Waupaca County, WI - Certificate of Service for Julius O Cady. Entered service Nov 25, 1863. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Record Type: Military Date Contributed: Jun 8, 1999 Subject: Miscellaneous Archive Form Researchers name :Terri Kuegel Email Address: RNBrigal@aol.com Record: Military Source: Certificate of Service Julius O Cady Entered service Nov 25, 1863. Into Company C First Wisconsin Veteran Cavalry from Farmington, WI. Drafted; Mustered out of service July 19, 1865 Surnames: CADY Information from Record: Recruiting for the First regiment of Cavalry was authorized in the summer of 1861, and Camp Fremont at Ripon, WI, was designated as the rendezvous. It became necessary to change the location and the camp was changed to Camp Harvey, Kenosha, WI on the 22 Nov 1861. Here the organization was perfected and the last Company mustered into the service of the United States on the 8 of March 1862. The regiment left the State on the 17 of March proceeding to St. Louis, MO and shortly thereafter to Cape Girardeau, MO. From this point as a headquarters the several companies were detached and sent to various points in Missouri and Arkansas for service, and until the latter part of May 1863 the regiment was engaged in similar duties at various points in this territory, when it was transferred to middle Tennessee, reaching Nashville, TN on the 14 of June and was assigned to the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Cumberland with which it was subsequently identified, serving chiefly in middle Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. In the summer of 1863 the regiment participated in the advance on Chattanooga, and was engaged on the extreme right of the Union line the battle of Chickamauga September 19-20, 1863. Thereafter followed a long series of movements which kept the cavalry engaged at different points guarding wagon trains and lines of communication and coming in frequent contact with the enemy. At the opening of the Atlanta Campaign, May 1 to September 8, 1864, the First was assigned to the Cavalry Corps accompanying the army of General Sherman. In this campaign it was almost constantly on the move performing the duties usually assigned to the cavalry. In October following the surrender of Atlanta, the First accompanied the forces sent in pursuit of the Confederate forces under General Hood who were invading middle Tennessee, and who were finally so signally defeated and crushed at the battles of Franklin and Nashville. After the defeat of the Confederates at Nashville, December 15! -16, 1864, the First Cavalry was engaged in pursuing the retreating rebel forces, for that purpose pushing into Alabama; continuing in active service until after the collapse of the Confederacy in the month of April, 1865. On the 6th of May 1865 the First Cavalry was stationed at Macon, GA at which point the command received orders to start in the pursuit of Jefferson Davis who was presumed to be escaping from the Union forces and at that time was in Southern Georgia. After an arduous march of several days and nights the First, with other Union Forces, succeeded in overtaking Mr. Davis and his suite on the 10 day of May, 1865 near Irwinville, GA, capturing the whole company. After the capture of Mr. Davis the regiment was transferred to Nashville, TN and mustered out of the service of the United States on the 19 day of July, 1865. Shortly thereafter it returned to Madison, WI and was disbanded.