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DEATH OF GOVERNOR HARVEY, 119
l^'ingjust below. Every eflbrt was made to rescue him from his perilous position, but the darloiess of the night rendered these attempts unavailing. Dr, Wolcott, General Brodhead, and others, were left to pursue the search for the body, and a reward of a thousand dollars was oflered for its recovery b}' the authorities of the State.
Attorney General Howe, on the receipt of the news at ?^Iadi- son, took the cars for Cairo, ^yiih a view to the recovery of the body of Governor Harvey, and was empowered to offer the above reward.
Lieutenant Governor Salomon assumed the duties of Gover¬ nor, and, on the 22d day of April, issued a proclamation stating the fact of the death of Governor Harvey, by drowning, on the 19th of April, while executing a noble and self-chosen mission of philanthropy, in tiying to recover from the recent battle field in Tennessee, the dead, and to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded soldiers of the State — that in assuming the duties of the office, which devolved upon him by that sad event, he tendered to the bereaved widow of its late beloved Chief Magis¬ trate the deep and sorrowful sympathy and condolence of the people of the State,
He recommended that, for thirty days from the date of the proclamation, all public offices, court houses and other public buildings be draped in mourning, and that, during that time, the people of the State wear the usual badges of sorrow.
He further appointed Thursday, the first day of May, 1862, as a day of public rest and cessation from public business, and re¬ commended the people of the State, on that day, between the hours of ten and twelve in the morning, to assemble in their respective to'^vns, cities and villages, then and there to commemo¬ rate the death of the late Governor, by such public demonstra¬ tions as may be appropriate to the occasion.
The national flags on the public buildings and camps, and shipping and private dwellings, in diflerent parts of the State, were at half mast, and the people united in rendering homage to the virtues of the departed Chief ]\Iagistrate.
Funeral ceremonies were performed in most of the cities of the State. At Madison, the public offices and business houses
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| 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 |
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| Title | 119 |
| Source Title | Action of the State 1861-1865, chapters 1-6 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| People | Salomon, Edward, 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 | DEATH OF GOVERNOR HARVEY, 119 l^'ingjust below. Every eflbrt was made to rescue him from his perilous position, but the darloiess of the night rendered these attempts unavailing. Dr, Wolcott, General Brodhead, and others, were left to pursue the search for the body, and a reward of a thousand dollars was oflered for its recovery b}' the authorities of the State. Attorney General Howe, on the receipt of the news at ?^Iadi- son, took the cars for Cairo, ^yiih a view to the recovery of the body of Governor Harvey, and was empowered to offer the above reward. Lieutenant Governor Salomon assumed the duties of Gover¬ nor, and, on the 22d day of April, issued a proclamation stating the fact of the death of Governor Harvey, by drowning, on the 19th of April, while executing a noble and self-chosen mission of philanthropy, in tiying to recover from the recent battle field in Tennessee, the dead, and to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded soldiers of the State — that in assuming the duties of the office, which devolved upon him by that sad event, he tendered to the bereaved widow of its late beloved Chief Magis¬ trate the deep and sorrowful sympathy and condolence of the people of the State, He recommended that, for thirty days from the date of the proclamation, all public offices, court houses and other public buildings be draped in mourning, and that, during that time, the people of the State wear the usual badges of sorrow. He further appointed Thursday, the first day of May, 1862, as a day of public rest and cessation from public business, and re¬ commended the people of the State, on that day, between the hours of ten and twelve in the morning, to assemble in their respective to'^vns, cities and villages, then and there to commemo¬ rate the death of the late Governor, by such public demonstra¬ tions as may be appropriate to the occasion. The national flags on the public buildings and camps, and shipping and private dwellings, in diflerent parts of the State, were at half mast, and the people united in rendering homage to the virtues of the departed Chief ]\Iagistrate. Funeral ceremonies were performed in most of the cities of the State. At Madison, the public offices and business houses |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT0122 |