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A view of the Vicksburg campaign : a paper read before the Madison Literary Club, October 14, 1907
William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908) moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1851, settling in Madison. During the Civil War, he was commissioned a captain in Co. A, 23rd Wisconsin Infantry, and soon rose to Lt. Colonel. When Col. Joshua Guppey was incapacitated by illness, Vilas led the 23rd Infantry from May to September 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg. He resigned in July 1863 and later served in the cabinet of President Grover Cleveland and in the U.S. Senate. This book is not a memoir. Rather, its first 58 pages of this book are a straightforward narrative of the Vicksburg Campaign. Appendixes include a brief summary of each Wisconsin regiment's role and a bibliography.
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/quiner/id/42992/rec/103
William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908) moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1851, settling in Madison. During the Civil War, he was commissioned a captain in Co. A, 23rd Wisconsin Infantry, and soon rose to Lt. Colonel. When Col. Joshua Guppey was incapacitated by illness, Vilas led the 23rd Infantry from May to September 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg. He resigned in July 1863 and later served in the cabinet of President Grover Cleveland and in the U.S. Senate. This book is not a memoir. Rather, its first 58 pages of this book are a straightforward narrative of the Vicksburg Campaign. Appendixes include a brief summary of each Wisconsin regiment's role and a bibliography.
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/quiner/id/42992/rec/103