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THBWisconsin 13th Infantry, Civil War CDV Album
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LiveNov 17, 2017 - Nov 18, 2017
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Album containing 24 CDVs, of which 11 are identified cartes of 13th Wisconsin Infantry soldiers, primarily officers. Most cartes bear the backmark of photographer J.S. Ross and must have been taken in late 1861, as indicated by matching uniform ranks and promotion records. It is likely the officers made a group trip to the photographer before leaving Wisconsin on January 18, 1862, and some are even placed in the album opposite portraits of women taken by the same photographer, probably wives who came to see them off. The 11 identified soldiers are all identified at the bottom of the albumen print, in the same hand, in black ink. They are:
Col. William Penn Lyon, commissioned Capt. of Co. K, 8th Wisconsin, 8/7/1861, discharged for promotion to Col. of the 13th Wisconsin 8/5/1862, served through the end of the war and awarded with a brevet to Brig. Gen. in October 1865; Lt. Col. James F. Chapman; Maj. Thomas O. Bigney, enlisted as Capt. of Co. G on 9/10/1861, promoted to Col. within one month of enlistment, and declined a promotion to Lt. Col. in late 1864; Capt. Fenton Franklin Stevens, commissioned Capt. of Co. F at enlistment and discharged for promotion to Major & Additional Paymaster in the Paymaster's Dept. on 2/23/1864, serving until mid-1867; Surgeon John M. Evans; Asst. Surgeon Elisha G. Horton; 2nd. Asst. Surgeon Charles M. Smith; Capt. Edward Ruger, commissioned Capt. of Co. A, later promoted to Asst. Engineer, Genl. Staff; 1st Lt. Samuel S. Hart, Co. F, promoted to Capt. 5/11/64; Sgt. Maj. William M. Scott, enlisted as Pvt. in Co. B, promoted to Sgt. Maj. within one month and to Adjutant in mid-1863; Sgt. Jerome W. Briggs, Co.F, promoted to 2nd Lt. and 1st Lt. in the second half of 1864 and to Capt. following the end of the war. Also, three unidentified privates; a Brady/Anthony carte of Gen. William Rosecrans; a vignetted carte of Gen. U.S. Grant; and a few unidentified civilian men and women.
The 13th Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Treadway, in Janesville, and mustered in October 17, 1861. Following training, they were ordered to Fort Leavenworth, KS, then to Fort Smith, AR, to join the New Mexico Expedition, but as soon as they reached Arkansas they were reassigned to guard duty in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was near Clarksville they saw their first action, and performed admirably in helping to drive Gen. Forrest's forces through western Tennessee before capturing a supply depot in Stevenson, Alabama. The 13th then participated in the successful defenses of Huntsville, Decatur, and Nashville, and was "rewarded" with an assignment to Texas, including a 145-mile march from Indianola to San Antonio in 100-degree weather, during which many of the soldiers broke down from exhaustion. They continued to be reassigned seemingly aimlessly around Texas and beyond, enduring many hard marches and skirmishes but few major battles. By the end of the war, 183 men of the regiment had perished, but the regiment was commended for its "tireless vigilance which relaxes not, day by day, week after week, although lacking the excitement which accompanies the movement of armies..." (Adj. Gen. Gaylord).
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