...id so with the expressed determination to pre- pare themselves to be great lawyers, or Congressmen, and many of the women planned to become music teac... ...here was a need for something to be done to prepare the way for successful lawyers, Congress- men, and music teachers. I felt that the conditions were... ...y privilege to know. This was the Rev. Robert C. Bedford, a white man from Wisconsin, who was then pas- tor of a little coloured Congregational church...

...e winter of 1860-1. We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. These generally knew I... ...ion as any in their section of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and som... ...he 12th all were in except a small force under Colo- nel Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin. He had been detained to guard the remainder of the stores which ... ...captured the garrison of 1,500 men commanded by Colonel Murphy, of the 8th Wisconsin regiment, and destroyed all our munitions of war, food and forage...