Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-04
TELLS Of VETERANS
al / a. Watrous Writes of
Wisconsin War Officers.
.,Jsnts Of so Years Ago Recalled and
..,,es of Many Men Who Took
Active Part in EIecting Abra-
ham Lincoln.

nam EihSS'"'
rhora are many in Wisconsin who
- easily tx their eyes and minds
scones and incidents in Wis
snsin Of 50 years ago and recall
of the men who took an &C
wv D' mart in the political campaign
-bicb made Abraham Lincoln presi-
without going into details, want
:, nreseDt the names and the work
y, come of those men, as we'll as
.or,e who had a part in opposing Mr..
Tjncoln's election, writes Col. J. A.
various in an exchange. II a military
tnt is given, am sure that not many
sill find fault.
Within FIVE years from that event
.r, wear for the American republic,
wisconsin had sent $1,000 to take
,art in the most memorable of civil
vars | wish it were possible to men,
Inn if no more than by name, all in
that Wisconsin contribution to the
,mntrv. who deserve it. It would
mean many thousands of names, and
y the stories Of their good service,
NJ their herOism, were added, the pro-
tuct would Eli many books. AS that
cannot be done, / must content myself
with a mention of Wisconsins
commanders of regiments and bat
teries. The thought of such a task
brings up food of memories. Who
were the commanders? What OF
them?
John C, Starkweather of Milwau-
kee went out with the First Wiscon-
sin, both when it was a three months
and three years regiment. George
B Brigham of Milwaukee became the
colonel when StarkWeather was made
brigadier general.
s. Park Coon, a Milwaukee lawyer,
WisconsiD's second attorney general,
was the first colonel OF the Second
regiment His successors were Ed
gar 0'Connor, Lucius Fairchild and
John Mansfield. O'Connor was killed
In battle and Fairchild and Mansfield
we're wounded at Gettysburg.
Charles S. Hamilton was the
Thirds first colonel. Thomas H.
Roger second and William Haw-
ley the third Hamilton and Roger
became major generals and HaWley
bTevet brigadier. Hamilton and Ro-
ger were West Pointers. All served
in the regulars, Roger was one of
Wisc0nsin's four major generals of
the regular army; John P. Story,
George Nj. Randall and Arthur Mac
Arthur, afterward promoted to lieu
tenant general, being the others.
AmaSa Cobb was the Fifth's first
colonel and Thomas S. Allen the Sec
ond Cobb was a Wisconsin congress
man eight year and chief justice of
Nebraska Allen was one of Wis
conSin'S best soldiers and secretary
Of state for four years
The Sixth's first colonel was Ly-
sander Cutler, Edward s. Bragg the
second, Rufus r. Dawes the third and
John A. Kellogg the fourth. All be-
came generals. Gen. Bragg, SO past,
Is the only one living. Cutler was bre-
'eted major general of volunteers.
Joseph Vandor, W. w. Robinson,
Mark FinniCum and Hollon Richard
son were colonies of the Seventh.
hnniCum lives at Paris, Tenn, and
Richardson at Seattle, Wash.
K c. Murphy, George w. Robbins.
'ohn W. Jefferson and W. B. Britton
we're colonels of the Eighth. Britton
Is 8 resident of GAINESVILLE.
Frederick Solomon, Charles E. Sal
onion and Arthur jacob were the
Alnths colonies. All are dead. The
SaL0mons were brothers of Gov Ed
ward Solomon Frederick was bre-
Feted major general.
Inc Tenth had three colonies. A.
Il Chaplin, John G. McMynn and Dun
can Mckercher. All are dead.
Ine Eleventh had but one colonel
VaafIes /. Harris, who was brevet-
% q 0rigadier and resides at Oma-
Ia, Neb.
Inc Twelfth had George E. Bryant,
recently dead, and James X. Proud
H. VINO lives at Kansas City. Both
we're breveted brigadiers. Gen.
S'oudht was the first department
commander Of the Wisconsin G. A. r.
me thirteenth had three colonies,
@aurice MaIoney, captain of regu-
aFS' William P Lyon and A. H. Kun
AsA Gen. Lyon was chief justice for
IaAy years, member of the board
VI control and now resides in Califor-
MA, past 81.
Inc Fourtenth's were Coils. David
Z. Wood. John Hancock and Lyman
u ward. Wood died in 1852 and
nancock 10 years ago. Gen. Ward
Oied last year.
hans c. Heg and Ole c. johnson
, we're colonies of the Fifteenth, the
N0r|esjan regiment Heg was killed
Il cattle and Johnson died "a years
ago.
benjamin Allen and Cassius Fair
Apparently Unfortunate.
"Fompton-T have a farmer friend