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Introductory
F THE distinguished service and splendid achieve-
ments of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery in
the great American Civil War, much has been
written, but no extended history of this famous
organization has heretofore been presented in
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v- book form. The inestimable value of the services of this Battery to
* the Government in the preservation of the Union is generally
~ admitted by all conversant with the history of " the time that tried
men's souls," covering the period of the War of the Rebellion, from
1862 to 1865.
Unfortunately in the burning of Chicago and in a subsequent
fire, all of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery records and mementos,
except such as are in the possession of the United States Government
or of individual members of the Battery, were destroyed, hence, the
value of the existing records herein compiled and which are not
dependent for accuracy upon the memory of surviving members of
the organization alone.
While no attempt will be made to relate the countless incidents
of high interest in the career of the noted Battery ; nor the per-
sonal experiences and reminiscences of its members, which had
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their rise during the years of active service the Battery saw in the
field, in camp, on the march and battlefield, it has long been the
desire of the friends of the patriotic organization that at least the
existing official records should be preserved in durable form. Such
a memento it is believed will be prized by the surviving members of
the Chicago Board of Trade Battery Association, and by their numer-
ous friends, and will prove a source of interest and pride to be
cherished by the decendants of the members, of the fighting battery
in the coming generations.
The Chicago Board of Trade Battery was among the very first of
the volunteer organizations to respond to President Abraham
Lincoln's'call for three hundred thousand men on July 6, 1862. Fif-
teen days thereafter the first members of the Battery signed the muster
roll for three years. Within the next forty-eight hours a full company
was enrolled. The story of the activities, valor, endurance and
capacity for fighting against all or any odds of this remarkable vol-
unteer organization is told only in outline in the existing records.
Beginning at Lawrenceburg, Ky., Oct. u, 1862, the Battery was
prominently engaged in the great battles of the West, moving rapidly
to effective participation in the battles of Stone River, Elk River,
Chickamauga, Farmington, Dallas, Decatur, Atlanta, Lovejoy, Nash-
ville and Selma, and in the great battles of the Army of the Cumberland
— Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Marietta, Vining
Station, Noonday Creek, Stone Mountain and in many minor engage-
ments and raids — altogether, in eleven of the hardest-fought battles
of the West ; in twenty-six other battles and in action forty-two times
when on scouts, raids, reconnoissances and outpost duty.
With such a record, marching with their horses and guns over
5,368 miles and traveling by rail 1,231 miles, it is not strange if this
memorial of their fighting days should recall to the surviving members
of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery recollections which will
cement still stronger the ties of comradeship and friendship existing
between them, and redound to their fame in military annals for all
time to come.
THE COMPILER.
CHICAGO, JULY 4, 1902
Organization of the Chicago Board of
Trade ^Battery Memorial
Association
(Application for Certificate of Incorporation.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, )
COOK COUNTY. \ ss'
To ISAAC N. PEARSON, Secretary of State :
We, the undersigned, B. F. Nourse, John C. Fleming, John B. Hall, S. M.
Randolph and J. H. Hildreth, citizens of the United States, propose to form a
Corporation under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, en-
titled "An Act Concerning Corporations," approved April 18, 1872, and all acts
amendatory thereof; and for the purposes of -such organization, we hereby state as
follows, to-wit :
i st. The name of such Corporation is The Chicago Board of Trade Battery
Memorial Association.
2nd. The object for which it is formed, is to secure a lot in Rosehill Cem-
etery, to erect monument thereon and for other purposes usual to an Association
of this kind.
jrd. The management of the aforesaid Association shall be vested in a
Board of Five Directors, who are to be elected annually.
4th. The following persons are hereby selected as the Directors to control
and manage said Corporation for the first year of its corporate existence, viz: B.
F. Nourse, John C. Fleming, John B. Hall, S. M. Randolph and J. H. Hildreth.
5th. The location is in Chicago, in the County of Cook, State of Illinois.
Signed,
B. F. NOI-RSE,
JOHN C. FLEMING,
JOHN B. HALL,
S. M. RANDOLPH,
J. H. HILDRETH.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, (
COOK COUNTY. \
ss.
I, Charles S. Vincent, a Notary Public in and for the County and State afore-
said, do hereby certify that on this fifteenth day of April, A. D. 1889, personally
appeared before me, B. F. Nourse, John C. Fleming, John B. Hall, S. M. Ran-
dolph and J. H. Hildreth, to me personally known to be the same persons who
executed the foregoing certificate, and severally acknowledged that they have
executed the same for the purposes therein set forth.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year
above written.
[SEAL] CHARLES S. VINCENT, Notary Pubhc.
STATE OF ILLINOIS — DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
ISAAC N. PEARSON, Secretary of State.
To all to whom these presents shall come — Greeting :
Whereas, a certificate, duly signed and acknowledged, having been filed in the
Office of the Secretary of State, on the iyth day of April, A. D. 1889, for the
organization of
'The Chicago 'Board of Trade Battery Memorial Association,
under and in accordance with the provisions of " An Act Concerning Corpora-
tions," approved April iSth, 1872, and in force July i, 1872, and all acts amenda-
tory thereof, a copy of which certificate is hereto attached.
Now, therefore, I, Isaac N. Pearson, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois,
by virtue of the powers and duties vested in me by law, do hereby certify that
the said, The Chicago Board of Trade Battery Memorial Association, is a legally
organized Corporation under the laws of this State.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the great
Seal of State.
Done at the City of Springfield, this seventeenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
[SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
thirteenth.
I. N. PEARSON, Secretary of State.
Constitution and 'By-
of the
Chicago Board of Trade Battery Memorial Association
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I.
SECTION i. The name of this Association shall be "The Chicago Board of
Trade Battery Memorial Association."
ARTICLE II.
SECTION i. Its objects shall be as set forth in the Charter from the State of
Illinois.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION i. This Association shall consist both of Veteran and Associate
Members.
BY-LAWS
ARTICLE I.
SECTION i. Any member of "The Chicago Board of Trade Battery" who
served with it in the field and was honorably discharged, shall be eligible
to Veteran Membership.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION i. All male descendants of Veteran Members, or of those eligible to
Veteran Membership, may become Associate Members upon attaining the
age of eighteen years, and when elected by the Board of Directors, shall be
entitled to all the privileges of Veteran Members.
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ARTICLE III.
SECTION i. The Board of Directors may, at any time, elect suitable persons as
Honorary Members.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION i. The Board of Directors shall consist of seven members, who shail
be elected at the annual meeting in 1890, three (3) to serve for one (i)
year, two for two (2) years and two for three (3) years; at the expiration of
whose terms their successors shall be elected for the term of three years
each. Said election shall be by ballot, a majority of all votes cast being
necessary for an election.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION r. Immediately after their election, the Board of Directors shall
organize by electing from their number, a President, Vice President, Sec-
retary and Treasurer, who shall also be the Officers of the Association;
their terms of office shall be for one year or until their successors are
elected and have qualified.
SECTION 2. This election shall be by ballot, four (4) votes being necessary for
a choice.
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION i. The Board of Directors shall control the property and general
interests of the Association, receive nominations for membership and act
upon same; consider complaints and may expel members for cause.
ARTICLE VII.
SECTION i. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of
the Association and Board of Directors, also to countersign all warrants
for the disbursement of funds.
ARTICLE VIII.
SECTION i. In the absence of the President, the Vice President shall perform
all the duties pertaining to that office.
ARTICLE IX.
SECTION i. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a correct record of all
meetings of the Association and Board of Directors, and conduct all
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correspondence. He shall also notify the Treasurer in writing, of all
disbursements ordered by the Board of Directors. And shall notify
the members of all special and annual meetings of the Association.
ARTICLE X.
SECTION i. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all funds paid in,
depositing them in the bank designated by the Board of Directors, and
shall disburse the same when ordered by them, with checks signed by
himself and countersigned by either the President or Vice President.
ARTICLE XI.
SECTION i. The annual meeting shall occur on the first Saturday in May, at
such hour and place as the Board of Directors may designate; due notice
of such meeting having been mailed to last known address of each mem-
ber by the Secretary at least one week prior to its occurrence.
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION i. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for meetings of the Asso-
ciation, and four for the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION i. The Annual Dues shall be two (2) dollars, payable either at the
annual meeting or within thirty (30) days thereafter. Dues may be
remitted by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE XIV.
SECTION i. These By- Laws may be amended or added to by a two-thirds vote
at any meeting of the Association, notice of change having been specified
in the call.
Historical Sketch of the Chicago
'Board of Trade 'Battery
CONDENSED historical sketch of the organiza-
tion and operations of the Chicago Board of Trade
Battery was, at the request of Adjt.-Gen. J. W.
Vance, compiled by B. F. Nourse, S. H. Stevens,
S. M. Randolph,]. C. Cambergand Charles Frink,
in May, 1886, and approved by the Veteran Battery Association,
June 24, 1886. The data is from diaries in the possession of the
Battery members which were written daily as the events at the
time occurred.
July 6, 1862, the President made a call for three hundred thou-
sand soldiers. There was not that ready response that characterized
previous demands. At this juncture men with minds to grasp the
situation, and whose moral judgment urged them to support the
right, appeared with a fixed determination. These characteristics
were developed in Chicago thus :
CHICAGO, ILL., July 16, 1862.
C. T. WHEELER, President of the Board of Trade :
We, the undersigned members, request you to call at an early day, a general
meeting of the Board to pledge ourselves to use our influence and money to recruit
a battery to be known as the Board of Trade Battery.
(TKORGK STEKI..
WM. STURGES,
K. AKIV,
M. C. STEARNS.
I. Y. MUNN,
G. L. SCOTT,
T. J. BRONSON,
C. H. WALKER, JR.,
E. G. WOLCOTT,
FLINT & THOMPSON.
The meeting was called in the Board rooms, corner South Water
and Wells streets, July 21, 1862. Second Vice-President John L.
Hancock presided with an outspoken patriotism in accord with the
assembly. C. H. Walker, Jr., introduced resolutions in harmony
with the call which were unanimously adopted. Subscriptions were
announced, and $5,121 was pledged. A muster roll was presented
bearing the legend, " Chicago Board of Trade Battery." The follow-
ing names were enrolled for three years, or the war : S. H. STEVENS,
S. C. STEVENS, J. W. BLOOM, CALVIN DURAND, VALENTINE STEEL,
H. B. CHANDLER, A. F. BAXTER, H. J. BAXTER, J. A. HOWARD.
The muster roll was entrusted to S. H. Stevens, and an adjourn-
ment taken. Thus was established a precedent — a commercial
leadership — with the material result of placing in the field the
Chicago Board of Trade Battery ; the j2d, 88th and ii3th infantry
regiments, Illinois Volunteers, and $50,000 war funds on deposit.
On lightning wings this action flew east and west, firing the patriot-
ism of commercial America until the nation felt its assuring influ-
ence. An enthusiastic meeting was held the evening of the 22d, and
the muster roll increased to 63 names. The roll was closed at
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4 P. M. on the 23d with 180 names and many waiting to sign. This
dispatch was transmitted :
BOARD OF TRADE ROOMS, CHICAGO, July 23, 1862.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States :
The Board of Trade of this city have within the last forty eight hours
raised Si 5,000 bounty money, and have recruited a full company of Artillery.
Signed,
J. L. HANCOCK,
WM. STURGES,
GEORGE ARMOI R,
C. H. WALKER JR.,
H. W. HINSDALE,
S. H. STEVENS.
July 24, 1862, company occupied City Armory as drill room.
August i, 1862, Captain J. Christopher, U. S. A., selected 155 men
from the 180 enrolled (there was no medical examination), and
mustered them into the service of the United States as the Chicago
Board of Trade Battery Ills. Vols. James H. Stokes, a graduate of
West Point Military Academy, was elected and mustered as Captain.
August 2d, en route to camp, marched in review past the Board of
Trade rooms on South Water street. Partook of the hospitality of
Mrs. Henry B. Clark, corner Michigan Boulevard and i6th street.
Marched to camp and pitched tents south of Camp Douglas, near
what is now 37th street and Stanton avenue. George I. Robinson
was elected Senior ist Lieutenant, Trumbull D. Griffin, Junior ist
Lieutenant. S. H. Stevens was appointed Orderly Sergeant.
August 4th, A. F. Baxter was elected Senior 2d Lieutenant: Henry
Bennett, Junior 2d Lieutenant. M. S. Sanford was appointed
Quartermaster Sergeant ; Calvin Durand, Commissary Sergeant :
F. J. Deane, ist Sergeant; L. B. Hand, 2d Sergeant; Wm. Ran-
dolph, 3d Sergeant; A. L. Adams, 4th Sergeant; George Bowers.
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5th Sergeant; M. H. Salisbury, 6th Sergeant; together with twelve
corporals, six artificers and two buglers. (For complete roster of the
Battery see Adjutant-General's report, Volume VIII, pages 644-647.)
August nth, received six James rifled ten-pounder field artillery
guns. August 1 3th, appeared for first time in uniform ; August
2oth, received no artillery horses; August 22, drilled with horses
for first time; September gth, broke camp and moved via M. C. R. R.;
arrived in Louisville on the loth, at 7 p. M.; i5th, grand review
on Broadway by General Charles Cruft ; i6th, exchanged four rifled
for four smooth-bored six- pounder guns. October i, 1862, the army
moved from Louisville on the campaign of Perryville. The battery
was attached to General Dumont's division, which occupied the
extreme left at Frankfort. October nth, brigade of General R. S.
Granger, of Dumont's division was ordered to report to Major-
General A. McD. McCook at the front. The battery moved with
the brigade. Struck rebel General Forrest's command at Lawrence-
burg. First engagement. One direct shot caused the enemy to
retreat. October 30, Major-General Rosecrans took command at
Louisville. A department of the Cumberland was the second time
created. The troops of the department were designated i4th Army
Corps. November 4th, the army ordered to advance on Nashville,
Tennessee. With General R. S. Granger in command of post of
Bowling Green, and Battery parked at headquarters, this kind of
soldiering was not our wish. Captain James H. Stokes made appli-
cation to be allowed to go to the front. His request was granted
December 4th. Infantry muskets and ammunition were furnished
for all the cannoneers, and without escort the battery moved in the
direction of Nashville via Tyree Springs. The enemy held posses-
sion of the entire route, but we arrived safely December 7, 1862.
Same evening, S. H. Stevens took command of left section as Senior
2d Lieutenant; and L. B. Hand was promoted Orderly Sergeant.
December 14, 1862, a detail consisting of Lieutenant Stevens and
Quartermaster-Sergeant Durand, and ten men with three teams, were
ordered out on Franklin Pike for forage. Sixteen mounted Confed-
erates made a dash, wounded one man and captured six. December
2oth, attached to Pioneer Brigade. This organization, formed by a
detail of two men from each company of infantry in the Army of the
Cumberland, divided into three battalions under detailed officers,
the whole commanded by Captain St. Clair Morton, of the engineer
department regular army. December 26, 1862, campaign of Stone
River opened. During the night December 2gth, built two bridges
over Stewart's Creek. December 3oth, army fighting for position.
Bivouacked on the field three miles from Murfreesboro. December
3ist, 7 A. M., from the distant right came the sound of battle; 8 A. M.,
the whole right wing out of the fight, and the center desperately
engaged. The battery came into position near the graveyard between
the railroad and the pike. A slight rise beyond was occupied. To
the left and front lay the key to the position ; not to hold the gap
would be fatal. At this juncture Major-General Rosecrans dashed
from left to right, and discovered the Chicago Board of Trade Bat-
tery ready for the fray, but without positive directions. His orders
were given to officers and men indiscriminately, as the case de-
manded. He spurred back to near gap, returned part way, beck-
oned, and shouted, "Right this way." As on parade, the command
at a trot came into battery in the gap on the crest with diminished
intervals, made necessary by a point of second-growth forest on
either flank. On the right and immediate front on open field beyond,
within easy musket range debouching from the death-masked cedars.
the enemy in pursuit of the retreating blue. The cannoneers were
at their posts, the General on the right in line. The order rang out,
" load;" before the word "fire " came he raised his hand and plunged
down the declivity in front. He had seen the approaching routed
mass of soldiers, who at once would swarm on the front, over and
through the battery, followed by the victorious foe ; a moment's
delay and the capture of the battery would be inevitable. On came
the exultant yell. The artillerymen stood with lanyard tightly drawn
until to longer wait all was lost. As from one gun six death-dealing
shells passed over the head of the commanding General into the
mass of " Gray " beyond, and from thence thirty per minute until the
front was clear.
Our Battery stood in relief on the crest; each gun squad could
be counted by the relief across the intervening space. The enemy's
artillery opened with deadly precision, and so admirably was it
masked that their guns could not be located. The infantry, formed
in front of the forest, delivered a volley, and charged across the open
field. Then canister was the cry, — within thirty yards the foremost
went down, when all not disabled sought shelter in the rear. This
was thrice repeated. By 1 1 o'clock the enemy had learned that
neither bravery nor numbers could carry the battery in their front,
and all was quiet. Three of our men lay dead by their disabled
guns. Ten wounded were taken to the rear. The battery having
held its ground, it became the pivotal point on which the right and
centre rested. Late in the afternoon, to meet a threatened assault
of Preston's and Palmer's rebel brigades, the left section of Battery
changed front to the southwest. Palmer's brigade was in ambuscade
on the border of an open field, 200 yards to our front, and at
twilight unmasked their line by a dropping fire on Union soldiers
gathering dead and wounded between the lines. The section opened
with a zeal unsurpassed. The rebels, being taken entirely by surprise,
were thrown into the greatest confusion, some retreating; others
advanced firing until they reached our line and were taken in. The
section returned to its original position, and the second day at Stone
River was closed. In the chill night, without fires, we buried our
dead, and then lay on the frozen ground awaiting the coming of the
morning of the new year and a renewal of the contest. January 2d,
six volunteers from the command took from between the lines under
fire an abandoned six-pounder gun to replace the one disabled. In
recognition Gen. Rosecrans declared the organization a seven-gun
battery, and it so remained until after the battle of Chickamauga.
4 p. m. — The Battery in reserve, in battery, in the forest on the left
bank of Stone River, one-fourth of a mile in rear of left wing. Then
Gen. J. S. Negley came dashing back. "For God's sake, Captain
Stokes, come to the front; our men are giving way." The order rang
out clear and full: "Limber to the front." — "By pieces from the right,
forward into column." — "Trot." — "Gallop." Without change of gait
the order came, "Forward into battery." Fifty-eight cannon poured
their iron contents into the rebel mass, and with lightning rapidity
repeated until their lines waver, reel and break to the rear, pursued
as by an avenging Nemesis, — -the Stars and Stripes. It was estima-
ted that in 40 minutes 2,000 rebels lay bleeding on the field. In the
meantime the rebel Gen. Bragg had ordered a division on the left
bank of the river but the repulse had been so quick and decisive
that the troops did not get into position until late — absorbing victory
appeared to cover the movement to all except Captain Stokes. He
ordered the Battery forward and without support checked the advance
at short range. Our position being noticed, infantry was ordered
up and the enemy dispersed. The battery crossed the river. Com-
mands which belonged to the " left " coming into line, the Battery
returned.
The following dispatch was sent :
NASHVILLE, TENN., January 3, 1863.
MURRY NELSON & Co., Chicago :
Murfreesboro is ours. Terrific fighting on Friday. No more casualties in
the Battery; it has won glorious distinction. S. H. STEVENS.
Without our knowledge it was the first news received of the
victory of the Union arms at Stone River. January 6 to June 23,
1863, in camp at Murfreesboro. Tenn. The most notable event
was the changing of the command from mounted field to Horse
Artillery, and being attached to the 2d division of cavalry, Army of
the Cumberland, commanded by Brig. -Gen. John B. Turchin, and
was the only Battery of horse or flying artillery in the western
armies. June 24th, moved with the army, keeping on the flanks as
it advanced, following Bragg's army through Tullahoma and Win-
chester to Huntsville, Ala. July 15, from here the third section,
under command of Lieut. Griffin, went via McMinnville and Pike-
ville, crossing the Tennessee River on the left of the army, and at
Ringgold, Ga., fired the first gun, which opened the battle of Chicka-
mauga, September iQth. August 2oth, crossed the Cumberland
mountains toward Stevenson. September 2d went over the
Tennessee river, moving south to Big Wills Valley; gth, marched
south on top of Lookout range, down into the valley, scouting on
the left of Bragg's army, going within two miles of Lafayette, Ga.
Sunday, 2oth, moved through Stevens' Gap, and at 10 a. m. joined
the army, and fought on the extreme right during the battle of
Chickamauga; also 2ist and 22d.
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From September 23d to October ist the Battery, with the 26.
division of cavalry, under Brig.-Gen. George Crook, was guarding
fords above Chattanooga. On the ist, the rebel, Maj.-Gen. Jos.
Wheeler crossed at Washington, 40 miles above, with 6,000 men;
two other columns were preparing to cross below, one at Bellefonte,
the other at Courtland, Ala. October ad, the 2d division cavalry,
and guns i, 2 and 4 from the Battery, passed over Waldron's ridge
in pursuit of Rebel Gen. Wheeler. October 3d, descended the
Cumberland mountains. Encountered the rebels in severe skirmish.
October 4th, passed through McMinnville, and drove rear guard
seven miles beyond. October 5th, Gen. Wheeler reached Murfrees-
boro, and threw out feelers to the south for his anticipated divisions,
but they did not come. Charged his rear guard, two miles out, and,
by a flank movement, placed the division between the enemy and
Nashville. This, and the non-appearance of the other columns,
caused Wheeler to turn south to effect a junction, as well as to avoid
an engagement. October 6th, marched through Guy's Gap to within
six miles of Shelbyville. October yth, crossed Duck River at Shelby-
ville. Three miles beyond discovered a rebel brigade in camp,
enjoying the rich loot of the town. Mounted infantry charged and
dispersed them. The 2d division of cavalry ordered in pursuit.
Without orders, the Battery joined. The rear was pushed on to the
main column by an almost continuous fire until late in the afternoon.
Gen. Wheeler was forced to mass at Farmington. The frequent
contests had fully advised the rebel General of the capabilities of
each arm engaged. This knowledge urged him to guard against
cavalry, and make his own heavy short-range artillery effective.
Dismounted cavalry was formed across the road, protected by the
fences and buildings of the town, with an open country to the rear.
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In front, at short musket range, a cedar thicket, about 400 yards in
extent, resting on a gentle incline toward the west, which began
with the cedars on the east. This thicket was so dense that dis-
mounted men could not form until the open ground toward the
enemy was gained. The road through the cedars was narrow, the
evergreens meeting overhead. The rebel artillery, consisting of two
twelve-pounder howitzers and a three-inch rifled gun, was placed at
a bend in the road, four hundred yards down the incline. This
distance left them outside of the cedars, so as to have an enfilad
ing fire on any troops emerging therefrom. As no gun at the top
of the incline could be depressed so as to be brought to bear on the
rebel guns, to insure any execution our artillery had to be placed
fifty yards to the front. The rebel artillery no longer sweeps the
road. Our troops have passed the cedars, their lines enfiladed.
Fifty yards down the incline, beneath the cedars, within three
hundred and fifty yards of the enemy, their weight of metal as five
to one. Our percussion shells explode in their midst. A caisson
goes up; but the enemy fights with a will. A three-inch shell strikes
our trail. Every man is swept from his place. All are wounded.
Another shot, and our gun is disabled. Lieutenant Stevens, in com-
mand, hurries to the rear, and willing hands, amidst a hell of fire
roll the second gun into position. It opens, and the slaughter is
such there is none to serve the rebel guns. The dismounted men
charged, and the enemy fled. October 8th, in pursuit. Qth, found
the enemy entrenched at Sugar Creek. Charged and routed them
and pursued hotly to Tennessee River. Gen. Thomas reported:
" This pursuit is unsurpassed for its energy, bravery and endurance."
October xoth to i5th, marched to Deckard for C. and Q. M. stores.
Found none. Countermarched to Maysville and lived off the
country. October 2oth, Capt. Stokes relieved of command to take
position in Q. M. Dept. November, moved to Huntsville and
Battery again united. December 2d, Lieut. Stevens ordered to
Nashville in interest Q. M. Dept.
The other four guns of the Battery moved November 7th from
Smith's Cross Roads, Tenn., via Bridgeport, and, after various stops,
went into camp at Huntsville, Ala., November 25th. Here recruited
horses and rested, moving December 24th toward Pulaski, Tenn.
Camped there on 27th. Lay in camp at Pulaski, Tenn., from
December 27, 1863, to January 12, 1864; from Pulaski a large part
of our division re-enlisted, and went home on 30 days' furlough. On
the 1 4th we reached Huntsville, Ala., and went into camp until
February 2d, when the old guns and equipments with the harness
were shipped by rail to Chattanooga. Gen. George H. Thomas,
having declared "we had earned two or three new batteries," gave
an order for a battery of Rodmans. February loth left Huntsville
with the horses for Nashville, Tenn.; on the 24th were fitted out
complete with battery of new 3-inch Parrotts, harness, etc. Leaving
camp March loth, marched back to Huntsville, Ala. On April 4th
started as guard to 200 wagons, being escorted by the 3d brigade of
the 2d division cavalry; reached Columbia, Tenn., on the 8th, going
into camp with the whole division now in command of Brig.-Gen.
K. Garrard. April 3oth left for the front by the way of Shelbyville,
Farmington, Tullahoma, Deckard, and over the Cumberland Moun-
tains at Cowan; crossed the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, going
over on the top of the railroad bridge as far as it was built, and the
rest of the way via pontoon. Camped the 7th at Nick-a-Jack cave,
having thoroughly explored which, we destroyed the rebel saltpetre
works at its mouth. Moved by the way of Chattanooga to
La Fayette, Ga., where the whole 2d division cavalry, Army of the
Cumberland, came together, most of the division having crossed
Lookout Range; from the nth to the lyth were continually on the
scout, and on right flank of the army, going as far as Rome, Ga.;
on the igth made a forced march of 20 miles toward Kingston, Ga.,
pressing Folk's rear guard, and getting to the Etowah river bridge
in time to shell the rebels off and save it from destruction by fire;
from Etowah were day and night in the saddle on the left wing of
the army. At one time were 60 hours on picket duty without relief.
In June, rations were very short, the men receiving four crackers to
last five days; were forced to steal corn from the horses. Were in
action June 8th, gth, nth, i5th, i8th, 2oth and 2yth. July jd passed
through Marietta, Ga.v driving the rebels to and through Rosswell,
capturing that place, and destroying the large cotton factories there.
July roth crossed the Chattahoochee River; i8th, started on a raid,
and tore up six miles of the Augusta & Atlanta Railroad south and
east of Stone Mountain, getting back safely. On the 2oth went into
the main line, filling a gap between MePherson and Thomas. On
the 2ist the centre section went on a raid; 22d was a terrible day;
we were in camp at Decatur, Ga., with the wagon trains of the i5th
iyth and 23d army corps, and they had as guard a brigade of infan-
try and a section of the 3d Michigan battery under a Col. Sprague.
Suddenly at noon the rebel Wheeler's cavalry division attacked the
camp. We formed battery in our camp, and got into action just
where we were.
Our use of canister was fearful in its effects ; but having no sup-
port, the rebels came over fences and around buildings, and we lost
eight men out of thirty-two ; but held them so long that not a wagon
was captured. On the 2;th started on another raid, getting round
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Atlanta to Jonesboro. Gen. Stoneman having gone south, we
retraced our way to Decatur. Rations for 22 men 7 days was 50
pounds hard bread. From August ist to i5th occupied position in
the line circling Atlanta, and took our share in its destruction. On
the 1 7th, guns 1,3, 4, and 5 with the ist and ad brigades, 2d divi-
sion cavalry, reported to Gen. Kilpatrick, at Sandtown, on the right
of the line; at 6 o'clock p. m. on the i8th, we started to make the
raid around Atlanta, and to cut the railroads running into the city.
Kilpatrick, instead of using the battery belonging to his own divi-
sion, placed us in the advance of the column in the movement to
Lovejoy Station, then, when the command was entirely surrounded,
used us to open the way for his troops to retreat, then to cover his
retreat. We lost 5 men, burst one gun, broke axle of another,
throwing gun into a river, but captured and brought away a
6-pounder. We reached Decatur on the 22d, — 4 days and 3 nights
in the saddle, having made a complete circle around Hood's army
and the city of Atlanta, ist Lieutenant George I. Robinson com-
missioned captain August 22d, 1864. When the army moved south
of Atlanta, were with the rear guard, and on the flanks until Sep-
tember loth, when we went into camp at Cross Keys, having been
moving almost daily since April 3oth. September 2 ist broke camp,
going through Atlanta out on the Sandtown road. October 3d,
moved through Atlanta, north to the Chattahoochee River, crossed on
pontoon (which swung in a raging stream) safely, reaching Marietta
at noon on the 4th, where we halted ; some of the command went on
top of Kenesaw Mountain, and were present when Gen. Sherman
signaled to Gen. Corse at Altoona his world-wide known message
"Hold the fort; I am coming. W. T. Sherman." Moved on the
gth, going from flank to flank, or back to the rear, as needed, to
keep off Forrest's and Wheeler's rebel cavalry. On November 1st,
all good horses were turned over to Kilpatrick's division, and we
moved north to Chattanooga, which place was reached on the $th ;
on the 1 3th went by rail to Nashville, Tenn. December ist, having
received new horses, we moved our camp into the city; and, as
Hood's army threatened the city, we went into the breastworks.
Maj.-Gen. J. H. Wilson was now in command of the cavalry corps.
On the 1 5th, were on the extreme right in the battle of Nashville.
We did not lose a man; our division captured 1,200 prisoners, 18
pieces of artillery, 200 wagons, and drove the rebel left 5 miles,
halting for the night on the Brentwood pike, following next day
to Franklin. The- bridge over the Duck River having been destroyed,
we could not get across until the 23d. On the 24th, were on the
skirmish line all day, and in action almost every hour ; lost one man
killed ; drove Hood's rear guard 2 1 miles, and by our quick and
accurate firing saved the long covered bridge over Richland creek.
During the night the rebels did not stop, but by 1 1 130 a. m. we had
overtaken them, and our shells threw them into fearful disorder, and
we captured 14 wagons of ammunition, and they threw into Elk
river 7 guns, and into Duck River 17 guns. The roads were in
fearful condition. Hood's army having crossed the Tennessee
River, we marched to Waterloo, Ala., going into camp at a place
called Gravelly Springs. Here gunboats and transports brought
us rations, and we remained in camp until March 22, 1865; then,
being fully and well equipped, and still attached to the 2d division
cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, we commenced our last great
move, going through Frankfort and Russellville, crossing Big Bear
Creek to Jasper. March 2gth we safely forded the Big Warrior
River, a wild, rough stream, where many men and horses of our
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cavalry were drowned; crossed the same day the Little Warrior
River. Water so deep that the powder was taken from the limber
chests, and carried on the shoulders of mounted men. Crossed
Cahawba River on the ties of the railroad bridge, 40 feet above the
water, taking the horses from the guns, leading the horses over, and
running the guns by hand. Each day we drove the rebel cavalry ;
but they did not succeed in making a stand that required the use of
our guns
March 3oth, marched 37 miles; April ist, 47 miles. This day
the rebels set fire to the pine woods, and we had to go through them
for a half-mile at a gallop; fortunately, no horse fell, and none of
the men were seriously burned; but it was almost a miracle that no
caisson was blown up. The rebel cavalry under Gen. Roddy made
a stand in the afternoon, when we got into action, quickly capturing
3 pieces of artillery, and our support capturing 200 prisoners, and a
train of cars loaded with forage. April 2, 1865, Sunday, day never
to be forgotten while any member of the Battery lives. A march of
20 miles brought us to the works in front of Selma, Ala., when 1,200
men of the 2d division cavalry, armed with their Spencers, charged
and captured the works, driving 7,000 men out of the works, taking
2,300 prisoners, and all the artillery. The Battery fired over the
charging line until the works were carried, then moved into the city
with the charging line and materially helped the rebels out of the
city. April 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th was spent destroying the artillery
and carriages in the breastworks and forts, throwing all the ammunition
in the arsenal into the river. On the night of the 8th we burned the
arsenal, foundry and machine shops. Left Selma 6 o'clock morning
of the nth, going toward Montgomery, Alabama. Marching was
exceedingly severe on men and horses, we having but 3^ hours sleep
out of 108 consecutive hours. Captured Columbus, Ga., the night
of the 1 8th. We had the advance, as we always had when any right-
ing was expected, made 58 miles, halting twice only. On igth.
marched 42 miles (100 miles in two days), going into Macon, Ga.,
and camping two miles out on the Columbus road; 23d, rumor of
Lee's surrender; 25th, rumor of the shooting of President Lincoln.
May 3d we had confirmed the rumor through a New York Herald
only five days old. May gth we remained in camp while the 4th
Michigan cavalry (of our division) went after Jeff Davis. On 13111
they returned, having captured his family, himself, and others of the
Confederate Cabinet. On the 23d (the war being over) we started
north, marching through Atlanta, Marietta, Kingston, Dalton, to
Chattanooga, 254 miles. Loaded the guns on cars, while the horses
and postilions went with the cavalry to Nashville, Tenn., 151 miles.
June 23d, left Nashville by rail, arriving in Chicago at 3:30 a. m. on
27th. At noon were received on 'Change by the Board of Trade.
8 o'clock that evening were given a banquet in the Metropolitan
Hall. June 2Qth reported at Camp Douglas, but allowed to go to
the city afterward. July 3d paid in full and mustered out to date
June 30, 1865. The Battery marched 5,268 miles; traveled by rail
1,231 miles. Were in n of the hardest battles fought in the West.
Were in 26 other battles. Were in action 42 times while on scouts,
reconnoissances, or outpost.
That you may know in what esteem we were held by all the
Generals under whom we served, we have only to bring to mind one
incident: Gen. George Crook said: "I thank the command for
their good behavior in every particular. So long as I have had
command of you I never had a single complaint made against the
Chicago Board of Trade Battery. I never saw so well drilled or so
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good a battery in action as you are, all gentlemen, and act the gen-
tleman at all times." By special orders our flags (these flags being
the first carried by an artillery company, and then by special orders)
had placed on them "Stone River," "Elk River," "Chickamauga,"
"Farmington," "Dallas," "Decatur," "Atlanta," "Lovejoy," "Nash-
ville," "Selma." The flags (two) were placed in the vault of the
Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, and in the great fire of 1871
were destroyed. All papers in the possession of Gen. James
H. Stokes, our first Captain, were destroyed in the same fire. The
company books, orders, etc., were burned in 1878, at the destruc-
tion of Captain George I. Robinson's residence in Milwaukee, Wis.
Dedication Services
Chicago Board of Trade Battery Monument, Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Thursday,
May 30, 1901
N ROSEHILL Cemetery, Chicago, stands a
massive granite monument erected to the Chicago
Board of Trade Battery by its surviving members.
This impressive and beautiful memorial in its
simplicity is significant of the power of the
Battery's guns and of the unassuming fighting qualities of its
members. It bears the names of the more celebrated actions which
made the Battery famous. It was dedicated on Memorial Day,
May 30, 1901, and was unveiled by Miss Clara Nourse, daughter
of John A. Nourse, Secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade Bat-
tery Memorial Association, in the presence of a large concourse
of people.
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Order of Exercises
Assembly . . v
Prayer . . .
Report of Secretary
Address President Association
Unveiling of Monument
Floral Tribute to Our Dead
Address President Board of Trade
Taps . - .
E. L. PRESCOTT
Bugler
REV. W. M. LAWRENCE
J. A. NOURSE
B. F. NOURSE
CLARA NOURSE
MEMBERS OF THE BATTERY
W. S. WARREN
E. L. PRESCOTT
Bugler
P. L. AUTEN, Marshal
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
<Prayer By Rev. William M. Lsforence, D. <D.
Almighty God, Our Dear Heavenly Father and the Father of our
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ: Assembled on this sacred day — this
day of beautiful thoughts and precious memories, we desire to rec-
ognize Thee as the Giver of every good and perfect gift. We thank
Thee for our land, for our Country, for our homes and for our citi-
zens. We thank Thee for their patriotism that led them in the hour
of their country's peril to think no sacrifice too great to offer in her
behalf. We thank Thee that this spirit was not confined to class —
but that our young men, our merchants and our professional men
gladly rushed to the defense of their homes and kindred, and hesi-
tated not to redden the green field with their blood in the mainte-
nance of righteousness. We thank Thee that above the desire for
gain was the devotion to State and Nation. We thank Thee that
those who came to the help of the Nation were those who had loved
liberty in other lands and those who were the children of our free
schools and reverently placed their all for the honor of their flag.
We thank Thee that the conflict is ended. We thank Thee that
we have one land, one nation and one flag; that throughout the
whole domain we are all brothers. We come before Thee on this
beautiful day and in this place of hallowed resting to ask thy bless-
ing upon us as we dedicate this monument to the beloved memory
of those of this Battery who have passed on before and to the honor
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of those who are still with us — all one in life here and hereafter.
We pray Thee as men behold it their hearts shall be warmed to
appreciation of the services which this, stone recalls. May the youth
and the children as their eyes fall upon it be led to love their land
and the principles for which it stands. May real patriotism be so
awakened in their minds that love of country shall never be sur-
passed by love of possession. Oh our God, preserve in this memo-
rial our ancient faith in Thee as the Lord of Lords and the ruler of
men. Preserve our homes, our schools and our honor and conse-
crate our new lands to the mighty service for which these heroes
gave their lives.
So let our land show forth truth and the Glory shall be Thine,
Father, Son and Spirit ! Amen !
Extracts from the
Report of the Secretary
of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery Memorial
Association
COMRADES OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY, MEMBERS
OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, COMRADES OF THE ARMY, LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN:
S SECRETARY of the Chicago Board of Trade
Battery Memorial Association, it becomes my
privilege to submit a report regarding the erection
of the Monument which we are assembled here to
dedicate.
To refresh the memory of our Comrades, and as there may be
with us today some friends who may not be familiar with the history
of the stirring times of 1861 to 1865, I will give a short sketch of
the organization and service of the Battery.
When the President of the United States on July 6, 1862, called
for three hundred thousand soldiers, ten members of the Chicago
Board of Trade, on July i6th, signed a request to the President of
the Board to call a meeting to recruit a battery to be known as the
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Chicago Board of Trade Battery, and pledged their support and
money for the purpose.
The meeting was called at the rooms of the Board of Trade, cor-
ner of Wells and South Water streets, July 21, 1862. Second Vice
President John L. Hancock presided, and announced the object of
the meeting.
C. H. Walker, Jr., introduced resolutions in harmony with the
call, which were adopted. A muster roll was presented bearing the
legend, Chicago Board of Trade Battery. Eight names were enrolled
for three years or the war. The muster roll was entrusted to S. H.
Stevens, and an adjournment carried.
Thus was established a precedent by a commercial body that
resulted in placing in the field the Chicago Board of Trade Battery.
Illinois Volunteers.
An enthusiastic meeting was held on the evening of the 22nd,
and sixty-three names added to the roll. On the 23d the roll was
again opened, and at 4 P. M. was closed with one hundred and
eighty names enrolled, and many persons waiting to sign. A tele-
gram was sent President Lincoln :
BOARD OF TRADE ROOMS, CHICAGO, July 23, 1662.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the Umted States :
The Board of Trade of this City have within the last forty-eight hours raised
^15,000. Recraited a full Company of Artillery.
Signed,
J. L. HANCOCK.
C. H. WALKER, JR..
S. H. STEVENS.
WM. STURGES.
GEORGE ARMOUR.
H. W. HINSDAI.E.
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July 24th: The Company assembled at the City Armory and
occupied the drill room.
August ist: Captain J. Christopher, U. S. Army, selected one
hundred and fifty-five men from the one hundred and eighty
enrolled, and mustered them into the United States service as the
Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Illinois Volunteers.
JAMES H. STOKES was elected and mustered as Captain.
August 2nd : Marched in review past the Board of Trade rooms
on South Water Street to camp at what is now 37th Street and
Stanton Avenue.
G. I. ROBINSON and T. D. GRIFFIN were elected Senior and
Junior ist Lieutenants, S. H. Stevens was appointed Orderly Ser-
geant.
August. 4th : A. F. BAXTER and HENRY BENNETT were elected
Senior and Junior 2nd Lieutenants. The non-commissioned officers
were appointed and the command was completely organized.
August nth: Received six James rifled six-pounder field artil-
lery guns.
August i3th: Appeared the first time in uniform.
August 2oth : Received full equipment of horses.
August 22nd : Drilled the first time with horses.
September 8th : Fully equipped, the battery paraded the streets
of the city and passed in review before the Board of Trade.
September gth : Broke camp and with one hundred and fifty-
four men, fully equipped, moved to the front via Michigan Central
Ry., arriving in Louisville, Ky., on the loth of September.
September i5th: Participated in the grand review on Broad-
way by General Charles Cruft, this being our first review before a
general officer.
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September i6th: Exchanged four of our rifled guns for four
smooth-bore six-pounder guns.
October ist : Moved with the army from Louisville on the
campaign to Perryville.
October iith: Our first engagement with the Confederates at
Lawrenceburg, firing at the enemy commanded by General Forrest.
November — — : The army advanced to Nashville, Tenn.,
leaving the battery at Bowling Green, Ky.
December 4lh : Muskets were issued to the cannoneers, and
the Battery moved to Nashville, the cannoneers acting as infantry
escort.
December i4th : While a detail of our men were on a foraging
expedition they were attacked by Confederates, and one man
wounded and six men were taken prisoners, this being our first loss
in the war.
December 2oth: Were attached to the Pioneer Division, com-
manded by Captain Sr. Clair Morton.
December 31, 1862, and January i and 2, 1863: Were engnged
in the battle of Stone River, this being our first general engagement
in which the whole Battery was engaged.
January 2d : Volunteers from the battery brought in from
between the Federal and Confederate lines a six-pounder gun to
replace one of our guns that had become disabled.
In recognition of this daring bravery, General Rosecrans
issued an order making the Battery a seven-gun Battery and it so
remained until after the Battle of Chickamauga.
May 16, 1863 : Were attached to the Second Cavalry Division,
Army of the Cumberland, General John B. Turchin commanding,
and under his orders were equipped as horse artillery, being the
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only Battery of this equipment in the western army. The Battery
remained with this Division under its various Commanders to the
close of the war, participating in all the battles and engagements
credited to this celebrated Division.
September 19, 1863 : The second section of the Battery, Lieu-
tenant Griffin commanding, near Ringgold, Georgia, fired the first
gun that opened the Battle of Chickamauga, and were engaged on
the left of General Rosecrans' army during the several days of the
battle.
September igth: The first and third Sections were in the rear
of Rebel General Bragg's army, near Lafayette, Georgia.
September 2oth and 2ist : These Sections of the Battery took
part in the Battle of Chickamauga, on the right of General Rose-
crans' army.
September 22nd : The Battery all united retired through Chat-
tanooga to near Washington, Tenn., having fired the last gun of the
Battle of Chickamauga and being the last Battery to retire from the
field and enter Chattanooga after the battle.
October 2nd to loth: Assisted in pursuit of Rebel General
Wheeler's Command from Washington, Tenn., to Florence, Ala.,
being hotly engaged in the Battle of Farmington. In this engage-
ment, owing to conditions of the ground we were able to operate but
one gun, thus being pitted against the Rebel Battery as one to five.
The first gun was disabled and every man at that gun wounded, then
the second gun was brought into action and silenced the Rebel
Battery.
February, 1864: Our brass guns being worn out, General
George H. Thomas ordered that we be equipped with new guns,
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stating that we had earned two or three new Batteries. We received
six ten-pounder Parrot Guns.
One of these guns was exploded during the Kilpatrick raid
around the Confederate Army at Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1864,
and owing to the disabling of a gun carriage another of these
guns was buried near Cotton River, Ga., and the location
marked as the grave of a soldier. The four remaining guns
were returned to the United States Government at Nashville,
Tenn., in June, 1865.
During the advance of General Sherman's Army on Atlanta the
Battery was engaged with the Second Cavalry Division in the several
battles of Dallas, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek,
Marietta, Vining Station, Noon Day Creek, Stone Mountain and
Decatur, besides several smaller engagements.
August 1 8th to 22nd: Were engaged in a raid under command
of General Kilpatrick around the Confederate Army commanded by
Rebel General Hood then in Atlanta. We lost in this raid five men,
exploded one of our guns and dismantled one. Were in our saddles
four days and three nights and made a complete circle around the
Confederate Army.
October ist: We moved north with the Army, keeping close to
the rear of the Confederate Army and moving from center to the
flanks as our services were needed.
November ist: General Sherman having divided his Army, we
were ordered to turn over all our good horses to General Kilpatrick's
command and we moved north under General G. H. Thomas, arriv-
ing at Nashville, Tenn., on November 14.
December ist: The Battery having been newly equipped we
moved our camp into the city and our guns were placed behind
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breast-works. This being the first and only time the battery was
placed behind breast-works.
December i5th: General G. H. Thomas' Army being ready
to advance on Rebel General Hood's Army, we moved to the right
of the Army and under command of General J. H. Wilson, took
part in the Battle of Nashville, and with that Cavalry command fol-
lowed Hood's Army to the Tennessee River, arriving at Waterloo,
Ala., December 3oth, having been engaged with the enemy almost
the entire distance.
On the 24th: Being in the advance and engaged every hour,
drove the enemy twenty miles, saved the covered bridge over
Richland Creek, enabling our army to follow the enemy without
delay.
March 22, 1865: Having rested, our battery equipment fully
repaired, and having received new horses, we moved with the Second
Cavalry Division on the greatest raid of the war under the command
of General J H. Wilson, moving through Alabama into Georgia,
crossing Big Creek, Big Warrior and Little Warrior Rivers; one of
which was so deep and swift we were obliged to swim our horses,
and the powder was carried on the shoulders of the mounted men.
Crossed the Cahawba River on the railroad bridge, forty feet above
the water, the guns being pulled by the men and the horses led, in
some cases being blindfolded. Were engaged with the enemy
almost every day.
March 3oth : Marched thirty-seven miles, and April ist, forty-
seven miles. One of these days we passed through burning woods
for a half mile on a gallop. Fortunately, none of our horses fell and
none of the limbers were exploded. The enemy did not succeed in
making a decided stand until this day, when their cavalry, under
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command of General Roddy, made a stand in the afternoon. We
went into action, silenced three of their guns, which our support
captured, with two hundred prisoners and a train of cars loaded
with supplies.
April 2d : After a march of twenty miles, a running fight all the
way, we arrived in front of Selma, Ala. The Battery went into action,
firing over the charging line until the outer works were carried by
our cavalry division, then limbered up and went into the works with
the charging line and helped to drive the enemy, which numbered
as six to one of the charging force. Such action of a battery
going into fortifications with a charging line is not recorded of
any other battery during the war.
April 3d to loth: Were engaged in destroying the guns and
ammunition in the forts and arsenal, and burning the arsenal.
April nth: Continued our campaign, going through Mont-
gomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga. On the i8th marched fifty-eight
miles, and on the igth, forty-two miles, making one hundred miles in
two consecutive days, a record rarely equalled.
April 2oth: Arrived in front of Macon, Ga , and were met by a
flag of truce and advised by the enemy of an armistice between the
Union and Confederate Armies. As the commanding general had
had no communication with the Union forces for twenty eight days,
refused to accept the news as authentic and moved into Macon and
took possession.
May 23d: The war being over, we started North. Marched
to Chattanooga, where our guns were placed on cars and
forwarded to Nashville. Tenn., while the horses were marched
overland.
June 23d : Left Nashville for Chicago, arriving on the
27th of June.
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July 3d : Were mustered out of the service, to date from
June 30, 1865.
There have died since muster out of the Battery, fifty-four mem-
bers so far as reported to your Secretary. The address of only
seventy-six living members is known to your Secretary.
When the Battery was organized the promise was made that the
remains of all members who should die in the service should be
brought to Chicago for interment. The Board of Trade provided a
lot for such interments. In January. 1866, the remains of our
comrades who had been buried in southern soil were brought to
Chicago by the Chicago Board of Trade, and on January 7. 1866,
we laid to rest the remains of eleven comrades in this lot. Since
that date the remains of ten of our deceased comrades have been
placed in this lot, making the number twenty-one.
At a meeting of the members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Battery Memorial Association September 22, 1900, it was re-
solved to erect upon the Board of Trade Battery lot at Rosehill
Cemetery a monument in commemoration of the deceased members
of the Battery. In conformity with the same, the Board of Direc-
tors proceeded with the erection of this beautiful monument.
COMRADES: In the burning of Chicago in October, 1871, the
company papers and records in possession of Captain Stokes were
burned with his residence. Later the remaining records in posses-
sion of Captain Robinson were destroyed in the burning of his
residence at Milwaukee, Wis. These circumstances make doubly
valuable any mementoes of our past history that may now be in
existence, and all such should be carefully preserved and turned
over to the Memorial Association.
NOTE : — All this is mentioned in full and specially further on.
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(Address of Benjamin F. Nourse
President of the Chicago 'Board of Trade Battery
cMemorial Association
COMRADES OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY — COMRADES
OF THE CIVIL WAR — MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE —
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :
T IS a grand token when patriots are honored —
when we lift high the standard of patriotism in our
Land ! It is a noble tribute to the fallen heroes of
the Chicago Board of Trade Battery that we, its
living members, have placed here and now dedicate
a monument to their memory, showing the love and gratitude of the
living. That we passed through three years of war and through
thirty-six years of new and exacting duties since the war closed on
a united country, is history. The monument standing here
proclaims that we love the memory of the heroic dead, that they at
whose side we fought were dear to us. We have selected the most
enduring material known to mark their final resting place, and we
wish it to stand in its simplicity, in its strength, in its mightiness, for
time without end, as a reminder to the young and the old who may
read the inscription thereupon, showing the names of the battles in
which the Command participated. This we have done that, as his-
tory is read, these names shall become more firmly imprinted upon
the minds and hearts of the living as they year by year strew flowers
and honor the memory of the soldiers of the Civil War.
The Chicago Board of Trade Battery was in nearly all the fierc-
est battles fought by the Army of the Cumberland.
After the battle of Stone River, General Rosecrans, commanding
the Army of the Cumberland, issued a special order, giving the
Battery the privilege of carrying the colors presented bv the
Chicago Board of Trade, this being the first time in the history of
the army where a battery of artillery was allowed a stand of United
States colors and a battery flag. By a subsequent special order
Stone River, Elk River, Chickamauga, Farmington, Dallas, Decatur,
Atlanta, Lovejoy, Nashville and Selma were inscribed upon the
flags. When the Battery was mustered out the flags were returned
to the Board of Trade and later destroyed by the great fire of 1871.
The time will come when the story of the Rebellion will be read
in the names of great generals (as we now read of the Revolution)
rather than in the incidents and scenes of individual commands.
We, the living, will soon rest, and this monument will represent
also three years of our lives, lives spent for the good of these who
stand around us to-day, for those who shall stand here in the genera-
tions to come. It has been said of our forefathers, " They builded
better than they knew." That can truly be said of us, for we were
boys then, but thanks to our God, we have been permitted to live to
see the fruits of our labor, ripe fruits of others' lives, and of our
toils. To see this a unitedly free people, no thought in all our
broad land other than the wish that freedom of thought and action,
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of loyalty and love to an universal heavenly Father may be the
heritage of every nation on the globe. May the rest of our lives,
our remaining days, teach what we have shown our countrymen so
far, that there must be free institutions, love for the flag, patriotism
taught, union of hearts in love of rights, man to man. By so
living we shall have the freest government on earth, the happiest
people.
Be not worried for what shall come after us, after we have
rested from our labors. Never has a crisis come, but the man for
the place and to meet it has come from the people. That will
always be a certainty in the future if our faith holds straight.
Soldiers of the Revolution brought liberty, soldiers of the Civil
War brought equality, soldiers of the Spanish War brought
opportunity. Oh, Americans, arise to your position of glorious
rivalry among the nations of the world, for you shall stand
first. Stand at the top; having, through the golden rule of life,
done unto others as you would be done unto, you shall com-
mand the respect of all peoples. Seeing this accomplished we
shall see the glory of the Lord, and there will be no more
tramping out the vintage, for there will be no more grapes of
wrath stored up.
Therefore, with this thought in view have we erected this
monument where it now stands with these four monuments com-
pleting a circle, with the county monument to the soldiers in the
center, that all who may enter these grounds, this " city of the
dead," this "God's acre," may be reminded of the nobleness,
of the grandness, of the self-sacrifices of these heroes.
In 1862, the Chicago Board of Trade purchased this lot, the
title being in the Chicago Board of Trade in perpetuity. The
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surviving members of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery have
erected this monument.
Mr. President of the Chicago Board of Trade : — It therefore
becomes my duty, as President of the Chicago Board of Trade
Battery Memorial Association, to turn over the same to your Hon-
orable Board for care in perpetuity. It has come to my knowledge
that the President and Directors of the Board have caused to be
deposited with the Rosehill Cemetery Association, a sum of money
sufficient to care for and protect this lot and monument for all time.
Mr. President, the living members of your war battery will soon
lay aside the duties of life. I, therefore, desire to ask of you, in
accepting from us this monument, that you suggest to the Board of
Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, that they will each Mem-
orial Day in the years to come, provide a wreath for this monument;
to this band of noble men, who freely gave their lives for the land
they loved.
Mr. President, Members of the Board of Trade, and Comrades, I
have the honor to thank you.
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c/lddress of W. S. Warren
President of the Chicago Board of Trade
MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
BATTERY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
HE memories of this hour carry us back through
a retrospect of almost two score years — to the i6th
day of July, 1862, in a small rented room on the
corner of South Water and Wells Streets, the then
home of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago.
In point of numbers and surroundings and the volume of its
business, it would hardly be recognized as the same institution now
located at the southern extremity of LaSalle Street. But it is fair to
assume that its membership was composed of the same energetic,
hustling, nervous, impulsive and generous class of men as now.
Their generosity is never appealed to in vain and while, like all
other impulsive men, they have been known to make mistakes, cer-
tain it is that they made none on that i6th day of July, 1862, when
the following petition was handed to their President :
CHICAGO, ILL., July i(>, 18^2.
C. T. WHEELER, President of the Board of Trade:
We, the undersigned members, request you to call at an early day, a general
meeting of the Board, to pledge ourselves to use our influence and money to
recruit a battery to be known as the Board of Trade Battery.
GEORGE STEEL,
WM. STURGES,
E. AKIN,
M. C. STEARNS,
I. Y. MUNN,
G. L. SCOTT,
T. J. BRONSON,
C. H. WALKER, JR.
E. G. WOLCOTT,
FLINT & THOMPSON.
So far as I am able to discover, all the signers of this petition,
widely known in their day, have passed over to the silent majority.
However, the man in whose patriotic soul the whole plan originated,
who engrossed and circulated the petition, and who subsequently
was the first to enroll himself in the Board of Trade Battery — Sylva-
nus H. Stevens — is still an honored member of the Board of Trade
and one of its most highly esteemed and trusted officials, and is
present with us to-day.
The meeting was promptly held in the Board rooms on the 2ist
of July and on the 23d the following telegram was sent to the
President of the United States :
BOARD OF TRADE ROOMS, CHICAGO, July 23, 1862.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States:
The Board of Trade of this City have within the last forty-eight hours raised
$15,000 bounty money, and have recruited a full company of artillery.
Signed,
J. L. HANCOCK,
WM. STURGES,
GEORGE ARMOUR,
C. H. WALKER, JR.,
H. W. HINSDALE,
S. H. STEVENS.
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This must indeed have been a ray of sunshine through the dark
clouds of despair then hanging over the great war President, and in
fact everybody interested in the welfare of the Union. These were
about the darkest days of the whole tragic four years. Doubt and
discouragement were permeating the North, and responses to the
President's call of July 6th for 300,000 more volunteers had been
slow and unwilling. The initiative taken by the Chicago Board of
Trade proved contagious. In a short time the subscription of
$15,000 was increased to $50,000, and in addition to the Board of
Trade Battery, three regiments of infantry were recruited under its
auspices and sent to the front, and within sixty days of the first war
meeting of the Chicago Board of Trade the State of Illinois had
furnished 50,000 additional troops.
The Board of Trade Battery remained throughout, the especial
pride and protege of the Board of Trade. It was promptly
equipped, well officered, and on September loth was at the front.
On October nth it first engaged the enemy, and subsequently was in
action upward of seventy times, earning for itself a most brilliant
and enviable record, returning without a blot on its escutcheon, to
be mustered out in Chicago, June 30, 1865, at the close of the war.
It can easily be imagined with what intense interest its move-
ments were watched during its three years in the field by the com-
mercial organization which had the honor of calling it into existence.
We can see them now on the busy mart, clustering around a news-
paper, a telegram, or a bulletin board, eager for the first tidings of
woe or of weal after every engagement, rejoicing in the successes of
"our boys," sympathizing with their losses, hardships and priva-
tions ; — sympathy of the practical kind, too, as evidenced by
frequent trips to the front by members or officials of the Board, or
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their agents, to look after the welfare of their soldiers; provide
clothing and blankets and boots, hospital stores and nurses for the
sick and wounded, and to distribute delicacies and other gifts
prepared by loving hands at home. Ah ! those were times that we,
in these piping times of peace and plenty and security, wot little of.
At the close of the war the Board of Trade purchased this lot in
beautiful Rosehill, and brought from the South the remains of the
martyred dead of their beloved Battery. And with memories of
their great services still alive, they have provided an endowment
fund to insure the perpetual care of the lot.
It is to be regretted that these fallen heroes have been left so
long without a substantial monument to mark their final resting
place and commemorate their deeds of valor and devotion to
country. But there is compensation in the thought that this
occasion, after the long lapse of years, brings us back into renewed
and closer touch with the brave boys, living and dead, of the Board
of Trade Battery. It rekindles the smoldering embers of our
patriotism and civic pride ; renews the old feeling of good-fellowship
and community of interest, so that we extend the glad hand to these
gallant survivors and assure them that we are still just as proud of
them as on that June day, thirty-six years ago, when we greeted the
returning veterans with open arms and painted the town red in
their honor.
In these sordid, lucre-chasing times, we are in great danger of
losing our enthusiasms and our ideals. Let us make the dedication
of this beautiful monument a fresh starting point to ever glory in the
achievements of these men ; the cause for which they fought, and
bled, and died, and the results of their self-sacrifice. As the brilliant
Webster said : " That motionless shaft will be the most powerful of
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speakers. Its speech will be of liberty. It will speak of patriotism
and of courage. It will speak of the moral improvement and
elevation of mankind. Decrepit age will lean against its base, and
ingenuous youth gather round it, while they speak to each other of
the glorious events with which it is connected and exclaim, v Thank
God, I also am an American ! ' '
I cannot forbear to quote on this occasion another distinguished
American statesman and soldier as well.
" We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing on all
the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our
help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give
to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and for-
evermore we need them."
I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost ; that the
characters of men are moulded and inspired by what their fathers
have done ; that treasured up in American souls are all the uncon-
scious influences of the great deeds of the Anglo-Saxon race, from
Agincourt to the present day.
So my friends, the lesson of this occasion for us is, that " it is
not all of life to live, nor all of death to die ;" that we may so fash-
ion our lives to those of the men we honor here to-day, that they may
be an inspiration for those who come after us. This imperishable
stone, these grassy mounds, must ever appeal to us, mutely, but
eloquently, of the heroic self-sacrifice, the devotion to principle, the
tenacious courage, the unswerving loyalty, lofty civic pride, that
go to make up the model soldier, the worthy Board of Trade member,
the ideal American citizen in any walk of life.
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
in Hattrrg Hot at U00?ljUl
A. JFinnnj
Killed, Battle of Stone River
December 31, 1862.
Killed, Battle of Stone River,
December 31, 1861
1U.
Died, Chicago, January, 1878
Died, Chicago, February, 1868
Died, Cincinnati, February, 1 863
E. 01.
Died, Atlanta, August, 1864
alumuui
Killed, Lovejoy, Ga., August,
1864
A. iff. (Earbrr
Died, Nashville, Term.,
January, i863
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Died, Chicago, February, 1891
iiiumum
Died, Milwaukee, Wis., August,
1898
1C. 3F. Abbott
Died, Chicago, April, 1900
Killed, Battle of Stone River,
December 31, 1862
Died, Wilmington, N. C.,
Match, 1864
Died, Chicago, August, 1878
C W. OrlCnsla
Died, Nashville, Tenn.,
February, 1863
1. 3nubrrt
Died, Nashvilie, Tenn.,
August, 1864
Died, Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
March, 1863
Died, McMinnville, Tenn.,
August, 1 863
Died, Vining, Ga., August,
1864
Died, Chicago,
Died, Quincy, 111., April, 1890
Jffrtnk
November, 1900
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List of the cMembers
of the Chicago 'Board of Trade Battery present at the
'Dedication of the cMonument
B. F. NOURSE
A. L. ADAMS
P. L. AUTEN
J. A. NOURSE
G. I. ROBINSON
J. H. HILDRETH
C. DURAND
W. C. MOLAU
C. S. DWIGHT
C. A. BALDWIN
F. S. ROCKWOOD
F. B. ROCKWOOD
S. A. LOCK
G. W. PECK
J. J. GlLMORE
S. M. RANDOLPH
T. H. WATSON
V. STEELE
JAMES IVES
H. DIPPE
F. DUPUIS
F. KNIGHT
H. B. CHANDLER
E. LUFF
T. M. LYNCH
J. M. SEXTON
G. W. LITTLE
J. G. PETERS
DAVID BURR
W. M. RAGAN
J. B. HALL
J. D. TOOMEY
W. EAKINS
A. W. MERRILL
C. W. ERBY
Records and Relics ^Deposited
N a metal box in the foundation of the moument was
placed a copy of the following document, together with
the articles mentioned therein :
CHICAGO, May 30, 1901.
The Chicago Board of Trade Battery Monument, dedicated this
3<jth day of May, 1901, has been erected by the surviving members
of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, and there is deposited in
a box in the foundation the following articles:
A muster roll showing the name of every man that was enlisted for the Chicago
Board of Trade Battery, and giving a record of his services.
A history of the Battery, compiled by members of the Battery in 1886.
A copper plate giving the record of THOMAS WYGANT.
A copper plate giving the record of J. H. HILDRETH.
A copper plate giving the record of JAMES A. RUTLEDGE.
A letter from CHARLES HOLYLAND.
Photographic pictures of
GEORGE W. GAVITT
D. F. B ETCH EN
GEORGE I. ROBINSON, as a soldier
GEORGE I. ROBINSON, as a citizen
JOHN A. NOURSE
GEORGE BOWERS
ALBERT MERRILL
B. F. NOURSE
W. C. MoLAi:
ROBERT BARRY
FRED W. KING
A program of the dedication services.
SIGNED
JOHN MCDONALD
JAMES IVES
TRUMBULL D. GRIFFIN
JOHN C. CAMBERG
ALEXANDER LEWIS
CHARLES FRINK
GEORGE HANSON
CHARLES S. DWIGHT
W. B. GALE
S. M. CROFT.
J. A. NOURSE,
Secretary,
Chicago Board of Trade Battery Memorial Association.
<J^pster of Living cMembers
of the Chicago Board of Trade 'Battery
August 30, 1902
AUTEN, P. L 138 Washington Street . Chicago, 111.
ADAMS, A. L. . . . . . ... 611 The Temple . Chicago, 111.
APPLETON, J. B. . Osage, Iowa.
A VERY, W. 0 610 Temple Avenue . Detroit, Mich.
BOWERS, GEORGE York, Neb.
BENNETT, HENRY .... 1263 Mulvane Avenue . Topeka, Kan.
BETCHEN, D. F. Berlin, Minn.
BROWN, W. W Decatur, 111.
BALDWIN, C. A 1182 Millard Avenue . Chicago, 111.
BARRY, ROBERT .... 186 South Vernon Avenue . Pasadena, Cal.
BAER, G. J 1624 Jefferson Avenue . Kansas City, Mo.
BURR, DAVID .... 2596 North Ashland Avenue . Chicago, 111.
CHANDLER, H. B .- • • 104 Indiana Street . Chicago, 111.
CONKLIN, J. K Soldiers' Home . Milwaukee, Wis.
CHAPIN, A. S • 768 Walnut Street . Chicago, 111.
CRUM, SYLVESTER Riceville, Iowa.
DURAND, CALVIN Lake and Union Streets . Chicago, 111.
DUPUIS, FRED .••••• Oak Park, 111.
DIPPE, HENRY 841 Thome Street . Chicago, 111.
DWIGHT, C. S Marshall Field & Co. (Retail) . Chicago, 111.
Du Bois, S. A 2 North Fourth Street . St. Louis, Mo.
ERBY, C. W 303 South Hoyne Avenue . Chicago, 111.
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EAMES, C. O 414 Union Station . St. Louis, Mo.
EAKINS, WM 6106 Normal Avenue . Chicago, 111.
FLEMING, J. C Marquette Building . Chicago, 111.
FOSTER, R. C 46? Flournoy Street . Chicago, 111.
FORD, S. L Takoma Park . Dist. Columbia.
FINLEY, J. B 354 South Canal Street . Chicago, 111.
GEORGE, WM. ...... 314 South Twelfth Street . Tacoma, Wash.
GARNSEY, C. A. P Evanston, 111.
GILMORE, J. J Soldiers' Home . Danville, 111.
GRIFFIN, T. D 2314 Pine Street . St. Louis, Mo.
HALL, J. B. , 107 Dearborn Street . Chicago, 111.
HILDRETH, J. H 746 West Monroe Street . Chicago, 111.
HOLYLAND, C *. . . 244 Fifth Avenue . Pittsburgh, Pa.
IVES, JAMES 362 1 Princeton Avenue . Chicago, 111.
JOHNSTON, ROBERT 374 Palm Avenue . Riverside, Cal.
KNIGHT, FRANK . . . 2169 West Twenty-Fifth Street . Chicago, 111.
LOCK, S. A 2556 Wabash Avenue . Chicago, 111.
LUFF, EDMUND 620 N. Oak Park Avenue . Oak Park, 111.
LYNCH, T. M Soldiers' Home . Milwaukee, Wis.
LITTLE, G. W 4923 Lake Avenue . Chicago, 111.
LASUER, CHARLES Toledo, Ohio,
McELEVY, ALBERT 378 So. Negley Street . Pittsburgh, Pa.
MOLAU, W. C 5809 Indiana Avenue . Chicago, 111.
MERRILL, A. W 269 Avers Avenue . Chicago, 111.
NOURSE, B. F 1 86 Michigan Street . Chicago, 111.
NOURSE, J. A Chamber of Commerce . Chicago, 111.
PAYNE, ORMANSO Conway, Mass.
PETERS, J. G 220 Randolph Street . Chicago, 111.
PECKHAM, S. C Canarsic Station . Brooklyn, N. Y.
PECK, G. W Soldiers' Home . Danville, 111.
RAGAN, W. M Waukegan, 111.
ROCKWOOD, F. B Elmhurst, 111.
ROCKWOOD, F. S State and Ohio Streets . Chicago, 111.
RANDOLPH, WM 208 Union Trust Building . St. Louis, Mo.
RANDOLPH, S. M 311 S. Scoville Avenue . Oak Park, 111.
ROBINSON, G. 1 315 E. Water Street . Milwaukee, Wis.
STEVENS, S. H Board of Trade . Chicago, 111.
STEVENS, S. C 69 Dearborn Street . Chicago, 111.
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SMALL, H. X . . 58 S. Oakley Street . Chicago, 111.
SEXTON, J. M Soldiers' Home . Danville, 111.
STEELE, VALENTINE 4848 Indiana Avenue . Chicago, 111.
STEIGER, FRANCIS • . 140 E. Robie Street . St. Paul, Minn.
SALISBURY, M. H 1484 Newport Avenue . Chicago, 111.
SHIPLEY, WM DesMoines, la.
SLEMAN, J. B Washington, D.C.
SMITH, CHRISTIAN Thermalito, Cal.
TINSLEY, THOMAS 316 Sixth Street . DesMoines, la.
TINSLEY, W. H 1519 High Street . DesMoines, la.
TOOMEY, J. D 493 Forty-Second Place . Chicago, 111.
WINSLOW, C. A Fitzgerald, Ga.
WATSON, T. H 29 Wabash Avenue . Chicago, 111.
WORRELL, ROBERT St. Joseph, La.
WEBB, JOB 884 West Adams Street . Chicago, 111.
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Historical Relics Recovered
of the Battery's Guidon
and Bugle
COMRADES OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATION :
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HAVE to-day the honor and pleasure of placing in Grand
Army Memorial Hall, two relics dear to you all, and so far
as I know the only relics of our Battery now in existence.
One, the Bugle used by our late Comrade William Berdel,
in our camps, marches, and battles, from the time you were
mustered at Chicago, until you were mustered out at Chicago.
It is the bugle that called you to active service in the morning,
rain or sunshine, regardless of the short hours of sleep ; it
sounded the call for action, commence firing, sometimes cease firing,
but never sounded the retreat, and finally sounded at Chicago,
"break ranks," the sweetest call you ever heard.
Through some manner unknown to Uncle Samuel, Captain
Stokes was able to retain this bugle unaccounted for, when he
turned the Battery property over to Captain Robinson. When we
were mustered out at Chicago Captain Robinson gave the bugle to
81
William Berdel,who carefully treasured it until his death. After
Comrade Berdel's death the bugle was cared for by Mrs. N. I. Mix
Miss Addie Solden, and Mr. H. A. Solden, relatives of Comrade
Berdel, and, through their kindness, presented to your Association.
The other relic is one of the Guidons that was furnished you at
Chicago before you went to the front. It was with you in all your
marches and battles, receiving its first baptism of fire and bullets in
the battle of Stone River, the scars of which are still visible. This
Guidon was always hailed with cheers by our supporting troops
when seen going to the front - — the Guidon that never streamed from
its staff in the wind of a retreat.
When our late Comrade Frederick G. Deane was mustered out
of service he secured this Guidon and placed it with his mother, who
could not be induced to part with it and cared for it until her death.
After that it was cared for by her son C. H. Deane, who has now
presented it to your Association.
These relics are suitably inscribed and placed in Memorial Hall
to be cared for in trust for you, and it is hoped they may be often
seen by your children and grandchildren, and as they call to their
minds the history of your sacrifices that they might enjoy a united
country, be an inspiration of patriotism and love for their united
country. Very truly yours,
JOHN A. NOURSE.
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Copy
CHICAGO, Aug. 7, 1901.
ECEIVED from the Chicago Board of Trade
Battery Memorial Association, per John A. Nourse.
Secretary, one guidon and one bugle. The relics
were carried by the Battery during their entire
service and are loaned to the Grand Army
Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois for safe keeping and.
preservation.
CHAS. P. SWIGERT,
Secretary.
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Officers and Directors
of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery
Memorial Association
J900-J901
B. F. NOURSE, PRESIDENT A. L. ADAMS, VICE-PRESIDENT
J. A. NOURSE, SECRETARY P. L. AUTEN, TREASURER
Directors
G. I. ROBINSON B. F. NOURSE
J. H. HILDRETH H. C. YOUNG
A.'L. ADAMS P. L. AUTEN
T. A. NOURSE
1901-1902
A. L. ADAMS, PRESIDENT J. H. HILDRETH, VICE-PRESIDENT
J. A. NOURSE, SECRETARY P. L. AUTEN, TREASURER
Liredors
A. L. ADAMS B. F. NOURSE
P. L. AUTEN> J. H. HILDRETH
J. G. PETERS J. A. NOURSE
C. S. DWIGHT
Chicago Board of Trade Battery
Banquet
30, 1901
At the banquet of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery given
on the evening of May 30, 1901. the following members of the
Battery were present, as shown in the diagram, the Guidon of the
Battery recently reclaimed being given a place of honor in the
center of the tables.
F. S. ROCKWOOD
CALVIN DURAND
A. L. MERRILL
B. F. NOURSE
VALENTINE STEELE
K. L. PRESCOTT HENRY DIPPK
(Bugler 1st 111. Vol. Cav.)
GEO. I. ROBINSON
J. D. TUOMEY
J. A. NOURSE
F. B. ROCKWOOD
W. C. MotAU
E. ROBINSON WM. EAKINS
(A Guest) G. W. PECK
C. W. ERBY
J. H. HILDRETH FRANK KNIGHT
S. A. LOCK
DAVID BURR
A. L. ADAMS
$. H. STEVENS
J. J. GILMORE JAMES IVES
C. A. BALDWIN
J. B. FINLEY
H. B. CHANDLER S. M. RANDOLPH
T. N. WATSON
C. S. DWIGHT J. B. HALL
GEO. LITTLE
J. G. PETERS J. M. SEXTON
LIEUT. COL. LIVERMORE
(jft Ohio Cav.)
86
Guidon Carried by
Board of Trade Batter? ®
1862 to 1865
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
Chicago Board of Trade Battery Badge
|HE badge shown on the cover of this book repre-
sents the Silver Badge adopted and worn by the
members of the Battery during their term of ser-
vice, and the particular badge shown represents the
one of Andrew Finney, the first member of the
Battery killed in battle.
The Battery Badge became so well known to the members of the
Second Division Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, that frequently
it was respected by guards and pickets of that division, the same as
a pass issued by a Provost-Marshal or the General Commanding.
APPROVED
A. L. ADAMS
J. H. HILDRETH
J. A. NOURSE
P. L. A U T E N
C. S. D WIGHT
J G. PETERS
B. F. NOURSE
Directors
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