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The death losses in Company A were : Killed in action-Corp. C. F. Matthews ; Privates N. H. Carter, R. Coughlan, J. King and W. Peschock. Died of wounds-Sergt. L. E. Rob- bins ; Privates C. B. Andrews, J. S. Bridges and W. J. Blecker. Died of disease-Capt. Oscar F. Mattice ; Privates John Agnew, G. Balcom, N. Butler, J. Cruger, T. Draugerson. G. K. Gaskins, F. D. Griffin, L. B. Gregg, C. B. Lintner, T. Levere, J. Nelson, W. H. Parks, F. Smith, J. Spooner, H. Thompson, A. Wilsey, W. Wetmore, L. Yerges.
Company E : Killed in action-Sergts. D. S. Ketchum and G. W. Alexander ; Privates J. Jackson and A. Sawistaskie. Died of wounds-Privates R. D. Fendon, A. J. Floyd, C. Grosse, W. R. Herrick, G. Hugget, II. J. Spring and G. Van Arnum. Died of disease- Corps. J. W. Bennett, N. Powers and R. Seckerson ; Privates C. Bryant, S. Barrett, N. Carlisle, II. H. Evans, W. Follet, A. D. Gary, S. Mead, S. B. Oliver, J. O'Riley, G. Ragow, B. W. Wilbur and P. Derivan (suicide.) The total deaths in the regiment were 296, all but 86 of this number dying of disease.
Company K. Thirty-second Regiment .- Recruited in August, 1862, and mustered into service September 25, 1862, at Camp Bragg, Oshkosh, with John E. Grant as Captain, Lewis Low, First Lieutenant, and John Walton as Second Lieutenant. The regiment joined Gen. Sherman's command at Memphis, Tenn., on the 3d of November, taking a place in the army that advanced toward Jackson, Miss., on the 20th of the same month. The surrender of Holly
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Springs having caused an abandonment of the movement southward, the Thirty-second was the first to enter the town after its capture. Returning by way of Jackson, Tenn., they arrived at Memphis toward the latter part of January, 1863, where they remained until the following November. Moscow being threatened by Gen. Lee, the Second Brigade, to which the Thirty- second belonged, arrived just in time to repulse the attack. They subsequently moved to Vicksburg, where they joined Sherman's Meridian expedition, marching over two hundred miles into rebeldom, and returning to Vicksburg March 4, 1864. From there they went to Cairo, Ill. ; thence into Tennessee and Alabama, arriving at Decatur on the 10th of April, where they were employed in guard duty and building fortifications with the Third Brigade, to which they had been transferred. While stationed at Decatur, they made three effective reconnaissances, returning each time with rebel prisoners and other worthless trophies. On one occasion, they met a largely superior force, and lost eight men, who were taken prisoners. On the 7th of August, they joined the Union forces in front of Atlanta, where they remained in the trenches until the 26th. On that day, they accompanied the Army of the Tennessee in its movement to the right, and when twenty-two miles from Atlanta, were attacked by the rebels. In the two- days engagement that followed, they lost six killed, fifteen prisoners and six wounded. Re- joining Sherman's forces, they set out on the march to Savannah, November 15, encountering the rebels on several occasions, and putting them to flight quite as often. On the 3d of January, 1865, they embarked at Savannah for Beaufort, S. C., arriving there on the 5th. On the 1st of February, they encountered the enemy at Rivers' Bridge on the Salkehatchie. On the 3d, after a hard day's fight, the enemy having retreated, the regiment moved into his abandoned works, having worked from six in the morning until four in the afternoon, in water from one to four feet deep, sustaining a loss during the day of eight killed and forty-three wounded. On the 9th, they again came upon the rebel hosts, strongly fortified, on the South Edisto River. The stream being crossed by means of pontons, the enemy's works were carried by assault at 9 o'clock in the evening. In this gallant affair, the regiment lost one killed and five wounded. Similar encounters with the rebels were experienced until the 21st of March, when they came upon the enemy in full force near Bentonville. Charging through a swamp, two miles wide, they captured his works, driving him from the field in confusion. The Thirty-second held the cap- tured ground until all support had fallen back, when they received orders to withdraw. In this action they sustained a loss of two killed, twenty-three wounded and two missing. On the 14th of April, they arrived at Raleigh, N. C., and reached Richmond, Va., May 9. On the 24th of that month, they took part in the grand review of troops at Washington, and were mustered out June 12, 1865.
Company K's losses were : Killed in action-Privates J. Bissett, S. Taunt and A. White. Died of wounds-Privates M. Gunderson and D. Mason. Died of disease-Corp. J. Hunting, Jr., Privates T. C. Babcock, A. Baker, I. Bissett, J. Carman, R. F. Davis, C. Eichle, C. Esterbrook, B. J. Fromdol, T. Gillson, N. W. Hunting, E. W. Morgan, A. Oleson, D. Prevot, A. Simmonson, P. Thompson, E. E. Warner, A. W. Wright, I. N. Watson, A. Whitehead and S. Dumbleton (drowned). There were 274 deaths in the regiment, 243 being from natural causes.
Companies C and E, Forty-second Regiment .- These companies recruited in the summer and fall of 1864, only a portion of the latter being raised in Columbia County. They were mustered in at Camp Randall, as a part of the Forty-second Regiment, on the 7th of Septem- ber. George McHumphrey was Captain ; Robert Steele, First Lieutenant, and Cassius M. Bush, Second Lieutenant of Company C. Augustus Haight, B. M. Low and Joseph Curtis held corresponding positions in Company E. They reached Cairo, Ill., under orders, on the 22d of September, where they were employed in post and garrison duty. On the 25th of October, Companies B, E, G, H and K were ordered to Springfield, Ill., where they remained until April, 1865, returning to Cairo. In June following, they were mustered out of the service, reaching Madison on the 20th of that month, without having participated in any engagements. Nearly all their death losses were from disease, Company C losing two men
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-U. S. West and Henry Koch, the latter having been drowned at Cairo. Company E did not fare so well. Its losses were as follows: Privates L. W. Benson. C. Cherwick, J. B. Howlett, B. Hampton, I. M. Lewis, W. Moore, I. Outland, H. Smith, F. A. Sadderis and R. H. Baker. The latter was drowned at Paducah, Ky.
Company D, Forty-sixth Regiment .- Recruited in the two first months in 1865, and mus- tered out on the 27th of September of the same year. Company D's officers were : Jolin E. Grout (promoted from Second Lieutenant), Captain ; Gilson Hinten, First Lieutenant. The regiment left Camp Randall on the 5th of March, under orders to report at Louisville, Ky .. arriving on the 10th, and proceeding, the following day, to Athens, Ala., on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, along which they were stationed at various points. In September, they proceeded to Nashville, Tenn., and were mustered out as above stated, arriving in Madison October 2. During their service, three of the members of Company D-Corp. C. P. Hen- ton, and Privates W. A. Brown and T. O'Connor-died of disease.
Cavalry - Company E, Second Regiment .- This company was known as Columbia County Cavalry. It recruited in the fall of 1861, and was accepted for service at various dates between December 3, 1861, and March 12, 1862. The commissioned officers of Com- pany E were: George N. Richmond, Captain ; Wallace Smith, First Lieutenant, and Joseph T. Dean, Second Lieutenant. Captain Richmond, in April, 1863, was promoted Major of the Third Battalion-C. W. Beach, who had in the mean time succeeded Lieut. Smith, becoming Captain. Stephen Woodward was Captain when the company was mustered out, in November, 1865.
The regiment left Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, March 24, 1862. Proceeding to Benton Barracks, near St. Louis, they were thoroughly equipped. Marching south through Missouri, they joined Gen. Curtis' forces at Augusta, Ark., June 14, and a month later arrived at Helena. Here they remained until the latter part of January, 1863, when they moved up the Mississippi to Memphis. In June, they proceeded south and took part in the operations against Vicksburg Upon the surrender of that place, they joined Gen. Sherman's Jackson (Miss.) expedition, returning to Redbone Church, near Vicksburg, soon afterward. Here the second and third bat- talions remained until April 1864, when they moved to Vicksburg. The first battalion, com- prising Companies A, D, G and K, during all this time, had been on duty in Missouri. In Septem- ber, 1864, they joined the main body of the regiment at Vicksburg, where they continued to remain until November 23, when they joined an expedition into Mississippi, during which they destroyed large quantities of rebel property, and, on the 1st of December, engaged the enemy near Yazoo City, in considerable force. A brisk encounter followed, in which the Second lost five killed, nine wounded, and twenty-five missing. The return to Vicksburg was made by the fifth, and, after three days' stay, they embarked for Memphis. On the 25th, they joined an expedition under Gen. Grierson, and marching in a southeasterly direction, destroying rebel stores, railroads and bridges, engaged and defeated the enemy on the 28th, at Egypt Station, capturing a large number of prisoners. After marching over four hundred miles, the expedi- tion arrived at Vicksburg ou the 5th of January, 1865. January 13, they again embarked for Memphis, and, on the 26th, descended the Mississippi to Gaines' Landing, Ark., returning to Memphis February 17.
In March, a short expedition was made into Mississippi, and, on the 9th of May, 330 men of the Second set out from Memphis for Grenada, Miss., arriving there on the 14th. The regi- ment came together again at Alexandria, La., July 6. Here they were assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Gulf. Leaving Alexandria on the 8th of August, they arrived at Hempstead, Tex., 310 miles distant, on the 26th. From there they went to Austin, Tex., where they were mustered out November 15, 1865.
The casualties to Company E during their service were : Killed in action-Private Will Payne; died of disease-Sergt. M. Z. Riblett; Corp. E. H. Moore; Privates W. Atkin- son, J. Chandler, J. Cook, J. Carr, T. Day, E. Evans, T. Ferguson, C. C. Fuller, J. Ferguson, E. W. Hale, C. C. Heath, E. Herriman, W. H. Lee, H. Mills, R. Murray, J. McCarell, E.
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Mathewson, W. Parker, G. W. Ross, W. Stollman, W. Sholes, R. Singleton, L. Taylor and R. Whiting. Total deaths in the regiment 293, 265 being from natural causes.
Company F, First Heavy Artillery .- Organized in Portage, in September, 1864, with Erastus Cook as Captain ; Herman Fenner, Senior First Lieutenant ; Asa P. Peck, Junior First Lieutenant ; Jared S. W. Pardee, Senior Second Lieutenant, and Thomas Graham, Junior Second Lieutenant. The company left Camp Randall on the 3d of October, 1864, and was assigned to duty in the defenses of Washington, as part of the Fourth Brigade, De Russey's Division of the Twenty-second Army Corps, where it remained until June 26, 1865, being inus- tered out of service at that date. It is the only company of troops going from Columbia County which returned without loss of life.
The Draft .- The first official steps taken in Columbia County toward conscription occurred in May, 1863. For many months previous, rumors of an impending draft had been rife ; the local press teemed with appeals to the loyal citizens to volunteer their services in defense of the Union in sufficient numbers to remove the necessity for such an alternative. And although they responded with alacrity, and notwithstanding the fact that the county's representation in the army was equal to any other section of the State, in proportion to population, the inevit- able finally came. In June, Provost Marshal S. J. M. Putnam, of Janesville, under orders, appointed the following enrolling officers to take the names of those liable to military duty in Columbia County : Perry G. Stroud, Newport; E. F. Lewis, Lewiston ; J. B. Wood, Fort Winnebago ; Hiram Albee, Marcellon ; David H. Langdon, Scott; John M. Bay, Randolph ; Jeremiah Williams, Courtland; John R. Rowlands, Springvale; Henry Converse, Wyocena ; Wells M. Butler, Portage and Pacific ; J. C. Mohr, Caledonia ; Jacob Cosad, Dekorra, Jesse F. Hand, Lowville; E. W. McNett, Otsego; E. T. Kerney, Fountain Prairie; G. W. Campbell, Columbus ; William K. Custer, Hampden ; Ammond Christophers, Leeds; A. G. Dunning, Arlington ; Thomas Yule, Lodi ; Cyrus Hill, West Point.
Toward the latter part of July, the enrolling officers having completed their work, it was shown that the number of persons in Columbia County liable to military duty, was 2,045 of the first class, and 1,609 of the second. Under the President's call for 300,000 men in 1863, the quota to be filled in the county was about two hundred and seventy. In this connection, the following table, compiled by Adjt. Gen. Gaylord, showing the quotas of towns in Columbia County, under the calls for volunteers made in 1861-62, will be interesting :
Towns.
Quota.
Vols.
Towns.
Quota.
Vols.
Arlington
53
53
Lowville
54
78
Caledonia
40
34
Marcellon.
43
49
Columbus
134
166
Newport
59
66
Courtland.
63
58
Otsego
57
18
Dekorra
67
90
Pacific ..
10
17
Fort Winnebago.
32
33
Portage.
171
242
Fountain Prairie
54
93
Randolph
67
77
Hampden
50
47
Scott ..
47
38
Leeds
59
36
Springvale.
41
34
Lewiston
42
42
West Point
52
68
Lodi
83
142
Wyocena.
64
86
Total
1842
1599
After the first enrollment, three persons enlisted-one each from the towns of Columbus, Marcellon and Randolph-making the total number of volunteers from the county up to August 20, 1863, 1,602, or 260 in excess of the quotas under the calls of 1861-62.
Notice of the draft of 1863, under the President's call for 300,000 men, given by S. J. M. Putnam, Captain and Provost Marshal for the Second District, was dated Janesville, Novem- ber 11, 1863. Accompanying the notification, was a statement of the number to be drafted in each of the towns of Columbia County, with " the 50 per cent added," as follows : West Point, 12; Lodi, 20; Arlington, 13; Leeds, 14; Hampden, 16; Columbus, 32; Fountain Prairie,
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11; Otsego, 14; Lowville, 14; Dekorra, 21; Caledonia, 12; Portage and Pacific, 46; Wyo- cena, 11; Springvale, 15; Courtland, 23; Randolph, 17; Scott, 13; Marcellon, 12; Fort Winnebago, 8; Lewiston, 11; Newport, 18. Total, 353. The excess of 260 on the quotas under the 1861-62 calls being deducted, there remained but 93 to be supplied under the call of January, 1863.
Under the calls of the President for 500,000 and 200,000, the quota in the latter call not having been filled, Columbia County's quota in April, 1864, stood as follows: Total number of men to be furnished, 871; total credits since date of first call, 731, leaving a deficit of 140 men.
On the 18th of July, another call was issued for 500,000 more, and after a deal of figuring among those interested in the prospective drawing, it was discovered that Columbia County's quota of men to be furnished was 806. This included the deficiency under previous calls, amounting to ninety-eight men in the county at large. Numerous credits subsequently made a deduction of almost one-third in this number. But the inevitable came at last, and the 21st of September was an interesting day to those whose names went into the box at Janesville. The quota of Portage was eighty-six. Prominent among those who drew prizes were E. C. Maine, D. G. Muir, H. O. Lewis, V. Helmann, William Armstrong, J. P. McGregor, F. H. Ellsworth, W. W. Corning, Ll. Breese, John T. Clark, James Collins, Carl Haertel, A. J. Turner, Alva Stewart, Israel Holmes and many others. Most of those mentioned belonged to the " Draft Insurance Club," and were entitled to draw $380 each from a citizens' fund to pay substitutes. Supplemental drafts soon followed in a few of the towns in the county.
Another call for 300,000 volunteers having been made on the 19th of December, 1864, it was ascertained that Columbia County's quota would amount to about 540 men, according to the number of votes polled at the last preceding election, but it afterward transpired that the actual number to be raised was 423, including all deficiencies and deducting all credits. The quota of Portage by wards was fifty-one. There was some lively volunteering about this time, under the patriotic influence of nearly $500 bounty, $200 wages for a year, with board and clothes, and very little prospect for a fight.
A draft took place in the towns of Marcellon and Lewiston on the 27th of February, 1865, but by the time the drawing was announced. nearly every man in those towns liable to be drafted had enlisted.
Following is a statement of the bounty money raised in the various towns mentioned :
Arlington $17,453 00
Lodi ... $23,000 00
Courtland.
25,576 00
Newport
14,300 00
Columbus,
30,204 89
Otsego.
18,384 00
Caledonia
10,912 90
Pacific. 1,595 00
Dekorra
13,304 00
Randolph
17,160 00
Fort Winnebago
7,182 00
Scott ..
11,430 00
Fountain Prairie.
15,200 00
Springvale.
18,303 00
Hampden
14,638 00
West Point. 10,814 11
Leeds
18,712 35
Wyocena.
6,500 00
Certain historical events occurring in the spring and summer of 1865, made further drafts unnecessary. The Union had been preserved. Old veterans and new volunteers returned to their homes. Peace reigned again. Above the smoke of battles well-fonght, floated the starry emblem of liberty, humanity and equality. A million lives had been sacrificed beneath its folds. but it still waved aloft, brighter and more brilliant, bathed in the life-fluid of patriots dead.
" But what shall be the fate of those Who designed that sea of blood ?
It cannot be that they shall die To grace the throne of God !"
The Roll of Honor .- Following is a list of the names of soldiers occupying patriots' graves in Columbia County : Silver Lake Cemetery, Portage-Col. S. K. Vaughan, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment ; Herman W. Kind, Company C, Twenty-third Regiment ; Corp.
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John A. Harmon, Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment ; Henry Junge, Second Cavalry ; Andrew J. McFarlane, Company K, Thirty-third Regiment ; Melvin Merrill, Company G, Twentieth Regiment ; William F. Ward, Company C, Twenty-third Regiment; John Crosby, Jr., Company C, Twenty-third Regiment ; Martin Bellinghauser, Company D, Nineteenth Regi- ment ; Judson A. Lewis, Company C, Twenty-third Regiment; George Parmenter, Company C, Twenty-third Regiment; Walter Plumstead, Company G, Second Regiment ; Francis H. Snow, Company K, Third Cavalry ; Capt. Erastus Cook, Battery F, First Artillery ; Col. Frank A. Haskell. Thirty-sixth Regiment.
Columbus-Dr. Charles C. Axtel; Sabins J. Bennett; Sergt. Benjamin Campbell, Sixth Regiment, died of disease; Bissell Carter, Company A, Seventh Regiment, died of disease ; Walter P. Carter, Company A, Seventh Regiment, died in Andersonville; Francis Fouler, Company A. Seventh Regiment, died in Andersonville : Alfred Fuller ; Walter Houton, Com- pany A, Seventh Regiment, died of wounds ; Sergt. L. P. Holmes, Company A, Seventh Regi- ment, killed at the battle of the Wilderness ; Lieut. James Holmes, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at the battle of the Wilderness; A. T. Hopkins ; W. H. Horton ; Dr. James ; William Kurst, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at the battle of the Wilderness; Uri F. Laskey, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at Gainesville ; Albert McCalvey, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at Petersburg; Charles E. Mills, Company A. Seventh Regiment, killed at Gainesville ; Edwin E. Polly, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at Cedar Mount- ain ; William Richards, Third Regiment, killed at Five Forks; Scymour A. Sawyer, Company B, Forty-first Wisconsin Regiment ; Jacob D. Sawyer, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at Antietam ; Eli P. Sawyer, Company A, Seventh Regiment, died of disease ; E. Silsbee; M. Silsbee; Asher M. Starkweather, Company D, Fortieth Wisconsin Regiment; Stutson ; C. Tuttle ; Allen Vanwalker, Company A, Seventh Regiment, died of wounds ; Milo Waterhouse, Company A, Seventh Regiment, killed at Antietam; Warren J. Wheeling.
Fall River-George Adams, Company I, Eighteenth Regiment, killed at Pittsburg Landing; Israel Bissett, Thirty-second Regiment, killed in action ; Joseph Bissett, Thirty-second Regiment, died ; John Bissett, Company B, Thirty-second Regiment, killed at the battle of the Wilderness ; Capt. George H. Brayton, Company B, Seventh Regiment, killed at the battle of Gainesville ; Eli Bronsen, Company B, Seventh Regiment, killed at Antietam ; Lorin Bronsen, Company I, Eighteenth Regiment, killed at Pittsburg Landing; Manly Bronson, Company B, Seventh Regiment, killed at Belle Plain ; George Brossard, Eleventh Regiment, died ; Alpheus Cassen, Company B, Seventh Regiment, died at Madison ; Nathan Chase, died at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. ; Jerome Comar, Thirty-second Regiment, died ; George C. Farrand, Fifty-first Regiment ; Brainard Graves, Company B, Seventh Regiment, died ; Aldro A. Grant, Company B, Seventh Regiment, died ; Edwin Hancock, Company B, Seventh Regiment, killed at South Mountain ; Perry Henton, Forty-first Regiment, died ; A. D. Hicks, Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, died at Milwaukee; James O. Hellaker, died in Andersonville Prison; Wright Hunburg, Thirty- second Regiment, died of disease; Jabey Hunburg, Thirty-second Regiment, died of wounds ; Rufus Kendall, Government employe, killed by bushwhackers; Charles Machen, Thirty-second Regiment, returned at close of war and was killed in a flouring-mill at Beaver Dam ; Augustus Martin, Third Cavalry, killed by bushwhackers ; Charles Plummer, Company B, Seventh Regi- ment, killed at Gainesville, Va .; Dennis Prevot, Company B, Seventh Regiment, killed by bushwhackers ; Lewis Prevot, Company B; Thirty-second Regiment, died at Oshkosh; William Rumsey, a patriot of Florida and Mexican wars; Felix Sainlong, Government employe, killed by bushwhackers ; Benjamin Schaeffer, Company I, Eighteenth Regiment, killed at Pitts- burg Landing ; Charles Sickles, died in hospital; Frank Smith, died at Sulphur Springs ; Francis A. Smith, Forty-ninth Regiment, died since discharged ; Seth Thurber, killed by bush- whackers ; Seneca Warner, a patriot of the war of 1812; Newton Watson, Thirty-second Regiment, died; John Wood, Company I, Eighteenth Regiment, died after he was dis- charged ; Joseph Zeeman, Company B, Seventh Regiment, died of disease contracted in the army.
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Wyocena-Bull Alansen, Company D, Tenth Regiment, killed at Perryville; Volney Carpenter, Company C, Nineteenth Regiment, killed at the battle of the Wilderness; Henry Coffin, killed at the first battle of Bull Run ; Michael Conlon, Company -, Tenth Regiment, killed at Stone River; Girard Dey, Thirty-second Regiment, died on the Potomac ; James Dixon, Company D, Tenth Regiment, killed at Perryville ; John Grover, Company G, Twenty- fifth Regiment, killed at Kenesaw Mountain, the only man wounded in Company G, and he had nine bullets in him; George Hand, Company D, Tenth Regiment, died at Andersonville ; Alonzo Jones, Company D. Tenth Regiment, buried at Wyocena ; Hobart Parmenter, Company D, Tenth Regiment, shot at Perryville ; Marcus Parmenter, Company D, Tenth Regiment, died in Nashville; Alexander Wilsey, Company D, Tenth Regiment, died in Nashville; Harlon Wiltham, Company D, Tenth Regiment, killed at Chickamauga.
Scraps of War History .- It would be almost impossible to generalize, so far as local history is concerned, in a description or statement of occurrences during the war. Of course, there was intense excitement following the news that Fort Sumter had been assaulted. Citizens of all classes, no matter what may have been their sympathies, were deeply interested through- out the momentous struggle that culminated with the fall of Richmond and the capture of the traitor President of the Southern Confederacy. We herewith present a compilation of local events, chronologically arranged, pertaining to a history of the " war at home :
1861, March-S. E. Dana, of Portage, appointed Colonel, and H. S. Haskell, also of Portage, appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Wisconsin Militia by Gov: Randall. Portage Light Guard vote unanimously to offer their services to Gov. Randall.
April-Flag-raising in Wyocena; enthusiastic Union meeting. Yates Ashley, Pardee- ville, commissioned to raise a company. Large number of volunteers from Lodi and vicinity enrolled themselves in Madison companies. Portage Light Guard accepted by the Governor, and assigned to the Second Regiment. Meeting of citizens in Portage, at which strong Union resolutions were passed. City Council of Portage resolved to provide for the needy families of those who volunteered, the credit of the city being pledged to the extent of $1,000. Grand military supper at the Ellsworth House to Portage Light Guard.
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