Title: Margaret MacDonald Colletion on the Grand Army of the Republic Wilson Colwell Post Number 38 of La Crosse, Wisconsin
Bulk Dates: 1890-1939
Inclusive Dates: 1865-1989

Creator:

• MacDonald, Margaret

Unique Identifier: MSS 033

Quantity: 1.8 cubic feet

Physical Description: 4 archives boxes, 1 card file box

Repository:

La Crosse Public Library
Contact Information

Archival Location:

La Crosse Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

Information gathered by Margaret ("Peggy") MacDonald primarily about members of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Wilson Colwell Post No. 38, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a few members belonging to the John Flynn Post No. 77 of the North Side of La Crosse.

Also some history of Civil War regiments having connections to La Crosse veterans.

The Colwell Post was formed in July 1882 and the last member died in Sept. 1939.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.lcpl-mss033

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(Accession No. 1997.005) donated by Margaret (Peggy) MacDonald via Ruth MacDonald, Oct. 1996.

Materials in this collection are available for patron use.

[Identification of item], Margaret MacDonald Colletion on the Grand Army of the Republic Wilson Colwell Post Number 38 of La Crosse, Wisconsin, MSS 033, La Crosse Public Library Archives, La Crosse, WI

Processed by Jaime Dechant, May 1997; register prepared by Anita Taylor Doering.

Margaret "Peggy" MacDonald recorded information about the GAR veterans on 3" x 5" note cards and also typed up sheets which she kept in binders. She labeled each binder as a volume and there were four volumes in total, plus four metal note card boxes.

The original order has been maintained, but the material has been photocopied onto acid neutral paper and organized into archival containers. The beginning folders include general information on regiments and the Wilson Colwell GAR post no. 38 (the project Ms. MacDonald undertook) followed by the biographical information which is arranged alphabetically.

The project that Ms. MacDonald envisioned was never fully completed, so the Archives made a second set of the materials in the hope that someone else would someday again take up the project. The Archives staff searched the veteran names and added obituaries where possible to enhance the collection for genealogical researchers.

The La Crosse Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post No. 38 was founded in on July 15, 1882, ("Greatest Memorial Day is Last to be Handled by Veterans of Grand Army after 40 Years Service," La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press , June 1, 1919, p. 2) and named after fallen commander Wilson Colwell. Colwell, a La Crosse Civil War captain, led Company B of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, also known as the Light Guards and later the Iron Brigade, from the organization of the group in 1861 until his death at the Battle of South Mountain, Virginia, in September of 1862.

The GAR met in a room in the La Crosse County Courthouse until the last member, John Hart, died on September 10, 1939. The GAR organized the annual Memorial Day parade and activities until 1919, and participated until the very end. To be eligible to join, prospective members had to have served for the Union in the Civil War but did not have to serve solely for a Wisconsin regiment. Many members served in the regiments of other states, such as New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.

La Crosse's role in the Civil War is well documented in published sources, but the GAR's activities are not. Ms. MacDonald included excerpts in her notes from the GAR post minute book, but the whereabouts of this volume (volumes?) are unknown.

• Grand Army of the Republic. Wilson Colwell Post No. 38 (La Crosse, Wis.).
• La Crosse (Wis.)--Biography
• Veterans--Wisconsin--La Crosse--Societies, etc.
• Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Box 1   Folder 1	Transcription of Personal War Sketches of the Members of Wilson Colwell Post No. 38 of La Crosse (transcribed by Vicki Bott), March 1989
Box 1   Folder 2-4	Supplement to Personal War Sketches / compiled by Margaret ("Peggy") MacDonald, 1979 Scope and Contents Includes: introduction; Lists/Indexes; List of Civil War veterans buried in La Crosse County; Regiments/rosters and regimental histories; Sources of further information; Last days of the Wilson Colwell Post; Project overview
	Biographies of Wilson Colwell Post #38 members
Box 1   Folder 5	Aiken, David L.
Box 1   Folder 5	Aiken, Frank
Box 1   Folder 5	Alden, Charles J.
Box 1   Folder 5	Alexander, Samuel E. (A.S.)
Box 1   Folder 5	Allen, Thomas
Box 1   Folder 5	Allison, John W.
Box 1   Folder 5	Anders, Ignatius
Box 1   Folder 5	Anderson, Wendell A., M.D.
Box 1   Folder 5	Angevine (Angeville?), James
Box 1   Folder 5	Arnold, Alexander A. (A. A.)
Box 1   Folder 5	Arnold, William
Box 1   Folder 5	Atkinson, George
Box 1   Folder 5	Atkinson, Millard
Box 1   Folder 5	Aylmer, Edw. P.
Box 1   Folder 5	Atwater, James
Box 1   Folder 5	Austin, Perry A.
Box 1   Folder 6	Babatz, William Felix
Box 1   Folder 6	Babcock, Godfrey S.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bailey, George H. (Hiram George)
Box 1   Folder 6	Barlow, Eliakilm
Box 1   Folder 6	Barnes, Robert
Box 1   Folder 6	Baty, John C.
Box 1   Folder 6	Beck, August A.
Box 1   Folder 6	Beckwith, Henry J.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bell, Walter D.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bentley, Charles S.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bentley, Edwin E. (E. E.)
Box 1   Folder 6	Benzie, Alex R.
Box 1   Folder 6	Biesecker, Rueben B.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bigley, John Ambrose
Box 1   Folder 6	Bird Brothers
Box 1   Folder 6	Blankley, John
Box 1   Folder 6	Bleekman, Adelbert E. (A. E.), Sr.
Box 1   Folder 6	Blyton, William H.
Box 1   Folder 6	Brown, John
Box 1   Folder 6	Brown, Edward (Rev.)
Box 1   Folder 6	Brown, William C.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bresee, Harmon Benjamin
Box 1   Folder 6	Bridgeman, E. P.
Box 1   Folder 6	Brice, Alexander
Box 1   Folder 6	Brizzee, William A., Jr.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bryan, Isaac R.
Box 1   Folder 6	Bryant, Benjamin French (B. F.)
Box 1   Folder 6	Bunnell, LaFayette H.
Box 1   Folder 6	Burdett, Frank D.
Box 1   Folder 6	Burgermeister, Joseph
Box 1   Folder 6	Burns, Robert W.
Box 1   Folder 6	Busbee, C. C.
Box 1   Folder 6	Buttles, Mark M.
Box 1   Folder 7	Cameron, Alexander
Box 1   Folder 7	Cameron, Don Carles
Box 1   Folder 7	Cameron, Dugald Dudley, M. D.
Box 1   Folder 7	Canterbury, J. B. (James)
Box 1   Folder 7	Carter, Amos Claude
Box 1   Folder 7	Carter, LeGrande
Box 1   Folder 7	Chatfield, Charles A.
Box 1   Folder 7	Clark, Sylvester
Box 1   Folder 7	Cleveland, J. J.
Box 1   Folder 7	Collins, Mathiah
Box 1   Folder 7	Colwell, Wilson
Box 1   Folder 7	Comeau, Theodore
Box 1   Folder 7	Cook(e), Chauncey, H.
Box 1   Folder 7	Cooley, Herbert
Box 1   Folder 7	Copeland, B. F.
Box 1   Folder 7	Copeland, Frederick Allen (F. A.)
Box 1   Folder 7	Cornell, Andrew
Box 1   Folder 7	Cox, Edward
Box 1   Folder 7	Cox, Lemuel B.
Box 1   Folder 7	Cronon, David
Box 1   Folder 7	Cronon, Edward
Box 1   Folder 7	Cushing Brothers
Box 1   Folder 7	Cutler, George W.
Box 1   Folder 8	Dailey, Dennis
Box 1   Folder 8	Dalton, John W.
Box 1   Folder 8	Dalton, George H.
Box 1   Folder 8	Dalton, Thomas E.
Box 1   Folder 8	Darling, William A. (W. A. Brizzee)
Box 1   Folder 8	Davidson, James
Box 1   Folder 8	Davidson, William J.
Box 1   Folder 8	Davis, David C.
Box 1   Folder 8	Davis, John R.
Box 1   Folder 8	Davis, John Warren
Box 1   Folder 8	Dayton, Almon
Box 1   Folder 8	Delameter, Adelbert B.
Box 1   Folder 8	Deniston, Hardy
Box 1   Folder 8	Desmond, John
Box 1   Folder 8	Doerre, Frank
Box 1   Folder 8	Dunn, Bernard
Box 1   Folder 9	Edmonds, Sarah Emma
Box 1   Folder 9	Edwards, Benjamin Eugene (B. E.)
Box 1   Folder 9	Edwards, Henry E.
Box 1   Folder 9	Emily, Anthony
Box 1   Folder 9	Emily, W. H. (William)
Box 1   Folder 9	Emily, Webster L.
Box 1   Folder 9	Estover, George W.
Box 1   Folder 9	Eveland, Abram C.
Box 1   Folder 10	Fahey, Richard
Box 1   Folder 10	Fairchild, Lucius
Box 1   Folder 10	Flynn, John [North Side Post namesake]
Box 1   Folder 10	Forbes, John
Box 1   Folder 10	Forbes, Herrick Alexander
Box 1   Folder 10	Foster, J. T. (Jacob)
Box 1   Folder 10	Fox, John A.
Box 1   Folder 10	Franz, August
Box 1   Folder 10	Fritz, Charles August
Box 1   Folder 10	Fry, John
Box 1   Folder 11	Gale, Joseph
Box 1   Folder 11	Garland, Richard H.
Box 1   Folder 11	Gardner, Myron
Box 1   Folder 11	Gautsch (Gausch), John
Box 1   Folder 11	Gibbon, John
Box 1   Folder 11	Gibson, William J.
Box 1   Folder 11	Gilbertson, Gilbert
Box 1   Folder 11	Gleason, Henry
Box 1   Folder 11	Gordon, William Wallace
Box 1   Folder 11	Green, Asa
Box 1   Folder 11	Greineisen, Peter
Box 1   Folder 11	Grover, William
Box 1   Folder 11	Gunn, Abraham
Box 1   Folder 12	Hackett, Ephram L.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hardy, Albert
Box 1   Folder 12	Harries, W. H.
Box 1   Folder 12	Harrington, Joseph
Box 1   Folder 12	Hart, Alvah
Box 1   Folder 12	Hart, John W.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hartwell, Frank R.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hauser, Theodore
Box 1   Folder 12	Haydon (Heydon), E. W.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hayes, Samuel
Box 1   Folder 12	Heald, Abner O.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hebberd, Stephen Southwick
Box 1   Folder 12	Heineck, Squaring/Squire
Box 1   Folder 12	Heymann, William
Box 1   Folder 12	Hirshheimer, Julius
Box 1   Folder 12	Hirshheimer, Henry
Box 1   Folder 12	Hockabout, William
Box 1   Folder 12	Holden, Isaac
Box 1   Folder 12	Holley, John Milton, Sr.
Box 1   Folder 12	Holmes, William S.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hood, Clark L.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hough, Henry P. (P. H.)
Box 1   Folder 12	Howard, Alonzo F.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hoynes, William J.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hughes, Robert
Box 1   Folder 12	Hunt, Clinton W.
Box 1   Folder 12	Hunt, Ezra
Box 1   Folder 12	Hyde, Warren
Box 1   Folder 13	Iverson, Ole
Box 1   Folder 14	Johnson, William
Box 1   Folder 14	Jungen, Carl William
Box 1   Folder 15	Kable, Ernest
Box 1   Folder 15	Kane (Kine?), James
Box 1   Folder 15	Kellogg, John
Box 1   Folder 15	Kempter, Richard R.
Box 1   Folder 15	Kennet, William Lush
Box 1   Folder 15	Kimball, Charles B.
Box 1   Folder 15	King, Levi Marble
Box 1   Folder 15	Kingsley, George Lyman
Box 1   Folder 15	Koblitz, Albert
Box 1   Folder 15	Kollock, Wellington
Box 1   Folder 15	Kuehn, Albert F.
Box 1   Folder 16	Langstadt, Gottfried
Box 1   Folder 16	Lasure, John B.
Box 1   Folder 16	Lawrence, John
Box 1   Folder 16	Lawrence, Tennis O.
Box 1   Folder 16	Lee, William
Box 1   Folder 16	Lightbody, James H. (J. H.)
Box 1   Folder 16	Lockman, Ezra M.
Box 1   Folder 16	Lord, David (see: Petty, David Lord)
Box 1   Folder 17	McCann, John W.
Box 1   Folder 17	McCauley, Thomas
Box 1   Folder 17	McClanathan, John P.
Box 1   Folder 17	McEwan Brothers
Box 1   Folder 17	MacLaren, John
Box 1   Folder 17	Maguire (McGuire), Arthur
Box 1   Folder 17	Mahoney, John
Box 1   Folder 17	Mairich, Wenzil
Box 1   Folder 17	Malbon, James A.
Box 1   Folder 17	Mansfield, John
Box 1   Folder 17	Markle, Jacob
Box 1   Folder 17	Markle, Samuel
Box 1   Folder 17	Marshall, James W.
Box 1   Folder 17	Martin, Christopher D.
Box 1   Folder 17	Meier, Michael
Box 1   Folder 17	Merrick, George Byron
Box 1   Folder 17	Miller, William F.
Box 1   Folder 17	Moody, James C.
Box 1   Folder 17	Moody, Samuel H.
Box 1   Folder 17	Moore, Martin Thomas
Box 1   Folder 17	Moore, Jerry
Box 1   Folder 17	Morrison, George
Box 1   Folder 17	Morrison, Hiram J.
Box 1   Folder 17	Mowers, Ezra L.
Box 1   Folder 17	Mueller, Charles M.
Box 1   Folder 17	Mulder, Henry
Box 2   Folder 1	Nelson, L. M.
Box 2   Folder 1	Newton, A. B. , M. D.
Box 2   Folder 1	Noble, Addison Rudolph
Box 2   Folder 1	Nutting, Oscar F.
Box 2   Folder 2	Olenbough, Charles
Box 2   Folder 2	Olin, Carlton (Stephen Cobra)
Box 2   Folder 2	Olson, Andrew W.
Box 2   Folder 2	Orcutt, George Washington
Box 2   Folder 2	Osborne, Rockwell E.
Box 2   Folder 2	Ottilie, Charles, M. D.
Box 2   Folder 2	Otis, George H.
Box 2   Folder 2	Outmans, James C.
Box 2   Folder 2	Owen, John
Box 2   Folder 3	Parker, Jerome E.
Box 2   Folder 3	Parmalee, Joseph E.
Box 2   Folder 3	Peck, George W.
Box 2   Folder 3	Pederson, John A.
Box 2   Folder 3	Perkins, Eugene Gillet
Box 2   Folder 3	Peters, David
Box 2   Folder 3	Pettibone, August H.
Box 2   Folder 3	Petty, David Lord
Box 2   Folder 3	Phelps, Dudley G.
Box 2   Folder 3	Philips, Dwight (George B.)
Box 2   Folder 3	Philips, Jason F.
Box 2   Folder 3	Pitkin, Milo
Box 2   Folder 3	Plummer, Philip W.
Box 2   Folder 3	Polleys, J. W.
Box 2   Folder 3	Polleys, Thomas
Box 2   Folder 3	Porter, Edgar A.
Box 2   Folder 3	Powers, Edgar A.
Box 2   Folder 3	Purdy, George (Tim Brady)
Box 2   Folder 3	Putnam, C. H.
Box 2   Folder 3	Putnam, W. R.
Box 2   Folder 4	Rask, Christian (Peter)
Box 2   Folder 4	Recob, William
Box 2   Folder 4	Replogle, Daniel O.
Box 2   Folder 4	Ricker, Henry F.
Box 2   Folder 4	Rooney, Thomas H.
Box 2   Folder 4	Rossiter, L.
Box 2   Folder 4	Rossiter, William
Box 2   Folder 4	Rusk, Jeremiah McLain
Box 2   Folder 4	Russell, John F.
Box 2   Folder 5	Sacia, Marion
Box 2   Folder 5	Sagear, William
Box 2   Folder 5	Sanborn, Charles P.
Box 2   Folder 5	Sasil, Harmon
Box 2   Folder 5	Sauer, Jacob
Box 2   Folder 5	Schaller, Frank
Box 2   Folder 5	Scott, George W.
Box 2   Folder 5	Scott, Robert A.
Box 2   Folder 5	Schultz, Charles
Box 2   Folder 5	Scoville, Eugene
Box 2   Folder 5	Selby, William Milton
Box 2   Folder 5	Short, Allan M.
Box 2   Folder 5	Short, George L.
Box 2   Folder 5	Sickles, Henry
Box 2   Folder 5	Sisson Brothers
Box 2   Folder 5	Sly, Benjamin
Box 2   Folder 5	Snow, Edwin
Box 2   Folder 5	Snow, John W.
Box 2   Folder 5	Smith, Wallace
Box 2   Folder 5	Spicer, Asher
Box 2   Folder 5	Stanford Brothers
Box 2   Folder 5	Stephenson, Joseph
Box 2   Folder 5	Stevens, A. O.
Box 2   Folder 5	Stewart, Edwin E.
Box 2   Folder 5	Stordahl, Nels P.
Box 2   Folder 5	Sturdivant, L. M.
Box 2   Folder 5	Suiter (Sutor?), Walter F., M.D.
Box 2   Folder 5	Sultana steamer, 1865
Box 2   Folder 5	Sweet, Lafayette
Box 2   Folder 5	Sweet, William A.
Box 2   Folder 5	Symes, George G.
Box 2   Folder 6	Tancre, Louis
Box 2   Folder 6	Tenney, Edwin A.
Box 2   Folder 6	Thiel, John
Box 2   Folder 6	Tilton, William H.
Box 2   Folder 6	Tippetts, William
Box 2   Folder 6	Tuechek, Joseph, Sr.
Box 2   Folder 6	Tuechek (Tuchek), Wenzel
Box 2   Folder 7	Van Kirk, Jerry
Box 2   Folder 7	Van Loon, Albertus A.
Box 2   Folder 7	Van Loon, Ryndert
Box 2   Folder 7	Van Wie, H. C.
Box 2   Folder 7	Vincent, Henry K.
Box 2   Folder 7	Vought, Thomas L.
Box 2   Folder 8	Waller, Phineas B.
Box 2   Folder 8	Washburn, C. C.
Box 2   Folder 8	Watts, William
Box 2   Folder 8	Webster, Daniel (of La Crosse)
Box 2   Folder 8	Webster, Daniel (of Prairie du Chien)
Box 2   Folder 8	Welch, Freeborn N.
Box 2   Folder 8	Westerhouse, Henry
Box 2   Folder 8	Wilcox, Lansing
Box 2   Folder 8	Wilhelm, John
Box 2   Folder 8	Wilson, John E.
Box 2   Folder 8	Winters, Adoniram Judson
Box 2   Folder 8	Withee, Charles
Box 2   Folder 8	Withee, Levi
Box 2   Folder 8	Withee, Zachariah
Box 2   Folder 8	Woessner, Andrew (including information on Spanish-American War)
Box 2   Folder 8	Wood, James D.
Box 2   Folder 8	Woodward, Gilbert Motier
Box 2   Folder 8	Woodward, James
Box 2   Folder 8	Wright, George W.
Box 2   Folder 8	Woolson, Albert
Box 2   Folder 9	Young, Eliot
Box 2   Folder 9	Young, James W.