Rock County, Wisconsin History
Source: "Rock County, Wisconsin, Volume 1" By William Fiske Brown Historian M. A., D.D.; Publ. 1908 a new history of its cities, villages, towns, citizens and varied interests, from the earliest times, up to date,

Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack

CHAPTER XVI; THE MILITARY HISTORY OF ROCK COUNTY.
Rock County's war record is one to which her people may ever refer with pride and satisfaction. One of the first counties in the state to respond with volunteers in the hour of gravest peril, she never faltered during the entire struggle; her old men were not wanting in counsel, nor her young or middle-aged men in true martial spirit; with a firm, unswerving faith in the righteousness of the Union cause, her citizens, without distinction in age or sex, were imbued with a determination to conquer, or die rather than survive defeat. It was this kind of martial spirit that bore the Union cause through defeat as well as victory, whenever the often repeated news was brought home of depleted and scattered ranks. Rock County valor is attested upon every street of her hospitable cities and villages, upon her broad section of fertile lands, and, last but not least, within the silent enclosures of her dead. It is here that, with each recurring anniversary, the graves of her slumbering heroes are moistened with tears of sorrow, as loving fingers bedeck them with beautiful flowers.
When the first alarm of the coming war was sounded, and President Lincoln called for 75,000 men to defend the cause of the Union, Rock County responded first with the "Beloit City Guards," and thereafter, until the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, made by Lee to Grant, on the "old stage road to Richmond," on the afternoon of April 9, 1865, Rock County was ever ready to manifest her patriotism and love of country. The draft was enforced three times during the war, November 12, 1863; September 19, 1864, and February 19, 1865, and filled with recruits; yet the county furnished 2,817 soldiers and upward of a half-million dollars to beat back the foe. Of this number, 1,493, by actual count, were enlisted prior to November 11, 1861.

The subjoined roster of Rock county soldiers has been prepared from private records as well as from the best published official authorities. The editor, himself a G. A. R. man, has spared no pains to have it both correct and complete. The citizens of Rock County require but little help to remind them of their soldiers' deeds, or to recall the names of those who fought the good fight unto the end. Many of the "boys" who went out from home to battle for the Union, with only the benediction of a mother's tears and prayers, came back to that mother's arms shrined in glory. Many returned, having left a limb either in the swamps of the Chickahominy or on the banks of Rapidan or at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg or in the wilderness. Many still bear the marks of that strife which raged at Stone River, Iuka, Chickamauga, or on the heights of Lookout Mountain, whence they thundered down the defiance of the skies; of that stern strife of battle, which marked the contests before Atlanta, Savannah, and in the Carolinas.

But there were many who came not back. They fell by the wayside or, from the prison and battlefield, crossed over and mingled with the ranks of that Grand Army beyond the river. Their memory, too, is held in sacred keeping.

Some rest beside their ancestors in the village churchyard, where the violets on their mounds speak remembrance of the devotion of those who sleep below; their memory is immortal; some sleep in unknown graves in the land of cotton and cane; trees which shade the sepulchers of their foemen shade their tombs also; the same birds carol their matins to both; the same flowers sweeten the air above them, and the same daisies, as the breezes toss them into rippling eddies, caress the graves of both. Neither is forgotten. Both are remembered as they slumber there, in peaceful, glorified rest.

"On fame's eternal camping ground their shadowy tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead."

On April 17, 1861, the proclamation of Governor Randall was published, calling upon "all good citizens to join in making cause against a common enemy," and inviting the patriotic citizens of Wisconsin to enroll themselves into companies ready to be mustered into service immediately. The promulgation of this address was followed by meetings held at eligible points throughout the country. On the evening of April 20, the largest meeting ever convened in Janesville was held in the Hyatt house hall. It was composed of men of all degrees and every shade of political belief. Party appeared to have been for the time forgotten, Democrats and Republicans alike seeming to be impressed with but one purpose, devotion to the maintenance of the Union and the enforcement of the laws; W. H. Ebbets presided, and, in a brief address set forth the cause which necessitated the assemblage. He was followed by the Hon. Andrew Palmer, C. G. Williams, W. H. Mitchel, Governor Barstow, Isaac Woodle, H. N. Comstock and others. J. B. Cassody, M. C. Smith and I. C. Sloan, were appointed a committee to draft an address, inviting the people of Rock county to cooperate with the citizens of Janesville in aiding the subscription of money and the enlistment of volunteers to put down the rebels who were then marching on Washington. A series of resolutions introduced by the Hons. Andrew Palmer and Isaac Woodle, expressing the people's determination to rally at once, without distinction of party, to the defense of the country; to cheerfully respond to the call of the president for troops to aid in the enforcement of the laws, and to contribute to the support of the families of those who shall enlist and enter upon active service, where their pecuniary condition may require it, were unanimously adopted. The most intense and enthusiastic patriotism was manifested, and before the assembly dispersed, the following subscriptions, aggregating $3,730, were pledged: E. McKay, $200; H. Richardson, C. Conrad, Andrew Palmer, Noah Newell, John Mitchell, J. C. Jenkins, J. B. Doe, R. J. Richardson, H. S. Conger, E. R. Doe, H. L. Smith, O. B. Mattison, J. D. Rexford, J. J. R. Pease, J. W. Storey and Jackman & Smith, $100 each; C. R. Gibbs, B. B. Eldredge, James Sutherland, Z. S. Doty, Daniel Carle, J. M. Bostwick, Peter Meyers, G. F. Moseley, I. C. Sloan, W. G. Wheelock, George Barnes, J. M. May, George A. Young, Daniel Clow and Holt, Bowen & Wilcox, $50 each; J. B. Cassody, H. N. Comstock, J. Spaulding, J. L. Kimball, H. Search, C. G. Williams, C. S. Burnham, K. W. Bemis, J. L. Kimball, W. Macloon, S. Holdridge, Jr., E. S. Borrows, Randall Williams, H. N. Gregory, S. J. M. Putnam, C. Miner, J. C. Metcalf, Robert Hodge, B. Bornheim, F. and D. Strunk, A. P. Prichard, William Eager, W. H. Parker, Adam Andre, A. Sutherland, H. Palmer, J. R. Bennett, G. H. Davis, J. h. Ford, Charles W. Hodson, Beri Cook, G. Nettleton, Fifield & Bros., Ole Everson, Nash & Cutts, Hugh Chaplin, J. W. Allen, Joseph James, H. E. Peterson, Colwell & Co., Theodore Kendall, D. W. Inman and J. M. Sleeper, $25 each; D. S. Treat, $20; John Mohr, A. Wilson, J. M. Riker, W. Winkly, N. Swager, N. L. Graves, Charles Seaton, A. D. Stoddard, G. W. Kimball, L. H. Black, Henry Chapin, Royall Wood, O. B. Hartley, James Madden and F. Barrere, $10 each; Henry Powell, $15; H. Gottman, Lesley Hyde, A. Nellis and 0. W. Monsell, $5 each. J. B. Doe was appointed treasurer, in addition to the following relief committee and ladies' committee to furnish flags for enlisted companies: T. Jackman, G. R. Curtis, H. W. Collins, Platt Eycleshimer and Samuel Belton; ladies' committee, Mesdames J. T. Wright, R. B. Treat, Henry Palmer, Z. S. Doty and Peter Meyers.

Large Union meetings were also held at Beloit, at Evansville, Footville, Clinton, Afton, Shopiere (at which $4,640 was subscribed), Magnolia, Johnstown and elsewhere, at all of which the greatest enthusiasm and generous liberality were displayed. On April 25, a county meeting was held in Janesville, to take into consideration the condition of the country and adopt such measures as the exigencies of the time demanded.

The city was generally decorated in honor of the event, the stores and public offices were closed, and the proceedings were of a character well calculated to excite patriotic emotions.

The meeting was organized by the appointment of B. E. Hale, of Beloit, chairman; Andrew Palmer, Isaac Miles, Dr. John Mitchell, Z. P. Burdick, J. P. Wheeler and D. Y. Kilgore, vice presidents, and W. H. Ebbetts, Hiram Bowen and E. P. Brooks, secretaries. Speeches were made by Prof. D. Y. Kilgore, of Evansville seminary; W. H. Ebbetts, Judge Armstrong, Mr. McAdams, of Milton; J. P. Wheeler and the Rev. I. Codding, and Messrs. Graham, Lawrence, Gibbs, Martin, Calkins, Tilton, May, Williams and others, at an impromptu meeting held on a public square. At this meeting, "The Rock County Union and Relief Society" was organized, and the following officers elected: J. D. Rexford, treasurer; William Merrill, secretary, and J. G. Kendall, W. H. Tripp, J. E. Culver, A. Palmer, George Sherman and A. W. Pope, committee.

The objects of the society were to enroll, organize into companies and drill such men as were willing to enter into active service as volunteers; "to raise funds for the support and relief of such volunteers and their families, and to defray such other expenses as may be proper in carrying out these objects." The labors imposed were onerous, but until the close of the war this society was untiring in its efforts to promote the cause of the Union and the welfare of the soldier.

In the three months' service, Pliny Norcross, a student at Milton at the date of the call, enlisted in the Governor's Guards, and is believed to be the only recruit from Rock county who served in the three months' campaigns around Washington, terminating with the battle of Bull Run, besides the "Beloit City Guards," which were enlisted at Beloit and mustered into the First Regiment. Pliny Norcross subsequently became captain of Company K, Thirteenth regiment, and served to the close of the war.

Company F, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, three months' men, was known as "Beloit City Guards." Captain, William M. Clark; first lieutenant, Thomas P. Northrop; second lieutenant, Noble W. Smith; first sergeant, John F. Vallee; second sergeant, Frederick W. Goddard; third sergeant, Alexander Anderson; fourth sergeant, David M. Bennett; corporals, Henry H. Stafford, Phillip E. Fisher, Benjamin Vaughn, Charles A. Rathbun, Norwich; fifer, Volney P. Van Buren; drummer, Alexander Lee.

Privates from Rock county: Myron H. Adams, John A. Avery, George Beeker, Daniel W. Berry, Daniel Bratt, Harmon H. Barmoore, Charles F. Bemis, Charles A. Colby, Hartly H. Colby, Alexander Clark, Horace R. Colby, Charles H. Christ, Deloss H. Cady, Howard Converse, John Campbell, John S. Chandler, John N. Clifford, Philander B. Daggett, Bradford B. Daggett, James H. Funnell, Charles R. Goodrich, Elisha W. Goddard, Horace W. Hackett, Sophronus S. Herrick, James Hislop, Henry Harbon, James H. Ingersoll, Benjamin Kline, Martin McDevitt, Sanford L. Miller, William H. Norton, John A. Pease, John W. Parker, William H. Parker, James W. Quinn, Leonard M. Rose, Hiram A. Reaves, James H. Ranous, Alexander Lee, musician; Henry H. Stafford, Elisha W. Sherman, Albert S. Steele, Jared J. Towers, Edward D. Webb, Mark Young, Daniel Young, Warren Young, Klem Barnes. The company after participating in the fight at Falling Waters, on July 2, 1861, were mustered out with the regiment on August 21 of the same year.

Company D, Second Regiment, was raised in the City of Janesville, the first company of volunteers enlisted for the war in Rock County. The company was enlisted under the call for three months, but when mustered into service on June 11, 1861, was credited to the quota for three years. It left Janesville on May 6 for Madison, where it was quartered in Camp Randall. After remaining in camp engaged in drilling and equipping for the field until June 20 the regiment departed for Washington, its officers and privates regarding the change of base in the light of a pleasure trip, confident that their services would not be required beyond a year. After a brief sojourn in the capital the regiment crossed the Potomac and camped on Arlington Heights, where it was brigaded under the command of W. T. Sherman, and participated in the memorable battle (July 21, 1861 of Bull Run, at which Marion F. Humes, of Company F, a boy of the town of Janesville and a student of Milton Academy, was killed by a cannonball-the first Wisconsin soldier so killed in the war. (The first Wisconsin soldier killed in the rebellion was George C. Drake, of Milwaukee, Company A, First Wisconsin Infantry, July 2, 1861, near Martinsburg, Va.)

On the 27th of August following the regiment was transferred to the command of General Rufus King, and composed a portion of the "Iron Brigade." Company D participated in the campaigns against Richmond, in the battles of Gainesville, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Laurel Mountain and at other points, until May 11, 1864. At that date the regiment was detached from the brigade it had accompanied since its organization and to whose reputation it so materially contributed (the Second having been reduced to less than 100 men fit for active service), and was employed as provost guard of the Fourth Division, Fifth Army Corps, accompanying that division in the movement to the left, crossing the North Anna river on May 23 and arriving on June 6 on the Chickahominy. The regiment remained here until the 11th of the same month, when it marched to White House Landing, whence it embarked for Washington, and arrived in Madison, Wis., June 18, where, on July 2, 1864, it was mustered out of service, and the remnant of Company D returned to Rock County. When the regiment reached Wisconsin its total number was 155 officers and men out of 1,050 who entered the service in 1861. The number returned as above did not include twenty veterans or forty-five members who were returned as wounded and prisoners.

The original roster of Company D contained the following:
George B. Ely, captain, wounded at the battle of Antietam, September 2, 1862, discharged the service December 24 following; A. B. McLean, first lieutenant, resigned October 7, 1862; Dana D. Dodge, second lieutenant, promoted to first lieutenant March 18, 1862, resigned April 13 following; Ebenezer P. Perry, second lieutenant, promoted first lieutenant January 1, 1863; Albert F. Wade, orderly sergeant; George F. Saunders (promoted to first lieutenant April 30, 1862, and resigned), William A. Jameson (promoted January 9 and May 4, 1863, to first lieutenant) and Henry Silman, sergeants; John C. McDonald, John C. Little, Charles W. Atherton and Dennison Webster, corporals. The privates were Ethan Allen, Marion Alexander, John J. Bristow, Gersham A. Bennett, Frederick Breme, Cain Billings, Jeremiah G. Burdick, Chauncey Bartholomew, Henry Backus, Andrew Bean (killed at South Mountain September 14, 1862), William Croft, Samuel Creek, Charles H. Cheney, Andrew Douglas, Lorin Davis Jr., Johnson Dole, John N. Ehle, Chauncey Ehle (died at Richmond, Va., in November, 1862), William Hogan, Albert B. Heath, Joseph Harris, Isaac R. Huggins, John Johnson, Edward Killelee, Hiram H. Kimball, Albert B. Kimball, Thomas H. Knill, Oliver Friddle, Daniel H. Loomis, John F. Foot, William H. Foote, Asahel Gage (killed at South Mountain September 14, 1862), Wendell Fairbrother, John Hamilton (promoted corporal and died at Richmond, Va.), Lucius H. Lee, C. H. Lee, Alexander Lee (appointed second lieutenant May 13, 1863), Herman J. Longhoff, Sidney Landers, Charles E. Marsh, Orville J. Miles, William J. McRea, Frederick H. Maine, John C. Malloy, Nathaniel Parks, A. Patterson, Leonard Powell, William Smith (promoted corporal and died in Richmond, Va., March 14, 1862), Charles Rowland, George L. Scott, Albert H. Stickney, Charles D. Stickney, William L. Schermerhorn, Joslyn Southard, William Seiforth, D. Thoraldson, Lucien N. Turner, Lewis Tramblie, Joseph H. Tramblie (killed at Gainesville August 28, 1862), David Tramblie, Julius Tramblie, Clark R. Thomas, Oramel Wilcox, Philander Wilcox (promoted corporal and killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863) and Caleb J. Waterman.

Of the Third Regiment, Thomas H. Ruger, of Janesville, captain, lieutenant colonel, was promoted brigadier general and brevet major general U. S. Volunteers; Bradley M. Bucklin was commissary sergeant and Edwin 0. Kimberly band leader. Louis H. D. Crane, of Beloit, second lieutenant Company A, adjutant major, was killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862. James H. Webb, of Janesville, was in Company F, and in Company K were James C. Brock and Commissary Sergeant Bradley M. Bucklin, of Janesville; Eben Colby and Peter Green, of Turtle; Caleb Ellison, Beloit, and Ole Gulsuth, of Clinton.

Company E, Fifth Regiment, was enlisted in Rock county in May, 1861, and rendezvoused at Camp Randall during the latter part of the following June, where it was mustered into service July 13, leaving the state for the Army of Eastern Virginia on the 24th of the same month. Arriving in Washington, the regiment became attached to the brigade of General King and encamped on Meridian hill. On the 3d of the ensuing September the regiment was moved to Chain Bridge and assigned to Hancock's brigade, Smith's division, Army of the Potomac. Company E was a prominent factor in all these movements, including that of the Army of the Peninsula, participating in the battle of Williamsburg, the first engagement of the historic battles about Richmond, including Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Frasier's Farm, Malvern Hills and Antietam; also taking part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg (being attached to General Franklin's division of the Sixth Army Corps, and crossing the river on the morning of December 12, 1862, in advance of Burnside's army), and taking a position on the left of the battle line at Gettysburg. In the latter part of July, 1863, Company E occupied Kingston, N. Y., where it was stationed until after the draft, when in obedience to orders it returned to Fairfax Station, Va., and, rejoining the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixth Army Corps, took possession of Warrenton, joined in the charge upon Rappahannock Station and in the engagement at Locust Grove across the Rapidan. In the spring of 1864 Company E again crossed the Rapidan and took part in the battle of the Wilderness, in which, it will be remembered, the Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment was captured by companies attached to the Fifth Wisconsin. After the battles of Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg the regiment assisted in the defense of Washington when menaced by Breckinridge, remaining until July 16, 1864, when it was returned to Madison and mustered out.

The following is the list of officers and privates, Rock County men, originally enlisted in Rock county:
Horace M. Wheeler, captain, promoted to major, died in Washington November 19, 1863 of wounds received at the battle of Fredericksburg; Henry R. Clum first lieutenant, promoted captain U. S. V. signal corps and brevet major; Asa W. Hathaway, Janesville, sergeant, lieutenant, captain; first lieutenant, James McDaniel, of Janesville, corporal, first sergeant; James Mills, of Janesville, second lieutenant, resigned May 12, 1862; H. C. Hern (died of wounds at Williamsburg in May, 1862), E. P. Mills (promoted February 9 and October 3, 1863, to first lieutenant and killed at the battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864), Walter L. Smith and A. L. Cutts (died at Fairfax, Va., March 15, 1862), sergeants; G. W. Dutton, W. M. Birt, J. C. Rogers, C. 0. Harrington, corporals, and later sergeants; F. Schermerhorn, drummer, and John Jackson, of Edgerton, fifer, with the subjoined list of privates from Rock county: Louis Anderson, Leslie Anderson, Thomas H. Alverson, H. L. Ames, Nathaniel Baker, William C. Benedict, P. J. Bellsfield, John Beatty, E. P. Bly, J. H. Bliven, W. W. Bradshaw, J. W. Brown, W. Braithwaite (died at Hagerstown, Md., October 29,1862), Page N. Butts, R. F. Dutton (Beloit), M. Dunn, Thomas Evans, W. M. Folsom, A. R. Foster, F. T. Harvey, R. A. Hickox, Thomas Hodson, J. W. Huggins (corporal, sergeant), W. A. Helmes, C. A. Ingersoll, H. Jarvis, J. M. Kimball, John Lahn (died at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864), J. P. Lincoln, J. D. Maxon, Edward Miles, Thomas Miller, Alonzo Nellis, I. B. Newkirk (corporal), Timothy Osborn (died at Liberty Hall Hospital, Virginia, January 27, 1862), E. H. Oleson, F. D. Parker, Ezra Pepper, George Peterson (died of wounds received at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864), Joseph Pierson (killed at the battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864), Clark A. Pierce, B. K. Platts (died at Liberty Hall Hospital, Virginia, July 18, 1862), G. S. Prior, R. W. Pitts (killed at Fredericksburg, Va., May 3, 1863), P. G. Raymond (died of wounds received at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864), W. F. Read, M. Rhoades, D. C. Ripley, T. G. Richardson, G. E. Seymour, P. A. Shaw, G. C. Sims, W. H. Story, W. C. Stevens, W. C. Stuck (died of wounds at Washington November 25, 1863), William J. Stockman, Almaron W. Stillwell, T. S. Stewart, C. M. Taylor, Whitney Tibbals (Beloit, killed at Spottsylvania May 10, 1864), Charles L. Valentine (wounded), J. D. Valentine (killed at Fredericksburg, Va., May 3, 1863), A. N. Vaughn (died at Lee's Mill, Va., April 30, 1862), J. A. Warner, R. B. Webster, Theodore Weed, W. W. Wiggins (corporal), D. Williams and G. R. Woodward, of Afton.

In the campaign against Fredericksburg the Fifth Wisconsin bore an important part. It will be remembered that the attack upon the heights beyond that stronghold was made simultaneously by three columns under Generals Gibbon, Howe and Newton. "On Sunday morning, May 3," writes an eye witness, "and after the first advance had been repulsed, Colonel Allen, with 225 men, the right wing of the Fifth Wisconsin, deployed as skirmishers fifty yards in advance, covering the Thirty-first New York and Sixth Maine, ordered his line forward on the double quick. His men were directed not to fire a musket, but to make use of the bayonet, thus giving the enemy, who had just discharged their pieces, no time to reload.

"This was the most brilliant charge of the campaign. The line of skirmishers darted forward upon the run, but before they reached the stone fence, which was less than three minutes, twenty-three were killed and seventy-six fell wounded, but not a man unhurt faltered. Clearing the stone fence under a terrible fire of artillery and musketry, they bayoneted those of the enemy who still resisted their advance, and, rushing forward, captured the heights, taking possession of the rifle pits and batteries.

"Lieutenant Brown, commanding a section of Walton's famous Washington Artillery, surrendered his battery and his men to Colonel Allen. All this was done before any other troops had reached the stone wall. The Sixth Maine came up and planted their colors on the right, and the left wing of the Fifth Wisconsin came up about the same time and raised their colors on the left."

Company G, Sixth Regiment. Captain, M. A. Northrup; lieutenants, George L. Montague and W. W. Allen. The company was known as the Beloit Star Rifles, enlisted at Beloit.

The following is the complete roster: Royal Atwood. James Avery, A. 0. Austin, A. Allen, S. P. Alexander, D. C. Burbank, P. Burch, S. G. Bayes, J. N. Bingham, G. W. Bly, H. L. Beemon, G. T. Bury, L. K. Barmore, W. Bedford, H. Brady, H. S. Beers, G. Best, M. Ball, W. H. Burns, D. F. Burdick, D. Briggs, J. Brader. G. W. Chamberlin, J. H. Cowen, George Closson, A. Clarke, B.
Cannon, J. Conner, B. F. Clarke, B. Christer, J. Conner, B. Dwinnell, H. J. Dahl, J. F. J. Davis, W. P. Force, J. H. Filmore, J. W. Frodine, W. T. Fuller, W. C. Gardner, C. J. Gibbs, R. Gamble, F. Green, C. Gierwitz, W. Holland, George W. Harbaugh, B. F. Harbaugh, S. W. Hanson, James Haynes, C. R. Hubbard, N. Haley, G. W. Jay, G. M. Keyt, L. A. Kent, J. Kilmartin, A. Kellum, M. A. Kinsey, B. Keller, J. Jane, D. F. Lumbard, L. S. Medbury, P. Manning, A. Moffatt, J. Miller, B. Miller, T. Mealey, O. Morton, H. C. Malraw, C. W. Mead, J. M. Moore, J. McMann, C. Mann, W. S. Metcalf, J. Moreau, W. Nichols, M. Odell, J. O'Leary, H. S. Paine, H. L. Surfield, S. N. Page, B. Parkenson, H. C. Powers, A. S. Parker, E. W. Plummer, A. Rickle, P. Rafferty, Thomas Smith, B. Snyder, J. L. Snyder, F. J. Tuttle, 0. West, J. W. Webb, H. Whittaker, R. 0. Wright, 0. Willson, A. Weller, A. Webb, G. Weatherby, Y. Smith.

Company K, Seventh Regiment.
Captains, Alexander Gordon, of Beloit, George S. Hoyt and John M. Hoyt; lieutenants, Frank W. Oakley, David Shirrell and others. This company, known as the Badger Rifles, enlisted at Beloit and rendezvoused at Camp Randall. Following is the roster, some few being from another county: Alexander Gordon, F. W. Oakley, David Shirrell, S. B. Morse, George S. Hoyt, A. D. Rood (lieutenant), J. W. Bruce, J. M. Hoyt, W. Stever (lieutenant), J. B. Davis (sergeant, died May 21,1862), George S. Hoyt (captain), H. Harbaugh (sergeant), Amos D. Rood (lieutenant), D. C. Van Antwerp (corporal, sergeant), Isaac S. Livingston, L. A. Eggleston, J. S. Claflin, Andrew Clark, W. Steever (lieutenant), H. Phillips (corporal), D. McDermot (sergeant, wounded Gettysburg), M. M. Havely, D. Custer (musician), C. Andrews, 0. Anderson, S. Agans, N. S. Allen, W. H. Allison, P. Barrett, J. H. Beard (killed Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862), W. C. Beardsley, W. W. Bowers, S. Bond, A. Brooks, J. W. Bruce, W. H. Barnum (corporal, wounded Gettysburg, died July 16, 1863), F. B. Badreau, N. Blackington, A. M. Baldwin (wounded Petersburg, died July 7, 1864), N. D. Bennett, W. Bloom, J. Bauer, Martin Luther Cochran (corporal, killed at battle of Gaines Mills), N. M. Casper, G. W. Coville, J. M. Crawford, George Carney, Ed. Carney, William Combs, W. Cloupeck, M. 0. Donnell, J. Dunham, M. Erickson (wounded second Bull Run), N. Eddy, W. D. Ellis, F. Eiselt, J. H. Fenton, W. C. Franklin (killed May 1, 1862), J. F. Foss (corporal, wounded), C. R. Garner, F. J. Garner, J. M. Hoyt (captain), W. Hyde, W. Hughes (corporal, wounded), H. B. Huntress, E. M. Hopkins (wounded, Gettysburg), G. Huntress, Michael Haman, J. L. Judd, C. Jones, H. M. Johnson, J. H. Knapp, C. Klein, P. Kinsman (wounded, died, Gettysburg, July 26, 1863), M. Kramer, H. M. Kinsman (corporal, sergeant), C. Keihl, W. Kersher, D. Lord (died February 23, 1862, Arlington, Va.), F. S. Lyon, A. A. Lombard, R. F. Lombard, I. M. Livingston, J. A. Livingston, M. E. Livingston. A. F. Livingston, R. L. Livingston, Isaac S. Livingston, W. D. McKinney, A. Murray, A. Mahoney, H. McRady, Calvin Miller (killed Gettysburg, July 1, 1863), M. McNamara (corporal, sergeant), M. Miller, J. P. Murray, D. Moriarty (wounded Gettysburg, died August 21, 1864), L. McFarlan, A. Munson, E. Mattoon, P. C. Miller, J. McCabe, F. McKee, C. B. Norton, N. H. Norton, D. Noack, H. L. Nicholas, E. H. Oviatt, M. W. O'Ryan, H. Phillips, H. Richards, W. J. Rader, F. L. Rubin, D. N. Russell, W. Raymond, E. Ranney, J. Ryan, A. Rick, C. Reidenback, J. Rittenhouse, N. Sebring, G. H. Sedgewick, A. J. Streeter, S. Severson, J. A. Snyder, George W. Shoemaker (died October 21, 1862), George Simmons, F. Simmons, F. Stowell, R. Tibbitts (died February 17, 1864), L. Tamsen, A. Teachard, J. T. Tower, A. Tischausen, P. Tarmutzer, B. Tolickson, H. Uhl, G. Van Amburg. T. Van Orman, F. Virginia, John Warbert (wounded Gettysburg), W. S. Wilson, C. W. Woodman, L. S. Wilkins, D. S. Wilkinson, G. F. Watson (died July 28, 1864), S. L. Wood, S. Wood, W. Woolbridge, J. Wright, J. M. Winters, W. Webber, M. Weiler, W. Wiseman, J. C. Young, C. Zantner.

Company G, of the Eighth, was made up of recruits from various portions of the county, the Janesville Fire Department, etc., and was recognized as one of the crack companies of the nationally famous Eagle Regiment of Wisconsin. The regimental organization was completed on the 4th and the regiment mustered into service on the 5th of September, 1861, at Camp Randall. After a brief delay, devoted to drilling, the Eighth was armed and equipped and on October 12 departed for the scene of active hostilities with which it was so intimately associated during the three years following. The regiment reached St. Louis on the 14th, remaining at Benton Barracks one day, going thence to De Soto, Big River Bridge, Pilot Knob, and finally to Fredericktown, where Jeff Thompson was encountered and put to flight. This was the first engagement in which the boys participated, and was followed by New Madrid, Island No. 10, Farmington, Miss., the siege of Corinth; the battles of Iuka, Corinth and Jackson; the siege and capture of Vicksburg; battles of Richmond, Fort De Russy, Henderson Hills, Pleasant Hill, Cloutierville, Mausura and Yellow Bayou, La.; Hurricane Creek, Miss.; Lake Chicot, Ark.; Nashville, the Spanish Fort and Mobile. After campaigning through Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi the regiment returned to St. Louis, where it was reclothed and accompanied the command of General A. J. Smith in the movement to repel the advance of Hood. After the battle of Nashville the regiment moved farther south, camping at Chalmette, near New Orleans, at Dauphin Island, Mobile, Montgomery and Demopolis, Ala., where it was mustered out of service and returned home, reaching Madison on September 13, 1865, after four years of constant service, during which the regiment marched 15,179 miles, campaigned in eleven states, fought nearly forty battles, participated in nineteen skirmishes and unnumbered sorties, returning at the close of its service full of honor and with its "eagle bird" in the enjoyment of excellent health and undiminished appetite. Early in the war the regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, of the Army of the Mississippi, under the command of General Plummer, but subsequently became a part of the Second Brigade, First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, General W. T. Sherman, and of the First Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, General A. J. (Baldy) Smith.

The following is a list of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of Company G, all being from Janesville except those designated otherwise:
W. B. Britton, captain, promoted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel; Charles P. King, first lieutenant, promoted captain March 28, 1863; R. D. Beamish, second lieutenant, killed at Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1863; William H. Sargent, promoted first lieutenant March 28, 1863, killed before Nashville December 16, 1864; James Croft, Jr., first sergeant; Milton H. Doty, first lieutenant; M. C. Williamson (died at Iuka, Miss., August, 1862), W. E. McNair and H. H. Whittier (died at Vicksburg July 15, 1863), sergeants; J. A. White (killed at Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862), A. J. Blood, C. N. Riker, D. H. Slauson, James M. McNair, A. Paul Jr. (died at Germantown, Term., March 10, 1863), J. W. Drummond (promoted sergeant) and William Watson, corporals. Privates: P. Anderson, John J. Bear, Joseph L. Bear (corporal), H. E. Bewley, T. Bowles (corporal, sergeant), B. Brittain, C. K. Bryan (died at Cairo, Ill., January 29, 1862), B. H. Byers, John Bray, John Carney, William Culton (Edgerton), John Crymble, A. Cooley, William Conroy (died at Memphis, Tenn., January 15, 1864), Joseph Davis (Indian Ford), L. Davis Jr., Norman Davis, Ed. Drake, John Dave (died at Black River, Miss., October 2, 1863), Arthur Ellis, M. Flynn, John Flagler, E. L. Graves (corporal), G. L. Griffith (corporal), W. W. Gowens, E. P. Griffin, C. E. Hines of Brodhead and David Harvey (both wounded at Corinth), Solomon Harvey (Lima), J. B. Huggins (corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant), A. Holloway (Magnolia, died at Cairo January 24, 1862), A. M. Johnson (Edgerton, died at Farmington, Miss., May 24, 1862), George P. Ide, Charles D. Kelly (Indian Ford, killed March 29, 1865, Spanish Fort, La.), William Kelly (Indian Ford), Julius Love (Porter, wounded Corinth), Charles H. Lee (sergeant, first lieutenant), James Keefe, David Lawrence, J. N. Marshall, J. McNair (corporal), C. L. Noggle (quartermaster sergeant), H. J. Phillips (Afton), 0. J. Miles, E. J. O'Brien, R. Peters, James Rogers, C. W. Robinson, Fritz Runga (died Memphis July 16, 1864), Alfred Slack, G. T. Stickney (wounded Corinth), A. M. Stickney, J. B. Smith (died at Sulphur Spa, Mo., January 16, 1862), W. H. Soper, Daniel E. Stanton, John Stephenson, P. W. Tifft, Philip Tramblie, Julius Tramblie, Jonas Tramblie, A. Thompson, Henry Tiedeman (corporal), G. Viney (corporal, sergeant) Charles Viney (corporal), William Trask, B. F. Williams, Manson L. Williamson (sergeant, died August 29, 1862, Iuka, Miss.), Martin P. Wilson, Emil Wright.
In the Tenth Regiment, Company A, was Sherman Conant, of Beloit, who enlisted in Walworth county. In the Eleventh Regiment, Company F, were Richard A. Hawley, of Janesville, and David C. Phillips, of Lima. In the Twelfth Regiment Bennett DeWitt, of Janesville, was second assistant surgeon.

The Thirteenth Regiment was proposed after the five days' fight around Richmond, at a meeting held in Janesville to devise means for strengthening the Union cause. Before the assemblage dispersed a resolution providing for the enlistment of a regiment of infantry from Rock County was introduced and met with immediate adoption. The preliminaries incident to the business in hand were promptly disposed of and a committee consisting of Senator H. Richardson and the Rev. H. C. Tilton authorized to confer with the governor and conclude arrangements for enlisting the soldiers and providing them with officers. The Hon. J. J. R, Pease, Senator Richardson and H. G. Collins were appointed to take charge of the camp and see that the "boys" were comfortably provided for.

All things being entrusted to proper authorities, recruiting began, and before many weeks the regimental roster was completed and consisted of six companies from Rock county exclusively, the balance from Green and Walworth counties. The regiment, rank and file, as also the officers, made up from the farmhouses and workshops, with a goodly number from Milton College and the high school at Janesville, went into camp northeast of the latter city, on what became later the county fair grounds, but was at that date called Camp Treadway. It was mustered into service October 17, 1861, and left the state for Fort Leavenworth, Kan. From thence it marched to Fort Scott, where it remained until March 22 and was transferred to Lawrence, arriving there March 31, 1862. After a month's sojourn the regiment went to Fort Riley, where it was fitted out for an expedition into Mexico. On the eve of their departure to the land of cocoa and palm the order was countermanded, and the "Mexican expedition" retraced its steps to Fort Leavenworth, going thence to Columbus, Ky., Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, remaining at the two forts named for upward of a year, the regimental time being devoted to skirmishes, engagements, harassing Forrest and guarding supply steamers between Fort Henry and Hamburg Landing. On August 27, 1863. the regiment marched to Stevenson, Ala. After remaining at this point a short time it went into camp at Edgefield, near Nashville, where it remained until the expiration of its term of service, and, having reenlisted, was given a furlough of thirty days, the same being passed in Janesville. Upon entering active service once more the regiment was assigned to the First Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Twentieth Army Corps, and served in the Southwest, remaining at Stevenson, Ala., until after the defeat of Hood at Nashville, when it was assigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Corps, and embarked for New Orleans, going thence to Indianola, and serving in Texas until November,
1865, when it returned to Madison via New Orleans and was mustered out of service.

The following is the roster of its Rock County recruits:
Thirteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Field Staff. Colonel, William P. Lyon, Racine, promoted from captain Company K, Eighth Regiment, Brevet brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers October 26, 1865. Lieutenant-colonel, James F. Chapman, Janesville. Adjutant, William Ruger, Janesville, promoted from second lieutenant Company A, captain A. A. G., U. S. Volunteers. Quartermasters: Platt Eyclesheimer, Janesville; Ira B. Dutton, Janesville, promoted from first lieutenant Company I. Surgeon, John M. Evans, Evansville. Second assistant surgeons, Simon L. Lord, Edgerton, and Charles M. Smith, Evansville. Chaplains, Hezekiah C. Tilton, Janesville; Joseph J. Foote, Footville. Sergeant-majors: Jason W. Hall, Janesville, promoted captain Company B January 6, 1865; Daniel B. Lovejoy, Evansville, promoted second lieutenant Company D; Aaron V. Bradt, Shopiere, promoted second lieutenant Company G, Forty eighth Wisconsin Infantry. Quartermaster sergeant, Ira P. Dutton. Commissary sergeants: Gage Burgess, Janesville, promoted second lieutenant Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry; Canute R. Matson, Milton, promoted first lieutenant Company G; Samuel S. Osborne, Milton. Hospital stewards: Samuel S. Wallihan, Evansville; James E. Coakley, Lima Center; Horace M. Haven, Milton. Principal musicians: Samuel B. Clemens, Janesville; Marshall D. Warren, Newark; Ira B. Snyder, Footville. Band: Clarence W. Baker, Janesville; Aaron T. Baker, Alva T. Bridgeman, William M. Miller, Joseph H. Sale and Joseph L. Smith, all of Evansville; David A. Mason, Center; Benjamin Snyder and S. F. Wallihan, of Footville.

Company A, or the Ruger Guards.
Edward Ruger, captain, assistant adjutant-general on general staff, mustered out November 19, 1864; L. F. Nichols, first lieutenant, resigned July 27, 1863; William Ruger, second lieutenant, afterwards appointed adjutant on the organization of the regiment, and later assistant adjutant-general U. S. A.; Milton Bowerman, appointed second lieutenant, promoted first lieutenant August 11, 1863, resigned September 30, 1864; Samuel C. Cobb, promoted second lieutenant August 11, 1863, first lieutenant October 18, and captain Company A November 21, 1864, promoted major October 9, 1865; George Hoskins, David H. Whittlesey (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 19, 1862), John B. Johnson and Harvey P. Corey, sergeants; John W. Follensbee, Olney S. Gibbs (promoted second lieutenant November 21, 1864), Daniel B. Bemis, Isaac Earl, John Auld (promoted second lieutenant October 28 and first lieutenant November 21, 1864), Myron L. Bentley (died at Leavenworth, Kan., February 11, 1862), and Frank B. Child, corporals. Albert P. Aldrich, Gideon Aldrich, Elliot Ash, Milo Ackerman (died at Lawrence, Kan., May 6, 1862), George S. Burton, Edwin R. Burton, John S. Butler, James Beveridge, John Bahr, Oliver Bonney, Lewis Beach, W. W. Bowden, E. W. Babcock, A. T. Butts (died at Leavenworth, Kan.. May 10, 1862), Nelson Butler, Nathaniel Case, Noah Chapman, Herman S. Coon, Charles Coalwell, Thomas Claffey, A. P. Cole, S. F. Colby, Hiram Cory, A. C. Denning, H. C. Davis, Daniel Douglas, William Dame, George Fenn, James S. Fuller, Jabez W. Frazier, Joseph Fitzpatrick, George F. Gould, Edward Gem, William M. Green, Joseph Govenal (died at Ft. Scott, Kan., August 30, 1862), Frederick Gooch, Edwin I. Gibbs, Myron Hart, Cornelius Haley, Joseph Harris, De Forest James, Charles Jones, William Johnson, W. E. Jones, Jacob L. Jackson, John W. Leon, Leonard Lasher, George Livingston, James Munroe, Lyman H. Maxon, Peter Murphy, Ernst Miller (died at San Antonio, Tex., September 21, 1865), Newman C. Nash, Clayton Noah, Levi Olmsted, Egbert I. Owen, Milton D. Owen, Richard M. Pierce, August M. Prilwits, Henry N. Paine, David W. Russell, Isaac A. F. Randolph (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 23, 1862), Freeman Roberts, Albert E. Rice, Elbridge S. Smith (died at Lawrence, Kan., May 5, 1862), Charles H. Smith, Horace C. Smith, Albert R. Smith, Truman Stoddard, Edgar I. Strong, Francis E. Thompson, John Tesch, Frederick Tesch, Robert Trotter, Alpheus S. Trowbridge, Allen Van Tassel, John E. Whittlesey, Nelson Warren (died at Columbus, Ky., August 2, 1862), T. A. Wilcox, W. M. Wright, F. M. Wilbur, E. H. Wilbur, D. H. Wood, Alexander Wiggins and Christian Yager were the privates.

Company B. Edwin E. Woodman, captain, mustered out November 19, 1864; James L. Murray, first lieutenant, and George C. Brown, second lieutenant, both mustered out on November 19, 1864; Jason W. Hall (promoted captain January 6, 1865), William M. Burns (died at Stevenson, Ala., October 30, 1863), Davis H. Cheney (promoted first lieutenant), Van Epps Hugunin and Lewis H. Martin, sergeants; Edwin F. Bowers, F. C. Buten, S. A. Fish, C. H. Goodrich, Goorge Honeysett, Leander S. Miller, Thomas Starkey and Clark Pierce, corporals; Newton H. Whittlesey, musician; Cassius W. Andrews, John Alverson (died at Ft. Henry, Tenn., January 4, 1863), Adam Aris, Henry H. Bowers, Silas W. Baker, Darius Baker, Louis Bunkee, Gage Burgess, Charles W. Butts (died at Ft. Henry November 16, 1862), Joseph A. Beecher (died at Ft. Donelson July 3, 1863), Joseph Barnes, Alvin P. Barker, Frank Barker, Wm. A. Babcock, Jacob D. Clark, William H. Cheney, C. A. Carter, Spencer Chemerhorn, Erwin W. Crane, B. C. Carery, Archibald Dandford, Mitchell Deep, John H. Fremow, Adam Fisher, Samuel Gould, James Hurd, George W. Hulse (killed at Whitesburg, Ala., July 5, 1864), John Higgins, Chester D. Holloway, Sidney Hurd, Martin Keegan, Ralph D. Kimball, Charles Lane, James E. Leaven, Robert Leonard, Clark I. Miller, Patrick Monegan, Dennis Murray, Frank Milicher, Amos S. Miller (died at Ft. Scott, Kan., March 16, 1862), Mortimer Manie, Michael Monegan, Peter McAtheron, William Nelson, Washington Porter, Lyman Richardson, John Stollar, Lonson Seeley, Ezra D. Stevens, George Sterne, John Scanlan, Eugene Thurston, Michael Taller, Charles H. Upham, Louis Vanderworker, Charles H. Vanderworker (died at Nashville, Tenn., November 13, 1863), Antonio Van Horn, Hiram M. Weaver, Myron L. West, William G. Wilcox, Obadiah Walker, Edward P. Wells and Israel W. Young, privates.

Company D. E. W. Blake, captain; Simon A. Couch, first lieutenant, and Nathaniel D. Walters, second lieutenant, both mustered out November 19, 1864; John L. Glading, Daniel Phillips, Charles P. Andrus, John M. Cook and George Dykeman, sergeants; William Everst, David Kettle, Cyrus E. Patchin (promoted first lieutenant and later captain), John Williams, Cornelius Dykeman and David Everst, corporals; Ira Snyder and John D. V. Weaver, musicians; John Adams Wagoner, William Burk, Gerdner Babcock, Samuel Basey, William Bigsby, William Brown, S. J. Baker, David Burris, Edward Buntrock (died at Watertown, Wis., February 16, 1864), Martin A. Becker, Lucian Craig, John C. Cook, Henry W. Crow, Heinrich Christian (died at Huntsville, Ala., June 16, 1865), Thomas Calven, John L. Capple, Charles Casford, Henry Cordwell, Henry Camp, Charles F. Cook, Ransom C. Condon (died at Lawrence, Kan., May 23, 1862) , Ambrose Eastman (died at Nashville, Tenn., October 20, 1863) , Joseph Eastman, Joseph J. Ellis (died at New Albany December 3, 1863), John J. Elliott, William A. Gould, Daniel Geerin (died at Columbus, Ky., September 20, 1862), Frank Hall (died at Nashville November 6, 1863), Francis Howard, Amos Horsington (died at Evansville, Ind., December 18, 1863), Charles Ivans, Cornelius Kettle, Otto Kahlinburgh, John Kirk, Louis M. Knowles, John H. Livingston, John M. Lee, Daniel B. Lovejoy, Edward McCormick, Alexander McDonald, David T. Mathson, Frederick Nusar, Henry Peck, William Palmerton, Thomas E. Riley, Charles M. Rowley, Henry R. Robinson (died at Edgefield, Tenn., December 19, 1863), Charles Shuman (died at Columbus, Ky., December 7, 1862), William Spaulding, John Schliekoff, Edward B. Starr, Westley Smith, G. P. Thomson, George W. Tompkins, Eugene L. Tuthill, John Vendenburgh (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 23, 1862), Joseph West, Stephen West (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 21, 1862), Adam Wooker, William F. Williams, John H. Williams (died at Nashville November 6, 1863), Henry Wagner, Elias Whitman, Horace F. Wilson, George Witherell, Gilbert Williams and Almaron York, privates.

Company F. F. F. Stevens, captain, promoted paymaster, U. S. A., May 11, 1864; S. S. Hart, first lieutenant, promoted captain May 11, 1864; Nicholas Crotzenberg (promoted first lieutenant May 11, 1864, mustered out November 21, 1864), Charles W. Stark, Jerome W. Briggs (promoted second lieutenant July 5, 1864, first lieutenant September 27, 1864, captain August 31, 1865), A. V. Bradt, James L. Fowle and Bradford Burdick, sergeants; Peter S. Withington, Alexander McGregor, Edgar L. Miller, John W. Thomas, Alvin L. Ford, Henry S. Cole, John Galt and Thomas P. Peckham, corporals; A. E. Lane and Samuel Sherman, musicians; Webster McNair, wagoner; August Anderson, Thomas S. Allen, D. B. Bradley, D. B. Ball, S. S. Barber, A. C. Blood, John R. Butler, Dana Bicknell, Elliott D. Barnard, George Brown, George A. Burlingame, James C. Briggs, Isaac Bartow, Eustice A. Burlingame, Lewis Bent, Martin V. Barnard, Webster C. Babcock, James H. Bliss, Simon Bunce, William H. Butler, Edward Best, Felix Boyle, Melvin Chamberlain, Duane Crotzenberg, George Croft, John M. Crotzenberg, Lane Camlin, Patrick Collins, William H. Card, Charles Culver (died at Huntsville August, 1864), Alexander Courtwright, William H. Davis, James Duffy, Leonard Dockstader, Sidney Denton, Johnson Dunn, William Eames, Smith Foot, Alvin T. Finney (died at Lawrence, Kan., May 10, 1862), Anson C. Finney, Charles Foote, Hiram R. Griffith, James Gleavy, Robert Grant, Philetus Gage, Joseph Gage, Myron Griffith, John Haggart, John Hartgarden, Jerome Hitchcock, Erasmus D. Hall, Sylvestus Helmes, Peter F. McNair, Giles Martlette, James C. Newkirk, Andrew Osland, Charles Pratt, Lester C. Phelps, George H. Prime, Albert L. Posson, George H. Purcy, Webert Richards, Ranson Rolfe (died at Ft. Riley, Kan., May 18, 1862), Jerry Reordan, Edward H. Rice, William Schenck, William Schultz, Charles Strasberger, William Steity, T. J. Simerson, Charles H. Stark, Fayette Smith, John Shurrum, Augustus Shultz, John Swartout, Jacob B. Snyder, Andrew B. Smith, George Scott, Jerome Shiemall, William H. Strasberger, Clark Shiemall, Eugene H. Tuttle (died at Ft. Riley, Kan., May 11, 1862), Timothy Tracy, Spencer Turner, William Thomas, Harvey Thomas, James Tallmadge, Albert J. Warner, William H. Wood, Olney J. Weaver, Moses V. White and Joseph Williams, privates.

Company G. Thomas O. Bigney, captain, promoted major; Archibald N. Randall, captain; Henry M. Balis, first lieutenant; Elmore W. Taylor, second lieutenant; Samuel C. Wagoner, promoted second lieutenant June 22, 1864, vice Elmore W. Taylor, resigned; Alexander Shafer, Abram D. Balis, Andrew Frydenlund and Austin C. Chapel, sergeants; Frank Backus, James P. Kehoe, Phillip Workman, George D. Sherman, John P. Baker, John P. Shrader, John W. Purdy and Henry B. Willheling, corporals; Marshal D. Warren and William Pommy, musicians; William H. H. Anderson, William H. Brunny, Thomas F. Baker, Robert Baker, Joseph H. Baker, Leo Brown, John Benson, Thomas Brace, Abram Culver, Uriah H. Corran, Edmund K. Chipman, Reuben H. Chapel, Samuel Cooper, Syrrel D. Chipman, Ira Cleveland, Nathan L. Daniels, George W. Dennis, Isaac Decker, Edwin S. Derrick, Martemus Erickson, Finger Erickson, Truils Erickson (died at Fort Donelson May 11, 1863), William Fuller, Nathaniel W. Farry, David C. Frisby, George Frary, Peter Gansell (died at Janesville, Wis., December 22, 1861), Lemuel Gould (died at Cahawba, Ala., February 22, 1865), Loren P. Harper, B. S. Hungerford, Halver Halverson, Russell Hart, Henry A. Harper, Homer Huntley, George D. Hill, Ole Huginson, Nathan W. Harper, Knud Halgrenson, William Hanson, Silas P. Johnson, Ole Johnson, Andrew Johnson (died at Fort Donelson May 2, 1863), John Johnson, Michael Kiefer, Cephas W. Kinney (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 2, 1862), John A. Lockridge, Wm. Long, Jas. Moran (died at Ft. Riley, Kan., May 12, 1862), Silas Milks, Thomas J. Menor, Isaac N. Menor, John V. Martin (died at Madison, Wis., February 17, 1865), John Myers, Elling Newhouse, Nelson J. Orvis, Lewis Olin, Matthew Olin, Lars Orville, Samuel E. Pearl, William N. Pearl, William H. Pierce, John Penn (died at Nashville, June 4, 1865), James Pomeroy (died at Lawrence, Kan., May 6, 1862), James Pomey, Talleo Peterson, Joseph Richards, Edmund S. Rositer, James D. Ehodes (died at Paducah, Ky., April 17, 1863), Peter Shaffner (died at St. Louis, May 24, 1865), John Spraddles, C. C. Smith, William H. Shaff, Hiram H. Taylor, Eobert B. Taylor (died at Paducah, Ky., April 17, 1863), William Taylor, Jr., Thomas Thompson, R. B. Valentine, George Wenright (died at Fort Donelson, August 17, 1863), and Thomas Williams, privates.

Company K. Piny Norcross, captain, mustered out November 18,1864; J. H. Wemple, first lieutenant, promoted captain November 21, 1863; A. D. Burdick, second lieutenant, resigned April 3, 1862; R. J. Whittleton, Thomas Heimbach, Jerome Sweet, William Cole and George W. Steele (first lieutenant February 15, 1865; captain March 24, 1865), sergeants; L. L. Bond, U. S. Hollister (promoted second lieutenant June 13, 1862; first lieutenant November 28, 1864; captain February 15, 1865), W. P. Clark, C. R. Matson, A. C. Stanard, H. C. Curtis, F. Clark, Fred P. Norcross (died at Nashville, Tenn., May 16, 1865), and W. M. Scott, corporals; Eli S. Nye and William Little John, musicians; S. Obourne, wagoner, afterward appointed commissary sergeant, March 1, 1865; Henry Alder, Alvin Alder, Jacob Allensworth, Edwin P. Babcock, Oscar F. Burdick, Asa C. Burdick, William Bowers, Stillman G. Bond, Henry S. Babkirk, Edgar 0. Burdick, Charles H. Burdick, Stephen F. Colt, Thomas Bennett, H. P. Clark, Oliver P. Clark, Charles Curtis, J. B. Crandall (died at Columbus, Ky., June 25, 1862), Nathaniel Deering, Jerome G. Dockstader, Willard Dockstader, Napoleon B. Draper, John D. Davis, William C. Davis, Joseph Davis, Nathaniel A. Drake, Christopher Early (died at Nashville, May 6, 1865), Seymour C. Fuller, John B. Flint (died at Huntsville, Ala., August 31, 1864), Charles W. Flint, Daniel B. Flint, Horace R. Flint, Moses P. Farnham, Orson C. Garthwait, Lorenzo H. Garthwait, Theodore T. Green, De Witt Green, Seth H. Gillard, Emory Goodrich, George R. Hinmon, John Harker, James Holden, Rufus Holden, George W. Hathaway, Horace M. Haven, Elijah Hudson, Madison Hopkins, Irville Johnson, William Keeter (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 18, 1862), Albert B. Kent, Horace Lozar, James Morrison, Burton H. Morrison (died at Madison, Wis., March 9, 1864), Elisha P. Maxon, William H. Norton, John Nym (died at Leavenworth, Kan., March 21, 1862), William Nute, Sylvester Noyes, Lanson P. Norcross, Seymour C. Pratt, John Plantz (died at Lawrence, Kan., April 29, 1862), Wilbur Persons, Leonard H. Eich, Charles H. Rich, Washington F. Randolph, George C. Reynolds, Cyrus B. Robinson (died at Nashivlle, September 21, 1864), John Swan, Isaac W. Swan, Marvin V. Stanard (died at Fort Donelson, March 29, 1863), Joseph P. Scofield, Byron G. Smith, Clark G. Stillman, John A. Savage, A. H. Stewart, George A. Sherburne, Salem Twist, Libens C. Taylor, Albert 0. Vincent, Leonard Woolworth, George W. Winegar, William J. Watt, James N. Webster, Oscar Wetherby, Mark Whitney, Albert H. Weston, William A. Wyse and Isaac Yates, privates. Doctor Samuel Bell, of Beloit, was assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment.

Rock County Men in the Sixteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
Joseph Craig, Beloit, major, promoted from captain Company F; David A. Adams, Beloit, commissary sergeant; Company D, August Preis, Janesville, died June 24, 1863, L. Providence, La.; Company I, Thomas W. Dow and William Sholtz, Janesville. The new Company F contained many Beloit and Janesville men, besides representatives from nearly all our towns as follows: Captains, Joseph Craig, of Beloit, promoted major, and George W. Roberts, Beloit, promoted from second lieutenant; first lieutenant, Alfred Taggart, promoted major Fifty-first Wisconsin Infantry; second lieutenant, Julius C. Comstock, Beloit, promoted from sergeant.

Enlisted Men. John 0. Allen, George S. Anderson, Daniel H. Atwood, corporal, sergeant; Charles D. Balch, Andrew Bennett, corporal, Edwin P. Bly, Edwin Booker, Alfred Bullock, Oscar Burdick (died June 18, 1865), Amos J. Burdick, Stephen A. Carey, Henry H. Cass, Samuel P. Chase, corporal, sergeant; George A. Clark, Myron G. Cook, Israel Cook, Hiram Conry, George A. Crooker, sergeant; P. B. Daggett, Bradford B. Daggett, wagoner; George W. Dibble, W. B. Doolittle, Perry Dunning, Carlos Eggleston, musician; Enoch W. T. Felt, Warren Fisk, corporal; E. F. Fockler, Henry Funnell, Oscar Graves, Van Buren Graves, John S. Green, Dewitt C. Gilson, Hans Halstad, John Handy, Robert E. Harvey, Josiah S. Hayden, David H. Hilton, John Hilton, John M. Hodge, Calvin Hook, Charles H. Hunter, corporal; Dennis Kavanaugh, corporal; Louis 0. Kohitz, John Love (died at Atlanta, Ga., October 28, 1864), Andrew Luchsinger, Eugene A. Mack, W. C. McCormick, William S. Miller (died at Vicksburg, Miss., March 16, 1864), Jerome Moss, Hugh S. Nelson, Leonard M. Nelson, Lucien S. Palmer, Benjamin S. Parks, musician; Francis E. Peck, corporal; John D. Peters, Sherman Phelps, corporal; Amos A. Phillips, Henry L. Phillips, corporal; Daniel W. Porter, corporal (wounded at Atlanta and died September 8, 1864); Samuel Preston (died November 12", 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn.), Patrick Riley, Perry C. Robb, Frank Robey, Elfred E. Roberts, Hamlin E. Robinson, Mervin C. Ross, John Rushford, John E. Sargent, Elisha Schofield (died May 30, 1864, at New Albany, Ind.), Timothy Shields, corporal, sergeant; Calvin C. Smith, Charles M. Smith, corporal; James M. Smith, John K. Smith, Edmond Starr (wounded at Atlanta and died August 26, 1864), Alonzo A. Starr, Wallace Tupper, John Vanscoy, corporal; William H. H. Vosburg, corporal (died May 8, 1865, at Newark, N. J.); Harrison C. Wells, James R. West, first sergeant, first lieutenant, wounded at Atlanta; Emmett Wiley, George W. Wilson, Vinson G. Willard, sergeant; Herman Winde, James G. Wray, corporal; Ebenezer Wright (wounded at Atlanta, and died there August 2, 1864).

Seventeenth Regiment Rock County Men.
Company B, John Campbell, Beloit; Company D, Martin Larkin, of Janesville; Company E, Bartholomew 0'Conner, of Lima, corporal, sergeant, died October 14, 1863, at Vicksburg; Company F, Peter Smith, Beloit, second lieutenant; Thomas McKiniry, Beloit, first sergeant, second lieutenant; James Bray, Janesville, died August 8, 1863, at Vicksburg; Philip Burns, Beloit; John Carr, Milton Junction; John Connelly, Janesville; Thomas Clark, Michael Clark, Thomas Conaboy, Peter Delmar, Michael Dougherty, Joseph Dolan, Patrick Doran, Thomas Fitzgerald, Patrick Keating, James Keenan, John Kelly, Michael Kenna, Patrick Larmer, Dennis Lynch, Peter Lynough, James E. Madigan, corporal; John Mahier, John McNamara, Thomas McNary, Michael Mooney, Thomas Murphey, Samuel Plumbteaux, Edward Riley and John Whalen, all of Beloit; Michael Dower, James Doyle, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Thomas Hallaran, John Harrington Patrick Hennesey, Roger Higgins, John Kane, John Leary, Edward McDermott, Thomas Poley, Maurice Ready, Peter Riley and Thomas Woods, all of Janesville.

In the Twenty-second Regiment Rock county furnished three companies, E, B and I.
Company E, Twenty-second Infantry, was raised in Rock county, the members being principally enlisted in Janesville, Spring Valley, Fulton, Edgerton, Harmony, Magnolia, Plymouth, La Prairie, Rock, Johnstown and Milton, under Captain Isaac Miles. The regiment rendezvoused at Camp Utley, Racine, where it was mustered into service September 2, 1862, and, two weeks later, proceeded to aid in defending Cincinnati against the threatened advent of Kirby Smith. At the conclusion of that campaign, Company E, with the regiment, was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Army of Kentucky, and performed provost duty in that state until January 23, 1863, when the regiment was transferred to Nashville, and participated in all the important battles in that section of the country, constituting a portion of Hooker's command. After the capture of Atlanta the regiment, with the balance of the Twentieth Army Corps, was stationed at that city, engaged in strengthening the fortifications. In November, 1864, the regiment proceeded to Savannah, thence to Perrysville, Robertsville, and through the Carolinas, Richmond and Alexandria to Washington, taking part in the grand review of Sherman's army, and remaining at Alexandria until June 12, 1865, when it was mustered out and returned to Madison.

The roster of Company E, as mustered into service, was: Captain, Isaac Miles, of Fulton, resigned Jun6 17, 1863; first lieutenant, Calvin Reeves, resigned December 22, 1862; second lieutenant, Gage Burgess, of Janesville, promoted first lieutenant, December 27, 1862, and captain June 17, 1863; first lieutenants, Calvin Reeves, of Janesville, Persons P. Bump; second lieutenant, Francis N. Keeley, promoted; sergeants, Henry R. Stetson, John B. Bullock, Proctor D. Scofield, Rufus P. Young and Albert 0. Warner (died of wounds, August, 1864); corporals, Charles H. Dickinson, Hiram H. Dimick (sergeant), Augustus C. Moore (promoted sergeant and died at Nashville, February 15, 1865), Edwin H. Pullen, Charles E. Bowles, Cyrel A. A. Leake, Farin E. Osburn and Frederick W. Seymour; sergeant major, Francis N. Keeley; musicians, Oscar W. Warner and Robert W. King; wagoner, Charles W. Whittier; privates, Burritt Alcott (died at Nashville, May 12, 1863), Gerhard Abink, Edward C. Alden (corporal), Albert W. Alden, Edward P. Amber (corporal), Azro M. Bowles, Charles E. Bowles (corporal), Charles W. V. Baird, James H. Bullis (corporal), John P. Crossett, Daniel Clark, Aaron R. Gulp, Samuel Crawford (died at Nashville, February 13, 1863), Christian Dyke, John E. Davidson, Henry H. Davis, Francis E. Downs (died at Brentwood, Tenn., March 1, 1863), Edward F. Dean, Ormond N. Dutton, William Edgar, Jesse Edgerton, Francis Edgerton, Horace W. Fitch (died at Danville, Ky., January 4, 1863), Charles J. Fox, John Q. A. Failing, Henry H. Guernsey (corporal), Martin V. Glass, Jonathan Gicker, Orra B. Garrison, Robert W. Harper (died at Nashville, March 9,1863), William H. Harper, Michael Harnett, Benjamin R. Hilt, Jesse B. Harvey (promoted corporal, and killed at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 18, 1864), Joseph A. Jones (died at Nicholasville, Ky., December 26, 1862), Samuel Jones, Ethan A. Jones, George K. Johnson, James A. Kipp, August F. Kliese (corporal), Lewis E. Kliese, Seth Knight, Paul Knight (died at Danville, Ky., February 13,1863), Solomon R. King (killed at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864), John Kay, Jacob J. Large, Thos. Lindenwood, Charles Locke, Alexander Lindsay (died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 30, 1865), Cyrel A. Leake (corporal, second lieutenant), Stephen W. Lemont, John Lyons, William Mulligan, Martin Merson (died near Dallas, Ky., June 12, 1864), Charles H. Macombee (died at Nicholasville, Ky., January 9, 1863), Charles H. Mansfield, James McCathron, John McCathron (of Janesville), Abram Merrill (corporal), Herman S. McKenzie (commissary sergeant), Claron I. Miltimore (promoted adjutant, Thirty-seventh Wisconsin), Martin McGill, Nathan Moore, Augustus C. Moore (corporal, Joseph A. Harrison, John Jacobson, Frank H. Kelley (corporal, sergeant), James King, Benjamin F. Kline, Richard A. Kendall, Albert Maxworthy, William H. H. Minot (corporal), Charles A. Minot, Amasa H. Merriman, Lucius S. Moseley (corporal), "William F. Neal, John Nelson, John Newman, William C. Orr, John Orr, John Oleson, Napoleon B. Perry, John M. Pomeroy, George N. Perkins, Richard M. Radway, Leonard M. Rose, George W. Rose, John D. Russell, Benjamin Selleck, Nelson Salisbury (of Janesville), Weaver F. Schoening (corporal, sergeant), Harvey C. Smith, Frank H. Smith, Austin E. Smith, Simon M. Sage (corporal), Rudolph A. Spencer, Thomas Simonson, Silas Wright. All the above, unless otherwise specified, were enlisted at Beloit, Wis., and for three years.

On the roster of Company I were the following: Captains, Warren Hodgdon, Perry W. Trey (promoted from first lieutenant), Marshall W. Patton (promoted from second and first lieutenant, died of wounds at Resaca, Ga., May 19, 1864), John W. Parker (promoted from sergeant, second and first lieutenant; first lieutenant, Worcester H. Morse (promoted from first sergeant); privates, Herman Anderson, Ole 0. Austin, Edward W. Balch, Richard R. Banker, William J. Barnes, Phanuel Barnum (of Plymouth), Edward Barry, Felix Baumgardner, Ira T. Beldin (corporal), James Bemis (of Janesville), Benjamin R. Bass (corporal), Norwood Bowers, Erwin S. Bowers, Samuel S. Bullis, Ariel Bullis, William Burst (of Plymouth), William F. Cadman, Samuel Carpenter, Eri B. Carver (of Plymouth), Charles J. Cooper (promoted hospital steward), Carl A. Corneliusen, Milo P. Doud, Cordon P. Doud, Eugene R. Drury, John C. Durgin (promoted first sergeant, sergeant major), Ole Enocksen (of Clinton), Lewis M. Erickson, Austin C. Freeman (corporal), Thomas Gamble, Addison Garringer (of Plymouth, deserted), John Garrick, Edward A. Goddard (corporal, died February 10, 1863, Lexington, Ky., of disease), Thomas Godden (of Beloit), Frederick H. Green, Christian Hensen, Lewis Hansen, Bennett Hanson, John Hanson, David 0. Herron, John Hill (corporal), Frederick Hillyer, William C. Hodge (corporal), Edwin F. Hollister (corporal), Henry Hunt (wounded Peach Tree Creek), William H. Hunt, Clark Huntley (corporal, sergeant), Richard M. Jackson (of Plymouth), Carl Jensen, John A. Johnson, Gilbert Johnson (corporal), William H. Lee (corporal, sergeant), Hugh Lee, Jr. (corporal), Henry Lee (of Beloit), Jacob Lund, James Merical, Lemon C. Morgan (first sergeant, second lieutenant), William H. Monroe, Burr Murdock, William H. Needles (wagoner), Oliver Nelson, Albert Nicholas, Sven Olson, Knud Olson, James R. Owen, William F. Parker, Edwin B. Parkhurst (corporal, sergeant), Lorenzo D. Parkhurst, William Pearl, Jr. (musician), David B. Prince, Godfrey Pouet, George Quinton, Victor Rambolt, George Rambolt, Peter Rauch (of Newark), Henry J. Rosencrans (corporal), George Secrest, Palmer Sherman, Theron Skinner, Albert C. Smith, Heman W. Smith, DeWitt C. Stevenson, Truman Stickney, George Stokes, Alexis W. Tallman, Thomas Daniel (corporal), Wallace W. Wright (corporal), Eden Walling, Edward D. Webb (corporal, sergeant), Julius Westinghouse, George W. Wheeler, Orren W. Young.

The Twenty-second Regiment was mustered into service at Camp Utley, Racine, on September 2, 1862, and within a fortnight afterwards was sent to the front. At Thompson's Station, about thirty miles south of Nashville (also called Spring Hill), and Unionville, Tenn., this Twenty-second Wisconsin, the Thirty third and Eighty-fifth Indiana, the Nineteenth Michigan and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio (with the Eighteenth Ohio Battery) and three companies of cavalry, all under General J. C. Coburn, fought during March 4 and 5, 1863, about thirty thousand rebels under Forrest and Van Dorn. March 5, when the Twenty-second was at the front, Colonel Utley being near Company B, Corporal L. S. Moseley of that company remarked to him: "Colonel, they're getting pretty thick out in front; why don't we fire?" "Fire away," said the colonel, and at once Moseley raised his gun and fired the first shot of that engagement, which lasted five hours. The result of the unequal contest was 150 of the Confederates killed and 400 wounded, while of the Union troops 100 were killed, 300 wounded and 1,306 were captured that day, including most of Companies B and I of the Twenty-second. That part of the regiment which escaped fought again at Brentwood, Tenn., March 25, and 300 (about all the rest of them) were captured; then some 1,200, including the boys from the Twenty-second, were taken to Libby prison (many of our Beloit boys being there four or five weeks, and those later captured, only a day or so), and then the men of the Twenty second were paroled and sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, to await an exchange. While the red tape for that was being tediously drawn out, our boys concluded that they might as well pass the time at home, and so all of them ran away from the barracks and came North. This act occasioned some public criticism, but Colonel Utley, in a published communication, declared that whenever he was ready and should send for the Twenty-second, every man of them would come. Being on parole, they were still in the army, but could not fight until regularly exchanged. Accordingly, as soon as their exchange was arranged, Colonel Utley sent them word to rendezvous at Camp Gamble, just south of St. Louis. The men of the Twenty-second came promptly at his call to the place appointed, every man of them, were duly exchanged and then Companies B and I became a part of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, under General Jo. Hooker, and went all through the Atlanta campaign with Sherman. The first Union flag raised over Atlanta was the flag of our Twenty-second Wisconsin, raised September 2, 1864, exactly two years after that regiment was mustered into the U. S. service. This regiment then went with Sherman to the sea and around to Washington, and took part in that last grand review.

Note-On Lieutenant Ira P. Nye's copy of the muster roll of Company B, made out at Camp Gamble, June 8, 1863, is the following record: "Was engaged with the enemy at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, March 5, and both officers and twenty-four men (were) taken prisoners. We had twelve men wounded, one of whom has since died. The balance of the company escaped and returned to camp at Brentwood, where they were engaged on March 25 and taken prisoners; were taken to Richmond, where the men were paroled and the officers exchanged on May 5, and returned to St. Louis to organize the regiment. All the company books and papers were destroyed." Signed by George H. Brown, captain.

The second lieutenant of that Company B, Ira P. Nye, now a banker of Eureka, Kan., and who loaned me this muster roll, adds the following: ii There were, if I remember correctly, forty-three men in line that day all told. We had two men, who do not appear in that company, killed in our line that day. One was Fred Goddard, of Beloit, and the other was a man by the name of Hines, of Racine, who was sergeant master of the regiment. The record says that there were twelve men wounded that day. I think it was fourteen. The deserters from Company B, were first, a student of Beloit college academy, who deserted in Kentucky, February 28, 1863. (He married a southern widow and might be recorded as captured by the enemy.) Another was a young Irishman. He fell out on the way to the hospital (December 20, 1862) and stayed out. I saw him once in Nashville after that, but he disappeared very suddenly. * * * On May 12, 1863, we lost another by desertion, immediately after our capture and parole. He was only a boy."

There were four deserters from Company I, one of Clinton, two of Beloit and one of Newark. From Company E, of the Twenty-second Wisconsin, the only deserters recorded are one of Janesville, one of Center and one of Magnolia. Almost all these desertions were the result of homesickness. Corporal L. S. Moseley, B, Twenty-second, was present at every roll call of his company, and never sick a day.

During the siege of Atlanta, certain Confederate batteries which hindered the advance of Thomas were protected by a mountain west of the city. Men of the Second Massachusetts cut a road up it for guns, Company I of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, under Captain William H. Montgomery, of Beloit College, dug and prepared the gun pits, and with great effort, the light field pieces of the Eleventh Indiana battery were hauled up there and placed in position on the crest of the mountain. When the gunners were all ready to open fire on the Confederate lines below, General Sherman, General George A. Thomas (the Rock of Chickamauga), Fighting Joe Hooker and General J. M. Brannan, Thomas' chief of artillery, gathered to observe the effect of that fire. Dr. Samuel Bell, of Beloit, then assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, under Thomas, stood near by among the staff officers and says that as they were all expecting the stillness of that August day to be invaded by the crash of the discharge, suddenly there pealed across the valley below them from the city on the heights beyond, the deep tones of church bells ringing for Sunday morning worship. Sherman started at the sound, raised a warning finger to the gunners and remarked to the officers about him, ii Gentlemen, we will not open fire today.' Then turning to his chief of artillery, he quietly said: "General Brannon, you will open fire tomorrow." Sherman, who once said that "war was hell," never fought on Sunday if he could help it.

Thirty-third Regiment.
Companies E and F, of the Thirty-third Regiment, were also enlisted in Rock county, and made up of some of the best material which the banner county of Wisconsin contributed to preserve the Union. The regiment went into camp at Racine, September 29, 1862, was mustered into service October 18, and departed for the seat of war November 12. Arriving at Memphis, the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, General Lauman's division, Army of the Tennessee, in which capacity it served in the campaigns against Jackson, Vicksburg and Holly Springs, until January, 1863, when it was transferred to the Sixteenth Army Corps, commanded by Major General Hurlbut, and participated in the fight at Hernando, where Lieutenant Swift, of Company E, was killed; thence proceeding to Young's Point, Snyder's Bluff, Haine's Bluff, Vicksburg and Natchez, it joined in the Red river expedition, returning to Vicksburg and Memphis, repelling the attack of Camargo Cross Roads; prominent in the fight of Tupelo, after that it went to St. Charles, Ark., and finally on October 8, 1864, reached St. Louis. On November 1 the regiment proceeded to reinforce the army of General Thomas at Nashville, where it became part of General A. J. Smith's command. After the retreat of General Hood, the Thirty-third was assigned to guarding the transportation train to Savannah, Tenn., Company F proceeding to that point and Company E to Grand View, rejoining the regiment at Eastport, Miss. Thereafter the regiment was ordered to the department of the Gulf, and went to New Orleans, thence to Dauphin Island, Cedar Point, Spanish Fort, Blakely, Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Jackson, Big Black River Bridge and Vicksburg, Miss., Cairo to Madison, where it arrived on August 14, 1865, and was paid off and mustered out of service September 1, 1865.

The following are the company muster rolls: Company E. Captain, Ira Miltimore, resigned August 9, 1863; first lieutenant, Henry S. Swift, Jr., killed April 19, 1863, at Hernando, Miss.; second lieutenant, Pardon H. Swift, promoted to first lieutenant, June 24, and captain, August 20, 1863; Lieutenant Henry Scriftof, killed at Coldwater, Miss., April 19, 1863; sergeants, Henry B. Cornell (promoted second lieutenant, June 24, first lieutenant, August 29, 1863), Edward Cook, Bartholomew Quigley, Daniel D. Richards and William Cornell (died at Moscow, Tenn., January 21, 1863); corporals, Silas B. Croker, Nathaniel Smith, A. H. Kime, Thomas Quigley, Charles E. Green, Charles W. Nickerson, James Reese and Jacob Smith; musician, S. H. Calender; wagoner, Levi H. Fountain; privates, Franklin Anderson, Adelbert Babcock (died at Memphis, December 4, 1862), John B. Bunce (died at Vicksburg, July 7, 1862), Warren G. Barber, Anthony Byrnes, Thomas Byrnes, Rensselaer Burnham, Otto Craig, James Coffee, Robert W. Cliford, James K. Clark, Boyd Creighton, James Freeman (died at Vicksburg July 6, 1863), John A. Flint (died at Natchez, October 9, 1863), Henry Fairchild, Frederick Fiero, Waldo Godell, John Goodman, William Gale, Nurve Geroem, Joseph C. Hall, Ira M. Howard, Nathan Havilin, A. N. Hangen, Patrick Hebir, J. C. Johnson, Ingebert Knudson (died at Moscow, Tenn., January 31, 1863), C. A. Kennedy, Hendrick Levorson, Knud Levorson, Tollef Levorson, Alexander Lyons, Charles Looby, Michael Lawler, J. C. Meegen, Valentine Melavin, Alonzo E. Miltimore (wounded at Vicksburg), William McKee, H. Megorden, Alexander McDonald, Lewis Noe, Thomas Night, Ole Olson (died at Memphis, April 30, 1863), Syver Olsen (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 12, 1863), Hendrick Olson (died at Memphis, February 10, 1863), Halgrin Oleson, Emery Patch, Orvill Rhodes, Edmund Robinson, Hiram N. Robinson, Arthur J. Robinson, Brainard Rider, Rufus A. Stafford (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 14, 1863), Frank A. Steele (died, at Natchez, October 25, 1863), Richard B. Steward (died at St. Charles, Ark., August 14, 1864), C. F. Stokes, William Southwick, James Smith, Alonzo Sutton, E. R. Squires, James Turner, John Tarney, Francis Van Patten, John West, Hiram Wait, William Weaver, John Watt, Right Williams, Charles H. Wheeler and Charles Young.

Company F. Captain, A. Z. Wemple (died at Memphis, March 9, 1863), William L. Scott, April 9, 1863; first lieutenant, W. L. Scott (promoted April 9, 1863); second lieutenant, Charles W. Stark (promoted first lieutenant, April 9, 1863, and captain of Company E, December 16, 1864); sergeants, Joseph H. Stickle (promoted second lieutenant, April 9, 1863; first lieutenant, February 11, 1865), Kirk W. Tanner, Edwin W. Burnham (died at Young's Point, La., May 31, 1863), Abner C. Babeock and H. Levander Farr; corporals, Charles E. Hoyt, John Eastwood, Oliver S. Crowther, Hosea B. Stafford, Matthias Crall, Eugene 5. Serl (died at Cairo, August 24, 1863), Erastus A. Gardner and Samuel E. Lyon (died at Holly Springs, Miss., December 27, 1862); drummer, Charles H. Hoard; fifer, William Snyder; wagoner, Emery H. Burdick; privates, Lucius P. Adams, August Buntrock, Nelson A. Bump (wounded), Silas M. Campbell (killed at Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864), Robert Carr (died at New Orleans, April 19, 1865), John L. Clark, Charles Cole, Francis S. Cramer, John L. Daniels, John Devens, Samuel Donaldson, William W. Eastman, John R. Edwards, Henry C. Eldridge, William H. Edmonds (died at Memphis, January 23, 1863), Laban Fisher, Ansel Flint, Franklin Francisco, Albert Freehauf, Jacob C. Hetrick (died at La Grange, March 17, 1863), Joseph W. Higday, John M. Holden, Joseph L. Holmes, John Hoyt, Nathan B. Hoyt (promoted corporal and killed at Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864), Harvey Howard, Peter Jamison, Albert C. Jones (promoted corporal and killed at Cane River, La., April 24, 1864), James Kelley (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 26, 1863), George W. Merry (died at Moscow, Tenn., March 13, 1863), William H. Minor, Blanchard Nevill, John Nes, Jonathan G. Patterson, Ezra Peper, Lucien B. Pierce, Rollin C. M. Pond, August Pitzrick (died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 11, 1864), Wendell Powers, Henry Reed (killed near Mobile, Ala.), Emerson Root (died at Eastport, Miss., January 24, 1865), George Rodd, John Ryan, David Safford, William Smith (killed at Vicksburg, June 4,
1863) , Saren W. Serl, Michael Setzer, Abel Spencer, William Stern, Charles Stern (killed 1864), Frederick Stulke, Saegus Sutter, John Tuel, Joseph Thompson (died at Memphis, July 2,
1864) , Chauncey L. Van Balen (died at Moscow, Tenn., March
6, 1863), William Weaver, Montgomery Wright (died at Natchez, September 4, 1863), George R. Welch, Frederick Wisch, William
I. Wheeler, Ezra Whitmore (wounded near Mobile, April, 1865), Albert W. White, John M. Wray, Westley Wright, Herbert D. Whitford and Joseph Yates.

The Thirty-fifth Regiment.
The forty men of Rock county in this regiment were in seven companies (most in Company F), as follows:
Company B. Oliver R. Bullis, Avon; James McNallus, William G. Metcalf and John M. Wells, Janesville; Jacob North, Clinton; Theo. F. Tripp, Rock.
Company C. Thomas Buzzell, Robert Campton, William Carroll, Peter F. Daniels, George Knox, J. McCurdy, William Proctor.
Company D. Peter F. Daniels and John McCann.
Company E. John M. Bacon, Anthony Conway, James R. Phelps, of Janesville; Ed A. Dimick, Clinton; John F. Dimick, Johnstown.
Company H. Roger A. Carroll, Janesville.
Company I. Frank Frey and Elmer Sedgwick, Janesville; Lott Ryan, of Rock.
Company F. Captain, Henry C. Miles, Janesville, promoted from first lieutenant Company E. Privates, Levi K. Alden, corporal, Janesville; W. H. Earl, Porter, promoted first lieutenant; Myron Gibbs, Beloit; William Grinnell, La Prairie; James W. Hitchcock, Johnstown, promoted first lieutenant; James Ingle, Patrick Keagan, Dennis McCarthy, Belden Ressequie and William Stiedy, Porter; John H. Wemple, Turtle; Willis Nash, William Sanders and Henry Wright, of Janesville; George W. Patterson, corporal, of Milton.

The Fortieth Regiment.
In April, 1864, the governors of five states, including Wisconsin, persuaded the United States government to accept 80,000 volunteers for a service of 100 days (on the terms of regular soldiers' pay and no bounties), to hold cities and camps then occupied by veteran troops, thus releasing the veterans for service at the front. There would be no battles and wounds, but just army camp life-the romance of war. Wisconsin sent two short regiments and one battalion, some 2,300 in all, and of these 231 went from Rock County in the Fortieth Regiment.

Prof. Fallows, of Lawrence University, and others, sought to have this Fortieth Regiment made up from the colleges and universities and known as the Normal regiment. About half the number were students, and Madison, Beloit, Appleton, Janesville, Milton and Baraboo furnished officers and men for companies A, B, C, D and E. Prof. Fallows, the real leader, was made lieutenant colonel, while a colonel of militia, W. Augustus Ray, became colonel of the Fortieth and gave his name to the camp. On the steamer going down to Memphis, I saw our Beloit orderly sergeant, Sweezy, instructing the new colonel how to make a salute. Colonel Ray got his long sword out all right (after some effort), but found it almost an impossibility to get the sword back into the scabbard again. A few officers and about forty men had seen army service before. The Fortieth Regiment had eight companies, leaving out H, and from the other eight, took enough to make Company I, the famous squad I, of Shanghai Chandler. We started from Madison on the Morning of June 14, 1864, for Memphis, Tenn.; those from Rock county (as nearly as I can ascertain) of the staff, were Quartermaster A. L. Field, Beloit; First Assistant Surgeon Amos S. Jones, Janesville; Chaplain J. J. Blaisdell, Beloit. Non-commissioned officers: Q. M. sergeant, Henry F. Hobart, Beloit; commissary sergeant, Henry
C. Alverson, Beloit; color bearer and guard, Sergeant Hiram Collins, Company C. Corporals, Walter B. Van Kirk, Company A; Henry C. Simmons, Company B; Charles P. Blatchley, Company D; George H. Schilling, Company E; Addin Kaye, Company F; C. H. Powers, Company G; Thomas Jefford, Company I; Henry Z. Moulton, Company K. Chief musician, T. Martin Towne, of Janesville. Drummers, Reuel H. Welch, Janesville, Company A; G. P. Winn, Beloit, Company B; Frank H. Graves, Beloit, Company B; F. G. Vosburg, Janesville, Company A. Fifer, W. H. H. Hall, Lima, Company C. Postmaster, James M. Pool, Janesville.

Company A. Captain, Samuel T. Lockwood, Janesville; first lieutenant, Gage Burgess, Janesville; second lieutenant, Moses T. De Witt, Janesville; first sergeant, Levi L. Beers, Janesville; third sergeant, Silas P. Gibbs, Janesville; fourth sergeant, Hiram D. Nash, Janesville; fifth sergeant, Oliver N. Gage, Janesville; first corporal, Andrew S. Douglas, Janesville; second corporal, John S. Howard, Janesville; third corporal, Edson A. Burdick, Janesville; fourth corporal, Ardent J. Roberts, Janesville; fifth corporal, Walter B. Van Kirk, Janesville; seventh corporal, Frank A. Knowles, Janesville.

Rock County privates: Company A. John N. Armstrong, Theo. C. Ashcraft, Charles E. Brown, Samuel Clark Burnhani, George E. Coloney, Almon H. Calkins, Delavan H. Comstock, Calvin L. Dunning, Samuel Davis, DeWitt Davis, Andrew J. Denniston, Julius C. Eldridge, Ira Fredenall, Edward W. Hames, Richard L. Haywood, William L. Hart, Halot R. Howell, Edward Hanson, Edward W. Humes, Samuel C. Jayne, Edwin Lee, George Lill, William W. Lewis, Reuben Matthews, Orrin Parker, James M. Pool, Henry E. Porter, Rufus R. Resseguie, Louis Risum, William K. Royce, Peter Reifenberg, Ardent J. Roberts, John H. Roberts, W. W. Seaver, Nathan Sisson, James A. Sutherland, Frederick Zeidler, Lewis Tramblie, all of Janesville. Edward Philo Bostwick and Jacob Gates, Shopiere; Will H. Benedict, William H. Cheesbro, Joseph Earl, Adam Herman and Sidney S. Warner, all of La Prairie; Julian C. Eldredge, Joseph Pope, Marcus P. Holman, Linas B. Sale, all of Evansville; Joseph Evans and John H. Riley, of Edgerton; Hanford Fowle, Edwin Lee and John B. Smith, of Bradford; Albert Thompson, of Footeville; George Plater, Emerald Grove (died at Memphis, Tenn., August 15, 1864); Charles C. Peck, Beloit; William W. Spaulding, Harmony; Mathias Christian, Orford; Arthur J. Van Amee, Magnolia; Dwight Webb, Porter; Erwin R. Wagner, Afton. Some of the Janesvillians drew rations by the tops, but most of them were correct men. Captain Lockwood was a fine teacher and citizen. Lieutenant Burgess was a tactician to the toes, the regimental drill master and was detailed inspector of the Fourth Brigade.

Company B. The captain, S. Merritt Allen, Beloit, of Allen's Grove (east line of Rock county); first lieutenant, Harson A. Northrup, Beloit; second lieutenant, Barrett H. Smith, Beloit (now of Shopiere, Wis.); first sergeant, L. S. Sweezey, Rockford (of Beloit college); second sergeant, A. M. May, Beloit; third sergeant, Frederick Alley, Beloit; fourth sergeant, Henry Z. Hosmer, Beloit; fifth sergeant, Charles W. Nye, Beloit.

Corporals. First, W. H. Fitch, Rockford (Beloit college); second, John S. Lewis, Potosi (Beloit college); third, Orville A. Wright, Rockford (Beloit college); fourth, William W. Spear; fifth, Alonzo W. Kimball, Green Bay (Beloit college); sixth, Henry C. Simmons, Beloit; seventh, Edward G. Newhall, Galena (Beloit college); eighth, Eben L. Kendall, Beloit.

Privates. Henry C. Alverson, John Bannister, Jr., Frank Bicknell, Joseph Brainard, William Fiske Brown, Francis Case, Albert P. Chadwick, Edward S. Chadwick, William A. Cochran, Alfred Coit, Edward D. Coffin, Herbert W. Cooper, John L. Cranston, Frederick C. Curtis, Walter W. Curtis, Hiram H. Curtis, James L. Davenport, Andrew M. Dorrance, Clark E. Dutton, Sylvester G. Field, Lawrence Foote, Robert E. Foote, George Folts, George Goodell; Frank H. Graves, Benjamin F. Green, S. Moffat Halliday, Peter Hendrickson, Henry F. Hobart, Henry H. Ingersoll, William Jones, William W. Kinnie, John Lafferty, Jr., Jeremiah Love, Richard S. Mallory, Henry Meacham, John A. Merrill, Ira S. Otis, William Parsons, Edward B. Payne, Henry D. Porter, Jedediah R. Rathbun, Hazard L. Raymond, William E. Sheldon, George L. Shue, Arthur H. Smith, Samuel P. Smiley, Girden E. Smith, Joseph A. Spencer, Oliver J. Stiles, Chancellor G. Taggart, William C. Thomas, Simeon M. Watson, William H. Wheeler, Benjamin F. Wilson, George Winn, Lyman W. Winslow, Frank M. Wood and Parker Wilson, all of Beloit; Albert Blair, William E. Sheldon and Charles A. Teals were of Allen's Grove and Beloit; George Folts was of Clinton Junction; William J. Latta, of Bradford; William H. Shumaker, Newark; Samuel P. Smiley, of Plymouth; John M. Tullar, of Union.
Clovius C. Bushnell, of Wyocena, died August 11, and William H. Shumaker, August 14, 1864, both in the camp hospital at Memphis. They were both buried in the peach orchard near the camp. B company was dubbed "Beloiterers," not because of any disposition to loiter, but from the fact that nearly half the company were students from Beloit College.

Company C. Captain, N. C. Twining, Milton; first lieutenant, Albert R. Crandall, Milton; second lieutenant, Richard A. Wareham, Milton; first sergeant, George W. Webb, Lima; first corporal, Elon G. Kinney, Lima; third corporal, Sylvester Flagler, Janesville; fifth corporal, David M. Johnson, of Union, reduced.

- Privates. Abijah Barrett, Millard E. Burrows, Walter J. Collins, Julius T. Davis, John H. Folke, Charles S. Hunt, Albert E. Hamilton, Nathan E. Maxon, Henry Ogden, Chauncey E. Osborn, John A. Powers, William E. Richardson, Perry Sweet, Devolson E. Thorp, George Walker, all of Milton; Augustus J. Bingham, of Harmony; James W. Bishop, Alonzo J. Crandall, Rollin C. Clark, William E. Dudley, Edward H. Dudley, William Tewksbury, all of Union; Edward L. Barber, of Edgerton, promoted corporal; William L. Cure, Theodore F. Shorram, Freeborn W. Shepherd, Edwin P. Savage, Dudley E. Van Vleck, James M. Van Vleck, all of Porter; Ira Flagler, James E. O'Brien, Jesse B. Thayer, all of Janesville; George F. Himmon, Daniel E. Stanton, both of Fulton; Amos Colgrove, Levi Carver, Thomas E. McDonald, George H. Philips, Madison Wheeler, William H. Hall, of Lima. James M. Van Vleck died July 16, and Edward A. Sherriff August 1, 1864, both at Memphis, Tenn., of disease.

Company D was raised in Dane county, and contained many university men. The only Rock county men in it were J. C. Spooner, A. W. Salisbury, Ancil Libby, G. R. Mitchell, W. H. Spencer, C. H. Spencer, J. A. Spencer and John W. West, all of Evansville.

Company E had one Rock County private, Henry W. Mellen, of Plymouth, who died at Memphis of disease, August 20, 1864. First Lieutenant Edward F. Hobart, an efficient officer, enlisted from Baraboo, where he was principal of the school, but he was born and brought up at Beloit, Rock County, and was a graduate of Beloit College.

Company F came from Walworth County, Company G from La Crosse, and neither had any of our Rock county men excepting George Slack, of Janesville, in F. of Company I, the first sergeant was Eben S. Chase; third corporal, John Anderson; fourth corporal, Alonzo Kelley, all of Beloit; fifth corporal, Frank Barrere, of Janesville. Privates, Albert F. Lewis, of Lima; James Boyd, of Harmony, George H. West, of Janesville; Thomas P. McManamin,. of La Prairie, and Samuel Baker, Edmond Capron, Jacob Faber, Charles A. Hendee, Alonzo Kelley (promoted corporal) and Benjamin A. Jeffers, all of Beloit. Company K had two Rock County privates, Solomon W. Foster, who died at Memphis, July 11, 1864, and Daniel A. Patterson, both of Evansville.

The Fortieth Regiment numbered 778, of whom thirteen died in service. When Forrest made his raid, Colonel Ray rode away, it is said, after ammunition, leaving Lieutenant Colonel (later, Bishop) Samuel Fallows in actual command, and he led the Fortieth ahead of all the other regiments into the range of rebel artillery. After that term of service closed the surgeon, who came from Delavan, received a gold headed cane, inscribed, "Surgeon 0. W. Blanchard, from the men of the Fortieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers. God Bless You."

We arrived at Memphis Sunday, June 19, 102 degrees in the shade and 125 in the sun, and in full uniform, marched to an encampment on Brinkley avenue, at A. J. Carne's nursery, opposite the railroad from the old fair grounds. Our picket duty was mostly along Raleigh road and outskirts. We also furnished fifty or sixty men every other day to guard a train of supplies to Smith's army at La Grange, Tenn., or sometimes over the line to Holly Springs, Miss., a country desolated by war. Sometimes we furnished a detachment of forty men to guard the wood yard, containing 40,000 cords of government wood by the river bank, and to picket the peninsula, formed by the Wolf and Hatchie with a bayou of the Mississippi.

Forrest's raid at 4 o'clock Sunday morning August 21, shamefully surprised the camp and nearly caught Major General Washburn at his headquarters. General Forrest's first and fourth brigades of cavalry with a section of Morton's battery, about three thousand mounted Confederates, dashed up Hernando road, killed sixteen Union troops, wounded fifty-three and captured about 140. They lost fifty killed and thirty-six of them were captured unhurt, while the number of their wounded is unknown. The fighting was near St. Agnes' academy. Of the Fortieth, only three were hit, one being Lieutenant Northrup, of Company B, and none were seriously hurt.

For the benefit of our younger readers, we add elsewhere a somewhat more personal account of this "romance of war."

The Forty-second Regiment contained some sixty-five Rock County men, all in Company H. Captains, Amasa F. Parker, of Janesville; Josiah Thompson, of Beloit.

Privates. Charles Agin, W. F. Akin (sergeant, lieutenant), Charles A. Bagert, Rufus A. Barr, George S. Beals (sergeant), Charles F. Bemis (corporal), Alvin H. Bemis (corporal), David E. Brownell, Jerome S. Betts, W. H. Cantwell, Gordon Carey, Michael Case, George Chislm, G. Christman, Ira A. Clark (died Camp Butler, Illinois, December 2, 1864), Alonzo D. Clark (corporal), Myron B. Clark, W. H. Conklin, George H. Cox, Christopher Cramer (died April 20, 1865), Leonard E. Crosby, George W. Dates (corporal), Matt Farmer, S. L. H. Farnsworth, Luke Foley, Frederick Frantz, Jesse Gay, P. Gibbons, William Hilton, Hiram Hoffstatter, Cassius C. Howard, Charles W. Kelly, Hiram Kelly, David W. Leake, John S. Lynch (sergeant), Joseph Manz, James McBride, George L. McCoy, James McGowan (died January 18, 1865), J. McMann, Joshua Miller, Ambrose Moore (corporal), Thomas P. Northrop, Anson Olds, Henry Parks (sergeant), J. R. Patrick, Fred Podratz, Henry Quackenbush, William A. Reed, William Rogers, George B. Sage, Henry Schreiber, John M. Sims, George W. Smith (musician), George W. Stevens, G. W. Thurman, Leonard Tyler, J. S. Van Namee (died at Cairo, April 13, 1865), John G. Visgar, J. G. Weber, H. W. Wilbur, Henry H. Wilcox (corporal), James E. Wilks.

In the Forty-fourth regiment we had seventy-five.
Company G. Cornelius Ables, William N. Andrews, Henry P. W. Berger, Martin Madson, Oliver G. Martin, Dewitt C. Pierce, Wenzel Scheiter, Robert Summerfield, Henry Wilson.
Company H. Henry D. Andrews, Cyrus T. Blair (corporal), Thomas Bloyer (died Nashville, Tenn., March 5, 1865), Charles W. Davis, Henry H. Davis (died March 14, 1865), John Fenstermacher, Frederick Huber, Charles B. Johnson, W. J. Jones, G. W. Jones, W. W. Manlove, Henry W. Manlove (corporal), Alfred Morrill, Green B. Palmer, Ernest M. Reynolds, J. A. Rotan, Joseph Sawyer (died Paducah, Ky., July 3, 1865), Charles Selden, Phillip Sinnett, Marcus F. Winchester.
Company I. Captain, Leonard House, of Janesville; privates, Hiram S. Allen, Henry Allen, Austin Arthur, Thomas Ash, Warren H. Bennett (corporal), Edwin Blakeley (corporal), John Bramer, W. H. H. Burlingame, William D. Camp, James F. Chapin (corporal), David Carter, Joseph Coty, Marshall E. Crowther (corporal), James Doer, Franklin Dolloff, James B. Eastman, Edward Farley, James Foster, Hubbard Frisbie (corporal), Neil Gillespy, Leander Hawley, Riley Howley (corporal), George Hoyt (corporal), Willard C. King, Jason Kyes (corporal), John D. Kyes (died Paducah, Ky., July 20, 1865), George H. Lampman, Thomas Leary (corporal), Joseph Moore, James Morton. Michael O'Brien, Asa C. Phelps (sergeant), Charles W. Posson. Patrick Riley, Michael Robyor, George L. Savage, Richard Skelly, John W. Smith (sergeant), Lafayette Stevens, John Strunk, William C. Van Velzer, Hiram Waters, Oscar Watts, W. G. Weidger, Edmond Wright (first sergeant).

The Forty-seventh Regiment
had in Company F three Janesville men, Winfield S. Chase, George Osgood and James Tracey. In Company H were forty-one men, mostly from Beloit: Captain, Charles B. Nelson; second lieutenant, Samuel W. Barr, both of Beloit. Enlisted men: Dempster Blackman, Herbert E. Blanchard, Frank Brown, Daniel N. Collar (promoted commissary sergeant), Willis A. Doud, George E. Downer, Fred S. Dresser, William H. Fairchild, Thomas Glennan, James W. Graham, Joseph Grundy (corporal), John M. Hodge, Wade Kilgore, John B. King, Reuben Lafferty, Charles M. Long (died August 14, 1865, Nashville, Tenn.), Benning Mann (corporal), Henry L. Meacham (corporal), Wallace T. Miner (corporal), Thomas Murray, Patrick O'Brien, Ira S. Otis, Edwin N. Palmer (first sergeant), John H. Park (musician), William S. Peck, Anson A. Perkins (sergeant), James A. Perry, Dwight Pierce, Wilbur R. Pixley (sergeant), Cornelius Provost, Michael Smith, James Vanderwerken (corporal), Joseph E. Walling (sergeant), Albert Webb (musician), William Weigle (corporal), Simeon Wescott, Ira White, George Winn (promoted principal musician), Sanford Wright.

In the Forty-ninth regiment, Companies C and D, were sixty-four Rock county men, who came mainly from Milton, as follows:
Company O. Captain, Richard A. Wareham, Milton. Enlisted men, Joseph C. Atherton (corporal), Horatio A. Barnard, William E. Bullard, Joseph F. Bullis (corporal), James W. Burhans, Thomas Bywater, John M. Carville, Albert L. Clark, Rollin C. Clark, Walter J. Collins (sergeant), Milo C. Collins (corporal), James Cummings, Edward N. Dudley, Evan T. Evans, Richard Green, Veranus P. Hunt, Charles A. Hurning, Lewis Ind, Melvin H. Ingraham, John King, Francis McCarville, Joel W. Morgan, Joseph H. Morgan, Ira B. Newkirk (first sergeant), William M. Osborn, Chancy H. Osborn, Dennis Phelan, W. Rooney, Isaac A. Sowle (corporal), Frank Thomas (sergeant), and William A. Twist, of Beloit.

Company D. George W. Barrett, John Benkelman, George Cole, Beloit (corporal), James A. Flint, Thomas S. Fort, Oliver C. Garthwait, W. Goomoll, Clark W. Green (musician), Thomas A. Greenwood, Calvin Hull (corporal), David H. Kelly, James F. Kelly, George Klass, Thomas Lorimer, John H. Maryatt, Henry C. Maryatt, Nathan E. Maxon (corporal), James McGiffin, Henry Ogden (musician), William E. Richardson (corporal), John L. Scovill, N. Smith, Jr. (wagoner), Charles M. Smith, James A. Snyder, Charles M. Stevens, John A. Taplin, Jesse B. Thayer (sergeant), Alonzo D. Thornton, Ethan A. Vanderwarker, George W. Wehb (first sergeant), Solomon H. Wilkins (corporal), Norman P. Wood.

In the Fiftieth Regiment, Company A, were Frederick Everson and William F. Fisher (second lieutenant), N. Straider and Peter C. Winebrenner, of Janesville. In Company D were Alvin Howard and Patrick Lamey, of Beloit, and Clark M. White (corporal), of Turtle.
To the Fifty-second Regiment we supplied only two men, Second Assistant Surgeon Orville P. B. Wright and Hospital Steward Frank B. Searle, of Beloit.

Artillerymen.
For the Wisconsin light artillery Rock county contributed men to the Fourth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Batteries.

The Fourth Wisconsin Battery was popularly known as Vallee's.
Vallee's Battery. This battery was organized in Beloit in September, 1861, by Captain John F. Vallee. His senior first lieutenant was George B. Easterly; junior first lieutenant, Martin McDevitt; senior second lieutenants, Andrew H. Hunt, Charles A. Rathbun; junior second lieutenant, Alexander Lee; staff sergeants, Charles H. Clark, Q. M. S., Cephas L. Sturtevant, first sergeant; duty sergeants, Mark Young, Alexander Clark, Benjamin F. Watson, Charles A. Colby, Horatio Harrington, James H. Graves; wagonmaster, Samuel Eliott; corporals, Edwin M. Palmer, Delos H. Cady (sergeant, senior second lieutenant), Burr Maxwell (sergeant, lieutenant), Chauncey Baker, Benjamin Brown (first sergeant, second lieutenant), Chauncey B. Jerome, Guiden D. Keeler, James W. Vandeventer, Bateman J. Stickel, Levi Westinghouse, John M. Clifford, Eli White; artificers, Andrew David, Charles B. Sperry, Burritt W. Peck, Stephen N. Peck, Garrett G. Voorhees; buglers, Jacob Newman, Calvin Burrows; farrier, Augustine M. Carpenter; hospital steward, Harry D. Bullard; guidon, Howard Converse.

Captain Vallee resigned July 5, 1863, his successor being George B. Easterly, who was himself succeeded by Dorman L. Noggle, of Janesville. The former officers were all honorably discharged.
Captain Easterly's senior first lieutenant was Martin McDevitt; junior first lieutenant, George Powers; senior second lieutenant, George R. Wright; junior second lieutenant, Dorman L. Noggle (first lieutenant, captain); staff sergeants, Q. M. S.. Charles H. Clark, first sergeant, Cephas L. Sturtevent; duty sergeants, Horatio N. Yarrington, Edwin N. Palmer, Levi Westinghouse, Rand H. Stevenson, William Abbott, Samuel Elliott, corporals, Delos H. Cady, Burr Maxwell, Benjamin Brown, James H. Graves, John Clifford, James Baldwin, Robert Campbell, Hugh Schallong, Charles Colby, Spencer Maxwell, Albert Wallace. The remainder of the non-commissioned men were the same men who served under Captain Vallee, except the wagoner, who was Chauncey Baker.
After the resignation of Captain Easterly, Dorman L. Noggle was appointed in his place, the rest of the commissioned officers having resigned. Captain Noggle's senior first lieutenant was Robert Campbell; junior first lieutenant, Burr Maxwell; senior second lieutenant, Delos H. Cady; junior second lieutenant, Benjamin Brown. The following is a list of the privates: January Blackbird, Charles H. Burrows, Robert J. Butler, Ira A. Blackmar, George Beeken, Almon Baldwin, John Bingham, William Bingham, Duffy Bently, Orlando H. Butler, John Berry, John ^Carney, William W. Colby, J. Cady, Horace R. Colby, Hartley H. Colby, Charles H. Hanchett, James Lumsden, Louis Lightheart, Mazerie Letterneau, Louis O. Larsen, Daniel W. Mapes, Thomas McDonald (died, Hampton, Va.), Thomas McGrath, Josiah Moyer (corporal), Charles Mansfield, John McManamin, Neil McCatheran (died Hampton, Va.), James McCatheran, George H. Marshall, Henry Manly, William H. Norton, James Nesbitt, Thomas Nelson, Charles Olsen, Joseph Pierson, David Philborn, Josiah Parkhurst, John C. Payson, William Ruff, William S. Ranous, Hugh Reiley, Wakeman Ressiegue, Charles E. Rodifer, Amos E. Rice, Harry Rivers (corporal), James Ritchie, Charles Smith, Hubbard D. Smith, Elisha W. Sherman, Charles Schupell, Thomas P. Spencer, Fernando R. Sumner, Charles Shields, George Sauer, Wardell Tunison (sergeant), William S. Thorn, Edwin Van Gelder, Amos S. Van Gelder, James Wilkins, Joseph B. Williams, Alvin West, Sabin Warren, William Warren, Stephen Wells, Franklin Wright, John K. Weller, George H. Adams (Q. M. sergeant), William L. Austin (sergeant), Edwin Carroll, Adelbert M. Case, Eugene Dutcher (corporal, sergeant), John Douglas, Consider K. Davis, Henry Dodd, Daniel Dulhanty (sergeant), Henry M. Davis, Peres D. Ellis, Wesley Ellison, William L. Early, Sidney C. Early, Joseph Flannigan, Eugene K. Felt, Francis N. Graves, James H. Graves, George Grover, William Garner, George N. Hayes, Allen Hurley, Peter Halverson, William K. Hanson, Thomas W. Harnden, Daniel B. Hitchcock, Elisha Hawk, Lewis Isaacson (killed, Darbytown Road, Virginia), Henry Johnson, William W. James, Sidney Knill (died Portsmouth, Va.), William J. Kelly, Thomas Kelly, Thomas W. Tattershall. (The official roll contains many other names, which are omitted here because not known to be the names of men of Rock County.)

In the Tenth Battery we had only one man, Thomas Savage, of Janesville.

The Eleventh Battery received these seven Beloit men: Flen Daggett, Adolphus Humphrey, Alexander McAlpin, Theodore I. Perkins, Alexander W. Pomeroy, John Stevens and Franklin K. Wallace.

Our connection with the Twelfth Wisconsin Battery was more important. In 1862, when 250 more soldiers were called for from Rock County, some $8,000 was subscribed as bounty money, to induce volunteering and avoid a draft.

On August 9 E. G. Harlow made application to the adjutant general of the state for power to enlist an artillery company in the county, and was refused on the ground that that branch of the service was full. A similar request made by that gentleman to the adjutant-general of the army met with a similar disposition. Finally after some further correspondence Mr. Harlow was commissioned a lieutenant of artillery and authorized to enlist fifty men for the Twelfth Wisconsin Battery, then in the field near Corinth, Miss., as a portion of General Hamilton's division.

Lieutenant Harlow immediately opened a recruiting office at the drug store of G. R. Curtis, corner of West Milwaukee and Franklin streets, and within forty-eight hours had filled the complement with twelve men to spare. The recruits went into camp at Madison without delay and on September 1, or within two days of the date when sworn in, they left Janesville and proceeded at once to the field of action. But little delay attended their initiation into actual warfare, for they participated in the battle of Iuka on September 19, and thereafter were constantly in the thickest of the fray, following Price down the Hatchie, participating in the bloody fight thereon, and returning to Corinth, were engaged during the bloody battles of October 3 and 4, and in the siege of Vicksburg, where after lying in the trenches for fifty days they were gratified with the sight of the stars and stripes substituted for the stars and bars. They were next heard of at Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Allatoona Pass, Savannah, Atlanta, through the Carolinas, and in Richmond and Washington, which cities were taken on their route to Madison, Wis., where they were mustered out on June 26, 1865.

During the war this Twelfth Battery belonged to the Third Brigade, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee; also to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps; and was commanded by Generals McPherson, Sherman, Osterhaus, Logan and Grant.

Rock county had in the Twelfth Battery;
one Beloit man, Pardon E. Carpenter, who died of disease at Memphis, Tenn., January 10, 1863;
two from Avon, Nathan B. Rice and William O. Rice;
three from Rock, James H. Nuttall, Robert Shields (who lost a leg at Bentonville) and Warren H. Simmons;
five from Johnstown, Sylvester C. Cheney (junior first lieutenant), John R. Bortle, Fred Douglas, Edwin A. Wells, Alexander W. Wells;

100 from Janesville, as follows:
Edward G. Harlow (senior first lieutenant, brevet captain U. S. Volunteers),
Marcus Amsden (first lieutenant, died of wounds October 9, 1864),
Charles F. Adams,
Ambrose C. Ames (died Huntsville, Ala., February 5, 1864),
James M. Anderson,
Bradford B. Austin,
William R. Bates,
Wheeler S. Bowen,
Daniel R. Brand,
Cornelius H. Brown,
Robert W. Burton (corporal, quartermaster sergeant, wounded Allatoona, Ga., October 5, 1864), August Chilling,
Joseph W. Chase (died October 6, 1864, from wounds received Allatoona, Ga., October 5, 1864), Harvey Comstock,
Peter Cox,
James Croft (wounded Allatoona, second lieutenant Company E, Fifty-first Wisconsin Infantry), Thomas Croft (corporal, sergeant),
Granville B. Dailey,
John Dawton,
David C. Davey (killed in action, Allatoona, Ga., October 5, 1864),
Elijah C. Davey,
Augustus Deal,
Samuel L. Dey,
Silas P. Dinnin,
Samuel H. Doolittle (died Allatoona, Ga., October 6, 1864, wounds received October 5),
James B. Dransfield (died March 15, 1865, Annapolis),
Spencer Eldridge,
Edwin B. Fish,
Cornelius Fogle (farrier),
William V. Fox,
Thomas G. Frost,
Archie T. Glascott,
William Gorton,
Robert Graham,
James Grey (artificer, died August 2, 1863, wounds received Vicksburg July-2, 1863),
James B. Greenway,
William H. Griffiths (died Cairo, Ill., November 14, 1862),
Henry Groner, John Haas (died March 19, 1865, Wilmington, N. C.),
Thomas H. Harrison (corporal, wounded Allatoona, Ga., October 5, 1864),
Jeremiah S. Harding,
William D. Hemmingway (corporal),
Jerome Howland (artificer),
Orrin Hubbard (corporal, sergeant, wounded Allatoona),
William Ingles,
Claremont S. Jackman,
William H. C. Johnson,
Evan W. Jones,
Alonzo R. Kibbe (corporal, wounded December 15, 1864),
Lewis D. Latteer (artificer),
Edgar Macomber,
Lucian T. Mallory,
John M. Mathews,
William J. Mclntyre,
Peter S. Merrill,
Alonzo E. Miltmore (promoted junior first lieutenant Company H, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, September 13, 1864),
Frederick Miller (artificer),
Samuel Morris,
Owen E. Newton,
Lewis Noe,
Dorman L. Noggle (promoted- junior second lieutenant Fourth Wisconsin Battery, November 17, 1863),
Charles L. Noggle,
John F. Norton,
William W. Ococks,
William D. Packham (died January 10, 1863, La Grange, Tenn.),
Ira Palmer,
William H. Palmer,
Chauncey L. Peck,
George Pierce (corporal),
Ambrose Pierson,
James Plimpton,
Daniel Rees,
Casper Rifenberg (corporal),
Frederick Ring,
Hiram A. Robertson (sergeant),
John W. Russell,
Alexander M. Russell (lost arm, Savannah, Ga.),
John H. Saunders,
George L. Scott,
Handley B. Sexton,
John Shearer,
Martin Shields,
Ellis Shopbell,
Samuel G. Sisson (sergeant),
Daniel Skelly (corporal).
Charles H. Spencer,
Jack L. Stevens,
Sylvester St. John (wounded October 5, 1864, Allatoona, Ga.),
Obed Wallace (promoted junior first lieutenant Company L, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery), William E. Ward,
Andrew Watts,
Joseph Whitman (died December 14, 1862, Oxford, Miss.),
Horace F. Wilson,
John T. Wilcox,
Charles A. Wilmarth (wounded October 5, 1864),
George fl. Wilmarth,
Henry Wingate (killed July 4, 1863, Vicksburg, Miss., accident),
Frank Wood (wounded Savannah, Ga.),
Joseph Wormworth,
Henry T. Wright (promoted to U. S. Navy),
Aaron V. Wycoff.

In the Thirteenth Battery were;
James M. Babcock, Koshkonong; Taylor Babcock, Norman H. Dewing (corporal), and John Hunter, from Janesville; Thomas Savage and John Dunn, of Turtle; William V. Sheets, of Clinton;
and five Beloit men- John Doyle, Frank Fox (first sergeant, second lieutenant), George H. James, Edgar R. Nelson and Lewis E. Nelson.

Rock County contributed men also to the Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, First Regiment, Companies D, E, F, H and L.

In Company D were five Janesville men: John F. Baldwin, Richard E. Ballou, John W. Hurlburt, Sylvester Payne and George W. Powers.

In Company E were eighteen Janesville men:
Frank B. Burdick,
Pitt M. Clark,
Joseph Emerson,
Jacob W. Everly,
John Frohmader,
Sidney C. Goff,
George W. Heath,
Russell Henry,
Henry M. Johnson,
Luke Knapp,
George A. Libbey,
George H. Lilly,
Stephen P. Main,
Arhart Neipert,
Nelson F. Randolph,
August Tartsch,
Silas B. Thomas and
John O. Webster;
also, from Harmony,
Joseph C. Babcock,
Ambrose Dart; from Fulton,
Riley Call; from Johnstown,
Samuel Doner, John H. Jacques, Oscar A. Kellogg; from Clinton,
William A. Foss, Wilson S. Gilmore;
also Nicholas Rickerman, of Plymouth,
and Henry Rickerman, of Rock.

In Company F was Junior Second Lieutenant;
Joseph C. Blodgett, of Janesville.

The senior second lieutenant of Company H;
Alonzo E. Miltimore, of Janesville.

Company L had fifty Rock County men:
Nathaniel D. Kelly,
Henry A. Pond,
George Skinner and Erastus Williams, of Fulton;
Thomas Brannan and David B. Reynolds, of Rock;
Charles A. Tubbs, of Clinton;
James Gleave (corporal) and Robert More, of Center;
John Swim, Morgan Johnson, Horace Swim, of Bradford; Matthew Berrigan, Myron Smith and Rudolphus D. Tascher, of Johnstown;
Edgar Mericle, of Harmony; Edward Harnden (corporal), of La Prairie;
and these thirty-three men from Janesville:
Obed W. Wallace (first lieutenant),
Alpheus S. Trowbridge (senior second lieutenant),
Darius W. Cameron (junior second lieutenant),
DeWitt Ainsworth,
John Baik,
Lewis P. Bent,
Frank Berendes,
John Bluett,
Herman L. Coon,
John J. Daniels,
Horace M. Dibble,
James E. Doyle,
Carmi S. Gifford,
Francis A. Gifford,
Eldred Harrington,
Welcome Henry,
Thomas McFarland,
Lawrence Mericle,
Francis Minett,
William Morrow,
Justus H. Potter,
Levi P. Powers,
Austin Randall,
Stephen P. Randall,
Edwin H. Risden,
Martin Rocthael,
August Romanousky,
John M. Sears,
James Stewart,
Matthias Suhr,
Henry Turner,
John Voit and
Walter R. Whitney.

In the cavalry branch of the army Rock County furnished most of the men for two companies, M of the Second Regiment and E of the Third.

The roster of each company, giving only Rock County men, most of whom were from Janesville, is as follows:
Second Regiment Cavalry. Surgeon, Clark G. Pease, Janesville; hospital stewards, Frank Strong and Paul G. Strong, of Janesville; commissary sergeant, Third Battalion, Richard Ellis, of Johnstown; veterinary surgeon, Third Battallion, Henry Von Streitchen, Johnstown.

Company M. Captains, Nathaniel Parker and Freeman A. Kimball, promoted from first lieutenant; first lieutenant, John Baxter; second lieutenants, John C. Metcalf and Gorge W. Taylor; all the above being from Janesville.

Enlisted Men.
John Barrett, Ogden Barrett, John Belton, George W. Billings, Joseph B. Briggs, Simeon G. Brooks, Perry L. Brooks (corporal, sergeant, died Vicksburg August 17, 1864), Henry Brooks, James H. Brown (corporal), Eustis Burlingame, George D. Campbell, Lemuel Carman (corporal, sergeant), John Casford, Henry Casford, William Casford, Alonzo Chase, Thomas C. Chamberlain, William P. Cline, Albert C. Cobb, James S. Cook (corporal). Thomas Cooper (died at Vicksburg), Henry Coty, William Croft, Jared Crone (died at Helena, Ark.), Samuel Crone (corporal, quartermaster sergeant), James E. Cronk, Isaac Davis, Patrick Denny (died Jefferson Barracks, Mo.), Reuben C. Dodge, Charles Eastman, Charles M. Eddy, Richard Ellis (promoted commissary sergeant, Third Battalion), Horace D. Fitch, Thomas Foster, Sidney Fuller (corporal, died Helena, Ark.), Charles L. Glass, Chauncey C. Handy, John A. Hart, Ephraim Hart (died at Vicksburg), John Harvey (corporal, sergeant), George W. Harman, Gilbert H. Hay (farrier), John W. Helms (died Vicksburg), Henry Hemming, Horace Herkimer (quartermaster sergeant), James Heughs (died Vicksburg), George E. Holmes, Henry C. Holmes (corporal, commissary sergeant), John Holland, George Homan, Melville Hopkins (died August 14,1864),;Samuel Horne (saddler), Levi H. Howard (died St. Louis, August 13, 1863), Elza S. Hudson, John H. Jackman, Henry A. Jones (died Vicksburg), Thomas Kane, Joseph King (farrier), Moses Lavine, James Lincoln, Daniel A. Louber, Jefferson Lovelace, Frank Luckett, Alfred Malone, Garrett R. Malone, Samuel W. Metcalf, Caleb Mott, Frederick Mott (bugler), Minard E. Mott (farrier), Allen Nixon (corporal), John Nixon, James O'Connor (died Vicksburg), William J. Oliver, Isaac Parker (quartermaster sergeant), Clark 0. Popple (corporal, sergeant, quartermaster sergeant), Lester H. Porter (sergeant, died Memphis January 31, 1865), William J. Porter, Leonard Powell, James H. Quinn, William F. Reed, Adam K. Richardson, Oscar P. Roberts, William Roberts, George W. Royer, John P. Sawyer, Albert Shafer, William R. Silver (corporal), John E. Simerson (died Vicksburg), Silas Soper, Hannibal D. Soper, John P. D. Stevens (bugler), Ira Storms, Paul G. Strong (bugler, hospital steward), Herman V. Streicham (veterinary surgeon), Ira Sturdevant (died Vicksburg), Henry Sturdevant, Adelbert Terry, John H. Thomas, Anthon T. Thompson, Elisha R. Thorne (died Vicksburg), John H. Thurston, John F. Tracy, Minard Van Patten (died Vicksburg), Minard Vanderburg, William H. Wallace (bugler, died at Janesville March 10, 1865), Peter Warner, Henry Warner, Charles M. Waterman, Rush B. Webster (died Vicksburg), John Welles, Smith Weisner (died Vicksburg), James Whalen, Charles F. Whipple (corporal, sergeant), Joseph Williams, Daniel W. Woodstock, James B. Wright (died August 12, 1862, Helena, Ark.), Rodger B. Young.
Third Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry. Colonel, William A. Barstow; lieutenant-colonel, Richard H. White; second assistant surgeon, Joseph S. Lane; battalion adjutant, Charles L. Noggle; battalion quartermasters, Isaac Woodle (First Battalion, died at Janesville April, 1862), James Armstrong( Second Battalion), Augustus 0. Hall (Third Battalion); chaplain, Hiram W. Beers.

Noncommissioned: Veterinary surgeon, William Bagley; battalion sergeants-major, Herbert W. Keyes (First Battalion), William R. Graham (Second Battalion), Caleb G. Gillett (Third Battalion); quartermaster sergeant, Frederick Peck; battalion quartermaster sergeants, Arthur C. Kent (First Battalion), Chauncey M. Woodworth (Third Battalion); commissary sergeants, Solon M. Johnson, Arby Tuttle; battalion commissary sergeants, William H. Hayes (First Battalion), George F. Blodgett (Third Battalion); hospital steward, Charles E. Wiswell, died Little Rock, Ark., September 12, 1864; battalion hospital steward, Elisha Sharp, killed March 26, 1862; saddler sergeant, George W. Caldwell. All the above-named officers were from Janesville.

Roster of Company E.
Captains, Ira Justin, Jr. (died Leavenworth, Kan., October 22, 1861), Alexander M. Pratt; first lieutenants, Leonard House, Arthur C. Kent, William Culbertson; second lieutenant, John C. Lynch. All the above officers were of Janesville.

Enlisted Men from Rock County.
Albert W. Allyn (first sergeant),
Melville F. Allyn,
Henry T. Babcock,
William J. Baker,
Capple C. Bennett,
James Bliss,
George L. Bostwick (Beloit, died Springfield, Mo., February 18, 1863),
Robert W. Boylon (died Ft. Scott, Kan., November 15, 1863),
Samuel A. Bridges,
Reuben Brink,
Joshua Bunker,
Sabin P. Bunker,
George W. Caldwell (saddler sergeant),
Charles H. Carrington,
Lewis Cooley,
Thomas Cooper,
Thomas Croak,
James Cronk,
Jeremiah W. Cutting,
William J. Dodge,
Lorenzo A. Drum,
Thomas Eaton,
Cassius Eddy,
Isaac Fry,
Caleb O. Gillett (promoted battalion sergeant-major),
William R. Graham (promoted battalion sergeant-major),
Gottfried Greenhogle,
Albert Gretzner,
Adam P. Handy,
William H. Hayes (promoted battalion commissary sergeant December 10, 1861),
George W. Holmes (farrier),
George Hughe, James R. Hutchins (corporal),
Byron F. Huyke,
Edward S. Hyde (corporal, sergeant),
Levi H. Jaycox,
Zenos Jenks (died Fayetteville, Ark.),
Nelson Jenks,
John Johnson,
Henry S. Johnson,
William B. Jones,
Henry H. Knight (corporal),
Samuel A. Lamphier,
James H. Logan (corporal),
Daniel H. Loomis,
Noble Loomis,
Jerry W. Lord,
David G. Marsh (musician),
Edward Martin,
Abram D. Maxfield (corporal),
William McCloy,
Albert G. Merrill (died Ft. Scott, Kan.),
Vinton L. Merrill (musician),
Daniel Miles,
George D. Morgan,
James S. Murphy,
William 0iFlaherty (died Little Rock, Ark.),
Peter Oleson,
Dennis C. O'Sullivan,
John W. Parkyns,
Edwin R. Partridge,
Clark Pepper,
Christopher Pestow,
Henry Peters,
John W. Phelps,
Cicero Post,
Stephen Post,
Henry S. Quick (corporal),
Frederick Ring,
Jedediah Rook (died Benton Barracks, Mo.),
William B. Rook,
John Q. Sanborn (corporal),
Henry Shields,
August Shultz,
Henry Shurger (died Van Buren, Ark., October 13, 1864),
Aaron Smith (sergeant, commissary sergeant),
John Sparling,
Byron Spears (saddler),
Henry Stattforth,
James E. Stewart,
Chauncey Stone,
Stephen Taylor (saddler),
Hiram Taylor,
Richard C. Taylor,
Frederick E. Teetshorn,
George W. Thompkins,
Syrel Treat (corporal, quartermaster sergeant, died Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864),
Charles G. Turner,
Arby Tuttle (promoted regimental commissary sergeant),
Warren Wait (corporal),
Leander Wetmore,
William H. Wells (corporal, sergeant, first sergeant),
Richard W. Williams,
Byron A. Williams (corporal),
Frank Worthing (corporal),
David Wyman (wagoner, corporal, sergeant),
Warren Young (Beloit, corporal).

Spanish War Veterans.
In the Spanish War our boys were stationed at Camp Cuba Libre, Florida, May to October.
October 22, 1898, Company E, First Wisconsin Volunteer Infanty, of the Spanish War, assembled at Beloit, were duly discharged from service as United States soldiers. They had all enlisted for two years, but as the war had virtually ended, although our First Regiment was quite a favorite with General Fitzhugh Lee, our Governor Schofield, at the solicitation of a great many citizens, succeeded in having that regiment honorably disbanded and the men discharged to private life.

The roster of Company E, mostly Beloit men, when they were thus mustered out, was as follows:
Captain, T. J. Rogers, at Jacksonville;
first lieutenant, H. J. Quinn;
second lieutenant, F. Y. Hart;
first sergeant, R. C. Maltpress;
quartermaster sergeant, Charles H. Conklin;
sergeants, Harry Yeakle, Ray A. North, William J. Kennedy;
corporals, Howard Alcan (sick), Clarence H. Newton (sick), W. D. Cobb, W. J. Widdowson, William Baines (sick in Chicago), Fred Graham, George Armstrong, George Yost, Charles Ingleby, Ira F. Thompson, Edwin Meyers;
artificer, George Watson;
musicians, Fritz J. Steiner, Harry Gardner (sick at Brodhead);
privates, H. M. Adams (now at Jacksonville), Joseph Armstrong, Bert Bingham, Benjamin Bill, Benjamin Butler, F. L. Bush, William Washburn Brown, Otta A. Bradeson, H. G. Buchanan, Charles E. Booth (sick), John F. Chamberlin, Henry S. Cole, A. J. Cornelius, C. N. Coons, Franklyn Champion, Harry E. Card, Percy Crouch, August Dellmann, John C. Davis (sick in Milwaukee), Irving DeForest, Harvey L. Denson, William H. Drake (at Jacksonville), J. N. Davis, Edwin Fiese, Frank N. Ford, D. A. Frayer, W. C. Graeber, John E. Graham, Carrol Graves, Nels Hansen, Fred L. Hunt, Thomas Holliday, Henry Hopgood, James C. Howorth, George Ingerham, Charles E. Jeske, Ed. Knight, Charles Kastner, Karl Kristianson, Charles W. Kelley, Charles L. Lowry, John Luders, John L. Larson, Charles A. Mansfield, John Maroney, Chris. Manning, Fred Miller, Charles E. Moore, Henry J. Means, John W. Moses, James M. Mowers, Arthur E. Miller, W. L. Newton, W. C. Pitt, Orville H. Partch, Charles W. Patrick, William H. Roper, Francis S. Remey, George W. Robinson, W. Frank Rood, Robert Ed. Robinson, Henry W. Robinson, William R. Ranee, Charles Schultz, Leroy Shirley, Ed. Snow, J. G. Schermerhorn, Fred Allen Smith, C. E. Storey, W. W. Satterlee (sick). L. W. Tipton, W. V. Whitfield, Walter Wellman, G. H. Willett, D. W. Woodard, John Robert West, Gustave Wolline (sick), Francis B. Wood.
The following members of Company E were transferred to the T. J. S. Hospital Corps: George Corson, Milton D. Brown, Harry Key, William Brockman, Ed Stone.

Among the names on the company's roster mustered out by the great Commander are:
Sergeant Cassia Morris, September 11, 1898;
Musician Mace Mollestad, August 13, 1898;
Corporal Fred Cousins, September 25, 1898;
Private Frank Schipman, September, 1898;
Private Clark Osgood, September 8, 1898;
Private Jesse Gleason, September 22, 1898;
Private James M. Mowers, from Allenis Grove, died at Darien, Wis., February 1, 1899;
Private Gustav Wolline, September, 1899;
Private Charles Ingleby, of Beloit, January 1, 1899.
Directly or indirectly these all died from typhoid fever.

The Spanish War Veterans are now an organized society. Ten of their number rest in the cemetery at Beloit and their graves are duly decorated on the annual Decoration Day, May 30.

The New United States National Guard.
The Dick militia law, enacted January 21, 1903, and amended May 27, 1908, provided for an organized militia, to be known as the National Guard (of each state, territory, etc.).

They are equipped at the expense of the general government and occupy a position similar to that of the minute men of revolutionary times. In case of invasion or rebellion the president can call them directly into service without further enlistment.

In this military body Rock County is honorably represented by one company, Company L, First Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard. At the last annual inspection this company gained the rare distinction of ranking first among all the militia companies of our state.

The following is an official roster of the company, which is located at Beloit and composed of Beloit men:
Captain, R. P. M. Rosman;
first lieutenant, Charles S. Buck;
second lieutenant, Stanley Y. Shepard;
first sergeant, Charles E. Moore;
quartermaster sergeant, Fred J. Kunz;
sergeants, James H. Root, Wesley F. Ayer, William Hildebrandt, Ralph C. Coonradt;
corporals, Frank McLean, M. Chester West, Robert Wright, George F. Knipprath, Arthur E. Fish, Lloyd L. Maurer;
musicians, John Poppie, F. W. Ruttencutter;
privates, E. Howe Allen, William J. Allen, Roy 0. Antisdel, Charles G. Backenstoe, Will F. Bauschle, Brittan Burtness, Percy Cadman, E. D. Christopherson, Gilmore J. Collins, Harry Coonradt, B. Edgar Day, Clifford L. Day, Sydney Derbyshire, Harry Doane, Floyd Drafahl, Peter Everson, Henry Fairbert, George M. Elliott, Richard R. Fenska, Walter Fenska, Herbert Froh, Floyd George, Jay Gilbert, William Gilbert, Charles Guetschow, Andrew M. Halle, Edward Halle, Ralph R. Hamil, L. R. Hawkins, Paul B. Hogan, Alex. T. Hannahs, Edwin C. Hart, Carl Hildebrandt, Harry Hoey, Phillip R. Jeuck, Royal 0. Jorsted, Alexander McLean, Frank Mendenhall, J. Elmer Perkins, Howard G. Plumb, M. Lyle Plumb, Edward J. Poponz, Ray I. Raymer, William Relph, William B. Shepard, Morton B. Shepard, Robert Short, Jesse Shumway, John F. Taylor, Charles H. Worf, Howell Wheat, Fred Wheat.

List of Soldier Interments in the Two Cemeteries at Beloit, Wis.
L. H. D. Crane, colonel Third Wisconsin Infantry.
H. P. Strong, surgeon Eleventh Wisconsin Infantry.
George Bicknell, surgeon Second Wisconsin Infantry.
John Avery, First Wisconsin, Company F.
Myron Adams.
Alex. Anderson, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
George M. Alverson, First U. S. Infantry, Company A.
W. P. Alexander, recruiting officer.
G. W. Bailey, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
G. H. Bunce, 199th Pennsylvania, Company F.
John F. Benton.
Edward Burrall, War of 1812.
Frank Barney.
D. Brooks.
William Butler, War of 1812.
Ebenezer Colby, War of 1812.
Michael Case, Forty-second Wisconsin, Company H.
John Campbell, Seventeenth Wisconsin, Company B.
Henry N. Chamberlain, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry.
George W. Chamberlain, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, Company G.
Henry A. Chamberlain, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, Company G.
Chris Cramer, Forty-second Wisconsin Infantry, Company H.
W. D. Davie, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, Company C.
Clark Dutton, Fortieth Wisconsin, Company B.
Oscar Dunbar, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, Company A.
Patrick Doran, Seventeenth Wisconsin, Company F.
John Doyle, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Willis A. Dowd, Forty-seventh Wisconsin, Company H.
George W. Dates, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Thomas J. Flood, Thirty-first Wisconsin, Company F.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Seventeenth Wisconsin, Company F.
James Funnell, First Wisconsin, Company F.
Alexander Gordon, captain Seventh Wisconsin, Company K.
Peter Goewey.
Frederick W. Goddard, First Wisconsin, Company F. Frederick Gibbons, First New York Light Artillery, Company G.
Edward A. Goddard, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company I. Frank Goddard.
Thomas W. Harnden, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Horace H. Hackett, Twentieth Indiana, Company B.
Nathaniel Holmes, War of 1812.
John N. Jones.
Benjamin F. Kline, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
William J. Kelly, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Sydney Knill, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Thomas H. Knill, Second Wisconsin, Company D.
James G. Luce, Seventy-fourth Illinois, Company D.
John R. Lee.
John G. Lambert.
H. M. Lilly.
C. A. Minott, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
W. S. Miller, Sixteenth Wisconsin, Company F.
Peter S. Miller, Fifth Wisconsin, Company B.
H. B. Miller.
William Morse.
Benning Mann, Forty-seventh Wisconsin, Company H.
Frederick Mott, Second Wisconsin, Company M.
H. A. Northrop, lieutenant Fortieth Wisconsin, Company B.
M. A. Northrop, captain Sixth Wisconsin, Company G.
Horace Ormsby, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
J. E. Pangborn, Fifth Iowa, Company G.
Charles E. Preston, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, Company E.
George Ruble.
Freeman B. Riddle, Thirty-seventh Wisconsin, Company C.
Mervin C. Ross, Sixteenth Wisconsin, Company F.
Ichabod Ross, War of 1812.
Jeremiah Riley, 170th New York, Company G.
N. B. Perry, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Harvey C. Smith, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Frank H. Smith, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Noble H. Smith, lieutenant First Wisconsin, Company F.
W. H. Smith.
O. J. Shipnes, lieutenant-colonel Fifteenth Wisconsin.
George L. Shue, Fortieth Wisconsin, Company B.
Thomas Savage, Thirteenth Wisconsin Battery.
W. H. Tattershall.
J. F. Vallee. captain Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
J. H. Vercalin, colonel, War of 1812.
Vinson G. Willard, Sixteenth Wisconsin, Company F.
Butler J. Wetmore.
Charles Waggoner, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, Company B.
Mark Young, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
James H. Wells, Sixteenth Indiana, Company D.
Charles M. Carrier.
A. R. Dresser, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
W. H. Kinney, Fortieth Wisconsin, Company B.
Jacob Sutter, War of 1812.
Philip Burns.
Daniel Dixon.
William H. Towsley, Fourth Wisconsin.
Hugh Riley, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
James King, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Albert Webb, Sixth Wisconsin, Company G.
Alpha Thorp.
Frank Riddle.
Dr. J. L. Brenton, surgeon-in-chief, Second Division, Second Corps.
Hiram Ellingson.
George B. Easterly, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Charles W. Hannahs, Forty-third Wisconsin, Company D.
Filas Malone.
Joslyn Southard.
D. A. Adams, Sixteenth Infantry, Company F.
Alden B. Winn, musician, Fifth Wisconsin Band.
Henry H. Carter, Forty-seventh Wisconsin, Company H.
W. H. Allen, second lieutenant, Sixth Wisconsin.
C. F. North, First Minnesota Infantry.
George M. Farnsworth, Ninety-sixth Illinois, Company G.
Horatio Pratt, Chicago Mercantile Battery.
C. S. Percival.
John Popp.
S. S. Moss.
Dennis Fox.
C. A. Colby, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Calvin Washburn, Fifty-second Illinois Infantry.
Henry Cramer.
Ebenezer Newton, War of 1812.
Joseph Rambolt, Third Wisconsin, Company H.
C. Compton, Fifty-second Pennsylvania, Company K.
L. Emmerson, Thirteenth Wisconsin, Company F.
Alvin West, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
G. B. Elkins.
John Carroll, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
John Campbell.
W. A. Montgomery.
W. M. Ferguson.
Henry Osborne, 117th New York, Company E.
John D. Grout, Twelfth Illinois, Company H.
J. J. Blaisdell, chaplain, Fortieth Wisconsin.
F. S. Fenton, musician, Fifth Wisconsin Band.
Luther C. Irish, musician, Seventy-seventh New York.
Charles H. Nye, sergeant, Fortieth Wisconsin, Company B.
J. R. Rathbun, Forty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry.
Martin Laflin, Ninetieth Illinois, Company B.
Joseph English, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
J. Parkhurst, War of 1812.
S. Hopkins, War of 1812.
Captain William Moore, 1776.
Albert N. Chamberlin, Fourth Wisconsin, Company G.
William Leggitt, musician.
Benjamin F. Howe.
Mace W. Molestead, First Wisconsin, Company E, Spanish.
Cassia Morris, First Wisconsin, Company E, Spanish.
Frank Schipman, First Wisconsin, Company E, Spanish.
Fred E. Cousins, First Wisconsin, Company E, Spanish.
Harry G. Smith, Second Wisconsin, Company I, Spanish.
Charles H. Cox, H. Conklin Post, of Troy, Wis.
Michael Egan.
Calvin H. Bullock, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Edward Carroll, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
David Kipp, Seventy-fourth Illinois, Company B.
Rufus King.
S. S. Herrick, Twenty-second Wisconsin. John J. Franklin, sergeant, Eighteenth Connecticut, Company E.
Francis N. Graves, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
William T. Moore, lieutenant.
Charles H. Menzie, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company D.
Jesse Edgerton, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company E.
Charles Ingleby.
Samuel Fulton.
John Moran, Eighth New York, Company H.
John Matthews, Iowa regiment.
Gordon E. Smith, Fortieth Wisconsin.
Thomas Moore.
Henry Pettit, Seventy-fourth Illinois.
Robert J. Butler, Fourth Wisconsin Battery.
Edgar F. Barr.
Michael Kelley, Twenty-third Illinois, Company B.
Michael Smith.
Horace Brown, 153d Illinois, Company A.
Martin Purcell.
W. S. Thompson.
Albert Rayment.
Marsh Harnden, Forty-third Wisconsin.
Sylvester Smith, Seventh New York Artillery.
Martius Hansen, Forty-third Wisconsin, Company D.
James Croft, Eighth Wisconsin.
James Green, regular army.
Thomas P. Northrop, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
A. A. Perkins, War of 1812.
John L. Cranston.
Alfred Field, Spanish War.
A. Cornelius, Spanish War.
Harry Hinder, Spanish War.
John Hill.
A. J. Holliday, Fortieth Iowa Infantry, Company K.
S. L. Bibbins, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Martin De Lano, Tenth Maine.
John K. Smith, Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry.
S. C. Fesenden, Third Wisconsin Infantry.
J. W. Dawson, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
Simeon Wescot.
Oscar Watts, Forty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry.
H. P. Lord, Seventh Minnesota.
Edward Corcoran, Fifty-fifth Illinois.
George F. Baldwin, Thirteenth New York, Company D.
A. W. Bullock, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
William Rogers.
George Hayes.
John L. Lee.
W. H. Calvert, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Company B.
William A. Y. Riley, Fifty-fifth Illinois, Company C.
C. H. Conklin, Spanish War, Company E.
Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65 Buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.

First Division. Ira Foster,
H. C. Tilton,
E. O. Wright,
James Mills,
H. H. Whittier, (Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry),
William W. Spaulding,
C. G. Gillett,
W. H. Hayes,
William Griffith,
Joseph Baker,
Ira Miltimore,
Ed Barry,
John Berrie,
James Armstrong,
Leonard Hause,
Isaac Woodle,
Charles Allen,
Jerry Bates,
S. S. Hart,
Charles W.
McHenry,
T. N. Williams,
J. T. Causius,
L. P. Norcross,
Dr. Henry Palmer,
N. Cratsenberg,
William Watson, F. Pennycook, John Nicholson, E. W. Jones, an unknown grave, S. Clemmons, Dr. J. B. Whiting, Mark Williams, F. F. Norcross, L. S. Hildabrandt, Magee, A. W. Fessiden, D. P. Smith, Gus Parker, T. J. Dann.

Second Division.
A. C. Ames (Twelfth Wisconsin Battery),
C. Bostwick, Robert Peters (Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry),
John Prague,
William Reed,
Jacob Smith,
G. M. Smith,
R. R. Loon,
Thomas Maine,
Ambrose,
L. G. Horton,
John Belton,
Chris Dyke,
I. W. Reynolds,
H. H. Holt,
Charles Lee,
John Chase,
W. P. Wakefield,
E. S. Hayward,
Chris Yager,
Al. Bintliff,
Robert Achison,
H. C. Hollis,
Henry Jarvis,
C. W. Whittier,
D. Woodstock,
Henry Dow,
S. Kerr,
A. H. Fitch,
John Sparling,
H. C. Cory,
H. Tompkins,
William Benedict,
Daniel Skelly,
Peter Howland,
A. W. Alden,
G. G. Giles,
A. Malone,
Asa Phelps,
N. Fellows,
C. H. Spencer,
Adam Sanner,
Henry Wingate (Twelfth Wisconsin Battery),
William Trask (Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry),
C. G. Pease, Gage Burgess (Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry),
G. H. Duncan,
T. C. Fisher,
Gravenstine, General Bintliff,
Henry Hemming,
W. Palmer and T. T. Croft (both of Twelfth Wisconsin Battery),
N. Fredericks,
E. C. Sheffield,
P. S. Fenton,
Henry Stienmetz (Company F, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry).

Third Division.
S. J. M. Putnam,
George Bentley,
H. A. Moore,
Joseph Harris,
Charles Wilmarth,
M. D. Wilson,
Joseph A. Jones,
F. A. Kimball,
S. P. Dinnin,
H. B. Williams,
R. F. Frazier,
F. Schermerhorn,
George Rockwood,
Howard Hoskins,
J. Bramer, M. Sexton,
Theo. H. Tripp,
John Jackman,
Henry Peters,
Thomas J. Brook,
H. Hay, F. D. Parker,
C. Callender,
Elias Shopbell,
Fred T. Jackman,
A. M. Pratt (Company E, Third Wisconsin Cavalry),
A. R. Graham, Henry Wood,
Henry Williams,
John T. Wilcoxs,
Samuel Clark,
John Cummings,
John Rutherford,
Charles E. Bowles (Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin),
Silas Gibbs, Frank A. Bennett.

Fourth Division.
Martin Dewey,
J. L. Eaton,
John Smith,
D. H. Whittlesy,
J. L. Whittlesy,
W. H. Sargent (Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry),
J. C. Brock,
W. H. Frizell,
Ira Allen,
Ethan Allen,
S. Lewis,
George Marshall,
Thomas Parks,
Theo. Ballon,
D. Cramer,
N. Case,
D. M. Davey,
James Bliss,
Sergeant Childers,
Jonas Parish,
Thomas Walsh,
Charles Francis,
J. H. McDonald,
William Gammon,
George Gammon,
John C. Metcalf,
S. G. Sisson,
Jacob Heller,
William Bates,
William Brundage,
Clark Popple,
A. D. Maxfield (Company E, Third Wisconsin Cavalry),
Timothy Vantile,
George Phelps (Company B, Fifty-second Wisconsin Infantry).

Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65 Buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
Fifth Division.
Ed. Kelly,
O'Flarety,
M. McKeigue,
P. Connors,
M. Dooley,
John Herrington,
Nick Weelson,
John Dougherty,
A. Keenan,
J. Daly,
John Ring,
Pat Kelly,
Ed. McCormick,
M. Larkin,
J. A. Little,
R. Brooks,
Thomas Holleran,
A. M. Russell,
M. Murphy,
John Lawton,
John R. Ryan,
Dennis Ryan,
Joseph Wallace,
James O'Brien,
D. Morety,
D. C. Denning,
James Dumphy,
William Murphy,
Charles Fox,
John O'Leary,
Patrick Riley,
Thomas Croak,
W. H. Campbell,
S. Stickney,
Thomas Baker,
Thomas Mackin,
John Lawler.

Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65, of the Town of Harmony, Buried at Mt. Zion Cem; WI
Alexander Taylor,
H. H. Wilcoxs,
B. W. Palmer,
Ira Clark,
William Edgar Sr.,
Wm. Edgar Jr.,
C. L. Glass.

Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65 Buried at Mt. Pleasant Cem., Town of Janesville, Wis.
John J. Bear, Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry;
W. C. Pope; A. L. Cutts, Company E, Fifth Wisconsin Infantry;
G. D. Flagler, Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry;
J. B. Harvey, Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infanty;
A. Daggett, Company E, Fifth Wisconsin Infantry;
A. Heacock, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry;
W. A. Harvey, surgeon, Seventh Wisconsin;
Albert Butts, Company E. Fifth Wisconsin;
Sylvester Flagler, Company A, Fortieth Wisconsin;
James Ingle, Company F, Thirty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry.

Soldiers Buried in Emerald Grove Cemetery.
Lieutenant D. Duane Wemple, U. S. N., died December 24, 1864;
Captain A. Zeily Wemple, Company F, Thirty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Inf., died Mar. 9, 1863;
George Playter, Company A. Fortieth Wisconsin, died Memphis, Tenn., August 15, 1864;
Isaac Earle, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteers, died at New Madrid, Mo., June 21, 1863; Isaac Earle, Jr., Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died September 17, 1880; Frank Thompson, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, died October 13, 1878;
Elbridge S. Smith, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died at Lawrence, Kan., May 5, 1862;
Henry A. Jones, Company M, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died at Vicksburg September 25, 1864; Adam Airis, Company B, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died at Lawrence, Kan., April 18, 1862;
Nelson Butler, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died June 9, 1884;
Charles Beaumont, Company B, Thirty-seventh Illinois, buried June 29, 1891;
Joseph Luke; Thomas C. Chamberlain, Company M, Second Wisc. Cavalry, died March 17, 1889; Albert Warner, died May 27, 1887; S. S. Warner, Company A, Fifth Regiment, died Nov. 4, 1891; Myron Hart, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died April 1, 1896;
John M. Davis, first lieutenant Fifteenth New York, died January 28, 1900;
George H. Meloy, Thirteenth Minnesota, died June 28, 1900;
Veder S. Davis, Company F, Thirteenth Regiment, died August 4, 1903;
Stephen Higby, Fifth New York Artillery, died May 24, 1907.

List of Soldiers Buried in the Grove Cemetery, Town of Center, Rock County, Wis.
Eden Harvey, Company D, First New Jersey Cavalry, died December 31, 1867;
William W. Wiggins, Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died April 17, 1903;
J. B. Frazier, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died in 1862;
Ralph M. Tappan, died February 18, 1870;
William I. Hakes, Company H, Forty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died November 18, 1865; George A. Clark, Company F, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died May 4, 1864;
Arvah F. Cole, Battery D, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, died October 17, 1865;
James H. Brown, Company M, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died November 25, 1892;
Stephen W. Newbraugh, Company M, First Wisconsin Cavalry, died April 9, 1865;
William H. Wallace, Company M. Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died March 11, 1865;
John L. Snyder, Company G, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died June 16, 1864;
George Robinson, died September 29, 1865;
D. McDonal, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died January 24, 1893.

List of Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Bethel Cemetery, Town of Center, Rock County, Wis.
Gilman B. Austin, sailor;
Elias Fockler;
Jacob Hetrick, Company F, Thirty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry;
Adam Korn, Second U. S. Dragoons;
Joseph Thompson, Company F, Thirty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry;
George Thompson;
Sylvanus F. Wallihan, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry;
Milton Wells, Company H, Sixteenth West Virginia Volunteers;
John Witham;
Lorenzo Witham;
Horace Wright.

Soldiers and Sailors of War of 1812.
Joseph Davis
Gilman Goodrich.

Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Town of Rock Cemetery.
Bennett, George Groner,
Stephen Cary,
William Gunn, Company F, 145th Pennsylvania Infantry.

Summary.
Rock Town Cemetery 4
Janesville Town 13
Harmony Town 7
Mt. Olivet, City, Janesville 39
Oak Hill, City, Janesville 170
Emerald Grove 20
Grove Cemetery, Center 14
Bethel Cemetery, Center 11
Beloit cemeteries 200
August, 1898, total 478
Governor Harvey.

Condensed from Love's "Wisconsin in the War."

Louis Powell Harvey;
was born in East Haddon, Conn., July 22, 1820, and at eight years of age went with his parents to Strongville, Ohio. They were hard workers and trained him to manual labor, but he was eager for an education. Thrown upon his own resources before he was nineteen years old, he yet managed to enter the freshman class of the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, in 1837, but left at the end of the junior year on account of ill health. He was a favorite among his fellow students and left behind him the reputation of brilliant natural talent and a character without stain. After teaching two years in Kentucky he came to Southport (now Kenosha), Wis., in 1841, and in December, 1841, opened an academy there. Two years later he added the duties of editor of the Southport "American," a Whig paper, which he made spirited and vigorous. He was a temperance man, for a short term postmaster, and always interested in the public schools.

In 1847 he married Miss Cordelia Perrine and, moving to Clinton, Wis., began there mercantile life. Later he moved to Shopiere, Rock County, purchased the water-power, tore down the distillery that had cursed the village, and in its place built a flouring mill and established a retail store. Mainly by his influence and gifts the Congregational Church there, to which he belonged, was housed in a neat stone edifice, and his uncle, Rev. O. S. Powell, settled as its pastor. In the fall of 1853 Mr. Harvey was elected to the senate of Wisconsin, then to be secretary of State, and in the autumn of 1861 was made governor by a very large majority. Governor Harvey's message following his inauguration, the first annual message after the opening of the war, was declared equal to that of any executive Wisconsin ever had, and strongly upheld the national administration. He was a good public speaker and a man of great practical sense.

Immediately after the bloody battle of Pittsburg Landing Governor Harvey gathered ninety boxes of the most serviceable supplies for the soldiers-sixty-one boxes from Milwaukee, thirteen from Madison, nine from Janesville, six from Beloit and one from Clinton-and personally accompanied them to see that the supplies were properly distributed to our wounded and sick Wisconsin boys. His interviews with these at Cairo, Mound City, Paducah and in the hospitals and on the hospital boats, his warm grasp of the hand and word of cordial sympathy, brought tears of joy to the faces of many brave soldiers and good cheer to their hearts. At Savannah, where more than 200 of our wounded soldiers were suffering from neglect and lack of care, his coming and kindness and care for them caused scenes so affecting that the feelings of both governor and men would often be too strong for words.

While he was ascending the river to Pittsburg occurred the day appointed for national thanksgiving. At a meeting held in the steamer cabin, when the president's proclamation was read, Governor Harvey, joining in the service, made not only a patriotic but also a religious address. He was a manly Christian. Such was the high respect in which he was held that rough men never used rough language in his presence. Governor Harvey's arrival at the camp of the Wisconsin regiments at Pittsburg Landing, where were hundreds of sick and wounded men who had been rushed into battle only a few weeks after leaving their state, caused in all their hearts a thrill of joy. He worked continually among the men, seeking in every possible way to relieve their sufferings and to renew their courage and hope; he also carefully ascertained who had distinguished themselves in battle and took their names in order to give them well-deserved promotion, a good resolve prevented only by his own death. Saturday morning, April 19, 1862, Governor Harvey went ten miles down the Tennessee river to Savannah to take there next morning a steamer for Cairo. After the party had retired for the night, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, the "Minnehaha" have in sight, and Governor Harvey with others took position near the edge and fore part of his steamer, the "Dunleith," ready to pass to the approaching boat. As the bow of the "Minnehaha" swung around close to the party on the "Dunleith" Governor Harvey stepped on one side, and, the night being dark and rainy, slipped and fell between the two steamers. The current was strong, and not withstanding the frantic efforts of several brave friends he was, it is supposed, drawn under a flatboat near by and so drowned. A long search was made for the body in vain, but some days later it was discovered by children at a point about sixty-five miles below. The remains, hastily buried there, were afterwards brought to Madison and with public services of respect duly interred in Forest Hill Cemetery near the capital, Rev. M. P. Kinney, of Janesville, conducting the religious service. Lieutenant Governor Edward Salomon appointed Thursday, May 1, a day of rest to commemorate Governor Harvey's death. At the state capitol he introduced the services by an appropriate address, and President A. L. Chapin of Beloit College pronounced a fitting eulogy. Similar services were held in various places throughout the state. The public press was draped in mourning, and the people grieved that their much-loved governor, only forty two years old, had been taken away in the midst of his days.

Mrs. Cordelia A. Harvey.
A fitting accompaniment to this brief biography of Governor Harvey is some mention of his wife, who did so much for our soldiers. His last letter to her, dated Pittsburg Landing, April 17, 1862, had but these three sentences: "Yesterday was the day of my life. Thank God for the impulse that brought me here. I am well and have done more good by coming than I can tell you." That letter and the death of her husband inspired Mrs. Harvey to devote herself to the interests of our soldiers. Asking and receiving permission from Governor Salomon to visit hospitals in the western department as an agent of the state, she went in the autumn of 1862 to St. Louis and visited many general hospitals along the Mississippi river and post hospitals of the Wisconsin troops. The heat was oppressive and contagious diseases prevailed, but she persevered until herself taken ill near Vicksburg in the spring of 1863, when she was obliged to return home to Shopiere, Wis. Deeply impressed with the importance of having general hospitals in the northern states, she went to Washington and saw President Lincoln himself about it. He thought, as did all his army advisers, that hospitals in the North would encourage desertion. Mrs. Harvey, however, declared that many of the sick soldiers in our western armies must have northern air or die. Lincoln said that in the Army of the Potomac at the time of the battle of Antietam the United States was paying for 170,000 men, and yet only 83,000 could be mustered for that action. Lincoln sent her to the secretary of war and wrote on the back of her letter of introduction: ii Listen to what she says. She is a lady of intelligence and talk's sense." Stanton told her that the surgeon-general had gone to New Orleans-that he would examine the river hospitals and report. Knowing well that his report would agree with the opinion of those above him, she returned in despair to Lincoln and pleaded so earnestly for our suffering boys in blue that an order was issued granting a hospital in Wisconsin, and she was given an order that enabled her to take sick and wounded Wisconsin soldiers to it. One hundred such cases at Fort Pickering, who were pronounced nearly hopeless, were taken to this Harvey Hospital at Madison, Wis.; seven of them died, five were discharged, and all the rest returned to the service.

Mrs. Harvey continued her work as long as the soldiers remained in the field. At the close of the war she obtained from the government the additions it had made to the Farwell mansion at Madison for the United States Harvey Hospital, and on January 1, 1866, opened that building as a Soldiers' Orphans' Home. In March, 1866, by act of the state legislature and Governor Fairchild, it became one of the benevolent institutions of the state.

Louis H. D. Crane; was born in Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y., July 7,1826, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His father was a strong anti-slavery speaker, and his eldest brother a missionary of the American Board. After graduating from Hamilton College he studied medicine a year, then law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. After his marriage to Miss Lucy M. Burrall, of Stockbridge, Mass., in the fall of 1852, he came in the spring of 1853 to Beloit, Wis., and taught very acceptably in our Union School No. 1. In 1856 he moved to Dodgeville, Wis., and was promptly elected district attorney of Iowa County. Two years later he was chosen chief clerk of the assembly in the Wisconsin legislature, was reelected annually for four years in succession, and almost unanimously. In 1859 he removed to Ripon, Wis. When the war broke out he was elected lieutenant in the Third Regiment, and immediately promoted to the adjutancy. He was made lieutenant-colonel in June and was killed in the action at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, June 1, 1862. The citizens of Beloit, Wis., claimed his body, which after suitable and impressive honors was buried at the City Cemetery. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. The Beloit G. A. R. Post No. 54 is named for him.

THE ROMANCE OF THE WAR; THE ONE HUNDRED DAYS MEN OF 1864.
I. Going Out.
(For the benefit of a younger generation this article, prepared from old letters and my diary of that time, is added as a sketch of the romance of war.)

The late Spanish or Cuban war enlisted a few of our young men and awakened in our state some popular interest. But the young people of to-day have not felt and indeed cannot fully know that burning excitement which overflowed all our hearts in 1864. Then the very existence of this nation was in danger. There was a high war fever and even the children had it.

Between the years 1861 and 1864 many loyal volunteers had gone to the front from our town and from the college here at Beloit, while we younger boys had been kept at home and at our books until 1864.

Early in that year, however, came the call for several regiments to serve for one hundred days and mainly on garrison or picket duty. They would set free and send to the front just as many of Grant's veterans and thus would render good service. To this romance of war even the parents of an only son could not object. College authorities approved. Our beloved Professor Blaisdell enlisted as chaplain and a prominent citizen, Alfred L. Field, served as quartermaster of the 40th.

Besides the enthusiastic meetings down town, we had student gatherings, speeches and war songs in the college chapel, now art room, 2d story, and amid rousing cheers one and another declared it his purpose to enlist.

When Henry D. Porter took that stand, it was suggested that he was too short for the United States requirement. At once a committee was appointed to take him out and measure him. "Whether that committee stretched Henry or the truth or both or neither is immaterial. They promptly reported that he was exactly at the limit, five feet. (Tremendous cheering.) It should be added that he was never sick, always ready for duty and did good service from the beginning to the end of his term.
Besides many of us town boys, thirty-one from the college classes (about half the whole number) and twenty-five preps enlisted in the 40th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, called the Students' Regiment.

After several days' drilling on the college campus, May 18th, with flags and cheers, we took the cars for Camp Randall (now the Wisconsin University athletic field) at Madison. A ruddy young Norwegian sitting in a car seat near me said in a rather weak voice that his name was George Travis from Illinois. To our great surprise he was arrested and sent off that same evening, because the United States army does not enlist women. May 19. 1864. Last night we had our first camp supper, consisting of bread and coffee without milk or sugar, and then drew blankets and bunks for the night. My bed was a bare board and I slept soundly on it. May 20. Went to Madison University and from the top of the main building sketched our camp. The barracks look like cattle sheds on a fair ground. May 24. Larry Foote and Moffat Halliday are playing cards at my elbow and they slap the table so energetically that it roughens my writing. To that usual army game, however, the 40th adds chess and checkers, with many superior players. Yesterday we signed enlistment papers in triplicate. At our physical examination to-day, when the surgeon came to W. H. Fitch he gave him a playful poke and said: "A man with your chest can go anywhere.". Our college boys all passed. June 1. A dozen of us were furnished with muskets and bayonets and stationed at the prison where there are thirty prisoners, mostly deserters. We stood guard all night and found it chilly.

Sunday, June 5th. Chaplain Blaisdell conducted divine service in the open air behind the captain's quarters on the hill, and a choir of Beloit boys sang. June 7. This afternoon seven companies were sworn in. Our Company B. was disposed of second. A lieutenant of the regulars, standing by Colonel Ray, called off our names and unless he stopped us, each answering, "Here," marched down the front and formed in a line to the right. Four men from Beloit were refused. The oath was duly administered to the rest and we marched back to our barracks regular soldiers of the United States. Hurrah!

June 8. We have to roll out for roll call at 5 a. m., take two hours' drill in the morning, two more in the afternoon and often two hours' battalion drill after supper. This afternoon I was sent with W. A. Cochran and three others to the hospital and we were set to pounding clothes in a barrel. Two hours of that work and one of carrying wood has saved us, however, from twenty-four hours' guard duty, in this rain. Soldiering begins to lose some of its romance. We have to obey orders. June 11th. To-day clothing and guns were issued. Each man got a woolen blanket, $3.25; rubber blanket, $2.48; dress coat, $7.00; pants, $2.50; shoes, $2.05; woolen shirt, $1.53; drawers, 90c.; stockings, 32c.; knapsack, $1.85; haversack, 33c., and canteen, 41c. Amount in greenbacks, $22.62. The cap will be a dollar more. The whole allowance per man was $23.90.

Sunday, June 12th. This hot afternoon we went on parade in full accoutrements, with knapsacks packed. It was decidedly tiresome.

June 14. Called up at half past four a. m. We received rations for three days, hardtack, dried meat and cheese. At 8 a. m. we strapped on our knapsacks, marched to the cars and at last were off to the war. Milton Junction saluted us with flags and the firing of cannon. At Clinton Junction were friends and dear ones from Beloit, kisses, flowers, cheers and more cannon. At Harvard a young lady filled my canteen with coffee. More girls and flowers. Hurrah! Reaching the old North Western depot, Chicago, about midnight, we marched the longest way around to the Soldiers' Rest on Michigan avenue, and stacked arms in the street. At 2 a. m., Mr. E. W. Porter, a Beloit graduate, furnished cigars for Company B., and Mr. Clinton Babbitt gave us hungry fellows a feast. It was hot coffee, bread and butter and pie plant sauce, sponge cake and a dish of strawberries for each man. After speeches and cheers we marched to the cars and at 4 a. m., June 15, started south. Our progress was attended by enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty. At every city flags were displayed and guns fired, while young and old wished us Godspeed. All kinds of food, fruit and vegetables, including cabbages, were offered us. Old women waved their aprons and young ladies their handkerchiefs. Springfield was one continuous wave, and it was Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! all the way to Alton.

II. In Camp and Coming Back.
From Alton we steamed down the Mississippi and reached Memphis Sunday morning, June 19; temperature, 125 degrees, F. At 11 a. m., having strapped on knapsacks and shouldered arms, we marched through deep dust a long way around to a camp ground about two miles from the city limits. In woolen clothes and carrying about sixty pounds each, all found it hot indeed, but got there. Jack Lewis even carried his gun along with his own. On arriving, parched with thirst, early in the evening several of us hunted up an old deserted well, buckled straps together and let down a canteen through weeds and broken curb to the cool water twenty feet below. When it was drawn up gurgling full and put to our dusty lips, then we learned the real meaning of the word Nectar. That first night all slept on the ground without covering.

"Camp Ray, June 20, 1864. Our mess consists of ten Beloit College boys of Company B.: Lyman Winslow, of '65; Fitch, Lewis, Newhall, Fred Curtis and Brown, of '66; Porter and Smith, of '67; A. W. Kimball and F. Bicknell. We must do our own cooking for awhile, and all take turns. As chief of mess I have drawn a piece of pork, alias sow belly, pints coffee, 1% pints brown sugar, 2 peck of potatoes, 2-3 pint of salt, 4 bar of soap and 20 of the six-inch square crackers, called hardtack.

21st. After the usual drill we made of rubber blankets, etc., a mess tent and put up the sign, "Eagle Mess. No Smoking Aloud." For today's rations we have 12-3 pints of coffee and the same of sugar, 2-3 pint of vinegar and as much molasses, one quart of rice, one quart of beans, bar of soap, one candle, twenty hardtack, and sow belly sufficient. Fitch, Kimball and I are the first cooks. During the night came a thunder-storm and a small river under our blankets. Good-natured Kimball and others turned out amid the downpour in the airiest possible costume and scraped a shallow trench about the tent. Next day several of us were sent to the city with a commissary wagon which we loaded with hay bales and the new tents. Managed to get three lemons, 25 cents, one-half pound white sugar, 15 cents, and a lump of ice, so our mess had a treat.

June 24. Sixty having volunteered for picket duty, we took thirty cartridges apiece, with three days' rations of hardtack, marched a mile or two from camp, and were then distributed in stations about thirty rods apart, three men at a station. We stand guard day and night until relieved, each man taking his turn of two hours on guard and four off. It was said that those whose property we were guarding would not give or even sell us anything. Feeling ill, I tried the matronly colored cook of the nearest mansion, and with kind words and a dime got a refreshing cup of tea. That evening Corporal F. went on the same errand. Reported that he marched up to the front piazza where the Atkins family were sitting, asked for a drink of water and they merely pointed him to the well. Said he saw unhealthy symptoms of their unchaining a savage-looking dog, so he left. In the still night during my guard from eleven till one, Comrade Shumaker went over towards that same house jay hawking. Pretty soon there was a loud woof! woof! and S., rushing back empty handed, with that dog after him, jumped the fence just barely in time. Early next morning visited that house again and made for the cook a small pencil sketch of her little bare-legged grandson. After that nothing was too good and they gave me the best the house afforded for breakfast. A colored lad called out, "Your relief's just done gone by," so I hurried back to my station convinced that those Negroes were loyal. Sunday morning Chaplain Blaisdell preaches. We also have excellent evening prayer meetings, and what some prize far more now, a company cook.

July 1. Our rations for two days' picket service are a loaf of bread each, with a little sugar and coffee. On this picket one of us convinced a cow that it was milking time and filled a tin cup. For this, his only act of foraging, he has since most sincerely repented not. We had to sleep on the ground if at all and be waked by falling rain. My sketch of that post shows Corporal Eben Kendall sitting disconsolately on the wet roadside with his feet in a ditch. The romance of war has vanished. Southern heat is steady and stifling. The standing guard alone one still hot night suggested these lines, to a familiar tune:

I.
Oh, well do I remember my old Beloit home,
The bird-house on the ridge-pole, where birds would always come;
Rock River bright behind it, the busy street before,
The vine-clad wall, those columns tall, the rose beside the door.
Long years a call was sounded, of danger, through the land.
Our fears proved not unfounded and many an earnest band
Marched off to aid their country, with these among them then,
So here are we in Tennessee, remembering home again.
Chorus.
Loud praise in song that dear Wisconsin home,
Though late and long a soldier you may roam.
Low sing the song a sad and tender strain,
For here to-day, far, far away, we think of home again.
II.
Yet home is not in the old house or in the garden neat,
Not bounded by the river nor by the bustling street,
But in the hearts of loved ones I find it, full of joy,
Who, distant, still think oft of Will, the absent soldier boy.
To-night on post of danger a sentinel I stand,
To watch against hostile ranger and guard this little band
Of comrades, silent, slumbering. The stars above me wane
As comes the day and, far away, I think of home again.
Chorus.

Our chief danger, of course, was from short rations. The ditto hostile ranger was usually the southern mosquito, whose poisonous stab drew more northern blood than southern bayonets did.
"Sunday, July 10 occurred the first camp funeral. It was of a Mr. Small, Company F. Before night army mules tramped through the yellow clay of his grave. Those hoof tracks were new in a double sense.

"Monday we went sixty miles east from Memphis on train guard to La Grange. Last week three Iowa soldiers were shot at by guerillas on this road. We lay at full length on the roof of our freight car, both sides of the ridge, with our guns leveled across it ready to fire either side. (After a train or two had been fired on each freight sent out was provided with certain prominent copperhead citizens of Memphis, who were obliged to ride on the tops of the cars with the boys. Usually there was one such guest for each car. We let our man have a prominent place so that of any attentions bestowed upon us he would be sure to get his share. Deacon Oliver J. Stiles doubtless remembers several of those guests.)

"La Grange, Tennessee, must have been a beautiful town before both armies battered it. Now, however, the churches are in ruins and used for stables, many fine houses have been burned or blown up, most of the inhabitants are gone, and the scene is one of desolation."

These letters, received from a boyhood playmate of Beloit about that time, explain themselves. He was in a battery company: Eleventh Wisconsin Light Artillery.

"Camp near Clarksville, Tenn., July 18th, '64. Friend W.-At the battle of Rodgersville last November we lost our guns. In that east Tennessee campaign under Burnside we suffered for the want of something to eat. For months we did not see even a hard cracker. We had to kill a beef and fry the meat on sticks and eat it without salt, as that article is very scarce in those parts. We had ear corn dealt out to us, two ears to each man for a day's ration. Out of the fourteen boys who left Beloit and went into this battery there are only two of us left.

The Same, August 6th, 1864.
Friend W.-In one battle we fought all day and got nothing but dent corn to eat. After leaving Knoxville last summer and fall we lived on just what we could pick up. But it is all for the best country that the sun ever shone on. I thank God I am permitted to fight for it and enjoy health.
I have a cousin in your regiment, Company I, 40th Wisconsin, Oscar Bishop. We here are expecting an attack every day from the old Johnson command, eleven miles distant. We will give them just as warm a reception as we can. In our last engagement we were badly whipped; we must expect to get the worst of it once in a while.

Occasionally we have a guerilla fight but it doesn't amount to much, only it is certain death to fall into their hands. One of our own boys got caught and was shot with three more out of the 83d Illinois.

Our captain told us last night that in less than six weeks we would all be before Atlanta, Ga., but I hardly think we will leave this winter."

He did, though, went all the way around with Sherman and is living in Beloit to-day.

The heat, which rose to 132 degrees, and some special exposure, brought me to the hospital sick with fever. A box came from Beloit and on waking one morning I found under my head a white pillow marked with the name of my mother. One must be sick in the army to appreciate such comforts. August 6, Sergeant Sherrill died and Bushnell August 10, and W. H. Shumaker, in the cot next to mine, August 13. Sunday, August 21st, we sick boys were waked by the boom of cannon. What's that! "Forrest has attacked Memphis with his cavalry and artillery and our boys have gone out." One invalid managed to dress, found that his gun seemed to weigh several hundred pounds, so started without it towards the firing. The 40th regiment was at the extreme front and under fire about three-quarters of an hour. A shell burst in a stump behind Company B, and one of its fragments slightly wounded a lieutenant, Harson Northrup, doing no other damage. Forrest retreated, our boys marched back and some of them found that invalid on the road, they say, and brought him in.

On board the hospital steamer, Silver Wave, Sept. 9, 1864. "We left Camp Ray and Memphis yesterday and started north. Our boat is crowded with more than two thousand invalid soldiers. A few miles below Ft. Pillow we stopped to bury a boy of the 39th who died last night. At Cairo we buried four more. Lying on the bare upper-deck back of the smoke pipes, sick with fever, partly protected by my blanket from dew and falling cinders, what a joy it gives me at night to see that we are pointed towards the north star and are actually going home.

September 14. At Alton, Ill., we convalescents were packed in freight cars, as many as could lie in each, stretched crosswise on the hard floor. At every bang of the rough cars our fevered heads felt ready to split. Water was scarce on the way and welcome scarcer. We reached Chicago (where someone stole my canteen )on the evening of the 15th, when our term expired, were kept at Camp Randall, Madison, several days and then duly discharged. The boys of the 40th came home, some all the stronger, one to die on the day he reached home, and many to feel the ill effects of that summer for several years, but most of them no doubt better and wiser for their hundred days' service.

School Boys in the War.
An interesting feature of the patriotism of the people of Rock County is the manifestation of it in connection with our public schools, academies, colleges and churches. Up to 1866, 310 students of Milton Academy entered the army and forty-three died or were killed. That academy raised substantially one company for the 13th Regiment, one for the 40th, and parts of companies for the 2nd and 49th. The school had representatives in forty-four Wisconsin regiments or batteries, and in thirty-one regiments of other states. Sixty-nine students received commissions from that of second lieutenant up to brigadier general. Beloit College was represented by thirty-five Wisconsin regiments or batteries, in thirty Illinois organizations, and twenty-four of other states; in nine colored regiments and in other positions, more than one hundred in all. Two hundred and seventy former teachers and students of the college up to 1866 were in the loyal service; none, so far as known, in the rebel service. One hundred and forty-five of these held positions of honor and trust, of whom eighty were commissioned officers. Among these were two chaplains, one brigadier general, seven colonels, five adjutants and twenty-six captains. After the war, more than sixty proved that they were not demoralized by returning to the institution and resuming their studies.
At a later date, when the number of the alumni of the college and academy had increased, it was found that about four hundred had been soldiers of the Civil War, and only one a deserter.
Without separate statistics for the ministers, church members and sons of ministers, of all the churches of Rock County, nevertheless, that we gave our share of the many such, who volunteered in our state, is unquestionable.

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Source: Rock County, Wisconsin Volum1-; By William Fiske Brown Historian M. A., D.D.; Publ. 1908 a new history of its cities, villages, towns, citizens and varied interests, from the earliest times, up to date, Volume 1 - Chapters 1 - 8; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack 2011~

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