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Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Dedicated to the Military and Civilian
History
of Wisconsin in the Civil War
And The Iron Brigade of the West
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The Storm Cometh-we hope the infatuated
rebels like the
appearance of the northern horizon.
The storm of patriotism may shortly become the hurricane of vengeance,
and they have only themselves to thank...
Those who sow the wind must reap the whirlwind.
Milwaukee Sentinel Editorial Saturday, April 20, 1861
The Association Meeting
Saturday January 28th, 2012
Wisconsin Legion Hall
210 West State Street
10 AM
Fox Lake, Wisconsin
Dear everyone:
The Association meeting is just around the corner and we need all the help we
can get and by that I mean, your participation, your involvement and your ideas
comments and opinions, this meeting was set-up with the purpose of letting you
have a voice on which direction the Association should go, what type of
policies, what needs to be changed and what needs to remain the same.
Without you leave the decisions up to a few members and if you so wish then let
those who go make the choices for you but if that happens then don’t complain
later about something you disagree with but had an opportunity to do something
about.
If you cannot make the meeting you still have your voice, all you have to do is
send the board with your comments, concerns or ideas, it is that simple.
This is the time for you to be heard and we need your voice, the only “dumb”
question, or comment or idea is one that is never brought up.
As Association President I am always looking towards the Association members for
help, for ideas and even though we may disagree or have the same view points
without you contacting someone on the board (and remember, you voted for those
on the board) your viewpoints remain hidden and quiet!
Pleas make every attempt you can to attend the meeting which is Saturday January
28th, 2012 at Fox lake WI and will be held at the Wisconsin Legion Hall (210
West State Street) starting at 10 a.m.
I have heard over the many years that the meetings
are “boring” or “way to long” and even “going over and over the same topic” when
I hear this I think back to my ancestors that fought in the American Civil War,
ones who left a comfortable life, loving families and friends and had all the
comforts of home and yet they still volunteered to fight for a cause (only they
knew deep down inside of them what that was) and to give up everything and then
I feel ashamed at these types of comments (because I was one who made a lot of
them) because it is a few hours once a year that I give up to make sure that my
ancestors and others and those we portray are done right and that what they did
is honored correctly that when we go out and teach we do it with them in mind.
I can easily spare a few hours on a Saturday once a year to meet and discuss and
argue and come to an agreement with my fellow members and to renew friendships
that I may not have had in a couple of months and just once again be a part of
something very special and I hope that most of you will and do feel the same
way.
I hope to see most of you at the meeting and if not at least hear from you
before the meeting, letting me and the rest of the Association know where you
stand, what your thoughts are and your comments and concerns.
I will turn no one away no will I turn a deaf ear just because I may not agree.
I am part of the Association just the same as you, know better, and know worse.
May we enter 2012 with a renewed sense of commitment and breath of freedom as
did those so long ago did, even though 1862 was a terrible year for the Union
cause and one of triumph for the Confederates we need to honor those men as
never before.
May God bless us all and all our armed forces all over the World and May he help
us our whenever we need it or even when we don’t think we do.
Your most humble servant
David Dresang Jr.
Association President
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"I was not a Wisconsin soldier, and have not been honorably
discharged,
but at the judgment day I want to be with Wisconsin soldiers,"
John Gibbon 1880
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Gather up the fragments; let nothing
be lost,
To show the coming ages what liberty cost
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The Grand Review
And here are passing now those yet spared from earth and
heaven
of that "Iron Brigade," of Meredith's,
on whose list appear such names as Lucius Fairchild,
Henry Morrow, Rufus Dawes, and Samuel Williams, and such
regiments as the 19th Indiana, 24th Michigan, and 2d, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin, which on the first day's front line with Buford and Reynolds, in that one fierce onset at Willoughby's
run, withstood
overwhelming odds, with the loss of
a thousand, a hundred and
fifty-three of highest manliness.
Here draws near a moving spectacle indeed, the last of the dear old
First Corps; thrice
decimated at Gettysburg
in action and passion heroic, martyr-like, sublime.
Sit down again together, Army of the
Potomac!
all that are left of us,-on the banks of the river whose name we bore,
into which
we have put new meaning of our own.
Take strength from one more touch, ere we pass
afar
from the closeness of old.
The old is young to-day; and the young is passed. Survivors of
the fittest,-for the fittest, it seems to us, abide in the glory where we saw them
last,-take the grasp of hands, and look into the eyes,
without words!
Who shall tell what is past and what survives?
For there are things born but lately in the years,
which
belong to the eternities.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Brevet Major-General U.S. Volunteers-
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We thank the following
organizations for their excellent
facilities and help over the years:
in the research of the Second Wisconsin,
Iron Brigade of the West and Wisconsin Military History
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
The Wisconsin
Veterans Museum,
The Civil War Institute at Carroll College,
The Public Libraries of Milwaukee,
Manitowoc, Stoughton, Oshkosh, Shawano,
Waukesha,
Fond du Lac and Fox Lake,
and the
National Archives.
And public record sources across the state.
We also wish to acknowledge the help and interest of
National Park Service
staff at Manhattan Sites, Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Bull Run.
And the many local historians who have taken time to
answer
questions and give direction.
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