Berdan's Sharpshooters, chapter 49 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

              OHAPTEE  XLIX.
COMPANY HISTORY—COMPANY G, BERDAN'S SHARPSHOOTERS.
Organization — Move to New York—To Washington—At Battles ON THE Peninsula—Second Bull Run—Antietam—Blackbukn's Ford — Battle of Fredericksburg—Chancellorville—Gettys¬ burg—"Wapping Heights — Locust Grove—Campaign of 1864 — In Battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor—Before Petersburg — Term Expires — Muster out—Return Home.
A T an early period of the war, the War Department authorized ¦^ the organization of two regiments of sharpshooters, and appointed Colonel Berdan, of New York, to superintend the recruiting of companies, to be composed of tried marksmen, from the difterent loj^al States, One company was recruited and organized in Wisconsin, under the immediate supervision of Adjutant General Utlej^, himself a noted expert with the rifle. The necessary number of men, who could furnish the required test of ability as good marksmen, were enrolled under the command of Captain W. P, Alexander, of Beloit. The organization of the company Avas completed by the election of W. P, Alexander as Captain, F. E. Marble First Lieutenant, and C. F. Shepard, Second Lieutenant, in September, and it left Camp Randall, Madison, on the 19th of September, 1861, for the regimental rendezvous, at WehaAvken, N. J. At jSTcav York City it Avas mustered into the United States service, as Company " G," of the First Regiment United States Sharpshooters, on the 23d of September. Captain Alexander being physically unable to take the field, did not muster in, and the company elected Edward DrcAV, of Buffalo, K. Y., as their Captain, in his place.
On the 24th, they left Kcav York, and proceeding to the City of Washington, Avere placed in "Camp of Listruction," Avhere they Avere instructed in infantry, drill, with the difterent company