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BAND MEMBERS - 3rd Wisconsin
Cavalry
Compiled & Submitted by Earleene
Spaulding
Band Members following Pellage, in order of
enlistment:
HENRY PELLAGE
(Variously misspelled as Pelloge, Pellege)
No record of anyone with a similar name in the 3rd Wis. Cavalry, or in any other military unit from Wisconsin.
Perhaps as leader of the regimental band he was a civilian and not a sworn soldier.
We find Henry J. Pellage living in Madison in 1858.
He was the co-owner of a saloon-restaurant, Pillage and Knoefel's (with Fritz Knoefel) located at Webster and King
Streets in Madison. He lived at that location too.
In 1858, he also was the director of the Marner
(?) Society chorus in Madison per a city directory. He also was listed as fife major with the (18th Regiment) Wisconsin
State Militia, in 1858. (The city directory's reference to his militia unit as the 18th Regiment is inexplicable.
In fact, in 1858, there were only three militia companies in Madison, Wisconsin, all of them formed that year.
There was the so-called Governor's Guard (formed 1/30/1858), the Madison Guard (formed a week later) (Both were
formed in response to a feared riot over a hotly disputed gubernational election, although no such riot occurred
as the dispute was resolved by the state supreme court and the decision was accepted by all parties/supporters).
The third militia unit was the Dane Cavalry (briefly called the Dragoons), formed in July 1858. Based on a roster
of officers, it appears that the unit Pellage served as fife major was actually the Governor's Guard.
Madison Daily State Journal, 6/22/58, 9/8/1858
and other issues from summer and fall have ads for Concert Garden, apparently an outdoor summer beverage parlor,
etc., located at Washington and West Canal Streets in Madison, with full brass band concert in afts and evenings.
Opened for the season on 6/24/58,. Referred to Major Pellage (that is, apparently fife major). Also had a big public
concert. Reference to Pellage as playing the violin. Women had to be accompanied by a gentleman to be admitted.
Reopened 5/6/59m per 5/5/59 Daily State Journal. Served wine, ale, porter, liquors, icecream. Fine garden with
cooling beverages and shady retreats. Summer of 59 was cool and rainy, so in June anned that would only be open
when not raining.
A year later, in 1860, the U.S. Census shows that
Henry Pellage was a farm worker, living on the family farm in Cottage Grove (near Madison), WI, with parents and
6 siblings.
His family came from Prussia. It appears that the
family (father, Heinrich, 59, a farmer; mother, Elise, 50; siblings, Johann Herman, 30' Wilhelm, 17; August, 12;
Augusta, 23; and Elsie emigrated from Germany, Hanover, via port of Bremen on the ship Wieland, arriving in the
port of New York on 10/2/1856, and destined for Wisconsin.
Another brother, Georg, 19, arrived in Baltimore
7/18/1855 on the Marianne, out of Bremen, originating from Fohven. He also was a musician. But I cannot find Henry
as arriving with either. Presumably he arrived earlier, and his family was joining him in Wisconsin.
According to the 1860 census, Henry was born about
1832, making him about 31 at the time of death.
SWATT QUIS
(Misspelled Swark Quis, S Ouis S. Orvis) Enlisted 10/22/61 at Watertown. Bugler, transferred to Band 11/1/62. There
was a family named Quis living in Watertown in 1860 Census. No one in that 1860 family list matches the name Quis,
however.
NATHAN A.
NOTT
Enlisted 11/3/61 at Madison. Bugler, transferred from Co. M. to Band 11/1/62. In 1860 census, as living with parents,
four siblings, on a farm at Fitchburg, suburb of Madison. Born in Michigan about 1844. Was about 19 at time of
death. Father seems to have been a deputy sheriff.
FRANK M.
LARUE
(Misspelled Laroux)
Enlisted 11/12/61 at Pentwater, MI. Transferred from Co. M to band 11/1/62. Not identified in 1860 census.
HEINRICH
BULOW
(Misspelled as Barlow, Beulow)
Enlisted 12/2/61 at Baraboo. Transferred from Co. F to Band 11/18/62. Living on a farm at Reedsburg, north of Baraboo,
in 1860 census. Was married with two children. Born in Prussia in about 1834, about 29 at time of death.
THOMAS
L. DAVIS
Enlisted 12/6/61 at Plattville. Transferred from Co. G to Band
Not identified in 1860 census; too many Davis families in Wisconsin.
THEODORE
LUSCHER
(Misspelled E. Lusher, T. Lusher)
Enlisted 1/4/62 at Milwaukee. Bugler, transferred from Co. M to Band 11/1/62. Not identified in 1860 census.
FRANK BALLOU
(Misspelled as J. Balaun, F. Balloun)
Enlisted 1/7/62 at Milwaukee. Transferred from Co. K to Band 11/1/62. Not identified in 1860 census, although he
may have been Franz Ballien, 36, married with children, found in Milwaukee in that census.
FRANK
ROSSMANITH
(Misspelled as Rosmanith, Rasmanth)
Enlisted 1/27/62 at Jefferson. Transferred from bugler, Co. K to Band 11/1/62. Not identified in 1860 census.
JAMES
P. M. MADISON
Enlisted 3/20/62 at Appleton. Transferred from Co. I to Band 6/1/63. Not identified in 1860 census.
FREDERICK
SIMON
Enlisted 9/23/62 at Ironton. Transferred from Co. K to Band 11/1/62. Not identified in 1860 census.
SOME RECORDS SHOW THAT THE FOLLOWING AS BANDSMEN
KILLED AT BAXTER SPRINGS
M. MUMSER
(Unknown, also spelled M. Munsen, perhaps a confusion with Mathies Munson, listed in Wis. Soldier roster as in
Co. F. but he was not in band.
GEORGE
GEMINDA
(Unknown, also referred to as Geminder and G.____)
No one with a similar name known to be in band or in 3rd Wis. Cavalry. Not found in 1860 census.
J. FRITZ
(Unknown) (Confusion with this name, also reported as J. Tritts, Jno. Fritz, Tripp or Tritz. There were several
J. Fritz and J. Tritz in Wisconsin Civil War regiments but none in the 3rd Wis. Cavalry; there was a Charles Fritz
in the 3rd Wis. Cavalry, but not until after Baxter Springs. There was Hiram R. Tripp in the 3rd Wisconsin but
he was a farrier and never in the band.
It is possible that Mumser, Geminda and Fritz were not band members but civilian headquarters clerks killed in
the action.
SURVIVING BAND MEMBERS
NOT PRESENT
JAMES M. COLTON
(Misspelled Cotton)
Enlisted 11/10/61 at Baraboo. Transferred from Co. F. to Band 11/18/62. In 1860 census, living on a farm at Baraboo
with parents, three siblings. B. 1844, so would have been about 19 at time.
AUGUST SHEEL
Enlisted 12/23/61 at Oshkosh. Transferred from Co. B to Band 2/24/63. In 1860, living at Oshkosh with wife, 3 children.
Born in Prussia, about 1826, so about 37 at time.
OTHER TROOPS FROM 3RD WIS. CAV. WHO DIED AT BAXTER SPRINGS
26 total, 1 hq. staff 1 Co. G; 2 Co. H; Co.; Co. I 22
Asa W. Farr, Quartermaster Lt
George W. Tice, Co. G
Albert A. Bennett, Quartermaster Sgt., Co. H
Oman, H. Shaver, pvt., Co. H (Or Orman)
David Beam, corporal, Co. I
Henry Brewer, pvt., Co. I
Joseph Burlingame, Sgt. Co. I
William C. Clark, pvt., Co. I
James Dempsey (or Dimpsey, pvt., Col I
Steven V. Gallea, pvt., Co. I
John Gannon (or Gainer), pvt., Co. I
William M. Gifford, pvt., Co. I
Alfred Green, pvt., Co. I
Dennis Smith, pvt., Co. I
Francis Van Camp, pvt., Co. I
Abram Woodall (or Woodfall), pvt. Co. I
Frank Guliun (or Galvin), pvt., Co. I
Samuel Hart, corporal, Co. I
Robert R. Murphy, corporal, Co.I
William G. Hopper (or Wm. C.), corporal, Co. I
Gottleib F. Mossinger, pvt, Co. I
Henry Pond, pvt., Co. I
Lincoln S. Rice, pvt., Co. I
Marion Richard (or Rickard), pvt., Co. I
John C. Wright, pvt. Co. I
John Zahner, pvt., Co. I
WOUNDED
4 total, all Company I
Jesse Smith, pvt, Co. I
John Splane, Sgt., Co. I
Frank Arnold, pvt. Co. I
Albert McCune, pvt. Co. I
Source: The Civil War Soldiers buried in Baxter Springs Cemetery is a project
that Earleene Spaulding spent countless hours and money researching. She's allowing us to graciously place her
work on the Genealogy Trails website for which we are very grateful.
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