FRANK ARETAS HASKELL Wisconsin History Commission: Reprints, No. 1...

BY FRANK ARETAS HASKELL Aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon, and Colonel of Thirty- sixth Wisconsin Infantry WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION NOVEMBER, 1908 TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED DEMOCRAT PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTER  ...

Frank Aretas Haskell was born at Tunbridge, Vermont, the son of Aretas and Ann (Folson) Haskell, on the 13th of July, 1828. Graduating from Dartmouth College with distinguished honors, in the class of 1854, the young man came to Madison in the autumn of that year, and entered the law firm of Orton, Atwood & Orton. His career in this profession was increasingly successful, until in 1861 it was interrupted by the outbreak of the War of Secession. Commissioned on June 20 of that year as Fir

The Great battle of Gettysburg is now an event of the past. The composition and strength of the armies, their leaders, the strategy, the tactics, the result, of that field are to-day by the side of those of Waterloo—matters of history. A few days ago these things were otherwise. This great event did not so “cast its shadow before,” as to moderate the hot sunshine that streamed upon our preceding march, or to relieve our minds of all apprehension of the result of the second great Rebel invasion o