Portage County Historical Society

Civil War - 1861-1865

The American Civil War or "War of the Rebellion" claimed more lives combined than all of the wars with U.S. involvement before or since. The Society has a small collection of Civil War items.

Portage County Civil War Memorial

Portage County
To Her Heroes Who Fought
And Her Martyrs Who Fell
That the Republic Might Live

Erected by

Stevens Post No. 156 G.A.R.
Department of Wisconsin
Plover Post 149
Capt. I. Eckles Post
Amherst 16
Blaine Post 115
Women's relief Corps No. 96
And the People of Portage Country
Dedicated Sept. 2, 1890

From Our Collections

• Portraits of Civil War Veterans.
• The Civil War Draft in Plover and Stevens Point: A Study in Efforts, Attitudes, Frustrations, and Results
• Jerome Adams
• Civil War Flag - carried by the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment
• Col. James S. Alban - Civil War hero killed at Shiloh.
• Jerome Nelson
• Plover's role in the Civil War
• Portage County Civil War Veterans - A list compiled by Malcom Rosholt for his history of Portage County: "Our County Our Story".