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1009
..
994
1
118
4
1117
1003
..
70
4
1077
Twenty-eighth Infantry, three years ... Twenty-ninth Infantry, three years ... Thirtieth Infantry, three years ...
878
8
188
4
·
993
6
370
5
100
1474
892
164
8
2
961
20
283
186
472
.. 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-second Infantry, one year.
877
130
1
Forty-fifth Infantry, one year ...
GAIN BY RECRUITS.
GAIN BY DRAFT.
Gnin by
Substitutes.
810
3
5
76
719
First Infantry, three years ...
1266
261
6
51
134
466
348
979
70
945
75
Strength.
.
LOSSES DURING THE SERVICE.
·
.
578
6
..
2
570
961
114
11
1
1089
..
52
46
340
712
Thirty-first Infantry, three years.
1078
Thirty-second Infantry, three years ... Thirty-third Infantry, three years ...
139
4
130
223
1505
.
990
12
120
..
06
..
..
No Report.
780
763
1008
..
1066
Twenty-fourth Infantry, three years ... Twenty-fifth Infantry, three years ..... Twenty-sixth Infantry, three years .... Twenty-seventh Infantry, three years
10
2
78
Eighth Infantry, three years.
1029
72
treug
Forty-sixth Infantry, one year ......
914
33.
947|
18 .........
81
811
41!
854 812
Forty-seventh Infantry, one year .. ...
927
58
985
34
28
29
87
Forty-eighth Infantry, one year ... ..
828
4
832 9
67 .
173
775
Forty-ninth Infantry, one year
986
16 . .
958
28
141
127*
..
..
.
.
843
8
87
34
714
6
42
16
41
406
Fifty-second Infantry, one year.
380
9
389
8
14
5
47|
315
Fifty-third Infantry, one year
215
No Report.
First Army Corps, Infantry ..
164
83
202
76
61
2602
3661.
...
9]
67
634
1444
First Cavalry, three years ...
1127
137
630
212
18
1
385
2510
271
5
103
33.
557
1541
Second 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
2305
350
23
74
2
474
+754
Milwaukee ...
83
1
155
17
53
42
2
34
303
22|
..
6
7
30
188
Second Battery Light Artillery.
153
5
35
2
48
243
12
..
3
4
60
177
Third Battery Light Artillery ....
170
35
32
43
294
24
1
15
1
82
171
Fifth Battery Light Artilley ..
155
5
64
1
79
304
24
1
5
61
213
Sixth Battery Light Artillery.
..
158
40
50
1
3
92
344
29
25
1
13
14
53
223
Eighth Battery Light Artillery ..
161
2
90
10
.
.
.
78
296
6
.
4
60
91
47
89
30
2
11
279
...
..
87
1
1
39
134
.
..
2
81
105
123
Twelfth Battery Light Artillery
99
86
121
2
3
188
14
1
25
8
39
106
Thirteenth Battery Light Artillery .....
156
22
25
Heavy Artillery.
129
103
80
20 . ..
29
361
12
37
4
22
286
Battery A, Heavy Artillery ..
185
17
16
40
105
Battery B, lleavy Artillery ..
149
30
6 . ..
·
...
8
7
1
31
124
Battery C, Heavy Artillery ...
146
11
11
.
1
230
39
9
5
67
110
Battery D, lleavy Artillery ....
146
12
71
..
153
2
6
146
Battery F, lleavy Artillery ..
151
.. .
.
.
·
·
·
10
144
Battery II, Heavy Artillery ..
151
3
154
10
152
Battery 1, Heavy Artillery ..
150
. .
.
.
.
3
10
144
Battery K, Heavy Artillery ..
3
..
·
·
·
....
..
6
145
Sharp Shooters,.
105
13
37
.
15
Gibbons' Brigade Band ..
13
1
.... ....
1
32
..
.
.
171
46
21
5
1
244
Army and Navy ...
546
168
Out of State.
14
5
33
52
Unassigned
611
12
97
537
5217
394
6868
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 commutation ; volunteers, substituted and drafted men, mustered out before assignment; musters in the field reported by the War Department,
with‹ ut 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
...
..
.
·
.
·
·
.
·
.
.
·
·
.
157
18
64
1
2
34
276
29
..
..
1
68
237
Seventh Battery Light Artillery.
56
227
Ninth Battery Light Artillery ...
155
4
53
6
·
.
.
. .
·
.
342
30
1
20
2
17
92
Eleventh Battery Light Artillery .. ....
...
3
·
..
...
..
. .
10
145
Battery L, Heavy Artillery ..
152
3
..
...
.
9
194
8
4
43
58
47
15
No Report.
.....
.
33
do
33
U. S. Colored Troops ....
714
do
do
±6868
Total.
4685
.
·
33
270
26
..
..
151
1
60
1
38
No Report.
93
9
93
.
..
14
48
212
First Battery Light Artillery ...
.
1124
295
597
193
22
...
.
1002
18
.........
...
...
.
Fiftieth Infantry, one year ...
942
Fifty-first Infantry, one year ..
841
2
....
.
486
25
511
..
...
..
36 *
.... .....
6
16
. ..
·
155
Battery M, Heavy Artillery ...
152
2
154
·
341
.
1
Blunt's Brigade Band ..
152
4
156
1
1
10
144
Battery G, Heavy Artillery ....
151
2
.
·
153
1
2
163
1
13
9
157
..
1
150
Battery E, Heavy Artillery ..
66
329
6
1
36
197
......
...
Tenth Battery Light Artillery ..
24
6
31
.
10
25
·
.
171
215
Third Cavalry, three years ..
.
..
....
.....
.....
...
.
148
.
·
..
Fourth Battery Light Artillery ...
5
9
. .
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IIISTORY 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. D. 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 passed 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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WISCONSIN AS A STATE.
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.
94
HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
At this election, an amendment to sections 5 and 9 of article five of the constitution of the State was ratified and adopted by the people. Under this amendment, the governor receives, during his continuance in office, an annual compensation of five thousand dollars, which is in full for all traveling or other expenses incident to his duties. The lieutenant governor receives, during his continuance in office, an annual compensation of one thousand dollars.
TWELFTH ADMINISTRATION .- LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, GOVERNOR (THIRD TERM)-1870-1871. -
On the third of January, 1870, commenced the twelfth administration in Wisconsin, Gov- ernor Fairchild thus entering upon his third term as chief executive of the State; the only instance since the admission of Wisconsin into the Union, of the same person being twice re-elected to that office. It was an emphatic recognition of the value of his services in the gubernatorial chair. On the twelfth of January, the twenty-third regular session of the legis- lature of the State commenced at Madison. James M. Bingham was elected speaker of the assembly. Before the expiration of the month, Governor Fairchild received official information that over two hundred thousand dollars of the war claim of Wisconsin upon the General Govern- ment had been audited, considerable more than one hundred thousand having the previous year been allowed. In the month of March, an energetic effort was made in the legislature, by members from Milwaukee, to remove the seat of government from Madison to their city; but the project was defeated by a considerable majority in the assembly voting to postpone the matter indefinitely. According to section eight of article one of the constitution, as originally adopted, no person could be held to answer for a criminal offense unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in certain cases therein specified. The legislature of 1869 proposed an amendment against the "grand jury system " of the constitution, and referred it to the legislature of 1870 for their approval or rejection. The latter took up the proposition and agreed to it by the proper majority, and submitted it to the people at the next election for their ratification. The sine die adjournment of both houses took place on the seventeenth of March, 1870. On the first day of January, previous, the member of congress from the second district of the State, B. F. Hopkins, died, and David Atwood, republican, was elected to fill the vacancy on the fifteenth of February following.
Early in 1870, was organized the "Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters." By an act of the legislature approved March 16, of that year, it was incorporated, having among its- specific objects, researches and investigations in the various departments of the material, meta- physical, ethical, ethnological and social sciences; a progressive and thorough scientific survey of the State, with a view of determining its mineral, agricultural and other resources; the advancement of the useful arts, through the application of science, and by the encouragement of original invention; the encouragement of the fine arts, by means of honors and prizes awarded to artists for original works of superior merit; the formation of scientific, economical and art museums; the encouragement of philological and historical research; the collection and preservation of historic records, and the formation of a general library; and the diffusion of knowledge by the publication of original contributions to science, literature and the arts. The academy has already published four volumes of transactions, under authority of the State.
The fourth charitable institution established by Wisconsin was the " Northern Hospital for the Insane," located at Oshkosh, Winnebago county. It was authorized by an act of the legis- lature approved March 10, 1870. The law governing the admission of patients to this hospital is the same as to the Wisconsin State Hospital.
95
WISCONSIN AS A STATE.
On the third day of July, 1870, A. J. Craig, superintendent of public instruction, died of consumption, and Samuel Fallows was, on the 6th of that month, appointed by the governor to fill the place made vacant by his death. The census taken this year by the General Govern- ment, showed the population of Wisconsin to be over one million sixty-four thousand. At the Fall election for members to the forty-second congress, Alexander Mitchell. was chosen to represent the first district; G. W. Hazelton, the second; J. A. Barber, the third; C. A. Eldredge, the fourth; Philetus Sawyer, the fifth; and J. M. Rusk, the sixth district. Mitchell and Eldredge were democrats; the residue were republicans. The amendment to section 8, of article 7 of the constitution of the State, abolishing the grand jury system was ratified by a large majority. Under it, no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law, and no person, for the same offense, shall be put twice in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident and the presumption great ; and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.
Governor Fairchild, in his last annual message to the legislature, delivered to that body at its twenty-fourth regular session beginning on the eleventh of January, 1871, said that Wisconsin State polity was so wisely adapted to the needs of the people, and so favorable to the growth and prosperity of the commonwealth, as to require but few changes at the hands of the legisla- ture, and those rather of detail than of system. At the commencement of this session, William E. Smith was elected speaker of the assembly. A very carefully-perfected measure of this legislature was one providing for the trial of criminal offenses on information, without the inter- vention of a Grand Jury. A state commissioner of immigration, to be elected by the people, was provided for. Both bodies adjourned sine die on the twenty-fifth of March. On the thirteenth of January preceding, Associate Justice Byron Paine, of the supreme court, died; whereupon the governor, on the 20th of the same month, appointed in his place, until the Spring election should be held, William Penn Lyon. The latter, at the election in April, was chosen by the people to serve the unexpired time of Associate Justice Paine, ending the first Monday of Jan- uary, 1872, and for a full term of six years from the same date. On the 3d of April, Ole C. Johnson was appointed by the governor state commissioner of immigration, to serve until his successor at the next general election could be chosen by the people. To the end that the administration of public charity and correction should thereafter be conducted upon sound principles of economy, justice and humanity, and that the relations existing between the State and its dependent and criminal classes might be better understood, there was, by an act of the legislature, approved March 23, 1871, a "state board of charities and reform" created -to consist of five members to be appointed by the governor of the State, the duties of the members being to investigate and supervise the whole system of charitable and correctional institutions supported by the State or receiving aid from the State treasury, and on or before the first day of December in each year to report their proceedings to the executive of the State. This board was thereafter duly organized and its members have since reported annually to the governor their proceedings and the amount of their expenses, as required by law.
The "Wisconsin State Horticultural Society," although previously organized, first under the name of the " Wisconsin Fruit Growers' Association," was not incorporated until the 24th of March, 1871-the object of the society being to improve the condition of horticulture, rural adornment and landscape gardening. By a law of 1868, provision was made for the publication of the society's transactions in connection with the State agricultural society; but by the act
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN
of 1871, this law was repealed and an appropriation made for their yearly publication in separate form; resulting in the issuing, up to the present time, of nine volumes. The society holds annual meetings at Madison.
At the November election both republicans and democrats had a full ticket for the suffrages of the people. The republicans were successful, electing for governor, C. C. Washburn; M. H. Pettitt, for lieutenant governor ; Llywelyn Breese, for secretary of state ; Henry Baetz, for state treasurer ; Samuel Fallows, for superintendent of public instruction ; S. S. Barlow, for attorney general ; G. F. Wheeler, for state prison commissioner ; and O. C. Johnson, for state commis- sioner of immigration. At this election an amendment to article four of the constitution of the State was ratified and adopted by the people. As it now stands, the legislature is prohibited from enacting any special or private laws in the following cases : ist. For changing the names of persons or constituting one person the heir-at-law of another. 2d. For laying out, opening, or altering highways, except in cases of State roads extending into more than one county, and mili- tary roads to aid in the construction of which lands may be granted by congress. 3d. For authorizing persons to keep ferries across streams, at points wholly within this State. 4th. For authorizing the sale or mortgage of real or personal property of minors or others under disability. 5th. For locating or changing any county seat. 6th. For assessment or collection of taxes or for extending the time for the collection thereof. 7th. For granting corporate powers or privileges, except to cities. 8th. For authorizing the apportionment of any part of the school fund. 9th. For incorporating any town or village, or to amend the charter thereof. The legislature shall provide general laws for the transaction of any business that may be prohibited in the foregoing cases, and all such laws shall be uniform in their operation throughout the State.
Industrially considered, the year 1871 had but little to distinguish it from the average of previous years in the State, except that the late frosts of Spring and the drouth of Summer dimin- ished somewhat the yield of certain crops. With the exception of slight showers of only an hour or two's duration, in the month of September, no rain fell in Wisconsin from the eighth of July to the ninth of October-a period of three months. The consequence was a most calamitous event which will render the year 1871 memorable in the history of the State.
The great drouth of the Summer and Fall dried up the streams and swamps in Northern Wisconsin. In the forests, the fallen leaves and underbrush which covered the ground became very ignitable. The ground itself, especially in cases of alluvial or bottom lands, was so dry and parched as to burn readily to the depth of a foot or more. For many days preceding the com- mencement of the second week in October fires swept through the timbered country, and in some instances over prairies and " openings." Farmers, saw-mill owners, railroad men and all others interested in exposed property, labored day and night in contending against the advance of devouring fires, which were destroying, notwithstanding the ceaseless energies of the people, an occasional mill or house and sweeping off, here and there, fences, haystacks and barns. Over the counties lying upon Green bay and a portion of those contiguous thereto on the south, southwest and west, hung a general gloom. No rain came. All energies were exhausted from " fighting fire." The atmosphere was every where permeated with smoke. The waters of the bay and even Lake Michigan, in places, were so enveloped as to render navigation difficult and in some instances dangerous. It finally became very difficult to travel upon highways and on railroads. Time drew on-but there came no rain. The ground in very many places was burned over. Persons sought refuge-some in excavations in the earth, others in wells.
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