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Neurosurgeon Pens Five Star Civil War Thriller

Posted on February 27, 2013 by javal| Leave a comment

Just in time for the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Edison McDaniels, a neurosurgeon with twenty years experience behind the scalpel and over 7,000 operations to his credit, has written what critics are calling an engaging, heart-breaking, and absolutely fantastic novel of the surgeons at work amid the chaos and carnage of that terrible battle, the greatest ever fought on American soil.

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‘This Wicked Rebellion’ collects writings of state’s Civil War soldiers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by javal| Leave a comment

Thanks to Edwin Quiner, a Wisconsin newspaperman at the time the Civil War  broke out, readers today can get inside the minds of soldiers from that  divisive, desperate time.

Quiner donated 10 scrapbooks full of letters written by soldiers serving  their country that he and his daughters had clipped from newspapers; the  collection included more than 11,000 letters and found a home with the Wisconsin  Historical Society in 1867.

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Found: Long-lost ledger of Civil War era

Posted on February 20, 2013 by javal| Leave a comment

On Abraham Lincoln’s 204th birthday, the Columbia County Veterans Service Office was the place where long-lost Civil War history was perused, electronically cataloged and presented to a veterans organization.

It started when Veterans Services Officer Richard Hasse found a ledger, at least 130 years old, listing the names of Civil War veterans who were members of the John Gillespie Post 50 of the Grand Army of the Republic — a post based in Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) from 1882 to 1932, and open to all honorably discharged veterans of the Union fighting forces in the Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865.

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Odd Wisconsin: ‘Boy colonel’ died while speaking during regiment reunion

Posted on September 6, 2012 by javal| Leave a comment

One hundred years ago today, the life of a famous Wisconsin war hero came to  a sudden end.

Gen. Arthur MacArthur (1845-1912) was celebrated as the “boy colonel” during  the Civil War. At age 18 he won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at  the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and at 19 he was given command of his regiment.  After fighting in the West for three decades, he was promoted to general in 1898  and sent to the Philippines.

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Odd Wisconsin: Civil War colonel stopped Milwaukee bank riot

Posted on August 24, 2011 by javal| Leave a comment

In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain describes how a brave man single-handedly stopped a lynch mob. That scene is fiction, but one resembling it actually happened in Milwaukee.

The Civil War had just started and Wisconsin banks were folding. Many had invested in Southern bonds that became worthless. Others had counted on selling Wisconsin bonds but found no buyers. Depositors at several Milwaukee banks were told that their funds were unavailable.

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Veterans Park statue to be dedicated 109 years after construction completed

Posted on August 11, 2011 by javal| Leave a comment

For almost 110 years, a tin statue has welcomed visitors to Fond du Lac’s Veterans Park.

But due to controversy and conflict in the past, the statue was never dedicated to honor the heroes it commemorates.

Until now.

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Group brings voices of Civil War to Dells

Posted on June 15, 2011 by javal| Leave a comment

The Dells claims General Joseph Bailey and the volunteers he recruited for the Civil War, but historian and author Michael Goc reminded a Dells audience that a third or more of his unit was made up of men from Adams County.

Goc and seven others from Adams-Friendship came to the Community Center in the Kilbourn Library Tuesday to bring alive some voices from the Civil War. Goc, author of “Hero of the Red River: The Life and Times of Joseph Bailey,” said he relied on Bailey’s letters in preparing the presentation as well as other letters from the period and newspaper articles.

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Wisconsin Civil War History and the Iron Brigade

Posted on June 8, 2011 by javal| Leave a comment

Wisconsin soldiers fought in every major battle of the Civil War.

Many of Wisconsin’s regiments were composed primarily of single ethnic groups. For example, the 9th, 26th, and 45th were mainly Germans, while the Norwegians filled the ranks of the 15th Regiment. An indication of the magnitude of Wisconsin’s contribution can be gained by viewing the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol I (available at www.wisconsinhistory.org). For example, the Roster lists 110 volunteer entries from Beaver Dam, 26 from Juneau, 16 from Horicon, and 57 from Waupun.

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