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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
February 17, 2005 - Introduced by Senator S. Fitzgerald. Referred to Committee
on Senate Organization.
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1Relating to: Black History Month and honoring Company F of the 29th USCT.
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Whereas, February is Black History Month, giving all citizens an opportunity
3to recognize and celebrate the contributions African-Americans have made to
4Wisconsin, the United States, and the world; and
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Whereas, during the Civil War a substitution and bounty system was
6established, allowing states to hire nonresidents and substitutes to meet their draft
7quotas for soldiers in the Union Army; and
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Whereas, hundreds of African-Americans, including freemen and escaped
9slaves, were hired as substitutes and took the place of Wisconsin residents in combat,
10despite the fact that many of these African-Americans had never set foot in the state
11of Wisconsin; and
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Whereas, many of these African-American troops substituting for Wisconsin
13residents served in Company F of the 29th Infantry of U.S. Colored Troops, 9th Army
14Corps, 4th Division, in the 2nd Brigade in the Army of the Potomac; and
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1Whereas, the men of Company F of the 29th USCT served with distinction and
2valor on behalf of Wisconsin, seeing action in the Battle of the Crater, the Petersburg
3Campaign, the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, the Richmond Campaign, the
4Appomattox Campaign, and the Rio Grande Campaign; and
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Whereas, after the Civil War a small number of the surviving members of the
629th USCT returned without fanfare to live and work the remainder of their lives in
7Wisconsin; now, therefore, be it
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8Resolved by the senate, That as part of Black History Month, the members
9of the Wisconsin senate salute the service of the men of Company F, 29th USCT, who
10placed themselves in harm's way in the cause of freedom; and, be it further
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11Resolved, That the members of the Wisconsin senate honor the memory of
12those African-American troops who laid down their lives as substitutes for
13Wisconsin residents.
