Colonel, 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.

Charles S. Hamilton was born in the town of Western, Oneida county, N.Y., November 16, 1822. His early youth was passed in Erie county, where he received the training that fitted him for the United States military academy at West Point, which he entered in 1839, with such classmates as Grant, Franklin, Reynolds, Peck, Quinby, Augur, Dent, Judah, Hardee, Potter, Steele, Clark and others, who, like himself, rose to distinction in the Mexican war, and afterwards on one side or the other in the great civil strife begun in 1861.

Sutler to the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.

The record fo the Third Wisconsin would be incomplete without a mention of Charley Johnson, the sutler. He will be remembered by early settlers of Wisconsin as the proprietor of Monk's Hall, a Madison restaurant in the days of Gov. Barstow's administration. He was a colored man, but an excellent man of business, and one of the most successful sutlers in the army. He was a skillful caterer, and for much of the time the officers of the Third and the Second Massachusetts messed or rather were furnished meals by him in his large tent. This was very convenient in camp, but not always conducive to regularity of meals in the field. In some of our Virginia campaigns, he served meals to us when we were in line of battle; but when the troops and trains were separated, our chances for subsistence became precarious.

Captain, Company I, 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

But little can be learned of the early life of this brave and noble officer. He came from Ireland to America in his boyhood. His grandfather fell at the head of a troop of horse fighting for the liberty of Ireland in 1798, and his grandson was thoroughly in earnest in 1861. He was a man of a strong, earnest nature, and a laborious student. He came to Monroe in 1854, as assistant civil engineer on the road. He then studied law. Joseph A. Sleeper, Esq., then one of the leaders of the bar in southern Wisconsin, said:

"My attention was called to the strength of his mind, evinced in the clearness of his replies, when we was examined for admission to the bar, and in his thorough understanding of the whole subject."

Corporal, Company F, 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.

Taken from the 3rd Wisconsin Reunion Booklets

Richard Notting, using the name Richard Notten, enlisted in Company F, Third Wisconsin on July 10, 1861. After surviving the battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford and Gettysburg and the siege of Atlanta, he died as a result of a freak accident at sea. Richard was a native of England and his parents, John and Mary Notting, resided in Benton Bradstock, Dorset County, England, the father dying there in June of 1856 at the age of fifty-nine. Prior to his enlistment, Richard worked as a farm laborer in Wingville and lived with samuel Harrison, also an English native.

Company H, 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.

There were three Agnew brothers in Company H. All three were wounded at Antietam. All were noble soldiers. David, one of them, is mentioned for special gallantry at Beverly Ford; and John, another, was severely wounded in various parts of his body at New Hope Church. All three re-enlisted as veterans, and all were mustered out at the end of the war.

Company E, 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

In Company E were three boys of the same family, all gallant soldiers. One was wounded at Antietam so as to disable him from active service. Another was wounded at Chancellorsville, but the two re-enlisted and were mustered out a the close of the war.