Sauk County, Wisconsin
Civil War Casualties
Roll of Honor
Source: "The History of Sauk County Wisconsin..."
Chicago: Western Historical Company, MDCCCLXXX
Transcribed by Diana Morse
Sauk County, Wisconsin
Civil War Casualties
Roll of Honor
Source: "The History of Sauk County Wisconsin..."
Chicago: Western Historical Company, MDCCCLXXX
Transcribed by Diana Morse
Sauk County 1880 (page 395)
THE ROLL OF HONOR
"How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest.
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hollowed mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod."
The decoration of the graves of those who fell in the cause of the Union was extensively participated in throughout Sauk County, in May, 1868. In Baraboo, the citizens generally laid aside business cares and joined in the solemn procession that proceeded to the cemetery on that occasion. The heroes who sleep their last sleep, or whose monuments are in this home of the dead are twenty-one in number. They are but a platoon of the regiment of the county's slain
A far greater number lie on the fields where they met death in their country's cause, or in unknown graves where the dead of the battle-field, the hospital or the prison pen, have been fathered together. Of these nineteen, a brief record is given:
Harlan B. and Burrett C. Cochran; the former killed at the battle of Falling Waters, on the Potomac, July 14, 1863; the latter died suddenly at home July 27, 1865, eight days after leaving his regiment, and one day before he was to have been discharged from service.
Robert Crawford, one of the earliest and most esteemed settlers. He was a member of the Third Cavalry, and died January 30, 1868, from the effects of exposure in the south.
Francis Marion Crawford, son of the preceding; a member of Company F, Twenty-third Regiment; died at Greenfield, Miss., where his body rests.
Henry R. Ketchum, Company F, Twenty-third; died from disease contracted in the service.
Henry W. Getchell, Lieutenant Company F, First Cavalry; died at Little Rock, Ark., in a rebel prison.
Charles Cowles, First Sergeant, Company K, Fourteenth Veteran Volunteers; died September 20, 1864, at Brownsville, Ark.
Elish L. Walbridge, First Lieutenant Company F, Twenty-third; died March 31, 1863, while on his way home.
Howard H. Baldwin, Company F, Twenty-third; returned home sick at the close of the Vicksburg campaign, and died some two months after his return.
Charles A Brier, Company K, Fourteenth; mortally wounded at Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862,; died 26th of the same month at Mound City Hospital.
Rev. John M. Springer, drafted September 1863; assigned to the Third Infantry, he was soon afterward made Champlain; right knee fractured at the battle of Resaca, from the effects of which he died in the hospital at Nashville.
John Starks, Company A, Sixth Regiment (Iron Brigade); severly wounded at Gainesville on the 28th of August, 1862; received a mortal wound at Vicksburg, "with a manifestation of a chivalrous and soldierly spirit scarcely ever surpassed," wrote Col. Vilas, after the battle.
Charles A. and Oliver W. Thomas, sons of Mrs. Joanna Thomas, who gave four of her five sons to the defense of the Union; Charles died at Milliken's Bend, and Oliver at Memphis.
Frank H. Crossman, Fortieth Regiment; died May 17, 1867, aged 21 years.
W. G. Fuller, Captain in the Sixteenth Michigan Volunteers; killed by guerrillas in Oct. 1864.
Warren A. Brown, Forth-sixth Infantry; died at Athens, Ala.
George W. Wing, Eleventh Infantry; died from diseases contracted in the South.
George Turner, died while in the Navy.
Edgar Ames, enlisted early in 1861, in Company A, Sixth Infantry; died at Arlington Heights; his was the first death in the company. His father belonged to the Seventeeth, and also died in the service.
Col. David S. Vittum, Third Wisconsin Cavalry; died in Baraboo, April 10, 1880.
Reedsburg's Roll:
Capt. H. A. Tator, Sergt. F. W. Henry, Corp. Alvah Rathbun, Sergt. Spencer S. Miles, Henry Bulow, Jason W. Shaw, Lafayette Ackerman, James Markee, John Hines, G. W. Priest, Harrison Root, George W. Root, George C. Miles, Lewis Curtis, John Collins, Hugh Collins, and John McIlvaine.
