Their calls were heeded, and by every means accessible to affection or sympathy, their wounds were sought to be healed, their wants to be supplied, their strength to be restored.

Before the summer was gone, the relics of companies and regiments which had responded to the first call for troops, began to return to their homes. The first of these was what was left of the Second, a regiment that on June 20, 1861, left Camp Randall to commence its term of active service. Little did its members know what the future veiled. The jubilant spirits that characterized their departure, the blare of martial music, the waving of handkerchiefs, the emotions of sadness and pride, the "hurrahs" of the multitude, and the enthusiastic responses of the departing soldiers-these were not all present. Gaps had been made in the ranks that would never be closed up, and it had been winnowed and sifted in the tempest through which it had passed. Not an officer of the line was left to come back. O'Conner, Stephens, Colwell, Randolph, McKee, Hughes, Noble and Sanford died on the field of honor; Col. Mansfield and Lieut. Col. Parsons were wounded and prisoners; Capts. Rollins and Baldwin were in Libby Prison, and the regiment came home under the command of Maj. George H. Otis, who marched from Camp Randall to Virginia a private in the ranks. The veterans were accorded a handsome reception at Madison, and mustered out of service, after which they separated to their homes, and the duties of the soldier were lost in those of the citizen.

On the evening of October 26, 1864, the La Crosse Battery returned to the city, whence it departed, after three years of active service in the Southwest, and were greeted with hearty welcomes from their fellow-citizens. Others from the regiments which had been recruited in La Crosse County returned at intervals during the fall, winter and spring following, and the reception extended was alike grateful and commendable.

Finally, the surrender of Lee and Johnston was a signal for the conclusion of hostilities and the disbandment of the armies.

Up to this period, however, recruiting officers sought for material in the city and county. The Provost Marshal and his subordinates enlisted those who were subject to military duty, and preparations for enforcing a draft were continued uninterruptedly. But upon the announcement of the truce at Appamattox, measures designed to add to the forces in Virginia and the Southwest were abandoned. Nearly four years of riot, rapine and bloodshed had been folded away, and lay moldering in the sepulcher of the past. Nearly four years dotted with events, the importance of which to the present and the future no pen can relate. The pilgrimage against anarchy had come to a halt, had achieved a victory. But its way was strewn with broken shrines, with hopes wasted into ashes, with green mounds over which the grass was fresh with the watering of tears, with shadows which could never be forgotten. But the end with its sunshine was nigh, and the nation had attained a position about which the storms of disunion would never rage, or the waves of internal discord beat.

So ended the grandest, most momentous and most destructive struggle in modern history. The country was again at peace, and the duties of its citizens to bind up the wounds and rebuild the sentiment of national unity which nearly four years of war had served to, in a measure, sweep away.

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Presently the soldiers came home, such as were spared-soldiers who had followed the cannons to the gates of hell, and the glittering, flashing saber to the jaws of death. They had naught to regret in the retrospect of the four years through which they served. They had fought with a foe whose illustrious devotion and splendid courage brightened defeat, and challenged comparison with the most superb achievements of history or inventions of romance. which the war accomplished they accepted as irreversible without casting lingering looks behind. All they asked was to be permitted to aid in burying the past, healing the wounds of strife, and not to be dishonored by a union in which that party was the least disgraced who would thereby be the most degraded. For them the word "desolation" was legibly written whithersoever they might turn. Their fields were dumb, the trees shadowed a home that was tenantless, and a rap at their doors returned hollow sounds like clods falling upon a coffin-lid. Though guilty of treason, perhaps, they were brothers, whose valor commands respect, whose motives

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command charity, and whose sin deserves sympathy. They were Americans, descendants of the band who bore the travail of a republic's birth, who educated its development, who provided for its support, and who created the constitution by which its prosperity was promoted.

The soldiers of both armies returned to their homes, and, having turned their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, began once more the building-up of that which had lapsed during their absence. The fields once more resounded with the music of the reaper's song, the shops with the noise of the forge. In the pulpit, at the bar, on the hustings and in the halls of learning were to be found once more those who had deserted these professional walks for the camp, the field, the hospital and immortality.

But there were many who came not back, they were left to sleep the sleep of sanctified rest beneath the cypress shade, amid clouds of fragrance in the land of cocoa and palm. They stopped to rest on the road of life, and wakened to reality in the better land, where sunny souls enjoy the fruition of Hope; where gems richer than the jeweled crown are a reward for the love that was manifested on earth; for the charity that was expressed on earth; for the cup of water which earned a beggar's grateful thanks. In the web of their lives, a bright and golden filling was woven; and when the delicate silver threads were snapped asunder it was the darkest hour before the dawning. Then came a time when the anxious hearts of those at home, erstwhile joyous, became as dead to all save memories, as prisoners chained in their dungeons. Then came the time in life's seasons, when the golden summer ceased, and the autumn robe of Grief was provided with naught but rosy Hope to cheer the mourners until another dawn, which came with fairer light, and showed that the whisperings of watchers were false, that there was no death to mourn.

And so it will ever be. There is nothing dead. Let the lambs of the fold" go with no tears at their departing-it is but going from home to home. Let them go at any time out into the gloom no human soul can penetrate, as went the dove from Ararat; a hand is ever open to take the wanderers in and shut them out from the darkness. Quell the sounds of mourning; let there be songs of gladness, not sighs of sorrow; flowers, not wreaths of mourning; smiles, not tears. They are gone before, not dead. The rest shall follow, as a part of that great chain which from the first man reaches to eternity. Look heavenward, hopefully, joyfully, for they are waiting at the gates of the Land Immortal for thy coming.

The following soldiers from Wisconsin and other States are believed to be residents of La Crosse County: W. A. Anderson, M. D.; W. Atkinson, Fred Alter, S. Anderson, G. Allen, Fred Artus, J. Allen, B. F. Bryant, E. E. Bently, N. Bradfield, W. Blackley, E. Barlow, G. W. Brice, C. Brice, W. Brice, D. Bigby, M. M. Buttles, J. A. Ballard, G. Boardman, W. Batchelder, W. D. Bell, P. Buswell, A. Bradfield, A. Brooks, J. Breneman, J. G. Brown, J. Brown, B. Brower, E. Chamberlain, F. A. Copeland, E. Cronan, J. B. Canterbury, P. N. Carson, S. Childers, A C. Carter, E. F. Crane, C. D. Clark, E. B. Clarke, J. J. Cleveland, M. H. Cram, F. D. Clover, D. C. Cameron, W. C. Casey, A. G. Collins, T. Carrelton, A. Carrold, E. F. Doane, H. C. Dennison, G. Dalton, G. M. Dansbury, William Dolan, J. Davidson, G. Dolphin. W. Dolphin, A. Dunham, B. E. Edwards, J. Evans, E. W. Ford, W. Farnum, R. Fahey, C. W. Farrand, D. Farrand, J. Fall, S. C. Fauver, August Franz, J. Foster, D. Fern, J. Flush, M. Garner, W. H. Gaspard, M. Gintzner, A. Gunn, E. Glenn, E. F. Gowdey, John Getts, S. Guerten, C. Gardner, S. C. Harrison, J. M. Holley, Frank Hatch, Ed. Howard, E. Halloren, M. F. Hubbard, J. Hafner, J. Hatzenbuhter, S. T. Harrison, C. Hewitt, W. E. Hewitt, J. C. Hewitt, William H. Harris, C. L. Hood, J. E. Harkness, M. Hargraves, G. Hill, J. W. Haskell, J. Harris, D. Harrison, L. Harrison, Ole Hendrickson, J. Ingman, C. Jenks, G. Koethe, O. F. Kilmer, I. Kirsh, A. J. Lamb, A. H. Lamb, T. A. Lewis, G. Langsdadt, E. Lockman, A. Lowery, P. Lehnen, D. Law, W. Lee, H. Lowell, E. D. Loomis, Phil Langdon, G. Lewis, S. Lambert, D. Marston, D. W. Marston, C. Miller, W. T. Morrison, E. Markle, J. Markle, S. H. Moody, M. T. Moore, C. T. Martin, A. McDonald, J. C. Moody, F. McAdams, P. McLaughlin, J. J. McDonald, J. F. McCoy, H. Milen, J. C. Morrison, A. G. Marsh, W. McConnell, J. McConnel, G. Myers, R. J. Nimmocks, N. C. Nelson, C. Ottilie, T. O'Brien, R. E.

Osborne, G. W. Orcutt. William O'Donald, G. Orthaus, M. J. Pitkin, C. H. Palmer, J. E. Parker, P. Plunges, F. I. Phelps, H. S. Phillips, A. C. Parker, W. P. Powers, W. R. Putnam, John Pfaff, A. Pruett, W. H. Place, John Pinkerton, Joseph Pinkerton, E. G. Perkins, H. Parks, J. Peck, E. C. Peck, J. Palten, G. Palten, L. Rossiter, William Rossiter, J. B. Rand, T. B. Rand, E. M. Rogers, T. F. Rodolf, H. S. Roberts, Thomas Rooney, H. F. Smiley, G. W. Scott, J. P. Scott, R. A. Scott, C. Smith, S. A. Smith, James Smith, J. C. Smith, M. Schenck, W. H. Sherwood, W. J. Scott, William Skeels, Henry Schroder, Clark Strout, G. Servis, H. V. Sacia, A. W. Sowle, O. S. Sission, E. Steward, C Shepard, J. Snodgrass, G. Strobridge, G. Slatcer, H. Schlong, J. Seeley, B. Swan, B. Shepard, William Taylor, D. R. Thompson, L. A. Towne, William Tucker, H. K. Vincent, A. Van Loon, H. C. Van Wie, G. M. Woodward, A. M. Watson, J. B. Webb, G. Wenzel, W. W. Weiman, C. Wolgeford, H. Wilsey, L. Wilson, E. F. Weeks, L. P. Wolcott, A. J. Winters, A. Warner, B. Webster, L Wable, Charles Williams, J. E. Wilson, T. Woodcock, and I. H. Yarrington.

TOWN OF BANGOR.

ROSTER OF VOLUNTEERS.

Second Infantry-Co. A—Godelph Wentzell.
Third Infantry-Co. unknown-Baxter Newton.
Ninth Infantry-Co unknown-John Spraker, John
Reed, John Oberlie, Conrad Myers.

Tenth Infantry-Co. unkown-(Brass Band) Frank
Baxter, James A. Harrington.

Fourteenth Infantry-Co. D-Robert I. Thomas, Alfred Lowell, Martin Lowell, Paul Davis. Co. unknown-Peleg Burdick, Peter Burns.

Fifteenth Infantry-Andrew Johnson.

Seventeenth Infantry-Co. unknown-David M. Will

iams.

Nineteenth Infantry-Co. unknown-Charles Smith, James McCormick, Peter Mangault, Peter Coltinger.

Thirtieth Infantry-Co. A-F. Jacobs. Co. unknownGeorge Corkins, Zrui Calabar, John Frouk, Frank Jacobs, Conrad Myers, James Wyant.

Third Cavalry-Co. unknown-Addison Robertson,
Nathaniel Page, John McCarty, Guy Brown.
First Battery-Chauncy Baxter.

TOWN OF BARRE.

Second Infantry-Co. B-J. Truax, William Terrill, Henry Agnew.

Eighth Infantry — Co. C—(Missouri Regulars)—Neils Erickson, Peter Fredrickson, Albert Knudson, Nels Olsen, Gilbert Olsen, Ole Olesen, Ole Peterson, Eric Torson, Nels Torson, Ole Thompson, Ole Torson. Co. D-Ole Erickson.

Fourteenth Infantry-Co. D-Samuel Guerton, S. D. Huestable. James Harris, Harvey Kimball, Sherman R. Kentner, William Place, Ezra Sherwin, Albert Sprague. Fifteenth Infantry-Co. B-Thomas Knudson, Jacob Jackson, Ole Christopherson.

Second Cavalry-Co. B-I. S. Blake, David Burton, George Coons, Samuel Cole, James Edgar, Julius Gorder, Walter Green, Walter Gillespie, James Gillespie, Jacob Hanson, Hans Hanson, Benedict Johnson, George Knudson, Amos Kentner, John McKade, John Milroy, Fritz Mertius, James McCavenaugh, John Smith, Hans Suchstoff, Abram Lowson, Ben Woodbridge. Co. D-E. Parmentier, O. Linsey, Samuel Gerton, I. Galligher, William Foster.

Unknown-Co. unknown-William Andrews, William Andrews, James Galligher, John Hickman, Mortimer

Howe, Albert Howe, James Miller, A. Mortibry, R
Powell, Edward Roberts, W. G. Service, Isaac Spurling,
Byron Dunham.

TOWN OF BURNS.

Third Infantry-Co. unknown-Baxter Newton.
Fourth Infantry-Co. G-George P. Bagley. Co. I—
James Smith, John Skinner, Lucien Bennett.
Eighth Infantry-Co. I-George Gernnon.
Fourteenth Infantry-Co. D—Byron Palmer.
Eighteenth Infantry-Co. D-Benjamin C. Cadwell,
George Hicks, Selodus Hill, John Lee, Ere P. Sweet,
James Sweet, Stephen Teiton.

Nineteenth Infantry-Co. C-James Commins.
Twentieth Infantry-Co. F-Horace R. Washburn.
Twenty-fifth Infantry-Co. A-Oliver Rathburn, David
H. Campbell. Co. unknown-Alexander Sutton.

Thirtieth Infantry-Co. unknown-Hiram Britten.
First Cavalry-Co, A-Marcus M. Buttles, William S.
Foster, Charles A. Huson, William A. Phillips. Co. F-
Samuel Hyde.

Second Cavalry - Co. B-James Arnott, David A. Noggle.

Third Cavalry-Co. A-Louis Harris, Charles A. Hatch, Frederic Hethman, James A. Mallony, Joseph P. Phillips, Nathaniel Robinson, Casper Stone, Melvin J. Whitney. First Battery-Philip Welsh, William Murphy.

TOWN OF CAMPBELL.

Second Infantry-Co. B-Melvin Bemis, Silas Costar, Jerry Moor, John Wells.

Eighth Infantry-Co. J-Frank Culver, John Furguson John Flinn, George Keys, James Lay, William Penfield, Samuel Sargent. Co. unknown-George Branch (Missouri.)

Ninth Infantry-Co. unknown-Ludwic Saltvell.

Fourteenth Infantry-Co. D-Alen Collins, Jas. Carlton, John Brady, Moses Frost, Steven Lambert, John Owens. Twentieth Infantry-Co. A-Robert Moor, William Morrison. Co. G-Frank Cole.

First Battery-E. P. Almer, George Clark, Edward Clark, Peter Durham, E. L. Hackett, Henry Hackett, John Marron, Henry Rafenburg, Charles Withee, Levi Withee, Myron Whitney, Allen Western.

Unknown-Co. unknown-Benjamin Branch, Edward Cantwell, George Glover, Charles Higins, John C. Morrison, Robert Morris, R. R. McGregor, S. M. Whitney