Quiner Scrapbooks: Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 1861-1865, Volume 5

              Tbe following extracts from a   privat e reversed; they in turn followed by  those I nmoh as though be had fallen on the field.       * letter relative to Lho death ofCharlcsCram ^f y^y^^ Rogiment who   saw   fit   to   join | The disease with which bo died was con-  >> ^ whose obituary appeared in    last week's ^i,^ p,.QPgag-iQn       After    the   procc&.sion   traded while iu tbe service, aud  be  was Transcript, wi>^- be read with interost by ^^^^ formed, tbo order was given  and we  prostrated soon after the  battle of Pitts' tho many wbo have friends   or  relatives ^ovcd off, the band   playing  the   death   '>"'"8-   ^^ .<^o«^'  ^''o  I'ardshlps and  ex-
in tbc armv ^        l a    -   - *i      «,^„.,,i    !,« i Po^u^es incident to   that  battle   was tbe
IU lu*^ aruij^ ^marcb.       Arriving   on tho ground, tbo i" - , .     . ,
^"^      ,    . ,   ,,        oanse of bis sickness,
proccssmn  was   formed   into   a   hollow      ^^y ^^^^^ j^^^ ^^^^ ^   ^^^^^^^  ^^ ^^^^
:8quaro, the men presenting arms as each   ^gaen^bly. Judge of Fond du Lao   county,
jwas lowered into   tbc gravo.      A salute ,aod has held other positions of honor aod
I of 90 guns was then fired over tbo graves ^ trust, and has ever beeu found able, fallh-
I am     melancholy to-day     and  bave   ^y^^^ ^^..^^^ uncovered beads  and  ordered  ful and trustworthy  In   the  discharge of
been so for several days  —  ever  since    nr,ng ^o listened to a few   words follow-  their duties.    He was,  in  all  re-.pcot«, a
Charley died I have felt as though I had   ^^ ^^. ^ ^^^^^^   ^^^^ ^j^^   chaplain,   and ^oh\e man, and his loss is a great calamity
nota friend loft. Charley was my friend, '      ,.      i    i „ „<? ^„„..:„„ eKl«   nr<>.,nrl ii« '" '^® State.
,     ,     RS the shades ot evening stole   aronna us —„,.,,.  „w  -,^,„..„,   ,,     ....     ,.,     j,
and a braver or a better boy never shoul-.. ,,    ,      ,    _   „1i H,«f   rm.vninod '   ?.n , " *'•    ^*     *
•'      ,      , the earth closed over   all tbat   roii»ained      The piotractiHl slnu'rh; for life, of our res-
deiod a Run or slung a knapsack; always t ^^ ^^^^ ^,^^^ ^^j y^.^ ^^^^ comrades. poctedaud dislinj^Miisbed u.wnsuiai,,Col. D. K
ready to do bis duty,kind, and   pleasant i a aoi.i.iRns vir.w or war. >^y^^^   icnninatcd   at  1   o'clock,   Tuesday
to all—over ready for fun when  fun was i     The amount of sickness and  sufforing „,^^„i„„ ^,^^ ^-^,^  i^^^^^_    ,ji^ ,,^.^^,,^  ^^.^^_^ ^^^^^
H8.\uQUAnTi{Rfl Fourteenth Kkoiment W. Y. Pittsburo Lanuino June lOtb, 18C2.
Deak :
the order of tbe hour; ho bad won the ]that a person sees, and perchance has to ,„„^._,,p,.;i^,i ^^ those who have known for the respect of bis ofiiccrs and tbc love of bis L endure, is iwwful; nearly twelve thous- i,j^t,-,.^^, ^,.^.^.j.g^ the desperate nature of his comrades; As our chaplain said at bis and sick men bave been nent off from this oomplniut He bus lullcn a victim to the dis grave:   "It docs seem as though our tru- , place alone since thc ir)tli of April,   just ease coutructcd on tbe Tennessee, and uggra-
come unbidden to my eyes while think ing of tbe sorrow bis death will cause in tbe far off home of tbeir's Thoy cannot belp but think tbat this calamity might have been averted if they bad only listened to thc dictates of tbeir own hearts and kept their darling boy at home. Vain rcgrctsi Cbar^cy has gone wo trust to a fairer nud better land where sickness and sorrow are unknown.
A  SOLDIERS  KU.VEUAI..
It will be but poor consolation  to  bis friends to know   that   wc   did    all   we could for him while sick,   and   after  bis death bis remains were intered as decent¬ ly as circumstances would permit.      My¬ self and comrade   took   charge    of   bis body;we drosscd it with white shirt,draw¬ ers and socks,folded a   white  cloth  over the face, wrapped a blanket around   the body and laid it in thu  rough   coQln   to await the hour of crening when   tbo   the triple  barial   would    take   plaoe;    for we were to bury   two  of    his  comrades wbo died tbe same day tbat   poor   Cram died,   one   from    our   Co,     tbo    other from Co.   H. Cavalry came and   tbe pro¬ cession formed in the following order.^— Fir&ttbe chaplain with tbreo commission. cd officers, next tbo band   with   mufllcd drums, than came tbc bearers   twelve in number ,   folio sved    by    tbe   ambulance containing tbo  coffins;   then   came   thc members of tbe  different   companies   to which tbo deceased belonged  with   arms
still we"! stay hero idying   by   inches—aFoiirtec'itb, to baulo and  to vicloiy ;    and
sacrifice to the acursed  demon of  war. — while the land rang with praises of its noble
I sometimes wish that a few  thousand ofbcaiing,canie home lo die, scarcely coii.scioiis
our   Porthern and   southern domagoguc8j'''"sclf, 'bat the trump of liimc was sounding
...     ,        1    •, .1 •                    liii bis cars,
wcre    oblicrcdto   decide this   war    at                        .
, °        .             , I     J    iV    r    oiiK-e his arrival home, and for some years
the  swords    point  and to  the deatn ot,   „                ,    ,           ,   ,. ,           -.i  .n
1 beloi-e going, be has iiiudc lus home with Aid.
every ono  of   them. h. ^y,,^. l,^,^^.^^.^^ ..b^,.,, b^ ],„, i,.„i „ii u.c cure
ji^eatli of Colonel   Wood, of the I*th   | nnd kindness,   and   Moilicul  aid, tlmt morlal Regiment. .ocoubl receive, bufnll iu vain lo .save life.
We are pained to learn tbat Ool. D. E.       ^,^^    ^^ooo has for  many vear.   been a Wood, of the 14tb   Kogiment, died at his •      ,    -.- <• t     i i  'i i
' T , I l)i-oniinenl citr/.ou   ot l-ond du I.ao,   and  nu
residence, In   Fond   du  Lac, last night.— •>, i      i   ii i        i-.i     n        n
V ' ,,   ^ ,1 honored and able inembcr ol the  Jtar.    lli
Oob Wood has been very   ill   for  severalIc .  i /. i       . /.      .   •   .i      »
,     ¦' ,    ,     once represented Lalumct Loipilv in tbc  A.-s
weeks, but from the laat acooanta we bad, ,i      ,, , ,.    /. ,'     .    ,   x
'       .            ,..„.. *"«embly, and was lur lour years County Jml^i
there was but little doubt of bis recovery.
The gallant conduct of Ool, Wood and his _    ,      , , , .    . , . ...
n    •        ..,,..,     / T>..i i_        •        11  lie has devoted his Lime to   bis   prolcssion.—
Regiment at tbe battle of Pittsburg 19 well   ,,    .      ,    .,   ,    .... . ,
, , 1       f .. •   tsT .. , Jlaviiij'decided iniliUiiy tusles and cupacitics,
known  to  the  people  of this State, and -'        ,? , ...
, ,       , 1 -       J   V.      as well as ardent patrioti.sin,   he wa.s  ainoiii'
many  have seen a   trophy achieved  by (.,,.,,„,. . .       ,
, ^    ,...,. , i.     1-      •    .u     -he nrst  to offer hi., services, even in a lower
them  at that  battle, uow standing in tbe i '
Capitol Park.    Col, Wood was  an excob
leut oflicer, and '^^tered  isito  tbe defence
Xof ibis County.    During the   p.ist few   joai.s
t^ I   ur«^,  ..„-„ ^.,^.^1   station than he liii.illy occupied,  but tbroucth
Col. Wood was  an excel- ,. '
"some nii.sutuKi-.Uaiuliiig, not now   neccssarv
of tbe Union wiib a zeal worthy of the cause. In bis death the Regimont has sustained a lots tbat it will deeply feel, and that it will be hard lo make good ; the State has lost an ablo aud valuable citizen, who was deeply interested in her welfare; aud tbe commnnity in which he
to c.\|ilain, be wa.s not connected wiib the first Wisconsin Regiments tbat went to ihe field, but was finally selected for Colonel of tbe Fourtceulli. lie quitkly enlisted, drilled and equipped as fine a Regiment as ever coniVtuited a foe, r.nd hud tbc f.'i)od foitune, to luurtb it sooa ultcr.vuids, to u Held of victory
Uved are deprived of a genial companion, a '*i"*l glwy- noble hearted gdntleman, and an excellent     While we write, proparalions are going on fellow  citizen.    Col.    Wood  was   never f'^r 1^'^ •'""^''"'d.    Tho body  will be taken in married. charge by the I'rce Masons,   of which IVatcr-
Col. Wood was a man of v-gorous con- "'^y '"-' was a member. Thc Funeral acrvkc:. stltution, and only about tbiriy-five yeors will be held it. tbe Episcopal Cburcb this al- ot age. Although he has not fallen inteinoou. The Mayor »iii<i Cily Council will battle, he ia still a victim of the war olHoijilly aitond ihe service^. The several brongbt ou  by an  unholy rebellion, as Fire Compaiiies will bcin uucuduuue, iu e.ui-
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