Wisconsin

State: Wisconsin

Lat/Long: 45.0000, -90.0000

Created from the Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, Wisconsin was a free state and remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Its capital is Madison.

"An Act to Enable the People of Wisconsin Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union," 6 August 1846, Statutes at Large of the United States 9 (1862):56-58; "An Act for the Admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union," 3 March 1847, Statutes at Large of the United States 9 (1862):178-79; "An Act for the Admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union," 29 May 1848, Statutes at Large of the United States 9 (1862):233-35; Robert C. Nesbit, Wisconsin: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), 128-29, 211-24, 242-60.