 | Green Lake County (Wis.) - 1890 - 902 pages
...attracted by the Crescent City, he retraced his course as far as Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where he offered his services to the Government, enlisting as a member of Company G, 2d United States Dragoons, in February, 1865. He was with his regiment on duty at Ft. Laramie and on... | |
 | Biography - 1895 - 668 pages
...make their homes in Menominee, where the sons all occupy good positions. In October, 1861, Mr. Moreau offered his services to the Government, enlisting as a member of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, of which he was made Second Lieutenant. Later he won... | |
 | William Nelson - New Jersey - 1902 - 762 pages
...business, serving an apprenticeship between 1860 and 1862. On the 22d of August of the latter year he put aside all business and personal considerations and offered his services to the government, becoming a member of Company C, Twenty-ninth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers. The regiment was encamped... | |
 | Fairfield County (Ohio) - 1902 - 500 pages
...employed until eighteen years of age, when in December, 1861, roused by a spirit of patriotism, he offered his, services to the government, enlisting as a member of Company E, Seventy-third Ohio Infantry. He remained as one of the loyal defenders of the Union upon the southern... | |
 | Reference - 1903 - 584 pages
...following that pursuit for two years. He afterward worked at railroading for about twenty-two years, but at the time of the Civil war he put aside all business...offered his services to the government, enlisting in August, 1862. He became one of the boys in blue of Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-third Pennsylvania... | |
 | William Farrand Prosser - Puget Sound (Wash.) - 1903 - 750 pages
...position of turnkey at the prison in Waupun, Wisconsin. In 1 86 1, however, after the inauguration of the Civil war, he put aside all business and personal considerations and joined the Union army. He went to the front, but when a few months had passed he was withdrawn from... | |
 | Hiram Carleton - Vermont - 1903 - 1070 pages
...parental roof, and pursued his education in the Newbury and Randolph academies, but at the breaking out of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal considerations in order that he might aid his country in the preservation of the Union. He enlisted on the I2th of... | |
 | Genealogy - 1904 - 570 pages
...1850 went to Iowa, settling in Jasper county. He has since engaged in agricultural pursuits save that at the time of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal considerations and prompted by a spirit of patriotism enlisted in August, 1862, as a member of Company E, Fortieth Iowa... | |
 | Calhoun County (Mich.) - 1904 - 728 pages
...President Lincoln issued his first call for troops to serve for three years, "however, Mr. Staples put aside all business and personal considerations...offered his services to the government, enlisting in Company A, Twenty-fifth .Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This company occupied a post of honor,... | |
 | Edward Miner - Greene County (Ill.) - 1905 - 662 pages
...public schools in Carrollton. In early manhood he learned the trade of machinist and gunsmith, but at the time of the Civil war he put aside all business interests and when in his twenty-first year offered his services to the government, enlisting on the... | |
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His business prospered under his wise and careful direction, but at the time of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal interests and tendered his services at once to the government, being among the first to enlist from Michigan. 
