On this date Louis P. Harvey, Wisconsin Governor, was born in Connecticut. He taught school in both Kentucky and Ohio before relocating to Kenosha, where he worked as a newspaper editor. He was elected to the Wisconsin state senate in 1853, 1855, and 1857. In 1859 he was elected Secretary of State. He served as governor from January 6 to April 19, 1862. Louis P. Harvey died on April 19, 1862, in Savannah, Tennessee while delivering medical supplies to Wisconsin soldiers at Pittsburgh Landing. Harvey slipped while stepping from one boat to another and fell into the Tennessee River and drowned. His body was recovered four days later and returned to Madison. Governor Harvey is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery. [Source: First Ladies of Wisconsin-The Governors' Wives by Nancy G. Williams, p. 255]
1838 - Henry Smith Born
On this date, Henry Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his parents in 1844. Smith served as a member of the common council of Milwaukee from 1868 to 1872. He also served in the State assembly in the common council. Smith served as city comptroller from 1882 to 1884 and was elected as a Labor Party candidate to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889). After an unsuccessful attempt at re-election, Smith worked as an architect and builder. He was elected as a member of the board of aldermen of Milwaukee in 1898 and served until his death in Milwaukee on September 16, 1916. [Source: Biographical Guide of the United States Congress]
1864 - (Civil War) Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Campaign had begun two months earlier, in May, but a decisive battle was fought on July 22. Union forces met 37,000 Confederate troops in a battle that some historians consider one of the most desperate and bloody of the war. Although 20 percent of Confederate forces were killed, wounded, or missing at the end of the day, the South still controlled the city. The 1st, 12th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 31st Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 5th Wisconsin Light Artillery were engaged in the Battle of Atlanta.
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