Mr. Kent enlisted in Company E, Third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry.

The evidence

• “In 1860 Mr. Kent came to Janesville, Wis., and there, in response to President Lincoln's call for troops on November 6, 1861, enlisted in Company E, Third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, and entered the service as first lieutenant of his company, and served until June 13, 1863, when he resigned and returned home.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 424 / book p. 915

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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