Wisconsin Legislature Adjourns and War Prep News
The legislature adjourned. a state law passage and more acts will be reported next week. Captain Curtis prepares to march, with camp likely at Racine. The Fifth Wisconsin Editorial Association meeting is set for Watertown in June with speeches by B. A. Catkins and others. Also notes on national reactions to the war, appointments for arms purchases, and local incidents including a fatal drowning and a city fire.
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Bold
Racine
Wisconsin Editorial Association
Watertown
D. W. Bacon,Jr
Cer
Soo’y
Milwaukee Free Democrat
John FB. Potter
Washington
Flrst
Lake City
Minn
V. C. Price
Buffalo
N.Y
Sihitewates
Monitour
Janesville
Ford House
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Fife
Grover
Mentanen
Harti
Tonmesoa
Grover & Biker
Tong Ali
New York
Bryan
Ind
Berax
Comte Bazan
Baran
Brran
Slyert
Job Moses
Conger & Day
News items from the Civil War era up to secession
The Chicago Tribune backs sending western troops to Magnus to protect the Union. Tennessee men debate secession while Alabama and South Carolina push against Lincoln. Minnesota volunteers prepare by June, with regiments already en route to Fort Snelling. Jefferson Davis kin enlists in Rockford Illinois. Meantime a Philadelphia paper urges Meagher for high military post, and Cambria Regiment offers pay to join. Tennessee voters face secession on June 8 as mob terror looms. Savannah remains blockaded. Nashville notes rebel troop aims in Tennessee.
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Dudga Totten
Fuizone
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Fort Snelling
Jeff. Davis
Rockford
Natchez
Misa
Alabama
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Lincoln
Phiadelphia
Thomas Francis Meaghton
Cambria
Handall
Wisconsin
Frank Biai
Jim St. Louis
Washington
Congres
Missouri
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Savannah
New Orleans
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Wheeler
Wilson
New York
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Boston
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Qeorma
Saturay
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Col
Ellsworth
Peopl
North Carolina
Morrisville
Hertford County
Sitende All Union
A Contrast Between Free Labor and Slavery
A Milwaukee Free Democrat passage contrasts Northern freedom with Southern oppression. It claims Southern mobs drive off Northern workers, arrest them, strip them of property, and mistreat women while Northern people entering the South risk life. The piece calls slavery barbaric beside freedom’s civilization.
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Nuarber
Milwaukee Free Democrat
How Col Elsworth Was killed in Alexandria
Washington dispatch reports Col Ellsworth killed at the Marshall House after confronting a secession ensign on the roof. Fire Zouaves, led by Ellsworth, engaged, Brownwell killed Jackson, Ellsworth shot through the heart. The account also notes Hannay's letter defending federal liberties and a Barnum Museum mime cheer for the Union.
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Washington Dispatch
N.Y. Tribune
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Marshall House
Francis D. Brownwell
Troy
Fackson
Brownwell
Col. Ellsworth
Jackson
The Extra Session of Legislature Review
Summary of the extra session from the Madison Journal notes the session adjourned sine die at 10 am. It highlights military measures: authorizing three more state regiments, borrowing one million dollars for a war fund, and provisions for volunteers’ families, payment for discharged volunteers, and arms purchases. Also covers banking law changes, militia reorganizations, war fund accounting, chaplain and clerk expenses, and three signed joint resolutions on the governor’s absence, a Wisconsin volunteers brigade, and Col Ellsworth assassination reference.
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Madigan Journal
United States
Apecia
Regular Army
Executive Department
Wisconsin
War Department
Wisconsin Volunteers
Rufes King
Col
Ellaworth
Senato
Making History in the Northern States Tribune
A historical sketch argues the Civil War era featured unprecedented rebellion, devotion to human slavery, and government strain as wartime finance, conscription, and mobilization tests intensified. It cites Gen. Twiggs and Buchanan, calls for Kentucky oath, and notes a Southern press report on drill mishaps.
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N. S. Tribune
Sumter
The Condition of the South Aboard Philadelphia Press May 22
A visitor from New Orleans via Montgomery conveys alarming rebel preparations. Virginia secession, Confederate capital move to Richmond discussed, July Congress planned. English and Belgian arms flow to Southern ports. Norfolk cannons shifted to defenses. Fort Pickens under Bragg and coastal sandbag batteries rise. Rebel strength estimated around 8000 at Pickens, with 15000 to 175,600 in the field. Union sentiment persists among Cotton States. provisions and beef moving from Texas to New Orleans. cotton replaced by corn in crops.
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Royal Proclamation Neutrality Warns Subjects
Foreign items note Queen Victoria affirms peaceful ties with the United States and neutrality in the Civil War. Prohibition on enlisting, aiding, or equipping any side, with penalties under law of nations. Richmond Park issued notice alongside a brief local obituary about Lewy Muller, a boy killed by a steer incident near Fordham.
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Nuwork
United States
Confederate States of America
Snd
Priv. Council
Anid
Richmond Park
Adams County
Lewy Muller
Winn
Fordham
Wisconsin War Fund and Loan Act Enacted in 1861
The act provides for borrowing up to one million dollars to repel invasions, suppress insurrection, and defend the state. It authorizes Governor, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State to issue bonds, with payments and interest staggered, and funds to be managed as the War Fund. Provisions cover bond denominations, redemption schedule, and taxation to service debt. The act, approved May 27, 1861, also details bond registration and wartime spending rules.
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Piate
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Svarutiry
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