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EDMUND JUS8EN, ICh u r?l*-ct Committee. lt;♦«»The rcaitdiuav tan Kegimeut.We dtp the following from the description the Chicago Tribune give* of the pa t-a^e of this B g meet to and through the c; y ol Chicago on Sunday lat:4* Soon a ttr leaving Madison, however, they erjCouuftrtd a heavy smw-etorm, which so impeded their progress that they Were lou'r hours in reachn g Janesville.— At one point on the loute the soldiers weie obliged to shovel the snow hum the track be'«»re they could proceed. They arrive : here at 7 P. m, and were met at the Northwestern Dej»ot by the Society Nora, uodt r tiie lead ot Marshal Lobtrg and Prtt-ident Roberg, and escorted through the city. Their line of march was ms fallow*: Up I esplines street to Ki zie up Kit zie to Clark, op Clark to KaO’ oipb, up Randolph to Weils, Up Wells to Madison, up Madison to the corner of Market Btree . Here the regiment whs drawn up in front of the Garden City Hotel, w iere a tplendid dag was presented to theui by the Sooieiy Nora. The presentation speech was made by C. Didrich-sen, in the Norwegian language, txprearag the warm sympathy of the Society and biddng the regiment God speed. Col. Ueg r* apon 1ed iu fitting terras, in the •a:lie i»; g age. The lisg is inscribed—I ie?tn ed by the Society Nora of Chicago to the Scandinavian Regiment, March 1, 1802 ” The motto is—‘-For God and our Country.” Ou the one side are the American colors, with gilt stirs on a blue field. On the reverse are the American and Nlt; rwe^iau tom!* united, the Norwegian arum representing a lion with an ax, on a red field.1 be £ fwenth Regiment, better known as the Scandinavian Keguuent, contains 875 men, eorae ot whom were a worn in after 12 o’cl ck on Saturday night, and is ootnposed of the oest bone and sinew ot the North- west, the Scandinavians constituting its mam portion, having gallantly rallied in a body uuder the flag ol their adopted country. The command is armed with Belgiau r fl r8 and fully equipped and ready tor service. Many of the officers and men have already seen service iu a military capacity in their own com.try and are the better prepared to do their duty here,”uOn the Rami'aoe.”—The Wisconsin
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Madison Wisconsin Daily State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Mar 04, 1862
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