10th Wisconsin Infantry-- Part 2

From Wisconsin History.com.

Over 100 Burlington residents were in Company C, 1st Wisconsin.

Burlington men were also in Company F, 2nd Wisconsin at the Battle of Bull Run.  One Burlington man was killed there.  In 1880, his body was moved to Burlington Cemetery where more than 250 Burlington residents are buried who served during the war..

Burlington's original name was Foxville in 1837.  In 1839 it was changed to Burlington.

--Old Secesh

Burlington, Wis. Civil War Deaths on October 8, 1862

While researching the role played by Burlington, Wisconsin, in the Civil War, I came across a list of men who died in the war from Burlington and the surrounding area.  I noticed that there were a lot of men killed on one particular day, October 8, 1862.

That date would be the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky, also called Chaplin Hills or Chaplin's Hill.  It was the end of the Confederate Heartland Offensive.

Same means killed Chaplin's Hill, Perryville, Kentucky.

Field, Charles A (of Rochester), killed Chaplin's Hill, Perryville Ky.
Hill, Daniel (of Waterford)     same
Hunt, Daniel corporal  (of Wheatland)    same
Johnson, Henry O. --  major--  10th Wisconsin

Johnston, James              Perryville
Lueck, Julius Jr.    same
Manning, Frank E,  (born 1843) (of Elkhorn),  KIA  Buried Hickory grove Cemetery.
McKesson, Andrew J.  (sergeant)   same

Sutton, Edward (of Waterford/Rochester)   same
Weinborn, John  (of Burlington)    same

Heavy Losses for One Day.  --Old Secesh

Plinny Perkins, Burlington, Wis.-- Part 2: Abolitionist

Plinny Perkins was one of the early residents of Burlington.  He and others were attracted to the area in southeast Wisconsin because of the fertile fields for agriculture and the availability of water power from the Fox and White rivers.

He was a shareholder in the abolitionist newspaper The American Free Man which was published in Milwaukee and later Waukesha.

He died 21 August 1889 and is buried at Burlington Cemetery in section E.

His house still stands at 565 W. State Street.

Quite the Entrepreneur.  --Old Secesh

Plinny Perkins of Burlington, Wis.-- Part 1: A Saw Mill and Woolen Mill

From Find-A-Grave and other sources.

On April 24, 2018, I mentioned the woolen mill in Burlington, Wisconsin, which supplied wool cloth for Union uniforms during the Civil War.  The mill was owned by Plinny (also spelled Pliny) Merrick Perkins.

He was born in Oneida County, New York on January 24, 1812.  At age 22 he rode a horse from there to Joliet, Illinois, in 1834.  He moved from there to Burlington, Wisconsin, where he bought a half section of Government land from Moses Smith and built a saw mill..

In 1843, he expanded to include a woolen mill, the first in Racine County, if not the whole state.  This is the one that provided the cloth for the uniforms.

--Old Secesh

Burlington, Wisconsin, in the Civil War

From the April 2018 Spirit of Geneva Lakes  "Historic Downtown Burlington."

Located in southeast Wisconsin near the Illinois border.  First settlers arrived in mid to late 1830s seeking fertile farmlands and water power for mills at the junction of the White and Fox rivers.

A grist mill supplied flour locally as well as to Milwaukee, Kenosha and Racine.

A woolen mill made the first roll of cloth produced in Wisconsin.  During the Civil War is supplied cloth for Union soldier uniforms.

Wheat was the leading farm product through the Civil War but much effort turned to livestock and dairying after that.

--Old Secesh