Newspaper clippings, 1861-1930, Vol. 3

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Ml in     niTTlF^  '•"^   ¦    ^°^"  Bertram    had    a  horse shot IIV     llAllll> Vcova.   beneath   him,   and  received  a
LLll     Dnl ILL slight contusion of the thigh.   Capt.
kkw     uiii ¦ ¦-«. I Weber received three buUeta In his
fif   nnAinir    nnniir^^^'   ^'^^^  which  he  died  within  a III-   PUAIIllL    I  nil 111>^^^^-   "^^^   rebels   were  pursued  to 11 r   rilniniL    UnUlL^^" Suren. Arkansas, where 800 firl- -^i                    iltmiifc    MHW w «. soners, two steamers aud a ferry boat IJ," «K          loaded with provisions were eaptnred.
Wltertown Company in Hard, .¦-^-'J-nu'tS'^cr^rSd s Fight in Arl<ansas, Decern-  ^y the death of tnegauant w^ber.
%: ,       -I    e oen j Second Lieutenant Charles A. Menges
ber 7|  1o02i jsucceeded Kusel, and Sergeant Alfred
  H. Baehr was promoted to the second
SEVERAL KlUtO AND WOUNOEO IT.'pSdSSl"" """"^"""^
  Following is a list of the officers
Forty-Eight    Years    Ago    Twentieth and men, many of whom have long Wisconsin  Had a  Part  In  Hardest,since answered the final roU caU, but Battle  of  That  Yea.—Many   Have'f^ers  are  still  residents Of Jfate^ ' town, and today go over the stirring
Answered   Last  Roll   Call.
I events   of   that   fight  ot  forty-elg)h!t
  years ago:
Forty-eight years ago today the Commissioned officers: ' Captain^ battle of Prairie Grove was fought. John Weber; first lieutenant, Preder- The Third cavalry and Twentieth Ick Kusel; second lieutenant, Charles Wisconsin  had a part In the battle,! A. Menges.
one of the severest of that year. The Non-oommlesioned offioeirs: Sea> Twentieth lost eighty-three killed I geants, August P. Baehr, August Ku- and many wounded and Its work had sel. Frederick W. Voedisch, H«liry R. nuch to do with winning the notable Sommers; corporal^, George T. Berg- unlon victory. Many Watertown men {old, Carl Roth, John Muth, John IQt. who went out as members of Co. B of Klrsch, Julius Werllch, Edward Scheu- that regiment, will recall the famous nemann. t
battle fought In Arkansas December     Privates:   John  Valdemann,  Fred|
7, 1862. The company was organized m Watertown on Monday, August 11, .1862, and on the 15th It was com¬ pleted. The company numbered 106 volunteers and left the next day for
erlck Paul, 6. Henze, John Thoma^ Godfrey Mustar, Henry Krueger.l Louis Fischer, William Garnih, Ju^ Schulermann, Herman Wettwer, Hem-] ry    Lohr,    Julius     Weicht,     Franw
Madison. They went to the front'Schneider, Otto Frigloff, Augusti I Immediately as Co. (E of the Twenti-1 Fritz, Henry Hose, John Lehmannl I eth regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Hen-Carl Borchart, William Trachte, Carl .nr Bertram. Following are the names Relohart, Carl Grutzner, Herman Rose. It^f those who fell In that engagement: Karl  Fischer,  August   Melcher,  Con*
Killed: C. Werllch, John R. Ram- rad Goedeke, John Kresensky, Augusts say, Adolph Mustar, August Butow, Wenzel, William Frank, Carl Ba^ John Wurm and JUllus  Weight. mann, Robert Weber, Carl Brix, Aug^,
Wounded: Col. Henry Bertram, ust Butow, Albert Butow, Franz Zwt^ Capt. John Weber, William Carmin, ner, Andreas Ambrose, Bemhar4 Ernst Schnasse, Peter Jarish, Carl Kreete, Juillus Stelndorf, WlHlai]| Rettig, Henry Muller, L. Zandner, Hahn, Henry Musselmann, Fred Wi William Taucke, William Baudle, Bemhard, Louis Zandner, WIlUaiBl August Kluge, Henry L. Volkman, Blchel, August P. W. Buth, A.. Wal^ William Hahn, William Wodke, Aug- ther, Gabriel Rtmerttad, WlillaiiL ust Schulermann, Prank Schroeder, Mohr, Karl Pettig, Qustavus - Trieg- Henry R. Sommers. loff, Frederick Weber, Martin Grun^
Missing: Robert Weber, Frederick ,John' H. Frank, Charles Hoeffner, Vaj4' Voelker, Ferdbiand Voleker. laiftlne Rehn, Vhicenz Wurm, John H*
!»ch, Charles Kunlzer, August —