My great-great-grandfather kept track of things that happened to him during the Civil War on the flap of his tent. My Dad's cousin's daughter transcribed it and sent it to me. Here's what he did.

• 1861
  • 7-14 Entered servce as Private Company G 1st Wisconsin Vol. Cavalry
  • 11-16 Commissioned 1st. Lieutenant
• 1862
  • 3-10 Regt. organizes at Ripon and Kenosha, WI, and mustered into U. S. Service as a regt.
  • 3-17 Left state for St. Louis, MO
  • March to 4-28 Duty at Benton Barracks, MO
  • March to May Adjutant
  • 4-28 Moved to Cape Girardeau, MO
  • 5-2 Wounded while disenbarking regiment at Cape Girardeau, was kicked by a vicious horse -- right leg broken below the knee
  • May-October Attached to Vandever's brig. dist. of southeastern MO. dept
  • 7-21 Assigned to command of post at Cape Girardeau (Scott and Stoddard counties) MO
  • 7-29 Action at Bloomfield, MO
  • 8-5 Wounded in head and horse killed by collision
  • 9-11 to 9-13 Action at Bloomfield
  • 10-3 Moved to Greenville
  • 10-6 to 10-16 Temporarily detached as acting A.A.G. staff of General Jackson at Patterson, MO; Relieved at own request and resumed command of detachment, 1st WI Cavalry. Detached as Acting Quartermaster and Commissary Staff of Genl. George E. Waring
  • 10-16 to April 1863 Assigned to duty as Chief Cavalry, Gen'l Davidson's army of SE MO Engaged in operations in southwestern MO and AR to April 1863.
• 1863
  • 4-24 Action at White Water River. In command, severely wounded. Horse killed under him. Gun shot right leg, shattering thigh bone. Operation of re-section performed, shortening leg three inches. Captured and paroled with the other prisoners shortly after.
  • May Regt. assigned to Army of the Cumberland
  • May-August In hospital at Cape Girardeau, MO
  • 11-20 Captain
  • 12-11 Exchanged as prisoner of war
• 1864
  • - 11-1 Absent from regiment on account of wounds and on duty as General Recruiting Officer and on Courts Martial at Madison WI
  • 11-12 Rejoined regiment at Louisville, KY
  • 12-14 Action at Elkton, KY
  • 12-16 Action at Hopkinsville, KY with rebel Gen'l Lyon's command
  • 12-16 to 12-24 Elizabethtown
• 1865
  • 1-27 Major
  • 3-13 Brevet Lieut. Colonel US Vol. "For gallant and meritorious service at White Water River MO"
  • March Attached to 2 Brig. 2 Div. Wilson's Cavalry Corp. military division of the Miss. Duty at Waterloo, AL
  • 3-22 to 4-24 Wilson's raid from Chickasaw, MS to Macon GA.
    • 3-30 Action at Montevallo
    • 4-1 Centreville -- in command, horse killed under him
    • 4-2 to 4-3 Scottsville
    • 4-10 Laundesboro
    • 4-11 Flint River
    • 4-12/4-13 Montgomery
    • 4-14 Tuskegee
    • 4-15 Columbus, GA
    • 4-20 Macon, GA
  • 4-22 to 5-6 Assigned to duty as Judge Advocate court martial at Macon GA
  • 5-6 Detached and assigned to duty as Acting Inspector General -- Staff of Cav. Corp. Military Division of Miss. Detailed to collect plans, examine and report on the Confederate Public Buildings in process of construction at Macon and Augusta Ga. and to collect records of Military posts and hospitals in Ga. and western S.C. General Grant ordered him to Washington D.C. to be in charge of rebel archives, among which were the complete records, intact, of the Provisional Congress C. S. A.
  • 7-8 to 12-5 On duty in the War Dept. at Washington D. C.
  • 12-5 Mustered out by Special Order War Dept. and honorably discharged from service.

Last updated 18 July 2000 by Scott.