On May
18th, 1861, I was entered into the service, as private, at Madison,
Wis., in Company B 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.
I afterwards
held the rank as Regular Mail Carrier but at the close of the war,
I was still a private.
I was first
discharged on June 17th, 1863 at Philadelphia, Penn., and at that
time receiving a Surgeon's Certificate for disability and was not
again commissioned, re-enlisted or transferred to any other organization.
The first
battle that I took part in was at South Mountain, Md.
I also
was engaged in the battle that took place at Antietam, Md. and was
wounded at that place on Sept. 17, 1862.
From Sept.
21st, 1862 to the latter part of December 1862 I was confined in
the Emory Hospital at Washington D. C. and from there I was taken
to General Hospital at West Philadelphia, Penn., remaining at this
one to June the seventeenth 1863.
I was never
taken prisoner or confined in a prison.
Among my
most intimate comrades were Quartermaster Sergeant, W. M. Spear,
C. C. Bushell, F. F. Forest and Robert Scott.
What I
think important during my service was my engagement at Antietam
Md. and also the fact that the company to which I belonged was formed
in April, 1861 at La Crosse, Wisconsin. We were among the first
to answer the "President's First Call" and so we were
finally this year's men.
The wound
I received was caused by a ball entering my wrist. I joined the
G. A. R. in 1868.
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