Obituary: Waukesha County, Wisconsin: Calvert G. WHITE

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Waukesha Plaindealer November 20, 1866

Died

At the residence of his brother, G. Julius White, at
Evanston, Ill., on Thursday, the 15th inst., Col. Calvert G.
White, late of the 28th Wis. Infantry, aged 36 years.  His
remains were brought to this village on Friday, and the
funeral services were held on Saturday at the Presbyterian
Church.  He leaves a wife and two small children, and many
friends to mourn his loss.

The Chicago Tribune give the following truthful particulars
of his history, which we adopt as our own:

"Colonel White was born in Cazenovia, New York, in the year
1830.  His family removed to Waukesha, Wisconsin, when he
was quite young.  When the war began he was practicing law
in Waukesha, and was the District Attorney for that county. 
He entered the military service as captain in the Twenty-
eighty Wisconsin Infantry, in December, 1862, and served the
entire period of enlistment- three years- rising to the rank
of Lieutenant Colonel.  During the last year of his service
he held the position of Provost Marshal General of the
Department of Arkansas, on the staff of Major General J.J.
Reynolds.  He particupated in Steele's campaign in Southern
Arkansas, which was only saved from being disastrous, from
the failure of Banks Red River expedition, by the hard
fighting of Steele's command.  He was taken ill at Little
Rock, Arkansas, and was attended on his journey to his
friends by Samuel Overstreet, a colored man, whose
unwearying kindness during the life of the deceased, and who
unfeigned grief at his death, have been most touching to the
surviving members of the family.

Among the many noble men whom Wisconsin sent to the war, it
would be hard to fina a more genial or gallant spirit than
Colonel C.c. White.  HIs abilities as a lawyer were of a
high order, and his brilliant social qualities and nobility
of character endeared him to all with whom he came in
contact.  He was emphatically a man of mark."