Dane County, Wisconsin - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 6 of those read), 1880 (part 1 of 2)

Chapter with an unread heading (no. 6 of those read)

Chicago, Milwauhee ^ St. Paul. - The present Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company has grown up out of the former La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Company, now the La Crosse Division of the present line of road. But the first railroad built - the pioneer Wisconsin railroad - was the Milwaukee & Mississippi line, rtow the Prairie du Chien Division of the general line.

The Milwaukee & Waukesha Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of the Territorial Legislature, approved by Gov. Henry Dodge, February 11, 1847. The capital stock of the company was fixed at $100,000, in shares of $100 each ; the provisions then usual in such acts of incorporation were included in the charter, and the company was authorized to build a railroad from Milwaukee to the village of Prairieville (now Waukesha) in Waukesha County. A meeting of the Commissioners named in the charter was held in Milwaukee November 23, 1847, at which time it was agreed to open books for subscription to the capital stock of the company at Waukesha and at Milwaukee.

By an act approved March 11, 1848, the company was authorized to extend their road from Waukesha to Madison, and thence west to the Mississippi River, in Grant County; and the company was also, authorized to increase its capital stock to $3,000,000 for that purpose. At a further meeting of the Board of Commissioners, held April 6, 1849, it was declared that |100,- 000 of the capital stock of the company had been subscribed in good faith, and that 6 per cent thereon had been actually paid. By an act of the Legislature, approved February 1, 1850, the name of the corporation was changed to " The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company." In February, 1851, the road was. completed to Waukesha, a distance of twenty and a half miles, at a cost of $268,820.62, and on January 1, 1852, the road was completed to Eagle, eighteen miles farther ; the entire expenditure to that date being $652,313.72.

During the year 1852, the road was extended to Milton, sixty-two miles from Milwaukee, and the branch.to Janesville was completed ready for operation. In December, 1853, the road was completed to Stoughton, and the grading, bridging and masonry between that point and Madison was partly done. During the same year, spiles were driven and a beginning made in building the railroad bridge across the west end of Lake Monona.

During the fall of 1853, the company selected their depot grounds in Madison, and a depot building was put under contract - the building to be one hundred and fifteen feet long by fifty feet wide, walls eighteen feet high, piazza and platform ten feet wide on each side ; to be built of stone, and to be completed by January 1, 1854. At the time the grounds were selected, they were covered with a thick undergrowth, and the whole distance between the freight depot and Lake Monona was a dense thicket of poplar, crab and plum trees.

The railroad bridge, begun the previous year, was finished in the spring of 1854. ihe first train of passenger cars came across it the 18 th of May. The track, however, was not laid up to the depot until Monday, the 22d. The next day, Tuesday, the celebration took place. Never was a day more auspicious. The heavens were cloudless, the air warm but not sultry, and in the golden floods of sunlight the wide landscape of lake and forest and prairie, which formed the charming environment of the village of Madison, was "like a biight-eyed face that laughs out openly." This was considered an omen of the success and future prosperity of the railroad, and the enterprising, public-spirited men under whose auspices it has been thus tar steadily pushed forward.

There was a larger turnout from the country than was anticipated. By 10 o'clock, the streets were filled with teams, and the sidewalks crowded with people. A great many of them were men who had settled in the country at an early day, and had never seen a locomotive. By 1 o'clock P. M., the grounds about the depot were thronged with people anxiously obeying the injunction so common along railroads, to " look out for the engine." It was judged that at least two thousand persons from the country were about the depot and at the end of the bridge where the railroad crosses the lake. There were conflicting reports respecting the time when the cars would arrive, and the people had assembled rather earlier than they would otherwise for that reason. Bright-colored parasols, ranged in groups along the shore, lent liveliness to the scene.

The train did not arrive until a little after 2 o'clock, and many were growing impatient at the delay. At length the unmistakable whistle of the engine was heard, and the long train, with two locomotives at its head, swept grandly into sight - thirty-two cars crowded with people. At the rear of the train were several racks, occupied by the Milwaukee Fire Companies, in red uniforms with their glistening engines. Bands of music attended them, and, at intervals, as the train moved slowly across the bridge, the piece of artillery brought along by the firemen was discharged. It was a grand but strange spectacle to see this monster train, like some huge, unheard-of thing of life, with breath of smoke and flame, emerging from the green openings - scenes of pastoral beauty and quietude - beyond the placid waters of the lake.

From two thousand to two thousand five hundred people were on the train. On reaching the depot, they were welcomed in a brief address by A. A. Bird, the President of the day, which was responded to in an appropriate manner by A. Finch, Jr., the attorney of the railroad company. E. B. Dean, Jr., and Thomas Reynolds were the Marshals. A procession was formed, and the multitude proceeded to the Capitol Park, where tables were spread and a dinner prepared. The completion of this road infused fresh vitality and energy into every channel of business.

The total cost of the road from Milwaukee to Madison, was $2,816,249.61. During the year 1854, the survey of the route from Madison to Prairie du Chien was completed, the line staked out and the right of way for the entire distance purchased. In 1855, the contract was let for the construction of the road, to be completed November 1, 1856. No portion of the track, however, was completed in that year, but the line was made ready for the iron as far as Mazomanie. During the year 1856, the road was completed to within twenty-two miles of Prairie du Chien, reaching that place on the 15th of April, 1857, ten years after the charter was granted by the Territorial Legislature, and seven years after ground was broken at Milwaukee for its construction. The total cost of the road from Milwaukee was f 5,588,739.99.

This railway enters Dane Coujity in the town of Albion, passes through Dunkirk, Pleasant Springs, Dunn, Blooming Grove, Madison, to the city of Madison, thence, after leaving the city and the town of Madison, it passes through Middleton, Cross Plains and Black Earth, leaving the county from the town of Mazomanie. Its general course is northwest from the point of entering the county to the place of leaving it. Along the line within Dane County, are the following stations, with their distances from the city of Madison : McFarland, six miles; Stoughton, sixteen miles; Middleton, seven miles; Cross Plains, fifteen miles; Black Earth, twenty miles ; Mazomanie, twenty-three miles.

Madison Line of the La Orosse Division of the Ohioago, Milwaukee ^ St. Paul. - The Milwaukee & Watertown Company was chartered in 1851, to build a road from Milwaukee to Watertown. It soon organized, and began the construction of its line from Brookfield, fourteen miles west of Milwaukee, and a point on the Milwaukee & Mississippi road leading through Oconomowoc to Watertown. The charter contained a provision that the company might extend ite road by way of Portage to La Crosse. It reached "Watertown in 1856, and was consolidated

1,® ^f ^^°f^^ & Milwaukee road in the autumn of the same year. ,j,.,-'-'^®"^*dison. Fond du Lac & Lake Michigan Railroad Company" was chartered in Aao&, to build a road from Madison via Fond du Lac to Lake Michigan. In 1857, it bought of the La Crosse Company that portion of its road acquired by consolidation with the Milwaukee & Watertown Company. Its name was then changed to " Milwaukee & Western Eailroad Company." It owned a line of road from Brookfield to Watertown, and branches from the latter place to Columbus and Sun Prairie, in all about eighty miles in length.

The Milwaukee & St. Paul Company succeeded to the rights of the La Crosse & Milwaukee and Milwaukee & Horicon Companies, in 1862 and 1863 ; and in the latter year purchased the property of the Milwaukee & Western Company. In 1869, it extended its Watertown line from Sun Prairie to Madison; the whole distance from the latter place to Watertown now being known as the Madison Line of the La Crosse Division of the Milwaukee & St. Paul road. The first passenger train from Milwaukee arrived in Madison over this road May 22, 1869.

This road, after leaving the city of Madison, takes a northeast direction to the village of Sun Prairie, traversing a portion of the towns of Blooming Grove, Burke and Sun Prairie, its course thence to the Jefferson County line is nearly due east, through the towns of Sun Prairie and Medina. The stations on the line of this road within Dane County, and their distances from the city of Madison, are as follows : Sun Prairie, twelve miles ; Deansville, eighteen miles ; Marshall, twenty miles.

Madison and Portage. - In 1856-57, the La Crosse & Milwaukee Company partly graded a track for a railroad between Madison and Portage, as a part of its land-grant line, but with the collapse of that company the work was abandoned. In 1869, a new company was formed, which procured the right of way and grade of the old company. Principally through the efforts of James Campbell and R. B. Sanderson, the track was completed and the road opened, January 8, 1871, a large delegation of Portage citizens going to Madison by invitation on the first passenger train over the line. It was for a time operated by the St. Paul Company, under a lease, and in 1878 that company secured the ownership of the road, which now forms a part of its general lines.

This road, after leaving Madison, passes, in a northerly direction, through the towns of Burke, Windsor and Vienna, into Columbia County. The stations on the road, and their distances from the city of Madison, are as follows : Sanderson, seven miles ; Windsor, eleven miles ; De Forest, thirteen : Morrison, sixteen.

The Chicago and North- Western. - By an act of the Wisconsin . Legislature, approved August 19, 1848, the first legislative session under the State government, the Madison & Beloit liailroad Company was chartered. The route of this road, as contemplated, was up the valley of Rock River, from Beloit to Janesville ; thence to the mouth of the Catfish, and up that valley to Madison. A. Hyatt Smith, of Janesville, by whom the charter was procured, had originally proposed the construction of a railroad from Milwaukee to Janesville, and so through the southern tier of counties to the Mississippi River, with a branch on the lake shore from Milwaukee to Chicago, but, not meeting the co-operation which he anticipated, projected the Madison & Beloit road, looking to a connection at Beloit with a branch from the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, then in process of construction westward from Chicago.

The Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Company procured from the Legislature of 1857, a renewal of an early grant of a charter to the Rock River Valley Union Company, for the extension of its lines from Janesville to Madison, and thence to Lake St. Croix. Some excavations were made on this line south from Madison, but the route was abandoned, except as to portions of it which were subsequently used in constructing what is now the Madison Divison of the North-Western road.

After the amendments made in 1860, to the charter of the Madison & Beloit Railroad Company, by which Beloit was eliminated as a point on the road, and the name of the company changed to the Rock River Valley Union Railroad Company, as before described, 'another corporation was chartered with authority to build a railroad direct between Madison and Beloit. This was the Beloit & Madison Railroad Company, incorporated by act of the Legislature, February 28, 1852.

In the year 1854, a contract and lease were made between the Galena & Chicago Union Eailroad Company and the Beloit & Madison Company, by which the latter was to build its road f ran Beloit to Madison. During the same year, the road was built and the iron laid seventeen miles from Beloit to Footville, and the road was placed in operation to Afton, eight miles from Beloit and was run in connection with the Galena road. Work on the line had reached Magnolia three miles further, when it was suspended. The road and its property were afterward sold under foreclosure, and a new company organized, in which the Galena Company owned the nrincipal portion of the stock, guaranteeing also the Madison & Beloit Company's bonds, and it took a perpetual lease of the road. In 1863 and 1864, work on the line was resumed. The consolidation of the Galena and North-Western Companies occurred June 2, 1864, and the new company prosecuted and completed the road to Madison, which was reached September 1, of that

The Baraboo Air-Line Kailroad Company was incorporated in 1870, with authority to build a railroad from Columbus, Watertown, Madison, or any point intermediate, by way of the villages of Lodi, Baraboo, Ableman's Mills and Reedsburg, to Tomah, La Crosse, or any point on the Mississippi River above La Crosse. In 1871, the Baraboo Air-Line Company was consolidated with the North-Western Company, and the construction of the road northwest of Madison, or the Madison extension, as it was rapidly pushed forward toward Winona Junction, a distance of 129 miles. Aid was voted to the Air-Line road previous to the consolidation, and was paid to aid its construction as follows: City of Madison, $25,000 cash; Lodi, $25,000 bonds and 815,000 cash; West Point, $5,000; Baraboo, $70,000 bonds; Excelsior, $12,500; Freedom, $7,500; Greenfield, $5,000; Reedsburg, $25,000 ; Winfield, $5,000 ; Sparta, $63,000 ; Ridgeville, $2,500. In this year the line was opened to Lodi ; in 1872, to Reedsburg ; in 1873., it was completed to Elroy, and through trains from Chicago ran to St. Paul over the North- Western and the West Wisconsin roads. In 1874, this line was completed to Winona' Junction, and the whole is now operated as the Madison Division.

This road, in running north, crosses the extreme southwest corner of the town of Rutland in Dane County ; then, after crossing the northeast corner of Green County , at Brooklyn, again enters Dane in the town of Oregon. Its course thence to the city of Madison, through the towns of Oregon, Fitchburg and Madison, is almost due north. After leaving the city and town of Madison, its course is northwesterly through the towns of Westport, Vienna and Dane, crossing into Columbia County from the last-mentioned town.

The stations on this road, within the limits of the county, and their distances from the city of Madison, are as follows: Syene, five miles ; Oregon, ten miles ; Mendota, five miles ; Waunakee? ten miles ; Dane, fourteen miles.

New Bailroads in Dane County. - There are now two railroads in process of construction in the county by the Chicago & North-Western Company ; the Chicago & Tomah Railroad, and the Milwaukee & Madison Railway. The former enters the county from the west, in the extreme northwest corner of the town of Blue Mounds, runs through the northern part of that town and the town of Springdale, south to the center of the town of Verona, then northeast through the northwest corner of the town of Fitchburg, and terminates in the southeast corner of the town of Madison, where it strikes the Chicago & North-Western.

The Milwaukee & Madison Railway enters Dane County from the east, in the southeast corner of the town of Deerfield, runs westerly through the town of Cottage Grove, and thence through the town of Blooming Grove to the city of Madison. It is expected that both these roads will be completed during the year 1881.

The Great Kebbllion

Ireason, always despicable, even unto the eyes of traitors, never became more intensely Il'^I'Va ^^ "^^^^i when the climax of a conspiracy, long brewing, was reached, and the united btates Government found itself face to face with an unholy and unrighteous civil war.

The object of the South in attempting a separation of the Union was the erection of a g slave empire, encircling the Mexican Gulf; the duty of the North was clearly to prevent success of a scheme so monstrous and inhuman. The first movements of the Confederates ^ made under very favorable circumstances. They were in possession of many of the c national ofiices, and they very largely controlled the army and the navy. Their military ] embraced three principal objects - the seizure of the forts and coast defenses, the capture of national capital and the possession of the Mississippi River. The South was, neverthel thrown upon the defensive from the beginning of the struggle, and very soon effectu beleaguered. It was the unfaltering aim of the North to bring the war to a close, with as 1 bloodshed as possible, by the capture of Richmond, the rebel capital, but the first ion movement terminated disastrously at Bull Run, on the 21st of July, 1861. This battle, h ever, was without military significance, since it did not secure the seizure of Washington by rebels. It taught the North the real nature of the terrific struggle in which they were enga| On the day after the battle, Congress voted $500,000,000, and called for 500,000 volunte From that moment the rebellion was doomed. This act of President Lincoln and his patri Congress increased the nation's confidence in them to deal the righteous blow, and, at the s; time, struck terror to the hearts of the secessionists.

As is well known, the State of South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession on the 1 of April, 1861, and commenced open hostilities by firing fr,om James' Island upon Fort Sum garrisoned by Maj. Robert Anderson and about seventy men. The fort was surrendered on 14th of April. On the day succeeding, President Lincoln issued his proclamation declaring Southern States in insurrection, and issued a call for 75,000 three months' volunteers, to aii suppressing the rebellion. In Wisconsin, as in all the other Northern States, the public p^ quickened under the excitement, and on every hand the national flag was displayed, pu enthusiasm knew no bounds, and in city, town and hamlet, the burden on every tongue was a vigorous prosecution of the war.

On the 15th of April, an informal meeting was held at the Governor's oflSce, in Madii to consider events. Judge 0. Cole in the chair, who made a speech full of patriotism and noblest sentiments. On the day following. Gov. Alexander Randall notified Capt. George Bryant that the services of the Madison Guards had been accepted, and he was authorizec fill up his company ; and on the same day the Governor issued a proclamation for the organ tion of the First Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. The enrollment of men for the Madi Guards began April 17. Twenty-eight names were enrolled, which number was, on the 2i increased to 118.

On the 17th, the Governor's Guards, commanded by J. P. Atwood, waited on Gov. E dall and tendered their services, which were accepted on the 18th. The company had sever three names enrolled.

On the evening of the 18th a large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Assen: room in the capitol, at which H. S. Orton presided. A committee, consisting of J. N. Jones B. Vilas, W. F. Porter, S. Klauber and Neely Gray, was appointed to receive from the citiz of Madison subscriptions for the support of such soldiers' families as should need aid. At meeting $7,490 was voluntarily subscribed.

On the 20th of April, the Governor commissioned J. F. Randolph, who had been Orderly Sergeant of the Governor's Guards, as First Lieutenant, to raise a new company ft second, or reserve regiment, and, on the 22d, he reported his company full.

On the 24th of April, the two Madison companies left for camp at Milwaukee, escorted the depot by the Fire Department and the Turners' Association.

In the organization of the First Regiment, the Madison Guards were known as Compi E, and the Governor's Guards as Company K. Of the officers, Charles L. Harris, Lieuten Colonel; Harry Bingham, Assistant Quartermaster; L. J. Dixon, Assistant Surgeon, i Charles Fairchild, Assistant Commissary, were of Madison.

The officers of Company E were George E. Bryant, Captain; William H. Plunlcett and William H. Miller, Lieutenants ; of Company K, Lucius Fairchild, Captain ; DeWitt C. Poole and James K. Proudfit, Lieutenants.

On the 22d of April, a company known as the " Hickory Guards " was organized for perfecting themselves in military tactics. Of this company, L. S. Dixon, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was Captain.

The companies comprising the First Regiment rendezvoused at Milwaukee Saturday, April 27. Of this regiment, Capt. J. C. Starkweather, of Milwaukee, had been commissioned Colonel; Charles L. Harris, of Madison, Lieutenant Colonel; David H. Lane, of Kenosha, Major; and Alfred R. Chapin, of Milwaukee, Adjutant.

The organization of the regiment was completed and it was mustered into the United States service on the 17th of May, and the War Department informed that it awaited marching orders. The troops remained in camp until the 9th of June, when, in obedience to orders from the Secretary of War, it left the State for Harrisburg, Penn., fully equipped by the State, with the exception of arms.

The regiment was assigned to Maj. Gen. Patterson's Division July 2 ; led the advance on Martinsburg, participated in the battle of Falling Waters, in which battle Color Bearer Fred. Bi Hutching, of Company E, Madison, was the first man wounded. Solomon Wise, of Company K, also of Madison, was taken prisoner. The regiment won a reputation for bravery and veteran-like conduct excelled by no other.

After serving out the time for which it was enlisted, the regiment returned to Camp Scott, and was mustered out of service August 22, 1861. About eighty-five men of the Madison companies arrived in the city August 23, and, after an ample dinner at the Railroad House, formed a line, and, escorted by the Young American Cornet Band, the Governor's Guards, the fire companies and the Turners' Society, and accompanied by the State field-piece, marched to the front of the capitol, where a welcome address^was delivered by Gov. Randall, after which the company dispersed. The remainder of the men were left at Milwaukee and returned home at their convenience.

The next day after the mustering-out of service of the First Regiment, its late Colonel, John C. Starkweather, was commissioned as commanding officer of the " Three-years First Regiment." The enlistment went on rapidly, and the companies began to rendezvous at Camp Scott, Milwaukee. Of the field and staff officers, Madison was represented by Harry Bingham, Quartermaster, and Dr. Lucius J. Dixon, Surgeon. The companies were organized in the counties of Milwaukee, Kenosha, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and St. Croix. The regiment started for Louisville, Ky., October 28.

The Governor having determined to prganize more regiments as a reserve for future calls, accepted the proposition of the State Agricultural Society, tendering the use of their fair grounds at Madison as one of the camps. These grounds were already inclosed with a high board fence, and had several buildings which might be fitted up for use until more substantial ones could he built. Carpenters and laborers were set at work on the 27th, of April, 1861, under the direction of Maj. H. A. Tenney. William W. Tredway, of Madison, was commissioned Quartermaster General, and at once proceeded, in behalf of the State, to procure clothing, camp and garrison equipage for the Second Regiment.

oimeon Mills, of Madison, was about the same time commissioned Paymaster General. Ihe beoond Regiment, S. Park Coon, Colonel, was ordered to move into " Camp Randall," at Madison, on the 1st of May. This regiment was first organized for three months' service, but, th P "^ °^^^^^ ^®^® received to recruit the regiment for three years or the war, and ne Governor, wishing to gratify the enthusiastic desires of the companies who had tendered thl T^"'f ' Fooeeded also to organize the Third and Fourth Regiments. During this time, e alies of this city performed a large amount of labor, done at a time when great suffering would have occurred if their timely assistance had not been rendered. The ladies of other cities and villages were also diligently engaged in the same benevolent work.

The Second Regiment left the State on the 20th of June, and proceeded to Harrisburg, Penn. One company was enlisted at Madison, the " Randall Guards," known as Company H of which J. F. Randolph was Captain, A. A. Meredith, First Lieutenant, and Nathaniel Rollins Second Lieutenant.

This regiment was called upon to suffer much of privation and hardship. They were in the " Onwaid to Richmond" movement; participated in the skirmish at Bull Run, July 19, took an active part in the memorable battle of July 21 ; and won a high reputation for bravery and soidier-like conduct. They were the last to leave the field at the finish ; and their thinned ranks at roll call the next morning, proved the part they acted. As an evidence of what the Second Regiment had been through, it is sufficient to state that it left the State June 20, over one thousand strong, and, October 1, reported for duty six hundred and eighty-nine.

In these engagements the following, of the "Randall Guards" (Company H), were wounded: Julius F. Randolph,* Captain, July 21, 1861; A. A. Meredith, First Lieutenant; G. M. Humphrey, First Sergeant ; Theodore D. Bahn, Fourth Sergeant ; S. M. Bond, Fifth Sergeant ; Peter Morrison, Corporal ; G. A. Beck (taken prisoner), F. M. Buten, Thomas Canning, Thomas Murphy, E. L. Reed (taken prisoner), E. R. Reed, Henry Storm and J. M. Zook, privates. After the Bull Run battle, a number of changes took place in the officers of the regiment: Lucius Fairthild, formerly Captain of Company K of the First Regiment of three months' volunteers, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel ; J. D. Ruggles, Quartermaster, and A. J. Ward, Surgeon, all of Madison.

The Third Regiment, Charles S. Hamilton, Colonel, was ordered into camp at Fond du Lac, and left for Harrisburg July 12. In this regiment were the " Dane County Guards " (Company K), of which William Hawley was Captain ; Theodore S. Widvey, First Lieutenant, and Warham Parks, Second Lieutenant.

The Fourth Regiment encamped at Racine, June 6, Halbert E. Paine, Colonel, in which Madison and Dane County were not represented by a company, but L. D. Aldrich, of Madison, was appointed Adjutant.

The Sixth Regiment was called to Camp Randall June 25, Lysander Cutler, Colonel. Of the commissioned officers, the following were from Madison : J. P. Atwood, Lieutenant Colonel; Frank A. Haskell, Adjutant ; 0. B. Chapman, Surgeon. Col. Atwood resigned on account of ill health September 21. There were no companies from Madison.

The Seventh "Regiment came to Camp Randall in the month of August. Its organization was completed September 2. Joseph Van Dor was Colonel. Of this regiment, from Madison were Charles W. Cook, Adjutant, and Ernest Kramer, Assistant Surgeon. Dane County was represented by a company called " Stoughton Guards."

The Eighth Regiment was organized September 4, Robert C. Murphy, Colonel, but was not called to Camp Randall until the 16th. The following commissioned officers were from Madison : George W. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel ; John W. Jefferson, Major ; Ezra T. Sprague, Adjutant, and William Hobbins, Assistant Surgeon. There were no Madison companies.

The Ninth Regiment was organized at Camp Sigel, at Milwaukee, and was recruited among fhe German population. Frederic Salomon was Colonel. The regiment was mustered into the service October 26. In this regiment. Company F was composed of the Madison Sharp-Shooters, of which company Dominick Hastreiter was Captain and Martin Voigle and John Gerber Lieutenants. Some changes, however, were made before they left camp, Martin Voigle becoming Captain, and A. P. Doerschlag, First Lieutenant. -^

The Tenth Regiment was organized at Camp Holton, Milwaukee, and mustered into service October 14 Alfred R. Chapin, Colonel. Benton McConnel was Quartermaster, the only person holding an office from Madison. No companies of the regiment were from Madison.

The Eleventh Regiment was organized September 18. It was intended at the outset to be a Dane County regiment, but it was soon ascertained that Dane County had already honored too many drafts upon her citizens to be able to fill up the regiment, and it was found necessary to do this in part, outside of the county. The regiment was called into Camp Randall during the month of October, and placed under the command of Col. Charles L. Harris, of Madison, with the following field and staff oflicers : Charles A. Wood, Lieutenant Colonel ; Arthur Platt^ Major; Daniel Lincoln, Adjutant; Charles G. Mayers, Quartermaster; James B. Brittan, Chaplain; H. P. Strong, Surgeon ; E. Everett and C. C. Barnes, Assistant Surgeons. All of the above, with the exception of the three last named, were from Madison. Of the companies comprising the regiment, the following were made up of Dane County volunteers : Company A, "Watson Guards," officered by D. E. Hough, Captain; P. W. Jones and W. L. Freeman, Lieutenants. Company B, " Mendota Guards," J. H. Hubbard, Captain ; E. S. Oakley and James- M. Bull, Lieutenants. Companies F and G, the " Harvey Zouaves" and " Randall Zouaves," were made up from Dane and other counties. Of Company F, E. R. Chase, of Madison, was Captain. The regiment left for the seat of war November 20, 1861.

The Twelfth Regiment was called to Camp Randall during the month of October, under the charge of Col. George E. Bryant, of Madison, formerly Captain of Company E, " Madison Guards," First Regiment (three months). Of the other staff and regimental oificers from Madison, were De Witt C. Poole, Lieutenant Colonel ; Andrew Sexton, Quartermaster ; James K. Proudfit, Adjutant (formerly Second Lieutenant, Company K, " Governor's Guards," First Regiment, three months), and Rev. L. B. Mason, Chaplain. There was no Dane County company in the regiment.

The Thirteenth Regiment was organized September 17, 1861. It was made up from the counties of Rock and Green, Maurice Malony, Colonel. The regiment rendezvoused at Janesville.

The Fourteenth RegimeAt was organized in November, and rendezvoused at Camp Wood, Fond du Lac, David E. Wood, Colonel. There was no representation in this regiment from Dane County.

The Fifteenth Regiment was organized in December at Camp Randall, and was known as the Scandinavian Regiment, Hans C. Heg, Colonel. Hans Borchsenius, of Madison, was Adjutant.

The Sixteenth Regiment was organized and ordered into camp at Madison early in November, Benjamin Allen, Colonel. Of the fiield and staff officers from Madison, were Cassius Fairchild, Lieutenant Colonel; Thomas Reynolds, Major ; George Sabin, Adjutant. There were no Madison companies in this regiment.

The Seventeenth Regiment was not fully organized until 1862, although a few of the field officers were appointed in October, 1861. Of this regiment, John L. Doran was Colonel ; William H. Plunkett, of Madison, was Adjutant, but afterward promoted to Major ; Thomas Reynolds was Quartermaster, but, December 10, was promoted Major of the Sixteenth Regiment., It had no Madison companies.

The Eighteenth Regiment was organized the latter part of October, and was expected to occupy Camp Randall as soon as the Twelfth had commenced to move for the seat of war. James S. Alban was appointed Colonel. The remaining officers were from the northeastern portion of the State.

The Nineteenth was an " independent " regiment. The Colonel, Horace T. Sanders, re- T'^Y ^^^ Wointment from the War Department. The regiment rendezvoused at Racine, and, AprU 20, 1862, was ordered to Camp Randall to guard rebel prisoners. Dane County was not represented by any companies.

In addition to the above eighteen regiments of infantry sent into the field in 1861, there were three cavalry companies organized. Of Company G, First Cavalry, Stephen V. Shipman was First Lieutenant, promoted to Captain of Company E in 1862 ; E. A. Calkins, Major, and John D. Welch, First Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant of Company L, Third Cavalry ; and ten batteries of artillery. The officers named were from Madison.

The Twenty-first Regiment, Benjamin J. Sweet, Colonel, was organized at Oahkosh September 5, 1862, and left the State on the 11th of that month.

The Twenty-third Regiment was composed, in part, of Dane County men, the following officers being from Madison: W. G. Pitman, Adjutant. Company A, William F. Vilas, Captain, and Sinclair W. Botkin, First Lieutenant. Company D, Joseph B. Green, Captain ; J. W. Tolford, First Lieutenant, and F. A. Stoltze, Second Lieutenant. Company E, James M. Bull, Captain ; Henry Vilas, Second Lieutenant. Company I, A. R. Jones, Captain ; J. M. Sumner, Second Lieutenant.

Camp Randall. - During the war, this was one of the most attractive spots in Dane County. A writer gives his impressions of the " camp " while in existence, as follows :

" Camp Randall is located about one mile and a half westward of the capitol square. It comprises an area of perhaps thirty acres, of an irregular outline, and is entered by a gateway near the northeastern angle, where you will be confronted by sentinels that guard the only ingress and egre'ss to the limbo of Camp Randall. If you are unacquainted with the regulations of camp life, let me inform you that the place you are about to enter is a little world of itself, with laws and ceremonies unlike those outside its limits, and is in one respect like a bad scrape, much easier got into than got out of. You pass the guards with a deferential air, and find yourself in a place where everything assumes a military aspect, and the Federal blue demolishes all outward distinctions of rank that prevail in civil life.

" Direct your steps to yonder eminence in the rear of the center of the grounds, surmounted by a terraced building, over which floats the American flag, designating it as the headquarters, or sanctum sanctorum of Camp Randal!. It is a lovely afternoon in October. Away in the distance to the eastward, the bright waters of the beautiful Lake Monona are sparkling in the golden sunlight, and its well-defined and gracefully curved shore sweep far away to the southeast, with many a cove and headland.

" To the left, the capitol and other public buildings arise to view, with a foreground sloping down to the borders of the camp, set with neat residences, looking out from groves of shade, now touched with the rich hues of autumn. To the left of this view, and nearer, arise the lofty walls of the State University - the crowning glory of Wisconsin's free-school system. Thus, side by side are the school of the civilian and the school of the soldier. Facing to the right, the landscape assumes a rural aspect, in which farm cottages, grassy meadows, rolling fields and shady groves present a pleasing contrast to the view of the city in the opposite direction. Facing again to the front, we will contract the boundaries of our vision to the objects and moving tmngs within the high paling that surrounds the encampment, and around which guards stalk lazily up and down their beats, and beyond which it is a soldierly sin to go without permission.

" Yonder, to the right of the entrance, is a range of ten long, low buildings, neatjy white' washed, and separated by alleys a few paces in width. In front of the center of the line stands a larger and more imposing structure for the accommodation of officers. Moving to the west, you pass the Government stables and commissary on your right, and, ascending a slight elevation, the hospital buildings are before you - a long building with wings extending at right angles to the east of the main structure. These, with the fixtures and yards adjacent, occupy about an acre of ground in the northwest angle of the inclosure, and are flanked on the south by Surgeons quarters, over which waves the hospital flag, a signal of relief to the sufiiering tenants of Gamp Randall.

" Southward, and extending to the foot of the hill on which we have taken our standpoint of observation, extends a double row of barracks, like those before described, with all the streets and alleys of a miniature city, fronted also by a two-storied structure for the gentry of rank and shoulder-straps, ' captains of hundreds, and captains of thousands.'

" On our right, and occupying different points in the view, are two more rows of barracks of similar construction. To the rear, the view is interrupted by the massy foliage of a grove of. oaks that is permitted to straggle even into the barren precinct of the encampment, amid which a line of officers' quarters are arranged, and where, on pleasant days, the piously inclined may assemble to worship in temples not made with hands. On the grassy slope of the hill on which we stand, may be seen groups of soldiers lazily reclining in the warm sunshine, conversing of home and friends, or in dreamy reverie indulging in sweet memories of the past, or in delightful anticipations of the future 'good time coming.' On the open parade ground in front, beaten hard by the thousands who have trod over it, are squads of men engaged in the disciplinary exercises of the soldiers, dressed in the uniforms of the several branches of military service, or in no uniform but the uniform variety of the citizen ; and here and there, are groups, sitting, standing, lying, talking, laughing, joking, and doing everything that human ingenuity can devise to pass away the wearisome hours, burdened by an almost insupportable weight of dullness.

"Yonder approaches a phalanx of men, bearing on their shoulders what at a distance reminds you of the palankeen of an oriental grandee, but which proves to be only a hand-carriage for the transportation of provisions from the commissary's to the several kitchens. Yonder comes a long line of men arrayed in the loyal blue of Uncle Sam's livery, wending their way toward headquarters to report for duty ; and on every side men doing nothing but laboring, as the poet says, 'To lash the lingering moments into speed,' and hasten the transit of the year of service before them.

" Square in your face, and just across the parade-ground, is the notorious Camp Randall 'Bull Pen,' a sort of moral hospital, and 'a terror to evil-doers.' It is a small but -wellsecured inclosure, with a paling not less than twelve feet high, surmounted by a terraced walk, and watch-houses on its corners, and sentinels pacing round about it. Various classes of offenders against military discipline are here confined, such as bounty -jumpers, fence-jumpers, and the like, for be it known that a love of liberty, however great a virtue in a general sense, is a sin not to be tolerated in Camp Randall ; and he who, ignoring the high fence and its dignified bentinels, breaks out like a fractious colt, is rewarded, if caught, by a night in the Bull Pen and furnished with ' double rations.'

" Having completed a survey of the general features of the camp, we will inspect a little more closely the objects which I have pointed out. There are forty-five barracks on the ground, numbered from one upward, each about eighty feet in length and twenty in width, affording accommodations for one hundred men, in respect to eating and sleeping. A description of one will suffice for all. The entrance is at the middle of one side, opening upon an alley some fifteen feet in width. On the inside are three tiers of bunks or berths on each side, one above the other, and extending the whole length, except nooks for windows and doors. Ihere are two windows on each side, one in the gable end, and two sky-lights opening in the roof, serving the double purpose of windows and ventilators. Through the center runs a table, terminating in one end at the kitchen door. The movable furniture consists of a large boxstove at each end, with pipes extending the whole length of the barracks, and benches accommodated to the length of the table. The kitchen is about twelve feet partitioned from one end, turnished with a large cook-stove, and dishes requisite to furnish the table, not with a china teaset, but that which is fully as substantial - bright tinware - on which rations are served up three times a day, by a corps of cooks detailed for the purpose, and consist of the regular Governent course, of bread, meat, coffee and sugar, and dessert of such luxuries as the soldier may indulge at in his own expense.

rat" f ""^^""^ ^^^ abodes of the private soldier during the process of organization and prepaor the field of duty. Here are thrown together representatives of almost every family circle in this broad State ; some, alas ! destined by the uncertain fortunes of war, nevermore to meet the loved ones at home. Here are a mass of incongruous human elements mingling together in a strange compound; the rich, poor, educated and uneducated, good and bad forced to associate on a level as private soldiers, united only by the common bond of patriotism and yet compelled by circumstances to form these unassimilated elements into new and strange associations.

" With habits entirely dissimilar, and tastes as diversified as the instincts and impulses of humanity, cut off from the accustomed vocations and amusements of home, and confined to the narrow limits of camp, the various amusements resorted to, to wear away the dull hours, form a scene both amusing and instructive to the student of human nature.

" For the better observation of the scene, let us enter the barrack at evening, when darkness has driven the soldiers from their outdoor sports to indoor employments. The candles are lighted, and the long table lined with the different classes of 'time-killers.' Here around the stove a knot of men, withdrawn as much as possible from the crowd, are conversing on topics inspired by the occasion. On one end of the table a cluster of card-players are intent upon their favorite game, frequently indulging in language anything but pleasing to the sensitive and pious ear. A little farther are seated a half-dozen with portfolios spread out before' them, tracing cheering lines of comfort and encouragement to-anxious friends at home. Seated upon the upper berth, a trio or more are engaged in singing to the few attentive ears around them. But a few steps, and you are in the midst of a group of jesters and story-tellers, who are 'skimming the cream of many a joke with many a laugh appended.' Yonder, a more sober group are reading the news, anon pausing to comment upon the all-absorbing questions of the day, and occasionally breaking forth into vehement discussion. In another corner, the sound of violin is heard, mingled with the clatter of many feet keeping time with the inspiring strains of the 'quivering catgut.' Here stands a professional barber, surrounded by the implements of his profession, and yonder a tailor plying his needle as he sits cross-legged upon the dinner- ^ table. Sometimes the house resolves itself into a committee of the whole to listen to some gifted disciple of Peter Pindar, and thus the evening passes away, the scene varied by unmentionable sources of time-killing, but not till midnight have the noisy inmates gone to their rest, and left the contemplative mind a few precious hours of silence and repose.

" We will now visit the hospital of the camp, where the sick and suffering are oared for. The main building is about two hundred and fifty feet long, extending north and south, and has three wings, about eighty feet in length, projecting to the east. The extremities of these wings or projections are connected by a high picket fence, through which you pass into the front yard, decorated with shrubs and evergreens, and in summer with flower-beds. The building is divided into six apartments or wards, designated by letters attached to the doors. Each ward is under the superintendence of a wardmaster and its corps of nurses. The rooms are about eighty feet long, and wide enough to admit a row of cots on either side, placed with their heads to the wall, leaving a passage of convenient width in the center. The walls are whitewashed, and everything kept scrupulously neat and clean. The dispensary occupies one end of the room, whence prescriptions are compounded and dealt to the sick by the attendents. A ward accommodates about fifty patients, each of whom has a cot of his own furnished with soft pillows and white ; sheets, and is known by its number placed upon the wall over the head of the cot. Some of the wards are fancifully decorated with little flags and a variety of fantastic work showing unmistakably the skill of a female hand. Thus are the unfortunate inmates surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries that wealth and skill can provide, with kind and faithful nurses to attend their every call, and wanting only the presence of a wife, mother or sister, whose magic influence would be more to the sick and languishing soldier than all the prescriptions of the most skillful surgeon, or nursing of the tenderest stranger hand.

" The dining halls are in the rear, where those who are able to do so take their meals. Here also are the kitchens, furnished with all the machinery for the most approved methods of cookery, with a large bakery attached that supplies the whole establishment with bread as nice and white as ever came from the oven of the most fastidious housewife. These, with various other attachments and conveniences too numerous to mention, constitute one of the most creditable departments of Camp Randall."

" Camp Eandall " is now the property of the State Agricultural Society, and there it holds occasionally its fairs. There, also, the Dane County Pairs are held. At the State Fair commencing September 6, 1880, there was present, as a guest of the officers of the society, U. S. Grant. In welcoming that distinguished man, George E. Bryant, the Secretary, spoke these felicitous words :

" Fifteen years after the battles are over and war drums have ceased to beat, we meet you, our loved oommar.dcr, here upon old Camp Randall, the gathering-place^where a hundred thousand of the youth and manhood of loyal Wisconsin fitted for the fray. Here the wife gave up her husband, the mother her son, the maiden her lover, that the stars in our flag should not be lessened - that the nation might live. Here, from 1861 to 1864, was gathered an army larger in numbers than was the proud army that marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. From this spot, Wisconsin soldiers bore aloft the eagle of the free - ' Old Abe,' the war eagle of Wisconsin. He draws no pension, though he is battle-scarred ; but the State he served will give him rations so long as he lives. Was it not a happy deed that the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society should purchase these beautiful grounds, so oft remembered as the place where we donned the blue, upon which to hold our annual fairs ?"

"It is, indeed," replied the hero of Appomattox, "a most fitting thing that the beautiful grounds now occupied by this assemblage should have been transformed from a soldiers' camp to the uses of an agricultural association - it is a symbol of beating the spears of war into the plowshares of peace. I hope that these grounds may never again be the scene of warlike preparations, never again be used for military purposes."

The University of Wisconsin in the War. - A military company was organized among the students of the University of Wisconsin at the beginning of the year 1861 - the germ of the present military department of that institution. " All parties will agree," said the Faculty, in a communication to the Regents, " that the State University ought to be, from time to tjme, so modified as best to meet the varying exigencies of the commonwealth whose name it bears. Nor are Milton's words now less true than in the midst of that great English rebellion, when he declared that 'education, if complete and generous, must fit a man to perform justly, skillfully and magnanimously, all the offices of war no less than peace.' Indeed, no State has ever, for a long period, neglected military culture." Voluntary military drill was kept up by all the students through two-thirds of the year ; and, in their report of the next year, the faculty say that, "besides enabling most who have left us for the army to start as officers, it has heightened the physical vigor of all who have shared in it, and thus given a sympathetic aid to true mental efforts."

Although the catalogue of the University of Wisconsin for the year ending June 26, 1861, does not mention the names of any students as having entered the army of the United States, seventeen, at least, of the eleventh university year (1860-61) were, at its expiration, serving their country " upon the tented field : " G. W. Ashmore, James Bull, John A. Bull, C. M. Campbell, Edwin Coe, J. W. Curtis, B. R. Ellis, E. C. Hungerford, M. Leahey, E. G. Miller, William Noble, Otis Remick, S. S. Rockwood, P. Norcross, H. D. Smith, H. Vilas and W. A. Wyse. Of these, Ashmore, James Bull, Campbell, Miller, Norcross, Remick, Smith and Wyse were the first to enlist, joining the first company organized in Madison, Wis., for the threemonths service. These were the patriots of the university who first " went forth into the bloody struggle of those historic years." By the end of the next university year, the number of enlistments among the students had largely increased. Before the close of the war, not far from one hundred had served in the army, being about one-third of the whole number connected with the institution during that period.

Said the Regents of the University, in their report for the fiscal year ending the 30th of September, 1863: "The war, which has called away from the State so large a proportion of our enterprising young men, who, if at home, would be found in seminaries of learning, has continued to affect unfavorably the attendance upon the college courses of study." They added what seems now almost a prophecy : " When the final triumph of the Government and the conclusive suppression of the rebellion shall again give peace to the country, there is reason to believe that multitudes of young men now in the army will be found seeking the benefits of a liberal education. It will be the duty and the aim of the board, in the meantime, to place and keep the university in such a condition as will enable it to do its part of the work which will then devolve upon the higher institutions of learning."

By the end of June, 1862, seventeen of the Alumni of the university - there were fortyone in all - had joined the Union forces to war against secession : B. C. Slaughter, of the class of 1856; S. W. Botkih, T. D. Coryell and Charles Fairchild, of the class of 1857; R. W. Hubbell and W. F. Vilas, of the class of 1858 ; A. C. Botkin, S. Fallows and Edwin Marsh, of the class of 1859 ; W. P. Powers, J. E. Sutton, L. M. Comins and F. T. Starkweather, of the class of 1860 ; H. Vilas, W. W. Church, A. Gillett and M. Leahey, of the class of 1861; and the last named also, of the class of 1862. At the close of the war, the whole number of graduates, excluding the class of 1865, was fifty. Of these, twenty-five had joined the army. Just one-half, therefore, of the Alumni of the University of Wisconsin took part in that terrible conflict of arms between the two sections of our country.

The university was represented, of course, on many battle-fields during the war. Wherever their lots were cast, her sons reflected honor upon the institution. Some rose to high positions ; some sank to early and distant graves. " They all fought the good fight ; they kept the faith."

Towns. Amount

Scraps of War History. - 1861, March. Judge J. P. Atwood was chosen Captain of the Governor's Guard, and Lucius Fairchild First Lieutenant, to fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Capt. George P. Delaplaine and Lieut. Haskell. D. C. Poole was elected Second Lieutenant to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Mr. Fairchild,

April. - The recent news of war from the south, kindled anew the patriotic feelings of the people. The stars and stripes waved over the capitol in Madison, while the most intense feeling prevailed. The Governor's Guard and the Madison Guard appeared on parade. Gov. Randall issued a proclamation calling on the State for volunteers. The services of the Madison Guard, under command of Capt. George E. Bryant, were accepted by the State government. The Governor's Guard, under command of Judge J. P. Atwood, tendered their services for the war, and were accepted. The Legislature adjourned April 17 ; members and outsiders united m singing the " Star-Spangled Banner," and all gave nine cheers for the Union. An enthusiastic meeting of 1,500 people was held in Madison, for the purpose of adopting measures to provide for the support of the families of the volunteers. The amount subscribed was $7,890. uov.' Randall commissioned J. F. Randolph, First Lieutenant, to raise a new company for the second or reserved regiment. The Freshman Class of the University held a class meeting, and bade farewell to four of their mates - Pliny Norcross, James M. Bull, Henry D. Smith and Edward Gr. Miller. Commission was issued to L. J. Dixon, of Madison, as Surgeon, with orders to report to Col. Starkweather immediately.

jiay. William Hawley was elected Captain of the Dane County Volunteers, who unanimously agreed to enlist for three years, or during the war. An extra session of the Legislature ffas called ; a military company composed of members of the Legislature was organized - Captain, H. W. Emery ; First Lieutenant, Amasa Cobb. From the 18th of April to the 18th of May, eighty-nine companies of volunteers tendered their services to the Government. Col. Ellsworth was assassinated. He spent some time in Madison in 1858, giving the Dane cavalry their first instructions in drill.

June. - The Governor commissioned Hoel K. Lawrence Assistant Quartermaster General, with rank of Colonel. The ladies of Madison prepared a feast of good things for tha 1,000 men at Camp Randall. Col. Coon expressed confidence that they would never have occasion to regret their generous manifestation, or have reason to be ashamed of the Second Regiment. The Colonel closed by proposing three times three for the ladies of Madison, who had provided the entertainment, which were given with a refreshing heartiness. Capt. Mclntyre completed the mustering-in of the men of the Second Regiment. Only five men were ruled out, and these on account of exceeding the age prescribed, or for physical defects. James D. Ruggles was commissioned Quartermaster of the Second Regiment. The Dane County Guards, Capt. Hawley, left for Fond da Lac. Paymaster General Simeon Mills paid off the soldiers of the Second Regiment on the 17th. Letters were received from enthusiastic members of the First Regiment, giving an account of their reception at different points on the way to Chambersburg. The Second Wisconsin left Madison on special trains, the 20th, for Chicago, thence to Harrisburg. The ladies of Madison furnished the regiment with a beautiful silk flag. George P. Delaplaine, of Madison, was commissioned Engineer in Chief of Wisconsin State Militia, with rank of Brigadier General. Dominic Hastreiter, of Madison, was appointed Captain of the State Militia, with authority to enlist a company without expense to the State until called into service. The Fifth and Sixth Regiments were stationed at Camp Randall.

July. - Camp Record, the title of a small sheet printed and published in Hagerstown, Md., by the First Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, with the motto of " Head of column, forward ! " was received at Madison. On the 4th day of July, the two regiments stationed at Fort Randall marched four abreast, and 2,000 strong in the procession. The oflBcers and employes of the State Hospital for the Insane raised, with appropriate ceremonies, a very handsome flag on the 4th. The First Regiment shed her first blood in defense of the Union, in the fight at WiUiamsport, Va. One ball struck the musket of John Sumner, of Company K, and cut the stock m two. The regiment had one man killed - Drake, of Company A ; one man mortally wounded - Sergeant Graham, of Company B ; Corporal Hutching was disabled, and four others wounded. Ine regimental colors, when Corporal Hutching was disabled, were immediately taken up and borne by Corporal Sabin, of the Governor's Guard. The Madison boys were conspicuous in the iirst brush, and proved themselves equal to the emergency. Commissions were issued in Madison to Cassius i'airchild and N. B. Van Slyke, as Aids to the Commander in Chief, with the rank of Colonel ; to William A. Mears as Assistant Quartermaster General ; to George B. Smith as liovernor's Aid, with rank of Colonel. A supper given by the ladies of Dane County to the Fifth and Sixth Regiments, at Camp Randall, was an immense success. There were 6,000 present, f ® shops in the city were closed at 4 o'clock, that all might enjoy the amusements T 1 04 ^" ^^^ ^'^''^ Wisconsin Regiment, Col. Amasa Cobb, struck tents at Camp Randall,' ^- Ik D *°'^ ^**'"'®'^ ^°'" Washington. The Fifth was escorted to the cars from camp by the L Th f D^"'" "^^^^ marched out of camp to the tune of " The Girl I Left Behind Me." r fi»u i Regiment left the 29th ; they were in excellent spirits. The regiment, exclusive of r Held officers, numbered 1,034 men. r & >

August. - Dr. A. J. Ward was appointed Surgeon of the Second Wisconsin Re'^iment the position being vacant in consequence of the capture of Surgeon Lewis. On the afternoon train of the 23d, a portion of the Madison companies belonging to the First Wisconsin Regiment about 85 men in all, returned. Almost the whole population of the city went out to welcome them home. After an excellent dinner at the depot, they were escorted to the park by Company B of the Governor's Guard, and by the Fire Companies and Turners. The Young America Brass Band furnished music for the occasion. The Governor welcomed them in a speech, and a dance was given them in the evening at the Assembly Chamber. Lieut. Meredith, of the Randall Guard, who was wounded at the battle of Bull Run, returned to his home in Madison ; he was serenaded by the Stoughton Band, then in the city.

September. - The Eighth Regiment encamped at Camp Randall. The Chippewa Eagles, Capt. Perkins, brought with them a live American eagle. He is a majestic fellow, well-trained and docile, permitting people to pat his regal head and smooth down his feathers without resistance. When marching, the eagle is carried at the head of the company, elevated on a perch at the top of a pole. There is in the regiment a man who measures six feet eight inches and a half in height ; he is one of the " sons of Anak," in stature, and the general sentiment'in the regiment points to him as the eagle-bearer. The first death that occurred at Camp Randall was that of Alfred H. Casson, who died, aft'er a brief illness, of typhoid fever. The company contributed from Wisconsin for Col. Berdan's Regiment of Sharpshooters, left Camp Randall for the East, under command of Capt. Alexander. Gov. Randall commissioned Capt. Geo. E. Bryant, late of the Madison Guards, First Wisconsin Regiment, as Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment.

October. - The Eighth Regiment left Camp Randall for St. Louis the 12th. A sword was presented to Quartermaster Andrew Sexton, of the Twelfth Regiment, by the Madison Typographical Union. Edwin L. Reed, Company H, Second Wisconsin Regiment, son of L. T. Reed, of Stoughton, Dane County, was sick, and in the General Hospital at Washington. Hearing that a forward movement was about to be made, he left the hospital and returned to the company, where, on account of his feeble condition, he was ordered into the Regimental Hospital. But when at last the regiment was formed and in line to move forward, he was found in the ranks, fully equipped and determined to go. The Captain expostulated, but without, effect. The " double quick," at Blackburn's Ford, Thursday, July 18, 1861, was too much for him, and in spite of his earnest protests he was ordered into the Field Hospital at Centerville, where he remained until after the fight ;on Sunday. At 4 o'clock, Monday morning, July 22, discovering the Union forces had all gone, he awoke a wounded friend, and together they started on the retreat. His progress was impeded by his wounded friend, and at Fairfax they were both overtaken by the enemy, and were " furnished transportation " to Richmond. After intense sufi'ering, Mr. Reed died, October 23, 1861, in Libby Prison.

November. - The members of' Fire Company No. 1 presented a handsome sword to Quartermaster Charles G. Mayers, of the Eleventh Regiment. This regiment, largely made up of citizens of Dane County, started for the war. Thanksgiving Day at Camp Randall was observed. Messrs. Dutcher & McGonigal furnished 1,500 pounds of turkeys and chickens, which were served smoking hot, accompanied by extras. Hans Borchsenius was appointed Adjutant of the Fifteenth Regiment, with rank of First Lieutenant.

A box of supplies was forwarded to the Eighth and Eleventh Regiments Wisconsin Volunteers, in Missouri, by the Ladies' Aid Society of Madison, Mrs. L. P. Harvey, President. The company ofiicers of the Twelfth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers presented Mrs. Bryant, the wife of the Colonel of that regiment with a silver pitcher and goblet ; 3,000 Belgian rifles .arrived in Madison, making in all 8,000 of these rifles that have been received by the State. William T. Allen, a grandson of Ethan Allen, enlisted at Camp Randall in the Sixteenth Wisconsin Regiment.

1862, January. - The Twelfth Regiment left Camp Randall for Dixie's Land. Henry Stock was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Company B, Ninth Regiment.

Col. Heg. The Sixteenth also left Camp Randall ; it numbered at the time of its departure, 1 070 men. The last companies of the Irish Regiment, Seventeenth, started on the 22d.

April. - Under the direction of N. B. Van Slyke, of the United States Quartermaster's Office a force of some fifty men commenced work at Camp Randall, superintended by M. E. Fuller and J. C. Pickard, in getting the barracks and grounds there in readiness for the reception of prisoners. Among the severely wounded at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, on the 16th, was Lieut. Col. Cassius Fairchild. Gov. Louis P. Harvey was drowned ; he lost his life in endeavoring to save the lives and alleviate the sufferings of the wounded Wisconsin soldiers. Some seven hundred and fifty "secesh " prisoners were received at Camp Rendall.

July. - The Ladies' Aid Society sent several boxes of hospital stores to Washington for the relief of sick and wounded Wisconsin soldiers in the hospitals in that city.

August. - D. K. Tenney ofiered $25 each to the first twelve able-bodied men who should enlist from Dane County in some company to be by him designated, recruiting in Madison for a new regiment. Messrs. A. R. Jones and W. G. Pitman have received recruiting commissions, and are actively engaged in getting up a company in this city, to be known as the Capital Guards. Capt. William F. Vilas, for a long time a member of the Governor's Guard, and who has had command of the Madison Zouaves, is making a thorough canvass in order to fill his company to the maximum number. E. D. Churchill, of Dane County, has a pistol that was taken from a rebel ofiScer in Virginia, who was captured by Henry Lye, a member of the company of Sharpshooters that went from this State who enlisted from this county. Robert Steele, of the town of Dane, Dane County, is getting up a company of recruits for the Twenty-third Regiment. Mr. A. G. Darwin made an offer to all the men in his employ about the railroad who will enhst, to continue half their salaries, ranging from $200 to $600 a year during the war. A prospect of a draft has awakened the whole State to a comprehension of the fact that we are actually engaged in a war, and a determined effort is making in most of the counties to fill up our quota by voluntary enlistment. Old Dane is doing her share. An enthusiastic war meeting was held the 13th of this month, in Madison. All the bells of the city were rung, cannons fired, and the drum band of the Twentieth Regiment stirred up the people with martial music from the front of the capitol. There were a number of men enlisted, and as many pledged different sums of money for the support of their families. Gov. Salomon presented the State colors to the Twentieth Regiment. This regiment, the first one under the new call for troops, left for St. Louis, and thence to the seat of war. Dr. William Hobbins is home on a short visit to his family. Word was received that Lieut. Oaklev, of Company K, had lost an arm by a cannon ball. At the battle of Cedar Mountains (Antietam), on the 9th, Capt. William Hawley, of Company K, of the Third Regiment, was wounded in the ankle, and Lieut. T. J. Widvey, 01 the same company, was taken prisoner. This company went into action with forty-four men, and lost, in killed and wounded, eighteen. In the three days' fight of the 28th to the 30th, at bamesviUe and Bull Run, the Iron Brigade suffered severely. The Second Regiment went t°'°i, J ^^^^ ^'*'^ ^°^^ hundred and thirty men, and lost, in killed, wounded and missing, two hundred and eighty-six. Capt. Julius F. Randolph, of Company H, a well-known and ignly respected young man of Madison, was killed, with twelve of his company, and twenty-

September. - Old Abe, the war eagle of the Eighth, is reported as in good condition. , v^'''°K -~^°'- ^^o^'ge E. Bryant and Adjutant J. K. Proudfit, of the Twelfth Wisconsin, woo Have been home a few days, join their regiment. Charles G. Mayers, of the Eleventh, is ome in good spirits on a short furlough. Col. Cutler, of the Sixth Wisconsin, is spending a stron *^^"lk Q '^°'^" ^® ^^^ wounded at the battle of Gainesville. A letter from Capt. Arming) ot the Seventeenth, says that Martin Van Bergen, of Madison, was wounded in the battle

November. - The Twenty-ninth Regiment left for the war. They were loudly cheered by the Thirtieth, which was drawn up to bid them good-bye. The drafted men from this county came into Madison.

December. - Col. Fairchild left to join his regiment, the Second. Mrs. Harvey's untiring zeal in the cause never flags. No wonder her name is received and she is looked upon as a ministering angel by the Badger State boys. A few cases of small-pox reported in Camp Randall. The Christmas dinner at the camp for the soldiers, arranged under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society, was a success. There was an abundance of "good things." There were contributions from the various towns and societies in the county. The next day the members of the camp unanimously adopted a letter of thanks to the society and those who aided it.

1863. January. - Frank A. Haskell is home on a visit ; he passed through the battles of Gainesville, Bujl Run No. 2, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg ; had his horse killed under him, his clothes shot through but has not received a single scratch. Dr. McCreary, Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin, at Camp Randall, acknowledged the receipt from Mrs. B. F. Hopkins, the President of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Madison, of a box of pillows, slippers, wine, etc., for the use of the sick ; also some nicely J)reserved fruit from Mrs. H. D. Snow, of the city.

March. - J. S. Webster, a member of Berdan's Sharpshooters, arrived home, in Madison, on a short furlough. A Ladies' Union League was organized in Madison. Captain William F, Vilas, of Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, has been commissioned Major of that regiment; Second Lieutenant Henry Vilas was appointed First Lieutenant of Company B, Twenty-third Regiment. Mr. Mason, Chaplain of the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, goes to his regiment after a short furlough, and takes numerous small packages to members of the same regiment from friends. The contract for furnishing rations to the Thirtieth Regiment and recruits that are at Camp Randall, was let to M. E. Fuller. Maj. Hauser, of the Sixth Regiment, delivered at the executive office the old regimental flag of the gallant Sixth, worn and torn and tattered in the fierce conflicts of Gainesville, Bull Run No. 2, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. It will be replaced by the Governor with a new flag. W. H. Worthington and A. R. Jones, of the Twenty-third, are home on a short visit.

April. - News was received that S. V. Shipman was wounded. At Whitewater bridge, in the vicinity of Cape Girardeau, on the 24th, Capt. S. V. Shipman, of the First Cavalry, with forty men of his company, was surrounded by rebels, and had either to surrender, or charge through a force of three hundred. They decided on the latter, and started. A deadly fire was opened on them as they advanced, from the front, but the sabres made such havoc among them that the breach was rapidly widened, and in a few minutes the company had cut their way through, and were on their way to the Cape. When nearly through the broken rebel ranks, Capt. Shipman's bridle rein was cut by a bullet, and his horse became unmanageable, when the crowd that had before given way closed around him, and, striking right and left, fighting with both saber and pistol, he fell at last with a dangerous wound. Besides the band of rebels through whom they charged, with hundreds firing at them, they were really surrounded by 3,000, who had four pieces of artillery and 3,000 more troops at some distance. > Capt. Shipman s wound, at first considered fatal, proved very severe, sixty pieces of bone being taken from it at one time, and at last, after months of sufiering, left him a cripple for life.

Capt. Shipman was subsequently promoted Colonel. " His charge on the rebels, says Mr. Love, in his "Wisconsin in the' War of the Rebellion," " will take rank among the most daring and grand exploits of the war."

May. - Capt. Theodore Read, of Gen. Sedgwick's Corps, was wounded by a shell in the shoulder. A letter from B. D. Atwell, of Berdan's Sharpshooters, says that Gen. Sickles com-

Blimented the regiment warmly for its gallant conduct. Eugene C. Hungerford, formerly a student in the State University, was killed while storming the heights of Fredericksburg ; he was First Sergeant of his company, Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers. At a meeting of the Union Leaffue Judge Byron Paine made an excellent speech. Col. Cassius Fairchild, of the Sixteenth Wisconsin who was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, has so far recovered that he returns to his regiment. Lieut. Charles L. Bering, of the Third Regiment, who received a wound at the battle of Cedar Mountain, returns to his regiment.

Frederick Stevens, of Company A, Eleventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, was killed in the fight at Port Gibson. He was a son of George S. Stevens, of Mazomanie. The news that Vicksburg was supposed to be taken caused the people in Madison to rejoice greatly over the good tidings, and at midnight a crowd of solid business men and others dragged the cannon into good position, and it made the welkin ring with the proclamation of the good news.

June. - At the battle of Black River Bridge, Daniel E. Hough, Captain of Company A, Eleventh Regiment, was mortally wounded, and died at the hospital on the 3d. John T. Bradley Color Sergeant of Company G, Eleventh Wisconsin, writes home from near Vicksburg. He says the musketry firing has been so incessant for one week that it sounds no louder than popping corn in a frying-pan would sound at home, but the artillery is deafening. Says Vicksburg is not ours yet, but we will get it some time. Some of the boys find the climate of Dixie, at this season, too warm for overcoats, and have sent them home for safekeeping. Major Hancock, of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, has reached his home in Sun Prairie. He had two horses shot under him and a ball through his thigh, at the battle of Black River Bridge. Fortunately, the ball glanced round the bone and came out, and the wound is doing well. He left his regiment in good condition and spirits, and is confident of the speedy fall of Vicksburg. Lieut. Col. Charles A. Wood, of the Eleventh Regiment, has resigned on account of ill health, and arrived in Madison. He has been in active service through the whole campaign up the Big Black River and in the rear of Vicksburg. Like all others who have been on the ground, he feels perfectly confident of the speedy capture of that stronghold. A returned soldier who was on the field of battle at Milliken's Bend, the next morning after the fight between the rebels and the negro regiment at that point, confirms what has been reported through the newspapers of the desperate fighting done by the blacks on that occasion. The dead were still lying on the field unburied, and he saw a rebel and a negro soldier lying together, each with his bayonet thrust through the body of his opponent.

July. - George C. Smith, the State Agent located at Memphis, has been home on a brief visit, and left Madison on his return to Memphis ; he reported a great want of ladies in the hospitals of that place, to act as nurses. Upon his representation, several ladies volunteered to return with Mr. Smith to devote themselves to the comfort of sick and wounded soldiers. The names of those who left with Mr. Smith were Miss Fannie Quiner, Miss Emily Quiner, Miss Hannah Chapman, Miss Louisa Richardson, of Madison, and Mrs. Davenport, of Fort Atkinson. It is a noble work. ^All his friends were deeply pained to hear of the death of Drum Major Dyke, of the Twenty-ninth regiment, who died at Milliken's Bend, on the'27th of June. He was a noble old patriot, an enthusiastic musician, and loved his country, and died for it. The 4th. - The picnic to the soldiers in camp, gotten up by the Ladies' Aid Society and the Ladies' Union League, went off most admirably. The supply was bountiful, quality excellent, a large attendance, and the soldiers enjoyed it. There never has been witnessed such intense exciteinent among our people, since the war began, as was exhibited" July 4, on the receipt of the news of the surrender of Vicksburg. Having been deceived by false reports once or twice, there was a general fear, for some time, that the report might prove unfounded. About 5 o'clock the Governor received a dispatch from the Secretary of War, stating that Grant was in possession of vicksburg. This dispelled all doubt, and the air was rent with cheer upon cheer, and the whole populace of Madison seemed crazy with joy. One hundred guns were immediately fired, all the bells were rung, and enthusiasm was manifested by a variety of demonstrations. In the evening there was a display of fireworks, and a general jubilee all over the city, till a late hour.

Vicksburg never surrendered on the 4th of July before, and the people had been waiting for the event so long, that it seemed impossible for them to manifest a sufficient degree of joy. The loss of the enemy was estimated at 10,000 men. A letter, dated July 2, near Gettysburg, says: Col. Fairchild, of the Second Wisconsin, has lost his left arm, and is a prisoner, but that he was doing well and in glorious spirits. Miss Lottie Ilsley, Secretary Ladies' Aid Society, received a check from W. W. Tredway, for $496.98, being one-half of the net proceeds of five bales of cotton donated by Maj. Gen. Grant; the avails to be expended in behalf of the sick and wounded soldiers in the service of the United States. Col. Bobbins, of the Eighth Wisconsin, arrived home on a short leave of absence. First Lieut. M. J. Cantwell is among the sick in the officers' hospital at Memphis, arriving there from Vicksburg on the 13th. A hundred guns were fired, under the superintendence of State Armorer McFarland, in honor of the opening of the Mississippi, accomplished by the fall of Port Hudson. Maj. Thomas Reynolds, of the Sixteenth Wisconsin, arrived home on a brief leave of absence. It is the first time he has been away from his regiment since it left the State. He has been through several of the sharpest battles of the war, and distinguished himself for coolness and bravery. Maj. Piatt, of the Eleventh, is also in Madison. The gallant Col. Lucius Fairchild is home. An empty sleeve attests his bravery. He is heartily welcomed by his townsmen.

August. - Col. C. L. Harris, of the Eleventh Regiment, arrived in, Madison. The regiment under his command has done excellent service; he has proved himself a brave and accomp officer. Col. T. S. Allen, of the Fifth Wisconsin, makes his friends glad by a brief visit. Cap Green, Pitman and Botkin, of the Twenty-third Regiment, all excellent officers and ca fellows generally, are home on a furlough, and are receiving a cordial welcome. A letter, written by Capt. Nat Rollins, of Company H, Second Regiment, at Libby Prison, states that he was taken prisoner after one of the hardest fought battles he had ever seen. Maj. Thomas Reynolds, of the Sixteenth Regiment, left his home for a return to the army. Capt. J. W. Tolford, Lieut. Vilas, S. E. Pierson and others, of the Twenty-third Regiment, returned to their homes in Madison on a short furlough. Capt. Bull, of the Twenty-third Regiment, is also in Madison. The flag of the Seventeenth Regiment (Irish) was returned to the State by Col. Malloy. It is tattered and torn, and was delivered at the Governor's office by a guard of honor of the soldiers of the Seventeenth, recently furloughed, and elected, as Col. Malloy states in his letter accompanying the flag, " from the br^avest of the regiment." The Governor received it from the hands of the brave boys, with a fit acknowledgment of the gallantry of the adopted citizens who have borne it through the smoke of battle, and always to victory. On the return of Col. McMynn, of the Tenth Regiment, to this State, he brought with him the national colors of the regiment, torn and worn in the service, and forwarded them to the Governor for preservation in the archives of the State. The regiment has done noble service, and well deserves the new colors which will be furnished on behalf of the State, under the laws of last session. The following named gentlemen are in Madison : Adjt. James K. Proudfit, of the Twelfth ; Capt. William C. Young, of the Eighth Regiment; Capt. Stevens, of the Twentieth; and G. B. Holden. ThomM H. Budlong was killed on the battle-field at Gettysburg ; his remains were returned to Sun Prairie, and interred in the cemetery there. Lieut. Jackson, Eleventh Regiment, and Lieut. William T. Monroe, of the Sixteenth, formerly printers in the State Journal office, wwe promoted each to a captaincy. Maj. John Mansfield, of the Second Regiment, and Capt. W. W. Botkin, of the Twelfth, are in Madison. James K. Proudfit has been commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, in place of Lieut. Col. Poole, resigned. Dennis O'Keefe, a loyal and brave Irishman who enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, is home on a visit to his family.

September. - Lieuts. J. D. Tredway and A. M. Baker, of the Twenty-third, are home on a leave of absence ; both are in excellent spirits, and like the service. Gen. L. Cutler, the veteran warrior, formerly Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, came to Madison. James M. Olark, of Oregon, died in the camp of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, near Vicksburg, Miss., m the eighteenth year of his age. Corp. E. T. Williams, Twenty-third Regiment, was drowned near

Natchez on the 24th of August. The sad news of the death of Capt. Carl Corneliusen, of Company H Twenty-seventh Wisconsin, was received at Madison ; he died at Memphis. He came to this country from Norway, and settled in Christiana. Capt. Corneliusen was a brave and faithful officer The following dispatch shows that Mrs. Harvey's mission to Washington, in order to urge the establishment of a hospital in Madison for convalescents, was successful :

HosBital " in memory of your late lamented husband, the patriotic GoTernor of Wisconsin, who lost his life while oarine for the wounded soldiers of the State. ,, of the Third Wisconsin Eegiment, formerly editor of the Argus, was home. Col. Lucius Fairchild of the Second Wisconsin, left for his regiment. Lieut. Col. Whittlesey, of the Eleventh, also joins his regiment. First Lieutenant John Starks, of the Twenty-third, was promoted to the captaincy of Company K. The soldiers at Camp Randall publish a letter of thanks to the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, Madison, for the favors so often received from their hands, and speak also of the kind care they receive from their Surgeon in charge, E. 0. Baker. The former residence of ex-Gov. Farwell, in the Third Ward, Madison, has been rented by the United States and converted into, a convalescent hospital, where there are 106 patients quartered, comprising soldiers from Wisconsin and Iowa, brought here from the hospitals on the Mississippi River. Dr. John Favill has been appointed Assistant Surgeon. Dr. L. J. Dixon, of the Wisconsin First, a brother of Chief Justice Dixon, is a prisoner in Libby Prison. Gen. Fairchild, the Union candidate for Secretary of State, visited the army and delivered his farewell address to his old regiment, the Second Wisconsin Volunteers, when his resignation was accepted.

November. - First Lieut. John M. Sumner was promoted Captain of Company D, Twentythkd Regiment. The draft for Dane County was held the 13th. The new dining-hall at Harvey Hospital was opened for the first time on the 26th, on which occasion the ladies of the city treated the soldiers to a thanksgiving dinner. The long tables were loaded, and the soldiers proved themselves as effective in the use of the knife and fork as with the musket and bayonet. Toasts were proposed and responded to. None were received by the soldiers with such hearty applause as a toast to Mrs. Harvey, through whose persevering efforts the hospital was established. Dr. Dixon, of the First Wisconsin, and Dr. J. S. Reeve, of the Twenty-first, were released from Libby Prison. The ladies of Madison give a free dinner to the farmers of Dane County, who contribute to the aid of soldiers' families. That the citizens of Madison might share in the work, an admission fee was charged them.

December. - Col. Thomas S. Allen, of the Fifth Wisconsin ; Col. George E. Bryant, Capt. 0. T. Maxon and Capt. Wallace W. Botkin, of the Twelfth Wisconsin, arrived in Madison on recruiting service. Samuel S. Pierce, private in Company I, Twenty-third Regiment, died in the United States Marine Hospital at New Orleans the 8th of October last. The Third Regiment arrived in Madison, and are pleasurably anticipating their New Year's visit home.

January, 1864. - Corporal Edward R. Chipman, of the Second Wisconsin, died at Washington ; he was formerly a student at the State University. The Veteran Fourteenth Wisconsin, Col. Lyman M. Ward, arrived in Madison the 18th.

The glorious old Seventh Wisconsin Regiment, having re-enlisted for the war, has been allowed to return to Wisconsin for the purpose of recruiting and filling up its ranks. Its gallant Colonel, William W. Robinson, has been identified with the regiment from its organization. He was Its first Lieutenant Colonel, and succeeded to the command before it had seen any service. He 18 an excellent ofiScer, and is almost idolized by his men.

After marching through the city, the men received a furlough for thirty days that they might visit their friends in different parts of the State. As the regiment passed through the street it attracted unusual attention and admiration. The flag of the regiment that has been Borne to the breeze in all its conflicts, all tattered and torn, was conspicuous on this occasion. It brought most vividly to the minds of the people the great perils through which these brave men have passed, and as it was gazed upon it brought many tears to eyes unused to being thus moistened. That flag is a sacred reminder of the gallantry of the boys of the Seventh.

While the return of this noble regiment gave much joy to all present, that joy was mixed with sadness at the thought of the many gallant men who left the State with the regiment that are now missing. Out of a thousand men that left Camp Randall some two and a half years ago, but a little over two hundred returned with the organized regiment. Many more, it is true live, and have heretofore returned to Wisconsin ; but alas ! the number of those who went out with the regiment in the full vigor of health, and who now sleep the sleep of death, is fearfully large. This thought carries a severe pain to many a heart in Wisconsin. But such is war ! Of those who have returned, nearly every one was among those who first enlisted on the organization of the regiment.

Camp Randall is under the control of Col. Chapman, but more immediately under the supervision of Capt. McKeffen, a West Point officer, a fine man, and a most excellent soldier. There are some two thousand men in camp - ^new recruits for almost every Wisconsin regiment in the service.

The weather, since the year 1863 took its departure, has been exceedingly cold. They burn on an average thirty cords of wood per day. An interesting sight was witnessed in the unexpected marching into Madison of sixteen veterans, commanded by Capt. Sperry, of Company K, of the Second Regiment. A brief but genial time was enjoyed with the veterans, who have so famously sustained the honor of the flag on the bloodiest fields of the war. Capt. Sperry hails from Milwaukee, and left Madison as First Lieutenant in Capt. Stahel's company, which was chiefly raised at Mazomanie, Dane County, in December, 1861. Capt. Derry was promoted to Major of the Third Cavalry. Capt. Derry belongs to Dane County, and left in command of a company for the Third Cavalry, raised by himself and ex-Adjt. Welch. He is a thorough soldier.

February. - Six white mules were brought here by the Fourteenth, and were taken possession of by Quartermaster Van Slyke, and are doing good service in the transportation department. Fifty veterans of Company G, Second Cavalry, being Capt. Dale, two officers and fortyseven men, were received at the Depot Hotel the 25th, by Col. Firmin, the Governor's private secretary, and Gen. Lund. These gallant veterans are now in barracks, preparatory to being furioughed, and long to get to the smiles and arm? th at yearn to greet them.

March 1. - Col. Harrison C. Hobart, of the Twenty-first Wisconsin, recently escaped from Libby Prison, arrived in Madison. He is considerably weather-beaten, and says he was never so glad to see Wisconsin before. The gallant veterans of the Sixteenth Regiment arrived the 16th, and were received by Gov. Lewis and other State officers and citizens. After a good supper they marched to Camp Randall ; the next day they marched up town. During their march the city bells were rung, and Gunner McFarland gave one of his loudest salutes. As they marched through the streets with soldierly tread and bearing, with their battle flags in their midst, they, were followed with eager eyes, and many a patriotic bosom' heaved with grateful pride as the war-scarred veterans, numbering between 200 and 300, passed. The Seventeenth, Col. A. G. Malloy, arrived the 18th in Madison, and were welcomed by all. They have nobly sustained themselves as men and soldiers, and made a fame which, first recognized in the army in which they served, has echoed throughout the State that knew them as the Irish Brigade, and was proud to own them as such. Capt. W. B. Slaughter has arrived from Vicksburg, where he has been performing duty as Commissary of Subsistance.

April. - The Eleventh Wisconsin Regiment took an active part in the operations in fro"'"' Blakely, Ala., and received from the commanding officer, in his report of the engagement, the highest praise for the zeal, energy and faithfulness of both officers and men, and for the gallantry displayed in that memorable charge on the enemy's works on the 9th. Particular mention is made of First Lieut. Angus R. McDonald, who commanded Company E, for his gallant and heroic conduct, who, on mounting the parapet of the enemy's works, was attacked by sixmen. HeknocKea down two men with his sabre, and in return received a bayonet wound in the right lung and a musket ball in the right thigh. Sergt. D. B. Moore, of Company E, whose timely aid saved the life of Lieut. McDonald, shot one, bayoneted another, and when his own gun was shattered seized another, and compelled the remainder of the party to surrender. Mr. Lewis Isbell, general recruiting agent for the Twenty-ninth U. S. Colored Regiment, Col. Bross, arrived in Madison the 2d and has obtained permission of the Grovernor to raise recruits in Wisconsin. Col. Bross is a brother of " Deacon " Bross, of the Chicago Tribune, and of Mr. Charles E. Bross, the telegraphic operator in Madison. The Thirteenth, two companies, A and K, of the Second Cavalry, veterans, under command of Capt. William Woods, of Co. A, arrived in Madison. Capt. Woods, in reply to the welcoming remarks of Lieut. Gov. Spooner, said that he and his men had not merely enlisted for three years, but until the rebellion was completely suppressed ; and that their exertions and lives should be spent in the field, until a bright and healing peace expanded over a restored country. Thirty-one veterans of the Twelfth Battery, commanded by Lieut. Jones, arrived in Madison. Thirty-two veterans of the Sixth Battery also arrived, under command of Lieut. Jenawine. According to orders, the tried veterans of the Twelfth Regiment, Col. Bryant, left for the front to-day (30th). They were presented with two very elegant flags, United States and State, to replace the banners worn out in the service.

May. - Four companies of the Thirty-eighth left for Annapolis, under lead of Lieut. Col. Pier. Veterans of the dashing First Cavalry also arrived, under command of Capt. N. Jones, of Co. M. The Thirty-sixth left for the wars the 10th of this month. Among the hundred-day volunteers from Madison, is John Gibbons, a gray-haired man of about sixty, and an Irishman by birth. He says his five sons are at the front, and if they need help it shall not be said their father hesitated. The call for hundred-day men has pretty much emptied the State University ; a large number of students had previously enlisted in the three years' service. From thirty to forty more are now going as one hundred-day men, taking all but one of the senior class, and leaving only three in the regular university classes. Prof C. H. Allen, of the Normal School Department, will command the company. Quite a number of young men from Madison have volunteered in this company, so that' it numbers about sixty. Among the volunteers is Prof. A. J. Craig, the Assistant State Superintendent of Schools. Young Bradley, son of Mr. Bradley, of the State Treasurer's ofiice, who went as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, has been promoted to a captaincy of a colored regiment.

June. - F. A. Haskell, Colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regiment, at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., on the 3d, was struck by a rebel bullet in the head, and was instantly killed. His loss was deeply felt by the men under his command, and a host of friends in Wisconsin. With the Iron Brigade he had faced the fire at Gainesville, Antietam, Gettysburg and other battles in which the brigade participated. Lieut. Col. West, of the Twenty-fourth, arrived in Madison. He IS suffering from a severe wound in the recent battle of Buzzard's Roost. Lieut. B. F. Cram, of the Fifth Regiment, was wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor. B. D. Atwell, of the Thirtysixth, and Lieut. Skinner, of Co. I, Thirty-sixth, were also wounded in recent battles. The fortieth Wisconsin Regiment left on the 14th, in good spirits, for Dixie. The Second Wisconsin ttegiment has returned, after three years' absence from Wisconsin. It was the first regiment mustered into the three years' service from the State. Originally raised as three months' men, It soon after changed its term of service to " three years or the war."