At the age of sixteen he enlisted for five years at Buffalo, N.Y., in the United States Army to take part in the Mexican war as a drummer boy.
After the war with Mexico he went back to Menasha, Wis., to visit his sister and the next year, 1850, was married to Julia Ann Narricong at Neenah, Wis. From there they went to Minnesota, where he filed on land in Houston county and lived there until 1861, when he went to LaCrosse, Wis., where by the order of John C. Fremont he organized and drilled a company of infantry and took them to Tennessee. Upon arrival there he found the regiment which they were to join had its full quota and his company were disbanded, he going from there to St. Louis, Mo., where on March 24, 1862, he received a commission as second lieutenant Co. E, Eighth Reg. Missouri Volunteers. On Feb 3, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was acting captain of his company for the balance of its service and on the seventh day of July, 1864, was honorably discharged and returned to Minnesota.
After the war with Mexico he went back to Menasha, Wis., to visit his sister and the next year, 1850, was married to Julia Ann Narricong at Neenah, Wis. From there they went to Minnesota, where he filed on land in Houston county and lived there until 1861, when he went to LaCrosse, Wis., where by the order of John C. Fremont he organized and drilled a company of infantry and took them to Tennessee. Upon arrival there he found the regiment which they were to join had its full quota and his company were disbanded, he going from there to St. Louis, Mo., where on March 24, 1862, he received a commission as second lieutenant Co. E, Eighth Reg. Missouri Volunteers. On Feb 3, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was acting captain of his company for the balance of its service and on the seventh day of July, 1864, was honorably discharged and returned to Minnesota.
At the age of sixteen he enlisted for five years at Buffalo, N.Y., in the United States Army to take part in the Mexican war as a drummer boy.
After the war with Mexico he went back to Menasha, Wis., to visit his sister and the next year, 1850, was married to Julia Ann Narricong at Neenah, Wis. From there they went to Minnesota, where he filed on land in Houston county and lived there until 1861, when he went to LaCrosse, Wis., where by the order of John C. Fremont he organized and drilled a company of infantry and took them to Tennessee. Upon arrival there he found the regiment which they were to join had its full quota and his company were disbanded, he going from there to St. Louis, Mo., where on March 24, 1862, he received a commission as second lieutenant Co. E, Eighth Reg. Missouri Volunteers. On Feb 3, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was acting captain of his company for the balance of its service and on the seventh day of July, 1864, was honorably discharged and returned to Minnesota.
After the war with Mexico he went back to Menasha, Wis., to visit his sister and the next year, 1850, was married to Julia Ann Narricong at Neenah, Wis. From there they went to Minnesota, where he filed on land in Houston county and lived there until 1861, when he went to LaCrosse, Wis., where by the order of John C. Fremont he organized and drilled a company of infantry and took them to Tennessee. Upon arrival there he found the regiment which they were to join had its full quota and his company were disbanded, he going from there to St. Louis, Mo., where on March 24, 1862, he received a commission as second lieutenant Co. E, Eighth Reg. Missouri Volunteers. On Feb 3, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was acting captain of his company for the balance of its service and on the seventh day of July, 1864, was honorably discharged and returned to Minnesota.
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