A Not-so-Southern Story:
Vine Baldwin Rose was born in 1824 in Pennsylvania. He married Sally Ann Curtis (b. 1819) on 23 August 1850 in Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York.
Vine B. Rose joined the Union Army in Aurora, WI on 20 August 1962 as a member of the 30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, H Company.
"They were lumbermen, farmers and miners, inured to hard work and privation. A majority were used to handling arms, many of them being hunters. A number were Indians from the Chippewa Reservation." Mr. Rose is shown on the left in the painting above.
After the war ended on 9 May 1856, Vine B. Rose mustered out on 29 May 1865.
Vine returned to farming. He, Sally, and their children (William, Philetus/Philos, Charlotte, Levi and Royal; elsewhere Lottie also listed) relocated to North Dakota, where, in Argusville, Vine died of "disease of the heart and lung" on 17 May 1888.
Vine B. Rose is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota.
-Vine B. Rose's Find A Grave page
-Read more about the 30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment's wartime movements here.
-Portrait and some family dates from Ancestry.com and Ancestry message board
-Other sources: family info and more info