David Knox Noyes

He was a student at Norwich 1842-44 then went to Wisconsin, following his father and brother. 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.

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

He was treated at a field hospital where his right foot was amputated. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 November and sent on to Washington DC on 11 November. 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.

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

Service 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). Hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

10/28/1820; Tunbridge, VT

11/24/1900; Baraboo, WI; burial in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Baraboo, WI