Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout (1921) (14776228354)

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Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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redto the work of the fields, and gained but a limitededucational training. From Grant County, Wiscon-sin, he subsequently went to Lancaster County, Ne-braska, where he spent a brief two years, and thenas a passenger on the old Northern Pacific made thejourney into the new Northwest and to Montana,spending three years here before he brought in hisfamily. He arrived in Custer County in March,1882, and three years later, in 1885, he homesteadedon the Yellowstone River bottom, at the presentsite of Clearmont. With the passing years he im-proved and developed a good farm, and continuedactively identified with its interests until 1917, whenhe disposed of the property and located upon theflat nearby. At this second location he resumed hisextensive ranching and cattle interests, and aidedmaterially in the development and upbuilding ofthe community. Mr. Theade was a youth of twenty-one yearswhen he enlisted at old Patch Grove in Grant Coun-ty, Wisconsin, for service in the Civil war, becoming
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aUoC-Ji^ .^X^^^-d^A^ HISTORY OF MONTANA a member of Company C, Second Wisconsin Cavalry,under Captain Woods and Col. C. C. Washburn.The regiment rendezvoused at Milwaukee, was subse-quently sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, thenceup the Missouri River to Jefferson City, back toSpringfield, Missouri, and crossed the Ozark Moun-tains and joined the army of General Curtis July4, 1862, on its way to Helena. There real servicebegan with skirmishing and some fighting, whilelater on it took part in the Vicksburg campaignand helped beat the Confederates back to the lat-ter point, and was around the place when GeneralPemberton surrendered it. Mr. Theade at that timesaw 35,000 rebels walk out of the stronghold andbecome paroled prisoners. Following the Vicksburgcampaign the regiment scouted along the MississippiRiver and later was sent down the river from Mem-phis to the mouth of Red River, thence up thatstream to Alexandria, Louisiana, and there wentinto camp for a few weeks. From that point