Jon,

Thank you for your recent query to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.  I 
have checked and located the following in our Wisconsin Civil War database
concerning your request:
        
        PENNIE, Peter
        Corporal; Co. B, 25th Wisconsin Infantry
        Residence - Bloom (there was a community named Bloom City in Bloom
Township, Richland      County and I find other veterans from Bloom living
in Richland County in 1885.)
        Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862
        Mustered out June 7, 1865

I am keeping a file of Wisconsin Civil War veterans who are buried in 
states other than Wisconsin.  If you would furnish me with the date of death 
and burial location of this veteran I would add him to my list.  Thank you.

Additional information on Wisconsin Civil War veterans may be available 
at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which has the Official State 
of Wisconsin muster rolls.  To request information about the muster rolls,
please contact them at:  816 State St., Madison, WI  53706.  (The 
muster rolls are not on-line.) The muster rolls can contain age given at
enlistment, place of birth (probably not more than a country or a 
state), occupation, a brief physical description and a few military remarks. 
You can also view their web site through the Links page on the Wisconsin 
Veterans Museum web site.

You may find more about the Civil War veterans you are researching in 
the military and pension files at the National Archives in Washington, DC.  
If you are interested in family history, the pension files are often 
filled with a wealth of that.  To determine if there is a pension file on the 
name you are researching, you may first want to check Microfilm Publication 
T288, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934.  The following web site has 
a list of research facilities where T288 is available.
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/t288.html  The index gives a veteran's 
name, rank, unit, and term of service; names of dependent(s); the filing 
date; the application number; the certificate number; and the state from which 
the claim was filed.  If you find there is a file on record, you then want 
to request copies of NATF Form 85, at: General Reference Branch (NNRG-P),
National Archives and Records Administration, 7th and Pennsylvania 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC  20408.  The military record can be ordered using 
NATF Form 86. Forms can be ordered by email using this address:   <
inquire@arch2.nara.gov >  Use FORMS as a subject, indicate the form 
number, the quantity needed and your postal mailing address.  You will receive 
a response immediately, which is automatically generated whenever the 
word "form" or "forms" is detected in the message. Please refer to the 
following web site for a new price schedule and new forms effective November 13, 
2000: http://www.nara.gov/nara/newfees.html
 
If the Wisconsin Civil War veteran you are researching is in our 
database, a souvenir Civil War Certificate of Service is available by calling 
the 
gift shop manager at 608-267-1799, or by written request to: Wisconsin 
Veterans Museum, Gift Shop Manager, 30 W. Mifflin St., Madison, WI  53703.  Be 
sure to include name, company and regiment served with, and dates of service 
if known.  If you know where the veteran enlisted, that too could help us
locate the correct veteran.  The certificate, which is printed on 
parchment paper and is suitable for framing, shows the veterans name, unit 
served
with, enlistment location and dates served.  It also contains a list of
battles this veterans may have participated in and a brief regimental
history of his unit.  With the above information requested, send a 
check or money order for $8.70 (Wisconsin residents) or $8.25 (non-residents) to 
theWVM.  For each additional certificate, Wisconsin residents should add 
$6.59 and non-residents $6.25.  To assist you in your research of Wisconsin 
Civil War veterans, our gift shop sells a book that may be helpful to you,
RESEARCHING YOUR CIVIL WAR ANCESTORS IN WISCONSIN, by Dennis R. Moore,
Bivouac Publications, Manitowoc, WI, 1994.  The cost of this book is 
$15.99 plus sales tax if applicable and $3.00 for S&H.

Good luck with your research.  If you have any questions or concerns in 
the future, please feel free to contact me again.

Richard W. Harrison, Research Center Manager
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM
(608) 267-1790
email:  reference.desk@dva.state.wi.us 

Check out our web site at:
http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/dva/museum/wvmmain.html