During the Civil War, they answered the call. Most came home. All left something behind. Part One of Five A Town Answers the Call How Horicon, Wisconsin, went to war in the spring of 1861 165 years ago, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his first call for 75,000 volunteers in April 1861, the citizens of …
Dodge County Pioneers Before the railroads. Before the courthouses. Before Dodge County looked anything like it does today, this land was already home. The Ho-Chunk people and other Indigenous nations had lived among these marshes, prairies, and oak woodlands for countless generations before a single pioneer’s wagon ever arrived — hunting, farming, raising families, and …