Company D, Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry - June 7, 1862 to July 14, 1865
William Cox is one of the early settlers of the town of Hale. He resides on section 25, town 23, range 8 west, where he and his stepson, Oliver F. Jacobs, own a fine farm of 160 acres of good land, well improved, and here they live surrounded by all the comforts of life. He was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1825, and when he was ten years of age his parents emigrated to America, locating near Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, and here our subject grew to manhood. He enlisted June 7, 1862, in Company D, Twentieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in many important events of the war, including the siege of Vicksburg and the important event at Yazoo City, Brownsville and siege of Fort Morgan. He also took part at Meadville and at the siege of Spanish Fort, and received his discharge at Galveston, Texas, July 14, 1865. Although never wounded, like so many other brave soldiers who fought for their country in the late war, his constitution was very much shattered by his service in the army. Returning to Whitewater at the close of the war, he removed to Trempealeau Prairie the same year and settled on a farm, and soon after wedded Mrs. Jacobs, nee Catherine Ann Pierce, daughter of Zadick Pierce, a native of Massachusetts.
Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, pg. 644-645.
William Cox is one of the early settlers of the town of Hale. He resides on section 25, town 23, range 8 west, where he and his stepson, Oliver F. Jacobs, own a fine farm of 160 acres of good land, well improved, and here they live surrounded by all the comforts of life. He was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1825, and when he was ten years of age his parents emigrated to America, locating near Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, and here our subject grew to manhood. He enlisted June 7, 1862, in Company D, Twentieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in many important events of the war, including the siege of Vicksburg and the important event at Yazoo City, Brownsville and siege of Fort Morgan. He also took part at Meadville and at the siege of Spanish Fort, and received his discharge at Galveston, Texas, July 14, 1865. Although never wounded, like so many other brave soldiers who fought for their country in the late war, his constitution was very much shattered by his service in the army. Returning to Whitewater at the close of the war, he removed to Trempealeau Prairie the same year and settled on a farm, and soon after wedded Mrs. Jacobs, nee Catherine Ann Pierce, daughter of Zadick Pierce, a native of Massachusetts.
Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, pg. 644-645.
Company D, Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry - June 7, 1862 to July 14, 1865
William Cox is one of the early settlers of the town of Hale. He resides on section 25, town 23, range 8 west, where he and his stepson, Oliver F. Jacobs, own a fine farm of 160 acres of good land, well improved, and here they live surrounded by all the comforts of life. He was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1825, and when he was ten years of age his parents emigrated to America, locating near Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, and here our subject grew to manhood. He enlisted June 7, 1862, in Company D, Twentieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in many important events of the war, including the siege of Vicksburg and the important event at Yazoo City, Brownsville and siege of Fort Morgan. He also took part at Meadville and at the siege of Spanish Fort, and received his discharge at Galveston, Texas, July 14, 1865. Although never wounded, like so many other brave soldiers who fought for their country in the late war, his constitution was very much shattered by his service in the army. Returning to Whitewater at the close of the war, he removed to Trempealeau Prairie the same year and settled on a farm, and soon after wedded Mrs. Jacobs, nee Catherine Ann Pierce, daughter of Zadick Pierce, a native of Massachusetts.
Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, pg. 644-645.
William Cox is one of the early settlers of the town of Hale. He resides on section 25, town 23, range 8 west, where he and his stepson, Oliver F. Jacobs, own a fine farm of 160 acres of good land, well improved, and here they live surrounded by all the comforts of life. He was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1825, and when he was ten years of age his parents emigrated to America, locating near Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, and here our subject grew to manhood. He enlisted June 7, 1862, in Company D, Twentieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in many important events of the war, including the siege of Vicksburg and the important event at Yazoo City, Brownsville and siege of Fort Morgan. He also took part at Meadville and at the siege of Spanish Fort, and received his discharge at Galveston, Texas, July 14, 1865. Although never wounded, like so many other brave soldiers who fought for their country in the late war, his constitution was very much shattered by his service in the army. Returning to Whitewater at the close of the war, he removed to Trempealeau Prairie the same year and settled on a farm, and soon after wedded Mrs. Jacobs, nee Catherine Ann Pierce, daughter of Zadick Pierce, a native of Massachusetts.
Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, pg. 644-645.
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