sentences:  During the campaign, his son Alfred C. Potter had enlisted in the 28th Wisconsin Infantry in August 1862 as a sergeant, but would be mustered out the following April, and began receiving a pension in 1896.After Potter's congressional term ended in early 1863, he declined appointment as governor of Dakota Territory, and his wife died in May 1863 in Washington, D.C., leaving Potter a widower with a ten year old son.The Lincoln administration then appointed Potter as Consul General of the United States in the British-controlled Province of Canada from 1863 to 1866.