33 |
Previous | 1 of 179 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
Subset |
Loading content ...
MILITARY HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
CHAPTER I.
ACTION OF THE STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1861.
State Administration of 1860 and 1861—Resources—Legislature of 1861—GtOVernor's Message—Laws Passed—Fort Sumter— Popular Excitement—Call for 75,000 Militia—G-overnor's Pro¬ clamation—First Tender op Service—Only one Regiment— Reserve Regiments Authorized—First Regiment Organized— Captain Little—Proclamation to Women op Wisconsin—To the People—Companies Tendering Service—Surgeon General Wol¬ cott—Adjutant General Utley—Camp Randall—Second, Third, and Fourth Regiments—Defense of Washington—Meeting of Loyal Governors—Governor's Letter to President Lincoln- Generals King and Schurz—Two more Regiments Accepted— Patriotic Women—Letter of Governor Randall.
TN November, 1859, His Excellency Governor Alex. W. Ran dall, was reelected to the office of Governor of Wisconsin, and ' entered upon the duties of his second term on the first Mon- , day of January, 1860. The other State officere, elected in 1859, were the Hon. Butler G. Noble, as Lieutenant Governor, Hon. Louis P. Harvey, Secretary of State, Hon. Samuel D. Hastings, State Treasurer, being his second term, Hon. J. H. Howe, Attor¬ ney General, Hon. J. L. Pickard, State Superintendent of Schools, and Hon. G. Van Steenwyck, Bank Comptroller. The above named individuals composed the State administration for the years 1860 and 1861.
The reports of the several State officers, in 1860, exhibited the condition of the State before the outbreak of the rebellion. 3
Object Description
| Title | Action of the State 1861-1865, chapters 1-6 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| Source Title | Action of the State 1861-1865, chapters 1-6 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| Volume | 1 |
| Author/Creator | Quiner, E. B. (Edwin Bentley), d. 1868. |
| Description | This is an excerpt from E.B. Quiner's thousand-page volume, The Military History of Wisconsin: a record of the civil and military patriotism of the state, in the war for the union, with a history of the campaigns in which Wisconsin soldiers have been conspicuous, regimental histories, sketches of distinguished officers, the roll of the illustrious dead, movements of the Legislature and state officers, etc. (Chicago: Clarke & co., 1866). Because the entire work is so unwieldy and most users want to consult only a single chapter, we have divided it into smaller portions covering discrete topics. The entire work is online at Google Books (http://books.google.com/) and the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) in the most popular ereader formats. |
| Subcollection | Histories |
| Source Type | history |
| Place of Publication | Chicago |
| Source Creation Date | 1866 |
| Source Publisher | Clarke & Co. |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT0000d |
Description
| Title | 33 |
| Source Title | Action of the State 1861-1865, chapters 1-6 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| People | Randall, Alexander W., Gov. |
| Source Type | history |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Full text | MILITARY HISTORY OF WISCONSIN. CHAPTER I. ACTION OF THE STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1861. State Administration of 1860 and 1861—Resources—Legislature of 1861—GtOVernor's Message—Laws Passed—Fort Sumter— Popular Excitement—Call for 75,000 Militia—G-overnor's Pro¬ clamation—First Tender op Service—Only one Regiment— Reserve Regiments Authorized—First Regiment Organized— Captain Little—Proclamation to Women op Wisconsin—To the People—Companies Tendering Service—Surgeon General Wol¬ cott—Adjutant General Utley—Camp Randall—Second, Third, and Fourth Regiments—Defense of Washington—Meeting of Loyal Governors—Governor's Letter to President Lincoln- Generals King and Schurz—Two more Regiments Accepted— Patriotic Women—Letter of Governor Randall. TN November, 1859, His Excellency Governor Alex. W. Ran dall, was reelected to the office of Governor of Wisconsin, and ' entered upon the duties of his second term on the first Mon- , day of January, 1860. The other State officere, elected in 1859, were the Hon. Butler G. Noble, as Lieutenant Governor, Hon. Louis P. Harvey, Secretary of State, Hon. Samuel D. Hastings, State Treasurer, being his second term, Hon. J. H. Howe, Attor¬ ney General, Hon. J. L. Pickard, State Superintendent of Schools, and Hon. G. Van Steenwyck, Bank Comptroller. The above named individuals composed the State administration for the years 1860 and 1861. The reports of the several State officers, in 1860, exhibited the condition of the State before the outbreak of the rebellion. 3 |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT0036 |