[2]: 715–716 In March 1864, they joined the Red River campaign, seeking to consolidate Union control over Louisiana and Arkansas.

[2]: 717–718  Bartholomew later recounted that during this time he cast the first vote of his life for Abraham Lincoln in an empty cartridge box in the field.

[3]: 249  He left the 23rd Wisconsin Infantry and went to meet the new regiment at Rolla, Missouri, where they remained on guard duty protecting supply lines.

[1] In 1883, he planned to move to Bismarck, which had just become the capital of the Dakota Territory, but instead settled at LaMoure and became a leading attorney in the region.

[1] He died of a sudden heart attack while clearing snow from his sidewalk just two months later, on March 24, 1901, aged 57 years.