David Haskell Whittlesey enlisted Sept. 4, 1861, at Janesville, WI, in the 13th Regiment, Company A, Wisconsin Infantry; promoted to third sergeant, Oct. 17, 1861. He died of typhoid fever and was laid to rest at the soldiers' cemetery in Lawrence. (Source: Whittlesey-Whittelsey Genealogy; he is No. 2057 in the 1992 edition.) The 1860 US Census lists him as a farmer at Durant, IA, where he had settled with his parents and other relatives about 1857.
David Haskell Whittlesey enlisted Sept. 4, 1861, at Janesville, WI, in the 13th Regiment, Company A, Wisconsin Infantry; promoted to third sergeant, Oct. 17, 1861. He died of typhoid fever and was laid to rest at the soldiers' cemetery in Lawrence. (Source: Whittlesey-Whittelsey Genealogy; he is No. 2057 in the 1992 edition.) The 1860 US Census lists him as a farmer at Durant, IA, where he had settled with his parents and other relatives about 1857.
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Sgt, Company A, 13th Wisconsin Infantry [Civil War]
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One of 18 Union soldiers buried in this cemetery.
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