Sunday, August 19, 2018

25th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental History. Published1866. GoogleBooks.com. 19 August 2018






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16th Wisconsin Regimental History. Published 1866. Page 632 & 633. Googlebooks.com. 19 August 2018.








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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Henry C. Wildermuth Civil War Records 2











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Henry C. Wildermuth Civil War Records 1



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Friday, August 17, 2018

Wildermuth Family - John W. Wildermuth - Civil War Records - page 7


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Wildermuth Family - John W. Wildermuth - 1862 Civil War Records - page 4

     W                 25                 Wis.
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           John W. Wildermuth
Pvt,Co. B, 25 Reg't, Wisconsin Infantry,
Appears on
         Company Muster Roll
for Sept 14 to Oct 31, 1862
Present or absent                present
Stoppage, $      100 for
The Gov't, $     100 for

Remarks:

Book Mark:
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                 W.S. Thompson
(358)                                                               Copyist.

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Wildermuth Family - John W. Wildermuth - 1862 Civil War Records - page 3

                    W     25      Wis.
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John W. Wildermuth                                              
Pvt to Capt. Joslin's Co., *25/30 Reg't Wis Inf. 
Age 18 years.
Appears on
Company Muster-in-Roll
of the organization named above. Roll dated 
Camp Salomon Wis, Sept 14, 1862. 
Muster-in to date Sept 14, 1862.     
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Joined for duty and enrolled:
When Aug 14, 1862.
Where Richland. 
Period 3 years.
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& 12 Prem.                                                    
Bounty paid $ 25. 100; due $ ........100           
Remarks:           
* Corrected Jan. 26, 1894. GE3                                 
  *This organization subsequently became Co. B, 25 Reg't Wis. Inf.   
Book mark: __________________ 
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                 W.S. Thompson       
(356)                                                                     Copyist.                              

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Wildermuth Family - John W. Wildermuth - Civil War Records - page 2


     This is the first page of the packet I received from the National Archives in Washington D.C. in the mid 1980's. There is not much documentation in this packet, but I have reproduced all of the pages here on the blog. I do not know what the number 2098 stands for at this time.                                              As it states on the top of the paper, this is the file for Wildermuth, John W[illiam]. He served in Co. B, [of the] 25 Wisconsin Inf.
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Wildermuth Family - John W. Wildermuth - Civil War Records - page 1

The records posted here are from the National Archives of the United States. I ordered and obtained them around 1983 or so.

This posting, documents the last 2 years of John William Wildermuth's short life.

John was born in Coles County, Illinois on the 13 July 1844. By 1850 the family had moved to a farm in Fayette, Lafeyette County, Wisconsin.

He died in Decatur, Morgan or Limestone County, Alabama. I presumed that he was buried there for 2 years or so.

The nearest Union Cemetery opened in 1866. At or after that date his remains was transferred 95 miles to the west for internment in Union National Cemetery, Corinth, Alcom County Mississippi.

When the remains of all the soldiers in the cemetery were moved they were moved as "unknown" soldiers. All of them originally had wooden grave/name markers. 

After the Civil War, wood for keeping warm was at a minimum for the residents nearby. Families would take the grave markers and use burn them for warmth.

John's regiment, the 25th Wisconsin, had moved to Columbus, Kentucky, in February 1863. They were placed under the Sixteenth Army Corps of General Hurlburt. Please see Wisconsin Historical Society. It is within a historical Essay entitled: "25th Wisconsin Infantry History". You may click on the link listed below:
Please refer to: 

http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/quiner/id/16509

Even tho' his records from the National Archives states he was in the Co. B, 25th Regiment, Wisconsin, I could not find him listed in the typed muster rolls.

I do not know if his parents, David Clinton and Anna Newkirk Wildermuth knew that he was buried at either location.

There is a story in the Wildermuth Family that states the family were on their farm in Fayette Wisconsin,  when they were informed of at least one of the brothers death. They were picking fruit at the time they were told the news. This is based on the memories of Louisa Olive Wildermuth Carpenter. She would have been 13 at the time.

The farm is no longer in the family.  Elsie and her husband now own the property. Elsie's husband put a white picket fence around the graves of David and Anne Wildermuth's other children, David and Francis, to protect them from being trampled by the cows that grazed there. David and Francis are buried at the base of an old black walnut tree.

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