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994 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the first Bull Run. The personal popularity of Lieutenant Col¬ onel Fairchild, soon secured the good Avill of the men composing the regiment. Benefitting from the military education and experience of Colonel Connor, then commanding the Second, the regiment soon attained a position among the best troops in the army, Avhich they held during the Avar. Lieutenant Colonel Fairchild took command of the regiment after the fall of Colonel Counor, at Gainesville, and Avas soon commissioned as Colonel. He commanded it in the second Bull Run battle, and at South Mountain. He Avas absent sick in hospital Avheu the battle of Antietam was fought. Recovering, he assumed command, Avhich he retained until the battle of Gettysburg, on the 1st of July, 1863. He led his regiment gallantly iuto the fight of that day, in advance of the rest of the brigade, under a fire from the enemy which SAvept doAvn one-third of his command. He Avas soon struck by a bullet, Avhich shattered his left arm making amputation necessary.
In the Fall of 1863, against his own desires, but by the urgent solicitation of friends, he consented to become the candidate of the Union party in Wisconsin for Secretaiy of State. He accord¬ ingly handed in his resignation, Avhich President Lincoln accepted ou the 20th of October, after conferring upon him the- appointment of Brigadier General. He was elected by a large majority. He served through his term as Secretaiy of State Avith great credit and ability, and in the Fall of 1865, Avas nominated and triumphantly elected as Governor of the State, for the years 1866-7.
BRIGADIER GENERAL EDAVARD S. BRAGG.
Brigadier Cxeneral Bragg has been a resident of Fond du Lac for some years, Avhere he has been engaged in the practice of law. In politics he was a democrat. On the fall of Fort Sumter and the call for 75,000 men, General Bragg took a stand iu favor of sustaining the government. He left the business then pending in court at Oshkosh, and returned to Fond du Lac, and partici¬ pated in a meeting called for the raising of troops. In an address at this meeting, he defended the " old Democratic party" from
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| Title | Biographical Sketches, chapter 56 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| Source Title | Biographical Sketches, chapter 56 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| Author/Creator | Quiner, E. B. (Edwin Bentley), d. 1868. |
| Description | This is an excerpt from E.B. Quiner's thousand-page volume, The Military History of Wisconsin: a record of the civil and military patriotism of the state, in the war for the union, with a history of the campaigns in which Wisconsin soldiers have been conspicuous, regimental histories, sketches of distinguished officers, the roll of the illustrious dead, movements of the Legislature and state officers, etc. (Chicago: Clarke & co., 1866). Because the entire work is so unwieldy and most users want to consult only a single chapter, we have divided it into smaller portions covering discrete topics. The entire work is online at Google Books and the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) in the most popular ereader formats. |
| Subcollection | Histories |
| Source Type | history |
| Place of Publication | Chicago |
| Source Creation Date | 1866 |
| Source Publisher | Clarke & Co. |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT0000zx |
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| Title | 994 |
| Source Title | Biographical Sketches, chapter 56 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| People | Bragg, Edward S., Col.; |
| Source Type | history |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Full text | 994 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the first Bull Run. The personal popularity of Lieutenant Col¬ onel Fairchild, soon secured the good Avill of the men composing the regiment. Benefitting from the military education and experience of Colonel Connor, then commanding the Second, the regiment soon attained a position among the best troops in the army, Avhich they held during the Avar. Lieutenant Colonel Fairchild took command of the regiment after the fall of Colonel Counor, at Gainesville, and Avas soon commissioned as Colonel. He commanded it in the second Bull Run battle, and at South Mountain. He Avas absent sick in hospital Avheu the battle of Antietam was fought. Recovering, he assumed command, Avhich he retained until the battle of Gettysburg, on the 1st of July, 1863. He led his regiment gallantly iuto the fight of that day, in advance of the rest of the brigade, under a fire from the enemy which SAvept doAvn one-third of his command. He Avas soon struck by a bullet, Avhich shattered his left arm making amputation necessary. In the Fall of 1863, against his own desires, but by the urgent solicitation of friends, he consented to become the candidate of the Union party in Wisconsin for Secretaiy of State. He accord¬ ingly handed in his resignation, Avhich President Lincoln accepted ou the 20th of October, after conferring upon him the- appointment of Brigadier General. He was elected by a large majority. He served through his term as Secretaiy of State Avith great credit and ability, and in the Fall of 1865, Avas nominated and triumphantly elected as Governor of the State, for the years 1866-7. BRIGADIER GENERAL EDAVARD S. BRAGG. Brigadier Cxeneral Bragg has been a resident of Fond du Lac for some years, Avhere he has been engaged in the practice of law. In politics he was a democrat. On the fall of Fort Sumter and the call for 75,000 men, General Bragg took a stand iu favor of sustaining the government. He left the business then pending in court at Oshkosh, and returned to Fond du Lac, and partici¬ pated in a meeting called for the raising of troops. In an address at this meeting, he defended the " old Democratic party" from |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT1019 |