Waupaca County, WI - Certificate of Service for Julius O Cady. Entered service Nov 25, 1863.

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     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.