Memorial Address,—Stephen Vaughn Shipman . 929 
efficient, gallant and dashing soldiers commissioned by the Bad¬ 
ger state. Three horses were killed under him in battle, and 
he bore upon his body till his death the scars of many hard- 
fought engagements. 
His famous cavalry charge, when surrounded and cut off 
from retreat while defending the bridge at the crossing on the 
White Water river, made through the attacking lines of the 
vastly superior force of the rebel General Marmaduke, in his 
celebrated raid on St. Louis, was pronounced one of the most 
brilliant of the war. By it he saved his whole command ex¬ 
cept fourteen killed] and wounded. This splendid deed won 
the surprise and admiration of the enemy, and Colonel Ship- 
man was ever afterward held by his fellow officers as a model, 
soldierly example. His heroic dash confirmed the maxim that 
cavalry should never surrender. 
On returning home, he was elected city treasurer of Madison 
without opposition. He also resumed his profession of archi¬ 
tect, and completed the hospital for the insane on the banks of 
Lake Mendota. His design for the rotunda and dome of the 
state capitol was adopted, and he received the appointment of 
architect for that structure and completed the building. He 
was supervising architect of the United States courthouse and 
post office at Madison to its final completion. He designed 
and superintended the construction of the northern state hospi¬ 
tal for the insane at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and was architect of 
the Iowa state hospital for the insane at Independence. He al¬ 
so designed and superintended the construction of the Northern 
Illinois state hospital for the insane at Elgin; and later re¬ 
built, with important additions and improvements, the Missou¬ 
ri state lunatic asylum, at St. Joseph. He rebuilt portions of 
the state prison at Waupun; designed and superintended the 
soldiers’ orphans’ home school; the Park hotel, the Eirst Na¬ 
tional Bank building, and many other edifices at Madison, and 
throughout the state of Wisconsin. 
He re-established an office in Chicago in 1870, and in the 
following year was one of the sufferers by the great fire. 
When he resumed business, his hands were full of commissions 
