Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02

farming, teaching and practieing law
In the years in which national affair
between the North and South wer,
eliminating he became intensely in
terested and was among the first t,
enlist at Berlin, Wisconsin. He en-
rolled May 10th, 1861, in Company q
9TH Wisconsin Infantry, and on Decem
Der 25th was transferred to Company
Dec. END, 1862, he received honorable
discharge at Harrisburg, Pa, on &C
count of disabling wounds.
He was member of the Iron Bri
gade' until the transfer of the commant
in September, 1851. He performed
camp and outpost duty previous to hi
connection with Hancock's brigade ano
was hard at work also in the construc
ton of Notifications. At Camp Griffin,
near Lewinsyille; he was occupied il
the routine of duty pertaining to tn,
situation in winter quarters and il
March participated in the glory anC
such other emoluments as dignitied the
proceedings against Manassas, helped tt
capture Quaker guns and afterward.
encountered all the torture and expos
ure of the Peninsular campaign.
Within the first month his regimen
made its impression upon the rebels a
Hampton and Young's Mills. He wa,
in the seige of Yorktown, Williams
burg and in the seven days in front o.
Richmond and fought in the Wilderness
he was once in a detail to construct
bridge across the Chickahominy swhert
exposure to the malaria and Other
dangers was great. He participated in
the change of base'' of McClellan's
army where the regiment was the last
to cross the river He was involved in
the various charges of the regiment and
his transfer was made to provide for his
promotion to lieutenancy, but the
company had lost too many men to
continue to muster and his wound pre-
cluded the ultimate completion of the
purpose.
He was wounded at the battle OF
J Peach Orchard, June Goth, 1862, the
injury being caused by q fragment OF
! shell which struck him in the right side
He went to the field hospital and then
10 Carriers Landing, thence by trans
port to Fortress Monroe and then to the
Penn hospital in Philadelphia, where
he was admitted July 18th. October
9TH he went to Harrisburg to be dis
charged as stated. The family physi
clan, sent to Philadelphia to examine
his case, communicated with his father
at Ripon giving full and graphic ac-
count of his condition, stating that he
was in private hospital where patients
were treated by constact with the
Government, and that his chances of re
covery were small. For year after
leaving the army he was unable TO walk
except with cane and he continued its
use ever since. AS soon as practicable
he resumed the practice of law, having
county in the August term of court il
1857. In the same fall he was elected
district attorney and was still discharg
| ing the duties of the position when h'
enlisted
Mr.. Barnum was an able, extempor
aneous speaker andwas considered
among the best of our state, this alone
made him very widely known and great
ly sought after on all prominent occa
sions. He was also very able writer
and from the time he arrived in Wau
sau until his death he contributed NOR,
or less, to the local press. For mum
Der of years he filled the position o
editor of the PILOT. On the 9th o
August, 1877, he started THE Torch o
Liberty" He advocated the principle
of the Independent Greenback party
which had many followers in Marathon
county at that time. He made tn
paper known to the inhabitants of ever,
village and city in Wisconsin. Perfect
ly fearless, he attacked, vigorously
everything which he thought savored o
fraud 1t was through his efforts tina
Rose Zoldoske was freed from prison
She was sent to the states prison for lif
charged with having poisoned Ell
/ Maley of Riehland Center. Mr.. Barnun
J believed that she had been wronge'
and at once started vigorous warfar
on her enemies. While he was prose
cuted and threatened with dire calam
ty, yet they ayailed nothing for he KEEP
up his work until Rose Zoldoske wa
, pardoned by the governor. This wa
only one of the many battles which h
fought through his paper and which h
; always carried to a successful termina
: ton unless thoroughly convinced tina
he was not in the right and in mos
t every case his efforts were in behalf c
] the poor and the oppressed. With tn
decay of the Greenback party Mi
: Barnum espoused the cause of republ
{ cansm aud he made his paper powe
5 in that party He made "a sale of 9Th
e Torch of Liberty to Edgar I. Whe'
r lock in September, 1894, and at tbs
/ time the name of the publication wa
f changed 20 The Wausau Record.
MIR. Barnum opened an office an
4 again commenced the practice of Law
0 Being very fond of fishing and hunting
on ene of his trips into Northern Wi
! consin he found most beautiful spC
g on lake ShIshebogema, which prove
: to be government land. lie hom
steaded it and with his family wei
e there TO live until he could prove al
\ IN the mean time he built summ'
: resort, which he called THE Pines,
5 and it has been very popular from II
t day on which it was opened. /
l. selected well, one half of the lake bein
II in the Lac du Flambean Indian reserv
a ton, and, rs he said so near the pril
q cipal village of the Chippewas that Il
n weird music of the dances can be heal