History of Buffalo County Wisconsin 10847607, Part 36

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population was over 10,000, with a more than usual floating popu- lation for about the same period, which was larger from 1868 to about ten years later, than even at present. A part of this float- ing population is justly chargeable with some of the crimes of the character of violence. I have no statistics on hand to make com- parisons with places of about the same population, but as I think that the showing is on the whole favorable, it can be ascribed in part to the absence of large cities in which there is a chance for congregating of criminals, either for activity or concealment. It must also be observed that the number of law-suits of all kinds in the courts of Justices of the Peace and in Circuit Court has greatly decreased in the course of time, and that criminal proceedings fol- low in proportion.

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PUBLIC CHARITY.

Brown County, in which the city of Green Bay is located has according to the census 36,921 inhabitants, or about 2} times as many as our county.

In regard to unfortunate persons there are Insane 90, or com- paratively 23 times as many as in our county; Deaf and Dumb there are 32, Blind 16, Idiotic 9, while of the three latter classes we have none at all. Our situation is therefore much better than that of Brown Oounty. In the adjoining county of Trempealeau the population is 19,112 or about one-fifth in excess of ours. There are reported Insane 23, Deaf and Dumb 15, Blind 5, and Idiotic 8.

We may congratulate ourselves on our good fortune in this respect, although there is certainly no occasion for pride in it.

Whether there are all of the insane now in the asylums pro- vided by the state, or any of those reported in 1885 have since been declared as restored to reason, I can not tell. Incurable cases have been returned to their families, but how many, I can not find any authority for telling. I do not share the apprehen- sion of those who insist that insanity is on the increase, nor do I consider the organization of county asylums a necessity. It might even be questioned, whether it would be judicious under any circ- umstances.

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SOLDIERS.

Among our fellow citizens we have not a few who have served their native or adopted country in wars which it had to wage with foreign or domestic enemies. The only war against a foreign en- emy within the memory of the older people of the present time, was the war with Mexico, which commenced with the battle of Palo Alto, on the 8th of May, 1847, the declaration of war follow- ing it on the 11th of that month, and virtually ended at the sur- render of the city of Mexico September 14th of the same year, al- though the treaty of peace was not concluded until the 2d day of February, 1848.

SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR.

There were at any time but few of them in this county, and living at the present time are:

Caspar Wild. (See Pioneers).

Geo. Gall, of Lincoln.

Franz Freisheim, at Alma.

Deceased are: Joseph Berni. (See Pioneers). Samuel Hefti died 1885.

These are all I have ever met and heard of, and probably all that there have been, but if there should be, or have been, any others, it is certainly not from any intention that their names are here omitted.

SOLDIERS OF THE LATE WAR.

This is the designation of the State Census. These soldiers, all, or most of them, volunteers, may for the purpose of this book be divided into two distinct classes.

I. Volunteers or soldiers at present residing in, but not fur- nished by this county.

II. Soldiers, both volunteers and drafted men, furnished by this county.

When, after the firing on Fort Sumpter by the Rebels, and the formal secession of most of the Southern states, it became apparent to every citizen that the Union could only be preserved by the force of arms, and when President Lincoln issued his call for 75,000 volunteers, patriotic enthusiasm rose to the highest pitch, and four times as many men were actually enrolled within a few days. Af- ter the disaster of the first Bull Run fight, the enthusiasm, which

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had been somewhat subdued by the slow preparations for the campaign, rose higher than ever, and the determination to put down the rebellion assumed the practical form of heavy enlist- ments in all parts of the loyal states. When after a struggle of four years the war was over and the armies had disbanded, and peaceful pursuits taken up by those who survived it, the usual in- termingling of people from all states extended to those who had during the times of the war remained in the regiments in which they enlisted, and which were distinguished by the names of the states in which they were organized, so that after a short time sol- diers of the Eastern states emigrated to the West, and some from the West went to the East or to other places. Hence we have a considerable number in this county who served like our own men, and frequently side by side with them, and who have settled among us since the war. The same patriotism, the same faithful service, the same sufferings, belong to the credit of all of them alike, and the distinction between the two classes above named does not imply any preference between them. Those who were furnished by this county, either by enlistment or by draft, how- ever, had been among us before the war, and they themselves, as many as returned, have lived or do yet live, and they, and those who never returned, have relations living among us. But more will be said about them in the proper place.

With regard to the first class I must remark, that the list has been made up from a diligent research in the appendix to the census of 1885, entitled: "Enumeration of Soldiers and Sailors of the Late War, residing in Wisconsin June 20, 1885." As in this enumeration, name, rank, company, regiment and state or vessel are given, but the postoffice omitted, since in most cases it ap- peared to be unnecessary. The enumeration in the census is by no means complete, and I know at least one omission, and there may be more, in the city of Alma. If, therefore, any name should be missing, in my list, it is highly probable that it will not be found in the enumeration of the census, or if found there, the postoffice of the soldier is not in this county, in which case I could not always decide, whether he lived in this or in Pepin or Trem- pealeau County.

Unless another service is specified a soldier served in the regi- ment of infantry stated.

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SOLDIERS NOW RESIDING IN BUT NOT FURNISHED BY BUFFALO COUNTY.

NAME.

RANK.

Company.

Regiment.

STATE OR VESSEL.

Kohlhepp, Wm

6 |U. S. Cavalry.

Kramer, Chas. F

30 New York.

La Point, Wm

Cow Slip.

Liesch, Anton

4 Minnesota.

McCumber, Geo

D C 5 U. S. Battery.

McDonnel, M. W

H 36 | Wisconsin.

Mc Vey, Newton

47 Indiana.

Meyer, John

63 |Pennsylvania.

Newhart, C. W.

B 39 New Jersey.

Newton, S. L.

2 Minnesota.

Nagle, H. N.

H 143 |Pennsylvania.

Nolden, Jacob.

9 Wisconsin.

Pember, Dan. B.

2 Vermont.

Polin, Martin

38 New York.

Powers, Morris

1 Minnesota.

Pratt, J. M.

9 Illinois Cavalry.

Rathbun, R. A

2 Illinois.

Richards, Chas

do.

8 Vermont.

Robinson, M S

do.

10 New York.

Rouser, Phil

do.

8 Vermont.

Rudy, Jacob

do.

I 66 Indiana.

Rummels, Adolf.

82 Illinois.

Schammel, Nic ..

Schlossstein, Joseph

11 Missouri.

Schneider, Jos. N

11 |Indiana.

Short, Peter

17 Wisconsin.

Spring, John

6 U. S. Regulars.

Stoll, J. G

2 Minnesota.

Talbot, H. P.

13 Illinois Cavalry.

Thompson, Chas. M.

101; Pennsylvania.

Uetz. Chas « Joseph

Von Pelt, Dan

do.

Weissenberger, Ph

do.

B 58 Indiana.

Zabel, Christian ..

do.

C 28 Wisconsin.

Sergeant do. Private Sergeant Private do. Corporal Private do.

1 Ohio Battery.

Meyer, Wm

A 1 Minnesota Cavalry.

Milbrandt, Andr.

Private Sergeant Sailor Private do. do. Musician Private do. Corporal Private

do. . do. Sergeant Private do. do. 1st Lieut. Com. Sergt. Private do.

1 Minnesota Battery.

A E

C -

9.Wisconsin. 9 do. C K K I 50 Pennsylvania.

do.

K 2 Missouri.

Raetz, John B

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It is now over two years since the census, from which the above table was made up, has been taken. Some of those who are named in this list have moved away, one I know to have died, but I concluded to adhere to the authority I had selected, and not to notice individual accidents. I have stated above that I searched that census very carefully, and not only once. The ap- pendix which contains the names of the soldiers consists of 383 full pages, each containing about 80 names, or something over 30,000 in all, hence it is quite excusable if in picking out 77, one or another may be overlooked. .

II. SOLDIERS FURNISHED BY BUFFALO COUNTY.

It has in the chapter on Political History been related, how, during a period of about six years the political ideas of the people of Wisconsin had undergone a decided change, which was mani- fest in the election of 1856, when Fremont carried the state by a considerable majority. This change was still more decided in 1860 when the state cast its vote for Lincoln with an increased majority of popular vote. Everybody expected some hostile de- monstrations, but no one in the northern states could or would be- lieve, that the southern states had for years been preparing for the separation from the Union. To see the southern states almost supreme in Congress and in the Government, people had become accustomed, and even the criminal negligence of Buchanan's ad- ministration, during which the means of resistance were dimin- ished, and those of aggression placed almost at the disposition of the expected aggressors, had for some time aroused no very pro- found suspicion. The Democratic party was devoted to the South though the greater part of it did neither wish for a disruption of the Union. nor did it really expect it.

In our state the Breckenridge ticket received so very few votes that the general loyalty of the party could hardly be impeached on that account. After the inauguration of President Lincoln the Douglas wing of the party in the North largely imitated their leader in acquiescing in the result of the election, and in support- ing the legal government. The Republicans, although not wish- ing for war, were determined to maintain the government, to which they had elected the head in Mr. Lincoln. As yet the anti-slavery element in the party was not predominant, and although excite- ment ran high when South Carolina and other southern states

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passed ordinances of secession, and in February organized the new government of the Confederate States of America, and seized upon the forts and important posts within their territory, made the gar- risons prisoners, it was yet uncertain whether they would not finally recede from their position and quiet would once more be restored. But when it was found necessary that the newly elected president should exercise all possible precaution on his journey to the place to which the loyal people had elected him, when on the 12th of April fire was opened upon Fort Sumpter, the only post of defence in Charleston Harbor, and the place had to be sur- rendered, the call of the President for 75,000 volunteers for the de- fence of the National Capital found a response so enthusiastic, so patriotic, that enlistments were at once begun in every part of the land. The attack of an armed mob on Massachusetts regiments passing through Baltimore, when the first blood was shed in the war of the Rebellion, the surprise of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry by Confederate troops, and other portents, roused the people of the North to a clear perception of the danger, and to a fierce determi- nation to punish the offenders, and to save at all hazards and ex- pense the government and the Union. In our county, which had then a population of only 4,000, the sentiment was as strong as anywhere, and Republicans and Democrats alike thronged to en- listment. By June 1st Comp. H of the 6th Regiment of Wiscon- sin Volunteers was organized, and went to the rendezvous at Camp Randall on June 25th. During the time of enlistment of that company two of my brothers went, on the 5th of May, to Milwau- kee, where they entered Comp. C of the fifth regiment. After the answer to the first call of the president for volunteers, there was a rumor that no more troops would be needed or accepted. The battle of Bull Run June 21st, however, verified the prediction of those who had deplored the short-sighted policy of the govern- ment, and were for a rapid demonstration of the full strength of the country. But this does not concern the county of Buffalo in particular, and the reader is referred to the history of those regi- inents in which a considerable number of men from our county served.

The war had begun, and for four years the patriotic spirit of the people of the North supplied men and money for a vigorous prosecution of it. Our county did not perhaps distinguish itsel

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the tables of those killed in action and lost by wounds and disease what had been stated in the narrative .. At best I could only give what I got, and this must be my excuse for those possible and even probable errors and omissions that attentive examination may discover. I have in the arrangement been following the ex- amples of the "Roster" published by State Authority.

FIRST REGIMENT WISCONSIN CAVALRY.

In this regiment only three men from this county are known to have served:

Charles Jabnke, Comp. A. Enlisted Oct. 14, 1864.

August Jahnke, A. Mustered out July 19, 1865.

Herman Spuehr, ני D Nov. 17, 1863, Drafted. Mustered out July 19, 1865.

The regiment was mustered into United States Service May 8th, 1862, Col. Edw. Daniels commanding. It served principally in the West, and part of it went after Jefferson Davis, when he was a fugitive, on which occasion there was a collision with the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, who captured the train and Mr. Davis. Regiment mustered out July 19th, 1865.

SECOND REGIMENT WISCONSIN CAVALRY.

The following men from this county served in this regiment:

Company D.

Church, Wm. H., Private. Company H.

Angst, David, Private.

Farner, Conrad, do.

Farner, John, do.

Reinhardsberger, Bernard, do .. Company L.

Brose, Carl, Private.

Doelb, Engelhard, do.

Heber, Louis, do.

Heck, Wendelin, do.

Kniffin, Lewis, do.

Miller, Simon, do.

Miller, Fred,

Farrier.

Morgan, Jas.,

Private.

Pauline, Ernst, do.

Richtmann, Jacob, do.

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Uebersetzig, Joseph, Privare.

Walsch, Michael, sen., do. Walsch, Michael, jr., do.

Zittel, Anton, do.

Of the twenty above named two died of disease, Simon Mil- ler and Ernst Pauline.

History of the Regiment.

It was organized under supervision of .Col. C. C. Washburn and mustered in from Dec. 3, 1861, until March 12, 1862, came to St. Louis March 26, and took quarters at Benton Barracks, where the men were mounted and equipped. Came to Jefferson City, Mo., May 19, to Springfield, Mo., on the 28th. From there the 2d and 3d batallions went with Gen. Curtis through Arkansas and ar- rived at Helena July 12th, where they remained until the end of January 1863, when they moved to Memphis, Tenn., and remained there until the middle of June. They then moved down to Vicks- burg, went with Sherman's Expedition to Jackson, Miss., returned to Black River, moved to Redbone Church and in April to Vicks- burg.

The first batallion remained in Missouri until Sept. 1864 when they joined the other batallion at Vicksburg. It was sta- tioned at different points in the neighborhood of Rolla and Spring- field. The whole regiment remained at Vicksburg until Nov. 4th, when they went on an expedition to Gaine's Landing, Ark., re- turning on the 10th. They took part in an expedition against the Mississippi Central R. R. thirty miles of which were destroyed, besides the large bridge across Big Black River and buildings stores and cotton. Returning by Benton they marched to Yazoo , City, and a detachment had a fight with rebels, where 5 men were killed, 9 wounded and 25 missing. The regiment returned to camp at Vicksburg Dec. 5th, embarked on the 8th for Memphis, Tenn. On the 21st they went with Gen. Grierson on an expedi- tion, during which long stretches of the Mobile and Ohio R. R., immense stores, cars and bridges were destroyed, the rebels de- feated at Egypt Station and many prisoners captured, of whom the Second Wisconsin Cavalry took charge as a provost-guard. The expedition then turned towards the Mississippi Central R. R., where at Winona Station many locomotives and other rolling stock, as well as stores were destroyed, and the regiment returned

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to Vicksburg, Jan. 13, 1865, thence on short expedition into Louisiana and Arkansas, and after return one of several days to Ripley, Miss. A detachment of 330 men was sent under com- mand of Maj. De Forrest to Grenada, Miss., as a garrison.

On June 15th the balance of the regiment moved by Missis- sippi and Red River to Alexandria, La., where they were joined by Maj. De Forrest's detachment July 6th. From this place they marched across the country to Hempstead, Tex., where they ar- rived Aug. 26th, and proceeded October 30th to Austin, Texas, where they arrived Nov. 4th, were mustered out Nov. 15th, and thence started for home on the 17th, marching one hundred miles on foot to Benham and proceeding thence by rail and steamer, arriving at Madison December 11th. and were paid off and dis- banded on the 14th. After the promotion of C. C. Washburn to Major General, Col. Thomas Stevens of Dodgeville commanded the regiment, but seems to have been lacking in that spirit of inde- pendence necessary for the protection of his men, who complained bitterly about the unnecessary rigor, with which they were treated by some martinets of the regular army during their stay in Texas, Gen. Custer, for instance, who disregarded the rights of the men to receive their discharge. This caused a complaint to be made to Governor James T. Lewis, which resulted in the mustering out of the regiment. Cavalry service is notoriously arduous, and the drill and other rigors exacted at Hempsted were entirely super- fluous and simply the result of Westpoint arrogance.

I can find no more names of men who served in the cavalry, or artillery, but in the

SIXTH BATTERY OF LIGHT ARTILLERY

one man from this county served, and he is still living among us, my friend,

William W. Wyman, of Mondovi.

The battery organized by the name of "Buena Vista Artillery" under the direction of Capt. Henry Dillon, and was mustered into service at Camp Utley, Racine, Oct. 2d, 1861. It served at Island No. 10 in charge of a siege battery, and afterwards on Tennessee River, at Corinth, afterwards in the Vicksburg campaign, etc. As Mr. Wyman was discharged Nov. 18th, 1862, he did not partici- pate in further actions and movements. The battery was mustered out at Madison, Wis., July 18th, 1865,

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Company K. Glasspoole, Henry, Private. Reorganized Company E.

Burbank, Jacob M., Private.

Carroll, Robert J., do.

Meolosson, Mutty, do.

The two in Comp. C. were my brothers. They left Buffalo City, May 5th, for Milwaukee, having personal objections to serv- ing under Capt. J. F. Hauser, who was then organizing Comp. H. of the 6th regiment. They joined the Turner Company being Company C, and the color company of the regiment. Charles was wounded by a shot in the knee at Williamsburg, May 5th,1862, and died at Fort Monroe, May 31st. Joseph went went through the Peninsular Campaign, was removed to the hos- pital in York, Pennsylvania, reported convalescent, came to Con- valescent Camp near Alexandria, Virginia, was exposed to frost without sufficient protection, relapsed into his former malady, dysentery, was in Alexandria Seminary Hospital, then in West Philadelphia Hospital, where he died February 6th, 1863, not yet 23 years old. Henry Glasspole probably enlisted at Eau Claire, Menomonee or Durand.

But the names of the men, said to be from Waumandee, en- rolled in reorganized Company E were a genuine surprise to me. Such names, I dare say, were never found in that town, and they need no more attention than has been bestowed upon them.

SIXTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Company H.

John F. Hauser, Captain, (prom. Major.) John D. Lewis, 1st Lieutenant.

J. A. Tester, do.

John Beeley,

do.

Peter Polin,

2d Lieutenant.

Hiram B. Merchant, do. Enlisted Men :

Augustine. Geo. H., Corporal.

Bader, Rudolph, Private.

Behlmer, Henry, Sergeant.

Brehl, Valentine, Private.

Bugbee, John, do.

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Baertsch, John,

Private.

Cook, Atwell,

Sergeant.

Degenhard, Lee,

Corporal.

Ecke, Henry,

Private.

Eckhard, Wm., do.

Eder, Philipp,

Fimian, Christopher,

Corporal. do.

Fuchs, John,

Private.

Fuchs, Sebastian, do.

Fugina, Michael,

do.

Garwood, Warren C., Quarter Master Serg.

Hafner, John,

Private.

Herdeg, John, do.

Hynes, James, do.

Jenson, John, do.

Kaeser, John, do.

Keller, Balthasar,

do.

Keller, John,

do.

Kelly, Dennis,

Corporal.

Kessler, Henry,

Sergeant.

Kiel, Frank,

Private.

Kleffner, Charles,

Corporal. Private.

Kohlhepp, Henry,

do.

Korte, William,

do.

Kumli, Urs,

do.

Kurz, John, do.

Lees, Robert,

Corporal.

Lewis, Theodore,

Private.

Martin, Ferdinand, do.

Marty, Nicholas,

do.

McGiveney, John, do.

Menzemer, John, do.

Molitor, Paul,

do.

Moy, Frederick, Private.

Moy, John, do.

Mueller, Louis,

do.

Obrecht, Leonhard, do.

Prentiss, Louis,

do.

Koffler, Joseph,

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Raetz, Chas. A., Private.

Schirlitz, August, Corporal.

Shirenborken, Ernst, Private.

Schlossstein, Frederick, do.

Schneider, Adam, do.

Schneider, Jacob, do.

Schneider, Nicholas, Sergeant.

Senn, John L.,

Private.

Spuehr, Herman, do.

Stager, John G.,

do.

Sutter, Geo.,

· do.

Taylor, Samuel, do.

Waecker, John, do.

Wehrli, John, do.

Wehrmann, Henry,

do.

Weber, Peter,

do.

Wirth, Jacob,

Corporal.

The roll contains 67 officers and men, all of whom enlisted at about the same time.

There is but one man besides those who were enrolled in the 6th Regiment,

Carl Roloff, Private, Comp. D.

He was a drafted man from Belvidere. With regard to the latter, I have to remark, that he entered the sixth regiment Nov. 16, 1864, at a time when of the original company H but very few, if any remained in the regiment. The roster says that he was wounded at Five Forks, Va., in the neighborhood of Petersburg, and that he was absent wounded at the Muster-Out of the regi- ment. He is not in the register of those who died of wounds, in the Adj. Gen. Report of 1865, and in fact has never returned.

HISTORY OF THE SIXTH REGIMENT.

The several companies composing the sixth regiment were or- dered to rendezvous at Camp Randall about the 25th of June, 1861, and the regimental organization effected under the direction of Col. Lysander Cutler, It was mustered into United States ser_ vice July 12th, and left for the field on the 28th of the same month, under orders to proceed to Harrisburg, Penn., where they remained until August 3d, going then to Baltimore, Md., thence to Washington on the 7th, where they encamped on Meridian .

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paign of 1864 the Iron Brigade was assigned to position as the First Brigade, Fourth division, Fifth army corps, and during that campaign was commanded by Gen. Cutler, formerly Colonel of the Sixth Wisconsin, the regiment being commanded by Col. Bragg. The regiment participated in all the principal actions of the cam- paign, after which it took position on the left of Petersburg to- wards the Weldon railroad. The veterans of Comp. H had been transferred to other companies. The regiment participated in the final capture of Petersburg and Richmond, and the pursuit of the Army of Virginia until its final surrender. After the grand parade at Washington the regiment was sent to Louisville, Ky., where they were mustered out on the 14th of July, 1865, and returned to Madison on the 16th. Long as this history has grown it is but a brief sketch of what the regiment performed in the service of the Union. Of the 67 enumerated above as volunteers in Comp. H from this county, five were killed in action, four died of wounds, and two of disease.

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