Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-30

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appointments and administration.
If there is any credit in it we want
Mr.. Upham to have 1t all:
ILLCONSIDERED APPOINTMENT.
Stevens Point Journal: Gov
Upham has appointed J. H. Wood
north of Waupaca as one of the
commissioners to locate sites for
the monuments which are to be
erected on the battlefield Of Chick
amauga, in memory of the
Wisconsin soldiers who lost their
lives there. 1t does not seem
possible that the Governor could
have given this appointment due
consideration. How a more in
appropriate one could have been
made, in view of all the circum-
stances, it would be difficult to
conceive. The 2Ist Wisconsin
did excellent service at Chlcka-
manga. The battle lasted two
days. 1t was one of the bloodiest
of the war, and the 2Ist was
under fire and in the front rank of
battle from the first to the last.
Many of its members have been
sleeping in unknown graves down
there ever since; and now that
monuments are to be erected to
perpetuate their memories it would
seem that the duty of locating the
places where SO many members
of that regiment fought and died
should be entrusted to some one
who shared with them the danger
Of those two terrible days of
carnage. This Mr.. Woodnorth
did not do. In fact he was not in
the service at that time. The
battle of Chickamauga was fought
September 10Th and Goth, 1868,
and Woodnorth did not enter the
army until the following Decem-
Der. Personally of course there
could be no objection to the
appointment of Mr.. Woodnorth,
but it is a little tough on those
who took part in that battle and
fought under Buell., Rosecranz,
Thoms, Grant and Sherman all the
way from Louisville to the sea, to
be passed over and have the place
given to a man who was not with
in thousand miles of the battle
field where the monuments are to
be erected. AS long as there was
one survivor of that regiment who
took part in that battle, no matter
how humble his present position
may be, he should have been
given the place in preference to
anyone else in the whole world.
If Mr.. Woodnorth is a true
friend he will resign, and thus give
the Governor an opportunity to
! correct a serious mistake
Waupaca Post, Mch. ID, '95.-
Gov. Upham is getting justly
censured for the appointment Of
Col. ~ J. H. Woodnorth as one Of
the commissioners to locate sites
for the monuments which are 10
be erected on the battlefield of
Chickamauga, in memory of the
Wisconsin soldiers who lost their
lives there. Woodnorth was not
at that battle, in fact he was not in
the service when that battle was
fought, and even his friends were
surprised at the appointment.
Why Gov. Upham should pass by
such men as Chris. Hill and others
of his standing who were in the
2Ist regiment, and who are emf
nently able to act, no one seems to
know. The survivors Of the 24th
regiment are also complaining
because they have not a represent
tative in the commission.
THE BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF EX-
STATE TREASURES.
Evening Wisconsin,: The Wis
consin has been unable to advise
the Republican members of the
Legislature to vote for the Baetz-
Kuehn bill, which has passed
both houses by large majorities.
Irrespective of the so-called extra
legal or intrinsic merits of the