Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Holmes, William S. 1842 - 
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WILLIAM S. HOLMES, clerk in the boat store of P. S. Davidson; was born in 
Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1842; son of William Holmes, who died in Galena, Ill., in 
1862. William S., enlisted in July, 1862, in the 96th I. V. I., Co. A, and was 
in the service till the close of the war, the last two years as Sergeant of 
his company. He participated in the battles of Nashville, Atlanta, 
Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and several others; was with Sherman in his 
famous "march to the sea," and was never in the hospital and never absent from 
his regiment during his term of service. After the war, he went to 
steamboating for P. S. Davidson, and has been in his employ up to the present 
time. He was married in 1867 to Frances H. Graham, of Galena, Ill., and has 
two children - Mabel and Sadie.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 762.

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