"The Menominee, Oneida and Stockbridge-Munsee nations had been pressured by government officials to abandon many of their traditional ways. . .  Yet in spite of this treatment by the government, these three tribes provided a total of almost three hundred volunteers -- over eight and a half percent of their combined populations.  Why would these people risk their increasing loss of land, traditions and overall way of life?"   Excerpted from his article in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 88, Winter 2004-2005.  Russell Horton will provide information on his study of Native American service in the Civil War.

Russell Horton is Reference and Outreach Archivist at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison.  He has held this position since 2001.  The Wisconsin Magazine of History published his Senior Honors Thesis which received the William Best Hazeltine award for the best original article of the year.