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August 1862

The executive learned of a threatening attitude of some Indians in Wisconsin and stationed companies of the Thirtieth Regiment in the northwestern part of the State.

Meanwhile, closer to home

CountyAugust 5, 1862

$8,055 was subscribed to the bounty scrip at a Janesville evening war meeting (a 1908 passage gives the sum as about $8,000).

BeloitAugust 14, 1862

A Rock County man entered Company B, Twenty-second Wisconsin.

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The regionAugust 1862

The executive learned of a threatening attitude of some Indians in Wisconsin and stationed companies of the Thirtieth Regiment in the northwestern part of the State.

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August, 1862, the Executive- knew, from reliable authority, that there was really a threatening attitude on the part of some Indians in Wisconsin. Being without sufficient ariils and ammunition, he applied to the Secretary of War for a supply, sending immediately such as were at hand to the parts of the State that were becoming rapidly depopulated through fear of Indian raids ; and having no militia, he stationed companies' of the Thirtieth Regiment, which had just- been recruited, at various points in the north-western part of the State.

Love, William DeLoss. Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion: A History of All Regiments and Batteries the State Has Sent to the Field. Chicago: Church and Goodman, 1866. Cornell University Library copy, Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924095623637.PDF p. 750 / book p. 672

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August 1862

The executive learned of a threatening attitude of some Indians in Wisconsin and stationed companies of the Thirtieth Regiment in the northwestern part of the State.

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The regionAugust 1862

The executive learned of a threatening attitude of some Indians in Wisconsin and stationed companies of the Thirtieth Regiment in the northwestern part of the State.

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1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

August, 1862, the Executive- knew, from reliable authority, that there was really a threatening attitude on the part of some Indians in Wisconsin. Being without sufficient ariils and ammunition, he applied to the Secretary of War for a supply, sending immediately such as were at hand to the parts of the State that were becoming rapidly depopulated through fear of Indian raids ; and having no militia, he stationed companies' of the Thirtieth Regiment, which had just- been recruited, at various points in the north-western part of the State.