. An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America . tus Boies of Northampton, Massachu-setts, and with her removed to southern Wisconsin, andsettled at Janesville, on the Rock River, where he beganthe practice of law. He was soon after elected to theoffice of District Attorney, over Matt Carpenter, after-wards United States Senator, and was inducted into andheld the office until a decision of the Supreme Court ofthe United States ga
. An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America . tus Boies of Northampton, Massachu-setts, and with her removed to southern Wisconsin, andsettled at Janesville, on the Rock River, where he beganthe practice of law. He was soon after elected to theoffice of District Attorney, over Matt Carpenter, after-wards United States Senator, and was inducted into andheld the office until a decision of the Supreme Court ofthe United States gave the office to Carpenter on a tech-nicality. Mr. Ely was becoming one of the well knownand succesful lawyers of Wisconsin when the Civil Warbroke out. He was at Madison, arguing an importantcase when the news of the Presidents proclamation ofApril 15, 1861, calling for troops after the firing on FortSumter, was made known to him. He immediately of-fered his services for the defense of the Union and wascommissioned by the Governor of Wisconsin, April 17,1861, as a Captain, and immediately raised a companyfrom among his townspeople at Janesville, and by May3, had ninety men ready to leave for the Instruction. COL. GEORGE B. the Iron Brigade, 1861-5 See page 270 FIFTH GENERATION. 271 Camp at Madison. Though the first enlistment was forbut three months, all the company and officers, with theexception of one, re-enlisted for three years at the ter-mination of the three months. The company becameCompany D, of the Second Wisconsin Volunteers, andbecame a part of the famous Iron Brigade. Captain Ely,and the regiment were in the first battle of Bull Runand under fire, and the regiment suffered severely in theseries of battles ending in the second battle of Bull Run,on July 21, 1861, but Captain Ely passed through thisfiery ordeal unscathed. He was, however, severelywounded at the battle of Antietam, September 25, 1862. In the Janesville Gazette of October 4, 1862, the cor-respo
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