Solomon M. Russell, from the Town of Richmond in Saint Croix County, enlisted October 5, 1861. He served in Company A of the 12th Wisconsin Infantry—the Lyon Light Guards from Prescott. Russell died June 26, 1863, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, from “disease.”
Edwin D. Levings, also in Company A of the 12the Wisconsin Infantry, wrote this to his father on July 1, 1863:
“Solomon Russell died of congestive fever after a short illness on the 26th ult. [June]. He was a good man & a true Christian & we miss him much.”
The following is from a July 1, 1863, letter written by his captain, Rollin P. Converse, and published in the July 18, 1863, issue of The Prescott Journal:
Co. A have also lost another estimable man in SOLOMAN M. RUSSELL, of Richland [sic: Richmond], St. Croix Co., who died of a fever but a few days since.
The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin 