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CHAPTER T.
ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1864.
State Officers Elect in 1864—State Military Officers — Legis¬ lature Meets — Governor's Message—Laws Passed — Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg—Re-enlistment op Old Regi¬ ments— Call FOR 500,000 more — Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Regiments—Veteran Re-enlistments—Vete¬ ran Regiments ordered to General Sherman-—One Hundred Day Troops Organized—Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Regiments — Call for 500,000 Men for One, Two 'and Three Years—Excessive Quota—Enrolment Lists Corrected—Quota Reduced—Error Corrected — Forty-second Regiment — Fifth Regiment Re-organized—Forty-third Regiment—Heavy Artil¬ lery Regiment—Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Regiments — Draft in September—Result—Another Call for 300,000 — Close of 1864.
ON the first Monday in January, 1864, Governor Salomon re¬ signed the duties of his position to his successor, the Hon. James T. LcAvis, who was that day inaugurated as Governor of the State.
The State officers elect, for 1864, were :
Hon. James T. Lewis, Governor; Hon. Wyman Spoonek, Lieutenant Governor; General Lucius Fairchild, Secretary of State; Hon. S. D. Hastings, State Treasurer, (fourth term;) Hon.WiNFiELD Smith, Attorney General; Hon. J. L. Pickard, State Superintendent, (third term;) Hon.WiLiiiAM H..Ramsey, Bank Comptroller, (second term.)
The military officers for the State, for 1864, were:
His Excellency, James T. Lewis, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Brigadier General Augustus Gaylord, Adjutant General. Colonel S. Nye Gibbs, AssistaiU Adjutant General.
Brieadier General Nathaniel F. Lund, Quartermaster and Commissary General, and Chief of Ordnarice. Brigadier General B. B. Wolcott, Surgeon General. Colonel Fkank H. Fiumin, Military Secretary.
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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 | 168 |
| Source Title | Action of the State 1861-1865, chapters 1-6 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866) |
| People | Lewis, James T., 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 | CHAPTER T. ACTION OF STATE AUTHORITIES IN 1864. State Officers Elect in 1864—State Military Officers — Legis¬ lature Meets — Governor's Message—Laws Passed — Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg—Re-enlistment op Old Regi¬ ments— Call FOR 500,000 more — Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Regiments—Veteran Re-enlistments—Vete¬ ran Regiments ordered to General Sherman-—One Hundred Day Troops Organized—Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Regiments — Call for 500,000 Men for One, Two 'and Three Years—Excessive Quota—Enrolment Lists Corrected—Quota Reduced—Error Corrected — Forty-second Regiment — Fifth Regiment Re-organized—Forty-third Regiment—Heavy Artil¬ lery Regiment—Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Regiments — Draft in September—Result—Another Call for 300,000 — Close of 1864. ON the first Monday in January, 1864, Governor Salomon re¬ signed the duties of his position to his successor, the Hon. James T. LcAvis, who was that day inaugurated as Governor of the State. The State officers elect, for 1864, were : Hon. James T. Lewis, Governor; Hon. Wyman Spoonek, Lieutenant Governor; General Lucius Fairchild, Secretary of State; Hon. S. D. Hastings, State Treasurer, (fourth term;) Hon.WiNFiELD Smith, Attorney General; Hon. J. L. Pickard, State Superintendent, (third term;) Hon.WiLiiiAM H..Ramsey, Bank Comptroller, (second term.) The military officers for the State, for 1864, were: His Excellency, James T. Lewis, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Brigadier General Augustus Gaylord, Adjutant General. Colonel S. Nye Gibbs, AssistaiU Adjutant General. Brieadier General Nathaniel F. Lund, Quartermaster and Commissary General, and Chief of Ordnarice. Brigadier General B. B. Wolcott, Surgeon General. Colonel Fkank H. Fiumin, Military Secretary. |
| Digital Identifier | CWOT0173 |