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1000 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
till he resigned. During his military career, he Avas several times wounded, but uot severely enough to detain him from duty more than tAVO days.
BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL HARRISON C. HOBART.
General Hobart is a native of Ashburuham, Massachusetts. In his youth he was apprenticed to the printing business. By his OAvii energy aud perseverance, he fitted himself for college, aud graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, studied law iu the office of Robert Rantoul, at Boston, aud was admitted as an attorney in 1845. He removed to Wisconsin, aud settled at Sheboygan, in 1846.
In politics, General Hobart is a Democrat, and has held several important positions in civil affairs, aud been the nominee of that party for some of the highest positions in the state. He was a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1846, and also of the first State Senate. In 1850, he Avas sent to the Legislative Assembly, aud was elected Speaker of that body.
The call for troops to suppress the rebellion Avas received, and General Hobart at once responded. Ou the next day he com¬ menced recruiting a company of men at Chilton, Calumet County, himself enlisting as a priA'ate. His company was accepted, and assigned to the Fourth Wisconsin, Colonel Paine, he being elected Captain, He served faithfully with his company, never being absent, unless ou detached duty or sick, until September, 1862, when he was commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the TAventy- first Regiment. With this regiment his military history is identified. Suffering severely, from want of experience and discipline, at the battle of Perryville, the Twenty-first afterwards, under the efficient command of Colonel Hobart, became one of the best fighting regiments iu the army. At the battle of Chica¬ mauga, Colonel Hobart was taken prisoner, and incarcerated iu the Libby Prison, Richmond, from Avhence he made his escape through the celebrated tunnel, with several others, after an imprisonment of over four mouths.
Lieutenant Colonel Hobart returned to his regimeut in 1864, and commanded it during the campaign against Atlanta. He
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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 | 1000 |
| Source Title | Biographical Sketches, chapter 56 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| People | Hobart, Harrison C., 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 | 1000 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. till he resigned. During his military career, he Avas several times wounded, but uot severely enough to detain him from duty more than tAVO days. BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL HARRISON C. HOBART. General Hobart is a native of Ashburuham, Massachusetts. In his youth he was apprenticed to the printing business. By his OAvii energy aud perseverance, he fitted himself for college, aud graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, studied law iu the office of Robert Rantoul, at Boston, aud was admitted as an attorney in 1845. He removed to Wisconsin, aud settled at Sheboygan, in 1846. In politics, General Hobart is a Democrat, and has held several important positions in civil affairs, aud been the nominee of that party for some of the highest positions in the state. He was a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1846, and also of the first State Senate. In 1850, he Avas sent to the Legislative Assembly, aud was elected Speaker of that body. The call for troops to suppress the rebellion Avas received, and General Hobart at once responded. Ou the next day he com¬ menced recruiting a company of men at Chilton, Calumet County, himself enlisting as a priA'ate. His company was accepted, and assigned to the Fourth Wisconsin, Colonel Paine, he being elected Captain, He served faithfully with his company, never being absent, unless ou detached duty or sick, until September, 1862, when he was commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the TAventy- first Regiment. With this regiment his military history is identified. Suffering severely, from want of experience and discipline, at the battle of Perryville, the Twenty-first afterwards, under the efficient command of Colonel Hobart, became one of the best fighting regiments iu the army. At the battle of Chica¬ mauga, Colonel Hobart was taken prisoner, and incarcerated iu the Libby Prison, Richmond, from Avhence he made his escape through the celebrated tunnel, with several others, after an imprisonment of over four mouths. Lieutenant Colonel Hobart returned to his regimeut in 1864, and commanded it during the campaign against Atlanta. He |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT1025 |