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Company H-Anthony Richardson, Lancaster.
The regiment was mustered into service at Camp Randall Septem- ber 7, 1864. Leaving the State, the regiment reached Cairo September 22, 1864. It was employed there in garrison and provost duty. On
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the 15th of October Companies A, F, D, I, and C were sent to Colum- bus, Kentucky, to guard that place against the guerrillas. On the 25th of October Companies B, G, E, H, and K went to Springfield, Illi- nois and thence to various points in the State as provost guards. The detached companies united with the regiment at Cairo, and remained there, doing guard and provost duty, until June, 1865. The Chamber of Commerce of Cairo passed a series of resolutions highly compli- menting the regiment. It arrived at Madison on the 20th of June and was warmly welcomed. It was then disbanded.
FORTY-THIRD INFANTRY.
The following Grant County men were in this regiment :
Company A-Edward D. Lowry, Captain, Lancaster; James W. Redman, Beetown; John N. Collins, Wm. H. Thompson, Hazel Green ; Ira S. Carr, Little Grant; John Copsey, Platteville.
Company B-George K. Shaw, Captain, Platteville; Charles Bil- lings, Isaac Hall, John Hubbell, Reuben S. Morse, Asa Olmstead, Rob- ert Richardson, Isaac Tindell, Beetown; Louis L. Andrews, Leonard S. Bradley, Garry Cobb, David Cornwell, Henry S. Crooks, Albert Hall, John W. Haney, Stephen Johnson, David S. Neely, Thomas S. McPher- son, Alexander J. Quillin, Ellenboro; Ralph S. Bushnell, Bazil Carter, John T. Davidson, Andrew Hudson, Orlando S. Jones, Harrison; Ansel L. F. Nye, Charles H. Nye, Hazel Green; Lucius D. Benton, John Cal- vert, William Carter, Alfred W. Clark, Ransom B. Foltz, Wm. Lauter- man, Archibald McCallum, John Rick, James Warren, Jacob Williams, Jamestown; Lewis Caley, Lancaster ; Theodore Blair, John W. Dick- inson, John F. Dorn, Milo P. Finney, John L. Fry, Isaac H. Haney, Dudley Lillie, John W. Morrison, James L. Norris, Herman Snider, Frank T. Squires, Lima ; Wm. H. Cooper, Wm. L. Kline Peter B. Lip- polt, Richard N. Taylor, Samuel Terrill, Louis A. Williams, Paris; Lo- renzo D. Bevans, Christian F. Bloom, Edward A. Boies, Cibius Bolton, Jesse L. Bray, James M. Buckland, Louis C. Chase, Charles E. Esta- brook, Philip Gahart, John B. Gregory, Jacob Hooser, Jr., Wm. Hos- kins, John Mann, James V. Newton, Patrick O'Brien, Wm. H. Palmer, Oscar C. Rose, Wm. A. Sandlin, Rolla M. Strong, George Townsend, Wm. B. Wilkinson, Henry E. Wright, Franklin M. Young, Platteville; James Barnett, Wm. B. Crabtree, Wm. Wells, Jerome D. Woodworth, Smelser ; Frank Melvin, William W. Pettis, Wingville.
Company C-George Campbell, Captain, Woodman ; Levi Weldon,
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1st Lieut., Muscoda : John Brandon, 2d Lieut., Smelser; Charles Kel- logg, James. H. Brandt, Jonathan Fitzgerald, Eben N. Garvin, Amos Hazen, Oscar M. Loomis, Benjamin L. Loomis, Austin Nye, Christian Singer, Daniel Truman, Millville; Jacob Hopkins, Marion; Francis Weldon Muscoda; John G. Snider, Mt. Hope; Alexander Abernathy, Thomas J. Evans, Platteville; George Glenn, Thomas V. Harvill, Christian Maker, Henry Ottemeyer, Samuel Pitzer, James M. Sutton, John Widdle, Wyalusing.
Company E-Henry H. Beeman, Beetown; Matthew Bird, Hazel Green ; Wm. H. Kellogg, Muscoda ; Benjamin Wallace, Platteville.
Company F-Louis S. Williams, Liberty.
Company H-Wm. W. Likens, Captain, Tafton; David Atkinson, Frederick Barth, Charles W. Bassett, John H. Cook, Miner Hickok, Wm. A. Mayne, Alpheus N. McDonald, John Merryweather, Wm. P. Pafford, Isaac V. Pritchett, Benj. F. Riggs, Benj. F. Taylor, William Tindall, Nathan Tindall, Dexter L. Wagner, Beetown; Michael Con- nor, Blue River; Joseph Miller, Boscobel; James Carmody, Clifton; George W. Fry, Ellenboro; Andrew Johnson, Hazel Green ; Jefferson T. Chapman, John A. Gammon, Geo. W. Likens, Harrison; Clark Lindsay, Hickory Grove; Jas. M. Edwards, Charles P. Foster, Wm. E. Garth- waite, Isaac Garthwaite, Benj. Garthwaite, Lorenzo Hine, Hiram Pen- nock, Abel Reynolds, Geo. Watts, Little Grant; Edward Dubeau, Lib- erty ; Isaac H. Gibbons, Millville; Oscar Adams, Charles W. Bryan, Robert Corey, Thos. Dolan, Edward L. Gregory, Geo. M. Henderson, Patrick Heron, Andrew Lewis, John Nagle, Daniel Polly, Alexander B. Sloan, Joseph Snodgrass, James C. Taylor, Patch Grove; James T. Hewitt, John C. Pafford, Potosi; Frederick Kuntz, Zachariah Lyons, James Quinn, Tafton; George M. Evans, Woodman; Levi Potter, Har- rison Robinson, Waterloo; Henry Morgan, Philip J. Reser, Watters- town; Ole Lewison, Wingville.
Company I-Samuel A. Quincy, Millville; Thomas B. Gould, Patch Grove; Leander Blakeslee, Charles A. Lindsay, Anson K. Young, Eb- enezer A. Young, Platteville; John A. Bossi, Wyalusing.
Company K-Bernard Belscamper, Abram J. Pitcher, Beetown; Henry Sturgeon, Lancaster.
Unassigned-Charles Summers, Cassville; Wilber Green, Hazel Green; Ezra Atwood, Little Grant.
This regiment was enlisted under the Presidents's call of July 18, 1864, and rendezvoused at Milwaukee. It left the State October 9
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and went to Nashville; thence it went by rail to Johnsonville, where it performed guard and garrison duty, details being sent to guard the trains to Nashville. On the 4th of November the Rebels attacked the gunboats below town, drove them up to the town, planted a six-gun battery, and opened fire on the place and boats. The latter were abandoned and burned.' On the morning of the 5th the firing was re- newed; but the Rebels soon withdrew, During the engagement the Forty-third lay in the trenches, being unable to aid in the battle, which was entirely an artillery affair.
On the 30th of November Johnsonville was evacuated, the garrison hastening to Nashville to resist Hood's army. Marching night and day through a rough country, in mud and rain, guarding large trains, the regiment found itself cut off from Nashville, and had to go to Clarksville, which it reached on the 5th of December, and remained there until the 28th, when it took boat for Nashville, and on New Year's Day, 1865, moved by rail to Decherd, a station on the road to Chattanooga. At this place six companies encamped and four were detached to guard Elk River bridge. The regiment remained at these points, guarding the railroad, until the close of the war. While at De- cherd the regiment made a cemetery for its own and other deceased soldiers, and erected a monument. Many of the regiment were buried in. Tennessee.
Early in June the regiment went to Nashville, and on the 24th was mustered out. It soon returned to Milwaukee, where the men were discharged.
FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
This regiment contained the following Grant County men :
Company B-Myron C. Sabins, Patrick Sullivan, Potosi.
Company C-Sebastian Adrian, Anton Bousch, Cassville.
Company D-John Closson, Boscobel.
Company E-Theodore Felder, Cassville; Frank W. Taylor, Platteville.
Company G-John S. Tillotson, Glen Haven; George Vallandig- ham, Muscoda ; Joseph W. Keith, Wingville.
Company H-L. J. D. Parrish, 2d Lieut., Muscoda; Theodore Haas, John Hilgers, Peter Josten, Lambert Wahl, Beetown; James Miller, Robert O'Brien, Glen Haven; William Moran, James Shannon, Hazel Green ; Charles Crabtree, Joseph H. Dupre, Antoine L. Dunstan, Alexander B. Faith, Michael Frawley, Thomas Harkins, John Maho-
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ney, James Wall, John Young, Muscoda; Roger Horner, Jonathan Horner, Matthias Seipp, Potosi; Robert Hamilton, Wingville.
Company I-William Kimbrough, Glen Haven; John Lorimer, Chauncey Lee, Hickory Grove.
Company K-William H. Beebe, Captain, Platteville; Archibald W. Bell, 1st Lieut., Platteville; Joseph Countryman, John G. Morgan, Francis See, Boscobel; Ira Eastlick, Benjamin Graves, Charles H. Hin- man, John W. Kaump, George C. Kaump, David MeMattison, Robert Shore, John N. Tucker, Harrison; Joseph Allinson, Ralph Bratnober, Wm. H. Chynoweth, Charles A. Dudley, Jos. W. Dodd, Geo. Eck, John J. Funk, Henry Gratz, Wm. Hotop, Henry Kirk, John Kirk, Jos. Ley- ler, Erhart Leist, Wm. C. P. Miller, George W. Schreiber, James Skin- ner, Francis M. Staber, Henry Tebbin, Hazel Green; James Bracken, Hiram M. Bushnell, Charles F. Dean, Patrick McGinnis, Patrick Raf- ferty, Wm. F. Roberts, Ellenboro; Benj. Foltz, Nelson Linn, John Oet- tiker, Jamestown; Edward W. Barber, Peter C. McMurray, Hiram Ward, Lima; Albert Burns, John A. Camp, Charles C. Cheever, Wm. R. Cummins, George W. Daggett, Christian G. Doelz, Eide H. Doscher, John G. Feight, James C. Flanagan, John N. Gorham, James G. Ham- mond, Jacob Kliebenstein, Philip Kolb, George Kolb, Alfred A. Laugh- ton, David Mackey, Christian Peterson, Adam Quincy, John Smith, Ferdinand C. Topps, Arunah C. Tilden, Henry VonHosen, George Zie- gler, Platteville; Wm. T. Colts, Wm. T. Oats, Smelser; Morris Todd, Washburn.
Unassigned-Wm. Thompson, Wm. Thompson 2d, Liberty ; John Slater, Little Grant.
This regiment was called into service in the fall of 1864. The companies were sent to Nashville as fast as recruited. Companies A, B, C, D. and F were in the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864. The regiment was employed in post and guard duty at Nash- ville until March 9, 1865, when it went to Eastport, Mississippi, to escort some Union prisoners whom Forrest was to deliver to them at that point. The prisoners not arriving, the regiment returned to Nashville and embarked on the 3d of April for Paducah. Kentucky, at which place it was employed in guard duty until the 28th of Au- gust, when it was mustered out of service. It arrived at Madison on the 2d of September and the men were discharged.
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FORTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.
The following Grant County men were in this regiment : Company B-Edward Duggan, 2d Lieut., Boscobel.
Company E-Rufus Edgecomb, Reuben A. J. Hamilton, Wilson Jones, John Ricks, Boscobel; John Kimmel, Fennimore.
Company F-John Reed, Hazel Green; Buckles C. Travis, Wm. B. Vannatta, Aaron B. Vannatta, Harrison; Samuel P. Dickinson, Ed- ward Duggan, Platteville; James Duggan, James O. Holmes, Daniel Kies, Nathaniel Patterson, Smelser.
Company G-Robert P. Clyde, Captain, Boscobel; Silas F. Nice, 2d Lieut. Millville; John N. Brock, Blue River; Henry C. Closson, Wil- liam Hamilton, Wm. E. Mckinney, Charles W. Pittsley, Jas. L. Stone, Charles C. Stone, John B. Thomas, Charles W. Bailey, Boscobel; Dal- las P. Costley, Aldis Gilbert, Helon Harwood, George Landon, Ellen- boro; Jas. Dixon, Stephen S. Leroy, Abbott Sammons, Ira C. Wheeler, Fennimore; Elias Altizer, James B. Hall, Frank C. Tens, Hickory Grove; George K. Curtis, Harrison; Thomas J. Gebbs, William H. Manley, James P. Mead, Silas Walker, John G. Watrous, Orrin W. B. Zerba, Marion; Robert B. Nice, Millville; Milton Z. Price, Muscoda : Charles B. Finn, Welling B. Polley, Frank J. Schell, Patch Grove; Jo- seph Crawford, John L. Merrill, Woodman; Stephen Burris, William H. Morgan, William Pickerell, Robert M. Tyler, Watterstown.
Company H-Arthur S. Landon, Ellenboro; John N. Patterson, Platteville.
Company I-William Cook, George Fisher, Clifton ; Casper Fisher, Wingville.
Company K-Charles H. Baxter, Captain, Lancaster; John Grin- dell, 1st. Lieut., Platteville; Lewis Adkins, George H. Horton, Stephen M. Shepardson, Paschal Wallis, Fennimore; Robert B. Hale, John Hottes, Edward Metcalf, Riley I. Knapp, Hazel Green; Frank R. An- gell, Charles H. Angus, James C. Bates, Daniel W. Baxter, George Ben- ner, Samuel A. Caley, Allen Q. Cameron, Andrew Chandler, William J. Dyer, Corydon Fitzgerald, Robert D. Fitzgerald, Wm. Fitzgerald, Dan- iel Griffith, George Harker, George W. Heasley, Wm. Hoffman, John Humphrey, Thomas Kelly, Andrew McGranahan, James N. McGran- ahan, Chauncey C. Morse, John T. Penney, James E. Pollock, William H. Proudfit, John S. Roberts, Charles P. Royster, Charles Snider, Lewis. Snider, John Snider, Charles H. Spease, George Wagner, Lancas- ter; John Brihl, Casper Fritz, Frederick Fisher, Henry Spease, George
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Spease, John Wagner, Jr., Henry C. Wenzel, Jacob J. Wenzel, Liberty ; Henry Henkel, James A. Ivey, George Pulling, Jeremiah Robbins, Chas. J. Trude, John W. Winter, Lima; Hiram Becker, Henry C. Doscher, Fritz Horn, Dennis W. Huntington, George W. Kays, John Kinsley, Wm. Keith, Bennett W. Niehaus, Francis F. Parker, Joseph S. Robin- son, Christian Schroeder, Jesse P. Smelker, Wm. R. Snowden, Peasley R. Stiles, Herman Voss, Henry Voss, Frederick H. Wolf, Platteville; George W. Burns, Thomas J. Clark, Samuel Desjardin, John Parkins, Frank Patzner, Wilson Penney, Frank Scherdt, Jacob Shelter, Zachary T. Wright, Potosi; George Harper, John P. Harper, George Nicklas, Jr., Peter B. Nicklas, Jabez Thomas, George Todd, Smelser; John Wagner. John C. Wenzel, Liberty:
Unassigned-Charles W. Raymond, Glen Haven.
The regiment left the State February 27, 1865. Proceeding to Louisville, Nashville, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, it performed guard duty at the last place until the last of August, when it returned to Nashville, where it was mustered out on the 4th of September. Arriv- ing at Madison on the 8th, the men were discharged.
FORTY-NINTH INFANTRY.
This regiment contained the following Grant County men :
Company B-Isaiah Brown, William H. Byers, Boscobel; David Dunn, Hickory Grove; Henry A. Dennison, Fennimore.
Company F-Lewis C. Wilson, 2d Lieut., Potosi; Julius Brennan, Louis Crow, John Dillon, Boscobel; Charles Barber, Henry Buschbell, Adelbert Clark, Louis F. Clark, Paul Esser, Matthew J. Ferris, Henry Green, Lewis Okey, Leonidas Peyton, George W. Reed, Stephen Shaw, John Strong, Cassville; Amasa Latham, Clifton; Henry C. Baker, Doctor F. Barnum, Conrad Brekhan, James Downing, Frederick Eich, Jacob Hahn, Joel Henry, Matthias Priest, Abel Roberts, Ellenboro; Alfred Brunemer, Marshall McElwain, Fennimore; Adolphus W. Wier, Glen Haven; Hugh Mattheus, Hickory Grove; David E. Birch, Daniel B. Gordon, Elias Mears, Abram Peer, Lancaster; John Shelburn, Lit- tle Grant; Leonard Bolon, Liberty ; Marion Barrows, Millville; David E. Blair, Thomas A. Bowen, Anderson B. Chapman, Louis Crow, Hor- ace H. Hampton, George L. Hubbard, Wm. Kennedy, John Neaville, Samuel Pauley, John Peak, Henry Schrader, Potosi; John Striker, Platteville.
Company G-William Murray, Mt. Hope.
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Company H-Desire F. Chausse, John Mayo, Henry Smith, Sam- uel J. Thayer, Boscobel.
The regiment left the State March 8, 1865, arrived at Benton Bar- racks, St. Louis, on the 10th, and on the 11th went to Rolla, Missouri, where it performed guard duty. Company B went to garrison St. James, ten miles east of Rolla. The regiment was commended by the department commander for its good discipline. The regiment was united at St Louis in August, where it guarded the military prison. Or. the 1st of November Companies B, C, and D were mustered out and the rest of the regiment on the 8th. The regiment soon afterward went to Madison, where the men were discharged.
FIFTIETH INFANTRY.
The following Grant County men were in this regiment : John G. Clark, Colonel, Lancaster.
Company C-Thomas Curran, Wyalusing.
Company D-Robert Neigenfind, Wingville.
Company H-John Cover, Captain, Lancaster; Amos Devoe, 2d Lt., Wingville; Russell Sidney, Boscobel; Solomon Cook, John McClurg, Clifton; Danly J. Budd, Eli Cauffman, James Tobler, Lancaster; Wm. W. Dunstan, David J. Hayes, Halver Knudson, HenryC. Olney, William J. Williams, Little Grant; Wm. P. Lane, Millville; Theodore F. Sher- man, Wm. Simonds, Platteville; Frederick H. Roberts, Potosi; Charles Brennan, Ole Julson, Patrick Lewis, Christ Luchsinger, Henry Sieger, Waterloo; William H. Tinker, Edward Taylor Wingville; Louis Flint, Henry C. Wilcox, Wyalusing.
Company I-Judson S. Smith, Potosi.
Company K-Llewellen A. Tyler, Jr., Clifton; William T .. Patter- son, Fennimore; Robert Adams, Little Grant.
The Fiftieth Infantry was organized under the direction of Colonel John G. Clark, of Lancaster, and left Madison for St. Louis by com- panies, in the latter part of March and the first part of April, 1865. The regiment moved from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and afterward to Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, where it arrived on the 10th of October, and remained until mustered out, Colonel Clark commanding the post. Companies A, B, C, and D returned to Madi- son June 12, 1866, and the remaining companies joined them two days afterward. The men were then discharged.
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CHAPTER X.
SECOND, THIRD, AND MILWAUKEE CAVALRY AND MISCEL- LANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
Second Cavalry-Third Cavalry-Milwaukee Cavalry-Miscellane- ous Organizations.
SECOND CAVALRY.
Company C of this regiment was enlisted in the western part of the county and rendezvoused at Patch Grove. When the company was supposed to be about to leave there, the citizens furnished the com- pany a dinner in the M. E. church and presented to it two flags: one to Captain Wood, by Miss Olive A. Parker, and one to Lieutenant Ri- ley, by Miss Julia Brown, with suitable presentation speeches and re- plies. This was on Monday, September 23, 1861.
The roster of the company was as follows :
R. R. Wood, Captain, Patch Grove; Myron W. Wood, 1st Lieut., Patch Grove; Daniel L. Riley, 2d Lieut., Patch Grove; William L. An- drews, Charles E. Bowerman, Joseph Chambers, John W. Cothren, John Conner, Wm. H. Davis, Edward F. Fay, Wm. A. Holloway, Jas. F. Holloway, William Hicks, Joseph Langton, Jesse Miles, Henry L. Miles, Marvin L. Pratt, George H. Pond, John Showalter, Edward Stonehouse, Jesse Stephens, James Shanley, John L. Taylor, William Throssel, Beetown; Reuben R. Harrington, William W. Pardee, Perry Swart, Warren White, Boscobel; Owen Marron, Ellenboro; John Campbell, Owen Campbell, Wm. G. Cooper, Elhannon W. Dean, John Farris, John Hale, Fennimore; Horace C. Barr, George B. Hutchcroft, Wm. Hutchcroft, John Hutchcroft, Wm. G. Murray, Francis L. Pem- ber, Francis A. Tobie, Glen Haven; Samuel A. Caley, Geo. W. Marlow, James G. Richardson, James Treloar, Jacob White, Lancaster; Ray Wightman, Liberty; Ezekiel Billings, Little Grant; James W. Jones Griffith J. Jones, Isaac W. Reavill, Millville; Geo. B. Blakesly, William Bryan. Wm. Boyer, Andrew Ambuhl, John Davis, Duane Hamilton, Peter E. Huson, Lucien Lamberton, John D. McDuffie, John O'Neil, Wm. Patterson, Patrick Peasley, Edward Wiseman, Edwin R. Wood,
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Patrick Woods, David Wiseman, Patch Grove; Melvin Grigsby, Alfred M. Bonham, Alvin L. Cook, H. P. N. Irish, John Janta, Charles H. O'Hara, Potosi; A. H. Deeder, Roswell G. Irish, Isaac N. Lander, Abraham Morse, John Misener, Joseph Martin, Ransom McApes, Leonard Millard, Henry K. Wells, Tafton; Lindsey Kerr, David E. Whitaker, Waterloo; George F. Cornish, James M. Gully, Edward D. Gulick, Chauncey Pierce, James Johnson, Thomas Quinn, Wyalusing.
Horatio H. Virgin, Platteville, was an Adjutant of the regiment.
The regiment rendezvoused at Camp Washburn in December, 1861, and January, 1862. It left Milwaukee March 24, 1862, for St. Louis.
The following recruits came to the regiment from Grant County in 1863 and 1864:
James Clegg, Samuel R. Garner, Wm. Hutchcoft, Sr., Jesse C. Miles, Alanson Parody, Israel Roberts, Reuben B. Showalter, Charles Water- house, Daniel Zimmerman, Beetown; James Hughbanks, Andrew Pe- terman, Charles B. Spangler, George W. Sutton, Moses Woodington, Jonathan Woodington, Boscobel; Henry Carpenter, Allen B Carpen- ter, Fred A. Washburn, George W. Washburn, Clifton; Calvin S. Rus- sel, Ellenboro; Joshua Davis, Fennimore; Wm. Goldworthy, Augus- tus Murray, Hazel Green; Philip Brandlin, Jamestown; Edward C. Archer, John Bodkin, George Budd, John Cameron, Lynn B. Cook, John Foster, Wm. M. Foster, Lyman D. Irish, Charles Koonse, John McCormick, Edmund M. Pape, Jeremiah M. Rose, Samuel B. Runion, Henry J. Schloesser, James C. Walker, Edward S. Waddle, Charles E. White, John W. White, Lancaster; John Hale, Lima; Ephraim B. Cor- nish, John G. Garthwaite, Wm. Greaney, Wm. P. Owens, Little Grant ; John R. Brant, Peter Wagner, Paris; Eli Hurlburt, Elijah Ladd, Henry Lyon, John Mullaley, Patch Grove; John J. Sally, Thomas Lamb, Platteville; Joseph Maines, John B. Stone, John F. Taylor, Potosi; John Larson, Julius B. Nickerson, Albert M. Parker, William Wilkin- son, Tafton; Michael Coleman, Stewart Craig, Wingville; Nathan R. Daniels, Anson C. Daniels, Benj. F. Howland, Peter Matthews, O. P. McCamish, Grant County.
In May, 1862, the regiment marched from St. Louis to Springfield, Missouri. In June the second and third battalions of the regiment, (including Company C), in charge of a large train, marched to join General Curtis at Batesville, Arkansas. The expedition reached Gen- eral Curtis's rear-guard at Jacksonport, Arkansas, on the 4th of July and the main army on the 6th, at Augusta, having marched four hun-
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dred miles with no loss and capturing 150 prisoners. Moving down the White River, the Union force encountered the enemy, 4,500 in nun- ber, near Cotton Plant. The Second Wisconsin Cavalry was in the extreme advance. Company D, being ahead, came near being sur- rounded. but fell back. The infantry came up and the Rebels were repulsed, leaving 135 dead and wounded on the field. The Union loss was thirteen killed and twenty-five wounded. It is said that the Reb- els took two Union men prisoners here. tied them to trees and shot them. The battle occurred in a field'of high corn.
On the 10th of July the force reached Clarendon and found that the transport had left two days before. General Washburn then took 2,500 cavalry and set out to reach Helena by a forced march and put himself in communication with Memphis and have supplies sent from there. They set out on the morning of the 11th and reached Helena, sixty miles distant, on the morning of the next day. The men were in good condition, although hungry and ragged. Their rugged health was a remarkable contrast to their condition in August and Septem- ber, when the malarious climate had made sad havoc with them.
In November, 1862, Grant's army, reaching the Tallahatchie River, found the enemy in strong force there, strongly fortified. To get them out without assaulting the fortifications, two thousand cav- alry, among them the Second Wisconsin, crossed the Mississippi ten miles below Helena, the last of November, and made a rapid move for the enemy's line of communications fifty miles south of the Talla- hatchie, in the Rebels' rear. At Oakland, Mississippi, they met a brigade of Texan cavalry and repulsed them severely. The demon- stration produced the desired result for the Rebels abandoned their fortifications and retreated.
Early in February, 1863, the Second Cavalry took part in the expedition for opening the Yazoo Pass from the Mississippi, to take troops and gunboats into the Yazoo River by way of the Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers. After two weeks of incessant labor the pass was cleared so as to allow boats to move through.
In February, 1863, the second and third battalions of the Second went to Memphis and remained there until May. Scouting out from Memphis, they took many prisoners from Chalmers's force, without losing a man in action, although they lost thirteen by disease, in May. On the 10th of June the Second embarked for Vicksburg, arriving at Snyder's Bluff on the Yazoo, in the rear of Vicksburg, on the 13th.
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At four o'clock on the morning of the 4th of July the regiment moved to the forks of Deer Creek and the Big Black River. On the 7th it moved towards Jackson, General Johnston's forces disputing the advance. Reaching Jackson on the 10th, the cavalry was sent, the next day, to destroy the railroad track and buildings near Canton, which they did, but fell back before a strong Rebel force, until they received reinforcements, when they returned to Canton, repulsed the enemy, and entered the city on the 15th. On the 18th they returned to Jackson. On returning from this expedition, the Second camped near Big Black River. This locality proving unwholesome, the Second Cavalry, early in August, moved to Red Bone Church, ten miles from Vicksburg, where it remained until the 27th of April, 1864, when it moved to Vicksburg. In January, 1864, a large number of recruits came to the regiment, and in March many more, after which the veterans went home on furlough, returning to duty May 11. The duty of the regiment was to patrol the country between Vicksburg and the Big Black River, and keep it clear of roving bands of guerril- las. The men suffered much from sickness during the summer, many of them dying of disease.
On the 2d of December, 1864, 280 men of the Second, while recon- noitering, encountered a heavy force of the enemy twelve miles from Yazoo City. After a severe fight of half an hour, the Rebels flanked the detachment, which, after twice repulsing the enemy, retired with a loss of five killed, nine wounded, and twenty-five taken prisoners. On the 8th of December the regiment embarked for Memphis, where it joined an expedition under General Grierson, going through the inter- ior of Mississippi. At Egypt Station, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, a short but severe action took place, in which nearly five hundred Rebels were taken prisoners and were turned over to the Second Cavalry to guard. After destroying a vast amount of Confederate property, tearing up railroads, and burning bridges, the expedition reached Vicksburg on the 5th of January, 1865, having marched four hundred miles through a broken and swampy country. On the 13th of January the regiment went back to Memphis by boat. It was engaged during the winter in very laborious marches through the woods and swamps of Arkansas, penetrating even into Louisiana, re- turning to Memphis on the 17th of February. On the 9th of May 330 of the regiment went to Grenada, Mississippi, 130 miles from Mem- phis, remaining as garrison of that place until the 24th of June when
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