Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-09-20
Gen. T. S. Alien.

Tie Milwaukee Sentinel, in noticing
State officers, publishes sketch o. the
life of Gen. T. s Allen, which we copy |
below The Sentinel is mortaly correct
in it's sentim eDts, though it has omitted
the fact that Gen Allen served t.. o years
as clerk of the Board of Supervisors of
Iowa county, and two years as clerk of
the Mineral Point Rail Road company, in
both of which positions he gave the most
perfect satisfaction to all interested:
"Gen. Tom Allen, our candidate Tor
Secretary of State, was ushered before
the people with nearly or quite as huch
enthusiasm on the part of the convention
as was Gen. FairchiId. Like him, he has
shown his claim to the publlc confidence
both in the civil and military service
Like him. his modessy Of bearing and can
| dor of sentiment, excites the admiration
! of all Gen. Allen is emphatically n self
made man. He came to Wisconsin in SIT,
| a printer by trade. Having worked his
way nearly through college by his trade
| and by teaching, he was Obliged, by the
| failing of his eyes, to abandon his collegi-
| ate course. a subsequent attempt to study
| the law was frustrated by the same dit
| fculty, and young Allen came to Mineral
/ Point, in Iowa county, where he followed
| surveying with mush success, being also
| engaged in mining enterprises. lie con-
| tinued in the business until sometime in
the wear 1860, when he received an APP
pointment in the Land Office at Madison,
as principle clerk, at a good salary. In
! April, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired on, and
the Land Office was no longer BIG enough
or strong enough 10 hold Tom Allen. He
Immediately threw up his lucrative situa-
ton, and enrolled his name as a private
in the Governor Guard, but soon received
intelligence that he had been, without his
| knowledge or solicitation, elected captain
of a company that had Just been formed
at Mineral Point. He was accordingly
| transferred, and the company went into
the 2nd regiment Col ) T. Coon At
the first battle Of Bull Run the regiment
lost its field officers as will be recOllected,
and Captain Allen, though the ninth cap
tain in rank, was elected by the line Off
GERS Of the regiment to the vacant major
ship. After the second Bull Run fight he
was promoted to Lieut. Colone and in
January, 1868, was appointed Colonel of
the 9TH lie commanded this regiment
until its rc-enlistment, when he reorgan-
lied it and led it second time into the
field, having meantime won imperishaLlc
laureIs for himself and his regiment at
Gaines lille, where he was twice wounded
and at Marys flights. Fredericksburg
where the regiment made one of the most
dashing and desperate charges on record
col Aliens patriotism in going back into
the field after his full time had been serve ed
and several severe wounds incurred. is
made still more admirable by the fac
that though strongly recommended b.
Gems GibhOn and Sedgwick in the Fall o
1868, for promotion to 4 Brigadier, the
application had been neglected while
many less worthy had been appointed
Few, very few, especially among milit; =
men, who are particularly sensitive to any
slight of this kind would have gone bacE
to battle under such circumstances. But
1t seems as if Tom Allen had determined
to 'fght it out, and burving all feeling.
that might have been excited by persona
disappointments. he again put on hi.
armor and drew his sabre in defence o
the Union, exposing himself anew to the
dangers from which he had been miracuI
ously preser ed hitherto He was brewer
ted q Bri1adier General March 18th. 1865
ana SOON mustered out Of service. If ht
lives. and the voters of Wisconsin d,
their duty. ne viii be mustered Into tn,
service OF Wisconsin a Secretary Of Stat
2 on the first day OF January next"