The Civil War was fought. In it's many battles the manhood of the north offered their lives for the nation's glory; and it was far from vain. The hand of fate reached out and snatched a few from the paths of the living, and transplanted them into the peaceful aisles of the dead. Others were less favored by Providence, and allowed to suffer with wounds for many months before "Crossing the Bar". Still others were suffered to languish in sordid prisons, enduring hunger and cold and unthinkable privations, with death back home as the ultimate ending. But the majority were privileged to return uninjured to their loved ones and revel in the splendor of the Union for whose unity they had fought and won, and their comrades bled and died.

But the spirit that, like a flame ignited in a pile of shavings, flaring high at first, then gradually dying out, the spirit that lives and endures until it lives and endures no longer, cannot be expected to survive forever. Those soldiers who returned-they have one by one gone on to the final resting, until we have with us only a few.

But they are not forgotten; their memory will endure as long as granite. Reedsburg has a record of which it may justly be proud. The names of many of its heroes will go echoing down the halls of time even into blessed immortality.

Local Veterans

This roster, which is inclusive of the ten square townships, has been prepared with great effort, and is an earnest attempt at collecting and classifying the names of the men who served in the army during the Civil War. There may be some (and probably are) whose names have been lost. But this roster, embracing over 460 names, is the largest ever published in any Sauk County register. The numbers right of some of the names indicate those who died in service, and are for convenience in referring to the Roll of the Dead.

Wisconsin Voluntary Infantry

Second Regiment

Company K

                                             

Fourth Regiment

Company   B

Jeremiah Cottington

Winfield

Company D

William Penn Stillick	Winfield
William P. Cottington	Winfield
George Foyles	Winfield
George Underwood	Winfield
Marshall Newell	Dellona
Jackson Peck	Dellona
Julius Hubbard (32)	Excelsior

Fifth Regiment

Company K

Charles Fosdick	Westfield
John Fosdick	Westfield
W. I. Carver	Reedsburg

Sixth Regiment

Company A

G. M. Jones	Reedsburg
Theodore Jay	Reedsburg
George Miles (16)	Reedsburg
Sergeant John A. Coughran	Reedsburg
John Dickens	Reedsburg
Le Roy Dickens	Reedsburg
Isreal Inman	Washington
W. H. H. Inman	Washington
James Whitty	Winfield
John C. Weidman	Westfield
Henry Saare	Westfield
George Moag	Westfield
M. F. Moor	Westfield
Peter Stackhouse	Westfield
William Pearson	LaValle
Reuben Jones	LaValle
D. C. Fenton	Ironton
Chauncey Winsor	Ironton
William Groat	Ironton
Nelson Moor	Ironton
Samuel J. Hutchins	Woodland
Gottlieb Roser	Freedom
Philip Nippert	Freedom
Frank Gerlaugh	Freedom
Eli A. Broughton	Freedom
William P. Black	Freedom
John Alexander	Freedom
Philip Hoefer	Freedom
H. D. Jones	Excelsior
T. L. Johnson	Excelsior
Daniel Odell	Excelsior
John Starks	Excelsior
W. B. Thomas	Excelsior
John W. Fuster	Excelsior
Philip Cheek	Excelsior
T. A. Jones	Excelsior
B. H. Jones	Winfield

 

Company I

William H. Nichols

Woodland

Company K

John Holden

LaValle

Seventh Regiment

Company A

Rufus Hodgemen	Reedsburg
A. C. Hunt	Reedsburg
W. P. Carter	Excelsior

Company B

Abram B. Frost	Washington
Henry Travis	Washington
Isaac Frost	Ironton
Edward Wheeler	Ironton

George Root (28)

Reedsburg

Company G

Warren H. Hart

Washington

George D. Dewey

Ironton

Eighth Regiment

Joseph Palmer	Westfield
James Richards	Westfield
Ira Winslow	Westfield
Jacob Appel	Westfield
Samuel Fosnot	Reedsburg

Ninth Regiment

Company F

Earnest Brandt

Westfield

Eleventh Regiment

Company D

Samuel Fausnaught	Reedsburg
Earnest Black	Westfield
William Black	Westfield
Peter Alexander	Freedom

Company G

Leslie Graves

Westfield

Company K

William Stackhouse

Westfield

Company Unknown

Ammriah Robotham

Reedsburg

Twelfth Regiment

Company B

Captain Giles Stevens	Reedsburg
1st Lieut. B. F. Blackman	Ironton
2nd Lieut. James W. Lusk	Reedsburg
1st Sgt. F. W. Henry (10)	Reedsburg
2nd Sgt. Spencer Miles (17)	Reedsburg
Cpl. Reuben W. Green	Reedsburg
Cp. Morris E. Seeley	Reedsburg
John Seamans	Winfield
John Seymour	Winfield
Edward Buelow	Reedsburg
August Johnson	Reedsburg
Philo Lane	Reedsburg
James Lusk	Reedsburg
Ellis Pond	Reedsburg
C. F. Pollock (23)	Reedsburg
Charles Reifenrath (26)	Reedsburg
G.D. Spicer	Washington
Lewis Bitney	Washington
Lursis Townser	Winfield
LaFayette Kelley	Winfield
John Fessey	Winfield
Horace Curtis	Winfield
L. B. Cornwell (37)	Winfield
Dennis Curtis	Winfield
Lewis Curtis	Winfield
L. B. Cornell	Winfield
Jonas Salmon	Winfield
Alfred Darrow	Winfield
John Kird	Winfield
James Lamsbury	Winfield
Charles Camel	Westfield
Frederick Giles	Westfield
George Mead	Westfield
Franklin Fosdick	Westfield
Henry Sargent	Westfield
Sylvanus Richards	Westfield
John Seldon	Westfield
I. W. Root	Westfield
Charles Gulliford	Westfield
Henry Dearholt	Westfield
John Kyle	Westfield
Thomas Little	Woodland
Oscar Tabor	Woodland
Stephen J. Davis	LaValle
John Juta	LaValle
Henry C. Palmer	LaValle
John Oliver	LaValle
George W. Bailey	LaValle
Harrison P. Bullard	LaValle
William Powell	LaValle
Ephram Blakesley	LaValle
William Bundy	LaValle
Elwood Mason	LaValle
Jehial D. Hagaman	LaValle
Ebert H. Haraman (40)	LaValle
Levi Seeley	LaValle
George W. Seeley	LaValle
Frank Culigan	LaValle
George Inman	LaValle
Jack Inman	Ironton
Anthony Benson	Ironton
Elias Robinson	Ironton
B. F. Blackman	Ironton
Lusius Carr	Ironton
Matson C. Osburn	Ironton
Samuel Barnet	Ironton
Constance Beuchat	Ironton
Archibald Melon	Ironton
James Simon	Ironton
H. J. Groat	Ironton
Charles Pearson	Ironton
Albert Sprague	Ironton
Fernando C. Wood	Ironton
Giles Spicer	Ironton
Hiram Hawkins	Ironton
John Kinneman	Ironton
William Richards	Ironton
M. B. Long	Ironton
George Ford (42)	Ironton
Henry Ramo	Ironton
Amos Ford (39)	Ironton
J. C. Wichersham (33)	Ironton
N. Camp	Ironton

 

Company E

George Armstrong	Freedom
Jacob Auble	Freedom
I. C. Knapp	Freedom
Abram Knapp	Freedom
James Camp	Dellona
Lewis T. Linnell	Dellona
John Galespie	Dellona
Henry Stutson	Dellona
Isaac Henry	Dellona
William A. Vincent	Dellona
Leander Tiffany	Dellona
William Whorry	Dellona
Alfred W. Stark	Dellona
Erastus Casper	Dellona
A. J. Jameson (23)	Dellona
Alura Stowell (26)	Dellona
John Gaddies	Excelsior
Henry Bennet	Reedsburg
Nathaniel Darrow	Winfield
Judson Craker	Winfield
Samuel A Burhams	Excelsior
William H. Harrison	Excelsior
John C. Montaney	Excelsior

 

Company K

W. W. Winchester

Excelsior

Company Unknown

Charles Beulow	Reedsburg
Levi Bemis	Reedsburg
John Barnhart	Reedsburg
Francis Colgan (23)	Reedsburg