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This past week I had the opportunity to visit several historic cemeteries in Wisconsin. I was in Milwaukee and Green Bay for business and drove between the two locations. As you can probably imagine, there are many significant Civil War soldiers buried in the Badger state. Unlike other frontier states, Wisconsin sent a fairly large amount of troops to the Eastern Theater. Three of the infantry regiments sent east would become the nucleus of the famed Iron Brigade (2d, 6th, 7th Wisconsin Volunteers), earning their moniker on the slopes of South Mountain. Three officers from the Iron Brigade are included in my photo essay: Lysander Cutler, Edward S. Bragg and Thomas S. Allen. Cutler and Bragg would both be promoted to brigadier general volunteers and would command the Iron Brigade. Other soldiers of interest included in my photo essay are John C. Starkweather, Henry Bertram, Mason Brayman and Henry F. Belitz. Click on the following link to view the entire photo essay.
Mike’s Photo Essay on Wisconsin Civil War Era Graves
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