The Iron Brigade consisted of Midwestern regiments. It was the only Midwestern unit to fight with the Army of the Potomac.]]>
In 1893, U.S. forces overthrow Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and established a Provisional Government, establishing a U.S. territory on July 7, 1898 under controversial circumstances. This cartoon by John T. McCutcheon possibly refer to the Massie Trial, in which an intoxicated Thalia Massie, a white navy wife, asserted she had been raped and assaulted. The police arrested five plantation workers, whom Massie positively identified. Plantations workers tended to be any combination of Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Pilipino, and Portuguese, and many believe she accused them based on their race. One of the five was later severely beaten and another murdered. The murderers served an hour sentence in the Territorial Governor's executive chambers.]]>