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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.
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 | |
PREFACE.
I have attempted, in this small volume, to give a true and impartialhistory of the brief but glorious career of our Regiment.Though called into the field at a late hour, the services of theRegiment 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 secessionmovement.
These memoirs have been mostly compiled from memory, withthe assistance of the regimental and company records, and thereminiscences of my brother officers.
For the literary excellence of the work, I claim no merit, as Ihave not endeavored to accomplish