Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-06-30

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days have been too recently ard fully narrat
ed by Col. Jeffe to need repetition here
and an account of the gallant part taken by the
regiment in the subsequent battle of Bayou
Chicot was published but few days ago.
The regiment left the State with 973 men,
1t has received 207 recruits, 81 of them prior
to last January, making 1850 in ALL 1t has
had about 40 killed in battle, and has lost
about 160 by death from wounds and disease.
On the lst of June it numbered 63l men, OF
whom 1876 were present, 50 of them sick, and
81 absent, sick. 1t brings back $40 re-en-
listed veterans. Some of those, alas, who
re-enlisted with the hope of soon greeting
their friends, have since fallen by the way,
and sacrificed their lives for their country.
The following is the present roster of the
regiment:
Colonel-JoHN W. JEFFERSON.
Lieut.. Colonel-WILLIAM B. BRITToN.
Adjutant-EzRA T. SpRAauE
Quartermaster-HUGH MoAULAY.
Surgeon-JoSEPH E. MURTA.
LIST Asst. Surgeon-HENRY NJ MURDOCH.
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Chaplain-JoHN HOBART.
Co. A-Capt Josiah B. Redield, LIST Lieut. Chas
Christensen, I'd Lieut.. Jason S. Jones.
Co. B-Capt. Albert E. Smith, 1st Lieut. John
A. Smith, I'd Lieut.. David Conger.
Co. C-Capt. Victor Wolf LIST Lieut.. Thomas G
Butler, I'd Lieut.. John Woodwork.
Go. D-Capt. Benz. S. Williams, 1st Lieut. sam'l
G. Mcdowell.
Co. E-Capt. William G. Young, 1st Lieut.. Mar
vim II. Helms, I'd Lieut.. Jacob Settler.
Co. F-Capt. James H. Green, LIST Lieut.. John W
Co. G-Capt Charles P. King, LIST Lieut.. VIM. Fl
Sargent, I'd Lieut.. Milton II. Doty.
Co. H-Capt: Peter B. Willoughby, lst Lieut.. La
Co. Capt. Duncan A. Kennedy, LIST Lieut.
Samuel j. Sargent.
Co. K-Capt James o Bartlett, LIST Lieut. Theo
dore A Fellows, I'd Lieut.. Chas. Palmetier
The re-enlisted veterans of the 9Th Wiscon.
sin regiment arrived on the afternoon train
Tuesday, and after good dinner pre-
pared for them at MosHER's Railroad House,
marched up town to the Capitol Park, where
the reception took place a little after six
o'clock. A large concourse of citizens had
assembled to witness the spectacle. Flags
were displayed along the streets, the bells of
the city rung, and national salute fired.
The live Eagle, cold Abe" and the latter
ed and riddled colors of the regiment attract
ed all eyes. Since we first saw him at Camp
Randall in 1861, cold Abe" has grown con-
siderably, and has acquired dignity and ease
of bearing. He sits on his perch, undisturbed
by any noise or tumult, the impersonation of
naughty defiance. He has shared all the
long marches of this regiment, including
Sherman's great raid and the campaign up
Red River, and passed through great num-
Der of battles, in which he has once or twice
had some of his feathers shot away, but has
never received scratch from rebel bullet
sufficient to draw blood. He is the pet Of
the whole regiment.
After the regiment had been drawn up in
the Park, Gov. LEWIS being absent, they
were addressed as follows by Adjutant Gen
GAYLORD:
Officers and Soldiers of the sh Wisconsin
l regret that the Governor. unaware of your
coming, is unavoidably absent, and therefore
unable to give you words of welcome on your
return to the State as the Veteran 9Th Wis.
consin; and while rejoice that l am per.
mitted to extend to you, in the name of the
State, the hand of welcome, also regret that
can but so feebly portray the deep feelings
of gratitude that fill every breast as we wit
ness your return among US.
But three days since we were gathered
here to do honor to the glorious old Second
returning to us from the Potomac, just from
the field of strife and with the very dust Of
battle upon their garments and to-day we
welcome you from the banks of the Mississip
pi, with the CRIME of battle yet upon you
fresh from the contest with the same rebel
lious foe. And thus from the east and from
the west, Wisconsin's patriotic sons are gath
cred to interchange congratulations, and re
ceive the poor need of praise we may bestow
And right proudly do we welcome you, in the
remembrance of your heroic devotion in the
cause you have espoused
Well may we be proud of Wisconsn's he
roes, for there is scarcely grand division Of
our army, from the Atlantic to the Kansas
from the Ohio to the Gulf, where our State il
not represented by some regiment of hel
brave sons and in which many of them have
been called to make the greatest sacrifice
that man can make in the defense of liberty
even that of life.
We remember with pride the record in
scribed upon your banners, of New Madrid
and Island No. 10. With pride we remember
the determined and almost obstinate resis
lance in the attack at the battle of Farming
ton. We remember Corinth, Iuka, and Vicks
burg, and still later, Pleasant Hill, Crane
Ecore and the almost numberless duties O.
provost guard and fatigue duty IN forts anc
upon railroads.
We are proud of you in the remembrance
of the many bold and successful strokes 70,
have made in the name of Freedom and We
are proud while with sadness we remember
the many honored graves of those who have
fallen from your ranks, and whose memory
shall ever be green in the hearts of CRATE
full people And if amid the tolls and dan
gers the thought has ever passed your minc
that we were unmindful of you, pray yor
discard the thought. We have followed you
in common with all our regiments, with anx
ious hearts. Your successes have been oul
pride, and your sufferings have been our sor
row.
To-day we thank you as we welcome you a;
re-enlisted veterans, that with all the ex
periences of the trials and dangers of the
service, that with hearts animated with an
ardent desire for the immediate and fna
overthrow of this cruel rebellion, that still
severing those ties which bind you so closely
and sacredly to your homes, that you have
again voluntarily given yourselves to this