Company E, Fifth Regiment (the Janesville Light Guard) was mustered into U.S. service at Camp Randall.

The evidence

• “On June 20 they passed through Janesville from Madison on their way to Washington and stopped here long enough to partake of a dinner which the ladies of the city had provided; tables were set in a groA'e occupying the site of Schaller & McKey's lumber yard on Center avenue. On June 22 of the same year (1861) Company E, of the Fifth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, H. M. Wheeler, captain, being the Janesville Light Guard, left Janesville for Camp Randall. They were mustered into the United States service on July 13, 1861, and mustered out July 16, 1865.”

  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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