. Soldiers and citizens' album of biographical record [of Wisconsin] containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty to the Union. Also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war and a history of the Grand Army of the Republic; with portraits of soldiers and prominent citizens . enant-Colonel. In the spring of 18()G hemade a tour of inspection through Kansas,Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico,, forward-ing his resignation on his return, which wasaccepted by the War Dejiartment in the reorganization of the Regular Army,Colonel Bell was offered
. Soldiers and citizens' album of biographical record [of Wisconsin] containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty to the Union. Also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war and a history of the Grand Army of the Republic; with portraits of soldiers and prominent citizens . enant-Colonel. In the spring of 18()G hemade a tour of inspection through Kansas,Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico,, forward-ing his resignation on his return, which wasaccepted by the War Dejiartment in the reorganization of the Regular Army,Colonel Bell was offered a commission andafterwards a second commission, but declinedboth. lie was married at Milwaukee to Harriet,daughter of .lusiah E. and Harriet (Johnson)McClure. Mrs. Bell belongs to a family ofScotch descent, whose first rej)resentatives cameto America in the 18th century, purchased andoccupied lands in Massachusetts and founded anumerous line of descendants. Josiah E. wentto Chicago in 1835 and was early identifiedwith the development of the Garden City,whence he removed to Milwaukee in 1840,where his family have since lived. Harriet,his wife, is the only daughter of Col. Seth .lohn-son of the 2d United States Infantry, an officerof 1812, who served afterwards at \i>iicii£ j cint I CHlcaco PMOTO-GRAUunt -^L/ouA^L^^ J-. Jlt<Ls^ii^. PERSONAL RECORDS. 663 on the lake frontier until he was made Com-mandant at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). About1840 he resigned his commission and passedtlie remainder of his life at Racine, Wis. Ninewelcome and beloved children have been addedto the Bell household, named in order of birth,Harriet, Joseph McClellan, .Jr., Caroline D.,(deceased), William H., Thomas S., Mary,Martha, Catherine and Alexander !olonel Bell has been a Republican since theorganization of the party. There is, on these pages, no more thoroughrepresentative of American institutions thanColonel Bell, whose modest story told in simpleterms, is wholly inadequate in
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