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" Go, stranger, to your country tell
For her we fought; we're buried where we fell."
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On the South side, beneath a hand holding a chain and several shackles, is the following from the emancipation proclamation :
" I do hereby declare that all persons held as slaves are and henceforth shall be free."
Around this central obelisk, at a suitable distance, are square marble cenotaphs, each sur- mounted by a fine capital, on which is carved a marble cannon, pointing outward, as if to defend the memory of the dead warriors from all aspersions, and on these tablets are inscribed the names of 750 men, including all from this county, in some sixty organizations of this and other States, served as soldiers of the Republic, and died in battle or from disease or wounds received while in the Union service. The largest number, about 160, are from the Twenty-fifth, a great por- tion of which regiment was recruited in this county. The whole is inclosed by a fence of chain hung on marble posts, set in a stone wall inclosing a well-kept grass plot. On the day of the dedication, the columns were dedicated with wreaths of evergreens and flowers, and several of the old banners under which the veterans had fought.
July 4, 1867, the monument was formally dedicated, with appropriate ceremonies. Lan- caster was filled to overflowing with citizens from every part of the county, who came to assist in this tribute of love and respect for the memory of the county's fallen heroes.
After an eloquent speech by the Hon. Matt H. Carpenter, that eloquent giant, whose loss Wisconsin mourns, Gov. Fairchild stepped forward and delivered the following dedicatory address :
MY FRIENDS-We are here to-day, this day sacred as the anniversary of our national birth, dearer than ever before, charged with a solemn duty. We are here to dedicate this monument to the memory of friends and comrades who gave their lives for the nation's life. Dying for the nation, those departed heroes died for each of us, that the priceless legacy which our fathers handed down to us might be transmitted undiminished to coming generations.
Hundreds of you within the sound of my voice were the immediate comrades upon the field of those to whose memory this tablet is erected; they were your brothers-in-arms during the long, weary years of a bloody war, through which you passed ; with you they shared in the glory of triumph; with you they shared the bitterness of defeat. Many of you dampened with your own blood the same fields where they went down to death, thus cementing the brotherly love which has bound you to one another.
What we say and do here to-day, will, when a few short years shall have passed, be scarcely remembered ; but the deeds which this monnment is to commemorate will last until history is dead and the works of man is forgotten. Your children will recount these deeds to their children's children, and thus they will be perpetuated forever, serv- ing to stir those who shall come after us, and inherit the legacy of freedom now perfect, to valorous love of country.
To lose friends by death is the greatest of all human afflictions, and we mourn for them, refusing to be com- forted until time has healed somewhat the wounds and softened our sorrow. These soldiers were happy, while on earth, in the possession of friends almost without number. There were father, mother, brother, sister, and per- haps wife and children. Father, mother, would you call back your son to life, the son you loved so dearly ? Sister, brother, would you summon again to your side the companion of your childhood ? Wife, children, would you bring him you loved so fondly from his glorious grave, if that bringing back from death would undo all he has done for his country ? Would you again see our Republic standing upon a volcano whose fires burned bright and dangerous beneath? Could you stop the life-blood swiftly flowing from father, brother, husband, son, would you do so if to stop that current were to seal our nation's doom ? I see the answer in your faces. No, you would not. You now know that he lived not in vain, died not in vain. He left his impress upon the page of history ; a bloody page it was, but one which will affect the world for good to the latest generation. To those who passed through the fiery ordeal, shoulder to shoulder with these dead comrades, and, though maimed and stricken, were by a kind Providence permitted to return to their homes, I ask the same question. Would you cripples, whom I see before me, recall the lost leg or arm-would you who suffer with no hope of cure in this world, recall your lost health if such recalling would in the least imperil your beloved country ? Would you not rather sacrifice that other good leg or arm ? Would you not rather again brave the dangers of war with shattered health ? Would you not rather let your blood flow like water-flow even to death? The flash of each veteran's eye gives the answer.
Let the trump and drum sound the call to arms for the defense of freedom, and the men of this vast assemblage would " fall in" without a murmur, and again march forth to battle.
The drum and trumpet will not sound that call, my friends. The victory has been won, and well won. The fruits of that victory are now being garnered up in freedom's storehouse, and, thank God, the people have willed that none shall be lost.
Many of the names I read upon this monument were those of my intimate comrades in the field. Many of them I knew intimately and loved dearly. I have called those names often from the muster-roll of their regiment. They have been honorably mustered out of this earthly service. Their work is done; their memory and the result of their valor only remains to us. They have been mustered into that other service whose terms run throughout all eternity. Let us hope that their names are borne upon the muster-rolls of heaven.
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" Ye dead heroes. Yon, faithful herald's blazou'd stone, With mournful pride shall tell, When many a vanquished age hath flown, The story how ye fell ; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor time's remorseless doom, Shall mar one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb."
In the name of the people of Grant County, who have erected this marble pile in honor of their services and in commemoration of their death ; in the name of the State of Wisconsin, whose sons they were ; in the name of our country, for whose preservation they fought and died, and whose gratitude is all their earthly reward ; and in the name of the Great Creator of the Universe, to whom all hearts, nations and people of right belong, and to whom only the greatness of their sacrifices is fully known, we dedicate this monument to the memory of those whose names are inscribed thereon.
At the close of Gov. Fairchild's address, the dedication ceremony took place. A com- pany of the Grand Army of the Republic, under the command of Sergt. Maj. J. Alford, with reversed arms, and bearing .the drooping banner of the Twenty-fifth, which some of them had borne on the bloody field, marched slowly around the monument. An ode composed for the occasion by A. W. Barber, was then sung by the vast assemblage, and this was followed by a funeral salute of musketry, after which the services closed with an appropriate and touching prayer by the Rev. Mr. Eaton, of Lancaster, who served for three years faithfully, and with honor as Chaplain of the Seventh Wisconsin, in the Iron Brigade.
Previous to the dedication, Contractor Wright had sent one of his workmen from White- water, who added several names to the long list already inscribed on the roll of honor. Below is given this roll in its entirety :
Second Regiment .- Co. A-William E. Chase, John Humphrey. Co. B-Charles C. Bushee. Co. C-Thomas D. Cox, Joseph Brown, David Gudger, James Walter Hyde, Robert J. Simpson, George W. Holloway, John Schmidt, Sergt. Frank Neavil, R. S. Stevenson, Ephraim R. Housley, Belknap Fuqua, M. J. Barnhisel, William T. Crossley, George N. Fritz, Lewis La Fonta, Newton Wilcox, Francis M. Waldorf, Albert W. Spease, Philander H. Philbrick, James Gow, Sergt. Maj. Asa B. Griswold, George B. Hyde, George Beasley, Robert S. Pittinger, R. H. Mckinney, Daniel Burton, Henry R. Neavil, John HI. Burgess, Otto W. Ludwig, S. M. Train, William Cunningham, Michael Cook, Lieut. E. P. Kellogg, John St. John, Weiland Weibel, Albert Waldorf, William R. Ewing, Isaac H. McDonald. Co. G-John P. Schildgen.
Third Regiment .- Co. F-F. M. Costley, John T. Gaston, Theodore F. Schnee, Sergt. Ethan W. Butler, Henry W. Gallop, Andrew Craig, Thomas Duncan, John Oleson, Christian Munson, George Sinnott, Thomas Barton, Ezekiel Parker, John Manion, Richard Nolton, William Wagner, Robert S. Allen. Co. I-Lieut. A. N. Reed, Richard Folts, Giles L. Harrison, Lewis Hoag. Co. K-William H. Hubbell.
Fourth Regiment .- Co D-Julius M. Jones. Co. Unknown-John Gard.
Fifth Regiment .- Co. D-Charles Kuemmerle. Co. I-Thomas Adkins, Aaron Case. Co. H-Sergt. Frank A. Moore.
Sixth Regiment .- Co. A-Ignatz Winkler. Co. C-Sylvester Russell, Ferdinand Eversal, Albert P. Sprague, Alexander Tulley, Homer Lillie, Cuyler Babcock, Lyman Sheldon, Stephen S. Vesper, William Hickok. Co. D- John Fry. Co. II-John H. Adams. Co. K-Leonard Nettleton, William Holloway, Anthony Frembgen. Co. Un- known-George W. Earle, William Tisdale.
Seventh Regiment .-- Co. C-Capt Jeff. Newman, Lient. W. O. Topping, Sergt. William Beazley, Sergt. G. W. Sain, Corp. Edward Easen, Corp. ilenry Inman, Corp. G. W. Beazley, Corp. George Will, Corp. Jacob Rice, William P. Lamb, Thomas B. Sutton, John L. Eastman, George Mitchell, Alonzo Russell, David H. Bryant, William H. Hull, W. B. Newcome, Hiram Hamilton, William Howarth, Wallace Holmes, George W. Fortner, Henry Cook, Madison Ray, David H. Link, L. D. Herst, William Calvert, Fulton Holmes, John Danner, Alfred Stout, Jacob H. Rihl, Eze- kiel M. Parker, James Armstrong, John F. Haney, W. T. Mckinney, John C. Palmer, James Sutton. Co. D-John Remberger, Francis M. Bull. Samuel Richmond. Co. F-Sergt. Calvin G. Parker, Sergt. Isaac C. Reamer, Corp. W. N. Miles, Corp. T. W. Blunt, Newton McFail, Herbert Roberts, James H. Ellis, George F. Halbert, Thomas H. B. Darnelle, Philip Bennetts, George W. Cooley, James Gilligan, O'Harrisen Kentner, Louis Kuntz, John J. Schloesser, Orlando W. Atwood, John L. Marks, Robert Blakesley, James A. Simpkins, Henry L. Sprague, James A Clark, Edward S. McDowell, Warren W. Whitney, Joseph Wilkinson, Lewis C. Spease, Lewis W. Stephens, Adelbert Stately, Henry A. Komp, Martin Calvert, James A. Evans, William B. Pauley, John Leaupla, Lorenzo Taylor, John G. Run- yan, Wesley Craig, George Cornique, George W. Eagle. Co. II-Jerome Gillott, Eli Hitchcock, Stanbury Hitchcock, Millard A. Hudson, Jacob Johnson, John F. Mitchner, Martin Moore, John B. Matthews, T. D. Mundon, William Miller, John Schultz, Luther Schnee, Harlan Pike, Lieut. T. W. Thomas, Corp. Tim. Kelleher, George Page, Hiram Kearney, Edward Carver, George A. Smith, James Andrews, Joseph F. Pryor, Robert Allen, Thomas Adams, Ben- jamin Burton, Alfred Church, James Bishop, George W. Dillon, Lucius Eastman, James Fulks, Weber F. Gates, Alonzo Springer, John Turnby, Sumter West, John Wanyack, John Wright, William Smith, Stephen Howard, Hugh Kerney, W. G. M. Scott, John M. Steers. Co. K-George Simonds, Elisha H. Oviatt, Corp. C. R. Garner, Lysander J. Mc- Farlane, Fred J. Garner.
Eighth Regiment .- Co. F-Wellington K. Forshay, Adney Griffin, Joseph Flint, William Walford.
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Ninth Regiment .- Co. K-Joseph Miller, Herman Greener, August Matchin. Co. E-Jacob Becker.
Tenth Regiment .- Co. F-Sergt. R. Northey, Sergt. Harlow H. Bowan, Corp. Abram M. Dodge, Corp. Philip L. Glover, O. M. Painter, William R. Ayers, W. W. Parker, Robert Jarrett. William Freworthy, Gorham Alexander, Cyrus Bowen, Leroy W. Williams. Co. G-F. M. Shoemaker, Theodore Hilgers, Robert Langstaff, Thomas M. Jewell, Adolphus Turcott. Co. I-Frederick Grosch, Frederick Kleider, David Winnebrenner, Adam Wood. Co. F- Marcus C. Bowen, Marcus L. Gleason, David C. Lumpkin. Co. I-William Nichols, Frederick Shaffer, Albert Mc- Clurg, Hiram Shrigley, Thomas Durlin, Orville D. Eastman, John T. Hudson, Henry Reed, Benjamin F. Bowmer, George W. Moore, George Schad, Joseph E. Holmes, Ames Ray, Richard White, George Schaffer, Edward Pidding- ton, George A. Shaffer. Co. K-James Crawford.
Eleventh Regiment .- Co. H-David I. Washburn, Orrison Washburn. Co. D-D. W. Shaw.
Twelfth Regiment .- Co. K-Lieut. Almon E. Chandler, Lieut. Isaac W. Walker. F. W. Tracey, Sylvester R. Walker, Edgar Wood, Andrew F. Palmer, Andrew Erickson, Samuel Howard, Caleb B. Clark, Jr., Andrew J. Bur- nett, Charles H. Thompson, La Fayette Miller, Charles S. Taylor, Salmon C. Peckham, Henry R. Munn, William W. Blanchard.
Fourteenth Regiment .- Co. K-Ferdinand St. John, J. F. Hill, John Blower.
Fifteenth Regiment .- Lieut. Col. David Mckee.
Sixteenth Regiment .- Co. B-Sergt. Henry T. Williams. Co. I-Joseph Baker, John C. Long, Frederick Gund- lack. James Williams, H. C. Howard.
Nineteenth Regiment .- Co. I-Samuel Solomon, A. A. Fuqua.
Twentieth Regiment .- Co. A-G. N. Bracket, John A. Williams, Robert Taylor. Co. C-Capt. John McDermott, Robert Graham, George W. Robinson, Ephraim Wright, Walter K. Lull, Henry Craig, Gardner Martin, Jefferson T. Watkins, Noah W. Watkins, Andrew J. McDonald, John Powell, George Williams, Charles Farley, John G. Tyler, Benjamin Farley, Alonzo N. Root, Gilbert Lyons, Reuben Norton, Elias Lowrey. Co. I-Edward Hutchcroft, Alex- ander Porland, Cyrus W. Vesper, G. W. Weaver, Millen Nye. Co. F-William Ware, Abel Harper, W. W. Fortney, Joseph Gaston, B. F. Washburn, David Brown, Henry Hackman, Emmett F. Holmes, John Bell, Lemuel Eistman, Levi Ray. Co. I-Lieut. Thomas Bintliff, Corp. W. H. Whiteside, Corp. E. A. Sprague, Thomas Dewing, Cornelius Vanausdall, Lyman B. Helm, Thomas Click, David H. Cayler, John H. Beitler, Ira Dehart, William Turnby, S. W. Peyton, Henry Zimmerman, Joseph Huey, Lesler Wagner, Benjamin Babcock, Jr.
Twenty-first Regiment .- Co. E-Levi Chase.
Twenty-fourth Regiment .- Co. A-William Giil.
Twenty-fifth Regiment .- Lieut. Col. Samuel J. Nasmith. Co. A-Sampson B. Vance. Co. B-La Fayette Hoyt. Co C-Sergt. John Knight, John H. Dougherty, Henry J. Hayden. John D. Tobler, George Barnheisel, Marshall B. Bishop, William E. Craig, David Flauhearty, Henry Grebe, Thomas Grosser, John W. Halferty, William A. Hender- son, Alexander Irwin, Robert Irwin, Charles Julius, Lorenzo Lotham, Thomas Liwrence, James Lick, John Mauer, Lucien Parce, Daniel F. Pierce, James M. Prichett, James W. Roberts, Blasius Seitz, Quincey Twining, John II. Wellsthump, S. P. Simpkins, William Kreitzer, William R. Warden, Edwin G. St. John, Peter Wriss, Ruel Ever, Charles Field, Allen Fennel, C. R. Potter, Benjamin Rouse, James Bradley Co. E -. A. B. Taylor, George Morrison, Frederick Mero, W. H. H. Bailey, Sylvanus Stone, Thomas Dougherty. John F. Kaump, M. B. H. Vanatta, Leonard Stephens. John C. Kiel, Jacob Sbuster, Nelson J. Beckwith. Nathaniel Cloud, Ransom J. Bartle, Charles M. Kiel, Warren S. Hall, Elizer A. Fosket. George La Follette, Joseph Simpkins, John Simpkins, John B. Armstrong, Theodore Bellow, Michael Meyer, John Aldrich, James Sprague, Walter Groshong, Capt. John G. Scott, Lieut. William H. Gribble, Isaac N. Basye, Samuel L. Basye, Myron Barstow, De Witt C. Clifton, Elijah Blanchard, MI. P. Beazeley, James Over- ton, Jonathan Bailey, Abraham Shinoe, Frederick T. Bacheler, Silas W. Parker, John C. Black, Hiram Chambers, Marion Heigh, Samuel Stone. Co. F-Nathan Shoemaker. Co. Il-Daniel Weiss, Howard Finley, John Webb, William Botts, Lieut. Henry Wise, Austin Lisherness, Henry Brock, James Chester, John Allison, Friend B. Bilder- back, Frederick Curtains, William Walker, Samuel W. Lowrey, John Peter Casper, Mathias Webber, Frank Feld- hear, James Richardson. William Woodruff, Thomas Clark, Lieut. Charles Olmstead, Corp. A. McFail, John Brad- bury, James Hudsmith, Jeremiah Brown, Charles II. Bilderback, Michael Hurst, Jasper Turner, Thomas McDonald, Louis Bohaget, Andrew Jackson, John A. Foster, Alvah Haney. Co. I-Jasper N. Cabannis, Granville C. Palmer, Robert M. Reynolds, Joseph C. Durlin, Norman C. Sherman, William Leas, Morgan V. Mitts, George W. Lauthian, Charles Richards, Joseph Nelson, Capt. Robert Nash, Sergt. W. S. Tomlinson, Lewis Shenoe, William H. Sincox, John R. Wilkinson, Theodore P. Shoemaker, Thomas T. Wayne, Albert Carroll, Robert Osborne, James D McPher- son, Mordecai Finley, Bazzle McDaniel, John H. Finley. Samuel A. Taylor, Samuel B. Cook, Moses Murrish, John W. Sevens. Philo F. Sisson, Edward Thurtle, Theodore Reifsteck, Thomas Burns, John Lauterman, Martin Stillwell, L. Schmerbaugh, William H. Sadler, Joseph Vonderam. Co. K-Eli Totman, Thomas McDonald, Willis Ashley.
Twenty-seventh Regiment .- Co. G-Corp. Luke Morris, John Aid, Michael Connally.
Thirtieth Regiment .- Co. B-R. M. De Lap.
Thirty-first Regiment .- Co. A .- William G. Johnson.
Thirty-third Regiment .- Co. A-Corp. Freeman F. Vaugh, George C. Richards, Francis Hanneman. Co. B- William Campbell, Thomas Quigley, James Pettill, George W. Tuckwood, Addison Wilcox, William Brock, Joseph Cover, Eugene McLyman, John Van Allen, Edgar F. Wood, Stephen Howard, Seth Catlin, Absalom Barger, Charles MI. Owen, William Hough, Addison D. Allen, Joseph Cape, Almond Mead, Joseph W. Sanborne, William Whales, Simeon Reeves, Henry Rouse. Co. D-Sergt. John Layton, Walter M. Helm. Joseph Engle, Edward Smith, Thomas Hutchcroft, John A. Orr, Lucius F. Billings, Merritt C. Pember, George W. Bower, James H. Blake, Joseph Flint, Dennison H. Lard, Allen J. Barnes, Marcus E. Fitch, Earl Cranston, William Barr, William J. Scott, William B. Gar- side, William H. Scott, J. W. Sargent, Thomas C. Billings, Ira W. Tra.ey, Charles L. Bingham, George Hallis, Jonah Lard, John M. Sifford, James Shales, Lucius Sulter. Co. G-Benjamin Barry, William Roberts, Henry C. Owen.
Thirty-fifth Regiment-Co. E-Corp. Hemer E. Lewis, Thomas Vanatta, John Betty, James Warren, Jonathan Scott, Jams Lyon.
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Thirty-sixth Regiment .- Co. B-Sergt. Anthony Haney, Walter Vanvickle, George Hoadley, Lewis H. Arnold. Thirty-seventh Regiment .- Co. F-George Cass, John Greewalch. Co. H-Dudley D. McCloud. Thirty-eighth Regiment-Co. B-Matthew Hunter.
Forty-first Regiment-Co. A-Lieut. George L. Hyde, Henry A. Hyde, Frank A. Reed, William Halferty. Co. E-John Noel, Leander Kimball.
Forty-second Regiment .- Co. D-Jeremiah Wamsley, George Stone, Thomas Thompson, Nathaniel Head, Jacob O. Richardson. Co. K-John N. Shepard. Co. D-Horace Jewell.
Forty-third Regiment-Co. A-Capt. E. D. Lowrey, Jacob Becker. Co. B-Corp. Frank Melvin, James Barrett, Dudley Lillie, Thomas Haw, William B. Wilkinson, Andrew Hudson, Richard W. Taylor. Co. C-Austin Nye, Mar- quis Barker, Thomas B. Harvil. Co. H-Sergt. J. A. Gammon, Isaac Davis, Andrew Lewis, Levi Potter, Enoch Briggs. Corp. George W. Likens, Thomas Dolan, Louis Mickenham, Abel Reynolds, Ezra Atwood.
Forty-fourth Regiment .- Co. K-Thomas Blover, George C. Comp, William Hotop, Ch. Hinman. Co. H-Eli J. Hardy.
Forty-seventh Regiment .- Co. C-W. M. Withington. Co. F-Elias Long. Co. G-William Manley, Welling B. Polly, Henry Smith, Leavitt J. Merrill. Co. I-William Cook. Co. K-Sergt. Robert Fitzgerald, Geo. W. Heasley. Forty-ninth Regiment .- Co. F-Marshall-McElwaine, Horace H. Hampton, Frederick Eich.
Fiftieth Regiment .- (Colored U. S. Infantry, )-Charles Shepard.
First Cavalry .- Co. B-Anson P. Rice. Co. C-John Werley, William Werley. Co. D-Lars Jamson. Co. F- Peter Pickhartz, Andrew Barrett, Daniel T. Brown Co. I-Isaac N. Hayden.
Second Cavalry .- Co. C-Lieut. J. Showalter, Sergt. Alfred M. Bonham, James W. Jones, George H. Pond, Roswell G. Irish, George B. Blakesley, James N. Shanley, William Greansy, W. G. Murray, Samuel B. Runnion, Jonas Fuller, William Hicks, Francis L. Pember, Henry J. Schlosser, William J. Cooper, Linzey Kee, Isaac Reaville, James Johnson, John Campbell, E. W. Dean, Edward Stone, Horatio R. Palmer. Philip Brandlin, Joshua Davis, John W. Dougherty, Charles Kuntz, Orson Cook, Henry K. Wells, Linn B. Cook, James F. Holloway, John Strau, Isaac N. Sander, Edmond D. Gulick, John Farris, Charles C. Campbell, John E. McKee, John McCormick, Peter E. Huson, Martiu V. Stewart, John Mullaly, Jolin L. McIntosh. Co. F-George W. Washburn.
Third Cavalry-Co. G-James A. Otwell. Co. M-Robert Odell, James H. Clark, Abel L. Tyler, Nathan Jan- ney, Sydney M. Smith, Andrew C. McCord.
Fourth Cavalry-Co. H-Louis Horne.
Fifth United States Cavalry .- Spencer Vail.
Fourth Iowa Cavalry-Co. G-Marcellus Brock.
Fifth Iowa Cavalry-Co. E-Lieut. Andrew Guler, Frank Gilliham.
Seventh Iowa Cavalry .- Co. E-Ira Patterson.
Eighth Iowa Cavalry .- Co. G-William Mitchell.
Fourth Missouri Cavalry .- Co. M-Abner H Larrabee. Co. F-David Beard, Wilson Lowrey.
Second Konsas Cavalry .- Co. E-Marion M. Harper.
First Kansas Regiment .- Co. B-John Fairall.
Twelfth Illinois Infantry-Co. F-Silas Lane.
Fourteenth Illinois Regiment .- Co.J .- Charles Palmer
Ninetieth Illinois Regiment .- Co. B-Michael F. Donahoe, John Byrne.
One-Hundredth Illinois Infantry .- Co. G-Sergt. Benj. F. Gridley.
One-Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry .- Co. E-William A. Butler.
Third Iowa Infantry .- Co. C-Robert Beard, William A. Armstrong.
Fortieth Ohio Regiment .- Co. F-William Miller.
First Heavy Artillery .- Co. A-Richard Calvert. Co. C-Cornelius Johnson.
Twenty-first Artillery .- David W. Garvin.
Fourth Artillery .- Co. F-Addison Medley.
Dubuque City Battery-Theodore Jackson.
Navy-Joseph Bond (company and regiment not given), Peter Saxson, Charles Taylor, Charles Pitsley.
The following names were added previous to the dedication : William P. Shipley, Co. C, Twentieth Regiment ; Lyman W. Sheldon. Co. C, Sixth Regiment ; A. J. Watts, Co. K, Twelfth Regiment ; Anthony Hill, Co. B, Forty- second Regiment : Henry Schmidt, Co. H, Forty-ninth Regiment.
CHAPTER VIII.
LANCASTER.
GEOGRAPHICAL-FIRST SETTLERS-THE . COUNTY SEAT-EARLY BUILDINGS-FIRST COURT-THE FIRST POSTMASTER-FIRST FIRE-THE VILLAGE GROWS-THE WAR PERIOD-TOWN AND VIL- LAGE GOVERNMENT-OFFICIAL ROSTER-LANCASTER PRESS-SCHOOLS-RELIGIOUS-CEMETERY -MASONIC ORDERS-I. O. O. F .- FIRE COMPANY-BUSINESS INTEREST-STORMS.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
Within the confines of Lancaster are embraced Townships 4 and 5 north, of Range 3 west of the Fourth Principal Meridian. It is bounded on the north by the west half of Fennimore town, which, with Lancaster, forms the only double town in the county; on the east by Liberty and Ellenboro; on the south by Potosi, and on the west by Beetown and Little Grant. It includes within its borders some of the best farming land in the county, the wealth of the town being rather on the surface than beneath, as has been the case in many other towns.
The site of the present city of Lancaster was originally, before the advent of the white man, a beautifully-rounded knoll, covered with low brush at intervals, through which forest trees, singly or in groves, spread their sheltering branches. At the foot of this knoll bubbled forth a limpid spring, clear as the purest crystal, into whose sandy depths, in all probability, many a dusky face had looked, and upon its glittering surface had reflected back the swarthy countenance, hideous with war paint, or stained with the dust and heat of the chase. Past this spring poured a brawling brook, fed by this and lesser neighboring fountains.
Here, quietly sleeping away the summer day, it witnessed, in the year of our Lord 1828, the commencement of a new era in its life, as the white man settled upon the banks near its golden bed and began the erection of a habitation.
FIRST SETTLERS.
These new-comers were Nahem Dudley, Tom Segar and Ben Stout, who, in thus locating, became unconsciously the first settlers of Lancaster. There is no evidence to show that Segar and Stout remained longer than to assist their comrade in the erection of his cabin, or perhaps a short time thereafter, and then departed for other sections where "mineral," then the "par- ticular vanity" of early settlers, was to be discovered in better quantity than there were any signs of its being found here. Dudley remained a year or two and sold out to Aaron Boice. He then went to mining in different sections, finally settling near Beetown, where he gave his name to a cave, supposably discovered by him, and thence to the "Dudley Cave Range," a range well known to miners. Dudley died in 1845 at Muscalunge. In this same year, namely, 1828, William L. Morrison moved into the township and located on what afterward became the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 36, where he resided for many years. Henry C. Bushnell and family also came to the hollow now known by his name and located near the upper spring on the site occupied by Mr. Weaver. Here he erected a modest cabin of rough, unhewn logs, chinked and mud plastered, a portion of which remained until a late date. During the Black Hawk troubles, these settlers took refuge in the block-houses at Cassville and Prairie du Chien, but upon the settlement of the difficulty and defeat of Black Hawk, they returned to their deserted homes, and again took up their work of reducing the wilderness to subjection, and placing it under the dominion of man.
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