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Letter - AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM H. WATSON, GOVERNOR SALOMON'S MILITARY SECRETARY, TO COLONEL THOMAS H. RUGER, COMMANDING THE THIRD WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, BANKS'S DIVISION, 19 SEPTEMBER 1862, CONCERNING CONSOLIDATION OF HIS REGIMENT IN ORDER "TO LEAVE ROOM FOR ONE OR MORE ENTIRELY NEW COMPANIES." Madison: 1862. Entirely in ink manuscript. Two Leaves, each written on recto only, on stationery of State of Wisconsin, Executive Department, with engraving of a tradesman and farmer flanking the Seal of the United States, and the motto "Forward" at the head. Engraved by Wellstood, Hanks, Hay & Whiting, New York. Watson informs Ruger that "The Governor is very desirous to have the old regiments filled, but you are aware that he cannot send men to them unless they volunteer. . . The recruiting officers who come home from these regiments are often very inefficient, while those for the new regiments get the men." A Wisconsin lawyer, Ruger was appointed Lieut. Colonel of the Third Wisconsin, and was soon promoted to Colonel. After the War he became Reconstruction Governor of Georgia. Edward Salomon [1828-1909], a Prussian-born Jew, was the eighth Governor of Wisconsin. He immigrated to the United States in the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, settled in Milwaukee, and developed a law practice. Originally a Democrat, he supported Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and was elected governor in 1861. He was the brother of Civil War veterans Bvt. Brig. Gen. Charles E. Salomon [1824-1894], Bvt. Maj. Gen. Frederick C. Salomon [1826-1897], and Sgt. Herman Salomon [1834-1881]; and cousin to Bvt. Brig. Gen. Edward Selig Salomon [1836-1913], Civil War hero and Governor of the Washington Territory from 1870-1872.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 12