Jacob Warner
Surnames: Chapman, Collyer, Colyer, Date, Martin
Regions: Madison Co., NY; Monticello, and New Glarus WI; Sylvester, Green Co., WI;
Military: Company C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry
Source: Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record Containing Personal Sketches of Army Men and Citizens Prominent in Loyality to the Union. Also a Chronological and Statistical History of the Civil War and A History of the Grand Army of the Republic With Portraits of Soldiers and Prominent Citizens. Chicago, Illinois, Grand Army Publishing Company, 1890 Copyrighted by H.O. Brown and M. A. W. Brown, 1888; Page 342
Jacob Warner, Monticello, Wis., member of G.A.R. Post No. 113, was born in Madison Co., New York, May 4, 1837, and is of Holland Dutch extraction in both lines of descent. His father and mother, Jacob and Maria (Collyer) Warner, were both born in the State of New York. the former was a tanner and currier and removed to Wisconsin in 1845; he located on a farm in Sylvester, Green County, effecting a later removal in 1854 to a farm near New Glarus where the father died Jan 26, 1861; the mother died Feb. 15, 1882, at the home of her son in Monticello, aged 84 years.
Mr. Warner passed his early life as a farmer boy until he enlisted June 7, 1861, in Company C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry and was a member of one of the first companies that left the county, enlisting for three years. He was mustered at Fond du Lac, and left the State July 12th for Hagerstown, Md., and Harper's Ferry, performing picket duty on the Potomac and engaging in one little scrimmage at the Ferry. In the fall the regiment went to Frederick City, Md., where their presence prevented the convening of the legislature which intended to vote the State out of the Union. In March, 1862, they crossed into Virginia, going to Charleston and Winchester, where Banks was in a fight. The 3d followed the enemy, returning to Strasburg where they had a smart skirmish with rebel cavalry, moving back to Winchester and Mr. Warner was in the successive activities until Martinsburg was reached. Their next action was at Cedar Mountain and they afterwards marched to Manassas, where they witnessed the second Bull run fight. They were sent forward to the defense of Washington, received orders to follow the rebels to Antietam, and Mr. Warner took part in that splendid battle. He afterwards performed picket duty on the Potomac until January, 1863, when they went into camp at Stafford C.H., and in the spring went to the campaign on the Rappahannock. He was in the activities along the river prior to the final disaster at Chancellorsville, where he was wounded May 4th, a ball striking him in the left ankle. The Union troops withdrew, leaving their wounded and dead and 13 days after, his comrades came under flag of truce and removed him. The wounded were all prisoners of war and as soon as possible were paroled by rebel officers. Mr. Warner was taken to the field hospital where his foot was amputated and he was sent to the hospital at Washington where he remained until his leg had healed, when he received honorable discharge, minus a good foot, Aug. 25, 1863.
He had four brothers in the civil war and, let the biographer arrest the pen a moment to call attention to the quality of blood and patriotism which sent five sons from one family to defend the flag. John I. Warner enlisted in 1862 in the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry; Andrew enlisted at the outbreak of the war, enrolling for three months and re-enlisting for three years in the same company and regiment; he was wounded in the left leg; William H. enlisted in 1862 in Company K, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, was taken sick at Nashville and died in the hospital. James L. enlisted in the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, was discharged with heart disease May 13, 1863, and on recovery re-enlisted in Company A, 27th Wisconsin Infantry, and was with his command until killed in front of Petersburg, June 19, 1864. Mr. Warner was a good soldier and is an enthusiastic Grand Army man. He wishes to record that, when Jackson attacked his command at Winchester, several of his comrades were captured, named Philip Morris, Robert McFarland and John Waldo.
Mr. Warner was married March 14, 1865, to Cynthia, daughter of Noah and Marion Elizabeth Chapman and who died July 13, 1870, without children. Mr. Warner was again married Aug. 21, 18--, to Charlotte E. (Martin) Date. She has three children by a former marriage who form an interesting family. The mother was born May 9, 1850. Her parents were born in England and came to America in 1849.