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Cadwallader Colder Washburn (Wisconsin politician and soldier)

b. 1818-04-22 d. 1882-05-14

Wisconsin politician and soldier. Livermore, District of Maine, Massachusetts, native. Son of Israel Washburn and Martha "Patty" Washburn. Married to Jeannette Garr Washburn on January 1, 1849. Father of Jeannette Washburn and Fannie Washburn. Attorney in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, in 1850. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Served in the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as colonel from February 6, 1862 to July 16, 1862. Promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers on July 16, 1862. Promoted to Major General of Volunteers on November 29, 1862. Commanded the Military District of Western Tennessee. Resigned on May 25, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, Iowa County, Mineral Point, p. 307B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, La Crosse County, La Crosse Ward 3, p. 193B.

Albert V.B. Kelsey, "C.C. Washburn: The Evolution of a Flour Baron," Wisconsin Magazine of History, 88, No. 4 (Summer 2005): 38-51.

Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903 Volume 1, Part 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903), 1004.

"Ex-Gov. Washburn," The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), May 15, 1882, p. 1.

Citation

Washburn, Cadwallader Colder. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203586 (November 12, 2026).

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