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In a short time the regiment went on an expedition to Yazoo City, where it captured about sixty straggling Rebels, besides a company that surrendered voluntarily to ten men of the Twentieth. The regi- ment occupied Yazoo City as provost guard until the 21st, and then returned to Vicksburg. Two days later it embarked for Port Hudson, where it remained, suffering much from sickness, until the 13th of Aug- ust, when it embarked for Carrollton, Louisiana, and on the 5th of September joined an expedition to Morganzia. On the 6th at ten o'clock at night, while marching near the Atchafalaya Bayou, the Reb- els suddenly opened fire on the regiment from an ambuscade, causing it to fall back in the darkness seven miles to Grosstête Bayou. It re- turned to Morganzia on the 7th. It next embarked for the mouth of Red River, where it was engaged in scouting until October 9, when it returned to Camp Carrolton. The regiment was now assigned to the Thirteenth Corps and went with it to the Rio Grande. It and the Twentieth Iowa were crowded upon the steamer Thomas A. Scott, and on the afternoon of the 27th dropped down to the head of the passes and at two o'clock in the afternoon went out tosea. After encounter- ing a severe storm of two days the Scott arrived on the 3d of Novem- ber at the mouth of the Rio Grande, where an unsuccessful attempt was made to land the troops in small boats, and on the next day the men crossed the Brazos bar in a lighter and landed safely.
On the 9th of November the regiment arrived at Brownsville, and was cordially welcomed by the citizens. Here the regiment was engaged in fatigue, picket, and garrison duty, and in preventing the
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shipping of cotton and the smuggling in of English goods. On the 12th of January, 1864, the Twentieth, with the Ninety-fourth Illinois and a battery, crossed the river to Matamoros, Mexico, to protect the American Consul there and assist in the removal of property be- longing to American citizens. Colonel Cortina, a Mexican officer, had become engaged in a broil with the civil authorities of Matamoros, and in the night attacked the town, and for a time a battle raged in the dark streets. The Twentieth was detailed to guard the residence of the Consul, while the other Federals stood in line, the bands playing national airs. The Consul and three wagon-loads of gold and silver were escorted across to Brownsville for safety. All returned to the Texas side on the 11th, and the Twentieth returned to Fort Brown.
During its stay of eight months at this place the health of the reg- iment was good; only five deaths occurred.
In July, 1864, the Federal forces were withdrawn from Browns- ville, the Twentieth embarking for New Orleans as the escort of the commanding general. The regiment reached Carrollton on the 5th of August and went into camp on the Shell Road. On the 7th it embarked to join Farragut's expedition against the forts that protected Mobile. Four days afterward it landed and took a position four miles from Fort Morgan, and took part in the siege and reduction of that fort. On the 23d the fort surrendered and the Twentieth Wisconsin and an Iowa regiment received the garrison as prisoners. The regiment was afterward actively employed in building bridges and repairing rail- roads and telegraph lines. In September the men rafted fifty thous- and feet of lumber down Fish River and had a slight skirmish with the enemy. It remained near Mobile until the 14th of December when it sailed for Pascagoula, Mississippi, and landed there the next day. The Rebels guarding the place fled at the approach of the Union troops. The regiment immediately moved into the country toward Mobile. On Sunday, the 18th, while halted on Franklin Creek, near the Alabama line, heavy firing was heard along the picket line. The Twentieth was in line in three minutes, and double-quicked to the creek, crossed the bridge, and joined in the fight. General Granger said it was the quickest time he ever saw made by a whole regiment. The Rebels were routed, after a brief skirmish.
On Christmas day the regiment embarked on an immense raft of lumber, which had been put into the stream at a saw-mill, and floated on it thirty-miles down Dog River, through a hostile country, with no
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protection along the banks except some breastworks of cotton bales on one side of the raft and sweet potatoes on the other. They reached the junction of Dog and Pascagoula Rivers in safety and remained there until the 1st of February, 1865, when the Twentieth returned to its old camp at Navy Cove, near Fort Morgan.
On the 8th of March, the Twentieth moved out five miles toward Mobile and camped there until the 17th, when it resumed its march up the peninsula. On the 22d it crossed Fish River on a pontoon bridge and encamped. On the 25th the march was resumed, and a number of horses were killed by torpedoes planted in the road by the Rebels. On the 27th the regiment went into position before Spanish Fort and at four in the afternoon advanced close to the fort. The reg- iment held and fortified its line, which was on the extreme left. The men were in the pits during the rest of the siege of about two weeks, constantly under fire. 'On the 31st the Rebels shelled the pits of the Twentieth furiously. On the 21st of April, after the surrender of Mo- bile, the regiment moved to Blakely, a fort near Spanish Fort. On the 6th day of May the regiment crossed the bay and encamped four miles from Mobile, on the Shell Road. In June the Twentieth went to Gal- veston and on the 14th of July it was mustered out and embarked for home. It reached Madison on the 30th and was there discharged. Eighty-four recruits were left at Galveston with the Thirty-fifth Wis- consin. The regiment traveled seven thousand miles, by rail, by water, and on foot. For its good conduct while under his command, General Granger in a letter to Governor Lewis, praised the regiment in the strongest terms.
TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.
The following Grant County men were in this regiment :
Company C-Hival D. Farquharson, Captain, Lancaster; Lyman S. Mason, Cassville, and Joel A. Barber, Lancaster. 1st Lieuts .; Thos. Barnett, Boscobel, and Pleasant S. Pritchett, Little Grant, 2d Lieuts .; Newton M. Doty, Josiah Peck, Beetown ; Wm. Arnold, Joseph Barrow, Gustave Chandler, James Cole, William E. Craig, Warren Craig, John Engler, David Flaherty, Eugene A. Forbes, Jasper Fullbright, Amos G. Gardner; Elijah Groom, Thomas Grosser, John Knight, Thomas Law- rence, William N. Ramsey, John Rasche, Peter Schmitz, Blasius Seitz, Jacob J. Truax, Peter Weiss, Cassville; Charles C. Coates, Newton J. Wannemaker, Clifton; George Barnheisel, James W. Roberts, John W. Tuckwood, Zachariah Thomas, Ellenboro; Daniel Decker, James L.
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Randolph, Fennimore; Ruel Ewer, Wm. Henderson, John Kill, Isaac C. Murray, Glen Haven; John Barnett, Charles H. Baxter, Louis A. Breithaupt, Joel Bresee, Albert Burke, Wm. H. Croft, John H. Dough- ertv, George M. Francis, John W. Halferty, James M. Hayden, Henry J. Hayden, Peter Henkel, Robert E. Hyde, Alexander Irwin, Robert Ir- win, Herman Koch, Peter Leser, Wm. Kritzer, Joseph Morrison, Dan- iel F. Pierce, David Schreiner, Burton Sumner, George B. Sprague, Jas. H. Sprague, John D. Tobler, Abraham VanAllen, John H. Wellestumph, John T. Wilkinson, John Woolstenholme, Lancaster; Henry Grebe, Henry Julius, Charles Julius, Lorenzo Latham, John Marsden, John Mauer, Lucien Parce, Liberty; Francis L. Bidwell, James Bradley, Joshua Pritchett, James M. Pritchett, Little Grant; Warren Alexan- der, Marshall B. Bishop, George H. Foster, Theodore F. Hart, John W. Horsfall, Edward I. Kidd, Daniel W. Nice, John W. Nice, Silas P. Simpkins, Benj. Turnby, Edward D. Walker, George H. Washburn, Millville; Thomas Boyes, Robert Carr, Mt. Ida; Edwin G. St. John, Tafton; John A. Garner, Wm. H. Garner, James Lick, Martin Seaman, Waterloo; Charles Field, Watterstown.
Company E-John G. Scott, Captain, Platteville; John W. Smel- ker, 1st Lieut., Platteville; John M. Shaw, 2d Lieut., Platteville; Wm. C. Miller, Boscobel; Francis A. Bartles, James R. Hudson, Frederick Mero, Andrew Stout, Clifton; Ariel Barstow, Ransom J. Bartle, Nel- son J. Beckwith, Abner Fry, Warren Hall, Charles B. Keil, Ellenboro; John C. Keil, Glen Haven; Benj. F. Bailey, James D. Bailey, Myron Barstow, Hiram Eastlick, George Hurlbert, Albert H. Jones, John F. Kaump, James H. Massey, Joseph Simpkins, Samuel B. Vannatta, Morgan B. Vannatta, Chauncey P. Wilson, Nicholas W. Winter, Har- rison; Pearl Beasley, Jamestown; Isaac N. Clifton, Dewitt C. Clifton, Farnam J. Eastman, George Morrison, Martin Moses, Sylvester Stone, George M. Thomas, Lima; Jonathan Bailey, Emery Blanchard, Mar- ion; Reuben Beasley, Benj. Bailey, Frank L. Kane, Justus Padden, Benj. F. Saltzman, Abram Shinoe, Sylvester Simpkins, Paris; Joseph D. Alford, John B. Armstrong, Wm. H. Bailey, Samuel L. Basye, Isaac N. Basye, Wm. Batchelor, Fred. T. Batchelor, John C. Block, Alonzo Bromley, Chas. E. Bromley, Edmund Bullock, Nathaniel Cloud, Moun- terville Cornell, Edwin B. Dixon, George M. Douglas, Benj. C. Durley, Jacob Eiserman, Wm. Elders, Wm. L. Estabrook, E. H. Foskett, Wm. H.Gribble, Samuel Griffith, John Grover, Daniel Haney, Marion Heigh, Frank Jeardeau, Henry W. Johnson, John Kimes, George Lafollette,
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Frederick Libert, Uriah T. Long, Elisha J. Marvel, Eli T. McKee, Jas. McCoy, Orlando McQuestin, James Overton, Silas W. Parker, Augus- tus F. Putnam, Charles Richie, Jacob Schuster, Abner F. Stevens, Syl- vanus Stone, Huron L. Thomas, Wm. A. Wilson, Henry L. Wannema- ker, Wm. H. Woodhouse, Elias Worley, Platteville; Leonard Stevens, Potosi ; Elijah Blanchard, Zeruel Blanchard, Thomas C. Dougherty, Wm. Harris, George Newcomb, Samuel Stone, Smelser; Albert R. Tay- lor, Wingville.
Company F-Norman C. Sherman, Geo. H. Thomas, Hazel Green ; Nathan Shoemaker, Lancaster.
Company H-Ziba S. Swan, Captain, Potosi: Chas. F. Olmstead, 1st Lieut., Potosi; Henry C. Wise, 2d Lieut., Waterloo; George Brunn, Howard Finley, Oliver P. Gardner, George McDowell, Jesse Shipton, Beetown; Jeremiah Brown Chas. Bazinett, Henry Brock, Morris Cav- endaugh, James H. Chester, Alva Haney, James Hudsmith, William A. Kaump, Edward McFall, Hiram McFall, Wm. McKee, Thomas Mc- Mahon, Wm. McMahon, James Savage, Joseph Toulouse, John Tou- louse, John Withrow, Thomas H. Wellock, Chas. Wunderlin, Harrison ; James P. Cox, Henry M. Ellis, Wm. R. Ellis, James Frawley, Donald Garner, Isaac Greenwood, Oliver Keene, Anton Knapp, Philip Knapp, Austin Lisherness, Lancaster; Wm. H. Long, Wm. Potts, Paris; John Allison, Theodore Bellon, Friend B. Bilderback, Chas. Bilderback, John Bradberry, Daniel Buchacker, Frederick Curtis, George P. Campbell, Jesse P. Cardy, John Cenfield, Thomas Y. Clark, James S. Clark, Sam- uel E. Crocker, Jesse Dailey, John A. Druen, Frank J. Feldhaar, Walter M. Groshong, John Hail, Wm. Haywood, Michael Hurst, Alfred Kin- ney, Simon Langstaff, Jonathan D. Long, Samuel W. Lowry, Her- man Marquith, Michael Meier, Thomas McDonald, Allen McPhail, Pe- ter Nicholas, Wm. Patterson, Lewis Polander, Philip Roesch, Wm. Hewitt, Robert H. Kendrick, Christopher C. Osborn, James Richard- son, Henry Russell, John K. Smith, Henry Shrader, Leopold Seng, Ja- cob Stuckley, James Sprague, Caleb Taylor, Newton Turner, Jasper Turner, George D. Utt, Joseph Walker, William Walker, Wm. Wilson, Wm. Woodruff, John Zimmerman, Potosi; Amos M. Wilson, Tafton; John J. Aldrich, John A. Burton, John A. Foster, Andrew Jackson, Henry Lowry, Bartholomew Stoll, John Webb, Daniel Wise, Eugene B. Wise, Waterloo.
Company I-Robert Nash, Captain, Smelser; Daniel N. Smalley, 1st Lieut., Jamestown; Robert Osborn, 2d Lieut., Thomas Burns, Sam-
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uel Catts, Henry Drink, Wm. Farrey, Ransom B. Foltz, Peter Ham- block, Aaron T. Moore, Frederick Reifsteck, Chas. Richards, Benedict Roland, Omar A. Rose, Wm. H. Saddler, N. C. Sherman, Wm. H Sin- cock, Philo S. Sisson, John Stephens, George H. Thomas, Edward Thurtell, Philip Walst, Erasmus Witherbee, Hazel Green; Charles B. Blanchard, Wm. Tomlinson, Alonzo Lothrop, George Allison, Samuel B. Cooke, Wm. D. Elliott, James M. Elliott, Thomas Elliott, John H. Fenley, Sylvanus Freeman, Harrison A. Harney, John W. Jeffrey, Adam Long, Franklin Lothrop, Wm. Maxwell, Abraham W. Maxwell, Simon P. Muffley, Thomas Mylcrane, Joseph Nelson, John Vonderan Bernard Vonderyt, Wm. S. White, Jamestown; Morgan V. Hornbeck, Wm. Longbotham, Peter Brown, Mordecai Fenley, Cyrus A. Horn- beck, John Loffelholz, John Long, Fetus Maring, James D. McPherson, Morgan V. Mitts, Jos. Montag, Lewis Shinoe, Henry Wackerhouser, Paris ; Alvin A. Patterson, Platteville; Jas. Carroll, Robt. McReynolds, Bazell B. McDaniel, Albert Brandon, George B. Clark, Benj. F. Brock, Daniel .Butler, Jasper M. Cabanis, Albert Carroll, James M. Carroll, Wm. J. Clark, Augustus Capair, Wm. F. Crouse, Albert Deming, John Devazier, Joseph C. Durlin, Nadab Eastman, Solomon Eastman, Peter Finnegan, Ransom Gillham, Alonzo Hale, John Hiel, Edward H. Ke- naston, Aloysius Kirchberg, John Keiser, Leander Knox, John L. Lan- teman, John H. Louthian, George Lothrop, Andrew Metcalf, Robert McReynolds, William H. Miller, Moses Murrish, Granville C. Palmer, John Peak, Levi Pretts, William J. Reavis, John T. Richards, Austin Sallee, John W. Serens, Theo. Shoemaker, John Simkins, Lawrence Smearpoch, Oliver P. Thompson, Thomas T. Wayne, Hugh Wiley, George W. Louthian, John R. Wilkinson, Wm. Watkins, John Wynne, Smelser,
Co. K-Willis Ashley, Horace F. June, Patrick Maloney, Charles H. Learned, Francis Keyes, Wm. H. Fisher, Eli Tottman, Cassville; John Dewalt, Lancaster.
The following recruits came to the regiment in 1863 and 1864: Co. A-Samson A. Vance, Boscobel; Thomas Hartley, Archibald Lee, Lima. Co. B-Martin Gray, Wm. R. Perrigo, Blue River; Julius C. Jenks, James A. Blair, Robert F. Carver, John Craig, David G. Gillis, George T. L. Hoyt, Albert J. Hoyt, Adam J. Logue, Geo. T Logue, John S. Logue, Neal Pettigrove, Cutler Salmon, James N. Waldeck, George W. Wilsey, Muscoda; John C. Brock. Patch Grove. Co. C- Stephen Clark, Boscobel; James A. Garner, Beetown; Robert Bell,
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Isaac N. Bodine, Wm. Bodine, Owen C. Bridges, George Page, Ellen- boro; Orrison Clough, John Cover, Charles Croft, Lewis H. Croft, Joseph Hutchinson, John S. Maiben, Adam H. Miller, Victor E. Strong, William Tenant, Quincy Twining, William R. Worden, Warren D. War- ren, Lancaster; Benjamin Rouse, Harrison; Daniel N. Albee, Enoch Y. Ousley, Mt. Hope; Henry F. Clark, John H. Griffis, Thos. Tuckwood, Mt. Ida; Fortunatus Freeman, Silas F. Nice, Charles R. Potter, Mill- ville; Franklin N. Beatty, Peter P. Bowen, Allen Fenal, Leavitt W. Kays, Geo. W. Phillips, Platteville; Johnson Lowry, Potosi; Edward Loomis, Woodman. Co. E-Edward H. Moore, Boscobel; John S. Dean, Manly M. Dean, Ellenboro; Henry Andrews, Charles C. Bartle, James L. Black, Silas Bullock, Daniel W. Bushnell, Richard Butler, James Cummins, Isaac Fairchild, Henry H. Geasland, George W. Gregory, Patrick Haney, Charles W. Hill, Alfred Johnson, Benjamin Kane, Christian Kliebenstein, Levi S. Keil, William H. Long, John Nichols, Abijah P. Potter, James B. Robison, Joseph M. Rose. John Simpkins, Frederick Stanover; William Simons, Hiram P. Trout, Charles H. Wannemaker, Charles Weitenhiller, Platteville. Co. H- George Brawner, Francis K. Daniels, James H. Jackson, John V. Sav- age, Harrison; Charles Woodman, Lancaster; Eleazer Brooker, Louis Buhaker, John E. Bilderbach, Robert Crouch, John L. Crow, Wm. H. Druen, Richard J. Hewitt, Joseph Scholl, Robert Turner, Potosi; George Weiderhold, Paris. Co. I-John D. Irwin, Franklin C. Muffley, Alonzo M. Freeman, Benjamin Lester, William Swancey, Samuel A. Taylor, John W. Wall, Jamestown; Edward Twedell, Hazel Green; Sylvester Moody, Theodore Woods, Smelser.
This regiment had the greatest number of Grant County men of any regiment, and wherever it had an opportunity it fully sustained the reputation of Old Grant. The regiment had its rendezvous at Camp Randall, in August, 1862.
On the 19th of September the regiment went to St. Paul, Minne- sota, for duty in preventing outbreaks among the Indians. It was assigned by companies to various places in the western part of the State until November, when it had a severe winter march of three hundred miles to Winona. Returning to Madison in January, the regiment left for Columbus, Kentucky, on the 17th of February. In May it embarked for Young's Point, Louisiana, and proceeded up the Yazoo River to Sartatia. June 5 the regiment, with the Twenty- seventh Wisconsin, and other regiments, was placed in Montgomery's brigade.
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The regiment moved down the Yazoo thirty miles and encamped, on the 7th of June, at Haines's Bluff. Four days later it went to Snyder's Bluff, four miles distant, on the Yazoo River, in the rear of the investing line of Vicksburg. On the 25th of June it went up the Mississippi in pursuit of guerrillas.
While at Snyder's Bluff the regiment suffered much from disease, five hundred being sick at once and only one hundred fit for duty. On the 25th of July four companies went to Lake Providence and the others to Helena, Arkansas, to which place the other companies came on the 12th of August.
January 29, 1864, the regiment went to Vicksburg, and accom- panied Sherman's Meridian Expedition, marching 275 miles to Meri- dian and back again. In March it went to Cairo and thence to Decatur, Alabama, where, April 17, it had an engagement with the enemy. It soon moved eastward and joined Sherman's army, being placed in the Fourteenth Corps.
At Resaca the Twenty-fifth was actively engaged during the three days' battle. It was in the front line and a part of the time detached as support to a battery on a hillside, where it was under a heavy fire. Late in the afternoon of the 14th it was sent to the Fifteenth Corps and attacked the enemy's works on the extreme left, where it charged over an open field under fire, and relieved an Iowa regiment which was out of ammunition. It held the hill against the Rebels, who charged three times to get possession of it, and repulsed them with heavy loss. Throwing up defensive works in the night of that day, the regiment fought behind them on the 15th. For its gallant con- duct in relieving the Thirtieth Iowa and holding the hill, the regiment was commended by the commander of the Fifteenth Corps. Its loss was six killed and twenty wounded.
The Twenty-fifth arrived within a few miles of Dallas about noon on the 26th of May and began skirmishing, passing through Dallas and encamping a short distance south of it until the next day. The regiment then advanced to the front and was engaged in skirmishing for three days. It advanced over the abandoned works of the enemy at Kenesaw Mountain on the 19th of June and took position on a hill which it fortified. It was constantly exposed to the enemy's fire, and was engaged in siege and fatigue duty until the 3d of July, when it moved forward with the army.
The Twenty-fifth passed through Decatur, Georgia, on the 19th of
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July, and the next day camped in the rear of General Logan's com. mand on the right of the Army of the Tennessee, near Atlanta. On the 21st it went back to Decatur, to guard the flanks of the army train. The next day Companies B, E, F, and I made a reconnois- sance, advancing three-quarters of a mile up the road, on the west of which was an impassible marsh and on the other side a deep miry ditch. They met two divisions of Rebel cavalry, who opened fire on them, driving the skirmishers back to the reserve, which was in position on the left of the road, and which also was soon compelled to fall back, moving to the left. The command fell back to the camp, fighting, and the whole force then retreated to the town, and half a mile beyond, where the Rebels were checked. The train for which the Rebels had been fighting was thus saved, with the loss to the regiment of fifteen killed, fifty wounded and twenty-five missing, among whom was the Colonel of the Twenty-fifth, who was captured. On the 23d the regiment marched through Decatur and out two miles on the Atlanta road, where it fortified and camped until the 25th.
The Grant County men wounded at Decatur were: Co. C-Zach. Thomas, C. C. Curtis, Charles Croft, Newton Doty, I. C. Murray, C. O. Jones, Henry Julius, W. D. Worden. Co. E-B. F. Bailey, George Douglas, Geo. M. Thomas, Frederick Stanover, B. C. Durley, I. N. Clifton, W. T. Long, J. M. Rose, Jacob Eiserman, Elias Worley. Co. H-Bartholomew Stell, R. Crouch. Co. I-Simon P. Muffley, Sylves- ter Moody, P. Kees.
The Twenty-fifth, having arrived before Atlanta, moved, on the night of the 26th of July, twenty-two miles in the rear of the army, from the left to the right flank, and drove the enemy from a hill, lying on their arms there the rest of the night, and throwing up fortifica- tions the next morning. On the 28th the regiment was under fire in a severe battle. July 31 it was detailed as grand guard and placed on the skirmish line. August 9 it fortified a position within five hundred yards of the Rebel main lines and maintained it until Sherman moved to the right and south of Atlanta. It assisted in destroving the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and on the first of September was present, but not actively engaged, at the battle of Jonesboro. It moved to Lovejoy's Station, and returned to Eastport, six miles from Atlanta.
The regiment joined in the movement to the north of Atlanta as far as Rome, to guard against Hood. In the march to the sea, the
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regiment served as train guard the first five days. At Toomsboro, on the 19th of November, it was detailed as pontoon guard. On the 10th of December the regiment encountered the Rebels, forded the Ogeechee Canal, and took position five hundred yards from the enemy's works, between which and them was a deep swamp. The regiment held its position until the next day, when it recrossed the canal and marched around the swamp. It remained at Dillon's Ridge until Jan- uary 3, 1865, when it marched through to Savannah.
January 4, 1865, the regiment embarked at Thunderbolt for Beau- fort. In the campaign through the Carolinas it had a skirmish on the eighteenth of January, and on the 20th, a successful engagement with the Rebels near the Salkehatchie River. The regiment was building corduroy bridges the last week in January, and was leading the marching column the first of February. At the Salkehatchie and Edisto Rivers the regiment waded through mud and water three or four feet deep, to attack the enemy, and at the latter place, drove them out of their works. Soon after, it camped near the old Rebel prison at Columbia, and was set to grinding corn for the army. On the 20th of February it supported the forces that attacked the Rebel works before Goldsboro. It joined in the pursuit of Johnston to Raleigh, took part in the review at Washington, and was mustered out June 7. At Milwaukee and Madison the regiment was cordially welcomed, and at the latter place discharged.
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CHAPTER VIII.
THIRTY-FIRST, THIRTY-THIRD, AND THIRTY-FIFTH IN. FANTRY.
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THIRTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
This regiment contained the following Grant County men :
Company A-Eugene Briggs, Tafton; Milton Jacobs, William G. Johnson, Reuben Cooley Leroy Jacobs, Jacob Shrake, Wyalusing. Company D-Paul Jeardeau, 1st Lieut., Platteville; William Hicklin, Patch Grove. Company K-Ole Johnson, John B. Marcott, Lancas- ter; Michael Bartley, Michael Dunphy, Patch Grove; William Thomas, Cassville; Wm. Ault, Harrison Blunt, Richard Bull, Edwin Gienn, Eli- sha Wattles, Wyalusing.
Companies A, B, C, D, E, and F went into camp at Prairie du Chien, in September, 1862, and the remainder of the regiment joined them at Racine and the organization was completed January 13, 1863. Isaac E. Messmore, somewhat notorious as a politician, went out as colonel of the regiment, but soon abandoned it and returned home.
Arriving at Columbus, Kentucky, the regiment was assigned to the Sixth Division, Sixteenth Corps, and went into camp at Fort Hal- leck. Here it was engaged in picket and provost duty and made sev- eral reconnoissances into the surrounding country. During the sum- mer the regiment suffered much from sickness, losing more than thirty by disease in July and August. In the fall the regiment went to Nash- ville, and from the 5th to the 25th of October it was Lavergne, and then it went to Murfreesboro. Companies B, G, and K were detached and stationed at Stone River, where they erected fortifications and guarded the railroad bridge. On the 14th of April, 1864, the regiment was assigned to the Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps, and was sta- tioned in detachments from Murfreesboro south to Normandy, a dis- tance of thirty miles, on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. A part of the regiment was mounted and scoured the country on both
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