The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages etc, Part 124

Author: Western Historical Co., pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1050

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WARNER P. ELLIOT, marble-dealer, born in Addison Co., Vt., in 1814, began working in marble at the age of 16, has worked in all departments of the business, and is probably the oldest mar- ble-worker in the United States, having been fifty-one years in continuous service. Was married, in 1832, to Miss Maria D. Carr, of Dorset, Bennington Co., Vt .; they have two children-Robert C., married and living in Chicago, and Jane M., married and living in Chicago; they have buried six children. Came to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled where he now lives, in Waukesha. He was, for a year, Deputy Grand Lecturer for Illinois, of the I. O. G. T., and has also held the same position in Wisconsin; has been Master of Lodge, No. 37, of A., F. & A. M., in Waukesha-he is a Royal Arch Mason. The family affiliate with

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the Methodist Church. Residence and shop are on Dodge St., in the suburbs of Waukesha. They are very pleasantly located-are not in need of this world's goods-are respected pioneers.

JAMES EMSLIE, grocery and crockery store on Madison St. Proprietor was bornin 1844, in township of Pewaukee, and has since continuously resided in Waukesha Co. Educated in the public schools of this county ; lived on farm till 1870, when he started his present business, and has carried it on in the same block to present date. Was married, in 1875, to Miss Anna Blair, a native of Waukesha ; they have two children-Mabel and Brice. Both parents and both children were born in Waukesha Co. He is of Scotch parentage; family are Presbyterians. He is a Republican. Residence also on Madison St. Has a large trade from country, also a good village patronage.

ELIHU ENOS is a native of Johnstown, then Montgomery Co., now Fulton Co., N. Y .; he was born Jan. 29, 1824 ; graduated from the State Normal School, at Albany, in 1847 ; he came West with the intention of locating in Milwaukee, and arrived there in October, 1847, intending to establish a school there, bringing letters to many of the leading citizens of that city. Through the personal efforts, however, of Jacob L. Bean, and E. Root he was induced to go to Waukesha, which he did in the early part of November, 1842, and became connected with Prof. Sterling (now of the State University) in a copartnership, under the style .of the " Waukesha Classical and Normal School," Prof. Sterling having charge of the Department of Language, and Mr. Enos had charge of the school, which he conducted for one year, when Mr. Enos was appointed Postmaster, in 1849, and served four years. In the fall of 1853, he exchanged his village property for a farm, on Sec. 27, in the town of Pewaukee; continued farming until July, 1873. During his residence in the town of Pewaukee, he was elected, in 1854, Town Super- intendent of Schools, and held the same position until 1857. He was elected, in 1856, to represent his district in the Assembly. When the County Superintendent school system was inaugurated, in 1861, he was elected to fill that position, in the fall of 1861. In August. 1862, an out-door county war mass meeting was held in Waukesha, to secure volunteers. It was on Sunday, all the ministers of every denomination being present, as no services were held that day in any of the churches of the county. The result was, Mr. Enos enlisted and raised a company. The outgrowth of that mass meeting was the organization of the 28th W. V. I., which was soon filled. Mr. Enos was immediately elected Captain of Co. G, as soon as the company was organ- ized. Mr. Enos resigned the position of School Superintendent, the resignation to take effect as soon as the fall examinations should be completed. The regiment was ordered to the field in December, 1862. Jan. 10, 1863, Capt. Enos left Milwaukee with the sick and other men left behind, when the regiment left camp. He was on detached duty as Quartermaster of brigade, afterward as Division Quartermaster, until he left the service, on account of disability caused by sickness. He came home in January, 1864, and resigned in the spring of the same year. Mr. Enos has been Chairman of the Town Board of Supervisors, and was appointed Postmaster in April, 1872 ; he was re-appointed, and has held the position ever since. He was Chairman County Republican Committee before he entered the service, and several years afterward. Is a member of the National Republican Committee, and acted as temporary chairman for a short time. He was married in Waukesha, June 11, 1851, to Frances Helen Blake, daughter of Commodore Chesley Blake, whose family came to Waukesha in an early day, he having died in 1849. No children living. Is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Has been Master of the lodge and First High Priest of the lodge for six years ; also member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge.

COL. HERBERT M. ENOS, retired from the regular army; born in 1833 in Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. Y .; graduated from West Point U. S. Military Academy in 1856; was assigned to duty in New Mexico, and served there from 1857 to 1867; was on staff duty in varions cities of the "States," until 1876, when, his health for years having been impaired, he was placed on the retired list, with the rank of Major. In 1878, he erected his elegant residence on " Oak Hill," overlooking the village of Waukesha. The Colonel was never married. His neice, Miss Amelia Enos, is the presiding genius of his home, which is also shared by Mrs. Enos, widow of his brother ; and also by his sister, Mrs. John Hudson, whose deceased husband was a prominent pioneer of Waukesha. The Colonel has several relatives, and many friends, in this vicinity ; and is a representative of the old-school gentleman-courteons, dignified and with a high share of honor.

CLAES A. ESTBERG was born in Carlskrona, Sweden, Feb. 23, 1825. Came to America in 1850, landed in New York July 11, of that year, worked at watchmaking and jewelry business in New York until the spring of 1851, then went to Augusta, Ga .; was there one year, then went to Savannah, Ga., where he remained until 1854; in May of that year he left there and came to Milwaukee, and worked there for A. B. Van Cott until he came to Waukesha in 1858. He has been engaged in the jewelry busi- ness ever since his location in Waukesha. Mr. Estberg has held the position of Village Trustee three or four years-is Clerk of the School District now, and has been for the last ten years, and has been, also,

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Junior Warden of the Episcopal Church for five years. He was married in Grafton, Ozaukee Co., Wis., Dec. 25, 1855, to Sophia Schletz ; she was born in Bavaria; they have four sons-Adolph F., Emil W., C. Albert and Edward R.

EDWARD EVRARD, owner and landlord of the Cambrian House; born in Paris, France, in 1832 ; learned trade of engraver in France ; came to United States in 1852, and located farm in Pewaukee ; was married, 1857, to Miss Eulalie Duvigneaud, of Pewaukee; his eyes did not allow him to work at his trade ; his main business has been farming; in 1879, he erected a beautiful, brick hotel, 42x78, and three stories high, on Madison St., West Side, Waukesha; also has a barn accommodating one hundred horses ; build- ings all new and in first-class condition; has also a cattle-yard which will accommodate fully one hundred cattle. His hotel was built to accommodate the farming community and stockmen - has no reference to the " Spring " and summer tourists. It is conveniently located and liberally patronized. He has five children-Clementine, Desiree, Tirzah, Alexander and Clotilda ; all are at home, and his mother, aged 79, lives with him. In 1854, he made an overland trip to California ; afterward worked three years in the South ; and, in 1870, went again to California; afterward worked a claim in Utah three years. He is a Republican, and an A., F. & A. M.

EDWARD FLANNERY, proprietor of the Hygiea Spring ; was born in 1834, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. His father was a mechanic. In 1843, the family emigrated to the Province of Quebec, where they remained six years. In 1849, they came West, and located in Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill. In 1851, the subject of this sketch began work for the Chicago & Rock Island Railway Company, as engineer of a construction train ; and he continued in their service for four years. In 1855, he entered service as engineer on the old Milwaukee & La Crosse Railway, which was then only partially built, and he ran on that road till 1866. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Julia E. Bauer, of Milwaukee. Since 1866, he has been engineer on the Prairie Du Chien Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- way. Has had thirteen children, ten of whom are living-Nellie J., Maria H., George J., Agatha A., Her- bert F., Julia E .- the twins, Huldah E. and Ida E., Edna F. and Isabella V. Their residence is near the spring, at the foot of Wisconsin avenue. In 1872, he purchased the inclosure, and began developing the spring, now well-known by the name of " Hygiea," the Goddess of Health. This was developed next after Bethesda, and was the second improved in the village. In 1879, he built a spacious structure of beautiful masonry, inclosing the spring, and grading the approach thereto. The masonry surrounding this spring is the most massive and costly of any of the Waukesha Springs. It is said to have the most copious flow of any spring in the village. Its properties are similar to other well-known springs. Mr. Flannery is expending his means and energics to please an appreciative public.

A. J. FRAME was born in Waukesha Feb. 19, 1844. He was connected with the Wauke- sha County Bank in 1862, first as office-boy, afterward as book-keeper, then elected May 22, 1865, Assistant Cashier of the Waukesha County National Bank, Cashier in 1866, and President July 20, 1880. He was married in Waukesha, Aug. 25, 1869, to Emma, only daughter of Silas Richardson, who is now a resident of Waukesha. She was born in Chester, Windsor Co., Vt .; they have four children : Walter R., William S., Harvey J. and Esther Mabel. Mr. Frame is a member of the School Board, and has heen for several years ; also of the A., F. and A. M.

HENRY M. FRAME was born in the town of Brookfield, Waukesha Co., Wis., June 22, 1842, and was married in Waukesha, March 3, 1870, to Adelia Pettibone ; she was born in Farmersville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y .; she died Oct. 16, 1878, leaving two children-Irving P. and Charles H. Mr. Frame is a member of the A., F. & A. M .; he is Cashier of the Waukesha County National Bank.

JOSEPH S. GALLOWAY, M. D., physician in charge of the Silurian Bathing Establish- ment, was born in 1821, in Ohio. His youth and early manhood was passed in Paris, Ky. His prepara- tory education was mainly in the private schools of Kentucky. He taught several years in the public schools of Ohio. His health was delicate from boyhood to mature manhood ; asthma, dyspepsia, inflamma- tion of the eyes and other afflictions, caused him to study his own condition, and after the improvement of his own health, he devoted his life to curing the ills to which flesh is heir. He graduated at the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852; he was then four years Lecturer on Chemistry in the American Medical College, an institution which afterward consolidated with his alma mater. During the war he was engaged in agriculture, and attended to chronic cases at his home. He was married in 1867 to Miss Maria S. Coombs, daughter of a prominent citizen of Clermont Co., Ohio. They have two children-Edna, born in 1869, and Joseph, born in 1873. The Doctor has had fifteen years of medical practice ; most of the time since the war he has been connected with hygienic institutions ; he was for some time the Associate Physician in charge of Our Home, a water-cure or hygienic institution, at Danville, N. Y. The writer of this sketch has examined written testimonials presented Dr. Galloway

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by patients, representing thirteen States ; these all testify to his skill as a physician, his ability as a lecturer, and his character as a Christian gentleman. He is now located at Waukesha, Wis., and is Superintendent of the Bathing Department of the Silurian Springs-an institution which bids fair to become the leading hygienic agency in this "Saratoga of the West."

JOHN GIBBS, retired farmer, born in Hampden Co., Mass., in February, 1815; greater part of his life was spent in York State; he was married, in 1838, to Miss Amanda Nye, daughter of Sylvanus Nye, a prominent farmer of Tompkins Co., N. Y .; immediately after his marriage, he took charge of the " Corning House," at Corning, N. Y., and continued in charge for seventeen years. This hotel had eighty- seven sleeping-rooms, and was the leading hotel of that section of country. He came to Wisconsin in July, 1855, and settled in the village of Waukesha; they have two sons-the oldest, S. Nye Gibbs, a lawyer, was Assistant Adjutant General of Wisconsin during the war; he died in 1867; the other son, J. J. Gibbs, lives with his parents ; is now local manager of the Clysmic Spring. Mr. G. held local offices both in his Eastern and in his Western homes; the family are Episcopalians ; he is a reliable Republican ; owns a residence on Maple Ave., which is conceded to be the pleasantest residence street in Waukesha; for exactly one-fourth of a century has he been a continuous resident of Waukesha, and is a well-known and respected citizen.

MICHAEL GLEASON, contractor and builder ; born in Ireland in 1846 ; son of Edward F. and Ellen Ryan Gleason, prominent farmers in Rensselaer Co., N. Y. ; learned the trade of masonry in York State, and soon became a general builder and contractor. Was engaged largely in church building in the East. Was married in fall of 1857 to Miss Ann"Tighe, of York State; came the same season, and has been resident of Waukesha since that time. Has five children-Edward F., Mary J., Eliza A., John J. and Myra E. His oldest son, Edward F., graduates this season ( 1880) from the Wisconsin State University, ranking second in a large class ; the oldest daughter, Mary J., graduates this year from Carroll College ; his other children are at home. He has erected several public buildings, court houses, colleges, etc., and also nearly all the stone buildings in Waukesha. He is contractor for the masonry in the improvements, now being made at Bethesda and Silurian Springs. He is a conservative Republican, but shuns official position, as his business demands all his time and energies. He has considerable improved real estate in the village, beside his fine brick residence on Main St. He is respected as an able mechani. and an honorable citizen.

JOSEPH A. GLEISSNER, Sr. and Jr., proprietors of Mansion House Livery. The father was born in Bavaria. Germany, in 1823; came to United States in 1844; farmed awhile, then kept hotel for twenty-four years in Monroe, Green Co., Wis .; he was married in 1844, at Hamburg, Germany. on the eve of his departure for America; has had eight children, of whom five are living-Anna MI., Jo-eph 1., Henry P., James B. and Emma; the three sons are married : the two daughters are at home ; family are all Catholics. He owns an improved farm of 152 acres in Vernon Township, Waukesha Co. The son in partnership, Joseph A., came West, of course, with his parents in 1853; and nearly all the time he has been associated with his father in business; he married in 1872, and lives on Park Ave. Himself and father have one of the leading livery establishments in the city ; it is on Grand Ave., near the Mansion House ; they keep eighteen horses ; their establishment is popular.

EDWARD C. GOVE was born in Whitefield, Coos Co., N. H., May 1, 1847 ; son of Elijah and Mary Gove ; Edward came West in 1863; located in Chicago, and, until 1870 engaged in wholesale boot and shoe establishment, first with Gore, Wilson & Co., and afterwards with C. P. Gore & Co. In 1871, he went to Green Bay, and carried on the boot and shoe business there one year; then came to Waukesha, and engaged in farming, which he carried on until March, 1880, when he sold out, and engaged in the grocery business. Mr. Gove was married in Pewaukee, Sept. 24, 1870, to Hattie L. White ; she was born in Waukesha ; they have two children-Mary Josephine, born 'Dec. 24, 1873, and Edward William, born August 8, 1877. Mr. Gove is a member of the Royal Arcanum.

ELIJAH GOVE, retired farmer ; born July 6, 1801, near Augusta, Me .; his father died when he was 3 months old, and he was raised by his grandfather in New Hampshire till he was 16 years of age ; after that time he was in school or on farm till his marriage. On the 27th of November, 1828. in Ludlow, Windsor Co., Vt., he was married to Miss Emiline E. Wright ; they have five chil- dren-Frances E., wife of E. S. Turner, the leading attorney of Port Washington : Londus E., married Millie Noble, of Oconomowoc, and lives in Storm Lake, Iowa; Richard L., a prominent merchant of Wankesha ; Ione, wife of Col. Daniels, Colonel 1st W. V. I., now resident of Washington, D. C .; Jeffer- son M., married Nettie S. Mead, of Rochelle, Ill., now resident of Waukesha. Mr. Gove came to Wan- kesha in July, 1843, and bought 80 acres for $1;000 in gold, and this farm he carried on for a quarter century to a day, and then sold it for $9,000 to Col. Dunbar, who exchanged it for Bethesda Springs.

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Since 1868, he has lived on Broadway in village of Waukesha ; has other real estate in Waukesha ; has held local offices in the East and in the West; has been in business; enjoys commercial life ; also as early as 1850 had contracts for mail routes from Waukesha to Madison, and from Waukesha to McHenry ; he has thirteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; he is a well-known and successful pioneer. On the 27th of November, 1878, was held their " golden wedding," which was a choice gathering, with rich gifts and a rare good time. They have a large circle of influential friends.

RICHARD L. GOVE came to Waukesha in June, 1843; he is a son of Elijah Gove, a farmer, and Emeline E. Wright, and was born at Ludlow, Vt., June 18, 1833. At the age of 10, he became a clerk in a store, attending school part of the time, and attended Prairieville Academy (now Carroll College) a few terms. In 1852, he spent a short time as clerk in Peoria, Ill., going thence to Detroit, Mich. ; graduated from Gregory's Commercial College; and at the close of that year, went to Port Washington, Wis., and started the Ozaukce County Advertiser, a paper which is still published. This he edited and published about eight years, and at the same time acted as Postmaster, having received his appoint- ment from President Pierce, before he was 21 years old. He was holding that office in July, 1861, when, with a lieutenant's commission, he recruited men for the First Wisconsin Cavalry-joined the regi- ment at Ripon-and was made Adjutant of the same. On leaving the service in 1864, Mr. Gove returned to his Wisconsin home, and there made a permanent settlement. Opening a boot and shoe and general furnishing store, he has since continued to conduct it with good success. He has also dealt considerably in real estate-put up the Gove Block, and some twenty dwelling-houses-during the last few years. Mr. Gove was elected President of the village in 1865, 1867 and 1877; Mr. Gove belongs to the fraternity of Odd Fellows. He was married, May 1, 1859, to Miss Jennie A. Stone, a niece of the late H. O. Stone, of Chicago. They have five children-Ione, born Oct. 17, 1860; Richard L., Dec. 22, 1865 ; Jennie May, April 26, 1868 ; Fra Belle, March 13, 1870, and Jay, March 23, 1877.

HON. MILTON S. GRISWOLD was born in Fulton Co., near Johnstown, N. Y., March 23, 1839 ; came to the town of Pewaukee in the spring of 1844, with his parents, Amos W. and Eliza- beth Griswold, who settled on Sec. 12, in Pewaukee ; both now residents in that town. Graduated from Wisconsin State University in 1863; read law in the city of Madison, with Gregory & Pinney ; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court, June, 1864 ; practiced law in Madison, in 1865 and 1866, in partner- ship with R. J. Chase ; he resided at Menomonee Falls, for three years, prior to coming to Waukesha in De- cember, 1870, where he was for three years Deputy Register of Deeds, when he was elected County Judge, which office he held four years. Mr. Griswold was married in the town of Lisbon, Waukesha Co., May 25, 1866, to Harriet Weldish ; she died June 15, 1879, leaving one son-Everett E., born May 27, 1869. Judge G. is a member of the Congregational Church ; also a member of A., F. & A. M. Lodge and Chapter.

ABRAM H. HADFIELD, general stone and lime business ; born in village of Waukesha, on the 23d of January, 1849; has never resided outside of the county. Was married, Oct. 14, 1868, to Miss Annie E. Cook, of Waukesha. In the spring of 1871, he bought the interest of his father-in-law in the old Waukesha quarries, and also secured an interest in the Pewaukee quarry, the stone of which is of a better quality. In 1872, his father and brother, George A., secured a working interest in all these quarries, and also in the limekilns, farther up the river, and said partnership continues to date. This season (1880), they will ship 3,000 to 3,500 car loads of stone and lime, this firm being the largest shippers in Waukesha Co. Mr. Hadfield has three children-Charles C., Amy B. and Esther L. He is a Royal Arch Mason ; family are Methodists. They have a beautiful stone residence on East avenue. He is a prominent and prosperous business man, of more than local reputation.

JOSEPH HADFIELD, general stone and lime business ; born in 1816, in England. Was married in 1842 to Miss Harriet Jackson, of Derbyshire, England, who died in. September, 1844, leaving one son, Joseph J., now of Waukesha. Came to United States in 1842, and settled in Waukesha, which has been his home continually to date. He married his present wife in 1845; her maiden name was Sarah Harrison, who was born in the same house as his first wife, although the two are not blood relatives. They had ten children-John G., dead ; George A., Abram H., Sarah J., Isaac R., Albert W., Oscar Wesley, Edwin H., Charles H., Laura B. Six of the children are married. They have eleven grand- children. Himself and two sons are in partnership in the Waukesha quarries and lime-kilns, situated one and a half miles north of the village of Waukesha. It is claimed that this firm do the largest business in their line of any in the State. They ship more than 3,000 car loads in 1880. He owns a fine residence, on the corner of East avenue and South St. Has other real estate in the village. He has had no time or desire to hold office. He is a Trustee of the M. E. Church, and the family are Methodists. They are prosperous and respected pioneers.

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HON. T. W. HAIGHT. Among the first settlers of Charlestown, Mass , is recorded the name of Simon Hoyte, who, with eleven other persons, " first settled this place, and brought it into the denomi- nation of An English Towne in Anno 1628." Where Simon came from is not stated, but genealogists have followed his subsequent movements with a good deal of interest, for the reason that investigation has shown him to have been the ancestor of the American family bearing the name of Haight or Hayt ( with many other variations in spelling), as well as of Hoyte, or Hoyt, with whatever orthographical changes may have been adopted by its different members. It was evidently a matter of pure indifference to Simon himself, as well as to his immediate descendants, how the name was spelled, although it was probably pro- nounced as if written Hite. He died at Stamford, Conn., Sept. 1, 1657, leaving ten children, whose sur- names are found recorded in about as many different ways, orthographically, as are used by their posterity to-day. The eldest of these children, Walter Hoyt, or Hayt, was the ancestor of Rev. Dr. Benjamin I. Haight, of New York, and (through their mother) of Gen. W. T. Sherman, and his brother, the Secre- tary of the Treasury. The fourth son, Moses, removed to Westchester Co., N. Y., and Caleb, the son of Moses, bought land in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1739, and lived there afterward, as did his children for several generations. Morris Haight, a great-grandson of Caleb, married, in 1821, Miss Louis Myrick, and, directly afterward, removed with his wife to Jefferson Co., N. Y .- then a new country- and went to farming, upon his own land, consisting of about 100 acres. On this farm, on the 14th of September, 1840, was born the youngest child of the family-Thomas Wilson Haight, the subject of the present sketch. As a boy, Thomas was chiefly remarkable for a love of literature ; learning to read almost in his babyhood, he quickly became omnivorous in regard to books, devouring the contents of all that came in his way ; he was especially a close student of the Bible, and, before reaching his 10th year, was more familiar with that volume than is the case with most adults.' At 13, his teachers in the " district schools " confessel that his knowledge of the routine studies was fully equal to their own, and he was sent to a neighboring village, for two winters, to take a course in higher mathematics. At this juncture, the Rev. William Pare (now a Doctor of Divinity, and Rector of Trinity Church, Washington, D. C.), estab- lished a classical school at the little village of Pierrepont Manor, and the boy was allowed, to his great delight, to spend a portion of his 16th and 17th years in the study of the Latin, Greek, and French languages, under this admirable instructor. At 17, he taught one term in a public school, at the end of which Mr. Paret engaged him as assistant in his owu school; at 19, he was prepared for admission to the junior class in college, in everything except funds, and, in order to try to obtain that requisite, in the summer of 1860, came to Waukesha Co , where he had been partially promised a position as teacher. On arriving, he found that he had been forestalled in the school, but concluded to wait for another open- ing, as his brother, Mr. M. P. Haight, of Summit, and his sister, Mrs. Walter Kerr, of Delafield, were both permanent residents of the county. In the mean time, he went on with his classical studies, and also undertook the German language, of which he obtained a fair mastery before winter. In the autumn, he was offered a school in the southern part of Delafield, of which he took charge, giving good satisfaction to the end of his term, in the spring of 1861 ; he now thought of matriculating at the University of Mich- igan, but, before his arrangements were completed, the first gun of the rebellion was fired, and he hurried home to New York, to bid his parents good-bye before shouldering his musket for the sake of his coun- try. On arriving at his native place, he found a company of his fellow-townsmen just organized for the war, and immediately joined it as a private. Within a week of the time of greeting his friends, he had started for the rendezvous of volunteer companies, at Elmira, N. Y., where his company was recorded, a few days after- ward, as Co. K, 24th N. Y. V. I., enlisted for two years' service. On the 17th of May, the regiment was mustered in by a United States officer, but it was not until the following month that it was ordered on to Washington, where it was a part of the garrison of the capital, until the night of the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. As the advance of our retreating forces came into Washington on that night, the 24th was sent out past them to Bailey's Cross Roads, and held the outpost in that vicinity against the rebel skirmishers for three or four weeks, by which time both sides had settled into camp again. For the next six months, the monotony of camp life was only varied by drills, reviews, and occasional picket skirmishes, but in the spring of 1862, after some terribly exhausting marches, the 24th, then in the 1st Brigade, of the Ist Division, of the 1st Army Corps, under the immediate command of Gen. McDowell, found itself at Fredericksburg, while the main body of the army was under Mcclellan, on the Peninsula. From this time on, the regiment had a lively time. Arriving at Cedar Mountain, just after Banks' battle, then, in August, it marched back with the army of Northern Virginia to the old battle-field of Bull Run, partic- ipating in the fight along the Upper Rappahannock, and in the three days' fight about Groveton, generally known as "the second Bull Run," being at that place almost annihilated, for the time being. The 29th and 30th of August were particularly fatal to Company "K," which could muster but five men at parade,

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The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages etc, Part 124

Author: Western Historical Co., pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1050

Author: Western Historical Co., pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1050