A company recruited largely from the Janesville fire department left Janesville for Madison; they became Company G of the Eighth Regiment.

The evidence

• “On August 12, 1861, a company recruited largely from the Janesville fire department left Janesville for Madison; they became Company G of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, W. B.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 46 / book p. 559

  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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