History of New Jersey

      Wisconsin becaome a state on Mary 29,1848, but the land that makesup the state has been occupied by humans for thousands of years.

            In the confrontation to takes place in Wisconsin was the first attack on Fort Blue Mounds on June 6, in which one member of the local militia was killed outside of Fort. There was also the spafford Farm Massacre on June 14, the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on June 16, which was a United States victory, the second attack onFort Blue MOunds on june 20, and the Sinsinawa Mound raid on June 29. The Native Americans were defeated at the Battle of Wisconsin Heighs onJune 21, with farty to seventy killed and only one killed on the United States side.

       The United States did not firmly exercise control over Wisconsin until the War of 1812.

              In December 1847, a second constitutional convention was called. This constitution resulted in a new, more moderate state constitution that Wisconsinites approved in a March 1848 referendum, enabling Wisconsin to become the 30th state on May 29,1848. Wisconsin was the last state entirely east of the Mississippi  River ( and by extension the last state formed entirely from territory assigned to the U.S. in the 1783 Treaty of Paris) to be admitted to the Union.

               Wisconsin enrolled 91,379 men in the Union Army during the American Civil War. 272 of enlisted Wisconsin men were African American, and the rest were white. Of these, 3,794 were killed in action or mortally wounded, 8,022 died of disease, and 400 were killed in accidents. The total mortality was 12,216 men, about 13.4 precent of total enlistments. Many soldiers trained at Camp Randall, which currently house the University os Wisconsin's athletic stadium.

                The 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which fought in the western theater of war, is also worthy of mention, having fought at the Bttle of Iuka, the siege of Vicksburg, the Red River Campaign, and the Battle of its mascot, Old Abe.