Title: E.B. Quiner: Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1863

Creator:

• Quiner, E.B. (Edwin Bentley), d. 1868

Call Number: Mss 600; Micro 933

Quantity: Originals: 3.0 c.f. (18 volumes) and Copies: 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Contains 10 scrapbooks and 8 index volumes to scrapbooks of clippings of letters from Wisconsin Civil War soldiers published in various newspapers, collected by Civil War historian Edwin B. Quiner.

Language: English

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Edwin B. Quiner, newspaperman and author, was born in April 1816 at New Haven, Connecticut. He learned the printer's trade in the East, became a journeyman printer, and in 1839 moved to Wisconsin, where he worked for a time in the office of the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1850 he moved to Watertown and purchased the Rock River Jeffersonian, which he edited as the Watertown Democratic State Register (1850-1853). Originally a Democrat, Quiner became dissatisfied with the scandal charges growing out of the administration of Governor William A. Barstow, and in 1853 made his Watertown newspaper independent in politics. From 1853 until the paper's suspension in November 1864, it was published by Quiner as the Watertown Weekly Register. He later published several short-lived campaign newspapers supporting the Republican Party, and was unsuccessful in two attempts to establish a temperance newspaper (1854, 1861). In 1858 Quiner moved to Madison, where he served as a claims agent during the Civil War. He was the author of A Military History of Wisconsin (1866), a volume relating the history and organization of Wisconsin regiments during the Civil War. In 1867 he moved to Baraboo, where he died on February 28, 1868. (Taken from the Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960, p. 295.)

The Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 1861-1865, are newspaper clippings concerning the activities of Wisconsin regiments during the Civil War, which Quiner collected and bound into 10 scrapbooks. Originally the correspondence was addressed to a particular newspaper or to family and friends from men on the fields of battle. Arranged by regiments, the scrapbooks provide insight into the spirit as well as the struggles of the combatants. Each of the 10 scrapbook volumes (except for volume 1) has a separate alphabetical index volume providing access in the appropriate scrapbook to the participants mentioned.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library, October 9, 1980. Accession Number: M80-485

Processing Information

Processed by Joanne Hohler and Vivian Laflamme, December 10, 1982.

Micro 933/Mss 600 Reel   1 Volume   1	1st-7th Infantry, 1861 Note: No index volume.
Reel   1 Volume   2 index	Index to Volume 2
Reel   1 Volume   2	7th-12th Infantry, 1861
Reel   1 Volume   2	Co. G, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters (Berdan's), 1861
Reel   1 Volume   2	1st-3rd Cavalry, 1861
Reel   1 Volume   2	1st-2nd Infantry, 1862
Reel   1 Volume   3 index	Index to Volume 3
Reel   1 Volume   3	3rd-7th Infantry, 1862
Reel   1 Volume   4 index	Index to Volume 4
Reel   1 Volume   4	1st, 7th-11th Infantry, 1862
Reel   2 Volume   5 index	Index to Volume 5
Reel   2 Volume   5	11th-16th Infantry, 1862
Reel   2 Volume   6 index	Index to Volume 6
Reel   2 Volume   6	4th, 16th-29th Infantry, 2nd Cavalry, 1862
Reel   2 Volume   7-8 index	Index to Volumes 7 and 8
Reel   2 Volume   7	30th-33rd Infantry, 1862
Reel   2 Volume   7	Co. G, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters (Berdan's), 1862
Reel   2 Volume   7	1st-3rd Cavalry, 1862
Reel   2 Volume   7	1st-7th Batteries Light Artillery, 1862
Reel   3 Volume   8	7th-12th Batteries Light Artillery, 1862
Reel   3 Volume   8	1st Heavy Artillery, 1862
Reel   3 Volume   8	1st, 3rd-6th, 8th-9th, 14th, 16th-18th, 20th-21st Infantry, 1862
Reel   3 Volume   8	1st-9th Infantry, 1863
Reel   3 Volume   9 index	Index to Volume 9
Reel   3 Volume   9	8th-20th Infantry, 1863
Reel   3 Volume   9	1st Cavalry, 1863
Reel   3 Volume   10 index	Index to Volume 10
Reel   3 Volume   10	1st Heavy Artillery, 1863
Reel   3 Volume   10	1st-4th Cavalry, 1863
Reel   3 Volume   10	2nd-10th, 12th-13th, 15th-16th, 18th-31st Infantry, 1863