Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will bring scattered thunderstorms and a high of eighty-three. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset 8:31, for 15h 14m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 72.95 of its visible disk illuminated.
In Friday’s FW poll, respondents could decide whether a Maryland house allegedly filled with snakes, unbeknownst to the buyers at the time of purchase, was a lost investment or a bonus herpetarium. A large majority (90.91%) thought that it was a lost investment. So little love, it seems, for black rat snakes…
On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee from Virginia introduces a resolution before the Second Continental Congress:
In August 1774, Lee was chosen as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In Lee’s Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read (in part):
Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress.
Lee later served as a president of Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
On this day in 1864, Union soldiers from Wisconsin enjoy a brief respite from the intense fighting of the Wilderness Campaign:
From May 31-June 12, 1864, more than 160,000 men clashed at Cold Harbor, Virginia, during the Wilderness Campaign. The 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 36th Wisconsin Infantry regiments took part. On June 7, the Iron Brigade regiments were moved to a position on the Union line where they were less exposed to enemy fire. “Our spirits rise wonderfully,” reported Col. Rufus Dawes. “It is impossible for one who has not undergone it, to fully understand the depression of spirits caused by such long, continued, and bloody fighting and work… We are having the first quiet day for more than a month.”