. 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 . h by a habit he had of being never at rest, thus living along time every day John Montanye was another of theboys still in their teens. Ed. Robinson had all the appear-ance of a real good school boy, which, of course, he wasbefore taking upon himself the stern duties of the life of asoldier. Henry Rockwell was a slender young boy of, Ithink, less than seventeen. Hosea Rood w
. 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 . h by a habit he had of being never at rest, thus living along time every day John Montanye was another of theboys still in their teens. Ed. Robinson had all the appear-ance of a real good school boy, which, of course, he wasbefore taking upon himself the stern duties of the life of asoldier. Henry Rockwell was a slender young boy of, Ithink, less than seventeen. Hosea Rood was the youngestboy in the company, being only a little past sixteen,—wasslender, round-faced, white-haired and green. Alf. Starkswas eighteen, big and still growing, jolly, and death on theblues. Will Stowell was a boy in his teens. Will Wharrywas about the same age. Wells Wheeler was not twenty, Ithink, but he slipped out of the ranks of the boys by mar-rying just before leaving Delton. I have named in particular some of our younger members,but there were many more of them less than twenty yearsold, and the great majority of those over twenty wore onlythe barest promise of the mustaches that flourished well in a. HOSEA W. ROOD, COMPANY E. 55 warm climate and changed the boys to bearded men beforetheir mothers saw them again. Some of our men were in middle life,—Gaddis, Beardsley,Henry, Bromley, Moulton, Solomon, Waddell, Brown,Edmunds, Justus Freer, Harbaugh, James C. Knapp, Roli-son, Deacon Sexton, Slater, Ward, and Capt. Vanderpoel. Probably the ages of the most of the company rangedfrom nineteen to twenty-two. Truly we were boys then, andwe like to think of one another now as we were when we firstcame to be so closely associated together. And this is theprincipal reason why we still speak of the boys. Bless the dear, rheumatic, baldheaded, gray-whiskered oldBoys, every last one of them ! Copperheads. When the war began the people of the North were, as awhole, loyal; but
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