Rollin P. Converse
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Jump to navigationJump to searchRollin P. Converse was a Captain in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Company B.
Antebellum
War Career
- Enlisted on May 10, 1861 in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Company B
- Sergeant
- Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on October 25, 1861
- Promoted to 1st Lieutenant on January 16, 1862
- Promoted to Captain on July 28, 1861
- Wounded in action at the Battle of Antietam
- Wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness
- Died on May 7, 1864 in a Rebel hospital of wounds
Post-War Career
Family
Notes
Sources
- Estabrook, Charles E. Wisconsin Losses in the Civil War. (Madison, Wis. Adjutant General's Dept., 1915). (Page 26)
- Wisconsin. Adjutant-General's Office. Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Volume 1. (Madison, 1886). (Page 500)
Categories:
- Wisconsin Soldiers
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry
- Wisconsin Officers
- Soldiers from Pierce County, Wisconsin
- Soldiers from Prescott, Wisconsin
- Source: RWV (1) 0500
- Source: WLCW 0026
- Wisconsin Wounded
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Wounded
- Wisconsin Wounded at Antietam
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Wounded at Antietam
- Wisconsin Wounded at the Wilderness
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Wounded at the Wilderness
- Wisconsin Prisoners
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Prisoners
- Wisconsin Prisoners at the Wilderness
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Prisoners at the Wilderness
- Wisconsin Killed
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Killed
- Wisconsin Killed at the Wilderness
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Killed at the Wilderness