HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


tion. They were enough to make two full regiments of infantry, two squadrons
of cavalry and a battery of artillery-a fair sized army of itself.
At first the recruiting took the form of raising full companies and the county
was represented in various state regiments as follows:
Company A, Fifth Regiment, captain, Temple Clark.
Company B, Ninth Regiment, captain, Fred Becker.
Company E, Fourteenth Regiment, captain, C. R. Waldo.
Company F, Fifteenth Regiment, captain, Charles Gustaveson.
Company K, Twenty-first Regiment, captain, Charles H. Walker.
Company F, Twenty-sixth. Regiment, captain, Henry Baetz:
Company D, Twenty-seventh Regiment, captain, Joseph H. Rankin.
Company K, Twenty-seventh Regiment, captain, Peter Mulholland. (This
company had some Sheboygan county men.)
Company G, Thirty-ninth Regiment, captain, A. J. Patchen. (Had some She-
boygan and Fond du Lac men.)
Company B, Forty-fifth Regiment, captain, Jacob Leisen.
Company D, Forty-eighth Regiment, captain, Adolph Wittmann.
The above were practically all Manitowoc companies, raised and officered
here. As the war went on and men grew scarce, a practice arose of raising
parts
of companies and consolidating them with men raised in another county. In
this
way portions of the following companies were raised in this county and officered
in part by Manitowoc men:
Company K, Nineteenth Regiment, captain, W. W. Bates.
Company I, Twenty-seventh Regiment, captain, James C. Barnes.
Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, lieutenant, H. H. Markham.
Company D, Forty-fifth Regiment, lieutenant, Charles Korten.
Company G, Forty-fifth Regiment, lieutenant, Charles White.
Company D, Fifty-second Regiment, captain, S. W. Smith.
It is rather a singular fact that of all the men who served in the war from
our
county not a single one enlisted in the regular army. Another singular fact
is
that so far as I have been able to learn, not a single Manitowoc man or company
volunteered for service in the cavalry or artillery, and while a very few
went
into the navy, they went first into infantry regiments and were then transferred
to the navy upon a call for sailors who were in the army and wished to be
trans-
ferred. The county was represented in the colored troops by one lone "darkey,"
named Robert Graham, who, I think, was a man who worked with Jim Gayton,
our pioneer colored barber, but who he was, or whence he came, I do not know.
Manitowoc county supplied an unusually large quota of officers, including
the
following: One major general, Frederick Salomon; two brigade generals, B.
J.
Sweet and Charles Salomon; an adjutant general of the army, Temple Clark;
one colonel, H'enry F. Belitz; one lieutenant colonel, T. G. Olmstead; two
majors,
Henry Baetz and Charles H. Walker; three quartermasters, Henry C'. Hamilton,
B. J. Van Valkenburgh and S. W. Smith; five regimental surgeons, C. C. Barnes,
H. E. Zielley, A. W. Preston, Jerome Saltzman, H. E. Balcom.


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