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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Jasper Livingston Rewey

(1837 - 1905)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Platteville, he enlisted in Company C, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 15 August 1861. Promoted to Corporal.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Discharged 24 February 1863 for wounds.

After the War

By 1881, still in Plattesville, he was Deputy Sheriff of Grant County.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Further details from family genealogists and C.W. Butterfield's History of Grant County, Wisconsin (1881).

Birth

08/18/1837; Berkshire, Tioga County, NY

Death

01/31/1905; Wisner, NE; burial in Wisner Cemetery, Wisner, NE

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. 550 - 554 [AotW citation 10574]

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