... When I was courting my first wife, Elsa Clusen in Manitowoc, they used to have a visitor from
Michicott, a widow by the name of Brimmer (or Briimmer). She told the same story that father
told of their trip up the Mississippi River after Vicksburg when they were furloughed home on
sick leave. Her husband had been on the same boat.!”

After the capture of Vicksburg, the Wisconsin regiments engaged in the siege, were transferred to
other fields of service.... The Twenty-seventh was sent to Steele's department, at Little Rock.'”

Capt. A. Marschner, of the 27th regiment, is at home (he says) on furlough for a few days. Some,
however, are so uncharitable as to insinuate that his furlough is one of an indefinite length of time,
as he left the regiment only some six hours previous to its departure to join Rosecrans’ forces.'”’

SAMUEL GILCHRICE, of Franklin, a member of Capt. Rankin's Company, 27th
Regiment, was brought back here this week under care of Sergeant A. C. Pierce, who had been
detailed for that purpose. Mr. Gilchrice has been suffering from sickness for some time, and it is
feared that consumption has marked him for one of its many victims.

ONE OF CO. B, 27TH REG., UNDER FIRE. A correspondent in Greenbush sends us the
following item:

"Our youngest boy, in one of his letters home, says: 'One of our boys was sitting on the
beach gazing into the water, (no doubt musing of loved ones far away) two or three days ago,
and all at once was startled from his reverie by the report of a rifle. Quickly as thought, he felt it
in his shoulder. It was fired by a Guerilla across the river, passed through his coat, just grazing
his shoulder, and reminded him that he was a soldier, and in the enemy's country."

Late advices say that the 27th has gone down the river to re-inforce Gen. Grant. If so,
they will stand a chance to see some warm work. By the way, why do not some one of the three
or four in that regiment, who promised to keep us advised of its movements and doings, send us
the promised information? There are those who are capable of writing interesting letters for
publication, in the different companies from this county in that regiment, and we hope that some
of them will do it.’

Military...
Capt. A. Marschner, of Co. E, 27th Regiment is also said to be at home, but as we have

 

'®° Letter, Roland A. Kolb to Mark Knipping, July 13, 1962.
6 EB. Quiner, Military History of Wisconsin, p. 405.

'8” Sheboygan Journal, Sheboygan, June 4, 1863, p. 3.

'°8 The Manitowoc Pilot, Manitowoc, June 5, 1863, p. 3/2.
' Evergreen City Times, Sheboygan, June 6, 1863, p. 1/3.

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