Biographical Sketches, chapter 56 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

              988 BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES,
On the formation of the Fourth Regiment, Lieutenant Paine received a commission as its Colonel, and immediately entered upon the duties of the position, and in a short time, had his regiment efficiently organized. Leaving Camp Utley, Racine, under orders to report at Baltimore, his regiment proceeded by way of Dunkirk and Elmira, New York. At Corning, the rail¬ road authorities, by reason of some quarrel with a neighboring company, refused to run the train to Elmira, After using every argument in his poAver, Colonel Paine determined to take the responsibility, and seize a locomotive, and run the train to El¬ mira. The regiment Avas Avithout arms. Colonel Paine ordered Captains Loy aud Hobart, to report with their companies at the stopping place of the Dunkirk train, armed with pick-handles. The train arrived — the Engineer refused to accede to the wishes of Colonel Paine ¦— the companies of Captains Loy and Hobart, arrived, and the locomotive Avas placed in their charge, there being competent engineers among the number. Guards were placed along the train, to watch the couplings, the railroad em¬ ployees endeavoring to separate the train. The train was run through by Colonel Paine's engineers to Elmira, where they found more accommodating railroad managers.
Colonel Paine's vegiment remained in the vicinity of Baltimore till the spring of 1862, having, durhig the fall, taken part in an expedition to the Eastern shore of Virginia. Having been selected by General Butler as one of the regimeuts for the New Orleans expedition, they left Baltimore for Newport News, and thence to Ship Island, On the capture of Forts St. Philip and Jackson, Colonel Paiue, with six companies of the Fourth Regi¬ ment, proceeded up the river to New Orleans, aud disembarked at five o'clock iu the afternoon, aud Avith the other troops, took fornial possession of that city. Colonel Pajue Avas ordered to take possessiou of the Custom House, Avhich was done, aud they occupied it as quarters duriug their stay iu the city. The Fourth Regiment was actively employed in keeping the rebellious spirit quiet, and at the interview of the city authorities with General Butler, Colonel Paine was ordered to preserve the peace. The Fourth Wiscousii} was placed with two sections of artillery to command the approaches to the hotel. The crowd was large and malignant—-a few Avere slashed with sabres for impudeut acts and words, and some were arrested.