Title: Wisconsin. Governor: Military Correspondence
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1910

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Governor

Call Number: Series 49

Quantity: 15.4 c.f. (32 archives boxes, 12 card boxes, and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Incoming and some outgoing correspondence concerning military matters, particularly Wisconsin's participation in the Civil War. Included are letters from military officers, enlisted men, congressmen, disabled soldiers, soldiers' widows and parents, U.S. War Department officials, and equipment manufacturers about such matters as arms quotas, equipment of military companies, appointment and resignation of officers, general orders, and requests for discharges.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00049

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Incoming correspondence of the Civil War era (was Series 58, 1/1/5-11) was probably segregated at the Historical Society as part of a publication project of the Historical Records Commission. At this time part of the 1861 correspondence was transcribed and edited (was Series 26, 1/1/1-4) and some correspondence indexed by name. (The name index includes correspondence dating from 1861 to 1865, but, unfortunately, it is not known what correspondence is indexed; it is likely that the material referred to was the section entitled “Organization and Administration of the Army.”) The card index includes name, date, and address of the letterwriter. This section of the correspondence includes letters from governors, adjutant generals, manufacturers, military officers, enlisted men and civilians and it deals with topics such as appointment of officers, recruitment and formation of local military units, ordnance purchases, a proposed Chippewa Indian regiment, a powder mill at Platteville, desertion, troop movements out of Wisconsin, destruction of property during the Ozaukee draft riot, army hospitals, and veterans pensions. Topics of a similar nature are present in a separate file of telegrams, the majority of which date from 1861-1863. Two volumes of copied telegrams consist mainly of exchanges with the War Department and officials in Washington, D.C.; the loose telegrams are exchanges with others (was Series 54, 1/1/5-6; and Series 62, 1/1/5-16)

Acquisition Information

Includes former Series 26, 54, 58, and 62 and one item from Series 34.

	General correspondence
Box   1	Letterbook, 1848-1855 Note: Transferred from Series 34, 1/1/5-15.
	Incoming
Box   2	1844-1858 March
Box   3	1858 April-1866
Box   4	1867-1880
Box   5	1881-1897
Box   6	1898-1910
	Organization and administration of the Civil War Army Note: Was Series 58, 1/1/5-11.
Box   7 Folder   1	1837-1860
Box   7 Folder   2-9	1860 December-1861 April
Box   8	1861 May-June 26
Box   9	1861 June 27-August 19 Note: Includes transcriptions
Box   10	1861 August 20-September 18 Note: Includes transcriptions.
Box   11	1861 September 19-December 9
Box   12	1861 December 10-1962 March 9
Box   13	1862 March 10-July 21
Box   14	1862 July 22-August 13
Box   15	1862 August 14-September 5
Box   16	1862 September 6-November 13
Box   17	1862 November 14-26
Box   18	1862 November 27-December 8
Box   19	1862 December 9-31
Box   20	1863 January-February
Box   21	1863 March 1-June 20
Box   22	1863 June 21-October 31
Box   23	1863 November-1864 March
Box   24	1864 April-August 12
Box   25	1864 August 13-November
Box   26	1864 December-1865 April 13
Box   27	1865 April 14-August 31
Box   28 Folder   1-3	1865 September-November
Box   28 Folder   4-9	1866-1889
Box   28 Folder   10	Miscellaneous, unindexed items
	Name index to Civil War correspondence
Box   29	Abbott-Bowerman
Box   30	Bowles-Conatty
Box   31	Condict-Firman
Box   32	Firmin-Hawley
Box   33	Hawley-Kimberly
Box   34	King-McWeeney
Box   35	Machmuller-Peisons
Box   36	Pellage-Ryland
Box   37	Sachse-Strong
Box   38	Stroud-Waren
Box   39	Waring-Zweifel
Box   40	Petitions
	Transcriptions of 1861 correspondence by John W. Oliver Note: 1/1/1-4; Series 26
Box   41 Folder   1	Background on project
Box   41 Folder   2-7	Transcriptions and editorial notes in random order
Box   42-43	Transcriptions and editorial notes in random order, continued
	Telegrams
Box   44	Loose, 1861-1865, undated
Box   45	Telegram registers
Box   45 Folder   1	Index to Volume A
Box   45 Folder   2	1861 April 15-1862 September 17
Box   45 Folder   3	1862 September 17-1864 June 3