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Howard F. Pruyn GAR Post 168 Dorchester, Wisconsin Established July 9, 1884. Disbanded 1928. Charter Members: August Homsted was the first commander. From 1884 to 1928, Howeard F. Pruyn Post 168 served the veterans of Dorchester in Clark County. The post was never large, but its handful of veterans from the 1910s and 1920s kept the post in good standing with the department. Post 168 was named for Howard Pruyn, first lieutenant of Company A, Sixth Wisconsin, from Baraboo. Pruyn was in command of the company at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, and he was wounded in the regiment's charge at the railroad cut. He recovered and served with the Sixth until he was killed in action on May 8, 1864, at Laurel Hill, Virginia, in an opening engagement of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
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