Alan T. Nolan, "The Iron Brigade" has more on the mustering in of the 7th Wisconsin and their trip to Washington:
"On September 21st, having been mustered in for three years, the ten companies of the Seventh, 1,106 officers and men, entrained for Washington. The receptions by the cities along the way were becoming more and more elaborate. In Chicago, where the regiment stopped change trains, a formal parade awaited them. Headed by the city officials, the line of march also included the police, bands, the Ellsworth Zouaves and other military companies. Following Colonel Vandor and Lieutenant Colonel Robinson, both mounted, the Seventh assumed its place in the column. Illuminated by gas light and a rising moon and to the cheers of the people who crowded the sidewalks along the route, the regiment marched past the Galena Depot, across the Wells Street Bridge, past the Briggs House and the Sherman House, up Clark Street past the offices of the Tribune, down Dearborn, and then west past the court house to the Fort Wayne Depot....... The soldiers then entered the cars where hot coffee and rations were distributed, while the officers were feted at the Briggs House as guest of the hotel. It was not until after midnight that the reception was over and the train headed for Washington and the more serious business at hand."
"The Seventh arrived in Washington on October 1st."
Entered by Arlin Krueger
"On September 21st, having been mustered in for three years, the ten companies of the Seventh, 1,106 officers and men, entrained for Washington. The receptions by the cities along the way were becoming more and more elaborate. In Chicago, where the regiment stopped change trains, a formal parade awaited them. Headed by the city officials, the line of march also included the police, bands, the Ellsworth Zouaves and other military companies. Following Colonel Vandor and Lieutenant Colonel Robinson, both mounted, the Seventh assumed its place in the column. Illuminated by gas light and a rising moon and to the cheers of the people who crowded the sidewalks along the route, the regiment marched past the Galena Depot, across the Wells Street Bridge, past the Briggs House and the Sherman House, up Clark Street past the offices of the Tribune, down Dearborn, and then west past the court house to the Fort Wayne Depot....... The soldiers then entered the cars where hot coffee and rations were distributed, while the officers were feted at the Briggs House as guest of the hotel. It was not until after midnight that the reception was over and the train headed for Washington and the more serious business at hand."
"The Seventh arrived in Washington on October 1st."
Entered by Arlin Krueger
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