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THE

SWORD AND GUN,

A HISTORY OF THE

37th WIS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

From its first Organization to its final Muster Out.

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BY MAJOR R. C. EDEN.

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MADISON:
ATWOOD & RUBLEE, PRINTERS.
1865.

DEDICATED
TO THE
OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE REGIMENT,
AND
TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE THAT FELL IN THE
SIEGE OF PETERSBURG, 1864-1865,
BY THE AUTHOR.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface		5
History—	Chapter I	7
	Chapter II	17
	Chapter III	39
Table of Gain and Loss		69
Roster and Muster Rolls		70
List of Deaths		110
Final Roster		117
L'Envoi		118

I have attempted, in this small volume, to give a true and impartial history of the brief but glorious career of our Regiment. Though called into the field at a late hour, the services of the Regiment have been arduous and severe, in the extreme, and, participating, as it has done, in the last closing scenes of the rebellion, it has shared in the honor and glory of winding up the secession movement.

These memoirs have been mostly compiled from memory, with the assistance of the regimental and company records, and the reminiscences of my brother officers.

For the literary excellence of the work, I claim no merit, as I have not endeavored to accomplish more than the title of the work sets forth: a plain "History of the 37th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry." As such a record, it may, I hope, be kindly received among those whose deeds it sets forth; further than that I care little for its fate.

A few years, and the scenes of this rebellion will become misty and indistinct, through the veil of years; a few more, and it will have become a matter of history, minor details and incidents being lost and absorbed in the great broad facts of the period. Then, the author has a hope, a vain one if you will, but springing from the pardonable vanity of a parent in the offspring of his brain, that such records as this will be prized as this generation is passing away, and those who have shared in the stirring events of the time it treats of, may,

—— dying, mention it within their wills,

Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy,

Unto their issue.

[Julius Cæsar, Act III, Scene 2.

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THE

SWORD AND GUN,

A HISTORY OF THE

37th WIS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sword and Gun: A History of the 37th Wis. Volunteer Infantry

THE SWORD AND GUN, A HISTORY OF THE 37th WIS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

THE

SWORD AND GUN,

A HISTORY OF THE

37th WIS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.