Governor :—In submitting to your Excellency this, my fourth
annual report, it is with lively pleasure I recall the fact that the
day3 of our nation’s’civil strife are ended; that the victory of the
Union forces over an armed rebellion against the General Govern**
menfc is complete and final, and that with labors all done, and
well done, we have been permitted to welcome home again so
many of those who went forth from the state to battle in this great
struggle.
In the accomplishment of this result, Wisconsin has, in common
vrith her sister states, right nobly borne herself in every department aroused to activity by this contest: through her soldiers in
the field, and her patriotic men and women at home. Her sons
have gone forth manfully, achieving for themselves, and reflecting
honors upon their state, from e7cry battlefield.
Whether in the army of the Potomac, the army of the Cumberland, the Tennessee, or the Gulf, or in the more remote and
less conspicuous array, her soldiers have stood shoulder to shoulder with those of other states, equal with any, and second to none
in deeds of heroism and devotion to our ...