Good morning,
Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a day of heavy rain and thunderstorms, with a high of eighty-two degrees.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this date in 1820,
1820 – Louis P. Harvey Born
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]
I don’t know of any other case — certain to be rare in any event — in which a Wisconsin governor died during military service. More about Harvey, and his wife, is available at Wikipedia.