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Joseph James, H. E. Peterson, Colwell & Co., Theodore Kendall, D. W. Inman and J. M. Sleeper, $25 each ; D. S. Treat, $20; John Mohr, A. Wilson, J. M. Riker, W. Winkly, N. Swager, N. L. Graves, Charles Seaton, A. D. Stoddard, G. W. Kimball, L. H. Black, Henry Chapin, Royall Wood, O. B. Hartley, James Mad- den and F. Barrere, $10 each; Henry Powell, $15; H. Gottman, Lesley Hyde, A. Nellis and O. W. Monsell, $5 each. J. B. Doe was appointed treasurer, in addition to the following relief commit- tee and ladies' committee to furnish flags for enlisted companies : T. Jackman, G. R. Curtis, H. W. Collins, Platt Eycleshimer and Samuel Belton; ladies' committee, Mesdames J. T. Wright, R. B. Treat, Henry Palmer, Z. S. Doty and Peter Meyers.
Large Union meetings were also held at Beloit, at Evansville, Footville, Clinton, Afton, Shopiere (at which $4,640 was sub- scribed), Magnolia, Johnstown and elsewhere, at all of which the greatest enthusiasm and generous liberality were displayed. On April 25, a county meeting was held in Janesville, to take into consideration the condition of the country and adopt such meas- ures as the exigencies of the time demanded.
The city was generally decorated in honor of the event. the stores and public offices were closed, and the proceedings were of a character well calculated to excite patriotic emotions.
The meeting was organized by the appointment of B. E. Hale, of Beloit, chairman; Andrew Palmer, Isaac Miles, Dr. John Mitchell, Z. P. Burdick, J. P. Wheeler and D. Y. Kilgore, vice- presidents, and W. H. Ebbetts, Hiram Bowen and E. P. Brooks, secretaries. Speeches were made by Prof. D. Y. Kilgore. of Evansville seminary ; W. H. Ebbetts, Judge Armstrong, Mr. Mc- Adams, of Milton; J. P. Wheeler and the Rev. I. Codding, and Messrs. Graham, Lawrence, Gibbs, Martin, Calkins, Tilton, May, Williams and others, at an impromptu meeting held on a public square. At this meeting, "The Rock County Union and Relief Society" was organized, and the following officers elected : J. D. Rexford, treasurer; William Merrill, secretary, and J. G. Kendall. W. H. Tripp, J. E. Culver, A. Palmer, George Sherman and A. W. Pope, committee.
The objects of the society were to enroll, organize into com- panies and drill such men as were willing to enter into active service as volunteers; "to raise funds for the support and relief of such volunteers and their families, and to defray such other
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expenses as may be proper in carrying out these objects." The labors imposed were onerous, but until the close of the war this society was untiring in its efforts to promote the cause of the Union and the welfare of the soldier.
In the three months' service, Pliny Norcross, a student at Mil- ton at the date of the call, enlisted in the Governor's Guards, and is believed to be the only recruit from Rock county who served in the three months' campaigns around Washington, terminating with the battle of Bull Run, besides the "Beloit City Guards," which were enlisted at Beloit and mustered into the First Regi- ment. Pliny Norcross subsequently became captain of Company K, Thirteenth regiment, and served to the close of the war.
Company F, First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, three months' men, was known as "Beloit City Guards." Captain, Wil- liam M. Clark ; first lieutenant, Thomas P. Northrop; second lieu- tenant, Noble W. Smith; first sergeant, John F. Vallee; second sergeant, Frederick W. Goddard; third sergeant, Alexander An- derson; fourth sergeant, David M. Bennett; corporals, Henry H. Stafford, Phillip E. Fisher, Benjamin Vaughn, Charles A. Rath- bun, Norwich; fifer, Volney P. Van Buren ; drummer, Alexander Lee.
Privates from Rock county : Myron H. Adams, John A. Avery, George Beeker, Daniel W. Berry, Daniel Bratt, Harmon H. Bar- moore, Charles F. Bemis, Charles A. Colby, Hartly H. Colby, Alexander Clark, Horace R. Colby, Charles H. Christ, Deloss H. Cady, Howard Converse, John Campbell, John S. Chandler, John N. Clifford, Philander B. Daggett, Bradford B. Daggett, James H. Funnell, Charles R. Goodrich, Elisha W. Goddard, Horace W. Hackett, Sophronus S. Herrick, James Hislop, Henry Harbon, James H. Ingersoll, Benjamin Kline, Martin McDevitt, Sanford L. Miller, William H. Norton, John A. Pease, John W. Parker, William H. Parker, James W. Quinn, Leonard M. Rose, Hiram A. Reaves, James H. Ranous, Alexander Lee, musician; Henry H. Stafford, Elisha W. Sherman, Albert S. Steele, Jared J. Towers, Edward D. Webb, Mark Young, Daniel Young, Warren Young, Klem Barnes. The company, after participating in the fight at Falling Waters, on July 2, 1861, were mustered out with the regiment on August 21 of the same year.
Company D, Second Regiment, was raised in the city of Janes- ville, the first company of volunteers enlisted for the war in
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Rock county. The company was enlisted under the call for three months, but when mustered into service on June 11, 1861, was credited to the quota for three years. It left Janesville on May 6 for Madison, where it was quartered in Camp Randall. After remaining in camp engaged in drilling and equipping for the field until June 20 the regiment departed for Washington, its officers and privates regarding the change of base in the light of a pleasure trip, confident that their services would not be required beyond a year. After a brief sojourn in the capital the regiment crossed the Potomac and eamped on Arlington Heights, where it was brigaded under the command of W. T. Sherman, and participated in the memorable battle (July 21, 1861 of Bull Run, at which Marion F. Humes, of Company F, a boy of the town of Janesville and a student of Milton Academy, was killed by a cannonball-the first Wisconsin soldier so killed in the war. (The first Wisconsin soldier killed in the rebellion was George C. Drake, of Milwaukee, Company A, First Wiscon- sin Infantry, July 2, 1861, near Martinsburg, Va.) On the 27th of August following the regiment was transferred to the com- mand of General Rufus King, and composed a portion of the "Iron Brigade." Company D participated in the campaigns against Richmond, in the battles of Gainesville, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Laurel Mountain and at other points, until May 11, 1864. At that date the regiment was detached from the brigade it had accompanied since its or- ganization and to whose reputation it so materially contributed (the Second having been reduced to less than 100 men fit for active service), and was employed as provost guard of the Fourth Division, Fifth Army Corps, accompanying that division in the movement to the left, erossing the North Anna river on May 23 and arriving on June 6 on the Chiekahominy. The regi- ment remained here until the 11th of the same month, when it marched to White House Landing, whence it embarked for Wash- ington, and arrived in Madison, Wis., June 18, where, on July 2, 1864, it was mustered out of service, and the remnant of Com- pany D returned to Rock county. When the regiment reached Wisconsin its total number was 155 officers and men out of 1,050 who entered the service in 1861. The number returned as above did not include twenty veterans or forty-five members who were returned as wounded and prisoners.
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The original roster of Company D contained the following: George B. Ely, captain, wounded at the battle of Antietam, Sep- tember 2, 1862, discharged the service December 24 following; A. B. McLean, first lieutenant, resigned October 7, 1862; Dana D. Dodge, second lieutenant, promoted to first lieutenant March 18, 1862, resigned April 13 following; Ebenezer P. Perry, second lieutenant, promoted first lieutenant January 1, 1863; Albert F. Wade, orderly sergeant; George F. Saunders (promoted to first lieutenant April 30, 1862, and resigned), William A. Jameson (promoted January 9 and May 4, 1863, to first lieutenant) and Henry Silman, sergeants; John C. McDonald, John C. Little, Charles W. Atherton and Dennison Webster, corporals. The privates were Ethan Allen, Marion Alexander, John J. Bristow, Gersham A. Bennett, Frederick Breme, Cain Billings, Jeremiah G. Burdick, Chauncey Bartholomew, Henry Backus, Andrew Bean (killed at South Mountain September 14, 1862), William Croft, Samuel Creek, Charles H. Cheney, Andrew Douglas, Lorin Davis Jr., Johnson Dole, John N. Ehle, Chauncey Ehle (died at Richmond, Va., in November, 1862), William Hogan, Albert B. Heath, Joseph Harris, Isaac R. Huggins, John Johnson, Edward Killelee, Hiram H. Kimball, Albert B. Kimball, Thomas H. Knill, Oliver Friddle, Daniel H. Loomis, John F. Foot, William H. Foote, Asahel Gage (killed at South Mountain September 14, 1862), Wendell Fairbrother, John Hamilton (promoted corporal and died at Richmond, Va.), Lucius H. Lee, C. H. Lee, Alexan- der Lee (appointed second lieutenant May 13, 1863), Herman J. Longhoff, Sidney Landers, Charles E. Marsh, Orville J. Miles, William J. McRea, Frederick H. Maine, John C. Malloy, Nathan- iel Parks, A. Patterson, Leonard Powell, William Smith (pro- moted corporal and died in Richmond, Va., March 14, 1862), Charles Rowland, George L. Scott, Albert H. Stickney, Charles D. Stickney, William L. Schermerhorn, Joslyn Southard, William Seiforth, D. Thoraldson, Lucien N. Turner, Lewis Tramblie, Jo- seph H. Tramblie (killed at Gainesville August 28, 1862), David Tramblie, Julius Tramblie, Clark R. Thomas, Oramel Wilcox, Philander Wilcox (promoted corporal and killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863) and Caleb J. Waterman.
Of the Third Regiment, Thomas H. Ruger, of Janesville, cap- tain, lieutenant colonel, was promoted brigadier general and brevet major general U. S. Volunteers; Bradley M. Bucklin was
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commissary sergeant and Edwin O. Kimberly band leader. Louis H. D. Crane, of Beloit, second lieutenant Company A, adjutant major, was killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862. James H. Webb, of Janesville, was in Company F, and in Company K were James C. Brock and Commissary Sergeant Bradley M. Bucklin, of Janesville; Eben Colby and Peter Green, of Turtle; Caleb Ellison, Beloit, and Ole Gulsuth, of Clinton.
Company E, Fifth Regiment, was enlisted in Rock county in May, 1861, and rendezvoused at Camp Randall during the latter part of the following June, where it was mustered into service July 13, leaving the state for the Army of Eastern Virginia on the 24th of the same month. Arriving in Washington, the regi- ment became attached to the brigade of General King and en- camped on Meridian hill. On the 3d of the ensuing September the regiment was moved to Chain Bridge and assigned to Han- cock's brigade, Smith's division, Army of the Potomac. Com- pany E was a prominent factor in all these movements, including that of the Army of the Peninsula, participating in the battle of Williamsburg, the first engagement of the historic battles about Richmond, including Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Frasier's Farm. Malvern Hills and Antietam; also taking part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg (being attached to General Franklin's division of the Sixth Army Corps, and crossing the river on the morning of December 12, 1862, in advance of Burn- side's army), and taking a position on the left of the battle line at Gettysburg. In the latter part of July, 1863, Company E oc- cupied Kingston, N. Y., where it was stationed until after the draft, when in obedience to orders it returned to Fairfax Sta- tion, Va., and, rejoining the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixth Army Corps, took possession of Warrenton, joined in the charge upon Rappahannock Station and in the engagement at Locust Grove across the Rapidan. In the spring of 1864 Company E again crossed the Rapidan and took part in the battle of the Wilderness, in which, it will be remembered, the Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment was captured by companies attached to the Fifth Wisconsin. After the battles of Spottsylvania, Cold Har- bor and Petersburg the regiment assisted in the defense of Wash- ington when menaced by Breckinridge, remaining until July 16, 1864, when it was returned to Madison and mustered out.
The following is the list of officers and privates, Rock county
JESSE C. PUTNAM.
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men, originally enlisted in Rock county: Horaee M. Wheeler, captain, promoted to major, died in Washington November 19, 1863, of wounds received at the battle of Fredericksburg; Henry R. Clum. first lieutenant, promoted captain U. S. V. signal corps and brevet major; Asa W. Hathaway, Janesville, sergeant, lieu- tenant, captain ; first lieutenant, James MeDaniel, of Janesville, corporal, first sergeant; James Mills, of Janesville, second lieu- tenant, resigned May 12, 1862; II. C. Hern (died of wounds at Williamsburg in May, 1862), E. P. Mills (promoted February 9 and October 3, 1863, to first lieutenant and killed at the battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864), Walter L. Smith and A. L. Cutts (died at Fairfax, Va., March 15, 1862), sergeants; G. W. Dutton, W. M. Birt, J. C. Rogers, C. O. Harrington, corporals, and later sergeants; F. Schermerhorn, drummer, and John Jackson, of Edgerton, fifer, with the subjoined list of privates from Roek county : Louis Anderson, Leslie Anderson, Thomas H. Alver- son, H. L. Ames, Nathaniel Baker, William C. Benedict, P. J. Bellsfield, John Beatty, E. P. Bly, J. H. Bliven, W. W. Bradshaw, J. W. Brown, W. Braithwaite (died at Hagerstown, Md., October 29. 1862), Page N. Butts, R. F. Dutton (Beloit), M. Dunn, Thomas Evans, W. M. Folsom, A. R. Foster, F. T. Harvey, R. A. Hickox, Thomas Hodson, J. W. Huggins (corporal, sergeant), W. A. Helmes, C. A. Ingersoll, H. Jarvis, J. M. Kimball, John Lahn (died at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864), J. P. Lincoln, J. D. Maxon, Edward Miles, Thomas Miller, Alonzo Nellis, I. B. Newkirk (cor- poral), Timothy Osborn (died at Liberty Hall Hospital, Virginia, January 27, 1862), E. H. Oleson, F. D. Parker, Ezra Pepper, George Peterson (died of wounds received at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864), Joseph Pierson (killed at the battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864), Clark A. Pierce, B. K. Platts (died at Liberty Hall Hospital, Virginia, July 18. 1862), G. S. Prior, R. W. Pitts (killed at Fredericksburg, Va., May 3, 1863), P. G. Raymond (died of wounds received at Spottsylvania May 12, 1864), W. F. Read, M. Rhoades, D. C. Ripley, T. G. Richardson, G. E. Seymour, P. A. Shaw. G. C. Sims, W. H. Story, W. C. Stevens, W. C. Stuck (died of wounds at Washington November 25, 1863), William J. Stockman, Almaron W. Stillwell, T. S. Stewart, C. M. Taylor, Whitney Tibbals (Beloit, killed at Spottsylvania May 10, 1864), Charles L. Valentine (wounded), J. D. Valentine (killed at Fred- erieksburg, Va., May 3, 1863), A. N. Vaughn (died at Lee's Mill,
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Va., April 30, 1862), J. A. Warner, R. B. Webster, Theodore Weed, W. W. Wiggins (corporal), D. Williams and G. R. Wood- ward, of Afton.
In the campaign against Fredericksburg the Fifth Wisconsin bore an important part. It will be remembered that the attack upon the heights beyond that stronghold was made simultane- ously by three columns under Generals Gibbon, Howe and New- ton. "On Sunday morning, May 3," writes an eye witness, "and after the first advance had been repulsed, Colonel Allen, with 225 men, the right wing of the Fifth Wisconsin, deployed as skirmishers fifty yards in advance, covering the Thirty-first New York and Sixth Maine, ordered his line forward on the double quick. His men were directed not to fire a musket, but to make use of the bayonet, thus giving the enemy, who had just dis- charged their pieces, no time to reload.
"This was the most brilliant charge of the campaign. The line of skirmishers darted forward upon the run, but before they reached the stone fence, which was less than three minutes, twenty-three were killed and seventy-six fell wounded, but not a man unhurt faltered. Clearing the stone fence under a ter- tible fire of artillery and musketry, they bayoneted those of the enemy who still resisted their advance, and, rushing forward, captured the heights, taking possession of the rifle pits and bat- teries.
"Lieutenant Brown, commanding a section of Walton's famous Washington Artillery, surrendered his battery and his men to Colonel Allen. All this was done before any other troops had reached the stone wall. The Sixth Maine came up and planted their colors on the right, and the left wing of the Fifth Wiscon- sin came up about the same time and raised their colors on the left."
Company G, Sixth Regiment. Captain, M. A. Northrup; lieu- tenants, George L. Montague and W. W. Allen. The company was known as the Beloit Star Rifles, enlisted at Beloit.
The following is the complete roster: Royal Atwood. James Avery, A. O. Austin, A. Allen, S. P. Alexander, D. C. Burbank, P. Burch, S. G. Bayes, J. N. Bingham, G. W. Bly, H. L. Beemon, G. T. Bury, L. K. Barmore, W. Bedford, H. Brady, H. S. Beers, G. Best, M. Ball, W. H. Burns, D. F. Burdick, D. Briggs, J. Brader. G. W. Chamberlin, J. H. Cowen, George Closson, A. Clarke. B.
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Cannon, J. Conner, B. F. Clarke, B. Christer, J. Conner, E. Dwin- nell, H. J. Dahl, J. F. J. Davis, W. P. Force, J. H. Filmore, J. W. Frodine, W. T. Fuller, W. C. Gardner, C. J. Gibbs, R. Gamble, F. Green, C. Gierwitz, W. Holland, George W. Harbaugh, B. F. Harbaugh, S. W. Hanson, James Haynes, C. R. Hubbard, N. Haley, G. W. Jay, G. M. Keyt, L. A. Kent, J. Kilmartin, A. Kel- lum, M. A. Kinsey, B. Keller, J. Jane, D. F. Lumbard, L. S. Med- bury, P. Manning, A. Moffatt, J. Miller, B. Miller, T. Mealey, O. Morton, H. C. Malraw, C. W. Mead, J. M. Moore, J. McMann, C. Mann, W. S. Metcalf, J. Moreau, W. Nichols, M. Odell, J. O'Leary, H. S. Paine, II. L. Surfield, S. N. Page, B. Parkenson, H. C. Powers. A. S. Parker, E. W. Plummer, A. Rickle, P. Raf- ferty, Thomas Smith, B. Snyder, J. L. Snyder, F. J. Tuttle, O. West, J. W. Webb, H. Whittaker, R. O. Wright, O. Willson, A. Weller, A. Webb, G. Weatherby, Y. Smith.
Company K, Seventh Regiment. Captains, Alexander Gor- don, of Beloit, George S. Hoyt and John M. Hoyt; lieutenants, Frank W. Oakley. David Shirrell and others. This company, known as the Badger Rifles, enlisted at Beloit and rendezvoused at Camp Randall. Following is the roster, some few being from another county : Alexander Gordon, F. W. Oakley, David Shir- rell, S. B. Morse, George S. Hoyt, A. D. Rood (lieutenant), J. W. Bruce, J. M. Hoyt, W. Stever (lieutenant), J. B. Davis (sergeant, died May 21, 1862). George S. Hoyt (captain), H. Harbaugh (ser- geant), Amos D. Rood (lieutenant), D. C. Van Antwerp (corpo- ral, sergeant), Isaac S. Livingston, L. A. Eggleston, J. S. Claflin, Andrew Clark, W. Steever (lieutenant), H. Phillips (corporal), D. McDermot (sergeant, wounded Gettysburg), M. M. Havely, D. Custer (musician), C. Andrews, O. Anderson, S. Agans, N. S. Allen, W. H. Allison, P. Barrett, J. H. Beard (killed Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862), W. C. Beardsley, W. W. Bowers, S. Bond, A. Brooks, J. W. Bruce, W. H. Barnum (corporal, wounded Gettysburg, died July 16, 1863), F. B. Badreau, N. Blackington, A. M. Baldwin (wounded Petersburg, died July 7, 1864), N. D. Bennett, W. Bloom, J. Bauer, Martin Luther Cochran (corporal, killed at battle of Gaines Mills), N. M. Casper, G. W. Coville, J. M. Crawford, George Carney, Ed. Carney, William Combs, W. Cloupeck, M. O. Donnell, J. Dunham, M. Erickson (wounded sec- ond Bull Run), N. Eddy, W. D. Ellis, F. Eiselt, J. H. Fenton, W. C. Franklin (killed May 1, 1862), J. F. Foss (corporal, wounded),
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C. R. Garner, F. J. Garner, J. M. Hoyt (captain), W. Hyde, W. Hughes (corporal, wounded), H. B. Huntress, E. M. Hopkins (wounded, Gettysburg), G. Huntress, Michael Haman, J. L. Judd, C. Jones, H. M. Johnson, J. H. Knapp, C. Klein, P. Kinsman (wounded, died, Gettysburg, July 26, 1863), M. Kramer, H. M. Kinsman (corporal, sergeant), C. Keihl, W. Kersher, D. Lord (died February 23, 1862, Arlington, Va.), F. S. Lyon, A. A. Lom- bard, R. F. Lombard, I. M. Livingston, J. A. Livingston, M. E. Livingston, A. F. Livingston, R. L. Livingston, Isaac S. Living- ston, W. D. Mckinney, A. Murray, A. Mahoney, H. McRady, Calvin Miller (killed Gettysburg, July 1, 1863), M. McNamara (corporal, sergeant), M. Miller, J. P. Murray, D. Moriarty (wounded Gettysburg, died August 21, 1864), L. McFarlan, A. Munson, E. Mattoon, P. C. Miller, J. McCabe, F. McKee, C. B. Norton, N. H. Norton, D. Noack, H. L. Nicholas, E. H. Oviatt, M. W. O'Ryan, H. Phillips, H. Richards, W. J. Rader, F. L. Rubin, D. N. Russell, W. Raymond, E. Ranney, J. Ryan, A. Rick, C. Reidenback, J. Rittenhouse, N. Sebring, G. H. Sedgewick, A. J. Streeter, S. Severson, J. A. Snyder, George W. Shoemaker (died October 21, 1862), George Simmons, F. Simmons, F. Stow- ell, R. Tibbitts (died February 17, 1864), L. Tamsen, A. Teachard, J. T. Tower, A. Tischausen, P. Tarmutzer, B. Tolickson, H. Uhl, G. Van Amburg, T. Van Orman, F. Virginia, John Warbert (wound- ed Gettysburg), W. S. Wilson, C. W. Woodman, L. S. Wilkins, D. S. Wilkinson, G. F. Watson (died July 28, 1864), S. L. Wood, S. Wood, W. Woolbridge, J. Wright, J. M. Winters, W. Webber, M. Weiler, W. Wiseman, J. C. Young, C. Zantner.
Company G, of the Eighth, was made up of recruits from various portions of the county, the Janesville Fire Department, etc., and was recognized as one of the crack companies of the nationally famous Eagle Regiment of Wisconsin. The regimen- tal organization was completed on the 4th and the regiment mus- tered into service on the 5th of September, 1861, at Camp Ran- dall. After a brief delay, devoted to drilling, the Eighth was armed and equipped and on October 12 departed for the scene of active hostilities with which it was so intimately associated during the three years following. The regiment reached St. Louis on the 14th, remaining at Benton Barracks one day, going thence to De Soto, Big River Bridge, Pilot Knob, and finally to Fredericktown, where Jeff Thompson was encountered and put
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to flight. This was the first engagement in which the boys par- ticipated, and was followed by New Madrid, Island No. 10, Farm- ington, Miss., the siege of Corinth; the battles of Iuka, Corinth and Jackson; the siege and capture of Vicksburg; battles of Richmond, Fort De Russy, Henderson Hills, Pleasant Hill, Clou- tierville, Mausura and Yellow Bayou, La .; Hurricane Creek, Miss .; Lake Chicot, Ark .; Nashville, the Spanish Fort and Mo- bile. After campaigning through Arkansas, Tennessee and Mis- sissippi the regiment returned to St. Louis, where it was reclothed and accompanied the command of General A. J. Smith in the movement to repel the advance of Hood. After the battle of Nashville the regiment moved farther south, camping at Chal- mette, near New Orleans, at Dauphin Island, Mobile, Montgom- ery and Demopolis, Ala., where it was mustered out of service and returned home, reaching Madison on September 13, 1865, after four years of constant service, during which the regiment marched 15,179 miles, campaigned in eleven states, fought nearly forty battles, participated in nineteen skirmishes and unnum- bered sorties, returning at the close of its service full of honor and with its "eagle bird" in the enjoyment of excellent health and undiminished appetite. Early in the war the regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, of the Army of the Mississippi, under the command of General Plummer, but subsequently became a part of the Second Brigade, First Divi- sion, Fifteenth Army Corps, General W. T. Sherman, and of the First Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, General A. J. (Baldy) Smith.
The following is a list of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of Company G, all being from Janesville except those designated otherwise: W. B. Britton, captain, promoted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel; Charles P. King, first lieu- tenant, promoted captain March 28, 1863; R. D. Beamish, second lieutenant, killed at Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1863; William H. Sargent, promoted first lieutenant March 28, 1863, killed before Nashville December 16, 1864; James Croft, Jr., first ser- geant ; Milton H. Doty, first lieutenant; M. C. Williamson (died at Iuka, Miss., August, 1862), W. E. McNair and H. H. Whittier (died at Vicksburg July 15, 1863), sergeants ; J. A. White (killed at Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862), A. J. Blood, C. N. Riker, D. H. Slauson, James M. McNair, A. Paul Jr. (died at Germantown,
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Tenn., March 10, 1863), J. W. Drummond (promoted sergeant) and William Watson, corporals. Privates: P. Anderson, John J. Bear, Joseph L. Bear (corporal), H. E. Bewley, T. Bowles (cor- poral, sergeant), B. Brittain, C. K. Bryan (died at Cairo, Ill., January 29, 1862), B. H. Byers, John Bray, John Carney. Will- iam Culton (Edgerton), John Crymble, A. Cooley, William Con- roy (died at Memphis, Tenn., January 15, 1864), Joseph Davis (Indian Ford). L. Davis Jr., Norman Davis, Ed. Drake, John Dave (died at Black River, Miss., October 2, 1863), Arthur Ellis, M. Flynn, John Flagler, E. L. Graves (corporal), G. L. Griffith (corporal), W. W. Gowens, E. P. Griffin, C. E. Hines of Brodhead and David Harvey (both wounded at Corinth), Solomon Harvey (Lima), J. B. Huggins (corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant), A. Holloway (Magnolia, died at Cairo January 24, 1862), A. M. Johnson (Edgerton, died at Farmington, Miss., May 24, 1862), George P. Ide, Charles D. Kelly (Indian Ford, killed March 29, 1865, Spanish Fort, La.), William Kelly (Indian Ford), Julius Love (Porter, wounded Corinth), Charles H. Lee (sergeant, first lieutenant), James Keefe, David Lawrence, J. N. Marshall, J. MeNair (corporal), C. L. Noggle (quartermaster sergeant), H. J. Phillips (Afton), O. J. Miles, E. J. O'Brien, R. Peters, James Rogers, C. W. Robinson, Fritz Runga (died Memphis July 16, 1864), Alfred Slack, G. T. Stickney (wounded Corinth), A. M. Stiekney, J. B. Smith (died at Sulphur Spa, Mo., January 16, 1862), W. H. Soper, Daniel E. Stanton, John Stephenson, P. W. Tifft, Philip Tramblie, Julius Tramblie, Jonas Tramblie, A. Thompson, Henry Tiedeman (corporal), G. Viney (corporal. ser- geant) Charles Viney (corporal), William Trask, B. F. Williams, Manson L. Williamson (sergeant. died August 29, 1862, Iuka. Miss.), Martin P. Wilson, Emil Wright.
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