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sergeant), George W. McCoy (died at Sandersville, Ky., Novem- ber 15, 1862), Warren W. Newell (corporal), Samuel Norton (of Center, deserted), Willis H. Noyes, Henry R. Osborne, Farin E. Osborne, Chauncey C. Osborne, Jr., John P. Pfeifer (wounded), William Patterson, Jr. (died at Nashville, March 5, 1863), Web- ster C. Pope (second lieutenant), Edwin H. Pullan (corporal), Benjamin F. Pope, John S. Payne, John B. Preston, Willard B. Preston, Frank B. Preston, Lyman W. Preston, Eben Reynolds (died at Annapolis, Md., April 12, 1863), Seth H. Reynolds, Mar- tin Rice, Walter Smith (killed at Dallas, Ga., May 26, 1864), Edward P. Smith, Reuben Sprague (corporal), David L. Sprague, John R. Sprague, Fred W. Seymour (corporal, sergeant), John L. Symonds, Peter Thompson (corporal), Sanford N. Williams, Edward H. Thatcher, Daniel McS. Terwilliger, Horace E. War- ner (of Janesville, who lost an arm at Resaca, Ga.), and Albert Walker (promoted corporal, and killed at Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864).
The companies, B and I, of the Twenty-second Regiment Wis- consin Volunteer Infantry, were mainly Rock county men, most of them from Beloit and vicinity. The roster, giving only Rock county men, was as follows: Company B, captain, Thomas P. Northrop; first lieutenant, George H. Brown (promoted captain. January 23, 1863) ; second lieutenant, William H. Calvert; ser- geants, Calvin H. Bullock (promoted second licutenant), Ira P. Nye (promoted first lieutenant), Frederick J. Northrop, Alexan- der Anderson, James N. Crandall (promoted second lieutenant) : corporals, Sanford L. Miller, Sophronius S. Herrick (promoted sergeant), Silas L. Bibbins, Frank H. Kelley (promoted ser- geant), John S. Kendall (promoted second lieutenant Company C, Forty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry), George W. West, Charles P. Murray and James E. Ross (both sergeants) ; musicians, Horace Ormsby and John Teague; wagoner, William O. Ranney. The privates were Rollin L. Adams, David E. Brownell, Adney F. Bibbins, George W. Bailey, Albert W. Bullock, Otis P. Bicknell. Clarence W. Baker (of Janesville), Orange V. Capron, George C. Clark, Charles H. Crist, William A. Dawson, Josiah Darling, George W. Dates, James Dwyer, Hiram Ellingson, Charles Foun- tain, Edgar A. Farr (promoted corporal), Ole Gullickson, Albert C. Getten (promoted corporal), John C. Hosier, George W. Har- wood, Joseph Hackett, Henry A. Hodge (promoted corporal),
AMOS E. REIGART.
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Joseph A. Harrison, John Jacobson, Frank H. Kelley (corporal, sergeant), James King, Benjamin FF. Kline, Richard A. Kendall, Albert Maxworthy, William H. H. Minot (corporal), Charles A. Minot, Amasa H. Merriman, Lueius S. Moseley (corporal), Wil- liam F. Neal, John Nelson, John Newman, William C. Orr, John Orr, John Oleson, Napoleon B. Perry, John M. Pomeroy, George N. Perkins, Richard M. Radway, Leonard M. Rose, George W. Rose, John D. Russell, Benjamin Selleek, Nelson Salisbury (of Janesville), Weaver F. Schoening (corporal, sergeant), Harvey C. Smith, Frank H. Smith, Austin E. Smith, Simon M. Sage (corporal), Rudolph A. Spencer, Thomas Simonson, Silas Wright. All the above, unless otherwise specified, were enlisted at Beloit, Wis., and for three years.
On the roster of Company I were the following: Captains, Warren Hodgdon, Perry W. Tracy (promoted from first lieu- tenant), Marshall W. Patton (promoted from second and first lieutenant, died of wounds at Resaea, Ga., May 19, 1864), John W. Parker (promoted from sergeant, second and first lieuten- ant; first lieutenant, Worcester H. Morse (promoted from first sergeant) ; privates, Herman Anderson, Ole O. Austin, Edward W. Balch, Richard R. Banker, William J. Barnes, Phanuel Bar- num (of Plymouth), Edward Barry, Felix Baumgardner, Ira T. Beldin (corporal), James Bemis (of Janesville), Benjamin R. Bass (corporal), Norwood Bowers, Erwin S. Bowers, Samuel S. Bullis, Ariel Bullis, William Burst (of Plymouth), William F. Cadman, Samuel Carpenter, Eri B. Carver (of Plymouth), Charles J. Cooper (promoted hospital steward), Carl A. Corneliusen, Milo P. Doud, Cordon P. Doud, Eugene R. Drury, John C. Dur- gin (promoted first sergeant, sergeant major), Ole Enocksen (of Clinton), Lewis M. Eriekson, Austin C. Freeman (corporal). Thomas Gamble, Addison Garringer (of Plymouth, deserted), John Garrick, Edward A. Goddard (corporal, died February 10, 1863, Lexington, Ky., of disease), Thomas Godden (of Beloit), Frederiek H. Green, Christian Hensen, Lewis Hansen, Bennett Hanson, John Hanson, David O. Herron, John Hill (corporal), Frederick Hillyer, William C. Hodge (corporal), Edwin F. Hol- lister (corporal), Henry Hunt (wounded Peach Tree Creek), William H. Hunt, Clark Huntley (corporal, sergeant), Richard M. Jackson (of Plymouth), Carl Jensen, John A. Johnson, Gil- bert Johnson (corporal), William H. Lee (corporal, sergeant),
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Hugh Lee, Jr. (corporal), Henry Lee (of Beloit), Jacob Lund, James Merical, Lemon C. Morgan (first sergeant, second lieu- tenant), William H. Monroe, Burr Murdock, William H. Needles (wagoner), Oliver Nelson, Albert Nicholas, Sven Olson, Knud Olson, James R. Owen, William F. Parker, Edwin B. Parkhurst (corporal, sergeant), Lorenzo D. Parkhurst, William Pearl, Jr. (musician), David B. Prince, Godfrey Pouet, George Quinton, Victor Rambolt, George Rambolt, Peter Rauch (of Newark), Henry J. Rosencrans (corporal), George Secrest, Palmer Sher- man, Theron Skinner, Albert C. Smith, Heman W. Smith, DeWitt C. Stevenson, Truman Stickney, George Stokes, Alexis W. Tall- man, Thomas Daniel (corporal), Wallace W. Wright (corporal), Eden Walling, Edward D. Webb (corporal, sergeant), Julius Westinghouse, George W. Wheeler, Orren W. Young.
The Twenty-second Regiment was mustered into service at Camp Utley, Racine, on September 2, 1862, and within a fort- night afterwards was sent to the front. At Thompson's Station, about thirty miles south of Nashville (also called Spring Hill), and Unionville, Tenn., this Twenty-second Wisconsin, the Thirty- third and Eighty-fifth Indiana, the Nineteenth Michigan and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio (with the Eighteenth Ohio Battery) and three companies of cavalry, all under Gen- eral J. C. Coburn, fought during March 4 and 5, 1863, about thirty thousand rebels under Forrest and Van Dorn. March 5, when the Twenty-second was at the front, Colonel Utley being near Company B, Corporal L. S. Moseley of that company re- marked to him: "Colonel, they're getting pretty thick out in front ; why don't we fire?" "Fire away," said the colonel, and at once Moseley raised his gun and fired the first shot of that engagement, which lasted five hours. The result of the unequal contest was 150 of the Confederates killed and 400 wounded, while of the Union troops 100 were killed, 300 wounded and 1,306 were captured that day, including most of Companies B and I of the Twenty-second. That part of the regiment which escaped fought again at Brentwood, Tenn., March 25, and 300 (about all the rest of them) were captured; then some 1,200, including the boys from the Twenty-second, were taken to Libby prison (many of our Beloit boys being there four or five weeks, and those later captured, only a day or so), and then the men of the Twenty- second were paroled and sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, to
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await an exchange. While the red tape for that was being tediously drawn out, our boys concluded that they might as well pass the time at home, and so all of them ran away from the barracks and came North. This act occasioned some public criticism, but Colonel Utley, in a published communication, de- clared that whenever he was ready and should send for the Twenty-second, every man of them would come. Being on parole, they were still in the army, but could not fight until regularly exchanged. Accordingly, as soon as their exchange was ar- ranged, Colonel Utley sent them word to rendezvous at Camp Gamble, just south of St. Louis. The men of the Twenty-second came promptly at his call to the place appointed, every man of them, were duly exchanged and then Companies B and I be- came a part of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, under General Jo. Hooker, and went all through the Atlanta campaign with Sherman. The first Union flag raised over Atlanta was the flag of our Twenty-second Wisconsin, raised September 2, 1864, exactly two years after that regiment was mustered into the U. S. service. This regiment then went with Sherman to the sea and around to Washington, and took part in that last grand review.
Note-On Lieutenant Ira P. Nye's copy of the muster roll of Company B, made out at Camp Gamble, June 8, 1863, is the fol- lowing record: "Was engaged with the enemy at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, March 5, and both officers and twenty-four men (were) taken prisoners. We had twelve men wounded, one of whom has since died. The balance of the company escaped and returned to camp at Brentwood, where they were engaged on March 25 and taken prisoners; were taken to Richmond, where the men were paroled and the officers exchanged on May 5, and returned to St. Louis to organize the regiment. All the company books and papers were destroyed." Signed by George H. Brown, captain.
The second lieutenant of that Company B, Ira P. Nye, now a banker of Eureka, Kan., and who loaned me this muster roll, adds the following: "There were, if I remember correctly, forty- three men in line that day all told. We had two men, who do not appear in that company, killed in our line that day. One was Fred Goddard, of Beloit, and the other was a man by the name of Hines, of Racine, who was sergeant master of the regi-
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ment. The record says that there were twelve men wounded that day. I think it was fourteen. The deserters from Company B, were first, a student of Beloit college academy, who deserted in Ken- tucky, February 28, 1863. (He married a southern widow and might be recorded as captured by the enemy.) Another was a young Irishman. He fell out on the way to the hospital (Decem- ber 20, 1862) and stayed out. I saw him once in Nashville after that, but he disappeared very suddenly. * On May 12, 1863, we lost another by desertion, immediately after our cap- ture and parole. He was only a boy."
There were four deserters from Company I, one of Clinton, two of Beloit and one of Newark. From Company E, of the Twenty-second Wisconsin, the only deserters recorded are one of Janesville, one of Center and one of Magnolia. Almost all these desertions were the result of homesickness. Corporal L. S. Moseley, B, Twenty-second, was present at every roll call of his company, and never sick a day.
During the siege of Atlanta, certain Confederate batteries which hindered the advance of Thomas, were protected by a mountain west of the city. Men of the Second Massachusetts cut a road up it for guns, Company I of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, under Captain William H. Montgomery, of Beloit college, dug and prepared the gun pits, and with great effort, the light field pieces of the Eleventh Indiana battery were hauled up there and placed in position on the crest of the mountain. When the gunners were all ready to open fire on the Confederate lines below, General Sherman, General George A. Thomas (the Rock of Chickamauga), Fighting Joe Hooker and General J. M. Bran- nan, Thomas' chief of artillery, gathered to observe the effect of that fire. Dr. Samuel Bell, of Beloit, then assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, under Thomas, stood near by among the staff officers and says that as they were all expecting the still- ness of that August day to be invaded by the crash of the dis- charge, suddenly there pealed across the valley below them from the city on the heights beyond, the deep tones of church bells ringing for Sunday morning worship. Sherman started at the sound, raised a warning finger to the gunners and remarked to the officers about him, "Gentlemen, we will not open fire today." Then turning to his chief of artillery, he quietly said: "General
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Brannon, you will open fire tomorrow." Sherman, who once said that "war was hell," never fought on Sunday if he could help it.
Thirty-third Regiment.
Companies E and F, of the Thirty-third Regiment, were also enlisted in Rock county, and made up of some of the best mate- rial which the banner county of Wisconsin contributed to pre- serve the Union. The regiment went into camp at Racine, Sep- tember 29, 1862, was mustered into service October 18, and de- parted for the seat of war November 12. Arriving at Memphis, the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, General Lau- man's division, Army of the Tennessee, in which capacity it served in the campaigns against Jackson, Vicksburg and Holly Springs, until January, 1863, when it was transferred to the Six- teenth Army Corps, commanded by Major General Hurlbut, and participated in the fight at Hernando, where Lieutenant Swift, of Company E, was killed; thence proceeding to Young's Point, Snyder's Bluff, Haine's Bluff, Vicksburg and Natchez, it joined in the Red river expedition, returning to Vicksburg and Mem- phis, repelling the attack of Camargo Cross Roads ; prominent in the fight of Tupelo, after that it went to St. Charles, Ark., and finally on October 8, 1864, reached St. Louis. On November 1 the regiment proceeded to reënforce the army of General Thomas at Nashville, where it became part of General A. J. Smith's com- mand. After the retreat of General Hood, the Thirty-third was assigned to guarding the transportation train to Savannah, Tenn., Company F proceeding to that point and Company E to Grand View, rejoining the regiment at Eastport, Miss. Thereafter the regiment was ordered to the department of the Gulf, and went to New Orleans, thence to Dauphin Island, Cedar Point, Spanish Fort, Blakely, Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Jackson, Big Black River Bridge and Vicksburg, Miss., Cairo to Madison, where it arrived on August 14, 1865, and was paid off and mustered out of service September 1, 1865.
The following are the company muster rolls :
Company E. Captain, Ira Miltimore, resigned August 9, 1863 ; first lieutenant, Henry S. Swift, Jr., killed April 19, 1863, at Hernando, Miss .; second lieutenant, Pardon H. Swift, pro-
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moted to first lieutenant, June 24, and captain, August 20, 1863; Lieutenant Henry Scriftof, killed at Coldwater, Miss., April 19, 1863; sergeants, Henry B. Cornell (promoted second lieuten- ant, June 24, first lieutenant, August 29, 1863), Edward Cook, Bartholomew Quigley, Daniel D. Richards and William Cornell (died at Moscow, Tenn., January 21, 1863) ; corporals, Silas B. Croker, Nathaniel Smith, A. H. Kime, Thomas Quigley, Charles E. Green, Charles W. Nickerson, James Reese and Jacob Smith ; musician, S. H. Calender; wagoner, Levi H. Fountain ; privates, Franklin Anderson, Adelbert Babcock (died at Memphis, Decem- ber 4, 1862), John B. Bunce (died at Vicksburg, July 7, 1862), Warren G. Barber, Anthony Byrnes, Thomas Byrnes, Rensselaer Burnham, Otto Craig, James Coffee, Robert W. Cliford, James K. Clark, Boyd Creighton, James Freeman (died at Vicksburg July 6, 1863), John A. Flint (died at Natchez, October 9, 1863), Henry Fairchild, Frederick Fiero, Waldo Godell, John Good- man, William Gale, Nurve Geroem, Joseph C. Hall, Ira M. How- ard, Nathan Havilin, A. N. Hangen, Patrick Hebir, J. C. John- son, Ingebert Knudson (died at Moscow, Tenn., January 31, 1863), C. A. Kennedy, Hendrick Levorson, Knud Levorson, Tollef Levorson, Alexander Lyons, Charles Looby, Michael Law- ler, J. C. Meegen, Valentine Melavin, Alonzo E. Miltimore (wounded at Vicksburg), William McKee, II. Megorden, Alex- ander McDonald, Lewis Noe, Thomas Night, Ole Olson (died at Memphis, April 30, 1863), Syver Olsen (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 12, 1863), Hendrick Olson (died at Memphis, February 10. 1863), Halgrin Oleson, Emery Patch, Orvill Rhodes, Edmund Robinson, Hiram N. Robinson, Arthur J. Robinson, Brainard Rider, Rufus A. Stafford (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 14, 1863), Frank A. Steele (died at Natchez, October 25, 1863), Richard B. Steward (died at St. Charles, Ark., August 14, 1864), C. F. Stokes, William Southwick, James Smith, Alonzo Sutton, E. R. Squires, James Turner, John Tarney, Francis Van Patten, John West, Hiram Wait, William Weaver, John Watt, Right Williams, Charles H. Wheeler and Charles Young.
Company F. Captain, A. Z. Wemple (died at Memphis, March 9, 1863), William L. Scott, April 9, 1863; first lieutenant, W. L. Scott (promoted April 9, 1863) ; second lieutenant, Charles W. Stark (promoted first lieutenant, April 9, 1863, and captain
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of Company E, December 16, 1864) ; sergeants, Joseph H. Stickle (promoted second lieutenant, April 9, 1863; first lieutenant, February 11, 1865), Kirk W. Tanner, Edwin W. Burnham (died at Young's Point, La., May 31, 1863), Abner C. Babeoek and H. Levander Farr; corporals, Charles E. Hoyt, John Eastwood, Oliver S. Crowther, Hosea B. Stafford, Matthias Crall, Eugene S. Serl (died at Cairo, August 24, 1863), Erastus A. Gardner and Samuel E. Lyon (died at Holly Springs, Miss., December 27, 1862) ; drummer, Charles H. Hoard; fifer, William Snyder; wagoner, Emery H. Burdick ; privates, Lucius P. Adams, August Buntrock, Nelson A. Bump (wounded), Silas M. Campbell (killed at Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864), Robert Carr (died at New Or- leans, April 19. 1865), John L. Clark, Charles Cole, Francis S. Cramer, John L. Daniels, John Devens, Samuel Donaldson, Will- iam W. Eastman, John R. Edwards, Henry C. Eldridge, William H. Edmonds (died at Memphis, January 23, 1863), Laban Fisher, Ansel Flint, Franklin Francisco, Albert Freehauf, Jacob C. Het- rick (died at La Grange, March 17, 1863), Joseph W. Higday, John M. Holden, Joseph L. Holmes, John Hoyt, Nathan B. Hoyt (promoted corporal and killed at Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864), Harvey Howard, Peter Jamison, Albert C. Jones (promoted cor- poral and killed at Cane River, La., April 24, 1864), James Kelley (died at Moscow, Tenn., February 26, 1863), George W. Merry (died at Moscow, Tenn., March 13, 1863), William H. Minor. Blanchard Nevill, John Nus, Jonathan G. Patterson, Ezra Peper, Lucien B. Pierce, Rollin C. M. Pond, August Pitzriek (died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 11, 1864), Wendell Powers, Henry Reed (killed near Mobile, Ala.), Emerson Root (died at Eastport, Miss., January 24, 1865), George Rodd, John Ryan, David Safford, William Smith (killed at Vicksburg, June 4, 1863), Saren W. Serl, Michael Setzer, Abel Spencer, William Stern, Charles Stern (killed 1864), Frederick Stulke, Saegus Sutter, John Tuel, Joseph Thompson (died at Memphis, July 2, 1864), Chauncey L. Van Balen (died at Moscow, Tenn., March 6, 1863). William Weaver, Montgomery Wright (died at Natchez. September 4, 1863), George R. Welch, Frederick Wisch, William I. Wheeler, Ezra Whitmore (wounded near Mobile, April, 1865), Albert W. White, John M. Wray, Westley Wright, Herbert D. Whitford and Joseph Yates.
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The Thirty-fifth Regiment.
The forty men of Rock county in this regiment were in seven companies (most in Company F), as follows :
Company B. Oliver R. Bullis, Avon; James McNallus, Will- iam G. Metcalf and John M. Wells, Janesville; Jacob North, Clin- ton ; Theo. F. Tripp, Rock.
Company C. Thomas Buzzell, Robert Campton, William Car- roll, Peter F. Daniels, George Knox, J. McCurdy, William Proc- tor.
Company D. Peter F. Daniels and John McCann.
Company E. John M. Bacon, Anthony Conway, James R. Phelps, of Janesville; Ed A. Dimick, Clinton; John F. Dimick, Johnstown.
Company H. Roger A. Carroll, Janesville.
Company I. Frank Frey and Elmer Sedgwick, Janesville ; Lott Ryan, of Rock.
Company F. Captain, Henry C. Miles, Janesville, promoted from first lieutenant Company E. Privates, Levi K. Alden, cor- poral, Janesville; W. H. Earl, Porter, promoted first lieutenant ; Myron Gibbs, Beloit; William Grinnell, La Prairie; James W. Hitchcock, Johnstown, promoted first lieutenant; James Ingle, Patrick Keagan, Dennis McCarthy, Belden Ressequie and Will- iam Stiedy, Porter ; John H. Wemple, Turtle; Willis Nash, Will- iam Sanders and Henry Wright, of Janesville; George W. Pat- terson, corporal, of Milton.
The Fortieth Regiment.
In April, 1864, the governors of five states, including Wiscon- sin, persuaded the United States government to accept 80,000 volunteers for a service of 100 days (on the terms of regular soldiers' pay and no bounties), to hold cities and camps then occupied by veteran troops, thus releasing the veterans for ser- vice at the front. There would be no battles and wounds, but just army camp life-the romance of war. Wisconsin sent two short regiments and one battalion, some 2,300 in all, and of these 231 went from Rock county in the Fortieth Regiment.
Prof. Fallows, of Lawrence university, and others, sought to have this Fortieth Regiment made up from the colleges and uni- versities and known as the Normal regiment. About half the
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number were students, and Madison, Beloit, Appleton, Janesville, Milton and Baraboo furnished officers and men for companies A, B, C, D and E. Prof. Fallows, the real leader, was made lieu- tenant colonel, while a colonel of militia, W. Augustus Ray, be- came colonel of the Fortieth and gave his name to the camp. On the steamer going down to Memphis, I saw our Beloit orderly sergeant, Sweezy, instructing the new colonel how to make a salute. Colonel Ray got his long sword out all right (after some effort), but found it almost an impossibility to get the sword back into the scabbard again. A few officers and about forty men had seen army service before. The Fortieth Regiment had cight companies, leaving out H, and from the other eight, took enough to make Company I, the famous squad I, of Shanghai Chandler. We started from Madison on the Morning of June 14, 1864, for Memphis, Tenn .; those from Rock county (as nearly as I can ascertain) of the staff, were Quartermaster A. L. Field, Beloit; First Assistant Surgeon Amos S. Jones, Janesville ; Chap- lain J. J. Blaisdell, Beloit. Non-commissioned officers : Q. M. sergeant, Henry F. Hobart, Beloit; commissary sergeant, Henry C. Alverson, Beloit; color bearer and guard, Sergeant Hiram Collins, Company C. Corporals, Walter B. Van Kirk, Company A; Henry C. Simmons, Company B; Charles P. Blatehley, Com- pany D; George H. Schilling, Company E; Addin Kaye, Company F; C. H. Powers, Company G; Thomas Jefford, Company I; Henry Z. Moulton, Company K. Chief musician, T. Martin Towne, of Janesville. Drummers, Reuel H. Welch, Janesville, Company A; G. P. Winn, Beloit, Company B; Frank H. Graves, Beloit, Company B; F. G. Vosburg, Janesville, Company A. Fifer, W. H. H. Hall, Lima, Company C. Postmaster, James M. Pool, Janesville.
Company A. Captain, Samuel T. Lockwood, Janesville; first lieutenant, Gage Burgess, Janesville; second lieutenant, Moses T. De Witt, Janesville ; first sergeant, Levi L. Beers, Janesville ; third sergeant, Silas P. Gibbs, Janesville; fourth sergeant, Hiram D. Nash, Janesville; fifth sergeant, Oliver N. Gage, Janesville ; first corporal, Andrew S. Douglas, Janesville; second corporal, John S. Howard, Janesville; third corporal, Edson A. Burdick, Janesville; fourth corporal, Ardent J. Roberts, Janesville ; fifth corporal, Walter B. VanKirk, Janesville; seventh corporal, Frank A. Knowles, Janesville.
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Rock county privates: Company A. John N. Armstrong, Theo. C. Ashcraft, Charles E. Brown, Samuel Clark Burnham, George E. Coloney, Almon H. Calkins, Delavan H. Comstock, Calvin L. Dunning, Samuel Davis, DeWitt Davis, Andrew J. Denniston, Julius C. Eldridge, Ira Fredenall, Edward W. Hames, Richard L. Haywood, William L. Hart, Halot R. Howell, Edward Hanson, Edward W. Humes, Samuel C. Jayne, Edwin Lee, George Lill, William W. Lewis, Reuben Matthews, Orrin Parker, James M. Pool, Henry E. Porter, Rufus R. Resseguie, Louis Risum, Will- iam K. Royce, Peter Reifenberg, Ardent J. Roberts, John H. Roberts, W. W. Seaver, Nathan Sisson, James A. Suther- land, Frederick Zeidler, Lewis Tramblie, all of Janesville. Edward Philo Bostwick and Jacob Gates, Shopiere; Will H. Benedict, William H. Cheesbro, Joseph Earl, Adam Herman and Sidney S. Warner, all of La Prairie; Julian C. Eldredge, Joseph Pope, Marcus P. Holman, Linas B. Sale, all of Evansville; Joseph Evans and John H. Riley, of Edgerton; Hanford Fowle, Edwin Lee and John B. Smith, of Bradford; Albert Thompson, of Foote- ville; George Plater, Emerald Grove (died at Memphis, Tenn., August 15, 1864) ; Charles C. Peck, Beloit; William W. Spauld- ing, Harmony; Mathias Christian, Orford; Arthur J. Van Amee, Magnolia; Dwight Webb, Porter; Erwin R. Wagner, Afton. Some of the Janesvillians drew rations by the tops, but most of them were correct men. Captain Lockwood was a fine teacher and citizen. Lieutenant Burgess was a tactician to the toes, the regimental drill master and was detailed inspector of the Fourth Brigade.
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