the 
 paper with which his name is now connected. 
 Under his management it has become one of 
 the leading journals in the State, the abilities 
 of Mr. Fogo placing it among the ablest edited 
 papers in Wisconsin. He is a pungent writer, 
 possessing the caj)acity of joui-nalizing in the 
 best manner to a remarkable degree. He is 
 sound on all political questions and his edito- 
 rials have attracted just recognition for clearness, 
 conciseness and directness of argument. His 
 abilities have been utilized as Assistant Clerk 
 of the Assembly of Wisconsin and for a number 
 of years he has been Secretary of the Richland 
 County Agricultural Society ; he holds the 
 same position in the Old Settlers' Society of 
 Richland county. He is a Royal Arch Mason 
 and as a citizen commands the highest esteem 
 of his generation, as is manifested by the 
 importance of the positions to which he has 
 been api)ointed. He is a member of the G. A. 
 R. Post at Richland Center and in the latter 
 part of 1889 received the appointment of Clerk 
 of Committee on War Claims of the House 
 
 of Representatives at Washington for which he 
 is peculiarly fitted by experience and ability. 
 He left Wisconsin to assume the duties of the 
 position, Jan. 13, IS'jO. 
 
 He was married in 186G to Amelia St. John 
 and they have two children named Emma C. 
 and Stephen W. Mr. Fogo is of pure Scotch 
 blood, his parents having been born in that 
 country. 
 
 ^4e^^^*4<. 
 
 ELSON A. BATCHELLER, Black 
 River Falls, Wis., member of G. A. 
 R. Post No. 92, was born Aug. 20, 
 1843, in Jefferson Co., Wisconsin. In the pa- 
 ternal line of descent he is of English extrac- 
 tion and the lineage of his mother was of Mo- 
 hawk Dutch origin. His father, Eben Batch- 
 eller, was born in Vermont of a family that 
 moved thither from Massachusetts and, when 
 he was seven years old he became a resident 
 of the State of New York ; he married Lucy 
 Comstock and they became the parents of ten 
 children named in order of birth Imogene, 
 William, George, Josephine, Nelson A., Ann, 
 Abbie, Clift, Clara and Andrew, and all are 
 living in 1890 excei)ting Josephine and Ann. 
 The family removed to Galesville in 1855 
 where the father was killed by a vicious cow. 
 By a previous removal they went to Michigan 
 in 1836 from New York, settling at Port Huron 
 and going thence to Jeilerson Co., Wis., locat- 
 ing at Lx'onia, where the senior Batcheller 
 operated as a farmer and conducted a hotel. 
 He also carried on his trade as a millwright in 
 which he excelled and went from Ixoiiia to 
 Galesville. He built the celebrated mill at 
 Watertown called " Rough and Ready " whose 
 products came to have a wide fame and were 
 -sold in all the Eastern States. The mother 
 died ill June, 1883, at Galesville, in her 70th 
 year. Mr. Batcheller's maternal grandfather 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 483 
 
 was a soldier in the Kevolulion and was the 
 second man after Etlian Allon to enter Ticon- 
 deroga. 
 
 Mr. Batclieller liad tlie good fortune to he the 
 son of parents who attended to the intellectual 
 demands of their children and he received a 
 careful education, which fitted him for an in- 
 structor of no mean caliher. In the winter of 
 1862-3 he conunenced teaching in Jackson 
 county and in the winter following he taught 
 in Caledonia. In the spring of 1864 he was aj)- 
 pointed Town C'lerk of Caledonia and served in 
 that capacity until he enlisted. When more 
 troops were called for, for service in the preser- 
 vation of what had been gained he determined 
 that he was as good as any other man to stop a 
 stray rebel bullet and contribute to the protec- 
 tion of what older soldiers had won and he en- 
 rolled Feb. 20, 1865 at La Crosse and was 
 mustered at Camp Randall into U. S. service in 
 the latter part of the same month in Company 
 K, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, Col. Fred S. Lov- 
 ell. March 5th the command left the State for 
 Louisville, Ky., and went to Athens, Ala. Mr. 
 Batcheller contracted disease on exposure to 
 Southern climate, was left in hospital at Nash- 
 ville, and joined the regiment at Athens. The 
 command was distributed as guard on the 
 Nashville & Decatur railroad and, about .June 
 1st, Mr. Batcheller was promoted to Sergeant 
 and detailed with a squad to guard a trestle on 
 tlie Memphis & Charleston railroad, between 
 Decatur and Huntsville. After two months 
 service tliere he rejoined liis regiment at Ath- 
 ens, wliere he remained until ordered home. 
 He was mustered out at Nashville, Sep. 27, 
 1865 and paid off at MadLson, whei'e his rela- 
 tions to military life ceased. 
 
 He returned to Caledonia and attended 
 school at Trempealeau the following winter. In 
 the summer of 1866 he taught school at Cale- 
 donia and in the winter of 1866-7 he was a 
 
 student at Eastman's Commercial College at 
 Chicago, where he completed a full course. He 
 passed the following summer at Melrose and in 
 the fall accepted a position at Black River 
 Falls as bookkeeper for D. J. Spalding, which 
 he held two years. After this he was employed 
 as accountant by a railroad contractor and 
 afterwards returned to his former employer at 
 Black River Falls, engaging in millwright 
 work which he thoroughly understood. After- 
 wards he was in charge of the saw and grist 
 mill of Mr. Spalding until the spring of 1879, 
 when he became the proprietor of the furniture 
 and undertaking business of A. A. Bartlett, and 
 has since conducted his relations therewith 
 witli satisfactory results. Mr. Batcheller has 
 served as Justice of the Peace four years and 
 was a candidate for County Judge, losing his 
 election because of the sjanpathy of the com- 
 munity for his opponent. He is a member of 
 Albion Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 134, and is 
 also a member of the M. W. A. ; he is a Re- 
 publican of decided stamp. 
 
 Mr. Batcheller was married .May 11, 1869 to 
 Agnes E., daughter of Steadman and Ellen 
 (Buchanan) Wiltse, and they have had three 
 children — Hugh and Ruth and a babe which 
 died unnamed. Ruth is the only survivor. 
 Tlie father of Mrs. Batcheller was a civil en- 
 gineer and ojierated on the Sandwich Islands, 
 as a surveyor. 
 
 /f^ EORGE JONES, Burlington, Wis., 
 f^^^ member of G. A. R. Po.st No. 201, 
 
 ^^i^^ was born .Ian. 16, 1817 in Haverhill, 
 Grafton county. New Hampshire. He is the 
 son of .loseph and Hannah (Blanchard) Jones 
 and is one of a family of four sons and four 
 daughters, named Charles, Horace, George, 
 Joseph, Harriet N., Phebe Ann, Martha and 
 Henrietta. All are living except the two last 
 
484 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 named. The fatlier was a farmer and, in tlie 
 early history of the place where he resided, was 
 prominent in his church connections which he 
 inherited from his Puritan ancestors. Both 
 parents were of English ancestry. The son 
 grew up on iiis father's farm and received such 
 education as the schools of that day afforded. 
 In 1840 he left the parental roof for the " far 
 West" as Wisconsin was then considered, and 
 went first to Racine and immediately after 
 to Burlington, where he has since resided. He 
 made his journey by the Erie canal to Buffalo 
 and thence by the lake route. He arrived late 
 in the fall and, soon after, obtained work on a 
 farm, his first job being that of threshing buck- 
 wheat. Not long after he was taken sick and 
 was unable to do anything all winter. He 
 went to Portage to work in a hotel and remained 
 until the last of 1841, when he returned to 
 Burlington. He engaged in farming in which 
 he was occupied 10 years and then became 
 interested in the meat business which he pur- 
 sued about the same length of time. After that 
 he was interested in managing a hotel and 
 meanwhile the country became disturbed 
 through the discordant elements in the South. 
 He was inclined to enter the service at the out- 
 set and July 3, ISGl, he enrolled for three years 
 in Company H, 9th Wisconsin Light Artillery, 
 Captain C. H. .Johnson. Oct. 14th he was 
 mustered in and on the 19th of March the com- 
 mand left the State for St. Louis, where partial 
 equipment in the shape of six guns was received, 
 with recruits which increased their number to 
 155 men. Mr. Jones was made Sergeant, and 
 accompanied the battery to Fort Leavenworth 
 where they received orders to proceed to Denver, 
 a march of more than 500 miles which was 
 accomplished in 32 days. The captain was 
 fearful of tiie interest of his men in the antics 
 of the game which was abundant, and he 
 forbade any man's leaving the ranks. But 
 
 when they saw the antelopes bounding pro- 
 vokingly close the temptation was too great, 
 and, the captain and several others gave chase. 
 Returning they were placed under arrest, but 
 Mr. Jones started a petition which secured their 
 release. From Denver, the leftsection, to which 
 Mr. Jones belonged, was ordered to go to Fort 
 Lyon to perform frontier duty in keeping the 
 Indians under control, which was an ea.sy 
 matter with the guns. Under Lieutenant 
 Crocker they went to Fort Larned, where Mr. 
 Jones was detailed to take a number of prisoners 
 to Fort Leavenworth for trial. He acted as 2d 
 Lieutenant afterwards, in charge of a force 
 with which he went to Southern Missouri in 
 pursuit of bushwhackers and after two months 
 went to Fort Leavenworth. In March, 1864, 
 in connection with a section of the battery, he 
 went to Council Grove, and thence to Saline. 
 His next move was to Fort Riley and 
 thence the command made a forced march 
 to the Missouri border which Price was inva- 
 ding and was pushing toward Independence. 
 They went next to the Big Blue, under Curtiss, 
 to operate against the forces of Price in his last 
 attempt to get into Missouri. Price had given 
 out that he would capture Kansas City and 
 Leavenworth and would make the latter his 
 headquarters. His flank movement, threaten- 
 I ing Kansas City, caused a retreat of the Union 
 troops to prevent disaster, and they chased the 
 wily rebel to Weston, fighting tlie rear under 
 Marmaduke, whose force was dispersed on a 
 prairit' and the guns brought to bear on them. 
 Price was sent towards tiie Arkansas River and 
 Marmaduke and his staff were taken. Tiie bat- 
 tery pursued to Fort Scott and thence two sec- 
 tions chased Price to Fayetteville, Ark., making 
 heavj' marches. They rested in camp while 
 the cavalry puslied on. The 9th Battery re- 
 turned to Fort Leavenworth and the left section 
 went to Fort Riley, where it remained until or- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 485 
 
 dered to Fort Leavenworth to be mustered out 
 Jan. 26, 1865. Mr. Jones returned to Wiscon- 
 sin, l)ut was not contented to remain at liome 
 until definite results were reached in the mat- 
 ter of the war. He proceeded to Washington, 
 where he enlisted April 10, 1865, for one year 
 or the war in Company B, 7th U. S. Infantry, 
 and was stationed for a time in the Capital. He 
 went thence to riiiladelpliia and was on duty 
 at Cam]i Cadwallader until April 7, 1866. On 
 his return to Wisconsin, he resumed his con- 
 nection witli agriculture, which he has since 
 continued with success and is the proprietor of 
 a fine farm in a good position, looking over the 
 city of Burlington. He was married in Clare- 
 mont, N. PI., July 3, 1844, to Rosetta M., 
 daughter of Andrew and Lucy (Thomas) Leet, 
 both of whom were natives of New Hampshire 
 and of American parentage and English 
 descent. The family of Mr. Jones included 
 several children, named George F., Mary R., 
 Rosa M., Francis E., Laura A., Alice E., Oliver 
 A., Emma and Ida. Of these, three are de- 
 ceased. George F., the oldest son, enlisted in 
 the same command with his father and passed 
 thi'ough the same experiences, re-enlisting in 
 the same battery when his term of service ex- 
 pired. He is a prominent citizen of Dodge 
 City, Kas., where he is City Clerk and also a 
 magistrate. Mr. Jones was the first man in 
 Burlington to suggest the raising of a company 
 there when the Government established a re- 
 cruiting office in that place. 
 
 'AMES WOODHOUSE, ex-Register of 
 Deeds of Grant county, Wis., and resi- 
 dent at Lancaster, a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 132, was born at J'ottsville, Pa., July 
 5, 1834. His parents, John and Ann (Newton) 
 Woodhouse, were natives of England and their 
 children, with the exception of the two young- 
 
 est, were born there. The family emigrated to 
 America in 1828, locating at Pottsville, where 
 the father engaged in coal mining. In 1836 a 
 removal to Wisconsin was effected and the 
 senior Woodhouse engaged in lead mining at 
 Potosi. Five years later they went to Beetown 
 and about a dozen years after to Little Grant 
 Township, settHng on a farm where the father 
 died in 1860. The family included several 
 children named in order Levison, Jane, John, 
 Samuel, Hannah, Simon, Peter, Mary and 
 James. Levison is deceased ; John died some 
 years ago; Samuel was a soldier in Company 
 F, 7tli Wisconsin Infantry; Hannah is not liv- 
 ing ; Simon was a soldier in the same service 
 with Samuel and is deceased. 
 
 Mr. Woodhouse was educated in the common 
 schools and afterwards engaged in farming and 
 working as a carj^enter. He was managing 
 the home farm when he decided to enter the 
 service and he enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, at Little 
 Grant in Company I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 He was mustered at Madison and left the State 
 with the regiment for St. Louis, where several 
 weeks were passed in preparing for active ser- 
 vice, drill, camp and guard duty. The com- 
 mand moved thence about the middle of Sep- 
 tember to Rolla, where Mr. Woodhouse ex- 
 perienced the same sort of routine until march- 
 ing orders for Springfield were received, 
 whither the regiment moved, involving a 
 march of 125 miles. (The camp was located 
 on the farm of the rebel General Price.) There 
 Mr. Woodhouse was taken sick and rejoined 
 his regiment about the first of December and 
 his first experience on resuming duty was the 
 forced march to re-inforce General Blunt in 
 Arkansas, preparatory to the battle of Prairie 
 Grove, in which the Union troops were out- 
 numbered about five to one. (See sketch of 
 Major Henry Starr.) In the second charge Mr. 
 Woodliouse was seriously wounded, a bullet 
 
486 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 striking his right leg below the knee and shat- 
 tering the bone and another, almost simulta- 
 neously hitting his thigh, 1)reaking the bone. As 
 he fell, the bullets fell like rain around him 
 ploughing through the leaves on the ground 
 and nearly covering his body witli them. He 
 tried to roll i)ehind a tree and while doing so 
 another bullet made a Hesh wound in the other 
 leg. He was wounded about two o'clock in the 
 afternoon and lay there until about four the 
 next morning. He was taken to a log house 
 in the woods, where he remained two days 
 with other wounded and was removed in an 
 ambulance ten miles to Fayetteville, where the 
 wounded were placed in the public buildings. 
 A few of the most serious cases, among which 
 was Mr. Woodhouse, were taken to private 
 houses and he suffered amputation seven days 
 after receiving his injuries. Ten days later he 
 was taken to a church and remained until Feb. 
 7, 1863, when he went with an ambulance train 
 of sick and wounded to Springfield, Mo., arri- 
 ving there about the middle of the month. His 
 condition was serious and ho remained there 
 until March 20tli, when he left, for St. Louis 
 and was discharged March 23, 1863. 
 
 As soon as {)ossible after returning home, he 
 resumed the management of the farm, l)ut as 
 lie was ol)lige<l to depend ujif)n lielp he sold 
 his interest therei n and went to Bloomington 
 wliere he obtained emj)loyment in a ])low fac- 
 tory. In the fall of l.S(>!t he was elected Regis- 
 ter of Deeds of Grant Co., Wis., and removed to 
 Lancaster to assume the duties of his office. 
 He held the position eight years and in 1879 
 established him.self in tiie sale of furniture and 
 sold the proprietoi"ship therein later to Mr. 
 Barlow, himself retaining a position as assist- 
 ant. About 18S2 he was elected Town Treas- 
 urer and still holds the position. 
 
 He is a member of the A. 0. U. W. His 
 marriage to Sarah Jane Iluey took place in 
 
 February, 1858, and they have five children. 
 Laura, Mrs. Burrows, is a widow ; Otie, Will- 
 iam, Eugene and Nett are the others. The 
 mother is the daughter of Joseph Hue3\ 
 
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 HARLES W. SMITH, Racine, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 born Feb. 15, 1847, in Somere, Keno- 
 sha Co., Wisconsin, and is the son of Charles 
 and Anna (Reid) Smith, who were natives of 
 Scotland and came to America in early life. 
 Their children are named Anna R., Charles W. 
 and James R. Mr. Smith remained on his 
 father's farm in Somers assisting, after he was 
 sufficiently grown, in the farm labors and ob- 
 taining his schooling. He desired to enlist 
 early in the war, but be wa.s too young, and he 
 was only 17 when he enrolled at Kenosha Jan. 
 8, 1864, and was mustered into Company H, 
 33d Wisconsin Infantry. He immediately made 
 connection with the regiment at Pittsburg, 
 (17th Corps under A. J. Smith, Division of 
 Crocker), and performed militarj' duty there of 
 varied character until December, and Jan. 31, 
 1865, went on the Meridian expedition. He 
 returned thence March 4th, after a long march 
 of 370 miles. Orders were received to connect 
 with the Red River expedition and Mr. Smith 
 enjoyed the triumph of a victory in his first 
 engagement at De Ru.ssey, after which the com- 
 mand started for Alexandria, and he was de- 
 tailed as guard on a commi.ssary boat, where he 
 had some severe experiences, the river boat* 
 being under incessant rebel fire from the 
 shores. He remained on the boat until the re- 
 turn to Alexandria, and afterwards went to 
 Vicksburg and to Memphis. After other mili- 
 tary experiences of varied character he went 
 to St. Charles and to Duvall's Bluff. Prior to 
 this be took jiart in the fight at Camargo Cross 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 487 
 
 Roads and went on the Tupelo expedition. 
 From Duvall's Blutf he went to Brownsville, 
 Texas, after Price, who was trying to get into 
 Missouri. He went to Cape Girardeau, and 
 thence to St. Louis, where new equipments 
 were received, after which they went to Jeffer- 
 son City. (In this movement a brigade of 
 rebels were captured, who were taken to 
 Warrensburg and to St. Louis.) Their 
 next move was to the relief of Thomas 
 at Nashville and two weeks after they were 
 in the chase after llooil. They took large 
 numbers of prisoners and chased the rebels to 
 the Tennessee and went to Eastport, raided for 
 six weeks, took part in the move to luka and 
 the reconnoissance to Corinth. Next Mr. 
 Smith went to the assault on the defenses 
 of Mobile. He traveled on the Tennessee and 
 Mi.ssi.ssip|)i Rivers to New Orleans and across 
 Mobile Bay to Forts Gaines and Morgan. He 
 was detailed with a command to make a feint 
 on the city itself, going over to the side of the 
 bay where the city was situated, and went to 
 Cedar Point. They went thence to the trenches 
 at Spanish Fort and after ten days the fort 
 surrendered. Tiie assault at Blakely was in 
 operation at the same time, and tlie troo{)S took 
 possession of Spanish Fort in early morning 
 April 9th. Their next orders took them 
 to Montgomery, Ala., to aid in destroying rebel 
 sinews of war and, while on a foraging expe- 
 dition, three of tliera narrowly escaped capture 
 by rebel cavalry. At Montgomery they learned 
 of the surrender of Lee and they went next to 
 Tuskegee and thence to Mobile. The regiment 
 was sent home, but Mr. Smith was transferred 
 to the 11th Wisconsin and detailed as mail 
 messenger, running from Mobile to Columbus. 
 Two months later he returned to Wisconsin 
 and was mustered out. He did not receive any 
 injury and his narrowest escape was at Spanish 
 Fort, where his musket was shot from his hand. 
 
 He returned to Racine, obtained a position 
 with a kunber hou.se with whom he remained 
 19 years and was then made a partner in the 
 concern, under the style of the West Shore 
 Lumber Company, which is one of the reliable 
 and substantial business firms of Racine. He 
 was married in November, 1809 to Mary, 
 daughter of Barnard and Betsey B: Halenbake. 
 Their only chikl, Fred, was born in 1871. 
 
 
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 ^^ APTAIN BENJAMIN S. KERR, attor- 
 
 ^ ney at Monroe, Wis., member of 0. F. 
 Pinney Post, No. 102, was born at 
 Bladensburg, Knox county, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1841. 
 He is the son of Joseph Kerr, Jr., and his 
 grandfather, Joseph Kerr, was born in Ireland, 
 married Elizabeth McCully and emigrated to 
 America, locating on a farm near Pittsburg, Pa. 
 When his son was a child he removed to Knox 
 county, Ohio, on which the grandparents of 
 Mr. Kerr died. They were aged respectively 
 about 100 and 80 years. Following is the 
 record of their six children: — Williaiu, deceased ; 
 Hannah, deceased ; Joseph Jr., was next in 
 order and is deceased ; John resides in Ohio ; 
 Isaac and Elizabeth are deceased. Joseph Kerr 
 was born near Pittsburg in 1809 and married 
 Rebecca Saunders, a native of Ohio, whitiier he 
 went with his parents when seven years old. 
 In 1845 he located in Green county, Wisconsin. 
 His wife became the mother of eight children 
 and is still living at the age of 74 years. Her 
 children are all living and are named William, 
 Benjamin S., Villetta C, Sarah (Mrs. 0. H. 
 Pratt), Joseph, Isaac, Alvah, Milton and Ellen, 
 wife of I. H. Weirrich. Mr. Kerr of this sketch 
 was reared on a farm and attended through his 
 boyhood the common schools. Later he was a 
 student at Platteville Academy and in 1862 he 
 commenced teaching, which he pursued 
 
488 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 tlirough two winter seasons. In the spring of 
 1863 lie commenced to read for his profession 
 with Hon. B. Dinwiddie of Monroe and con- 
 tinued in his office until March 1st, 1864 at 
 which time he commenced recruiting for a 
 company for the 38th Wisconsin Infantry. April 
 15, 18G4, he enlisted and on the organization of 
 Company D, he was made 1st Lieutenant, was 
 mustered at Camp Randall, and. May 3d, 
 started for Washington. May 30th orders were 
 received by the regiment to go to Alexandria 
 where they embarked on the Potomac for 
 White House Landing. Marching followed 
 and the first service consisted of an expedition 
 to Cold Harbor as escort of a train of supplies 
 for the army. There, for the first time Captain 
 Kerr heard the roar of caiuion and the patter 
 of musketry during the action and there the 
 regiment lost the first man. On the evening 
 of June 16th, the oSth was in the trenches 
 under fire before Petersburg, where Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Pier, (see sketch) in command of four 
 companies of the regiment with the 1st Battal- 
 ion of the 1st Minnesota Infantry, made a 
 charge on the next day. This was one of the 
 most brilliant acts of that campaign, the men 
 of the regiment being so exhausted that ihcy 
 slej)! while marching and while the roar of war 
 was all about them. On the 18th, with his 
 company, he assisted in the capture of the 
 rebel lines along the railroad. 
 
 The casualties were so great that at one time 
 only 20 men and six officers reported for duty. 
 The captain having resigned, .July 1st Lieu- 
 tenant Kerr took command and was in active 
 service throughout the remainder of the war 
 with the exception of a week, which he passed 
 in hospital suffering from exhaustion ; he was 
 subsequently promoted to Captain of his com- 
 pany and was a witness of the explosion of the 
 mine, July 30th, and was under fire on the 
 terrible day ; he fought in the fall on the 
 
 Weldon railroad, at Ream's Station, Poplar 
 Grove Church and in the constant i.-tivities 
 that filled the time until the openin^L, of the 
 spring campaign of 1865. Captain Kerr was 
 at his post during the movements which pre- 
 ceded the close of hostilities and was at Ap- 
 pomattox when the confederacy became a thing 
 of the past. His regiment was at the head of 
 the Grand Review and he was in command of 
 his men. After a short stay at Tenallytown, 
 the regiment was placed in the Provisional 
 Brigade, for the defense of Washington under 
 General Auger, after the assassination of the 
 1 President, the •38th being stationed a few blocks 
 east of the Capitol until the return to Madison. 
 Caj)tain Kerr was officer of the day while on 
 guard at Washington and in that capacity 
 visited the various posts, one of them being the 
 residence of Secretary Seward who was sutter- 
 ing from the wounds received on the night of 
 the assassination. Captain Kerr was mustered 
 out at Washington July 26, 1865, and w:is 
 finally relieved at Madison, August 11th fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 On his return to civil life he resumed the 
 study of law with his former preceptor, Judge 
 Dinwiddie, and was admitted to the Bar of 
 Wisconsin in March, 1866. He remained in 
 his former connection until fall, when he was 
 elected District Attorney of Green county and, 
 opened his office as a practicing attorney in 
 which he has since conducted the liusiness 
 accruing. He ranks among the prominent 
 attorneys in his section and enjoys the repute 
 of a man of cultivation and refinement and 
 possesses acknowledged inHuence in business 
 and social circles second to none. 
 
 He was married at Monroe, Nov. 14, 1866, 
 to Angeline, daughter of Shavalia and Eliza- 
 beth (Doolittle) Fayette. Her fatlier is a 
 descendant of a brother of Marquis De Lafay- 
 ette and her mother belonged to the branch 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 491 
 
 of the Doolittle family from which the Wiscon- 
 sin Senator descended. Captain and Mrs. Kerr 
 have two children — Maud, horn Jan. ^9, 18G8, 
 and Fayette, horn Feh. 12, 1S70. 
 
 /^^ APT. ALLEN RALPH BUSHNELL, 
 iV^vV/ attorney at Lancaster, Wis., mem- 
 ^^^^ her of G. A. R. Post No. 132, was 
 horn .July 18, 1833, in Hartford, Trumbull 
 Co., Ohio, and he is the son of Dr. George W. 
 Bushnell, a descendant from sires who fought 
 in the wars of the country in ifs fonnative 
 period, his grandfather, Captain Alexander 
 Bushnell, being a soldier of the Revolution and 
 his father, Daniel Bushnell, having fought in 
 1812. The earliest ancestor in this country 
 was Francis Bushnell, who settled in the New 
 World in its colonial period. Sally, wife of Dr. 
 Bushnell, was the daughter of Deacon Elihu 
 Bates. The families removed to Ohio where 
 the marriage of the parents took place and 
 there the mother died ; the father is still living. 
 Five of their eight children survive, named 
 Sarah B., Amoret, Anna, John L. and Allen R. 
 Curtis is deceased ; Milo was a soldier in a com- 
 pany of boys who were too young for veteran 
 duty and he died of disease while still in ser- 
 vice, aged about 15 years. Edward died when 
 about 19 years old. 
 
 Captain Bushnell was reared on a farm and 
 also studied medicine with his father; he ob- 
 tained his elementary education in the com- 
 mon schools; went to Hartford high school 
 and Oberlin College, and finished his studies 
 at Hiram College with Garfield is instructor. 
 But he had settled on the profession of an at- 
 torney and, while taking his literary course 
 taught several terms of school. In 1852 he 
 went to Wisconsin, teaching a term at Block 
 
 House Branch, after which he returned to 
 Ohio, going permanently to Wisconsin in 1854. 
 He taught school in Platteville while pursuing 
 his law studies in the office of Hon. S. 0. 
 Paine and was admitted to the Bar in 1857. 
 About the first of December of that year he be- 
 gan his practice at Platteville, established a 
 popular business and was elected District Attor- 
 ney in 1860, receiving 100 more votes than the 
 electoral ticket for Lincoln. He served until 
 the condition of National affairs seemed para- 
 mount to all other considerations and he re- 
 signed to give bis attention to military affairs. 
 He aided in raising the Platteville Guards, 
 which was organized by Captain Nasmitb, an 
 old soldier of the Mexican war. Captain Bush- 
 nell was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of the 
 company which was mustered into the Ttli 
 Wisconsin as Company C, its members having 
 enlisted for three months, but, on the order 
 providing for the enrollment of no more short 
 .service men, they re-enlisted for three years. 
 Captain Bushnell's commission was dated in 
 May, 18G1, and he was mustered at Madison in 
 August and proceeded to Washington and the 
 front, where his regiment was brigaded with 
 the 2d and 6th Wisconsin and 19th Indiana, 
 which organization became the famous " Iron 
 Brigade." The command drilled, performed 
 camp and guard duty, went to Manassas and 
 was stationed between the rebel army and 
 Washington, going to Fredericksburg and re- 
 maining sometime in that position, raiding 
 towards Richmond and skirmishing somewhat, 
 but in no set battle until Gainesville. Captain 
 Bushnell fought at the 2d Bull Run and was 
 afterwards taken sick with typhoid fever, which 
 gave him sick furlough and he passed two 
 months at home in Ohio. He rejoined his 
 regiment on the south slope of the Blue Ridge, 
 and was first again in action at Fredericks- 
 burg, passed the winter in quarters on the 
 
492 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Rappahannock and distinguislied himself with 
 the rest in the " Mud Campaign." His health 
 becoming impaired, Captain Bushnell resigned 
 under surgeon's certificate of disability. He 
 had been promoted Captain of his company 
 and served as such after the battle of Frede- 
 ricksburg. 
 
 He went to his father's house, where he 
 remained under medical treatment for a year 
 and went back to Wisconsin in 1864. He 
 practiced law a short time in Platte vi He and 
 went thence to Lancaster where, in 18G5 he 
 entered the office of Judge Mills and formed a 
 copartnership with John G. Clark in 1867. In 
 1880 Mr. Watkins became a member of the 
 firm, which continued to exist until the with- 
 drawal of Mr. Clark in 18S2. The present 
 style is Bushnell & Watkins and they are one 
 of the leading law firms in that section of Wis- 
 consin. 
 
 Captain Bushnell has been prominently 
 identified with the history of Lancaster since 
 he became one of its citizens ; he was the first 
 Mayor of Lancaster and assisted in forming 
 the municipal government. In 1872 he was 
 made a member of the Legislature and served 
 on the Judiciary Committee with some of the 
 most prominent lawyers in the State, that 
 session of the Assembly being particularly 
 strong. Hu has served a number of years as 
 United States District Attorney, and is still the 
 incumbent of the office. 
 
 He was married at Lancaster to Laura E., 
 daughter of Addison and ]\hxrtlia Burr ; she was 
 a native of Vermont and died in 1873, 
 leaving a daughter named Mabel. In 1875 he 
 married Mary F.,daughterof Cyrus and Fanny 
 (Barber) Sherman; a son born of this union 
 died in infancy. Captain Bushnell is a Mason 
 and belongs to the Chapter at Lancaster. 
 
 The ipiartette of portraits on page 490 of 
 which Captain Bushuell's is one, is presented 
 
 with the liveliest satisfaction of the publishers 
 of this work. They represent the service of 
 Wisconsiu in the war throughout its course. 
 
 OL. JOHN G. CLARK, Lancaster, 
 Wis., senior member of the law firm 
 of Clark A Taylor, was born in Mor- 
 gan Co., 111., July 31, 1825. His father, 
 Thomas Pye Clark, was born in Pemberton near 
 Wiggin, Lancashire, England, June 20, 17-81, 
 and was only 15 j'ears of age when he came to 
 America with his brother. He went first to 
 Pennsylvania and after {fassing some time on a 
 farm went to the city of New York, where he 
 reached his majority, spending his time in the 
 employ of a mercantile house. He engaged in 
 trade in his own interest and went thence to 
 Havana, Cuba, where disaster overtook his en- 
 terprise and he went to AugusUi, Ga., where he 
 again entered into trade and married Isabella 
 Clark. She was born in Augusta, Jan. 4, 1786. 
 The family moved to Illinois in 1822 and 
 settled on a farm in Morgan county, where the 
 two youngest children were born. The next 
 removal was to Missouri, locating near Marion 
 College, Marion county, to obUiin educational 
 advantages for the four sons. The father was 
 engaged in fitting an expedition for California 
 in 1850 at New Orleans where he was seized 
 with cholera which terminated his life; the 
 mother died tlie same season at Macon, Mo. 
 (The original patronymic was Pye, wIiIlIi was 
 clianged on tlie marriage of the father to Isa-. 
 belia Clark, he taking lier name by Act of 
 Legislature.) Their chiMren were named in 
 order of birth, William, Thomas, Charles and 
 John. The eldest resides in California. 
 Thomas was a surgeon and it is re- 
 ported died while serving as such in the rebel 
 army; Charles went to Texas in 1854, was 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 493 
 
 pressed into reljel service, although holding 
 Union principles, and lost his life in the re- 
 bellion. 
 
 Colonel Clark was early thrown on his own 
 resources. He went to AVisconsin in 1837 but 
 remained only a few months. He subse- 
 (juently removed with his father's family to 
 Marion county, Missouri, and entered Marion 
 College, afterwards Masonic College. In Sep- 
 tember, 1845, he entered Illinois .College at 
 Jacksonville, 111., whence he was graduated in 
 1847. 
 
 During, the.se years he partially supported 
 himself by manual labor, by discliarging the 
 duties of janitor and b}' teadiing, and in the 
 meantime creating large debts, which, with the 
 accumulated interest, he paid in after years. 
 
 After a short stay in Missouri, not liking the 
 prospects when as a laborer he had to come in 
 competition with slaves, and where as a teacher 
 he could get only about $15 per month, he re- 
 turned to Wisconsin in 1847 and engaged in 
 teaching and mining, and not succeeding very 
 well he hired out to James E. Freeman, a Gov- 
 ernment surveyor, as a man of all work, but 
 principally as cook and packer. In a short 
 time he familiarized himself with the solar 
 compass and with the mode and manner of 
 making the surveys and was promoted to the 
 charge of a company. First as emploj-e and 
 subsequently as contractor he followed that 
 liusiness in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and 
 Missouri until 1854, encountering all the hard- 
 ships and exposures of such a career, twice win- 
 tering near Lake Superior without tent or 
 other shelter except such as a few pine boughs 
 might offer when occasionally and hastily 
 gathered at nightfall. His men became so ac- 
 customed to this exposure that the daily im- 
 mersion in midwinter in the swamps and 
 streams made no impression on them. 
 
 He became expert in the business and prob- 
 
 ably surveyed as much territory as any man 
 in Wisconsin. He located a portion of the 
 State line between Missouri and Iowa in 1852 
 and survej'ed the adjacent lands. In 1853 he 
 was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court of Grant county ; in 1854 he was elected 
 Clerk of the Court and was made his own 
 successor in 1856, and again in 1858. In 
 1860 he was elected to the State Legislature, 
 in which position he was serving when the 
 business of the entire country was wholly 
 demoralized by the advent of fraternal war. 
 He was among the first to offer his services 
 to Wisconsin and went into camp .with Com- 
 pany C, 2d Wisconsin Infantry, with the in- 
 tention of going to the seat of war with that 
 command. An extra session of the Legis- 
 lature demanded his attendance and when that 
 business was over he entered the service in the 
 capacity of Quartermaster of the 5tli Wisconsin 
 Infantry, his commission being dated June 14, 
 1861. (Prior to this he received from the Gov- 
 ernor a commission as Assistant Commissary 
 General of Wisconsin, dated May 31, 1861.) 
 Colonel Clark passed through the detailed ex- 
 periences of the regiment from muster at Mad- 
 ison until May, 1S63, engaged through the first 
 luonths in drill, camp guard and picket duty, 
 together with the other duties of his position, 
 marched in the Peninsula campaign, skir- 
 mished at various points and was at Williams- 
 burg, where the regiment won renown. He 
 suffered all the miseries of the Chickahominy 
 and was with his regiment on that celebrated 
 retreat, and in the several battles in which 
 the 5th took a part. He was in the fight 
 at Cramptou's Gap, in the subsecjuent move- 
 ments prior to Antietam and was on that 
 awful field ; waiting for developments, he 
 passed the winter on the Rappahannock and 
 entered into Burnside's operations to meet witli 
 the common fate ; he was at Fredericksburg and 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Marye's Heights, encountering immediately 
 after, the ruin at Chancellorsville. In May, 
 1863, he was commissioned Captain and Pro- 
 vost Marshal of the 3d District of Wisconsin 
 and officiated in that position until February^ 
 1865, when he was commissioned Colonel of the 
 50th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment went 
 to Missouri and was scattered witii other troops 
 over a sub-district which included a half-dozen ; 
 counties, of which he was in command with 
 headquarters at Jefferson City. In July the 
 regiment was ordered to Fort Leavenworth, 
 where Colonel Clark was, for the first time, in 
 command of his entire regiment, which iiad 
 been sent forward in companies and distributed 
 where needed. At a later date he was sent 
 with his command to the upper Missouri for 
 service on the frontiers, quelling Indians and 
 performing duty for which his men had not i 
 enlisted and which they did not anticipate. \ 
 At the date of the mutiny at Fort Leavenworth, i 
 the 50th Wisconsin proved the quality of its 
 meml)ers, especially, as its officers and soldiers 
 felt keenly the injustice of the course to which 
 they were subjected and all the more so in 
 view of the fact that the mutinous regiments 
 were mustered out before their terms of en- ; 
 listment had expired, while the 50th could not 
 by any possiljility be relieved until long after 
 its term had expired. It remained on the 
 plains until June, 1866. 
 
 lie was proud of liis regiment and consider- 
 ed it one of tiie best officered, best disci])lined, 
 best behaved if not the best drilled, and one of 
 the most reliable of any in the service; and 
 such was its reputation at Department head- 
 quarters; for tiiat reason it was ordered on 
 duty where it would necessarily be retained in 
 the service after its term should expire, not- 
 withstanding the wish of its officers and men 
 to return to their shops, farms and families. 
 He keenly felt that an injustice was done them. 
 
 Colonel Clark was fitted for his profession 
 and admitted to the Bar in 1861, and in 1867 
 opened an office as an attorney and in addition 
 to his business has been continuously in the 
 service of the public. He has been prominent 
 in all matters pertaining to the well-being of 
 his municipality and active in the furtlierance 
 of such projects as seemed to hold a promise 
 of permanent good to the community. During 
 the constr^jction of the railroad through that 
 section of Wisconsin he was Chairman of the 
 Town Board and assumed such responsibilities 
 and operated in the interests of all concerned 
 under the prerogatives of his position as would 
 have financially ruined him in case of a 
 failure. He has been Mayor of Lancaster and 
 was instrumental in the construction of one of 
 the best school buildings in the State. 
 
 As Mayor of Jjancaster and as Chairman of 
 the Committee he secured and superintended 
 the construction and organized one of the first 
 and best county asylums for the insane in the 
 country. 
 
 He was a candidate before the Ilepublican 
 conventions in 1874 and 1880 for tlie nomi- 
 nation for Congress. After many l>allots in 
 1874 a third candidate was nominated. In 
 1880, because of irregularities, he withdrew his 
 name. He assisted in the creation of the 
 Republican party in 1853 and 1S54, and has 
 never swerved from his fealty thereunto. It 
 honored him. He tried to iionor it. 
 
 He is at present, (188!>) Master of tlie Masonic 
 Lodge at Lancaster wiiich position he lias filled 
 eleven years; he has belonged to the State 
 organization and is also an Odd Fellow, being, 
 in 1878, Grand Master of the State Grand 
 Lodge. He was also Grand liepresentative to 
 the Sovereign Grand Lodge many years. 
 
 He was married Feb. IDth, 1852, to Minerva, 
 daughter of Harvey Pepper of Mineral Point. 
 Their children are named Alice, (Mrs. Tiel of 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 495 
 
 California) and A\^illiam Harvey of Lancastei'. 
 Colonel Clark is a man of whom Wisconsin 
 records bear the best testimonials in all capaci- 
 ties in which he has served her interests. 
 Necessity for exertion was, through all iiis 
 early years, his inflexible instigator to effort 
 and she held him with an iron grasp. Asa sur- 
 veyor he passed through hardships which 
 would liave sent a less resolute man to insig- 
 nificant and easier toil ; in his military service he 
 sacrificed personal interest and returned to 
 civil life a poor man and in debt, being com- 
 pelled to sell his real estate to release himself; 
 his arduous work on the plains had cost him 
 his health and thus equipped, after serving his 
 country with a bravery which had received 
 due official recognition, he set out to carve a 
 career in a i)rivate capacity. He has carried 
 the .same traits into his later career which dis- 
 tinguished him earlier, and is now at the head 
 of one of the leading law firms of the State. 
 He is one of the best samples of self-made men 
 who have l)een j^laced on record in Wisconsin, 
 and the State is justly proud of her son. He is 
 an active Grand Army man, belonging to the 
 Post at Lancaster. 
 
 He is approaching the allotted term of years 
 assigned to man, but is still a model of mental 
 vigor, energy and public spirit. He has ful- 
 filled to the people of Grant county the promise 
 they saw in him when he made his advent in 
 Lancaster, fresh from his contest for life in the 
 forest, after having waded icy rivers and trav- 
 ersed weary miles of untrodden wilderness, in 
 a buckskin suit, showing traces of service ; its 
 owner making such an impression on the 
 peoj)le that he was immediately solicited to 
 accept the position of Clerk of the Circuit, in 
 which he served in a manner that reflected the 
 greatest credit on the discernment of his con- 
 stituents. 
 
 Since writing the above Colonel Clark has 
 
 been by the present administration appointed 
 Associate -Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Oklahoma Territory and has been confirmed, 
 and is now, .June, 1890, there in the discharge 
 of his duties. 
 
 The portrait of Colonel Clark may be found 
 on page 490. 
 
 'p<^ ON. GEORGE I 
 Tf^jp Grant County, 
 --^ "i^ cnstfir wiis hoi 
 
 B. CARTER, Judge of 
 Wis., resident at Lan- 
 caster, was born near Brighton, in 
 the shire of Sussex, England, April 18, 1838. 
 His immediate ancestry in the paternal line 
 were Thomas aud Lydia (Luckings) Carter, and 
 in the maternal line Edward and Ann (Brown) 
 Fox. His forbears on his father's side prove 
 their descent from ancestors dating back more 
 than 400 years as property holders in Sussex. 
 William Carter, son of Thomas Carter and 
 father of " His Honor, " was an innkeeper and 
 market gardener in his native country, which 
 he left for political reasons in 1850, coming to 
 America to enjoy his opinions as a Chartist. 
 All his immediate relatives removed to America 
 the same year. The senior Carter and his wife 
 reared ten children, all of whom are living, the 
 Judge being third in order of birth. Follow- 
 ing is a brief record of the brothers and sisters : 
 William E. is an attorney at Platteville, Wis.; 
 Richard, an attorney at Dodgeville, Wis., was 
 a soldier in the 2d and 5th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and was promoted after the battle of the 
 Wilderness; Sarah E., wife of Edward Chil- 
 dren, resides at East Dubuque, Iowa ; Lydia A. 
 married John Woodward of Platteville ; Esther 
 M. married Mr. Woodward of Livingston ; 
 Alice E. married W. R. Carter of Lawrence, 
 Kan.; Anna J. lives at Lancaster ; Edwin T. is 
 a business man at Annaton, Wis.; Fannie J., is 
 the wife of T. B. Sherman of Stitzer, Wis. The 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 family came direct to Lancaster, where former 
 friends from the old country resided, bringing 
 witli them some means, and, being importuned 
 to remain, settled there to form a leading ele- 
 ment in the community. Tiie traits of the 
 sires were perpetuated in the succeeding gen- 
 erations, and the sons secured all the advan- 
 tages of education and discipline for contact 
 with the world, wliich the laws and customs of 
 the country permitted. George Carter studied 
 as be could at winter terms of school, and the 
 winter before he was 21 years old taught a 
 term of school, saving $150, with wliich he in- 
 dulged in attendance at Platteville academy, 
 being a student there until the .spring of 18G0. 
 lie fully intended to pursue a liberal course of 
 study, but failing health prevented and he re- 
 turned to Lancaster, where he was made Under 
 Sheriff of the county. The events of the period 
 awakened all his interest and, according to a 
 premonition tliat tlie country would liave occa- 
 sion to demand tlie best blood of its people be- 
 fore the differences of tlie North and South 
 were adjusted, held himself ready for the emer- 
 gency, and, April ly, IStil, as .soon as the call 
 for troops was made and it was possible to en- 
 roll for the defense of National unity, he enlist- 
 ed in an organization that was assigned to the 
 2d Wisconsin Infantry as Company C. His 
 roommate enlisted at the same time, there be- 
 ing an understanding between the two that 
 thej'sliould be comrades in everything, neither 
 accepting promotion on tliis account, altliough 
 both were offered leading official positions in 
 the company. Judge Carter is the first man 
 now alive who enlisted from his county, and is 
 as proud of that distinction as of liis honors 
 which have been accumulating since his return 
 to civil life. 
 
 After muster at Madison, the regiment went 
 to the front, camping near Washington, and 
 was brigaded under (then) Colonel W. T. Sher- 
 
 man. Judge Carter was first in battle at Bull 
 Run and he afterwards remained with his com- 
 mand, which operated with the Army of Vir- 
 ginia. At home he had been leader of a l)and 
 and, after Bull Run, yielded to solicitation to 
 organize a Ijand and was afterwards, in Sep- 
 tember, made Orderly' Sergeant of liis company. 
 Nov. 23, 18G1, he was taken with typhoid fever; 
 he was sent home, receiving honorable dis- 
 charge as disabled; his weight had been 166 
 pounds and, on reaching home he weighed 100 
 pounds. He had read law for a short time in 
 ISGl with I. A. Barber of Lancaster and resumed 
 his studies on recovering liis health. In August, 
 1862, he was commissioned as a recruiting 
 officer, rai.sed about 50 men who were consoli- 
 dated with part of a company raised by J. C. 
 Moore, the latter being made Captain and liim- 
 self 1st Lieutenant of the organization, which 
 was assigned to the 33d Wisconsin Infantry as 
 Company A. Lieutenant Carter's previous ex- 
 perience was utilized in drilling his company 
 and it was the best in the regiment, wliich was 
 mustered at Racine in Cctober, 1SG2, and sent 
 early in November to Memjihis, and incorpo- 
 rated with the 13th Corps in General W. T. 
 Sherman's division. The command went witii 
 Grant in the Mississipi)i campaign and, after 
 tlie disaster at Holly Springs went into winter 
 quarters at Moscow, Tenn. In February they 
 went to Mempliis in the IGth Corps and, wliile 
 in camp, Comjiaiiy A won tlie prize for best 
 military drill in the division. Lieutenant Carter 
 receiving from his men a very elegant sword as 
 proof of their appreciation of his interest in 
 them. The regiment was in the action near 
 Hernando in April and a month later started 
 to connect with Grant's army at Vicksburg. 
 At Young's Point they landed, and subse- 
 quently went to the Yazoo river, thence they 
 took position in the investing line of Vicksburg 
 after a heavy march. Judge Carter was in the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 497 
 
 siege and under reljel fire 42 days and nights, 
 receiving Ijullets tlirougli his clotlies; his horse 
 was killed and he was knocked over by a shell; 
 a bullet hit his sword, but he never received 
 a wound while in the service, his exposure to 
 rebel tire aggregating in all 102 days during 
 which he was in 32 heavy engagements. After 
 \'icksburg he was in the chase after Johnston 
 and was in the fight at Jackson. (In the charge 
 of the 1st Brigade, 1,070 men were in line of bat- 
 tle and 250 answered to their names at rol^call). 
 His regiment was detailed from the brigade to 
 find the Pearl River Bridge, thus escaping the 
 horrors of that charge. After aiding in the de- 
 struction of property at Jackson they returned to 
 the Mississippi and afterwards to Natchez. The 
 regiment was in the Meridian expedition after 
 which they expected to be continued with Sher- 
 man, but three divisions were sent to the 
 assistance of Banks on the Red River, inclu- 
 ding the 33d Wisconsin. It was expected that 
 the divisions mentioned would return to Sher- 
 man for the Atlanta campaign but tlie falling 
 of the river prevented. They were in the 
 action at Fort I)e Russey, in reconnoissances 
 afterward and retreated after the disaster at 
 Sabine Cross Roads, skirmishing with guer- 
 rillas and marching from point to point and 
 fighting the battle of Tupelo. July 14, 1864, 
 Judge Carter sustained a sunstroke but 
 remained with his command. (His temerity 
 in neglecting himself was proved later, as he 
 was obliged in after years to abandon his busi- 
 ness and resort to heroic treatment to avert 
 more serious consequences than death). After 
 the fight at Tui>elo he returned with the com- 
 mand to Memphis, went to White River after 
 Price, who was pursued to Cape Girardeau, and 
 Jefferson City and, finally into Indian Terri- 
 tory. On the Big and Little Blue Rivers, about 
 1,000 rebels were captured, who were taken to 
 St. Louis, where the Judge voted for President 
 
 Lincoln. They went next to Nashville and 
 wei"e in the fight there, the command being in 
 the skirmish line and capturing 270 prisoners. 
 They were of Merriwether's command and the 
 part taken by Judge Carter in this afl'air 
 received special mention. He had been pro- 
 moted to Captain on the death of his superior 
 in front of Vicksburg, and his service 
 in that capacity was such that his man- 
 agement is still the subject of comment 
 on historical pages. After Nashville he was 
 placed on the staff' of General Moore with the 
 rank of Captain and after the fight received the 
 promise of a Major's commission. He was in 
 the pursuit of Hood to Corinth and luka, re- 
 turning to Eastport, Miss., to camp there while 
 awaiting transportation to the Gulf, meanwhile 
 foraging for subsistence; they had plenty of 
 meat and small rations but no bread, and corn 
 in the ear was issued for ten days as a substi- 
 tute. Finally they reached New Orleans and 
 went to the investment of Spanish Fort, being 
 in the trenches there throughout the entire 
 siege of 30 days, and there Judge Carter was 
 commissioned Brevet Major for bravery. After 
 the fall of Blakely his command went to Mont- 
 gomery, where news of Lincoln's murder was 
 received, which transformed the soldiers into 
 infuriated madmen ; only the persistent de- 
 nials of the rebel prints prevented wholesale 
 murder and destruction. The regiment re- 
 turned to Vicksburg, where Major Carter was 
 mustered out Aug. 9, 1865. 
 
 On resuming connection with civil life once 
 more he prospected for business a short time 
 and, deciding that law practice at Lan- 
 caster presented slight advantage he went to 
 Platteville and began operations in trade, in 
 which he was occupied five years. In 1870 he 
 decided to follow his inclinations and again 
 read law with his brother at Platteville, form- 
 ing a partnership with him in the following 
 
498 
 
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 year. In the fall of 1872 he was elected Dis- 
 trict Attorney and was made his own successor 
 in 1874. In the spring of 1878 his old diffi- 
 culty overcame him and he was incapacitated 
 for business for four years. Proper medical 
 care completely restored his health and in 1882 
 lie received an appointment in the land office 
 at Madison, where he served four years. March 
 1, 1886, he was appointed Judge of Grant 
 county and in the spring of 1889 was elected 
 to the [)osition of which he is still the incum- 
 bent. Me belongs to G. A. R. Post Thomas D. 
 Cox, named in memory of the first soldier 
 killed ut Hull Run from the company of which 
 the Judge was a member. He was first Past 
 Commander of the old Post at Platteville in 
 18(57. He is a Chapter Mason, holding his con- 
 nection with the Masonic bodies at Platteville. 
 
 He was married Jan. 25, 1864, while at home 
 on recruiting service to Helen Barber, daughter 
 of Addison and Martha Lois (Barber) Burr. 
 Her grandfather, Aaron Burr, was born in Ver- 
 mont, and was a relative of Vice President 
 Aift-on Burr. T. A. Burr, the brother of Mrs. 
 Carter, is Postmaster at Lancaster. The chil- 
 dren born to her and her husband are three in 
 number. Benjamin Farrar, aged 25 years, is 
 a druggist at St. Cloud, Minn.; William Burr, 
 aged 18, is passing a preparatory year in the 
 banking house of Meyer & Co., at the conclus- 
 ion of which he will take a university course. 
 Laura, aged 13 years, is the youngest and only 
 daughter. 
 
 The portrait of Judge Carter may be found 
 on page 490. 
 
 i B=CJC - 
 
 ICHARD CARTER, Dodgeville, Wis., 
 District Attorney of Iowa county, 
 member of the law firm of Ree.se & 
 Carter, was born in Sussex, England, May 31, 
 1836. His immediate ancestry in his native 
 
 country were conspicuous for principles which 
 made it impossible for them to exist under 
 monarchical institutions and the family sacri- 
 ficed all ties that connected it with the land of 
 its nativitj' to found anew their house in a 
 country whose civil Government afforded op- 
 portunity to enjoy the privileges of untram- 
 meled thought and convictions. The sketch of 
 Hon. Geo. B. Carter, which appears on another 
 page contains the genealogical references which 
 trace the ancestry of Captain Carter. 
 
 When he was 14 years old, the latter ac- 
 companied bis parents, William and Annie 
 (Fox) Carter, to America and was reared on the 
 farm in Lancaster, Wisconsin, to which they 
 went immediately on landing at the port of 
 New York. Home ties were strong and he 
 remained under the parental roof, aiding on^ 
 the farm and engaged in obtaining an educa- 
 tion as he best could. His abilities were 
 marked and he became prominent as an assist- 
 ant in municii)al matters, acting five years be- 
 fore he was 25 years old as Deputy Clerk of 
 the Court under Col. John G. Clark. With the 
 money he earned he paid his expenses at the 
 Platteville academy and was graduated when 
 24 years of age. He taught six terms of school 
 at home and in 1860 was appointed one of the 
 enrolling clerks of the Assembly of Wisconsin. 
 He was in Madison when the Proclamation of 
 the President calling for troops, dated April 15, 
 1861, was received and was in the assembly halls 
 of Wisconsin when the matter was discu.ssed on 
 the IGth of April. As soon as the Secretary of 
 War made his first requisition on Alexander W. 
 Randall for a regiment, young Carter hastened 
 to ap[)ly for a situation as military defender of 
 the flag which had been humiliated at Sumter, 
 and it is safe to conjecture that he was the first 
 man in Wisconsin to make formal apjilic^ition 
 to the executive for enrollment in a Wiscon- 
 sin regiment. Before the Governor's office was 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 499 
 
 open on the morning of the Ifitli of April he 
 caUed at his office and by the request of Gov- 
 ernor Randall was detailed to go to Grant 
 county on recruiting service, after enrolling in 
 Company C, 2d Wisconsin Infantry. He was 
 asked by the Governor if he could enlist a 
 company in 10 days and he replied "tliat he 
 could if the Spirit of '76 was not dead. " In 
 conjunction with others he raised two com- 
 panies in five days. Before the muster of the 
 regiment, the enlistment of three mouths men 
 was discontinued and Company C re-enlisted to 
 a man. Mr. Carter refused a commission on 
 the ground of ignorance of military tactics and 
 was mustered as Orderly Sergeant June 11, 
 1861. At the request of his colonel he was 
 transferred to the regimental band, as he was a 
 musician. .June 20th he left the State ; June 
 oOth he first trod Virginia's soil; on the IGth , 
 of July he was equipped in full panoply of war j 
 and en route for active warfare witii McDowell's 
 command, attached to Sherman's brigade and 
 Tyler's division. He was in the reconnois.sance 
 at Blackburn's Ford and fought at Bull Run, ' 
 the first gun of the first battle of the rebellion 
 — a 32-pounder — being fired directly in front 
 of his division. Sergeant Carter was with a 
 squad deployed in front of the brigade hos- 
 pital when Robert Stevenson, bearing the regi- j 
 mental colors, approached unarmed and alone, 
 pressed by rebel cavalry, sturdily refusing to 
 furl the flag ; the color bearer had been 
 wounded and the guard dispersed, when 
 Stevenson rescued the banner; seeing the situa- 
 tion, the hot current in their veins fired to 
 fever heat by the experiences of the day, the 
 two Carters, Richard and George, sprang for- 
 ward and, joining Stevenson, rallied about 60 
 men, mostly from the 2d Wisconsin to the sup- 
 port of the flag which they triumphantly con- 
 veyed to Fort Corcoran. It was a gallant deed 
 and Wisconsin will forever keep green the 
 
 memories of the actors therein. During the 
 retreat to Centerville, Sergeant Carter twice 
 turned over the force to commissioned officers, 
 one o( wiiom disbanded them, but Sergeant 
 Carter again formed them into military array 
 and they reached Centerville in good order. 
 In November the Order aljolishing regimental 
 bands was issued and Mr. Carter returned 
 home. 
 
 March 21, 1862, he went to Washington to 
 re-enlist and enrolled in the 5th Wisconsin 
 and received the appointment of Quarter- 
 Master's Sergeant, the Quarter Master being his 
 former chief, Jolni G. Clark. He joined the 
 regiment at Flint Hill, Va., and was there- 
 after a part of all its history until he was 
 appointed Assistant Quarter Master, U. S. V., 
 in May, 186-1. He was with his command in 
 the activities prior to going to the Peninsula, 
 fought at Young's Mills and Lee's Mills, chased 
 the rebels to -Williamsburg and fought in that 
 most brilliant action. He went next to the 
 Chickahominy and survived tlie disasters of 
 Golden's Farm, Savage Station, White Oak 
 Swamp and Malvern Hill and the worse hor- 
 rors of the malaria which destroyed one of the 
 finest armies on record. August 16th he started 
 to the relief of General Pope, and after several 
 movements went to Maryland to fight at 
 Crampton's Gap September 14th. He was 
 under fire at Antietam, and on the first day of 
 November following, Sergeant Carter was 
 promoted to 2nd Lieutenant to date from 
 October 1st. He was soon after seized with 
 illness so severe that he could neither report 
 nor cause his condition to be reported, and he 
 was tried by military commission, General 
 Torbert, President, for absence without leave, 
 to receive honorable acquittal on stating the 
 facts, the whole misunderstanding growing out 
 of an error in a regimental report. March 
 lOth, 1863, he joined his command, and, April 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 28th went to the Rappahannock, the regiment 
 having been assigned to the " Light Division " 
 whose style indicates the service for whicli it 
 was designed. In the cliarge on Marye's 
 Heiglits, Lieutenant Carter was one of the first 
 to full with a musket ball in his hip and was 
 conveyed to hospital whence he returned ^hiy 
 9tli to his command, his company being with- 
 out an officer. May 12th he was commissioned 
 1st Lieutenant of his company' and resumed 
 active military duty about the 1st of .June. 
 Connected with the 3d Brigade, 1st Division 
 and 6th Corps the 5th started .June 'Jth to 
 cross the Rappaluinnoek and on the loth the 
 forward movement towards Gettysburg began, 
 the 5th arriving on that historic field on the 
 2(1 of July to take immediate position for 
 action. Lieutenant Carter was constantly 
 under fire throughout the remainder of the 
 battle and was afterwards in ])ursuit of Lee, 
 engaging in several skimiishes with the rear 
 guard of the rebel comniund. He was in unre- 
 mitting activities, marching, skirmishing, per- 
 forming all varieties of duty pertaining to his 
 oHlce and as a soldier until July 2Stli, when he 
 went to Washington under orders to place 
 himself under medical treatment of which he 
 was sorely in need, his condition being serious 
 because of his neglect and self-enforced remain- 
 ing with his command through the severities 
 of the campaigns after being wounded. He 
 did not rejoin his regiment until the middle of 
 October, meanwhile receiving leave of absence 
 for 30 days. In November he was in tlie 
 activities on the Rappahannock and was after- 
 wards in winter quarters until the military 
 movements commenced in the spring, leaving 
 camp May 4th to participate in the liattle of 
 the Wilderness, where the regiment gallantly 
 checked the rebels, holding them until relief 
 came. About the 7tli, prior to Spottsylvania, 
 Lieutenant Carter was again obliged to suc- 
 
 cumb to illness, hemorrhage of the lungs and 
 intermittent fever, with anasarca having 
 suj)erveued, and he was sent to Emory hospi- 
 tal at Washington. His apjiointmeut as As- 
 sistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, was before 
 the U. S. Senate for confirmation, on which ac- 
 tion was taken by that Body May I'Jtli and he 
 reported to Qurtermaster General M. C. Meigs 
 for assignment on receiving a letter of instruc- 
 tions from the War Department about June 
 25th. July 5th, Special Order No. 227, direct- 
 ing Captain Richard Carter, Assistant Quarter- 
 master of Volunteers, to report by letter, to the 
 Commanding General, and in j)erson to the 
 Chief Quartermaster, Army of the Cumberland, 
 for assignment to duty was issued over the sig- 
 nature of E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant 
 General, with which Captain Carter immedi- 
 ately complied, reporting to Major-General 
 Thomas, Headquarters, Department of the Cum- 
 berland, who issued Special Field Order No. 
 192 instructing Captain Carter to relieve Cap- 
 tain Whitehead as forage officer at Chatta- 
 nooga, the order bearing date July 14th. In 
 compliance Captain Carter reported to C. K. 
 Smith, Chief A. Q. M. at Chattanooga and as- 
 sumed the duties of the position, which he dis- 
 charged until May, 1805, when he was assigned 
 to duty as Acting Chief Q. M., Cavalry Corps, 
 Military Division of the Mississippi, on Major 
 General J. H. Wilson'^s staff at Nhicon, Ga., 
 where he received orders to return to ^\'iscon- 
 sin to await final disposition of his connection 
 with the military aH'airs of the United States, 
 which occurred Oct. 20, 1865. Meanwhile he 
 was in constant activity on the stafi's of General 
 Thomas, General Wilson and General Stead- 
 man, his credentials in the shape of Special 
 Orders for the performance of arduous and re- 
 sponsible duties, manifesting the esteem and 
 confidence rested in him by the superior offi- 
 cials of the branch of the army to which he 
 
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 belonged, and it is matter of regret tluit tlie re- 
 strictions of a volume of tliis cliaracter pre- 
 clude tlie transcription of the mass of ofticial 
 correspondence preserved by Captain Carter as 
 it is, beside being important in its historical re- 
 lations, most valuable as an exponent of the 
 character of Captain Carter, to which this 
 meager outline is in no sense adecjuate. His 
 service with the Arm}- of the Potomac is ab- 
 stracted from the report of the same he was 
 required to make on acceding to his appoint- 
 ment as A. Q. M. of ^'olunteers, and it may be 
 stated by an impartial biographer that a more 
 modest and unassuming recital of his own 
 heroism was never transmitted to the authori- 
 ties by a candidate for advancement. But one 
 fact was glaringly patent — he was never with- 
 held from duty by personal considerations, 
 whether of illness or advantage, and at that 
 date — the spring of 1864 — the value of every 
 man in a responsible position was thoroughly 
 comprehended and appreciated liy the Depart- 
 ment, and this is particularly true of the ad- 
 juncts of the Army of the West, as it may al- 
 most be called from the proportion of Western 
 soldiers. 
 
 Nov. 6, 1SG5, Captain Carter reported from 
 Platteville, Wis., to General Thomas, Adjutant 
 General of the Arm}' at Washington and, on 
 Nov. 27, 18G.5, his relation with the army ter- 
 minated. 
 
 After returning to Platteville, Captain Carter 
 was seriously ill for three months but, on re- 
 suming connection with the affairs of civil life, 
 his efficiency as a municipal officer was again 
 recognized in his appointment as Assistant 
 Collector of Internal Revenue, in .June, 1866. 
 About the same date he was admitted to prac- 
 tice at the Dar of Wisconsin and formed a 
 partnership with Colonel J. E. Gurley, the rela- 
 tion being dissolved after two years, after which 
 Caj)tain Carter did not resume active connec- 
 
 tion with legal business until 1871, devoting 
 his time to the duties of his office. In the year 
 named he located at Dodgeville and has since 
 been engaged in legal practice associated with 
 S. \V. Reese. In the fall of 1888 he was elected 
 District Attorney, running flatteringly in ad- 
 vance of his ticket. He has served several 
 years as Village Attorney and in other local 
 offices. 
 
 He was married Jan. 25, 1865, to Lizzie M., 
 daughter of Hon. S. 0. Paine, who died Sept. 17, 
 1874, leaving a daughter, now Mrs. Emma C. 
 I Marks of Dodgeville. Captain Carter was again 
 married to Mary, daughter of William and 
 Mary Ford, Oct. 22, 1875. Two children have 
 been born to them ; viz.: Mertie, born March 
 27, 1877 and died Sept. 17, 1877 and William 
 Ford, born Jan. 29, 1879. 
 
 Captain Carter is Commander of Post No. 109 
 in 1889, which position he has held since the 
 organization with the exception of two terms. 
 He is one of the oldest in his connection with 
 the Order of Odd Fellows in this locality, has 
 been A. Q. M. General of the G. A. R. Depart- 
 ment of Wisconsin, and served in 1888 as 
 National Aid, G. A. R. He belongs to Chapter 
 No. 2, Royal Arch Masons at Platteville and 
 also to the Blue Lodge at Dodgeville. One 
 of his trophies is the charm of a Chapter 
 Mason made from a silver half dollar taken 
 from the money of Jeff Davis which he obtained 
 by replacing its value. He is Secretary of the 
 5th Wisconsin Veteran's Association and a 
 member of the S. W. Soldiers' Association ; he 
 has been Court Commissioner since 1879. 
 
 It might be within the province of a writer 
 placing on record a word picture of a man and 
 his relations to his generation, to add comments 
 drawn from the story of his usefulness and dis- 
 tinguished character but such would be wholly 
 inconsistent with his nature and it is best that 
 those who will keep his remembrance fresh 
 
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 should form for themselves an estimate of him 
 through a simple statement of his life work. 
 
 Captain Carter's portrait appears on page 
 490. 
 
 ^iHS 
 
 ji. 
 
 DELBERT E. BLEEKMAN, La Crosse, 
 ^ Wis., an attorney and member of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 38, was born 
 March 2(5, 1846, in Salisbury, Herkimer Co., 
 New York. In the paternal line he belongs to 
 Holland stock and on the mother's side is of 
 German lineage. His great grandfather, Dan- 
 iel Bleekman, a Hollander, located in Connecti- 
 cut, near Stratford and belonged to a commu- 
 nity of loyalists. About the time of the 
 Revolution they erected a liberty pole for the 
 stars and stripes and made wrought nails and 
 drove into the pole to prevent the British from 
 cutting it down or climbing it to haul down the 
 flag. He fought all through the Revolutionary 
 war and his son, Ebenezer B., was in the war 
 of 1812 and fought at Sackett's Harbor. Dan- 
 iel Bleekman was with Ethan Allen when he 
 demanded the surrender of Ticonderoga " in 
 the name of the Great Jehovah and Conti- 
 nental Congress" and averred all his life that 
 Allen added his Maker's name spelled with 
 three letters, to his demand. Warren Bleek- 
 man, father of A. E. Bleekman, was born Dec. 
 14, 1816, at Stratford, Fulton Co., New York, 
 and died Sep. 7, 1865, at La Fayette, Ohio ; 
 Amanda, his wife, was born in February, 1826, 
 at Salisbury, N. Y., and died Feb. 7, 1857, at 
 the same place as her husband. Tiie latter 
 was a Democrat until the formation of the Re- 
 publican party, which he joined. Four children 
 were included in the family, Mr. Bleekman 
 being the oldest ; Herbert E., Ernest L. and 
 Mary were the others. In 1850 the family 
 went to Ohio, where tiie son attended schools 
 
 of various grades until he became a soldier. 
 He eidisted Feb. 24, 1864, and was assigned to 
 Company A, 2d Ohio Cavalry at Akron. Soon 
 after he was seized with measles and sent home. 
 The regiment was home on veteran furlough 
 and he went to Annapolis, Md., in April and 
 thence to camp at Washington. May 1st they 
 started for the Rapidan, crossed, and entered 
 . at once into the Campaign of the Wilderness, 
 1 May 5th, having been assigned to Burnside's 
 ' 9th Army Corps. After fighting on the right 
 from morning till night they went to take the 
 same position at Sjiottsylvania, after which the 
 2d Cavalry skirmished and performed cavalry 
 service, occasionally having a brush with the 
 cavalry of Wade Hampton's command. The 
 regiment belonged to the 3d Division, Cavalry 
 Corps, Army of the Potomac and fought at 
 Hanover C. H., May 31, 1864, going thence to 
 fight at Ashland Station. At the former place 
 the fight was in a valley across a plowed field. 
 The Ihiion troops chargeil from dead furrow 
 to dead furrow and up the hill where the rebels 
 were posted, routed and followed them to Ash- 
 land the next day, where they were met by 
 troops from Richmond and defeated, and they 
 were piloted back to the Union lines in the 
 night time by colored men. (Mr. Bleekman re- 
 lates of the incident which cau.sed tjic dispatch 
 of Grant " I propose to fight it out on this line 
 if it takes all summer, " that Meade advised 
 Grant to retreat after the battle of the Wilder- 
 ness which cost 10,000 men, "the flower of the 
 Army of the Potomac. " The report spreading 
 through the army caused great depression 
 until Grant's reply was made known when 
 the enthusiasm knew no liounds. It shows 
 that the Union soldiers knew every situa- 
 tion as well as the leaders and they knew 
 that war must be pressed to the issue, if the 
 integrity of the Union should lie preserved and 
 the sacrifices of tiie soldiers not be in vain). 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 503 
 
 Mr. Bleekiium was in the figlit at Malvern Hill, 
 figlitiiig (lisinounted and fell back to Harrison's 
 Landing. June 22d, Wilson and Kautz started 
 on their raid, passed around Petersburg, weiit 
 below Richmond and engaged in a terrific 
 woi'k of destruction on the Danville and Wel- 
 don roads. The)' went into North Carolina and 
 on their return were cut off by rebel cavalry 
 with great loss. (See Statistical History of .June 
 22d, page 105). They lost their equipments of 
 every kind except their small arms and were 
 obliged to abandon several hundred contra- 
 bands to the mercy of the rebels, who made a 
 Fort Pillow experience of it to the poor blacks. 
 Mr. Bleekman was injured in the leg during 
 the retreat, was sent to City Point and thence to 
 Washington and received a furlough. At one 
 time amputation was considered by his medical 
 adviser, but he strenuously refused. He was at 
 home 45 days during the second election of 
 Lincoln, and on his return to his regiment was 
 sent to hospital and remained until mustered 
 out, June 30, 1865. 
 
 On returning home he went to school until 
 his father's death, when he went to Little Falls, 
 Herkimer county, and attended the Academy 
 and afterwards the Albert college at Belleville, 
 Ontario, returning to New York in the fall of 
 18GS and in March, 1869, located at Tomah, 
 Wis., whej'e he engaged in teaching two years, 
 meanwhile studying law. In September, 1870, 
 he was admitted to practice, and in July, 1871, 
 opened liis business as an attorney at Tomah. 
 In the fall of 1872 he was elected to the 
 Assembly of Wisconsin and in 1873 to the 
 Senate of that Body. At the close of his term 
 as Senator lie went to Sparta, where he resided 
 and practiced law until 1876 when he was 
 elected District Attorney of the county, .serving 
 one term and then continuing the practice of 
 iiis profession until August, 1886, the date of 
 his removal to La Crosse. Since his location 
 
 there he has founded a popular and lucrative 
 business as an attorney. 
 
 He was married in October, 1868, to Eliza, 
 daughter of Timothy and Tirzah Farnham of_ 
 Belleville, Out. One child named William E. 
 was born to them. The wife died in April, 
 1875, of consumption at her father's home in 
 Canada. Aug. 24th, 1876, Mr. Bleekman was 
 married to Alice, daughter of Harvey and 
 Maria (Whiton) Bush, and their cliildren were 
 named Katie, (deceased) Adelbert E and Ruth. 
 Mr. Bleekman is a member of the Orders of 
 Odd Fellows and Masonry, and lie has .served 
 as Commander of his Post at Sjiarta, and in 
 other responsible positions. Mr. Bleekman is 
 a marked representative of the blood and spirit 
 wliicb founded and preserved tiie Nation. 
 
 
 
 AMES LEE, Racine, Wis., was born April 
 21, 1836, in Lancashire, England, and is 
 the son of James and Alice (Bridge) 
 Lee. His father was a farmer in his native 
 country and emigrated on the ship Emblem to 
 the United States, arriving in New York May 
 3, 1842. He located in Paterson, New Jersey, 
 and in June, 1847, removed to Racine. The 
 father took a claim on the school section in- 
 cluding 160 acres, which he relinquished in 
 1851, the land coming into market at that 
 date and he sold it on account of the higli price. 
 He removed to Caledonia, in Columbia county, 
 where he bought 80 acres, Ijuilt his house and 
 other farm buildings and remained there until 
 the fall of 1863. He sold the farm with the 
 intention of going to New Zealand, but, on 
 arrival in old England, he heard reports un- 
 favorable to that locality and returned to the 
 United States, locating a second time in Pater- 
 son, N. J., wliere he was employed in Rogers' 
 Locomotive Works, removing later to Gentry 
 
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 Co., Mo. Two years after he returned to his ! 
 former situation in Paterson, whence he came 
 to Wisconsin, and is living with liis son Gabriel 
 at Merrimack, Sauk county. The mother died 
 July 17, ISSl. The son is the youngest of 
 nine children, and besides himself only Eliza- 
 beth, Alice and Gabriel are living. .James 
 remained on his father's farm until he was 23 
 years of age engaged in obtaining his educa- 
 tion and assisting on the farm. He accom- 
 panied his parents to Caledonia and remained 
 at home until his marriage. He operated after 
 that event as a farmer until he entered the 
 army. Aug. 14, 1802, he enlisted in Company 
 H, 23d Wisconsin Infantry and went to Cin- 
 cimiati September loth, where the rebel lead- 
 ers were worrying the inhabitants, and he 
 moved with his command through the re- 
 mainder of September, October and November 
 to various points in the discharge of military 
 duty, and in trying to look after Bragg and 
 Morgan. About holidays they joined the com- 
 mand of Sherman preparatory to proceeding to 
 Vicksburg. When the troops were organized 
 for the camjiaign, the 23il was assigned to the 
 1st Brigade, General Burbridge, 10th Division, 
 (ieneral A. .J. Smith, 13th Corps, General .John 
 A. McClornand. They embarked at Memphis, 
 landed at Milliken's Bend, went west and de- 
 stroyed rebel property, after which they went 
 to the Yazoo River and Sherman endeavored 
 to make the attack from that point but was 
 compelled to aliandon the plan, his troops hav- 
 ing fought at Haines' Bluti', which was the first 
 fight in wliich Mr. Lee was engaged. Pember- 
 tou commanded the rebels, who drove the 
 Union troops and forced them to return to 
 Milliken's Bend. About a week later they 
 fought at .Vrkansas Post, which was one of the 
 most satisfactory actions in which the regiment 
 engaged, the rei)els surrendering with the loss 
 of 6,000 prisoners and their entire armament 
 
 and stores. Another return was made to Milli- 
 ken's Bend and they went thence to Greenville 
 and afterward to Cypress Bend in February, 
 1863, under orders to drive out the rebels, who 
 had taken a position with artillery to intercept 
 the transports on the river. They captured 
 more prisoners and drove tlie remainder 
 into the interior, crossing the river Ijy wading 
 up to their necks in water, the bridge liaving 
 been burned. They remained at Milliken's 
 Bend, which was headquarters for several ex- 
 peditions in which Mr. Lee assisted until 
 March, when the malaria and exposure to the 
 miasma of the Mississippi swamps did their 
 work and he went to the ho.spital sick with 
 fever. He was sent to .Jefferson Barracks in 
 St. Louis, where he remained until August. 
 While he was convalescing he received a dis- 
 patch that his wife was dangerously ill ami that 
 he must hasten home to see her. He obtained 
 a furlough and reached home to find bis wife 
 in her grave, a child of 18 months motherless 
 and seven of his wife's brothers and sisters ill ; 
 within five weeks they were all dead. liis 
 parents were disheartened over the condition 
 of things and determined to fulfil a former 
 purpose and go to New Zealand. The situa- 
 tion in which he found himself was most dis- 
 tressing, lie was without means, and his 
 mother, his sole dependence and that of his 
 child, was to leave him in a strange land and 
 about to i)ut thousands of miles and two thirds 
 of the earth between him and his last friend. 
 All urged his dei)arture with them, and, broken 
 in health, despairing and widowed, he consented. 
 He accompanied his parents to England, where 
 their purpose was changed by the evil reports 
 of the country where they proposed to go, and 
 after two years they returned to Paterson, New 
 .Jersey. He remained in that city until his re- 
 turn to Wisconsin in 1807, and he went for a 
 time to Union Grove, Raciue county, and 
 
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 worked as a carpentei". In 1874 he removed 
 to Racine and lias been employed at his trade 
 with the Pease Manufacturing Company. He 
 was married Oct. 4, 1859, to Sarah Jane, daugh- 
 ter of William and Susan (Cochrane) Sample 
 and they had one child — Susan Lillie, who 
 died in Philadelphia when two years old. The 
 mother died in 1863, and Mr. Lee contracted a 
 second marriage, Sept. 19, 1875, with Lucy 
 Ann Potter. Mr. Lee is a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church. 
 
 "OHN J. VALENTINE, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No 19, was born 
 Aug. 9, 1822, in North Carolina and is 
 the son of Shadrach and Margaret Valentine. 
 He removed with his parents to Ohio when he 
 was 10 years old and grew to maidiood in the 
 Buckeye State, engaged in various callings to 
 earn an honest livelihood. He came to Wis- 
 consin in 184G. He understood the cause of 
 the civil war and watched its progress from the 
 beginning with all the interest of a man whose 
 race was involved, but who was excluded from 
 the ranks on account of his color. When the call 
 was issued for colored troops he enlisted in the 
 49th Wisconsin Infantry and went to Nashville, 
 where he was transferred to the 17th U. S. C. 
 Inliintry, and assigned to Company I, which 
 was mustered into service at Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn., Dec. 12, 1863. There Mr. Valentine 
 enlisted in February, 1864 and was in his first 
 battle at Nashville where the regiment ac- 
 quitted itself with distinguished bravery in the 
 brigade of General Steadnian. 
 
 Afterwards, he was at Nashville until final 
 muster out, Feb. 15, 1866, and performed mili- 
 tary duty until discharged. At the close of 
 the war he returned to Janesville, Wis., where 
 he resided until 1872, when he removed to 
 Waukesha and established a restaurant. He 
 
 has since conducted a well i-egulated and popu- 
 lar establishment. 
 
 He was 'married in November, 1845, to 
 Louisa J. Manly of Columljus, Ohio, and their 
 surviving children are named Arthur, Reese 
 and Nellie C. Two children are not living. 
 
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 ^RANK KELLEY, Menomonie, Wis., 
 
 Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 58, 
 in 1889, was born in 1845, in Albany, 
 New York, whither his parents, John and Mary 
 (Smith) Kelley, emigrated from Ireland in 
 1838 ; they were natives of County Down and 
 were married on the " Green Isle." Their 
 family included six children, named Arthur 
 (deceased), Mary, James, Frank, John (County 
 Judge of Dunn county), and Thomas. Within 
 ten years after their arrival in America, they 
 went to Milwaukee and afterwards to Wauke- 
 sha county, and after .some years moved to 
 Illinois. In 1859 the father fixed his residence 
 at Menomonie, where he purchased a farm, on 
 which he still lives. His wife died in Milwau- 
 kee county. 
 
 The first inijiortant event in the life of the 
 son was his enlistment April 23, 1861, in Com- 
 pany K, 5lh Wisconsin Lifantry, Captain 
 William Evans, for three years. After a month 
 at Camp Randall he accompanied his regiment 
 to Washington to Camp Kalorama, crossed the 
 Chain Bridge September 3d, was transferred 
 from King's Wisconsin Brigade to Hancock's 
 with the 43d New York, 49th Pennsylvania 
 and 6th Maine, and engaged in military duty 
 until spring, when the brigade went on the 
 Manassas campaign to march back to Alexan- 
 di'ia and thence to the siege of Yorktown ; fol- 
 lowed the fleeing enemy and skirmished until 
 the battle of Williamsburg ; distinguished them- 
 selves in that action and went next to the 
 
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 Chickahominy campaign and fought in the 
 battle of Goldeii's P^arni, June 28tli. On the 
 29th liegan McClellan's "change df base," and 
 tlie 5th was under fire at Savage Station, at 
 White Oak Swamp and IShdvern Hill, going to 
 Harrison's Landing July 4lh and started for 
 Alexandria August IGth. The regiment was 
 ordered to Bull Run, but arrived after the bat- 
 tle, and went next to check the ])rogress of Lee 
 into Maryland, participating in the actions at 
 Cranijjton's Gap and was under fire at Antie- 
 tam. The next movement of the regiment was 
 to the Kaj)pahannock campaign and it was in 
 support of batteries during the action at Fred- 
 ericksburg. After withdrawal, the regiment, 
 with others, was organized in the spring into the 
 "Light Division," and in April went again to 
 the Rappahannock campaign, engaging in skir- 
 mishing until the assault on Marye's Heights, 
 May 3d, which was one of the marked move- 
 ments of the war. (See sketch of Charles 
 Knutson.) The command was in the tight at 
 Salem Heights, crossed the Rappahannock to 
 Belle Plain, and when Lee commenced his 
 movement into Pennsylvania, in the (Jtli Corps, 
 (the "Light Division " iiaving been broken up) 
 the oth commenced a march which terminated 
 on tlie field of Getty.sburg, the regiment taking 
 position on the left, and the next morning 
 moving to and holding Little Round Top; and 
 it was in the pursuit on the 4th, going to War- 
 renton after capturing the wounded rebels left 
 on the field. From camp at Warrenton the 5th 
 went to New York to aid in suppressing the 
 draft riots. Company K being stationed on Gov- 
 ernor's Lsland and in the city, and afterwards 
 going to Albany, and thence, after several 
 weeks, to Goshen, Orange county, returning to 
 Governor's Island and to tiie Army of the Poto- 
 mac to again go into a campaign on the IIapj)a- 
 hannock, making a charge on liie forts at Raj> 
 pahannock Station, November 7th, the assault 
 
 being a triumph under General Russell's man- 
 agement. They moved on the double quick, 
 but on the way it was discovered that their 
 guns were not loaded nor bayonets tixed,as the 
 order forward was an entire surprise, and they 
 stop|)ed under a tremendous fire from the 
 rebels to prepare for action. But the works 
 were taken with nine guns and 2,000 prisoners. 
 It is Mr. Kelley's opinion that if the charge had 
 been made immediately, wiliiout the conference 
 of Sedgwick and Russell, they would have 
 taken Lee and his whole staff", so unexpected 
 was the movement by the rebels. The rebel 
 chief had just inspected the works and was 
 plainly seen by the men on his white horse, 
 but his identity was not known until 
 afterwards. The engineers pronouncing 
 the forts impregnable, the chief waited 
 to see what the "Yanks" would do, and 
 he found out. The regiment went next to 
 Brandy Station after the rebels and was in the 
 vain tight known as Mine Run, in November. 
 The first activities in the spring in which the 
 regiment ])articipated are known as the cam- 
 paign of the ^^'ilderness and Mr. Kelley fought 
 on the 5th, 6th and 7th of May, went thence to 
 tight at Spottsylvania on the 8th, 9th and 10th, 
 the regiment on the last day being on the 
 skirmish line and charging Lee's center about 
 nightfall. The charge was not supported and 
 tliey fell back after accomplishing a jiractical 
 victory, the rebels running and many being 
 caj)tured, together with guns. If this move- 
 ment had been sustained it is probable Lee's 
 army would have been divided and the action 
 on the 12tii wholly ])revented. The division 
 fought all day in what is known as the " Bloody 
 Angle," where the noted tree was cut down and 
 which Mr. Kelley saw on the left of the column. 
 The regiment skirmished constantly until the 
 action at Cold Harbor, June 1st, and Mr. Kel- 
 ley was wounded, a bullet passing through his 
 
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 right jaw and another lodging in his shoulder. 
 Pie went from field hospital to West Philadel- 
 phia hosjiitiil and thence to Harvey hospital at 
 Madison. About the middle of September he 
 joined his command at Winchester and was in 
 charge of the jMcket line on the morning of the 
 battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864; tlie even- 
 ing before Sheridan and staff passed them, re- 
 ceiving a salute from the pickets. About day- 
 light Mr. Kelley heard the first shot of the ac- 
 tion about 15 miles away and located it accord- 
 ing to his best belief; soon after the cannon- 
 ading commenced and he detailed a picket to go 
 to Winchester, a mile distant, to notify the Post 
 Commander, who paid no attention to the mes- 
 sage, but a second message received attention 
 and Mr. Kelley received orders not to allow a 
 straggler or train to pass his lines. P'our weeks 
 later the regiment went to the trenches at 
 Petersburg, remaining until the spring of 1865, 
 fighting February 5th at Hatcher's Run and 
 skirmishing March 25tli. The corps made the 
 assault April 2d, passed through the abandoned 
 lines to South Side railroad, fought at " Little 
 Sailors' Creek " after the pursuit and on the 7th, 
 and lost 79 men in the charge. The 5th fol- 
 lowed to Appomattox, went thence to Danville 
 to proceed to Sherman's aid and thence to 
 Richmond, Washington and Madison, the war 
 being ended, and the 6tli Corjxs having had 
 a single review. Mr. Kelley was commissioned 
 2d Lieutenant of his company .June 9, 1865. 
 When the command was reorganized in the 
 spring of 1864, the decimated 10 companies 
 were organized into three and received seven 
 new ones from Wisconsin, Mr. Kelley being 
 placed iu Company A, composed of H, K and A 
 companies. 
 
 He has since l)een a resident of Menomonie 
 and passed a few years in various employments 
 including his present occupation as a manu- 
 facturer of brick, and he is now acting as the 
 
 Superintendent of the Menomonie Pressed Brick 
 Co. He was married at Menomonie in 1880, to 
 Mary, daughter of Jacob and Clara (Knoops) 
 Springwood. A child born to them who was 
 named James Sedgwick died young; Frank 
 W. and Florence May, born April 25, 1890, still 
 survive. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Odd 
 Fellows and of the A. O. U. W. His brother 
 James enlisted in April, 1861, in the Prescott 
 Guards, (assigned to the 6th Wisconsin as Com- 
 pany B), and fought with the Iron Brigade at 
 Gettysburg, where he received a fatal wound 
 and died July 21st at Gettysburg ; he was about 
 20 years old and is buried in the National 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Kelley is a Republican and in 1890 is a 
 member of the City Council at Menomonie. 
 
 AMES H. JOHNSON, Lake Geneva, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
 born Feb. 9, 1845. In 1847, his parents, 
 Charles A. and Charlotte (Hacker) Johnson, 
 who were reared and married in the town of 
 Bude in Cornwall, England, emigi-ated to 
 America with two children — James H. and 
 John. The latter is now living in the State of 
 New York. Four children of thirteen born to 
 them now survive: Charles is a clothier in 
 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; Mrs. Celestia 
 Hollis is a resident of Mt. Holyoke, Mass. The 
 family landed at Quebec and located at Port 
 Hope, removing thence to Buffalo, N. Y., 
 where the parents passed the remainder of 
 their lives. The father was a sailor and was 
 employed on the schooner Iowa, when he lost 
 his life by drowning in November, 1855. The 
 mother died at Buffalo in September, 1862. 
 
 Mr. Johnson obtained his education in Buf- 
 falo and in the very first days of the war, when 
 he was sixteen years old, enlisted, but the 
 
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 authority of his mother prevented his being 
 mustered ; but before be was seventeen he 
 enrolled in Company A, 31st New York Infan- 
 try in January, 1862, with Captain Daniels. 
 From the camp of rendezvous the regiment 
 went to Alexandria and was stationed near the 
 Independent (Lincoln) Cavalry, and in the 
 spring was in the onward movement from 
 Manassas. After that campaign they went to 
 Yorktown and West Point and tiience to fight 
 in the battles of the Cbickaliominy, and Mr. 
 Johnson was in the fight at Mecluinicsville, 
 June 2Gtli, Cold Harbor on tlie 27th, Savage 
 Station on the 2i»tb, Wbite Oak Swamj) on the 
 30tb, and Malvern Hill, July 1st. After the 
 retreat to Harrison's Landing, Mr. Johnson 
 was taken sick and passed six weeks in hospi- 
 tal in Piiiladeliibia, rejoining his regiment at 
 Alexandria, and in September was again in 
 tbe advance after Lee into Maryland, making 
 a forced march to light at Soutli Mountain, 
 September 14th and at Antietam or Siiarps- 
 burg on the 17th. After McClellan was super- 
 seded by Burnsidc, Mr. Jolmson was witli the 
 latter commander at Fredericksburg and stayed 
 in winter quarters until summoned to tlie 
 attempt on the Rappahannock known as the 
 " Mud Campaign " ; his first action in the spring 
 was in the second battle of Fredericksburg. 
 May 31, 1863, be was mustered out and 
 returned home. June 20, 1863, he re-enlisted 
 in bis old command and was in rendezvous at 
 Staten Island wiien the draft riots in the cit}' 
 of New York called for all the troops within 
 reach of the authorities. Between the 13th 
 and lotli of July, more than a thousand rioters 
 were killed in tlie city and among tiie wound- 
 ed Union soldiers was Mr. Johnson. He was 
 in one of the city hospitals 19 days, and on 
 recovery found the 31st New York had conso- 
 lidated with the 5th New York, its idenlitily 
 being merged in that of the latter regiment, 
 
 and he went to Washington as a member of 
 the •5th New York. He performed guard and 
 picket duty in Alexandria and as train escort 
 during the winter of 1803-4. In the spring he 
 went witli Grant from Cu]pej)er C. IL, and 
 fought May otb, 6th and 7th in the battles of 
 the Wilderness. On the 8th he was in action 
 at Sjjottsylvania and towards the last of tbe 
 month on the North and South Anna Rivers. 
 Fron) the 1st to the r2tli of June he was in 
 the figbts at Cold Harbor and went to Peters- 
 burg where he was in the siege until he was in 
 the tliree days' fight on the Weldon railroad. 
 He was captured August 10th and taken to an 
 island in tlie Apjwmattox River and, after 
 three days witliout food, went to Libby. He 
 went tbence to Belle Isle and afterwards was 
 transferred to Salisbur}- wliere he passed the 
 winter of 1864-5. So often has the story of 
 prison life been told that it hardly requires 
 elaboration on these pages, but let it be 
 remembered that Belle Isle prison was 
 a space of six acres inhabited by more 
 than 10,000 human lieings in every 
 pussibie stage of distress ; tliey bad no 
 shade in summer and no protection in winter, 
 except such as is not worth naming. What- 
 ever a man possessed of value or comfort was 
 taken from liim in the most brutal manner. 
 While the Englisli language endures, the testi- 
 mony of Albert D. Richardson and .1. D. 
 Browne, wlio were prisoners at Salisl)Uiy, will 
 stand against tlie horrible conditions and usage 
 of the Northern Patriots by Southern rebels, 
 at Salisbury. .\nd it is safe to predict that 
 such anotber tlirung of human creatures will 
 never again pass in procession as marched to 
 Wilmington in the spring of 1865. Not one 
 stood uj)rigbt; not one had a hat or slioes ; not 
 one but was in rags that scarcely deserved even 
 the poor dignity of even that poor name; not 
 one but represented starvation, freezing and 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 509 
 
 suffering such as none but men who suffered 
 in so rigliteous a cause could liave survived. 
 After recruiting at AVihnington until able to 
 endure the trip, ]\Ir. Johnson went to Parole 
 Camp at Annapolis and he was well enough to 
 take place with his regiment in the Review, 
 after which the 5th New York went to Hart's 
 Island in New York Harlior, wliere he was dis- 
 charged Aug. 5, 1865, under General Order 77; 
 and he was mustered out as Sergeant of Com- 
 pany C. 
 
 He returned to Buffalo and soon after en- 
 gaged in his father's vocation which was for 
 many years his profession on the large lakes. 
 Aljout 1877 he removed to Lake Geneva, on 
 which he has since been occupied and he is the 
 owner of a boat which plies on the waters of that 
 famed lake. He has been for seven years the 
 ca]»tain of a boat on the same lake, from which 
 lie derives his title, being known far and wide 
 as " Captain .Johnson. " His step-father, John 
 Ij. Tifft, was an enlisted man in the 43d New 
 York Infantry and was wounded at the first 
 Fredericksburg, djdng in a hospital at Wash- 
 ington from his injuries. Captain Johnson was 
 married (3ct. 14, 1868, to Rebecca M., daughter 
 of Leonard and Mary (Thompson) Hudson. 
 Mrs. Johnson is a native of England and came 
 to America wliile a young girl. She is the 
 mother of two children, named George II. and 
 Leona May. 
 
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 K^'.-x AVID E. MILES, Chippewa Falls, 
 'J^J Wis., enlisted Nov. 7, 1861, at Gales- 
 liurg. III., in Company E, 57th Illi- 
 nois Infantry, and went into active service soon 
 after. He drilled in rendezvous and camp, 
 went to Cairo and Donelson, and soon after 
 served with the regiment in Northern Ken- 
 tucky and Tennessee ; engaged in the siege of 
 Corinth and the battle of Corinth, Octoliei- od 
 
 and 4th. On the last day he received a severe 
 wound and went from the field hospital to regi- 
 mental hospital and was discliarged, after 
 spending five weary months under medical 
 care in hospital, March, 1863, under surgeon's 
 certificate of disability for further military ser- 
 vice. 
 
 He returned to Mercer county, Illinois, where 
 he recuperated his health, and in 1863 moved 
 to Chippewa Falls and engaged in the lumber 
 business, which he has since conducted. 
 
 UCIUS FAIRCHILD, Madison, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 11. The 
 V underlying principle of all success is 
 effort ; and it is a noble comment on human 
 character in the abstract, that its best samples 
 possess the modesty and humility of spirit to 
 make frank declaration of the value of the 
 necessity which awakens energy and arouses to 
 action. The inherent nobility of labor is 
 proven by the fact that work develops a love 
 for effort of which the career of him whose 
 name honors this page affords an evidence 
 whose worth to the generations of the future 
 cannot be estimated. In every sphere of life 
 General Fairchild has recognized his relations 
 to the work of the world. His uplifted head ; 
 his serene face, whose lines are marked b}' the 
 disciplined spirit; his calm eyes, reflecting an 
 inner light which tells of ]irescience and almost 
 unerring judgment; his figure, bearing the 
 "similitude" of a man ; his empty sleeve with 
 its message of sacrifice — all bear witness to the 
 singleness of spirit with which he has served in 
 his place. What he has acconn)lished testifies 
 to the quality of his abilities. He is an insep- 
 arable part of the history of Wisconsin, which 
 lie helped to make in its most important phases, 
 and, better than all, he is the object of unqual- 
 
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 ified love" and devotion from the sons of the 
 Badger State. 
 
 Lucius Faircliild is tlie third son of Jairus 
 Cassius and Sally (Blair) I'airchild, the former 
 a native of the State of New York, and the lat- 
 ter a daughter of New England, representing 
 one of the best strains in our composite Nation- 
 ality — llie Scotch-Irish. She transmitted to 
 her sons the traits she inherited from her 
 sturdy, upright, conscientious and hrainy for- 
 bears, and, when fratricidal conflict threatened 
 the LInion, three of them hastened to .support 
 its standard. Lucius was born on the 30th an- 
 niversary of the birth of iiis father — Dec. 27, 
 1831, in Kent, Portage Co., Ohio, in which 
 State his parents were married. They removed 
 in 1833 to Cleveland and later to Wisconsin, 
 and arrived at Madison .June 8, 1846. Their 
 son obtained his elementary education in Cleve- 
 land and afterwards attended an academy at 
 Twinsburg, Ohio, becoming a student at Car- 
 roll College, Waukesha, after coming to Wis- 
 consin. 
 
 When the gold excitement in California 
 aroused the budding energies of the ambitious 
 youth of that period, Lucius Faircliild solicited 
 his parents' consent to accompany a party across 
 the plains in 1849 and in March, equipped 
 with a reliable ox team and horse and neces- 
 saries, he started for the Pacific slope, lie ex- 
 perienced all the rigors of such a trip and 
 passed hours in reflection and in scanning such 
 plans as crossed the imagination of a hopeful, 
 fearless youth , braving untried paths in more 
 than one sense. He worked five years in the 
 mines and for a time in other avenues of lalior 
 which circumstances opened to him and con- 
 siders this the formative period of iiis life. He 
 reaped the benefit of unflagging etibrt and in 
 six years returned East with substantial results, 
 among which was his share of the proceeds 
 from the sale of 700 bushels of wheat raised on 
 
 a claim held liy him and iiis associates in the 
 Scott valley, and whicii lie sold for seven dollars 
 a bushel, the location being IGO miles from a 
 wagon road, southward. 
 
 The public life of General Fairchild had its 
 beginning in California. His abilities and 
 understanding of public questions had been 
 prominent in that locality and suggested him 
 as a delegate to a gubernatorial convention in 
 1853 and, altiiough the distance from his loca- 
 tion in Siskiyou county was something appall- 
 ing, he only saw a duty to be discharged and 
 placed his "store clothes" and other valualdes 
 on a mule and set forth. '^I'he beast lost his 
 foothold, tumbled down a blurt' and the belong- 
 ings of young Fairchild disai)peared with him. 
 At Shasta City he took the stage for his desti- 
 nation and took liis seat in the convention in 
 the dignity of shirt sleeves and witli almost 
 empty pockets. 
 
 He returned to Madison in 18.5.5 and re- 
 sumed liis interest in the afl'airs of the State. 
 In 1858 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court of Dane county and when his term of 
 office expired he was fitted for the profession 
 of an attorney and was admitted to the Bar of 
 Wi-sconsin in 1800. When the "Governor's 
 Guards" were organized at Madison he entered 
 the ranks as a private and when the emergen- 
 cies of April, 18G1, suminoned the military 
 companies of the State to the front, the organi- 
 zation was one of the first which was authorized 
 by Governor Randall to fill its ranks and was 
 assigned to the 1st Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
 pany K. He was offered the lieutenant-colo- 
 nelcy but declined and was elected Captain of 
 Company K and went to the scenes of activity 
 in that capacity. He fouglit at Falling Waters, 
 the first action in which Wisconsin trooj)S were 
 engaged — July 2d — and in August following 
 received from President Lincoln an a)>)>oint- 
 ment as Captain in the IGtli U. S. Regulars. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 511 
 
 About the same time Governor Randall com- 
 missioned him a Major in the 2d Wisconsin 
 Infantry, both of which he accepted and re- 
 ceived leave of absence from tiie regular army 
 to serve with tlie Wisconsin regiment, tliis be- 
 ing the first instance in the war in which such 
 an incident occurred. He was tendered the 
 colonelcy of anotlier Wisconsin regiment, wliicli 
 he declined and, not long after, was commis- 
 sioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2d. He was 
 acting Colonel much of the time. Colonel O'Con- 
 nor being in precarious health and his regi- 
 ment, which acquired a high degree of disci- 
 pline and drill, was brigaded with the Gth and 
 7th Wi.sconsin and the 19th Indiana, forming 
 an organization which became famous for its 
 exploits. It became a part of the 1st Brigade, 
 1st Division, 1st Army Corps and participated 
 in the heaviest service of the Army of the 
 Potomac. Lieutenant-Colonel Fairchild was 
 in the activities of the Manassas campaign and 
 in those along the Rappahannock in 1SG2 and 
 after the failure to cut off the retreat of Stone- 
 wall Jackson from the valley of the Shenan- 
 doah, the command went in July to a recon- 
 noissance, marching nearly 100 miles. The 
 2d was engaged in a cavalry skirmish August 
 5th, in which they aided in the repulse of the 
 cavalry of Stewart. Almost without rest they 
 marched in the retreat of Pope after Cedar 
 Mounlain and skirmished at Beverly Ford on 
 the Rappahannock and, eight days later, at 
 Sulphur Springs. August 28th, between 
 Gainesville and Centerville, the brigade had a 
 tight of more than an hour in single handed 
 conflict with Jackson's forces, contending with 
 superior numbers, the 2d losing its colonel. 
 Col. Fidrohild's hor.se was killed under him and 
 the regiment last 297 men. This was the 
 christening of "The Iron Brigade." The 2d 
 Wisconsin and the 7th Wisconsin regiments 
 were consolidated under Faii'child, all other 
 
 field officers being dead or injured, and fought 
 together as one regiment during the second day 
 at Bull Run. The 2d Wisconsin covered the 
 reti'eat from the battle field. Fairchild was the 
 last man of the last regiment to leave the field. 
 His commission as Colonel of the 2d, dated 
 August 30th. He was with his command at 
 South Mountain, Septemljer 14th, but was ill 
 subsequently and unable to go to the field of 
 Antietam until nearly at the close of the con- 
 test on the 17th. December 12th, and for sev- 
 eral days afterward, Colonel Fairchild led his 
 men in the fruitless action at Fredericksburg 
 and in January, his regiment acted such part 
 as the situation permitted in the " Mud Cam- 
 paign. " He conducted two expeditions, re- 
 spectively in February and March, into the 
 domains of the rebels in pursuit of whatever 
 might constitute or be applied as "sinews of 
 war " and was successful in both trij)s down 
 the Potomac. He was in the charge at Fitz- 
 hugh's Crossing and after the pontoon bridges 
 were laid, pressed on to Chancellorsville, where 
 he was made a staff officer of General Wads- 
 worth, Division Commander. The 2d regiment 
 participated in the subsequent movements of 
 the brigade, making the heavy marches in the 
 efibrt to keep abreast of Lee in his invasion of 
 the North. Colonel Fairchild was with his 
 men in the first day's fight at Gettysburg. 
 Early in the action, while fighting in Mc- 
 Pherson's woods near Willoughby Run, the 
 Lieutenant Colonel received a mortal wound 
 and Colonel Fairchild was hit by a bullet in 
 his left arm, which shattere<l it and made am- 
 putation necessary. As he rode back he en- 
 countered some of his men, and serious as his 
 own injury was, he paused to inquire con- 
 cerning theirs. He went to the Seminary and 
 afterwards to the residence of Rev. Dr. Schaf- 
 fer, where he was tenderly and effectively cared 
 for. As soon as sufficiently recovered, he re- 
 
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 turned to Madison, cherishing the intention of 
 resuming his connection with tlie active work 
 of the war as soon as lie siiould be sufficiently 
 recruited. He had heen ajijioiuted Brigadier 
 General and his wliole interest and desire was 
 to remain in tlie army. IJut his friends urged i 
 his acceptance of the nomination to the place 
 of Secretary of State of Wisconsni vvliich had 
 been made by the Union convention and he 
 reluctantly yielded, succeeding to the post in 
 1864. In 1865, after a service which justified 
 the opinions of his constituency, he was nom- 
 inated unanimously for Governor by the lie- 
 publican convention, and elected by a majority 
 of nearly 10,000. Tn 1867 and in 1869 he was 
 re-elected, being, at that date the first who had 
 been called to the position of chief executive of 
 the Badger State three successive terms. In 
 December, 1872, he was made consul to Liver- 
 pool and in the di.schargo of the duties of one 
 of the most important of foreign missions he 
 signalized himself as a citizen of the United 
 States. He remained there until 1878 when lie 
 was made Consul General to Paris and, in 1880 
 succeeded James Russell Lowell as Minister to 
 Spuin. Wliile at Madrid be represented iiis 
 Government in International Congress which ar- 
 ranged the international relations with Morocco. 
 In March, 1881, he resigned his ministry for 
 resvsons which were as commendatory as any 
 act of his official career — his family's claims and 
 the interest of his children. But the Govern- 
 ment detained him "at Madrid until December 
 and be did not reach Madison until Marcli, 
 1882, where he was cordially received by his 
 friends and neighbors. 
 
 A meager outline of his service as a soldier 
 has been given. It would be wholly inade- 
 quate, if these pages did not contain so many 
 records from which he, in his connection with 
 the "id Wisconsin and the Iron Brigade, is 
 wholly inseparable. All tlie annals of tiiat 
 
 famed organization, from Manassas to Gettys- 
 burg, testify of him. 
 
 As a statesman his record is what a repre- 
 sentative citizen of a Republic would desire. 
 Patriotic, public-spirited, and single-hearted, 
 he brought the best attributes of the best 
 quality of manhood to tlie emergencies of his 
 position and faithfully fulfilled every obliga- 
 tion devolving on him. The best interests of 
 the State were always the object of his thought- 
 ful solicitude and he conducted affairs with 
 a judgment and prescience adequate to the 
 situation. No mistaken course, leaving irrepar- 
 able consequences to handicap a successor in 
 office marked his way ; no stain rests on his 
 official career to becloud his memory when he 
 shall have become only a memory and, when 
 the generations of the coming days ask of 
 history who achieved the glorious record of 
 Wisconsin and who carved her name high on 
 the roll of patriotism and fidelity to the Nation, 
 in that day the name of Brigadier-General 
 Lucius Faircbild will be a peon on the lips of 
 young men and old. 
 
 He was a charter member of the first G. A. 
 R. Post organized in Wisconsin in 1866. Since 
 then he has been prominent in connection 
 therewith, and such was his inffueuce and 
 manifest usefulness to the Order that he was, 
 in .January, 1S8(), made Commander of the 
 Department of Wisconsin and, at the 20th Na- 
 tional EncampmentatSan Francisco, in August 
 of the same year, he was constituted Com- 
 mander-in-Chief. In all the Encampments of 
 the Grand Army he luis been a prominent 
 figure, bringing to them the best abilities of 
 which he is possessed and manifesting in every 
 manner his interest in the welfare of the 
 ex-soldier. 
 
 An admiring biographer would gladly add 
 a suitable tribute to his character. i?ut noth- 
 ing remains to l)e said in the light of what he 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 513 
 
 has done as a lal)ni'er in the several fields of 
 effort to which his energies, his patriotism, his 
 philanthropy, his singleness of heart, liis devo- 
 tion to the higher interests of his generation 
 have called him. He has honored liis State 
 and she will bear him on her records as a well- 
 beloved son. 
 
 He was married in 18G4 to Frances Bull 
 of Washington, D. C, a native of Detroit, Mich., 
 and their three children — Mary, Sarah and 
 Caryl — are still under parental care. 
 
 OBERT P. SNOWDON, Black River | 
 Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 92 and Commander in f890 
 (current year), was born March 24, 1845, in ! 
 Cornwall, Orange Co., New York. His parents, I 
 John and Elizabeth (Potts) Snowdon, were 
 natives of England and the State of New York 
 respectively, and the mother was born in the 
 same house as her son in Cornwall. Her 
 father, Robert Potts, was a soldier in the war of 
 1812 and of German lineage. Mr. Snowdon's 
 only sister, Sarah E., married James T. Marsh, 
 a resident of Solomon's Island, Md. The 
 father died in 1845, and the mother married 
 Charles Chamberlain, a ship-JHiiider, at Baby- 
 lon, L. I. Wiien the son was 16 years old, he 
 determined to hnk his fate with the army in 
 preparation for the repression of the rebellion, 
 and he enlisted in the 12th New York State 
 ■ militia and was assigned to service as a drum- 
 mer. He did all this without the knowledge 
 of his family, and in two weeks his asjiirations 
 were brought to grief by the appearance of his 
 step-father who took him home. With the 
 intent of curing his army fever, he was sent 
 West in the spring of 18G2, but instead of 
 quelling his ambition to join the ranks of the 
 defenders of his country's (lag, he found iiim- 
 
 self under influences of a character which 
 fostered all his desires in that direction. He 
 settled at Black River Falls where he remained 
 until he enlisted, engaged in a sawmill. He 
 enlisted Aug. 22, 1,SG4, with the expectation 
 of mustering in the 48th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and went to rendezvous at Madison, where he 
 was mustered as a recruit for Company G, 5th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, in September following. 
 He joined the regiment at Fairfax C. H., 
 remaining there about two weeks, meanwhile 
 distinguishing himself as a forager. Once he 
 and several comrades brought in a remarkable 
 pig, and it was cooked for the mess. Scarcely 
 were the bones picked before the widow who 
 had owned it appeared and with tears told iier 
 story. Her bal)y had died, and she had 
 brought up the pig at her breast. Her grief 
 was assuaged by substantial means but the 
 mess rejoiced in the soubriquet of " cannibal 
 eaters" through their service. Witli the 1st 
 Division, 3d Brigade and 6th Corps the regi- 
 ment left camp for the Shenandoah Valley, 
 arriving just after the battle of Cedar Creek, 
 Oct. 19, 1864. The command was there 
 busy with the bushwhackers until Sheridan 
 changed base and connected with Grant's army 
 in January, 1865. The regiment moved to 
 the trenches at Petersburg, afterwards taking 
 position at the right of the old Yellow House 
 on the Weldon railroad and was in its first 
 engagement at Hatcher's Run, February 5th 
 and 6th. The extreme cold and sleety weather 
 caused the soldiers terrible suffering. The 
 command was next in active warfare April 2d 
 (March 25tli they were in the general 
 skirmish and drove the rebel outpost; in tiie 
 afternoon they were ordered to attack the 
 rebel line opposite Fort Fisher and were 
 repulsed). They were in the charge, April 2d, 
 under Colonel Allen and which was a success, 
 giving Petersburg to the Union army. The 
 
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 command planted the colors of the 5tli on the 
 parapet and the skirmishing continued 
 througliout the day, and afterwards tlie regi- 
 ment acted as reserve, guarding trains, etc., 
 until ordered into position for the fight at 
 Little Sailor's Creek and defeated Lee's rear 
 guard, who were called Simm's Pirates, 
 Sheridan requesting that they he sent to that 
 service. Prior to going into action tiiey had 
 marched two miles on the double quick. On 
 the 9th they were with Sheridan when his 
 command made ready for action, when Lee 
 called a haU until lie could confer with Grant, 
 and Mr. .Snowdon had the satisfaction of heing 
 at the finish of the grand conflict and of seeing 
 his side victorious. The regiment was with 
 the force assigned to go to the aid of Sherman 
 and marched to Danville only to return, 
 as Johnston had surrendered and the 
 war was at an end. Returning to 
 Burke's Station and thence to Richmond, 
 they went to Washington over the old battle- 
 fields of tiie earlier stages of the war, Freder- 
 icksburg, Bull Run and others, having learned 
 of the assassination of Lincoln at Burke's. 
 They went into camp at Hall's Hill and Mr. 
 Snowdon wa.s a i)art of the Grand Review. He 
 was mustered out at his camp and returned to 
 Madison for final severance of his military 
 obligations. He served through as Sergeant, 
 being mustered out as 1st Sergeant. 
 
 He again located at Black River Falls and 
 engaged in lumbering until the spring of IfclGti 
 when he went to New York city and engaged 
 in butchering in the Atlantic market at Brook- 
 lyn. Having contracted fever and ague he 
 went to the south side of Long Island in 1871 
 and engaged in the same business until 1874, 
 when he went to his sister's home at Solomon's 
 Island. In the fall of the next year he re- 
 turned to Long Island and was occupied in 
 butchering until the spring of 1882 when he 
 
 removed to Gales ville, Wis. In the fall he 
 
 made his permanent location at Black River 
 Falls. For some months he engaged in his 
 former occupation and in the spring of 1884 
 was elected Marshal. On returning to jirivate 
 life he engaged in the furniture business with 
 N. A. Batcheller, which is his ])resent occu- 
 pation. 
 
 He was married Oct. 11, LSHS, to Frances, 
 daughter of Samuel and .Jcanuette Wines of 
 Bellport, L. I. Four children named llattie E., 
 Mary IL, Edward Forrest and Frank have been 
 born to them, of whom the two former are de- 
 ceased. Mr. Snowdon is a member of the 
 Masonic Order, Black River Lodge No. 74, 
 having been admitted to the Order at Islip, 
 L. I., joining Meridian Lodge, No. 691. He is 
 a Republican in political connection and active 
 and influential in the local interests of his party. 
 
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 7|r LONZO E. HOWARD, Sparta, Wis., 
 > yplY meml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 30, was 
 .^!^^X^ Ijorn in Masseua, St. Lawrence Co., 
 New York, Dec. 29, 1837. He is a representa- 
 tive of a father and a grandfather who fought 
 respectively in the war of the Revolution and 
 in 1812. The latter was named John D. and 
 the former, Elisha. His father was born Dec. 
 24, 1790, in Vermont, and married Emily 
 Moody, both being of American i)arentage and 
 English descent. His father was a farmer and 
 descended from a line of farmers. Both 
 parents died in Masseua and had nine children 
 named Phebe, Adeline, Lorenzo P., Daniel P., 
 Rufus W., Susan A., Lucius A., Alonzo E. and 
 Lyman C. Mr. Howard passed his early life 
 under the direction of his parents, receiving his 
 jtrimary education in the common schools, su]>- 
 ])lementiiig that witli a course at St. Lawrence 
 Academy, and passed his vacations in teaching. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 515 
 
 When the war broke out his educational plans 
 took flight before the storm of patriotism which 
 swept over the land, and he enlisted in May, 
 1861, in tlie 16th New York Infantry, but the 
 surgeons rejected him as consumptive and he 
 went to Middlebury, Vermont, and entered his 
 name for matriculation at the college and he 
 passed a successful examination. But during 
 the interim of vacation his feelings again over- 
 came his devices for a collegiate education and 
 he enlisted Oct. 10, 18G1, and was mustered 20 
 da)'S later into Company A, 92d New York In- 
 fantry, at Potsdam. On the organization he 
 was made Sergeant, and the regiment went 
 from rendezvous in February, 1862, to Wash- 
 ington. While engaged in target practice, Mr. 
 Howard was hit by a bullet which glanced 
 from a tree at which they were shooting and 
 received an injury in the hip which kept him 
 in the capital six weeks. When convalescent, 
 he conducted a squad of his regiment to join 
 the command, which had been assigned to the 
 od Brigade, Casey's Division, 4th Corps, Gen- 
 eral Keyes, and went to take part in the Penin- 
 sula campaign. On the day of his arrival the 
 command went to the fight at Williamsburg to 
 support the artillery, which was the principal 
 portion of the army engaged. The movement 
 " On to Richmond " was then inaugurated and 
 the troops crossed the Chickahominy and in 
 the action at Fair Oaks, the division was the 
 first to be attacked. Company A went into 
 action with 52 men ; and when Sergeant How- 
 ard called the roll on .lune 1st, 27 responses 
 were received. They went next to the fight at 
 White Oak Swamp, where they constructed 
 bridges until the beginning of the seven days 
 fight, .lune 26th, the regiment being actively 
 engaged throughout and retreating to Harri- 
 son's Landing after Malvern Hill. When Mc- 
 Clellan joined Pope, the 92d was ordered to 
 Fortress Monroe and went from Norfolk to Suf- 
 
 folk, made several expeditions up the Black- 
 water in Novemljer, going afterwards to New- 
 bern, N. C, arriving December 5th and on the 
 12th, under Foster, made the expedition to 
 Kingston, in which the company lost two killed 
 in the fight of December 24th, but the division 
 captured 400 prisoners. They went next to 
 Whitehall and fought there and at Goldsboro. 
 Dec. 24, 1862, Mr. Howard was promoted to 
 2d Lieutenant to rank from May 28th. The 
 command returned to Newbern early in Jan- 
 uary, 1863, crossed the Neuse River, and com- 
 menced the building of Fort Anderson, during 
 which the garrison was attacked, March 14th, 
 by a rel)el brigade and t wo batteries, destroying 
 the tents and wounding a man of Company A. 
 June 10, 1863, Mr. Howard was mustered out 
 and returned home. He re-enlisted Jan. 1, 
 1864, in the same company and regiment and 
 joined the command at City Point, May 7th. 
 His first engagement was at Chester Station on 
 the Richmond and Petersburg railroad, and 
 May 12tli he fought at Fort Darling and Drury's 
 Bluff, his company losing several men. Until the 
 close of May lie was under almost constant fire 
 at Bermuda Hundred and embarked on the 30th 
 at City Point on the James River for White 
 House Landing, going to Cold Harbor, where 
 they joined Grant's army, and was in the first 
 and second fight there, June 1st and 3d ; also 
 was in the skirmish line and under constant 
 fire until departure on the 12lh for City Point, 
 
 j whence they went to Petersburg and was in the 
 beginning of hostilities there on the 15th. Mr. 
 Howard was in the action known as the explo- 
 
 ! sion of the mine, July 30th, and afterwards 
 skirmished on the lines between that point and 
 Bermuda Hundred. They went to the north 
 of James River, which jilaced them in front of 
 Richmond and Mr. Howard fought at Laurel 
 Hill and Newmarket, and was on skirmish and 
 picket duty until October 27th, when the nou- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 veterans were mustered out and those whose 
 enlistments had been renewed were transferred 
 to Comi)iuiies D and (J of the 96tli New York, 
 Mr. Howard belonging to the latter. He was 
 in action at Fair Oaks where most of tlie two 
 companies named were killed, wounded or 
 ca])lured. Those who escaped returned to the 
 lines, the organization of the regiment being 
 nearlj' destro3'ed by its decimation. Mr. Howard 
 was with the army until the capture of liich- 
 mond. After Fair Oaks, he was detailed as 
 Clerk at the Adjutant General's headquarters 
 on the field and, Feb. 18, 1865, he was 
 made 2d Lieutenant; he reported to his com- 
 pany March 2d and on the 20th was made 
 1st Lieutenant and assigned to Company K, 
 same regiment. He was in command of his 
 company until April 3d, and went into Rich- 
 mond with the skirmish line, having been on 
 ))icket through the preceding night. He was 
 detailed to go up the river to Dover Coal mines, 
 returning to Richmond, May 1st and stayed 
 until .June Ist, going to City Point to Ije detailed 
 as Ordnance Officer. About the middle of the 
 month he went to Culpeper C. H., to sustain 
 the reorganization of the municipal govern- 
 ment. Warrenton was his next destination and 
 in -July, live companies returned there and Mr. 
 Howard was appointed Assistant Adjutant 
 General. About August 1st, he was made 
 Inspector of the troops in Northern \'irginia 
 and in November went to Lynchburg. About 
 the first of November, posts were established 
 at Bristol, Tenu., and Coodson, \n., and Mr. 
 Howard officiated in his former ea])acity until 
 February, 1800, when he returned to City Point 
 for final muster out, which he received on the 
 6th as 1st Lieutenant of Company K, 96th New 
 York Infantry, after a service of nearly four 
 years. He returned to Potsdam, where he 
 engaged a year in mercantile pursuits, sold out 
 and came to Wisconsin, locating at Sparta, 
 
 May 31, 1867. In September he purchased a 
 farm which he conducted six years under most 
 unfavorable conditions, his health being 
 shattered by his army experiences. He acted 
 as a teacher and was made Superintendent of 
 schools of Monroe county. In 1876, lie accepted 
 a position as V)ookkeeper in an agricultural 
 warehouse, and in 1886 engaged with Tyler & 
 Hill as secretary and corresponding clerk in 
 their real estate and loan office. He was 
 married at Sparta, Nov. 9, 1873, to Susie R., 
 daugiiter of J. A. and Armina Clark. Tiieir 
 only child, Earl Clark, was born .June 18, 1880. 
 
 Lorenzo P. Howard enlisted in the 112th 
 Illinois Infantry, went to the Army of the 
 Cumberland and fought in the Atlanta cam- 
 paign. He died at Kenesaw Mountain, and 
 this is all the record of his service in the posses- 
 sion of the family. 
 
 Lucius A. Howard enlisted with his brother 
 Oct. 10, 1861, accompanied him in all the 
 service until May 31, 1862, when he was 
 wounded and captured at Fair Oak.s, taken to 
 Libby and afterwards to Salisbury, N. C, where 
 he was exchanged and went to Annapolis, 
 reduced in weight to 70 pounds. He returned 
 home, recovered and rejoined his regiment in 
 January, 1863, reporting for duty. He veteran- 
 ized in January, 1864, took his furlough and 
 was with the command until Oct. 27, 1864 
 when he was again wounded and captured in 
 the second battle of Fair Oaks and taken to 
 Richmond, where he died in the hospital about 
 November, 1864. 
 
 Lymau C. Howard enlisted in May, 1861, 
 in the 16th New York for two years and 
 served with his regiment until the battle 
 of Bull Run. On the return to Wasliington 
 he was taken with typhoid fever and after 
 recovery was detailed on account of his 
 feeble condition as hospital nurse and he 
 acted in that capacity until the expiration of 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 517 
 
 liis term of enlistment. He is now a resident 
 of Massena, N. Y., engaged in farming, on the 
 old homestead. Mr. Howard of this sketch is 
 a prohibitionist ; he is in receipt of a pension 
 from tlie U. S. Government. 
 
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 EV. J. S. DINSMORE, formerly a 
 Baptist clergyman of Monticello, 
 Wis., and a member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 113, was born at Conway, Carroll Co., New 
 Hampshire, Dec. 29, 1829, and is the son of 
 William F. and Ruth B. (Smith) Dinsmore. 
 (The patronymic was originally Denbow, the 
 earliest ancestor, Joseph Denbow, coming to 
 America about 1622, on tlie second vessel 
 which followed the Mayflower, and was one of 
 the colonial .settlers of Massachusetts. The 
 next generation changed the name to its pre- 
 sent form.) Joseph Dinsmore and his son 
 Samuel, aged eight years, were captured by 
 the Indians; were held 17 years, and, after 
 escaping, took part in the fight known to 
 history as Captain .John Lovewell's battle with 
 the hand of Paugus near what is now Frye- 
 burg, Maine, wdiich took place May 8, 1725. 
 Samuel Dinsmore was born near Portsmouth, 
 N. H., then in the possession of the Massa- 
 chusetts Bay Colony, and was a frontiersman 
 all his life, having a career of adventure for 
 which his early e.xperiences fitted him. Only 
 one child of his is known to posterity, who was 
 named Stephen and who became prominent in 
 the history of that locality. He was for many 
 years a Colonel of New Hampshire militia, was 
 an extensive landholder and lumberman, was 
 prominent in public life and in the employ of 
 the State. He married Mehitabel Frye, who 
 belonged to an aristocratic English family still 
 prominent in the East, and from whom Frye- 
 burg was named. Their children were Joim, 
 
 •Joseph, William, Stephen, Sallie, Mary P. and 
 Nancy. William was born Sept. 18, 1802, in 
 the same house in which his son was born. 
 He was a farmer and was married March 13, 
 1829, to the daughter of .Jeremiah and Dolly 
 (Ethridge) Smith. The father died in New 
 Hampshire, Sept. 18, 1879, and the mother, 
 who was born March 13, 1807, died in 
 January, 1890, in Massachusetts, where all her 
 surviving children reside with the exception of 
 the son who is named in this sketch. 
 The latter heing the oldest, was appren- 
 ticed when 14 j^ears old to his uncle to 
 be a shoemaker and he followed that business 
 until he was 23 years old, when he became a 
 carpenter and worked in New England (with 
 his hom« in his native State) until 1859. He 
 joined the church at Sandwich, N. H., in 1857, 
 and, soon after commenced evangelistic preach- 
 ing. In March, 1859, he entered the academy 
 at North Parsonsfield, Maine, and pursued a 
 course of study for two years, when he went to 
 New Hampton, N. H., there studying one 
 year. His course included both theological and 
 literar}' studies and his next move was to lay 
 aside his personal considerations and enlist. 
 He had watched the progress of the war until 
 he determined that, if he had a country his 
 duty was to help .save it to himself and suc- 
 ceeding generations. Aug. 8, 1862, he enrolled 
 in Company E, 12th New Hampshire Infiintry, 
 was nmstered at Concord and went with the 
 I'egiment to make connection with the Army of 
 the Potomac under McClellan, going succes- 
 sively to Arlington Heights, Harper's Ferry, 
 after Lee to Fredericksburg and, after the use- 
 less fighting there, to Falmouth. He was in 
 the movements of the spring campaign, in the 
 fighting at the fords on the Rappahannock and 
 in the battle at Chancellorsville was wounded. 
 j He remained in hospital at Aquia Creek only 
 a few weeks and pursuaded his comrades to 
 
518 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 carry him to his command, being one of 16 \ 
 men who reported for duty two weeks later, all 
 that were left of a company of 87 men after 
 Chancellorsville. The command was next in 
 pursuit of Lee into Pennsylvania and at Bris- 
 tow Station Mr. Dinsmore received a sunstroke, 
 which he resisted for the time and was in the 
 figlit at Gettysburg. From that field he was 
 sent to the hcspital at Frederick, Md., and was 
 transferred to Jarvis hospital, established in the 
 house formerly belonging to Robert E. Lee. 
 He went next to Lovell hospital on Long 
 Island and was mustered out on certificate of 
 disability April 18, 1864. | 
 
 After being mustered he was made Orderly 
 Sergeant of liis Company and after the battle 
 of Gettysburg was commissioned 1st Lieutenant 
 but his injuries precluded his being mustered 
 under it. 
 
 On his return to New Hampshire he re- 
 sumed study and also taught school, l)eing thus 
 occupied until March, 1865, wlien lie removed 
 to Carroll County, 111., settling at Lanark, 
 where he was in charge of the schools for a year 
 and teaching. In 18(16 he went to Monticello, 
 having been called to the charge of the church 
 at York Prairie in addition to that of the Free 
 Communion Church at Monticello. Three 
 years later he was called to Henry county. 111., 
 and preached four years. He went thence to 
 Adams county where he officiated nine years as 
 a clergyman and also engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business at Paloma, Adams count}'. In 
 1882 he went to La Salle county in the Sucker 
 State, to take charge of a church whose man- 
 agement he conducted until 1886. In that 
 year he returned to Monticello, where lie offi- 
 ciated until 1890 in charge of two churches. 
 His shortest pastorate since entering the minis- 
 try was two years. 
 
 He was married at Sandwich, N. II., May 16, 
 1852, to Sarah J., daughter of Parker and 
 
 Sarah (Roach) Paine, both natives of the Old 
 Granite State. She was born May 24, 1836 and 
 in the paternal line is of English extraction and 
 Irish in the line of her mother. She is one of 
 12 children, three of whom survive. Her 
 father was born Oct. 24. 1805 and died in 1876. 
 Her mother was born April 1, 1810 and died in 
 February, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore have 
 one child, nanaed Frank L., a law student in 
 the State University at Madison. 
 
 Besides his ministerial labors, Mr. Dinsmore 
 is identified with all active reformatory pro- 
 jects which come within his jurisdiction, jirom- 
 inent among them being temperance work. 
 He is a member of the Order of Masonry, 
 Monticello L'uion, No. 105. 
 
 
 ETER W. HILTON, Racine, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 born in Hamilton, Canada, June 23, 
 1844, and his father, Peter W. Hilton, was born 
 in 1812 in Bolton, England. He was a cabinet- 
 maker and emigrated to Canada in 1843, go- 
 ing after a few months to East Troy, A\'alwortli 
 Co., Wis. In 1845 he went to Racine and 
 established his business in company with a 
 man named Waite. In 1864 he bought the 
 entire interest which he conducted until his 
 death in 1871. The mother, Elizabeth Mather 
 before marriage, was born in Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, and died Aug. 23, 1865. Mr. Hilton 
 had three sisters, named Augusta, Catherine 
 aiitl .\iin. The latter is deceased. Mr. Hilton 
 became the apprentice of his father and was 
 with him in business until he entered the 
 army. He enlisted at Racine, Aug. 7, 1862, in 
 Company A, 22d Wisconsin Infantr^^ and went 
 to the front at Cincinnati under Colonel Wil- 
 liam Utley and Captain G. K. Williamson. He 
 left the State September 16tli and after arrival 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 519 
 
 at Cincinnati went to Covington and succes- 
 sively to Lexington, Nicholasville, Danville, 
 Louisville and Nashville. The regiment was 
 assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army 
 of Kentucky, and went in Fehruary to Brent- 
 wood Station, thence to Franklin, was next in 
 a reconnoissance to Spring Hill, March 3d, and 
 fought in the disastrous action at Thompson's 
 Station, escaping capture with 1,100 soldiers to 
 be taken prisoner by Forrest with Lieutenant 
 Colonel Bloodgood 21 days later, 'i'hey were 
 attacked about daybreak, Mr. Hilton receiving 
 a call and a " good morning " from a rebel be- 
 fore he was dressed. They were taken to Co- 
 lumbia, Chickamauga, Knoxviile and Lynch- 
 burg en route to Richmond, where they were 
 in Libby two days and went thence to Fortress 
 Monroe and to Annapolis. The regiment was 
 at St. Louis and Mr. Hilton remained about six 
 weeks in Benton Barracks before exchange. 
 They were sent to Nashville, where they re- 
 mained until the spring of 1864, and went to 
 Chattanooga, Tenn., to join the 3d Division, 2d 
 Brigade and 20th Army Corps in the Atlanta 
 campaign under Sherman. In the first action 
 at Resaca, May 15th, Mr. Hilton was wounded 
 in the shoulder by a shell, which killed or 
 wounded about 15 of his comrades and he went 
 to the hospital at Nashville, rejoined his regi- 
 ment at Chattahoochie River and was in the 
 skirmish line when Hood attacked, September 
 2d, and moved with the head of the line when 
 the mayor and city officials came out to sur- 
 render the city, after which they were in At- 
 lanta, engaged in building breastworks and 
 fortifications, mixed with skirmishing until 
 they went to join Sherman on the march to 
 the sea, leaving Atlanta November loth. Mr. 
 Hilton went to Savannah, engaged in forage 
 and other duty on the way and was in a detail 
 up the Savannah River to prevent trouble 
 from the rebel gunboats; they were fired on, 
 
 but captured the transport Resolute. Return- 
 ing to Savannah, they took possession after its 
 surrender and went North with Sherman 
 through the Carolina.s, Mr. Hilton fighting at 
 Averysboro and going to Raleigh and thence 
 after the surrender of .Johnston to Richmond 
 and Washington to the Grand Review. He re- 
 ceived honorable discharge .June 12, 1865, and 
 was finally fully released from military obliga- 
 tions at Milwaukee on the 25th. He returned 
 to Racine and engaged in business with his 
 father and a year later went to work with the 
 Geyser Threshing Machine Company. He en- 
 gaged later with Blake & Elliott, with whom 
 he remained 18 years and is now (1889) in the 
 employ of the Racine Wagon & Carriage Com- 
 pany. 
 
 He was married March 11, 1875, to Mary, 
 daughter of William and Maria (Whiting) 
 Dibble and their children were named Charles, 
 Henry I)., Frank E., Cora, Elizabeth M. and 
 William G. Henry, William and Elizabeth 
 are the only survivors. 
 
 ENRY K. VINCENT, La Crosse, 
 ^ Wis., member of Wilson Colwell Post 
 No. 38, was born Feb. 1, 1839, at 
 Half Moon, Saratoga Co., New York. He is of 
 Yankee birth and traces his ancestry in the 
 paternal line to stock that was identified with 
 the early history of the country, his grand- 
 father, .Jeremiah Vincent, having been a sol- 
 dier of 1812. His mother descended from 
 English ancestry. Stephen Vincent, his father, 
 was born on the Hudson, .January 28, 1800, 
 and married Anna Godfrey, who was born 
 April 4, 1800. The father removed his 
 family and interests to La Crosse, Wisconsin, 
 in 1855 and was occupied with his business as 
 a carpenter there until his death in 1872. The 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 mother died July 27, 1865. Their six chil- 
 dren were named Caroline, James, Anloinelte, 
 Jeremiali, Martha and Henry. 
 
 The latter passed his youth at home as.sist- 
 ing his father in his business until he decided 
 to become a soldier, which he did when 22 
 years old. In the Aill of 1861 he enlisted at 
 Ija Crosse and was mustered into Company D, 
 14th Wisconsin Infantry at Fond du Lac. The 
 command passed the winter there drilling and 
 performing camp and other duty in barracks. 
 Muster took place in January, 1802, and the 
 regiment started for the front, March 8th, to 
 connect witli the command of Grant. Orders 
 were received at St. Ix)uis for Savannah, Tenn., 
 where they went into camp and prepared for 
 the work of war which was thickening in the 
 West, prior to the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 
 for which field they started on tlie evening of 
 April 6th, orders being received to reach what 
 threatened to be a field of disaster, with all 
 possible dispatch. They arrived just before 
 midnight and lay on their arms through the 
 night in a heavy rain. In the morning they 
 went into action in an advanced jwsition and 
 the command suffered heavily in losses. But 
 their work was effective and the regiment 
 acfiuitted itself in a manner which won for it 
 the best commendations. Afterwards the 14th 
 acted as i)rovost guard in the vicinitj' until 
 July when a movement to Hamburg was made 
 where the regiment acted as guard until 
 August, and there Mr. Vincent was discharged 
 for disability. The exposure at Shiloh to con- 
 stant rain for days without shelter and almost 
 without food, told heavily on the regiment and 
 the command suifered more from sickness and 
 death from tliose causes than from tlie casualties 
 of the battle field ; all the field officers were 
 disabled and several died. 
 
 Mr. Vincent returned to Wisconsin and as 
 soon as able he embarked in business witli hi 
 
 brother, of the firm of Vincent & Edwards. 
 They have a popular and prosperous lumber 
 business, which has been in continuous exist- 
 ence for more than 27 years. Mr. Vincent is a 
 member of the A. 0. U. W. and has held 
 official position in the Order many years. He 
 is a Republican in political relations. 
 
 Dec. 7, 1865, he was married at St. Louis 
 to Mary E. Hanley and their only child, 
 Herbert M., was born May 3, 1867. 
 
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 UGUST KRECH, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 ■^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 2, 
 
 Robert Chivas, in which he is a 
 prominent man, was born i,n 1840, in Saxony, 
 Germany, and is the son of George and Mar- 
 garetta (Glasser) Krech. He lauded at the port 
 of New York in 1857, when 16 years old, and 
 where he remained until the advent of the civil 
 war, and was one of the first to resolve to enlist. 
 He enrolled April 29, 1861, in Company G, 20th 
 New York Infantry, and, after leaving their 
 quarters in New York, the regiment went to 
 Fortress Monroe, then in command of a Divi- 
 sion under General Woksely. Shortly after 
 Butler succeeded to the command of that local- 
 ity. He was afterwards connected witli the 
 command of McClellan in the Peninsula cam- 
 paign, through whose dangers and exposures 
 he passed. He was in the seven days' fight at 
 Richmond, on the retreat to Harrison's Land- 
 ing, and went next to the defense of Wasiiing- 
 ton after the defeat of Pope. 
 
 He fought in the action known as the second 
 Bull Run. Among his experiences, which 
 were many and varied, and would be full of in- 
 terest in a work of more extended scope, he saw 
 the battle between the Monitor and .VIerriniac 
 in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. He was 
 detailed from his regiment for six months as 
 
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 521 
 
 an artilleryman, and one of the actions in 
 whicli he was engaged was that of Antietam, 
 where he saw the battle under the best circiun- 
 stauces, his battery crossing the field twice dur- 
 ing the fight. After the action he went with 
 the command to Harper's Ferry to prevent an 
 anticipated fiank movement by the rebels. His 
 regiment suffered heavily in killed and wound- 
 ed at Antietam and was terribly decimated 
 when he rejoined its ranks. Later he fought 
 at Fredericksburg and was a participant in the 
 terrific charge at Marye's Heights, previous to 
 Chancellorsville under Hooker, and afterwards 
 crossed the Rappahannock. His term of two 
 years soon after expiring, he received honor- 
 able discharge. 
 
 He re-enlisted in Company C, 15th New York 
 Heavy Artillery, for three years. The com- 
 mand was composed of 2,500 assorted men and 
 was in all the actions of any importance in the 
 Army. of the Potomac after its assignment to 
 the 1st Brigade, 2d Division and 5th Army 
 Corps. His Captain was named Edward Kais- 
 ing. Among the fights on his roll of honor 
 were Mine Run, Wilderness, Pine Grove, North 
 Anna River, Bethesda Church, Petersburg, 
 Weldon Railroad, Yellow House, Pojalar Grove 
 Church, Hatcher's Run, the siege of Petersburg 
 and Five Forks, and he witnessed the capture 
 of Lee at Appomattox. Afterwards he went 
 through the closing scenes, including the Grand 
 Review at Washington, and received his final 
 discharge in June, 1865. He received slight 
 wounds at Five Forks and by a piece of shell in 
 the Wilderness. At Five Forks his wound 
 was caused by a bullet which left traces which 
 have never been eflaced. After the fight at 
 Five Forks, he passed a short time at City Point 
 in the hospital. He was in a detail during his 
 connection with the 20th New York to capture 
 Fort Hatteras. After it was accomplished he 
 remained there two weeks aud returned to 
 
 Fortress Monroe on the Vanderbilt. He assist- 
 ed in the captui'e of Norfolk and Portsmouth 
 while at Fortress Monroe, going to the several 
 points b}' transport. In his connection with 
 the battery he performed a vast amount of 
 heavy labor, the drill required being that of 
 infantry and light and iieavy artillery. With 
 the exception of the detail mentioned to the 
 hospital, and a veteran's furlough of two weeks 
 when he enlisted a second time, he was never 
 out of the service until after he wasdiscliarged. 
 His record includes 23 battles. Mr. Krecb be- 
 longs to the class of German-American citizen- 
 ship who have earned all the privileges afford- 
 ed under the protection of our fiag and of our 
 laws. He has a splendid record as a soldier, 
 which he has honored in his career as a citizen. 
 After the war, he returned to New York, where 
 he remained until 1867, when he determined 
 to test the promises of the West to men of en- 
 terprise. After examining the claims of Chi- 
 cago and other cities he located in Milwaukee, 
 settling there in April, 1867. He has since 
 conducted his business interests with success. 
 He was married in 1868, to Margaret Bechler, 
 and their children are named Ida, George, Ed- 
 ward, Hattie, Emma, Flora, August and 
 Charles. Mr. Krech is a member of the United 
 Order of Workmen, belongs to the Druids and 
 to the Harugari Hociety. 
 
 "^i^ APTAIN PERRY R. BRIGGH, presi- 
 dent of the Juneau County Bank, a 
 lawyer of Mauston, Wisconsin, and 
 a member of G. A. R. Post No. 59, was born 
 Nov. 21, 1825, at Auburn, New York, and is 
 the son of Jacob and Nancy (Havens) Briggs, 
 both of w'hom were natives of Massachusetts. 
 He is the youngest of six children born to them 
 and only a sister, Mrs. Susan Conger, is living. 
 
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 His father died when he was about eight 
 years old and lie has never since known a 
 parent's care. His mother died about 1865. 
 He went at 12 years of age to Buffalo, New 
 York, to live with relatives and went to the 
 Academy at Fredonia, obtaining a fair degree 
 of advanced education. About 1855 he went 
 to Wisconsin and after a few days' stay at 
 Ripon went to Mansion, which has since been 
 his place of abode. He purchased a farm and, 
 while earning his livelihood, never lost sight 
 of his plans for advanced training in intellec- 
 tual matters and for acquiring a knowledge of 
 law. Jlc studied with John A. Kellogg and 
 was adnaitted to the Bar in 1860. They con- 
 ducted their business relation jointly until the 
 following spring when Mr. Kellogg, then Dis- 
 trict Attorney, went to the front with tin- (ith 
 Wisconsin Infantry. Mr. Briggs conducted his 
 partner's business until the expiration of Mr. 
 Kellogg's term, when he was elected to succeed 
 him and he .served until his own enlistment in 
 one of the State regiments. He enrolled and 
 was mustered as 1st Lieutenant of Company E, 
 41st Wisconsin Infantry, in May, 1864, and 
 served u)itil September following. l""roin Mil- 
 waukee the command went to Memphis and in 
 his capacity of Lieutenant he had charge of 
 the picket line on the night of Forrest's attack. 
 He had just been relieved when the firing 
 commenced and he, with the others, left his 
 bunk to aid in repelling the rascally rebel 
 chief During the remainder of the time he 
 was on guard and (hill duty and was dis- 
 chargeil after his term expired, at Milwaukee. 
 He returned to Maustou and began to recruit 
 for the 47th Wisconsin Infantry and on the 
 organization of the command was made Cap- 
 tain of Company C, and mustered as such Feb. 
 4, 1865, at Madison. The regiment received 
 orders to proceed to Louisville, went thence to 
 Nashville and to Tullahoma, where the com- 
 
 mand received excellent drill and instruction 
 on military affairs. About two weeks after 
 arrival there Captain Briggs was detailed as 
 Judge Advocate of a Court Martial at Tulla- 
 homa and acted as such about four weeks, 
 when he was appointed Judge Advocate of the 
 Military Commission with headquarters at the 
 same place. After two weeks he w;vs removed 
 to Shelbyville, Teiui., and a month later went 
 to Murfreesboro, there trying a noted case. 
 This duty over, Captain Briggs was assigned 
 to the staff of General Van Cleve as Judge Ad- 
 vocate of the District to prepare cases for future 
 trial and was a member of this commission 
 until September, 1865. His health had been 
 failing all the time he was in the service and 
 at the date mentioned he was ordered home by 
 the surgeon, his discharge to follow him. He 
 went to Madison and was released with his regi- 
 ment Sept. 8, 1865. On regaining a fair de- 
 gree of health he resumed his professional 
 duties and in May, 1866, he was appointed 
 Postmaster and served until his election to tlie 
 State Legislature in the fall of 1871 as a Re- 
 publican. His wife was made his successor by 
 appointment in the postofKce and, together 
 they held the office 19 years and 11 months. 
 After serving his term as a legislator, Mr. 
 Briggs returned to Mau.ston and estaljlished 
 the Bank of Maustou, which he conducted 
 until he sold his interest therein, in March, 1887, 
 At that date he established the Juneau County 
 Bank, whose affairs he still manages. He has 
 been President since its organization and the 
 establishment is engaged in all varieties of 
 business pertinent to banking institutions. He 
 also transacts a large amount of law business, 
 his clientage being extensive and, connected 
 therewith, he operates as pension claim agent 
 with success. He was married in Versailles, 
 Cattaraugus Co., New York, to Mary AVood, in 
 : 1851, and their only child is a son, named B. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 523 
 
 W. Briggs, residing at Birmiugliam, Ala. He 
 is United States Marshal of the 1st District. 
 Alta, a deceased danghter of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Briggs, was the wife of A. C. Carter of Mauston 
 and died in October, 1888, leaving three 
 children. 
 
 Cajitain Briggs has hold every office in the 
 municipality to which he belongs and is now 
 Justice of the Peace. He is a Mason of ad- 
 vanced degree and belongs to the Cotnmandery 
 at Portage ; he has been an active worker in 
 the Blue Lodge and Chapter, having held all 
 the official positions. In his Post he is an en- 
 thusiastic and effective worker, having been a 
 charter member and has held all the offices. 
 
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 ENRY SNYDER, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, 
 as born at " Bingen on the Rhine ", 
 Germany, Sep. 9, 1844, and is the son of Mar- 
 tin and Elizabeth (Wifinback) Snyder. They 
 remained in their native country until their 
 son was eight years old and emigrated to 
 America, locating on a farm in Waukesha, Sep. 
 8, 1852. He was early apprenticed to learn 
 the boot and shoe trade and when the war 
 broke out in 1861, he greatly desired to enlist 
 but was prevented by his bonds as an appren- 
 tice, although he ran away and enrolled twice, 
 his father each time interposing his parental 
 authority. But he still adhered to his deter- 
 mination and enlisted Feb. 14, 1865 in Com- 
 pany E, 42d Wisconsin Infantry, being 
 mustered in at Madison, February 28th and 
 joining the regiment at Cairo. There he per- 
 formed such duty as was demanded by the 
 position, which required constant activity in 
 some direction, from obvious causes. There 
 were always rebels to guard, expeditions in 
 both directions on the river and often march- 
 
 ing long distances into the interior on de- 
 tached duty. Mr. Snyder was a witness of the 
 explosion of tlie Sultana with the returning 
 soldiers from Andersonville, whose true story 
 in connection with the rebel villain who blew 
 her up has only lately been told. Mr. Snyder 
 relates his endeavors with others to rescue the 
 wrecks of humanity to whom the rebels had 
 not yet administered punishment sufficient. 
 On another occasion he was one of a detail sent 
 to Columbus to aid in the capture of Forrest 
 who obstinately persisted in getting out of 
 everybody's way. But he did not object to 
 severe marching in his pursuit. While at 
 Cairo, where the camp was in a low swampy 
 place, Mr. Snyder contracted rheumatism and 
 when the salutes were fired on receiving the 
 news of Lee's surrender, he was made deaf in 
 his left ear by the concussion. He reached 
 Madison June 20th and was discharged in July 
 following. 
 
 He returned to Waukesha and engaged in 
 manufacturing in which he has made a suc- 
 cess. He belongs to several prominent or- 
 ganizations among which are the Knights of 
 Honor, Patriarchal Circle, Modern Woodmen 
 of America and the Waukesha Fire Depart- 
 ment of which he is foreman. He was married 
 Nov. 25, 1865 to Mary E. Eiler and their 
 children are named Lizzie, Amelia, Henry, Al- 
 vin and Mabel. 
 
 OSEPH K. CORTHELL, Hudson, Wis., 
 Commander of Post No. 151 in 1890, was 
 i=i^ born April 24, 1847, in Cattaraugus 
 county. New York. In the paternal line he is 
 of Scotch lineage, his father, Daniel Corthell, 
 having been born in the vicinity of Glasgow, 
 Scotland. His mother, Matilda Benham before 
 marriage, was born in Vermont. The demise 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 of the senior Corthell took place in Hinsdale, 
 New York, and tlie wife and mother is liv- 
 ing in McKean county. Pa. Their cii'ldren 
 were Lucinda, William H., Joseph K. and 
 Ann. Mr. Corthell was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and enlisted at 16 years of age ; 
 April 10, 1863, he was made a member of 
 the Harris (hiards, which went as Company I, 
 16th New York Cavalry, from rendezvous at 
 Elmira to Washington, having enlisted as a 
 body. They were stationed at Stone man for 
 three weeks and in the latter part of May went 
 on transports to City Point and marched thence 
 to Belle Plain, where they were first in action. 
 There Mr. Corthell captured a rebel. After the 
 fight the company joined the regiment and 
 later, was in the " On to Richmond " movement 
 under Kilpatrick and with Custer. At one 
 time they were within the lines of Richmond 
 and operated about that countrj' until Lee 
 started through Maryland. The command 
 was in his wake in his northward movements 
 and went to the battle of Gettysburg, in Han- 
 cock's command. The regiment was in tlie 
 opening of the action on the Emmettsburg road 
 with Buford, being on the picket line, and after 
 Reynolds came to the scene was in service on 
 various portions of tlie field, fighting mounted. 
 In the afternoon of the second day they fought 
 dismounted in the vicinity of the Seminary 
 and also near the Cemetery. At night they 
 found themselves near Little Round Top and 
 rested there. On the morning of the 3d they 
 were sent to make a charge, were driven back 
 and remained until Pickett's charge, when they 
 advanced into the woods after the eneni}'. The 
 regiment did not leave the field at nightfall but 
 followed the rebels some hours after dark. 
 With Meade's army the comnuind crossed the 
 Rapidan and was, soon after, in a sharp action 
 at Rappahannock Station. They operated as 
 cavalry in that vicinity and moved when winter 
 
 approached to Culpeper C. H., to winter 
 quarters. In the spring they joined Grant and 
 participated in the campaign of the Wilderness 
 and in the battles leading up to Petersburg. 
 They fought on the Weldon railroad, skirmish- 
 ing and performing unremitting duty as cavalry 
 until tlie action at Trevillian Station, where 
 they defeated Stewart's cavalry, tearing up the 
 road and cutting off rebel supplies. They were 
 in the fight at Port Republic and afterwards 
 chased Early in his Washington raid, fighting 
 at Monocacy. Tlieir next campaign was in the 
 Valley of the Shenandoah, wiiere they fought 
 at Smithfieldand Martinsburg with the cavalry 
 of Fitzhugh Lee and skirmished in every direc- 
 tion between times. While there Mr. Corthell 
 was taken prisoner by Mosby's men and taken 
 to the mountains ; after three days he succeeded 
 in getting away during the night and made 
 his way to his command. They fought at 
 Winchester under Custer, Mr. Corthell person- 
 ally taking several rebels prisoners in a hand-to- 
 hand fight, whom he sent back to the rear. He 
 remembers that Custer was at least 100 yards 
 in advance of his men in the charges. The 
 command followed the rebels to Fisher's Hill ; 
 there they made a stand and were driven 
 beyond Staunton. They fell back to Cedar 
 Creek, and were there until the battle Oct. 
 19, 1864, in the action where Sheridan 
 came back, with the rallying cry " We'll 
 lick them out of their boots." Mr. Corthell 
 was in battle from three in the morning until 
 midnight following. The rebels were followed 
 up the valley and Mr. Corthell was in another 
 fight at Mount Crawford and Piedmont, also 
 fighting at Mt. Jackson, passing through 
 Snicker's Gap and driving back Longstrcet's 
 corps. They returned over the mountains and 
 through the valley, destroying property and 
 arrived at Winchester to relieve the 17th Penn- 
 sylvania, remaining there until New Year's 
 
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 525 
 
 when they moved to Loudon Valley to winter 
 quarters and remained until March, and mean- 
 while, were attacked in the night by Mosby's 
 guerrillas, whom they defeated, driving them 
 back and capturnig several. (During the stay 
 there the regiment went on a raid to Gordons- 
 ville, capturing supplies, cattle and sheep and 
 burning a large amount of stores.) In .Janu- 
 ary, Siieridan joined Grant at Petersburg and 
 the regiment went to the rear of that city and 
 fought at Savage Station, defeating the rebel 
 cavalry. After this the command was con- 
 stantly in the saddle and fighting under Sheri- 
 dan until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. 
 They swung around Riclunond, going after the 
 surrender to Cloyd's Mills and into camp a few 
 days when they moved to Washington to par- 
 ticipate in the Grand Review. A week later 
 they went back to Virgina and were consoli- 
 dated with the New York 15th Cavalry. They 
 were ordered to Louisville and performed pro- 
 vost duty until after election, much against the 
 general feeling of the command and went 
 thence to Elmira, having been mustered out 
 Aug. 9, 1865, and received final discharge Sep- 
 tember 14th. After his long service Mr. Cor- 
 thell returned home free from injury, although 
 his uniform had been cut to pieces b}' bullets. 
 
 After passing a year in recuperating his 
 strength he engaged as a carpenter at James- 
 town, N. Y., and afterward jiassed a few months 
 in the Pennsylvania oil regions. In 1867 he 
 went to Michigan and was occupied in lumber- 
 ing about two years, when he went to Wiscon- 
 sin and located at La Crosse. He engaged in 
 building railroad bridges and two years later 
 he located at Hudson, entering the employ of 
 the C, St. P., M. & 0. R. R., and has been con- 
 nected therewith in some capacity ever since, 
 being foreman of the coach department at one 
 time. He is a member of Colfax Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows No. 85, and is Nol)le Grand in 1890. He 
 
 is also a member of Sylvia Camp No. 84, and 
 strongly Republican in political predilections. 
 
 Mr. Corthell was married Dec. 19, 1873 at 
 Hudson, to Margaret, daughter of William and 
 Letitia (McNichol) Craig, and their children 
 were born as follows: — Melvin B., April 18, 
 1875 and Georgia E., Dec. 20, 1876. William 
 H. Corthell, the brother of Mr. Corthell, en- 
 listed in the same company and regiment. He 
 was with him through all the service, was 
 wounded at Brandy Station and mustered out 
 as Sergeant. 
 
 RANK COOPER, Black River Falls, 
 f^^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 92, 
 was born March 27, 1825, in Derby- 
 shire, England, where he was reared to the age 
 of four years by his parents, Joseph and Grace 
 Cooper. His father was born in 1797, emi- 
 grated to America in 1829, and purchased and 
 maiiaged a farm in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, on 
 which he died in 1SS4. The widowed mother 
 of Mr. Cooper still resides on the homestead, 
 (1890.) The children were born in the order 
 named : .John, Frank, .Joseph, George, Martha, 
 William, Samuel and Charles, all of whom are 
 living but Charles, George and William. When 
 he was 18 years old, Mr. Cooper began an 
 apprenticeship to learn the business of a printer 
 on the Ashtabula Sentinel, served there three 
 years, and in 1847 went to Wisconsin, locating 
 at Milwaukee. Until his removal to Black 
 River Falls in 1857 he was occupied on various 
 newspapers in Wisconsin and, on locating in 
 that place, he obtained a position on the .Jack- 
 son County Bantier as foreman. This employ 
 was interrupted by his entering the army. 
 March 27, 1864, on his birthday, he enrolled 
 and was mustered into service at Madison, 
 April 26, 1864, as "Francis Cooper" in 
 Company C, 37th W^isconsin Infantry. Six 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 companies of the regiment went to Washing- 
 ton, arriving the 1st of Maj', but Mr. Cooper 
 was detailed on recruiting service and reached 
 his company in front of Petersburg about the 
 beginning of the siege. The regiment was 
 assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 
 9th Army Corps, and occupied a position in 
 the " horseshoe " during the entire siege. Mr. 
 Cooper was at the explosion ol the mine July 
 .30th and in the desperate charge into the crater. 
 The action of the regiment has been recorded 
 in all its distinguishing particulars, the com- 
 nuind earning richly all the encomiums passed 
 on its lirilliant and daring service. Mr. Cooper 
 received a severe wound in his back and 
 suffered an injury to one finger. He found 
 himself after six hours of unconsciousness, in 
 the crater, lying across his gun. He crawled 
 ont on hands and knees, dragging his gun 
 with his teeth, and finally reached the Union 
 lines. He passed a few days in the field hos- 
 pital and was sent thence to Portsmouth Grove 
 hospital in Rhode Island, whicli he left after 
 two months, before he was able to walk, his 
 spine being injured and locomotion affected. 
 But the surgeon was determined to treat him 
 for lung disease, and he had a decided objec- 
 tion to taking medicine for a disease he knew 
 he was not suffering from, and he remained 
 with his company until March, 1865, under- 
 going excruciating pain from his wound. At 
 the date mentioned he obtained a furlough, 
 went home and rejoined the command in 
 April after the surrender of Lee. He had 
 improved so inudi that be was able to walk 
 fairly well and remained with the regiment 
 until muster out near Chain Bridge, July 28, 
 1865, after assisting in reviewing the army 
 being unable to march therein. After the close 
 of the war he received from Governor Fair- 
 child a brevet commission as First Lieutenant. 
 After his return to civil life he started the 
 
 publication of a paper at Neillsville, which he 
 conducted one year. In 1866 he returned to 
 Black River Falls and purchased a half inter- 
 est in the Banner, of J. A. Watrous, now a 
 proprietor of the Milwaukee Snndaij Telegraph. 
 He renewed his old interest in newspaper life 
 and pursued his vocation as a dispenser of 
 intelligence from all portions of the earth in 
 company with Mr. Watrous until tlie latter 
 sold out to W. T. Price. In 1871 Mr. Cooper 
 bought the moiety of his partner and became 
 sole proprietor. Prior to Mr. Watrous' with- 
 drawal the name of the journal was changed to 
 the Badger State Banner. In 1873, Mr. Cooper 
 sold a half interest to his son, George Cooper 
 who, in 1888, bought the entire interest. 
 It goes without saying, that a man who has 
 passed his life in the craft never loses his taste 
 for the details of the office, and Mr. Cooper 
 passes much time in attendance upon his old 
 haunts, acting sometimes in the wonted cai)ac- 
 ities and in a sense sustaining his old char- 
 acter of manager and adding the role of work 
 to his daily walk in life. Though on the sun- 
 set side of life, he retains his active interest in 
 the affairs of the world, and his happy char- 
 acter, buoyant spirits and vigorous mind testify 
 to the value of a well-spent, industrious life. 
 He is a Republican, and all bis journalistic 
 enterprises have been guided under that 
 regime. The pajter in the hands of his .son 
 sustains its prestige and is a factor of improve- 
 ment of no mean caliber. Under the capable 
 and sagacious conduct of Geo. F. Cooper it is 
 steadily growing in circulation and popularity. 
 Mr. Cooper was married at Racine, Dec. 24, 
 1848, to Catherine, daughter of Francis and 
 Cynthia Fox, and their children are named 
 Charles J., George F. and Arthur S. The mother 
 died in December, 1880, aiid Mr. Cooper was 
 married Oct. Hi, 1886, to Mrs. Nellie Darrow. 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 /^^ EORGE HENRY HEAFFORD, Mil- 
 1 ^,^ J ^ waukee, Wis., member of the Com- 
 ^^---^ mandery of the MiUtary Order, Loyal 
 Legion, Department of Wisconsin, was born 
 Oct. 29, 1845, in Essex, Conn., and is the son of 
 William H. and Sarah A. (Andrews) Heafford. 
 His father was born April 8, 1825, in London, 
 England, and his mother, Dec. 31, 1827, in 
 Essex, Conn., a descendant of a family whose 
 early history in this country began with that 
 of the nation. Her father was a soldier in the 
 war of 1812, and her grandfather fought in the 
 Revolution. William Heafford was a contractor 
 and builder, and removed from Connecticut to 
 Chicago in 1856 which was his home until 1880. 
 He was an enlisted man in Company A, 72d Illi- 
 nois Infantry, Chicago Board of Trade (1st Regi- 
 ment), and was raised from the ranks to Com- 
 missary Sergeant, .serving as such until illness 
 sent him to hospital and finally to Marine 
 hospital at Chicago, whence he received honor- 
 able discharge in 1864. With his wife he is 
 living in Clay Co., Florida. Their family in- 
 cluded two sons, George and William Wallace, 
 the latter a resident of Buffalo, New York. 
 
 Mr. Heafford grew to manhood in Chicago, 
 and he obtained his elementary education in 
 the i)ul)lic schools. Later he attended a school 
 of higher grade and was pursuing his educa- 
 tional course when the war interested his atten- 
 tion. When the attack was made in Charles- 
 ton harbor, George Heafford was a boy of 16 ; 
 when the second year had rolled its dismal 
 length around he was 17, with the understand- 
 ing of a man, so deeply had he become imbued 
 with the sj)irit that ruled the period in Chicago 
 and which sent some of the finest Bodies of 
 men to the war in tlie whole history of that 
 terrible internecine conflict. Young Heafford 
 enlisted July 23, 1862, in Company A, 72d 
 Illinois Infantry, m which his father was en- 
 rolled, and was mustered just a month later. 
 
 The regiment was in rendezvous at Camp Han- 
 cock and he remained there one day, orders 
 being received to proceed to Cairo. This regi- 
 ment was one of the most noted in the service 
 for many reasons. Its complement of 930 men 
 was raised and organized in one month, and 
 on the next day readied Cairo in readiness for 
 assignment to field duty. It was composed of 
 men, most of whom were prominent in busi- 
 ness circles in Chicago, to whom their present 
 business, while it had all the elements of 
 loyalty to the flag, was also, so to speak, a 
 matter of enterprise necessary to their future 
 careers, which in American citizenship is a 
 synonym for fealty to the Government. Sep- 
 tember 6th they went to Paducah, Ky., and on 
 the 17th to Columbus, where they performed 
 guard duty and drill and made two raids, one 
 to Clarkson, Mo., and the other to New Madrid. 
 November 21st they joined Quimby's command 
 connected with Grant's army, who was moving 
 southward with Vicksburg as objective point, 
 when the surrender of Holly Springs, the base 
 of supplies of the Union troops, defeated the 
 purpose of the Great Commander. The wagon 
 train was guarded by the 72d to Memphis, 
 which remained headquarters until March 1st, 
 the command being engaged meanwhile in 
 guartl duty and making a raid to Horn Lake 
 Creek after guerrillas. They started for the 
 Yazoo Pass, returned, and in April went to 
 Milliken's Bend, moving thence with Grant's 
 army to Vicksburg. They arrived on the field 
 of Champion's Hill, May 16th, at a critical 
 moment and delivered victory to the Union 
 army. On the 19th the regiment opened the 
 siege of Vicksburg and in the action of the 22d 
 the regiment began the achievements which 
 covered the command with a glory which has 
 never tarnished. The regiment was thence- 
 forward foremost in the siege and in the 
 experiences of the war, fighting through the 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 siege until the capitulation, going thence to 
 Natchez, skirmishing at St. Catherine's Creek 
 and at Cross Bayou, La. The next year was one 
 of comparative inactivity witli the exception 
 of two expeditions, the one to Benton, where 
 sharp figliting occurred and to Grand Gulf, re- 
 porting Oct. 30, 1864, to the Department of the 
 Tennessee under Howard with Sherman, and 
 moved towards Nashville, leaving tliat place to 
 join Schofield at Columhia. Leaving there 
 Novemher 29tli, the regiment was in action at 
 Spring Hill and reached Franklin, where they 
 liastily prepared for the attack of Hood, which 
 took j)lace in the afternoon of the same day, 
 the regiment losing 9 officers out of 16, and 
 152 men. The same night the regiment 
 started for Nashville where they were in the 
 decisive battle of the loth and 10th of De- 
 cember. They chased Hood to the Tennessee 
 and went thence to Eastport, which tliey left 
 in February for New Orleans, preparatory to 
 engaging in the operations against the stroilg- 
 holds of Mobile. Tiiey crossed the Gulf of 
 Mexico, landed on Dauphin Island, crossed 
 over to the main land and took part in the 
 movement whose ultimatum was the inveigle- 
 ment of the rebels into a belief that Mobile was 
 the ol)iective point of the brigade. This ac- 
 complished, tbe 72d went to Fish River and 
 thence to the trenches before Spanish Fort and 
 actively engaged in besieging operations until 
 the last night, when the brigade, which in- 
 included the 72d, made the charge which 
 crowned the long siege with success on the 
 morning of the same day on which the head 
 and front of the rebellion bit the dust at Ap- 
 pomattox. Tlie command moved to Rlakcly 
 to find that victory was with the Union bannt'r 
 there and their next move was on the long 
 march of 200 miles to Montgomery which was 
 accomplished in 11 days. At that place and at 
 Union Springs the regiment performed military 
 
 duty until July 19th,when they started for Vicks- 
 burg to be mustered out August 6th, returning 
 to Chicago. The experiences of the regiment 
 were those of Mr. Heatibrd, wiio started for the 
 war in the ranks, was promoted to Corporal, 
 Commissary Sergeant, Sergeant Major and Ad- 
 jutant, officiating in all these capacities in a man- 
 ner which recommended him to the authorities, 
 w'ho in view of all the Union army had accomp- 
 lished, tried to express the gratitude of the Na- 
 tion by brevetting its conspicuously brave men 
 and officers. Mr. Heafford received the ac- 
 knowledgment of the Government in the shape 
 of Brevet Major after the war. 
 
 He returned to Chicago and entered the ser- 
 vice of tlie Chicago & Northwestern R. R. cor- 
 poration in September following in a promi- 
 nent and confidential position and acted suc- 
 cessively as ticket clerk, chief statistical clerk, 
 accountant, traveling auditor of accounting de- 
 partment and chief clerk of the general pas- 
 senger department; from July, 1872 to October, 
 1876, he operated as assistant general passenger 
 agent on the Missouri it Pacific R. R.,and from 
 the last mentioned date to May, 1879, in the 
 chief capacity as general passenger agent on 
 the same route. From 1880, to August, 1882, 
 he officiated as general Eastern agent of tlie 
 " Bee Line " and from that time to July, 1890, as 
 Assistant General Passenger Agent on the Chi- 
 cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. At the 
 latter date he was constituted General Passenger 
 Agent in the interests of the same corjKiration. 
 Mr. Heafibrd is one of the most capable railroad 
 officials in the country ; no man is his superior 
 in the conducting of the att'airs of the various 
 departments of the corporations with which he 
 has lieen connected, and in private character lie 
 is, like Bayard, satispeur et saiis reproche. He ex- 
 emplifies all that is embodied in the term "gen- 
 tleman" and among his compeers and those in 
 whose service he has won distinction he is thor- 
 
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 oughly appreciated, which is a full tribute to his 
 merits and the quality of his friends. He belongs 
 to Masonic Lodge Oriental, No. 33 at Cliicago 
 and Milwaukee Council No. 46, National Union. 
 He was married Sep. 13, 1865 at Chicago to M. 
 Louise, daughter of Captain C. P. and Martha A. 
 (Hodgson) Bradley. Mrs. Bradley is living with 
 her daughter; the father died March 18, 1865. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Heafford two children have 
 been born ; Frank George died when six years 
 old ; M. Louise is the single child who brightens 
 
 the rooftree. 
 
 APTAIN CHARLES C. DOW, Portage, 
 Wis., Clerk of Columbia County and 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 14, was 
 born at Piermont, New Hampshire, June 2, 
 1836. He is the representative of two families 
 who belonged to the stock which settled New 
 England and were identified with the early his- 
 tory of the country. His father, Rufus Dow, 
 was a clothier and married Maria L. Bedel ; 
 he died in 1852, leaving a young family, and 
 his wife survived him until 1885. The death 
 of his father threw Captain Dow early on his 
 own resources and he remained in his native 
 State until he was approaching his majority, 
 when he determined to test the promise of the 
 West and, in 1856, he went to Wisconsin to en- 
 deavor to carve out a career which should be 
 worth while to a New England boy who had 
 inherited the spirit and ambition of ancestors 
 who held that manhood and its obligations 
 should be the first consideration of every son of 
 the Republic who deserved its jtrivileges. He 
 first located at Portage where he obtained em- 
 ploy as a clerk. He was so occupied until the 
 war came on, in every detail of which he was 
 interested, feeling that a message was borne to 
 him in every report of outrage and insult to the 
 flag which he had been taught to reverence. 
 
 He was among tlie first to enlist, enrolling 
 April 19, 1861, in the Portage company which 
 reported to the Governor as ready for service 
 when the requisition for troops was made. It 
 was assigned to the 2d Wisconsin as Company 
 G, and young Dow was a part of its history un- 
 til his discharge at the close of liis term of en- 
 listment. He was made Sergeant prior to leav- 
 ing the State, June 20th following his enlist- 
 ment. He passed the time before the battle of 
 Bull Run chiefly in the common way of soldiers 
 who have come from habits and lives of peace to 
 fight a fratricidal war, because necessity forced 
 it — drilling, learning all possible things of war 
 and anticipting — they hardly knew what. 
 
 Capt. Dow's first taste of the business in 
 which he had engaged was at Blackburn's Ford, 
 July 18th, and he was under arms until the 
 disaster at Bull Run. In that action a rebel 
 bullet passed through his neck and lengthwise 
 through his tongue, knocking out a tooth as it 
 left his mouth. The wound was exasperating 
 and made him long to find an opportunity to 
 repay his debt with interest, and, while he was 
 in hospital at Georgetown (about a month) he 
 had ample time to nurse his wrath, while he 
 pondered on the conduct of the field officers of 
 the 2d Wisconsin, who had in charge one of 
 the finest regiments on the field. He went to 
 New Hampshire on a short furlough, rejoining 
 his regiment at Chain Bridge, where the com- 
 mand was made the nucleus of the "Iron 
 Brigade." Returning to Fort Tillinghast, the 
 ! regiment passed the winter in the defenses of 
 I Washington, and, in the spring, moved to the 
 Manassas campaign, afterwards taking part in 
 1 the movements in May. He was in tlie terrific 
 ; march to Frederick's Hall Station, in the skir- 
 ' mishes on the Rappahannock, in the fight at 
 Sulphur Springs and at Gainesville. In this 
 j action, quoted as " one of the bloodiest of the 
 i war," Captain Dow was severely wounded, a 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 buckshot and musket ball passing through his 
 body. (His company lost 43 killed and wound- 
 ed out of 54 men, 17 being killed ; the bodies 
 were unburied for a year, and Captain Dow saw 
 them at that date lying where they had fallen.) 
 He was captured and held a prisoner five days, 
 himself and a comrade picking U]) about a cup 
 full of beans, scattered from the stable rations, 
 which sustained life for the time being. A 
 half of a sheep was supplied for 25 men and 
 Captain Dow gave his portion of the soup made 
 from it to a comrade, who was wounded in the 
 mouth ; he afterwards gave his portion of the 
 meat to another and foraged for himself. 
 He di.scovered the negro servant of an officer 
 who was the possessor of a few very small bis- 
 cuit and gave him a gold dollar for a dozen of 
 them. On his way back to the rebel hospital 
 his hunger overcame him and he ate two of 
 them, but when he faced the beseeching eyes 
 of his wounded comrsldes he surrendered the 
 remaining ten to supply their needs. Greater 
 than the daring of the Union soldiers was their 
 humanity to their comrades! 
 
 Captain Dow was sent a paroled prisoner to 
 the Union field hospital where he received 
 medical attention for the first time, although he 
 had attended to his wounds as best he could 
 himself. He was in hospital about half a mile 
 from where he was injured and went thence to 
 Washington and remained until Dec. 2, 1862, 
 when he rejoined liis regiment at Brook's 
 Station on Aquia Creek, his wound still sup- 
 purating, llis bravery iiad been so conspic- 
 uous tliat lie was coniniissioued 2d Lieutenant 
 by Colonel Fairchild ami he assumed the 
 duties of that position on making connection 
 with his company. Ten days later he was in 
 the fight at Fredericksburg, was under fire at 
 the fords several days and, on the 20th, went 
 into winter (juarters at Belle Plain, where he 
 was made 1st Lieutenant, Marcli 1, 1863, and 
 whence he went to help cover the command of 
 
 Burnside with glory in the " Mud Campaign. " 
 He was in the raiding in Marcii and in the ac- 
 tion at Fitzhugb's Crossing, preparatory to the 
 battle of Chancellorsville. The 2d Wisconsin 
 was the first regiment of the brigade under fire 
 at Gettysburg and for his conduct on the field, 
 he was promoted to Ca})tain of his company, 
 his commission being dated Aug. 13, 1863. 
 He was next in action at Mine Run, and in the 
 Wilderness and thenceforward was in all the 
 movements of his regiment until mustered out, 
 June 30, 1864, his last connection with the 
 fighting for the Union being in the battles of 
 the Wilderness — Spottsylvania, North Anna 
 and Cold Harbor, after which his command 
 performed provost duty in behalf of the divi- 
 sion until permanently relieved. 
 
 Captain Dow returned to Portage where he 
 again engaged in mercantile pursuits until 
 1875, when he obtained a position in the U. S. 
 postal service in which he was occupied five 
 years. In 1880 he was commissioned Post- 
 master of Portage and served in the position 
 until relieved by President Cleveland. In the 
 fall he was elected County Clerk on the Re- 
 publican ticket, of which office he is still the 
 incumbent, (1890.) He has served two terms 
 as Commander of his Post and has always 
 taken an active part in its affairs. He has 
 taken tlie higher degrees in Masonry, is a 
 Knight Templar and, in accordance with his 
 character, performs active service in his so- 
 ciety relations. He belongs to the A. O. U. W., 
 and has served as Alderman of the city ; he is 
 also prominent in local political matters. 
 
 He was married Dec. 16, 18G7, at Portage, to 
 Anna E., daughter of David N. Jones, a native 
 of ^h^ryland, and they have three children. 
 William C. is a bookkeeper for the Register 
 Printing Company ; Carrie L., and Charles H. 
 are still students at school. 
 
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 (lOKWELL J. FLINT, Menomonie, 
 Wis., a charter member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 58, was its first Cora- 
 luander. He was born at Williamstown, Vt., 
 March 23, 1842, and is tlie only son of .Joseph 
 Flint, Jr., and Lora A. (Fuller) Flint, both of 
 whom were born at Braintree, Orange Co., "\'t. 
 The earliest known ancestor of this branch of 
 the family is Thomas Flint who, with his 
 brother William, came from Wales about 1640 
 and settled at Salem, now South Dan vers, 
 Mass., where he died in 166.3. Some of his 
 descendants settled in Hampton, Conn., where 
 Jonathan Flint, a soldier in the Revolution and 
 great-grandfather of Mr. Flint of this sketch, 
 was born Nov. 17, 1755. At the close of the 
 Revolutionary war the family moved to Brain- 
 tree, ^'t. The name of Flint is familiar in tlie 
 annals of the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. 
 It is found in the list of " Embattled Farmers " 
 who full at Lexington, and it is recorded that 
 Capt. Samuel Flint was killed at the battle of 
 Stillwater, while gallantly leading his men in 
 action. On the maternal side the lineage of 
 Mr. Flint shows a mixture of Scotch, Irish and 
 English, and among his mother's ancestors were 
 the Putnams and ]McClellans of Connecticut. 
 In 1845 tlie family moved to New Haven, 
 Yt., where the father engaged in the manu- 
 facture of wagons and carriages with his 
 brother, Samuel B. Flint. The discovery of 
 gold in California came soon after, and in the 
 spring of 1850 he went to the new Eldorado 
 and worked a year in the mines on Feather 
 River. But, failing in health, he returned 
 home in the fall of 1851, and died June l2, 
 1852. In 1854 the widowed mother married 
 Samuel B. Flint and the family moving to 
 Wisconsin the following year, settled on a farm 
 in Buffalo, Marquette Co. Here they lived five 
 years — the son doing the ordinary work of a 
 farmer boy in summer and attending the 
 
 district school in the winter. By the exercise 
 of close economy lie was enabled to attend 
 school a short time at Fox Lake and Portage, 
 working out of school hours to pay for his 
 board. During the winter of 1857 he found 
 employment in the office of " The Independent," 
 a paper published in Portage by J. C. Chandler, 
 (better known perhaps as " Shanghai ") and 
 there received his first les.son in the "art pre- 
 servative." In the spring of 1860 his parents 
 removed to River Falls, Wis., and Mr. Flint 
 entered the office of " The Wisconsin State 
 Register," at Portage, to serve an apprenticeship 
 of three years at the printer's trade. But the 
 rebellion came on, and when President Lin- 
 coln's call for " three hundred thousand more '' 
 was issued, he obeyed the summons and en- 
 listed Aug. 6, 1862, in Company C, 23d Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, " for three years or during the 
 war." The regiment left Camp Randall, at 
 Madison, Sept. 15tli and two daj^s later went 
 into camp near Covington, Ky. It formed a 
 part of Gen. Burbridge's brigade in .Gen. A. 
 J. Smith's division. In October the division 
 marched to Nicholasville, and after a brief rest 
 moved to Louisville, where the troops were put 
 on board transports and taken to Memphis to 
 join General Sherman's expedition against 
 Vicksburg. They left Memphis Dec. 22d, a. 
 magnificent flotilla of steamers and gunboats. 
 Arriving at Milliken's Bend, Burbridge's bri- 
 gade landed and made a forced march of about 
 thirty miles, on Cliristmas day to Dallas, La., 
 to cut the Vicksburg & Shreveport railroad at 
 that station. • This was effectively done by 
 burning the railroad bridge and depot, and 
 destroying the track for some distance. Re- 
 turning to the boats the next day, the brigade 
 passed up the Yazoo river and rejoined the 
 main Ijody there operating against the rebel 
 lines on the Chickasaw Bayou. Tliis attempt 
 to take Vicksburg was unsuccessful, and the 
 
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 troops proceeded to Arkansas Post and 
 captured that stronghold Jan. 11, 1863, with 
 5,000 prisoners. The remainder of the winter 
 they were camped at Young's Point, nearly 
 opposite Vicksburg, where many of the regi- 
 ment died from exposure and malaria. 
 
 On the 10th of April Mr. Flint was detailed 
 for duty in the U. S. Signal Corps and sent to 
 the camp of instruction at Memphis. About 
 the middle of July he was ordered to report at 
 Vicksljurg, and there appearing before an ex- 
 amining board, he successfully passed the ex- 
 amination, was promoted toasergeantcy in the 
 Signal Corps and mustered into the regular 
 army. He was assigned to the squad of Lieut. 
 Sizer and in October went to New Orleans in 
 Capt. Lud wig's detachment. He participated 
 in the campaign on the Bayou Teche in the 
 fall of 1863, and afterward accompanied the 
 expedition to Matagorda, Texas, remaining 
 there and at Indianola on signal duty during 
 the winter. In Augu.st, 1864, he went with 
 the troops under Gen. Granger to Dauphin 
 Island and from his signal station near Fort 
 Gaines, saw Farragut's fleet pass Fort Morgan ' 
 in a shower of sliot and shell, and witnessed 
 the desperate tight that followed in Mobile Bay 
 with the rebel gunboats, that resulted in the 
 capture of the rebel ram Tennessee. He was 
 present at the formal surrender of Fort Gaines 
 the next day, and the subsequent bombard- 
 ment and capture of Fort Morgan. Returning 
 to New Orleans Mr. Flint was assigned to Lieut. 
 Milton Benner, A. Q. M. of the Signal Corps, 
 Dept. of tlieGulf, and aj)pointed (Quartermaster 
 Sergeant. In tliat capacity he served until 
 mustered out July 4, 1865, by order of War 
 Department. 
 
 At the closeof his service Mr. I'"lint returned 
 to "The State Register" office and linishcd his 
 trade. In November, 1868, he formed a co-part- 
 nership with Edwin H. Weber, and the firm 
 bought the Prescott (Wis.) Journal, then pub- 
 
 lished by the late Lute A. Taylor. Tiie office 
 was destroyed by fire in June, 1871, and not 
 receiving sufficient encouragement to continue 
 the paper, they closed the business, and in 
 August purclursed 'Tlie Dunn County Xeus" at 
 Menomonie, Wis., which they have pulilislied 
 continuously since that time. The Ncus lias^ 
 prospered under their management and is con- 
 sidered one of the most influential county 
 journals in Northwestern Wisconsin. 
 
 Mr. Flint was married Nov. 9, 1871, to Alice, 
 daughter of the late Dr. James Prentice, a 
 practicing physician at Portage, Wis., for more 
 tlian a third of a century and formerly surgeon 
 of the 23d Wisconsin Infantry. Mrs. Flint 
 was born in the surgeon's quarters at old Fort 
 \\'inneb:igo, Dec. 7, 1851. They have four 
 children — Anna Kate, James Prentice, Fred 
 Rockwell and Joseph Turner. 
 
 In jiolitics Mr. Flint has always been a 
 staunch Republican and zealously labored for 
 the success of his party in every campaign. 
 He was elected Member of Assembly in 1875; 
 and served a term in the State Senate in 1876- 
 '77 and again in 1881-'83. During his last 
 term in the Senate he was Chairman of the 
 Committee on State Affairs, and a member of 
 the Committee on Judiciary. He is now Chair- 
 man of the Board of Supervisors of Dunn 
 county — a position he has held for nine years. 
 
 He has been identified with fraternal and 
 benevolent organizations for many yeais. He 
 is a member of Menomonie Lodge, No. 164, A. 
 F. & A. M.; a charter member and the first 
 High Priest of Menomonie Chapter, No. 53, R. 
 A. M., and a member of Fort Wiiuiebago 
 Commandery, No. 4, K. T., at Portage, Wis. 
 He served as Deputy Grand High Priest of 
 the Grand Chapter of Wisconsin in 1888-'89, 
 and at the annual convocation of the Grand 
 Chapter in February, 1890, was elected to the 
 office of Grand High Priest. He is a charter 
 member of Excelsior Lodge No. 29, Ancient 
 Order of L'nited Workmen ; was Grand Master 
 Workman ot the order in Wisconsin in 1886, 
 and has served as Representative to the 
 Supreme Lodge for three successive years. He 
 is a member ot tiie Unitarian Society of 
 Menomonie, also one of the Directors of the 
 Mabel Tainter Library, Literary and Educa- 
 tional Society, and a zealous co-worker in all 
 the activities of tiiesc organizations. 
 
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 OBERT BELL, Racine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was Iwrn in 
 Moreland, Westmoreland county, 
 England, where his father and mother, Jonah 
 and iMargaret (Hall) Bell were also born. The 
 ancestors and relatives of Mr. Bell were, in 
 many instances, identified with the wars of 
 England, and one was killed at Sevastopol. 
 Sir -John Hall, brother of his mother, was an 
 eminent surgeon in the British service and was 
 on the field of Waterloo after the hght; during 
 the Crimean war he was in charge of the Eng- 
 lish liospital under Lord Raglan at Sevastopol 
 and, for distinguished services in the Crimea, 
 was knighted by Queen Victoria. .Jonah Bell 
 died in England in 1845, and in 1854 the 
 mother came to America with her children and 
 settled in Moravia, Cayuga Co., New York. 
 
 The son received a common school education 
 and lived on the home farm until he was 16 
 years old, when he engaged in an apprentice- 
 ship with C. Perigo & Co., machinists of 
 Groton, Tompkins Co., New York. After 
 serving his time, he entered the employ of 
 C. C. Bradley & Son, machinists at Sycracuse, 
 N. Y., remaining until February, 1861, when 
 he engaged with Beard Bros., at Fayetteville, 
 New York, until the war absorbed his interest 
 and, April 18, 1861, under the first call of 
 President Lincoln for troops he enlisted in the 
 State service and U. S. service, being mustered 
 for two years in the former and three months 
 in the latter. He was among the first to enroll 
 at the recruiting office in the town of Manlius, 
 New York. He became a member of Com- 
 pany A, 12th New York Infantry and went to 
 rendezvous at Elmira, leaving the State in 
 May for Washington, together with the 13th 
 New York Lifantry, marching through Balti- 
 more with loaded guns, but reached the Capital 
 unmolested and camped about half a mile east 
 of the Capitol, remaining until July, moving 
 
 then to Chain Bridge and thence to the Man- 
 assas campaign with Richardson's brigade 
 and Tyler's division. The regiment was in 
 the advance in the reconnoissance at Black- 
 burn's Ford, July 18th, in which the regiment 
 sustained some loss in killed, wounded and 
 missing — about 42 men. In tlie battle of Bull 
 Run, Tyler's command was on the extreme 
 left and held the position until the enemy 
 tried to turn the left, when the falling back 
 commenced ; the 12th fell back to Centerville 
 where they remained until 12 o'clock, reaching 
 camp at Arlington Heights. After tiie battle 
 the regiment engaged in cutting timber 
 between Fort Albany and Alexandria. In 
 September, Mr. Bell was appointed Acting 
 Ordnance Sergeant at Fort Gregg, his regi- 
 ment going to Upton's Hill to build fortifica- 
 tions. Jan. 20, 1862, Acting Sergeant Bell 
 received orders to report to the commandant's 
 office at Fort Tillinghast as Acting Ordnance 
 Sergeant, in addition to his former appoint- 
 ment. (By order of General Doubleday.) Tlie 
 regiment started on the Peninsula campaign in 
 March and Sergeant Bell asked to be relieved 
 in order to join his command and was referred 
 to General Wadsworth, who finally gave per- 
 mission and he started Apl-il 4th ; he reached 
 Fortress Monroe in time for the scrimmage at 
 Great Bethel. He was in the siege of York- 
 town, and fought at Hanover C. H. (Union loss 
 53killed,344 wounded and 730 prisoners.) After 
 return to camp at Gaines Mills, Mr. Bell was 
 detailed in charge of the nurses in hospital 
 and to see that rebel surgeons took proper care 
 of wounded men. He was detailed next to go 
 to Savage Station to lay out a hosj)ital camp 
 
 \ and was in the actions of that eventful week, 
 fighting at Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Gaines 
 Mills and Malvern Hill. After Savage Station 
 he volunteered to care for the wounded and 
 
 I went with the prisoners to Richmond, was de- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 tailed to Prison No. 1 at first and then to Libby, 
 where lie took care of Major Barnum and Cap- 
 tain Truesdell. Sergeant Bahaai, who had 
 charge of the wounded at Gaines Mills, was in 
 charge of all hospitals in Richmond and 
 immediately recognized his former in- 
 spector. It was the request of his charges 
 that he be allowed to go with them to 
 Aiken after parole and it was promised 
 but when the time came the privilege 
 was denied ; he was a prisoner of war and was 
 treated as such and sent successively to Castle 
 Thuniler, Libby and Belle Isle, always on 
 hospital duty ; he was finally exchanged with 
 the prisoners taken at Fort Donelson, being 
 sick with scurvy. He went to Belleville hospital, 
 New York and thence to Washington in time 
 to join his regiment for the battle of Antietam. 
 He started on tiiat campaign, attired in an old 
 alpaca coat and broad brimmed straw hat and 
 was in the action September 17th and again 
 September 21st. He was in the fighting at 
 Fredericksburg in the winter and, in the spring, 
 April 17, 1863, was mustered out at Elmira. 
 (When the three-month's enrolment had 
 expired the State Legislature of New York 
 instructed the Governor to dispose of the regi- 
 ments for the remainder of the two years as he 
 thought best and he retained them in the U. S. 
 service). Oct. 20, 1863, Mr. Bell, on the organ- 
 ization of Company G, 85th New York State 
 National Guards, was commissioned 1st Ser- 
 geant and served therein until February, 1864, 
 wlien he enlisted in Battery G, od New York 
 Light Artillery, which was then in North 
 Carolina and he joined the command at New- 
 bern. March 28, 1864, he was made Quarter- 
 master's Sergeant. He contracted yellow fever 
 in September, 1864, and was sent North in 
 February and after recovery rejoined the com- 
 mand at Raleigh in April, 1865. In June he 
 started from Raleigh for Newberu, going thence 
 
 to New York on a transport and was mustered 
 out at Syracuse, N. Y., July 7, 1865. 
 
 He returned to his former employ and went 
 thence to Syracuse, where he engaged as a roof 
 tinner and otherwise, going West in 1866 and 
 locating at Janesville, Wis., where he engaged 
 as machinist until Sept. 18, 1867, the date 
 of his removal to Rockton, whence he went to 
 Racine in May, 1868, to enter the employ of J. 
 I. Case & Co., with whom he has since operated. 
 May 10, 1871, he was commissioned Captain of 
 the Belle City Rifles, National Guards. Oct. 27, 
 1869 he was made an Odd Fellow and is Past 
 Grand No. 137 ; Past High Priest ; Past Patri- 
 arch of Encampment ; he is also Past Councilor 
 of the Patriarchal Circle and Lieutenant-Colonel 
 of the First Regiment of the Circle; Past 
 Archon of Beta Council No. 2, Royal League ; 
 Past President of Sons of St. George; Past 
 Commander of Post No. 17 ; he is also a mem- 
 ber of Pittacus Conclave No. 1 ; of Heptasophs 
 or Seven Wise Men ; he belongs to St. 
 Andrews Brotherhood and is a member of 
 Racine County Committee for the Relief of 
 Indigent Soldiers and Sailors. He was elected 
 March 20, 1890, as Delegate to the 24th 
 National Encampment G. A. R. Nov. 30, 1877, 
 he assumed charge of St. Luke's hospital, offici- 
 ating as Superintendent, which position he still 
 holds in 1890. 
 
 He was married July 11, 1867, to Hannah 
 Gilmore, a native of Fayetteville, New York. 
 The family are prominent members of St. 
 Luke's church at Racine, of which Mr. Bell is 
 vestryman. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. BqH appears on page 532. 
 
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 SPENCER CARR, Racine, Wis., was 
 born Sept. 4, 1838, in Clark Co., 
 • Ohio, and is the son of Thurston 
 and Nancy (Lackey) Carr, his father being of 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 535 
 
 pure American extraction and liis mother of 
 Irisli descent. Their family included also 
 seven children named Alonzo E., Patrick L, 
 Jane, George, Maria, Byron L. and Robert E. 
 Six are living ; Patrick was a soldier for the 
 Union and died at Murfreesboro. The father 
 was a farmer and carpenter and bi-ought up 
 his son to those trades. He went to Illinois in : 
 1832 and located a claim in DeKalb county, 
 but his family could not join him on account 
 of the Blackhawk war and they came West in 
 1848, locating at Racine, where thej' remained 
 until the next year, when they removed to the 
 farm in DeKalb county. The father was born 
 Nov. 5, 1808, and died March 1.5, 1878. The 
 mother was born Nov. 17, 1812, and died in 
 June, 1884. The son remained with his father 
 until he was 21, when he went to Sycamore to 
 work at his trade and went thence to St. 
 Charles to enlist Sept. 7, 1861, in Company B, 
 8th Illinois Cavalry, under Colonel J. F. Farnes- 
 worth. He went from the rendezvous at St. ' 
 (Charles to the front at Washington, leaving 
 the State on the 25th and he spent the winter 
 at Alexandria. The command joined the 
 Army of Virginia in the Manassas campaign 
 and went to Centerville. They were in all the 
 movements in the Peninsula campaign in 
 Sumner's reserve under Stoneman, who com- 
 menced the movement after the rebels had 
 abandoned Yorktown and fled to AVilliams- 
 burg. After the victory there they went in 
 pursuit of the receding rebels and followed on 
 until witliin about live miles of Richmond. 
 Mr. Carr fought at Meclianicsville ; on the next 
 day fought at Gaines Mills; on the 29th he 
 was in the action at Savage Station and fought 
 on the oUth at White Oak Swamp and July 1st 
 was in the actiun at Malvern Hill where the 
 seven days' tight before Richmond came to an 
 end. The Union army lost about 18 miles and 
 retreated in good order to Harrison's Landing. 
 
 There, in July, Farnesworth's regiment with 
 several others, was consolidated into a cavalry 
 corps which formed the rear guard of McClel- 
 lan's army. The movement to Fortress Mon- 
 roe followed and the return to Alexandria. 
 September 1, 1862, Mr. Carr was in the fight at 
 Chantilly where Kearney was killed and on his 
 return to Alexandria he went to hospital, ill 
 with typhoid fever. While there, Septem- 
 ber 20th, he was made 2d LiQ.utenant of 
 his company. He went home to recruit and 
 joined his command at Falmouth, Va., in Feb- 
 ruary and prepared for the operations which 
 led to Chancellorsville. The regiment had 
 been assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division 
 and 1st Cavalry Corps, the organization re- 
 maining always the same. Mr. Carr was in 
 the fight at Chancellorsville and at Beverly 
 Ford June 9th, where a severe cavalry fight 
 took place and where his company lost about 
 20 men. The brigade lost about 150 men and 
 
 ! 1,500 horses and the Captain of Company B 
 was killed. The action commenced before day- 
 light and continued until after dark. Gen. 
 J. L. Beveridge of Illinois, was wounded early 
 in the day ; Lieutenant-Colonel Clendenin was 
 in command of the brigade and Mr. Carr acted 
 as Adjutant. After that fight, Mr. Carr was 
 absent on private business and received orders 
 
 ! to take command of a body of troops while his 
 regiment moved after Lee, prior to the battle of 
 Gettysburg. It is the regret of his life to 
 have lost this battle. He joined his regiment 
 at Boonesboro, Md., where he was in a fight. 
 July 30th he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
 to date from the 11th. In December he re- 
 enlisted and returned home on veteran's fur- 
 lough. (Two hundred of the command went 
 with him and they were recruited to a comple- 
 ment of 1,200.) After passing a short time at 
 Caiup Stoneman he went on duty at Washing- 
 ton and was detailed as post Quartermaster at 
 
536 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Bloody Run where he made headquarters until 
 his final discharge, Dec. 5, 1864. 
 
 He returned home, went to work at his 
 trade in Sycamore and in September, 1865, 
 moved to Iowa where he manufactured mill 
 machinery and remained nine years ; went 
 thence to Chicago and in August, 1888, to Ra- 
 cine to take charge of the wood department in 
 the estahlishment of the Pease Manufacturing 
 Company. • 
 
 May 8, 1860, he was married to Elvira, 
 daugliter of John and Am}' (Southwick) Wel- 
 ling, at Genoa, DeKalh C/O., Ills. They have 
 four children named Ora Maud, Grace, Audrey 
 and Fern. Grace is the wife of A. U. Zim- 
 mermann. Mr. Carr belongs to the Order of 
 Masons. His portrait appears in a group on 
 page 532. 
 
 the guarautt-e of the officers to send him home 
 if he became discontented, that he should ac- 
 company the command. His is probably one 
 of the most isolated cases in tlie history of the 
 war, in which a man followed the fortunes of a 
 regiment throughout, without enlisting or being 
 mustered. He went from the rendezvous at 
 Camp Utley under the charge of Captain Cy- 
 rus H. Johnson, to St. Louis and left Benton 
 Barracks for Fort Leavenworth where the bat- 
 tery received equipments and he accompanied 
 the command on the long march to Denver, 
 Colorado, taking the old Platte route. They 
 operated sometime in that vicinity, protecting 
 the LTnited States mails and endeavoring to 
 keep the Indians within bounds. When Cap- 
 tain Johnson was relieved Mr. Ball was at lib- 
 erty to return home but he elected to reniain 
 with the battery and, soon after was detailed 
 to assist in the quartermaster's department and 
 afterwards he took charge of a quartermaster's 
 XJ^^^ IIARLES F. BALL, Racine Wis., was corral of horses. While discharging those 
 
 duties he was asked to become a scout, to which 
 he consented providing he could have a cer- 
 tain horse to which he had become attached 
 and he remained in that service two years. On 
 one of his expeditions he went from Fort Lyon 
 to Fort Larned, a distance of 280 miles on 
 special service with disiKitches, and made the 
 trip in three days with Indians all about him. 
 For a time he had a companion named Joe, a 
 half-breed, whom he retained until he was sat- 
 isfied of his treachery. On one occasion, in his 
 reckless love of adventure he rode into the 
 heart of an Indian camp. The redskins 
 mounted their ponies and only the fact that 
 his horse was thoroughbred and swift as the 
 wnid, saved him from destruction. Once, on 
 on his way to Wynkoop, Joe stole out at mid- 
 night from their camp, rolling himself along 
 the ground Indian fashion and giving two war- 
 whoops as a signal for the Indians in the vi- 
 
 i\77^— V l)orn at Colchester, Vt., Aug. 29, 1844 
 ^^— ^ and is the son of Charles W. and Betsy 
 (Bradshaw) Ball, who were the parents of 
 Charles, George W. and Emma J., now Mrs. W. 
 J. Goff. The father was a farmer and followed 
 that business for a long period of years. In 
 1846 he emigrated with his family to the West 
 and located in Racine county, subsequently re- 
 moving to Burlington, where he established 
 himself as a freight and express agent in which 
 he remained until he retired from active life. 
 The {)arentsare still living in Burlington, Wis. 
 Mr. Ball obtained his education in the pub- 
 lic schools. When the first call for troops was 
 made in 1861 he was determined to "follow the 
 flag" and connected himself with the Utli Wis- 
 consin Battery, Light Artillery. He was too 
 young to be regularly enlisted but he was so 
 full of jiatriotism that his mother consented, on 
 the strength of his promise not to enlist and on 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 537 
 
 cinity. Mr. Ball rose, took bis gun and drew a 
 bead on .Joe, wbo sbonted " No shoot ; me good 
 Indian. " But tbe Indians were upon tbeni 
 and Mr. Ball only escaped by swift riding as 
 before. When he returned to Fort Lyon .Joe 
 was discharged. Once a report came to the 
 fort that tbe Indians were skirmishing near 
 Sand Creek and Mr. Ball went to verify it, to 
 find himself in tbe midst of a band of Chey- 
 enne Indians. He started in an opposite di- 
 rection to find himself surrounded hy another 
 band, when he started bis horse at full speed, 
 emjitied his gun at random among them and 
 killed two. He rode into Fort Lyon with his 
 pursuers only a mile behind him. He re- 
 ceived an aiTow wound and bis borfse was hit 
 several times. The injury to his foot gave him 
 a deal of trouble and was finally healed by a 
 remedy given him by an old Indian. Once he 
 bad a fight with an Indian near Sand Creek, 
 both iiaving bowie knives. Each held the 
 knife hand of the other and matters were 
 growing desperate, when a comrade struck tbe 
 Indian on the bead with tlie butt of his rifle 
 and both rolled down tiie enbankment. The 
 Indian was dead and Mr. Ball uninjured, be- 
 yond a few scratches. Once be was sent with 
 dispatches to Haines' Ranch — 75 miles — start- 
 ing in the night and on the next night be 
 stopped, staked bis horse and was falling 
 asleej), wlien his horse snorted " danger. " He 
 jumped up, caught bis blanket and, mounting, 
 rode into the timber for safety. Soon after he 
 discovered a fire which be knew must be a 
 burning ranch. He rode towards it as soon as 
 it would do and just before reaching there he 
 found the body of a white man — scalped. He 
 proceeded, to find near the smoldering ruins 
 the bodies of three murdered women — the 
 wife and daughters of tbe man. Mr. Ball rode 
 back to the fort and an expedition was fitted 
 out which reached there the following morn- 
 
 ing to find the bodies unmolested. On looking 
 for tracks, Mr. Ball found those of a barefooted 
 boy whom he followed and soon came upon a 
 lad of 15 years who was flying from him in 
 terror. He took him on bis horse and rode 
 back. The boy stated that he and his tatiier 
 were out after dark, to corral their cattle, when 
 they were assaulted by Indians. He hid in 
 the tall grass and saw his father murdered and 
 scalped. Afterwards he stole to the house to 
 find his mother and sisters dead and the ranch 
 on fire. He started for the Haines Ranch and 
 was overtaken by Mr. BaH. Afterwards Mr. 
 Ball went to Wyandotte and thence to Fort 
 Leavenworth, where a thief tried to cut his 
 pockets. He knocked the fellow down and de- 
 livered him to tbe officers. While at Leaven- 
 worth he was sent with important dispatches 
 to Lawrence and soon after went into the ranks 
 under the general order to place every man 
 capable of bearing arms in a position to aid in 
 the general good. An assault was made on a 
 barn in whicli a V)ody of Price's troops were 
 entrenched and for a time it seemed as if they 
 could not be dislodged, but artillery was 
 brought into operation and the inmates were 
 captured. A spent ball bit Mr. Ball in the leg 
 which he afterwards cut out with hisjackknife. 
 He went to Lawrence and thence to Leaven- 
 worth and remained there three months, re- 
 turning to Wisconsin in tbe fall of 1865. He 
 went to Racine and entered tbe employ of Fish 
 Bros., and afterwards that of J. I. Case. In the 
 fall of 1877 he was elected Constable and later, 
 was appointed Deputy Sheriff under George 
 Brenner and \»as bis successor until 1888, when 
 he was made Sherifi' of Racine county by elec- 
 tion on the Republican ticket. Prior to this 
 he was Marshal of Burlington and also was 
 Superintendent of the western portion of Ra- 
 cine county. Since his last election he has re- 
 sided at Racine. 
 
538 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 He was married Oct. 7, 1869, to Flora, 
 daughter ofJames and Mary Campbell of Bur- 
 lington. Their children are Mabel Howard, 
 Artiuir, Herbert and Edward. Mr. Ball'.s por- 
 trait is presented on page .532. 
 
 -^' 
 
 ^■^ 
 
 y^,,^TTO LEHFELDT, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 member of Roljert Chivas Post No. 2, 
 and a member of the Farragut Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia, was born in Germany, 
 Aug. 7, 1S30, and is the son of Ferdinand John 
 and Mary (Westfeldt) Lehfeldt. He remained 
 in his parental home until he was 17 years old 
 when he determined to take his career into his 
 own hands, knowing tiiat he was destined for 
 the conscription, and ran away and became a 
 sailor. He came to America, landing at Boston 
 and for years was connected witii the coast 
 trade. In 1849 he found his way to New 
 York and made several cruises from that port, 
 going in 1852 to San Francisco. After his 
 arrival there he interested himself in mining 
 for about a year. In 1853 he shipped as a 
 sailor on a Chilian brig and made a cruise to 
 Hayti and the Phillippine Islands. He went 
 from there on a trading expedition to the 
 iSouthern Archipelago, where he passed nearly 
 a year in the immediate vicinity of the canni- 
 bals. He went thence to Sydney, Australia, 
 and was at Melbourne when the riot against 
 the British Government occurred. He went 
 next to New Zealand and again to Sydney, 
 thence to the Dutch East Indies, and home to 
 Boston. His calling took him, In the early 
 j'ears of his life, into all the j«rinci])al waters 
 and to all the chief ports of the different gov- 
 ernments. The story of his experiences would 
 make an interesting book. In 1858 lie suffered 
 shipwreck on the coast of New Brunswick, Baj' 
 of Fundy, and he endured the hardships of an 
 eight-day storm. In the same year he sailed 
 
 his first vessel as Captain, when he command- 
 ed tlie Eglantine of Bath, Maine. He went to 
 New York and ascertained that the Caledonia 
 was about sailing for the scenes of activity 
 where the United States fleet was engaged in 
 the survey of the La Plata (Paraguay) to take 
 action in the matter of the firing by Lopez on 
 the Water Witch, one of the vessels thus 
 engaged. Lopez satisfied tlie United States 
 Government of his desire to make recompense. 
 He served as quartermaster and having a 
 promise of promotion he enrolled as Quarter- 
 master of the San Jacinto, one of the historic 
 vessels of the war. He went with her to the 
 African coast where two slavers were captured 
 named the Storm King and Bonito, having on 
 board 1,690 blacks who were sent to Liberia. 
 Tlie vessels were sent to the United States and 
 made tlie harbor of Charleston, wliere the 
 rebels took possession of them and they were 
 afterwards in the rebel service. The fact of 
 the war was unknown to her crews until they 
 found themselves in difficulties. One of the 
 prominent affairs on the San Jacinto which 
 Mr. Lehfeldt witnes.sed, was the removal of the 
 rebel ambassadors, Mason and SlidcU, from the 
 Trent to the San .lacinto. He relates that they 
 were taken into the port of New York, but it 
 was deemed expedient to take them to Boston 
 and they were sent to Fort Warren as prisoners 
 of war. Mr. Lehfeldt was honorably dischar- 
 ged Nov. 30, 18(11. The officers gave him a 
 hearty recommend for fidelity to duty and 
 capacity as a seaman, and the papers were 
 signed by 1st Lieutenant Fairfax of the San 
 Jacinto. " U. S. S. San Jacinto, Nov. 30, 18G1, 
 Boston Yard. Otto Lehfeldt, who receives an 
 honorable discharge from this ship, is a firsts 
 rate man entitled to advancement; is fitted for 
 a Master's Mate appointment ; is steady in his 
 habit-s, intelligent, has been a Mate in the 
 Merchant Service. I cheerfully recommend him 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 539 
 
 to the Naval Servicu in the capacity of Petty 
 Officer or Master's Mate. D. M. Fairfax, 1 st Lieut. 
 IT. 8. S. San .Jacinto." In the following year lie 
 again enlisted and was assigned to the steamer 
 Octorara and served until Feb. 27, 18G5. He en- 
 rolled as Quartermaster and took position as 
 Gunner's Mate, and when discharged was 
 serving as Captain of the forecastle. The Octo- 
 rara first joined the "Flying Squadron" and 
 during her service she captured, or assisted to 
 do so, a number of vessels. They were Tubal 
 Cain, .July 24, 1862; S. E. Reed, Nov. 5, 1862; 
 a boat prize, Dec. 20, 1862; Rising Dawn, Jan. 
 10, 1863 ; Sloop Brave, Jan. 15, 1863 ; Florence 
 Nightingale, March .13, 1863 ; the Five Broth- 
 ers and the sloop Rosa, March 16, 1863; John 
 Williams, March 11), 1863; Schooner W. .J. 
 Leach, April 21, 1863; Schooner Hardy, April 
 22, 1863 ; the steamer Eagle, May 18, 1863 ; 
 .June 24, 1863, 52 bales of cotton were picked 
 up; the schooner Winona was captured Nov. 
 29, 1863 ; the ram Tennessee and tlie steamers 
 Gaines and Selma, August 5th of the same year. 
 The Octorara was the flagship and the head- 
 quarters of Admiral Porter ; and during the 
 bombardment of Fort Powell the rebels made 
 an effort to destroy her with a torpedo. The 
 torpedo was placed at 10 feet below the surface 
 under the starboard quarter of the boat, but 
 there being but nine feet of water when the 
 trying line was drawn in, the explosion took 
 place in the mud and was harmless. Mr. 
 Lelifeldt and the quartermaster were on deck 
 when she approached and, wiiile trying to 
 ascertain whether or not it was the patrol boat, 
 Mr. Lelifeldt made ready a howitzer to be used 
 in case of necessity. When he found her real 
 character he cried out " torpedo boat." Tiie 
 sleeping men awoke and with the quarter- 
 master ran forward, leaving him alone. She 
 came very near and he cut away the Ijoarding 
 netting to get a look at her and reacliing out 
 
 caught his hand in the chain guys of her 
 smokestack. He called for help to secure her 
 but was not heard and she withdrew, a prize 
 being lost. During the actions at Forts Morgan 
 and Gaines, Mr. Lehfeldt, in the capacity of 
 gunner's mate was in charge of the powder 
 magazine which was placed in the bow, the 
 barrels containing the powder being ranged on 
 shelves. He caused its removal to the keelson 
 of the boat and, afterwards while lying on a 
 vacant shelf, resting, he heard a crash and con- 
 cussion. He found a shot had struck immedi- 
 ately over the slielves on the port bow ^nd on 
 examination found a large aperture had been 
 made into which he thrust his head and called 
 out to attract the attention of the seamen. 
 They came at once, crying out " man over- 
 board," when he called their attention to the 
 break which was at once repaired. 
 
 On receiving his final discharge, Mr. Lehfeldt 
 went to Milwaukee where he engaged iu the 
 lake service while able. On one occasion 
 he took his vessel through the Illinois canal 
 from Chicago to the Mississippi River to New 
 Orleans. Since leaving the lakes he has been 
 occupied in varied business. 
 
 He was married in February, 1861, to Ade- 
 laide Liebtreu and they have had seven 
 children of whom four are deceased. Those 
 surviving are named Emil, Henry and Martha. 
 Mr. Lehfeldt is a member of the Turnverein 
 and is a gentleman of the old school in manners. 
 He received a good education in his native 
 country and manifests the refinement and culti- 
 vation of good family and breeding. Mrs. Leh- 
 feldt offered her services to the Christian Com- 
 mission during the war and served as nurse as 
 long as her health permitted. She still retains 
 her credentials for efficiency and usefulness 
 which are signed by Alexander McGlasher. 
 
 Mr. Lehfeldt's portrait appears on page 532. 
 
540 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 W. RODECKER, M. D., Wonewoc, ' 
 Wis., Department Commander of 
 • the Union Veterans' Union, was 
 born Aug. 23, 1845, at Peoria, 111., and is the 
 son of Dr. G. W. and Catherine L. (Slough) 
 Rodecker. The father belongs to the third 
 generation in direct lineage from the founder 
 of the family in this country, George Rodecker 
 liaving emigrated to the New World prior to 
 tiie Revolution, from Germany. He was a 
 soldier in that war and his son, the grandfather 
 of Dr. Rodecker, married a woman named La 
 Brunt, a native of Alsace, France. In the 
 maternal line of descent Dr. Rodecker is of 
 mixed Scotch and German extraction, and his 
 grandfather, Jacob Slough, was a soldier in the 
 war of 1812; he married a German. Dr. Ro- 
 decker's parents are deceased and five children 
 survive them : Joseph H., a resident of Cali- 
 fornia, was a soldier in the 107th Illinois In- 
 fantry ; the doctor is second in order of birth ; 
 Samuel J. served in the 143d Illinois Infantry 
 and is now deceased ; Addis Emmet is a local 
 editor in Shelbyville, Ind.; George W. resides 
 in St. Louis, Mo.; Mary A. married Peter E. 
 Rupert of Nokoniis, 111. Several children died 
 in infancy. The senior Rodecker removed his 
 family to Keithsburg, 111., in 1850, and, after 
 practicing there aljont eight years returned to 
 Peoria and in 1859 went to Nokomis, remain- 
 ing until 1875, wlu'u he went to Springfield 
 and died there in May, 1882, aged 63 years, his 
 wife dying the following year, aged about GO 
 years. 
 
 Dr. Rodecker was educated under his father's 
 supervision and received a careful training in 
 schools of the best character, lie was inter- 
 ested in medicine from his earliest boyhood 
 and passed much time in his father's office, be- 
 coming proficient in understanding many 
 things pertaining to the |)rol'ession wiiile little 
 more than a lad. He was scarcely 16 years 
 
 old when the war came on and he left school 
 to enlist, going to visit an uncle at Vandalia, 
 111., and enrolling in Company D, 49th Illinois 
 Infantry, in August, 1861. He was rejected on 
 account of youth and slightness of physique 
 and re-enlisted twice afterwards to be rejected. 
 But he finally succeeded in being accepted in 
 the same company and regiment and was mus- 
 tered at Butler Barracks, Springfield. As soon 
 as the command was organized under Colonel 
 William R. Morrison, it went to Cairo and 
 thence to Fort Holt, Ky., embarking about two 
 weeks later for service on the Tennessee River 
 at Forts Henry and Donelson, the boy being in 
 both actions and receiving a scalp wound. 
 After Donelson they stayed there about two 
 weeks, sick from using polluted water, and 
 afterwards marched to Metal Landing, whence 
 they took passage for Savannah, Tenn., and 
 two weeks after went to Pittsburg Landing, 
 connecting with Ilurlburt's Division of the 16th 
 Cori)s, and Dr. Rodecker was in the fight at 
 Shiloh, an ounce ball passing through his leg. 
 He was sent to hospital at St. Louis and thence 
 home, rejoining his regiment in four months 
 at Big Bethel Si)rings. lie accompanied the 
 command to Germantown, did garrison duty 
 five months and fought guerrillas, going to 
 Memphis, where the regiment acted as provost 
 guard until after the fall of N'icksburg. (While 
 in garrison at Bethel Springs the regiment 
 participated in the battle of Corinth.) On New 
 Year's day, 1SG4, Dr. Rodecker veteranized for 
 three years and went on the Meridian expeib- 
 tion in February and immediately after joined 
 Bank's Red River expedition under A. J. 
 Smith and was in the cajiture of Fort De Russey, 
 which was taken before the main column 
 reached the field. He also fought at Cane Hill, 
 Mount Pleasant Hill and Sabine-Cross Roads 
 and at Mansfield. The command was in 52 
 days continuous fighting night and day, on 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 541 
 
 tlie rivers and bayous and in the most perilous 
 situations, covering the retreat of Banks after 
 Sabine Cross Roads. (All the actions in chrono- 
 logical order are to found in the his- 
 tory in the beginning of this volume. 
 Their names are legion.) Smith's com- 
 mand went to Memphis, where the 49tli 
 drew new clothing and took veteran's fur- 
 lough home for 30 days. Dr. Rodecker re- 
 joined liis regiment at Memphis and was in the 
 campaign in the pursuit of Forrest, fighting at 
 Tupelo and on the Tallahatchie and all actions 
 in that campaign, returning again to Memphis 
 and went thence to Jefferson Barracks, resting 
 a couple of weeks before going into tlie chase 
 after Pi'ice, when that rebel rascal made his last 
 eifort to take possession of Missouri. After 
 driving him into Kansas, the regiment returned 
 to Camp Jackson and went thence to Nashville, 
 then in a state of siege by Hood, and, after tak- 
 ing part in the fight, chased him to the Cum- 
 berland River, where he was deprived of his 
 command and never again led rebels or any- 
 body else. After this, the 49th went to Padu- 
 cah, Ky., where the command was detailed at 
 various points. Dr. Rodecker being placed on 
 the staff of General Foster as Aid. The regi- 
 ment consolidated again at Paducah, and, Aug. 
 19, 1865, was mustered out, embarked for Cairo 
 and went to Springfield for discharge from 
 State service, Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 He went home to his father's at Nakomis, 
 III., entering immediately on the .study of 
 medicine in his office, and in the fall of 1868 he 
 matriculated at the Medical College of Chicago, 
 studying tliere also in the winter and spring of 
 1808-9 and until May, 1872, taking winter and 
 spring terms and practicing at home in tlie in- 
 terims. At the latter date he took his degree 
 and opened an office at 458 Soutli Clark street, 
 Chicago. He was taken sick and returned 
 home, after recovery going on a lecturing tour 
 
 through Illinois and Indiana, delivering a 
 course of eight lectures in most large cities of 
 those States, in which he was occupied until 
 February, 1873, when he located in Wayne 
 Co., 111. After five years of practice he went to 
 Springfield and formed a partnership with his 
 father, and in the following year, on account 
 of sunstroke, went to St. Joseph county, Mich., 
 remaining there until 1887. He went next to 
 Wonewoc, Wis., where he has practiced his pro- 
 fession since. 
 
 He was one of the first members of the G. A. 
 R. at Nakomis, 111., belonging to Post No. 63, 
 organized in September, 1867, and in 1882 
 joined the renewed Order at Constantine, Mich., 
 and after removal to Wisconsin severed his 
 connection with the Order to join the Union 
 Veterans' Union, a National organization, with 
 headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. General 
 Dillon of Washington is the originator of the 
 Order and the author of the Per Dwm Pension 
 Bill, the official organ being the Union Veteran, 
 published at Corunna,Mich. The object of the 
 Order is to organize veterans who have been at 
 least six months in the service at the front, 
 this being the qualification of membership, 
 another object being the proper legislation for 
 soldiers. Among the leading spirits are Con- 
 gressman Boothman of Ohio, Allen, Brown, 
 Whiting of Michigan, General McNulta of 
 Illinois, Alton of Washington, General Clifford 
 and WoUaston Rogers of Washington and mul- 
 titudes of others. Dr. Rodecker organized the 
 Command at Wonewoc and Elroy, and he has 
 been chief official of the Department of Wis- 
 consin since the organization. The U. V. U. 
 has iield four National Encampments, the last 
 occurring at Detroit in August, 1889, when 
 more than 1,500 delegates were present. In 
 the place of the Sons of Veterans the Loyal 
 Guards have been organized, and the Woman's 
 Veteran Relief Union takes the place of tlie 
 
542 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 VV. R. C. The several organizations are rapidly 
 increasing and the doctor is their strongadherent 
 and advocate. He is a prominent Republican. 
 He also belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 He was married Oct. 10, 1872, at Fairfield, 
 HI., to Matilda A., daughter of Dr. Moses and 
 Avarilla (Baker) Winnings, the latter a native 
 of Kentucky and the former of I'euusylvania. 
 Mrs. Rodecker is a native of Mount Vernon, 
 Ind., born Dec. 29, 1852. Their only surviving 
 child is named Royal Ciuirle.s, born Nov. 12, 
 1875; three children died in infancy. 
 
 A portrait of Dr. Rodecker appears on page 
 532. 
 
 !f»f§?|-^li3«J>^5* 
 
 NTHONY P. R. DAHL, Chippewa 
 ^ Falls, AN'is., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 68, was born March 8, 1849, in 
 Trondhjem, Norway, and his parents, Ole R. 
 and Pauline (Leid) Dalil were natives of Nor- 
 way and descendants of Norwegian ancestors 
 from the earliest history of the family. The 
 fatlier of the mother of Mr. Dalil, Frederick 
 Christian Leid, vvasa Colonel in the Norwegian 
 army. Mr. Dahl, senior, removed lii.s family 
 to the United States in 1857, bringing them to 
 the home in Chippewa Co., Wis., whither he 
 had come three years previous. He had 
 received the education of an officer in the 
 National Military Academy of Norway and 
 served eight years in the army in the Engineer 
 Corps. Wiien he left his native land the king 
 of Sweden presented him a set of drafting 
 instruments and a revolver wliich King Sin- 
 clair used at the time of his invasion of Nor- 
 way. He died on his farm in the town of 
 Lafayette, Dec. 30, 1882; his wife died in Octo- 
 ber, 18G0, in Bloomer, Chippewa county. The* 
 children were named Olaf, Antliony P. R., 
 Frederick, Christian M. L., Hannah P., and 
 Thomas E.; Anthony and Hannah are the 
 
 only survivors. He was married a second time 
 to Ellen Olson, who died in April, 1884. 
 
 After the death of his mother the son resided 
 with Dr. Day, and when the war came on his 
 father engaged in the business of recruiting 
 for the 15th Wisconsin Infantry and enrolled 
 him in Company I, both entering that com- 
 panj', the father losing the captaincy by one 
 vote and going into the ranks. But his abili- 
 ties were soon recognized, and he was placed 
 in a staff position in the tojiographica] 
 engineer's service. Army of the Cumberland, 
 under General Carlin. Subsequently he was 
 assigned to the staff of General Schofield and 
 was taken prisoner while reconnoitering, by 
 rebel scouts. During his captivity he was in 
 32 prisons, including all those principally 
 known for atrocities. When taken he had 
 $400 in his possession which he secreted and 
 which availed to save his own life and 
 the lives of many others, as he pur- 
 chased food and necessaries for them. In tlie 
 spring of 1865 he was exchanged and returned 
 to Wisconsin. The son went into rendex.vous 
 at Madison with the " Scamlinavian " regiment 
 and left the State March 2d for service in Ken- 
 tucky, going to Cairo, Bird's Point, New Madrid 
 and Island No. 10. Here Mr. Dahl was in his 
 first action, taking his musket there and fight- 
 ing as a soldier, although not mustered. (He 
 was 13 years old). In the fall of 1862 he 
 returned home and enlisted Feb. 28, 1864 
 in Comjjany K, 36th Wisconsin Infantry, as he 
 was then old enough to muster, although not 
 quite 15 years of age. He enrolled at Chip- 
 pewa Falls, went from Madison to the front 
 and joined the regiment May lUth, in time to 
 connect with the Army of the Potomac in the 
 Wilderness, with the 1st Brigade, 2d Division 
 and 2d Cori)S. The command was in tlie 
 reserve at Spottsylvania and went to the North 
 Anna River, fighting at Cold Harbor June 3d, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 543 
 
 where Colonel Haskell was killed. June 16th 
 the command took possession of the first line 
 of rebel works at Petersburg which had been 
 taken by tlie Union troops and made a charge 
 unsupported on the 18th, losing its Colonel 
 and many officers, in vain, as they could only 
 withdraw after protecting themselves as best 
 they could until nightfall. June 22d the 
 regiment fought at Jerusalem Plank Road and 
 in July at Strawberry Plains. (On the 28th). 
 Aug. 14th it was in action at Deep Bottom, 
 (Colonel Warren losing his arm), and, Aug. 
 25th, fought at Ream's Station, after which 
 action, only 44 soldiers of the regiment 
 responded to roll call. Twenty-one came into 
 tlie ranks from the hospital next day making 
 the number 65. Of the large number taken 
 prisoners, less than half a dozen ever returned 
 and most of them died in rebel prisons. While 
 fighting at Ream's Station the gun was shot 
 from the hand of Mr. Dahl and lie fell down 
 beside a log, lying as dead while the rebels 
 were drivhig his command. Thej' passed him 
 with a kick, remarked that he was dead and 
 passed on. Wiien he could he crawled back- 
 wards to the railroad track and, as he was | 
 crawling up the opposite side he was seen and j 
 fired on, the balls passing through his clothing 
 without liodily harm to him. He fell as if 
 dead, watched his opportunity and made 
 another start for the Union lines which he 
 reached in the midst of a shower of bullets, 
 but unharmed. The following morning he 
 was placed in charge of Company K, held the 
 position a few weeks, and maneuvred in front 
 of Petersburg. At the first General Inspection 
 he was recommended for 1st Lieutenant by 
 Gen. John Egan but was thought too young 
 and consequently lost what he had honorably 
 won and what justly belonged to him. October 
 28th he fought again at Hatcher's Run 
 wliere tlie regiment took more rebels than 
 
 it had men in its command and February 
 5tli they were in another action at Hatcher's 
 Run, after which they went to the trenches 
 at Petersburg. (After the first Hatcher's 
 Run, the regiment was permitted to withdraw 
 from the lines to an old fort, where there was a 
 spring brook and where they had a rest and 
 enjoyment of two weeks' duration.) They 
 moved in December to the Pamunkey River 
 and returned to Petersburg, their fii'st action 
 being February 5th, as stated. While advancing 
 to the field, Mr. Dahl was selected and detailed 
 to take charge of the skirmish line and after 
 passing some time in quarters at Yellow Tav- 
 ern was next in line of battle when Fort Stead- 
 man was taken. They held the left until the 
 rebels reached Fort Calkins, lying on their 
 arms through the night and making a success- 
 ful charge in the morning, April 1st. They 
 followed the rebels to fight at Five Forks on 
 the right of Sheridan and chased the flying foe 
 to the collapse of the rebellion at Appomattox 
 C. II., the 36th witnessing the closing scenes. 
 When the conquering host marched through 
 Richmond young ladies and boys disti'ibuted 
 water to the soldiers. Thence to camp at 
 Arlington Heights and to the Grand Review 
 tells the story of subsequent movements and 
 Mr. Dahl was mustered out July 12, 1865, at 
 Jeffersonville, Ind. 
 
 He returned to Chippewa Falls, having su.s- 
 tained himself as a soldier although still a 
 youtli, receiving a sliglit injur^^ while in the 
 15tii Wisconsin and a saber wound in his knee 
 at Hatcher's Run. He also contracted bowel 
 disease which troubled him several years. He 
 olitained work in a sawmill and in 1866 moved 
 to Tomali, where he lived eight years, engaged 
 in locating pine lands and in the business of a 
 lumberman. In 1871 he attended the Com- 
 mercial School at La Crosse (being tiien 22 
 years old) and afterwards went to the Gales- 
 
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 ville University, subsequently entering the 
 First National Bank at La Crosse. A year 
 later he returned to Chij)pewa Falls to take 
 charge of the office of Register of Deeds which 
 was held by his brother, who, on account of 
 sickness, was unable to discharge its duties, but 
 subsequently he surrendered the charge to W. 
 W. Crandall and went to surveying, which he 
 followed until 1880, when be entered upon a 
 commercial enterprise in Monroe county. In 
 February, 1884, his health failed and he did 
 no business for a year. For five years he has 
 been interested in surveying, in real estate and 
 pension business, mainly in the latter, and has 
 been eminently successful. He was married 
 April 28,1880, to Johanna, daughter of .John 
 Lee. She died Jan. 23, 1881. Mr. Dalil is a 
 member of the Order of Masons and is inde- 
 pendent in politics. The portrait of Mr. Dahl 
 is presented on page 532. 
 
 mii 
 
 ^ AMUEL H. MOODY, La Crosse, Wis., 
 mcmljer of G. A. R. Po.st No. 38, was 
 born in Logan Co., Ohio, Oct. 19, 1839, 
 and is the son of Robert and Maria (Stothaff ) 
 Moody. His father was born in America of 
 Scotch parentage an<l married a lady of Amer- 
 ican birth and of Holland descent; he was a 
 carpenter ami millwright and died in Shelby 
 Co., Ohio, and his wife died ;it the same place. 
 Their family included 12 children and eight 
 of them survive, born in tiie order named ; 
 John, Sarah A., Peter M., Samuel, Jane, Chris- 
 tine, Maria and Robert A. Mary, Clarissa, 
 Helen and Etlie are dead. 
 
 Mr. Moody passed his early years with his 
 parents and after their deaths lived with his 
 grandfather and went to school and assisted 
 him in a sawmill. He obtained a situation as 
 clerk, which he filled about 18 months and, in 
 
 1860, came to Wisconsin, locating at La Crosse, 
 where he began to learn tlie trade of black- 
 smith and was in that business when he de- 
 cided to enter the army. He enlisted Oct. 14, 
 
 1861, at La Crosse, and was mustered at Fond 
 du Lac in Company D, 14th Wisconsin Li fan- 
 try, in 1862. March 8th he left the State for St. 
 Louis and Savannah on tiie Tennessee to join 
 Grant, and, April 6th, started for the field of 
 Shiloh. About midnight he landed, with the 
 regiment, and stood on the levee until morn- 
 ing under arms. In the morning the regiment 
 was assigned to Crittenden's division and took 
 position to the left of Shiloh church to sup- 
 port a battery. An artillery action commenced 
 and the rebels were driven and drove the 
 L'nion troops alternately until dark, when sup- 
 port arrived, and the rebel battery, which 
 had been repeatedly taken and retaken, 
 became the property of the 14th Wisconsin. 
 Mr. Moody was wounded at Shiloh, but did not 
 leave his company. (One of the guns is at 
 Madison as trophj' of war.) While retiring, the 
 regiment checked a stampede by forming 
 across a line that was becoming disorganized 
 and compelling it to re-form in good order. 
 After Shiloh the regiment remained on that 
 field until ordered to Corinth after the evacua- 
 tion, moving first to Hamburg, scouting picket- 
 ing, performing provost and other duty until 
 the movement to fight at luka. (Mr. Moody be- 
 lieves that if Rosecrans had carried out the full 
 orders of Grant to cover both roads forming 
 communication for the rebels, Price's army 
 would have been captured, but the Jacinto road 
 only was closed, and the Fulton road, by which 
 Price escaped, left open.) Mr. Moody was next 
 in action Oct. 3-4, 1862, at Corinth, the regi- 
 ment being in the 6th Division under General 
 Mc.\rthur, Colonel Oliver of the 15lh Michigan 
 commanding the brigade. The 24th Wiscon- 
 sin was in the opening of the fight, skirmish- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 545 
 
 ing two days from Chewalla with ^'an Dorn 
 ami fought their way back to the Halleck line 
 — the old works. They were reinforced and 
 the battle came on, the main column of the 
 rebels attacking, followed by flanking, and at 
 night, Colonel Oliver with his command was 
 safe in the town. Tliey moved out in the 
 morning and held the position on the left 
 throughout the 4tli of October, joined 
 in the pursuit and returned to Corinth. 
 The next movement of the regiment was to 
 connect with Grant in his plans on Yicksburg 
 moving to Grand Junction and on to Holly 
 Springs and Oxford. After the disaster at 
 Holly Springs they returned through Holly 
 Springs and Oxford lia Moscow, to Memphis, 
 and thence to the siege of Vicksburg, where he 
 was promoted April 2nd to Sergeant. In Feb- 
 ruary Mr. Mood}- went to Lake Providence 
 and worked on the canal until April when he 
 went to Milliken's Bend to capture rebel sup- 
 plies, capturing also 3,000 bales of cotton. In 
 May they went to Grand Gulf to join the 17tli 
 Corps and moved to Big Black River, helped 
 build two bridges and took position in the 
 siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Moody was in the 
 attack of the 19tli day of May in the Gth Divi- 
 sion and 2d Brigade and was wounded in the 
 left leg and sent to the hospital at Milliken's 
 Bend. He joined his regiment at Natchez 
 about August 1st. He was home on sick fur- 
 lough a month, connected with the regiment 
 at Vicksburg and veteranized December 11th 
 and received veteran's furlough. The greater 
 part of the regiment had started on the Red 
 River expedition, with the Colonel, before Mr. 
 Moody reached the command and he was 
 afterwards assigned " in Worden's Battalion. " 
 In .lune the battalion joined Sherman at Ack- 
 worth and Mr. Moody fought at Kenesaw (sev- 
 eral actions). Bald Hill and others, and went 
 to the siege of Atlanta under McPherson ; went 
 
 thence to the rear of the main army and was 
 in the attack at Ezra Church, July 28th. On 
 the evening of that day Mr. Moody was ap- 
 pointed 2d Lieutenant of Company H, 48th 
 U. S. Colored Infantry, and ordered to report 
 to Vicksburg (his commission was dated May 
 26, 1864 and he was mustered under it August 
 30th); he performed garrison duty until the 
 Canby Campaign against Mobile, wdien they 
 moved to New Orleans, camped at Algiers, 
 went thence to Pensacola and thence in the col- 
 umn of Steele to fight at Blakely under Gen- 
 eral Hawkins. Mr. Moody was with the com- 
 mand in the march up the Alabama river to 
 Montgomery and returned on transports to 
 Mobile, went thence by Lake Ponchartrain to 
 New Orleans and afterwards moved to Alex- 
 andria and Shreveport, La., performing guard 
 duty until ordered to Baton Rouge for muster 
 I out, Mr. Moody receiving his discharge Jan. 4, 
 1866. 
 
 After his return home he was a farmer about 
 five years in Illinois and Wisconsin ; was a 
 teamster four years in tiie employ of C. L. Col- 
 man. In 1887, he went to California, returned 
 in nine months and entered again the employ 
 of Mr. Colman as a lumber grader and still 
 holds the position. He was married Jan. 28, 
 1 1866, to Clara M., daughter of L. J. and Cor- 
 1 delia (Baxter) Newton. Edwin W. was born 
 Dec. 31, 1868. The mother died April 15, 
 1886. Mr. Moody is an Odd Fellow and a Re- 
 publican ; his portrait appears on page 532. 
 
 ZRA T. CLARKE, Chippewa Falls, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 was born in Bradford Co., Pa., 
 April 6, 1844, and is of German lineage in the 
 paternal line, his father, Joiin Clarke, being a 
 descendant of that nationality ; the latter was 
 born Oct. 14, 1797, and married Louisa Sliter; 
 
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 was a carpenter and farmer, and died in Dunn 
 Co., Wis., Sept. 5, 1885. The mother was born 
 May 3, 1809, and tliey had seven children, 
 recorded as follows: Sarah Ann, born Aug. 
 30, 1827; Amanda, Oct. 6, 1829; Caroline J., 
 Nov. 7, 1831 ; Israel S., Nov. 12, 1834 ; .John 
 M., Feb. 27, 1838; Maria L., Oct. 25, 1841; 
 Ezra is the youngest. 
 
 The first important event of his life was his 
 enlistment, before he was 18, Feb. 13, 1862, in 
 Potter Co., Pa., and he was mustered at Harris- 
 burg April 19, 1862, in Company E, 77th 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, going into rendezvous 
 at Camp Curtin and joined the regiment May 
 30th near Corinth. Mr. Clarke was in the 
 siege of that place and engaged chiefly in 
 skirmishing and fatigue duty. He went next 
 to Tuscumbia, skirmishing on the way, going 
 from there to Florence to participate in a slight 
 engagement. Thence to Athens following 
 Bragg, and to Huntsville, Stevenson and Battle 
 Creek outlines the movements of the regiment 
 for some time. The command was in tlie 5th 
 Brigade, 2d Division and 20lh Army Corps, 
 and was ordered back across the mountains 
 through Kentucky to Louisville. The regi- 
 ment went to fight at Perrysville, but was 
 only in line witliout participating. Reluming 
 to Louisville, the regiment went to Nashville, 
 was there reoi'ganized and assigned to the 5th 
 Brigade, 2d Division and 4th Corps under 
 McCook. (October, 1862.) At Murfreesboro 
 the regiment was on the extreme right wing 
 where the first attack was made, the rebels 
 being massed in overwhelming force and the 
 Union troops driven back. (Lieutenant Colonel 
 Housan was killed.) The regiment received 
 special commendation for conspicuous bravery 
 in this action and after the battle went into 
 camp until .Jan. 24, 1863, when the command 
 went to Chattanooga and encountered the 
 rebels at Liberty Gap in a slight engagement, 
 
 : and the next day defeated the rebels, moving 
 on to Manchester, Tenn., and thence to TuUa- 
 homa to camp. Rome, Ga., was their next 
 point of destination, tint they were cut off and 
 turned back, following the ridge down to the 
 battle field of Chickamauga, where Mr. Clarke 
 fought September 19th and 20th, the regiment 
 being in position in the center of tlie line. The 
 action ended Sunday night and tlie regiment 
 was so badly cut up that there were not enough 
 left to draw rations. About the close of the 
 fight Mr. Clarke took a big rebel prisoner, 
 taking his gun and telling him to fall in line 
 in the rear. He remarked that there was a 
 whole brigade of his forces in tlie rear. His 
 Maj(jr coming up then, told him that they were 
 Union troops. When Clarke found out to the 
 contrary he made quick time to the rear, lest 
 the man he had taken prisoner should lind out 
 how he had been fooled. The regiment was 
 in camp at Chattanooga some time and went 
 to Whiteside, Tenn., to guard a railroad bridge, 
 remaining until spring, a part of the regiment 
 veteranizing. While the vets were absent on 
 furlough the remainder were placed in the 84th 
 Illinois Infantry, and before their return Mr. 
 Clarke was ill with intermittent fever, was 
 sent to hospital at Chattanooga and two weeks 
 later to Nasliville. In a month he started fpr 
 his regiment, but was sent by the Examining 
 Board of Surgeons to convalescent hospital. 
 Soon after he was again ill with chronic bowel 
 complaint and went to Nashville, thence to 
 Chattanooga and was placed on detached ser- 
 vice in charge of a drove of cattle. While 
 driving the same towards Atlanta, he met his 
 regiment and went into the ranks near Marietta 
 and marched to Chattanooga, went to Hunts- 
 ville and Pulaski, Tenn. From camp there he 
 went to Columbus and was in a slight skirmish, 
 moving afterwards to Franklin to fight Nov. 
 30, 1864. Mr. Clarke received a shot in his 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 547 
 
 ankle (I'iglit) uiul, after lying on the field all 
 night, was taken prisoner. In a negro hut 
 in the vicinity two rebel surgeons, named 
 White and Hannott, cut ofl" his foot and a 
 [lart of the lower leg, against his remon- 
 strances as only one small bone was fractured. 
 The act was in keeping with rebel char- 
 acter and was performed in a manner to 
 mutilate and disable him from further service 
 and in a way that should preclude his wearing 
 a cork leg without another amputation. It is 
 a matter of regret that the scamps cannot be 
 traced and jiroperly advertised. They after- 
 wards boasted of their noble deed toward a 
 helpless foe. Humanity would be noble in a 
 rebel but the quality was seldom found in war 
 annals. After 18 days the battle of Nashville 
 changed the features of his case and the field 
 and prisoners were abandoned. Mr. Clarke, on 
 regaining the Union lines, was sent to hospital 
 at Nashville and remained until Feb. 6, 1865, 
 receiving a furlough and going to hospital at 
 Pittsburg where he had a brother. He was dis- 
 charged April 19, 1865, after intense suffering 
 from his wounds which had not received proper 
 treatment in the beginning. His illnesses were 
 severe and once his life was despaired of. 
 
 As soon as able after the war he went West, 
 locating near Eau Claire and going thence to 
 Dunn county, to take up a homestead claim, 
 which he improved. About 1878 he went to 
 Chippewa Falls and learned the business of 
 cabinet maker in which he has since been 
 engaged. He was married June 24, 1868 at 
 Grant, Dunn county, Wis., to Kittie E., daughter 
 of James and Sarah Ann (Lee) Warren, the 
 step-daughter of J. H. Duncan. Their son, 
 James Alfred, was born Nov. 9, 1869. Mr. 
 Clarke is a Republican in politics and receives 
 a pension. His portrait appears on page 532. 
 
 M. HESS, Police Justice of New 
 Lisbon, Wis., insurance agent, 
 • member of G. A. E. Post No. 61, 
 was born June 18, 1832, in Rensselaerville, 
 Albany Co., New York. Mr. Hess traces his 
 ancestry to some of the most prominent per- 
 sonages of the war of the Revolution, a relative 
 in the paternal line being John Williams, who 
 was one of the three captors of John Andre 
 and who married into the Hess family. His 
 grandfather, Peter Hess, was a Colonel and 
 commanded a regiment in 1812 and the family 
 is in possession of many relics of both wars 
 that have been referred to. David and Han- 
 nah (Chapman) Hess, parents of Mr. Hess of 
 this sketch, were both born in the State of 
 New York. The former died about 1836 when 
 his son was 4 years old. The mother is still 
 living at the age of 87. When the son was 20 
 years old he made a trip to Illinois, returning 
 to his former home where he engaged in saw- 
 mill business and went to Wisconsin in 1854. 
 He located in New Lisbon which has since been 
 his home. He is one of four children; his 
 brother Albert resides at Binghamton, New 
 York, and is Freight Agent of the Lackawanna 
 & Great Western railroad. Catherine is Mrs. 
 
 D. Davidson of Allegany county. New York ; 
 David, the youngest, lives at Newark Valley, 
 Tioga Co., New York. D. W. Schoolcraft, a 
 half brother, resides near Parkersburg, Iowa. 
 Mr. Hess is thii'd in order of birth. On com- 
 ing to Wisconsin he engaged in real estate and 
 in other business relations until he entered the 
 army. Sept. 1, 1864, he enrolled in Company 
 
 E, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and was 
 mustered at Madison. The regiment was sent 
 as mustered by companies to respective sta- 
 tions, Company E going to Fort Lyon on the 
 heights of Alexandria and in the redoubts. 
 This position was in defense of the Capital and 
 the work of the battery, besides standing in 
 
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 readiness for that service, included drill in 
 heavy and light artillery practice and in in- 
 fantry tactics as well, as they were quite as 
 liable to be called on to tight as such as in 
 artillery, as heavy siege guns are practical only 
 in forts. Besides these several drills the artil- 
 lerymen were laborers in every sense, having 
 their foils to build and keep in repair and to 
 perform all the work necessary to a local com- 
 mand. During the period of his service, from 
 September, 1864, to June, 1865, Mr. Hess was 
 in all the defenses which the several raiders 
 caused in the vicinity of the city and aided in 
 in tlie repulse of Mosby and his guerrillas. 
 When changes were made to different forts, 
 practice changed and the whole service of Mr. 
 Hess was one round with siege guns, mortars 
 and small arms in tlic varieties of drill. Artil- 
 lerymen, who are stationed as defenders of a 
 a position with heavy guns are the hardest 
 worked men in the service so far as labor is 
 concerned, as their drill includes that of three 
 branches of the profession of a soldier. June 
 26, 1865, orders were received to report to Mil- 
 waukee for muster out, which took place July 
 13, 1865. After his release Mr. Hess had a 
 narrow escape from a hand grenade. 
 
 He returned to New Lisbon and for a year 
 was occupied in the restaurant business and he 
 operated as a commission merchant in fiuit un- 
 til 1868. In that year he established a fruit 
 and grocery business which he conducted until 
 1875 and was obliged to change his occupation 
 on account of impaired health. He began to 
 act in the capacity of an insurance agent and 
 in 1869 was made Justice of the Police Court 
 of New Lisbon, in which lie has since con- 
 ducted his duties. He is also a farmer and is 
 considerably interested in raising cranberries. 
 He also acts as pension claim agent in which 
 he has met with success. He was married Jan. 
 10, 1860, at Mauston, Juneau Co., Wisconsin, 
 
 to Janave, daughter of James Ferlando, a 
 native of Plymouth, England. She died Dec. 
 16, 1887, leaving two daughters named Flor- 
 ence and Mary, the former born Nov. 2, 1860 
 and the latter April 12, 1868. 
 
 Mr. Hess is a charter member of iiis Post and 
 has been a-ctively engaged in its interests since its 
 organization. In December, 1889, he was made 
 Commander during his absence, having jwsi- 
 tively declined to accept the position on pre- 
 vious occasions. He is a member of the 
 Masonic Order, Lodge No. 103, and has served 
 as its secretary for successive years. In 1859 
 he was Coroner of the county and has served 
 several terms as Deputy Sheriff and in other 
 local municipal offices. He is a substantial 
 business citizen of his town and county and is 
 respected as such. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. Hess appears on page 
 
 532. 
 
 ^4^^^^^. 
 
 '^^'OHN DESMOND, La Crosse, Wis., mem- 
 ber of a. A. R. Post No. 38, Wilson 
 Colwell, was born Nov. 7, 1844, in 
 Geneva, New York. His parents, Timothy and 
 Julia (Haley) Desmond, were natives of Ireland ; 
 the father emigrated to the United Stiites in 
 1840, and returned for his bride to Ireland in 
 1842. They located in America, settling at 
 Waterloo, Seneca county, New York, and open- 
 ing a grocery, removing thence in 1867 to 
 Dubuque, Iowa, to engage in farming, where 
 the senior Desmond died in January, 1871 ; 
 his widow is still his survivor and resides on 
 the homestead. Their children were named 
 John, Mar\', Abbie, Margaret, Julia, Lawrence, 
 Ellen, Honora and Timothy. Mr. Desmond 
 was reared as a farmer's son, obtaining a fair 
 degree of schooling at the common schools and 
 enlisted in the second year of the war. He 
 enrolled at Lodi, New York, Dec. 19, 1863, and 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 549 
 
 was mustered into service at Auburn in Com- 
 pany M, 16th New York Heavy Artillery. 
 December 26tb, he went into camp at Elmira 
 and went two weeks later, to the front at York- 
 town, in a state of siege by the Union troojis. 
 The battery arrived there in January, 18G4, 
 when it went into winter quarters and remained 
 until spring. It was then stationed at Fort Ma- 
 gruder at Williamsburg and drilled and acquired 
 practice in light and lieavy artillery tactics and 
 also as infantry, as an artillery command is 
 never certain what exigencies will overtake it. 
 The battery remained there about a year, per- 
 forming meanwliile detached duty, and moved 
 in the spring of 1865 to the campaign which 
 ended in the fall of Richmond, the battery not 
 arriving on the scene of action until Lee had 
 surrendered but was in readiness to be placed 
 in position on siege duty if need should be. 
 (At Yorktown, a part of the duty of the ai'til- i 
 lerymen was to patrol the river on special 
 police duty in skiffs). After going to Rich mond 
 they returned to City Point and witnessed the 
 surrender of the rebel arms at that place. 
 After three weeks the command went to the 
 Roanoke River on detached duty and remained 
 there a month, going thence to Washington 
 and to Hart's Island. Mr. Desmond was 
 mustered out Aug. 21, 1865 and went home to 
 Waterloo, New York. He afterwards went to 
 Pennsylvania and obtained employ in the 
 oil regions about four months. His next 
 remove was to Auburn, New York, where he 
 served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, 
 remaining there about two years and comple- 
 ting his indentures. He went to Dubuque, 
 whither his parents had removed and operated 
 there as a blacksmith nine years for A. A. 
 Cooper in a wagon factory. In October, 1886, 
 he went to La Crosse and opened his present 
 business. 
 
 He was married May 12, 1870, at Auburn, 
 
 N. Y., to Catherine, daughter of Daniel and 
 Mary Murphy, natives of Ireland. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Desmond three children, named Timothy, 
 Frances and Mary have been born. Mr. Des- 
 mond is a member of the Republican party. 
 His portrait appears on page 532. 
 
 
 '^OM LINDLEY, Editor and Publisher 
 of the Juneau County Sun, resident 
 at Mauston, Wis., formerly a soldier 
 from the Badger State in the civil war, was 
 born August 17, 1837, in the town of Munson, 
 Geauga county, Ohio. " Tom " is an individual 
 with traits and characteristics which make him 
 a conspicuous figure in his generation, from 
 his generous temperament and genial disposi- 
 tion which endow him with some of the 
 best qualities for popularity among his con- 
 temporaries. From one side of his lineage he 
 inherits the happy-go-lucky traits which keep 
 his good spirits and hopefulness always to the 
 fore, and from his Scotch forefathers have de- 
 scended to him the perseverance and go-aheada- 
 tiveness which have earned for him the respect 
 and esteem of all who know him. His parents, 
 Thomas Lusk and Melinda (Sowls) Lindley, 
 were of New England origin and, respectively 
 of Scotch and Irish stock. 
 
 About 1842 young Lindley went with the 
 family to northern Illinois and, a little later to 
 Green county, Wisconsin. He obtained all the 
 education possible under the circumstances of 
 several changes of location and in a pioneer 
 period, but always possessed a wholesome idea 
 of doing something in his own behalf to get on 
 in the world. He was 11 years old when he 
 commenced the preliminaries to his vocation of 
 printer, and first made acquaintance with the 
 " case " with Grattan & McFadden, of Freeport, 
 111. When 13 he was apprenticed to Israel 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Sanderson for five years and remained in 
 Monroe, attending school three months in each 
 year. A change of proprietors threw him out 
 before the expiration of his indentures, and he 
 went to Janesville, where he graduated as a 
 journeyman printer. Meanwhile, he had 
 become imbued with the spirit of the times, 
 which aroused in him the consciousness of 
 possessing inherent principles to which, as a 
 man and prospective American citizen, he owed 
 a faithful allegiance and in 1856 he went to 
 Middleport, Illinois, where he engaged in the 
 publication of the Iroquois Republkan, and did 
 good service in the interests of the Republican 
 party, during the Fremont campaign, although 
 but 19 years old. He established on a perma- 
 nent basis the paper on which he made liis 
 debut in the editorial profession wliile still a 
 boy and which is still in substantial existence. | 
 He sold his interest therein and returned to 
 Wisconsin. Witli the exception of his army 
 experience he has since been continually 
 connected with the press of the Badger State. 
 
 Li the earliest period of the war he entered 
 the ranks of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry as a 
 musician and served from June, 1861, to Feb- j 
 ruary, 1862, accompanying the Iron Brigade , 
 through all its movements meanwhile until 
 discharged for disability. As a memento of 
 the war it should be recorded, imperishably, 
 that the musical organization of which he was 
 a member was acknowledged to be the wont 
 band in the world, and had a National reputation 
 as such, of which fact its members were justly 
 proud. After recovery, Mr. Lindley re-enlisted 
 in Com])any D, 11th Wisconsin Inftintry, and 
 served in the ranks until the end of the war. 
 He was with his command in its lively move- 
 ments in Tennessee and Mississi])pi and also 
 in Louisiana ; raided, scouted, destroyed rebel 
 connnnnications; performed military duty of 
 every character except actual fighting in set I 
 
 battle and, probably succeeded in making one 
 individual believe tliat he was a specially 
 obnoxious object to the confederacy as he meant 
 to be, and sincerely trusts that he fulfilled his 
 mission in the war. He went to the assault on 
 the defenses of Mobile, marched to Blakely, 
 where he was in the skirmish line under heavy 
 fire from the rebel works, took part in the 
 charge April ,9th, and went with the regiment 
 to plant the colors of the 11th Wisconsin on the 
 parapet, the first Union colors above the works. 
 Mr. Lindley was mustered out Sept. 5, 1865, 
 at Mobile, and returned to Wisconsin, arriving 
 on the 18th of the same mouth at Madison. 
 
 He was married August 22, 1858, to Mary L. 
 Chapin, a native of Bradford county, Pa., who 
 is three years her husband's junior. Six 
 children have been added to their household, of 
 whom two — George C. and Sadie M., are dead. 
 Those living in 1890 are Josephine A., Jennie I., 
 Florence C and Bert E. Mr. Lindley was, 
 formerly, an active worker in the G. A. R., but 
 failing health compelled him to fallout several 
 years ago, and, although affiliating therewith 
 in spirit, he has never resumed actual connec- 
 tion with the Order. 
 
 ->^«f^0^€^>^- 
 
 OHN C. BATY, La Crosse, Wis., was 
 born Jan. 20, 1842, in Jefferson Co., New 
 York, and he is the .son of John and 
 Arvilla (Churchill) Baty. His father was born 
 in Ireland in County Monaghan and emigrated 
 to Canada, where he was married in Darling- 
 ton, Province of Ontario. He was a farmer by 
 vocation and removed soon after marriage to 
 New York State, where he passed his remain- 
 ing years in that occupation. He died in 1888 
 and the demise of his wife occurred in 1884. 
 The son was reared on the farm until 14 when 
 he left home and shipped as a sailor on Lake 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 551 
 
 Ontario, serving as such two years. He again 
 engaged in that calling on Lake Erie, being 
 employed on the transportation line of the 
 Chicago & Ogdensburg Grain Company. In 
 1864 he entered the Government employ at St. 
 Louis, Mo., as a teamster and after a month's 
 trial he decided that he did not understand 
 the language needed by a mule driver and 
 concluded to try a field where the dialect, if 
 not so exacting, was within his scope and he 
 enlisted Dec. 11, 1864, as a sailor in the Union 
 service, and was assigned to the Avenger, a 
 river Ijoat, operating between ^'icksburg and 
 Natcliez in keeping the river clear, and Mr. 
 Baty saw some lively service in the expeditions 
 to Bruinsburg, where the rebels had acquired 
 a habit of assaulting the boats at every possible 
 opportuni,ty. In July, 1865, he was transferred 
 to the Argosy, a transport employed in trans- 
 ferring ordnance from Mound City to the 
 arsenal at Carondelet. Later he was again ' 
 transferred to the receiving ship Great Western 
 at Mound City, wiiere he served until he was 
 discharged, Aug. 16, 1865. 
 
 He went afterwards to Chicago and, later to ' 
 Berlin, Wis. He engaged for some time in 
 fanning and went to Waupaca county where 
 he was occupied on the Wolf River three years. 
 Later he went to New London, Wis., and en- 
 gaged in sawmill work until 1872 when he 
 went to Merrilian, Jackson Co., and operated 
 as a repairer of saws until 1879. In that year 
 he settled at La Crosse, and during the first 
 year of his residence there worked for Holway 
 & Co. He passed a year on the river and next 
 entered his present employ with McDonald 
 Bros., and is in charge of the saw fitting de- 
 partment. 
 
 He was married in Berlin, Wis., to Margaret, 
 daughter of Patrick and Mary Crimmings, and 
 their children were named William, Emma, 
 Gu}', Frank, Joim, George and Leo; all are 
 
 living but John. Mr. Baty is a Democrat in 
 political belief and connection and Ijelongs to 
 theOrder of A. 0. U. W. 
 
 IiSAAC R. BRYAN, Sparta, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 30, was born in Calla- 
 way county. Mo., March 9, 1840, and his 
 father, James T. Bryan, had been long a 
 resident of that State, operating as engineer in 
 a woolen mill. He married Sarah E. Hackney 
 and died in 1845. The mother was born Nov. 
 13, 1813; both parents were of American birth 
 and descended from old ancestral stock of many 
 years standing. The mother is still living in 
 Sparta. The family left Missouri soon after 
 the father's deatli and after passing four years 
 in Ohio, went to Petosi, Grant county, and four 
 years later removed to Wabasha county, 
 Minn., where the son attained to man's estate 
 and entered the army in the first year of his 
 legal freedom. He enli.sted Dec. 24, 1861 at 
 Fort Snelling in Company H, 5th Minnesota 
 Infantry, remaining at the fort until spring, 
 when the regiment was sent to Hamburg 
 Landing on the Tennessee, thence to Farming- 
 ton and in May their introduction to rebel 
 malice occurred. May 8th Mr. Bryan was in 
 the action near Corinth and also fought on the 
 9th. Thence the command belonging to the 
 2d Division, General Stanley, and 2d Brigade, 
 General Plummer, Pope's " Army of the Missis- 
 sippi," marched under Colonel Murph)^ on the 
 Tuscumbia road, August 18th. In the latter 
 part of September, he w'as in the movement to 
 Corinth and fougiit on the 3d and 4th of 
 October at Corinth, where the company lost 
 heavily. Slierman was endeavoring to com- 
 plete his plans for the reduction of Vicksburg 
 an<l tiie brigade moved to reinforce him, but 
 the business was interrupted by the loss of the 
 
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 stores at Holly Springs and the regiment went 
 to LaGrange, following Forrest about Ten- 
 nessee for a time and going to Jackson, remain- 
 ing thereabout through the winter of 1862-3. 
 In tiie spring they moved to Memphis and 
 Vicksburg on transports having passed a week 
 at tlie mouth of tlie Yazoo on a small island 
 and landing at Milliken's Bend. They ope- 
 rated ill that vicinity for some time, build- 
 ing bridges, making canals and in other service. 
 About the first of May a movement was made 
 against Vicksburg on the Louisiana side, and 
 the command crossed to Grand Gulf and went 
 tlieiice to the fight at Jackson, skirmishing and 
 active all along the route. The regiment was 
 continually on the skirmish line for two days 
 and on the 14th the reljcls were driven out of 
 Jackson. The next move was towards Vicks- 
 burg in pursuit of Pemberton, driving him into 
 the city and they were in the .siege there until 
 the 2"2d of May and took part in the grand 
 assault on that date. Their next move was to. 
 Satartia on the Yazoo River and they returned to 
 Haines Bluff. The command then went across 
 tlie river to the Louisiana side to Riclimond to 
 drive Taylor back and they had a sharp fight. 
 They returned to Louisiana and went into 
 camp about three miles above Vicksburg to 
 guard tlie lines there and remained until the 
 fall of Vicksburg, July 4th, when they wont 
 over to celebrate the victory and the National 
 holiday. They ]>assed some time in camp on 
 the Blackwater and operated until spring in 
 camp and other military duty until they were 
 ordei'ed to the Red River expedition and em- 
 barked on transports at Vicksburg and joined 
 Banks near the mouth of the Reil River, re- 
 maining with his command until tiie defeat at 
 Pleasant Hill, not participating in that fight. 
 Afterwards, thej' were occupied in miscella- 
 neous military duty until they went to Mempliis. 
 Mr. Bryan had re-enlisted and in August took 
 
 his veteran furlough, rejoining the command 
 at Memphis. He engaged in the pursuit of 
 Forre.st, returned to Mempliis, went next to the 
 White River to Duvall's Bluff, marched towards 
 Little Rock and north towards Missouri, and 
 reached Cape Girardeau after a march of 350 
 miles. He was next in the chase after Price to 
 Jefferson City and to Independence, but the 
 rebel chief escaped into Kansas and they re- 
 turned to Jefferson without him, Init with satis- 
 faction ill the capture of Marmaduke. The 
 next remove was to St. Louis and in the last of 
 November, 1864, they went to Nashville and 
 occupied the bluffs above the city, taking part 
 in the action of December 15th and 16th. Mr. 
 Bryan was wounded in the left arm near the 
 shoulder by a minie ball. He was acting 
 during the charge as color bearer and he re- 
 mained in hospital until June, 1865, when he 
 joined his regiment on the Tombigbee River 
 at Mcintosh's Bluff and remained on duty in 
 Alabama until September, when he returned 
 to Fort Snelling and was mustered out on 
 the 26lh. 
 
 He attended Hamlin Universitj-at Red Wing 
 two years, when he went to Sparta and has 
 there been engaged in miscellaneous varieties 
 of liusiness witli the exception of three years, 
 when he conducted a drug .store at Arcadia. In 
 1886 he was elected Circuit Clerk on the peo- 
 ple's ticket, and in 1S8S was re-elected on the 
 Republican ticket, to wliicli party he belongs. 
 He is a member of the Odd Fellows Order, 
 Lodge 94. 
 
 He was married Aug. 26, 1868, to Emma, 
 daughter of Chri.stian Johnson, at Sparta. 
 Their children were named Isaac R., Mary 
 Ella, Lilly M., Howard T., Tliad T. and Henry 
 M. Isaac and Henry are not living. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 553 
 
 /^^ OLONEL W. W. ROBINSON, Chip- 
 v^iV/ P^^^''*^ Falls, Wis , member of G. A. R. 
 
 ^^^^=^ Post No. 68, was born in Fairhaven, 
 \'ermoiit, Dec. 14, 1S19. .lolin Robinson, who 
 accompanied the Pilgrims to Holland and 
 thence to America, was his earliest ancestor in 
 this country and in the maternal line he is of 
 French Huguenot descent. His father and 
 mother, John W. and Rebecca (Merritt) Robin- 
 son, were natives of Connecticut and had two 
 sons, tiie only brother of Colonel Robinson 
 being Andrew N. The father was a lieutenant 
 in the war of 1812 and fought at Sacketts' 
 Harbor, Plattsburg and Stone Mill, being 
 severely wounded in the last. He removed to 
 Wisconsin in 1860 and died in Rock county 
 while the civil war was in progress, his wife's 
 demise occurring a few weeks later. 
 
 The son was carefully educated at Rutland 
 and Castleton Academies in Vermont and he I 
 was sent afterwards to Norwich Military 
 Academy in that State on the banks of 
 the Connecticut River, where he was a 
 classmate of other officers who reached dis- 
 tinction in the volunteer service and in the 
 Mexican war. Colonel Robinson taught school 
 in his native State and at Jeffersonville 
 Academy, N. -J., and in 1840 he went to Cleve- 
 lan<l, Ohio, and taught two years. He pros- 
 pected in the West and vi.sited Wisconsin but 
 returned to Cleveland and afterwards enlisted 
 in the Mexican war, and was made Lieutenant 
 in Company G, 3d Ohio Infantry under Colonel 
 Curtiss of Pea Ridge fame in the civil war. He 
 was promoted to Cajjtain for distinguished ser- 
 vices in Mexico and after continuing through 
 the war, principallj' occupied in cavalry skir- 
 mishing near the San Juan River, he returned 
 to Ohio. In 1852 he went to California across 
 the plains, operating there in contracting and 
 gold digging and in establishing the interests 
 of the Minnesota Water Co., among the placer : 
 
 miners. He went to Minnesota and engaged 
 extensively in farming and took prominent 
 part in the development of the locality where 
 he settled, founding Wilton, the (then) county 
 seat of Waseca county. In 1858 he came to 
 Wisconsin, locating at Sparta. During his 
 residence in Minnesota he was made Colonel of 
 the State Militia and performed much .service 
 in perfecting the organizations in drill. When 
 the rush to fill the quotas required of Wiscon- 
 sin was made the Governor appointed him 
 Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Wisconsin and 
 he went to the front in September, 1861, join- 
 ing the Wisconsin Brigade of Rufus King. 
 (See sketch.) He performed duty with his 
 command, made the fruitless march in the 
 spring of 1862 under McClellan towards Man- 
 assas, went to the first campaign of the Rappa- 
 hannock, and engaged in small affairs at 
 Thornburg near Fredericksburg. He was in 
 the movement to Frederick's Hall Station and 
 went to Cedar Mountain in time to retreat with 
 Pope and to skirmish at Beverly Ford. He 
 participated in the move to Warrenton after 
 the skirmish at Sulphur Springs, and fought 
 in the first terrific action in which Wisconsin 
 troops were engaged at Gainesville, August 
 28th. F'our regiments, the "Iron Brigade," 
 held the ground against 33 regiments of 
 rebels. The Lieutenant Colonel had been made 
 Colonel of the 7th Wisconsin in the fall of 1861 
 and in this action his horse was shot under 
 him and he received a bullet in his leg. He 
 was sent to Washington and home, rejoining 
 his command a few days previous to the fight 
 at Fredericksburg in December, 1862. During 
 the action his regiment was on the extreme 
 left and after it was over the command fell 
 back to Belle Plain and went into winter quar- 
 ters. In January, Colonel Robinson helped 
 pull Burnside out of the mud, and in the 
 .spring went to encounter the disasters whose 
 
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 story is told on countless pages of this work. 
 In the 1st Corps under Wadsworth, Colonel 
 Robinson fought at Fitziiugh's Crossing, April 
 29th, the transit being hotly contested by the 
 rebels, and he received orders to cross with his 
 regiment on pontoons which was done. They 
 were ordered back and the scrimmage across 
 the river continued until the battle of Chan- 
 cellorsville and the brigade reached the field as 
 support, Sunday morning, May 3d. The regi- 
 ment took its former position afterwards 
 below Fredericksburg and remained until 
 General Wadsworth ordered General Reynolds 
 to detail Colonel Robinson with a command of 
 troops, (which was composed of his own regi- 
 ment, two companies of the 2d Wisconsin and 
 the 50th PeniLsylvania Infantry) to report to 
 General Russell. Accordingly, he crossed the 
 Rappaiiannock with his command at Kelley's 
 Ford, found General Russell at Brandy Station 
 and supported a cavalry force in a recon- 
 noissance towards Culpeper C. H., June 9th. 
 They were needed, for the rebel cavalry made 
 an attack and the troops fell back after " lick- 
 ing" a greatly superior force. Hooker, with 
 the main army, was in the pursuit after Lee, 
 and the 7th Wisconsin marched 160 miles to 
 the vicinity of (Gettysburg, Lee taking a cir- 
 cular route thither. The rebels readied York 
 in advance and created consternation, l>ut 
 Gettysburg wiped out their offenses in that 
 locality. 
 
 The Iron Brigade distinguished itself on the 
 first day of that fight in a manner that needs 
 no feeble elaboration on these pages, but Gen- 
 eral Meredith, commanding, was wounded and 
 the brigade continued its masterly work com- 
 manded by Colonel Robinson of the 7th Wis- 
 consin. He conducted its career during the 
 remainder of the figlit and was at the head of 
 the brigade through his connection with the 
 command, except for a short period while home 
 
 on a furlough, and until the second day's bat- 
 tle of the Wilderness, when he was again placed 
 in command. June 30th, the brigade biv- 
 ouacked between Emmettsville and Gettys- 
 burg anil when the firing commenced on the 
 morning of July 1st, was ordered to move by 
 quick marches to the field, movnig 25 minutes 
 and halting 5 minutes until near Getty.sburg, 
 when they turned ofl'from the main road and 
 advanced at a double-quick to meet the enemy's 
 infantry, who were advancing to attack our 
 cavalry, engaged at the time with the rebel 
 cavalry. Tliey were the first Union infantry 
 on the field, " double-quicked into the wheat- 
 field," and received a storm of shot from the 
 "Devil's Den," when they charged and drove 
 the rebels out, taking a large number of prison- 
 ers. An order was received by Colonel Robin- 
 son to fall back toward the town, which move- 
 ment was executed by alternating battalions, 
 with firing, until he reached Seminary Ridge, 
 when a stand was made and where Lieuten- 
 ant Colonel Callis (see sketch) was severely 
 wounded. Just before sundown orders were 
 received by Colonel Robinson to fall back to 
 Cemetery Hill and the brigade fell back, pass- 
 ing through the town. (The brigade had lost 
 fully one-half its members in killed, wounded 
 and missing.) July 2d, Colonel Robinson, with 
 his command, occupied a position in the front 
 line of the right of the center of the main 
 army and held it during the two day's fight- 
 ing, occasionally moving to support a weak 
 point. Lee retreated during the night of the 
 3d and the brigade remained on the field on 
 the 4th. On the morning of the 5th the com- 
 mand started on the retrograde march in the 
 same route it had come, keeping on east of the 
 Blue Ridge, the enemy being on the west until 
 the pass at South Mountain leading to Ilagers- 
 town was reached. At the latter place the rebel 
 rear was overtaken and an action was immi- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 555 
 
 neat, but none occurred as Lee got out of the 
 way. Colonel Robinson moved with his brigade 
 to Warrenton aud thence to the Rappahannock, 
 and remained at various camps at or near 
 Ra{)jialuinnock Station until the movement at 
 Mine Run, and the 7th was in the action at 
 Buckland Mills. November 26th Colonel Rob- 
 inson was in the tight with his command at 
 Mine Run. At Kelley's Ford veteranizing took 
 place and Colonel Robinson went to Wisconsin 
 with his regiment on furlough, returning to 
 Culpeper C. H. In the spring the brigade 
 went to the Wilderness campaign, the 1st and 
 5th Corps uniting as the 5th under Warren. 
 The command crossed the Rapidan, bivouack- 
 ing at the " quartz mills'' and, on hearing the 
 firing the next morning, advanced to the rebel 
 breastworks with the enemy on the left and 
 right, the Union troops falling back with great 
 loss. They rested on their arms through the 
 night without light or food. On the morning 
 of the Gth the firing commenced again, the 
 rebels being driven back to their batteries on a 
 line, crossing the Plank Road, the right falling 
 back and leaving the 7th alone in front. Col- 
 onel Robinson issued orders to his men to lie 
 down, which they did, but they afterwards fell 
 back. He met General Wadsworth and they 
 had some conversation, which was tlie last in- 
 terview of the gallant commander with any 
 human being before he was shot. That night 
 Colonel Robinson resumed command of the 
 brigade. On the 8th the battle of Laurel Hill 
 was fought. On the 12th the brigade was 
 again in action at Spottsylvania. The fight- 
 ing had been incessant for many days and 
 everybody was worn out, and on a inarch to 
 another position on the Bowling Green Road it 
 was thought tiiey might obtain rest, but soon 
 after an order came for Colonel Robinson to 
 take a position with the brigade at a point in 
 advance of the army to hold a bridge. Thence 
 
 the command went to the North Anna River, 
 where they had a vigorous fight. They then 
 moved to the crossing of the Pamunkey, threw 
 up breastworks on the hills and kept in almost 
 constant motion to some point ; going to Cold 
 Harbor and the Chickahominy, having moved 
 June 1st to Bethesda Church. The 7th went 
 to the James River and to Petersburg, erecting 
 breastworks and preparing for participation in 
 the work in the trenches there. For more 
 than 30 days Colonel Robinson had not been 
 able to remove his sword or his clothing and, 
 harrassed by slight wounds and worn out, there 
 being a full line of officers, he resigned. 
 
 He went to Sparta, Wis., and engaged in 
 farming until 1873, when he removed to Chip- 
 pewa Falls, where his son-in-law resided. In 
 1875 he was appointed U. S. Consul to Mada- 
 gascar and continued in that incumbency 12 
 years. He discharged his duties with dis- 
 tinguished honor and made himself a favorite 
 at Court and with the people. When the 
 Madagascan ambassadors were about to visit 
 the United States and Europe in 1882, the 
 Queen made a special request of the President 
 that Colonel Robinson be allowed to accompany 
 them which he did and everywhere received 
 the most distinguished attention. He returned 
 to America in December, 1886, and, not liking 
 the idea of a life of inactivity, he embarked in 
 the coal trade, associated with his son under 
 the style of H. F. Robinson & Co., buying the 
 ownership of the partner of liis son. 
 
 Colonel Robinson was married in 1843 at 
 Cleveland, Ohio, to Sarah Jane, daughter of 
 Daniel and Sarah Jane (Bowen) Fisk. Their 
 first-born child — Edward L. — died when eight 
 years old ; Leonora married General Hollon 
 Richardson, of whom a sketch appears on other 
 pages. Two children, named Herbert Fisk and 
 Inez were born to Colonel Robinson and the 
 youngest daughter died in 1864. The second 
 
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 in order of birth, William W., was sent to West 
 Point whence he was graduated and he is now 
 (1890) a Lieutenant in the 7th U. S. Cavalry at 
 Fort Reilly. During the course of the dis- 
 tinguished service of Colonel Robinson the 
 alternative of a commission as Brigadier was 
 offered him or a scholarship for his son at West 
 Point and he unhesitatingly chose his son's 
 advantage, tlie appointment being made in 
 1863. His thorough military education has 
 always kept Colonel Robinson's interest in mili- 
 tary organizations alive and he has always 
 been active in the drill of local organizations. 
 The companies whose instruction he has super- 
 intended have proved the value of his teachings 
 by taking prizes on many occasions. He is 
 a tlioroughbred in soldiers' life and carries 
 himself in accordance with the principles 
 instilled by his training and experiences. 
 Andrew N. Robinson, his brother, was (Quarter- 
 master of the 7th AV'isconsin ; was injured dur- 
 ing the first year of the war and was discharged 
 for disability ; he lives in Tennessee. 
 
 Colonel Robin.son is passing his sunset of 
 life, surrounded by his children and grand- 
 children. He is at the verge of man's allot- 
 ment of years and can look back over his 
 career, devoted to his country, witli the content 
 he deserves as a true son of the Re})ublic, a 
 patriot in descent and fact and a citizen whom 
 all deligiit to honor. The highest terms of 
 praise could not be heard in the echo of his 
 splendid service for the flag whose stars he 
 helped to burnish anew amidst the clouds of 
 fratricidal war. i 
 
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 -a A •«• 
 
 OHN F. MOORHOUSE, Racine, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post John L. Stew- 
 art, No. 134, at Oneida, New York, was 
 born May 31, 1845 at Coldbrook, Herkimer Cb., 
 New York. His father, Charles A. Moorhouse, 
 
 was born Nov. 1, 1805, of German parentage 
 and died Feb. 2, 1861, in the State of New 
 York. The mother, Elizabeth Gray before 
 marriage, was born June 20, 1812, in New 
 York of American parentage and died July 30, 
 1875 in Ohio. Their children were born in 
 the order named as follows: — Catherine, Ro- 
 mania, Eugenia S., John F. and Ahirtha J. 
 The father was a blacksmith and followed that 
 business luitil five years before his death when 
 he bought a farm. John was the only son and 
 remained with his parents until he succeeded 
 in entering the armj'. He had all a boy's en- 
 thusiasm and tried at various times to enlist 
 but was too young and when he did enroll he 
 stretched one year until it counted two, to ac- 
 comj)lish his purpose. Finally, he recorded as 
 a defender of the Hag Jan. 27, 1864 in Company 
 D, 10th New Y^ork Cavalry at Morrisville, N. 
 Y. He was mustered and joined the command 
 at Warrentown, Va., where the regiment was 
 in quarters preparing for the spring camj)aign, 
 wliieli opened in May, and Mr. Moorhouse was 
 in the 2d Division under Gregg and attached 
 to Sheridan's cavalry corps. He was first in 
 action May 5th and four successive days fought 
 in the Wilderness. May 8th he was in the 
 fight at Todd's Tavern and pressed on to Rich- 
 mond when Sheridan moved his forces May 
 9th to co-operate with the plans of Grant, who 
 had taken position at Spottsylvania. He was 
 in the movements in which the work of de- 
 struction was pushed, on the ^'irginia Central 
 railroad, including tlie rolling stock, 1,500,000 
 rations and other property. On the route tliey 
 released 400 Union prisoners on their way to 
 Libby. He was in the actions at Beaver Dam 
 Station, South Anna, Ashland and Yellow 
 Tavern. Prior to this he was in a close action 
 at White Grove Church near Port Royal, which 
 was nearly a hand-to-hand encounter, lie was 
 iu the lights on the North Anna River and on 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 559 
 
 the 27th of May fought in the passage of the 
 Pamunkey River. May 30th he was in the 
 fight at Hanover C. H., and went, not long 
 after to Washington, where he was seized with 
 typhoid fever and after a long time in hospital 
 ohtained a furlough of 60 days, rejoining his 
 regiment at City Point and went into winter 
 quarters. Preparations were made for tiie ac- 
 tivities of the spring campaign, wliicli were 
 opened by the reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run, 
 in which the Union troops suffered heavily. 
 Colonel Gregg being among the wounded. Mr. 
 Moorhouse was in the subsequent movements 
 prior to April 1st, when he was in the fight at 
 Five Forks, after which the command was in 
 position on the left of Petersburg until its sur- 
 render, the cavalry remaining there until after 
 the surrender of Lee. He returned to City 
 Point and went next to Alexandria and to 
 Cloyd's Mills, where the regiment was consoli- 
 dated with the 24th New York Cavalry, the new 
 organization being called the 1st Division of 
 Cavalry. The authorities wished to send them 
 West, but they demurred and the regiments 
 went to Syracuse where Mr. Moorhouse was 
 mustered out July 19, 1865. He returned to 
 Cold brook, and learned the blacksmith trade 
 which he followed in his native county and 
 thereabouts until his removal to Racine, where 
 he arrived in Januarj', 1889. He has since 
 worked for the Racine Wagon and Carriage 
 Compan}'. 
 
 He was married Jan. 28, 1868 to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Justus and Ann (Simpson) Kelley 
 at Rome, New York. Her parents were of New 
 York birth, where her father died June oO, 
 1870. Her mother is still living in Coldbrook, 
 N. Y. 
 
 f^^^ DWARD SINCLAIR, proprietor of the 
 Pine Tree House at Chippewa Falls, 
 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 68, was born June 18, 1837, in Ogdensburg, 
 New York. His father, George Sinclair, was 
 born in New York of Scotch descent and mar- 
 ried Mary Cardence, who was of French 
 extraction. Both are deceased. Mr. Sinclair 
 and a sister named Mary lived to maturity. 
 When he was nine years old he went to the 
 lakes in the capacity of a " royal's" boy on the 
 sailing vessel Quebec on which he remained a 
 season. The following year he passed on Lakes 
 Huron, Michigan and Erie and spent three 
 winters in steamboating on the Mississippi 
 River, employed as a diver on one of tiie toll 
 boats, and one winter he passed in Mobile in 
 the cotton yai'ds. Afterwards he sailed " before 
 the mast" until he had been a sailor nine 
 years, and meanwhile had made a trip to 
 Glasgow and Greenoch, Scotland. For three 
 years prior to leaving the lakes he operated as 
 a diver, and worked once on the steamer 
 Atlantic, wrecked off Cleveland opposite Long 
 Point, sunk by the Ogdensburg. She was in 
 175 feet of water. He operated as a diver 
 thi'ough the following summer on the Northern 
 Indiana which was sunk at the mouth of 
 Detroit River. Subsequently he acted as diver 
 on the propellor Keystone State on Lake Erie 
 and recovered 484 barrels of pork. In 1851 he 
 enlisted as a marine for a year on the man-of- 
 war Michigan and, after being on board of her 
 six months, while she lay at Buffalo, he jumped 
 overboard, swam ashore and shipped on a sail- 
 ing vessel on the lakes, running from Buftalo 
 in the grain and lumber trade. He tben ship- 
 ped as a second mate on the barque Utica. 
 
 In 1857, he left the lakes and went to Jack- 
 sonville, 111., and thence to Beardstown to learn 
 tiie business of wagon-making. He worked 
 six months and quit, going to Concord Station 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to open a shop for liimself, hiring liis black- 
 smith, and was carrying on a good business 
 when the war came on. He locked up his 
 shop, tools and wagons, and went to Jackson- 
 ville and enlisted April 10, LSGl, being one of 
 the first to enroll. He went thence to Spring- 
 field and to Cairo, where he was mustered into 
 ('ompany B, lOtli Illinois Infantry, April ■29th, 
 under Capt. Jolni King and Colonel G. D. 
 Morgan, for three months' service. During the 
 time he was on guard and picket duty, march- 
 ed to Wilde's Mills through the woods in the 
 night on the double quick after rebel cavalry 
 and arrived to find at break of day that the 
 rebels had been doing the same as they had — 
 running. On the return Mr. Sinclair caught 
 cold, which settled on his liver, and he went to 
 hospital and was discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 He returned to Jacksonville and passed six 
 months under treatment for his health, but 
 growing no better he went to Chatham, 
 Canada, and was sick in bed a year under 
 constant treatment. "When he got better he 
 went to Bay City, Micliigan, and remained 
 nine years, working as he could at blacksmith- 
 ing and in the salt works. He went from 
 there to Nebraska, looking for a location but 
 not finding one tliat seemed satisfactory he 
 went to Chippewa Co., Wisconsin and located a 
 homestead on sections nine and ten, including 
 IGO acres which he improved and lived on 16 
 years, also managing a blacksmith shop at the 
 same time and a sawmill. While there his 
 oldest son, George, was instantly killed by 
 liglitning and himself met with a serious 
 accident, a log falling on his leg and crushing 
 tlie lower part. Subsequently he exclianged 
 his farm for hotel property in the city and 
 engaged in its management in which he has 
 since been occupied. 
 
 He was married Sept. 21, 1S61, at Beards- 
 town, 111., to Melissa, daughter of William and 
 
 Eliza (Gilbert) Chester. Their surviving son, 
 William, is with his father in business. In 
 politics Mr. Sinclair is a Republican. His 
 portrait is presented on page 558. 
 
 ^^^ EORGE LUDWIG PFAFF, Portage, 
 [^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 14, was born Jan 25, 1841, in Saxony, 
 Germany. His father, Adam Pfaff, was born, 
 reared and educated in his native country after 
 the laws of the land and served five years in 
 the German army. He married Elizabeth 
 Schleiger and they had seven children. The 
 son George was educated according to law, 
 learned a trade and, after serving an apprentice- 
 ship, worked as a journeyman until the time 
 approached when he would be con.scripted into 
 the German army. 
 
 Sunday morning at nine o'clock, May 13, 
 1860, lie started for the New World, determined 
 to find a home in a land where the inherent 
 rights of a man were entitled to respect. He 
 sailed on the ship Anna Attelius and was on 
 the sea 52 days, three of which were passed in a 
 storm among the icebergs, and the passengers 
 as well as crew assisted in saving the vessel 
 from wreck. Mr. Pfaff landed at New York 
 and used his last dollar to pay his fare to Chi- 
 cago, going thence on foot to Burlington, Ra- 
 cine Co., Wisconsin. He obtained a place to 
 work on a farm four months and went at the 
 expiration of that time to Burr Oak, La Crosse 
 county, and hired to work on a farm ten 
 months for §10 a month. The community was 
 in a state of ferment from the assault on Fort 
 Sumter and in some manner the raw German 
 boy determined that his services were needed 
 and, although but live months of his time were 
 served, in company with a companion, he went 
 on foot to La Crosse, 25 miles distant, to enlist, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 561 
 
 and enrolled in Company F, 9th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, and theirs were the two first names en- 
 tered from the town of Farmington. (The 
 company was organized at La Crosse with tlie 
 explicit understanding that it should be made 
 a part of a regiment that should be assigned to 
 the command of Sigel.) The command went 
 to Camp Sigel, Milwaukee, and drilled and re- 
 cruited there until Jan. 22, 18G2, when a start 
 for Fort Leavenworth was made. At Quincy, 
 Illinois, they crossed the river on the ice and 
 went thence by rail to Weston, Mo., en route to 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, and after arrival there, 
 pitched tents and sent a team across the river 
 for some beer. But the ice was treacherous 
 and the load, with team, went under, the driver 
 saving his life with difficulty. The regiment 
 made a long march to Fort Scott, expecting to 
 join an expedition under General Lane, but it 
 did not materialize, and in May the command 
 marched to Baxter's Springs in the Indian Ter- 
 ritory, where frequent expeditions against the 
 rebels with their Indian proselytes were made, 
 and Indians were also assigned to the Union 
 force, which marched to Fort Gibson, skirmish- 
 ing and exterminating rebel camps on the way. 
 The regiment had seen very hard service and 
 their difficulties were increased by the chnnge 
 in commanders until Colonel Salomon again 
 assumed the reins of government and conducted 
 the command back to more desirable quarters. 
 When the command went to Quawpaw Reserve 
 it was on quarter rations and many days they 
 were without water. The horses of the cavalry 
 were lost on account of drouth and want of 
 food, foraging being impossible in that country 
 and no base of supplies accessible. At Quaw- 
 paw Mr. Pfaff broke his arm, but remained with 
 his regiment. It was still exposed todepredatory 
 attacks from Indians and performed excellent 
 service among the rascally redskins, who had 
 become rebels for whisky considerations chiefly. 
 
 i The regiment returned to Fort Scott and after- 
 wards did enough marching in Missouri after 
 imaginary foes for a whole campaign. When 
 the Army of the Frontier was organized the 
 regiment went to Sarcoxie, Mo., and on the 
 oOth four companies went to Newtonia and 
 made a charge which nearly annihilated their 
 whole number, many being killed and the rest, 
 including the wounded, being captured. Gen- 
 eral Salomon, who had been made brigade 
 commander, was on the alert, and as soon as he 
 could secure reinforcements he recovered the 
 wounded men, who had been taken by the 
 rebels, General Herron arriving from Spring- 
 field, Mo. The force operated in Arkansas en- 
 deavoring to rout the rebels until arrival at 
 Rheas' Mills, and thence tlie command went to 
 Cane Hill. An action took place at Prairie 
 Grove in which the main force was en- 
 gaged, but the 9th arrived too late to parti- 
 cipate in the battle and returned to Rheas' 
 Mills, its forced march of 45 miles in 32 hours 
 availing nothing. A little later the regiment 
 went on a raid to Van Buren, marching nearly 
 60 miles in two days, fording Cove Creek 39 
 times and entering Van Buren in the evening. 
 They returned after four days to Rheas' Mills, 
 arriving .Jan. 2, 1863, and for many days after, 
 the command moved constantly to intercept 
 
 ! Marmaduke in his retreat from Springfield. 
 
 i The experience was a hard one as the incessant 
 rain left the roads in a terrible state and the 
 streams were almost impassable. Jan. 29th 
 
 i they camped at Crow Creek, south of Spring- 
 field, and Feb. 21st, went into winter quarters 
 at Stahl's Creek. March 17th they broke camp 
 of foraging expeditions through Missouri and 
 with head(iuarters at Forsythe, raids were made 
 for many miles in extent. Foraging proving 
 hardly successful, the artillcr\' and trains were 
 sent to Springfield, the regiment marching 
 thither by way of Hartsville, Salem and Rolla 
 
562 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and moved thence July 8th to St. Louis. The 
 next renioviil was to Helena, Ark., and thence 
 to Little Rock, the men heing constantly 
 annoyed on the way by guerrillas. The winter 
 was passed in military duty pertaining to the 
 demands of tlie region, working on fortifica- 
 tions, guarding trains, etc., and in .January 
 veteranizing took place, Mr. Pfaff re-enlisting 
 for tliri'c years. In the 1st Brigade, 3d Divis- 
 ion and 7th Army Corps under Steele, the regi- 
 ment went on the Red River expedition and 
 Mr. Pfafl' was in almost constant skirmishing j 
 during the month of April. In the repulse of I 
 the rebels on the 11th, Company F performed 
 distinguished service and also on the 15th, on 
 which date Marmaduke was repulsed. The 
 bat^is of supplies being threatened, the regiment 
 fill back to Little Rock and on the waj' was 
 fought the battle of Jenkins' Ferry, where the 
 9th made a record second to none in the service. 
 At Little Rock the command was con.solidated 
 into a battalion of four companies, the regiment ; 
 as an organization being mustered out. 
 
 After veteran furlough Mr. PfafF went with 
 his battalion, Jan. 22, 1865 to Mount Elba and 
 returned to Little Rock where he performed 
 jirovost duty, chief!}', through bis period of 
 service. During this time two citizens and one 
 Government employe were executed for murder. 
 The regimental clerk was hung during the stay 
 of the regiment at Little Rock before the close 
 of the war, having been in communication 
 with the rebels, who offered him §2,0U0 for 
 inforiualion concerning fortifications and other ' 
 details; he promised to m;u'ry a girl on receipt 
 of the money and she reported him at head- 
 quarters. The battalion remained in Arkansas 
 until Jan. 30, 1866, when it was mustered out 
 and returned to Wisconsin. During his service 
 Mr. Pfaff had sore eyes and was in the blind 
 ward of the hospital at Little Rock two months ; 
 lie has never fully recovered. 
 
 Since reaching home after the war he has 
 been in the employ of the St. Paul railroad 
 corporation in several capacities and in 1890 is 
 foreman of the freight depot at Portage. While 
 operating as switchman he had several acci- 
 dents. He was married Dec. 25, 1866, to Mary 
 Weidner and their children are named Ella, 
 Frank, Louis, Emma, Eva, Martha, Albert and 
 Mary. 
 
 Mr. PfatTs portrait appears on page 558. 
 
 3<^ 
 
 father, William Cooley, was of English birth 
 and married Ann Lucas in his native country, 
 where he was in the military service. The son 
 was born in Birmingham, England, and when 
 he was eight years old the family came to 
 America, locating at Janesville, Wis., where the 
 father was occupied for many years as a marble 
 cutter. The family included the following 
 named cliildren all of whom are living but 
 Arthur and Lewis: — Samuel, Herl)ert, Lewis, 
 Arthur ()., William, Ernest and Andrew — all 
 sons. Mr. Cooley obtained his education in 
 his native and adopted countr}-, attending 
 school at Janesville and studying until old 
 enough, when he learned the trade of making 
 sash and blimls. He worked successively at 
 .Janesville and Beloit and tried for a job at 
 Chicago, but went to Wheaton and there 
 stopped until he enlisted and was mustered 
 into U. S. service Sept. 18, 1861, in the 8th 
 Illinois Cavalry in Company E. From camp 
 at St. Charles he went to Washington to Camp 
 Illinois, thence to Camp California across the 
 border and remained there and at Alexandria 
 until the spring of 1802. Mr. Cooley was first 
 in a skirmish in April of that year on the Rap- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 563 
 
 pahatuiock River. Mtiy 4tli he was in action 
 at Yorktown, following Magnider and fighting 
 him next day at Williamsburg. Mr. Cooley 
 was in the successive engagements May 31st 
 and June 26111 at Mechanicsville, was also in 
 the actions at Gaines' Mills and Malvern Hill, 
 August 5th, the colonel (Gamble) being 
 wounded in the charge. In September Mr. 
 Cooley was in a skirmish at Falls Church, 
 fought at Poolesville (7th), Barnestowii, South 
 Mountain (14th) and Boonesboro (15th), where 
 Captain Kelley of Company E was mortally 
 wounded. In the same month, after a tigiit 
 with Stuart's cavalry, Mr. Cooley was promoted 
 to Corporal and also a man named Edward 
 Wayne, the former being at the request of the 
 wounded Captain Kelley. The next action was 
 at Antietam, where the regiment was at the 
 right of the main pike Sept. 17th under Gen- 
 eral Sumner and at Shepherdstown, Va.,led the 
 advance in the skirmish September 20th. The 
 command was in the actions at Martinsville, 
 Upperville and Fredericksburg with the 1st 
 Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps of Stone- 
 man, fighting under Pleasanton. The winter 
 was passed at Aquia Creek and in the spring 
 the regiment went down on the Northern Neck, 
 Va., after negroes and horses and took enough 
 of the latter to remount the entire command, 
 also brought back 800 blacks without much 
 figliting. June 9, 1863, at Beverly Ford, Mr. 
 Cooley was in a hard fight and marched all 
 night in sleet, intelligence being received that 
 Stuart was preparing for a raid into Pennsyl- 
 vania and Maryland and the rebel picket line 
 was captured at the Ford, the 8th Illinois, 8th 
 New York and 3d Indiana crossing the Ford, 
 forming on the bank and charging the enemy's 
 camp while they were asleep. They were re- 
 pulsed, but Colonel Davis remained on the 
 field and called for the 8th Illinois (his own 
 regiment having broken and run) who were 
 
 supported by the Indiana regiment and the 
 rebels were driven back two miles. The 
 ground was held until night, when an infantry 
 force arrived and they fell back across the 
 ford, Colonel Davis being killed and a large 
 number of the 8th killed and wounded. Mr. 
 Cooley was in the actions at Ashland and Dis- 
 patch Station, after which the regiment joined 
 the main arm^' and went to Gettysburg. Com- 
 pany E, attached to Buford's cavalry force of 
 6.000 led the reconnoissance on the Emmetts- 
 burg Road and were the first to make the at- 
 tack in the most memorable light of the war, 
 Lieutenant Jones firing the first shot at the 
 picket post. General Reynolds being killed be- 
 fore noon in this part of the fight. The regi- 
 ment fought again at Williamsport and Falling 
 Water, at Chester Gap, July 23d, Culpeper Aug. 
 5th, and again at that place, Sept. 13th ; on 
 the Rapidan on the 14tli and in October at 
 Morton's Ford on the 10th, Brandy Station 
 on the 12th and Culpeper on the 13th and 
 Brandy Run on the 15th. At Culpeper 
 he re-enlisted and went into winter quarters, 
 receiving promotion Dec. 1, 1863, to Ser- 
 geant and taking veteran furlough, going 
 home to Dubuque, Iowa. He was called back 
 to the front before his 30 days expired, going 
 into camp, "Scott's 800 Barracks " near Wash- 
 ington, where he performed provost duty until 
 the spring of 1864. About this time the 8th 
 was detached from the main army and held by 
 General Auger for his service, with head- 
 quarters at Fairfax Court House, and so re- 
 mained until they were mustered out. Tiiey 
 were in the fight at Mouocacy and were driven 
 back in the first charge, but in the second, with 
 400 against 24, they cut their way through the 
 rebel forces, taking several prisoners, and mak- 
 ing their escape. Two days after he, with his 
 comrade, William H. Chad wick, and another 
 man, were sent out, with Mr. Cooley in chj^rge, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 on scout duty and were made prisoners. They 
 made their escape soon after and joined their 
 regiment at Muddy Branch. While at that 
 place they were engaged in picket duty, also 
 in raids after Mosby, following him nights and 
 camping days, making frequent captures of his 
 men. They were engaged principally in this 
 kind of warfare until the assassination of Lin- 
 coln, when they were sent in search of Booth. 
 They found nothing but his boot at the house 
 of Dr. Mudd, and soon returned to Fairfax 
 Court House. In June the regiment was 
 ordered to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, for mus- 
 ter out, and tlience to Chicago to be discharged, 
 July 17, 1865. 
 
 After the war, Mr. Cooley passed seven and a 
 half years at Dubuque engaged in a planing 
 mill. From there he went to Clinton, Iowa, to 
 work in a sawmill, whence he went to La 
 Crosse and engaged with Sawyer & Austin as 
 a sawyer, in which capacity he has since re- 
 mained. 
 
 Mr. Cooley was married at La Crosse April 
 14, 1882, to Agnes, only daughter of .John and 
 Sophia Shultz. Her parents are living at South 
 La Crosse. By a former marriage Mr. Cooley 
 had two children : Herbert H., born May 22, 
 18ns, and Minnie, born June 12, 1S70. 
 
 Mr. Cooley is a Republican of strong connec- 
 tions and is a worthy citizen. His portrait is 
 on page 558. 
 
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 IJ^IIOMAS LITTLE, Portage, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 241, Rank 
 and File, Milwaukee, Wis., was born 
 Sept. 29, 1835, in the village of Prosperous, 
 County Kildare, Ireland, and he resided with 
 his parents in his native country until he was 
 21 years old. His father and mother, John and 
 Sarah (Chamney) Little, were born in Ireland, 
 
 and his grandfather, James Little, was a soldier 
 in tlie artillery service of Great Britain and in 
 his later life he came to Canada. An uncle of 
 Mr. Little of this sketch, Wm. Chamney, was a 
 soldier in the Crimean war in 1854. 
 
 Thomas Little landed at the port of New 
 York on the day of Budianan's election in 
 1856, and soon after began railroading in Wis- 
 consin in which he was occupied until his 
 enlistment in the service of his adopted coun- 
 try. Aug. 9, 1862, lie enrolled in Company F, 
 24tli Wisconsin Infantry and went into rendez- 
 vous at Camp Sigel. He went to the front with 
 the regiment two weeks later in the capacity of 
 Corporal to which he was appointed on the 
 organization, August 20th. The Western 
 troops were centering in Southern Ohio, as 
 Kirby Smith was threatening Northern Ken- 
 tucky across the river and an invasion of Ohio 
 was dreaded. The 24th Wisconsin went to 
 Cincinnati and Covington, and was assigned to 
 Greusel's Brigade by Lew Wallace in Gordon 
 Granger's Corps. After going to Louisville 
 and to camp at Salt River Pike, the regiment 
 was assigned to the 37th Brigade, 11th Division 
 and 3d Army Corps, Army of the Ohio. Mr. 
 Little was in the Perryville campaign and 
 fought there after Bragg had been driven to 
 cover, October 8th. He was in the pursuit to 
 Crab Orchard, returned to Bowling Green and 
 went thence to Nashville, November 22H. He 
 participated in the movements preparatory to 
 the action at Stone River and left Mill Creek 
 for the scene of approaching activities, Decem- 
 ber 26th. No braver regiment fought in the 
 several days' battle than the 24th Wisconsin 
 which recorded that command as one of the 
 best on the field. One of General Sill's orders 
 was " to put on your ba3'onets and give them 
 naked steel." They were his last words as he 
 fell dead from his horse, his words being heard 
 by Mr. Little who was near enough to see him 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 565 
 
 full. Ill the reorganization in January, 1863, 
 the 24tli was placed in the 1st Brigade, 3d 
 Division and "iOtli Army Corps under Lytle, 
 Sheridan and McCook, three of the bravest 
 officers in tlie service. Mr. Little was in the 
 campaign preparatory to the operations on tlie 
 Chattahoochie River, known as the Tullahoiiia 
 campaign. July 1st the inovement to Chicka- 
 mauga Creek commenced, and Mr. Little ' 
 participated in one of the most remarkable 
 campaigns of the war, although the experiences 
 of the Union soldiers, tiie atrocities of the 
 rebels and the uncomplaining endurance of 
 the troops have never received a tithe of 
 recognition or S3'mpathy. He was taken sick 
 during the fall, and went to hospital at Steven- 
 son, Ala., and tlience to Cowan, Tenn., wlien 
 the wounded from the battle of Chickamauga 
 required the hospital nearer the field. Mr. 
 Little joined his regiment at Loudon, Tenn., 
 and his command was assigned to the 4th 
 Corps, Army of the Cumberland for the Atlanta 
 campaign under Sherman. Mr. Little fought 
 at Rocky Face Ridge May 9tli, 18G4, and at 
 Resaca on the 14th, occupying positions in the 
 skirmishing of two subsequent days, when he 
 went with the command to figlit at Calhoun on 
 the 17th. His company fought at Adairsville, 
 or Pleasant Hill, on the next day and remain- 
 ed before Dallas exposed to constant rebel fire ! 
 11 days. He fought in the actions known as 
 Kenesaw in June and crossed the Chattahoociiie 
 River and Peach Tree Creek, moving to the 
 trenches before Atlanta. (At Rossville, a rebel 
 factory was destroyed which was under the 
 j)rotection of a bogus French tlag, but General 
 Newton took possession of tiie flag and 
 ordered the destruction of the mill). Mr. 
 Little left the siege of Atlanta to take 
 part in the destruction of the rebel lines of 
 communication and was in the fight at Jones- 
 boro and Lovejoy's. After the surrender of 
 
 Atlanta they went to garrison Chattanooga and 
 moved thence to the Nashville campaign. At 
 Pulaski, November 4tli, the soldiers voted for 
 Lincoln and pressed on to prepare for any dis- 
 position of himself wliich Hood might see fit to 
 make. The regiment guarded railroads, built 
 earthworks and forts, went on a reconnoissance, 
 burned a bridge on Duck River and afterwards 
 skirmished all the way to Franklin with the 
 rebels. Mr. Little was in the desperate fight- 
 ing of the hand-to-hand variety with fixed 
 bayonets at Franklin and went to fight again 
 in front of Nashville. After the pursuit of 
 Hood he was in the after movements, going to 
 Huntsville to winter quarters and thence in 
 March to go if need be to join Grant, but went 
 to Bull Gap to repair communications. On the 
 news of Lee's surrender and the assassination 
 of the President they returned to Nashville and 
 were mustered out June 10th, returning for re- 
 lief from Wisconsin State service soon after to 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 Since his release from military life Mr. Little 
 has been in the employ of the St. Paul railroad 
 as an engineer. 
 
 As a testimonial to his character, bravery 
 and manhood it is only necessaiy to say to the 
 reader that the newspapers of tiie whole land 
 and other lands as well, heralded his action of 
 the morning of Oct. 28, 1886, when he opened 
 the throttle of his engine ho|)ing to save the 
 passengers of his train, although there was not 
 the ghost of a chance for saving himself, ap- 
 parently. He saw before the train an open 
 switch and did his duty as he knew it. He 
 closed the brakes " as they were never closed 
 before," said one on the train, and crawled from 
 under his wrecked engine, with his face covered 
 with blood, but still unmindful of self and went 
 to the relief of the passengers in the burning 
 coaches. The story of his heroism at the rail- 
 road disaster at Rio, Wis., is better known than 
 
566 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 it can be told here, and, suffice it to say, that 
 he was again at his post in a short time, 
 aUliougli he was j)aiiifully injured. Bishop 
 Whipple of Minnesota was on the train on his 
 way East and went to the branch U. S. Mint at 
 Philadelphia during his absence wiiere he or- 
 dered the strikingof agold medal for Engineer 
 Little, by whose side lie worked like anotiier 
 hero to rescue women and children. (On the 
 day on which this account was edited, July 16, 
 1S90, the wife of Bishop "Whipple died from the 
 result of injuries received in a railroad acci- 
 dent in November, 1889.) 
 
 Mr. Little was married Aug. 11, 1855, to 
 Elizabeth Mulvey of Marryborougli, Ireland, 
 and their children were named Gideon M., 
 Sarah Jane, Lucy, Fannie, (now Mrs. A. D. 
 Gill) Maria, John James, Mary Ann, Thomas 
 John and Elizabeth M. L. Mary Ann, Thomas 
 J. and Elizabeth M. L. are deceased. Mrs. Lit- 
 tle is a prominent member of the Woman's Re- 
 lief Corps, which she joined July 29, 188-1. On 
 the same date she was elected President of 
 Corps No. 9 at Portage and held the office suc- 
 cessively three years. In 1885 she was made 
 Senior Vice President of the Wisconsin Depart- 
 ment and was re-elected the following year; in 
 1887 she was made Delegate-at-Large to the 
 National Convention and in 1888 was aj)point- 
 ed Aid on the staff of the National President ; 
 she was reappointed in 1889 and was also made 
 a member of the Executive Committee of Ar- 
 rangements for the National Convention of that 
 year. She has also filled the office of Assistant 
 Inspector and been detiiiled to institute Corps, 
 in 1890 (current year) she is a delegate to the 
 National Convention at Boston : slie has at- 
 tended five successive National Conventions 
 and every Department Convention held in the 
 State; she is a member of the Episcopal Church 
 and in 1889 and 1890 was a member of the 
 Church Society. Mr. Little belongs to the 
 
 Masonic fraternity and to the Brotherhood of 
 Locomotive Engineers. He is a Republican. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. Little is presented on 
 page 558. 
 
 (^^ DWARD F. LONG, Black River Falls, 
 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 92, was born Sept. 16, 1846, in Aarons- 
 burg, Center Co., Pa., and was sixth in order of 
 birth of seven children born to his parents, 
 Daniel and Mary (Emmert) Long. His father 
 was a native of Berks Co., Pa., born in 1803 
 and descended from the class known as Penn- 
 sylvania Dutch to which the mother also be- 
 longed ; .she was bora in the same county and 
 died at Aaronsburg in 1871, the demise of her 
 husband having occurred there in 1864. Eliza, 
 Simon, Melinda, Lewis, Kate, Edward and 
 Anna were the names of their children and 
 Simon, Eliza and Anna are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Long was reared on his father's farm 
 and went to the public schools. A month 
 after his 15th birthday he enlisted and 
 was mustered into the State service at Ilarris- 
 burg in November, in the 14lli Pennsylvania 
 Infantry at Camp Curtin. Not long after he 
 was mustered into the U. S. service in Com- 
 pany I, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry and re- 
 sorted to strategy to pass the mustering officer, 
 a burly comrade answering to his name and 
 passing for himself. In February, 1862, the regi- 
 ment was ordered to Washington and Aquia 
 Creek, which was regimental headquarters 
 through the spring and summer, and the com- 
 mand was chiefly occupied in repairing rail- 
 roads thence to Fredericksburg. In August, 
 1862, Mr. Long was discharged for disability 
 and went home. In September, 1863, he again 
 enlisted at Aaronsburg and was mustered at 
 Harrisburg into Company C, 184t]i Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry and while there was on de- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 567 
 
 tached duty. In February, 1864, the regiment 
 went to the front, taking position at Belle 
 Plain and going thence to White Oak in the 
 spring campaign in tiie Wilderness. The regi- 
 ment was in Hancock's Corps (2d) and was in 
 some of the heaviest fighting, beginning May 
 5th and continuing with little intermission 
 until the 12th and including Spottsylvania and 
 all the actions on the Po River, the movement 
 to the North Anna and the lighting at Jericho 
 Ford, the passage of the Pamunke}', the fight at 
 Mechanicsville, and the successive actions at 
 Cold Harbor June 1st, 2d and 3d. Skirmish- 
 ing went on while crossing at Deep Bottom 
 and Ream's Station, and June 17th the regi- 
 ment arrived at Petersburg and went into the 
 hot action of the 18th. During the succeeding 
 days the command was under constant fire in 
 the trenches and on the 22d moved in the 
 charge on the Weldon railroad. The regi- 
 ment went next to Fort Smith in the rear of 
 Petersburg and thence to the front line of 
 works where they operated in the rifie pits un- 
 til the 27th of October when the fight at 
 Hatcher's Run occurred and afterwards the 
 lS4th went to Fort Smith, going thence to Fort 
 Steadman and Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell) and 
 in December to the Yellow House on the Wel- 
 don railroad in another raid. February' 5th 
 Mr. Long was in the action at Hatcher's Run, 
 fought two days and remained in camp there 
 until March 25th, when Lee made a sudden at- 
 tack on Fort Steadman and took it. When 
 this attack was made his command was on the 
 extreme left and they made a feint assault. 
 They broke the enemy's line on the 1st of 
 April, following it up with more or less fight- 
 ing until the surrender of Lee. After the close 
 of all the hostilities the 184th went back to 
 Burke's Station and to Richmond, Fredericks- 
 burg and to camp at Clover Hill until the 
 Cirand Review in which Mr. Long was a par- 
 
 ticipant and he was afterwards mustered out at 
 Clover Hill and di-scharged July 14, 1865 at 
 Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 He returned to Aaronsburg and soon after 
 entered the Commercial School atBinghamton, 
 N. Y., and completed a course of study. He 
 afterwards engaged in the manufacture of lum- 
 ber at Lock Haven until 1869 when lie com- 
 menced to fit himself for his profession of 
 dentistry. He completed his preparation for 
 this business after going to Wisconsin in 1870, 
 and located at Black River Falls in 1875. He 
 has conducted his business there since that 
 date and has built up a substantial and remu- 
 nerative practice. He is President of the Wis- 
 consin State Dental Society, to which position 
 he was elected at the convention of July, 1889. 
 He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, is a 
 member of the Grand Lodge and of the Uni- 
 form Rank. He is an ardent member of his 
 Post and has been on the alert for the interest 
 of the Order since his first connection there- 
 with. He has served two terms as Deputy 
 Inspector on the staff of Commander Weissert 
 — 1888-9 ; he was one of the alternates to the 
 National Encampment at Boston in 1890. 
 
 He was married at Black River Falls, May 
 23, 1877, to Cora E., daughter of George C. and 
 Nellie (Thorp) Perry. Mr. Long is a Republi- 
 can in political affiliation. 
 
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 •^\ J. BURNH AM, Richland Center, Wis., 
 \V)s^# !iiember of G. A. R. Post No. 33, was 
 
 ^•>^^^ • born at Bristol, Addison Co., Ver- 
 mont, ( )ct. 20, 1842, whence his parents, W. H. 
 and Lydia (Johnson) Burnham, removed to 
 Wisconsin in 1855 and located at Bear Creek, 
 Sauk County. About 1876 the father and 
 mother went to California, wliere the former 
 died and where the latter still lives. The 
 
568 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 youngest child, a daughter, died, and the sec- 
 ond son, William, a merchant and a member 
 of tlie South Dakota Legislature in 1889, was 
 an enlisted man in the Gth Wisconsin Battery. 
 Mamie married F. M. Colburn, the pastor of an 
 M. E. Church at San Diego, Cal. 
 
 Mr. Burnham is the first born child and 
 passed his youth in school and on the farm, 
 teaching occasionally winters, until he entered 
 the army. He enlisted Sept. 23, 1861, from 
 Sauk county, in the 6th Wisconsin Battery and 
 was mustered at Camp Utley, Racine, wliither 
 he went, starting from the State March loth, to 
 New Madrid, Mo., and was occupied in drilling 
 in light and heavy artillery tactics as best they 
 could, until they helped themselves to equip- 
 ments through capturing guns, small arms and 
 horses, which were in their possession until 
 1863, when their outfit was subjected to the dis- 
 approval of the inspectors and, when tbeir con- 
 demned equipments were surrendered, they 
 drew new ones. The command performed 
 heavy artillerj' duty, working on fortifications, 
 guarding the Mississippi, preventing the passage 
 of rebel gunboats and engaging in several skir- 
 mishes, including scrimmages with rebel artil- 
 leiy on the opposite side of the river. In May 
 the battery moved to the siege of Corintli and 
 remained at Rienzi, near Corinth, until Octo- 
 ber 1st, when tlie command started to take part 
 in the battle of Corinth, where on the first day 
 of the l)attle, Oct. 3d, they were under fire which 
 they could not return, owing to the location of 
 the skirmish line. On the second day, October 
 4th, the batter}' located on the extreme right of 
 the line ; was captured and held a short time 
 by the enemy, but was soon recaptured, losing 
 5 men killed and 25 wounded. After tlie bat- 
 tle the battery engaged in outpost duty. No- 
 vember 2d the battle went witii Sullivan's 
 brigade under General Hamilton to participate 
 in Grant's Mississippi campaign, going to the 
 
 Yocono River and returning after the Holly 
 Springs disaster to Memphis. The winter of 
 1862-3, was passed tbere and in the spring the 
 battery went to the Yazoo Pass expedition and 
 was in the successful movement to the mouth 
 of the Tallaliatchie River to be recalled for the 
 purpose of going to Milliken's Bend, marched 
 thence and protected a position during the bat- 
 tle of Port Gibson. At the Bend, Mr. Burn- 
 liam was taken sick and, after leaving the hos- 
 pital, joined his regiment about Jhiy 19th be- 
 fore Vicksburg, where he was in the trenches, 
 constantly under fire and doing siege duty un- 
 til the fall of Vicksburg. (At Corinth the 
 average fire of each gun was 37 rounds.) After 
 Vicksburg capitulated, their guns were prac- 
 tically used up. September 12th, with the 1st 
 Brigade in the Division of J. E. Smith and the 
 15th Corps under Slierman, they started for the 
 relief of the starving, besieged troops at Chat- 
 tanooga, the Gth Battery being the first to take 
 position across the river with Sherman's divi- 
 sion above Mission Ridge, before an infantry 
 regiment had crossed, and the battery held an 
 important jiosition November 25th, joining in 
 the pursuit and returning to Chattanooga, 
 where they turned over their two last guns and 
 went to Bridgeport, Larkinsville and Ilunts- 
 ville, where they received four new Napoleon 
 guns and new equipments. They passed the 
 winter of 1S63-4 there and performed garrison 
 duty until June, when they went to Georgia 
 and guarded a bridge on the Etowah River, 
 where Mr. Burnham, his term of service having 
 expired, was mustered out Oct. 10, 186-4. 
 
 After his return to Sauk county he was alter- 
 nately occupied in farming and teaching until 
 1871, when lie became jirincipal of schools at 
 I^ne Rock, where he officiated three years and 
 served two years in the same capacity at Rich- 
 land Center. In 1876, associated witli his 
 brother William, he established the sale of 
 
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 drugs, and their joint relations continued until 
 his brother went to Dakota in 1881. Mr. Burn- 
 liam pursued his businesss singly until 1887, 
 wben he closed his traffic in that line and be- 
 gan business in the purchase and sale of farm 
 pi'oduce. He has been active in the duties of 
 citizenship and has materially advanced the 
 interests of his political luirty, though not an 
 office seeker. He is prominent in the Masonic 
 fraternity and is chief of the fire department. 
 
 He was married at Richland Center, in 1870, 
 to Mary, daughter of Judge D. and Emma 
 (Brigdon) Strickland, and the niece of Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Wade. She was born in Beaver 
 Dam, Wis., whither her parents removed from 
 Ashtabula Co., Ohio. Mr. Burnham is one of 
 the officers of the 6tli Wisconsin Battery Asso- 
 ciation and delivered tbe address at the meet- 
 ing at Lone Rock, Wis., in 1878. 
 
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 .,,^^> HARLES VON BAUMBACH, Milwau- 
 kee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, and of the Loyal 
 Legion, Wisconsin Commandary, was born in 
 Kircheim, Hessen, Germany, June 18, 1840. 
 His father, Ludwig von Baumbach, belonged 
 to a good family and entered the military 
 service of his country at the age prescribed by 
 law and passed through the training common 
 for officers, as he was made a Captain in a Ger- 
 man regiment. Later, he became a member of 
 the Parliament and during the upheaval of 
 affairs through the attemj>t to establish a con- 
 stitutional government, became disgusted with 
 the condition of affairs and determined to seek 
 a new home in tlie New World, whither he 
 came in 1848. He was born in 1799, married 
 Mina vonSchenck and they had eight children 
 named Ernst, Moritz, William, Frederick, 
 Ciiarles, Reinhard, Lilli and Clotilde. Fred- 
 erick enlisted in the 5th Wisconsin and after- 
 
 wards went out as Captain of Company B, 35th 
 Wisconsin and was made Major of the regiment 
 Oct. 25, 1865. Reinhard died in Ohio. Lilli 
 married Adolph Rosenthal, (now consul at San 
 Francisco, 1890) and died in Milwaukee in 1869. 
 Clotilde married Rudolph von Kaltenborn of 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 The family located at Black River, Ohio, 
 and the father engaged in farming, in which 
 pursuit he was occupied until he removed to 
 Elyria in 1854, settling in Milwaukee in 1857. 
 He received the appointment of Imperial Con- 
 sul of Germany and held the position until 
 1878, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law. 
 He died in Milwaukee in 1882 ; his wife died 
 in the same city in 1871. 
 
 Charles passed his youtli on the farm, in 
 school including a year at high school in Elyria 
 and was an assistant for a year in a drug store 
 in Cleveland, coming thence to Milwaukee in 
 1859, where he commenced operations in the 
 same line in which he was occupied until he 
 entered the army. June 13, 1861, he enlisted 
 in Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry and 
 went to rendezvous with his command, being 
 made Corporal Jul}' lltli on the organization. 
 November 2d he was made Sergeant. The 
 regiment left the State on the 26th of July and 
 was detained at Baltimore some days, after 
 which they pioceeded to Washington and 
 camped in the vicinity of the old arsenal, sub- 
 sec[uently going into camp at Meridian Hill. 
 Until September 3d he was engaged there in 
 drill and camp duty, and on that date the regi- 
 ment moved to connect with Hancock's Brigade 
 in Smith's Division and remained in that 
 vicinity until ordered to connect with the 
 command of McClellan on the Peninsula 
 campaign. September 11th, Mr. von Baum- 
 bach was in bis fir.st action at Lewinsville, and 
 next in a reconnoissance March 27th, after 
 returning from tiie fruitless movement towards 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Manassas. April 4th he was in a skirmish 
 and in line when the scrimmage was in -prog- 
 ress at Lee's Mills. He was in the siege of 
 Yorktown, the rehels evacuating tiieir works 
 on the 3(1 of ^hiy, and he followed with the 
 regiment to fight at Williamsburg, May 5th 
 and (illi, and sustained an injury on the 
 last day. His name was first on the disjiatclies 
 as wounded from Company C, a musket ball 
 having hit his left arm and also a buckshot 
 struck liini in the right leg. He was taken to 
 the hospital boat on the York River, thence to 
 Fortress Monroe and was furloughed from the 
 convalescent hospital in Washington, return- 
 ing to Milwaukee. Aug. 1, 1862, he was com- 
 missioned 2d Lieutenant and acted as mu.ster- 
 ing officer. August 20th following he was 
 commissioned Captain of Company C, 24th 
 Wisconsin Lifantry and made connection with 
 his command September 5th. Bragg was 
 making himself lively and entertaining in 
 Northern Kentucky, and the regiment left 
 Wisconsin to connect with the command of 
 Lew Wallace in Greusel's Brigade and Sheri- 
 dan's Division. In a month, October 8th, 
 the regiment was in action at Perryville, 
 where its splendid record began. The regi- 
 ment went with the army and followed the 
 rebels four days, going afterwards to Nashville 
 and in the movements later with Murfrecsboi-o 
 as objective point, w'as transferred to the com- 
 mand of Rosecrans. The 24tli was in the 
 right wing during the figliting of December 
 30th, 31st and January 1st and amply sus- 
 tained its record. The regiment went into 
 winter quarters in the city, where various 
 changes were made in the officering of the 
 regiment and he was promoted Major, to rank 
 from Dec. 24, 1862, as senior Captain. In the 
 spring, the command went to Tullahoma and 
 moved thence to the campaign on the Chatta- 
 hoochie, skirmishing and performing such 
 
 military duty as the situation demanded until 
 the battle of Chickamauga, where General 
 Lytle, Brigade Commander, was killed while 
 standing behind the flag of the 24th Wiscon- 
 sin. The regiment fought on the right flank 
 in Sheridan's Division near Widow Glenn's 
 House and changed to the left flank, coming 
 into position opposite Longstreet's command. 
 The I'egimental loss was heavy and the colors 
 were torn in tatters from the standard. Col- 
 onel Theodore S. West, (see sketch of General 
 Hobart) was injured and captured and Major 
 von Baumbach assumed command. The sit- 
 uation on the river is too well known to re- 
 quire elaboration, but it is not too much to say 
 that none but those wlio participated therein 
 can realize the situation, the troops being on 
 short rations, liable to attack at any moment 
 from a foe who would be irresistible from the 
 low water and the general state of aft'airs, and the 
 24th remained under assault from the rebel 
 batteries on Lookout and Mission Ridge, en- 
 joying the reverse of affairs (when the success of 
 the charge, whose responsibility Grant and every 
 other high official denied, until it became the 
 most magnificent action of the war, became a 
 fact) especially appreciating the situation when 
 the same guns whicli had annoyed them were 
 turned against their owners. In the fight 
 above the clouds the 24th Wisconsin started on 
 the double quick up the heights, stimulated 
 by all they had endured and, encouraged by 
 the presence of Hooker with fresh troops from 
 the Eastern army, fought like wild men and 
 crossed the mountains. In this action Robert 
 J. Chivas was killed. Major von Baumbach 
 resigned his commission Nov. 28, 1863, owing to 
 debilitated health, and it was accepted Decem- 
 ber 7th. 
 
 On resuming connection with active busi- 
 ness life after his recovery, he engaged in the 
 drug business in Milwaukee, remaining in that 
 
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 traffic until 18G5, when he sold out and went 
 to St. Cloud, Minn., and operated in furs witii 
 * the Indians, returning to Milwaukee to re- 
 establish his business as a druggist. He after- 
 wards formed a partnership with Theo. Ger- 
 hardy, estabiisliing a whole.sale house. Iir 1885 
 they incorporated under the style of "Tlie 
 Charles von Baumbach Company " with a 
 capital stock of $100,000. Ai)ril 14, 1887, their 
 establishment was burned and they opened 
 business soon after on Broadway, removing to 
 their present quarters, April 1, 1888. Their 
 annual transactions reach about $800,000, and 
 they employ an average of 30 clerks. 
 
 Mr. von Baumbach was married at Milwau- 
 kee in November, 1867, to Clara, daughter of 
 Dr. F. Rosenthal. Their first born child died 
 in early infancy ; Ludwig was accidently killed 
 at the age of 17 years while hunting; Hedwig 
 died of scarlet fever ; Emma, Ada and Freder- 
 ick are the survivors of six children born of 
 this union. Mr. von Baumbach belongs to 
 the Knights of Pythias, No. 42, and is an ex- 
 Chancellor of his lodge ; he is a decided Re- 
 publican in political connection and action. 
 
 He is a representative of the best type of 
 German citizenship and is esteemed and re- 
 spected as he merits. The duties of his citi- 
 zenship in his adopted country have always 
 been his highest consideration and his native 
 high breeding and unstained manhood have 
 always made him conspicuous in business and 
 society. He was impetuously brave and en- 
 thusiastic in his military career with two of the 
 finest regiments that went from the Badger 
 State, and performed his obligations as an army 
 officer in the most creditable manner. He is a 
 citizen of whom Milwaukee is justly proud and 
 all his relations witli the community are such 
 as to reflect credit on him as a man. 
 
 /^^ EORGE HINTON, Mansion, Wiscon- 
 y ^.,^_ A *' sin. Register of Deeds of Juneau 
 
 ^i^^ county (1890), was born Aug. 17, 
 1831, in Licking Co., Ohio. His father, 
 Thomas Hinton, was a native of Harrison Co., 
 ^Mrginia, and married Rebecca Bailej' of St. 
 Lawrence Co., New York. In 1839 the senior 
 Hinton removed with his family and interests 
 to Boone Co., Illinois, whence the son went to 
 Juneau county in 1850. His parents followed 
 him in 1854 and located in the town of Orange 
 on a farm. Ten children were born to the 
 parents of Mr. Hinton. They were named in 
 order Isaac, Mary, George, Rebecca, Hannah, 
 Marinda, Thomas J., Almira, Joseph J. and 
 John M. Joseph J. was a soldier in the 42d 
 Wisconsin Infantry and Thomas J. enlisted 
 with George in the same company and regi- 
 ment and saw exactly the same service, was 
 wounded almost in the same manner on the 
 same day, suffered amputation of the arm as 
 he did in the same hospital, and was discharged 
 with him. This case is probably without a 
 parallel in the history of Wisconsin troops, if 
 not m the war. 
 
 On arrival in Wisconsin Mr. Hinton inter- 
 ested himself in lumbering and pushed iiis 
 business relations in that line three years. He 
 then engaged in farming and in 1860 removed 
 to New Lisbon and opened a mercantile enter- 
 prise and, soon after, was appointed Deputy 
 Postmaster. He continued his business in that 
 avenue until he enlisted March 14, 1864, in 
 Company B, 38th Wisconsin Infantry, and went 
 to the front after the organization of his com- 
 mand after he had acted as a recruiting officer 
 with good results. Four companies were mus- 
 tered for immediate service and went to the 
 front under Colonel Pier, doing camp duty at 
 Arlington Heights and going thence to Alex- 
 andria. (See sketch of C. K. Pier.) Thence 
 they moved to White House Landing and con- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 solidated with tlie 1st Minnesota Infantry, one 
 of the hravest commands in the service and 
 wliicli Irad become decimated in action. 
 
 Their first duty was as escort for trains of 
 supplies for Cold Harbor and, after Grant com- 
 menced his grand flank movement the com- 
 panies went to fight at Petersburg. At Cold 
 Harbor Mr. Hinton was ill but did not know 
 what was the matter and was sent ijack to 
 Alexandria, sick with measles. After he be- 
 came well he rejoined his regiment, stationed 
 then at Fort Scott in front of Petersburg, and 
 was in his first action at Hatcher's Run. Dur- 
 ing the time he was at Alexandria, Mosby was 
 raiding and threatening Washington and when 
 the Provisional Battalion was organized of the 
 canvalescents for jiossible service, Mr. Hinton 
 was made Captain of a company, which was 
 first stationed at Fort Lyon, then at Fort Ethan 
 Allen and Fort Woodbury. Thej' disbanded 
 after the guerrilla chief had finished his civili- 
 ties. Mr. Hinton was in the movement to the 
 Weldon railroad, his connuand being foremost 
 in the advance. He returned to the trenches 
 at Petersburg, and in the charge on Fort 
 Mahone, April 2d, which gave the key to Rich- 
 mond to the Federal troops, he and his brother 
 Thomas were wounded. A bullet passed 
 through the elbow of his right arm, and he has 
 the missile now in his possession. He left the 
 field, was pickeil up \)\ an ambulance and 
 taken to the field hospital, where his arm was 
 amputated, and he was afterwards removed to 
 Fairfax Seminar}- liospital. Both himself and 
 brother received honorable discharge May 18, 
 18G5, from Seminary hospital, by order of the 
 Secretary of War, which permitted them to be 
 relieved of military duty without waiting to be 
 discharged with the regiment. 
 
 in December, 1SG5, Mr. Hinton received the 
 appointment as Postmaster of New Lisbon, Wis., 
 and he held the office until 1885. In 1880 he 
 
 was elected Register of Deeds and re-elected in 
 1888. He was a charter member of his Post 
 and belongs to the I'nited Order of Workmen. 
 During the troublesome period of the early days 
 of tlie war, he belonged to the Union League. 
 
 He was married at Sharon, Walworth Co., 
 Wis., in 1862, to Cynthia A. Ramsey, a native 
 of (3hio, and they have six children. William 
 W. is employed in the Mauston Bank. Frank 
 H. is a telegraph operator at Postville, Iowa. 
 Jessie V., Howard II., Guy and Georgia are the 
 four 3'oungest. Mr. Hinton is a Republican in 
 politics. 
 
 OHN F. RUSSELL, La Crosse, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 born June 27, 1840, at Oswegatchie, St. 
 Lawrence Co., New York. He comes of good 
 old Revolutionary stock, although he came 
 near being on the other side as a descendant of 
 a patriot of the struggle. His grandfather was 
 a Captain in the English naval service and 
 came to America in that capacitj'. His sym- 
 pathies were with the colonists and he tried 
 several times to resign his commission and 
 leave the navy, but was not permitted. Finally, 
 he deserted, offered his services to the American 
 side and fought in the war to the finish. His 
 son, Rev. James Russell, was born in Johns- 
 town, New York, March 29, 1805, was married 
 to Sally Pratt Aug. 24, 1830, and died April 12, 
 1843, in Oswegatchie, New York. The mother 
 was born in tliat place May 25, 1811, and is de- 
 ceased. Their children were Alfred, Catherine 
 E., Margaret R., Cynthia J., Sally D., John F., 
 and Charles. All are dead except Mr. Russell 
 and his sisters Margaret and Catherine. The 
 father was a carpenter and also preached in the 
 interests of the M. E. Church, his services be- 
 ing contributed to struggling churches and he 
 died when his son was three years old. The 
 
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 latter lived successively with men named Hardj" 
 and Young, passing eleven 3'ears with them and 
 afterwards spent a summer managing a thresh- 
 ing machine. He had then earned enough 
 money to attend Gouverneur Seminary and 
 was a student there when the war attracted 
 the attention of all classes, students as well 
 as others. He hastened to enlist and was 
 mustered at Albany, New York, May 15, 
 1861, for two years or during the war. He en- 
 rolled in Company G, l(3th New York Infantry, 
 under Captain N. M. Curtis and Colonel T. A. 
 Davies. June 25th the command went to 
 Washington to camp for a few days, thence to 
 Alexandria, went into camp July 11th and on 
 the 17th started for the field of Bull Run. The 
 regiment was in Miles' Division and his com- 
 pany was deployed as skirmishers at the open- 
 ing of the action. After it was over the regi- 
 ment returned to Fort Ellsworth, and, Sep- 
 tember 17th, went to Fort Lyon and was 
 assigned to the 2d Brigade under Slocum, in 
 Franklin's Division. In March, 1802, the regi- 
 ment was assigned to McDowell's Corps in the 
 former brigade and division. Meanwhile, Mr. 
 Russell was taken sick and sent to Fairfax Street 
 hospital, ill with typhoid fever. He was able 
 to accompany the regiment to Fairfax C. H. 
 in the Manassas campaign and returned to 
 Camp Franklin. April 14th another move was 
 made and the regiment went to Warrenton 
 Station, going thence by train to Carap Vernon. 
 April 17t]i the division started on the campaign 
 of the Peninsula, landing at Yorktown, where 
 the command was held as support, and. May 
 4th, shipped on the Daniel Webster for West 
 Point, there went on the skirmish line and Mr. 
 Russell there killed his first man. He was 
 serving as Corporal. Maj' 15th the regiment 
 arrived at White House Landing, marched in 
 a reconnoissance to Mechanicsviile, skirmished 
 there and fought at Hanover C. H., May 27th. 
 
 June 18th the command crossed the Chicka- 
 hominy and constructed a bridge. June 27th, 
 Mr. Russell fought at Gaines Mills and was in 
 the second day's fighting of the celebrated 
 seven days actions before Richmond, his com- 
 pany losing four killed and 15 wounded. He 
 was wounded in the knee, but did not leave the 
 regiment, using his gun as a crutch during the 
 remainder of that campaign. June 28th he was 
 in the fight at Savage Station and at Charles 
 City Cross Roads on the oOth. In this action 
 the 16th supported the artillery in a front po- 
 sition. The regiment formed the first reserve 
 at Malvern Hill and went to Harrison's Land- 
 ing. August 16th orders were received for 
 Cliarles City C. H., and the regiment went 
 thence to Alexandria on transports from New- 
 port News, and the second Bull Run was fought 
 August 30th in consequence of these move- 
 ments. After fighting there, the 16th fell back 
 to Alexandria, crossed Long Bridge to George- 
 town and remained over Sunday. The regi- 
 ment went after Lee through Maryland and 
 was in the fight at Burkettsville Gap (South 
 Mountain) September 14th, which was a hot 
 battle, went into action again at Antietam 
 where the regiment formed a part of the picket 
 line and made the last charge, being on the 
 field 36 hours. Winter quarters were estab- 
 lished at Belle Phxin, December 5th, and thence 
 the command went to the Mud Camj)aign and 
 to Fredericksburg to an engagement. They 
 went into camp at White Oak Church and in 
 April, 1863, Mr. Russell was made 1st Duty 
 Sergeant, fighting at Frederick.sburg, April 
 27th. He went to Salem Church, where the 
 16th was hotly engaged, the enemy pouring a 
 deadly Hank fire on their left. The captain and 
 1st lieutenant were wounded and Mr. Russell 
 took charge of the company and led it from the 
 field, although he had received three wound.s. 
 During the following night he went to the field 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and brought oft' the officers of the company, 
 making a compromise with the rebel pici^ets. 
 Company G mustered 11 men tlie next morn- 
 ing. This was the last action in which the 
 16th engaged, its term ha^ng expired. The 
 command returned to Albanj^ and was mustered 
 out May 23d at Albany, New York. 
 
 In July, altera short stay at home, Mr. Ru.s- 
 sell went to Alexandria and was employed by 
 the Government as receiving clerk in the Gov- 
 ernment bakery, being afterwards night over- 
 .seer, having chai-ge of all supplies of baked 
 material for the Army of the Potomac. In the 
 spring of 1864 he went into the construction 
 service at City Point, engaging in building 
 docks and storehouses, in which he was occu- 
 pied until 1865, and was present at the great 
 explosion at City Point when over 200 tons of 
 fixed ammunition was destroyed by the shrewd- 
 ness of a rebel .spy. While in this business he 
 was captured at Harper's Ferry by a gang of 
 Mosby's guerrillas while they were threaten- 
 ing Washington, and with 19 others was taken 
 across the Shenandoah River, wading the river 
 under spur of their captors, who took them 
 to the mountains and stripped them of clothes, 
 money, watches and all portable property and 
 turned them loose. Mr. Russell had §150 and, 
 not expecting to save it, put it in hi.s mouth as 
 tobacco. The men went to Alexandria and 
 Mr. Russell was employed in the Quarter- 
 master's Department until the close of the war. 
 
 After his return home he went to the oil re- 
 gions of Pennsylvania where he was engaged 
 as a carpenter and builder until the winter of 
 1865-6. He was then em])loyeii on the Reno 
 & Pithole R. R. of which General Burnside was 
 President. In March he went to LaCrosse, 
 Wis., where he engaged in the business of a 
 photograj)her. After a few months he began 
 operating as a carpenter and builder and as a 
 contractor. In July he went to Hokah, Minn., 
 
 in the employ of the Southern Minnesota R. R., 
 working at his trade and returning to La 
 Crosse for the summer. In the fall he went to 
 Hokah again and took charge of the truck de- 
 partment of the car shops, succeeded to the 
 charge of the car works and as superintendent 
 of the car and machine shops, remaining tiiere 
 until liS74, and was also operating as a bridge 
 builder. 
 
 In the fall of 1875 he was nominated on 
 the Democratic ticket for County Treasurer of 
 Houston Co., Minn., and in February, 1876, 
 went to Caledonia, Minn., to discharge the 
 duties of the position. He was re-elected and 
 served three terms or six years, and in the fall 
 of 1881 was nominated for State Treasurer be- 
 ing defeated by a small vote. In the fall of 
 1882 he went to Hokah again and in February, 
 1888, located at La Crosse, where he has since . 
 engaged in real estate and insurance, and also 
 has combined with his other business that of a 
 dealer in marble. 
 
 He was married May 1, 1877, to Alida A., 
 daughter of Andrew and Caroline Swenson. 
 Their children are named Charles H., John A., 
 William F., Emma A., Hattie A., Bessie E., 
 Archie L., Reuel E. and Elsie Idell. 
 
 Mr. Ru.ssell is a member of the Order of 
 Masons and A. 0. U. W. ; he was made a 
 Mason at the old Alexandria Market Lodge, 
 the old Washington organization, in 1864; he 
 also is a memlier of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge 
 Sarepta, No. 142, Alexandria, \'a. 
 
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 /f^ EORGE L. SHORT, La Crosse, Wis., 
 I!^^^rv member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 ^*t=i^ born in Steuben Co., New York, 
 March 11, 1840, and is descended from Ira, 
 son of Benoni Short of Welsh descent. The 
 latter was born in New York, and his wife was 
 
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 of Welsh lineage. With three sons named 
 Benoni Jr., .John and Asa, he fought in 1812. 
 Ira was a farmer, born .Jan. 21, 1808, and is 
 deceased ; his wife, Eliza A. Higgins before 
 marriage, was born in Trenton, N. .J., Oct. 5, 
 1813, and died Aug. 12, 1885, at Davenport, 
 Iowa. Their nine children are living — Abigail, 
 Adeline, Jane, George L., Ira H., Allen M., 
 Jerome E., Charles M. and x\nna A. The 
 family went to Carroll Co., 111., in 1842, and 
 later to Albany, Whitesides county, in 1855. 
 The early life of the son was passed on his 
 father's farm until he was 18 years old, and 
 the first important event of his life was his 
 enlistment Aug. 17, 1.861, at Morrison, White- 
 sides Co., 111. He was mustered in at St. 
 Charles, 111., in September in Company C, 8th 
 Illinois Cavalry, Colonel John F. Farneswortli. 
 The regiment went successively to Washington 
 to camp Illinois, to Virginia to camp Califor- 
 nia and to Alexandria, Falls Church and Aquia 
 Creek, passing the winter on picket duty. In 
 April the command moved towards Manassas 
 and to Centerville and Warrenton, and from 
 there to Fredericksburg where they had an 
 engagement. They returned to Alexandria, 
 embarking for Yorktown, where Mr. Short was 
 taken with measles, sent to hospital and home, 
 after being discharged for disabilitj'. Jan. 24, 
 1864, he re-enlisted in the same regiment and 
 company at St. Charles when the command 
 was there on veteran furlough. On being sent 
 to the front at Washington the regiment was 
 assigned to the defense of the city, threatened 
 by Early in the spring. After moving to 
 Gaysboro Point the regiment was sent to Camp 
 Relief on patrol duty in the Capital and went 
 July 4th to Muddy Branch, thence to Point of 
 Rocks and skirmished all day, went to Fred- 
 erick City and over the Blue Ridge, meeting 
 Early with the command of Lew Wallace at 
 Monocacy July 9th, the rebels being victorious. 
 
 In the course of the next day the regiment was 
 cut off from the main column and fought the 
 enemy that day and the next when they were 
 driven into Frederick. During the night they 
 retreated to Monocacy Junction. The next 
 morning they engaged the rebels on the left 
 pike leading to Frederick. Part of the regiment 
 was then detached and sent to the lower bridge 
 on the Monocacy River to keep the rebels from 
 crossing. Subsequently they were driven back 
 as far as Rockville, where a skirmish took 
 place and where they met Major Whitney from 
 Camp Distribution with 1,400 recruits whom 
 the boys called "gilligollies," destined for 
 different commands. He was advised to turn 
 back but he replied that he would go to 
 Monocacy or to hell and paid the price of his 
 temerity, his men being killed, stampeded and 
 taken prisoners. After holding a position on 
 the pike the regiment went to Tanallytown 
 and had another fight with Early July 12th 
 near Fort Stevens. The command went next 
 to Leesburg and fought at Snicker's Gap, and 
 in the Loudon valley were again in a fight 
 with the rebels, driving them back through 
 Snicker's Gap and then retired to Piedmont 
 for rest. The rebels again appeared and 
 another engagement took place. The regiment 
 started for White Plain to guard railroad com- 
 munications for Sheridan's army in the valley 
 of the Shenandoah after which they were in a 
 skirmish nearly every day until December with 
 Mosby's command, when they nioved to White 
 Plain and guarded the Orange & Alexandria 
 railroad, went thence to Fairfax C. H., to 
 winter quarters and were often out on raids 
 and in frequent engagements with Mosby's 
 men. They remained there until after the 
 assassination of Lincoln, when they were sent 
 to Port Tobacco in search of Booth and on the 
 same errand to Newport, Md., scattering 
 through the country along the Potomac River 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and Chesapeake Bay ; they found Booth's boot 
 in Dr. Mudd's house. The regiment was re- 
 called to Washington and sent to St. Louis via 
 ParkersVnirg, Va., and Company C was placed 
 on tlie steamboat Prima Donna for St. Louis. 
 Mr. Short was mustered out at Benton Bar- 
 racks, July 17, 1865, and went home to Albany. 
 His first employ was on the river as second 
 pilot for two years, and at the end of that time 
 he became master and pilot in which occupa- 
 tion he has since been engaged, running 
 between St. Paul and St. Louis. He is regard- 
 ed as one of the most reliable boat masters on 
 the Mississippi. He was married at Morrison, 
 111., to Ellen, daughter of Orel Mills, their mar- 
 riage being dated April 19, 1866. He was 
 again married April 28, ISSO, at La Crosse to 
 Isabella, the accomplished daughter of Otho 
 and Louisa Barnes. They have one child, 
 Mabel. Mr. Short is a member of the Kniglits 
 of Pythias and a Republican. Mrs. Short is 
 prominent in her connection with the Woman's 
 Relief Corps, and holds tlie position of Secre- 
 tary. In political opinion she is a zealous 
 Democrat. Otho Barnes was born in the State 
 of New York, and his wife in Somersetshire, 
 England. Tlicy were married in Canada and 
 settled in Woodstock, where Mrs. Short was 
 born. They had five children — Absalom and 
 Charles (twins), Isabella, Phebe and Esther. 
 The father is living in Washington; the 
 mother died in Monroe county and was buried 
 by her daughter, Mrs. Short, in the cemetery 
 at La Crosse. 
 
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 LFRED HOLMES, Commander of G. 
 k^ A. R. Post No. 14, at Purhigc, Wis , 
 (1890), was born Sep. 18, 1844, at 
 West Point, Orange Co., New York. Ilis 
 parents, Joshua and Jane (Bodham) Holmes, 
 
 were both born in England, the former at 
 Halstead, in the shire of Essex, Feb. 21, 1807 
 and the latter Dec. 4, 1802, at Bridgenorth, 
 Shro])shire (Salop). Tiiey were married Dec. 
 18, 1835, at St. Andrews, England, by a " ward- 
 robe" clergj-man of London. March 19, 1836, 
 they reached America and went to West Point. 
 The senior Holmes was a miller bj' trade but 
 did not find employ and enlisted at West Point 
 in the regular service of the United States for 
 five j'ears, enrolling in the spring of 1840. He 
 served through his period of enlistment and 
 in 1855 went to Wisconsin, locating on a farm 
 in Wyocena, Columbia county, where the 
 mother died in 1872, aged 70 years. The 
 father is still living at Columbus, aged 83 years. 
 Their four cliildren are still living. Jane 
 Ann is Mrs. D. D. Tompkins ; James H. served 
 in the 23d Wisconsin Infantr\' three years ; 
 Emma married J. R. Decker. Mr. Holmes is 
 the youngest of them all. He received a com- 
 mon school education and was his father's 
 assistant on the farm when the war came 
 on. He was onlj' 17 years old when he 
 enlisted Sep. 18, 1861, on his birthday, in Com- 
 pany D, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, at Portage. 
 He mustered with the regiment September 18th 
 and went to Shepherdsville, Kj'., and thence 
 to Bacon Creek and there passed the winter of 
 1861-2 and performed camp and guard duty 
 until February 10, 1862, when they moved by 
 way of Bowling Green towards Nashville, 
 skirmishing on the way, taking possession of 
 Bowling Green and reaching Huntsville, Ala., 
 April 11th. On the way they destroyed a rail- 
 road bridge on the Memphis & Ciiarleston R. 
 R. and guarded the position, wiiich had cut 
 Beauregard's communications. Mr. Holmes 
 was with a detail to guard a britlge 16 miles 
 from Stevenson, Ala., April 27tli and ou the 
 29th fought at Bridgeport; he afterwards was 
 engaged as guard on a railroad and in August 
 
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 was with his regiment in guarding the trains 
 from Huntsville to Stevenson. He was in the 
 forced marches to Louisville, arriving there 
 September 28th, fighting on the way. About 
 the first of October the regiment started in pur- 
 suit of Bragg and was in the fight at Perryville 
 on the 8th, Company D losing more than a 
 dozen men. They made a return b}' marches 
 of great hardship to Nashville and, Dec. 31, 
 1863, were again in battle at Stone River. Tlie 
 action lasted four days and after it was over 
 the regiment camped near Murfreesljoro until 
 Rosecrans moved to Tullahoma, going to camp 
 at Cowan Station, thence to camp at Anderson 
 and, September ■2d, the movement to Georgia 
 commenced. A part of the regiment was in 
 the fight at Dug Gap and went into battle 
 at Chickamauga, on the 19tli, tlie command 
 being 373 strong and coming out with 26 men 
 and three ofiicers, tlie rest being killed, wounded 
 or prisoners, the latter including 123 officers 
 and men. Mr. Holmes represented two of these ; 
 classes being wounded and a prisoner. A piece 
 of shell struck his foot and he was afterwards 
 taken prisoner, but he escaped. He was knocked 
 insensible during the fight and on regaining 
 consciousness, found he had been stripped 
 naked by the soldiers of the 5th Arkansas. As 
 he was considering his condition, a shell from a 
 Union battery struck in close proximity to the 
 rebel guarding him and while the latter was 
 recovering from his terror he took occasion to 
 slip out of his reach and run for the woods. I 
 He came across seven dead rebels, from whom 
 he collected a wardrobe, and made his way to 
 the Lhiion lines, falling in with a comrade of 
 the 33d Ohio. He went to 01 lattanooga, where 
 his command was reorganized and remained 
 there in starvation and hardsbiji with Rosecrans' 
 command who awaited reinforcements from 
 Grant in one of the most dangerous positions 
 of the war, as all that had been accomjilished 
 
 was in danger. Sherman came, and then 
 Hooker, and the fighting which drove Bragg 
 from Lookout and Mission Ridge followed. If 
 the war ever presented a complete picture of 
 uncomplaining want and sacrifice it was at 
 Chattanooga. While on picket at the foot of 
 Lookout Mountain Mr. Holmes had two crack- 
 ers and some beachnuts and acorns for three 
 days and nights ; the men stole part of the 
 scanty allowance of the horses to keep life in 
 their famished bodies, but no complaint has 
 ever been made. When Hooker came and the 
 battle above the clouds was fought with its 
 glorious, unexpected victory, officers watching 
 the movements of the volunteer soldiers with 
 voiceless amazement, the men moved to win 
 and did it. At Ringgold afterwards the 10th 
 received recruits and started November 15th 
 on the march to the sea, preceded by the siege 
 of Atlanta and its attendant battles. Mr. 
 Holmes fought at Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain 
 and Peach Tree Creek, and all tlie battles lead- 
 ing up to and including Atlanta. After the 
 fall of Atlanta the regiment was ordered to 
 Marietta. Hood broke his cartel and started 
 North to interfere with Sherman's communica- 
 tions and took position in the trenches before 
 Kenesaw. Thei'e the time of the original en- 
 listment expired and Mr. Holmes went home 
 and was discharged at Milwaukee Dec. 24, 
 1864. His weight when he enlisted was 170 
 pounds and when he arrived home it was 110 
 pounds. At Perryville a bullet passed up the 
 right fore arm and lodged near the jugular 
 vein in the neck. During this action 13 balls 
 passed through his coat and one tore away the 
 top of his cap. At Murfreesboro he received a 
 saber cut in his head and was carried from the 
 field. Dr. Marks, now of Milwaukee, dressed 
 his wounds and he was soon in readiness for 
 action. He was in every engagement in which 
 his regiment was concerned and performed as 
 
578 
 
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 much scout and picket duty as an\' man in the 
 command. He was young and of excessively 
 active temperament and much of the time 
 acted as an officer, tliough persistently refusing 
 a commission. He returned home before the 
 close of the war simply on account of impaired 
 health from hardship and privation. After his 
 discharge he returned to Portage and could not 
 assume connection with active business until 
 1873, when he commenced operations as a grain 
 and live stock buyer at Westfield, Wis. On 
 his return to Portage in 1876 he continued to 
 operate in the same avenue until 1888, when 
 he sold his business relations on account of his 
 ill health. He is a charter member of his Post 
 and has held most of the official positions 
 therein. He is one of the oldest Odd Fellows 
 in the city and is an active Republican. He 
 was a candidate for the office of City Clerk in 
 the spring of 1890, but was defeated by a 
 small majority; subsequently lie received the 
 appointment of census enumerator. 
 
 He was married Oct. 21, 1867, by Rev. 
 Tliomas Keenan at St. Mary's Church at Por- 
 tage, to Anna H. Brady, born in Vermont, 
 Dec. 25, 1843. Their children were born as 
 follows:— Mary E., March 26, 1870 ; Charles E., 
 April 18, 1872; Catherine J., April 24, 1874; 
 Raymond E., Jan. 23, 1879; Alfred, April 11, 
 1881. 
 
 ?^^ ENERAL HOLLON RICHARDSON. 
 Among the countless personal rec- 
 ords in the history of the civil war 
 there is not one which more perfectly illus- 
 trates the spirit of the North wiiicli accom- 
 plished the repression of the rebollion than 
 that of him whose name heads this account of 
 his connection with the story of the Iron I)rig- 
 ade. The volunteer soldiers were thorns in 
 the sides of the officers who had been trained 
 
 at West Point and to whom secrecy was the 
 grand desideratum of existence. But every 
 one of them knew what he was fighting for as 
 well and sometimes better than his superiors, 
 for back of him lay his home, all he had 
 struggled and hoped for and above all, the 
 sacred inheritance from his sires of a united 
 country. They had been trained in ways and 
 expectations of peace evermore; the war was 
 a surprise and a painful surprise to most of 
 them ; but thej' knew wliat was at stake and 
 what they did, they did advisedly of their own 
 convictions and consciences. The delays and 
 mistakes of the officers at the beginning of tiie 
 war galled them ; l)Ut they were true patriots 
 and inflexible supporters 'of authority and 
 knew that Right was their sUindard bearer and 
 that time would remedy all mistakes. And 
 they fought on to see rebellion in its last 
 throes on many fields, the Iron Brigade seeing 
 the confederacy make its last desperate effort 
 at Appomattox Court House. The liistorian 
 who transcribes these inadequate records does 
 the work with pride in the volunteer soldiers 
 of the Nortli and especially in the case of Gen- 
 eral Richardson, knowing that on countless 
 pages is his name inscribed in connections in 
 which it appears in all the luster his magnifi- 
 cent career merits. 
 
 He was born at Poland, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1837, 
 and is the oldest of nine children born to 
 Hollon and Clarissa (McKenzic) Richard.son. 
 William, George, Lemuel, Mary, Louise, Mar- 
 tha (deceased), Ella and Katie succeeded him 
 in order of birth. His father was born at Rowe, 
 Mass., of ATnerican lineage; his mother was 
 born in Peiuisylvania and was of Scotch de- 
 scent. The senior Richardson was a contractor 
 in the East during the period of construction 
 of canals and railroads and operated in connec- 
 tion with many public thorougli fares, one of 
 the most important being the " Incline Plane " 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 579 
 
 across the Allegheny mountains. He died at 
 Chijipewa Falls in 18SG, aged 82 years. His 
 wife died in Poland, Ohio, in 1855. 
 
 Hollon Richardson was a studious, reflective 
 hoy and detained all the advantages possible 
 in the scliools to which he was sent in youth. 
 He studied for the profession of law and in 
 August, 1857, was admitted to the Ohio Bar by 
 Chief .Justice Bartley, on the motion of Hon. 
 .J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior in Grant's 
 first administration. In April, 1858, he se- 
 lected bis field of work at Chippewa Falls, Wis- 
 consin, and in 18G0 was elected District Attor- 
 ney for Chippewa county. He held the oftice 
 until he entered the military service of the 
 United States. 
 
 With the first call to arms he closed his 
 office and was the first man to enlist in his 
 county. At his own expense he entered upon 
 the work of recruiting and enlisted about 30 
 men, started with them on an open flatboat, 
 improvised for the business, and conducted 
 them to be sworn into service. He returned 
 and -recruited as many others, with whom he 
 was mustered into the 7tli Wisconsin Infantry. 
 Governor Randall tendered him a Captain's 
 commission which he refused but, at the urgent 
 solicitation of liis comrades, he accepted a com- 
 mission as 1st Lieutenant of Company A, and 
 went to the front in September to enter the 
 organization known afterwards for its sterling 
 character and reliability on the field as the 
 Iron Brigade, which will have as deathless a 
 repute as the band that fought at Thermopylae 
 or the Light Brigade of the Crimea. With 
 McDowell, the Ttli went to the campaign of 
 Pope and was afterwards in tlie campaign of 
 the Rappahannock and Mr. Richardson was 
 with the 1st Corps umler Hooker with his regi- 
 ment, which led the advance at South Moun- 
 tain, where he was in action, although suffer- 
 ing from chronic bowel disease, contracted in 
 
 August, 1862, before Fredericksburg, and from 
 which he has never recovered. (His weiglit 
 was reduced from 180 to 110 pounds.) He was 
 in the second Rappahannock campaign and 
 fought at Fredericksburg, where he received 
 two flesh wounds. It almost goes without say- 
 ing that he fought at Gettysburg, so many 
 times is his name mentioned in every account 
 of the action. At the first day's battle he saw a 
 di.sheartened Pennsylvania regiment trail their 
 colors and flinch ; he rushed forward with all 
 his impetuous spirit awake, seized the flag and 
 shouting, tried to rally the faltering command, 
 but in vain. His position was one of great ex- 
 posure and it is probable that the rebels re- 
 spected his brave movement, for he was un- 
 harmed, and he bore away the flag. He was 
 reconnoitering after the first day's fight and 
 captured a rebel lieutenant and two men, from 
 whom he obtained information regarding the 
 enemy's plans which he regarded of great im- 
 portance and communicated them (o General 
 Wadsworth, his Division Commander, and to 
 whom he also made some suggestions as to the 
 disposition of our forces, which caused that 
 officer to advise immediate communication 
 with Meade. General Ricliardson gave Gen- 
 eral Meade the intelligence he had gathered 
 and suggested the advantage of placing guns 
 in position on the right of the hill and the ex- 
 tending of the Union lines on the right. 
 Meade appreciated the advice and ordered rifled 
 guns placed there; General Richardson sug- 
 gested the advantage of howitzers, when Meade 
 drew up haughtily and said, "Sir, when I want 
 your advice I will call for it." He smarted 
 somewhat under the rebufl" but made like sug- 
 gestions to Wadsworth, who considered them of 
 such moment that he ventured to present them 
 to Jtleade, who treated him in a similar man- 
 ner. But General Richardson had the satisfac- 
 tion of knowing afterwards that every one of 
 
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 them were put into effect, and that they were of 
 the utmost service. An attack was contem- 
 plated on the position where the guns were 
 placed and was prevented hj* tlie information 
 which General Richardson imparted to Meade 
 about midnight of July 1st. Of his services 
 that day in action the following letter speaks 
 in terms that deserve record here; " Head- 
 quarters, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, A. C, Aug. 
 13, 1863. To the Governor of Wisconsin. 
 Sir: — I desire to recommend to your especial 
 consideration. Captain Hollon Richardson, of 
 tlie 7th Wisconsin Volunteers. His faithful- 
 ness as an officer generally ; his bravery and 
 good judgment in the various battles in which 
 he has been and especially on the bloody field 
 of Gettysburg, where he manifested the utmost 
 coolness and bravery, entitle liim to the especial 
 considei'ation of the Executive of the State he 
 has so much honored. At Gettysburg he vir- 
 tually commanded the brigade for a portion 
 of the day. It cannot be known huw many 
 lives he saved by the manner in which he 
 brought off the troops from that field on the 1st 
 of July, when there seemed to be no one else to 
 give orders, most of the field officers having 
 been killed or wounded. Very respectfully, 
 L. Cutler, Brigadier General." General Wads- 
 worth wrote to Governor Randall of him under 
 date of July 14, 1863:— "In the battle of Gettys- 
 burg, as the senior staff officer of the Brigade, a 
 large and unusual amount of responsibility de- 
 volved upon him, amounting at times to the 
 command of the brigade. His conduct on this, 
 as on other occasions of severe trial, was in the 
 highest degree tneritorious." 
 
 ^ He was in the attack on the 18th of June at 
 Petersburg and was one of two otlicers who, 
 with about 400 men, advanced to within a 
 stone-throw of the enemy's works, moving for- 
 ward in great danger from the shells from the 
 
 Union batteries whicli, in trying to protect the 
 
 movement, were fired so low that their missiles 
 fell close to the assaulting column which held 
 its position, gained in tlie face of a pitiless rain 
 from nmsketry and artiller}' and, commenced 
 with bayonets and tin plates to throw uj) 
 breastworks. Richardson appreciated the sit- 
 uation, saw that nothing but a general as.sault 
 would save them and ran the gauntlet of hell- 
 fire to brigade headqxiarters. The whole com- 
 mand shared witii him the glory of the move- 
 ment in which the force was com])elled to fall 
 back after fighting to the last moment. Major 
 Richardson (then) ran a half mile and received 
 a wound in his hand. 
 
 The following correspondence speaks for 
 itself: Headquarters, 7th Wisconsin Vet. Vols., 
 February 18, 1865. Major General G. H. War- 
 ren, Com'dg Sth Armj' Corps. General : 
 Ever since the 18th day of June before Peters- 
 burg, I have been thinking of the proposition 
 I made you in July last. I feel that it is of so 
 much importance as to justify a second consid- 
 eration. I am satisfied in my own mind as 
 then that the works of the enemy in front of 
 Petersburg, or at almost any point on the line 
 can be carried by assault, and I think with 
 a loss of less men than in open field, fighting 
 with the present extended lines; judging from 
 our own it is fair to presume that the enemy 
 can have but a light line of men in their works. 
 If that line of men can be attacked in force 
 without giving the enemy previous notice, if 
 Fort Fisher manned as it was could be carried, 
 I can see no good reason why we may not have 
 equal success. I think two corps sufficient for 
 the work. I would, a week or ten days in 
 advance of the movement, by order require, 
 that every night each and every man should 
 actually have in his possession sixty (60) rounds 
 of cartridges and four (4) days rations. I would 
 equip each file closer with a spade. The 
 artillery and wagons should not be moved from 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 place, until the order " charge " should be given. 
 I can but believe that their movements is a 
 most treacherous tell-tale and would be liable 
 to put tiie enemy on his guard. 
 
 I would move the troops by night from their 
 cabins in light marching order on a short 
 hour's notice. I can see no reason why two 
 corps cannot be thus put in position ready for 
 the charge with such secrecy as to preclude 
 suspicion, and without the knowledge of our 
 pickets or the pickets of the enemy. My plan 
 for the assault is the same I suggested last sum- 
 mer. If you will permit me to select 1,000 
 j)icked men from the troops of your corps, per- 
 mit me to officer them from the officers of the 
 corjjs, allow me to drill them at least two days 
 each week until the time of assault, I will carry 
 the works of the enemy at any point on the 
 line that may be selected. The breach once 
 made, the two corps can take positions without 
 opposition, and with the Pioneer force on the 
 field can so entrench, before the enemy can 
 make his dispositions, as to make every 
 obtained position perfectly secure. I would 
 make the assault at early daylight in two Hues 
 of battle. I believe I can reach the works of 
 the enemy before he can get out of his blankets. 
 Respectfully, H. Richardson, Lt. Col. Cora'dg 
 Regiment." 
 
 " Confidential. Headquarters, 5th Army 
 Corps, Feb. 28, 1865. Col. Richardson, Dear 
 Sir: — I have read your communication of the 
 ISth and showed it to General Meade. The 
 main objection to keeping your plan a secret 
 is that you request to select your men and drill 
 them before hand, and that will certainly 
 arouse discussion and put the enemy on his 
 guard ; if the preparation of the assaulting col- 
 umn could be made up with necessary secrecy 
 the time may come when it will be desirable 
 to make the effort. Respectfully, G. H. War- 
 ren, Maj. Gen." 
 
 "Headquarters, 7th Wisconsin Vet. Vols., 
 March 2, 1865. Major General G. H. Warren, 
 Com'dg 5th Army Corps. General : — Your 
 favor of the 28tli, in answer to mine of the 
 18tli ult., received. You state that the main 
 objection to keeping my plan a secret is " that 
 you (I) require to select your (my) men and 
 drill them beforehand, " stating " that that 
 will certainly arouse discussion, and put the 
 enemy on his guard. " Permit me to suggest 
 that your objection might be obviated if it 
 could be made to apjiear, that at your head- 
 quarters, or at headquarters of the Army of the 
 Potomac, it was necessary to have a body 
 guard or skirmish command of 1,000 picked 
 men, say one Captain, one Lieutenant, three 
 Sergeants, four Corporals and thirty privates, 
 from regiments who have especially distin- 
 guished themselves in battle, to be selected 
 with great care by the commanding officers of 
 the respective regiments. 
 
 Should the above be thought objectionable, 
 might not the command selected as above for 
 " special service " be sent beyond the lines of 
 the department, then drilled and secretly re- 
 turned when needed? Shovild my suggestions 
 or former proposition meet with favor, I would 
 be pleased to have the command armed with 
 tl*e Spencer rifle. Respectfully, H. Richard- 
 son, Lt. Col. Com'dg Regiment." 
 
 His proposition was finally accepted and he 
 selected his own regiment as the nucleus of the 
 assault and with picked officers he began opera- 
 tions. He had drilled 14 days when the rebels 
 anticipated his movement by doing what he 
 was jweparing to do and, although the splendid 
 courage of the Union troops prevented the rup- 
 ture of the Union lines, they took Fort Stead- 
 man. But they paid the cost at Fort Mahone. 
 
 Major General Warren in his official report 
 of the 5th Army Corps, at the battle of Five 
 Forks, Virginia, says : " During this last 
 
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 charge my horse was fatally shot within a few 
 paces of the lino where the enemy made his 
 last stand ; an Orderly by my side was killed 
 and Colonel Richardson of the 7th Wisconsin, 
 seeing my danger, s])rang between me and the 
 enemy, saving my life and receiving a severe 
 wound." 
 
 He w^as six times wounded in action and 
 was breveted three times for distinguished ser- 
 vices in the field. These occurred on the dates 
 that are catalogued with tliem, as follows: 
 Dec. 2, 1864, Lieutenant Colonel; March 13, 
 1865, Colonel, and March 13, 1865, Brigadier 
 General of Volunteers. The first was conferred 
 for bravery in action at Gravelly Run, Oct. 27, 
 1864, when, with 155 muskets he captured 226 
 rebels and re-took about 50 Union prisoners. 
 In his memoirs General Sheridan mentions 
 him for conspicuous action at Five Forks, Va. 
 Swinton's history gives him conspicuous men- 
 tion for the acts referred to herein, as do the 
 Wisconsin historians, Quiner and Love. He 
 was mustered out July 3, 1865, after the close 
 of the war and refused a field position in the 
 regular army to which he was recommended 
 by Warren. Since tlie war, at the suggestion 
 of General Sherman he reported to the AVar 
 Department the fact that soldiers who wore the 
 high black hat, as did his command, never 
 suffered sunstroke, although the article of head- 
 gear was the subject of much derision during 
 the war. (It must not be forgotten that the com- 
 mand was designated the " Big Hat Brigade." ) 
 
 After the war he went to Baltimore and re- 
 sumed the jiractice of law. During the first 
 campaign in which Grant was a candidate he 
 pu.shed his claims with all his vigor and im- 
 petuosity and served as a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Convention at Chicago in 1867 which put 
 General Grant in nomination. He returned to 
 Ciiip])ewa Falls in 1870 and has since been a 
 resident of that place. 
 
 He was married in Washington, D. C, May 
 9, 1862, to Leonora, daughter of Colonel W. W. 
 and Sarah (Fiske) Robinson. Their children 
 are Leonora and Mamie. Leonora is the wife 
 of E. H. Victor of Chippewa Falls. 
 
 ^*^^^*H^ 
 
 UCIAN TOOLS MALLORY, Wauke- 
 ^.,.. sha. Wis., member of W. B. Gushing 
 ^ Post No. 19, was born Dec. 13, 1835, 
 in Barkhamstead, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. 
 His father's name was Amasa, and he had the 
 misfortune to lose his mother when three days 
 old. In descent he represents Amasa Mallory, 
 a Revolutionary patriot who fought at New 
 Haven as a minute man and assisted in the ex- 
 pulsion of the British from that vicinity. His 
 father came to Wisconsin and when he was 16 
 years old he joined him, going thence to Kan- 
 sas during the troubled period there and on his 
 return stayed a twelve-month at Beloit. He 
 went next to Rockford and thence after two 
 years to Pike's Peak, returning subsequent to 
 the excitement there to Rockford. He went 
 next to Janesville, where he enlisted as a sol- 
 dier Dec. 27, 1863, in the 12th Wisconsin Light 
 Artillery, and joined the command as a recruit 
 at Huntsville, Ala., the battery being under 
 the command of Captain William Zickerick 
 (see first volume Wisconsin series). He re- 
 mained there until June following, when he 
 went to Stevenson and in July to Allatoona, 
 Ga., where he performed guard and garrison 
 duty until the memorable action there October 
 5th, when he was engaged in the fighting. 
 The battery made a most honorable record, and, 
 November 12th, went to Atlanta, made connec- 
 tion with the forces of Sherman and marched 
 to the sea, and Mr. Mallory endured all the 
 vicissitudes of the long march, fighting at 
 Hickory Hill, Beutonville and Columbia, S. C. 
 

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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 585 
 
 Small justice can be done within the limits of a 
 sketch to the experiences of an artilleryman. 
 He must become acquainted with the military 
 tactics pertaining to other branches of the ser- 
 vice to which he is liable to be summoned un- 
 der all conditions. He must perform hard 
 labor on a march, and operate always from 
 .standpoints which specially advertise him as 
 an enemy to his foes, his position being always 
 apparent and his identity unmistakable. 
 
 After the surrender of Johnston Mr. Mallory 
 went to Richmond and Washington, where his 
 battery passed in the Grand Review. He re- 
 turned to Wisconsin to be mustered out .Tune 
 26, 1865. 
 
 He entered the employ of the C. & N. W. 
 railroad corporation and, two years later, that 
 of the St. Paul. For a number of years he has 
 operated as an expressman, and in various call- 
 ings. He was married to Sarah Jane Tooth- 
 aker and they have two children. They are 
 twins and are named Frank and PYed. Clar- 
 ence died while the father was in the army. 
 Mr. Mallory is a charter member of the Order 
 known as the Royal Arcanum. 
 
 EROY G. ARMSTRONG, M. D., Mayor 
 
 1^ of Boscobel, Wis., (1889) was born in 
 
 '^ Cortland, K Y., March 7, 1834. His 
 
 father, Robert Armstrong, was a North of Ire- 
 land man by descent, Scotch-Irish in lineage 
 and represented an ancestor named Francis 
 Armstrong, who emigrated to America in 1728, 
 a little more than 100 years after his forbears 
 had gone to Ireland from Scotland to escape 
 from one rigorous condition to encounter 
 another equally distressing, but which served as 
 a stimulus to preserve the Scotch blood in purity; 
 the cognomen Scotch-Irish being distinctive 
 and applying only to the class referred to. 
 
 Francis Armstrong located iu Goshen, Orange 
 Co., New York, and from him descended several 
 generations now represented in New York 
 (Owego) by Francis 4tli and 5th. The early 
 generations in America preserved their char- 
 acter for dignity and prominence and became 
 what was termed in the old country " gentle- 
 men " on account of their land holdings, on 
 which their descendants still dwell. The 
 mother of Dr. Armstrong, Huldah Grant 
 before marriage, was descended from stock that 
 came from Scotland to America and located in 
 Litchfield Co., Conn.; she is the daughter of Levi 
 and Rhoda (Andrus) Grant and lives with her 
 daughter in Janesville, Wis. The father died 
 in 1875. 
 
 In 1845 the family removed to Whitewater, 
 Wis., where the son grew up and completed his 
 elementary education, also entering upon the 
 .study of medicine there and at Fort Atkinson 
 and Wisconsin State University. In 1856 he 
 went to Chicago and matriculated at Rush 
 Medical College, where he finished his course 
 and was graduated in 1859. His first year of 
 practice was passed at Palmyra, Wis., whence 
 he went to Fennimore, Wis., and was commis- 
 sioned Assistant Surgeon of the 8th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, Aug. 11, 1862, entering on the duties 
 of the position while that command was 
 stationed at Corinth, Miss. But he was first 
 made acquainted with the whole horror of 
 a surseon's life after the battle of Corinth, 
 wliere he amputated 39 legs and arms of rebels. 
 While on this service he contracted camp 
 dysentery and, finding the disease uncon- 
 trollable in that climate, he returned home and 
 I in Auguist, 1864, he was appointed Assistant 
 ! Surgeon to the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, acting 
 as first assistant of that command through the 
 siege of Petersburg. He was commissioned 
 I Chief Surgeon of the 48lh Wisconsin Infantry, 
 with which he was mustered into service in the 
 
586 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 spring of 1865 and left Milwaukee March 22d 
 for St. Louis; be left that place for Paoli, 
 Kansas, and went thence to Fort Scott, where 
 he was in charge of the hospitals. He super- 
 intended the transfer of 50 wagon loads of sick 
 and wountled to Fort Leavenworth and he pro- 
 ceeded with the conamaud westward, two com- 
 panies going to Fort Zarah, two companies being 
 stationed at Fort Larned, two companies at Fort 
 Dodge, two companies at Fort Aubrey and two 
 companies at Fort Lyon, these posts being 
 established for the protection of mail and Gov- 
 ernment trains in Kansas and Colorado Terri- 
 tory, the Lidians being hostile. In the course 
 of his service in Colorado, Dr. Armstrong 
 became familiar with famous characters on the 
 frontier among whom was Kit Carson. (Kit 
 Carson died at Fort Lyon May 23, 1868). Dr. 
 Armstrong made his headquarters at Fort 
 Larned (regimental headquarters) and was 
 actively engaged in the duties of his profession 
 and in the work of saving his own and the 
 scalps of the men in his charge from the In- 
 dians, who made matters lively for the 48th 
 Wisconsin Infantry in Kansas and Colorado. 
 The regiment was mustered out at Leaven- 
 worth and reached Madison in January, 1866, 
 Dr. Armstrong receiving an aj^pointment as 
 Surgeon of the U. S. Tost at Fort Larned, 
 where two companies each of cavalry and iit- 
 fantry, regulars, were stationed, and in Feb- 
 ruary, 1866, he severed his connection with 
 military service. 
 
 On his return to Wisconsin he located at 
 Boscobel, where he has continued to reside in 
 the same house of which he Hrst took po.sisession. 
 He has established a successful and popular 
 practice at Boscobel and politically and socially, 
 as well as in every sense pertaining to his citi- 
 zenship, is one of the most pojiular men of his 
 city. He was the Hrst Commander of John 
 McDermott Post No. 101, and has been active 
 
 in his interest in Grand Army matters. He is 
 a member of the Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 Commander}' of Wisconsin, his rank as Major 
 in the U. S. service entitling him to member- 
 ship in that body. He is advanced in Masonry 
 and is a Knight Tenii)lar ; he is present Pre- 
 late and Past E. C. of De ^lolai Commandery 
 No. 15, K. T. He is an Odd Fellow and be- 
 longs to the A. 0. U. W. He was an attend- 
 ant at the Conclave of the K. T. at Washing- 
 ton in 1889. Although he is Mayor of Bosco- 
 bel, he is not an asi)irant for political advance- 
 ment, but lias accepted the jiosition beeause of 
 the strenuous desire of a multitude of friends 
 who believe him the best man for the place. 
 Dr. Armstrong is the possessor of merited jiopu- 
 larity through liis honorable character and up- 
 right, stainless life. 
 
 He was married at Milton, Rock Co., Wis., 
 in 1861, to Sarah D., daughter of Jonathan and 
 Mary Bond. Charles Allen, their oldest son, is 
 a practicing physician and the business asso- 
 ciate of his father, the firm style being L. G. & 
 C. A. Armstrong. George G., youngest son, is 
 a student in the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity at Madison, Wis. Dr. Armstrong is a 
 member of the various medical associations of 
 Wisconsin and was President of the State Medi- 
 cal Society in 1887-8. 
 
 Dr. Armstrong's portrait appears on page 584. 
 
 •>^«*^^I€^»-K- 
 
 ANFORD SCHRAGER RIDDELL, M. 
 
 1)., Chijipewa Falls, Wis., is a histor- 
 ical character such as seldom receives 
 historical perpetuity in a volume like this. His 
 name takes the historian to the days when New 
 Orleans became Federal property under tiie 
 auspices of Farragut and Butler and of tliis 
 period Dr. Riddell can say "of all this I was 
 part." Dr. Riddell represents a lineage which is 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 587 
 
 unique, even in this land of unique national- 
 ities, liis earliest forefathers having belonged to 
 Normandy 200 j'ears before William invaded 
 England, his first known ancestor being record- 
 ed in tluit country in 885. He was of knightly 
 blood and married a daugliter of the royal 
 house of France. As was the custom, he was 
 known by liis given name only, which was 
 Walgrinus, Earl of Angoulesme and Arragon. 
 Seven generations from him was Galfridus, 
 founder of the earldom of Angoulesme, which 
 branch closed with Isabella of Angonlesme 
 (Duchess) daugliter and lieiress of Count and 
 Countess Aymer Talliafer of Angoulesme, who 
 bore the patronymic Riddell. She became the 
 consort of John of England of Magna Charta 
 fame and tlie ancestress of the entire line of 
 English royalty, though with her died Oct. 19, 
 121G, tlie dukedom and prestige of the house of 
 Angoulesme, tlie estates passing to the crown. 
 It would be interesting history to trace the suc- 
 cession of these estates which have probably 
 been conferred several times. The later ances- 
 tral stock of Mr. Riddell branched into Scot- 
 land, went to Ireland in 1609 to secure im- 
 munity from the persecutions of James, son of 
 Mary, Queen of Scots, where the Scotch-Irish 
 race preserved itself intact 100 years during a 
 series of persecutions in no wise less than those 
 they had fled from, and in 1709 their emigra- 
 tions to other portions of the earth commenced. 
 In 1718 three brothers, *Robert, Hugh and 
 Gavin Riddell, came to Massachusetts and from 
 the first of these Dr. Riddell claims descent. 
 John L., his father, was the son of Gavin, the 
 son of Robert. John L. was born in Leydeii, 
 Mass., Feb 20, 1807, was educated in Oxford 
 Academy and at the Rensselaer School in Troy, 
 New York, receiving from the latter his degree 
 of A. B. and later post graduate degree of A. 
 M. He was a devotee of science and became 
 eminent for acquirements in chemistry, botany 
 
 and geology. He acquired fame in the lecture 
 field at a period when lectures on natural 
 science were among the novelties of the plat- 
 form, and he became prominent as a scholar 
 and student in man}' States and the Dominion. 
 In 1835 he became Professor of Chemistry and 
 Botany in the Cincinnati Medical College from 
 which he received his degree as M. D. In 1836 
 he was made Professor of Chemistry in the 
 Medical College of New Orleans and in 1852 he 
 held the chair in that institution under State 
 patronage. Prior to this, in 1838, he had con- 
 ducted an exploring expedition into Texas, 
 whence had come rumors of mines of gold and 
 silver of exceeding richness, which aroused all 
 his interest, but the Indians presented obstacles 
 too formidable for students to contend with, as 
 the redskins were not amenable to argument 
 nor could they be impressed with the impor- 
 tance of geological researches and the senior 
 Riddell abandoned his expedition and returned 
 to New Orleans. He was appointed afterwards 
 by the President as Melter and Refiner at the 
 U. S. Mint at New Orleans and held the posi- 
 tion until 1849. During this period he made 
 numerous contributions to the scientific litera- 
 ture of the day, which have since been fully 
 recognized for value and he published among 
 other things "A Monogram of the Dollar," in- 
 cluding fac simile impressions of about 600 
 vai'ieties of American and Mexican dollars and 
 half dollars, both genuine and counterfeit, with 
 assays of each and the mode of detection of the 
 spurious. He also promulgated a Thesis on 
 Miasm and Contagion, which lias since been 
 generally adopted on the theory that "organ- 
 ized and living corpuscles of various kinds " 
 were the agents of communication in contagious 
 disease. In 1860 he was appointed Postmaster 
 at New Orleans and held the position until the 
 Federal Army took possession of the Crescent 
 City. He married Mary E. Knocke of New 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Orleans and they had two sons, John S. dying 
 young. Dr. Riddell was born at New Orleans, 
 Aug. 22, 1838, and in December, 1839, lost liis 
 mother by death. He was sent to his grand- 
 mother in New Yorlc and in 1848 returned to 
 his father at New Orleans and became a student 
 in the Ijouisiana College, going thence to the 
 Academic Department of the University of 
 Louisiana. Subsequently he entered the Med- 
 ical Department of the University whence he 
 was graduated in March, 1860, having made a 
 special studj' of uterine diseases. After his re- 
 turn to his father his boyhood days ceased 
 and he became a constant assistant to the 
 labors in the laborator}', beginning at an early 
 age to prepare and perform the experiments 
 before tiie claisses as his father's assistant and 
 acquiring a knowledge of chemistry which 
 seemed to become his by natural selection. He 
 assisted him in analyses and microscopical re- 
 searches and aided in completing and perfect- 
 ing the binocular microscope, which instrument 
 was invented by the senior Riddell. His own 
 attention was early drawn to the field of dis- 
 covery, and he discovered, described and named 
 the Polygonum Nova au reliensis. In 1860 he 
 was selected as assistant of the State Geologist 
 of Texas and he rendered valuable assistance 
 to science there. When he returned to New 
 Orleans he entered upon the regular practice 
 of medicine and became Assistant Postmas- 
 ter under his fatlier. In 1861 he was called to 
 the Chair of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the 
 New Orleans Dental College and held the posi- 
 tion nominally until 1866, though, through the 
 war the College was inoperative. When it was 
 reopened in 1866 he was solicited to resume 
 his former connection therewith, but sent in- 
 stead his formal resignation. 
 
 Rebellion was rife around the Riddells for 
 many months but they hoped to receive immun- 
 ity from its evils, as they had been so absorbed 
 
 in scientific connections and business as to be 
 practically outside of the question. But it was 
 a vain hope. Tiie senior Riddell was a 
 thorough Union man but was early brought 
 into contact with rebel plans, being designated 
 to prepare the light for the forts at the mouth 
 of the harbor. In order to save his father this 
 humiliation, his son assumed the duty and 
 arranged the system of lights at Forts Jackson 
 and St. Phillip. Prior to this he had been 
 notified by the rebel authorities that he must 
 unite with tlie confederates or be treated as 
 their enemy and he was conscripted into 
 Mullin's Battalion of Scouts and Sharpshooters, 
 designed for home service. The Mullin Battal- 
 ion was distributed along the river near Fort 
 Jackson for the purpose of picking off ]>ilots 
 and officers that came up on the Union gun- 
 boats. The officers of the command were 
 a dissipated set and their habits were easily 
 communicated to the rank and file, the dis- 
 order being at such a pitch that some of the 
 time Dr. Riddell was in command and exer- 
 cised such discipline as he could. Fnially the 
 presence of the battalion became so obnoxious 
 to other troops in the vicinity that they were 
 ordered up the river. Dr. Riddell was stationed 
 at Algiers and wentaboai-d an old launch which 
 was armed with an old field piece — a brass six- 
 pounder. The rebels in the vicinity wanted a 
 demonstration made of the sentiments of tlie 
 company and thought something should be 
 done as expressive of loyalty to the South and 
 possibly intimidate the North at the same time, 
 so the old launch was taken out into tlie stream 
 to be ready for the Union fleet when it came 
 along and when it did, two shots from the six- 
 pounder notified the flag-ship that she had 
 better surrender to the confederacy then and 
 there represented. But she just brushed the fly 
 off with a whisking shot on the bows which 
 gave the crew a free and probably much needed 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 589 
 
 liath. Disgusted with such levity the launch 
 turned her back and went her waj'. 
 
 Dr. Riddell was satisfied with his demonstra- 
 tion, pulled down his confederate rag, put it in ' 
 his pocket and started for New Orleans. Far- 
 ragut had just landed about a score of marines 
 and the city was in a tunnilt of excitement. 
 People were fleeing ; the desperate classes 
 formed into mobs; the officers brought up the 
 marines and took possession of the U. S. Mint 
 and Postoffice. The mob thickened and Farra- 
 gut gave notice that if any of his men were 
 murdered he should lay the city in ashes. 
 Captain Ramsey was in command of the little 
 squad of men and he was informed by Gen. 
 Duncan that it would be impossible to restrain 
 the populace after dark and Captain Ramsey 
 stated that the Custom House should be 
 defended. The Richmond lay in the river and 
 the signaling had failed. Dr. Riddell went to 
 Captain Ramsey, placed his life at his service 
 and undertook to deliver a dispatch to the 
 Richmond although he felt all the risk he . 
 incurred. The papers were given him and he 
 rolled them in tinfoil and placed them in his 
 mouth. He left the postoffice and marciied 
 boldly to the wharf followed by a howling mob i 
 who were curiously watching his movements. 
 While he watched his opportunity to give a 
 signal for a boat to the Richmond, the despera- 
 does discussed the expediency of hanging him. 
 But this took all their abilities, individual and 
 collective, and the doctor succeeded in giving 
 the signal and when the boat arrived it was in 
 the nick of time to save his neck. He went 
 aboard and surrendered his message; the 
 Richmond signaled the flag-ship, which sig- 
 naled to Captain Ramsey to come on board 
 with the marines. Soon after Dr. Riddell 
 left the postoffice the mob broke in its 
 doors and commenced depredations. He re- 
 mained on the Richmond all night and went 
 
 to the city in the morning, the marines again 
 landing and holding the city days, going 
 aboard the gunboats at night, until Butler ar- 
 rived. That officer requested Dr. Riddell to re- 
 open the postoffice but, as his health was poor 
 he asked to be relieved, gave up the keys, with 
 the combinations to his son. Dr. Riddell of 
 this sketch, and on Butler's ordering the vaults 
 oj)ened Dr. Riddell consented on condition that 
 a receipt should be rendered for the contents, 
 which was done and Dr. Riddell turned over 
 the property to Butler. Subsequently, after he 
 had taken the oath to support the Constitution 
 of the United States he took charge of the post- 
 office under .Jno. M. G. Parker. He reorgan- 
 ized the business and remained on duty there 
 until June, 1802, when he resigned and went 
 North by sea and remained until fall, when he 
 returned South. He was in New York during 
 the draft riots and when orders were issued to 
 allow no one to leave the city, with 19 others, 
 he made one of an association of merchant 
 marines, bought a steamboat and sailed out of 
 New York harbor for New Orleans, stopping at 
 intermediate seaports and having a good time 
 generally until quarantined at New Orleans. 
 He tried to sell the craft to Butler but he did not 
 want it, and he sold it to other parties for $28,000. 
 After his return to New Orleans he enlisted in 
 the summer of 1863 in the 5th Louisiana ( White) 
 Infantry, U. S. A., and was made Captain of 
 Company E. The command was for home 
 duty and in about three months Dr. Riddell 
 commenced to recruit for a cavalry command, 
 but his father's health was failing and he gave 
 up military connection and resumed his prac- 
 tice. In the summer of 1865 he was sum- 
 moned to go to Brazos Santiago at the mouth 
 of the Rio Grande in the construction of a 
 liorhthouse and while there General Weitzel re- 
 quested his assistance in the management of 
 the army postoffice. While stationed there he 
 
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 received the appointment of Physician to the 
 Household of Carlotta, wife of Maximilian, 
 which he accepted and was about leaving to 
 report in the city of Mexico, when the death of 
 his father, Oct. 7, 1865, recalled him to New 
 Orleans. In 1866 Dr. Riddell went to New 
 York State and opened his business as a medi- 
 cal practitioner. In 1874 lie located at Chip- 
 pewa Falls, Wisconsin, wliere lie has established 
 a splendid ami ]M)pular practice as a physician. 
 He is a member of the New Orleans Academy 
 of Science to wliich he was elected when he 
 was 21 years old, in 1859; he belongs to the 
 Chenango Co., New York, Medical Society. He 
 is a member of the Chippewa Co., Wisconsin, 
 Medical Society into which the Chippewa Falls 
 Society was merged, and which he helped to 
 organize and served as its President, Secretary 
 and Treasurer ; he al.so belongs to the American 
 Medical Association. The literary work per- 
 formed by Dr. Riddell for his profession is 
 enormous and he is justly regarded as a man 
 whose scientific attainments entitle him to 
 eminence, irrespective of his acknowledged 
 skill as a physician. 
 
 He was married at Cinciunatus, New York, 
 in December, 1806, to Josephine, daughter of 
 Roswell K. Bourne, and following is the record 
 of their children: — Mary B., born Dec. 13, 1867; 
 Josephine L., born June 13, 1869 ; Sanford L., 
 born June 27, 1870 ; George W., born Sept. 18, 
 1871; Louisiana, horn June 24, 1873. Jose- 
 phine L. was married June 12, 1889, to Ricliard 
 Sleight, an attorney at Hurley, Wis., and they 
 have a son, Richard Riddell Sleight, born May 
 6, 1890. 
 
 Sanford L. and George W. are members of 
 the camp of Sons of Veterans at Chippewa 
 Falls, Wis. Sept. 17, 1887, Dr. Riddell was 
 married at Ciiippewa Falls to Isabella Brown. 
 
 Dr. Riddell's portrait aj^pears on jtage 584. 
 
 
 -^ 
 
 J^^ EORGE E. CATLIN, M. D., a prac- 
 1 ^,^ j l ^ ticing physician at Lake Geneva, 
 ^--^ Wis., a former soldier of the civil 
 war and one of the first to enlist under the first 
 call of the i'resident for troops on the fall of 
 the Hag at Fort Sumter, was born March 19, 
 1840, near Wellsboro, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania. 
 He is the re])resentative of four generations of 
 Catliiis who descended from the founder of this 
 branch of the family in America. The latter 
 is now known only as "General" Catlin, all 
 data concerning his anteceilents being unavail- 
 able at this writing. He came to America dur- 
 ing the course of the French and Indian war 
 in command of a bod}' of French troops and 
 after the conflict was over settled in Boston 
 where he died. He had three sons, one of 
 whom remained in Boston; another went to 
 Vermont and tlie third settled in Connecticut 
 where he founded the branch of the family 
 from which Dr. Catlin is descended. Few 
 items of his history are known now except 
 those relating to his descendants in Connecti- 
 cut and that his youngest son was his name- 
 sake, Joel. He was a soldier in the Revolution- 
 ary war and his grandson remembers vividly 
 the enthusiasm with which he was accustomed 
 to speak of that struggle and of matters per- 
 taining to the countr\'. He went to Rome, 
 New York, and late in life he went to Tioga 
 county, Pennsylvania, where he died when 
 several j-ears past fourscore. 
 
 Joel Catlin, father of Dr. Catlin, was still 
 young when his father located in Tioga county, 
 where he remained on the homestead after 
 1822 until his death in 1884. 
 
 The youth of Dr. Catlin was passed in school 
 
 ' and, after attending the academy at Wellsboro 
 he entered a seminary at Mansfield and was 
 graduated from the Normal department. He 
 was afterwards a student at a select school in 
 
 j Wellsboro, where he wtis pursuing his studies 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 591 
 
 when the intelligence of the assault on Sumter 
 was quickly followed by the call for troops and 
 he liastened to respond. April 19, 1861, as 
 soon as the requisition for Pennsylvania was j 
 issued, he enlisted in the " Sherwood Com- 
 pany," a local organization which was assigned ' 
 to the 6th Penn.sylvania Infantrj' Reserve and 
 the entire period of three months' enlistment 
 was passed in drill at Camp Curtin, where the 
 regiment was held in readiness for any service. 
 
 After return home, young Catlin again be- 
 came a student until Oct. 19, 1861, when he 
 enlisted in Company B, 101st Pennsylvania 
 Infantry. He was mustered at Harrisburg, 
 went thence to Washington and in the spring 
 went with McClellan to the campaign of the 
 Peninsula. He was in the siege of Yorktown 
 and after that action carried the colors, partici- 
 pating in the battle of Williamsburg and at 
 Fair Oaks. He was taken sick at the close of 
 the latter engagement and was transferred from 
 the field hospital to a hospital in Philadelphia 
 whence he was discharged for disability Sept. 
 24, 1862. He again became a student at Mans- 
 field and taught school through the succeed- 
 ing winter. 
 
 Aug. 10, 1863, he enlisted in Battery E, 5th 
 U. S. Artillery from Wellsboro and joined the 
 battery at Charabersburg. He was instructed 
 in light and heavy artillery drill and in 
 infantry tactics and in addition to the heavy 
 labor always connected with artillery service 
 was in all the actions of the 6th Corps to 
 which his battery was assigned throughout 
 the campaigns of Grant which led to the close 
 of the war. Beginning with the Wilderness in 
 the .'^jiring of 1864, iie fought with his battery 
 at Spottsylvania, Ny River, Laurel Hill, on the 
 North Anna, at Cold Harbor, at Petersburg on 
 the terrible 17th and 18th of June, and was in 
 all the exposures and skirmishes which follow- 
 ed, including Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell), at 
 
 that place until its fall April 2, 1865, and he 
 was in his last fight at Sailor's Creek five days 
 later. Reference to the pages of detailed his- 
 tory will show what this meager outline in- 
 volved. Dr. Catlin was discharged as Sergeant 
 .Jan. 17, 1866, at Key West, Fla., whither the 
 command had been sent on detached duty 
 after the close of the war. 
 
 He reached his home in February, and in 
 March went to Janesville, Wis. He traveled 
 through Minnesota and in June returned to 
 Janesville and began the study of medicine 
 with Dr. Burden of Milton, working through 
 that summer also in the office of the City 
 Treasurer. In September he entered college 
 at Beloit where he studied three years, and in 
 the fall of 1869 went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and 
 entered the Medical Department of the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan; in March, 1870 he matricu- 
 lated at Detroit Medical College, receiving his 
 degree of M. D. from that institution. He 
 located his business as a physician at Genoa 
 Junction and two years later settled perma- 
 nently at Lake Geneva, where he has advanced 
 to popularity and prominence in his profession 
 and socially. He has been for some years a 
 member of the State Medical Society and of 
 the American Medical As.sociation. He is a 
 Royal Arch Mason, belonging to the Chapter 
 at Lake Geneva. 
 
 In May, 1871, Dr. Catlin was married to 
 Lucretia D., a daughter of Major Benjamin 
 Van Campen, who descended from stock which 
 was famous in the Indian conflicts in which 
 the early settlers of the country were engaged. 
 On the mother's side, Mrs. Catlin belongs to 
 the family made conspicuous through Saun- 
 der's spelling-book. Elmira (Hill) Catlin, the 
 mother of Dr. Catlin, was the daughter of 
 Major and Polly (Hopkins) Hill, her mother 
 having been of the family of Stephen Hopkins, 
 the signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
 
592 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 The portrait of Dr. Catlin which appears on 
 page 584 is presented in this volume as a 
 representative of a family whose generations 
 have been prominent in all the history of the 
 country. True to the blood and principles 
 he inherited, from boyhood he never separated 
 his personal interests from those of the coun- 
 try whose honor he defended by three enlist- 
 ments. 
 
 LBERT W'ALLBER, Vice President of 
 the Weisel & Vilter Manufacturing 
 Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and member 
 of Robert Chivas Post No. 2, G. A. R., was born 
 April 13, 1842, in Berlin, Prussia. His parents, 
 Julius and Henrietta (Krohn) Wallber, came to 
 America in 1850, landing at the port of New 
 York and residing in that city until 1855, when 
 they removed to Milwaukee. The father died 
 Dec. 8, 1879, and the mother is yet living. 
 (1890.) Their family included five children, 
 whose record is as follows : Emil, Judge of tbe 
 Municipal Cburt at Milwaukee ; Albert Charles, 
 bookkeeper for Schlitz Bottling Works ; Emma, 
 wife of Oberforstmeister Heinrich von Kujawa, 
 of Liegnitz, Prussia; Marie, wife of C. C. 
 Schmidt, cashier of the 2d Ward Savings Bank 
 of Milwaukee. 
 
 Albert Wallber received a careful education 
 in New York, and when Governor Salomon be- 
 came chief executive of Wisconsin, he obtained 
 a clerical position in his office, where he was 
 occupied when he determined to enter tlie 
 army. He enlisted in July, 1862, and on tlie 
 organization of the regiment was commissioned 
 2d Lieutenant of Company F, 26th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, August 20th following, and received 
 in the course of liis service the following pro- 
 motions: l.st Lieutenant of Company I, acting 
 as Ordnance Officer of the brigade, Feb. 1, 1863, 
 and also as Adjutant of the 26th. He left Wis- 
 
 consin with liis command and participated in 
 all the operations of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division 
 and 11th Corps, under Sigel, marched to Gaines- 
 ville, went to the useless campaign of Fred- 
 ericksburg, to the still more vain " Mud Cam- 
 paign," and was in the position with his regi- 
 ment at Chancellorsville. Mr. Wallber passed 
 through that disaster unhurt, to encounter 
 casualties of war at Gettysburg in the first day's 
 fighting, being knocked down by a shell and 
 taken prisoner on the field. With his squad, 
 of unfortunate comrades he was marched to 
 Stanton, Xa., jammed into a car and taken 
 direct to Libby prison at Riclimond. He re- 
 mained there until he made his escape Feb. 9, 
 1864. He encountered all the miseries of 
 prison life, which have been so often told and 
 which mark the Southern people as capable of 
 tbe most infamous atrocities which darken the 
 pages of any history of any war since civiliza- 
 tion has held sway. But he had the satisfac- 
 tion of knowing that he was in excellent 
 company and many acquaintances from Mil- 
 waukee sliared the rigors of confinement, 
 starvation and hardship with him. When 
 the famous tunnel was finished by which Libby 
 lost 109 men and the North regained 57 good 
 and true soliiiers, (52 l)eing re-taken) he was 
 among the number who made their escape to 
 the Nortiiern lines although enfeebled by pri- 
 vation and incarceration in a i)]act' witliout 
 cleanliness or comfort of any descri]ition. He 
 tVoze his feet, the weather being bitterly cold 
 and increasing in that respect as they wandered 
 towards the polar star and, when he reached 
 Wa.shington he was sent to Douglas hosjiital 
 for treatment. When able he was transferred 
 to Milwaukee, but a long time elapsed before 
 lie was sufficiently recovered to transjict busi- 
 ness. His physical system was so badly 
 shattered that he was forced to resign liis com- 
 mission. As soon as he was well enough he 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 593 
 
 engaged as bookkeeper and in that capacity 
 officiated for several leading business firms of 
 Milwaukee and also as business manager. In 
 October, 1888, he was elected Vice-President of 
 the house already mentioned, of w'hich he is a 
 member. Together with Mr. Domschke, he has 
 prepared a most entertaining account of his 
 experiences in prison and escape, which has 
 become popular with the German people of the 
 State. It is called " Erinnerungen ; 20 Monate 
 in Gefangeuschaft, " and no book in the library 
 at Milwaukee is in greater demand, as the ex- 
 periences of soldiers in the civil war are taking 
 their just prominence. The sketch of Gen. H. 
 G. Hobart on another- page gives a graphic ac- 
 count of some facts in connection with the most 
 remarkable escape of any prisoners of war held 
 by the South and some items not before pub- 
 lished. 
 
 Mr. Wallber is prominent among his country- 
 men and is President of the German and En- 
 glish Academy, a member of the Turnvereiii 
 " Milwaukee " and Deutsche Gesellschaft. He 
 was in high station in the Masonic Order, hav- 
 ing served as High Priest of Milwaukee Chap- 
 ter. 
 
 He was married in Milwaukee in 1867 to 
 Marie Lasche, a native of Saxony, Germany, 
 and daughter of Ernst and ]\Iarie Lasche. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wallber have two children: — Ralph 
 is Order Clerk in the Han ford Oil Company ; 
 the other is a daughter named Hermance. 
 
 Mr. Wallber's portrait appears on page 584. 
 
 AMES DAVIDSON, Sparta, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 30, Department 
 Commander of Wisconsin in 1888, was 
 l)orn .Jan. 27, 1825 in Allegany county, New- 
 York. His parents, James and Jane (David- 
 son) Davidson, were born in Acworth, New 
 
 Hampshire, respectively Jan. 15, 1781 and 
 Dec. 26, 1785. They were descended from Wil- 
 liam and Mary Davidson who were born in the 
 North of Ireland of Scotch-Irish parentage, 
 their ancestors having emigrated in 1619 from 
 Scotland under the persecutions of the Scottish 
 "kirk" in order to secure religious freedom, 
 which scheme failed, their sufferings under the 
 Irish of that section being of no less degree. 
 In 1719 the immigration to America began and 
 they afford one of the best strains in the nation- 
 ality known as American. Mr. Davidson of 
 this account is of the sixth generation from the 
 couple named above. His father was a farmer 
 and lumberman, rafting his lumber down the 
 Alleghany River to Pittsburg. He died in Feb- 
 ruary, 1843, and his son assumed charge of his 
 business. The mother died Sep. 18, 1868. 
 They had ten children born as follows: — Sum- 
 ner, Nov. 30, 1808 ; Mary Jane, July 14, 1810 
 Harvey, Aug, 5, 1811 ; Joshua L., Dec. 6, 1812 
 Stephen L., Feb. 28, 1814 ; Zoe, Feb. 18, 1817 
 Rebecca, July 25, 1819 ; Clarissa, Feb. 18, 1822 
 James, Jan. 27, 1825 ; John S., Nov. 20, 1828 
 only Stephen, James and Rebecca are living 
 and the latter, Mrs. Bell, resides in New York. 
 Stephen lives in Kansas. 
 
 Mr. Davidson assumed the management of 
 his father's business on his death when he was 
 18 years old and, after three years he began 
 the manufacture of buckskin mittens. He sold 
 out in two years, engaging in the sale of that 
 merchandise three years, meanwhile acquiring 
 a wide acquaintance. He thought this would 
 be of service as a recommend in some other 
 line of business, but found it difficult to 
 win confidence in that method of transacting 
 business until he encountered for the hundreth 
 time a member of a boot and shoe house, who 
 asked him if he had secured a place. He 
 answered that he proposed to take the road in 
 his interest and at such remuneration as they 
 
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 were willing to give him. The first year they 
 paid him §800, and he remained with them 
 until he received $5,000 annually. Subse- 
 quently he engaged with another tirm until 
 1861, and when the war became a fact, he de- 
 termined to enter the army and recruited for 
 the 5th and 6th New York Cavalry. On the 
 organization of the regiments he was offered 
 the colonelc}' of the latter, but accepted the 
 position of Major of the 5th, many of his per- 
 sonal friends being therein. They broke camp 
 on Staten Island in the fall and went to Balti- 
 more to be equipped. Their horses were un- 
 shod and that work was accomplished under 
 difficulties by Major Davidson, the officers 
 whose duty it was refusing to attend to it and 
 the Major took possession of the blacksmith 
 shops in Baltimore, detailed expert men from 
 his own regiment and had the work performed. 
 The excitement of this action was immense 
 the Baltimore press discussing it with earnest- 
 ness and the Union papers stating that " Major 
 Davidson was not raised among the owls of the 
 Alleghany mountains to be scared by Balti- 
 more rebels. " The next move was to Annap- 
 olis and the management of the colonel of the 
 regiment giving Major Davidson much annoy- 
 ance, he made use of some stringent language 
 in relation to his superior officer, for which he 
 is proud to say he was placed under arrest, 
 but for an exceedingly short time. They went 
 into a school of instruction at Annapolis, erected 
 quarters and made arrangements generally for 
 the winter which was passed there. In the 
 spring they went to Harper's Ferry to join 
 Banks in the movement up the Shenandoah, 
 involving a march of 200 miles. They were 
 in all the movements in May and after the re- 
 treat to Strasburg, two companies from the 5th 
 Cavalry were at Front Royal in the Federal 
 rearguard under Major ^'oigt. In the middle 
 of the night of May 24th, a courier Ciime in 
 
 announcing the movement ofthe rebels and sta- 
 ted that if a point six miles in advance was 
 gained, they would be wholly cut off. They 
 remained until the middle ofthe following day 
 in full readiness to move, hearing the tliunder 
 of the battle going on at Winchester but were 
 not called into action. Finally they decided 
 to protect their stores at Strasburg by burial 
 and then they moved up the hill and descried 
 a force of cavalry and a large infantry force. 
 They changed their route to the left with 
 Major Davidson in command, in deference to 
 the request of the officers who had become dis- 
 gusted with the colonel. They arrived at Win- 
 chester at three in the morning, found the situa- 
 tion dangerous and retreated, crossing the river 
 and going into camp. Major Davidson had 
 become so dissatisfied with the want of courage, 
 military ability and general character of his 
 brother officers that he determined to resign 
 and rode to headquarters for that purpose. He 
 stated his reasons to General Banks who 
 promised to remedy the troubles if he would 
 return to his regiment, but he did not deem it 
 wise and persisted in resigning, which was ac- 
 cepted and he returned to New York "and re- 
 sumed charge of his business. He met Sena- 
 tor Harris, who urged his return to the army 
 with promises that tlie difficulties should be 
 removed and that he should receive promotion, 
 even to a Brigadier-Generalship if hu desired, 
 and he decided to reconsider the proposition. 
 
 He went to St. Louis to attend to business 
 and from there went to Black River Falls in 
 Wisconsin, and later his own affairs engrossed 
 his attention and he gave up all idea of return- 
 ing to the service. In 1867 he located at 
 Sparta, which has since been his headquarters 
 in the management of his extensive landed in- 
 terests in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas. 
 
 He was married in New York to Mrs. Delia 
 Heller. Their residence is one of the tinest in 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 595 
 
 Sparta, where they propose to pass their re- 
 maining years. Mr. Davidson is a Repubhcan 
 of no uncertain stripe, and is active in every 
 avenue where he can be of use. He has acted 
 as delegate to the National, State and local 
 conventions, but has persistently refused politi- ! 
 cal ofhcial positions. He was the first Com- ' 
 mander of tlie Post to which he belongs and is 
 widely known as an enthusiastic G. A. R. man. 
 In 1886 he was Delegate-atrLarge to the Na- i 
 tional Encampment at San Francisco and in , 
 1887 he was one of the Council of Administra- 
 tion for Wisconsin. In 1888 he was made De- 
 partment Commander of Wisconsin by ac- 
 clamation. Mr. Davidson possesses the traits i 
 of the race which he represents. His sense of 
 manhood, courage and uprightness is worthy 
 his sires' record in defense of those characteris- 
 tics, and in his private as in his public career 
 he has honored his convictions. 
 
 ^^^ ENERAL FRED C. WINKLER, Mil- 
 r^ waukee. Wis., a member of a leading 
 law firm of the Cream City, a member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 1, and also belonging to 
 the Order of tiie Loj-al Legion, Wisconsin Coni- 
 mandery, was born March 15, 1838 in Bremen, 
 Germany. His parents were natives of and 
 descendants from a family of long standing in 
 Germany and the father came to America in 
 1842, fixing a home for his family in Milwau- 
 kee prior to the admisision of the Territory of 
 Wisconsin as a State and the son, who accom- 
 panied his mother to Milwaukee in 1814, when 
 six years old, may be claimed as a citizen of the 
 State " to the manor born." He was educated 
 under the tutelage of Professor Engelmann, 
 obtained an available knowledge of branches 
 taught in the common schools in this countrj^ 
 and utilized it before he was 18 years of age. 
 
 He had a decided predilection for the profession 
 of law and commenced his studies to that end 
 under the instructions of H. L. Palmer of Mil- 
 waukee. In the fall of 1858 he went to Madi- 
 son to accept a position with the law firm of 
 Abbott, Gregory & Pinnej^ and acted as clerk 
 with that firm, meanwhile passing examination 
 for admission to the Bar of Dane county and 
 was admitted April 19, 1859, to practice in the 
 State courts of Wisconsin. He returned to 
 Milwaukee to establish himself in the prosecu- 
 tion of his business as an attorney, in which he 
 was engaged until the condition of the country 
 became the paramount interest of himself, as of 
 every reflective man who saw the impending 
 peril to his relations in every avenue, and, 
 when the call for German troops was issued 
 under the influence and authority of Sigel, 
 young Winkler then at the threshold of a prom- 
 ising career, left his private affairs with his 
 other connections and devoted himself to the 
 accomplishment of the purpose of the call 
 referred to. He had formed a partnership with 
 G. von Deutsch, who had entered the cavalry 
 service previously and after that event Mr. 
 W^inkler had conducted the business of the 
 office singly until he decided to enter the ser- 
 vice himself. He used his influence and every 
 other resource in his power to raise men, and 
 recruited for a company which was assigned to 
 the 26th Wisconsin Infantry as Company B, of 
 which he was made Captain on its organiza- 
 tion. October 6, 1862, the regiment left the 
 State for the front, going to Washington and 
 thence to Fairfax C. H., to be assigned to the 
 11th Arn:y Corps under Sigel. It can be truly 
 said of the 26th Wisconsin that, prior to going 
 to actual warfare, it was one of the hardest 
 worked organizations in the service. Its enlisted 
 men were in earnest, and drilled and fitted for 
 duty in the most thorough manner and, when 
 assigned to duty, no other regiment in the ser- 
 
596 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 vice exceeded its military discipline. Multi- 
 tudes of its members were men who had left 
 their native land to escape compulsory military 
 service and they had entered upon the obliga- 
 tions of soldiers of their adopted country in dead 
 earnest and for a purpose, in which no man 
 who was ever enrolled under the laws of con- 
 scription ever was concerned personally. Dur- 
 ing the fall a change of base was made to 
 Gainesville and the regiment went in December 
 to Falmouth to aid in the consummation of the 
 plans of Rurnside. The abilities of General 
 Winkler were utilized in the capacity of .Judge 
 Advocate in successive courts-martial through 
 the winter and spring. He went into tlie spring 
 campaign, crossing the Rappahannock and 
 Rapidan and took part in the fight at Cliancel- 
 lorsville, being attached to the staff of General 
 Schurz, Division Commander. At Gettysburg 
 the 26th Wisconsin was again hotly engaged, 
 especiallj^ on the first day when Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Boebel (see sketch) and Major Baetz 
 being wounded. Captain Winkler was for a time 
 the ranking and commanding officer of the 
 regiment. Captain Winkler was made Major 
 October 8, 1863. He was practically in com- 
 mand of the 26th thereafter to the close 
 of the war, the Colonel resigning without 
 resuming charge and the Lieutenant-Colonel 
 hehig disabled and mustered out on account 
 of his wounds. He accompanied liis com- 
 mand under Hooker to the relief of the 
 Armv of the Cumberland and was in the fiehtins 
 at Wauhatchie, October 27lli. He fought at 
 the head of his men three days — November 
 23-4-5 — at Mission Ridge, chased rebels on the 
 26th and 27tli, marched back to Parker's Gap 
 and started the same day — the 29tli — to join 
 the expedition for the relief of Burnside at 
 Knoxville. This was a hard march and when 
 its object had been accomplislied the regiment 
 returned to the base of Lookout Mountain for 
 
 I winter quarters. In the Atlanta campaign the 
 roster of General Winkler shows the battles 
 and skirmishes of Buzzard's Roost, Snake 
 Creek Gap, Resaca, Dallas Woods, and the sev- 
 eral actions known as Kenesaw Mountain. He 
 was in the battle at Peach Tree Creek and went 
 to the trenches at Atlanta. August 17th the 
 Commander of the 26th was made Colonel, 
 having been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
 in May. On numberless pages of this work the 
 experiences of the volunteer soldiers of the 
 26th are recounted and Colonel Winkler was a 
 part of it all. His regiment went with Sherman 
 on the march to the sea, and was water bound 
 in Savannah from December 21st to January 
 13th, when it moved Northward engaged in 
 the work of crippling the resources of the 
 rebels, who were met at Averysboro, where a 
 stiff fight was had on March 16, 1865. The 
 regiment fought its last battle at Bentonville 
 March 19, 1865, and went to Goldsboro, Ral- 
 eigh, Richmond, Washington and home. C-ol- 
 
 1 onel Winkler, at the head of his men, marched 
 in the final parade at Washington and returned 
 to well-deserved honorary recognition of ser- 
 vice at Milwaukee, which siill regards liim as 
 one of her most creditable sons. In the ad- 
 justment of honors after the close of the war 
 he was breveted Brigadier-General of \'^olun- 
 teers by the War Department. 
 
 On resuming connection with tlie affairs of 
 private life, he re-opened his business as an 
 attorney and in 1867 became associated with 
 A. R. R. Butler. Later, he became a member 
 
 , of the firm of Jenkins, Elliott & Winkler, one 
 of the ablest law firms in tiie city at that date 
 and at this writing — 1890 — is one of the mem- 
 bers of the most prominent comlnnation of 
 attorneys in the Northwest, Winkler, Flanders, 
 Smith, Bottum & Vilas. 
 
 In character General Winkler is a marked 
 man of his generation. An able jurist, culti- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 597 
 
 vated and refined in the best senses of those 
 terms, he is modest and retiring in prodivity 
 and sustains the dignity which his career from 
 tlie beginning of liis connection with tlie work 
 tlie worltl lias liad for liim to do has conferred 
 on him. For it has always been of the 
 worthiest. Rising through merit to the head 
 of his command in tlie army, he has always 
 placed himself in the category of a volunteer 
 soldier. He fought with his men from start to 
 finish ; his interest and energy in the war 
 never flagged and he was never in one instance 
 absent from his post of duty. Of such a man 
 as General Winkler, needing no elaborate and 
 detailed statements of a war record which his 
 country preserves on a thousand pages, it can 
 justly be said and in it a man no more honored 
 can be by inscriptions on tablets of brass — He 
 recognized and did his duty. 
 
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 j^ ONRAD KREZ, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 member of Sheboygan Falls G. A. R. 
 Post, was born April 27, 1828, in 
 Landau in the Palatinate to Bavaria, a pro- 
 vince on the Rhine in Germany. His father, 
 Jean Baptiste Krez, served his prescribed term 
 in the Bavarian army, and later in life entered 
 the Grecian service under King Otto in the 
 same conflict in which Lord Byron engaged, 
 and died in Greece in 1839 ; he married Louise 
 Henrietta Naas, who bore him two children. 
 Paul died in Germany. 
 
 Mr. Krez received the best educational train- 
 U5g his country affords, studied at the univer- 
 sities at Munich and Heidelberg, and prepared 
 for the profession of law. He belonged to the 
 progressive class in his own country, and at the 
 age of enthusiasms became involved in the 
 political issues that shook German}' in 1848, 
 when an attempt was made to establish a con- 
 stitutional Empire, including Austro-Germany 
 
 of the then German Confederacy, and he threw 
 all his hopes as a true son of Germany into the 
 balance. When the Hungarians were over- 
 thrown, when the last hope for the unification 
 of Germany had perished, he determined to 
 sever his connection with the land of his birth 
 and started for the United States, arriving in 
 .January, 18.51. He studied law in the city of 
 New York and in 1854 went to Sheboygan, 
 Wisconsin, and was admitted to the Bar ; he 
 established his practice there and continued 
 his business with success until the advent of 
 war. He was serving a term as District Attor- 
 ney when he enlisted, Aug. 18, 1862, in Com- 
 pany E, 27th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 
 When the regiment was organized, Mr. Krez 
 was made Colonel. He completed the organi- 
 zation and went to camp at Milwaukee, the 
 regiment leaving there March 16, 1863, for 
 service in Northern Kentucky. An encounter 
 with the rebels of slight moment took place at 
 Satartia on the move to Vicksburg, where the 
 regiment was assigned to the Provisional Divi- 
 sion under Gen. Nathan Kimball in the 16th 
 Corps. It took position at Snyder's Bluft', a 
 situation designed to protect the besieging 
 forces, and operated there in miscellaneous 
 duty incident to the situation, until the sur- 
 render of the city. A removal to Helena was 
 effected, where the 27th was assigned to the 
 command of Steele and went thence to the 
 capture of Little Rock. Colonel Krez had 150 
 men in line when he started on the march, t!>« 
 rest of his command being sick at Helena. 
 Sevei^l skirmishes took place en route to 
 Little Rock, which town was taken by General 
 Steele as if he were playing a game of chess, 
 checkmating the confederate forces by moving 
 a column on each side of the river, by which 
 the confederate army, superior in numbers to 
 General Steele's command, was compelled to 
 evacuate the place with small loss to the 
 
598 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Union force. The next general movement in 
 which the regiment took part was in General 
 Steele's Red River expedition, the 27th being 
 one of the regiments of Colonel Engleman's 
 brigade, General Salomon's division. But 
 wliile endeavoring to effect a junction with 
 General Banks, the army was harassed by 
 Shelby and iMarmaduke's commands, wlio en- 
 deavored to retard their march, but with- 
 out great success. General Steele left Cam- 
 den when disaster had overtaken Banks. A 
 train .sent out for supplies had been captured 
 by tlie confederates, and the escort defeated 
 and taken prisoners, and General Steele was 
 cut off from all communications ; Colonel 
 Krez was sent out with infantry and cavalry 
 to reconnoiter. He discovered the footprints 
 of a column of infantry and ascertained that 
 the enemy was attempting to intercept General 
 Steele by getting between him and Little 
 Rock. At night Steele broke camp and stole 
 across the Washita River, followed closely by 
 Kirby Smith who came up with him at Saline 
 Bottom. The first IjIovv fell on the 27th in the 
 battle which followed. The main attack was 
 made when General Rice had taken their 
 place in the rear of tlie column in the resump- 
 tion of the march, and by him the enemy was 
 decidedly repulsed. Without further molestation 
 General Salomon's division crossed the Saline, 
 being compelled to leave the dead and wounded 
 on the field in charge of surgeons and assist- 
 ants. A forced and unincumbered inarch was 
 rendered necessary by the state of the roads and 
 the troops iiad notliing to eat for three days 
 except corn on the cob and coffee. Afterwards 
 the regiment was ordered to report to General 
 Canby and formed with the 28th Wisconsin, 
 33d Iowa and the 77th Ohio, part of tlie 3d 
 Brigade, 3d Division, 13th Army Corps, witJi 
 Colonel Krez as Brigade Commander, and in 
 that capacity he was with his command in the 
 
 siege of Spanish Fort 14 days under an inces- 
 sant storm of shot and slid! from tlie rel)el for- 
 tifications. On the morning of the 9th of 
 April, Spani.';h Fort was occupied by the Union 
 force, the 27th proceeding to Fort Blakely to 
 witness its capture. Colonel Krez, at the head 
 of his command, inarched to Mclntosii's Bluff 
 under orders to take possession of the confeder- 
 ate navy yard, which order he executed, waging 
 war until the confederate admiral surrend- 
 ered the naval vessels and transports to his 
 su|)erior officer. He returned with his brigade 
 on the fleet of transports to Mobile wlience the 
 regiment started with General Steele's old 
 troops of the 7th .\rmy Corps across the Gulf to 
 Brazos Santiago, Texas, to form part of Gen- 
 eral Steele's command. Thence the regiment 
 went to Clarksville and from there in August 
 to Brownsville where they were mustered out 
 and sent to Wisconsin. During all the service 
 imperfectly outlined in this sketch, Colonel 
 Krez was always with his command and per- 
 formed service of the most meritorious charac- 
 ter which was properly recognized by the 
 Government in the form of a commission as 
 Brevet-Brigadier General. 
 
 On the day following his return to Sheboy- 
 gan, he opened his office and followed iiis pro- 
 fession as an attorney until he w'as appointed 
 by President Cleveland Collector of Customs 
 of the port of Milwaukee and he received his 
 commission July 27, 1885. In his capacity as 
 a representative of the President, under tlie law 
 empowering him to suspend officers during the 
 recess of Congress, he operated until May 17, 
 1886, when he was appointed, confirmed and 
 commissioned for four years as Collector of the 
 port; Nov. 27, 1889, he was removed by Presi- 
 dent Harrison ami turned over his office to his 
 successor. Ho soon thereafter commenced the 
 practice of law in Milwaukee. In political af- 
 filiation he is a Democrat. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 599 
 
 . He was married in New York City in 1852, 
 to Addie, daughter of Judge John A.Stemmler 
 and he has seven children; — .fosephine, Louise, 
 CorneUa, Paul, Albert, Alfred and Gertrude. 
 Cornelia is married to W. M. Jennings of 
 Brookville, Kansas. 
 
 OHN G. TEALL, Racine, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born June 15, 
 1845, in Elgin County, Ontario, the son 
 of .John B. and Permelia Ann Teall. Their 
 children were named John G., Ann M. and 
 Sarah A. The latter died in Michigan and the 
 elder daughter at Racine. The father was 
 born and reared in New York but died at 
 Vienna, Elgin Co., Ont., March 27, 1851. He 
 was a millwright. The mother was a native of 
 Canada and died in Vienna, Elgin Co., Ont., in 
 1849. Both parents were of English descent. 
 Mr. Teall went to Racine when 14 years of age. 
 Besides attending school he served an appren- 
 ticeship of two years in the carpenter trade and 
 then followed the occupation of running wood- 
 working machinery, with which he was occu- 
 pied until he entered the army. He enlisted 
 in 1862, but, being so young, his stepmother 
 asserted her authority and his name was re- 
 moved from the rolls. 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864, he enrolled in Company A, 22d 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment at 
 Murfreesboro witliin the breastworks. (The 
 command belonged to the 2d brigade, 3d Divi- 
 sion and 20th Army Corps, under General 
 Hooker.) He was first in action at Resaca, 
 made the movements with the command to 
 Dallas and was in the activities in that vicinity, 
 fighting later in the several actions at Kenesaw 
 Mountain, known as Pine Knob, Lost Moun- 
 tain, Golgatha Church and Nose Creek, and in 
 the intrenchments before Atlanta until Sher- 
 
 man moved to Jonesboro. He went with the 
 Great Captain to the sea, and after the opera- 
 tions about Savannah, moved to Goldsboro and 
 Raleigh, thence to Richmond and Washington. 
 He was taken sick prior to the Review, which 
 he witnessed from an ambulance. June lOlli, 
 he was transferred to the 3d Wisconsin Infan- 
 try and was mustered out at Washington, Aug. 
 15, 1865. He returned to Racine, where he at 
 once secured employment running wood-work- 
 ing machinery until the fall of 1886, when he 
 was elected Register of Deeds for Racine Co., 
 Wis., and in 1888 he was re-elected to the same 
 position, on the Republican ticket. Mr. Teall 
 is a substantial and honored citizen of Racine 
 County. In his official duties he sustains his 
 record as a soldier and enjoys the satisfaction 
 of those who strive to respond to the demands 
 of duty. He is Senior Vice Commander of his 
 Post, a member of the A. 0. U. W., of the Mod- 
 ern Woodmen and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 He was married Oct. 16, 1873, to Sarah M., 
 daughter of William M. and Margaret M. 
 Shepherd. The parents of Mrs. Teall removed 
 from Wasliington Co., New York, to Racine in 
 1843. The mother survives and lives with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Teall, the only survivor of five 
 children. The father died in 1889. 
 
 ^m^ 
 
 OBERT GILLER, Portage, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 14, was born 
 in Scotland May 12, 1822, and is the 
 son of William and Mary (Nutt) Giller. He 
 was reared in his native country and came to 
 America during the progress of the Crimean 
 war in 1854. Colonel Morrison of England 
 was married to his sister and was a resident of 
 the city of New York, where he made a stop 
 and proceeded thence to Dexter, Michigan, 
 where a sister resided and with her husband 
 
600 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 she accompanied her brother to Portage where 
 all linve since resided. Mr. Oilier obtained a 
 position as currier in a tannery, in which he was 
 oocnpied until he entered the army of the 
 United States. Aug. 15, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company H, 23d Wisconsin Infantry and, 
 after muster at Camp Randall, went under 
 Colonel J. J. Guppy to the front At Cincinnati 
 and iijK'rateil in military duty in Nortliern 
 Kentucky until late in November when the 
 regiment went to Memphis. Tlie regiment 
 moved in the plans of Grant on \'ieksl)urg in 
 the command of Sherman, and destroyetl rebel 
 buildings, railroads and stores of every de- 
 scription, going to Chickasaw Bayou and, later 
 to the caj)ture of Arkansas Post. The next 
 movement was to Young's Point, and in the 
 spring the men went to almost incessant 
 duty performing excellent service in scouting, 
 skirmi.'^hing, cajtturing rebels, horses, mules 
 and supplies and also engaging in foraging. 
 Mr. Giller was anaong those who volunteered 
 to run the blockade and returned safely to his 
 regiment after the service was performed. The 
 recruiting of the regiment, which had lost 
 many men through sickness, took place at 
 Milliken's Bend and Mr. Giller was in the light- 
 ing at Port (libson. Champion's Hill and Black 
 Kiver Bridge, on the way to the rear of \'ieks- 
 burg. At Port Gibson the regiment was the 
 first to take possession and the regimental colore 
 were placed on a church. They went to search 
 for rebels, moving on the double-quick to Ray- 
 mond, and went thence to the action last 
 named, Black River Bridge, where the shots 
 fell thick and fast. General A. J. Smith issued 
 peremptory orders and the place was tiiken by 
 assault with several thousand prisoners. The 
 23d was in the siege of Vieksburg afterwards 
 until the surrender and followed Johnston to 
 Jackson. 
 
 In August llie regiment went to New Orleans. 
 
 At Two Rivers, Carrolton, La., Mr. Giller was 
 color bearer while the troops were reviewed by 
 General Banks and he was in the expedition 
 with his command through Southwestern 
 Louisiana, skirmishing as did no other regiment 
 only those in the same service, the rebels being 
 stationed in squads at every turn, fighting 
 in ambuscade and everj' other despicable 
 variety of manner known to rebel malice. At 
 Carrion Crow Bayou, Mr. tJiller received a 
 bullet in his right thigh but did not leave his 
 company, and joineil in the chase to Opelousi\s, 
 La. He went back to Carrion Crow Bayou and 
 with his regiment to tlie Red River expedition 
 and repeated his former experiences, saving the 
 regiment^vl flag in the action at Carrion Crow 
 Bayou. He was captured at Sabine Cross 
 Roads and taken to the stockade prison in Texas 
 where he was held until spring. He was taken 
 sick with intermittent fever and sent to St. 
 Louis hospital, where he remained until his 
 brother was killed in front of Richmond, Va. 
 Obtaining leave of absence, he went to New 
 York and returned to ^hidison, where he was 
 mustered out ^hiy 31, 1865, after three years 
 and a month in the service. 
 
 He went to Marquette county to visit a sister 
 and thence to Portage where he has a situation 
 as janitor of the High School building and 
 Presbyterian church. 
 
 He was married in his native country to 
 Elizabeth Curey, a native of Scotland, and their 
 only child is named Mary Ann. The wife died 
 in 1801 and Mr. Giller was again married in 
 1866, to Mrs. Margaret Robinson, a native of 
 Scotland. Their children are Elizabeth and 
 Theodore. The parents belong to the Presby- 
 terian church. Mr. Giller is a Republicixn in 
 politics and is drawing a pension. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 601 
 
 OIIN W. ALLISON, La Crosse, Wis., 
 (~\t TiH'iiihcr of (i. A. U. Post No. 38, was 
 l)urn Aug. 28, 1828, in Crawford Co., 
 Illinois. lie represents stock which was early 
 idenliruHl with the history of this country, his 
 grout grunflliithcr Allison having eniigraled to 
 America from Scotland and settled in Virginia, 
 where his son Samuel was horn. lie was mar- 
 ried there and thei'e llichard S., father of Mr. 
 Allison of this sketch, was horn. The latter 
 married Lavina Laniasters and they had 12 
 children, of whom six are living in 1890. 
 Richard iVllison was horn Nov. 6, 1798, at 
 Warm Springs, the hirthjilace of his father and 
 grandfather, and was a cahinet maker hy trade 
 and also donated his services as a Baptist 
 clergyman to the church. His parents went in 
 his youth to Kentucky and thence to what is 
 now Lawrence county, Illinois. That portion 
 of the State was infested with Indians and they 
 returned to Kentucky and again went hack to 
 the same location in Illinois. (Ahout the same 
 time the first Harrison went to Marshal county, 
 Indiana, and huilt Fort Harrison at Tippe- 
 canoe.) Oct, 15, 1845, the father went to the 
 Territory of Wisconsin, whercs lie located in 
 Green county and went hack afterward to 
 Council Hill, 111., where he died March 4, 1854 ; 
 his wife survived him until March (i, 1881. 
 
 The son was reared on a farm and learned 
 the vocation of !i mason, which he pursued un- 
 til he hecame a soldier. When the first sounds 
 of coming war echoed through the Bailger 
 State he enlisted in a local company in April, 
 18G1, for three months, hut was never mus- 
 tered, lie reported at Washington and was 
 assigned to the quartermaster's department and 
 detailed for a teamster. He returned to Wis- 
 consin July 1, 1801, and re-enlisted Sept. 6, 
 18Gl,in C"omi>any F, 8th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 Octoher r2th, following, he left the State for St. 
 Louis and was sent thence with a por- 
 
 tion of his regiment to the iron district, 
 with camp at Pilot Knoh. On the 2()th he was 
 in the action with the forces of Jeff Thomp- 
 son, guarding the haggage, and returned to 
 Pilot Knoh after the jiursuit of the flying 
 rebels. Not many days later the command 
 started after Thompson again, following him 
 with the expectation of a fight until Indian 
 Ford was reached, when Hardee came up with 
 a force and the troops fell back. They went 
 next to Sulphur Springs and remained from 
 the latter i)art of December until January, 18G2. 
 He went thence to Cairo to provost duty and 
 early in March wont to Point Pleasant, Mo., and 
 operated on the river against the gunboats and 
 in Aj)ril went to the scenes of activity after the 
 evacuation of island No. 10. A start was made 
 for Memphis, but they were unable to land near 
 Fort Pillow, returned up the Mississippi to the 
 mouth of the Columbia Kiver, wenttoPaducah 
 and Farmington, fighting under llalleck. 
 They went to Corinth and after the siege to 
 Memphis. There he was assigned to duty as 
 division teamster and joined his regiment at 
 Huntsville, Ala. He went to Memphis and was 
 placed in charge of post teams and went thence 
 on detached duty to Vicksburg with horses in 
 the spring of 1863. He there succeeded in 
 making connection with his regiment and re- 
 mained in the work of the siege until he was 
 hurt by a horse, which accident disabled him 
 for a time. After the surrender he received a 
 furlough of 20 days and on its expiration was 
 ordered to report for transportation to Madison. 
 He was there examined, reported unfit for 
 duty and was discharged July 28, 1863. He 
 returned to Lafayette county and re-enlisted 
 Oct. 5, 1863, going to Camp Washburn and 
 was mustered into Battery D, 1st Wisconsin 
 Heavy Artillery Nov. 20, 1863, as a veteran. 
 The command was ordered to New Orleans, 
 but Mr. Allison was placed on detached duty 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to go to Madison in charge of recruits and dis- 
 charged that duty until April, 18G4, when he 
 started for the front with the recruits and 
 joined his battery at Fort Jackson, La. He 
 was again placed on detached duty, buying 
 cattle, looking after docks and in other mis- 
 cellaneous duty. 
 
 During the time he also took a lot of horses 
 down the river and around the Gulf to Fensa- 
 cola. He returned to his quarters in July and 
 was ordered to Berwick Bay and assisted in the 
 destruction of the fort there. There he was 
 also assigned to the care of the army mail to 
 New Orleans and in November was taken sick 
 and sent to Marine hospital at New Orleans, j 
 where he remained until Jan. 25, 1865, and 
 received a furlough of 60 days. He went to 
 Wisconsin and reported at the hospital at Mad- 
 ison on the expiration of his furlough. He I 
 was there during an examination of disabled 
 soldiers and was transferred to the Invalid 
 Corps. He went in person to General Pope 
 and protested against the assignment and was 
 told that it would be arranged. He was, soon 
 after, placed on detached duty to accom- 
 pany a squad of the Invalid Corps to Detroit 
 and turned them over at headquarters. He | 
 went to Milwaukee and was placed in the mail 
 service. Soon after. General Pope sent for him 
 to take chai-ge of some men to be conducted to 
 Camp McClellan, New York, to their respective i 
 regiments. Poj)e wrote him to return to his 
 headquarters and he was discharged July 1, 
 1865, at Camp Reno, Wis. 
 
 He resided in La Fayette county until 1869, 
 when he removed to Sparta and in 1881 he lo- 
 cated at La Crosse, since his home, and where 
 he has engaged as a teamster. Jan. 19, 1852, 
 he was married at White Oak Springs in La 
 Fayette county to -lane, daugiiter of Joseph 
 and Ann Alderson. Their children are named 
 Anna, Matilda, Delia, Lina, Ida, Josephine and 
 
 Lulu. Delia and Josepliiue are deceased. 
 
 Mrs. Allison was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, 
 England. She came to the United States with 
 her i»arents in 1849 and settled at Council 
 Hill, Jo Daviess Co., 111., where her father en- 
 gaged in farming during the remainder of his 
 life; his wife is also deceased. 
 
 Mr. Allison is a member of the Republican 
 party, and draws a pension. 
 
 <j;^UGENE L. ANDERSON, Mau.ston, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 59, was born Nov. 18, 1843, at Elgin, 
 Illinois. His parents, L. C. and Emily (Pratt) 
 Anderson, were born and married in the State 
 of New York and removed thence to Illinois in 
 the fall of 1842, where the father was a farmer, 
 and from there the famih' went to Wisconsin 
 in 1853, residing successively at Mauston and 
 near Kilbourn City, the parents dying in Maus- 
 ton. But three of their eight children are living 
 in 1890. Until he was 17 years old the son was 
 an inmate of his father's house aiid obtained a 
 fair degree of education. At the age mention- 
 ed he enlisted in Company K, 6th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, enrolling June 20, 1861 and was 
 mustered at Madison. With his regiment he 
 left the State to go to Washington and thence 
 to active service. The regiment went by way 
 of Harrisburg and Baltimore, and at Wash- 
 ington was stationed at several points perform- 
 ing military duty and drilliiig until March 10, 
 1862, when a start was made under McDowell 
 for Manassas. The movement ended with 
 little results, and the regiment returned to 
 Washington and operated on the outposts of 
 the Capital. The brigade passed the interve- 
 ning time until McClellan's return from the 
 Peninsula, in operations between Manassas 
 and Fredericksburg in an endeavor to keep 
 
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 Jackson in check and afterwards McDowell's 
 command was sent to reinforce Pope and 
 camped on the battle field of Cedar Mountain. 
 They were forced to retreat and on the way en- 
 countered the rebels in several skirmishes, 
 returniTig to the battle field of Bull Run. Mr. 
 Anderson wiis in all the activities of his regi- 
 ment in the Virginia campaign, fought at 
 Gainesville and in the 2d Bull Run, going 
 afterwards to AVashington and thence to the 
 fighting in Mar^dand which seemed constant, 
 as the Union troops followed the rebels from 
 point to point. In the fight at South Moun- 
 tain he was a participant, and at Antietam his 
 military career ended. During the first half of 
 the day's fighting he received a musket ball in 
 his knee, the missile passing through the joint. 
 He lay on the field two days before his wound 
 was dressed and was finally removed to Keedys- 
 ville to a school building used for hospital 
 purposes, remaining there more than a week, 
 when he was sent to Frederick, Md., to Semi- 
 nary hospital and remained there until his dis- 
 charge, .Jan. 25, 1863, the surgeons having de- 
 clared that he could never recover the use of 
 his leg and he has always been disabled. 
 Much use of his other leg has caused varicose 
 veins, so that he is considerably crippled by 
 his injury. He went to Mauston after dis- 
 charge and engaged in mercantile business in 
 1861 with his father, who was advancing in 
 years. He afterwards assumed entire control of 
 the management, purchasing the entire interest 
 before his father's death. He is one of the 
 leading merchants in that place and carries a 
 full stock of goods suited to his j)atronage. He 
 was niarrieiJ, in 1865 at Mauslon, to Mary F. 
 Parker, a native of Pennsylvania. Tiiey have 
 one son. named Verne. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a member of Northern 
 Light Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Socially and in 
 business circles he has a high standing and is 
 
 considered as one of the leading citizens of his 
 locality. He was a good soldier and has sus- 
 tained his civil career in the same manner in 
 which he served his country in the rebellion. 
 He is a Republican in politics. 
 
 ;;/,^5^ HRI8T0PHER V. CLARK, Eau 
 Claire, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 52 (Eagle), was born Feb. 
 14, 1848, in the city of New York, whither his 
 parents, Dennis and Catherine (Murray) Clark, 
 removed from Ireland sometime in the " thir- 
 ties." After some years they went thence to 
 Manistee, Mich., and, after four years, went to 
 Chippewa Falls, Wis. They reached that place 
 in July, 1859, and there the mother died in 
 the fall of 1861, the father surviving until 1884. 
 He was a farmer throughout his life. 
 
 The son obtained a fair schooling and worked 
 as a farm assistant and in a mill until he en- 
 listed when he was 14 years old as a drummer 
 at Chippewa Falls, Aug. 15, 1862, and was 
 mustered into Company K, 30th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. The regiment remained in camp at 
 Madison until the spring of 1863, when intelli- 
 gence reaching the authorities of trouble with 
 the Indians on the frontiers, the command 
 went up the Missouri River to Sioux City and 
 thence to Fort Leavenworth. The next re- 
 moval took them to Fort Lincoln whence, with 
 five others. Company K was ordered to Mil- 
 waukee. There they performed provost duty 
 and service in looking after substitutes and 
 drafted men. The command engaged in this 
 sort of service until the spring of 1864, when 
 orders were received for Fort Snelling and, 
 after a few days, the regiment went to Fort 
 Ridgeley. About the first of July they went to 
 Fort Wadsworth and built a new fortification, 
 returning in September to receive orders for 
 
604 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the South to join Sherman. On the way they 
 stopped at Fort Snelling and were ordered to 
 report at St. Louis. Tiiey went from there to 
 Paducah, Ky., and passed about six weeks tak- 
 ing care of rebel movements that might other- 
 wise interfere with Slierman's plans and an- 
 ticipated an attack by Forrest which was not 
 made. Tlieir next removal was to Louisville, 
 Ky., and thence to Nashville in November, but 
 they did not arrive at the latter place, being 
 switched off at Bowling Green and remained 
 there about six weeks doing guard duty. 
 Thence the command went to Louisville and 
 performed duty until mastered out Sept. 22, 
 1865, returning to Chippewa Falls. 
 
 He engaged in lumbering for D. E. Miles for 
 a time, remained at Chij)pewa Falls until 1870 
 and employed nearly the entire time in the 
 same business. He went thence to Stillwater, 
 Minn., where lie worked in the woods and as a 
 lumberman. After two years he went back to 
 Chippewa Falls and removed to Eau Claire in 
 1884, and has since been similarly occupied. 
 He was married Aug. 17, 1869, at Cliippewa 
 Falls, Wis., to Julia, daughter of Michael and 
 Nora O'Niel. Her father is deceased and her 
 mother is still living. Honora, Willie (died at 
 7), Catherine (died at 11 years of age), .Julia, 
 Mary, Loretta, George and John are the chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Clark. While in the army 
 Mr. Clark contracted lung fever and before h-e 
 had sufficiently recovered orders for transfer 
 were received and in the attendant exposure 
 he took another cold which brought on a re- 
 lapse, ending in typhoid fever, which left his 
 blood in a diseased condition from which he 
 has since suffered. Large and troublesome 
 sores appear on his limbs and he is nearly dis- 
 abled by them. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 
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 OSEA WHITFORD ROOD, princi- 
 of schools at Palmyra, Wiscou- 
 sni, and a member of A. D. Hamil- 
 ton Post No. 4, of Milton, was born May 30, 
 1845, in the town of Persia, Cattaraugus county, 
 New York. He reckons it good fortune to 
 have come into existence in a log house. It 
 was located on a stony little farm and was the 
 home of his maternal grandfather, George 
 Thorngate. 
 
 This grandfather was born in ^hirlborough, 
 Wiltshire, England, in 1798. When 15 years 
 old he enlisted for life in the British army. In 
 the early part of the war of 1812 his regiment 
 was in Scotland guarding French prisoners, 
 but later it was sent to Canada to fight the 
 Yankees. While in camp near the Thousand 
 Islands of the St. Lawrence the breezes from 
 the free side of the river seemed to inspire him 
 with the spirit of liberty, and one dark night 
 he, with two or three comrades secured a skitf, 
 turned their backs upon King George and his 
 dominions, as well as his service, and took the 
 initiatory step toward American citizensliip. 
 They were successful, but the young soldier 
 had adventure enougii in that escape to fur- 
 nish abundant material for highly entertaining 
 stories for his grandchildren. 
 
 He found a home in Jefferson county, Ne\v 
 York, where some years later he married Ma- 
 tilda Thorngate, a maiden of sturdy Yankee 
 stock, of Concord, New Hamjishire. A few 
 years after marriage he removed with liis little 
 family to the aforesaid stony farm in western 
 New York. There he struggled with tlie j)rob- 
 lem of rearing six children with remarkable 
 appetites, and at the same time clearing up a 
 farm in a heavily timbered, as well as stonj', 
 country. Though he accumulated little of this 
 world's goods, he did, with the aid of his good 
 wife, succeed in maintaining them all in toler- 
 able comfort. His children were named, in 
 
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 605 
 
 order of birth, Marianne, David, Hannah, 
 Henry, diaries and George. 
 
 About 1842, David made the acquaintance 
 at Clarence, in the same county, of a young 
 man named Charles P. Rood, and one day in- 
 vited him to his home. This young man was 
 born at Highgate, Franklin Co., Vermont, May 
 31, 1823, and was one of a large family, the 
 children of Burrell and Mary Rood. The death 
 of the mother was the cause of the breaking up 
 of the home, and the children were more or 
 less scattered, Charles going to Clarence, where 
 he was quite alone in the world. 
 
 Being made welcome at the home of the 
 Thorngates, he often visited them, and after- 
 ward lived with them. And it was quite 
 natural that he should fall in love with the 
 eldest daughter, Marianne, she being a very 
 amiable and lovable maiden. The result of 
 this was that in July, 1844, the young couple 
 were married, both being then 21 years of age. 
 
 Another result was a very lucky event in 
 the life of the subject of this sketch — he was 
 born ; and he had the rare good fortune to 
 bring into the world with him a tolerable de- 
 gree of vitality, rejoicing both his parents and 
 grandparents. 
 
 This enlargement of the family and the fact 
 that five young men, or Vjig boys, of the house- 
 liold wanted new farms to develop, led Mr. 
 Thorngate to talk about "moving out West." 
 As Wisconsin Territory seemed, at that time, 
 the land of particular promise, they all decided 
 to go there. Accordingly, in September, 1845, 
 the two families landed in Milwaukee, then a 
 small village by the side of Lake Michigan. 
 They settled in the town of Lake, where they 
 remained two years, when they removed to 
 Johnstown, Rock County. Finding all the 
 desirable land in that region already claimed, 
 they moved, in 1850, to Waushara County, in 
 what was then kuowu as the " Indian Laud." 
 
 The grandfather took a "claim" in the town 
 of Dakota, but Mr. Rood located three miles 
 farther west, in the town of Richford. Two 
 more sons, George B. and William llermati, 
 had in the meantime made their appearance 
 in the family ; and on the 4th of July, 1851, 
 the advent of another son, Charles J., was 
 duly celebrated in the log-house in which they 
 had settled on the 13th of the previous May. 
 
 This was a typical pioneer home in the 
 woods, and there five more children were 
 born, making in all' five boys and four girls. 
 They were a sturdy lot of youngsters, aftbrd- 
 ; ing very little revenue to the one physician 
 in that part of the country, whose single 
 visit on a momentous occasion when catnip 
 and " boneset " seemed inadequate to the im- 
 mediate needs of one of them who was ill, 
 wa,s at once so impressive and repressive that 
 the children went about the house all that day 
 on tiptoe and with bated breath. 
 
 The farm proved to be of a sandy soil, and it 
 can be seen that with five hungry boys and 
 four girls having excellent appetites the pantry 
 was sometimes nearly empty ; and when the 
 tired, self-sacrificing mother finished for this 
 one or that a pair of blue-drilling trousers, a 
 jeans coat or a calico frock, nine young souls 
 rejoiced either in individual ownership or in 
 warm sympathy and hearty gladness for 
 another's good fortune. Their sore toes testi- 
 fied to the location of every grub in the new 
 roads and every stub in the late clearings. 
 Yet all grew up together happy, and really 
 fortunate in their entire ignorance of many vices 
 that come in the train of our intense civilization. 
 
 At first, the nearest school was two and a half 
 miles distant, and the boys could go only in 
 the summers. AVHien, a few years later, a scliool 
 was established near their own home, they could 
 go only in the winter, their work being neces- 
 sary on the farm in summer. 
 
606 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 The home school was peculiarly fortunate in 
 having for some time the work and influence of 
 two teachers of more than ordinary ability. 
 These teachers were Miss Esther Maine, and J. 
 L. Pope; the former taught five terms and the 
 latter two. Both liad not only teaching aljility, 
 but what is far better — the power to awaken 
 such an interest in the minds of children as 
 always makes tliem desire knowledge. 
 
 No such spelling matches liave been known 
 since the war as those which took place in tliat 
 little country school liouse. Fine buildings we 
 have, and costly apparatus, but no more hearty 
 interest in the arithmetic and the spelling book 
 than we had in that little log school house. 
 
 But there were educational influences in the 
 Rood houseliold besides tliose pertaining to the 
 school. Patriotism was instilled in the minds 
 of the cliildren by the weekly visits of that 
 sterling newspaper and public educator, The 
 New Vork Tribune, with Horace Greeley for its 
 editor. The substantial principles of religion 
 came to them through the benignant influence 
 and example of praying parents; and the sweet 
 daily life of grandfatlier Thorngate, who seemed 
 to the boys and girls a veritable white-haired 
 saint. 
 
 The father of the young Roods was an 
 inveterate and comprehensive reader, and, hav- 
 ing a memory that clung fast to every fact, 
 he came to be, in spite of his lack of early 
 scliool training, a thoroughly well informed 
 man. His constant study of the Bible made 
 him very familiar with its contents, and it was 
 therefore very natural that he should become a 
 lay-preacher; and in this cai)acity he served 
 many years in various communities, always 
 iioidmg the peculiar notion that the Gospel 
 should be preached without money and without 
 price. He was also a radical temperance man, 
 and often lectured in the interest of total 
 abstinence. 
 
 I Hosea, the subject of this sketch, from the 
 first desired a liberal education ; hence, when 
 he got so that he could parse a little, knew the 
 lessons in his geography, had ciphered to the 
 "Rule of Three," could spell the school down 
 once in a while, and had grown so bold as once 
 or twice to " see home " the prettiest girl in the 
 neighborhood, he thought it high time for him 
 to strike out into the world, earn some money, 
 and then seek a further culture in some higher 
 institution of learning. Accordingly in the 
 spring of '61, a little before he was sixteen years 
 old, he obtained permission of his father to go 
 " the prairie " to hire out for the summer season. 
 The 20th day of April he left home on foot, 
 with a scanty stock of cheap clothing and a few 
 little home treasures in a bundle on his back, 
 for a seventy-mile walk to Dane county to 
 "look for a job." He engaged to work for 
 Dwight Brown, of the town of Vienna, six 
 months at ten dollars a month. He does not 
 forget to this day that he was exceedingly 
 fortunate in his choice of a place to work, for 
 Mr. and Mrs. Brown took him into their home 
 and treated him, not as a hired man, but as a 
 son. 
 
 That summer of '61 has come to be a his- 
 
 ' toric one. The fall of Fort Sumter — call for 
 troops — enlistments — good byes — battles — sad 
 news — Bull Run — call for more troops — more 
 enlistments — a settled conviction that a long 
 and bloody w^ar was to be fought in which the 
 very life of our Nation was at stake. 
 
 The farm-boy was only sixteen, but through 
 all the racket and din of war he could hear 
 
 i every day the more plainly a voice within him 
 that told him his country had need of him. 
 Tlie constant uneasiness caused by that voice 
 could be relieved only by enlistment. On the 
 6th of October he was enrolled as a mem- 
 ber of a company being raised at Delton, Sauk 
 
 j County, by Captain Abraham Vauderpoel and 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 Lieutenant John Gillispie, the latter having 
 just returned from three uiontlis of service in 
 Company K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry. 
 
 At Delton he began tlie life of a soldier. On 
 going to Camp Randall, Madison, Captain Van- 
 derpoel's command was assigned, as Company 
 E, to the 12tli Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel 
 George E. Bryant commanding. (See sketch.) 
 The regiment left the state Jan. 11, 1862, going 
 into camp for a month at Weston, Mo. ; then 
 two weeks at Leavenworth, Kansas ; then a 
 march to Fort Scott ; after another two weeks, 
 a march to Lawrence ; three weeks later, a 
 march to Fort Riley ; in the last of May, a 
 march back to Leavenworth with orders to re- 
 port to General Grant, at Corinth, Miss. Dur- 
 ing three months tlie marching of the regiment 
 had aggregated over five hundred miles. Ar- 
 riving at Leavenworth, the regiment took a 
 steamer for Columbus, Kentucky. The cir- 
 cumstances demanding reinfoi'cements at Cor- 
 inth having ceased to exist, the Twelfth was 
 employed in bridge building and guard duty 
 along the line of the railroad leading from 
 ColumV)us to Corinth. The greater part of the 
 summer — from July 8th till October 1st, the 
 regiment was in camp at Humboldt, Tenn. 
 
 In October, the Twelftli joined Gen. Grant's 
 army at the battle on the Hatchie, when the 
 rebel generals, Price and Van Dorn, attempted 
 to regain possession of Western Tennessee. 
 The regiment was with Gen. Grant in his 
 attempt to reach ^"icksburg by marching down 
 tiirough Mississippi, which movement was 
 frustrated by the surrender of Holly Springs to 
 the rebels and thus breaking the connection 
 with the base of supplies. 
 
 After this, the Twelfth was engaged till the 
 spring of 1863 in guarding the Memphis and 
 Charleston railroad. In May it went down tlie 
 river to join the main army in the siege of 
 Vicksburg, taking position in the investing 
 
 line of works June 9th. After the surrender of 
 the stronghold, it became a part of General 
 Sherman's expedition to Jackson in pursuit of 
 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston escaped 
 after some heavy fighting, and Sherman 
 returned to Vicksburg. In August, tlie Twelfth 
 was sent to Natchez to garrison the place and 
 make various raids into the surrounding 
 country, the principal of which was in Louis- 
 iana as far as to Harrisonburg. While at 
 Natchez in January, 1863, the most of the regi- 
 ment re-enlisted, among them Private Rood. 
 Returning to Vicksburg the first of February, 
 the Twelfth joined General Sherman's great 
 " Meridian Expedition," marching in one 
 month a distance of 416 miles. After this was 
 accomplished, the regiment started, March 
 13th, on its "Veteran Furlough" of thirty 
 days, after which it joined the 17th Army 
 Corps under Gen. Frank P. Blair at Cairo, 111., 
 going from there by way of Clifton, Tenn., and 
 Huntsville, Ala., to join Sherman's army at 
 Kenesaw Mountain. After this the regiment 
 took part in all the active operations around 
 Atlanta in the summer of '64, — Kenesaw 
 Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill, Ezra's 
 Church, Jonesboro, the chase after Hood, and 
 afterward the "March to the Sea." Through- 
 out that memorable summer of '64, the Twelfth 
 was nearly every day where the enemy's bul- 
 lets made life interesting and lively, but 
 mighty uncertain. The regiment lost heavily, 
 the subject of this sketch being fortunate 
 enough to escape with only a slight wound, 
 July 21, at Bald Hill. He remained on duty 
 with his company a week afterward when, worn 
 out with fatigue and the pain of his wounded 
 arm, he was sent to the hospital where he 
 remained until just before the march to the 
 sea was begun. He had the common exj)eri- 
 ences of all the boys in that marcli and the 
 succeeding one through the Caroliuas, and, 
 
608 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 after the surrender of Johnstou's arm)', the ' 
 inarch to Washington to participate, May 25tli, 
 in the Grand Review in tliatcity. After this the 
 Twelfth went with tlie most of the Western 
 troops to Louisville to be mustered out of ser- 
 vice, their turn coming July 16, 1865. He 
 arrived at his home at the same time with his 
 father and brother Herman, both of whom had 
 served in Conipanj^ G of the o7th Wisconsin. 
 A mouth later, George, another brother, was 
 discharged from three years of service in the 
 30tli Wisconsin. These younger brothers both 
 enlisted before tbey were 16 years old. 
 
 Just here a paragraph must be given to the 
 devoted little mother who gave eight of her 
 dear ones to the service of their country, — her 
 husband, three sons and her four brothers. 
 Her brother David, of the 7th Wisconsin, died; 
 Henr}-, of the same regiment, was severely 
 wounded, as also was George, of the 5th Wis- 
 consin ; Charles, of the 4th Iowa, came home 
 unhurt. In the meantime, the white-haired 
 old grandfather declared that, if more men 
 were needed, he'd go himself. While all these 
 loved ones were in the service, the brave little 
 mother, maintaining the spirit of matrons who 
 live on classic pages, wrote cheerful, motherly, 
 encouraging letters to her soldiers, and daily 
 sent many prayers up to the God of Battles to 
 deal gently with them in the terrible storms of 
 war. If the world were filled with books, the 
 stories of the heroic patriotism of those who 
 suffered at home could never be fully told ; 
 and no attempt has ever been made or ever 
 will be made to compass that which was the 
 strength and gave triumph to the Union arms, 
 — the all-powerful influence of the soldiers' i 
 homes. That mother still lives (1890), in ' 
 North Loup, Nebraska, where she is the idol of ' 
 her nine boys and girls, all of whom are yet liv- 
 ing. Her husband died at North Loup, March 
 17, 1878, where her father also died in 1883. 
 
 On the 13th of October, 1866, H. W. Rood 
 was married to Miss Ann E. Munroe, of Rich- 
 ford, Waushara County, Wisconsin ; and now 
 after nearly a quarter of a century of married 
 life, he knows that either out of pure luck or a 
 remarkably good judgment he made a rare 
 choice of a wife. They have three children, 
 Louis P. Harvey, a carpenter, born in 1867; 
 Ida Lillian, a student in Milton College, born 
 in 1870 ; Lola Grace, born in 1885. In 1869, a 
 daughter, Minnie May, died in infancy. 
 
 Immediately after the war, the young sol- 
 dier went to teaching in the common schools 
 of Waushara County ; and, although he felt 
 not very well qualified, he liked the work so 
 well that he determined to devote his life to the 
 profession. He was obliged to make up for 
 the lack of early advantages by close applica- 
 tion to books during every leisure hour. In 
 1886 he passed the required examination and 
 obtained an Unlimited State Teachers' Certifi- 
 cate. In 1878 he graduated from the Teach- 
 ers' Course in Milton College. Besides teaching 
 in the common schools of Waushara and Mar- 
 quette counties,' he taught several terms of 
 select school and assisted the Countj'^ Superin- 
 tendent through several terms of Institute 
 work. He has been principal of high schools 
 one year in each of the following named places; 
 Sun Prairie, Pewaukee and Cadott; six years at 
 t)niro ; and is now serving his fourth year as 
 principal at Palmyra. January 2, 1891 will be 
 his twenty-fifth anniversary of continuous 
 school work. He is a member of the Seventh- 
 Day Baptist Church, at Milton, and is inde- 
 pendent in political opinion. 
 

PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 611 
 
 FRANK POWELL, M. D., La Crosse, 
 Wis., more widely known perhaps 
 • as White Beaver, is, par excellence a 
 representative citizen whose claims to recogni- 
 tion as sucli are fitting to be placed on perma- 
 nent record in every biographical work pub- 
 lished in his section, which preserves the stories 
 of the frontiersman, the pioneers of citizens of 
 any grade, because he typifies the people of the 
 North and South and in his veins courses the 
 blood of the tribe of Seneca Indians, who 
 deserve permanent recognition in the personal 
 histories of the West. 
 
 He was born among the mountains near the 
 Kentucky River, not far from the Tennessee 
 line, and is the son of Dr. C. H. Powell, a native 
 of Kentucky of Scotch lineage and Fannie 
 Tompkins, the daughter of an Indian medicine 
 chief and a lady who was born in Tompkins 
 Co., New York, near the lake most noted for 
 beauty of all the famous internal lakes which 
 form the finest summer resorts in the world in 
 central New York. The father of Dr. Powell 
 was born of the chivalry of the Kentucky blue- 
 grass region and was a high-toned, cultivated, 
 polifshed gentleman and a physician of wide 
 repute. He came North on a surveying trip 
 and met the lady who became his wife and her 
 father while on a bunting excursion. She was 
 a beautiful and gifted girl and attracted the 
 attention of the Southern gentleman, who took 
 her with him to Kentucky as his wife. »She 
 was, in a sense, a cultivated woman as she had 
 inherited the skill of her father in the under- 
 standing and knowledge of botanical remedies, 
 and she possessed the indomitable courage, 
 endurance, firmness and nobility of character 
 which liave sent the types of her people to the 
 pages of history in honor and renown. Her 
 grandfather was a brave of the Beaver clan, 
 was a soldier under Sullivan of Revolutionary 
 fame, dying of a wound which he received in a 
 
 battle near Niagara Falls in 1779, in an expedi- 
 tion against the Indians formed for retaliation 
 against the tribes in Western New York for 
 the Wyoming and Cherry Valley massacres. 
 The senior Powell died in 1855, when his widow 
 with her son.s, Frank, George and William, 
 returned to New York and she engaged in 
 farming, removing later to the West. Reach- 
 ing Chicago, a short stoj) was made and, later, 
 the mother proceeded to Omaha and, again 
 yielding to the roving instinct, the family 
 settled on the Platte River, in Nebraska, near 
 Lone Tree. There the mother died in 1879 and 
 her sons buried her in a grave dug by their 
 own filial hands. 
 
 Dr. Powell was born May 25, 1847, and 
 received his elementary educational training in 
 the home of his parents, there being no school 
 advantages among his native mountains and 
 he learned as it were, intuitively, the science of 
 medicine, acquiring a knowledge of the healing 
 virtues of plants. When he arrived at Chicago 
 as mentioned, he entered the drug store of F. 
 A. Bryan and studied pharmacy two years; he 
 accompanied his mother to Omaha, whei'e he 
 obtained a position as chief clerk in the drug 
 establishment of James J. Ish, M. D. He 
 became so valuable an adjunct to his establish- 
 ment that Dr. Ish admitted him to a full partr 
 nership and the firm of Ish & Powell acquired 
 a wide fame as dispensers of remedies in nearly 
 all the far West. It became the custom of 
 Frank Powell to visit yearly the ranch of his 
 family and there he met the Sioux Indians, 
 with whom he could hardly avoid affiliation 
 and he became the friend of Buffalo Bill (Wil- 
 liam F. Cody) and multitudes of other sons of 
 the wild life of the plains. They found him 
 the son of his mother and the wide contrast of 
 his life in civilization with that of the border 
 awoke in him a new taste which interested him 
 in more than one sense. He became for the 
 
612 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 nonce a brave of their quality and their delight 
 in him awoke a corresponding sentiment in liiy 
 heart and, partly from inclination and partly 
 from business motives, also with a commingling 
 of a zest for excitement, he joined in their 
 hunts, their scouts and their fights. He became 
 White Beaver from his descent from that branch 
 of the Seneca Indians and his white skin. 
 Once, on the Sweetwater, he saved his parly by 
 his bravado daring and he endeared himself 
 beyond words l)y the skill with which he 
 treated the wounded after the melee was over. 
 He repeated his feats until his name was well 
 known among the tribes of the Western plains. 
 As White Beaver he entered upon a career 
 of recklessness in border life which would fill 
 a volume. He liad abandoned a good bu.siness 
 for a life of adventure, and gradually he drifted 
 away from all civilized associations. Many 
 times, however his character asserted itself and 
 he was -never known to commit a deed of 
 dastardly character or one which impugned 
 his moral purit\' ; daring, reckless of human 
 life as an Indian, revenging tribal wrongs with 
 all avidity and athliating with the people to 
 whom his blood allied him, he led a life char- 
 acteristic of a brave of the frontier. But ties 
 still held him to civilization, and at intervals 
 he renewed communication with his former 
 life. He liad entered the Masonic Order at an 
 early age, and in 1869, being then a 32d-degree 
 Mason, he was ajipointed District Deputy Grand 
 Master for Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, 
 and conferred tiie degree of Master on Buffalo 
 Bill at Platte Valley Lodge, Cottonwood | 
 Springs, in the same year. In the latter part 
 of ISG'J he applied for an opportunity to enter 
 a competitive examination for a sciiolarship 
 in Louisville Univer.sit}' and carried oif the 
 privilege, his examination with thirteen others 
 being conducted by (Jeneral Estabrook. He 
 paid his current expenses by acting as janitor i 
 
 in the college, was made demonstrator of 
 anatomy and was graduated in 1871, and, true 
 to his instincts, he accepted a proffer of the 
 position of Post Surgeon from General Jos. B. 
 Brown, of tiie Department of the Platte, 
 although offered a chair in the University. He 
 operated at Fort McPherson and Fort Larramie 
 and otiier garrisons, and he went with the 
 soldiers on tlieir expeditions against the red- 
 skins, where he was noted for being in the 
 front if there was anything exciting or dan- 
 gerous in the balance. In 187G his career on 
 the plains came nearly to an end in a fight 
 with the Arapahoes, always his foes and who 
 knew him well as such. He was prostrate and 
 fainting from loss of blood when he was rescued 
 by an Indian who owed liim a favor and he 
 was carried on a litter to the home of his 
 mother in the vicinity. On his recovery he 
 resumed tlie duties of Post Surgeon at Camp 
 Stambaugh and was in a fight with the Chey- 
 ennes which was his last. He had promised 
 his mother to return to liis practice and in 
 1877 he located at Lanesboro, Minn., and he 
 operated as a physician and surgeon with the 
 greatest success and acquired a wide popu- 
 larity. While there he had an encounter with 
 a Norwegian in wliich his hand became dis- 
 figured, but as long as he remained on tiie bor- 
 der he was called to encounters with the Indians. 
 In 1878 Dr. Powell was married at Minneap- 
 olis to Bertie, daughter of Edward S. and Mary 
 K. Brockway, whose inHuence has withdrawn 
 him from his wild life wholly. In 1881 he 
 made a short trip as a showman with Buffalo 
 Bill, which wholly terminated his career as an 
 ally of Indian life. In 1882 he located at La 
 Crosse and at once entered upon an extensive 
 practice and his proprietary remedies, Wiiite 
 Beaver's Cough Cream and Wonder Worker 
 have acquired a world-wide reputation ; be is 
 extensively -engaged in their manufacture. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 613 
 
 which represents a business of $50,000 annu- 
 ally, and his associate is his foruaer friend and 
 compeer of tlie plains, William F. Cody. The 
 name of Dr. Powell is associated with tlie most 
 conscientious skill in his profession and he is 
 summoned to cases at long distances, requiring 
 the l)est medical knowledge. He has secured 
 the confidence of his fellow townsmen and his 
 influence and the esteem of his generation is 
 well attested by his election on the People's 
 ticket in 1886 as Mayor of La Crosse and his 
 re-election in 1887. In 1888 he was nominated 
 on the Union Labor ticket for Governor of Wis- 
 consin and received the largest vote of the 
 ticket. He is a believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party as the palladium of the 
 interest of the working men and in that party 
 he expects to see their best interests served. 
 He is devoted to his profession in a remarkable 
 degree and liis quarters are fitted for the re- 
 ception and treatment of large numbers of pa- 
 tients who throng his rooms and receive the 
 attention of himself and his corps of assistants. 
 His establishment includes a wonderful collec- 
 tion of curiosities, such as a man of his experi- 
 ences would preserve as mementoes of his life 
 in the wild West. 
 
 His administration of the municipal affairs 
 of La Crosse while Mayor secured for him the 
 trust of all classes. 
 
 His character is noble and generous ; he is a 
 splendid specimen of physical manhood and 
 .his ripe and successful years are passed in an 
 elegant home, surrounded with all the appur- 
 tenances of quiet home life of the best type. 
 
 Dr. Powell's portrait appears on page 610. 
 
 ^4e^^a^*,<. 
 
 ^VER TORICELSON, Postmaster at Black 
 ^ River Falls, W^is., member of G. A. R. 
 ^ Post No. 92, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in 
 Bergenstift, Norvyay, where he was brought up to 
 
 the age of 14 years by his parents, Torkel and 
 Kjerstine Haldorson. In May, 1854, he came 
 to the United States with his father's family, 
 consisting of father, mother and a brother 
 named Haldor. Their first location was on a 
 farm in Dane county, Wisconsin, and in 1857 
 they went to Columbia county and thence in 
 1859 to Jackson countj^ settling on a farm 
 which the father purchased from the Govern- 
 ment and improved ; he died thereon June 1, 
 1886, and his widow still survives in 1890. 
 The son went to school in his native country 
 and after arrival in America. In 1859 he be- 
 came the posse.ssor of 80 acres of unimproved 
 land on which he was occupied until he entered 
 the army of his adopted country. Dec. 4, 1861, 
 he enlisted at La Crosse and was mustered into 
 the U. S. service as Sergeant in Company H, 
 15th Wisconsin Infantry, going into Camp 
 Randall to rendezvous until March 2, 1862, 
 when the regiment started for the front, pass- 
 ing through Chicago where the "Scandina- 
 vian " regiment was honored by the presenta- 
 tion of a beautiful flag from the Chicago ladies. 
 The command proceeded to Bird's Point, Mo., 
 and a few days later embarked on transports 
 for Island No. 10. After the evacuation there, 
 April 7th, the regiment took possession of the 
 rebel works on the Kentucky shore opposite. 
 The situation was very unwholesome and he 
 was taken sick with typhoid fever. (Prior to 
 going to Island No. 10, the regiment was in the 
 action near Union City, east of Hickman, Ky., 
 which was the first meeting of Mr. Torkelson 
 with the rebels. The rebel camp was surprised 
 while eating breakfast and everything captured 
 the rebels being routed.) In June the regiment 
 went to Union City and thence to Humboldt, 
 removing thence to the south of Corinth and 
 from camp there to luka. There Mr. Torkel- 
 son was again ill and went to hospital at Farm- 
 ington near luka. He was sent thence to Camp 
 
614 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Dennison, Ohio, and remained there two 
 months, rejoining liis regiment near Perryville 
 just after the battle. He was with McKee's ex- 
 peflition after guerrillas and on return to camp 
 at Franklin with aljout 50 prisoners, Mr. Tor- 
 kelson was detailed to take charge of the squad 
 from his company which was assigned to the 
 Pioneer Corps in the 2d Battalion. The next 
 move was to Gallatin and back to Franklin 
 Pike, moving out the latter part of December 
 preparatory to the battle of Stone River, Decem- 
 ber 31st and January 1st, in which he was en- 
 gaged, his couipany losing two men, going after 
 it to camp for winter. In January, Mr. Torkel- 
 son was detailed with a squad to run a sawmill 
 near Murfreesboro, where he was engaged until 
 about the 1st of May. He was again sick, and 
 when the regiment moved south in June, 1863, 
 he was sent to the hospital near Murfreesboro, 
 and about August 1st he went to Nashville to 
 hospital No. 4. On examination he was de- 
 clared an invalid and sent to Jeffersonville hos- 
 pital to the Invalid Corps and thence to Camp 
 Denni-son and Camp Chase in Ohio and placed 
 on guard duty at the military prisons. After 
 two months he was sent, in December, 18G3, 
 to Camp Douglas, Chicago, and assigned to the 
 15th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps. Dec. 
 19, 1864, he received his discharge. During 
 the last six months of service he was in charge 
 of the guard house and had surveillance over 
 Marmaduke after his capture with Cabell, Octo- 
 ber 25th ; during his time also the consj)iracy 
 to release the rebel prisoners was discovered. 
 
 Mr. Torkelson returned to his home and, 
 after a short rest, went to the High School at 
 Galesville, returning afterwards to his farm. 
 He was married at La Crosse, Dec. 18, 1865, 
 and went to work on liis farm in true pioneer 
 .style, and has made a complete success of iigri- 
 culture, adding by degrees to his land until he 
 is the owner of 240 acres, all under improve- 
 
 ment, which forms his home farm. He also 
 owns tracts of land in other localities and is 
 justly considered one of the substantial men of 
 his county. While in his township, he officiated 
 as Chairman of the Town Board several terms, 
 and in the fall of 1881 was elected Register of 
 Deeds, which necessitated his removal to Black 
 River Falls. He was re-elected twice and held 
 the position seven years. In 1888-9 he held 
 the position of Commissioner of the Poor, and 
 Oct. 16, 1889, was appointed Postmaster, to 
 which he was commissioned Dec. 20, 1889. He 
 is one of the citizens of the West who 
 thoroughly sympathize with institutions of the 
 country which he has made his own and to 
 whose interests he is a stanch adherent. He is 
 decidedly a supporter of American ideas, prog- 
 ress and Government and sustains his record as 
 a defender of the National flag. 
 
 Mrs. TorkeLson, Martha Anderson before 
 marriage, is the daughter of Iver and Guria 
 Anderson of Vernon county. The children 
 born to herself and husband are Amelia K., 
 Ida G., Julia C, Theodore B., Martin W. and 
 Francis A. The oldest daughter is the wife of 
 A. B. Peterson of Blair, Wis. 
 
 ILLIAM FLETCHER GOOD- 
 HUE is a descendant from a well- 
 known family of eastern Massa- 
 chusetts. His paternal ancestor in America 
 was William Goodhue, who came from Kent 
 Co., England, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 
 1636, being one of the first settlers of the town. 
 From him was descended Benjamin Goodhue, 
 the first United States Senator from Eastern 
 Massachusetts. He was Cbairman of Commit- 
 tee on Revenues and the present revenue law's 
 are very much as they were originally framed 
 by this committee. Another descendant was 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 615 
 
 Jonathan Goodliue, an old-time merchant of 
 New York wliose bust' is in tlie secretary's 
 office of the New York Chamber of Commerce. 
 Mr. Goodhue has the written orders of another 
 ancestor who was an officer in the war of 1812, 
 belonging to tlie Massachusetts Contingent. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is tlie son of Wil- 
 liam Perley and Sarali Elizabeth Goodhue ; was 
 born in Bo.ston in 1844; when ten years of age 
 his parents removed to Wisconsin and first re- 
 sided in Janesville, but finally settled at Brod- 
 head, Green Co., from which place he enlisted 
 May 4, 1861, in the Green County Volunteers, 
 which became Company C, 3d Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. This regiment was mustered into ser- 
 vice June 29, 1861, at Fond du Lac, and was 
 commanded successively by Colonels Hamilton, 
 Ruger, Hawley and Stevenson, and belonged 
 to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac and the 2d Brigade, 1st 
 Division, 20th Corps, Armj' of Georgia. He 
 served with the regiment in its Virginia cam- 
 paigns and in its campaigns under Sherman 
 in Georgia, South and North Carolina. Dec. 
 22, 1SG3, he re-enlisted with the regiment at 
 Wartrace, Tenn. During the last year of the 
 war he was Assistant Topographical Engineer 
 and attached to the 1st Division, 20th Army 
 Corps; when Sherman's army reached Fayette- 
 ville, N. C, he descended the Cape Fear river 
 to Wilmington, N. C, making a complete sur- 
 vey of the river to ascertain its value as a 
 " cracker line " in case of protracted military 
 operations on its upper waters in North Caro- 
 lina, rejoining the array again at Goldsboro. 
 He also assisted in surveys and on detail maps 
 of the route of the 20tli Corps for nearly the 
 entire distance from Savannah to Washington, 
 D. C. At Louisville, Ky., July 18, 1865, he 
 was mustered out of service and returned home, 
 and on the loth day of September of that year 
 entered Milton (Wis.) Academy, where he 
 
 studied for one year, and in September, 1866, 
 was again living " beneath the canvas," be- 
 ing engaged in railway surveys and con- 
 struction in Kansas. In 1866-7 he was As- 
 sistant Engineer to Colonel J. B. Vliet (of 
 Milwaukee) on the Leavenworth, Lawrence 
 & Galveston R. R.; assistant engineer on the 
 Union Pacific railroad (east Division) in 1868- 
 9-70-71, under General A. Anderson, Chief En- 
 gineer, formerly Sherman's Military Superin- 
 tendent of Railways and the man wiio so ably 
 operated the "cracker line "during the Atlanta 
 campaign, the same engineer who built the 
 Northern Pacific railroad. In 1872 Mr. Good- 
 hue was U. S. surveyor in the Indian Territory, 
 where he surveyed over 200,000 acres of tribal 
 lands for the Ottawas, ShawneesandSeminoles. 
 In 1873 he returned to Chicago and became 
 engineer editor on the Chicago Railway Re- 
 view, writing upon and investigating the nar- 
 row gauge railway system during the famous 
 "battle of the gauges," which certain enthu- 
 siasts claimed to be " the railway of the future." 
 In 1875 he returned again to tlie more arduous 
 life of a constructing engineer and became the 
 chief engineer of the Chicago, Danville & Vin- 
 cennes railroad, rebuilding the line in 1877 
 under the reorganization of the company, now 
 known as the Chicago & Eastern Illinois corpo- 
 ration, and the "Nashville Route." Under the 
 same management he built the Chicago & 
 Western Indiana railroad, 17 miles long, ter- 
 minating at the Polk Street depot, and now 
 used by five important railway lines. The 
 construction of the road involved the removal 
 of about 400 houses in the city of Chicago, a 
 turn bridge across the Calumet, forty grade 
 railway crossing, two large switch yards, two 
 large round houses and two large freight ware- 
 houses, all of first class construction, costing 
 all together about $2,000,000, completing the 
 work in sixteen months. In 1881 he was en- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 gaged in railway construction on the Chicago, 
 Burlington & Quincy railroad in Northwest 
 Missouri, Ijetvveen Bethany and St. Joseph ; in 
 1882 he located a railway line from the Dela- 
 ware Mine to Lac la Belle, Kewenaw Point, 
 Lake Superior. In 1883 he was appointed, 
 with four other engineers, on the committee on 
 structural material and tests at the great Rail- 
 way Exposition held in Chicago during the 
 month of June. In July of the same year he 
 made a topographical survey to determine the 
 practicahility of a ship canal from Bay de 
 Noquet to Lake Superior, across the Michigan 
 peninsula, and was largely instrumental in 
 hringing the plan, with the aid of maps, re- 
 ports, etc., before the legislatures of Michigan, 
 Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the 
 scheme was endorsed by these several legisla- 
 tures. A bill is now before Congress for an ap- 
 propriation of §50,000 for the survey of the 
 canal route ; its construction will effect a sav- 
 ing of 271 miles between Lake Michigan and 
 Superior ports. In August, 1883, Mr. Goodhue 
 went to Baltimore and took charge of the con- 
 struction of three large bridges on the Gun- 
 powder River (Md.), on the New York extension 
 of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In 1884 he 
 became a United States engineer and was en- 
 gaged in a hydrographic survey of Norfolk 
 Harbor, Va., and later on surveys of the Tar 
 and Pamlico Rivers in North Carolina, also 
 building a large steam derrick for removing 
 obstructions from those rivers ; just 20 years 
 previous to this work done in North Carolina 
 he made the survey to the Cape Fear river, a 
 stream flowing parallel to the Tar river and in 
 the same State. Wliile engaged on Govern- 
 rnent work in North Carolina he was elected 
 city engineer of Racine, Wisconsin, and re- 
 turned to Wisconsin and entered upon the 
 duties of city engineer of Racine, August 18, 
 1885. While holding this office he planned 
 
 the water works system for the city, which is 
 conceded by experts to be one of the finest sys- 
 tems in the west ; supplying the city, as it 
 does, from Lake Michigan, through a 24-inch 
 cast iron main, 7,192 feet in length, laid in a 
 trench ten feet below the lake bottom, termin- 
 ating in 50 feet of water. The pipe is leaded and 
 calked in the usual manner and is the first 
 cast iron pipe ever laid under a large body of 
 water. He also established the street grades 
 for Racine, and planned a complete sewerage 
 system, both of which were adopted and are 
 now used. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Goodhue became broken down 
 in health and sufiered a severe (internal) sur- 
 gical operation, anrl is unable to follow the 
 more laborious part of the work devolving 
 upon the constructing engineer which he has 
 followed so long and successfullj'. In 1888 he 
 opened an office in Milwaukee for general 
 practice as consulting engineer ; from that date 
 to the present date he has engaged in the 
 land drainage work of the Muskego and Wind 
 Lake Valleys in Waukesha and Racine coun- 
 ties ; sewerage plans and construction of sewers 
 for Waukesha ; water works for Manitowoc, 
 Ripon and Burlington ; sewerage for Mari- 
 nette, Wis., and Escanaba, Michigan, besides 
 other engineer work of minor importance. 
 
 Mr. Goodhue is a member of fifteen years 
 standing of the Western Society of Engineers ; 
 he has been a member of Grant Post 28 of 
 Chicago, III., Gov. Harvey Post No. 17 of Ra- 
 cine and is now a member of E. B. Wolcott 
 Post No. 1, of Milwaukee, and is Secretary of 
 the Association of the 3d Wisconsin Infantry. 
 In 1877 he married Elizatieth Freeman Snell 
 of Augusta, Maine, and resides in Milwaukee. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 617 
 
 <^^AVID BYARD, Racine, Wis., formerly 
 .£)Vl n member of the Order of the Grand 
 Army, was born Aug. 7, 1840, near 
 Railway, Union Co., New .Jersey, and he is the 
 son of David and Maria Byard, who were the 
 parents of Thomas, John, Mary, Lucy, Cor- 
 nelius, Anthony and David. Until the latter 
 was of suitable age to learn a trade he was oc- 
 cupied on his father's farm and attended school. 
 He learned tlie business of a blacksmith at 
 Railway and before he had completed his ap- 
 prenticeship he went West and arrived at Ra- 
 cine, Wis., Dec. 21, 1861. He obtained employ 
 in the blacksmitli department of the Mitchell 
 Wagon Company, where he remained until the 
 spring of 1862, when he engaged with the Ra- 
 cine & Mississippi railroad corporation, with 
 whom he operated a few months. 
 
 Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted at Racine for three 
 years and was mustered into tlie service of the 
 United States at the same place August 12th 
 following, in Company A, 22d Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, by Captain J. M. Trowbridge, and was 
 mustered out near Washington, June 12, 1865, 
 with his company. In September he left the 
 State with the regiment for Cincinnati to pro- 
 tect that city from a threatened rebel attack. 
 October 7tli they were sent to Louisville and 
 there performed guard and scouting duty until 
 February, 1863, when orders were received for 
 a change of base to Danville, whence they went 
 to Louisville, shipped on transports for Nash- 
 ville and marched thence to Franklin. March 
 5th, in the fight at Thompson's Station or 
 Spring Hill, Colonel Utley and about 200 men 
 from the command were captured and the re- 
 mainder, numbering about 500, under Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Bloodgood, marched to Brentwood 
 to protect the railroad trestle work. March 
 25th following, Forrest captured Bloodgood's 
 entire force with greatly superior numbers and 
 the Union prisoners were marched to Colum- 
 
 bia C. H., Tenn., where they were paroled. 
 They went next to Shelby ville and TuUahoma, 
 having been deprived of everything in the way 
 of clothing except a light dress suit. The next 
 movement was to Libby at Richmond and 
 thence to City Point on tlie James River, where 
 the steamer State of Maine, loaded with rebels, 
 awaited their arrival. Thence to Fortress Mon- 
 roe and Annapolis the released prisoners pro- 
 ceeded, where their worn clothing was replaced 
 and they went to St. Louis and Nashville, 
 reaching the latter place in June, 1863. April 
 19, 1864, the regiment joined Sherman's forces 
 for the Atlanta campaign. A few miles from 
 Marietta Mr. Byard was ordered by the quar- 
 termaster and colonel to take horses and escort 
 Lewis Dickinson to Marietta Station, whence 
 he was to go to Chattanooga to get 'the regi- 
 mental books for the purpose of making up the 
 
 j pay roll, and, after performing the duty, he re- 
 
 ; turned in safety to his regiment. The next 
 move was to Atlanta, where an armistice was 
 agreed on by Hood and Sherman which stipu- 
 lated that all rebel families should leave the 
 city and two acres of neutral ground were 
 set apart for them. Mr. Byard was detailed to 
 go to East Point, leaving Atlanta about 11 
 o'clock in tlie evening and arrived at his des- 
 tination about sunrise the next morning. He 
 left the family and furniture he had escorted 
 thither and returned safely to Atlanta. He 
 was next in the march to tlie sea and arrived 
 
 I at Savannah about the middle of December. 
 
 ■ Savannah surrendered December 21st and the 
 command crossed from the city to South Caro- 
 lina on the Planter, a rebel steamer wliich was 
 captured by Robert Small, a colored man, in 
 the harbor at Charleston. Mr. Byard was in 
 the march through South Carolina to Raleigh, 
 having traversed more than two thousand 
 miles. After the surrender of Johnston the 
 
 I regiment went to Washington, participated in 
 
618 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 the Grand Review and returned to Wisconsin 
 as stated. Mr. Byard was discharged at Mil- 
 waukee, June 27, 1S65. and returned to private 
 life at Racine. 
 
 He entered the employ of the railroad again 
 and after some time engaged with J. I. Case & 
 Co. Later he entered the employ of the rail- 
 road again in the shops, where he is now occu- 
 pied. (1S90.) 
 
 He was married Oct. 29, 1868, to Josephine, 
 daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Vallicott) Dick- 
 inson. Her father was born in 1817 in York- 
 shire, England, and came to America in IS-W, 
 locating in Racine county. His wife was a 
 native of England and their children were 
 named Josephine and Esther (twins) and Ro- 
 selia. The latter is Mrs. James Spence of Ra- 
 cine. Mr. and Mrs. Byard are the parents of 
 two children — Georgia M., born Aug. 19, 1869, 
 and Thomas Dickinson, born March 8, 1876. 
 Mr. Byard is a member of Lodge No. 18, Orion 
 Chapter, and Commandery No. 7, Masonic Or- 
 der at Racine. 
 
 
 ^^^ 
 
 JAMES (JOHN) B. WRIGHT, Milwaukee, 
 Wis , member of G. A. R. Post No. 240, 
 Rank and File, was born May 24, 1839, 
 in Liverpool, Eiiglaud, and is the son of Joseph 
 and Ann (Niel) Wright. His father was a 
 carpenter and came to the United States in 
 1847, locating in Pliiladelphia. Three children 
 were included in the family, the son mentioned 
 herein being the eldest. His parents died in 
 the Quaker City, and he worked with his 
 father there until the age of 15 as a builder. 
 In 1854, when at that age, he enlisted in the 
 Crimean service and went to Liverpool to ship 
 on H. B. M.'s ship Esk (21 guns), enrolling for 
 10 years. He served on her about nine 
 months and was in two engagements — Bomar- 
 
 sund and Abo, between the Baltic Sea and 
 Gulf of Bothnia. He was then assigned to the 
 A\'asp and operated in the vicinity of Sevas- 
 topol one season ; he also served on the Duke 
 of Wellington, the Pearl and the Majestic. He 
 was twice wounded while engaged on shore 
 with Russian naval batteries. He was in 
 hospital about three months and soon after left 
 the Crimea. Near Malta, he took French leave 
 of the Majestic, jumping overboard and swim- 
 ming one and a fourth miles ashore to Valletta 
 on the island. He was seen from the ship, 
 hailed and tired at ; a boat was lowered and in 
 the pursuit he escaped, reached shore, deceived 
 the guard and was admitted within the gate. 
 He was cold and sought a place where he could 
 obtain brandy and coffee; he was taken into 
 custody, treated to a free ride on a goat to the 
 station, which saved him from being taken by 
 the ship's crew, and, as he could not be detained 
 without charges, he soon obtained release, Siiil- 
 ed on the Hibernia to Cork, thence to London 
 and Liverpool and from there to Australia on 
 the U. S. ship Invincible, and mined nine 
 months, went thence on an American ship to 
 Callao, Peru, going after five months to l^n- 
 don on the North America, loaded with 
 guano. After passing a few weeks in British 
 ports he went to New Orleans on the Portland 
 and went next to Havre, returning to New 
 Orleans and again to Liverpool. The expected 
 rebellion was becoming the prominent topic in 
 all ports, and he determined to have a hand in 
 it; returning to the United St^vtes and landing 
 at Boston in December, 1860. He shipped on 
 the Macedonia as a common seaman and was 
 in the coast service, connected with the L'nited 
 States vessels preparing for war, going mean- 
 while to ^'era Cruz. He returned to New 
 York and was transferred to the Miami, a new 
 boat built at Philadelphia, and left that city 
 Jan. 24, 1862, to connect with Burnside's 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 619 
 
 expedition to Roanoke Island, encountered the 
 terrific storm, drifted disabled and was towed 
 back to Fortress Monroe by the Cassjiudra. 
 After being refitted in dr^* dock at Baltimore, 
 she started for tiie Gulf squadron and Farra- 
 gut took possession of l)er as flag-ship at mid- 
 night after her arrival at Ship Island. She 
 went to Pilottown as such until the. fleet crossed 
 tiie bar, when the admiral's flag was transferred 
 to the Hartford. The boat was in the action at 
 F'ort Jackson, April 17th, engaged afterwards 
 in bombarding there and at St. Phillip six 
 nights and seven days ; there were more than 
 a thousand guns in the forts within 1,200 j'ards 
 of the flotilla, and the Miami suffered extensive 
 injuries above her waterline. Mr. Wright was 
 knocked down once. After this action the 
 boat went to Black Bay and towed the Great 
 Republic, with the 4th Wisconsin aboard, and 
 landed the troops at Algiers. The boat went 
 next to Fort .Jackson and transferred the 
 prisoners to New Orleans, going to Ship Island 
 afterwards to refit. Orders were received for 
 Mobile Bay but they were countermanded, and 
 the vessel started for Vicksburg on the Missis- 
 sippi. Tiiey were " fired " on at Grand Gulf, 
 and on returning " fired " that town. Mr. 
 Wright was in two engagements at Vicksburg, 
 and the Miami returned to New Orleans for 
 repairs and went to Fortress Monroe with the 
 body of Captain Wainwright. The Ixiat was 
 next sent to Newport News and to take position 
 at the mouth of the .James River and on being 
 replaced by the Ironsides, went to Albemarle 
 Sound, N. C, and remained there until the 
 spring of 1864, having a fight at Plymouth 
 with the ram Albemarle, April 17th. The 
 ram sunk the Unit«d States and only two of 
 her crew escaped — Captain French and the 
 gunner's mate. Lieutenant Commander Flus- 
 ser was killed with several of his men. Flus- 
 ser was succeeded by French and after the 
 
 boat had proceeded to the mouth of th& Roan- 
 oke to picket the location, Mr. Wright was de- 
 tailed with assistants to examine her; she was 
 very little injured and. May oth, .she was in 
 another conflict with tlie ram and three con- 
 sorts. The fighting began about four in the 
 afternoon and ended about nine in the eve- 
 ning, the ram escaping and one of her consorts 
 being captured. At Plymouth Mr. Wright 
 was detailed on special duty to obtain informa- 
 tion regarding rebel movements and came near 
 being captured. The Miami went next to the 
 James River, near " Dutch Gap " and remained 
 until the close of the war. A portion of the time 
 Mr. Wright was in charge of torpedo boat No. 4. 
 June 24, 1865, he was discharged at Philadel- 
 phia and remained in that city until 1866. 
 
 In that year he went to Wisconsin and lo- 
 cated at Milwaukee. He engaged as a con- 
 tractor and builder and has made a success of 
 the enterprise. Jan. 9, 1867, he was married 
 in Philadelphia to Mary C, daughter of Adam 
 B. and Anna L. (Louder) Wright, and their 
 children were named David Farragut, Thomas 
 A., .John F., Frank L., Eva and Anna ; all are 
 deceased but Thomas. The parents of Mrs. 
 Wright were respectively of English and 
 American birth and both are deceased. Mr. 
 Wright is a Republican in political affiliation. 
 
 ff^ ILBERT W. COOK, Black River 
 p Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 92, was born June 7, 1828 in 
 Colchester, Delaware Co., New York, and is the 
 son of Jonas and Ma r3' (Reynolds) Cook. His 
 father was born in Colchester on a farm of 40 
 acres on which he passed his whole life and on 
 which he died at 76 years of age. Rol>ert, the 
 father of .Jonas, was a native of Massachusetts 
 of English lineage, whence he went to the State 
 of New York, locating on the little farm re- 
 
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 fgrred to. His wife was born in New York and 
 was of Dutcli extraction. Tlie maternal grand- 
 father of Mr. Cook was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion. Until tlie age of 23, Mr. Cook remained 
 at home, obtaining his education and was one 
 of 14 children, named in order James, Gilbert, 
 Harriet, Allen, William, Sarah Ann, Anna, 
 Walter, Jane, Cynthia, Lafayette, Adelbert and 
 a pair of twins who died in early infancy. 
 Seven are living. In 1851 Mr. Cook engaged 
 in lumbering in Michigan about 18 months and 
 in 1853 settled at Green Lake, Wisconsin, re- 
 moving thence two years later to Jackson 
 county, where he was occupied in farming, and 
 he managed his farm at Alma Center until the 
 spring of the civil war. June 8, 1861, he en- 
 listed at Sparta in the State service and was 
 mustered into the service of the United States 
 in July following. He became a member of 
 Company I, 4th Wisconsin Infantry and went 
 to rendezvous at Camp Utley, leaving Racine 
 for Washington, July 15tli. The disaster at 
 Bull Run aroused the military spirit of Colonel 
 Paine which had already been stirred at (ker- 
 ning and where he took an engineer from his 
 ranks to take the train to Eimira, and arms 
 were obtained for the command at Harrisburg 
 for safety in passing through Baltimore. The 
 command went into camp at the Relay House 
 and thence to the eastern shore of Virginia 
 after guarding railroads near Baltimoi'e until 
 November. Tliey were in the command of 
 Gen. John A. Dix and returned to Baltimore 
 to winter quarters, building the Wisconsin hos- 
 pital. In FelMuary orders were received to 
 report at Foi-tress Monroe, preparatory to a 
 movement to Newport News and thence, after 
 two weeks, the regiment embarked for Ship 
 Island. Tliey ran the gauntlet of rebel fire at 
 Sewall's point at the mouth of the James River 
 and proceeded on the Constitution under Gen- 
 eral Williams, the steamer containing also the 
 
 6th Michigan and 21st Indiana regiments. 
 The first rebel shot from the rebel battery went 
 over amidship ; the second fell short and the 
 third fell within 15 feet of the bows, but they 
 were under full head of steam and made their 
 way out in safety. After a month at Ship Is- 
 land the three regiments started on the Great 
 Republic for New Orleans and remained at the 
 mouth of the Mississippi River, detained by 
 low water. The vessel was finally towed 
 within hearing of the guns in the bombard- 
 ment of the forts which defended the entrance 
 and the next removal was to Black Bay, oppo- 
 site Forts Jackson and St. Pliillip, landing two 
 companies and sending them to Quarantine to 
 cut off tlie possible retreat of the rebels. There 
 Mr. Cook witnes.sed the running of Farragut's 
 fleet past the forts, and Major Boardman and 
 his two companies having succeeded in con- 
 vincing the rebels that they had best surrender, 
 the Great Republic returned to the S. E. Pass 
 and started for New Orleans, running aground. 
 The 4th Wisconsin was taken off by the 
 steamer Laurel Hill and landed at the foot of 
 Canal street, April 30th. They went into 
 quarters at the Custom House with Butler and 
 Company I was detailed as his body guard. 
 Two weeks later the command went toward 
 Vicksburg, returned down tiie river and, while 
 passing Grand Gulf, was fired on. Mr. Cook 
 was taken sick and was obliged to go to hos- 
 pital on arrival at Baton Rouge. Two weeks 
 later he went to convalescent hospital and re- 
 mained until the regiment returned from the 
 second expedition to Vicksburg, in tiie latter 
 part of July. Aug. 5th, under General 
 ^\'illiams, who had had Colonel I'aine arrested 
 because he would not surrender fugitive 
 slaves, the regiment fought at Baton Rouge and 
 Williams was killed while leading the 21st In- 
 diana against Brockenridge, llio rebels being de- 
 feated. The 4th wenttoCarrolltonand remained 
 
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 until December, went to Baton Rouge and re- 
 mained ill winter quarters ; in March, 1863, a re- 
 comioissance in force was made to Port Hudson 
 and the 4th lay all night on their arms three 
 miles from the works, listening to-the guns from 
 Farragut's fleet, that dauntless commander 
 having passed the Port. Returning to Baton 
 Rouge, the regiment went to New Orleans to 
 camp at Algiers, and thence to Berwick Bay, 
 tlie command nuinliering aliout 18,000 men. 
 April 10th, at night, the soldiers lay on their 
 arms and in the morning the skirmishers were 
 driven in and the battle of Bisland began, the 
 rebels being commanded by Dick Taylor. The 
 Union arms triumphed after two days' fight- 
 ing and pursued tlie rebels to Alexandria. At 
 Opelousas the regiment was ordered to obtain 
 horses in whatever manner was possible, and 
 returned to Alexandria after chasing a bat- 
 talion of Texas cavalry. The next move took 
 the regiment down tlie river to Bayou Sara and 
 tiience to the siege of Port Hudson, acting as 
 mounted infantry and the brigade made an 
 assault May '27th on foot and remained close 
 to the fortifications six days, being relieved in 
 the night. The company made the raid the 
 next morning on Clinton in which Captain 
 Levi Blake was killed. June 14th the regi- 
 ment was again in an assault on Port Hudson 
 after performing garrison and picket duty and 
 on the date mentioned went to the front ready 
 for attack in the morning. The regiment lost 
 half its men, and Colonel Paine lost a leg, being 
 wounded while gallantlj^ urging the supports 
 forward to the relief of his men. The regiment 
 remained in the siege until the surrender, July 
 8th, and went thence to Baton Rouge to be 
 equipped as cavalry. In the fall they veteran- 
 ized and, until the spring of 1864, were on 
 constant scouting duty. During the spring 
 Mr. Cook took his furlough and joined his regi- 
 ment at Baton Rouge. In the summer he was 
 
 ill with typhoid fever and in hospital several 
 weeks. In November he was with the regiment 
 in a feint on Mobile to attract the rebels from 
 Sherman's movements, went through the pine 
 forests to the coast and returned to Baton Rouge. 
 March 1, 1865, they were ordered to Mobile to 
 the attack on the defenses there and after the 
 fall of the forts and the capitulation of Mobile, 
 they went through Alabama into Georgia and 
 returned after crossing the Chattahoochie to 
 Alabama, camping during an armistice at 
 Eufala, where Sherman and Johnston were 
 engaged in trying to make a treaty. They also 
 took a position at a bridge opposite Macon to 
 intercept Jeff Davis, wliose whereabouts were 
 then unknown. They went to Vicksburg, 
 arriving June 5tb, went to the Red River to 
 Alexandria and Shreveport, going later to San 
 Antonio, Texas, with the 4th and 6th Michigan 
 and 14th New York on the terrible march. 
 August 26th Mr. Cook was discharged on 
 account of the consolidation of companies and 
 was mustered out as Corporal at New Orleans 
 and returned to his home after a long service 
 without a wound. 
 
 He located on a farm at Alma Center and in 
 1884 retired to a home at Black River Falls. 
 He was married October 3, 1864, at Alma 
 Center to Mrs. Martha J. Court, daughter of 
 Millet J., and Mehitabel (Baker) Smith and the 
 widow of John H. Court, a soldier of the 10th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, who enlisted in 1861 and 
 was wounded at Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, dying 
 eight days later and leaving three sons, one of 
 whom is deceased — Edward W. ; Melville A. 
 and John W., the two younger are living. The 
 only child of Mr. and Mrs. Cook is Effie M., 
 born Sept. 4, 1869. Mr. Cook is a Republican 
 ami draws a pension. Mrs. Cook's father was 
 born in Durham, N. H., Oct. 26, 1799, and her 
 mother in Dartmouth, Mass., June IS, 1807. 
 
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 SOLDIERS" ALBUM OF 
 
 MiRTIN THOMAS MOORE, La 
 Crosse, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 38, was born Aug. 9, 
 1847, in Wauwato.sa, Mil\vaul:ee Co., Wiscon- 
 sin, where his parents, Lorenzo W. and Miranda 
 (Lighani) Moore located in 1845. His father 
 was born in Bennington, Vt., of German and 
 Irish ancestry and was the son of an officer of 
 tiie war of 1812; he went in early life to 
 Adams, Mass., and in 1845 removed to Wiscon- 
 sin ; his wife was born in 1811 of English and 
 Scotch i>arentage and died in 18S4, lier hus- 
 band surviving her until 1887. 
 
 Mr. Moore was reared on a farm and attended 
 the common schools until he enlisted, four days 
 before he was 15 years old, and so small was 
 he in stature then, that he was called " Little 
 Johnnie." But he was old enougii and his 
 patriotism was strong enough to insure his en- 
 rollment as a soldier which occurred Aug. 5, 
 18G2, when he enlisted in Company E, 24th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel J. H. Larrabee. 
 The regiment left Milwaukee in the same 
 month for Jeflersonville, Ind., Cincinnati and 
 Louisville, to be assigned to Greusel's 87th 
 Brigade and Sheridan's 11th Corps. They 
 were in the chase after Bragg tbrough northern 
 Kentucky, and Mr. Moore was first in system- 
 atic warfare at Pcrryville, October 8th. The 
 next fight of any considerable magnitude on 
 his roster was Stone River, in which he was in 
 action from December 30th to January 3, 1863. 
 lie was next in hospital and returned to his 
 command July 4, 1863, rcpoi-ting for duty on 
 that day. He was assigned by special order to 
 Fortress Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and 
 was relieved to join his regiment in March, 
 1864. 
 
 The 24th Wisconsin was in the 4tli Army 
 Corps, preparatory to the campaign in Georgia, 
 and Mr. Moore was in action May 9tli at Rocky 
 Face Ridge, where, on the crest of the hill, he 
 
 had the best opportunity to view the situation 
 of a contest between two great contending 
 forces. When the Union troops carried the 
 crest, the rebels tried to drive them back by 
 rolling stones down upon them, but the posi- 
 tion was taken and held until it became a cer- 
 tainty that the rebels had left their fortifica- 
 tions, when the command went to fight at Re- 
 saca. May 14th. On this field Mr. Moore was 
 knocked down by a ball which passed through 
 his hat. The charge was made through what 
 was called the "Valley of Death," and after his 
 first fall he was again knocked down in a pre- 
 cisely similar manner. He moved back be- 
 hind a log and, as he raised his gun to fire, a 
 bullet knocked it out of his hand. He was in 
 the skirmish line at Calhoun, May 17th, and 
 moved with his command to Pleasant Hill near 
 Adairsville, where the 24th encountered the 
 rear guard of the rebel army and had a sharp 
 skirmish on the 18th. On this date Mr. Moore 
 received a bullet in the upper part of his left 
 leg and was taken to the rear. Tlie Imllet was 
 extracted, and through the kindness of his 
 regimental surgeon he was conveyed in an am- 
 bulance to a plantation with Lieutenant T. T. 
 Keith, who afterwards died from the effects of 
 his wound. In the room where they were 
 placed was another bed, containing the wife of 
 a reltel colonel who had given birth to a child 
 during the battle, several shots passing through 
 the walls above her bed. Tiie next day Mr. 
 Moore was removed to the field hospital of the 
 4th Corps near Kesaca, remaining there until 
 May 24th, when he was removed to Nashville. 
 In company with the colonel of an Ohio regi- 
 ment, whose foot and ankle were badly shat- 
 tered, he was placed in a box car and reached 
 Nashville three days later, without having re- 
 ceived any attention, and having waited on his 
 wounded companions to tlie best of iiis abilit}'. 
 At Nashville he was placed in the same room 
 
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 of the same hospital in which he had pre- 
 viously passed six months of ilhiess. 
 
 About June 3d he went to Jeffersonville, Iiid., 
 where he was in the hospital when Mrs. Har- 
 vej' visited the Wisconsin soldiers and who 
 obtained for him a pair of crutches. He went 
 thence to the U. S. hospital at Madison, where 
 it was decided to assign him to tlie Veteran 
 Reserve Corps and he was detached, much 
 against his will, from his own company and 
 assigned to Company C, 5tli Regiment, V. R. ' 
 C, July 26, 1864. He remained on duty at 
 Camp Morton until mustered out July 5, 1865, i 
 at Indianapolis. 
 
 During his service he acted as Orderly for 
 Colonel Larrabee, with wliom he was a favorite. 
 While on detached duty, stationed at Fortress 
 Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, he was assigned to 
 a battery as Sergeant in charge of three pieces, 
 and also was acting Captain in that service un- 
 til he rejoined his regiment in March, 1864. 
 While at Murfreesboro, expecting an attack 
 from Wheeler and Morgan, his men stood at 
 their guns 48 hours. The people had been or- 
 dered out of the city by the commaiiding officer 
 and hundreds of them went into the forts and 
 were as well provided for as possible. During 
 this time many child births occurred, and 
 the mothers received the tenderest care 
 from the army surgeons. Mr. Moore was on 
 duty as officer of the guard during the mem- 
 orable cold nights which began .Jan. 1, 1864. 
 On account of the extreme severity of the 
 weather he assumed the responsibility of call- 
 ing in all the guard except from one post, and 
 there the sentry was relieved every twenty 
 minutes. Even in regular (quarters it was im- 
 possible for the men to keep warm and they 
 only saved themselves from sutfering by build- 
 ing a "fire-ring" of cordwood, within which 
 they gathered. 
 
 Mr. Moore recalls many incidents connected 
 
 with his military life at Camp Morton — some 
 auiusing, some sad and some tragical ; attempts 
 to tunnel out were frequently made ; the para- 
 pets were often scaled at great risk of life and 
 other affairs were constantly occurring. Twice 
 he was himself arrested as a deserter while go- 
 ing out on what he considered duty, to retake 
 ])risoners who had escaped and in other service 
 as important. Each time, as an indorsement 
 of his zeal in service, he was acquitted and pro- 
 moted. While at that place he was in the de- 
 tail which accompanied the last 500 prisoners 
 from Camp Morton to Richmond for exchange. 
 They went by rail to Baltimore, traveling in 
 freight cars and from there on Government 
 transports to a point about seven miles below 
 Richmond, arriving a short time pi'ior to the 
 surrender of Lee. 
 
 After muster out he returned to Wauwatosa 
 and attended Wayland University at Beaver 
 Dam, Wis., until the autumn of 1867. In 1868 
 he commenced a thorough preparation for the 
 profession of a dentist and in 1869 located his 
 business at La Crosse, where he has built up a 
 popular and prosperous practice. He was mar- 
 ried May 17, 1871, at La Crosse, to Emma S., 
 daughter of Egbert N. and Mary S. Bagley. 
 Their only child is named Vera I. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a member of the Order of 
 Masonry, belonging to the Lodge and Com- 
 mandery; is a Knight Templar and belongs to 
 the Grand Commandery. He was one of the 
 first members of the A. 0. U. W. in Wisconsin, 
 belonging to the Grand Lodge and to the 
 Arcanum. 
 
 Since 1878 he has been an active member of 
 the State National Guards. In August, 1878, 
 in conjunction with others, he was instrumental 
 in the organization of the Light Guards, which 
 was mustered on the 14th day of that month 
 into the National Guards, Mr. Moore receiving 
 a commission as 1st Lieutenant. In August, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 1879, he was commissioned Captain of the com- 
 pany, and in 1881 the State organizations were 
 formed into battalions, and, May 19th of that 
 year, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, 
 commanding the 3d battalion, W. N. G. In 
 1883 the State troops were organized into regi- 
 ments, and, June 11th of that year, Mr. Moore 
 received a unanimous vote for Colonel and was 
 commissioned as such by the Governor of Wis- 
 consin. In addition to his discharge of duties 
 as inspector of the several companies of his 
 command, he assembles them every summer 
 for a week of instruction in camp. With others 
 he wa.s instrumental in llie purcliase by the 
 State of 600 acres in Juneau county for the 
 purposes of camp and drill, which is called the 
 Wisconsin Rifie Rtuige. Colonel Moore devotes 
 himself conscientiously to the drill and training 
 of his command during the weeks of instruc- 
 tion, the efficient and systematic methods em- 
 ployed by him being demonstrated by his prize 
 winners in rifle practice. His regiment was 
 the first to occupy the Range as a camp of in- 
 struction, and during the six da^'S of encamp- 
 ment in 1889, 11,000 rounds of service ammu- 
 nition were fired, the result of every shot being 
 recorded. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a Republican, but in the 
 multifarious duties of his profession and other 
 relations, will not become an office seeker or 
 office holder. The chief trait of character 
 of Colonel Moore is conscientious discliarge 
 of duty wliich he impoK>s on himself, or 
 which rests on him in iiis jirofession, as head 
 of a State miliUiry organization and in the 
 obligations of his citizenship. 
 
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 OHN EDWARD PENNEFATHER, Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, was born May 4, 
 1816, in County Tipperar}', Ireland, at Holy 
 Cross and came to the United States with his 
 parents when an infant of seven montlis. From 
 the port of New York they went to New Brun.s- 
 wick, N. J., and remained in the vicinity of 
 the Atlantic seaboard and at Ellicottville, Catr 
 taraugus Co., New York, one j-ear. They 
 removed to Kenosha, Kenosha Co., Wisconsin, 
 locating soon after on a farm in Wheatland 
 township, now included in New Munster. The 
 fatlier passed several yfears there and removed 
 to Milwaukee. 
 
 The son obtained his education in the Cream 
 City and was 17 years and 10 months old when 
 he enlisted, Feb. 29, 1864, in Company H, 13th 
 U. S. Regulars at Milwaukee and was assigned 
 to a command which was designed to consist of 
 three battalions, two of which were not enlisted 
 as expected, and one of which was enlisted only 
 after the surrender of Lee. The 13th U. S. 
 Infantry was the first regiment of which Sher- 
 man had command, and Mr. Pennefather 
 enlisted as a recruit, only 85 men being left in 
 the organization of 800. The Battalion had 
 made a glorious record, being the first to plant 
 the Union colors on the fortifications at Vicks- 
 burg, and it is the only regiment of regulars 
 that has retained its identification and kept up 
 its re-union yearly. Oct. 11, 1863, at Colliers- 
 ville, Tenn., four of its companies were attacked 
 by 2,000 rebels under Chalmers and supported 
 by two pieces of artillery, Sherman being with 
 his command on the way to Mission Ridge ; 15 
 men were lost before aid arrived in the defense 
 of the Great Commander. The Battalion was 
 at various points after Mr. Pennefather's enlist- 
 ment, and he was in the fight at Nashville, 
 after which the command went on frontier ser- 
 vice and he was discharged March 4, 1867, at 
 
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 Fort Benton, Montana, at the headwaters of the 
 Missouri River. The Battalion comprised the 
 first troops sent to that localitj' and built 
 block houses on the upper waters of the river, 
 with headcjuarters at Camp Cook. Tliey 
 readied that point by crossing the Bearpaw 
 Mountains instead of the river, which was 
 made uniiavigable by shoals. The train in- 
 cluded about 54 wagons, and they were attend- 
 ed by a few faithful Indians, about 3,000 hos- 
 tile redskins having collected on their flanks 
 before they were half-way to their destination, 
 onecompanj' out of the eight which constituted 
 the Battalion being mounted. On the evening 
 of July 16, 1866, Mr. Pennefather was in com- 
 mand of about 64 of his own company and the 
 mounted infantry, when an attack seemed 
 imminent, but the plans of the redskins failed 
 and the night passed without alarm. He was 
 made Corporal soon after enlistment and after- 
 wards Sergeant. While in tlie former position 
 he was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Larra- 
 mie, with nine men, to guard the paymaster 
 and was promoted on his return, as he had per- 
 formed a difficult and dangerous service. On 
 his return he stopped at Fort Kearney and 
 passed two months, awaiting transportation to 
 his l;)attalion. Fort Kearney was a sub-post 
 for soldiers in emergencies, as the escort squads 
 traversed long distances and places of assist- 
 ance and supply were scattered widely apart. 
 The captain in charge placed him in command, 
 although he was only a boy and he conducted 
 tlie affairs of the garrison until he joined his 
 battalion. 
 
 After he was mustered out he returned to 
 Milwaukee and engaged in a wholesale boot 
 and shoe house (Ewing Bros. & Co.), remaining 
 with them four years. His next occupation 
 was in the U. S. Express office, and after a 
 month he applied for a situation in the post- 
 oflSce which he obtained through his army 
 
 connections and he still holds the position. 
 When the Sheridan Guards of Milwaukee 
 were organized, June 29, 1869, he was made 
 Orderly Sergeant and retained that position 
 for five years. In 1874 he was made 1st 
 Lieutenant, holding that place and officiating 
 as Adjutant two years in the 1st Regiment, 
 Wisconsin National Guards. He was after- 
 wards made Captain of the Sheridan Guards, 
 and after a year resigned and went to the 
 ranks, remaining six years, when he was 
 elected Quartermaster of the 4th Battalion, 
 resigning Nov. 30, 1889. During the labor 
 riots of May, 1886, he, as Quartermaster, 
 attended to the necessities of the troops called 
 out to suppress the ricters and performed the 
 duty under most difficult conditions, involving 
 much danger. On one occasion, accompanied by 
 his Quartermaster Sergeant, he drove through 
 streets crowded with rioters in a hack filled 
 with provision, and if his_ business had been 
 understood by the maddened multitudes the 
 consequences would have been most serious. 
 This feat must be recorded as a portion of the 
 histor}' of that' time, and Mr. Pennefather 
 received the commendations of his superior 
 officers for his courage and pluck. His com- 
 missions in the National Guard were dated 
 as follows: — 1st Lieutenant, July 21, 1874; 
 signed by Gov. W. R. Taylor ; his commission 
 was renewed Nov. 7, 1879, by Gov. W. E. 
 Smith ; Dec. 8, 1875, he was made Adjutant 
 by Governor Taylor ; Aug. 19, 1876, Gov. H. 
 Ludington commissioned him 1st Lieutenant, 
 and the same official signed his pajjers as 
 Captain, July 6, 1877. 
 
 Mr. Pennefather was married Aug. 1, 1870, 
 to Lizzie A. Blackwell who died April 26, 1884, 
 after becoming the mother of seven cliildren 
 named .James Sheridan, George Rooney, Mary, 
 John Patrick, Elizabetii Ann, Catherine 
 Josephine and Alice Rose, who died when six 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 months old. Oct. 28, 1885, Mr. Pennefather 
 was a second time married to Mary, daughter 
 of Patrick and Johannah (8i<ahen) Connors. 
 Bartliolomew Biackwell, brotlier of the first 
 wife, was a soldier in the British service and 
 was in the charge of the 600 at Balaklava, 
 being one of tlie few survivors of that action. 
 His brotlier-in-law has his silver cigarholder, 
 bent and shortened by bullets. His uncle, 
 John Biackwell, was a general in the Irish 
 Legion in the French service. An autograph 
 letter of General Sherman to Mr. Pennefather 
 is appended, and it is to be noted that it is a 
 communication of one of the highest ranking 
 officers of the United States to a private. 
 "Headquarters Army LI. S., Washington, D. C, 
 June 26, 1871. Mr. John E. Pennefather, Mil- 
 waukee, Wis. Dear Sir: — Your letter of June 
 15th with your j)etition endorsed is received, 
 and I will do my best to accomplish what you 
 ask. I will endorse your petition and letter to 
 the Postmaster-General who will, I think, try 
 to oblige you. But times are changed since 
 the close of the war, and the politicians are 
 very jealous of the soldiers and they claim all 
 the offices as necessary to reward their friends 
 and adherents. This is not what any of us 
 expected during the war, for we then supposed 
 service rendered the whole country would 
 always be rated above mere party allegiance. 
 Yours truly, W. T. Siierman, General." 
 
 OLUMBUS MILLER, Chi])pewa Falls., 
 Wis., member of (i. A. 11. Post No. 
 68, was born at Prairie du Chien, 
 Wis., Jan. 17, 1848, and liis parents, Jolin and 
 Mary (O'Neil) Miller, were l)orn respectively in 
 Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The senior Mil- 
 ler was of German extraction and went to Ken- 
 lucky and worked as a farm assistant until his 
 
 marriage, after which he went to Prairie du 
 
 Chien in the "forties." In 1854 the family 
 removed to Chippewa Falls, and afterward the 
 father kept a hotel at Juneau Falls on the 
 Chipiiewa River. The mother died there in 
 1866, and in 1878, the father died in Minnesota. 
 Virginia, Emmeline, William, Newton, George, 
 Alexander and Columbus were the names of 
 the cliildren. Mr. Miller was a member of his 
 family until he became a soldier and he enlisted 
 in February, 1864, and was mustered into the 
 U. S. service at Madison in Company K, 36th 
 Wisconsin Infantry. In May orders were 
 received to report at Washington for immediate 
 service and the recruits for the 36th Wisconsin 
 join.ed their command during the camjiaign of 
 the Wilderness in the 1st Brigade, 2d Division 
 and 2d Corps, under Colonel Haskell. Mr. 
 Miller fought in the Wilderness and went next 
 to action on the North Anna River. After tiie 
 march thither he was on picket duty in an old 
 saw mill through the night and all next day, 
 receiving orders to charge about dark on the 
 breastworks of tiie rel)els in front of tliem in the 
 woods. They fought until 10 o'clock and fell 
 back, and the next action was at Tolopotomy 
 Creek. In the fight at Cold Harbor Colonel 
 Haskell was killed and the loss in the command 
 was very heavy. The regiment took position 
 in front of Petersburg, June 16th and fouglit 
 on the 18th, being in reserve the day l)efore. 
 About 10 o'clock on the IStii Mr. Miller was 
 wounded in the elbow by a musket ball, was 
 sent to field hospital, his arm was amjjutated 
 and he went thence to City Point in an ambu- 
 lance, was placed on board a steamer and sent 
 to Annajiolis. Tlie latter part of August he 
 received a furlough and went home to Chippewa 
 Falls. At the exp'iration of 30 days he reported 
 at Madison and remained there until his 
 discharge, Dec. 23, 1865. As soon as able he 
 obtained employ in a sawmill at Juneau Falls 
 
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 and operated at different points until 1880, when 
 lie located at Chippewa Falls and engaged in 
 teaming for the C. L. & B. Co. 
 
 He was married April 20, 1878, to Zilpha, 
 • laughter of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) 
 McCann, niece of Dan McCann, who obtained 
 the eagle which went with the 8th Wisconsin to 
 the war. (See sketch of T. McGuire). Stephen 
 S. McCann, father of Tiiomas, was one of the 
 first settlers at Chippewa Falls; he and his 
 wife were born in Ohio. Mrs. Miller is the 
 oiliest of their six children, Sarah, Barbara, 
 William, Thomas and George being the names 
 of her brothers and sisters. Four children 
 have been born to herself and husband named 
 Mary, Walker, Estella and Clarence. Mr. Mil- 
 ler is a Republican in political connection and 
 draws a pension. His brother William enlisted 
 in 1861 in the 2d Michigan Infantry and served 
 four years in the Army of the Potomac, was 
 captured and taken to Andersonville, where he 
 died. George enlisted in 1863 in the 6th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, was wounded in the battle of 
 Cold Harbor and died in hospital at Baltimore 
 in 1864 ; he is buried in the soldiers' cemetery 
 there. 
 
 Mr. Miller is a member of the Odd Fellows 
 Lodge at Chippewa Falls. 
 
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 EVI M. KING, La Crosse, Wis., a 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 '^ born Sept. 29, 1842, at Fort Hill, 
 Lake County, Illinois. Chauncey and Hannah 
 E. (Marble) King, his parents, were natives of 
 the Stale of New York and the father died Feb. 
 1, 1882, at Sheboygan Falls, Wis. He was a 
 Ituilder by profession and located in the town 
 of Avon, Lake county, in the Sucker State 
 when he went West and settled on a farm. 
 In 1845 he went to Oshkosh, Wis., and, being 
 
 a skilled mechanic in nearly every branch of 
 building he engaged in constructing steam- 
 boats. About 1870 he went to the place where 
 he died and there managed his farm and busi- 
 ness. He was a Hollander by descent, and his 
 wife was a native of Ohio, of English extrac- 
 tion ; she resides at Waukegan, 111. Levi. M., 
 Clarence 0., Arabella E., Walter W. and 
 Milton were the names of their children ; the 
 latter is deceased. 
 
 When Mr. King was about 15 years old he 
 engaged in steamboating on the Fox and Wolf 
 Rivers in the capacity of mechanical engineer 
 for which his father had fitted him. During 
 the season of navigation this was his employ 
 and he attended school alternate winters. He 
 also found interest in trapping, which business 
 was then good. When the attack was made 
 on Sumter he was 19 years old and tried to en- 
 list in the 2d Wisconsin Infantry but was re- 
 jected on account of youth. Nov. 29, 1863, he 
 enlisted at Appleton in Company I, 3d Wis- 
 consin Cavalry with the recruits for the com- 
 mand of Captain Theodore Conkey. He 
 operated as recruiting officer for a time and 
 mustered at Camp Randall, Madison. He 
 passed the following winter there in drill and 
 in February went to Fort Leavenworth to join 
 the regiment. After two months they were 
 ordered to Fort Scott, where Mr. King was at- 
 tacked with the small-pox and carried in an 
 old wagon to the pest house, where he re- 
 mained about five weeks, with others sick with 
 the same disease. On recovery he returned to 
 Fort Scott and was assigned to hospital duty 
 while recovering his former vigor. He re- 
 belled at this and left the hospital without dis- 
 charge and went to his regiment and company. 
 Soon after he was transferred to Company C at 
 Fort McKean, Kansas. The duty there was 
 to keep a lookout for guerrillas and bush- 
 whackers and he was in the saddle most of the 
 
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 time. Once he went to the Cherokee Nation 
 after cattle and the detail secured ahout 800, 
 getting away with them after a fight, bringing 
 them to Fort Scott. He remained there until 
 about the 1st of August, 1SG4, and operated 
 as scout and escort for trains, following uj> 
 gentlemen of the bush and Indians and per- 
 forming other fi-ontier duty. He went thence 
 to Fort Kiley and about the last of September 
 the company went to Fort Zarah, Kansas, and 
 built a stockade. He had been made Sergeant 
 and while there he was placed on detached 
 service, escorting hay trains to Fort Larned. 
 While executing this duty he was ruptured 
 by a bucking horse and has never recovered 
 from the injury. He remained in that vicinity 
 until the spring of 1865, living in dugouts, 
 subsisting on salt meat and stale rations of all 
 sorts. There the command was reorganized 
 into Companies G and L, Mr. King being placed 
 in the former. Theodore Conkey was made 
 Colonel of the new organization. 
 
 Mr. King thinks that officer was a better specu- 
 lator than tighter. Mr. King was made Duty 
 Sergeant on the reorganization and marched 
 with his company to Lawrence where they 
 were ordered to escort Colonel Parry to Fort 
 Lyon, Col. This command had a dispatch 
 line covering a thousand miles. Aug. 7, 1805, 
 by special order, Sergeant King with his com- 
 pany, was relieved from duty and ordered to 
 report at headquarters at Fort Lyon for as- 
 signment to duty as Ordnance Sergeant. He 
 was occupied in this until the last of Septem- 
 ber, when his command was ordered to Fort 
 Leavenworth for muster out, whicii ceremony 
 took place Oct. 27, 1865. 
 
 He returned to Oshkosh, Wis., and on re- 
 quest of Colonel Conkey went to Appleton to 
 assist him in making out his returns, dating 
 back 20 months. He was known to tiie"bo3's" 
 as Captain of Company Q, of Colonel Conkey's 
 
 Mules. This command seemed to have a sort 
 of independent mission from first to last. Mr. 
 King passed a winter at Weyauwega working 
 as blacksmith and returned to Oshkosh to aid 
 in building a shingle mill and made shingles 
 one summer. In the winter he went to the 
 woods logging and in the spring engaged in a 
 handle factory as foreman. The establishment 
 was converted into a furniture factory of which 
 Mr. King had charge six years. His next 
 venture was as engineer in .Jackson county, 
 where he operated two years. He spent a year 
 at Sheboygan Falls, went to Mukwa, purcha.sed 
 a farm and was an agriculturist two years. 
 He was convinced that his forte was not farm- 
 ing and he sold his property and went into the 
 woods. In the spring of 1880 he went to La 
 Crosse and has since engaged in marine en- 
 gineering through the navigation season and 
 acts as a machinist in the winters. He is now 
 making a special study of the electric light 
 machinery'. He is a Republican and a mem- 
 'ber of the A. O. U. W. 
 
 He was married Dec. 17, 1865, at Weyau- 
 wega, to Alidah A., daughter of John H. and 
 Sarah Jane (Calkins) Thorne. Their four 
 children were named Sarah E., Levi II., Mil- 
 ton and Clarence C. Milton is deceased. 
 
 |jj^Y>jr^^LTER F. SUITER, La Crosse, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 38, was born Oct. 10, 1822, at 
 Herkimer, New York. He is the son of John 
 and Catherine B. (Hlanchard) Suiter and in the 
 ])aternal line is of German descent. The 
 Blanchard family in New York were prominent 
 in jniblic position and politics. The father was 
 a farmer and builder and was a prominent 
 ! Mason with Alex. Robb and Governor DeWitt 
 
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 Clinton. He and liis wife lived and died in 
 New York and their children were named 
 Jane, James, Anthony, Mary G., Walter F., John 
 and Angustus. Mary and John are deceased. 
 
 The youth of Dr. Suiter was passed at home 
 and after his father's death with the family of 
 Rev. John V. Spinner (father of F. E. Spinner), 
 who was his guardian. He was educated in 
 the primary schools of Herkimer and at Clin- 
 ton Academy. He entered Union College at 
 Scbenectad}', where he studied about two years 
 and completed his education at Girard College, 
 Philadelphia. He afterwards taught school 
 three years in New York, Vermont and North 
 Carolina, and then continued his medical 
 course at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, com- 
 pleting his preparation for the profession of a 
 physician at Castleton, Vermont, where he 
 took his degree. He opened his practice at 
 Amsterdam, New York, and, after two years, 
 went to Ilion, New York, and practiced three 
 years. In 1853 he went to Kansas and located 
 at Ossawattomie. When the troubles growing 
 out of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise 
 came on, Dr. Suiter, with the blood of German 
 ancestors in his veins, took the deepest interest 
 in affairs between the factions and allied him- 
 self with the defenders of Ossawatomie with 
 John Brown in the "Pottawattamie Stnbbs"as 
 Surgeon; with 72 men in the organization 
 they did what they could in aiding Brown to 
 protect the settlers in their rights. Aug. 18, 
 1853, Dr. Suiter was captured by the Border 
 Ruffians while acting as a scout, tried by a so- 
 called court presided over by tlie notorious 
 Colonel Atchison and sentenced to be hung at 
 two in the afternoon. But there had been a 
 raid on a colony of Georgians, who had moved 
 into Kansas with their slaves, and two men, 
 named Grant and Cook, claimed his surrender 
 to them on the ground of liis connection with 
 that movement. He was given up, taken from 
 
 Westport where he had his first trial, to " Milt 
 McGee's " tavern, near Kansas City, was tried 
 again and sentenced to be "bagged" and 
 thrown into the Missouri River. He was 
 placed in a bedroom with a guard and was 
 there supplied with a knife by one of the party, 
 whom he had formerly befriended. He was 
 called for and placed in a 'bus and the proces- 
 sion started for the river. It Was raining 
 heavily and, on nearing the Missouri, Child's 
 Tavern appeared where the party deter- 
 mined to test the whisky of that hostelry, and 
 he was taken to the saloon and offered drink, 
 but declined, his thoughts being busy with the 
 problem of escape. A guard had been placed 
 at the door of the room and another at the 
 landing below; he watched his opportunity, 
 made a rush for the first guard, pushed him 
 over with such force that he felled the other 
 and they both pitched over to the landing be- 
 low. Dr. Suiter rushed past them, saw the 
 steamer David Tatum pulling in, swam to her 
 remote side and climbed by means of the 
 guards to the lower deck, where were huddled 
 several hundred mules. He concealed himself 
 among them, stayed with them four days and 
 nights, extracting some of their food and water, 
 and went to St. Louis. He sought out Frank 
 P. Blair and from him obtained enough money 
 to reach Chicago, where he made matters 
 known to the Secretary of the Kansas Aid 
 Society and offered to take a force into Kansas 
 and fight the border ruffians out of the Terri- 
 tory. They not being in full accord with his 
 views, declined his proposition, and he finally 
 secured the sending of a small force of 300 un- 
 der Colonel Kittredge into the Territory. The 
 Doctor started for McHenry Co., Ill, where 
 he estabhshed his practice as a physician 
 at Marengo. When the war came on he 
 devoted his time and money to recruit- 
 ing, with a full remembrance of his Kan- 
 
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 sas experiences and a full knowledge of all 
 the atrocities of which the South would prove 
 capable. He helped raise seven companies for 
 the 95th Illinois Infantry. In the ensuing in- 
 trigues for place he was passed over and 
 entered the ranks as a private soldier. "Dick" 
 Yates, the war Governor, fully understood his 
 claims and when the regiment arrived at Chi- 
 cago appointed him Assistant Surgeon. In 
 September, 1862, the regiment went to the 
 front, passing through Kentucky and going 
 into camp in Jackson, Tennessee. Orders were 
 received for the regiment to connect with 
 Grant's army for the subjugation of Vicksburg 
 and they went to the rear of that place by way 
 of Jackson. At Abbeville he was detached 
 and directed to establish a hospital at Holly 
 Springs where Van Dorii had made a raid 
 December 20, 1862, the base of supplies for the 
 army of Grant being there in charge of Colonel 
 Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin. Upwards of 
 2,000,000 rations were destroyed, 2,000 men 
 taken prisoners and Grant's plans for a sum- 
 mer's campaign utterly ruined. The gallantry 
 of the major of the 82d Illinois prevented a 
 much worse disaster as there would, otherwise, 
 have been many more prisoners taken and the 
 suj>plies converted to rebel use. Dr. Suiter re- 
 ported at La Grange and was ordered to join 
 his regiment at Memphis but failed to do so 
 until it readied Lake Providence, La. He was 
 directed to establish a hospital there and re- 
 mained until April, 1863. His regiment had 
 gone to Smith's Plantation, La., on the march to 
 the rear of Vicksburg, going by way of Grand 
 Gulf While crossing at Smith's Plantation, 
 Bayou Joseph, he saw a soldier (Graves) drink- 
 ing ; an alligator appeared which the man 
 caught by the tail as he swung around, and 
 tried to haul ashore but failed and anutlier 
 soldier coming up with an ax knocked the 
 "gator" in the head; it measured 12 feet. 
 
 The army fought its way from Grand Gulf to 
 Cold Springs, Ttica, Raymond, Champion's 
 Hill and Baker's Creek, ariiving at the Big 
 Black River Bridge which had been burned by 
 the rebels. The next morning the 95th crossed 
 on pontoons and took up a line of march 
 to the rear of Vicksburg. It was assigned to 
 the 3d Brigade, 6lh Division and 17th Corps, 
 Logan's Division, and took jjosition in the siege 
 May 19, 1863. May 24th the doctor was made 
 I'urvej'ing Surgeon to supply hospitals with 
 medicines and other necessaries, and left the 
 regiment. He rejoined his command about 
 the last of May and, June 7, 1863, was a{>- 
 pointed Senior Surgeon of the Artillery Brigade 
 witli whicli he served until the close of the 
 war. The command went through the At- 
 lanta campaign, and through to the sea and to 
 Washington. After the fall of Vicksburg, Dr. 
 Suiter accompanied the command to Cairo, 
 took transports uj> the Tennessee to Huntsviile, 
 Ala., thence went to Decatur, had a slight en- 
 gagement, and fought at Resaca, going after- 
 wards to the several engagements at Kenesaw 
 and Peach Tree Creek, reaching Atlanta by 
 way of Rockwell. In the engagement at Nick- 
 ajack with Polk's forces. Dr. Suiter observed a 
 reconnoitering party on Pine Mountain an<l 
 told a gunner near Inm to sight liis piece in 
 that direction. Commotion followed and soon 
 the intelligence of the death of Polk was re- 
 ceived, Joe Coleman, 1st Minnesota Battery, 
 firing the .shot that .j>robably killed the rebel 
 General. It was Clayton's Battery of Rodman 
 guns and was attached to the 17th Corps under 
 McPherson. At Roswell's factor}* the works 
 were protected by an English flag, but it was 
 destroyed and the command crossed the Chat- 
 tahoochie to position before Atlanta. During 
 the action at Bald Hill the key to Atlanta was 
 secured through the occupation by Leggett's 
 forces and McPherson was killed on the 22d 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 631. 
 
 where General Gresham was also wounded the 
 day before. 
 
 The 4th Division of the 17th Corps under 
 Leggett carried Bald Hill with a loss of 750 
 men, but it virtually carried Atlanta, too. ,The 
 rebels under Hood flanked on tlie next day and 
 McPlierson was ordered to the heights taken 
 the day before. Dr. Suiter went to the foot of 
 Bald Hill and fixed his cjuarters at a spring 
 near the fork of a road. There was a small 
 growth of timber and underbrush and soon 
 after he heard the feed call of the Minnesota 
 Battery and immediately after a bugle sounded 
 " Boots and Saddles." In another minute 
 McPherson and Hickenlooper, with their order- 
 lies, came up and asked the direction of the 
 roads. He told them that the right led to Bald 
 Hill to Leggett's headquarters, and the one on 
 the left to the rear of the 2d Division of the 
 17th C'orps. They chose their respective roads 
 and as McPherson entered a copse to the left a 
 volley of musketry from the rebel line echoed 
 through the air. In an instant McPherson's 
 horse ran towards the Minnesota Battery and 
 the men of that command caught it. Dr. 
 Suiter went to the copse and saw General 
 McPherson lying on tiie ground, his orderly 
 dismounted and holding his own horse. Dr. 
 Suiter tore open McPherson's shirt and found 
 he was dead, with several shot in his body. He 
 drew him to cover and in five minutes the 
 rebels passed not five rods away. An ordnance 
 wagon came rattling down the hill ; tiie doctor 
 stopped it and sent the body forward to the 
 rear. The firing lulled a moment but soon 
 went on, and in a few minutes Dr. Suiter was 
 ordered to attend General Force, who was 
 wounded. He next received orders to go to 
 the l-5th Ohio and while moving to the posi- 
 tion of that command a shell struck the 
 head of his horse, which fell upon him. 
 Major Mann and Captain Clayton released him, 
 
 but he was crushed in the left hip. Before 
 he was well he was attacked with typhoid 
 fever and when sufficiently recovered he re- 
 ceived orders to go to his command in the 
 vicinity of Ezra's Church, where a succes- 
 sion of fights took place. Hood broke his 
 cartel, moved North and afterwards the com- 
 mand went to .lonesboro where Sherman ope- 
 rated to destroy the railroad and cut the only 
 line of communication left to the rebels. After 
 the fall of Atlanta he was sick again with 
 typhoid fever and after recovery went with his 
 charge on the march to the sea. After leaving 
 Savannah for Beaufort, Dr. Suiter established 
 a hospital at that place and about a week later 
 started for Columbia, reaching that city Feb. 
 17, 1865. A soldier of the 16th Wisconsin 
 crossed the river on an improvised boat and 
 run up a Union flag on the Capitol. The 
 town was filled with liquoi seemingly and 
 everybody was " full." Burning cotton filled 
 the streets, tufts blowing with every gust of 
 wind, and smoke and flame filled the air. 
 Dr. Suiter from the streets saw people lying 
 dead on beds in the houses, smothered by the 
 smoke, the front walls of the buildings having 
 fallen out. (In no instance has more stories 
 about an incident of the war been told than of 
 the burning of Columbia. Of all that have 
 been furnished the historian of this work, none 
 coincides with that of Sherman in his Memoirs 
 but this.) The march went on after days to 
 Orangeburg and Winnsboro, thence to Cheraw 
 to find a large amount of rebel stores. The 
 inauguration of Lincoln was liere celebrated. 
 In the course of the progress, the Minnesota 
 Light Artillery had a fight with Wade Hamp- 
 ton's command and took a field piece which 
 was sent to the Governor of Minnesota, which 
 bore an inscription of having been presented 
 to South Carolina by the English government. 
 At Fayetteville the rebels were found on the 
 
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 opposite shore of the Cape Fear River and the 
 city with its fine old arsenal was destroyed. 
 Oft the way to Goldsboro Dr. Suiter had been 
 detained looking after some disabled men and 
 was following in the rear, when he .saw a com- 
 motion on a plantation. As he passed the 
 gate, Dr. Richards, Division Surgeon of the 
 17th Corps, asked him to go down to the house. 
 He did so and saw a stately old man pacing 
 about ami abusing the Union soldiers, declar- 
 ing that he had always been a Union man and 
 now he was getting his [lay for his sufferings 
 for principles. Devastation ruled in his house 
 and on Dr. Suiter's rebuking the soldiers, one 
 of them slipped a paper into his hand of 
 which the following is a verbatim transcript, 
 grammar, punctuation, capitals and all. " We 
 thi emdersigned Citizens of Coonsboro Destrict. 
 meet on Thursday the 9th day of May 1861 
 At the Election Precinct of Said destrict, for 
 the purpose of forming ourselves into a Com- 
 pany, for the express purpose of protecting 
 Ourselves, our family, our property &C — 
 whereas, a call has been made by the Federal 
 Government for fourses to assist in the Sub- 
 jugation of the South; and whereas in the 
 Opinion of this meeting, said Call is illegal, 
 unconstitutional and tends to the Sui)jugation 
 of our Liberty — Resolved 1st that we pledge 
 ourselves to devote our time, our means and 
 (if necessary) our lives to the resistance of Such 
 Arbitrary and dispotic measures — 2d That we 
 further pledge our means our lives, and sacred 
 honor to protect & defend our Homes & lire- 
 sides to the very last extent. 3d That we rec- 
 ommend that a vigilance committee of P. 
 Richardson, P. Goodwin Wm Hastings of our 
 citizens be appointed for this destrict whose 
 duty it shall be to bring all suspisious persons 
 or traitors to Justice, & delt with according to 
 Law. also a Patrole be appointed by said Com- 
 mittee whenever needed." Pharaoh Richard- 
 
 son's name, (evidently the maker and drawer 
 of the document), leads a list of 32 names 
 attached, some in their own hand and others 
 in Richardson's, their owners either being un- 
 able or afraid to sign their names themselves. 
 But the old fireeater Pharaoh, liardcr hearted 
 than his illustrious predecessor of Egypt, 
 hesitated at nothing on that 9th day of May, 
 1861. He did not foresee a day about four 
 years later, when he should stand and 
 vociferate his fealtj' to the Union to save 
 his property and neck, and that did 
 not do it. Dr. Suiter held the paper in 
 his iiand and questioned the planter seri- 
 ously, the latter claiming to have been a 
 Union man from the start. Dr. Suiter read 
 the paper to him and he was wholly unable to 
 explain its contents consonantly with his assev- 
 erations. A finely developed negro had been, 
 meanwhile, brought in, and when questioned 
 said " he had belonged to Massa Richardson, 
 but he wanted to belong to you alls." His 
 master had complained that the Union soldiers 
 had robbed his smoke-houses, but the negro 
 stated that the rebel soldiery had done it. He 
 was allowed to tell his knowledge of afitiirs and 
 said in his master's presence that it had been 
 customary there to release L'nion soldiers to 
 work on the roads under parole and in one of 
 his spasmodic attacks of loyalty to the Union, 
 Richardson had selected 31 "galvanized Yan- 
 kees," as the paroled men were called, and had 
 them shot in cold blood. Their bodies were 
 placed in a field adjoining the hog yard and 
 after they were dead the fence was taken down 
 and the brutes turned in to devour the still 
 warm and quivering bodies. Dr. Suiter went 
 to the premises, unable to believe the horrible 
 account, but saw human bones and skulls and 
 the identical hogs rooting among them, dig- 
 ging into the eye-sockets, etc. Exasj)erated 
 beyond endurance he went back to the house. 
 
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 He demanded an explanation and Richardson 
 told him that they were prisoners who refused 
 to work after their release and that it so aggra- 
 vated the rebels that they had shot them. 
 That did not account for tlie giving of the 
 bodies to the hogs and, as the old scamp stood 
 shivering with fear, he told him he had noth- 
 ing to say about the disposal of his case which 
 he would leave to the good Union soldiers 
 there. He mounted his horse and as he rode 
 awa}^ a shout caused him to turn ; a human 
 liody was dangling from a branch of a tree in 
 front of the house and he had the satisfaction 
 to notice that it was kicking vigorously. He 
 leaves the reader to decide whether the Union 
 soldiers had hung one of themselves by way of 
 expressing their disapproval of feeding legiti- 
 mate pork with the bodies of murdered Union 
 .soldiers. 
 
 Between Goldsboro and Raleigh the 17th 
 Corps was in a tight at Benton vi lie, coming up 
 to assist the 20tli Corps which had been in 
 action the day previous. (March 21st). Before 
 reaching Raleigh the news of Lee's surrender 
 was announced and at Raleigh the information 
 of the assassination of President Lincoln was 
 given to the army. The pursuit of Johnston ; 
 the armistice ; the conference, with the terms 
 made by Sherman; the transmission to Wash- 
 ington ; the rejection by the authorities, smart- 
 ing under the revelations of the plot which had 
 destroyed the grandest liuman life on earth and 
 which contem{)lated that of many others ; the 
 finale by which .Johnston laid down his arms 
 and stopped the rebellion are matters of history 
 which need no elaljoration here, but it is a 
 grand thing to remember that one has been a 
 part of it all. Marching Northward through 
 Richmond and to Alexandria the 17th Corps 
 went into camp at that place and was in the 
 Grand Review May 23d. Dr. Suiter received 
 orders to go to Chicago to take charge of the 
 
 Soldiers' Home. When his regiment returned 
 he went to Springfield to be mustered out Aug. 
 17, 1865. 
 
 He located in Marengo, III., and, two years 
 later, went to Mount Ayre, Iowa, and bought a 
 tract of land on which he Ijuilt a house. After 
 one summer he returned to New Boston, 111., 
 and practiced medicine, associated with Dr. T. 
 S. Stanway, until 1879. In 1871 he was 
 appointed Examining Surgeon for Pensions. 
 He sold his business in 1881 and opened his 
 practice at Davenport, Iowa, removing in 1883 
 to La Crcsse, Wis., and is pursuing his business 
 in conjunction with his son. Dr. F. C. Suiter. 
 He was appointed Examining Surgeon for 
 Pensions March 7, 1890. 
 
 He was married March 20, 1853, at Little 
 Falls, New York, to Nancy, daughter of Friend 
 Cook and the children born of this union 
 are Friend C, Electa B. and Elizabeth. Dr. 
 Suiter belongs to the Orders of Odd Fellows 
 and Masons, and he is a decided Republican. 
 In addition to his business in town he conducts 
 a large stock farm in the vicinity of La Crosse 
 where he is breeding improved stock. 
 
 3^3S 
 
 OHN T. PATTERSON, Mauston, Wis,, 
 Past Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 
 59 and surveyor of Juneau county, was 
 born Feb. 3, 1838, at McConnellsville, Morgan" 
 Co., Ohio. His parents, James and Mary 
 (Whiteside) Patterson, were natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania and there married. In 1819 they settled 
 in Ohio and spent their entire lives on a farm. 
 They reared nine children on the Buckeye 
 farm and their offspring were born in the order 
 named : Leander, Isabel, Elvira, James S., 
 Mary A., Maria, Adeline, John and Emeline. 
 The latter is the only one not living. About 
 1860 the son went West to Iowa. He intended 
 
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 remaining to observe as to future prospects but 
 saw little to encourage him after the breaking 
 out of the war. He returned to his home in 
 Ohio and enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, at his birth- 
 place, in Company C, 122d Ohio Infantry. He 
 was mustered at Camp Goddard, Zanes\nlle, 
 Ohio, and was transferred to the non-commis- 
 sioned staff as principal musician, in the capa- 
 city of drum-major. He went with the com- 
 mand to Parkersburg, Va., thence to Clarks- 
 burg and passed almost a whole year in Y\r- 
 ginia and North Carolina in conllict with 
 guerrillas under Mosby and other bushwhack- 
 ing leaders. In .June, 1863, the regiment was 
 at Winchester, where they had had headquart- 
 ers for six months, and there Mr. Patterson was 
 in his first regular battle. Its date was June 
 13th, and at fir.'^t promised victory, but the 
 rebels were too strong and the ammunition of 
 the Union soldiers exhausted ; the last shell 
 had been fired and after three days' anxiety 
 and hard battle those who could, cut their way 
 out. The force was commanded by Milroy 
 who lost 4,080 men captured, and Mr. Patter- 
 son was among them. He was taken to Libby 
 and Belle Isle and held in rebel bondage until 
 November, when he was paroled and ex- 
 changed. When the arrangements were being 
 completed there were 5,000 men to be called 
 and he was almost at tlie last, and almost in de- 
 spair, too. On the evening of the last day of ex- 
 change his name was called. lie was so nearly 
 exhausted from hardshij) and privation that 
 his comrades carried him from thejjrison. He 
 went to Annapolis and thence to Brandy Station 
 when recruited, to join his command. He 
 reached his company to fight at Locust Grove 
 and Mine Run in November, 1863. They 
 went into quarters at Brandy Station and in 
 the sj)ring went to the" campaign of the 
 Wilderness, on May 5lh and Gtii was in the 
 battle of the Wilderness and went to Spottsyl- 
 
 vania with the 6th Corps, and to Cold Harbor. 
 The regiment went to the James River, thence 
 to Bermuda Ilundi'ed and to Petersburg. He 
 was previously in the activities on the North 
 
 i and South Anna rivers, and was again in action 
 at Jerusalem Plank Road. After raiding on 
 the Weldon railroad, he went with the corps to 
 reinforce Gen. Wallace at Monocacy during 
 Early's raid on Washington and, after helping 
 drive the rebel chief away (the regiment losing 
 heavily), the command went to Washington, 
 Fi'ederick City and Harper's Ferrj'. Mr. Pat- 
 terson was in an action at Smithfield and went 
 again to the valley of the Shenandoah with 
 the 6th Corps. He was in the action at Win- 
 chester September 19th and his regiment was 
 the first infantry to cross the stream. Mr. Pat- 
 terson was detailed to the hospital at Winchester 
 and was in charge of the wards. He was 
 transferred to a hospital east of the city and 
 rejoined his regiment at Newtown missing only 
 the fight at Cedar Creek, October 19tli. This 
 
 ; was the only action in which his regiment par- 
 ticipated in which he was not engaged. About 
 the first of the year 1865, the corps started for 
 Petersburg under Sheridan and Mr. Patterson 
 
 ] took part in the entire siege after that date and 
 in the actions outside. He was with Sheridan's 
 command at Amelia Springs, Little Sailors' 
 Creek and High Bridge, marking many minor 
 engagements during tlie chase after Lee to 
 Appomattox. His command was detailed to 
 proceed to Danville to aid Sherman in closing 
 if need be, but marched back on receiving news 
 of .lohnston's surrender, and went to Washing- 
 ton. Mr. Patterson was in the Grand Review 
 and was discharged "near Washington" June 
 
 I 26, 1865, to be mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. 
 He arrived home July 2d and on the 27th of 
 the same month started for Wisconsin, going 
 direct to Mauston, where he has continued to 
 reside. For 20 years he was a farmer in Juneau 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 and in the fall of 1886 he removed to Mansion 
 cit)'. When a boy he had acquired a knowledge 
 of engineering and practiced that business 
 sufficiently during his agricultural experiences 
 to retain a practical knowledge of the vocation. 
 In 1886 he was appointed County Surveyor and 
 still discharges the duties of the position. He 
 also conducts a line of business in the sale of 
 agricultural machinery. 
 
 He was married .Jan. 1, 1862 in McConnells- 
 ville, Ohio, to Lizzie E., daughter of William 
 and Elizabeth (Hosic) Bell. The family of Mrs. 
 Patterson were Virguiiaus. Four sons belong 
 to the family and are named Edward R., Harry 
 E., Arthur and Victor. Mr. Patterson is a 
 charter member of his Post, and is a Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 '^^^Jy^lUAAM HUGH McFARLAND, 
 
 Madison, Wis., member of C. C. 
 tpJiL. Washburn Post No. 11. was born 
 May 4, 1844 in Liverpool, England, being the 
 only sou of John and Catherine (McEwen) 
 McFarland. The father was born April 3, 1814 
 in the same city as his sou and was the son of 
 John McFarland, born July 28, 1782 and 
 a native of the North of Ireland, whither his 
 forefathers had gone to escape the persecutions 
 of the Scottish kirk to encounter disaster as 
 desperate in Ireland, where tlie Scotch-Irish 
 lived from 1609 to 1709, preserving their 
 nationality and founding a race which has 
 proven one of the best strains in this country. 
 The clan legend of the McFarlands is that the 
 patronymic was originally spelled Pharlan and 
 changed in the early part of the 16th century. 
 Gilchrist, founder of the clan, was a brother of 
 the individual who was made Earl of Lennox, 
 the family estates lying west of Loch Lamond, 
 where 28 lairds held sway successively. John 
 McFarland (1st), wife, Elizabeth, '~tra'S born 
 
 June 24, 1787. John McFarland (2d) was a 
 mechanic and came to America in 1844, loca- 
 ting in Milwaukee where he died in February, 
 1845, and was buried at Nashotah, Wis. The 
 mother died five years later in Liverpool, 
 whither she had returned the summer follow- 
 ing her husband's death. 
 
 Mr. McFarland accompanied his mother to 
 his native place aud returned in 1853 to Mil- 
 waukee to reside with his uncle, W. H. McFar- 
 land, who took charge of his rearing. He 
 attended the public .scliool in Milwaukee, and 
 tiie first important move of his life was his 
 enlistment at Milwaukee, May 10, 1861, in the 
 Milwaukee Zouaves, an organization which, 
 although it was composed of boys, was the 
 admiration and pride of Milwaukee for thor- 
 oughness of drill and military discipline. The 
 first service of the command was in the bank 
 riots of June, 1861 and, July 13th, they were 
 mustered into the 5th Wisconsin Infantry as 
 Company B, at Camp Randall, Madison. Drill, 
 camp duty and, finally going to the front, pro- 
 ceeding to Wasliington and to camp at Merid- 
 ian Hill, and to Chain Bridge to work on 
 fortifications filled the soldier's record of Mr. 
 McFarland until the spring of 1862. He 
 accompanied the general movement of the 
 army and camped at Fairfax C. H., having 
 had nothing like experience of war save the 
 affair at Lewinsville, Sept. 11, 1861. The 
 regiment went next on the Peninsular cam- 
 paign with McClellan, moved to Hampton and 
 camped at Newport News. Mr. McFarland was 
 in the siege of Yorktown, skirmishing on the 
 march there, and he was occupied in military 
 duty until the evacuation. He was in hot 
 action at Williamsburg, where the conduct of 
 the men elicited the only words of praise 
 McClellan ever spoke to a command. On to 
 the swamps of the Chickahominy was the 
 next watchword preliminary to the battles of 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Golden's Farm, White Oak Swamp and service 
 comiected with the "Forward to Richmond" 
 movement, only to win a siglit of the spires of 
 the rebel capital and afterwards to march, 
 after Malvern Hill, to Harrison's Landing, 
 operations which outline one of the most fear- 
 ful experiences of the war. Mr. McFarland 
 "*• fought at Cramptou's Gap and was in the 
 subsequent movements, lying under fire all 
 day at Antietam, and in the march when gen- 
 eral orders were issued for the movement of 
 the army he was taken sick, fell unconscious 
 by the roadside and was taken to Frederick 
 City, Md.; he was removed later to Camden 
 street hospital in Baltimore, and in the spring 
 joined his regiment at Belle Plain in time for 
 assignment to the " Light Division " for service 
 on the Rappahannock. He was a participant 
 in the charge on Marye's Heights and heard 
 Colonel Allen's charge to his men, which in 
 itself was a death warrant if not successful. A 
 minie ball knocked him down and another , 
 struck him in the side, but he did not fall out 
 and was one of 18 men out of 42 in his com- 
 pany which went on with the command to 
 Ghancellorsville. He was in the action at 
 Salem Church and Bank's Ford, where, about 
 seven o'clock in the evening, he received a 
 shot in the thigh. May 4, 1803, (his 19th 
 birthday.) He lay all night on the field 
 within hearing of the rebel jiickets and 
 was visited in the morning by a rebel 
 surgeon who gave him some morphine, 
 and soon after had him conveyed on a 
 stretcher to a barn which was filled with 
 wounded, as well as the "lean-to" in connec- 
 tion. He lay all night with the rain dripping 
 on him from tlie eaves and was placed in the 
 morning in a corn-crib which afforded some 
 protection. On the 7th of May his leg was 
 amputated by two rebel surgeons and on the 
 12th the wounded were paroled and sent across 
 
 the Rappahannock River to be driven in am- 
 bulances over a rougli corduroy road to Belle 
 Plain Landing. The jolting opened his wound 
 afresh, the stitches separating and exposing the 
 stump of bone, which rendered a second am- 
 putation necessary and he remained in field 
 hospital there until June 14lh, wlien he was 
 placed on a transport and taken to Armory 
 Square hospital, Washington. He received a 
 furlough in September, returned to Wisconsin 
 and in the late fall was transferred to Camp 
 Randall hospital, to Harvey hospital in Decem- 
 ber and in Feljruary, 1SG4, he was again sent 
 to Armory Square hospital and soon after went 
 to St. Elizabeth hospital, Washington, to be 
 discharged March 22, 1864. 
 
 He went from the hospital to New York and 
 there and in Newark, New Jersey, he passed the 
 time until his return to Wisconsin in 1867. 
 He was variously engaged until January, 1886, 
 when he was appointed by Governor Rusk in 
 the office of the Adjutant-General and in 1888 
 was transferred to the Farmers' Institute De- 
 partment, his present incumbency. (1890.) He 
 was made a staff attache of Governor Rusk at 
 the G. A. R. Encampment of 1887 at St. Louis 
 and in 1888 received the same honor at Colum- 
 bus. He has, of late years, devoted much time 
 to researches for all items relating to the 5th 
 Wisconsin Infantry. 
 
 He was married April 6, 1871, at Cottage 
 Grove, Wis., to Susan E., daughter of Artliur 
 Steward, and their children are William II. 
 Jr., J. Frank, Catherine May, Albert H., Jessie 
 B., Maud S., Jeremiah Rusk and Thomas. The 
 father of Mrs. McFarland (Arthur Steward) 
 was born in Ohio and died in 18G4 in Minne- 
 sota. Her mother, Polly Mackay, was a native 
 of Scotland. Henry D. Steward enlisted in the 
 16th Michigan Infantry and lost jiart of his right 
 hand in action ; he resides in San Francisco, 
 Cal. Manassas Steward was a soldier of the 
 
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 civil war, was captured by the rebels and died 
 in Libby prison. Charles Steward served in a 
 Minnesota regiment and lost part of his left 
 liand. (These were brothers of Mrs. McFar- 
 land.) Mr. McFarland's portrait appears on 
 page 036. 
 
 ^^ OLWERT K. PIER, attorney, Milwau- 
 kee, Wis., was born in Fond du Lac, 
 Wis., in 1841, and is a descendant 
 from French Huguenot stock. His parents, 
 Edward and Harriet (Kendall) Pier, came from 
 Vermont to the Territory of Wisconsin in 1836 
 and built the first house in Fond du Lac 
 county on a farm which is still in the family 
 and against which there has never been a 
 mortgage, judgment, tax or other lien recorded. 
 The children were named Anna, Ruth, Carrie 
 and Colwert, the two latter being twins. 
 
 Lidians were plenty and schools scarce and 
 at 16 young Pier was sent to Lombard Univer- 
 sity at Galesburg, 111., whence the Wisconsin 
 students came home to enlist under the call of 
 President Lincoln for troops. April 16th found 
 Colwert Pier a member of the " Badger Boys," 
 which became Company I, 1st Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. He makes no claim to being the 
 youngest man in the array or the first to enlist, 
 but he insists on being recorded as one of the 
 first to be sent to the guard house. 
 
 The regiment waded the Potomac with Pat- 
 terson's column to fight Longstreet's men at 
 Falling Waters, .luly 2d, which drove the 
 enemy and lost one of its best men. (See 
 sketch of George W. Drake.) 
 
 On his way home Pier left the regiment to 
 take a sick comrade home to Ithaca, N. Y., and 
 went thence to the Law School at Albany, N. 
 Y., returning in six months to Fond du Lac, 
 and recruited under the call of the Governor for 
 the " Badger State Zouaves " ; was elected Cap- 
 
 tain and subsequently Colonel of the regiment 
 to which the company was assigned. Ten full 
 companies, fully equipped, were tendered 
 through tiie Governor to the general Govern- 
 ment, Lieutenant-Colonel George B. Goodwin 
 being sent to Washington to make the offer. 
 Provost Marshal Frey was of the opinion that 
 the Government had troops enough and the 
 offer was declined. Within 30 days, when the 
 men had nearly all entered other regiments, 
 the Governor received a telegram that the regi- 
 ment would be accepted. (Let it be noticed 
 that 600,000 troops were called for after General 
 Frey's promulgation of his opinion.) 
 
 In March, 1864, Pier was commissioned Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel of the 38th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 the last three-years regiment from the State, 
 and with the fir.st five companies organized, he 
 joined the command of Grant at White House 
 Landing. There the re-enlisted veterans of the 
 1st Minnesota were merged with the 38th Bat- 
 talion, with Lieutenant-Colonel Pier in com- 
 mand. Their first dose of rebel lead was taken 
 at Cold Harbor and in the 9th Army Corps the 
 command participated in the subsequent ope- 
 rations of the Army of the Potomac. During 
 the assaults of June 16-17-18, Colonel Pier was 
 wounded each day, but he did not leave his 
 command and says with pride, " My boys never 
 went into a fight, on a march or fatigue duty 
 that I was not with them." The capture of 
 Petersburg with its radiating railroads meant 
 everything, but 100,000 brave men left the 
 ranks for the rear or their graves before it was 
 taken. The Wisconsin National Guard, located 
 in 40 towns and cities in the State, are as brave 
 and far more efficient than were the volunteers, 
 but 25 times their number were annihilated 
 before Petersburg was taken. The aggregate 
 losses of Donelson, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicks- 
 burg and Sherman's march to the sea, were 
 less than those of the Army of the Potomac 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 in driving Lee from Petersburg. Colonel Pier I 
 says: — "Before Petersburg we shot days and 
 worked nights ; it was dangerous to be safe any- 
 where, as the opposing lines were almost within 
 stone-throw of each other ; the rebels shot to 
 kill and killed by thousands. We returned 
 tlieir compliments and probably threw two : 
 pounds of lead and iron to their one. My deci- 
 mated command used 5,000 rounds of ball 
 cartridges every 24 hours; the graveyard be- 
 hind the liill hourly increased its membership 
 and if a man left liis position or stood upriglit, 
 he did so at the peril of his life. From .June, , 
 1864, to April, 1865, it was continuous hell and j 
 tiie truth cannot Ite written or painted. Major . 
 Roberts of my regiment, (now of Waupaca) put 
 it pat when he exclaimed, " you may call this 
 war, but T call it murder." As good and brave 
 officers and soldiers as ever lived were cashiered 
 or shot because the strain was too great for 
 human endurance. We bucked or built breast- 
 works all the time. Burnside's mine explosion 
 cost the army 4,000 men between sun-up and 
 sun-down. If is too awful to tell. Tlie recruits 
 came from the North to fill tiie vacant ranks 
 and we buried them beside the others. Eitiier 
 the dusl was stifling or the mud ankle deep 
 and no one had a choice between the two. 
 General Grant kept " iiaminering away " with 
 what little was left of the iiammer. August 
 l!)th we wont for the Weldon railroad and 
 walked into a pocket surrounded by rebels. 
 The ablest straggler in the army could not find 
 the rear, for there was none. But we lield the 
 road all the same. Sept. 30th, at Poplar Grove 
 Church, the rebels gave us more than ordinary 
 courtesy demanded from host to guest, and 
 when the five companies from Wisconsin joined 
 the 38th Battalion there, they looked like a 
 brigade, and the way they threw up breast- 
 works was a sight to be seen ; they were less 
 than 16 feet high in some places. When Grant 
 
 sent us in November for the South Side rail- 
 road, we had not gone far before we decided we 
 did not want it so much as we thouglit we did, 
 and some of the boys are there yet. In Jan- 
 uary, 1805, the first flag of truce we had seen 
 for nearly a year was raised in front of my 
 pickets. Three rebel commissioners crossed the 
 lines to interview President Lincoln at City 
 Point; we tiiought peace had come ; the firing 
 ceased and tJie boys shook hands, but the flag 
 soon went down, the men jumped for their en- 
 trenchments and the firing went on as before." 
 The 109tli New York, a regiment of thorough- 
 breds, had lost all its field officers. General 
 Wilcox, Division Commander, detailed Colonel 
 Pier to its command. It was a most delicate 
 affair in all respects. The l)attle-scarred veterans 
 from New York did not want a youngster from 
 Wisconsin placed over them and the Badger 
 knew it; besides, he preferred to remain with 
 the command with which he had fought and 
 suffered through previous campaigns. He 
 ordered a dress parade in full view of the 
 enemy and under their lire. (Quartermaster 
 Hopkins of tlie 109th says: — The Adjutant 
 read the Order and. Colonel Pier advancing to 
 his side said to the officers in line, " this Order 
 is as objectionable to me as to you and I will 
 have it revoked as soon as I can ; meantime we 
 
 I must remember we are soldiers. You expect 
 me to do my duty as I know you will doyoui-s. 
 
 I Adjutant! dismiss the parade!" Fort Stead- 
 man with the 14th New York Heavy Artillery 
 
 j was captured by the rebels under General 
 Gordon the next morning, and the 109th as- 
 sisted in recapturing the fort witii 2,000 of its 
 captors. This ended the discontent and Col- 
 onel Pier remained in command until Lee 
 surrendered and the veteran regiment reached 
 Washington on its way home. 
 
 April 2, 1865, Colonel Pier's regiment with 
 two others, formed the assaulting column in the 
 
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 charge on Fort Mahone at break of day and 
 held tlie works against the desperate efforts of 
 the rebels to retake their broken line of fortifi- 
 cations. The battle raged all day, the rebel 
 assaults growing weaker and less frequent as 
 the intervening space was piled with rebel 
 dead. Under cover of darkness Lee retired and 
 Petersburg had fallen. The command of Col- 
 onel Pier followed the fleeing enemy until the 
 surrender of Lee at Appomattox virtually 
 closed the war. Colonel Pier was appointed 
 President of a General Court Martial at Wash- 
 ington and served as such until the 38th was 
 ordered to Wisconsin for muster out. 
 
 He again entered into practice of the law but 
 left it temporarily during the financial strin- 
 gency of 1873-7 and took charge of the Fond 
 du Lac County Savings Institution, as its at- 
 torney, the principal managers being stricken 
 with sickness and dying ; but tlie bank sur- 
 vived, while hundreds of similar institutions 
 went down. 
 
 Colonel Pier was married in 1866 to Kate 
 Hamilton and to them three daughters have 
 been born — Kate H., Carrie H. and Harriet H., 
 ail of whom, including the motiier, being grad- 
 uates from the Law Department of the Wis- 
 consin State University at Madison and 
 engaged with the husband and father in the 
 active practice of the profession. Tiiis is prob- 
 ably a unique case in tlie history of the world. 
 
 They are all hard workers and effective 
 speakers and their labors do not seem to inter- 
 fere with their society obligations in all circles 
 of which they are deservedly popular. 
 
 Colonel Pier is an ardent Republican and an 
 active friend of the ex-soldiers and their de- 
 pendents. He does not seek office but takes 
 the stump at every Presidential campaign and 
 is in demand Memorial Days and at Grand 
 Army gatlierings. He was President of the 
 great State Re-union at Milwaukee in 1880 and 
 
 Secretary of the National Encampment Council 
 in 1889. He is five feet, nine inches in 
 height, well proportioned, witli (hirk hair and 
 complexion and is inclined to look and act on 
 the brighter side of life. 
 
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 /^^ EORGE C. NICHOLS, Racine, Wis., 
 t /,^ jV member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 ^&^ born Aug. 29, 1843, in LaFayette 
 Co., Wisconsin. His father, Rev. Cyrus Nich- 
 ols, was born in 1799 at Reading, Mass., and 
 was a representative of the Puritan Presbyte- 
 rian stock which settled New England. He 
 was reared in the Presbyterian faith and 
 was ordained a minister of that church. He 
 came to Wisconsin as a pioneer preacher and 
 preaclied the first Presbyterian sermon at 
 Racine, where he was a resident more than a 
 half century. He married Diana C. Hurlburt, 
 who was born in 1805 in Vermont. He died 
 in June, 1883. The mother is still living. The 
 early life of the son was passed on a farm and 
 he obtained such education as was furnished 
 by the common schools of that period. He 
 was one of several children named in order of 
 birth Jane, Sidney, Henry, Mary, George, Sam- 
 uel and Agnes. Mr. Nichols was engaged in 
 the business of a blacksmith when he decided 
 to enroll in the military service of his countrj^ 
 which he did Aug. 7, 1862, in Company A, 22d 
 VV'isconsin Infantry, Colonel Utley. tie was 
 mustered September 2d and left the State on 
 the 16th for Cincinnati, expecting immediate 
 service of active character. The command 
 went to Covington, thence to Louisville and 
 Nicholasville, going thence to Danville and 
 from there to Nashville, looking after the move- 
 ments of Morgan and Bragg. They went to 
 Franklin from Nashville and Mr. Nichols was 
 in the disastrous action at Thompson's Station, 
 
642 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 where the colonel and more than 200 of the 
 regiment were taken prisoners. They went via 
 Tullahoina to Richmond, arriving there after 
 two weeks' travel to remain eleven days before 
 exchange. During his incarceration there Mr. 
 Nichols was sick and in hospital, going thence 
 to Annapolis on parole. He remained about 
 three months and while there, Baltimore was 
 threatened, which caused the ordering of the 
 convalescents and paroled prisoners from An- 
 napolis to tlie defense of the city. Mr. Nichols 
 went thence to Camp Tyler, a post for the 
 stragglers from the Gettysburg field, and joined 
 his regiment in September at Murfreesboro, 
 and he was in camp there until the movement 
 to Atlanta in the spring of 1SG4. He accom- 
 panied Sherman with his regiment and was in 
 the fights at Resaca, Dallas, Golgotha Church, 
 Kenesaw Mountain, Powder Springs and Peach 
 Tree Creek. In the latter engagement his com- 
 mand was on the skirmish line and Company 
 A occupied a ravine where the rebel fire passed 
 over their heads, while their own fire was very 
 effective. He was in the subsequent move- 
 ments of his regiment prior to and following 
 the fall of Atlanta and went with Sherman to 
 the sea; he was detailed to a foraging squad 
 and continued in that variety of service until 
 Savannah was reached. He went thence to 
 Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh and after 
 the intelligence of Lee's surrender was received 
 went to Richmond and Washington and to the 
 Grand Review. Returning to Milwaukee he 
 was discharged June 12, 1865, his period of en- 
 listment being closed by the termination of the 
 war. Returning to Racine he resumed his 
 business as a blacksmith in which he operated 
 until he entered the employ of the Hurlburt 
 Manufacturing Company, his present relation. 
 He was married June 3, 1868, to Alfia, 
 daughter of David and Marietta (Lewis) Ewen, 
 and they have one child, George S., born March 
 
 25, 1869. Mrs. Nichols has two brothers named 
 Wallace D. and Lyman C. Her father died 
 June 3, 1888, and her mother is still living at 
 Delton, Wis. They were from Essex Co., New 
 Jersey. Mrs. Nichols is a prominent member 
 of the Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
 M 
 
 UDWIG JANKE, Waukesha, Wis., a 
 
 gy. member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, at 
 ^■^ that place, was born Oct. 11, 1843, in 
 Germany, the native country of his parents, 
 Michael and Christina (Rhode) .Janke. He 
 is the descendant of ancestors in both lines who 
 were soldiers in the wars of Germany and be- 
 longed to the military force of their native 
 land through the regulations which retjuire 
 every male child to serve a term in the army. 
 The father was an officer in the Prussian ser- 
 vice. When the son was three years old, the 
 family removed to America and on landing at 
 the port of New York came at once to Wash- 
 ington Co., W^isconsin, settled on a farm and 
 there reared their family. At 16, the son ap- 
 prenticed himself to a blacksmith and followed 
 that calling as an occupation until he entered 
 the army, lie was then 22 years of age and 
 enrolled March 25, 1865 in Company D, 51st 
 Wisconsin Infantry. The first seven companies 
 were pushed forward to the regimental ren- 
 dezvous at St. Louis, Mo., as fast as mustered 
 and left that place May 9th for Warrensburg, 
 with the exception of Company B, which was 
 sent to Carondelet. May 18th, Companies C 
 and D went under orders to Kingsville, where 
 they performed heavy camp and other dutj', 
 in the way of guarding railroads and contest- 
 ing territory with bushwhackers, besides al- 
 most daily wearisome marching. June 20th 
 they went to Pleasant Hill, where they 
 were consolidated with the 53d Wiscon- 
 
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 sin Infantry, retaining their original number. 
 Aug. 5, 1865 they were sent to Madison and 
 mustered out. 
 
 Mr. Janke I'esumed his business as a black- 
 smith and operated at Milwaukee one year, 
 after wliicli he went to AVaukesha. Reentered 
 into partnership with Peter Lowe in the prose- 
 cution of his trade and after seven years en- 
 gaged in the business of a wine merchant in 
 which he is still occupied. He is a member of 
 the Order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the 
 Partriarchal Circle. He is also a farmer, own- 
 ing 1.50 acres of valuable land less than four 
 miles from -the city, on whicli he is engaged in 
 rearing blooded stock. Mr. Janke is a pros- 
 perous and thrifty citizen and is enjoying the 
 success of his efforts in bis several callings. 
 
 He was married May 22, 1869 to Rosa Kupir 
 and they have two children. They are named 
 Mary Frances and Albert Emil. 
 
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 ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 
 CLAY LEWIS, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of Post W. B. Gushing, 
 No. 19, was born April 15, 1840, in the city of 
 Philadelphia and is the son of David P. and 
 Caroline (Schillingsberg) Lewis. His father 
 was born in Middleborough, Mass., and his 
 mother in Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa., of German 
 parents. When the son was 15, he was 
 apprenticed to learn the business of a painter, 
 which he pursued for five years. At the begin- 
 ning of the war, he resolved to enter the army 
 and did so while the first excitement was still 
 rife and the cry of the President for 75,000 
 troops still agitating the country. He enrolled 
 May 27, 1861 in Company K, 3d Pennsylvania 
 Reserves, for three years or the war, unless 
 sooner discharged. His rendezvous was in tlie 
 city until ordered to Easton and thence to Camp 
 
 Washington, where news of Bull Run was 
 received. The next destination was to Har- 
 risl^urg for equipments, whence the command 
 went, via Baltimore, to Washington and 
 Tenallytown into camp. A return to Wash- 
 ington was made where they were sworn into 
 United States service. (They were enlisted in 
 State service). They were assigned to the 1st 
 Corps, 2d Division, under General McCiellan, 
 and 2d Brigade under General Meade. The 
 Colonel was H. G. Sickles, and the first smell 
 of rebel powder of Mr. Lewis in set battle, was 
 at Mechanicsville. He fought tlirough all the 
 actions of the Peninsular campaign and made 
 the return to Harrison's Landing. After going 
 to the defense of Washington he was next in tlie 
 Manassas campaign and fought in the 2d Bull 
 Run, where he claims he did a good quality of 
 foot-racing. He was at Antietam, in the mud 
 with Burnside in December, following whicli 
 he was included in an order from Washington 
 transferring the command to the regtilar ser- 
 vice and he enlisted for three years in the 
 United States regular army, with assignment to 
 Battery C, U. S. Light Artillery. He went 
 immediately to scenes of activity and was next 
 in battle at South Mountain. He fought next 
 at Gettysburg and after that fight went to aid 
 in the draft riot at New York. Seymour, the 
 governor, objected to other than New York 
 soldiers, but the matter was settled by the Gov- 
 ernment. Wlien Mr. Lewis returned to the 
 front, the battles of the Wilderness were immi- 
 nent and he was in them and at Spottsylvania 
 C. H. He fought next at Cold Harbor and on 
 the 7th day of June, 1864, he suffered the loss 
 of both hands by a premature discharge of the 
 gun he was serving. He was ramming a 12- 
 pound shot, when, through the mismanage- 
 ment of the man at the vent the accident 
 occurred. His right arm was torn away for 
 three inches and his left hand was severed at tlie 
 
644 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 wrist. He was sent to hospital at White House 
 Landing, thence to Alexandria and Philadel- 
 phia. He went to Stump hospital No. 24, and 
 to South street liospital where he received 
 honorable di.scharge in the spring of 1865. He 
 remained in Philadelphia until 1876 when he 
 went to the Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio. 
 He left there the same year, coming to Milwau- 
 kee Nov. 27, 1876 and resided at the Soldiers' 
 Home until lie took his di.scliarge in March, 
 1877, since which date he has lived in the city. 
 June 6, 1877, he was married to Fidelia 
 Newson. 
 
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 SPENCER D. SMITH, resident at Tur- 
 ner, Du Page Co., Ill, and a member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 27 at Lake 
 Geneva, Wis., was born in Greece, Monroe Co., 
 New York, August Id, 1834. He is descended 
 from ancestral stock of the genuine Yankee 
 stripe, his grandfathers representing the blood 
 which settled New England and which estab- 
 lished the Government. His grandfather, 
 Elijah Smith, was born in Connecticut where 
 his forbears for generations had been born. 
 
 J. W. and Eliza Ann (Lewis) Smith, parents 
 of Spencer D. Smith, were both born in the 
 State of New York, the father being a black- 
 smith and removing in 1844 to Albion, Cal- 
 houn Co., Mich., where he worked at his trade 
 until 1852, in which year he made another 
 transfer of his interests to Michigan City, Indi- 
 ana, and he there pursued his business until 
 his removal to Turner, 111., where he operated 
 in the interests of the C. & N. W. R. R. until 
 he determined to enter the army and he enlisted 
 under the call for troops in the snmnur of 
 1862 in the 105th Illinois Infantry which 
 was mustered at Dixon, 111., Sept. 2, 1862, under 
 Colonel, afterwards General, Daniel Dustin, of 
 
 Sycamore, 111., and the regiment was assigned 
 to the Array of the Cumberland with which it 
 remained throughout the war. The senior 
 Smith served in every one of its campaigns, 
 fighting first at Stone River and in the .«pring 
 his regiment was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 
 3d Division and 20th Army Corps under Lyttie, 
 Sheridan and McCook. Mr. Smith was in the 
 Chattanooga campaign, fought at Chickamauga 
 and Mission Ridge and passed through the 
 actions of the Atlanta campaign. He was 
 in the march to the sea with Sherman and 
 fought at Averysboro, going North to Washing- 
 ton to the Grand Review and beiilg discharged 
 at the Capital of the United States, June '7, 1865. 
 He returned to Turner and, during the admin- 
 istration of Grant, was made postmaster there 
 and discharged the duties of the position until 
 his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1884, at Fort 
 Atkinson, Wis., where he and his wife were 
 visiting. Their surviving children in 1890 
 are Spencer, the eldest ; Mrs. Frances E., wife 
 of 1). C. Stanley of Downer's Grove, 111., who 
 has four daughters; Mrs. Alice A., wife of 
 William Gokey of Turner, who has a son and 
 two daughters. 
 
 Mr. Smith of this sketch is of mixed Holland 
 Dutch, Welsh and Scotch extraction, his 
 ancestors on both sides having descended from 
 those nationalities. His maternal grandfather, 
 Moses Lewis, came of Welsh progenitors in the 
 paternal line. 
 
 Until he was 19 years old Mr. Smith was 
 engaged in obtaining his education and re- 
 mained under parental guidance. In 1853 he 
 became independent, engaging as a farm laborer 
 on the place of William Warner, four miles 
 from Albion, Mich. He also worked in the 
 livery stable of Mark Crane, the sheriff of Cal- 
 houn county, some time when he engaged with 
 the Michigan Central comjiany as fireman fora 
 man named Kidder, operating in that capacity 
 
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 645 
 
 three years. His next remove was to Michigan 
 City, where he engaged on tlie Alljanj' cfe Salem 
 railroad and, September 15, 1859, he rose to the 
 dignity of an engineer and was assigned to the 
 charge of an engine called Providence, which 
 he conducted six months and succeeded to the 
 management of the EUiottsville, running the 
 Cincinnati Express for a year and a half. Dur- 
 ing the commencement of the excitement per- 
 taining to the war he became much interested 
 in the course of events ; and after going to Illi- 
 nois to engage with the Illinois Central, in_ 
 wiiose interest he run engine No. 55, between 
 Trliana and Centralia until 1861, he deter- 
 mined to enlist and enrolled May 16tli in the 
 independent organization equipped by Solomon 
 Sturges of Chicago, known to history as 
 " Sturges' Rifles." The company was com- 
 manded by Capt. James Steele ; 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 N.E.Sheldon; 2d Lieutenant, Foster. It 
 
 was mustered by George B. McClellan and when 
 that officer was a.ssigned to tlie command of 
 Western Virginia, the company was selected by 
 him as his body guard and accompanied him 
 through all his campaigns until he was relieved 
 of the command of the Army of the Potomac, 
 when the company was mustered out. Burn- 
 side su[ierseded McClellan in November, 1862, 
 and Mr. Smith was relieved at Washington, 
 where he was mustered out Nov. 25, 1862 by 
 General Uuggles. He accompanied " Little 
 Mac" in his campaign in West Virginia, went 
 with him in the reserve to Grafton, Parkers- 
 burg, Buchanan and Cheat Mountain and in 
 April, 1862, went with him to Fortress Monroe, 
 to Yorktown and Williamsburg, to the Chicka- 
 hominy and to Harrison's Landing, witnessing 
 all tlie operations on the Peninsula. He went 
 to Fredericksburg and Bull Run, was in the 
 chase into Maryland, saw the action at South 
 Mountain in the reserve and fought at Antie- 
 tam. During his service he performed such 
 
 duty as his company was assigned to and 
 received injury but once and that througii the 
 mischievousness of a comrade who pricked a 
 mule he had obtained at Malvern Hill and 
 which he was riding, the beast throwing him 
 violently and injuring his arm. 
 
 He returned to Turner and applied to the 
 Illinois Central corporation to be reinstated in 
 his position according to terms when he enlist- 
 ed and obtained a situation. He was in that 
 employ until June, 1863, when he went to 
 Nashville and entered the Government service 
 as an engineer on the railroad from Chatta- 
 nooga to Knoxville, Atlanta, Decatur and 
 Stevenson, in which he was occupied 10 
 months. He was exposed to many dangers and 
 had many narrow escapes, that section being in- 
 fested with loose bands of marauding rebels 
 who amused themselves by firing through his 
 engine cab. He returned to Turner and en- 
 tered the employ of the C. & N. W. company, 
 running principally between Clinton, Iowa, and 
 Turner, sometimes running from the latter 
 point to Freeport, 111. In 1879 he took his 
 present run to Lake Geneva and is engineer on 
 the leading passenger train which goes to that 
 place. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married Feb. 2, 1864, to Sarah 
 B,attles in Chicago. She was born in West- 
 moreland, N. H., June 6, 1836, and died at 
 Turner, June 4, 1876. They adopted a daugh- 
 ter, Sadie, who was born June 25, 1868, and 
 who is an expert type-writer and short-hand 
 reporter in Chicago. Pearl, only issue of the 
 marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, was born July 
 13, 1870. She is her father's housekeeper. 
 Mr. Smith is a member of the Masonic frater- 
 nity and belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomo- 
 tive Engineers. He occupies a responsible po- 
 sition and is one of the most trusted employes 
 of the great railroad corporation in whose in- 
 terest he operates. He is known as a man who 
 
646 
 
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 has never met with a serious accident on tht- 
 road. In one instance when his engine killed 
 a man at Elgin, 111., he was fully exonerated 
 from blame, lie is highly esteemed and re- 
 spected for his sterling qualities and his good 
 fellowshij) has secui'ed for him a multitude of 
 friends. He is jwjjular in Grand Army circles 
 and was Aid-de-Camj) on the staff' of Com- 
 mander Faircliild. 
 
 yr^'^J^ILLIS B. MOFFETT, Waukesha, 
 W^/i ^Vis., and a member of G. A. 11. 
 #M Post W. B. Gushing, No. 19, was 
 born in Perry, Wyoming Co., New York, where 
 he was brought up to the calling of his father 
 on a farm until he was li) years of age, when 
 he was aj)prenticed to learn the trade of a 
 mason. His parents were Jairus and Sophro- 
 nia (Bartlett) Mofl'ett, and the date of his birth, 
 June 26, 1834. He also learned tiie Inisimss 
 of a miller and came to Wisconsin in 1S5-1, 
 following the latter trade in Delavan, Wal- 
 worth county, until he became a soldier in the 
 first year of tiie civil war. Aug. 20, 1861, he 
 enlisted in Company A, 10th Wisconsin Infan- 
 try for three years or the war. Previous to 
 going to the front he spent the time at Cam]) 
 Ilolton, engaged in acquiring a knowledge of 
 military duty and set out for Louisville, Ky., 
 November 9th. The regiment went to Shej)- 
 herdsville and performed railroad guard duty 
 until December 5th, when the "lOtli" was as- 
 signed to Sill's Brigade at Elizabelhtown. The 
 command moved to Bacon Creek for the win- 
 ter, and engaged in military duty until they 
 moved in February to Green River, thence to 
 Bowling Green, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Shel- 
 byville, Fayetteville and Iluntsville, passing 
 over an immense territory and experiencing 
 wearisome marching. Mr. Moffett was in the 
 
 action in which a railroad bridge was destroyed 
 which broke the rebel communications, prevent- 
 ing reinforcements reaching Beauregard. The 
 "10th" was in active duty until the battle of 
 Perryville, the first set battle in which Mr. M. 
 engaged. He was worn uut with excessive 
 marching and was taken from the field to hos- 
 pital No. 6 at Louisville, remaining there six 
 months and receiving discharge for disability, 
 April 8, 1862. He returned home and, after 
 complete I'ecovery, enlisted April 10, 1864, in 
 Company A, 37th Wisconsin Infantry. The 
 regiment was hastened to Washington where 
 troops were greatly needed and made connec- 
 tion with the Army of the Potomac, June 2d. 
 A week later they went to Cold Harbor, for as- 
 signment to the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and 
 9th Army Cor])S. Mr. MoU'ett was in tlie move- 
 ment of (h'ant's force across the James and 
 went to the front of Petersburg. He was in 
 the activities of systematic warfare which fol- 
 lowed in front of the city and in tiie terrible 
 fighting of June J 7th and 18tii. (His ca))tain 
 was mortally wounded.) He was under almost 
 constant fire until the explosion of the mine, 
 July 30tli, and was among the first to enter the 
 ruined fort. August 19th he was in a fight on 
 the Weldon railroad and, after heavy desultory 
 duty, particij)ated in the action at Poplar Grove 
 Church. He was present when FortSteadman 
 was captured and moved with his command in 
 the spring, when Grant connnenced the oj)era- 
 tions which ended in the collapse of the rebel- 
 lion. He was in the movement of the entire 
 line of Grant's army, April 2d, 1865, after 
 which he was compelled to go to tlie hospihil 
 at City Point, Alexandria, and to Madisun, 
 where he was honorably discharged May 20, 
 1865, as Corporal. 
 
 He resumed his business at Delavan, which 
 he followed until disability compelled him to 
 abandon active labor. He has suH'ered with- 
 
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 out cessation since the battle of Perryville with 
 varicose veins, and, latterly, with two ulcers 
 caused by the rigors of that marcii. He re- 
 moved to Waukesha in 1889. He was married 
 Oct. 2.3, 1857, to Sarah .Jennings, a native of 
 New York, and tbeir children are named 
 Frank D. and Charles .1. Moftett. One child, 
 Walter, is deceased. Mr. Moifett is an out-and- 
 out Republican, voting as he shot. 
 
 ICHARD H. COSGRIFF, Chippewa 
 Falls, Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. G8, was born Dec. 15, 1844, 
 at Dunkirk, New York, his parents, Daniel and 
 .Johanna (Mahoney) Cosgriff, having been 
 natives of County Cork, Ireland. They be- 
 came residents of the United States in 1844, 
 locating near Dunkirk, N. Y., where the father 
 engaged in farming. In 1851 the family 
 removed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and located on 
 a fixrm wliich tlie father cultivated until his 
 death in 1872 ; his widow .still resides on the 
 homestead. Richard, Daniel, Michael, .John, 
 Owen, Thomas and William are tlie names of 
 the children. 
 
 Mr. Cosgriff was an assistant on the farm 
 until he entered tlie army. He enrolled in 
 Louisa Co., Iowa, and was mustered into U. S. 
 service in December, 1862, at Davenport, Iowa, 
 in Company L, 4tli Iowa Cavalry. Leaving ' 
 Camp McClellan after two weeks stay,tiie recruits 
 were ordered to join the army in tlio rear of 
 \^icksburg and in January, 1SG3, tlie regiment 
 was assigned to tlie 16th Army Corps. The com- 
 mand was with (trienson througli tlie campaign 
 and siege until the surrender of ^^icksburg, 
 followed Johnston and fought at Jackson, 
 going afterwards to the Meridian expedition. 
 After returning to Vicksburg they went to 
 Memphis for winter quarters. The command 
 
 was there when Forrest made his celebrated 
 raid and helped drive the rebel chief back, 
 following him about 10 miles, when they 
 returned to Memphis, remaining there some 
 time. Their next action was at Tupelo, Miss., 
 and Mr. Cosgriff was also in the fight between 
 Tupelo and Pontetoc, in July, 1864, in which the 
 rebels were defeated. The command returned 
 to Memphis, went on Tioard transports to 
 Louisville and moved soon after to Gravelly 
 Springs and performed guard duty through 
 the winter, fighting bushwhackers and guer- 
 rillas. In the spring of 1865 the regiment 
 went in Wilson's raid to Selma, fought Forrest, 
 driving his troOps back, and went thence to the 
 Chattahoochie River. During this raid the 
 command was on quarter rations. From Selma 
 they went to Montgomery, had a slight skir- 
 mish there, the rebels abandoning the town. 
 After a day of rest the entire command went 
 with Wilson to Columbus where the rebels 
 entrenched, following up Forrest. 
 
 With a picked detail of 50 men, Mr. Cosgriff 
 was ordered to take a bridge which spanned 
 the Chattahoochie River and which was 
 strongly guarded, saturated with turpentine 
 and strewn with combustibles. It was an 
 old-fashioned, covered bridge and at the end 
 opposite the Union troops the rebels had 
 planted a battery. It was ready for a rak- 
 ing fire in case the attacking party should 
 fight their way through. The assault was 
 made about 10 o'clock at night, and the brave 
 fellows fought their way through without the 
 rebels knowing but they were their own men 
 until they were upon tliem, when it was too 
 late to use their battery and a liand-to-hand 
 fight followed. Mr. Cosgriff knocked aside 
 with the butt of his gun more than one bayonet 
 aimed at his breast, his command taking the 
 battery and turning it upon the rebels, holding 
 the position until morning, when reinforce- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ments arrived. During that fight he person- 
 ally captured a hattle-flag and brought it- safe 
 to his command. Mr. Cosgriff received a per- 
 sonal letter of thanks from President Lincoln 
 and Secretary Stanton and also a medal of 
 honor. Eleven of the force were killed and 15 
 wounded. Soon after they went to Macon, Ga., 
 "and after the surrender, intelligence of Lee's 
 surrender was imparted to General Wilson by 
 Howell Cobb. A few days after news of the 
 as.sassi nation of Lincoln was received. The 
 command was detailed for the pursuit of Jeff 
 Davis, but were on the wrong route and went | 
 back to Macon, thence to Atlanta, where they 
 were invited to re-enlist for service in Texas, 
 but declined and went to Davenport to bo mus- 
 tered out. Mr. Cosgriff returned home and 
 engaged in the lumber business. Subsequent- 
 ly he went to Chippewa Falls, locating in that 
 city about 1870, and has there continued to 
 conduct his lumber interests. 
 
 lie was married Feb. 14, 1871, at Wausau, 
 Wis., to Mary A., daughter of Simon and 
 Melinda Culdtluirst, and their children are 
 Richard Jr., Mary and Lou. Mr. Cosgriff is a 
 member of the A. O. U. W., and in politics a 
 Democrat. 
 
 
 I^^REDERICK ALLEN COPELAND, a 
 ' Ifvci^ prominent citizen of La Crosse, Wis., 
 -^ was born July 14, 1845, at Ypsilanti, 
 
 Michigan, whither his j)arents, Allen A. and 
 Mary A. (Kittredge) Copeland, removed about 
 1840 from Ijowell, Mass. In both lines of de- 
 scent he belongs to stock of New England ori- 
 gin. His father was a merchant at Lowell and 
 conducted a similar business at Ypsilanti for 
 ten years, removing thence to Battle Creek, 
 Michigan, and in 1867 to a farm near Pawpaw, 
 Mich. In 1860 he went to Baraboo, Wis., 
 where he remained until 1869, the date of re- 
 
 moval to Winona, Minn. In 1872 he went to 
 La Crosse, thence to Weaver, Minn., and, while 
 he had a residence there, he revisited hi.s former 
 home in Massachusetts, and while on that visit 
 died at Mansfield; his wife is living. Six of 
 their 11 children are living, named Edward A., 
 George N., Frederick A., Lucius D., Harriet A. 
 and Willis E. Harriet married A. N. Bachelor 
 of Littleton, N. H., a prominent Democrat and 
 one of the counsel of the Governor (1890). 
 
 When he was 16 years old Mr. Copeland en- 
 listed. He enrolled Dec. 3, 1861, at Baraboo, 
 Wis., and was mustered in during the same 
 month with Company F, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry. 
 In the spring the regiment went to the front, 
 leaving the State March 2Cth, 1862, stopping at 
 St. Louis for partial equipments, and went 
 thence to Kansas. Arriving at Fort Leaven- 
 worth, horses were added to their outfit and with 
 Company F in the 2d Battalion, Major B. S. 
 Henning, they went to Fort Scott. That was 
 the border of the frontier and the last defense, 
 the command there engaging in all sorts of 
 frontier service, chieHy scattering guerrillas. 
 Mr. Copeland was introduced to one of the 
 worst features of war at Montevallo, Mo., with 
 the command of Colonel Coffee. He was next 
 in a similar experience in the unequal fight 
 at Prairie Grove, Dec. 7, 1862, where the rebels 
 were whipped by a Union force one-third as 
 great through the prowess of Wisconsin soldiers. 
 The next move of the 3d was to Van Buren, 
 Ark., and thence to Forsythe, Mo., encounter- 
 ing before reaching Van Buren, a force of 
 Texas Rangers whom they scattered while tak- 
 ing, their breakfast. Mr. Copeland lost his 
 horse and had to sul)stitute an old mule which 
 he bought for $10. Thus mounted he started 
 with his command and had the distinction of 
 always bringing up the rear. (He was called 
 Balaam.) At \'an Buren they burned several 
 steamers belonging to the rebels, going up the 
 
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 Ai'kunsas with supj)lies. They went from For- 
 sythe to Salem, sending impedimenta bv way 
 of Springfield. In the spring of 1863 they 
 went to l*"'ort Scott and Companies A, G, D and 
 F remained there until the spring of 1SG5, 
 guarding the outpost of tlie frontier and scout- 
 ing between the Missouri, Kansas and Indian 
 Territories. Soon after arrival at Fort Scott 
 Mr. Copeland was detailed at headquarters of 
 C. W. Blair, Comnunidaiit. He veteranized 
 •fan. 1, 1864 and took veteran furlough. In 
 the fall he was relieved of detached duty and 
 made Commissary Sergeant of his compaiiy, 
 which he joined at Camp Insley. At the 
 reorganization in the spring of 1865, Company 
 A was made Company K and Mr. Copeland 
 was commissioned Lieutenant to date in April. 
 In .Tune following Companies F and K were 
 ordered to Fort Leavenworth and on arrival 
 there were ordered to Marysville, Kan., and 
 remained there, protecting and escorting 
 emigrant trains. There Mr. Cofieland was 
 made (Quartermaster of the l)attalion and in a 
 short time went to Madison, Wis., to be mus- 
 tered out Oct. 23, 1865. 
 
 Four sons of Allen A. Copeland proved their 
 right to their inheritance by fighting in the 
 war of the rebellion. W. H. Copeland, en- 
 listed in .June, 1861, in Company A, 6th Wis- 
 consin Infantry and fought with the Iron 
 Brigade until the battle of Antietam, where he 
 received a fatal wound, dying in the afternoon 
 of September 17th and being buried on the 
 field. His name is in the dispatches. Edward 
 A. was with Kit Carson in the 3d New Mexico 
 Cavalry and George N. was with the army of 
 Tennessee. 
 
 After his return home Mr. Copeland ob- 
 tained a position in a dry goods store and 
 passetl three years as a clerk at Baraboo. He 
 started for Winona, Minn., stopped in La Crosse 
 and chanced to meet I. H. Moulton, the suc- 
 
 cessor of the agent of the St. Paul railroad cor- 
 poration to whom he applied vainly for a 
 position under him, but a week after arriving 
 in Winona he received a telegram summoning 
 him to La Crosse to the employ of the corj)ora- 
 (ion. His head fell in the autumn of 1870, 
 when the force was reduced, as he was one of 
 the youngest servitors. But Captain Moulton 
 had become interested in him and obtained for 
 him a position with the Southern Minnesota 
 , railroad, where he was occupied until the 
 i spring of 1871, when he entered the employ of 
 Hart & Morton, dealers in agricultural imple- 
 ments, commission merchants and ticket agents 
 for railroad and steamboat transportation. 
 
 In December, 1871, he was appointed book- 
 keeper of the La Crosse Lumber Company of 
 which Gov. C. C. Washburn was President. In 
 1875 the Governor purchased the interests of 
 the other stockholders and in 1878, in addition 
 to his duties as bookkeeper and cashier and gen- 
 eral factotum of the establishment, Mr. Copeland 
 was put in charge of all the property of Mr. 
 Washburn in pine timber lands and superin- 
 tended all lumbering operations connected 
 therewith. After the death of Mr. Washburn, 
 in 1882, he received instructions from the exec- 
 utor of the estate to assume full charge of all 
 ' the late owner's lumbering interests. By the 
 terms of the will the estate was to be settled in 
 I five years and, during the interim, the interests 
 ; under Mr. Copeland's control made a net show- 
 ing of $300,000 above appraised valuation. In 
 April, 1887, the executors submitted to Mr. 
 Copeland a proposition to purchase the mill 
 property, which he finally accepted with much 
 reluctance. He continued his management 
 and paid for the property in one year, besides 
 securing a large amount of staniling timber. 
 He controls in 18^0 about 80,000,000 .stumpage. 
 The capacity of his mill is 200,000 feet per 
 day and 30 horses are in use. The circular 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 band and gang saws are used and the market 
 includes the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Oopeland was named in tlie will of Gov- 
 ernor Washburn as one of the trustees of the 
 library founded by him and to the efforts of 
 Mr. Copeland are largely due tlie completion of 
 the library Imilding, its attractive style of 
 arcliiteclure and its arrangement. The estab- 
 lishment is under his care. Early in 1887, Mr. 
 Copeland organized a stock company for the 
 inirposc of planting an electric light and he was 
 made President. This secured to the city a very 
 efficient system of lighting, and Mr. Copeland 
 has been instrumental in constructing one of 
 the finest Edison electric light plants in the 
 country. In anticipation of the growth of La 
 Cro.sse, a plant was placed commensurate with 
 fnture demands. Mr. Copeland is also Presi- 
 dent of the Brush Electric Light Co., at La 
 Crosse, and Director in the La Crosse Gaslight 
 Company. On the organization of the Ex- 
 change State Bank he was made its President 
 and is a stockholder in the Batavian Bank, lie 
 has in every possible manner fostered the pub- 
 lic interests of La Crosse, and, with other citi- 
 zens equally interested, he has aided in secur- 
 ing for La Crosse one of the finest opera houses 
 in Wisconsin. 
 
 Mr. Copeland lias also made a record in the 
 State military organization known as tiie Na- 
 tional Guards of Wisconsin. He has an ex- 
 ecutive ability which is exercised in all his re- 
 lations and in connection with the militia 
 of which the Badger State boasts, he has 
 sustained his repute. In 1878, when the 
 Light (tuards of La Crosse were organized, 
 he was made 3d Sergeant and, August 22(1, 
 1879, he was made 2d Lieutenant by unan- 
 imous choice and was commissioned by the 
 Governor; .Inne 17, ISSl, he was pronioteil 
 to Captain of the comjiany and June 2U, 1881, 
 his connection with the Lisht Guards ceased 
 
 through his appointment on the staff of Gover- 
 nor Rusk with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, 
 and he was assigned to duty as Assistant 
 Inspector General. June 3, 1886 he was con- 
 stituted aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor 
 Rusk and, on the ex])iration of the term of 
 that official in 1880, Mr. Copeland tendered his 
 resignation. During his relations with the 
 Light Guards he performed excellent service 
 in their drill and acquirement of military 
 tactics and made his value a personal consider- 
 ation to all the organization for faithfulness 
 and integrity in all his connections witli them. 
 His increasing business and his multifarious 
 duties in all his business connections made it 
 impossible for him to continue a member of the 
 organization, as ranch to his own regret as to 
 that of otiiers. Tiie efficiency of his manage- 
 ment was proven by the efficiency of the com- 
 mand and his ability as a militars' officer was 
 demonstrated by his appointment i)y Governor 
 Rusk on staff duty at Milwaukee during the 
 May riots of 188G. Mr. Copeland is a Mason, 
 belongs to tiie Republican jiarty and is a mem- 
 lier of the Loyal Legion, Cominandery of Wis- 
 consin. 
 
 He was married in October, 1874 at La Crosse 
 to Cora, daughter of Col. Tlieo. and Marie A. 
 (Thomas) Roljolf. Two daughters have lieen 
 born to the house of Copeland at La Crosse, re- 
 sjieclively as follows: Marie Louise, Aug. 7, 
 1875, and Irene, March 15, 1877. 
 
 'imit^m^^ 
 
 -v^ r L L E N B U L L A R I) A U B E R Y 
 ("Doc"), Milwaukee, Wis., honorary 
 member of Robert Ciiivas Post No. 2, 
 was born in .\pril, 1848, in Burlington, Vt. 
 His father, Aliicrt Aubery, was descended from 
 noble French lineage, remotel}' removed, the 
 name being in the early Norman history, De 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 651 
 
 Aubery. In 1849 the senior Aubery went to 
 California, accompanied by two sons, and tiie 
 three died in tlie new El Dorado. After the 
 removal of her surviving sons to the West, the 
 mother, Almira (Blish) Aubery, started with a 
 daughter to join them and both were lost on 
 the St. Lawrence lliver with the propeller 
 Buckeye. 
 
 " Doc" Aubery was reared in his native State, 
 his educational training being of a character 
 which developed the princijdes which have 
 governed every step of his career and which 
 sent the young, fresh blood of the New England 
 States to the defense of the Union which was 
 its natural heritage, perhaps more than that of 
 any other section of the country. And when 
 the 2d Vermont Infantry was making up its 
 complement in the earliest period of the strug- 
 gle, the boy of 14 years sought a situation in 
 which he could accompany the regiment to the 
 front. His enthusiasm was rewarded in June, ! 
 
 1861, and he marched away in the capacity of 
 attendant to Lieutenant, afterwards Caiitain, 
 H. K. Leach of Company H, in whose service 
 he remained until after the battle of Rull Run, ' 
 after which he became a newsboy and an at- 
 tache of the Iron Brigade, of which organiza- I 
 tion he is one of the must j)rominent members. \ 
 He is the sole representative of the fraternity 
 of newsboy.s, wiio was taken prisoner during 
 the war. 
 
 His capture was the result of his business 
 enterprise. No papers had been received in 
 camp for weeks and he set out for Washington 
 at a time when every route was infested by 
 confederate scouts. He started back Nov. 18, 
 
 1862, with 1,000 "Chronicles" piled in front 
 of and l)ehind him on the saddle, entrenched 
 in the stack being some "proof" whisky for an 
 officer. On the 19th he encountered two horse- 
 men in overcoats of " regulation blue." Lie 
 presented his pass, which was received with a 
 
 smile which sent his heart down into his boots 
 as the situation dawned on his senses. His na- 
 tive Yankee siirewdness came into play and 
 he represented to the "corporal" that a small 
 newsboy was of no account to the confederacy 
 and tried the efficacy of his excellent whisky 
 as a subtantiating argument. He was com- 
 pelled to take a ffrst taste to prove its innocence 
 of drugs, when his captors took generous 
 drinks. But his appeal for release was unavail- 
 ing and, presentlj', he was approached by a 
 lieutenant who demanded his whisky, but who 
 had the decency to pay for it in confederate 
 notes, amounting to $12. 
 
 He was then taken to the headquarters of 
 Gen. .J. E. B. Stuart who treated him con- 
 siderately and ordered that he be provided for. 
 The next morning he was en route to Libby 
 prison at Richmond with about 50 others. On 
 being taken in charge by the notorious Major 
 Turner that official asked if he had any valu- 
 ables. The boy told him of the confederate 
 money and also of $380 which he had saved 
 with the expectation of sending it to his mother 
 from Washington but had been prevented by 
 the closing of the express ofl[ice. Tears came 
 to his eyes as he thought of his mother's needs, 
 dependent on her boys for support, and as a 
 brightening spot on a career that will blot his- 
 tory's pages through all time, let it be recorded 
 that Turner promi.sed that tlie money should 
 be safely cared for and returned to him, which 
 promise was faithfully kept, its owner receiving 
 it in the original package. 
 
 The prison experiences of "Doc" Aubery 
 differed in no whit from tho.se which are re- 
 counted on many pages of this work, and after 
 his return to the Union lines, he found it his 
 ffrst imperative necessity to remove distinctive 
 traces of confederate cliaractcristics. Then he 
 procured a supply of papers and resumed con- 
 nection with the " Iron Brigade." His welcome 
 
652 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to that organization has never been less. He 
 witnessed the fight at Fredericksburg, but did 
 not try to press his business as he had done at 
 tiie battle of Gettysburg. For more than a 
 week before that famous fight no papers had 
 been accessible and on the morning of tlie 1st 
 of July he succeeded in obtaining a supply of 
 New York and I'hihidelphia journals. He 
 followed the brigade with his wares, and when 
 he thought he had a favorable opportunity, he 
 approached tiie cemetery gate and offered his 
 papers. They were selling with great rapidity 
 when the rebels opened fire, and it was his 
 impression that the wliole confederate army 
 was aiming directly at that gate. He quickly 
 decided that the location was not favorable as a 
 news stand and prepared for retreat, when tlie 
 soldiers, determined to have the papers, detain- 
 ed him. He suddenly hurled his stock to one 
 side and as the men sprang after tliem he took 
 immediate steps to place the hill between him- 
 self and the rebel batteries. " Doc " states that 
 tliat was the last time he tried to do Ijusiness 
 with a line of battle. 
 
 He frequently trusted poor fellows whose 
 hungry eyes asked for papers for which they 
 could not pay, and such were always certain to 
 rciml)urse him on receiving their money. In 
 1888 a one-armed veteran made a successful 
 searcii for him to j)ay a newspaper bill con- 
 tracted in those old days, over wliich they had 
 a merry season of remini.seence. 
 
 There is no lietter beloved member of the 
 Grand Army in tlie country than "Doc" 
 Aubery. (This personality is the responsibility 
 of the liistorian, and it i.s inserted in view of 
 the coming time, when it shall be solely the 
 property of tiie descendants of soldiers and of 
 faithful recorders of tiie manhood and glory of 
 the rank and file.) He is also a member of the 
 Patiiarchal Circle, honorary member of the 
 Iron Brigade and belongs to the Sheridan 
 
 Guards, W. N. G. He was the first honorary 
 member of the Iron Brigade and at the reunion 
 of that Body in 1882 his daughter, now Mrs. 
 \V. A. Ellis, presented a banner and was 
 adopted as the " Da lighter of the Iron Brigade." 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ILLIAM CHARLES LAIB, Black 
 River Falls, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 92, was born June 
 3, 1847, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His 
 father and mother, Charles and Elizabeth 
 (Fuller) Laib, were born respectively in Ohio 
 and Germany, the former of German lineage. 
 The father was a gunsmith and pursued that 
 occupation in Pittsburg until he removed to 
 Madison, Wis., where lie was again occupied in 
 that vocation. In 186G he settled at Black 
 River Falls, where he died June 3, 1885, his 
 wife dying in Madison many years previous. 
 Their children, five in number, were named 
 William C, Henry R., Christina, Mary Ann and 
 Franklin C. The sou learned the business of 
 his father, but after leaving home did not fol- 
 low it as a vocation. Prior to the war he en- 
 gaged on the river and enlisted at Oshkosh, 
 enrolling March 29, 1804 in Company B, 37th 
 Wisconsin Infantry. April 28tli, he left camp 
 Randall at Madison arriving with the regi- 
 ment May 1st, at Arlington Heights, and, with 
 the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and 9th Corj)s, 
 started May 29th for Alexandria, to embark 
 there for White House Landing, camped and 
 guarded prisoners until June 10th, when tiie 
 regiment was assigned to duty as escort for the 
 train of supplies for the field of Cold Harbor, 
 and skirmished on the way. They were in 
 Burnside's commaiul and, June 12th, stivrted 
 for Petersburg, arriving June IGth. Before 
 they had prepared supper they were ordered 
 to support a charge, and were again preparing 
 
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 supper in a new position when war sounded 
 and they occupied the works taken by a bat- 
 tery, through the night. The lirigade formed 
 in Hue of battle in a ravine preparatory to 
 charging a line of works extending from the 
 Baxter road almost to Hare's Ilill, where 
 Fort Steadman was built. The charge was 
 made and still another before the works were 
 taken, the loss being 138 killed and wounded, 
 44 men dj'ing on the field and 10 from wounds. 
 They made another furious charge on the 
 morning of the 18th and advanced and re- 
 treated through the day. The loss was 103 
 killed and wounded on that d-ay. Mr. Laib 
 was wounded at that figlit in the left leg and a 
 few days later, was sent to the hospital at Alex- 
 andria. He deserted the hospital and joined his 
 regiment. June 20th the regiment went again 
 to its former position and remained under fire 
 until July 10th, and seven days later went to the 
 trenches; and after the exjilosion July 30th, 
 charged through the crater, being driven back. 
 Only 95 men were left of 250 to answer to their 
 names. August 19th they were engaged in 
 building a fort on the Jerusalem Plank Road 
 and the next day went to the Weldon railroad, 
 reaching their brigade near Yellow House where 
 tiiey were soon after in action, losing 10 killed 
 and wounded. On the 21st the regiment 
 engaged in building a line of fortifications 
 across the railroad which were attacked in 
 three different places simultaneously, the o7th 
 moving to support the 19th New York Battery 
 and lost 10 killed and 25 wounded, but drove 
 the rebels. They performed guard and garri- 
 son duty on the Weldon railroad until ordered 
 to move to Ream's Station, covered the retreat 
 of the 2d Corps which had been worsted in a 
 fight there, and fell back to their lines. -The 
 regiment constructed new works near Blick's 
 Station and moved September 29th to Yellow 
 House and Foplar Grove Church where the 
 
 command was in action, losing 25 killed and 
 75 wounded. October 27th they were in the 
 reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run, losing two 
 men and went into camj) on the Pegram farm. 
 November 9th the brigade moved from the 
 extreme left to the extreme right in front of 
 the old mine and they went into winter 
 quarters, although still exposed to the fire of 
 the rebels, which was not in any sense dimin- 
 ished. December 8th they moved down the 
 Jerusalem road to Hawkins' Tavern to support 
 the 2d and 5th Corps on their homeward march 
 after a raid on the Weldon railroad. They 
 remained in the rifle pits of Petersburg until 
 the opening of the spring campaign and, 
 March 25th, were ordered to Fort Steadman, 
 the rebels having broken through the Union 
 lines. But they gained no advantage, as the 
 drill and eflSciency of the Union troops pre- 
 vented their making an advance and two days 
 after, the beginning of tli« end appeared, when 
 Sheridan commenced his movements. April 
 1st the regiment went to the picket line and 
 saw the action that was followed next day by 
 the general movement and formed a line inside 
 the bastions of Fort Hell (Sedgwick). At day- 
 light they assaulted Fort Mahone (Fort Dam- 
 nation) and Petersburg was the confection that 
 fell into Grant's hands. The three rebel lines 
 of works were broken and when the troops 
 entered Petersburg, Lee was on the wing. (See 
 sketch of Hollon Richardson). The 37th fol- 
 lowed the retreating rebel army, guarding rail- 
 roads, doing picket duty until tlie surrender, 
 returned and went into camp near Washington, 
 April 20th, taking part in the Grand Review 
 in May. Mr. Laib was discharged at the 
 Delany House, July 27, 1865, and returned to 
 Madison and Oshkosh. 
 
 In 1866 he went to Black River Falls and 
 engaged on the river and in digging wells. He 
 was married May 14, 1875, to Adeline, daughter 
 
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 of Mathew and Maria (Wallhers) Marvin, and 
 they had several children named Frank, Mary, 
 Cln-istina, Addie, William C. and George; 
 Frank is deceased. Mr. Laib is a Republican 
 in political connection. 
 
 /^^ ENERAL DAVID ATWOOD, pro- 
 i ^v J P"^*'Oi' ^^^^ cliief editor of the " Wis- 
 
 ^"-—^ consin State Journal" at Madison, 
 was born at Bedford, New Hampshire, Dec. 15, 
 1815. In the paternal line of descent he is of 
 unmixed English origin, his primal ancestor 
 in this country having been John Atwood, who 
 emigrated from England in 1(343 and established 
 a family contingency which remained intact at 
 Plymouth, Mass., until 1777, when Isaac At- 
 wood, his descendant ni the fourth remove, 
 settled with his household at Bedford, N. II. 
 Nathaniel, son of John 1st, was born in 1652; 
 his son Jolm was born in 1684; Isaac, son of 
 the latter, was born in 1719 and his son Isaac 
 in 1747. The last was the grandfather of 
 David Atwood of this sketch. His father was 
 named David and was born March 24, 1779, 
 being one of nine children born to David and 
 Hannah (Clmbbuck) Atwood, his grandmother 
 being the great aunt of Emily Clmbbuck, (third 
 wife of the famous Baptist missionary, Ado- 
 niram Jud-son,) whose name became famous 
 thi'ough her literary career. David Atwood, 
 Sr., married Mary Bell, a native of Bedford, 
 Sept. 21, 1802. She was born April 12, 1781 
 and died in October, 1857. David Atwood be- 
 came a nonogenarian, dying in 1869. It is an 
 acknowledged fact that a majority of men who 
 have carved remarkable or useful careers have 
 inherited their best traits from their mothers. 
 
 Mary Bell represented one of the best strains 
 
 in the composite nationality of this country. 
 
 The Scotch who settled in the north of Ireland 
 
 in 1619 to escape the persecutions of the Scot- 
 tish " kirk, " found themselves in a dilemma of 
 no less proportions and after enduring the 
 rigors of their situation for exactly 100 years, 
 in 1719 their emigration to America began. 
 John Bell, earliest American ancestor of Mary 
 Bell, removed to Bedford, the nucleus of a 
 settlement of Scotch-Irish, in 1736. His son 
 John, born in Ireland in 1732, was the father 
 of Joseph, born in 1757. He was married to 
 Mary Houston, June 4, 1776, and their daugh- 
 ter Mary was the third issue of their alliance. 
 But David Atwood of this sketch owes much 
 to his paternal line, which came of the same 
 material as that on which the house of Bell 
 was founded ; and to the sturdy Presbyterian 
 element of the Old World which was the foun- 
 dation stone of the New World, he is indebted 
 for his traits of probity, understanding, hardi- 
 hood and perseverance. (It is not generally 
 understood that the term " Scotch-Irish " has 
 reference to race only in its first part, and the 
 Scotch in Ireland j)reserved their blood un- 
 mixed with that of the people among whom 
 they settled ; their persecutions made the race 
 instinct on both sides very strong and it dom- 
 inated every relation, its influence operating for 
 decades after their removal to this country. 
 
 The New England life which nurtured the 
 character of David Atwood deserves a volume. 
 In this work there are countless instances in 
 which it moulded the characters of men who 
 found out the purpose of their being in the 
 events which made the existence of this 
 country statuesque in the procession of nations. 
 They reju-e-senta toil in the fields of agriculture 
 which is unj>aralleled ; they represent labor 
 which began before daylight and ended after 
 it had fled ; they represent months of labor 
 and weeks of schooling; they represent life 
 with few characteristics of ease and comfort and 
 all their early traditions tell of privation and 
 
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 endurance. But tliey brought to bear on the 
 opportunities of the magnificent West, self- 
 reliance, hardihood, integrity, economy, un- 
 selfisliness, and a capacity for observation and 
 generalization wiiich has developed the mar- 
 velous resources of this world within a world, 
 — the West — to a degree which gives older, 
 idler and more envious peoples an opportunity 
 to wonder in startled amazement over con- 
 stantly recurring achievements. To this class 
 of workers belongs David Atwood. He can 
 have no more desirable meed of praise, than 
 that he has placed his name among the fore- 
 most of those to whom reference has been 
 made, and no more enduring epitaph than 
 that "he served liis fellow men." 
 
 He grew up in the same town with Horace 
 Greeley and Zachariah Chandler and, when IG 
 years old, took leave of his father's roof-tree to 
 make his essay to take his part in the work of 
 the world. In 1832 he became an apprentice 
 in the printing establishment of his elder 
 brother, John, at Hamilton, New York. In 
 five years he had acquired the whole art of 
 printing, as known in that period, and several 
 other things. He was then 21, and after visit- 
 ing his parents lie returned to Hamilton to 
 find his brother's partner dead and an imme- 
 diate change a necessity. The house had be- 
 come involved through the printing of a large 
 edition of a work, entitled "The American 
 Common Law," consisting of eight volumes, 
 and the unraveling of the complication de- 
 pended on the sale tiiereof. His relations with 
 the business liad included some experience as 
 a travehng salesman ; and David Atwood 
 undertook the supplying of a trade which he 
 himself establislied — selling the volumes to in- 
 dividual lawyers. It is almost safe to say that 
 he was the pioneer traveling salesman, cer- 
 tainly in that avenue. He spent three years 
 in vending his books in what were then re- 
 
 garded as distinctively Western States, which 
 were open to traffic of that description. He 
 journeyed 10,000 miles with his own convey- 
 ance, experiencing all the vicissitudes incident 
 to such business at that period, when transpor- 
 tation facilities were meager and traveling with 
 money dangerous. But he gained a bi"oad 
 knowledge of men; his business brought him 
 in contact with a class of men who are now 
 hardly known ; young, aspiring, hard-working 
 lawyers, who foresaw their opportunities and 
 who were to be found at points eligible to their 
 ambitious projects. Scores of those who wel- 
 comed him with satisfaction to both parties, 
 and profit to him, have become famous in the 
 archives of the Nation. His work was com- 
 pleted in the summer of 1839, when he re- 
 turned to Hamilton. He had a strong desire 
 to locate in Cincinnati, but he had contracted 
 the bete, noir of a New Englander — the fever and 
 ague — and was pursuaded to change his plans. 
 In September, 1839, he began his connection 
 with the profession of his life as a principal on 
 a newspaper. He had become imbued with 
 the spirit which prevailed in Ohio which urged 
 the claims of General Harrison, with whom he 
 ! had formed an acquaintance, and his enthusi- 
 asm in the conduct of his paper, " Tlie Hamil- 
 ton Palladium " in which he was associated 
 with his brother, John, althougli it had been a 
 subject of comment of varied significance, lo- 
 cally, received its just reward in the election of 
 " Old Tippecanoe." He conducted the mechani- 
 cal relations of the " Palladium " and assisted 
 in its editorial management until the Clay 
 campaign, in which his brother became an 
 active element outside, leaving David with the 
 entire responsibilitj' of the newspaper on his 
 hands. He had an office boy to assist in " ink- 
 ing" and working the hand-press, and he suc- 
 ceeded in issuing with regularity, not only the 
 regular journal but a weekly campaign sheet 
 
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 called "The Mill-Boy." In addition to his 
 labors in the printing office, he attended eve- 
 ning meetings and advocated the doctrines of 
 tiie Whigs. Altliough he was obliged to record 
 defeat, Mr. Atwood traces to his efforts at that 
 period much of the success he has since reaped 
 as the reward of honest perseverance in a good 
 ctiuse. 
 
 Among other relations in which he took an 
 interest was that of the local military. In 
 1841 he had already become prominent in 
 that respect and was made Adjutant on the 
 staff of Colonel, afterwards Senator, James 
 W. Nye, from Nevada, then commanding 
 the 65th New York Militia. In the following 
 year he was commissioned Major of the regi- 
 ment, his papers bearing the signature of Gov- 
 ernor Seward and Adjutant-General Rufus 
 King, maker and organizer of the " Iron Brig- 
 ade." (See sketch.) Later, he succeeded Colonel 
 Nye, his commission as chief officer of the 65th 
 New York being signed by Governor Bouck, 
 father of the famous " Gabe " of Oshkosh, Wis., 
 His connection with the regiment was whole- 
 some and proHtal)le to its members, and he ap- 
 plied himself to its benefit witli tlie same 
 energy and perseverance as to otiier matters 
 and " General Training " became something 
 Ijeside riotous semblance of military tactics. 
 
 His liealth became seriously impaired and 
 under the advice of his phj'sician he started to 
 lind a new field of effort. In February, 1845, 
 with a young friend, he started for Illinois in a 
 wagon and, together, they purchased 550 acres 
 in Stephenson county, where David Atwood re- 
 covered his health in the prosecution of his 
 farm labors. He had preserved large anticipa- 
 tions of the possibilities of the great Sucker 
 State tiirough wliich he had traveled eight 
 years l)efore, all of which he has lived to see 
 fulfilled. In tlie spring of that year he went 
 to Ohio and was chief drover of a flock of 1,700 
 
 sheep for a distance of 450 miles to his farm, 
 walking the entire distance. But the invest- 
 ment was disastrous, as was the whole farming 
 enterprise, and in two years he had lost his 
 substance, but regained permanent health. 
 His mind reverted to his trade and he turned 
 his attention to Wisconsin a.s a possiljle field 
 wherein to renew his connection with the 
 "guild." Madison had about 600 inhabitants 
 when he arrived there, Oct. 15, 1847. " Some- 
 thing to do "was his uppermost thought and 
 he set forth at once on that quest. He found 
 his way to the office of the Madison Express, 
 published by W. W. Wynian, whose sons have 
 become distinguished, and received an offer of 
 six dollars a week and his board, to become the 
 factotum of the establishment — editor, business 
 manager, reporter, compositor, foreman, et 
 cetera, et cetera, as occasion demanded. He 
 closed with the offer, although dismayed by 
 what was expected of him, but he fulfilled his 
 contract, attending every session of the Conven- 
 tion which was engaged that winter in con- 
 structing tlie Constitution of the State, and his 
 reports were such as to justify the sagacitj' of 
 Mr. Wynian in securing his services. All the 
 editorial work was performed by him. In Octo- 
 ber, 1848, associated with a son-in-law of Mr. 
 Wyman, he became by purchase a proi)rietor 
 of the paper, whose style was changed to the 
 Wisconsin &pre.ss, its character becoming more 
 general. But several influences operated to 
 oppose the progress of the new enterprise. The 
 State Government was Democratic and two 
 journals of that persuasion at Madison flour- 
 ished from obvious causes. Only the economy 
 and good management of Mr. Atwood prevent- 
 ed a collapse. And, also, in 1850 the SlcU€sina7i 
 was placed in competition with the paper which 
 had stood lo3'ally to Whig princijdes; and in 
 June, 1852, a consolidation was effected, but 
 the scheme was a failure, and when final dis- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 aster came, Mr. Atwood resuscitated his connec- 
 tion with journalism and issued tlie Wisconsin 
 State Journal, the first nuiuher of the daily 
 bearing the date of Sept. 28, 1852. In the fall 
 of 1851, when the Wliigs elected Governor Far- 
 well, that official recognized the efforts of Mr. 
 Atwood, by an appointment as Quartermaster 
 General of Wisconsin. On the organization of 
 the Republican party, the paper adopted its 
 tenets, which it has since represented singly at 
 the capital of Wisconsin. Horace Rublee, now 
 editor-in-chief of the Sentinel at Milwaukee, be- 
 came associated in the management of the 
 Joimml ill 1853, the relation existing until 
 1869; Major J. O. Culver succeeded him and 
 was connected with the Journal until Jan. 1, 
 1877, since which date Mr. Atwood has con- 
 ducted it alone. The varied service Mr. 
 Atwood has rendered his generation is 'evi- 
 denced by the numerous responsible positions 
 he has filled. In the .spring of 1854 he 
 became prominent as an agitator of the forma- 
 tion of a new political party, and he was one 
 who.se activity set in motion the machinery 
 which resulted in the organization of the Repul> 
 lican party, and was a member of the com- 
 mittee that prepared the first Republican plat- 
 form. He served as Clerk of the Lower House 
 of the Assembl}- in 1855 ; and in 1856 was 
 engaged in tlie substantiation of the claims of 
 Governor Bashford to his seat. In 1858 lie was 
 made Major-General of the 5th Division of the 
 State Militia by Governor Randall. In 1861 
 he was a member of the Assembly of Wiscon- 
 sin and in the first year of the war he occupied 
 positions wherein lie performed effective service 
 ill raising and equipping soldiers from Wiscon- 
 sin. In July, 1862, he received a commission 
 from President Lincoln as U. S. Internal Rev- 
 enue Assessor for the 2d Congressional District. 
 In this office his duties were of the most 
 arduous character, the regulation of the new 
 
 state of affairs requiring to be made smooth to 
 the understanding of the taxpayers in order to 
 proceed harmoniously. When President .John- 
 son assumed the reins of government, Mr. 
 Atwood staunchly sustained his views of un- 
 mi.xed Republicanism and, as a result, was the 
 first Wisconsin official suspended by Mr. John- 
 son for "offensive partisanship." But his 
 course was admired and lauded by his party 
 without stint. He served as Mayor of Madison 
 in 1868-9 and in the latter year received a flat- 
 tering vote in the Republican Convention for 
 the nomination as a candidate for Governor of 
 Wisconsin. In Januar\-, 1870, Mr. B. F. Hop- 
 kins, Representative in Congress from the 2d 
 District, died and Mr. Atwood was made his 
 successor. His abilities were soon recognized 
 in a body where workingmen were at a pre- 
 mium, and he served his constituency in a 
 manner in every way creditable to them and 
 himself. He performed effective service in 
 behalf of Wisconsin and secured advantages 
 which have been of lasting benefit to the State. 
 He urged the creation of the Centennial Com- 
 mission and was appointed by Grant, Commis- 
 sioner from Wisconsin. March 4, 1872, on the 
 convening of the Commission in Philadelphia, 
 he was made chairman temporarily and served 
 until the election of President Hawley and was 
 active throughout in important positions where 
 his executive abilities were required. 
 
 Mr. Atwood has officiated in many public 
 positions of trust in his locality. He has been 
 a magistrate, a trustee, was treasurer of the 
 State Agricultural Society thirteen years, of- 
 ficiated sixteen years as trustee of the State 
 Insane Hospital, has been member and Presi- 
 dent of the City Board of Education, served 30 
 years in various capacities in the (Madison) 
 Mutual Insurance Company, is President of the 
 Madison Gaslight and Coke Company, has been 
 director and president of several railroad en- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 terprises and has been curator of the State 
 Historical Society since its inception in 1849. 
 He probably stands alone, in having been com- 
 missioned a Notary Public by every Governor 
 of the State of Wisconsin. He was for eight 
 years Wisconsin member of tlie Republican 
 National Committee, and has been present at 
 every convention since the first nomination of 
 Lincoln. In 1876 he was a member of the 
 convention. j 
 
 Aug. 23, 1849, he was married to Mary, 
 daughter of Cbnnor and Susan (Shriver) 
 Sweeny of Potosi, Wis. Their first born son, 
 Charles David, died in 1878 aged 28 years. 
 He had been vice-consul at Liverpool four 
 years under Lucius Faii-child, and was after- 
 wards associate editor of the "State .Journal." 
 In 1874, lie was married to Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Dr. A. .J. Ward, who.se sketch appears on 
 another page. In 1875, David Atwood, his 
 only child, was born. 
 
 Mr. Atwood of tlii.'' sketch has three surviv- 
 ing children — Harrie F., Mar}' L., of Madison, 
 and Elizabeth G., wife of Edward P. ^'ilas, 
 member of the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, 
 Smitli, Bottom & Vilas, of Milwaukee. 
 
 Connor Sweeny was born in New York City, 
 March 4, 1792; Susan, his wife, was reared 
 within four miles of the field of Gettvslmrg in 
 Pennsylvania. Mrs. Atwood was born May 3, 
 1819, in Franklin Co., Pa, and is of Dutch and 
 Irish extraction. 
 
 Before this imperfect account of a man wiiom 
 succeeding generations will estimate justly 
 from a statement of what he has done and his 
 motive in effort, is in print, he will be 74 years 
 old. In his apparent firm health, seemingly 
 unbroken constitution and extraordinary vigor 
 is manifest the advantages of a well-regulated 
 life, made .such by intelligence and judgment. 
 Comment is hardly required by even the 
 minutest biographer, when such an array of 
 
 usefulness is portrayed. When a British officer, 
 maimed and aged, was accused of treason and 
 arraigned l)efore the triljunal whose existence 
 he had helped to make possible, was called on 
 for his defense, he raised his armless coatsleeve 
 and said sternly, " I fought at Waterloo." 
 ^^^lat he has done stands ever a witness of the 
 life and character of General Atwood. If the 
 true account of his social experiences could be 
 written they would form a I'emarkable record. 
 He has been associated with most of the prom- 
 inent men in the history of Wisconsin and of 
 the Nation. His capacity for making friends 
 is equal to liis perseverance in the avenues of 
 business and he has a reputation for hospitalitj' 
 and as a conver.sationalist such as might be 
 looked for in one with his temperament and 
 having had his experiences. " Never recreant 
 to convictions of duty " will always be his 
 memorial in the thoughts of those who remem- 
 ber him after his name shall have become but 
 a memory. 
 
 It is believed that the above inadequate 
 account of one wlio, since it was written, has 
 suddenly entered into the rest of the just and 
 upright, is the last prepared of him and it is 
 thoroughly reliable as he revised and corrected 
 it with his own liand, only a few days before 
 he passed away. 
 
 General Atwood was stricken with sudden 
 illness, Dec. 11, 1889, and after a few hours the 
 name he had made so honorable and which 
 will be treasured as sacred in Madison wiiile 
 his generation lasts, became only a memory. 
 But such a memory as Wisconsin will bear on 
 her muster-roll ■ of sons who lived only to her 
 renown and credit. 
 
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 OSEPH McCLELLAN BELL, charter 
 member of the Mihtary Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, Wisconsin Commandery, 
 member of E. B. Wolcott G. A. R. Post No. 1, 
 at Milwaukee, Wis., was born at West Chester, 
 Pa., Nov. 21, 1836. He is the son of Thomas 
 Sloan Bell, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and 
 Keziah Ann, daughter of Judge William Camp- 
 bell of the 3d Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
 (including Chester and Delaware counties). 
 The ancestors in the paternal line left Scotland 
 in the time of James 1st, in 1619, to escape the 
 persecutions of the Scottish " kirk ", only to en- 
 counter troubles of a worse nature in their 
 refuge in the North of Ireland, whicii, however, 
 insured the purity of the race known to pos- 
 terity as the Scotch-Irisli and sent to this 
 country one of its best strains of race and 
 character, as is exemplified in many directions, 
 the families, more than those of any other 
 nationality which have come to these shores, 
 transmitting to descendants their sturdy 
 strength, intelligence, hard common sense and 
 integrity and also, more than any otiier do 
 they preserve the family patronymic through 
 successive generations. The " Bells " and 
 " Sloans " sent representatives to the South of 
 Ireland and many became barristers and solic- 
 itors in Dublin. Judge Bell's father and 
 mother came to Philadelphia in the hitter part 
 of the 18th century, where Thomas S. was 
 born ; another son, William, became an officer 
 in the United States navy ; Mary was the only 
 daughter. 
 
 Thomas S. Bell was fitted for his profession 
 in the law office of Judge, afterwards Governor, 
 Porter of Philadelphia and practiced in Cliester 
 county, subsequently succeeding his father-in- 
 law, Judge Hemphill, as presiding Judge of 
 the 3d Judicial District, prior toJiis accession 
 to the position of Chief Justice. He served 
 many years, and ■ftheii the office was made 
 
 elective he resigned and died in Philadelphia, 
 in 1861. His wife was granddaughter of Col. 
 Joseph McClellan, commissioned by the Gov- 
 ernment to the command of the 1st Pennsyl- 
 vania Reserves in the Continental Army, to 
 serve under General Anthonj' Wayne, who 
 wrote on the reverse of his papers when they 
 were returned to the " Office of War & Ord- 
 nance " expressions of commendation as to the 
 services of Colonel McClellan and regret for 
 his resignation, adding a recommendation that 
 his resignation be accepted. About 1856 these 
 impers were discovered in the archives of the 
 War Department and are now in possession of 
 the family, together with the sword and epau- 
 lettes presented to him by General Washington 
 after the battle of Brandywine. The children 
 of Judge Bell are Caroline Darlington, wife of 
 Dr. William Goodell of Philadelphia ; William 
 Hemphill, a West Point graduate and an of- 
 ficer in the U. S. regular army; Joseph Mc- 
 Clellan, of this sketch ; Thomas Sloan, a lawyer 
 and Lieutenant Colonel of the 51st Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry ; he served under Burnside and 
 was killed at Antietam after taking and cross- 
 ing the stone bridge on the left of the line of 
 battle (Burnside's Bridge); Annie Rosalie, wife 
 of Clifford Hemphill of West Chester. 
 
 Colonel Bell was educated at the New London 
 and West Cliester academies and afterwards 
 read law with John Hickman of West Chester, 
 pursuing his studies from 1855 to May, 1857, 
 when he was " warranted " by the War Office 
 and attached to an expedition under General 
 E. F. Beale, for the survey of the 35th parallel 
 route to the Pacific. In July, the first assis- 
 tant of the expedition resigned and Colonel 
 Bell was promoted to the vacancy. During 
 1857, 1858 and a part of 1859, he pursued this 
 work, and took service in tbe Subsistence De- 
 partment of New Mexico, with headcjuarters at 
 j Albuquerque, and later at Fort Ujiion. In the 
 
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 latter part of ISGl, the force under General 
 Canby, whicli had been aroused by the condi- 
 tions of war, became informed of the intended 
 invasion of General Sibley at the head of the 
 Texan troops and steps were taken to prepare to 
 meet him. the regular force being small and scat- 
 tered and practically without officers, many va- 
 cancies existing ; it became imperative that these 
 be Hiled and General Canby was authorized by 
 the War Dej)artment to make the appointments. 
 Additional troops were required and must be 
 supplied by volunteers. Colonel Bell was then 
 stationed at Fort Union and was ordered by 
 his Chief to report at Santa Fe where he was 
 commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 2d New 
 Mexico Infantry, to render him eligible to 
 appointment, and he was made Captain of Com- 
 pany I, 3d U.S. Cavalry, wliicli, witli Company 
 G, 2d Dragoons, was formed into a light battery 
 commanded by Captain J. P. Hatch (General) 
 and afterwards in command of Captain Alex. 
 McKae. Colonel Bell passed tiirough the New 
 Mexico campaign and after the battle of Val 
 Verde in which all other officers were killed 
 and himself thrice wounded, he was in com- 
 mand to the close of tlic campaign, which 
 resulted in tiie expulsion of the invaders with 
 decimated and l)roken ranks. Colonel Bell was 
 sent to Washington under special instructions 
 of General Canby and, a few days after liis 
 rei)ort to the Secretary of War, he was promoted 
 to Cajttain Assistant Adjutant General to rejiort 
 to General B. S. Roberts, U. S. A., Chief of 
 Cavalry, Aimy of Virginia, organizing for 
 movements on the Rapidan. He was a partici- 
 pant in all the movements of tiie forces 
 under Pope until the command went north 
 into Maryland, when Colonel Bell was assigned 
 to duty at headquarters at Harper's Ferry, 
 going thence into West Virginia to clear the 
 rebels out of the country south of Clarksburg 
 towards the Kanawha River. He was ordered 
 
 i to the Northwest to inspect and push troops to 
 the front and was appointed by General Pope, 
 Inspector General and Chief of Ordnance. At 
 this time General Thomas api)lied for the 
 assignment of Colonel Bell to his staff as A. A. 
 General, which on being referred to the Com- 
 mander of the Department of the Northwest, 
 was returned to the War Department with the 
 statement that lie was necessary to the exigen- 
 cies of his present position and a request added 
 that the assignment be not made. 
 
 Later, he was ordered to Milwaukee, whither 
 General Pope transferred his headquarters and 
 in addition to his other duties. Colonel Bell 
 acted as A. A. General of his staff until Pope 
 was ordered to the command of the Military 
 Division, with headquarters at St. Louis and 
 Colonel Bell was assigned to duty tliere as Ad- 
 jutant-General and was promoted to Major and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel. In the spring of 18()G he 
 made a tour of inspection through Kansas, 
 Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico,, forward- 
 ing his resignation on his return, which was 
 accepted by the War Dejiartment in December. 
 On the reorganization of the Regular Army, 
 Colonel Bell was offered a commission and 
 afterwards a second commission, but declined 
 both. 
 
 lie was married at Milwaukee to Harriet, 
 daughter of .lusiah E. and Harriet (Johnson) 
 McClure. Mrs. Bell belongs to a family of 
 Scotch descent, whose first re j)resentatives came 
 to America in the 18th century, purchased and 
 occupied lands in Massachusetts and founded a 
 numerous line of descendants. Josiah E. went 
 to Chicago in 1835 and was early identified 
 with the development of the Garden City, 
 whence he removed to Milwaukee in 1840, 
 where his family have since lived. Harriet, 
 his wife, is the only daughter of Col. Seth .lohn- 
 son of the 2d United States Infantry, an officer 
 of 1812, who served afterwards at \i>iicii£ j cint 
 
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 on the lake frontier until he was made Com- 
 mandant at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). About 
 1840 he resigned his commission and passed 
 tlie remainder of his life at Racine, Wis. Nine 
 welcome and beloved children have been added 
 to the Bell household, named in order of birth, 
 Harriet, Joseph McClellan, .Jr., Caroline D., 
 (deceased), William H., Thomas S., Mary, 
 Martha, Catherine and Alexander McClure. 
 C!olonel Bell has been a Republican since the 
 organization of the party. 
 
 There is, on these pages, no more thorough 
 representative of American institutions than 
 Colonel Bell, whose modest story told in simple 
 terms, is wholly inadequate in view of all that 
 might have been justly said. Born of the best 
 stock in our composite Nationality, bred in 
 gentle and refined methods, early imbued with 
 the true principles of patriotism and also with 
 a sense of his country's right to the best 
 strength and service he could give her, he re- 
 sponded to every call made upon him and per- 
 formed his duty in a manner consonant with 
 his birtii, training and conscience. In his pri- 
 vate career, he has regulated his life in accord- 
 ance with the principles of his forefathers and 
 sustains his record as a soldier in the service of 
 his country in her most pressing need. 
 
 HARLES J. ALDEN, of La Crosse, 
 Wis., is a member of Wilson Colwell 
 Post No. 38, G. A. R. He was born 
 in Monroeton, Bradford Co., Pa., July 5, 1844. 
 He represents most of the romance that came 
 to this country in the first trip of the May- 
 flower, his earliest ancestor, John Alden, land- 
 ing on Plymouth Rock, Dec. 20, 1620. The 
 latter acted as advocate for a friend in his suit 
 for the favor of Priscilla Mellen, who asked 
 him why he did not speak for himself, the in- 
 
 cident forming the theme of Longfellow's poem, 
 "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and the 
 critical moment "Why don't you ask for your- 
 self, John?" giving Rogers one of his happiest 
 inspirations for a charming group of statuary. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Alden, Sylvester W. and 
 Frances (Wilcox) Alden, were born respectively 
 in Bradford county, March 19, 1810 and July 
 31, 1815. The former was the son of Timothy 
 Alden, himself the son of Israel Alden. From 
 the founder of the family, who was assistant 
 and secretary to Governor Bradford, the 
 branches are many and widely diffused and 
 the value of a thread of a romance to preserve 
 interest in genealogy is proven by the fact, 
 that it is probably possible to trace the family 
 descent through all its avenues. Sylvester 
 Alden removed with his family to Wisconsin 
 and became heavily interested in lumbering in 
 the vicinity of Green Bay, where he died July 
 13, 1881, the demise of his wife having oc- 
 curred Aug. 29, 1847, at Monroeton. They 
 had two sons. De Alanson T. was an enlisted 
 man in Company H, 21st Wisconsin Infantry, 
 (enr.olled the same day with his brother), lost 
 his health and was transferred to the Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, Sept. 20, 1863, and died June 2, 
 1864, after discharge, from the results of dis- 
 ease acquired in the service. 
 
 The senior Alden came alone to Wisconsin in 
 1856 and located at Menekaunee, where he 
 commenced his lumbering operations. His son 
 remained East with his relatives three years 
 and joined his father in 1859, and until 1862 
 he was occupied at home and in obtaining his 
 education. He was determined to enlist as 
 a soldier and did so Aug. 15, 1862, in Company 
 H, 21st Wisconsin Infantry, with his brother, 
 enrolling at Fond du Lac and being mustered 
 at Oshkosh. Sejjtember 5th he left the State, 
 going to Cincinnati, crossing into Kentucky 
 and joining in the pursuit of Bragg, who had 
 
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 been annoying the people of that section. 
 October 8th the Union soldiers had the satis- 
 faction of repaying his attentions in a decisive 
 and summary manner in which Mr. Alden was 
 a participant, receiving his first initiation in 
 set battle at Perryville. After commencing the 
 engagement, the regiment suffered doubly from 
 being advanced beyond the main line and the 
 loss was correspondingly greater. (The Colonel 
 was wounded and Lieutenant-Colonel Hobart, 
 whose sketch is on another page, took command 
 of the regiment after Perryville). Mr. Alden 
 was in all the exposures and severities encoun- 
 tered by the command for some weeks and 
 went to camp at Mitchell ville and went after 
 great suffering from similar causes to those 
 mentioned, in December to Nashville. Witli 
 many others, he was ill prior to leaving Mitch- 
 ellville, one of the causes being his inhalation 
 of dust on the marches. He went with the 
 regiment to Stone River, although he was so ill 
 that the officers proposed to send him to hos- 
 pital, but he felt that death was certain if he 
 went there and ills brother assured the officers 
 that he would care for him personally. He 
 was in the action at Murfreesboro in connection 
 with the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 14th 
 Corps. When the regiment prepared to par- 
 ticipate in the movements southward, an order 
 was issued for the examination of the men and 
 Mr. Alden and his brother were both rejected. 
 Tlirough intercession witii Colonel Hobart he 
 was permitted to accompany tlie command 
 towards Tullahoma but he failed on the march 
 and was sent back to Murfreesboro and to hos- 
 l)i(al. He improved somewhat in health and 
 was transferred to the \'eteran Reserve Corps 
 at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was sent tlience to 
 Indianapolis and detailed for duly at General 
 Carrington's headquarters, remaining until the 
 removal of his chief, when lie was transferred 
 to the headquarters of General A. P. Hovey 
 
 and served in that connection until the close of 
 the war. He was mustered out June 30, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Alden joined his father at Green Bay 
 and was interested in the business of a lumber- 
 man until 1870, when he located at Tomah, 
 Monroe county, and engaged in the sale of dry 
 goods and in the relations of general merchan- 
 dising. He had, also, a branch establishment 
 at Oakdale. In 1876 he became interested in 
 agriculture and conducted a farm three years. 
 
 In 1878 he commenced operations as a pen- 
 sion claim agent, for which his tastes and 
 capacity fitted him and of which he has made 
 an eminent success througii his well-known 
 character for integrity and perceptions of jus- 
 tice and right, receiving his first initiation into 
 his business through obtaining recognition of 
 his own claims on the Government. He opened 
 his office in 1882 at Tomah, and in 1886 his 
 business demanded a different location and he 
 removed to Sparta. In the .spring of 1889 he 
 fitted his rooms at La Crosse, where he is en- 
 gaged in one of the most popular and extensive 
 business relations of the kind in Wisconsin, his 
 upright character and his success obtaining for 
 him just recognition in all the relations of his 
 duty to his patrons. In his business he ranks 
 among tlie foremost in tlie country. During 
 the first eigiit months of 1889 he secured 284 
 claims of which 162 were original and 105 in- 
 creases. 
 
 He was married at New Lisbon, Wis., Sept. 
 10, 1872, to Antoinette, daugiiter of Joseph 
 antl Dorcas Davidson and their children are 
 Frances May, Sylvester W., Leola and Charles 
 J., Jr. In political connection Mr. Alden is a 
 Republican; he belongs to the Kniglits of 
 Pythias and to the Subordinate Lodge and Eu- 
 campment of the Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Alden's portrait apj)ears on page 662. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 :;v^^\r ARL GUSTAF DREUTZER, Milwau- 
 kee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 1, was born Feb. 21, 1845, in Got- 
 tenburg, Sweden, where his parents, Carl Fer- 
 dinand and Annette (Oeberg) Dreutzer, and 
 their ancestors liad lived for generations. lie is 
 a representative of the seafaring class of his 
 native country, his father, grandfather and 
 uncle liaving been in the Swedish navy and 
 merchant marine, and with the proclivity of 
 sons to follow the steps they respect and honor, 
 he was reared to the same calling, on which he 
 entered after obtaining an education in the 
 Swedisli schools, learning the rudiments in his 
 own and some foreign languages in the most 
 thorough manner, ^^llen he was 13 years old, 
 and on March 24, 1858, he went to sea and 
 sailed as a cabin boy and steward on several 
 voyages, going to Southern Africa, Capetown 
 and Port Elizabeth, also to St. Helena and 
 Brazil. 
 
 In tlie summer of 1860 he came to America 
 and, having determined to "cjuit the sea," he 
 entered the printing office of the Waupaca 
 (Wisconsin) Sph-it and was first instructed in 
 the "black art" by the Redfield Bros., pub- 
 lishers and editors. It goes without saying 
 that lie was of too active temperament and too 
 much interested in the well-being of the coun- 
 try he had adopted and from which he lioped 
 much, to remain inert and let others struggle 
 when his own interests hung in the balance, 
 and lie determined to offer himself as a soldier, 
 which he did Feb. 11, 1862, iu Company G, 
 14th Wisconsin, enlisting at Fond du Lac as 
 a private and going thence from rendezvous 
 March 8th, to proceed from St. Louis to tlie 
 field of Shiloh, where the battle was in jirog- 
 ress and wliere he found himself exposed to 
 all that hot warfare could present. He was 
 only a Ijoy, alone in a strange land and facing 
 a determined force of men, who were figliting 
 
 with desperation, and he aided his command 
 in winning its first meed of glory at Pittsburg 
 Landing. He was in the subsequent move- 
 ments of his regiment, performing provost 
 duty, reconnoitering and making expeditions 
 to various points, going in September to the 
 luka campaign, preparatory to tlie last fight at 
 Corinth, which closed the military career of 
 "Corporal" Dreutzer. October 3d, soon after 
 the battle opened, he was in the skirmish line 
 and received a wound which disabled him and 
 for which he received honorable discharge the 
 26th day of November, 1862. 
 
 In March, 1863, he located at Milwaukee, 
 obtaining a situation in the office of the Sen- 
 tinel, then owned by Germain and Brightman. 
 He desired to fit for the business of a job 
 printer which he had begun at Waupaca and 
 he secured a place with Starr & Son first as 
 compositor, then as press feeder and advanced 
 in his profession until he became foreman of tlie 
 office. In 1869 he became part owner by pur- 
 chase of an interest in the Riverside Printing 
 Company and has been inside manager of that 
 establishment since. Its business has extended 
 until it is one of the most prominent and pop- 
 ular printing houses in the Northwest, with 
 relations extending in widely diffused direc- 
 tions. 
 
 Mr. Dreutzer was married Oct. 21, 1869, to 
 Alice Harriet Whitridge, of Springfield, Ohio, 
 at St. Peter, Minn. Three daughters, Annette, 
 Corrilla Charlotte and Ruth have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dreutzer. Their home is at 
 Wauwalosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, where he 
 "enjoys life as well as a deaf man can." His 
 character is such as makes the world pleasanter 
 and better ; his fun and good spirits never 
 falter ; he has enough of the goods with which 
 the world repays industry and well-directed 
 effort, to relieve liim from apprehension of 
 possible di-saster in advanced life, and perplexi- 
 
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 ties and difficulties are not permitted to poison 
 the modicum of comfort a man may take who 
 has "j)lovvod tlie briny deep," can "splice the 
 main brace" and swear in seven di fie rent 
 languages. 
 
 In May, 1890, he returned for the first time 
 to his native count^3^ He passed a few weeks 
 there among the familiar scenes of his youth, 
 renewed old ties, and met the heartiest friend- 
 ship and hospitality ever extended to anj^ 
 human being, and rejoiced to find that the 
 tongue his mother taught him came back to 
 him after a disuse of nearly thirty years, with 
 such power tliat in three weeks he suddenly 
 hecame conscious that his thoughts began to 
 frame themselves in Swedish, for, on meeting 
 an American lady, he discovered that he must 
 take thought how to address lier properly in 
 her own language. 
 
 There is no more popular citizen of Milwau- 
 kee than "Gus" Dreutzer, and if a man needs a 
 friend whose honor can be relied on, such is to 
 be found in him of whom this incomplete 
 record is made. He is tender-hearted as a 
 woman ; he is fearlessly conscientious ; his life 
 is stainless and to the generations wiio will re- 
 member him in the future that must come to 
 all, his name will Ije a .synonym for all that is 
 noblest and best in human character. 
 
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 NEN DANIELSON, Racine, Wis., raem- 
 A her of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
 i)orn in Norway, April 27, 1840. lie 
 grew to youth in sight of the sea with which 
 he fell in love and, when he was 14 years old, 
 he engaged in service on the merchant vessels 
 plying on the Baltic sea and went also to the 
 Mediterranean and visited all the Englisli ports. 
 In the fall of 18G0 he suffered shipwreck on the 
 coast of Norway and reshipped on the Genoa, 
 
 which was in the coast service and went to 
 Cardiff, Wales, where he left the ship to engage 
 on an English barque bound for the United 
 States. He engaged in the coast service and 
 made two trips to the West Indies and trans- 
 ferred his allegiance to the United States at 
 Boston, shipping on the Donelson, May 24, 18G4, 
 and going from Boston to Norfolk, and thence 
 to Port Royal on blockade duty, going thence 
 to connect with the Gulf Squadron and was in 
 the fight at Fort Fisher, the Donelson after- 
 wards lying there as a guard-ship until ordered 
 to Pensacola, where Mr. Danielson was trans- 
 ferred to the Buckthorn, a tugboat of the fleet 
 commanded by Commodore Armstrong. He was 
 assigned to the quartermaster's department and 
 was in the service at Pensacola and Mobile 
 Bay and the intervening waters until he was 
 taken ill, when he was sent to the hospital at 
 Pensacola. He remained on the Buckthorn 
 after liis recover}^ uivtil 1867, when he was 
 transferred to the Paul Jones, homeward 
 bound, and was mustered out May 23d of that 
 year in New York. One of the incidents of in- 
 terest in his career while on the Donelson was 
 the chase after a blockade runner which was 
 continued into mid-ocean without avail. On the 
 return there was a heavy storm which necessi- 
 tated the overthrow of tlie armament of the 
 boat with iier starboard anclior. She ran into 
 Beaufort without loss of a man, but Cap- 
 tain Pickett was subjected to a court martial 
 for the loss of the guns and anchor. He was 
 fully exonerated and received promotion for 
 bravery. 
 
 After leaving the United States service Mr. 
 Danielson shipped on a vessel bound for Africa 
 and had some exciting experiences. He re- 
 turned to Boston, where he s]Hj)](ed for a cruise 
 to the East Indies and was gone 11 months, re- 
 turning to Boston, went to England and re- 
 turned to New York. He next shipped, after 
 
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 three months, on a vessel on which he went to 
 the port of Hong Kong, China, the voyage con- 
 suming 15 months, and he returned to tlie New 
 World via San Francisco and the Cape of Good 
 Hope. He started on another trip, intending to 
 go to the Spanish mines, up the Angostura River 
 but returned to New York and came West and 
 entered tlie lake service in wliich lie remained 
 two years. He then engaged three years as a 
 carpenter in Chicago, going thence to Michigan 
 City, Indiana, where he remained about nine 
 years. He went to Racine and has since been 
 in the employ of the J. I. Case T. M. Co. 
 
 He was married in Chicago in the fall of 
 1872 to Cunelda Sorenson and their surviv- 
 ing children are Severn, Charles and Gilbert. 
 Mr. Danielson is a member of the Order of 
 Foresters. 
 
 
 BAVID C. DAVIS, La Crosse, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 born April 3, 1847, in Burlington, 
 Iowa. Both parents, Jonathan and Eliza 
 (Sims) Davis, were of Welsh lineage, the former 
 having been born in Massachusetis, Oct. 17, 1800, 
 and the latter in Battle Creek, Ohio, the daugh- 
 ter of a resident of Virginia. The senior Davis 
 was a farmer and millwright and they reared 
 several children, named Margaret, .Joseph, 
 David, Reulien, Harriet and John. In 1828 a 
 removal to Iowa was effected and thence to 
 Burlington, where the family residence was 
 maintained until 1870, when the father went 
 to California. His wife had died in Wapello, 
 Iowa, in 1852, of cholera. He enlisted in Bur- 
 lington, Iowa, in 1861, in Company K, 1st Mis- 
 souri Topographical Engineers, and served 
 chiefly in the Department of the West until 
 discharged in 1802 for disability, having fallen 
 from a trestle, dislocating his shoulder and 
 fracturing his collar bone. lie is a resident of 
 
 Portland, Oregon, and became a nonogenarian 
 Oct. 17, 1890. (Current year). 
 
 Until the date of the war, Mr. Davis was a 
 member of his father's family and from the 
 firing on Sumter he passed two years in en- 
 deavors to find a place where he could enlist. 
 At 14, in 1861, he enrolled in Fletcher's Bat- 
 tery (Iowa), but was rejected as soon as he 
 stated his age. In June of the same year he 
 endeavored to enlist in the 9th Illinois Infan- 
 try at Monmouth, Illinois, but was again unsuc- 
 cessful, being rejected as soon as muster was 
 called, as the law stated the duty of the re- 
 cruiting officers. He expected the fate and 
 followed the command to Cairo to meet rejec- 
 tion. July 12, 1863, he made another effort 
 which was successful, he having attained to the 
 age of 16 years, three months previous. He 
 enrolled in Company A, 7th Iowa Cavalry, 
 Captain E. B. Murphy. The regiment was sent 
 on frontier service to Kansas, to Fort Kearney 
 to suppress the Indians in Nebraska. The 
 winter of 1863-4 was passed there and in the 
 spring the batter}^ returned to Brownville in 
 the same State, where tliey operated as cavalry 
 in the civil war, which was a service not de- 
 manded in other wars, and included scouting 
 and skirmishing, fighting guerrillas and bush- 
 whackers, foraging and guarding special points, 
 the command sometimes spending daj^s in the* 
 saddle. After four months the cavalry went 
 to Dakota City, Nebraska, and were placed on 
 garrison duty, guarding mail routes and set- 
 tlers. After three months they went to Fort 
 Kearney, again on forced march, making 310 
 miles in five days and arrived there the day 
 before the Plum Creek massacre. In the morn- 
 ing they went to the Creek and arrived there 
 just as the redskins withdrew after accomplish- 
 ing their bloody work. They had .scalped 12 
 men and earned off Miss Ray. They returned 
 to Fort Kearney, drew one day's rations and 
 
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 started after the Indians towards Little Butte. 
 Crossing tliis they pressed on to the Elk River, 
 there found the red villains and defeated them 
 after a fight of 11 hours, also recaptured the 
 stock they had driven off; they had burned the 
 rest of their plunder. Returning to Fort Kear- 
 ney, they buried 200 citizens who had been 
 murdered by the Indians. (August 8th and 
 12Ui, 1864; see pages 112, 113, 115 and 118.) 
 On the 28th they went to Cottonwood Springs 
 and organized what was known as the Mitchell 
 expedition, went south to Solomon River, 
 crossed tiie Republican River and established a 
 base of supplies. In returning they struck the 
 Platte River at Beauvoir's Ranch and made a 
 treaty with 1,.")00 Indians. Company A went 
 thence to AlkaH Station, Neb., and Ijuilt a fort, 
 remaining there the balance of the summer. 
 In the fall they started on another expedition, 
 having jiassed the previous time in escorting 
 the stages with passengers and U. S. mails. 
 They scouted south as far as the Solomon River 
 and encountered the Indians several times, 
 losing several men in the figiits with the red- 
 skins. The company returneil to Cottonwood 
 after being out 90 days in the dead of winter. 
 Mr. Davis was then placed on detiiched service 
 in the spring of 1805 with 25 men of his com- 
 pany and went to Fort Larramie, escorting 
 Paymaster Ohnstead. (Mr. Davis was then not 
 18 years old.) On the return from this duty, 
 the detail escorted a band of Indians towards 
 the Indian Territory under the terms of the 
 treaty. On tlie second morning the Indians 
 commenced an insurrection and got away after 
 killing several men. The command went next 
 to Fort MrPiierson and to Fort Alkali, and 
 remained through the summer, acting as 
 escort on the routes of travel for stages and 
 mail coaches. Their next remove was to Fort 
 Jleatb, where they were engaged until spring 
 ill the same duty and soon after (18G6) received 
 
 orders for Fort Leavenworth to be mustered 
 
 out. Mr. Davis was released from milit^iry 
 obligation May 17, 1866, and paid at Daven- 
 port, Iowa, on the 25th. He had a remarkable 
 service which was important enough to receive 
 official recognition in the midst of the most 
 important period of the war and went through 
 the Indian campaign with two slight wounds, 
 one from an arrow and the other from a bullet 
 in his leg. He had imbibed a liking for the 
 free air and experiences of the plains, and 
 after his discharge he went to Fort Kearney in 
 Montana with the Government supply trains 
 and acted in the Government service through 
 the following winter. In May, 1867, he return- 
 ed as far east as Amador, Minnesota, and thence 
 to the Mississippi River and has since been 
 engaged in some capacity on the mighty 
 stream. He has rafted, boated and performed 
 every specie of duty on the river craft that 
 came within bis al>ility. In 1875 he located at 
 La Crosse, Wis., where he has established a 
 boat livery, including skiffs, yachts and every 
 sort of boat to be utilized for water use on the 
 river at that point and lias also a yard for 
 building skiffs. His boat building is securing 
 an excellent reputation for beauty and safety. 
 He was married May 7, 1875, at De Soto, 
 Wis., to Carrie, daughter of Welcome B. Lum- 
 bard, and their only child is named John N., 
 born Nov. 14, 1883. Mr. Davis is also oper- 
 ating as master of steam vessels and pilot from 
 Read's Landing to Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 AMES G. KIDDLE, Racine, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
 Norfolk, England, Oct. 3, 1839, and is 
 the son of .lames and Sarali (Gibson) Kiddle, 
 who had six ciiildren — Sarah, Klizabetb, Mar- 
 tlia, Susannaii, James and Richard. The 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 father was a carpenter and a man of excellent 
 character and habits. In 1850 he came to the 
 United States and purchased a farm in Cook 
 Co., 11!., near Bremen, on which he is still liv- 
 ing, aged 90 years, the place being managed bj' 
 his sons. The family remained in England 
 until the farm was bought, when they came to 
 the New World. The mother died of cholera 
 in 1852. Mr. Kiddle remained with his parents 
 until he reached his majority, when he went to 
 railroading in the interests of the Chicago & 
 Rock Island road, and operated as a brakeman 
 and then as baggage master until he entered the 
 army. He tried to enlist in the early years of 
 the war, but was rejected until Oct. 11, 1864, 
 when he was enrolled in Chicago in Company 
 K, olst Illinois Infantry. He made connection 
 with the regiment at Atlanta and found him- 
 self a member of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 
 17th Army Corps. He remained about a week 
 before joining Sherman's forces on the tramp 
 to the sea and soon after was detailed in one of 
 the foraging parties, in which he operated un- 
 til he arrived at Savannah, where he was de- 
 tailed to guard the rice mills, which supplied 
 the troops with plenty of food. The entire 
 country had been flooded by the rebels and the 
 j)rogress of the Union troops was much retarded 
 by the immense tracts of water; the siege pro- 
 gressed slowly until a 64-pounder from Fort 
 McAllister was brought into requisition which 
 soon settled matters, and the Union soldiers, 
 skilled iu every kind of mechanics, stopped the 
 discharge of water, when the advance began. 
 Mr. Kiddle has never recovered from the effects 
 of the concussion in the cannonading ; the men 
 were on duty 24 hours and the rebels left their 
 works about two in the morning. The follow- 
 ing morning they went to Savannah, remained 
 a week, went to Beaufort to head oft". Johnston, 
 thence to Pocotaligo, obtained supj)lies and 
 started for Richmond, Washington and the 
 
 Grand Review. The regiment went to Louis- 
 ville, performed provost duty about two weeks, 
 and went to Illinois to be mustered out July 
 19, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Kiddle resumed his old employment in 
 Chicago on resuming his connection with civil 
 life and remained until 1872 when he engaged 
 with a plow factory at Peru. In 1877 he went 
 to Racine, engaged in the plow works of J. I. 
 Case and after nine years engaged with his 
 present employers, the Racine Hardware 
 Manufacturing Company, and still ojierates in 
 the wood department. He was married Sep. 5, 
 1868, at Chicago, to Sarah Ann, daughter of 
 Marshal and Sarah A. Golding. Their children 
 are named Martha E., Ida M., Susie B., James 
 and Mamie. 
 
 3« 
 
 and Pauline (Dufty) Denniston. The father 
 was born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1801 and 
 his wife was a native of Hartford, Conn. Both 
 died at Lockport, after rearing a family of 12 
 children named Anne Pauline, Matilda, Emily, 
 Grace, James, Helen, Mary, George, Sarah, 
 Martin, John and Hardy. 
 
 When he was 16 years old tiie latter went to 
 Milwaukee, Wis., and obtained emjiloy as a 
 bookkeeper. After two years he went to Water- 
 town, Wis., and made that his homo until he 
 went into tiie army. He enrolled at that place 
 Feb. 5, 1862, in Company D, 17th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, Captain D. D. Scott and Colonel J. L. 
 Doran. From Camp Randall the regiment 
 went to St. Louis and thence to the battle field 
 of Pittsburg Landing, the battle being over 
 several days before. The regiment was assigned 
 to the 1st Brigade and 6th Division, the brigade 
 being under General McArthur and moved 
 
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 to the siege of Corinth. Tlie command was in 
 duty on the Mobile & Ohio raih-oad until the i 
 battle of Corinth, in which the regiment took 
 part October od and 4th. The fii'st day the 
 command fought on the outside of the forti- 
 fications and on the second fell back within the 
 works. On the first day Company D lost two 
 men killed and 20 wounded. In the pursuit 
 the Union troops followed to the Hatchie 
 River and returned to Corinth. They per- 
 formed guard and camp duty there until 
 ordered to connect with Grant's forces for the 
 Vicksburg campaign, went to Grand Junction, 
 thence started to go to Holly Springs and re- 
 turned, on receiving news of Murphy's surren- 
 der of the stores, to go to the aid of Grand 
 Junction which was in great danger. They 
 lay on their arms there until ordered to Mos- 
 cow, Tenn., went to Memphis, thence to 
 Young's Point and from there to service on 
 the canals at Lake Providence. Two months 
 later they moveil to Milliken's Bend and in 
 May, in Ransom's Brigade and McPherson's 
 Corps, they crossed the Missi.ssippi River at 
 Grand (iulf, going to Raymond and expecting 
 to fight at Champion's Hill, but did not arrive 
 in time. They joined in the pursuit of the 
 repulsed rebels and went to Black River 
 Bridge, crossed on the floating bridges and 
 took position in tlie siege of Vicksburg. They 
 had slept on the battle-field of Chamj)ion's 
 Hill among tlie dead and at Black River 
 Bridge witnessed another fight. May 19th the 
 regiment took part 
 works and made 
 Ivansom and on the 22d covered the retreat of 
 the Illinois regiments which stormed the 
 breastworks. During the jirogress of the siege 
 the regiment made a raid and fought portions 
 of one da}' with rebel cavalry, driving them 
 and taking their flag, which was brought from 
 its pole by Mr. Deuniston, who climbed after it. 
 
 in the assault on the 
 I gallant record under 
 
 After the surrender of the city, the command 
 went to Natchez, took possession of the place 
 and afterwards the regiment was mounted by 
 its own efibrts, taking horses wherever they 
 were to be found, whether in the fields or 
 attached to carriages, on the ground that " all's 
 fair in war," and especially in this war. They 
 did scouting and skirmishing duty, collected 
 cattle and everything available and which was 
 loss to the rebels. In the early fall they were 
 ordered to Vicksburg, went into winter quar- 
 ters and performed camp duty until January, 
 when veteranizing took place. Mr. Denniston 
 took his furlough home and afterwards rejoin- 
 ed his regiment, going to Ackworth to connect 
 with Sherman. June 10th the regiment took 
 position near Big Shanty in the left of the line 
 of battle. On the 19th the skirmishing com- 
 menced and they were in the operations 
 in the vicinity of Kenesaw Mountain, 
 crossing the Chattahoochie and fighting at 
 Bald Hill under General Leggett. The 
 17th took part in all the afterpart of the 
 siege of Atlantii and after the fall of the city 
 went to Lovejoy's Station and to Jonesboro. In 
 August the command went in pursuit of Hood 
 to Snake Creek Gap, and returned to Marietta 
 preparatory to the march to the sea. Mr. Den- 
 niston was a participant in all the varied ser- 
 vice with the column to the siege of Savannah 
 which has been recounted a thousand times. 
 From Savannah the command went to Beau- 
 fort, 8. C, and marched thence to Goldst)oro. 
 From there to Raleigh, skirmishing on the 
 way, the regiment went to take part in the 
 movements until the surrender of Johnston, 
 Aj)ril 2G, 18Go, when the march Northward 
 began. Going to Richmond and Petersburg 
 and thence to camp near Washington, the regi- 
 ment was in the Review and went thence to 
 Louisville to await the com}iletion of the mus- 
 ter rolls and muster out in July. While wait- 
 
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 ing Mr. Denniston went home and returned to 
 Louisville the day before the muster out, re- 
 turning with the command to Madison to be 
 discharged from State service, July 28, 1865. 
 At Corinth he was promoted to Cbmmissary 
 Sergeant in 18G2, and to Sergeant ^hljor, Dec. 
 15, 1862. He was afterwards made Adjutant 
 of the regiment to date from April 18, 1865, 
 and acted in that capacity prior to date of com- 
 mission about a year. 
 
 On returning from the war he went to \Va- 
 tertown and engaged in work in a chaii' factory, 
 leaving Watertown for La Crosse in 1870, and 
 engaged with the Milwaukee and St. Paul 
 Railroad corporation, with whom he is still in- 
 terested. 
 
 He was married Feb. 29, 1864, at Watertown, 
 to Mary E., daughter of Hiram and Melinda 
 Harder, and their children are named Florence, 
 Paulina, Carrie E., Hattie L, Grace Olive and 
 Annie. .James Hiram is deceased. I^r. Den- 
 niston is a member of the Knights of Honor 
 and a Republican in politics. 
 
 MIABLE DESHAMP, Chippewa Falls, 
 Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post JSTo. 
 68, was born in September, 1833, in 
 Prairie du Chien, the son of Joseph and Louise 
 (Lapoint) Deshamp. His father was born in 
 Canada and went to Prairie du Chien in the 
 earliest days in the history of that location and 
 there met and married his wife. He was a 
 soldier in 1812 and was at Fort Prairie du Chien 
 when it was attacked by the British men-of- 
 war, and when the troops and citizens were 
 driven to the Iowa side without provisions and 
 subsisted on berries and fish caught from the 
 river and eaten without salt. Their only vari- 
 ation from this food was a little corn which 
 they sometimes obtamed. The British held 
 
 tlip place about three months and were driven 
 away by the United States troops which ar- 
 rived from Mackinac down the Wisconsin 
 River and through the Portage. The father 
 was a friend and associate of General Taylor 
 and he and his wife attended dances at the 
 fort. Joseph Deshamp was a farmer and car- 
 penter. Their children were Joseph Jr., 
 Amiable, Edmond, Frederick and Therese, all 
 living in 1890 but the oldest. The father died 
 in 1859 at Prairie du Chien and the mother is 
 still living on the homestead. 
 
 Mr. Desliamp possesses a roving disposition 
 and a desire to see new places, and in his 
 youth traveled extensively. He finally settled 
 down about two years prior to the war and en- 
 gaged in farming until he enlisted and was 
 sworn into service March 18, 1865, in Company 
 I, 48th Wisconsin Infantry, at Madison. He 
 went to Milwaukee, obtained permission to re- 
 turn home and attend to business and returned 
 to find that his regiment had gone to St. Louis 
 and he joined the command at Benton Barracks. 
 After three weeks he went to Warrensburg and 
 thence to Fort Scott. He performed guard 
 duty there and was occasionally sent out on 
 scouting expeditions and detached duty to 
 Humboldt and elsewhere. In September the 
 command was ordered out on the plains and 
 stationed at Fort Dodge, the companies being 
 variously distributed, Companies I and B being 
 assigned to Fort Dodge to keep open the roads, 
 and the routes of travel for the trains of Gov- 
 ernment and emigrants, free from Indians. 
 Sept. 22, 1865, he was made Corporal while on 
 the march to the fort. Indians occasionally 
 threatened to attack but no great mischief was 
 done by them, although they were continually 
 prowling about and watching for a chance to 
 catch some of the soldiers too far from the fort. 
 They remained there through the winter, sub- 
 sisting on buffalo meat, which animals Mr. 
 
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 Deshamp says " were as thick as pigeons in 
 spring." In February, 1866, orders were re- 
 ceived to go to Fort Leavenworth where the)' 
 were aiustered out on tlie 19th. 
 
 Mr. Desliamp returned to Prairie du Chien 
 and remained there 11 years engaged in fann- 
 ing. He sold his place and started for the 
 •South, going to Dallas, Texas. He returned as 
 far north as Quincy, 111., went thence on the 
 river to New Orleans with the view of working 
 on the jetties at the mouth of the I'iver, but 
 found the work nearly done and he returned to 
 Skipper's Landing on the river and thence to 
 Prairie du Chien and Chippewa Falls, where 
 he has since remained in the emj)loy of the 
 French Lumbering Company, with the excep- 
 tion of the time he passed on a trip to the 
 Pacific slope, going by way of the Northern 
 Pacific to Portland, Oregon, thence by steamer 
 to San Francisco, and thence over the Central 
 and Uiiion Pacific to Prairie du Chien ; up the 
 Mississippi River to St. Paul, thence to Red 
 Lake Fulls and to Chippewa Falls, which he 
 considers as good a place as any he saw on his 
 trip. His brothers, Edmond and Frederick, 
 were soldiers in the civil war. In politics he is 
 a Republican. 
 
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 AMES FLANAGAN, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 was born Aug. 22, 1836, in Massachu- 
 setts, and is the son of William and 
 Catherine (Duff) Flanagan. His father was a 
 native of Ireland and his mother was born in 
 Yorkshire, England. The family emigrated to 
 Massachusetts in 1829, where the son was born 
 and reared until he was 6 years old, when ho 
 accompanied his parents to Waukesha Co., 
 Wis. He was there brought up on a farm and 
 enlisted Nov. 5, 1861. He enrolled in Com- 
 pany I, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, and shared the 
 
 fortunes of his command until he was mustered 
 out Dec. 22, 1862, on account of disability. As 
 soon as recovered he re-enlisted, enrolling in 
 Company I, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, May 30, 
 1864. He received honorable discharge with 
 a certificate of personal acknowledgment from 
 President Lincoln on the expiration of his term. 
 After his i-eturn to Wisconsin he entered the 
 recruiting service under the Provost Marshal 
 and, during the winter of 1864-65 he enlisted 
 192 men, securing their enrollment within 
 three weeks. On the organization of the 51st 
 regiment he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant 
 of Company A, and performed military duty 
 with that organization until the close of the 
 war, receiving his third honorable discharge 
 Aug. 22, 1865. 
 
 While a member of the 1st Wisconsin Cav- 
 alry Mr. Flanagan was engaged in heavy scout- 
 ing in Missouri and was frequently under rebel 
 fire in numerous skirmishes. He accompanied 
 his command in the raids into Arkansas and 
 was in the action at Jonesboro, where his com- 
 pany was attacked in tiie court huuse and com- 
 pelled to surrender through superior numbers 
 of the enemy. Five of Company I were killed 
 and three wounded. Sergeant Flanagan lost 
 his horse, which was shot under him, and was 
 severely injured by a clubbing with a musket 
 in the hands of a rebel. He was among the 
 captured and, twenty-four hours later, was one 
 of eight who escaped, reaching the L'nion lines 
 after twenty days' wandering through swamps 
 and forests. He was at Memphis with the 39th 
 Wisconsin and a.ssisted in the rej)ulse of For- 
 rest in his midnight attack on the city. 
 
 Mr. Flanagan returned to Waukesha county, 
 where he resumed farming, in which he was 
 oecui)ied until 1875 when he removed to Mil- 
 waukee. He is engaged in the business of a 
 contractor and builder, and is regarded among 
 the reliable and upright citizens of the Cream 
 
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 City. He was married Nov. 30, 1865, to Mary 
 E., daughter of Thomas and Maiy Ann (Dow- 
 ling) Lambe. Tlieir children included two 
 sons, William and Frank J. The older is de- 
 ceased. 
 
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 ^:^'^^ILLIAM H. THOMAS, Racine, 
 Xv^tJ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 17, was born April 3, 1840, 
 in Gallipolis, Ohio. His parents, William and 
 Frances (Duvall) Thomas, had two children, a 
 son and a daughter, the latter being named 
 Frances. The family in the paternal line are 
 of American l)irth and Welsh lineage. The 
 mother was descended from ancestry wholly 
 American. His father was a lawyer by pro- 
 fession and resigned that business for that of a 
 merchant. He was tlie son of William Thomas, 
 a soldier of 1812 and who fought in the Mexi- 
 can war, the son coming naturally by an in- 
 heritance of patriotism which he honored by 
 his own career as a soldier. The father was 
 born in Gallipolis and died there in 1851, and 
 his widow died in the same place the next year. 
 The son passed his early life at home obtaining 
 such education as he could in the schools of 
 that period, and when old enough he learned 
 the trade of a blacksmith, serving his appren- 
 ticeship in Cleveland, Ohio. When the call for 
 troops was made, he was one of the first to re- 
 spond and enlisted April 18, 1861, in Huron 
 county. He was unable to obtain assignment to 
 any regiment, so great was the rush of volunteers 
 and, becoming disgusted with the manner in 
 which local military affairs seemed to be con- 
 ducted, he returned home and went to work. 
 But tlie fever of unrest, created by the existing 
 condition of public affairs again overcame him 
 and, July 18, 1862, found him a soldier in 
 Company B, 123d Ohio Infantry. His caj)tain 
 was Harris Kellogg and colonel, William T. 
 
 Wilson. His regiment left camp at Monroe- 
 ville, Ohio, for Parkersburg, W. Va., and hur- 
 ried thence to fight at Antietam, after which 
 the command went to the Shenandoah. Mr. 
 Thomas fought at Charlestown and was in the 
 sharp fight at Winchester fist) during the sec- 
 ond invasion of Lee, and afterwards partici- 
 pated in the marches, skirmishes and various 
 battles which followed. He was in the valley 
 through the operations there in 1864 and in 
 the last of November after Sheridan's raids and 
 fight at Winchester in October, the 123d Ohio 
 was transferred to the Army of the James, 
 operating with that command until March 27, 
 1865, when the regiment was assigned to the 
 24th Army Corps, General Ord, General Gibbon 
 being division commander. With the Army 
 of the Potomac, the regiment took part in the 
 operations at Petersburg until the evacuation, 
 after which, Mr. Thomas fought in the several 
 actions to the date of the surrender at Appo- 
 mattox, including Little Sailors' Creek, Hatchers' 
 Run and Farmville. The night of April Sth, 
 Mr. Thomas was with the 24tli Corps in its 
 march around Lee's right flank, cutting him 
 off from Lynchburg and on the next morning, 
 when Sheridan was attacked by Gordon, 
 prefacing Lee's last attempt to escape, that 
 ofKcer planted his command across the intended 
 path of Lee, who ordered a charge, but when 
 the Union cavalry moved aside the 24th C^rps 
 was there in solid lines, and Lee made haste to 
 avail himself of the terms of Grant. After the 
 termination of hostilities in Virginia the regi- 
 ment was assigned to the 2d Division and 25th 
 Corps to go to Texas in pursuit of Kirby Smith, 
 landing at Point Isabel and proceeding up the 
 coast to Brazos Santiago and up the Rio Grande. 
 During the last part of his service, Mr. Thomas 
 was detailed in the quarterma-ster's department 
 where he operated until his discharge Oct. 25, 
 1865, and he was finally mustered out Nov. 
 
674 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 25tli following at Camp Cadwallader, Phila- 
 delphia. In November, 1862, at Clarksburg, 
 he was promoted to Corporal, was made Ser- 
 geant ill July, 1SG3, at iMurtinsbiirg, and at 
 New Market Heights in front of Richmond, for 
 distinguished bravery on tlie field, he was pro- 
 moted to Second Lieutenant. 
 
 After his return to Ohio he engaged in car- 
 riage blacksniithing and in March, 18G7, went 
 to Winona, Minn. After a year he went to 
 La Crosse and thence after two years to Rock- 
 ford, 111. He went two years later to Chicago 
 and six inonthsafterwards to Milwaukee, where 
 he lived 10 years when he removed to Racine. 
 He was married Aug. 20, 1868, at Sparta, Wis., 
 to Ellen, daughter of William H., and Servena 
 (Clarke) Brooks. Their children, six in num- 
 ber, were named William B., George H., Clara 
 Edwin, Albert E. and Frank. William is not 
 living. Mr. Thomas was one of tlie first mem- 
 bers of the G. A. R., which he joined in 1867 
 in Norwalk, Ohio. He was a charter member 
 of Post No. 4 at Winona and he joined Gov- 
 ernor Harvey Post at Racine in 1883. He has 
 served in several official positions. 
 
 /^^ EORGE J. VANDERPOOL, Wau- 
 1 ?.,^ j l^ kesha. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 ^~---^ No. 1!), was born in Albany county. 
 New York, March 12, 1831, and is the son of 
 William and Lovina (VaiiBenschoten) Vandei- 
 pool. In both lines of descent he represents 
 the class known as tiie Knickerbockers of tlie 
 Empire State, some of whom were in the war 
 of J 812, being a lineal descendant of some of 
 the most prominent names which are iiientilied 
 witii the history of Fort Orange, as Albany was 
 formerly called. He remained in his native 
 county until he was 16, when his father re- 
 moved his interests to Wisconsin, locating on a 
 
 farm in the town of Vernon, Waukesha county, 
 where he became identified with the clearing 
 and settling of three farms. His father had 
 become blind and the domestic responsibility 
 resting on him, he found it impossible to fulfill 
 his desire to enter the army until the war was 
 somewhat advanced. Aug. 15, 1862, he en- 
 listed and was assigned to Company B, 28th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and rendezvoused at Camp 
 Washburn, Milwaukee. After performing duty 
 for the State in suppression of the draft riots, 
 he accompanied the regiment from Wisconsin, 
 December 20th, going successively to Colum- 
 bus, Union City, Helena, to the expedition up 
 the White River, the Yazoo Pass expedition 
 and the operations in the vicinity of Mobile in 
 Alabama and to Texas. On Christmas morn- 
 ing, 1862, orders were issued to form line of 
 battle in anticij)ation of a fight with Bragg ami 
 every man was set to work building a breast- 
 work. The tools available consisted of tin cups 
 and a few shovels and in an hour the work was 
 (lone, eliciting the compliments of Major ( Jray 
 in the words "Boys, that beats the 4tli Wiscon- 
 sin all liollow." In the expedition down the 
 Mississippi, the work of skirmishing was lively 
 and they captured a piece of artillery. They 
 held St. Charles on the White River during 
 the taking of Arkansas Post and destroyed a 
 portion of the railroad, making the exj)e<lition 
 a complete success. After returning to Helena 
 they participated in the memorable fight there 
 and afterwards went on the Yazoo expedition 
 on which their sufferings and privations were 
 severe. They returned to Helena, remaining 
 until August, 1863, when they went to Little 
 Rock and thence to Pine Bluff, where they re- 
 mained employed in building fortifications and 
 repulsing the rebels. Much heavy marching 
 was accomi)lished, and in the first months of 
 1865 they moved to Little Rock. Orders were 
 received to proceed to New Orleans and, pro- 
 
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 675 
 
 ceeding thence to Mobile Bay, tliey were as- 
 signed to tlie 3d Brigade, 3d Division and lotli 
 Army Corps. Tiiey were at Fort Morgan in 
 Mobile Bay until March 17, 1S65, when they 
 went to aid in the investment of Spanish Fort. 
 They arrived there and took position March 
 27th and were under constant fire 13 days. 
 Wlien the fort capitulated they went on the 
 double quick to find tluit FortBlakely had been 
 United States property only a brief time. 
 They went next to Mobile, Ala., and after the 
 rebels had surrendered the gunboats and otiier 
 property incident to carrying on warfare, they 
 went on the captured boats to Mobile, went 
 next to Brazos de Santiago and afterwards to 
 Brownsville, Texas, where they remained from 
 .July until August 23d, when they were mus- 
 tered out. 
 
 Mr. \'^anderpool returned to Wisconsin, where 
 he has since operated as a farmer with success. 
 He has taken a prominent part in Ihe adminis- 
 tration of local affairs, has served his town- 
 ship as Supervisor and has been Deputy Sheriff 
 of the county. He was married Nov. 25, ]So5, 
 to Catherine Van Buren and they have had 
 several children of whom one is deceased. 
 Byron V., Leslie W., Linden K., Lillie May and 
 George G. are living. Lauren died at the age 
 of 10 years. Mrs. Vanderpool belongs to a 
 branch of the family from which President 
 Yan Buren sprang and her father fought in 
 1812. Her relatives, William Shaw and John 
 Howe, were soldiers in the late war. 
 
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 T^pRANK D. BURDETT, La Crosse, Wis., 
 T^^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 ■J^ born Feb. 20, 1846, in Windham Co., 
 
 N'ermont, and his parents, Francis A. and Jean- 
 nette (Mack) Burdett, represented two families 
 of early Eastern stock. In the maternal line 
 
 they date to the families of Gibson and Kellogg 
 of England. Both father and mother were 
 natives of Windham county, where the son was 
 born, and the father was a hotel keeper and 
 drover. In 1854 the family became incorpor- 
 
 j ated with the West, locating at Lodi, VViscon-. 
 
 ' sin, and the parents resided there four years, 
 on a farm. The senior Burdett went thence 
 to Lake C'ity, Minn., where he engaged in the 
 grain trade and died there March 16, 1886. 
 His widow is still living at Lake Cit}', Minn. 
 Three children were born to them of whom Mr. 
 
 I Burdett is the oldest. Sarah A. was born Feb. 
 2, 1852, and Flora E. is the wife of J. Ford of 
 Detroit. The son passed hisj^outh in the com- 
 
 : mon schools and, as soon as the war broke 
 out tried to enlist but was tlirown out every 
 time on account of his youth. Finally, he went 
 to St. Paul, Minnesota, on his own account with 
 a regiment and took a hand in the suppression 
 oi the Indian outbreaks, fighting redskins at 
 Birch Cooley in September, 1862. He found 
 his time fully occupied in skirmishing and 
 scouting and, finally was permitted to enlist, 
 being mustered into service in December, 1863, 
 at Fort Snelling in Company A, 6th Minnesota 
 Infantry. In the spring of 1864 the regiment 
 was ordered to Helena, Ark., and after a month 
 there went to Napoleon, remaining there 
 through the summer. During that period Mr. 
 Burdett was taken sick and sent back to Jeffer- 
 son Barracks, at St. Louis, where he remained 
 until he received a furlough, his father going 
 after him. His leave of absence was renewed 
 and he finally received discharge at Fort Snell- 
 ing in January, 1865, for disability. 
 
 In December, 1864, he went to Lake City and 
 engaged in the grain business with his father 
 until 1874. In that year he removed to La 
 Crosse which has since been his j)lace of abode. 
 He is in the employ of John Paul, a lumber 
 manufacturer, as filer and scaler. 
 
676 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 He was married at Wabasba, Minn., Aug. 4, 
 1864, to Mary, daughter of William Conway, 
 of Lake City. Two children — Laura and Lelia — 
 were born of thi.s marriage. His wife died in 
 December, 1882. He was again married at 
 Meridian July 4, 1885, to Hattie F., daughter 
 of Stephen and Elizabeth Fitch, and they have 
 had one child named Frank S. 
 
 He is a Repuljlican in politics, made such by 
 the issue growing out of the opposition to the 
 Bennett law. 
 
 -^^^if^IIOMAS CLARK, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 meniher of E. P>. Wolcott Post No. 1, 
 G. A. R., was born at La Prairie, 
 Canada, Nov. 15 1833. His fatlierand mother, 
 James and Ellen (Plunkett) Clark, were born 
 in Ireland and came to America about 1830. 
 The father was killed by a premature exj)losion 
 of a blast in a stone quarry and the mother 
 died in Milwaukee, Dec. 5, 1879. Tlieir family 
 included five children ; Patrick enlisted in the 
 Mexican War and died on the Gulf of Mexico 
 of yellow fever on his way home ; John was in 
 the 2d Wi?consin Battery in the rebellion, and 
 re-enlisted in the regular ai'oiv after the close 
 of the war, in 1806; Mary died at sea ; Ann re- 
 sides in California. 
 
 The parents removed from Canada to Rome, 
 New York, and after becoming a wiilow the 
 mother went to Milwaukee when her son was 
 about six years old. Tbat city was his place 
 of educational training and business until he 
 entered the regular service of the United States. 
 He enlisted April 21, 1858, at Milwaukee, went 
 to Jefferson Harracks near St. Louis, and, after 
 drilling there a month went to Leavenwortii in 
 May and started for Camp Floyd, Utah, May 
 25th,. arriving October loth. Mr. Chirk was 
 assigned to Company H, 5th U. S. Infantry 
 and remained tliere until May, 1860, engaged 
 
 in the labor common to garrison duty in time 
 of peace. In that month orders were received 
 to proceed to Albuquerque, N. M., and Com- 
 pany II started with 60 pack mules, got lost in 
 the mountains in transit over an unknown 
 route, but finally reached their destination, 
 after a severe experience, in July. A montli 
 later. Company H, with three other companies 
 of the regiments went to Bear Springs, N. M., 
 afterwards Fort Faunlleroj' and built a stock- 
 ade post of protection against the Indians. 
 Three months later Company H went to Fort 
 Defiance and stayed therefrom December, 1860, 
 to the following spring, under command of Cap- 
 tain Whiteall, in the connnand of General 
 Canby and at times engaged in expeditions 
 against the Navajoe Indians. The next re- 
 move was to Albuquerque and to Santa Fe 
 where Mr. C'lark was attached to Company E, 
 Company H having been, for a time disbanded, 
 and he was sent to Los Pinos to join that or- 
 ganization. He went thence to Fort Wingate, 
 where he acted as Sergeant Major of that post 
 until ordered to Fort Union, N. M., to instruct 
 Mexican militia. March 28, 1862, he was in 
 the fight at Apache Canon or Pigeon's Ranch 
 against the Texans under the renegade Gen- 
 eral Sibley, in which 100 prisoners were taken 
 and the wagon trains of the rebels destro3'ed. 
 The enemy penetrateil down the Rio Grande 
 River and were pursued a ilay's march l)elow 
 Fort Craig, (which was for some time head- 
 quarters) wliere tbey took to the mountains, 
 the regulars in hot pursuit. Mr. Clark went 
 next to Los Pinos and was discharged to re-en- 
 list March 1, 1863, in the same company and 
 regiment. He was made Duty Sergeant and 
 went tiience to Sant^i Fe to relieve tlie provost 
 sergeant at headquarters of his regiment, after 
 fighting at Peralto, N. M., April 15th. The 
 regiment went from there to Fort Bliss, Texas, 
 and he was placed on duty as Provost Sergeant 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 at Franklin, Texas. He aided in rebuilding 
 Fort Bliss which had been destroyed by the 
 rebels and, in 1865, after being transferred to 
 Coiujiany K, went up the river Kio Grande to 
 Albuquerque, N. M. He was promoted to 1st 
 Sergeant and served there until August, 1867. 
 Thence he went to Fort Union, whence his reg- 
 iment was ordered to concentrate and marcli to 
 Kansas. His company was detailed at Fort 
 Union to escort General Marcy, Inspector Gen- 
 eral, to Fort Harker and engaged in a fight 
 with Indians at Ginieron Crossing of the Ar- 
 kansas River in wliich one private was killed 
 and the 1st Lieutenant lost a leg. He went 
 next to Fort Dodge and Kansas to escort the 
 commissioners sent by the Government to 
 Medicine Lodge to negotiate peace with the 
 redskins, of whom there were 1,100 in sight. 
 About 300 wagon loads of goods and 400 head 
 of cattle were taken out for tlie Indians and a 
 week later the escort returned to Fort Harker. 
 Mr. Clark was made Quartermaster's Sergeant 
 of his regiment, Nov. 11, 1867, went to Fort 
 Hayes, Kansas, and was promoted to Sergeant 
 Major, Dec. 11, 1868. In 1869 he returned to 
 Fort Harker and in 1871, headquarters of the 
 regiment were transferred to Fort Leavenworth, 
 then Department Headquarters under General 
 Pope with Colonel Miles in command of the 
 regiment. In 1872 Mr. Clark was appointed 
 Ordnance Sergeant, his papers dating in May. 
 He went thence to Fort Duncan, Texas, where 
 he remained until April 9, 1877, when he was 
 discharged on his own request under Special 
 Order No. 65, Headquarters of the Army, 
 Washington, D. C, dated March 28, 1877. He 
 is in possession of the testimonials of his cap- 
 tain, D. H. Brothertown, and of General Miles, 
 for character, trustworthiness and competency 
 and they are papers which will be treasured by 
 his descendants. General Miles wished to rec- 
 ODQiaend him for a commission as Lieutenant 
 
 but Mr. Clark demurred at further recognition 
 of his services and merits. 
 
 He returned after discharge to Milwaukee, 
 obtained a position on the police force and 
 served three years, resigning on account of an 
 injury to his ankle which disabled him nine 
 months. When able, he engaged in his pres- 
 ent occupation (1890) as night watchman at 
 the Plankinton House. He was married Jan. 
 9, 1870, at Fort Harker, Kansas. 
 
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 Bridge, Rensselaer Co., New York. He is de- 
 scended from the old Holland Knickerbocker 
 stock whicli .settled so large a portion of the 
 Empire State and dates to that period. The 
 great grandfather married Catherine Knicker- 
 bocker and his son Dedrick married Maria 
 Knickerbocker. The latter fought in the Revo- 
 lution and was killed and scalped by the In- 
 dians at Scliaghticoke, New York. The bullet 
 passed through his tobacco box which is in the 
 possession of his grandson who relates the 
 story. The family were connected with Aneke 
 Jans, who was the original owner of the estates 
 in the center of New York, including the 
 Trinity Church property. Oliver Thayer, the 
 maternal great grandfather of Mr. Van Vechten, 
 was one of the Boston tea jtarty. His son, 
 Oliver Thayer, Jr., fought in 1812. He was 
 born Aug. 26, 1784, and died Feb. 15, 1876, and 
 he was a schoolmate of Governor Marcy. Cor- 
 nelius and Caroline (Thayer) Van Vechten 
 were the parents of two sons and four daughters 
 — Henry, Helen F., Martha A., Eveline, Julia 
 and Don. The last named is not living. Mr. 
 Van Vechten of this sketch passed his early 
 life on the farm and he attended the public 
 schools up to the time he became a soldier. 
 
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 July 28, 1862, he enlisted at Troy, New York, I 
 ill Troop M, 1st Regiment New York Mounted 
 Rifles, under Colonel C. C. Dodge. The com- 
 mand went from New York to take part in the 
 operations on the Eastern field and our soldier 
 was first in action at the siege of Suffolk, where 
 he fought against Longstreet. After a service 
 there of three weeks the regiment entered upon 
 a series of raids and scouting expeditions to 
 which little justice can be done in a limited 
 sketch. In July, 1863, it was connected witli 
 the Tarboro raid into North Carolina where it 
 performed efltective service in the work of de- 
 struction on the Weldon railroad and in other 
 localities. After the termination of that move- 
 ment tbe command took position in front of 
 Petersburg and was in the noted actions in- 
 cluding operations from June ISth to tbe 22d 
 (1864). July 21.><t tbe regiment was consoli- 
 dated with the 3d New York Cavalry, called 
 afterwards the 4th Provisional Cavalry, com- 
 manded by Colonel E. B. Sunnier. In Septem- 
 ber the command crossed the James and on 
 the 28th took a position in front of Richmond 
 where they could look into ibe city. They 
 were engaged in severe skirniisiiing in connec- 
 tion with otlier regiments and performed picket 
 duty near Richmond until October 7th when 
 they were in the fight at Johnston's Farm on 
 the north side of the James. There they dis- 
 mounted to make a feint as infantry when they 
 lost a portion of their horses. They were in 
 the fight at Charles City Cross Roads and from 
 December were at Norfolk and Suffolk, where 
 they performed duty until the approach of the 
 termination of the war, when they participated 
 in several actions and were mustered out June 
 12, 1865, at Richmond, Va. 
 
 Mr. Van Vechten went West within tliat 
 year, locating at Racine, where he engaged as 
 traveling .salesman with the Blake & Bcebe 
 Fanning Mill Company four years and has since 
 
 been in the same capacity with the Racine 
 Hardware Company. He was married Nov. 5, 
 1857, to Sarah J., daughter of James and Mar- 
 garet Calary, who died May 18th, 1880. Four 
 children were born to them named Charles H., 
 Frank D., George and Florence. Charles is 
 not living. Mr. Van Vechten was again mar- 
 ried Feb. 26, 1887, to Louisa Stoker. 
 
 ^ EROME E. PARKER, La Crosse, Wis., 
 Sl • member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 ^— ^ born in Troy, New York, September 22, 
 1841. His father, Edward S. Parker, was born 
 Feb. 16, 1819, and passed the greater portion of 
 his life in agriculture. He traced his descent 
 to Puritan stock and married Sarah Maria Mil- 
 ler, a native of America, born of Scotch ancestry, 
 in May, 1824, at Mechanicsville, New York. 
 The senior Parker traveled to the West with his 
 family on the lakes in 1846 and remained in 
 Milwaukee until 1848, when he took posses- 
 sion of a farm in Dane, Dane county, which he 
 conducted a few years and removed to Clifton. 
 In 1860 he resumed farming on bis jilace and in 
 1866 traded it for a hotel at Black Earth, which 
 he managed until about 1870. Subsequently he 
 bought a home in Florida to which he removed 
 witii his wife and died March 8, 1888 at Plant 
 City. His wife still lives at Orlando, Florida. 
 When the son was 15 years old he engaged 
 with a surveying party in Wisconsin ami after 
 passing two years in that occujiation, he 
 resumed his educational course, in which he 
 was occupied when he resolved to enlist, which 
 he did Sept. 18, 1861, at Prairie du Sac, Wis., 
 in the 6tli Wisconsin Light Artillery, Captain 
 Henry Dillon. March 15, 1862, he left Camp 
 Utley, Racine, for the front and received orders 
 at St. Louis for New Madrid, Mo., and arrived 
 there March 21st. They worked on the de- 
 
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 fenses and drilled as heavy artillery until 
 ordered to Corinth to erect fortifications and 
 hold tlie position. The battery was vinder 
 fire in the siege of Corinth and in tlie 
 battle there. Mr. Parker was in the figliting 
 of October 3d and 4th in the extreme rigiit 
 and the battery being supported by the 80th 
 Oiiio. A brigade of Price attacked, drove 
 the regiment back and took the guns of 
 the battery, the command losing six killed and 
 21 wounded. The 10th Iowa charged and 
 retook the guns, driving Price, and the rebel 
 was pursued a short distance, after which the 
 command returned to Corinth. The disaster at 
 Holly Springs ended the plans of the campaign 
 and the battery went to Buntyn Station and 
 performed military duty until March, 1863, 
 when it was ordered to Memphis and Holly 
 Springs and destroyed railroads and other 
 property in Grant's first movement on Vicks- 
 burg. Returning to Vicksburg, the battery 
 went next on the Yazoo expedition, going soon 
 after to Milliken's Bend and thence to Bruins- 
 burg. After the fight at Port Gibson, the 
 battery pursued the rebels to .Jones' Cross 
 Roads and fought there, and also at .Jack- 
 sou and Champion's Hill, after which tlie 
 command went into the trenches at Vicks- 
 burg and was constantly under fire until the 
 capitulation, attached to the 17th Army Corps. 
 The brigade was transferred to the 15th Corps 
 (Sherman's), afterwards engaged in a march of 
 240 miles to the Chattanooga and the battery 
 was next in the fight at Mission Ridge and in 
 the pursuit towards Ringgold. They returned 
 to Chattanooga and went thence to Bridge- 
 port and Larkinsville and eventually to 
 Huntsville, marching thither on Christmas 
 day and appropriating some dres.sed veal 
 which was protected by a flag marked " small 
 pox." Mr. Parker re-enlisted Feb. 17, 1864, 
 took his furlough in March and rejoined the 
 
 battery at Huntsville. The command went in 
 the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 15th Corps 
 under J. E. Smith to the Etowah River and 
 guarded bridges until November, when they 
 went to Cartersville, having received new 
 equipments and moved thence to Nashville 
 where they were stationed at Fort Gillem until 
 the flight of Hood. Here Mr. Parker was 
 taken sick and went to the hospital, when his 
 father was sent for to take him home. As 
 soon as he recovered he rejoined his command 
 at Chattanooga about tlie middle of May and 
 lemained there until the close of the war. Mr. 
 Parker was mustered out July 18, 1865, at 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 He resumed his studied at Madison which he 
 continued for two years, his health being too 
 poor for any effort in the way of labor. Both 
 asthma and chronic bowel complaint recurred 
 at intervals for a long time. In 1870 he went 
 to La Crosse, where he engaged in clerking in 
 the pension office until it was transferred to 
 Milwaukee. In 1872 he was appointed Deputy 
 Collector of Internal Revenue until he fell into 
 " innocuous desuetude " through Grover Cleve- 
 land having the same disease in an aggravated 
 form, and the Government as represented by 
 that individual dispensed with the services of 
 Mr. Parker in October, 1885. He passed the 
 following winter in Florida and in the spring 
 engaged in the jewelry business at La Cro.sse, 
 prosecuting his interests in that direction two 
 years. In the spring of 1889 he was elected 
 Commissioner of the Board of Public Works on 
 the Republican ticket. He was married Dec. 
 26, 1866, in 'Dane county to L. Alice, daughter 
 of Thomas B. and Elsie VV. (Mack) Worth ing- 
 ton. Their children are named Edward W. 
 and Addie F. Mr. Parker is a member of the 
 Masonic Order. He has a pension. 
 
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 in 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis., a 
 A. R. Post No. 1 , E. 
 was born Sept. 7, 1840, 
 Bavariii, Germany. He remained in liis 
 native land until the age of 12 years, when his 
 parents, Joim Engelhart and Catherine (Diel- 
 mann) Fink, transferred their familj'^ and in- 
 terests to America, reaching this country in 
 1852 and locating on a farm in Oak Creek, 
 Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, and since that date 
 Mr. Fink has been connected with the history 
 of that locality. The father died Jan. 8, 1880, 
 on the homestead ; the death of the motlier 
 took place Feb. 9, 1864, while her son was a 
 soldier. The household included seven chil- 
 dren of whom Mr. Fink is second in order of 
 birth. His brothers and sisters were named 
 Mary, Engelhart, Jacob, Simon, Helena and 
 Louise. Engelhart and Helena are not living. 
 The former was a soldier in the 5th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, was killed in the battle of the Wilder- 
 ness and buried on the field. 
 
 After coming to America, young Fink was 
 occupied on the farm until the age of 20, when he 
 obtained a position as clerk in a store in Milwau- 
 kee. Aug. 17, 1862, when the war exitement was 
 at its crisis in Milwaukee he enlisted, enrolling 
 in Company B, 26th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 With the regiment, he left the State for active 
 scenes of war Oct. 5th following his enlistment, 
 a member of one of the finest commands sent 
 out by the Badger State. The regiment 
 camped at Fairfax C. H., and was assigned to 
 the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 11th Corps. 
 Ml". Fink was in the expedition to Thorough- 
 fare Gap, New Baltimore and Warrenton, starts 
 ing for . the field of Falmouth opposite 
 Fredericksburg, preparatory to assisting Burn- 
 side, and found that general just withdrawing 
 his forces. He was in camp at Stafford C. II., 
 through the winter until he had the delight 
 and satisfaction of " sticking in the mud " in 
 
 Burnside's second campaign, with the rest, 
 after wliicl; he performed mijitary duty in 
 «vmp until the movement in the spring. On 
 the 27th of April, with his command, he moved 
 to the Rappahannock to partici])ate in one of 
 the most terrific battles of the war, in which 
 the North was practically whipped, oidy the 
 South did not know it. The story of the cross- 
 ings of the Rappahannock will never be fully 
 told. One captain told the writer that, if liis 
 men had crossed under the order issued, two- 
 thirds would have been drowned. But the 
 troops pressed on over the river, crossed the 
 Rapidan and marched to Chancellorsville. 
 [ The 26th Wisconsin took its position for one of 
 I the hottest fights of the campaign on the ex- 
 treme right. On the 2d day of May, 1863, in 
 the onslaught of the rebels on the position of 
 the 26th, Mr. Fink was wounded, a musket ball 
 ' hitting him in the right arm, wholly disabling 
 it. He was conveyed to the hospital at Fal- 
 mouth, his wound was dressed and, latei-, he 
 was transferred to Washington to Judiciary 
 Square hospital. June 26tii, he was sent to 
 Fort Schuyler, New York, and in November, to 
 David's Island. .Ian. 7, 1864, he obtained a 
 tjansfer to Harvey hospital at Madison, Wis., 
 and about the middle of March, 1864, was 
 mustered into the Invalid Corps, stationed at 
 Madison, in wiiich service he remained until 
 discharged Mav 10th following. 
 
 He returned to Milwaukee and engaged in 
 the business of a commercial traveler for three 
 years. In 1867 he opened business on liis own 
 account as a dealer in wool, hides and furs. He 
 pressed his interests in these avenues until 
 1878, when he spld and began to o]ierate in 
 lands. Ho is also interested in the manufacture 
 of machinery, being a member of the ^^'ilkin 
 Manufacturing Companj'. 
 
 Mr. Fink has been active in the duties of his 
 citizenship and served as a member of the 
 
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 County Board of Supervisors in 1870-1-2-3 
 and lias been two terms a member of tbe Wis- 
 consin Legislature, serving in 1876-7. In tbe 
 last named year he was made United States 
 Marshal, holding the position through the ad- 
 ministrations of Hayes, Garfield and Arthur 
 and until May 10, 1885. June 13, 1889, he 
 was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue 
 for the 1st District of Wisconsin, which position 
 he still occupies. He is a decided Republican 
 in political faith. 
 
 Mr. Fink was married May 13, 1866, to 
 Catherine Streiff at Milwaukee and their chil- 
 dren are named Albert, Edward and Emma. 
 The mother died Jan. 6, 1883, and Mr. Fink 
 was again married, Sept. 12, 1883, to Rosa 
 Blankenborn at Milwaukee. 
 
 
 |jryiJ^ILLIAM H. VAN WIE, Mauston, 
 
 ' Wm ^^^■' "^«""'^«^i" of Gt. A; R. Post 
 S^^ No. 59, was born July 24, 1837, 
 in Cayuga Co., New York. In the paternal 
 line of descent he is of Holland Dutch origin, 
 liis grandparents Van Wie having been natives 
 of that country and in the maternal line he is 
 of direct Holland ancestry, his mother having 
 been born in Holland. His father, Andrew 
 Van Wie, married Eliza Cushman, who with 
 her brother came to America alone, being or- 
 phans. She died in 1858. The father is still 
 living at Kilbourn City, and was born in 1816. 
 Of the 10 children, of whom Mr. Van Wie is 
 one, two are deceased. Edward, William, 
 Daniel, David C, John A., Devillow, Adelj)hia, 
 Mary E., Helen and Isadore, are their names in 
 order of birth. Daniel and Devillow are de- 
 ceased. Mr. Van Wie can give a fraternal 
 record of which Wisconsin ought to be proud, 
 himself and three brothers being soldiers in 
 the civil war. David enlisted in the 16th Wis- 
 
 consin, Jan. 21, 1862, served until after tbe 
 battle of Shiloh and wiis discharged in July for 
 disability ; he afterwards enlisted in Company 
 K, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, and completed his 
 term. John was a soldier in the 8tli Kansas 
 Infantr}', Devillow was the youngest son and 
 enlisted in the 19th Wisconsin Infantry, Com- 
 pany E, and was taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, 
 Oct. 27, 1864. He enrolled March 8, 1862, had 
 veteranized and, while leading his company, 
 the officers being disabled, the color sergeant 
 was shot, but he seized the |lag and followed 
 his command up to the fort. He was captured, 
 taken to Libljy prison and held until he was 
 starved nearly to death. Tardy release came 
 and unconscious and dying he was taken to his 
 home at White Creek, where he died of rebel 
 atrocities five days after arrival, April 4, 1865, 
 never recovering consciousness fully. (And 
 strangers stop to drop a tear over the extinguish- 
 ment of a noble life). James Van Wie, his 
 cousin, enlisted the same day and was shot to 
 death at Fair Oaks. The fourth brother of 
 Mr. Van Wie could not enlist, being blind. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Van Wie removed from 
 the State of New York to Marshal, Micbigan, 
 in 1845 and in 1852 located in Wisconsin. The 
 portion of Mauston where they fixed a resi- 
 dence is now in Adams county. They were 
 farmers and the sons were trained in that call- 
 ing, Mr. Van Wie obtaining such education as 
 tlie common schools afforded. He also engaged 
 in the lumber business in which he was occu- 
 pied several years prior to entering the array. 
 He was early to enlist when Wisconsin sum- 
 moned her sons and enrolled under the second 
 call, June 23, 1861, in Company K, 6th Wis- 
 consin Infantry. He was mustered at Madison 
 and went to the front soon after that ceremony, 
 which occurred July 16tli. The regiment 
 passed the winter of 1861-2 in the defenses of 
 Washington and performed drill and camp 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 duty at Arlington Heights. In the spring of 
 1862, orders were received to move to the 
 Manassas campaign (wliich came to naught) 
 and after the march, the reginaent went back 
 to quarters. Mr. \'an Wie was next in the 
 Rappaiiannock campaign near Fredericksburg 
 under McDowell, Colonel Cutler of the 6th Wis- 
 consin having become brigade commander. 
 He experienced the deliglits of Pope's retreat 
 from the Rapidan and was first in action at 
 Cedar Mountain. He again fought in a slight 
 action at White Sulpliur Springs and went to 
 another Rappahannock cani))aign. He fought 
 at bloody Gainesville, the 2d Bull Run, and 
 was with his regiment in the movements after 
 Lee in Maryland. He was in the two sharp 
 actions at South Mountain and Antietam after 
 having skirmished continuallj' previously, was 
 again in the charge at Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
 at Chancel lorsville, Brandy Station and Gettys- 
 burg. He was shot at Gettysburg and Sergeant 
 Van Wie was mentioned in the dispatches as 
 wounded. He was in field hospital four days, 
 badly wounded in the right knee, but he was 
 "on deck" within a week and with his regi- 
 ment. " Not one in a hundred would have kept 
 up" was the universal verdict, but he did it. 
 He was in the action known as the Haymarket 
 fight and at Mine Run ; in December he vet- 
 eranized at Culpeper, Va., and in the spring 
 went wilii his regiment to the campaign of the 
 Wilderness, fighting at Spottsylvania, Laurel 
 Hill, .Jericho Ford, North Anna, Bethesda 
 Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, first and sec- 
 ond Weldon railroad raids. Hatcher's Run, 
 first and second Gravelly Run and Five Forks. 
 He was in the pursuit after the rebels and went 
 to the finish at Api)omattox C. H. June 16th, 
 he was among those transferred to the Army of 
 the Tennessee under Logan at Louisville, 
 formed into a Provisional Brigade expecting to 
 go to Soutiiern service, but was mustered out 
 
 at JefiFersonville, Ind., July 14th. He received 
 final discharge from military obligations to 
 State and Nation July 28th. His record is 
 splendid ; he enlisted as a private and acted as 
 Duty Sergeant to the date of the fighting at 
 Petersburg, in June, when he received a commis- 
 sion as 1st Lieutenant of his company, dating 
 from Feb. 28, 1864. With the exception of 
 the wound mentioned, he was not injured, but 
 was sick at Fairfax Seminary hospital with 
 typhoid fever. 
 
 After the war he returned to Mauston and 
 engaged in the business of a liveryman for 
 some time. During 10 years he engaged in 
 mercantile operations which caused impaired 
 healtli and he afterwards interested himself in 
 lumbering, in which he is still occupied. He 
 is also operating as a real estate and loan agent. 
 Mr. Van Wie is a charter member of his 
 Post and also belongs to Northern Light Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M. He is a Democrat in jwlitics. 
 
 He was married Dec. 27, 1865, at Friend- 
 ship, Adams county, to Dell, daughter of 
 Alonzo and Mary A. (Church) Avery. Four of 
 their children are living. Mary is the wife of 
 Geo. H. Hale of St. Paul. Fred is a telegraph 
 operator at Spokane Falls, Wash.; Will and 
 Edd are students at school. Dell died when 
 10 years old ; " Baby Dell," as she was known 
 to all Mauston, was killed by an accident in the 
 machinery department at a fair at Mauston. 
 
 ENRY H. POWERS, Black River 
 Falls, Wis., member of (J. A. R. Post 
 No. 92, was born June 15, 1848, in 
 Sherl)rook, Canada. Simon, his father, and 
 Simon, his grandfather, were natives of New 
 Hampshire, and the mother, Elizabeth James 
 before marriage, was born in Wales. In the 
 paternal line the descent is from Ireland, 
 whither the ancestors came to America prior to 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 683 
 
 the Revolution and the great grandfather of 
 Mr. Powers was a Revolutionary soldier. The 
 latter is one of seven children of his parents, 
 named Henry H., Harriet, Charles, Herbert, 
 Catherine, Cornelia and Samuel, all still sur- 
 viving in 1S90, except Catherine. In 1853 the 
 family located in Walworth Co., Wis., and the 
 parents both died in La Crosse, respectively in 
 1886 and 1884. The oldest son, Henry, ob- j 
 tained his education in the common schools 
 and in the High School at Galesville, Wis. 
 When he was 16 years old he enlisted at La j 
 Crosse, Aug. 31, 1864, and was mustered into ! 
 Company K, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry and joined 
 his regiment as a recruit in front of Vicksburg. 
 The regiment was attached to Grierson's com- 
 mand and raided and scouted under him in 
 Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, also de- 
 stroying property, burning bridges, tearing up 
 railroads and in other cavalry service incident 
 to the situation. During this period the regi- 
 ment was in the fight at Egypt and aided in 
 capturing seven hundred prisoners. They 
 were also in the fight near Yazoo City under 
 J,he command of Osborn, and returned from 
 the raid, having been driven back by the 
 superior force of Forrest to the Yazoo River, 
 and from there to the mouth of the Sunflower 
 where they had the protection of the gunboats. 
 In the winter of 1864-5 the command left the 
 Mississippi River at Gaines' Landing and struck 
 oft' south through the State. They went to 
 Arkansas and destroyed supplies, with large 
 amounts of cotton, and broke up rebel recruit- 
 ing stations. They returned to Memphis and 
 operated in that section of country until the 
 close of the war. 
 
 Later the regiment went to Grenada, Miss., 
 and there Mr. Powers was detailed as clerk in 
 the Commissary Department; prior to this he 
 acted as Orderly to General Schenck. While 
 there he was discharged under an order calling 
 
 for the discbarge of those whose time had ex- 
 pired prior to a certain date, and he was 
 mustered out June 14, 1865, at Memphis. 
 
 He returned home while liis regiment went 
 to Texas, a proceeding that greatly disgusted 
 him. He attended school for a time and after- 
 wards engaged in teaciiing and also in explo- 
 ring. He continued teaching until about 1875, 
 and has since operated in exploring and in the 
 lumber business. He belongs to the Knights 
 of Pythias and in politics is a Republican of 
 decided stamp, always " voting as he shot." 
 He is in comfortable circumstances and has a 
 pleasant family ; his wife was Miss Rlioda A., 
 daughter of .James L. and Susanna (Beavers) 
 Hutchins, and their children were Herbert, 
 Lottie, Price and Laura ; the two oldest are not 
 
 BR AH AM GUNN, La Crosse, Wi.s., 
 
 ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 
 born Oct. 16, 1846, at Mineral Point, 
 
 Wis., and he is the son of and Sophia 
 
 (Blayler) Gunn. His father was born in Scot- 
 land and came with his parents to Hartford, 
 Conn., where he was reared ; he died in Cali- 
 fornia and his wife is still living in Galena, 111. 
 Their children were named Rebecca, Elizabeth, 
 Abraham and Samuel. The oldest daughter 
 married William Allendorf of Galena ; her sis- 
 ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, lives in Chicago. 
 When the son was in childhood the faiuily re- 
 moved to Galena where he learned the trade of 
 a carpenter, in which he was occupied until 
 1861, when he made an effort to enlist in the 
 45th Illinois Infantry, known as the "lead 
 mine" regiment. He was only 14 years old 
 and could not enlist regularly, but engaged as 
 a waiter and went out in charge of Captain H. 
 L. Fisk of Company E. Frona camp of rendez- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 vous at Chicago — Camp Douglas — he accom- 
 panied the command to the seat of war on the 
 Tennessee River and he was a participant in 
 the operations at Fort Henry and Donelson, 
 after which he was taken sick and sent to the 
 hospital at Cairo, being discharged in abont a 
 month. He tlien engaged in the government 
 service, doing blacksmith work on the black- 
 smith boat Swallow, which was detailed to 
 operate in that line of business on tlie gun- 
 boats and transports on the river between Fort 
 Pillow and Memphis. He participated in that 
 business returning later to Galena. He then 
 entered Government service as a teamster and 
 went to Rolla, Mo., in the spring of 1863. He 
 had become old enough for a soldier and en- 
 listed at Rolla, April 1, 1803, and was mustered 
 at St. Louis into Company E, 11th Missouri 
 Cavalry. He was in cavalry service against 
 the bushwhackers in Missouri with Sedalia as 
 headquarters, crossing the State and going 
 finally to Fort Scott, Kansas. He was in 
 the pursuit of Quanlrell ami his guerrillas 
 and went back to Missouri to follow up Price. 
 He was in winter quarters at Springfield 
 Mo., and in the spring, attached to tiie 3d 
 Brigade, 2d Division and 7th Army Corps, 
 under General Steele, went southward, skir- 
 mishing and fighting, to Brownsville and 
 thence to Little Rock. He was attached to an 
 expedition to Duvall's Bluff and was wounded 
 in the fight at Ashley Station, Aug. 24, 1864. 
 He was injured in the thigh and taken to a 
 liospital, but refused to remain there as there 
 was small-pox in the hospital, and he crawled 
 on his hands and knees to his tent. He was 
 sick eight months, but recovered in time to 
 start on the Red River expedition with his 
 regiment, which did not connect therewith and 
 he remained at New Orleans until mustered 
 out, Aug. 9, 1865, going to St. Louis to be paid 
 and to receive final discharge. He had been 
 
 made Corporal, Sept. 4, 1864, and promoted to 
 Sergeant, June 23, 1865. 
 
 He returned to Galena and obtained a situa- 
 tion on the Illinois Central Railroad which he 
 filled until 1871, when he went to Texas and 
 engaged in butchering and supplying tlie rail- 
 road contractors with meat. In 1872 he re- 
 turned to Galena and removed, ten months 
 later, to La Crosse, where up to 1890 he en- 
 gaged in teaming. Upon the completion of 
 the new Government building he was apj)ointed 
 janitor. He was married, Oct. 28, 1875, at La 
 Crosse, to Ann, daughter of Joseph D. and 
 Catherine (Fletcher) Orton. Her parents were 
 born in Yorkshire, England, and emigrated to 
 Bloomington, 111., removing thence to La Crosse 
 in 1856, where the father is still living ; the 
 mother died Oct. 19, 1889. They had six chil- 
 dren named Mary, Thomas, Ann, John, Joseph 
 D., and another child, who was named Joseph I)., 
 both tlie latter being deceased. The children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Gunn are named Alvin J., 
 Catherine May and Carrie E. The first born, 
 Alvin, died in childhood. Mr. Gunn is a 
 member of Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 153, and 
 of the Order of Modern Workmen. He is 
 also a member of the Republican party and 
 draws a pension. 
 
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 OlIN MARTIN GALLOW.W, Milwau- 
 (^11 kee. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 E. B. Wolcott, No. 1, was born .hily 24, 
 1847, at Sackett's Harbor, New York, the exact 
 location being on the site of the famous battle- 
 field. His father and mother, Hiram and 
 Sarah Ann (Gowing) Gallowa}', were born in 
 the same county as their son, the birtii of the 
 former occurring March 10, 1804, and that of 
 the latter, June 8, 1824. They are still living 
 at Great Bend, Jefferson Co., New York, in the 
 
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 same county where they have passed their 
 lives. Their children were all soldiers and 
 named in the order of hirth Francis M., 
 Chauncey M. and .John. The second was in 
 the 1st New York Artillery and afterwards in 
 the 16th. 
 
 Mr. Galloway of this sketch was reared on 
 the home farm to the date of entering the j 
 army, -July 29, 1862, when he enlisted in Com- 
 pany D, 10th New York Heavy Artillery. It is 
 prohable that no other body of men, organized 
 for active warfare, arrived at such a status under 
 the circumstances of misunderstanding, red 
 tape and final dislocation of all plans under 
 which they enrolled, for service in the war of 
 the rebellion. The supposition under which 
 they hastened to fill tiie ranks was that they 
 should be equipped and organized as light 
 artillery, but red tape intervened and from 16 
 companies, formed of as finely developed 
 physical samples of humanity as ever combined 
 in a command, except the guard of Freder- 
 ick the Great, the organization known to his- 
 tory and fame as the 10th New York Heavy 
 Artillery were mustered for immediate ser- 
 vice. September 18, 186.3, all vexed questions 
 having been settled, the command left the 
 State and had a triumphal trip to Washington, 
 where the complications were renewed and a 
 compromise effected by stationing the command 
 which was neither heavy nor light artillery 
 noi- infantry, owing to the above stated reasons, 
 in the forts of the Capital. Complications were 
 not terminated by this arrangement and the 
 command was not mustered for duty until 
 Jan. 6, 1864. Of the amount of work accom- 
 plished by this command during the months 
 of adjustment of their affairs, and which the 
 rank and file held aloof from with most com- 
 mendable success, there is no need to speak. 
 The organization was composed of men, who, 
 while thiey awaited the settling of the waters, 
 
 gave their attention to the business of making 
 good soldiers of themselves. March 4, 1864, 
 the regiment started from the forts for active 
 service, joining the army of the Potomac, pre- 
 paratory to taking part in the campaign of that 
 summer under Grant. June 12tli a forced 
 march was made to Whiteliouse Landing, 
 where the force embarked for City Point, moving 
 thence towards Petersburg and they were first 
 in battle on the 15th. This was the beginning 
 of the siege of Petersburg and the regiment 
 was constantly engaged in constructing trenches 
 through the nights, which were torn down 
 every day by the rebel batteries. They were 
 ordered thence to Point of Rocks, returned to 
 Petersburg and entered the rifle pits. Their 
 position was one of danger and daily casualty 
 throughout the siege until ordered to the sup- 
 port of the 9th Corps after the firing of the 
 mine. Returning to the trenches, the troops 
 were on duty until August 13th when the 
 regiment was ordered to move to Washington, 
 General Early having invaded Maryland. 
 The command had been 65 days under fire 
 and 600 men out of 1,544 started for the defense 
 of the Capital, leaving nearly 1,000 comrades in 
 their graves or in the hospitals. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 tlie regiment was ordered to Harper's Ferry to 
 connect with the Army of the Shenandoah and 
 five days later was engaged in escort, forage and 
 other duty under Sheridan. October 4th they 
 went to Port Royal, guarding the supplies of 
 cattle and sheep until they joined the army at 
 Front Royal. The regiment was in action at 
 Cedar Creek and went thence to Winchester and 
 in December started for Bermuda Hundred, 
 leaving 30 men detailed for duty, Mr. Galloway 
 being one of the detail. He joined the com- 
 mand on the James River, the brigade holding 
 the works between the James and the Appomat- 
 tox Rivers, and exposed to the rebel artillery fire. 
 An action occurred Januarv 22d and another 
 
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 on the 23d, during which the rebel gunboats 
 run the batteries and were discovered by the 
 10th, who reported the fact only to be treated 
 with contempt ; after the battery had blown 
 up one of the gunl)oats, two Union monitors 
 were sent to guard the position. April 2d 
 the 10th New York opened the attack on 
 Petersburg, whose fall was the entering wedge 
 that split the rebellion. Mr. Galloway was in 
 all the service of his commiind which has been 
 outlined, and was mustered out at Petersburg, 
 June 2o, 1865, and returned home. 
 
 About the 1st of November, 1867, he went to 
 Milwaukee and liis first prominent performance 
 was his first Presidential vote for General Grant 
 in 1868. He was variously occupied until his 
 apj)ointment on the city police force, Sept. 3, 
 1884, and he is one of tlie most trusted and 
 efficient men in that service. He is an Odd 
 Fellow. His marriage to Sarah A., daughter 
 of William and Sophia Hempsing, occurred 
 May 10, 1873. She was Itorii in Montgomery 
 Co., Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 1846. Two sons 
 have been added to the family ; Charles A\'ash- 
 ington was born Feb. 22, 1877 ; Erving ^'an 
 was born Nov, 11, 187U. 
 
 ISAAC CHARNLEY, Racine.Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born Aug. 
 23, 1834, at Oldham, Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, and is the son of James and Rachel 
 (Mitchell) Charnley. His father was a stone- 
 mason by trade and emigrated to America 
 with his family in 1842. They came to New 
 York on a sailing ve.ssel and linished their 
 journey to Wisconsin on the Erie canal and on 
 the lakes. A farm was purchased in tiie town- 
 ship of Caledonia, on which the son remained 
 until it was sold and received the education 
 and training common to farmer's sous of that 
 
 period. When the farm was sold the parents 
 went to Milwaukee, where they resided with a 
 son named Francis until their respective 
 deaths; that of the mother occurring in 1868 
 and the father's demise taking place in Jmie, 
 1872. They had 11 children of whom three « 
 are living — Charles, William and Isaac. 
 
 After the sale of the farm, Mr. Charnley 
 fitted himself for the business of a carpenter 
 and builder at Racine, in which vocation he 
 operated until he entered the service of the 
 Government during the war. In the fall of 
 1863 he engaged as a bridge builder in Tennes- 
 see along the line of operations of the Union 
 troops there stationed. After his contract was 
 completed he returned to Racine and, in the 
 fall, enlisted in Company K, 1st Wisconsin 
 Heavy Artillery and went with his command 
 to the defenses of Washington, passing his 
 time in acfjuiring a knowledge of all varieties 
 of military duty and service excepting that of 
 cavalry, as the contingencies of the position at 
 the National Capital presented the possibility 
 of the troops garrisoning the several forts 
 being called at any moment to fight as heavy 
 or light artillery and also as infantry. Added 
 to these was the heavy labor on the forts, to 
 which service Mr. Charnley was often detailed, 
 as he was titled for it by his profession. The 
 period was one of the greatest interest and one 
 of the incidents burned into his recollection is 
 that of the assassination of the President. He 
 was on his way to Fort Lyon when the intelli- 
 gence reached his ears and he states that if the 
 South had belief of any possible outcome to 
 their frantic operations against the general 
 Governnjent, its representatives should have 
 been in Washington on the morning after the 
 dastardly murder of Lincoln. He believes that 
 every man in arms would willingly have 
 begun and fought the whole war over again. 
 It had been brought to an end by the Spirit of 
 
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 the North, which clearly saw to the end all the 
 cost to all sections if the South conquered ; and 
 that Spirit burned never so briglitly as when 
 the murdered Chief lay on his bloody bier in 
 the Capital of the Nation. Mr. Charnley was 
 mustered out June 26, 1865. 
 
 He returned to AVisconsin and engaged in 
 the business of a contractor and builder at 
 Racine and, at a later date, added the sale of 
 hardware and builders' materials and opened a 
 store on Main street where he has since con- 
 tinued to transact a prosperous and popular 
 business. In 1875 he associated his son George 
 with himself in business, the style of the firm 
 being Cliarnley & Son. 
 
 In 1858, Mr. Charnley was married at Racine, 
 to Mary, daughter of John and Mary McClen- 
 nan and their surviving children are named 
 Ida M., George and Forrest. Francis L. and 
 Harriet M. are deceased. Mr. Charnley is a 
 member of the Order of Odd Fellows, Sons of 
 Temperance, Royal Arcanum, Royal League, 
 Good Templars, Royal Adelphia, Royal Tem- 
 ple of Temperance and Temple of Honor. He 
 is earnestly interested in temperance work and 
 never loses an opportunity in a quiet way to 
 promote the progress of the cause. 
 
 1819, in Clarendon, New York. His ancestral 
 stock in America settled in New England, and 
 his grandfather, Samuel Lewis, resided in 
 Brimfield, Mass. Shubal, the father of .James, 
 was born in New England, Feb. 27, 1783, and 
 was a son of a sire who had nothing to give 
 him but good advice, a sound training of mind 
 and body, and the opportunity to carve a for- 
 tune for himself. All of this was made capital 
 
 and helped to mould a man out of the crude 
 material in the New England boj', with such 
 aspirations and ambitions as the times, his 
 circumstances, his heritage of integrity and 
 need of effort inspired. He grew up an honor 
 to his parentage and to a splendid and success- 
 ful manhood, acquiring large possessions in 
 two States. He was three times married; 
 Eleanor Robertson, of Scotch lineage, became 
 his wife Jan. 29, 1815, and died Oct. 8, 1834; 
 following is the record of the children born of 
 this union; William L., born Oct. 19, 1815, 
 married Eliza Martin; Shubal was born Nov. 3, 
 1817, and was a distinguished soldier of the 
 Mexican war, leading a force of men to the 
 ramparts of Cbepultepec and receiving the 
 tribute of a sword from his superior officers ; he 
 was married in August, 1839, to Mrs. Sarah 
 Ann (Nichols), widow of Harvey Brown, M. D., 
 and died in August, 1856. James T. is next in 
 order. Hiram W. was born Jan. 13, 1823, and 
 was married Sept. 2, 1847, to Melissa P. Tous- 
 ley. Mary Jane was born Sept. 6, 1825, and 
 married Oscar A. Harris. Andrew J. was born 
 May 23, 1828, and died Jan. 20, 1840. Lydia 
 A. was born Sept. 22, 1831, and died Oct. 12, 
 1834, four days later than her mother. 
 
 The elementary education of Governor Lewis 
 furnished a substantial basis for a course of 
 study at Clarkson Academy and Clinton Sem- 
 inary in his native State, and he had just 
 passed his majority when he entered upon the 
 study of law with Governor Seldon of Clarkson, 
 N. Y.; he alternated study with teaching in the 
 village of Clarendon, then a pioneer town in a 
 pioneer county and lie records the experiences 
 as those befitting the place. He slept many a 
 night under a roof of such primitive architec- 
 ture that he often watched the stars while in 
 his bed and often awoke to brush the snow 
 from the bed covers. He was a faithful and 
 popular teacher; his pupils remember his gen- 
 
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 erous, opulent nature and his wholesome good i 
 spirits, which he combined with the dignity 
 and refinement of the model pedagogue of 
 those days. 
 
 In his native State he absorbed an interest 
 in the militia and went to " General Training" 
 with all the gusto of the youth of the 
 Empire State, who played at patriotism 
 with a feeling too deep for formiUation in 
 words; but Patrick Henry's speech and the 
 utterances of the cotemporary statesmen found 
 an eclio in every soul, and left on the pure 
 altar a sjmrk which smouldered beneath the 
 debris of time until the breeze which wafted to 
 the homes of the North the wail from Sumter's 
 dismantled walls, fanned the embers to a flame 
 which glowed till the world was red with its 
 radiance and till the insulted banner of the 
 Republic again kissed the vernal winds on 
 which, four years before, was borne the prelude 
 of a requiem of Freedom, and again signaled 
 an integral Nation. In 1838, at 19, he enrolled 
 in the New York Militia and was made Ser- 
 geant of Captain Thomas W. Moines' company ; 
 in 1840 he was made a Lieutenant in the 215th 
 New York Infantry, but all that passed for 
 little in reality so far as actual war was con- 
 cerned, but it taught fealty to Country and 
 State and tiie training was excellent as a 
 method of discipline. j 
 
 He was admitted by examination in open 
 Court to practice as an attorney in the State 
 Courts of New York and declined a flattering 
 otter to locate in Clinton, N. Y., in order 
 to test what seemed to him the prospects 
 of a more untrammelled career in the West. 
 After lie came to Wisconsin in 184.5 he 
 was admitted to the Bar of the United 
 States District Court in the same year and 
 subsequently obtained the ])rivileges of the 
 Bar in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. It 
 is not fitting or necessary to elaborate the 
 
 career of Governor Lewis as an attorney ; in his 
 repeated appointments and election to judicial 
 positions the story of his ability, influence, rep- 
 utation and reliability is told better than any 
 fulsome words can delineate, for Wisconsin 
 pioneers were quick to recognize abilities, such 
 as the Commonwealth demanded, even in posi- 
 tions of comparative obscuritj' and the efti- 
 ciency of .James T. Lewis was utilized by his 
 generation in the capacity of District Attorney, 
 County .Judge, Court Commissioner and mem- 
 ber of the Court of Impeachment which tried 
 Hon. Levi Hubbell. He was the single mem- 
 ber from Columbia county in 1848 to aid in 
 forming the State Constitution, was elected 
 Member of the Legislature in 1852 and Senator 
 in the following year. In the same year, 1853, 
 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wiscon- 
 sin and served in the office of his chief in 
 1855 during Governor Barstow's absence from 
 the State. In 1861 he was made SecreUiry of 
 State under Governor Harvey at the oj)ening 
 of the war period and served one term, acting 
 as Governor during the special session of the 
 Legi.slature, Governor Salomon being absent. 
 On Monday Jan. 4, 18G4, Governor Lewis re- 
 ceived from his predecessor the reins of guber- 
 natorial management of the Badger State. The 
 date will outline the responsibilities of the 
 situation to those who beloiiged to that day and 
 the students of history will realize what must 
 have been the character of a man whom 
 the State selected to bear the standard of her 
 trials and triumijhs, for Wisconsin won a name 
 which is not discounted in the annals of tiie 
 war and her soldiers wrested respect from the 
 martinets of the regular service as did no 
 others. His first message spoke to the hearts 
 of the people and in every movement it was 
 apparent that his best qualities were to the fore. 
 No question that affected the interests of the 
 volunteers was too insignificant to receive his 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 respectful consideration ; no issue was too great 
 for his management in tiie way to secure the 
 greatest good to the greatest number ; every 
 transaction of the municipal Government of 
 the State was a measure of benefit throughout 
 his entire administration and many acts were 
 of a character whose permanency and advant- 
 age have become stronger as the years have 
 rolled on. April 21st, 1864, Governor Lewis, 
 with the executives of four other States, offered 
 to the President the organizations known as 
 "hundred-day men." He regulated the finances 
 of the State to the'advantage of the citizens and 
 secured by his systematic, prompt and energetic 
 measures the confidence of the people to an un- 
 common degree. He was ever on the alert for 
 the benefit of the soldiers in all conditions; his 
 presence cheered the boys from the Badger 
 State and he gave them opportunitj' to under- 
 stand that he never for an instant forgot to look 
 after their welfare. He obtained the removal 
 of sick and wounded to the State — the first 
 instance of the kind in the history of the Gov- 
 ernment; he caused hospitals to be built; a 
 Soldiers' Home was founded under his auspices 
 and, although economy and careful manage- 
 ment marked his administration, when the 
 Government made a demand he spared noth- 
 ing to aid in the speedy suppression of the 
 rebellion he hated with all the fervor of a 
 patriot whose veins quickened with the blood 
 of his ancestors. 
 
 In 1805 he declined a renominntion, desir- 
 ing to give his manhood's strength to the ad- 
 vancement of the interests of his family and to 
 the arrangement of his private "affairs, wliich 
 had missed the managing hand during his 
 public life. In the same year he declined the 
 appointment as foreign minister offered him 
 by President Lincoln and in 1860 as Re- 
 gent of the State University. In 1808 he was 
 chosen vice-President of the State Historical 
 
 Society and in 1870 he went to Europe ; in 1874 
 he served as School Commissioner of Columbus 
 and went to the National Convention of 1876 
 as Delegate. In the same year he declined 
 a proffer of the position of Commissioner of In- 
 ternal Revenue and as Railroad Commissioner 
 for the State in 1878. In 1882 and 1883 he 
 traveled around the world. 
 
 If the emoluments of office manifest the 
 value of a man to his generation, those of 
 General Lewis would delineate in enumeration 
 his exact status to the relations of his citizen- 
 ship ; if the lustre of his public life which 
 glows after two decades are passed, are to be 
 relied on as significant of his reputation and 
 labors in tiie active portion of his career, his 
 connection with liis fellows in every respect has 
 been one that will live without tarnish. His 
 influence as a member of society and as a gen- 
 erous and sympathetic friend is unlimited; 
 an evidence oi' the spirit which actuates him 
 and of his sense of responsibility in general 
 affairs is his voluntary and munificent contri- 
 butions to charitable, benevolent and educa- 
 tional institutions. As evidence of his personal 
 popularity it may be added that he received 
 every vote in his city for Secretary of State 
 and on the State ticket he received for Gover- 
 nor the largest majority ever given a candidate 
 I for the office in the State. And when he de- 
 clined reuoraination, the LInion State Conven- 
 tion (for Wisconsin was not in the political 
 arena during the war) passed resolutions of 
 regret and encomium on liis administration of 
 the affairs of the State. 
 
 The portrait of Governor Lewis appears on 
 page 688. In the strongly cast features, in the 
 lines of character and in the expression of good 
 will may be read an outline of his connection 
 with ^Yisconsin, which the most faithful 
 biographer cannot impart with the most capa- 
 ble pen. 
 
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 Governor Lewis was married to Orlinda M., 
 daughter of David Sturges, in 1846, in Claren- 
 don, N. Y. Tlieir children were named Henry 
 S., Selden J., Charles R. and Annie L. The 
 oldest child is not living. 
 
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 \U^3\ ETER IMIG, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., mem- 
 .'*lf^— T her of G. A. R. Post No. 159, was born 
 -*^ in Waukesha Township, Wisconsin, 
 
 in 1845, and is the son of Philij) and Christina 
 (Harter) Imig. His jmrents were born in tiie 
 province of Lower Rhine, Germany, where thej' 
 were married and whence they emigrated to 
 America in 1843. They located on a farm in 
 Waukesha Township where their son was born 
 and wliere he remained until he was 13 j'ears 
 old. He went to attend .school at Waukesha, 
 where he continued his studies until he was 16 
 years of age. He had become interested in the 
 affairs of the war which were engaging general 
 attention and, with the consent of his pai'ents, 
 he enlisted Nov. 28, 1861, in Company E, 3d 
 Wisconsin Cavalry and joined the command in 
 rendezvous at Janesville, where he remained 
 engaged in military duty until the regiment 
 left tiie State March 26, 1862, for St. Louis, 
 preparatory to connecting with the defenses of 
 the frontier. En route to Chicago the train 
 had an accident tlirough M'hich several soldiers 
 were killed and wounded. Mr. Imig was a 
 guard on the platform and chanced to step 
 inside for a moment to which he attributes his 
 escape from injury as all the guards were killed 
 or wounded. May 3d, they left for Leaven- 
 worth and on arrival there equipments were 
 received and assignments into battalions were 
 made. Company E being connected witli the 
 " 1st " which was stationed at that point. 
 Several months were jiassed in which the ex- 
 periences were more lively than entertaining. 
 
 consisting chiefly in encounters with the guer- 
 rilla forces of Quantrell. After much fighting 
 and scouting Mr. Imig was detailed a special 
 escort to the paymaster, whose field of opera- 
 tions included the route from Leavenworth to 
 Fort Larned in Kansas. He returned to the 
 ranks after the duty was performed, and which 
 included a journey of 150 miles under all the 
 rigorous circumstances which characterized 
 that service. In September he went to Fort 
 Scott, where he joined the frontier forces of 
 General Blunt. Prior to the battle of Prairie 
 Grove he engaged in fighting bushwhackers 
 and was in his first regular battle at that place. 
 He was in the chase after Price and went to 
 ^'an Buren, thence marclied long distances and 
 was in the saddle for days at a time, going back 
 to obtain supplies of horses and other neces- 
 saries. He fought at Fort Blunt and Cabin 
 Creek and there had his first taste of Indian 
 warfare. He passed more time in pursuit of 
 bushwhackers and in cavalry service until tlie 
 command went into winter quarters at Van 
 Buren, wliere he was in a detail to erect tele- 
 graph poles and wires. They vainly expected 
 to obtain a supply of materials at Dardanelle 
 wliere a train was stationed and thence Mr. 
 Imig went to Little Rock on special service 
 after the supjilies which were not at the former 
 place. The weather was intensely cold, tlie 
 river there being frozen for the first time. In 
 February, 1864, the regiment veteranized and, 
 after his furlough, Mr. Imig rejoined the 
 frontier command and was assigned to Com- 
 pany C, and stationed at FortMcLeati. (Wiiile 
 at Little Rock, Janury 10th, he witnessed the 
 hanging of David 0. Dodd, a rebel spy.) 
 Duiing the remainder of his term of .service he 
 operated in behalf of the .same sort of outlaws 
 that had already engaged so much time of 
 the connnand and went successively to Little 
 Rock, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo., where he 
 
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 was mustered out Sept. 8, 1865. Seven days 
 later, ill from chronic bowel disease, he was 
 sent to the hospital at Little Rock and thence 
 to Madison where he received his discharge 
 July 10, 1866. He returned to Waukesha, 
 and, after recovery, located in Jefferson county. 
 He was a farmer there until 1876 when he re- 
 moved to Ft. Atkinson. He was married Dec. 
 27, 1866, to Jacobina Wagner and their chil- 
 dren are named Kate and Frank. Mr. Tmig 
 belongs to the Odd Fellows and is a Democrat. 
 
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 Mi AJOR EDWARD A. WHALEY, 
 ^ jr®\ Rostmaster at Prairie du Chien, 
 •-^^■^^^^ Wis., was born near Athens, Ohio, 
 July 12, 1837. His father, Arvin Whaley, 
 was born in York State and married Elizabeth 
 Hewitt in Ohio ; she was a native of Vermont. 
 They went to St. Francis Co., Arkansas, in 1841, 
 going thence in 1843 to Fairport, Muscatine 
 Co., Iowa ; in 1852 they located in Prairie 
 du Chien, Wis., .where tiie father died in 1856, 
 aged 54 years. The mother survived him 
 until Jaimar}^ 1888, and died at the age of 82 
 years. Eight children lived to maturity and 
 the survivors now are Zenas S., who served in 
 the late war as a member of the 24th Iowa In- 
 fantry ; Harrison H., a member of Company A, 
 31st Wisconsin ; Charles F., and Edward. The 
 latter worked at the same trade as his father, 
 that of cooper, until he enlisted. The educa- 
 tion he obtained wassuclias was to be obtained 
 at the common schools, but afterwards through 
 his business and contact with the world, he 
 became well informed and is what is called in 
 common parlance a self-made man. He en- 
 listed at Prairie du Chien, April 30, 1861, iu 
 ('ompany C, 6th Wisconsin Infantry as a private, 
 and attained the high rank of 8th Corporal be- 
 fori' leaving the State. He left Madison with his 
 regiment July 16th, the first stopping place be- 
 
 ing Harrisburg, Pa.; July 3d they went to Balti- 
 more, Md., and thence to Washington where 
 the regiment was brigaded with the organiza- 
 tion which became the Iron Brigade. Major 
 Whaley was in every detail of movement with 
 his regiment until the battle of South Moun- 
 tain, where he was wounded through the left 
 leg, a gun-shot causing a bad fracture of the 
 bone two inches below the knee. He was taken 
 back to a barn which constituted the field 
 hospital and the next day was taken to Middle- 
 ton ; ten days later he was moved to Frederick, 
 Md., after being in hospital two months at this 
 place. The surgeon decided to amputate his 
 leg which he strenuously resisted, refusing to 
 take the chloroform, when the Medical Direc- 
 tor, Dr. Hewitt, was called in, who performed 
 an operation, removing a quantity of bone 
 j from the leg. Major Whaley was afterwards 
 I transfered to another part of the city to a 
 different hospital and was placed under the 
 care of Dr. Pinckney, who decided on 
 another operation on account of necrosis, and 
 a quantity of affected lione was removed and 
 the leg saved. He was afterwards sent to Camp 
 Dennison, Ohio, and returned thence to his regi- 
 ment for duty. He re-enli.sted and accompanied 
 his regiment on a thirty-day furlough which was 
 pleasantly spent among friends at home, return- 
 ing with his regiment in February, 1864, to Cul- 
 peper,Va. He took part in the great campaign 
 through the wilderness which commenced on 
 the 5th of May, 1864. While standing in line 
 of battle May 11th, he received a bruise on the 
 collar-bone from a bullet which had struck the 
 limb of a tree overhead and glanced downward. 
 He participated in the battles of Spottsylvania 
 C. H., North Anna, Cold Harbor, crossed the 
 .James River at City Point, and continued the 
 march to Petersburg. He participated in the 
 charge in front of that place June 18th in 
 which engagement he received another bruise 
 
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 from a spent ball on the knee of the right leg. 
 July 25th in front of Petersburg he was again 
 wounded, the bullet which did tlie mischief 
 issuing from the rifie of a rebel shiU'pshooter 
 cutting otl'the first joint of a toe on the right 
 foot, passing under and making a gash through 
 the ball of tlie foot, causing a very painful 
 wound. July 26th he was promoted from First 
 Sergeant to (kptain of his company. While in 
 winter quarters in the vicinit}'' of Petersburg, 
 the following Order was issued : Headquarters 
 1st Provisional Brigade, March 11th, 1865. 
 General Order No. 10. Capt. E. A. Whaley, 
 Company C, 6th Wisconsin Veteran Volonteers, 
 is hereby appointed Acting Major of the regi- 
 ment and will be obeyed and resjiected accord- 
 ingly. By command of J. A. Kellogg, Col. 
 commanding Brigade, signed J. A. Watrous, A. 
 A. A. G. Colonel Kellogg being in command 
 of the brigade and Lieutenant Col. Kerr being 
 absent on leave, left the regiment under the 
 command of Acting Major Whaley most of the 
 winter. In extension of the lines fartliur to tin- 
 left in the spring at tlie battle of Gravelly Run, 
 Colonel Kerr was wounded. Major Whaley 
 took command of his regiment and moved for- 
 wiud with the corps to Five Forks,, in which 
 engagement he received a gunshot wound in the 
 right leg, which caused the amputation of the 
 same near the hi)>, the operation being j)er- 
 formcd at the field hospital Ajiril 1, 1865. 
 Soon after tiie amputation he was taken by 
 ambulance to Dinwiddle C. IL, and thence to 
 Humphrey Station on the temporary railroad 
 built by the army to bring supplies from City 
 Point, to which place he was taken. lie went 
 thence to Armory Square hospital, Washington, 
 D. C, from which lie was finally discjiarged 
 from the army, August 4, 1865. His roster of 
 important battles includes Gainesville, second 
 Bull Rmi, South Mountain, Mine Ilun, Wilder- 
 ness, Spottsylvania C. II., Laurel Hill, Jericho 
 
 Ford, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Gravelly Run 
 and Five Forks. 
 
 Although Major Whaley had for some time 
 been acting Major and assisting in command, 
 he was never mustered as an officer higher in 
 rank than that of a captain, but soon after the 
 Vjattle of Five Forks he received a commission 
 from the War Department as Major by Brevet; 
 for gallant and meritorious conduct on the batr 
 tie field of Five Forks, in which he was in 
 command of his regiment. As soon as he re- 
 covered from the effects of his last wound and 
 amputation he obtained a situation in the post^ 
 office at Prairie du Chien and, Jan. 15, 1866, 
 was commissioned Postmaster at his home of- 
 fice and has been continued in the position 
 throughout every administration since. He 
 has served in military and civil life in a man- 
 ner which proves the quality of citizenship and 
 reliability. 
 
 He was married at Harper's Ferry, Iowa, to 
 Mary A. Ryan, October 29, 1866, and she died 
 in 1874, leaving a child named William A., 
 who is the assistant of his father in the post- 
 office. Major Whaley was again married in 
 1877 to Ada F. Sprague, of Glen Haven, Wis., 
 and tiny have a daughter named Ada May. 
 
 Major Whaley organized the Post of the G. 
 A. R. of which he was the first commander; 
 he is an Odd Fellow and also a member of the 
 Modern Woodmen : his wife is a member of the 
 Woman's Relief Corps, in which she is prom- 
 inently active. 
 
 OHN B. \'LIET. Senior Vice Commander 
 of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, (1890) at 
 Milwaukee, Wis., was born April 2t), 
 1822, in Wilmington, Clinton Co., Oiiio, and is 
 by profession a Civil Engineer. He served as 
 private, nnassigned, and as recruiting officer, 
 from August 8th to Decend^er 23, 1862; then 
 
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 as Captain of Company I, of the 31st Regiment, 
 Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, to March 29, 
 1865 ; then as Lieutenant Colonel of the 51st 
 ^\'isconsin to September 5, 1865. In lineage 
 in the paternal line he is of Holland origin, 
 his patronymic being originally Van Vliet, of 
 which iiouse, two brothers named Daniel and 
 William came to America from Holland, both 
 landing at New Brunswick, N. J., about 1750 
 to 1755, William locating on the North River, 
 in New York. Daniel, from whom Colonel 
 Vliet is descended in direct line, remained in 
 New Jersey and dropped the particle Van 
 which marked the nationality. William A'an 
 A'liet was the founder of the family which has 
 retained the whole name. Daniel Miet was 
 the father of John, David, Daniel, Margaret, 
 Jesper, William, Garret and Abram, of whom 
 the oldest five sons served as soldiei's in the 
 Revolutionary War and were in the battle of 
 Monmouth. Jesper Miet, the fourth son, 
 married Poll}' Black and was the father of 
 Abraham, Garret, Acsah, John, .Jesper Jr., and 
 Keturah. 
 
 The second son. Garret Vliet, who was the 
 father of the subject of our memoir was born in 
 vSus.sex, N. J., Jan. 10, 1790, and when a boy 
 moved with the family near Wilksbarre, Pa., 
 where he grew to manhood. He served a 
 short time as a soldier in 1815, was engaged for 
 a season in the survey of the " Holland Pur- 
 chase, " in the State of N. Y., and about 1819 
 prospected as far West as St. Louis, going 
 finally to Ohio, settling near Cincinnati where 
 he married Rebecca Frazey, January 25, 1821. 
 He was employed as an engineer in the con- 
 struction of the Miami Canal, was County Sur- 
 veyor of Hamilton county (including Cin- 
 cinnati) in 1838-4 and 5, first came to Mil- 
 waukee in 1835 and surveyed the part of the 
 original plat of the city on the West side in 
 that year; in 1836 he surveyed, as U. S. 
 
 Deputy Surveyor, ten townships of Government 
 land in the present counties of Milwaukee, 
 Waukesha and Washington; moved his family 
 to Milwaukee in 1837 and settled on the farm, 
 now a part of the city, where he died August 
 5, 1877. He was a member of the first Con- 
 stitutional Convention of Wisconsin. The an- 
 cestry of Colonel Vliet in the maternal line is 
 not so distinctly traceable, but the nationality 
 was English. 
 
 His mother was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 Aug. 23, 1805, and died at the homestead in 
 Milwaukee, Jan. 6, 1890. John B. Vliet was 
 the oldest of five sons, of whom the third, Os- 
 car F., died in infancy ; the second, Jesper, 
 died in October, 1865; the fifth, Abram, died 
 in February, 1882. William, iiis remaining 
 brother, is a civil engineer and resides at Kan- 
 sas City, Kansas. Jesper enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, 
 in the 24th Wisconsin Infantry and was dis- 
 charged Feb. 23, 1863, to accept promotion in 
 the Engineering Department. 
 
 Coming to Milwaukee with his parents at 
 the age of 15 years and going upon land 
 which had to be cleared of heavy timber 
 and converted into a farm, the subject of 
 our memoir was deprived of the benefits of 
 a liberal education, which had been his aspira- 
 tion. For his mother had taught him to read 
 and also the elements of writing at the age of 
 four years. At the age of 14 he had mastered 
 the course of studies in the common schools of 
 Cincinnati and entered Woodward High School, 
 of which Thomas J. Matthews, the father of 
 Stanley Matthews, was president and the latter 
 was his schoolmate. At the age of 12 years he 
 began to go surveying with his father as a 
 chain-carrier and gaining practice in the in- 
 tricacies of the surveyor's calculations. In the 
 spring of 1837 he accompanied his father to 
 Dubuque, Iowa, to survey that and several 
 other town sites under a Government contract. 
 
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 the work, however, beiug cut short by a change ! 
 of commissioners. Tlien, after five years of 
 drudgery among the stumps and roots of a new 
 farm on timbered land, at the age of 20 years, 
 he accomj)anied his father's party in the sur- 
 vey of six townships near Iowa City, Iowa, for 
 the Government, and it All to his lot to lead 
 the party, and from that on until the breaking 
 out of the war, land surveying and afterward 
 civil engineering, became his vocation. 
 
 When Fort Sumter was fired on, his residence 
 was at Kilbourn City, but being in Milwaukee 
 when a meeting was held to raise the first com- 
 pany of soldiers under the call for 75,000 men, 
 he attended with the full determination to en- 
 list should there be any lagging on the part of 
 the younger men, residents of Milwaukee. But 
 within an hour it was announced that the com- 
 pany was full and many went away disap- 
 pointed that they could not get in. It was 
 estimated that three companies could have 
 been enlisted that evening. 
 
 After the reverses and miscarriages up to 
 August, 1862, enlistments fell off" and recruit- 
 ing became very difficult. There was a crying 
 call for more men. At this juncture John B. 
 Vliet got an enlistment blank, liJkd it out with 
 his own name, went before a notary public and 
 was sworn in as a soldier, procured a room, 
 hung out a flag and began recruiting in Kil- 
 lK)urn City on bis own account. A considerable 
 number of men were enlisted for various regi- 
 ments. Then a commission was given him to 
 recruit a comi)any for the 31st Regiment, which, 
 after much tribulation, was accomplished by 
 the aid of bis lieutenants and he and they 
 were regularly commissioned and mustered in. 
 
 The regiment left the State March 1, ]8f«, 
 and proceeded to Columbus, Ky., where it was 
 stationed to guard General Grant's line of com- 
 munication and supply along the Mississippi 
 River. Its annals have been written and 
 
 recorded. April 26, 1863, Colonel Vliet was 
 detailed as Topographical Engineer on the 
 staff" of General Asboth. .lune 24th he was 
 permitted to command his company in a 
 reconnoissauce by railroad to Trenton, Tenn., — 
 60 miles into the enemy's country — re- 
 turning the same day. August 28th he was 
 relieved from the detail at his own request and 
 ordered with his company to garrison Fort 
 Quimby, asmall detached fortification mounted 
 with 11-inch columbiads and 32-jiouu(l guns. 
 September 23d be was relieved from this <luty 
 and ordered to proceed with his comj)any and 
 regiment to Nashville, en route to re-en force Gen- 
 eral liosecrans at Cliattanooga. He was taken 
 down with malarial fever and confined in 
 Nashville till November lOth when he rejoined 
 his regiment at Murfreesboro, Tenn. December 
 23d he started for Chattanooga to obtain an 
 order for a recruiting ])arty from the regiment 
 to go to Wisconsin. December olst he was 
 ordered to go to Wisconsin with a detail to 
 bring forward recruits, in which he was en- 
 gaged until April 28, 1864, making three trips 
 to the Army of the Cumberland and one to 
 Fort Leavenworth, Kas., and distributing in all 
 about 600 men, when he was ordered by (ien- 
 eral Sherman to take the remaining recruits 
 (22 or 23) and guard a drove of 680 beef cattle 
 to Chattanooga. On arriving there he was 
 ordered to take charge of the same drove, aug- 
 mented to 1,200, and proceed to the front. He 
 overtook the army at Resaca, May loth and 
 the next day was ordered to follow up the army 
 with the cattle and di-stribute them on requisi- 
 tion — thus becoming an acting Commissary of 
 Subsistence. For the next month he was con- 
 tinually under the sound of cannon and mus- 
 ketry ami on the 16th or 17th of .lune went to 
 the front, by leave, to witness the actual opera- 
 tions of warfare, for which he had not hitherto 
 had any opportunity. He got under heavy 
 
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 artillery firo and determined not to go in again 
 for curiosity. Jiine 18th he was taken prisoner 
 near Ackworth, Ga., by a party of scouts — the 
 army having made a flank movement to the 
 rigiit witii which lie had not kept pace. He 
 remained a prisoner of war at Macon, Ga. until 
 July 28th and at Chiirleston, S. C. until Oc- 
 tober 5th. While at Charleston the pri-soners 
 were under fire from the guns of their friends, 
 who sent 100-j)ound Parrot shells every fifteen 
 minutes from their batteries six miles away. 
 
 Octol)er 5th, en route from Charleston to Go- 
 Unnbia, near Orangeburg, S. C., he sprang from 
 the train while it was in rapid motion and 
 proceeded Northwest, via Edgefield, S. C, 
 Washington, Athens, Dahlonega and Ellijay, 
 arriving at the Union lines at Dalton, Ga., Oct. 
 29th, traveling about 450 miles in 24 nights. 
 Jan. 6, 1865, he rejoined his regiment at Sa- 
 vannah, Ga. In the meantime, it had partici- 
 pated in the siege of Atlanta and the "March 
 to the Sea." 
 
 January 18th he left Savannah with his regi- 
 ment on the campaign through the Carolinas. 
 January 26tli he was detailed as Topographical 
 Engineer on the staff of Col. Wm. Hawley, 
 commanding 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th 
 Army Corps. January 29th he was in front of 
 the skirmish line at Robertsville, S. C. ; Feb- 
 ruary 12th he served target for rebel cannon 
 practice at the North Edisto River, S. C. ; March 
 loth he was buried in the ruins of the falling ar- 
 senal building at Fayetteville, N. C, which the 
 engineers were tearing down by order of Gen- 
 eral Sherman. He was in hospitals at Wil- 
 mington, N. C, Willett's Point and David's 
 Island, N. Y. Harbor, until April 14th, and 
 while in the latter hospital he received notice 
 that he had been commissioned successively 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the 50th and 51st Re^i- 
 ments of Wisconsin and a few days later the 
 commissions arrived, dated respectively Febru- 
 
 ary 20th and 21st. He went to Raleigh, N. C, 
 where his (31st) regiment then was, for orders, 
 and joined the 51st Regiment at Kingsville, 
 Mo., May 17th. His date of muster was sub- 
 sequently corrected to March 30, 1865. He 
 remained with the 51st at Kingsville and 
 Pleasant Hill, until July 30th, when it started 
 for Madison, Wis., for muster out, which oc- 
 curred from Aug. 19, to 29, 1865, the Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel remaining until September 5th to 
 close up the affairs of the regiment. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Vliet claims no credit for 
 brilliancy of achievement or high honors won, 
 nor has he a particle of envy for those who 
 were more successful or had better opportunity, 
 for he remembers that greater opportunity was 
 coupled with greater exposure and danger, and 
 therefore those who achieved it are entitled to 
 their distinction. He takes, however, what he 
 conceives to be a just pride in a consciousness 
 of having done his duty faithfully in the part 
 allotted him in the great work of suppressing 
 the rebellion and saving the flag of his coun- 
 try — emblem of its institutions. 
 
 While stationed in Western Missouri he had 
 heard of a great railroad projected from the 
 Missouri River, at Leavenworth, to the Gulf of 
 Mexico, at Galveston, under the control of Sen- 
 ator (General "Jim") Lane, and glowing ac- 
 counts of the richness of the country it was to 
 traverse and determined, when out of the ser- 
 vice, to engage in that enterprise should op- 
 portunity offer. So, twenty days after closing 
 up his connection with the army he set out on 
 the 20th of September for Kansas, and on the 
 9th of October was appointed Chief Engineer 
 of the Leavenworth, Lawrence &• Ft. Gibson, 
 afterward the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Gal- 
 veston Railroad, and continued in that service 
 until the spring of 1870, operating the road as 
 Superintendent also during the year 1868, 30 
 I miles having then been constructed. Having 
 
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 in 1848, while acting as City Engineer of Mil- 
 waukee, located the line of the Milwaukee & 
 Prairie du Chieu R. R. williin the city, the 
 first line upon which a railroad was huilt in 
 Wisconsin, and he was now instrumental in 
 i>uikling the first piece of railroad West of the 
 Missouri River without Government bonded 
 subsidy — a way-mark of progress which affords 
 him some personal satisfaction. 
 
 In the fall of 1870 he returned to Wisconsin 
 and engaged in a flouring mill business near 
 Dartford, (ireen Lake Co. This did not prove 
 remunerative. He remained there until 1882, 
 wlieii he returned to Milwaukee and now re- 
 sides in tlie old farm house which he helped 
 to build when a boy. He never fully recovered 
 from the injury received from the falling walls 
 at Fayetteville, N. C, which, since he left Kan- 
 sas in 1870, has prevented him from doing 
 much in the way of his profession. He is now, 
 in 1890, engaged in a pension agency business. 
 
 "OSEPH GALE, La Crosse, Wis., member 
 of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was born May 
 14, 1838, in St. Lawrence (3o., New York. 
 His father, Joseph Gale, was a carpenter and 
 millwright and followed those vocations until 
 he went to California, when he lost his life on 
 the route. His wife died in Parisville, New 
 York. Both were of Frencli parentage, the 
 father having been born on tiie sea. Joseph is 
 the only survivor of their eight children. In 
 1855 they wezit West and located in Dubuque 
 Co., Iowa, where the son remained until he 
 enlisted. 
 
 He was a pupil in the common schools and 
 worked with his father in his vocations, of 
 which he obtained a complete knowledge. He 
 enrolled Aug. 12, 1862, at Prairie du Chien, in 
 Company D, 31st Wisconsin Infantry, and went 
 
 into camp at Fort Crawford and thence to 
 Camp Utley, Racine, remaini'ng in the latter 
 until spring. The war experiences of Mr. Gale 
 commenced by a removal from the State, March 
 1, 1863, to Columbus and to quarters at Fort 
 Halleck. After performing provost duty there 
 several months orders were received to proceed 
 to Murfreesboro, whence the command went to 
 a raid into Georgia, moved afterwards to Nash- 
 ville and entered again on provost duty. The 
 next orders took the regiment to Chattanooga, 
 where the winter was passed and in the spring 
 it went to tlie Atlanta campaign. The first 
 action in which Mr. Gale took part was in the 
 battle of Atlanta, July 22d, the regiment having 
 been in reserve and supporting the rear of the 
 main army in its movements. It had been as- 
 signed to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 20th 
 Army Corps, and was in the left of the line of 
 battle. Subsequent to the action, the regiment 
 was in the siege in the picket line, and after the 
 surrender the brigade was the first to march 
 into the city. The 31st remained there until 
 tlie march to the sea and went out of the burn- 
 ing city of Atlanta to start Nov. 14, 1864, for 
 the foot race through Georgia. Mr. Gale 
 marched, skirmished, foraged and went to 
 Savannah to the siege and the water bondage, 
 leaving that city January 13th for the North. 
 Rations were and had been short and when the 
 troops received plenty of rice they were in a 
 condition to appreciate it. Mr. Gale partici- 
 pated in the entertaining movements of Sher- 
 man's army through the Carolinas and skir- 
 mished nearly every day in some action more 
 or less inijiortaiit. He was in the fight witli 
 Johnston in that officer's last desperate attempt 
 at Bentonville to impress his power on the un- 
 derstanding of Sherman, the corps of Mr. Gale 
 being the force attacked. They skirmished all 
 day and lay on their arms at night to find the 
 rebels had left the field before morning. The 
 
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 inai'ch to Raleigh, near which place Johnston 
 surrendered, was resumed and thence after two 
 weeks, the command started for Richmond. In 
 the onward march northward thej' passed the 
 old battle fields of the Wilderness, of the seven- 
 day's tight before Richmond and others equally 
 historic and which had been before to them 
 only names. Mr. Gale was with his regiment 
 in the Grand Review in May, 1865, and went 
 afterwai'ds into camp at Washington, remain- 
 ing about two weeks. He was paid off and dis- 
 charged at Madison, June 20, 1865, and re- 
 turned to La Crosse. He passed several years 
 occupied as a ship carpenter and entered the 
 employ of M. B. Holwa}' as a millwright. He 
 has since operated in that department, of which 
 he is in charge. 
 
 He was married Aug. 16, 1862, to Mary, 
 daughter of John and Anna (CroU) Schoen- 
 berger, of German birth and extraction. Her 
 parents reside in Vernon county. They came 
 to America in 1855 and located in Wisconsin, 
 where her father lias since been engaged in 
 farming. Mrs. Gale is one of eight children 
 and her brothers and sisters were named Henry, 
 Anna, Otto, Charles, Dorotliy and Lewis. Otto 
 is the only one not living. Charles L. and 
 Edwin J., are the names of tlie children of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Gale and the first-born child is de- 
 ceased. Mr. Gale is a member of the Masonic 
 Order; in political faith he is a Republican. 
 He was nominated in 1889 for Alderman and 
 defeated by a small majority in a strongly 
 Democratic district. 
 
 TCHOLAS GRUBER, Black River 
 Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 92, was born April 18, 
 1835, in Bavaria, Germany, where his parents, 
 John and Barbara (Miller) Gruber, were born 
 
 and reared and descended from stock of long 
 standing in tlieir native land. They had two 
 children, a daughter named Barbai'a being the 
 elder. In the spring of 1841 the senior Gruber 
 came to the United States, the wife and mother 
 being deceased. The father was a tailor and 
 located in Ohio. 
 
 The son came to the United States in 1857, 
 landing in June in New Orleans, going thence 
 in a sliort time to Lexington, Mo., where he 
 was when tlie war came on. He expressed 
 Union sentiments freely, was ordered to leave 
 with all possible haste and went to St. Louis, 
 where he enlisted in the 4th Missouri Infantry 
 and afterwards in the 1st Iowa Infantry at 
 Davenport, but was not mustered into either. 
 He continued his movements toward the North 
 and finally reached Black River Falls, where 
 he enlisted in August, 1861, and was mustered 
 into the U. S. service Sept. 12, 1861, in Com- 
 pany G, 10th Wisconsin Infantry. After a few 
 weeks in camp the regiment went, November 
 9th, to Louisville, Ky., and went to camp at 
 Shepherdsville, Ky., going thence to Bowling 
 Green, Nasliville and Murfreesboro in tlie 3d 
 Brigade, 3d Division and 14th Corps. The 
 regiment was placed on provost duty at Mur- 
 freesboro in the spring of 1862 and went thence 
 to Huntsville, Ala., where four companies, in- 
 cluding G, were detailed to break the rebel 
 communications near Chattanooga and de- 
 stroyed a bridge and captured 21 engines and 
 200 cars, which act prevented Beauregard re- 
 ceiving reinforcements. While lying at Hunts- 
 ville the command made a forced march to 
 Decatur and afterwards the brigade went to 
 Tennessee by way of Stevenson to the river, 
 where they had an engagement with the rebels 
 j at Bridgeport. 
 
 They returned to Larkinsville and guarded 
 the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and, June 
 1st, started for Stevenson. While passing 
 
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 through a cut the train was attacked and on i 
 the 4th of July, Captain WiUiam Moore of 
 Company G, was murdered by the bushwhack- 
 ers after he was captured. When the move- 
 ment caused by Brugg's invasion of Kentucky 
 commenced, Mr. Gruber was witli the com- 
 mand in the movements to Nashville and 
 Jjouisville, acting as rear guard in preserving 
 the Union trains. On the march to Bellefonle 
 he was seriously hurt in his knee, a wagon tip- 
 ping upon iiim. The rebels tried to present 
 their trains leaving Stevenson and they had a 
 scrimmage there. After reaching Louisville, 
 Mr. Gruber was ill and went to hospital, his 
 sickness being caused by eating of poisoned 
 pie, bought of a rebel. He joined the regi- 
 ment the day after the battle of Perryville and 
 was in the chase after the rebels, going to 
 Bowling Green and thence to Nashville, leav- 
 ing there for Murfreesboro for the battle of 
 Stone River, December 31st. The 10th held a 
 position near the center on the Murfreesboro 
 •pike and after the figliting was over they 
 crossed on the other side and went into camp. 
 Mr. Gruber was there discharged March 21, 
 18G3, for disability. 
 
 He returned to Black River Falls and en- 
 gaged in hunberiiig, continuing in that busi- 
 ness until August, 1889, wlien failing health 
 compelled hina to quit active business life. He 
 belongs to Albion Lodge, Order of Odd Fellows, | 
 No. 134, and votes the Republiciin ticket. He 
 receives a pension. 
 
 He was married March 28, 1863, at Melrose, 
 Wis., to Minerva, daughter of Simon and Abia 
 (Fuller) Enierton, a native of New York. They 
 have three children ; Maud is Mrs. W. A. Cas- 
 well of Tacoma, Washington ; Mabel married 
 George W. Meacham of Cliicago; John A. is 
 the youngest. 
 
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 AMUEL KING VAUGHAN, deceased, 
 formerly a resident of Portage, Wis., 
 was horn April 20, 1824, in South 
 Adams, Massachusetts, the son of El)enezer and 
 Mary (King) Vaughan and of mi.xed Welsii 
 and English ancestry. In 1841 his father 
 settled in West Troy, New York, and embarked 
 with liis son in the shoe business. They trans- 
 ferred their home and business to Fond du 
 Lac, Wisconsin, in 1848 and there conducted 
 their interests four years, the younger Vaughan, 
 meanwhile, studying law. In 185'2 he was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar of that county and located 
 at Wyocena, the county seat of Columbia 
 count}-. Within the same year he was elected 
 Clerk of the Circuit Court and on the removal 
 of the county seat to Portage he removed 
 thither. He was re-elected and served both his 
 terms acceptably. 
 
 He again established his business as a dealer 
 in boots and shoes and was thus engaged in 
 April, 1861, wlien his country demanded his 
 attention. A companj- was promptly organized 
 on the call of the Governor under the demand 
 of the President, of which John Mansfield was 
 Captain and Samuel K. Vaughan, 2d Lieuten- 
 ant, which was mustered as Company G, 2d 
 Wisconsin Infantry, Lieutenant ^'aughan's 
 commission dating from April 25, 1861. He 
 fought at Bull Run and resigned Sept. 16, 
 1861, on account of illness. He returned to 
 Wisconsin and as soon as able entered upon 
 the work of recruiting, raising a company of 
 which he was made Captain (his rank dating 
 from Dec. 19, 1861), and which Wiis assigned as 
 "D" to the 19th Wisconsin Infantry. At 
 rendezvous in Racine the still incomplete com- 
 mand was ordered to Camp Randall, Madison, 
 April 20, 1862, to guard the rebels taken at 
 Fort Donelson and Island No. 10, and the 
 regiment was there completed and naustered 
 into U. S. service April 30th. June 2d the 
 
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 history of the command as an adjunct of the 
 forces for the Union in the field commenced. 
 After reaching Washington it was assigned to 
 service in Southeast Virginia, the regiment 
 operating until April, 1863, at Hampton, For- 
 tress Monroe, Norfolk and Portsmouth. All 
 sorts of dreary military service were performed 
 save actual warfare and, after more work of a 
 worse type, the regiment went to Suffolk and 
 remained until June, when a marcii to Nor- 
 folk was made and thence to Ycrktown on 
 transports. After several movements on guard 
 duty the regiment went to Newbern, N. C, 
 where Captain Vaughan was made Major, 
 Dec. 3, 1863. Feb. 1, 1864, the regiment repul- 
 sed a rebel attack at Newbern and six com- 
 panies under Major Vauglian went to Ply- 
 mouth April 19th to reinforce Wessel's com- 
 mand who fougiit three days to suffer defeat 
 and the action terminated before the arrival of 
 aid. April 26th a movement to Yorktown was 
 made, where the regiment was assigned to the 
 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 18th Army Corps. 
 May 4th they started to reinforce at Bermuda 
 Hundred on the .lames River, engaged in 
 activities on the Richmond & Petersburg rail- 
 road and were in the movements against Fort 
 Darling which culminated on tlie 12th and 
 finished on the 16th with the vain attack of 
 Butler. The 19th lost 25 in killed and wound- 
 ed, and returned to Point of Rocks. In June 
 the command was in another raid on the rail- 
 road and on tlie 20th, in the 2d Brigade and 
 2d Division, the 19th took position in the 
 trenches before Petersburg and were under 
 incessant fire of the hottest character until the 
 assault liy tiie 9th Corps on the 30th, when it 
 was in the supporting column. 
 
 Major Vaughan was with his men in the 
 siege of Petersburg and in October accom- 
 pajiied them to tlie fighting before Richmond, 
 traversing the old fields where thousands of 
 
 men had fallen needlessly in former campaigns 
 and in the od Brigade, 1st Division and 18th 
 Corps, fought in the battle of Fair Oaks, con- 
 tinuing in camp on Chapin's Farm until or- 
 dered to tlie charge on the works at Richmond, 
 April 3d, when tlie regiment entered the evac- 
 uated city and Lieutenant-Colonel Vaughan, 
 with his own hand planted the colors of the 
 regiment above the works. He was commis- 
 sioned as mentioned, April 28th, and moved 
 with his command to Fredericksburg and re- 
 turned to Richmond for muster out August 
 9th. Aug. 9, 1865, he was commissioned Col- 
 onel of Volunteers by Brevet to date from Au- 
 gust 30th, and. May 22, 1866, in the adjust- 
 ment of honors for conspicuous bravery, he 
 received a United States commission as Briga- 
 dier-General of Volunteers by Brevet to rank 
 from Aug. 9, 1865. The only lapse in his 
 commissions from 2d Lieutenant to Brigadier- 
 General was that of 1st Lieutenant. He re- 
 signed as 2d Lieutenant and afterwards entered 
 the service as Captain. 
 
 He i-eturned to Wisconsin after the war and 
 was elected Sheriff of Columbia county in tiie 
 fall of 1866. He served through 1867-8 and, 
 on resuming connection with the life of a pri- 
 vate citizen, lie again opened a business enter- 
 prise in the manufacture of fanning mills. 
 His health was broken by his long and unin- 
 terrupted service and he succumbed to rheu- 
 matism, which assaulted the citadel of life, 
 and he died of heart disease, Sept. 29, 1872. 
 
 He was married June 10, 1844, to Lavinia 
 W. Wandell, of West Troy, New York, and 
 their children were Lucy Eleanor, Eugene Au- 
 gustus, Eugenia Lavinia and Myrick Douglas. 
 The son enlisted Oct. 27, 1861, in his father's 
 company and regiment. He was made Cap- 
 tain in a colored regiment and served until after 
 the close of the war. He died Oct. 19, 1888, 
 from rheumatic disease, contracted in the army. 
 
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 Colonel Vaughaii is borne in tender remem- 
 brance by those who loved liira as a most at- 
 tractive man in character and career ; he was 
 genial, social and domestic and his name was 
 connected with all tluit is best and highest in a 
 coniinunity ; he was prominent for temperance 
 principles and possessed a positive character 
 which was manifest in his military career, but 
 he never made enemies. He served in civil 
 office in his municipality and was jjroniineiit 
 in the Order of Odd Fellows. He was a mem- 
 ber of tlie Baptist Church and Superintendent 
 of a Sunday School at tlie time of his death. 
 
 
 I s A ■? 
 
 AVID ROWLAND, Racine, Wis., 
 Commander of 0. A. R. I'osl No. 17, 
 (1889), was born in Wales, June 18, 
 18o(), and is the .son of David and Sarah 
 (James) Rowland. He had one brother and 
 one sister named respectively .lolm and 
 Sarah. His father was a Congregational clergy- 
 man and came with his family to the United 
 States in 1840 and died soon after in the city 
 of New York. The brother and sister died 
 about the same time. The niotlior afterwards 
 married a man named Morgan. Wiien the 
 son was about ten years old he went to work on 
 a farm on Long Island, where he remained 
 about six years and, at the end of lliat time he 
 ensasred as cabin bov on a whaler and suffered 
 sliipwreck. He went on the vessel which re- 
 lieved tlie crew to San Francisco and remained 
 in C!alifornia about one and a half years. He 
 left there in the fall of 1855 and reached New 
 York in 185G. He came thence to Racine 
 where his mother had permanently located aixl 
 obtained a situation with the J. I. Case T. M. 
 Company in 1858, with whom he remained 
 until he enlisted. 
 Aug. 18, 18G2, he enrolled in Company F^ 
 
 ■22d Wisconsin Infantry, and went into Camp 
 Utley, Racine, which was named for the sturdy 
 and inflexible man whose name is honored by 
 the entire State for his career during the war. 
 Mr. Rowland was mustered September 2d and 
 left the State on the IGth, going to Cincinnati 
 with every expectation of lighting Kirby Smith. 
 The regiment was in constant activity, reach- 
 ing Lexington late in October and on the last 
 day of the month was assigned to the 1st 
 Brigade under Colonel Coburn ; moved to 
 Nicholasville and went later to Danville, where 
 they chased Morgan and where Morgan 
 chased them. Their next move took them to 
 Louisville, and they went thence to Nashville, 
 to Brentwood Station, to Franklin and, on the 
 3d of March, Mr. Rowland was in the recon- 
 noissance towards Thompson's Station and was 
 in the disastrous action on the 4th at the latter 
 place with the command under LieiUenant- 
 Colonel Rloodgood. On the 8th he went to 
 Brentwood Station ami on the 25th they were 
 surrounded by the troops of Forrest and were 
 obliged to surrender. They were taken to 
 Libby prison where the\' were exchanged the 
 following day. Mr. Rowland went to City 
 Point, to Fortress Monroe and to Annapolis, 
 whence he went to join the regiment at St. 
 Louis, where he remained two months. He 
 went to Nashville, thence to Franklin and 
 Mvnfrecsboro where the winter was passtnl. In 
 the spring the regiment went to the Chatta- 
 hoochie River, being assigned to the 2d Brigade, 
 under Butterlield. He was next in action at 
 Resaca, where Company F lost heavily in 
 killed and wounded. He fought at Buzzard's 
 Roost, Cassville, and in the several actions 
 known as Kenesaw Mountain. He was at 
 Peach Tree Creek and afterward went to the 
 river, while Sherman moved to the right of At- 
 lanta. After the siu'render which released him 
 from the trenches, he accompanied Sherman to 
 
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 the sea. After the surrender of Savannah he 
 went Northward with the army and was at 
 Goldshoro and Raleigh. He went tlience to 
 Richmond, where Hallec]< desired to review tlie 
 troops of Sherman liut " Uncle Billy " stoutly 
 resisted such a course and declared that " if he 
 could not see Richmond without a review he 
 would march his men round that city. " June 
 12, 1865, after witnessing and participating in 
 the Review in Washington in May, Mr. Row- 
 land was mustered out and returned to Racine 
 and resumed his former business. 
 
 He was married Oct. 15, 1859, to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of .J. N. Davis, and their children 
 were named .John D., Sarah J., David, Annie 
 Jane and Daniel. Jane died in 18G3 and 
 Daniel in 1878. The family have the gift of 
 song which characterizes the Welsh and several 
 of the children rank high as vocalists. Mr. 
 Rowland served six years on the School Board 
 of Racine and acted in the capacity of Alder- 
 man about four years. His half brother, John 
 D. Morgan, was in the same regiment, passed 
 through the same experiences until Brentwood 
 Station and died at Nashville, March 25, 1863. 
 His body was brought to Racine for burial. 
 
 ^„^^g^*.H^ 
 
 AMES R. SPENCER, an attorney at 
 Waukesha, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 19, was born Nov. 10, 1844 in 
 Cortland county. New York. His parents, 
 James and Bethia (Bennett) Spencer, removed 
 to Pennsylvania about 1846 and settled on the 
 Susquehanna River on a farm where the son 
 remained until he attained the age of 19 years. 
 He enlisted in February, 1864, and joined 
 Company F, 52d Pennsylvania Infantry as a 
 recruit, reaching the regiment within 10 days 
 after enrolling. The command was engaged 
 in the siege of Charleston and Mr. Spencer 
 
 performed duty on .James and Morris Islands 
 in the harbor, connected with the operations 
 that resulted in the surrender of the city, which 
 may be considered as the cradle of rebellion. 
 The islands in possession of the United States 
 troops were covered with batteries and the 
 infantry fought as artillerymen, enduring 
 great hardship and exposure, and subjected to 
 many dangers which have received little recog- 
 nition at the hands of the historian. On one 
 end of Morris Island the rebels had huge bat- 
 teries, the guns, in some instances being so 
 large a man could creep into them. (The 
 "Swamp Angel, " belonging to the Union army, 
 was an eight-inch gun). The firing of the 
 Union troops upon the city was so effective that 
 not a building upon the seaboard remained 
 intact at the date of the iall of Charleston. Mr. 
 Spencer in March, 1865, with his regiment, 
 went to Newbern to join Sherman's army when 
 he arrived on the coast, and was assigned to 
 the command which went with the great leader 
 who had broken the backbone of the confeder- 
 acy, to the finale at Goldsboro and Raleigh 
 and witnessed the surrender of .Joe Johnston, 
 April 26th. He remembers the excitement 
 that prevailed on the receipt of the news of the 
 assassination of the President and states that if 
 the battle which was impending had been 
 fought, the results to the rebels would have 
 been something that would have made a sor- 
 rowful page of history. His regiment went to 
 Salisbury, where he remained until July, when 
 he went to Harrisburg, Pa., and was mustered 
 out at Camp Curtin, July 22, 1865. His dis- 
 cbarge was dated at Salisbury, July r2th. 
 
 After tlie war, Mr. Spencer followed the trade 
 of a carpenter for several years. In 1866 he 
 went to Wisconsin, locating at Brookfield where 
 he resided until 1870 when he went to Wau- 
 kesha. He entered the law office of W. S. 
 Hawkins and read for his profession under hi§ 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 instructions until he was admitted to the Bar 
 
 in .lune, 1S72. Since that date lie lias been 
 engaged in the duties of an attorney. He is 
 prominent in political circles, lias served two 
 years as Ciiairnian of the County Republican 
 Committee and also in several municipal 
 offices. He has served eight years as Justice 
 and five years as one of the Special Ti'oasury 
 agents of Waukesha county. In 1885 he acted 
 as Supervisor. He is prominent as a Mason 
 and Odd Fellow and as a (irand Army man. 
 He was a charter member of his Post and 
 served as Adjutant three years. He has been 
 Commander two years, several times delegate 
 to State Encampments ami was delegate to the 
 National Encampment at St. Louis in 1887. 
 He was Aid on the personal stall' of Com- 
 mander-in-Chief Rea. The maternal grand- 
 father of Mr. Spencer was a soldier of 1S12 and 
 his only brother, Wm. L S])eiicer, was a soldier 
 in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry. 
 
 Tiie marriage of Mr. Spencer to Elizabeth A. 
 Chamberlain took place Sept. 5, 1872, and their 
 children are named Grace B., Jessie M. and 
 Bessie A. Tiie father of Mi's. Spencer and two 
 brothers, named respectively Eugene R. and 
 George L, were soldiers in Wisconsin regiments 
 during the war. 
 
 ^^^ ZRA L. MOWliRS, La Crosse, Wis., 
 
 iTTT^— V member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 ^^ ^ born March 6, 1842, at Albanj', New 
 York. His father, Jacob Mowers, was born in 
 Herkimer Co., New York, and married Almina 
 Hall, a native of Schoiiarie county in the same 
 State. The lineage of Mr. Mowers in the pa- 
 ternal line descends from the stock tliat settled 
 the Mohawk Valley and which included the 
 Van Rens.'selaers, Herkimers and Astors, and 
 in the maternal line he is of English extrac- 
 
 ; tion. His grandfather, Peter Mowers, was a 
 soldier in the Indian wars, in the war of the 
 Revolution and 1812. The wife of the latter 
 was a pioneer child in the neighborhood of 
 malicious Indians and passed through terrible 
 experiences when the country was all frontier, 
 one of which was having her coil of hair shot 
 off l)y an Indian arrow. The father of Mr. 
 Mower was a blacksmith and farmer and went 
 West with his family in 1844, crossing the 
 lakes to Racine, Wisconsin, and driving thence 
 to Lake county, Illinois, and locating at what 
 is now Half Day, and where he still resides; 
 his wife died in 1879 near Albany, N. Y. The 
 children were named Ezra, George, John, 
 Frank and Alice. Mr. Mowers obtained an ad- 
 vanced degree of education at the Waukegan 
 Academy after leaving the common school. 
 
 He was 19 years old when the events which 
 preceded the war interested his attention and 
 when State organizations were being formetl he 
 joined one at Half Day in" April, 1861. Soon 
 after came the call of the President for 75,000 
 troops and with his company he was mustered 
 into the U. S. service, May 24, 1861, in Com- 
 pany 1, 15th Illinois Infantry, with T. J. Turner 
 as Colonel. The former organization had head- 
 quarters in the old " Patterson " house and 
 after drilling two weeks enlisted for three 
 months. The 15th went into rendezvous at 
 Freeport, Illinois, and on being mustered in, 
 enlisted for three years' service. About the 
 middle of June they went to Alton and became 
 a ])ortion of a l>rigade under Colonel Hecker. 
 Aliout the middle of Jul\- the regiment 
 received orders to go to St. Charles, Mo., 
 and thence went to Mexico in pursuit of bush- 
 whackers. The next removal was to Fulton, 
 -Mo., and, three weeks later, another movement 
 was made to St. Aubert, Mo., whence the com- 
 mand embarked for St. Louis. Orders were 
 there received to proceed to Rolla and there the 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 command went into camp. Mr. Mowers was 
 taken sick and obtained leave of absence, re- 
 joining liis regiment at Sedalia six weeks later. 
 In February they were ordered out of winter ^ 
 quarters for St. Louis and thence went to Fort 
 Donelson, Tenn., arriving just after the termina- 
 tion of the action and were placed on duty as 
 guard of the rebel prisoners. March 5, 1862, 
 a movement to Fort Henry was made and I 
 thence to Pittsburg Landing, for assignment 
 to Gen. Stephen A. Ilurlbut's Division. II is 
 command was in the tight at Sliiloh in which 
 nearly half of Company I were killed or 
 wounded and he helped bury 144 of his regi- 
 ment. The siege of Corinth followed and after- 
 wards Mr. Mowers was in the chase to Holly 
 Springs, going next to Grand .Junction. He 
 was in the second action at Holly Sj)rings, and 
 went to La Grange and thence to Memphis to 
 camp after the action at Moscow. He went | 
 with Ilurlbut's Division to Bolivar and to 
 Hatchie and was in the fight there with Price 
 and Van Dorn, returning to Bolivar with an 
 escort for 1,400 prisoners. There tlie 13th 
 Corps was organized, including the 2d Brigade 
 and 3d Division under Hurlbut and the next 
 movement of that command was to Holly 
 Springs and Oxford, Miss. \'an Dorn was 
 threatening the supply ])Ost of Holly Springs 
 and they fell back there and to Franklin, where 
 they went into winter quarters. In the spring 
 of 1863 the command started on the Vicksburg 
 campaign, went to Memphis and Young's 
 Point, up the Yazoo River and to Haines' 
 Bluff. The regiment took position on the ex- 
 treme left in McClernand's command and 
 passed through the siege of Vicksburg, remain- 
 ing until after the surrender, when they were 
 transferred to the 17th Corps. They were in 
 the action at Jackson, having fought at Cham- 
 pion's Hill, drove out the rebels under .Johnston 
 and went to Natchez. They returned to \lcks- 
 
 burg and went next to the Meridian expedition, 
 where Mr. Mowers took part in the work of de- 
 struction under Sherman. The winter was 
 passed at Vicksburg and in the spring of 1864 
 the command went to Cairo, where the 17th 
 Corps was reorganized with General Blair in 
 command. The next movement was to Clifton, 
 up the Tennessee River and across to Ilunts- 
 ville, Ala., and, while there, the three years' 
 enlistment expired. Mr. Mowers went with the 
 non-veterans to Nashville and Springfield, 111., 
 and was mustered out in .June, 1864. 
 
 He went home to Lake county and after 
 some time went to Michigan and became in- 
 terested in lumbering, remaining four years. 
 In 1873 he went to La Crosse, Wis., and 
 engaged with the La Crosse Lumber Company, 
 and later with C. L. Coleman ; afterwards he 
 entered the employ of McDonald Bros., as a 
 scaler and filer, in which capacity he is acting 
 in 1890. He was married Sept. 15, 1864, at 
 Racine, Wis., to Mary Leonard, and they have 
 a child named Elmer, born Jan. 1, 1876. 
 
 NDREW JACKSON WARD, M. D., 
 ^ Madison, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Po.st No. 11, was born in New Mil- 
 ford, Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania, March 1, 
 1824. He is the son of William and Sallie 
 (Briggs) Ward, both of whom were of sturdy 
 Puritan ancestry and genuine Yankees of the 
 most decided claims. The son was reared in 
 his native State, received a careful primary 
 education under the guidance of judicious 
 parents and early determined on the profession 
 of a physician as his chosen calling. He ob- 
 tained a training of broader range at the 
 academies in Montro-se and Towanda in the 
 Keystone State and entered the office of Dr. 
 Case, of Howard Flats, Steuben Co., New York, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and in 1843, attended liis first course of lectures 
 at tlie University of Pennsylvania at Pliila- 
 deli)liia, and, after three terms of tiiorougli 
 prei)aration at that institution, he opened his 
 active practice at Painted Post, in the county 
 where he first studied. He was a reading, ob- 
 servant man and saw in the advent of the 
 Mexican war a possihle opening for a school of 
 practice his course of study had not supplied 
 to him, and he hastened to New York, after six 
 months, to enlist in Stevenson's New Yurk 
 \'oluiiteers. The regiment went from the 
 rendezvous at Governor's Island to the after- 
 ward "Golden State" via Cape Horn, arriving 
 in the spring of 1847. He was first ordered to 
 Sonoma in the capacity of Medical Officer and, 
 soon after, was stationed at Sutter's Fort and 
 was there when the gold excitement awakened 
 the interest of the country. While lie was at 
 Sutter's Fort a dinner was given to General 
 Kearney, (shot at Chantilly in the civil war, 
 Sept. 1, 18()2), Indian boys being employed as 
 waiters on tliat festive occasion who presented 
 themselves for duty in primitive condition, and 
 it became necessary to institute a requisition 
 for shirts for tiie brigade of dinner assistants to 
 sustain the dignity of the affair. Wiien General 
 Kearney arrived, General Fremont was there 
 and refused to salute his brother officer, was 
 placed under arrest, tried by court-martial fur 
 conduct unbeconiijig an oflicer and gentleman 
 and was acquitted and saved from the punish- 
 ment in such cases made and provided by the 
 intervention of his father-in-law, Tliomas H. 
 Benton. (Alx)ut tlie date of this writing, July, 
 1890, Fremont passed away in New York). 
 This affair occurred in 1847. A detacliment 
 from tlie regiirient was sent to San Luis Key, 
 Lower California, where he remained until the 
 fall of 1849, when the regiment was disbanded. 
 (Sherman's Memoirs, Page 39, mentions this 
 fact.) After he was mustered out Dr. Ward 
 
 practiced medicine at Sutter's Fort one year 
 and then returned East on the steamer Oregon 
 
 )\- tile way of Panama, actiu' 
 
 liis capacity 
 
 of a jihysician and surgeon. 
 
 He went to ^\'asllington and remained a 
 short time and went thence to North Carolina; 
 after a few mouths he went to Madison, Wis- 
 consin, reaching that place about the first of 
 July, 1850. After practicing medicine actively 
 ten years, in 1860 he went to the scenes of ex- 
 citement ill Denver, Colorado, and the Rocky 
 Mountains. lie was there about a year and 
 became connected with the history of that lo- 
 cality in the capacity of a medical man. He 
 obtained a knowledge of all the settled portions 
 in that vicinity and with it an acquaintance 
 with many men whose names became public 
 property through their connection with tlie in- 
 teresting events of that section. He was with 
 Major II. II. Sibley at Taos, New Mexico, when 
 a courier arrived from Denver in haste, an- 
 nouncing the attack on Sumter. Impelled 
 by the spirit of sires wiio luul fouglit to estab- 
 lish the Government, Dr. Ward waited for no 
 particulars, Ijut sjirang impetuously to his am- 
 bulance, wliicii was in waiting for him to 
 linisii tlie civilities of guest at tea with the ma- 
 jor, and made his return with all possible dis- 
 patch to Denver, a distance of '250 miles, 
 through territory infested with hostile Indians 
 and wholly uninhabited by white men. He 
 reached his destination without being molested, 
 sold his amliulanco and dejiarted by stage to 
 Leavenworth, and took tlie boat for St. Louis, 
 where he was a witness of the tremendous ex- 
 citement in a State where the factions of the 
 Union and rebellion were striving for sway. 
 Col. Frank P. Blair was engaged in raising a 
 Union regiment and offered Dr. Ward a posi- 
 tion as surgeon, which the latter refused, pre- 
 ferring to return to Madison, regarding Wiscon- 
 sin as the Stale to which he should be 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 accredited, ami lie arrived in its capital city 
 within tlie same mouth which saw the inaug- 
 uration of rebellion. The first regiments were 
 already on their way to the field and the 5th 
 Infantry was being organized. Dr. Ward re- 
 ceived an appointment for a temporarj'^ position 
 as surgeon with it and, after the first battle of 
 Bull Run, Governor Randall telegraphed in- 
 structions for the immediate attendance of Dr. 
 Ward at Washington and on his arrival there 
 he was commissioned Surgeon of the 2d Wis- 
 consin Infantry, Dr. J. M. Lewis having been 
 cajitured by the rebels. From this date until 
 in the autumn of 1863, the histor\^ of the Iron 
 Brigade is that of one of its surgeons who was 
 never absent from his post. (When he joined 
 his conuuand the regiment was brigaded under 
 (then) Col. W. T. Sherman. Calling at his 
 tent one day for a pass, he was regarded by the 
 grim soldier with curious interest. "I ought 
 to know }'ou ; " said the officer, " did you not 
 jiull a tooth for me with a claw hammer at 
 Sutter's Fort in (California in 1848. " Tiie hero 
 of the backbone ejiisode of tiie war was then a 
 li<'utenantin the regular army.) He discharged 
 his duties at the various positions on the Rap- 
 pahannock, at Gainesville, 2d Bull Run, An- 
 tietam, Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
 Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. 
 
 Dr. Ward describes the battle of Gainesville 
 as particularly severe, and states that the loss 
 in the fighting on August 28th, 29th and 30th 
 as appalling, the regiment going into action 
 with about 430 men and losing 297 in killed, 
 wounded and missing. He was in charge of 
 about 200 wounded on the field of his own 
 command and with them was captured by the 
 rebels. His horse, a very fine bay, was appro- 
 priated by "Extra Billy Smith," of unwhole- 
 ^(ime rel)el notoriety, and his .saddle became 
 the property of one of the "Virginia Tullivers," 
 
 Dr. Ward 
 
 commanding 
 
 a rebel brigade. 
 
 chafed for a few days over the discomforts to 
 which his wounded were subjected and, finally, 
 with characteristic energy resolved to make his 
 way to the commander of the confederate army 
 and urge the necessities of his men. He found 
 General Lee at his headquarters, five miles 
 away, was received with true Virginian cour- 
 tesy and his complaint was heeded in a practical 
 manner, the rebel chief ordering his own son 
 to go with a flag of truce to the Union com- 
 mander notifying him that permission was 
 granted to collect the wounded of the Union 
 troops in rebel custody from the named fields 
 and to transfer them to the Union lines. Dr. 
 Ward had candidly stated that he wanted for 
 his men, not only needed supplies, but transfer 
 to tiie Union lines, and it is recorded as a mat- 
 ter of perhaps heretofore unwritten history 
 that he obtained the relief and transfer, not 
 onl}' of the wounded under his immediate care, 
 Ijut those within the rebel line. His arrange- 
 ment with Lee was telegraphed to Washington 
 and the Surgeon-General forwarded all the 
 aniliulances, carriages and vehicles obtainable 
 that could be aj)pro|iriated to the service in 
 question. Dr. AVard accompanied the first 
 train of several hundred wounded mvn and 
 gave his personal attention to their distribu- 
 tion in the hospitals in and around Washing- 
 ton, returning to his command just in time to 
 take charge of the wounded at South Moun- 
 tain. 
 
 When the first day's fighting at Gettysburg 
 was ended, Dr. Ward was left in charge of all 
 the wounded of the 1st Army Corps, number- 
 ing about 2,119, among them being General 
 Lucius Fairchild, whose arm he amputated. 
 
 In the fall of 1863 the command went into 
 winter quarters with Di-. Ward as Medical Di- 
 rector of the 1st Division, 1st Army C'orps. In 
 the spring of 1864, the Division witli the rest 
 of the army of Grant crossed the Rapidan, 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 and at a breakfast to which General Wads- 
 woi'tli, Divisiuii Coiiiiiiandcr, iiivitt<l his I'litire 
 staff, the host remarked in tlie course of tiie 
 meal, "If we got through this all right, I will 
 invite you all to spend tlie winter with me on 
 my plantation in Florida." The gallant ofHcer 
 led liis men to the Wilderness where he 
 was shot May Gth. The command engaged 
 in the lights in the Wilderness and lost very 
 heavily. Dr. Wan! and his assistants attended 
 and sent to tlie rear !*00 wounded, many 
 of whom had suffered the amputation of an 
 arm or leg, all being transj)orted in army 
 wagons on pine bushes a distance of 30 miles 
 across the country to Fredericksburg. At 
 Kjiottsylvania, Colonel Ilarshaw, State Treas- 
 urer of Wisconsin at tliis writing, 1889, had an 
 arm amputated by Dr. Ward. 
 
 When the 2d Wisconsin veteranized. Dr. 
 Ward was commissioned surgeon of the 43d 
 Wisconsin Infantry, which was enlisted and 
 organized in July and August, 1864, and joined 
 the command at .lohnsonvillc, Tenn. Alter a 
 few days' looking over the situation, he took 
 charge of a considerable number of sick and 
 wounded, accompanying them to Nashville. 
 On reporting to Dr. Mitchell, Medical Director 
 of the Department, he was met with, "My God ! 
 Dr. Ward! is it you? Where have you been 
 all these years — since 1846? You are just the 
 man I want to see here." Through the iii- 
 lluence of his classmate at the University of 
 Philadel])hia, he received a staff' appointment 
 with tienoral Thomas, whose army was falling 
 back to Nashville with Hood on its heels. Dr. 
 Ward was, in his position of Inspector of all the 
 hospitals in the city and vicinity, directed to 
 order out all convalescents able lo perform 
 military duty and, under his directions, 2,000 
 invalids went into the trenches. After matters 
 had quieted. Dr. Ward conducted an ambulance 
 train, conveying sick and injured soldiers from 
 
 Knoxville, ChatUmooga and Huntsville to 
 Nashville. After Jmc's surrender he resigned 
 his commission and returned to Madison, where 
 he received an appointment as Surgeon at 
 Camp Randall in the same year. Later lie was 
 breveted Lieutenant-Colonel by President .John- 
 son for meritorious service. Since 1860, with 
 the exceiition of the period of the Cleveland ' 
 adminislralion, Dr. Ward has acted as Pension 
 Examiner, lacing re-appointed by President 
 Harrison in May, 1889. He is one of the most 
 respected citizens of Madison and enjoys a sub- 
 stantial practice. He possesses a character full 
 of traits which render him conspicuous for 
 integrity, jniblic spii'it and energy. He has 
 been popular in bis business and social rela- 
 tions and hi all his connections with his gen- 
 eration has received the trust and esteem to 
 which bis career entitles him. He was a 
 charter member of C. C. Washliurn Post, for- 
 merly Cassius Fairchild Post. In 1S8S he was 
 apjiointed by the Department Commander to 
 111! a vacancy as State Surgeon of the G. A. R. 
 of Wisconsin. 
 
 He was mairicd in August, 184(i, to Ellen 
 McConnell and lliey have had two children. 
 Jessie is deceased and Elizabeth is the widow 
 of Charles Atwood, formerly ^'ice-Consul to 
 Liverpool. (Sec sketch of Gen. David Atwood). 
 
 The portrait of Dr. Ward which aj)pears on 
 page 700, will give satisfaction to Wisconsin 
 soldiers to an extraordinary degree. 
 
 :\ IIHJP CHEEK, Jr., Haraboo, Wiscon- 
 sin, charter member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 9, (Joe Hooker) was born May 11, 
 1841, in Silverion, Somersetshire, England, of 
 which Cuuntry his parents were nativcsand de- 
 scended from a line of unmixed English ances- 
 try. He is the son of Philip and Hannah 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 711 
 
 (Gunningliara) (Jlieek. In 1852, tlie senior 
 Clieek removed liis family to America, reacli- 
 ing tills country April 1st and locating in 
 Newark, New Jersey, where he remained two 
 years and removed thence to Pawtucket, Rhode 
 Islan<], where he resided the same length of 
 time. In May, 1S5G, he settled in Excelsior, 
 Sauk Co., Wis., where his son was a resident 
 until 1870 when he moved to Baraboo. The 
 latter was essentially a farmer until 1S70, wlien 
 he severed his active connection with the busi- 
 ness of an agriculturist. He was almost 
 twenty years of age when the civil war came 
 on, and developed to his understanding his obli- 
 gations as a future citizen of a land disturbed 
 by internecine differences. He read his duty 
 clearly in the progress of events and resolved 
 to enter the service of the country which guar- 
 anteed to him the possession of his rights and 
 privileges as a man, and enrolled as a defender 
 of her flag. 
 
 He enlisted May 10, 1861, in Comjiany A, 
 6th Wisconsin Infantry, unconsciously carving 
 his name on a roster which tells its stor}' to the 
 world on every page of the history of the war 
 as the "Iron Brigade." After rendezvous at 
 Camp Randall, Madison, he was mustered Jul}' 
 IGth and was with his command when it left 
 for Washington on the 28th. In camp at Ar- 
 lington Heights, he received full instruction 
 in the ways of the warfare he was expected to 
 participate in during the months that were im- 
 mediately at hand. An advance of the army 
 was confidently anticipated, not only by the 
 whole country, but by the soldiers of the Army 
 of Virginia. But all were doomed to the dis- 
 appointment of delay and the winter was 
 passed in drill, parade and review. March lU, 
 1802, a movement was made on Manassas ; and 
 after the evacuation, the command went to 
 Alexandria, later going to position on tlie Rap- 
 pahannock, where the regiments of the brigade 
 
 engaged in such service as the emergency de- 
 manded, building jwntoons and guarding 
 bridges and blockhouses. In May, the com- 
 mand expected to form the advance of the 
 reinforcements for the army of McClellan, but 
 went instead to connect with Shields to prevent 
 the retreat of Jackson from the valley of the 
 Shenandoah. They returned to Falmouth and 
 in July took part in a scrimmage in the vicinity 
 of Spottsylvania C. H., engaged in the destruc- 
 tion of railroad projierty and other rebel sin- 
 ews of war, returning to Spottsylvania. They 
 were in the skirmish at Beverly Ford, fought 
 again at Sulphur .Springs, and, two days later, 
 Mr. Cheek helped win his honors as a member 
 of the Iron Brigade in the bloody fight at 
 Gainesville. He was again in action at the 2d 
 Bull Run, where, as well as in the former ac- 
 tion, the loss to the brigade was terrible. He 
 was in the preparations for the subsequent ac- 
 tions resulting from Lee's invasion of Mary- 
 land ; and, after the chase, Mr. Cheek was again 
 in l)attle at South Mountain and in the pursuit 
 of the rebels on the loth of September and on 
 the following day, and fought them again at 
 Antietam. The heroic service of the "Iron 
 Brigade" on those days will never be told in all 
 its strength ; men came thence so dazed by the 
 rapidity of the action and the accumulation of 
 horrors, that they could not speak of what they 
 had witnessed. The company of Mr. Cheek 
 went into battle at South Mountain with 44 
 men ; three men and a sergeant responded at 
 roll call on the ITth after the battle of Antietam. 
 
 Mr. Cheek was among the severely wounded. 
 A piece of shell struck him in his right ankle 
 and he was taken from the field to the house 
 of a Union citizen of Reedsville, Md., whence 
 he was sent to Washington for examination 
 and where he received honorable discharge as 
 unfit for further military duty, Dec. 18, 1SG2. 
 
 He returned to Baraboo, wholly disabled and 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 was unable to resume active labor until the 
 following summer. Nov. 15, 1863, he was ap- 
 pointed Deputy Provost Marshal of the 3d 
 Congressional District of Wisconsin under 
 Captain .John (i. Clark of Lancaster. In 1870 
 he was made Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
 Sauk county and, during six years of service 
 as such, read law and fitted for admission to 
 the Bar, which ceremony took place Jan. 1, 
 1876. He opened liis husiness as a lawyer at 
 IJaraboo and practiced there until .January, 
 1S87, meanwhile serving five years as District 
 Attorney. In 188G he was elected Commis- 
 sioner of Insurance <in tlie Republican ticket 
 and was re-elected in 1888; he is still holding 
 the incumbency in 1890. 
 
 The personal connection of Mr. Cheek with 
 Grand Army matters in the State of Wiscon- 
 sin entitles him to special cre<lit in that rela- 
 tion. He was a charter inemlier of his Post, 
 was its first Commander and is holding that 
 jwsition at this writing. In 1SS3-4 he was 
 Commander of the l)ej)artnu'nt of Wisconsin. 
 In 1885-6 he was Assistant Adjutant-(!cneral 
 of the Department and, during the adminis- 
 tration of Commander-in-Chief Fairchild, was 
 Senior Aid-de-Canij) on his staff. In the sev- 
 eral National Encampments, he has performed 
 effective service, in view of whicli, he is one of 
 the most popular and thoroughly appreciated 
 members of the fraternity. At the date of bis 
 war service, Mr. Cheek was an alien under the 
 laws of his adopted country, of wiiich he did 
 not become a citizen until January, 1869. lie 
 is a member of the Order of Masons. 
 
 July 20, 1801, he was married to Catherine, 
 daughter of Henry and Mary Faller. Three 
 children were the issue of the marriage. Rob- 
 ert W. was killed by a stroke of lightning, 
 April J4, 1880, when fifteen and a half years 
 of age; Arthur W. was born March 11, 1867; 
 Catherine Jane was born Jan. 31, 1873. The 
 
 brothers and sisters of Mr. Cheek were named 
 as follows: Jane, Sarah A., Robert, Hannah and 
 Elizabeth, and Jane and Robert are deceased. 
 The latter was a soldier in Company A, 19th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and was killed Aug. 7, 
 18(!4, at Petersburg, Va. 
 
 OLONEL MILES L. BUTTERFIELD, 
 Waukesha, Wis., a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 19, was born Nov. 27, 1837, 
 in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and in 1842 his par- 
 ents, David and Susan (Case) Butterfield, 
 removed to Knightstown, Henry Co., Ind. 
 The mother died there in 1854 and the father 
 survived until 1880, dying at the age of 74 
 years. Of their nine children only four are 
 living. They are Mrs. Harriet Shelley, Sylves- 
 ter, who fought in the war in an Ohio regi- 
 ment under Sherman, Miles L. and John, who 
 was in an Illinois regiment. Leon (deceased) 
 was a soldier in the i»2d Indiana Infantry. 
 Colonel Butterfield ])assed his youth in .school 
 and, when about 16 years old, entered a shop 
 to learn the trade of a carriage painter and 
 trimmer. In 1855 he removed to Waukesha 
 and engaged in business as a painter and 
 worked in the car shops in Milwaukee for a 
 time. He early determined to enlist when the 
 war came on, and enrolled May 10, 1861, in 
 the Waukesha LTnion Guards, which was mus- 
 tered as Company F, 5th Wisconsin Infantry. 
 He made himself familiar with military tactics 
 and ilrilled his company both before and after 
 muster, and on the organization was made 
 Orderly Sergeant. The command went from 
 Camp Randall, Madison to Washington and 
 was ordered forward to the Army of the Poto- 
 mac just after the first battle of Bull Run. 
 The winter was passed at Camp tiritlln on 
 Arlington Heights and, March 10th, they 
 
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 started for tliu Maiiiissas campaign, returned to 
 Alexandria and went next to tlie Peninsula. 
 In the action of April 4th, a nieniber of Com- 
 pany F was the first man wounded. The regi- 
 ment was in the subsequent movements until 
 tlie evacuation of Yorktown and battle of 
 Williamsburg, where they elicited the only 
 .speech McClellan ever made to a command. 
 Company F was in all the movements of the 
 Cliickahominy campaign, fighting at Golden's 
 Farm, Savage Station and White Oak Swamp 
 Bridge on the retreat to Malvern Hill, and 
 being constantly under fire until jirior to 
 arrival at Harri-son's Landing. In August the 
 finale of the " change of base " was made, 
 McClellan's army leaving the Peninsula. The 
 regiment moved to clieck Lee's career in Mary- 
 land and passed a period under constant assault 
 until the l;)attle of South Mountain and Antie- 
 tam, Sept. 17th, three days later tiian Cramp- 
 ton's Gap. Next in order was the fight at 
 Fredericksburg, occupying four days in Decem- 
 ber and on the 25th Sergeant Butterfield was 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant. He was in everj' 
 action in which his command participated 
 after this campaign ; fought in the charge at 
 Marye's Heigiits, Salem Church, Gettysburg, 
 Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove (Mine 
 Hun), battles of the Wilderness including , 
 Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor and siege of 
 Petersburg, and went to the defense of Wash- ' 
 ington in July, 1864. There the veterans and 
 recruits were formed into an Independent Bat- 
 talion, three comj^anies being constituted, with 
 Miles L. Butterfield as Captain of Comj)any C. 
 Tiie battalion went to the valley of the Siien- 
 andoali where it was joined by seven com- 
 panies from Wisconsin under Colonel T. S. 
 Allen, and Captain Butterfield was at the head 
 of his men in the operations under Sheridan 
 which form one of the most prominent fea- 
 tures of the war. After that campaign under 
 
 Sheridan the regiment went to the trenches at 
 Petersburg and was in tlie reconnoissance at 
 Hatcher's Run February 5th, 1865. March 
 25th he was in the charge along the whole 
 rebel line of outposts and, April 2d, he was in 
 the action which opened the gates of Peters- 
 burg. Before day the charge was made and 
 the 5tli planted the first Union colors above 
 the citadel. The regiment was in the pursuit 
 and Captain Butterfield went through to the 
 finish, fighting at Little Sailors' Creek and 
 witnessing the final scenes at Appomattox. 
 He started with his command for connection 
 with Sherman to assist in the finish with Joe 
 Johnston, but received at Danville the news of 
 the surrender and returned North, making 
 one of the severest marches accomplished by 
 the regiment during its service. 
 
 Following are the dates of the promotions of 
 Colonel Butterfield after passing the non-com- 
 missioned grades: Second Lieutenant, Dec. 25, 
 1862; First Lieutenant, March 1, 1863; Cap- 
 tain, Jan. 28, 1864; he was breveted Major of 
 the 5th to rank as such from Sept. 19, 1864, 
 "for gallant conduct through the Wilderness 
 Campaign, in the battle of Winchester, etc." 
 He was comniLssioned as Lieutenant Colonel of 
 the 5th, ranking as such from April 6, 1865, 
 "for gallant and meritorious services before 
 Petersburg and Little Sailors' Creek." At the 
 last named action Major (then) Butterfield, with 
 two other men capjtured Custis Lee, a son of the 
 rebel chief, together with five other rebel 
 officers. No man is regarded with more re- 
 spect and honor as having a high record than 
 Colonel Butterfield. His relics of the war are 
 interesting and entertaining and one of them 
 is a necktie worn by Sheridan while on his 
 way to Winchester which Colonel Butterfield 
 saw fall to the ground while the furious general 
 was on his way "to lick them out of their boots." 
 Following is the correspondence relating to the 
 
714 
 
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 article: "Nov. 21, 18G4. General: On the 
 lOtii of September, while you were riding along 
 the front lines, just as you were passing our 
 regiment the enclosed "necktie," having l)e- 
 come loosened, fell to the ground ; 1 iiad the 
 honor of picking it uji; I jirize it highl}' as a 
 memento of that hard fought battle and 
 glorious victory and will be grateful if you will 
 be i)leased to return it to me that I may, on 
 some future day, show it to my friends as the 
 "necktie" that fell from General Sheridan's 
 neck as he rode along the front lines at the 
 battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, picked up 
 by myself. Hoping you will ever be victorious 
 as on that memorable day, I have Ihe honor, 
 etc.. Miles L. Butterlield." 
 
 The "necktie" came back accompanied by the 
 following autograph letter: "My Dear Cap- 
 tain: 1 return to you the "necktie" — will be 
 glad if you will keep it, and I thank j'ou for 
 your well wishes. Phil. H. Sheridan, Major 
 General." 
 
 Colonel Butterfield was the Union officer 
 who received the surrender of Petersburg, as 
 stated by Chas. H. Harrimau in a despatch to 
 the New York Herald. He was in command 
 of a division and was in charge of the front 
 lines. The abstract of the message was to the 
 purport that W. \V. Town, Mayoi', W. R. Mal- 
 lory, Ciiairnian of the Council, C. F. Collier, 
 City Treasurer, and Rev. D. W. Paul came out 
 to the South Side and were met by General 
 Edwards and Colonel Naylor, Corps and Divi- 
 sion Commanders, and also Ijy Major M. L. 
 Butterfield of General Wheaton's statt' to whom 
 the Mayor presented a letter for transmission 
 to General Grant or any other general ollicer, 
 stating that the city had been abandoned by 
 Lee's army and would be surrendered to the 
 Union troops. Colonel Butterfield received 
 the surrender and it was sent to Major-General 
 Wright, who returned an answer to the efifect 
 
 that General Parkes had entered the city from 
 the other side and any furtlier proceedings 
 would be unnecesPary. The Mayor was ac- 
 companied to his house by Major Butterfield 
 and met there Roger A. Pryor, who stated to 
 him that he had abandoned the Southern con- 
 federacy as he believed the cause a complete 
 failure. Mr. Collier took Colonel Butterfield 
 to his house and told him he would oflTer liira 
 some breakfast but was obliged to confess that 
 he had none for him.self, such was the strait 
 to which the city was reduced. 
 
 January 5, 1865, Colonel Butterfield was ap- 
 pointed Division Engineer on the staff of 
 Major-General Wheaton, and is in possession 
 of the topograpliical maps jirepared by him- 
 self on the field, showing j)osition of approach- 
 ing troops, etc., etc. June 1 1, 18GG, he received 
 theofferofaljieutenant-Colonerscommission in 
 the regular army from the War Dejiartment, 
 to be assigned to the 16th U. S. Regulars, sta- 
 tioned in Louisiana and sent three months 
 later to the plains. But he did not accept. He 
 did not pass through the service unharmed or 
 unacquainted with the casualties of war. May 
 10, 186-1, he received a l)ullet in his left leg 
 but continued at his post of duty. Si.K months 
 later the wound raged afresh, causing him 
 more trouble than at first. One of his posses- 
 sions as memento of his immediate command 
 is a complete and well-arranged original mus- 
 ter roll of his companj'. Since his return to 
 private life he has been an unassuming busi- 
 ness man of Waukesha, resting on his honors 
 which rest easily on him. He was the second 
 Commander of his Post, and is active in tlie 
 reconstructed organization. He belongs to the 
 Masons, to the Royal Arcanum and Royal 
 Adelphia and was the first President of the 
 Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers Association 
 of Waukesha Co., Wis. He has held the 
 various positions on the County Board and as 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 715 
 
 a military officer of aflvanced rank is always 
 in demand on military occasions. He luls 
 been an active member of the Wankeslia 
 County Agricultural Society 17 years, serving 
 in its various official capacities. His private 
 business is of extensive relations and he em- 
 ])loys a large force of men. 
 
 In character he represents the old school of 
 gentlemen, is modest, unassuming and genial 
 with all, securing liost of friends. 
 
 He was married at Waukesha, Wis., Nov. 
 24, 1863, to Elizabeth Ten Eyck. She is a 
 native of New York and daughter of Matthias 
 Ten Eyck. Two sons born of this union sur- 
 vive. Claude is his father's associate in busi- 
 ness ; Guy A. is in the office of the Waukesha 
 Journal. 
 
 ANS BOEBEIv, Milwaukee, Wis., was 
 ^^^^^ born March 10, 1829 in Bavaria, 
 Germany. His father, Fred Adam 
 Boebel, was a representativeof the better class of 
 German citizenship, whose generations fulfilled 
 the requirements of the government in educa- 
 tion, business and military obligations. He 
 was a tailor and passed his whole life in his 
 native country and both himself and wife died 
 in Bavaria. He married Johanna Arnold and 
 five of their 12 children are living. They are 
 Mrs. Sophia Graf, Conrad Boebel, Mrs. Babette 
 Dresendoalfer, Mrs. Marie Kalb, and Mr. Boe- 
 bel of this sketch. The latter passed his youth 
 in acquiring his education, learning his trade 
 of his father and in conformity with the legal 
 code of his country, which regulates the rear- 
 ing of every male child. In the spring of 1852 
 he came to America and, after passing some 
 time in New York he went to Milwaukee, fol- 
 lowing his trade in both places. 
 
 When the call for troops was made in the 
 
 first pangs of tlie trouble caused by rebellion, 
 he felt himself under obligations to respond to 
 the demand of his adopted country for men to 
 suppress the war inaugurated by fratricidal 
 traitors, as he felt that all he had hoped and 
 striven for was imperiled. He was active in 
 the raising and organizing of the Milwaukee 
 Turner Company, and was made 2d Lieuten- 
 ant. The organization went to Madison, re- 
 ported for assignment for military service to 
 Governor Randall and was mustered as Com- 
 pany C, in the 5th Wisconsin Infantry. This 
 ceremony was performed July r2th and five 
 days later the regiment started for Washing- 
 ton. The command was attached to King's 
 brigade and in September was transferred to 
 that of Hancock, in the right wing of the 
 Army of ^'irginia, remaining until December, 
 1861, when he resigned and returned to Mil- 
 waukee. 
 
 When the call for German troops was made 
 by General Sigel in the summer of 1862, Mr. 
 Boebel was active in the organization of a com- 
 pany, devoting his entire energies to the re- 
 cruiting of Company H, 26th Wi.sconsin 
 Infantry and receiving a commission as Captain. 
 The organization of the regiment was completed 
 at Camp Sigel, Milwaukee, mustered Septem- 
 ber 17, 1862, and left tiie State, October 6th ; 
 went to Fairfax C. H., and was assigned to the 
 3d Brigade under Krycanowski, Sigel's 11th 
 j Army Corps. Captain Boebel was in military 
 ! duty until November 2d, when he marched with 
 the regiment to Gainesville and afterwards to 
 Centerville, and other points, and on the 9th of 
 December, started to make connection with 
 I Burnside at Falmouth. The battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg was just ended when they reached 
 the Rappahannock and the corps went into 
 winter quarters at Stafford C. H., and remained 
 until the opening of the campaign of 1863. In 
 January Captain Boebel received his promotion 
 
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 to the second highest rank in the regiment, 
 that of Lieutenant-Colonel and was in his place 
 of duty through the opening of the campaign. 
 His regiment, brigade and corps were in the 
 right wing in the lighting at Chancellorsville 
 in which tlie 26th Wisconsin lost 37 killed, 117 
 wounded, 20 prisoners and three missing. His 
 next action was in the march after Lee, prior 
 to the battle of Gettysburg and the regiment 
 reached the field on the 1st day of July after 
 the firing had commenced, the corps being as- 
 signed to position in the right wing. Colonel 
 Boebel was in command of his regiment and, 
 with the entire corps, was compelled to reti'eat 
 after the first action, joining the center of the 
 army, falling back to Cemeter}^ Hill and losin'g 
 from his command 41 killed, 137 wounded, 26 
 prisoners and six missing. On the 1st day of 
 July in the action referred to, he was wounded 
 in his right leg by a minie ball and the leg 
 was, soon after, injured again b}' a piece of 
 shell. He lay on the field, first receiving atr 
 tention from the surgeons July 4th, and, after 
 undergoing amjmtiition, was transferred to the 
 hospital near Gettysburg, where he remained 
 until he was sent to Milwaukee in August. 
 More than a year elapsed before he resumed 
 connection with civil life. As soon as able, he 
 accepted a position as clerk in the office of the 
 City Treasurer of Milwaukee and served five 
 years. In LS7J be was elected City Treasurer 
 for two years and in 1874 was appointed Dep- 
 uty Revenue Collector and acted in that capac- 
 ity ten years. Siiattered health compelled his 
 resignation of his duties and he has since been 
 a j)rivate citizen. 
 
 He was married May 1, 1880, at Milwaukee 
 to Marie, daughter of John and Sophia Wolf. 
 Mr. Boebel is a member of the Milwaukee 
 Turnvereinand is a Rcj)ublican in jioiitics. In 
 character he is a ty|)e of the best German citi- 
 zenship and as such has served nobly in all his 
 
 relations to his adopted Nationality. He was a 
 brave soldier, shrinking never in the face of 
 danger and received his honorable promotion 
 as the reward of courage and ]>atriotism. In 
 all his private relations he has sustained the 
 same modest, loyal and manly course which 
 made him jirominent in his army relations. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 /<^ LIOT C. YOUNG, La Crosse, Wis., 
 
 , ,, V member of G. A. K. Post No. 77, was 
 born Oct. 3, 1841, in Cattaraugus, 
 Venango Co., Pa., and is the son of Geo. W. 
 and Eunice P. (Caswell) Young. The father 
 and mother were, respect iveh', natives of Con- 
 necticut and Rhode Island and both of English 
 descent. In the sj)ring of 1860 the}' removed 
 to Fayette Co., Iowa, and, four years later, went 
 to Missouri, wliere the father died in Novem- 
 ber, 1881, near St. Joe; the wife and mother 
 died at Cattaraugus, Oct. 3, 1S41. The chil- 
 dren, named in order of birth, Julius C, Sarah, 
 George W., Oliver P., Jennie, Eliot C. and Ed- 
 ward A. (twins), are all living, with the ex- 
 ceptions of the two oldest sons. 
 
 When seven years old (having lost his mother 
 at his birth) Eliot went to live with his oldest 
 brother and remained under Ins care until he 
 entered the army when 20 years old. He re- 
 ceived a good schooling and enlisted at Catta- 
 raugus, Oct. 10, 1861, and was mustered into 
 U. S. service Jan. 24, 1862, into Companj' H, 
 111th Pennsylvania Infantry. The Colonel 
 was named Slowdecker and the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel, Geo. A. Cobham. After six weeks in 
 rendezvous at Erie, Pa., the regiment went to 
 Baltimore, thence to Harper's Ferry in March, 
 1862, and Mr. Young was first in action at 
 Charleston and in the retreat in which many 
 lost tiieir equiimients. In the action at A\'in- 
 chester his twin brother was wounded. The 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 regiment passed tlimugh all tiie experiences of 
 Banks' aimy in tlie valley of tlie Slicnandoali 
 in 1S62, tigliting at Culpeper and going into 
 the Manassas campaign to tight Aug. 30, 1862, 
 in the second Bull Run. December IStli he 
 was in the fight at Fredericlvsburg, after pass- 
 ing through the campaign in Maryland, the 
 troops of the Array of Virginia being con- 
 solidated by McClellan in September. He 
 fouglit at South Mountain and Antietam, Sep- 
 tember 14th and 17th, and went into winter 
 quarters at Aquia Creek, near Stafford C. H., 
 with the 3d Brigade, 2d Division and 12tli 
 Corps. In the spring of 18G3 the first duty of 
 the regiment was on tlie picket line on the 
 Ra])pahannock River, Mr. Young liaving been ! 
 promoted to Corporal. He fought, after cross- 
 ing the Rajiidan, at Chancellorsville, May 3d j 
 and 4th, and went after the disastrous battle 
 was over, in which the regiment lost many 
 killed, wounded and prisoners, back to former 
 camp and to Harper's Ferry. The next orders 
 were to go after Lee in his Northward invasion 
 and the regiment fought at Gettysburg, the 
 loss being light in killud and wounded. The 
 command was on guard duty at Harper's Ferry 
 until Hooker, with the 11th and 12th Corps 
 went to the relief of the Western army at Chat- 
 tanooga, and Mr. Young was in the action Oct. 
 26, 1863, at Wauliatchie and moved thence to 
 Chattanooga and was in the fighting November 
 23d, 24th and 2oth at Lookout Mountain and 
 Mission Ridge. Hooker's command took Look- 
 out Mountain on the 24th, the troops of his two 
 corps lying on their arms all night previously 
 and the fight commencing about four in the 
 morning. A\'ith two comrades Mr. Young 
 scaled a ladder leading up to a crevice, which 
 had been placed there by the rebels, and they 
 were the first to occupy the heights of Lookout 
 after the rebels had lied. In the charge on 
 Mission Ridge his regiment was near the center 
 
 of the I'nion line and he was in the victorious 
 movement on the ridge, afterwards chasing the 
 rebels to Ringgold, where they found an old 
 mill and a quantity of bran which they mixed 
 with water, cooked and made of it their first 
 meal that day. After a scrimmage at Ringgold 
 they returned to Wauliatchie and Dec. 28, 1863, 
 veteranizing took place. 
 
 After his furlough, Mr. Young rejoined his 
 command about the first of February at Wau- 
 liatchie and was made Duty Sergeant. He 
 went in the spring of 1804 to the Atlanta cam- 
 paign and was with bis regiment in all the 
 actions preceding the fall of the city, Sept. 
 1, 1864. He fought atResaca, Buzzard's Roost, 
 New Hope Church, the several actions at Ken- 
 esaw Mountain, at Pine Knob and Peach Tree 
 Creek, July 20th, wliei'e Colonel Cobham was 
 killed. Afterwards, he was in the siege of 
 Atlanta and after the surrender camped in the 
 city, performing guard duty. He was then 
 acting Sergeant Major and alter remaining at 
 Atlanta until the re-organization for the march 
 to the sea was completed. The city was burned 
 November 14tb, and on the 15th they com- 
 menced moving towards Savannah with one of 
 Sherman's columns. After marching, skir- 
 mishing, foraging, wading swamps, building 
 roads and going through all that tlie march 
 involved, he was in the siege of Savannah, 
 performing provost duty there after the sur- 
 render until .lanuary loth when the North- 
 ward movement commenced. He was in the 
 last action with .lohnston's troops at Benton- 
 ville, N. C, the 20tli Corps reinforcing the 14th. 
 Thence lie went to Raleigh and there they 
 awaited the surrender of .Johnston which took 
 place April 2Gth. He marched to Richmond 
 and Wa.shington and was in the Grand Review. 
 He was on guard at the prison where the con- 
 spirators in the assassination of Lincoln were 
 confined and afterwards went toCampCopeland 
 
718 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 near Pittsburg for muster out July 19, 1865, 
 and returned home. Tlie llltli was in .'35 
 general engagements and the total loss of regi- 
 ment was (i51 men. 
 
 In tiie same year he went West and located 
 at Clinton, Iowa, and engaged in the ice busi- 
 ness, moving thence to Chicago, and was there 
 when the great fire occurred and aided in 
 clearing away the deljris. He went from there 
 to North Bend, Wis., and operated there three 
 years on the river police force. He removed 
 to La Crosse where he had charge of the police 
 at the mouth of the river, until the spring of 
 1884, when he engaged with the Montrose 
 Luml)er Company. April 1, 188"), he was ap- 
 pointed by the Governor as Lumber Insjiector 
 of the 2(1 District of Wisconsin. He was mar- 
 ried Sept. 19, 1878, at North Bend, Wis., to 
 Lottie E., daughter of Duncan and Sarah Ken- 
 nedy. He has been Commander of his Post 
 two years — 1885-6. He belongs to the Ma- 
 sonic Lodge No. 190 at North La Crosse, to 
 Smith Chapter, No. 13 and La Crosse Com- 
 mandery, No. 9. He is a Roi)ublican in politics. 
 
 -^.^^^*4<- 
 
 /^^AMUEL J. CLARK, Black River Falls, 
 ^^^ Wis., member of G. A. 11. Post No. 92, 
 ^*=i*^ was born Feb. 13, 1843, at Canan- 
 daigua, Ontario Co., New Yoik. 1 1 is parents, 
 Allen G. and Nancy (Owens) (Jlark, were born 
 in Cattaraugus and Chautanqua counties, New 
 York, resj)ectively, the father being of French 
 lineage. They changed location successivelj' 
 from New York State in 1846 to Belvidere, 
 Boone Co., Illinois, in 1856 to Dodge Co., Wi.s- 
 consin and to Sparta, Monroe county in the 
 latter State in 1858, the father being actively 
 engaged in his pursuits as a farmer. The son 
 was brought up to that calling and was his 
 father's assistant until he entered the armv. 
 
 He enlisted March 10, 1862, at Belvidere, 
 HI., and was mustered at Camj) Butler in Com- 
 pany B, 15th Illinois Infantry. When Bragg 
 was making himself entertaining in Northern 
 Kentucky, the regiment was oidered to the 
 front and arrived at Pitt.sburg Landing, in 
 time fur that l)attle. From thence the regiment 
 advance<l on Corinth and then moved on to 
 Menii)his, Mr. Clark joining it afterwards. The 
 next movement was to reinforce the troops at 
 Bolivar where they encountered the Hying 
 rebels from that field at Hatchie River, and 
 whipped them over again under General Hurl- 
 but (Oct. 4th). Returning to Bolivar they 
 camped a few days and moved towards Holly 
 Springs and after several movements connectid 
 with CJrant's campaign they went into winter 
 quarters at Natchez. During the winter the 
 regiment went to Harrisonburg, Miss., to rout 
 a rebel camp which had taken the alarm and 
 routed itself before their arrival, and when 
 the command broke camp in the spring tliey 
 went to Memphis and were assigned to the 16th 
 Corps for the \'icksl)urg campaign. They 
 were afterwards assigned to the loth Corps, 
 General Ord, and held a position on the left of 
 the defenses of \'icksburg until after the sur- 
 render of the city. The command was almost 
 constantly under fire and also performed for- 
 aging duty. After camping in the city near 
 the cemetery they went to the tight at Jackson 
 and returned to a j)oint nine miles from \'icks- 
 burg and constructed winter quarters. In 
 February they left Camp Coweii for the Meri- 
 dian raid, covering the rear of tiie active troops 
 who destroyed an immense amount of rebel 
 property and the regiment afterwards returned 
 to Camp Hebron, 10 miles from N'icksburg. 
 There Mr. Clark was sick with measles. 
 March 10, 1804, he re-enlisted and took his 
 veteran furlough, reporting afterwards at 
 Cairo, where his regiment embarked for Clif- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 719 
 
 toil, Teiin., and moved in the Atlanta campaign 
 in the 2d Brigade, 4th Division and 17th 
 Army Corps, witli General McPliersou, Gen. 
 Giles E. Smith and Colonel Hall. The regi- 
 ment engaged in guarding trains and in other 
 military duty until Allatoona was reached, 
 where Mr. Clark was detailed on the Pioneer 
 Corps and went to the advance of the army. 
 He served with the corps at Resaca, Keiiesaw i 
 and Peach Tree Creek, and was afterwards in 
 tiie trenches at Atlanta until after the surren- i 
 der, when his corps followed up Hood through ' 
 Snake Creek Gap, and returned to Atlanta. 
 The command started with Sherman for the 
 sea, November 15th, and while on a foraging 
 trip, November •2Sth, Mr. Clark was taken 
 prisoner by a party of rebels disguised in the 
 U. S. uniform. He was taken to Florence, 
 S. C, and paroled December 28th, sent thence 
 to Charleston and was placed on a transport 
 for Annapolis, Md. His captors had shot him 
 in the arm through the elljow joint to disable ! 
 him. After a week of recruiting at Annapolis, I 
 the paroled men were given a furlough of 30 
 days and Mr. Clark arrived home just in time 
 to attend his own funeral, iiis friends having 
 lieeii notified that he was dead. His furlough 
 was extended and he was ordered to report at 
 Springfield, 111., where he was mustered out 
 .June 19, 1865. 
 
 He remained at Belvidere until October, 
 18(50, when he settled in Monroe Co., Wis., and 
 engaged in farming at Sparta. After three 
 years he went to La Crosse county where he 
 passed nine years. He resided another year 
 in Monroe county and went to Jackson county, 
 locating in the town of Manchester, and con- 
 ducted his agricultural interests on a farm he 
 had previously purchased. In the spring of 
 1887 he removed to Black River Falls. He is 
 a member of Masonic Lodge, No. 75, at Roscoe, 
 111., and belongs to the Odd Fellows' Order at 
 
 Shamrock, Wis. He is a Republican in jioliti- 
 cal aftiliation. 
 
 He was married Oct. 8, 1865 at Beloit, Wis., 
 to Nellie E., daughter of Michael and Permelia 
 
 E. (Lucas) Kelley. Her father was a native of 
 Ireland and her mother of Italy. Tiie children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Clark who are living are 
 Allen T., Rosaltha S., Eunice M. and (Triton 
 
 F. Alzina I. is deceased. The oldest son and 
 daughter are married. 
 
 y^p^ ILLIAM HOLDEN, Portage, Wis., 
 ^W^/l was born in Rochester, England, 
 #3^ August 10, 1829. tlis parents, 
 Hazael and Matilda (Sparks) Holden, were na- 
 tives of that country and came to America in 
 1850, a year after their son of this sketcii had 
 made his home in America. 
 
 He arrived at the port of New York in Sep- 
 tember, 1849, and went directly to Milwaukee. 
 His parents located at Portage and he found 
 his first employ in Fond du Lac during the 
 winter of 1849-50, going in the fall of the latter 
 year to Portage, .settling on a farm with his 
 father and mother. In 1853 he opened a .shop 
 for the manufacture of buggies and wagons at 
 Portage in company with a partner. In the 
 following year he went back to the farm and 
 remained until he entered the army. In May, 
 1861, lie enlisted in Company G, 2d Wisconsin 
 Infantry for three years or during the war and 
 arrived at Washington June 25th, the 2d Wis- 
 consin being tlie first three years' regiment to 
 reach the capital. Moving in July to camp on 
 the Fairfax road the regiment was brigaded 
 with three others under the famous man who 
 is now General W. T. Sherman, in Tyler's 
 division under McDowell. The brigade went 
 to the relief of the advance of Tyler at 
 Blackburn's Ford where Company B received 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 ii sliot witli fatal effects. (Company G was 
 close by and an editor in the ranks named 
 Chandler, and nicknamed Sluuighai, was asked 
 by a comrade what he tliought of it; "the 
 American eagle's tail droojjeth " was his re- 
 sponse.) This was the first time the regiment 
 was nnder fire. It was one of the few regi- 
 ments at Bull Rnn which preserved its organi- 
 zation and thi-oughdut its service lield good the 
 record made there. (See sketch of G. E. Smith.) 
 While making an assault on a battery under 
 an enlilading lire, they reached a prominent 
 position which they held until the rebels re- 
 ceived reinforcement and they were obliged to 
 fall hack, having suffered a loss as .stated by 
 Mr. Holden of 30 killed, 105 wounded and Go 
 missing. August 25th the regiment was trans- 
 ferred to Rufus King's brigade and went to 
 winter quarters. Mr. Holden w'as in the 
 spring campaign to Manassas and also went to 
 the movement to prevent the retreat of Stone- 
 wall .Jackson fi'oni the Shenandoah ^'alley in 
 May, marching 104 miles in three days. He 
 went to assist ro])e in the July expedition at 
 Sulphur Springs, sustained an attack from a 
 rebel battery and was in Ihc infantry skirmish 
 which followed. At CJainesville he was one of 
 nine men left of his comjiany, in which fight 
 the brigade earned its title of " Iron Brigade" 
 whether it was there received or not. Mr. 
 Holden was hit by a piece of shell on his lower 
 lip and in the right breast, but neither inflicted 
 a serious wound. In the action at Antietam 
 the color guards were dead or disabled and 
 Cor])oral Holden with Paul \'. Brishoi brought 
 the flag safely from the field. In the review 
 by the President, after the fight, Holden and 
 three comrades were the only ones in line from 
 their com]iany. 
 
 He fought at South Mountain September 
 14th, the 2d leading the attack on the left and 
 after the march to Antietam the regiment was 
 
 almost disabled from constant fighting through 
 Maryland but performed excellent service. 
 Mr. Holden fought at Fredericksburg and also 
 at Chancellorsville and went into the Gettys- 
 burg campaign, and in that historic fight his 
 regiment again suffered heavily. The casual- 
 ties among the officers showed the material of 
 which the Wisconsin soldiers was made, so 
 many were killed and injui'ed, among them 
 being Fairchild, Stevens ami Mansfield. The 
 latter was wounded and the senior captain on 
 the field, Gibson of Company C, ordered 
 Sergeant Holden to take him to the rear and 
 with another comrade they carried him to a 
 brick house close by, a rebel shell tearing 
 through the building just as they arrived. 
 About 20 wounded men were in the house 
 who begged to be taken to the cellar, 
 and Holden and his companion complied and 
 assisted in the work. On starting to rejoin the 
 regiment they found the rebels in possession 
 and themselves prisoners. Mr. Holden was 
 escorted several miles to the rear by a rebel 
 guard, passing over the naked bodies of his 
 fallen comrades who had been stripped before 
 they were cold in death, by the rebel vandals. 
 The same scamps proposed that their jirisoners 
 .should carry a sack filled with the clothing but 
 they refused and "stuck to it." July 3d Ser- 
 geant Holden was paroled on the lield and 
 marched to Carlisle, (22 miles) where he took 
 a train for Harrisburg, Pa., and thence to 
 Westchester, remaining six weeks. He was 
 ordered to join his regiment, but the surgeon 
 interfered^ and he went to Convalescent Camp 
 at Alexandria, rejoining his command Sej)tem- 
 ber 16th in time for the Antietam anniversary 
 and witnessed the presentation of the fiag to 
 the brigade by the citizens of Wisconsin, In- 
 diana and Michigan, resident in Washington. 
 He was assigned to Emory Square ho.spital 
 and thence transferred to the Invalid Corps 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 721 
 
 stationed in Washington. He received lionor- 
 ;il)ie (lisciuirge Feb. 16, LS()4. 
 
 Among the reminiscences of Mr. Holden is 
 tlie discipline of General Gibbon in the brigade 
 of which he assumed command at Fredericks- 
 burg, but "the worst" was the order to wear 
 white leggings and after a march in the red 
 mud they were anything but handsome. The 
 business did not take them much on dress 
 parade, where the wiiite articles \\'iiulil have 
 shone conspicuous. After a march they were 
 left off, liut General Gibljon ordered them re- 
 sumed. One morning the General's orderly- 
 went out to groom his horse and immediately 
 sent for his chief to see the animal. His legs 
 were encased in white leggings and nothing 
 more was said to the "boys" about wearing 
 them. Feb. 12, 1863, the 2-1 and 6th Wiscon- 
 sin, under Colonel Fairchild, went to Cone 
 Creek in Northumberland Bay on a raid and 
 took horses, mules, grain and about 5,000 
 pounds of bacon. The boys thought it would 
 be a good scheme to each take a couple of hams 
 to camp and, after some finessing they eluded 
 the guard and took them. After arrival at the 
 landing orders -were received to bring up the 
 hams, the officers anticipating a treat but there 
 was not a ham to be found. The commotion 
 in camp was something awful and an orderly 
 was sent to search the camps but not a ham 
 was visible. Afterwards slices of ham found 
 their way into the oftitjers' quarters and there 
 was nothing more done in the matter. 
 
 March 16, 1851, Mr. Holden was married at 
 Wyocena, Wis., to Harriet Ann Corstin, a na- 
 tive of England, who died Oct. 30, 1876. 
 Sept. 28, 1877, Mr. Holden was again married 
 to Mrs. Elmira R. Gates at Beaver Dam, during 
 the session of annual Free Methodist Confer- 
 ence; she is a native of New York. Mr. Hol- 
 den is a Republican. 
 
 LEMENT CLAY WILLIAMS, Chip- 
 pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 68, was born June 22, 1843, 
 in New Portland, Maine. Moses and Abigail 
 (Jordan) AVilliams, his parents, were of Ameri- 
 can birth and English ancestry. Mr. Williams, 
 through his father, is one of the claimants 
 under tiie French Spoliation Bill, which has 
 been agitated for some years and which, if 
 settled equitably, would make the heirs rich, 
 although they belong to the sixth generation. 
 Moses Williams, grandfather of C. C. Wdliams, 
 married Martha Butler, daughter of Henry and 
 Mehitabel (Norton) Butler, lier mother being a 
 'l sister of Ichabod Norton, who was a shipowner 
 of extensive relations in the period of the 
 French and English wars. Thomas Butler was 
 part owner witb him in several vessels that 
 were taken by the English, two of them being 
 the Seven Sisters and the Swallow. (Joseph 
 I Dennis is in possession of papers which he 
 obtained of Captain Thomas Butler's son, 
 James Butler, wliicii show that two schooners 
 were taken by the British.) Moses Williams 
 was a farmer by occupation and died in St. 
 Albans, Maine, his wife dying many years 
 j before him. Abby, Clement C, Sarah, Charles 
 A. and Clara were the children born to them. 
 
 June 19, 1862, when 19 years old, Mr. 
 Williams entered the army. He was mustered 
 into the U. S. service July 27, 1862, at Augusta, 
 Maine, in Company A, 16th Maine Infantry, 
 Colonel Wilde, and went from camp to Wash- 
 ington and Company A performed guard duty 
 at Arlington Heights at the headquarters of 
 General Whipple, tiie first action in which Mr. 
 Williams expected to participate being the 
 second Bull Run, in the 2d Brigade, 3d Divi- 
 sion and 1st Corps, but did not and the regi- 
 ment remained until winter without other 
 protection than blankets, earning the sobriquet 
 j of the " Blanket Regiment " as they went to the 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Manassas campaign without anything but 
 hlankets — rations out besides. He was first in 
 battle of systematic variety at Fredericksburg 
 wliere tiie regiment did such good service as 
 to secure warm praise from tlie commander. 
 Tiiey passed tiie winter at Kelley's Ford and 
 went in the mud to attempt another attack on 
 Fredericksburg, going to another Rappahan- 
 nock campaign in tiie spring. They perform- 
 ed duty on tlie Raj)idan until they received 
 orders to join the army on the way to Gettys- 
 Ijurg and the regiment was in the support 
 wiiicli went on the double ipiick after the 
 battle opened on the Emmettsburg road where 
 Buford's Cavalry were attacked. General 
 Reynolds, Corps Commander, was killed and 
 the ('olonel of the IGth Maine taken prisoner 
 with tlie greater jiortion of the regiment, 
 including Mr. Williams. Tliey were taken to 
 the rear of Lee's army, went with him on his 
 retreat and were tinally sent forward to Libby, 
 were stripped, robbed and insulted in every 
 possible manner. 'J'liey had no rations for four 
 days before their incarceration commenced and 
 they remained in Libby one night, went thence 
 to Belle Isle, stayed there three weeks and 
 there Mr. Williams thought a little strategy 
 ])erfectly justifiable. He feigned illness, was 
 sent to Libby hospital, remained one day and 
 was sent to City Point under parole. There he 
 was exchanged and joined his regiment in 
 JSeptember at Kelley's Ford and was engaged 
 in picket duty on the Rapidan when Grant 
 assumed charge of the Army of the Potomac. 
 When the spring of 1864 came, Mr. Williams 
 went with his regiment to the campaign of the 
 Wilderness and fought at Spottsylvania, l^aurel 
 Hill, Cold Harbor and North Anna River. 
 During the fighting at Cold Harbor Mr. Wil- 
 liams was in charge of the pickets on the left 
 of the regiment and received the first attack 
 and his men were all captured except himself 
 
 and one other. The}' went to the siege of 
 Petersburg and thence to the Weldon railroad, 
 fighting and destroying railroad property with 
 the oth Corps. August 18th, in the action, the 
 rebels surrounded a disorganized portion of 
 the command and took them prisoners, Mr. 
 Williams falling into rebel hands a second 
 time. He was sent to Belle Isle and remained 
 until Sherman was expected, when the pris- 
 oners were sent to Salisbury, N. C, to the 
 stockade and remained there until February 
 22, 1805, when they were paroled and sent to 
 Annapolis, Md. Mr. Williams had contracted 
 .scurvy at Salisbury in its worst form and after 
 recruiting a few days at Annapolis, he obtained 
 a furlough home to New Portland, Maine, and 
 remained in his bed until after the close of the 
 war. He finally recovered after a long sick- 
 ness but was mustered out with his regiment 
 July 31, 1805. 
 
 In 1867 he removed to Eau Claire, Wiscon- 
 sin, and obtained em{)loy in a lath mill, after 
 which he engaged in livery busine.ss for about 
 five years. He opened the hotel business at 
 the Twelve-Mile House which he managed 
 about four years, started a livery business at 
 West Eau Claire, sold out and took charge of 
 the Big Bend House, associated with Henry 
 Mofl'att. He sold his interest to E. M. Miles 
 and engaged again in livery at Eau Claire. 
 Afterwards he became connected with the 
 Mineral Spring hotel on the St. Croix and later 
 opened a hotel at Cliijipewa Falls in 1879, 
 known as the Riverside hotel with Thomas 
 Gaynor, in which he is still occupied as a 
 landlord. He is the owner of a farm on the 
 borders of the city which he is improving and 
 on which he keeps improved stock. He is a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias and votes 
 as he shot. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 723 
 
 M;HAEL griffin, Eau Claire, 
 Wis., member of Eagle Post, No. 
 52, G. A. R., Department Com- 
 mauder of Wisconsin in 1S87, also belongs 
 to the Order of the Loyal Legion, Wisconsin 
 Commandery. He is a prominent attorney 
 and citizen of the section of Wisconsin where 
 he has been a resident for 14 years. He was 
 born in County Clare, Ireland, September 
 9, 1842, and emigrated to America with his 
 parents in 1847, locating first in Canada and 
 removing in 1851 to Hudson, Ohio. In 1856 
 the family settled in Newport, Sauk Co., Wis- 
 consin. He was educated primarily in the pub- 
 lic schools of the country, imbibing an under- 
 standing of his obligations to his adopted coun- 
 try, and, when the call for troops to defend the 
 National integrity rang through her borders, 
 he enlisted at Newjiort, Wis., Sept. 11, 1861, at 
 the age of 19 years, and was mustered as a 
 private in Company E, 12th Wisconsin Infan- 
 try, at Camp Randall, Madison, November 5th 
 following. At that date the field of war seemed 
 broad and to demand troops at remote points 
 to guard against possible disaster from invasion, 
 and there were also threatenings of disturb- 
 ances where the country would be deeply in- 
 volved to carry on successfully her internecine 
 struggle. -Jim Lane had an expedition in pros- 
 piect, and there was another planned for New 
 Mexico. AVitii these the fate of the 12th Wis- 
 consin was for a time to be linked, and the regi- 
 ment bore the brunt of the labor involved and 
 in that work and discipline reaped all that 
 ever came of either. Discipline and effort are 
 the best possible things for a regiment just 
 opening acquaintance with the exigencies of 
 all that war involves, and in the trip of the 
 command from Madison, Wis , to Weston, Mis- 
 souri, (its bitterest experience from inclemency 
 of the weather without proper protection), and 
 thence to Fort Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Law- 
 
 rence and Fort Riley, Kansas, and its return 
 march to Fort Leavenworth, the time was 
 passed in one long continued series of unaccus- 
 tomed exertions. They were again doomed to 
 counter orders for, expecting to go to the in- 
 vestment of Corinth, they were instead assigned 
 to duty in Western Kentucky and Tennessee 
 rejmiring railroads which the rebels had de- 
 stroyed, and scouting after guerrillas who were 
 making that portion of the South dangerous to 
 everybody, and threatened to interfere materi- 
 ally with plans for the subjugation of the con- 
 federates along the Mississippi River. After 
 the line of transportation was again in order, 
 the regiment moved to Humboldt, Tenn., to join 
 Halleck and thence to Bolivar, where the com- 
 mand was assigned to the 3d Brigade, 4th Divi- 
 sion, 17th Army Corps. During the stay at 
 Humboldt, for lack of cavalry, 110 men of the 
 regiment, including non-commissioned officers, 
 were supplied with horses and did service as 
 mounted infantry. Mr. Griffin was detailed to 
 act as Sergeant of tliis force which was in the 
 saddle almost constantly until October, 1862. 
 It scoured the surrounding country for miles, 
 watching movements of the enemy, going to 
 the Teimessee River, and was engaged on one 
 of these expeditions when the regiment received 
 orders to move to Bolivar, at whicii place this 
 detachment soon joined it. 
 
 The battle of Corinth had taken place, and 
 although the regiment made a forced march 
 of more than a day it was too late to accom- 
 plish anything and went into Camp at Bolivar. 
 November was passed in the movements pre- 
 paritory to the fulfillment of Grant's plans 
 which were frustrated in the capture of Holly 
 Springs by the enemy, and the destruction of 
 the supplies which had been there accumu- 
 lated, and December, .lauuary and February 
 were passed in desultory military duty mitil 
 affairs could be again put in shape for decided 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 activities. In March the 12th went to Mem- 
 phis, and in May marie connection with Grant's 
 movements in the Vicksburg Campaign. They 
 moved down the river to Milliken's Bend, went, 
 tlience to Grand Gulf and from there to Vicks- 
 burg, taking position toward the extreme left 
 of the investing line, June 11, 18G3, in the 13th 
 Corps, Lauinan's Division. The regiment par- 
 ticipated in the siege throughout until the sur- 
 render, July 4th, and on the 5th started for the 
 investment of .Jackson with the 3d Brigade. 
 It returned to Vicksburg and next went to 
 Natchez and there performed military duty, 
 
 including several expeditions in Louisiana and 
 Mississippi. In January, 1S64, over .500 men 
 of the regiment veteranized and moved from 
 Hebron with Sherman, participating in the 
 Meridian expedition, which was an entire suc- 
 cess. February 17th the 12th was sent soutli 
 of Meridian to Quitman to destroy railroads 
 and bridges. They were engaged in the Mer- 
 idian expedition a mouth and marched over 
 400 miles. After veteran furlough in March 
 and April, 1864, they went to Cairo, thence to : 
 Clifton and marched through Alabama to ' 
 Georgia to join tlie troops concentrating fur the 
 Atlanta Campaign in the Army of the Tennes- 
 see. Mr. (Jriflin was a participant in all that 
 has been mentioned, and was also in the dan- 
 gerous and constant work involved in tlie in- 
 vestment of Atlanta (1st Brigade 3d Division 
 17th Army Corps). He was with tlie regiment 
 at Kenesaw, Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill (Leg- 
 gefs) where the regiment lost aliout 1.50 men 
 in 15 minutes, Mr. Griffin being reported among 
 the wounded. A buckshot entered his face 
 and took up a permanent })Osition in the right 
 cheek where it still remains. He was knocked 
 down, and taken in.sensible to the hosjiital, and 
 went back to the regiment the next afternoon. 
 The regiment was in the engagement of July 
 28, 1804, and went to Jonesboro in Blair's 17th 
 Corps and thence with the column of Sherman ' 
 through Georgia to Savannah and participated ; 
 in all of the expeditions involved: was in the ! 
 siege of Savannah and marched through the 
 Carolinas to the tinish at Raleigh, taking part 
 in the battle of Bentonville, where Johnston 
 made his last .spasmodic efiort to retrieve his 
 territory. At Goldsboro, Sergeant Griffin was 
 
 mustered as 2d Lieutenant, having been com- 
 missioned February 11th, 1SG5, and had acted 
 in that capacity from about January 1st in that 
 year. After the surrender of the Confederate 
 army under General Joseph E. Johnston, the 
 march homeward commenced, finishing at 
 Wasliington and expiring in a blaze of military 
 splendor at the Gi-and Review in which the 
 12th Wisconsin bore its part. The regiment 
 went to Louisville to await the completion of 
 the muster rolls where the command was mus- 
 tered out July 16th, 1885, and returned to Wis- 
 consin for final dismemberment. Julv 5th Mr. 
 Griffin was commissioned 1st Lieutenant but 
 did not muster, because of the close of the war. 
 In the fall of 1865 he began the study of law 
 at Kilbourn City, Wis., in the office of Hon. 
 ■Jonathan Bowman, and he was admitted to the 
 bar at Portage City after examination in open 
 court. May 19, 1868. He began practice at 
 Kilbourn City, where he remained until 1876. 
 He was several times elected Town Clerk of the 
 Town of Newport, Columbia County, and served 
 two terms on the County Board. In 1875 he 
 was elected on the Republican ticket to repre- 
 sent the 1st District of that County in the As- 
 sembly of 1876. In that year he removed to 
 Eau Claire and formed a law partnership with 
 Judge Arthur C. Ellis under the name of Ellis 
 & Grithn, which continued until the clo.se of 
 1880, and where he has since practiced his ]>ro- 
 fession. In 1878 he was appointed Attorney of 
 the City of Eau Claire, and successively reap- 
 pointed in 1879 and 1880. In 1879 he was 
 elected on the Republican ticket as Senator 
 from tlie 30th District. He is a prominent 
 memljer of his I'ost and served as its 2nd and 
 4th Commander, and he was elected D'ejiart- 
 ment Commander, February 16, 1887, at Mil- 
 waukee, and in January, 1889, was commis- 
 sioned Ijy the Governor, (Quarter Nhister General 
 of the State, with the rank of Brigadier Gen- 
 eral under the law, and is therefore a member 
 of the staft" of Governor Hoard. He belongs to 
 the Masonic Order, Blue Lodge, Chapter and 
 Commandery, to the Knights of Pythias and 
 Royal Arcanum. 
 
 He was married September Otli, 1871, at Kil- 
 bourn City, to Enuna I., daughter of tteorge H. 
 and ^L J. Daniels, and tlie only child of this 
 marriage was Maljel M., who died when less 
 than a vear old. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 725 
 
 RIGADIER-GENERAL FRANCIS 
 HENRY WEST. In the array of 
 names included in this volume, that 
 of General West is one of the most prominent 
 for services rendered his country and for his no 
 less honorable career as a citizen of Wisconsin. 
 He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Wiscon- 
 sin Commander}', and belongs to G. A. R. Post 
 No. 1. He was born in Charleston, Sullivan Co., 
 New Hampshire, Oct. 25, 1825, and remained 
 in Ills native place until he was 20. years old, 
 receiving such advantages as New England 
 afforded for a farmer's son. In 1845 he went 
 W^est, locating at Monroe in the then Territory 
 of Wisconsin and passed the first winter in the 
 lead mines of Platteville. In the spring of 1846, 
 he engaged in hotel business at Monroe and a 
 year later liouglit an outfit for a three-years' 
 lumbering venture in the North of Wisconsin, 
 with headquarters at Wausau. He rafted his 
 lumber at the time of spring freshets to St. Louis, 
 Mo. His business relations extended until he 
 had become an extensive landholder, had built 
 a steam sawmill at Monroe and also had en- 
 gaged in mercantile affairs at that place, 
 where he was married in the summer of 1849. 
 He pressed his affairs thereuntil J859, when, 
 on account of failing health, he determined to 
 take an overland trip to California on horse- 
 back, the day of railroads being not yet. A 
 party of emigrants accompanied him and he 
 spent the summer in hunting buffalo and other 
 large game, and returned in the fall via 
 Panama, much improved in health. As soon 
 as practicable he organized a large party to 
 cross the plains the following summer. He 
 purchased OG fine horses in Wisconsin at an 
 average outlay of $80 which he sold after 
 reaching California at figures ranging from 
 five to eight iiundred dollars per pair, clearing 
 $16,000. The trip was a perilous one, it being 
 the year of the general Indian war, in which 
 
 they destroyed so many of the stations of the 
 then Overland Pony Express, murdering the 
 riders and station-keepers. His party was fol- 
 lowed by large bands of hostile Indians for 
 over 500 miles in their vain endeavor to capture 
 his valuable train, but this was at all times so 
 well guarded by his courageous followers — 
 who submitted to regular military discipline — 
 that the Indians only succeeded in wounding 
 two men and in killing seven horses. Several 
 of the attacking redskins were killed. In the 
 fall of 1860, General West was again in Monroe 
 sit his business, in which he was engaged until 
 he entered the army. 
 
 Matters began to look serious for the inter- 
 ests of the country during the summer of 1862, 
 and leaders in business avenues foresaw ruin 
 to their interests and stagnation beyond all prec- 
 edent in financial circles. The outlook for the 
 Union was becoming grave and men met on 
 the streets, consulted over situations, went home 
 to talk to families whose interests were in peril 
 and finally, marched away to war. Wisconsin, 
 it is trusted, will never again pass through 
 such a season ; most of her best men were lost 
 to her streets and thorough fares of business, and 
 women walked in their places and waited for the 
 end, whatever it might be. The draft was being 
 resisted in some localities and the situation was 
 serious, looking as if brother must be arrayed 
 against brother to enforce the demands of the 
 Government. Among those who grappled 
 with the situation in its strongest features was 
 he who became Brigadier-General West. 
 
 Abandoning his business and leaving his 
 wife and seven children, of whom the oldest 
 was but 12 years old, he became active in 
 organizing the 31st Wisconsin, was made its 
 Lieutenant-Colonel and was mustered under 
 his commission, Oct. 9, 1862. When the regi- 
 ment went to the front in March, 1863, after 
 performing duty in the State in enforcing the 
 
726 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 draft and toinpleting the organization in Jan- 
 uary, its condition and drill were such as to 
 elicit the warmest encomiums. The regiment 
 was first assigned to duty in the Army of 
 Tennessee on the Mississippi. In September, 
 1863, it was ordered to the Cumberland at 
 Nasliville. At this time, tlie colonel of the 
 regiment having resigned, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 West became Colonel of the regiment. During 
 the winter of 1863-4, by appointment of General 
 Sherman, Colonel West served as President of 
 the Conimi.ssion stationed at Murfreesboru, 
 Tenn., to examine certain officers who were 
 cited before the Commission for examination 
 as to their qualifications for command. Cap- 
 tain Harrison, a grandson of the first President 
 Harrison, was the Recorder of the Commission. 
 Manj' officers were examined and a few recom- 
 mended for dismissal. All recommendations 
 were approved by the President. 
 
 Colonel West commanded his regiment in 
 the work accomplished prior to the siege of 
 Atlanta, guarding railroads, building fortifica- 
 tions, scouting and keeping thoroughly posted 
 regarding rebel movements, moving first to 
 Stevenson, Ala., and thence to Chattanooga and 
 to Georgia, joining the force in front of Atlanta 
 during the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 
 21st, taking part in the investment of the 22d 
 and remaining in the trenches until the 
 capitulation. The regiment performed effective 
 service in more than one direction until the 
 columns of Sherman formed for the march to 
 the Atlantic in which the regiment j)articipated. 
 It forded swamps, penetrated hitherto un- 
 traversed forests, built roads, held lines of com- 
 munications, foraged for supplies subsisting 
 off the enemy, and retained its morale under 
 presjsure of the gravest character. When near 
 Savannah, to the astonishment of the rebels 
 who dis])Uted the right of way, the regiment, 
 with the 61st Ohio, pushed its way through a 
 
 swamp not considered passable. Storming two 
 strong redoubts under heavy fire they drove 
 the enemy from their position, thereby re- 
 moving the last obstacle to the advance on 
 Savaiuiah. Colonel West led his men through 
 the siege of Savannah and followed General 
 Sherman through the Carolinas to the close of 
 the war — fighting at Averysboro and at Benton- 
 ville, the last battle of the Southern army — 
 where the loss of his regiment was heavy. 
 Colonel West went with his soldiers through 
 Virginia to Kichnioiid and to Washington, 
 paraded at their head at the Grand Review, 
 May 24th, and, early in June went to Louisville, 
 having been made Brigadier-General by brevet 
 at Washington for gallant and meritoiious con- 
 duct during the war, his commission dating 
 March 19, 1865, under which he was mustered 
 out June 20, 1865. 
 
 In August he resumed connection with civil 
 life in Milwaukee, engaging in the stock and 
 grain business "On 'Change." His first rela- 
 tions in this avenue were those of Thompson, 
 West & Co., the firm at first including two 
 Thompsons, one going to Chicago. In the 
 spring of 1871 General West was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Chamber of Commerce and re- 
 elected to the same in 1872. (He had served 
 previously as Mce-President two years and was 
 one of the Directors three years). He con- 
 tinued his connection with financial operations 
 in that relation until 1879, when he went to 
 the Black Hills to prospect and obtain mining 
 interests. He took with iiim the parts of a 
 quartz mill, which he erected there and found 
 it a losing venture, and after two years he left 
 his mines and returned to Milwaukee in 1881. 
 He had become interested in mechanical inven- 
 tions and, after his return, perfected and secured 
 patents on several inventions of his own, relat- 
 ing to steam and hydraulic machinery. 
 
 In May, 1885, he was appointed United 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 727 
 
 States Marshal of llie Eastern District of Wis- 
 consin and in ISttO, (current year) still holds 
 the incumhenc}'. While a resident of Green 
 county he was Chairujan of the County Board 
 several years and in 1853, he served in the 
 Senate of Wisconsin, being but 26 years old 
 and the youngest member of that body. On 
 the formation of the new party in 1854, he be- 
 came the candidate for Bank Comptroller, on 
 the first State Republican ticket, which was de- 
 feated. Since the close of the war he has been 
 a Democrat, owing to his disapproval of the 
 course of the Republican party towards the 
 South. In the fall of 1873 he was elected to 
 the Legislature and served his term in a 
 manner wholly consistent with his character. 
 
 The father of General West, Enoch Ham- 
 mond West, was born in the same town as his 
 son and was the son of Timothy, a soldier in 
 the Revolution and one of the first settlers of 
 Charleston, N. H., whither he removed from 
 near Boston, Mass.; he was of English ancestry. 
 His niotiier, Lydia, Cofhn (Fitch) West, was 
 born on the Island of Nantucket, the daughter 
 of a sea captain. Samuel Cottin, her great 
 uncle, was a noted Puritan preacher of May- 
 flower fame. The families to which General 
 West is allied through his mother, include 
 some of the most famous stock in the history 
 of the East. The name of Fitch is one dis- 
 tinguished in j)rofessional avenues and repre- 
 senting brains, honor and integrity second to 
 none. The mother of Benjamin Franklin ancl 
 General West's great-great-grandmothcr on the 
 maternal side, were sisters, and daughters of 
 Peter Folger, who was the first male child born 
 on the island of Nantucket. Lucretia Mott, 
 the reformer, was allied to the same blood, as 
 are the Folgers of New York. In the paternal 
 line, General West traces connection with the 
 famous painter, Benjamin West. His grand- 
 lather's brothers were Benjamin West, a famous 
 
 New England lawyer and Samuel West, a cele- 
 brated Massachusetts divine. 
 
 The General was married June 21, 1849, to 
 Emma Rittenhouse, a name which tells its 
 own story, so well-known is its connection with 
 the fortunes of Pennsylvania. William Ritten- 
 house, her father, married Sarah Moore, a 
 relative of the noted politician, Eli Moore of 
 New York, and descended from ancestors who 
 settled in Brooklyn, N. Y. She was born in 
 New Jersey, whither her parents removed. 
 Ten children have been born to C4eneral and 
 Mrs. West, four of whom are deceased. Louise, 
 wife of George Sylvester, died at tlie age of 26 
 years; Frederick died when two and a half 
 years old ; George died when 20 years old, and 
 Josephine at two and a half years. Those sur- 
 viving are Caroline L., William R., Edith, 
 Susan, Grace and Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 In placing here a delineation of the char- 
 acter of General West for the consideration of 
 those who Avill interest themselves in his 
 career, little needs to be said. Thoroughly 
 cultivated and high-bred, with the dignity and 
 bearing a prominent and prosperous life con- 
 fers, he occupies an irreproachable position in 
 Milwaukee. A gentleman who has known the 
 General all his life said to the writer, "He has 
 the keenest sense of justice and the best dis- 
 position of any one I have ever known." His 
 record as a soldier is one which will always 
 confer distinction on his memory. He did not 
 lose a day of- service, a fact that belongs to the 
 history of few prominent army officers. And 
 bis bravery, although recognized as of the 
 highest quality, was not impetuosity or bra- 
 vado, but the result of the convictions which 
 called him to action and which led him to dis- 
 tinction. 
 
 The portrait of General West appears on 
 page 724. 
 
728 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 IjjT^'y^ILLTAM HEALEY, Racine, Wis., 
 " " iW nienber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, 
 was born May 20, 1847 in Lon- 
 don, England. His parents, Jereniiali and 
 Honora (O'Brien) Healey, were natives of Con- 
 tinental Europe and came to America in 1850. 
 The mother died wliile the son was still young 
 and his father mari'ied again, of which union 
 tile issue included three children named Mary 
 Ann, Julia and Ellen. Mr. Healey has one 
 brother named John. On arrival in America 
 the family went first to Upper Falls, Newton, 
 Mass., and thence to Waterbury, Vt., where Mr. 
 Healey remained on the farm until he was old 
 enough to enter the army. He enlisted Oct. 
 19, 1863, in the 3d Vermont Light Artillery 
 and was assigned to Section 1, Jan. 1, 1804. 
 Llis captain was Romeo H. Start. From 
 rendezvous the command went to Washington 
 for assignment to the 9th Corps at Camp Barry, 
 crossed the Rapidan under a rattling fire from 
 Mosliy's men and went to take part in the 
 lighting in the Wilderness, but the artillery 
 could not be made effective. They went thence 
 to Cold Harbor but were not in action. 
 Stewart's cavalry was looked for but did not 
 arrive in time. On the 18th of June the battery 
 reached the front of Petersburg at night and 
 was in the trenches there through the month 
 of June at the right, and were under constant 
 fire. A troop of sharpshodters caused them 
 much annoyance until they opened fire on 
 them and silenced them. In the assault at 
 Fort Hell they were subjected to a heavy rebel 
 artillery fire, one shell striking the embrasure 
 where the gun of Mr. Healey was stationed but 
 did no injury. They moved to Fort McKenzie 
 and returned to another position at Fort Hell, 
 which they occupied at the date of the Fisher 
 Hill fight and the battery fired tlie salute after 
 the victory. During this the captain thought 
 he would take advantage of the opportunity to 
 
 droj) a few shells into the rebel camp, which 
 elicited a return, and the captain ordered the 
 firing to cease, as he feared that the magazine 
 would lie hit ; tliis was the only time the battery 
 was silenced throughout its service. The com- 
 mand was subsequently transferred to the 6th 
 Corps with which it was connected until that 
 command went to the Shenandoah Valley, 
 when it was assigned to the 2d Corps under 
 Hancock, serving with it until the return of 
 the 6th, when its former connection therewith 
 was resumed. They went into winter (piarters 
 until the activities commenced preparatory to 
 the crushing of the rebellion and Mr. Healey 
 went with his battery to the reconnoissance at 
 Hatcher's Run. They built Fort Phillip.s, a 
 small fort of six guns named after their Lieu- 
 tenant, where they experienced several attacks 
 from the rebels. The battery went to Fort 
 Fisher, returning thence to Petersburg, remain- 
 ing in the trenches there until the surrender. 
 The battery was almost constantly in service 
 and on the 2r)th of ^hirch, ISfi"), fought in one 
 of the most inijiortant actions of that period. 
 During its progress the artillery was ordered to 
 cease firing, as a Hag of truce was shown, but it 
 was a feint to permit the rebels to approach 
 closer. (Tills occurred at Fort Fisher). A 
 detachment was sent through the woods to cut 
 the brigade off from retreat and the entire com- 
 mand was captured. During the day a part of 
 the section was in front of the skirmish line 
 under orders to di-ive the rebels at all costs and 
 they opened lire while the rebels were j)ouring 
 a shower of shot upon them, one of which 
 struck the gun served by Mr. Healey, who was 
 knocked over, but not injured. Tiiey di'ove 
 the rebels and afteiwards returned to Fort 
 Fisher and went thence to the trenches at 
 Petersburg. Mr. Healey fired the signal gun 
 at four o'clock in the morning of April 2, 1865, 
 and was in the fight throughout the day. At 
 
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 midday the battery was ordered to advance 
 near to battery Lee, Lee's head(|uarlers, where 
 it held its position. Sheridan rode along the 
 lines, clieering the men and telling them to 
 hold tliegronnd as victory wonld soon be theirs, 
 the city being snrronnded. They told iiim 
 they would do it if he would give them white 
 instead of colored troops, V)ut they lield the 
 position until night. During the night the 
 rebels spiked their guns and evacuated tliecity. 
 At four in the morning a charge was made but 
 there were no enemies to respond and Peters- 
 burg was Union properly. He was among the 
 first to enter the city and went tiience in 
 charge of the captured guns to City Point, after 
 which he performed miHtary duty until ordered 
 to Alexandria and thence home, and he was 
 mustered out at Burlington, Vt., .June 15, 18G5. 
 He was unable to do any work and the next 
 year went West. He was with the C. & N. W. 
 R. R. ten years and entered the employ of J. I. 
 Case & Co., with wiiom he remained four years. 
 He took charge of an engine in the Pease 
 Manufacturing Works and is still in that rela- 
 tion. He was married Feb. 7, 1875, to Mary, 
 daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Budd. Their 
 children are named Nellie, Elizabeth, Jennie, 
 Gertrude and Theresa. Mary and .Julia are 
 deceased. 
 
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 ^ HARLES D. STANHOPE, M. D., a 
 prominent physician of Milwaukee, 
 Wisconsin, and a member of E. B. 
 Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was born in the 
 County of MiVwaukee, Feb. 12, 1844. 
 
 His father, Charles Stanhope, of Englisli 
 ancestry, was born in Attica, N. Y. His fore- 
 fathers were loyal to Charles 1st of England. 
 Tliey were involved in the struggle against 
 Cromwell, by whom some of them were exe- 
 cuted, when he assumed the Protectorate of 
 
 England. Two of the Stanhope brothers were 
 banished to Australia. They were subse- 
 
 ! quently pardoned and one of them returned to 
 England, where his descendants now belong to 
 the peerage. The other came to America and 
 from him Dr. Stanhope is directly descended. 
 Levi Stanhope, the paternal grandfather 
 of Dr. Stanhope, fought in the revolution. 
 His son Charles married Nancy McLaughlin, 
 of Scotcli descent, and a native of Caledonia, 
 Livingstone County, New York. He removed 
 with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 
 1842. He purchased from the government a 
 tract of land located near the city and upon 
 this homestead lie passed the balance of his 
 life. He died in the year 1873, leaving his 
 wife, who is still living, in the city of Wau- 
 kesha. Tlie children of the parents are : Erwin, 
 born in 1842, Charles D., in 1844, Nancy J., in 
 
 I 1846, Archibald, in 1849 and Miranda in 1852. 
 The last named married Thomas Parkin.sou, a 
 
 ! prominent lawyer of Waukesha, Wis. 
 
 > Dr. Stanhope remained uj)on his father's 
 farm until lie reached the age of seventeen. 
 Having inherited a good constitution and hav- 
 ing acquired a determined })Urpose, he .secured 
 as much education as the unending round of 
 a practical farm life would permit. While yet 
 in the pursuit of knowledge, and still in his 
 minority, he responded to the urgent call of 
 his country. In tlie month of August,. 1862, 
 he enrolled as a soldier in Company " A, " 28th 
 Regiment Wisconsin Infantry and was mus- 
 tered into the United States service on the 13th 
 of November following. After having per- 
 formed the duties pertaining to the draft in 
 November, 1862, the regiment left on Decem- 
 ber 20th, for Columbus. Ky., where they erected 
 fortifications. From this point they made a 
 raid upon Fort Williams. They next went to 
 Hickman, a small place a few miles down the 
 river, and took the garrison, whose defenses 
 
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 chiefly consisted of wooden guns. The regi- 
 ment was now assigned to the 13tli Army 
 Corps, and ordered to Helena, Ark., under tlie 
 command of General Salomon. It engaged in 
 several raids to various points of the surruund- 
 ing country. 
 
 In January, 1863, the regiment started on 
 the White River expedition, and went to 
 Duvall's Blutf. After having tested the capac- 
 ity of the river they returned to Helena. 
 Tiiey then took part under General Granger in 
 the Yazoo Pass exj)edition ; this movement 
 was executed for the purpose of attracting tlie 
 attention of the rebels from Vicksburg, as 
 General Grant liad de'terniined to make tliat 
 city an objective point. After a difficult passage 
 of nearly two weeks, the}' arrived at Fort 
 Pemberton. This fort was situated at the 
 junction of the Yallabusha and Tallahatcliie 
 Rivers. Here they accomplished the invest- 
 ment of the fort, and sustained it for several 
 weeks, the force being supported by the gun- 
 boats Baron DeKalb and Chillicotiie, assisted 
 b)' a fleet of transports. During the skirmish 
 which took place between the DeKalb and the 
 rebel batteries, a shot struck a shell which was 
 being loaded into one of tlie Delvalb's heavy 
 guns. The exjdosion whicli followed killed 
 and injured sixteen men. 
 
 About March 1, 18G3, special orders were 
 received to make hasty an<l noiseless prepara- 
 tions to move. During the prevalence of a 
 dense fog, the troops embarked and returned to 
 Helena. In the beginning of .June, intelligence 
 of a contemplated attack by tlie rebel General 
 Price upon Helena was received and immediate 
 preparations were made to meet him. The 
 regiment assisted in the work of constructing 
 fortifications and rifle pits, and when on .July 
 4, 1863, the rebel forces covered the surround- 
 ing hills, the wisdom of this preparation was 
 aj>parent. 
 
 Tlie battle of Helena followed, and demon- 
 strated the fact that while tlie rebels out-num- 
 bered tlie Union soldiers more than two to one, 
 yet victory perched upon the banners of tiie 
 Union troops. Tliis battle contributed largely 
 to the final termination of the war of tlie rebell- 
 ion. The regiment was assigned to the armj- 
 of Arkansas in August of the same year, and, 
 under Steele took part in the campaign against 
 Little Rock. After its surrender, the regiment 
 proceeded to Pine Bluff, Ark., where they 
 remained with the command of General Powell 
 Clayton until the fall of 1804. During this 
 time they engaged in several raids, among 
 which was one to Mt. Elba, where they had a 
 sbarp encounter with, and captured a portion 
 of General Marmaduke's command. 
 
 From Pine Bluff, the forces returned to Little 
 Rock. In February they broke camp and went 
 to Duvall's Bluff. Tliey went by steamer down 
 the White River, and arrived at the junction 
 with the Mi.ssissippi Feb. 11,1865. They next 
 took transportation for New Orleans, and went 
 into camp at Algiers, opposite the city. A week 
 later, they started for Mobile, Ahi., and landed 
 at Fort Morgan on Mobile Point, where they 
 camped several days. Tliey tiicn started for 
 Spanish Fort, which surrendered after eleven 
 days of stubborn fighting. After tliis, the regi- 
 ment went to Fort Blakely, which had capitu- 
 lated a few hours before tlieir arrival. Pro 
 ceeding to Alabama, they moved up the Tom- 
 bigby River, and witnessed the surrender of 
 rebel transjiorts, on which they returned to 
 Mobile. In the month of May they sailed for 
 Texas, camped at Brazos de Santiago, and en- 
 gaged for a siiort time in such military duties 
 as were incident to the situation, both there 
 and at Clarksville. On August 3d they re- 
 sumed their march, and stopped at Browns- 
 ville for the purpose of being mustered out 
 of the United States service. At Spanish 
 
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 Fort, the Doctor contracted a severe form of ] 
 rheumatism, wliich utterly disal>led liim. For 
 more tliaii a year after his return home he was ' 
 a constant sutferer from this disease, and he 
 lias never been able to altogether overcome its 
 effects. After having been home a year or 
 more he embarked in the sale of groceries at 
 Horicon, AVisconsin, with very little success; he 
 gained experience and also suffered great 
 pecuniary loss. | 
 
 On November 1, 1867, he was married to 
 Mary J., daughter of Alva White, a resident of 
 River Falls, Wis. He remained in this latter 
 place, and successfully occupied himself in 
 contracting and building until 1872. His '.. 
 matrimonial success turned the tide of his 
 fortune, and he has floated on a placidly mov- 
 ing stream ever since. It had been the dream I 
 of his life and the ambition of his maturer 
 years to enter the medical profession. His 
 analytical mind induced him to enter this field. 
 During long and weary months and years he 
 studied himself into that noble profession as 
 best he could. Believing that he w'ho works 
 the best succeeds the best, he occupied all his 
 leisure hours from hard work, in ardent and 
 intense study. He was aided and directed by [ 
 the counsel of Dr. E. A. Ballard, of River Falls, 
 Wisconsin. In 1872 he moved to Milwaukee, 
 and by a series of laborious efforts and personal ! 
 sacrifices he graduated with honor at the 
 Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 
 1874. He then located in Milwaukee, pur- 
 chased the interests of Dr. A. Liliencrantz, and 
 commenced a vigorous prosecution of his pro- 
 fession. In a few months he formed a j)artner- 
 sliip with a former classmate, Dr. Eugene F. 
 Storke, with whom he conducted a highly suc- 
 cessful business until the dissolution of partner- 
 ship, which occurred May 1, 1889. 
 
 Dr. .Stanhope is still conducting a very suc- 
 cessful business at the location where he first 
 
 established himself; he has become prosperous 
 and popular. As a vocation he has engaged 
 in the prosecution of real estate business, in 
 which he has proven himself unusually suc- 
 cessful. He has recently secured a large 
 interest in the gold mining district of the 
 Ozark mountains. 
 
 The Doctor and his amiable wife have had 
 two children, the eldest a beautiful girl named 
 Edith, who died at Minneapolis, Minn., in July, 
 1871 and Charles E., born Nov. 15, 1880. Dr. 
 Stanhope in political faith, is a Republican ; in 
 medical faith, a homeopathist ; he is a Royal 
 Arch Mason, a royal good fellow, has a keen 
 eye, a steady hand, is a good marksman, and 
 enjoys to the utmost all athletic sports. 
 
 RVILLE GILLETT, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
 born Dec. 23, 1832, the son of Orville 
 and Chastine (Harndon) Gillett. He is of 
 French Huguenot descent in the paternal line 
 and on his motlier's side is of French extraction 
 in one remove. His grandfather was in the 
 war of 1812 and an ancestor of his mother was 
 a captive among the Chippewa Indians who 
 were in the British service in the Revolution. 
 Mr. Gillett was born in Lewiston, N. Y., and 
 resided there until he was 16 years of age. In 
 October, 1848, he went with his father's family 
 to Tuscola in the same county in Michigan 
 where he jxissed the years on a farm until he 
 entered the army in the civil war. 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, 3d 
 Michigan (Aivalry for three years or during the 
 war. He was made Corporal the same day on 
 which the command organized and went into 
 camp of instruction at Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 He received promotion May 1, 1S62, to Ser- 
 geant and went with his regiment from the State 
 
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 to St. Louis, whence it went under orders to 
 join the forces under Pope. His history is that 
 of all cavalrymen ; lie skinnislied, scouted, 
 foraged and performed miscellaneons .service in 
 many metliods for whicli liis branch of warfare 
 seldom receives due credit, for obvious reasons. 
 He was in the siege of Corinth, fought in the 
 battle there later and at luka with the Army 
 of the Mississippi. He was in the movements 
 on the Mississippi River and performed duty 
 at Davis' Mills, Lumjjkin's Mills, Waterford, 
 Abbeville, Oxford, Tallahatchie, Holly Springs 
 and La Grange and after Colonel Murpliy ter- 
 minated CJrant's plans, moved down the river 
 to Young's Point. He was in the light at 
 Jackson and again performed much cavalry 
 service of desultory character. In the winter 
 of 1863-4 he veteranized, enrolling the second 
 time February 8th in the same company and 
 regiment. After taking his veteran's furlough 
 he returned to his command and acted as 
 Ordnance Officer at Duvall's Bluff in Arkansas, 
 being commissioned Post Ordnance Sergeant. 
 June 18, 1864, he was discharged to accept a 
 Lieutenant's commission in the 3d Arkansas 
 Cavalry, as 1st Lieutenant, but was placed in 
 command of Company A and acted as its 
 superior officer until he was discharged June 
 14, 1S65. During the last of his service he was 
 engaged in hunting guerrillas and bush- 
 whackers in which he encountered much 
 adventurous experience and many scenes of 
 danger. He lost three horses, one of which 
 was ridden to death and the others were shot 
 under him. His regimental headquarters were 
 at Iluntsville, Lewisburg and Norristovvn, and 
 his last fight with the rebels was at Beattic's 
 Mills, in whicli 45 of his men encountered loU 
 confederates, driving them from that section. 
 
 The 3d Michigan leftcs\mp under Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Minty who was soon superseded by 
 Colonel John K. Mizuer. Company I went 
 
 out under Captain Wm. Dunliam of Fenton- 
 ville, Mich., with Win. Dickinson of Grand 
 Rapids, 1st Lieutenant, and Heber Crane of 
 Detroit, 2(1 Lieutenant. Afterwards Horace H. 
 Pope of Allegan, Mich., was 1st Lieutenant and 
 Captain. 
 
 After his discharge Mr. Gillett was taken 
 sick and remained in Arkansas for some time, 
 returning to Michigan in January, 1866. He 
 was engaged in agriculture and went to Bay 
 City in 1879. He went thence to the employ 
 of the C, St. P., M. & O. R. R. as foreman of 
 car insi)ectors. He is now engaged with the 
 corporation of the Wisconsin Central at Wau- 
 kesha, Wis. 
 
 He was married at Lewisburg, Arkansas, 
 June 29, 1865, to Julia A. Dacus, and tlieir 
 children are Anna Z., Emma C. and Julia A. 
 Robert 0. died when three months old. Mr. 
 Gillett is a member of Patriarchal Circle No. 10 
 at Waukesha. 
 
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 ADE HAMPTON RICHARDSON, 
 \^// Milwaukee, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, 
 was born in Troupe Co., Georgia, of which 
 State his father, George D. Richardson, was a 
 native. The senior Richardson embarked in 
 his conflict with the world in the village of 
 Whitesvilleand there married Betheny P.Hill, 
 who belonged to the branch of that stock which 
 has been so prominently represented by Sen- 
 ator Ben Hill of confederate fame. Mr. Ricli- 
 ardson, senior, subsequently removed to a farm 
 in that vicinity and in 1S47 to Chambers Co., 
 Alabama. In 1848 he settled on a homestead 
 in Macon county where he died in 18S3. He 
 was the son of David Richardson and after the 
 death of his father in 1856 he settled his 
 mother with three negroes on a portion of his 
 estate, assigning for their use and support a 
 
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 considerable acreage which was managed by 
 tlie negroes, consisting of a man, liis wife and 
 son, the latter six days older than Mr. Rich- 
 ardson of this sketch. The blacks discharged 
 their obligations to their mistress faithfully, 
 supplying her wants and securing for them- 
 selves an ample living and also privileges para- 
 mount to absolute freedom. They were well 
 fed, well clothed and the man could read, an 
 accomplishment which afforded him a broad 
 acquaintance with the Bible. The advent of 
 his grandmother accompanied by three 
 slaves into his home life, formed the first 
 ])ractical acquaintance with slavery of Wade 
 Hampton Richardson. He was then 10 j'ears 
 old and he and the negro boy John, became 
 companions and the white boy taught his 
 tawny friend to read and write in utter ignor- 
 ance that there was a legal penalty attached to 
 such a proceeding. The independent condition 
 of the negro family excited the malicious notice 
 of the surrounding slave-holding gentry and 
 the feeling was intensified by tiie occurrences 
 attendant upon the .John Brown raid in 1859. 
 In the state of feverish unrest and irritation 
 which ensued, ])atrohnen were appointed in 
 every precinct to watch the movements of the 
 negroes and to see that no one of them was 
 away from home without the written pass of 
 his master or owner. One night, .John and his 
 friend with an older brother of the latter, went 
 fishing and, when a few miles from home were 
 surrounded by several drunken patrolmen who 
 insisted on whipping .John for being out witii- 
 out a pass. The wlnte boys resisted and the 
 negro escaped during the melee. 
 
 Samuel Richardson, an uncle of Mr. Uich- 
 ardson, was a Union man of most radical stripe, 
 engaged temporarily as overseer on a neigh- 
 boring plantation owned by a humane man 
 who had hitherto permitted his slaves to con- 
 duct the place, but who thought it wisest under 
 
 existing circumstances to employ a white man 
 until the storm had passed or burst. The 
 former colored foreman had been permitted to 
 own a gun and his privilege had not been 
 annulled when one night, the patrolmen ran- 
 sacked the premises," secured the gun and the 
 negro, with the intention of whipping him on 
 the sjiot and of afterwards bringing him before 
 a magistrate on the charge of concealing 
 weapons and plotting against the whites. Sam- 
 uel Richardson resisted; a struggle without 
 decisive results took place and the ultimatum 
 was that the negro, accompanied by Samuel 
 Richardson, was dragged about two o'clock in 
 the morning before a justice, who decided that 
 the negro should be whipped. He foresaw 
 that such a proceeding would be resisted by 
 Mr. Richardson and he released the colored 
 man and entered a complaint against Mr. 
 Richardson to the grand jury as a disturber of 
 the peace. The chief result was a stronger 
 sentiment of prejudice against the Richardsons 
 as "free nigger" friends. Under this regime 
 Wade Hampton Richardson learned the de- 
 grading influence of " the institution " and also 
 imbibed afresh the element of loyalty to his 
 heritage of liberty from a long line of freedom 
 loving ancestors, and the sentiment was strongly 
 fostered by the prevailing state of things about 
 the home fireside, for his father was a man of 
 firm principles and outspoken in his home 
 circle. With Samuel Richardson, during the 
 campaign of 1860 the latter was prominent in 
 his denunciation of the Southern or Brecken- 
 ridge wing of the Democratic party, whose motto 
 was evidently, "rule or ruin." They strenuously 
 opposed the various measures leading to seces- 
 sion and when the final step was taken by the 
 State the whole family were strong friends of 
 the Union and notoriously disliked by their 
 secession neighbors. 
 I In the neighborhood lived a family named 
 
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 Summerford, consisting of a father, mother and 
 three sons, all of whom were Abolitionists. Dr. 
 Summerford, one of the oldest sons, had been 
 editor of a Whig paper at Opelika, Ala., but 
 when the State seceded he retired tohi.s father's 
 farm to recuperate his health, shattered by 
 overwork. The temperament of Mr. Uichard- 
 son of this sketch led him to seek an accjuain- 
 tance with Dr. Summerford and the two 
 assumed the relations of teacher and pupil and 
 became fast friends. Mr. Richardson attributes 
 a well disciplined mind and the bent of his 
 proclivities to the two years of intercourse, 
 reading and study with a gifted, high-toned, 
 upright man, whose memory he cherishes as 
 tenderly as that of his fatiier. The doctor's 
 brother, William Summerford and Samuel 
 Richardson, were arrested at the begininng of 
 the rebellion on a trum])ed-up charge of rais- 
 ing a negro regiment and inciting insurrection. 
 The intervention of tiie wiser part of the com- 
 munity prevented mob measures but ever 
 after the suspicion against tlie two families 
 gained ground among the secession element. 
 The effect on those most interested was to 
 deepen their sentiments of loyalty to the 
 Union and to foster their hatred of the new 
 government, which, while it pretended to 
 esi)0use the cause of liberty in its cry of home 
 rule, not only made perpetual slavery of the 
 blacks the chief corner-stone of their edifice, 
 but would smother every spark of liberty by 
 crushing out all opposition. 
 
 To a man of Samuel Richardson's temper- 
 ament, imbued with an intense love of liberty, 
 educated in the traditions of his fatiiers in 
 whose veins flowed some of the purest i)lood of 
 the patriots of '76, such a government was sim- 
 ply intolerable. If there had been a fair chance 
 of escape he would have left the country. In 
 1862 he was conscripted for duty in the confed- 
 erate army but he deserted his regiment at 
 
 Auburn, Ala., the day it was ordered to the 
 
 front. He did not succeed in reaching the 
 Union lines but remained six months in hid- 
 ing in Northern Alabama when he returned 
 to the vicinity of his brother and continued his 
 concealment in the woods for two years, his 
 proximity being unsuspected by any but his 
 trusted friends. Just after the fall of Vicks- 
 burg, with numerous companions of his hid- 
 ing, (for the woods were full of deserters by 
 that time), he tried to reach the Union lines at 
 Huntsville, Ala. It was a vain attemjit but 
 Mr. Richardson says: "Their failure led to 
 my success." At tliat time boys between 16 
 and 18 who had liitlierto l)een exemi)t from 
 militarv dutv were being organized into Home 
 (luards to do duty anywhere within the State. 
 W. H. Richardson was then in his seventeenth 
 year and was notified to prepare for service. 
 He ilriik'd a few times with a company in the 
 village but meanwhile the principles of the 
 Summerfords were to the fore and the doctor 
 advised his brother .James and young Richard- 
 son to make an atlemi)t to reach the Union 
 lines at some i)oint on the CJulf coast, while he 
 and his father and mother would strike out 
 North for the mountains of Tennessee, iioping 
 eventually to get through the lines ant! join 
 the young men at Cairo, 111. But the whole 
 plan was not carried out. 
 
 Aug. 3, 1863, James Summerford and W. H. 
 Richardson left home. Tiiey were thoroughly 
 equii)ped, each carrying two suits of clothes, 
 four days' rations, plenty of confederate money 
 and as a guide, a leaf torn from Mitchell's 
 (Teogra])hy containing a map of Alabama and 
 Florida. Their project was to reach the coast 
 in the guise -of salt makers and there watch an 
 opportunity to steal through to the Union 
 lines. After two weeks wandering in the 
 woods by day, fed and informed by the friend- 
 ly blacks at night, they reached the Union 
 
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 lines tit E;ist Pass, Florida. On a glorious 
 Sunday morning, with a dozen other refugees, 
 they boarded a United States sloop and rejoiced 
 in the protection of the emblem of liberty — the 
 Stars and Stripes. 
 
 They went to Pensacola navy yard where 
 James Suminerford died of yellow fever. In a 
 few months so many refugees had reached 
 Pensacola that it was thought advisable to 
 enlist such of them as could be trusted, in the 
 ITnion service. Recruiting began in Decem- 
 ber and in March, 1864, four companies were 
 mustered as the " 1st Florida Cavalry, U. S. 
 Volunteers." Mr. Richardson was among them 
 and he records that it is doubtful if there was 
 such another regiment enlisted during the war. 
 Most of the recruits were refugees from various 
 )iarts of the South, but some of the officers 
 were from Northern regiments. Among them 
 were two wlio had served in Hungary ; one, - 
 Polisli by l)irth, had served in Russia; two or 
 three were Germans and two were Floridians 
 who had worn shoulder straps in the con- 
 federate army. Many of the rank and tile 
 were deserters from the rebel army : a larger 
 number were young men who had not seen 
 service and a few were older men who had 
 escaped confederate service by hiding in the 
 swamps of Florida. Thej' were a motley crowd ; 
 but they were the men for scouts and daring 
 exploits. They were marked men ; they knew 
 from the stories some of them told that capture 
 meant death and " thev fought it out on that 
 line." In the latter part of 1864 and to the 
 close in 1865 they performed active service in 
 Florida and Alabama, taking part in the cap- 
 ture of Spanish Fort, at Blakely, in the fall of 
 Mobile and in tiie operations in Alabama 
 leading up to Selma and Montgomery. At that 
 place the}' were in the 16th Corps for a short 
 time under Gen. A. .J. Smith. Later they were 
 sent to Tallahassee to serve the Provisional 
 
 (Tovernment at the beginning of reconstruc- 
 tion. But the men begged to be relea.sed that 
 they might go to protect their families, many 
 of whom were subjected to ill treatment by 
 their rebel neighbors. But the officers deemed 
 such a course unwise as there would l)e old 
 scores to settle and trouble would ensue with- 
 out much good resulting. This was apparent 
 from the fact that many who had been fur- 
 loughed to return to their homes for a few 
 days had lost their lives in the neigborhood 
 broils. But the growing discontent led to tlie 
 discharge of the regiment in November, 1865, 
 at Tallahassee. 
 
 Mr. Richardson went home, determined to 
 shun any conflict with ex-confederate neigh- 
 bors, hut fully prepared to defend himself if 
 need should arise. Everyone who could attbrd 
 it wore side arms and so did he. Soon after 
 arrival at home he entered college at Auburn, 
 Ala., where for three months his identity as a 
 former soldier for the Union was not discovered. 
 In April, 1866, Andrew .Johnson's antagonism 
 to Congress on reconstruction issues revived 
 the hopes of the Southern people. They l)egan 
 to cherish the hope that what they had lost in 
 battle they would regain by the ballot. They 
 hoped that a combination of Northern Demo- 
 crats and Southern whites might ol)tain the 
 control of the Federal Government and that 
 the value of the slaves would be refunded 
 from the National treasury. The sentiment 
 soon grew too strong for a radical like Mr. 
 Richardson to remain without expression of 
 his views and he quitted the school. The 
 principal permitted him to make a farewell 
 address in which he reviewed the political 
 situation and spoke of his service in the army 
 of the Union. 
 
 To his comrades of the 1st Florida Cavalry 
 he gives a paragraph. Many were killed within 
 a month after reaclnng home, but the killing 
 
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 was not all on one side. Four years after, 
 while on a trip to Florida, he found two com- 
 rades living and heard of a dozen who had been 
 killed. In 1889 he visited Pensacola wliere 
 he met two others ; they had manj- sad stories 
 to relate of the finale of their comrades since 
 November, 1865, and in 1890 oiily a few are left. 
 
 Mr. Richardson went to Illinois in 1860. He 
 taught school in 1867 and in the same year 
 entered the State Normal University of Illinois 
 whence he was graduated in 1870. He was a 
 teacher in the Sucker State and in Milwaukee 
 12 years. Since 1882, with the exception of 
 one year as Principal of the 7th Ward school, 
 he has been actively engaged in business. In 
 1870 he was admitted to practice law but has 
 never entered upon the work of that profession. 
 He was married in August, 1870, to Lydia 
 Corbett who died in 1878. He has one daughter 
 living by his first wife. He was married the 
 second time in August, 1880, to Mary A. Haw- 
 ley, a distant relative of Gen. Joseph Hawley 
 of Connecticut. As a result of this union lie 
 has three children, two boys and one girl. 
 
 The recorder of the annals of the .soldiers of 
 Wisconsin regards the brief outline of the ex- 
 periences of Mr. Richardson as one of the most 
 valuable to posterity in this collection. Not a 
 tithe of his personal connection with the South 
 in the awful period wliich has never been ade- 
 quately characterized nor its monstrousness 
 fully delineated, has been herein recounted. 
 The writer has heard them and they have the 
 novelty of romance, the thrill of extreme peril 
 to life and all a man boiiis precious, tlic 
 somberness of the shadow that enveloped the 
 Nation in a blackness more intense than Dante 
 painted. Through it all blazes like a sun the 
 loyalty and juitriotism of a man wlinm Mil- 
 waukee is proud to call one of her citizens. 
 
 
 Thomas price, Chippewa Falls, AVis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
 born in 1840, in Bedford Co., Tennes- 
 see, lie has been a citizen of Wisconsin since 
 1852, going to Chij>pewa Falls in the fall of 
 that year and entering the employ of H. S. 
 Allen, a lumberman of extensive relations and 
 remaineil with him until 1857. He was em- 
 ployed by others in the same business until he 
 became a soldier. 
 
 He enlisted at Chippewa Falls .lune 7, 1861, 
 and was mustered into the United Slates ser- 
 vice August 16th following, in Comjiany A, 
 7tli Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Randall, 
 Madison. He went with the regiment to Wash- 
 ington, subsequently crossed the ('bain Bridge, 
 went to Arlington Heights and became a mem- 
 ber of King's Wisconsin Brigade, afterwards 
 the " Iron Brigade." In the spring of 1862 he 
 went on the Manassas campaign, returned, 
 went to Catlott's Station and to the cam])aign 
 on tiie Rajijiahannock, afterwards to Slaughter 
 Mountain and \\'ai ronton, and was occupied in 
 varied manner until August, an<l fought on 
 the 28tli at (Jainesville, a battle which convin- 
 ced Wisconsin of the character of the war. Mr. 
 Piice was hit in the ear. Company A lost 28 
 killed and wounded in that fight. They made 
 a start for Centerville, encountered the rebels 
 and fought the second battle of Bull Run, 
 September 2d. They retreated (o Loudon 
 H(Mghts, went thence to daily skirmishing and 
 expectation of meeting the foe in battle, fight- 
 ing at South Mountain, September 14th and at 
 Antietam on the 17th. Prior to this Mr. Price 
 had been transferred to Stewart's U. S. Battery 
 B, No. 4, and accompanied the former com- 
 mand as an artilleryman, fighting as such at 
 Antietam. Their position was such that in the 
 very first of the action nearly all their horses 
 were lost. Their guns were then brought to 
 the j>ike where they did effective service. They 
 
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 remained in Maryland until November, when 
 they returned to another Rappahannock cam- 
 paign and fought at Fredericksburg, during 
 which the battery was on the left wing. They 
 went into winter quarters at Aquia Creek 
 (Stafford C. H.). In tlie s])ring they moved to 
 the crossing of the Rapjiahannock, encountered 
 rebels everywhere and were 07-dered on to the 
 battle of Chancellorsville, after a gallant action 
 at Fitzhugh's Crossing. The brigade was not 
 in action at Chancellorsville but went into 
 camp until June when they went on a recon- 
 noissance and fought at Brandy Station, follow- 
 ing up the movements of Lee afterwards to the 
 battle of Gettysburg. The battery began its 
 operations in that battle near the Seminary, 
 was di'iven thence to the front of the Cemetery 
 and remained there until the termination of 
 the battle. On the evening of July 3d a vigor- 
 ous charge was made on them and the 11th 
 Corps was driven out, but the 14th Indiana 
 and 7th West Virginia Infantry arrived in 
 time to help make a successful resistance and 
 after the rel)els were thoroughly whipped and 
 on the run tiie batter}' moved towards Wash- 
 ington. November 26th it was in the useless 
 conflict at Locust (irove (Mine Run), when 
 they went into quarters at Culj^eper, and in 
 the spring prepared for the activities of the 
 campaign of the Wilderness, performing splen- 
 did service on the 5tli and Ctli of May, fighting 
 at Spottsylvania and Laurel Ilill where Mr. 
 Price was wounded May lltli in the skirmish- 
 ing, a shell striking his left arm. He was 
 sent to field hospital and tiience to Fredericks- 
 burg, supplied while on the way with food 
 from the knapsacks of the negro soldiers who 
 gave generously and went without themselves. 
 (Their own rations had been stolen by the 
 armj' bummers). June 25th he was sufficiently 
 recovered to join his battery in front of Peters- 
 burg and operated iu front with the command in 
 
 all the varied service until the explosion of the 
 mine July 30th. August 16th, he was in the 
 raid on the Weldon railroad and after passing 
 through that work rejoined the command 
 before Petersburg, remaining there until Sep- 
 tember 2d, when he received honorable dis- 
 charge and returned to Wisconsin. His time 
 expired August 16th. 
 
 He engaged in lumbering until the fall of 
 1886, when he went to his farm, of which he 
 has been the owner some years and which is 
 situated on section 31, just outside the limits of 
 the city and where he is following agriculture 
 in the good old way. He was married April 
 23, 1879, at Chippewa Falls, to Lucy, daughter 
 of Martin and Mary Clancey. The children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Price are Mary A., Thomas C, 
 Lucy N., Mattie ^'irginia, Franklin J. and 
 Lavinia. The parents of Mrs. Price were born 
 in Ireland and they had 12 children, five of 
 whom are living. Mrs. Price is the oldest but 
 one and was born in England. Mr. Price is a 
 Republican in political faith and is a substan- 
 tial farmer on one of the most ilesirabh' located 
 places in the county of Clii}>pewa, having a 
 commanding view of the city of Chippewa 
 Falls. Mr. Price does not believe that he put 
 down the rebellion alone, but was only one 
 among the great army which did. He draws 
 
 a pension. 
 
 -H.^e^^^*^<- 
 
 ETER GREINEISEN, La Crosse, Wis., 
 .vr-" member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, was 
 born March 17, 1848, in Prussia. His 
 parents, Matthias and Frances (Petchin) Grein- 
 eisen, removed with their family to America in 
 1854 and located at Dubucpie, Iowa, the father 
 remaining there in the employ of a wareliouse 
 company for 11 years. He went in the same 
 interest to Clayton county and died in 1865; 
 his widow is still living in the city of La Crosse. 
 
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 Peter, Nicliolas, Pliili]) and Elizabeth were tlie 
 names of their children and, beside Peter, only 
 the sister is living. 
 
 The oldest son passed his time in school and 
 as his father's assistant until he enlisted. He 
 had a predilection for the water and determined 
 as soon as possible to ship as a seaman wliich 
 he did at 17 years of age, Jan. 27, 1SG5, on 
 board tlic gunboat, Essex, and was sent to Cairo 
 for assignment. The boat was ordered to 
 Memphis and after a week returned to Cairo to 
 meet the rebel rams coming down the river, 
 and while there Mr. Greineisen was injured by 
 falling through a hatchway tliat liad been care- 
 lessl}' left open. Two of his ril)S were Ijroken and 
 one of them driven into the lung, making an 
 operation to remove it necessary. The injury 
 was so serious that he was kept on board until 
 he recovered sufficiently to make his removal 
 safe, when he was transferred to Pinckney hos- 
 pital at Memphis. He was injured just before 
 the explosion of the Sultana, April 28th, 1865. 
 He remained in the hospital untilhis discharge 
 for disability, June 13, 1S(;5. After the war had 
 closed and jirior to his hurt he was registei'ed 
 for service in a navy yard at llarlford. Conn. 
 
 After he was mustered out he went to Clay- 
 ton Co., Iowa, and remained idle and recruiting 
 his health for two years. He tlien engaged in 
 the engineering department on the river packet 
 boats and in that .service secured his license as 
 second engineer, in which capacity he obtained 
 a situation on the Belle Cross. He was one of 
 her complement of assistants two seasons, 
 changed to other boats and performed his 
 duties in a manner which secured for him a 
 license, after Kve years, as assistant engineer of 
 vessels under 100 tons burthen. After seven 
 years passed in that capacity on various vessels 
 on the river, he was licensed as first engineer, 
 in which capacity he has since been operating 
 on the Mississippi River, j)rincij)ally from 
 
 Ahinkato to New Orleans. Mr. Greineisen is 
 one of the most competent engineers in the 
 river service, having served liis time regularly 
 and in a manner that has secured for him tlie 
 fullest confidence of his employers in a period 
 of over twenty years. 
 
 He was married Marcli 31, 1873, at Alma, 
 Wis., to Theresa, daughter of Eustace and 
 Isabia (Keiffer) Hick, natives of Baden, Ger- 
 many. They went to the United States in 
 1854, locating in the Iron Mountain District in 
 Missouri. The wife is one of 14 children of 
 whom eight are living, named William, Wend- 
 lin, John, Ottilie, Katherina, Theresa, Nicholas 
 and Charles. The mother died Sept. 15, 1865, 
 and tlie father Oct. 18, 1888, both deaths 
 occurring at Alma, Wis. Henry Andrew and 
 Mary Isabel were the names of the two chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Greineisen and the 
 daughter died in infancy. The father is a 
 member of Odd Fellows Lodge, Gateway City, 
 No. 153, of the A. O. U. W., Enterprise I^odge, 
 No. 125, and is independent in polities; he has 
 i-eceived a jiension since 1866. 
 
 ICy UTHEK BELL GREGG, Milwaukee, 
 ^'■^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, 
 — i/ was born April 5, 1845, at Elyria, 
 Ohio. His father, Ebenezer Gregg (2d), was 
 born in Londonderry, New Hamp.shire, his 
 ancestors having belonged to the Scotch-Irish 
 race. Colonel William Gregg, founder of the 
 family in New Hamjishire, came from the 
 North of Ireland, whither his ancestors, to 
 evade the rigors of the Scottish kirk in the rule 
 of James I, had fled in 1619 to remain exactly 
 100 years in no better condition than that their 
 native country afforded, before their dispersion 
 to other countries. Many of them located in 
 New Hampshire, named their towns after those 
 they left in Ireland and reared sons who have 
 
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 helped to make some of the best liistory in tliis 
 country in professional avenues and where 
 honesty, perseverance, integrity and faithful 
 a<lhesion to principle formed the base of suc- 
 cess. Horace Greeley may Ijo mentioned as a 
 sample. William Gregg died at Londonderry, 
 in 1825, aged one month less than 94 years. 
 His son Ebenezer (1st) died at Elyria, March 7, 
 1844, having been one of the pioneers of the 
 Buckeye State. The fatlier of Mr. Gregg was 
 born at Dorchester, N. H., and went to Ohio 
 with his parents, having married Mary Wallace 
 Danforth in " Derry ", N. H. She belonged to 
 an old family of more than ordinary claims to 
 prominence. He inherited in a marked degree 
 the traits of the Scotch and was noted for his 
 vigorous coustitution, perseverance and energy 
 of character. 
 
 Mr. (Jregg comes of fighting stock, his great 
 grandfather having been in command of 
 minute men at Bennington, "\'t., under General 
 Stark, and heard his commander's rally to his 
 troops, paraphrased by the poet as follows: 
 
 '• We'll beat tbe British ere set of sun " 
 
 '• Or Mollie Stark's a widow; it was done ! " 
 
 He fought through the Revolution as did the 
 grandfather, who was also a soldier in 1812. 
 (The latter was born in 1757 and died in 1844. j 
 Mr. Gregg was a boy when the civil war came 
 on and, as soon as possible, when 19, he en- 
 listed, enrolling March 7, 1864, in Company K, 
 135th Ohio Infantry, which had been a State 
 organization under the call for 100-day men. 
 Mustered at Camp Chase, Mr. Gregg accom- 
 panied the command to AVest Virginia and was 
 assigned to duty in guarding Opequan Bridge 
 and also to patrol the track of the Baltimore & 
 Ohio railroad and remained there until .luly ?>, 
 1864. When Sigel retreated Ijefore Early, 
 Company K was ordered to join the regiment 
 in the advance of Sigel's column two miles for- 
 ward, with Ihu thermometer 104 in the shade, 
 
 but the soldiers threw away everything possible 
 except their guns and ammunition and over- 
 took the command about sundown. Line of 
 battle was formed in the edge of a wood but 
 there was no fighting and later, the command 
 started for the Potomac, fording at Dam No. 4, 
 near Shepherd.stown at midnight, July 3d. 
 After a rest of an hour and a half, which was 
 an irremediable blunder, the men having been 
 overheated when entering the cold water, many 
 were entirely helpless on trying to resume the 
 march. Mr. Gregg managed to keep up until 
 he reached the old field at Antietam, where he 
 improvised a private hospital in the corner of 
 a fence, was afterwards placed in a suppi}' wagon 
 loaded with oats and was with the comn:and 
 in the line of retreat towards Harper's Ferry 
 until near evening, when he was driven from 
 the wagon and lay on the ground, suffering 
 with rheumatism, until he was placed on a 
 horse, after having been three nights without 
 sleep. He leaned forward, placed his arm 
 about the neck of his horse and went fast asleep. 
 Sometime in the night he was pushed off the 
 horse into a wagon containing several men and 
 others were piled in like wood. The team took 
 its own gait down the mountain towards 
 Frederick City where the cojitents of the wagon 
 were dumped into the streets and left to shift 
 for themselves. Mr. Gregg found his way to 
 Provost Marshal's headquarters, reported as a 
 straggler and was asked if he was hungry, etc. 
 He was directed to a kettle of coffee and some 
 bread, filled himself full and slept for 24 hours. 
 In the afternoon of July 7th he woke to 
 find himself alone, the troops having gone 
 to the battle of Frederick. He went to 
 tlie provost office, found it deserted and 
 selecting a musket and 60 "rounds" he started 
 for the activities, finding a company of the 3d 
 Maryland safe behind a barn and joined them. 
 In another instant he was obeying an order to 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 charge a battery in face of its fire, tlie sliells ! 
 plougliiiig tlie meadow. He Iniiinl liiiiisi'lt' 
 alone and protected behind a fence, the column 
 having moved away while firing. The colonel 
 called to Mr. Gregg to follow, and went to a 
 crest where he was exposed to direct fire, en- 
 dangering his (the colonel's) life; Mr. Gregg 
 called to him to lie down, telling him lie would 
 shoot him if he did not, but he replied: "Shoot 
 away! a few more bullets will not make much 
 difference. " He took a position in which 
 three men on his right were injured and two on 
 his left, the lighting going on for three hours, 
 the distance being so small that the foes could 
 exchange calls. A boy stood up to drink and 
 a rebel sliot split the canteen, its owner crying 
 out that he did not mind being shot at initthat 
 it was a shame tospill liis whisky. The arrival 
 of Mulligan prevented disaster and thej' were 
 in a heavy night rain. In the morning every 
 lltli man counted off was to enter the skirmisii 
 line and Mr. Gregg was again to the front, tlie 
 captain offering to relieve him, but he refused 
 and on the way to jiosition crossed the field of 
 the day before where the corn was cut down 
 by bullets aud the dead still unburied. They 
 took two rebels from a barn whom Mr. Gregg 
 marched to the rear and was offered the oppor- 
 tunity to take them to Frederick City but 
 refused. Advancing to meet the skirmish line 
 of rebels they were afterwards sent to the rear 
 and in the evening went through the city to 
 Monocacy Junction and were in a fight under 
 Lew Wallace, lasting almost seven hours, Wal- 
 lace being driven l)aek to Baltimore. Mr. Gregg 
 was furnished transjiortation back to his com- 
 pany which he found in the rifle pits in front of 
 Maryland Heights. The command soon moved 
 onto the Heights and remained six weeks with- 
 out change of clothing and each man with one 
 canteen of water daily. The ground had been 
 burned over and the dirt can be imagined. 
 
 Mr. Gregg relates that a skunk hid one night 
 
 under a craekei- box which was used for a 
 j)illow but he did not succeed in outranking 
 the smell of the command. Mr. Gregg was 
 mustered out after 120 days of service Sep. 20, 
 1864, at Camp Chase. Arthur L. Gregg, a 
 brother, served three years in Edgerton's Light 
 Battery and received a kick from a horse which 
 caused his death seven years after the close of 
 the war. Danforth Simon Gregg, another 
 brother, enlisted in the 21st Illinois Infantry 
 and served three years. 
 
 The day after reaching home he was taken 
 with tyj)hoid fever, was ill seven weeks and 
 weighed but 70 pounds after recovery. He 
 was rendered unable to work for several years. 
 Oct. 7, 1867, he went to Milwaukee, engaging 
 in llie sale of Domestic sewing machines which 
 business he continued to .Jan. 1, 1SS8, when he 
 embarked as a real estate agent, and has since 
 invented and received patents on a cloth and 
 carpet whipper. 
 
 March 22, 1873, Mr. Gregg was married to 
 Cornelia Augusta, daughter of James I). Sher- 
 man, formerly a leading dry goods merchant 
 of Chicago, and her two sons, Arthur S. and 
 Augustus are living. The mother died two 
 years after marriage and Mr. (Jregg was again 
 married June 16, 1877, to Eliza B. Carter, and 
 their children are named Eliza Bell andGracie. 
 Major Geo. W. Carter, former Warden of the 
 state prison at Wauj)un, a soldier in the 4th 
 Wisconsin, James Carter of the artillery service 
 and Harrison, a Lieutenant in the 23d Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, were the brothers of Mrs. Gregg. 
 Charles S., another brother, was in the employ 
 of the Government as a citizen, but he took a 
 musket and went onto the skirmish line to drive 
 Hood from Nashville. The residence of Mr. 
 Gregg is at \\'auwatosa, Wis. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 743 
 
 Tp^ RIGADIER-GENERAL HARRISON 
 
 tM^ '-■■ liOBART. Perliaps in no other 
 ' ■^ instance on these jiages will a name 
 appear which is more the synonym of all that 
 Itelongs to a noljle manhood than that of Gen- 
 eral Hohart. If a biographer, who is called to 
 incessant contemplation of Wisconsin volunteer 
 soldiers and their relation to the cruelest war 
 on record, should pause to express sentiment, 
 it would illy tit the character and achievements 
 of General Ilobart. Rut all that miglit be said 
 would be none too much to express the pride 
 and gratification it is to his generation, that he 
 made for himself and for Wisconsin and his 
 country such a splendid record. 
 
 He is a native of Ashburnham, Worcester 
 Co., Massachusetts. He was the son of a New 
 England farmer and the education he was able 
 to obtain as such, was of a quality to stimulate 
 a boy of his proclivities, feeling the cramping 
 influences of a lot of confinement to the narrow 
 privileges and opportunities of an overcrowded 
 community whose resources of occupation and 
 advancement for ambition and commendable 
 effort were of the most limited character. He 
 went to Haverhill, Mass., to learn the printer's 
 business and served an apprenticcsliip of three 
 years ; worketl industriously at the case, saved 
 his earnings and fitted for Dartmouth College, 
 matriculating in one of the leading Universities 
 in the countr}', which has held its prestige for 
 succeeding generations, in ]838, and taking 
 his degree in 1S42, having taught school in the 
 interims to eke out his means to accomplish 
 his plans. He decided on the profession of a 
 lawyer and became a student under the in- 
 structions of the famous Robert Rantoul of 
 Boston and, in 1S45, was admitted to the Bar 
 of Suffolk county. In 184(5 he determined to 
 test the promise of the West and locatetl an 
 office at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sucli spirits 
 as his were welcomed and recognized by the 
 
 settlers in that portion of the (then) Territoiy 
 of Wisconsin and his character, energy and 
 promise won the admiration of his fellow 
 pioneers, who sent him to the Territorial Legis- 
 lature of the same fall and he served a biennial 
 term. He was made the Senator from his 
 Di.strict after Wisconsin arrived at the dignity 
 of Statehood and, as such, occupied the most 
 prominent and responsible position of the ses- 
 sion (in which the Statutes of the Badger State 
 were revised and completed) in the capacity of 
 Chairman of Committee on Judiciary. His 
 labors in the Legislature of 1848 will continue 
 their inlluence while Wisconsin has an exist- 
 ence as a commonwealth. He was re-elected 
 in 1849 and made Speaker of the House. He 
 served with the same conspicuous ability and 
 after his return to private life, devoted his 
 energies to the develo})ment of the part of the 
 State where he was located and to his profes- 
 sional duties, which were multiplying indefi- 
 nitely. In 1855 he removed to Calumet county 
 and aided in forming the municipal relations 
 of Chilton. In 1859 he was again elected to 
 the Legislature in which his service was of the 
 same distinguishing character. His reputation 
 secured for him the nomination for Governor 
 of Wisconsin and he ran against Alexander 
 Randall, the general condition of National 
 affairs making the party interests the point at 
 issue, alone defeating him, as his devotion to 
 the State welfare made him, personally, the 
 most popular man within her borders. (After 
 the war he ran against Gen. Fairchild and 
 since a candidate for Congress on the Demo- 
 cratic Ticket). 
 
 The period was at hand which relegated to 
 oblivion every relation of citizenship, except 
 such as pertained to National affairs, and 
 therein was proven the quality of the material 
 which preserved the Union and placed the 
 Nation on its impregnable basis of permanence 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 — the patriotism of the sons of those who 
 established it. General Hobart threw every 
 resource he possessed into the balance and 
 enlisted in the ranks, enrolling in the Calumet 
 RiHes which, on reporting to Governor Randall, 
 was assigned to the 4th Wisconsin as Company 
 K, having 101 men and Hobart as Captain. 
 In the detention at Elmira after starting for 
 the front, liis company and Company II were 
 detailed by Colonel Paine to obtain an engine 
 to take the train on its way and the work was 
 accomplished in spite of the resistance of the 
 cmi)loyes of the road. An engineer was de- 
 tailed from the regiment which proceeded on 
 its way to Harrisburg. After reaching Balti- 
 more, where the command was on duty as 
 guard until November, arms were received and 
 the regiment went on an expedition to \'ir- 
 ginia East Shore, returning to Baltimore and in 
 February started for active service, going to 
 Fortress Monroe and Newport News, prepara- 
 tory to embarking with Butler's expedition to 
 New Orleans. Captain Hobart with his com- 
 pany, passed through the dismal experiences 
 of tlie trip to Ship Island and the preliminary 
 mov^nenls before the taking of the defenses of 
 New Orleans, Forts Jackson and St. Phillips. 
 They were in the movements up tlie river with 
 Vicksburg as objective point, and had the 
 satisfaction of repaying the treachery at Grand 
 Gull'. Tiiey participated in the subsequent 
 expedition to Baton Rouge and, with his com- 
 pany, with decimated ranks and enfeebled, 
 worn-out men he fought to repulse Brecken- 
 ridge and aided in a victory. Aug. 21, 1862, 
 Governor Salomon made him Lieutenant- 
 Colonel of the 21st Wisconsin and he joined in 
 that capacity in October following at Lebanon, 
 Ky. Colonel Sweet had sustained injuries at 
 Perry ville on the Stii of the month and did not 
 return to the regiment and Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Hobart assumed command. The regiment had 
 
 I suffered severely in the action and from ex- 
 posure and was hardly in fighting trim 
 when the movements preliminary to tlie 
 battle of Murfreesboro (Stone River) took place, 
 Deceml)er 30th, the od Brigade participated in 
 the action at Jefferson Pike which preceded the 
 fighting at Stone River on the day following 
 and, under acting Colonel Hobart, performed 
 service which was recognized especially and 
 sustained its record through the battle of the 
 two succeeding days. The command was in 
 the subsequent movements whicii led up to the 
 battle of Cliickamauga, engaging in several 
 skirmishes at Guy's Gap and Hoover's Gap and 
 at Cliickamauga, and was in action September 
 19th and 20th. The regiment was still fight- 
 ing at sundown, when (ieneral Thomas ordered 
 a retreat, which was not known by the 21st, 
 which with its colonel was endeavoring, blindly, 
 to hold its position when it was suddenly dis- 
 covered that tiie command was, in a sense, cut 
 I off and the commanding officer, while valiantly 
 ' endeavoring to cut his way through over- 
 ' whelming numbers, with about 70 of his force 
 was taken prisoner. Libby was then the 
 dreaded ultimatum of the captives of the con- 
 federates and thither went the unfortunates 
 from the 21st Wisconsin. There is no need to 
 recapitulate what they endured; on countless 
 pages of this work the stories of Libb}', Ander- 
 sonville, Florence, Charleston and Fort Tyler 
 are told, and the sliameful record stands against 
 the South in history as the greatest atrocities 
 known to human experience. But the energies 
 of Colonel Hobart never flagged, and liis active 
 mind was perjK'tualiy occupied with ]i]ans of 
 escape, which should include the greatest 
 possible number of his associates and he suc- 
 ceeded. From the room where he was confined, 
 a passage was cut to the room below through 
 die rear of a fireplace, the stones being removed 
 skillfully at night to admit the passage of t\\'Q 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS, 
 
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 men, one to tunnel and the other to tan air 
 into the cavity with his hat and to draw out in 
 a spittoon the loosened earth, which was dis- 
 posed of under the dehris on the cellar floor. 
 A passage was burrowed out under the street, a 
 distance'of about seventy feet, and in a month 
 it was ready for the attempt. On the night 
 of Feb. 9, 1SG4, 109 men in citizens' dress 
 crawled like worms through the narrow chan- 
 nel and emerged on the street. Fifty-two were 
 retaken and 57 pushed their way to freedom. 
 Among the latter was Ilobart ; arm-in-arm with 
 Col. T. S. West, he walked through the streets 
 of the city, coughing like one in the last stages 
 of consumption, his efforts aided and abetted 
 by his wasted, cadaverous ajipearance, and, 
 after that, for six nights and five days, they 
 pushed toward the polar star, aided in their 
 calculation by a war map of McClellan which 
 Colonel Hobart had coi^ied before leaving 
 Libby. On the sixth day they found they were 
 within the Union lines when challenged by 
 cavalrymen in blue and to which they responded 
 with a hurrah which cost all their remaining 
 strength. Colonel Hobart made his way to 
 Fortress Monroe, then in command of General 
 B. F. Butler, his former superior officer at New 
 Orleans, by whom he was greeted with ail the 
 enthusiasm possible for a man to display. It 
 was a well known fact that the chivalry of the 
 South, holding to punctilio, while starving, 
 freezing, murdering and torturing defense- 
 less men, refused to observe customs of modern 
 warfare, because, forsooth, General Butler had 
 transgressed the code of a gentleman by calling 
 things by their right name at New Orleans 
 and on that score refused to transmit mails for 
 the prisoners, and also to exchange prison- 
 ers, while such a distasteful individual was 
 retained in authority at Fortress Monroe 
 by the United States Government. What 
 other sort of villain he might be, he must be a 
 
 gentleman according to their regulations made 
 and provided. A scheme had been devised by 
 Colonel Hobart, (who, through his own troubles 
 never forgot his solicitude for others), to cir- 
 cumvent the rebels and it was a success. He 
 advised Butler to send without notice to a point 
 in the- vicinity of Bermuda Hundred on the 
 James River, (which had been agreed upon as 
 a place of communication), a number of con- 
 federate officers without notice further than 
 that they were there for exchange. The com- 
 plement was man for man and rank for rank 
 and, in numbers, covered like officers in Libby 
 prison. When the plan was referred to Secre- 
 tary Stanton he directed that it be submitted 
 to General Meredith, head of the Exchange 
 Bureau, who obtained from the Seci'etary of 
 War, the necessary order and the men were 
 sent according to the plan of Colonel Hobart. 
 The rebels were in a dilemma; the individuals 
 who demanded exchange were of their own ilk 
 and, being officers, their displeasure was to be 
 considered ; they were evidently in a trap and 
 submitted, but assured the United States Gov- 
 ernment that the thing would not be repeated 
 under any consideration. But 250 Union 
 officers were released from Libby through the 
 kindly thoughtfulness and sagacious counsel 
 of an associate. 
 
 The visit made to Wisconsin b}^ Colonel 
 Hobart was an ovation. The State received 
 him through her representatives, and private 
 citizens made every effort to express their ap- 
 preciation of his character. Early in 1864 he 
 rejoined his command at Lookout Mountain 
 and was ready when the Atlanta campaign 
 opened, to resume military duty at the head of 
 his regiment, whicli he did under a Colonel's 
 commission. Rocky Face Ridge, Snake Creek 
 Gap, Resaca, Dallas Woods, Big Shanty, Kcne- 
 saw and Marietta are on his roster, and at 
 Peach Tree Creek lie again wrested victory 
 
746 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 from a forlorn hope in a charge. His regiment 
 was constantly under fire in the trenches before 
 Atlanta and was in the movement to the right, 
 which was expected to expel tlie rebels from 
 the city. It was successful and, after Jones- j 
 boro, Colonel Hobart was assigned to the com- 
 mand of a brigade. He went through Georgia 
 and was in the march to the sea and on the 
 capture of Savannah, by special recommend of 
 General Sherman, he was promoted by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln to the rank of Brigadier-General, 
 being the only officer in his division then 
 brevetted. As such he was in the action at 
 Benton ville, and after Johnston's surrender 
 went to Washington where he was relieved in 
 order to return with his first love, the 21st 
 Wisconsin, to the borders of the State he loved 
 and which lias never ceased to love him. 
 
 He located his business and interests at Mil- 
 waukee in the fall of the same year and re- 
 sumed his former relations to the people of the 
 Badger State. He became again a member of 
 the Legislature of Wisconsin and performed 
 effective service in the interests of education 
 especially and in other avenues of proportion- 
 ate good to the conunonwcalth. He served in 
 local municipal relations and in every position, 
 without regard to grade, performed every duty 
 in a manner consonant with his high character 
 and sentiment of responsibility in behalf of 
 those whom he served. As a lawyer, soldier, 
 citizen and legislator, lie has discharged the 
 obligations of his relations to Wisconsin in the 
 only way possible to a man of his type — one 
 who feels upon him the weight of inherited 
 responsibilities as well as those which accumu- 
 late uufler the eilbrt to render the world such 
 services as alleviate wrong and assert the su- 
 premacy of right. No fulsome words will fit 
 the character of General Hobart, and if he 
 should give his dictum of what should be said 
 of him it would be "Write me as one who 
 
 loved his fellow-men." And nothing more 
 fitting could be said. 
 
 He was married Feb. 2, 1854, to Frances L 
 Lowrey, of Troy, New York, and she died 
 March 22, 1855. June 8, 1857, he was again 
 married to Mrs. Anna C. Mower, of Boston. 
 
 The portrait of General Hobart appears on 
 page 742. 
 
 AN H. BUGBEE, Waukesha, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
 born June 14, 1840, in Cabot, Cale- 
 donia Co., Vermont and in l)oth lines of de- 
 scent represents patriotic blood which left a 
 record in several of the earlier wars of the 
 country, lie is the son of Harris and Hannah 
 (St. Clair) Bugbee ami hisjiaternal greatgrand- 
 father was a victim of one of the Indian wars. 
 Seven brothers St. Clair emigrated from Scot- 
 land to America prior to the Revolution, and 
 it is probable that all of them became soldiers 
 in that struggle, and also in 1812. Tiiey all 
 settled in New England and all the families of 
 the name are traceable to that brotherhood. 
 Willard Bugbee, grandfather of Van, lived 
 and died in Vermont, where he reared a large 
 family, Harris being the youngest. The latter 
 was a millwright and died in the State of Ver- 
 mont at the age of 60 years. The mother 
 removed to Wisconsin and died at the liome of 
 her son, aged about Go years in ISSO. Mr. 
 Bugbee has a sister named C!arrie and they 
 were the only children. He was sent to an 
 excellent school at Randolph, Vermont, a town 
 noted for its culture and the intelligence of its 
 citizens who take pride in fostering one of the 
 best known schools. Like many New England 
 boys who inherit the traits of their sires, he 
 first engaged in the business of teaching and 
 in tlie j'ear after in- reached his majority he 
 enlisted. 
 
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 747 
 
 He enroUeu in the spring of 1862, in Com- 
 pany G, lOtli Vermont Infantry from Ran- ; 
 dolpli, was mustered witli liis company at 
 lirattleboro Sept. 23, 1862, and in October fol- 
 lowing went to the front with tlie Armj^ of the 
 Potomac engaging first in performing ])icket 
 and other n:iilit.ary duty at Conrad's and . 
 Edward's Ferries until orders were received 
 for the regiment to move witii all possible dis- 
 patch to fight at Gettysburg. The command 
 rejoined the arni}^ at Harper's Ferry and in 
 August, 1863, Mr. Bugbee was ordered to 
 report at Signal Headquarters near Warrenton, 
 \'a., for examination, preparatory to admission 
 to that corps. He passed satisfactorily and 
 from that date Mr. Bugbee was on duty at 
 headquarters of the Army of the Potomac as 
 an attache of the signal service, and was its 
 attendant in all its campaigns and present in 
 some capacity connected with that branch of 
 the service, until the close of the war. His 
 first assignment was with General 0. 0. How- 
 ard for two months and afterwards he was in 
 the field and on the move, experiencing all the 
 changes and vicissitudes in the campaign of 
 tlie Wilderness, in the subsequent movements 
 through 1864, in the activities in Virginia, in- 
 cluding the awful experiences of the Union 
 troops at Petersburg and on the three lines of 
 works, which the rebels had been kindly per- 
 mitted to construct at their leisure. (When 
 Bull Run was fought and for months after- 
 wards, there was not a fortification in existence 
 at Petersljurg, the virtual key to the rebel 
 stronghold). In the Review at Washington 
 the Signal Corps had tlie first place after the 
 staff of General Meade, and afterwards camped 
 at Arlington Heights, where Mr. Bugbee 
 first camped as an infantry soldier. He re- 
 ceived final discharge .June 29, 1865, and 
 returned to his old home in Vermont. In 
 the spring of 1866 he went to Milwaukee and 
 
 was there occupied about a year, removing 
 thence to Waukesha. Soon after he began to 
 look into the business of photography, partly 
 as pastime while deciding on something to do, 
 and finally engaged in it as an occupation, 
 which he carried on until 1886, when he sold 
 out and has since lived in retirement from 
 active exertion, on account of failing eyesight. 
 
 He was married in 1876 to Jennie, daughter 
 of Thomas Spence, and they have T,liree chil- 
 dren named Leslie, Benjamin and Lottie. 
 
 Mr. Bugbee is a Mason of the higher degrees, 
 being a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, 
 Commandery and the Consistorj'at ]\Iilwaukee. 
 He was a member of the first Post at Waukesha 
 and has since been actively interested in the 
 prosperit}^ of the Order. 
 
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 ATRICK O'CONNELL, Commander of 
 G. A. R. Post No. 8 (Veteran), con- 
 nected with the Soldier's Home at 
 Milwaukee, was born Feb. 28, 1834, at Toronto, 
 Canada. His parents, .John and .Julia (Ilart- 
 nett) O'Connell, were natives of Ireland and 
 emigrated thence to Canada in 1824. The 
 father was a farmer in the Dominion and went 
 to Detroit, Mich., in 1838, going thence to 
 Newark, Ohio, where he died in 1843, and his 
 wife died in Iowa, in 1878. Mr. O'Connell had 
 six brothers and a sister and all are deceased 
 except himself. He came to the United 
 States when the canals were the prominent 
 feature of transportation and worked on the 
 Miami and Erie canal, rising to the grade of a 
 packet captain. He was a member of the State 
 Militia of Ohio when the period of the war 
 came on and he was commissioned by Governor 
 Denison of Ohio, 1st Lieutenant of tlie 1st Ohio 
 Infantry, a three-months command which 
 bivouacked at Columbus for a few days and 
 
748 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 went thence to Wasliington. (Vallandigham 
 was once in command of this organization.) 
 Tlie regiment was assigned to Sclienck's Brigade 
 and was in tlie action at ^'ienna and in tiie first 
 battle of Bull Run under Tvler. The regiment 
 retreated to Washington and they went home 
 to Dayton, where they were paid about the 
 first of August and discharged. Mr. O'Connell 
 re-enlisted in the reorganized command for 
 three years (1st Ohio Infantry, Col. B. F. Smith 
 and Captain O'Connell, Company F). The 
 regiment left Camp Corwin at Dayton, Oct. 31, 
 
 1861, went to Cincinnati, thence to Louisville 
 and West Point. Nov. 15th a march was made 
 to Camp Nevin and on the next day to report 
 to Gen. A. McDowell McCook in the Army of 
 the Ohio. Dec. 9, 1861, they marched to 
 Bacon Creek, thence to Green Kiver, the rebels 
 of Gregg's command firing on them. Feb. 14, 
 
 1862, they were ordered back to West Point, 
 Ky., and heard that Fort Henry had fallen, 
 when a return to West Point was made and 
 thence to Nashville, reaching the latter place 
 March 30th. They camped there on a cold, 
 sleety niglit without lilankets or fire and went 
 thence to Duck River, skirmishing on the way. 
 After the bridge was completed they moved to 
 Savannah, Ala., and heard the guns at Shilob ; 
 tiiey started for the battlefield and reached 
 there the morning of the 7th. The fuel for 
 the engines was short and on the route the ■ 
 soldiers left the boat to obtain fence rails. On 
 departing they double-quicked to the field and 
 plunged immediately into hot action on the 
 extreme left, the regiment losing about 60 
 killed and wounded. The regiment left there 
 for Corinth, arriving June 10th, and went 
 thence to Nashville by way of luka, Tuscumbia 
 and Huntsville, crossing the river at Florence 
 and stopping to build a bridge at Elk River. 
 They went next to TuUahoma, raided from 
 there and arrived at Nashville, Sejiteuiber 7th. , 
 
 On the 10th the march was resumed and they 
 took a hand in the watching of Bragg's move- 
 ments, going to Louisville ami Nashville. 
 October •2d they were in an action at Slielby- 
 ville and at Dog Walk on the 9th, arriving 
 after the battle at Perryville. They reached 
 Danville on the 14th and passed through in 
 the pursuit of Bragg, going to Crab Orchard 
 and thence to Nashville (November 10th). 
 They iiad an action near the State insane 
 asylum and were assigned to the 2d Division 
 and 14th Corps, Army of the Cumberland. 
 December 26th the command moved out on 
 the Louisville turnpike skirmishing all the 
 way until they reached Murfreesboro, Decem- 
 ber 30th, to fight the following day and for 
 three days after. On the reorganization there 
 the 1st Ohio was placed in the 2d Division of 
 the 20th Army Corps and on the 19th of 
 Marcli Mr. O'Connell was detailed as pontonier 
 in tlie 4th Battalion and ordered to Franklin. 
 Two months later he received orders to proceed 
 to Murfreesboro to take command of the 3d 
 Battalion of the Pioneer Brigade, Army of the 
 Cumberland, going two weeks after to Nash- 
 ville. A month later the commander of the 
 Pioneer Brigade was taken sick and Captain 
 O'Connell was put in command, holding the 
 position several months. The force engaged 
 in building bridges, block houses and all other 
 structures incident to the campaign and during 
 the preliminaries to the battle of Chickamauga, 
 built bridges over the Tennessee at Stevenson, 
 Ala., then at Bridgeport and, later, at Chat- 
 tanooga. The command remained at C'hat- 
 tanooga until 1801, the battles of that campaign 
 meanwhile taking place at Chickamauga, Look- 
 out and Mission Ridge. Mr. O'Connell was 
 hurt there, his horse falling with him and 
 breaking his leg. The command accompanied 
 Sherman as far as Kingston, returning to 
 Chattanooga, where the Pioneer Brigade was 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 749 
 
 disbanded. An engineer regiment was organ- 
 ized, of wliich Captain O'Connell was made 
 Major and engaged in building as before. In 
 December, 1SG4, lie floated witb a series of 
 pontoons to Decatur, Ala., where he constructed 
 a bridge across the Tennessee lliver, said to 
 have been the speediest piece of work of the 
 kind constructed during the war and he went 
 alterwards with his battalion to Nashville. 
 His command went to the Decatur & Nashville 
 R. R., and engaged in building blockhouses 
 several montlis until the close of the war. He 
 was mustered out at Nashville, Oct. 25, 1865, 
 as Major Commanding, the superior officers 
 being on detached duty. He received the 
 compliments of General Rosecrans in the state- 
 ment that he was the most expert builder of 
 pontoons in the service and he is the inventor 
 of the section canvas pontoons for bridges, 
 regarded as the best in use. 
 
 He returned to Dayton, Ohio, and was ap- 
 pointed Chief of Police, serving several years 
 and acting also as Deputy U. S. Marshal. In 
 1870 he was appointed census taker and after- 
 wards officiated as Clerk of the Workhouse 
 Board three years and as Superintendent of the 
 same Body in 1884. He was afterwards em- 
 ployed sometime by the Government in secret 
 service and went to Wisconsin in 1886. He 
 settled at the National Home in Milwaukee 
 and was assigned to duty as time keeper. He 
 was subsequently placed in charge of construc- 
 tion, his present occupation. He was married 
 in Dayton, while at home on leave, to .Joanna, 
 daughter of Thomas and Mary Scanlan, Dec. 
 10, 1863. Their children are named Edward, 
 .John, Phillip and Marj'. They live at Dayton, 
 Ohio. He is a Republican in politics. 
 
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 [^0LORIAN .J. RIES, Deputy Collector 
 p^ and Acting Appraiser of Customs at 
 ^ Milwaukee, Wis., a charter member 
 
 of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was born 
 in Baden, Germany, A])ril .'30, 1813. His 
 father, Anton Ries, belonged to the class wiiose 
 dissatisfaction with the existing form of Gov- 
 ernment and whose belief in the right and 
 justice of the pi'incijiles of freedom and self- 
 government brought about the revolution of 
 1848. All they accomplished was to make a 
 record for them.selves on the pages of history' 
 as having struggled for the inherent rights of 
 themselves and their posterity, forming a wor- 
 thier page than the operations of all the mon- 
 archies the world has ever seen. The senior 
 Ries was arrested and after suffering imprison- 
 ment for over two years he was released, but 
 was banished from his native country which 
 he immediately left for America, arriving in 
 1851, and locating in Milwaukee. His wife 
 and family of nine children joined him there 
 in 1852, after settling their affairs in Germany. 
 The mother, Maria E. (Lang) Ries, died a week 
 after arrival, worn out with the difficulties and 
 hardships with which she had struggled. 
 
 Mr. Ries of this sketch received a common 
 school education in Milwaukee and afterwards 
 learned the business of a cooper, in which he 
 was occupied at the outbreak of the war. He 
 was 18 years old on the last day of the month 
 in which the attack was made by South Caro- 
 lina on Fort Sumter in Charleston harl)or and, 
 immediately upon the call of President Lin- 
 coln for 75,000 Volunteers, he offered his ser- 
 vices in response to his views of his duty, and 
 enlisted April 17, 1861, in what Ijecame Com- 
 pany D, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, for three 
 months. The regiment left Milwaukee for the 
 seat of war on .June 9, ISGl, and after reaching 
 Hagerstown, Md., was assigned to General Pat- 
 terson's army. On .July 2d, they crossed the 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Potomac River at Williainsport, and, being the 
 advance of tlie ai'iny, soon encountered the 
 enemy and took j)art in the battle of Falling 
 Waters, Va., whore CJeo. AV. Drake was killed 
 and where W. M. Graham was fatally wounded, 
 the first-named being the first Wisconsin sol- 
 dier to fall on the field of battle. (See sketch.) 
 After this battle the regiment was engaged in 
 the perilous work of guarding fords and picket 
 duty until iiieir term of enlistment expired 
 when they returned to Milwaukee and were 
 mustered out Aug. 20, 1861. Mr. Ries, on 
 Feb. 12, 1862, again enlisted in Company D, 
 ITtii Wisconsin Infantry, and was appointed 
 Sergeant in canip at Madison, and left Wiscon- 
 sin, March 23, 1862, for St. Louis and went 
 from there to Pittsbui'g Landing, arriving 
 there a few days after the battle. He was as- 
 signed with iiis regiment to the Gth Division 
 and participated in the campaign that culmi- 
 nated in the capture of Corinth. He performed 
 military duty of a miscellaneous character 
 until he fought at Corinth, Oct. od and 4th, 
 where the regiment in a gallant charge won 
 distinction, which was recognized b}' the Divi- 
 sion Commamler on the field. The regiment 
 was afterwards connected with the movements 
 of Grant, going to Grand Junction and ad- 
 vancing soutiiward l)eyond Oxford, Miss., until 
 Murphy turned the su]>plies for the Union 
 army at Holly S{)rings over to the rebels, when 
 his regiment, with other trooj)s, were ordered 
 back to re-capture Holly Springs, which was 
 accomj)lished. He then accompanied his regi- 
 ment on a forced march to Grand Junction to 
 re-enforce the garrison at that place, and after- 
 wards went to Moscow and thence to Memphis, 
 to move down the Mississippi to Young's Point 
 near Vicksburg, where they won as much 
 glory as was jwssiblein digging on the historic 
 canal. They again engaged in ditching at 
 Lake Providence, La., and in April went to 
 
 Milliken's Bend. From there they marched to 
 Grand (Julf to connect witii the troops of 
 McPherson. They witnessed llie close of the 
 action at Chamj)ion's Hill and Black River 
 Bridge, and reached Vickslnirg on the evening 
 of the 18th of May. On the next day they 
 took part in the assault and again in the gen- 
 eral assault of May 22d and in other move- 
 ments connected with the siege, until the cajiit- 
 ulation of the enemy on July 4, 1863. .luly 
 13th they were sent to Natchez, Miss., foraged 
 in that vicinity and performed garrison duty, 
 also securing horses and scouting as mounted 
 infantry, raiding into Louisiana and caj)turing 
 Harrisonburg. After destroying mills and 
 other property, they returned to Xatciioz, where 
 they remained till October 13th, when they 
 turned over their horses and retiuMR-dto Vicks- 
 burg and were assigned to provost duty. Feb. 
 13, 1864, Mr. Ries, who had been jiromoted 
 to 1st Sergeant, veteranized, and after a veter- 
 an's furlough left Wisconsin for Cairo, April 
 21st, going thence up the Tennessee River to 
 Clifton and marched to Huntsville to connect 
 with the ITtli Corps preparatory to joining 
 Sherman for tiie siege of Atlanta. Sergeant 
 Ries was in the fight at Big Shanty, in the sev- 
 eral actions at Kenesaw and in the charge at 
 Bald Hill, participating in all the movements 
 of the regiment before the evacuation of At- 
 lanta, and fighting at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's 
 and was in the chase alter Hood. He was in 
 camp at Marietta, ju'eparatory to the foot race 
 to Savannah ; foraged, forded swamps, built 
 roads and raided in common witli the soldiers 
 of Sherman's cohunns, until the entire route 
 was traversed through Georgia and Savannah 
 captured Dec. 21, 1864. Here they remained 
 till Jan. 4, 1865, wli,en they took up the march 
 througli the Carolinas, going first to Beaufort, 
 S. C, thence through Pocataligo, Orangeburg, 
 Columbia and Cheraw, S. C, through Fayette- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 751 
 
 ville and Goldsboro to Raleigli, N. C, partici- 
 pating in all the battles and skirmishes of the 
 17th Array Corps until the surrender of John- 
 ston's army. April 29th the march northward 
 was resumed and passing through Petersburg, 
 Richmond and Fredericksburg, Va., they ar- 
 rived at Washington, D. C, and took part in the 
 Grand Review, May 24, 1865. From hei-e they 
 went to Louisville where Mr. Ries acted as 
 Adjutant of his regiment, having been com- 
 missioned 1st Lieutenant of his company, 
 April 18, 1865, and was mustered out as such 
 .July 11, 1865, with iiis regiment. He did not 
 lose a day of service under either enlistment 
 and was never away from his post of duty. 
 
 After returning to Wisconsin he acted as 
 coiuniercial agent in the interests of a Milwau- 
 kee business house for a number of years. He 
 was elected to represent the 6tli District of 
 Milwaukee county in the Legislature of 1877, 
 and afterwards served as a member of the 
 Common Council of the city from 1878 to 
 
 1880, as Superintendent of the House of Cor- 
 rection from 1880 to 1885, and as Chief of 
 Police of Milwaukee from 1885 to 1888. He 
 served as Aid-de-Canip with the rank of 
 Colonel on the stafi' of Governor William E. 
 Smith from 1878 to 1882, and with the Gover- 
 nor and stafi" took part in the Centennial cele- 
 bration of the surrender of Yorktown, Va., in 
 
 1881. On the accession of J. A. Watrous to 
 the position of Collector of Customs of the port 
 of Milwaukee, he was ajijiointed his Deputy 
 and Acting Appraiser of Merchandise as stated, 
 which position he holds in 1890. 
 
 He was married in Milwaukee in 1865, to 
 .Vnnie W., daughter of Ferdinand and Wil- 
 helmina Wurtz, a native of Germany. Her 
 lather was a Sergeant in Company H, 2d Wis- 
 consin Cavalry, and died in Memphis in Feb- 
 ruary, 1865, after veteranizing. Six children | 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ries named 
 
 Louise, Hattie, Alfred, Ella, Arthur and Annie. 
 Mr. Ries was a member of Phil. H. Sheridan 
 Post, G. A. R., prior to the organization of Post 
 No. 1, and is a Mason of the 32d degree ; he is . 
 also a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow 
 and belongs to the Milwaukee Turnverein. 
 
 ■ « i»r ■ H \ 
 
 NDREW WILSON KERR, Portage, 
 r^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 14, was born April 5, 1846, at Milton, 
 Rock Co., Wis. In descent on both sides he is 
 of Scotch-Irish lineage, his parents, Benjamin 
 and Martha (Williamson) Kerr, having traced 
 their origin to that race; they were born in 
 Philadelphia, Pa., aiid went to Rock Co., Wis- 
 consin, about 1844, settling in Milton on a 
 farm. After two years they moved to Pack- 
 waukee, Marquette county, where the father 
 died ; the mother lives with her oldest son 
 Andrew. William, .Joseph B., Mary E., David 
 G. and Martha M. were Mr. Kerr's brothers and 
 sisters; Martha is deceased. 
 
 All the advantages of school obtained by the 
 son he received before he was 11 years old, 
 when his fath"fer died, and, as he was the oldest 
 child, the responsibility of assisting his mother 
 devolved on him. He strongly desired to enlist 
 as soon as the war became a certainty but 
 waited until he was 18 and then went in opposi- 
 tion to his mother's wishes. When the Uth 
 Wisconsin Infantr}- were home on veteran fur- 
 lough he enlisted in August and went with 
 veterans and recruits to Camj) Randall, Madison, 
 and, Sept. 23, 1864, started for New Orleans, 
 arriving on the 29th. They remained in New 
 Orleans about one week and were assigned to 
 Steele's command. They were ordered then to 
 Brashier City, whither they went on transports 
 and performed varied .sorts of guard duty, re- 
 maining there through the winter. There Mr. 
 
752 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Kerr assisted in the solemn ceremony of burial 
 of a comrade, his first experience of that kind. 
 He aided in l)uilding fortifications, digging rifle 
 pits and took part in several recoinioitering ex- 
 peditions up the bayous and streams with which 
 that country was filled, the object being to pre- 
 vent massing of any considerable numbers of 
 rebels and to interfere with the smuggling 
 operations which were being carried on. A 
 circuitous line four miles north and five miles 
 south of the city was picketed by the regiment 
 until Feb. 26, 1865, when the command went 
 to join the 16th Army Corps tliree miles south 
 of New Orleans, and there was attached to the i 
 3d Brigade, Colonel Harris, •2d Division, Gen- 
 eral Steele, the corps commander being General 
 Gerrard. The regiment was under Major Miller. 
 March 9th they embarked at Chalniette, landed 
 at Dauphin's Island in Mobile Bay, W'ent thence 
 up the Fish River and then into camj) at 
 Donnelly's Landing, AprU 3d; after engaging 
 in the investment of Spanish Fort thej^ went to 
 Fort Blakely and assisted in driving the rebels, 
 within their main works and, on the 9th of 
 April, a few hours after the capitulation of 
 Spanish Fort, Blakely wiis assaulted by a 
 charge of the 11th Wisconsin and the fort was 
 entered by the regiment, the colors of the com- 
 mand being j)]anted first on the parapet. The 
 regiment went thence to Montgomery, Ala., 
 thence to Mobile and was mustered out Septem- 
 ber 5th, going to Madison for final dissolution 
 of military obligations. While marching from 
 New Orleans to camp near the old battle ground 
 where Jackson fought and won the last Ijattle 
 of the war of 1812, Mr. Kerr sustained a rupture 
 from which he lias never recovered ; lie has 
 never applied for a pension on that account nor 
 on any other. His brother William enlisted in 
 the same company and regiment, with which 
 he servetl until it was mustered out. 
 
 After tlie war Mr. Kerr returned home to 
 
 Marquette county and remained on the farm 
 about five years when he engaged with tlie 
 Island Woolen Co., at Baraboo, Wis. He ad- 
 vanced to the jiosition of overseer of the carding 
 and spinning department and at the expiration 
 of ten years entered the employ of the Portage 
 Hosiery Co., as over.seer of the car<ling and 
 .spinning department, a position lie occupies in 
 1890. He was married in Packwaukee, Mar- 
 quette count}^ Aug. 12, 1868, to Anna E., 
 daugliter of Charles and Mary Ann (Page) Met- 
 calf. Robert B., Geoi'ge W., Ernest L. and 
 Harry C. are their four children. While at 
 Packwaukee Mr. Kerr held the position of 
 Supervisor when 22 years of age. He is u Re- 
 publican, a member of the Odd Fellows Order, 
 Baraboo Lodge No. 51, and he is Secretary of 
 Fort Winnebago Lodge, No. 33, A. F. and .\. M. 
 
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 Jf^ EN. JOSHUA J. GUPPEY, Portage, 
 I -^^^^^^q^ Wis., member of Rousseau Post No. 
 
 ^*i!ii^ 14, G. A. R., son of John and Han- 
 nah (Dawe) Guppey, was born Aug. 27, 1820, 
 at Dover, New Hampshire, and is of English 
 extraction. 
 
 Joshua Guppey, tlie founder of the American 
 branch of the family, emigrated in early youth, 
 about the year 1720, from Southwest England 
 to America, settled in Beverly, Mass., married 
 there and died there before reaching middle 
 age. His son, James Guppey, was a sea captain 
 and commanded a U. S. vessel in tlie war of 
 the Revolution. Jolin Gujipey, son of Capt. 
 James Guppey and father of Gen. Guppey, was 
 a wealthy farmer and much respected business 
 man, but never held any public position. 
 
 Gen. Guppey graduated at Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1843. In his senior year, he was 
 Cai)tain of the " Dartmouth Phalanx," tlie 
 college military company. He studied law in 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 753 
 
 Dover, N. H., ami ^vas admitted to the Bar in 
 April, 1840, and in Sejitember following he 
 settled in Columbus, Wis., in the practice of his 
 profession and in doing a general land agency 
 business. He remained there till 1851, when 
 lie removed to Portage in the same county, 
 whicli is still his home. He is in good circum- 
 stances, and has a beautiful homestead of fifty 
 acres on Silver Lalce. 
 
 In February, 1847, he was appointed Colonel 
 of Militia. In September, 1849, he was appoint- 
 ed Judge of Probate. He lias six times been 
 elected County Judge, for terms of four years 
 each, commencing respectively Jan. 1, 1850, 
 1854, 1866, 1870, 1874 and 1878. From 18-58 
 to 1861, he was School Superintendent of the 
 city of Portage, and again from 1866 to 1872. 
 His elections to these offices were usually with- 
 out opposition. 
 
 In 1862, he was the Democratic candidate 
 for Congress in the 2d Wisconsin District, and 
 was defeated by only 2,000 votes — the usual 
 Republican majority being about 7,000. In 
 1868 he became a Republican, and has ever 
 since acted with that party. He was never very 
 active in politics. 
 
 Sejit. 13, 1861, he was commissioned Lieut- 
 enant-Colonel of the 10th Regiment, Wisconsin 
 ^'olunteer Infantry, and served under Gen. 
 0. M. Mitchell, in all his campaigns of 1861 
 and 1862 in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala- 
 bama. 
 
 July 17, 1862, he was promoted to Colonel of 
 the 23d Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infan- 
 try and was with it, in actual command, in the 
 lirst assault on \'icksburg, in December, 1862, 
 under Gen. Sherman; also, in the assault and 
 capture of Post Arkansas, Jan. 11, 1863; and at 
 the battles of Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Cham- 
 pion Hills and Black River Bridge. In all 
 tbe.se battles, his regiment behaved with mar- 
 ked bravery, and the official report of the cap- 
 
 ture of Post Arkansas states that a part of the 
 rebel right was " driven in by a charge of the 
 23J Wisconsin, Colonel Guppey." 
 
 Colonel Guppey was also in command of his 
 regiment in the assault at A'icksburg in iNIay, 
 1863, and in the siege operations resulting in 
 the capture of that stronghold, July 4, 1863. 
 After this capture his regiment, with the 13th 
 Army Corps to which it belonged, was trans- 
 ferred to the Department of the Gulf. 
 
 On Nov. 3, 1863, the 4th Division, in com- 
 mand of Gen. Burbridge, was attacked by an 
 overwhelming force of rebels at Carrion Crow, 
 or Bayou Bourbeau, near Opelousa.s, La., and 
 the battle of Grand Coteau was fought. In 
 this battle the 23d W^isconsin, Colonel Guppey, 
 was held in reserve. When its turn came to 
 take the brunt of the battle, says the Cincin- 
 nati Commercial, " this excellent regiment, 
 animated by its brave Colonel, held the enemy 
 in check for a short time, delivering its fire 
 with deadly effect. * * * Here Col. G. 
 was wounded (ju.st below- the knee of the left 
 leg), and subsequently taken prisoner. The 
 man who shot him was not thirty feet from 
 him at the time. But the 23d, too, had to give 
 way. The odds were too great, for human 
 effort to overcome. * * * The Colonel com- 
 manded his men for some time after he was 
 shot." Mr. Greeley, in his " American Con- 
 flict," when describing this battle, says : " Our 
 right, thus suddenly assailed in great force and 
 with intense fury, was broken and was saved 
 from utter destruction by the devoted bravery 
 of the 23d Wisconsin and the efficient service 
 of Nims' battery." Colonel Guppey was treated 
 kindly while a prisoner, and was exchanged in 
 January, 1864. He was soon after detailed by 
 General Banks as President of a Military Com- 
 mission for the examination of officers in the 
 13th Army Corps. 
 
 In the summer of 1864 Colonel Guppey was 
 
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 assigned to tlie command of a brigade, and was 
 in active service till the close of the war, all the 
 way from Mobile Bay, Ala., to Paducah, Ky.; 
 and was Post Commander at tlie hitter place 
 when the war ended. On the loth of June, 
 1865, Colonel Guppey was commissioned Briga- 
 dier General of Volunteers by brevet, " for gal- 
 lant and meritorious service during the war." 
 His regiment was mustered out of service July 
 4, 1865, and had an enthusiastic reception on 
 reaching Madison, Wis., July 16th On the 
 1st of January, 1866, he again entered uj)on his 
 duties as County Judge, to which ofiice he had 
 been elected while serving in the army. } 
 
 In January, 1882, at the close of his sixth 
 term as County Judge, on account of impaired 
 health from wounds, and from rheumatism 
 contracted while in the ami}*, General Guppey 
 retired to private life and since that date has 
 given most of his time to his own affair.s — ' 
 accepting business from a few of his old clients 
 only. 
 
 He was never married , Init notwithstanding 
 that ill fortune, and his suffering from rheu- 
 matism, he retains his old time cheerfulness of 
 sjiirit, and finds niiu'h plea.«ure in the quiet 
 days of his old age. 
 
 /^^ RN.ST ADOLPH FROHBACH, Mil- 
 I v'ifp^J ' waukee. Wis., a soldier of the earliest 
 ^«— ^ period of the civil wai-, was born 
 Mari'h 6, 1840, in Leipsic, (iermany. He is one 
 of three brothers — Herman, Charles and 
 Adolph, wiio enlisted within a week after the 
 einjihatic declaration of war on the storm beaten 
 walls of Sumter. 'J'lie father, Charles Froiibach, 
 came to America previous to 1859 to locate a 
 home for his family, his wife and two youngest 
 sons following him in tiie year mentioned. 
 The oldest son, Herman, was a conscript in his 
 native country and came to America on tlie 
 
 expiration of his term of service in the German 
 army, in 1860, when excitement ran high over 
 the events which have marked those years in 
 historj'. Herman and Charles Frohbach, with 
 their brother of this sketch, enlisted April 21, 
 1861, in Company I, 8th New York Infantry, 
 within a week after the firing of the first guns 
 at Sumter. The two former served their two 
 years of enlistment without injury and were 
 honorably discharged. The youngest went to 
 rendezvous with the regiment at New York 
 City where he enlisted, went thence to Wash- 
 ington and, soon after crossed into \'irginia, 
 in connection with the movements that cul- 
 minated in Bull Kun, where he fought and 
 returned to Washington where his command 
 with three other regiments were quartered for 
 the defense of tlie city. He was on guard dur- 
 ing that awful night at the Nation's capital 
 city and contracted adi.scaseof the lungs which 
 caused his retirement in a hos])ital at Alex- 
 andria the following day. His condition was 
 such that he was discharged that he might 
 have an opportunity to recover liis health, 
 which his medical adviser told him was hope- 
 lessly wrecked. He passed five months in New 
 York under treatment and recovered suffi- 
 ciently to resume his business and finally was 
 restoreti to nearly jierfect health. 
 
 The senior Frohbach was a calico printer by 
 profession in his native country and his son 
 Adolph on leaving school was ajijireiiticed 
 to learn the business of engraving in a similar 
 establishment. After his arrival in New York 
 he learned cigar making which has been the 
 business of his life. His father resided in the 
 city where he landed until 1870 when he went 
 to Milwaukee and died at the home of his son 
 in June, 1888. The mother, Wilhelmina 
 (Scheller) Frohbacb, ilied in New York in 1SG3. 
 
 Mr. Frohbach of this account pursued his 
 business in New York until 1866 when he went 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 to Milwaukee und commenced the prosecution 
 of tlie business of a cigar maicer on 4th near 
 ('hestnut street on a scale coniniensurate with 
 liis means, which consisted of a small capital. 
 He also brought his family and a portion of 
 his household belongings. He was married 
 Dec. 25, 1SG4, to Augusta Winkler and they 
 became the parents of five children. Arthur, 
 Ida and Adolph are deceased. Minnie is the 
 wife of Max Hildebrandt of Milwaukee. Hugo 
 is associated with his father in business. The 
 mother was born near Leipsic, Germany, Oct. 
 7, 1841. 
 
 Mr. Frohbach located his business on Grand 
 Avenue in 1S6S and continued to press his 
 interests from that point 19 years. In 1886 he 
 erected the corner building at the south west 
 corner of ■2d street and Grand Avenue, near 
 the Plankinton building. In character, as in 
 business, he is an honor to the citizenship of 
 Milwaukee. He is a German of refined and 
 cultivated type, thoroughly appreciating his 
 jiosition as one of a composite nationality on 
 whom rests the responsibility he assumed in 
 becoming a meml)er of such a community as 
 that in which he resides. He has pi'essed his 
 l)usiness to a success his ambition and energies 
 deserve and in his war record he merits all that 
 can be said of those who were the first to answer 
 the cry of a stricken government in its hour of 
 trial, although then an alien from his native 
 land where every privilege of his manhood was 
 denied him and where his obligations in the 
 army were controlled by a law of oppression. 
 
 JOHN E. WILSON, La Crosse, Wis., mem- 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 77, was born 
 May 8, 1847, in Lancashire, England, 
 and is the son of John and Ellen (Ramsbothom) 
 Wilson. His grandfather, James Wilson, be- 
 came a resident of llie United States about 1853 
 
 and four years later, John Wilson removed with 
 his motherless child to America, his wife having 
 died about 1854 in England. He joined his 
 father at Portage, where the city now stands 
 and where the senior Wilson had built the first 
 frame house in the place. Tlie father died in 
 1882 in Cook Co., 111. 
 
 The son was trained and educated as the son 
 of a pioneer farmer, his earliest recollections 
 being those of a home in an old log house in 
 an unsettled country. When he was 16 years 
 old he enlisted in Company C, 23d Wisconsin 
 Infantry and was mustered Feb. 23, 1864. He 
 left Camp Randall, Madison, to join his regi- 
 ment in March and in time to go with it in the 
 4th Brigade, 2d Division and 13th Army Corps. 
 April 8th he found himself in the terrific action 
 at Sabine Cross Roads after having skirmished 
 all the way thitherii The rebels caught the 
 Union troops in a wedge shaped line of battle 
 which was practically an ambuscade and the 
 disaster caused the retreat of the army of Kanks 
 and the loss of the expedition. At Sabine 
 Cross Roads the 23d supporled the Mercantile 
 Battery of Chicago and lost 65 in killed, 
 wounded and prisoners. Mr. Wilson was in 
 the fighting at Pleasant Hill which followed, 
 and was in all the engagements in which his 
 corps participated on the retreat. He was in 
 the skirmishing at Cane River, aided in the 
 construction of the dams whereby the fleet was 
 saved, went to Alexandria and saw the fire in 
 the city which nobody knew of as to origin. 
 In the retreat skirmishing was incessant and a 
 halt was made about four miles from Yellow 
 Bayou, whence they "double-quicked" across 
 and fought at Grand Ecore. The Atchafalaya 
 was crossed on pontoons maile of steamboats 
 lashed together and over which a passage of 
 planks was made, forming a solid bridge over 
 which the wagons and cavalry made a safe 
 transit. The command went to Morganza, 
 
756 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 thence to Baton Rouge to camp, where tlie 13th 
 Corps disbanded. Tlie next move was to 
 Algiers and thence in the 3d Brigade, 2d 
 Division and 19th Corps to Fort Morgan, where 
 a feint was made and the regiment took a small 
 fort at Mosquito Point, which guarded Grant's 
 Pass, leading from Mobile Bay to Lake Pont- 
 chartrain. When the command went to New 
 Orleans Mr. Wilson was taken sick and sent to 
 hospital for three weeks. He joined his regi- 
 ment at Morganza and again engaged in skir- 
 mishing in the neighborliood of Jackson, La., 
 and elsewhere. While detained at the White 
 River on the way to Helena Mr. Wilson was 
 taken sick with a carbuncle and went to 
 liospital at \'icksl)Urg, and thence to Soldier's 
 Home, joining his command again at Helena. 
 In the spring he went to the assaults on the 
 defenses of Mobile and was in the attack on 
 8j)anisli Fort and siege until ordered to Blakely, 
 where the regiment performed valiant service. 
 Returning to Mobile the connnand was there 
 when the explosion took j)lace and there Mr. 
 Wilson was again taken sick and sent to New 
 Orleans to Marine hosj)ital. He received a 
 60-day furlough and went home, where he re- 
 mained until the issuance of the order for the 
 discharge of disabled soldiers at home and re- 
 ceived his release from military obligations 
 Sept. 25, 1865. 
 
 After the war he remained sick some time 
 and finally removed to La Cros.se and engaged 
 as switchman for the M.it St. P. K. R., operating 
 in their interests 11 years. He went then to 
 Chicago and engaged with tlie C & N. W. R. R., 
 in the same capacity, returning after a year to 
 La Crosse. He engaged as contractor on the 
 river, liandling logs for P. S. Davidson for five 
 years. lie spent a year as mail carrier and in 
 1887 engaged with the C, B. & N. R. R. as 
 yardmaster. He was married May 16, 1872, 
 to Julia, daughter of Jolin and Bridget O'Neil, 
 
 at La Crosse. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 Mr. Wilson i.s prominent in his party connec- 
 tions and has served several terms as Alderman. 
 His first election wtvs on the Greenback ticket 
 for a three years' term and next on tlie Dem- 
 ocratic ticket. In 1876 he was nominated for 
 C'lerk of the Court and defeated by only 225 
 votes. In 188!t he was a candidate for Tax 
 Commissioner and was defeated by a small 
 majority. He is a memlter of the ^hlsollic 
 Order, of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Associa- 
 tion and is ojie of the board of directors; he is, 
 in 1889, Worthy Master of La Crosse Lodge 
 No. 170, and belongs to Smith Chapter, No. 13. 
 
 AMES ANDREW MITCHELL, Chippewa 
 Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
 C8, was horn July 21, 1834, in Nova 
 Scotia, his parents, William and Alice (Clarke) 
 Mitchell, having emigrated from Scotland to 
 that province in early life with their respective 
 families and were married at West River, St. 
 Maiy'.s, Nova Scotia. The father was a mill- 
 wright and followed that business until his 
 death by accident while building a mill, in the 
 spring of 1859. His widow is still living at 
 Wheaton,AVis. James, William G., ^hlry Jane, 
 David, Alexander and Elizabeth were the 
 names of the children included in the family. 
 When he was 17 years old, Mr. Mitchell went 
 to Milltown, Maine, and j)assed a winter in the 
 woods, being employed in the summer in a 
 sawmill, alternating these employs three years, 
 when he went West and located at Cliipj)cwa 
 Falls. He obtained a situation as a lumber- 
 man and was occupied in that business until 
 the civil war. He enlisted in October, 1861, 
 and was mustered Nov. 14, 1861, in Company 
 1, 2(1 Wisconsin Cavalry, with C. C. Washburn, 
 Colonel. At camp in Milwaukee Mr. Mitchell 
 
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 was mustered as Color Sergeant and started in 
 March for Benton Barracks, St. Louis, received 
 e(|uipmei)ts, went to .Jeffer.?on City, thence to 
 liolhi, engaged in skirmishing most of the way 
 and overtook Curtiss and liis force at Jackson- 
 IKirl. They crossed over the Wliite River into 
 .Vikansas witli the army, moved on to Augusta 
 and to Cotton Plant, the infantry having an 
 engagement there and tlie troojis moving thence 
 to follow Price on his way to Helena. They 
 took possession of the place without a struggle 
 and wintered there. Tiiey performed guard 
 and picket duty and went on frequent raiding 
 expeditions until April, 1863, when the com- 
 mand went to Memphis on transports and were 
 a.ssigned to picket duty. Tliey went to active 
 duty on the ^'icksburg campaign, landing at 
 MilHken's Bend and going from there to 14- 
 Mile Creek, wliere they were in a slight skir- 
 mish May 14th. Going to the rear of Vicks- 
 burg, tliey partioijiated in skirmishing on the 
 way, swung around Jackson to Canton, destroy- 
 ing railroads and railroad property and took 
 possession of Canton, driving the rebels out. 
 Returning to Vicksburg by way of Jacksonport 
 they remained there through the summer and 
 fall and went into quarters for the winter at 
 Redbone Church, and made that the base for 
 their operations as a cavalry command, at- 
 tached to Sherman's corps during that period 
 and skirmished successfully with the rebels. 
 They did good work in the destruction of rail- 
 roads and property and were finally compelled 
 to go to Yazoo City, as the rebels rallied and 
 they had received orders to go back to the 
 protection of the gunboats. The rebels attacked 
 the force there and Colonel Osborn sent the 
 rebels word, that if the firing did not cease the 
 gunboats would shell the city, which hint they 
 took. Mr. Mitchell was one of the detail with 
 Lieutenant Colonel Dale who undertook to 
 drive a force of rebels greatly outnumbering his 
 
 own, and after fighting dismounted until there 
 was no hope left, they had to cut their way out. 
 They went to Memphis and in the spring of 
 1864 went on the Grierson raids on the Mobile 
 & Ohio railroad in tlie destruction of Meridian 
 anil everything they came to. At Egypt, Mr. 
 Mitchell aided in taking the stockade and cap- 
 turing about 500 rebels who were sent to Vicks- 
 burg. The weather was very cold and they 
 were near freezing. One of the movements in 
 which Mr. Mitchell was a participant was the 
 expedition to Grenada, when Forrest surren- 
 dered, to take his parole, which was issued by 
 Colonel Frank in command of the exj^edition. 
 Returning to Vicksburg, Mr. Mitchell was dis- 
 charged .Jan. 21, 1865, having served three 
 months more than his time. 
 
 He returned to Wisconsin and arrived at 
 Chippewa Falls in April, engaging in lumber- 
 ing for himself. In this he has since been 
 occupied with the exception of two years. In 
 this interim he was engaged with a company 
 that started the Woolen Mills. He was mar- 
 ried in November, 1870, to Catherine, daughter 
 of John and Catherine (Buck) Birke, and their 
 children are William J., James A., George and 
 Frank. The brothers and sistei's of Mrs. 
 Mitchell still surviving are named Philip, 
 Albert and Lucy. Her mother died in 1850 
 and her father is still living. Mr. Mitchell 
 is a member of the Odd Fellows Order, and 
 of the Masonic Fraternity. He has served 
 two years as Clerk of the School Board, one 
 year as Supervisor of the town of Lafayette 
 and was President of the Village Board there 
 after the incorporation, during the years 
 1886-7. Mr. Mitchell voted for Harrison, but 
 is independent in politics. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 /(^ ^ RNEST KAHLE, La Crosse, Wis., 
 I vi^tv- ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
 
 ^^---* born ill Hanover, Germany, March 
 27, 1843. He is the son of Christian Kahle, 
 also a native of Germany, wiio married ISophia 
 Lamfert, and their family included 12 children. 
 In 1856 they emigrated to America and settled 
 at Belle Plain, Scott Co., Minn., on a farm on 
 which the })arents are still living. 
 
 .^h■. l\ahle of this sketch was brougiit up on 
 his father's farm and went in 181)0 to Duiileith, 
 Illinois, where lie obtained employment in a 
 brickyard. When he determined to enlist he 
 went to Galena, 111., where he enrolled and was 
 mustered for throe years into Company I, 19th 
 Illinois Infantry, Colonel Turchin, Oct. 3, 1861. 
 The regiment had been ordered to Northern 
 Kentucky, where Kirby Smith and Bragg were 
 disturbing the people witii threatened invasion 
 and plunder and Mr. Kahle joined it at Eliza- 
 bethtown in December. (Prior to this the regi- 
 ment liad been ordered to Washington and on 
 liio way there encountered an accident wiiieli 
 changed its history. See page 18, Sept. 17, 
 1861.) From p]lizabethtown the command went 
 to Bacon Creek and worked on the bridge, go- 
 ing afterwards to (Jreen River and Bowling 
 Green which the rebels had evacuated, Buck- 
 ner withdrawing his troops and destroying a 
 large amount of stores. The 10th was witii 
 the Cori)S of General Mitchell and remained at 
 Murfreesboro, whither it had gone from Nash- 
 ville, until April, when that General jn-ocecded 
 to SlR'lljyville and Fayetteville, going to Ilunts- 
 ville, where he secured all of Alabama lying 
 north of the Tennessee River to the Union. 
 At Iluntsville a rebel train with 150 rebels 
 moving from Siiiloh, was captured. The regi- 
 ment went to Tuscumbia but found guerrillas 
 too abundant for comfort and returned to 
 Iluntsville ; on this marcii he received a severe 
 sunstroke, which prostrated him for some time. 
 
 At Nashville, Mr. Kahle was sick with asthma, 
 having taken cold in fording the river at 
 Bowling Green. The first set action in which 
 tlie 10th Illinois participated was at Stone 
 River, and after the chase was over the regi- 
 ment returned to Nashville where Mr. Kahle 
 was again sick and was discharged April 6, 
 1863, for disability, and from the effects of his 
 wound by a shell which he received in the ac- 
 tion at Murfreesboro. He returned to Chicago 
 and as soon as able, Feb. 26, 1864, re-enlisted 
 for tliree years in Company K, 60th Illinois 
 Infantry, Colonel Sullivan. The regiment was 
 in the Army of the Potomac, and Mr. Kahle, 
 with other recruits, joined it there on its march 
 south and was in nearly all its actions, marches 
 and skirmishes until the close of the war ; a 
 part of the time he served on detached duty. 
 The command was sent to Ix)uisville to await 
 the completion of tlic muster rolls and .July 31, 
 1865, Mr. Kahle was released from military 
 service. 
 
 He returned to Chicago and tried to learn a 
 trade, but his health was permanently shat- 
 tered and he was unequal to the exertion of 
 manual labor. Ho engaged in the business of 
 a barber which he lias pursued to some extent. 
 He remained in Cbicago until 1871, leaving 
 there just before the great fire for Decorah, 
 Iowa, going thence to Lansing in the same 
 State and, four ye;u's later, went to Viroqua, 
 Wis., and in 1887 to La Crosse. At the several 
 j)laces montioned he carried on his business as a 
 barljor until his removal to La Crosse where he 
 has not been able to engage in active business. 
 
 He was married March 26, 1872, to Amelia, 
 daughter of Samuel and Christina Kerr, and 
 they have bad five children ; Lillieand CMiarles 
 are the only survivors. In j)olitics, Mr. Kahle 
 is a Republican and draws a pension. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 ^-v^^ APTAIN AVILSON COLAVELL, de- 
 O^y ceased, was killed at South Mountain, 
 Md., Sept. 14, 18G2, while leading 
 Company B, 2d Wisconsin Infantry, which had 
 been thrown out as skirmishers. lie was a 
 former resident of La Crosse, Wis., and was 
 born April 13, 1827, at Kittaning, Armstrong- 
 Co., Pennsylvania. His father, Alexander Col- 
 well, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 
 1784, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came thence 
 to America at 18 years of age. His first 
 employment in this country was that of a 
 teaciier in Center county in the Keystone 
 State, and there he afterwards became inter- 
 ested in mercantile business, afterwards 
 accumulating extensive interests in the iron 
 business. In 1834 he married Margaret Heniy, 
 l)Orn in Armstrong county in July, 1804. 
 Their respective deaths occurred at Kittaning, 
 Dec. 8, 1868, and Feb. 18, 1884. Their an- 
 cestral stock located in County Armagh in 
 1609 to escape the persecutions of the Scottish 
 " kirk " under .James, and they had five chil- 
 dren, Wilson being the oldest. 
 
 The early life of Captain Colwell was passed 
 in Kittaning, and he received a careful educa- 
 tional training, which was finished at Jefferson 
 College at Cannonsburg, Pa. Plis first bu.siness 
 interest was with his father in iron and in IS^IO 
 he went West, engaging in banking at 
 IjA Crosse, Wis. Prior to the outbreak of the 
 war, he was in command of a company of State 
 Militia, known a.s tiie La Crosse Light Guards 
 and composed of the flower of the youth of the 
 city. He was, at that time, president and 
 owner of the Katanyan Bank at La Crosse and 
 engaged in a popuhir and jirotitable business. 
 Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter 
 he called a meeting of the company at Barron's 
 Hall, at which the question of tendering the 
 services of the organization to the (iovernor 
 was discussed, and a resolution iii tiie afiirm- 
 
 ative was passed almost unanimously. On 
 taking the proper action the tender was 
 accepted, and on the IStli of April, 1861, Cap- 
 tain Colwell, with his company, enlisted for 
 three months and went to Camp Randall, 
 Madison, being the first company of State 
 troops to enter the camp in 1861 and was 
 assigned as Company B, 2d Wisconsin Volun- 
 teer Infantry. Before the regiment left the 
 State, three-months soldiers were not wanted 
 by the General Government, and, with his 
 whole command. Captain Colwell responded 
 promptly to the demand, enrolling for three 
 years or the war. They were mustered as a 
 company June 11, 1861, and left the State to 
 join the Army of Virginia. July 18th the 
 regiment was in the reconnoissance at Black- 
 burn's Ford, held under a sharp artillery fire, 
 and Myron Gardner of the company lost a leg, 
 struck by a solid shot. Soon after Captain 
 Colwell was reminded by one of his men that 
 he stood on the identical spot where poor 
 Gardner was injured and that he had best 
 change position. " Lightning never strikes 
 twice in the same place," was the cheerful 
 answer. July 21st he fought at Bull Run and 
 made himself conspicuous by bravery, as did 
 the whole regiment, which preserved its or- 
 ganization and moved in good order from the 
 field, though abandoned by every one of its 
 field officers, who have never given any satis- 
 factory account of themselves since. (See 
 sketch of Geo. E. Smith.) Captain Colwell 
 performed service in the Iron Brigade on every 
 field where it fought as long as life lasted. In 
 1862, when Kilpatrick took Falmouth, he and 
 his company supported the cavalry chief in 
 column and thence the command went to tlie 
 relief of Pope at Slaughter Mountain. He was 
 in the Virginia camj)aign under Pope from 
 August 23d to September 1st and was actively 
 engaged in the several skirmishes on the Rap- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 pahannock River and on the Rapidan, fighting 
 at Groveton and Gainesville August 28-9 and 
 at the second Bull Run on the 30th. He fol- 
 lowed the rebel movement into Maryland, 
 skirmishing continuously until the day of his 
 death. 
 
 "Captain Cohvell of Company B was killed 
 while bravely leading his men in the thickest 
 of the fight " is the record of the State historian. 
 Still is he warmly remembered l)y his sur- 
 viving comrades and his death is recorded as 
 " glorious " by those who loved him best and 
 mourned him most deeply. And one of them 
 says of him, "Thus died in a glorious cause 
 one of Nature's noblemen, a true patriot and 
 soldier. In camp he was genial and courteous, 
 yet commanded and received strict obedience 
 to army discipline. On the march his per- 
 severance and fortitude inspired the weary to 
 greater energy, and in the fierce battle he was 
 ever at the front, cheering and encouraging his 
 men by patriotic utterances and by the exam- 
 ple of his own unflinching courage. No soldier 
 ever fell in battle who was more beloved or 
 whose death was more regretted b}' his whole 
 command than Captain Colwell. He sacrificed 
 a lucrative business, abandoned home, a loving, 
 devoted wife and a beautiful child, laying down 
 his young life on the altar of his country, that 
 • One Flag' migiit remain its indisputable 
 emblem." 
 
 He was married to Nannie, daughter of 
 .Joseph and Nancy (Brice) Htunmer, May 19, 
 1858, by Rev. N. C. Chapin of La Crosse, Wis. 
 Her parents were born respectively June 17, 
 1802 and Feb. 7, 1805, in Bedford Co., Pa., and 
 tlic lather died May 14, 1SG3 in Lewis' Valley, 
 La Crosse Co., Wis.; the mother lives with her 
 daughter in La Crosse. Her father was a mer- 
 chant and, after removal to La Crosse county, 
 was chiefly engaged in farming. He was the 
 uncle of the popular authoress, Kate Browidee 
 
 Sherwood of Toledo, Ohio, who is prominently 
 known in connection with the organization and 
 perpetuity of the Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
 Two children were born to Captain and Mrs. 
 Colwell ; Nannie, born Feb. 19, 1859, and Mag- 
 gie, born Aug. 10, 18G2. The latter died in 
 Wasliington, D. C, previous to Captain Col- 
 well's death ; the former still maintains her 
 father's name and his spirit of loyalty and 
 patriotism. As her tribute to his memory, the 
 portrait of Captain Colwell is presented on 
 page 760. 
 
 • > . V ' ;X IX' ' 
 
 
 W^ NTON EA\'ENS, Superintendent of the 
 V Northwestern Postal Station, Mil- 
 
 waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 1, was born Ai)ril 18, 18-13, in Prussia, 
 whence his parents, Christian (who was a sol- 
 dier for three years in the Prussian army) and 
 Catherine (Wingen) Ewens emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1849. They landed at the port of New 
 York and proceeded directly to Milwaukee, 
 where they passed the remainder of their lives. 
 Mr. Ewens is the oldest of their six children ; 
 Lizzie married John Kurz of Eau Claire ; Eva 
 is deceased and was the wife of Wm. Bowman 
 of Eau Claire ; Joseph is a business man of 
 Milwaukee ; Mary married Theodore Daum of 
 Milwaukee ; Annie is the the wife of Lucas 
 Buehlor of the Cream City. The senior Ewens 
 was a contractor and buyer and operated in the 
 interests of John Plankinton during the latter 
 years of his active business life. 
 
 Tlie son received an academic education in 
 Milwaukee and had just begun business iu his 
 own interest when the excitement of the second 
 year of the war attracted his attention from all 
 his private relations and lie determined to 
 enlist, although he was little more than a 
 youth, being then but 19 years ol<l. (It is 
 stated that more boys enlisted from Wisconsin 
 
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 and especially from Milwaukee than from any 
 other State). Mr. Ewens enrolled Aug. 16, 
 1862 in Company E, 26th Wisconsin Infantry 
 as a private and went to rendezvous at Camp 
 Sigel, named in honor of the officer who 
 ohtained permission of the President to raise 12 
 German regiments which were in part assigned 
 to his Corps, the 11th. The history of the 26th 
 is told in the sketciies of many of its members 
 in tills volume but each man has his own 
 experience to relate of his connection with the 
 campaign of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
 ville. Mr. Ewens marched from Fairfax C. H. 
 to Falmouth, expecting to fight at Fredericks- 
 burg but the force of Burn side was just with- 
 drawing and after going to winter quarters at 
 Stafford C. H., he waded through the " Mud 
 Campaign " for nothing and crossed the Rap- 
 l)ahannock to fight at Chancellorsville on one 
 of the worst planned fields and campaigns 
 of the war. He passed through the prelimin- 
 ary hard marching and took position May 1st 
 tired out and with no definite idea what was 
 expected by the commanders of the movement. 
 May 2d, an unexpected charge was made on 
 the regiment which had been assigned to an 
 unprotected position in which Mr. Ewens was 
 wounded, a rifle ball striking him in the right 
 thigh. In the rout he was left on tiie field and 
 taken prisoner. His wounds were dressed 
 on the field by the Union surgeons who re- 
 mained with the wounded in the rebel field 
 liospitals. When lie was paroled Mr. Ewens 
 retained his papers, given him by a rebel 
 officer, and it is believed that these, now in his 
 possession, are the only ones iii existence in tiie 
 State. He has been solicited to place it among 
 war trophies at Madison but still retains the 
 piece of paper, now yellow with age, from 
 which the subjoined copy is made: " Plospital, 
 May 4, 1863, Anton Ewens, a I'r. of Co. E, 
 26lli Wis. Vols. U. S. A., a prisoner of war, is 
 
 hereby paroled not to take up arms or in any 
 way assist the army or Government of tlie 
 United States in the war against the confede- 
 rate states until exchanged according to the 
 terms of the cartel agreed upon. By command 
 Geu'l Lse. H. M. O. Douglas, Capt. & A. A. G. 
 Paroling oflicer." He was held until May 
 16th, when he was sent to the Union lines and 
 to Brook's Station, Va., to field hospital and 
 when Lee advanced to Gettysburg was sent 
 with otiier wounded to Alexandria to hospital 
 in the Baptist church in King's street, thence 
 to Douglas hospital in Washington and from 
 there to Parole Camp at Alexandria whence he 
 was exchanged about the middle of September, 
 1863. He joined his regiment in time to con- 
 nect with the 11th Corps under Joe Hooker 
 and went to Tennessee to aid in the relief 
 of Chattanooga, fighting at Wauhatchie and in 
 the fight at Lookout and Mission Ridge and 
 Oct. 29, 1863, he was again wounded by the 
 bursting of a shell which tore the heel from 
 his left foot, thus evening up his infirmities, 
 the rebels being partial, as it seemed to neither 
 limb, but distributing their favors of casualties 
 equitably. Mr. Ewens was taken from the field 
 hospital to Chattanooga and thence to Nash- 
 ville to the Government hospital. There he 
 remained five months. He w'as placed on the 
 amputation table to have his foot cut oft' but 
 an English surgeon. Dr. Lightburn, interfered, 
 asserting his abilitj' to save the member and 
 the case was transferred to his care. Helnirned 
 the gangrene from the wound and gave it his 
 conscientious and unremitting attention until 
 he was able to be sent to Madison about the 
 middle of April, 1864, where he remained until 
 Oct. 28, 1864, the date on which he received 
 his discharge on account of total disability from 
 wounds received in battle. 
 
 He returned to liis home in Milwaukee and 
 after passing some weeks on crutches under 
 
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 the supervision of his parents he was sworn 
 into the postal service Dec. 26, 1864, as a clerk. 
 He has served his country with a fidelity that 
 has received recognition and has been promoted 
 through all the grades of the local postal ser- 
 vice until he received the appointment to his 
 present situation in 1882. He is at the head 
 of a force of 22 men in his department and his 
 labors therein have been such as to give 
 unqualified satisfaction to the Postal Depart- 
 ment of the United States. 
 
 He was married in Milwaukee Oct. 15, 18G7, 
 to Anna, daughter of Nicholas and Maria 
 (Lauer) Schuh and they have five children — 
 Anton C, bookkeeper of Richter, Schubert & 
 Dick, real estate agents, Lillie, Joseph, (with 
 C. C. Kirchofl', ai'chitect, for whom he operates 
 as stenographer and tyi)e-writer), Annie and 
 Nicholas make up the list of tlie children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ewens. 
 
 ERI HANSON, Black River Falls, 
 Wis., member of O. A. R. Post No. 
 92, was i)i>rn .Ian. 3, 1833, atKonigs- 
 burg, Norway, the son of Hans and Ambjor 
 .Johnson. His father was a carpenter and a 
 soldier by the law of Norway, and the son was 
 reared to the calling of his father and re- 
 
 mained in liis native land until 
 
 lie was 
 
 n 
 
 years of age. The parents lived and died in 
 Norway, and of their si.\ children five are liv- 
 ing ; they were named in order of birth Ole 
 (who died young), Julia, Ole (2d), Hans and 
 John (twins) and Neri. 
 
 In 1854 the latter emigrated to the United 
 States and went to Ciiristiana, Dane Co., Wis- 
 consin, where he worked as a farm a.ssistant 
 and carpenter until 1856, when he removed to 
 Dodge county, Minn., and thence in 1858, re- 
 turned to Dane county, where he remained 
 
 until he enlisted in the Scandinavian regiment, 
 the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Heg. 
 He enrolled Nov. 5, 1861, at York Grove, Dane 
 county, and went to rendezvous at Camp Ran- 
 dall, where he was mustered Jan. 1, 1862, in 
 Comj)any E. After going to the front at St. 
 Louis, orders were received to proceed to Bird's 
 Point, Mo., moving to Hickman to fight at 
 Union City, and thence to Island No. 10, where 
 the command remained until June 12th. 
 Prior to this Mr. Hanson was taken sick at 
 Bird's Point and was sent to the hospital at 
 Mound City, where he remained three weeks, 
 and at Island No. 10 was seven weeks in hos- 
 pital. The regiment went to the vicinity of 
 Corinth and thence to luka and afterwards to 
 Florence, Ala. The next movement was to 
 Nashville and tiience to Louisville while Bragg 
 was raiding Kentucky. The Union troops that 
 centered there after their long niarcliing showed 
 the hardshij^ they had endured, but in a 
 month Bragg had l)efn driven to cover at 
 Perryville and they took their revenge in giv- 
 ing him a sound thrashing, the 15th not hav- 
 ing a man injured, and acting as a reserve. In 
 November the regiment returned to Nashville 
 and on the 26th Mr. Hanson was detailed to 
 the Pioneer Corps and after December 2Sth 
 started for ]\Iurfreesboro. 
 
 He operated with the advance of the army 
 in the Pioneer Corps, pa.ssing the winter at 
 ^lurfreesboro. After the battle of Chickamauga 
 he went to Chattanooga, arriving there about 
 the 21st of September, 1863, having passed the 
 intervening time in labor on the fortifications 
 at Murfreesboro and in other duty. In Decem- 
 ber, 1863, he was tletailed to work on the road 
 to Lookout Mountain, and in February, 1864, 
 was detailed to work on the water works at 
 Chattanooga. He remained there all the next 
 year in charge of the works until Dec. 20, 1864, 
 , when lie was mustered out. While at Chat- 
 
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 tanooga he was confined in tlie field hospital 
 with fever about a month. 
 
 He returned to Dane county and in the 
 spring of 1865 went to Black River Falls, 
 where he worked as a carpenter three years. 
 He then went to his farm in the town of Al- 
 bion, which he cultivated for six years and in 
 1874 located on his farm on Squaw Creek, 
 where he has since been engaged in the im- 
 provement of his property, his farm consisting 
 of 180 acres, finely located, his house resting 
 on one of the prettiest sites in the county, hav- 
 ing a view of the surrounding country and 
 overlooking the beautiful stream of water 
 below. In 1875 he established a carding mill 
 on the creek for the manufacture of custom 
 rolls. Two years later he added a spinning 
 and weaving department and has since ope- 
 rated in the manufacture of cloth, which finds 
 a ready market in Jackson and the adjoining 
 counties. Mr. Hanson is a Republican. 
 
 He was married Feb. 22, 1865, at Christiana, 
 Wis., to Mary S., daughter of John P. and 
 Mary Testman. The births of their chil- 
 dren occurred as follows: Albert H., Aug. 25, 
 18GS; .John, Nov. 11, 187-1; Lewis 0., Dec. 31, 
 1875. 
 
 '^S^^LW' ILLIAM HENRY SIMPSON, Mil- 
 ^^^W waukee, Wis., a member of E. B. 
 /fm^ Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was 
 born Aug. 9, 1846, in the city of Philadelphia. 
 His parents, William H. and Matilda (Hood) 
 Simpson, removed successively to Johnstown, 
 Pa., and Chicago where the connection of the 
 son with active business life commenced at an 
 early age. Early in 1861 he became a messen- 
 ger boy in the employ of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company and in that capacity was 
 on duty in the service of the Union. In 1862 
 he went to Rockford, 111., in Ihe same service 
 
 where recruiting was going on with an ardor 
 characteristic of the Northern portion of the 
 Sucker State and the influences which sur- 
 rounded him in the discharge of his duties 
 while the 74th, 92d, 95th and 96th Illinois 
 regiment were being recruited were such as to 
 foster in him all the principles which he after- 
 wards brought to a practical application by be- 
 coming a soldier when he was 18 years old. 
 
 In May, 1864, after serving as a telegraph 
 operator at Dunleith (East Dubuque), he 
 enlisted at Galena, 111., in Company C, 140th 
 Illinois Infantry and performed duty with that 
 comjnand until his discharge in Novembei', 
 1864, when he was mustered out at Camp Frj-, 
 Chicago, the regiment having been in active 
 duty for two months after the expiration of 
 term of enlistment. Until 1877 he was vari- 
 ously occupied and in that year embarked in 
 the coal trade at Milwaukee. 
 
 In 1888 he was Junior Vice Commander of 
 E. B. Wolcott Post and in 1889 was Delegate to 
 the State Encampment. He was married Dec. 
 23, 1869, to Sarah, daughter of John and Han- 
 nah (Williams) Cheatham, a native of Eng- 
 land. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have three chil- 
 dren. 
 
 ICHARD FAHEY, La Crosse, Wis., a 
 former soldier of the civil war, was 
 born April 12, 1844, at Fonda, New 
 York, the son of Patrick and Catherine (Ryan) 
 Fahey. His father was born in 1798 at Castle 
 Cloghan, Kings county, Ireland, and his mother 
 was a native of the same county, born April 2, 
 1801. The parents crossed the sea to America 
 in the "thirties" and resided successively in 
 Canada, Fonda, and Onaliska, Wisconsin, loca- 
 ting in the latter place in the fall of 1855 where 
 the father died Aug. 19, 1881. The demise of 
 the mother occurred there May 4, 1877. Their 
 
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 children were Mary, Anna, James, Ricliard, 
 Edward and Elizabeth. 
 
 Mr. Fahey attended the common schools at 
 the various places where his parents resided, 
 and became a soldier at the age of 17 years. 
 When the company of whicli Wilson C!olwell 
 was captain was enrolled at La Crosse he 
 entered its ranks and, when the oi'ganizatiou, 
 with the gallant leader of whom a sketch 
 appears on another page, enlisted as a body, 
 April IS, ISGl, in the service of Wisconsin, he 
 was among the number and was mustered for 
 three years or during the war in Company B, 
 2d Wisconsin Infantry. The company was the 
 first to take possession of Camp Randall at 
 Madison, went tlience to Washington, camj)ed 
 near Soldiers' Home and went next to Fort 
 Corcoran. In tlie reconnoissance at Blackburn's 
 Ford the company lost its first man and in the 
 battle of Bull Run its history was coincident 
 with that of the regiment, which fought with 
 courage without officers and preserved its 
 organization. But no researches revealed the 
 truth about its field officers. (See sketch of 
 G. E. Smith.) The command returned to Fort 
 Corcoran, luider the abundant orders received , 
 when not needed. Captain Colwell conducting 
 his men thither in the best order. The regi- 
 ment remained at Fort Tillinghast until 
 spring, went tlience to the Rappahannock and 
 on an expedition to Orange C. H. and Bowl- 
 ing Green. 
 
 They were recalled and ordered on forced 
 march to reinforce Banks at Slaughter Moun- 
 tain, arriving at early morning, found a fiag of 
 truce out and l)uried the dead whom the rebels 
 had abandoned. After a night at Warrenton 
 they moved forward to fight at Gainesville 
 where their colonel was killed, and after the 
 action the command went to Manassas Junc- 
 tion, the supply station, where everything was 
 burned. The .same day they fought at the 
 
 second Bull Run, went to Arlington Heights, 
 crossed the Potomac River to Frederic City 
 after Lee in Maryland and fought at South 
 Mountain and Antietam. At the former, Sept. 
 14, 186-2, Captain Colwell was killed. They 
 buried the dead and went to the fight on 
 the 17th where Mr. Fahey was wounded 
 and is mentioned in the reports. He received 
 a rifle ball which passed through both his 
 shoulders, went to field hospital and was de- 
 clared b\' the surgeon in a hopeless condition. 
 He was taken the next day to Cadysville and 
 later to Frederic City hospital. He joined the 
 regiment in the fall at Aquia Creek and was 
 with tiie advance on the Rappahannock and 
 Rapidan in the spring. He was found unable 
 for active .service, such as the regiment was 
 engaged in and was sent on detached duty to 
 Windmill Point and afterwards on the hospital 
 supply steamer, John Tucker, plying between 
 jioints on the Potomac River. After three 
 months, he was sent to the convalescent camp 
 at Arlington Heights and after a month, was 
 transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, Sept. 
 12, 1SG3, doing duty at Mount Pleasant hospi- 
 tal. June 11, 1864, he received final discharge. 
 He joined his regiment at Washington and 
 went home with the non-veterans. 
 
 He has since been occupied in the lumber 
 business in some connection and has been for 
 years the confidential agent of S. & J. Atlee, 
 lumber dealers at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 
 charge of their logging interests in tlie Wiscon- 
 sin pineries. Mr. Fahey has also a rafting 
 interest with a jiartner, the firm being Holway 
 & Fahey. The latter he o]>erates in the sum- 
 mer seasons and during the winters he "puts 
 in " about 12,000,000 feet of lumber yearly. He 
 was married July 4, 18G6, at Sparta, Wis., to 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah 
 Bennett. Franklin Elmore, born March 21, 
 1870, and Winnifred, born June 1, 1877, are the 
 
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 cliiklren wliicli liave lieeu given to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Fuliey. Mr. Fahey is a member of 
 Ma.sonic Lodge Frontier No. 45, of Smith 
 Cliapter No. 9 and La Crosse Commandery. 
 lie is a Democrat in i)olitical faitli and was 
 candidate for Sheriff in 1879; he served as 
 Deputy Siieritf under II. S. Phillips in 1S77-8. 
 
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 ^J^y^5^ILLIA^I R. HOYT, attorney at 
 Chip2)e\va Falls, Wis., mendjer of 
 ^M_ G. A. R. Post No. 68, was born at 
 St. Albans, Vermont, March 17, 1843. He is 
 descended in both lines from Puritan stock and 
 there is no better blood in the mixed national- 
 ity of America than he represents. His an- 
 cestors have been prominent in the history of 
 intelligence and social standing in New Eng- 
 land from its earliest days, and in successive 
 generations the descendants have sustained the 
 prestige of their forbears. His father, Romeo 
 H. Hoyt, was second to none in position in 
 legal circles and social connections and the 
 family of the mother, Betsey D. Ainsworth 
 before marriage, belonged to the same class. 
 Romeo Hoyt was born in St. Albans in 1810 in 
 a house built in 171)6, still in excellent preser- 
 vation, and in it he died in 1889; he was a 
 lawyer by profession, and his wife, who lives in 
 the old mansion was born in the same town. 
 Frances, oldest daughter, married A. G. San- 
 ford, a lawyer of Washington, D. C. ; .Julia, 
 Danforth and Arthur arc the names of the re- 
 maining children. 
 
 Mr. Hoyt is the oldest of the children born 
 to his parents. He received excellent advan- 
 tages of education at home until he was 15 
 years old, when he was sent to the military 
 school at Norwich, Vermont, and, two years 
 later, an appointment was obtained for him at 
 West I'oint where he was engaged in acquiring 
 
 a knowledge of .systematic military affairs when 
 the civil war demanded his services. He had 
 not yet reached his majority, but he left West 
 Point to join his fate to that of the volunteer 
 soldiers from his native State in the ranks. He 
 enlisted Sept. 23, 1863, and was mustered the 
 same day into United States service in Com- 
 pany I, 10th ^'e^•raont Infantry, at Brattleboro, 
 Vermont. In October following he went to the 
 front, joining his regiment at Culpeper, Vir- 
 ginia, and participated in an action there on 
 the 12th of the month. He was next in the 
 fight at Mine Run, November 26tli, the regi- 
 ment having been assigned to the 2d Brigade, 
 3d Division and 6th Corps. The position of 
 the regiment was about the center of the main 
 army, and Company I made a forward move- 
 ment in which it was badly cut up, 13 being 
 killed and 57 wounded. The regiment retired 
 across the Rapidan and went into winter quar- 
 ters at Culpeper on tlie farm of .John Minor 
 Botts. In the spring the command went with 
 Grant's army to the campaign of the Wilder- 
 ness and Mr. Hoyt was in the opening action 
 May oth. He fought through the successive 
 days at Spottsylvania, Laurel Hill, Cold Harbor 
 and on the North Anna River, a series of ac- 
 tions in which some of the best troops ever 
 organized threw away their efforts and realized 
 defeat, after facing disease and death in the 
 Chiekahominy swamps almost equal to the 
 former experience of the Army of the Potomac. 
 They crossed the James and moved to the 
 trenches at Petersburg, where the rebels had 
 been given all the time they needed to fortify 
 and make arrangements for the most terrific 
 slaughter that stands recorded on historical 
 pages. No other account of a siege tells such 
 a story as that of Petersburg. (See sketch of 
 C. K. Pier.) When the 6th Corps went to the 
 Valley of the Shenandoah, the 10th Vermont 
 went too and aided in the movement to head 
 
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 off Early. The brigade to which it belonged, 
 under General Lew Wallace, was the first to 
 confront the slippery rebel chief and he drove 
 them towards Washington, the remaining por- 
 tion of the Corps coming to their aid when the 
 Capital was menaced, and fought at Monotticy, 
 Early withdrawing after inflicting a terrific 
 loss. The Corps went to the Shenandoaii Val- 
 ley again and Mr. Hoyt was in the battle of 
 Winchester, September 19tli, and fought again 
 at Cedar Creek exactly a month later. (Sheri- 
 dan's Ride.) The command went back to the 
 trenches at Petersburg and remained in the 
 epitome of the infernal regions until the 
 fall of the city, wiien the command went to 
 the pursuit of Lee and after the surrender 
 moved to Danville to aid Sherman if need 
 should be in completing the downfall of the 
 rebellion in overthrowing .Johnston, who had 
 contrived to keep in advance of the conquering 
 columns that had crossed Georgia and frac- 
 tured the backbone of the confederacy. Litelli- 
 gence of the surrender of Johnston reached the 
 troops at Danville and they turned northward 
 and went to 'Washington. Mr. Iloyt marched 
 in the Grand Review and afterwards went to 
 Burlington, N^ermont, where liis connection 
 with militarj' life in the civil war terminated 
 June 29, 1865. The regiment had registered 
 1,304 enlistments and 450 men mustered out 
 after the finish. Tlie remaining 854 were dead 
 of wounds or disease, in prisons or disabled in 
 hospitals. Mr. Hoyt received promotion for 
 gallant conduct in service through all the 
 grades to First Lieutenant and during the last 
 six months of the war was in commaml of his 
 company. 
 
 He returned to St. Albans, studied law and 
 was admitted to the Bar by examination in 
 open court in 186S. Soon after he sought a 
 clearer field in the West for the practice of an 
 attorney and located at Chippewa Falls. "With 
 
 the exception of three years he has since trans- 
 acted business at that point and has built up a 
 substantial and pojiular pradici'. He served 
 three years as County Judge, being ajipointod 
 to fill a vacancy caused by death, and resigned 
 at the end of that time. He has been elected 
 District Attorney three times and served six 
 years. He also .served a period as Municipal 
 Judge to fill a vacancy. On the organization 
 of his Post he was made First Commander and 
 was elected three subsequent times. May 30, 
 1890, lie was appointed by President Harrison 
 as Commissioner of Alaska. He was married 
 Nov. 12, 1874, to Lenora, daughter of J. P. 
 and Elizabeth Nelson of Eau Claire. Their 
 only child is named Romeo. Mr. Hoyt belongs 
 to the Order of Masons and of Odd Fellows, 
 and is a Republican in political affiliation. 
 
 ^^,;.vAMUEL R. BELL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 *^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, E. B. 
 Wolcott, was born July 3, 1843, in 
 Windham, Greene Co., New York. He is of 
 Englisii extraction, his grandfather, Joseph 
 Bell, having emigrated to America from Eng- 
 land at the period of the French and Englisii 
 war. Joseph Bell was a Quaker and a manu- 
 facturer of implements, and being pressed into 
 till' manufacture of arms by the British govern- 
 ment, he left his native country to maintain 
 his peace principles. His son, Joseph, became 
 a man of extended business relatioii.s, owning 
 a large landed estate and has been for many 
 years a resident of Delavan, Walworth Co., 
 Wis. 
 
 Aug. 21, 1862, Samuel Bell enlisted at 
 La Fayette, Wis., in Company 1, 28th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, an organization which was re- 
 cruited mainly in Waukesha and Walworth 
 counties. December 20th the regiment left the 
 
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 State and went to Columbus, Kj-., and Mr. 
 Bell was a participant in all the movements of 
 the command, going on the expeditions wliich 
 were designed in consonance with Grant's 
 nlans and distinguishing himsell" with his regi- 
 ment in the decisive battle of Helena. He 
 was with his command afterwards until pros- 
 trated with the malarial fever which decimated 
 tlie regiments in the West and was detailed to 
 return to Wisconsin. He was thrown off the 
 transport on which, with numberless sick com- 
 rades, he was placed to be transported to Wis- 
 consin as too sick to bother with. But a deter- 
 mined comrade persisted in carrying iiim back 
 and brought him to his home in an uncon- 
 scious condition. He was in a serious state for 
 many weeks, but care and skill finally prevail- 
 ed and he was restored to comparative health. 
 He was discharged at Madison Oct. 19, 18G3. 
 
 In 1867 he established his business in Mil- 
 waukee where he has since been a resident. 
 He has served several years as a Trustee of 
 E. B. Wolcott Post. 
 
 In 186G he was married to Caroline F. 
 Horton and they have had four children. The 
 eldest, Mary Goodrich, died of scarlet fever in 
 infancy. Alfred Caroll, Fanny H. and Marvin 
 C. are as promising children as ever gladdened 
 the hearts of loving parents. 
 
 The prominence of Mrs. Bell in the Woman's 
 Relief Corps entitles her to recognition as 
 prominent in a liook of soldiers' annals. She 
 was born in Windham, Greene Co., New York, 
 and is the daughter of Goodrich and Lydia 
 (Fairchild) Horton. She was educated and 
 graduated at a Ladies' Seminary at Springfield, 
 Mass. Her father was a descendant of Puritan 
 ancestors of the strictest type and died of 
 bronchial consumption at the age of 38 years. 
 Mrs. IJell represents patriotism of the most 
 decided stamp, her great grandfather, Jonathan 
 Fairchild, having been a soldier of the Revo- 
 
 lution and her great-great-grandfather, named 
 Wood worth, liaving fought in the same strug- 
 gle. She inherited their spirit and she has 
 been active in patriotic avenues because " she 
 was born in it." She has always been noted 
 for her benevolent work and has made her 
 influence felt in such avenues. She is a char- 
 ter member of E. B. Wolcott Relief Corps and 
 served as its Chaplain until she was elected 
 President. She served in that capacity until 
 she was elected Department President in 1889 ; 
 in 1890, current 3'ear, she is serving as Depart- 
 ment Counselor. This brief statement will 
 represent but little of her actual work, but 
 soldiers of Wisconsin will testify to her ability, 
 efficiency and value to their Order. 
 
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 /^^ MERY M. STANFORD, La Crosse, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, 
 was born Jan. 21, 1832, at Atwater 
 Ohio, and is the son of Leroy M. and Maransa 
 (Bartholomew) Stanford. -Phe paternal line is 
 of Welsh ancestry and that of the maternal 
 side French in lineage. The progenitor of the 
 latter stock in this country came to America 
 with La Fayette. The father was by trade a 
 carpenter and was also a farmer. Mr. Stanford 
 is the oldest of 12 children. 
 
 In 1848 the family removed West and 
 located at Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Wiscon- 
 sin. In 1S52 they became residents of La 
 Crosse county, and the father died Nov. 14, 
 1882, at Arcadia, Wis. The mother lives with 
 her son and is aged 78 years. Mr. Stanford 
 passed his early years in obtaining his educa- 
 tion with a view to entering the ministry of 
 the M. E. Church. He studied as he could 
 and was licensed to preach ni 1858. He was 
 admitted to the Arcadia Circuit and officiated 
 there in that connection until he entered tiie 
 
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 army. Jan. 4, 1864, he enlisted in the 1st Wis- 
 consin Light Artillery and left the Slate Feb- 
 ruary Stli to connect with his command at New 
 Orleans. April 22d the battery left that city to 
 move with Banks on the Red River exj)edition. 
 The movement took the regiment to Alexan- 
 dria with the 13th Corps in McClernand's com- 
 mand and the battery was principally occupied 
 in covering the retreat down the river, acting 
 as guard and patrol all the way to Morganzia 
 and fighting en route. Probably no more 
 malicious set of desperadoes infested any sec- 
 tion of tlie South where the U. S. troops went 
 than this, the fighting being continuous nearly 
 every night and day in tlie myriad skirmishes, 
 not half of which are on record. The battery 
 went back to camp at New Orleans and Mr. 
 Stanford was taken sick on the way. He re- 
 mained in New Orleans until about the middle 
 of July, when orders were received to go to 
 Baton Rouge and the command went to quar- 
 ters in the fort. In November the regiment 
 went with General Davidson's Cavalry Division 
 to Mobile, following Leaf River as far as Pas- 
 cagoula Bay and took transports across Lake 
 Bowne and Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans, 
 where they arrived New Year's eve, and went 
 to Baton Rouge on the 4th. The object of this 
 movement was to restrain the rebel hordes 
 from following Sherman by making a feint on 
 Mobile, and about 6,000 troops accompanied 
 the batteries. There the battery was mustered 
 out. Mr. Stanford was taken sick with tlie 
 small-pox wliile at Baton Rouge and went to 
 hospital. He received excellent care by com- 
 petent nurses and recovered his health. As 
 soon as able he was mustered out June 4, 1865. 
 He went )iext to New Orleans and returned 
 thence to Wisconsin to be released from State 
 service. 
 
 Prior to tlie war he had "taken up a home- 
 stead" and to tliis he returned after the war 
 
 was over. For 11 years he filled a position as 
 minister irregularly at Arcadia and operated 
 during the time on the Eau Claire Circuit, at 
 Ossio and Alma Center, and was ordained at 
 Si)arta Conference, Sept. 15, 1867. The health 
 of his wife compelled him to give up regular 
 labor for many years. In 1888 he located at 
 La Crosse, Wis., and has filled appointments at 
 Chaseburg, Romance, Dudley's Ridge and 
 Coon's Slough. 
 
 He was married Aug. 26, 1853, at Lewis Val- 
 ley, Wis., to Esther, daughter of John B. and 
 Phebe Condon. Their children are named 
 Edmund D., Webster A., Emily, Gilbert, Hat- 
 tie and George. His wife died July 26, 1887, 
 at La Crosse. Mr. Stanford is Chajjlain of his 
 Post and is a meniber of the Knights of 
 Pythias. 
 
 His brother, Leroy, enlisted in Company F, 
 25th Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered 
 into service Sept. 14, 1862 ; he served with the 
 regiment until the surrender of Vicksburgand 
 was sent to hospital for a long stay through an 
 illness. He was pronounced incurable b}- the 
 surgeons in charge and his father was sum- 
 moned to take him home, he being discharged 
 for that purpose; he lingered about three 
 months and died Jan. 19, 1864. Miles Stam- 
 ford enlisted and was mustered- in 1862 into 
 the 20th Wisconsin Infantry from Alma Center. 
 Before the battle of Pea Ridge he was taken 
 sick with typhoid fever and sent to Rolla, Mo. ; 
 his father went after him, brought him home 
 to Wisconsin and he recovered his health. In 
 December, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company I, 
 4th Wisconsin Cavalry (then) and joined the 
 regiment at Baton Rouge. He was soon after 
 detailed with a body of picked men for a raid 
 and captured a rebel camp. Soon after an- 
 other force of rebels recaptured their men and 
 took the captors prisoners of war; subsequently 
 the Union soldiers, including "Miles SUmford, 
 
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 were sent to Andersonville and kept there 11 
 months. He was transferred thence to Florence 
 on the approach of Sherman's troops and died 
 there Nov. 23, 1864; the plucky soldier lies 
 huried where he suff'ered and where he will 
 rise U)i in the judgment against those who 
 starved, persecuted and murdered him. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Stanford antl his brothers per- 
 formed noble service for the Union. Their 
 names and records are an lienor to these or any 
 other pages which inscribe the annals of the 
 heroes of the civil war. Mr. Stanford has been 
 an active worker in the religious field and has 
 accomplislied much as a minister of the M. E. 
 Church. Let it be noted that he enlisted ju.st 
 before the turf was placed on the grave of his 
 young brother who died 15 days after and 
 whose place he took in the Union army. 
 Miles and Leroj' were respectively 16 and 17 
 years old when they enlisted. 
 
 f^^ EORGE W. PECK, Mayor of Milwau- 
 
 ■qr kee, Wis., in 1890, member of E. B. 
 
 Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was 
 born at Hudson, Jefferson Co., New York, Sept. 
 28, 1840. This is on his own testimony and 
 the following account of his career is as told by 
 himself in his own style as likely to be most 
 satisfactory and strictly reliable. 
 
 " I came to Wisconsin when I was two and a 
 half years old, and I have been told that I set- 
 tled at Cold Spring, Jefferson county, which is ' 
 on the road between Whitewater and Fort 
 Atkinson. When ten or eleven years old our 
 folks moved to Whitewater. AVhat education 
 I got in school I secured in what Governor 
 Hoard calls 'the Farmer's College, the country 
 school at the cross roads.' The rest I know I 
 took out of a printing office. When I was 
 about liftcen it became necessary for me to 
 
 learn a trade to help support myself and fam- 
 il)-, and I have been in the same business ever 
 since. I learned the printer's trade in the 
 office of the Whitewater Begister. I commenced 
 by carrying dirty water down the stairs and 
 clean water up, and for diversion would wash 
 the rollers for a Washington hand press and 
 then turn them on the rack until they needed 
 washing again. 1 can work a Washington 
 hand press to-day as well as anybody in the 
 State. After learning the trade as well as I 
 could I monkeyed around with various news- 
 papers and finally took the foremanship of tbe 
 Watertown Republican at $3.50 per week and 
 took my pay in orders on drug stores and 
 dealers in gents' furnishing goods. My hair 
 which I had then was red, and I tried by a 
 judicious use of drug store orders and hair 
 oil to make it black. After a year or so at that 
 I became clerk of the Hyatt House, at Janes- 
 ville, in 1859. For a year or so I was clerk for 
 a firm which had no money and less custom. 
 The duty of the clerk was to stand off the 
 butcher and grocer and collect in advance from 
 guests to pay for the wood to warm tbe house. 
 While holding this honorable position at the 
 lucrative remuneration of $25 per month I 
 engaged myself to be married to a very decent 
 girl named Francena Rawley, of Delavan, Wis., 
 who never did me any harm. Just before the 
 wedding day the hotel busted and I borrowed 
 $17 and got married. After the wedding tour, 
 which lasted part of one day and late into the 
 night, I went to .Jefferson and bought a half 
 interest in the Jefferson County liepubUcan, put- 
 ting my labor and influence against what my 
 partner owed. We succeeded in keeping it out 
 of the sheriffs hands for about a year. When 
 the war broke out, my partner went one way 
 and I went the othei", with the sheriff in the 
 middle. I enlisted with the Fourth Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, and after a year was promoted to be 
 
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 Second Lieutenant, which position T held till 
 a year after the war, the regiment heing 
 stationed in Texas. It was a great iighting 
 regiment until I joined it, after which I do 
 not recollect that it ever got into a hattle of 
 any account. In ISGG I started the Ripon 
 Representative in Fond du Lac County, with 
 Jedediah Bowen as editor. When Grant 
 was nominated the paper became democratic, 
 and in 18G8 I was hired hy Brick Pomeroy to 
 go to work on Pomeroy\t Democrat in New York, 
 where I stayed three years. I then walked 
 most of the way home and took charge of 
 Pomeroy's paper at La Crosse. When Pomeroj' 
 went to the wall and his property was all sold 
 John Symes and myself bought the La Crosse 
 paper. I sohl out, oi- gave it away, and started 
 Peck's Sun at La Crosse. While there I was 
 chief of police one year, and in 1874 was made 
 chief clerk of the Assembly. In 1878 I came 
 to Milwaukee, and after two years of reasonable 
 success the boom started with the 'Bad Boy' 
 articles and the circulation of the paper ran up 
 to 80,000, and 1 foinid an opportunity to make 
 a dollar or two. That's all I know about Peck." 
 
 ^„^^a^*^. 
 
 B. CANTERBURY emigrated to Amer- 
 ica from the county of Wicklow, Ire- 
 • land, in 1859. He cast his first vote 
 for Abraham Lincoln in LsiJO, and has been an 
 ardent Republican ever since. He enlisted in 
 18G1, in Company D, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and served with that regiment in nearly all of 
 its campaigns until 1864, when he was dis- 
 charged at Matlison, Wis., by reason of his 
 term of service having expired. He has since 
 been a resident of Ija Crosse. He is one of 
 the prominent men of the State and especially 
 interested and active in all the enterprises of 
 his city wh(!re he has done much to make it 
 
 the second city in Wisconsin. He has built 
 railroads and street car lines, and is now Presi- 
 dent and principal owner of the La Crosse and 
 Onalaski Street Car Company. He is largely 
 interested in real estate and grain business, 
 and has something to do with nearly every en- 
 terprise of the city. 
 
 |^0RANK ALWINKUECHENMEISTER, 
 Milwaukee, Wis., a former soldier of 
 the civil war, was born June 8, 1844, 
 in Lichtenstein, Saxony, Germany. He is the 
 oldest of ten children horn to his parents, 
 Edward F. and Carolina (Man) Kuechenmeister, 
 and accompanied the family of his father to 
 America when he was three years old. Sept. 
 14, 1847, they reached the city of Milwaukee 
 which has since been their home. His parents 
 were married March 22, 1842. 
 
 Frank i)apsed his youth in the public schools, 
 and when he was 15 years of age, May 10, 
 1859, he began to learn the l)Usinessof a model 
 maker with Chas. F. Kleinsteuber, at which he 
 worked until he decided to enlist in one of the 
 regiments into which his countrymen were 
 enrolling under the call for German troops to 
 be assigned to the command of General Sigel. 
 Aug. 14, 1SG2, he enli-sted in Company K, 2Gth 
 Wisconsin Infantry and went into Camp Sigel 
 at Milwaukee, where he drilled an<l acquired a 
 familiarity with the life of a warrior, such as 
 is obtainable under such circumstances. Se]i- 
 tember 17th following he was mustered, and 
 Oct. 6, 1862, the regiment marched away to 
 join the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Kuechen- 
 meister went with the 2Gtb, cxj>ecting to roach 
 Fredericksburg to reinforce General Burnside, 
 but the troops were just withdrawing as they 
 arrived, and the winter was passed without 
 military incident save when the regiment was 
 
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 ordered out preparatory to getting into the mud 
 under P>nrnside's plans for another attack on 
 Fredericksliurg in January, 1863. But what of 
 disappointment in seeing actual warfare he 
 might have undergone, was fully made up at 
 the disaster at Chancellorsville where the regi- 
 ment fought desperately and suffered greatly 
 in losses. Mr. Kuechenmeister was again fight- 
 ing at Gettysburg and in October went with 
 the two corps of Hooker to tlie reinforcement 
 of the Army of the West. He was in the fight 
 at Wauhatchie, Tenn., Oct. 27th, at Mission 
 Kidge three days in November, at Resaca, Ga., 
 May 15, 1804, Burnt Hickory, May 25th, 
 Dallas, May 27th, Kenesaw Mountain, June 
 22d, Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, Atlanta, 
 August 8th and in the several movements in 
 wiiieh liis regiment took part until the city 
 was destroyed November 14lh, preparatory to 
 the march to the sea which was begun on the 
 15th. Mr. Kuechenmeister marched, foraged, 
 waded swamps and Imilt roads and bridges in 
 common with the regiment and fouglit at 
 Averysboro and Bentonville, March 16th and 
 19th respectively, and went with the column 
 of Sherman to Petersburg, Richmond and 
 Washington, where he paraded with his com- 
 pany and regiment with General Winkler at 
 the head of the command. (See sketch of 
 General Winkler.) The regiment was muster- 
 ed out at Washington June 13, 1865, returned 
 to Milwaukee June 17th and was paid off and 
 disbanded on the 29th of the same month. Mr. 
 Kuechenmeister brought home with him as 
 relics of his military experience, a rebel canteen 
 made of cedar inscribed " W. E. Ratcliffe, 33d 
 Mississippi Infantry", and a rebel knapsack 
 from the field of Averysboro, marked "B. A." 
 presumably signifying Battery A. 
 
 He returned to his former employer and 
 remained in the business of a model maker 
 unlil he engaged with a sewing-machine com- 
 
 pany as adjuster and repairer, and he operated 
 17 years in tliat business. In 1883 he made 
 application for a situation as letter-carrier in 
 the mail service and received his appointment 
 Sept. 1, 1884, in which capacity he is occupied 
 in 1890. He was married May 22, 1869, to 
 Augusta Hartmann, and they have had five 
 children of whom two are deceased. Those 
 who are living are Emma, aged 14, Walter, 
 aged 11, and Edwin, who is nine years old. 
 Tliey ai'e all attending the public school at 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 ^«f^l^^S^>^« 
 
 "ILLIAM J. CHANDLER, Black 
 River Falls, Wis., member of G. 
 A. R. Post No. 92, was born at 
 Ottawa, Wis., Oct. 29, 1845. His parents, 
 Thomas and Catherine Chandler, were born in 
 Ireland, and came to America respectivel}^ at 
 the ages of 10 and 19 years. The family of 
 the father located at Farmington, Ohio, on a 
 farm, and in 1840 they removed to Waukesha 
 county, Wisconsin, and there his father bought 
 land from the Government which he improved. 
 Thomas Chandler enlisted Aug. 21, 1862, and 
 served in the non-commissioned offices until 
 May 4, 1864, when he was commissioned 1st 
 Lieutenant of Comjiany H, 28th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry and was mustered out as such Dec. 14, 
 1864, for disability. He lives in Clay Co., Ne- 
 braska, and his wife died in 1880. Of their 
 nine children, eight are living and are named 
 William, Mary Jane, Anna, John, Henrietta, 
 Francis, Ellen and Sarah. 
 
 Mr. Chandler received the benefit of the com- 
 mon schools until he enlisted at 16 years old in 
 August, 1861, at Ripon, in Company F, 1st 
 Wisconsin Cavalry, Colonel Daniels. The win- 
 ter was passed in camp at Kenosha where the 
 regiment received uniforms, and in (he spring 
 
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 went to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, there re- 
 ceiving their mount and side arms. They 
 moved to Cape Girardeau and in May, Bloom- 
 field, 50 miles away, was occupied by a part of 
 the regiment. The command engaged in 
 scouting and 10 miles from there a rebel camp 
 was broken up and soon after the leader, Phe- 
 lan, captured. Colonel Daniels was a venture- 
 some officer, and his men were often in straits 
 from which their own ingenuity and daring 
 extricated them. He, with some 20 men, was 
 sent out on a recoinioissance and they were 
 cut off from their command at Witsburg, 
 and went on the old Federal road to Memphis, 
 where they took transports to Helena, where 
 Colonel Daniels was relieved. The balance of 
 the regiment went to L'Anguille Ferry, were 
 surprised by the rebels and the chaplain was 
 killed, tlie routed cavalrymen joining their 
 command at Helena. In tlie spring of ISG3 
 the regiment went to Nashville and was 
 brigaded with the 4tli Michigan and ■2d Indi- 
 ana cavalrj' regiments with McCook's 20th 
 Corps. 
 
 The regiment moved with Stanley's Cavalry 
 Column, skirmished at Middletown, cajitured 
 Shelbyville and went to Huiitsville, Ala., and 
 to Larkinsville, going thence to the Chat- 
 tanooga campaign ; moved next to Chicka- 
 mauga Creek, drove the rebels at Crawfish 
 Springs and fought at Chattanooga. In Octo- 
 ber the regiment fought at Anderson's Gap 
 with Wheeler, crossed the Cumberland Moun- 
 tains, skirmished at Maysville and marched by 
 way of Crab Orchard into East Tennessee and 
 reached Knoxville in December. Tliey skir- 
 mished on the way to Madison and Cleveland, 
 after chasing Hood and skirmishing at various 
 points as cavalry. The regiment was with the 
 besieging force at Atlanta, skn-mishing all tlie 
 time, fought ^\'heeler and was in the battle of 
 Resaca. Mr. Chandler was in the action at 
 
 Burnt Hickory Church, went to Ackworth and 
 Big Shanty and Lost Mountain and raided 
 near Atlanta, where Major Paine was killed. 
 They went to Calhoun and scouted and skir- 
 mished incessantly, going thence to Louisville, 
 Ky. While at Nashville Mr. Chandler was 
 detailed as a scout and operated in that 
 capacity tliroughout his service. While at 
 Dalton to learn wliat he could, he was detained 
 under suspicion, but rushed out, took a Lieu- 
 tenant's horse and rode out of the rebel lines. 
 While on bushwhacking service he went to the 
 cabin of Albert Stevens, a noted rebel in the 
 mountains, and stayed there a week ascertain- 
 ing plans. He took French leave and went to 
 Major Devine's command and started with the 
 force for the haunts of Stevens, breaking up 
 the camp and driving the mountain bush- 
 whackers temporarily into North Carolina. 
 
 He visited a lady friend in the mountains 
 and while there the place was surrounded and 
 his surrender demanded, which was declined. 
 A fight followed and he made his escape, killing 
 one man. He found he had but one way of 
 retreat and that was by jumping a precipice in 
 the dark to tlie stream below, which was for- 
 tunately deep, and he and his horse escaped 
 without injury, although a volley of sliot 
 followed him. The next day he returned, 
 helped bury the man he had killed and paid 
 the funeral expenses. (The captain of this 
 gang was the schoolmate of the wife of Mr. 
 Cliandler(whom he married in Tennessee) and 
 after the war she told him she had seen his 
 face peering into the window of their Wi.scon- 
 sin home in his absence. He followed him 
 with a revolver until he had left the Stiite). 
 He was in the mountains of Tennessee one 
 night, when he saw a man peering through 
 the crevices of the Ciibin ; he went out and fol- 
 lowed him around a corn crib some time; 
 finally changing bis direction he met his 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 enemy face to face and sliot liim dead. 
 Stevens' gang, 100 strong, took an oath tliey 
 would not lay down their arms until they had 
 killed the noted scout Chandler, but he killed 
 three of them and lives to tell the story. In 
 December, 1864, Mr. Chandler received his 
 discharge at Nashville and after being dis- 
 charged in Wisconsin he returned to Ottawa, 
 going after a year to Iron Ridge, Dodge county, 
 and there passed five years in the coal works. 
 He moved from there to Black Fiver Falls 
 and has since been variously occupied. In 
 1886 he purchased 160 acres of land in the 
 town of Albion and has since been engaged in 
 its improvement and has slightly increased his 
 acreage. 
 
 He was married June 27, 1864, in Tennessee 
 to Emeline Humphries, and their children are 
 Thomas A., William G., John H., Mary K., 
 George, Emeline, Sarah and James R. Mr. 
 Chajidler is a Republican. 
 
 ^^ OL. HENRY ARTHUR STARR, Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
 Post, Robert Chivas, No. 2, was born 
 Nov. 18, 1830, in Leroy, New York. He is 
 the son of Elisha and Elizabeth (Hosmer) 
 Starr, and his maternal great grandfather was 
 a surgeon in the Revolution. 
 
 Colonel Starr has been a resident of Milwau- 
 kee since 1836 and received in childhood such 
 education as the schools of Milwaukee afforded 
 in that period of her history. He records that 
 Eli Bates, a prominent merchant of Chicago, 
 was one of his teachers. One of his earliest 
 recollections is of his father's relations with 
 the printing business and, as soon as his ideas 
 of connection with the business world began 
 to grow, he engaged in learning the trade of a 
 book and job printer and was engaged in that 
 business when he decided to enter the arniv. 
 
 I In the first months of the war he interested 
 himself in the progress of events in Wisconsin 
 aiding with his influence in the work of re- 
 cruiting and was commissioned Captain of 
 Company D, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, on the 
 28th of August, 1861, and was mustered Octo- 
 ber 8th. He was promoted Major of the 20tli 
 Wisconsin Infantry, under commission dated 
 June 30, 1862, and with the exception of a 
 short period in hospital at Brownsville, Texas, 
 and two months passed in Wisconsin in the 
 winter of 1863-4 on recruiting service, he was 
 connected with the regiment until mustered 
 
 ' out July 14, 1865. The 20th Wisconsin left 
 the State August 30th and went to St. Louis 
 and thence to Rolla for assignment to Herron's 
 
 ; Brigade, destined for service on the frontiers of 
 
 1 rebeldom. The first action in which the regi- 
 ment obtained a knowledge of rebel methods 
 
 j in military matters was in the battle of Prairie 
 Grove. Prior to this, Major Starr had per- 
 formed his duties with bis command in march- 
 ing and searching for detachments of rebels 
 until November, when the regiment went into 
 camp at Wilson's Creek. At this place in De- 
 cember, General Herron was summoned by- 
 General Blunt to his assistance, as he expected 
 an attack of Hindman at the head of a greatly 
 outnumbering rebel force ; the troops were 
 immediately set in motion and wei'e attacked 
 by Hindman before the Union force had made 
 connection with General Blunt, and at 10 
 o'clock in the morning of December 7, 1862, 
 the 20th Wisconsin was in hot action known 
 to history as the battle of Prairie Grove. The 
 rebel force was commanded by Parsons, Frost 
 and Raines and also, as the repi'esentative of 
 Price, the notorious Marmaduke. The changes 
 in the commands had placed the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel, Henry Bertram, in commantl of the 
 brigade and Major Starr led the regiment in 
 one of the severest actions of the war in that 
 
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 locality. The character and temperament of 
 Major Starr were such tliat his abilities in an 
 executive direction were brought fulh' to tlie 
 front by the situation in which he unexjjectedly 
 found himself. Orders were peremptory and in 
 tlie display of his qualities as a disciplinarian, 
 he manifested his capacity to command. Un- 
 der his leadership the regiment made a move- 
 uient on the double quick ; they took a rebel 
 battery and, moving on, met an assault of 
 about seven to one. In this action of le-ss than 
 half an hour tlie loss of tlie 20th Wisconsin 
 was very iieavy, Init tliey remained in line of 
 battle all day and receiving assistance only 
 on the arrival of General Blunt in the after- 
 noon, after which the regiment was in action 
 until dark, when the rebels virtually confessed 
 themselves conquered by sending a flag of 
 truce to obtain their wounded, under the pro- 
 tection of which they withdrew in the niglit. 
 If the 20th Wisconsin had performed no other 
 service, the conduct of every man in *lie battle 
 of Prairie Grove would have inscribed their 
 names iueffaceably on the roll of fame. Major 
 Starr was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel to 
 i-ank from Dec. G, 1802, the day iireceding the 
 battle of Prairie Grove, lie accompanied liis 
 command in the after movements, which in- 
 clutled a heavy marcii to \'au Buren and 
 return, ami subsequently, niovemenls were 
 made to dilferent points, and the regiment re- 
 mained in Missouri performing local military 
 duty until June, when they moved to take part 
 in the investment and siege of Vicksburg, 
 where the connnand were in siege duty and 
 hard labor until the city surrendered. Tlie 
 next order was for the reinforcement of Banks, 
 but they went instead witli the expedition to 
 Yazoo river, whence they returned to \'icks- 
 burg, went thence to Port Hudson and finally 
 to New Orleans. Major Starr was in the exj)e- 
 dition to Morganzia, returned to New Orleans 
 
 and started 'under General Herron for Texas, 
 crossing the Gulf of Mexico in one of the 
 heavy tropical storms of that locality ; and a 
 landing was eliected at Brazos Santiago, whence 
 they went to Brownsville ; there Colonel Starr 
 was taken sick and soon after was sent to Wis- 
 consin on recruiting service as stated. He re- 
 joined his regiment at Brownsville, returned to 
 New Orleans in August and, soon after, the 
 regiment was in the force whose operations 
 were to be directed against the defenses of 
 Mobile. Colonel Starr performed duty with 
 his men in the siege of Fort Morgan and had 
 the satisfaction of assisting in the capture of 
 the fort and its garrison. October loth C'olonel 
 Starr acceded to the command of the regiment 
 and performed the duties of his absent chief in 
 all the movements until the command went 
 again to Mobile. With the regiment he was 
 in the siege of Spanish Fort, was among the 
 first to enter the abandoned works, went thence 
 to Blakely and the vicinity of Mobile, after 
 which, in June, he went again to Texas ami 
 was there mustered out on the day stated. 
 
 Colonel Starr returned to Milwaukee and 
 was variously engaged until October 6, ISGS, 
 when he was commissioned Postmaster and 
 otficiated nearly four years. He was after- 
 wards in New York for a time, and passed four 
 years in the eiu|)]oy of Pand it McNally of 
 Chicago; after his return to Milwaukee lie fol- 
 lowed his trade until 18SS, when he retired 
 from active business life. In 1883 Colonel 
 Starr was married to Catlierine B. Schafier. 
 He is a Mason and belongs to Iiulependence 
 Lodge, No. 8, to Wisconsin Chai>ter, No. 3, and 
 Wisconsin Commandery, No. 1. 
 
 There is no more familiar figure on the 
 streets of Milwaukee at this writing, 1890, than 
 that of Colonel Starr, and a faithful biographer 
 would fain place on permanent record a just 
 uutline of his character. <.^uiet, modest, manly, 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 generous, forbearing, and liaving as little 
 aggressiveness as is common to men who rise 
 to heights of braver\' in emergencies, he is 
 esteemed in his generation as he merits. He 
 possesses abilities in more than one direction 
 of more than common scope and especially in 
 a literary sense. In that field he might, if he 
 had been a man to push to places already 
 appropriated as is the worldy custom, have 
 made a brilliant record. But his friends love 
 him, his acquaintances respect him, and his 
 comrades hold him in just appreciation for his 
 bravery on the fields where he fought in the 
 service of th« Union. Ilis name will be one 
 of the perjietuities of the Badger State. 
 
 It should have been stated in the proj^er 
 place that Colonel 8tarr was the second Com- 
 mander of the Department of Wisconsin, G. A.R. 
 
 
 "ILLIAM H. H. CASH, attorney, 
 resident at New Lisbon, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. Gl, 
 was born .July 19, 1843, in Belmont Co., Ohio, 
 opposite Wheeling, W. Va. His parents were 
 Hezekiah and Sarah Ann (.Jones) Cash and his 
 father's family were from Pennsylvania ; his 
 mother belonged to ^Maryland stock. One of 
 the ancestral heroes was Henry Stadtler who 
 fought under Harrison at Fort Meigs. The 
 grandfather .Jones was an Ohio pioneer and an 
 old Indian fighter of renown. 
 
 In 1861 the parents of Mr. Cash removed to 
 New Lisbon, Wisconsin. They had 11 chil- 
 dren of whom six are surviving in ]890. Mr. 
 Cash is the oldest; -Eineline married Geo. Cleve- 
 land, a .soldier of the 52d Wisconsin Lifantry ; 
 Martha Jane, S. F., -Jeremiah and Susan are 
 the others still living. Mr. Cash was aljout 2U 
 years old when he enrolled in his country's 
 service. He had ol)tained a good common 
 school education in Ohio and alteniled school 
 
 after arrival in Wisconsin. He enlisted in 1863 
 in the 10th Wisconsin Battery, Captain Y. V. 
 Beebe. (See sketch.) He joined the command 
 near Ivnoxville, Tenn., and was occupied in 
 that vicinity in guard duty and participated in 
 the operations from the commencement of the 
 Atlanta campaign until the close at Washing- 
 ton. The battery was attached to Jvilpatrick's 
 cavalry command. In the movements Mr. 
 Cash took a hand in the fight at Buzzard's 
 Roost on liis own account, his battery not being 
 in the action. He was in the several days' 
 fighting at Resaca and was with the command 
 of Kilpatrick when Sherman assigned it to 
 special service, fighting at Calhoun, Adairs- 
 ville, Ivingston, Cartersville, Ivenesaw Moun- 
 tain, New Hope Church and Dalton. The 
 battery was in the actions at Sandtown, Carap- 
 belltown, Peach Tree Creek and in the siege 
 proper of Atlanta. Ivilpatrick attracted Shei'- 
 man's attention for dash and pluck and he was 
 detailed to take his command with the battery 
 and cut railroad communications trom Atlanta, 
 two expeditions having failed. They were in 
 ! action at West Point, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's, 
 being successful in each, and destroying three 
 miles of railroad and a great amount of prop- 
 erty, besides taking 75 prisoners. At Love- 
 joy's, 12,000 rebels surrounded them, but they 
 charged and took five guns and the wagon 
 train. During their five days out they were 
 under constant fire and chased without intei'- 
 mission by larger number of rebels. They 
 went to bed at night expecting to rest, but 
 bugles were sure to sound "boots and saddles" 
 and the experiences of each day were repeated 
 until they returned to Atlanta. Immediately 
 after returning to camp they were called out to 
 accompany the movement of Sherman's army 
 by the right flank which they led, being en- 
 gaged at .Jonesboro where thev withstood a 
 terrific charge l)y the celebrated Pat Cle- 
 
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 bourn's division, beating them back until <hirk- 
 ness ended the strife. 
 
 When Hood's army was found to be moving 
 North, tlie battery followed on one side of the 
 Sweetwater River as far as Kenesaw Mountain 
 where the rebels passed and the command fol- 
 lowed and cleareil them out of Van Wirt, fol- 
 lowing to Rome, charged a rebel camp of Ross' 
 cavalry, went back during the fight at Alla- 
 toona to Marietta and there recruited for the 
 march to the sea. On the way to Savannah 
 they fought at Griffin, Macon, Griswoldsville, 
 Milledgeville, and there had Uie fun of holding 
 a mock legislature and voted the State back 
 into the Union. Mr. Cash was one of a detail 
 of 600 men with two guns who went to Millen 
 to release the prisoners, but they were gone. 
 They returned to the main army, pursued by 
 rebels all the time, went on to Waynesboro 
 and were in a feint on Augusta, gave Wheeler a 
 small thra.shing and pushed on over all man- 
 ner of obstacles and on arrival at Savannah 
 took part in the action at Fort McAllister. 
 After the siege and surrender of Savannah, 
 they went to the Altamaha River, found the 
 rebels too strong, and, going to Savannah were 
 on the left flank of the army going through 
 the Carolinas, fought at Barnwell C. 11., at 
 Black ville, and at Aiken encountered Wade 
 Hampton's cavalry, who rode all over the 
 Federal command, met the rebels at Lexington 
 and again 30 miles north of Columbia, and 
 went 30 miles west of Fayctteville, where they 
 fell into an amijush l)ut extricated themselves 
 by strategy. They were at the taking of Fay- 
 ctteville, fought at Averysboro and Benton- 
 ville and went to Goldsboro. Here the 10th 
 Wisconsin Battery was relieved, but Mr. Cash 
 was transferred to the l'2th Battery and went 
 to Raleigh to hear of the President's death. 
 Mr. Cash was in the foot race to Petersburs, 
 Kicliinoiid and Wasliington, making 32 miles 
 
 a day most of the way. He was in the Grand 
 Review and afterwards his command received 
 orders to move to Louisville, Ky., jireparatory 
 to going to Texas, but orders were counter- 
 manded and he went to Madison to be dis- 
 charged June 7, 18G5. 
 
 On the 26th Mr. Cash returned to New Lis- 
 bon and engaged in business as a stock buyer 
 and marketman, which he followed 10 years. 
 He was nominated for the State Legislature 
 and elected in 1877. One of the transactions 
 in which he was successfully interested was the 
 passage of a bill appropriating $30,000 for the 
 building of the "Necedah Branch" railway, and 
 he afterwards obtained the contract for Ijuilding 
 the .same. Tiiis was done in 90 days and he then 
 engaged in the jiurchase and sale of produce. 
 
 In connection with I). \'andercook, he 0})e- 
 rated in the construction of the railroad from 
 Sparta to Viroqua. He was engaged in build- 
 ing various railways about seven years. He 
 afterwards built the \'alley road to Merrill, an- 
 other from Sauk City to Mazo Manie and also 
 operated as a road constructor in Nebraska and 
 Michigan. In his connection with railroads 
 he is in every sense the benefactor of his com- 
 munity, in every case guarding carefully the 
 local interests and is appreciated for his public 
 spirit. He is permanently registered by the nam- 
 ing of the village of Cashton, situated on tiie 
 Viroqua road. He is a Mason, a. Justice of the 
 Peace and Notary Public ; is Past Commander 
 of his Post and a member of the Council of 
 Administration, also Aid-de-Camp on the De- 
 partment Commander's staff witii the rank of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel. He was married in the 
 fall of 1865 at New Lisbon to Georgia, daugh- 
 ter of W. B. Surdan. Charles F., A. B., Jessie 
 M., John A. and William N. are the names of 
 the children of Mr. and Mrs. Cash. His por- 
 trait appears on page 778. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 781 
 
 LBERT CONNOR (originally O'Con- | 
 fV nor), Eau Claire, Wis., member of 
 ttr^\^ Eagle Post No. 22, was born .July 
 15, 1844, in Canaan, Vermont. His father, | 
 .John Connor, was born in Scotland and mar- 
 ried Andotia Ladd, a native of Vermont and i 
 daughter of Ira Ladd, a soldier of the Revolu- 
 tion, who died at the age of 112 years. He 
 lost a leg in the service. The father came to j 
 the United States in about 1824 and settled in j 
 Vermont, removing thence West in 1854. He j 
 located at West Point, Columbia Co., Wiscon- I 
 sin and managed his farm. The children were I 
 named in order Mary, Sophia (died in Ver- 
 mont), Susan, Albert and Alden. In the spring 
 of 1861 the father enlisted at Lodi in Company 
 A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry and served through 
 with the Iron Brigade until 1864, when he was 
 transferred to the Invalid Corps at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, and was mustered out in July, 1865. 
 He died Sejit. 15, 18SG at Lodi, Wis. His 
 widow died at the same place, Nov. 22, 1889. 
 
 Mr. Connor passed his youth in obtaining 
 his education and in 1859, when 15 years old, 
 went to Fire Point, Miss., and remained there 
 until the spring of 1861 when he started Nortii 
 on the last boat, the Belfast, which carried 
 Union people escaping from the Soutli. She 
 was fired on all the way to Memphis and 
 landed her passengers at Cairo. Mr. Connor 
 went to Lodi and enlisted, Aug. 16, 1861, in 
 Company A, 7th Wi.sconsin Infantry. He was 
 in camp at Madison and started for Washing- 
 ton in September, camping at Chain Bridge 
 and Arlington Heights, and passing the winter 
 of 1861-2 there in Rufus King's Brigade. (See 
 sketi'li.) Mr. Connor went with the regiment 
 to the Manas.sas campaign, and was on the 
 skirmish line; went to the Rappahannock cam- 
 paign and to Fredericksburg, skirmished after 
 crossing the river at Suli)hur Springs, and 
 went to Warronton, skirmished at Kettle Run 
 
 and fought in the battle of Cuinesville on the 
 afternoon of the 28th of August. The loss was 
 heavy, nine men of the company being killed 
 and a large number wounded, all the line 
 officers of the regiment being injured, and 
 Captain Callis acceding to the command of the 
 7th. Augu.st 30th, the regiment was in action 
 at the second Bull Run with McDowell in com- 
 mand, tlie rebels breaking througli the lines, 
 and it was at this point that Fitzjohn Porter 
 failed to reinforce and aided in a defeat to the 
 Union arms. The regiment went to the activi- 
 ties in Maryland and fought at South Moun- 
 tain September 14th. On the 17th Mr. Connor 
 was in the battle of Antietam, his command 
 opening the figlit at daybreak on a rebel bat- 
 tery across Antietam Creek. After the action 
 only six men in the company responded to 
 their names. Mr. Connor received a flesh 
 wound in the shoulder. The regiment crossed 
 the Potomac and went to the valley of the 
 Shenandoah, following rebels ; went to Warren- 
 ton November 6th, thence to Sulphur Springs, 
 skirmished there, operated in the vicinity for a 
 time, moved to Aquia Creek and went into 
 winter quarters. They made a raid to the 
 Potomac after horses which they obtained with 
 some rebel prisoners, and went thence to fight 
 at Fredericksburg in December. Their next 
 fight was at the same place in the spring of 
 1863, and Mr. Connor was in the charge at 
 Fitzhugh's Crossing, April 29th, where the 
 breastworks were stormed and the flag of a 
 Mississippi regiment captured. He was with 
 his regiment at Chancellorsville and, after the 
 defeat moved towards Washington, crossing 
 the Potomac at Williams' Ferry. The next 
 fight was Gettysburg, where Mr. Connor was 
 in Reynolds' Corps and with the first infantry 
 that "double-quicked" after the firing com- 
 menced on tiie Emmettsburg road on Buford's 
 reconnoissance. On the first day he was 
 
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 injured in the chin with a saljc-r, but continued 
 in tlie action until the last day, when he was 
 wounded in his side by a bullet which sent 
 hiui to hospital. He went thence to Phila- 
 delphia for six weeks and rejoined his regiment 
 just before the fight at Culpeper, Sept. 13, 1863. 
 October 10th he was in tiie action on the 
 liapidan, and on the 2] st skirmished at War- 
 renton. November 7th lie fought at Rappa- 
 hannock Station witli Long.street's Corps and 
 on the 26th at Mine Hun. At Culpeper, where 
 the command passed the winter, Mr. Connor 
 re-enlisted and after 60 days' furlough rejoined 
 his command of which he was made Orderly 
 Sergeant. He participated in the opening 
 action of the 5th Corps in the campaign of the 
 Wilderness on the 5th of May, where he re- 
 ceived a bullet in his forehead. He had picked 
 up the L'nion colors and was stooping for a 
 rebel flag wiien he was injured. He was carried 
 to the creek, whei'e his head was bathed and 
 bandaged and he was sent to field liospital, but 
 went into action the next day. He fought at 
 Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, crossed the 
 James at City Point and went to the front of 
 Petersburg. He was in the raids on the Wel- 
 don railroad and operated with tlie 7th until 
 the spring of 1865, when the beginning of the 
 end came. He fought at Five Forks and went 
 to the raid on the Danville railroad. His 
 command joined Grant's army in pursuit of 
 Lee, and Mr. Connor was in all the movements 
 of his corps until the finish at Appomattox. 
 With Sheridan's command he started to go to 
 tlie assistance of Sherman, but news of .John- 
 ston's surrender sent them North and the com- 
 mand went to Washington, where Mr. Comior 
 was in the Grand Review and was mustered 
 out at .Jeffersonville, Ind., July 3, 1805. 
 
 He passed a year in idleness and, expecting 
 to die of consumption, he went to Colorado. 
 There he encountered General Custer, and at 
 
 his solicitation he joined him in the capacitj' of 
 scout and passed two years in his command. 
 On his return to Wisconsin he engaged in car- 
 penter work and in 1878 removed to Eau 
 Claire. He secured tlie contract for superin- 
 tending the construction of the dam at the 
 Dalles and afterwards j>ur.«ued his business as 
 a contractor and builder until 1889, when he 
 was appointed Under Sheriff at Eau Claire. 
 He was married June 18, 1860, at Sauk City, 
 Wis., to Mary, daugliter of Ezra and Carrie 
 (Velia) Harris, and they have a daugliter 
 named Winnie. Mr. Connor is a Republican, 
 a Mason and a member of the A. 0. V. W. 
 
 During his army life he performed a consid- 
 erable amount of service as a scout and in car- 
 rying secret dispatches for his commanding 
 officers. Pie did much service of the kind for 
 Sheridan in positions of danger and requiring 
 nerve of the steadiest character. Sometimes 
 he wore the rebel uniform and other disguises 
 as a citizen of anything but warlike relations. 
 He was twice in Richmond and once was 
 caught. He was tried and sentenced as a spy 
 l)y Longstreet, and while waiting over night to 
 be shot, he watched his opportunitj' and es- 
 caped, his guard going to sleep and dropping 
 his revolver, which Connor seized, raj^jied his 
 head with it and left the log cabin where lie 
 was confined. He found a horse belonging to 
 Fitz Hugh Tjce and rode thereon to the Union 
 lines, a horse ahead. He released his hands 
 before he overpowered his guard by rubbing 
 the thongs against the pole vvhicli supported 
 his bunk. At another time he went into a 
 restaurant in Richmond to get a lunch, when a 
 rebel officer took a seat beside him and he plied 
 him with champagne until he made so fast a 
 friend of liim that the rel)el refused to be sepa- 
 rated from him, and insisted on his new friend 
 going to tlie fort with him and kept him a week, 
 while he gathered niiuii information of great 
 
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 value. When the time came when he must go, 
 he induced tlie officer to go to town with liim, 
 where lie supjilied him with plenty to drink and 
 started back with hiui. He drooped on his 
 horse, when Connor dismounted, placed him 
 on the ground and waited for him to sleep 
 soundly, when he wrote a letter of thanks for 
 all his kindness and excusing himself for 
 being obliged to take his horse, signed it A. C, 
 U. S. A., pinned it inside his coat and rode 
 away on his thoroughbred horse. 
 
 April 18, 18G7, Governor Fairchild consti- 
 tuted Mr. Connor Captain by brevet, to date 
 from March 31, 1865, for reasons w'hich were 
 stated in the papers issued to that effect and 
 signed by Governor Fairchild, Secretary of 
 State Thomas Allen and Adjutant-General J. 
 K. Proudfit. AVith the assistance of a corai'ade 
 he rescued a captain of the 91st New York In- '• 
 fantry who was in the hands of the rebels. 
 He had crossed a creek to capture a stand of 
 confederate colors but was foiled in doing so In' 
 the tiring of tiie Union troops; but seeing nine 
 rebels they attempted their capture and took 
 three, rescued the captain referred to who was ; 
 held by them and dispersed the others. April 
 1, 1865, with five enlisted men from other 
 regiments, he rushed in front of the line of 
 liattle to capture a stand of confederate colors 
 on the breastworks where his command made 
 theii' second ehai'ge. They were immediately 
 in a hand-to-hand fight and his five comrades 
 were killed. He shot the rebel color bearer and 
 seized the colors with one hand which had been 
 taken up by a rebel captain, whom he killed 
 with the l)Utt of his musket ; he was surrounded 
 Ijy rebels, was compelled to leave the flag and 
 take shelter behind a tree where he fought 
 until the Union line advanced and rescued 
 him. (See sketch of Edward Ryan). His por- 
 trait appears on page 778. 
 
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 .„^^\^ LARENCEL. POWERS, of Milwaukee, 
 Wis., who served with Company G, 
 37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
 was born at Troy Center, Walworth County, 
 Wis., May 22, 1847. His father, Soldan Powers, 
 was one of the pioneers of Wisconsin, coming 
 in May 1, 1837. He was a native of Vermont 
 but after reaching his majority, gradually 
 drifted toward the far West, staying some time 
 in northern New York, went thence to Michigan 
 and finall}^ to the Badger State. On reaching 
 Wisconsin he pre-empted a farm of Govern- 
 ment land, and in 1842 was married to Anne 
 Flanders, who had come to the West with her 
 brothers from Stanstead, C. E. After a con- 
 tinuous residence of over fifty-two years on the 
 farm he bought of the Government Mr. 
 Powers died Dec. 25, 1889, in his 85th year. 
 The sul)ject of this sketcli was brought up on 
 the farm and educated in the common school 
 of the district, leaving it in the spring of 1864, 
 his date of enlistment l)eing March 28, about 
 two months before he completed his 17th year. 
 The company was mustered May 14th, but the 
 mustering officers refused to accept him and 
 half a dozen others as being under age. A 
 second officer also refused to muster the squad 
 and finally on May 27 under special oixlers ob- 
 tained bj' Col. Ilarriman from the war depart- 
 ment the boys were made into volunteer sol- 
 diers in regular form.- From this circumstance 
 they were called by the Colonel his "special 
 order boys" and the acquaintance formed with 
 him under such circumstances bi'ought to some 
 of them chances of preferment. Our subject 
 remained with his company in camp at Madi- 
 son until June 29, when it followed eight com- 
 panies which had preceded it to the vicinity of 
 Petersburg, Va., where Grant was besieging 
 Lee. The 37tli had already had its "baptism 
 I of fire" in the battles of June 17-18, before 
 I Petersburg and liad lost heavil}', but a more 
 
784 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 fearful ordeal, that of tlie crater, was near. 
 Company G joined tlie regiment July 7, and 
 July 17 the regiment took position in the rifle 
 pits directly fronting the fort which was blown 
 up a few days later. Here it was joined on the 
 24th by the Colonel witii tlie last company, 
 and the regimental organization was complete, 
 though a week later it could put less than 100 
 muskets in stack. The severe duty and change 
 of climate was too much for the boy soldier and 
 on the '24th he joined the almost innumerable 
 caravan which every morning responded to the 
 doctor's call. This disability possibly preserved 
 him from tlie fate of the majority of his com- 
 rades on that fatal day of July 30 when, after 
 the mine was exploded, tiie 9th Corps faced 
 death all day in the crater and was finally dis- 
 possessed of the field, the 37th losing 155 men 
 out of 250 who went into the fight, killed, 
 wounded and missing. Of this number Com- 
 pany (i out of 45 men contributed 33, of the.se 
 13 being left dead on tiie field and six being 
 taken prisoners. On August 1 he was sent to 
 the hospital, going first to C'ity Point and then 
 to Alexandria and eight weeks after joined his 
 regiment again, just in time to participate in 
 the fiank movement Sept. 30, which culminated 
 in the liattle at Poj)lar Grove Church. From 
 that time he remained with the regiment, most 
 of tlje time being relieved of routine duty to 
 become company clerk, but taking his place in 
 the ranks whenever a movement was made, 
 and missing none of the actual service. After 
 hostilities closed the regiment participated in 
 the Grand Review at Washington and was 
 mustered out at Washington, July 27, 1SG5, 
 reaching home and disbanding a few days later. 
 The following winter he engaged in school 
 teaching wliich he followed luitii 1872. Sept. 
 28, 1871, he was married to Cora Barney at 
 Hartford, Wis. The next year they moved to 
 Grand liiipids, Wis., and in 1874, Mr. Powers 
 
 was elected County Superintendent of schools, 
 serving two years. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1875 and engaged in practice lo a 
 limiteil extent, l)Ut returned to teaching in 1877 
 which lie followed tliree years as principal of 
 graded schools at Two Rivers and Hartford. 
 In 1880 he engaged in ))ublishing a newspaper 
 at West Bend, Wis., which he continued until 
 the fall of 1887 when he sold out and engaged 
 in daily newspaper work, first as managing 
 editor of the Oshkosh Daily Times, and in 
 August, 1888, became one of the editorial staff 
 of the Milwaukee Daily Journal, in which posi- 
 tion he has been since that time. In March, 
 1885, he assisted in oi-ganizing a Grand Army 
 Post at West Bend, of which he is still a mem- 
 ber. Mrs. Powers had two brothers who served 
 in the 29th Wisconsin, one laying down his life 
 at the battle of Champion Hills, Miss., as a 
 member of the company commanded by his 
 brother, Capt. W. K. Barney, who died at 
 Madison in 1875, of physical troublescontracted 
 in the service. Mr. Powers has but one brother 
 and he was also in the service, so that both 
 families have good records in this respect. 
 
 They have four children : Laura May, born 
 Oct. 4, 1872; Clyde Rudolph, born Dec. 29, 
 1878; Ruth Adams, born April 13, 1882, and 
 Sam Barney, born June 2, 1883. In politics 
 Mr. Powers is, and has always been, a staunch 
 Democrat. His portrait appears on page 778. 
 
 6*^S^^§S*i 
 
 OSEPII HARRINGTON, La Crosse, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, wjis 
 born Feb. 6, 1820, in Rochester, Kent- 
 shire, England. His father, Samuel Harring- 
 ton, was of mixed English and Scotch descent 
 and was occupied in a bank in Rochester until 
 his death there; his wife was Mary Bell before 
 marriage, the daughter of a Scotchman who 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 785 
 
 was an oflicer in the Knglish navy; she died 
 at Rochester a few years after her iuisband. 
 Mr. Harrington had one brother named Wil- 
 liam C. His early life was passed in his native 
 place at school, and as soon as he was old 
 enough lie became a theatrical individual, 
 playing cliild's jiarts in the theatres at first and 
 advancing as he grew older, playing important ; 
 ]>arts finally with John Sloeum, the noted Eng- 
 lish comedian, and with Henry Wallack. In 
 184S he came to the United States, landing at 
 the port of New York and going thence to 
 Milwaukee, where he pursued his jsrofession 
 about two years. He was playing with the 
 comj>any of McYicker and returned to New 
 York to remain 11 years, and a portion of that 
 time was playing engagements in theatres. 
 He returned to Milwaukee and was engaged in 
 the sale of liquor until the breaking out of the 
 war, and as soon as recruiting commenced he 
 engaged in it until his own enlistment in Mil- 
 waukee. July 14, 18G1, he was mustered into 
 United States service in Company E, 7th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, which left the State September 
 ■21st for Washingtoii to be assigned to Rufus ' 
 King's Wisconsin Brigade, which became the 
 Iron Brigade. While his command was in 
 winter quarters, he was made guard at Mc- 
 Dowell's headquarters, which place he held 
 several months. From quarters at Arlington 
 Heights the regiment went in the spring of 
 1862 to the movements under IMcDowell in the \ 
 Manassas campaign. Mr. Harrington went to 
 Falmouth and engaged in labor on the bridges 
 and blockhouses as a part of tlie plans on tke 
 Rappahannock. During this experience, while 
 l)uilding a biidge at A(^uia Creek, a sudden 
 firing caused a commotion among the raw 
 troops, on the alert for rebel trouble, and the 
 trestle work gave way, precipitating .Mr. Har- 
 rington with several others to the bottom of 
 the chasm ; he fell s([uarely on his back on 
 
 some timbers and was picked up unconscious. 
 His I'ecovery was matter of uncertainty for 
 some time, and he remained in hospital at 
 Fredericksburg for seveinil weeks. During iiis 
 convalescence, he was sought out by General 
 Reynolds (killed at Gettysburg) and detailed on 
 secret service to ascertain the whereabouts of a 
 lot of furniture that had belonged to two boats 
 burned at Fredericksburg. He succeeded in his 
 mission, found the stuff, recovered and turned 
 it over to the Government. Had he been a 
 commissioned officer he would have received 
 prize mone}' for the goods recovered. But he 
 received the thanks of all concerned for the 
 able manner in which he discharged his duty. 
 He started with McClellan's command on the 
 campaign of the Peninsula or march towards 
 Richmond under Gibbon, skirmished up to 
 within four miles of the rebel cajntal, fell back 
 and fought at Gainesville. Company E lost 
 heavily in this action, mustering less than 40 
 men after it was over. Mr. Harrington also 
 fought at the second Bull Run and went next 
 after Lee to Maryland. He was placed in the 
 ambulance corps, as his injuries were troubling 
 him, and was soon sent to hospital where he 
 remained two months. On recovery he was 
 made assistant steward of the hospital for a 
 month and under Rosecrans' order for all dis- 
 abled soldiers to report for examination, he 
 presented himself and was declared unfit for 
 further duty because of spinal injury. He 
 received honorable discharge, Nov. 15, 1862, at 
 Camp Post, Va., and returned to Wisconsin. 
 Mr. Harrington aUvaj's held the confidence 
 and esteem of his superior officers, but never 
 would accept promotion. He was often selected 
 to execute important missions. While at 
 Gordon's mill he was sent out on detail for 
 rations. He went to a plantation, the owner 
 of which was very abusive of the Government 
 and the Union soldiers. He refused to give 
 
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 anything and called Harrington one of Lin- 
 coln's hirelings. This stirred up his lilood, 
 and he, with gun fixed, ordered the planter to 
 march to a harrel, made him mount it, lake off 
 his hat and hurrah lustily for the Laiion and 
 then give jihree cheers for the flag. The boys 
 were wont to call him " Captain of the bum- 
 starters." He was a fine singer and had a 
 quartette of good voices which he had trained. 
 He was a great favorite with Gen. McDowell, 
 and was often called to his headquarters to sing. 
 When his commanders wanted a man whom 
 they knew would unllinchingl}' and to' tlie 
 letter carry out their orders, they selected liini. 
 
 He located for a time at La Crosse, and went 
 thence to Milwaukee and engaged in liquor 
 traffic at the Plankiuton House. He was 
 occupied there two years when he went to 
 Chippewa Falls to open a Ijar in the New 
 Treniont House. His next removal was to 
 Portage, and thence he went to La Crosse and 
 sold liquor until his health failed permanently, 
 since which time he has done no business. Mr. 
 ILirriiigton was a Democrat before the war, 
 but since the outbreak of the rebellion, has 
 been a Republican. He is a pensioner. 
 
 He was married, July 2, 1878, at La Crosse, 
 to Mary, daughter of Joseph and Theresa 
 (Pierre) Andrews. Theresa and Ida are the 
 names of their children. His portrait appears 
 on page 778. 
 
 ,IIlLiP HENRY LORCII, Milwaukee, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 2, 
 Robert Chivas, was born April 21, 
 1845, in Klingelbach, Germany. He is of pure 
 German extraction, his parents having been 
 born in Germany and there married. The 
 father, Henry Jacob Lorch, was born in 1826 
 in Niederfischbach, Province of Nassau, and 
 
 married Anna Elizabeth Henrietta Klerner, 
 born in KHngelbach in 1824. May 11, 1853, 
 tiiey started on a sailing vessel for the New 
 World to find a home where they could bring 
 up their children as they desired, free from the 
 restraints of monarcliical regulations. July 6th 
 of llie same year they arrived in Milwaukee, 
 where they established a home and reared their 
 seven children, of whom Philip Henry is the 
 oldest. The others were named Nettie, Chris- 
 tian, Lizzie, William, Louisa and Charles. 
 None of the family are deceased in 1890. 
 
 He learned the trade of a trunkmaker at 
 which he worked until he enlisted, a period 
 of four years. When he was 17 years of age 
 he enrolled as a soldier in an organization 
 which contained some of the best of the Ger- 
 man element in Wisconsin, the 26lh Wisconsin. 
 Mr. Lorch enlisted Aug. 14, 18G2, at Milwaukee 
 in Company K and accompanied the regiment 
 through all its operations until he was disabled 
 by a wound. He left the State October 6th to 
 report with his command toSigel, the regiment 
 being assigned to the 11th Corps. In Decem- 
 ber he went to fight at Fredericksburg under 
 Burnside, but reached there too late and after 
 the winter was over, having passed through 
 the Mud Campaign in January, he jirepared for 
 the business of war in the spring and obtained 
 a clear knowledge of all it meant at Chancel- 
 lorsville, where the regiment suffered heavily. 
 He was again in battle at Gettvsburg and 
 afterwards the regiment was engaged in 
 recruiting its condition and Mr. Lorch went 
 under Hooker to the relief of CJrant on the 
 Chattahoochie River. He was in the fight at 
 Wauhatchie, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1863, and was 
 also a participant in one of the most glorious 
 actions of the whole war at .Mission Ridge. He 
 was in the pursuit of Bragg afterwards and in 
 the spring of 1864 went to the Atlanta cam- 
 j)aign. He fought at Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 Burnt Hickory, Dallas and Kenesaw and at 
 Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, his connection 
 with the life of a military man ceased. Cor- 
 [loral Lorch was mentioned in the dispatches as 
 severely wounded. He suffered amputation of 
 the right arm and was discharged as Sergeant 
 to which he had been promoted on the day he 
 was injured. From field hospital he went 
 successively to Chatlanooga hospital No. 1, to 
 Nashville, No. 14, to Jeftersonville, Ind., "Joe 
 Holt" hospital, to Mound Cit)', III., to Iveokuk, 
 Iowa, to Prairie du Cliieu and to \Iilwaukee, 
 where he was discharged July 20, 1865. 
 
 He remained in Milwaukee and gave his 
 altention to recovei'ing his health. August 1, 
 1870 he was appointed carrier in the mail ser- 
 vice in which he is still engaged, having 
 served twenty years in the most faithful and 
 conscientious manner. 
 
 He was married Sept. 10, 1865, to Sophia 
 Helena Reimers, and they have a son and a 
 daughter. William was born Nov. 26, 1871, 
 and Amanda was born Jan. 20,1880. In 1881 
 Mr. Lorch began the work of preparing his 
 home which he has made a beautiful place for 
 the rearing of his ciiildren and in which to 
 pass his future years with his helpful and 
 capable wife. 
 
 The father of Mr. Ldrch was a laborer in 
 Wauwatosa after arrival in America, working 
 in the lime kilns and later worked as a well- 
 digger in Milwaukee. Jan. 16, 1865, he enlist- 
 ed at Milwaukee in Company F, 45th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry and served with that regiment 
 until it was mustered out after the close of the 
 war July 18, l8t)5. He anil his wife are still 
 living at Milwaukee. 
 
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 !r^r\ S<^'-^R WILHELM CARLSON, M. D., 
 practicing physician at Milwaukee, 
 \\'is.. Junior ^'ice Commander of 
 E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R. Department 
 of Wisconsin, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 
 Aug. 1, 1843, and is the son of Carl Johan and 
 Charlotte Sophia (Lothstrom) Carlson. His 
 father has passed his entire manhood in the 
 Swedish army and is still attached thereto, 
 although SO years old. When the son was 10 
 years old his parents sent him to America to 
 be reared by an uncle under the regulations of 
 a free government. The sailing vessel on 
 which he was placed was wrecked, being dis- 
 mantled and drifting with her passengers in 
 the hull for five months on the Atlantic Ocean. 
 They were finally rescued and taken into port 
 at Londonderry, Ireland, after indescribable 
 sufferings for want of water. A month elapsed 
 before transportation to America could be 
 obtained and young Carlson arrived in New- 
 York in January, 1854, having left his native 
 country on his birthday, Aug. 1, 1853. He 
 went from New York to Columbus, Ohio, and 
 passed a year there and at L^rljana, when he 
 removed to Waukesha, Wis., and remained 
 until 1859, engaged principally in hard work 
 and in obtaining a few months of schooling, 
 amounting to less than a year. In the year 
 mentioned he went to the frontier region of 
 AVisconsin and Minnesota, where he engaged 
 in farming until the second vear of the war. 
 He had an inherited sense of the obligations of 
 a citizen and he felt himself impelled to do 
 what he could in aid of the .suppression of the 
 rebellion. He returned to Waukesha and en- 
 listed Aug. 9, 1862, in Company A, 2Sth Wis- 
 consin Infantry and served three years and a 
 month. He passed through the {)reliminary 
 service attached to military life and saw his 
 first skirmish before he left the State at Port 
 Washington, whither his regiment was sent to 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 aid in quelling the draft riots. After the period 
 passed in rendezvous in the State the regiment 
 left Wisconsin, Dec. 20, 1862, under orders 
 for Columbus, Ky., and moved thence to 
 Union City in anticipation of a battle, but saw 
 little military service there of a severe type 
 and returned to Columbus, going thence, Jan. 
 5, 1863, to Helena to be assigned to the 2d 
 Brigade, 13th Division and 13th Army Corps, 
 and were detailed for service on the White 
 River expedition, the regiment going to St. 
 Charles, Ark., where it performed military duty 
 pertaining to the purposes of the movement 
 and after the latter were accomi)lished, returned 
 to Helena. The service to which the regiment 
 was next assigned was in connection with the 
 Yazoo Pass movement, and Dr. Carlson passed 
 through all the service which included besides 
 the camp and other duties, exposure to the 
 malarial conditions which were of a type 
 which left their inevitable results on the men 
 of the command and ruined the health of 
 many for life. Meanwhile the regiment had 
 been' assigned to the 1st Brigade of the same 
 Division and Corps. The command returned 
 again to Helena and remained there until the 
 first day of July, with the exception of an un- 
 important move into Arkansas. July 4th it 
 became manifest that the rebels were centering 
 for battle at Helena and on that day, on which 
 one of the most unequal contests of the war 
 took place, the Union troops being attacked by 
 a force three times its numbers, and Dr. Carl- 
 son, while conveying dispatches for General 
 Salomon commanding, suffered sunstroke; and 
 he passed the interim between that date and 
 that of his <lisciiarge from the liospital cured, 
 in November following, in Helena. He was 
 detiiiled by Major-General F. Steele, command- 
 ing the Department of Arkansas, as special 
 mail agent lietween Memphis and Little Rock. 
 He rejoined his regiment at Pine Bluff to go with 
 
 it to Mobile, Ala., went into winter quarters at 
 Pine Bluff, and in the spring was in the activi- 
 ties on the Saline River. He was in the action 
 at Mount Elba, where the regiment was attack- 
 ed by 1,500 rebels and where, as at Helena, a 
 repulse was effected and more than 300 
 prisoners taken. Dr. Cari.son was again on 
 duty on the Saline River, laying pontoon 
 bridges ; and performed iiis share of all the 
 military duty pertaining to the service in 
 which the command was engaged. He was in 
 camj) at Pine Bluff" through the summer of 
 1S64 and went thence to Little Rock again. 
 He went next to New Orleans and Algiers 
 and to the vicinity of Mobile, where the regi- 
 ment was again assigned to the 1st Brigade. 
 He took part in the operations against the de- 
 fenses of Mobile, and endured the horrors of 
 the march to Fish River. He was in the 
 trenches at S{)anish Fort after arrival there, ex- 
 posed to rebel fire and performing military 
 duty until its capitulation, when he made the 
 march for the relief of tlie besiegers of Fort 
 Blakely, which had surrendered previous to 
 arrival there. He was in the after movements 
 to Texas, and was mustered out at Brownsville, 
 whence he returned to Madison for final sever- 
 ance of his niilitar}' relations, Sept. 23, 1865. 
 In 1871 he entered Hahnemann College at 
 Chicago, where he studied for his profession 
 under the lamented Dr. A. E. Small, and grad- 
 uated in 1872. He has since practiced in Mil- 
 waukee, where he has built up a jwpular and 
 profitable business. He is President of the 
 State Medical Society of Wisconsin, is Presi- 
 dent of the Academy of Medicine of .Milwau- 
 kee and is akso, in 1S90, occupying the highest 
 oftice in the State in the Order of the Royal 
 Arcanum — that of Grand Regent. He is Su- 
 preme Medical Director of the Royal A<lelpliia 
 for the United States and officiates in that 
 capacity for tlie entire Order in America. He 
 
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 is Medical Director of the Department of Wis- 
 consin, G. A. R., and liolds a commission as 
 Surgeon in the 4th BattaHon, National Guard, 
 having been appointed by Governor Rusk. He 
 is also acting as Surgeon in tlie interest of the 
 St. Paul railroad. 
 
 Dr. Carlson was married Feb. 8, 1870, to 
 Bertha L. Strong, of Milwaukee. His only 
 child, Edith, was born .Ian. 1.5, 1872. 
 
 OBERT E. BRADFORD, of Chippewa 
 Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
 No. G8, was born .July 30, 1840, at 
 Springfield, Ohio, and comes of stock that 
 dates to Governor Bradford, of Massachusetts, 
 wlio was the first executive of that State and 
 was one of tlie Pilgrims who landed from the 
 Mayilower, Dec. 20, 1620, on Plymouth Rock. 
 The father of Mr. Bradford, Clifford Bradford, 
 was a soldier in 1812, and married Sibyl M. 
 Brace, of Scotch lineage. He was born in 
 Vermont and his wife in Connecticut, and the 
 family removed to Ohio in 1838, where the 
 father died in 1852. Tlie children were named 
 Ashley, Eleanor V., Almon, Leman, Nancy, 
 Susan, Frances, Robert and Edwin M. All are 
 living but Leman, Nancy and Frances. Almon 
 was a Lieutenant in the 45th Ohio Infantry and 
 Edwin served in the same command. Leman 
 enlisted at Springfield, Ohio, in the 2d Ohio 
 Volunteer Infantry for the Mexican war, was 
 killed at Buena ^'ista and buried on the field. 
 When he was 19 years old, Mr. Bradford 
 learned the trade of carpenter and was among 
 the first to enlist after the call for troops, en- 
 rolling .Vjiril 17, 1861, at Springfield, Ohio, in 
 the three months .service, and was mustered at 
 Lancaster, Pa., into the 2d Ohio Infantry, Com- 
 pany F, the color company. From camp at 
 Lancaster the command went to Piuladelphia, 
 thence to camp at Suliblk, Ya., and remained 
 
 there about 10 days, moving to A\'ashington 
 May 25th and camped nortli of the cit}'. Two 
 weeks after the regiment was ordered across 
 the Potomac to Camp Upton on the Loudon 
 railroad and moved next to Bull Run in 
 Tyler's Division and Schenck's Brigade. The 
 regiment took part in the fight, being stationed 
 near the main road crossing, Cub Run. The 
 only man Company F lost was young Charles 
 McCook, of the famous brotherhood who 
 distinguished the name later in the war. 
 Charles McCook was 17 j'ears old and was 
 wounded : a rebel cavalry officer rode to 
 him, drew his saber and thrust it through 
 his body while he was on his knees 
 and lifting his bloody hands for mercy. John 
 
 I A. Logan was near enough to see the sight and 
 he went back to Washington, obtained a com- 
 mission and raised a brigade; he was a Demo- 
 crat prior to that. The regiment reached 
 Washington as fast as the rest, gathered at 
 Fort Cochrane and crossed into Washington 
 two nights later, where they received first 
 rations for two daj'S. Soon after thej' marched 
 to the arsenal, turned over their arms and were 
 sent to Columbus, Ohio, to be discharged, their 
 term having expired July 17th, prior to the 
 battle of Bull Run. Aug. 5, 1861, Mr. Brad- 
 ford again enlisted in the 16th Ohio Battery 
 for three years. The organization was Light 
 Artillery and independent. The battery went 
 to St. Louis and drilled about six weeks, went 
 to Jefferson City, Mo., and received their guns, 
 went into winter quarters and drilled and per- 
 formed guard duty until spring. Feb. 21, 1862, 
 they went to St. Louis and fired next morning 
 a salute in honor of Washington's birtliday, 
 went to Benton Barracks for full equipments, 
 went thence to Pilot Knob in Steele's comman<l 
 and to Helena, arriving in July. The time 
 until the spring of 1863 was passed in varied 
 
 j service, including several expeditions, and they 
 
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 left Helena for \'icksburg, crossed tlie Missis- 
 sippi River near Bruiiisburg in April and were 
 assigned to the loth Corjis, participating in the 
 action at Port Gibson May 1st. Tiie battery 
 moved to the rear of Vicksburg and took part 
 in the tight at Champion's Hill Ma\' 10th, 
 wiiere their captain was killed. (They were 
 witli McCJinnis' Brigade and Hovey's Division). 
 May 21st they took position in the rear of 
 Vicksburg and operated in the siege until the 
 surrender. During tlie wlioie period the bat- 
 tery lost no man in action and had only a few 
 wounded. July 5tli the battery followed John- 
 ston towards Jackson and returned to Vicks- 
 burg, going a month later to New Orleans, 
 where tliey camped a few days, and then went 
 to Brashear City. Returning to New Orleans, 
 they embarked, Jan. 1, 1864, on a transjiort on 
 the Mississippi for Matlagorda Bay, crossed 
 from there to Indianola, Te.xas, and moved 
 along the Gulf coast, marching and .skirmish- 
 ing. Wliili' at Mattagorda tiie veterans took 
 their furlough and went liome by steamship 
 via New Orleans and New York. They rejoin- 
 ed the battery at New Orleans in May and 
 were stationed there with the 1st Missouri and 
 13th Massachusetts Batteries. They remained 
 there until ordered to Columbus to be muster- 
 ed out, Aug. 20, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Bradford worked at his trade in Spring- 
 field after the war until June, 1867, when he 
 determined to enter the regular service and he 
 enlisted and was commissioned 2d Lieutenant 
 by Secretary Stanton in Company A, 15th 
 U. S. Infantry, and joined the regiment at 
 Mobile. In the winter of 1867-S liis command 
 was stationed at lluntsville, and went in April 
 to Tuscumbia, where he was in command of 
 the company, remaining liiere through the 
 summer. Tiience the company went to Mobile 
 where the regiment assembled and went to 
 Shreveport, La., where orders were received to 
 
 be sent to various points in Texas, Mr. Brad- 
 ford being promoted to 1st Lieutenant. His 
 company went to Livingston and remained 
 until May, 1868, when he received orders to join 
 his regiment at Austin, 'Texas. A month 
 later the command went to New Mexico at 
 Fort Craig, remaining a year. Lieutenant 
 Bradford was transferred to Company I*' and 
 stationed at Fort McCrea, New Mexico, where 
 he remained until Jan. 1, 1871, when lie 
 resigneth 
 
 After leaving the service lie opened a hotel 
 at Lona Pardo, a Government station, closed it 
 after eight months and mounted a pony for 
 Denver, whence he went to Springfield, Ohio, 
 reaching there in October, 1871. He engaged 
 in the excise office for about two years, and 
 went to Sparta in 1N72, working at his trade 
 and removing to Milston where he resided 
 eight years. He served there as Ju.stice of the 
 Peace and Clerk of the Court one term. He 
 went thence to Glenwood, Minn., and a year 
 later to Chippewa Falls, where Ire has since 
 resided. He was elected Town Clerk in 1883, 
 and in 1884 was elected Justice of tlie Peace, 
 which incumbency he still holds (1890). He 
 is also occupied in real estate business and is 
 pension claim agent. He was married June 
 20, 1867, at Springfield, Ohio, to Florence, 
 daughter of William and Rebecca (Brown) 
 Davidson, and they have had six children — 
 Frederick W., Naomi, Ashley, I*aul, Robert C. 
 and Ruth. Frederick died June 14, 1885. 
 Mr. Bradford belongs to the Masonic Fratern- 
 ity and is a Republican in political princi})le. 
 He became connected with the Grand Army of 
 the Republic in 1867, Post No. 16, at Spring- 
 lielil, Ohio, in District No. 7, Department of 
 Ohio, and in 1S88 was Commander of the Post 
 at Chippewa Falls. 
 
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 ^fv^ILLIAM GROVER, La Crosse, 
 l/^// Wis., one of tlie most prominent 
 ^^ members of G. A. R. Post No. 77. 
 of whicli lie is serving his fourth consecutive 
 term as Commander in 1890, was born .Ian. 20, 
 184."), in London, England. His grandfather, 
 William Grover, was in the British army and 
 navJ^ William Grover, fatlier of Mr. Grovei' 
 of this sketch, was born June IS, 1814, and 
 married Martha Wingrove, who was born Feb. 
 0, 1809. Their children were named William 
 George, Martha, William G.(2d), George, Sarah 
 and Sarah V. William George and Sarah arc 
 deceased. The family came to the United 
 States in 1849, locating in Brooklyn, New York, 
 and removed thence to Loraine Co., Ohio, 
 where the father engaged in the manufacture 
 of boots and shoes. He went next to St. Paul 
 and thence to Henderson, Minn., and after a 
 stay of eight years returned to St. Paul, removed 
 in the spring of 1864 to La Crosse, and died at 
 Waneka, Wis., where the wife and mother also 
 died. 
 
 When he was IS years old the son left home 
 and enlisted Aug. 24, 1SG2, in the State service 
 of Wisconsin, remaining in camp until Septem- 
 ber 22d when he was sworn in at Fort Snelling, 
 Minn., in the Minnesota Renville Rangers, 
 Colonel McPhail, the command being ordered 
 to Minnesota frontiers where the Indians were 
 giving much trouble. Mr. Grover was in the 
 fight at New Ulm a night and a day, the com- 
 mand losing eight men killed and several 
 wounded. He was also in the fight with In- 
 dians at Fort Ridgely and, after driving the 
 redskins, w'ent to Beaver Creek to bury whites 
 who had been murdered by Indians. Little 
 Crow and his band attacked them in camp at 
 night at Birch Cooley and they were rescued by 
 reinforcements under General Sully. They 
 went next to Wild Goose Lake pursuing In- 
 dians, and at Camp Release they captured 1,000 i 
 
 Indians and released 200 whites held as pri.s- 
 oners. Here Mr. Grover was mustered into the 
 1st Minnesota Mounted Rangers, Company A, 
 and went up the Missouri River to Fort Aber- 
 crombie. Dak., after Indians again and in De- 
 cember received a furlough home and rejoined 
 ; the regiment at Painesville, Minn., remaining 
 there until May, 1863. Orders were again re- 
 ceived for pursuing Indians and the summer 
 was spent in this service, three fights taking 
 place. In October the company was mustered 
 out of that command and Mr. Grover went to 
 the Mississippi River squadron to aid in look- 
 ing after guerrillas. Dec. 15, 1863, he was 
 taken sick, came home and was discharged, his 
 time having expired. 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863, he re-enlisted at St. Paul, 
 Minn., in Company I, 2d Minnesota Cavalry, 
 and remained in camp until May, 1864, when 
 he was detailed in the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment at Mankato, Minn., and, July 16th, went 
 with Captain Fisk on an emigrant expedition, 
 a service planned by the Government for the 
 protection and guidance of emigrant trains. 
 The command returned to Bad Lands, D. T., 
 wdiere it was held by Indians, being in great 
 danger of total annihilation eight days, before 
 relieved by Captain Davy, in response to a 
 summons by a scout sent in the night to Gen- 
 eral Sully, 600 men arriving just in time. Tlie 
 command was next stationed at Fort Jackson 
 in protection of the southern Minnesota stock- 
 ades and while carrying dispatches to Sioux 
 City, Mr. Grover was injured, the weather being 
 very cold and he nearly frozen, when his horse 
 stumbled and fell on him, breaking three ribs 
 and inllicting internal injuries. This was in 
 the winter and he lay in various log cabins 
 without medical aid until about June, when he 
 was sent to Fort Ridgely hospital and in Augu.st 
 was transferred to hospital at Fort Snelling, 
 where he was nui.stcred out Nov. 20, 1865. He 
 
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 returned to La Crosse and learned tlie trade of 
 a carpenter, which has since been liis lousiness, 
 save wlien lie has been occuj)ied in rafting on 
 the Mississippi River. 
 
 He was married Sep. 11, 1867, at Honey 
 Creek, Wis., to Emma L., daughter of Rev- 
 Herman and Amelia (Best) Richter, natives of 
 Berlin, Prussia. Tliey came to the United 
 States in 1840, with their family of eight chil- 
 dren named Bertha, Helen, Emma, Albertina, 
 Martha, Lydia, William and Albert. The latter 
 is deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Grover were William H., George W., Edward 
 W., Emma A., Frank A., Robert H., Martha, 
 Edna and Helena F. William H., Robert, 
 Martlia and Helena are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Grover was a charter member of his Post 
 and served in 1884-5-6 as Adjutant; in 1887 he 
 was Assistant Department Inspector and in 
 1889 was Aid on the stati" of the Department 
 Commander. On the organization of the 
 Woman's Relief Corps at La Crosse, Mrs. Grover 
 was constituted President and served three 
 years, from 1884 until the Order disbanded. 
 On reorganization in 1887 she was made Senior 
 Vice-President and in 1800 was elected Presi- 
 dent. 
 
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 ^ R. Post 
 
 li^^HERON W. HAIGHT, Wauke-sha, 
 attorney and member of G. A. 
 'ost No. 10, also belonging to the 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, Wisconsin Com- 
 mandery, was born Sept. 14, 1840, in Jefferson 
 Co., New York. His parents, Morris and Lois 
 (Myrick) Haight, rei)resented New England 
 stock dating to the settlement of the country 
 and were both natives of Dutchess Co., New 
 York. The founder of the family in the 
 paternal hue came to America in 1629. In 
 1867 the family of the senior Haight removed 
 to Wisconsin where the son resided and wliere 
 
 they died respectively in 1870 and 1874. The 
 children were named Elizabeth, Elvira (de- 
 ceased), Cecilia (deceased), Maurice P., (a soldier 
 in the 28th Wisconsin Infantry who died at 
 Helena, Ark.) ; Charles S., (enlisted in the 95th 
 New York and died at Alexandria); Lois, (de- 
 ceased) and Tiieroii. .Mr. Haiglit is the youngest 
 of his father's family ; he received a good 
 elementary education and was instructed by a 
 private tutor, Dr. W. Paret, Bishop of the 
 Episcopal Church of Maryland (1890), who 
 prepared iiini for college, but he engaged in 
 teaching in the school of Dr. Paret and was 
 completing his studies at the date of the begin- 
 ning of the war. 
 
 He caught the infection of enlisting and 
 enrolled at Ellisburg, New York, May 3, 1861, 
 in Company K, 24th New York Infantry, and 
 was mustered 14 days later at Elmira. The 
 service of Mr. Haight represents one of the 
 elements of American youth which character- 
 ized the Union soldiers to an eminent degree 
 and which is rivaled by the records of no other 
 war in any country. He went through every 
 phase of it, and though slightly sick and several 
 times wounded, he did not leave the ranks for 
 the hospital. He was a prisoner and encoun- 
 tered the venom of rebel malice and witnes.sed 
 their atrocities. He went into the ranks and 
 rose by meritorious service through the several 
 grades to second place in his company. He 
 was made Corporal Jan. 1, 1862 ; Nov. 1, 1862, 
 he was promoted to Sergeant ; Feb. II, 1863, he 
 was commissioned 2d Lieutenant to rank from 
 Jan. 16, 1863, and wiis mustered as such Feb. 
 25, 1863; May 9, 1863, he was made 1st Lieu- 
 tenant to rank from March 30, 1863, and was 
 mustered out as such May 29, 1863, his term of 
 service having expired. Following is a con- 
 densed statement or outline of the service in 
 which he was a participant: he fought at 
 I Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., and was with liis 
 
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 (■onniiaiid on the skinnisli line and afterwards 
 in guard and camp duty from July 22d until 
 August; marched to C!enterville in the spring 
 of 1862 in the Manassas campaign ; was in the 
 Rappahannock campaign at Fredericksburg in 
 April, 1S62; went to Spottsylvania C. H., in 
 June and to Front Roj'al — Pope's campaign; 
 fought in the actions of Waterloo Bridge and i 
 Ford, Aug. 23-4, 1862 ; at Sulphur Springs on 
 the 2.5th ; at Gainesville on the 28tli ; at Grove- 
 ton on the 29th ; at 2d Bull Run on the 30th 
 and was there taken prisoner on the third day 
 of the tight. His comrades were on one side of 
 
 an embankment and the rebels on the other ; 
 
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 many wounded lay at the foot of the rise of 
 ground and the rebels, having exhausted their 
 ammunition, began throwing stones over, caus- 
 ing added injuries to the- wounded; Mr. 
 Haight mounted the embankment and remon- 
 strated with eflect, as the firing of missiles was 
 stopped, but he was captured and remained a 
 prisoner on the field until paroled Sept. 7, 1862 ; 
 he was not exchanged until December and : 
 reached his regiment again just as the battle of 
 Fredericksburg closed. He enjoyed the glory 
 and emoluments of the Mud Campaign in Jan- j 
 uary, 1863 ; went to fight at Fitzhugh's Cross- 
 ing, April 29-30 in another Rappahannock 
 campaign and fought in the disastrous battle 
 of Chancellorsville May 3d and 4th following. 
 In the battle of Bull Run he was slishtlv 
 wounded several times. During the period he 
 was in the war he saw some of the severest 
 fighting and had as little satisfaction of avail- 
 able service as possible, as that was an era of 
 probation to the Union troops, contending with 
 a foe who learned the application of fire arms 
 to every possible condition in life with the 
 introduction to the dignity of trowsers, and who 
 was inspired with a desperation a man bred to 
 ways of peace and equal rights can never know. 
 The service of the first year of the war can 
 
 never be fully set forth in all it involved to the 
 volunteer soldiers of the North. 
 
 Mr. Haight found that his parents were in 
 need of him, his brothers having both already 
 died in the service, and this prevented his re- 
 turn to the array. He devoted himself to 
 .study for a year, giving his attention especially 
 to modern languages — French and German — 
 and in 1864 he went to Waukesha f'o.. Wis., 
 and taught school one and a half years at 
 Mukwonago, going thence to Milwaukee where 
 he studied for his profession under the direc- 
 tions of Paine & Co., a leading law firm of the 
 Cream City. He was afterwards engaged as 
 teacher in the Spencerian College there for 
 some time and during the year 1868 acted as 
 City Editor of the Seiitind. In 1870 he became 
 proprietor of the Waukesha Freeman by pur- 
 chase and edited the same until 1876. For 
 two years after this date he was .secretary of 
 the Wisconsin Board of Charities and corres- 
 ponded with leading journals. In 1878 he 
 established his law business at Waukesha and 
 has since continued to conduct it with success. 
 In 1880 he acted as editor of the Milwaukee 
 i Sentinel; prior to and since that time he has 
 been prominently connected with leading 
 journals as correspondent. He sold the Free- 
 man to his brother-in-law and has since con- 
 tributed much editorial matter to its columns. 
 He belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows and 
 has served as Grand Patriarch of the State; he 
 has acted in the capacity of Justice of the 
 I Peace 10 years and has served as member of 
 County Board of Supervisors and other local 
 offices. His law business and newspaper con- 
 nections make his life a very busy and useful 
 I one and he enjoys all the activity his relations 
 with mankind luring to him. He has acted in 
 the capacity of Mustering Officer and Depart- 
 ment Inspector, also as .Junior Vice Commander 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, between 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 1882 and 1885, and was tlie first Department 
 Officer to arrange the proceedings of tlie Depart- 
 ment of Wisconsin for publication in pamplilet 
 form. He was mariied at ^[uk\\■onago, Wis., in 
 the spring of 1870 to Annie, daughter of Dr. II. 
 A. and Lucy (Andrews) Youmans, a native of 
 Mukwonago. Lucy, Henry, Frank P., Robert W., 
 Walter L. and Margaret, ranging from eigliteen 
 to two years of age, are the children of the 
 household of Mr. Haight and they ai-e a most 
 lovable little flock. An American home in 
 which are trained children to support and 
 revere the principles for which their father and 
 ancestors struggled, has no peer cm the earth. 
 Several members of the family ai'e connnuni- 
 cants in the Episcoj>al Cliurcli. 
 
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 AMES HENDERSHOT, Platteville, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. GO, Depart- 
 ment of Wisconsin, was born in the town 
 of which he is a resident, Sept. 5, 1846. His 
 parents, P. D. and Sarah (Buchanan) Hender- 
 sliot, are natives of Canada, and have resided 
 in Platteville since June, 1840, the father still 
 being in active business as a saddle, harness 
 and trunk maker, although he is in advanced 
 age. Following is the record of his children 
 of whom .James is the oldest. Rachel married 
 R. R. David and is a resident of Seattle, Wash- 
 ington; Sylvester lives at Platteville; P. D., 
 junior, is a teacher; Sarah married William 
 Lewis and lives at Aberdeen, Dakota. 
 
 James Hendershot was a student at Platte- 
 ville Academy and finisiied his education at 
 Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. He 
 is, by occupation, a saddle and harness maker. 
 He was a private of Company A, 50th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, enlisting Feb. 13, 1865, and being 
 discharged June 20, 18GG, having served in the 
 company of which Hon. John C. Spooner was 
 captain and in the regiment of whitli .loiiu G. 
 
 Clark was colonel. The command made a good 
 record, although it received unjust treatment, 
 being retained far beyond the close of the war in 
 service on the frontier in Dakota Territory. 
 
 The regiment was mustered at Madison, 
 Wis., and went to Missouri, where two months 
 were passed in duty in patroling the city of 
 St. Louis about the ilate of the assassination of 
 President Lincoln. The regiment was dis- 
 tributed at dilferent points in the State of Mis- 
 souri, guarding ferries, boats, towns, etc. Later, 
 Mr. Hendershot was assigned to duty as Orderly 
 at the headquarters of Gen. J. H. Beveridge at 
 KansasCity, and joined his regiment at Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas. During the stay tiiere the dis- 
 satisfaction among the regiments became great 
 and the 6th Virginia Infantry mutinied out- 
 right. The 50th Wisconsin was called out to 
 quiet their riotous conduct and this was the 
 nearest to a light in which the regiment was 
 called to participate. The 50th was ordered 
 thence to Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, where 
 the command arrived Oct. 9, 1865, and was as- 
 signed to duty in keeping the Indians in sub- 
 jection and in jirotecting navigation on the 
 Missouri River. May 27, 1866, orders were re- 
 ceived to move to Madison, Wis., for discharge 
 and Mr. Hendershot received release from 
 military obligations and returned home after 
 being mustered out of service June 20, 1866. 
 
 On his return to civil life at Platteville he 
 resumed business with his father as saddle and 
 harness maker. He was married at Platteville 
 in 1871 to Laura, daughter of Joel C. and 
 Caroline (Banfield) Squires. Their children 
 are named Mary, Sarah and Philip D. Mr. 
 Hendershot is Secretary of Mound City Engine 
 Co., No. 1, which is a part of the tire depart- 
 ment of Platteville. His wife is President of 
 the Woman's Relief Corps at that place. 
 
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 OUIS CLARK, Black River Fnlls, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post No. 92, was 
 '^ born July 23, 1842, in Chemung Co., i 
 New York, and his parents, Homer and Mary 
 Ann (Allington) Clark, were also natives of 
 that county. In the father's line the lineage is 
 from New York and in that of the mother from 
 New Jersey, and the several paternal ancestors 1 
 were boat builders. John, Louis, Mary, Ben- 
 jamin and Charles were the names of the chil- 
 dren of the family and the oldest son is not liv- 
 ing. The fatlier died in 1849 and the mother 
 married Calvin Vauglian, their children being 
 named Viola, Julia, Anna and William. After 
 the death of his fsither, Louis resided with his 
 uncle on a farm in Elmira, New York, until he 
 was 19 years old, when he became a soldier. 
 He enlisted June 11th, 1861, at Elmira, and was 
 mustered into U. S. service there in July in 
 Company D, 35th New York Infantry and on 
 the 11th day of the same month left camp for 
 the front, passing through Baltimore and going 
 into camp at Arlington Heights. Two months 
 were passed in building fortifications, drill and 
 camp duty, and in September, because of 
 efficiency of military understanding, the 35th 
 was placed in the advance in the activities. 
 The regiment was in a slight action at Taylor's 
 Tavern about 10 miles from ^Vashington and 
 after constructing a camp and defenses the 
 command went into winter quarters. March 
 10, 1802, the ootii started for Centerville and 
 took a foremost position in Wadsworth's brig- 
 ade, King's division and McDowell's corps, the 
 army returning to the Potomac and embarking 
 for tlie campaign of the Peninsula, the corps 
 being reserved for the defense of Washington, 
 and lying between that city and the rebels dur- 
 ing tlie campaign of that season. April 4th the 
 35th wentrto Falmoutli, and May 10th crossed 
 the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg and 
 moved on the 26th towards Richmond. Mr. 
 
 Clark was sent on account of illness to Mount 
 Pleasant hospital, and after a month to Rhode 
 Island, but through some unaccountable man- 
 euver was immediately sent back to convales- 
 cent camp at Alexandria and remained "in that 
 detestable place, without care, half fed for about 
 four months," when he was discharged, Nov. 17, 
 1862, at Washington, for disabilit3^ (He is of 
 the opinion that the treatment the sick received 
 in that hosjiital was not far removed from that 
 received by the Union prisoners at the hands 
 of the rebels). 
 
 He returned to his uncle's at Elmira, and 
 when partially restored to health engaged in 
 farming for the season of 1863. In the fall he 
 enlisted at Elmira in Company F, 86tli New 
 York Infantry, and, after a few days went to 
 the front to join the regiment with the recruits, 
 near Washington, the regiment being in the 
 2d Brigade, 3d Division and 2d Army Corps, 
 and went in the spring to the campaign of the 
 Wilderness, and Mr. Clark was in the successive 
 fighting at Spottsylvania, where he was 
 wounded by a rifle ball in the left hand. He 
 went to hospital at Baltimore, and after a few 
 weeks was discharged thence and placed on 
 garrison duty at Washington on the Virginia 
 side. In the fall he joined his regiment in 
 front of Petersburg and performed picket duty 
 at Fort Sedgwick through the winter. Among 
 the experiences there were the friendly ex- 
 change of jokes, tobacco and salutes with the 
 rebels, not excepting sometimes stray shots. 
 The rebels frequently amused themselves by 
 shooting Union soldiers who happened to put 
 their heads above the ritle pits, and it is no 
 wonder that Sedgwick was called Fort Hell. 
 Mr. Clark was in constant service in the 
 trenches before Petersburg and until the sur- 
 render of the city. He was in the action of 
 April 2d and followed Lee after the city was 
 taken in all the movements of his regiment 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 until the surrender at Appomattox. About the 
 date of that event Mr. Clark was again ill and 
 went to hospital in May to he disciiarged in 
 Washington about two weeks later, when he 
 returned home to Elmira. 
 
 After partially recovering his health he en- 
 gaged in farm work, going West in tlie fall of 
 1867 to Portage, Wisconsin, and passed two 
 years on a dairy farm. In 1869 he went to 
 Merrillan and engaged in lumbering and fann- 
 ing until 1876, when he settled at Black River 
 Falls, where he was similarly occupied until 
 1881, when he went to Clark county and pur- 
 chased a farm of 40 acres, on wliich lie remained 
 a year. He sold out and went to Millston and 
 opened a boarding house wliicli he managed 
 one year and went thence to Black River Falls, 
 wiiere he was in the employ of Hon. Wm. 
 Price ten years. He exchanged city lots for a 
 small farm on the border of the town of Albion, 
 wliere he is operating to improve a home and 
 bring liis land into Uie best possible condition 
 for small fruit culture. He is a Republican in 
 political connection and has always been a de- 
 voted adiierent to the Union. He receives a 
 pension. 
 
 He was married at Lawrenceville, Pa., in the 
 fall of 1863 to Harriet Higley, and their daugh- 
 ter, Mina, is Mrs. Artiiur Mason. Mr. Clark 
 was a second time married, at Black River Falls, 
 to Eliza, daughter of William and Margaret J. 
 Dodson, and she is an active member of the 
 Woman's Relief Corps. Tlie portrait of Mr. 
 Clark appears on page 796. 
 
 ^_ 
 
 
 W. NIKIIAL'.S. Commander of G. A. 
 ,^^ j^ R. Post No. 173. at Fennimore, Wis., 
 • Ills ))l;ice of residence, was l)orn in 
 Hanover, Cerinany, Aug. 4, 1846. His parents, 
 Hermann and Anna (Sumder) Niehaus, were 
 natives of Germany and the father was a tailor. 
 
 They had four children named Charles, Minnie 
 (deceased), Mary and Mr. Niehaus of this sketch, 
 who is the oldest cliild. The mother died in 
 1851 and the father determined to remove to 
 America, having three brothers there. The 
 family came to the New World in 1852, locating 
 in Platteville, where the senior Niehaus entered 
 the employ of his brother, who was a merchant 
 tailor. The father's death occurred in 1859. 
 Two of tiie children, who were still young, were 
 sent to St. Paul to the care of two uncles, while 
 the two oldest became members of the family of 
 their uncle, .John Niehaus, of Platteville. 
 
 Mr. Niehaus obtained a meager common 
 school education and was apprenticed to learn 
 the trade of a wagon-maker wiien 16 years old, 
 having previously obtained some knowledge of 
 the business of a tailor. He was occupied in 
 wagon making until he enlisted, which he did 
 May 5, 1864, in Company A, 41st Wisconsin 
 Infantry and was mustered at Milwaukee and 
 sent with his regiment to Memi)his. His duty 
 there was chiefly guard, camp and picket and 
 the only chance of a battle he had was when 
 Forrest visited the camp on one of his char- 
 acteristic raids. After that he continued in the 
 same line of duty as before until he received 
 discharge. The command had been sent to 
 Memphis, Teun., foi- that purpose and Mr. 
 Niehaus was there ill of chronic diarrhea, but 
 not going to hospital he was on picket and was 
 on his i)Ost when the first gun in the attack on 
 Memphis was fired. He received his release 
 from military duty Sept. 3, 1864. 
 
 On his return to Platteville he engaged in 
 work at his trade of wagon niiiking and was 
 thus occupied until lie again enlisted in Com- 
 pany K, 47th Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling 
 Jan. 30, 1865. His Captain was C. H. Baxter, 
 and Lieutenant, .Tohn (Jriiidell. The regiment 
 was mustered at Madison and .Mr. Niehaus ac- 
 companied the connnand to Louisville and 
 
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 Tullalioma, Tenn., wliere the regiment per- 
 formed garrison, guard, picket and other duty 
 until tlie close of the war. Mr. Niehaus was on 
 detached duty in the Commissary Department 
 for four months and received final discharge 
 Sept. 4, 1865. He tried to enlist to serve with 
 the 25th Wisconsin, in which he had many 
 friends, hut was rejected on account of youth. 
 
 He again liecame a private citizen of Platte- 
 ville and resumed work at his trade, going to 
 Annaton in the spring of 1866 and there 
 engaged in the same business. He went next 
 to Danville, 111., where he remained until Sep- 
 tember, 1867, occupied in wagon making. He 
 went back to Annaton, worked there three 
 years and then located at Fennimore, establish- 
 ing business there in his own interest. 
 
 He was married in the township of Liberty, 
 Grant county, in August, 1866, to Mary Smith. 
 She was born in Germany and of the children 
 liorn of this union two survive — Minnie and 
 Charles J. Mr. Niehaus is a charter member 
 of his Post. He has acted in various official 
 capacities in connection therewith prior to his 
 jiresent incundjency of Commander. His por- 
 trait appears on ])age 796. 
 
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 -$ 
 
 D. WOOD, Commander of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 184, resident at Black 
 ' Earth, Wis., was born Jan. 18, 1847, 
 at Morristown, New .Jersey, and is the son of 
 •foseph H. and Esther H. (Williamson) Wood. 
 His father was born in Rochester, N. Y., and 
 descended from Quaker stock, the mother being 
 a native of Norristown, and the daughter of 
 Henry and Esther Williamson. The family 
 reached Janesville, Wisconsin, on the first 
 passenger train that entered the place, and 
 removed 18 months later to Bad Axe county, 
 now \'ernon. The senior Wood was one of the 
 
 founders of Kickapoo, engaging in manufactur- 
 ing and removing in the fall of 1859 to Liberty 
 and was occupied in farming until 1861, when 
 a removal to Rochester, N. Y., was effected. 
 The son accompanied his parents thither and 
 enlisted from that city. (Prior to leaving Wis- 
 consin his fatber had assisted ".Jerry "Rusk 
 in organizing the first Masonic Lodge at Viro- 
 qua). He was a soldier in the Seminole war 
 and a man who took a deep interest in all 
 National affairs and when the civil war was 
 more than two years old, his patriotism took 
 him again into the ranks of the volunteer ser- 
 vice; he enrolled at Buffalo in Company C, 
 50tli New York 'Infantry, was injured at Bank's 
 Ford and sent to bospital at Rochester, whence 
 he was discharged for disability in February, 
 1864. The family went to Michigan that year 
 and in 1868 to Prairie du Chien, going thence in 
 1875 to Nebraska, where the father and mother 
 are still living. The former has been for many 
 years connected with the Christian Church and 
 has been a local preacher, leading that church 
 organization in Nebraska until incapacitated 
 from labor by increasing age. Mr. Wood is the 
 first-born of seven children. His brothers and 
 sisters were named Eva, Lillie, Esther May, 
 Melvin, Malcolm and Elmer. 
 
 While in Wisconsin, at the age of 14 years, 
 Mr. Wood enlisted in Company F, 8th Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry at Liberty, but his muster was 
 prevented by his father. When the household 
 authorities had gone he took advantage of the 
 opportunity and, while his father was serving 
 in Rochester as a recruiting officer, he sought 
 another official in the city and enrolled Aug. 1, 
 1862, in Company F, 50th New York Infantry. 
 He went to rendezvous at Elmira and was 
 rejected by the medical examiners, but allowed 
 to go b\' the commanding officer, although but 
 a little jiast 14 years old. He joined his regi- 
 ment at Fredericksburg and was immediately 
 
800 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 in action, his comrade being shot to death 
 under the first order to advance. lie was next 
 in action on tlic bloodiest tii-ld of tlie war to 
 that date — Chancellorsville, where he was 
 stunned by a shell and carried from the field 
 for dead. He was on duty at brigade head- 
 quarters until he had sufficiently recovered to 
 rejoin his command when he was transferred 
 to Company C, of the same regiment (Ajiril 5, 
 1863) and was made a musician, lie fought 
 in every action in which his regiment was 
 afterwards engaged and following is the outline 
 of his roster: — He was at Harper's Ferry when 
 transferred ; went thence on a seven-days' 
 march in Maryland without rations, which 
 hardship sent him to the hospital at Washing- 
 ton for two months ; he rejoined his regiment 
 in time for the movement to Rappahannock 
 Station and took ]iart in the sjiring campaign 
 of 1864, fighting in tlie Wilderness, (see Sta- 
 tistical History) at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, 
 North and South Anini,. Jericho Ford, Hanover, 
 Fort Powhattan, siege of Petersburg and ia the 
 events of the fall campaign, resuming connec- 
 tion with the movements of the sj)ring of 1865 
 and participating with iiis regiment in action 
 at Hatcher's Run and Five Forks, and was in 
 the battle of Sailor's Creek, marching into 
 Petersburg and following tlie rebels to the sur- 
 render of Appomattox. He was in the Grand 
 Review at Washington and returned to Elmira 
 for muster out in July, 1865. He was in the 
 detail at Petersburg which took charge of the 
 wounded and was in the hazardous work of 
 laying the pontoons across the James River, for 
 which he received the personal thanks of his 
 officers and a gift from his comrades. He was 
 only a boy in 1865 and was a general favorite 
 with his command for his courage and upright- 
 ness of character. He was one of the youngest 
 soldiers of the service and, although a musician, 
 carried his musket on every occasion, having 
 
 still his receipt for his equipments which he 
 turned over to the Government on the term- 
 ination of the war. His record is one of the 
 best. 
 
 In the same regiment with himself were en- 
 listed two meu named Riley, father and son; the 
 former was ill in hospital at Washington at tlie 
 same time as Mr. Wood, and his daughter. Miss 
 Lodema Riley, came there to care for hiui; 
 she also took an interest in her father's and 
 brother's friend, nursed him to health and 
 married him in Washington, Jan. 27, 1865. 
 She was born in Broome Co., New York. 
 After his release from military service, with his 
 wife, he went to his fatlier's in Hillsdale Mich., 
 in the fall of 1865 and in the spring entered 
 the employ of the Erie R. R. corporation at 
 Susquelianii;i, Pa., removing in 1868 to Praiiie 
 du Chien. in May, 1869, he went back to New 
 York, locating near Binghaintoii and becom- 
 ing a permanent resident of Black Earth, Wis., 
 in July, 1875. His occuj)atioii is that of a 
 worker in wood and he has other business 
 relations as a Notary Public and pension agent. 
 In the different places where he has lived Mr. 
 Wooil has always been connected with local 
 municipal affairs. He is a charter member of 
 Post No. 184 and was its first Commander, serv- 
 ing three terms as such. He is also promi- 
 nent in the Order of Good Templars and with 
 his wife, belongs to the M. E. Church. He 
 has made three trips South, one of which was 
 in pursuit of the health he lost there, in which 
 he was accompanied by liis wife for the same 
 purpose ; he went again to visit her parents 
 who reside there and another trip was made to 
 the old scenes, where he discussed tlie merits 
 of matters with old oi)ponents in arms. (It 
 should have been related in the proper con- 
 nection that the shell which struck him at 
 Petersburg, cut the visor from his caj> and 
 shaved off his eyebrows). Mr. Wood litis been 
 
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 several times a contributor to the columns of 
 the Washington National Tribune. To him 
 and liis wife several cliildreu have been born ; 
 Koswell, December 18, 18GS ; Bertie, May 23, 
 1870; Martin, Oct. 6, 1872, (died Aug. 22, 187G) 
 and Olive B., born May 22, 1875. The sons 
 are telegrnpii operators and are pi-oniising 
 young men. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. Wood, presented on 
 page 796, was taken wlien a boy .soldiur in the 
 service of the Union. 
 
 K^jI^ TEWART J. BAILEY, of Menomonie, 
 Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, 
 was born Feb. 13, 1838, in Miami Co., 
 Indiana, and is descended from a stock of long 
 standing in this country, whose generations 
 have been represented in ftiie several wars of 
 the Nation, his father, Stewart Bailey, having 
 fought in the Black Hawk war, and bis grand- 
 fatlier, Richard Bailey, having been a soldier 
 in 1812. The senior Bailey was born Feb. 20, 
 1813, in Cattaraugus county, New York, and 
 the mother and wife, Sail}' (Berry) Bailey, was 
 born in BuffiUo, N. Y., April IG, 1816, of Ger- 
 man and Scotch extraction. Tiieir 11 children 
 were named Melinda, Stewart, Wellington, 
 Clarke, Daniel, Caroline, Nancy, Olive, Sally, 
 William and Laura. In 1837 tliey located in 
 Indiana, wiiere the father took up a claim and 
 improved a farm on which he resided for many 
 years, and died in Allen, Miami count}', Feb. 
 14, 1879. His wife died Oct. 18, 1873. 
 
 The son worked with liis father on the farm, 
 and in making brick, until he was about 18 
 years old and obtained such schooling as was 
 possible in the interims of labor. When the 
 first call for 75,000 troops was issued, with his 
 brotlier Wellington, he started Sunday morn- 
 ing, Apiril 11th, to Plymouth, to open tiie busi- 
 
 ness of recruiting and, although the father was 
 a strong Methodist and lay preacher, he entered 
 no demurrer, when his sons, who iiad belonged 
 to a drum corps, started on the business named 
 with Captain 0. H. P. Bailey. They raised a 
 company of 120 men in about two weeks at 
 Plymouth, but the quota was filled before they 
 could ofl'er themselves and the I'ecruits after- 
 wards enlisted in other regiments. Mr. Bailey 
 went home to assist on the contract referred to, 
 but still gave his attention to recruiting until 
 September. He was one day engaged at work 
 when Lieutenant Warner of the 1st Western 
 Cavalry came in looking up recruits. After 
 some conversation Mr. Bailey struck his iiatchet 
 in a timber, remarking, "Stay there till the war 
 is ended" and enlisted in the 1st Western 
 Cavalry whicii was mustered as the 9th Illinois 
 Cavalry, Mr. Bailey entering Company G of 
 that organization, the Colonel being in the 
 regular service and State lines not so strictly 
 defined in recruiting as afterwards. The re- 
 cruiting was completed at Camp Douglas, 
 Chicago, where equipments were received and 
 in February, 1862, the regiment went to St. 
 Louis and thence to join General Steele at Iron- 
 ton, Mo. They performed cavalry duty until 
 removal to Jacksonport and joined General 
 Curtiss at Batesville and skirmished and fought 
 bushwhackers thereabouts until they moved to 
 Helena, Ark. On the way thither tliey fought 
 at Stannart's Plantation and Bayou Cache, the 
 command losing about 30 in killed and 
 wounded, and the enemy getting away as soon 
 as possible, believing the whole force of Curtiss 
 to be engaged. After this action Mr. Bailey 
 was promoted for meritorious service to 3d 
 Sergeant. He was taken sick on the march 
 and on the arrival was sent to the hospital at 
 Memphis, ill with flux and malarial disorders. 
 When a little better he obtained a furlough and 
 went to St. Louis, afterwards returning to 
 
802 
 
 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Helena to join his regiment in the latter part 
 of August. He accompanied the command to 
 the White River expedition, and when they 
 left the hoats at Napoleon, he was in charge of 
 the advance guard. A sudden turn showed 
 three strangers and, as each supposed the 
 others to be rebels, war was immediately 
 declared, which suddenly terminated when 
 Mr. Bailey found one of them was I^ieutenant 
 Noble, now Secretary of the Interior, who had 
 strayed from his command. After some skir- 
 mishing the command returned to Napoleon and 
 went thence to Helena, where Mr. Bailey was 
 again ill and was sent up the river to Keokuk 
 on a hospital boat. He remained from October 
 until January, 18(53, when he joined his regi- 
 ment at Helena, after having made iiimself 
 useful as an assistant in various departments. 
 On going to his connnand, he was placed in 
 charge of 60 men who belonged to dilferent 
 regiments and posts, and escorted them to 
 Springfield, where he turned over his papers 
 and charge and took a trip home. He rejoined 
 his regiment at Helena and soon after, while 
 on a raid after bushwhackers and guerrillas, he 
 was again taken sick about April 1st, and with 
 the regiment moved to Memphis, where he 
 passed some time in the liospital and again 
 found his regiment at Germantown, where he 
 was detailed to the Commissary Department, 
 the command being on the chase after Forrest, 
 scouting and .skirmishing on the Memphis and 
 Charleston railroad as far as Corinth. While 
 the regiment was encamped at La Grange in 
 August, Mr. Bailey was detailed as Chief of 
 Outposts, went tlience to Corinth and Poca- 
 hontas and back to La Grange. An attack was 
 made at Colliersville, Tenn., by Chalmers on 
 Sherman's regiment (13th U. S. Regulars) 
 guarding him as escort on his way to Chat- 
 tanooga, and the Uth Illinois Cavahy was sum- 
 moned to reinforce, following the rebels to 
 
 Wyatts, on the Tallahatchie, where a fight took 
 place. (See sketch of J. E. Pennefather). At 
 Colliersville the 9th was assigned to the IGth 
 Corps, and •2d Brigade under Hatch and went 
 on a raid through Western Tennessee, collect- 
 ing horses, mules and supplies in advance of 
 Forrest. December 4th tlie regiment w'as in a 
 fight with Forrest at Salisbury, following him 
 to Moscow to fight again and returned to Col- 
 liersville. A combined effort was made to put 
 an end to the depredations of the guerrilla , 
 chief, but it failed and Forrest attacked Com- 
 pany G, at Lafayette ; the company held the posi- 
 tion until help arrived, the balance of the regi- 
 ment with infantry reaching the place to drive 
 Forrest out. With Colliersville as headquarters, 
 they scouted, skirmished and foraged through 
 the country until spring, and prepared for the 
 raid planned for February to drive the rebels 
 out of that section and break rebel communi- 
 cations preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. 
 Feb. 11, 1864, the regiment started through 
 Mississippi and passed a night in Aberdeen 
 with Forrest five miles away, and the army 15 
 miles distant. The time was one of great anx- 
 iety, but the troops came up next day, moved 
 to Prairie Station, went thence to West Point 
 and met Forrest at that place. At Okalona, 
 Feb. 22d, Forrest attacked the command, routed 
 the 1st and 3d Brigades and stampeded the. 
 trains (which were nearly captured). The 2d 
 Brigade arrived and held the rebels in check 
 until night when a retreat was made. During 
 the action Mr. Bailey w-as wounded in the leg 
 by a minie ball. The regiment went into camp 
 at White Station and there veteranized, Mr. 
 Bailey going to hospital atMemj)his and joined 
 his regiment in June, 1864, at Memphis and 
 was detailed as clerk in the Commissary Depart- 
 ment. When the regiment went to German- 
 town he was made color bearer, and he was 
 next in the expedition to Tupelo and fought in 
 
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 all tlie actions of that raid. In August he went 
 to La C4range, Holly Springs and Oxford, 
 fought at Hurricane Creek, August 13tli, and 
 was in a skirmish nearly every day with For- 
 rest until tlie Memphis raid. Mr. Bailey's time 
 expired and he was sent to Springfield for mus- 
 ter out Sept. 23, 1864. 
 
 He went to Bourhon and worked as a con- 
 tractor until 1808, when he went to Menomonie, 
 and after three years weut to Miami Co., Ind. 
 After the great fire he went to Chicago, spent a 
 year there and another year in Indiana, return- 
 ing in 1873 to Menomonie to locate perma- I 
 nently. He was married Dec. 30, 1862, at Bour- 
 bon, Ind., while at home on a furlough to Mary, 
 daughter of John Cott, and their children are 
 named Harry B. and Naomi. The wife died j 
 in December, 1871, and, April 5, 1874, he was : 
 married at Peru, Wis., to Amanda Cott; their 
 children were named ^'erna, Pearl, Ruth and 
 Grace. Verna and Ruth died young. Mr. ; 
 Bailey is a Republican in politics and served 
 as member of the Council from April 10, 1884, 
 to April 10, 1886. In 1888 he was elected to 
 the Assembly of Wisconsin and served two 
 years. He was a member of the Wisconsin 
 National Guards five years and in 1884 was 
 Commander of his Post; he has served two 
 years as Adjutant. In 1888 he was Secretary 
 of the Soldiers' Relief Commission; he belongs 
 to the A. 0. U. W. 
 
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 ICHARD W. CAPEN, Black River 
 Falls, Wis., Chaplain of G. A. R- 
 Post No. 92, in 1890, was born Nov. 
 11, 1833, in Allegany Co., New York, and is 
 the oldest of two children born to his parents, 
 Allen and Caroline (Piersons) Capen, the for- 
 mer a native of New York of Dutch lineage 
 and the latter of English and Irish extraction. 
 
 His sister Sylvia died at the age of eighteen. 
 His ftither was a miller and a citizen of good 
 position in his county, dying Nov. 11, 1835. 
 The mother married Edward Crowell, moving 
 afterwards to the Territory of Wisconsin, set- 
 tling in Walworth county in tlie town of Bloom- 
 field in 1842. When he was eight years old 
 the .son was adopted by Mr. Preston Denton 
 with whom he lived until he was 14 when he 
 went to New York and attended school, re- 
 maining there about a year when he went 
 West and engaged as a sailor on the lakes. 
 This was his occupation four seasons and in 
 1852 he engaged in farming in Kenosha county 
 until 1860, when he went to Black River Fails 
 and purchased a farm, engaging also in lum- 
 bering on the Black and Mississippi Rivers. 
 
 Oct. 19, 1861, he enlisted and was mustered 
 into U. S. service .Jan. 2, 1862, at Fond du Lac 
 in Company I, 14th Wisconsin Infantry. He 
 was in rendezvous at Camp Wood" when the 
 regiment was ordered to the front and he 
 accompanied it, although he was sick from 
 disease of the lungs, having been dangerously 
 ill when mustered. His illness continued and 
 he was finally discharged at Vicksburg, Nov. 6, 
 1863. He returned home and was in poor 
 health for a long time but determined again to 
 enter the service and in the spring of 1865, 
 March 6th, he enlisted and was mustered into 
 Company H, 48th AVisconsin Infantry at Mil- 
 , waukee as Corporal. Soon after the eight com- 
 panies mustered in were sent to St. Louis, Com- 
 pany H going finally, after moving to Sedalia 
 and Paoli, to Olathe, Kansas. Mr. Capen was 
 there detailed with an independent command 
 with headquarters at Kansas City to look after 
 Quantrell and bushwhackers generally and 
 went thence about September 6th to Fort 
 Earned to help keep the Indians in subjection. 
 In December the company broke camp and 
 went to Leavenworth to be mustered out Dec. 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 30, 1865, and went thence to Madison to be 
 relieved from State military obligations. July 
 11, 1865, he was made 5th Sergeant. 
 
 On his return to Black River Fallshis health 
 was very much impaired but he resumed, as 
 soon as able, his farming and lumbering and 
 he has been engaged to a considerable extent 
 in the cultivation of strawberries. He is tlie 
 owner of a small home farm under excellent 
 improvements within the corjioration, and also 
 owns 200 acres of land near the town. He is a 
 Republican of active proclivities and exerted 
 his influence for Harrison in the campaign of 
 1888. As a campaign orator he is magnetic 
 and convincing. He is deeply interested in 
 Grand Army matters and is a thorough worker 
 for the interests of the Order. 
 
 He was married in March, 1852, at Wheat- 
 land, Wis., to Emma, daughter of Arnold and 
 Catherine Slosser and they have had 7 child- 
 ren: — Sylvia, John, Benjamin and Betsy, 
 (twins), Clara, Joseph and George (twins), and 
 Sylvia and John arc deceased. The mother 
 died in 1877, and Mr. Capen was again married 
 Feb. 25, 1883, to Louisa Collister and they 
 have two children — Tliurman O. was born in 
 1SS4 and Flossie in 1887. Mr. Capen is a 
 member of the Masonic Lodge No. 72. 
 
 ^y^'WAAAM 8. HOLMES, La Crosse, 
 I'mf// Wis., Adjutant of G. A. R. Post 
 No. 38, (1890), was born July 29, 
 1842, in .Jefferson Co., Ohio, and his parents, 
 William and Eliza (Voorhies) Holmes, were na- 
 tives of the same State of Irish parentage ; the 
 father was born in 1810 and the mother in 
 1815. The former died at Galena, 111., in 1862, 
 and the latter at La Crosse in March, 1881. 
 The family removed to the West in 1846 and 
 located in Cialena willi nine children named 
 
 John T., Lafayette, Sarah Jane, Lucinda, Lou 
 Emma, William, Eliza, James and Isadore. 
 Only Sarah Jane and Isadore are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Holmes received a good common school 
 education and became interested in lead mining 
 in Galena in which he was occupied at the out- 
 break of the war. July 30, 1862, he enlisted 
 at Galena in Company A, 96th Illinois Infantry, 
 and was mustered at Rockford, September 5tli. 
 Tlie Colonel was Thomas E. Champion and 
 Isaac L. Clarke, Lieutenant-Colonel. The 
 formation of the regiment was of citizens of 
 more than ordinary standing, the professions 
 and trades being represented and the grade of 
 culture iu the ranks was a fact of which the 
 command was proud and which, it was believed, 
 was the .source of the (piality of tlie fighting 
 done by the 96tli Illinois. The regiment left 
 the State for the front, journeying via Cincin- 
 nati, Lexington, Danville and Harrisl)Urg and 
 at the latter place was attached to tiie reserve 
 of the Army of the Cumberland, the Division 
 Commander being Gen. Gordon Granger. 
 Months were passed in marching over the 
 rough roads and mountains of Tennessee, 
 ihasing Bragg and skirmishing occasionally. 
 Ill the sjiring of 18(')3 the regiment made con- 
 nection with Rosecrans' army at Nashville and 
 received orders to move to Franklin, where 
 they encountered Van Dorn's stragglers and in 
 June went to Triune to join the commands 
 which were consolidating for the Chit-kamauga 
 campaign. Tiie 96th went into camp at Tulla- 
 homa and was in reserve when the battle of 
 Chickamauga was j)recipitated. By strategy in 
 a Hank movement, Rosecrans com]ielled Bragg 
 to retreat, his communications being threatened, 
 but the rebel was re-inforced and enabled to 
 take the offensive. Rosecrans fell back to Chat- 
 tanooga, tried to re-unite his three corjjs, and 
 ordered the reserve forward. The 96th 
 hastened along the slope of Lookout Mountain 
 
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 and Imlted at Roseville Gap, at the foot of 
 Mission Ridge. Rosecrans had distributed his 
 trooi)S in a manner which iiad widely separated 
 the force and wliile they were endeavoring to 
 form a junction to establish a line of battle on 
 Chickamauga Creek, where the attack could be 
 successfully met, on September ISth, the re- 
 serve distinctly heard the cannonading which 
 told that the rebels were preparing for attack. 
 The reserve received orders to hold the position 
 at the gap which was done at severe cost. In 
 tiie morning of the 19th the cannonading was 
 again heard and the reserve lay on their arms 
 through Saturday night and on the Sabbath 
 morning were in arms for action. Orders were 
 awaited impatiently, the animus of the war 
 operating even at that distance, when they 
 knew their fellow soldiers were in hot and con- 
 tinued action. None came and finally. General 
 Steadman, Division Commander, determined to 
 move towards the main army, fearing the battle 
 was desperate if not a losing one to the Union 
 troops. They met rebel cavalry which they 
 dispersed and hastened on over a field covered 
 with dead and wounded, halting on the edge 
 of an open field ; they formed in column and 
 started across in a storm of shot and shell. 
 General Thomas saw them and said: "If this 
 is the enemy we are lost; if it is the reserve we 
 are saved." And here Mr. Holmes was first in 
 set battle in which he fought from morning 
 until night and the Army of the Cumberland 
 was saved and went to the intrenchments on 
 tlrtl Chattanooga. The loss of men and officers 
 of the 96th was terrific, among them being 
 the Lieutenant-Colonel. Tuesdaj', September 
 22d, the command of Mr. Holmes went to 
 Moccasin Bend opposite Lookout and remained 
 until the arrival of Hooker with the 11th and 
 12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Thence 
 they went to Bridgeport and to fight at Lookout 
 Mountain, going afterwards to Shell Mound, a 
 
 month later to Chattanooga, and in the spring 
 joined the troops of Sherman for the Atlanta 
 campaign. They were first in action at Buz- 
 zard's Roost, and Mr. Holmes fought there, and 
 next at Resaca, going thence via Snake Creek 
 Gap, and there the regiment lost heavily. He 
 was in the actions at Cassville, Kingston, New 
 Hope Church and Big Shanty, and afterwards 
 in the fights known as Kenesaw Mountain, 
 being under fire almost constantly from June 
 11th until the 30th. The losses were heavy in 
 this campaign and the troops followed the 
 rebels to tlie Ciiattahoochie River. Mr. Holmes 
 was again in action at Peach Tree Creek, went 
 to the investment of Atlanta, and was with 
 Sherman in the flank movement designed to 
 frighten the rebels out of the city. He was 
 in the fighting at Lovejoy's and .Jonesboro, 
 afterwards camping in the city. He was next 
 in the pursuit of Hood, who started to occupy 
 Chattanooga, but the Union command reached 
 there first at great risk. Hood took Big Shanty 
 and Ackworth and threatened Allatoona, and 
 here occurred the famous signal dispatch from 
 Sherman at Kenesaw Mountain to Corse at 
 Rome to reinforce saying, "Hpld the fort, for I 
 am coming." The command went by rail to 
 Columbia and encountered Hood in a slight 
 engagement on the river, then moved to Frank- 
 lin, formed in line of battle and went from that 
 field to Nashville, following Hood to Hunts- 
 ville; Hood lost his command, being superseded 
 by Beauregard. The comnaand of Mr. Holmes 
 went to Knoxville and thence to camp, next 
 receiving orders to connect with Grant's army 
 in the East, starting to march through West 
 Virginia, and at Shields' Mills receiving intelli- 
 gence of Lee's surrender, wiien the regiment 
 was ordered to Nasiiville, for muster out, June 
 10, 1865. Mr. Holmes was discharged and paid 
 oft' at Chicago. 
 
 He returned to Galena and resumed business 
 
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 in lead mining and afterwards in steaniboating 
 on tiie Mississippi River. He alternately en- 
 gaged in these occupations seventeen years, and 
 about 1680 engaged in conimission business at 
 La Crosse. July 1, 1889, he was appointed 
 Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in the 
 Fourtb Division, Second District of Wisconsin. 
 He was married May 2, 1807, to Francis H., 
 daughter of William and Calista Norris, of 
 Galena. Their children are Mabel N., Sadie, 
 Raymond, Blaine and Russell. Mr. Holmes is 
 a member of the Masonic Order and a Repul)- 
 lican of decided type. 
 
 /^^ EORGE DELOS PHINNEY, Milwau- 
 l A,^ j l ' ^ kee, Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
 ^*~--^ Post, George C. Drake, was born April 
 5, 1848, in Williamson, Wayne Co., New York. 
 He is of pure American origin, liis parents, 
 Philander and Fanny (Cady) Phinney, being 
 descended from stock connected with the earlj' 
 history of the country. He w'as in early child- 
 hood when his family removed to Wisconsin 
 and when he was 13 years old his father en- 
 listed in the 7tli Wisconsin Infantry, Company 
 A, and the son enrolled in the capacity of a 
 musician in the same organization, although 
 only thirteen years old. With tlie exception of 
 a little more than a year tiie history of the 
 "Iron Brigade" is his own. He rendezvoused 
 at Camp Randall, passed the first winter at 
 Arlington Heights and was in the advance on 
 Manassas in the spring of 1802. In April he 
 went to Falmouth, took part in the operations 
 around Fredericksburg, and went to Cedar 
 Mountain after the battle there and assisted in 
 the burial of tlie dead. He was in a sharp .skir- 
 mish at Rappahanock Station and went next 
 to Sulphur Springs, prej)aratory to the great 
 action at Gainesville. Company A lost 30 men 
 
 in killed aiKl wounded in a little more than an 
 hour. He was in the skirmishing and other 
 operations prior to the second battle of Bull 
 Run and after that action was with his com- 
 mand in the movement to Manassas .Junction, 
 the brigade covering tlie retrograde. While 
 caring for the wounded there, he was injured 
 by concussion from a shell, and was, with difH- 
 culty restored to consciousness. He was next 
 in the severe fighting at South Mountain, where 
 his father sustained a serious wouml in his foot 
 and was the first man from his company men- 
 tioned in the reports. The soldiers of the "Iron 
 Brigade'' were specially commended for bravery 
 in that action. Afterwards, Mr. Phinney was 
 detailed to accompany the wounded from the 
 fields of South Mountain and Antietam to Phil- 
 adelphia and was occupied in caring for them. 
 Nov. 19, 1802, his father was mustered out for 
 permanent disability, and the son also received 
 his discharge, on account of his extreme youth, 
 being then only fourteen years of age. He 
 returned with his father to Lodi, Columbia Co., 
 Wisconsin, where he remained until Dec. 28, 
 1863, when he re-enlisted in his former com- 
 pany and regiment, rejoining the command at 
 Culpeper C. H., where his regiment was in 
 winter quarters. He was then a veteran 
 although but 15, and performed military duty 
 until the openingof the spring campaign, when 
 he went with the brigade to participate in the 
 campaign of the Wilderness. He fought at the 
 first action May 5th and (Kb, and on the second 
 day received a slight wound and was sent with 
 200 other injured men to Fredericksburg. All 
 who could stand on their feet marclied thither, 
 and on the route encountered a squad of Mos- 
 l)y's guerrillas, who represented themselves as 
 belonging to the 8tli Illinois Cavalr}'. The 
 frauil being apjiarcnt, one of tlie wounded sol- 
 diers fired, killing a man and the rest dispersed. 
 The "200" were among tlie earliest to arrive at 
 
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 Washington from the Wilderness after a march 
 of three days without food. Mr. Phinney went 
 to the Germantown hospital and to Convales- 
 cent Camp July 5, 1864. While at Alexandria, 
 General Early made his rai<l on Washington, 
 and Mr. Phinney was among those who left the 
 Camp to repel the attack. He sustained a 
 severe wound in his left arm while fighting 
 with conspicuous gallantry. He received hon- 
 orable mention for his conduct b}' Col. Geo. W. 
 Gile, commanding the force, and was made 
 captain by brevet by Governor Fairchild. He 
 was nmstered out as sucli, leaving the service 
 Oct. 8, 1864, finishing his military career with 
 honor when 16 years of age. He has since 
 been a resident of Milwaukee. He was married 
 July 31, 1863 ; the children of that union who 
 survive in 1890 are Frank, Robert and Maggie 
 May. Delbert died when ten years old. Mr. 
 Phinney was a second time married May 27, 
 1888, in Milwaukee to Mary, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Helen Eggleston, who was born in 
 Michigan in 1860. 
 
 Mr. Phinney is a member of the Order Royal 
 Adelphia, Carpenter Conclave No. 17, and also 
 belongs to the Odd Fellows; he is a Republican 
 who is still on the aggressive for the principles 
 of the party under which he served as a soldier 
 and which cost him the loss of an arm. 
 
 ICTOR WOLF, Eau Claire, Wis., 
 charter member of Eagle Post No. 
 52, was born Dec. 28, 1824, in Kuep- 
 penheim, Baden, Germany, and his father and 
 mother, George and Margaret (Haas) Wolf, 
 were the parents of five children named 
 .Joseph, Genevieve, Thomas, Elizabeth and 
 ^'ictor. Both died in Germany and the son 
 Victor joined his brother Thomas in the United 
 States in 1840. He found him in Williams- 
 
 burg, New York, and Iiis first labor was with a 
 brick manufacturer. In August after his 
 arrival he was ill and went to New York City, 
 afterwards obtaining employ at his trade of 
 
 j shoemaking in Greenwich street. Feb. 23, 
 1847, he enlisted in the regular service, sup- 
 posing that he was enrolling for the Mexican 
 war. He was mustered for five years and sent 
 to Governor's Island, wiiere he was assigned to 
 duty with a command on the island perma- 
 nently established there, through an error of 
 the interpreter, who stated that he desired to 
 remain there instead of going to Mexico. He 
 remained in that connection until 1850, per- 
 forming Sergeant's duty and greatly dissatis- 
 fied. Finally, througli the aid of Lieutenant 
 
 I afterwards General Buckner of the confederate 
 service, he was transferred to the 4tli U. S. 
 Artillery for the Florida service. He started 
 for that campaign in May, 1850, on a sailing 
 vessel to Tampa Bay and marched thence to 
 Fort Meade. On joining his command he was 
 assigned to- Company H, and for a month per- 
 formed guard dut}' and scouted. The com- 
 mand went tlience to Key West to be in readi- 
 ness for the filibusters should they stop on 
 their way from Cuba, where that class of pirates 
 were making themselves interesting. After 
 three months the command returned to Fort 
 Hamer, Fla., and in the fall went to Governor's 
 Island. Soon after the company was sent to 
 Fort Johnson, N. C, and thence to Fort Niagara, 
 New York, and were there two years. The 
 next transfer was to Fort Ontario at Oswego, 
 N. Y., where Mr. Wolf was discharged Oct. 10, 
 1856. He was promoted to 1st Sergeant in the 
 spring of 1851. After the expiration of his five 
 years' enlistment, he enrolled again as such, 
 and served until Oct. 10, 1856. 
 
 After leaving the service Mr. Wolf went to 
 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and entered the 
 emj)loy of Governor Tallmadgc, with wlio.se son 
 
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 he had been in the service. He worked as a j 
 
 form assistant tliere until -Tuly, 1858, when he : 
 bouglit a team and, with a wagon and his 
 family, went to Eau Claire. (During his con- 
 nection with the service he was hurt while 
 moving a cannon and secured a pension through ' 
 the aid of General Scott). He supported his 
 familj' by aid of his team until he enlisted 
 July 7, 1861. September 10th he was mustered I 
 in Company C, 8th Wisconsin Infantry and, on 
 organization was made 1st Lieutenant of the 
 company. He was on recruiting service for the 
 command and, while filling up his company, 
 he secured the eaglet that subsequently became 
 famous as " Old Abe." Some Indians had 
 brought the eaglet to the river and sold it for a 
 bushel of corn. A man named Mills .leffery 
 l)urchased it for $2.50 and presented it to the 
 company then recruiting, and called the Badg- 
 ers of Eau Claire. Mr. Wolf caused the name 
 to he changed to the Eagle Company and 
 named the bird " Old Abe." 
 
 October l'2th, the regiment left the State for 
 Benton Barracks, St. Louis, went thence to 
 Pilot Knob on guerrilla service and whipped 
 Jeff Tliompson, October 21st. The command 
 aided to chase the rebels into the Arkansas 
 swamps and went later to Sulphur Springs, 
 Mo. There Lieutenant Wolf obtained a fur- 
 lough and went home, afterwards rejoining the 
 regiment at Cairo. He performed provost duty 
 there until March, 1862, and went tlience to 
 fight at New Madrid, went next to Point Pleas- 
 ant and for some time was in activities on the 
 river with the rebel gunboats. On the 
 evacuation of Island No. 10, the command went 
 to the Kentucky siiore to intercept the fleeing 
 rebels and took about 2,000 pri-soners with 
 small arms. While at Point Pleasant, Lieutenant 
 Wolf had been detailed as Adjutant of the regi- 
 ment. While on the Kentucky side of the 
 river he took a ride to the rear and discovered 
 
 the rebels trying to land a section of their bat- 
 tery out of the mud. He galloped towards 
 them and in a loud voice ordered a charge on 
 the double-quick, as if he had a large force at 
 command. The rebels cut the traces of their 
 horses, abandoned their battery and dashed off. 
 He rode back to the command, took two men 
 and brought in the battery. Po)>e ordered his 
 command to go to Tiptonville and thence to 
 Fort Pillow, but on the way an order was re- 
 ceived to go to the vicinity of Pittsburg Land- 
 ing to re-inforce Grant, but the action was over 
 and the regiment went to the siege of Corinth. 
 A fight occurred at Farmington in which Caji- 
 tain Perkins was killed and Mr. Wolf ap])]ied 
 to be relieved from the duties of AdjuUint. 
 This was finally done and he acceded to the 
 captaincy of his company. May lltli. The 
 regiment operated in Tennessee and Mississippi 
 through the summer and in the spring of 1863 
 joined Grant's army for the Vicksliurg cam- 
 paign. They were in the operations of the 
 spring months, digging canals, building roads, 
 marching to various points and fighting at .lack- 
 son. The regiment was on the extreme right 
 of Sherman's command on the Yazoo River 
 and after leaving that position the 8th went to 
 Richmond, La., and routed a force on the way 
 to re-inforce the rebels at Vicksburg. After 
 j the fall of Vicksburg the decimated command 
 went to Camp Sherman, about 18 miles from 
 Vicksburg and in the fall went to Memphis. 
 In the spring the regiment was assigned to the 
 force of General A. J. Smith to go to the Red 
 River expedition and Captain Wolf was detailed 
 Provost Marshal with the command, by special 
 request of General Mower, connnander of the 
 18th Corps. He operated in this position until 
 he was discharged. He returned from the ex- 
 pedition to Memphis and received his veteran 
 furlough. After passing it in AVisconsin he 
 joined the army in August, 1864, at Memphis 
 
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 and was afterwards in service after Price in 
 Mississippi. In September lie was detailed to 
 escort the non-veterans and asked for a dis- 
 charge. Bnt the commander was unwilling to 
 release him as his valuable services were greatly 
 needed. He held to his rights to discharge 
 and believed he could re-enlist afterwards if he 
 desired. He obtained leave of absence and 
 escorted tlie non-veterans to Wisconsin. He 
 was taken sick at home and was finally ordered 
 to join liis regiment to receive discharge, but 
 being unable to do so he was mustered out 
 March 27, 1865. 
 
 In 1865 he engaged in handling freight from 
 Sparta to Eau Claire in winter and in summer 
 operated his quarry, until 1878. In 1870 he 
 established a 'bus line and in 1880 the livery 
 business, having had the Government contract 
 for carrying the mails to and from the depot 
 from 1870 — nearly 20 years. The livery busi- 
 ness he has turned over to his sons and is pre- 
 paring to press his quarrying operations on his 
 hind in the vicinity of Eau Claire, wliere he 
 owns 160 acres. He was married in July, 1848, 
 in the city of New York to Ann Laughlin. 
 Their children numbered seven — Elizabeth, 
 Cecilia, Ada, Lillie, John J., George T. and 
 William. Originally, Captain Wolf was a 
 Democrat but changed his political views dur- 
 ing the war and has since been a consistent Re- 
 publican. He was elected in the spring of 
 1890 as a member of the City Council of Eau 
 Claire, to represent the Eighth Ward. 
 
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 /^^ G. CRISTMAN, :\I. D., Spring Green, 
 
 =* Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 9, I 
 at Baraboo, Wis., was born in Her- 
 kimer, New York, Jan. 26, 1839. He is de- 
 scended from German ancestors who were early 
 settlere in the Empire State, the founders of the 
 
 family in the several generations being soldiers 
 and officers in the Indian wars and in the 
 Revolution and 1812. They also entered the pro- 
 fessions and many became prominent through 
 distinguished ability. John and Catherine 
 (Schell) Cristman belonged to the agricultural 
 class in their native State of New York where 
 they passed their lives. They reared seven 
 children named Catherine, Margaret, Dorothy, 
 Urias, Anna Melissa, E. G. and Mary. All are 
 living in their native State excepting Dr. Crist- 
 man. 
 
 He passed his life prior to the age of 15 on 
 his father's farm and at that age he went to 
 school at Oxford, and taught and studied alter- 
 natel}' until his academic course was completed. 
 At 18 he began the study of medicine, which 
 he finished in New York city and, before he 
 took his degree, he enlisted in September, 1862, 
 in the 152d New York Infantry. He was 
 mustered as " unassigned " and on going to the 
 front was made hospital steward. On report- 
 ing for duty at Washington the regiment went 
 to camp at Chain Bridge and thence to Wash- 
 ington three months later to perform provost 
 duty, leaving the city in April, 1863, when the 
 regiment was ordered to report at Suffolk, 
 \'irginia, and went on a raid towards Peters- 
 burg, driving Longstreet back and went next 
 to Yorktown, starting for the rear of Richmond 
 during the fighting at Chancellorsville, the 
 plan of that campaign being the capture of 
 Richmond while the rebels were operating on 
 the Rappahannock, but they were driven back. 
 On the retreat from White House Landing, the 
 regiment was under incessant firing and Dr. 
 Cristman was next in the movement for the 
 field of Gettysburg, but the command failed to 
 cross the Potomac and received orders to pro- 
 ceed to New York to aid in quelling the draft 
 riots. After this duty was done they returned 
 to the Army of the Potomac and were in service 
 
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 until the close of the war. Following is a 
 roster of the battles iu which Dr. Cristman was 
 a particii)ant : Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. II., 
 Cold Harbor, North Anna and in the desultory 
 operations around Petersburg through the sum- 
 mer and fall of 1804 and the actions on 
 Hatcher's Run, at Five Forks, Little Sailor's 
 Creek, fall of Petersburg, pursuit of Lee to the 
 close at Appomattox, meanwhile being ill and 
 going to hospital at City Point, and went North 
 until recovered, when he rejoined his command. 
 He was in the Grand Review and was mustered 
 out near Alexandria and afterwards out of State 
 service at Albany, N. Y., and discharged Aug. 
 17, 1865. While acting as hospital steward. 
 Dr. Cristman was in charge of all hospital 
 stores and soon after was examined and made 
 Assistant Surgeon of hi.s regiment, continued 
 his clerical work and after the close of the war 
 accounted to the proper authorities for all sup- 
 plies consigned for the use of the command. 
 He also filled his position as Assistant Surgeon 
 through all the vicissitudes attending that 
 branch of the service, the chief surgeons failing 
 to retain their ])ositions through the exigencies 
 of hard work and want of rest. He also acted 
 as brigade surgeon, every other individual 
 having any medical knowledge, being at one 
 time di.sabled. 
 
 After discharge he matriculated at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 
 City and took his degree from that institution, 
 afterwards practicing in New York 18 months. 
 Old army troubles making his liealth precarious 
 he went to Minnesota and thence he went to 
 Loganville, Sauk Co., Wis., in the spring of 
 18GS and returned to New York after a busi- 
 ness at Loganville of more than 20 years to 
 visit old scenes and in the winter of 1889 estab- 
 lishing his practice at Spring Green. 
 
 He was married Oct. 16, 1869, to Martha E., 
 daughter of William 11. and Ann Amelia 
 
 (Brook) Lewis, a native of Illinois. Their chil- 
 dren are named Frank P., Lenora, E. R., Edgar, 
 Eva M. and Alida Amelia. Two died in early 
 youth. Dr. Cristman is fast securing the con- 
 fidence of the community in his profession and 
 socially. He has been prominent in political 
 connections and officiated as Chairman of the 
 Town Board seven years. He has been several 
 times Congressional delegate and served in 
 other municipal relations. He belongs to the 
 Orders of Masonry and Odd Fellows, l)eing a 
 member respectively of Fraternity Lodge No. 
 58 and Western Lodge No. 100, at Reedsburg. 
 
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 "Tp<jg^ EXKY C. KOCH, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 ""Iivxnl*" one of the leading architects in the 
 
 -^ ^ Northwest and a member of G. A. R. 
 Post No. 1, was born March 30, 1841, in Han- 
 over, Germany, and was brought to America 
 by his ])arents, Albert and Sophie (Koehne) 
 Koch, in the year following his birth. He has 
 Ijeen a resident of Milwaukee, .so to speak, all 
 his life, and his father died in that city in 1857. 
 His mother survives (1890) at advanced age. 
 His parents fully realized the importance of 
 education in their adopted country and the son 
 received an academic training. He learned the 
 details of his business as an architect through 
 private instruction of the best class and in prac- 
 tical office work, understanding the value of 
 devoting his energies to the acquirement of the 
 vocation in all its details and thruugh which 
 trait of thoroughness he has been enabled to 
 construct a reputation of paramount character. 
 He was engaged in the pursuit of his business 
 when the excitement of 1862 in Milwaukee in 
 regard to the progress of the war relegated 
 every private consideration to the rear, as no 
 man knew whether he would have a country 
 wherein to press his interests or those of his 
 
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 I'iUiiily, ami Mr. Kocli determined to go to the 
 front, and wlietlier he made a good soldier or 
 not, lio could manifest the quality of his citizen- 
 ship and demonstrate his willingness to test 
 the fate of war in his devotion to the interests 
 of a united country. He enlisted Aug. 18, 1862, 
 in Conijwny B, ■24th Wisconsin Infantr\'. He 
 drilled in rendezvous at Camp Sigel until mus- 
 ter, which was completed Aug. 21st and until 
 September 5th, when he went to Kentucky with 
 the regiment and at Louisville the command 
 was assigned to the 37th Brigade, Colonel Greu- 
 sel, and the 11th Division under Sheridan. He j 
 served with the regiment about six weeks, 
 when his abilities in his profession becoming 
 known to Sheridan, he was detailed on his staff 
 at division headquarters in the capacity of 
 Topographical Engineer and served with him 
 four years, remaining with him a year after the 
 close of the war. Before he severed his con- 
 nection with military life, General Sheridan 
 sent him the following letter which covers tlie 
 work he did, its quality and extent throughout 
 the whole period of his service. It is given 
 verbatim: 
 
 "New Orleans, La., March 24, 1866. Mr. j 
 Henry C. Koch, Milwaukee, Wis.: — Dear Sir; I 
 take pleasure in acknowledging the very valua- 
 ble services rendered by you to the Govern- 
 ment in the Engineering Department at my 
 headquarters during the last four years. The 
 maps of the different battle fields which have 
 been executed by you would, for accuracy of 
 detail and beauty of finish, reflect credit upon 
 the most experienced in your profession. It is 
 with regret that I take leave of one who has 
 proved himself to be so efficient and faithful at 
 all times. I am. Sir, Yours truly, P. H. Sheri- 
 dan. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A. (Headquarters Mili- [ 
 tary Division of the Gulf)." ' 
 
 Upon leaving military life, Mr. Koch returned 
 to Milwaukee and immediately established his 
 
 present business relations, which he has con- 
 ducted with eminent credit and in a manner 
 wliich has added greatly to the renown of Mil- 
 waukee for the beauty of her public structures 
 whose construction he has jilanned and exe- 
 cuted. He was only l(i when he commenced 
 to acquire a knowledge of liis business, and 
 about 25 when he established the firm of H. C. 
 Koch & Co., and the house has been chiefly 
 engaged in the construction of public build- 
 ings in Milwaukee, at Oshkosh, Madison and 
 in other places in Wisconsin and other States. 
 His business relations are immense, and his 
 establishment is the leading one of its kind in 
 Milwaukee. Prominent among the public 
 buildings of Milwaukee, constructed under his 
 directions is the Soldier's Home; others are the 
 State Insane Asylum at Oshkosh, the Stale 
 University buildings at Madison, and court and 
 schoolhouses in various localities. His busi- 
 ness is located in the New Insurance building 
 where he has quarters suitably fitted with all 
 modern and imj^roved appliances of his craft 
 and where he directs the operations of a retinue 
 of assistants. A visit to his rooms affords all 
 the satisfaction and profit expected in a museum 
 of curiosities. The specimens of drafting are 
 wonders in themselves and would be works of 
 artistic beauty even had thej- no practical use. 
 Mr. Koch was married in 1869 in Milwaukee 
 to Johanna, daughter of David and Wilhelm- 
 ine (Milbrath) Knob, and they have four chil- 
 dren, named Armand D., Ella, Harry G., and 
 Daisy. The oldest son is a student at the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. 
 Koch is a charter member of E. B. Wolcott 
 Post at Milwaukee, and helcftigs to Kilbourn 
 Lodge and Chapter, A. F. and A. M. 
 
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 ■p^r J. WALL, M. D., Richland Center, 
 
 'If^r ^^ '®' i"^"^^*''" ^^ ^- ^^- ^^- ^^^*' ^°- 
 
 JL ^.33, was boni July 12, 1844, in 
 Ithaca, New York. His parents, John and 
 Jane (Hall) Wall, were natives respectively of 
 Ireland and New York, ami tliey lived in the 
 latter State after marriage, rearing two children, 
 one of whom was a daughter named Elizabeth, 
 still living at \'an Ettenville, New York, the 
 wife of M. D. Cantield. Dr. Wall was educated 
 in Ithaca, at Washington Academy and in 
 Geneva College, enlisting while engaged in the 
 study of medicine in the fall of J 863, at Oswego, 
 New York, in the 21st New York Cavalry and 
 was soon after commissioned as Commissary 
 of Subsistence. As he had not conij)leted his 
 studies he could not obtain a surgeon's com- 
 mission but he was active in raising his regi- 
 ment which was mustered at Elmira, New 
 York, and after being sent to the front on the 
 Potomac Kiver, was placed on picket duty with 
 headquarters at Halltown below Harper's Ferry. 
 l)i'. \\'all was willi lii.s comuiand at this point 
 several months, went thence to Cornersville, 
 Md., performed guard and picket duty on the 
 B. &. 0. R. R., and joined General Sigel's forces 
 at Martinsburg, Dr. Wall having charge of 
 (~)rd nance and Subsistence stores. At the 
 beginning of the forward movement he received 
 instructions to forward the condemned stores to 
 A\'ashington and afterwards, with his detach- 
 ment reported to General Moore at Martins- 
 burg on guide and scout duty in command of 
 about 20 men ; he carried dispatches to Gen- 
 eral Sigel, went on the following day with that 
 General on a forced march, rei)orting to his 
 regiment in the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the 1st 
 Division and was again placed in charge of the 
 Ordnance and Subsistence Department. In that 
 capacity he went with Sigel uj) the Shenandoah 
 N'alley to Newmarket where he remaineil on 
 duty at brigade head(juarters until September, 
 
 1864, when he received orders to report to 
 cfivision headquarters and was assigned to 
 same duty as before, remaining until sometime 
 in October. At that date General Sheridan 
 ordered him to report to himself near Middle- 
 town ami he was there performing his duty 
 when the battle of Cedar Creek was fought. 
 After this action Dr. Wall returned with Gen- 
 eral De Sha and his stafl', intending to make 
 Martinsburg : the doctor was with the escort 
 and while on the way rode some distance 
 ahead of the General and staff who were over- 
 taken bv the rebels and captured. Onlv this 
 cliance action of Dr. Wall in riding forward 
 saved him from a similar fate and the capture 
 was only discovered when the General and 
 staff failed to reach die city. At .Martinsburg 
 Dr. Wall received orders (o go to I'leasant Val- 
 ley, where he received, inspected and forwarded 
 army stores until tiie surrender of Lee and 
 Johnston, when he was ordered to report to the 
 Commissary General at Washington, where he 
 was assigned to duty on the defenses below the 
 city in the same capacity. He finally prepared 
 his last report and turned over the stores at 
 Alexandria to the proper authorities and re- 
 mained in service in Washington until his 
 resignation June 19, 18G5. 
 
 He returned to Ithaca and went thence to 
 Elmira, where he read law for a time and 
 afterwards went to Minnesota where he engaged 
 in the practice of medicine at St. Paul. In the 
 spring of 1870 he established his business at 
 Fort Atkinson, Iowa, and went to Richland in 
 the fall of 1875, where he has since been 
 located. In 187'J he attended lectures at Rush 
 Medical College in Chicago, taking an advanced 
 course. He was married in Rock county. Wis., 
 in February, 1869, to Cora, daugiiter of Brad- 
 ley and Lucretia (Ilowse) Plato, a native of 
 Wisconsin. Two daughters, Catherine and 
 Jennie now belong to the family. Dr. Wall 
 
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 has been an active political worker in Wis- 
 consin and Minnesota, serving on the State 
 Central Committee, but has never been himself 
 a candidate for office. He is Surgeon of liis 
 Post in 1890 to which office he was elected by 
 acclamation. He belongs to the Medical Asso- 
 ciation and to the Minnesota Medical Associa- 
 tion, to the Masonic Fraternity and to the 
 Order of Redmen. His ability, skill, learning 
 and experience have given him a large practice 
 and many friends and adherents. 
 
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 OBERT H. DELAP, M. D., Richland 
 Center, Wis., member of the Assem- 
 bly of Wisconsin in 1888-9, and Com- 
 mander of G. A. R. Post No. 35, at Viola three 
 terms, was born near Monroe, Green Co., Wis., 
 Sept. 26, 1846, where his father, R. M. Delap, 
 was settled as a minister of the M. E. Church. 
 The latter was born in Illinois and married 
 Melvina Nice, a native of Indiana. The ances- 
 tors of the senior Delap had lived for genera- 
 tions in the State of New York, whence the 
 father removed to Green county, going thence 
 to Richland county in 1853, and, afterwards 
 going to Sauk county where the mother died 
 in 1861. June 1, 1863, the father enlisted in 
 Company B, 30th Wisconsin Infantry, and died 
 of disease Jan. 17, 1864, at Madison. Dr. Delap 
 was tiie only son, and was only 15 years old 
 when his mother died. When he was about 
 16 years old, Aug. 16, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company G, 33d Wisconsin Infantry, was mus- 
 tered at Camp Utley, Racine, and sent to Mem- 
 phis, whei'e the regiment performed camp duty 
 for a time and followed Grant under Sherman 
 in his plans for the southern camj)aign at Mcks- 
 burg. They were at Yocono Creek, falling 
 back after the disaster at Holly Springs and 
 then going to that place where Dr. Delap was 
 
 taken sick and sent to La Grange, joining his 
 regiment at Natchez and going thence to the 
 siege of Vicksburg. Dr. Delap was in the in- 
 vestment there until the surrender, and his 
 next movement was to Jackson. In February, 
 1864, he went to the Meridian expedition, 
 participated in the work of destruction which 
 made that movement a success and was in con- 
 stant skirmishing until the command returned 
 to near Vicksburg after a march of nearly 400 
 miles. The force was detached from the 17th 
 Corps in March and transferred temporarily to 
 the Red River expedition, the regiment being 
 under fire forty days and fighting at Fort de 
 Russey, Grand Ecore, Springfield, Plea.sant Hill, 
 Cloutierville, Cane River, Moore's Plantation 
 and Marksville, returning to Memphis to go to 
 fight at Tupelo, being sent out to recover ground 
 lost at Guntown through the defeat of Sturgis. 
 The expedition was successful, and after return- 
 I ing to Memphis the regiment went up the 
 White River to Duvall's Bluff and Brownsville 
 after Price, moving later to St. Louis prepara- 
 tory to reinforcing Thomas at Nashville, and 
 after the fight there followed Hood across the 
 Tennessee river. Dr. Delap was with the escort 
 to Grand View and after leaving winter quar- 
 ters went to New Orleans, crossed Lake Pont- 
 chartrain and went to the rear of Spanish Fort 
 and performed gallant service in that siege 
 under constant fire until the evacuation; went 
 thence to Blakely, and up the river to Mont- 
 gomery, receiving en route news of the assassin- 
 ation of Lincoln. Dr. Delap was next at Tus- 
 kegee, guarding negroes, went to Montgomery, 
 Salem and \"icksburg, and after muster out, 
 Aug. 8, 1865, returned to Madison. Dr. Delap's 
 service was eminently creditable to his charac- 
 ter as he served in the ranks and persistently 
 refused promotion. 
 
 He returned to Boscobel, where he began at 
 once to .study for his pi'ofession, obtaining 
 
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 througli his own efforts the means to pursue 
 liis studies, clerking at Viroqua until 1871, 
 when lie removed to Viola, Richland county, 
 where he resided until January, 1889, the date 
 of his removal to Richland Center. He pur- 
 sued his medical studies as he found opportu- 
 nity and entered the College of Pliysicians and 
 Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and took Iiis degree 
 in 1880. He served 14 years as a .Justice of 
 the Peace, and in 1884 was a member of the 
 County Board. He belongs to G. A. R. Post 
 No. 85, and is captain of John A. Logan Camp, 
 Sons of Veterans. He is the Secretary of the 
 Examining Board of Surgeons at Riclilaud 
 Center. Dr. Delap is a man who deserves and 
 receives the highest esteem of his generation, 
 his private character being stainless and his 
 public career a credit to his manhood. He was 
 married in May, 1869, to Laura Kate, daughter 
 of Dr. E. W. and Mary (Nelton) Tinker, a na- 
 tive of Perry Co., Ohio. Myrtle M., Carrie 
 Verne, Kate and Robert IL, are the names of 
 the children belonging to the family. 
 
 
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 K^vv.^x WIGHT WOOD, Monroe, Wis., mem- 
 
 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 112, was born 
 June 16, 1833, atSmithfield, Madison 
 Co., New York. His father, Stephen Wood, 
 married Betsey Loveland and they had six 
 children all of whom are living (1890) except 
 one named Elizabeth. A. L. Wood enlisted in 
 Company H, 8th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
 discharged for disability after two years; he re- 
 enlisted in Company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavv 
 Artillery and served nearly two years. Maria 
 was tliinl in order of birth and married Richard 
 McGoon ; William, B. L. and Dwiglit are the 
 others. BotJi father and mother belonged to 
 New England stock, identified with the first 
 history of Die country. Tiiey moved to Mercer 
 
 Co., Pa., in 1840, locating on a farm and four 
 years after went to Exeter, Green Co., Wis., and 
 finally removed to Monticello, whci'e the father 
 died in 1879 at the age of 78 ; the mother died 
 in Pennsylvania in 1840. Mr. Wood found 
 himself obliged to take care of himself after 
 coming to Wisconsin, assuming tlie responsibili- 
 ties of self-maintenance and self-training when 
 11 years old. He worked summers and for his 
 ; board winters, going to school and since the 
 age mentioned he has lived in Exeter and 
 Mount Pleasant until 1887, when he moved, 
 September 1st, to Monroe. He has operated 
 most of the time in the two-fold capacity of 
 farmer and mason. He was married in 1858 
 at Mount Pleasant to Rosella, daughter of 
 Hiram and Priscilla (Moody) Heath man. She 
 was born in 1843 and lier parents were natives 
 of Ohio ; she is one of several children and the 
 eldest; the others are Hiram, Valinda, Elmus, 
 Clarissa, Samantha and George. All are living. 
 The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood numbered 
 eight, two of whom died young. Six are living 
 and are Edward, Jeanette, Adelaide, Albert, 
 Ida and Almeda; Henry died at six and Elma 
 at three years of age. 
 
 Mr. Wood enlisted from Madison and was 
 credited from Montrose in August, 1864. He 
 enrolled in Company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy 
 Artillery, was nmstered at Madison and went 
 thence to Fort Berwick, La., where the battery 
 was stationed about six months on garrison 
 duty. They went next to Brashear City and 
 remained in garrison duty until the spring of 
 1865, when all who needed medical treatment 
 were ordered to report North. Mr. Wood was 
 among those and he went to Marine Hosjiital, 
 New Orleans, sick witii dianliea and sore eyes. 
 He was transferred to Marine Hospital at 
 Memphis, going on a hospital i^oat to St. Louis 
 and tlience on the "Jennie Hopkins" to Prairie 
 du Chieii, wlicre he was placed in Swift's hos- 
 
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 pital until discharged July 29, 1865. He re- 
 turned to Monticello and two years elapsed be- 
 fore lie was able to work. He bought a farm 
 which he occujiied four years, sold it and 
 bought another in Mount Pleasant which he 
 occupied one year. He sold again and bought 
 in the immediate vicinity of Monticello and 
 after three years ho removed to Monticello, re- 
 taining ownership of his farm. He resided 
 there about 14 j'ears when he fixed his resi- 
 dence at Monroe. His health is such that he 
 is able to do little labor. He is a man of ex- 
 cellent character. 
 
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 KUGH HALL, Columbus, Wis , mem- 
 ^ l)er of G. A. R. Post No. 14G, was 
 born Jan. 14, 1843, at Plymouth, 
 Windsor Co., Vermont. He is of English ex- 
 traction in both lines of descent, his father and 
 mother, Daniel and Maria (Brown) Hall, having 
 been the descendants of ancestors of that na- 
 tionality. The families of both were residents 
 of New England from its earliest history and 
 the parents went to Wisconsin and to Columbia 
 county in 1842. The children, named in order 
 of birth were Sarah A., Ralph, Galen, Hugh, 
 Jonathan, Winfield and Addison. They were 
 brought up on the farm in Columbia county 
 which was the home of Mr. Hall of this account 
 until be became a soldier at the age of 19 years. 
 Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted at Columbus in Com- 
 pany G, 23d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Gup- 
 pey, and has the pride and .satisfaction of having 
 belonged to a command which elicited the 
 widest praise for efficiency and bravery in 
 action. (See sketch of Colonel John J. Guppey). 
 He was mustered at Madison, Aug. 30, 18G2, 
 and left the State September 15th for the front 
 in the north of Kentucky where Kirby Smith 
 was causing much terror with his guerrillas 
 
 who threatened the invasion of that territory 
 and of southern Ohio. The army was moving 
 to fight at Perryville, whither Buell's forces 
 were hurrying after worrying the rebels who 
 were there for purposes of obtaining supplies, 
 and the 23d remained at Covington and vicinity 
 until after the battle of Perryville, when the 
 regiment moved through Paris, Lexington and 
 Louisville to Nicholasville and thence in 
 November to Memphis to join the command of 
 Sherman. Grant's plans were being formed for 
 the possession of Vicksburg and after con- 
 nection with the 1st Brigade, 10th Division and 
 13th Corps the command went to the interior 
 of Louisiana on a raid of destruction of stores 
 and railroads. Mr. Hall was with Sherman in 
 the Yazoo expedition and his first battle was 
 fought at Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863. Jan- 
 uary, February and March were principally 
 devoted to raiding expeditions with such of the 
 regiment as were fit for duty, manj- men being 
 sick from exposure to malaria, and many dying. 
 The 23d moved with the forces of Grant to the 
 rear of Vicksburg, crossed below Grand Gulf, 
 which had proved too much for the force which 
 expected to silence the batteries and compelled 
 the landing at Bruinsburg. The regiment was 
 in the fight at Port Gibson and took possession 
 of the place, holding it as provost guard through 
 the day. Afterwards the command moved to 
 the Big Black River and was next in the action 
 at Champion's Hill, fighting next in battle 
 known as Black River Bridge, where the regi- 
 ment captured the 60th Tennessee Infantry. 
 May 19th the command was within three iniles 
 of the works at Vicksburg and continued in the 
 siege proper until the surrender. Mr. Hall was 
 under rebel fire continuously for 48 days, and 
 went immediately after the fall of Vicksburg to 
 fight Johnston at Jackson. The next orders 
 for change of base took the regiment to New 
 Orleans and thence to Berwick City, La. In 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 an expedition in southwest Louisiana the regi- 
 ment passed tlirough Franklin to VerrailHon 
 and tlience througli Opelousas, fought at Bayou 
 Barbeaux and went after a severe action to liglit 
 at Carrion Crow Bayou. In tlie former engage- 
 ment Colonel Guppey, whose bravery was 
 lieralded all over the world, was wounded. At 
 Carrion (.'row Bayou the regiment mustered 
 less than 300 guns and after their first volley 
 65 rebels were killed or wounded. With others 
 of the regiment Mr. Hall was taken prisoner 
 and taken to Alexandria and tliere confined in 
 an old sugar mill for a month. While there 
 he tried to escape but nearh' lost his life when 
 retaken. The prisoners were taken to a camp 
 in the woods and there held until exchanged. 
 Mr. Hall was in durance two months when 
 paroled and exchanged which was effected near 
 Opelou.sas, La. While on the way to exchange 
 the prisoners were corralled like cattle in a 
 barnyard in which was a sink-iiole filled with 
 carcasses and of this the men were obliged to 
 make u.se although a clear stream ran rippling 
 within earshot. After exchange Mr. Hall went 
 to New Orleans and to Matagorda Bay, Texas, 
 where he found his regiment. In the spring 
 of 18G4 the regiment went to tiie Red River 
 expedition with Banks, marched to Pleasant 
 Hill and to fight at Sabine Cross Roads where 
 the expedition received its,deatb blow and Mr. 
 Hall was twice wounded. He received a bullet 
 in his left forearm and through his right hand. 
 After his wounds were dressed he was sent 
 from the field hospital to the U. 8. Hospital at 
 New Orleans. The night preceding the fight 
 he had marched until 11 o'clock and was called 
 out two hours later to go into action, was in the 
 ranks all the following day and the next night 
 marched 18 miles on the retreat, with his hands 
 bleeding incessantly and weak from want of 
 rest and loss of blood, but, remembering his 
 experience in a rebel prison he managed to 
 
 keep up with the lines, fearing capture. When 
 he was better he received a furlough home and 
 rejoined his command at Morganzia. Soon 
 after he was in a skirmish at Bayou Sara in 
 which the man in the rank before him was 
 killed, a sliell shattering his head and covering 
 Mr. Hall with blood and brains. The next 
 movement was to Helena and thence to New 
 Orleans, preparatory to moving to the defenses 
 of Mobile, going to Dauphin Island and thence 
 to Spanish Fort, taking position in tiie trenches 
 after a severe march and over obstructions of 
 the worst possible character. After a few days 
 the command went to assist at Blakely and 
 supported the charge which resulted in the 
 capitulation of the fortress. The regiment re- 
 mained in Louisiana and Alabama until dis- 
 charged at Mobile, July 4, 1865, and returned 
 to Wisconsin. 
 
 Mr. Hall went to Minnesota for a .«hort time, 
 and returned to his old liome where he engaged 
 eight years in farming. He went to Madison 
 and engaged with a wholesale house as travel- 
 ing salesman, handling windmills and agricul- 
 tural implements. In 1884 he established his 
 business in the same line and has built up a 
 prosperous trade in pumps, windmills, drilling 
 machines and agricultural implements. He 
 was married in the town of Hampden, Colum- 
 bia Co., Wis., in 1875, to Ellen M., daughter of 
 Edward and Mary (Long) Fairbanks and their 
 children are named Mabel and Blanche M. 
 Mr. Hall is .Junior \'ice Commander of Frank 
 A. Haskall Post in 1890 and is a member of 
 the Order of Modern Woodmen at Fall River. 
 He is a Republican and has served as delegate 
 to county and State Conventions. He is 
 Deputy Sheriff of Columbia county. 
 
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 '^^^^^f^^ILUkU MILES, Reedsburg, Wis., 
 nM' member of G. A. R. Post No. 13, 
 li^aL was born Oct. 6, 1832, near 
 Springtiekl, Oliio. His father, John Miles, was 
 a native of Virginia and married Lucinda, 
 daugliter of Major Spencer Smith, a veteran of 
 tlie war of 1812, and an officer in command of 
 a battalion at New Orleans, serving through 
 the entire secoufi war with Great Britain. 
 William Miles, paternal grandfather of Mr. 
 Miles, was a soldier of 1812 and a descendant 
 from English ancestry ; in the maternal line 
 the lineage of Mr. Miles is of Holland origin. 
 
 His father's family included six boys and 
 one girl named in order of birth, William, 
 John, George C, David B., Spencer, James and 
 Minerva J. Tlie record of iVmr of these sons 
 shows the patriotic cjuality of the blood they 
 inherited as they served in the cause of the 
 Union during the civil war. George was a 
 soldier in Company A, Gtii Wisconsin Infantry 
 and was killed in action at South Mountain, 
 Sept. 14, 1862 ; Spencer was a soldier in Com- 
 pany B, 12th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
 killed in the charge at Atlanta July 21, 1864; 
 he was Orderly Sergeant of his company ; 
 James was First Sergeant of Company B, 12th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded July 21, 
 1864 in the charge of Bald Hill, in which his 
 brother was killed and he lost an arm ; he re- 
 sides at Reedsburg. Minerva is unmarried. 
 
 Mr. Miles was trained in a knowledge of his 
 father's calling, that of mason, while a lad and 
 early in life became an assistant in sustaining 
 the fortunes of the family. In the full of 1853 
 he went alone to Wisconsin whither the famil}- 
 followed in a few months and in the summer 
 of 1854 a homestead was fixed at Reedsburg. 
 Mr. Miles located on coming to Wisconsin at 
 Madison, where he entered a law ottice to com- 
 plete a course of study for that profes.sion which 
 he had begun in his native State. After re- i 
 
 j moval to Reedsburg he studied under the 
 direction of J. Mackey, an attorney of that place, 
 and was admitted to the Bar in 1856, to prac- 
 tice in the subordinate courts and afterwai'ds 
 was admitted to all the State courts of Wiscon- 
 sin. On establishing his business as an attor- 
 ney at Reedsburg he formed a partnership 
 witli Giles Stevens, their relations continuing 
 until both members of the firm entered the 
 army. Mr. Miles enlisted in March, 1862, in 
 the 12th Wisconsin Battery, Light Artillery, 
 and on the organization was made Junior 1st 
 Lieutenant. The battery went from rendez- 
 vous to St. Louis, the men being sent forward 
 in squads to .Jefferson Barracks where they 
 received equipments — guns and horses — and 
 the section to which Lieutenant Miles belonged 
 was sent thence May 6, 1862, and was first in 
 action at Farmington ; he went tlience to the 
 siege of Corinth and engaged in the work 
 which made the command prominent in that 
 campaign. He was in the chase after the 
 rebels afterwards and in the subsequent opera- 
 tions of the battery until the fight at luka, in 
 which he was one of those who were warmly 
 commended for splendid service. He was 
 again in action Oct. 3d and 4th at Corinth 
 where the battery again distinguished itself. 
 He remained with the command until failing 
 health compelled his resignation which was 
 accepted and by the advice of the regimental 
 surgeons and others he went to Ohio to recruit 
 his health if possible and as soon as he reached 
 the Buckeye State the enthusiasm and activity 
 prevailing led him into the recruiting service, 
 in which he was invested with full authority 
 from the War Department to muster in or out 
 of any organization in the volunteer service, 
 with headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. He re- 
 mained in this until the close of the war, when 
 he formed a buf-iness connection as an attorney 
 at Wapakoneta, Ohio. He reached prominence 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 in citizenship and in his profession, serving the 
 municipality two terms as Mayor, Police Justice 
 and Judge. He removed to Reedsburg on the 
 demise of his parents, wliere he re-estahlislied 
 his business on a permanent and profitable 
 basis, and he pursued its relations until failing 
 health com[)eiled him to abandon the heavier 
 duties of the vocation. In 1887 lie was elected 
 Justice and has since attended to the duties of 
 that position. He is unmarried. Lieutenant 
 Miles is justly considered as one of the reliable 
 citizens of Reedsburg, where he iuis been iden- 
 tified with the best interests of the place and 
 community. His character is above reproach 
 and his abilities and learning as a jurist have 
 made him a foremost member of the legal 
 fraternity in his section. He has served in 
 official positions in his Post and be belongs to 
 the Masonic Order at Reedsburg. 
 
 nr^REDERICK TIES, Spring Grove, 
 ' I v'/^ Green Co., Wis., a member of G. A. R. 
 -*^ Post No. 90, is one of tlie leading citi- 
 
 zens of his locality. He was born .Jan. 4, 1841, 
 in West)>halia, Prussia, and is the son of Henry 
 Thies (which is the family name as originally 
 spelled) who was a farmer in his native land 
 an<l was a government official of the dass of 
 foresters, his father, Carl Thies, occupying the 
 same position in the confidence of the Slate. 
 He was born July 25, 1796, and was thirteen 
 years old when Napoleon was pushing his 
 schenjes in that portion of Europe. Carl Thies, 
 a brother of Henry, was a sharpshooter in the 
 Government service and was appointed for- 
 ester according to the laws and customs of the 
 country; his son Carl was also a soldier and 
 was made Secretary of the Foresters' Depart- 
 ment. He is deceased. The mother of Mr. 
 Ties, Sophia Mideka before marriage, was born 
 
 in 1804 and married in 1.S2G. With her hus- 
 band, six daughters and two sons she came to 
 America. Two children are deceased; Henry 
 P. died in November, ISSS, in Spring Grove; 
 Sophie, eldest daughter, Mrs. Lentz, died in 
 1881 at Spring Grove. Louisa is tlie wife of 
 Mr. Arnsmeier; Wilbelmine nu\rried Fred 
 Tbilka of Stevenson Co., Ill; Josephine married 
 Fred Waldhoof, of Westphalia, Prussia, village 
 of Lathe, formerly Lippe Detmold. Elizabeth 
 married Philip Heitken, of Gratiot, Wis.; 
 Amelia married Henry Bechmeier, of Stevenson 
 Co., 111., a former soldier of the civU war. The 
 family removed directly from the port of New 
 York to Spring Grove, and located on a farm 
 in July, 1S5S, where they passed the remain- 
 der of their lives. Prior to entering the army 
 Mr. Ties was a farm assistant in the vicinity 
 of his parents' home, excepting a few weeks 
 passed in school. He had already obtained a 
 good education in the schools of Prussia. Oct. 
 16, 1861, he enlisted from Pedee in Company 
 B, 18tb Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered 
 at Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee, and left the 
 State March 30th for St. Louis whence they 
 went to take position at Shiloh, arriving there 
 without rations and without equipments for 
 comfort. They went to their tents without 
 food and went into action the next morning 
 without warning, without experience and with- 
 out rations. It was a terrible experience; at 
 the close of the fight of the second day less 
 than 250 men were fit for furtiier service, the 
 remainder being killed, wounded or missing, 
 and the Colonel, James S. Alban, was dead. 
 The partial roster of the battles of Mr. Ties is 
 as follows: — Siege of Corinth, luka, Corinth, 
 Lake Providence and Jackson. In the last 
 named action he was wounded through the 
 hand and went to the hosj)ital; the troops moved 
 away and left their wounded without protec- 
 tion, and they were taken prisoners by the 
 
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 rebels May 1(), 1863. Uefore this he was in 
 every movement with his regiment, going 
 November 3d, after Corinlii to Grand Junction 
 and thence, on the "iSth to Yocono, soutli of 
 Holly Springs, and thence to Moscow, Tenn. 
 In January he went to the field of preparation 
 for the siege of Viclcsburg and worked as a 
 laborer on the levees and canals besides per- 
 forming liis regular military duty. He was 
 paroled soon after his capture, held two weeks 
 and taken to Richmond, where he remained 
 one night at Libby; thence he went to City 
 Point and Annapolis, where his wound received 
 medical treatment, and he was sent thence, 
 when sufficiently recovered to Parole Camp at 
 St. Louis to await exchange. When this form- 
 ality was effected he joined the command at 
 Huntsville, Ala., where he veteranized and, 
 re-enlisting as a private was made Corporal. 
 He was afterward commissioned 2d Lieuten- 
 ant, and, although not mustered, served as 
 such until his discharge. When Sherman en- 
 deavored to reinforce Roseci'ans at Chattanooga 
 he left the 4th Minnesota, 93d Illinois and 
 ISth Wisconsin to guard the pass at Allatoona 
 and to protect the large quantity of supplies 
 there. Hood sent French to attack the garri- 
 son, but he had mistaken the character and 
 purpose of the men who held the position. 
 Only 1,500 Union men withstood the assault of 
 6,000 rebels but when French sent a truce flag 
 asking for surrender to avoid bloodshed Corse 
 replied that when he surrendered not a man 
 would be left of his command. Every avaiilable 
 man was in the fight, officers, cooks, teamsters 
 and every soul had a gun and used it with 
 such effect that at nightfall the rebels fled in 
 disorder leaving nearly as many on the field 
 as the numbers of the Uniou command com- 
 prised. History saysof Alatoona Pass: — There 
 was never a more gallant action. One field 
 officer survived the fight. The veterans then 
 
 had an opportunity to take their furlough, 
 which was impossible at the time of re-enlist- 
 ment and Mr. Ties passed 30 days at home re- 
 joining his command at Newbern, N. C, whither 
 he went from Annapolis, the Grand March 
 across the State of Georgia having been made 
 and Mr. Ties first saw Sherman at Goldsboro 
 after taking leave of his command for a visit to 
 Wisconsin. From Goldsboro they went to 
 Raleigh where intelligence of- the murder of 
 Lincoln and the surrender of Lee was received, 
 and on the 2Gth of the same month Johnston 
 laid down his weapons of rebellion. Mr. Ties 
 accompanied the command on the march 
 through \^irginia and to Washington and after 
 the Grand Review went to Louisville, camping 
 at Woodlavvn until mustered out July 18, 1865. 
 
 He returned home and purchased his farm 
 on Spring Prairie on which he has since 
 resided. He was married Dec. 13, 1863, at 
 Spring Grove to R. A. Eminger, a lady of that 
 place and a native of New Ashland Co., Ohio, 
 who died' Jan. 16, 1884, after becoming the 
 mother of seven children, named: — Abbie S., 
 Sept. 29, 1866; Harriet F., Oct. 16, 1868; 
 Nellie J., Sept. 23, 1870; Mary C, Feb. 21, 
 1873; Allethe J., March 24, 1875; James 
 R., Sept. 13, 1877; Fred M., April 18,1880; 
 Harriet died March 18, 1881. The death of 
 the wife and mother was a heavy trial to her 
 husband and her young children sustained a 
 loss that will be a permanent sorrow. Mr. Ties 
 was married to Jane Mooney of Brodhead, 
 April 14, 1886. She is a native of the State of 
 New York. 
 
 The character and career of Mr. Ties have 
 been such as to deserve special commemora- 
 tion. His qualifications, business integrity and 
 executive ability have called him continually 
 to official position, and he has served manj' 
 years as Chairman of the Town Board. He 
 has also served as Assessor and is always prom- 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 inent and active in town politics. He is Cap- 
 tain of the Spring Grove Reserves, an organi- 
 zation wliich is a portion of the Green County 
 \'eteran's Association. He is a leading agri- 
 culturist and his family is second to none. He 
 is a Christian man and was a soldier who 
 served his country to the uttermost. He is 
 enthusiastic in Grand Army matters and his 
 tenacity of purpose, will power and influence 
 personally is illustrated in an occasion in his 
 army experience. He was ill of typhoid fever 
 and lay on a board on the ground in the field 
 hospital, liis illness being so severe as to cause 
 his comrades to remark, as one after another 
 was borne out in death, " Fred will be the 
 next." When the hos])ital was established at 
 Keokuk, it was proposed to remove him thither 
 but he begged to stay and recovered sufficiently 
 to fight at Corinth although hardly strong 
 enough to hold his gun. 
 
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 OIIN M WILLIAMS, Belleville, Wis., 
 member of G. A. K. Post No. ]'21, was 
 born in Granville, Washington Co., New 
 York, June 19, 1843. His father, Horace Wil- 
 liams, was a native of the State of New York, 
 and married Juliet Smith, who was born at- 
 Skaneateles in the Empire State. Mr. Williams 
 traces ancestral stock to Welsh progenitors ; he 
 went to Wisconsin, locating at Belleville with 
 his parents in 1854, and was variously occu- 
 pied in the interims of school until he entered 
 the army. He enlisted when 18 years old. 
 May i), 18G1, in Company G, '2d Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, for three months. He was in the ser- 
 vice 11 weeks and was honorably discharged. 
 Aug. 27, 1801, he again eidisted in Company H, 
 8th Wisconsin Infantry, and served three years 
 and twenty-two days. He was mustered Sept. 
 11th, and left the SUite Oct. 12th, going to St. 
 
 I^uis, and the record of the regiment is his, 
 the connnand never forming line of battle, 
 appearing on dress parade or stacking arms with- 
 out him. He did not miss a march, skirmish 
 or battle, and in his roster includes New Mad- 
 rid, Island No. 10, Farmington, siege of Cor- 
 inth, luka, battle of Corintii, siege of VicksVmrg, 
 Jackson, Mechanicsburg, and the experiences 
 of the Meridian expedition. Red River expedi- 
 tion. Fort de Russey, Henderson Hill, Cane 
 River, Pleasant Hill, eight days' skirmishing 
 near Alexandria, marching nights and fighting 
 days, Cloutierville, Mausurara, Bayou de 
 Glaize, Lake Chicot, Hurricane Creek and 
 Abbeville. After a most tedious march to Mem- 
 phis he received discharge, Sept. 21, 1864. 
 Feb. 6, 1865, Mr. Williams again enlisted in 
 Company A, 1st Regiment, Hancock's Veteran 
 Army Corjts and was detailed on recruiting 
 service at ^hldison, Wis. Aj)ril 9, he was trans- 
 ferred to Company C, 9th Regiment of the same 
 command and wentto Washington June 10th on 
 detached service. Sept. 30, 1865, he was de- 
 tailed to go to the arsenal at Rock Island, 111., 
 under appointment as Ordnance Sergeant, his 
 papers being dated Oct. 14th. Feb. 0, 1866, he 
 was raustereil out. 
 
 « l»;_ 
 
 ICilAKD BOTTRELL, Eagle, Wau- 
 kesha Co., Wis., a former soldier of 
 the civil war and formerly a member 
 of Franklin Bigelow Post, (now extinct) was 
 born May 17, 1841, in Devon.';hire, England. 
 Samson and Sarah (Edwards) Bottrell, his 
 parents, had four children, Mr. Bottrell of this 
 sketch being the youngest. When he was 
 about six years old they emigrated to America, 
 landing at the port of New York in 1847. 
 They located in Troy, Walworth county, where 
 the mother died within two months after reach- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 821 
 
 iiig Wisconsin. The father remained on the 
 liomestead until liis death in 1879. Mr. Bot- 
 trell passed liis childhood days on the home 
 farm and while still in j-outh, he began the 
 management of his own affairs, engaging as a 
 farm assistant in summer and attending school 
 during the sevei'al winters until lie entered the 
 army, which he had long desired to do. Sept. 
 30, 1861, he enlisted in Cbrapany I, 13th Wis- 
 consin Infantry and passed the first weeks after- 
 ward in rendezvous at Camp Treadvvay, .Janes- 
 ville, went thence to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 
 with the expectation of joining the " Jim Lane " 
 expedition, but that plan came to naught and 
 after a fruitless march to Fort Scott they went 
 on another to Fort Riley to engage in the New 
 Mexico expedition. That plan was also 
 abandoned and the regiment went to Fort 
 Leavenworth and soon after to Columbus, Ky. 
 Their next move was to Fort Henry and thence 
 to Fort Donelson, where tliey remained and 
 engaged in active military duty. They were 
 in a skirmish at Rickett's Hill, chased Jlorgan 
 unsuccessfully, fought Woodward at Garretts- 
 ville and in December was in pursuit of Forrest 
 who was endeavoring to interfere with the com- 
 munications of Grant in West Tennessee. After- 
 wards they acted as guard on the Tennessee 
 River and marched to Fort Donelson which 
 was under assault from Forrest but the repulse 
 had taken place before their arrival. They 
 were then in camp at Stevenson after August 
 27tli, guarding supplies and watching the 
 operations of Forrest on the railroad where that 
 rebel was bent on destruction. They were on 
 duty at Chattanooga where, perliaps, the regi- 
 ment was in its greatest danger, the garrisons 
 being insufficient and the water low, which 
 endangered the supplies, the communications 
 being cut off and they remained there until the 
 arrival of Joe Hooker with two corps from the 
 army of the Potomac. Starvation was im- 
 
 minent and the arrival of the fighting hero 
 was a source of the greatest satisfaction. The 
 regiment went into quarters at Edgefield where 
 re-enlisting took place and after the reorganiza- 
 tion in the spring they were assigned to the 1st 
 Brigade, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, ex- 
 pecting to ofierate against Atlanta, but their 
 operations were changed to duty on the rail- 
 roads and to guarding the river between Steven- 
 sou and Decatur. June4t]i they went toClays- 
 ville and engaged in patrol duty on the river, 
 throwing up fortifications to prevent Forrest's 
 operations and through September and October 
 they remained in that service. They moved 
 from there to prevent Hood's retreat and also 
 to see that he did not make a change of base to 
 East Tennessee ; he was sent flying south with a 
 dismembered army and never again had a com- 
 mand. In March the 13th was re-assigned to 
 the 2d Brigade, General Beatty, 3d Division, 
 General Wood, 4th Corps, General Stanley, with 
 Colonel Lyon in command of the regiment pre- 
 paratory to going to join the army of Virginia. 
 They went to Jonesboro where they remained 
 until April 20th when the intelligence of the 
 end of the war and the murder of the President 
 reached them. They returned to Nashville 
 where some of the regiment were mustered out 
 and the veterans went to New Orleans, and 
 thence in July to Indianola, Texas. Their 
 next move was to Green Lake, where the regi- 
 ment suffered from sickness, the men being 
 poisoned by the lake water which they drank 
 and 65 died. Finally, after several changes 
 they reached San Antonio where they re- 
 mained until they were mustered out 
 November 24th, and they immediately 
 came to Wisconsin. Mr. Bottrell was with the 
 regiment during his entire period of service 
 except the month he passed at home after 
 veteranizing in January, 1864, and during two 
 years of the time he served as Corporal. A 
 
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 SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 
 
 j)ait of the time he was in the regimental band 
 and after reaching Texas was detailed to the 
 Adjutant's office. After being discharged he 
 returned to Troy and engaged in iarniing 
 which has since been his chief occupation. 
 March 17, 18G6, he was married to Sarah, 
 daughter of Carl Beach, and their two children 
 are named Leo D. and Elbert C. 
 
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 ONRAD GRODE, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 member of G. A. R. Post E. B. Wol- 
 cott No. 1, was born in tlie Grand 
 Ducliy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, Oct. 5, 
 1S2U, and is the son of John and Anna Judith 
 Cirode. His parents removed with their family 
 to America in 1846 and landed at the port of 
 New York, May oth of that year. They left 
 the same night on the Hudson River for 
 Albany and traveled thence on the railroad to 
 Buffalo, whence they journeyed to Milwaukee, 
 Wisconsin, on the lakes. Soon after, the father 
 went to Germantown, Washington county, 
 where he bought 80 acres of land which was 
 tlie homestead for about a quarter of a century. 
 Tlie senior Grode went thence to Winona, 
 Minn., in 1869, where he died. The mother 
 died on tlie homestead in Germantown in 
 1859. 
 
 Mr. Grode, after he had passed the time 
 required by tiie laws of his native land in 
 school, learned the trade of a cabinet maker 
 and after he came to America he remained on 
 the farm three years. In 1850 he located at 
 Milwaukee where he engaged in the business 
 of a contractor and builder and became jjrom- 
 inent in tliat vocation. As examples of his 
 work may be mentioned the Mitchell bank 
 building, St. Joseph's church and others equally 
 jtroiuinent. 
 
 When the call came for German troops he 
 
 hastened to the defense of his adopted country 
 and enlisted at Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 18, 1862, 
 in Company A, 26th Wisconsin Infantry and 
 went to rendezvous with the regiment at Camp 
 Sigel preliminary to moving to the front to be 
 assigned to the Corps of General Sigel. A day 
 was passed at AVashington and the regiment 
 marched thence to Fairfax C. II., where Mr. 
 Grode performed his first service for the United 
 States in carrying dispatches to the headquar- 
 ters of General Steiuwehr, for which he was 
 detailed by Col. W. H. Jacobs. He went through 
 unsettled territory, through bushes and forest 
 undergrowth, and expected momentarily to be 
 taken by the rebels, as every jwrtion of the 
 woods was patroled by them. But by skillful 
 hiding and caution lie succeeded in his mis- 
 sion. On many pages of this book is the story 
 of the 26th Wisconsin related in all its details. 
 (See sketches of General Winkler and Colonel 
 Boebel). The experiences of Mr. Grode were 
 identical with those of others until his military 
 career was interrupted by the fate of war in the 
 form of severe wounds, and he rejoined his 
 command to perform distinguished service in 
 behalf of Wisconsin and the Union after par- 
 tial recovery. On his roster appear Chancel- 
 lorsville, (iettysburg, W^auhatchie, Lookout 
 Mountain and Mission Ridge, together with all 
 the miscellaneous duty performed by the com- 
 mand in the interims of these leading actions 
 which cover with honor every man who par- 
 ticipated therein. 
 
 Lieutenant Grode received his wounds in the 
 first day's fighting at Gettysburg and his name 
 was mentioned in the dispatches. He was act- 
 ing in tlie capacity of chief in command of his 
 company, his C4iptaiii being wounded, wlieii lie 
 was hit and one of his injuries shows the 
 strategy of the rebels in their deadly work, as 
 Lieutenant Grode was shot with a double 
 missile. It entered his right sJioulder, weut 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 through the upper purt of the lung, passed 
 nearly through his hody, was then deflected 
 and one portion passed out, while the other, a 
 full-sized minie ball, was cut from near the 
 spine, between tlie sixth and seventh vertebrce, 
 two days later by Dr. Huebschmann, who 
 claimed that there were two missiles. It was 
 his theory that they w'ere separated bj' striking 
 the breast bone. A few minutes before this 
 second wound a bullet struck the fleshy portion 
 of the right thigh. Mr. Grode rejoined his 
 regiment in time to move to the relief of the 
 Western Army under Hooker, although still in 
 a feeble condition. He contracted rheumatism 
 in consequence of his enfeebled state while 
 wading the river at Chattanooga before he was 
 fully recovered. He has ever since been a suf- 
 ferer from this disease, his ability to walk being 
 nmch affected. He has also suffered with in- 
 flammation of the eyes. Before he left Wis- 
 consin he was made Corporal and he was pro- 
 moted to 1st Sergeant at Fairfax C. H., where 
 he was also made 2d Sergeant ; at Staftbrd C. H. 
 he was promoted to od and 4th Sergeant and 
 was there, after a searching examination, made 
 2d Lieutenant. November 17, 18G3, in Look- 
 
 out Valley, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, 
 and continued in service until Jan. 27, 1864, 
 when on account of disability he resigned and 
 returned to Milwaukee, where he passed months 
 before he was able to resume active connection 
 with civil life. He passed about six years in 
 attempting to carry on his former business 
 which he finally abandoned by advice of his 
 physician. Through the kindness of friends 
 he was enabled to establish a book store and 
 has since conducted the business of a stationer, 
 w'ith the assistance of his wife. 
 
 at Milwau- 
 and Marj' 
 and their 
 
 He was married Aug. 30, 1855, 
 
 kee to Sibilla, daughter of John 
 Katherine Agnes (Bell) Schmitz 
 children were born as follows: John Coiirad, 
 Oct. 5, 1850; Peter Joseph, Nov. 14, 1858; 
 Charles Fidelis, April 24, 1874. The oldest 
 son died Feb. 29, 1880, and the youngest June 
 19, 1878. Mrs. Grode was born Jan. 3, 1837, 
 in Flamersheim, Germany and came to Amer- 
 ica with her parents Aug. 11, 1847. Her 
 father was born in September, 1794, and her 
 mother July 12, 1798 ; they were both natives 
 of the village of Flamersheim and were mar- 
 ried Oct. 27, 1818. 
 
THE MAN WITH THE MUSKET. 
 
 (Publislied by permission of the Century Company.) 
 
 OLDIERS pass on from this rage of renown, 
 
 Tliis ant-hill, commotion and strife. 
 Pass by where the marbles and bronzes look down 
 
 With their fast-frozen gestures of life, 
 On, out to the nameless who lie 'neath the gloom 
 
 Of the pitying cypress and j)ine; 
 Your man is the man of the sword and the plume, 
 
 But the man of the musket is mine. 
 
 I knew him ! l)y all tliat is noble, I knew 
 
 This commonplace hero I name! 
 I've camped with him, marched with him, fought with him, too, 
 
 In the swirl of the fierce battle-flame ! 
 Laughed with liim, cried with him, taken a part 
 
 Of liis canteen and blanket, and known 
 That the throb of this chivalrous prairie bo3''s heart 
 
 Was an an.swering stroke of my own. ■ 
 
 I knew liim, 1 tell you! And, also, I knew 
 
 When he fell on the battle-swept ridge, 
 That the poor battered body that lay there in blue 
 
 Was only a plank in the bridge 
 Over which some should pass to a fame 
 
 That shall shine while the high stars siiall shine! 
 Your hero is known by an echoing name, 
 
 But the man of the musket is mine. 
 
 I knew him I All through him the good and tlie bad 
 
 Kan together and equally free; 
 But I judge as I trust Christ will judge the brave lad, 
 
 For death made him noble to me! 
 In the cyclone of war, in the battle's eclij^se, 
 
 Life shook out its lingering sands. 
 And he died with the names that he loveil on his lips, 
 
 His musket still grasped in his hands! 
 Up close to the Hag my soldier went ilown. 
 
 In the salient front of the line: 
 You may lake for your heroes the men of renown. 
 
 But tlie man of the musket is mine! — II. S. Taylor, Evanston, 111. 
 
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 SKINE, Racine,Wis., a lead- 
 ing citizen of Southern Wis- 
 consin, was born at Royal- 
 ton, Worcester Co., Mass., 
 Dec. 19, 1819, aud is the son 
 of Walter and Margaret (Bowen) 
 Erskine. The family is of Scotch 
 origin and was founded in America 
 early in the 17tli century by three 
 brothers Erskine, whose descen- 
 dants are disseminated through- 
 out the United States. John Er- 
 skine, the grandfather of Mr. Er- 
 skine, went from Winchester, Mass., liis birth- 
 place, to Oswego county. New York,where he 
 died at the age of 92 years. Thomas Bowen, 
 maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Erskine, 
 lived in Warren, Rhode Island, whence he re- 
 moved to Richmond, N. H., in 1767, where his 
 son Zephaniah was born Oct. 10, 1776. Walter 
 Erskine died wliile his son was still young and 
 his widow, Margaret, the daughter of Zephaniah 
 Bowen, afterwards married Maturin M. Ballon, 
 a member of a distinguished family in Whit- 
 ingham, Vermont. Mr. Erskine of this sketch 
 has two sisters, Emugenia and Mandana, who 
 still survive in 1890. 
 
 Mr. Erskine obtained a fair education in the 
 schools of the period and also learned the trade 
 
 3^s-(^ 
 
 of a carpenter which he followed several years. 
 In 1849 he made a voyage around Cape Horn 
 to California and joined a company of miners 
 who had started a claim which yielded most 
 promisingly for a few days, when the rising of 
 the river comjjelled them to abandon it. Mr. 
 Erskine remained in California, ajiplying his 
 skill as a mechanic to local enterprises until he 
 decided to make that State a permanent home 
 and he returned East for his family. But old 
 influences proved too strong to tear asunder 
 with ease and he remained East until .June, 
 1852, when he started for a section of the West 
 less remote and went to Racine, Wisconsin, to 
 prospect for business. He found the oppor- 
 tunity he sought with J. I. Case and the result 
 was his formation of a relationship with him 
 which still exists. He became foreman of the 
 growing works of the J. I. Case Threshing Ma- 
 chine Company and in June, 1863, became the 
 owner of a quarter interest therein, associated 
 with Messrs. Case, Bull and Robert H. Baker. 
 The combined skill, interest and abilities of 
 these gentlemen have erected one of the most 
 immense industries in the United States, of 
 which an outline is briefly presented in the 
 sketch of Mr. Case on another page. Mr. Er- 
 skine has sustained the same connection with 
 the business continuously since 1853. In 1885 
 he connected hinisilf with the Racine Wagon 
 
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 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 & Carriage Ck)mpany, and he is a Director in 
 the First National Bank of Racine, and in the 
 First National Bank of Burlington, Racine 
 county. He is President of the First National 
 Bank at Fargo, N. D. Altiiough his busi- 
 ness relations have been of the most arduous 
 character he has found time to answer to the 
 calls of his obligations as a citizen and served 
 as Mayor of Racine in 1869-70-71-79. His 
 name led the subscrijition list for a soldiers' 
 monument at Racine with a generosity which 
 characterizes him. He is a liberal supporter of 
 the several religious denominations of Racine 
 and officiated as Director and Treasurer of Tay- 
 lor Orphan Asylum five j-ears. During the 
 period of the war he was active in support of 
 the Government and ii\ the raising and equip- 
 ping of soldiers. He gave a son to the cause, 
 and the inettaceable record of the rebellion on 
 his household is marked by a soldier's grave in 
 the cemetery at Racine. 
 
 Mr. Erskine was married at Westford, Mass., 
 April 7, 1841, to Susan, daughter of William 
 and Hannah Perry, who were both direct de- 
 scendants of Henry Leland, founder of the Le- 
 land family in America in 1652. She is one of 
 a family of ten children, and her parents died 
 at Natick, Mass. Five children were born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, of whom three survive. 
 Freeman W. Erskine, oldest son, enlisted May 
 14, 1864, at Racine, in Company F, 39th Wis- 
 consin Infantry, and died at Memphis, Tenn., 
 Jul}' 18, 1864, of typhoid and malarial fever. 
 
 The protrait of Mr. Erskine appears on page 
 826. It will be received by the patrons of this 
 work with heartfelt ]i]easure. 
 
 W LEXANDER McMILLAN, La Ci-osse, 
 
 ^/^yV ^Vis. To the people of Wisconsin in 
 
 -A^^''^^ the section where Mr. McMillan has 
 
 been a resident almost four decades, his name 
 
 has become the synonym of integrity, rectitude 
 and public spirit. He is one of the men of 
 whom the world is coming to take just recog- 
 nizance for the part they have played in 
 its history and development and in simpU' 
 biography will the generations to come form a 
 true idea of the progress and advancement of 
 the New World. 
 
 Alexander McMillan was born Oct. 23, 1825, 
 at Finch, Stormont Co., Ontario, Dominion of 
 Canada. He is of unmixed Scotch lineage, his 
 ancestral generations including his parents, 
 having been born and bred on the heaths of 
 "Auld Scotia." They were clansmen and 
 strong allies of the issues which has made and 
 kept Scotland statuesque in the history of the 
 world. In her pride and self-respect she stands 
 like a monument of greatness, like a tribute to 
 freedom from the selfish struggles of nations for 
 supremacy ; Scotland can aflbrd her disinter- 
 estedness in the light of her matchless disregard 
 of national supremacy. Duncan and Mary 
 (McMillan) McMillan, the parents of Alexander, 
 were born in Lochaber, luvernesshire, Scotland, 
 and emigrated to Canada in 1815. The father 
 was a merchant in Glasgow some years prior to 
 removal to America, and on arrival in the 
 Dominion settled near Cornwall, in the town of 
 Finch, where lie engaged in farming. Ten of 
 the children born to himself and wife reached 
 mature life. One died young. They were 
 named in order of birth Daniel, .John, Christian, 
 Mary, Alexander, Angus D. B., Catherine, 
 Margaret, Ewin H., Duncan D. and Allan. 
 The latter died when 14 months old. John, 
 Daniel and Catherine are not living. The after 
 lives of the parents were passed on the Canadian 
 farm and they left a record for piety, thrift 
 and uprightness which still reflect a blessed 
 memory to their surviving children. The 
 senior McMillan was an elder in the 
 Presbyterian Clmrch and the discipline of his 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 829 
 
 teachings in his home circle still exercises its 
 inllueiices over his sons, who are types of man- 
 hood which would delight him if he could take 
 cognizance of their careers. They received 
 such education as he could give them, Alexan- 
 der attending the common schools and working 
 on the farm until he reached the period of legal 
 freedom when he assumed the burden of his 
 own support and conflict with the world. In 
 1846 he went to the State of New York, and 
 in 1850 went to Madison, Wis., meanwhile 
 teaching and pursuing a course of study, of 
 which he felt himself to be in need. He was a 
 natural linguist and acquired a practical knowl- 
 edge of German and also an uncommon ac- 
 quaintance with the Gaelic language. He 
 taught in tlie evening schools at Madison three 
 nights each week for a time, and after passing 
 a year there as a clerk, he went to Portage City, 
 Wis., where he spent some months, similarly 
 employed. He had worked with an end in 
 view, and with true Scotch thrift and economy 
 had saved his earnings and, in 1852, went to 
 La Crosse where an opening for the application 
 of his growing business energies presented itself. 
 He formed a partnership with his brother .John 
 in the logging and lumber business, the firm 
 of J. & A. McMillan taking the first log raft 
 down the Mississippi Eiver from Black River 
 to St. Louis in the spring of 1853. The same 
 qualities which had inaugurated their enter- 
 prise ensured its success and it was pressed with 
 all the energ}', forethought and perseverance 
 its proprietors possessed ; growing to immense 
 proportions, the firm style becoming in 1864, 
 J. it A. & D. D. McMillan, by the admission of 
 a younger brother. The style changed a year 
 later to A. &D. D. McMillan through the death 
 of the senior brother. Experience and the na- 
 tural expansion of a well directed business led 
 the company to extend its interests and 
 in 1864 the Black River Improvement Com- 
 
 pany was organized with one of the brothers as 
 President. As a sample of the business trans- 
 acted by the McMillans in lumbering may be 
 quoted the doings of one year in which they 
 owned 24,000,000 feet of logs and another j'ear 
 in which they sold to W. .J. Young & Co., of 
 Clinton, Iowa, 15,000,000 feet, the contract 
 amounting to §180,000. The Black River Im- 
 provement Company was designed for the 
 moving of logs cut in its vicinity and the enter- 
 prise is duly appreciated by its beneficiaries. 
 Mr. McMillan became President of the La 
 Crosse Gas Light Company in 1864 and after 
 the formation of the Electric Light Company, 
 in 1885, the interest was sold to that corpora- 
 tion. 
 
 In October, 1878, Mr. McMillan became by 
 purchase, sole owner of the flouring mills at 
 Neshonoc, Wis., and known by the same name, 
 and with which he had been connected five 
 years. Under his management the plant has 
 become extensive and famous for the merit of 
 its products. From a sawmill in 1852 the 
 establishment has grown to be one of the 
 largest mills for local manufacture in Western 
 Wisconsin, having been wholly remodeled in 
 1881 under the personal supervision of Mr. 
 McMillan and now possessing one of the best 
 water powers in the State. At West Salem, 
 in La Crosse Co., where the mills are situated is 
 the fine stock farm of Mr. McMillan, where he 
 devotes time and monej' to the improvement 
 of cattle and horses and in this demonstrates 
 how strong are the first formed tastes of early 
 life; the strong contrast between his early and 
 later farming days attbrding him one of the 
 keenest of the many delights of his life. 
 His stables show some fine samples of Hamble- 
 tonians of recorded speed and one valued at 
 §10,000; and his herds exhibit a valuable col- 
 lection of Alderney cattle. 
 
 Mr. McMillan has never posed before the 
 
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 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 j)ublic as a politician or in any other attitude 
 than that of a citizen witli other citizens. His 
 Scotch nature precludes his assuming the 
 appearance of being anything but what he is — 
 a simple citizen of a Republic — but his opulent, 
 generous, sympathetic nature has kept him 
 constantly to the fore in many projects that 
 included a wide field of usefulness to the 
 general public. He purchased the " Brick " 
 Pomeroy Opera House Block, refitted it and 
 kept it open for entertainments until the new 
 theatre building was constructed. Also he has 
 added to his testimonials of effort the construc- 
 tion of several business blocks which are as 
 ornamental as useful to the city which is proud 
 to possess him as a citizen. He has performed 
 his share of municipal duty in the capacity of 
 Councilman, and on the County Board ; also as 
 Mayor and Assembly ; he was elected to the 
 former position in 1871, and in 1873 to the 
 latter, serving in both with a consistency and 
 ability characteristic of himself and in accord- 
 ance with the expectations of his constituents. 
 Mr. McMillan has been also identified with the 
 financial affairs of his city and was, in 1873, 
 President of the First National Bank of La 
 Crosse. 
 
 A paragraph is due to the record of his 
 temperance work in wliich he does honor to 
 the memory and example of his father, who 
 instilled into his children the principle of 
 sobriety and strict abstinence from intoxicants. 
 He has always been prominent in his interest 
 in the cause and in 1873 was made President 
 of the La Crosse Temperance League. And, 
 when the country was in tlie throes of ajtjiar- 
 ent dissolution from the advent of rebellion, 
 Mr. McMillan stood behind the authorities 
 with his money and influence, performing as 
 good service as those in a more prominent 
 position in the war. 
 
 Mr. McMillan was married in October, 1858, 
 
 to Sarah L., daughter of Herrick and Mary E. 
 (Sherwood) Parker, of La Crosse, and their chil- 
 dren are Mary, Angie, Samuel D., and Jesse — 
 the first two and last born are safe in the home 
 of the hereafter, and only Samuel D. is 
 living; he is the partner and manager of the 
 business house of McMillan et Son, who conduct 
 a furnishing store. He married May, daughter 
 of John Clark, a merchant of West Salem. 
 Three little sons, Clarke, Parker and Harrie 
 have been added to the household of the 
 younger McMillan. 
 
 Li 1883, Mr. McMillan and his wife made an 
 extensive European tour, visiting the Scottisli 
 homestead, going to Ireland, visiting in Dublin, 
 Cork and Belfast and seeing lovely Killarney, 
 going also to Glasgow, thence to England and 
 from there on a continental trip, beginning at 
 Paris, and continuing to Florence, Turin, Milan, 
 Genoa, Venice, Rome for the winter, Naples, 
 Ischia, thence on a sailing voyage along the 
 Mediterranean, going to Pompeii and Mt. Vesu- 
 vius, and returning to the Holy City. They 
 went to Vienna and crossed the Alps, went 
 through Switzerland, again to Paris and visited 
 Berlin, Potsdam, Munich, Wiesbaden, Cologne 
 and other famed continental cities, returning 
 for a farewell look at the old heather braes of 
 Scotland. The start for home was made in the 
 fall of 1884 from Greenock, or Glasgow. While 
 on his trip, Mr. McMillan gave his friends much 
 gratification as well as surprise in his fluent 
 knowledge of the old Gaelic in wliicli he could 
 converse with them. It was a great pleasure 
 to him to be able to speak to his countrymen 
 in the language of their forefathers. Mr. Mc- 
 Millan and his wife belong to the Congrega- 
 tional Church at La Crosse, and he is a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic Order. 
 
 Mrs. McMillan is an amateur artist of much 
 more than ordinary genius, and her elegant 
 house is filled with countless works from lier 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 833 
 
 artistic brush. While abroad she had the best 
 o]>])oriuiiities to improve her taste and skill, 
 and availed herself of it to the extent of her 
 abilities. The results of her studies of old 
 paintings famed from almost tlie beginning of 
 time, adorning the walls of her beautiful home, 
 give the best evidence of her industry, love of 
 art and genius. The McMillan home is the 
 epitome of good breeding, kindly influences 
 anil wliolesome associations. 
 
 J^^ ENRY MITCHELL, a prominen 
 Tpf^T^ manufacturer in the prominent man 
 -^ ^^ ufacturing city of Racine, Wis., wai 
 
 rominent 
 
 . man- 
 
 I'as 
 
 liorn March 10, 1810, in Fifeshire, Scotland. His 
 parents, William and Elizabeth (.Jackson) Mitch- 
 ell, were natives of the " land o' cakes " where 
 their forefathers had been born from the earli- 
 est traditions of the family and performed their 
 obligations with the clans which made " auld 
 Scotia " the most steadfast and reliable Nation- 
 ality on the European continent through her 
 domestic institutions and the preservation of 
 family and " kirk " relations. There is no 
 need to pause to characterize the blood from 
 which Mr. Mitchell is descended and which he 
 brought to swell the tide wiiich has developed 
 and brought the American Nationalitj' to its 
 splendid prestige. The senior Mitchell was a 
 farmer on the heaths and hills and also carried 
 on a business between the capital city of Scot- 
 land and adjacent towns, which may be de- 
 scribed as not unlike that of the express com- 
 panies of this country. He was of "Covenanter" 
 descent and possessed of the traits of that sturdy 
 and decided class, training his family in the 
 strictest regimen of principle and uprightness. 
 In 1845 he followed his son to the United 
 States and located on a farm near Kenosha, 
 Wis., which he cultivated some years with a 
 
 delight which grew out of the contrast with his 
 labors on the braes of Scotland. He afterwards 
 became a member of his son's fivmily at Racine, 
 where he died in 1857. The wife and mother 
 was a typical Scotch wife and mother; her 
 children, numbering 11, grew up to iionor and 
 bless her, for she had exemplified everything 
 which " mother" should mean to such a band 
 of little ones, whom she taught and trained in 
 everything good and noble and true. She died 
 on the farm in Kenosha, in 1847, having 
 accompanied her husband to America two years 
 previous. The memory of the father and 
 mother of Mr. Mitchell is still a treasured thing 
 in the hearts of friends and relatives. Mr. 
 Mitchell, now 80 years old, was tlieir first-born 
 child and the others, named in order of birth, 
 James, William, Agnes, Catherine, Eliza and 
 Thomas, are the sole survivors. The schooling 
 obtained by Henry Mitchell was gained chiefly 
 at the evening schools, as his dailj' tasks, after 
 he became old enougii to attend school, kept 
 him occupied through the day as was custom- 
 ary. He was by nature a draftsman and gave 
 what attention he could to the art of drawing 
 until he was 15 years old, when he was ap- 
 prenticed to learn the business of a wheelwright 
 to which he gave the same faithful attention 
 as he had done to his other educational oppor- 
 tunities, making the most of such instruction 
 as he could obtain and practicing his favorite 
 drawing and drafting as the business in which 
 he was engaged afforded the best means possi- 
 ble for improvement in those avenues. He 
 served seven years and was a most accomplished 
 mechanic when his indentures closed, and he 
 had also acquired a reputation for superior 
 skill in the manufacture of wheels. He passed 
 18 months subsequently as foreman in a prom- 
 inent manufacturing establislnnent of Edin- 
 burg, and during that time considered his 
 future. America had become known to him 
 
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 as a land of promise wliich lie determined to 
 test and, in 1834 he started for New York. 
 After a tedious sailing voyage, he proceeded at 
 once to Chicago, where he obtained work at 
 once, his appearance and his possession of a 
 complete outfit for his work, the first "kit" of 
 wagon-making tools seen there, recommending 
 him. He did not like Chicago; its founda- 
 tions were fickle as contrasted with the stabil- 
 ity of the cliffs and peaks he had left and he 
 set out Northward to find a place where he 
 could be at least assured of terra firma. 
 But his stay in Chicago was memorable 
 in more than one particular in view of 
 the growth and advancement the city has 
 made. There were about 300 white people and 
 plenty of Indians in what had just emerged 
 from the frontier (now) reminiscence of 
 Fort Dearborn and one of his associates 
 was Mr. I^. S. Blake, now a fellow manufacturer 
 in Racine. He was also the companion of such 
 noted men as Wm. B. Ogden, Thomas Kinzie, 
 "Long" Joim Wcntworth, George Smith and 
 Mark Beaubien, to say nothing of others equally 
 famous and instrumental in the development of 
 Cook county. He was one of the contractors 
 on the Illinois canal, and saw the first shovel of 
 earth removed for that historic ditch. 
 
 Traveling North, he first considered the feas- 
 ibility of locating at Kenosha, and finding 
 what seemed to him a satisfactory outlook he 
 decided to pitch his tent there and to start there 
 the manufacture of wagons. From a small 
 start he operated until he built up the splendid 
 business interests which, in 1855, he sold to 
 Edward Bain, who continues to prosecute the 
 business and to sustain the prestige given it by 
 Mr. Mitclu'lJ. Uacine had been for some years 
 coming forward as a manufacturing center and 
 when Mr. Mitchell sold at Kenosha it was with 
 the intention to establish his plant there and 
 to press his business mitil it should reach a 
 
 magnitude commensurate with the country of 
 his adoption and his views of the field a Repub- 
 lic presents for perseverance, integrity and 
 effort. At this writing, ISOO, he is at the head 
 of one of the largest wagon manufacturing 
 establishments in the United States, and one 
 second to none in the quality of the wares pro- 
 duced. His first buildings were of wood, lined 
 with brick, and were burned in 1880. As his 
 business extended he added larger and more 
 commodious structures, fitted with modern 
 macbinery of the most improved type, and the 
 plant includes about 20 acres of ground. In 
 1864 he associated with himself his son-in-law, 
 W. T. Lewi.s, whose sketch appears on another 
 page. In 1884 the firm took on the dignity of a 
 corporation under the style of Mitchell & Lewis 
 Company with a capital stock of §000,000, 
 which, it goes without saying, was all paid up. 
 The annual output is about 85 wagons daily 
 and 600 men are employed when the works are 
 in full operation. The market embraces the 
 United States, Canada, Mexico and South 
 America. In the midst of his business compli- 
 cations he has found time to amplify his rela- 
 tions and was one of the founders of the Racine 
 Artesian Well Company and is also a Director 
 in the Manufacturers' Bank of Racine. He has 
 never sought nor desired local official honors, 
 although his high character and cultivation 
 fitted him for any position he might choose. 
 However, a sketch of him would not be com- 
 plete if it were not stated that he lias served 
 with his generation in the capacity of Common 
 Councilman of the Belle City, several terms. 
 He is a man who has carried to a demonstra- 
 tion his ideas of business and, as such, is a type 
 of what energy, thrift and well-directed effort 
 may accomplish under the institutions of free 
 America. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell is a Rei)ublican and supported 
 Lincoln to tiie extent of his resources. In war 
 
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 time he supplied means in all avenues to aid 
 in the prosecution qf the conflict which im- 
 perilled his interests and those of Racine and lie 
 went several times to the front as a messenger 
 of ways and means to the armies in the field. 
 
 He was married Jan. 7, 1832, near Edinhurg, 
 Scotland, to Margaret, daughter of James 
 Mitchell, and eight children have been born to 
 them, six of whom ore living. Margaret died 
 in youth in Chicago, and William H. in Port- 
 land, Oregon. Elizabeth A. married T. 0. 
 Wallis ; Mary B. is the wife of W. T. Lewis, of 
 Racine; Martha A. married C. D. Sinclair; 
 Henry G. is the superintendent of the wagon 
 works; Frank L. is Mayor of Racine, (1890). 
 Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Masonic Order 
 and of the Calumet Club (Old Settlers) at 
 Chicago. He is a gentleman of the old school, 
 possessing the culture, refinement and courtesy 
 _which mark the class. He is in good health 
 and is passing his life's sunset in the enjoy- 
 ment of the remembrances of a well spent life. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell's portrait appears on page 832. 
 
 B^f^^SI^>! 
 
 IN UCIUS S. BLAKE, Racine, AVis., a 
 ^^cV representative citizen of Southern Wis- 
 —^ cousin, was born March 14, 1816, in 
 Burlington, Vermont. He is of Irish descent 
 in the paternal line, his earliest ancestor in 
 this country being Theophilus Blake, who was 
 the father of Bradbury Blake, the grandfather 
 of Mr. Blake of this sketch. His father, Levi 
 Blake, was in the war of 1812 and married 
 Mary Stanford ; their childi-en were named 
 Charles H., Sanford E., Lucius S., Albert H., 
 Maria A., Adoniram J., Mary Ann, Sarah Ann 
 and Levi R.; Maria and Sarah Ann died in 
 youth ; Levi R. was a soldier and was killed at 
 the battle of Butler Ranch in the civil war. 
 The father was a carpenter and farmer and 
 
 followed both occupations most of his active 
 life. He removed his family from Burlington, 
 Vt., to Aurora, Erie Co., New York in 1817 and 
 after some years to Crawford county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and in June, 1831, the father went to 
 Chicago, where his family joined liim the next 
 year, when his son of this account went to Cal- 
 edonia township, Racine county and located a 
 tract of Government land, which he held until 
 the family took possession in the winter of 
 1834-5. At that date there was but one house 
 between the place and Chicago and that was 
 at Gross Point. The father remsiined on the 
 farm about four j'ears, when he removed to 
 Racine to operate as a carpenter and builder. 
 He was one of the public spirited citizens who 
 placed themselves under a tax of 15 per cent 
 to aid in the construction of the harbor and 
 was the first man who drew a load of stone for 
 the purpose. _ He was a Republican in political 
 principles and died at Sparta in 1861 ; his wife 
 died there in 1885. Both were members of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 The son worked in Racine some time as a car- 
 penter, which business he had learned from his 
 father, and he also acted in that capacity at 
 Kenosha where he worked six months, return- 
 ing to Racine, where he operated as a contractor 
 and builder. In 1842 he commenced the man- 
 ufacture of fanning mills, with which he has 
 since been continually connected. This was 
 the first business enterprise of considerable 
 extent opened in Racine and in 1865 Mr. Blake 
 associated James T. Elliott with himself as a 
 partner and their connections were in existence 
 15 years, after which the firm became Blake, 
 Beebe & Co., and when the junior partner 
 terminated his relations with the business, Mr. 
 Blake took as partners his sons, Byron B. and 
 Adoniram J. The former withdrew, when the 
 firm style became L. S. & A. J. Blake, which is 
 still operative. The output of lS8i» aggre- 
 
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 gates about 1,000 mills ; the average inaii- 
 ufacture prior to tlie introduction of much 
 of the improved farm machinery was about 
 3,000 annually. In 1865, associated with 
 other capitalists, Mr. Blake instituted the 
 woolen mills at Racine, which now con- 
 stitute one of the leading industrial estab- 
 lishments of the Northwest. The style 
 is Blake <fe Co.'s Woolen Mills and the members 
 of the corporation are L. S. Blake, J. T. Elliott, 
 John S. Hart and James & M. Tillapaugh. 
 The capital stock was originally §60,000 and at 
 date of writing, is §100,000, Mr. Blake having 
 been President from the first. The establish- 
 ment is unique in this section, and the facilities 
 which have been continually added for the im- 
 provement of manufactures are of the most im- 
 proved character. (It is what is technicallj' 
 known as a five-set mill). A very superior 
 cjuality of shawls is made, which form the 
 specialty in the manufactures, which also in- 
 clude cloths of several varieties. An average 
 of 100 persons are employed and §100,000 
 worth of goods are made annually. When the 
 Pease manufacturing establishment was organ- 
 ized Mr. ]]lake was one of the incorporators and 
 was maile President, the capital being §35,000. 
 When the Chicago Rubber Clothing Comj)any 
 was transferred to Racine, the change was 
 effected through the connection of Mr. Blake 
 therewith and the establishment is one of the 
 most successful of its kind in the West. The 
 capital stock is §100,000, and Mr. Blake is 
 President; the business aggregates §100,000 
 annually and its relations are rapidly widening. 
 About a hundred workmen are employed. Mr. 
 Blake is also President of the Turner Stove 
 Company, which was established at Racine in 
 September, 1889, with a capital of §150,000. 
 The business had its origin in Chicago in 18S0, 
 and at tlie date mentioned was established at 
 Racine Junction. Its object is tiic manufacture 
 
 of the Turner Heater. When the Manufac- 
 turer's National Bank wa§ established at Racine 
 in 1871, Mr. Blake was one of the incorporators 
 and is still a Director. The institution is one 
 of the most solid and reliable in the Northwest 
 and has a capital of §250,000. Mr. Blake is an 
 extensive real estate owner and holds about 50 
 acres within the corporation of Racine. His 
 connection with the municipal management 
 commenced before the separation of Racine and 
 Kenosha counties and he served as County 
 Treasurer in 1843. He has been Alderman of 
 Racine six terms and in 1870 was elected to 
 the Lower House of the Legislature of Wiscon- 
 sin. He was a member of the National Con- 
 vention at Philadelphia in 1872 which nomi- 
 nated Grant and he was a Garfield elector in 
 1881. Since that he has been inflexible in his 
 decision to take no further active part in politi- 
 cal life. Among his less prominent business 
 investments was, with others, the rental of a 
 plantation in Mississippi for a j'ear to experi- 
 ment in cotton and to acquire a practical under- 
 standing of Southern business relations. Thev 
 raised one crop wliich was sold for §1.00 and 
 §1.50 per pound in New Orleans. 
 
 Mr. Blake's marriage to Caroline, daughter of 
 William and Sarah (Ireland) Elliott, occurred 
 Dec. 26, 1843, at Racine. Mrs. Blake was born 
 in England of parentage which originated in 
 that country. The children which formed tlie 
 issue of the marriage were named Annette, 
 Lucius E., Byron B., Stella M. and Adoniram 
 J., and all survive but Annette and Lucius. 
 Stella is the wife of Sands M. Hart of Racine. 
 Both surviving sons are married and residents 
 of Racine. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are members 
 of the Baptist Church, of wliicli he has been 
 trustee for a long period of years. Three 
 brothers of Mr. Blake were in the service of tlie 
 United SUites during the late war. E. Saiiford 
 engaged as sutler, going out with the 4th Wis- 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 consin Infantry, ami soon after, wliile attending 
 to his business lie was raided by the rebels and 
 robbed of Jiis stock of stores. He then entered 
 the service, regularly enlisting and serving 
 throughout in several capacities, one of which 
 was as Quartermaster. He returned to Sparta 
 after the war, and died on April 28, 1889, in 
 Minneapolis, Minn. Albert H. Blake enlisted 
 in the summer of 1861 in the 4th Wisconsin 
 Infantry and accompanied the regiment to 
 Baltimore, and then to New Orleans with the 
 command of General Butler. While there he 
 was commissioned 1st Lieutenant and trans- 
 ferred to the 9th Wisconsin which he joined in 
 Missouri. He was shot through the lungs in 
 the battle of Prairie Grove, brought home to 
 Wisconsin by his brother Lucius, and after 
 remaining three months rejoined the army, 
 although still an invalid, and he remained with 
 his command, acting on detached duty in sev- 
 eral caj)acities, among which was that of Post 
 Postmaster of New Orleans during a danger- 
 ous period. He received honorable discharge 
 in ISGo, and returned to Racine, and he died 
 at Two Harbors, Lake Superior, July 17, 1889, 
 leaving five children. 
 
 A faitliful biographer, in view of the life, 
 public spirit and character of Mr. L. S. Blake, 
 strongly desires to add what might be considered 
 fulsome adulation. But it would not add lus- 
 ter to the unembellished account of his efforts 
 to build up the business interests of Racine, 
 whose benefit has been the object of his efforts 
 and through him the Belle City of Wisconsin 
 has advanced rapidly and substantially in re- 
 pute as a manufacturing center, and tohim with 
 others, she owes much of her prosperity and 
 position among the municipalities of the Bad- 
 ger State. This is all that need be said. 
 
 OHN ADAMS HINSEY, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 was bori; Aug. 10, 1833, in Berks Co., 
 Pennsylvania. His father and mother, 
 Jacob and Lydia Hiusey, were natives of Con- 
 necticut and Pennsylvania and were respectively 
 of Scotch-French and German lineage. His 
 father died when he was eight years old. The 
 family included eight children who were de- 
 pendent on the motlier for maintenance and in 
 1841, with her flock, she removed to Ohio, 
 locating in the vicinity of Mansfield. The 
 place, the period and her circumstances con- 
 trolled her methods of I'earing her sons, and, as 
 the question of ways and means was foremost 
 to be considered, she disposed of the young 
 strength of her boys as seemed wisest for all 
 concerned and in this manner young Hinsey 
 became early accustomed to the idea that effort 
 must be the necessity of his existence. Farm- 
 ing was the mode of life accessible to every bod j' 
 and he was apprenticed to a farmer with whom 
 he remained until he was 18 years old, securing 
 a livelihood, a training in the best avenue of 
 exertion and a physical constitution of great 
 hardihood. From the beginning of a broader 
 life he had in him the element of "push." In 
 1S5G he went to Michigan City, Ind., and 
 entered the employ of the M. C. R. R. corpora- 
 tion. In 1858 he went to La Porte, Ind., and 
 commenced a career of prominence which he 
 rounded out in various public capacities, in- 
 cluding political preferment and local useful- 
 ness as a citizen. He had gathered such educa- 
 tion as he could through the avenues by which 
 most men who have pushed their way to 
 prominence in the West have done so. He be- 
 came early in life a close observer of men and 
 their methods of operation and used his dis- 
 crimination to good purpose in determining 
 just the shade of interest which would insure 
 no failitfe in his outlook. His abilities were 
 recognized in whatever sphere he operated and 
 
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 in 1866 he came to Milwaukee ; in 1877 he 
 became an attache of the C, M. & St. P. 
 raih'oad company, in wliose interests he has 
 since operated until he is at the head 
 of the claim department of the corpora- 
 tion, a position which requires abilities 
 of first class quality and discernment and 
 knowledge of mankind to an uncommon degree. 
 Since his connection with Milwaukee began he 
 has been a prominent factor in her public enter- 
 prises. He is, at this writing, (1889) engaged 
 in pressing to completion a system of street 
 transportation, which is a gigantic undertaking 
 and when completed will form one of the most 
 prominent enterprises in that line in this coun- 
 try. He has always been prominent in local 
 politics in Milwaukee and has served in several 
 public capacities, among wliich is President of 
 the Council, to which incumbency he acceded 
 in 1884, and since that date he has been iden- 
 tified with most plans for the permanent ad- 
 vancement of the municipal interests of the city. 
 Perhaps Ihe most prominent relation of Mr. 
 Hinsey to his fellow men is in his connection 
 with the Order of Knights of Pythias to which 
 he has belonged since 1878. In his relations 
 therewith his couree has been consistent with 
 his character, lie never does anything by 
 halves, but in the most complete manner which 
 he can compass. He joined Schiller Lodge No. 
 3, at Milwaukee, from which he withdrew on 
 the organization of Crescent Lodge, No. 23, of 
 which he was one of the founders, and became 
 its Past Chancellor. He has served several 
 terms as Commander and has been one of the 
 foremost workers in the interests of the local 
 as well as of the general bodj'. He entered the 
 Grand Lodge in 1879, has served three years 
 as Grand Lecturer, and one year respectively 
 as Grand Vice Chancellor and Grand Chancel- 
 lor. In 1885 he was made Sui)renie Represent- 
 ative, and in all relations with the Order he 
 
 has brougiit to bear his business sagacity, liis 
 personal influence and his unerring judgment 
 and discernment. 
 
 He was married in 1855 at Morenci, Michi- 
 gan, to Sarali Jane Wise. She was born in 
 1837 in Richland Co., Ohio, and their daughter 
 and two sons are named in their order of birth, 
 William A., Annie Laura and John M. The 
 portrait of Mr. Hinsey appears on page 838. 
 
 5«f«^ 
 
 accompanied his parents, William J. and Jane 
 (Turnor) Lewis, to America, when two years 
 old. The family resided for a time at I'tica, 
 New York, and there the son attended schools 
 of the elementary class and, afterwards, was a 
 pupil at Whitesboro(N. Y.) Acadeni}'. In 1855 
 the family removed to Racine, Wisconsin. For 
 a time James was manager in the telegraph 
 office at that place and, being a scholarly, re- 
 flective youth, he determined to fit himself for 
 contact with the world by studying the pro- 
 fession of law. He found an opportunity to 
 prosecute his studies under the direction of 
 Hon. C. S. Chase, of Racine, and, after a 
 thorough course was admitted to the Bar of 
 that county, passing a brilliant examination in 
 open Court. He engaged for a short period in 
 practice at Racine when, believing that he 
 might find a wider and more profitable field in 
 some part of tlie_, opening West, he determined 
 to go to California to test his fate. He sailed 
 for the Pacific coast in April, 1862, and, on 
 reaching San Francisco found the Nevada 
 mining excitement at its height. He went to 
 Washoe City, where he formed a law partner- 
 ship with Judge North and pressed his business 
 as an attornej' there two anil a half years, dur- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 ing which time his abilities and exalted char- 
 acter brought him into conspicuous prominence 
 and he became a candidate for the position of 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of the (then) new 
 State of Nevada and was triumphantly elected, 
 although but 28 years of age and then the 
 youngest Judge in the United States. On the 
 organization of tlie Court in December, 1864, 
 he took his seat on the Bench. He served his 
 term, was elected his own successor and re- 
 mained upon the Bench until January, 1873. 
 The volumes of Court reports published during 
 this period contain his decisions, which are 
 marked by clearness, conciseness, and learning 
 and attest his ability, industry and conscien- 
 tious performance of duty. His services were 
 of great value to the State, reflecting the highest 
 credit on his character and winning for him an 
 enduring reputation as a jurist. 
 
 When he retired from the Bench in 1873 he 
 resumed practice as an attorney, entering into 
 a partnership with W. E. F. Deal of Virginia 
 City. The qualities that had distinguished him 
 on the Bench characterized him at the Bar, 
 where his success as a lawyer was attributable 
 to industry and a mind richly stored with legal 
 principles and under the guidance of innate 
 and comprehensive intuitions of the Higher 
 Law. In private life he was justly esteemed 
 for his purity of cliaracter and his many acts of 
 unostentatious charity. It may be said of him 
 briefly, that, as an able and upright judge, a 
 conscientious citizen and an honest lawyer he 
 commanded and retained the confidence and 
 respect of his fellow men. 
 
 In 1880 he left Virginia City for Tombstone, 
 Arizona, whence, after two years of practice as 
 an attorney, he went to San Francisco and 
 formed a partnership with Judge Dibble, 
 their relations continuing to exist until the 
 death of Judge Lewis. His reputation as an 
 attorney and his well-known reliable character 
 
 extended his relations in his business and he 
 was frequently called to distant fields to con- 
 duct prominent and important cases and, on 
 one of these occasions, his severe labors with the 
 extreme heat proved fatal. 
 
 He had ])een to Yuma, Arizona, at a period 
 when the " washouts " on the routes of travel 
 interfered witii the movements of the public 
 and in one of the delays on this account he was 
 seized with congestion of the brain and passed 
 away Aug. 18, 188(3, after a few hours of suffer- 
 ing. He was at the zenith of a successful niiin- 
 hood, of fame and usefulness and his death 
 was a loss that can never be repaired to a 
 broad circleof personal and professional friends, 
 who had watched his career with the intensest 
 satisfaction and love. 
 
 In November, 1864, he was married in San 
 Francisco to Elizabeth, daughter of Seneca and 
 Susan (Bentley) Raymond, who is his survivor. 
 Her father was a pioneer of Eastern Wisconsin. 
 He was born in Lewiston, Niagara Co., New 
 York, and in September, 1836, was married to 
 Susan Bentley, of Onondaga Co., New York. 
 In October following they sought a home in 
 the West, locating on a farm about 12 miles 
 from the city of Racine, and there Mr. Ray- 
 mond became the possessor of a beautiful tract 
 of land under high cultivation. After some 
 years of farm life, he removed witii his house- 
 hold to the city of Racine, wiiere he passed an 
 esteemed and honored old age. Raymond 
 township and village preserve his name and 
 the remembrance of liis life of usefulness and 
 honor. 
 
 William J. Lewis, father of Judge Lewis, was 
 the representative of a long line of ancestors of 
 the highest character in his native country, 
 belonging in successive generations to the pro- 
 fessions and attaining distinction in intellectual 
 circles. He was educated for a divine of the 
 Episcopal Church, and was graduated from 
 
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 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 Christ's College, Oxford, England. He was a 
 man of decided views and in his administration 
 of liis parish duties, his sermons on infant hap- 
 tism were of such liherul type as to elicit 
 the disapprobation of the bishop and he re- 
 signed his charge. He finally withdrew from 
 the Church and became an adherent of the 
 Baptist denomination. He removed to the 
 United States and died at Utica, New York, in 
 1868. 
 
 The mother of Judge Lewis was a woman of 
 deeply religious character, refined and culti- 
 vated, and came of a family of wide relations 
 in her native country whicli dates from 1(570 
 in direct line. The earliest traceable ancestors 
 were in high esteem with the Government and 
 sustained the record in succeeding generations. 
 Between the years 1790 and 1835, three of the 
 brothers of Mrs. Lewis received appointments 
 under the crown, including a Chancellorship, 
 a position as Post Commandant at Liverpool or 
 London and a Captaincy in the Roj-al Navy, 
 and for their united meritorious deeds the fam- 
 ily received a crest, emblematic of "The Army, 
 The Navy and The Judiciary." 
 
 Mrs. Lewis returned to Utica, New York, and 
 died not long after, in 1879, at the home of her 
 daughter, Mrs. Margaret Garlock, wife of Dr. 
 Garlock, now of Racine, leaving three children 
 — Mrs. Garlock, James F. and William Tumor 
 Lewis, of Racine. 
 
 The latter was born at Utica, New York, 
 March 10, 1840, and went with his parents to 
 Racine in 1855 and he has since been a resi- 
 dent of that city. He learned the business of a 
 carriage trimmer which he abandoned for 
 telegraphy, which was taught him by his 
 brother James, who resigned the position of 
 manager of the Racine office in his favor, 
 but he soon became dis.satislied with his com- 
 parative inactivity under the stress of National 
 atfairs which left their weight on every con- 
 
 scientious son of the Republic. William T. 
 Lewis i.s, par excellence, the son of iiis father 
 and no issue affecting the interests of the Re- 
 public escapes his attention. He could not re- 
 main inert and resigned his situation to engage 
 in the service of the Government in such 
 capacity as would enable him to render the 
 best aid in his jiower in the emergency. He 
 accepted a position as telegraph operator first 
 at Etowah, Ga., after the completion of a bridge 
 across the Etowah River, which the confeder- 
 ates destroyed on their retreat south. Young 
 Lewis was afterwards placed on duty at head- 
 quarters of the 3d Division of the 15th Army 
 Corps where he was taken sick with jaundice. 
 He remained until he became disabled for duty 
 and asked for leave of absence, which was 
 granted by Captain Van Duzen, Supterintcnd- 
 ent of Military Telegraph Lines. The fall of 
 Atlanta and the march to the sea changed all 
 plans in the Western army and did away with 
 the necessity for telegraph operators except such 
 as accompanied the columns of the force that 
 crossed to llio Atlantic. 
 
 In the fall of 18<;4, Mr. Lewis married Mary 
 L Mitchell. He i> \'ice-Presideut of the 
 Mitchell & Lewis Company and President of the 
 Badger Electric Company. He is President of 
 the National Anti-Convict Association and 
 deeply interested in moulding public opinion 
 against the present method of employing con- 
 vict labor in lieu of honest, law-abiding and 
 tax-paying wage earners. He is one of Racine's 
 succcs.sful, active and energetic business men 
 and iuiierits the endurance, perseverance and 
 physical hardihood of his progenitors in both 
 lines of descent. He is cognizant of no such 
 thing as fatigue while prosecuting any enter- 
 prise which engages his interest. 
 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 845 
 
 EROME I. CASE, Racine, Wis., of whom ' 
 ix portrait appears on the opposite page, 
 was born Dec. 11, 1819, in Williamstown, 
 Oswego Co., New York. His "pedigree" can be 
 traced to a brotherhood of four who came from 
 England to America in tlie days of first things 
 in tiie Atlantic region and from one of tliese 
 his father descended. The names "Cass" 
 and " Casej' " sprang from the original pa- 
 tronymic, Case. The name of the mother of 
 Mr. Case prior to marriage was Jackson and she j 
 belonged to the same line as the sturdy General { 
 and President. ' 
 
 To the age of 15, Mr. Case was an attendant 
 at the district schools in the winter seasons and 
 at that date, 1835, he took a vital interest in the 
 advancement of a project in which his father 
 had become a factor. Theretofore the common 
 mode of threshing was with the ordinary Hail 
 and the value of machinery in that line was 
 self-evident, which fact the senior Case recog- 
 nized and which awakened the sagacity and 
 foresight of the son. The faith of the father in 
 his boy's integrity, ability and industry was 
 great and, as he had developed a taste for ma- 
 chiner}', he intrusted him with the manage- 
 ment of a threshing machine of which he had 
 become the owner. It would be fitting to in- 
 troduce here a picture of the rickety, imperfect 
 rattle-trap which was a God-send to that gener- 
 ation and the starting point in the career which 
 has brought Mr. Case to the front in the history 
 of farm implements. 
 
 When he was 21, he commenced business as 
 a manager in his own behalf ;ind, undei'Stand- 
 ing the need of a sound education, he saved his 
 earnings for that purpose and in 1841 became 
 a student at Me.xicoville, New York. After- 
 wards, being unable to abandon his ideas of 
 improving threshing machines, he devoted his 
 attention to the work and, obtaining credit on 
 the strength of his persevering character, he 
 
 bought six one-horse, tread-power machines 
 and started for Western fields. He went to Wis- 
 consin, sought buyers at Racine and sold all 
 but one machine, which he kept for purposes 
 of experiment and " threshed " until his ma- 
 chine was worn out. In the course of his tinker- 
 ing with it, the feasibility of engaging in the 
 manufacture and gradual improvement of it 
 engrossed his attention until, in the winter of 
 1843-4, he produced a combination which 
 threshed and separated the grain and in the 
 fall of 1844 he was the first to put it in practical 
 operation. Popular opinion predicted that the 
 threshing machine business would hardly repay 
 the young inventor and manufacturer, as the 
 machines would accomplish so much that they 
 would be a drug in the market, but Mr. Case 
 pushed his affairs until 1847, when he erected 
 a shop which was 30 feet in width, 90 feet long 
 and three stories high. It was regarded as a 
 foolish procedure, but Mr. Case had a sense of 
 pride in the town in which his business was to 
 take a leading position and in a few years he 
 found his 30x90 building quite too small and 
 has since kept adding building after building 
 until, in 1890, the factory is the most mag- 
 nificent business plant in the west. 
 
 There are 30 acres covered with commodious 
 structures which are a delight in themselves to 
 strangers who travel to Racine to look over 
 this gigantic industry, and it is so efficiently 
 managed that the concern, so to speak, runs 
 itself. Every portion is in the hands of tested 
 and trusted employes, and the policy of Mr. 
 Case in the enlargement of the works and in 
 the additioli of principals, whose interests were 
 entirely with the business, has been to recog- 
 nize the merits of others who have been instru- 
 mental in advancing his enterprises. It is not 
 within the province of this sketch to enlarge 
 on the interests of the J. I. Case Threshing 
 Machine Company, and the reader is referred 
 
846 
 
 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 to the sketches of M. B. Erskine and Stephen 
 Bull for further information on this point. Suf- 
 fice it to say that, in 1890 the manufacturing 
 capacity of the plant is $2,000,000 per annum. 
 The buildings connected \C-ith the works form 
 a village in themselves, including the resi- 
 dences of the workmen, wlio, with their families, 
 form a sixth of the population of Racine. 
 
 Mr. Case was one of the founders of the J. T. 
 Case Plow Company whose affairs, when he 
 determined their necessities, fell into his hands 
 and under his management they have been 
 since 1884, an emihent success. 
 
 From the date of his connection with the 
 history of Racine, Mr. Case has been associated 
 with all her prominent financial interests and 
 has made many other men independent. In 
 1871 he became one of the incorporators of the 
 Manufacturers' National Bank of Racine, and 
 has been its President ever since its organiza- 
 tion. In the same year he aided in establish- 
 ing the National Bank at Burlington in Racine 
 county, of which he has been President since 
 its organization. And later, as his relations 
 with the far west have extended, he has assisted 
 in establishing banking houses at Monrovia, 
 Cal., Fargo, Dak., and Crookston, Minn. (It 
 should have been added above that the Thresh- 
 ing Machine Company are engaged in 1890, in 
 the manufacture of the Cunningham Cotton 
 Picker, for a southern j>atentee which is ex- 
 pected to efiect a revolution in the harvesting 
 of that staple). 
 
 In local affairs in his municipality Mr. Case 
 has been equally active and efficient. He has 
 been Mayor of Rixcineand has served a terra as 
 State Senator. No matter, affecting the in- 
 terests of his townsmen, has escaped his atten- 
 tion. When the war threatened the destruc- 
 tion of all he had accomplished and all he 
 hoped for, he was among the foremost in ac- 
 tivity and furnii^hcd aid of the most practical 
 
 ' and valuable type. Wiien Colonel William 
 Utley devoted himself to raising and organizing 
 a regiment, Mr. Case offered §1,000 to the first 
 company raised and in every way possible he 
 contributed to tlie general result, liis money 
 being freely applied, and the care of and in- 
 terest in the volunteers and their families being 
 a prominent consideration with him under all 
 circumstances. 
 
 Hundreds of incidents in tiie life of Mr. Case 
 might be written and still the half not be told 
 of his large heartedness, force of character and 
 business capacity. His property relations have 
 spread almost across the continent. When 
 California lands were booming, he took advan- 
 tage of opportunity and he is the owner of res- 
 idences at Passadena and Monrovia where he 
 expects to escape when need comes, from the 
 climatic rigors of the lake region of Wisconsin. 
 During the summer of 1889 he traveled in 
 Europe with Mrs. Case and his daughter, Mrs. 
 Wallis. 
 
 Mr. Case finds deep satisfaction in the im- 
 provement of blooded horses. If he could choose 
 his epitaph he would direct that the record be 
 that he owned the fastest trotter on the globe. 
 He is the furthest possible from anything in 
 the line of jockeyism, and it is an event of a 
 lifetime to see him when his stock is speeding 
 on some famous track, competing with horses 
 with whom it is an honor to contend. He sees 
 in such an occasion an element of sport which 
 comports with dignity and which affords legiti- 
 mate opportunity to display the judgment of 
 stock growers and owners of trotting horses, 
 and his stables make an enviable exhibit. He 
 also owns a third interest in tlieGlenview stock 
 farm near Louisville, Ky., where he transacts 
 business in connection with the rearing and 
 training of trotting liorses and in ail sporting 
 circles in the avenue referred to, lie is as well- 
 known as any man on the American continent. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 He won fame with Jay-Ej'e-See and Phallas 
 and takes pride in "Brown," record 2:1 SJ as 
 a "four year old." 
 
 The limits of tins work compel tlie close of a 
 most inadequate account of Mr. Casein his bus- 
 iness and other relations. Few men make so 
 little personal display of wealth as he; he takes 
 no satisfaction in exhibiting what he has done 
 bej'ond other men; his iiabits are unostentatious, 
 his tastes simple and he regards the good of all 
 a thing to be desired. His home is elegant but 
 not imposing ; his associations are those of the 
 true Westerner — breezy, candid, trusting. His 
 face alwa\'S bears the mark of the happy spirit 
 within, and when he shall iiave become only a 
 memory to the people of Racine, no man will 
 be more missed or lamented; not a severe 
 thought will follow him. He needs no better 
 tribute. 
 
 Mr. Case is one of four brothers who are liv- 
 ing. His marriage to Lydia, sister of Stephen 
 Bull, took place in 1849. Of their seven chil- 
 dren four survive — Henrietta, now Mrs. Per- 
 cival S. Fuller; Jessie F., Mrs. H. M. Wallis; 
 Amada, Mrs. J. J. Crooks, of California, and 
 .Jackson, the only son. He is married and 
 devotes his time to his father's stock interests. 
 
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 ^<^^l^§i^'-^ 
 
 OHN PLANKINTON.— In the history of 
 the phenomenal progress of the -city of 
 Milwaukee, no name stands more con- 
 spicuous than that which introduces this in- 
 adequate account of a man whose whole course 
 of life within her precincts has been one long 
 train of benefits to the locality. No taint of 
 seltish ambition will ever shadow the splendid 
 record of his achievements. When generations 
 to come speak the name of John Plankinton, it 
 will be with honor for his life, with love for his 
 simple character, and with pride that his 
 
 abilities and accumulation of wealth found their 
 best application in the permanent growth and 
 advancement of the beautiful city, whose pros- 
 perity was as dear to him as his principles of 
 manhood and citizenship. 
 
 He was born in New Castle Co., Delaware, 
 March 1 1 , 1820, and grew up near his birthplace, 
 and, early awakening to the fact that the east 
 presented but small scope for his energies, after 
 a brief slay in Pennsylvania, went to Milwaukee, 
 with the purpose of going into business, and 
 stepped first on Wisconsin soil Sept. 8, 1844, 
 from the steamer "C4reat Western." He looked 
 about for the best opening he could find in the 
 line of business he had expected to engage in, 
 and leased a piece of ground on Grand avenue 
 at $60 a year and erected thereon a frame 
 structure, costing $110, in wliich he began to 
 sell meat, 14 days after his arrival in the city. 
 With a capital of only $450, such was his thrift, 
 good judgment and popularity that his sales 
 the first year reached the amount of §12,000. 
 As his business and experience broadened he 
 perceived tlnit an immense field of profit was 
 open to enterprise guided in the right direction, 
 and he engaged in the business of buying the 
 large numbers of cattle and hogs with which 
 the new country had become stocked and, after 
 operating a year alone, formed a partnership 
 with Frederick Layton, the style being Layton 
 & Plankinton. This relation existed until 1860, 
 when Mr. Plankinton conducted his affairs 
 singly three years, rising to a first rank in his 
 line of business, a statement which implies 
 little of the real status of Mr. Plankinton as a 
 liusiness factor in one of the greatest enterprises 
 which have marked the immense progress of 
 the AVest. 
 
 In 186.3, Mr. Plankinton and Mr. P. D. Ar- 
 became partners, and soon after ad- 
 
 mour 
 
 ditional houses were established in Chicago, in 
 Kansas City and in New York. 
 
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 The wealth of Mr. Plankinton has been 
 chiefly appropriated to the improvement of the 
 city of Milwaukee. The Plankinton hloek, 
 fronting on Grand Avenue, containing besides 
 the hotel which bears his name and which has 
 a world-wide celebrity as one of the best hostel- 
 ries in the Northwest, many business offices, 
 is alone a sufficient monument to his public 
 spirit. In addition to this he has built busi- 
 ness blocks on the corners of Second and Fourth 
 streets, which are not only a source of pride to 
 the citizens of Milwaukee, but a surprise to 
 strangers who visit the city. They are fine 
 buildings, one being seven stories high and 
 constructed in the most substantial manner 
 known to modern architecture and afford, in 
 addition to spacious, perfectly planned and 
 appointed business quarters, hundreds of offices. 
 In justice to Mr. Plankinton it must be stated 
 that, with true business acumen and judgment, 
 he has placed his buildings at the service of 
 tlie business [lublic according to a method 
 which has insured tlie prosperity of his tenants 
 as well as his own. While tliis has the appear- 
 ance of a generous philantliroj)y, it is also the 
 prescience of an experienced man of business, 
 wiio properly understands the most substantial 
 method of securing permanency and profit to 
 all concerned. One million dollars has been 
 expended on the Plankinton block alone, and a 
 book might be written about the beautiful 
 hotel, its management and popularity-, the latter 
 item rivaling that of the best known public 
 house in the country. Mr. Plankinton, although 
 he has reached the alloted limit of life, is still 
 arranging for the construction of further build- 
 ings wliich will add to the beauty and prosper- 
 ity of Milwaukee. 
 
 The character of Mr. Plankinton is one which 
 deserves a full elaboration at the hands of an 
 impartial biograj)lier. Much as he has accom- 
 plished he has done so without the sacrifice of 
 
 a friend, without incurring enmity or antago- 
 nism, and in Milwaukee he is honored and 
 believed in as he deserves. The people of the 
 Cream City regard him in the light of a general 
 benefactor and, although no man is more 
 decided than he in opinion, nor firmer in 
 allegiance to his convictions, no imputation 
 deleterious to the quality of his manhood has 
 or can rest upon his repute. He is observing, 
 reflective and silent. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican, and in religious faith a Presbyterian. 
 He has a splendid physical constitution, pre- 
 served unbroken for almost 70 years by his 
 plain habits and observance of the best laws of 
 health. For the benefit of those who will 
 study accounts of his life work, it must be 
 added that he is tall, erect and well propor- 
 tioned ; he is a faithful friend, affable and 
 genial to all, and no more prominent figure 
 has ever moved on the thoroughfares of the 
 city where his name will endure while a 
 knowledge of the existence of Milwaukee 
 
 lingers in the minds of men. 
 
 «f»^S*N^S^*«i§s* 
 
 /^J^ EORGE BRUMDER, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 {. (■'f J °^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ most prominent publishers 
 
 m 
 
 the German language in tiie 
 
 United States, was born May 24, 1839, in 
 Breuschwickersheim, Province of Alsace, Ger- 
 many, and is the son of George and Chri.stine 
 (Noeppel) Brumder, both natives of "Das 
 Vaterland." The father was a school teacher 
 and died at 63 years of age ; the demise of the 
 mother occurred Sejit. 19, 1881, both dying in 
 their native land, on the homestead where they 
 had passed their married lives. They had IG 
 children of whom nine survive: — Martin, 
 Christine, Frederick, Anna, Catlicrine, Bar])ara, 
 Caroline, Madelein and George. 
 
 The latter received his boyhood's training 
 
CHICAGO PHOTO-GRAVURC CO. 
 
^Vc^U.'S^'K' loAA^LL. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
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 under the regulations made and provided by 
 law in his native land, attending school until 
 14, when lie learned the trade of a carpenter. 
 He was nearly at an age for the conscription, 
 but did not wait to serve a compulsory mili- 
 tary career and sailed for the United States in 
 1857, arriving in the summer and proceeding 
 to Milwaukee. He brought with him, as a 
 starter in the world, about |300, and was vari- 
 ously engaged until 1865, when he embarked 
 in the sale of books, establishing his business 
 in the same block in which he is now located. 
 About 1875 he removed to bis present stand 
 on which he had erected the building he now 
 occupies and entered upon the publication of the 
 Gerinania, a weekly newspaper, which has been 
 transformed into a semi-weekly and has reached 
 a circulation of 82,150 in 1890, the largest 
 of any German journal in the United States. 
 In 1878 the Deutsche Warie, published in Chi- 
 cago, 111., was started as a weekly and was after- 
 wards made a semi-weekly, its subscription 
 list reaching in the current year, 25,750. In 
 the same year Mr. Brumder established the 
 Deuti^clies VolhblaU, published in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 also a weekly, which has been changed into a 
 semi-weekly. The Hmis- und Bauemfreund, an 
 agricultural journal, issued weekly, has a cir- 
 culation of 125,000. In 1878 Mr. Brumder es- 
 tablished the Erholungsstunden, a weekly family 
 newspaper which has a circvilation of 22,000. 
 Tlie aggregated circulation of the papers pub- 
 lished in CTcrman by iVfr. Brumder, is over 250,- 
 000, a showing which cannot l)e rivaled in the 
 world of publications issued by one house in 
 one language, and about lialf a million papers 
 leave the Germania publishing house each 
 week. 
 
 In 1880 he added a binding department, a 
 necessit}' arising from the rapidly increasing 
 publications of books, which is the largest and 
 most fully equipped establishment of its kind 
 
 in the Northwest. There is a branch office of 
 the establishment in Chicago and in Buffalo, 
 N. Y., and in Milwaukee about 150 men are 
 employed. One of the latest enterprises in 
 which Mr. Brumder is interested is the publi- 
 cation in English and German of "North Amer- 
 ican Birds." It should be added that the house 
 transacts a large business in publishing Eng- 
 lish works. The annual business amounts to 
 about 1400,000. 
 
 Mr. Brumder was married July 19, 18G5, to 
 Henrietta Brandhorst, and they have eight liv- 
 ing children — Amalia, Ida, William, Emma, 
 Alfred, George, Herman and Herbert. Alfred, 
 Ella and Henrietta are not living. Politicall}', 
 Mr. Brumder is independent in opinion. 
 
 H..^^^^*4^ 
 
 TEPHEN BULL, a ])rominent business 
 factor of Racine, Wis., was born March 
 14, 1822, in Cayuga Co., New York. 
 His father, De Grove Bull, married Amanda 
 Crosby ; he was born in Dutchess Co., New York, 
 and was the son of Horace Bull, who was a 
 native of Hartford, Conn., of English ancestors ; 
 the mother and her father were natives of Put- 
 nam Co., Conn., and represented a family of 
 early American stock. The father of Mr. Bull 
 was a farmer by occupation and removed to 
 Wisconsin in 1846, locating in Raymond, 
 Racine county. This was the homestead and 
 there he and his wife died. Their 11 children 
 were named in the order of l)irth Sallie, Janet, 
 George, Stephen, Clarissa, Lydia A. (Mrs. J. I. 
 Case), Daniel, James, Caroline, Wakely T. and 
 Charles H.; Sallie, George and James are de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Tiie early life of Stephen Bull was passed on 
 a farm and when he was 18 years of age he went 
 to New York to fill a situation as clerk in a 
 grocery. After five years passed in that oecu- 
 
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 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 pation he came back to Wisconsin and after a 
 short stay at Racine went to Burlington and 
 thence to Spring Prairie where lie opened the 
 sale of general merchandise. In 1857 he sold 
 out, went to Racine, and was engaged with his 
 brother-in-law, J. I. Case, until 1803, when the 
 business firm which included Messrs. Case, 
 Erskine, Robert Baker and himself was formed, 
 the style being J. I. Case it Co. Under the 
 management of Mr. Case, who established the 
 manufacture of threshing machines at Racine, 
 tlu' business had grown to an extent which 
 required the supervision of individuals of re- 
 sponsible character and from this necessity grew 
 tlie formation of the company. It is also a fact 
 Chat Mr. Case, with a jieculiar generosity, 
 selected personal friends as well as tested 
 employes whose abilities had developed in their 
 connection with the business and to whose in- 
 tegrity and capacity he realized his indebted- 
 ness and which he acknowledged in a manner 
 which has insured the permanence and re- 
 pute of the business. It is probable that 
 tlie factors in this gigantic business corpor- 
 ation stand unique in their mutual relations, 
 their confidence in and esteem for each other 
 having never known change or abatement. 
 Under their combined management the busi- 
 ness extended until 1880, when the J. I. Case 
 Tiireshing Machine Company was organized 
 with a paid up capital of $1,000,000, besides a 
 surplus, and the firm style has remained intact 
 since that date. On his accession to a fourth 
 interest in the concern Mr. Bull became Vice- 
 President and General Manager, and when the 
 responsibilities involved in the latter position, 
 in which the incumbent is the practical head 
 of the manufacturing dejwrtments of an 
 interest with a pay roll of about S-40,000 per 
 month, is estimated, some idea of Mr. Bull's 
 executive ability may be formed. He is also 
 an invenler of no common capacity and many 
 
 improvements in the products of the establish- 
 ment are due to his genius. (For further par- 
 ticulars of the relations of the J. I. Case Thresh- 
 ing Machine Company, see sketches of .J. I. 
 Case and M. B. Erskine). 
 
 Notwithstanding the complications of Mr. 
 Bull's relations with the corporation referred to, 
 he is connected with other business enterprises, 
 among which are the Milwaukee Harvesting 
 Machine Company, the First National Bank of 
 Burlington and also the Manufacturers National 
 Bank of Racine. 
 
 In private character, Mr. Bull is a man who 
 regards above all other considerations his rela- 
 tions as a citizen and to his family. His ac- 
 knowledged abilities and popularity personally 
 would confer upon him any emolument of pub- 
 lic position in the community to wliich he be- 
 longs. He is a man of broad gauge in his rela- 
 tions with humanit}' and he never makes an 
 enemy; it is almost impossible to give him 
 offense, save through the discovery of wicked 
 dereliction where he has bestowed confidence. 
 For quiet charity and sympathy with sorrow 
 he has no peer, and no one wlio knows him 
 will ilemur at this most just tribute to a trait 
 of character which has engraved the name of 
 Stephen Bull on many hearts whose griefs have 
 been made lighter by his personal interest. At 
 the time of the war he was interested, heart 
 and soul, in the part taken by volunteers from 
 his connnunity, and he contributed substan- 
 tially to the general result by jmlicious advice 
 and forethought, while the records of his city 
 manifest his practical connection with what is 
 included in the term "sinews of war." His 
 large farm near Racine is managed in a man- 
 ner which shows the advantjvge of his early 
 training on the homestead in Raymond. 
 
 He was married in .Tune, 1849, at White 
 Pigeon, Mich., to Ellen C., daughter of Albert B. 
 Kellogg. Their children are Mrs. Ida B. Con- 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS. 
 
 853 
 
 ger, wife of the Vice-President of the Milwau- 
 kee Hiirvester Co.; Frank K., Secretary of the 
 J. 1. Case T. M. Co.; Mrs. -Janet Gage Robinson ; 
 Mrs. Lillian M. Robinson; Fred Herbert, a 
 farmer in Wyoming; Bessie M., a student at 
 Stuttgardt, Germany. Mrs. Bull died March 
 27, ISSO, at Racine, and on this loss to her fam- 
 ily no comment need be added. Mr. Bull is a 
 Republican in political relations and a member 
 of the Masonic Order. In 1889 he accompanied 
 his youngest daughter to Europe, where she is 
 pursuing her studies. Mr. Bull's portrait is 
 presented on page 850. 
 
 ^ 
 
 T^^T ON. EMIL WALLBER, Milwaukee, 
 'IpViI^ Wis., Judge of the Municipal Court, 
 
 J^ ^il^ was born April 1, 1841, in Berlin, 
 Prussia, where his parents, Julius and Henrietta 
 (Krohn) Wallber, resided all their lives prior to 
 removal to the United States in 1850. The 
 family occupied a position second to few in that 
 country, where successive geuerations succeed to 
 rank and standing in social aud government 
 matters. The administrative affairs of Prussia 
 demand the co-operation of certain classes who 
 are considered as holding right of primogeniture 
 almost as much as if sanctioned by law, so sys- 
 tematically are their relations to the govern- 
 ment regulated. Judge Wallber's forbears be- 
 longed to the better classes referred to, people 
 of refinement and culture who retained from 
 time immemorial their prestige. The integrity, 
 worth and culture they have brought to this 
 country have constituted one of the best strains 
 in the Nationality. Julius Wallber and his 
 wife considered the advantages a free Govern- 
 ment offered to their sons, who were liable to 
 all the stringencies of government regulations 
 in their native country, and brought their flock 
 of small people to New York, remaining there, 
 
 giving three sons the advantages of education 
 in the schools, Emil attending tlie free Acad- 
 emy during the latter years of his stay there. 
 The curriculum of study at that institution was 
 calculated to awaken every intellectual capacity 
 in the mind of an amliitious boy, and he im- 
 proved every opportunity the school offered. 
 His systematic education had greatly assisted 
 in disciplining his mind, and while he pressed 
 his miscellaneous studies he did not relinquish 
 his early formed determination to enter the 
 legal profession. Not long after coming to Mil- 
 waukee he made successful application to a 
 leading legal firm for admission to their office 
 to read law. When Winfield Smith and Ed- 
 ward Salomon undertook the guidance of his 
 reading, his future was assured. Both were 
 men of the highest position, with a clear under- 
 standing of the value of every moment of time, 
 and they saw in the young German, with his 
 ambition and stainless character, an assistant 
 worthy of the place the\' could give him, as 
 well as an aid in their clerical business of great 
 promise. In 1864 he passed a very thorough 
 examination in open Court and was admitted 
 to practice in tlie State and Federal Courts. 
 Wlien Mr. Salomon became lieutenant gov- 
 ernor in the fall of 1861, Mr. Wallber remained 
 in the office at Milwaukee with the firm. When 
 his chief succeeded Governor Harvey as chief 
 executive of Wisconsin, Mr. Wallber went to 
 Madison and acted as chief clerk of the 
 executive office during Governor Salomon's 
 term. In 1864 Mr. Wallber was appointed 
 Asst. Att}'. General of Wisconsin and served 
 two years, returning to Milwaukee to establish 
 his business as an attorney. He performed his 
 duties to his clients in a manner that recom- 
 mended him for public preferment and, in 
 1873, he was elected City Attorney. He filled 
 the office by successive re-elections until he de- 
 clined inflexibly to be again a candidate in 
 
854 
 
 CITIZENS' ALBUM OF 
 
 1S7S. He, however, accejited tlie position of 
 Court Coniuiissiouor and continued to discharge 
 the duties until. 18SS. In 1S80 he was again 
 urged for City Attorney but was tirm in de- 
 clining. In April, 1SS4, he was elected Mayor 
 of Milwaukee and re-elected in April, ISSG. 
 In April, 1889, he was elected Judge of the 
 Municipal Court of Milwaukee county, and 
 took his seat in January, 1800. He has been 
 a faithful servitor of his generation in local 
 municipal positions, serving as School Commis- 
 sioner of the Sixth Ward from 1870 to 1873, 
 otHciating in 1871-"2 as President of the Board. 
 In 1872 he represented the Sixth District as 
 Assemblyman and officiated on important com- 
 mittees. In the spring of 1883 he was aj)- 
 ponited Regent of the State Normal Schools of 
 Wisconsin and resigned in December, 1889, to 
 accept his judicial position. He is a prominent 
 member of the "Turnverein Milwaukee"' and 
 has filled all the principal ofKcial positions of 
 the Society, besides being many years President 
 of the State organization of Wisconsin. He be- 
 longs to Aurora Lodge No. 30, Masonic Order, 
 to the American Legion of Honor, to the Order 
 of Hermann's Sons, to the Milwaukee Musical 
 Society, to the Deutsche Ciesellschaft and to the 
 Kindergarten Vercin der Nordwest Seite. He 
 was instrumental in founding the last named 
 society. Socially, Judge Wallber is highly 
 esteemed and is considered in Milwaukee as 
 constituting a member of society whose relations 
 have ever been maintained consistently with 
 his character as a citizen of the municipality 
 who has fully demonstrated his entire adoption 
 of the connections of citizenship. 
 
 lie was married Sept. 5, 1868, to Minna 
 Soeger and their children are named Fritz, 
 Otto and Etta. The oldest son is employed in 
 the Commercial Bank at Milwaukee ; Otto is a 
 clerk with the Hanford Oil Company. 
 
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 ^ 
 
 ATHIAS M. SECOK. a prominent 
 /^i"-^"^\ manufacturer of Kacine, Wis., 
 fc^ ._A^^\^ ^.gg \jQxi\ in Bohemia and accom- 
 panied his parents, Mathias and Fanny Secor 
 to this country in 1851. Their children are all 
 living and are named Mary Theresa, Peter, 
 Barbara and Josephine. I'ntil he was 14 Mr. 
 Secor remained on his father's farm in Cale- 
 donia Township, Racine Co., when he took the 
 guidance of his own attairs under management 
 and went to Racine to learn tlie ways of busi- 
 ness. He was clerk in a grocery one year, 
 after which he began to learn the trade of a 
 saddler, and engaged in making trunks for a 
 time. When he was "21, in 1861, he had a kit 
 of tools and $80 in money and he borrowed 
 §100 with which to establish himself in busi- 
 ness and started the manufacture of harness 
 and all articles pertaining to that avenue of 
 industry, in which he operated until sometime 
 in 18G"2, when he commenced the manutacture 
 of trunks in a building adjoining his harness 
 shop. After pursuing the two jointly alx)ut 
 seven years, he sold his hai'ness business and 
 has since devoted his attention exclusively, so 
 far as manufacturing is concerned, to the mak- 
 insr of trunks. In 1800 his business had 
 extended far beyond the scope of the building 
 he occupied on Main street and in that year he 
 erected a frame building on Lake Avenue, 
 40x80 feet in extent. To this he added two 
 others 40x80 feet, and three stories high. This 
 frame building is still standing, has been raised 
 to five stories above a stone foundation, veneered 
 with brick and finished with an iron roof. In 
 1874 he put up a brick building three stories 
 hif^h, 40 bv 80 feet and two stories have been 
 added to this establishment, making it five 
 stories, and one of the most extensive manufac- 
 turing structures in Racine. In 1882 the extent 
 of the business was such as to necessitate the 
 building of another structure of brick, four 
 
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 stories in height, 65 by 80 feet, in wliicii the 
 power was placed to operate the entire works. 
 In addition additional buildings weve erected, 
 00 by 100 feet, fireproof and located on the 
 corner of Lake Avenue and 4tli street. The 
 machinery is all of the latest and most im- 
 proved pattern, and in addition to the build- 
 ings enumerated, there are a numher wiiich are 
 utilized us dwellings for the employes and for 
 store houses. The corporation is now engaged 
 in putting in machinery to increase the facili- 
 ties for the making of traveling bags, of wliicli 
 about 60 varieties are made and nearly 80 sorts 
 of trunks. The annual output is about 75,000 
 pieces of merchandise, representing about 
 $250,000. The trade extends to all the West- 
 ern States, to most of the Southern States and 
 to Pennsylvania. On the road the company is 
 represented by 12 salesmen and the force of 
 employes number about 200. In 1887 Mr. 
 Secor decided to associate with himself in the 
 concern several of liis oldest employes, includ- 
 ing Joseph Welfel, Joseph Kristerius, Vincel 
 Pokorney, Ignatz Bures and F. N. Grumm. 
 The firm was incorporated in 1887 under the 
 style of the " Northwestern Trunk and Travel- 
 ing Bag Company," with M. M. Secor, Presi- 
 dent, Mrs. M. M. Secor, Vice-President, Joseph 
 Welfel, Treasurer, Joseph Kristerius, Secretary 
 and Ignatz Bures, Superintendent, the capital 
 stock being $100,000. The establishment has 
 received the notice it deserves from the indus- 
 trial publications, the Scientific American giving 
 it the prestige of its dictum in stating " that it 
 is one of the most extensive establishments of 
 the kind in the world." 
 
 Mr. Secor was married Feb. 4, 1862, to Fan- 
 ny, daughter of Frank and Fanny Ilaygek, and 
 Louise, Anna, Mattie, Emma and Fraukie are 
 
 their children. Louise is the wife of F. N. 
 Grumm, a prominent merchant of Denver, Col- 
 orado. 
 
 Mr. Secor is one of the prominent citizens of 
 Racine, and is a man of peculiarly indepen- 
 dent and outspoken character. His success in 
 business and popularity with the laboring 
 classes, added to the discharge of a former book- 
 keeper have made him the object of malice. In 
 1886, while driving home one evening, he felt 
 impressed that some calamity was impending 
 for which he had been looking, knowing the 
 source of much of the malice and hatred which 
 followed him. He drove with great rapidity, 
 and after leaving his buggy and entering his 
 home a terrific explosion shook the premises. 
 Examination showed that a dynamite bomb 
 had been exploded izi the track of his carriage 
 drive and his life had been saved by the merest 
 chance. The ground was torn up in every 
 direction and quantities of missiles commonly 
 placed in such instruments were found. Traces 
 of blood were also found which were followed 
 and led to the discovery of an individual who 
 was making efibrts to conceal himself. He 
 proved to be a man who was the tool of others 
 who desired the destruction of Mr. Secor with- 
 out risk to themselves. The man was arrested, 
 tried, found guilty and sentenced to prison for 
 ten years, while the really guilty parties re- 
 mained free and unharmed. 
 
 Mr. Secor has been called to fill several pub- 
 lic capacities. In 1873 he was made School 
 Commissioner on the Republican ticket and 
 again in 1875. In 1884 he was elected Mayor 
 on the Democratic ticket, and in 1888 was 
 elected to the same position. In religious belief 
 he is independent as he is in social and politi- 
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 ■f HE order of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic was, 
 in the beginning, the di- 
 rect outgrowth of ex- 
 change of reminiscences 
 and sentiments of the 
 veterans of the Civil War, in 
 their chance meetings. There 
 were a million of men scat- 
 tered Ihroughout the length 
 and breadth of the land wlio 
 had a common bond of unity 
 — their memories of hours 
 of trial, danger and triumph. 
 It is a conceded fact that tlie 
 initiatory steps to constitute the Order were 
 taken in Illinois. The name of Dr. B. F. 
 Stephenson, Surgeon of the 14th Illinois 
 Infantry, is the first connected with the 
 systematic organization of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic. In the winter of 1865-6 
 he discussed with comrades at Springfield, III., 
 the feasibility and propriety of an organiza- 
 tion of veteran soldiers. In the mass of data 
 from which this account is compiled the state- 
 ments regarding its purpose conflict. One ac- 
 count explicitly states that its object was politi- 
 cal and another declares with equal decision 
 that the plan included no such possibility. 
 But the settlement of the point in no man- 
 
 ner concerns this narration. At this writing, 
 1890, only one survivor of the original framers 
 of the ritualistic work of the Order survives. 
 At the National Encampment at St. Louis, in 
 .lune, 1887, Fred .1. Dean, of Fort Scott, Ark., 
 stated that he was the oldest living member of 
 the G. A. R. "In February-, 1SG6, myself, 
 together with Drs. Hamilton and George H. 
 Allen, assisted Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, 
 the founder of the Order, in compiling the 
 ritualistic work, constitution and by-laws, in 
 Springfield, 111., and these four assumed the 
 obligations of the G. A. R. at that time. I am 
 the sole survivor of that quartette." 
 
 According to the decision of Dr. Stephenson 
 and his co-adjutors, the organization was to be 
 secret and it was arranged that signs, passwords 
 and grips should be used as is customarj' in 
 secret societies. Those present took an oath of 
 secrecy and a ritual was prepared, which in- 
 cluded a ceremony of initiation. The further- 
 ance of the new organization was next dis- 
 cussed and the feasibility of organizing Posts 
 throughout the State decided upon. Such a 
 procedure necessitated the preparation of a 
 multiplicity of copies of the ritual ; and it was 
 ascertained that tlie office of the Decatur, 111., 
 Tribune was equipped with eligible men who 
 could be made members, and, under their oath, 
 the required copies could be made, without 
 
860 
 
 GRAND ARMY 
 
 endangering the privacy whicli had been made 
 a feature of the organization. Messrs. Coltrin 
 and Pryor, proprietors of the Decatur Tribune, 
 and tiieir compositors were made members ; 
 and four liundred copies of the ritual were 
 printed and made ready for use. 
 
 In tills manner the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public came into existence ; and, on April G, 
 18G0, the first Post was organized in the hall of 
 the Sons of Malta at Decatur. The meeting 
 was enthusiastic and, under its spell, the mem- 
 bers proceeded to the office of the Tribune and 
 prepared placards, with which all the con- 
 spicuous places in the town were decorated 
 before daylight, and announced to the citizens 
 the existence of" G. A. R. Post No. 1, Decatur, 
 April 6, 18GG." The spirit of the occasion grew 
 and, throughout Illinois and other States, the 
 soldiers made haste to enroll in the Order. 
 Post Cassius Fairchild, No. 1, at Madison, Wis., 
 w^as organized .June 10, 186G. (See Department 
 of Wisconsin). 
 
 Dr. Stephenson constituted himself the Com- 
 mander of the newly Hedged society and issued 
 the following manifesto: " Headquarters, Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Springfield, 111., .June 
 — 1866. The undersigned hereby assumes 
 command of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 Major Robert M. Woods is appointed Adjutant- 
 General; Col. Julius C. Webber and Lieut. .loiin 
 S. Phelps are appointed A. D. C.'s. They will 
 be oI)eyed and respected accordingly. By order 
 of B. F. Stephenson. R. M. Woods, Adjutant- 
 General." 
 
 Posts multiplied and, not long after the pro- 
 mulgation of the above document, Dr. Stephen- 
 son issued the call for a meeting of delegates 
 from the various Posts in Illinois to meet at 
 Springfield, .July 12, 1866. At this assembly 
 the Department of Illinois was created and John 
 M. Palmer was made Department Commander. 
 Soon after, Posts were organized in other States, 
 
 all acknowledging Dr. Stephenson as head and 
 front of the Order. The organization con- 
 tinued to spread, and in the fall of the same 
 year, Dr. Stejibenson issued the following : — 
 "Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 Springfield, 111., Oct. 31, 1866. General Order 
 No. 13. A National Convention of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic is hereby ordered to 
 convene at Indianapolis, Ind., at 10 o'clock on 
 Tuesday, the 20th day of November next, for 
 tiie purpose of perfecting the National organ- 
 ization, and the transaction of such other busi- 
 ness as may come before the convention. The 
 ratio of representation shall be as follows: — 
 Each Post shall be entitled to one representa- 
 tive, and when the membership exceeds one 
 hundred, to one additional representative; and 
 in the same ratio for every additional one 
 hundred or fractional j>art thereof. All De- 
 partment and District officers, ejc-officio, shall be 
 members of the said convention. All honor- 
 al)ly discharged soldiers and sailors, and those 
 now serving in the army desirous of becoming 
 members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 are respectfully invited to attend the conven- 
 tion. All comrades are requested to wear "the 
 blue " with cor[)s liadges, etc. Official : — J. C. 
 Webber, Adj.-Gen., Dept. Illinois. B. F. Ste- 
 phenson, Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R., U. S." 
 Pursuant to tiie call, eleven States sent about 
 250 delegates to the convention and two days 
 were passed in transacting business relative to 
 the systematic organization of the National 
 body. Stephen A. Ilurlburt of Illinois, was 
 elected first Commander-in-Chief to serve one 
 year. Dr. Stephenson was made Adjutant- 
 General. A "Platform of Principles" was 
 ado]ited which may be found in the various 
 publications of the Order. Thesecond National 
 Encampment was held at Philadelphia, 
 Jan. 15, 1868, and 21 States sent repre- 
 sentatives. General Logan was elected Com- 
 
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 861 
 
 mander-in-Cliief and Memorial Day was estab- 
 lished. May 13th and 14th, 1869, a third En- 
 campment was held at Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
 General Logan was re-elected. It had become 
 evident from the reports from the various Posts 
 that some fatality was at work in the Order and 
 it was revealed in discussion, that the idea that 
 the organization was regarded as political pre- 
 vailed, and as such, it might become a danger- 
 ous piece of machinery in the bodj' politic. 
 The Order was, in consequence, regarded with 
 disfavor by the public, who refused to counten- 
 ance it. Reorganization resulted and an Article 
 was introduced into the Constitution, which for- 
 bade the use of the Order for political ends and 
 also the discussion of political topics in the 
 meetings. At this Encampment the three 
 grades of Recruit, Soldier and Veteran were 
 established and a set of rules adopted for the 
 government of the Order, which stated the 
 objects for which the G. A. R. was designed 
 and also fixed the C|ualifications of member- 
 ship. Soldiers and sailors who were in the 
 service between April 12, 1861, and Aug. 20, 
 1866, who had received honorable discharge 
 from the U. S. service in the war of the rebel- 
 lion, wei'e eligible and the same rule declared 
 the entire ineligibility of all who had borne 
 arms against the United States. The growth 
 and popularity of the Order have had no inter- 
 ruption since, and at this writing, in 1890, the 
 Order numbers nearly 500,000 members. 
 
 At the fourth encampment held at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, May 11th and 12th, 1870, at which 
 General Logan was again re-elected, the badge 
 of the Order was adopted, of which a cut ap- 
 pears on page 857. Every design thereon rep- 
 resents loyalty to the Flag of the Union. At 
 the fifth encampment, the grade system was 
 abolished and all were admitted to full mem- 
 bership. At the 14tli Encamj)ment, Comman- 
 der Earnshaw established the precedent of one 
 
 term of office, w'hich has since been observed. 
 At the close of 1800, the Order is in a flourish- 
 ing condition. New Posts are being organized 
 in every State and old ones are being resusci- 
 tated. As the veterans "fall out," succumbing 
 to a foe that has never been vanquished, others 
 make haste to close up the ranks, and the mem- 
 bers seem drawn closer and closer together as 
 the years move on. The National Encamp- 
 ment, each succeeding year, is received in the 
 place where it is held, with growing enthu- 
 siasm and interest, and the" assemblages are 
 proving potent factors in keeping alive the 
 loyalt}' of the people to the purpose of the war 
 and fealty to the old flag. 
 
 The purposes of the Order and the work car- 
 ried on under its auspices are outlined as fol- 
 lows : — 1. Fraternity : — To preserve and 
 strengthen those kind and fraternal feelings 
 which bind together the soldiers, sailors and 
 marines, who united to suppress the late reliel- 
 lion, and to perpetuate the memory and history 
 of the dead. — 2. Charity : — To assist such for- 
 mer comrades in arms, as need help and pro- 
 tection, and to extend needful aid to the 
 widows and orphans of those who have fallen. 
 — 3. Loyalty : — To maintain allegiance to the 
 United States of America, based on a para- 
 mount respect for and fidelity to, its Constitu- 
 tion and Laws, to discountenance whatever 
 tends to weaken loyalty, incites insurrection, 
 treason or rebellion, or in any manner impairs 
 the efficiency and permanency of our free in- 
 stitutions ; and to encourage the spread of uni- 
 versal liberty, equal rights and justice to all men. 
 
 Following is a statement of the series of 
 National Encampments, with dates, localities 
 and successive Commanders to 1890 inclusive. 
 
 1866. Nov. 20.— Springfield, 111.— Stephen 
 A. Hurlburt, Illinois. 
 
 1868. Jan. 15.— Philadelphia, Pa.^.John A. 
 Logan, Illinois. 
 
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 1869. Maj' 12.— Cincinnati, Ohio.— John A. 
 Logan, Illinois. 
 
 1870. May 11.— Washington, D. C— .John 
 A. Logan, Illinois. 
 
 1871. May 10. — Boston, Mass. — Ambrose E. 
 Burnside, Rhode Island. 
 
 1872. May 8. — Cleveland, Ohio. — Ambrose 
 
 E. Burnside, Rhode Island. 
 
 1873. May 14. — New Haven, Conn. — 
 Charles A. Devens, Boston, Mass. 
 
 1874. May 13.— Harrisburg, Pa.— Charles 
 A. Devens, Boston, Mass. 
 
 1875. May 12.— Chicago, III— .John F. Har- 
 tranft, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1876. June 30.— Philadelphia, Pa.— John 
 
 F. Hartranft, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1877. June 26. — Providence, R. I. — John C. 
 Robinson, Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 1878. June 4. — Springfield, Mass. — John C. 
 Robinson, Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 1879. June 17.— Albany, N. Y.— William 
 Earnshaw, Ohio. 
 
 1880. June. — Dayton, Ohio. — Louis Wag- 
 ner, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1881. June 15. — Indianapolis, Ind. — George 
 S. Merrill, Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 1882. June 21.— Baltimore, Md.— Paul Van 
 Der Voort, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 1883. July 25.— Denver, Col.— Robert B. 
 Bealh, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1884. July 23.— Minneapolis, Minn.— John 
 S. Kountz, Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 1885. June 24.— Portland, Me.— S. S. Bur- 
 dette, Washington, D. C. 
 
 1886. Aug. 3. — San Francisco, Cal. — Lucius 
 Fairchild, Madison, Wis. 
 
 1887. Sept. 28.— St. Louis, Mo.— John P. 
 Rea, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 1888. Sept. 12.— Columbus, Ohio.— William 
 Warner, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 1889. Aug. 30.— Milwaukee, Wis.— Russell 
 A. Alger, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 1890. Aug. 13. — Boston, Mass.— W. 0. 
 Veazey, Rutland, \t. 
 
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 DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN. 
 
 The organization of the Department of Wis- 
 consin prior to 1883 is not a matter of record to 
 any available extent. Annual meetings oc- 
 curred in various places and the Order was kept 
 alive from the date of the first Post organized 
 at Madison, which is still in existence and 
 which is the oldest in the United States. The 
 charter of Post Cassius Fairchild, No. 1, was 
 dated June 10, 1866, and remained under that 
 style until 1883, when a petition was made to 
 the Department to change it to Post C. C. 
 Washburn, which was granted and the 
 number was changed to 11. The first Com- 
 mander of Post Fairchild was Comrade .lames 
 Bennett. 
 
 The organization of Posts in the State was 
 slow. Previous to 1880 only eight had been 
 duly formed. The old Phil Sheridan Post, No. 
 3, of Milwaukee, whose original charter was 
 dated June 9, 1875, made a surrender in 1880 
 and reorganized as E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1 ; 
 Abraham Lincoln Post of Darien, was char- 
 tered Aug. 16, 1879; Geo. H. Thomas Post of 
 Delavan was chartered Nov. 28, 1879. The 
 roster of the Department for 1888 records the 
 date of the Robert Chiviis Post No. 2, of Mil- 
 waukee, as June 9, 1875. No data exist regard- 
 ing the Posts at Berlin and Omro and those of 
 Post No. 10, at O.shkosh were burned in the 
 devastating fire which swept that cit}'. 
 
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 863 
 
 From 1880 to 1882 the interest became more 
 general and in the included two years, the 
 growth of the Order was perceptible. New life 
 was infused into the Posts which were languish- 
 ing, and new ones sprang into being. Several 
 which had become almost wholly <lormant were 
 reorganized and the giant growth which has 
 become something surprising in more than one 
 sense, begun. 
 
 In the roster of 1890, 264 Posts are reported 
 with a membership of nearly 14,000 at date of 
 the annual Encampment at Milwaukee, in 
 March, 1890. It is impossible to obtani, at this 
 writing, the actual membership, but it is certain 
 that it has reached' a much larger total than 
 mentioned. 
 
 The following table shows the growth of the 
 G. A. R. in the Wisconsin Department from 
 1881: 
 
 Year. No. of Posts. Membekship. 
 
 1881 850 
 
 1882 8-58 
 
 1883 60 2,486 
 
 1884 129 5,979 
 
 1885 190 9,165 
 
 1886 215 11,060 
 
 1887 227 10,027 
 
 1888 248 10,973 
 
 1889 260 13,944 
 
 In Murch, 1890, 264 active Posts were re- 
 ported with a membership of 13,987. 
 
 Following is a tabulated statement of the 
 Wisconsin Department Encampments and Com- 
 manders elected. 
 
 1 866. June 7 -J. K. Proudfit. 
 
 1867. .June 19 II. A. Starr. 
 
 1868. Jan. 8 J. M. Rusk. 
 
 1869. .Jan. 27 T. S. Allen. 
 
 1870. Jan. 27 T.S.Allen. 
 
 1871. Jan. 11 Edward Ferguson. 
 
 1872. .hm. 17 Edward Ferguson. 
 
 1873 A. J. McCoy. 
 
 1874. Jan. 8 G. A. Haunaford. 
 
 1875 G. A. Hannaford. 
 
 1876. Jan. 12 John Hancock. 
 
 1877. Jan. 25 H. G. Rogers. 
 
 1878 S. F. Hammond. 
 
 1879 G. J. Thomas. 
 
 1880 G.J.Thomas. 
 
 1881 G. .J. Thomas. 
 
 1882 H. M. Enos. 
 
 1883. .Jan. 23 Philip Cheek, Jr. 
 
 1884. -Jan. 23 Philip Cheek, Jr. 
 
 1885. Jan. 22 .lames Davidson. 
 
 1880. Feb. 3 Lucius Fairchild. 
 
 1886. H. P. Fischer. 
 
 1887. Feb. 15 M. Gritfin. 
 
 1888. Feb. 15 A. G. Weissert. 
 
 1889. Feb. 25 A. G. Weissert. 
 
 1889. Oct. 29 L. Ferguson. 
 
 1890. Mar. 19 B. F. Brvant. 
 
 

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 tary and Cliristian Com- 
 missions during the war, 
 <W pcrliaps belongs tlie credit 
 ^.j. of the origin of that noble 
 uid earnest auxiliary to 
 the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 ic, the Woman's Relief Corps. 
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 ing services rendered lliem by 
 these women in the hospitals 
 and on the field of battle and 
 when, after the war, they and 
 )yal women organized 
 local societies for the purpose of 
 aiding the needy soldiers and their families, the 
 Grand Army of the Republic was quick to 
 recognize the many benelits that would spring 
 from these organizations and hailed them witii 
 earnest greetings. The States of Maine, Massa- 
 chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire 
 and Connecticut, ojierated under the name and 
 charter of what was then called the " Union 
 I5oard." 
 
 Maini^ may be termed the j>ioneei' corps in 
 woman's work, for the testimony is undisputed, 
 and to the comrades of Bosworth Post, Port- 
 land, Me., belongs the credit of organizing, 
 more than twenty years ago, an association of 
 women, known as the Relief Corj)s, and there 
 is no doubt that, had the association been known 
 and a knowledge of its work at once extended, 
 that Boswoith Relief Corps would have borne 
 the same relation to the National Assi;ciation to- 
 
 day, that the first Post, started by Dr. Stephen- 
 son, does to the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 The work of the Union Board was dissem- 
 inating rapidly throughout the Eastern States, 
 and comrades expressed a very deep interest in 
 woman's work tor the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public; in 1881 Comrade J. F. Lovering of 
 Massachusetts, the Chaplain-in-Chief, intro- 
 duced the importance of a woman's auxiliary to 
 the Fourteenth Annual Encampment of the 
 G. A. R., the result of which was the adoption 
 of the following: 
 
 Resolved, That we approve of the project of 
 organizing a Woman's Relief Corps. 
 
 Resolved, Tiiat such Woman's Relief Corps 
 may use under such title the words, " auxiliary 
 to the Grand Army of the Republic by special 
 endorsement of the National Encampment of 
 the G. A. R." 
 
 Thus armed with authority, the Union Board 
 took courage and, being a})pealed to by comrades 
 from all over the Union for the formation of 
 corps, a united and National work was decided 
 to 1)6 imperative and demanded by the best 
 interests of the Grand Army in nearly everv 
 State. The work was heartily encouraged by 
 such eminent comrades as R. B. Beath, Paul 
 Van Der Voort, J. F. Lovering, George Brown 
 and many otliers, but with a certain opposition 
 from a portion of the G. A. R. and with such a 
 diversity of opinion among the women them- 
 selves as to the character and government of 
 an association to be founded, that the most 
 sanguine entertained small hopes as to a speedy 
 
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 WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS. 
 
 I'onsuminalioii of a permanent National organ- 
 ization. 
 
 However, the deep rooted principles of loy- 
 alty of all the organizations were rapidly ger- 
 minating and a call for a Convention for organ- 
 ization was mad(! in the General Orders of Com- 
 mander-in-Chief \'an Der ^"oort, the result of 
 w-hich was the institution of the Woman's 
 Relief Corps, as auxiliary to the Grand Army 
 of the Republic at Denver, Colo., .July •23d, 1883. 
 
 Mrs. E. Florence Barker, of Maiden, Massa- 
 chusetts, was elected National President, and 
 
 in 1884 Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, of Toledo, 
 Ohio, was her successor, and was succeeded in 
 1885 by Sarah E. Fuller. In 1886 Elizabeth 
 D'Arcy Kinne, of San Francisco, Cal., was 
 elected to the chief position, to be followed in 
 1887 by Emma S. Hamjiton, of Detroit, Mich. 
 Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, of Viroqua, Wis., was 
 the executive head in 1888. In 1889 Mrs. 
 Annie Wittenmeyer, of Philadelphia, was 
 elected at Milwaukee, Wis., and at Boston, 
 
 Mass., Aug. 14, 1890, Mrs. McHenry, of 
 
 , Iowa, was made National President. 
 
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 The Woman's Relief Corps in Wisconsin was 
 made an organic institution, June 26, 1884, at 
 La Crosse, Wis., Clara B. Sloan, of Fond du Lac, 
 being constituted President. Mrs. Harriet 
 Dunlap, of Lodi, was made Department Presi- 
 dent in 1885. In 1886, Mrs. Gertie Rogers, of 
 Milwaukee, was elected and performed her 
 duties in such effective and satisfactory manner, 
 that she was made her own successor in 1887. 
 In 1888 Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, of Viroqua, 
 was elected executive head of the Department 
 of Wisconsin and resigned to accept the position 
 of National President. Mrs. Caroline H. Bell, 
 of Milwaukee, was selected to fill the position 
 thus made vacant, and in March, 1889, was 
 elected and served with eminent credit to her- 
 self and benefit to the Department. March 19, 
 1890, Helen Holmes Charlton, of Brodhead, 
 Wis., was elected Department President. 
 
 Tiie annual Report of the Department of 
 Wisconsin shows the existence of 97 corps in 
 active working condition. At this writing, 
 late in 1890, there are more than 3,000 work- 
 ing members. 
 
 It is not within the scope or province of this 
 work to discuss the merits of any of the organi- 
 
 zations of which only the briefest and most 
 meag(;r accounts can be presented ; but it is 
 only the merest justice to state that the women, 
 all over the State, who have interested them- 
 selves in the progress of the Order have ac- 
 complished heroic work in their auxiliary 
 efforts to increase the benefits of the Grand 
 
 I Army of the Republic among the veterans and 
 their families. Hundreds of biographical 
 sketches appear in this volume, every one of 
 which is an honor and a credit to the work, in- 
 asmuch as it relates the personal experience of 
 the defenders of the homes of the country. It 
 will be observed with regret, however, that, 
 only in a few instiinces, are the trials, privations, 
 liardshijis and faithful devotion of the women 
 of their households been incorporated therein. 
 No blame attaches to any person ; in any work, 
 
 ' which, in its incipiency, could be but experi- 
 mental, many things have been overlooked, 
 but in the splendid public record of the sons of 
 many of these self-denying, suttering mothers, 
 which tlie annals of Wisconsin bear to-day, it 
 is shown that American women are of the fiber, 
 consistency and substance of which heroines 
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 olution. The Order is of recent 
 growtli : and that it exists at all is 
 a most significant sign of the times, 
 _^ .,_. and of the true value of what was 
 ^^1^' acconiplished by the fathers of these 
 sons, who are rallying to establish 
 an enduring memorial of the sacri- 
 fices and privations and magnifi- 
 cent daring of their sires. If this had been 
 done in the flush of victory, when success made 
 the hearts of men proud and exultant, and 
 when households were triumphant in the 
 presence of returned warriors, bearing banners 
 of glorious record, the meaning would have 
 been of far less significance. Its establishment 
 at this date, more than twenty years after, 
 means portentous things for this llepublic. It 
 is one of the strongest existing evidences of the 
 deathless Patriotism inculcated by our institu- 
 tions — fostered by the history of the past, and 
 nourished wiiere the heroes of nations have 
 
 been made from the foundation of the world — 
 at the firesides of a nation's homes. 
 
 The Sons of "\'eterans came into systematized 
 existence as a National Order at Pittsburg, Pa., 
 in November, 1S81. Its founder was Major A. 
 P. Davis, a prominent Comrade of the G. A. R. 
 Its charter was received from the State of Penn- 
 sylvania. From this beginning its progression 
 has been marked by steady accessions to its 
 membership and in 1890 it holds a position 
 which compares favorably with the G. A. R. 
 and W. R. C. in importance and influence. 
 
 Its character is essentially military, its system 
 and government being framed according to 
 military methods. It is composed of Camps, 
 Divisions and a higher Body, known as the 
 Commandery-in-Chief. G. B. Abbott is Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, C. J. Post, Adjt.-General, and 
 F. A. Gurney, Quartermaster General. 
 
 Its principles are one and the same as those 
 on which is based the Republic and may be 
 summed up in one word — Patriotism, pure and 
 simple. Sanctified and made holy by the 
 memories and reminiscences of the sacrifices 
 and struggles of those who fought the Iwttles 
 and won the victorie's of the war, it is an insti- 
 tution which will grow strongei- ami more 
 
870 
 
 SONS OF VETERANS. 
 
 pernianeiit as tlic years pass on. As auxiliary Rowley was elected on the IStli. He was sue- 
 to the Grand Army it aids in the dissemination eeeded l)y Frank P. Merrill of Auburn, Me., 
 of the advantages and benefits, of that Body H. W. Arnold of Johnstown, Pa., W. S. Payn 
 
 and maintains the same fi-eedom from political 
 or sectarian relations. 
 
 of Ohio, G. B. Abbott of Chicago, and C. F. 
 Griffin of Indianapolis, Ind., Commander-in- 
 
 II. T. Rowley, of Pittsburg, Pa., was the first Chief in the current year, 1890. Messrs. Payn 
 
 regularly elected Commander-in-Chief. Tiie and Abbott served two terms each, 
 
 first executive session of the Order as an organ- I The approximate membershi]) as reported in 
 
 ization occurred in Octnl.cr, 1SS2, and Mr. .Inne, 1800, is about 73,000. 
 
 WISCONSIN DIVISION. 
 
 The Order of the Sons of \'eterans in Wis- 
 consin was established in the spring of 1883 at 
 Waukesha, with John R. Fletclier as executive 
 head. His successor was Dr. John Finney of 
 CliDtonville. The first Division meeting was 
 held at Oshkosh, June 3, 1884, when Dr. 
 Finney was duly elected, the former officials 
 having been appointed ])y the Commander-in- 
 Chief. June 13, 1885, the second Division 
 meeting was held at Milwaukee, at which S. F. 
 Peacock was elected C<)lonel. July 24, 1886, 
 at Milwaukee, F. J. Walthers was elected. 
 Feb. 15, 1887, Mr. Walthers was re-elected and 
 
 in August resigned his position on account of 
 a foreign trip and at that date 25 Camps were 
 in operation. John P. Sheridan was elected in 
 October, 1887, to complete the unexpired term. 
 June 30, 1888, Charles H. Hudson, of Madison, 
 was elected at that place to the chief office and 
 was re-elected at Menasha, Wis., June 19, 1889. 
 Harry S. Fuller, of Milwaukee, was elected 
 Colonel at Sheboygan, June 17, 1890. 
 
 The reported condition of tlie Order June 30, 
 1890, shows that GS working organizations were 
 in existence in Wisconsin and aggregating 
 1,560 members. 
 
1775. April 20.— A force of 800 British 
 troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, was 
 sent out from Boston to dcstroj' the provincial 
 stores at Lexington and Concord. 
 
 May 10. — Capture of Ticonderoga. Colonel 
 Ethan Allan, with a force of 83 men, entered 
 the fort before daylight and demanded its sur- 
 render in the name of the Great Jehovah and 
 the Continental Congress. No resistance was 
 made, and he captured 48 men and over 100 
 guns. 
 
 June 17.— Battle of Bunker Hill. The 
 Americans, under Generals Warren, Prescott 
 and Putnam, fought the British under Plowe 
 and Pigot. The Continentals were defeated, 
 sustaining a loss of 450 killed and wounded 
 and the British loss in the aggregate was 1,050. 
 
 Dec. 31. — Battle of Quebec. The Americans 
 were defeated. They were under the leader- 
 ship of Generals Schuyler, Montgomery and 
 Arnold, and their losses included IGO men. 
 The British were led by Generals McLean and 
 Carlton and they sustained a loss of 20 in killed 
 and wounded. 
 
 Dec. 9. — Norfolk, Va. In this action the 
 American leader was Colonel Woodford and 
 one man was wounded; the British were com- j 
 
 manded by Lord Dunmore and their loss was 
 62 in tlie aggregate. 
 
 177(3. March 17. — Evacuation of Boston by 
 the British under General Howe ; the cit}' was 
 occupied by General Washington. 
 
 June 28. — The British fleet, under Sir Henry 
 Clinton, attacked Fort Sullivan in Charleston 
 harbor. They were repulsed by Colonel Moul- 
 trie with 400 men, of whom 10 were killed and 
 22 wounded. Tlie British loss was 225 in 
 killed and wounded. 
 
 Aug. 27. — Battle of Long Island. General 
 Howe, with 20,000 British troops, attacked the 
 Americans, numbering 10,000, under Generals 
 Greene and Sullivan. The latter were defeated 
 with a loss of 2,000, half the number being 
 taken prisoners, many of whom were sent to 
 the British prison ships. The loss of the Eng- 
 lish was about 400. 
 
 Sept. 16.— Battle of Harlem Plains. This 
 action was fought by the British under General 
 Leslie and an American force commanded l)y 
 Major Leitch and Colonel Knowlton ; the latter 
 were re-enforced and drove the former after a 
 severe contest. 
 
 Oct. 28.— Battle ,of White Plains. The 
 British under General Howe, attempted to sur- 
 
872 
 
 BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 round the American camp, commanded by 
 Washington. The fight known by the name 
 given ensued, with a slight advantage to the 
 Colonial troops. The respective losses of the 
 Americans and Rriti-sh were 275 and 300 men. 
 
 Nov. IG. — Fort Washington or Harlem 
 Heights was taken by the British, who lost 
 about 1,000 men ; the loss of the Americans 
 under Colonel Magaw was 100 in killed and 
 wounded and 2,500 prisoners. 
 
 Dec. 2G.— Battle of Trenton. General Wash- 
 ington attacked the Briti.«h under Colonel Rahl 
 and defeated them after a short and sharp con- 
 flict, losing two killed. The British loss was 
 36 killed and 1,000 prisoners. 
 
 1777. Jan. 3. — General Washington de- 
 feated Cornwallis at Princeton, inflicting a loss 
 of 300 killed and wounded on the British, his 
 own loss being about 100 killed and wounded, 
 and 300 prisoners. 
 
 July 7.— Battle of Hubbardton, Yt. The 
 British, under General Frazer, gained a victory 
 over the Americans under Warner, Francis and 
 Hale. The English lo.st in killed and wounded 
 ISo, while the casualties in the American forces 
 aggregated 324. This is Vermont's only battle 
 field. The battle of Beiniington was fought on 
 ground now across the New York State line. 
 
 Aug. 3. — Fort Schuyler was besieged by a 
 force of British and Indians. On the 6th, 
 General Herkimer, marching to the relief of 
 the fort, was surprii^ed and defeated by General 
 St. Leger. General Herkimer was killed. 
 August 13th, General St. Leger raised the siege 
 on the approach of General Arnold with 800 
 men. The British loss was unknown : the 
 Americans lost 150 in killed and wounded. 
 
 Aug. 10. — Battle of Bennington, Vt. A 
 British force of 1,500 men, under Colonels 
 Baum and Beyman were attacked at Benning- 
 ton by 2,000 Americans under General Stark. 
 When the American commander saw the British 
 
 line of battle, he exclaimed; — "There are the 
 red-coats ; we beat them to-day or Mollie Staik 
 is a widow." The British lost 200 killed and 
 34 wounded ; the American loss was about 200 
 in all. 
 
 Ski't. 11 . — Battleof Brandy wine. The British 
 under Lord Howe defeated (.ieneral Washing- 
 ton, losing 500 men and inflicting a loss of 
 about 1,000. 
 
 Sept. 19. — Battle of Bemis Heights. Bur- 
 goyne attacked the American forces under 
 Arnold aiid Morgan and was defeated with a 
 loss of 600. 
 
 Oct. 4. — Battle of Germantowu. Washing- 
 ton attacked the British with decisive results, 
 several hundred being killed on either side. 
 
 Oct. G. — General Clinton, with a British 
 force, captured Fort Clinton and Fort Mont- 
 gomery on the Hudson ; Kingston, Rhinebeck 
 and other places were destroyed. 
 
 Oct. 7. — Battle of Stillwater. General tiates 
 defeated the British, capturing 5,791 prisoners. 
 
 Oct. 22. — Attack on Fort Mercer, N. J. 
 Count Donoj), with 1,200 Hessians and an 
 artillery force attacked the foit and was vo- 
 pulsed with a loss of 400. 
 
 1778. June 28. — Battleof Monmouth. Gen- 
 eral Wasliinglon defeated 11,000 British; the 
 American loss was 362 ; the British lost 370 men. 
 
 Aug. 29.— Battle of Quaker Hill. This ac- 
 tion took ])lace near Newport, li. I. (ieneral 
 Greene, who commanded the rightof Sullivan's 
 force, repulsed the British assault, inflicting a 
 loss of 2G0 and sustaining casualties aggregating 
 200 in killed and wounded. 
 
 Dec. 29. — Savannah, Ga., was seized by a 
 British force under Lieutenant-Colonel Camp- 
 bell, who lost four men in the attack ; the 
 Ajnerican loss was heavy, comjirising nearly 
 one-half of the troops, Ijaggage and guns. 
 
 1779. J.\N. 9. — The fort at Sunbury, (Ja., 
 was taken by the British under General Pro- 
 
BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 873 
 
 vost. A few days later Augusta was taken by 
 
 the same force. 
 
 March 3. — Battle of Brier Ci-eek, Ga. A 
 considerable detacbment of the army of General 
 Lincoln, under General Ashe, was defeated in 
 this action, with a loss of 150 killed and 162 
 prisoners; the British loss was 110 killed. 
 
 June 20.— Battle of Stono Ferry, S. C. A 
 fight between a part of (ieneral Lincoln's forces 
 and a British garrison, guarding the ferry, re- 
 sulted in a loss to the Americans of 1-46 killed 
 and 155 missing. The British lost 65 killed 
 and 564 prisoners. 
 
 July 16. — Stony Point, N. Y., was stormed 
 at midnight by a detachment of American 
 troops under General Wayne; the surprise was 
 complete and the contest sharp, but the garri- 
 son soon surrendered. 
 
 Aug. 29.— Chemung, N. Y. (Elmira). Gen- 
 erals Sullivan and Clinton, having organized 
 an expedition against the Indians of Western 
 New York, fought them at this point; 800 In- 
 dians and tories were routed and their villages 
 burned ; the affair inculcated a lesson the red- 
 skins never foi'got. 
 
 1780. May 12.— Capture of Charleston, S. C. 
 After a siege of forty days, Charleston was sur- 
 rendered by General Lincoln to a combined 
 British land and naval force under Clinton and 
 CornwaDis. 
 
 Junk 23. — A British force of 5,000 started 
 from Staten Island into New Jersey and were 
 mot near Springtield by General Greene who 
 gave them a thorough whipping and sent them 
 back to their starting point. 
 
 Oct. 7. — Battleof King's Mountain. British 
 troops, under General Ferguson, were defeated 
 and captured at this point by a force of Patriots, 
 
 comprising about 900 farmers and backwoods- 
 men. The British lost 1,108 killed and pris- 
 oners, besides 1,500 stands of arms. General 
 Ferguson was killed. The American loss was 
 88 killed and wounded. 
 
 1781. Jan. 17. — Battle of Cowpens. Gen- 
 eral Morgan defeated Tarleton, who was press- 
 ing him with a superior force and took upwards 
 of 500 prisonei's, 800 muskets, two standards, 
 besides canuon and horses. The British were 
 totally routed, while the American loss was but 
 72 in killed and wounded. 
 
 March 15.— Battle of Guilford C. H., N. C. 
 A severe fight took place between the forces of 
 Cornwallis and Greene. The American loss 
 was 419 and that of the British, 570. Corn- 
 wallis then marched into Virginia. 
 
 Sept. 8. — General Greene defeated the British 
 under Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs, S. C, 
 and they retreated to Cliarleston. 
 
 Sept. 30. — The siege of Yorktown was begun 
 by the combined French and American forces. 
 
 Oct. 19. — Cornwallis surrendered Yorktown 
 with 12,000 prisoners, including sailors, tories 
 and negroes. The spoils included 8,000 mus- 
 kets, 255 cannon, 28 standards, besides a large 
 amount of munitions of war and stores. When 
 the news was received at Philadelphia, the 
 people wept with delight. Religious services 
 were held by Congress in the Lutheran Church 
 and the following day at the headquarters of 
 the regiments. 
 
 (The British sent 133,000 soldiers and sailors 
 to this war. The Colonists met them with 
 230,000 Continentals and 48,000 militia. The 
 British employed Indians and Hessians. The 
 Amei'icans had the French as allies.) 
 
Battles of the War of 1812. 
 
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 1812. June 18. — War was declared by the 
 United States against England ; American citi- 
 zens and others claiming to be snch, were seized 
 by the English government and connnilted 
 to Dartmoor prison. 
 
 July 12. — General Hull, with 1,800 men, in- 
 vaded Canada from Detroit. 
 
 July 29. — The l>ritish Heet on l^ake Ontario 
 was repulsed from Sackett's Harbor l)y the 
 Oneida and an old 32-pounder, stationed on 
 the shore. 
 
 Ji'i.Y 31 . — A figlit occurred among the Thous- 
 and Islands between two British vessels and 
 two American boats; the British were defeated. 
 
 Au(i. 13. — The United States frigate Essex 
 captured the Britisii brig Alert off Newfound- 
 laud, after a contest of eight minutes. This 
 was the first British national war vessel cap- 
 tured in the second war with Great Britain. 
 
 Aug. 1G. — Surrender of Detroit by Genei'al 
 Hull to General Brock, without firing a gun; 
 the surrender included the whole territory of 
 Michigan. For this. General Hull was tried, 
 convicted of cowardice and sentenced to be shot, 
 but was pardoned by President Madison. 
 
 Sept. 24. — William Henry Harrison took 
 command of the Army of the Northwest. 
 
 Oct. 8. — Two British vessels were cajitured 
 on Lake Erie by Lieutenant Elliott. 
 
 Oct. 13. — In the desperate battle of Queens- 
 town Heights, fought by the Americiin forces 
 uoder General Van Rensselaer, General Brock, 
 tlie British connnander, was killed. General 
 Scott and Captain Wool gained the heights, but 
 the militia refused to cross tlie river to aid the 
 American troops, who were forced to surrender, 
 being overwhelmed by superior numbei'.s, and 
 having lost 1,100 men. 
 
 Oct. 18. — Tlie Americiin sloop of war Wasp 
 captured the British brig Frolic oil' the coast 
 of North Carolina. 
 
 1813. Fki!. 22. — Ogdensburg was invaded 
 by a force of British ; the town was plundered 
 and the barracks and several schooners burned. 
 
 Ai'KiL 27. — The capture of York, now To- 
 ronto, Canada, was eflected by an American 
 force from Sacketts' Harbor, under Gen. Zebu- 
 Ion M. Pike. After a fierce contest the British, 
 being unable to hold the fort, tired a magazine, 
 causing frightful loss. General Pike was mor- 
 tally wounded. 
 
 May 1. — Fort Meigs was attacked l)y the 
 British and successfully defended Ijy the Amer- 
 ican forces under General Clay. 
 
 M.\v 27.— The British attacked Sacketts' 
 Harbor, but were so successfully repulsed that 
 their retreat turned into disorderlv ilight. 
 
 Junk 1. — The American frigate Chesapeake 
 
BATTLES OF 1812. 
 
 875 
 
 under Captain Lawrence, was captured liy tlie 
 Britisli ship Shannon under Captain Brooks. 
 The Chesapeake was soon disabled, Captain 
 Lawrence being mortally wounded. As lie 
 was carried below lie made his famous utter- 
 ance: — "Tell the boys to tire faster ; don't give 
 up tlie ship." 
 
 June 22. — An invasion of Norfolk, Va., was 
 attemjited by the British, but they were succes- 
 fully repulsed and gave up all hope of gaining 
 Norfolk or the Navy Yard. 
 
 July 31. — Plattsburg and Swantmi were in- 
 vaded by a force of British from Canada, the 
 barracks were burned and a Cjuantity of sup- 
 plies captured. 
 
 Aug. 1. — An assault on Fort Stephenson at 
 Lower Sandusky, was made bj' Proctor and his 
 Indian allies. The garrison was commanded 
 by Major Geo. Croghan, 21 years old, with 160 
 men. Proctor demanded instant surrender, 
 with a threat to massacre if he had to take the 
 fort by assault. Croghan sent back the brave 
 reply, "that when they were taken, nobody 
 would be left alive to massacre." The enemy 
 was repulsed with a loss of 120 men, while the 
 Americans lost but one man killed. 
 
 Sept. 10. — Perry's victory. Captain Perry, 
 with a fleet of nine American vessels, met the 
 British fleet on Lake Erie in deadly battle. 
 The flag ship Lawrence received the force of 
 tlie onset for two hours, until only one mast 
 remained and the Stars and Stripts at its head 
 was in tatters. Perry was determined to win 
 the victory and crossed in a small boat under 
 a rattling fire, to the Niagara, which was com- 
 paratively uninjured. He renewed the contest 
 with fresh vigor and in ten minutes the 
 British colors were lowered. Perry returned 
 to the battered hulk of the Lawrence to receive 
 the Britisli commander. Perry was liut 29 1 
 years of age and eveiy honor was showered 
 upon him. 
 
 Sept. 18. — The American fleet on Lake On- 
 tario under Chauncey attacked the J5ritish fleet 
 under Sir .James Yeo, who had boasted that he 
 wanted to fight tlie Yankees. He was soon 
 routed and his squadron retreated to Kingston. 
 
 Oct. 5. — Battle of the Thames. This action, 
 near Detroit, was fought between Proctor and 
 Harrison. The latter was encouraged to attempt 
 the recovery of Detroit by Perry's victory on 
 Lake Erie. Nearly the entire force of British 
 were captured, Tecumseh was killed and in 
 this victory, the disaster to Hull in the begin- 
 ning of tlie contest, was retrieved. 
 
 Dec. 10. — Newark, Canada, was burned by 
 ihe Americans. In retaliation, the British 
 seized Fort Niagara, slaughtered a part of the 
 garrison and burned many frontier villages ; 
 Buffalo was wholly destroyed. 
 
 1814. June. — During this month, extensive 
 depredations were carried on along the New 
 England coast by British vessels; seaport towns 
 were destroyed, together with much valuable 
 property. Eastern Maine was, for a time, un- 
 der British control. 
 
 July 15. — The battle of Chippewa was fought 
 between Generals Scott and Kiall ; the British 
 were cut to pieces and made a precipitate flight, 
 destroying the bridges behind them. 
 
 July 25. — Battle of Lundy's Lane. This ac- 
 tion resulted in the defeat of the British. They 
 were determined to drive the American troops 
 from Canada and landed a large force at Lewis- 
 ton. General Brown sent General Scott to 
 meet them, believing only a small portion of 
 the British force to be there. General Scott 
 unexpectedly found himself confronted by a 
 superior force, which he held in check until 
 General Brown arrived with his ami}- in force. 
 After the repulse, the American troops fell back 
 to Chippewa. The loss of the British was 878 ; 
 that of the Americans was 852. 
 
 Aug. 15. — An unsuccessful assault on Fort 
 
876 
 
 BATTLES OF 1812. 
 
 Erie was made by the British, who lost 962 men, 
 while that of the Americans was but 84. 
 
 Aug. 24. — Battle of Bladensburg. This ac- 
 tion took place near Washington, D. C, between 
 an English force which had invaded the coun- 
 try by way of the sea coast, and an American 
 body of troops. The latter retreated and the 
 British pressed on to Washington unobstructed. 
 Gen. Ross with his force entered the Capital in 
 the evening and commenced the pillage of the 
 city. .The public buildings were nearly all de- 
 stroyed by fire during the night, the Capitol 
 was sacked and the magnificent library de- 
 stroyed. The estimated loss to the Nation was 
 about §2,500,000, while private citizens lost 
 about §700,000. 
 
 Aug. 27. — Alexandria was assailed by a part 
 of the British fleet under Commodore Gordon. 
 The city was without defense and was obliged 
 to submit to being plundered by the robbers. 
 
 Sept. 11. — McDonough's \'ictory on Lake 
 Champlain. After two hours' hard fighting, 
 the small American fleet in Plattsburg Bay 
 gave the British squadron a thorough whip- 
 ing. They had not a whole mast left. At the 
 same time the land forces were engaged in a 
 struggle with each other. When the intelli- 
 gence of the surrender of the British fleet was 
 received, the troops under General Provost re- ' 
 treated, that officer losing his courage entirely. 
 His army's withdrawal terminated in a disor- 
 derly flight. 
 
 Sept. 12. — The British vessels appeared off 
 Patapsco Bay {preparatory to the oaj)ture of the 
 city of Baltimore. In a few hour.s, the troops 
 
 under Gen. Ross had landed apd taken up 
 their line of march for the city. At the same 
 time, preparations were made to bombard Fort 
 McHenry. General Strieker was sent forward 
 to meet the British, and a shot from one of his 
 men killed Ross at the head of his column. 
 The bombarilment of Fort McHenry continued 
 24 hours without effect, and the laud attempt 
 was a decided failure. 
 
 Sept. 15. — The British withdrew from Baili- 
 more by land and sea. 
 
 1815. Jan. S.— Battle of New Orleans. This 
 action was the last in the war. The American 
 troops were led to battle by General Jackson 
 and the British fought under General Packen- 
 ham. The latter advanced on New Orleans 
 and were assaulted by a pouring fire of shot 
 from the Americans, intrenched behind breast- 
 works formed of cotton bales. Whole platoons 
 of British troopers were swept away under the 
 scathing fire and the commander was mortally 
 wounded. The lines then broke in confusion 
 and the English fled, losing 2,000 in killed 
 wounded and prisoners. The American loss 
 was eight killed and 13 wounded. The treaty 
 of Ghent, which had been signed Dec. 23, 
 1814, by the British and American Commis- 
 sioners after a session of several months, did 
 not reach America until Feb. 11, 1815. Its 
 stipulations included agreements that both na- 
 tions should strive to arrest Indian hostilities 
 and also to stop the slave trade. The document 
 did not touch the question of impressment of 
 American seamen, but it was never again 
 attempted. 
 
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 Adams, L. J., liiitli Wis. I ;!.'(! 
 
 Alden, C. J.. 31st Wis. I ttBli 
 
 Alt'.vanclei-, S. L.. atttli l>a. 1 301 
 
 Ailing-, H. L., 1st Wis. H. A 25« 
 
 Allison, J. W., ,Stli Wis. I 801 
 
 Amman, A., -J'th Wi.*. 1 303 
 
 Aiideison, E. L., Bth Wis. I 603 
 
 Andrus, F. L., 41)'h Wis. 1 181 
 
 Armstrong, L.G..4S111 Wis. I 585 
 
 Atwood, D 654 
 
 Aiibery. C. B., 3d Vt. 1 650 
 
 B 
 
 Babb. S .llth Me. 1 410 
 
 Bailey. S. J., 9th 111. C 801 
 
 Baldwin. H. D. ,3d Wis. 1 3.50 
 
 BaU,C F.,!ithWis LA .536 
 
 Bannister. C, 4t;th Wis. I "... 201 
 
 Barnes, E B.. 33d Wis. 1 415 
 
 Bartlett. E., 31st Wis. 1 310 
 
 Bartlett.J. N., 3iith Wis. 1 331) 
 
 Batcheller, N. A., 4Uth Wis. 1 483 
 
 Baty, J. C, U. S. N ..550 
 
 Baxter, C H., 47th Wis. 1 453 
 
 Beach, W. H. 1st N. Y. C 384 
 
 Bcebe, V. V., liith Wis. LA 480 
 
 Bell. J. McC, 3d ir. S C 659 
 
 Boll, R., I3lli N. y. I .533 
 
 Bell. S. U, 3Sth Wis. 1 768 
 
 Berry, E. E., 331 Wis. 1 420 
 
 Black, J. D.. 34th 111 1 317 
 
 Blake, L. S 835 
 
 Bleekmm, A E , 31 Oiio C ....503 
 
 Bleuel, A.. 3d Mo. L. A ..471 
 
 BIyton, W. H., I'.Hli Wi.s. 1 4H5 
 
 Boehel, H.,36t'i Wis. I 715 
 
 Bottrell, It., 131h Wis. 1 830 
 
 Bradford, U. E.. 3d Ohio 1 789 
 
 Brande, S. V 361 
 
 BrifTgs, P. K., 47th Wis. I 521 
 
 Brown. C. K, 7th Wis. 1 297 
 
 Brownell, G. C, 16th N V. I. .» 188 
 
 Bro\ishton, It.. 4 nil Wis. 1 2;W 
 
 Bryan, I. K, 5th Minn. I .551 
 
 Bryant, B. F, 101st Ohio I 145 
 
 lii-yiint, ti. E., !3th Wis. I 4li9 
 
 Bub. G.. 3d Wis. C 373 
 
 Buell, C. E.,22d Wis. 1 172 
 
 Bugbee, V. H., lOth Vt. I 746 
 
 Bull, S 851 
 
 Burdett, F. D., 6th Minn. 1 675 
 
 Burdick, C. H , 4th Wis 370 
 
 Burnett, W, W,, 186th ti. Y.\ 331 
 
 Bnrnhani, O J., 6lh Wis. L. A n67 
 
 Burnley, ('. T, IHth N. y. C 4i7 
 
 Burns, K. L., 1st Mo. L. A 463 
 
 Burt, W. ,33d Wis. I 187 
 
 Bushnell, A. If., 7th Wis. t 491 
 
 Butterlleld, M. L., 5th Wis. I '. 712 
 
 Bya d, D., 33d Wis. I 617 
 
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 Callis, J. I!., 7th Wis. 1 391 
 
 Canterbury, J. B.. 5th Wis. 1 772 
 
 napen, K. W.. 14th Wis. I 803 
 
 Carley, D. W.,33d Wis. 1 383 
 
 Carlson, O. W., 3Sth Wis. I 78? 
 
 Carman, G. I"., 51st Pa. 1 3;« 
 
 Carpenter, L.. 38th Wis. 1 296 
 
 Carpenter, O., 10th Wis. 1 473 
 
 Carpenter, O. P., 1st Wis. C 257 
 
 Carr,-S. S., 8th 111 C ,534 
 
 Carter, G. B, 2d Wis. r 495 
 
 Carter. K.. 5th Wis I 498 
 
 Case, ,1.1 ■ 845 
 
 fash. W. H. H., 10th Wis. L A 779 
 
 Catlin. G. E.,5lh U. S. .\ 590 
 
 Chamberlain, J. A., 4th Wis 357 
 
 Chandler, W. .]., Ist Wis. C 773 
 
 Charnley, I., Ist Wis. H, A 686 
 
 Chase, G. H., 1st Col. C 393 
 
 Chatfleld, C A.. 113th 111. I 403 
 
 Cheek, P. Jr. 6th Wis. 1 711 
 
 Chute, K. H. ,35th Mass 1 233 
 
 Clark, C. v., 30th Wis. I 603 
 
 Clark, J. G, 50th Wis. 1 ... 492 
 
 Clirk,L.,35th N.Y.I 797 
 
 Clark, S. J, 15ih 111. 1 718 
 
 Clark, T., 5th U. S. I .. .676 
 
 Clarke, E. T., 77th Pa. I .^^45 
 
 Clarke, W. P., 13th Wis. I ... 3;.'fi 
 
 Cleveland. T. J.. 6th Wis. 1 430 
 
 Cobban. S. C. F., 3d Vt. 1 436 
 
 Cochrane. T. B.. 9th N. V.I 284 
 
 CMeman, C., 13th Wis. I 380 
 
 Coleman, E. H. 3(lth Wis. I 351 
 
 Collins, G, J., isth Wis I 314 
 
 Colwell, W., 3d Wis. 1 761 
 
 Connor, A., 7th Wis, I 781 
 
 Cook, G. W., 4th Wis 619 
 
 Gooley, H., 8t.h III. C .^63 
 
 Cooper, F., 37th Wis. I ,535 
 
 C.ipoland. F. .\.. 3d Wis. C 648 
 
 Corthell, J. IC, 16th N. Y. C ,523 
 
 Cosgriff, K. H., 4th Iowa C 647 
 
 Cory, J., 1st Wis. H. A 368 
 
 Craiff, D., 35th Iowa 1 159 
 
 Crandall, W. W.. 7th Wis. 1 275 
 
 Cram, B. F.. 5th Wis. 1 319 
 
 Crig-er. J. .1., 4th Wis 240 
 
 Cristman, E. G., 1.53d N. Y. 1 809 
 
 Cronou. E., 8th Wis. 1 368 
 
 Culver, O., 48th Wis. I 438 
 
 Cunningham. C. C, .5th Wis. L. A 333 
 
 Curtis, A. A., 36th Wis. I :i53 
 
 D 
 
 Daevel, C, 5ili Mo. C 321 
 
 Dahl, A. P. K.. 33th Wis. I .542 
 
 Danielson. A.. II. S. N 666 
 
 Darling. J., 8th Iowa 1 154 
 
 Davie.-, D. D., 49i,li Wis. I 347 
 
 Davis, U. C, 7th Iowa C nii7 
 
 Davis, D. B., 24tli Wis. 1 311 
 
 Davison, J. T., 43d Wis, I 376 
 
 Davidson, J., 5Hi N. Y. C 593 
 
 DeLip.K. H..3.id Wis.1 813 
 
 Denniston. H., 17th Wis. I 669 
 
 De Puy, E .M., 28tii Wis. 1 312 
 
 Dervin, W. E., 16th U. S. 1 !.... 337 
 
 Deshatnp, A., 48lh Wis. 1 671 
 
 Desmond. J.. 16lli N. Y. H. A 548 
 
 Deveroau.v. T., 381 h Wis. I 160 
 
 Dinsmore. J. S . 12Hi N. 11. 1 517 
 
 Dipple. C. 37th Wis. 1 446 
 
 Ditschler, J., 1st Wis. I 313 
 
 Doolittio, E. L., 37th Wis. I 387 
 
 Douglas, A. S., 4"th Wis. I (05 
 
878 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Dove, E. A., 13tli N. V. C. . 
 
 3S1 1 Hayford, S. S.. 13tli N. Y. I 
 
 335 Kreuger, F. J. G., 26th Wis. 1 182 
 
 Dow. C. C, 2d Wis. T 32!) Heatford, G. H.. 72d Hi. I hT, 
 
 Doyic.B. W., mil Wis. I . . 22S Heaiey, W., 3d Vt. L. A 72«< 
 
 Dralfc. G. W , 1st Wis. I 
 
 Dreutzor. C. G., lltli Wis. I 
 
 E 
 
 E^glcstou, C. H.. 29t.li Wis. 1 47' 
 
 Elinnann, W..2ntli Wis. I 
 
 Ei).'ol, J., -id Miuii. I 
 
 Erslvinc-, M. B I': 
 
 Evans, W. H. ,31st Wis. I 33<i 
 
 Ewcns, A., 20tli Wis. I. 
 
 Ealioy, R.. 2d Wis. I 
 
 Kaiicl.ild, I,., 2<1 Wis. I. 
 Kaulliiier, J.. 8tli Wis. I 
 Fiiilt, H.. :.'8tli Wis. I .. 
 Kisher, F.,2«tli Wis. I 
 
 148 Hcarn, A.S., ISOIliOliioI 330 
 
 tijii Heller, T. S.. 1st Iowa C 2i)2 
 
 ^ ] Henipic, F. W., 22d Wis. 1 335 
 
 Heiidoishot, .1.. .■jOt li Wis. 1 784 
 
 I Henry, W. L., 4iitli Wis. I 168 
 
 Henze. G.. 20tli Wis. 1 304 
 
 Herrick, M., Slllli Wis. 1 360 
 
 ■'*' ■/Hess, N. M.. 1st Wis. H. A .347 
 
 ^1i riillman. W. J., 2il Minn. 1 421 
 
 Hilton, P. W., 22,1 Wis. 1 .318 
 
 Hiuton, G., 38tli Wis. I 571 
 
 Hinsey, .1. A 839 
 
 Hoard, W. D., 4th Wis 197 
 
 Hohart, H. C, 21st Wis. 1 743 
 
 HoH-bin, W., R»th 111. 1 442 
 
 Hoiden, W., 2(1 Wis. 1 719 
 
 Holland, J. H.,!C.lli 111. I 212 
 
 Krez, C. 2;ih Wis. I .397 
 
 Kuechenmeister, F. A., 26th Wis. I.... 772 
 
 Kuhliir. A.. 2«th Wis. 1 422 
 
 Kusel, F.,20th Wis. I 162 
 
 Laib. W. ('.. 37tli Wis. I 6.32 
 
 762 
 
 509 
 178 
 680 
 32;! 
 
 Laiuore, W. C.. 2d Wis. C. 
 Lawrence, A.. 3d Wis. I. 
 
 Lee, J., 2:Jd Wis. I 
 
 Lelifeldl. 0.,C. S. N 
 
 Lengstadt, G.,2d Wis. C. 
 
 Lewis, J. F 
 
 Lewis, J. T 
 
 Lewis, W. H. H.r, U. S. 
 Liudley, T., llih Wis. I... 
 Lins, J. A... 3tli Wis. I 
 
 L. A 
 
 .1 2.i5 I-iazey.J. 
 
 D,2.1 III. C. 
 
 335 
 459 
 . 503 
 538 
 460 
 840 
 689 
 643 
 349 
 441 
 203 
 
 FlanaKan, J., 1st Wis. 672 
 
 Flint, H.. I., 23d Wis .331 
 
 Fot'O, W. M., 42d Wis. I 481 
 
 Koriierook, J.,a3lli Wis. I 272 
 
 Frantz, C, 9tli Wis. 1 206 
 
 Little, T.,24l1i Wis. I .364 
 
 Logan. W. A , 1st Wis. C 307 
 
 Long, E. F., ISlth Pa 1 566 
 
 Lorcli, P. H ,2'itii Wis. I 786 
 
 Lund, H E..3th Wis. 1 316 
 
 Friddle, O. A., 2d Wis. I . 
 Froliliauh, A, 8th N. V.I 
 
 G 
 
 200 
 754 
 
 698 
 
 Gale, J..3ISI Wis. I 
 
 Gallalier. J. B., 12'.ith Ind. I 287 
 
 Galloway, J. -M., lull X. V. H. A 684' 
 
 Gasser, B.. 48tli Wis. 1 213 
 
 Gatz, B., 13th Wis. I 375 
 
 George, J. S., 3d N. Y. C 299 
 
 Giller, R.,33d Wis. 1 599 
 
 Gillett.O., 3d Mich. C 731 
 
 Gillelt, W., lllh Wis. 1 425 
 
 (;.iodliue. W. F., 3d Wis. I 614 
 
 Goodman, H. P., 1st Wis. H. A. .- 213 j 
 
 Gregg, L. B., 13olh Ohio I 738 
 
 Green, A. M., 18th Wis. I 43'> | 
 
 Grcinelsen, P., r. S. N 737 
 
 Grillin, M., 12tli Wis. 1 723 
 
 Grindell.W. F., 41st Wis 1 437 
 
 Gritzner, A. J..3d L'. S. I 333 
 
 Giodc. C, 26tli Wis. 1 8;2 
 
 Grovcr, W.. 2d .Minn. G 791 
 
 ">(^Giuber, N., 10th Wis. 1 699 
 
 Ounn, A.. 11th Mo. C 683 
 
 Gullilord, C. W., 12tli Wis. I 377 
 
 Gu|>I)ey, J. J., 23ti Wis. I 752 
 
 Imig, P., 
 Ivey, A., 
 
 3d Wis. C. 
 7tli Wis. I . 
 
 lUiglit.T.W. ,24th N. 
 Hall, H., 23d Wis. I... 
 
 Y. I 
 
 815 
 
 Hall, J.. 39th Wis. 1 309 Kiddle, J. G., 31st 111. 1 668 
 
 Hollister, A. H., 22d^Wis. 
 
 Holmes, .\. ,10th Wis. I .376 
 
 Holmes. F.. 3d Wis. C ISO 
 
 Holmes. W.S., 96th III. I 804 
 
 Howard, .V. E., 113d N. Y I 514 
 
 Howard, H. A..2H|h Wis. I 271 
 
 Howard, l.M,:Sfd Wis. 1 253 Lyon, W. P.. 13th Wis. 1 165 
 
 Hoyt. W. K.. inih Vt. 1 767 
 
 Humes. .M. F. 2cl Wis. I .. 149 | M 
 
 Humistoii. I. T.,2dWis. C 462' , 
 
 Hunt, H.C\, 20th III. 1 219 Mallory, L. T., 12th WIS. L. .\ 583 
 
 Hulchins, M. Mrs ^^VJrtanz, L., 36th Wis. I 451 
 
 Hyde. W., 71h Wis. 1 338 Marsh. C. H.. 4th Wis 216 
 
 Marsh, E. N.. Ist Wis. I 345 
 
 I May, H., 4th r. S. I 419 
 
 ' McBride, A , 3d Wis. 1 155 
 
 McCann, I., 37th Ohio I. 245 
 
 McFarhind, W. H., .3th Wis. 1 637 
 
 McGregor, D.. 42d Wis. I 241 
 
 McGuire. F. M.. 8th Wis. 1 322 
 
 McMarcley, N., 1st Wis. H. A 186 
 
 jMcMillan, A 828 
 
 McMurtrey, L.,3d Wis. I 456 
 
 Miles, D. E., 57th 111. 1 ,509 
 
 Miles, E. M., 11th. III. C 466 
 
 Miles, W., 12th Wis. L. A 817 
 
 Millard. W. W. ,8th 0. S. I 402 
 
 Miller, C, 36th Wis 1 626 
 
 Milli-r,J. H.,32dWi8. I ia3 
 
 Miserez. p. J., 12ih Kas. 1 157 
 
 Mitchell, A., 34th Wis. I 183 
 
 Mitchell, H 833 
 
 Mitchell. . I. A., 3d Wis. C 75ti 
 
 Moffett, W. B., 10th Wis. 1 646 
 
 Monat, J. S., 3d Wis. C 339 
 
 Monroe, J. A.. 38lh Wis. I 258 
 
 Moody, Si. H., nth Wis. 1 544 
 
 Moore, M.T..24tli Wis. 1 622 
 
 Morford, W H., liCd 111. 1 475 
 
 Moorhouse.J. F.,10thN.Y.C 5.36 
 
 Mowers, E. L., 15th III. I 701 
 
 James, 1). G., liilh Wis. I :J43 
 
 Janke, L., 51st Wis. 1 642 
 
 Jeuck,G.,2d Wis. 1 370 
 
 Jewell, P. B., 12th Wi.s. I.. 
 Johnson, D. H., 5th Wis. I... 
 Johnson, J. H., 31st N. Y. I . 
 Jones, E. H.. 1st Wis. H. A. 
 Jones, G., 9th Wis. L A ... . 
 
 Jones, G. L.,30ih Wis. 1 
 
 Jones, G. 11 , Uth Wis. I.... 
 
 473 
 355 
 5.17 
 214 
 483 
 427 
 3U6 
 
 Kahle, E., 19th 111. I 7.38 
 
 Kelly.N.T., 22d Wis. I 324 
 
 Kelley, F., .3tli Wis. I 505 
 
 Kerr, A. W., 11th Wis. 1 751 
 
 Kerr, U.S.. ;t8th Wis. 1 487 
 
 Hall, J. W., 13th Wis. I 454 
 
 Halsiy, S!., 41st Wis. 1 3i;6 
 
 Hammond, A., 22d Wis.l 209 
 
 Hand, L J.. 22d Wis. I 19! 
 
 Hanson, \.. 1.3th Wis.l 7«4 
 
 Harrington, J., 7tli Wis. I 
 
 Harris, r. E., 1st Wis. H. \ 
 
 King, L. M.,3d Wis. C 627 
 
 King, R 130 
 
 Kizer. F. C., 3d Wis. C 281 
 
 Knight, H., 33th Wis.l 413 Near, J. II 
 
 Knutson. C, .3th Wis. 1 304 
 
 784ltjvoch, H. C., 34111 Wis. 1 810 
 
 209 Koser. L, 21ith Wis. I 349 
 
 N 
 
 2d Wis. I .. 
 
 II. in. 
 
 W., 1st Wis. H. .\ 
 
 199 Kiioh, A., 1.3th X. V. H, A.. 
 
 530 
 
 310 
 
 Xeavill. J.,49lh Wis. 1 379 
 
 Xeedham, A. E.. 3ii|li Wis. 1 298 
 
 Nichols, G. I".. 23d Wis. 1 641 
 
 Xiehaiis, U. W. ,41st Wis.l '98 
 
INDEX. 
 
 879 
 
 o 
 
 (VCoiinoll, P., 1st Oliio 1 717 
 
 Oilell, E. D, loth 111. C 16'J 
 
 y^Oswiild, M., 3d Wis. 1 449 
 
 Ottilie, C, mil Wis. I «7 
 
 Parker. B. F . 1st Wis. H. A 336 
 
 Parker. J. E.. 6th Wis. L. A 678 
 
 Parsons. E.W,, 1st Wis. H. A 218 
 
 Pattee, H. D., llth Wis. 1 315 
 
 Patterson, J. T., 12-'d Ohio 1 633 
 
 Pease, F. E., 5th Wis. 1 416 
 
 Peek, G. W., 4th Wis 771 
 
 Peekham, W. K., ilth Wis. 1 411 
 
 Peifer, J., -"■-■d Wis. I 367 
 
 Peltou, J. G. ,47th Wis. I 383 
 
 Pcnuetather, J. E.. 13tli U S. 1 634 
 
 Perrault. P.. 5th Wis. 1 288 
 
 Persons, W., i:Jth Wis. 1 ISO 
 
 Ptaff, G.L., Uth Wis. I .")60 
 
 Phiuney, G. D , 7th Wis. I 806 
 
 Pier, C. K.,;!8th Wis. 1 639 
 
 Plankinton. J 841 
 
 Plank, N. G , lS6th N. Y. 1 450 
 
 Pond, L. E. ,7th Wis. 1 397 
 
 Powell, D. F 611 
 
 Powers, C. L., 37th Wis. 1 783 
 
 Powers. H.H , 2d Wis. C 682 
 
 Prideau.x. B. T., 31st Wis. I 332 
 
 Priee, T., 7th Wis. 1 7:J6 
 
 Price,!'. H.. 1st Neb. I 444 
 
 R 
 
 Eeed, E. H., 2d Wis. 1 283 
 
 Keed, W. J„ 1st Wis. C ■.... 404 
 
 Uichardsou, H., 7tli Wis. I 578 
 
 Kichardsou, L. A., 13th Wis. 1 175 
 
 Kichardson, W. H , 1st Fla. C 733 
 
 Kiekeiuan. G. A.,3(l Wis. 1 295 
 
 Hidden, S. S.,5th La. 1 586 
 
 Kies, F. J., 17th Wis. 1 749 
 
 Rittman, L. A., 1st Wis. H. A 414 
 
 Robinson, W. W., 7th Wis. 1 553 
 
 Robertson, O. »., 9tli Wis L. A 174 
 
 Rodeeker, C. W., 49th 111. 1 540 
 
 Rogers, H. M., 177lhOhioI 418 
 
 Rogers, H.G., 24th Wis. 1 373 
 
 Rogers, S. W., 20t li Wis. I :«7 
 
 Hollow. L., 22d Wis. r 268 
 
 Hood, H. W., I2thWis.1 804 
 
 Ross, F. A.. 8th Wis. L. A 246 
 
 Rowland, D., 22d Wis. I 702 
 
 Russell, J. F., lot 11 N.Y.I 572 
 
 Ryan, W. W.. 71h Wis. I 
 
 s 
 
 Scanlau, J.,5th Wis. I. 307 
 
 Schneider, J. A., 26th Wis. 1 176 
 
 Sohofleld, R.. 1st Vt. C 363 
 
 Scott, D. D., 17th Wis. I 193 
 
 Secor, M. M 854 
 
 Settle, W . C, 60th C. T 388 
 
 Shanahan, T.. 4tli Vt. 1 218 
 
 Sheldon, K. A., Ist Wis. 1 1.56 
 
 Short, A. M., 147th III. 1 426 
 
 Short, G. U, 8th 111. C .574 
 
 Simpson, W. H.. 140th III. 1 765 
 
 Sinclair, E., 10th III. I .539 
 
 Sinelker, J. P., 47th Wis. 1 301 
 
 Smelker, J. W., 23th Wis. 1 3.54 
 
 Smith, C. W., 33d Wis. 1 4S6 
 
 Smith, G. E., 2J Wis. I. 432 
 
 Smith, L. J., 28th Wis. 1 152 
 
 Smith, S. D., S. R. iStiirges HinesI 644 
 
 Snowdon, R. P., 5th Wis. I 513 
 
 Snyder, H., 42d Wis. 1 533 
 
 Spencer, J. H , .52d Pa. 1 703 
 
 Spensley, C. 140th 111. 1 259 
 
 Staley, J., 42d Wis. 1 252 
 
 Stanford, E. il., 1st Wis. L, .A. 769 
 
 Stanhope, C. D., 28th Wis. A 729 
 
 Starr, H. A., 20th Wis. 1 775 
 
 Steele, S. D., loth Wis. I 478 
 
 Stillmau, E R , 85th N Y. 1 247 
 
 Stimm, C. F., 26th Wis. 1 225 
 
 Struibig. W., 121 h Mo. 1 214 
 
 Suiier, W. F., 95th III. I 628 
 
 Sutoliffe, S., 28th Wis. I. . ." 160 
 
 S.vain, W. C.,9;id N. Y". 1 341 
 
 Swarts, A. J., 7th Wis. 1 1S9 
 
 Swift. E ,38lh Muss. 1 291 
 
 Taft, S. C, 5th Wis. L. .\ 42:! 
 
 Teall, J. G., 32d Wis. I ,399 
 
 Thayer, O. H., 1st Wis. 1 238 
 
 Thomi.s, J. A., 3Ist Wis. I 34s 
 
 Thomas, W. H., ISkl Ohio I 673 
 
 Thum, G. J., I'Uh Wis. I 277 
 
 Ties, F.. 18th Wis. 1 818 
 
 Tinker, J. T., I6th Wis. 1 278 
 
 Torkelson, I.. 1.5th Wis. 1 613 
 
 Trogner, J. H., 16th W is. 1 383 
 
 V 
 
 Valentine. J. J., I7ih U. S. C. 1 505 
 
 Vanderpool, G. J., 28th Wis. I 674 
 
 Van Veehten, H. C. 1st N. Y. M. R ... 677 
 
 Van Wie, W. H.,Oth Wis. 1 681 
 
 Vaughan, S. K., 19th Wis. 1 700 
 
 Vincent, H. K., Uth Wis. 1 519 
 
 Vivian, J. H , 5)th Wis. 1 408 
 
 Vliet. J. B.,31st Wis. 1 694 
 
 Von Baumbach, C, 34th Wis. I 569 
 
 "W 
 
 Wall, H.J. , 21st N. Y. C 813 
 
 Wallher, A.,26th Wis. I 593 
 
 Wallber, E 833 
 
 Wdid, A. J., 2d Wis. 1 707 
 
 Warner, F. L., 7th Wis. 1 396 
 
 Warner, J., 3d Wis. I 343 
 
 Watrous, J. A.,6th Wis. I 231 
 
 Weber, A., 9th Wis. I 371 
 
 Webster, D., 144th III. 1 400 
 
 Weissert, A. G., 8th Wis. 1 243 
 
 Wentworth, W. Y.. 1st Wis. H. A 280 
 
 West, F. H. ,31st Wis. J 725 
 
 Whaley, E. A.. 6th Wis. I 693 
 
 White, J., .50th Wis. 1 223 
 
 Williams, C. C, 16th Me. 1 731 
 
 Williams, J. M.. Sth Wis, I 830 
 
 Wilson, J. E , 2:id Wis 1 755 
 
 Winkler, F. C, 26th Wis. I . .. 595 
 
 Wollensak, C. H., 51st Wis. 1 279 
 
 Wolf, v., Sth W.s. 1 807 
 
 Wolrerton. S., 121st N. Y. I 239 
 
 Wood, D., 1st Wis. H. A 814 
 
 Wood, U. D., Sth Wis. I 799 
 
 Woodhouse. J., 2Jth Wis. 1 485 
 
 Wria-ht. J. B , U. S. N 618 
 
 Wyse, W. A, 13th \Vis. I 3.50 
 
 Y 
 
 Y'onng, E. C, lllth Pa. I 716 
 
 z 
 
 Zoelle, B., loth 111. I 305 
 
 F=of=R"rRAi-rs. 
 
 Ahlon, (' 
 Armsttoug, 
 
 L. G. 
 
 662 r'arter.G.B 490 'ponnor, A 
 
 384 X'arter, H 490 /Coo'.ey, H 
 
 778 
 ■5S3 
 
 -IJall, C. F 533 K;ase, J. 1 844 KPahl, A. P ,532 
 
 '^Bell,R SSSMSasli, W. H. H 778 "^esmond, J t.33 
 
 llryant, B. F 144T('atlin, G. E 584 tipple, C 440 
 
 Hull,S 8.30 Vlark.J.G... 490 ^^rskine, M. B 826 
 
 •Bushnell. A. R 490 X'lark, L 796 *^i rant. Gen. IT. S 16 
 
 Callis, .1. B -390 ■^■lark, T. Ki .532 'llancock. Gen. W. S 88 
 
 farr, S. S 3:52 "i'olwell, W 760 "^Harrington, J 778 
 
880 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 'Hes, N. M o32 rMcFarland, W. H 638 ijlyan. W. W. ... 
 
 Iliriscy. .1 fSS iMcCloiliin. Gen. C. It 112 ^incliur, E 
 
 llDard, \V. D 196 - Mitehel, H C32 "'Swain, W. C... 
 
 Holmrl. ICC 742 "bloody, S. H Xi2 ~'Swirt. E 
 
 ^Hosfliin.W 440 >/Ni- haus, B. W 7% -AVallber, A 
 
 Hollister, A. H 264 tPfaff G. L 558 -Ward, A. J .... 
 
 -' Letfeldt, 532 f4»oiid. L. E o'.IU •Svaiuer, F. L. . 
 
 ^Leivis.J.T esslpoweil, D. F Bin ■'Wati-ous, J. .\.. 
 
 Lincoln, A Front "Powers, C. L 778 ■ \Vi>st, F. H . 
 
 380 
 
 55S 
 ."40 
 290 
 584 
 706 
 390 
 2:U) 
 724 
 
 -Lins,.T..\ 440 •'Price, T. H 440 •'wood. U. D 79B 
 
 ■ Little. T 558 j^idd I', S. S 584 -^Sheridan. Gen. P. H... 01 
 
 Logan. Gen. J. A 136 {llodefker, C. W 532 ^Slicrman, Gcii. W. T 40 
 
 Lyon, W. P Ifi4 i 
 
 ivii3C^e:l.i_ainie:ous. 
 
 Coiiyritclit 4 
 
 Dedication 5 
 
 Preface 7 
 
 Chronological and Stati?tical History 
 
 of the Civil War 9 
 
 Biographical— Soldiers 145 
 
 The Man wHli the Musket 824 
 
 Biographical— Citizens 827 
 
 Badjie, G. A. R a">7 
 
 Grand Army of the Republic 859 
 
 Department of Wisconsin, G. .\. R. •■ i^li2 
 
 Badfrc. W R. C ^il'i 
 
 Woman's Relief Corps W17 
 
 Department of Wisconsin, W. H. C — 8BS 
 
 Sons of Veterans 869 
 
 Division of Wisconsin 870 
 
 Battles of the Revolution 871 
 
 Battlesof 1812 874 
 
 Memoranda 88;j 
 
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