. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . , 7 ft, /a m. SOLDIERS FROM THE WEST IN 1861—FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY No less enthusiastic than the sister State across Lake Michigan was the then far-Western Slate of population in I860 was 305,391, and the State furnished during the war 91,327 men, or nearly SO percent, of the population. The States loss in men was 12,301. Within a week after the Presidents call for7,5,000 men, April , 1861, Governor Randall, of Wisconsin, had thirty-six companies o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . , 7 ft, /a m. SOLDIERS FROM THE WEST IN 1861—FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY No less enthusiastic than the sister State across Lake Michigan was the then far-Western Slate of population in I860 was 305,391, and the State furnished during the war 91,327 men, or nearly SO percent, of the population. The States loss in men was 12,301. Within a week after the Presidents call for7,5,000 men, April , 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 hanks out of one hundred and nine suspended payment, hut the addedburden failed to check the enthusiasm of the people. The State contained large and varied group-* ofsettlers of foreign birth. Among its troops at the front, the Ninth, Twenty-sixth, and Forty-sixth Regimentswere almost wh
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