. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . rson onthat day, or have it sent to us. *I wonder whether or not he has it yet. 4liN Most of the boys went to camp, but one after another,they hurried away to their homes. Just the minute we got offthe cars at Madison that 21st day of July. 1865, our Companyhistory ended; to write further would be to give the historyof separate individuals. And so this sketch is done. There
. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . rson onthat day, or have it sent to us. *I wonder whether or not he has it yet. 4liN Most of the boys went to camp, but one after another,they hurried away to their homes. Just the minute we got offthe cars at Madison that 21st day of July. 1865, our Companyhistory ended; to write further would be to give the historyof separate individuals. And so this sketch is done. There was a strange feeling within each of us as we left thedepot that day. It was not easy for us to realize that wewere free to go and come as we pleased. So long accustomedto passes, if we wished to go away from the company, inspite of us we felt uneasy in walking up the street without one. I felt the strangest of all, having gone to a hotel, to findmyself sitting at table by the side of our big Major Wheelock,and talking with him on equal terms. Other officers and pri-vates were mingled promiscuously together at table. Surelythere was a new order of things. Our soldier days were pastand we were all citizens CHAPTER XXIX. Conclusion. 3 SAID, at the close of the chapter just preceding, thatwhen we stepped off the cars at Madison on that 21stof July, 65, Company E became a thing of the it did, as a formal organization; but, for all that, Com-pany E continued to exist in spirit, and so it continues tothe present day. And I suspect that the old fraternal feel-ing grows stronger as the years go by. As the old boysstraggle one by one over into the last great campingground, leaving the squad still on the march smaller andsmaller in numbers, all the old love remains; and it is strongenough to bind the remaining few pretty closely together. For a few years after the war it was not an uncommonthing for a lot of the fellows to happen together here or there,yet, because the
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