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| WILLIAM S. MERRILL
Born August 31, 1844 in St. Lawrence county Madrid, New York. His parents were George Merrill and Eliza Folsom Merrill. Enlisted September 1863 while living in Pensular, Michigan (Grand Traverse County) he enlisted as a Private, 10th Michigan Cavalry Service Info Because of the cruelty of an officer William Merrill deserted the cavalry unit and re-entered the Civil War in the Indiana infantry under the alias George Getchel. In 1865 he was discharged. Afgter the war he applied for a veteran’s pension but was denied because he was paid $200.00 dollars to join the military. Post War: He joined his family who had moved to Eau Clair, Wisconsin. In 1868 he married Helen Card in Mondovi, Wisconsin. They had 10 children. Lydia( Eliza), Carrie, Sadie, Annie, Eunice, Chester, Mae, Lettie, Ethel and Ruth. He and his wife lived by Exeland on the Chippewa River from about 1890 until his death. Died April 23, 1924, buried in Windfall Cemetery (Exland) ALFRED RAYNOR
David Dumond (Contributed
by Karen Duffy)
(NOTE: I do not mean to speak ill of the dead,
but Mr. Dumond in the obit sounds like a saint, but in real life was something
else. He married Tabitha Evaline Wilson on April 25, 1870.
She had been married and divorced from John W. Wilson, with whom she had
three children: Arthur Milton, Oscar Franklin, and Mary Florence.
Tabitha and David had a daughter Lavina in about 1873. Tabitha began
to lose her eyesight at about this time and Dumond deserted her in September
1873. By 1876 she was totally blind and living with family in Missouri.
She died penniless at the Home for the Friendless in Lincoln, Nebraska
on Nov. 28, 1914. Dumond's parents died when he was young and in 1860 he
lived with his uncle in Delaware County, IN. After the war broke
out, he joined Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry. They were sent to
Washington D.C. in Sept. 1861 and joined the 2, 6, and 77 Wisconsin Infantry
Regiments to form a Brigade. They fought in some of the bloodiest
battles of the war, including Bull Run, Gainesville, South Mountain, Antietam,
Gettysburg, and Petersburg to name a few. At the Battle of South
Mountain they earned the name "Iron Brigade" reportedly because Gen. MacClellan
saw them fight and said the men stood like iron during the battle.
By fall 1864 the ranks of the 19th Indiana were so depleted that they ceased
to exist, folding the survivors into the ranks of the 10th Indiana infantry.
They continued to fight and were at Appomattox Court House when Gen. Lee
surrendered. Private Dumond was one of the few who survived the war
from beginning to end. (although his obit states that he was at Andersonville,
this is probably NOT true, and my contacting Andersonville yielded no information.
Also, the timing of the years is off to make that statement true.)
George Hulbert (Contributed
by Karen Duffy)
"Mustered Out"
He died Sept. 18, 1894 (NOTE: This George appears on the 1890 Veteran's
Schedule as a resident of Sawyer County who served his country from Feb.
9, 1865 to Sept. 7, 1865 as a private in Company E. He was discharged on
disability.)
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