Clement Warner

Colonel Clement Edson Warner (February 23, 1836 – May 20, 1916) was a Wisconsin farmer and officer in the American Civil War. He served two years (1867–68) as a Unionist member of the Wisconsin State Senate and one (1883) as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Dane County.

Warner was born in Batavia, New York on February 23, 1836; received a public school education; and became a farmer. He came to Wisconsin in 1852 and settled at Windsor, Wisconsin.

In 1857 he enrolled in classes at the University of Wisconsin. During the American Civil War he assisted in raising a company for the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and was mustered in as captain in March, 1864. They joined the Army of the Potomac in May. Within one hundred days the regiment was nearly annihilated in battles around Richmond and Petersburg, during which time Warner received commissions to major, lieutenant-colonel and full colonel. He lost an arm on August 14, 1864, while in command of the regiment at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom. He returned to his regiment in November and commanded it until the close of the war.