. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rite companies—Continentals, Grays or LightGuards as a nucleus. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minne-sota each had been called upon for a regiment, and the responsewas almost instantaneous. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, morepopulated, had tendered more than the thousands demanded. By the 1st of June, there was camped or billeted aboutWashington the cream of the State soldiery of every common-wealth east of the Ohio and north of the Potomac—exceptMaryland. Maryland held aloof. Pennsylvania, asked fortwelve thousand men, had rushed tw
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rite companies—Continentals, Grays or LightGuards as a nucleus. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minne-sota each had been called upon for a regiment, and the responsewas almost instantaneous. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, morepopulated, had tendered more than the thousands demanded. By the 1st of June, there was camped or billeted aboutWashington the cream of the State soldiery of every common-wealth east of the Ohio and north of the Potomac—exceptMaryland. Maryland held aloof. Pennsylvania, asked fortwelve thousand men, had rushed twenty thousand to the mus-tering officers. Massachusetts, called on for fifteen hundred,sent more than twice that number within two days. Ohio,taxed for just ten thousand, responded with twelve thousand,and Missouri, where Southern sentiment was rife and St. Louisalmost a Southern stronghold, tumultuously raised ten thou-sand men, unarmed, undrilled, yet sorely needed. But forNathaniel Lyon of the regular army, and the prompt muster [ 74 ] Will II W W// A. SOLDIERS FROM THE WEST L\ 1861—FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY No less enthusiastic than the sister State across Lake Michigan was the then far-Western State of population in 1860 was 305,391, and the State furnished during the war 91,327 men, or nearly 30 percent, of the population. The States loss in men was 12,301. Within a week after the Presidents call for75,000 men, April 15, 1861, Governor Randall, of Wisconsin, had thirty-six companies offered him, althoughonly one regiment was Wisconsins quota under the Federal Governments apportionment. Within sixdays the first regiment was enrolled. Wisconsin suffered a financial panic within a fortnight after the fallof Fort Sumter. Thirty-eight banks out of one hundred and nine suspended payment, but the addedburden failed to check the enthusiasm of the people. The State contained large and varied groups ofsettlers of foreign birth. Among its troops at the front, the
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