Title: Frederick C. Winkler Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1919

Creator:

• Winkler, Frederick C., 1838-1921

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss W

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Scattered correspondence and documents of Winkler, a Milwaukee lawyer, politician, and soldier. Included is an unfinished letter (July 28, 1864) that Winkler apparently wrote to another officer describing the Battle of Peach Tree Creek; a manuscript describing fellow officer and friend Frank Haskell; two letters (1892) from William F. Vilas and John C. Spooner discussing politics and appointments; and a letter (May 8, 1916) from Woodrow Wilson with the president's appreciation for a telegram from Winkler.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil0000w

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Frederick Charles Winkler, lawyer, soldier, and politician, was born in Breman, Germany, in 1838, and emigrated with his parents to settle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1844. He was educated in the public schools and the German-English Academy, was tutored by Peter Engelmann, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.

Frederick Winkler was commissioned Captain in Company B, Twenty-sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, on September 3, 1862. During the Civil War he rose in rank until he was finally brevetted a brigadier general. He served as judge advocate at the 11th Army Headquarters, 1862-1863; participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta; and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. After he was mustered out in 1865 he resumed the practice of law in Milwaukee.

As a Republican, General Winkler took an active interest in politics and in civil service reform. He served in the state assembly in 1872 and later made an unsuccessful bid to become a candidate for Congress. He died in Los Angeles in 1921.

Acquisition Information

Presented by William K. Winkler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1954.

Box   1 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1864-1919, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Reminiscences of Frank Haskell, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Will, 1864
Box   1 Folder   2	Speeches, 1901-1902, 1915
Box   1 Folder   2	Appointment to Commission on Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1910
Box   1 Folder   2	Nomination Petitions to Congress, undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Army Documents, 1863-1865, undated