The Lueschen Boys

Written by Edwin E. Bryant

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.

This Day in Wisconsin History

1675 - Fr. Jacques Marquette dies

Fr. Jacques Marquette (1636-1675) died on this date in 1675 near Ludington, Michigan, at the age of 39. After the famous voyage down the Mississippi that he made in 1673 with Louis Joliet, Marquette vowed to return to the Indians he'd met in Illinois. He became ill during that visit in the spring of 1675 and was en route to Canada when he passed away. is online in our American Journeys collection.