BIOGRAPHIES:  J. A. SOUTHMAYD, Union Township, Eau Claire County, WI

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J. A. Southmayd, farmer, town of Union, began farming here in 1876.  Enlisted 
in 160th N. Y. V.; was forty-two days at Port Hudson; was in eighteen battles; 
marched 7,000 miles in two years.  Was stationed in Georgia, after the war 
closed, to maintain peace; mustered out in 1867, with rank of Lieutenant.  
Came out of the army without an injury or ill health.  Born, in 1836, in New 
York; married Lucinda Philips in New York in 1862; three children.

--Transcribed from "History of Northern Wisconsin,"  The Western Historical 
Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor, Chicago, IL, 1881.  Page 338