Photos - 4th Wisconsin Infantrymen and Cavalrymen

Major General Halbert Eleazar Paine
Pre-war law partner with Carl Schurz
1st colonel of 4th Wisconsin Infantry
Left leg amputated as a result of June 14, 1863, assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Bean, 4th Wisconsin Infantry
University of MIchigan graduate; Professor of Mathematics at Carroll College, Waukesha, WI
Killed by a Confederate sharpshooter at Port Hudson, Louisiana, on May 29, 1863

Colonel Frederick Boardman, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry
U.S. Naval Academy Graduate
Killed near Olive Branch Church, Louisiana, while making a reconaissance across the Comite River on May 3, 1864
(Roger Hunt Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute)

Trooper Hans Peter Olson
Company G, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry
Rush River, Wisconsin
Died at on May 19, 1910, at age 81
Buried in Peach Lutheran Church cemetery, Baldwin, WI