In this episode, we discuss the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's election, Wisconsin's response to Fort Sumter, and its preparedness for war.
Sources
Glazer, Walter S. “Wisconsin Goes to War: April, 1861.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 50, no. 2 (1967): 147–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4634225.
Klement, Frank. Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1997.
Larson, Ronald Paul. Wisconsin and the Civil War. Charleston: The History Press, 2017.
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