928 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
at Montrose, afterward at Pittsburg and finally at Philadel¬ 
phia. Before leaving his native state, he had designed and super¬ 
intended the erection of numerous public and private buildings. 
He moved to Chicago in 1854, but in the following year took 
up his residence at Madison, Wisconsin, with which city he 
afterward became prominently identified. 
In 1857, he was appointed architect of the Central Wiscon¬ 
sin state hospital for the insane at Madison, and superintended 
its construction until the commencement of the Civil war. In 
July 1861, he entered the First Wisconsin cavalry regiment as 
first lieutenant of Co. G, and was soon detailed as its adjutant. 
He was successively promoted captain of Co. E, senior major 
of his regiment, and then became lieutenant-colonel and colonel 
of U. S. volunteers by brevet. He was wounded May 2, and Sep¬ 
tember 26, 1862, at Cape Girardeau, and again severely, April 
24, 1863, in a desperate engagement with overwhelming num¬ 
bers of the Confederates in General Marmadiuke’s command, 
at White Water river, Missouri, which crippled him for life. 
Here he was captured as a prisoner of war; he was released on 
parole, and exchanged December 11, 1863. 
He recovered sufficiently from his wounds to re-enter the 
field with his regiment, and participated in the numerous en¬ 
gagements of that command in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama 
and Georgia, ending at Macon, with Wilson’s cavalry corps, at 
the end of the war. 
He was then detailed to collect the plans and report on the 
condition of the extensive Confederate public buildings at Ma¬ 
con and Augusta, and to gather up the records of the military 
posts, hospitals, etc., in Georgia and western South Carolina. 
He was ordered to report with them and other rebel archives, 
including the complete recordls of the provisional Confederate 
Congress held at Montgomery, Alabama, to the Secretary of 
War, at Washington. Here he remained until mustered out 
by special order of the War department on December 6, 1865. 
His military record was an honor to Wisconsin and the nation. 
From official reports and contemporaneous newspapers, it was 
demonstrated that Colonel Shipman was one of the most 
