Winnebago County In The Civil War

Although at the start of the war Winnebago County was sparsely settled, several men served in the Union forces from Forest City: Cornelius Baker, Harrison Beadle, John Beadle, Charles Church, Allen T. Cole, B. F. Densmore, James Lackore, William Lackore, David Luts, Hiram Landrau, and David Secore.

The Hayden Post G.A.R. roster in 1908 included J. W. Mahoney, J. F. Thompson, William Higinbotham, John Isaacs, C. M. Curtis, Royal Morgan, M. Barton, H. Goodmansoa, P. H. Johnson, W. M, Olmstead, B. A. Plummer, A. M. McEldany, C. Christophersen, Isaac Conner, L. C. Green, J. W. Allen, Peter Hanson, and H. A. Bates.

1908 also found the following Civil War veterans buried in Forest City cemeteries: J. W. Albright, T. J. Butcher, Albert Bolstad, John Clemmens, A. T. Cole, Mac. T. Garrett, Lewis Howes, Ed Johnson, Erasmus Johnson, William Jacomson, B. B. Ketchum, C. H. Lackore, William Lackore, Simon Masteller, Peter S. Nelson, John S. Olson, I. M. Peters, W. R. Peters, David Secore, Isaiah Virden, George P. Williams and R. Walts.

Buried in Madison Cemetery: A. Gross, James Lackore, John Aitchison, Charles Church, N. R. McCallister, L. W, Chase and John Durant.

L. C. "Lute" Green, died 1931 and A. N. Brones, died 1934, were the last surviving Civil War vets in Forest City. Green served in a New York infantry and came to Winnebago County just after the war. Brones served in the 43rd Wisconsin Infantry, and came here with his parents at the close of the war.