Addison A. Townsend

From Shullsburg, he enlisted in Company I, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry as Corporal on 2 June 1861.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged 22 April 1863 for disability.

He was a miner (with his father Abasalom, 1810-1888) to about 1871, sold farm implements to 1877, and was an insurance agent. He was Village Marshal, Deputy Sheriff and Sheriff, and Deputy United States Marshal. He was president of the Third Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Association and was a charter member of the Thomas H. Oates G.A.R. Post 96 in Shullsburg. He was a resident of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (probably the Northwestern Branch, in Milwaukee) by 1920. He may have transferred to the Western Branch in Leavenworth, KS in 1922.

Basic information from Bryant1. Details from Butterfield's History Of Lafayette County ... (1881) and family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave. Thanks to descendants Tony Townsend and Nancy Faulkner Brooke we have a fine c. 1883 photograph of him over on the blog. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison also has a copy in their collection.

08/20/1838; Shullsburg, WI

04/04/1926; Lafayette County, WI; burial in cremated, no gravesite