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The regiments mustered into the service of the United States during the year 1865 were: the Forty-fourth-Colonel George C. Symes ; the Forty-fifth-Colonel Henry F. Belitz; Forty- sixth-Colonel Frederick S. Lovell ; Forty-seventh-Colonel George C. Ginty ; Forty-eighth- Colonel Uri B. Pearsall; Forty-ninth-Colonel Samuel Fallows; Fiftieth-Colonel John G. Clark ; Fifty-first-Colonel Leonard Martin; Fifty-second-Lieutenant Colonel Hiram J. Lewis ; and Fifty-third-Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Pugh.
All of the fifty-three regiments of infantry raised in Wisconsin during the war, sooner or later moved to the South and were engaged there in one way or other, in aiding to suppress the rebellion. Twelve of these regiments were assigned to duty in the eastern division, which con- stituted the territory on both sides of the Potomac and upon the seaboard from Baltimore to Savannah. These twelve regiments were: the First (three months), Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Nineteenth, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth. Ten regiments were assigned to the central division, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Georgia. These ten were: the Tenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty- fourth, Thirtieth, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh. Added to these was the First (re-organized). Thirty-one regiments were ordered to the western division, embracing the country west and northwest of the central division. These were: the Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth. Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty- second, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third. During the war several transfers were made from one district to another. There were taken from the eastern division, the Third and Twenty-sixth, and sent to the central division; also the Fourth, which was sent to the department of the gulf. The Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven- teenth, Eighteenth, 'I'wenty-fifth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second were transferred from the western to the central department.
The four regiments of cavelry were assigned to the western division - the First regiment being afterward transferred to the central division. Of the thirteen batteries of light artillery, the Second, Fourth, and Eleventh, were assigned to the eastern division; the First and Third, to the central division ; the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth, to the western division. During the war, the First was transferred to the western division; while the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, and Twelfth, were transferred to the central division. Of the twelve batteries of the First regiment of heavy artillery - "A," "E," "F," "G," "H," "I," "' K," "L," and "M," were assigned to duty in the eastern division ; "B" and "C," to the central
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division ; and "I)," to the western division. Company "G," First regiment Berdan's sharp- shooters, was assigned to the eastern division.
The military officers of the State for 1865 were the same as the previous year, except that Brigadier General Lund resigned his position as quartermaster general, James M. Lynch being appointed in his place. The legislature of this year met in Madison on the 11th of January. "To the calls of the Government for troops," said Governor Lewis, in his message, "no State has responded with greater alacrity than has Wisconsin. She has sent to the field, since the commencement of the war, forty-four regiments of infantry, four regiments and one company of cavalry, one regiment of heavy artillery, thirteen batteries of light artillery, and one company of sharpshooters, making an aggregate (exclusive of hundred day men) of seventy-five thousand one hundred and thirty-three men."
Several military laws were passed at this session : one authorizing cities, towns, and villages to pay bounties to volunteers; another, incorporating the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home; two others, amending the act relative "to the commencement and prosecution of civil actions against persons in the military service of the country." One was passed authorizing the payment of salaries, clerk hire, and expenses, of the offices of the adjutant general and quartermaster general from the war fund; another, amending the act authorizing commissioned officers to take acknowledg- ment of deeds, affidavits and depositions; another, amending the act extending the right of suffrage to soldiers in the field. One act provides for correcting and completing the records of the adjutant general's office, relative to the military history of the individual members of the several military organizations of this State; another fixes the salary of the adjutant general and the quartermaster general, and their clerks and assistants; another prohibits volunteer or sub- stitute brokerage. One act was passed supplementary and explanatory of a previous one of the same session, authorizing towns, cities, or villages, to raise money to pay bounties to volunteers ; another, amending a law of 1864, relating to the relief of soldiers' families; and another, pro- viding for the establishment of State agencies for the relief and care of sick, wounded, and disabled Wisconsin soldiers. There was an act also passed, authorizing the borrowing of money for a period not exceeding seven months, to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, and defend the State in time of war,-the amount not to exceed $850,000.
On the 13th of April, 1865, orders were received to discontinue recruiting in Wisconsin, and to discharge all drafted men who had not been mustered in. About the first of May, orders. were issued for the muster out of all organizations whose term of service would expire on or before the first of the ensuing October. As a consequence, many Wisconsin soldiers were soon on their way home. State military officers devoted their time to the reception of returning regiments, to their payment by the United States, and to settling with those who were entitled to extra pay from the State. Finally, their employment ceased - the last soldier was mustered out -the War of the Rebellion was at an end. Wisconsin had furnished to the federal army during the conflict over ninety thousand men, a considerable number more than the several requisitions of the General Government called for. Nearly eleven thousand of these were killed or died of wounds received in battle, or fell victims to diseases contracted in the military service, to say nothing of those who died after their discharge, and whose deaths do not appear upon the mili- tary records. Nearly twelve million dollars were expended by the State authorities, and the people of the several counties and towns throughout the State, in their efforts to sustain the National Government.
Wisconsin feels, as well she may, proud of her record made in defense of national existence. Shoulder to shoulder with the other loyal States of the Union, she stood-always ranking among the foremost. From her workshops, her farms, her extensive pineries, she poured forth stalwart
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men, to fill up the organizations which she sent to the field. The blood of these brave men drenched almost every battle-field from Pennsylvania to the Rio Grande, from Missouri to Georgia. To chronicle the deeds and exploits-the heroic achievements-the noble enthusiasm -of the various regiments and military organizations sent by her to do battle against the hydra- headed monster secession - would be a lengthy but pleasant task; but these stirring annals belong to the history of our whole country. Therein will be told the story which, to the latest time in the existence of this republic, will be read with wonder and astonishment. But an out- line of the action of the State authorities and their labors, and of the origin of the various military organizations, in Wisconsin, to aid in the suppression of the rebellion, must needs contain a reference to other helps employed-mostly incidental, in many cases wholly charitable, but none the less effective : the sanitary operations of the State during the rebellion.
Foremost among the sanitary operations of Wisconsin during the war of the rebellion was the organization of the surgeon general's department - to the end that the troops sent to the field from the State should have a complete and adequate supply of medicine and instruments as well as an efficient medical staff. In 1861, Governor Randall introduced the practice of appoint- ing agents to travel with the regiments to the field, who were to take charge of the sick. The practice was not continued by Governor Harvey. On the 17th of June, 1862, an act of the legislature became a law authorizing the governor to take care of the sick and wounded soldiers of Wisconsin, and appropriated twenty thousand dollars for that purpose. Under this law several expeditions were sent out of the State to look after the unfortunate sons who were suffering from disease or wounds. Soldiers' aid societies were formed throughout the State soon after the opening scenes of the rebellion. When temporary sanitary operations were no longer a necessity in Wisconsin, there followed two military benevolent institutions intended to be of a permanent character : the Soldiers' Home at Milwaukee, and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Madison. The latter, however, has been discontinued. The former, started as a State institu- tion, is now wholly under the direction and support of the General Government.
Whether in the promptitude of her responses to the calls made on her by the General Govern- ment, in the courage or constancy of her soldiery in the field, or in the wisdom and efficiency with which her civil administration was conducted during the trying period covered by the war of the rebellion, Wisconsin proved herself the peer of any loyal State.
TABULAR STATEMENT.
We publish on the following pages the report of the Adjutant General at the close of the war, but before all the Wisconsin organizations had been mustered out. It shows how many brave men courageously forsook homes, friends and the comforts of peaceful avocations, offering their lives in defense of their country's honor. Twenty-two out of every hundred either died, were killed or wounded. Thirteen out of every hundred found a soldier's grave, while only 60 per cent of them marched home at the end of the war. Monuments may crumble, cities fall into decay, the tooth of time leave its impress on all the works of man, but the memory of the gallant deeds of the army of the Union in the great war of the rebellion, in which the sons of Wisconsin bore so conspicuous a part, will live in the minds of men so long as time and civilized governments endure.
Table showing total number of Volunteers originally in the several organizations from the State. and numerical strength at the close of war.
GAIN BY RECRUITS.
GAIN BY DRAFT.
LOSSES DURING THE SERVICE.
ORGANIZATION.
Original Strength.
1863.
1804.
1865.
1863.
1864.
1865.
Veteran Re-
Enlistments.
Total.
Death.
Missing.
Desertion.
Transfer.
Discharge.
Muster- Out.
First Infantry, three months
810
...
75
66
407
15
1508
235
57
47
298
871
Second Infantry, three years ..
979
70
284
290
179
110
237
2156
247
5
51
98
945
810
Fifth Infantry, three years ....
1108
58
171
18
79
411
61
237
2143
321
79
75
513
1148
Sixth Infantry, three years ...
1029
74
3.13
12
189
67
218
1932
391
44
106
473
912
Seventh Infantry, three years.
973
52
236
62
16
3
301
16.13
255
3
60
41
320
964
Eighth Infantry, three years.
870
109
180
43
1
219
1422
175
25
191
739
*Ninth Infantry, three years ..
916
20
85
268
24
62
147
363
1965
3.18
25
9
319
1264
Eleventh Infantry, three years ..
1045
8.1
314
22
177
2.1
1
519
2186
294
26
64
336
1466
Twelfth Infantry, three years.
970
169
212
33
83
72
392
1931
183
71
6
821
797
Fourteenth Infantry, three years .. ..
970
60
139
41
85
200
115
272
2182
287
13
97
23
407
1355
Fifteenth Infantry, threo years ..
801
20
76
1
1
88
165
19
243
2200
363
16
115
38
386
1262
Sixteenth Infantry, three years ..
9-11
77
298
10
136
213
287
1964
221
5
157
32
-1448
1101
Seventeenth Infantry, three years.
962
611
103
34
28
200
71
178
1637
220
78
208
23
266
843
Eighteenth Infantry, three years.
973
26
156
5
54
..
.
1
1129
227
41
115
222
52.1
990
12
120
6
100%
152
15
1171
288
40
99
26]
483
Twenty-second Infantry, three years,
1
118
4
1117
289
1
6
124
281
416
173
71
138
289
406
1018
20
282
10
6
1144
422
20
66
165
772
1002
81
10
1089
25.1
31
125
232
4.17
865
24
236
68
.
1137
231
31
81
221
573
961
2
11.1
I
1089
296
39
103
184
467 712
Thirty-first Infantry, three years ......
878
8
188
41
1078
11.4
52
33
167
710
1.174
275
58
189
926
196
37
170
637
961
8
1088
256, ..
11
177 ........
1014
290
21
38
214
445
708
25
76
64
135
130
1141
211
29
29
195
680
913
8
104
1032
108
551
211
208.
640
780
776
678
1008
67
18
119
138
646
Forty-second Infantry, ono year ...
877
130
1
867
38
8
913
70
10
1
39
763
877
235
2
1114
57
18
121
92
796
859
1.12
1001
261.
85
801
802
..
1058
210
684
25
50
..
.....
25
204
2256
285
4
105
33
405
1124
Third Infantry, three years.
1051
57
80
...
78
1266
261
6
51
134
46++
719
First Infantry, three years.
.
..
..
·
780
No Report.
780
13 ..
..
6 ..
....
570
578
..
990
15 . .
..
....
.
961
20
283
...
....
.
.
.
..
..
.
139
4
130
223
1605
226
31
196
1006
Twenty-third Infantry, three years ..
1003
70
4
..
1
..
3
1196
2.16
4
57
2.18
685
961
2
126
17
32 .
11
906
G9
220
23
I
1219
69
52
46
310
993
370
...
892
161
8
.
·
.
..
..
..
...
13
1034
219
21
23
316
455
Tenth Infantry, three years ...
. .
..
..
3
-IN
906
267
22
16
47
20-1
320
1066
70
5.17
12
..
270
1484
136
46
162
345
805
Nineteenth Infantry, three years ..
..
..
06
..
Twentieth Infantry, three years
Twenty-first Infantry, three years ..
1009
..
99.1
1077
13
..
..
.
100
1066
1066
14
Thirty-seeond Infantry, three years ... Thirty-third Infantry, three years ..... Thirty-fourth Infantry, nine months ... *Thirty-fifth Infantry, three years ..... Thirty-sixth Infantry, three years ..... Thirty-seventh Inf., one, two & three, Thirty-eighth Inf., one, two & three ... Thirty-ninth Inf., one hundred days ... Fortieth Infantry, one hundred days .. Forty-first Inf .. one hundred days .....
Forty-third Infantry, one year ...
Forty-fourth Infantry, one year ........ Forty-fifth Infantry, one year ....
..
..
...
810
3
5
7
76
945
.
.
.
.
·
.
..
. .
Twenty-fourth infantry, three years ... Twenty-fifth Infantry, three years ..... Twenty-sixth Infantry, three years ....
Twenty-seventh Infantry, three years Twenty-eighth Infantry, three years ... Twenty-ninth Infantry, three years ... Thirtieth Infantry, three years .... ..
186
472
*Thirteenth Infantry, three years.
1029
72
Gain by
Substitutes.
348
4
6
·
763
2
Forly-sixth Infantry, one year ..... .. Forty-seventh Infantry, one year .. Forty-eighth Infantry, one year. ..
9141
331
947
13 .........
81
31
41
854
58
985
84
23
29
87
812
927
... ... .. .....
.
..
4
832
67
36 *
........
6
173
775
Fiftieth Infantry, one year ....
0.12
16
958
28
141
8
·
6
12
16
11
406
389
8
14
5
4
315
Fifty-third Infantry, one year.
380
.
..
215
No Report.
366!
91
67
634|
1444
Second Cavalry, three years ...
1127
137
630
18
I
385
2510
271
5
103
33
557
1541
Third Cavalry, three years ..
1186
324
608
30
18
357
2523
9
126
64
418
1691
Fourth Cavalry, three years ...
1047
32
810
140
16
260
350
23
74
2
474
+754
Milwaukee.
83
1
...
34
303
22|
...
....
141
48
212
First Battery Light Artillery ..
155
17
53
42
Second Battery Light. Artillery.
153
5
35
2
48
243
12
..
3
60
177
Third Battery Light Artillery ..
170
35
32|
13
294
24
1
15
1
82
171
Fifth Battery Light Artilley ..
155,
5
6.4
1
79
30.1
24
1
5
61
213
Sixth Battery Light Artillery.
157
18
1
34
276
29
5
9
36
197
Seventh Battery Light Artillery ..
161
2
90
10
66
329
25
1
13
14
53
223
Eighth Battery Light Artillery.
155
4
53
6 ·
.
.
11
279
24
20
2
17
92
Eleventh Battery Light Artillery ..
87
1
1
6
...
...
31
342
30
1
2
81
105
123
Twelfth Battery Light Artillery ...
99
86
121
156
22
10
188
14
1
25
3
39
106
Thirteenth Battery Light Artillery ..
..
Heavy Artillery ..
120
103
80
20
361
12
37
4
22
286
Battery A, lleavy Artillery ..
185
-J
17
16
40
105
Battery B, Heavy Artillery ...
149
30
6 ..
.
11 ..
3
171
8
...
7
1
31
124
Battery D), tleavy Artillery ....
146
12
1
230
39
9
5
67
110
Battery E, Heavy Artillery ...
151
2
153
2
1
150
Battery F, lleavy Artillery ..
151
10
144
Battery G, lleavy Artillery ....
152
..
·
.
-
· .
·
·
.
·
10
144
Battery H, Heavy Artillery ..
151
.
·
·
·
.
·
·
.
3
10
144
Battery K, Heavy Artillery ..
148
9
.
.
.
.
155
..
.
.
·
.
6
145
Sharp Shooters, ..
105
43
37
Gibbons' Brigade Band ..
1
1
.
.
33
do
U. S. Colored Troops ..
171
46
21
1
244
Army and Navy ..
546
168
Out of State ..
14
5
33
52
Unassigned
611
12
97
537
5217
394
6868
Total
56792
3361
11245
2752
2361
5961
1798
1325
15784
91379
10868
258
3362
2961
15193
54052
Remaining in service Nov. 1, 1865 ....
* November 1, 1865. + October 1, 1865.
¿ Drafted men who paid commuutation ; volunteers, substituted and drafted men, mustered out before assignment; musters in tho field reported by the War Department,
withont stating organization.
¿ To the number of 615 remaining in the service, November 1, 1865, should be added 145 transferred from the Twentieth and Twenty-third Regiments.
91
25
....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
92
344
29
9
1
68
237
158
40
50
1
S
Ninth Battery Light Artillery ....
-17
89
30
2
·
.
39
134
3
2
8
·
.
· ·
25
... ..
29
Battery C, Heavy Artillery ...
146
11
..
.
·
.
.
·
· ·
.
1
154
10
152
Battery I, lleavy Artillery ....
150
13 .
163
1
157
10
145
Battery L, Heavy Artillery ..
152
Battery M, Heavy Artillery ..
152
.
.
194
34
8
4
43
58
47
15
No Report.
15
Blunt's Brigade Band ..
1
32
..
·
..
.
...
33
do
714
do
..
.
........
83
202
76
61
2602
First Cavalry, three years ..
112.1
295
597
193
22
.
...
9
93
No Report.
·
33
270
26
..
. .
·
1
38
...
.....
.
·
·
.
.
78
296
6
6
1
56
227
. ...
4
..
60
91
Tenth Battery Light Artillery ..
..
..
153
1
6
146
156
1
.
3
2
154
3
..
.
.
..
127*
...
Fifty-first Infantry, one year.
811
. ..
..
843
87
34
714
Fifty-second Infantry, one year.
486
511
. .
..
First Army Corps, Infantry ..
161
....
.
.....
·
.
.
.
.
·
.
. .. ...
.........
828
1002
18
Forty-ninth Infantry, one year ..
986
212
..
2305
93
Fourth Battery Light Artillery ..
151
1
60
...
.
..
..
..
..
..
·
·
...
..
3
9
do
16868
.....
4685
...
30
188
..
4
.....
25
215
.
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
TENTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR-1866-1867.
The inauguration of the newly elected State officers took place on Monday, January 1, 1866. The legislature, in its nineteenth regular session, convened on the tenth. H. I). Barron was elected speaker of the assembly. The "Union " and " Republican " members were in a majority in both branches of the legislature. "Our first duty," said Governor Fairchild in his message, "is to give thanks to Almighty God for all His mercies during the year that is past." " The people of no nation on earth," he continued, "have greater cause to be thankful than have our people. The enemies of the country have been overthrown in battle. The war has settled finally great questions at issue between ourselves." Among the joint resolutions passed at this session was one submitting the question of a constitutional convention to frame a new constitution for the State, to the people. The legislature adjourned on the twelfth of April, having been in session ninety-three days. At the general election in November of this year, there were elected to the Fortieth congress : H. E. Paine, from the first district; B. F. Hopkins, from the second; Amasa Cobb, from the third; C. A. Eldredge, from the fourth ; Philetus Sawyer, from the fifth, and C. C. Washburn, from the sixth district. All were republicans except Eldredge, who was elected as a democrat. The proposition for a constitutional conven- tion was voted upon by the people at this election, but was defeated.
The twentieth session of the legislature commenced on the ninth of January, 1867. Angus Cameron was elected speaker of the assembly. The legislature was strongly " Repub- lican-Union." The message of Governor Fairchild was read by him in person, on the tenth. On the twenty-third, the two houses, in joint convention, elected Timothy O. Howe United States senator for the term of six years, commencing on the fourth of March next ensuing. This legislature pissed an act submitting to the people at the next Fall election an amendment to section twenty-one of article four of the constitution of the State, providing for paying a salary of three hundred and fifty dollars to each member of the legislature, instead of a per diem allowance, as previously given. A sine die adjournment took place on the eleventh of April, after a service of ninety-three days.
To provide for the more efficient collection of license fees due the State, an act, approved on the day of adjournment, authorized the governor to appoint an agent of the treasury, to superintend and enforce the collection of fees due for licenses fixed by law. This law is still in force, the agent holding his office at the pleasure of the executive of the State.
On the 27th of March, Chief Justice Dixon resigned his office but was immediately appointed by the governor to the same position. At the election in April following, associate Justice Cole was re-elected, without opposition, for six years from the first Monday in January following. On the 16th of August, Associate Justice Downer having resigned, Byron Paine was appointed by the governor in his place.
The republican State ticket, in the Fall, was elected over the democratic-resulting in the choice of Lucius Fairchild for governor; Wyman Spooner, for lieutenant governor; Thomas S. Allen, Jr., secretary of state ; William E. Smith, for state treasurer; Charles R. Gill, for attorney general ; A. J. Craig, for superintendent of public instruction ; Jeremiah M. Rusk, for bank comptroller, and Henry Cordier, for state prison commissioner. Except Craig, all these officers were the former incumbents. The amendment to section 21 of article 4 of the constitution of the State. giving the members a salary instead of a per diem allowance, was adopted at this election. As it now stands, each member of the legislature receives, for his services, three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and ten cents for every mile he travels in going to and returning from the place of the meetings of the legislature. on the most
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usual route. In case of any extra session of the legislature, no additional compensation shall be allowed to any member thereof, either directly or indirectly.
ELEVENTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR (SECOND TERM)-1868-1869.
The Eleventh Administration in Wisconsin commenced at noon on the 6th day of January, 1868. This was the commencement of Governor Fairchild's second term. On the eighth of January, 1868, began the twenty-first regular session of the legislature of Wisconsin. A. M. Thomson was elected speaker of the assembly. Of the laws of a general nature passed by this legislature, was one abolishing the office of bank comptroller, transferring his duties to the state treasurer, and another providing for the establishing of libraries in the various townships of the State. A visible effect was produced by the constitutional amendment allowing members a salary, in abreviating this session, though not materially diminishing the amount of business transacted. A sine die adjournment took place on the sixth of March.
At the election in April, 1868, Chief Justice Dixon was chosen for the unexpired balance of his own term, ending on the first Monday of January, 1870. At the same election, Byron Paine was chosen associate justice for the unexpired balance of Associate Justice Downer's term, ending the Ist day of January, 1872.
At the Fall election in this year, republican electors were chosen over those upon the democratic ticket, for president and vice president ; and, as a consequence, Grant and Colfax received the vote of Wisconsin. Of the members elected at the same time, to the forty-first congress, all but one were republicans - Eldredge being a democrat. The successful ticket was : H. E. Paine, from the first district ; B. F. Hopkins, from the second ; Amasa Cobb, from the third ; C. A. Eldredge, from the fourth; Philetus Sawyer, from the fifth, and C. C. Washburn, from the sixth district. These were all members, form their respective districts, in the previous congress-the only instance since Wisconsin became a State of a re-election of all the incum- bents.
On the thirteenth of January, 1869, began the twenty-second regular session of the State legislature. A. M. Thomson was elected speaker of the assembly. A very important duty imposed upon both houses was the election of a United States senator in the place of James R. Doolittle. The republicans having a majority in the legislature on joint ballot, the excitement among the members belonging to that party rose to a high pitch. The candidates for nomina- tion were Matthew H. Carpenter and C. C. Washburn. The contest was, up to that time, unparalleled in Wisconsin for the amount of personal interest manifested. Both gentlemen had a large lobby influence assembled at Madison. Carpenter was successful before the republican nominating convention, on the sixth ballot. On the twenty-seventh of January, the two houses proceeded to ratify the nomination by electing him United States senator for six years, from the fourth of March following. One of the most important transactions entered into by the legis- lature of 1869 was the ratification of the suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States. Both houses adjourned sine die on the eleventh of March-a very short session. At the spring election, on the 6th of April, Luther S. Dixon was re-elected without opposition, chief justice of the supreme court, for a term of six years, from the first Monday in January next ensuing. In the Fall, both democrats and republicans put a State ticket in the field for the ensuing election : the republicans were successful, electing Lucius Fairchild, governor ; Thad- deus C. Pound, lieutenant governor; Llywelyn Breese, secretary of state; Henry Baetz, state treasurer ; S. S. Barlow, attorney general; george F. Wheeler, state prison commissioner ; and A. L. Craig, superintendent of public instruction. The office of bank comptroller expired on the 31st day of December, 1869, the duties of the office being transferred to the state treasurer.
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