David Knox Noyes

(1820 - 1900)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He completed school in the east, and went to Wisconsin following his father and brother in 1844. He tried lead mining, but was not successful, and he taught school. He volunteered for Mexican War service in 1848, but his unit was not accepted. He studied the law in Dodgeville, was admitted to the bar in March 1847, and then opened a practice and land office in Baraboo. He also founded and operated the Baraboo Rebublic newspaper and had a 320 acre farm. He served a term as State Assemblyman in 1856.

He was appointed First Lieutenant of Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 26 April 1861. He was promoted to Captain on 12 February 1862.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in the foot by an artillery round in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The remainder of the War:
His right foot was amputated. Home in Wisconsin, he served as a recruiter from January 1863 to July 1864, when he was discharged on disability from the 6th Infantry. He returned to active duty and was commissioned Major of the 49th Wisconsin Infantry on 28 January 1865. He was at St. Louis and Rolla, MO, and was on Court Martial service. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in November 1865, but mustered out that same month, before taking the rank.

After the War:
He founded another newspaper, the Independent, prospered from investments in land, and was postmaster of Baraboo from 1867-83.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Details from H. E. Cole's A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin (1918) and W. A. Ellis' Norwich University, 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, Vol. II (1911).

Birth Date: 10/28/1820    Place of Birth: Tunbridge, VT
College: Norwich University
Death Date: 11/24/1900    Death Place: Baraboo, WI    Burial Place: Walnut Hill Cemetery, Baraboo, WI

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 494 - 497; Vol. 2, pg. 846 [AotW citation 10257]

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