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Proclamation - 10/24/1863..,to the People of the State of Wisconsin. From Gov. Edward Salomon…. Details of President Lincoln's call for an additional 300,000 volunteers and the pending draft in November 1863, as well as the schedule for the bounty to be paid to enlistees responding to this call. Gov. Edward Salomon wanted all citizens "fully and definitely advised concerning the proportion of men required from this State…and information of regulations adopted by the Government…" The proclamation talks about the raising of the 35th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. EDWARD SALOMON (1828-1909) was the first Jewish Governor of Wisconsin, having ascended to office from the Lieutenant Governorship after the accidental drowning of his predecessor. Salomon was born in Ströbeck, in the Province of Saxony, in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia. He attended the University of Berlin, but as a revolutionary sympathizer, fled the country in 1849. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where he was a school teacher, a surveyor, and served as deputy circuit court clerk. In 1852 he moved to Milwaukee, where he read law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and set up a law practice with Winfield Smith. When Salomon retired in 1894, he returned to Germany and lived there until his death. He was buried at Frankfurt's Alter Jüdischer Friedhof. Salomon was a cousin of Edward S. Salomon, the future Governor of the Washington Territory, considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish heroes in the American Civil War.

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