DEATH: CertID# 1912-MN-013240
BIOGRAPHY: Mr. [Lloyd Almerson] Roberts, and his son, William B., enlisted in Co. A, 11th W.V.I.; served two years, and was discharged by reason of disability; his son, William B., served till the close of the war. Another son, Lyman H., enlisted in 1863 in the same regiment, and died in the service.
BIOGRAPHY: BIOGRAPHY: --From History of Dane County (Western Historical Company: Chicago, 1880), p. 1263 (Town of Black Earth)
BIOGRAPHY: men enlisted in Co.'s A and G of the 11th Wisconsin Infantry. This regiment assembled at Camp Randall, Madison, in October, 1861. After a few weeks' drill they left on November 20, by way of Chicago, for St. Louis, Mo. During the war they campaigned along the Mississippi, and in Alabama and Texas. In the battle of Champion Hills the Eleventh made a brilliant record. Company A were deployed as skirmishers in the face of a fierce artillery engagement, and the regiment took one thousand prisoners with regimental stand of colors. They were in the trenches before Vicksburg, and constantly took part in the active operations of the siege. They were mustered out of service at Mobile on September 4, 1865, and received their final discharge at Madison on September 28, 1865.
DEATH: CertID# 1925-MN-015578
BIRTH: Born at Abbott Hospital