Chaska History Book Excerpt James Maxwell
-lng the upr1s1ng. It then went south
serve in the Civil War and took part
the ~iege and capture of Mobile in
oil, 1865.
Frank Ess served in Company A of
Fourth Minnesota Regiment until the
"s end. During the war he participat-
in twenty two battles) was wounded
1 captured during Sherman' s l'~arch to
i. Later he escaped his capture, and
:urned to his company.
C. B. Terrill) a Chaska attorney
:-ing the ea~ly years) completed one
~ in the service and then re-enlisted
:,ing his second term) he was seriously
Inded in the arm. For a time it was
3red the arm would be amputated.
August Klammer lost a leg during
e war. Mustered in on August 27) 1864,
aIT@er received his training at Ft.
elling and then was ordered south to
shville. Early one morning during an
gagement) Klammer charged down a hill
ward the Confederate line ""hich \-Ias
g in behind a stone wall. As he neared
e wall, the ball from a musket hit him
attering his knee. The battle waged
st of the day. Finally) when all.was
iet in the late afternoon Klammer's
other, who was also in the unit, went
arching for him on the battlefield.
en found, Klammer was almost dead
om loss of blood) but he w~s hurried
am emergency hospital where his leg
s amputated at the knee.
Hospital conditions were primitive)
d Klammer spent the next several weeks
ying on the straw which served as his
d. Very little care was available.
.ilerecovering, he was stricken with
asles, yet somehow he survived. Then
en His leg had healed) he attempted
I walk again for the first time. He
,11 andso badly hurt the stub, that
.other amputation was performed. Klam-
,r survived it all, and returned to
nncsota, and became a familiar figure
I the Chaska post office.
Sebastian Einsiedler served in the
.uth. One morning he went out to get
pail of water at a nearby creek and
disappeared. It remains on open question
whether he deserted or was killed. His
widow, Theresa) later married another
early settler) Lambert Heutmaker.
Ch~ska'sdoctor, J. A. MacDonald,
entered the service in 1864. Some of
the other military rolls were: Nicholas
Sc~ ~.:nborn, John B03s, Fred lItis,
Mich~el Kessler, Herman Brinkhaus,
Engelbert Schneider, John A. Salter,
Henry Gobelhei, and Ha.rtin Stengp.r.
Jos~ph Keister served and died at
Vicksburg.
Among the Chanhassen men serving
in the Civil war) either from the north-
west part of the township or who later
moved to Chaska were: John Siems, Johan
Ess) William <'\nd James HaxHell) Hilliam
SchHie) and JaT!1eS Aspden.
Mathias Mason, another veteran of
the Civil War, was ope of the ~any
Chask<<ns who did not settle in Chaska
until long after the war was ended.
Mason came in 1872.
As stated earlier, Baxter served
with the Minnesota 4th Regiment. The
Fourth participated in c~mpaigns at
Missionary Ridge, Vicksburg) and marched
to the se~ with Sherman. Griggs led
Company B of the Minnesota Third Regi-
ment. The Third met a humiliating de-
feat at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in
July) 1862. After imprisonment some
of" it$ men were paroled and returned
to fight the Dakota. After the up-
rising was under control) the Third
turned again to the north south battle.
After the defeat of the Third)
Charles Warner wrote a snothing edi-
torial in the Herald. The editorIal)
a comparison of the Third and Fourth,
appeared three months after the Third
had fallen.
"It will be remembered that when
a call was made by the Governor for the
Fourth Regiment parties desiring to raise
recruits, held out the inducement th3t
the 'Fourth' would never be called from
the State and that the Regiment would
remain in inactivity and beyond the
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