Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-28
WISCONSIN TROOPERS.

/ It is safe to say that there were no !
better cavalry regiments in the last war
than Wisconsin's First In it were
many of Wisconsin's distinguished |
sons, including Generals 0. Fl. La
Orange and Henry Harnden, both |
living, the former as an official in New
! York city. and the latter as much re-
spected citizen of Madison; Colonies |
Henry Pomeroy and William H Tor
rey, the latter nephew Of the late |
Senator I, 0. Howe, both of whom are
dead.
1t was proposed to make Torrey |
a brigadier general when he was
major. He vetoed it by declaring that
he would not accept-that there were
Wisconsin men of higher rank who
should FIST be remembered with such |
promotion. Such instance were ex-
tremely infrequent. Who remembers
one like it?
Major S. Y. Shipman, now of Chicago,
Hon. E. D. Coe. of Whitewater, ex-
Sheriff Fred Richter, of St. Paul,
Major Nathan Paine, killed while charg-
ing the enemy in 1864, Major Levi
Rowland, of Green Bay, Captain
Hiram S. Town, of Tennessee, whose
parents came to Milwaukee over fifty
years ago, former state senator and
sheriff of Fond du Lac, Captain Asa
Kinney, an early state senator, now
dead, DR.. Thomas P. Russell, oil
Oshkosh Rev. S. G. Lathrop, of Ash
land; Captain Richaud L. Cove, of
Waukesha, who was editor of paper
at Port Washington and postmaster be-
fore he was Of age, one of whose warm
admirers was the late United States
District Judge, Andrew G. Miller, the
personal friend of President Buchanan
In the campaign Of 1860 Cove and his
paper supported Breckenridge. That
displeased the Douglas Democrats, who
proceeded to punish the young editor.
They had him removed from the post
Office and ex-senator John r. Bohan
was appointed. Cove called upon
Judge Miller and related what had
been done.
You go back home and look after
your business just as though nothing
had happened, and don't surrender the
office until you come and see me" said
Judge Miller, and he obeyed. That
afternoon Judge Miller sent a message
direct to James Buchanan, President,
asking that Bohan's commission be re-
voked and that Cove be permitted to
remain. Bohan sent a bond to Wash |
| ington but never received instructions |
to take charge of the office. Judge |
Miller could have explained why, but
| he didn't.
Major Henry S. Eggleston, of Ripon,
was another man of the mark in civil |
and military life. He died in 1862
The First Cavalry was one Of the two |
Wisconsin regiments that had its chap
lain killed in action. Chaplain George
w. Dunmore was killed August 8, 1862
Chaplain Springer, Of the Third In
fantry, was killed in one of the battles
under Sherman, on the way to Atlanta
from Chattanooga, in 1864. They were
| fighting parsons-could not be kept out |
of battles until they were shot out.
Captain George O. Clinton, for many
years prominent in Wisconsin railway
circles, was in the First, and so was
Captain Edward D. Town. Captain
Charles H. Russell, recent sheriff of
| Green Lake county, won his way from
the ranks in that command. DR.. |
Ernest Kramer was at one time sur
geon. He was also surgeon Of the
Seventh Infantry early in the war, and
was in like manner connected with one
or two other commands. Captain
Chas. S. Wicks, for many years of Mil
waukee, now Of Chicago, won fame in
the First, and so did Major Charles A.
Pettibone, the present and past SER
geant-at-aTms Of the state senate. p.
B. Lamoreux, warden of the states
prison under Governor Peck, was a
First Cavalry daredevil and lieutenant,
John A. Owen became lieutenant for
his good deeds. He was one OF
Lawrence university's best graduates
and has been prominent in South
Dakota for long time. Colonel
Columbus Caldwell, who has been in
charge of the WisconsinSoldiers Home
at Waupaca most Of the time since it
was established, nearly ten years ago,
was a lieutenant.
! The First Wisconsin Cavalry was IN a
greater number of battles, skirmishes
and raids than any other Western
regiment of troopers, and the Eighth