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Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers

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Title	Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Source Title	Rufus R. Dawes' Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Regiment	6th Infantry
Volume	1
Author/Creator	Dawes, Rufus R. (Rufus Robinson), 1838-1899
Description	Rufus Dawes (1838-1899) was a 20-year-old recent college graduate when the war broke out. He quickly formed a company of lumberjacks and farmers from the vicinity of Mauston, in Juneau Co., and they were mustered in as Co. K of the 6th Infantry in the summer of 1861. Over the next three years, Dawes rose to be colonel of that regiment and a leader of the Iron Brigade. He wrote this memoir in 1890 using his original letters and journals from 1861-1865. He describes in vivid detail life in camp and on the march, encounters with famous generals, and the fighting at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse and Petersburg. His book pulls no punches, and reveals what it was like for a young man to be thrust into authority amid great challenges and horrors. After the war, Dawes became a prosperous merchant in Marietta, Ohio, and served a term in Congress before dying in 1899.
Subcollection	Personal Narratives
Source	Microfiche
Source Type	personal narrative
Place of Publication	Marietta, Ohio
Source Creation Date	1890
Source Publisher	E.R. Alderman & Sons
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2011
Rights	© Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
Digital Format	XML
Digital Identifier	CWPN003010000

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Title	Illustration
Source Title	Rufus R. Dawes' Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Regiment	6th Infantry
Volume	1
Topic	prisoners of war
Source Type	personal narrative; image
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2011
Rights	© Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
Digital Format	JPG
Full text	ifi- C^/C^
Digital Identifier	CWPN003010205

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