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The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, [1] until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmont was initially chosen as the capital of the territory.
After the war, he was a Wisconsin legislator. Lucien Chase, son of Enoch Chase, was enlisted in Co. B, died due to disease after Perryville. William Disch was enlisted in Co. K and mustered out with the regiment. After the war, he was a Wisconsin legislator. Orlando Ellsworth was captain of Co. K, resigned due to illness after Stones River.
After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator. George F. Caldwell was a private in Co. D. He transferred to the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in 1865. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator. Samuel Abbott Ferrin was a hospital steward. He later served as an assistant surgeon in the 44th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. After ...
June 21–22, 1942 – Bombardment of Fort Stevens, the second attack on a U.S. military base in the continental U.S. in World War II. September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
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The 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment had a total enrollment of 1,089 men during its service, of which 191, (17.5%) were killed in action or mortally wounded, the fourth-highest percentage of any Union regiment. [ 1 ]
A and later commissioned first lieutenant, he resigned in June 1863, but re-enlisted with the 36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and was commissioned captain of Co. B in that regiment. After the war he became a Wisconsin state legislator, and was later sheriff of Dane County, Wisconsin and warden of the Waupun Correctional Institution.