Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-04-18

ne OiAleenIH Wisconsin was IN Prentiss'
Division, and with tie others in the Div.
ision were mostly dispersed or captured.
What remained of them fought bravely
and suffered terribly.
The Eighteenth Wisconsin reached Pitts.
burg on Saturday evening and mediate
ly marched to the front of Sherman's Di.
vision.
They were exposed on Sunday to the
heaviest and most deadly kind of fire, and
yet they returned it with an energy wor-
thy Of veterans
In the Eighteenth Wisconsin Regim ent,
Col. Aban was shot through the lungs
and died on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Beall was slightly
wounded
Major Grain was killed in the field.
The Adjutant G. L. Park, is reported
TO have been killed. From 200 to 800 in
the regiment were taken prisoners.
The regiments mustered 5000 some saw
4oo) on Thursday morning.
In all our three regiments that were in
the battle, the total number of killed..
wounded and missing is about ore thous-
and.
In the Fourteen nth regiment Wisconsin,
volunteers. Col. Wood was slightly wound
ed, and Lieut.. Col. Messmore was also
wounded. Major Hancock was not hurt.
The regiment were not in the fight until
Monday, and they behaved themselves
with great steadiness and bravery. All
of the conduct of this regiment, and of the
company officers in the field.
| The loss in the Fourteenth is thirty
killed, and about seventy wounded, the
latter of whom are at Savannah
No line officers in the regiment were
killed, except Capt. Waldo. Lieut.. Ford,
of Company B. was severely wounded.
In the Sixteenth regiment, Col. Allen
was slightly wounded in the arm. Lieut..
Col. Fairchild was severly wounded by
ball, which entered the thigh and which
still remains there. Maj. Reynolds was
unhurt.
In Company A, Capt. SAKE and his Or
derby Sergeant were killed. The company
suffered severly.
In Company B, Captain Fox is slightly
wounded.
In Company D, Capt. Pease was NOR
tally wounded, and has since died. Six
privates in the company were killed. A
large number of the company were wound
ed
In Co. F, Captain Train was badly
wounded. In Co. G, Capt. Wheeler was
slightly wounded.
This regiment (the 16th) mustered seven
hundred men on Thursday morning. The
total of killed, wounded and missing in the
regiment, is from $50 to $50. The wound
ed are reported to be in large numbers at
Savannah.
1t is impossible as yet to procure a COM
plete list of all the casualties.
Gov. Harvey and the party from Wiscon-
sin, with boat load of Hospital stores.
left late Saturday night or early Sunday
morning. to relieve the wounded of the,
Wisconsin regiments.
The hospital steamer Louisiana arrivedl
to-day from Pittsburg Landing. 1t was,
filled with wounded soldiers in the Charge
of DR.. Wagner, U. S. A.
The first Wisconsin were in the fight
Just at the close, and could have lost but
a very few, if any.
Col. Smith, of Ohio, commanding the
brigade to which our regiments were at
tached, and who is just from Pittsburg
Landing, speaks in the most enthusiastic
terms ofthe conduct of our Wisconsin boys,
whose pluck and endurance overcame
every disadvantage under which they en-
tered the battle.
CAIRO, April I2-12 M-From all direc-
tons bound up the Tennessee. Gov. Har-
yey, of Wisconsin, and suite, are here, and
were received with salute from Fort
Cairo.
Col. Wood of the Iowa Twelfth, escap-
ed. The Fourteenth, Sixteenth and Eigh-
teenth Wisconsin were all in the fight.
The Sixteenth was in Prentiss' division,
and, with others, was mostly dispersed or
captured.
fe, w1 ts, 'fT1i"'d fought 1''v' and '"'-
The Eighteenth Wisconsin reached
Pittsburg Saturday evening, and marched
to the front of Sherman's division. They
were exposed on Sunday to the heavist
fire. returning it with an energy worthy of
VETERANS.
The regiment was entirely raw, and
hno Ouiy UGH poidOSu d lew IllD6S, HaU
been hurried down from Milwaukee
right into the heat of the fight, and many
had never loaded a gun till they did it be-
fore the enemy. All these regiments did
splendidly.
Let Wisconsin glory in the unfinching
bravery and the patriotism of her noble
sons. The hard fought fields of Pittsburg
will bear immortal record of their devotion
to freedom.
1t is impossible, as yet to- procure list
of casualties. Gov. Harvey and party,
with a boat load of hospital stores left
this evering to relive the wounded.
Wisconsin wounded on board the steam
er Louisiana at Cairo.
James Harris, Co. D., 18th regiment.
D. M. Harrington, Co. D, 10th BE.
Rantz, Samuel Logan, Co. C, 18Th; A.
w. Dirkey, Co. G; Jas. Leech, Co. l:
S. R. Havner, Co. E.
In the Mound City hospital
VIM. Sherwin, 18th, Co. E William
Skuntzky, 14th, Co. l. Charles Bacon,
l4th; Eugene Gay, 18th. Co. H Perry
R. Stevens, 18th, Co. E; "A Hickman,
! 18TH Co. H: Erastus Cook 18TH Co. I =.