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8. Frank Shoemaker
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(8) Frank Shoemaker was a logger & Scaler in Merill and Fremont, WI. He was a foreman, but he used to sneak ballots to the workers -- something the company tried to keep them from getting, since the workers supported Bob LaFollette, who supported Workmen's Compensation insurance. He used to doctor the men when they logged in the forest throughout the winter (In the Spring, they would float the logs down the river to the mill), and he learned quite a bit about herbal medicine. He injured his arm on the job, trying to control a team of horses. It got infected and he became lame, so he lost his job without compensation.
(8) Frank and the family then moved to Cudahy, WI, where he worked for a rubber company. The workers were getting sick, and Frank figured out that the cause was the vulcanizing agent the company used. The workers sued the company, which then closed down, so Frank lost his job. Years later, Frank's daughter, (9iv) Hazel, chanced upon a lawyer who had worked for the company, who didn't know Hazel was Frank's daughter. The lawyer was talking about the case, saying they never could figure out how the men found out what was poisoning them (but Hazel knew). After her mother was widowed, (9) Emma Duncan and her two sisters went to live in Nebraska with their Methodist preacher uncle (38[1]e) Ed (Wells), because of the many young men who came to work the family cranberry farm in Wisconsin. After returning to Wisconsin and moving to Merrill, Emma ran a Christian boarding house for young women in Merill, WI. She had blue eyes and high cheekbones.
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17. Adaline Hover
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(17) Adaline Hover, coming from a family of poor farmers, was a housegirl in the Shoemaker household. She and (16) Jonathan are said to have eloped and moved out west to Wisconsin, which had just become a state. After the Civil War, they moved to Colorado Territory by wagon train, fighting Indians along the way. Jonathan was studying for his bar exams, hoping to become a lawyer. To earn a living in Colorado, he taught grown men how to read and write. According to family tradition, "You had to whoop 'em to teach 'em," and "They didn't fight by the Queensbury rules -- they would bite and kick and use knives." Adaline and her neighbor, Mrs. Wheeler, decided that this was no place to raise children, and they gave their husbands an ultimatum: they were going back to Wisconsin, "with or without their men."
The men went with them, and (16) Jonathan settled down and became a grocer. I don't know whether the women found a "good place to raise children", though. Northern Wisconsin, at that time, was a rough-and-tumble timber area. There was a saying that the three roughest places on earth were "Hurley (WI), Hayward (WI) and Hell -- in that order." (17) Adaline had blue eyes. The family tradition is that she was a Quaker, but the relative who said that, may have had her confused with the (16) Jonathan's gravestone says he served in Co. B, 37th Regt., WI Volunteers This regiment, raised in 1864, took part in the seiges of Petersburg & Richmond, VA. They marched in the Grand Review in Washington, DC at the end of hostilities. During the seige of Petersburg, The 37th behaved with great gallantry, and General Grant issued a complimentary order, praising the division for their endurance and success. Arriving around Petersburg after a 22 mile march, the unit encountered incredible casualties in several charges. Co. A suffered many killed, and Co. I was virtually decimated in the battle. The 1900 Census says Jonathan ("John" in the census) served in Co. D, NY Volunteers. This may indicate service earlier in the war.
cf. http://www.twsgraphics.com/genealogy/WIS37thInf.htm
The first settlement in Waupaca county, of which Waupaca is the county seat and chief city, was made in 1848, while Wisconsin was yet a territory, and nine years before the region embracing the county was ceded to the state by the Menominee Indians. Alpheus Hicks is credited with being the first pioneer, having located at Fremont in 1843, and being, it is stated, the only permanent settler until 1848.
-- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Ras0q0eIUzkJ:www.mainstreet-marketplace.com/pages1/Books/illustrated%2520waupaca%25201888.htm+alpheus+hicks&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
The above may have been the husband of Elizabeth Viele, the mother of (17iii[2]) Alpheus Hicks Jr..
Doyle Springer lived in Weyauwega, Waupaca, WI in 1880, with his mother Nora. He was b. WI, she NY.
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Co. B, 37th Wis. Volunteer Infantry
"MUSTER ROLL OF "B" COMPANY. "Raised in Oshkosh and Janesville by R. C. EDEX and WM. H. EARL. Mustered into U. S. service at Madison, Wis., by Cant. T. T BRAND, U. S. A., April 13, 1864... "Private?... 1864. "...Shilston, Samuel, wounded in actions June 17th and Aug. 20th, 64.
-- "The sword and gun, a history of the 37th Wis. volunteer infantry. From its first organization to its final muster out" c/o http://www.archive.org/stream/swordandgunrobe00edenrich/swordandgunrobe00edenrich_djvu.txt "37th Regiment Infantry "Organized at Madison, Wis., April 9, 1864. Left State for Washington, D.C., April 28 (Cos. "A" to "F"). Two more Companies, "H" and "I," loin at Maryland Heights May 17. Duty at Washington, D.C., until May 30. Moved to White House, Va, May 30-June 1, and guard duty there until June 10. Guard supply train to Cold Harbor June 10. Attached to Casey's Brigade, 22nd Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1864, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to July, 1865. "SERVICE.--Movement across James River to Petersburg, Va., June 12-15. Assaults on Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864. Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Fort Stedman, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Occupation of Petersburg April 3. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 21-24. Grand Review May 23. Provost duty at Washington and Alexandria until July. Mustered out July 26, 1865. "Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 149 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 89 Enlisted men by disease. Total 247." - - http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf3.htm#37thinf "The six companies went into camp on Arlington Heights, in the neighborhood of the Long Bridge. Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle joined regiment at Chicago, and took command. On the 17th, Companies H and I joined the regiment, here they were engaged in drilling. On the 30th, they embarked at Alexandria, and proceeded by way of fortress Monroe and York River to White House, Virginia, [located on State Hwy 301] which was at that time the base of supplies for the Army of the Potomac, on the 2d of June. Here they remained, guarding prisoners and picketing the line of the Richmond Railroad, until the 10th of June, when they marched as guard to a supply train, under the charge of Captain Samuels, of the 5th Wisconsin, reached Cold Harbor on the 11th, and were assigned to the First Brigade, General Hartrufth. Third division, Brigade General Wilcox, Ninth Army Corps, General Burnside. On the 12th, they took position in the first line of works, from the whence, on the evening of that day, they took part in the general movement of Grant's army across the James River, to Petersburg, before which place they arrived on the afternoon of the 16th. They were immediately ordered to move to the support of a charge of the Fourth Division against the enemy's works, which were taken, and the Thirty-seventh occupied them during the night. On the next day, the brigade formed in line of battle in a ravine, preparatory to another charge on the works of the enemy. These were situated in the middle of a cornfield, on the crest of a slight elevation. The position was a strong one, with rifle pits and batteries to the right and left, which could pour in an enfilading fire. In the afternoon, the order was given to charge, and the brigade rushed forward, under a perfect storm of shot, shell and canister. when about halfway across the intervening space, and were was given by some one to "half-wheel to the right," which produced confusion in the movements of the brigade, and exposed the left to an enfilading fire from the batteries, which made terrible havoc in the ranks of the Thirty-seventh. The brigade fell back, and the regiment returned to the ravine, where they remained till towards night, when they went to the support of the Second Division, and completed and strengthened a line of breastworks on the edge of the ravine, where they rested until morning. Early next morning, line of battle was formed, and the brigade advanced over the scene of yesterday's battle. "The rebel rifle pits were found vacated, and the command advanced beyond them and through a piece of woods, the edge of an oat field. Here they threw up a light line of breastworks, and awaited the arrival of additional forces. An order was given to move forward, and the command, under a sharp fire of cannon and musketry, pressed on across the field, towards a line of works, about half a mile in advance. The line moved forward as steadily as the uneven ground would permit, and the enemy's skirmishers fell back to their main lines. They soon came to a deep cut of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, and there were met by a terrible fire, which swept the top of the cut. An attempt to charge up the opposite side was met by the same sweeping fire, and soon the rebel sharpshooters obtained a position on the right, where they could fire along the whole length of the cut. Under cover of an artillery fire, two charges beyond the railroad cut were attempted in the afternoon, but the men were obliged to return to the cut, where they remained until nearly night, when they were relieved by fresh troops, and the brigade returned to the works in the rear. "In these engagements, of June 17th and 18th, the Thirty-seventh suffered severely. Major Kershaw was shot through both legs, Captain Stevens, of Company A, and Lieutenant W. H. Earl, of Company B, were mortally wounded, and Second Lieutenant Freeman B. Riddle of Company C, was killed. "The Thirty-Seventh behaved with great gallantry, and General Grant issued a complimentary order, praising the division for their endurance and success, after a march of twenty-two miles on the night of the 16th. The casualties show the manner in which the Thirty-seventh stood up under a heavy fire, at the first battle in which they were engaged. Killed or died of wounds, 65; wounded, 93. "Lieutenant Prutsman, of Company D, was shot through the head, on the 28th of June, while the regiment was on picket. "On the 22d of June, the regiment returned to its old position near the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, where it remained under heavy fire of artillery and sharpshooters. The duty in the trenches tried the physical powers of the men, and many of them were sent to the hospitals. Company G joined the regiment at this time. Enjoying a week's respite from duty in the trenches, on the 17th, the regiment returned again to the front line of rifle pits, where they remained until the 30th of July. On the 23d, Company K joined the regiment making its organization complete and Colonel Harriman assumed command. "The explosion of the mine under the enemy's fort on the 30th of July, 1864, and the disastrous defeat of the whole scheme, has become a matter of history. Its results live in the memory of those who were present at the grand display of warlike operations, and in the hearts of those who mourn fathers, brothers and sons, who fell in the desperate charge. The Third Division was a portion of the Ninth Corps, to make the charge on that fatal morning. Accompanying the movement, the Thirty-seventh, led by Colonel Harriman, as soon as possible after the explosion, and under a severe fire from the surrounding batteries, occupied the ruined fort, which had been so leveled as to afford but little protection to the troops therein. The affair has been before described. Colonel Harriman and Adjutant Miltimore assisted in disinterring two of the enemy's guns, which were used in silencing a rebel fort in the vicinity. The Third Division repelled all attempts of the enemy to dislodge them, until about four o'clock in the afternoon, when, finding no chance of receiving support, they fell back to the line they had left in the morning. Out of 250 men who went out in the morning, but ninety-five answered at roll call that evening. "Captain A.A. Burnett, of Company K, and Captain Frank A. Cole, were both mortally wounded. Lieutenants Atwell, Company G, L.U. Beall, Company E and George D. McDill, received wounds which incapacitated them from further service, Lieutenant Atwell having his leg amputated. Lieutenants Munger, of Company D, and Holmes, of Company G, were taken prisoners. "The casualities were 57 killed or died of wounds and 53 wounded." -- http://www.twsgraphics.com/genealogy/WIS37thInf.htm "The Battle of the Crater was a battle of the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. It took place on July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade (under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant). "After weeks of preparation, on July 30 the Federals exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg, Virginia. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. Grant considered the assault "the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war." The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Brig. Gen. William Mahone. The breach was sealed off, and the Federals were repulsed with severe casualties. Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's division of black soldiers was badly mauled. This may have been Grant's best chance to end the Siege of Petersburg. Instead, the soldiers settled in for another eight months of trench warfare. Burnside was relieved of command for the last time for his role in the debacle, and he was never again returned to command.[1]" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater |
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18. Henry Alfred Duncan
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Henry's mother had died when he was a young boy, and he and Eugene had been given to different families to be raised, so their father could go up north to get work. They were reunited as teenagers, a little while before enlisting together. Their father had remarried by then to a widow with daughters, and Eugene later married his step-sister. Henry lived in Parfryville, Waupaca Co., WI; California; Pine River, Waushara Co., WI and Grand Rapids. He was 5' 10-1/4" tall, dark complexion, dark eyes.
In ABT 1847 (36) Silas Duncan and his family removed to Milford, Jefferson, WI. After his wife died, he lived there until about 1851, when he left his three sons with friends and moved north to Parfreyville (Crystal Lake), Waupaca, WI. He was there in 1860, when his son (37iv) James "Eugene" Duncan, looked him up. Silas' second wife, Elizabeth Mills, apparently died the following winter. Elizabeth was b. in MA, according to the 1860 Census. Ruth M. Sherman, b. 1818/19 MA, was also a member of the household in 1860, and a John Forbes b. 1851/52 was living with the Duncans in 1870. Silas married the third time the following Spring, shortly before two of his sons enlisted and fought at Shiloh.
Around 1870, (36) Silas and his third wife, (36[2]) Anna travelled to North Dakota with (37iv) Eugene's family and members of the Nelson, Forbes and Clarke families. They lived there for several years before returning to Wisconsin. While there, Eugene's wife, (37iv[1]) Emily wrote to (37iii) Charles & Lydia Duncan, who were then living in Wood Co., WI:
"Dear Brother and Sister: I should have written before but we have had so much trouble. Rhoda is dead, poor girl. She suffered every thing. She was very patient... Oh Lydia, I hope you will never see the trouble we have seen in Dakota. When Mother ([36{2}] Anna) and (36) Silas came here there wasn't a person for miles. We came next and then John (Forbes [1851-1908], Emily's brother). He left Rhoda (Mrs. Forbes) at Aunt Fanny (prob Nelson's until he could build. Oh Lydia, it was so hard to see poor little Arthur die and no doctor. Poor little darling, it was so hard to give him up. Mother came over and stayed with us the night he died. John and Mr. Peabody came down that night with a load of lumber. He (prob. (37iv_f) Arthur) drove with Eugene and John to Lisbon and was going to stay with Mother and me but he got lost and wandered all night in the cold rain. You don't know what it is to be lost on the parairie in the night.
"Eugene was gone two days. Aunt Fanny and Burt (Nelson, Fanny's brother) came back with him. It snowed and rained so hard they had to hold a quilt over her head all the way. The water was so deep in some places it would run in the bottom of the wagon box. The wind blew so hard I expected every minute the house would go over. I have never seen one happy moment since the baby died. I know if we had stayed in Centralia we would have him yet..."
-- Dear Cousins, 1961 E. T. Tobey Co., compiled by Pearl Duncan Larmoyeux American Civil War Soldiers Record c/o Ancestry.com:
19. Josephine Matilda Wells
(18) Henry Duncan was a private (a Sgt., according to Ancestry.com) in Co. A, 16th Regiment, Wis. Volunteer Infantry, Dec. 16, 1861 - Jan. 27, 1863. He fought at Shiloh, alongside his brother Eugene, shortly after mustering in. After burying the dead, Henry was shipped out because of a heart condition, and later discharged from an army hospital. He travelled as far as California, and returned to Wisconsin to become a carpenter and cranberry farmer.
(37iv) James "Eugene" Duncan
composed the following poem about the Battle of Shiloh, in which he and his brother, (18) Henry Alfred Duncan, fought:
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