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Markesan, Wisconsin, Local History Web |
 | | Ripon's Booth War: Aftermath of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in Wisconsin, 1860: Arrested in 1854 for his role in freeing an escaped slave, Joshua Glover, and freed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Sherman Booth, notorious Wisconsin spokesman for abolition, was the center of a six-year legal struggle between State and Federal governments. |
 | | James Pond's Markesan Journal:The John Parker Exchanges, 1861: James Pond, an Alto native, ardent anti-slavery advocate, and editor of the Markesan Journal, sparked a heated exchange of letters at the start of the American Civil War with an April 26, 1861, editorial titled "Traitors in Markesan." |
 | | Looking for Osgood Learned: A Markesan area veteran of the famed 8th Wisconsin Infantry, Learned was wounded at the battle of Farmington, Mississippi, on May 9, 1862, and died three weeks later. |
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