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(This article is from "History of Monroe County" 1912 Monroe County,WI....cont. from previous post. SETH W.BUTTON During the summer of 1854 he worked at the carpenter's trade at Stillwater,Minn.; the next spring, being then nineteen years of age,he bought a breaking team of five yoke of oxen,mostly on credit,hired a boy younger than himself, and started from Green county across the country,past Madison,Devil's Lake and so along the ridge road just south of Sparta down into the valley and onto La Crosse,ferried his outfit across the river on one horse ferry,slept in the swamp on the west side of the river that night;in the morning he got his team together and steered his course to the country about 12 miles soutwest of Red Wing,Minn.,and in that vicinity he followed the business of breaking prairie during the summer,sleeping on the ground and cooking his own meals,and rustling his cattle in the high wet grass, going to work mornings wet to the shoulders with the heavy dews; in the late fall he sold his outfit, returning to Green County(WI),paid his debts and with a party of other young people started a select school and hired a teacher for the winter,studied hard, and finally in the district schools and Beloit College he fitted himself for teaching, this work and carpentering work he followed in the meantime keeping up with his studies and also the study of law; he finally passed a successful examination and was admitted to the bar in 1860 and opened a law office at Prescott,Wis,;the Civil War breaking out in 1861,he closed his office in the late summer of that year, enlisted in Company F. First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Starkweather's regiment; went to the front and soon was in the thick of the fight. For gallant conduct he was rapidly pomoted to grade of sergeant,first sergeant,orderly sergeant,sergeant,sergeant major of the regiment and second lieutenant by brevet; he had command of his company while a non-comissioned officer in the battle of Perrysville,Ky., and Stone River,Tenn.; was slightly wounded at Perrysville by a spent ball. In the battle of Chickamauga,Tenn.,he was severly wounded and thus ended his service at the front. As soon as he was able he was put on duty as a military conductor on the railroad from Nashville to Louisville and from Nashville to Johnsonville, Tenn. Judge Button's regiment the First Wisconsin Infantry, was always with Gen. G.H. Thomas'corps and was with him at the battle of Chickamauga, where this gallant old fighter was named the"Rock of Chickamauga." Lieutenant Button was in many fights during his military service and has had many experiences, not only in military,but in civil life. (To be continued)
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