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La Salle Codbty, Illinois,
CONTAINING
A History of the County — Its Cities, Towns, &c, A Biographical
Directory of its Citizens, "War Record of its Volunteers in
the late rebellion, portraits of early settlers and
Prominent Men, General and Local Statistics,
Map of La Salle County, History of Illinois
Constitution of the United States, Mis-
cellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc.
CHICAGO :
H. F. KETT & CO., Cor. 5th Ate. and Washington St.
1877.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
H, F. KETT & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
OTTAWAY & COLBKRT,
PBINTERS,
147 & 149 Fifth Av., Chicago, III.
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Preface.
In presenting this volume to the citizens of La Salle County we can only say in our
own behalf that we have done all in our power to make it a complete, accurate, reliable and
valuable work. No one unacquainted with the details attending the compilation of a work
of this character can realize the difficulties to be met and overcome, or the labor necessary
to collect and arrange the subject matter. The contents, relating mostly to local matters,
are necessarily, gathered very slowly; and often there are many conflicting accounts of the
same occurrences, which require the utmost care, discernment and judgment on the part of
the collector to arrive at the facts. In every instance this has been our purpose ; and if in
any case we have failed, the failure may be justly attributed to an unavoidable combination
of circumstances. While we do not claim perfection for this volume, still, we think, with-
out arrogance or vain boasting, that it approaches as near that standard as any other work
of a similar character ever published. The type work is not like that of most publications,
large, heavily leaded and spread out so as to cover as many pages as possible, but small and
condensed, so as to harmonize with the rendering of the historical matter presented — it be-
ing our object to use the fewest words possible.
In procuring the information that goes to make up this volume, it was necessary to em-
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character and intelligence, to each of whom we gave careful instructions to be particularly
cautious in taking down names and dates — to write them legibly, so that printers could not
err, and to exercise care in gathering information — yet, among so many agents, gathering
such a diversity of matter, writing such a multitude of names and noting down so many
dates, it will be very strange if many errors are not discovered. In book-making this has
been always so, and will continue to be so as long as time lasts or books, and more espec-
ially works of this nature, are made. To avoid as many errors and inaccuracies in names,
dates and information as possible, has been a matter of jealous care on the part of the
publishers, and they flatter themselves such care has not been without reward.
As it is, the Past and Present of La Salle County is herewith presented to the
public, with the ardent hope and belief that it will meet the expectations of those friends
and the press who gave us so many and such flattering assurances that our purpose to pre-
serve the history of La Salle County in book form, as well as a biographical directory of
the citizens of the county, its war record, etc., etc., that would prove invaluable as a book
of reference in days to come, was an appreciated and approved undertaking. To all those
friends, to the press,and to the people generally of La Salle County, who have in any way
aided us in this undertaking, we return our sincere thanks, assuring them that whatever of
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ONTENTS.
Page.
History of Illinois 13
Coal 27
Compact of 1787 19
Chicago 34
Early Discoveries 13
Early Settlements 18
E ducation instead of High-
ways 31
French Occupation 15
Genius of La Salle 16
Material Resources 26
Massacre at Ft. Dearborn, 41
Physical Features 23
Progress of Development, 25
Religion and Morals 30
War Record 32
History of La Salle Co 175
Agricultural Society 274
Page.
Adams 434
Allen 626
Brookfield 399
Bruce 538
Chicago Residents 650
Dayton 580
Deer Park 643
Dimmick 452
Eagle 418
Earl 492
Eden 631
Fall River 641
Farm Ridge 573
HISTORICAL,.
Page.
Artesian Wells 255
Black Hawk War 187
. Common Schools 273
County Infirmary 274
Geology 224
Illinois and Pottawatta-
mies 199
Old Settler's Association. 260
Settlements 182
Shabbona 223
History of Towns:
Dayton 349
Dana 355
Earlville 338
Garfield 355
Grand Ridge 351
La Salle 295
Leland 342
TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY.
Freedom 530
Grand Rapids 621
Groveland 428
Hope 556
LaSalle 598
Manlius 511
Mendota 474
Meriden 524
Miller 645
Mission... 463
Northville 440
Ophir 549
Osage 422
Page-
History of Towns :
Lostant 346
Meriden 352
Mendota 314
Marseilles 328
■ New Rutland 352
Ottawa 279
Peru :;05
Ransom 355
Seneca 331
Streator 323
Sheridan 350
Tonica 344
Troy Grove 347
Triumph 352
Utica 333
Vermillion 355
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Ottawa 356
Otter Creek 412
Peru 584
Richland 409
Rutland 503
Serena r 470
South Ottawa 393
Troy Grove 563
Utica... 456
Vermillion 404
Wallace 637
Waltham 448
The Business Directory follows the townships in which they are located.
Page.
Armstrong W 153
Blanchard Chas 231
Bowman W. E 389
Clayton Wm 211
ConardD.W 479
Caton J. D 201
Dimmick Eljah 143
Dickey T. Lyle 163
Duncan J. W 299
Ebersol A. M 191
Ebersol Jos 173
French A. C 371
PORTRAITS.
GoodellJ.H 515
Hayes Sam'U 569
Holbrook E. S 133
HurdD 335
Laning Jos.. 587
McLaughlin A 425
McCalebH. A 113
Mitchell J. S 241
Miller Peter 407
Osman Wm 93
Osgood Alfred 271
Potter Seymour 443
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Raymond S. W 281
Reynolds Benj. B 261
RicheyJ. M 251
Shabbona 221
Smallev R. S 317
Underbill J. S 551
Vaughey Alex ..353
Wallace W. H. L 103
Walker Geo. E 123
Whitney A. V 461
Woolley Milton 533
Wilson 497
LASALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Infantry 102 Cavalry 158 Artillery 166.
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS-
Page.
Adoption of Children 54
Bills of Exchange and Prom-
issory Notes 45
County Courts 49
Conveyances 58
Church Organization 79
Descent 45
Deeds and Mortgages 51
Drainage.... 57
Damages from Trespass 61
Definition of Com'rcial Terms 79
Exemptions from Forced Sale, 50
Estrays 51
Fences 60
Forms :
Articles of Agreement 67
Blank Note 66
Bills ol Purchase 66
Page.
Constitution ot United States 86
Electors of President and
Vice-President, 1876... 100
Interest Table 82
Miscellaneous Table 82
Map of LaSalle Co Front.
Forms: Page.
Bills of Sale 68
Bonds 68
Clerk for Services 67
Chattel Mortgages 69
Codicil 79
Lease of Farm and B'ld'gs, 71
Landlord's Agreement 72
Notice Tenant to Quit 73
Orders 66
Quit Claim Deed 75
Receipt 66
Real Estate Mortga^ to
secure paym't of Money, 73
Release 76
Tenant's Agreement 73
Tenant's Notice to Quit.. 73
Warranty Deed 74
Will 77
MISCELLANEOUS.
Page.
Population of the U. S 82
Population of Fiftv Principal
Cities of the U. S 82
Population and Area of the
United States 83
Page.
Game 52
Interest 45
Jurisdiction of Courts 48
Limitation of Action 49
Landlord and Tenant 61
Liens 64
Married Women 49
Millers 53
Marks and Brands 53
•Paupers 58
Roads and Bridges 55
Surveyors and Surveys 54
Suggestion toPersons purchas-
ing Books by Subscription . 80
Taxes 48
Wills and Estates""" '.'.'.'. !!":46
Weights and Measures 52
Wolf Scalps |58
Page.
Population of the Principal
Countries in the World 83
Population of Illinois 84 &>85
Starved Rock view, Frontispiece.
Vote of LaSalle County 276
Too Lates.
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Errata.
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History of Illinois.
The name of this beautiful Prairie State is derived from Illim, a
Delaware word signifying Superior Men. It has a French' termination,
and is a symbol of how the two races — the French and the Indians —
were intermixed during the early history of the country.
The appellation was no doubt well applied to the primitive inhabit-
ants of the soil whose prowess in savage warfare long withstood the
combined attacks of the fierce Iroquois on the one side, and the no less
savage and relentless Sacs and Foxes on the other. The Illinois were
once a powerful confederacy, occupying the most beautiful and fertile
region in the great Valley of the Mississippi, which their enemies coveted
and struggled long and hard to wrest from them. By the fortunes of
war they were diminished in numbers, and finally destroyed. " Starved
Rock,'' on the Illinois River, according to tradition, commemorates their
last tragedy, where, it is said, the entire tribe starved rather than sur-
render.
EARLY DISCOVERIES.
The first European discoveries in Illinois date back over two hun-
dred years. They are a part of that movement which, from the begin-
ning to the middle of the seventeenth century, brought the French
Canadian missionaries and fur traders into the Valley of the Mississippi,
and which, at a later period, established the civil and ecclesiastical
authority of France from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico,
and from the foot-hills of the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains.
The great river of the West had been discovered by DeSoto, the
Spanish conqueror of Florida, three quarters of a century before the
French founded Quebec in 1608, but the Spanish left the country a wil-
derness, without further exploration or settlement within its borders, in
which condition it remained until the Mississippi was discovered by the
agents of the French Canadian government, Jolietand Marquette, in 1673.
These renowned explorers were not the first white visitors to Illinois.
In 1671 — two years in advance of them — came Nicholas Perrot to Chicago.
He had been sent by Talon as an agent of the Canadian government to
14 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
call a great peace convention of Western Indians at Green Bay, prepara-
tory to the movement for the discovery of the Mississippi. It was
deemed a good stroke of policy to secure, as far as possible, the friend-
ship and co-operation of the Indians, far and near, before venturing upon
an enterprise which their hostility might render disastrous, and which
their friendship and assistance would do so much to make successful ;
and to this end Perrot was sent to call together in council the tribes
throughout the Northwest, and to promise them the commerce and pro-
tection of the French government. He accordingly arrived at Green
Bay in 1671, and procuring an escort of Pottawattamies, proceeded in a
bark canoe upon a visit to the Miamis, at Chicago. Perrot was there-
fore the first European to set foot upon the soil of Illinois.
Still there were others before Marquette. In 1672, the Jesuit mis-
sionaries, Fathers Claude Allouez and Claude Dablon, bore the standard
of the Cross from their mission at Green Bay through western Wisconsin
and northern Illinois, visiting the Foxes on Fox River, and the Masquo-
tines and Kickapoos at the mouth of the Milwaukee. These missionaries
penetrated on the route afterwards followed by Marquette as far as the
Kickapoo village at the head of Lake Winnebago, where Marquette, in
his journey, secured guides across the portage to the Wisconsin.
The oft-repeated story of Marquette and Joliet is well known.
They were the agents employed by the Canadian government to discover
the Mississippi. Marquette was a native of France, born in 1637, a
Jesuit priest by education, and a man of simple faith and of great zeal and
devotion in extending the Roman Catholic religion among the Indians.
Arriving in Canada in 1666, he was sent as a missionary to the far
Northwest, and, in 1668, founded a mission at Sault Ste. Marie. The
following year he moved to La Pointe, in Lake Superior, where he
instructed a branch of the Hurons till 1670, when he removed south, and
founded the mission at St. Ignace, on the Straits of Mackinaw. Here
he remained, devoting a portion of his time to the study of the Illinois
language under a native teacher who had accompanied him to the mission
from La Pointe, till he was joined by Joliet in the Spring of 1673. By
the wa} 7 of Green Bay and the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, they entered
the Mississippi, which they explored to the mouth of the Arkansas, and
returned by the wa} r of the Illinois and Chicago Rivers to Lake Michigan.
On his way up the Illinois, Marquette visited the great village of
the Kaskaskias, near what is now Utica, in the county of LaSalle. The
following }'ear he returned and established among them the mission of
the Immaculate Virgin Mary, which was the first Jesuit mission founded
in Illinois and in the Mississippi Valley. The intervening winter he
had spent in a hut which his companions erected on the Chicago River, a
few leagues from its mouth. The founding of this mission was the last
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 15
act of Marquette's life. He died in Michigan, on his way back to Green
Bay, May 18, 1675.
FIRST FRENCH OCCUPATION.
The first French occupation of the territory now embraced in Illi-
nois was effected by LaSalle in 1680, seven years after the time of Mar-
quette and Joliet. LaSalle, having constructed a vessel, the " Griffin,"
above the falls of Niagara, which he sailed to Green Bay, and having
passed thence in canoes to the mouth of the St. Joseph River, by which
and the Kankakee he reached the Illinois, in January, 1680, erected Fort
Crevecoeur, at the lower end of Peoria Lake, where the city of Peoria is
now situated. The place where this ancient fort stood may still be seen
just below the outlet of Peoria Lake. It was destined, however, to a
temporary existence. From this point, LaSalle determined to descend
the Mississippi to its mouth, but did not accomplish this purpose till two
years later — in 1682. Returning to Fort Frontenac for the purpose of
getting materials with which to rig his vessel, he left the fort in charge of
Touti, his lieutenant, who during his absence was driven off by the Iro-
quois Indians. These savages had made a raid upon the settlement of
the Illinois, and had left nothing in their track but ruin and desolation.
Mr. Davidson, in his History of Illinois, gives the following graphic
account of the picture that met the eyes of LaSalle and his companions
on their return :
" At the great town of the Illinois they were appalled at the scene
which opened to their view. No hunter appeared to break its death-like
silence with a salutatory whoop oi welcome. The plain on which the
town had stood was now strewn with charred fragments of lodges, which
had so recently swarmed with savage life and hilarity. To render more
hideous the picture of desolation, large numbers of skulls had been
placed on the upper extremities of lodge-poles which had escaped the
devouring flames. In the midst of these horrors was the rude fort of
the spoilers, rendered frightful by the same ghastly relics. A near
approach showed that the graves had been robbed of their bodies, and
swarms of buzzards were discovered glutting their loathsome stomachs
on the reeking corruption. ' To complete the work of destruction, the
growing corn of the village had been cut down and burned, while the
pits containing the products of previous years, had been rifled and their
contents scattered with wanton waste. It was evident the suspected
blow of the Iroquois had fallen with relentless fury."
Touti had escaped LaSalle knew not whither. Passing down the
lake in search of him and his men, LaSalle discovered that the fort had
been destroyed, but the vessel which he had partly constructed was still
16 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
on the stocks, and but slightly injured. After further fruitless search,
failing to find Tonti, he fastened to a tree a painting representing himself
and party sitting in a canoe and bearing a pipe of peace, and to the paint-
ing attached a letter addressed to Tonti.
Tonti had escaped, and, after untold privations, taken shelter among
the Pottawattamies near Green Bay. These were friendly to the French.
One of their old chiefs used to say, " There were but three great cap-
tains in the world, himself, Tonti and LaSalle."
GENIUS OF LaSALLE.
We must now return to LaSalle, whose exploits stand out in such
bold relief. He was born in Rouen, France, in 1643. His father was
wealthy, but he renounced his patrimony on entering a college of the
Jesuits, from which he separated and came to Canada a poor man in 1666.
The priests of St. Sulpice, among whom he had a brother, were then the
proprietors of Montreal, the nucleus of which was a seminary or con-
vent founded by that order. The Superior granted to LaSalle a large
tract of land at LaChine, where he established himself in the fur trade.
He was a man of daring genius, and outstripped all his competitors in
exploits of travel and commerce with the Indians. In 1669, he visited
the headquarters of the great Iroquois Confederacy, at Onondaga, in the
heart of New York, and, obtaining guides, explored the Ohio River to
the falls at Louisville.
In order to understand the genius of LaSalle, it must be remembered
that for many years prior to his time the missionaries and traders were
obliged to make their way to the Northwest by the Ottawa River (of
Canada) on account of the fierce hostility of the Iroquois along the lower
lakes and Niagara River, which entirety closed this latter route to the
Upper Lakes. They carried on their commerce chiefly by canoes, pad-
dling them through the Ottawa to Lake Nipissing, carrying them across
the portage to French River, and descending that to Lake Huron. This
being the route by which they reached the Northwest, accounts for the
fact that all the earliest Jesuit missions were established in the neighbor-
hood of the Upper Lakes. LaSalle conceived the grand idea of opening
the route by Niagara River and the Lower Lakes to Canadian commerce
by sail vessels, connecting it with the navigation of the Mississippi, and
thus opening a magnificent water communication from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. This truly grand and comprehensive
purpose seems to have animated him in all his wonderful achievements
and the matchless difficulties and hardships he surmounted. As the first
step in the accomplishment of this object he established himself on Lake
Ontario, and built and garrisoned Fort Frontenac, the site of the present
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 17
city of Kingston, Canada. Here he obtained a grant of land from the
French crown and a body of troops by which he beat back the invading
Iroquois and cleared the passage to Niagara Falls. Having by this mas-
terly stroke made it safe to attempt a hitherto untried expedition, his
next step, as we have seen, was to advance to the Falls with all his
outfit for building a ship with which to sail the lakes. He was success-
ful in this undertaking, though his ultimate purpose was defeated by a
strange combination of untoward circumstances. The Jesuits evidently
hated LaSalle and plotted against him, because he had abandoned them
and co-operated with a rival order. The fur traders were also jealous of
his superior success in opening new channels of commerce. At LaChine
he had taken the trade of Lake Ontario, which but for his presence there
would have gone to Quebec. While they were plodding with their bark
canoes through the Ottawa he was constructing sailing vessels to com-
mand the trade of the lakes and the Mississippi. These great plans
excited the jealousy and envy of the small traders, introduced treason and
revolt into the ranks of his own companions, and finally led to the foul
assassination by which his great achievements were prematurely ended.
In 1682, LaSalle, having completed his vessel at Peoria, descended
the Mississippi to its confluence with the Gulf of Mexico. Erecting a
standard on which he inscribed the arms of France, he took formal pos-
session of the whole valley of the mighty river, in the name of Louis
XIV., then reigning, in honor of whom he named the country Louisiana.
LaSalle then went to France, was appointed Governor, and returned
with a fleet and immigrants, for the purpose of planting a colony in Illi-
nois. They arrived in due time in the Gulf of Mexico, but failing to
find the mouth of the Mississippi, up which LaSalle intended to sail, his
supply ship, with the immigrants, was driven ashore and wrecked on
Matagorda Bay. With the fragments of the vessel he constructed a
stockade and rude huts on the shore for the protection of the immigrants,
calling the post Fort St. Louis. He then made a trip into New Mexico,
in search of silver mines, but, meeting with disappointment, returned to
find his little colony reduced to forty souls. He then resolved to travel
on foot to Illinois, and, starting with his companions, had reached the
valley of the Colorado, near the mouth of Trinity river, when he was
shot by one of his men. This occurred on the 19th of March, 1687.
Dr. J. W. Foster remarks of him : " Thus fell, not far from the banks
of the Trinity, Robert Cavalier de la Salle, one of the grandest charac-
ters that ever figured in American history — a man capable of originating
the vastest schemes, and endowed with a will and a judgment capable of
carrying them to successful results. Had ample facilities been placed by
the King of France at his disposal, the result of the colonization of this
continent might have been far different from what we now behold."
18 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
A temporary settlement was made at Fort St. Louis, or the old Kas-
kaskia village, on the Illinois River, in what is now LaSalle County, in
1682. In 1690, this was removed, with the mission connected with it, to
Kaskaskia, on the river of that name, emptying into the lower Mississippi
in St. Clair County. . Cahokia was settled about the same time, or at
least, both of these settlements began in the year 1690, though it is now
pretty well settled that Cahokia is the older place, and ranks as the oldest
permanent settlement in Illinois, as well as in the Mississippi Valley.
The reason for the removal of the old Kaskaskia settlement and mission,
was probably because the dangerous and difficult route by Lake Michigan
and the Chicago portage had been almost abandoned, and travelers and
traders passed down and up the Mississippi by the Fox and Wisconsin
River route. They removed to the vicinity of the Mississippi in order
to be in the line of travel from Canada to Louisiana, that is, the lower
part of it, for it was all Louisiana then south of the lakes.
During the period of French rule in Louisiana, the population prob-
ably never exceeded ten thousand, including whites and blacks. Within
that portion of it now included in Indiana, trading posts were established
at the principal Miami villages which stood on the head waters of the
Maumee, the Wea villages situated at Ouiatenon, on the Wabash, and
the Piankeshaw villages at Post Vincennes ; all of which were probably
visited by French traders and missionaries before the close of the seven-
teenth century.
In the vast territory claimed by the French, many settlements of
considerable importance had sprung up. Biloxi, on Mobile Bay, had
been founded by D'Iberville, in 1699 ; Antoine de Lamotte Cadillac had
founded Detroit in 1701 ; and New Orleans had been founded by Bien-
ville, under the auspices of the Mississippi Company, in 1718. In Illi-
nois also, considerable settlements had been made, so that in 1730 they
embraced one hundred and forty French families, about six hundred " con^
verted Indians," and many traders and voyageurs. In that portion of the
country, on the east side of the Mississippi, there were five distinct set-
tlements, with their respective villages, viz. : Cahokia, near the mouth
of Cahokia Creek and about five miles below the present city of St.
Louis ; St. Philip, about forty-five miles below Cahokia, and four miles
above Fort Chartres ; Fort Chartres, twelve miles above Kaskaskia ;
Kaskaskia, situated on the Kaskaskia River, five miles above its conflu-
ence with the Mississippi ; and Prairie du Rocher, near Fort Chartres.
To these must be added St. Genevieve and St. Louis, on the west side
of the Mississippi. These, with the exception of St. Louis, are among
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 19
the oldest French towns in the Mississippi Valley. Kaskaskia, in its best
days, was a town of some two or three thousand inhabitants. After it
passed from the crown of France its population for many years did not
exceed fifteen hundred. Under British rule, in 1773, the population had
decreased to four hundred and fifty. As early as 1721, the Jesuits had
established a college and a monastery in Kaskaskia.
Fort Chartres was first built under the direction of the Mississippi
Company, in 1718, by M. de Boisbraint, a military officer, under command
of Bienville. It stood on the east bank of the Mississippi, about eighteen
miles below Kaskaskia, and was for some time the headquarters of the
military commandants of the district of Illinois.
In the Centennial Oration of Dr. Fowler, delivered at Philadelphia,
by appointment of Gov. Beveridge, we find some interesting facts with
regard to the State of Illinois, which we appropriate in this history :
In 1682 Illinois became a possession of the French crown, a depend-
ency of Canada, and a part of Louisiana. In 1765 the English flag was
run up on old Fort Chartres, and Illinois was counted among the treas-
ures of Great Britain.
In 1779 it was taken from the English by Col. George Rogers Clark.
This man was resolute in nature, wise in council, prudent in policy, bold
in action, and heroic in danger. Few men who have figured in the his-
tory of America are more deserving than this colonel. Nothing short of
first-class ability could have rescued Vincens and all Illinois from the
English. And it is not possible to over-estimate the influence of this
achievement upon the republic. In 1779 Illinois became a part of Vir-
ginia. It was soon known as Illinois County. In 1784 Virginia ceded
all this territory to the general government, to be cut into States, to be
republican in form, with " the same right of sovereignty, freedom, and
independence as the other States."
In 1787 it was the object of the wisest and ablest legislation found
in any merely human records. No man can study the secret history of
THE "COMPACT OF 1787,"
and not feel that Providence was guiding with sleepless eye these unborn
States. The ordinance that on July 13, 1787, finally became the incor-
porating act, has a most marvelous history. Jefferson had vainly tried
tp secure a system of government for the northwestern territory. He
was an emancipationist of- that day, and favored the exclusion of slavery
from the territory Virginia had ceded to the general government ; but
the South voted him down as often as it came up. In 1787, as late as
July 10, an organizing act without the anti-slavery clause was pending.
This concession to the South was expected to carry it. Congress was in
20 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
session in New York City. On July 5, Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler, of
Massachusetts, came into New York to lobby on the northwestern terri-
tory. Everything seemed to fall into his hands. Events were ripe.
The state of the public credit, the growing of Southern prejudice,
the basis of his mission, his personal character, all combined to complete
one of those sudden and marvelous revolutions of public sentiment that
once in five or ten centuries are seen to sweep over a country like the
breath of the Almighty. Cutler was a graduate of Yale — received his
A.M. from Harvard, and his D.D. from Yale. He had studied and taken
degrees in the three learned, professions, medicine, law, and divinity. He
had thus America's best indorsement. He had published a scientific
examination of the plants of New England. His name stood second only
to that of Franklin as a scientist in America. He was a courtly gentle-
man of the old style, a man of commanding presence, and of inviting
face. The Southern members said they had never seen such a gentleman
in the North. He came representing a company that desired to purchase
a tract of land now included in Ohio, for the purpose of planting a colony.
It was a speculation. Government money was worth eighteen cents on
the dollar. This Massachusetts company had collected enough to pur-
chase 1,500,000 acres of land. Other speculators in New York made
Dr. Cutler their agent (lobbyist). On the 12th he represented a demand
for 5,500,000 acres. This would reduce the national debt. Jefferson
and Virginia were regarded as authority concerning the land Virginia
had just ceded. Jefferson's policy wanted to provide for the public credit,
and this was a good opportunity to do something.
Massachusetts then owned the territory of Maine, which she was
crowding on the market. She was opposed to opening the northwestern
region. This fired the zeal of Virginia. The South caught the inspira-
tion, and all exalted Dr. Cutler. The English minister invited him to
dine with some of the Southern gentlemen. He was the center of interest.
The entire South rallied round him. Massachusetts could not vote
against him, because many of the constituents of her members were
interested personally in the western speculation. Thus Cutler, making
friends with the South, and, doubtless, using all the arts of the lobb}'-,
was enabled to command the situation. True to deeper convictions, he
dictated one of the most compact and finished documents of wise states-
manship that has ever adorned any human law book. He borrowed from
Jefferson the term "Articles of Compact," which, preceding the federal
constitution, rose into the most sacred character. He then followed very
closely the constitution of Massachusetts, adopted three years before.
Its most marked points were :
1. The exclusion of slavery from the territory forever.
2. Provision for public schools, giving one township for a seminary,
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and every section numbered 16 in each township ; that is, one-thirty-sixth
of all the land, for public schools.
3. A provision prohibiting the adoption of any constitution or the
enactment of any law that should nullify pre-existing contracts.
Be it forever remembered that this compact declared that " Religion,
morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the
happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall always
be encouraged."
Dr. Cutler planted himself on this platform and would not yield.
Giving his unqualified declaration that it was that or nothing — that unless
they could make the land desirable they did not want it — he took his
horse and buggy, and started for the constitutional convention in Phila-
delphia. On July 13, 1787, the bill was put upon its passage, and was
unanimously adopted, every Southern member voting for it, and only one
man, Mr. Yates, of New York, voting against it. But as the States voted
as States, Yates lost his vote, and the compact was put beyond repeal.
Thus the great States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis-
consin — a vast empire, the heart of the great valley — were consecrated
to freedom, intelligence, and honesty. Thus the great heart of the nation
was prepared for a year and a day and an hour. In the light of these eighty-
nine years I affirm that this act was the salvation of the republic and the
destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and
tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee
of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that this ordinance
was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood a rock, in the way
of the on-rushing sea of slavery.
With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and pro-
tracted struggle to keep the soil of Illinois sacred to freedom. It was
the natural battle-field for the irrepressible conflict. In the southern end
of the State slavery preceded the compact. It existed among the old
French settlers, and was hard to eradicate. The southern part of the
State was settled from the slave States, and this population brought their
laws, customs, and institutions with them. A stream of population from
the North poured into the northern part of the State. These sections
misunderstood and hated each other perfectly. The Southerners regarded
the Yankees as a skinning, tricky, penurious race of peddlers, filling the
country with tinware, brass clocks, and wooden nutmegs. The North-
erner thought of the Southerner as a lean, lank, lazy creature, burrowing
in a hut, and rioting in whisky, dirt and ignorance. These causes aided
in making the struggle long and bitter. So strong was the sympathy
with slavery that, in spite of the ordinance of 1787, and in spite of the
deed of cession, it was determined to allow the old French settlers to
retain their slaves. Planters from the slave States might bring their
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slaves, if they would give them a chance to choose freedom or years
of service and bondage for their children till they should become
thirty years of age. If they chose freedom they must leave the State
in sixty days or be sold as fugitives. Servants were whipped for offenses
for which white men are "fined. Each lash paid forty cents of the fine. A
negro ten miles from home without a pass was whipped. These famous
laws were imported from the slave States just as they imported laws fox"
the inspection of flax and wool when there was neither in the State.
These Black Laws are now wiped out. A vigorous effort was made
to protect slavery in the State Constitution of 1817. It barely failed.
It was renewed in 1825, when a convention was asked to make a new
constitution. After a hard fight the convention was defeated. But
slaves did not disappear from the census of the State until 1850. There
were mobs and murders in the interest of slavery. Lovejoy was added
to the list of martyrs — a sort of first-fruits of that long life of immortal
heroes who saw freedom as the one supreme desire of their souls, and
were so enamored of her that they preferred to die rather than survive her.
The population of 12,282 that occupied the territory in A.D. 1800,
increased to 45,000 in A.D. 1818, when the State Constitution was
adopted, and Illinois took her place in the Union, with a star on the flag
and two votes in the Senate.
Shadrach Bond was the first Governor, and in his first message he
recommended the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
The simple economy in those days is seen in the fact that the entire
bill for stationery for the first Legislature was only $13.50. Yet this
simple body actually enacted a very superior code.
There was no money in the' territory before the war of 1812. Deer
skins and coon skins were the circulating medium. In 1821, the Legis-
lature ordained a State Bank on the credit of the State. It issued notes
in the likeness of bank bills. These notes were made a les:al tender for
every thing, and the bank was ordered to loan to the people 8100 on per-
sonal security, and more on mortgages. They actually passed a resolu-
tion requesting the Secretary of the Treasmy of the United States to
receive these notes for land. The old French Lieutenant Governor, Col.
Menard, put the resolution as follows: " Gentlemen of the Senate : It is
moved and seconded clat de notes of dis bank be made land-office money.
All in favor of dat motion say aye ; all against it sa} T no. It is decided
in de affirmative. Now, gentlemen, I bet you one hundred dollar he
never be land-office money ! "' Hard sense, like hard money, is alwavs
above par.
This old Frenchman presents a fine figure up against the dark back-
ground of most of his nation. They made no progress. They clung to
their earliest and simplest implements. They never wore hats or cap?
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 28
They pulled their blankets over their heads in the winter like the Indians,
with whom they freely intermingled.
Demagogism had an early development. One John Grammar (only
in name), elected to the Territorial and State Legislatures of 1816 and
1836, invented the policy of opposing every new thing, saying, " If it
succeeds, no one will ask who voted against it. If it proves a failure, he
could quote its record." In sharp contrast with Grammar was the char-
acter of D. P. Cook, after whom the county containing Chicago was
named. Such was his transparent integrity and remarkable ability that
his will was almost the law of the State. In Congress, a young man,
and from a poor State, he was made Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee. He was pre-eminent for standing by his committee, regard-
less of consequences. It was his integrity that elected John Quincy
Adams to the Presidency. There were four candidates in 1824, Jackson,
Clay, Crawford, and John Quincy Adams. There being no choice by the
people, the election was thrown into the House. It was so balanced that
it turned on his vote, and that he cast for Adams, electing him ; then
went home to face the wrath of the Jackson party in Illinois. It cost
him all but character and greatness. It is a suggestive comment on the
times, that there was no legal interest till 1830. It often reached 150
per cent., usually 50 per cent. Then it was reduced to 12, and now to
10 per cent.
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PRAIRIE STATE.
In area the State has 55,410 square miles of territory. It is about
150 miles wide and 400 miles long, stretching in latitude from Maine to
North Carolina. It embraces wide variety of climate. It is tempered
on the north by the great inland, saltless, tideless sea, which keeps the
thermometer from either extreme. Being a table land, from 600 to 1,600
feet above the level of the sea, one is prepared to find on the health
maps, prepared by the general government, an almost clean and perfect
record. In freedom from fever and malarial diseases and consumptions,
the three deadly enemies of the American Saxon, Illinois, as a State,
stands without a superior. She furnishes one of the essential conditions
of a great people — sound bodies. I suspect that this fact lies back of
that old Delaware word, Illini, superior men.
The great battles of history that have been determinative of dynas-
ties and destinies have been strategical battles, chiefly the question of
position. Thermopylse has been the war-cry of freemen for twenty-four
centuries. It only tells how much there may be in position. All this
advantage belongs to Illinois. It is in the heart of the greatest valley in
the world, the vast region between the mountains — a valley that could
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feed mankind for one thousand years. It is well on toward the center of
the continent. It is in the great temperate belt, in which have been
found nearly all the aggressive civilizations of history. It has sixty-five
miles of frontage on the head of the lake. With the Mississippi forming
the western and southern boundary, with the Ohio running along the
southeastern line, with the Illinois River and Canal dividing the State
diagonally from the lake to the Lower Mississippi, and with the Rock and
Wabash Rivers furnishing altogether 2,000 miles of water-front, con-
necting with, and running through, in all about 12,000 miles of navi-
gable water.
But this is not all. These waters are made most available by the
fact that the lake and the State lie on the ridge running into the great
valley from the east. Within cannon-shot of the lake the water runs
away from the lake to the Gulf. The lake now empties at both ends,
one into the Atlantic and one into the Gulf of Mexico. The lake thus
seems to hang over the land. This makes the dockage most serviceable ;
there are no steep banks to damage it. Both lake and river are made
for use.
The climate varies from Portland to Richmond ; it favors every pro-
duct of the continent, including the tropics, with less than half a dozen
exceptions. It produces every great nutriment of the world except ban-
anas and rice. It is hardly too much to say that it is the most productive
spot known to civilization. With the soil full of bread and the earth full
of minerals ; with an upper surface of food and an under layer of fuel ;
with perfect natural drainage, and abundant springs and streams and
navigable rivers ; half way between the forests of the North and the fruits
of the South ; within a day's ride of the great deposits of iron, coal, cop-
per, lead, and zinc ; containing and controlling the great grain, cattle,
pork, and lumber markets of the world, it is not strange that Illinois has
the advantage of position.
This advantage has been supplemented by the character of the popu-
lation. In the early days when Illinois was first admitted to the Union,
her population were chiefly from Kentucky and Virginia. But, in the
conflict of ideas concerning slavery, a strong tide of emigration came in
from the East, and soon changed this composition. In 1870 her non-
native population were from colder soils. New York furnished 133,290 ;
Ohio gave 162,623; Pennsylvania sent on 98,352; the entire South gave
us only 206,734. In all her cities, and in all her German and Scandina-
vian and other foreign colonies, Illinois has only about one-fifth of her
people of foreign birth.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 25
PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENT.
One of the greatest elements in the early development of Illinois is
the Illinois and Michigan Canal, connecting the Illinois and Mississippi
Rivers with the lakes. It was of the utmost importance to the State.
It was recommended by Gov. Bond, the first governor, in his first message.
In 1821, the Legislature appropriated $10,000 for surveying the route.
Two bright young engineers surveyed it, and estimated the cost at
1600,000 or $700;000. It finally cost $8,000,000. In 1825, a law was
passed to incorporate the Canal Company, but no stock was sold. In
1826, upon the solicitation of Cook, Congress gave 800,000 acres of land
on the line of the work. In 1828, another law — commissioners appointed,
and work commenced with new survey and new estimates. In 1834-35,
George Farquhar made an able report on the whole matter. This was,
doubtless, the ables't report ever made to a western legislature, and it
became the model for subsequent reports and action. From this the
work went on till it was finished in 1848. It cost the State a large
amount of money ; but it gave to the industries of the State an impetus
that pushed it up into the first rank of greatness. It was not built as a
speculation any more than a doctor is employed on a speculation. But
it has paid into the Treasury of the State an average annual net sum of
over $111,000.
Pending the construction of the canal, the land and town-lot fever
broke out in the State, in 1834-35. It took on the malignant type in
Chicago, lifting the town up into a city. The disease spread over the
entire State and adjoining States. It was epidemic. It cut up men's
farms without regard to locality, and cut up the purses of the purchasers
without regard to consequences. It is estimated that building lots enough
were sold in Indiana alone to accommodate every citizen then in the
United States.
Towns and cities were exported to the Eastern market by the ship-
load. There was no lack of buyers. Every up-ship came freighted with
speculators and their money.
This distemper seized upon the Legislature in 1836-37, and left not
one to tell the tale. They enacted a system of internal improvement
without a parallel in the grandeur of its conception. They ordered the
construction of 1,300 miles of railroad, crossing the State in all direc-
tions. This was surpassed by the river and canal improvements.
There were a few counties not touched by either railroad or river or
canal, and those were to be comforted and compensated by the free dis-
tribution of $200,000 among them. To inflate this balloon beyond cre-
dence it was ordered that work should be commenced on both ends of
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each of these railroads and rivers, and at each river-crossing, all at the
same time. The appropriations for these vast improvements were over
$12,000,000, and commissioners were appointed to borrow the money on
the credit of the State. Remember that all this was in the early days of
railroading, when railroads were luxuries ; that the State had whole
counties with scarcely a cabin ; and that the population of the State was
less than 400,000, and you can form some idea of the vigor with which
these brave men undertook the work of making a great State. In the
light of history I am compelled to say that this was only a premature
throb of the power that actually slumbered in the soil of the State. It
was Hercules in the cradle.
At this juncture the State Bank loaned its funds largely to Godfrey
Gilman & Co., and to other leading houses, for the purpose of drawing
trade from St. Louis to Alton. Soon they failed, and took down the
bank with them.
In 1840, all hope seemed gone. A population of 480,000 were loaded
with a debt of $14,000,000. It had only six small cities, really only
towns, namely : Chicago, Alton, Springfield, Quincy, Galena, Nauvoo.
This debt was to be cared for when there was not a dollar in the treas-
ury, and when the State had borrowed itself out of all credit, and when
there was not good money enough in the hands of all the people to pay
the interest of the debt for a single year. Yet, in the presence of all
these difficulties, the young State steadily refused to repudiate. Gov.
Ford took hold of the problem and solved it, bringing the State through
in triumph.
Having touched lightly upon some of the more distinctive points in
the history of the development of Illinois, let us next briefly consider the
MATERIAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE.
It is a garden four hundred miles long and one hundred and fifty
miles wide. Its soil is chiefly a black sandy loam, from six inches to
sixty feet thick. On the American bottoms it has been cultivated for
one hundred and fifty years without renewal. About the old French
towns it has yielded corn for a century and a half without rest or help.
It produces nearly everything green in the temperate and tropical zones.
She leads all other States in the number of acres actually under plow.
Her products from 25,000,000 of acres are incalculable. Her mineral
wealth is scarcely second to her agricultural power. She has coal, iron,
lead, copper, zinc, many varieties of building stone, fire clay, cuma clay,
common brick clay, sand of all kinds, gravel, mineral paint — every thing
needed for a high civilization. Left to herself, she has the elements of
all greatness. The single item of coal is too vast for an appreciative
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 27
handling in figures. We can handle it in general terms like algebraical
signs, but long before we get up into the millions and billions the human
mind drops down from comprehension to mere symbolic apprehension.
When I tell you that nearly four-fifths of the entire State is under-
laid with a deposit of coal more than forty feet thick on the average (now
estimated, by recent surveys, at seventy feet thick), you can get some
idea of its amount, as you do of the amount of the national debt. There
it is ! 41,000 square miles — one vast mine into which you could put
any of the States ; in which you could bury scores of European and
ancient empires, and have room enough all round to work without know-
ing that they had been sepulchered there.
Put this vast coal-bed down by the other great coal deposits of the
world, and its importance becomes manifest. Great Britain has 12,000
square miles of coal; Spain, 3,000; France, 1,719; Belgium, 578; Illinois
about twice as many square miles as all combined. Virginia has 20,000
square miles ; Pennsylvania, 16,000 ; Ohio, 12,000. Illinois has 41,000
square miles. One-seventh of all the known coal on this continent is in
Illinois.
Could we sell the coal in this single State for one-seventh of one cent
a ton it would pay the national debt. Converted into power, even with
the wastage in our common engines, it would do more work than could
be done by the entire race, beginning at Adam's wedding and working
ten hours a day through all the centuries till the present time, and right
on into the future at the same rate for the next 600,000 years.
Great Britain uses enough mechanical power to-day to give to each
man, woman, and child in the kingdom the help and service of nineteen
untiring servants. No wonder she has leisure and luxuries. No wonder
the home of the common artisan has in it more luxuries than could be
found in the palace of good old King Arthur. Think, if you can conceive
of it, of the vast army of servants that slumber in the soil of Illinois,
impatiently awaiting the call of Genius to come forth to minister to our
comfort.
At the present rate of consumption England's coal supply will be
exhausted in 250 years. When this is gone she must transfer her dominion
either to the Indies, or to British America, which I would not resist ; or
to some other people, which I would regret as a loss to civilization.
COAL IS KING.
At the same rate of consumption (which far exceeds our own) the
deposit of coal in Illinois will last 120,000 years. And her kingdom shall
be an everlasting kingdom.
Let us turn now from this reserve power to the annual products of
28 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
the State. We shall not be humiliated in this field. Here we strike the
secret of our national credit. Nature provides a market in the constant
appetite of the race. Men must eat, and if we can furnish the provisions
we can command the treasure. All that a man hath will he give for his
life.
According to the last census Illinois produced 30,000,000 of bushels
of wheat. That is more wheat than was raised by any other State in the
Union. She raised In 1875, 130,000,000 of bushels of corn — twice as
much as any other State, and one-sixth of all the corn raised in the United
States. She harvested 2,747,000 tons of hay, nearly one-tenth of all the
hay in the Republic. It is not generally appreciated, but it is true, that
the hay crop of the country is worth more than the cotton crop. The
hay of Illinois equals the cotton of Louisiana. Go to Charleston, S. C,
and see them peddling handfuls of hay or grass, almost as a curiosity,
as we regard Chinese gods or the cryolite of Greenland ; drink your
coffee and condensed milk ; and walk back from the coast for many a
league through the sand and burs till you get up into the better atmos-
phere of the mountains, without seeing a waving meadow or a grazing
herd ; then you will begin to appreciate the meadows of the Prairie State,
where the grass often grows sixteen feet high.
The value of her farm implements is $211,000,000, and the value of
her live stock is only second to the great State of New York. in 1875
she had 25,000,000 hogs, and packed 2,113,845, about one-half of all that
were packed in the United States. This is no insignificant item. Pork
is a growing demand of the old world. Since the laborers of Europe
have gotten a taste of our bacon, and we have learned how to pack it dry
in boxes, like dry goods, the world has become the market.
The hog is on the march into the future. His nose is ordained to
uncover the secrets of dominion, and his feet shall be guided by the star
of empire.
Illinois marketed $57,000,000 worth of slaughtered animals — more
than any other State, and a seventh of all the States.
Be patient with me, and pardon my pride, and I will give you a list
of some of the things in which Illinois excels all other States.
Depth and richness of soil ; per cent, of good ground ; acres of
improved land ; large farms — some farms contain from 40,000 to 60,000
acres of cultivated land, 40,000 acres of corn on a single farm ; number of
farmers ; amount of wheat, corn, oats and honey produced ; value of ani-
mals for slaughter ; number of hogs ; amount of pork ; number of horses
— three times as many as Kentucky, the horse State.
Illinois excels all other States in miles of railroads and in miles of
postal service, and in money orders sold per annum, and in the amount of
lumber sold in her markets.
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Illinois is only second in many important matters. This sample list
comprises a few of the more important : Permanent school fund (good
for a young state) ; total income for educational purposes ; number of pub-
lishers of books, maps, papers, etc.; value of farm products and imple-
ments, and of live stock ; in tons of coal mined.
The shipping of Illinois is only second to New York. Out of one
port during the business hours of the season of navigation she sends forth
a vessel every ten minutes. This does not include canal boats, which go
one every five minutes. No wonder she is only second in number of
bankers and brokers or in physicians and surgeons.
She is third in colleges, teachers and schools ; cattle, lead, hay,
flax, sorghum and beeswax.
She is fourth in population, >'n children enrolled in public schools, in
law schools, in butter, potatoes and carriages.
She is fifth in value of real and personal property, in theological
seminaries and colleges exclusively for women, in milk sold, and in boots
and shoes manufactured, and in book-binding.
She is only seventh in the production of wood, while she is the
twelfth in area. Surely that is well done for the Prairie State. She now
has much more wood and growing timber than she had thirty years ago.
A few leading industries will justify emphasis. She manufactures
$205,000,000 worth of goods, which places her well up toward New York
and Pennsylvania. The number of her manufacturing establishments
increased from 1860 to. 1870, 300 per cent.; capital employed increased 350
per cent,, and the amount of product increased 400 per cent. She issued
5,500,000 copies of commercial and financial newspapers — only second to
New York. She has 6,759 miles of railroad, thus leading all other States,
worth $636,458,000, using 3,245 engines, and 67,712 cars, making a train
long enough to cover one-tenth of the entire roads of the State. Her
stations are only five miles apart. She carried last year 15,795,000 passen-
gers, an average of 36.j miles, or equal to taking her entire population twice
across the State. More than two-thirds of her land is within five miles of
a railroad, and less than two per cent, is more than fifteen miles away.
The State has a large financial interest in the Illinois Central railroad.
The road was incorporated in 1850, and the State gave each alternate sec-
tion for six miles on each side, and doubled the price of the remaining
land, so keeping herself good. The road received 2,595,000 acres of land,
and pays to the State one-seventh of the gross receipts. The State
receives this year $350,000, and has received in all about $7,000,000. It
is practically the people's road, and it has a most able and gentlemanly
management. Add to this the annual receipts from the canal, $111,000,
and a large per cent, of the State tax is provided for.
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THE RELIGION AND MORALS
of the State keep step with her productions and growth. She was born
of the missionary spirit. It was a minister who secured for her the ordi-
nance of 1787, by which she has been saved from slavery, ignorance, and
dishonesty. Rev. Mr. Wiley, pastor of a Scotch congregation in Randolph
County, petitioned the Constitutional Convention of 1818 to recognize
Jesus Christ as king, and the Scriptures as the only necessary guide and
book of law. The convention did not act in the case, and the old Cove-
nanters refused to accept citizenship. They never voted until 1824, when
the slavery question was submitted to the people; then they all voted
against it and cast the determining votes. Conscience has predominated
whenever a great moral question has been submitted to the people.
But little mob violence has ever been felt in the State. In 1817
regulators disposed of a band of horse-thieves that infested the territory.
The Mormon indignities finally awoke the same spirit. Alton was also
the scene of a pro-slavery mob, in which Lovejoy was added to the list of
martyrs. The moral sense of the people makes the law supreme, and gives
to the State unruffled peace.
With 122,300,000 in church property, and 4,298 church organizations,
the State has that divine police, the sleepless patrol of moral ideas, that
alone is able to secure perfect safety. Conscience takes the knife from
the assassin's hand and the bludgeon from the grasp of the highwayman.
We sleep in safety, not because we are behind bolts and bars — these only
fence against the innocent ; not because a lone officer drowses on a distant
corner of a street; not because a sheriff may call his posse from a remote
part of the county ; but because conscience guards the very portals of the
air and stirs in the deepest recesses of the public mind. This spirit issues
within the State 9,500,000 copies of religious papers annually, and receives
still more from without. Thus the crime of the State is only one-fourth
that of New York and one-half that of Pennsylvania.
Illinois never had but one duel between her own citizens. In Belle-
ville, in 1820, Alphonso Stewart and William Bennett arranged to vindi-
cate injured honor. The seconds agreed to make it a sham, and make
them shoot blanks. Stewart was in the secret. Bennett mistrusted some-
thing, and, unobserved, slipped a bullet into his gun and killed Stewart.
He then fled the State. After two years he was caught, tried, convicted,
and, in spite of friends and political aid, was hung. This fixed the code
of honor on a Christian basis, and terminated its use in Illinois.
The early preachers were ignorant men, who were accounted eloquent
according to the strength of their voices. But they set the style for all
public speakers. Lawyers and political speakers followed this rule. Gov.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 81
Ford says: "Nevertheless, these first preachers were of incalculable
benefit to the country. They inculcated justice and morality. To them
are we indebted for the first Christian character of the Protestant portion
of the people."
In education Illinois surpasses her material resources. The ordinance
of 1787 consecrated one thirty-sixth of her soil to common schools, and
the law of 1818, the first law that went upon her statutes, gave three per
cent, of all the rest to
EDUCATION INSTEAD OF HIGHWAYS.
The old compact secures this interest forever, and by its yoking
morality and intelligence it precludes the legal interference with the Bible
in the public schools. With such a start it is natural that we should have
11,050 schools, and that our illiteracy should be less than New York or
Pennsylvania, and only about one-half of Massachusetts. We are not to
blame for not having more than one-half as many idiots as the great
States. These public schools soon made colleges inevitable. The first
college, still flourishing, was started in Lebanon in 1828, by the M. E.
church, and named after Bishop McKendree. Illinois College, at Jackson-
ville, supported by the Presbyterians, followed in 1830. In 1832 the Bap-
tists built Shurtleff College, at Alton. Then the Presbyterians built Knox
College, at Galesburg, in 1838, and the Episcopalians built Jubilee College,
at Peoria, in 1847. After these early years colleges have rained down.
A settler could hardly encamp on the prairie but a college would spring
up by his wagon. The State now has one very well endowed and equipped
university, namely, the Northwestern University, at Evanston, with six
colleges, ninety instructors, over 1,000 students, and $1,500,000 endow-
ment.
Rev. J. M. Peck was the first educated Protestant minister in tne
State. He settled at Rock Spring, in St. Clair County, 1820, and left his
impress on the State. Before 1837 only party papers were published, but
Mr. Peck published a Gazetteer of Illinois. Soon after John Russell, of
Bluffdale, published essays and tales showing genius. Judge James Hall
published The Illinois Monthly Magazine with great ability, and an annual
called The Western Souvenir, which gave him an enviable fame all over the
United States. From these beginnings Illinois has gone on till she has
more volumes in public libaaries even than Massachusetts, and of the
44,500,000 volumes in all the public libraries of the United States, she
has one-thirteenth. In newspapers she stands fourth. Her increase is
marvelous. In 1850 she issued 5,000,000 copies; in 1860, 27,590,000 ; in
1870, 113,140,000. In 1860 she had eighteen colleges and seminaries ; in
1870 she had eighty. That is a grand advance for the war decade.
This brings us to a record unsurpassed in the history of any age,
32 HISTORY OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS.
THE WAR RECORD OF ILLINOIS.
I hardly know where to begin, or how to advance, or what to say. I
can at best give you only a broken sj r nopsis of her deeds, and you must
put them in the order of glory for yourself. Her sons have always been
foremost on fields of danger. In 1832-33, at the call of Gov. Reynolds,
her sons drove Blackhawk over the Mississippi.
When the Mexican war came, in May, 1846, 8,370 men offered them-
selves when only 3,720 could be accepted. The fields of Buena Vista and
Vera Cruz, and the storming of Cerro Gordo, will carry the glory of Illinois
soldiers along after the infamy of the cause they served has been forgotten.
But it was reserved till our day for her sons to find a field and cause and
foemen that could fitly illustrate their spirit and heroism. Illinois put
into her own regiments for the United States government 256,000 men,
and into the army through other States enough to swell the number to
290,000. This far exceeds all the soldiers of' the federal government in
all the war of the revolution. Her total years of service were over 600,000.
She enrolled men from eighteen to forty-five years of age when the law
of Congress in 1864 — the test time — only asked for those from twenty to
forty-five. Her enrollment was otherwise excessive. Her people wanted
to go, and did not take the pains to correct the enrollment. Thus the
basis of fixing the quota was too great, and then the quota itself, at least
in the trying time, was far above any other State.
Thus the demand on some counties, as Monroe, for example, took every
able-bodied man in the county, and then did not have enough to fill the
quota. Moreover, Illinois sent 20,844 men for ninety or one hundred days,
for whom no credit was asked. When Mr. Lincoln's attention was called
to the inequality of the quota compared with other States, he replied,
" The country needs the sacrifice. We must put the whip on the free
horse." In spite of all these disadvantages Illinois gave to the country
73,000 years of service above all calls. With one-thirteenth of the popu-
lation of the loyal States, she sent regularly one-tenth of all the soldiers,
and in the peril of the closing calls, when patriots were few and weary,
she then sent one-eighth of all that were called for by her loved and hon-
ored son in the white house. Her mothers and daughters went into the
fields to raise the grain and keep the children together, while the fathers
and older sons went to the harvest fields of the world. I knew a father
and four sons who agreed that one of them must stay at home ; and they
pulled straws from a stack to see who might go. The father was left.
The next day he came into the camp, saying : " Mother says she can get
the crops in, and I am going, too." I know large Methodist churches
from which every male member went to the army. Do you want to know
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what these heroes from Illinois did in the field ? Ask any soldier with a
good record of his own, who is thus able to judge, and he will tell you
that the Illinois men went in to win. It is common history that the greater
victories were won in the West. When everything else looked dark Illi-
nois was gaining victories all down the river, and dividing the confederacy.
Sherman took with him on his great march forty-five regiments of Illinois
infantry, three companies of artillery, and one company of cavalry. He
could not avoid
GOING TO THE SEA.
If he had been killed, I doubt not the men would have gone right on.
Lincoln answered all rumors of Sherman's defeat with, " It is impossible ;
there is a mighty sight of fight in 100,000 Western men." Illinois soldiers
brought home 800 battle-flags. The first United States flag that floated
over Richmond was an Illinois flag. She sent messengers and nurses to
every field and hospital, to care for her sick and wounded sons. She said,
" These suffering ones are my sons, and I will care for them."
When individuals had given all, then cities and towns came forward
with their credit to the extent of many millions, to aid these men and
their families.
Illinois gave the country the great general of the war — Ulysses S.
Grant — since honored with two terms of the Presidency of the United
States.
One other name from Illinois comes up in all minds, embalmed in all
hearts, that must have the supreme place in this story of our glory and
of our nation's honor ; that name is Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
The analysis of Mr. Lincoln's character is difficult on account of its
symmetry.
In this age we look with admiration at his uncompromising honesty.
And well we may, for this saved us. Thousands throughout the length
and breadth of our country who knew him only as " Honest Old Abe,"
voted for him on that account ; and wisely did they choose, for no other
man could have carried us through the fearful night of the war. When
his plans were too vast for our comprehension, and his faith in the cause
too sublime for our participation ; when it was all night about us, and all
dread before us, and all sad and desolate behind us ; when not one ray
shone upon our cause ; when traitors were haughty and exultant at the
South, and fierce and blasphemous at the North ; when the loyal men here
seemed almost in the minority ; when the stoutest heart quailed, the bravest
cheek paled ; when generals were defeating each other for place, and
contractors were leeching out the very heart's blood of the prostrate
republic : when every thing else had failed us, we looked at this calm,
patient man standing like a rock in the storm, and said : " Mr. Lincoln
34 HISTORY OF THE STATE OP ILLINOIS.
is honest, and we can trust him still." Holding to this single point with'
the energy of faith and despair we held together, and, under God, he
brought us through to victory.
His practical wisdom made him the wonder of all lands. With such
certainty did Mr. Lincoln follow causes to their ultimate effects, that his
foresight of contingencies seemed almost prophetic.
He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory shall shed a
glory upon this age that shall fill the eyes of men as they look into his-
tory. Other men have excelled him in some point, but, taken at all
points, all in all, he stands head and shoulders above every other man of
6,000 years. . An administrator, he saved the nation in the perils of
unparalleled civil war. A statesman, he justified his measures by their
success. A philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and salvation to
another. A moralist, he bowed from the summit of human power to the
foot of the Cross, and became a Christian. A mediator, he exercised mercy
under the most absolute abeyance to law. A leader, he was no partisan.
A commander, he was untainted with blood. A ruler in desperate times,
he was unsullied with crime. A man, he has left no word of passion, no
thought of malice, no trick of craft, no act of jealousy, no purpose of
selfish ambition. Thus perfected, without a model, and without a peer,
he was dropped into these troubled years to adorn and embellish all that
is good and all that is great in our humanity, and to present to all coming
time the representative of the divine idea of free government.
It is not too much to say that away down in the future, when the
republic has fallen from its niche in the wall of time ; when the great
war itself shall have faded out in the distance like a mist on the horizon ;
when the Anglo-Saxon language shall be spoken only by the tongue of
the stranger ; then the generations looking this way shall see the great
president as the supreme figure in this vortex of historv
CHICAGO.
It is impossible in our brief space to give more than a meager sketch
of such a city as Chicago, which is in itself the greatest marvel of the
Prairie State. This mysterious, majestic, mighty city, born first of water,
and next of fire; sown in weakness, and raised in power; planted among
the willows of the marsh, and crowned with the glory of the mountains ;
sleeping on the bosom of the prairie, and rocked on the bosom of the sea ;
the youngest city of the world, and still the eye of the prairie, as Damas-
cus, the oldest city of the world, is the eye of the desert. With a com-
merce far exceeding that of Corinth on her isthmus, in the highway to
the East ; with the defenses of a continent piled around her by the thou-
sand miles, making her far safer than Rome on the banks of the Tiber ;
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with schools eclipsing Alexandria and Athens ; with liberties more con-
spicuous than those of the old republics ; with a heroism equal to the first
Carthage, and with a sanctity scarcely second to that of Jerusalem — set
your thoughts on all this, lifted into the eyes of all men by the miracle of
its growth, illuminated by the flame of its fall, and transfigured by the
divinity of its resurrection, and you will feel, as I do, the utter impossi-
bility of compassing this subject as it deserves. Some impression of her
importance is received from the shock her burning gave to the civilized
world.
When the doubt of her calamity was removed, and the horrid fact
was accepted, there went a shudder over all cities, and a quiver over all
lands. There was scarcely a town in the civilized world that did not
shake on the brink of this opening chasm. The flames of our homes red-
dened all skies. The city was set upon a hill, and could not be hid. All
eyes were turned upon it. , To have struggled and suffered amid the
scenes of its fall is as distinguishing as to have fought at Thermopylae, or
Salamis, or Hastings, or Waterloo, or Bunker Hill.
Its calamity amazed the world, because it was felt to be the common
property of mankind.
The early history of the city is full of interest, just as the early his-
tory of such a man as Washington or Lincoln becomes public property,
and is cherished by every patriot.
Starting with 560 acres in 1833, it embraced and occupied 23,000
acres in 1869, and, having now a population of more than 500,000, it com-
mands general attention.
The first settler — Jean Baptiste Pointe au Sable, a mulatto from the
West Indies — came and began trade with the Indians in 1796. John
Kinzie became his successor in 1804, in which year Fort Dearborn w T as
erected.
A mere trading-post was kept here from that time till about the time
of the Blackhawk war, in 1832. It was not the city. It was merely a
cock crowing at midnight. The morning was not yet. In 1833 the set-
tlement about the fort was incorporated as a town. The voters were
divided on the propriety of such corporation, twelve voting for it and one
against it. Four years later it was incorporated as a city, and embraced
560 acres.
The produce handled in this city is an indication of its power. Grain
and flour were imported from the East till as late as 1837. The first
exportation by way of experiment was in 1839. Exports exceeded imports
first in 1842. The Board of Trade was organized in 1848, but it was so
weak that it needed nursing till 1855. Grain was purchased by the
wagon-load in the street.
I remember sitting with my father on a load of wheat, in the long
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36 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
line of wagons along Lake street, while the buyers came and untied the
bags, and examined the grain, and made their bids. That manner of
business had to cease with the day of small things. Now our elevators
will hold 15,000,000 bushels of grain. The cash value of the produce
handled in a year is 1215,000,000, and the produce weighs 7,000,000
tons or 700,000 car loads. This handles thirteen and a half ton each
minute, all the year round. One tenth of all the wheat in the United
States is handled in Chicago. Even as long ago as 1853 the receipts of
grain in Chicago exceeded those of the goodly city of St. Louis, and in
1854 the exports of grain from Chicago exceeded those of New York and
doubled those of St. Petersburg, Archangel, or Odessa, the largest grain
markets in Europe.
The manufacturing interests of the city are not contemptible. In
1873 manufactories employed 45,000 operatives ; in 1876, 60,000. The
manufactured product in 1875 was worth $177,000,000.
No estimate of the size and power of Chicago would be adequate
that did not put large emphasis on the railroads. Before they came
thundering along our streets canals were the hope of our country. But
who ever thinks now of traveling by canal packets ? In June, 1852,
there were only forty miles of railroad connected with the city. The
old Galena division of the Northwestern ran out to Elgin. But now,
who can count the trains and measure the roads that seek a terminus or
connection in this city ? The lake stretches away to the north, gathering
in to this center all the harvests that might otherwise pass to the north
of us. If you will take a map and look at the adjustment of railroads,
you will see, first, that Chicago is the great railroad center of the world,
as New York is the commercial city of this continent ; and, second, that
the railroad lines form the iron spokes of a great wheel whose hub is
this city. The lake furnishes the only break in the spokes, and this
seems simply to have pushed a few spokes together on each shore. See
the eighteen trunk lines, exclusive of eastern connections.
Pass round the circle, and view their numbers and extent. There
is the great Northwestern, with all its branches, one branch creeping
along the lake shore, and so reaching to the north, into the Lake Superior
regions, away to the right, and on to the Northern Pacific on the left,
swinging around Green Bay for iron and copper and silver, twelve months
in the year, and reaching out for the wealth of the great agricultural
belt and isothermal line traversed by the Northern Pacific. Another
branch, not so far north, feeling for the heart of the Badger State.
Another pushing lower down the Mississippi — all these make many con-
nections, and tapping all the vast wheat regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and all the regions this side of sunset. There is that elegant road,
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, running out a goodly number of
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branches, and reaping the great fields this side of the Missouri River.
I can only mention the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis, our Illinois Central,
described elsewhere, and the Chicago & Rock Island. Further around
we come to the lines connecting us with all the eastern cities. The
Chicago, Indianapolis & St. Louis, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and the Michigan Cen-
tral and Great Western, give us many highways to the seaboard. Thus we
reach the Mississippi at five points, from St. Paul to Cairo and the Gulf
itself by two routes. We also reach Cincinnati and Baltimore, and Pitts-
burgh and Philadelphia, and New York. North and south run the water
courses of the lakes and the rivers, broken just enough at this point to
make a pass. Through this, from east to west, run the long lines that
stretch from ocean to ocean.
This is the neck of the glass, and the golden sands of commerce
must pass into our hands. Altogether we have more than 10,000 miles
of railroad, directly tributary to this city, seeking to unload their wealth
in our coffers. All these roads have come themselves by the infallible
instinct of capital. Not a dollar was ever given by the city to secure
one of them, and only a small per cent, of stock taken originally by her
citizens, and that taken simply as an investment. Coming in the natural
order of events, they will not be easily diverted.
There is still another showing to all this. The connection between
New York and San Francisco is by the middle route. This passes inevit-
ablv through Chicago. St. Louis wants the Southern Pacific or Kansas
Pacific, and pushes it out through Denver, and so on up to Cheyenne.
But before the road is fairly under way, the Chicago roads shove out to
Kansas City, making even the Kansas Pacific a feeder, and actually leav-
ing St. Louis out in the cold. It is not too much to expect that Dakota,
Montana, and Washington Territory will find their great market in Chi-
cago.
But these are not all. Perhaps I had better notice here the ten or
fifteen new roads that have just entered, or are just entering, our city.
Their names are all that is necessary to give. Chicago & St. Paul, look-
ing up the Red River country to the British possessions ; the Chicago,
Atlantic & Pacific ; the Chicago, Decatur & State Line ; the Baltimore &
Ohio; the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes; the Chicago & LaSalle Rail-
road ; the Chicago, Pittsburgh & Cincinnati ; the Chicago and Canada
Southern ; the Chicago and Illinois River Railroad. These, with their
connections, and with the new connections of the old roads, already in
process of erection, give to Chicago not less than 10,000 miles of new
tributaries from the richest land on the continent. ' Thus there will be
added to the reserve power, to the capital within reach of this city, not
less than $1,000,000,000.
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Add to all this transporting power the ships that sail one every nine
minutes of the business hours of the season of navigation ; add, also, the
canal boats that leave one every five minutes during the same time — and
you will see something of the business of the city.
THE COMMERCE OF THIS CITY
has been leaping along to keep pace with the growth of the country
around us. In 1852, our commerce reached the hopeful sum of
$20,000,000. In 1870 it reached $100,000,000. In 1871 it was pushed
up above 8150,000,000. And in 1875 it touched nearly double that.
One-half of our imported goods come directly to Chicago. Grain
enough is exported directly from our docks to the old world to employ a
semi-weekly line of steamers of 3,000 tons capacity. This branch is
not likely to be greatly developed. Even after the great Welland Canal
is completed we shall have only fourteen feet of water. The great ocean
vessels will continue to control the trade.
The banking capital of Chicago is 821,431,000. Total exchange in
1875, 8659,000,000. Her wholesale business in 1875 was 8291,000,000.
The rate of taxes is less than in any other great city.
• The schools of Chicago are unsurpassed in America. Out of a popu-
lation of 300,000 there were only 186 persons between the ages of six
and twenty-one unable to read. This is the best known record.
In 1831 the mail system was condensed into a half-breed, who went
on foot to Niles, Mich., once in two weeks, and brought back what papers
and news he could find. As late as 1816 there was often only one mail
a week. A post-office was established in Chicago in 1833, and the post-
master nailed up old boot-legs on one side of his shop to serve as boxes
for the nabobs and literary men.
It is an interesting fact in the growth of the young city that in the
active life of the business men of that day the mail matter has grown to
a daily average of over 6,500 pounds. It speaks equally well for the
intelligence of the people and the commercial importance of the place,
that the mail matter distributed to the territory immediately tributary to
Chicago is seven times greater than that distributed to the territory
immediately tributary to St. Louis.
The improvements that have characterized the city are as startling
as the city itself. In 1831, Mark Beaubien established a ferry over the
river, and put himself under bonds to carry all the citizens free for the
privilege of charging strangers. Now there are twenty-four large bridges
and two tunnels.
In 1833 the government expended $30,000 on the harbor. Then
commenced that series of manoeuvers with the river that has made it one
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of the world's curiosities. It used to wind around in the lower end of
the town, and make its way rippling over the sand into the lake at the
foot of Madison street. They took it up and put it down where it now
is. It was a narrow stream, so narrow that even moderately small crafts
had to go up through the willows and cat's tails to the point near Lake
street bridge, and back up one of the branches to get room enough in
which to turn around.
In 1844 the quagmires in the streets were first pontooned by plank
roads, which acted in wet weather as public squirt-guns. Keeping you
out of the mud, they compromised by squirting the mud over you. The
wooden-block pavements came to Chicago in 1857. In 1840 water was
delivered by peddlers in carts or by hand. Then a twenty-five horse-
power engine pushed it through hollow or bored logs along the streets
till 1854, when it was introduced into the houses by new works. The
first fire-engine was used in 1835, and the first steam fire-engine in 1859.
Gas was utilized for lighting the city in 1850. The Young Men's Chris-
tian Association was organized in 1858, and horse railroads carried them
to their work in 1859. The museum was opened in 1863. The alarm
telegraph adopted in 1864. The opera-house built in 1865. The city
grew from 560 acres in 1833 to 23,000 in 1869. In 1834, the taxes
amounted to $48.90, and the trustees of the town borrowed $60 more -for
opening and improving streets. In 1835, the legislature authorized a loan
of $2,000, and the treasurer and street commissioners resigned rather than
plunge the town into such a gulf.
Now the city embraces 36 square miles of territory, and has 30 miles
of water front, besides the outside harbor of refuge, of 400 acres, inclosed
by a crib sea-wall. One-third of the city has been raised up an average
of eight feet, giving good pitch to the 263 miles of sewerage. The water
of the city is above all competition. It is received through two tunnels
extending to a crib in the lake two miles from shore. The closest analy-
sis fails to detect any impurities, and, received 35 feet below the surface,
it is always clear and cold. The first tunnel is five feet two inches in
diameter and two miles long, and can deliver 50,000,000 of gallons per
day. The second tunnel is seven feet in diameter and six miles long,
running four miles under the city, and can deliver 100,000,000 of gal-
lons per day. This water is distributed through 410 miles of water-
mains.
The three grand engineering exploits of the city are : First, lifting
the city up on jack-screws, whole squares at a time, without interrupting
the business, thus giving us good drainage ; second, running the tunnels
under the lake, giving us the best water in the world ; and third, the
turning the current of the river in its own channel, delivering us from the
old abominations, and making decency possible. They redound about
40 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
equally to the credit of the engineering, to the energy of the people, and
to the health of the city.
That which really constitutes the city, its indescribable spirit, its soul,
the way it lights up in every feature in the hour of action, has not been
touched. In meeting strangers, one is often surprised how some homely
women marry so well. Their forms are bad, their gait uneven and awk-
ward, their complexion is dull, their features are misshapen and mismatch-
ed, and when we see them there is no beauty that we should desire them.
But when once they are aroused on some subject, they put on new pro-
portions. They light up into great power. The real person comes out
from its unseemly ambush, and captures us at will. They have power.
They have ability to cause things to come to pass. We no longer wonder
why they are in such high demand. So it is with our city.
There is no grand scenery except the two seas, one of water, the
other of prairie. Nevertheless, there is a spirit about it, a push, a breadth,
a power, that soon makes it a place never to be forsaken. One soon
ceases to believe in impossibilities. Balaams are the only prophets that are
disappointed. The bottom that has been on the point of falling out has
been there so long that it has grown fast. It can not fall out. It has all
the capital of the world itching to get inside the corporation.
The two great laws that govern the growth and size of cities are,
first, the amount of territory for which they are the distributing and
receiving points ; second, the number of medium or moderate dealers that
do this distributing. Monopolists build up themselves, not the cities.
They neither eat, wear, nor live in proportion to their business. Both
these laws help Chicago.
The tide of trade is eastward — not up or down the map, but across
the map. The lake runs up a wingdam for 500 miles to gather in the
business. Commerce can not ferry up there for seven months in the year,
and the facilities for seven months can do the work for twelve. Then the
great region west of us is nearly all good, productive land. Dropping
south into the trail of St. Louis, you fall into vast deserts and rocky dis-
tricts, useful in holding the world together. St. Louis and Cincinnati,
instead of rivaling and hurting Chicago, are her greatest sureties of
dominion. They are far enough away to give sea-room, — farther off than
Paris is from London, — and yet they are near enough to prevent the
springing up of any other great city between them.
St. Louis will be helped by the opening of the Mississippi, but also
hurt. That will put New Orleans on her feet, and with a railroad running
over into Texas and so West, she will tap the streams that now crawl up
the Texas and Missouri road. The current is East, not North, and a sea-
port at New Orleans can not permanently help St. Louis.
Chicago is in the field almost alone, to handle the wealth of one-
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fourth of the territory of this great republic. This strip of seacoast
divides its margins between Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Savannah, or some other great port to be created for the
South in the next decade. But Chicago has a dozen empires casting their
treasures into her lap. On a bed of coal that can run all the machinery
of the world for 500 centuries ; in a garden that can feed the race by the
thousand years; at the head of the lakes that give her a temperature as a
summer resort equaled by no great city in the land ; with a climate that
insures the health of her citizens ; surrounded by all the great deposits
of natural wealth in mines aud forests and herds, Chicago is the wonder
of to-day, and will be the city of the future.
MASSACRE AT FORT DEARBORN.
During the war of 1812, Fort Dearborn became the theater of stirring
events. The garrison consisted of fifty- four men under command of
Captain Nathan Heald, assisted by Lieutenant Helm (son-in-law of Mrs.
Kinzie) and Ensign Ronan. Dr. Voorhees was surgeon. The only resi-
dents at the post at that time were the wives of Captain Heald and Lieu-
tenant Helm, and a few of the soldiers, Mr. Kinzie and his family, and
a few Canadian voyageurs, with their wives and children. The soldiers
and Mr. Kinzie were on most friendly terms with the Pottawattamies
and Winnebagos, the principal tribes around them, but they could not
win them from their attachment to the British.
One evening in April, 1812, Mr. Kinzie sat playing on his violin and
his children were dancing to the music, when Mrs. Kinzie came rushing
into the house, pale with terror, and exclaiming : " The Indians ! the
Indians!" "What? Where?" eagerly inquired Mr. Kinzie. "Up
at Lee's, killing and scalping," answered the frightened mother, who,
when the alarm was given, was attending Mrs. Barnes (just confined)
living not far off. Mr. Kinzie and his family crossed the river and took
refuge in the fort, to which place Mrs. Barnes and her infant not a day
old were safely conveyed. The rest of the inhabitants took shelter in the
fort. This alarm was caused by a scalping party of Winnebagos, who
hovered about the fort several days, when they disappeared, and for several
weeks the inhabitants were undisturbed.
On the 7th of August, 1812, General Hull, at Detroit, sent orders to
Captain Heald to evacuate Fort Dearborn, and to distribute all the United
States property to the Indians in the neighborhood — a most insane order.
The Pottawattamie chief, who brought the dispatch, had more wisdom
than the commanding general. He a'dvised Captain Heald not to make
the distribution. Said he : " Leave the fort and stores as they are, and
let the Indians make distribution for themselves ; and while they are
engaged in the business, the white people may escape to Fort Wayne."
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Captain Heald held a council with the Indians t on the afternoon ot
the 12th, in which his officers refused to join, for they had been informed
that treachery was designed — that the Indians intended to murder the
white people in the council, and then destroy those in the fort. Captain
Heald, however, took the precaution to open a port-hole displaying a
cannon pointing directly upon the council, and by that means saved
his life.
Mr. Kinzie, who knew the Indians well, begged Captain Heald not
to confide in their promises, nor distribute the arms and munitions among
them, for it would only put power into their hands to destroy the whites.
Acting upon this advice, Heald resolved to withhold the munitions of
war ; and on the night of the 13th, after the distribution of the other
property had been made, the powder, ball and liquors were thrown into
the river, the muskets broken up and destroyed.
Black Partridge, a friendly chief, came to Captain Heald, and said :
" Linden birds have been singing in my ears to-day: be careful on the
march you are going to take." On that dark night vigilant Indians had
crept near the fort and discovered the destruction of their promised booty
going on within. The next morning the powder was seen floating on the
surface of the river. The savages were exasperated and made loud com-
plaints and threats.
On the following day when preparations were making to leave the
fort, and all the inmates were deeply impressed with a sense of impend-
ing danger, Capt. Wells, an uncle of Mrs. Heald, was discovered upon
the Indian trail among the sand-hills on the borders of the lake, not far
distant, with a band of mounted Miamis, of whose tribe he was chief,
having been adopted by the famous Miami warrior, Little Turtle. When
news of Hull's surrender reached Fort Wayne, he had started with this
force to assist Heald in defending Fort Dearborn. He was too late.
Every means for its defense had been destroyed the night before, and
arrangements were made for leaving the fort on the morning of the loth.
It was a warm bright morning in the middle of August. Indications
were positive that the savages intended to murder the white people ; and
when they moved out of the southern gate of the fort, the march was
like a funeral procession. The band, feeling the solemnity of the occa-
sion, struck up the Dead March in Saul.
Capt. Wells, who had blackened his face with gun-powder in token
of his fate, took the lead with his band of Miamis, followed by Capt.
Heald, with his wife by his side on horseback. Mr. Kinzie hoped by his
personal influence to avert the impending blow, and therefore accompanies
them, leaving his family in a boat in charge of a friendly Indian, to be
taken to his trading station at the site of Niles, Michigan, in the event o_
his death.
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The procession moved slowly along the lake shore till they reached
the sand-hills between the prairie and the beach, when the Pottawattamie
escort, under the leadership of Blackbird, filed to the right, placing those
hills between them and the white people. Wells, with his Miamis, had
kept in the advance. They suddenly came rushing back, Wells exclaim-
ing, " They are about to attack us ; form instantly." These words were
quickly followed by a storm of bullets, which came whistling over the
little hills which the treacherous savages had made the covert for their
murderous attack. The white troops charged upon the Indians, drove
them back to the prairie, and then the battle was waged between fifty-
four soldiers, twelve civilians and three or four women (the cowardly
Miamis having fled at the outset) against five hundred Indian warriors.
The white people, hopeless, resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible.
Ensign Ronan wielded his weapon vigorously, even after falling upon his
knees weak from the loss of blood. Capt. Wells, who was by the side of
his niece, Mrs. Heald, when the conflict began, behaved with the greatest
coolness and courage. He said to her, " We have not the slightest chance
for life. We must part to meet no more in this world. God bless you."
And then he dashed forward. Seeing a young warrior, painted like a
demon, climb into a wagon in which were twelve children, and tomahawk
them all, he cried out, unmindful of his personal danger, " If that is your
game, butchering women and children, I will kill too." He spurred his
horse towards the Indian camp, where they had left their squaws and
papooses, hotly pursued by swift-footed young warriors, who sent bullets
whistling after him. One of these killed his horse and wounded him
severely in the leg. With a yell the young braves rushed to make him
their prisoner and reserve him for torture. He resolved not to be made
a captive, and by the use of the most provoking epithets tried to induce
them to kill him instantly. He called a fiery young chief a squaw, when
the enraged warrior killed Wells instantly with his tomahawk, jumped
upon his body, cut out his heart, and ate a portion of the warm morsel
with savage delight !
In this fearful combat women bore a conspicuous part. Mrs. Heald
was an excellent equestrian and an expert in the use of the rifle. She
fought the savages bravely, receiving several severe wounds. Though
faint from the loss of blood, she managed to keep her saddle. A savage
raised his tomahawk to kill her, when she looked him full in the face,
and with a sweet smile and in a gentle voice said, in his own language,
" Surely you will not kill a squaw ! " The arm of the savage fell, and
the life of the heroic woman was saved.
Mrs. Helm, the step-daughter of Mr. Kinzie, had an encounter with
a stout Indian, who attempted to tomahawk her. Springing to one side,
she received the glancing blow on her shoulder, and at the same instant
44 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLESOIS.
seized the savage round the neck with her arms and endeavored to get
hold of his scalping knife, which hung in a sheath at his breast. While
she was thus struggling she was dragged from her antagonist by another
powerful Indian, who bore her, in spite of her struggles, to the margin
of the lake and plunged her in. To her astonishment she was held by
him so that she would not drown, and she soon perceived that she was
in the hands of the friendly Black Partridge, who had saved her life.
The wife of Sergeant Holt, a large and powerful woman, behaved as
bravely as an Amazon. She rode a fine, high-spirited horse, which the
Indians coveted, and several of them attacked her with the butts of their
guns, for the purpose of dismounting her ; but she used the sword which
she had snatched from her disabled husband so skillfully that she foiled
them ; and, suddenly wheeling her horse, she dashed over the prairie,
followed by the savages shouting, " The brave woman ! the brave woman !
Don't hurt her ! ' : They finally overtook her, and while she was fighting
them in front, a powerful savage came up behind her, seized her by the
neck and dragged her to the ground. Horse and woman were made
captives. Mrs. Holt was a long time a captive among the Indians, but
was afterwards ransomed.
In this sharp conflict two-thirds of the white people were slain and
wounded, and all their horses, baggage and provision were lost. Only
twenty-eight straggling men now remained to fight five hundred Indians
rendered furious by the sight of blood. They succeeded in breaking
through the ranks of the murderers and gaining a slight eminence on the
prairie near the Oak Woods. The Indians did not pursue, but gathered
on their flanks, while the chiefs held a consultation on the sand-hills, and
showed signs of willingness to parley. It would have been madness on
the part of the whites to renew the fight ; and so Capt. Heald went for-
ward and met Blackbird on the open prairie, where terms of surrender
were soon agreed upon. It was arranged that the white people should
give up their arms to Blackbird, and that the survivors should become
prisoners of war, to be exchanged for ransoms as soon as practicable.
With this understanding captives and captors started for the Indian
camp near the fort, to which Mrs. Helm had been taken bleeding and
suffering by Black Partridge, and had met her step-father and learned
that her husband was safe.
A new scene of horror was now opened at the Indian camp. The
wounded, not being included in the terms of surrender, as it was inter-
preted by the Indians, and the British general, Proctor, having offered a
liberal bounty for American scalps, delivered at Maiden, nearly all the
wounded men were killed and scalped, and the price of the trophies was
afterwards paid by the British government.
Abstract of Illinois State Laws.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES.
No promissory note, check, draft, bill of exchange, order, or note, nego-
tiable instrument payable at sight, or on demand, or on presentment, shall
be entitled to dags of grace. All other bills of exchange, drafts or notes are
entitled to three dags of grace. All the above mentioned paper falling
due on Sunday, Neiv Years' 1 Day, the Fourth of July, Christmas, or any
day appointed or recommended by the President of the United States or
the Governor of the State as a day of fast or thanksgiving, shall be deemed
as due on the day previous, and should two or more of these days come
together, then such instrument shall be treated as due on the day previous
to the first of said days. No defense can be made against a negotiable
instrument (assigned before due~) in the hands of the assignee without
notice, except fraud was used in obtaining the same. To hold an indorser,
due diligence must be used by suit, in collecting of the maker, unless suit
would have been unavailing. Notes payable to person named or to order,
in order to absolutely transfer title, must be indorsed by the payee. Notes
payable to bearer may be transferred by delivery, and when so payable
every indorser thereon is held as a guarantor of payment unless otherwise
expressed.
In computing interest or discount on negotiable instruments, a month
shall be considered a calendar month or ttvelfth of a year, and for less
than a month, a day shall be figured a thirtieth part of a month. Notes
•nly bear interest when so expressed, but after due they draw the legal
interest, even if not stated.
INTEREST.
The legal rate of interest is six per cent. Parties may agree in writ-
ing on a rate not exceeding ten per cent. If a rate of interest greater
than ten per cent, is contracted for, it works a forfeiture of the whole of
said interest, and only the principal can be recovered.
DESCENT.
When no will is made, the property of a deceased person is distrib-
uted as follows :
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46 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
First. To his or her children and their descendants in equal parts ;
the descendants of the deceased child or grandchild taking the share of
their deceased parents in equal parts among them.
Second. Where there is no child, nor descendant of such child, and
no widow or surviving husband, then to the parents, brothers and sisters
of the deceased, and their descendants, in equal parts, the surviving
parent, if either be dead, taking a double portion ; and if there is no
parent living, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate and their
descendants.
Third. When there is a widow or surviving husband, and no child or
children, or descendants of the same, then one-half of the real estate and
the whole of the personal estate shall descend to such widow or surviving
husband, absolutely, and the other half of the real estate shall descend as
in other cases where there is no child or children or descendants of the
same.
Fourth. When there is a widow or surviving husband and also a child
or children, or descendants of the latter, then one third of all the personal
estate to the widow or surviving husband absolutely.
Fifth. If there is no child, parent, brother or sister, or descendants of
either of them, and no widow or surviving husband, then in equal parts
to the next of kin to the intestate in equal degree. Collaterals shall not
be represented except with the descendants of brothers and sisters of the
intestate, and there shall be no distinction between kindred of the whole
and the half blood.
Sixth. If any intestate leaves a widow or surviving husband and no
kindred, then to such widow or surviving husband ; and if there is no such
widow or surviving husband, it shall escheat to and vest in the county
where the same, or the greater portion thereof, is situated.
WILLS AND ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS.
No exact form of words are necessary in order to make a will good at
law. Every male person of the age of twenty-one years, and every female
of the age of eighteen years, of sound mind and memory, can make a valid
will ; it must be in writing, signed by the testator or by some one in his
or her presence and by his or her, direction, and attested by two or more
credible witnesses. Care should be taken that the ivitnesses are not inter-
ested in the will. Persons knowing themselves to have been named in the
will or appointed executor, must within thirty days of the death of
deceased cause the will to be proved and recorded in the proper county,
or present it, and refuse to accept ; on failure to do so are liable to forfeit
the sum of twenty dollars per month. Inventory to be made by executor
or administrator within three months from date of letters testamentary or
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 47
of administration. Executors' and administrators' compensation not ta
exceed six per cent, on amount of personal estate, and three per cent,
on money realized from real estate, with such additional allowance a*
shall be reasonable for extra services. Appraisers' compensation $2 pef
day.
Notice requiring all claims to be presented against the estate shall bd
given by the executor or administrator within six months of being quali-
fied. Any person having a claim and not presenting it at the time fixed
by said notice is required to have summons issued notifying the executor
or administrator of his having filed his claim in court ; in such cases the
costs have to be paid by the claimant. Claims should be filed within two
years from the time administration is granted on an estate, as after that
time they are forever barred, unless other estate is found that was not in-
ventoried. Married women, infants, persons insane, imprisoned or without
the United States, in the employment of the United States, or of this
State, have two gears after their disabilities are removed to file claims.
Claims are classified and paid out of the estate in the following manner:
First. Funeral expenses.
Second. The widow's award, if there is a widow ; or children if there
are children, and no widow.
Third. Expenses attending the last illness, not including physician's
bill.
Fourth. Debts due the common school or toivnship fund .
Fifth. All expenses of proving the will and taking out letters testa-
mentary or administration, and settlement of the estate, and the physi-
cian's bill in the last illness of deceased.
Sixth. Where the deceased has received money in trust for any pur-
pose, his executor or administrator shall pay out of his estate the amount
received and not accounted for.
Seventh. All other debts and demands of whatsoever kind, without
regard to quality or dignity, which shall be exhibited to the court within
two years from the granting of letters.
Award to Widow and Children, exclusive of debts and legacies or be-
quests, except funeral expenses :
First. The family pictures and ivearing apparel, jewels and ornaments
of herself and minor children.
Second. School books and the family library of the value of $ 100.
Third. One sewing machine.
Fourth. Necessary beds, bedsteads and bedding for herself and family.
Fifth. The stoves and pipe used in the family, with the necessary
cooking utensils, or in case they have none, $50 in money.
Sixth. Household and kitchen furniture to the value of $100.
Seventh. One milch cow and calf for every four members of her family.
48 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
Eighth. Two sheep for each member of her family, and the fleeces
taken from the same, and one horse, saddle and bridle.
Ninth. Provisions for herself and family for one year.
Tenth. Food for the stock above specified for six months.
Eleventh. Fuel for herself and family for three months.
Twelfth. One hundred dollars worth of other property suited to her
condition in life, to be selected by the widow.
The ividow if she elects may have in lieu of the said award, the same
personal property or money in place thereof as is or may be exempt from
execution or attachment against the head of a family.
TAXES.
The owners of real and personal property, on the first day of May in
each year, are liable for the taxes thereon.
Assessments should be completed before the fourth Monday in June,
at which time the town board of review meets to examine assessments,
hear objections, and make such changes as ought to be made. The county
board have also power to correct or change assessments.
The tax books are placed in the hands of the town collector on or
before the tenth day of December, who retains them until the tenth day
of March following, when he is required to return them to the county
treasurer, who then collects all delinquent taxes.
No costs accrue on real estate taxes till advertised, which takes place
the first day of April, when three weeks' notice is required before judg-
ment. Cost of advertising, twenty cents each tract of land, and ten cents
each lot.
Judgment is usually obtained at May term of County Court. Costs
six cents each tract of land, and five cents each lot. Sale takes place in
June. Costs in addition to those before mentioned, twenty-eight cents
each tract of land, and twenty-seven cents each town lot.
Real estate sold for taxes may be redeemed any time before the expi-
ration of two years from the date of sale, by payment to the County Clerk
of the amount for which it was sold and twenty-five per cent, thereon if
redeemed within six months, fifty per cent, if between six and twelve
months, if between twelve and eighteen months seventy-five per cent.,
and if between eighteen months and two years one hundred per cent.,
and in addition, all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with ten per
cent, interest thereon, also one dollar each tract if notice is given by the
purchaser of the sale, and a fee of twenty-five cents to the clerk for his
certificate.
JURISDICTION OF COURTS.
Justices have jurisdiction in all civil cases on contracts for the recovery
of moneys for damages for injury to real property, or taking, detaining, or
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 49
injuring personal property ; for rent; for all cases to recover damages done
real or personal property by railroad companies, in actions of replevin, and
in actions for damages for fraud in the sale, purchase, or exchange of per-
sonal property, when the amount claimed as due is not over $200. They
have also jurisdiction in all cases for violation of the ordinances of cities,
towns or villages. A justice of the peace may orally order an officer or a
private person to arrest any one committing or attempting to commit a
criminal offense. He also upon complaint can issue his warrant for the
arrest of any person accused of having committed a crime, and have him
brought before him for examination.
COUNTY COURTS
•
Have jurisdiction in all matters of probate (except in counties having a
population of one hundred thousand or over), settlement of estates of
deceased persons, appointment of guardians and conservators, and settle-
ment of their accounts ; all matters relating' to apprentices ; proceedings
for the collection of taxes and assessments, and in proceedings of executors,
administrators, guardians and conservators for the sale of real estate. In
law cases they have concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts in all
cases where justices of the peace now have, or hereafter may have,
jurisdiction when the amount claimed shall not exceed $1,000, and in all
criminal offenses where the punishment is not imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary, or death, and in all cases of appeals from justices of the peace
and police magistrates ; excepting when the county judge is sitting as a
justice of the peace. Circuit Courts have unlimited* jurisdiction.
LIMITATION OF ACTION.
Accounts five years. Notes and written contracts ten years. Judg-
ments twenty years. Partial payments or new promise in writing, within
or after said period, will revive the debt. Absence from the State deducted,
and when the cause of action is barred by the law of another State, it has
the same effect here. Slander and libel, one year. Personal injuries, two
years. To recover land or make entry thereon, tiventy years. Action to
foreclose mortgage or trust deed, or make a sale, within ten years.
All persons in possession of land, and paying taxes for seven consecu-
tive years, with color of title, and all persons paying taxes for seven con-
secutive years, with color of title, on vacant land, shall be held to be the
legal owners to the extent of their paper title.
MARRIED WOMEN
May sue and be sued. Husband and wife not liable for each other's debts,
either before or after marriage, but both are -liable for expenses and edu-
cation of the family.
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50 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
She may contract the same as if unmarried, except that in a partner-
ship business she can not, without consent of her husband, unless he has
abandoned or deserted her, or is idiotic or insane, or confined in peniten-
tiary ; she is entitled and can recover her own earnings, but neither hus-
band nor wife is entitled to compensation for any services rendered for the
other. At the death of the husband, in addition to widow's award, a
married woman has a dower interest (one-third) in all real estate owned
by her husband after their marriage, and which has not been released by
her, and the husband has the same interest in the real estate of the wife
at her death.
EXEMPTIONS FROM FORCED SALE.
Home worth $1,000, and the following Personal Property : Lot of ground
and buildings thereon, occupied as a residence by the debtor, being a house-
holder and having a family, to the value of $1,000. Exemption continues
after the death of the householder for the benefit of widow and family, some
one of them occupying the homestead until youngest child shall become
twenty-one years of age, and until death of widoio. There is no exemption
from sale for taxes, assessments, debt or liability incurred for the purchase
or improvement of said homestead. No release or waiver of exemption is
valid, unless in writing, and subscribed by such householder and wife (if
he have one), and acknowledged as conveyances of real estate are required
to be acknowledged. The following articles of personal property owned
by the debtor, are exempt from execution, writ of attachment, and distress
for rent : The necessary wearing apparel, Bibles, school books and family
pictures of every person ; and, 2d, one hundred dollars worth of other
property to be selected by the debtor, and, in addition, when the debtor
is the head of a family and resides with the same, three hundred dollars
worth of other property to be selected by the debtor ; provided that such
selection and exemption shall not be made by the debtor or allowed to
him or her from any money, salary or wages due him or her from any
person or persons or corporations whatever.
When the head of a family shall die, desert or not reside with the
same, the family shall be entitled to and receive all the benefit and priv-
ileges which are by this act conferred upon the head of a family residing
with the same. No personal property is exempt from execution when
judgment is obtained for the wages of laborers or servants. Wages of a
laborer who is the head of a family can not be garnisheed, except the sum
due him be in excess of $25.
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DEEDS AND MORTGAGES.
To be valid there must be a valid consideration. Special care should
be taken to have them signed, sealed, delivered, and properly acknowl-
edged, with the proper seal attached. Witnesses are not required. The
acknowledgement must be made in this state, before Master in Chancery,
Notary Public, United States Commissioner, Circuit or County Clerk, Justice
of Peace, or any Court of Record having a seal, or any Judge, Justice, or
Clerk of any such Court. When taken before a Notary Public, or United
States Commissioner, the same shall be attested by his official seal, when
taken before a Court or the Clerk thereof, the same shall be attested by
the seal of such Court, and when taken before a Justice of the Peace resid-
ing out of the county where the real estate to be conveyed lies, there shall
be added a certificate of the County Clerk under his seal of office, that he
was a Justice of the Peace in the county at the time of taking the same.
A deed is good without such certificate attached, but can not be used in
evidence unless such a certificate is produced or other competent evidence
introduced. Acknowledgements made out of the state must either be
executed according to the laws of this state, or there should be attached
a certificate that it is in conformity with the laws of the state or country
where executed. Where this is not done the same may be proved by any
other legal way. Acknowledgments where the Homestead rights are to
be waived must state as follows : " Including the release and waiver of
the right of homestead."
Notaries Public can take acknowledgements any where in the state.
Sheriffs, if authorized by the mortgagor of real or personal property
in his mortgage, may sell the property mortgaged.
In the case of the death of grantor or holder of the equity of redemp-
tion of real estate mortgaged, or conveyed by deed of trust where equity
of redemption is waived, and it contains power of sale, must be foreclosed
in the same manner as a common mortgage in court.
ESTRAYS.
Horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, swine, sheep, or goats found straying
at any time during the year, in counties where such animals are not allowed
to run at large, or between the last day of October and the 15th day of
April in other counties, the owner thereof being unknown, may be taken up
as estrays.
No person not a householder in the county where estray is found can
lawfully take up an estray, and then only upon or about his farm or place
of residence. Estrays should not be used before advertised, except animals
giving milk, which may be milked for their benefit.
52 . ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
Notices must be posted up within five (5) days in three (3) of the
most public places in the town or precinct in which estray was found, giv-
ing the residence of the taker up, and a particular description of the
estray, its age, color, and marks natural and artificial, and stating before
what justice of the peace in such town or precinct, and at what time, not
less than ten (10) nor more than fifteen (15) days from the time of post-
ing such notices, he will apply to have the estray appraised.
A copy of such notice should be filed by the taker up with the town
clerk, whose duty it is to enter the same at large, in a book kept by him
for that purpose.
If the owner of estray shall not have appeared and proved ownership,
and taken the same away, first paying the taker up his reasonable charges
for taking up, keeping, and advertising the same, the taker up shall appear
before the justice of the peace mentioned in above mentioned notice, and
make an affidavit as required by law.
As the affidavit has to be made before the justice, and all other steps as
to appraisement, etc., are before him, who is familiar therewith, they are
therefore omitted here.
Any person taking up an estray at any other place than about or
upon his farm or residence, or without complying with the law, shall forfeit
and pay a fine of ten dollars with costs.
Ordinary diligence is required in taking care of estrays, but in case
they die or get away the taker is not liable for the same.
GAME.
It is unlawful for any person to kill, or attempt to kill or destroy, in
any manner, any prairie hen or chicken or woodcock between the 15th day
of January and the 1st day of September ; or any deer, fawn, wild-turkey,
partridge or pheasant between the 1st day of February and the 1st day
of October ; or any quail between the 1st day of February and 1st day of
November ; or any wild goose, duck, snipe, brant or other water fowl
between the 1st day of May and 15th day of August in each year.
Penalty : Fine not less than $5 nor more than $25, for each bird or
animal, and costs of suit, and stand committed to county jail until fine is
paid, but not exceeding ten days. It is unlawful to hunt with gun, dog
or net within the inclosed grounds or lands of another without permission.
Penalty: Fine not less than $3 nor more than $100, to be paid into
school fund.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Whenever any of the following articles shall be contracted for, or
sold or delivered, and no special contract or agreement shall be made to
the contrary, the weight per bushel shall be as follows, to-wit :
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Pounds.
Pounds.
Stone Coal,
- 80
Buckwheat, -
- 52
Unslacked Lime,
- 80
Coarse Salt,
- 50
Corn in the ear,
- TO
Barley, -
- • - 48
Wheat,
- 60
Corn Meal,
- 48
Irish Potatoes,
- 60
Castor Beans,
- 46
White Beans,
- 60
Timothy Seed, -
- 45
Clover Seed, -
- 60
Hemp Seed, -
- 44
Onions, -
- 57
Malt, -
- 38
Shelled Corn,
- 56
Dried Peaches,
- 33
Rye, -
- 56
Oats, -
- 32
Flax Seed,
- 56
Dried Apples,
- 24
Sweet Potatoes, -
- 55
Bran, -
- 20
Turnips,
- 55 '
Blue Grass Seed,
- 14
Fine Salt, -
- 55
Hair (plastering),
8
Penalty for giving less than the above standard is double the amount
of property wrongfully not given, and ten dollars addition thereto.
MILLERS.
The owner or occupant of every public grist mill in this state shall
grind all grain brought to his mill in its turn. The toll for both steam
and water mills, is, for grinding and bolting wheat, rye, or other grain, one
eighth part; for grinding Indian corn, oats, barley and buckwheat not
required to be bolted, one seventh part; for grinding malt, and chopping all
kinds of grain, one eighth part. It is the duty of every miller when his
mill is in repair, to aid and assist in loading and unloading all grain brought
to him to be ground, and he is also required to keep an accurate half
bushel measure, and an accurate set of toll dishes or scales for weighing
the grain. The penalty for neglect or refusal to comply with the law is
|5, to the use of any person to sue for the same,- to be recovered before
any justice of the peace of the county where penalty is incurred. Millers
are accountable for the safe keeping of all grain left in his mill for the
purpose of being ground, with bags or casks containing same (except it
results from unavoidable accidents), provided that such bags or casks are
distinctly marked with the initial letters of the owner's name.
MARKS AND BRANDS.
Owners of cattle, horses, hogs, sheep or goats may have one ear mark
and one brand, but which shall be different from his neighbor's, and may
be recorded by the county clerk of the county in which such property is
kept. The /eg for such record is fifteen cents. The record of such shall
be open to examination free of charge. In cases of disputes as to marks
or brands, such record is prima facie evidence. Owners of cattle, horses,
hogs, sheep or goats that may have been branded by the former owner,
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may be re-branded in presence of one or more of his neighbors, who shall
certify to the facts of the marking or branding being done, when done,
and in what brand or mark they were re-branded or re-marked, which
certificate may also be recorded as before stated.
ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.
Children may be adopted by any resident of this state, by filing a
petition in the Circuit or County Court of the county in which he resides,
asking leave to do so, and if desired may ask that the name of the child
be changed. Such petition, if made by a person having a husband or
wife, will not be granted, unless the husband or wife joins therein, as the
adoption must be by them jointly.
The petition shall state name, sex, and age of the child, and the new
name, if it is desired to change the name. Also the name and residence
of the parents of the child, if known, and of the guardian, if any, and
whether the parents or guardians consent to the adoption.
The court must find, before granting decree, that the parents of the
child, or the survivors of them, have deserted his or her family or such
child for one year next preceding the application, or if neither are living,
the guardian ; if no guardian, the next of kin in this state capable of giving
consent, has had notice of the presentation of the petition and consents
to such adoption. If the child is of the age of fourteen years or upwards,
the adoption can not be made without its consent.
SURVEYORS AND SURVEYS.
There is in every county elected a surveyor known as county sur-
veyor, who has power to appoint deputies, for whose official acts he is
responsible. It is the duty of the county surveyor, either by himself or
his deputy, to make all surveys that he may be called upon to make within
his county as soon as may be after application is made. The necessary
chainmen and other assistance must be employed by the person requiring
the same to be done, and to be by him paid, unless otherwise agreed ; but
the chainmen must be disinterested persons and approved by the surveyor
and sworn by him to measure justly and impartially.
The County Board in each county is required by law to provide a copy
of the United States field notes and plats of their surveys of the lands
in the county to be kept in the recorder's office subject to examination
by the public, and the county surveyor is required to make his surveys
in conformity to said notes, plats and the laws of the United States gov-
erning such matters. The surveyor is also required to keep a record
of all surveys made by him, which shall be subject to inspection by any
one interested, and shall be delivered up to his successor in office. A
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certified copy of the said surveyor's record shall be prima facie evidence
of its contents.
The fees of county surveyors are six dollars per day. The county
surveyor is also ex officio inspector of mines, and as such, assisted by some
practical miner selected by him, shall once each year inspect all the
mines in the county, for which they shall each receive such compensa-
tion as may be fixed by the County Board, not exceeding $5 a day, to
be paid out of the county treasury.
ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Where practicable from the nature of the ground, persons traveling
in any kind of vehicle, must turn to the right of the center of the road, so
as to permit each carriage to pass without interfering with each other.
The penalty for a violation of this provision is $5 for every offense, to
be recovered by the party injured; but to recover, there must have
occurred some injury to person or property resulting from the violation.
The owners of any carriage traveling upon any road in this State for the
conveyance of passengers who shall employ or continue in his employment
as driver any person who is addicted to drunkenness, or the excessive use of
spiritous liquors, after he has had notice of the same, shall forfeit, at the
rate of $5 per day, and if any driver while actually engaged in driving
any such carriage, shall be guilty of intoxication to such a degree as to
endanger the safety of passengers, it shall be the duty of the owner, on
receiving written notice of the fact, signed by one of the passengers, and
certified by him on oath, forthwith to discharge such driver. If such owner
shall have such driver in his employ within three months after such notice,
he is liable for $5 per day for the time he shall keep said driver in his
employment after receiving such notice.
Persons driving any carriage on any public highway are prohibited
from running their horses upon any occasion under a penalty of a fine not
exceeding $10, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, at the discre-
tion of the court. Horses attached to any carriage used to convey passen-
gers for hire must be properly hitched or the lines placed in the hands of
some other person before the driver leaves them for any purpose. For
violation of this provision each driver shall forfeit twenty dollars, to be
recovered by action, to be commenced within six months. ' It is under-
stood by the term carriage herein to mean any carriage or vehicle used
for the transportation of passengers or goods or either of them.
The commissioners of highways in the different towns have the care
and superintendence of highways and bridges therein. They have all
the powers necessary to lay out, vacate, regulate and repair all roads*
build and repair bridges. In addition to the above, it is their duty to
erect and keep in repair at the forks or crossing-place of the most
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important roads post and guide boards with plain inscriptions, giving
directions and distances to the most noted places to which such road may
lead; also to make provisions to prevent thistles, burdock, and cockle
burrs, mustard, yellow dock, Indian mallow and jimson weed from
seeding, and to extirpate the same as far as practicable, and to prevent
all rank growth of vegetation on the public highways so far as the same
may obstruct public travel, and it is in their discretion to erect watering
places for public use for watering teams at such points as may be deemed
advisable.
The Commissioners, on or before the 1st day of May of each year,
shall make out and deliver to their treasurer a list of all able-bodied men
in their town, excepting paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such others as are
exempt by law, and assess against each the sum of two dollars as a poll
tax for highway purposes. Within thirty days after such list is delivered
they shall cause a written or printed notice to be given to each person so
assessed, notifying him of the time when and place where such tax must
be paid, or its equivalent in labor performed ; they may contract with
persons owing such poll tax to perform a certain amount of labor on any
road or bridge in payment of the same, and if such tax is not paid nor
labor performed by the first Monday of July of such year, or within ten
days after notice is given after that time, they shall bring suit therefor
against such person "before a justice of the peace, who shall hear and
determine the case according to law for the offense complained of, and
shall forthwith issue an execution, directed to any constable of the county
where the delinquent shall reside, who shall forthwith collect the moneys
therein mentioned.
The Commissioners of Highways of each town shall annually ascer-
tain, as near as practicable, how much money must be raised by tax on real
and personal property for the making and repairing of roads, only, to any
amount they may deem necessary, not exceeding forty cents on each one
hundred dollars' worth, as valued on the assessment roll of the previous
year. The tax so levied on property lying within an incorporated village,
town or city, shall be paid over to the corporate authorities of such town,
village or city. Commissioners shall receive 81.50 for each day neces-
sarily employed in the discharge of their duty.
Overseers. At the first meeting the Commissioners shall choose one
of their number to act General Overseer of Highways in their township,
whose duty it shall be to take charge of and safely keep all tools, imple-
ments and machinery belonging to said town, and shall, by the direction
of the Board, have general supervision of all roads and bridges in their
town.
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As all township and county officers are familiar with their duties, it
is only intended to give the points of the law that the public should be
familiar with. The manner of laying out, altering or vacating roads, etc.,
will not be here stated, as it would require more space than is contem-
plated in a work of this kind. It is sufficient to state that, the first step
is by petition, addressed to the Commissioners, setting out what is prayed
for, giving the names of the owners of lands if known, if not known so
state, over which the road is to pass, giving the general course, its place
of beginning, and where it terminates. It requires not less than twelve
freeholders residing within three miles of the road who shall sign the
petition. Public roads must not be less than fifty feet wide, nor more
than sixty feet wide. Roads not exceeding two miles in length, if peti-
tioned for, may be laid out, not less than forty feet. Private roads
for private and public use, may be laid out of the width of three rods, on
petition of the person directly interested ; the damage occasioned thereby
shall be paid by the premises benefited thereby, and before the road is
opened. If not opened in two years, the order shall be considered
rescinded. Commissioners in their discretion may permit persons who
live on or have private roads, to work out their road tax thereon. Public
roads must be opened in five days from date of filing order of location,
or be deemed vacated.
DRAINAGE.
Whenever one or more owners or occupants of land desire to construct
a drain or ditch across the land of others for agricultural, sanitary or
mining purposes, the proceedings are as follows :
File a petition in the Circuit or County Court of the county in which
the proposed ditch or drain is to be constructed, setting forth the neces-
sity for the same, with a description of its proposed starting point, route
and terminus, and if it shall be necessary for the drainage of the land or
coal mines or for sanitary purposes, that a drain, ditch, levee or similar
work be constructed, a description of the same. It shall also set forth
the names of all persons owning the land over which such drain or ditch
shall be constructed, or if unknown stating that fact.
No private property shall be taken or damaged for the purpose of
constructing a ditch, drain or levee, without compensation, if claimed by
the owner, the same to be ascertained by a jury; but if the construction
of such ditch, drain or levee shall be a benefit to the owner, the same
shall be a set off against such compensation.
If the proceedings seek to affect the property of a minor, lunatic or
married woman, the guardian, conservator or husband of the same shall
be made party defendant. The petition may be amended and parties
made defendants at any time when it is necessary to a fair trial.
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When the petition is presented to the judge, he shall note therein
when he will hear the same, and order the issuance of summonses and
the publication of notice to each non-resident or unknown defendant.
The petition may be heard by such judge in vacation as well as in
term time. Upon the trial, the jury shall ascertain the just compensation
to each owner of the property sought to be damaged by the construction
of such ditch, drain or levee, and truly report the same.
As it is only contemplated in a work of this kind to give an abstract
of the laws, and as the parties who have in charge the execution of the
further proceedings are likely to be familiar with the requirements of the
statute, the necessary details are not here inserted.
WOLF SC : LPS.
The County Board of any county in this State may hereafter allow
such bounty on wolf scalps as the board may deem reasonable.
Any person claiming a bounty shall produce the scalp or scalps with
the ears thereon, within sixty days after the wolf or wolves shall have
been caught, to the Clerk of the County Board, who shall administer to
said person the following oath or affirmation, to-wit: "You do solemnly
swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that the scalp or scalps here pro-
duced by you was taken from a wolf or wolves killed and first captured
by yourself within the limits of this county, and within the sixty days
last past."
CONVEYANCES.
When the reversion expectant on a lease of any tenements or here-
ditaments of any tenure shall be surrendered or merged, the estate which
shall for the time being confer as against the tenant under the same lease
the next vested right to the same tenements or hereditaments, shall, to
the extent and for the purpose of preserving such incidents to and obli-
gations on the same reversion, as but for the surrender or merger thereof,
would have subsisted, be deemed the reversion expectant on the same
lease.
PAUPERS.
Every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in conse-
quence of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy or unavoidable cause, shall
be supported by the father, grand-father, mother, grand-mother, children,
grand-children, brothers or sisters of such poor person, if they or either
of them be of sufficient ability; but if any of such dependent class shall
have become so from intemperance or other bad conduct, they shall not be
entitled to support from any relation except parent or child.
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The children shall first be called on to support their parents, if they
are able ; but if not, the parents of such poor person shall then be called
on, if of sufficient ability ; and if there be no parents or children able,
then the brothers and sisters of such dependent person shall be called
upon ; and if there be no brothers or sisters of sufficient ability, the
grand-children of such person shall next be called on ; and if they are
not able, then the grand-parents. Married females, while their husbands
live, shall not be liable to contribute for the support of their poor relations
except out of their separate property. It is the duty of the state's
(county) attorney, to make complaint to the County Court of his county
against all the relatives of such paupers in this state liable to his support
and prosecute the same. In case the state's attorney neglects, or refuses, to
complain in such cases, then it is the duty of the overseer of the poor to
do so. The person called upon to contribute shall have at least ten days'
notice of such application by summons. The court has the power to
determine the kind of support, depending upon the circumstances of the
parties, and may also order two or more of the different degrees to main-
tain such poor person, and prescribe the proportion of each, according to
their ability. The court may specify the time for which the relative shall
contribute — in fact has control over the entire subject matter, with power
to enforce its orders. Every county (except those in which the poor are
supported by the towns, and in such cases the towns are liable) is required
to relieve and support all poor and indigent persons lawfully resident
therein. Residence means the actual residence of the party, or the place
where he was employed ; or in case he was in no employment, then it
shall be the place where he made his home. When any person becomes
chargeable as a pauper in any county or town who did not reside at the
commencement of six months immediately preceding his becoming so,
but did at that time reside in some other county or town in this state,
then the county or town, as the case may be, becomes liable for the expense
of taking care of such person until removed, and it is the duty of the
overseer to notify the proper authorities of the fact. If any person shall
bring and leave any pauper in any county in this state where such pauper
had no legal residence, knowing him to be such, he is liable to a fine of
$100. In counties under township organization, the supervisors in each
town are ex-officio overseers of the poor. The overseers of the poor act
under the directions of the County Board in taking care of the poor and
granting of temporary relief; also, providing for non-resident persons not
paupers who may be taken sick and not able to pay their way, and in case
of death cause such person to be decently buried.
The residence of the inmates of poorhouses and other charitable
institutions for voting purposes is their former place of abode.
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FENCES.
In counties under township organization, the town assessor and com-
missioner of highways are the fence-viewers in their respective towns.
In other counties the County Board appoints three in each precinct annu-
ally. A laicful fence is four and one-half feet high, in good repair, con-
sisting of rails, timber, boards, gtone, hedges, or whatever the fence-
viewers of the town or precinct where the same shall lie, shall consider
equivalent thereto, but in counties under township organization the annual
town meeting may establish any other kind of fence as such, or the County
Board in other counties may do the same. Division fences shall be made
and maintained in just proportion by the adjoining owners, except when
the owner shall choose to let his land lie open, but after a division fence is
built by agreement or otherwise, neither party can remove his part of such
fence so long as he may crop or use such land for farm purposes, or without
giving the other party one year's notice in writing of his intention to remove
his portion. When any person shall enclose his land upon the enclosure
of another, he shall refund the owner of the adjoining lands a just pro-
portion of the value at that time of such fence. The value of fence and
the just proportion to be paid or built and maintained by each is to be
ascertained by two fence-viewers in the town or precinct. Such fence-
viewers have power to settle all disputes between different owners as to
fences built or to be built, as well as to repairs to be made. Each party
chooses one of the viewers, but if the other party neglects, after eight
days' notice in writing, to make his choice, then the other party may
select both. It is sufficient to notify the tenant or party in possession,
when the owner is not a resident of the town or precinct. The two
fence-viewers chosen, after viewing the premises, shall hear the state-
ments of the parties , in case they can't agree, they shall select another
fence-viewer to act with them, and the decision of any two of them is
final. The decision must be reduced to writing, and should plainly set
out description of fence and all matters settled by them, and must be
filed in the office of the town clerk in counties under township organiza-
tion, and in other counties with the county clerk.
Where any person is liable to contribute to the erection or the
repairing of a division fence, neglects or refuses so to do, the party
injured, after giving sixty days notice in writing when a fence is to be
erected, or ten days when it is only repairs, may proceed to have the
work done at the expense of the party whose duty it is to do it, to be
recovered from him with costs of suit, and the party so neglecting shall
also be liable to the party injured for all damages accruing from such
neglect or refusal, to be determined by any two fence-viewers selected
as before provided, the appraisement to be reduced to writing and signed.
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Where a person shall conclude to remove his part of a division fence,
and let his land lie open, and having given the year's notice required, the
adjoining owner may cause the value of said fence to be ascertained by
fence-viewers as before provided, and on payment or tender of the
amount of such valuation to the owner, it shall prevent the removal. A
party removing a division fence without notice is liable for the damages
accruing thereby.
Where a fence has been built on the land of another through mis-
take, the owner may enter upon such premises and remove his fence and
material within six months after the division line has been ascertained.
Where the material to build such a fence has been taken from the land
on which it was built, then before it can be removed, the person claiming
must first pay for such material to the owner of the land from which it
was taken, nor shall such a fence be removed at a time when the removal
will throw open or expose the crops of the other party ; a reasonable
time must be given beyond the .six months to remove crops.
The compensation of fence-viewers is one dollar and fifty cents a
day each, to be paid in the first instance by the party calling them, but
in the end all expenses, including amount charged by the fence-viewers,
must be paid equally by the parties, except in cases where a party neglects
or refuses to make or maintain a just proportion of a division fence, when
the party in default shall pay them.
DAMAGES FROM TRESPASS.
Where stock of any kind breaks into any person's enclosure, the
fence being good and sufficient, the owner is liable for the damage done ;
but where the damage is done by stock running at large, contrary to law,
the owner is liable where there is not such a fence. Where stock is
found trespassing on the enclosure of another as aforesaid, the owner ot
occupier of the premises may take possession of such stock and keep tho
same until damages, with reasonable charges for keeping and feeding and
all costs of suit, are paid. Any person taking or rescuing such stock so
held without his consent, shall be liable to a fine of not less than three
nor more than five dollars for each animal rescued, to be recovered by
suit before a justice of the peace for the use of the school fund. Within
twenty-four hours after taking such animal into his possession, the per-
son taking it up must give notice of the fact to the owner, if knpwn, or
if unknown, notices must be posted in some public place near the premises.
LANDLORD AND TENANT.
The owner of lands, or his legal representatives, can sue for and
recover rent therefor, in any of the following cases :
First. When rent is due and in arrears on a lease for life or lives.
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Second. When lands are held and occupied by any person without
any special agreement for rent.
Third. When 'possession is obtained under an agreement, written
or verbal, for the purchase of the premises and before deed given, the
right to possession is terminated by forfeiture on con-compliance with the
agreement, and possession is wrongfully refused or neglected to be given
upon demand made in writing by the party entitled thereto. Provided
that all payments made by the vendee or his representatives or assigns,
may be set off against the rent.
Fourth. When land has been sold upon a judgment or a decree of
court, when the party to such judgment or decree, or person holding under
him, wrongfully refuses, or neglects, to surrender possession of the same,
after demand in writing by the person entitled to the possession.
Fifth. When the lands have been sold upon a mortgage or trust
deed, and the mortgagor or grantor or person holding under him, wrong-
fully refuses or neglects to surrender possession of the same, after demand
in writing by the person entitled to the possession.
If any tenant, or any person who shall come into possession from or
under or by collusion with such tenant, shall willfully hold over any lands,
etc., after the expiration the term of their lease, and after demand made
in writing for the possession thereof, is liable to pay double rent. A
tenancy from year to year requires sixty days notice in writing, to termi-
nate the same at the end of the year ; such notice can be given at any
time within four months preceding the last sixty days of the year.
A tenancy by the month, or less than a year, where the tenant holda
over without any special agreement, the landlord may terminate the
tenancy, by thirty days notice in writing.
When rent is due, the landlord may serve a notice upon the tenant,
stating that unless the rent is paid within not less than five days, his lease
will be terminated ; if the rent is not paid, the landlord may consider the
lease ended. When default is made in any of the terms of a lease, it
shall not be necessary to give more than ten days notice to quit or of the
termination of such tenancy ; and the same may be terminated on giving
such notice to quit, at any time after such default in any of the terms of
such lease ; which notice may be substantially in the following form, viz:
To , You are hereby notified that, in consequence of your default
in (Jiere insert the character of the default), of the premises now occupied
by you, being etc. (here describe the premises), I have elected to deter-
mine your lease, and you are hereby notified to quit and deliver up pos-
session of the same to me within ten days of this date (dated, etc.)
The above to be signed by the lessor or his agent, and no other notice
or demand of possession or termination of such tenancy is necessary.
Demand may be made, or notice served, by delivering a written or
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printed, or partly either, copy thereof to the tenant, or leaving the same
with some person above the age of twelve years residing on or in posses-
sion of the premises ; and in case no one is in the actual possession of the
said premises, then by posting the same on the premises. When the
tenancy is for a certain time, and the term expires by the terms of the
lease, the tenant is then bound to surrender possession, and no notice
to quit or demand of possession is necessary.
Distress for rent. — In all cases of distress for rent, the landlord, by
himself, his agent or attorney, may seize for rent any personal property of
his tenant that may be found in the county where the tenant resides ; the
property of any other person, even if found on the premises, is not
liable.
An inventory of the property levied upon, with a statement of the
amount of rent claimed, should be at once filed with some justice of the
peace, if not over $200 ; and if above that sum, with the clerk of a court
of record of competent jurisdiction. Property may be released, by the
party executing a satisfactory bond for double the amount.
The landlord may distrain for rent, any time within six months after
the expiration of the term of the lease, or when terminated.
In all cases where the premises rented shall be sub-let, or the lease
assigned, the landlord shall have the same right to enforce lien against
such lessee or assignee, that he has against the tenant to whom the pre-
mises were rented.
When a tenant abandons or removes from the premises or any part
thereof, the landlord, or his agent or attorney, may seize upon any grain
or other crops grown or growing upon the premises, or part thereof so
abandoned, whether the rent is due or not. If such grain, or other crops,
or any part thereof, is not fully grown or matured, the landlord, or his
agent or attorney, shall cause the same to be properly cultivated, harvested
or gathered, and may sell the same, and from the proceeds pay all his
labor, expenses and rent. The tenant may, before the sale of such pro-
perty, redeem the same by tendering the rent and reasonable compensation
for work done, or he may replevy the same.
Exemption. — The same articles of personal property which are bylaw
exempt from execution, except the crops as above stated, is also exempt
from distress for rent.
If any tenant is about to or shall permit or attempt to sell and
remove from the premises, without the consent of his landlord, such
portion of the crops raised thereon as will endanger the lien of the land-
lord upon such crops, for the rent, it shall be lawful for the landlord to
distress before rent is due.
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LIENS.
Any person who shall by contract, express or implied, or partly both,
with the owner of any lot or tract of land, furnish labor or material, or
services as an architect or superintendent, in building, altering, repairing
or ornamenting an} 7 house or other building or appurtenance thereto on
such lot, or upon any street or alley, and connected with such improve-
ments, shall have a lien upon the whole of such lot or tract of land, and
upon such house or building and appurtenances, for the amount due to
him for such labor, material or services. If the contract is expressed, and
the time for the completion of the work is beyond three years from the com-
mencement thereof; or. if the time of payment is beyond one year from
the time stipulated for the completion of the work, then no lien exists.
If the contract is implied, then no lien exists, unless the work be done or
material is furnished within one year from the commencement of the work
or delivery of the materials. As between different creditors having liens,
no preference is given to the one whose contract was first made ; but each
shares pro-rata. Incumbrances existing on the lot or tract of the land at
the time the contract is made, do not operate on the improvements, and
are only preferred to the extent of the value of the land at the time of
making the contract. The above lien can not be enforced unless suit is
commenced within six months after the last payment for labor or materials
shall have become due and payable. Sub-contractors, mechanics, workmen
and other persons furnishing any material, or performing any labor for a
contractor as before specified, have a lien to the extent of the amount due
the contractor at the time the following notice is served upon the owner
of the land who made the contract :
To , You are hereby notified, that I have been employed by
(here state whether to laboi or furnish material, and substantially the
nature of the demand) upon your (here state in general terms description
and situation of building), and that I shall hold the (building, or as the
case may be), and your interest in the ground, liable for the amount that
may (is or may become) due me on account thereof. Signature,
Date,
If there is a contract in writing between contractor and sub-contractor,
a copy of it should be served with above notice, and said notice must be
served within forty days from the completion of such sub-contract, if there
is one ; if not, then from the time payment should have been made to the
person performing the labor or furnishing the material. If the owner is
not a resident of the county, or can not be found therein, then the above
notice must be filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court, with his fee, fifty
cents, and a copy of said notice must be published in a newspaper pub-
lished in the county, for four successive weeks.
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When the owner or agent is notified as above, he can retain any
money due the contractor sufficient to pay such claim ; if more than one
claim, and not enough to pay all, they are to be paid pro rata.
The owner has the right to demand in writing, a statement of the
contractor, of what he owes for labor, etc., from time to time as the work
progresses, and on his failure to comply, forfeits to the owner $50 for
every offense.
The liens referred to cover any and all estates, whether in fee for
life, for years, or any other interest which the owner may have.
To enforce the lien of sub-contractors, suit must be commenced within
three months from the time of the performance of the sub-contract, or
during the work or furnishing materials.
. Motel, inn and boarding-house keepers, have a lien upon the baggage
and other valuables of their guests or boarders, brought into such hotel,
inn or boarding-house, by their guests or boarders, for the proper charges
due from such guests or boarders for their accommodation, board and
lodgings, and such extras as are furnished at their request.
Stable-keepers and other persons have a lien upon the horses, car-
riages and harness kept by them, for the proper charges due for the keep-
ing thereof and expenses bestowed thereon at the request of the owner
or the person having the possession of the same.
Agisters (persons who take care of cattle belonging to others), and
persons keeping, yarding, feeding or pasturing domestic animals, shall
have a lien upon the animals agistered, kept, yarded or fed, for the proper
charges due for such service.
All persons who may furnish any railroad corporation in this state
with fuel, ties, material, supplies or any other article or thing necessary
for the construction, maintenance, operation or repair of its road by con-
tract, or may perform work or labor on the same, is entitled to be paid as
part of the current expenses of the road, and have a lien upon all its pro-
perty. Sub-contractors or laborers have also a lien. The conditions and
limitations both as to contractors and sub-contractors, are about the same
as herein stated as to general liens.
DEFINITION OF COMMERCIAL TERMS.
$ means dollars, being a contraction of U. S., which was formerly
placed before any denomination of money, and meant, as it means now,
United States Currency.
£ means pounds, English money.
@ stands for at or to. Ifo for pound, and bbl. for barrel; *$ for per or
by the. Thus, Butter sells at 20@30c ^ lb, and Flour at $8@12 f bbl.
% for per cent and # for number.
May 1.— Wheat sells at $1.20@1.25, "seller June." Seller June
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means that the person who sells the wheat has the privilege of delivering
it at any time during the month of June.
Selling short, is contracting to deliver a certain amount of grain or
stock, at a fixed price, within a certain length of time, when the seller
has not the stock on hand. It is for the interest of the person selling
"short," to depress the market as much as possible, in order that he may
buy and fill his contract at a profit. Hence the " shorts " are termed
" bears."
Buying long, is to contract to purchase a certain amount of grain or
shares of stock at a fixed price, deliverable within a stipulated time,
expecting to make a profit by the rise of prices. The "longs" are
termed "bulls," as it is for their interest to " operate " so as to "toss"
the prices upward as much as possible.
NOTES.
Form of note is legal, worded in the simplest way, so that the
amount and time of payment are mentioned.
$100. Chicago, 111., Sept. 15, 1876.
Sixty days from date I promise to pay to E. F. Brown,
or order, One Hundred dollars, for value received.
L. D. Lowry.
A note to be payable in any thing else than money needs only the
facts substituted for money in the above form.
ORDERS.
Orders should be worded simply, thus :
Mr. F. H. Coats: Chicago, Sept. 15, 1876.
Please pay to H. Birdsall, Twenty-five dollars, and charge to
F. D. Silva.
RECEIPTS.
Receipts should always state when received and what for, thus :
$100. Chicago, Sept. 15, 1876.
Received of J. W. Davis, One Hundred dollars, for services
rendered in grading his lot in Fort Madison, on account.
Thomas Brady.
If receipt is in full it should be so stated.
BILLS OF PURCHASE.
W. N. Mason, Salem, Illinois, Sept. 15, 1876.
Bought of A. A. Graham.
4 Bushels of Seed Wheat, at $1.50 - $6.00
2 Seamless Sacks " .30 - - .60
Received payment, $6.60
A. A. Graham.
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ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
An agreement is where one party promises to another to do a certain
thing in a certain time for a stipulated sum. Good business men always
reduce an agreement to writing, which nearly always saves misunder-
standings and trouble. No particular form is necessary, but the facts must
be clearly and explicitly stated, and there must, to make it valid, be a
reasonable consideration.
GENERAL FORM OF AGREEMENT.
This Agreement, made the Second day of October, 1876, between
John Jones, of Aurora, County of Kane, State of Illinois, of the first part,
and Thomas Whiteside, of the same place, of the second part —
WITNESSETH, that the said John Jones, in consideration of the agree-
ment of the party of the second part, hereinafter contained, contracts and
agrees to and with the said Thomas Whiteside, that he will deliver, in
good and marketable condition, at the Village of Batavia, 111., during the
month of November, of this year, One Hundred Tons of Prairie Hay, in
the following lots, and at the following specified times ; namely, twenty-
five tons by the seventh of November, twenty-five tons additional by the
fourteenth of the month, twenty-five tons more by the twenty -first, and
the entire one hundred tons to be all delivered by the thirtieth of
November.
And the said Thomas Whiteside, in consideration of the prompt
fulfillment of this contract, on the part of the party of the first part,
contracts to and agrees with the said John Jones, to pay for said hay five
dollars per ton, for each ton as soon as delivered.
In case of failure of agreement by either of the parties hereto, it is
hereby stipulated and agreed that the party so failing shall pay to the
other, One Hundred Dollars, as fixed and settled damages.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands the day and
year first above written. John Jones,
Thomas Whiteside.
AGREEMENT WITH CLERK FOR SERVICES.
This Agreement, made the first day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six, between Reuben Stone, of Chicago, County
of Cook, State of Illinois, party of the first part, and George Barclay, of
Englewood, County of Cook, State of Illinois, party of the second part —
WITNESSETH, that said George Barclay agrees faithfully and dili-
gently to work as clerk and salesman for the said Reuben Stone, for
and during the space of one year from the date hereof, should both
live such length of time, without absenting himself from his occupation ;
68 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
during which time he, the said Barclay, in the store of said Stone, of
Chicago, will carefully and honestly attend, doing and performing all
duties as clerk and salesman aforesaid, in accordance and in all respects
as directed and desired by the said Stone.
In consideration of which services, so to be rendered by the said
Barclay, the said Stone agrees to pay to said Barclay the annual sum of
one thousand dollars, payable in twelve equal monthly payments, each
upon the last day of each month ; provided that all dues for days of
absence from business by said Barclay, shall be deducted from the sum
otherwise by the agreement due and payable by the said Stone to the said
Barclay.
Witness our hands. Reuben Stone.
George Barclay.
BILLS OF SALE.
A bill of sale is a written agreement to another party, for a consider-
ation to convey his right and interest in the personal property. The
purchaser must take actual possession of the property. Juries have
power to determine upon the fairness or unfairness of a bill of sale.
COMMON FORM OF BILL OF SALE.
Know all Men by this instrument, that I, Louis Clay, of Princeton,
Illinois, of the first part, for and in consideration of Five Hundred
and Ten dollars, to me paid by John Floyd, of the same place, of the
second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have sold, and
by this instrument do convey unto the said Floyd, party of the second
part, his executors, administrators, and assigns, my undivided half of
ten acres of corn, now growing on the farm of Thomas Tyrrell, in the
town above mentioned ; one pair of horses, sixteen sheep, and five cows,
belonging to me, and in my possession at the farm aforesaid ; to have and
to hold the same unto the .party of the second part, his executors and
assigns, forever. And I do, for myself and legal representatives, agree
with the said party of the second part, and his legal representatives, to
warrant and defend the sale of the afore-mentioned property and chattels
unto the said party of the second part, and his legal representatives,
against all and every person whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand, this tenth day
of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven-ty-six.
Louis Clay.
BONDS.
A bond is a written admission on the part of the maker in which he
pledges a certain sum to another, at a certain time.
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COMMON FORM OF BOND.
Know all Men by this instrument, that I, George Edgerton, of
Watseka, Iroquois County, State of Illinois, am firmly bound unto Peter
Kirchoff, of the place aforesaid, in the sum of five hundred dollars, to be
paid to the said Peter Kirchoff, or his legal representatives ; to which
payment, to be made, I bind myself, or my legal representatives, by this
instrument.
Sealed with my seal, and dated this second day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
The condition of this bond is such that if I, George Edgerton, my
heirs, administrators, or executors, shall promptly pay the sum of two'
hundred and fifty dollars in three equal annual payments from the date
hereof, with annual interest, then the above obligation to be of no effect ;
otherwise to be in full force and valid.
Sealed and delivered in
presence of George Edgerton. [l.s.]
William Turner.
CHATTEL MORTGAGES.
A chattel mortgage is a mortgage on personal property for payment
of a certain sum of money, to hold the property against debts of other
creditors. The mortgage must describe the property, and must be
acknowledged before a justice of the peace in the township or precinct
where the mortgagee resides, and entered upon his docket, and must be
recorded in the recorder's office of the county.
GENERAL FORM OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE.
This Indenture, made and entered into this first day of January,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five,
between Theodore Lottinville, of the town of Geneseo in the County
of Henry, and State of Illinois, party of the first part, and Paul Henshaw,
of the same town, county, and State, part} 7- of the second part.
Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consider-
ation of the sum of one thousand dollars, in hand paid, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, does hereby grant, sell, convey, and confirm unto
the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever, all and
singular'the following described goods and chattels, to wit:
Two three-year old roan-colored horses, one Burdett organ, No. 987,
one Brussels carpet, 15x20 feet in size, one marble-top center table, one
Home Comfort cooking stove, No. 8, one black walnut bureau with mirror
attached, one set of parlor chairs (six in number), upholstered in green
rep, with lounge corresponding with same in style and color of upholstery,
now in possession of said Lottinville, at No. 4 Prairie Ave., Geneseo, 111.;
70 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
Together with all and singular, the appurtenances thereunto belong-
ing, or in any wise appertaining ; to have and to hold the above described
goods and chattels, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and
assigns, forever.
Provided, always, and these presents are upon this express condition,
that if the said Theodore Lottinville, his heirs, executors, administrators,
or assigns, shall, on or before the first day of January, A.D., one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Paul
Ranslow, or his lawful attorney or attorneys, heirs, executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, the sum of One Thousand dollars, together with the
interest that may accrue thereon, at the rate of ten per cent, per annum,
from the first day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, until paid, according to the tenor of one promissory note
bearing even date herewith for the payment of said sum of money, that
then and from thenceforth, these presents, and everything herein con-
tained, shall cease, and be null and void, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Provided, also, that the said Theodore Lottinville may retain the
possession of and have the use of said goods and chattels until the day
of payment aforesaid ; and also, at his own expense, shall keep said goods
and chattels; and also at the expiration of said time of payment, if said
sum of money, together with the interest as aforesaid, shall not be paid,
shall deliver up said goods and chattels, in good condition, to said Paul
Ranslow, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns.
And provided, also, that if default in payment as aforesaid, by said
party of the first part, shall be made, or if said party of the second part
shall at any time before said promissory note becomes due, feel himself
unsafe or insecure, that then the said party of the second part, or his
attorney, agent, assigns, or heirs, executors, or administrators, shall have
the right to take possession of said goods and chattels, wherever they
may or can be found, and sell the same at public or private sale, to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, after giving ten days' notice of the time
and place of said sale, together with a description of the goods and chat-
tels to be sold, by at least four advertisements, posted up in public places
in the vicinity where said sale is to take place, and proceed to make the
sum of money and interest promised as aforesaid, together with all reason-
able costs, charges, and expenses in so doing ; and if there shall be any
overplus, shall pay the same without delay to the said party of the first
part, or his legal representatives.
In testimony whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto
set his hand and affixed his seal, the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in
presence of Theodore Lottinville. [l.s.]
Samuel J. Tilden.
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LEASE OF FARM AND BUILDINGS THEREON.
This Indenture, made this second day of June, 1875, between David
Patton of the Town of Bisbee, State of Illinois, of the first part, and John
Doyle of the same place, of the second part,
Witnesseth, that the said David Patton, for and in consideration of
the covenants hereinafter mentioned and reserved, on the part of the said
John Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to be paid, kept,
and performed, hath let, and by these presents doth grant, demise, and
let, unto the said John Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
all that parcel of land situate in Bisbee aforesaid, bounded and described
as follows, to wit :
\TIere describe the land.~\
Together with all the appurtenances appertaining thereto. To have
and to hold the said premises, with appurtenances thereto belonging, unto
the said Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of
five years, from the first day of October next following, at a yearly rent
of Six Hundred dollars, to be paid in equal payments, semi-annually, as
long as said buildings are in good tenantable condition.
And the said Doj T le, by these presents, covenants and agrees to pay
all taxes and assessments, and keep in repair all hedges, ditches, rail, and
other fences ; (the said David Patton, his heirs, assigns and administra-
tors, to furnish all timber, brick, tile, and other materials necessary for
such repairs.)
Said Doyle further covenants and agrees to apply to said land, in a
farmer-like manner, all manure and compost accumulating upon said
farm, and cultivate all the arable land in a husbandlike manner, accord-
ing to the usual custom among farmers in the neighborhood ; he also
agrees to trim the hedges at a seasonable time, preventing injury from
cattle to such hedges, and to all fruit and other trees on the said premises.
That he will seed down with clover and timothy seed twenty acres yearly
of arable land, ploughing the same number' of acres each Spring of land
now in grass, and hitherto unbroken.
It is further agreed, that if the said Doyle shall fail to perform the
whole or any one of the above mentioned covenants, then and in that
case the said David Patton may declare this lease terminated, by giving
three months' notice of the same, prior to the first of October of any
year, and may distrain any part of the stock, goods, or chattels, or other
property in possession of said Doyle, for sufficient to compensate for the
non-performance of the above written covenants, the same to be deter-
mined, and amounts so to be paid to be determined, by three arbitrators,
chosen as follows : Each of the parties to this instrument to choose one,
72 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
and the two so chosen to select a third ; the decision of said arbitrators
to be final.
In witness whereof, we have hereto set our hands and seals.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
in presence of David Patton. [l.s.]
James Waldron. John Doyle. [l.s.]
FORM OF LEASE OF A HOUSE.
This Instrument, made the first day of October, 1875, witnesseth
that Amos Griest of Yorkville, County of Kendall, State of Illinois, hath
rented from Aaron Young of Logansport aforesaid, the dwelling and lot
No. 13 Ohio Street, situated in said City of Yorkville, for five years
from the above date, at the yearly rental of Three Hundred dollars, pay-
able monthly, on the first day of each month, in advance, at the residence
of said Aaron Young.
At the expiration of said above mentioned term, the said Griest
agrees to give the said Young peaceable possession of the said dwelling,
in as good condition as when taken, ordinary wear and casualties excepted.
In witness whereof, we place our hands and seals the day and year
aforesaid.
Signed, sealed and delivered Amos Griest. [l.s.]
in presence of
NlCKOLAS SCHUTZ, AARON YOUNG. [L.S.]
Notary Public.
LANDLORD'S AGREEMENT.
This certifies that I have let and rented, this first day of January,
1876, unto Jacob Schmidt, my house and lot, No. 15 Erie Street, in the
City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and its appurtenances ; he to have the
free and uninterrupted occupation thereof for one year from this date, at
the yearly rental of Two Hundred dollars, to be paid monthly in advance ;
rent to cease if destroyed by fire, or otherwise made untenantable.
Peter Funk.
TENANT'S AGREEMENT.
This certifies that I have hired and taken from Peter Funk, his
house and lot, No. 15 Erie Street, in the City of Chicago, State of Illi-
nois, with appurtenances thereto belonging, for one year, to commence
this day, at a yearly rental of Two Hundred dollars, to be paid monthly
in advance ; unless said house becomes untenantable from fire or other
causes, in which case rent ceases ; and I further agree to give and yield
said premises one year from this first day of January 1876, in as good
condition as now, ordinary wear and damage by the elements excepted.
Given under my hand this day. Jacob Schmidt.
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NOTICE TO QUIT.
To F. W. Arlen,
Sir : Please observe that the term of one year, for which the house
and land, situated at No. 6 Indiana Street, and now occupied by you,
were rented to you, expired on the first day of October, 1875, and as I
desire to repossess said premises, you are hereby requested and required
to vacate the same. Respectfully Yours,
P. T. Barnum.
Lincoln, Neb., October 4, 1875.
TENANT'S NOTICE OF LEAVING.
Dear Sir:
The premises I now occupy as your tenant, at No. 6 Indiana Street,
I shall vacate on the first day of November, 1875. You will please take
notice accordingly.
Dated this tenth day of October, 1875. F. W. Arlen.
To P. T. Barnum, Esq.
REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE TO SECURE PAYMENT OF MONEY.
This Indenture, made this sixteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between William
Stocker, of Peoria, County of Peoria, and State of Illinois, and Olla, his
wife, party of the first part, and Edward Singer, party of the second part.
Whereas, the said party of the first part is justly indebted to the said
party of the second part, in the sum of Two Thousand dollars, secured
to be paid by two certain' promissory notes (bearing even date herewith)
the one due and payable at the Second National Bank in Peoria, Illinois,
with interest, on the sixteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three ; the other due and payable at the Second
National Ban^; at Peoria, 111., with interest, on the sixteenth day of May,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sevent} r -four.
Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that the said party of the
first part, for the better securing the payment of the money aforesaid,
with interest thereon, according to the tenor and effect of the said two
promissory notes above mentioned ; and, also in consideration of the fur-
ther sum of one dollar to them in hand paid by the said party of the sec-
ond part, at the delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed, and by these
presents do grant, bargain, sell, and convey, unto the said party of the
second part, his heirs and assigns, forever, all that certain parcel of land,
situate, etc.
'[Describing the premises.]
To have and to hold the same, together with all and singular the
Tenements, Hereditaments, Privileges and Appurtenances thereunto
74 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
belonging or in any wise appertaining. And also, all the estate, interest,
and claim whatsoever, in law as well as in equity which the party of
the first part have in and to the premises hereby conveyed unto the said
party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, and to their only proper
use, benefit and behoof. And the said William Stocker, and Olla, his
wife, party of the first part, hereby expressly waive, relinquish, release,
and convey unto the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors,
administrators, and assigns, all right, title, claim, interest, and benefit
whatever, in and to the above described premises, and each and every
part thereof, which is given by or results from all laws of this state per-
taining to the exemption of homesteads.
Provided always, and these presents are upon this express condition,
that if the said party of the first part, their heirs, executors, or adminis-
trators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, to the said party of
the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, the afore-
said sums of money, with such interest thereon, at the time and in the
manner specified in the above mentioned promissory notes, according to
the true intent and meaning thereof, then in that case, these presents and
every thing herein expressed, shall be absolutely null and void.
In witness whereof, the said part}^ of the first part hereunto set their
hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
James Whitehead, William Stocker. [l.s.]
Fred. Samuels. Olla Stocker. [l.s.]
WARRANTY DEED WITH COVENANTS.
This Indenture, made this sixth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between Henry Best
of Lawrence, County of Lawrence, State of Illinois, and Belle, his wife,
of the first part, and Charles Pearson of the same place, of the second part,
Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration
of the sum of Six Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the
second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted,
bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell,
unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, all the fol-
lowing described lot, piece, or parcel of land, situated in the City of Law-
rence, in the County of Lawrence, and State of Illinois, to wit :
[Hpre describe the property.]
Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and
reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof;
and all the estate, rignt, title, interest, claim, and demand whatsoever, of
the said party of the nrst part, either in law or equity, of, in, and to the
* ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 75
above bargained premises, with the hereditaments and appurtenances.
To have and to hold the said premises above bargained and described,
with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs
and assigns, forever. And the said Henry Best, and Belle, his wife, par-
ties of the first part, hereby expressly waive, release, and relinquish unto
the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators, and
assigns, all right, title, claim, interest, and benefit whatever, in and to the
above described premises, and each and every part thereof, which is given
by or results from all laws of this state pertaining to the exemption of
homesteads.
And the said Henry Best, and Belle, his wife, party of the first
part, for themselves and their heirs, executors, and administrators, do
covenant, grant, bargain, and agree, to and with the said party of the
second part, his heirs and assigns, that at the time of the ensealing and
delivery of these presents they were well seized of the premises above
conveyed, as of a good, sure, perfect, absolute, and indefeasible estate of
inheritance in law, and in fee simple, and have good right, full power,
and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell, and convey the same, in
manner and form aforesaid, and that the same are free and clear from all
former and other grants, bargains, sales, liens, taxes, assessments, and
encumbrances of what kind or nature soever ; and the above bargained
premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the
second part, his heirs and assigns, against all and every person or persons
lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof, the said party
of the first part shall and will warrant and forever defend.
In testimony whereof, the said parties of the first part have hereunto
set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of Henry Best, [l.s.]
Jerry Linklater. Belle Best. [l.s.]
QUIT-CLAIM DEED.
This Indenture, made the eighth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between David Tour,
of Piano, County of Kendall, State of Illinois, party of the first part,
and Larry O'Brien, of the same place, party of the second part,
Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in considera-
tion of Nine Hundred dollars in hand paid by the said party of the sec-
ond part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said party
of the second part forever released and discharged therefrom, has remised,
released, sold, conveyed, and quit-claimed, and by these presents does
remise, release, sell, convey, and quit-claim, unto the said party of the
second part, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title, interest,
76 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. *
claim, and demand, which the said party of the first part has in and to
the following described lot, piece, or parcel of land, to wit :
\Here describe the land.~\
To have and to hold the same, together with all and singular the
appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging, or in any wise there-
unto appertaining, and all the estate, right, title, interest, and claim
whatever, of the said party of the first part, either in law or equity, to
the only proper use, benefit, and behoof of the said party of the second
part, his heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof the said party of the first part hereunto set his
hand and seal the day and year above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered David Tour, [l.s.]
in presence of
Thomas Ashley.
The above forms of Deeds and Mortgage are such as have heretofore
been generally used, but the following are much shorter, and are made
equally valid by the laws of this state.
WARRANTY DEED.
The grantor (here insert name or names and place of residence), for
and in consideration of (here insert consideration) in hand paid, conveys
and warrants to (here insert the grantee's name or names) the following
described real estate (here insert description), situated in the County of
in the State of Illinois.
Dated this day of A. D. 18 .
QUIT CLAIM DEED.
The grantor (here insert grantor's name or names and place of resi-
dence), for the consideration of (here insert consideration) convey and
quit-claim to (here insert grantee's name or names) all interest in the
following described real estate (here insert description), situated in the
County of in the State of Illinois.
Dated this day of A. D. 18 .
MORTGAGE.
The mortgagor (here insert name or names) mortgages and warrants
to (here insert name or names of mortgagee or mortgagees), to secure the
payment of (here recite the nature and amount of indebtedness, showing
when due and the rate of interest, and whether secured by note or other-
wise), the following described real estate (here insert description thereof),
situated in the County of in the State of Illinois.
Dated this day of A. D. 18 .
RELEASE.
Know all Men by these presents, that I, Peter Ahlund, of Chicago,
of the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, for and in consideration of
One dollar, to me in hand paid, and for other good and valuable considera-
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 77
tions, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed, do hereby grant, bargain,
remise, convey, release, and quit-claim unto Joseph Carlin of Chicago,
of the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, all the right, title, interest,
claim, or demand whatsoever, I may have acquired in, through, or by a
certain Indenture or Mortgage Deed, bearing date the second day of Jan-
uary, A. D. 1871, and recorded in the Recorder's office of said county,
in book A of Deeds, page 46, to the premises therein described, and which
said Deed was made to secure one certain promissory note, bearing even
date with said deed, for the sum of Three Hundred dollars.
Witness my hand and seal, this second day of November, A. D. 1874.
Peter AhlCtnd. [l.'s.]
State of Illinois, )
Cook County. ) k I, George Saxton, a Notary Public in
and for said county, in the state aforesaid, do hereby
certify that Peter Ahlund, personally known to me
as the same person whose name is subscribed to the
foregoing Release, appeared before me this day in
[ ho sbal. al ] person, and acknowledged that he signed, sealed, and
delivered the said instrument of writing as his free
and voluntary act, for the uses and purposes therein
set forth.
Given under my hand and seal, this second day of
November, A. D. 1874.
George Saxton, N. P.
GENERAL FORM OF WILL FOR REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
I, Charles Mansfield, of the Town of Salem, County of Jackson,
State of Illinois, being aware of the uncertainty of life, and in failing
health, but of sound mind and memory, do make and declare this to be
my last will and testament, in manner following, to wit:
First. I give, devise and bequeath unto my oldest son, Sidney H.
Mansfield, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, of bank stock, now in the
Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the farm owned by myself
in the Town of Biiskirk, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, with
all the houses, tenements, and improvements thereunto belonging ; to
have and to hold unto my said son, his heirs and assigns, forever.
Second. I give, devise and bequeath to each of my daughters, Anna
Louise Mansfield and Ida Clara Mansfield, each Two Thousand dollars in
bank stock, in the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, and also each
one quarter section of land, owned by myself, situated in the Town of
Lake, Illinois, and recorded in my name in the Recorder's office in the
county where such land is located. The north one hundred and sixty
acres of said half section is devised to my eldest daughter, Anna Louise.
6
78 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
Third. I give, devise and bequeath to my son, Frank Alfred Mans-
field, Five shares of Railroad stock in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
and my one hundred and sixty acres of land and saw mill thereon, situ-
ated in Manistee, Michigan, with all the improvements and appurtenances
thereunto belonging, which said real estate is recorded in my name in the
county where situated.
Fourth. I give to my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, all my
household furniture, goods, chattels, and personal property, about my
home, not hitherto disposed of, including Eight Thousand dollars of bank
stock in the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fifteen shares in
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the free and unrestricted use, pos-
session, and benefit of the home farm, so long as she may live, in lieu of
dower, to which she is entitled by law; said farm being my present place
of residence.
Fifth. I bequeath to my invalid father, Elijah H. Mansfield, the
income from rents of my store building at 145 Jackson Street, Chicago,
Illinois, during the term of his natural life. Said building and land there-
with to revert to my said sons and daughters in equal proportion, upon
the demise of my said father.
Sixth. It is also my will and desire that, at the death of my wife,
Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, or at any time when she may arrange to
relinquish her life interest in the above mentioned homestead, the same
may revert to my above named children, or to the lawful heirs of each.
And lastly. I nominate and appoint as executors of this my last will
and testament, my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, and my eldest son,
Sidney H. Mansfield.
I further direct that my debts and necessary funeral expenses shad
be paid from moneys now on deposit in the Savings Bank of Salem, the
residue of such moneys to revert to my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield,
for her use forever.
In witness whereof, I, Charles Mansfield, to this my last will and
testament, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fourth day of April,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Signed, sealed, and declared by Charles
Mansfield, as and for his last will and
testament, in the presence of us, who,
at his request, and in his presence, and
in the presence of each other, have sub- )>■
scribed our names hereunto as witnesses
thereof.
Peter A. Schenck, Sycamore, Ills.
Frank E. Dent, Salem, Ills.
Charles Mansfield, [l.s.]
Charles Mansfield, [l.s.]
>
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 79
CODICIL.
Whereas I, Charles Mansfield, did, on the fourth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, make my last will and testa-
ment, I do now, by this writing, add this codicil to my said will, to be
taken as a part thereof.
Whereas, by the dispensation of Providence, my daughter, Anna
Louise, has deceased November fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
and whereas, a son has been born to me, which son is now christened
Richard Albert Mansfield, I give and bequeath unto him my gold watch,
and all right, interest, and title in lands and bank stock and chattels
bequeathed to my deceased daughter, Anna Louise, in the body of this will.
In witness whereof, I hereunto place my hand and seal, this tenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
Signed, sealed, published, and declared to^
us by the testator, Charles Mansfield, as
and for a codicil to be annexed to his
last will and testament. And we, at
his request, and in his presence, and in
the presence of each other, have sub-
scribed our names as witnesses thereto,
at the date hereof.
Frank E. Dent, Salem, Ills.
John C. Shay, Salem, Ills.
CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS
May be legally made by electing or appointing, according to the usages
or customs of the body of which it is a part, at any meeting held for that
purpose, two or more of its members as trustees, wardens or vestrymen, and
may adopt a corporate name. The chairman or secretary of such meeting
shall, as soon as possible, make and file in the office of the recorder of
deeds of the county, an affidavit substantially in the following form :
State of Illinois, )
County. \
I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be),
that at a meeting of the members of the (here insert the name of the
church, society or congregation as known before organization), held at
(here insert place of meeting), in the County of , and State of
Illinois, on the clay of , A.D. 18 — , for that purpose, the fol-
lowing persons were elected (or appointed) [here insert their natnes]
trustees, wardens, vestrymen, (or officers by whatever name they may
choose to adopt, with powers similar to trustees) according to the rules
and usages of such (church, society or congregation), and said
80 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.
adopted as its corporate name (here insert name), and at said meeting
this affiant acted as (chairman or secretary, as the case may be).
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this ■ day of ■, A.D.
18-=. Name of Affiant"
which affidavit must be recorded by the recorder, and shall be, or a certi-
fied copy made by the recorder, received as evidence of such an incorpo-
ration.
No certificate of election after the first need be filed for record.
The term of office of the trustees and the general government of the
society can be determined by the rules or by-laws adopted. Failure to
elect trustees at the time provided does not work a dissolution, but the
old trustees hold over. A trustee or trustees may be removed, in the
same manner by the society as elections are held by a meeting called for
that purpose. The property of the society vests in the corporation. The
corporation may hold, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, land not
exceeding ten acres, for the purpose of the society. The trustees have
the care, custody and control of the property of the corporation, and can,
when directed by the society, erect houses or improvements, and repair
and alter the same, and may also when so directed 'by the societ} r ,
mortgage, encumber, sell and convey any real or personal estate belonging
to the corporation, and make all proper contracts in the name of such
corporation. But they are prohibited by law from encumbering or inter-
fering with any property so as to destroy the effect of any gift, grant,
devise or bequest to the corporation ; but such gifts, grants, devises or
bequests, must in all cases be used so as to carry out the object intended
by the persons making the same. Existing societies may organize in the
manner herein set forth, and have all the advantages thereof.
SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE PURCHASING BOOKS BY SUBSCRIPTION.
The business of publishing books by subscription having so often been
brought into disrepute by agents making representations and declarations
not authorized by the publisher ; in order to prevent that as much as possi-
ble, and that there may be more general knowledge of the relation such
agents bear to their principal, and the law governing such cases, the fol-
lowing statement is made :
A subscription is in the nature of a contract of mutual promises, by.
which the subscriber agrees to pay a certain sum for the work described ;
the consideration is concurrent that the publisher shall publish the book
named, and deliver the same, for which the subscriber is to pay the price
named. The nature and character of the work is described in the prospectus
and by the sample shoivn. These should be carefully examined before sub-
scribing, as they are the basis and consideration of the promise to pay,
ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 81
and not the too often exaggerated statements of the agent, who is merely
employed to solicit subscriptions, for which he is usually paid a commission
for each subscriber, and has no authority to change or alter the conditions
upon which the subscriptions are authorized to be made by the publisher.
Should the agent assume to agree to make the subscription conditional or
modify or change the agreement of the publisher, as set out by prospectus
and sample, in order to bind the principal, the subscriber should see that
such conditions or changes are stated over or in connection with his signa-
ture, so that the publisher may have notice of the same.
All persons making contracts in reference to matters of this kind, or
any other business, should remember that the law as to written contracts is,
that they can not be varied, altered or rescinded verbally, but if done at all,
must be done in writing. It is therefore important that all persons contem-
plating subscribing should distinctly understand that all talk before or after
the subscription is made, is not admissible as evidence, and is no part of the
contract.
Persons employed to solicit subscriptions are known to the trade as
canvassers. They are agents appointed to do a particular business in a
prescribed mode, and have no authority to do it in any other way to the
prejudice of their principal, nor can they bind their principal in any other
matter. They cannot collect money, or agree that payment may be made
in anything else but money. They can not extend the time of payment
beyond the time of delivery, nor bind their principal for the payment of
expenses incurred in their buisness.
It would save a great deal of trouble, and often serious loss, if persons,
before signing their names to any subscription book, or any written instru-
ment, would examine carefully what it is ; if they can not read themselves,
should call on some one disinterested who can.
82
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
INTEREST TABLE.
Given Per Cent, for
A Simple Rule for Accurately Computing Interest at Any
Any Length of Time.
Multiply the principal (amount of money at interest) by the time reduced to days ; then
divide this product by the quotient obtained by dividing 360 (the number of days in the interest
year) by the per cent, of interest, and the quotient thus obtained will be the required interest.
ILLUSTRATION. Solution.
Require the interest of $462.50 for one month and eighteen days at $462.50
6 per cent \n interest month is 30 days ; one month and eighteen days j4»
equal 48 days. $462.50 multiplied by .48 gives 222.0000 ; 360 divided —
by 6 (the per cent, of interest) gives 60, and $222 0000 divided by 60 37
will give you the exact interest, which is $3.70. If the rate of interest 6)360 ib 3 ooo
in the above example were 12 per cent., we would divide the S222.0000 6q J § 222 . 000 o($3.70
by 30 (because 360 divided by 12 gives 30) ; if 4 per cent., we would lgo
divide by 90 ; if 8 per cent., by 45 ; and in like manner for any other
per cent. . 4 2 °
420
00
MISCELLANEOUS TABLE.
12 units, or things, 1 Dozen.
12 dozen, 1 Gross.
20 things, 1 Score.
196 pounds, I Barrel of Flour.
200 pounds, I Barrel of Pork.
56 pounds, 1 Firkin of Butter.
24 sheets of paper, 1 Quire.
20 quires paper I Ream.
4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and S feet long, I Cord
of Wood.
POPULATION OF THE
UNITED STATES.
States and Territories.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia ,
illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maivland
Massachusetts —
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New H impshire.
New Jersey
New YurV:
North Carolina..
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island —
South Carolina...
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia...
Wisconsin
Total States.
Arizona
Colorada
l> ikota
District Of Columbia.
I laho
Montana
New Mexico
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Total
Population.
996.992
484.471
560,247
537.454
125.015
187,748
1.184.109
2.539.S91
1.680.637
1,191,792
364.399
1.321.011
726,915
626.915
780.894
1,457,351
1,184.059
439.706
827,922
1,721.295
122.993
42.491
318.300
906.096
4,382.759
1,071.361
2,665.260
90,923
3,521.791
217.353
705,606
1.25S.520
818.579
330,551
1.225.163
442.014
1,054.670
38,113.253
Total Territories,
Total United States 38.555.983
39
14.
131.
14,
20.
91.
86.
23.
658
864
181
700
999
595
874
786
955
118
442,730
POPULATION OF FIFTY
PRINCIPAL CITIES.
Cities.
New York. N. Y
Philadelphia, Pa
Brooklyn, N. Y
St. Louis, Mo
Chicago, 111
Baltimore, Md
Boston, Mass
Cincinnati, Ohio
New Orleans, La. —
San Francisco, cal...
Buffalo, N. Y
Washington, D. C...
Newark, N.J
Louisville, Ky
Cleveland, Ohio
Pittsburg, Pa
Jersey City, N. J —
Detroit, Mich
Milwaukee, Wis
Albany, N. Y
Providence, R.I
Rochester, N. Y
Allegheny. Pa
Richmond, Va
New Haven, Conn...
Charleston, S. C
Indianapolis, Ind
Troy, N. Y
Syracuse, N. Y
Worcester, Mass
Lowell, Mass
Memphis, Tenn
Cambridge, Mass....
Hartford, Conn
Scranton, Pa
Reading, Pa
Paterson, N. J
Kansas City, Mo....
Mobile, Ala
Toledo. Ohio
Portland, Me
Columbus. Ohio
Wilmington, Del —
Dayton, Ohio
Lawrence. Mass
Utica, N. Y
Uharlestown, Mass.
Savannah, Ga
Lvnn. Mass
Fall River, Mass.
Aggregate
Population.
942.292
57 4.022
396.099
310.864
298.977
267.354
250.526
216.239
191.418
149.473
117. 714
109,199
105.059
100.753
92.829
86.076
82.546
79.577
71.440
69.422
68.904
62.386
53.180
51.038
50.840
48.956
48.244
46.465
43.051
41.105
40.928
40 226
39,634
37.180
35.092
33.930
33.579
32.260
32.034
31,584
31,413
31.274
30.841
30.473
28,921
28,804
28.323
28.235
28.233
26.766
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
83
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
States and
Territories.
Sta tes.
Alabama 50,
Arkansas 52,
California 188,
Connecticut 4
Delaware 2,
Florida 59,
Georgia 58,
Illinois 55,
Indiana 33,
Iowa 55,
Kansas 81,
Kentucky 37,
Louisiana 41,
Maine 31,
Maryland 11,
Massachusetts... 7,
Michigan* 5f>,
Minnesota 83,
Mississippi 47.
Missouri 65.
Nebraska 75,
Nevada 112,
New Hampshire. 9,
New Jersey S.
New York 47,
North Carolina.. 50,
Ohio 39,
Oregon 95,
* Last Census of
Area in
square
Miles.
198
981
674
120
268
000
410
809
045
318
6' Hi
346
776
184
800
451
531
156
350
9! -'5
090
280
320
000
704
964
244
Population.
1870.
996,
484,
560
537
125,
187.
1.184,
2,539,
1.0x0.
1,191.
364
1,321,
726,
626,
780,
1.457.
1,184
439
827.
1,721
123
42,
318
906,
4,382
1,071.
2,665,
90.
992
471
247
454
015
748
109
891
637
792
399
011
915
915
894
351
059
706
922
295
: 93
491
300
096
59
361
260
923
1875.
1,350,544
528,349
857,039
1,651,912
1,334,031
598,429
246,280
52,540
1,026,502
4,705,208
Miles
R. R.
1872.
1,671
25
1,013
820
227
466
2,108
5,904
3.529
3.160
1,760
1,123
539
871
820
1,606
2,235
1,612
990
2,580
828
593
7 90
1.265
4,470
1,190
3,740
lo9
Michigan taken in 1874.
States and
Territories.
States.
Pennsylvania...
Rhode Island...
South Carolina.
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia...
Wisconsin
Total States.
Territories.
Arizona
Colorado
Dakota
Dist. of Columbia,
Idaho
Montana
New Mexico
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Total Territories.
Area in
square
Miles.
46,000
1,306
29,385
45,600
237,504
10,212
40,904
23,000
53,924
1,950,171
113,916
104,500
147,490
60
90.932
143.776
121.201
80.056
69,944
93,107
965,032
Population.
1870.
3,521,791
217,353
705,606
1,258.520
818.579
330.551
1,225,163
442,014
1.054.670
38,113,253
9,658
39,864
14,181
131,700
14,999
20,595
91.874
86,786
23,955
9,118
442,730
1875.
258,239
925,145
1,236,729
Miles'
R. R.
1872.
5,113
136
1,201
1,520
865
675
1,490
485
1.725
59,587
392
375
498
1,265
Aggregate of U. S.. 2,915,203 38,555,983 60,852
* Included in the Railroad Mileage of Maryland.
PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD;
Population and Area.
Countries.
Population.
China
British Empire
Russia
United States with Alaska. .
France
Austria and Hungary
Japan
Great Britain and Ireland. .
German Empire
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Turkey
Mexico
Sweden and Norway
Persia
Belgi urn
Bavaria
Portugal
Holland
N ew Grenada
Chili
Switzerland
Peru
Bolivia
Argentine Republic
Wurtemluirg
Denmark
Venezuela
Baden
Greece
Guatemala
Ecuador
Paraguay
Hesse
Liberia
San Salvador
Hayti
N i caragua ,
Uruguay
Honduras
San Domingo
Pnsta Rica
II ii- i.
446,
226,
81,
38,
36,
35,
34,
31,
29,
27,
16
10
16,
9.
5,
5,
5,
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
500.000
817,108
925.400
925,600
469,800
904,400
785,300
817,100
906,092
439,921
642,000
000.000
163,000
173.000
921 500
000,000
021,300
861,400
995.200
688.300
000,000
000,000
669.100
500.000
,0110.0110
,812,000
818,500
,784.700
500.000
,461,400
,457.900
, ISO, 000
300.000
000,000
823,138
718.000
600,000
572,000
350,000
300,000
350,000
136,000
165 000
62 950
Date of
Census.
1871
1871
1871
1870
1866
1869
1871
1871
1871
1871
1867
1869
IS70
1870
1869
1871
1868
1870
1870
1869
1870
1871
'1869
1871
1870
'1871
1870
1871
'1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
'1870
Area in
Square
Miles.
3,741,846
4,677,432
8,003,778
2,603,884
204.091
240.348
149,399
121,315
160,207
118,847
195,775
3.253.029
672.621
761.526
292.871
635,964
11,373
29,292
34,494
12.680
357,157
132,616
15,992
471.838
497,321
871,848
■ 7,533
14,753
368,238
5,912
19,353
40,879
218,928
63,787
2,969
9,576
7,335
10,205
58,171
66,722
47.092
17,827
21.505
7.633
Inhabitants
to Square
Mile.
119.3
48-6
10.2
7.78
178.7
149.4
232.8
262.3
187.
230.9
85.
3.07
24.4
20.
7.8
441.5
165.9
115.8
290.9
8.4
15.1
166.9
5.3
4.
2.1
241.4
120.9
4.2
247.
75.3
28.9
5.9
15.6
277.
74.9
81.8
56.
6.
6.5
7.4
7.6
7.7
80.
Capitals.
Pekin ,
London
St. Petersburg.
Washington
Paris
Vienna
Yeddo....
London
Berlin
Rome ,
Madrid
Rio Janeiro
Constantinople
Mexico
Stockholm
Teheran
Brussels
Munich
Lisbon
Hague
Bogota
Santiago
Berne
Lima
Cliuquisaca
Buenos Ayres..
Stuttgart
Copenhagen....
Caraccas
Carlsruhe
Athens
Guatemala
Quito
Asuncion
Darmstadt
Monrovia
Sal Salvador ...
Port au Prince
Managua
Monte Video...
Comayagua
San Domingo...
San Jose
Honolulu
Population.
1,648,800
3,251,800
667,000
109,199
1,825,300
833,900
1,554,900
3,251,800
825,400
244,484
332,000
420,000
1,075,000
210.300
136,900
120,000
314,100
169.500
224,063
90,100
45,000
115,400
36.000
160,100
25,000
177.800
91,600
162,042
47,000
36,600
43,400
40,000
70,000
48,000
30,000
3,000
15,000
20.000
10,000
44.500
12.000
20,000
2.000
7,633
84
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS,
By Counties.
COUNTIES.
Adams
Alexander. -
Bond -
Boone
Brown
Bureau
Calhoun —
Carroll
Cass
Champaign.
Christian - .
Clark
Clay
Clinton —
Coles
Cook
Crawford
Cumberland .
De Kalb
De Witt
Douglas
Du Page
Edgar
Edwards
Effingham —
Fayette
Ford
Franklin
Fulton
Gallatin
Greene
Grundy
Hamilton ...
Hancock —
Hardin
Henderson. -
Henry
Iroquois —
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson —
Jersey
Jo Daviess.
Johnson —
Kane
Kankakee- .
Kendall —
Knox
Lake
La Salle...
Lawrence.,
Lee
Livingston
Logan
AGGREGATE.
1870. 1860. 1850. 1840
56362
10564
1315
1294
12205
32415
6562
16705
II5S0
32737
20363
I37I9
15375
16285
25235
349966
138S9
12223
23265
14768
13484
16685
21450
7505
15653
19638
9103
12652
38291
III34
20277
14938
13014
35935
5 IJ 3
12582
355o6
25782
19634
11234
17864
15054
27820
11248
39091
24352
12399
39522
21014
60792
12533
27171
3M7I
23053
41323
4707
9815
11678
9938
26426
5144
II733
11325
14629
10492
14987
9336
1 094 1
14203
144954
I155I
8311
19086
10820
7140
14701
16925
5454
7816
11189
1979
9393
33338
8055
16093
10379
99*5
29061
3759
950i
20660
12325
9589
8364
12965
12051
27325
9342
30062
15412
13074
28663
18257
4S332
9214
17651
11637
14272
2650S
2484
6144
7624
7198
8S41
3231
4586
7253
2649
3203
9532
4289
5139
9335
43385
7135
37i8
7540
5002
1830.
14476
3313
5060
1705
4183
3067
1741
IO23
2981
1475
1878
7453
3228
37i8
9616
1 020 1
4422
2186
1390
3124
1820.
IO90
3940
755
2330
3"7
9290
10692
3524
3799
8075
1697
3247
3535
8225
3070
1675
6328
4071
1649
5681
22508
5448
12429
3023
6362
14652
2887
4612
3807
4149
5862
3220
8109
7354
18604
4114
16703
3682
13142
10760
II95I
2704
4083
1841
7405
7674
3945
9946
1378
1260
1695
3566
1472
5762
4535
6180
3626
6501
2616
483
4i
1828
7730
13279
14226
17815
6l£I
5.39*
1553
5128
2555
2111
1596
7060
2634
9348
7092
2035
759
2333
274
3668
626
2931
931
*23
2999
3444
1763
3155
1542
691
843
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
85
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS— Concluded.
COUNTIES.
Macon
Macoupin. .
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Mason
Massac
McDonough.
Mc Henry . .
McLean
Menard
Mercer
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
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86 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
AND ITS AMENDMENTS.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.
Article I.
Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in
a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
Sec. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem-
bers chosen every second }~ear by the people of the several states, and the
electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the
age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in
which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the sev-
eral states which may be included within this Union, according to their
respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole
number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of
years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.
The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first
meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subse-
quent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The
number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand,
but each state shall have at least one Representative ; and until such
enumeration shall be made the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled
to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plan-
tations one, Connecticut five, New York six. New Jersey four, Pennsylva-
nia eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five,
and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the
Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such
vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other
officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
Sec. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two
Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years ;
and each Senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first
election, they shall be divided as equally as ma}" be into three classes.
The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expira-
AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 87
tion of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth
year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that
one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by
resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state,
the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next
meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age
of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and
who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he
shall be chosen.
The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro
tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise
the office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When
sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the
President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside.
And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds
of the members present.
Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to
removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of
honor, trust, or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted
shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment,
and punishment according to law.
Sec. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Sen-
ators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legis-
lature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter
such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such
meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by
law appoint a different day.
Sec. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and
qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute
a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to
day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members
in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.
. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its
members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds,
expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to
time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment,
require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house
on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered
on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other
place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Sec. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compen-
sation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the
treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason,
88 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their
attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and
returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either house
they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United
States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall
have been increased during such time ; and no person holding any office
under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his
continuance in office.
Sec. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of
Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments
as on ether bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and
the Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President
of the United States ; if he approve he shall sign it ; but if not he shall
return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have origi-
nated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and
proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration two-thirds of that
house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objec-
tions, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if
approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all
such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays,
and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered
on the journal of each house respectively. If an} T bill shall not be returned
by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have
been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he
had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its
return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the
Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a
question of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the
United States, and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by
him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two-thirds of
the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and lim-
itations prescribed in the case of a bill.
Sec. 8. The Congress shall have power —
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts,
and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United
States ; but all duties, imposts, and excises stfall be uniform throughout
the United States ;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States ;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several
States, and with the Indian tribes ;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on
the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and
fix the standard of weights and measures ;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and
current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads ;
AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 89
To promote the progress of sciences and useful arts, by securing,
for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their
respective writings and discoveries ;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high
seas, and offenses against the law of nations ;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules
concerning captures on land and water ;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that
use shall be for a longer term than two years ;
To provide and maintain a navy ;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and
naval forces ;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions ;
To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and
for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the
United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the
officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the disci-
pline prescribed by Congress ;
To exercise legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not
exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the
acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United
States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the
consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for
the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful
buildings ; and
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this
Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any depart-
ment or officer thereof.
Sec. 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the
states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited
by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight,
but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten
dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may
require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion
to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or rev-
enue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall vessels
bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in
another.
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of
the receipts and expeditures of all public money shall be published from
time to time.
90 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States : and no
person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the
consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title
of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Sec. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confeder-
ation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of
credit ; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of
debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the
obligation of contracts, or grant anv title of nobilitv.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts
or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary
for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties and
imposts laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the
Treasury of the United States ~, and all such laws shall be subject to the
revision and control of the Congress.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on
tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any
agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or
engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will
not admit of delay.
Aeticle II.
Section 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of
the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term
of four years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same
term, be elected as follows :
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof
may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators
and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress ;
but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or
profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
[*The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by
ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of
the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the
persons voted for. and of the number of votes for each ; which list they
shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the government
of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The Pres-
ident of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.
The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President,
if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ;
and if there be more than one who have such majorit} 7 , and have an equal
number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately
choose by ballot one of them for President ; and if no person have a ma-
jority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like
manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the vote
shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one
vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members
from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be
necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President,
* This clause between.brackets has been superseded and annulled by the Twelfth.amendment.
AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 91
the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be
the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have
equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-Presi-
dent.]
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and
the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same
throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United
States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible
to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that
office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been
fourteen years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death,
resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said
office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-Piiesident, and the Congress
may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inabil-
ity, both of the President and Vice-President, declaring what officer shall
then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the dis-
ability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a com-
pensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the
period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive
within that period any other emolument from the United States or any of
them.
Before he enters on the execution of his office, he shall take the fol-
lowing oath or affirmation :
" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Sec. 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the army and
navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when
called into the actual service of the United States ; he may require the
opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive
departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective
offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardon for offenses
against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present con-
cur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate,
shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of
the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose
appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be
established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment
of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in
the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may
happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which
shall expire at the end of their next session.
Sec. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information
of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such mea-
sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may on extraordinary
92 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
occasions convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree-
ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may
adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper ; he shall receive
ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United
States.
Sec. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the
United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and con-
viction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Article III.
Section I. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested
in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may from
time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and
inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at
stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be
diminished during their continuance in office.
Sec. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and
equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and
treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority ; to all cases
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls ; to all cases of
admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United
States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states ;
between a state and citizens of another state ; between citizens of differ-
ent states ; between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants
of different states, and between a state or the citizens thereof, and foreign
states, citizens, or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls,
and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have
original jurisdiction.
In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall
have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions
and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by
jury ; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall
have been committed ; but when not committed within an}' state, the
trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have
directed.
Sec. 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levy-
ing war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid
and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the tes-
timony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open
court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason,
but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture,
except during the life of the person attainted.
Article IV.
Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the
public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And
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SENIOR EDITOR OF OTTAWA FREETRADER
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AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 95
the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Sec. 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several states.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime,
who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand
of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered
up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof
escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation
therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered
up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Sec. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ;
but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
other state ; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states,
or parts of states, without the consent of the Legislatures of the states
concerned, as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful
rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging
to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed
as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular state.
Sec. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this
Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them
against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Execu-
tive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic vio-
lence.
Article V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the ap-
plication of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call
a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when rati-
fied by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by con-
ventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratifi-
cation may be proposed by the Congress. Provided that no amendment
which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and
eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth
section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall
be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Article VI.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adop-
tion of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under
this Constitution as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be
made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the
land ; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in
the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the mem-
96
CONSTITUTION OP THE UNITED STATES
bers of the several state Legislatures, and all executive and judicial offi-
cers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound
by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution ; but no religious test
shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under
the United States.
Article VII.
The ratification of the Conventions of nine states shall be sufficient
for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying
the same. .
Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present, the
seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the
United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof we have
hereunto subscribed our names.
GEO. WASHINGTON,
President and Deputy from Virginia.
New Hampshire.
John Langdon,
Nicholas Gilman.
Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Gorham,
Rufus King.
Connecticut.
Wm. Sam'l Johnson,
Roger Sherman.
Delaware.
Geo. Read,
John Dickinson,
Jaco. Broom,
Gunning Bedford, Jr.,
Richard Bassett.
Maryland.
James M'Henry,
Danl. Carroll,
Dan. of St. Thos. Jenifer.
New York.
Alexander Hamilton.
New Jersey.
Wil. Livingston,
Wm. Paterson,
David Brearley,
Jona. Dayton.
Virginia.
John Blair,
James Madison, Jr.
North Carolina.
Wm. Blount,
Hu. Williamson,
Rich'd Dobbs Spaight.
Pennsylvania.
B. Franklin,
Robt. Morris,
Thos. Fitzslmons,
James Wilson,
Thos. Mifflin,
Geo. Clymer,
Jared Ingersoll,
Gouv. Morris.
South Carolina.
J. Rutledge,
/Charles Pinckney,
Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney,
Pierce Butler.
G-eorgia.
William Few,
Abr. Baldwin. .
WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.
AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 97
Articles in Addition to and Amendatory of the Constitution
op the United States op America.
Proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several states,
pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution.
Article I.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article II.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Article III.
No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without
the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be pre-
scribed by law.
Article IV.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio-
lated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched
and the persons or things to be seized.
Article V.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous
crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual
service in time of war or public danger ; nor shall any person be subject
for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall
be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Article VI.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district
wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have
been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and
cause of the accusation ; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ;
to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor ; and to
have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Article VII.
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed
twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact
98 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United
States than according to the rules of the common law.
Article VIII.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Article IX.
The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Article X.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively,
or to the people.
Article XI.
The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to
extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one
of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or sub-
jects of any foreign state.
Article XII.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot
for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an
inhabitant of the same state with themselves ; they shall name in their
ballots the person to be voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the
person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of
all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-
President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign
and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United
States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the
Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives,
open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person
having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President,
if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ;
and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the
highest number not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as
President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by
ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be
taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; a
quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-
thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to
a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a Presi-
dent whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the
fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as
President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of
the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-
President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be the majority
of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a major-
AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 99
ity ; then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose
the Vice-President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds
of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number
shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible
to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the
United States.
Article XIII.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris-
diction.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro-
priate legislation.
Article XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and
of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several states
according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of per-
sons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed ; but when the right to
vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice-
President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the execu-
tive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the Legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being
twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way
abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, the basis of
representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the num-
ber of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens
twenty-one years of age in such state.
Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress,
or Elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or
military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previ-
ously taken an oath as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the
United States, or as a member of any state Legislature, or as an execu-
tive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the
United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may,
by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States author-
ized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and boun-
ties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be ques-
tioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall pay any debt
or obligation incurred in the aid of insurrection or rebellion against the
United States, or any loss or emancipation of any slave, but such debts,
obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.
100
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this act.
Article XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro-
priate legislation.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
November 7, 1876.
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1416
1329
2957
36548
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1695
1996
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4177
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1142
363
1495
2218
900
918
1618
3103
3287
2197
1541
1989
2822
39240
1643
1407
1413
1174
1357
1276
2883
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2421
742
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1433
4207
611
1015
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2071
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3550
2788
3120
3567
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2009
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2209
845
2486
3069
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4665
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1807
3055
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646
2357
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3912
980
4851
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2069
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4708
3198
2850
978
4372
650
2795
1911
1570
1297
3851
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1672
4505
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1939
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3174
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1921
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1804
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2758
3171
2155
3031
936
1984
1671
1751
2066
2131
3999
1644
1568
2105
1170
3
Logan
37
268
114
39
209
135
86
20
347
34
518
10
90
201
109
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104
95
5
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Bond
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43
183
145
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Macon
Boone
Madison
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Marion
Calhoun
Mason
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Carroll
111
74
604
207
236
112
132
102
277
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129
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746
94
25
161
61
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57
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391
89
282
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Christian
McHenry
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McLean
Clay
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Clinton
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Montgomery
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DeKalb
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Peoria
Douglas
Pope
DuPage
Edgar ,
Piatt
Edwards
Pike
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Effingham
Fayette
Putnam
14
2
55
27
641
29
115
182
341
96
99
26
44
3
288
207
138
39
482
469
133
677
41
70
237
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Randolph
Frnnklin
Richland
Fulton
Rock Island
Gallatin
Saline
Greene
Schuyler
Grundy
Hamilton
Scott
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Shelhy
Stark
Hardin
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249
106
4
14
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Tazewell
Union
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Jasper
Vermilion
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3087
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2166
2276
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524
2632
1647
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2080
647
140
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172
26
309
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55
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La Salle County War Record.
ABBREVIATIONS.
Adjt Adjutant
Art................... ............. ....Artillery
Col . Colonel
Capt.... ............. .................... Captain
Corpl...... .............. ............... Corporal
Comsy. ................. ............. Commissary
com................................. .. commissioned
cav .................................... cavalry
captd. ............................ .......... captured
di»d.... ............................. ...... discharged
.......................................... enlisted
excd.. ..................................exchanged
inf .......................................infantry
kid killed
m. o. ....................... ............ mustered out
prmtd ...............J............. promoted
prisr ........................................ prisoner
Regt ....... ..................... Regiment
Sergt.. ..................................... .Sergeant
wd . . ..............wounded
HISTORY OF TELE 11th INFANTRY.
The regiment was called into service under proclama-
tion of the President, April 16, 1861; organized at
Springfield and mustered into service April 30, 1861, by
Captain Pope, for three months.
_ During this term of service the regiment v.as sta-
tioned at Villa Ridge, 111., to June 20th, then removed
to Bird's Point, Mo., where it remained performing gar-
rison and field duty until July 30th, when the regiment
was mustered out, and re-enlisted for three years'
service. During the three months' term the lowest ag-
gregate was 882, and the highest 933, and at the muster
out was 916.
Upon the re-muster, July 13th, the aggregate w s 288.
During the months of August, September, October and
November, the regiment was recruited to an aggregate
of 801. In the meantime were doing garrison and field
duty, participating in the following expeciitions: Sep-
tember 9th to nth, expedition towards New Madrid ;
October 6th to 10th, to Charleston, Mo.; November 3d
to 12th, to Bloomfield, Mo., via Commerce, returning
via Cape Girardeau ; January 7th and 8th, expedition
to Charleston, Mo., skirmished w th a portion of the
command of Jeff. Tl ompson ; January 13th to 20th,
reconnoisance of Columbus, Ky., under General Grant;
January 25th to 28th, to Sikestown, Mo.; February 2d,
embarked on transports for Fort Henry, participating
in campaign against that place; February nth, moved
towards Fort Donelson; February 12th, 13th and 14th,
occupied in investing that place; 12th, heavily engaged
with the enemy about five hours, losing 329, killed,
wounded and missing, out of about 500 engaged, of
whom 72 were killed and 182 wounded; March 4th and
5th, en route to Fort Henry; 5th to 13th, en route to
Savannah, Tenn., in transports; 23d to 25th, en route
from Savannah to Pittsburgh Landing; April 6th and
7th, engaged in battle of Shiloh, losing 27 killed and
wounded out of 150 engaged; April 24th to June 4th,
participated in siege of Corinth, thence marched to
J.ickson, Tenn., making headquarters there to August
2d; participated in two engagements, July 1st and ad,
towards Trenton, Tenn.; July 23d to 28th to Lexing.
ton, Tenn; August ad, moved to Cairo, 111., for purpose
of recruiting; remained at that point until August 23d ;
thence to Paducah, Ky., remaining there until Novem-
ber 20th ; in the meantime engaged in two expeditions —
August 24th to September 16th, to Clarksville, Tenn.,
via Forts Henr\ and Donelson — Oct. 31st to November
13th, expedition to Hopkinsville, Ky.; November aoth
to 24th, en route to Lagrange, Tenn., where the regi-
ment reported and was assigned to Brigadier General
McArthur's Division, Left Wing, 13th Army Corps.
From this time to January 12, 1863, participated in cam-
paign in Northern Mississippi, marching via Talla-
hatchie (where the regiment was engaged in a sharp
skirmish); from these* to Abbeville; thence seven miles
below Oxford ; thence to Holly Springs, Moscow and
Memphis, Tenn. Remained in Memphis until the 17th,
when embarked on transport and en route to Young's
Point until 24th, remaining there until February nth,
then moved to Lake Providence and assigned to the
Seventeeth Army Corps, making headquarters there
until April 20th, participating in expedition to American
Bend from March 17th to 28th. April 23, 1863, the One
Hundred and Ninth Illinois Infantry was transferred to
the Eleventh, 589 being the aggregate gained by the
transfer. April 26th, regiment moved with column to
rear of Vicksburg, via Richmond, Perkins' Landing,
Grand Gulf, Raymond and Black River, arriving before
the works, May 18th; May 19th and 22d, engaged in
assaults on the enemy's works; then in the advance
siege works to July 4th at time of surrender ; the regi-
ment losing in the siege and assault,one field officer (Col.
Garrett Nevius) killed; three (3) line officers wounded,
and forty (40) men killed and wounded. July 17th,
moved with expedition to Natchez, Miss., participating
in expedition to Woodville, Miss. October 12th, re»
turned to Vicksburg. Miss., making headquarters there
to July 29, 1864, in the meantime engaging in the fol.
lowing expeditions : February 1 to March 8, up Yazoo
river to Greenwo d, Miss., having skirmish at Liver-
pool Heights. February 5th, losing 4 killed and 9
wounded; action at Yazoo City. March 5th, losing one
line officer killed, 8 men killed, 84 wounded and ia
missing; April 6ih to 28th, at Black River Bridge; May
4th to 21st, expedition to Yazoo City, Benton and
Vaughn's Station, Miss., taking prominent part in thr e
important skirmishes; July 1st to 7th, with an expedi-
tion to Jackson, Miss., under M jor General Slocum,
engiged with the enemy three times ; luly 29th, moved
to Morganza and was assigned to Nineteenth Army
Corps, staying there to September 3d; in the meamime
participating in an expedition to Clinton, La., August
24th to 29th; September 3d, moved to mouth of \\ lute
river. Ark.; October 8th, moved to Memphis. Tenn.,
returning to White river, October 27th; November 6th
and 7th, expedition to Giines' Landing; Nov. 8th,
moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark.; November 30th to De-
cember 4th, en route to Memphis, Tenn.; De. ember
20th to 31st, expedition to Moscow, Tenn.; January 1st
t0 5th,*» route to Kenner, La.; February 4th to 7th.
en route to Dauphine Island, via Lake Ponchartrain ;
March 17th to April 12th, engaged in operations against
Mobile, Ala., marching from Fort Morgan, participating
in the investment and siege and final capture of Spanish
Fort and Fort Blakely, and in the assault on the latter.
April 12th, marched into and took possession of the city
of Mobile, staying there until the 27th of May, when
embarked in transport and moved via Lake Ponchar-
train to New Orleans; from thence to Alexandria, La.,
remaining there until June aad; thence to Baton Rouge,
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LA. SALLE COUNTY WAE BEOOBD.
La., to be mustered out of lervice ; mustered out July
14, 1865, and left for Springfield, 111., for payment and
final discharge.
Killed in the field and died of wounds 149
Aggregate three months' service ..... 933
Aggregate three years' service ... . .-1879
Field and staff, three years' service ... 53
The following General Officers have been in the regi-
ment :
Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, General T. E. G. Ransom,
General Smith D. Atkins.
The following Field Officers of other regiments were
members of this regiment :
Colonel Hotchkiss, Colonel Hopeman, Colonel H. H.
Dean, Colonel G. L. Fort, Lieutenant Colonel McCalb,
Major S. B. Dean, Major Widmer.
Line Officers from this regiment to other regiments,
thirty-three (33).
11th Infantry (3 mos.)
Company K.
Captain Henry H. Carter, rank April 27, 1861. Mus-
tered May 23, 1861. Re-entered 3 years' service.
First Lieutenant jno. Dick, rank April 27, 1861. Mus-
tered May 33, 1861.
Second Lieutsnant Jas. Ireland, rank April 27,1861.
Mustered May 23, 1861.
First Sergt. N. C. Kenyon, e. April 30, 1861, m. O.July
25, 1S61.
Sergt. M. A. Wheeler, e. Apl. 30, '6i,m.o. July25,'6i.
Sergt. W. H. Ramsey, e. Apl. 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Sergt. Wm. Justice, e. April 30, '64, m. o. July 25, '61.
Corpl. T. H. Walrod, e. Apl. 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Corpl. E. O. Young, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Corpl. John Reavely, e. Apl. 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Corpl. Jos. Reavely, e. April 30, 1861, m.o. July 25, '61.
Musician Geo. A. P. Cumming, e. April 30, '61, m. o.
July 25, '61.
Musician Andrew Bennett, e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July
25, 1861.
PRIVATES.
Allen Cyrus, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 35, 1861.
Baldwin Henry, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Bryant Jesse, e. April 30, 1S61, m. o. July 25, i86x.
Bond John, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Bishop John A. e. April 30, 1861, m. O.July 25, 1861.
Belknap Wesley, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Beam Jacob, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Bane Jacob, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Booker Thos. J. e. Mays, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Buckley Patrick, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Bus ey Francis, e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Crawford D. H. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 186 1.
Cook Jabez,e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Castles Wm. J. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Clarke Jas. T. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Cheadles Wm. W. e. April 30,' 1861, m. o. July 25, '61.
Cratty M. P. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, 61.
Dunn John G. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Dunsmore Wm. e. April 30. '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Fritz Louis, e. April 30. *6i, m. o. July 25, '61.
Forbes Geo. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Flahive Thos. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Freebury Jas. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Fitzpatrick D. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Golden Jas. P. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Gilmore Benj. F. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Gibb Mitchell, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25. 6i.
Gloster John.e. April 30, '61, 111. o. July 25, '61.
Gleason M. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, 61.
Grant Jos. B. e. May 5, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Gunthern Samuel, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '6i.
Grows Jacob W. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Holland Nathan, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Houghton E. M. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Houghton R. B. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Hill Sol. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Humphrey Wm. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Hester Francis M. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Hunter Geo. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Hubbard H. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Holland John, e. May 5, i86i,m. o. July 25, 1861.
Helwick Jacob, e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Howard John, e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Jones Samuel, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 35, 1861.
Linn Addis L. e. April 30, x86x, m. o. July 15, 1861.
Locker Levi L. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Lane John A. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, '61.
Luce Wm. e. April 30, 61, m. o. July 25, 61.
Lewis H. J. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Marrow Jas. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
McPherson A. F. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '6i.
Moulton Jos. J. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Mansfield H. C. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 'fit.
Mcllany Henry H. e. Mays, '61, m. o. July 25, '6x.
Nevlon H. P. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Needles Geo. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Prisk Samuel, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Pearson John F. e. April 30, '6i, m. o. July 25, '61.
Palmer Wm. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Powell T. L. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Reavely Thos. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Ryan John, e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Simpson David, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Smith Arthur T. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, 61.
Shanklin Jos. e. April 30, 61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Smith Robt. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Snyder H. H. e. April 30, '61, m. o. July 25, '61.
Strope Wm. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Scannell Chas. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Strothern Chas. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Stoltz Geo. e. May 5, 1861 m. o. July 25, 61.
Shaw T. W. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Sullivan Chas. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Saddler C. W. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Smith Robt. Mc. e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Stone Joel, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Taylor Lorenzo, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. Ju.y 25, 1861.
Thompson Jesse, e. May 5, 1861. m. o. July 25, 1861.
Walrod Augustus, e. April 30, 1861, m. o. July 25, '61.
Wheeler W. H. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Weave Geo. A. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Wagner Chris, e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
Wood Jas. R. e. May 5, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861.
11th Infantry,
Colonel Wm. H. L. Wallace, com. May 1st, 1861, pro-
moted Brigadier General.
Colonel Jno. H. Coats, com. as Captain, July 30, 1861.
Promoted Major, Sept. 4, 1862. Promoted Lieuten-
ant Colonel, March 16, 1863. Promoted Colonel,
May 22, 1863. Promoted Brevet Brigadier General,
March 13, 1865, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel C. Kenyon, com. 1st
Lieutenant, July 30, 1861. Promoted Captain,
April 6, 1862. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Sept.
8, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Adjutant Cyrus E. Dickey, com. Aug 3, 1861. Promo-
ted Assistant Adjutant General.
Musician Jno. Buck. Promoted Principal Musician,
Oct. ao, 1864. Transferred to 46th Illinois Infantry.
Company K.
Captain Henry H. Carter, com. April 27, 1861. Killed
at Pittsburgh Landing, April 6, 1862.
Captain Henry C. Marshfield, e. as Corporal July, 30,
1861. Promoted Sergeant, First Sergeant, Second
Lieutenant, June 16, 1863. Promoted Captain
Sept. 8, 1864. Mustered out July 14, 1865.
First Lieutenant Thos. H. Walrod, com. Second Lieu-
tenant July 30, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant
Feb. 15, 1862. Dismissed June 16, 1863.
First Lieutenant Hiram P. Newland, e. as Sergeant
July 30, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant, Jan.
18, 1863, promoted First Lieutenant June 16, 1863.
Resigned July 6, 1864.
First Lieutenant Frank Rickard, com. July 6, 1864.
Mustered out July 14, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Levi W. Locker, e. as First Sergeant
July 30, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Feb.
15, 1862. Resigned Jan. 18, 1863.
Second Lieutenant Thos. Williamson, e. Sept. 1, 1861.
Re-enlisted as veteran Dec. 8, 1863. Promoted
First Sergeant. Promoted Second Lieutenant Sept.
8, 1864. Mustered out July 14, 1865.
Sergt. Henry L Lewis, e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Sergt. Jas. Morron, e. July 30, 1861, disd. Oct. at, 1863.
Sergt. Hamilton H. McAlany, e. July 30, 1861, disd. for
promotion May 1, 1863.
Corpl. Jas. B. Goldan, e. July 30, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Corpl. Aug. Walrod, e. July 30, 1861, m. o. July 29, '64.
Corpl. Wm. Lace, e. July 30, 1861, m. o. July 29, 1864.
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Corpl. Jno. W. Bond, e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15. 1862.
Corpl. Nathan Holland, e. July 30, 1861, deserted Oct.
15, 1862.
Corpl. Louis Fritz, e. July 30, 1861, disd. July 30, 1864.
term expired.
Corpl. Benj. F. Gilmore, e. July 30, '61, m.o.July 20/64.
Musician Jno. Buck, e. Aug. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
eran, trans, to non-comissioned taff.
Musician Wm. McCormick. e. Sept. 1, 1861, disd. as
Sergeant Sept. 6. 1864, term expired.
PRIVATES.
Alvord Calvin, e. Aug. 9, 1861, died Aug. 6, 1864.
Alvord Joel W. e. Sept. 1, 1861, disd. Aug. 16, '62. wds.
Buckley Patrick, e. July 30. '61, deserted March 6, '64.
Bungart Peter, e. Aug. 9, 1861, deserted Nov. 19, 1862.
Baker Martin e. Aug. 9, 1861, disd. Aug. 15, 1862.
Boggs Foster, e. Aug. 9, 1861, disd. Aug. 15, 1862.
Barton Wm. e. Aug. 9, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson, Feb.
15, 1862.
Conley Thos. e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Cadwallader W. H. e. Aug. g, 1861, trans, to 8th I. V.I.,
Dec. 4, 1863, m. o. May 4, 1866.
Cook Jabez, e, Sept. 1, 1861, m. o. Sept. 16, 1864.
Donelson Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1861, disd. Aug. 9, 1864, teim
expired, as Sergeant.
Drummond Jas. e. Sept. 1, 1861, died July 26, 1864.
Dunn Patrick, e. Sept. 1, 1861. disd. Aug. 15, '64, wds.
Fitzpatrick D. e. July 30, 1861, trans, to 8th I. V. I., as
First Sergeant, m. o, Oct. 5, 1865.
Frost Hiram, e. Sept. 1, 1861, disd May 26, 1862.
Glass Asher, e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Grant Jas. B. e. July 30, 1861,'m. o. Juh 29, 1864.
Griffin Morris, e. Aug. 9, 1861, trans, to 8th I. V. I. as
Corpl., m. o. Oct. 5, 1865.
Gonigs Thos. e. Sept. 1, 1S61, kid. at Ft. Donelson.
Gay Wm. e. Sept. 1, 1S61, prmt. Corpl., wds., sup-
posed died.
Holland Jos. o. July 30, 1861, prmt. Corpl., kid. at Ft.
Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Hubbard Henry, e. Aug. 9. 1861, died Sept. 8, 1862.
Johnson Chas. e. Ang. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet., died
Aug. 14, 1864.
Jones Frank, e. Sept. 1, 1861, kid. at Ft. ;Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Kenyon Wm. S.e. Aug. 9.'6i,disd. Aug. 9/64, term ex.
Knole Chas. e. Aug. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
McAdams, Wm. H. e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Ft. Don-
elson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Marks Albert, e. Aug. 9, 1861, died Nov. 22, 1861.
Miller Peter, e. Au8. 9, 1861, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Minnehair Patrick, e. Sept. 1, '61. deserted Jan. i8,'63.
Neadless Geo. e. July 30, 1861, trans, to gunboat serv-
ice, Feb. 1, 1862.
Nunan Theo. e. Aug. 9, 1861, prmt. Sergt. died. Aug.
13, 1862.
Pearson Jno. F. e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Patterson Jno. W. e. Aug. 9, i86i,kld. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Ricker Frank, e. Aug. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
R»ed Wm. H. e. Aug. 9. '61, disd. Aug. 9, '64, term ex.
Sadler C. M. e. July 30, 1861, died March. 26, '62, wds.
Stoltz Geo. e. July 30, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
Snyder H. H. e. July 30, 1861, drserted Oct. 1, 1861.
Speer Henry, e. Sept. 1, 1861, disd. April 23, 1863.
Serman Jas. e. Sept. 1, 1S61, disd. Aug. 13, 1862.
Surley Jos. e. Aug. 9, 1861, disd. Aug. 29, 1864, Corpl.
Smith Wm. e. Aug. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
Shannon Henry, e. Aug. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Schermerhorn R. e. Aug. 9, i86i,kld. at Ft. Donelson.
Seeman Jno. e. Sept. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
Shapley Chas. e. Sept. 1, 1861, m. o. Sept. 16, 1864.
Thompson L. M. e. Aug. 9, 1861, died Aug. 29, 1862.
Williams W. C. e. Aug. 9, 1861, died March 6. '62, wds.
Carter E, H. e. Aug. 9, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
VETERANS.
Buck Jno. e. Jan. 22, 1864, trans, to non-com. staff.
Castles Jos. e. Jan. 6, 1864, trans, to 8th I. V. I., Sergt.
Golden Jas. P. e. Dec. 4, 1863, m. o. May 27/65, Sergt.
Knoll Chas. A. e. Jan. 1, '64, trans, to 8th I. V. I.,
prmt. Sergeant, m. o. Oct. 5, 1865.
Lamb Patrick, e. Jan. 23, 1864, trans, to 8th I. V. I.,
m. o. May 4, 1865.
7K
Ricken Frank, e. Dec. 4, 1863, trans, to 8th I. V. I., as
First Lieutenant.
Stoltz Geo. e. Jan. 1, 1864, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Seaman Jno. D. e. Jan. 1, 1864, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Smith Wm e. Jan. 1, 1864, trans, to 8th 1. V. I. as
Corpl., m. o. Oct. 5, 1866.
Shannon Henry, e. Jan. 23, 1865, trans, to 8th I. V. I.,
m. o. May 4, 1866.
RECRUITS.
Beam Jacob, e. Sept 1, 1861, trans, from 109th I. V, I.
disd. Jan, 1, 1864, wds.
Castles Jos. e. Oct 20, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
Castles W. J. e. Oct. 20, 1861, Corpl., kid. at Ft. Don-
elson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Clark Isaiah, e. Oct. 1. 1861, died Nov. 20, 1861.
Dinsmore Wm. e. March 27, 1865, m.o. Sept. 2, 1865.
Gleason Jas. J. e. Dec. 5, 1864, trans to 46th I. V. I.
Lamb Patrick, e. Sept. 21, 1861, re-enlisted as veteran.
Minnihan Morris, e. Oct. 1, '61, deserted Jan. 18, '63.
Mahony Andrew, e. Oct. 1 1861, disd. May 2, 1865.
Miles A. T. e. Oct. 1, 1861, m. o. July 13, 1865.
Page Jno. e. Sept. 24, 1S61, deserted July 5, 1862.
Stoker Martin, e. Oct. 2, i86i,disd, Aue. 16, 1862, wds.
Vanderbilt Isaac, e. Oct. 1, 1861, died June 9, 1862.
Gunn Moses W. e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Hughes Wm. e. Oct. 5, 1864, m. o. Sept. 26, 1865.
Hanefin Wm. e. Oct 8, 1864, trans, to 46th I. V. I.
H gan Michael, e. Oct. 1, 1864, m. o. Julv 14, 1865.
Heisel Jno. M. e. Sept.^o, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Hockstatten H. e. Sept. 26, 1S64, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Madder Patrick, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Snow N. G. e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Black David.
Hall S. W. e. March 14, 1865.
Smith Leander, e. Dec. 26, 1863, deserted.
Thompson Andrew.
Wakefield Geo. W.
Warren Jas. e. March 1, 1865.
Company C.
Warren Jas. e. March 11, 1865, trans, to 46th I. V. I.
Company E.
Hileman Jno. H. e. March 15, 1865, trans. 46th I. V. I.
Company F.
Hays Fr ncis M. e. March 14, 1865, trans. 8th I. V. I.
Hitchcock Wm. e. March 14, 1865, trans. 8th I. V. I.,
m. o. Oct. 2, 1S65.
Phillips Wm. R. e. March 14, 1865, trans. 8th I. V. 1.
Stephenson Jasper, e. March 14, '65, trans. 8th I. V. I.
Company H.
Captain Wm. Duncan, com. First Lieutenant, July 30,
1861. Promoted Captain', Sept. 4, 1861. Mustered
out Oct. 22, 1862. Term expired Aug. 14, 1864.
Captain Lucius F. Alexander, enlisted as Sergeant Aug.
15,1861. Promoted 1st Sergt. Promoted 2d Lieut.
Sept. 4, 1862. Pro. 1st Lieut. Pro. Capt., Aug. 14,
1864. Honorably cjisd. May 15, 1865.
Captain Myrn D. Ayers, enlisted as Corpl. Aug. 15,
1861. Re-enlisted at Vet., Jan. 22, 1864. Pro.
Corpl., Sergt., First Sergt. and Second Lieut. Aug.
14, 1864. Pro. Capt. July 13, 1865. Mustered out
(as Second Lieut.) July 14, 1865.
First Lievtenant Wm. H. Justice, enlisted as Sergt.
Aug. 15, 1861. Pro. 1st Sergt., 2d Lieut. Sept. 4,
1862. Pro. 1st Lieut. Aug. 14, 1864. Mustered
Dec. 4, 1864. Dismissed July 12, 1805.
First Sergt. Chas. A. Beard, e. Aug. 15, 1861, kid. at
Fort Donelson.
Sergt. F. B. Merriman, e, Aug. 15, 1861, pro. 1st Lieut.
31st I. V. I.
Sergt. F. Daniel Mclsaac, e. Aug. 15, 1861, disd. Nov.
13, 1861.
Corpl. Geo. Olefield, e. July 30, 1861, died Feb. 15, '62,
wds.
Corpl. Jas. Wood, e. Aug. 15, 1861, died Apl. 14, '63.
Corpl. Jno. Champaign, e. Aug. 15, 1861, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Corpl. Roger Quinlick, e. Aug. 15, 1861, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Corpl. Cyrus Libby, e. Aug. 15, 1861, trans, to 8th I.
V. I. as 1st Sergt,
Corpl. Jno. McPhedron, e. Aug. 15, 1861, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Corpl. Win. S. Armstrong, e. July 30, 1861, disd. Feb.
6, 1863.
PRIVATES.
Avolt Christopher, e. Aug, 15, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Barker Geo. e. Aug. 15, 61. died N T ov. n, '63.
Bignell Jno. B. e. July 30. '61, trans. 8th I. V. I., Sergt.
Blodgett Tunis, e. Aug. 15, '6i, disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Burns Jno. e. Aug. 15, 1S61, disd. as Q. M. Sergt. for
promotion.
Campbell Wm. H. e. Aug. 15, 1861. trans. 8th I. V. I.
Corwin Henry, e. Aug. 15, '61, died Apl. 6, '62. wds.
Curtis Jno. e. Aug. 15, *6i, kid. at Shiloh, Apl. 6, '62.
Collins Henry, e. July 30, '61, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15 1862.
Clark has. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. July 17, '62.
Carter Jno. e. Aug. 15, '61, trans. V. R. C. Oct. 27, '63.
Dixon Chas. H. e. Sept. 2, '61, trans, to 20th I. V. I.
Oct. 20, 1861.
Dwyer Thos. e. Sept. 2, '61, died Oct. 28, '64.
Ewing Robt. e. Aug. 15, '61, died Nov. 16, '63.
Gothe Frederick, e. Aug. 25, '61, died June 22, "63, wds.
Green Geo. S. e. Sept. 6, '61, disd. Aug. n, '62.
Hinckley D. M. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Aug. 14, "64.
Hensler Valentine, e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Han?on Samu 1, e. Aug. 15, '61, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Hoover E. Z. e. Aug. 15, "61, disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Hanniford A. e. Aug. 15, '61, trans, to Sth I. V. I.
Hardten Frederick, e. July 30, '61, disd. for pro. in 53d
U.S.C I.
Haj wood Wm. e. Sept. 2/61, traVis. to Sth I.V.I. Sergt.
Lecky Winfield K. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Oct. 17, '61.
McMunn David, e. Aug. 15, '61.
Morrison J. Joshua, e. July 30, '61, m. o. July 24, '64.
Moorehead Chas. e. July 30, '61, m. o. Tuly 24, '64.
Meyer Tohn e. Aug. 15, '61, deserted Sept. 10, '61.
Marsh R. Jno. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. May 17, '62.
McKun Robt. e. Sept. 2, '61, disd. March 25,'63.
Osburn Wiles, e. Aug. 1 , '61, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, '62.
Panley Asa B. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. for pro. in U. S.
C.I.
Panley Edwin J. e. Aug 15, '61, trans, to Sth I. V. I.
as Corpl.
Rathburn E. R. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Ransom Jno. F. e. Aug. 15, '61. disd. Aug. 14, '64.
Snow Theo. e. Aug. 15, '61, kid. at Shiloh, Apl. 6, '62.
Smith Ira L. e Aug. 15, '61, kid. at Ft. Donelson, Feb.
15- '62.
Swap Geo. e. Aug. 15, '6i, died of wds.
Subert Martin, e. Aug. 15, '61. disd. Aug. 14, '64.
S uith Jno. e. July 30, '61, died Aug. 25, '63.
Tate Alonzo, e July 30, '61, trans, to Sth I. V. I.
Warren Horace T. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Aug 14, '64.
Wragg Adam, e. Aug. 15, '61, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb.
'62.
Yarnell Wm. e. Sept. 2, '61, died Sept. 5, 1864.
VETERANS.
Haywood Wm. e. Jan. 22, 1864, trans to Sth I. V. I. as
Sergt.
Hamley Brijan, e. Jan. 22, 1864.
Whipple Frank H. e. Jan. 22, 1864, trans, to non-com.
staff as Sergt. Maj.
RECRUITS.
Austin Chas. E. e. Oct. 3, 1864, disd. July 11, 1862.
Anderson Jas. e. Feb. 25, 1865, trans, to 46th I. V. I.
Acklin Geo. e June 13, 1864, trans, from Co. A ioqth
I.V. I., kid. Feb. "15, 1864.
Blanchard Jas. e. Feb. 28, 1865, trans, to 46th I. V. I.
Baird Jas. e Aug. 18, 1862, m. o. July 14, 1863.
Freeburg Jas. e. Aug. 18, 1862, trans, from 109th I. V.
I.,m. o. July 14, 1865.
Griffin Jos. e. Nov. 2, 1861, disd. Feb. 23, 1863.
Green Edgar H. e. Aug. 18, 1862. trans, to V. R. C.
Oct. 27, 1863.
Hanley Bryan, e. Oct. 5, 1862, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Humphrey Dennis, e. Aug. 18, 1862, m. o. July 14, '65,
as Corpl.
Hays Cameron, e. Oct. 17, 1861, trans, to 8th I. V. I.
Kuhn Wm. A.e. Aug. 29, 1862, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Lawless Jno. e Oct. 20, 1862, trans, to 46th I. V. I.
Mather Geo. e. Sept. 28, 1861, trans. Sth I. V. I. Sergt.
McGowan Michael, e. Jan. 2/62, died Feb. 4/64, wds.
McDermott Michael, e. Sept. 3, 1862. m. o. July 14, '65.
Muldom Barney, e Oct. 2, 1S62, trans, to 46th I. V. 1.
Picket Christopher, e. Sept. 28, 1861, disd. May 17, '62.
Powers Aaron F. e. Feb. 28, 1865. trans, to 8th I. V. 1.
Riley Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1861, disd. May 17, 1862.
Sewener Mathias, e. Oct. 3, 1861. deserted Aug. 16, '62.
StahlChas. e. Aug. 29, 1862, d ed Sei-t. 8, 1864.
Scott L vi C. e. Dec. 9, 1864. disd. Feb. 20, 1865
Sweney Eugene, e. Aug. 29, 1S62, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Whipple Frmk H. e. Dec. 5. 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
White Alex. B. e. Nov 13, 1862, pro. Corpl., trans, to
8th I. V. I.
Wright Geo. e. Nov. 13, 1861, kid. at Ft. Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
DRAFTED RECRUITS.
Grist Daniel H. e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 14. 1865.
Morgan \\ m. e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Powers C. P. e. Sept. 29, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Pearson Meridith, e. Sept. 29, 1864, m. o. Ju'y 14, '65,
pro. Corpl.
Ruder Jas. H. e. Sept. 29, 1864. m. o. July 14, 1865.
Spaulding W. S. e. Sept. 29, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Smith Jas. e. Sept. 29, 1864, m. o. July 14. 865.
Scott Edward J. e. S-pt. 26, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Whipple Eugene, e. Sept. 28, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Worthley Daniel, e. Sept. 28, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Company I.
First Lieutenant Wm. W. Taggart, enlisted as First
Sergeant Aug. 20, 1861. Promoted Second Lieu-
tenant, April 24. 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant,
Sept. 4, 1862. Resigned April 6, 1863.
First Lieutenant Hubert A. McCaleD, enlisted as Sergt.
Aug. 20, 1861. Promoted Second Lieut. Feb. 9, 1863.
Promote.! First Lieut. April 6, 1863. Promoted
Lieut. Col. colored regt.
Corpl. Albion G. Burnap, e. Aug. 20, 1861, di>d. July
20, i362.
Corpl. Wm. H. Fell, e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Aug. 18. '62.
PRIVATES.
Black Jos. H. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died March 5, '62, wds.
Baxter Erastus, e. Aug. 20, 1861, trans, to Sth 1. V. I.
Barnhart Muller. e. Aug. 20, 1S61, disd. Jan. 18, 1862.
Burgess Jos. e. Sept. 29, 1861, disd. May 2, 1862.
Fetter Ferdinand, e. Jan. 10, 1S62, disd. Nov. 28, 1863.
Graves Franklin, e. Aug. 20, 1861, died Aug. 21, 1862,
prisr. of war.
Haskins Wilson, e. Nov. 24, 1861, died May 1, 1863.
Hut-on Geo. e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Feb. 2, 1862.
Hutson Benj. F. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died Nov. 22, 1862.
Hinman Chas. D. e. Aug. 20, 1861, Corpl., kid. at
Vicksburg, July 2, 1863.
Iliff Chas. e. Sept. 25, 1861, died Nov. 21, 1862.
M<_-ntz Chas. e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. May 17, 1S62.
Robinson Samuel R. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died March 17,
1862, wds.
Sowards Isaac H. e. Aug. 20, 1S61, disd., wds.
Woodsoncroft David, e. Aug. 20, '61, m. o. Sept. 16, '64.
»
History of 12th Infantry.
The Twelfth Infantry was called into the service un-
der the proclamation of the President, April 6, 1861 ;
was mustered into the service for three years, Aug. 1,
1861. It was stationed at Cairo, 111., Bird's Point, Mo.,
Paducah and Smithland, Ky., until February, when it
embarked for Fort Henry, being present at its bombard-
ment and surrender. It fought nobly at the memorable
battle of Fort Donelson. Loss — 19 killed, 58 wounded,
10 missing. It then moved to Clarksville and Nash-
ville, Tenn., on steamer Glendale, and thence on some
boat down Cumberland River, and up Tennessee to
Pittsburg Landing, participating in that battle. Loss —
109 killed and wounded, and 7 missing. It was in the
siege of Corinth, and October 3d and 4th in the battle of
Corinth, where it performed a very brilliant part. Total
engaged — 225 ; loss — 17 killed. 80 wounded, and 15
missing. The Twelfth was constantly doing active
duty, but space forbids us to here follow in detail. It
marched across the country to Pulaski, Tenn.; it was in
Sherman's March from. Chattanooga tg Atlanta ; took
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an active part in the battle of Allatoona Pass, and was
there commanded by Capt. Robt. Kohler, of Rock
Island, although his term of service had expired. In
action — 161 ; loss — 57 killed and wounded. The Twelfth
was in Sherman's March to the Sea, and up through
the Carolinas to Washington and thence to Louisville,
where it was mustered out, July 16, 1865.
12t7i Infantry (3 mos.)
Company B.
Captain Phineas B. Rusk, rank April 29. 1861.
First Lieutenant Tyler Hale, rank April 29, 1861. Re-
entered 3-years' service.
Second Lieutenant Henry Stephenson, rank April 29,
1861. Re-entered 3 years' service.
Sergt. August Meisenback, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Sergt. Jarnell Higgins, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Sergt. B. W. Bagley, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Corpl. Jas. Day, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Corpl. Fred Ebersold, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Corpl. C. H. Simmerson, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Corpl. Geo. McLaughlin, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Musician E. Turner, m. o. July 12, 1861.
PRIVATES.
Avery Isaac, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Beezer Fred, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Bagley Alonzo, m. o. July 12. 1861.
Brown John, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Bergstresser Sam'l, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Campbell \Vm. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Cook A. L. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Carry Jas. A. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Colson Luman, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Coss Nicholas, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Destrewerg Lewis, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Dewey Jos. F. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Dodge H. C. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Dewey Chas. L. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Dibble Carmi. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Dougias Alex, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Frank Philip, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Gibbs H. C. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Geer Flenvng, m. o. July 12, 1861.
GraffC. F. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Gillitt D. J. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Herzog John, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Higgins Tyrus, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Hastings Chas. W. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Herrington B. K. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Henington Henry, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Hills Geo. H. m. o. July 12. 1861.
Irvin George, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Kramer John, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Knowel Elias, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Lineman Nathan, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Leonard E. F. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Lee Jas. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Liscomb Geo W. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Lamb Nemiah, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Miller Andrew, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Myers Darius, m. o. July 12, 1861.
McCIure Thos. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Moffat Spencer, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Manning J. Q. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Mitten John A. m. o. July 12, i86r.
McLaughlin E. C. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Murphy Madison, m. o. July 12, 1861.
McQuiston D. m. o. July 12, t86i.
Newell Thos. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Neff J. H. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Phillips Alex. m. o. July 12, 186 1.
Rudy Casper, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Ransbarger Geo. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Reeder David F. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Rodgers J. J. m. o. July 12, i86r.
Ray Chas D. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Spillman Geo. W. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Smith E. H. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Smith Allan, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Stinebaugh Geo. D. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Smith John.m. o. July 12, 1861.
Stone Isaac, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Scott David, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Strowe Chas. J. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Skiles John C. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Shioenham J. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Towner D. M. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Wallace Matthew, m. o. July 12, 1861.
Westgage D. W. m. o. Ju y 12, 1861.
Worseley Wm. N. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Wilbur D. A. m. o. July 12, 1861.
Wireman T. N. m. o. July 12, 1861.
12th Infantry.
First Assistant Surgeon Samuel M. Swan, com. Oct. 6,
1862. Promoted Surgeon mth Regiment.
Company B.
Capt. J no. Tyler Hale, com. Aug. 1, 1861. Killed in
battle at Fort Donelson.
Captain Henry S. Stephenson, com. First Lieutenant
Aug. i, 1861. Promoted Captain Feb. 16, 1862.
Resigned April 24, 1863.
Captain Justin D. Towner, com. Second Lieutenant
Aug. 1, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant Feb. 16
1862. Promoted Captain April 24, 1863. Resigned
Aug. 3, 1864.
Captain Thos. S. Moffat, e. Aug. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as
veteran Jan. 1, 1864. Promoted Captain Aug. 3,
1864. Mustered out July 10, 1865.
First Lieutenant Daniel J. Gillett, e. Aug. 1. i86r, as
Corporal. Promoted Second Lieutenant Jan. 19,
1863. Promoted First Lieutenant April 24, 1863.
Resigned June 23, 1865.
Second Lieutenant David A. Cook, e. Aug. 1, 1861 as
First Sergeant. Prom ted Second Lieutenant Feb.
16, 1862. Resigned Jan. 19, 1863.
Second Lieutenant Benj. West, e. Aug. 1, 1861. Re-
enlisted as veteran Jan. 1, 1864. Mustered out July
10, 1865, as Sergeant. Com. Second Lieutenant
but not mustered.
Sergt. Jos.H. Neff, e.Aug.1,'61, died or disd. Aug. 18, '63.
Sergt. I os. Lee, e. Aug. 1, i86i,kld. at Fort Donelson,
Feb. 15, 1862.
Corpl. B. K. Harrington, e. Aug. 1, 1861, m. o. July 10,
1865 as Sergt.
Corpl. Dan. A. Wilber, e. Aug. i,'6i, disd. Aug. 11/64.
Corpl. Theo. N. Wierman, e. Sept. 1. 1861, disd. Sept.
16, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Bankes Wm. e. Sept. 4, iS6r, died or disd. Sept. 26, '62.
Barrett Geo. e, Aug. 1, 1861, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Buffington Allen, e. Aug. 1, '61, died Feb. 27, '62, wds.
Cochran Jno. e. Aug. 1, 1861, died or disd. Feb. 22, '62.
Coss Nicholas, e. Aug. 1, 1861, died Oct. 16, 1861.
Dewey Russell M. e. Aug. 16, 1861.
Dodge Loren, e. Aug. 17, 1861, dropped from roll, ab-
sent over sixty days.
Donneley Robt. e. Sept. 9, 1861, m, o. July 10, 1865.
Dowd P. e. Aug. 1, 1861, m. o. July 10, 1865 as Corpl.
Eckert Jno. e. Aug. 1, 1861. died Nov. 15, 1861, wds.
Goodrich Wm. H. e. Sept. 14, 1861, disd. Sept. 25, 1864
Harrold Wm. e. Aug. 1, 1861, died or disd April 9, '62.
Harrington Henry, e. Aug. i,'6i, died or disd. Aug. 9*62.
Hawk Sam. e. Aug. i, 1861, disd. Aug. 11, 1864.
Higgins Tyrus G. e. Sept. 4, 1861, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Lamb Owen, e. Aug. 1, 1S61, died or disd. July 9, 1862.
Manning Jesse, e. Aug. 1, '61, died or oisd. Apl. 30. '62.
McLaughlen E. e. Sept. 4, 1861, disd. Sept. 16, 1864.
Messenger M. e. Aug. 23, 1861, died April 6, 1862, wds.
Mills Henry, e. Aug. 25, 1861, m. o. ) uly 10, 1865.
Marrow Andrew B. e. Sept. 1, 1861, died or disd. Aug.
7, 1862.
Murry Alex. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died June 11, 1862.
'Moffit Daniel \V. e. Nov. 1, '61, died or disd. July 19, '62.
Reynolds Shephard, e. Aug. 1, 1861, died or disd. Feb.
22, 1862.
Rogers J. J. e. Aug. 1, 1861, disd. March 24, 1864 to en-
list as Hospital Steward U. S. A.
Spencer Stephen, e. Aug. 28, 1861, missing at Fort Don-
elson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Stinebaugh Geo. D. e. Aug. 1, '61, died Apl. 24/62, wds.
Towner jno. e. Sept. 21, 1861, disd. Sept. 25, 1864.
Ward Lewis S. disd.
Warner A. B. e. Aug. 1, 1861, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Willsey Jno. e. Aug. 117, 1861, kid. at Fort Donelson,
Feb. 15. 1862.
Yockey Philip, e. Aug. 1, '61, died or disd. Feb. 22, '62.
IDS
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
RECRUITS.
Harrington H. e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 10, 1866.
Duncan Samuel, e. Oct. 21, 1864, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Duncan Jas. e. Oct. 21, 1864, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Furgerson Levi. e. Oct. 19, 1864, m. o, July 12, 1865.
Company D.
McVey Jesse R. e. Oct. 22, 1864, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Company H.
Crooker Lucien B. e. Aug. 4, 1861, deserted Aug. 6. '61,
Company I.
Corpl. Jno. B. Barrals, e. July 24, 1861.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Porter David H. e. Oct. 10, 1861, disd. July 4, 1862.
Reed Jno. F. 1. Oct. 10, 1861. disd. July 4, 1862.
Martin Thos. e. Oct. 15, 1861.
13th Infant)'!/.
The Thirteenth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was or-
ganized under the Ten-Regiment Bill, at Dixon, Illi-
nois, May 9, 1861. and mustered into United States'
service May 24, 1861. June i6;h, ordered to Casey-
ville, by rail ; July 6th, to Rolla, Missouri, by rail ;
October 10, 1861, ordered to Springfield, Missouri ;
November 10, 1861, ordered back to Rolla ; remained
during the winter in Rolla. March 6, 1862, marched
via Springfield, to Pea Ridge, Arkansas ; t'tence, via
Keitsville, to Batesville ; and thence to Helena. Ar-
kansas, arriving on the 14th of July, 1S62. July 9,
1864, regiment was consolidated with Fifty-sixth Illi-
nois Infantry Volunteers.
Company C.
Beebe Geo. H. e. May 24, 1861. On detached service
from Nov. 14, 1862.
Company E.
Corpl. Jas. R. Neir, e. May 24, '61, disd. April 22, '62,
disab.
Corpl. Robt. Skinner, e. May 24. '61. died Dec. 23, '63,
wds.
PRIVATES.
Atwood Geo. W. e. May 24,'6i. disd. Feb. i5,'68, disab.
Antol To:al, e. May 24, 1861, died July 30, 1863.
Boyles Philip, e. May it, 1861, died Feb. 5,1863.
Burbank Jno. e. May 24. 1861, di-d. Sept. 8, '63, disab.
Erickson Erick.e. May 24. 1861, m. o. lune 18, 1864.
Fox Francis M. o. May 24, 1861, m.o. June 18, 1864.
Grummon Judson, e. May 24. 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Hough Joshua, e, May 24, 1861, deserted May 1, 1862'
McNett Martin, e. May 24, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
McGilvery Paul D. e. Slav 24, '61, deserted Mch. 24,63.
Neer Jno. W. e. May 24, 1S61, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Root Riziner, e. M y 24, 1861, kid at Chickasaw Bayou,
Dec, 29, 1862.
Serene A. B. e. May 24, 1861, m. o. June 18, '64, Sergt.
Seaman Henry' J- e. May 24, 1861, kid. at Ringold, Ga.,
Nov. 27, 1863.
Sheridan Aaron, e. May 24,'6i,m. o. June 18, '64, Corpl.
Tripp Perry' G. e. May 24,1861, disd. Sept. 8, '6;, disab.
Trombla Daniel, e. May 24, 1861, disd, Dec. 3,'6i. disab.
Trowbridge S. H. e. May 24. 1S61, died April 28, 1863.
ValderOle H. e. May 24, 1861, prmt. Corpl.
Von Order Speed, e. May 24, 1861, disd. Sept. 20. 1861.
Wright Henry, e. May 24, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
RECRUITS.
Courtright Benj. B. e. May 25, 1861, m.o. June 18. '64
as Sergt.
Clemen« Louis, e. May 25, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
I larnell Thos. e. Aug. 25, 1861, died July 1, 1863, wds.
Hinkley E. C. e. May 25, 1861. m.o. Tune 18, 1864.
Henry Wallace, e. Aug. 25, 1861, died Sept. 16, 1861.
Hinkley Jared M. e. May 24, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864,
as Sergt.
Lanig Wm. e. May 25, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Morgan Geo. e. May 25, 1E61, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Quinhsk Patrick H. e. May 24, 1861, dishon. disd. April
21 , 1S63.
Reed Francis E. e. May 25, 1861, m. o. June 18,1864.
Swarthout Jno. R. e. May 24. 1861. d ed Aug. 3, 1863.
\ an Sickle Jno. e.May 25, 61, pris.war, m. o. June 8. '65.
Company K.
Suddock Robt. e. Jan. 1,64, trans. Co. I. 56th 1. V. 1
20th Infantry.
The Twentieth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was or-
ganized at Joliet, 111., May 14, 1861. Mustered into the
United States service for three years, June 13, 1861, by
Captain T. G. Pitcher. U. S. A. Left Joliet, June
18th, by order of Gov. Yatfs, and proceeded to Alton,
111.; July 6th, moved to St. Louis Arsenal ; io'.h, moved
to Cape Gerardeau ; 12th, Birds' Point ; October 17th,
Cape Gtrardeau ; 19th, Fredricktown ; and on the 20th
had an engagement with the enemy under Jeff Thomp-
son, victorious ; Jan. 14, 1862, accompanied Gen. Grant
on reconnoisance in Kentucky toward Columbus ; 20th,
returned to Bird's Point ; Feb. 2d, moved to Fort
Henry: 4th, occupied Fort; nth, arrived before Fort
Donelson ; was engaged in three days' battle ; arrived
at Pittsburg Landing, March 24th'; was engaged in
battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7tn ; left position before
Corinth, June 3d, arriving at Jackson 8th ; went to Os-
tenaula, Aug. 14th ; fought battle of Britton's Lane,
Sept. 1st ; returned to Jackson 4th ; left Jackson, N v.
8th ; arrived at LaGra >ge nth ; left Nov. 27th ; arrived
at Holly Springs 30th ; left Holly Springs, Dec. 1st ;
crossed Tallahatchie River 3d, and ; rrived at Oxford ;
returned to Tallahatchie River 24th Dec, 1862. Mus-
tered out July 16, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. Arrived at
Chicago July 19, 1865, for final payment and discharge.
Company D.
Brown John. e. Jan. 14, '65, sub, deserted July 3, '65.
Cooper Thos. e. Jan. 12, 1865, sub, m. o. July 16, 1865.
Murphy Sam'l, e. Jan. 14, iS65, sub. never reported
to Co.
Riley John, e. Sept. 27, 1864, drafted.
Swartz Aug. J. B. e. Jan. 13, 1865, sub. never reported
to Co.
Wilson John, e. Jan. 12, 1865, sub. m. o. July 16, 1865.
Company E.
Adock Wm. e. Oct. 20, '64, never reported to Co.
Company F.
Coburn Martin V. e. June 13, i86i,di>d. April 13, '62,
disab.
Brown Webster H. e. June 13, 1861, disd. Oct. 23, 1862.
Company G.
Jones Alonzo, e. Oct. 6, '64, drafted, never reported
to Co.
Company H
Captain Victor H. Stevens, t. as First Sergeant June
13, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 1, 1861.
Promoted Captain Nov. 16, 1862. Killed in battle.
May 12, 1863.
First Lieutenant Ira Blanchard, e. as Sergeant June 13
1861. Re-enlist d as veteran Jan. 5,1864. Com.
First Lieutenant April 20, 1865. Mustered out
July 16, 1865.
Sergt. Ira Blanchard, e. June 13, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 5, 1864. disd. June 8, 1865, disab.
Corpl. DeWitt C. Higgins, e. June 13. '61, kid. at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 15. 1862.
Corpl. Oscar B. I- hampney, e. June 13, '61, disd. July
31, 1862, wds.
Corpl. Moses L. Tullis, e. June 13, '61, disd. Nov. 20,
1861, disab.
Musician Michael Hogan, e. June 13, '61, disd. June
13, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Buck H. Noble, e. June 13, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, disd. Mch. 27, 1865.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
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Crane Solomon, e. June 13, '6i,disd. Nov. 6, '6i,disab.
Forbes Wm. e. June 13, '6x, died May 24, '63, wds.
Folsom N. B. e. June 13, 1861, disd. Jan. ig, .
Folsom H. J. e. June 13, 1861, disd. Aug. ir, '62, wds.
Gilmer Allen, e. June 13, 1S61, died Mch. 12, '^2, wds.
Hardy Sylvanus, e. June 13. 1861, rc-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 16. 1865.
Julian Thos. e. June 13, '61, disd. Nov. 20, '£1, disab.
Keep Jno. O. e. June 13, 1861, disd. July 23, '62, wds.
Milhken Oscar C. e. June 13, 1861, trans, to Signal
Corps, Sept. 7, 1863.
Molter Amos e. June 13, '61, disd. Sept. 9, '62, disab.
Mcfuson Alex. e. June 13, '61, drowned at La Salle,
111., Dec. 20, 1862.
Mundy Thos. e. June 13, 1861, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Palmei Geo. F. e. June 13, 1861, disd. June 13, 1864.
Robinson John, e. June 13, '61, died at Tonica, III.,
May 19, 1862.
Ross Norman L. e. June 13, 1861, disd. June 13, 1864.
Schous Henry, e. June 13, '61, died at Savannah, Ga.,
April 23, 1862.
Schrider John H. D. e. June 13, '61, kid. at Shiloh
April 6, 1862.
Slater Hugh E. e. June 13, '61, disd Mch. 17, '62, disab.
Walrath Aaron R. e. June 13, '61, re-enlisted as veteran
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 16, 1865, as Sergt.
Ward M. L. e. June 13, 1S61, disd. June 13, 1864.
Porter Albert, e. |an. 5, 1864, vet. m. o. July 16, 1S65.
Van Hoosen A. Duane, e. Jan. 5, '64, vet. m. o. July
16, 1865.
RECRUITS.
Eaton Francis S. kid. at Ft. Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
HillWm. C. e. Sept. 8, 1862, m. o. July 16, '65, Corpl.
Keep Reuben F. disd. Julv 23, 1862. wds.
Palmer Warren \V. trans, to bignal Corps, Sept. 27, '63.
Sherwood. Stephen, e. Aug. 12, '62, died at Springfield,
111., Sept. 24, 1862.
Wheeler Loyal E. e. Aug. 26, '62 m. o. June 5, 1865.
Kelley Martin, e. Sept. 30, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Moore Patrick, e. Sept. 26, 1S64, m. o. June 5, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Burck Michael, e. Jan. 21, 1865.
Cooper Edward, e. M. rch23, 1865, m. o. May n, 1865.
Dempsey Jos. e. Oct. 22, 1864.
Greenwood Jas. e. Jan 21, 1865, deserted Feb. 7, 1865.
Hammond E. P. e. Jan. 10, 1865.
LeRock Jas. e. Oct. 21, 1864.
McCuliflf David, e. Oct. 21, 1864.
Mott Walter, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. July 5, 1865.
•Sleezer Geo. M. e. Sept. 26, '64, died in Gen'l Hos-
pital, Nov. 13, 1864.
Simons Thos. e. Jan. 21, 1865, deserted Feb. 7, 1865.
Ward Daniel, e. Jan. 21, 1865.
Wademan Jas. e. Mch. 23, 1865, m. o. May^n, 1865.
23d Infantry.
The Twenty-third Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, was
organized at Chicago, 111., May 17, 1861. It was
known as the "Irish Brigade," and mustered into
United States' service by Capt. T. G. Pitcher, U. S.
A., June 15, 1861. July 14, 1861, moved to Quincy,
111., and thence to St. Louis Arsenal, Mo.; 21st, m. ved
to Jefferson City. In the month of August, expedi-
tions were made to Hickory Hill, Mount Pleasant,
Sed,alia and other points. Sept. 1st, moved to Lexing.
ton ; arrived gth, and commenced fortifying. On the
evening of the nth, the advance guard of the enemy
drove in our pickets. The garrison numbered 2,780
men. On the 12th, the enemy, 10,000 strong, under
Major General Price, with a battery of six guns, at-
tacked the works. Fierce fighting continued until
night, when the enemy were compelled to retire. On
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th, out-posts and detach-
ments were const.intiy engaged. At 8 o'clock, a. m.,
of the 18th, the enemy, 18,000 strong, with thirteen
pieces of artillery, assaulted the works. Without in-
termission, the battle raged day and night, until 4
o'clock P. M., on the 20th, when, without bread or
water, ammunition or hope of re-inforcements, Lexing-
ton was sui rendered. Killed and wounded of the regi-
ment, 107 men. Killed and wounded of the enemy, 800.
The regiment was paroled. Oct. 8, 1861, it was mus-
tered out of service at St. Louis, Mo., by order of
Major General Fremont. Dec. 10th, it was restored to
order of Major General McClellan. Recruited at
Camp Douglas, and guarded prisoners until June 14,
1862, when it moved to Harper's Ferry, Va ; 24th of
June, moved to New Creek, Va., where it built Fort
Fuller ; Sept. 1st, moved with orders to protect Clarks-
burg. Va.; 3d, advanced to Parkersburg. in each case
saving the towns threatened. Nov. 10, 1862, companies
B, D and K, Major Moore commanding, attacked Gen.
Imboden, on South Fork of Potomac, captured 40 pris-
oners, 16 head of beef cattle and several hundred hogs,
intended for the rebel army ; 26th of December, Major
Moore took command of the regiment ; Jan. 3, 1863,
moved at 10 o'clock p. m. A forced march of forty
miles in nineteen hours, to re-inforce Col. Washburne,
who was attacked by rebel Gen. Jones. The enemy
fled. April 3, 1863, assigned to Fifth Brigade, First
Division, Eighth Army Corps, Col. Mulligan com-
manding Brigade and Lieut. Col. Jas. Quirk, the
regiment. 25th of April, moved to Grafton ; same day
Co. G, Capt. Wallace, was attacked at Greenland
Gap, by Gen. Jones, at the head of 3,000 men, and,
after a fight of five hours, was captured and sent to
Richmond. April 26th, regiment engaged the advance
of Imboden's force at Phillippi ; April 28th, companies
B, F and I moved o Rowlesburg. to relief of Sixth
Virginia Infantry ; 29th, Co. K, Capt. Dan Quirk,
moving to aid of Federal forces at Fairmount, fought
enemy under Gen. Jones ; July 6th, regiment moved to
Hedgesville and Bock Creek, and was engaged in skir-
mishing with Gen. Lee's forces ; Aug. 16th, arrived at
Petersburg; Sept. 4th, engaged and routed the enemy
under Gen. Imboden, in the Gap, at Petersburg ; Sept.
nth, Co. I, Capt. Fitzgerald, attacked the rebel Capt.
McNeil, on South Fork ; Oct. 29th, regiment was
assigned to Second Brigade and Second Division, Dept.
West Virginia, Lieut. Col. Quirk commanding regi-
ment, Col. Mulligan commanding Division ; Nov. 8th,
moved to support Gen. Averill, who engaged the rebel
Gen. Echoles, at Louisburg ; 9th, moved to attack Im.
boden, who fled.
Mustered out July 24, 1865, at Richmond, Va.; arrived
at Chicago July 30, 1865, for final pay and discharge.
Lieutenant Colonel Sam'l Simison, com. as Captain
Co. D, June 15, 1861. Promoted Lieutenant Col-
onel, Sept. 6, 1864. Transferred to Field and Staff
as consolidated.
Quarter Master Thos. Hickey, com. 1st Lieutenant
Co. H, June 15, 1861. Promoted Quarter Master,
Ian. 26, 1862. Honorably disd. Aug. 29, 1864.
Hospital Steward Wm. Cooper, Nov. 20, 1861. Disd.
Dec. 14, 1864, disab.
Company D.
First Lieutenant Thos. McClure, com. June 15, 1861.
Term expired Aug. 2, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Jas. E. Hadson.com. June 15, 1S61.
Promoted Captain Co. D. 53d I. V. I.
Second Lieutenant Patrick Pillion, com. July 29, 1862.
Killed July 3, 1864.
First Sergt. Jno. H. Mills, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Sergt. Daniel W. Maltby, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Sergt. Geo. W. Rawson, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Sergt. Boyd D. Simison, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Ser_t. Wm. Wilson, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Corpl. David Costine, re-enlisted as Vet.
Corpl. Jno. Ward, m. o. June 18, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Arres Chas. failed to report at re-organization.
Ballou M. J. failed to report at re-organization.
Benlow Oscar, failed to report at re-oiganization.
Beal Abner F. failed to report at re-organization.
Beal Geo. H. failed to report at re-organization.
Butterfield Geo. L. failed to report at re-organization.
Burns Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Burnes Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Burk Jas. failed to rejoin Co.
Behel Miller F. pro. hergt. Major.
Carter Jno. T. failed to report at re-organization.
Carter Justus, failed to report at re-organization.
Clark Jno. M. failed to report at re-organ zation.
Dickinson R. H. failed to report at reorganization.
Davis Job, failed to report at re-orgamzanon.
Farrell Dennis, failed to report at re organization.
Felch Isaac N. failed to report at re-organization.
110
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Gillett Jno. A. failed to report at re-organization.
Hudson Jas. E. trans, to 53d I. V. I. Nov. 13. 1861.
Huston D. L. failed to report at re-organization.
Hyde H . H. failed to report at re-organization.
Heickle Geo. fail -d to report at re -organization.
Hoar Geo. W. disd. March 21, 1862, disab.
Hall Henry H. failed to report at re-organization.
Hallock Henry, failed to report at re-organization.
Hatch Chas. O. failed to report at re-organization.
Halverson H. F. failed to report at re-organization.
Knapp Chas. C. deserted Feb. 7, 1S62.
Kilborn Thos. failed to report at re-organization.
Kinslow Albert S. failed to report at re-organization.
Larkins Eugene, failed to report at re-organization.
Lenegham Michael, failed to report at re-organization.
Lagan Jas. failed to report at re organization.
Lacey Wm. disd. to join U. S. Cav.
Mother Samuel D. failed to report at re-organization.
Mitchell D. L. failed to report at re-organization.
McLaughlin J. K. failed to report at re-organization.
McCray A. A. failed to report at re-organization.
McGinnis Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
McGregor Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Moran David, failed to report at re-organizati n.
McGregor J. R. failed to report at re-organization.
Norton Warren H. failed to report at re-organization.
Norton William H. failed to report at re-organization.
Norton A. H. trans, to 4th 111. Cav., Co. I.
Olson Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Peters Jno. H. failed to report at re-organization.
Perkins C. W. failed to report at re-organization.
Palmers C. M. failed to report at re-organization.
Phillips Jno. W. faded to report at re-organization.
Perry J. B. failed to report at re-organization.
Perkins Orson, failed to report at re-organization.
Pine Russell D. failed to report at re-organization.
Price Richard C. died March 23, 1863.
Perkins Edson, failed to report at re-organization.
Ross Frank, failed to report at re-organization.
Rockaband Chas. failed to repo t at re-organization.
Root Oscar, failed to report at re-organization.
Roach Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Streeter E. H. failed to report at re-organization.
Scott W. D. disd. March 21, 1862, disab.
Scully Wm. died at Washington, D. C, Dec. 18, 1862.
Sickles Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Stowe Norman B. failed to report at re-organization.
Terry U. J. failed to report at re-organization.
Temple Jos. failed to report at re-organization.
Thomas E. E. failed to report at re organization.
Winslow J o. failed to rep >rt at re-organization.
Wright Jos. C. failed to report at re-organization.
Winslow L. W. failed to report at re-organization.
Williams Jno. failed 10 report at re-organization.
Williams Wm. M. failed to report at re organization.
Williams Harvej , failed to report at re-organization.
Wald Chas. failed to report at re-organization.
Wing Chas. failed 10 report at re-organization.
Watson C. failed to report at re-organization.
RECRUITS.
Agnew Frank, failed to report at re-organization.
Anderson Oley, e. March 14, 1862.
Blue A. J. e. Nov. 30. 1861 , failed to rejoin Co.
Bennett Abraham, disd. April 9. 1863 disab.
Bagley Wm. e. Jan. 20, 1862. dUd. July 24,1862, disab.
Brown Joel J. e. Feb. 22, 1862, deserted April 5, 1862.
Behel Levi E. e. Dec. 7, 1861, d >d. Aug. 6, 1862, disab.
Crittenden I. L. failed to report at re-organization.
Connor Thos. e. Dec. 24, 1 :^ 1 .
Cowans Jno. e. May 17, 1S62, re-enlisted as Vet., Mch.
8. 1864.
Galhgher John,m. o. July 24, 1863, re-enlisted as Vet.
March, deserted :unc4, 1864.
Gnver Lyman, tailed to report at re-organization.
Gussline H. J. failed to report at re-organizati n.
Gleason Dennis, e. Much 20, '62, deserted Apl. 28, '62.
Inrel John, e. Dec. 23, 1S61, disd. to join 1st U.S. Cav.
Kernan Jas e. April n, '6^, disd. to join 1st U. S. Cav.
Ketchum Eh M. e. Sept. 1, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Klakamp Martin, e. March 17, 1S62, Corpl., trans, to
Co. B consolidated.
Laird Wm. e. Dec. 24, 1862.
McKeel Jas. M. e. Nov. 28, 1861, First Sergt., disd.,
term ex.
McClure Jno. W., m. o. July 6, 1864.
McGraw Thos. e. Nov 24, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Mulford Wm. B. e. Dec. 10, 1S61, pro. Q. M. Sergt.
Phillips A. V. B. e. Dec. 14, 1861.
Phillips Mellville D. e. Sept. 1, 1862, m. o. June 13, '65.
Palmer Wm A. e. Jan. 22, '62, disd. July 28, '62, disab.
Reinhart J. R. e. March 17, 1S62, disd., term ex.
Skinner I. L. pro. to Principal Musician.
Tamfling H. S. e. Nov. 27, 1861, disd., term ex.
Williams Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Winters C. H. failed to report at re-organization.
Way Eli>ha, m. o. July 16, 1864.
Wickizer Wm. B.
Arnold Henry, e. Nov. 30, 1861, disd., term ex.
Bennett Chas. N. e. Dec. 7, 1861, disd. to join 1st U.
S. Cav.
Bennett Geo. O. e. Jan. 18, 1862. disd., term ex.
Kelly Phillip, e. Nov. 24, 1861, deserted Sept. 27, 1862.
Manin Jno. e. Dec. 28, 1861, kid. at Cumberland, Md.,
Feb. g, 1863.
Martin Geo. e. Jan. 7, 1862 deserted Aprils, 1862.
Pridegeon I. e. Nov. 30, i86r, re-enlisted as Vet., m.o.
July 24, r865.
Snydam Jno. H. e. Nov. 29, 1861.
Tourtellotte Abraham, e. L>ec. 7,.'6i, disd. Maj'29,'62.
Company F.
Captain David P. Moriarty, com. June 15, 1S61. Mus-
tered out Sept. 14, 1864.
First Lieutenant Lawrence Collins, com. June 15, 1861.
Mustered out tor promotion, Feb. 6, 1862.
First Lieutenant Patrick O'Kane, com. Second Lieu-
tenant, June 15, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant,
Feb. 9, 1862. Term expired Sept. 14, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Stuart S. Allen, com. Feb. 9, 1862.
Transferred to Co. E, consolidated.
Sergt. Owen O'Maley, m. o. June 19, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Atkinson Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Allen Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Barrell Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Burns Peter, failed to rep rt at re-organization.
Brener I no, failed to report at re-organization.
Carroll Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Cummins Jno. m. o. June 19, 1864.
Coughlin Thos. failed to report at re-organization.
Clemey Patrick, failed to report at re-organization.
Crow Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Cummins M. failed to report at re-organization.
Cox Jno. deserted June 12, 1863.
Conden Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Cronin Tim. failed to report at re-organization.
Daley Jas. m. o June 19, 1864.
Denning Abrahan. , failed to report at re-organization.
Doyle Patrick, failed to report at re-organization.
Fulton Samuel, failed to report at re-organization.
Fury Thos. failed to report at re-organizaiion.
Flanigan M. failed to report at re-organization,
Franzenberg Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Gorman Phillip, failed to report at re-organization.
Galovely Andrew, failed to report at re-organization.
Glynn Michael, failed to report at re-organization.
Hefferon Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Hays Bartholomew, failed to report at re- organization.
Hurly Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Johnson Robt. failed to report at re-i rganization.
Kelloo Patrick, re-enlisted as Vet. March 8, 1864, disd.
fur disab.
Kramer Peter A. failed to report at re-organization.
Keating E. failed to report at re-organization.
Kennedy Jas. failed to report at re-organization.
Lee Jas. re-enlisted as Vet. March 8, 1804, deserted
May 3r, 1864.
Landsdown A. fai ed to report at re-organization.
Lee Martin, failed to report at re-organization.
Martin Jno.
McCarty T. failed to report at re-organization.
McMahcn H. failed to report at re-crganiz ition.
Murphy Nicholas, failed to report at re-organization.
Murphy Daniel, failed to report at re-organization.
Meagher Andrew, failed to report at re-organization.
Montgomery Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
N eagle Jno. faded to report at re-organization.
X oner Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
f t'.Meara Patrick, failed to report at re-organization.
O'Donnell F. failed 10 report at re-organization.
Riley Wm. m.o. June 19. 1864.
Read Jeremiah, failed to report at re-organization.
Sevit Goodwin D. failed to report at re-organizat.on.
Smallman C. failed to report at re-organization.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Ill
Sullivan M. accidentally shot June 30, 186^.
Tobin \Vm. failed to report at re-organization.
Watson Wm. failed to report at re-oganization.
RECRUITS.
Bradley Jno. e. March 15, 1862, deserted Feb. 4. 1863.
Flinn Jno. e. Aug. 10. 1862, deserted Sept. 27, 1862.
Kennedy Jno. e. Feb. 2. 1862, disd. term ex.
McGrath P. deserted July 6, 1863.
McDonald Jas. wounded and captured July 24, 1864.
O'Kane Oiven, e. Feb. 2,1862, deserted June 4, 1862.
Raycraft Thos. failed to report at re-organization.
Young Wm. B. e. March 15, 1862, died at Grayville,
June 7, 1862.
Company G.
Meath Jno. deserted June 1, 1862.
Company H.
Captain Chas. Coffee, com. June 15, 1861. Term ex-
pired 1864.
Sergt. Jas. Mclnhill.
Sergt. Jas. McCheery.
Sergt. Edward Battle, re-enlisted as vet. March 8, 1864,
m. o. July 24, 1865.
Sergt. Geo. Marsh, disd. April 1, 1863.
Coipl. Jas. Mullanay, failed to report at re-organization.
Corpl. P. Rattigan, disd. April 1, rS63,dis<ib.
Corpl. Robt. I'udley, m. o. June 19, 1864.
Corpl.Jno. McCarty, failed to report at re-organization.
Corpl. Jos. Poland, deserted Feb. 9, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Besby Jas. re-enlisted as veteran March 8, 1864, died at
New Creek, Va., June 7, 1864.
Clark Jno. M. failed to report at re-organization.
Casey Wm. failed to report at re-crganization.
Coleman Michael, m. o. June 19, 1864.
Campbell John H. failed to report a' re-organization.
Cunningham T. failed to report at re-organization.
Connons Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Cornwell E. failed to report at re-organizati n.
Downey Edward, re-enlisted as vet. March 8, 1864,
deserted twice.
Deveroux Martin, in. o. June 19, 1864.
Deverney Chas. failed to report at re-organization.
Frebbs Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Flynn M. m. o. June 19, 1864.
Flood Bartholomew, failed to report at re-organization.
Filkins Henry, failed to report at re-organization.
Foley Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Greenly Jas. deserted Feb. 7, 1862.
Goodwin D. failed to report at re-organization.
Holloran Jno. failed to report at re-organization.
Kirk Hugh, failed to report at re-organization.
Moore Lyman, deserted Jan. 30, 1862.
McDonald Robt. failed to report at re-organization.
McAleer Win. failed to report at re-organization.
McClure Jas.W. re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 4, 1S64, Sergt.,
m. o. July 24, 1865, as private.
Mayers Win. failed to report at re-organization.
O'Rourke John, trans, to 53d I. V. I.
Pyncheonjas. disd. Feb. 18, 1863.
Ritter Geo. m. o. June 19, 1864.
Sheridan Jas. m. o. June 19, 1864.
Sheridan John, failed to report at re-organization.
Shea John, failed to report at re-organization.
Stanford E. G. deserted Feb. 9, 1862.
Shober Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Swift Walter, failed to report at re-organization.
Swift Bernard, fail :d to report at re-organization.
Taylor Wm. failed to report at re-organization.
Town Eugene, taken pris. at Lexington, Mo.,
RECRUITS.
Cooper Wm. prmt. Hospital Steward.
Herman David, disd. Jan., 1862.
23d Infantry consolidated.
Colonel Sam'l Simison, com. Captain Co. B, June 15,
1861. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Sept. 6, 1864.
Promoted Colonel, May 11, 1865, m. o. as Lieuten-
ant Colonel, July 24, 1865.
Adjutant Boyd D. Simison, com. May 19, 1865, m. o.
as private Co. B to date, July 24, 1865.
Company B.
First Sergt. Jas. M. Mekeel, e. Nov. 28, 1861, disd.,
term expired.
Sergt. Henry Arnold, e. Nov. 30, 1861, disd., term ex.
PRIVATES.
Bennitt Geo. O. e. Jan. iS, 1862, disd. term expired.
Connor Thos. e. Dec. 24, 1864.
Neville Henry, e. March 17, 1862, disd. term expired.
Snydam John H.e. Nov. 2j, 1861.
Phillips Walter M. e. Feb. 18, 1865, m. o. July 25, 1865.
Simison Boyd D. e. Feb. 18, 1865, m. o. July 24, 1865. \
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Clifton Wm. e. Jan. 6, 1865.
Rolphe Wm. e. Mch. 28, 1865.
Robertson Robt. e. Mch. 28, 1S65.
Samson Alex, e. Jan. 6, 1865.
24th Infant)'//.
The Twenty-Fourth Infantry Illinois Volunteers,
known as the " Hecker Regiment," was organized at
Chicago, Illinois, and 11 usiered into United States'
service, July 8, 1861, by Capt. T. G. Pitcher, and,
soon after, was ordered to Alton, Illinois. Leaving
Alton, it moved to St. Charles, Mo.; thence to Mex-
ico, Mo. Leaving Mexico, July 28, 1861, moved, via
St. Louis, to Ironton, Mo., where it remained u til 3d
Septen ber ; 4th, moved to Jackson; 5th, moved to
Fort Holt; 13th, moved, by rail, to Cincinnati, wilh
orders to go to Washington. Arrested by the accident
which befell the Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers, the
regiment remained at Camp Dennison, Ohio. Sep-
tember 29th, moved to Louisville, Ky. Next day to
Colesburg. Guarded railroad till Novnnber 30, when
it was assigned U) Eighth Brigade, Col. Turchin com-
manding. Moved to Elizabethtown. December 5th.
Remained until 22d, when marched to Bacon's Creek,
where it remained until February 10, 1862. February
10, 1862, Division marched upon Bowing Green — 8th
Brigade in advance. Arrived 14th, and rem ined until
24th. Marched to Nashville arriving February 27th.
Moved, March 18th, to Murfreesboro, and remained
until 51 h April, when the Division marched, via Shel-
byville and FayettevHe, to Huntsville. The regiment
left same evening, April n, and marched to Decatur,
from which the enemy fled, l-aving in our hands C. R.
and G. E. small arms and ammunition. From Deca-
tur, the regiment proceeded to Tuscumbia. Left Tus.
cumbia, April 22, 1862, and crossed the Tennessee ; en
route repulsed a charge of the enemy's cavalry, losing
some prisoners. April 30, returned to Huntsville. May
1st, marched to Athens ; from which place made sev-
eral excursions. May 26, inarched to Fayetteville,
Tenn. June 1st, marched across the Cumberland to a
place opposite Chattanooga. June 7, returned over
Jasper and went as far as Bellefonte. June n, went
back to Stephenson ; from thence to Jasper, Tenn.
Companies F, G and C had an engagement at Rankin's
Ferry, in which Captain Kovats and Lieutenant Ger-
hart and one man were wounded, and three missing.
From Jasper, regiment went to mouth of Battle Creek,
and remained until July n ; then to Tullahoma and
guarded railroad stations on the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga R. R. until September 7, w en it inarched with
Gen. Buel's army in pursuit of the enemy, and arrived
in Louisville, September 26, 1862. October 1st, marched
in pursuit of the enemy. Took part in the battle of
Chaplin Hills, near r'erryville, October 8, losing 25
killed, 77 wounded, 8 prisoners, and 2 missing. Octo-
ber 12, after the battle of Per-yville, returned, via
Crab Orchard, Lebanon, Glasgow and Bowling Green,
to Mitchellville, Ky., on the L. and N. R. R., where it
was stationed the remainder of the year.
Veterans and recruits were consolidated into one
company, known as Company A. Said company was
mustered out, July 31, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., and
arrived at Camp Butler, Aug. 1, 1865, for final pay-
ment and discharge.
Company A (new company).
Sergt. A. Gassensmidt,e. Feb. 12/64, m.o. July 31, '65.
PRIVATES.
Hertzel Gustave, e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865, as
Sergt.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Rose Henry, e. Feb. 23, 1862, m. o. April 23, '65, term
expired.
Schae<er E. e. March 1, 1862, m. o. April 23, '65, term
expired.
Schmidt os. e. March 1, 1862, m. o. April 23, '65, term
expired.
Company F.
Second Lieutenant Ernst Wilhelmi, e. Co. A. July 8,
1861. Promoted Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant
July 3, 1S62. Honorably discharged July 9, 1864.
Company H.
Captain Herman H. Hinz, com. Second Lieutenant Co.
I, June 16. 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant, I >ec.
1, 1861. Promoted Captain Co. H, Nov. 10, 1862.
Resigned Dec. 8, 1862.
Company I.
Captain Geo. W. Fuchs, com. First Lieutenant, June
16, 1861. Promoted Captain, Dec. 1, 1861. Re-
signed March 1, 1862.
Sergt. Albert Schaefer, e. July 8, 1861, disd. July 24,
1862, disab.
Sergt. Theo. Horn, e. July 8, 1861, disd, May 1, 1863,
disab.
Corpl. Leo Plene, e. July 8. 1861, deserted Sept., 1S62.
Corpl. Chas. Rohde, e. July 8, '61, disd. July 24, '62,
disab.
Corpl. Frank Kaiser, e. July 8, 61, capt'd at Chicka-
mauga, Sept. 20, 1863.
Corpl. Adam He>s e. July 8, '61, died at Kingston,
Ga., June 6, 1864.
Adam Simon, e. July 8, 1861, capt'd at Chickamauga,
Sept. 20, 1863.
Musician Carl Gregerich, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug.
6, 1864.
Musician Shrig or Ihrig, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug.
6, 1864.
PRIVATES,
Andrews Chas. e. July 8. 1861, disd. Feb. 13, 1862.
Berger Jacob, e. July 8, '61, kid. at Chaplin Hills, Ky.,
Oct. 8, .1862.
Brown Geo. B.e. ]uly 8, 1861, absent sick at m. o.
Burger F. e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, 1864, as Corpl.
Dietrich Martin, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6. 1864.
Fiedler Aug. e. July 8, 1861, disd. Oct. 13, 1862, disab.
Fischer Chas. e. July 8, 1861, disd. Aug. 9, 1862, disab.
Flick John, July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, 1864, as Sergt.
Frankenhaewser Chas. e. July 8, '61, disd Aug. io,'62,
disab.
Gerloff Fred'k, e. July 8, 1861, trans, to V. R. C. Nov.
15, 1863.
Hess John, e. July S, 1861, kid. at Chaplin Hills, Ky.,
Oct. 8, 1862.
Kamenich H. e. July 8, 1861, kid. at Chaplin Hills,
Ky.,Oct. 8, 1862.
Kein Martin, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, '64, Sergt.
Keller Conrad, e. July 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
12, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Krueger Julius, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, 1864.
Metzger Ernst, e July 8, 1861, disd. Feb. 3, '63, wds.
Mundt Edward, e. July 8, 1861. m. o. Aug. 6, 1864.
Meyr Valentine, e. July 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, '64, as
Corpl.
O'Rourke Barney, e. Julv 8, 1861, m. o. Aug. 6, 1864.
Purncker John, e. July 8, 1S61, m. o. Aug. 6, '64, First
Sergeant.
Reisen H. E. e. July 8, i86i,disd. May 15, '62, disab.
Reitz Gottfried, e. July 8, 1S61, kid. at Chickamauga,
Sept. 20, 1863.
Relinger Peter, e. July 8. 1861, died Oct. 20, '62, wds.
Recer Stephen, e. July 8, 1861, did. Jan. 12, '62, disab.
Rinck John, e. July 8, 1861, died at Chicago, Dec.
4, 1863.
Schwirtz Thos. e. July 8, '61, m. o. Aug. 6, 64, C.-rpl.
Tanzy John, e. July 8, 1861, deserted Jan. 1, 1863.
Temure Henry, e. July 8, 1861. m. o. Aug. 6, 1864.
Walofska B.e. July 8, i86i,disd. July 14, '62, disab.
Weber Fred'k, e. July 8. '61, died at New Albany,
Ind., Jan. 20, 1863.
Wiegett Jacob, e. July 8, 1861, disd. May 15, '62,disab.
RECRUITS.
Bichel Peter, e. Mch. 20, 1862, disd. Mch. 2, '63, disab.
Bertsch Geo. trans, to headquarters for assignment.
First Jos. trans, to V. R. C. Nov. 15, 1863.
Gassenschmidt Anton, re-tnlisted as vet. Feb. 12,1864,
m. o. July 31, 1865.
Glasser F. di-d. June 4, 1863. disab.
Herizel Gustave, e. Jan. 4, 1864, see new Co. A.
Rose Henry, e. Feb. 26, i862,see new Co. A.
Shaefe E. e. Feb. 1. 1862. see new Co. A.
Schmidt Jos. e. Mch. 12, 1862, see new Co. A.
Seely F. H. desened in 1862.
Haeberle Jacob, e. Mch. 27, 1865.
26th Infantry.
The Twenty-sixth was mustered into the X3 . S. ser-
vice with seven companies, at tamp Putler, 111.. Aug.
31,1861, and were ordered to Quincy, 111., to protect
thai place. Not being properly armed, hickory clubs
were substituted. Prior to Jan. 1st, three more com-
panies joined them, completing the organization. The
Twenty- sixth was stationed for a time at Hannibal,
Mo., and then at Commerce, where they were assigned
to Gen. Plun.mer's Brigade. Were engaged at New
Madrid, intercepted flying enemy from Island No. 10,
taking many prisoners. Joined expediti >n against Fort
Pillow. Returning proceeded up the Ohio and Ten-
nessee rivers to Pittsburg Landing. Was in siege of
Corinth. Was engaged at Farmington. Wasstationed
at Danville, Miss. \Vas engaged at Inka. Was at battle
of Corinth. Was in Holly Springs campaign. Thence
to Oxford, Miss. Did provost duty at LaGrange. Tenn.
Was at Qollierville, Tenn.. three months fortifying the
place and doing good service fighting guerillas. June
7, 1863, moved through Memphis to Haines' Bluff.
Regiment went into camp at Oak Ridge, where it staid
until after capture of Vicksburg. Followed the retreat-
ing forces of Johnson. The Twenty-sixth then
maiched across the country to Chattanooga. Was at
battle of Mission Ridge, losing over 100 men . Followed
the retreating foe. Then went to the relief of Burn»ide
at Knoxville. Returned to Bridgeport and thence to
Scottsboro, Ala. Jan. 1, 1864, of 515 men for duty, 463
re-enlisted as veterans. After veteran furlough, re-
turned to Scottsboro, and in May started on Atlanta
campaign. On mustering out of old officers, Capt. Ira
J. Bloomfield, of Co. K, was made Colonel. The regi-
ment followed Hood when he passed around Atlanta
into Northern Georgia. The Twenty-sixth was on
Sherman's great march to the sea, and through the
Carolinas. Participated in battle of Griswoldville,
taking of Fort McAllister, and battle of Bentonvjlle.
Marched from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Rich-
mond to Washington. Was transported by boat from
Petersburg, Va., to Louisville, Ky., and was mustered
out Julv 20, 1865, receiving final pay and discharge at
Springfield, 111., July 2Sth, and disbanded.
Company B.
Shaw John, e. Feb. 25, 1865.
Company E.
Captain Amos F. Jaquis, com. Aug. 15, 1861. Re-
signed Dec. 5, 1862.
Captain Jno. S. Lathrop, com. Second Lieutenant
Aug. 15, 1861. Promoted first Lieutenant Sept. 8,
1862. Promoted Captain Dec. 5, 1S62. Term ex-
pired Oct. 29, 1864.
First Lieutenant Azro C. Putnam, com. Aug. 15, 1861.
Resigned Sept. 8, 1862.
First Lieutenant Ralph W. Buchanan, e. as First Ser
geant Aug. 2, 1861. Promoted Second Lieu
tenant Sept. 8, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant
Dec. 5, 1S62. Term expired Oct. 29, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Adelbert Osborn, e. as Sergeant
Aug. 2, 1S61. Promoted Second Lieutenant Dec.
5, 1862. Resigned Aug. 9, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Louis Pruss, e. Aug. 2, 1861. Re-
enlisted as veteran Jan. 1, 1864. Com. Second
Lieutenant July 20, 1S65. Mustered out (as
Sergeant) July 20, 1865.
Sergt. A. F. Brown, e. Aug. 2, 1S61, disd. July 16, 1S62,
disab.
Sergt. Jno. C. Campbell, e. Aug. 2, 1861, as 1st Sergt.,
disd. Aug. 14. 1864, term expired.
Sergt. Jos. H. Pratt, e. Aug. 2, 1S61, pro. Com. Sergt.
Corpl. "Geo. W. Thomas, e. Aug. 2, '61, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 1, '64, m. o. July 26, '65.
Corpl. Felix Sigler, e. Aug. 2, 1861.
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Corpl. Francis Lothrop, e. Aug. 2, 1861, pro. Sergt.,
served 3 mos. nth 111., disd. Aug. 14, '64, term ex.
Corpl. Zemas Mitchell, e. Aug 2, '61, re-en isted as
vet. Jan. 1, '64, Sergt., killed it Atlanta, July 22, '64.
Corpl. Simon Thompson, e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug.
14, 1864, term expired.
Corpl. Chas. A. Mulador, e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at La
(irange, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1863.
Musician Wm. Hammond, e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at
Black River, Sept. 24, 1863.
Wagoner Jos. A. Brown, e. Aug. 2, 1861, deserted Oct.
4, 1862, now in Mississippi Marine Brigade.
PRIVATES.
Arthur Augustus, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Sergt.
Brown Isaac, e. Aug. 2, 1861, Corpl., killed at Mission
Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863.
Bardwell Silas W. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1. 1864, m. o. Julv 15. 1865.
Blain F. M. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Babcock Thos. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Babcock Chas. e. Aug. 2, 1861, pris. of war, m. o. May
15, 1865.
Bander F. e. Sept. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Cothrin D. e. Aug. 2, 1861, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Carmony D. S. e. Sept. 1, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Sergt.
Dinsmore Jno. J. e. Sept. 1, 1861, trans, to Miss. Brig.
Demming Thos. F. e. Sept. 1, 1861, m. o. June 2, 1865,
was prisoner.
Downing Jno. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Farmington,
Miss., June 3. 1862.
Ebersoll Albert, e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. May 24, disab.,
served 3 mos. in nth I. V. I.
Farrell Jno. W. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Floyd John, e. Aug. 2,ji86i, Corpl, disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
term expired.
Frank Jos. e. Aug. 2, 1861, missing June 3, 1862, re-
ported deserter.
Field Jos. C. e. Aug. 2, 1861, deserted Aug. 18, 1862,
in Mississippi Marine Brigade.
Green O. W. e. Aug. 2, 1861, wounded, disd. Aug. 14,
1864, term expired.
Green Jas. A. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
term expired.
Grody Lewis, e. Aug. 2, 1861, killed at Mission Ridge,
Nov. 25, 1863.
Hagenbuck R. C. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
term expired.
Hallen Frank, e. Aug. 2, 1S61, disd. Aug. 14, 1864.
term expired.
Hoxsey Henry, e. Aug. 2, 1861, killed at Mission
Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863.
Harder Geo. e. Aug. 2. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Corpl.
Hornick T. U. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Big Black
River, Aug. 12, 1863.
Hornick Jno. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, 1864, term
expired.
Hornick E. T. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Farmington,
Miss., May 20, 1863.
Ivers Chas. W. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Corpl.
Jefferson Thos. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, died April 17, 1864.
Kidd Jos. L. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, died Aug. 3, 1864, of wounds.
Kennedy Thos. A. e. Aug. 2, 1865, wounded, trans, to
Invalid Corps.
Kennedy Thos. e. Aug. 2, i86r, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Kain Jacob L. e. Oct. 13, 1861, disd. Sept. 16, 1S62,
disab.
Lundy Wm. e. Aug. 2, 1861, Corpl., disd. Aug. 14, '64,
term expired.
Leitch Jno. e. Aug. 2, 1861.
Lee Henry, e. Aug. 2. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Corpl.
Leonard H. M. e. Aug. 2, 1861, wounded, disd. Jan. 4,
1863, disab.
Leonard Jno. H. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
term expired.
Linfar Jno. e. Aug. 2, 1861, now in Mississippi Marine
Brigade.
Marshall E. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Danville, Miss.,
July g, 1862.
Mason Jas. M. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Hannibal, Mo.,
Nov. 6, 1861.
McGowan Wm. e. Aug. 2. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Norton Henry, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted, disd. Aug.
14, 1864, term expiied, served 3 mos. in nth I.V.I.
Patten David, e. Aug. 2, 1861, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Phillips M. V. B. e. Aug. 2, 1861, pris. of war, m. o.
June 3, 1865.
Phillips D. T. J. e. Aug. 2, 1861, killed at Farming-
ton, Miss., May 9, 1862.
Pruss Lewis, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-en'i>ted as vet, Jan. 1,
1864. m. o. July 20, 1865, as 1st Sergt.
Slutter Henry, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
26, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Sellich Chas. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Oct. 24, '62, disab.
Sellich Lewis, e. Aug. 2, 1861, died in the field, Oct. 3,
1862, of poison.
Shatland R. H. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
ti rm expired.
Shapland Christopher, e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. March 19,
1863, disab.
Shaw Henry, e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Nov. 27, '62, disab.
Stewart OrlofTas, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Shermic Jno. e. Aug. 2. 1861, died at Farmington,
Miss . July 16, 1862.
Taylor Wm. e. Aug. 2, 1861, disd. Jan. 15, '63. disab.
Tramer Hugh, e. Aug.2, 1861, disd. Aug. 14^64, term ex.
Thomas E. C. e. Aug. 2, 1861, died at Mound City,
Feb. 9, 1863.
Thompson A. 1). e. Aug. 2, 1861, Corpl., disd. Aug.
14, 1864, term expired.
Vreeland Geo. e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 26. 1865.
Vader M. H. e. Aug. 2,1861, now in Mississippi Marine
Brigade.
Vanmeter I. L. e. Aug. 2, 1861, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Ward Wickliff, e. Aug.2, 1861, disd. Aug.25, '62, disab.
Welty Jno. e. Aug. 2, 1861, Corpl., disd. Aug. 14, 1864,
term expired.
Wittich H. A. e. Aug.2, '61, disd. Aug. 14, '64, term ex.
Woodruff Alfred, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865, as Corpl.
Ward E. S. e. Aug 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Welch John, e. Aug. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, left sick, at Rome, Ga.
RECRUITS.
Hill Jas. e. Nov. 12, '61, wounded, deserted Jan. 15, '64.
Stewart Rudolph, e. Feb. 17, 1862, died at Hamburg
Landing, Tenn., May 5, 1862.
Young Robt. G. e. Feb. 11, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Company F.
Outcalt Lewis S. e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Company G.
Captain Joseph H. Pratt, e. as Commissary Sergeant.
Promoted Captain April 20, '65, m. o. July 20, '65.
33d Infantry.
The Thirty-third Infantry Illinois Volunteers was
organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, September, i86i,by
Colonel Chas. E. Hovey,and mustered into the United
States' service by Captain T. G. Pitcher, U. S. A.
September 20th, moved to Ironton, Mo., via St. Louis.
March, 1862, moved with the command of General
Steele, southward, passing into Arkansas at Pitman's
Ferry, and marching, via Pocahontas and Jackson-
port, to Batesville, where it joined General Curtis'
army ; thence, via Jacksonport, Augusta and Claren-
don, to Helena. Was engaged in the battle of Cache,
and in many skirmiahes. At the battle of Cotton Plant,
Co. A, on skirmish line, met and checked a charge of
2,000 Texan Rangers. During July and August were
camped 20 miles south of Helena, and engaged in eight
expeditions up and down the river. September 1st was
moved up the river to Sulphur Springs, and thence to
Pilot Knob, where it arrived the middle of October,
1862. November 15th, moved to Van Buren, Ark., in
Colonel Harris' Brigade, Brigadier General W. P. Ben-
ton's Division, of General Davidson's Corps. Made
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winter campaign in Southeast Missouri, and returned
to Bellevue Valley, near Pilot Knob, about March i,
1863. The Thirty-third was then ordered to St. Gene-
vieve, Mo., where, wiih the command, it embarked for
Milliken's Bend, La. Attached to the First Brigade,
First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, it was en-
gaged in all it battles, participating in the battles of
Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge,
assault and siege of Vicksburg, and the siege of Jack-
son. In August, moved to New Orleans, with the
Thirteenth Corps. In October, with Brigade of Col-
onel Shunk, Eighth Indiana, Major General C. C.
Washbur e's Division, and Major General E. O. C.
Ord's Corps, engaged in the campaign up the Bayou
Teche. Returned to New Orieans, in November.
Disembarked on St. Joseph Island, marched up St.
Jo eph Island and Matagorda Island to Saluria, par-
ticipating in the capture of Fort Esperanza. Thence
moved to Indianolaand Port Lavaca. January 1, 1864,
the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and March 14th
reached Bloomington. Illinois, and received veteran
furlough. April 18, 1864, regiment was reorganized at
Camp Butler, Illinois, and proceeded to New Orleans,
via Alton and St. Louis — arriving 29th, and camping
at Carrollton. May 17th, ordered to Brr.shear City,
Louisiana. Soon after its arrival, the regiment was
scattered along the line of the road, as guard. Sep-
tember 17, 1864, the non-veterans of the regiment were
started home, via New York City, in charge of rebel
prisoners, and were mustered out at Camp Butler,
about October n, 1864. March 2, 1865, ordered to join
the Sixteenth Army Corps. Near Boutte Station the
train was thro.vn from the track, and 9 men killed and
70 wounded. 18th, regiment embarked on Lake Pon-
chartrain, for Mobile expedition. Moved, via Fort
Gaines and Navy Cove, landed on Fish River, Ala.,
and marched with General Canby's army up east side
of Mobile Bay. March 27th, arrived in front of Span-
ish Fort, the main defense of Mobile, and, until its
capture, April 8th, was actively engaged. After the
surrender of Mobile, marched, April 13, 1S65, with the
Sixteenth Corps, foi Montgomery, Alabama, where it
arrived on 25th, and encamped on the Alabama River.
Here it received the news of Lee and Johnson's sur-
render, after which its operations were not of a hostile
character. May 10th, marched to Selma, and May
17th, by rail, to Meridian, Mississippi. Here re-
mained. Moved to Vicksburg, April 14, 1S65, and re-
mained at that place until mustered out of service,
November 24, 1865, and ordered to Camp Butler, Illi-
nois, for final payment and discharge.
Adjutant E. Aaron Gove, com. Second Lieutenant
Sept. 18, 1861. Promoted Adjutant Sept. 6, 1862.
Resigned June 18, 1864.
Company B.
Sergt. Frank Moray, e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Corpl. Wm. Martin, e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 11, '64,
as Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Aiken Mitchell, e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 11, 1864.
Bailey Wm. C. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Cross Edward R. e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Mch. 23, '63,
disab.
Hebbard Chas. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865.
Jacobson Lawrence, e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 1, 1864, disd. Oct. 18, '65, as Corpl. disab.
McCampbell Jas. B. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1S64, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865, as Sergt.
MeQuaid Preston, e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Feb. 22, '63,
disab.
Moore lustin O. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1864.
Porter Sam'l, e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Apr. 10, '62, disab.
Sipe Philip, e. Aug. 20, '6i. m. o. Oct. n, 1864.
Sharpe Thos. e. Aug. 20, '61, died at Cairo, Oct. 3, '6i.
Vanvanken Chas. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died at Ironton,
Mo., Jan. 2, 1863.
Wolf John, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865.
Wadleigh Chas. e. Aug. 20, i86r, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865, as Corpl.
Muir Archibald, e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865.
Steward M. L. e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865.
Way Virgil G. e. Mch. 29, 1864, m. o. Nov. 24, 1S65.
Company E.
Craig R. M. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Nov. 24, 1865.
Davidson John W. e. Oct. 31, 1864, m. o, Oct. 30, 1865
34th Infantry.
The Thirty-fourth Infantry was organized at Camp
Butler, Sept. 7, 1861, by Col. E. N. Kirk. Its first
movements were in Kentucky. Participated in battle
of Pittsburg Landing, losing very heavily. Was in
battle of Corinth. The Thirty-fourth marched to va-
rious points in central Tennessee. Had an engagement
at Triune, Battle of Murfreesbnro ; loss, 21 killed, 93
wounded, 66 missing, Gen. Kirk being mortally
wounded. It was then assigned to Twentieth Army
Corps. Had an engagement on Shelbyville Pike, June
24, 186^, capturing colors 01 Second Arkansas Infantry ;
loss, 3 killed, 26 wounded. After this the Regiment
was on the march in northern Alabama and central
Tennessee.
Mustered as Veterans Dec. 22, 1S64, and Jan. Sth
started for Springfield on Veteran furlough, after which
they returned to Rossville, Ga. Was mustered out
July 12, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. Received final pay
and discharge at Chicago, July 15, 1865.
Company C.
Clark GroverC. e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Coon Peter, e. April 5, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Greenlees Wm. A. e. Feb. 16. 1865, m. o. July 12, '65.
Hall Wm. H. e. April it, 1865. m. o. July 12. 1865.
Harney Daniel, e. April n, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Ketchum Walter, e. Aug. 15. 1862, m o. July 12, 1865.
Marcellus Chas. e. April 5. 1865. m. o. July 12, 1865.
McCormick Wm. e. Feb. 16, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Maloney Thos. J. e. April s, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Roller Geo. e. April n, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Vermott Geo. e. April 11, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Company E.
First Lieutenant Lawrence Kane, e. Sept. 24, 1861.
Re-enlisted as Veteran, Dec. 23, 1863. Promoted
First Lieut. Jan. 8, '65. Mustered out July 12, '65.
Deeds Jno. H. e. Oct. 1, 1861, disd.
Wheeler Samuel, e. Oct. 9, 1S61, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865, as Corpl.
Brown Matthew, e. Feb. 28, 1864. m. o. July 12, 1865.
Bell Jas. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Everett H. S. e. Feb. 19, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Merritt Jno. E. e. Feb. 12, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1861.
'1 urner Chas. H. e. Jan. 12, '64, m. o. July 12, '65, Corpl.
Williamson Jas. B. e. Jan. 12, 1864, m. o. July 12, '65.
Company I.
Lump jno. e. Sept. 7, 1861.
Corning N. R. e. March 19, r865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Gallup Andrew, e. Jan. 27, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Willis Leman, e. M'arch «, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Fiske Samuel A. e. Dec. 16, 1863, m. o. July 12, 1865,
wounded.
Fullerton T. C. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Gilham John C. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Hornbeck Newton J. e. I)ec. 16, 1863, m. o. July 12, '65.
Newell Jno. G. e. Dec. 16, 1863, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Company K.
Ascherman Balser, e. Nov. 25, 1863, m. o. July 12, '65.
Babcock Wm. C. e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Barmore Edwin, e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 12. 1865.
Bakendale S. D. e. Feb. 29, 1864. m. o. July 12, 1865.
Chambers C. W. e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865. ■■
Deck D. D. e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Everett E. e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
McAnnel Wm. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Ross Grant J. e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
36th Infantry.
The Thirty-sixth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was
organized at Aurora, 111., in Sept., 1861, by Col. Nich-
olas Greusel, and mustered into United States' service
by Capt. A. G. Brackett,U.S. A., Sept. 23, 1801. Sept.
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24th, ordered to Quincy, Til., by rail, and thence to St.
Louis, where the regiment was armed. 29th, moved to
Rolla. where the regiment remained until Jan. 14, 1862.
Marched to Lebanon. Remained until Feb. 10th ; en-
tered Springfield on the 13th ; proceeded to Benton-
ville, Ark., and were engaged in the fight there, March
6th. The regiment was engaged in the battle of Lee-
town, March 7th, and of Pea Ridge, Sth ; marched, via
Keitsville, Cassville, Cape F.-ar, Galena, Fnrsythe and
West Plains, Mo., and Salem, Ark., to Batesville, Ark.
Were there transferred to the Department of the Mis-
sissippi, and marched, under Gen. Asboth, to Cape
Girardeau, Mo. Embarked for Hamburg Landing,
Tenn., and were on arrival assigned to Gen. Pope >
command. On evacuation of Corinth, marched to
Booneville, and back to Rienzi, remaining until Sept.
6th ; moved to Cincinnati, via Corinth, Columbus,
Cairo, Odin and Seymour. Moved from Covington,
via Indianapolis, .to Louisville, and remained until
Oct. 1st, when it marched with Gen. Buell's Army,
1 .ilbert's Corps, Sheridan's Division, Col. Greusel's
Brigade, the regiment being commanded by Capt.
Silas Miller, via Bardstown and Springfield, to Perry-
ville, where it met the enemy. In this action, the
Thirty-sixth lost 75 killed and wounded. Moved
thence, via Danville, Lebanon, New Market, Cave
City and Bowling Green, to Nashville, near which
place it encamped.
The Brigade commanders have been Colonels Os-
terhaus, Greusel, Hansendifel and Knoblesdorf.
Division commanders, Generals Sigel, Asboth, Jeff C.
Davis, Gordon, Granger and Sheridan. Corps com-
manders. Generals Curtis, Pope, Granger, Gilbert and
McCook. Department commanders. Generals Fre-
mont, Hunter, Halleck, Grant, Wiight, Nelson, Buell
and Rosencrans. The Thirty-sixth Illinois was en-
gaged in the battle of Stone River, from Dec. 26, 1862,
until Jan. 2, 1863, coming out of the action with only
200 men. Say> Gen. Greusel : "My regiment is in a
crippled condition. Only ten officers are left. Nine
wounded and taken prisoner by the enemy, one killed,
and one mortally wounded." The Thirty-sixth, as ap-
pears from the official report of Lieut. Col. Porter C.
Olson, bore an honorable part in the battle near Chick-
amauga Creek, on the 20th and, 21st of Sept., 1863.
Sept. 19th, the regiment. Col. Miller commanding,
marched from Pond Springs to Gordon's Mills, a dis-
tance of ten miles, where it had an engagement, but
was compelled to fall back, on account of superior num-
bers. Marched to Rossville and encamped for the
night. 21st, in position and on the Chattanooga road.
22d, moved into Chattanooga. Mustered out Oct. 8,
1865, at New Orleans, La., and arrived at Camp But-
ler, 111., Oct. 17, 1865, for final payment and discharge.
Major Geo. G. Biddulph, e. as First Sergeant Co. F,
Aug. 10, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Mar.
25, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant July 14, 1862.
Promoted Adjutant Sept. 18, 1862. Promoted Cap-
tain Co. K Dec. 1, 1862. Promoted Major Dec. 12,
1864. Honorably k discharged (as Captain) Feb.
18, 1865.
Company A.
Denison J. C. e. Aug. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet, pro.
Hospital Steward.
Moore Jas. H. e. Aug. 8, 1861, disd. Aug. 28, '62, for
pro. to 71st I. V. I.
Deill Albert, e. Feb. 22, 1864, disd. June 5, '65, disab.
Deill Henry E. e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. Oct. 8, '65.
Shaw Francis F. e. Feb. 19, '64, m. o. Oct. 8, '65.
Samis Henry, e. Feb. 16, 1864, died at Nashville,
July 24, 1864.
Shaw Otis D. e. Feb. 20, 1864, Corpl., missing Nov. 30,
1864, supposed dead.
Foster Wm. H. e. Oct. 17, 1874, sub., m. o. May 18, '65.
Sowenson Soren, e. Sept. 29, 1864, died at Evansville,
Jan. 11, '65.
Company F.
Captain Richard H. Watson, e. Aug. 15, 1861. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant Feb. 24, 1863. Promoted
Captain May 5, 1865. Mustered out Oct. 8, 1865.
Sergt. I'hos. L. Bowen, e. Aug. 15, 1861, disd. June 9,
1864, as private, wounds.
Corpl. Bergo Thompson, e. Aug. 17, '61, re-enlisted as
vet.Jan.1,'64, disd. May 22,' 65, 1st Sgt, disab. wds.
PRIVATES.
Bastian Michael W. e. Aug. 14, '61, disd Oct.24.'6i,disab.
Coltrip Wm. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Mch.31, '63, wounds.
Curtis Wm. e. Aug. 15, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
'64, m. o. Oct. 8, '65, wounded.
Cotlew Wm. H. e. Aug. 15, '61, trans, to 4th U.S. Art.
Foster Jas. S. e. Aug. 14, '61, killed in battle Stone
River.
Hamilton Jno. J. e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Feb. 26, 1863,
sentenced to G. C. M.
Price Oren H. e. Aug. 15, '61. disd. May 31, '62, disab.
PletchWm. J. e. Aug. 14, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, '64, m. o. Oct. 18, '64.
Roots Geo. F. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Sept. 22, '64, term ex.
Roots Jno. H. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan!
1, 64, absent, sick, at m. o. of regiment.
Strait Emra, e. Aug. 15, '6r, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
'64, Sergt., sick, at m. o.
Strait Edward, e. Aug. 15, '61, died Jan. 23, '64, wds.
Smith Simeon L. e. Aug. 14, '61, disd. March 9, '63 as
Corpl., wounds.
Turner A. L. e. Aug. 10, '61, disd. Sept. 22, '64, term ex.
Walsmidth H. e. Aug. 16, trans, to 4th U. S. Art
Wangler Chas. e. Aug. 10, '61, killed in battle of
Stone River.
VETERANS.
Belden Lewis E. e. Jan. 1, '64, m. o. Oct. 8, '6=; as
1st Sergt. ■"
Curtiss Wm. H. e. Jan. 1, '64, m. o. Oct. 8, '6 S , wnd.
Hobbs Oscar P. e. Jan. 1, '64, Corpl., absent, s ck at
m. o. of regt. ' '
JOrd B^tt]e n0 ofF,-a e nk/in n - *' '*■ C °^ "**« ™<*
Roots Jno. H e. Jan. 1, '64, absent, sick, at m. o. regt
romlin Alfred, e. Jan. 1. '64, killed at Franklin, Nov
30, 64, Corpl. '
Friland Alex. N. e. Sept. 27, '64, m. o. June 14, '6 4 .
Price Lafayette, e. Sept. 30, '64, m. o. Tune 1^ 'fi/
Freeman M. W. Feb. 29, %, m. o. Oct. 8, '6?' 4 '
Verbach Jas. e. March 6, '65, m. o. Oct. 8, '6e'
Whitney F. A. e Feb. 29 '64, m. o. Oct. 8, '65.
Price Albert, e. Sept. 27, '64, died Ind. Dec. 2S, '64.
Company G.
Jam Sa J .: JuTe £% "' '<*< SUb " died at H ^vi„e,
Company H.
Se %TdL B b enj - H - " Aug - I4 ' l86r '~ disd - J*y **,
Burns Patrick, e. Oct. 2, '64, sub., m. o. Oct 8 '6=
Keith August, e. Oct. IO , '64, sub m o oAt R &
Trumbull Wm. W. e.Oct^^absen^cgt m.'o.regt.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Connor Thos. e. Jan. 5, 1865.
Fox Chas. e. Jan. 20, '65.
37th Infantry.
The Thirty-seventh Infantry Illinois Vni.. n *
was organized at Chicago, 111., r7y Co ! J° u i Jwhi te Tn
and two J h}j f° nS ' S i ed ° f ten Sanies of infant "
and two of Cavalry Sept. 10th, ordered to St. Lou. 7
Mo. A few days afterward, moved to Booneville from
thence to Otterville, and thence to Springfield -Z
Warsaw. Returned to Otterv.lle, under Gen Hunter
where it remained during the winter Ian 2! AZ"
£« plt£ ^ Ret ^'h* " d ^<^ *£ & e'of
tnat place. Returned to Cassv Ie. Tune 27 th
marched to Springfield. Sept. 29th, marched to New'
ton.a, and was present at that battle. Moved to Pea"
S'fcr 1 •M hel \ e - Via Hunt *ville and Osage Spring?
o h ayetteville, where it again routed the enemy Re
turned to Mar.onsville, Mo., and marched uf Ozark
and fifteen miles toward Hartsville, and, after camo
ing a few days, marched to Camp Lyon, Mo Soon
after, marched to the relief of Gen. Blunt, niarchine 1x2
miles in three days. Met, fought and defeated 5 he
enemy, who were greatly superior to us in numbers!
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LA SALLE . COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Camped at Prairie Grove, Ark. Total number of miles
marched, 2,250. Dec. 31, 1865, regiment stationed at
Columbus, Texas.
Q. M. Sergeant Geo. E. Griffith, e. Feb. 20, 1864. Mus-
tered out May 15, 1866.
Hospital Steward Hershell Smiley, e. Feb. 20, 1864.
Disd. June 14, 1865, disab.
Company A.
Garton Stampor, e. Oct. 1, i862,died at Carrollton, La."
Oct. 1, 1863.
Garton Thos. N. e. Oct. 1, 1862, m. o. Oct. 9, 1865.
Weisher Jos. e. Feb. 2, 1862, m.,o. Jan. 10, 1866.
Company E.
Captain Phineas B. Rusk, com. Aug. 20, 1861. Re-
signed Feb. 23, 1863.
Captain Henry L. Smith, e. as First Sergeant Aug. 20,
1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Mch. 9, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 18, 1862. Pro-
moted Captain Feb. 23, 1863. Died April 10, 1864.
Captain Jas. P. Day, e. as Sergeant Aug. 20, 1861.
Promoted Second Lieutenant, Nov. '8, 1862. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant Feb. 23, 1863. Promoted
Captain April 10, 1864. Mustered out May 15 '66.
First Lieutenant Orville Powers, com. Aug. 20. 1861.
Killed in battle at Sugar Creek, Mch. 7, 1862.
First Lieutenant Chas. W. Day. com. Second Lieuten-
ant Aug. 20, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant
Mch. 9, 1862. Resigned Nov. 18, 1862.
First Lieutenant Thos. H. L. Payne, e. as Corporal
Aug. 20, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Feb.
23, 1863. Promoted First Lieutenant April 10, '64.
Promoted Captain Co. C.
Second Lieutenant Milton Keech, e. Aug. 20, 1861. Re-
enlisted as veteran Feb. 10, 1864. Promoted Sec-
ond Lieutenant April 10, 1864. Mustered out (as
Sergt.) May 15, 1866.
Sergt. Thos. Newell, e Aug. 20, '61, died at Booneville,
Ark., Oct. 15, 1861.
Sergt. Henry L. Gray,e. Aug. 20, '61, First Sergt., died
Dec. 17, 1862. wds.
Sergt. Francis R. Jewell, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as
vet. Feb. 10, 1864, absent at m. o. of Regt.
Corpl. Albert W. Edwards, e. Aug. 20, 1861.
• Corpl. Fred Braunweld, e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Aug.
20, 1862, disab.
Corpl. Jonathan A. Ayler, e. Aug:. 20, 61, re-enlisted
as vet. Feb. 10, '64, as Sergt., m. o. May 15, 66, as
First Sergt.
Corpl. Andrew L. Swap, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as
vet. Feb. 10, 1864.
Corpl. Horac Liscom, e. Aug. 20, '61, m. o. Sept. 14,
1864, as private.
Sergt. James Carey, e. Aug. 20, 61, disd. June 23, 65,
prisoner.
Sergt. Chas. A. Osmer, e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Musician Sol. B. Smith, e. Aug. 20, i86i,disd. Aug. 15,
1864, term ex. ...'/-,
Musician John F. Most, e Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Oct. 4,
1864, term ex.
PRIVATES.
Ayler Henry, e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Aug. 20, '62, disab.
Ayler Wm. e Auff. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 10,
1864, disd. May 3, 1865.
Ayler Chas. W. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. *eb.
10, 1864, died July 22, 1864.
Allard Dan'l, e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. June 30, 62, disab.
Ashley Robt. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Austin P. J. e. Aug. 20. 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Barrett C. M. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Aug. 29, '62, disab.
Benjamin E. W. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Aug. 29, '62, disab.
Balcom E. W. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Jan. 14, '64, disab.
Brackett Wm. H. e. Aug. 20. 1861.
Carey Wm. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enhsted as Vet. Feb. 10,
'64, m. o. May 15, '66, as Sergt.
Caries Henry, e. Aug. 20, '61, died at Springfield, Mo.,
Oct. 17, '62.
Crew Alpheus, e. Aug. 20, 61, m. o. Sept. 20, 64.
Carpenter Jno. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. May 7, 62, disab.
Dodge F. B.e. Aug 20, '61.
Everett Carlos, e. Aug. 20, '61, re. enlisted as Veteran,
sick at m. o. of Regt.
Escott John, e. Aug. so, '61, m. o. Sept. 39, 64.
Fisher Henry, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb.
10 '64, m. o. May 15, '66. I
Freadenburg H. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb.
10, '64, m. o. May 15, '66.
Fluhrer Wm. F. e. Aug.20,'6t, disd. Oct. 4, '62, term ex.
Griffith B. L. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. May 7, '62, disab.
Griffith Geo. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb. 10,
'64, pro. Comsy. Sergt.
Grafin Isaiah, e. Aug. 20, '61, kid. at Pea Ridge,
March 7, '62.
Gordon Jno. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Aug. 29, '62, disab.
Grossart Fred, e. Aug. 20, '61, died near Smithton,
Ark., Oct. 27, '61.
Gluse Geo. e. Aug. 20, '61, kid. at Pea Ridge, March
7, '62.
Hornbeck Michael, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet.
Feb. 10, '64, m. o. May 15, '66.
Harlow Chas. P. e. Aug. 20, '61, died at Syracuse, Mo.,
Dec. 5, '61.
Horton Jas. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb. 10,
'64, m. o. May 15, 1866.
Jewell H. E. e. Aug. 20, 61, disd. Oct. 17, '62.
Keech Milton, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb.
10, '64, m. o. May 15, '60, as Sergt.
Kelly Edward M. e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet.
Feb. 10, '64, m. o. May 15, '66.
Kimball Henry F. e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. for disability.
Krenges Otto, e. Aug. 20, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb.
10, '64, disd. July 17, 1865, disab.
McNamana E. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died at New Orleans,
Dec. 6, 1864.
Miller Antoine, e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Morey Silas, e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Oct. 4,'64, term ex.
Myers Peter, e. Aug. 20, 1S61, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
10, 1864, died Nov. 15, 1865.
Moore Jno. W. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died at Lee Town,
Mo., March 16, 1862. wds.
Nelson Andrew, e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Neister Wm. H. e. Aug. 20, 1861, kid. at Pea Ridge,
March 7, 1862.
Osmer Nils. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Osmer E. B. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Powers Jno. e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. Jan. 14, 1864, disab.
Puterbaugh A. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
10, 1864, m. o. May 15, 1866.
Puterbaugh Philip, e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o, Oct. 4, 1864.
Parish Levi, e. Aug. 20, '61, disd. Sept, 29/64, term ex.
Printis )as. W. e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Quest Jno. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 10,
1864, m. o. Nov. n, 1865.
Reucher Jno. e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Roberts Geo. W. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 10, 1864, m. o. May 15, 1866.
Remington Jas. A. e.Aug. 20, '61 disd. Jan 2o,'62, disab.
Rose Ira M. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 10,
1864, prmt. First Lieutenant Co. C.
Smith Jos. S. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 4. 1864.
Scott Matthew F. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 4, 1864.
Smith E. H. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 4, 1864.
Stearns M. M. e. Aug. 20, '61. disd. Apiil 18/62, disab.
Savage Daniel, e. Aug. 20, 1861, kid. at Prairie Grove,
Dec. 7, 1862.
Snyder Conrod, e. Aug. 20, 1861, deserted Sept. 18, '61.
Sprowl Landric, e Aug. 20, 1861.
Smith Horace W. e. Aug. 20, 1861, Sergt. trans, to
Corps D'Afrique, Sept. 27, 1863.
Savage Jno. O. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died at Meredosia, 111.
Stevens S. M. e. Aug. 20, 1861.
Swedler Wm. e. Aug. 20, i86i,m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Von Ullman Jno.e. Aug. 20/61, trans. to Invalid Corps.
Winehamer Jno. A. e. Aug. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 10, 1864, m. o. Maich 23, 1866.
Worman Thos. F.e. Aug. 20/61, disd. Aug. 29/62, disab.
Wells Wilder E. e. Aug. 20, 1861, m. o. Oct. 4, 1864.
Bishop Silas e. Sept. 20, 1861, died Sept. 10, 1864.
Bishop Jno. A. e. Sept. 20, 1861, died at Cassville, Mo.,
June 18, 1862.
Baker A. J. e. Sept. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
10, 1864, deserted March 13, 1866.
Cooley A. G. e. Sept. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb,
10, 1864, m. o. May 15, 1866, as Sergeant.
Grain D. C. e. Sept. 20, 1861, m. o. Sept. 29, 1864.
Dixon Jno. A. e. Aug. 20. 1861, m. o. O t. 4. 1864.
Dodge Wm. e. Oct. 31, 1861, m. o. Nov. 26, 1864.
Kime Sebastian, e. Aug. 20, 1861
Liscom M. F. e. Jan. 4, 1864, disd. Mch. 5, 1864, disab,
Roof Chas. or Samuel, e. March 7, 1864, died at Mem-
phis, Oct. 24, 1864.
Smith Harrison, e. Sept. 1, 1862, m. o. June :o, 1865.
Veath Geo. e.Oct. 1/62, died at Vicksburg, Aug. 23,63.
Wilcox Jas. e. March 7, 1864, m. o. May 15, 1866.
Work Wm. M. e. March 7, 1864, m. o. March 9, 1866.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
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Company K.
Dixon Jno. P. e. Sept. 4, 1861.
Fallen Jno. W. e. Sept. 17, 1861.
Bailey Jno. m. o. Oct. 4, 1864, as Corpl.
Liscomp Martin F. e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to Co. E,
March 1, 1864.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Gough David.
Hewett Jno. S.
McFalls Chas.
Rust Chas. W.
Falladay Win. F.
39 th Infantry.
(YATES PHALANX.)
Was mustered into U. S. service, Oct. 13,1861, and
moved to St. Louis, Mo. October 29th, received orders
to move to Williamsport, Md., where it was fully armed
and equipped. The following are the most important
events in the history of this celebrated Regiment : Held
a force of 10,000 rebels under command of Stonewall
Jackson, for twenty-four hours. Participated in battle
of Winchester. Four companies under Major S. W.
Munn captured thirty prisoners at Columbia Bridge.
Was in Gen. McClellan's seven days' fight. Was at
Suffolk, Va., September, October and November, forti-
fying the place and making frequent raids, capturing on
one occasion two cannon and forty prisoners. Jan. 5, .
1863, broke camp and marched to Chowan River, where
it took transports and reported to Gen. Foster at New-
burn, N. C. Here its Colonel, T. O. Osborn, took
command of the Brigade. Moved on expedition to
Hilton Head. Was in Gen. Hunter's expedition against
Charleston. At Morris Island, was assigned to Gen.
Terry's expedition, and participated in capture of Fort
Wagner. Was first in the Fort. Left Hilton Head
on Veteran furlough, Jan. 1, 1864, via New York. Re-
turned 750 strong, and was on Butler's expedition up
James River, the entire loss being nearly 200. At
Wier's Bottom Church, May 20th, the Thirty-ninth
was ordered to dislodge the enemy, which it did most
gallantly, losing 40, but capturing many prisoners, in-
cluding Gen. Walker. On 16th of May, had an en-
gagement with Longstreet's command, losing some 35.
August 14th, crossed James River and operated with
Army of the James. On Aug. 15th, the Regiment lost
104 men, among them several valuable officers. Oct.
13th, in a charge, the Thirty-ninth lost 60 out of 250
engaged. March 27th, about 100 recruits joined. Took
part in movements that resulted in capture of Peters-
burg and Richmond. In engagement at Fort Gregg,
which was mostly hand to hand, the loss was 65 out of
150 engaged. For this gallantry Gen. Gibbon, their
commanding General, had a, magnificent brazen eagle
cast and presented to the regiment. After various ma-
noeuvres and surrender of Lee, the Thirty-ninth was
mustered out at Norfolk, Va., and received final pay
and discharge at Springfield, 111., Dec. 15th, 1865.
Company D.
Hunt Loam, e. Sept. 9, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.1,'64,
Corpl, wnd. Aug. i6,'64,and Apr.2,'65,des. Aug.3,'65.
Birkenbuel Henry, e. Dec. 25, '63, m. o. Dec. 6, '65,
as Corpl.
Bunker Nathaniel, e. Nov. 4, '62, died at Saulsbury
Prison, Jan. 25, '65.
Company G.
Second Lieutenant Jas. M. Harrington, e. as Sergeant
Aug. 9, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant July
20, 1862. Term expired Oct. 17, 1864.
First Sergt. Henry Green, e. Aug. 19, '61, re-enlisted
as vet. Jan. 1, '64, m. o. Dec. 6, '65, as Corpl.
Corpl. Jno. Crawford, e. Aug. 14, '61, disd. Sept. 23, '62,
disab. N
Corpl. Jno. Grose, e. Aug. 14, '6i,disd. Feb. io,'63, disab.
Company H.
Hornberger Geo. e. June 21, '62, m.o. June 20,'6s, Sgt.
Company K.
Captain Joseph Woodruff, com. Aug. 20, 1861. Died
of wounds Sept. 23, 1863.
CaptainAnd.W.Wheeler.e.as First Sergeant Aug. 14. '61.
Promoted Second Lieutenant March 15, '62. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant June 14, '62. Promoted
Captain Sept. 23, '63. Term expired Oct. 24, '64.
Captain Marion L. Butterfield, e. as Sergeant Aug. 27,
'61. Promoted Second Lieutenant, from First Ser-
geant, June 14, '62. Promoted First Lieutenant
Sept. 23, '63. Promoted Captain Oct. 24, '64.
Mustered out (as First Lieutenant) Dec. 7, '64.
First Lieutenant Donald A. Nicholson, com. Second
Lieutenant Aug. 20, '61. Promoted First Lieu-
tenant March 15, '62. Resigned June 14, '62.
First Lieutenant Daniel Sinouse, e. as Corporal Aug.
19, '61. Re-enlisted as veteran Jan. 1, '64. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant, from Sergeant, Oct. 24,
'64. Mustered out Dec. 6, '65.
Sergt. D. H. Slagle, e. Aug. 27, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 16, '63, sick at m. o. of regt.
Sergt. Heniy Fuller, e. Aug. 19, '61, disd. June 23, '62.
Corpl. Jas. Sanburn, e. Aug. 19, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, '64, Sergt., died Aug. 16, '64.
Corpl. Geo. Pollock, e. Sept. 3, '61, disd. July 18, '63,
disab.
Corpl. O. B. Bignall, e. Sept. 3, '61, disd. Aug. 11, '62,
disab.
Corpl. Wm. Maxton, e. Aug. 6, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, '64, m. o. Dec. 6, '65, as Sergt.
Corpl. Emery Stebbins, e. Aug.19,'61, disd. June 23, '62.
Musician J. B. Shaw,e. Aug. 14, disd. for disab.
PRIVATES.
Barber C. e. Aug. 14, '61, died at Weir Bot. Ch., Va.,
May 20, '6'4.
Bernes Jas. D. e. Aug. 14, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, '64. m. o. Dec. 6, '65.
Bedford Wm. e. Aug. 14, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.i,
'64, m. o. Dec. 6, '65, wounded.
Berget Lancet, e. Aug. 27, '61, disd. Aug. 7, '63, disab.
Collins Geo. e. Aug. 19, '61, died at Hancock, Md.,
July 14, '62.
Churchill John, e. Sept. 16, re-enlisted as a vet. Jan.
1, '64, m. o. Dec. 6, '65.
Drake Geo. e. Aug. n, '61, died at Cumberland, Md.,
July 20, '62.
Frink M. e. Aug. 19, '61, disd. July 23, '62.
Franks E. S. e. Aug. 14, '61, disd. Nov. 10, '62, disab.
Hubbard A. e. Aug. 14, '61, m. o. Sept. 10, '64.
Halligan T. e. Aug. 6, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1865.
Kepp John, e. Aug. 14, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, Corpl., died Nov. 5, '64, of wounds.
Kilmer Egbert, e. Aug. 14, 61, m. o. Oct. 26, '64.
Lalemer J. e. Aug. 14, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1865.
Marsh Lewis, e. Aug. 14, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, disd. Nov. 19, 1864, lost arm.
Morgan Chas. e. Aug. 27, 1861, disd. Aug. 26/62, disab.
Moore Jas. e. Sept. 3, 1861, re. enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1865, as Corpl.
Mick Parker, e. Sept. 10, '61, died at St. Augustine,
Fla., Nov. 14, '63.
Nichols Jos. e. Aug. 14, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
'64, Corpl., died May 19, '65, wounded.
Neel Daniel, e. Sept. 3, 1861, disd. Nov. 1, '62, disab.
Olmstead O. e. Aug. 19, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.i,
1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1865, wounded.
Oleson Jacob, e. Sept. 21, i8ji, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, sick at m. o. of regt.
Reed John A. e. Aug. 19, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1865.
Scullion Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1861, disd. July 18, '63, disab.
Sparks Eli, e. Aug. 6, 1861, m. o. May 21, '62, was pris.
Slater Geo. e. Aug. 27, '61, disd. Sept. 25, '62, disab.
Slater Wm. e. Sept. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Dec. 6, 1S65.
Stephenson J. D. e. Sept. 3, '61, disd. in 1862, disab.
Seaman A. M. e. Sept. 15, '61, died at home, June i8,'62.
Sellock Hiram, e. Sept. 21, '61, disd. Nov. 10. '62, disab.
Thompson H. V. e. Aug. 27, '61, disd. 1862, disab.
Thornell Johnson, e. Oct. 4, '61, disd. Mch.7,'63,disab.
Vanslet SamuT, e. Sept. 17, '61, disd. Nov. 10, '62, disab.
Wright Richard, e. Oct. 8, 1861, m. o. Oct. 8, 1864.
RECRUITS.
Butterfield Aug. e. Dec. 16, 1863, m. o. Dec. 6, '65.
Butterfield F. L. e. Feb. 4, '64, m. o. May 30, '65.
Bedford Peter, e. Feb. 24, '64, died April 9, '64.
Ferrence Anthony, e. Aug. 23, '62, m. o. June 20, '65.
Garrison John R. e. Feb. 20, 64, m. o. June 8, '65.
120
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Lee Orville T. e. Feb. 27, '64, m. o. July 7, '65.
Luce C has. E. e. Dec. 16, '63, m. o. Dec. 6, '65.
Massey L. S. e. Dec. ~ 6, '63, m. o. Dec. 6. '65.
Sparks J. B. e. Feb. 29. '64, disd. Ju_y 18, '65, disab.
Timm Chris, e. Dec. 16, '63. m. o. Dec. 6. '65.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Brown Simon, e. April 4, '65, m. o. July 8, '65.
44th Infantry,
Second Assistant Surgeon Thos. W. Forshee, com. May
25, 1863. Canceled and promoted First Assistant
Surgeon 88th Regiment.
Company A.
Second Lieutenant Jno. Fuchs, e. Aug. I, 1861. Re-
enlisted as veteian Jan. 1, 1864. Mustered out as
Sergeant, Sept. 25, 1865.
Corpl. Henry Becker, e. Aug. 1, 1861, disd. Dec. 8, 1862,
as Sergt. disab.
Corpl. Gottiried Xietzel, e. Aug. 1, "1861. disd. Feb.,
1863. as private.
PRIVATES.
Birkenbuel F. e. Aug. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. Sept. 25, 1865, as Sergt.
Backhaus Gottfried, e. Arg.1,'61. disd. Aug. i7,'62,disab.
Boeckling Adam, e. Aug. i,'6i, disd. Oct. 13, '62, disab.
Ermer Jno. e. Aug. 1. '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1/64,
kid. at Kenesaw Mt., June 27, 1864.
Fithian Mauthias. e. Aug. 1, 1861, kid. at Stone River,
Dec. 31, 1862.
Gruelish Gottleib, e. Aug. 1, 1861.
Hoss Adolph, e. Aug. 1, 1861, disd. April 3, 1863, disab.
Hei i.burgur D. A. e. Aug. 1, 1861.
Hermanns Hubert, e. Aug. 1, 1861, le-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, kid. at Kenesaw Mt., June 27, 1864.
Kerp Wm. e. Aug. 1, 1861, disd. Oct. 13, 1862, disab.
Krebser Andrew, e. Aug. 1, 1861, trans, to Co. E.
Kraus Franz, e. Aug. 1, 1861.
Lining Jos. e. Aug. i,'6i, kid. Stone^River, Dec. 31/62.
Laur Otto, e. Aug. 1, 1861.
Meier Jno. e. Aug. 1, iS6i,disd. April 8, 1864, disab.
Mueller Wm. e. Aug. 1, 1861, m. o. Sept. 17, 1864.
Meiers Martin, e. Aug. 1, 1861.
Reinmann Adam, e. Aug. i,'6i. m.o. Sept. 16. '64, Corpl.
Reith Jno. e. Jan. 1, '64, Sergt.,',kld. Franklin, Nov. 3o.'64.
Schwartz B. e.Jan.1,'61, deserted while on vet. furlough.
Vclk J no. e. Jan. 1, 1861, m. o. Sept. 25, 1865.
Weber Peter, e. Jan. 1, 1861, m. o. Sept. 25, 1865.
Stultz Paul, trans, to Regt. Band, Nov. 1, 1861.
Vogel Geo. died at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13, 1863.
Waldvogel Benedict.
Zabel Henry.
Ballinzifer Peter, e. Sept. 26, 1864. m. o. June 15, 1865.
Dornbush Henry, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Eisfeld Henry, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Haas Christian, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Riechart Peter, e. Sept. 30, 1864, m. o. June 15. 1865.
Riegel Michael, e. Sept. 30, 1864. m. o. June 15, 1865.
Schmeyer Henry, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Walber Wm. e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Company C.
Graham Jas. e. July 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, promt. Comsy. Sergt.
Gunt Geo. e. Aug. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. JaD. 1,
1864, disd. Jan. 12, 1865, disab.
Jenk. Jno. B. e. July 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, trans, to V. R. C, Oct. 28, 1864.
Company D.
Likes Lyman, e. Sept. 20, 1861, m. o. June 16, 1865.
Company E.
Engle Jno. 1. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Genther Nepomack, e. Sept. 27, 1861, m. o. June 16, '65.
Company G.
Pearson Amos, e. Feb. 23, 1865. m. o. Sept. 25, 1865.
Company K.
Vogel Geo. e. Aug. 1, 1861, trans, to Co. A.
Volk Jno. e. Aug. 1, 1861, trans, to Co. A.
Weber Peter, e. Aug. 1, 1861, trans, to Co. A.
Waldoogel B.e. Aug. 1, 1861, trans, to Co. A.
Zabel Henry e. Aug. 1, 1861. trans, to Co. A.
Johnson Peter, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 15, 1865.
47th Infantry.
The Forty-seventh was organized and mustered into
United States' service at Peoria, Illinois, August 15,
1861. It was at battles of New Madrid. Farminjjton,
Siege of Corinth, battle of luki, battle of Corinth,
Vicksburg, capture of Fort DeRussey, siege of Pleasant
Hill. In 1864, all but 100 of the Forty-seventh re-
enlisted. It was mustered out at Selma, Alabama,
January 21, 1866, and received final pay and discharge
at Springfield, Illinois.
Company C.
Musician M. L. Davis, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Oct. n,
1864, as Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Davis Jno. W. e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Oct. n. 1864.
Smith Philip T. e. Aug. 18, '61 m.o. Oct. n, '64, Sergt.
Taylor Jno. e. Aug. i8,'6i, died at Helena, Apl. 18,63.
Worthington Saml. H. e. Sept. 2o,'6i, m.o. Oct. 11, '64.
Company E.
Coffman H. H. e. Aug. 16, 1861, died at Lagrange,
Tenn., Dec. 20,1863.
Hinsey C. C. e. Aug. 16, 1861, m.o. Oct. n, 1864.
McCallen Jno. E. e. Aug. 16, '61, m. o. Oct. 11, 1864,
as Corpl.
O'Brien Henry M. e. Aug. 16, 1861, died at Young's
Point. July 4, 1863.
O'Brien Joel T. e. Aug. 16, '61, m.o. Oct. n, '64, Corpl.
Robison M. V. e. Aug. 16, 1861, m.o. Oct. 11, 1864.
Company H.
Payton David, e. Sept. 1, 1861, absent without leave at
m. o. July 15, 1865.
Company I.
Bane Ephraim, e. Sept. 14, '61, re enlisted as vet., Feb.
22, 1864, trans, to Co. C as consolidated.
47th (consolidated) Infantry
Company A.
Warren P. e. Sept, 29, 1864, disd. July 20, 1865, drafted.
47th (re-organ ixed) Infantry
Quarter Master Wm. M. Patton, com. March 22, 1865,
m. o. Jan. 21, 1866.
Company A.
Second Lieutenant Jos. P. Goodwin, e. Feb. 19, 1864.
Promoted Second Lieutenant May 19, 1865. Mus-
tered out Jan. 21, 1866.
Company C.
Kissinger Jacob, e. Oct. 5, '64, m.o. Oct. 4/65, term ex.
Company D.
Driscoll Dennis, e. March 7, 1865, m. o. Jan. 21, 1866.
Robison Wm. C. e. March 7, 1864, m. o. Jan. 21, 1866.
Company E.
Sennett Jno. e. Feb. 21, '64. died at Peoria, Ill.,Nov.2,'65.
Bright Henry, e. Oct. 3, '64, m. o. Oct. 2, '65, term ex.
Cahill Richd. e. Oct. 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 2, '65, term ex.
Gillott E. G. e. Oct. 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 2, '65, .term ex.
Company K.
Andrew Alonzo, e. Oct. 4, '64, m. o. Oct. 3/65, term ex.
Sheridan Peter, e. Nov. 4, 1864.
53d Infantry.
The Fifty-third Infantry Illinois Volunteers was
organized at Ott iwa, 111., in the winter of 1861-2, by
Colonel W. H. W. Cushman. On the 27th February,
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1862, moved to Camp Douglas, Chicago. 111. Ordered
to Savannah, Tenn., March 23d. Arrived at Shiloh on
the night of April 7th, and was placed in the Hirst Bri-
gade, Fourth Division, Brigadier General J. G. Lau-
man c mmanding Brigade, and Brigadier General S_. A.
Hurlbut comrranding Division. Engaged in the siege
of Corinth. Marched to Grand Junction, and. June
26th, to Lagrange. Thence vea Holly Springs, to
Memphis, July 21st. On the 6th of September, moved
toward Bolivar, arriving 13th. Then moved, Oct. 4th,
from Bolivar, and, on the 5th, engaged four times
their number of the enemy who were retreating from
Corinth. While crossing Davis' hridge, on the Hatchie,
a regiment from another state fled, breaking through
our lines in disorder ; but the Fifty-third moved prompt-
ly forward and formed line, and fought two and 1 half
hours, losing 10 killed and 49 wounded. Returned to
Bolivar, October 8th, and to Lagrange, November 4,
1862. On the 28th of November, moved southward,
with Gene' al Grant's army, to Cold Water, Holly
Springs. Waterford, Abbeville and Oxford, Miss., arriv-
ing at Yocona Creek, December 13th ; and on the 22d,
commenced the northward march toward Tallahatchie
river. January 1, 1863, the regiment was brigaded with
First Brigade. Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army
Corps, Colonel I. C. Pugh commanding Brigade; Brig-
adier General J. G. Lauman commanding Division, and
Major General J. B. McPherson commanding Corps.
Moved Irom Tallahatchie river and arrived at Moscow,
Tenn., January nth. Was transferred, wiih the Di-
vision, to the Sixteenth Army Corps (Major General
Hurlbut's), and remained during the winter. Moved
to Memphis, March nth, and. May 17th, embarked for
Young's Point. On 20th, moved to Haines' Bluff.
Went into position at Snyder's Bluff, and on the 25th,
joined the main army. Was actively engaged in the
siege of Vicksburg, being temporarily assigned to the
Thirteenth Corps, Major General E. O. C. Ord com-
manding. On July 5th, movtd with General Sher-
man's army against Jackson. On the 12th, was engaged
with the Third Iowa and Twenty-eighth and Forty-
first Illinois, in battle of Jackson. The Fifty-third
participated in'the gallant but disastrous charge of that
day, going into the fight with 200 men and officers, and
coming out with but 66. Colonel Earl fell, pierced with
four bullets. Lieutenant Colonel McClanahan was
severely wounded. Captain Michael Leahey and Lieu-
tenant George W. Hemstreet were killed, and Captain
J. E. Hudson mortally wounded. Captains Potter and
King wounded. Lieutenant Smith lost an arm and
was taken prisoner, and Captain Lodge was taken pris-
oner. The entire loss being 88 killed and wounded,
and 46 missing. A few days afterward returned to
Vicksburg, and was transferred to Seventeenth Army
Corps, Brigadier General M. M. Crocker commanding
Division. Moved to Natchez, August 18th. Re-
turned, November 30th, to Vicksburg, and camped at
Milldale. On the 1st of February, 1864, the regiment
having re-enlisted, was mustered as a Veteran organ-
ization, and, on the 3d, started on the Meridian cam-
paign, and, returning, arrived at Hebron, Mississippi,
February 29th. Left Vicksburg, March 131 h, and ar-
rived at Ottawa, 22d, where the men were furloughed
for 30 days Company I, having been consolidated
with Company E, in 1863, a new company was organ-
ized and assigned to the regiment. R joined the
Division at Cairo. General Y . P. Blair having been
assigned to the Corps, it moved up the Tennessee to
Clifton, and marched, -z'ia Decatur and Huntsville,
joining General Sherman's army at Allatoona, June
8th. The Second Brigade, O lonel George C. Rogers
commanding, was ordered to garrison that place. July
13th, ordered to Marietta, and, on the 17th, joined the
Division at the front. Was engaged in the siege of At-
lanta, and in the engagements of July 20th, 21st and
22d lost 101 men, killed and wounded — Captain Samuel
Haynie being among the killed. After a few days'
rest at East Point, moved, October 4th, in pursuit of
Hood, returning to Marietta, where the Second Brig-
ade was doing garrison duty, on November 6th. No-
vember 13th, moved to Atlanta, and, on 15th, com-
menced the Savannah campaign. Brigadier General
Giles A. Smith commanding Division, and Colonel B.
F. Potts commanding First Brigade, in which the regi-
ment was serving ; arrived at the fortifications of
Savannah, December 10th. Lost 4 killed and 6
wounded, in its advance on the works, and, on the
21st, marched into the city. January 4, 1865, the
Forty-first Illinois Volunteers — 222 men and officers,
Major Robert H. McFadden commanding — was con-
solidated with the Fifty-third, and, on the 6th, the
Division embarked for Beaufort, South Carolina, and
soon after moved to Pocotaligo. On January 29th,
commenced the Carolina c.impa'gn. Brigadier General
B. F. Potts commanding Brigade. Moved, via Or-
angeburg. Columbia, Fayetteville and Cheraw, partici-
cipating in the battle ot Bentonville, March 20 and 21,
1865, and marched to Goldsboro, Raleigh and Jones'
Station ; and, after Johnson's surrender, marched with
the army to Washington, and participated in the grand
review of May 24th. June 6th, moved to Louisville,
Kentucky, and, July 22d, was mustered out of service,
by Lieutenant Robert M. Woo s, \. C. M., and
moved to Chicago, Illinois. July 28th, received final
payment and discharge.
Distance marched 2.855 miles.
Distance by rail and steamer 4,168 miles.
Total 7i° 2 3 miles.
Col. Wm. H. W. Cushman, com. Sept. 23, 1861. Re-
signed Sept. 3, 1862.
Colonel Daniel F. Hitt. com. Lieutenant Colonel, Sept.
23, 1861. Promoted Colonel, Sept. 3, 1862. Re-
signed Jan. 2, 1863.
Colonel Seth C. Earl, com. Captain Co. F, Sept. 23,
1S61. Promoted Major, May 23, 1862. Promoted
Lieutenant Colonel, Sept. 3. 1862. Promoted Col-
onel, Jan. 2, 1863. Kil'ed July 12, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel Chas. H. Brush, com. Adjutant,
Nov. 26, 1862. Promoted Major, April 7, 1865.
Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, July 14, 1865. Mus-
tered out July 22, 1865.
Major Theo. C. Gibson, com. Jan. 1, 1862. Resigned
May 23, 1862.
Major Rolland H. Allison, com. Captain Co. B, Jan.
1, 1862. Promoted Major, Jan 2, 1863. Discharged
Dec. 26, 1864.
Major Elisba H. Stumph, e. as Sergeant Co. C, Oct. 21,
1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant, May 14, 1863.
Promoted First Lieutenant, April 13, 1864. Pro-
moted Captain, Nov. 11, 1864. Promoted Major,
July 22,1865. Mustered out (as Captain) July 22,
1865.
Adjutant Seth W. Hardin, e. Co. E. Oct. 15, 1861.
Promoted Adjutant, Jan. 1, 1862. Resigned Sept.
2. 1862.
Quartermaster Philo Sindley, com. Sept. 23, 1861.
Killed June 25, 1864.
First Assistant Surgeon Jas. O. Harris,' com. Nov. 1,
1861. Resigned Nov. 18,1862.
First Assistant Surgeon Henry Zeising, com. Jan. 31,
1865. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
Second Assistant Surgeon Festus P. Cleveland, com.
Nov. n, 1861. Resigned, 1862.
Sergeant Major Oran M. Bull, kid. near Atlanta, Ga.,
July 2, 1864.
Hospital Steward Thos. B. Stumph, m. o. July 22, '65.
Hospital Steward Stephen Cooper, pro. 2d Lieut. Co. I.
Prin. Musician Jno. R. Gilmore, pro. 1st Lieut. Co. I.
REGIMENTAL BAND.
Atherton A. G. e. Oct. 7, 1861, mustered out.
Atherton Chas. e. Oct. 7, 1861, mustered out.
Shaw Alfred, e. Oct. 7, 1861, mustered out.
Company A.
Captain Josiah 'B. Wright, com. Dec. 1, 1861. Dis-
missed Oct. 19, 1863.
Captain Wm. Armstrong, com. First Lieutenant, Dec.
1, 1861. Piomoted Captain, Oct. 19. 1863. Term
expired Dec. 28, 1864.
Captain Samuel B. Baldwin, e. as Sergeant, Oct. 11,
1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1861.
Promoted First Lieutenant, Oct. 19, 1863. Pro-
moted Captain, Dec. 28, 1864. Mustered out July
22. 1865.
Second Lieutenant Daniel Slattery, com. Dec. 1, 1861.
Honorably discharged, Oct. 1, 1862.
Second Lieutenant Jerome B. Raney, e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Re. enlisted as Veteran, Jan. 1, 1864. Promoted
Second Lieutenant, Dec. 28, 1864. Mustered out
July 22, 1865.
First Sergt. Wm. D. Price, e. Oct. I4,'i86i, kid. at Big
Hatchie, Tenn., Oct. 5, 1862.
Sergt. James McCleary. e. Nov. 1, '61, [trans, to Irish
Brigade, Feb. 14, 1862.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Corpl. Dennis Kesler, e. Oct. 25, 1861, disd. Nov. 10,
1864, as Sergt., term expired.
Corpl. Henry Jennings, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. Nov. 11,
1862, disab.
Musician Solomon H. Varney, re-enlisted as Veteran,
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Musicia ■ Fred'k Simmons, re-enlisted as Veteran, Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
PRIVATES.
Baird Thos. W. e. Oct. 19, 1861, disd. Nov. 10, 1864,
term ex.
Bunker Jas. e. Oct. 19. 1861, re-enlisted as Vet., Dec.
19, 1863, died March 21, 1865, wds.
Courtney T. L. e. Oct. 25, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
5, '64, m. o. July 22. '65, as Corpl.
Coffan F. M. e. Nov. 4, '61, disd. Dec. 16, '62, disab.
Court Daniel, e. Nov. 11, '61, disd. Dec. 17, '66, term
expired.
Forbes Arthur S. e. Nov. 5, '6i,?died at St. Louis, May
18. 1862.
Fickett Chas. e. Oct. 21, '61, disd. Feb. 17, '65. term ex.
Galkway S. E. e. Dec. 11, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
3, '64, m. o. July 22, '65, as Sergt.
Gibhart Henry, e. Dec. 26, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Dec.
22, '63, disd. April 10, '65. disab.
Granby Geo. W. e. Oct. 14, 1861, d»ed July 22, '64, wds.
Hoobler Jno. e. Oct. 25, 1861, died at Holly Springs,
Miss., Dec. 10, 1862.
Herbert Patrick, e. Oct n, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Howard Wm. C. e. Oct. 30/61, disd. Sept. 16/62, disab.
Holmes Henry, e. Dec. 23, '61, m. o. June 2, '65, as
Corpl., wounded.
Harrigan Jas. e. Dec. 3, 1861, died at Chfcago, March
24, 1862.
Jennings F. e. Oct. I2,"i86i, trans, to Invalid Corps,
Nov. 10, 1863.
Jakcson Geo. \V. e. Nov. 18, '61, deserted Feb. 16, '62.
Jones Francis, e. Nov. 5, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Jackson Wm. e. Nov. 16, 1861, deserted Aug. 2, 1862.
Kelly Patrick, e. Nov. 23, 1861, disd. Nov. 10, 1864, as
Corpl., term ex.
Kelly Thos. e. Nov. 30, 1S61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Kelly Jos. J. W. e. Nov. 30, '61, f died at Savannah,
Ga., April 14, 1862.
Kellogg Geo. E. e. Nov. 5, 1861 kid. at Jackson, Miss.,
July 12, 1863.
Kelly Wm. A. e. Nov. 30, '61, disd. Oct. 19, '62, disab.
Kostard J. F. e. Dec. 9, 1861, kid. at Jackson, Tenn.,
July 12, 1863.
Lock-wood Shubal, e. Nov. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Marsh Geo. e. Nov. 8, 1861, trans, to Irish Brigade.
McCashland J. R. e. Oct. n, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as First Sergt.
Moss J. T. e. Oct. 14, 61, disd. March 5. '63, disab.
Mclntyre Jas. e. Nov. 9, '61, deserted Jan. 17, '62.
Nettleton Geo. C. e. Nov. 1, '61, deserted Sept. 1, '63.
Norton Bina or Zina, e. Dec. 23, '61, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 4, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
O'Leary Jno. 2d, e: Feb. 15, 1862,' disd. 'March*26, '65,
term ex.
O'Leary Jno. e. Oct. 19, '61, disd. Nov. 10, '64, term ex.
O'Leary Michael, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. Nov. 10, 1864,
term ex.
Reed Franklin, e. Oct. 22,ji86i, died'at St. Louis, Aug.
12, 1S63, wds.
Reager Thos. e. Nov. 1, '61, disd. Nov. 10, '64, term ex.
Ryan Michael, e. Nov. 3, '61, deserted March 26, 1862.
Randall H. C. e. Dec. 26, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
1, '64, m. o. Julv 22, '65, as Sergt.
Sanderson Obed, e. Oct. 12, '61, died at Chicago, Mch.
23, '62.
Sanborn Francis, e. Oct. 12, '61, m. o. July 22, '65.
Shaul Levi, e. Oct. 14, '61, m. o. Dec. 2, 64.
Shaul Menzo, e. Oct. 17, 61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
5, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
Sigiler R' P. e. Oct. 12, '61. re-enlisted^as Vet. Jan. 5,
'64, deserted May 12, '64.
Smith Wm. G. e. Oct. 12, '61, Corpl., trans, to Invalid
Corps, Nov. 10, 1863.
Sigler LiJeman, e. Nov. 15, 1861, disd. Dec. 16,1864,
term ex.
Seipler Chas. e. Nov. 14, 1861, died at Memphis, Sept.
2, 1862.
Thomas C. H. R. e. Nov. 23, 1861, absent, detached, at
m. o. of Regt.
Tompkins Thos. e. Dec. 23, '61, disd. May 15, '62, disab.
Woodbury A. O. e. Nov. 4 '61, disd. Dec. 26, '62, di ab.
Woolsey S. L. e. Nov. 1, 1S61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
4, 1864, sick at m. o. of Regt.
Worth John. e. Oct. 17, '61, deserted Aug. 24, '62.
Worbs Hiram, e. Oct. 30, '61, disd. June 6, '62, disab.
Wyman Henry, e. Dec. 6, '61, disd. Jan. 1, '65, term ex.
RECRUITS.
Collins Jos. e. Feb. 19, '62, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 19,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Campbell John, e. Feb. 26. '62, disd. Dec. 16, '62,disab.
Doyle Michael, e. Tan. 14. '62, disd. Feb. 5,'65,term ex.
Deford Thos. e. Sept. 24, 1862, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Field Wm. B. e Feb. 25, '62, died Oct. 5, '62, wds.
Graham Niblock, e. Mch. 30, 1861, Corpl., died at Chi-
cago, May 31, 1862.
Hunt Aaron, e. Feb. 17, 1862, deserted Oct. 25, 1862.
Knee Aug. D. e. Feb. 18, 1862, died at Corinth, June
21, 1862.
Mathias John, e. Jan. 25, '62, disd. April 29, '62, disab.
Norman H. H. e. Feb. 24, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
25, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Reeder David, e. Feb. 18, 1862. re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
19, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1S65.
Reeder John F. e. Feb. 18, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
18, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Robbins H. P. e. /an. 4, 1802, died June 13, 1862.
Renne Watson, e. Mch. 25, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Smalley |as, e. Jan. 14, '62, disd. April 5, '63, disab.
Stone John, e. Jan. 22, '62, disd. May 15. 1862, disab.
Woodbury I. W. e. Jan. 13, 1862, died at St. Louis,
Mch. 26, 1863.
Woodbury Isaac, e. Feb. 4, 1862, re-er listed "as vet.
Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
Wakefield G. W. e. Sept. 10, 1862, m. o. May 23, 1865.
Company B.
Captain Jarvis B. Smith, com. Second Lieutenant Jan.
I, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Sept. 24, 1862.
Promoted Captain Jan. 2, 1863. Died Apr. 11, '64.
Captain Lewis N. Kennedy, e. as Sergeant Nov. 1, '62.
Promoted Second Lieutenant, Sept. 29, 1862. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant, Jan. 2, 1863. Promoted
Captain, April n, 1864. Resigned July 8, 1865.
First Lieutenant Seldon B. Griswold, com. Jan. 1, 1862.
Resigned Sept. 29. 1862.
First Lieutenant Chrk Haney, e. as Sergt. Oct. 21,
1861. Re-enlisted as veteran, Jan. 5, 1864. Pro-
moted First Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, April
II, 1864. Resigned April 6, 1865.
Sergt. David Mooney, e. Oct. 4, 1861, disd. Sept. 18,
1862, First Sergt., disab.
Corpl. Jesse Ready, e. Oct. 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. May 26, 1S65, as Sergt.
Corpl. Geo. B. or W. Campbell, e. Oct. 17, 1861, disd.
May 29, 1863, disab.
Musician John R. Gilmore," e. Oct. 15, 1861, prmt.
Principal Musician.
PRIVATES.
Adams Alonzo, e. Feb. 13, 1862, deserted May 16, 1862.
Baxter Ralph A. e. Feb. 13, 1862. m. o. Mch. 26, 1865.
Beckwith D. e. Oct. 14, , re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 3,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Baumgardner O. e. Dec. 4, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Cole Lyman U. e. Oct. 21, '61. re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865. reduced from First
Sergt. by his own request.
Connor H. B. e. Oct. 21, '61, disd April 25, '62, disab.
Cooper Richard, e. Dec. 12, 1861, kid. at Vicksburg,
June 25, 1863.
Dean Monroe, e. Oct. 23, 1861, disd, Mch. 1, '63, Sergt.
disab.
Englehardt J. J. e. Oct. 22,'6i, disd. June 24, '62, disab.
Fox Jos. W. e. Oct. 26, 1861, died at Savannah, Tenn.,
April 2, 1862.
Forbes Horace, e. Dec. 2, '6i,disd. Oct. 19, '62, disab.
Humphrey Jas. M. e. Nov. 9, 1861, died at Camp
Douglas, 111, Mch. 10, 1862.
Hodgson Albert, e. Dec. 6, 1861, kid. at.Matamora,
Tenn., Oct. 5, 1862.
Kidd Geo. W. e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Nov. 13, 1S64.
Larry John H.e. Oct. 19, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Geo. E. Walker
DECEASED.
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Murray John W. e. Nov. 1/61, disd. Dec. i6,'62,disab.
Montgomery [as. B. e. Nov. 16, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as First Sergt.
Neal Anthony I. e. Nov. 9. 1861, ra. o. Mch. 26, 1865.
Neal Jacob, e. Nov. 9, 61, kid. at Vicksburg, June
25, 1S63.
Narry Patrick, e. Dec. 8, '61, disd. Camp Dennison,0.
Smith Jos. e. Dec 1, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan 5. '64,
m. o. July 22, 1865.
Sherman Wm. e. Dec. 1, 1861, m. o. Dec. 31, 1864.
Talbot Enoch, e. Oct. 16, '61, kid. at Jackson, Miss.,
July 12, 1863.
Trenary Jas. H. e. Oct. 22, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
27, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1S65.
Underhill Jas. e. Oct. 8, '61, disd. June 16, '62, disab.
Yockey John, e. Nov. 1, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Dec,
21, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Yockey Chas. I. e. Oct. 28, '61, re-;nlisted as vet. Dec.
21, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Clark Aug. W. e. Jan. 3, 1864, prmt. Sergeant Major.
RECRUITS.
Barnhardt Miller, e. Jan. 14, 1862, disd. Oct. 21, '62, as
Corpl. disab.
Bumgarner A. B. e. Jan. 14, '62, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 15, 1864, m. o. July 22. iS6s,as Sergt.
Bryant J. M. e. Feb. 10, 1861, disd. Jan. 1, 1S65.
Bagby John, e. Feb. 25, 1861, died Oct. 7, 1 62, wds.
Barnes John, e. Feb. 29, '61, di-d. Jan. 25, '65, disab.
Davis Geo. W. e. Feb. 18, '61, disd. Aug. 31, '62, disab.
Flint C. A. e. Feb. ig, '62, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 20,
1864, disd. June 30, 1865, as Corpl.
Fellows Jos. B. e. Feb. 26, 1862, m. o. Feb. 8, 1865.
Hyling Chas.e. Mch. 10, 1862, m. o. Mch. 26, 1865.
Hallett Chas. e. Feb. 20, 1862, m.o. Mch. 26, 1865.
McKay Peter, e. Mch. 20, 1862, m. o. Mch. 26, 1865.
Morrison John W. e. Jan. 6, 1862, died at Bolivar,
Tenn., Oct. 22, 1862.
McGaffin Geo. e. Feb. 10, 1862, disd. April 7/63, disab.
Minard Henry H. e. April 15, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
McCulloch O. W. e. Feb. 20, 1862, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Parr Jesse A. e. Jan. 20, 1862, m. o. Feb. 8, 1S65.
Patterson Jas. L., e. Feb. 18, 1862, m. o. July 22, 1865,
was pnsnr.
Stumph Thos. R. e. Nov. 3, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, prmt. Hospital Steward.
Starkweather Elisha, e. Feb. 20, 1862, re-enlisted as
vet. Feb. 21, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Tuttle Pardon, e. Mch. 7, '62, trans, to I. C.,m. o.
Mch. 20, 1865.
Hough Lewis, e. Oct. 12, 1864, sub. never joined army.
Murphy Jas. e. Nov. 26, 1864, sub. never joined army.
Company C.
Captain Jos. E. Skinner, com. Jan. 1, 1862. Resigned
Nov. 15, 1862.
Captain Wm. F. Dewey, com. First Lieutenant Jan. 1,
1862, Promoted Captain Nov.^is, 1862. Commis-
sion canceled.
Captain Francis G. King, e. as First Sergeant Dec; 15.
1861, Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 15, 1862.
Commissioned Captain May 4, 1863. Term ex-
pired Nov. 11, 1864.
First Lieutenant Chas. B. Shouse, e. as Corporal Nov.
25, 1861. Re-enlisted as veteran Jan. 5, 1864. Pio-
moted First Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, Nov,
11, 1864. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Wm. B. Palmer, e. as Corporal Nov.
4, 1861. Re. enlisted as veteran Jan. 5, 1S64. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant Nov. 11, 1864. Mustered
out July 22, 1865.
First Sergt. Bruce McCormick, e. Nov. 6, 1861, m. o.
July 22, 1865 as private.
Sergt. Villeroy A. Tambling, Oct. 21, 1861, re-enlisted
as veteran Jan. 2, 1864, First .Sergeant, disd. Nov.
1, 1S64, to accept promotion as Second Lieutenant
Co. G, 16th U. S. C. I.
Sergt. Chas. E. Wing, e. Oct. 26, 1861, disd. Oct 20,
1862, disab.
Corpl. Stephen Cooper, e. Dec. 3, 1861, prmt. Hospital
Steward.
Corpl. Jas. Hays, e. Nov. 9, '61, disd. April 11, '63, wds.
Co.pl. 01eJ.Johnson,e. Nov. 25, '61, deserted Aug,i8'62.
Corpl. Mathias Hartman, e. e. Dec. 7, 1861, te enlisted
as veteran Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Corpl. Patrick Jones, e. Dec. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as
veteran, Jan. 5, 1864, m.o. July 22, 1S65.
Corpl. Edw'd R. Hutton, e. Jan. 1, 1862, disd. Dec. 4,
1863, wds.
8^
Musician Henry Reed, e. Oct. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 3, 1864 m. o. fuly 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Musician Alfred J. Doolittle, e. Oct. 26, 1861, re-enlist,
ed as vet. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Wagoner Hiram Wright, e. Nov. 6, 1861, deserted Aug.
18, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Abel Henry, e. Jan. 4, 1862, died at Pittsburg Land-
ing, Tenn., April 12, 1862.
Anderson Ole 0. e. Jan. 6, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, kid. Jan. 26, 1865, by guerillas.
Brown Henry, e. Feb. 1, 1862, disd. Oct. 20, '62, disab,
Clark Wm. D. e. Oct. 21. 1861, trans, to. Reg. Band.
Churchill F. e.Nov. 22, '61, died at Corinth, June 18, '62.
Churchill Geo. e. Nov. 21, '61, disd. Oct. 20, '62, disab.
Clark Lemuel B. e. Dec. 3, '61, died July 20, '63, wds.
Dolan Barney, e. Nov. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, deserted April 25, 1865.
Drake Jas. H. e. Dec. 27, '61. m.o. Dec. 30/64, term ex.
Flood Jas. e. Dec. 21, 1861, disd. Dec. 21, 1865.
Field Cyrus, e. Nov. 23, '61, disd. June 19/62, old age.
Franklin Thos. e. Nov. 23, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Fillmore Jno. e. Nov. 23, '61, disd. Dec. 6, '62, disab.
Fillmore Wm. e. Jan. 19, 1862, deserted Aug. 1, 1862.
Grant Orrin B. e. Nov. 25, 1861, m. o. Feb. 7, 1865.
Hattis Eber, e. Feb. 17, 1862, disd. Aug. 1S62, disab.
Hensler A. e. Dec. 15, '6i, re-enlisted as vet. Jan 5, '64,
m. o. June 28, 1865, prisr. war.
Horner Jno. e. Oct. 25. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, disd. July 21, 1865, wds.
Hunt Garrison, e. Oct. 28, 1861, died Aug. 10, 1863.
Hassar Fred. e. Dec. 24«'6i, trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,
Sept. 15,1863. *
Heaton Jas. A. e. Nov. 18, 1861, deserted Aug. 11, '62.
Hinman Chas. P. e. Nov. 25, '61, deserted Aug. 31, '62.
Hartman Jacob, e. Dec. 7, '61, disd. May 30, 1864, wds.
Herrington Wm. e. Dec. 23, 1861, trans, to V. R. C.
Sept. 15, 1862.
Helfredge Eugene, e. Dec. 15. '61, deserted April 3,'63.
Huntsman Chas. E. e. Dec. 31, 1861, died at Chicago,
March 17, 1862.
Helyson Ellick, Dec. 6, i86i,disd. Oct. 20, 1862, disab.
Johnson Benj. e. Nov. 25, '61, disd. Aug. 19, 1862, wds.
Jacobson Jacob, e. Jan. 20, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
21, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Keiser Frank, e. Dec. 26, 1861, deserted May 23, 1862.
Kimberlin S.B. e.Nov. 19. '61, disd. Dec. 30, 64, term ex.
Kapsel Louis, e. Dec. 23, 1861, deserted April 3, 1862.
Letz August M. e. Dec. 23, 1861, died Dec. 29, 1863, of
bad treatment while prisoner of war.
Larson Jno. e. Jan. 6, 1862, disd. Nov. 24, 1864, disab.
McGowan Michael, e. Feb. 1, '62, trans. Co. K Feb. 1,62.
Mullen Jno. e. Feb. 4, 1862. re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 5,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1 65 as First Sergeant.
Mullaby Wm. H. e. Nov. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 19, 1863, m - o. July 22, 1865 as Sergeant.
Morrison Matthew, e. Nov. 15, 1861, disd. Dec. 30, '64,
term expired.
McCormick Wm. e. Nov. 9, 61, disd. Nov. n,'62, disab.
Moore Geo. e. Dec. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Miller Edward F. e. Dec. 28, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, died July 22, 1864, wds.
Miller Jno. C.e. Dec. 26,'6i, disd. Dec. 30/64, term ex.
Neutson Seward, e. Feb. i,'62, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
27, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Newton Goodmond, e. Feb. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 2, 1864, m.o. July 22, 1865.
Newton Newton, e. Feb. 1/62, disd. Aug. 21/62, disab.
O'Maley Jno. e. Nov. 20, 1861, kid. at Jackson, Miss.,
July 12, 1863.
Oleson Barney, e. Jan. 13, 1862, m. o. March 25, 1865.
Phelps Martin, e. Dec. 3, 1861, disd. Aug. 1, '62, disab.
Roundstone Geo. C. e. Nov. 19, 1861, as Corpl., died
July 23, 1863, wds.
Perry Jno. e. Dec. 17, 1861, disd. July 9, 1862, disab.
Porter Geo. W. e. Dec. 25, 1861, as Corpl. disd. Feb.
10, 1864, to accept prmt. in colored regiment.
Peterson Ares, e. Feb. 6, '62, disd. Feb. 27, 1862, disab.
Rein'rson Andrew, e. Oct. 26, '61, m. o. March 25, '65.
Skinner Robt. E. e. Oct, 28/61, disd. Apl. 22/62, disab.
Sheppard Jno. e. Nov. - '6i,_died at Pittsburg, Penn.,
April 21, 1862.
Singer Elisha S. e. Nov. 5, '61, re-en\isted as vet. Jan.
3. 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865 as Sergt. '
Stumph Thos. R. e. Nov. 4. 1861, trans, to Co. B.
Smallen Patrick, e. Dec. 17/61, disd. Sept. 5/62, disab.
Smallen Chris, e. Nov. 9, 1861, died Oct. 6, 1862, wds.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WA"R RECORD.
Shattuck Isaac, e. Dec. 26,'6i, disd. April 22, '62, disab.
Ship Jos. e. Jan. 2, 1862, disd. Aug. 21, 1862, disab.
Strand Ole, e. Jan. 7, 1862, disd. Nov. 11, 1862, disab.
Singer T. B. e. Dec. 26, 1861, disd. Sept. 6, 1862, disab.
Trumbull Oliver, e. Nov. 22, 1861, supposed m. o. Nov.
11, 1864.
Trumbull Geo. e. Dec. 3, 1861, died Oct. 7, 1862, wds.
Todd David H. e. Nov. 8, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, deserted April 29, 1864.
Woodruff W. W. e. Dec. g, '61, re-enhsted as vet. Dec.
19, 1863, deserted Feb. 2. 1865.
Wheatland A. e. Nov. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Winer Philip, e. Nov. 9, 1861, deserted April 3, 1862.
RECRUITS.
Abel Chas. e. Jan. 4, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864. m. o. July 22, 1865, on furlough.
Bailey David, e. Apr. 25, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
Connell Jno. C. e. March 24, '64. m. o. July 22, '65.
Dixon Jno. A. e. Jan. 13, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Graves Herbert, e. Jan. 1, '62, deserted May 10, '62.
Glancy Owen L. e. Dec. 31, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, '64, m. o. July 22, 65, on furlough.
Hamer Jno. e. Jan. 6, '62, died July 16, '62.
Riddle Henry, e. April 13, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
Timons Jas. e. Feb. 21, '65, m. o. July 22, '65.
Woodruff C. H. e. April 16, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
Eagan Richd. e. Dec. 3, '64, sub., never joined army.
Fox Dellman, Nov. 16, '64, m. o. July 8, '65.
Company D.
Captain Jas. E. Hudson, com. Dec. 1, 1861. Died
Aug. 6, 1863.
Captain Albert S. Kinsloe, com. Second Lieutenant
Jan. 1, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Aug. 6,
1863. Promoted Captain Dec. 28, 1864. Term ex-
pired March 31, 1865.
Captain Warren H. Norton, com. First Lieutenant
Dec. 28, 1861. Promoted Captain Aug. 6, 1863.
Term expired Dec. 28, 1864.
First Lieutenant Reynolds H. Dickinson, e. as Ser-
geant Nov. 20. 1861. Re-enlisted as veteran Feb.
25, 1864. Prom. First Sergeant, then First Lieu-
tenant, Dec. 28, 1864. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Edwin E. Thomas, e. as Sergeant
Nov. 4, 1861. Re-enlisted as veteran Feb. 29, 1864.
Promoted Second Lieutenant Dec. 28, 1864. Mus-
tered out July 22, 1865.
First Sergt. Jno. T. Carter, e. Nov. 7, '61, died near
Corinth, May 27, '62.
Sergt. Abner T.Beale, e. Nov. 9/61, died at home, Dec.
19, '63.
Sergt. Eugene Larkins, e. Nov. 9, '61, m.o. Dec. 31, '64.
Corpl. Chas. Rockabrand, e. Nov.13,'61, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 5, '64, m. o. July 22, '65, as 1st Sergt.
Corpl. Jas. K. McLaughlin, e. Nov. 20, '61. re-enlisted
as vet. Jan. 5, '64, m. o. July 22, '65, as Sergt.
Corpl. Orson C. Perkins, e. Dec. 30, 1861, died at St.
Louis, April 30, '63.
Corpl. Chas. McCreedy, e. Dec. 10, '61, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 5, '64, m. o. July 22. '65, as Sergt.
Corpl. Frank G. Chase, e. Nov. 3o,'6i, died Jan. 26, '63,wds.
MusicianGeo.A.Hunt,e.Oct.i2,'6i,disd.June6,'62,disb.
Wagoner Jno. Brown, e. Dec. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Anderson Mathias. 'e. Dec. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 4, '64, m. o. July 22, '65.
Agnew Frank, e. Dec. 20, '61, disd. Nov. 7. '62, disab.
Batchelor S. e. Dec. 16, '61, died at Shiloh, May 29, '62.
Bunnell Saml. P. e. Dec. 21, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, disd. Sept. 25. 1864, disab.
Clark Jas. A. e.Dec.S/e^absent^ick, since June io,'62.
Cawley Wm. e. Dec. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m o. July 22, 1865,
Cary Jno. e. Dec. 28, 1861, m. o. Dec. 31, 1864.
Colton Wm. e. Jan. 9, '62, died at St. Louis, Aug.8,'62.
Condall Benj. M. e. Feb. 3, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Drew Ezra, 8. Nov. 9, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Ditts David, e. Jan. 16, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
17, 1864, in. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
Doyle Michael, e. Jan. 14, 1862, trans, to Co. A.
Ferguson Peter, e. Nov. 15, '6i, disd, Dec.24,'62, disab.
Flick Michael, e. Dec. 8, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864. m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
French Fruston, Jan. 10, '62, deserted Aug. 13, '62.
Godfrey Jnn. e. Dec. 6, '61, died at St. Louis, Oct. i8,'62.
Graham Niblock, e. Ian. 4, '62. trans to Co. A.
Gaiser Ernest, e. Jan. 7, 1862, killed at Hatchie River,
Oct. 5. 1862.
Hill Solan, e. Nov. 9. '6i, disd. March 28, '62, minor.
Knapp Chas. C. e. Jan. 3, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Ketchum D. R. e. Feb. 3, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Langley A. C. e. Nov. 16, 1861. re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
29, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Langley Jonas W. e. Nov. 26, '61, disd. May 5, '63, disab.
Larkins A. e. Dec. 16, '61, died Aug. 12, '63, of wounds.
Larkins L. C. e. Nov. 29. '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
Miller Jno. H. e. Nov. 22. '61, died Nov. 5, '62, wounds.
Madison Conrad, e. Nov. 22, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, '64, disd. May 16, '65, disab.
Mack John, e. Nov. 20, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
'64, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Mosher Samuel D. e. Jan. 1, 1862, Corpl., died July 23,
1863, wounds.
McC askey L. B. e. Jan. 6, 1862, killed at Jackson
Miss., July 12, 1863.
McKinney Jos. W. e. Jan. 7, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, '65.
Matthias Jno. e. Jan. 25, 1862, trans, to Co. A.
Pine Russell D. e. Nov. 21, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
Pool Daniel E. e. Dec. io,'6i,disd. Oct. 5/63, lost left leg.
Reynolds Jesse, e. Nov. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Ranstead H. E. e. Dec. 20, 1861. re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Robbins H. P. e. Ja*. 4, 1862, trans, to Co. A.
Shultz Isaac, e. Nov. 9, 1861, disd. Dec. 5, 1863, sen-
tence G. C. M.
Streator E. H. e.Jan.i,'62,absent,sick,since June. 5, 62.
Streator W. F. e. Jan. 1, 1862. disd. Oct. 18, '62, disab.
Small<-y Jas. H. e. Jan. 14, 1862, trans, to Co. A.
Stone fno. e. Jan. 22, 1862, trans, to Co. A.
Sculley Wm. e. Nov. 9, '61, trans to Co. D, 23d I.V. I.
Taylor Robt. e. Nov. 14, '61, disd. Jan. 19, 1863, disab.
Venard Horace, e Dec. 16, 1861, re-enlisced as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Van Fossen Jos. e. Dec. 26, 1861. re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
White Hamilton H. e. Nov. 30, 1861, m. o. Dec. 31, '64.
Woodberry I. W. e. Jan. 13, 1862, trans to Co. A. .
Wilber Emory, e. Feb. 7, '62, disd. Feb. 28, '62, minor.
Austin H. E. e. Feb. 22, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
23, 1865, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Breese David, e. Feb. 24, '62, capt. before Atlanta, Ga.
Gasner Sam'l F. e. Mch. 30, '64, died at Nashville,
Tenn., July 16, 1864.
George. Irwin J. e. Feb. 18, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 20, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Heide Henry, e. Jan. 5, '64, nv o. Aug. 7, '65, wnd.
Hall Henry, e. Mch. 30, 1864. m. o. July 22, 1865.
Kelsey Ansel A. e. Feb. 20, '62. disd. May 25, '64, wds.
McLaughlin John, e. Feb. 25, '62, disd. Oct. 19. '62, disab.
Plank Sol. e. Feb. 25, '62, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 29,
1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Tracy Geo. T. e. Feb. 14 '62, died at Holly .Springs,
Miss., Jan. 6, 1862.
Turner Elisha, e. April 25, 1864, m. o. May 15, 1865.
Company E.
Captain Alonzo W. Buel, com. First Lieutenant Co. I,
Mch. 1, 1862. Promoted Capta'n Oct. 30, 1862. Re-
signed Aug. 24, 1864.
First Lieutenant Napoleon Beaubien, e. Nov. 10, 1861.
Re-enlisted as veteran Jan. 5, 1864. Promoted
Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant, April 7, 1865.
Promoted First Lieutenant May 19, 1865. Mustered
out July 22, 1805.
PRIVATES.
Barnes Wm. e. Nov. 4, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 4,
1864. absent without leave since June 28, 1865.
Calder John, e. Nov. 25, '61, disd. April q, '63, disab.
Fuson Willis H. e. Jan. 29, '62, disd. Mch. 4, 63, disab.
Lathrop Wm. e. Nov. 18, 1861, kid. at Jackson, Miss..
July 12, 1863.
Murray Jas. e. Jan. 7, 1862, m. o. Mch. 1, 1865.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
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Nelson Alex, e. Nov. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
3, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Sergt.
Reed Daniel, e. Jan. 1, '62, absent at m. o. of Regt.
RECRUITS.
Boland Michael, e. Feb. 20, '64. m. 0. July 22, '65, Corp.
Gerh.trt Geo. e. April 3, 1864, m. o. July 28, 1865.
Horner David, e. Mch. 24, 1862, m. o. May ri, 1865.
Hallsted Dan'l, e. Feb. 20/64, m. o. Julv 22,'65,Corpl.
Leisure Denton, e. Feb. 29, '64, m. o. July 22/65, Corpl.
Strieker Wm. e. Feb. 20, 64, m. o. July 22, '65, Sergt.
Parker Allen W. e. Dec. 6, 1864, m - °- July 22, 1865.
Smith John, e. April 4, '65, sub. m. o. July 22, 1865.
Williams John M. e. Dec. 3, '64, sub. m.o. July 12, '65.
Company F.
Captain Daniel L. Houston, com. First Lieutenant Jan.
1, 1862. Promoted Captain May 23, 1862. Re-
signed June 2, 1863.
First Lieutenant Wm. G. Earl, com. Second Lieutenant
Jan. 1, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant May 23,
1862. Resigned (as Second Lieutenant) Nov. 18, '62.
First Lieutenant C. G. W. Hyde, e. Oct. 23, 1861. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant Nov. 18, 1862. Promoted
First Lieutenant June 2, 1863. Honorably dis-
charged Mch. 24, 1865.
First Sergt. Levi A. Schooley, e. Dec. 3, '61, disd.June
4, 1862, disab.
PRIVATES.
Allen David, e. Nov. 1, 1861, disd. May 1, '62, disab.
Allen Henry, e. Dec. 28, i86r, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Anderson Ole O. e. Jan. 6, 1862, trans, to Co. I.
Barbour Orange L. e. Nov. 21, '61, disd. Apr. 22, '62,
disab.
Cole Wm. e. Nov. 18, '61, accidentally kid. Apr. 5, '62.
Carroll Matthew, e. Nov. 9, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, detached.
Dodge Henry F. e. Dec. 6, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Daniels Geo. L. e. Feb. 3, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Donohue Tim. e. Dec. 6, '61, disd. Jan. 1, '65, term ex.
Dodd Wm. e. Jan. 1, 1862, disd. at Memphis, disab.
Hogan Edw. e. Dec. 28, '61, disd. Aug. 18, '62, disab.
Hotchkiss Jarvis L. e. Jan. 7, '62, m.o. July 22, '65, sick.
Lazanway J. H. e. Jan. 24, '62, trans Inv. Corps, Sept.
15, 1863.
McFarlan O. B. e. Dec. 27, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. s, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Mr.Clure Jas. W. e. Nov. 6, '61, trans, to 23d I.V.I.
Mosher Geo. I. e. Nov. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. Nov. 26, 1865.
Persons Uriah, e. Dec. 28, '61, trans. Inv. Corps, Aug. 4, '63.
Roath Horace, e. Dec. 28, '61, disd. Dec. 12, '63, disab.
Spafford D. S. e. Jan. 9, '62, disd. July 3, '62, disab.
Sparks Sam'l J. e. Dec. 7, '61, disd. Dec. 15, '62, disab.
Sarles Alex, e. Nov. 15, 1861, died at Belivar, Tenn.,
Nov. 3, 1863, wds.
Spicer Geo. B. e. Jan. 21, '62, disd. Apr. 18, '62, disab.
Simmons Jas. e. Feb. 13, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
2, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Vorce Chas. H. e. Dec. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, prmt. Sergt. Maj.
Warner Abijah, e. Feb. 3, '62, disd. Apr. 30, '63, disab.
RECRUITS.
Ashley H. D. e. March 19, '62, m.o. April 7,65, asCorpl.
Benway Jno. H. e. Feb. 15/62, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Brett Thos. e. Jan. 1, '62, vet., m. o. July 22, 1865.
Buckley Jas. e. Oct. 11, '62, vet., m. o. July 22, '65.
Berry Michael, Jan. 1, '62, m. o. Jan. 27, 1865.
Connelly Benj. e. Feb. 3, 1862, m. o. March 15, 1865.
Cox Spencer J. e. April 16, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Cox Patrick, e. Nov, 1, '61, m. o. July 22, 65, ab. sick.
Fitzgerald Thos. e. Nov. 10, '61, vet., m.o. July 22/65.
Guard Henry, e. Feb, 22, '62, m. o. March 15, '65.
Knickerbocker Jas. e. Feb. 15, 1862, died at Marseilles,
111., Aug. 7, 1863.
Kieman Bernard, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Jan. 1, 1865.
Lanig Jos. e. Keb. 1, '62, disd. Nov. 12, '62, disab.
Lewis Edward, e. Mch. 19, '62, disd. Aug. 16, '62, disab.
Lally Jno. e. Jan. 1, '62, m. o. March 2, '65.
Moore Geo. L. e. Jan. 5, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
11, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865, as Corpl.
McKeon Michael, e. Feb. 1/62, vet., m. o. July 22, '65.
McNulty Jno. e. Jan. 28, '62, vet., m. o. July 22, '65.
O'Connor Jno. e. March 1, 1862, m. o. March 6, 1865.
Packenham Fredk. e. March 19, 1862, m. o. Apr. 5. '65.
Ryan Daniel, e. Oct. 11, '61, vet., m. o. July 22, 1865.
Riley Hugh, e. Nov. 12, 1861, m. o. Dec. 28, 1864.
Rogers Henry, e. March 1, 1862, m. o. March 15, 1865.
Sanders Jas. e. Feb. 1/62, vet., m.o. July 22,'6s,as Sgt.
Taylor Geo. e. Feb. 20, '62, deserted Aug. 13, 1862.
Walker Jno. e. Dec. 13, 1861, vet., died at Quincy, 111.,
Feb. 1, 1865.
Claude P. e. Jan. 5/64, trans, to Inv. Corps, Aug. 15, '64.
Mitchell Z. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, '65, on furl.
Murphy Jno. e. Dec. 3, 1864, sub., never joined army.
Company G.
Captain Geo. R. Lodge, com. Second Lieutenant Co.
K Jan. 1, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Co. G
Feb. 1, 1862. Promoted Captain June 14, 1863.
Honorably discharged May 15, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Jno. H. Elwood, com. March 1 '62.
Resigned March 3, 1863.
Daley Jno. e. Dec. 23, 1861, m. o. March 29, '64.
Fellows B. B. e. Feb. 26, '62, disd. Oct. 18, '62, disab.
Fellows J. B. e. Jan. 9, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Hallett Chas. e. Feb. 20, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Knickerbocker Jas. e. Jan. 7, '62, trans, to I. C, m.o.
March 14, '65.
Knickerbocker Nelson, e. Jan. 9, 1862, disd. June 3,
1862, disib.
McCulloch O. W. e. Feb. 20, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 21, 1864, trans, to Co. B.
Savery Nicholas, e. Feb. 3, 1862, deserted Aug. 18, 1862.
Schultz Jno. e. Feb. 24, 1862, disd. Nov. 11, 1862, disab.
Smally Jno. e. Dec. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m. o. Dec. 29, 1864, as non-com. officer.
Solvin Avin, e. Feb. 22, 1862, disd. Oct. 24, 1862, disab.
Company H.
Second Lieutenant ChristopherStarr, com. Oct.i, 1862.
Resigned Jan. 6, 1865.
Musician Chas. Atherton,e. Oct. 7, i86r, trans, to Regi-
mental Band, March 27, 1862.
Musician Alfred Shaw, e. Oct. 7, 1861, trans, to Regi-
mental Band, March 27, 1862.
Hicks Sylvester, e. Dec. 7, 1861, died May 4, 1862.
McWilliams M. e. Dec. 27, 1861, deserted July 12, 1863.
Atherton Amasa G. trans, to Regimental Band.
Bramble Jno. e. Jan, 14, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Company I.
First Sergeant Nelson J. Welles, e. Oct. 3, 1861, trans,
to Co. E.
Bull Oran M. e. Aug. 14, 1862, pro. Sergt. Major, from
ist Sergt.
Horner David, e. March 24, 1862, trans, to Co. E.
Murray Jas. e. Jan. 7, 1861, trans, to Co. E.
Nelson Alex. e. Nov. 11, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
3, 1864, trans to Co. E.
Company I (new company).
(Consolidated with Co. E, March 7, 1863.)
Captain Samuel J. Harney, com. Jan. 28, 1864, Died of
wounds July 2s, 1864.
Captain Jno. R. Gillmore, com. First Lieutenant Jan.
28, 1864. Promoted Captain July 25, 1864. Re-
signed Jan. 6, 1865.
Captain Stephen Cooper, com. Second Lieutenant Jan.
28, 1864. Promoted First Lieutenant July 25, 1864.
Promoted Captain Jan. 6, 1865. Mustered out July
22, 1865.
First Lieutenant Jacob T. Moss. e. Jan. 2, 1864. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant July 25, 1864. Promoted
First Lieutenant Jan. 6, 1865. Mustered out July
22, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Henry Jennings, e. Jan. 4, 1864.
Promoted Second Lieutenant Jan. 6, 1865. Mus-
tered out July 22, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Armstrong Wm. S. e. Jan. 2, 1864, as vet. m. o. July
22, 1865 as Sergt.
Austin Jno. L. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Austin Jas. P. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. June 24, 1865.
Abel Wm. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22/65, absent sick.
Anderson Oley, e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Adams Chas. e. Jan. 16, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Braning D ; H. e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Balsinger N. e. Nov. 30, 1863. m. o. July 22, 1865.
Brown Geo. \V. e. Jan. 12, :864, deserted .March 10, '64.
Bahney Levi e. Dec. 4, 1863, as Corpl. absent without
leave since July 1, 1865.
Benedict Lauman, e. Dec. 7, 1863, died at Chattanooga,
Dec. 4. 1864, wds.
Buchanan Jas. e. Dec. 3, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Buchanan E. W. e. Dec. 1, 1863. kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
July 21, 1864.
Bowers Jacob, e. Dec. 17, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Boll Jas. e. Dec. 22, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Bufnngton Ulysses, e. Dec. 25, 1863, m. o. July 22, '65.
Clark C. S. e. Feb. 10, 1864. never mustered, deserted.
Cassiiy Jno. G. e. Dec. 5, 1863, deserted frjm hospital
in 1864.
Cassidy Terrence, e. Dec. 21V63, disd. Feb. 17, '65, wds.
Coffin F. e. Jan.4,'64, as vet., kid. Atlanta, July 22, '64.
Coleman Jas. N. e. Dec. 3, 1863, died at Nashville,
Tenn.. June 5, 1864.
Campfield L. G. e. Dec. 18, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865, as
Corpl. wds.
Day Jno. B. e. Dec. 3, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1865.
Deittenhauer P. e. Dec. 22, 1863, deserted Jan. 20, '64.
Duffield Robt. e. Jan. 5, 1864, kid. near Savannah, Ga.,
Dec. 10, 1864.
Doolin Jno. e. Dec. 23, 1863, disd. May n, 1865, wds.
Frankenhauser C.e. r eb. 13, '64, absent since June 23, '65.
Fairbanks Wm. e. Nov. 28, 1863, kid. near Savannah,
Ga., Dec. 10, 1864.
Franklin Geo. e. Dec. 7, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Gregg David R. e. Nov. 26/63, ni.o. July 22, '65, Corpl.
Green Edmund P. e. Dec. 7, 63, deserted Dec. 18, 1863.
Godfrey Chas. e. Dec. 29, 63, deserted March 10, 1864.
Himenover D. B. e. Dec. 23, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Hucklebone Geo. e. Jan. 5, 1864, absent without leave
since July 23, 1865.
Hatch A. J. e. Ian. 5, 1864. m. o. July 22. 1865.
Harley Jno. e, Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Heide Henry e. Jan. 5, 1864, t rans. to Co. D.
Harrington Ed. e. Dec. 25, 1863, died at Atlanta, Ga.,
July 27, 1864.
Jones Harrison P. e. Feb. 17, 1S64, kid. at Chattanooga,
Nov. 11, 1864.
Johnson Peter, e. Dec. 26, 1863, disd. Feb. 27, 1865.
Johnson Jas. D. e. Dec. 23, 1863, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
July 21, 1864.
Knickerbocker M. J. e. Jan. 11, 1863, m. o. July 22,'65.
Kinney Jas. A. e. Dec. 22, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Lawson Stephen, e. Dec. 22,'63,m.o. July 22/65, Corpl.
McCashland Benj. e. Feb. 10, 1864. m. o. July 22, 1865.
McCabe F. e. Feb. 15, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
McKay A. B. e. Dec. 21, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Maloney Jno. e. Dec. 7, 1863, died at Marietta, Ga.,
Aug. 18, 1864, wds.
McDonnell Morris, e. Dec. 23, 1863, kid. near Savannah,
Ga., Dec. 10, 1864.
Maleby Geo. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
McAlla Jno. e. Dec. 5, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Meinhart Chas. e. Dec. 15, 1863, died at Philadelphia,
Juue 12, 1865, wds.
Morgan A. L. e. Dec. 19, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
McCormick Thos. e. Jan. 11, 1864, absent without leave
since June 23, 1865.
O'Connors Jno. W. e. Nov. 28, 1863, m. o. July 22, '65.
Olmsted P. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Perry Jno. e. Dec. 15, 1863, trans, to V. R. C. m. o.
July 29, 1865.
Ross Milton, e. Feb. 15, 1864, deserted before muster in.
Reed Franklin O. e. Dec. 15, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Rigler Geo. e. Dec. 22, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865. 4
Solvin Avin, e. Dec. 24, '63, as vet., m. o. July 22, '65.
Simpson Jas. E. e. Nov. 30, '63, died at Alatoona, Ga.,
June 13, 1864.
Shepherd Jno. W. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Sass Henry, e. Jan. 4, '64, kid. near Atlanta, Ga., July
21, 1864.
Sriesland T. N. e. Jan. 13, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Smith Chas. e. Dec. 23, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Spidle Jacob B' e. Dec. 14, 1863, trans, to Co. H.
Singer Thos. e. Jan. 4, 1864, vet., m. o. July 22, 1865.
Thompson Alex. e. Feb. 17, '64, kid. near Atlanta, Ga.,
July 21, 1864.
Tynan Monroe, e. Dec. 29, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Thomas Henry, e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o, July 22, 1865.
White Geo. W. e. Dec. 1, 1863, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Whitney Leonard, e. Dec. 21, 1863, deserted April, '64.
Wing Chas. E. e. Jan. 5, '64, vet., m. o. July 22, 1865.
Wilkinson Jas. e. Jan. 5, '64, absent without leave since
July 2, 1865.
RECRUITS.
Bean Ole, e. April 7, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Courtney John C. e. Mch. 14, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Corwin Myron, e. Mch. 21, 1864. m. o. July 22. 1865.
Fuller Arthur, e. Feb. 20, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Halihan John, e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Knutson Knut, e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. July 22. 1865.
Kennedy John, e. Feb. 22, 1864, m. o. July 12, 2865.
Lickett Frank, e. Mch. 29, 1864. m. o. July 22, 1865.
O'Malley Jas. e Mch. 19, 1864, m. o. Ju y 22, 1865.
Orr Jas, e. Mch. 10, 1864, absent without Lave since
June 25, 1865.
O'Connor John, 2d, e. Mch. 19, 1864, kid. near Savan-
nah, Ga., Dec. ic, 1864.
Thompson Thos. e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865.
Waldron Jas. H. e. Feb. 20, 1864, m.o. July 22, 1865.
Wertz Jeremiah, e. Mch. 21, 1864, m. o. May 27, 1865.
Francis John, e. Oct. 14, 1864, sub. m. o. July 22, 1865,
detached.
Company K.
Captain Michael Leahey, com. Jan. 1, 1862. Killed
July 12, 1863.
Captain Patrick Buckley, com. First Lieutenant Jan.
1, 1862. Promoted Captain July 11, 1863. Died
Feb. 1, 1864.
Captain Patrick Ryan, e. Oct. 11, 1861. Promoted
Second Lieutenant Sept. 28, 1863. Promoted Feb.
2, 1864. Resigned Nov. 10, 1864.
First Lieutenant Roger Warner, e. as First Sergeant
Oct. 12, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Sept.,
1862, Prdmoted First Lieutenant July 11, 1863.
Drowned Sept. 28, 1863.
First Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald, e. as Corporal
Nov. 11, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant Feb. 2,
1864. Mustered out Jan. 12, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Robert V. Simpson, e. Nov. 26,
1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Feb. 1, 1862.
Resigned April 22. 1862.
Corpl. Jas. Goggins, e. Oct. n, '61, died at Lagrange,
Tenn., July 3, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Aberton Timothy, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Dec. 28, 1864.
Buckley James, e. Oct. 11, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Dec. 19, 1863, trans, to Co. F.
Boyle Jno. e. Oct. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Dec. 19,
1863, deserted April 30, 1864.
Barratt Jno. e. Nov. 1, 1861, trans, to 23d I. V. I. Feb.
14, 1862.
Berry Michael, e. Dec. 15, i86i,kld. at Memphis, Aug.
25, 1862.
Brett Jno. e. Jan. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as Vet. JaD. 1,
1864, died Sept. 25, 1864.
Barnhardt Miller, e. Jan. 1, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Bomgardner A. B. e. Jan. 14, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Brett Thos. I. Jan. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as Vet. Dec. 7,
1863, trans, to Co. G.
Cox Patrick, e. Nov. 1,1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Feb. 20,
1864, trans, to Co. F.
Counuepord Thos. e. Oct. 14, 1861, m. o. July 8, 1865.
Collins Peter, e. Jan. 16, 1862, died at Vicksburg, July
16, 1863.
Curtis Daniel, e. Jan. 28, 1862, died at Memphis, Feb.
7, 1863.
Eninet Benjamin, e. Dec. 20, 1861, deserted Apl. 2, '63.
Franklin Geo. e. Dec. 27, 1861, deserted Dec. 31, 18^2.
Fitzgerald Thos. e. Nov. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 5, 1864, trans, to Co. G.
Farley Michael, e. Dec. 1, 1861, m. o. Dec. 28, 1861.
Ford Eugene, e. Dec. 1, 1861, m. o. Dec. 28, 1861.
Fellows Jos. B. e. Jan. 9, 1862, trans, to Co. G.
Hogan Michael, e. Dec. 15, 1861.
Hartnet Jno. e. Dec. 15, 1861, deserted April 15, 1862.
Kennedy Jno. 1, e. Nov, 1, '61, disd. Dec. 25, '62, disab.
Kennedy Jno. 2, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Nov. 11, 1864.
Kernan Bernard, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Feb. 8, 1865.
Kerrin Maurice, e. Nov. 25, 1861.
Killeen Patrick, e. Jan. 3, 1S62. re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
5, 1864, kid. in action July 21, 1864.
Knickerbocker James, e. Jan. 7. 1862, trans, to Co. G.
Knickerbocker Nelson, e. Jan. 9, '62, trans, to Co. G.
Lake Jefferson, e. Jan. 12. '62, disd. Apl. 23, 62, disab.
Lally Jno. e. Jan. 1, 1862, m. o. Jan. 25, 1865.
Mc('inly Jno. e. Jan. 12, 1862, deserted March 24, '62.
McKeon Michael, e. Feb. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as Vet.
Feb. 5, 1864, trans, to Co. F.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR KECORD.
129
McKenna Peter, e. Dec. 27, 1861, kid. at Hatchie,
Tenn., Oct. 5, 1862.
McCarthy T. e. Dec. 10, 1861, deserted Feb. 20, 1862.
McAlear Wm. e. Oct. 15, 1861, disd. Aug. 28, '62, disab.
McNulty Jno. e. |an. 28, 1862, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
29, 1864, trans, to Co. F.
McFadden Phillip, e. Jan. 28, '62, deserted Mch. 23, '62.
McMahon Wm. e. Jan. 16, '62, wounded, left arm am-
putated.
McHugh Peter, e. Jan. 18, 1862, kid. at Jackson, Miss.,
July 12, 1863.
Murphy Mathew, e. Jan. 28, '62, disd. Apr.24,'62,disab.
Miller Jas. H. e. Jan. 13, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Miller M. C. e. Nov. 4,1861, deserted Mch. 22, 1862.
O'Rourke John, e. Nov. 28, 1861, died at St. Louis,
Aug. 3, 1862.
O'Connor Wm. e. Dec. 16, '62, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864.
Pendergast Enos, e. Oct. 11, '61, disd. Jan. i,'65,Sergt.
Parr Jesse M. e. Jan. 20, 1862, trans, to Co. B.
Ryan Jas. e. Oct. 11, '61, m. o. Nov. 11, '64, as Sergt,
Ryan John, e. Jan. 1, '62, kid. at Jackson, Miss., July
12, 1863.
Riley Hugh, e. Nov. 12, i86i,m. o. Jan. 25, 1863.
Shober Wm, e. Oct. 14, i86i,died at Grand Junction,
June 22, 1862.
Sheridan P. e. Jan. 28, '62, disd. Sept. 24, '62, disab.
Sanderson Ruff, e. Jan. 3, 1862.
Temie Hugh, e. Dec. 1, '61, disd. Aug. 20, '62, disab.
Troy Michael, e. Feb. 1, '62, deserted March 22, 1862.
Uotios Albert, e. Nov. 28 '61, disd. Mch. 11, '62, disab.
Walker John, e. Dec. 13, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, trans, to. Co. F.
Walsh Edmund, e. Jan. 2, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
S, 1864, deserted April 30, 1864.
Wallace Edw. e. Dec. 20, 1861, deserted Mch. 24, 1862.
RECRUITS.
Berry Michael, 2d, e. Jan. 1, 1862, kid. at Jackson,
Miss., July 12, 1863.
Gatehouse Wm. e. Jan. 1, 1862, deserted July 21, 1862.
Henigan Jas. e. Feb. 20, '62, missing at battle of Jack-
son, Miss.
Huse Isaac, e. Dec. 4. 1861, deserted Feb. 4, 1862.
Mulligan Jas. e. Jan. 1, 1862, deserted July 30, 1862.
McNaughton M. e. Dec. 1, 1862, deserted Aug. 2, 1862.
O'Connor Pat'k, e. Jan. 1, 1862, deserted Mch. 18.1862.
O'Connor John, e. Mch. 1, 1862, trans, to Co. F.
Rogers Henry, e. Mch. 1, 1862, trans, to Co. F.
Ryan Daniel, e. Oct. 11, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, trans, to Co. F.
Sanders Jos. e. Feb. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 2,
1864, trans, to Co. F.
Ammons Wm. e. Oct. 15, 1864, rejected.
Ashley Jas. e. Oct. 15, 1864.
Benedict G. W. e. Sept. 2, 1862.
Cantleon Philip, e. Mch. 31, 1864, rejected.
Cummings Chas. F. e. Sept. 8, 1862.
Canantson Canant, e. Feb. 21, 1864.
Garver Wm. H.
King Mark, e. Sept. 22, 1862.
LongThos. O. e. Oct. 1, 1864.
Morgan Jas. W. e. Aug. 30, 1862.
McFadden Jno. e. Sept. 4, 1862.
Porter Samuel W. e. Sept. 18, 1862.
Phelps E. A. e. Sept. 20, 1862.
Peterson P. J. e. Feb. 21, 1864.
Shepherd Jos. e. Dec. 15, 1863, died.
Sharey Patrick, e. Oct. 15, 1864.
Wells Enos S. e. Sept. 8, 1862.
Zeising Henry, e. Feb. 22, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Lee Jacob, e. March 13, 1865, sub. m. o. May 8, 1865.
Reed Fred k N. e. Aug. 18, 1864, sub. m. o. June 1, 65.
55th Infantry.
The Fifty-fifth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was or-
ganized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111., and mustered
into the United States' service Oct. 31, 1861. Nov. 9th
left Camp Douglas for Alton, 111.; the 10th, left for St.
Louis, by steamer; Jan. 12, 1862, ordered to Paducah,
Ky., by boat ; March 8th, embarked, on steamer, for
Tennessee rivar and moved down to Pittsburg Landing,
and was soon in camp, east of Shiloh Church — the Fifty-
fifth being on the left of the Union line. The opening
of the battle, 'Sunday morning, found the regiment in
position, with an effective force of 873 men. Col. Stu-
art was wounded, and nine of the line officers, three of
whom died of wounds. 102 enlisted men were killed
and mortally wounded, and 161 wounded and taken
prisoners. The regiment was with the army in advance
on Corinth, and at Russell's house. May 17th, lost in
skirmish, 8 men, 2 killed and 6 wounded. Entered
Corinth May 30th ; thence westward, along Memphis
and Charleston railroad. With Sherman's Division,
marched into Memphis, July 21st, and remained, doing
camp duty, until November25th, when it marched with
Sherman's Division for the Tallahatchie river. Was
marched back to Memphis, to descend the Mississippi
river to Vicksburg. Embarked with the expedition,
and six companies were engaged in the battle of Chick-
asaw Bayou, December 29th, losing 1 Captain killed
and 1 wounded, 1 enlisted man killed and 7 wounded.
Was present and under fir- at battle of Arkansas Po*t,
Jan. 10 and 11,1863. Moved from Arkansas Post to
Young's Pcint, La. May 16, 1863, joined army in rear
of Vicksburg, and on 17th, was under fire at Champion
Hills. Participated in the assaults of 19th and 22d of
May, losing Lieut. Levi Hill, of Company A, killed;
Col. Malmborg and 2 line officers wounded, and 4 en-
listed men killed and 33 wounded. During the siege,
the regiment lost 1 man kibed and 3 wounded. Was
pre-.ent at the surrender, July 4th. July 5th, marched
with Sherman's expedition for Jackson, Miss. Partici-
pated in the siege, and lost 1 officer wounded, 1 enlisted
man killed and 1 wounded. Embarked at Vicksburg
for Me.nphis, and moved out with the army, past
Corinth, to Iuka. On Oct. 30, 1863, marched from East
Point, on the Tennessee river, tor Chattanooga. Nov.
ember 25th, marched with Sherman to the relief of
Knoxville, East Tenn. Returned and encamped at
Bridgeport, during the winter, and at Larking
Landing in the spring, at which place the legi-
ment veteranized, and returned to Illinois, on fur-
lough of thirty days. June 27, 1864, participated
in assault upon Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., kd by
Capt. Augustine, who was killed on the field.
Loss of regiment was 2 officers killed and 3 wounded,
13 enlisted men killed and 30 wounded. July 22d, the
regiment was again engaged, with an effective force of
239 men, commanded by Capt. F. H. Shaw, and came
out of the engagement with 180 men — 1 officer [killed,
3 enlisted men killed, 12 wounded and 17 taken prison-
ers. In the siege of Atlanta, the regiment lost 1 officer
and 6 enlisted men killed, and 18 wounded. Aug. 31,
1864, in battle of Jonesboro, Ga., lost 23 men. In a
short campaign of but little over two months, the regi-
ment lost about one-half its number. Joined in pursuit
of Hood, through Northern Alabama, and returned to
Atlanta, Ga., where 162 non-veterans were discharged.
The regiment lost, near Bentonville, N. C, 1 man
killed, 1 wounded and 6 taken prisoners. Marched
with army, via Richmond, to Washington. Partici-
pated in the grand review at Washington. Then moved
to Louisville, Ky. Remained in camp but a few weeks,
when moved, by steamer, to Little Rock, Ark., where
it remained until Aug. 14, 1865, when it was mustered
out of service. Left for Chicago, 111., August 19th,
and arrived Aug. 22, 1865, where it received final
payment and discharge. During its term of service,
the regiment marched 3,374 miles.
Company I.
Lieutenant Colonel Chas. A. Andress,e. as Sergt. Aug.
26, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant, March 5,
1862. Promoted First Lieutenant, Dec. 29, 1862.
Promoted Captain, April 5, 1863. Promoted Lieu-
tenant Colonel, June 12, 1865. Mustered out Aug.
14, '865.
Company C.
Captain Francis H. Shaw, com. First Lieutenant Co. D,
Oct. 31, 1861. Promoted Captain, July 1, 1862.
Dismissed Aug. n, 1864.
Company D.
First Lieutenant Isaac Wooding, e. as Corpl. Oct. 11,
1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran, March 31, 1864.
Promoted Sergeant, First Sergeant, then First Lieu-
tenant. May 19, 1865. Mustered out Aug. 14, 1865.
Musician Milton M. Potter, e. Aug. 26, 1861, re-en-
listed as Vet. March 31, 1864, pro. Q. M. Sergt.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
PRIVATES.
Goulden Jas. e. Aug. 26, 1861, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864.
Kittridge S. M. e. Oct. 5. 1861, died at St. Louis.
Letts Wm. H. e. Sept. 26, 1861, deserted Jan. 10, 1862.
Myer Andrew, e. Aug. 26, 1861, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864.
Smith Geo. e. Oct. 2, 1861, missing since battle Shiloh.
Stubbs Jas. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Sheneman Jno. e. Jan. 14, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865,
Corpl., was prisr.
Company F.
Captain Lucian B. Crocker, e. as First Sergeant Co. I,
Aug. 26, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant, March
5, 1S62. Promoted Captain Co. F, Dec. 29, 1862.
Resigned Aug. 3, 1863.
Company G.
Captain Jos. Clay, com. Oct. 31, 1861. Dismissed
Sept. 16, 1862.
Captain Cyrus M. Brown, com. First Lieutenant, Oct.
31, 1861. Promoted Captain, Sept. 17, 1862. Term
expired Oct. 30, 1864.
First Lieutenant Albert A. Whipple, com. Second
Lieutenant, Oct. 31, 1861. Promoted First Lieu-
tenant, Sept. 17, 1862. Resigned.
First Lieutenant Fred \V. Smith, e. as Corporal, Sept.
12, 1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran, March 31, 1864.
Prom ted First Sergeant. Honorably discharged
(as Sergeant) April 25, 1865, disability. Com. First
Lieutenant but not mustered.
First Lieutenant Chas. F. Bennett, e. Aug. 2, 1861.
Re-enlisted as Veteran, March 31, 1864. Mustered
out Aug. 14, 1865, (as Sergeant). Com. First Lieu-
tenant, but not mustered.
Sergt. Wm. C. Lathrop, e. Aug. 3, 1861, m, o. Oct. 31,
1864, as private.
Sergt. Chas. H. Patterson, e. Aug. 23, 1861, died at St.
Louis, Oct. 19, 1863.
Corpl. Calvin Songster, e. Aug. 14, 1861, re-enlisted as
Veteran, March 31, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, '65, as Sergt.
Corpl. Cyrus W. Newell, e. Aug. 14, 1861.
Corpl. Alonzo Vanbuskirk, e. Aug. 23, 1861, re-enlisted
as Vet. March 31, 1864, disd. June 25, 1865, disab.
PRIVATES.
Beeman Jno. e. Aug. 14, i86i,disd. July 31, 1863.
Beach Jno. L. e. Aug. 3, 1861, re-enlisted as Veteran,
March 31, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Davis C. C. e. Aug. 7, 1861, disd. April 13, 1863, disab.
Hawk Geo. B. e. Aug. 14, '61, m. o. Oct. 31, '64, Corpl.
Hazel Harry, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as Veteran,
March 31, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, detached.
Humphrey Michael, e. Oct. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as
Vet. Feb. 29, '64, kid. near Ezra Church, Ga., Aug.
3, 1864.
Kennedy Jas. e. Aug. 6, 1861.
Kennedy \V. J. e. Aug. 6, 1861, died at Memphis, June
22, 1865, wds.
Laxon Leander, e. Aug. 23, 1861, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864.
Mellan Jno. e. Aug. 6, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Mch. 31,
'63, disd. Mch. 1, '65, disab., wounded.
Morehead Wm. H. e. Aug. 23, 1861.
Morehead Jos. e. Oct. 23, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Mch.
31, '64, kid. at Bentonville, N. C, Mch. 20, '65.
Smith Jno. N. e. Aug. 6, 1861, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864.
Wood Chas. B. e. Aug. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as Veteran
March 31, 1864, deserted July 4, 1865.
West Chas. e. Sept. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as Veteran
March 31, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, wounded.
Warren A. E. e. Aug. 23, 1861, deserted trom hospital
at Memphis.
Wilson Wm. e. Aug. 24, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
14, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, wounded.
Fairfield Aug. e. Nov. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Mch.
31, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Sergt.
Company I.
Captain Frederick Ebersoldt, e. as Sergeant, Sept. 22,
1861. Promoted First Sergeant, then Second Lieu-
tenant, Dec. 29, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant,
April 5, 1863. Promoted Captain, June 12, 1865.
Mustered out Aug. 14, 1865.
First Lieutenant Dorsey C. Andress, e. as Corporal,
1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran, March 31, 1864.
Promoted Comsy. Sergeant. Promoted First Lieu-
tenant, June 12, 1865. Mnstered out Aug. 14, '65.
Sergt. ]no. H. Garrison.
C ipl. Eli C. Cook.
Corpl. John B. Rockwood, disd. Oct. 8, 1862, wds.
Corpl. Henry Huff, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864, as private.
PRIVATES.
Andress Geo. A. re-enlisted as Veteran Jan. 14, 1864,
m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Bergstresser a. B. e. Oct. 2, '62, disd. Jan. 28, '63, disab.
Blohs Geo. e. Oct. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan. 14,
1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Battle Edward, e. Oct. 25, 1861.
Clark Jno. T. e. Sept. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
14, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Sergt.
Carpenter Jesse A. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Dhelo Chas. e. Oct. 26, '61, disd. Nov. 12, '63, disab.
Dowling Norton, e. Aug. 26, '61, disd. Jan. 28/63, disab.
Ebersoldt Peter, e. Sept. 22, 1861," re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Edwards Jos. e. Sept. 13, 1861, supposed disd. wounded.
FaircHld Hiram, e. Aug. 7, 1861.
Grassaudt Wm. e. Sept. 8, '61 , disd. Sept. 15, '62, disab.
Harris H. T. e. Oct. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
14, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Hinlien Adam, e. Oct. 22, 1861, kid. at Kennesaw
Mountain, June 27, 1864.
Hill Hamilton, e. Sept. 22, 1861.
Keapper Henry, e. Oct. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Corpl.
Lehr Louis, e. Oct, 15, 1861, deserted Dec. 20, 1862.
Lynn Wm. A. c. Sept. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
2, 1864, m. o. June 25, 1865.
Larabee Jas. W. e. Oct. 29, '61, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan.
14, 1864 m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Sergt.
Littlefield Alex. e. Aug. 16, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Feb. 22, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Corpl.
Lull Chas. E. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Merritt Jno. E. e. Oct. 2, 1861, m. o. April 13, 1865, to
date Oct. 13, 1864.
Mitchell A. J. e. Aug. 26, 1861, deserted Jan. 22, 1863.
Mogleschmidt W. e. Sept. 22, 1861, died at Memphis,
Oct. 21, 1863.
Peart Chas. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Peart Wm. e. Sept. 22, 1861, trans, to V. R. C. April
30, 1864.
Rounds B. F.
Ray Chas. D. e. Oct. 4, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Jan. 2,
1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Rayding Michael, e. Aug. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Jan. 14, '64, kid. Kennesaw Mountain, June 19, '64.
Ruedy Jno. e. Sept. 22, 1861, disd. Jan. 28, '63, di~ab.
Slattery Timothy, e. Sept. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.-
March 31, '64, m. o. Aug. 14, '65.
Tansey Chas. R. e. Oct. 2, 1861.
Taylor Richard, e. Oct. 7, 1861, disd. Dec. 15, 1863, for
promotion as 1st Lieut. 1st Miss. Cav. A. D.
Taylor Andrew, e. Aug. 7, 1861.
Ulman Geo. e. Sept. 22, '61, disd. Oct. 14, '62, disab.
Walters Geo. e. Oct. 14, '61 , re-enlisted as Vet. Jan. 14,
'64, m. o. Aug. 14, '65, as Corpl.
Watkins J. R. e. Sept. 16, 1861, deserted Dec. 20, '62.
White A. D. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Whitmore S. P. e. Sept. 22, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet.
Feb. 18, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Kruger Jno. e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. Aug - 14, 1865.
o7th Infantry.
The Fifty-seventh Infantry Illinois Volunteers was
organized at Chicago, 111., in December, 1861, by Col.
Silas D. Baldwin, and mustered into United States'
service, Dec. 26, 1861. February 8, 1862, ordered to
Cairo, 111. Moved, by steamer, to Fort Donelson, and
was engaged in the siege of that place, Feb. 13th, 14th
and 15th. From thence moved to Pittsburg Landing,
and was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, April 6th and
7th. Participated in the siege of Corinth, May, 1862,
and in the battle of Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862.
December 18th, moved to Lexington, Tenn. Marched
from thence toward Trenton, and to Henderson Station,
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and afterwards
moved to Corinth, forming a part of its garrison. Mus-
tered out July 7th, 1865, at Louisville. Ky., and ar-
rived at Chicago, July 9, 1865, for final payment and
discharge.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
131
Company A.
Captain Jno. Phillips, com. Dec. 26, 1861. Promoted
by President.
Captain Wm. F. Conkey, com. Second Lieutenant
Dec. 26, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant June 7,
1862. Promoted Captain Nov. ax, 1863. Mustered
out July 7, 1865.
First Lieutenant Jno. N. Schilling, com. Dec. 26, 1861.
Deserted June 7, 1862.
First Lieutenant Eli Barnum, e. as First Sergeant Oct.
g, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant June 7, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. ax, 1863. Mus-
tered out July 7, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Geo. F. Patterson, e. Nov. 1, 1861.
Re-enlisted as veteran Dec. 27, 1863. Mustered
out July 7, 1865 (as Sergeant). Com. as Second
Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Sergt. Jude H. Shurtliff, e Oct. 9, 1861.
Sergt. John D. McCormick, e. Oct. 12, 1861, m. o.
Dec. 26, 1864, as private.
Sergt. Fredk. S. Lee, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. Sept. 6,
1862, disab.
Sergeant Thomas Terry, e. Nov. 1, 1861.
Corpl. Michael McNitt, e. Nov.20,'61, m.o. Dec. 26, '64.
Corpl. Samuel Hough, e. Nov. 1, 1861, kid. at Shiloh.
Corpl. Paul Englehardt, e. Oct. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Dec. 27. 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865, as Sergt. _„
Corpl. Wm. W. Barren, e. Oct. 19, 1861.
Corpl. Oley D. Oleson, e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Corpl. Jno. N. Prentis, e. Nov. 1, 1861, re. enlisted as
vet. Dec. 27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Corpl. Geo A. D^.dge, e. Oct. 12. 1861.
Musician Frank Adams,e. Oct. 30, '61, deserted Feb.3,'65-
PRIVATES,
Bowers Jno. e. Oct. 19, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1S65.
Bateman Kichd. e. Oct. 19, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
3utcher Fred. e. Oct. 19, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864.
Billings Chas. W. e. Oct. 19, 1861.
Bay Christian, e. Nov. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Baach John, e. Nov. 12, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864.
Bastian Michael, e. Oct. 22, disd. Oct. 20, 1862, disab.
Cooley Dennis, e. Oct. 19, 1861, died at Cincinnati, O.,
May 31, 1862.
Crowley Jas. e. Nov. 3, 1861, disd. July 20, '62, disab.
Cooper Marquis, e. Nov. 12, '61, disd. Aug. 25, '62, wds.
Dutchel Thos. e. Nov. 3, 1861, disd. Aug. 16, '62, disab.
Dean Andrew J. e. Nov. 3, 1861.
Duell Wm. e. Nov. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27. m. o. July 7, 1865.
Downing Walter J. e. Dec. 5, '61, disd. July 20, '62, disab.
Eagen Patrick, e. Oct. 19, 1861, sent to Benton Bar-
racks, Aug. 12, 1862.
Eggers Jno. e. Nov. 12, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864.
Engleskircher H. e. Nov. 12, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1S64.
Hardman Geo. e. Nov. 12, 1861.
Higgins Acephus, e. Nov. 6, 1861, disd. June 30, '62,
disab.
Hall Jos. e. Nov. 12, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864.
Havrtington J. e. Dec. 13, 1861, deserted April 5, 1862.
Hartney J. W. e. Dec. 13, 1861, deserted Feb. 9, 1862.
Kinslir John, e. Oct. ig, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864.
King Michael, e. Nov. 30, re-enlisted as vet. Dec. 27,
1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Kelley Martin, e. Dec. 6, 1861, deserted Dec. 9, 1862.
Keen Jos. e. Oct. 30, disd. Dec. 26, 1862, disab.
Knights Jas. e. Dec. 5, '61, m. o. Dec. 26, '64, as Corpl.
Lunkenheimer J. e. Oct. 19, 1861, deserted June 25, '62.
Littlelield Noah, e. Nov. 10, 1861, m. o. Dec. 26, 1864,
as Corpl.
Lafavor Jas. e. Oct. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865, as Corpl.. furlough.
Meath Clayton, e. Oct. 27, 1861, deserted Nov. 1, 1862.
Moody Clayton, e. Oct. 30, 1861, died at home, Dec. 7,
1862, of wounds.
Moller Jno.H. e. Nov. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Moller Phillip, e. Nov. 12, '61, died at Savannah, Ga.,
May 30. '62.
Mann Michael, e. Nov. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
McGinnis Jno. e. Oct. 19, 1861, deserted Jan. 10, 1862.
McClure Wm. H. e. Oct. 16, disd. Oct. 19. 1862, disab.
Naughton John, e. Oct. 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Owens Chas. P. e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Jan. 25. 1865.
Pontius Phillip, e. Oct. 19, 1861, died at Monterey,
Tenn., May 6, 1862.
Smith John, e. Oct. 12, '6i, re-enlisted as vet. Dec. 27,
'63, m. o. July 7, 1865, as Sergt.
Schmidt Jno. e. Nov. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1865. as Corpl.
Schmidt Jno. A. e. Dec. 2, 1861, deserted Nov. 29, '62.
Summers Wm. C. e. Nov. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec 27, 1863, m. o. July 7, 1S65.
Schneider Conrad, e. Nov. 10, 1861, disd. Dec. 26, '62.
Schmidt Michael, e. Nov. 12, '6i, deserted Jan. 18, '62.
Suffelt Killian, e. Nov. 12, 1861, disd. Sept. 5, 1862.
Wicker Augustus, e. Nov. 12, 1861, killed at Clifton,
Tenn., March 11, 1862.
RECRUITS.
Bowen Wm. W. died at Paducah, Ky., April 22, 1862.
Branch Chas. H. disd. July 15, 1862, wounds.
Crimps Milo N. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Gilmore Horace S. e. Feb. 6, 1864, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Holliday P. N. e. Feb. 25, 1864, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Irwin Alex. e. Feb. 15. 1864, killed at Rome Cross
Roads, May 16, 1864.
Minnzia Thos. A. e. Dec. 21, '63, died Dec. 15, '64, wds.
Moody Edgar, e. March 1, 1862, deserted.
Malon Wm. H. e. Feb. 15, 1864, m. o. July 7, 1865,
as Corpl.
Peart Chas. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m.o. July 7, '65, as Corpl.
Sundles Jno. died at Pittsburg, Tenn., May 6, '62.
Company I.
Corpl. Wm. Dunlap, e. Dec. 1, '61, disd. Mch. 21, '64.
RECRUITS.
Collins Wm. e. Nov. 19, '61, m. o. Dec. 25, '64.
Ostrand John, e. Nov. 27, '61, disd. June 24, 62.
O'Rourke Richd. e. Nov. 27, 1861, died at Mound City,
April 18, '62.
Harris Chas. e. Nov. 27, 1861, m. o. July 7, 1865.
Carr James, e. Feb. 11, 1864.
58th Infantry.
Was recruited at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Feb. 11,
1862. Moved to Cairo and reported to Gen. Paine on
the 12th. Proceeded to Smithland, Ky., and thence to
the vicinity of Fort Donelson, disembarking on the
morning of the 14th, having been assigned to Third Brig-
ade, Third Division. Was there assigned to Second
Division in Gen. Lauman's Brigade, participating in
the battle of Fort Donelson. Marched to Fort Henry
aud embarked in steamer for Pittsburg Landing. Was
in the battle ot Shiloh, and captured while nobly stand-
ing their ground, although surrounded on all sides.
After a horrible impiisonment of seven months, what
were left of the noble regimpnt were paroled. The few
not captured participated in all the. battles of their
command, viz.: siege of Corinth, battles of Corinth,
Iuka, etc. After being paroled, they did guard duty
at Mound City, Illinois. Jan. 21, 1864, the regiment
being re-organized, embarked for Vicksburg. Was
assigned to First Brigade, Third Division, Fifteenth A.
C. Marched to Meridian, Miss.; was the first regiment
to cross the Big Black ; first to engage the enemy at
Queen's Hill, and first to enter Meridian. Returning
to Vicksburg, were ordered to take part in Gen. Banks
Red River Campaign. Was in siege of Fort De Russey,
and first into the fort. At Pleasant Hill, the Fifty-
eighth crowned itself with glory by stpndmg its ground
while others gave way, and capturing 150 prisoners, and
recapturing a battery belonging to First U. S. Artillery.
In this engagement the Fifty-eighth lost heavily. The
Fifty-eighth was mustered out at Montgomery, Ala.,
April 1, 1866.
Company E.
Christie A. G. e. Feb. 1, '63, disd. July 31, '62, disab.
Kenan John, e. Feb. 9, 1862, deserted at Camp Doug-
las, Illinois.
Company F.
Second Lieutenant Fred'k Wilhelmi, e. as First Ser-
geant Oct. 7, 1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant
April 7, 1862. Resigned Dec. 15, 1862.
132
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Company H.
Captain Lawrence Collins, com. Feb. 7, 1862. Honor-
ably discharged Mch. 23, 1865.
First Lieutenant Jas. C;>ry, e. Oct. 14, 1861. Promot-
ed Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, May 28, 1862.
Mustered out.
PRIVATES.
Allen John, e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet., trans.
to Co. A.
Barry Cornelius, e. Oct. 8, '61, absent sick atm.o.Regt.
Burgoone Wm. e. Sept. 3, 1861, disd. for disability.
Boyle Henry, e. Oct. 8, 1861, disd. June 24, 1862.
Clancy Patrick, e. Oct. 8, '61, re-enlisted as vet. trans.
to Co. A consolidated.
Condon Wm. e. Oct. 8, 1861, disd. Sept. 5, 1862, wds.
Carroll Jas. e. Nov. 2, 1861, deserted Feb. 10, 1862.
Calahan P. e. Nov. 24, 1861, m. o. Feb. 7, 1865.
Cusick Peter, e. Dec. 3, 1861, deserted in 1863.
Fulton Sam'l, e. Oct. 8, 1861, m. o. Jan. 13, i86<;.
Falton Michael, e. Nov. 13,1861, re-enlisted as vet.,
muster in as vet, revoked, trans. Co. A as consld.
Faley Edw. e. Nov. 13. 1861, kid. at Burnsville, Miss.,
Sept. 16, 1862.
Flood Wm. e. Dec. 21, 1861, disd. June 24, 1862.
Farmer Patrick, e. Nov. 7, 1861, deserted Oct. 15, 1863.
Ganey Wm. e. Dec. 5, 1861, deserted Feb. 10, 1862.
Hartigan Jas. e. Nov. 3, 1861, disd. by order of Gen.
Halleck.
Hays B. e. Oct. 8, '61, kid. at Shiloh, Apr. 6, 1862.
Killday Peter, e. Nov. 13, 1861, re. enlisted as vet.,
trans, to Co. A as consld.
Kennedy Jas. e. Oct. 8, '61, kid. at Ft. Donelson, Feb.
15, 1862.
Lynch Thos. e, Nov. 13, 1861, disd. June 24, 1862.
Lundy Wm. e. Dec. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet., trans.
to Co. A.
Lee Jas. e. Nov. 25, 1861, deserted in 1862.
McGuyre Thos. e. Dec. 10, 1861, deserted Jan. 25, '63.
McDermot Michael, e. Nov. 16, '61, deserted Feb., '62.
Martin John, e. Oct. 8, 1861, deserted Feb. 10, 1862.
Neagle John, e. Oct. 8, 1861, disd. for wds.
Noone Michael, e . Nov. 13, '61, m. o. Feb. 7,'65,Corpl.
O'Malley Owen, e. Oct. 8, 1861. deserted Feb. 10,1862.
O'Rourke Jas. e. Dec. 27, '61, m. o. Feb. 7, '65. Sergt,
Raycraft Thos. e. Oct. 8, 1861, deserted Feb., 1862.
Slavy Edw. e. Oct. 8, 1861.
Stapleton P. e. Nov. 23, 1861, died at Corinth, July
8, 1862.
Glenn or Glinn John, e. Mch. 21, 1863, deserted June
26, 1864.
Malloney John. e. Feb. 18, '64, trans, to Co. A, consld.
Company I.
Larkin Gregory, e. Nov. 13, 1861, deserted Feb., 1863.
Maloney J. e. Nov. 23,1861, kid. at Shiloh, April 6, '62.
Morris Jason H. e. Dec. 1, 1861, absent sick at m. o.
of regt.
Ryan Jno. No. 1, e. Dec. 4, 1861, deserted Feb., 1863.
Ryan Jno. No. 2, e. Nov, 13, 1861, disd. for disab.
Syron Jas. e. Dec. 4,'6i, kid. at Yellow Bayou, May, '64.
Tyrrell, e. Dec. 20, 1861, m. o. Feb. 7, 1865, as Sergt.
McCawley Geo.e. May 27/63, trans. Co. D as consold.
08th Consolidated Infantry.
Company A.
Sergt. Patrick Clancy, e. Jan. 1, '64. m. o. April 1, '66.
PRIVATES.
Allen Jno. e. Jan. 1, 1864, disd. Oct. 26, 1865, disab.
Condon Wm. e. Feb. 1, 1S63, disd. June 8, 1865, disab.
Faller Michael, e. Jan. 1, T864, m.o. April 1, 1866.
Kilday Peter, e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. April 1, 1866.
Kane Lawrence, e. Jan. 1, 1864, died at Montgomery,
Ala.. Nov. q, 1865.
Landy Wm. e. Jan. 1, '64, disd. March 17, 1866, disab.
Company C.
Farney Peter H. e. March 25, '65, m. o. March 24, '66.
Company E.
First Lieutenant Jno. E. Wright, com. April 1, 1865.
Term'expired March 31, 1866.
PRIVATES.
Burke Thos. e. March 8, 1865. deserted April 6. 1865.
Scott Jno. e. March 8, 1865, deserted April 6, 1865.
Tindall Jacob, e. March 21, 1865, m. o. March 20, 1866.
Company F.
Ray Thos. e. March 15, 1865, m.o. Mch. 14, '66 Corpl.
Sharp Calvin, e. March 15, '65, absent sick at,m.o. regt.
Company I.
Captain Jno. Bond, com. April 4, 1865. Discharged
for good of service. July 4, 1865.
Captain Jno. W. O'Neal, com. First Lieutenant April
4, 1865. Promoted Captain Aug. 28, 1865. Mus-
tered out April 1, 1866.
Second Lieutenant Calvin S. James, e. March 4, 1865.
Disd. Oct. 10, 1865.
Corp. Thos. Mann, e. March 4, '65, m. o. May 29, '65.
PRIVATES.
Allen Larkin B. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. March 3, 1866.
Hensley D. P. e. March 1, 1865, m. o. March 1, 1866.
Hood Andrew, e. March 3, 1865, m. o. March 3, 1866.
O'Neal Sam'l, e. Maich 3, '65, disd, July 12, '65, di.-ab.
Williams Page, e. March 3, 1865, m. o. March 3, 1866.
GItJi Infantry.
The " First Battalion of Yates' Sharp Shooters" was
organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, in the month of De-
cember, 1861, by Lieutenant Colonel D. E. Williams.
It consisted of four companies — the last of which was
mustered into the United States' service, December 16,
t86t. Two additional companies were mustered into
service December 31st, with Fred. W. Matteson as
Major. Jan. 10, 1862, the Battalion was ordered to
Quincy, and went into barracks. Moved to Cairo,
February 16th, and, March 4th, moved, via Bird's
Point, Charleston, Bertrand and, Sykeston, to New
Madrid, and was assigned to ' Morgan's Brigade,
Payne's Division, Pope's command. Under command
of Major Matteson, moved with Pope's expedition
against Fort Pillow, and returning, moved up Tennes-
see River, disembarking at Hamburg Landing, April
22d. Was engaged in the siege of Corinth. May 3d,
the Battalion was heavily engaged at Chambers'
Creek ; but repulsed the enemy — the loss being 4 killed
and 5 wounded. May 7th, in General Paine s recon-
noissance, lost 2 men killed and 3 wounded. May 30th,
the Battalion entered Corinth. The Battalion camped
at Big Springs, 6 miles from Cor'nth. General Rose-
crans taking command of the An iy of the Mississippi,
the Sixty-fourth was detailed as leadquarter guard, on
which duty it remained until November following.
Major Matteson commanded the Battalion until Au-
gust 8th, when he died in hospital. Captain John
Morrill, of Company A, took command, and was after-
ward promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Was present in
battle of Iuka. Returned to Corinth. On the morn-
ing of the 4th, the Battalion met the first advance of
the enemy, and was heavily engaged during the day.
The Sixty-fourth lost, this day, 70 men killed, wounded
and missing, including Captain David G. Grover,
killed. November 4, 1863, the Sixty-fourth moved to
luka, and thence to Pulaski, Tennessee. On the 15th
of January, 1864, over three-fourths of the Battalion
having re-enlisted, it moved North, for veteran fur-
lough. Was furloughed for 20 days, and re-assembled
at Ottawa, February 14th. Four new companies (G,
H, I, and K,), having been recruited by Captai 1 Man-
ning, were added to the Battalion, making a full regi-
ment. Lieutenant Colonel Morrill was made Colonel,
Captain M. W. Manning, Lieutenant Colonel, and
Captain Thompson, Major. March 17, 1864, the regi-
ment left Ottawa, and, on the 23d, arrived at Decatur,
Alabama, and was assigned to the First Brigade,
Fourth Division, Sixteenth Army Corps. On May 4th,
moved to Chattanooga, and joined General Sherman's
army. Arrived before Resaca, May 9th. On 13th, ad-
vanced to Resaca, and was engagtd till 16th, when the
enemy retired. Arrived at Kingston, May 20th, at
Van Wert, on 25th, and at Dallas, 27th. On this day
Companies A and F, on skirmish line, lost 14 men,
killed and wounded. On the 5th, skirmished with the
enemy near New Hope Church. Until 26th, was en-
gaged at Kenesaw. On the 27th June, the Sixty-
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fourth was in the advance line of the assaulting forces,
and was heavily engaged, losing in killed and wounded,
57 men, among whom was Adjutant W. H. Hinckley,
killed. July 3d, when the enemy fell back the flag of
the Sixty-fourth was the first on Kenesaw. July 4th,
the entire regiment was on the skirmish line, and drove
the enemy two miles, losing 25 killed and wounded. On
18th, marched toward Decatur, and on igth engaged
the enemy, losing 5 men, Surgeon J. T. Stewart being
wounded. On the 22d, marched to the support of Sev-
enteenth Corps, and was heavily engaged, charging the
enemy three imes, and capturing forty prisoners and
one battle flag, and recaptured the field gloss and pa-
pers of Major General McPherson, who had been killed
and robbed by the enemy. The loss of the regiment in
this action was 15 killed, 67 wounded, and 7 missing.
On 28th, the regiment was hotly engaged, and repulsed
several charges of the enemy. From this time, until
August 26th, was engaged in the siege of Atlanta. On
8th, went into camp at East Point. On September 23d,
the Division was transferred to Seventeenth Corps. On
4th, commenced march after Hood, moving, via At-
lanta, crossed Chattahoochie, at midnight, and marched
all night in the rain and camped in works in Mai ietta.
Thence, moved northward, passing through Kingston,
near Rome, to Adairsville, and arrived at Resaca 15th.
In the night. Captain Conger and Company A moved,
in advance of a reconnoissance party, to Snake Creek
Gap. Captain Conger was mortally wounded and two
men severely woiinded. On 13th, moved to Atlanta,
and, on isih, started on the " March to the Sea." On
10th, invested the city of Savann-.h. On 17th, moved
south, and, on 19th, reached Doctortown, on Gulf Rail-
road and Altamaha River. After destroying railroad,
returned to Savannah, December 23d. January 3, 1865,
embarked at Thunderbolt for Beaufort, South Caro-
lina. On 13th, left Beaufort, and, 15th, arrived at
Pocotaligo. On February 3d, crossed the Salkahatchie,
in face of the enemy, figbting in cold water three and
four feet deep, and gained a footing on the opposite
side, when the en. my fled. The command then
marched, via Midway and Orangeburg, to Columbia.
Thence, via Winnsboro, Cheraw, Laurel Hill, to Fay-
etteville. North .Carolina. Arrived at Bentonville, 20th
March, and the entire regiment was on the skirmish
line, 21st, capturing 12 prisoners, 35 horses, and 1 cais-
son, and General Johnson's headquarters, losing 13
men killecT and wounded. On 24th March, camped at
Goldsboro. Arriving at Raleigh, 13th. On 30th,
marched ior Washington. Was in the grand review,
May 24th. June 6th, moved for Louisville, Kentucky.
On July nth, was mustered out of service, and on 14th,
arrived at Chicago, Illinois, where the regiment re-
ceived final payment and discharge, July 18, 1865.
Colonel Tohn Morrill, com. Captain Co. A, Sept. 26,
1861. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Sept. 12, '62.
Promoted Colonel Feb. 19, 1864. Promoted Brevet
Brigadier-General, Mch. 13, 1865. Mustered out
July 3, 1865.
Adjutant Wm. H. Hinckley, e. as Sergeant-Major,
Dec. 24, 1863. Promoted Adjutant April 1, 1864.
Killed in battle, June 27, 1864.
Quarter Master Alex. F. Cameron, com. Nov. 1, 3861.
Mustered out for promotion 10 date Mch. 30, 1863.
Quarter Master Edward Lewis, e. Jan. 1, 1864. Pro-
jnoted Quarter Master, July 22, 1864. Mustered
out July 11, 1865.
Company A.
Captain Jas. C. Cameron, com. First Lieutenant Sept.
26, 1861. Promoted Captain Sept. 12, 1862. Killed
April 17, 1863,
Capiain Chas. J. Conger, com. Second Lieutenant
Sept. 26, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant Sept.
12, 1862. Promoted Captain, Apr. 17, 1863. Killed
in battle Oct. 18, 1864.
Captain David M. Moore, e. as Sergeant Sept. 25, 1861.
Promoted First Sergearrt, then Second Lieuten-
ant, April 17, 1863. Promoted Captain Oct. 18,
1864. Term expired Dec. 30, 1864.
First Lieutenant Frank Smith, e. as Sergeant Sept. 25,
1861. Promt ted Second Lieutenant Sept. 12, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant April 17, 1863. Re-
signed Oct. 15, 1864.
Second Lieutenant 1 heodore Gaylord, e. as Corporal,
Sept. 25, 1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran Dec. 24,
1863. Promoted First Sergeant, Discharged for
wounds received at Decatur, Ga., com. Second
Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Second Lieutenant Orvil U. Eberhard, e. Sept. 25,
1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran Dec. 24, 1863. Mus-
tered out luly n, 1865, as First Sergeant. Com.
Second Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Sergt. T. D. Smith, e. Sept. 25, 1861, died Pulaski,
Tenn., Dec. 8, 1863.
Sergt. James N. Lukens, e. Sept. 25, '61, trans, by pro-
motion to 1st Ala. Cav., May 22, 1864.
Corpl. Arthur Amos, e. Sept. 25, '62, disd. May 17, '62,
disab.
Corpl. Jos. G. Wilson, e. Sept. 25, 1861, died at Ham-
burg, Tenn., May n, 1862.
Corpl Thos. Call, e. Sept. 25, 1861, died Farmington,
Miss., May 4, 1862, wds.
Corpl. Thos. Kennedy, e. Sept. 25, '61, Sergt., disd.
Mch. 24, '64, for promotion in 2d Ala. Inf., A. D.
Corpl. Latham Weaver, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Dec. 24, 1863, Sergt., disd. for promotion in
1st Ala. Cav.
Corpl. Henry A. Kellogg, e. Sept. 25, '61, disd. Sept.
17, 1862, disab.
Musician Geo. W. Kellogg, e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Musician Chas. Broeser, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted
as vet. Dec. 24, 1863, m. o. June 28, '65, prisr. war.
Wagoner Edw. G. Lewis, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted
as vet. Jan. 1, 1864, prmt. Q. M. Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Anderson Andrew, e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Ames L. S. e. Sept. 25, 1861, prmt. Q. M. Sergt.
Belknap Aug. e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865, as Sergt.
Butler Adison R. e.Sept. 25. '61, disd. May i7.'62,disab.
Beard Edwin, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865.
Barstow Chas. S. e. Dec. 2, '6*, disd. May i7,'62, disab.
Beard John, e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865.
Beattie Robt, e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, kid. at Dallas, Ga., May 27, 1864.
Call Simeon, e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Colder Roderick, e. Nov. 2, 1861, kid. at Corinth, Oct.
4, 1862.
Daggett Hiram, e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Dueringer Henry, e. Nov. 2, 1861.
Hinkley Wm. H. e. Sept. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 24, 1863, prmt. Sergt. Maj.
Harwood Jas. C. e. Sept. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 24, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865, was prisnr.
Hutton Wm. B. e. Sept. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 24. 1863, trans to V. R. C.
Howard Walter, e. Sept. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 25,1863, m. o. July n, 1865, as Musician.
Hatham Jos. e. Oct. 17, '61, disd. May 17, '62, disab.
Kellogg F. S. e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. May 24, 1864, for
promotion in 2d Ala. Inf. A. D.
Kellogg Benj. F. e. Dec. 2, 1861, trans, to 1st Ala. Cav.
Nov. 3, 1863.
Lukens Thos. W. e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 24, 1863, detailed in 1st Ala. Cav.
Mack John, e. Nov. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec. 24,
1863, m. o. July n, 1865.
McKay jas. e. Nov. 2, '61, disd. Oct. 22, '62, disab.
Mosher John M. e. Sept. 25, '62, disd. Oct. I2,'62,disab,
Mase Willard N. e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 26, 1863, disd. for promotion, Mch. 27, 1865.
Mills Edwin, e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, trans, to Navy, by order War Dept.
McLain John F. e. Nov. 2, 1861.
Morris or Morris Oliver, e.Sept. 25/61, died at Quincy
III., Feb. 13, 1862.
Olson Lars, e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865, as Corpl.
O'Neil David, e. Nov. 2, 1861, trans, to Mulligan's
Brigade Feb. 7, 1862.
Phillips J. N. e. Sept. 25/61, kid. at Corinth, Oct.4,'62.
Rinker Kred. N. e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Rinker Chas. e. Sept. 25, '61, disd. June 27, 1862, disab.
Reynolds E. e. Sept. 25, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865 as Corpl.
Spring Jas. M. e. Sept. 25, i86t, re. enlisted as vet Dec.
24, 1863, m.o. Aug. 22, 3865.
Sampson L. e. Sept. 25, 3861. re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
24, 1863, m. o. June 11, 1865.
Smith Henry e. Sept. 25, 1861, died at Farmington,
Miss., May 15, 1862.
Willard Lewis e. Oct. 17, 61, disd. May 17, 1862, disab.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR EECOED.
Wright Jno. G. e. Sept. 25. 61, prmt. Comsy. Sergt.
Wemple Thompson, e. Sept. 25, '61. died at Big Springs,
Miss., July 7, 1862.
Dennis H. P. e. Dec. 27, 1861, m. o. July 11, 1865
RECRUITS.
Bourne Henry, e. Dec. 21, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Bonnell Chas W. e. Dec. 23, 63. disd, June, 1865, disab.
Buckingham Jno. e. Dec. 24, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Baldwin Cyrus S. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. May 22, 1865.
Butler Granville, e. July 21, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Butler H. F. e. Aug. 16, 1862.
Butterfield M. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Corinth, Miss.,
Dec. 9, 1862.
Cudaback M. F. e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Carter Robt e. Jan. 4, '64, kid. at Dallas, Ga. May 27,'64.
Druitt Tno. H. e. Aug. 10, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Dewitt Geo. A. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Day Geo. E. e. Aug. 15. 1862, died Aug. 7, 1864, wds.
Day Lionel, e. Aug. 16, 1862.
Dunn F. W. e. Aug. 28, 1862.
Dunn N. R. e. Aug. 28, 1862.
Dingman Jno. H. e. Feb. 24/64, disd. Jan. 8, '63, disab.
Emerick Julius, e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Eustis Edwin, a e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 28, 1865,
prisnr, war.
Eustis Jno. H. e. Aug. 10, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Eustis Lyman S. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Howard S. B. e. Jan. 29, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Harrett Mahlon A. e. Feb. 22, 1864, m. o. Jul}' n, 1865.
Holmes Jno. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July it, 1865.
Hardy Isaac B. e. Aug. 16/62, m. o. May 31, '65, Corpl.
Kennedy Wm. A. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Kelly Jacob, e. Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Morse Menzo J. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 24, 1865.
McKay Jas. e. Feb. 12, '64, as vet. disd. Mch.i, '65, disab.
Morehouse Martin O. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 28,
1865, prsnr. war.
Peterson Peter, e. Feb. 24, 1864, died at Decatur, Ala.,
May 20, 1864.
Powell T. S. e. Jan. 4, 1864, disd. June, 1863, disab.
Smith Chas. E. e. Feb. n, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865,
on furlough.
Smith Jas. G.e. Dec. 20, '63, m.o.June 28/65, prsnr. war.
Savage Thos. H.e. Feb. 10/64, absent sick at m. o. regt.
Sailsbury A. G. e. Feb. 21, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Smith Levi D. e. Aug. 6, 1862. disd. March 24, 1864, for
promotion in 1st Ala. Cav.
Terry Peter K. e. Dec. 24, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865.
Weaver Cyrus, e. April 14,1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Williard Lewis C. e. Feb. 11/64, m - °. Jnly 11/65, wds.
Wright Henry E. e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. June 28, 1865,
prsnr. war.
Westicott Jno. e. Dec. 11, 1863, kid. at Dallas, Ga.,
May 27, 1864.
Company C.
Captain Thos. C. Fullerton, e. as First Sergeant, Co.
A, Sept. 25, 1861. Promoted Adjutant June 28,
1862. Promoted Capt. in Co. C, April 1, 1864. Re-
signed Oct. 10, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Ball Jos. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Burke Thos, e. Jan. 29, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Dingan Robt. A. e. Feb. 23/64, absent sick at m.o.regt.
Fell Mahlon, e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Fowler Brady, e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Holmes Jno. N. e. Feb. 2, '64, m. o. July n, '65, Corpl.
Hunter Wm. C. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Hunter Wm. C. e. Feb. 3. 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Herrein Chas. E.e. Feb. 24, 1864, disd. April 19, 1865.
Hannan S. P. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Kingsbury Castello, e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. June 20, '65.
K^nny Cyrus e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Martin Alex. B. e. Feb. 26, 64, m. o. July n, '65, Corpl.
McCormick Jno. G. e. Feb. 3. 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
M Bane Jno. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
McAllen R. L. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m.o. July n, 1865.
Miller Chas. e. Feb. 28, 1864 m, o. July n, '65, Corpl.
Stillwell Abel, e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Wagner Jno. C. e. Feb. 3, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Company D.
Captain Darius N. Myers, e. as Sergt. Dec. 1, 1861.
Promoted Second Lieutenant Dec. 23, 1862. Pro-
moted Captain June 2, 1S65. Honorably discharged
as Second Lieutenant May 15, 1865.
First Lieutenant Henry Miller, e. Co. A, Dec. 1, 1861.
Re-enlisted as veteran Dec. 31, 1863. Promoted
Sergeant, then First Lieutenant, June 2, 1865.
Mustered out July n, 1865.
Corpl. Wm. Barker, e". Dec. 1, 1861, disd. July 7, 1862,
disab.
Corpl. Jas. Fiddick, e. Dec. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 31, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865, as Corpl.
PRIVATES.
Billow Augustus, e. Dec. 1, 1861, re-eniisted as vet.
Dec. 31, 1863, m. o. July n, 1865, as Corpl.
Bailey Jno. A. e. Sept. 25, '61, disd. Oct. 24, '62, disab.
Barnhart Chris, e. Sept. 25, 1861.
Reem Daniel A. e. Dec. 1/61, m.o. Dec. 24, '64, Sergt.
Shoote Jno. e. Dec. 1, 1861.
Stotler Wm. e. Dec. 1, 1861.
Kalinefelter Elias, e. Dec. 1, '61, died at home, April
23, 1862.
Feddock Jas. A.e. Dec. 31/61, m. o. July 11/65, Corpl.
RECRUITS.
Baker Geo. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Broderick Martin F. e. March 5, 1864, m.o. July 11/65.
Crawford Jno. e. Feb. 1, '64, disd. June 10, 65, wds.
Der Joseph, e. Feb. 10, '64, m.o. July 11, '65, furlough.
Foster Chas. F. e. Feb. 21, 1864, m. o. June 7, 1865.
Foster Franklin, e. March 21, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Harritt Jno. D. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Jones Jno. A. e. Jan. 27. 64, m. o. July 11, '65, Corpl.
Klein Jno. W. e. Jan. 28, '64, m. o. July 11, '65, Corpl.
Kopp Jos. e. Feb. 22, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Mahaffy Anthony, e. Feb. 28, 1864, m. o. July 11, '65.
McNeil Wm. e. March 4, 1864, m. o. July 4, 1865.
Small Washington, e. Feb. 1, '64, m.o. June 28, 1865,
prsnr. war.
Company E.
Barnhardt John, e. Feb. 27, 1864/ m. o.'July 14, 1865,
was prisr.
McNamara Wm. e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Company F.
First Lieutenant Rufus T. Sparks, e. Co. A Sept. 25,
1861. Promoted Second Lieutenant Co. F. Oct. 10,
1864. Promoted First Lieutenant May 8, 1865.
Mustered out July n, 1865.
Corpl. D. O. Collins, e. Dec. 21, 1861, re-enlisted as
Vet. Dec. 31, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Desch Marcus, c. Dec. 3, 1861.
Eddy Dennis, e. Dec. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as Vet. Dec.
31, 1863, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Willard Stillson, e. Dec. 27 1861.
Kimber Wm. e. Dec. 31, 1861, m. o. July 11, '65, Sergt.
Company H.
Captain Luther S. Arms, e. as Quarter Master Sergt.
Sept. 25, 1861. Promoted Quarter Master March
30, 1863. Promoted Captain July 22, 1864. Mus-
tered out July 11, 1865.
Hubbard Jas. D. e. Jan. 15, '64, Vet., died July 26, '64,
of wounds received at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.
Roe R. W. M. e. March 9, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1863.
Company I.
Hampton Michael, e. Feb. 24, 1864, disd. May 1, '65,
disab.
Johnson Henry, e. Feb. 1, 1864, died at Rome, Ga.,
July 20, 1S64.
Knight Evan T. e. Jan. 29, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Kenfield David, e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. June 28, 1865,
prisr. war.
Kelly Geo. W. e. Feb. 1, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Lamfier David, e. Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Lowe Lemuel, e Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Lamfier Albert B. e. Feb. 8, 1864, died at Big Shanty.
Ga., June 20, 1864.
Lunark Robt. H. e. Feb. 24, '61. disd. Apl. 11, '65, disab.
Meyers David, e. Feb. 8, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Metcalf )no. V. e. Jan. 25, 1864, trans, to V. R. C.
May 1, 1865.
Miller Jno. W. e. Feb. 5, 1864, died at Marietta, Ga.,
Aug., 1864.
Meloin Orville, e. Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
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137
Moore Roscoe, e. Jan. 5, 1864, deserted Nov. 18, 1864.
Murray Jas. C. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Moncrief Wm. e. Feb. 1, 1864, disd. disab. Aug. 8, 1865,
to date July 11. 1865.
Moore Franklin, e. Feb. 1, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
McDonald Jno. e. Feb. 1, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Newell Jos. H. e. Jan. 25, '64, absent sick at m. o. regt.
Pratt Geo. E. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. July 11, '65, Corpl.
Pelton David, e. Jan. 25. 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Park Theo. W. e. Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Ring 1 no. A. e. Jan. 25, 1864, absent with leave at m. o.
of regt.
Shifflett D. M. e. Feb. 5, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Spratt Jno. Q. e. Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July n, 1865.
Sweeney Jno. e. Jan. 25, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Vanliew J. S. e. Jan. 5, 1864, Sergt., kid. at Atlanta,
Ga., July 24, 1864.
Vickery Greenbery,e. Feb. 1, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Wedding Jno. M. e. Jan. 25, 1864, died at Marietta,
Ga., Sept. 15, 1865.
Wedding David M. e. Jan. 25, 1864, m - °- July ", 1865.
Wescoat Samuel, e. Feb. 5, 1864, m. o. July 11, 1865.
Wheeler Allen E. e. Feb. 1, 1864, m. o. July 22, 1865,
todate May 22, 1865.
Company K.
First Lieutenant Howland Meeker, e. Co. A. Sept. 25,
1861. Promoted First Sergeant, then Second Lieu-
tenant Co. K, Nov. 10, 1864. Promoted First Lieu-
tenant July 22, 1864. Mustered out July 11, 1865.
7 2d Infantry.
The Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, known as the
First Regiment Chicago Board of Trade, was mustered
into United States' service, August 23, 1862. Moved to
Cairo, thence 10 Paducah and Columbus, Ky. Was
stationed at Memphis. Was on Yazoo Pass expedition.
Landed for a time at Milliken's Bend. Moved with
army to Vicksburg. Was at Champion Hill battle. At
Big Black lost 130 officers and men. On July 12, em-
barked for Natchez, Miss., capturing many prisoners
and stores. In October, did provost duty at Vicksburg.
Arrived at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13. Were too late
for Sherman's march to the sea, so joined Gen. Scho-
field's command at Columbia, Tenn. At battle of
Franklin lost 9 officers out of 16 engaged, and lost 152
men. Was in the great battle of Nashville. Then
moved into Northern Mississippi. February 9th, started
for New Orleans, thence to Mobile Bay. Was at Span-
ish Fort. Moved to Montgomery, thence to Union
Springs. July 19th, started homeward.
Company B.
Captain Wm. H. Black, e. as Sergeant Aug. 2, 1862.
Promoted Second Lieutenant Jan. 28, 1863. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant May 4, 1863. Promoted
Captain Aug. 7, 1865. Mustered out Aug. 8, 1865.
Corpl. Albert C. Warriner, e. Aug. 6, 1862, disd. June
10, 1862, as private.
Musician John Eisenhuth, e. Aug. 6, 1862, deserted
June 10, 1863.
PRIVATES.
Brown Geo. F. e. Aug. 14, '62, kid. by a pris., May
5, 1863.
Cross A. T. e. Aug. 6, 1862, disd. for promotion in Col-
ored Regt.. Sept. 1, 1863.
Freeman Wm. L. e. Aug. 6, 1862, Corpl, kid. at Frank-
lin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864.
McNeal Edwin, e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865, as
First Sergt.
Wiley Geo. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, '65, Corpl.
Wilkin Chas. e. Aug. 6, '62, m. o. July 21, '65, Corpl.
Wheeler Jacob S. e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Gros Paul E. e. Oct. 3, 1863. trans, to 33d 111. Inf.
Larreaux David, e. Oct. 3, 1864, trans, to 33d 111 Inf.
Company C.
Corpl. H. C. Rickey, e. Aug., 1862, m. o. June 22, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Atkins Benj. e. Aug., 1862, died^at Columbas, Ky.,
Sept. 25, 1863.
Butterfield Levi. e. Aug., 1862, deserted Nov. 20, 1862.
Coon Cyrus, e. Aug., 1862, deserted Nov. 20, 1862.
Dickinson Geo. W. e. Aug., '62, m.o. Aug. 7. '05, Corpl.
Freeman P ilip, e. Aug., 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Gurn Allen, e. Aug., 1862, m. o. May 16, 1865.
Kelly Wm. e. Aug., 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865.
Mil er Fred'k, e. Aug., '62, m. o. June 6, '65, as Corpl.
Company D.
Baker Benj. F. e. Aug. 9, 1862. disd. Dec. 22, 1863.
Carpenter G. D. e. Aug. 4, 1862, prmt. Corpl. and
Sergt., disd. for promotion, Dec. 26, 1863.
Davis Orson, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Downey Sam'l, e. Aug. 6, 1862, disd. Feb. 28, '63, disab.
Davis Henry, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m.o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Ebersol Jos. W. e. Aug. 8, '62, disd. Feb. 3, '64, wds.
Haynes L. e. Aug. 11, 1862, prmt. Corpl., disd. for
promotion, Mch. 4, 1864.
Holl ran Pat'k, e. Aug. 10, 1862, prmt. Sergt., missing
in action since battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864.
Mason Thos. M. e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Miller David, e. Aug. 8, '62, disd. Mch. 5, '63, disab.
Mills Wm. R. e. Aug. 10. '62, died Dec. 15, '64, wds.
Moore Jas. L. e. Aug. 10, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Miller Penington, e. Aug. 10, 1862, died at Paducah,
Ky., Sept. 21, 1862.
Richard H. B. e. Aug. 6, 1862, died Dec 23, 1863.
Wofer E. C. e. Ang, 9, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Wilson P. E. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. Feb. 24, 1863, disab.
Company H.
Labo Abraham, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m.o. May "28, 1865.
McMillan Neil, e. Aug. 8, '62, m. o. Aug. 7/65, Sergt.
Thomas Philip, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. Aug. 7, 1865.
Watson T. P. e. Aug. 11, 1862, missing after storming
of Vicksburg, May 22, 1863.
Kelly Isaac W. trans to Co. K.
88th Infantry.
The Eighty-eighth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was
organized at Chicago, 111., in Sept., 1862, by Col. Fran-
cis T. Sherman, and was known as the " Second Board
of Trade Regiment." It was mustered in Sept. 4, 1862.
Ordered to Louisville, Ky., Sept. 4 th. Received arms
on nth. Moved to Covington, Ky.,i2th. Oct. 1, 1862,
marched in pursuit of Bragg. Engaged in the battle of
Perryville, Oct. 8th— losing 4 killed, 5 mortally wounded
and 36 wounded. Marched to Crab Orchard, and thence
to Lebanon and Bowling Green, Ky., arriving Oct. 30
1862. Moved toward Nashville, arriving at Edgefieldi
Nov. 7 th. Moved Nov. 17th, six miles south of Nash-
ville, on Nolensville pike. Dec. 26, 1862, marched in
the advance upon Murfreesboro. Dec. 31, 1862, to Jan.
3. 1863, engaged in the battle of Stone River. January,
1863. to June, 1863, encamped at Murfreesboro. En-
gaged in the advance in movement against and pursuit
of Bragg, from Middle Tennessee. September, 1863,
joined in the Chickamauga campaign, and advanced to
Alpine, Ga. Sept. 19 and 20, 1863, engaged in the bat-
tle of Chickamauga. Nov. 23 to 25, 1863, engaged in
the battle of Mission Ridge. Formed part of the as-
saulting column upon the left center of the enemy's po-
sition, andwas among the first to place its colors upon
the enemy s works. December, 1863, to February, 1864,
engaged in scouting through East Tennessee, when it
encamped at Loudon, where it remained until April,
1864. May, 1864, joined in the advance upon the At-
lanta campaign. It continued with the advance, as
part of the Fourth Corps, commanded by Major General
Howard, throughout the whole of that campaign, up to
and including the capture of Atlanta— participating in
the follow ng principal battles and skirmishes : Rocky-
Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope Church,
Pine Mountain, Mud Creek, Kenesaw Mountain,
Smyrna Camp Ground, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Love-
joy Station. Its services in the advance movements
were continuous and constant from May to September,
1864. November, 1864, moved to Pulaski, Tennessee,
and thence, upon the advance of Hood, to Columbia,
franklin and Nashville. It was engaged in skirmishes
at Columbia and Spring Hill, and in the battle of
franklin, upon the right center, the main point of attack
of the enemy Dec. 15 and 16, 1864, engaged in the
battle of Nashville. Dec. 16, 1864, to January, 1865,
joined in the pursuit of Hood, from Tennessee. Jan-
uary, 1865, to March, 1865, encamped at Huntsville,
Ala. March, 1865, moved to Bull's Gap, East Tennes-
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see. May, 1865, moved to Nashville, where it remained
until its muster-out.
During the period of its service the Regiment was
always in the front. It was never upon garrison duty.
Its losses in the engagements in which it participated
aggregate two-thirds of its number ; and its conduct in
every battle was such as to merit and receive the com-
mendation of its Brigade, Division, and Corps com-
manders. For its conduct at Stone River, Mission
Ridge, and Franklin, it was made the subject of special
mention. The R-giment was mustered out June 9th,
1865, at Nashville, Tenn., and arrived at Chicago,
June 13, 1865, where it received final pay and discharge,
June 22, 1865.
First Asst. Surg. Thos. W. Forshee, com. June 9, '63,
resigned Jan. 28, '65.
Company B.
Captain Jno. H. Merrill, e. as First Sergeant Aug. 9,
1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant Feb. 13, 1863.
Promoted First Lieutenant Oct. 13, 1863. Pro-
moted Captain Dec. 2, '63. Mustered out June 9, '65.
First Lieutenant Albert G. Burnap, e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant Dec. 2, 1863. Mustered
out June 9. 1865.
Corpl. Robt Har yman, e. Aug. 9, 1862, Seigt., died,
at home, March 22, 1865.
Corpl. Revilo Newton, e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Dec. 22,
1862, as Sergt. , disab.
PRIVATES.
Allen S. \V. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Barber Jas. E. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. March 21, '64, disab.
Baldwin Elijah, e. Aug. 9, '62, m.o. June 9, '65, as Corpl.
Borden S. R. e. Aug. 9, '62, m. o. June 9, '65.
Bray Hilam, e. Aug, 9, '62. m. o. June 9, '65.
Brotton Geo. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Barr Henry, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Bullock Jas. B. e. Aug. 9, '62, trans, to V. R. C, Oct.
17, 1864.
Folmsbe D. S. e. Aug. 9. '62, disd. April 10, '63, disab.
Ford Byron, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Frost Aug. H. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Graves P. H. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Nov. 20, '62, disab.
Graves D. R. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o June 9, 1865.
Gilmer Geo. e. Aug. 9, '62, died near Knoxville, Tenn.,
Jan. 13, 1864.
Gordon F. W. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Sept. 4, 1864.
Gordon Nathan, e. Aug. 9, 1862, killed in action, June
27, 1864.
Mofifett R. A. e. Aug. 8, '62, died at Nashville. Tenn.,
Nov. 14, 1862.
Moore Jos. W. e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Shull F. A. e. Aug. 1, 1862, m. n. June 9, 1865.
Swan Geo. W. e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., Dec. 20, 1863.
Underhill Saml. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Jan. 7, '63, wds.
Watts D. G. e. Aug. 9, '62, kid. at Kenesaw, June 19, '64.
Hart Geo. A. e. Sept.2,'62,trans.to V. R.C.June 27,'64.
Company C.
Corpl. Chas. H. Cobleigh. e. Aug. 7, 1862, trans, to V.
R. C, July, 1864.
Corpl. Wm. McGregor, e. July 28, 1862, trans, to. V.
R. C, September, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Ballow Martin, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Grover Eli A. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Harding Saml. F. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Nixon Hugh, e. Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 9,'65,as Corpl.
Richart Wesley, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Company D.
Captain Chas. O. Wentz, e. in Co. H, Aug. 12, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant Jan. 3, 1864. Promoted
Captain Co. D, Oct. 28,1864. Mustered out June
9, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Jno. Crotty, e. Aug. 6, 1862. Mus-
tered out vas Sergeant) June 9, 1805. Commissioned
Second Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Sergt. Thos. B. Merchant, e. Aug. 7, 1862, disd. Nov.
4, 1862 as private.
Segt. Geo.Jacobs.e. Aug. 6/62, m.o. June 9, '65, private.
Corpl. Jas. Rooney. e. Aug. 7, '6a, deserted Feb. io,'63.
Corpl. Wm. Owens, e. Aug. 6, 1862, kid. at Stone River,
Dec. 31, 1862.
Corpl. Sam' 1 H. Mick, e. Aug. 6, 1862, kid. at Stone
River, Dec. 31, 1862.
Corpl. A. E. Stebbins. e. Aug. 5, '62, m. o. June 9, '65,
as Sergt.
Wagoner Obed L. Fuller,e. Aug. 6, '62, m.o. June 9, '65.
PRIVATES.
Batten Wm. R. e. Aug. 5, '62, m. o. June 9, '65, Corpl.
Badger Hiram, e. Aug. 5. '62, died at Louisville, Ky.,
Jan. 29, 1863.
Badger Ezra, e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. Mch. 4. '63, disab.
Beckwith Edwin B. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 9, '65.
Baker Jasper N. e. Aug. n, 62, disd. March 22,'63,disab.
Collins J. e. Aug. 5, 1862, disd. Feb. 5, 1863, disab.
Cuddigan Thos.e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. Mch. 23,^3, disab.
Coffen Wm. e. Aug. 6, '62, m. o. June 9, 65, Corpl.
Clairmont Louis, e. Aug 7, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Ch'-evers Jno. e. Aug. 9, '62, m.o. June 9, '65, Sergt.
Crandle Aaron, e. Aug. 14, '62, died at Crotty, 111.,
Feb. 4, 1864.
Dodge Warren e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June g, 1865.
Daley Chas. e. Aug. 5. '62, trans, to V.R.C. Nov. 21, '64.
Dansfiell Jno. e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Fuller Chas. L. e. Au2. 8, 1862, deserted Feb. 20, 1863.
Fuller Henry, e. Aug. 6, '62, m. o. June 9, '65, Sergt.
Goodrich Dexter, e. Aug. 5, '62, trans, to Engineer
Corps in 1864.
Hall Geo. e. Aug. 6, 1862, deserted Dec. 2, 1862.
Hutchinson M. E. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Halley Jno. M. e Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June 14, 1865.
Johnson Iver, e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. June 5, 1865, disab.
Jordon Wm. A. e.Aug. 10, 1862, m. o. June 9 1865.
Kelly Jno. e. Aug. 4, '62, disd. June 5, 1865. disab.
Lammey Ambrose, e. Aug. 5, '62, m.o. June 9, '65, Corpl.
Losan Thos. e. Aug. 7, 1862. m. o. June 9, 1865.
Lee Marshall P. e. Aug. 14, '62, kid. near Dallas, Ga.,
May 29, 1864.
Moore Lyman, e. Aug. 7, '862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Merrifield Jas. H. e. Aug. 8, '62, m.o. June 9, '65. Corpl.
Marsh C. C. e. Aug. 5, '62, disd. March 8. '63. disab.
McGinty Jno. e. Aug. 9, '62, died at Nashville, Tenn.,
Dec. it, 1862.
O'Leary Michael, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Penny Walter, e. Aug. 9, '62. disd. June 30, '63, disab.
Penny And e. Aug. 5, '62, as Corpl. trans, to V. R. C,
Jan. 25, 1864.
Ralph Edwin T. e. Aug. 6, 1862, died at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., July 16, 1863.
Riley Jno. A. e. Aug. 8, '62, died at Nashville, Tenn.,
Oct. 14, 1863.
Reynolds Jas. M. e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Sick Fred. e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865, Corpl.
Stebbins Porter, e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Snyder Sam'l J.e. Aug. 5/62, trans, to Engineer Corps
in 1864.
Sheridan Jno. e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Snyder R. R. e. Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June g, '65, Corpl.
Tinnin Helmuth, e. Aug. 6, '62, disd. June 5, '65, disab.
Wright Chas. e. Aug. 1, 62, m. o. June 9, '65, Corpl.
Wendell T. F. e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. Dec. 31, '62, disab.
Wickwire Cla^k O. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Murfrees-
boro, Jan. 11, 1863, wnds.
Company G.
Barel John, e. Aug. 13, 1862, kid. at Chicamauga, Sept.
20. 1863.
Foote Daniel A. e. Aug. 13. '62, m. o. June 9, '65, Corpl.
Gruber Wm. D. e. Aug. 7, '62 trans, to Marine Brigade.
Company H.
Sergt. Henry Ford, e. Aug. n, '62, disd. Mch. 11, '64,
disab.
PRIVATES.
Atkinson A. A. e. Aug. 10, 1862, m. o. June 9, '65, Sergt.
Armstrong S. F. e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., Nov. 16, 1862.
Brooks Gates, e. Aug. 12, '62, m.o. June 8, '65, waspris.
Graig Geo. M. e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. July 30, '64 wds.
Cummins Wm. e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Apl 8, '63. disab.
Davenport Geo. e. Aug. 12, '62, m. o. June 9, '65, Corpl.
Long Joshua, e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at New Albany,
Ind., Nov. 10, 1863.
Wentz Isaac C. e. Aug. 12, 1862, absent wounded at m.
o. of regt.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
139
Company K.
Second Lieutenant Jno. Rhent, e. Aug. 13, 1862. Mus-
tered out June 9, 1865, (as Sergt.) Com. Second
Lieutenant but not mustered.
Hanly Patrick, e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. March 11, 1863,
to enlist in Miss. Marine Brigade.
Murphy Benj. e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. May 20, '63, disab.
Colten Stephen, e. Dec. t6, 1863.
Rake H. G. e. Jan. 23, 1863.
90 th Infantry.
The Ninetieth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was or-
ganized at Chicago, Illinois, in August, September,
and October, 1862, by Colonel Timothy O'Meara.
Moved to Cairo, November 27th, and to Columbus,
Ky., 30th. From thence proceeded to Lagrange, Ten-
nessee, where the regiment arrived December 2d. On
the 4th, ordered to Cold Water, Mississippi, where it
relieved the Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry. On
the morning of 20th December, a detachment of Second
Illinois Cavalry arrived at Cold Water, having cut
their way through Van Dorn's forces, out of Holly
Springs. Soon after, 4 companies of One Hundred and
First Illinois came in, and were followed by the enemy
to our lines. The demonstrations made by th; Nine-
tieth deterred the enemy from making any severe at-
tack, although he was 4,000 or 5,000 strong, and, after
some skirmishing, he withdrew. The regiment was
mustered out of service June 6th, 1865, at Washington,
D. C., and arrived at Chicago, June 12, 1865, where it
received final pay and discharge.
First Assistant Surgeon Darwin Hinckley, com. Second
Assistant Surgeon Nov. 22, 1862. Promoted First
Assistant Surgeon March 4, 1863. Commission
canceled.
Company D.
Canna John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at LaGrange, Tenn.,
March 15, 1863.
Judge Bryan, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Feb. 20, '63, wds.
Kelly Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Kelly Robt. e. Aug. 15, 1862, Sergt., died at Nashville,
Tenn., Jan. 26, 1864.
Sharkey Edward, e. Aug. 20, 1861, trans, to V. R. C.
Jan. 5, 1863.
Company H.
Morrisey Lawrence, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
as Sergt.
Roache Jno. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Aug. 17, 1862.
Company K.
Captain Thos. K. Barrett, com. Nov. 22, 1862. Dis-
honorably dismissed June 10, 1863.
First Lieutenant John Larkin,com. Second Lieutenant
Nov. 22, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant June
10, 1863. Honorably discharged (as Second Lieu-
tenant) April 11, 1864.
First Lieutenant Jeremiah F. Riordan, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Promoted First Sergeant. Promoted First Lieu-
tenant April 17, 1865. Mustered out June 6, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Armstrong Jno. e. Aug. 15, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865, as
wagoner.
Bourke M. e. Aug. 18, 1862, trans, to 48th I. V. I.
Boyle Patrick, e. Aug. 19, '62, m. o. June 6/65, Corpl.
Braning Henry, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Buckley Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Buckley John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent without leave at
m. o. of regt.
Byrd John M. e. Aug. 21, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Barry John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, Corpl., died Feb. 20, '64,
wds.
Campbell Phillip, e. Aug. 12, 1862, re-enlisted in
Houteling's Battery.
Campbell Martin, e. Aug. 12, 1862, re-enlisted in Houta-
ling's Battery.
Canty Daniel, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to 48th I. V. I.
Coffey John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, Sergt., deserted May
IS, 1863.
Cox Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862, Corpl., died July 23,
1864, wds.
Collins John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Feb. 5, '65, disab.
Coffey Daniel, e. Aug. 12, 1862, absent without leave at
m. o. of regt.
Cusick M. e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. June 7, '65, Corpl.
Closby John, e. Sept. 5, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65, Corpl.
Curtiss Wm. e. Sept. 27, 1862.
Diggins Thos. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Duffy Edward, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Dames T. W. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Duffy John, e. Aug. 18, 1862, died at Memphis, Oct.
23, 1863.
Deegan Jas. e. Aug. 19, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Dunlop John,e. Aug. 20, 1862, deserted Nov .27, 1862.
Doolin M. e. Aug. 13, '62, Corpl., deserted June 10, '63.
Dillon John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, Corpl., deserted March
1, 1864.
Doren J. W. e. Aug. 16, 1862, absent with leave at m.o.
of regt.
Devire P. O. e. Aug. 16, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Daugherty Jas. e. Aug. 16, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Daugherty Geo. e. Aug. 13, 1862, Sergt., died at Mem-
phis, Dec. 20, 1865.
Howard Jas. e. Aug. 15, '62, Corpl., deserted May 22, '63.
Hanley Jas. e. Aug. 17, 1862, died at Mound City, 111.,
Sept. 4, 1863.
Homason Thos. e. Aug. 20, '62, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Highland Robt. e. Aug. 16, 1862, absent with leave at
m. o. of regt.
Hartnett John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Higgins Jas. e. Aug. 7, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Johnson Peter, e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent without leave
at m.o. of regt.
Karnes Stephen, e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent, wounded, at
m. o. of regt.
Kailey Timothy, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Jefferson
Barracks, April 12, 1865.
Levanway Jos. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Laycockjohn, e. Aug. 20, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Sept. 25, 1863.
McCormick Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent without leave
at m. o. of regt.
McGee Philip, e. Ang. 15, 1862, absent without leave at
m. o. of regt.
Mclnhill Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
McAleai Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to 48th I. V. I.
McKey A. B. e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent without leave at
m. o. of regiment.
Mohan John W. e. Aug. 15, '62, Sergt., deserted June
10, 1863.
Meehan Michael, e. Aug. 15, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865, as
1st Sergt.
Newman Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Naughton Patrick, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Naughton M. C. e. Aug. 16, 1862, re-enlisted in Hen-
shaw's Battery.
Noonan John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, Sergt., wounded at
Mission Ridge.
O'Roorke Jas. e. Aug. 22, disd. April 2, 1863. disab.
Usgood H. J. e. Aug. 16, 1862, absmt without leave at
m. o. of regt.
O'Neil Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1S65.
Porter Samuel F. e. Aug. 12, 1862, deserted Nov.27,'62.
Pitzer Geo. H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent without leave
at m. o. of regt.
Riordan L. T. e. Aug. 15, 1862, Sergt., died May 14,
1864, wounds.
Rock Patrick, e. Sept. 6, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Roney E. C. e. Aug. 18, 1862, absent without leave at
m. o. of regt.
Ryan Patrick, e. Aug. 18, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Reynolds Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
prisoner of war.
Sherridan P. e. Aug. 21, 1862. m. o. June 6. 1865.
Scales Chas. e. Aug. 21, '62, re-enlisted with Leighton.
Slaney E iward, e. Aug. 22, 1862, died at Memphis,
Dec. 20, 1863.
Stack John, e Aug. 18, 1862, deserted May 30, 1863.
Stack Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
Shaughnessy Jno. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. May 30, 1865.
Stephenson Thos. e. Aug. 20, '62, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Sullivan John C. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
as Sergt.
Sanches Fnmcisco, e. Aug. 12, '62, deserted Nov.27,'62.
Tierney Hugh, e. S pt. 12, 1862, deserted Nov. 27, '62.
Tye Philip, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Weston John, e. Aug. 18, 1862, died Jan. 2, 1864, wds.
McGill F.B. enlisted and recruited as prospective Lieut.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Middeman F. E. deserted Nov. 27, 1862.
O'Kneak Jas. disd. April 1, 1863.
Clark Jno. D. e. Jan. 24, 1865.
10 Mh Infantry.
The One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry
formed a part of the First Brigade, First Division,
Fourteenth Army Corps, in which it remained until
muster-out, On the 24th of November, 1863, the
Regiment was engaged on Lookout Mountain, near the
White House, when the First Brigade, First Division,
Fourteenth Army Corps, repulsed an attack made by
the rebels, about 9 o'clock p. M., to regain possession of
the ground. On the 25th of November, 1863, was en-
gaged in the capture of Missionary Ridge, and cap-
tured a number of prisoners. On the 26th, followed
the retreating rebels to Grayville, and, on the 27th to
Ringgold, returning from thence to Chattanooga, on
the 29th. The men behaved well in all the engagements
during this campaign. Remained in and around Chat-
tanooga, until the 10th of February, 1864, when it was
ordered to Nashville, by Gen. Johnson, to get transpor-
tation for the Fourteenth Corps. Returned to Chatta-
nooga with the same, en March 15, 1865, joining the
remainder of the Division at Grayville, on the 19th.
Remained until the 3d of May, when the Regiment
went to Ringgold, to prepare for the campaign about to
commence against Atlanta. Commenced the march on
the 7th of May, and on the 9th was in front of Buzzard's
Roost Gap, where the Regiment remained, doing some
skirmishing, until the 12th, when it marched to the
right, passing Snake Creek Gap. On the 14th, was
engaged in the battle of Resaca, losing 1 man killed and
9 wounded. Remained in front, skirmishing, unril th-
16th, when the Regiment marched to Resaca — the
enemy having evacuated the night before. Followed
the retreating rebels to Kingston, arriving there on the
18th. Remained there until the 23d, when the Regi-
ment marched to Dallas, arriving there or in that vicin-
ity on the 26th. Remained there, skirmishing, and
losing some men, until the 5th of June, when the Regi.
ment moved to the left, in front of Kenesaw Mountain,
where it was engaged, skirmishing, nearly all the time,
until the 3d of J uly, when the enemy left the mountain.
The command followed them through Marietta, until
they made a stand near the railroad bridge across the
Chattahoochie river. The Regiment remained here,
skirmishing, until July 10th, when the rebels fell back
across the Chattahoochie. Did not move until the 17th,
and on the 20th, crossed Peach Tree Creek. About
tour o'clock p. M., the enemy attacked the line (connect-
ing with the Twentieth Corps on the left, and no troops
on the right), and soon enveloped the right flank, plant-
ing their colors near the works. They were repulsed,
however, and re-enforcements soon coming up, the
Regiment was enabled to hold its ground. The men
fought nobly, and the loss was heavy, it being 50 —
2 officers and 14 men killed, 1 officer and 28 enlisted
men wounded, and 5 missing. On the22d, the command
again moved forward, the enemy having left their
works in front, and went into Atlanta ; but were met by
Loring's Division, strongly entrenched, and the com-
mand halted and commenced throwing up works. Re-
mained until August 3d, when the regiment moved to
the right three miles, and, on the 6th, were formed on
Utoy creek. On the 7th, was engaged at Utoy creek,
losing 1 officer and 4 enlisted men killed, and 18 enlist-
ed men wounded. On August 26th, marched to the
right, towards Jonesboro, and on September 1st, fought
the battle of Jonesboro, which gave possession of
Atlanta; and on the 6th, started for Atlanta, arriving
there on the 8th. The campaign from May 7th, when
the regiment left Ringgold, to September 6th, when it
left Jonesboro, was very severe. The Regiment skir-
mished nearly all the time with the enemy, and never
halted for the night without throwing up works and
preparing for an attack. The regiment was engaged
in three battles : Reseca, Peach Tree Creek and Jones-
boro. Losses in skirmishing were heavy in killed and
wounded. The Regiment behaved nobly during the
whole campaign, especially at Peach Tree Creek, where
the right of the regiment was nearly annihilated, and,
although the line grew shorter every day, the men were
in the best of spirits. The regiment remained in
Atlanta until October 3d, when the rebels, having
crossed the Chattahoochie and removing towards
AUatoona, the command commenced moving north, and
crossing the Chattahoochie on the 3d, passed through
Marietta, reaching Kenesaw Mountain on the 6th, and
remaining in that vicinity until the gth, when the Reg-
iment marched along the railro: d to Kingston, reaching
there on the nth. M rched to within three miles of
Rome, on the 12th ; to Calhoun on the 13th ; to Re«eca
on the 14th; crossed the Chattogata Mountain, at Red
Run Gap, on the 15th ; passed through Villenow, La-
fayette and Summerville, reaching Galesburg, Ala., on
the 20th, where the Regin ent remained until the 28th ;
then marched, through Rome, to Kingston, to get
ready for the campaign to be commenced in a short
time. The Regiment was not engaged with the enemy
after it left Atlanta ; but the marches were very hard, a
great portion of the distance being traveled by night.
The men were, also, shoit of rations, until they reached
the Summerville Valley, when requisitions were made
on the country for supplies. Remained in Kingston
until November 12th, when the regiment marched to
Atlanta, arriving there on the 15th, when rations and
clothing were issued. On the 16th, commenced the
March to the Sea, taking possession of Savannah on
the 21st of December. As this was but a succession of
marches, and but little opposition was met with, until
the army reached Savannah, it is deemed unneces-
sary to detail the march. The Regiment had its
share of the hardships, marches, etc., as also the fine
foraging which the country passed through afforded.
Remained in Savannah until Jan. 15th, when was com-
menced the march through the Carolinas. This, like
the preceding campaign, wjs a succession of marches —
the bad roads impeding more than the rebels. It re-
quired more troops with the trains, to build corduroy
roads, than it did on the skirmish line. The Regiment
was engaged in the battle of Bentonville, and had sev-
eral skirmishes, with small loss. The command re-
mained at Goldsboro, N. C., fitting up for another cam-
paign, until April 10th ; then marched to Raleigh,
wheie the Regiment remained until the surrender of
Johnston's army. The Regiment commenced the march
from Raleigh to Washington, on April 30th, arriving
there on May 19th, and participating in the grand re-
view, on the 24th of May. Made muster-out rolls, and
were mustered out on the 7th day of June. On the
8th, the Regiment left Washington for Chicago, arriv-
ing there on the 10th. Were paid off, and the men re-
turned to their homes. The Regiment was engaged in
the battles of Hartsville, Chickamauga, Lookout Moun-
tain, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Peach ree Creek, Utoy
Creek, Jonesboro and Bentonville, besides a great many
skirmishes, in which they lost men. In the first battle
(Hartsville), the Regiment lost 44 men killed, and about
150 wounded — a greater loss than the Regiment sus-
tained in any other battle. The men fought nobly, and
whatever blame may rest on the commander of the post,
the Regiment did its duty, successfully resisting the at-
tack of two veteran infantry regiments, for nearly two
hours, and until a part of the command had been driven
from the field by Morgan's cavalry. After the Regi-
ment was exchanged, in the spring of 1863, it was or-
dered to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth
Army Corps, and was in all the engagements in which
that corps was engaged after that time, marching with
it from Murtreesboro to Chattanooga, Atlanta, Savan-
nah, Goldsboro, Raleigh and Washington.
Colonel Absolom B. Moore, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed Sept. 9, 1863.
Colonel Douglas Hapeman, com. Second Lieutenant
Co. H, nth Inf., July 30, 1861. Discharged for
promotion, com. Lieutenant Colonel, Oct. 3, 1862.
Promoted Colonel Sept. 9, 1863. Mustered out (as
Lieutenant Colonel) June 6, 1865.
Major John H. Widner, com. First Lieutenant Co. I,
nth Inf., Sept., 1861. Promoted Captain April 24,
1862. Discharged for promotion, com. Major, Sept.
25, 1862. Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Adjutant Rufus C. Stephens, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Mus-
tered out June 6, 1865.
Surgeon Reuben F. Dyer, com. Aug. 25, 1862. Mus-
tered out June 6, 1865.
Seigeant Major Quincy D. Whitman, e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Quarter Master Sergeant Asher D. Gibson, e. Aug. 15,
1862. Mustered out June 14, 1865.
Commissary Sergeant Austin H. Forder, e. Aug. 5, '62.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Hospiatl Steward John W. Cuppy, discharged Aug.
1, 1863.
Hospital Steward Luther S. Slyder, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
LA SALLE OOUNTY WAR RECORD.
141
Principal Musician David McCampbell, e. Aug. n,
1862. Died in Andersonville prison, July 10, 1864.
No. of grave, 3,100.
Principal Musician Wm. Raymond, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Returned to Co., as private, July 26, 1863.
Principal Musician Jos. G. Wheat, e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Principal Musician Joseph Lewis, e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Company A.
Captain Jas. M. Leighton, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed Sept. 29, 1864.
Captain Moses Osman, com. First Lieutenant Aug. 27.
1862. Promoted Captain Sept. 29, 1864. Mustered
out June 6, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Alphonzo Prescott, com. Aug. 27,
1862, Resigned Sept. 2, 1863.
First Sergt. Davis B. Stillson, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd.
July 6, 1863. disab,
Sergt. Jas. H. Newton, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd July 14,
1863, disab.
Sergt. E. J. Trobridge, e. July 23, '62, m. o. June 6,
1865, as private.
Sergt. Michael Clancy, e. Aug. 15, 1862, detached at
m. o. of Regt.
Sergt. Oliver P. Harding, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
Corpl. Isaac Felch, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. July 1, '65,
as Sergt.
Corpl. Dan'l W. Stevenson, e. July 22, '62, disd. Oct.
25, 1862, disab.
Corpl. Sidney V. Arnold, e. Aug. 15, '62, prmt. First
Lieut.
Corpl. Norton Fields, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R.
C, Feb. n, 1864.
Corpl. Eben H. Holhs, e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R.
C, April 10, 1864.
Corpl. Frank Picken, e. Aug. 15, 1861, m. o. June 6,
1865, as First Sergt.
Corpl. James Toll, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Aug. 13, '63,
disab.
Corpl. Allen Benedict, e. Aug. 14, '62, Sergt., kid. Res-
eca, Ga., May 14, 1864.
Musician Wm. Raymond, e. Aug. 15, '62, absent sick
at m. o. of Regt.
Wagoner Francis Porter, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Nov. 9,
1864, disab.
PRIVATES.
Allen Philip B. e. Aug. 15. 1862, never been with Co.
Badys Francis, e. Aug. 15, '62, reported as deserter,
June 7, 1864.
Bailey Enoch T. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bruce Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 14, 1863.
Baker Nat. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 19, 65, Corpl.
Bollman Edw. e. Aug. 14, '62, trans, to V. R. C, Aug.
30, 1862.
Burnham Sam'l M. e. Aug. 15, '62, kid. at Hartsville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Bennett Politus, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Dec. 21, '63, disab.
Barritt Wm e. Aug. 15. 1862, disd. Feb. 26, 1865, wds.
Buckley Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bagley Burton W. e.Aug. 15, '62, disd. Oct.26,'64,wds.
Bleach Dan'l, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1862.
Conrad Jacob, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Dec. 30, 1862.
Chrisfeller Chris, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Cunningham Tim. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Louisville,
Ky., Nov. 20, 1862.
Cantlinjohn R. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Feb. 25, '65, disab.
Dunlap Alex, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Dec. 30, 1862.
Dodd John, e Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Chickamauga,
Sept. 20, 1863.
Donnelly Henry, e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Downey John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, never been with Co.
Donville David, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 14, '63.
Drew Oliver, e. Aug. 15, '62, trans, to Inv. Corps, Jan.
2, 1865.
Dobbins Patrick, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Apr. io,'64,wds.
Ferris Wm. e. Aug. 15, 62, m. o. June 6, '65, as Sergt.
Fuller Chas. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Green Bloomfield, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. May 1, 1863.
Gaut Jesse, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 14, 1863.
Griffith David C. e. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Mission
Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863.
Headstrong Chas. E. e. Aug. 15, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Hutchings Sam'l, e. Aug. 14, 1862. died in Anderson-
ville prison, Aug. 8, 1864, No. of grave, 5,019.
Hitchner Richard, e. Aug. is,'62, trans, to Tnv. Corps,
Nov. 1, 1863.
Heferan Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Dec. 30, 1862.
Hiehland Robt. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Dec. 30, '62.
Hamilton Paul. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Dec. 30, '62.
Horn Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
Knapp Wm. H, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Ketchum Walter, e. Aug. 14, '62, sentenced by G. C.
M., to serve 16 mos. after term expires.
Kinne'ly Pierce, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Mch. 20, '63.
Knecht John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps,
Jan. 15, 1865.
Larkins Alonzo H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Peach Tree
Creek. July 20, 1864.
Lewis Jonathan, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died of wds. rec'd at
at Hartsville, Tenn., and Chickamauea, Ga.
Murphy Dennis J. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died Chattanooga,
Nov. 1, 1863.
McClere Wm. e. Aug. 9. 1862, never been with Co.
NeNeal Chas. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Sept. 23, '63, disab.
Norton Wm. H. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Oct. 7, '64, disab.
Olmstead Silas, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Apr. 27, '63, disab.
Olson Peter, e. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Chickamauga,
Sept. 20, 1863. ■
O'Riley Michael, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6. 1865.
O'Donnell Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862, wnd. and capt.,
arm amputated, escaped, m. o. June 6, 1865.
O'Connor Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. Chickamau-
ga, Sept. 20, 1863.
O'Connor Timothy M. e. Aug. 15, '62, m.o. June 6, '65.
O'Bryan John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 16,1863.
Pratt Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Apr. 24, 1864, disab.
Pursley Daniel, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 10, 1865.
Potter Lyman, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Potter Forbes H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 14. '63.
Pitterman Carl, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Jan. 15, 1864.
Riddle Henry, e. e. Aug. 8, 1862, disd. Jan., '63, disab.
Roach Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862. m. o. May 17, 1865.
Ryan Thos. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Jan. 9, 1864, disab.
Richardson Edw. e. Aug. 15, 1802, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Robertson Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Mch. 14, '63.
Sanches Francisco, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., Oct. 9, 1863, wds.
Smith Anthony, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Sonderman Fred'k, e. Aug. 14,1862, died at home, Feb.
13,1863.
Smith Henry, e. Aug. 15, 1862. deserted Mch. 14, 1863.
Tidmarst John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent, sick at m. o.
of Regt.
Thompson Elias, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Chicago,
Feb. 20, 1863.
Varner David, e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Feb. 23, 1865, wds.
Wichart Philip, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Oct. 21, 1863.
Whitman Hiram, e. Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 6, '65, Corpl.
Weuve Ulysse, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps,
Aug. 30, 1863.
Winslow John M. e.Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 7, 1864.
RECRUITS.
Charlton John,
Warren Lucien.
Maloney Thos. F. e. April 11, 1861, sentenced by G.C.
M. to serve 16 months over his time.
Company B.
Captain Geo. W. Howe, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Resigned
Aug. 11, 1863.
Captain Samuel A. Porter, com. Second Lieutenant,
Aug. 27, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Dec. 10,
1862 Promoted Captain Aug. 11, 1863. Resigned
Aug. 24, 1864.
Captain Wm. C. Ross, e. Aug. 6, 1862. Promoted
Second Lieutenant Dec. 10, 1862. Promoted First
Lieutenant Aug. 11, 1863. Promoted Captain Aug.
24,1864. Mustered out June 6, 1865.
First Lieutenant Moses M. Randolph, com. Aug. 27,
1862. Killed in battle Dec. 10, 1862.
First Lieutenant Philander Talbot, e. Aug. 6, 1862.
Promoted First Lieutenant Aug. 24, 1864. Mus-
tered out June 6, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Angello Benj. W.e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. July 20/64, disab.
Barton Wm. J. e. Aug. 11, 62, m. o. June 6. 1865.
Bassett Albert C. e. Aug. 9, '62, Sergt. kid. Atlanta,
Ga., Aug. 7, 1864.
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LA SALLE COUNTY "WAR RECORD.
Bradish Chas. A. e. Aug. 9, 1862. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bryant Jesse W. e. Aug. 11 '62, disd. Dec. 9. '63, disab.
Burgess Sydney W. e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. Sept. 1. 1865.
Chase Gardner L. e.Aug. 8/62, disd. Apl. 28, '63, disab.
Chambers Wm. M. e. Aug. 8, '62, m. o. May 27, '65,
Sergt.
Chambers Wm. e. Aug. 8'62,disd in 1863, disab.
Chance Jos. M. e. Aug 4, '62, died Oct. 13, '63, wds.
1 lark Sam. P. e. Aug. 11. 1862. died Jan.. 1863, wds.
Clark Jos. A. e. Aug. 8, 1863, trans, to V. R. C.
Ctark Wm. A. e. Aug. 11, '63, disd. Nov. 19, '63, disab.
Converse Gilbert R. e. Aug. 11. 1862, m. o. June 6. '65.
Cook Fiancis M. e. Aug. it, 1862. m.o. June 6, 1865.
Curtis Alfred e. Aug. 7, 1862. m. o. lune 6,1865.
Dah! E. Peter, e. Aug. 11, '62. disd. Mch.2. '63, disab.
Delaney Patrick, e. Aug. 7, '62, m. o. lune 6, 1865.
Dickson Jno. e. Aug. n, '62, trans. V. R.C. Feb. 11, '64.
Dunham Asa, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Dec. 3, 1863, as
Sergt., disab.
Evarts Jno. A e. Aug. 11, '62. disd. in 1863, disab.
Foss Andrew O. e. Aug. 6, '62, Sergt. died at Madison,
la., Nov. 22, 1863.
Gallup Seneca, e. Aug. 9, 1862, Corpl. absent wnd. at m
o. regt.
Garrison Florence A. e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Gallatin,
Tenn., Jan. 2, 1863.
Garrison Jas. e Aug. 9. '62. disd. in 1863. disab.
Graves Henrv C. e. Aug. o,'62. disd. Apl. 28. '63 disab.
Grist Oliver E, Aug. n, '62, disd. March 8, '65, disab.
Gronbeck August, e. Aug. 11, '62, died at Cincinnati,
Dec. 3, 1862.
Hall Francis M. e. Aug. '62, detached at m. o. of regt.
Hall Justin S. e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. March 15. '63, disab.
Hall Wm. S. e. Aug. 7. 1862. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Hanson Peter, e. Aug. n, '62, died at Bowling Green,
Kv., Jan., 1863.
Hinckley Francis, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. April 28, '63,
disab.
Hawling Edward P. e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 12, '65.
Hutchinson Edward, e. Aug. 6, 1S62, m.o . June 6, '65.
Hutchinson Warren, e. Aug. 6, 1862, missing in action,
Sept. 20 1863.
Hutchinson Clark, e. Aug. 6/62, disd. Nov. 7. '63, disab.
Johnson Julius, e. Aug. 7, 1862. disd. Jan., 1863, disab.
Johnson Jacob, e. Aug. n, '62. m. o. July 1, '65, prsnr.
Keller Enoch C. e. Aug. 8. 1862, m. o.June 2, 1865.
Kessler Matthias, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 18 "5.
Kinney Harmon L. e. Aug. 9, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865,
as First Sergt.
Mauson John, e. Aug. n.'62, trans. V. R.C. Feb. n,'64.
Mellon Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1862. m. o. June 6, 1865
Menz Chas. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865, Sergt.
McCampbell David, e. Aug. ix, 1862, prmt. Fife Major.
McCormick Nich. e. Aug. 7,'62, absent, wnd., m.o. regt.
McDonavan Jno. e. Aug. 7,'62, abs't, wnd., m. o. regt.
McCormick Jas. R. e. Sept. 10, 1862. m. o. June 6, '65.
Mogenson A' drew, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Maus Dominick, e. Aug. g. 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
McMally Jas. e. Aug. 11, 1862. deserted April 10, 1863.
Norris Louis W. e.Aug. 7, '62,accidentally kid. Nov. 1, '64.
Norton Chas. W. e. Aug. n, 1862, died at Columbus,
Ky., Jan. 9, 1863.
Olson Mons, e. Aug. n,'62, absent, wnd., at m.o. regt.
Patterson Stephen A. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m.o. June 6/65.
Peterson Gustav, e. Sept. 10, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Paul Wm. e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. April 28, 1863, disab.
Peter Andrew, e. Aug. 11, '62. disd. April 9, '63, disab.
Phillips Edw'd, e. Aug. n, '62. m.o. June 6, '65, Corpl.
Porter Jos. D. e. Aug. 11, '62, Sergt. kid. at Hartsville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Reder Jpo, e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Vining Station,
Ga. July 30, 1864.
Redman Wm. T. e. Aug. 11, '62. deserted Jan. 10, 1S63.
Rhuland Rich'd M. e. Aug. 8, '62, kid. at Bentonville,
N. C, March 17, 1865.
Rickey Nat. e. Aug. 8, 1862, disd. April 28, 1863, disab.
Robinson Adrian G. e. Aug. 11, '62, m. o. June 8, 1865.
Robinson Augustus, e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Robison Henry W. e. Aug. 9. '62, absent sick m.o. regt.
Ross Wm. C. e. Aug. 6, 1862, prmt. Second Lieut.
Schilling Christian, e. Aug. 11. 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
Seely Wm. e. Aug. 8, 1862, Corpl., trans, to V. R. C.
Sept. 4. 1864.
Shawbeck Nich. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Shelton Stephen J. e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., June, 1864, wnds.
Shelton Newton M. e. Aug. Q, , 62, wnd. Dec. 7, '62, disd.
Stamford David, e.Aug. 11, '62, disd. Dec. 4, 63, disab.
Stamford Lucien, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died Feb. 26, 1863,
wounds.
Steidinger Geo. e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Talbat Philander, e. Aug. 6, 1862, prmt. First Lieut.
Tullis Chas. W. e. Aug. 6, 1862. trans, to V. R. C.
Vail Jno C. e. Aug. 7, 1862, died Dec. 9, 18^2. wnds.
Walker Elisha, e. Aug. 9. '62. disd. Sept. 1, 1864, disab.
Walworth Jno. E. e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. Jan., '63, c'isab.
Wamock Robt. e. Aug. 11, 1862, Corpl., missing in ac-
tion Sept. 20, 1863.
Wamock Sam. W. e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Nov. 19, 1863,
disab.
West Robt. e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. Feb. 5, 1865, disab.
Whe- 1 Jos. G. e. Aug. 9, 1862. prmt. Fife Major.
White Howard B. e. Aug. 11, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Wilson Joshua, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1S65.
Woodward Cromwell, o. Aug. 8. 1862, as Sergt., kid. at
Hartville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Woolley Theson,e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Woolsoncroft Edward, e. Aug. 11, 1862, Corpl., kid. at
Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
Woolsoncroft Jno. e.Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
RECRUITS.
Ackerman Balser A. e. Nov. 23, 63,'trans. to 34th I.V.I.
Babcock Wm. e. Feb. 29, 1S64, trans, to 34th 1. V. I.
Barnions Edwin, e. Feb. 29, 1864. trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Boxendale Sam'l D.e. Feb. 29. '64, trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Chanbers Chas. W. e. Feb. 2g,'6 4 , trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Deck D.vid, e. Feb. 29, 1864, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Everett Edwin, e. Feb. 29, 1864, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
McAunel Wm. e. March 3, 18^5, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Noxon NeKon F. e. Feb. 29, 1864, died at Vining Sta-
tion, Ga., Jnly 30, 1864.
Risden Geo. N. e. Feb. 27, 1864, died at Chattanooga,
May 25, 1864.
Grant J. Ross, e. Feb. 27, '64, trans. 34th I. V. I. Sergt.
Company C.
Captain Samuel M. Heslet, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed March n, 1863.
Captain David C. Rynearson. com. Second Lieutenant
Aug. 27, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 11,
1863. Promoted Captain July 30, 1863. Killed in
battle July 20, 1864.
Captain Chas. K. Biown, e. (as First Sergeant) Aug.
13.1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant March 11,
18*3. Promoted First Lieutenant July 30, 1863.
Promoted Captain July 20, 1864. Mustered out
June 6, 1865.
First Lieutenant David C. Bunker, e. Aug. 9, 1862,
as Sergt. Mustered out June 6, 1865, as Sergt.
Commissioned First Lieutenant, but not mustered.
First. Sergt. Chas. K. Brown, e. Aug. 13, 1862, prmt.
Second Lieutenant.
Sergt Sam'l B. Grover, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at home
June 8, 1863.
Sergt. Wm. Harrold, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6. '65.
Sergt. David Bunker, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
as Sergt., com. First Lieut., but not mustered.
Sergt. Sam'l Lynn, e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. Feb. 23'64, wds.
Corpl. M. L. Branch, e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Oct. 24, '62,
disab.
Corpl. Geo. E. McLaughlin, e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. March
7, 1863. disab.
Corpl. L. W. Winslow, e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Dec. 24,
1862, as private, wnds.
Corpl. Nelson A. Graves e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Aug. 22,
1863, disab.
Corpl. Robt. McSmith, e.Aug. 11, 1 S62, trans, to V. R.
C. Nov. 23, 1863.
Corpl. Geo. W. Avery, e. Aug. 13 '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Corpl. Thos. E. Mclntyre, e. Aug. 13. 1862, died at
Tompkinsville, Ky., Dec. 28, 1862.
Corpl. Jno. W. Bulls, e. Aug. 11, 1862. disd. Jan. 14,
1863, wnds.
PRIVATES.
Avery Chas. P. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Brown Levi, e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. Aug. 1, 1863, disab.
Banks Sam'l, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. c. Aug. 17. 1865.
Banks Henry D. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Banks Jonathan, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Ballard Davis C. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6. 1865.
Bi-nker Sol. W. e. Aug. 13. 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Beck Hiram, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bremen Clarence, e. Aug. n, 1862, died at Gallatin,
Tenn., Dec. 20, 1862, wnds.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR EECOBD.
145
Berkstresser David, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Clark Squire L. W. e. Aug. 11, 1862, kid. at Chicka-
mauga, Sept. 20, 1863.
Cook Almon L. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Cady Geo. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Cady Lemuel L. e. Aug. 13, '62, trans, to Invalid Corps,
Nov. 25, 1863.
Carr Sam'l H. e. Aug. 14, '62, died at Camp Chase, O.,
Jan. 17, 1863.
Collins Winthrop E. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Jan. 14, '63,
disab.
Cook Jno. A. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Nashville, July
19, 1864, wnds.
Doane Robt. C. e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Jan.14,'64, disab.
Doane Sam'l G. e. Aug. 13, '62, absent wnd. at m.o.regt.
Davis Jno. W. e. Aug. 20, 1862, m. o. June 7, 1865.
Edwards Samuel W. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m.o. June 6, '65,
as Corpl.
Edwards William, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Foot Frederick, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Feb. 10, '63, wds.
Foot Isaac A. e. Aug. 14, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Glover Frederick L. e. Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 6, 1865.
Golden Hamilton, e. Aug. 20, 1862, died at Gallatin,
Tenn., Jan. 7, 1863.
Harris Duane M. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Bowling
Green, Ky., Nov. 21, 1862.
Hastings Thomas, e. Aug. 13, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Hess Frederick C. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Hoffman James R. e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to Invalid
Corps, Nov. 25, 1863.
Hoffman Herman, e.Aug.n,i862,disd.M'ch 7, '6s,disab.
Harding Josiah, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Dec. 11, '65, disab.
Ives John A. e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Aug. 26, '63, disab.
Jack Benjamin, e. Aug. 12, '62, disd. Oct. 2, '62, disab.
Jack James A. e. Aug. 12, 1862, deserted March 15, '63.
Jewittet Charles H. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. May 24,
1863, disab.
Kersey James A. e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Dec. 24, '62, disab.
Kaup Roman, e. Aug. n, '62, disd. Jan. 5, '63, disab.
Knox James, e. Aug. 15, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Lewis Jos. e. Aug. 11, 1862, prmt. Principal Musician.
Loucks James H. e. Aug. 13, '62, deserted before mus-
ter-in.
Linn Addis, e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Camp Lew. Wal-
lace, Dec. 23, 1862.
Lyon Edward P. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Luellen Clement, e. Aug. n, '62, disd. Mch.7,'63, disab.
Logan James e. Aug. 14, 1862, Corpl., killed Kenesaw,
June 18, 1864.
Levers John A. e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. Jan. 27, '63, wds.
Munson Edward, e. Aug. 13, 1862, Corpl., killed at
Peach Tree Creek. Ga., July 20, 1864.
Moffatt George C. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Jan. 20, 1863,
disab.
Mitchell D. Marquis L. e. Aug. 20, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as Corpl.
Markli Thos H. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 9, 186?.
McDowell James C. e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 6, 65.
Porterfield Jerry M. e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. July 20,
1863, disab.
Pomercy James W. e. Aug. 11, 1862, pris. of war since
July 20, 1864.
Pollens Isaac, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Pool James N. e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Chicago, Mar.
24, 1863.
Parker Washington G. e. Aug. n, 1862, kid. at Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
Pigney Henry, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Dec. 25, 1862.
Phillips Jacob, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Sept. 17, '63, disab.
Peters William, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Ralph John B. e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Jan. 27, 1864.
Ransberger George, e. Aug. 20, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Ralph James G. e. Aug. 8, '62, Corpl., absent, wound-
ed, m. o. regt.
Reeder John G. e. Aug. 15, 1862. trans, to V. R. C,
March 15, 1S65.
Risdon Ambrose, e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Jan. 2, '63, disab.
Rhodes William H. e.Aug.i3,'62,di-d.July 2o,'63, disab.
Stephens Edgar L. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Sauiessig I. Peter, e. Aug. 14, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Smiley Dallas, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Jan. 1, 1863.
Sherlock Alexander A. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R.
C, Jan. 27, 1864.
Signc.n Stephen A. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
as Sergt.
9 l /z
Sayles Oscar, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Chattanooga,
Oct. 26, 1863.
Van Saw Willram, e. Aug. 13, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Wilkins James E. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Winslow William L. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m.o. June 6, '65.
White George, e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Oct. 2, '62, disab.
Wilson James H. e. Aug. 12, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Wixom Chauncey J. e. Aug. 21, 1862, trans, to Inv.
Corps, Jan. 30, 1864.
Zarr Francis, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Gallatin, Tenn.,
Dec. 29, 1862, wounds.
RECRUITS.
Harris Albert, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Company D.
Captain Wm. H. Collins, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed Nov. 10, 1864.
Captain Thos. Clark, e. as First Sergeant Aug. n, 1862.
Promoted Second Lieutenant Dec. 31, 1862. Pro-
moted First Lieutenant April 13, 1863. Promoted
Captain Nov. 10, 1864. Honorably discharged (as
First Lieutenant) May 15, 1865.
First Lieutenant Wm. E. Brush, |com. Aug. 27, 1862.
Died April 13, 1863.
First Lieutenant Jno. T. Post, e. as Corporal Aug. 15,
1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 10, 1864.
Mustered out (as Sergeant) June 6, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Jas. Snedaker, com. Aug. 27, 1862.
Resigned Dec. 31, 1862.
Second Lieutenant Zenas R. Jones, e. as Sergeant
Aug. 4, 1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant April
3, 1863. Resigned Jan. 9, 1864.
First Sergt. Thomas Clark, e. Aug. 4, 1862, promoted
Second Lieut.
Sergt. William P. Miller, e. Aug. 12, 1862, private,
trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Sergt. Wm. Bassindale, e. Aug. 4, 1862, reduced to
ranks at his own request, disd. April 21, '63, disab.
Sergt. Henry Upton, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Feb. 2o,'63
for promotion in 121st N. Y.
Corpl. John H. Shepherd, e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd.
Corpl. Thomas G. Stevens, ©. Aug. 13, 1862, killed at
Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
Corpl. Wm. C. Brown, e. Aug. 4, 1862, rejected.
Corpl. Sherman Leland, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 6.
1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. Luther A. Wilson, e. Aug. 10, 1862, disd. for
promotion, Aug. 18, 1864.
Corpl. Henry Morgan, e. Aug. 5, 1862, disd. Feb. 5,
1863, disab.
Corpl. C. H. Makeever, e. Aug. 4, 1862. disd. Aug. 28,
1863, imbecility.
Musician Alonzo Rathburn, e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. May
30, 1865.
Musician Otho Hobart, e. Aug. 12, 1862, killed, Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
Wagoner James C. Hutton, e. Aug. 7, '62, m. o. June
6, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Austin A. H. e. Aug. n, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Anderson Hiram, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Vining Sta-
tion, Ga., Aug. 2, 1864, wounds.
Anderson Henry B. e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Oct. 7, 1864.
Brent Robert S. e. Aug. 12, 1862, absent, sick, at m. o.
of regt.
Brown Theodore B. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. April 10, '63.
disab.
Bute John F. e. Aug.12,'62, disd. June 25, '63, wounds.
Baker Joseph, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bramble James F. e. Aug.12, 1862, m. o. May n, 1865.
Bramble Alex. e. Aug.12, 1862, m.o. June 12, 1865.
Burnham Thomas, e. Aug. 5, 1862, Corpl., killed at
Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
Bute Cyrus H. e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Grand Rapids,
111., Jan. 24, 1863.
Baker Gardiner, e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. July 31, '63, disab.
Carmony John W. e. Aug.10,'62, disd. Aug. 22, '63, wds.
Crocker John B. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Clark Henry F. e. Aug.12,'62, disd. March 2,'64, disab.
Coyle William B. e. Aug. 12, 1862, killed, Peach Tree
Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
146
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR KECORD.
Carrier David A. e. Aug. 12, '62, disd. Dec.9,'63,disab.
Dewey John, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Aug. 30, 1863, ac-
cidental wounds.
Ebersol Albert H. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
March 15, 1864.
Espy John, e. Aug. 4, 1862, died at Corwin, Tenn.,
Dec. 4, 1863.
Eyster William R. e. Aug. n, 1862, missing in action,
Fen:
Sept. 11, 1863
n John,
14, 1"'
e. Aug. s, 1862, killed at Resaca, Ga., May
Ford John, e. Aug. 12, '62, m. o. June 6, '65, as Corpl.
Fight William A. e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., March 12, 1864.
Forett fohn, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Gargerick John W. e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted at Camp
Chase, Ohio.
Grant Norman, e. Aug. 12, 1862, killed at Peach Tree
Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
Galloway Marshall, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Gage Richard J. e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Feb.6,'65, wds.
Gilbert George L. e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Oct.26, "62.
Hurin Alexander M. e. Aug. 18, 1862, m. o June 6, '65.
Holland Lam. F. e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865, as
Sergt., promoted for meritorious service.
Hutton Louis K. e. Aug. 7, 1862, trans, to V. R. C, as
Corpl.
Hall Ayers, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865. _
Hutton Pembroke S. e. Aug. 12, 1862, missing in ac-
tion, Sept. 20, 1863.
Hurin R. E. C. e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Bowling
Green, Ky., Nov. 14, 1862.
Houghton George L. e. Aug.12, 1862, m.o. June i6,'6s.
Hare Robert, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Jones William H. e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Kirkpatrick Murray, e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
as Sergt.
Lyons Samuel A. e. Aug. 14, 1862, absent, sick, at m.
o. of regt.
Lane Marcus J. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 26, 1865.
Lane Alexander H. e. Aug. 13, '62, died Oct. 4, '64, wds.
Laing Joseph W. e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1S65.
Law Thomas S. e. Aug. 5, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
March 15, 1865.
Miller Melvin P. e. Aug. 12,1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Moore <'ieorge, e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1S65.
Marcellus Chas. O. e. Aug.7,'62,disd.Mar.i3,'63,disab.
Marsh George, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 23, 1864,
as 1st Sergt., wounds.
Newcomb Wm. P. e. Aug. 14, 1862, absent, sick, at m.
o. of regt.
Plowman James R. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Jan. 25, 1864.
Phillips Charles G. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
was prisoner.
Powers L. H. e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to V. R. C, Jan.
30, 1864.
Powers John S. e. Aug. 11, 1862, killed at Peach Tree
Creek, July 20, 1864.
Powers John H. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. at Bowling
Green, Ky.
Payne Samuel G. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Peter John, e. Aug. 8, 1862, absent, sick, at m. o. regt.
Price Henry E. e. Aug. 12, 1862, Sergt., killed Peach
Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
Rinker John, e. Aug. 7, 1862, absent, sick, m. o. rest.
Reynolds Reuben F. e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Slagle Oscar, e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65. Corpl.
Smalley Reuben, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Smith Anson S. e. Aug. 7, 1862, disd. May 6, '64, wds.
Smith Wm. H. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Snedaker Geo. H. e. Aug. 14, 1S62, disd.
Schaub Baltzer, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 18^5.
Spink James, e. Aug. 13, 1S62, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Shapland John, e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. Mch. 1, '65, Corpl.
Sapp Jos. L. e. Aug. 12, 1862, kid. at Hartville, Tenn.,
Dec. 7, 1862.
Skeil Oliver W. e. Aug. 7, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Stewart M. H. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June .6, 1865.
Smith Filch, e. A\ig. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Taylor Geo. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Tallis David, e. Aug. 7, 1862, trans, to V. R. C. Feb.
15, 1864.
Varrel J. C. e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Dec. 21, '63, disab.
Vreeland J. K. e. Aug. 12, 1862, deserted June 15, '63.
Woodward Thos. L. e. Aug. 12, 1S62, disd. Dec. 9, '63,
disab.
Wallace L. F. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Wallace Robt. S. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Wallbridge Ora D. e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. May 5, '64, wds.
RECRUITS.
Clark Grover C. e. Feb. 29, 1S64, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Coon Peter, e. April 11, 1865, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Greenless Wm. A. e. Feb. 16, '65, trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Harvey Daniel, e. April 11, '65, trans, to I. V. I.
HallWm. H. e. April 11, 1S65, trans, to I. V. I.
Hutton Wm. H. H., Sergt., disd. and prmt. Hospital
Steward U. S. A.
Johnson David Robert, e. Feb. 10, 1865, died at Phila-
delphia, Pa., March 23, 1865.
Marcellus Chas. O. e. April 15, '65, trans. 1034th I.V.I.
McComack Wm. e. Feb. 16, 1865, trans, to 34th I V.I.
Roller George, e. April 11, 1865, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Shapland Henry, e. April 5, 1865, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
VermetteGeo. E. e. April 11, '65, trans, to 34th I.V.I -
Company E.
Capt. Jno. S. H. Doty, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Killed in
battle, July 20, 1864.
Captain Ransom P. Dewey, com. Second Lieutenant,
Aug. 27, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant, Dec.
22, 1S62. Promoted Captain, July 20, 1864. Mus-
tered out June 6, 1865.
First Lieutenant Milton Strawn, com. Aug. 27, 1862.
Died of wounds, Dec. 22, 1862.
First Lieutenant Wm. W. Calkins , e. as First Sergeant,
Aug. 7, 1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant, Dec.
22, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant, July 20, '64.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
Sergt. Henry A. Doty, e. Aug. 7, 1862, disd. April 14,
1863, as First Sergt., disab.
Sergt. Homer A. Wilson, e. Aug. 7, 1S62, First Sergt.,
trans, to V. R. C. Jan. 2, 1864.
Sergt. Robert A. Bratton, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. May
13, 1865, as First Sergt , wds.
Sergt. Geo. W. Cummins, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June
6, 1865, as First Sergt.
Corpl. Thos. Weeks e Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Corpl. John D. King, e. Aug. 7, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Corpl. Lyman Nattinger, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as private.
Corpl. David V. Diehl, e. Aug. 11, 1862, kid. at Hart.
ville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Corpl. Wm. J. Anderson, e. Aug. 7, 1862, Sergt., ab-
sent wounded at m. o. of regt.
Corpl. Chester Martin, e. Aug. 7, 1862, died at home,
March 10, 1864.
Corpl. Hilon L. Mead, e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June6,'6s.
Corpl. Almon C. Wilsey, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V.
R. C. Jan. 16, 1864.
Musician Davis A. Wister, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Apl.
14, 1863, wds.
Musician John G. Debolt, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died of
wds received before Atlanta, Ga., July 10, 1864.
Wagoner Jno. Parrott, e. Aug. n, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
PRIVATES.
Abbott John W. e. Aug. 11, 1862, kid. at Peach Tree
Creek, July 20, 1864.
Abbott Thos. e. Aug. 11, 1S62, disd. Dec. 9, '63, disab.
Breese Silas H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Sept. 30, 1863.
Baumgardner Isaac, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Jan. 9, '64,
disab.
Boyce Edwin A. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Chicago, Mch.
19, 1863.
Brown Chas. A. e. Aug. 14, 1862, Irans. to. V. R. C,
Feb. 29, 1864.
Bailey Geo. H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Cregger Frederick, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Curtis Edward J. e. Aug. n, 1862, kid. at Hartv.lle,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Conard Wm. H. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65, Sergt.
Conard Jos. W. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Cunningham James, e. Aug. 18, 1862, disd. Feb. 22,
1864, wds.
Dunn Peter, e. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Peach Tree Creek,
July 20, 1864.
Denkert Wm. H. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Oct. 8,'64, disab.
Downing Lysander, e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Nov. 1, 1S64.
Daily Wm. J. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Jan. 6, '63,
sentence G. C. M. to loss of all pay, etc., due.
Ellsworth Willard M. e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to V. R.
C., Oct. 29, 1864.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
147
Eames Levi, e. Aug. 12, 1S62, m. o. June 6, '65, pris.war.
Ferris Thos. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Sept. 6, 1862.
Grove Jeremiah, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died, Savannah, Ga.,
Feb. 9, 1865.
Green fames L. e. Aug. 14, 1862. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Hart John W. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Hills James M. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Harney Edward, e. Aug. 14, 1862. deserted Apl. 12, '63.
Hemenover Geo. e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862, wds.
Hurd [acob, e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted April 9, 1863.
Holland James F. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Chattanooga,
Nov. 3, 1863.
Jones Henry, e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65,Corpl.
Kemp Albert P. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. April 24, '65, disab.
Kimble Jared K. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65,
as Corpl.
Kain Wm. A. e. Aug. 13, 1862, kid. at Mission Ridge,
Nov. 25, 1863.
Lathrop David K. e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. July 4/63, disab.
*Lawrence Oliver L. e. Aug. 13, 1S62.
Lyle James, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 12, '62, disab.
Lawrence James D. e. Aug. 15, 1S62, m.o. May 20, '65.
Morrill Langdon B.e. Aug. 14, 1862, died, Camp Chase,
O., Jan. 15, 1863.
Merrick Alonzo V. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Oct. 4, '62
disab.
Moorhead Orville L. e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Mariam Samuel V. e. Aug. 13, 1862, wounded Dec. 7,
1862, died.
Middleton Wm. G. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Chatta-
nooga, Nov. 22, 1863.
McCullough Felix, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Camp Chase,
0.,Dec. 28, 1862.
McCullough John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Peach Tree
Creek, July 20, 1864.
McCormick Jas. e. Aug. 14, '62, deserted Apl 12, '63.
Newell James A. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Nattinger John M. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Phillips Benj. e. Aug. 15, 62, disd. Jan. 25, '63, wds.
Pilkington Wm. W. e. Aug. 14, 1862, wounded July 20,
1864, died.
Pembroke Wm. H. e. Aug. 15. 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Ruger Chas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died July 29, '64, wds.
Rose Wm. R. e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Oct. 15, '62, disab.
Rumple David S. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. July 1, 1865,
was prisr.
Robinson Robt. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Jan. 9, '64, disab.
Russell Edward C. e. Aug. 14, '62. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Roberts Alfred, e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. April 14, '63, disab.
Reigart John P. e. Aug. g, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Reed Roderick D. e. Aug. 14, '62, died Dec. 7, '62, wds.
Sherman Joseph A. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. May 13, '63,
wounds.
Smith Chas. G. e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Sept. 2, 1863.
Smith Wm. H.e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Smith Henry B. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Smith Wm. A. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Oct. 15, '62, disab.
Seward James G. e. Aug. 14, '62, died Oct. 22, '63, wds.
Schoonover James C. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died June 26,
1864, wds.
Schoville Albert J. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Waits Russell, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Wilson Wm. i_). e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Feb. 27, '65, disab.
Wilson Charles W. e. Aug. 13, 1862, absent, sick, at m.
o. of regt.
Wallace John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1S65.
Wilkinson Wm. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65, Corpl.
Weller Wm. A. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. July 23, '63, disab.
Wyman Evan, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Wilson Joseph B. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Whitmore Daniel C. e. Aug. is, '62, deserted Jan. 6, '63.
Walter StefTen, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Tompkinsville,
Ky., Nov. 22, 1862.
Whitman Quincy D. e. Aug. 14, 1862, prmt. Sergt.Maj.
Zeek Darwin, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. Jan. 24, '65, disab.
RECRUITS.
Coil Alexander, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Fisk Samuel A. e. Dec. 16, 1863, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Hornbeck Newton J. e. Dec. 16, 1863, trans, to 34th
I. V. I.
Newell John G. e. Dec. 16, 1863, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Pembrook Chas. A. e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Ward John, e. Dec. 21, 1863, died at Springfield, 111.,
Sept. 23, 1864.
Company F.
Captain Jas. M. McKernan, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed June 4, 1863.
Captain Wm. Strawn, com. First Lieutenant, Aug. 27,
1862. Promoted Captain June 4, 1863. Mustered
out June 6, 1865.
First Lieutenant John C. Lindsley, com. Second Lieu-
tenant Aug. 27, 1S62. Promoted First Lieutenant
June 4, 1863. Resigned Aug. 5, 1864.
First Lieutenant Chas. M. Johnson, e. as Sergeant
Aug. 14, 1862. Mustered, out June 6, 1865, as Ser-
geant. Com. First Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Second Lieutenant Austin V. Mitchell, e. as First Ser-
geant, Aug. 14, 1862. Com. Second Lieutenant,
but not mustered. Discharged 14, 1864, disab.
First Sergt. Austin V. Mitchell, e. Aug. 14, 1862, com.
Second Lieut., but not mustered, disd. Feb. 14, '64,
disab.
Sergt. Geo. W. Cooper, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Mch. 7,
1865, as private, disab.
Sergt. Joseph Walker, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 4, 1862.
Sergt. Chas. M. Johnson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June
6, 1865, as Sergt., com. First Lieut., but notmust'd.
Corpl. Benj. W.Jones.e. Aug. 14, '62, deserted Dec. 30, '62.
Corpl. Geo. McCandish, e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V.
R. C, April 30, 1864.
Corpl. Wm. A. Smith, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. April 23,
1864, disab.
Corpl. Benj. F. Fahnestook, e.Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Dec.
28, 1S62, disab.
Corpl. Stephen Mason, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Apr. 27,
1863, disab.
Corpl. Wm. Cunliff, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Tompkins-
ville, Ky., Dec. 30, 1862.
Corpl. Calvin Brook, e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Corpl. Martin H. Krider, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Nov.
26, '63, as Sergt., for prmt. to 16th U. S. C. Troops.
Musician Jeremiah Hopple, e. Aug. 14, 1861, trans, to
V. R. C, Aug. 26, 1864.
Musician Gerrard Hart, e.Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 12, '65.
Wagoner Henry Ackerman, e.. Aug. 14, 1862, m.o. June
6, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Ayers Joshua, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. July 6, 1865.
Ayers Isaac S. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Feb. 5, '64, "disab.
Brown Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862. kid. at Hartville, Tenn.,
Dec. 7, 1862.
Brock Rees, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Burns Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Apr. 27, '63, disab.
Barnhaut Jos. e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Dec. 26, 1862.
Bardwell Aaron G. e.Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 6/65, Sergt.
Bretwell Robt. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m.o. June 6, 1865.
Cooper Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C, Jan.
30, 1864.
Cooper John. e. Aug. 14, '62, absent, sick at m.o.Regt.
Clark Ornn, e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. June 15, '64, disab.
Cadwell Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to. V. R. C.Nov.
16, 1863.
Diffenbaugh Oliver, e. Aug. 14, i862,m.o. June 6, 1865.
Daugherty Daniel B.e. Aug. 14,1862, disd. Nov. 23,
1863, as Corpl., disab.
Diffenbach Lewis, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Dec. 23, 1863,
as Corpl., disab.
Eberhart Edward, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Kenesaw
Mt., June 29, 1864.
Flanigan Wm. e, Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Getchell Isaac, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Getchell Js. M. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Mch. 4, '65, disab.
Green Sam'I , e. Aug, 14, '62, disd. Apr. 27, '63, .disab.
Gottman Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
Harbit Chris, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Dec. 26, 1S62.
Holland John, e. Aug. I4 , 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Harbit John. e. Aug. 14, 1862. disd. Mch. 20, '63,disab.
Hill Durk, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Houchin Asbury, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Haine Levi, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Jan. 1, 1863,
apprehended.
Jefferson Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.
July 21, 1864.
Kees Henry, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. May 5, 1863.
Keiser Ernest, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6. 1865.
Kiner Samuel A. e. Aug 14, 1862, m. o. May 30, 1865,
was prisnr.
Kelly Jos. P. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Larkin Alonzo L. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Feb. i,'63, disab.
Laughlin Lemuel R. e. Aug. 14, 1862, Sergt., kid. at
Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863.
14S
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR EOECED.
Larson Oliver, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Mason Amos L. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, 65, Corpl.
Mushberger Geo. e.Aug. 14/62, m.o. June 6, '65,Corpl.
Mooney Jas. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '65,as Corpl.
McDougall John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Morrison John, e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Feb. 1, '63, disab.
Mackey Geo. W. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Apr. 27,63, disab.
Mackey Chas. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m o. June 6, 1865.
McCashland Sam'l, e. Aug.14,'62, died July 29,'64,wds.
Pressor Geo. C. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865. «
Pool Robt. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Pressor John C. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Roberts Sam'l, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Ryerson Thos. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Apr. 27, '63, disab.
Rodahaffer David, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Rude Squire, e. Aug. i4,'62, disd. Mch. 7, '65, disab.
Rockwood Warren, e. Aug.14,'62, disd. Feb.i5,65,disab.
Spencer Jas. Jr. e. Aug. 14, 1862, Corpl., kid. at Hart-
ville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Shay John H. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, '6s, Sergt.
Thompson Thos. e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Jan. 17, 1863.
Trenary Sam'l N. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Chattanooga,
Dec. s, 1863, wds.
Woodbury Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Wilkinson Jas. H. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
April 30, 1864.
Wilson Hugh H. e. Aug.r4,'62, m.o. June 6/65, Sergt.
Zeloff Samuel, e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6/65, Corpl.
RECRUITS.
Buckley Abner W. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Camp Chase,
O., Jan. 27,1863.
Johnson John P.e.Aug.14, 62, absent sick at m.o.Regt.
Laughlin John W. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Chattanooga,
Sept. 29, 1863, wds.
Company G.
Captain Johnson Misner, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed luly 22, 1863.
Captain Selim White, e. as First Sergeant Aug. 14, '62.
Promoted First Lieutenant April 3, 1863. Pro-
moted Captain July 22, 1863. Mustered out June
6, 1865.
First Lieutenant Robt. V. Simpson, com. Aug. 27, 62.
Resigned Apr. 3, 1863.
First Lieutenant Jas. P. Rood, e. Aug. 15, 1862. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant March 8, 1863. Promoted
First Lieutenant July 22, 1863. Mustered out
June 6, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Samuel J. Haney, com. Aug. 27,
1862. Resigned Mch. 8, 1863.
Sergt. Myron Newton, e. Aug. 9, 1862, kid. at Hart-
ville, Tenn., Dec, 7, 1862.
Sergt. John Jackson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Oct. 1, '62,
disab.
Sergt. Geo. H. Marlett, e. Aug. 9, 62, m.o. June 6, 65.
Sergt. Wesley Misner, e. Aug. 14, '62, m.o. June 6,'65,
as First Sergt.
Corpl. Asher D. Gibson, e. Aug. 15, 62, prmt. Quarter-
master Sergt.
Corpl. Wm. Close, e. Aug. 10, 1862, Sergt., trans. Inv.
Corps, Nov. 15, 1863.
Corpl. Sam'l B. Porter, e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o, June 6,
1865, as private.
Corpl. John Thorson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, Sergt., kid. at
Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.
Corpl. Amos E. Brown, e.Aug.10,'62, disd. May n,'63.
Corpl. Chas. B. Cook, e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. John Blackburn, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as private.
Corpl. Samuel B. Buchanan, e. Aug. 14, 1862, private,
deserted Jan. 1, 1863.
Musician Wm. J. Porter, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June
6, 1865.
Wagoner Samuel Fullerton, e. Aug. 14,1862, disd. April
6, 1864, disab.
PRIVATES.
Bailey John, e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. May 4, '63, wds.
Bullard Edw. S. e. Aug. 15, 1864, m. o. May 30, 1865.
Bagwell .Marshall, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Campbell A. W. e. Aug. 14/62, missing in action, Sept.
20, 1863.
Campbell Hamilton, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 65.
Courtright Cornelius C. e. Aug. 9, '62, m. o. June 6,
1862, as Corpl.
Cox John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Frankfort, Ky.,
Oct. 28, 1862.
Cams Jas. C. e. Aug 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Demmett Hugh A. e. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Diefenbach Jacob, e. Aug.14,'62, died May 23,'64.wds.
Diehl Jacob F. e. Aug. 12, '62, m.o. June 6, '65, Corpl.
Dinger Peter, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865,
was prisnr.
Deegan Jas. e. Aug. 15, '62, m. o. June 6, '65, as Corpl.
Eastwood Ab. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Jan. 30, '64, disab.
Frost Bradley, e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Jan. 16, '63, disab.
Fullerton Benj. S. Aug. 15, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Gillhum Orsenus B. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m.o. July 15,1865,
prisnr. war.
Haney Samuel B. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Jan. i6,'63,disab.
Harris Oliver, e. Aug. 14,1862, deserted Mch. 15, 1863.
Hawk Philip A. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. May 26, 1865.
Hess Martin, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Jan. 23, 1863.
Jones Wm. M. e. Aug. 12, '62, disd. July 7, 1864, wds.
Jones Jacob, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Jan. 1, 1863.
Jacob Henry, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Koon John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Dec. 3, '63, disab.
Latham Jos. B. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Larson Osman, e. Aug. 14, 1862, kid. at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Lond John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Oct.i, 1862, disab.
Lewis George T. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Aug. n, 1863,
as Corpl., disab.
Lawrence Oliver, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Mason Daniel, e. Aug. 15, 1S62, disd. Jan. 6, 1865, as
Corpl., wounds.
McCleary Charles e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
McKinnell William, e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. July 15, '65,
was prisoner.
Misner Jeptha H. e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Jan. 16, 1863.
Misner John H. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Mohtaire Peter, e. Aug. n, 1862, deserted Jan. 20, 1863.
Newman James, e. Aug. 15,1862, deserted Jan. 1, 1863.
Nelson Jacob, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Chicago, 111.,
May 2, 1863.
Nelson Cannut, e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. May 30, 1864.
Newton Isaac, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Tompkicsville,
Ky., Nov. 26, 1862.
Overmire Jacob J. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
as Corpl.
Oberst Anthony, e. Aug. 12, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Powers James, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865, as
Corpl.
Pound Frank L. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Palmer John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, killed at Hartville,
Tenn., Dec. 7, 1862.
Riddle Jesse, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. May 11, '63, disab.
Ritter Jacob, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 186s;.
Ruble John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865, as
Sergeant.
Rosmerson John W. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. May 11,
1863, disab.
Rood Harvey A. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. July 22, 1865,
was prisoner.
Rood James P. e. Aug. 15, 1862, prmt. 2d Lieut.
Rowe Alfred, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Aug. 23, '63, disab.
Rowe James S. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
as Sergt.
Richardson Ole, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Swenson John, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Oct.i, '62, disab.
Sibert Andrew S. e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Stevenson Thomas, e. Aug. 15, 62, deserted Mch. 15, '63.
Serzine Thomas S. e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent, sick, at m.
o. of regt.
Scott Ephraim, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Sampson Simon, e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Thomas John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Gallatin, Tex.,
Jan. 13, 1863.
Thorson Edward H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Nash-
ville, Tenn., Jan. 3, 1864.
Tice Alonzo, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Nov. 30, '62, disab.
Tice Lewis, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Nov. 30, '62, disab.
Tice Levi, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Nov. 30, 1862, disab.
Wright John K. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to Invalid
Corps, Nov. 1, 1863.
Wilkinson Aaron, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., March 6, 1863.
Weichnicht William, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m.o. June 6. '65.
Walker John M. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Tompkins-
ville, Ky., Nov. 27, 1862.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
149
RECRUITS.
Barr John, trans, to Invalid Corps, Nov. i, 1863.
Brown Albert F. disd. May 11, 1863, disab.
Campbell John H. e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Fullerton Theodore C. e. Jan. 4/64, trans, to 34th I.V.I.
Gillman John C. e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to I. V. I.
Richardson John, e. March 2, 1865, trans, to I. V. I.
Company H.
Sergt. Francis H. Slice, e. Aug. 6, 1862, m.o.June 6,'6s.
Corpl. Egbert S. Dresser, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June
6, 1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. Allen McGill, e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Musician John W. Philson, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June
6, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Bosley Harvey M. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
April 1, 1865.
Daniels James W. e. Aug. 7, 1862, died at Gallatin,
Tenn., Dec. 25, 1862.
Dixon George, e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. Dec. 21, '63, disab.
Ely John, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Chicago, Mar. 4, '63.
Hunt Jacob P. e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Ackworth, Ga.,
June 7, 1864, wounds.
Hunt William J. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Dec. 21, 1863,
disab.
Hamit George W. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Jacobs Boswell, e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Jan. 1, 1865.
Moore Charles M. e. Aug. 11, 1862, killed at Mission
Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863.
Mosher Edgar W. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
Miller Alexander P. e. Aug. 6, 1862, m.o. June 6,1865.
Moore Edwin S. e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent, sick, at m. o.
of regt.
Nelson Henry, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Nelson Levi, e. Aug. 12, 1862, deserted Dec. 11, 1862.
Porter Abraham, e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Porter Samuel, e. Aug.11,1862, disd. Nov. 30, '62, disab.
Smith Isham, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Chattanooga,
Oct. 10, 1863.
Short Christopher, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Spring Jacob T. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Smith Jacob M. e. Aug. 6, '62, died at home Dec. 3, '63.
Sigg Peter, e. Aug.11, 1862, died at Chattanooga, Nov.
10, 1863.
Waggoner Sylvester, e. Aug. 6, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Willavill Henry, e. Aug. 11, 1862, missing since the
battle of Hartville, Tenn.
Woodruff Samuel C. e. Aug. 15,1862, m.o. June 6,1865.
Wells Lewis C. e. Aug. 15, '62, disd. May 4, '64, disab.
RECRUITS.
Brown Matthew, e. Feb. 23, '64, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Dillman Wm. O. e. Feb. 12, '64, died at Louisville, Ky.,
Nov. 1, 1864.
Evritt Henry S. e. Feb. 19, 1864, trans, to. 34th I. V. I.
Graves Chas. E. e. Feb. 19, 1864, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 7,1864.
Johnson Israel, e. March 28, 1865, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Merrittjno. E. e. Feb. 12,1864, disd. Jan. 19, 1865.
Mills Parker P. e. Feb. 12, '64, trans. 34th I. V.I. .Corpl.
Turner Chas. H. Jan. 12, 1864, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Company I.
Captain Jno. Wadleigh, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Resigned
July 30, 1863.
Captain Willard Proctor, com. First Lieutenant Aug. 27,
1862. Promoted Captain July 30, 1863. Mustered
out June 6, 1865.
First Lieutenant Jos. M. Wright, e. as Sergeant Aug. 9,
1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant Feb. 10, 1863.
Promoted First Lieutenant July 30, 1863. Mus-
tered out June 6, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Chas. E. Weber, com. Aug. 27, 1862.
Resigned Feb. 9, 1863.
First Sergt. Wm. C. F. Hempstead, e. Aug. 12, 1862,
prmt. Chaplain.
Sergt. Lorenzo G. Stout, e. Aug. g, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as First Sergt.
Sergt. Arthur S. Smith, e. Aug. 9. '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Sergt. And. Moffitt, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Corpl. Ethridge Chapman, e. Aug. 9, 1862, kid. at
Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863.
Corpl. Chas. L. Bangs, e. Aug. 9, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Corpl. Timothy Powel,e. Aug. 8, '62, as Sergt. missing
since battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863.
Corpl. Nelson H. Cooper, e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Jan. 8,
1863, disab.
Corpl. Ab. A. Vermilyea, e. Aug. 11, 1862, deserted
April 17, 1863.
Corpl. R. Perry Hoge,e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. May 29, '63,
disab.
Corpl. Wm. Cady, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Corpl. Chas L. Symonds, Aug. 9, 1862, died at Tomp-
kinsville, Ky., Nov. 21, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Andrews Bartholomew, e. Aug. n, 62, trans, to Invalid
Corps, June 30, 1864.
Allen David, e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Aug. 17, '63, disab.
Burns Frank W. e. Aug. q, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Baker Sam'l, e. Aug. 9, 62, disd. Jan. 20, '63, disab.
Blackburn Oliver C. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. July 29, '63,
disab.
Bane Jacob, e. Aug. n, '62, disd. April 23, 1864, disab.
Bailey Jno. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Bailey And. J. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Beagle David, e. Aug. 13, 1862, deserted April 5, 1863.
Bane Henry, e. Aug. 20, 1862, rejected.
Cooper Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Collins And. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Nov. 7, 1863, disab.
Coyne Jno. e. Aug. 11, 1862, absent, sick, at m. o. regt.
Callaghan Anthony, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Davis Elisha M. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Douglas Henry C. e. Aug. 12, 1862, kid. at Mission
Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863.
Everet Rich'd, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Ellenbocker Nicholas, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Gallatin,
Tenn., June 19, 1863.
Erie Jno. e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Cowen, Tenn., Aug.
24, 1863.
Foster Sam'l, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Frink Win. E. e. Aug. 9, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865, Corpl.
Harkness Porter, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Lamp Chas. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865, Sergt.
Lakin Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Nov. 16, 1863, disab.
Lakin Wm. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Mullin Isaac B. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. June 16, '63, disab.
Marley Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. April 22, 1864, disab.
McDonald Wm. M. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. June 23,'63,disab.
Mahan Thos. e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted May 1, 1863.
Miller Christian, e. Aug. 9, '62, died at Bowling Green,
Ky., Nov. 16, 1862.
Mallory Erastus T. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. May 9, 1865.
Moore Jno. e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Louisville, Ky.,
Nov. 11, 1862.
McFadden Fernando D. e. Aug. 9/62, m.o. June 6,'6s.
Malone Sam'l B. e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted Dec. 20, '62.
Marsh T. Henry, e. Aug. 11, 1862, missing in action at
Chickamauga.
Mallory Merritt, e. Aug. 12, '62, disd. May 15, '63, disab.
Mackey A. Wise, e. Aug. 13, '62, deserted Dec. 20. '62.
Mullins N. H. e. Aug. 9, '62, disd. March 10, '64, disab.
Newton Anzelow A. e. Aug. 9, '62, died at Cincinnati,
Dec. 23, 1862.
Oberman Jno. H. e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Louisville,
Ky., Sept. 21, 1863.
Powell Jas. C. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Dec. 30, 1862.
Pouts Andrew, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Purviance Mark, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865,
Quinn Artemus C. e. Aug. 9. '62 m.o. June 6, 65, Corpl.
Quinlind Jno. e. Aug. 12/62, disd. Jan. 30, 1863, disab.
Robinson Oscar L. e. Aug. 9,62, m.o. June 6, 1865.
Robbins Daniel C. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m.o. June 12, 1865.
Rice Chas. e. Aug. 9, 1862. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Read Sam'l, e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted April 1, 1863.
Shoemaker Nicholas, e. Aug. 9/62, deserted Jan. 18,63.
Sowman Henry J. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o, June 6, 1865.
Smith Jno. e. Aug. 12, 1862, deserted Dec. 17, 1862.
Snyder Cornelius, e. Aug. 11/62, m. o. July i6,'6s. was
prsnr.
Smock Ab. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. June 15, 1863, disab.
Purviance Walker, e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to Invalid
Corps, June 21, 1864.
Traver Johnson, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Columbus. O.,
Dec. 26, 1862.
Thompson Jerry, e. Aug. 9/62, disd. Dec. 18, '62, disab.
Taylor Barton W. e. Aug. 9, '62, deserted April 5, '63.
Traver Harvey W. e. Aug. 9/62, died Dec. io,'62, wds.
Trask Darius L. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Traver Jas. J. e. Aug. 9. 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Winans Bruce, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Whitman Lewis, e. Aug. 9, 1862, as Corpl., died in An-
dersonville prison, Ga., Jan. 7, 1864.
Williams Jno. K. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Jan. 7, 1863.
150
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Winans Louis, e. Aug. 9, 1S62, m. o. June 6, 1865.
RECRUIT.
Lewis Geo. m. o. June 6, 1865.
Company K.
Captain Justus W. Palmer, com. Aug. 27, 1862. Re-
signed Feb. 28, 1863.
Captain Jos. Fitzsimmons, com. First Lieutenant Aug.
27, 1862. Promoted Captain Feb. 28, 1863. Killed
Aug. 7, 1864.
Captain Frank M. Sapp, e. Aug. 13, 1862. Promoted
Second Lieutenant Feb. 28, 1863. Promoted First
Lieutenant July 23, 1864. Promoted Captain Aug.
7, 1864. Resigned (as Second Lientenant) Sept.
23, 1864.
Captain Chas. G. Butterwick, e. as Sergeant, Aug. 12,
1862. Promoted hirst Lieutenant Aug. 7, 1864.
Promoted Captain Aug. 7, 1864. Honorably dis-
charged May 15, 1865.
First Lieutenant Wm. Winslow, e. as Sergeant, Aug. 8,
1862. Promoted First Lieutenant Aug. 7, 1864.
Mustered out June 6, 1865.
First Sergt. Adolph Splitstosser, e. Aug 8, 1862, disd.
April 27, 1863, disab.
Sergt. Jacob Burghart,e. Aug. n,'62, reduced to ranks
at his own request m. o. June 6, 1865, as private.
Lergt. Adolph Slingman, e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Jan. 22,
1864, disab.
Corpl. Geo. Alexander, e. Aug, 11, 1862, disd. Oct. 11,
1862, disab.
Corpl. Wm. H. Craig, e. Aug. 9, '62, as Sergt., kid. at
Atlanta, Aug. 7, 1864.
Corpl. Geo. Wine, e. Aug. 14, 1862, reduced to ranks,
kid. at Elk River, Tenn., July 1, 1863.
Corpl. Fred. G. AlcLain, e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, Sergt.
Corpl Wm. Wilmorth, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. April 27,
1863, disab.
Corpl. Francis M. Wood, e. Aug. 5,1862, m. o. June 6,
1865, as Sergt.
Musician Geo. Pitzer, e. Aug. 15, 1862, absent sick at
m. o. regt.
PRIVATES.
Allman Albert, e. Aug. 28, '62, disd. Oct. n, '62, disab.
Brown Chas. N. e. Aug. 5, '62, disd. Dec. 26,'62, disab.
Bell Robt. e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. April 27, 1863, disab.
Bushnell Milton B. e. Aug. 12, '62, m. o. May 29, 1865,
was prsnr.
Burrows Thos. e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Chattanooga,
Oct. 24, 1863.
Birmingham Jas. e.Aug.14,'62, disd. April 27/63, disab.
Burk Cnas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Barton Wm. e. Aug. 18, 1862, as Corpl. trans, to I. C.
Jan. 31, 1864.
Burkhart Jos. e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Corney Jos. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Conley Thos. S. e. Aug. 13, 62, m. o. June 6/65, Corpl.
Chapin Henry A.e. Aug.20,'62, disd. April 30 '64, disab"
Duffy Jos, e. Aug. 8/62, disd. Feb. 24/65, Corpl., disab.
Dowling J no. P. e. Aug. 8, 1862, deserted Feb. 17, 1863.
Dori Fred. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Engel Louis, e. Aug. n, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Enzminger Jno. e. Aug. 14, '62, disd. Jan. 19, '64, disab.
Fenholt Fred. e. Aug. 14, '62, m. o. June 6, 1865, Corpl.
h ife Geo. e. Aug. 14, 62, was prsnr. deserted Jan. 14, '64.
Holcomb Harrison, e. Aug. 14, m. o. June 6, '65, Sergt.
Hoss Geo. W. e. Aug. 5, 1862, m. o. |une 6, 1865.
Hayden Martin, e. Aug. 5, 1862, disd. Jan. 3. '64, disab.
Hahn Geo. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Hoge r Moritz, e. Aug. 16, 1862, died at Deerhart,Tenn.,
Oct. 11, 1863.
June Herman, e. Aug. 14, 1862, deserted Dec. 20, '62.
Knapp Chas. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Kohr John H. e. Aug. 18, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Lindemeyer John, e. Aug. 12, '62, m. o. June 6, '65.
Lange Frederick, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Lembke John, e. Aug. 16, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Luke Henry, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Miller Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862, drowned Dec. 11, '62.
Mulcay Thos. e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. May 29, '63,disab.
Merkel Henry, e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
McGraw Thoma=, e. Aug. 18, '62, deserted Sept. 3o,'62.
McDermott Michael, e. Aug. 18, 1862, desei ted Jan. 14,
1863, returned.
McNoon Michael, e. Aug. 15, '62, deserted Jan. 14, '63.
McConnell John, e. Aug. 16, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
McKeon Charles M. e. Aug. 11, '62, deserted Dec.1,'62.
Meleck Martin, e. Aug. 9, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Moore John H. e. Aug. 22, '62, disd. Oct. — , '62, disab.
McLain Otto L. e. Aug. 5, '62, deserted Feb. 11, 1863.
O'Laughlin Michael, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. Dec. 2, '63,
disab.
Pust Henry, e. Aug. 2Z, 1862, disd. Mch. 4, '64, wds.
Pfentz Lewis, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Feb. 2, '63, disab.
Packard Aaron, e. Aug. 13, 1862, deserted Jan. 14, '63.
Peterson Chas. F. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 6, '65.
Raddle Frank, e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Robinson John, e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Nashville,
Tenn., March 28, 1864.
Rhan Nathan, e. Aug. 11, 1862, absent, wounded, at
m. o. of regt.
Rusner Augustus, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Reeder Andrew, e. Aug. 16, '62, deserted Jan. 14, 1863.
Slyder Luther S. e. Aug. 13, 1862, prmt. Hosp'l Stew'd.
Schweigert Geo. e. Aug. 11, 1862, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 12, 1864.
Sapp Frank M. e. Aug. 13, 1862, prmt. 2d Lieut.
Sapp Solon K. e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Aug. 24,'63, disab.
Scribner Alonzo D. e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
April 22, 1864.
Strobel Geo. e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted March 20, 1863.
Shultes Peter, e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to V. R. C, '64.
Steger Joseph A. e. Aug. 28, 1862, in. o. June 6, 1865.
Tobacco Michael, e. Aug. 9, 1862. deserted Jan. 14, '63.
Trompeter Frank, e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted July 1, : 64,
2d desert on.
Trompeter John P. e. Aug. g, 1862, disd. Feb. 18, '63,
disab.
Williams John, e. Aug. 27,1862, trans, to V. R. C,
Jan. 1, 1865.
Wenzel Matthew, e. Aug. 15, '62, deserted Jan. 14, '63.
RECRUITS.
Bell James, e. March 3, 1865, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Cox Henry, e. Feb. 5, 1864, trans, to V. R. C, to date
Dec. 15, 1864.
Diefenbaugh Samuel, to be dishonorably disd.
Maurer Frank, disd. Jan. 19, 1864, disab.
McMarrie Daniel, kid. at Winslow, S. C, Feb. 20, '65.
Parker Alfred G. e. Oct. 3, 1864, trans, to 34th I. V. I.
Ulrich John, disd. April 29, 1863, disab.
132d Infantry (100 Days).
The One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry Illi-
nois Volunteers was organized at Camp Fry, Chicago,
Illinois, by Colonel Thomas J. Pickett, and was mus-
tered in for one hundred days, from June i, 1864.
Moved, June 5, for Columbus, Kentucky, and arrived
on the 8th, reporting to Brigadier General Henry
Prince. On the 15th of June, moved to Paducah, Ken-
tucky, and reported to Colonel S. G. Hicks. The regi-
ment remained on duty at Paducah until expiration of
service, when it moved to Chicago, and was mustered
out October 17. 1864.
Company A.
Captain Hugh Shepard, com. Juae 1, 1864. Mustered
out Oct. 17, 1864.
First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Davis, com. June 1, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 17, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Donell Higgins, com. June 1, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 17, 1864.
First Sergeant Horace Miller, e. May 2, 1864, m. o.
Oct. 17, 1864.
Sergt. Asriah C. Willis, e. May 2,'64,m. o. Oct.17/64.
Sergt. Jas. Tullis, e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Sergt. Clement F. Guy, e. May 12/64, m -o. Oct. 17, '64.
Sergt. John Gordon, e. May 3. 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. Robt. Morrison, e. May 5, '64, m. o. Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. H. J. l'ille, e. May 19, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Corpl. Jas. Remington, e. May 10/64, m.o. Oct. 17, '64,
Cv.rpl. Thos. J. Johnson, e. May .2, '64, m.o. Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. Edgar Andrews, e. May 14, '64, m.o. Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. Jas. Thomas, e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. F. r\ Warren, e. May 11/64, m - °- Oct. 17, '64.
Corpl. John Hamstreet, e. May 5, '64, m.o. Oct. 17, '64.
Musician Wm. Snyder, e. May 10/64, m - °- Oct. 17/64.
Wagoner Eli Krowell, e. May 10, '64, m. o. Oct. 17/64.
PRIVATES.
Andrews Chas. e. May 10, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Aldrich H. B. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAK RECORD.
151
Adair Alfred J. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Billon Isaac, e. May 4, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Brackens S. E. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1S64.
Baumboch Wm. R. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, '64.
Curtis Alfred, e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Cox John, e. May 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Doud F. V. e. May 11, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Fullman Jonas, e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1S64.
Ghormsby Jos. A. e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Gilbert Edward, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Graves J. I. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Guy Homer, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1S64.
Gilbeit Wm. e. May 14, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Haymer H. D. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Holcomb Lester, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Hoffman Able P. e. May 10, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Jones Jno. B. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Jenkins Robt. L. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Jenkins D. L. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Jacoby Alfred, e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Kremer Jos. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1S64.
Kinsey Daniel S. e. May 14, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Lindsay Geo. A. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Lamb Thos. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
McClure Harvey N. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, '64.
Norton Eben, e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
O'Toole John, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Pumphrey N. e. May 10, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Ralph Wm. N. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Tansey E. I. e. May 24, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Tullis H. C. e. May 10, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Van Vliet Chas. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Voss Francis, e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Winters Henry, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Wilmouth Chas. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17 1864.
Wright Lorin, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Wright Henry, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
William Abial, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Walch Thos. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Warren Chas. S. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Wixom Wm. P. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Company F.
Allen Frank, e. May 24, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
Company I.
Matson A. E. e. May 19, 1864, m. o. Oct. 17, 1864.
138th Infantry (100 days).
The One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry
Volunteers was organized at (amp W'.od, Quincy, 111.,
by Colonel John W. Goodwin, and mustered in, June
21, 1864, for 100 days. On 26th July, the Regiment
moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was assigned
to garrison duty. Colonel Goodwin commanding post.
Major Tunison, with Companies C and F, occupied the
post of West in, Missouri, from July 7th to August 3d —
Brigadier General Thomas A. Davis commanding Dis-
trict of North Kansas, and Major General Curtis com-
manding Department of Kansas. The Regiment was
mustered out of the service of the United Slates, at
Springfield, 111., Oct. 14th, 1864.
Quarter Master John H. Elwood, com. May 17, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
Sergeant Jas. Strawn, e. May 10, 1864. Mustered out
Oct. 14, 1864.
Commissary Sergeant John S. Porter, e. May 6, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
Principal Musician Geo. B. Hunt, e. May 3, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
Company F.
Second Lieutenant Frank I. Baird, com. June 21, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
Sergt. John G. Beyer, e. May 14, 1864, m.o.Oct. 14, '64.
Corpl. Sam'l Rife, e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1. 64.
PRIVATES.
Casford H. T. e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Inman Cyprian, e. May n, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Kennedy John W. e. May n, '64, absent sick at m. o.
of Regt.
Lerch Adam, e. May i4,'64,disd. Sept. 1, '64, to re-enlist.
Lindermier Peter, e. May 20, 1S64, disd. Sept. 1, 1864,
to re-enlist.
Magorien John, e. May 20, 1864. m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Maurer Frank, e. May 11, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Marshall Griffin, e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Parks Geo. R. e. May 20, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Rumberger A. e. May 18, iS64,m .0. Oct. 14, 1864.
Sipple Aug. e. May 16, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Trumpeter John P. e. May. n, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, '64.
Wilson Jas. P. e. May 14, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Company G.
Bankhead John, e. May 28, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Company I.
Captain Henry L. Hassack, com. June 21, 1864. Mus-
tered out Oct. 14, 1864.
First Lieutenent Isaac Baldwin, com. June 21, 1864.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
Second Lieutenant Wm. Baldwin, com. June 21, 1S64.
Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864.
First Sergt. Henry H. Anderson, e. May 2, 1864. m. o.
Oct. 14, 18.64.
Sergt. M. Berkhimer, e. May 3, iS64,m. o. Oct. 14, '64.
Sergt. Wm. C. Putnam, e. Apr. 28,'64,m. o.Oct. 14, '64.
Sergt. Chas. O.Marcellus,e. May n, '64, in. o.Oct. 14, '64.
Sergt. F. N. Rinker, e. May 13, '64, m. o. Oct. 14,1864.
C rpl. Anthony Funk, e. May 6, '64, m.o. Oct. 14,1864.
Corpl. N. Knickerbocker, e. May 3/64, m.o.Oct.14,'64.
Corpl. Clarke Howe, e. May 18, '64, m. o. Oct. 14,1864.
as private.
Corpl. O. P. Thurber, e. May 16/64, m.o.Oct. 14,1864.
Corpl. Wm. M. McCormick, e. May 3, 1864, m. o. Oct.
14, 1864.
Corpl. Geo. W. Newell, e. May 5, '64, m.o. Oct. 14, 1865.
Corpl. Jas.E.C.Ebersol,e.Apr. 20, '64, m.o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Corpl. Leroy W.Cole, e. May 9, '64, m.o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Wagoner John Shultz, e. May 16, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, '64.
PRIVATES.
Alexander Silas, e. May 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Austin Henry, e. May 3,1864, absent, sick at m.o. Regt.
Averill C. A. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Boozel Henry, e. May 24, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Bruner Levi B. e. May 9, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Carson Wm. e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Clark Wm. e. May n, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Clark Chas. e. May n, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Colwell Geo. e. May 30, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14. 1864.
Cole Jay, e. May 9, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Cooper John S. e. May 9, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Crouse H. C. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Dunlap E. S. e. Apr. 29, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Duff" John, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Emerick Wm. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Frost F. A. e. Apr. 30, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Flood'John, e. May 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Gaddis H. e. May 10, 1864, m.o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Gates Lowell, e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Gleeson James, e. May n, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Harris John H. e. April 30, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Herriman Jos. L. e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Hickling Thos. e. April 30, 1864, m. o. Oct. T4, 1864.
Hoag M. L. e. May n, 1862, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Kelly Jas. B. e. May 8, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1S64.
Kelly Wm. A e. May 3, 1864, m.o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Knickerbocker L. e. May 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Lee Chas. F. e. May 20, 1864, m. o. Oct 14, 1864.
Lynch Andrew, e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Mackey Jabes, e. Mav 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Mills Giles A. e. April 30, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Morgan Lewis, e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
O'Conner John W. e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, '64.
Oliver John F. e. May 23, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Ohnstead Byron, e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Pearson John W. e. May 23, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Porter Cyrus A. e. May 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Reardon Jas. e. May 16, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Reed Wm. e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1S64.
Richardson O. e. May 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Rice Levi H. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Rose Wm. E.e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Ru_ger Jesse, e. May 3, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
SarlesWm. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Schindler Geo. e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Snyder A. C. e. May 8, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Stadel Adam, e. May 30, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
152
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Tole Jerome, e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Wallace W. C. e. May 2, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Westcott M. S. e. April 30, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Wilsey Edgar P. e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Wilson E. J. e. May 20, '64, absent, sick, at m. o. regt.
Wood Thos. e. May 13. 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Yeager Francis, e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Company K.
Captain Chas. Stoat, com. June 21, 1864. Mustered
out Oct. 14, 1864.
First Sergt. Richard C. Jordan, e. May 10, 1864, m. o.
Oct. 14, 1864.
Musician John W. Lyman, e. May 13, 1864, m. o. Oct.
14, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Barnard T. B. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Beal Daniel, e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Bradshaw W. C. e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Brooks N. e. May 17, 1864. absent, sick, at m. o. tegt.
Chester C. C. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Clemmins A. C. e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Conner H. B. e. May 17. 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Corey Geo. e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Crowley Win. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Cushing C. G. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Connell Oliver, e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Dennis John, e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Dudley A. J. e. May 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Forbes Thos. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Fould Wm. e. May 23, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Hays Jesse, e. May 17, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Howard Chas. e. May 19, 1S64. m o. Oct. 14, 1S64.
Hunt John \V. e. May 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1S64.
Huetson J. C. e. May 17, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
lohnson D. R. e. May 6, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Knutson Lewis, e. May 26, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Lockwood Jas. R. e. May 10, 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Miller H. H. e. May 13. 1S64, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Mitchell M. W. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Shaw John, e. May 7, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Swan John, e. May 5, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Worrall George, e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Worrall J. P. e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14, 1864.
Thorp D. R. e. May 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 14. 1864.
147th Infantry (one year).
The One Hundred and Forty-seventh Infantry
Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp Fry, 111.,
by Col. Hiram F. Sickles, and mustered in for one
year, on the 18th and 19th of February. 1865. On the
21st of Februaiy, moved, via Louisville, Ky., to Nash-
ville, Tenn., arriving 25th. On the 2Sih, moved to
Chattanooga, and thence to Dalton, Ga., Col. Sickles
commanding post. On March 13th, went on expedi-
mn to Mill Creek, on Cleveland road, and broke up a .
ntst of guerrillas. On 20th, under command of Major
Bush, went on an expedition to Spring Place. March
15th. the Regiment was assigned to First Brigade, Sec-
ond Division, Army of the Cumberland, Brig. Gen. H.
M. J udah commanding. On March 28th, went on an
expedition to Ringgold. On April 23d, moved to
Pullen's Ferry, on Coosawatchie river, and had several
skirmishes with the enemy, killing Maj. Edmeston,
their commander, and several officers and men. On
May 2d, the Regiment moved toResaca. Ga., and were
engaged in repairing the railroad. On May 12th, \\ of-
ford, commanding rebel forces in Northern Georgia,
surrendered his forces to Gen. Judah. May 14th, Col.
Sickles took command of the Brigade. Marched to
Calhoun, June 26th, and July 27th, moved to Marietta.
From thence, ordered to Macon, Ga., and to Albany,
Ga., arriving July 31st. October 16th, brigade organ-
ization dissolved. October 2Sth, ordered to Hawkins-
ville, Ga. November 25th, the Regiment was ordered
to Savannah, Ga., via Macon, Atlanta and Augusta,
where it remained, December 31st, 1865. Mustered
out January 20th, 1866, at Savannah, Ga., and ordered
to Springfield, 111., where it received final pay and dis-
charge.
Company C.
Sergt. Chas. F. Warren, e. Feb.8, '65, m.o. Jan. 20, '66.
Sergt. L. W. Winslow, e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20,
1866, as private.
Corpl. Edwin Agnew, e. Feb. 8, 1865, m.o. Jan. 20, 66.
PRIVATES.
Agnew Chas. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Adair Alanda, e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Alcove Jos. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Bennett H. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Bennett P. P. e. Feb. 8, 1S65, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Brewster L. W. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Cochran Robt. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Hoadley Geo. R. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1 66.
Jordan A. E. e. Feb.8, 1865, died at Dalton, Ga., Mar.
25, 1865.
Kavanaugh R. F. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1S66.
Murphy Lewis, e. Jan. 30, 1865, m. o.'Jan. 20, 1866.
Reinheffer Jos. e. Jan. 28, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Stewart Wm. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Stiguel M. e. Feb. 10, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Winter W. F. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Company H.
Captain Jas. Tullis; com. Feb. 18, 1865. Mustered out
Jan. 20, 1866.
Corpl. Wm. H. Sivers, e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20,
1866, as Sergt.
Corpl. Wm. Willmarth, Jr., e. Feb. 7, 1865. m. o. Jan.
20, 1866, as Sergt.
Corpl. L. O. Burnett, e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20. 66.
Musician Wm. Snyder, e. Feb.r, 1865, m.o. Jan. 20, 66.
Wagoner Hubbart Hart, e. Feb. 1, '65, m.o.Jan.20, 66.
PRIVATES.
Burt Wm. P. e. Feb. 14, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Boroff John, e. Feb. n, 1865. m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Doan F. J. e. Feb. 14, 1S65. m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Fuller Job, e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Hemstreet John B. e. Jan. 30, 1865, m. o. Sept. 4, 1865.
Maddox Noah, e. Feb. n. 1865, m. o. May 15, 1865.
Newman John, e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o Jan. 20, 1866.
Ruedy Geo. e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Shouse Samuel, e. Feb. 8, 1865, deserted Nov. 8, 1865.
Swap Mathias, e. Feb. 14, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Walsh Edward, e. Feb. 10, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
Williams S. e. Feb. 8, 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1S66.
Carr Jas. B. e. Feb. 16. 1865, m. o. Jan. 20, 1866.
153d Infantry (one year).
The One Hundred and Fifty-third Infantry Illinois
Volunteers was organized at Camp Fry, Illinois, by
Colonel Stephen Bronson, and was mustered in Feb-
ruary 27, 1865, for one year. On March 4th, moved, by
rail via Louisville and Nashville, to Tullahoma, re-
porting to Major General Millroy. The regiment was
assigned to the Second Brigade, Defenses of Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad, Brevet Brigadier General
Dudley commanding Brigade. In the latter part of
March, Major Wilson, with three companies, went on
a campaign into Alabama and returned. On July 1st,
moved, via Nashville and Louisville, to Memphis,
Tennessee, and was assigned to the command of Brevet
Major General A. L. Chetlain. Was mustered out
September 15, 1865, and moved to Springfield, Illinois,
and September 24th, received final pay and discharge.
Colonel Bronson received appointment as Brevet Briga-
dier General.
Mai Andrew W. Wheeler, com. Captain Co. E. Feb.
27, 1865. Promoted Major Sept. 8, 1865. Mustered
out as Captain Sept. 21, 1865.
Company D.
Church Robt. A. e. Feb. 17, 1S65, m. o. Sept. 21, 1S65.
Cormany Jno. e. Feb. I7,'65, disd. May 30, 1865, disab.
Company E.
First Lieut. Donald Nicholson, com. Feb. 27,^65.
Mustered out Sept. 21, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Zina Ward, com. Feb. 27, 1865.
Died March 6, 1S65.
Second Lieut. Geo. E. Hubbard, e. as First Sergt., teb.
1, 1865. Promoted Second Lieutenant April 25,
1865. Mustered out Sept. 21, 1865.
HON. W.ARMSTRONG
SENECA.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAK RECORD.
155
"Sergt. Milo K. Williams, e. Feb. i, 1865, m. o. Sept. ax,
1865, as First Sergt.
Sergt. Chas. Van Anken, e. Feb.i,'6s,m. o. Sept.21,'65.
Sergt. Henry S. Lowry, e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21,
1865.
Sergt. Chas. P. Lowry, e. Feb. 1, '65,disd. June 11, '65.
Corpl. Moses Weaver, e. Feb. 1, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65.
Corpl. Wm. Snyder, e. Feb. n, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65,
as Sergt.
Corpl. Sam'l McKeever, e. Feb. n, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65.
Corpl. Sam'l Belden, e. Feb. 16, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65,
as Sergt.
Corpl. Jacob J.Warner, e. Feb. io,'6s,m.o. Sept. 21, '65.
Corpl. Geo. M. Baldwin, e. Feb. 1, 65, m o. Aug. 28, '65.
Wagoner Hudson L. Bundage, e. Feb. n, 1865, m. o.
Sept. 21, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Butterfield F. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Benedict Cyrus, e. Feb. 1, 1865. m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Bumdage Caleb, e. Feb. 5, 1865, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Coon Wm. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Carson Wm. Feb. 1, 1865, m - °- Sept. 21, 1865.
Fleming Burr B. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Gardner Jno. e. Feb. 10, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Hornikel Wm. e. Feb. 1/65, Corpl. on furlough atm. o.
Hubbard Geo. W. e. Feb. 10, 186;, m. o. Sept. 21, '65.
Holmes Dan. e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
O'Brien Wm. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Reyno ds Wm. H. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Sexton Jno. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Shipman D. N. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Werder Lewis, e. Feb. 1, 1865. m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Wood S. W. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Company F.
Sergt. Wm. McKennett, e. Feb. 18, 1865, died at
Nashville, Tenn., April 9, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Barnhart Abram, e. Feb. 20, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Cooley Lee, e. Feb. 19, 1865, m. o. July 27, 1865.
Ribble Geo. F. e. Feb. 20, 1865, m. o. Aug. 17, 1865.
Sibley Harrison, e. Jan. 27, 1865, Corpl., absent, sick,
at m. o- regt.
Turner R. M. e. Feb. 25, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65, Sergt,
Tubble Lewis, e. Feb. 6, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Walker Jno. e. Feb. 18, died at Memphis, Aug. 26, '65.
Pert Thos. e. Feb. 22, 65, trans, to Co. E, 156th I. V. I.
Company K.
Sergt. Orrin J. Marcy, e. Jan. 28, '65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65,
as Sergt.
Corpl. Amos Churchill, e. Feb. 1, 65, m. o. Sept. 21, '65,
as Sergt.
Corpl. Jas. H. Rider, e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21,
1865, as private.
PRIVATES.
Barrister Martin, e. Feb. 4, 1865, m. Sept. 21, 1865.
Bush Ralph, e. Feb. 1, 1865, m - °- Sept. 21, 1865.
Drake Geo. A. e. Feb. 3, disd. June 19, 1865.
Johnson R. A. e. Feb. 23, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Martin Jno. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
Penman Jas. e. Jan. 29, 1865, m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
156th Infantry (1 year).
Company A.
PRIVATES.
Drazey Geo. H. e. Feb. 16, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Dean Fred J. e. Mch. 7, 1865, on detached service since
Mch. 21, 1865.
Engraw Jos. e. Feb. 16, 1864, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Mc Daniel E. B. e. Feb. 2S, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Naylor Samuel, e. Feb. 21, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Shindler Geo. e. Feb. 16, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Company E.
Done Wm. e. Mch. 1. 1865, deserted Mch. 10, 1865.
Goodwin Edwin, e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Kroft David, e. Feb. 27, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Miller Martin, e, Feb. 22, i86 , m. o, Sept. 20, 1865.
Pert Thos. e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Renner Sam'l J. e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Ulgatt Joe,e. Feb. 22, 1865, absent, sick at m. o. Regt.
Company G.
Captain Chauncey B. Hubbard, com. Mch. 9, 1865.
Mustered out Sept. 20, 1865.
Company H.
Corpl. Jas. A. Lanigan, e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20,
1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. Ole Richalson, e. Feb. 28, '65, m. o. Aug. 1, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Armstrong Sam'l, e. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Beach Matthew, e. Feb. 23, '65, absent, sick at m. o.
of Regt.
Blackheart Geo. e. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Culver Chas. e. Mch. 2, 1865. m. o. June 15, 1865.
Crook Jacob, e. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Chri^topherson John, e. Feb. 28. '65, m. o. Sept. 20, '65.
Everdon Sam'l, e. Feb. 25, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Emmons Darius, e. Mch. 2, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Gullickson Ole, e. Feb. 28, 1805, m. o. Sept. 30, 1865.
Gibson Jas. H. e. Mch. 3, 1862, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Gibson F. A. e. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Highland Ole, e. Feb. 28, 1S65, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Highland Cyrus, e. Feb. 28, 1865, fn. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Hall C. W. e. Feb. 27, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Hove A. T. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Sept. 2o,'i86s.
Hanson Thos. e. Feb. 28, 1866. m. o. Sept, 20, 1865.
Harris Wm. s. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Harvey Jas. e. Mch. 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Jutland John, e. Feb 28, 1865, m. o. Sept 20, 1865.
Johnson Knud, e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Aug. 28, 1865.
Knudson E. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Lawrence Geo. A. e. Feb. 27, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, '65,
Corpl.
Lageschults F. e. March 2, 1865, sick at m. o. of regt.
Lamarend Jos. e. Feb. 2, 1865, m. o. June 7, 1865.
Miller Eugene e. Feb. 25, 1865, m. o. June 8, 1865.
Mitchell Arthur, e. Feb. 23, 1865, m. o. July 24, 1865.
McDonald S. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. Aug. 21, 1865.
Massa Ole P. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Odict Justian, e. March 2, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Rompf A. e. Feb. 23, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Reiger Jacob, e. Mareh 2, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Reiger Daniel, e. March 2, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Strangaland S. e. March 28, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Snyder Geo. R. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1S65.
Valdin E. E. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Wittman John, e. Feb. 24, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Wittman Chas. e. Feb. 24, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Warren Lucien e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Company I.
Captain Edwin R. Godfrey, e. Feb. 8, 1865. Promoted
Captain, March 9, 1865. Resigned June 10, 1865.
First Lieutenant Levi Stanley, com. Second Lieutenant,
March 9, 1865. Promoted First Lieutenant, June
28, 1865. Mustered out Sept. 20, 1865.
Sergt. John A. Gillett, e. Feb. 17, '65, m. o. Sept. 20, '65.
Corpl. Wm. L. McGregor, e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. May
26, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Battors Samuel H. e. Feb. 17, 1865 m. o. Sept. 20, '65.
Burlingame J. H. e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Brady Thomas, e. March 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Doane Jas. E. e. March 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Hart Jas. P. e. Feb. 21, 1S65, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Lewis Benjamin, e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. Sept. 2c, 1865.
Martin Chas. e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Marsh Jesse, e. Feb. 18, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Peck Edward N. e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Tracy John W. e. Feb. 17, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Wright Amasa H. e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865,
as Corpl.
Company K.
Boorom W. H. H e. Feb. 23, 1865. m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Maher John e. Feb. 21, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
Zorn Gjttlobe, e. Feb. 23, 1865, m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
IQ
156
r LA SALLE COUNTY WAR KECOKD.
Miscellaneous Infantry,
(Arranged by Regiments.)
8th Infantry.
Betty Richard, e. Oct. 4, 1864, sub., m. o. Oct. 3, 1865.
Howard Thomas J. e. Sept. 29, 1864, m.o. Sept.28, 65.
McGaubey D. e. Nov. 3, 1864, dropped as a deserter
Sept. 22, 1865, never reported to regt.
Little Green B. e. Oct. 12, 1864, prmt. Corpl., kid. Aug.
29, 1865, by explosion of gunpowder.
Hitchcock Wm. e. March 14, 1865, disd. March 14, 65,
term ex.
Hays F. M. e. March 14. 1865, m. o. May 13, 1866.
McGaughey D. e.Xov.3,'64, trans, to Co.G, 8th I.V.I.
Phillips Wm. e. March 14, 1865, m. o. May 13, 1866.
Stephenson J. N. e. March 14, 1865, m. o. May 13, 66.
Carlos John, e. Oct. 14, 1864.
Martin Jno. e. Nov. 25. 1864.
Keys Wm. e. Jan. 2=;, 1865.
Mcintosh Wm.H. e. Feb. 25, 1865, m. o. June 28, 1865.
14th Infantry (Reorganized).
First Lieutenant Alex. Cairns, com. Second Lieuten-
ant July 20, 1864. Promoted First Lieutenant
June 29, 186=;. Mustered out Sept. 16, 1865.
Sarver Jeremiah, e. March 18, 1865, recruit, absent,
sick, since June 22, 1865.
Lebold Geo. e. March 8, 1865, prmt. Sergt., m.o. bept.
16, 1865.
Smith Ovid B. e. March 8, 1865, m. o. June 19, 1865.
Vaugh C. B. e. Mar. 8, '65, m. o. Sept. 16, 65, as Sgt.
Wright Geo. W. e. March 8, 1865, sick at m. o.
I5th Infantry (Reorganized).
First Sergt. H. S. Stephenson, e. March 1, 1865, m. o.
Sept. 16, 1865.
McLaughlin Chas. e. March 1, 1865, m.o. Sept. 16, 65.
Stephenson A. F. e. March 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 16, 65.
Baker Geo. e. March 1, 1865, deserted March 21, 1865.
Davis Johnson, e. March 1, '65 deserted March 21, 65.
Davis Jerry, March 3, 1865, deserted March 21, 1865.
Hubbs Solomon, e. March 4, 1865, m. o. Sept. 16, 1865.
Parr Chas. W. e. March 1,1865, deserted March 21, 65.
17th Infantry.
Chick Thos. e. June 22, 1861, m. o. Jung 24, 1864.
18th Infantry (Consolidated.)
Major Noah R. Yeargin, com. Captain Co. D March
13, 1865. Promoted Major June 17, 1865. Mus-
tered out Dec. 16, 1865.
19th Infantry.
Archibald Edward, e. Jane 10, 1861, m. o. July 9, 1864.
2lst Infantry.
Metcalf Leonard, e. March 2, 1864, trans, from 96th I.
V. I., m.o. Dec. 16, 1865.
Metcalf Jas. e. March 2, 1864, trans, from 96th I.V.I.
m. o. Dec. 16, 1865.
22d Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Geo. C. Stevens, com. Aug.7, 1861.
Resigned Jan. 24, 1862.
29th Infantry.
Hall Daniel W. e. Sept. 26, 1864.
30th Infantry.
Potter Henry, e. Sept. 30, 1864, m. o. June 4, 1865.
3lst Infantry.
Crooker Jos. O. e. Sept. 30, 1864, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Gallup Jno. N. e. Sept. 30, 1865, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Hewitt David, e. Oct. 3. '65, drafted, m. o. July I9,'6s.
Herr Frederick, e. Oct. 2, 1865, sub., m. o. May 31, 65.
Stephens Jos. D. e. Sept. 27, 1864, drafted, disd. May
15, 1865, disab.
Warner Jno. e. Oct. 21, sub., m. o. June 26, 1865.
Lens Henry, e. Oct. 19, 1864, drafted, m. o. July i9.'6s.
Pelton A. D. e. Dec. 15, 1864, sub., m.o. July 19, 1865.
32d Infantry.
Washburne E. B. e. Dec. 14, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 8, 1865.
Wilcoxson L. e. Sept 27, 1864, m. o. June 3, 1865.
Snigesid Jos. e. Sept. 27, 1864.
38th Infantry.
Surgeon John L. Tud, com. Sept. 10, 1861. Promoted
by President, Aug. 19, 1863.
42d Infantry.
Clark John, e. Oct. 20, 1864.
Callahan John, e. Oct. 20, 1864.
Clark Chas. e. Oct. 20, 1864.
Doyle Frank, e. Oct. 20, 1864.
Greenham Jas. e. Oct. 20, 1864.
Miller John. e. Oct. 20, 1S64.
Roberts John, e. Oct. 20, 1864.
43d Infantry. ,
Reicher P. e. Sept. 30, '64, trans, to Co. B. as consld.
Corpl. Andreas Wehr, e. Sept. 2, '61, m. o. Sept.8,'64.
Wagoner Geo. Thompson, e. Sept. 2, 1861. Re-enlisted
as vet. Feb. 26, 1864. trans, to Co. C as consld.
Baum Adam, e. Sept. 2, 1861, disd. Feb. 6, 1862.
Henze Henry, e. Sept. 2, 1861, died at St. Louis. April
20, 1862.
Hebeis Jacob, e. Sept. 2, 1861, disd. June 23, '62, wds.
Kesser Adam, e. Sept. 2, '61, supposed died Feb. 18, '62.
Klos Frank, e. Sept. 2, 1861, m. o. Dec. 16, 1864.
Moncke Frank, e. Sept. 2, 1861, disd. Nov. 6, 1862.
Stahlheber John, e. Sept. 2, 1861. re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 12, 1863, trans, to Co. C as consld.
Voegelie Jacob, e. Sept. 2, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
26, 1864, trans, to Co. C as consld.
Bertz August, e. Dec. 10*1863, trans, to Co.C as consld.
Laefner Geo. e. Dec. 12, '63, trans, to Co. C as consld.
Raban Geo. e. Dec. 12, '63, trans, to Co. C as consld.
Schmidt W. F. e. Sept. 5, 1864.
Stahlhobert, e. Sept. 5, 1864.
43d Infantry (consolidated).
Scherr Jacob, e. Mch. 15, 1865, m. o. Nov. 30, 1865.
Werner Martin, e. Jan. 26, 1865, m. o. Nov. 30, 1865.
45th Infantry.
Lieutenant Colonel Chas. C. Campbell, com. Sept. 26,
1861. Resigned, and appointed Major First. Regt.
Artillery.
46th Infantry.
Caughlan Thos. e. Oct. 2, 1864, sub. m. o. Oct. 1, 1865.
Gleason Tas. E. e. Dec. 5, 1864, m. o. Dec. 4, 1865.
Hanefin Wm. e. Oct. 8, 1864, sub. m. o. Oct. 7, 1865.
Lansing Jas. e. Oct. 20, 1804, sub. m. o. Oct. 1, 1865.
McGee Daniel, e. Oct. 7, 1864, sub. m. o. Oct. 6, 1865.
Reid John,e. Oct. 2, 1864, drafted, m. o. Oct. 1, 1865.
Walker Jas. e. June 10, '64, absent, sick at m. o. Regt.
Hileman John H. e. Mch. 15, 1S65, m. o. Jan. 20, 1865.
Thrasher Wm. e. Oct. 15, 1864, drafted, m.o. Oct. i4,'6s.
Davenport Geo. A. e. Oct. 5, 1864. substitute.
Harris Allison C. e. Oct. 8, 1864, sub. m. o. Oct. 7, '63.
Harris Wm. A. e. Oct. 8, 1864, m. o. Oct. 7, 1865.
Warren Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Dinsmore Wm. e. Mch. 27, 1865, trans, from nth 111.,
sick at m. o. Regt.
Hughes Wm. e. Oct. 5, 1864, sub. trans, nth 111., m. o.
Oct. 4, 1865.
50th Infantry.
Bole Henry, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. Aug. n, 1865,
absent, sick.
Weber John, e. Nov. 16, 1864, m. o. July 13, 1865.
Wandsicker.John, e. Nov. 16, 1864, m. o. July 13, 1865.
LA SALLE COTJNTT WAR RECORD.
157
5lst Infantry.
Surgeon Jerome F. Weeks, com. May 15, 1862. Re-
signed April 25, 1863.
Guyman Presley ,e. Nov. 7, 61,'disd. Jan. 16, '65, term ex.
York Troyet, e. Dec. 24, 1863, kid. at Franklin, Tenn.,
Nov. 30. 1864.
York Henry, e. Dec. 24/63, m. o. Sept. 25, '65, as Sergt.
absent sick.
Claire Jno. e. Dec. 27, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Dec 24, '63.
Mangan Jerome, e. Nov. 4, '61, m. o. Sept. 25, '63, re-
enlisted as vet. Dec. 24, '63, trans, to V. R. C. July
30, 1864.
Davis Thos. M. e. Dec. 24, '63, m. o. July 14, '65, was
prisoner.
Hatmaker Jno. e. Dec. 24, '63, m.o. Sept. 25, '65, Sergt.
Moreland Jno. J. e. Oct. 3, 1861.
52d Infantry.
West Edgar, e. March 11, 1865, m. o. Sept. 5, 1865.
Bassett Arvine, e. Sept. 17, 1861.
Burdick I). H. e. Sept. 17, 1861.
Olds Jer. e. Sept. 17, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec. 25,
1863, m. o. July 6, 1865.
Reifschnider Geo. e. Feb. 9, 1864, m. o. July 6, 1865.
Rapp Adam, e. Feb. 21, '64. m.o. July 6, '65, vet. recruit.
Sexaur Ernst, e. Feb. 21, 1864, m. o. July 6, 1865.
Thompson Jesse, e. March n, 1865,
54th Infantry.
Roberts Jas. M.
Wallace Jasper W.
56th Infantry.
Surgeon Jerome F. Weeks, com. Dec. 30, 1864. Com-
mission canceled.
First Lieutenant Hiram S. Dunlap, e. Nov. 15, 1861.
Promoted Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant, Oct.
17, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant July 20, 1864,
Lost on steamer '"General Lyon," March 31, 1865.
Maddox F. M. e. Nov. 15, 1861, lost on steamer "Gen.
Lyon," March 31, 1865.
59th Infantry.
Zimmerle Ab. e. March 8, 1865, m. o. Dec. 8, 1865.
Dewey Russell M. e. Aug. 17, '63, disd. July i8,'65,disab.
Harris Wm. e. Aug. 25, 1863. m. o. May 22, 1865.
Cotten Stephen, e. D c. 16, 1863, m. o. Dec. 8, 1865.
Potter Benj. e. Dec. 28, 1863, in. o. Dec. 8, 1865.
Van Horn Wm. J. e. Sept. 9, 63, absent sick at m.o.regt.
6lst Infantry.
Bryan Larkford, e. March 15, 1865, m. o. Sept. 8 1865.
Dawson N. e. March 8, 1865, m. o, Sept. 8, 1865.
Henry Martin T. e. Feb. 21, 1865, m. o. Sept. 8, 1865.
Mallet Ch.is. e. March 8, 1865, m. o. Sept. 8, 1865.
Kahle Fred. e. March 1, 1864. 1st Sergt., died Dec. 27,
1864, wds.
Muth Philip, e. March 1, 1864, m. o. Sept. 8, 1865, wds.
Strausenbach Ewd. e. March 1, '64, m. o. Sept. 28, '65,
as Corpl.
63d Infantry.
First Assistant Surgeon Lyman Hall, com. April 10,
1862. Resigned Dec. 31, 1862.
65th Infantry.
Clark Alfred, e. March 31, 1864, trans, to Co. H as
consolidated.
Witherow Thos. A. e. March 31, 1864, trans, to Co. H
as consolidated.
Knapp Albert T. e. March 5, 1862, deserted.
Moore Jno. C. e. March 13, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
March 31, 1864, trans, to Co. E, as consolidated.
Moore W. W. e. March 13, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
March 31, 1864, trans, to Co. H, as consolidated.
Rouse Thos. J. e. April 3, 1862, m. o. April 12, 1865.
Clark Chas. e. June 15, 1862, deserted Oct., 1862.
McCoy Jno. C. e. June 11, 1862, m. o June 5, 1865.
Schermerhorn P. D. e. June 2, 1862, m. o. June 5, '65.
Van Housen I. B. e. June 2, 1862, kid. at Atlanta, Ga.,
July 21, 1864.
Sergt. Sam'l S. Fairfield, e. April 2, 1862, trans, to Co.
G, Nov. 1, 1862.
Wagoner Jno. Gorham, e.Mch. 26,'62, m.o. May is,'65.
Higgins Eugene, e. March 13, 1862, m. o. May 6, 1865.
Meinhart Fred. e. March 13, 1862, m. o. May 15, 1865.
Petz Wm. e. March 13, 1862, died in Andersonville
prison, Ga , June 7, 1864. No. of grave, 1686.
Read Wm. H. e. May 7, 1862, disd. Nov. 8, disab.
65th (consolidated) Infantry.
Clarkson Wm. H. e. April 5, 1865, m. o. July 13, 1865.
Squires Ewd. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. May 23, 1865.
Bates Wm. W. e. March 14, 1865, m. o. July 13, 1865.
Oakley Wm. A. e. March 11, 1865, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Walworth H. J. e. March 17, 1865, m. o. July 13, 1865.
66th Infantry.-
Sergt. Jos. Blish, Jr., e. Sept. 9, 1861, disd. Jan. 25, '63.
Curry Jno. e. Sept. 15, 1,861, absent at special muster,
Aug., 1862.
Cavill Jno. W. e. Sept. 13, 1862, disd. for promotion,
March 22, 1864.
67th Infantry (3 mos.)
Barritt Morris, e. March 31, 1862.
Leery Daniel, e. June 2, 1862.
68th Infantry.
Boggs Jno. W. e. June 14, 1862, trans, to 70th I. V. I.
Dixon Jas. e. June 10, 1862.
Livingston R. L. e. June 10, 1862.
Lockwood H. L. e. June 10, 1862.
Marshall Jas. F. e. June 14, 1862.
69th Infantry (3 mos.)
Frost H. H. e. June 2, 1862. deserted July 3, 1862.
Welch Mathew, e. June 2, 1862, m. o. Sept. 27, 1862.
76th Infantry.
Jones Isaac, e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to 37th I. V. I., July
19. 1865.
Spears Jno. B. e. Oct. 1, 1863, disd. June 13, '65, disab.
82d Infantry.
Huettich Frederick, e. Jan. 5, 1864, trans, to 14th A. C.
Haller Gustav, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Chattanooga,
June 15, 1864.
Haller Wm. e. Aug. 18, 1862, died in Andersonville
Prison, May 2, 1864.
Haller Johan, e. Aug. 10. 1862, m. o. June 9, 1865.
DannewalderC e. Aug. 15, 1862, died in the field, Jan.
22, 1864.
Sergt. Ole K. Halverson, e. July 9, 1862, F ; rst Sergt.,
wounded at Gettysburg and Averysboro, N. C,
died March 19, 1865.
Sergt. Halver S. Hoole, e. July 15, 1862, m. o. June 9,
1865, wounded.
Amandson Simund, e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. June 26, '64,
wds.
Christensen Peter H. e. Aug. 8, 1862, kid. at Chancel-
lorville Prison, Aug. 26, 1864.
Christensen John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Aug. 26, '64.
Enckson Erick, e. Aug. 14, 1864, trans, to V. R. C.,
Nov. 16, 1863.
Evertson Jacob, e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to V. R. C, Feb.
16, 1864.
Halverson H. K. e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Stafford Court
House, Vs., Feb. 25, 1863.
Johannson Jens, e. July 30, 1862, died at Richmond,
Jan. 24, 1864, prisr. war.
Nelson Erasmus H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
86th Infantry.
Maxwell Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Buchanan Jas.e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd.
Pettit Wm. H. disd. Oct. 29, 1862.
87th Infantry.
Duncan Wm. e. March n, 1865, trans, to Co. H, 18th
89th Infantry.
First Lieutenant Erastus O. Young, e. as Sergt. Aug.-
7, 1862. Promoted Second Lieutenant, Jan. 26,
1863. Promoted First Lieutenant, Feb. 11, 1863.
Killed Nov. 25, 1863.
158
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Lord Chas. e. Aug. 7, 1862, deserted Dec. 31, 1862.
McKeen Ira S. e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans. Eng. Corps,
July 27, 1864.
Mulnix Phillip, e. Aug. 7, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
June 30, 1863.
Alf Henry, e. Nov. 21, 1863, died at Andersonville
Prison, Oct. 12, 1864; No. of grave, 10,762.
Nash C. V. e. Aug. 29, 1863, disd. Oct. 31, 1864, wds.
Spicer Frank, e. Sept 1, 1862, deserted Oct. — , 1863.
Sampson David, e. Nov. 21, 1862, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Dewey Russell, e. Aug. 17, 1862, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Harris Wm. e. Aug. 25, 1863, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Saulsbury Nathan, e. Aug. 17, 1863, trans. 59th 1. V. I.
Herriman O. L. 8. Aug. 8, 1862, deserted Sept. 1, 1864.
Colten Stephen, e. Dec. 16, 1863, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Campbell Jas. e. Sept. n, 1863, disd. Feb. 24, '65,disab.
Potter Benj. F. e. Dec. 28, 1863, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Van Horn Wm. J. e. Sept 9, 1863, trans. 59th I. V. I.
Richardson K. e. Jan. 5, 1864, trans, to 59th I. V. I.
Oleson Ole, e. Jan. 5, 1864.
Thompson Andrew, e. Jan. 5, 1864.
9lst Infantry.
Irons Oscar, e. Feb. 10, 1865,
Lamons John, e. Feb. 10, 1865, m. o. May 29, 1865.
Morgan Rich. e. March 11, 1865, died at Camp Butler,
111., April 7, 1865.
92d Infantry.
Grin Martin L. e. Feb. 17, 1865.
95th Infantry.
Corpl. John W. Burnside, e. Aug. 15, 1862, reduced, at
own request, wounded, detached in 59th U.S.C.T.
Corpl. McKendree F. Bishop, e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o.
Aug. 17, 1865, reduced at his own request.
Andrew Dwight, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. Aug. 17, 1865.
Burnside F. H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. March 26, '63,
disab.
Ballard Wm. H. e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. March 10, '63,
disab.
Ballaid Chas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. Aug. 17, 1865, as
Musician.
Cahill Thos. e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. Aug. 17, 1865, as
Corpl.
Delematree Jas. B. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at L. Provi-
dence, La., July 1, 1863.
Fern Andrew, e. Aug.15, '62, m. o. Aug. 17, '65, Corpl.
Jobe Henry, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. July 24, '63, disab.
Jobe John, Jr., e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C,
June 15, 1864.
Lee Jas. McEwen, e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Vicksburg,
June 30, 1863.
Morse C. |. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died in New York Har-
bor, May 4, 1865.
Miller Geo. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at L. Providence,
La., March 19, 1863.
Oakes John W. e. Aug. 4, 1862, died at Vicksburg,
May 28, 1864.
Rieman Geo. e. Aug. 15, 1862, missing in action, May
22, 1863.
Weaver Jas. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. Aug. 17, 1865.
Bright Henry, e. Oct. 3, '64, trans, to Co.E, 47th I.V.I.
Cahill Richard e. Oct. 3, '64, trans, to Co.E, 47th I.V.I.
Gillott E. G. e. Oct. 3, '64, trans, to Co.E, 47th I.V.I.
Morgan Chas. e. Oct. 3, 1864, disd. Jan. 12, 1865.
100th Infantry.
Parks Wm. G. e. Aug. 15, 1862, killed at Kenesaw Mt.,
June 27, 1864.
103d Infantry.
Johnson Wallace H. e. Aug. 4, 1862, m. o. June 21, '65.
Illth Infantry.
Surgeon Samuel M. Swan, com. March n, 1864, m. o.
June 7, 1865.
112th Infantry.
Dilts B. W. e. Aug.12, '62, killed in sction, Dec.14,'63
113th Infantry.
Bennett Alonzo, e. Oct. 21, 1863, trans, to 120th I.V.I.
116th Infantry.
RollErnst. e. Sept. 25, 1862, deserted Oct. 13, 1862.
118th Infantry.
Burke Jas. e. March 15, 1865, died at Cairo, 111., April
9, 1865.
120th Infantry.
Turner Geo. A. e. April 1, 1865, m. o. Sept. 10, 1865.
126th Infantry.
Brown Benj. F. e. Feb. n, 186s, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Bridges Edmond, e. Feb. n, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Harman Andrew, e. Feb. n, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Hahn Thos. e. Feb. n, 1865, m. o. July 12, 1865.
127th Infantry.
Bryan Saml. e. Aug. 13, 1862, deserted Oct. 31, 1862.
Denny F. J. e. Aug. 11, '62, disd. Oct. 15, '62, as Sgt.
Hicks Samuel, e. Aug. n, 1862, disd. Oct. 15, 1862, as
Corpl.
Corpl. Solomon Howen, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. Sept.
31, 1865, as Sergt.
Cleel Simeon, e. Aug.13, '62, trans, to I. C, Dec.i, 63.
Henderson John, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
McCormick H. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Simpson Jno. B. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Tremper Daniel, e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
Tuttle C. I.e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. May 31, 1865.
128th Infantry.
Musician Wm. Tallada, e. Nov. 1, 1862.
Hewitt Jno. S. e. Sept. 16, 1862.
155th (One Year).
ona lieutenant Christopher Snyder
1865. Mustered out Sept. 4, 1865.
4th Cavalry.
This regiment was organized fall of 1861, by T. Lyle
Dickey, under authority of the War Department, ana
rendezvoused at Camp Hunter, Ottawa. It first moved
to Cairo. It was in Grant's advance on Columbus, Ky.,
at Fort Henry, battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh,
Siege of Corinth, and pursuing the enemy as far as
Holly Springs, Miss. During the last six months of
1862, the Fourth was on scouting duty in Western Ten-
nessee and Northern Georgia for Gens. Sherman and
Logan. It then was in numerous skirmishes and en-
gagements in Western Mississippi ana Eastern Tennes-
see. In September, 1863, the regiment took steamer
for Vicksburg, and was in Gen. McPherson's raid to-
ward Canton and Sherman's raid on Meridian, February,
1864. The Fourth was then on scouting duty in Cen-
tral Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana until October,
when it embarked for Springfield, 111., a' d mustered out
Nov. 3, 1864. The regiment left about 500 men in the
field, who joined the Twelfth Consolidated Cavalry,
and remained until May, 1866.
Colonel T. Lyle Dickey, com. Aug. 6, 1861. Resigned
Feb. 16, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel Wm. L. Gibson, com. First Lieu-
tenant, Co. K, Aug. 23, 1861. Promoted Major,
May 5, 1862. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Feb.
16, 1863. Term expired Nov. 3, 1864.
Second Assistant Surgeon Chas. E. Goodrich, com.
May 2, 1863. Resigned May 16, 1865 (in 4th Cav.
consolidated).
Commissary David Jolly, com. Second Lieutenant Co.
K, May 5, 1862. Promoted Commissary, Aug. 1,
1862. Resigned July 3, 1864. .
Company A.
Sergt. John C. Lindsley, e. Sept. 6, 1861, disd. Feb.,
1862, disab.
Second Lieutenant Christopher Snyder, com. Feb. 28,
86s. Mustered out SeDt. a. i86<;.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAK KECORD.
159
Corpl. Daniel T. Elston, e. Oct. 10, 1861, disd. June,
1863, Sergt., disab.
Blacksmith John Bush, e. Sept. 4, 1861, disd. Feb., '62,
disab.
PRIVATES.
Allen Andrew, e. Sept. 18, '6i, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Corpl.
Bronson Jas. G. e. Sept. 4, '6i, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Corpl.
Bennett O. S. e. Sept. n, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
20, 1863, trans, to Co. E as consolidated.
Creed Chas. D. e. Sept. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
22, 1863, disd. April 18, 1865, disab.
Cornwell Chas. e. Sept. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 28, 1863, in confinement at m. o. of regt.
Ellsworth H. A. e. Sept. 25, 1861, died near Vicksburg,
June 26, 1863, wds.
Gray Chas. e. Sept. 13,1861, disd. Jan. 30, '64, disab.
Hughes D. D. e. Aug. 26, 1861, disd. Mch. 18. '63, disab.
Harmenn A. e. Sept. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, trans, to Co. E. as consolidated.
Hollenback Geo. e. Sept. 12, 1861, disd. April 30, 1863.
Humphrey Geo. W. e. Sept. 7, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, '64.
Johnson R. M. e. Sept. 23, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Klime Geo. e. Sept. 8, 186 1, re-enlisted as vet. Dec, 28,
1862, trans, to Co. E. as consolidated.
Kingsbury M. C. e. Sept. 7, 1861, disd. for promotion
Aug. 24, 1863.
Minique John, e. Sept. 8, 1861, died on his way home,
March, 1862.
Morris Jas. e. Sept. 13, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
22, 1863, trans, to Co. C as consolidated.
McClelland F. J. e. Sept. 19, 1861, disd. Nov. ,'62, disab.
Neely Thos. H. e. Sept. 17. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, trans, to Co. E as consolidated.
Pangborn Seely, e. Sept. 20, '61, disd. April, '63, disab.
Proctor Wm. e. Sept. 13, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Rendle John, e. Sept. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864.
Salsberger F. e. Sept. 9, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, trans, to Lo. E.
Stephenson Geo. e. Sept. 5, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Warren Geo. F. e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. for promotion,
Oct. 26,4863.
Wehowskey G. G. e. Sept. 25, 1861, died at Cairo, 111.,
Feb. 3, 1862.
Company B.
Second Lieutenant Chas. H. Dickey, com. Aug. 1, '62.
Term expired Nov. 3, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Bomgardner Jno. A. e. Sept. 5, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Cuapin A. W. e. Sept. 16, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
22, 1863, trans. 10 Co. M, 12th 111. Cav.
Haulton P. e. Oct. 9, 1861, m. o. Feb. 2, '65, was prisr.
Rooney Michael, e. Oct. 14, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
White Harrison, e. Aug. 27, 1861, First Sergt., disd. for
promotion in 3d U. S. Col. Cav.; Feb. 14, 1864.
Bail Thos. C. e. Oct. 10, 1861. taken prisr. Feb. 4, '64.
Mantion D. F. e. Sept. 10, 1861 , m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Company C.
Dickey Chas. H. 1. Aug. 12, 1S61, prmt. Reg. Bugler.
Fellows Carlton, e. Sept. i7,'6i,disd. June 13, 62,disab.
Garratt F. C. e. Sept. 10, 1861. re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
2, 1864, trans, to Co. D, as consolidated.
Goings Ewd. e. Oct. 15. 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Luckfo d Henry, e. Sept. 7, 1861, died at Cincinnati,
April 27, 1862.
McNett Jas. B. e. Sept 18, 1861, m. o. July 17, '62, was
prisoner.
Rolfe Jas. G. e. Sept. 18, 1861, disd. Oct. 1, '63, disab.
Wheat Jos. G. e. Aug. 27, '61, disd. Apl. 20, '62, disab.
Warner J. P. e. Sept. 24, 1861, died at Mound City,
111., Nov. 8, 1862.
Finch Jos. T. e. Jan. 5, '64, trans to Co. D, as consol.
Gaskin Jas. e. Jan. 4, 1864, trans, to Co. D, as consol.
Stafford Isaac, e. April 25, 1864, died at Natchez, Miss.,
Aug. 30, 1864.
Warner Hugh, e. Oct. 6, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Company E.
Sergt. Chas. Hartshorn, e. Sept. 19. i86i,diedat Pitts-
burg Landing, May 4, 1862.
Corpl. Robt. B. McPherson,e. Sept. 19, '61, prmt. Reg.
Comsy. Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Barry Wm. e. Sept. 19, 1861, died at Trenton, Tenn.,
Dec. 18, 1862.
Miller Henry, e. Sept. 11, 1861, trans, to Co. F.
Tabaka Chas. e. Sept. 12, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, trans, to Co. K, 12th I. V. C.
Walsh Rich. e. Sept. 19, 1861. m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Way Leonard, e. Sept. 23, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
3, 1864, trans, to Co. K, 12th I. V. C.
Young Jos. J. e. Sept. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet, Jan.
5, 1864, trans, to Co. K. 12th I. V. C.
RECRUITS.
Berner Jas.H. e. Feb. 29, '64, trans, to Co. K, 12th I.V.C.
Breeman Jno. W. e. Dec. 21, 1863, died at La Salle, 111.,
Sept. 30, 1864.
Coleman Geo., Jr., e. Feb. 8, 1863.
Hoyt Levi M. e, Dec. 21, 1863, died at Cairo, 111., Sept.
15, 1864.
Whitaker F. M. e. Sept. 13, 1862, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Willis E. M. e. Feb. 29/64, trans. to Co. .K, 12th I. V.C.
Company F.
Vantifflin Jno. B. e. Sept. 28, 1861, deserted, returned,
trans, to Co. A.
Kennedy Dan. e. Jan. 3, '64, trans, to Co. G,i2th I.V.C.
Cox Henry, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Miller Henry, e. Nov. 1, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Mowrey Jas. e. Sept. 18, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Morgan Geo. e. Nov. 1, 1861, trans, to Naval Service,
Feb. 1, 1862.
Messenger Henry, e. Oct. 22, 1861, died at Trenton,
Tenn., Sept. 5, 1862.
Neff Dan. e. Sept. 17, 1861, disd. Feb. 23, 1863, disab.
Near Jas. e. Sept. 26, 1861, died at Randolph Forges,
Tenn., Feb. 22, 1862.
Company G.
Adams A. S. e, Sept. 21, 1861, m. o. Nov 3, 1864.
Patterson Chas. W. e. Sept. 16, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, '64.
Company H.
Austin Wm. H. e. Feb. 22, 1864, trans, to Co. M, 12th
I.V.I.
Austin Alex. e. Feb. 13, 1864, disd. Oct. 17, 1864.
Addayson John J. e. Sept. 7, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Burnham Allen, e. Dec. 7/63, trans Co. M, 12th I.V.C.
Burnham Chas H.e. Jan. 7, '64, trans. Co. M,i2th I.V.C.
Brackett L. C, e. Jan. 16/64, trans. Co. M, 12th I.V.C.
Cormict Levi F. e. Feb. 6, '64, died at Natchez, Miss.,
July 21, 1864.
Durham L. e. Nov. 16, '61, disd. for prmt. Aug. 27, '63.
Ferguson Sam'l, e. Jan. s, 1864. m. o. May 30, 1865.
Ferguson F. J. e. Jan. 5/64, trans. Co. M, 12th I. V. C.
Godfrey Jas. J. e. Jan. n, '64, trans. Co. M,i2th I.V.C
Gardner H. M. e. Jan. n, '64, trans. Co. M,i2th I.V.C.
Knapp Wm. H., drowned Feb. 7, 1862.
Langley Wm. e. Jan. 19, 1864.
Munson B. A. e. Jan. 16, '64, trans. Co. M, 12th I.V.C.
Potter Chas. F. e. Jan. 7, '64. trans. Co. M, 12th I.V.C.
Ross S. e. April 27, 1864. trans. Co. M, 12th I. V. C.
Simons Dan. e. Sept. 15, '61, disd. Junl 28, 1S62, disab.
Tripp D. E. e. Jan. 4, 1864.
Company I.
Capt. Geo. J. Shepardson, com. Aug. 27, 1861. Term
expired Nov. 3, 1864.
First Lieutenant Benj. F. Hyde, com. Second Lieuten-
ant, Aug. 27, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant
May 16, 1862. Promoted 70th Regiment, A. D.
May 2, 1864.
First Sergt. Joel Carter, e. Sept. 3, 1861, disd. Nov. 14,
1862. wds.
Co. Q. M. Sergt. Marcus Servace, e. Aug. 17, 1861,
disd. Apr. 1, 1862, disab.
Sergt. E. H. Simison, e. Aug. 16, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3,
1864, as First Sergt.
Sergt. Jerome P. Snyder, e. Aug. 17, 1861, disd. July
9, 1862, disab.
Sergt. P D. Parks, e. Sept. n, 1861, prmt. R. Q. M.
Sergt..
Sergt. Chas. S. Graff, e. Aug. 15, 1861, prmt. Capt.
West Tenn. Col. Cav. Sept. 16, 1863.
Corpl. Chas. R.Walsh, e. Aug/22, 1861, disd. to enter
Naval Service.
160
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Corpl. Wm. Wilson, e. Aug. 8, '61, prmt. Regt. Q. M.
Sergt.
Corpl. Hiram Moulton, e. Aug. 15, 1861. m. o. Nov. 3,
1864, as Sergt.
Corpl. c.phraim Hynds, e. Aug. 17, 1861, disd. Apr. 28,
1862, disab.
Corp!. Geo. M. Toothill,e. Aug. 30, 1862, in. o. Nov. 3,
1864, as Sergt.
Corpl. Arthur A. Kavanaugh, e. Aug. 29, 1861, m. o.
Nov. 3, 1864, as private.
Corpl. Jos. Carter, e. Sept. 10, 1861, disd. April 24,
1862, disab.
Corpl. Thos. Wilson, e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. April 28,
1862, disab.
Wagoner David Hare, e. Sepf. 25, 1861, disd. July 26,
1862, as Sergt.. disab.
PRIVATES.
Atkinson John. e. Aug. 15, '61, disd. Apr. 28.'62,disab.
Allen Ira, e. Aug. 25, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Allen A. D. e. Sept. 7, 1861, re.enlisted as vet. Dec. 28,
1863. trans, to Co. I, 12th III. Cav.
Anderson Gont, e. Sept. 8, 1861, disd. to enter Naval
Service.
Addison John S. e. Aug. 12, i86r, trans, to Co. H.
Anderson Peter, e. Sept. 4, 1861, disd. to enter Naval
Service.
Avery P. O. e. Sept. 4, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Corpl.
Boston Robt. e. Aug. 15, '61, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Sergt.
Brell Aug. e. Aug. 30, '61, disd. to enter Naval Service.
Bradigan C. e. Sept. 7, 1861, died at Savannah, Tenn.,
April 1, 1862.
Branan Thos. e. Sept. 10, 1861, died at, Cairo, 111.,
Feb. 22, 1862.
Butterfield Wm. e. Oct. 14,1861, disd Aug. 5, 1862.
Carter Jas. H. e. Sept. to, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1861.
Crawford M. e. Sept. 10, 1861, disd. Oct. 28, '62, disab.
Carl Dennis, e. Sept. 10, 1861, disd. Oct. 1, '61, disab.
Cleveland John, e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Dilli Isaac N. e. Sept. 2, '61. disd. Aug. 5/62, as Corpl.
Dunbar Fred'k, e. Aug. 29, '61, disd. Sept. 22,'62,disab.
Davidson John B. e. Sept. 25, '61, disd. Feb 27, '62, disab.
Doty H. C. e. Aug. 4, 1861, diei at Earl, 111., June
2. 1862.
Estes Geo. H. e. Sept. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
30. 1863, trans to Co. I, 12th I. V. C.
Ferguson Jas. e. Sept. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
11, 1864, trans, to Co. I, 12th I. V. C.
Grundy Henry J. e. Aug. 26, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Gilbert Abner, e. Sept. 6, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Hoadley John, e. Aug. 28, '61, disd. Apr. 2i,'62,disab
Herring John, e. Aug. 28, 1861, disd. to enter Naval
Service.
Hyde Elliott L. e. Aug. 4, 1861, kid. at Coffeeville,
Miss., Dec. 5, 1862.
Hough J. e. Aug. 17, 1861, m. c. Nov. 3, 1864.
Hunter E. e. Aug. 28, 1861, re-enlisied as vet Dec. 30,
1863, trans, to Co. I, 12th I. V. C.
Henney D. e. Aug. 8, '61, disd. April 28, '62, disab.
Hiser John, e. Sept. 2, 1861, died at Pittsburg Land-
ing, April 24. .862.
Hill Peter O. e.Sept.5,'61, disd. to enter Naval Service.
Hare Myron H. e. Sept. 11, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 30, 1863. trans, to Co. I, 12th I. V. C.
Hyde E. B. e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Keyes F. B. e. Aug. 29, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3. 1864.
Knox John, e. Sept. 11, '61, disd. Apr. 28, '62, disab.
Leramer Fred'k, e. Aug. 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 10, 1864.
Lobdeil Sylvanus J. e. Sept. 2, 1861, disd. July 10, '62,
disab.
Lund Omand, e. Sept. 6, 1861, disd. to enter Naval
Service.
Long Martin, e. Sept. 6, '61. disd to enter Naval Service.
Lansing John, e. Sept. 2, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Lacey John, e. Oct. 15, 1861, re-enli-ted as vet Feb.
28, 1864, trans, to Co. I, 12th I. V. C.
Manikuson Chas. e. Aug. 24, '61, m.o. Nov. 3, '64, Corpl.
Movern Mathew, e. Aug. 15, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Miller Jas. H. e. Oct. 2. 1861, disd. to enter Naval
Service.
Miller S. S. e. Oct. 2, 1861, disd. to enter Naval Service.
Norton A. H. e. Sept. 11, '61, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Sergt.
Nelson Ole, e. Sept. 4, '61, disd. to enter Naval Service.
Nettleson D. M. e. Sept. 6, '61, m. o. Nov. 3, '64, Corpl.
Preston Henry M. e. Aug. 28, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Phillips A. B. e. Aug. 8, 1861, died Randolph Forges,
Tenn., Feb. 27, 1862.
Peck Jesse H. e. Sept. 24, '61, disd. Apr. 2S,'62, disab.
Powers N. H. e. Aug. 22, '61. disd. Aug. 18, '62, disab.
Rosenkmns A C. e. Sept. 5, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Simonds Daniel, e. Sept. 15, 1861, trans, to Co. H.
Smith A. C. e. Sept. 6, 1861, died at Pittsburg Land.
ing. April 26, 1862.
Shine Chas. e. Aug. 26. 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
29, 1863, trans to Co. 1. 12th I. V. C.
Stevens Jacob, e. Sept. 11, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864, as
blacksmith.
Stevens Silas B. e. Oct. 8, 1861, m, o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Simison Boyd D. e. Oct. 15, 1861, trans, to Co. D, 23d
I. V. I.
Turk Henry, e. Aug. 28, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
29. 1863.
Thomas E. H. e. Aug. 15, 1861, died Pittsburg Land-
ing, Mch. 14. 1862.
Verrell Jno.C.e.Aug.i7,'6i,disd.to enter Naval Service.
Welches Aug. e. Sept. 2, '61, disd. to enter Naval Service.
Warren Chas. Y. e. Aug. 29, '61, disd. Apr.28,'62,disab.
Witchen Wm. e. Sept. 2, '61, disd. Feb. 26, '63, disab.
Weed Wm. H. e. Aug. 26, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3. 1864.
Warren Wm. H. e. Aug. 22,'6i, m.o. Nov. 3, 64, Corpl.
RECRUITS.
Arres Chas. H. e. Nov. 21, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Avery Geo. D. e. Dec. 9, 1863, killed in action, Miss.,
Jan. 2. 1865.
Billings Chas. E. e. Dec. 11, 1863, prmt. Chief Bugler,
lioston Wm. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Butterfield Alex. H. e. Nov. 15. 1862, m.o. Nov. 20, '65.
Butterfield Wm. e. Nov. 20, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
as Sergt.
Breese Dallas C. e. Jan. 10, 1864, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Binder Fredk. e. Dec. 25, 1863, m. o. Aug. 22, 1865.
Burnam Allen, e. Dec. 7, 1863, trans, to Co. H.
Cleveland Geo. e. Oct. 19, 1861, disd. Aug. 5, 1862.
Carter Jos. e. Aug. 13, 1861, prmt. Reg. Comsy. Sergt.
Catagim Wm.'e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
3, 1863.
Edget B. M. e. Dec. 18. 1S61, m.o. May 29, 1866.
Ferguson John, e. Dec. 25, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Fan ell Dennis, e. Nov. 15, 1862, m. o. Nov. 20, 1865.
Tuquah H. e. Dec. 12, 1863, m. o. Oct. 6, 1865.
Hyde Corbin E. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 15, 1865.
Hoadley Chas. e. Nov. 23, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Hunter William, e. Nov. 30, 1863, disd. Feb. 1, 1865.
Harger Eugene, e: Dec. 12, 1863, m. o. Jan. 2, 1866.
Hovey Arthur, e. Dec. 12, 1863, disd. May 25, '65, wds.
Hyde Henry H. e. Oct. 19, 1861, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Hunter Cyrus E. e. Oct. 22, '61, disd. Nov.28, 62, disab.
Hunter William, e. Oct. 22, '61, disd.June 19, '62, disab.
Hume R^'bt. C. e. Feb. 2, 1862. killed at Fort Henry,
Tenn.. Feb. 6, 1862.
Hyde Lycurgus, e. Jan. 1, 1862, killed near Moscow,
Tenn., Feb. 6, 1862.
Jagott Augustus, e. Nov. 14, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Kaminke J. e. Nov. 14, 1863, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Kossert Wm. e. Nov. 14, 1863, dishonorably discharged,
April 17, 1866.
Kersey Jas. A. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Mitchell John J. e. Aug. 25, '62, disd. Feb. 26, '63, disab.
Murphy Thos. C. e. Nov. 16, 1863, disd. Sept. 14, '64,
disab.
McGregor J. R. e.Nov.i6,'63,disd. for prmt. Feb.2,'64.
McClure Samuel S. e. Dec. 7, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1865.
Miller E. L. e. Jan. 4, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1865.
Powers Edward, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Paulig August, e. Nov. 14, 1863, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Patterson I. B. e. Nov. 28, 1863, m. o. May 24, 1865.
Phillips Geo. A. e. Dec. 23, 1863, m. o. Sept. 9, 1865.
Phillips John W. e. Dec.23, 1863. m. o. March 21, 1866.
Petia Oliver, e. Jan. 7, 1864, died at Natchez, Miss.,
April 14, 1864.
Stanley Levi, e. Nov. 24, '63, disd. for prmt. Feb.2,'64.
Stiltson S. E. e. Sept. 15, 1862, m. o. lune 15, 1865.
Signor A. J. e. Nov. 16. 1863, m. o. May 29. 1866.
Signor W. H. e. Feb. 25, 1804.
Sherlock Geo. Y. e. Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 29, 1865.
Van Court Rufus M. e. Dec.23, !863. m. o. May 29,'66.
Welkish A. e. Nov. 14, 1863. m. o. May 29, 1866.
Wood Gordon, e. Nov. 28, 1S63, sick at m. o. of regt.
Wilhard L. L. e. Dec. 5, 1863.
Widner John W. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. May 29, 1866.
Wagner M. L. e. Sept. 30. '61, died at Natchez, .Miss.,
Mch. i3,'64,of wounds received in attempting to es-
cape from guard.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
161
Company L.
Benson John L. e. Sept. 9, 1861, trans, to naval service.
Carothers Lewis, e. Sept. 10, 1861, m. o. Nov. 3, 1864.
Wilson Newton, e. Sept. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 31, 1863, trans, to Co. B, as consolidated.
Company M. '
Captain Wm. E. Hapeman, com. First Lieutenant Co.
I Aug. 27, 1S61. Promoted Captain May 16, 1862.
Resigned Dec. 16, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Anderson David, e. Sept. 21, '61, died at- Benton Barracks,
Sept. 6, 1863.
Hammell Chas. e. Sept. 21, 1861, disd. Aug. 9, 1862.
Hall Wm. H. e. Sept. 23, trans, to Co. L, and trans, to
V. R. C, June 12, 1864.
Brown Dwight A. e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Smith Irving D. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. June 15, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Stephens A. A. e. Nov. 24, 1863.
Willis Lewis K. e. Feb. 29, 1864, died' at Camp Butler,
March 16, 1864.
4tJi Consolidated Cavalry.
Company B.
Ives John, e. Oct. n, 1864, m. o. Aug. 29, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Du Bray Francis, e. Sept. 3, 1864, sub.
McNair Jas. e. Sept. 5, 1864, sub.
Oth Cavalry.
This Regiment was organized at Camp Butler, Nov.
19th, 1861. Moved in November to Shawneetown, 111.;
in February, '62 to Paducah, Ky., thence to Columbus.
Operated against Guerillas until Nov., '62, when it was
assigned to Sherman's Corps. Joined in pursuit of
Van Dorn after HQlly Springs raid. Was surprised in
camp, March 29th, 1863 ; loss, 8 killed : 29 wounded,
Was in Grierson's Expedition, Siege of Fort Hudson,
Hatches' Expedition into Tennessee. Became Veter-
ans March 30th, 1864. On returning, the Sixth was
constantly on the move against the enemv through
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and was engaged
in many small battles and skirmishes. At the Battle of
Franklin the Sixth was hotly engaged. Mustered out
Nov. 5th, 1865, at Selma, Ala.
First Assistant Surgeon Josephus R. Corbus, com. Apr.
- 10, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Company A.
Arnold Samuel, e. March 24, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Bunch Thos. e. March 24, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Boston Thos. e. March 24, 1865, m. o. Aug. 25, 1865.
Cluss Geo. E. e. March 16, 1865, deserted July 6, 1865.
Holland J. P. e. March 4, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Owens Gifford, e. March 24, 1865, died.
Osborn Wm. e. Feb. 24. 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Smith Chas. e. March 16, 1866, m. o. Aug. 21, 1865.
Smith John, e. March 16, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Vied John, disd. May 30, 1865.
Woodward P. e. Feb. 24, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Company B.
Barnes Samuel E. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Blalock Wm. H. e. March 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, '65.
Beckman Wm e. March 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Baker F. M. e. Maich 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Bishop N. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. June 12, 1865.
• BrusseU Jas. W. e. March 31, '65, deserted Aug.30,'65.
Choat Ephraim, e. April 1, '65, m. o. Nov. s,'6s,Corpl.
Fryman Jas. e. March 30, 186s, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Gates Jos. W. e. March 31, 1865, deserted Aug. 12, '65.
Green Jos. P. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Aug. 21, 1865.
Holcolm Clayton, e. April 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865,
as Sergt.
Hurst Daniel A. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Kerr John L. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Loyd Geo. e. April 1, 1865.
Lindsay J. L. e. March 31, 1865, deserted July 26, '65.
McCord Robt. F, e. April 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1S65.
Neid, orVeid, J. H. e, April 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, '65.
Xelson Thos. e. April 1, 1865, deserted July 20, 1865.
Nelson William, e. April 1, 1865, deserted July 20, '65.
Reakler J. e. March 25, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Ramay D. B. e. April 1, 1865, deserted July 20, 1865.
Tailor Jas. M. e. March 31, 1S65, deserted July 30, '65.
Wolf Harry G. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Company D.
Crulle Jas. K. e. March 4, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Welch Jas. e. March 14, 1865, m o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Company H.
Gunkle L. e. April 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Riley John, Jr. e. April 4, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Thadford D. A. e. April 3, 1865, m. o. June 13, 1865.
Company I.
Atkins Tas. R. e. Sept. 17, 1861.
Murphy John, e. Sept. 17, 1861.
Dowdy D. J. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Dodson Wesley, e. April 5, 1865, deserted July 19, '65.
English Jas. e. March 31, 1865, deserted Aug. 15, 1865.
Glass H. B. e. March 10, 1865, m. o. Sept. 22, 1865.
Gorsham Thos. F. e. March 10, 1865, died at Paducah,
Ky., April 3, 1865.
Gandy J. A. e. April 5, 1865, deserted July 3, 1865.
Hendricks B. e. March 15, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Hemphill C. A. e. March 10, 1865, died at Paducah,
Ky , April 18, 1865.
Harlow John, e. April 5, deserted July 19, 1865.
Loyd Wm. e. March 10, 1865, deserted June 16, 1865.
Nolan Wm. e. March 10, 1865, deserted June 20, 1865.
Price Edwin, e. April 5, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Rector P. A..e. March 13, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Stanley Wm. e. March 15, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Sheppard A. e. March 10, 1865, deserted July 24, '65.
Wallace T. W. e. April 4, 1864, deserted July 19, 1865.
Williamson Geo. e. March 13, 1865, m. o. Sept. 27, '65.
Webster Lindsay L. e. March 9, 1865, died at Paducah,
Ky., April 5, 1865.
Company K.
Lewis Andrew J. e. March 10, 1865, Aug. 25, 1865.
Tytle Jno.B.or J. e. March 15, '65, deserted, July i9,'65.
Company L.
Cole Jas. W. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Chellinger R. G. e. March 12, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Cooper [no. H. e. March 31, '65, deserted July 20, 1865.
Cooper Wm. A. e. March 31. '65, deserted July 20, '65.
Flanery Dan. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Maha N. e. March g, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Phenix Fred. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Shelton Thos. J. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Todd Wm. D. e. March 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Williams D. H. e. March 21,1865, in. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Company M.
Baggett Geo. W. e. March 10, 1865, died at Eastport,
Miss., June 25, 1865.
Baggett Jno. H. or W. e. March io,'6s, m. o. Nov. s'6s.
Bogg Jno. H. e. Feb. 7, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Johnson Jas H., Sr. e. March 21, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, '65.
Johnson Jas. H., Jr. e. March 21, 1865, m.o. Nov. 5, '65.
McLemore, e. March 16, L865, deserted Oct. 20, 1865.
Martin Jas. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Ritchie Jno. e. April 1, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Sh-pard Louis, e. Apr.l 3, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
Wilson Win. H. e. March 21, 1865, m. o. Nov. 5, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Benson John e. March 9. 18^5.
Bowlin Franklin, e. March 10, 1865, m. o. May 30, '65.
Barrett G. e. March 24, 1865.
Baker T. L. e. March 16, 1865.
Brown Wm. H. e. April 11, 1865.
Cochran Jno. e. March 31, 1865, m. b. May 21, 1865.
Flanders Arthur, e. March 24, 1865.
Hays Jos. L. e. March 9, 1865.
Harrison Jefferson, e. March n, 1865.
Hirshbarger J. D. e. March 31, 1865, m.o. June 8, 1865.
162
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR ROECRD.
Hogan Jas. e. March 21, 1865.
Henley Eli M.e. March 16, 1865.
Hughes Thos. e. April 12, 1865.
Jones Wm. C. e. March 21, 1865.
Kernel S. C. e. April 1, 1865, m. o.
Langsteiu M. e. March 3, 1865.
Madden M e. March 31, 1865.
Osterstron Jno. e. Feb. 27, 1865.
Riley Chas e. March 9, 1865.
e. March 30, 1865.
e. March 9, 1865.
:. March 10, 1865.
e. March 21, 1865.
May 11, 1865.
Wilson Geo.
White Ch:
Wright Jo
Wilson C.
4 th Coi'ali'y.
Was organized by Col. William Pitt Kellog at Camp
Butler, and mustered into United States service, Oct.
13. 1861, having 1,141 officers and men. Its operations
were at Cape Girardeau, Birds Point, New Madrid,
Mo., and Island No. 10, after which it moved by Ten-
nessee river to Hamburg Landing, Tenn. It partici-
pated in the siege of Corinth and battle of Farmington.
After the evacuation of Corinth it guarded railroad.
It was at battles of Iuka and Corinth. It was in pur-
suit of Price on several occasions, capturing prisoners
and having skirmishes, several of which amounted to
real battles. The Seventh was on Grierson's celebrated
raid thrcugh the enemy's country to Baton Rouge, La.
After capture of p ort Hudson and Vicksburg moved to
Memphis and thence into Tennessee, having several
encounters with the rebel Gens. Chalmers and Forrest.
Sept. 30, 1864, was assigned to Gen. Hatches' cavalry' 1
and for months was on the most active duty in Central
Tennessee and Northern Alabama, first against For-
rest's cavalry, and thence against Hood's fleeing army.
January 13, 1865, 199 men and officers only reported for
duty. Thirty da^s before 450 men reported for duty.
In three weeks th; regiment was swelled to 1,600 men
by recruits. Oct. 20, 1865, was mustered out at Nash-
ville; discharged at Springfield, 111., Nov. 17, 1865.
Second Assistant Surgeon A lson J. Gilbert, com. May
29. 1863. Dismissed Sept. 5, 1864.
Company A.
Booth Jas. J. e. "ch. 11, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Baldwin Chas. W e. Mch 11, 1S65, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Company B.
Carmony Abraham, e. Mch. 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4,1865.
Harner Elias. e. Mch. 9, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Company C.
Captain David S. Porter, e. as Sergeant, Sept. 2, 1861.
Re .enlisted as vet. Feb. 10, 1864. Promoted First
Lieutenant, Dec. 12, 1863. Promoted Captain Oct.
15. 1864. Mustered out Nov. 4, 1865.
First Lieutenant Robt. D. McCord, e. as Sergeant,
>ept. 2,1861. Re-enlisted as vet. Feb. 10, 1864.
Promoted First Sergeant, then First Lieutenant
Oct. 15, 1864. Mustered out Nov. 4, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Fuller Franklin, e. Feb. 10, 1864, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Meyers Peter C. e. Feb. 10, 1864, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Pair Jos. e. Feb. 10, 1864, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865, as Sergt.
Almey Jas. C. e. Xov. 17, 1863, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Austin A. F. e. Feb. 864, m. o. Sept. 23, 1863.
Baker Caleb, e. Mch. r 1S65, m. o. Sept. 23. 1865.
Cross Jas. e. Aug. 15, 02, m. o. July 12. 1865.
Dewey Jos. F. e. Aug :5, 1862, m. o. luly 12, 1865.
Dibble Leroy, e. Aug. , 1862, m. o. July 12, (865.
Dewey Chas. L. e. De 31, '63, in arrest at m. o. Regt.
Daw Chas. H. e. Aug. -9, 1862, kid. Coffeeville, Miss.,
Dec. 15, 1862.
Dewey Hilliard, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Lagrange,
Tenn., Feb. 22, 1862.
Eckert Isaac, e. Jan. 11, 1862, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Eckert John, e. Jan. it, 1862, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Eels Jackson L. e. Sept. 16, 1862, sub. mustered into
some other regt.
Fish Alonzo L. e. Aug. 25, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Fitzsimmons Jas. e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Fuller Joshua, e. Aug. 14, 1862, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Hill J. F. e. Mch. 29, 1864, m. o. May 26, 1865.
Johnson W. L. R. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. July 12, '65,
as First Sergt.
Johnson Jas. S. e. Aug. 13, 1862, died Andersonville
prison. May 30, 1864.
Johnson Allen E. e. Jan. 11, 1864, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Lewis Reuben, e. Aug. 16, 1862, died Andersonville
prison, Oct. 8, 1864.
McCord Sam'l L. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. July 12, '65, as
Sergt.
Mitchell Aaron, e. Sept. 20, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Meyers Enas, e. Feb. 8, 1862, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Murry John, e. Dec. 31. 1863, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
McKeen J. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Macomber Wm. S. e. Nov. 27, 1862, m. o. Oct. 7, 1865.
Martin Wm. e. Jan. 11, 1864, m. o. July 22, '65, was
prisnr war.
Munger J. B. e. Aug. 14,1862, died at Lagrange. Tenn.,
April 3, 1863.
Mercer Robt. e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Lagrange. Tenn.
April 11, 1863.
Meyers Urban, e. Mch. 10, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Phillips N. O. e. Aug. 19, 1862, m. o. July 12. 186s.
Poland Willis I. e. Jan. 11. 1864. m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Porter Jas. S. e. Dec. 31, 1863, died at Eastport, Miss.,
Feb. 28, 1865.
Swap A. E. e. Aug. 25. 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Stephenson J. W. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
SpraugueC. H. e. Nov. 17, 1863, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Sanborn I. Q. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Stephenson John M. e. Aug. 13, '62, disd. Apr. 8, '63,
disab.
Stotler Wm. e. Dec. 31, 1863. m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Stevens Finlay, e. Feb. 16. 1865. m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Towner Daniel M. e. Aug. 13, 1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Towner Jas. F. e. Feb. 16, 1865. m. o. Tuly 12. 1865.
Wallace Robt. e. Aug. 13,1862, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Wilcox L. B. e. Oct. 7, 1S62, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Witcraft Isaiah, e. Jan. 11, 1864, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Worsley L. I. e. Feb. 16, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Company E.
Pease John, e. Feb. 23, 1865, m.o. Nov. 4,'6s, as Sergt.
Company F.
Copland L. W. e. Mch. 14, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, 1865.
Tikon Jos. H. e. Oct. 10, 1864, m. o. Oct. 19,1865.
Company H.
Ward Samuel N. e. March 14, 1865, m. o. Nov. 4, '65.
Company I.
Whitmore J. C. e. Feb. 21, 1865, m. o. Sept. 25, 1865.
Company M.
Jackson John D. e. Mch. 14, 1865, m. or Nov. 4, 1865.
UXASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Black Chas. e. Oct. 11, 1864.
Brenner Henry, e. Oct. 11, 1864.
Heiner Klias, e. Mch. 9, 1865.
Halpin Wm. H. e. Mch. 11, 1865.
Whetmore J. C e. Feb. 21, .
8th Cavalry.
The 8th Cavalry was organized at St. Charles, Sept.,
1861, by Col. J. F Farnsworth. October, moved to
Washington, D. C, and operated in Virginia, and was
in many engagements, including Manasas, battles of
Peninsuls Antietam, etc., etc. Was in advance of
Army of Potomac in fall of 1862; loss, 29 killed; 71
wounded; 20 missing. During campaign of 1863 was
in some 25 engagements and skirmishes ; loss, 23 killed;
115 wounded, and 57 missing. Was mustered out at
Benton Barracks, Mo., July 17th, 1865.
Company K.
First Lieutenant Wayland Trask, e. as First Sergeant
Sept. 7, 1861 Promoted Second Lieutenant Jan.
28, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant June 29, 1863.
Term expired Sept. 18, 1864.
First Lieutenant Geo. C. Hupp, e. as Sergeant Sept.
17, 1861. Re-enlisted as veteran Jan. 1, 1864. Pro-
moted Segond Lieutenant Sept. 18, 1864. Pro-
.
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moted First Lieutenant May 8, 1865. Mustered
out July 17, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Geo. R. Wells, e. Sept. 7, 1862.
Promoted Hospital Steward. Re. enlisted as vete-
ran, non-commissioned staff, Jan. 1, 1864. Pro-
moted Second Lieutenant May 8, 1865. Mustered
out July 17, 1865.
Corpl. Hiram H. Wells, e. Sept. 4, 1861, died at Alex-
andria, Va., July 27, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Bailey Matthew, e. Sept. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 20, 1862, m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt.
Bates Wm. e. Sept. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec. 20,
1863, m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sadler.
Beal Wm. e. Sept. 7, i86r, re-enlis.ed as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, m. o. July 17, 1865.
George Daniel G. e. Sept. 7, 1861.
George Abram, e. Sept. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
1, 1864, m. o. July 17, 1865.
Wells Solomon A. e. Sept. 7, 1861, disd. Aug. 14, .'62,
disab.
RECRUITS.
Minnigus Jos. e. Oct. 5, 1864, m. o. July 17, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Cody Richard, e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Cane Edward, e. Oct. 18, 1864.
Davis Wm. e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Dillon Michael, e. Oct. 14, 1864.
Duff Jno. B. e. March 7, 1864.
Gleason W. e. Oct. 18, 1864.
Harris C. O. e. Oct. 18, 1864.
Jones Thos. e. Oct. 14, 1864. -'
Meachom Geo. e. Oct. 14, 1864.
McKenzie Henry, e. Oct. 18, 1864.
Rourk Edward, e. Oct. 14, 1864.
Ryan Thos. e. Oct. 14, 1864.
Rozerga A. e. Oct. 18, 1864.
Smith Jas. e. Oct. 14, 1864.
11th Cavalry.
The Illinois Reports give no history of the 14th Cav-
alry.
Company A.
Henderson Hamilton, e. March 13, 1864, missing in ac-
tion since Aug. 3, 1864.
Owens Wm. e. Dec. 22, 1863, absent without leave at m.
o. of regt.
Company B.
Ammon John.
Baldwin Ervin, e. Feb. 16, '64, m. o. July 3i,'6s, Corpl.
Brooks Wm. H. e. Feb. 12, 1864, m.o. July 31. 1865.
Bryan Thos. e. Feb. 15, 1864, m. o. July 31,1865.
Clark Thos. e. Jan. 4, 1864, absent sick at m. o. of regt.
Cox Jno. e. Feb. 6, 1864, absent sick at m. o. of regt.
Dorr John, e. Feb. n, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865, Sergt.
Foot Fred. J. e. Dec. 26, 1863, m. o. June 22, 1865.
Pearson A. C. e. Feb. 13, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Shultz Wm. e. Feb. 12, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Sutton J. e. Feb. 29, 1864, died at Pulaski, Tenn., May
5, '865.
Wells Jas. R. e. Feb. 25, 1864, captured May 31, 1864,
at Macon, Ga., not heard from since.
Company C.
Sergt. Jno. B. Day, e. Sept. 20, 1862, m. o. July 31, '65,
as 1st Sergt.
PRIVATES.
Kelley Jno. e. Oct. 10, '62, accidentally kid. Feb. 5, '63.
Maurer J. L. e. Oct. 10, 1862, died at Nashville, Tenn.,
July 3, 1864, wds.
Natinges £. A. Feb. 20, 1862, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Beckwith L. e. Feb. 26, 1864, died at Camp Nelson, Ky.,
May 16, 1864.
Crimigan Thos. e. Jan. i8,'64, m.o. July i2,'65, pris.war.
Coleman Geo. e. Jan. n, 1864, died at Annapolis, Md.,
Oct. 31, 1864.
Gunning Jos. Jan. 11, '64, m.o. July 14, 1865, pris. war.
Graves S. A. e. March 21, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Moore Thos. K. e. Feb. 29, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
™%
McCormack A. e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Robinson Geo. e. Feb. 29, 1864, missing since Aug. 3,
1864, supposed dead.
Sweeney Barrett, Feb. 29/64, m. o. July 8,'6s, pris.war.
Shields Wm. B. e. Feb. 23, 1864 m. o. July 31, 1865.
Tuay Patrick, e. Jan. 2s, 1864, m. o. July 31, 1865.
Underhill E.e. Jan. 12, '64, died at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
July 19, 1864.
Weaver Jas. B. e. Feb. 28, 1864, m. o. June 17, 1865.
Company D.
McKinney Jno. e. Dec. 19, 1863, m. o. July "31, 1865,
never reported to Co.
Marlvet Jos. A. e. Feb. 25. 1864, died at Camp Mason,
Ky., June 6, 1864.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Flapperd M. e. Dec. 18, 1863.
Lanniger C. S. deserted.
Lisler Wm. H. rejected.
Trampeter Frank.
15th Cavalry.
No history of 1 5th Cavalry found in Adj utant General's
Reports.
Company L.
Captain Wm. Ford, com. Dec. 1, i86r. Term expired
Jan. 9, 1865.
First Lieutenant Jno. F. Maiiner, com. Dec. 1, 1861.
Resigned July 8, 1862.
First Lieutenant Jno. King, com. Second Lieutenant
Dec. 1, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant July 8,
1862. Honorably discharged March 12, 1865.
Second Lieutenant M. F. F-iirchild, com. July 8, 1862.
Mustered out April 22, 1863.
Second Lieutenant Geo. H. Hunter, com. April 22, '63.
Mustered out at consolidation.
First Sergt. E. J. Cobleigh, e. Dec. 6, 1861, as private,
disd. for prmt. in 1st Ala. Cav., May 19, 1864.
Sergt. J. R. Yost, e. Dec. 2, '61, disd. June 7, '62, disab.
Sergt. Jas. C. Swift, e. Nov.2o,'6i,disd. for prmt. in 1st
Ala. Cav., March, 1863.
Sergt. Chas.SD. Miller, e. Nov. 20, 1861, disd. June 23,
1862, disab.
Corpl. P. A. Butterfield, e. Oct. 23, 1861, disd. June
27, 1862, disab.
Corpl. Elisha E. Rockwood, e. Oct. 20, 1861, disd. June
23, 1862, disab.
Corpl. Geo. Bosworth, e.'Dec. 24, 1861, disd. May 23,
1862, disab.
Corpl. Hiram Higby, e. Nov. 10, 1861, disd. June 27,
1862, disab.
Corpl. Samuel Brumback, e. Oct. 23, 1861, m. o. Jan.9,
'65, as.pnvate.
PRIVATES.
Barnard Thomas, e. Jan. 23, 1862, disd. June] 27, '62,
disab.
Batten Jas. e. Jan. 16, 1862, m. o. Feb. 13, 1865.
Berkhimer M. e. Nov. 19, 1861, disd. June 7, '62, disab.
Barber John S. e. Dec. 21, 1861, disd. April, '62, disb.
Barber John L. e. Feb. 20, 1862, trans, to 10th 111. Cav.,
as consolidated.
Cole i has. H. e. Jan. 16, 1862, trans, to 10th 111. Cav.
Cothrien D. e. Dec. 27, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, '65, Corpl.
Canders C. J. e. Jan. 2, 1862, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Dudley H. S. e. Nov. 16, 1861, m. o. Jan. 27, 1865.
Dowell Alex. e. Dec. 9, 1861, disd. June 13, '62. disab.
Everhart Wm. e. Jan. 18, 1862, trans, to 10th 111. Cav.,
as consolidated.
Fredenburgh I. H. e. Nov 19, 1861, disd. June 23, '62,
disab.
Ford Jos. e. Dec. 3, 1861, Corpl., disd. for prmt. in 1st
Ala. Cav., October, 1863.
Hanna A. J. e. Nov. 25, 1861, disd. June 27, '62, disab.
Horner Geo. B. e. Oct. 30, '61, disd.June 23, '62, disab.
Harris A. C. e. Nov. 9, 1861, disd. April, 1862, disab.
Harris Geo. W. e. Dec. 7, 1861, disd.June 27/62, disab.
Holloway Lewis, e. Jan. 8, '62, disd. Feb. ig,'63,disab.
Lammey Thos. e. Jan. 16, 1861, trans, to 10th 111. Cav.,
as consolidated.
Lammey Wm. e. Jan. 16, 1861, trans, to 10th 111. Cav.,
as consolidated.
Lee John H. e. Nov. 30, 1861, died at Corinth, Miss.,
Sept. 13, 1862.
Larson Austin, e. Dec. 27, '61,'disd. Mar. n, '63. disab.
Lawrence Dan. e. Jan. 9, 1862, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
166
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Lewis Wm. A. e. Dec. 7, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Lewis Geo. e. Jan. i8,'62, tians. 10th I. V. C. as consol.
Moore Benj. F, e. Nov. 11, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Nickell Lucian R. e. Jan. 25, '62, trans, to 10th I. V. C.
as consolidated.
Norton M V. B. e. Feb. 1, '62, disd. April, 1862, disab.
Osman Austin, e. Dec. 27, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865,
Painter Jackson, e. Nov. 30, 1861, disd. April, '62, disab.
Painter Uriah, e. Nov. 9, '61, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865, Corpl,
Place E. D. e. Oct. 19, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865, Sergt.
Pratt Jno. e. Dec. 21, 1861. disd. May 14, 1862. disab.
Rushmore C. B. e. Oct. 3o,'6i. disd. Nov. 16, '62, disab.
Riley Jno. A. e. Dec. 17, '61, disd. May 14, 1862, disab.
Rowe E. M. e. Dec. 21, 1862, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Roath Levi,e. Dec. 5, 1861, trans, to Reg. Band.
Starrett E. e. Dec. 27, '61, m.o. Jan. 9, 1865, as saddler.
Shober Jno. F. e. Feb. 1, 1861, trans, to 10th I. V. C. as
consolidated.
Sommers Wm. H. e. Jan. 31, '62,prmt. Hospital Stew-
ard 53d I. V. I.
Will Edwin, e. Oct. 20, 1861, disd. April, 1862, disab.
Ward Julius S. e. Dec. 10, '61, Sergt., disd. July, 1864.
for promotion in 56th U. S. C. I.
Wellman Orlow, e. Jan. 16, '62, trans, to 10th I. V. C.
as consolidated.
RECRUITS.
Adams Hiram, e. Nov. 20, 1861. m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Breese Robt. e. Aug. 21, 1862, disd. June 24/64, Corpl.
Brumbach N. W. e. Feb. 19, '62, trans, to 10th I. V. C.
Bosworth M. J. e. Aug. 21, m. o. July 27, 1865.
Benedict Geo. W. e. Sept. 2, trans, to 10th I. V. C. as
consolidated.
Badger Jos. J.e. Dec. 14, '63, m. o. June 9, 1865, Corpl.
Cummings Chas. F. e. Sept. 8, '62, disd. for promotion
in 60th U. S.C. I.
Croker Edw'd, e. Feb. 22, '62, trans, to 10th I. V. C,
Dec. s, 1864.
Cumminqs Wm. H. e. Aug. 21, 1862, trans, to Invalid
Corps, July 13, 1862.
Francis Geo. W. e. Aug. 21, 1862, disd. for disab.
Ford S. J. e. Aug. 21, '62, trans, to Co. F, 10th I. V. C.
Forrest Wm. W.e.Aug. 2i,'62, trans. Co.K, 10th I.V.C.
Frederick Ew'd,e. Dec. i4,'63, trans. Co. M, 10th I.V.C.
Greenslit John, e. March 25, 1862, Corpl. disd. for pro-
motion in 60th U. S. C. I., May 13, 1864.
Gord Niles H.e. Feb. 8, trans, to 10th I. V. C.
Jordan John, e. Aug. 21, captured and exchanged.
Judd Demos, e. Aug. 30, disd. for disab.
Johnson Thos. e. Feb. 22. m. o. March 31, 1865.
Jordon Thos e. Aug. 21, trans to Co. F, 10th I. V. C.
Keoler Albright, e. Nov. 8, '61, disd. Oct. is,'62, disab.
King Mark, e. Sept. 8, '62, Corpl., trans, to Co. D,
10th I. V. C.
Kingsley Alonzo, e. Aug. 21, trans, to Co. F, 10th
I. V. C.
Leonard Jos. A. e. Oct. 16, 1861, died at Ottawa, 111.,
Nov. 23, 1864.
Leland Geo. M. e. Mch. 1, 1862, Sergt., trans, to Un-
assigned Recruits, 10th I. V. C. as consld.
Morgan Jas. W. e. Aug. 30, prmt. Sergt. Maj. 60th
U. S. I. C.
Miller Harrison J. e. Feb. 22, 1862, Sergt., trans, to
Unassigned Recruits, 10th I. V. C. as consld.
O'Brien Jas. e. Aug. 21, 1862, trans, to Co. F, 10th
I. V. C.
Porter Sam'l W. e. Sept. 3, prmt. Sergt. Maj.
Putnam Wm. C. e. Aug. 21, disd. Mch. 23, '63, disab.
Phelps Edward A. e. Sept. 6.
Houndsone Richard, e. Aug. 21, m. o. June 22, 1865.
Smith Wilson Lee, e. Oct. 8, 1861, m. o. Jan. 9, 1865.
Smith Jos. e. Aug. 21, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps, July
13, 1865.
Tupper Frank, e. Feb. 17, 1862, disd. for promotion in
First Ala. Cav., Mch., 1864.
Thomson Hans, e. Feb. 12, 1861, trans, to 10th I. V. C.
Unassigned.
Van Stillwagner J. e. Dec. 14, 1863, died at home,
Nov. — , 1864.
Whitehead F. W.e.Feb. 21, '62, disd. June 27,'62,disab.
Wells Enos S. e. Sept. 8, disd. Nov. 15, 1864, disab.
Willis S. S. e. Aug. 21, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps, July
13, 1863.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Burk Thos. e. Sept. 27, 1864.
Osborn R. H. e. Sept. 20, 1864.
Miscellaneous Cavalry.
(Arranged by Regiments.)
3d Cavalry.
Adams Washington, e. Jan. 19, 1865, trans, to Co. D,
as consolidated.
3d Consolidated Cavalry.
Colwell Geo. e. Feb. 1, 1865, m. o. Oct. 10, 1865.
Frost Francis, e. Feb. 1, 1865.
Eastham Jas. e. Jan. 23, 1865, deseited June 26, 1865.
Foster Wm. e. March 5, 1865.
Goode Patrick, e. March 31, 1865.
Hopton Jas. e. April 13, 1865.
Leech Robt. e. Oct. 8, 1864, d,ied at Camp Butler, 111.,
Nov. 20, 1864.
Murphy Wm. e. March 18, 1865.
Smith Jas. F. e. Oct. 8, 1865, m. o. May 21, 1865.
9th Cavalry.
Thompson Henry B. e. Jan. 30, '65, m. o. Oct. 31, '65.
Knight D. H. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Aug. 26, 1865.
Corbin Hibbin S. e. July 22, 1865.
Barker Jas. e. March 13, 1865.
Brown Jno. D. e. Feb. 28, 1865.
Davis Albert, e. April 12, 1865.
Griffin Geo. W. e. March 3, 1865, m. o. May 29, 1865.
Hamlin Edward, e. March 3, 1865, m. o. May 11, 1S65.
Johnson Wm. e. Feb. 25, 1865.
McMannus Michael, e. Feb. 24, 1865.
Preston Hiram, e. Feb. 22, 1865, disd. May 11, 1S65.
Ross John W. e. Jan. 21, 1865.
Van Clere Jesse, e. March 13, 1865.
10th Cavalry.
Lawrence John, e. Nov. 28, 1864, rejected by board.
Martin John, e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Murry Richard, e. Oct. 24, 1864.
McDonald Alex. e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Sutton Thomas, e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Wilson John, e. Oct. 24, 1864.
Ilth Cavalry.
Mantion Dewitt F.e. Feb. 18, 1865, m. o. Sept. 30, '65.
Powers Albert C. e. Feb. 18, 1865, m. o. Sept. 30, 1865.
Smith John W. e. Feb. 23, 1865, m. 8. Sept. 30, 1865,
as Saddler.
Alden Frank, e. Feb. 21. 1865.
Cawlev Francis, e. Oct. 21, 1864.
King John, e. March 10, 1865.
12th Cavalry Consolidated.
First Lieutenant Andrew J. Norton, com. Second Lieu-
tenant Co. I, 4th Cavalry Consolidated, May 2,
1864. Transferred to this Company July 14, 1865.
Mustered out May 29, 1866.
Miller Jacob, e. Oct. 7, 1864.
Paul John. e. Aug. 23,';i864.
Russell Wm. F. e. Jan. 5, 1864.
13th Cavalry.
Brenning Jacob, e. Oct. 22, 1864.
Durham Andrew J.
Smith Wm.
17th Cavalry.
King Geo. W. e. Dec. 4, 1863, m. o. Dec. 20, 1865.
Rawlings Jas. F. e. Oct. 10, 1864.
1st Artillery.
The Adjutant General's Reports, furnish no history
for Battery C.
Col. Chas. Houghtaling. com. Captain Co. C, April 18,
1861. Promoted Major, Jan. 16, 1863. Promoted
Colonel Aug. 20, 1864. Mustered out (as Major)
June 14. 1865.
Major Chas. C. Campbell, com. Captain Campbell
Artillery July 21, 1861. Promoted Major of 1st
Artillery Oct. 23, 1861. Resigned Feb. 25, 1863.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
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Company A.
Flynn Patrick, e. Dec. 19, i86r, m. o. July 10, 1865.
Company B.
Graham John, e. Sept. 16, 1861, assigned to new Co. A.
Company C.
Captain Mark H. Prescott, com. First Lieutenant, Aug.
1, 1861. Promoted Captain Jan. 16, 1863. Re-
signed Nov. 26, 1864.
Captain Jos. R. Channel, e. as Sergeant July 30, 1861.
Promoted Jr. Second Lieutenant Jan 16, 1863. Pro-
moted Sr. First Lieutenant Nov. n, 1863. Pro-
moted Captain Nov. 26, 1864. Mustered out June
12, 1865.
First Lieutenant Edw'd M. Wright, com. Aug. 1, 1861.
Resigned Sept. 9, 1863.
First Lieutenant Stephen G. Grubb, e. as Quarter
Master Sergeant Aug. 26, 1861. Promoted Jr. Sec-
ond Lieutenant Jan. 16, 1863. Promoted Jr. First
Lieutenant Nov. 11, '63. Mustered out June 12, '65.
First Lieutenant Palmer F. Scovel, e. as First Sergeant
Aug. 26, 1861. Re-enlisted as veteran Nov. 18,
1863. Promoted Sr. Second Lieutenant Nov. n,
1863. Promoted Sr. First Lieutenant, Nov. 26, 1864.
Mustered out as Second Sr. Lieutenant, June 12, '65.
Second Lieutenant Francis M. Lane, e. as Seigeant
July 30, 1861. Commissioned Second Lieutenant,
but not mustered. Died near Ripley ,0. , Aug. 15, '64.
Sergt. Geo. C. Wolford, July 30, 1861, disd. Aug. 8, '64.
Sergt LynusS. Warner,e.Aug. 12, '6i, m.o. Sept. 24, '64.
Corpl. Chester P. Whitman, e. Aug. 18, '61, re-enlisted
as vet. Nov. 19, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Corpl. Francis G. Wheeler, e. Aug. 23, 1861, deserted
July 29, 1862.
Corpl. Philip G. Denny, e. Aug. 18, 1863, re-enlisted as
vet. Nov. 18, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Corpl. Josiah Bagby,e. Aug. 26, '61, m. o. Sept. 24, '64.
Corpl. Geo. W. Cooper, e. Aug. 26, 1861, Sergt. kid. at
Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
Corpl. Chas. Strethorn, e. July 30, 1861, disd. Aug. 8,
1864, as Sergt., term expired.
Corpl. Wm. Mclntyre, e. Sept. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Nov. 28, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. Robert M. Gibson, e. Aug. 20, 1861, re enlisted
as vet. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865, at Sergt.
Bugler L. Richardson, e. Aug. i8,'6i,m. o. Aug. 30, '64.
Artificer Milton Hampton, e. July 30, 1861, disd. Aug.
8, 1864, term expired.
Artificer Frederick Grisho, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept.
24, 1864.
Artificer R. E. Edgecomb, e. Dec. 25, 1861, m. o. Dec.
30, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Adrich Owen J. e. Sept. 8, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Bourne John B. e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Nov. 18, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865, as Corpl.
Blackmore Henry, e. Aug. 18, '61, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Bonneville Lafayette, e. Aug. 18, '61, re-enlisted as vet.
Burns Cornelius, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Burns George, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Bittil Thomas, e. Oct. 9, 1861, disd. Oct. 31, 1864.
Corle Jos. e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 1,
1864, as Corpl., kid. in N. C, March 19, 186s.
Channell M. V. B. e. July 30, 1861, died at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1863, wds.
Charron John, e. Sept. 3, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
2, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Corle R. S. e. Sept. 8, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1863, Corpl.
Cole Irvin, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Cottoo James, e. Sept. 8, 1861, disd. March 6, 1863.
Cahner Martin, e. Aug. 18, 1861, trans, to Inv. Corps,
April 10, 1864.
Cameron John, e. July 30, i86i,disd. Sept. 25, 1861.
Dobson Wm. E. e. Aug. 18, 1861.
Dallas Archibald, e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Nov. 18, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865, as Corpl.
Davis James B. e. Aug. 18, 1861, disd. May 8, 1862.
Fullerton Morris, e. July 30, 1861, died at Bird's Point,
Mo., Jan. s, 1862.
Frost Rollin L. e. July 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
3, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Fitzsimmons Thomas A. e. Aug. 24, '61, Corpl., died in
Georgia, July 26, 1864, wds.
Green George, e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Dec.
20, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Gamble Pomeroy, e. Aug. 18, 1861, died at Nashville,
Tenn., Nov. 22, 1863.
Gregg David R.e. July 3o,'6i,disd. March 31, '63, disab.
Girard John, e. Sept. 3, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Harding Wm. R. e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Nov. 19, '63, Corpl., kid. in N. C, March 19, 1865.
Hathaway Geo. e. July 30, '61, re-enlisted as vet. Nov.
20, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Hamilton Thomas, e. Sept. 8, 1861, disd. Feb. 27, 1862.
Howe Henry, e. Aug. 18,1861. died at Bird's Point,
Mo., Nov. 6, 1861.
Jones Cora, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Leary Michael, e. Aug. 22, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Dec. 17, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Larkins Ira S. e. Oct. 21, 1861, disd. Oct. 31, 1864.
Marchington Philip, e Aug. 18, 1861, m.o. Sept. 24, '64.
Perry David A. e. Aug. 20, 1861, disd. March 13, 1862.
Pettigrew John, e July 30,1861, re-enlisted as vet. Nov.
20, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865, as Corpl.
Patterson P. e. Aug. 20, 1861, died at Bird's Point,
Mo., Oct. 1, 1861.
Reed Sam'l J. e. July 30, 1861, disd., term ex.
Robinson Isaiah, e. Aug. 18, 1861, m. o. Sept. 24, 1864.
Shearer D. M. e. Aug. 3, 1861, re- enlisted as vet. Nov.
18, 1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Still Geo. e. July 30, i86i,disd. Sept. 29, 1864.
Stroube Chas. J. e. Aug. 7, 1861, deserted Mch. 29, '63.
Stephens Wm. M. e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Feb. 23, '64, m. o. June 12, '65. as Co. Q.M. Sergt.
Smith Asbury, e. July 30, 1861, kid. at Stone River,
Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
Stein F. e. July 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.,Nov. 23,
1863, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Sutler Benj. e. July 30, 1861, died at Nashville, Tenn.,
July 12, 1864.
Shaul Cornelius, e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Nov. 18, 1863, m. o.June 12, 1865.
Shuler Lewis, e. Sept. 12, 1861, deserted Sept. 27, 1861.
Tuttle Benj. D. e. Aug. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Nov. 23, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Van Buren Peter, e. Aug. 18, 1861, disd. Mch. 13, '63.
Vincent Deforest, e. July 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Villereux Frank G. e. Sept. 8, 1861. m.o. Sept. 13, '64.
Vincent Louis, e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. Oct. 31, 1864.
Ward Jas. M. e. July 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Wormstrum John, e. July 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Wilkinson Alex, e. July 30, 1861, disd. July 9, 1862.
Wildey John, e. Sept. 6, 1821, kid. at Stone River,
Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
RECRUITS.
Allen Jeremiah, e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Allen Henry, e. Nov. 7, 1861, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Bickford Owen, e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Breese John H. e. Aug. 22, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Blanton Win. P. e. Mch. 10, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Ball Dennis R. e. July 23, 1862, disd. Apr. 23, '64, disab.
Bennett John C. e. Aug. 22. 1861, kid. at Stone River,
Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
Clark John L. e. Aug. 7, 1861, m.o. June 12/65, wag'r.
Campbell Martin, e. July 16, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Campbell Philip, e. Aug. 7, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Carpenter Peter, e. Aug. 11, 1861, in. o. June 12, 1865.
Corle Wm. e. Aug. 15, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Corle B. P. e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Clancy N. e. Sept. 30, 1864, m.o. June 12, 1865.
Clayton M. U. e. Oct. 6, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Crane S. e. Sept. 1, 1862, kid. Bentonyille, N. C.,Nov.
7, 1862.
Carpenter Squire, e. Aug. 21, 1861, died Mound City,
111., Nov. 7, 1862.
Fhley Adam, e. Aug. n, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Ehley Anthony, e. Feb. 27, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Ehe Philip, e. Feb. 24, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Forbes Asahel, e. Aug. 8, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865, as
Artificer.
Ferry Jos. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Frick Jacob, e. teb. 2, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Colder John C. e. Feb. 26, 1861, on furlough at m. o.
of Regt.
Gilbert Roland, e. Nov. 2, '61, m. o. June 12, '65, Corpl.
Hall Frank, e, July 23, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Harding Geo. W. e. Feb. 15, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Hamilton Alex, e. July 18, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Hoyt John A. e. Nov. 9, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Hall E. P. e. Feb. 27, 1861, m. o. July e i, 1865.
Holly John, e. Feb. 26, 1861.
Herrington Jas. S. e. Oct. 6, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Hudson Edw. G. e. Oct. 2, 1864, m. o May 23, 1865.
Jordon Wm. H. e. Oct. 1, 1861, m. o. July 16, 1865.
Keegan Robt. E. e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Keiner Wm. e. Mch. 7, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
168
LA 8ALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
Keibler Louis, e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Kutice Peter, e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Klingstone Michael, e. Sept. 29,1861, died at Savan-
nah. Ga., April 15, 1865.
Limfor Robt. e. Mch. 12, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Marshall Wm. J. e. Sept. 1, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Miller Chas. e. Feb. 24, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Martin Varland, e. Mch. 16, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Marchington Philip, e. Nov. 2, i86i,m. o. June 12,1865.
Mattelle Jos. e. Oct. 1, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Nichols John, e. Feb. 26, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Peterson Sam'l S. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Porter S. F. e. Aug. n, 1861, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Peterson A. M. e. Aug. 14, 1861, m. o. July 12, 1865.
Pratt M. A. e. Oct. 6, 1864, died at Indianapolis, Ind.,
Jan. 5, 1865.
Quinlan Jeremiah, e. Feb 29, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Reynolds C. W. e. Aug. 5, 1862, ra. o. June 12, 1865.
Robinson Wm. e. July 24, 1862, m. o. June 12,1865.
Ramsey John, e. Aug. 12, 1862, m. o. July 5, 1865.
Richardson ]. R. e. Aug. 15, 1862, in. o. June 12, 1865.
Rinker Chas. e. Feb. 29, 1862, m o. June 12, '65. vet.
Reynolds Robt. e. Oct. 6, 1861, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Robinson Henry, e. Dec. 21, 1S62, disd. May 28, 1862.
Scales Thos. e. Aug. 11, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Smalley Ellmore, e. March 12, 1864, m. o. June 12, '65.
Smith Lewis M. e. Oct.i, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Smith Edwin D. e. Oct. 1, 1864, m. o. June 12, r86s.
Smith Leander, e. Oct. 1, 1864, sick at m. o. of regt.
Slocum Samuel, e. Oct. 21, 1864, m. o. June 12. 1865.
Toombs Geo. L. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Teel Jas. H. e. Aug. 5, 1862, sick at m. o. of regt.
Vampel Ernst, e. Feb. 26, 1864, m. o. July 5, 1865.
Vanetta Matthias, e. Feb. 26, 1864, sick at m. o. regt.
Vallort John P. e. March 7, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Whaten Edw. e. Sept. 19, 1862, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Wallace Wm. C. e. Nov. 1, 1S64, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Warner Wm. H. e. Oct. n, 1864, m. o. June 12, 1865.
Warner Reuben, e. Aug. 8, 1862, trans, to lnv. Corps,
April 30, 1864.
Weideman F. e. Aug. n, 1862, died at Bridgeport,
Ala., Aug. 7, 1863.
Company M.
Captain Jno. B. Miller, com. Aug. 12, 1862. Resigned
Aug. 5, 1863.
Captain Geo. W. Spencer, com. First Lieutenant Aug.
12, 1862. Promoted Captain Aug. 5, 1863. Mus-
tered out July 24, 1S65.
First Sergt. Wm. P. Gregg, e. Aug. 6, 1861, deserted
Sept. 27, 1862.
Corpl. Edgar Stebbins, e. May io,'62. m.o. July 24.'6s.
Corpl. Patrick Short, e. Aug. 7, 1862, m.o, July 24, '65.
Corpl. Alonzo Brumfi.ld, e. May 27, 1862, m. o. July
24, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Aldrich Wm. A. e. Aug. 7, '62, dUd. July 26,'63, disab.
Anderson Edward, e. Aug. 9, |i862, disd. Jan. 26, '63,
disab.
Babcock Henry, e. April 15, 1862, Corpl., deserted
March 4, 1863.
Batterson Wm. e. April 16, 1862, m. o. July 24, 1865.
Boyton C. e. April 26, 1862, m. o. July 24, 1865.
Cain Edwin, e. June 10, 1862, m. o. July 24, 1865.
Henderson E. W. e. Aug. 9, 1862, m o. July 24, 1865.
Hammond John, e. Aug. 1, 1862, absent at m. o. of Co.
Korah A. R. e. Aug. 7, 1862, m. o. July 24, '65, Corpl.
Morrell Jno. L. e. April 27, '62, disd. Oct. 5, '62. disab.
Ryan Wm. e. Aug. 9, 1862, deserted Fet>. 31, 1863.
Spencer D. E. e. April 15, 1862, deserted March 6, '63.
Thompson Edw. G. e. Aug. 1, '62, m. o. July 24, '65,
as Corpl.
Winnemore E. S. E. e. June 1, 186:, m.o. July 24, 65.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Mulligan Edw. e. Oct. 25.
Mullins Michael, e. Nov. 3, 1864.
Shaw John, e. Nov. 3, 1864.
Stone Wm. e. Nov. 4, 1864.
Turner Geo. W. e. July 26, 1864.
2d Artillery.
Surgeon Jerome F. Weeks, com. July 11, 1864. Not
mustered.
Company D.
RECRUITS.
Allen Milo, e. Sept. 7, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Ames Ira, e. Aug. 25, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Arentson Helia, e. Aug. 25, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Allen H. D. e. Aug. 7, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Arentson Henry, e. Aug. 25, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Bradshaw F. e. Aug. 23, '61, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Barney Jas. M. e. Aug. 7, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Camer J. H. e. Aug. 24, '64, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Dickinson H. N. e. Aug. 7, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Dyer Jas. e. Aug. 6, 1861. disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Dickerson Geo. M. e. Aug. 21, i86i,disd. Sept. 24/64,
term ex.
Donough Richard, e. Sept. 20, 1861.
EagarChas. T. e. Aug. 26, 1861.
Flinn Jas. e. Aug. 7, 1861, deserted JuU 13. 1864.
Fr ckner Z. e. Aug. 7, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Forest Chas. B. e. Au;. 19, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Flahire Thos. e. Aug. 20. 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Fields Stephen, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
' term ex.
Gillis John, e. Sept. 5, 1861, disd. Sept. 24/64, term ex.
Grant Jas. e. Sept. 1, 1861.
Gregg Wm. P. e. Aug. 6, 1861, trans, to Bat. M, First
111. Art.
Johnson J. F. e. Oct. 20, 1862, trans, to Bat. K.
Morris Peter, e. Aug. 7, '62, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
McDermoit Daniel, e. Aug. 23, 1861.
Olson Andrew, e. Aug. 26, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Potter Pardon, e. Aug. 7, '61, disd. Sept. 24, '64, term ex.
Smith Rossiter, e. Aug. 23, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Skelton Henry, e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. Sept. 24, 1864,
term ex.
Swan John, e. Sept. 1, 1861.
Whitney N. e. Aug. 23, 1861, disd. Sept. 24/64, term ex.
Wolf Peter.
Company H.
Atwood Hiram, e. Oct. n, 1864, m. o. July 29, 1865.
Brazelton Laban, e, Oct. n, 1864, m. o. July 29, 1865.
Collenberger Thos. e. Oct. n, 1864, m. o. July 29, 1865.
Nelson Enoch, e. Oct. 11, 1864, m, o. July 29, 1865.
Company I.
Corpl. Chas. Howard, e. Nov. 1, 1861.
Company K.
Sergt. Oscar H. Damon, e. Oct. 15, 1861.
Corpl. Rufus Mclntire, e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Dec. 30,
1864, Co. Q. M. Sergt.
Corpl. A. O. Damon, e. Oct. 15, 1861.
Corpl. Freeman Mcpherson, e. Oct. 15, 1851, m. o. Dec.
30, 1864, as private.
Bugler John F. Marquis, e. Oct. 15, 1861 re-enlisted as
vet. Jan. 5, 1864, promt. Sergt., then Junior Second
Lieut.
PRIVATES.
Clark James, e. Oct. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Manning R. e. Oct. 15, 1S61, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 5,
1864, m. o. July 14, 1865, as Sergt.
Munger Wm. e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Dec. 30, 1864.
Nullen Joshua, e. Oct. 15, 1861.
Nodine Thco. e. Oct. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m.o. July 14, 1865, as Corpl.
Penrose Samuel J. e. Oct. 15, 1861.
Russell Martin, e. Oct. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865.
Smuthwait T. e. Oct. 15, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan.
5, 1864, m. o. July 14, 1865, as Wagoner.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Beuerman Geo. E. e. Sept. 27, 1864.
1ASALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
169
Dewitt Wm. e. Dec. 17, 1863.
Martin Wm. e. Oct. 22, 1864.
Merritt Wm. C. e. Oct. 5, 1864.
Cogswell's Battery Light Art.
(Formerly Attached to 53d Reg. I. V.)
Cogswell's Battery Illinois Light Artillery was or-
ganized at Ottawa, Illinois, by Captain William Cogs-
well, and was mustered in November nth, 1861, as
Company A, Artillery, Fifty-third Illinois Volunteers,
Colonel Cushman commanding the Regiment.
On February 28th, 1862, moved to Chicago, Illinois,
and, on March 17th, it was detached from the Regi
ment, and Moved to St. Louis, Missouri. On April
8th, erhbarked for Pittsburg Landing. Was assigned
to duty m Third Division, Army of Tennessee, Briga.
dier General Lew. Wallace commanding. Participated
in the advance on Corinth, and, from thence, marched
to Memphis, Tennessee, arriving June 14th, 1862. On
November 26th, was assigned to Fifth Division, Briga-
dier General J. W. Denver commanding, and marched
with General Sherman's Expedition toward Vicksburg.
On the return of Sherman's army, the Battery moved
with M'Pherson.'s Army to the Yaconapatalfa River,
and afterwards marched to Grand Junction, arriving
January 9th, 1863.
March 8th, 1863, moved to Lagrange. On June 4th,
moved to Memphis, and embarked for Vicksburg.
Participatrd in the siege of Vicksburg.
On September 28th, embarked for Memphis. On
nth October, marched from Memphis, and, November
23d and 24th, participated in the battle of Mission
Ridge.
April 20th, 1864, moved to Nashville. On Decem-
ber 15th and 16th, 1864, was engaged in the Battle of
Nashville, Lieutenant McClary commanding. Marched
to Pulaski, Clifton and Easiport. On February 5th,
1865, embarked for New Orleans. From March 28th
to April 8th, was engaged with the Sixteenth Corps in
operations against Spanish Fort, Alabama. Moved
thence to Elakely, and, after its capture, to Montgom-
ery, Alabama.
July 38th, 1865, ordered to Springfield, Illinois.
Mustered out August 14th, 1865.
The Battery was in service three years and nine
months, and has marched over 7,500 miles, and partici-
pated in seven sieges and battks.
Captain Wm. Cogswell, com. Sept. 23, 1861. ^Term ex-
pired Dec. 8, 1864.
Captain Wm. R. Elting, e. as First Sergeant, Dec. 1,
18S1. Promoted Second Lieutenant, March 26,
1862. Promoted Jr. First Lieutenant, Sept. 17,
1862. Promoted Captain, Dec. 8, 1864. Mustered
out Aug. 14, 1865.
First Lieutenant S. Hamilton McClary, com. Second
Lieutenant, April 1, 1864. Promoted Jr. First Lieu-
tenant, Nov. 20, 1864. Mustered out Aug. 14, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Hiram S. Prescott, com. Nov. 12,
1861. Resigned March 26, 1862.
Second Lieutenant Wm. Burgess, e. as Sergeant, Oct.
7, 1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran. Feb. 6, 1864.
Promoted Second Lieutenant, April 1, 1864. Mus-
tered out Aug. 14, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Chester W. Van Doren, e. Nov. 20,
1861. Re-enlisted as Veteran, Jan. 2, 1864. Mus-
tered out Aug. 14, 1865, as First Sergeant. Com.
Second Lieutenant, but not mustered.
Sergt. Jas. R. Miller, e. Oct. 7, 1861, disd. Nov. 24/62,
disab.
Sergt. Wm. Duckwith, e. Oct. 7, 1861, m. o. Dec. 9,
1864, term ex.
Sergt. Wilson L. Smith, e. Oct. 8, 1861, deserted April
5* J862.
Sergt. Wm. Kelley, e. Oct. 7, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, '64,
as private, term ex.
Corpl. Curtan H. Castle, e. Nov. 9, i86r, disd. Nov. 13,
1862, disab.
Corpl. E. Wightman, e. Oct. 19, 1861, Seigt., deserted
July 27, 1862.
Corpl. Henry Hodkinson, e. Dec. 1, 1861, m. o. Nov.
20, 1864, term ex.
Corpl. Geo. A. Lawrence, e. Oct. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as
vet. Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Sergt.
Corpl. John A. Patton, e. Oct. 13, 1861, deserted Jan.
25, 1863.
Corpl. F. E. Miller, e. Oct. 7, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865, as Bugler.
Corpl. Ohansy Hawley, e. Oct. 23, 1861, Sergt., died
May 15, 1862.
Corpl. 0. Sisco, e. Dec. 5, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864, as
private, term ex.
Musician Wm. H. Cogswell, e. Nov. 9, 1861. re-enlisted
as vet. Feb. 6, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Musician Annas T. Setter, e. Nov. 9, 1861, disd. Jan. 6,
1862, disab.
Artificer Alonzo Hopkins, e. Oct. 10, 1861, re-enlisted
as vet. Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865, as Sergt.
Artificer A. Geduldig, e. Oct. 10, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20,
1864, as private, term ex.
Artificer Wm. Galvin, e. Nov. 21, 1861, Corpl., trans.
to Invalid Corps.
Artificer A. D. Shope, e. Oct. 28, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20,
1864, as Sergt., term ex.
PRIVATES.
Allingham Michael, e. Jan. 7, 1862, m. o. Dec. 3, 1S64,
term ex.
Beardsley Eli A. e. Oct. 10, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864,
term ex.
Brady Michael, e. Oct. 28, 1861. dropped from rolls Aug.
18, 1862, official notice of discharge since received.
Brink Edward, e. Dec. 3, 1861, dropped as a deserter
Nov. iS, 1862.
Crawford Wm. e. Oct. 9, 1861, disd. Nov. 13, '62, disab.
Clark Jas. e. Nov. 1, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Sept. 17,
1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Cummings John, e. Oct. 15, 1861, deserted Mch. 18. '62.
Crawford Jas. e. Nov. 23, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864,
term ex.
Condon Jas. e. Nov. 30, 1861, deserted July 27, 1862.
Conway Jas. e. Nov. 25, '61, m. o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Coleman Wm. e. Dec. 9, 1861, died at Dayton, 111., Oct.
15, 1864.
Duffey Peter, e. Dec. 3, 1861, deserted July 27, 1862.
Elefrits Jos. e. Oct. 9, 1861, dropped as a deserter Aug.
18, 1862.
Egerness Lars, e. Dec. 6, 1861, died at Nashville,
Tenn., July 16, 1864.
Egerness Thos. L. e. Dec. 6, 1861, kid. at Gravel
Ridge, Tenn., while on duty, May 19, 1862.
Fredenburgh Henry, e. Dec. 20, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20,
1864, as 1st Sergt, term ex.
Fribs John, e. Oct. 20, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept. 17,
1864, m. o. |une 5, 1865, as Corpl.
Gelson P. D. e. Oct. 13, '61, m. o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Gurnea August, e. Nov. 10, '61, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864,
term ex.
German Simeon, e. Oct. 20, 1861. re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Hinkley S. D. e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864, as
Corpl., term ex.
Howard S. B. e. Oct. 14, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Corpl.
Hubbard Geo. e. Oct. 13, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept.
17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Harrison Wm. e. Oct. 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept.
17, 1864, m. o. June 13, 1865.
Hudson Wm. e. Oct. 13, 61, m.o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Harrington Robt. e. Oct. 19, 1861, dropped from rolls
Aug. 18, '62, official notice of his disch. since ree'd.
Holoring John, e. Dec.3, '61, m.o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Hughs Thns. e. Nov. 18, 1862, disd. by civil authority
March 18, 1862.
Ide Geo. W. e. Oct. 15, 1861, disd. Feb. 24. '63, disab.
Johnson Andrew, e. Oct. 17, 1861, re. enlisted as vet.
Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. Ju e 5, 1865.
Johnson Richd. e. Jan. 19, '62, m.o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Kilbride Terrence, e. Oct. 18, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865, as Corpl.
Kellogg Ralph, e. Oct. 18, 1861, killed near Lagrange,
Tenn., by railroad accident, Jan. 29, 1863.
Knight Taylor, e. Nov. 5, 1861, sick at m. o. battalion.
Knight David, e. Nov. 12, '61, disd. Dec. 18, '62, disab.
Lass John, e. Nov. 22, '61, trans, to V. R. C., May 1/64.
Loy, or Maloy, J. M. e. Jan. 2, 1862, re-enlisted as vet.
Jan. 2, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Metcalf O. P. e. Oct. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept.
17, 1864, m. o. Jan, 5, 1865.
McKinley Leroy L. e. Oct. 8, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
McFarland R. e. Oct. 28, 1861, dropped as a deserter
Aug. 18, 1862.
McKerinan T. e. Jan. 31, 1862, deserted June 20, 1862.
Nolen Thos. e. Nov. 1, 1861, disd. by civil authority
March 17, 1862.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
O'Brien Geo. Mac. e. Oct. 22, 1861, sent to Mil. Prison,
Oct. 9, '63, to be dishonorably disd. expir'n term.
Oleson Barney, e. Oct. 30, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corpl.
Oleson John, e. Oct. 28, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Jan. 2,
1864, killed April n, 1864.
Oleson Yance, e. Dec. 5, 1861, died at Memphis, Oct.
28, 1862.
Rogers Murray, e. Oct. 28, 1861, m. o. Nov. 20, 1864,
term ex.
Ryan Jerry, e. Oct. 18, '61, m. o. Nov. 20, '64, term ex.
Ryan \Vm. e. Oct. 20, 1861, died at Huntsville, Ala.,
April 12, 1864, of wounds.
Ryan Timothy, e. Jan. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as vet.
Sept. 17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Stroble Jas. e. Oct. 14, i86r, m. o. N jv.20,'64, term ex.
Summers Jos. e. Oct. 26, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept.
17, 1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Snow John. e. Oct. 9, 1861, died at Lagrange, Tenn.,
Jan. 28, 1863.
Shoemaker F. e. Dec. 3, '61, m. o. Dec. 3, '64, term ex,
Seely Daniel, e. Nov. 27, '61, m. o. Dec. 3, '64, term ex.
Wooden Geo. S. e. Oct. 8, '61, mo. Nov. 20. '64, term ex.
Winters Chas. F. e. Dec. 15, 1861, 1st Sergt., deserted,
May 30, 1862, in the face of the enemy.
RECRUITS.
Addington VVm. S. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. June 14, 1865.
Beckwith E. J. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Beach A. R. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Baumgardner M. e. Feb. 19, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Boyce Chas. e. Jan. 5, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Babcock Henry, e. Oct. 11, 1864, died at Nashville,
Tenn., Feb. 19, 1865.
Bartram David, e. Mch. 31, 1861, died at Nashville,
Tenn., June 23, 1864.
Boyle P. W. e. Feb. 10, 1862, deserted July 27, 1862.
Bosley L. e. Jan. 27, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept. 17,
1864, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Clark Thos. e. Jan. 1, '64, m. o. Aug. 14, '65, as Corpl.
Castle David, e. Jan. 4, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Cody Jay, e. Feb. 26, 1861, absent, sick at m.o. Bat'ry.
Cox Geo. R. e. Oct. 7, 1864.
Davis Jas. e. May 3, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Englehart Jacob, e. Jan. 4, 1861, kid. at Huntsville,
Ala., April n, 1864.
Gilbert Curtis T. e. Nov. 27, 1862, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Graham Wm. e. Feb. 15, 1863, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Gregg Thos. e. Dec. 31, 1863, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
George Clinton A. e. Oct. 13, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14,1865.
Harmnan Wm. J. e. Jan. 1, 1864, m.o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Humphrey Wm. e. Feb. 20, 1862, kid. at Huntsville,
Ala., April 11, 1864.
Howard Rodney, e. Feb. 27,! ; i86i, died at Bolivar,
Tenn.. July 24, 1862.
Hunt N. V. e. Jan. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as vet. Sept.,
ni. o. June 5, 1865.
Johnson Albert, e. Jan. 4, 1861, m.o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Johnson A. J. e. Mch. 31, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Jones Casper, e. Mch. 30, 1865, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
KalthofFer J. O. e. Oct. 16, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Kelly Martin, e. Jan. 4, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Lund Osmund, e. Feb. 29, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Lewis Moses, e. Feb. 12, 1861. m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Linhen Thos. e. Feb. 3, 1862, re-enlisted as vet. Feb.
14, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Liddle John, e. Oct. 21, 1864.
Mulligan Edw. e. Oct. 25, 1862, m.o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Maloney Patrick, e. Feb. 15, 1863, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Martin John, e. Dec. 17, '61, m. o. Feb. 17, '65, term ex.
McClaury H. S. e. Jan. 4. 1864.
Nicholson S. e. Feb. 1, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Newell Jas. G. e. Sept. 27, 1861, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Oldson John, e. Feb. 24, 1864, deserted from another
Regt.
Pratt Andrew J. e. Dec. 28, 1863, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Pope John B. e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Pope Lawson C. e. Jan. 4, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Pope Jas. M. e. Mch. 30, 1865, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Royce Chas. e. Jan. 4, 1864, deserted Jan. 25, 1864.
Rankin Robt. e. Dec. 31, 1863, Oeserted.
Saunders J. B. e. Jan. 4, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Smith Othello, e. Feb. 24, 1861, died at Camp Butler,
111., May 17, 1864.
Shacleton Clark, e. Jan. 4, 1861, died at Camp Butler,
III., Feb. 22, 1864.
Smith Alfred M. e. Jan. 21, 1664, rejected.
Swarthout Jas. W. e. May 3, 1861, rejected.
Tucker Daniel E. e. Jan. 4, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Tucker B. R. e. April 1, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Tucker D. N. e. Feb. 28, 1861, m. o. May 20, 1865.
Watrous Russell B. e. Jan. 2, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Woodcutter J. e. Oct. 15, 1861, m. o. Aug. 14, 1865.
Hensha w's Hattevy X ightArt,
No history in Illinois Reports of Henshaw's Battery.
Captain Edward C. Henshaw, com. Oct. 15, 1862.
Cashiered Dec. 14, 1864. for disability. Removed
March 2, 1865. Commissioned again March 9, 1865.
Mustered out July 8, 1865.
First Lieutenant Azro C. Putnam, com. Oct. 15, 1862.
Mustered out July 18, 1865.
First Lieutenant Aven Pearson, com. Dec. 3, 1862.
Mustered out July 18, 1865.
Second Lieutenant John L. Morrison, com. March 16,
1863. Mustered out July 18, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Melvin B. Ross, e. May 1, 186^.
Mustered out July 18, 1865.
First Sergt. J. T. Lake, e. Sept. 5, 1862, trans, to V. R.
C. Dec. 15, 1863.
Q. M. Sergt. Ole Larson, e. Sept. 29/62, m. o. July 18,
1865, private.
Sergt Jas. P. Maxon, e. Sept. 3, 1862, m. o. Juty 18, '65.
Sergt. Dan. Wheeler, e. Sept. 9, 1862, kid. in action,
Nov. 16, 1862.
Sergt. Dan. A. Adler, e. Sept. 4, '62, m. o. July 18, '65.
Sergf N. Smith, e. Sept. 8, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Sergt. Patrick O'Connor, e. Sept. 15, 1862, died at Ot-
tawa, 111., Feb. 10, 1863.
Artificer Jos. Morrison, e. Sept. 4, 62, m. o. July 18, '65.
Artificer Jno. M. Bailey , e. Oct. 9, 1861, disd. Aug. n,
1863, disab.
Bugler A. E. King, e. Sept. 29, '62, m. o. July 18, 1865,
as private.
Bugler Darwin Clark, e. Sept. 9, '62, m. o. July 18, '65.
PRIVATES.
Armstrong Geo. W. e. Oct. 4, 1862, m. o. Aug. 3, 1865.
Ayers Oscar, e. Oct. 3, 1862, m.o. July 18, 1865.
Brayman Wm. e. Dec. 19, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Batcheller Lucian, e. Feb. 3, 1863, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Boyle Patrick, e. Sept. 13, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Barber Geo. H. e. Sept. 2, '62, died at Louisville, Ky.,
May 16, 1863.
Beers P. G. e. Sept. 9, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Bergeson L. U. e. Oct. 6, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Batcheller David, e. Oct. 17, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865,
as Sergt.
Beers Anson, e. Sept. 9, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Blackall Thos. e. Nov. 18, 1861, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Brill Andrew, e. Nov. 25, 1862, claimed by and delivered
to 65th I. V. I. as deserter from that regt.
Capsel Lewis, e. Dec. 18, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Carmem Lewis, e. Jan. 31, 1863, deserted March 28, '63.
Charlison Jacobs, e. Oct. 6. 1762, in. o. July 18, 1865.
Cone Orville, e. Sept. 3, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Clark Owen, e. Sept. 2, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Cillen Jas. W. e. Sept. 4, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Corey M. D. e. Sept. 9, 1862, died at Ottawa, 111., Feb.
n, 1863.
Cathrin David, e. Sept. 20, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Dunne Wm. F. e. Dec. 5, 1862, deserted Nov. 30, 1864.
Dillon Patrick, e. Sept. 24, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Dunlap Jno. N. e. Oct. 14, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Fuller Albert S. e. Sept. 12, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Gullickson Knud. e. Dec. 12, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Graham Wm. e. Sept. 15, 1862, trans, to V. R. C. May
15, 1864.
Harvey Thos. e. Dec. 15, 1862, m. o. July 19, 1865.
Howard H. C. e. Dec. 18, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Horner Sam'l, e. Dec. 23, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Hickling Thos. e. Sept i,'62, m. o. July 18/65, artificer.
Hight T. L. e. Sept. 13, '62, m. o. July 18, '65, wagoner.
Halligan John, e. Nov. 10, 1862, m. o. May 22, 1865.
Hanson Halleck, e. Nov. 3, 1862. m. o. July 18, 1865.
Hartnell John, e. Oct. 18, 1862. m. o. July 18, 1865.
Highland Ole, e. Nov. 26, 1862. m. o. July 18, 1865.
Johnson John K. e. Oct. 6, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Jones John, e. Oct. 14, 1862, deserted Dec. 4, 1864.
Knight Wm. e. Sept. 9, 62, m. o. July 18, '65, Sergt.
Knudson Chris, e. Oct. 16, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1863.
Leon Frank, e. March 6, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865,
Lane Daniel, e. Sept. 15, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
LA SALLE COUNTY WAR KECOKD.
171
Litot S. e. Nov. 24, '62, trans, to V. R. C, Dec. 15, '63
Linda Lewis A. e. Sept. 5, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Mclnturf W. e. Dec. 27, 1862, deserted Feb. n, 1863.
McAleer Win. e. Sept. 22, 1862, disd Feb. 2, '64, disab.
Morse Jos. C. e. Nov.i, 1862, died at Knoxville, Term.,
Nov. 24, 1S63.
Nichols Alson B. e. Sept. 29, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Naughton Michael, e. Sept. 16, '62, disd. Dec. 26, '63.
disab.
Newton Knud, e. Dec. 1, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Olmstead Allen, e. Oct. 10, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Overmire Thos. e. Dec. 18, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Russell Jas. e. Sept. 24, '62, sent to hospital at Mound
City, 111., April n, 1863.
Robinson Robt. L. e. Nov. 24, '62, deserted Mar.20,'63.
Stanton Wm. e. Dec. 19, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Strube Chas. J. e. Jan. 17, 1862, deserted Feb. 10, 1865.
Sutphin Chas. T. e. Sept. 26, 1862, prmt. 1st Lieut. 3d.
N. C. Mounted Infantry, March 13, 1865.
Seaman A. R. e. Sept. 6, 1862, died at Ottawa, 111.,
March 1, 1863.
Strand L. T. e. Oct. 15, '62, disd. Mar. 24, '63, disab.
Schiph Anton, e. Oct. 6, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Strand Ole, e. Oct. 26, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Savory Oscar, e. Sept. 30, 1S62, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Soppland B. O. e. Nov. 3, 1862, m. o. July 18, '65.
Stanford E. G. e. Sept. 8, '62, m. o. July 18, '65.
Ton Andrew, e. Oct. 6, 1862, m. o. July 18, '65.
Thompson H. V. e. Sept. 1/62, disd. Aug. 18, '63, disab
Tool John, e. Dec. 31, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Tumey Hugh, e. Sept. 22, 1862, killed near Lagrange,
Ky., on L. & L. R. R., Aug. 4, 1863.
Vanthier Francis, e. Feb. 5, 1863, m. o. July 6, 1865.
West A. H. e. Oct. 4, 1862, m. o. June 26, 1865.
Wells Chas. L. e. Dec. 19, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Wright Jas. e. Oct. 14, 1862, m. o. luly 18, 1865.
Weland Ole, e. Oct. 16, 1862, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Wilson Wallace, e. Nov. 27, '62, drowned May 27, '65.
RECRUITS.
Amnions Isaac H. e. Jan. 1, 1864, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Anderson Peter, e. Sept. 27, 1864, m. o. July 18, '65.
Bronson I. e. Feb. 12, 1864, m. o. July 18, '65.
Bruce John, e. Jan. 8, 1864, deserted Jan. 9, '64.
Conner H. A. e. Jan. 25, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Cox Lawler, e. Jan. 18, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Chalmer Wm. e. Jan. 8, '64, disd. May 2, '65, disab.
Dwyre Wm. e. Feb. 25, 1864, m. o. July 13, '65.
Johnson Theo. S. e. Sept. 27, 1864, m. o. July 18, '65.
Johnson Peter H. e. Sept. 27, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Lawler Patrick, e. Feb. 9, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Larkin A. L. e. Feb. 19, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Medley Martin, e. Jan. 4, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Medley Michael, e. Jan. 7, '64, m. o. Sept. 2, '65.
Merntt H. L. e. Jan. 19, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Mowbray Thos. e. Jan. 19, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Mickelson Ole, e. Oct. 4, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Mosness Ole, e. Sept. 27, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Moore Robt. e. Jan. 27, '64, m. o. July 7, '65.
Painter A. J. e. Feb. 19, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Ryder Patrick, e. Feb. 3, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Rich Chas. e. Jan. 21, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Sawyer Thos. M. e. Sept. 27, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
Thorson Andrew, e. Sept. 27, '64, m. o. July 18, '65.
First Army Corps,
Company No. 4.
Martin Benj. N.e. March 2, 1865, m. o. March 2, 1866.
Morris Wm. e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Feb. 28, 1866.
Drake Andrew, e. Feb. 28, 1865, m. o. Feb. 28, 1866.
Desch Marcus, e. March 1, 1865, m. o. March 1, 1866.
Sweet H. H. e. March 1, 1865, m. o. March 1, 1866.
Sandburn Wm. H. e. Feb. 3, 1865, m. o. March 3, 1866,
as Corpl.
Company No. 7.
Gardner Jackson, e. March 15, 1865, disd. March 15,
1866, term ex.
Redd Peter M. e. March 15, 1865, disd. March 15, 1866,
term ex.
Gardner Mathew, e. March 15, 1865, m. o. March 15,
1866, term ex.
Noon M. e. March 21, '65, m. o. March 15, '66, term ex,
Birkenbenel F. e. March 23, 1865, m. o. March 23, '66,
term ex.*
Birkenbenel W. e. March 23, 1865, m. o. March 23, '66,
Corpl.
Getold las. e. March 18, 1865, m. o. March 19, 1866,
term ex. .
Dixon Chas. e. March 18, 1865, died at Washington,
D. C, May 6, 1865.
Company No. 8.
Dahm Wm. e. March 25, 1865, m. o. March 24, 1866,
as Corpl.
Painter J. J. e. March 20, 1865.
Dehmer A. e. March 25, 1865, m. o. March 27, 1866.
Kern F. e. March 25, 1865, m. o. March 24, '66, Corpl.
Steiner T. e. March 29, 1865, assigned to Co. E, m. o.
March 29, 1866.
Rosch Moses, e. March 24, 1865.
Dammer Chris, e. March 27, 1865, m. o. March 27, '66.
Kuhn John, e. March 24, 1S65.
Kramble A. e. March 27, 1865, m. o. March 27, 1866.
Scallbaugh Wm. B. e. March 24, '65, m. o. Men. 23, '66.
Fritsche Fred, e. March 27, 1865, m. o. Mch. 27, 1866.
Fresslei Jno. e. March 25, T865, m. o. March 27, 1866.
Fincke Wm. e. March 29, 1865, assigned to Co. E, m.o.
March 29, 1866.
Klingle Jacob, e. March 29, 1865, assigned to Co. E,
m. o. March 29, 1866.
Hodepp Geo. e. March 29, 1865.
Britner Jacob, e. March 28, 1865, m. o. March 27, '66.
Nilan Michael, e. March 27, 1865.
Garvin J. H. e. March 21, 1865, m. o. March 20, 1866.
Company No. 9.
Buck Frank S. e. April 4, 1863.
Mayhew Samuel M. e. April 5, 1865, m. o. April 4, '66.
Company No. 10.
McCormick Wm. G. e. April 6, 1S65.
Company No. II.
Fitzgerald Jas. e. March 31, 1865, m. o. April 3, 1866.
Spencer Wm. B. e. April 5, 1865.
Heesely Silas U. e. April 5, 1865.
Artz Wm. e. April 5, 1865, m. o. April 13, 1866.
Company No. 12.
Biers Christian, e. April n, 1865.
Buckley Cornelius, e. April 13, 1865.
McCune F. S. e. April 11, 1865.
Parker Jas. e. April 14, 1865.
29 th 77. S. Colored Infantry,
Company G.
Brown Jas. e. Jan. 19, 1865, sick at m. o. of Regt.
Cooper Peter, e. Sept. 29, , disd. Sept. 30, 1865,
Sergt., term ex.
Gorvis John, e. Jan. 19, 1865, m. o. Nov. 6, 1S65.
Johnson Geo. e. Jan. 19, 1865, m. o. Nov. 6, 1865.
UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.
Bee John, e. Jan. 18, 1865.
Hill Richard, e. Jan. 19, 1865.
Tilford David, e. Feb. 22, 1865, m. o. May 23,-1865.
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LA SALLE COUNTY WAR RECORD.
55th U. S, Colored Infantry.
Hill Stephen, e. Mch. 31, 1865, m. o May 11, 1865.
Hughes John, e. Mch. 9, 1865.
Holeman Henry, e. Mch. 11, 1865.
Mason Jas. e. Mch. 14, 1865.
Richardson Oliver, e. Mch. 14, 1865.
Robinson Moses, e. Mch. 14, 1865.
Smith John, e. Mch. 11. 1865. ,
Sterling Jas. e. Mch. 11, 1865.
Shaw Wm. e. Mch. 15, 1865.
Townes Jas. e. Mch. 14, 18*5.
Williams Geo. e. April 5, 1865, m. o. May 11, 1865.
West Allison, e. Mch. 9, 1865.
Ward Presley, e. Mch. 31, 1865, m. o. May 11, 1865.
Willia i s Jacob, e. Mch. 31, 1864.
Young Henry, e. Mch. 31, 1865, m. o. May n, 1865.
Miscellaneous Organization.
7th Term Cavalry.
Brewer P. B. e. Jau. 10, 1865.
Brewer Wm. H. e. Jan. 10, 1865.
Brewer I. N. e. Jan. 10, 1865. •
Tate Elisha,e. Jan. 10, 1865.
Elgin Battery Light Art.
RECRUITS.
Bryant Jas. e. Oct. 22, '64, never joined Battery, not m.o.
Clark Thos. e. Oct. 22, '54, never joined Battery, not m.o.
Dickerson Z. e. Feb. 8, 1864.
Forrest Jno. e. Sept. 26/64. m. o. June 29, '65, waspris.
Forrest Robt. D. e.Sept.26,'64,m.o.June29,'64,was pris.
Gifford Case C. e. Sept. 26, 1S64, m. o. June 29, 1865.
Harrington J.e.Oct. 22/64, never joined Batt'y, not m.o.
Jackson W. F. e. Feb. 29, '64, m. o. Julg 18, 65, Corpl.
Lewis Jerome, e. Sept. 26, 1864, m. o. June 2, 1865.
Miller Jonathan, e. Sept. 19, '64, m.o. June 29, 65. was pris.
Penman John |. e. Dec. 28, '63, deserted Jan. 25, 1865.
Smith Jno. G. e. Mch. 24, '64, m. o. July 18, '65, Corpl.
Seeher Sylvanus, e. Feb. 19, 1864, m. o. July 18, 1865.
Shay Richard, e. March 3, 1864, m. o. July 18, 1865.
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:
GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP
General History of La Salle County.
The Mound Builders were the first inhabitants of this county. In the
valley of the Illinois river and its tributaries there is hardly a square mile
that does not contain evidences of their work. Within a circuit of three
miles of Ottawa there are three thousand mounds. The major part of
these are unquestionably of Indian origin, the remainder may probably be
attributed to the Mound Builders. Broken pieces of earthen-ware, com-
posed of shells and a grayish clay, are quite common, some of which
indicate a considerable skill in ornamentation. A few perfect specimens
have been discovered. A copper ax now in the possession of the Academy
of Science at Ottawa was dug out of the drift a little west of that city.
The earth-works of the county are quite numerous, and impress the mind
with the idea that here must have been a theatre of conflict in the centuries
gone by. The remains of eight forts and fortifications exist at the present
day, only two or three of which have been surveyed. The one on Fox
river, opposite the mouth of Indian Creek, has three lines of circumvalla-
tion, and evinces more skill in construction than any of the others. His-
torically nothing is known of it. At and about Starved Rock there are
two constructed by the French during their occupation. The one on
Buffalo Rock was probably formed by Captain Richard Pilette. He had
been sent by the governor of Canada to displace Tonti, and being unsuc-
cessful, found sympathizers in the Indian town. He collected a force and
fortified Buffalo Rock, calling it the Fort of the Miamis, from the majority
of his retainers. At Marseilles there is another evidence of earth-works,
and on the North Bluff opposite a redoubt has been thrown up. This
fortification'was constructed by the American Fur Company in 1816 or
ISIS. A fort was constructed in 1827 during the Winnebago war at
South Ottawa. It is known as "Fort Winnebago." Fort Wilburn at
La Salle and^the Stockade at Ottawa were erected during the Black Hawk
War.
Of the Indians the Illinois Confederation held the most conspicuous
position. Their great town where they gathered for their annual feast was
on the farm of James Clark, Esq., near Utica, a mile or two west of Starved
Rock. It was called Kaskaskia. The allies of Pontiac during his conspi-
racy, after the assassination of that chieftain by the hand of an Illinois,
nearly exterminated the confederation. According to tradition, a part of
them took refuge on the sandstone bluff nearly opposite their town, and
were there starved to death by their determined foes ; hence the name,
" Starved Rock." The Ottawas and Potawatamies succeeded them in the
possession of their lands. When first visited by the whites, the confedera-
tion numbered nearly twelve thousand people, in five tribes; but when,
under the leadership of Du Quoin, they were transferred to the southwest,
there were but two weak tribes, and in 1850 only eighty-four persons
remained.
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176 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COTJXTY.
The first white men who visited the county were Frenchmen — Jacques
Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader. On their
return from a voyage of exploration projected by the governor of Canada,
during which they had discovered the uppei Mississippi, they were induced
by the Indians to pursue a different and nearer course to the Missions of
the upper lakes than the one they had traversed. This new route lay up
the Illinois and Kankakee rivers, across the Portage, down the Chicago
river, and up the shore of Lake Michigan, at that time called the Lake of
the Illinois. They arrived in the county the latter part of August, visited
the Illinois town Kaskaskia. and reached Green Bay at the end of Septem-
ber, 1673. Joliet proceeded to Canada to report to the governor, and
Marquette sought to recruit his failing health, for the purpose of returning
to Kaskaskia to establish a mission among the Illinois. He set out in the
fall of the succeeding year, but was detained during the winter at Chicago
by a return ot his malady. In the following March, deeming himself
sufficiently recovered, and the cabin where he had wintered being threat-
ened by the spring floods, his party launched their canoes and floated down
the river to Kaskaskia. The mission was established about Easter Sunday.
1675, and was called by its zealous founder, ''The Immaculate Conception."
It was the first of its kind in the State. Having completed his work, his
continued ill health made him anxious to return. He never saw his beloved
Mackinaw again. This was his last journey. He died on the eastern
shore of Lake Michigan, May 19th, 1675, a martyr to his religious enthu-
siasm. The succeeding year his remains were taken up and buried at
Mackinaw by his Indian followers.
Marquette was actuated by a sincere desire to Christianize the wild
humanity about him, but Robert Cavalier de la Salle, the intrepid discoverer
— the man to whom obstacles were but incentives to greater exertions —
sought the glory and renown that would redound to La Belle France. His
first colony, of any importance, was established in this countv in December,
1682.
La Salle and Henri deTonti, on their first recorded voyage down the
Illinois river, passed the Indian town. Kaskaskia. in December, 1679, and
continued on to the outlet of Peoria Lake, where thev landed and formed a
colony (the pioneer settlement in the State). La Salle returned to Canada
the succeeding spring, for supplies to prosecute his intended explorations
of the Mississippi, leaving Tonti in command at Fort Crevecceur as the
new settlement was called. In pursuance of orders by his chief, the latter
proceeded to fortify the sandstone bluff. Starved Bock, near the Indian
town, but his force was so much weakened by desertion that he was com-
pelled to desist. He determined to remain and hold his position at Kas-
kaskia until La Salle should return. He was hardly settled before the
Iroquois attacked the town and drove him up the river. Landing some-
where near Marseilles. " to repair their crazy vessel and dry their baggage,"
one of their party, Father Gabriel Bibourde, a Becollet friar, attracted by
the beauty of the surrounding scenery, wandered away from camp and was
killed by the Kickapoos. The remainder of the party made their way to
Green Bay, where they passed the winter. La Salle returned to find a
scene of terrible desecration at the Illinois town, and anxious about his
lieutenant, went down to the mouth of the Illinois, and returning passed
the winter of 1680 and 1681 at Fort Miami, on the St. Joseph river,
Michigan. In the spring he learned of Tonti's safety. During the winter
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 177
he formed the plan of a colony on the Illinois, on the sandstone bluff
(Starved Rock), prospective of the explorations of the Mississippi. The
design was to include French and Indians of various tribes as a protective
coalition against the dreaded Iroquois. To this end he conciliated the
Miamis and the parts of tribes recently under King Phillip of New
England, by promising them protection against the encroachments of the
Five Nations, and a supply of their peculiar commodities in exchange for
furs. He then proceeded to Canada to appease his numerous creditors and
prepare for the new enterprise, meeting with Tonti at Mackinaw. Again
furnished with means he reached the Illinois in the winter of 1681 and
1682. He found the streams all frozen, but finally reached the open water
at the lower end of Peoria Lake. Without waiting for more extended
preparations, having been so often disappointed, he set out for the Gulf of
Mexico, which he reached April 6th, 1682, and taking possession in the
name of his Sovereign, Louis XIV. of France, of all the land drained by the
Mississippi, he called the new acquisition " Louisiana." Ascending the
river the daring voyager was seized with a dangerous illness. He sent
Tonti forward to Mackinaw, with instructions to transmit the news of his
discovery to Canada, and return to the Illinois. He recovered sufficiently
to rejoin his lieutenant at the former place before the latter's departure.
He purposed going to France in the interest of his colony, but, learning of
the proximity of the dreaded Iroquois, he remained and followed Tonti to
the Illinois, where he had sent him. On the sandstone bluff' (Starved
Pock), that had been La Salle's chosen locality for the erection of a fort
ever since he first observed it, they began their work. It was December,
and cold, but they cleared away the top of the rock, built store-houses and
dwellings, and enclosed all with a stockade. On the neighboring bottoms
were domiciled his swarthy allies, to the number of four thousand warriors,
or twentv thousand souls.
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The succeeding year Count Frontenac, the governor of Canada, who had
from the beginning been La Salle's coadjutor in his explorations, was
replaced by La Barre, who was adverse to his undertakings, detained his
men when sent for supplies, and endeavored to belittle his discovery to the
home government. He must go to France. His want of goods promised
to the Indians, and their growing uneasiness because of rumors current
among the neighboring tribes that he was keeping them there to be
butchered by the Iroquois, were matters that urged immediate attention.
There was no resource but the protection of the court. Accordingly, early
in the autumn of 1683 he left Tonti in command of Fort St. Louis (Starved
Rock), bade farewell to his savage retainers, and descended to Quebec,
intending to sail for France. On the way he met Chevalier de Baugis,
who had been sent by La Barre to take possession of the Fort. De Baugis
was well received by Tonti, the two living amicably together during the
winter. In March of the following year the Iroquois attacked the rocky
citadel, but withdrew after an unsuccessful siege of six days, taking with
them a few prisoners, who eventually escaped.
Meanwhile LaSalle had returned to France. By his influence four
vessels were fitted out with a complement of men and tools. They sailed
for the mouth of the Mississippi, La Salle's idea being to form a colony
there to control the trade of the river. One of the vessels was lost, and
eventually only a small colony was established, whose supplies were soon
exhausted. La Salle set out for Fort St. Louis, on the Illinois, and was
178 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
assassinated in the wilds of Texas by two disaffected members of his party.
Tonti, re-instated in command of Fort St. Louis by order of the king,
learning of the destitution of the infaut colony on the Mississippi, fitted
out, at his own expense, an expedition for their relief, which he directed in
person. He made a fruitless search for his chief and party, and returned,
leaving two of his men at a village of the Arkansas Indians, to seek for
traces of them. The desponding remnant of La Salle's band was rescued
by these men, and they arrived at "The Rock" on the fourteenth day of
September, 1687. Here, welcomed by Bellefontaine, Tonti's second in
command — the latter being absent fighting the Iroquois* — they rested
from their labors and privations, and finally made their way to France,
having carefully concealed the death of La Salle. When he heard of the
death of Jiis chief he had served so faithfully, Tonti wasted no time in
useless regrets, but set out with an expedition to save his suffering colonies
on the Mississippi. He was not successful, and finally reached " The
Rock" in September, 1689.
In 1700 France attempted a new colony at the mouth of the Mississ-
ippi, under the leadership of M. d'Iberville. Touti, who had remained at
the Fort since the death of La Salle, rendered him invaluable assistance by
his intimate acquaintance with the Indian languages and tribes living along
the river. With this expedition to assist M. d'Iberville, Tonti's name
disappears from authentic history, One account states that he was forcibly
displaced from the command of Fort St. Louis in 1702, for some alleged
irregularity, after which he wandered into southern wilds until 1718, when,
in shattered health, he returned to the scene of his former glory, and dying
in the fort, was buried at the west side of the Rock. Another rumor
speaks of him as remaining in Illinois a number of years, and finally
returning to France.
Nothing authentic is known of Fort St. Louis after 1700. It has been
stated that the Frenchmen in control of the fort after the disappearance of
Tonti, treated the Indian maidens so scurvily, in the eyes of their fathers
and brothers, that the latter decided to destroy the fort and drive away its
inhabitants. Accordingly, the Indians having assembled early one
morning, warned the soldiers away, and burned the stockade. St. Cosme
speaks of the fort as abandoned in 1699. Charlevoix in 1721 saw palisades
on "The Rock," and thought they were built by the Illinois.
The mission, "Immaculate Conception," founded by Marquette, was
removed prior to 1690, by Father Gravier, to Kaskaskia, in the south part
of the State.
The French thus introduced into the Illinois valley have continued to
reside there ever since. They intermarried with the Indians, and though
still retaining the name of French settlers, are really an intermediate race
between the Caucasian and Aborigines. The only governmental authority
exercised over them was that of the priests.. This control was more
spiritual than temporal. In this way they lived until after the treaty of
Paris in 1763.
*A small cannon was found while excavating for a street in the city of Ottawa. It is
about fourteen inches long and one and one-half inch calibre ; one. side of the muzzle being
blown off. It is a simple iron tube, with rings shrunk upon it to increase its strength.
Parkman, to whose work, " Discovery of the Great West," we are much indebted, thinks
the gun antiquated even in the time of De Soto. It may have been constructed by a French
blacksmith on the spot.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 179
Patrick Kennedy, who made a voyage of discovery up the Illinois in
1773, speaks of the French as residing on an island near Joliet ; of their
getting a hard variety of stone from the rapids for their millstones, and of
their making salt from the salt ponds on the south bank of the Illinois,
opposite the west end of Buffalo Rock.
During the Black Hawk War many of the Indian actors of those
tragic times were considered by the whites as of French and Indian ancestry.
On the American bottom at the present time there are families that
trace their lineage back to the days of Touti.
France held the possessions acquired by La Salle's discoveries until
1760, when a large share of them were ceded to the British Crown. She
desired to retain New France, or the country of the Illinois, on account of
its fertile valleys, beautiful prairies, and the abundance of game, but three
years later was obliged to surrender it also to England.
Col. Geo. Rogers Clark, a Kentucky patriot of 1776, wrested this new
territory from the rule of George III. in 1778, by a bold move, and it be-
came a county of Virginia. Subsequently it passed to the control of the
United States, and finally, in 1818, a part of it became the State of Illinois.
The territory now known as La Salle County was mostly if not wholly occu-
pied by Indians at that time.
Edward Sanders, a carpenter at Fort Dearborn, who had become
disaffected, was sent out by the commandant of the post in 1S15, to explore
the country about the mouth of Fox River. He was pleased, and returned
in 1830 and made a permanent settlement^on Section 12, Town 34, Range
4, where he died.
Major S. H. Long, U. S. A., while making the preliminary survey of
the Illinois and Michigan canal, in 1816 and 1817, notices the out-crop of
coal, and advances the idea that in some past age there must have been a
waterfall on the Illinois River, near the present La Salle.
In 1818, Hon. Guerden S. Hubbard, who was sent out by the Ameri-
can Fur Company to found trading posts, passed through the county, along
the river. He found no white persons — the country wholly occupied by
Indians.
During the years 1819 and 1820, the county was divided into town-
ships by the Rector brothers^ Stephen, Stycia and Charles, and in the
following year the townships were sectionized by George Thomas, J. F.
McColium, and Nelson Piper. At that time all the north part of the State
was called Sangamon county. In 1823 Peoria county was formed, with
Peoria as the county seat. The commissioners of that county in 1826 fixed
the boundaries of Fox River Precinct, from Senatchwine Creek to the river
La Page, (Du Page,) or in other words, from Chillicothe, up the Illinois to
near its head- waters. Gideon Hawley and Beresford were Justices of
the Peace. The place of voting was David Walker's house, at the mouth
of Fox River.
Under the jurisdiction of Peoria county the first marriage occurred,
which is here inserted :
j State op Illinois, Peoria County,
} July 22d, 1829.
This is to certify, that Willard Scott and Caroline Hawley were this day united in
marriage by rne. Isaac Scarret, Missionary.
Fox River Precinct.
It seems, for some cause, that the place of voting was changed from
David Walker's, at the mouth of Fox River, as the first recorded election
180 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
took place at the house of John Green, at Green's Mills, now Dayton, on
the second day of August, 1830. Pierce Hawley, John Green and Samuel
Grove, were judges of election, John Green certifying to the qualifications
of his associates, and Pierce Hawley to the qualifications of Mr. Green.
The following is the list of voters : John Green, Hugh Walker, Pierce
Hawley, Wm. Parcell, Edmond Weed, Joseph Grove, John Silsaver, Alex-
ander Mclvee, Reason Debold, Peter Lamsett,_Jacob Grove, Samuel Grove,
Robert Beresford, and Henry Brumbach.
Three of the fourteen voted for John Reynolds for Governor, the
others for William Kinne. All the votes polled were cast for Rigdon B.
Slocum for Lieutenant-Governor, Henry Stillman fur Sheriff, and John
Sharp, John Hamlin and Stephen French for County Commissioners.
About this time the; Illinois and Michigan canal was attracting con
siderable attention, and the State laid out the village of Ottawa, now
known as South Ottawa, the plat of which was recorded at Mackinaw, Sept.
5th, 1830, then the county seat of Peoria county, now a small town of
Tazewell county.
On the fifteenth day of January, 1831, Gov. John Reynolds signed the
bill that erected three new counties from the north part of Peoria, named
respectively, from east to west, Cook, La Salle, and Putnam. The bounda-
ries of La Salle were as follows: Beginning at the S. W. corner of township
29, range 1, east of the 3d P. M., thence east eight townships, (forty-eight
miles,) thence north eighteen townships, (one hundred and eight miles,) to
the north line of the State, thence west eight townships along that line, to
the 3d P. M., and thence south along the 3d P. M. to the place of begin-
ning. This territory contained one hundred and forty-four townships, and
was believed to have from five to seven hundred inhabitants at the date of
organization. Ottawa was designated as the county seat.
On the seventh day of March an election was held in the new county.
George E. Walker was chosen Sheriff, Moses Borth, Coroner, John Green,
James B. Campbell and Abraham Trumbo, County Commissioners. At
the first meetii'^ of the latter, March 21st, David Walker was appointed
Clerk of the Board, and the county divided into three election precincts.
The first, which included ranges 1 and 2, east of 3d P. M., was called
Vermillion, with the polls at the house of David Letts, who lived in town-
ship 32, range 1, Wm. Seeley, Martin Reynolds and David Letts being
judges of election. The second, which included ranges 3 and 4, east of 3d
P. M., was called Ottawa, with the polls at David Walker's, at Ottawa,
John Brown, Edward Keys and Samuel Allen judges of election. The
third, which included ranges 5, 6, 7, and 8, east of 3d P. M., was called
Eastern. The polls were at the house of Vetal Yermett, Holderman's
Grove, and the judges of election were Jolm £ Daugherty, Edward Weed
and Wm. Scamerhorn.
The commissioners assembled in special session Aj>ril 2d, 1831, and
selected a grand and petit jury, and levied a tax of \ per cent, on all personal
property. A boat forty-five feet long and nine feet wide, "with two side
oars and one steering oar," was also ordered, agreeable to the State law of
January 15th, 1831, creating the counties, which compelled the commis-
sioners to maintain a ferry at the county seat. At the September term
this boat was accepted, James Brown receiving $05.00 for building, and
Thomas True $2.00 for a rope for it. The ferry was let to the former for
one year, and the rates specified as follows:
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Each footman, ..... -6M C -
" man and horse, ..... 12%c.
" horse, jack, or mule, .... 6}£c.
" Dearborn chair, or sulky with springs, - - - 50c.
" two-horse wagon, drawn by horses or oxen, - - - 50c.
" two-horse wagon, drawn by four horses or oxen, - - - 75c.
" head of cattle, - 6%c.
" bbl. of whisky, salt or pork, - lSj^c.
" bushel of wheat or other grain, - - - 3c.
This tariff was doubled in time of high water. It pertained to all non-
residents of the county, excepting county officers and the canal commis-
sioners.
The first marriage, alter the organization of the county, was that of
Sheldon Bartholomew to Charlotte Hogaboom. It took place, according
to the records, June 22d, 1831.
The fees of the commissioners and their clerk were $1.50 per day, the
latter also receiving 6J- cents for entering each order of court.
At the session of April 16th, 1831, Win. Richey was appointed
Assessor, and September 5th he was allowed $20.00 for his work. He
received the appointment the succeeding year.
June 6th, 1831, the commissioners, for the sum of $20.00, granted
license to Wilburn F. Walker to sell goods. This is the first record of any
one engaged in merchandising, but during the next two years quite a
number appear upon the records, the license being reduced from $20.00
to $7.00.
At the above meeting of the board, a road was authorized from Ottawa
to the east line of the State. Vetal Vermett, Joseph Cloud and James
Galloway were the viewers. This was the first road laid out in the county.
Shortly afterwards there was one surveyed along the Vermillion River,
leading to Vandalia. David Letts was the first road supervisor, and began
work on the latter road. Wm. Seeley, at this meeting, was appointed
school commissioner. The county had not as yet a place of records. Ac-
cordingly, we find at this session an allowance of $7.00 for carrying the
poll books seventy miles to "Macacna," still the county seat of Peoria
county. The official bond of David Walker, Clerk of the Board, for $1,000
was presented,. signed by G. W. Walker and Vetal Vermett, and approved.
In the following July (12th), attention was called to the poor, some of
whom were undoubtedly present, for David Shaffer and Edward Keys were
appointed overseers.
In December, the board authorized the building of a court house, 16
feet by 24, two stories high, part of which was designed for a jail. For the
sum of $5.00, they granted license to Joseph Cloud, to act as auctioneer,
and recommended him to the Postmaster General, as a suitable person to
be appointed postmaster at Ottawa. At this time the mails all came up
the river, by way of Peoria. For some time Mr. Cloud distributed the
portion intended for Ottawa, from his hat. In 1832, a mail route was
opened from the center of the State, via Decatur and Fox river, to Chicago.
It was not formally established, however, until 1837, Daniel E. Ebersol
being the first mail carrier.
Just here it might be well to mention the first estate that was ever
entered for probate in the county. Anthony Antonio, a man of color, (so
mentioned in the records,) died about the end of February, 1831, and left
some effects. It was thought best to take care of the goods for any heirs
that might appear. The Judge, Joseph Cloud, accordingly appointed
182 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
Lewis Baily administrator, and John Slater, Jacob Potts and Stewart Ward
appraisers. In the list -appears coats, pants, handkerchiefs, powder, shot,
one rifle, a razor, a bottle of turpentine and one pair of truss irons, in all,
with $6.9S cash, $26.78. The property was sold in December, and brought
$20.75.
In the March (5th), 1832, term of the Commissioners court, an estray
pen was authorized, and horses and cattle over three years old were placed
in the list of half per cent, taxable property. George E. Walker was
allowed $30.00 for his services as Sheriff, which extended back beyond the
date of organization.
The first tavern license was granted to Simon Crozier, on July 19th,
1832. He was allowed to sell spirits. On September 4th, George Hollen-
beck received a like license for Ottawa. September 3d., L. S. Bobbins,
Circuit Clerk, received $5.00 for his services, from April 27th, 1S31, to
July 20th, 1832.
George E. Walker turned over to the County Treasurer, on the 26th
day of October, 1832, the taxes collected, amounting in the aggregate to
$141.42; $69.46 being for personal property, $58.25 on lands, and $11.31 on
town lots.
SETTLEMENTS.
The first white settler in the county, since the French occupation, was
Dr. Davidson. By birth, he was said to have been a Yirginian, and by
occupation, a physician, but while he lived here, he was known as an Indian
trader. His cabin stood on the south bank of the Illinois, opposite the
west end of Buffalo Bock, near the salt marsh. He came in 1823, and died
in his cabin in 1826.
In 1823, Rev. Jesse Walker came into the county, and the following
year formed a mission among the Indians on the Fox river, within the
present town of Mission. This mission included Section 15, Town 35,
Range 5. At an early day it came into the possession of the Bourbonnas,
and the grove was known by that name for a long time. According to the
fourth article of the treaty of Prairie Du Chien, perfected July 29th, 1829,
the section on which the mission was located and the adjacent fields were
reserved from the general transfer of lands, to Francois Bourbonna, Jr., by
whom it was sold to Mern E. Bowen and Hon. J. S. Armstrong.
In 1824, Mr. Thomas R. Covil came and settled on the creek that now
bears his name. Also the following settlers established themselves in the
county : Joseph Brown, George Brown, Lewis Bailey, Enos Pembroke,
Pierce Hawley, James Beresford, and Warner Ramsey. In the spring,
1825, Moses Borth, Christopher Long, Geo. Sprague, Horace Sprague, the
Pembrokes — Jeremiah, David, and Calvin, Mr. Ransom, and Edmond Weed.
In the fall of that year Wibur F. Walker brought a keel-boat load of
provisions up the Illinois. This was the first commercial enterprise in the
county.
In the fall of 1826, Dr. David Walker, father of Geo. E., Wilbur F.,
and David Walker, established himself at Ottawa.
From this time until the Black Hawk war, settlements were not very
rapid, among which may be mentioned, Wm. Richey, in 1828, on the land
now owned by Wm. C. Moore, Section 17, Town 33, Range 3. Mr. Richey
in the winter of 1831, made a permanent settlement within the present
limits of Marseilles, and was the first settler in that place. The Greens,
John the father, and David and Jesse the sons, established themselves on
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 183
Fox river, in 1829 or .'30. They came from Ohio, and traveled as far south
as Vandalia, but appreciating the advantages to be derived from the water
power on the rapids of Fox river, located themselves there. Having
brought with them saw-mill machinery and competent workmen, they built
a saw-mill, and afterwards a small grist- mill. At that time, however, the
latter was considered quite an improvement on the hominy block, or even
the horse mill. At first there was but one run of stone manufactured by
the mill-wright, Wm. Stadden, from a granite boulder taken from the river.
The first gnst of wheat was ground July 4th, 1830. This was the pioneer
mill, and for a number of years the place about it was known as ''Green's
Mills." It was not uncommon to see a number of camp-fires about the
mill at night. People came from fifty to a hundred miles to get grinding
done, and were obliged to wait their turn, oftentimes for weeks. Josiah
Fulton, one of the early inhabitants of Peoria, (1819.) states, that one year
the Green settlement was destitute of provisions, but did not lack means to
purchase if it was possible to obtain them. Word was brought from the
Sangamon settlement at Springfield, that if they, (the Greens) would send
a keel-boat by way of the Illinois and Sangamon rivers, the settlers along
the banks of the latter would load it with provisions. He v. Jesse Walker
obtained a boat at Peru, and with Fulton as pilot, reached the vicinity of
Springfield, and having loaded it, returned to Starved Rock, (as far as they
could go up the river,) from whence they, (the provisions,) were conveyed
by wagons to the settlement. They arrived in time to do the most good.
Perhaps it would not be out of place to give the narrative of the trials
and difficulties incident to a journey of an early settler into the county.
The cloth covered wagons, known as prairie schooners, are no rarity at the
present day. Their methods of camping, also, are quite familiar. Essen-
tially, the same experience occurred to those who emigrated to this county
in an early day. Making the journey around the Lakes, however, is quite
another affair.
Originally from Pennsylvania, but settled for a short time at Sandusky,
Ohio, then a small village, Mr. James Galloway learned of the beautiful
prairies of Illinois, and determined to see them. Accordingly, in the fall
of 1824, he left Sandusky on horseback, and made the trip to Chicago
without incident. Here he remained nearly a year, hunting and trapping.
In some of his excursions he visited the Grand Rapids of the Illinois.
Being pleased with the locality he purchased the claim of Edmond Weed,
on Section 24, Town 33, Range 4, just across and south of the Illinois river
from Marseilles. A cabin was here erected, the first in the east end of the
county. During the following year, (1825,) he returned to Sandusky for
his family.
At that time it was exceedingly rare for vessels to make the trip to
Chicago. In fact, but few had ventured to do so, and pilots were hard to
obtain. Mr. Galloway, who was well to do, considering the times, knew
the wants of the country where he designed to settle, and purposely laid in
a stock of goods, not only for his own use, but for the purposes of trade
with the Indians. He purchased twenty barrels of salt, a handful being
equal to a mink skin, while the latter sold for twenty cents. Bacon and
flour, with two hundred traps, besides a variety of household goods, consti-
tuted the property he desired to carry to the new country. It would be
next to an impossibility to transport this miscellaneous assortment across
the country, consequently he waited the arrival of a vessel bound for
184 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
Chicago. During the month of August,! S26,he learned of one about to sail,
and made arrangements to go. He was disappointed in not making the
trip in summer, on account of the tardiness of the Captain, who did not
seem in any particular hurry. On the first day of October, however, the
vessel left the port. The approach of winter had not the slightest effect to
hurry the Captain. He laid over a week at Detroit, to indulge his imbibing
habits, and another spree was in order at Mackinaw. Every person on the
vessel was a stranger to the lake. While they lay at Mackinaw a storm of
sleet and wind from the north-west arose. The Captain, just full enough
of liquor to be obstinate, persisted in starting, refusing even to listen to
the warnings of the inhabitants about the fort. They sailed. About four-
teen miles from the fort, they were obliged to turn back to Mackinaw.
While rounding the point of the island of St. Helena, the vessel suddenly
struck a sand bar, and the pitiless waves dashed over her. With great dif-
ficulty the crew and passengers made their way to the island; they were
utterly shelterless, with the thermometer below the freezing point. There
were no means of communicating their distressful condition to the port, —
a death by starvation and exposure was before them. They were saved by
the merest accident.
It has been remarked, that vessels seldom passed that way, and especi-
ally now, at this inclement season, it would seem almost a special Provi-
dence, should one appear.
The American Fur Company's vessel, which, spring and fall, made the
trip of the lakes, to recruit the supplies of its posts, at Mackinaw and Chi-
cago, left the former place, three or four days after the departure of the
Galloways, came in sight, was hailed, and brought to. The salt in the
stranded vessel was a total loss, the flour was badly damaged, but a part of
it was saved, as well as the bacon, traps and other effects. The Captain of
the Fur Company's vessel hesitated about taking such a miscellaneous
assortment of goods, destined for a port where one of their posts was estab-
lished, and opened communication with the agent at Mackinaw, who was
disposed to make severe terms. The goods could be carried to Chicago in
the Company's vessel, but they must be consigned to their agent there, and
kept by him until after the tenth of the following May — the end of the
trading season. Mr. Galloway felt indignant, and said they might as well
throw the goods into the lake. The Captain of the vessel endeavored to
appear friendly, and offered to withhold the letter of instructions to the
agent at Chicago, until Mr. Galloway had an opportunity to dispose of his
goods. Thus reassured, he embarked.
The vessel was crowded, every available place being occupied. Besides
the two crews and the Galloway family, which, at that time, consisted of
James Galloway and wife, Mary, aged thirteen, Jane, aged nine, Susana,
aged two years, there were two carpenters on board, who were coming on to
do some work at the fort, and a Mr. Arthur and wife, who expected to
engage in farming. There were others that Mrs. Archy Clyburn (form-
erly Mary Galloway, to whom we are indebted for this narrative) could not
remember. All felt kindly to Mr. Galloway, and agreed to stand by him
in the event of trouble.
The vessel landed about opposite Madison street, near the head-quar-
ters of the Fur Company, at that time under the control of Jean Baptist
Beaubien. The Captain told Mr. Galloway to find a place to store his
goods, and he started out to do so. After Mr. Galloway was out of sight,
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lie handed the letter of instructions to Mons. Beaubien, who hastened to
secure help to unload the goods and put them in the Company's warehouse,
an old tumble-down affair.
Mr. Galloway went to the fort, almost unoccupied, and endeavored to
secure storage for his effects, but without success. He was even denied
shelter for his family. It was afterward ascertained that the commandant
was secretly in league with the Fur Company. Finding no place and
protection for his goods, Mr. Galloway was apprized of the treachery of
the Captain, and the general determination of the Company to usurp the
trade of the post. Undecided as to his future course, he retraced his steps
to the landing.
The arrival of the schooner at the place had drawn out a large, mixed
crowd of Americans, French, half-breeds and Indians Mr. Galloway,
during his former visit, had formed many friends among them, especially
of the denizens of a rival settlement, called by the euphonious title of
Hard- Scrabble, a grove in the vicinity of where Bridgeport now stands.
These people, with his fellow-passengers, were disposed to dispute the right
of the company to control this matter. The forces of each side were
counted, and Mr. Galloway's found to be in the majority. This compelled
Mons. Beaubien to desist, although he uttered some terrible execrations, in
mixed French and English, because he could not carry out the instructions
of the agent at Mackinaw.
There was no storage to be obtained at the landing. Alexander Rob-
inson, a half-breed chief of the Pottawatamies, said to him, "I have a cabin
at Hard-Scrabble which my friend is welcome to if he w r ants." Mr.
Galloway gladly accepted the kind offer. They loaded the flat boat of
Mr. Wallace with the goods, and poled it up the Chicago River, four miles
from the fort, and landed them near the cabin. It was on the west
tributary of the South Branch. The winter of 1826 and 1827 was severe,
and the family suffered much from cold and the crowded condition of their
home. They were frequently visited by Indians, their cabin being
fartherest out from the settlement, and near the most frequented trail to
the Fox and Desplaines rivers. When the red men were full of whisky
they were ven r unpleasant visitors. The Galloways, recently from civiliza-
tion, and no doubt remembering the horrors of Indian butchery in early
times, as well as unaccustomed to Indian peculiarities, were in much
trepidation all winter, Mr. Galloway being at work on his claim, at the
Grand Rapids, most of the time.
The Chicago of 1826 presented a bleak aspect, made up of timber and
prairie. Near the mouth of the river, then at the foot of Madison Street,
was the cabin of Jean Baptist Beaubien, and a shanty warehouse, somewhat
nearer the lake. Old Fort Dearborn was farther up the river, near the
present site of Rush Street Bridge. Opposite the fort, a double log house,
occupied jointly by John Kinzie and Alexander Walcott. Near this, the
blacksmith shop of David McKey and Joseph Parthrick. At the forks of
the river was a log house used as a store, owned and occupied by James
Kinzie and David Hall, of Virginia.
Hard- Scrabble contained live or six cabins. Several were occupied by
the Laframboises, of whom there were four, Francis, Sr., Francis, Jr.,
Joseph and Claude. One was occupied by Mr. Wallace, another by Barney
Lawton, the Galloways were domiciled in one, and there was still another,
but Mrs. Clyburn does not remember its occupant. The Clyburns lived in
186 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
two cabins on the North Branch. These were occupied by Jonah, the
father, Archibald and Ilenly, the sons, and a relative, James K. Clark.
This settlement was on Clyburn Place, opposite the North Chicago Rolling
Mills.
In the spring Mr. Galloway and Mr. Arthur, whose families had lived
together during the winter, for the most of the time, constructed a double
boat, or pirogue, from a walnut tree standing on the bank of the river, and,
having placed their worldly effects into it, started for their new home.
Mrs. Galloway was certainly glad to go, for she speaks of Chicago as "the
jumping off place."
The craft was poled up the river into Mud Lake, and across this to the
Desplaines, then a feat of no great difficulty, and floated down the river to
their future home. Trials by flood with them were over, for the present at
least. Settled in their new cabin on the bank of the river, they recounted
their experiences, and exulted in their happy deliverance. Before them
was the Illinois, abounding with fish, and the bark canoes of their swarthy
neighbors could be seen upon its bosom almost any hour of the day. The
buffalo had disappeared two years before their coming, but their whitening
carcasses were to be observed on every hand. (The last of the buffaloes
was killed by Samuel Aimes, at Troy Grove, in 1837.) Deer were plenty,
and prairie wolves were exceedingly numerous, and impudent. Prairie
chickens awakened the settlers in the spring mornings with boomings
under their windows. Mr. Galloway, who was exceedingly fond of fishing
and hunting, thought he had found the sportsman's paradise.
The year they settled here, (1827,) a notable incident occurred. The
family had retired for the night, when a loud noise was heard outside,
accompanied by a loud rapping on the door. The men jumped for their
rifles and tomahawks, always near at hand, but were soon reassured by a
voice addressing them in good English, saying, "My name is Cass, I want
to speak to you." Opening the door, Lewis Cass, accompanied by Geo.
Forsyth and some Frenchmen and Indians, stepped into the cabin. Mr.
Cass informed them that the Winnebago and Sac were, it was feared, on
the point of making trouble, as some depredations had already been com-
mitted on the Mississippi. He advised them to go to the fort at Ottawa.
The advice was followed, but it proved to be a scare, and they returned to
their home after a few days.
In the cabin erected by Mr. Galloway a son was born to him, George
Galloway, believed to be the first white male child born in the county.
The sparse population of the precinct, and the difficulties attending
the obtaining of a living, as well as subduing the wilderness, engrossed the
attention of the pioneers of the county, and schools were not thought
about. The growing children must be taught. The little education pos-
sessed by their parents was dearly prized, and they, (the latter,) were willing
to make many sacrifices to bring about such a desirable end. Accordingly,
in 1828, arrangements were perfected with a Mr. Horace Sprague to
organize a select school. Mr. Henry Allen gave the use of a log cabin,
erected by him in 1825, on the south side of the Illinois River, at the point
overlooking the mouth of Fox River. Mr. Sprague was succeeded by a
Mr. Kirkpatrick, and he, in turn, by a Mr. Allen, all occupying the same
house. Some years after Mr. Alonzo Sawyer opened a select school, but
moved to Chicago in a year or two. Mr. T. Hampton followed him,
continuing in that occupation until he, in connection with Mr. II. E.
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Gedney, established The Ottawa Repuhlican. In 1855 graded schools were
organized, and have successfully continued to the present time.
During 1830 and 1831 the great snow fell. It began on the night of
December 29th, 1830, and reached the depth of two and one half feet. Just
one week from that time, (Jan. 5th,) another storm occurred, the fall of
which was as deep as the former. Both of these settled to a general depth
of five feet on the prairie. By successive thawings and freezings, a crust
of several inches in thickness was formed, over which the prairie wolves
would run the famished deer. At first the French and Indians were com-
pelled to use snow shoes, the construction of which was learned from an old
squaw, who had been raised in Canada. In the spring the snow went off
quite rapidly, producing one of the greatest floods ever known on the river.
In the spring of 1830, a number of young men of Northampton, Mass.,
desiring to try the realities of pioneer life, sent out a commission to select
a site for a colony. This commission unanimously fixed upon La Salle,
because, in their opinion, of its future commercial importance. Simon
Crosiar, (spelled Crosiar and Crosier according to different members of the
family) was already settled in that vicinity. During this and the following
year, Aaron Gunn, and a number of others, settled in the same locality,
but fearing the miasma from the overflown bottoms, it having rained most
of the season, left for Princeton. Mr. Gunn moved to Lamoille, and lived
there four years, then returned to La Salle, where he has since resided. Mr.
Ayers determined to remain, and continue hammering out prairie plows
for the settlers, his trade being that of a blacksmith. When he learned of
the Blackhawk War, and the massacre at Indian Creek, he took up his
anvil block and buried a quantity of silver under it, after which he left for
Ohio. Upon his return, at the close of hostilities, he found nothing dis-
turbed.
About this time, (1830 and 1831,) came to the county the following
gentlemen, who have been more or less prominent since their settlement:
Harvey, Cyrus, and J. E. Shaffer, J. A., W. L. and G. M. Donivan, Am-
brose and Mathias Trumbo, Wm. Munson, D. F. Hitt, Keason Debolt,
Hon. G. W. Armstrong, H. L. Brush, John Coleman, Wm. H. H. Hol-
ridge, Wm. Pitzer, and in 1S32, Samuel Parr, W. H. Bobertson, John
Mitchell and others.
At the beginning of the year 1832, the settlements were nearly as
follows: At Seneca, Abel Sprague; at Marseilles, north of the river, Wm.
and Wm. W. Kichey; south of the river, James Galloway; between the
Illinois and Fox Rivers, Christopher Long and Edward Keys, and farther
northeast, David Shaffer and Wm. Parr; at Dayton, the Greens and W. L.
Donivan; at Indian Creek, the Halls, Davises, Pettigrews and Hendersons;
at Ottawa, the Walkers, Pembrokes, Browns, and others; at Utica, Simon
Crosiar; at Homer, three families near the present village of that name; at
La Salle, Aaron Gunn and Burton Ayers. Along the south bank of the
Illinois lived George Ish and Henry Delong; at Cedar Point, Nathaniel
Richey; on the bluff, near the old fort, John Myers, and on Bailey r s Point,
Lewis Bailey, Wm. Seeley, Joel Alvord, Asa Holdridge, Wm. Haines, and a
few others.
BLACK HAWK WAR.
Since the Winnebago troubles in 1827, there had not been a settled
peace along the border, La Salle county being just south of the old Indian
188 HISTOKT OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
boundary line. The red men seemed to be fretted and chafed under the
encroachments of their white neighbors, and the latter also were unsettled,
and fearful of impending trouble. Xews of a threatened outbreak would
drive them out, in motley crowds, at break-neck speed, to the nearest fort
or block-house, and, returning to their homes in a few hours, or days, to
find it nothing but a "scare." In this manner the settlers lived, alternating be-
tween hope and fear; hope, that this would not last always, and fear, that
in some of these "scares" reality might come, and some of their number
succumb to their savage foes. Xews of the uneasy condition of the Indians
along the Bureau reached the Hall settlement on Indian Creek, on the 17th
of May, 1832, and, indeed, Old Shabbona had warned them, but, deceived
so many times, they determined to remain, thinking their forces strong
enough to resist successfully, should they be attacked, all the settlers having
gathered at the house of Win. Davis, at the mill dam, about two miles
north of Harding. Spies were sent out in various directions to ascertain
the proximity of the Indians, and returned without discovering any appear-
ances of them. Accordingly, on the morning of the 20th all resumed their
usual avocations.
About two o'clock of that day, H. R. Hall, eldest son of Win. Hall,
Mr. Davis and Mr. Robert Xorris, were at work in a blacksmith shop, near
Mr. Hall's house. Two other sons of Mr. Hall, Mr. Howard and son, two
sons of Mr. Davis, and John R. Henderson, were breaking prairie half a
mile from the house. Henry, George, and Wm. Davis. Jr., were at work
on the mill dam near by ; while Mr. Pettigrew, wife and three children,
Mrs. Hall and three daughters, Silvia, aged seventeen, Rachel, aged fifteen,
and Elizabeth, aged eight, were in the house, when suddenly a band of
Indians emerged from the woods, and rushed for the door. Mr. Pettigrew,
with a child in his arms, endeavored to close it, but failed, beiQg shot, and
falling inside. Mrs. Pettigrew, with her arms around Rachel Hall, was the
next victim, the flash of the gun being so close as to burn the latter's cheek.
An Indian seized one of Mr. Pettigrew's children by the feet and beat its
brains out against a stump. A little son of Mr. Davis was held by two
Indians while another shot him.
Mr. Hall, Mr. Xorris, and Mr. George were killed, as well as Mr.
Davis and wife. The others seeing there were about forty well armed
Indians in the band, and that there was no hope in resistance, made their
escape.* Silvia and Rachel Hall alone were spared. They were each
seized by two stalwart savages and dragged across the creek, and hurried
up the stream some distance, to a wigwam, where they were placed in
charge of some squaws, and kept there all night, the warriors in the mean-
time pursuing their murderous work among the settlers. During the night
they returned, and in the morning, after a hasty breakfast, cleared a space
of ground about seventy-five feet in circumference, placing in the center a
pole, and some twenty spears in a circle about it. On the top of the latter
were arranged the bloody sca'ps of their victims, among which the girls
recognized those ot their parents and triends. Several hearts also adorned
some of the spears. The two captives were placed near this center pole,
one side of their faces painted red and the other black. Thus arranged,
the warriors began a war-dance around the circle, making a hideous noise,
and brandishing their spears so menacingly at the girls that they expected
*The account here given was related by Mrs. Rachel Munson, some years ago, and was
published at her death. It seems very authentic.
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every moment to be impaled. This performance lasted about a half hour,
after which the faces of the girls were washed, the encampment broken up,
and the whole party started, Indian hie, in a northerly direction, the cap-
tives being placed on ponies, each in charge of two squaws. For four or live
days the journey continued in the same direction, without incident, the
girls being separated while traveling, and allowed to be together while at
rest, under the guardianship of the four squaws.
About the fifth day their dresses were changed for those of young
Squaws, Rachel's being a red and white calico, ruffled around the bottom,
and Silvia's, of the same material, but blue in color. They refused to
exchange their shoes for moccasins, or to give up their combs.
On the seventh day, the Indians came to the tent of the captives and
their guardians, and took Silvia away to a place where they seemed to have
held a council, in which it was decided that Silvia should go with an old
Indian, whom they afterward learned to be White Crow, a chief of the
Winnebagoes, and that Rachel should remain where she was. Silvia
refused to go unless her sister went with her. Then White Crow, seem-
ingly under great excitement, made a speech, at the end of which, a
young warrior, calling himself Rolling Thunder, went and brought Rachel.
The chiefs shook hands, horses were brought, and the girls duly mounted.
A Sac Indian stepped up, and with a large knife, cut two locks of hair
from Rachel's head, one over the right ear, the other at the back part of
her head, saying to White Crow, as he did so, " I'll have her back again."
Another Indian took a similar lock from Silvia's head, uttering the same
remark. White Crow started with the girls, guarded by his band, riding
rapidly all night, and halting at day light, at a camp of the Winnebagoes,
where on a bed of blankets and furs, the girls were allowed to rest. From
here they traveled all day in canoes, camping at evening on the banks of
a stream, the name of which they never knew, donbtless, either the Fox
or Mississippi river. Here they remained during the day, White Crow
being absent. In the evening he returned, and approaching the captives,
for the first time, addressed them in English. He asked if their parents
were dead, and if they had any brothers or sisters. They replied despond-
ingly, that they supposed all were massacred. He shook his head, seemed
very sorry, and informed them he was about to take them home. After a
comfortable night, White Crow, with twenty-six of his followers, on the
tenth morning of their captivity, embarked in canoes with his charges,
and crossed .the stream, then, all mounting ponies, they traveled all day,
arriving at night at a place where several Indian families were encamped.
Here, for the first time, they had potatoes, coffee and bread to eat. As
they lay down to sleep at night, White Crow placed himself beside the
captives, lit his pipe, and kept vigil all night. Next morning, after an
early breakfast, the journey was resumed. About three o'clock, there was
a halt for dinner, consisting of broiled venison and duck's eggs. The latter
being addled, the girls were unable to eat them, but the Indians appeared
to relish them greatly. At evening, they arrived opposite the fort, at Blue
Mounds, northwest of Galena. White Crow took Rachel's handkerchief,
no longer white, and, making a flag of truce of it, approached the fort.
He was met by an interpreter, who, learning what he wanted, returned to
the fort. Mr. Henry Gratiot, the Indian agent, came out, and the cap-
tives were delivered to him, who conducted them inside. Here, with
much joy, they met two of their uncles, Edward and Resin Hall, who had
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been instrumental in arranging with White Crow for their ransom.
Accompanied by an escort of soldiers, the girls set out for Galena. At
White Oak Springs, they met their brother John W. Kail, whom they had
supposed murdered, at the time of the massacre. Reaching Galena, they
were conducted to St. Louis, from whence they were taken to the house
of an uncle, in Cass Co., 111., having been in captivity over a month.
Remaining here until the following September, they then returned to
Bureau County, their only remaining brother, John W. Hall, having
prepared a home for them in that county.
Congress voted them a donation in money, and the State save them
each a floating title to one hundred and sixty acres of land, Rachel's
lying in part within the present limits of Marseilles, and the remainder on
Section 19, Fall River township.
In March, 1S33, Rachel was married to Wm. Munson, Esq., and in
the following May, Silvia also married Rev. Wm. S. Horn.
Mr. Munson moved to his present home, about three miles north of
Harding, with his young bride, and in time, was surrounded with the
comforts of wealth, and an interesting family. Mrs. Munson died May
1st, 1870.
Mrs. Horn is still living with her husband, at Lincoln, Nebraska.*
A fine monument has recently been erected over the graves of the
slain, through the liberality of Mrs. Munson.
At the breaking out of the war, many of the settlers left the county
for their respective homes, in other states, where they had resided. A few
of the most resolute remained, and from these, with some of the troops,
recently discharged at Ottawa, Colonel, (afterward General) Jacob Fry,
organized a regiment for the second campaign of the war, to rendezvous at
the fort, near La Salle, erected some time previous, by Lieutenant
Will) urn, to protect the stores entrusted to him by Colonel March, and
called from its founder " Fort Wilburn." The regiment participated in
nearly all the principal engagements, until the close of the campaign. It
is but justice to say, that Colonel Fry sustained General James D. Henry,
in all his troubles with jealous officers in camp, as well as the enemy in
front.
Mr. George E. Walker also organized a band 'of friendlv Indians for
the war. An incident is related of this gentleman, growing out of the
Indian Creek massacre, that is well worthy of record. Two Indians were
apprehended as members of the band concerned in that terrible slaughter,
but were discharged on bail, Mr. Walker becoming their surety for
appearance. They thought they were cleared, and departed for their
reservation west of the Mississippi. At a subsequent meeting of the
court, Mr. Walker, as Sheriff of the County, was called upon to produce
tliem. He went to their reservation and told them what he wanted.
Without apparent feeling, they bid good bye to their friends, and started
on their journey back, expecting to suffer the penalty of the law, for their
crime, upon their arrival. They then traveled more as friends than as
offenders, in charge of an officer, sleeping side by side at night, assisting
in procuring game for subsistence, and the Indians several times finding
the way, when the party were lost. In due time they reached Ottawa,
when, after their trial, they were acquitted.
Near Indian Creek, Mr. James Beresford was killed by Indians, in
June, 1832, across Fox River, on Section 22, Rutland Township. William
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Schermerhorn, and his son-in-law Jacob Ilazelton were also murdered. The
circumstances are briefly these:
The gentlemen named had bought an improvement on a part of the
old mission farm, begun by Rev. Jessie Walker, of whom they purchased
it. While at work they were informed that the Indians were upon them.
Taking their team they set out at night for Indiana, but meeting the troops
under General Atchkinson, returned to Ottawa. Some time in June they
started to go up to their claim, about a half hour behind a body of troops.
As the latter passed along the river, one of the soldiers thought he saw an
Indian, but was laughed at by his companions. Soon after the report of
a gun was heard, but was attributed to the snap of a horse's hoof.
Messrs. Schermerhorn and Hazelton were leisurely driving along, when
a shot was fired at them. Turning about, they started for Ottawa, on a
brisk trot. They met a soldier, who had been detained for some cause, to
whom they related what had happened. He asked them why they did not
cut off the harness from their horses, and run for it. They replied, that
they were doing well as it was. While they were talking, three Indians
crossed the road in front of them. The soldier was solicited to stay and
fight it out with them, which he agreed to do. Directly as they concluded
this bargain, three other Indians crossed the road in the same direction.
The soldier, seeing this accession to the forces of the enemy, put spurs to
his horse and galloped for Ottawa. The other men were shot. The
soldier reported the facts to Captain Adam W. Linder, and a party was
sent out to bring in the bodies. They were unsuccessful. The next day
the Captain himself went out and found them in the tall grass, by the
road side, horribly mutilated.
The collars were cut to pieces and the harness gone. Taking the inner
bark off a linn or basswood tree, a harness was constructed of it, and the
bodies taken to Ottawa by Reason Debolt, Wm. Armstrong, and one other
settler, that Mr. Reason Debolt, to whom we are indebted for this narrative,
does not remember. They were buried on block three, town of South
Ottawa.
Rev. Adam Payne was also killed by Indians, about three miles north-
east of Marseilles, on the farm now owned by Milton Brundage, Esq. He
was a prominent minister on the frontier, and is described as a very exem-
plary man. Many of the settlers speak of the sermon he delivered in
Chicago, just before his departure to the Fox River, where he was mur-
dered, as one of his best efforts. Old Piper, an Indian who lived about the
vicinity long after the war, pointed out the spot to Joseph Brumbach. It
was also recognized by the troops, who saw the buzzards flying over the
body.
At the close of the Black Hawk war Peru and La Salle had no existence.
Ottawa, or South Ottawa, as it is now called, consisted of a rough board court
house, sixteen by twenty feet, a log jail, a log building called the fort, and two
frames unenclosed; one small building occupied by David Walker as a
dwelling, and a ten by twelve shanty, in which Henry Hicks dispensed
whisky, shot, powder, blankets and baubles, to the natives, of which there
were about forty or fifty who made this their summer head-quarters, as
well as five or six white men who had claimed their residence here during
and before the war. No towns had been laid out except Ottawa, the whole
inhabitants of the county not numbering more than one hundred persons.
When the Indian troubles were definitely settled, by the exterminative
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battle of Bad Ax, immigration began. The internal improvement system,
that was strongly agitated about this time, would include the building of a
canal that, it was thought, would pass through the county, and materially
add to the commerce of wagon, as well as call in a class of settlers who
would be desirable acquisitions. The present residents also began to
improve the numerous advantages about them.
In the fall of 1832 Ephraim Sprague began a dam in the slough, just
immediately north of the Illinois River, at Marseilles, as well as put a wing
dam in the-river. He erected a saw-mill, that was in successful operation
during the following winter. This was the first improvement of the water
power of the Grand Rapids of the Illinois.
In 1834 Lovel Kimball came to Marseilles. He obtained possession
of the land contiguous to the water power, and especially that about
Sprague's wing dam, which forced the latter to sell his interest at a nomi-
nal figure. Mr. Kimball organized a company, (chartered in 1836 to be
known as the "Marseilles Manufacturing Co.,") with a cash capital of
$200,000, for the purjDOse of manufacturing farming tools, flour, woolen
goods, etc. Hon. Guerden S. Hubbard, Hon. James A. Woodworth, a
former mayor of Chicago, A. D. Butterfield, himself, and a few others,
were the first directors. The company built a dam across the Illinois,
which went out during high water. Replacing it again, they completed
their saw-mill, containing two sash saws, as they were then called, one lath
machine, and a shingle cutter. Soon after this they began the erection of
a grist and flouring mill, employing for the purpose A. G. Cook, a mill-
wright who had completed their last dam. When finished, in 1841, this
mill had eight 52-run of stones, and nine water-wheels. It was five stories
high, including basement, and forty-five by seventy feet in size. The
machinery was of the most improved pattern, being mostly constructed of
wood. It was finished inside with black walnut, no expense being spared
to make the mill in every way superior to anything of the kind in the
western country. Indeed, it was so considered by competent judges. One
old settler, who came here in 1840 and visited the mills at Rochester, N.
Y., said he saw nothing there equal to it. It was burned April 14th, 1842,
after having been in successful operation about nine months. Kimball
always thought it was the work of an incendiary, attributing it to Ephraim
Sprague, with whom he had trouble in settling their accounts some years
before. Owing to some technicality in the policy the company never
received the insurance, and broke up.
Probably the largest immigration to the State, of most of the present
old settlers, was in 1836. Frink and Walker's line of stages, that ran
along the river, as well as a line put on by the Marseilles Company, each
ramifying southwest, were the means of travel. The tide was so great
that at a public house, kept by A. D. Butterfield, in Marseilles, it was not
an uncommon thing to receive from twenty to twenty -five dollars for meals
and lodging of travelers, who, in the crowded condition of the house, had
slept in the barn, on the stoop, and about the premises. Perhaps the
breaking ground of the canal, which occurred July 4th of this year, con-
tributed largely to this result, as it was an earnest of the beginning of the
work inaugurated by President Madison in his annual message of 1814.
The principal market in 1836 was Chicago. Settlers would start away
from home with the expectation of being gone a week or more. If it was
an ^ordinary load only one yoke of oxen would be required, if large two or
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even three were employed. The provision-box was an invariable accom-
paniment, and the old coffee pot held a favorable position. The coffee was
prepared at home, tied up in a little sack, and retained in the utensil until
the strength was exhausted. By force of circumstances, the young men of
those early days became adepts in the simpler culinary arts. When arriv-
ing at a camping place at night, the oxen would be turned loose to graze,
with a bell upon their necks, or picketed out with a stake and rope. Many
a chase of ten or twelve miles, or even more, to find the oxen, will come to
the mind of the early settler as he reads these lines. Then, having cooked
and eaten their supper, they would roll themselves in their blankets and
sleep, if the mosquitos would permit. When they first left home they,
perhaps would be alone for the first day's travel, but after that there would
be quite a train, each wagon slowly plodding along through the grass,
sometimes knee-high, sometimes above the top of the wagon, and followed
by a cloud of mosquitos as large as a swarm of bees. These trains often
numbered a hundred wagons before they reached Chicago. From the
"Widow Berry's," (twelve miles out,) into the city it was always swampy,
often the water was knee-deep. Whenever a slough was to be crossed it was an
item of considerable interest who should get out safely. Should anyone
be so unfortunate as to get his wagon fast in the mud, or get "sloughed,"
as it was called, the others would unhitch from their wagons and draw him
out. Selling their wheat for what they could get, they would load up with
lumber and return. Many a house in the early days was constructed from
lumber obtained in this way. Speaking of building, calls to mind the
remarks of one of the pioneers to the writer. Pointing to a little old house
back of his residence, he said: "I sawed nearly all the lumber out of Jogs
for that house with a whip-saw, drove every nail, made every joint at night,
my wife holding the lantern to see to work by."
Prices were materially different at that time than at the present.
Wheat brought from thirty to forty cents, and at extremely rare intervals,
sixty cents. Eggs three cents per dozen, butter ten cents, cheese five cents,
corn ten cents, occasionally fifteen, oats ten, sometimes fifteen cents,
potatoes ten cents, pork $1.50 per hundred, sheep $1.00 each, work horses
$50.00, milch cows $8, $9, and $12, according to quality, four-year-old
steers $16.00, farm laborers 50 cents per day, and letter postage 25 cents. Many
of the early settlers were compelled to allow their letters to remain in the
office some time before they had money enough to take them out. One of
them remarked to the writer, that, at one time, he had a letter in the t post-
office for over a month, and could not get sufficient money together to take
it out. At last he succeeded in trading the postmaster four bushels of
wheat for it, and thought he had made a good trade, so extremely anxious
was he to hear from home.
Fancy horses were not indulged in by the pioneers of the county. A
band of horse thieves, whose depredations were quite frequent, had its
secret agents in every locality. A physician on Fox River who had a fine
horse used to fasten it to a tree with a log chain and monstrous padlock.
Societies of protection were organized against these desperadoes. These
organizations usually consisted of a captain and one hundred men. Each
one was obliged to pay an initiation fee of from $1.00 to $5.00; to ride one
hundred miles in search of the horse or thief, and go at a moment's warn-
ing, if any of the members' horses were stolen. It was also a part of the
plan to insure a member's horse against stealing, or in other words, if a
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member's horse was stolen and not found it was paid for out of company
funds.
July 4th, of 1836, will be memorable as the day when ground was
broken in Chicago for the present Illinois and Michigan Canal. It was
begun simultaneously at both ends, as well as along the line. Scores of
people, of many different nations, (principally Irishmen,) nocked here,
called by the prospect of labor, and the good times that always exist during
the disbursement of large sums of money on the public works. Towns
were laid out along the line of the canal, and lots sold for incredible prices.
These prospective towns along the river at the time were either swamps or
greensward, but in the excited condition of the minds of the inhabitants
were soon to be teeming cities, full of life and the energy of successful
business. State scrip was the circulating medium, and abundant. Soon,
however, State orders took the place of the scrip, the men being paid with
them, which, however, as bad as they seemed, were received by the canal
company in payment for land. Many of the laborers, in order to secure
their dearly earned savings, exposed as they were to the malaria of the
valley, purchased land and became permanent settlers, because forced by
their own interests to stay. These lands have since become valuable, and
the residents thus retained are some of the best inhabitants of the county.
Among such a large force of men difficulties would arise. One of
these terminated in quite a war, known as the trouble between the "Cork-
onians" and "Fairdowns," in 1837. The sheriff of the county was obliged
to call out the militia, who finally subdued the riot, not, however, until
some lives had been lost.*
About 1840 immigration began to decrease, falling off to almost noth-
ing in 1842, caused no doubt by the talk of repudiating the enormous State
debt incurred by the internal improvement system. After the turning
point in 1845, the prospect of high taxes seemed to make no material
difference, emigrants rather appreciating the vim that proposed to pay a
portion of the interest and the principal of the debt as soon as the State was
able. At the latter period, (1842,) the canal was completed as far as Mar-
seilles from La Salle, and from Chicago west to about Morris. The holders
of the "Improvement Bonds" became reassured, and, in order to save what
they had already expended, subscribed liberally for the completion of the
work. The prospect of avoiding the long and tedious trip to Chicago to
market grain, and the cheapening of commodities needed by the people,
had a wonderful effect to induce settlers to locate here. As an instance of
how the canal was regarded, we may mention the following. The first
loaded boat through the canal was the "Goldona," A. J. Hobart captain.
It cleared Chicago with a load of lumber, and arrived at Ottawa on Sunday
afternoon about three o'clock. The people saw it coming and ran to meet
it at the aqueduct, cheering all the way into town. Lumber at that time
sold for $60.00 per thousand. This load reduced the price to $30.00, and
the second or third reduced it still further. The boat carried back a load
of wheat, at 12£ cents per bushel. That fall freight fell to eight and finally
to six cents, and the following season to four cents.
The canal proceeded to completion in the spring of 1848, and the
Green and Red lines of packets were put on. As the horses drawing them
trotted along through the country, it seemed a decided improvement to the
settlers over the old ox team, beset by mosquitoes, and moving at snail's
pace, without mentioning the inconveniences incident to camping in all
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kinds of places, as well as hunting stray oxen in the morning. Traveling
was placed among the luxuries. It would, no doubt, seem a great
change, could one of the passengers be taken from the boat, and, seated
in our palace cars, or sit at the table of one of the restaurant cars, and realize
that he was traveling through the country, at the rate of forty miles an
hour. The change from the ox team to the packets was as great to the
early settlers, as that of the boat to the palace cars has been to later
generations.
We shall be obliged to go back a little to bring up the political history.
A court house was authorized sometime in 1838, the contract being
awarded to William F. Flagg, on July 12th, 1838, cost $20,000.00. It
was finished in 1840, at a total outlay of $40,000, just double the original
price.
In 1839, Marshall County was erected by the Legislature, and Towns
29 and 30, Range 1, now called "Bennington" and "Evans," were trans-
ferred from La Salle to that County. It was desired that Towns 29 and
30, Range 2, now " Groveland" and " Osage," should also be included,
but Marshall did not want them, because so thinly settled. The Hodges
and Dents were residents of those townships, and it was said that many
of the settlers did not desire to build a new court house for Marshall,
having just assisted in erecting one for La Salle. After a few years the
former county having perfected her county building, "Groveland" and
"Osage" made application for annexation, but the authorities refused to
receive them.
February 12th, 1849, the township organization law was passed, and
La Salle County proceeded to accede to its provisions. The County Court,
which, at that time, consisted of the County Judge, Henry GK Cotton,
Charles H. Gilman, associate, S. M. Raymond, County Clerk, and the
County Treasurer, appointed a commission, consisting of C. R. Potter,
Levi Kelsey, and Israel G. Cooper, to divide the county into election
precincts, the naming of which being given to the oldest resident settlers.
They reported as follows :
Town 31, Range 1, East of 3rd P. M., to be - - - - - Hope
Town 32, Range 1, East of 3d P. M., (except a part lying north-east of Vermillion
River,) to be - - .... . Eden
Town 33, Range 1, (except a part east of Vermillion River), to be - - Salsbury
(This was afterward changed to La Salle and Peru.)
Town 34, Range 1, to be - - - - - - - Dimmick
Town 35, Range 1, to be - - - - - . - Troy Grove
Town 36, Range 1, to be - - - - - - - Meriden
(This was changed to Mendota.)
Towns 29, 30 and 31, Ranges 2 and 3, all of Town 32, Range 3, west of the Vermil-
lion River, to be - - - - . Eagle
Town 32, Range 2, and Town 32, Range 3, south of the Vermillion River
to be - - - .... Vermillion
Towns 32 and 33, Range 1, east of Vermillion River, and Towns 32 and 33, Range
2, north of Vermillion River, and south of the Illinois, to be - Deer Park.
Town 33, Range 2, to be - - - . . . Utica
Town 34, Range 2, to be - - - - - . . Waltham
Town 35, Range 2, to be - - - . . Fremont
Town 31, Range 3, east of Vermillion River, and Town 31, Range 4, and Town 31,
Range 5, to be - - - - - . . Bruce
Town 32, Range 3, north of Vermillion River, to be - Farm Ridge
Town 33, Range 3, south of the Illinois river, (including the islands), to be - South Ottawa
Town 33, Range 3, north of the Illinois River, (now Ottawa,) and Town 33, Range 4,
west of Fox River, (now Dayton), to be - - - - Dayton
Town 35, Range 3, to be - - - - . . Freedom
Town 36, Range 3, to be - . Earl
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Town 32, Range 4, and Town 33, Range 4, south of the Illinois River, (including
the islands), to be - - - - Grand Rapids
Town 33, Range 4, north of the Illinois River, and Town.34, Range 4, east of Fox
River, to be - - - - - Trenton
(It was changed at the first meeting of Supervisors to Rutland.)
Town 35, Range 4, and Town 35 Range 5, except Sections 5 and 6, west of Fox
River, to be - - "Warren
(It afterward became Serena.)
Town 36, Range 4, to be - - - - . Adams
Town 32, Range 5, and Town 33, Range 5, south of the Illinois River, to be - Brookfield.
Town 33, Range 5, north of the Illinois, and the Sonth % °f Town 34, Range 5,
to be - - - - - . . Manlius
North % of Town 34, Range 5, and Towns 35 and J36, Range 5, South and East of
Fox River, to be - - - - - Mission
Town 36, Range 5, and Sections 5 and 6, of Town 35, Range 5, north and west of
Fox River, to be - - - . - Northville
The report of the commission was received, and this was substantially
the towns where the first supervisors were elected. They have since been
changed somewhat, as well as subdivided, but they are at the present time
nearly the same as when first organized.
The first board of supervisors met on the 27th day of May, 1850, and
organized, by electing Wells Waite, Esq., of Dayton, President, The list
is as follows : Adams, E. S. Beardsley; Brookfield, Geo. S. Maxon; Bruce,
Samuel Mackey; Dimmick, Win. Mitchel; Dayton, Wells Wate; Deer
Park, Win. Clayton; Eagle, Elijah M. Galloway ; Eden, M. M. Letts;
Earl, James McBurney ; Fremont, Mr. Warsley; Freedom, Wm. Barber;
Farm Ridge, Elmer Baldwin; Grand Rapids, Abraham Trumbo; Hope,
Mr. Lucas; Meriden, O. W. Bryant; Mission, Joshua Lewis; Manlius,
Giles W. Jackson; Northfield, Mr. Jones; Ottawa, W. H. L. Wallace ;
Saulsbury, John Hoffman; South Ottawa, Calvin W. Eels; Troy Grove,
Peter J. Wagner; Trenton, A. D. Butterfield; Utica, Hiram lligby;
Vermillion, Emory Stanford; Warren, Samson Hoxie; Waltham, E. D.
Hartson.
About this time coal began to attract attention. It was known to the
French settlers, but never mined. It was not until 1854 that any actual
work was began at La Salle. About the same time, also, it began to be
worked at Marseilles, and also along the Vermillion. The miners at that
time had no real conception of the extent of the fields. Farther on will
be given the present status of the coal interests.
At one time in the history of the canal, a rail-road was talked about
in its place. Tiiis idea took shape, and in 1852, the Chicago and Rock
Island Rail-Road was built. The first train that ran over the road arrived
at La Salle on the 6th day of March, 1853, amid general rejoicing.
Captaid Fred. Reed, was the conductor. He had been a packet-boat
Captain, on the canal, and when the rail-road bought up the boats and
fixtures, most of the captains were given positions. During the year of
1853, also, the Illinois Central ran a train into La Salle, from the north,
as well as the South. Freight was transferred across the valley by teams,
and an inclined plain run by a stationary engine. The bridge at La Salle
was then building, the first train running over it, August 23d or 24th,
1854, just two years, to a day, from the time the first work was began upon
it at that place. Sometime in 1852 or 1853, the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy ran a train into Mendota, through the northern tier of townships,
of the county. In 1869, the Fox River Valley Rail-Road was organized,
most of the towns along the line of the route subscribing stock. For
some cause it was transferred to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
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Road, in the spring of 1870, just as it was in partial running condition.
About the same time the Pekin and South Western Rail-Road was
projected, but it never came any farther into the county than Streator.
During the past three years it has extended its line along through the
townships of Otter creek and Allen. Before 1850, the population of the
county was 18,000, in 1870, 60,792. So much for rail-roads.
The manufactories of the county are numerous.
Starch is successfully made at the present time, and the stock in the
company, chartered before 1859, has become remunerative.
Among the largest zinc furnaces in the United States is that of
Messrs. Matthieson & Hegeler, of La Salle, a large amount of capital,
running into the millions, is invested. From this, others have since
sprung, and the zinc interest is at the present time, witli a growth of about
fifteen years, of great importance.
Perhaps the greatest manufacturing interest of the county, is that of
agricultural implements. Plows, Harrows, Corn Planters and Corn Plows,
as well as Shellers, are made of various patterns. Reapers, Mowers,
Harvesters and Threshers (the celebrated Pitts being among the number),
are all made here of desirable construction. This is due to the excellency
of land in the county, ranking, as it does, first in agricultural resources, of
any in the State.
Of the coal industries, La Salle County 'stands second. Her fields
and shafts are as follows : At Streator, there are seventeen shafts and
drifts, and 4,320 acres of workable coal, in the basin.
At Kirkpatrick's basin, there is one shaft that raises annually, from
600 to 700 tons, from 1,600 acres of workable coal.
Lowell has six drifts, raising about sixty tons each, annually. This basin
has 800 acres.
La Salle is probably the better coal field, as well as the most - extensive,
containing 13,120 acres, and, with eleven shafts, raising annually 217,900
tons. This is called the best coal in the county.
Dayton has one drift, and only seventy acres of workable coal.
Marseilles banks have 200 acres from which two drifts and one shaft
raise annually 3,600 tons.
At Ottawa, the coal is near the surface, being from nine to ten feet
deep, and is taken out by stripping. The workable area in acres, is 2,000,
from which annually 43,800 tons are taken.
The capital invested in this branch of enterprise, in the county, is
upwards of $2,676,500, and produces annually over 885,000 tons.
THE LAST OF THE JLLINOIS, AND A SKETCH OF THE
POTTAWATTOMIES.
Address by John Dean Caton, LL. D. {Read before the Chicago
Historical Society, Dec. 13, 1870.)
Of the ancient civilizations we know but little. The beginnings of the
Egyptians, the Etrurians, the Grecians, the Romans, and even the Milesians,
are either entirely shrouded in the dark shadows of the far distant past, or
are only lit up by the feeble rays afforded by uncertain fables or mythical
traditions. Even far beyond these, great peoples lived, whose existence and
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civilization are testified to, by broken monuments and ruined architecture,
widely scattered, especially over Arabia and some parts of Africa, while in
our own country, and particularly in Yucatan, we see by their works that
nations have lived of whom we know absolutely nothing as to whence they
came or whither they have gone.
Geologists tell us of older peoples who occupied many portions of our
globe, whose times they have divided into different ages, as, the stone age,
the bronze age, and the iron age, because of the materials which they used
in their arts, but of their coming and their going they can tell us nothing,
except that they existed one after another and ceased to be. Whence came
the mound-builders of our own land, or those who worked the copper mines
of Lake Superior, or those whose old inscriptions are found on the great
stones of ~New Mexico, or when they disappeared, none can tell ; they lived,
made their record and are gone, all else is as silent and as dark as the tomb
that covers them. Yet, in all these records history is written, dim and
shadowy though it be, still it is history, and we seize upon each sentence of
it as upon a precious treasure, and we ponder it and strain our eyes to find
more than it really tells, but the misty veil of antiquity hangs over it, and
finally we turn away unsatisfied.
When America was first visited by Europeans, at least those who
recorded what they saw, it was occupied by barbarous tribes, some much
more advanced than others, but still all were barbarians. Tradition, among
the more advanced, pretended to tell how their ancestors had come from
more northern climes, till finally they settled in the milder countries of
Mexico or Peru, where they attained a sort of semi-civilization far in advance
of the wilder nations, either to the north or south of them, but whether
their ancestors were the mound-builders or copper- workers, who once lived
where we live, and were driven away by fierce northern hordes, more
athletic than they, or peacefully left the land in search of a climate less
rigorous, we can never know, nor can we satisfy ourselves of the degree of
credence which we should place in their own traditions as told by their old
men to the first Europeans who saw them and by whom their stories have
been handed down to us.
We do know, certainly, that when the Atlantic coast was first visited
by white men who have transmitted to us accounts of what they saw, they
found here tribes of Indians who subsisted principally by fishing and the
chase, although they practiced agriculture to a limited extent, for they sup-
plied the first immigrants to New England with corn from their hidden
stores. The early explorers occasionally found the same grain cultivated in
the valley of the Mississippi, and Lewis and Clarke procured supplies of it
on the Upper Missouri. Still their agriculture was too limited to have had
much influence on the density of population; and without the cultivated
products of the soil no country can sustain a large population of men, if we
except some tropical countries where spontaneous fruits are in perpetual
season, and even there the aboriginal population was found to be very sparse
as compared with countries where agriculture furnishes the principal sus-
tenance to man.
From the changes which had recently taken place among the original
inhabitants of this country, when they were first discovered, as told by their
old men, and also from the changes which occurred after their discovery,
but before the exterminating influence of civilization bore upon them, we
may safely assume that national and even tribal formations had been quite
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recent, yet recent as they no doubt were, we know almost nothing of them.
While we know that some nations become totally extinct by reason of abor-
iginal warfare alone, we cannot point to a single instance of the birth and
growth of any native tribe unless the uniting of the remnants of several
broken tribes into one, may be so considered.
At last we are forced back to the conclusion that it is only compara-
tively in modern times and of civilized communities that history, whether
written in books or among the rocks, tells us of the origin of nations. To
this we can mention one notable exception. By divine interposition, we
are told of the beginning and of the progress, and by profane history of the
final extinction of one of the great ancient nations of the earth. There we
are told of its founder, Abraham, of its struggles, of its triumphs and its
misfortunes, of its victories and its defeats, of its pure worship and its gross
idolatry, and of its final extinction as a nation under the Roman Empire.
Necessarily, the history of the aborigines of this country is confined to
the period since their first discovery by the educated man, and to the few
uncertain traditions told by them of their comparatively very recent times,
and most of these traditions as handed down to us are purely of a myth-
ological character, and serve to teach us of the nature of the imagination or
mental condition of the native rather than of actual facts that had gone
before. Nor do those who have made a study of the native American a
specialty seem to have given that study the form of connected history to any
large degree, and he that would inform himself of such history must gather
it from a thousand different sources, picking up a grain here and there as
he can find it.
More than thirty-seven years ago, when I first became a citizen of
Chicago, I found this whole country occupied as the hunting grounds of the
Pottawatomie Indians. I soon formed the acquaintance of many of their
chiefs, and this acquaintance ripened into a cordial friendship. I found
them really intelligent and possessed of much information resulting from
their careful observation of natural objects. I traveled with them over the
prairies, I hunted and I fished with them, I camped with them in che
groves, I drank with them at the native springs, of which they were never
at a loss to find one, and J. partook of their hospitality around their camp
fires.
Wild scenes have always had a charm for me. I have ever been a lover
of nature, and the enjoyment of those scenes when prairie and woodland,
lake shore and river were almost everywhere as nature made them, have
left behind a pleasing memory which sometimes makes me almost wish
that I could live over again my younger days. Since nature's handiwork
has been defaced all around us by the hand of civilized man, I love to hie
away to distant shores and the far-off mountains, and with a few friends of
tastes similar to my own, enjoy the wild scenery among the rock-bound
islands of Puget's Sound, or the still solitude of the high Sierras. Who
would have thought at the time of which I speak that he who then here
enjoyed the charms which nature throws over all her works, would ever
seek the far-off scenes of the Pacific slopes in which to indulge his favorite
reveries? There are some who hear me now, who remember the lake beach
with its conical sandhills covered over by the evergreen juniper whose frag-
rance loaded with a rich aroma the soft breeze as it quietly crept in from
the rippling waters of the lake.
That old lake shore, fashioned as God had made it by His winds and
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waves for ten thousand vears before, had more charms for me than since
the defacing hand of man has builded there broad avenues and great marble
palaces, which are as far beneath the works of nature's Architect, as man
himself is beneath Him who made all things well.
I thought that then a romantic place fit for the mating of native lovers,
in which to say soft words, and I felt assured that it was so thought by
them when once I was called upon to unite in wedlock there a happy pair,
whose ambition it was to conform to the white man's mode in that solemn
rite, and, as the dusky bride explained, that it might last forever.
As might have been anticipated, neither history nor tradition pretends
to go back to the origin of any of the native tribes who occupied this land
when first explored by civilized man. At that time the country where we
live was principally occupied by the Illinois Indians who were an important
people, who ranged from the Wabash to the Mississippi, and from the Ohio
even to Lake Superior, although there were a great many other tribes occu-
pying the same territory. Their chief location was in Northern Illinois.
Here was their home, and their great metropolis was where Utica now stands,
in La Salle county. There then stood the largest city ever built by northern
natives. It was a delightful place in the bosom of a beautiful valley, and
the city occupied all the intervening space between the river and the bluff,
nearly a mile in extent. Their great cemeteries there testify to the popu-
lousness of the place, even were the testimony of the first discoverers want-
ing. If we do not know of the beginning of any native nation, we are
credibly told of the extinction of this great people, and that, too, within a
century after they were found so populous and so prosperous by the enter-
prising explorers.
Soon after their discovery by La Salle, the great Iroquois confederation,
whose battle fields were strewn with their victims almost from the Atlantic
coast to the Wabash, and from the Great Lakes, and even north of them,
to the Alleghanies and the Ohio, finally extended their enterprises to the
Illinois. With a great slaughter they defeated this hitherto invincible
people, laid waste their great city, and scattered them in broken bands over
their wide domain. From this terrible blow they never recovered. For a
century later they struggled with waning fortunes against northern encroach-
ments, till finalty they were exterminated by the Pottawatomies and the
Ottawas, at Starved Kock, the Fort St. Louis of La Salle, which overlooks
the site of their great city and the scene of their first great defeat and
slaughter by the conquering Iroquois, as I shall- presently relate. There
still stands this high isolated rock as it has stood for thousands of ye ars
gone by, the swift current of the river bathing its feet on one side, its sum-
mit overlooking the broad valley and the many wood-clad islands for many
miles above and below it, fit monument to the great departed who had,
during many long years of peace and security, looked upon its impregnable
heights as a secure refuge in case of disaster. Alas! if it was secure against
the approach of human hands, gaunt famine could scale its ascents and do
its deadly work. There is and ever will be a charm about the place, both
from its own romantic surroundings and the melancholy story of the bloody
scenes it has looked down upon. While the visitor stands upon its native
battlements, silently pondering what has been told him, insensibly his
imagination carries him back to ages long ago, and he thinks he hears the
wail of woe, oft and oftentimes repeated, and then again the song of revelry
and joy sung by those departed long before the white man saw it. The
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ancestors of my ancient friends were responsible for the last sad catastrophe.
The Pottawatomies were a tribe of the great Algonquin confederation,
whose power was so severely felt by the British forces when at war with
France, in the middle of the last century, though we do not know the story
of their individual prowess in that sanguinary warfare.
When Fathers A Hones and Doblon first visited Green Bay, and there
established a mission, just two hundred years ago, they found the Potta-
watomies established on those verdant shores, and this is the first mention
I can find of them in history. That was then their settled home, though
they roamed far away, for they were in the habit of extending their visits
to the shores of Lake Superior. In 1671 they are mentioned as met with
at La Point, on that Lake, by the missionary fathers, not as residents, but
as visitors. At that time they were not known south of the lakes, for when
Joliet and Marquette returned from their discovery of the Mississippi, by
way of the Illinois river; in 1674, they met none of the Pottawatomies here.
In 1675, Marquette, no doubt by invitation of the Illinois Indians,
whom he had met the year before on his return with La Salle from the
Mississippi, came from Green Bay to establish a Mission here. In this
journey he was attended by a party of Illinois Indians, and also by a band
of the Pottawatomies. So far as we know, these were the first of the tribe
who ever saw the country south of Lake Michigan. They coasted the west
side of the lake in open boats or canoes, in the latter part of the season,
when the lake is boisterous and forbidding. It was a perilous and fatig-
uing voyage of four months duration, and sorely tried the endurance of the
zealous missionary. They at last reached Chicago, just as winter was clos-
ing in, and proceeded up the South Branch of the river to where Bridge-
port now stands, and there built a hut, in which the missionary wintered.
After the lonely and tedious winter was passed, he proceeded down the
Illinois River to the great city of the Illinois, below Starved Rock, and
there established the first Mission ever founded in the Illinois country, and
named it Kaskaskia.
How soon after this the Pottawatomies left their old home on Green
Bay, and sought more hospitable regions further south, we are not informed;
nor can we tell whether the emigration was gradual, or if they broke up
all together, but as we find them in their southern homes in different bands,
the probabilities are they left in parties. A portion settled on the Saginaw
Bay, in Michigan, who were subsequently known as the Pottawatomies of
Saginaw, or of Huron. Others descended as far as Detroit, and settled in
that neighborhood. Others found their way to the St. Joseph River, on the
east side of Lake Michigan; and others, it may be presumed, came directly
to Northern Illinois, though it is possible they spread from Michigan into
Illinois. The precise date of these several migrations we cannot give, but
Oragon and Bouquet found them, in the middle of the last century, occupy-
ing the country about Detroit and Fort St. Joseph; and we find no account
of them within the last hundred years and more at Green Bay. From these
explorers we get the first intimation of their numbers, and yet this is of the
most unsatisfactory kind. They set them down at three hundred and fifty;
and Dodge, a quarter of a century later, places them at four hundred and
fifty, while Hutchins places them at a still lower number than the first.
Upon these numbers we can place but little reliance; at best it could have
been but imperfect estimates, including no doubt only those bands whom
they met at Fort St. Joseph and Detroit, without taking into account those
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at Saginaw or in Illinois. We may safely assume, also, that these figures
are designed only to express the number of their warriors, for Sir William
Johnson, who assembled the Algonquin confederation at Niagara in 1763,
informs us, that of the nineteen hundred and thirty warriors there assem-
bled, four hundred and fifty were Pottawatomies, or, according to the old
orthography, Pouteotamies. With them and their associate warriors, Gen-
eral Bradstreet there concluded a treaty which pacified all the Indian tribes
bordering the upper lakes, who had hitherto been such inveterate enemies
to the British Government and the English immigrant. A reasonably con-
ciliatory course with them since, and a moderate share of good faith towards
them, have enabled the Canadas to live with those who resided on the north
shores, in amity in times of peace, and depend upon them as allies in time
of war. The number of warriors representing the Pottawatomies at the
Algonquin convocation at Niagara, shows that the whole tribe must have
been largely in excess of the numbers given by Bouquet and others, and
their report so nearly approximates to the number of warriors at Niagara,
as to convince us at once that they spoke only of their able-bodied men.
Nor is it very probable that all the warriors which the several bands of that
tribe]could furnish, made the long journey to Niagara to attend the coun-
cil. The fact that the Pottawatomies furnished nearly one-fourth of the
representatives in that council of the whole Algonquin confederation, should
convince us of the commanding importance of this tribe in that powerful
association of the Indians, and so were they the last, south of the lakes, as
we shall see, to yield up their place to the irresistible advance of civiliza-
tion.
The fraternal relations existing between the Pottawatomies and the
Ottawas were of the most harmonious character. They lived together
almost as one people, and were joint owners of their hunting grounds.
Their relations were quite as intimate and friendly as among different bands
of the same tribe. Nor were the Chippewas scarcely more strangers to the
Pottawatomies and the Ottawas than the latter were to each other. They
too claimed an interest in the lands occupied, to a certain extent, by all
jointly, so that all three tribes joined in the first treaty for the sale of their
lands ever made to the United States.
Chicago was ever an important point in the estimation of the Potta-
watomies and their associates, and here was the council held which resulted
in that first treaty in 1821, when the three tribes named ceded to the United
States five millions of acres in Michigan.
Since their emigration from the north, a sort of distinction had grown
up among the different bands of the Pottawatomies, arising from their sev-
eral locations, which seem to have stamped upon their tenants distinct
characteristics. Those occupying the forest lands of Michigan and Indiana,
were called by themselves and by the traders the Indians of the Woods,
while those who roamed these great grassy plains were called the Prairie
Indians.
The former were much more susceptible to the influence of civilization
than the latter. They devoted themselves, in a very appreciable degree, to
agriculture, and so supplemented the fruits of the chase very largely in their
support. They welcomed the missionary among them with a warm cordi-
ality. They listened to his teachings, and meekly submitted to his admoni-
tions. They learned by heart the story of our crucified Redeemer, and with
trembling voices recounted to each other the sufferings of the cross. They
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bent the knee and bowed the head reverently in prayer, and raised their
melodious voices in sacred songs taught them by the holy fathers. They
received the sprinklings with holy waters, and partook of the consecrated
elements, believing devoutly in their saving grace. They went to the con-
fessional with downcast looks, and with deep contrition told the story of
their sins, and with a radiant joy received the absolution, which in their
estimation blotted them out forever. Here indeed was a bright field of
promise to those devoted missionaries, who deeply felt that to save one
heathen soul from the awful doom which they believed awaited all those
who died without the bosom of the church, was a rich reward for a whole
life of pinching privation and of severe suffering; and their great ambition
was to gather as many redeemed souls as possible to their account, each of
which should appear as a bright jewel in the crown which awaited them in
that future state to which we are all so rapidly hastening.
It was very different, however, with the Prairie Indians. They
despised the cultivation of the soil as too mean even for their women and
children, and deemed the captures of the chase as the only fit food for a
valorous people. The corn which grew like grass from the earth which
they trod beneath their feet, was not proper meat to feed their greatness.
Nor did they open their ears to the lessons of love and religion tendered
them by those who came among them and sought to do them good. If
they tolerated their presence they did not receive them with the cordiality
evinced by their more eastern brethren. If they listened to their sermons
in respectful silence they did not receive the truths they taught with eager
gladness. Even if they believed for the moment what they were told, i t
made no permanent impression on their thoughts and actions. If they
understood something of the principles of the Christian religion whi ch
were told them, they listened to it as a sort of theory which might be well
adapted to the white man's condition, but was not fitted for them, nor they
for it. They enjoyed the wild roving life of the prairie, and in common
with almost all other native Americans, were vain of their prowess and
manhood, both in war and in the chase. They did not settle down for a
great length of time in a given place, but roamed across the broad prairies,
from one grove or belt of timber to another, either in single families or in
small bands, packing their few effects, their children and infirm on their
little Indian ponies. They always traveled in Indian file upon well beaten
trails, connecting, by the most direct routes, prominent points and trading
posts. These native highways served as guides to our early settlers, who
followed them with as much confidence as we now do the roads laid out
and worked by civilized man.
Northern Illinois was more particularly the possession of the Potta-
watomies, but, as before stated, I have sought in vain for some satisfactory
data to fix the time when they first settled here. They undoubtedly came
in by degrees, and by degrees established themselves, encroaching at first
upon the Illinois tribe, advancing more and more, sometimes by good-
natured tolerance, and sometimes by actual violence. I have the means of
approximating the time when they came into exclusive possession here.
That occured upon the total extinction of the Illinois, which must have
been sometime between 1766 and 1770. Meachelle, the oldest Pottawa-
tomie chief, when I became acquainted with them, thirty-seven years ago,
associated his earliest recollection with their occupancy of the country.
His recollection extended back to that great event in Indian history, the
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siege of Starved Rock and final extinction of the Illinois tribe of Indians,
which left his people the sole possessors of the land. He was present at
the siege and the final catastrophe, and although a boy at the time, the
terrible event made such an impression on his young mind, that it ever
remained fresh and vivid. I am indebted to Mr. William Hickling for
assisting my memory on a point so important.
The death of Pontiac, the great Ottawa chief, occured in 1766. He
was the idol of his own people, and was beloved and obeyed scarcely less
by the Pottawatomies. They believed that the Illinois Indians were at
least accessory to his murder, and so held them responsible, and conse-
quently the Ottawas and Pottawatomies united all their forces in an attack
upon those whose deadly enemies they had now become. I am not satis-
fied that their previous relations had been those of cordial friendship, but
if the peace had not been broken by open war there was that bad blood
existing between them which must have arisen between those who were
making and those who were suffering encroachments.
The Illinois Indians never fully recovered from the great calamity,
which they had suffered a century before at the hands of the Iroquois.
By that their spirit and their courage seemed broken, and they submitted
to encroachments, from the north by their more enterprising neighbors,
with an ill grace, no doubt, but without protecting their rights by force of
arms, as they would have done in former times, and sought to revenge
themselves upon those upon whom they looked as their actual enemies in
an underhand and treacherous way.
In the war thus waged by the allies against the Illinois, the latter
suffered disaster after disaster till the sole remnants of that once proud
nation, whose name had been mentioned with respect from Lake Superior
to the mouth of the Ohio,' and from the Mississippi to the Wabash, now
found sufficient space upon the half acre of ground which crowns .the
summit of Starved Rock. As its sides are perpendicular, except on the
south where it may be ascended with difficulty by a sort of natural stair-
way, where some of the steps are a yard high and but a few inches wide,
and not more than two can ascend abreast, ten men could repel ten
thousand with the means of warfare then at their command. The allies
made no attempt to take the for! by storm, but closely besieged it on every
side. On the north or river side, the upper rock overhangs the water
somewhat, and tradition tells us how the confederates placed themselves in
canoes under the shelving rock and cut the thongs of the besieged when
they lowered their vessels to obtain water from the river, and so reduced
them by thirst, but Meachelle, so far as I know, never mentioned this as
one of the means resorted to by the confederates to reduce their enemies,
nor from an examination of the ground do I think this probable, but they
depended upon a lack of provisions, which we can readily appreciate must
soon occur to a savage people, who rarely anticipate the future in storing
up supplies. Xo improvident people could have subsisted long in such a
place. How long they did hold out Meachelle did not and probably could
not tell us ; but at last the time came when the unfortunate remnant could
hold out no longer. They awaited but a favorable opportunity to attempt
their escape. This was at last afforded by a dark and stormy night, when
led by their few remaining warriors, all stole in profound silence down the
steep and narrow declivity to be met by a solid wall of their enemies
surrounding the point where alone a sortie could be made, and which had
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been confidently expected. The horrid scene that ensued can be better
imagined than described. No quarter was asked or given. For a time the
bowlings of the tempest were drowned by the yells of the combatants and
the shrieks of the victims.
Desperation lends strength to even enfeebled arms, but no efforts of
valor could resist the overwhelming numbers, actuated by the direst hate.
The braves fell one by one, righting like very fiends, and terribly did they
revenge themselves upon their enemies. The few women and children
whom famine had left but enfeebled skeletons, fell easy victims to the war-
clubs of the terrible savages, who deemed it as much a duty and almost as
great a glory to slaughter the emaciated women and the helpless children
as to strike down the men who were able to make resistance with arms in
their hands. They were bent upon the utter extermination of their hated
enemies, and most successfully did they bend their savage energies to the
bloody task.
Soon the victims were stretched upon the sloping ground south and
west of the impregnable rock, their bodies lying stark upon the sand which
had been thrown up by the prairie winds. The wails of the feeble and the
strong had ceased to fret the night winds whose mournful sighs through
the neighboring pines sounded like a requiem. Here was enacted the
fitting finale to that work of death which had been commenced, scarcely a
miie away, a century before by the still more savage and terrible Iroquois.
Still, all were not destroyed. Eleven of the most athletic warriors, in
the darkness and confusion of the fight, broke through the besieging lines.
They had marked well from their high perch on the isolated rock, the little
nook below, where their enemies had moored at least a part of their canoes,
and to these they rushed with headlong speed, unnoticed by their foes.
Into these they threw themselves, and hurried down the rapids below.
They had been trained to the use of the paddle and the canoe, and knew
well every intricacy of the channel, so that they could safely thread it, even
in the dark and boisterous night. They knew their deadly enemies would
soon be in their wake, and that there was no safe refuge for them short of
St. Louis. They had no provisions to sustain their waning strength, and
yet it was certain death to stop by the way. Their only hope was in
pressing forward by night and by day, without a moment's pause, scarcely
looking back, yet ever fearing that their pursuers would make their appear-
ance around the point they had last left behind. It was truly a race for
life. If they could reach St Louis, they were safe ; if overtaken, there
was no hope. We must leave to the imagination the details of a race
where the stake was so momentous to the contestants. As life is sweeter
even than revenge, we may safely assume that the pursued were impelled
to even greater exertions than the pursuers. Those who ran for life won
the race. They reached St. Louis before their enemies came in sight, and
told their appalling tale to the commandant of the fort, from whom they
received assurances of protection, and were generously supplied with food,
which their famished condition so much required. This had barely been
done when their enemies arrived, and fiercely demanded their victims, that
no drop of blood of their hated enemies might longer circulate in human
veins. This was refused, when they retired with impotent threats of
future vengeance, which they never had the means of executing.
After their enemies had gone, the Illinois, who never after even
claimed that name, thanked their entertainers, and, full of sorrow, which
210 HISTORY OF LA SAJLLE COUNTY.
no words can express, they slowly paddled their way across the river, to
seek new friends among the tribes who then occupied the southern part of
this State, and who would listen with sympathy to the sad tale they had to
relate. They alone remained — the broken remnant and last representatives
of their once great nation. Their name, even, now must be blotted out
from among the names of the aboriginal tribes. Henceforth they must
cease to be of the present, and could only be remembered as a part of the
past. This is the last we know of the last of the Illinois. They were
once a great and a prosperous people, as advanced and as humane as any
of the aborigines around them ; we do not know that a drop of their blood
now animates a human being, but their name is perpetuated jn this great
State, of whose record of the past all of us feel so proud, and of whose
future the hopes of us all are so sanguine.
Till the morning light revealed that the canoes were gone, the confed-
erates believed that their sanguinary work had been so thoroughly done
that not a living soul remained. So soon as the escape was discovered, the
pursuit was commenced, but as we have seen, without success. The pur-
suers returned disappointed and dejected that their enemies' scalps were
not hanging from their belts. But surely blood enough had been spilled —
vengeance should have been more than satisfied.
I have failed, no doubt, to properly render Meachelle's account of this
sad drama, for I have been obliged to use my own language, without the
inspiration awakened in him by the memory of the scene which served as
his first baptism in blood. Who can wonder that it made a lasting impres-
sion on his youthful mind? Still, he was not fond of relating it, nor would
he speak of it except to those who had acquired his confidence and intimacy.
It is probably the only account to be had related by an eye-witness, and we
may presume that it is the most authentic, and may weff deserve preserva-
tion, and so may be worthy of a place in the archives of this Society, whose
proper mission it is to gather up and bring to light whatever still remains to
be gathered from the memories of those who are fast fading away, of scenes
whose theatre was the land we live in, and of peoples who once occupied this
territory. The few dim lights still remaining will soon be put out, and
darkness and oblivion must shroud forever all that is then unrecorded.
This great event in Indian history secured to the Pottawatomies all the
territory then belonging to the Illinois, and the exclusive right to which
was undisputed by other tribes. It extended their possessions to the lands
of the Peorias on Peoria lake. They occupied to the Wabash as far south
as Danville and even beyond. On the other side they occupied to the Rock
river, though their right to a strip of land on the east side of that river was
disputed by the Sac and Fox Indians who ranged the prairies west of there
and beyond the Mississippi. They extended north into Wisconsin as far as
Milwaukee, though their northern boundary was never well defined, but
their friendly relations with the Chippewas prevented this from ever becom-
ing a source of disagreement between them. After the extermination of
the Illinois, their general condition was that of peace, and I have learned of
few incidents since worthy of record. As before intimated they had a per-
petual difficulty with the Sacs and Foxes about the lands bordering on the
east side of Rock river, and when the braves of the contestants met on the
disputed territory they fought it out, but I have not learned that the war
was often carried beyond the contested grounds, though the eastern bound-
ary of these was quite undefined.
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As a tribe, the Pottawatomies may not have taken an active part against
the United States in the war of 1812, yet it is certain that many of their
young chiefs and braves did so. On this subject they were extremely reti-
cent. At one time, when riding over the prairie south of Blue Island, in
1833, with Billy Caldwell, when the old chief, as usual, was answering my
questions about the past and what portion of the country he had visited, as
it seemed inadvertently, he commenced giving an account of an expedition
of the British from Canada across to Ohio, of which he and a number of
his warriors formed a part, but he had hardly got them landed on our
shores, when he seemed to remember that I was an American and that it
was better not to enlighten me further on the subject, and he broke off sud-
denly, nor could I by any means prevail upon him to return to the subject.
During the Black Hawk war, as it was called, in 1832, as a people they
remained loyal to the United States, but it was with great difficulty that
many of the young men kept from participating in the affray with the Sacs
and Foxes. But the part they acted in that affair may be found in the
written history of the times.
Chicago was ever a favorite resort of the Pottawatomies. Here they
chose to hold their great councils, and here they concluded the last treaty
with our Government as they had the first, as I have already stated, twelve
years before. This last treaty was held in 1833, and I was a daily attend-
ant upon the deliberations of the council. By this time the Ottawas and
the Pottawatomies had become so blended and intermixed that thev had
become practically one people, and were generally designated by the latter
name. I do not remember the number of Indians in town at the time of
the treaty, but the assemblage was by no means confined to the chiefs who
participated in the deliberations. There were certainly several thousand
natives here, who were supplied with regular rations of beef and flour by
the Government, and it was manifest that they were quite willing to pro-
tract the conference so long as these should last. At the close of each
important deliberation, especially if much progress seemed to have been
made, a keg of twisted plug tobacco was rolled into the council house, the
staves cut in the middle with an ax, and the chiefs told to help themselves.
This was accompanied with a box of white clay pipes. They helped them-
selves with great decorum, and even some ceremony.
By this last treaty, concluded at Chicago, in 1833, the Indians dis-
posed of all their remaining lands to the United States, except some specific
reservations to some of their chiefs, and agreed to remove to a limited loca-
tion assigned them west of the Missouri river. When the treaty was finally
concluded and the presents all distributed, and no more rations served out,
they gradually dispersed till only those who resided in and about Chicago
remained. For two years longer this people continued among us, subsist-
ing as they had done before, nothing worthy of note, so far as I know,
occurring in the meantime.
In 1835, and for the last time, the whole assembled at Chicago, to
receive their annuity from the Government, and to make their final start
for their new home. I was absent at the time of their assemblage, and
have no means of stating at what date they began to make their appearance
in the town, for now Cnicago had really begun to present an appearance
which would well justify the name. Here for the first time, many who had
through their whole lives been in the habit of visiting this favorite location,
when the rank grass grew waist high where the Tremont and the Sherman
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houses now stand, must have been deeply impressed with the marks of civil-
ization vastly more extensive than any they had ever seen before or been
able to comprehend. It assured them, and they comprehended it, that they
were already strangers in their native land. That a mightier race had
come, so far their superior that they must fade away before it. It is
emphatically true of all our American Indians, that they cannot exist, mul-
tiply, and prosper in the light of civilization. Here their physical vigor
fails, their reproductive powers diminish, their spirit and their very vitality
dwindle out, and no philanthropy, no kindness, no fostering care, of gov-
ernment, of societies, or of individuals, can save them from an inevitable
doom. They are plainly the sick man of America; with careful nursing
and the kindest care, we may prolong his stay among us for a few years,
but he is sick of a disease which can never be cured except by isolating him
from civilization, and remanding him to nature's wildness, which in truth
has more charms in many cases for even the white man, than the refine-
ments and the restraints of the white man's mode of life. Our tastes for
these are the results of artificial training, and our tendency is constantly to
relapse to a wilder life in the woods and in the mountains. The bivouac
of the soldier has a charm to which he often recurs with animated pleasure.
The camp-fire of the hunter has a fascination which he who has enjoyed it
can never forget. And in our earliest childhood we showed our natural
tastes and inclinations by listening to stories of these, with more avidity
than any other. Mayne Reid built his hopes on this juvenile taste, which
he knew was stronger than any other, when he wrote his charming stories
which have made his name so popular, 3 r es, and so dear, too, to the rising
generation. Accounts of huntings and fishings, of living in the woods and
in the plains, or in some sweet little nook at the foot of the mountain, down
which the babbling brook comes from the melted snows far above, and where
nature in her unbroken beauty and her sublimity reigns around in her
supreme silence, and there is no mark and no sound of civilization near, —
these have fascinations for even the white race as well, which are entirely
wanting in the most glowing accounts of cathedrals, and palaces, and pic-
tures, descriptions of which fail to interest those whose tastes have not been
cultivated up to their full appreciation. If a love of nature in her wildest
moods and scenes be a relic of barbaric taste, which civilization has failed
to eradicate, then to that extent, at least, I am a savage still.
This tendency in the white race to revert to what we may term the
natural tastes, is strongly manifested, whenever we see one taken in infancy
and brought up among savages. Almost always he is the greatest savage
of them all, notwithstanding the hereditary influence through many gen-
erations of those cultivated tastes and habits which distinguish the civilized
man from the savage. This observation may not be confined to the case
cited, although that is perhaps the most convincing of this tendency to
revert to the savage state. We often see cases where men have grown to
maturity in the midst of civilized society, uniting themselves with the
native tribes, and enjoying that life better than the former, and choosing to
spend their days with their new found friends, although it involves a sacri-
fice of all those ties which so strongly bind us to friends and kindred and
early associations. In such cases we rarely find them practicing those arts
which they had early learned, or those habits of industry which is the dis-
tinguishing characteristic of civilized man. It is undoubtedly true, in these
latter cases, that he who becomes a savage after puberty, has an exceptional
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inclination to revert to the wild state; still the number is so considerable as
to show us that civilization has not been so long continued as to wholly
change our natures, and that it is almost, if not entirely, artificial.
I think the facts will warrant the conclusion that this tendency to
reversion is much stronger in the male than the female. In the few
instances where the white female has been reared in savage life, and has
then been reclaimed, she has more readily conformed to civilized habits,
and has shown less longing for the wild scenes among which she was
reared; and when she has been introduced to savage life after maturity,
she seems always happy to escape it. In observing this fact, however, we
ought not to forget that the harder lot of the female among savage peoples
may tend to make her more willing to escape from what is really a state of
bondage and servitude, than with the man, who is in every sense an equal,
or, from his higher intellectual endowments, may most likely occupy a
superior position.
Reverse the state of things, and how rarely do we find the savage ever
civilized. In the numerous instances where the savage infant has been
removed from the influences and allurements of his ancestors, and reared
entirely among us, and taught all that civilization and Christianity could
teach him, but very few have been wholly weaned from the tastes and
inclinations which they have inherited from their savage ancestors. Some
notable and brilliant exceptions are no doubt to be met with, but they are
so rare as to inspire rather our remark and admiration than a well
grounded hope that we can ever succeed in reclaiming them as a people.
The native American is in some respects a proud and a sensitive
being, and is not wanting in reflective powers. When brought in contact
with civilization, he recognizes his inferiority, and appreciates his inability
ever to overcome it. He feels that he cannot live with the stranger, except
as an inferior, and, inspired by his native pride, he would rather cease to
be than to do this. He appreciates his inevitable doom. He ceases to
hope, and then comes despair, which contributes more than all else to
hasten the result which he foresees. While all have seen from the begin-
ning that the aborigines melt away and die out before the advance of
civilization, in spite of the most humane efforts to produce a different
result, we may not have appreciated all the causes which have contributed
to this end. Those which have been the most readily understood, because
the most patent, are the vices and diseases and poisonous drinks which
the white race has introduced among them from the very first. If these
were the only causes we might deem it possible, by municipal regulations,
to remove them. While this would be a great boon which civilization
undoubtedly owes to the original owners of the soil where we are so
rapidly expanding into a great nation, I am satisfied it would not secure
the great end which philanthrophy must most ardently desire. Still they
would not amalgamate with civilization, nor become civilized as a separate
people. They can only live and prosper and multiply by continuing as
their ancestors have lived, in a wild state, roaming over large areas sparsely
populated, depending upon what they can secure of nature's raising,
and when their numbers become too great for subsistence upon such
supplies, they must become reduced by wars, disease or famine.
The views I have suggested, of the effect upon the mind and the
sensibilities of the Indian, which is produced by his observations of
advancing civilization as it intrudes upon him, and its reflected influence
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upon his physical organization, I think well illustrated and confirmed by
the observations of Mr. Sproat in his "Scenes and Studies of Savage Life."
He employed a large number of natives about his saw-mills at Barclay
Sound, on Vancouver's Island. Here the natives were settled around him
in comfortable dwellings with their families, and worked promiscuously
with the white laborers. The strictest temperance was enforced through-
out the settlement, and no violence was permitted toward the natives, but
they were treated with the utmost kindness and fairness. They were well
fed, well clothed, and carefully taught. Here they were surrounded with
all the best influences of civilization, and as few of the vices as we may
expect to find, when the red man is brought in contact with the white. '
For a time all seemed to go on well, and the experiment promised a
success. At length, however, a change became observable, especially
among the Indians who lived nearest the white settlements. A few of the
sharpest of the young natives had become offensively European, as he calls
it, but the mass of the Indians had ceased to visit the settlement in their
free, easy and independent way, but lived listlessly in their villages, brood-
ing seemingly over heavy thoughts. They seemed to have acquired a
distrust, nay, almost a disgust for themselves. At first they had looked
upon mills and machinery, upon steamships and upon great houses, indeed
upon all the wonderful works of the new comer, with curiosity and interest,
but now, with distrust, with disgust, and even with despair; the effect of
this despair was now manifest. They even began to abandon their old
tribal habits, practices and ceremonies. Presently, without any apparent
cause, an unusual amount of sickness was observed among them, and the
death-rate was largely increased, and so continued during the five years
that our author remained among them. Nobody molested them. Not-
withstanding all their comforts and all the care bestowed upon them they
sunk into a gradual but sure decay.
The light of civilization instead of warming them into new life
seemed to bring a blight upon them; they felt that they were an inferior
race. They lacked the energy, and therefore the ability, to become and
live as civilized men, and their proud hearts were crushed at the thoughts
of living with the white race as inferiors and therefore a degraded race,
and then necessarily followed disgust and despair, and then came disease
and death.
Had they lacked that lofty pride and that love of independence which
are so marked a characteristic of our Indians, they might have enjoyed the
comforts which civilization brought them, without mortification at the
consciousness of living as inferiors among a superior race. But no kind-
ness, no assistance, no proffered recognition of equality, could hide from
their view that they were and must be inferiors, while they could in
contentment brook no superiors in fact.
In several cases advanced aboriginal Indian tribes, have by act of
Congress been declared citizens and endowed with all the rights and
privileges of citizenship. Still they were conscious of their inability to
properly exercise and enjoy those rights and privileges. They knew they
could not exercise the franchise side by side with the white man, with the
same degree of intelligence and judgment, and so they scorned to use it.
Perhaps it would have been better for them could they have ignored the
real distinction which existed between them and the white race, and per-
suaded themselves, or been persuaded by others, that they were the equals
HISTOKY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 217
of any. They had too much shrewdness to be thus blinded, and so they
recognized a truth which another disposition would have concealed from
them, and submitted to what seemed to be a fate, in a sort of reckless,
sullen silence, at least till a possible opportunity should occur for striking a
blow, though it might be an expiring one, for what they believed existence ;
and if not for existence then for revenge — if not for the future then for the
past.
Laying aside what all must recognize as palpable evils introduced
among them, as fraud, whisky, and demoralization, there is, upon a deeper
look beneath the surface, a fatal difficulty which all the kindness and
service which civilization, philanthropy and Christianity can render them
cannot overcome.
The proud and haughty chieftain clearly sees in the coming of the
stranger, and in his proffered kindness, the unavoidable degradation of his
people from that lofty estate of proud independence which his forefathers
maintained, and that at last, after being driven from their envied inheri-
tance, and finding no place of rest but in the grave itself, their final extinc-
tion from the face of the earth. It is a sad picture, and yet it stands out
before us in the light of the past as if painted on the wall before us by the
Divine finger. We may not deny that the sacrifice is necessary to promote
the greatest good to the greatest number, but surely we may heave a sigh
of sympathy for the victim whose immolation is necessary to carry out
even a Divine plan. And so may we have some compassion for him if, in his
death-throes, he manifests his savage and untamable nature. If it was his
misfortune to be born a savage, with no rights which the white man is
bound to respect, then it was his misfortune also to be born with a nature
which renders him incapable of civilization, a lofty desire for independ-
ence, a profound detestation for everything like servitude, a deep-seated
sentiment of revenge, and, above all, a total inability to appreciate how it
is that he has no rights which he may call his own, and which even a
superior race should regard.
We must admit that even our boasted civilization has its strange
phases, and sometimes its manifest inconsistencies. We repeat the maxim
that might makes right always with reproach, and yet act upon it when-
ever the public weal is supposed to recjuire it. Perhaps the truest and the
best justification we can plead for insisting upon taking the lands of the
aborigines whenever we wish them, using no more force than is necessary
to accomplish what we deem necessary — whether the owner is willing to
sell them or not — is that a few useless savages, who can do no good for the
world at large, and little good even for themselves, must not stand in the
way of the march of civilization ; that God made the earth and all that is
upon it for His own honor and glory, and that both they and we are but
tenants at His will; and that it is His undoubted right, whenever in His
good pleasure He sees fit, to eject those who in His estimation do Him no
honor, and replace them by those who may contribute more to His glory
and that thus He is working out His great scheme conceived from the be-
ginning of all time. I say, if we can but thus console ourselves that in
what, to the superficial observer seems to be spoiliations of the weak by the
strong, we are but instruments in the hands of the Almighty to work out
His great purposes and to execute His solemn decrees, then, indeed, we
may feel that we have washed our hands in innocency. For myself, 1 have
never been a very ardent believer in what is sometimes called special mis-
218 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
sions, and merely suggest this as the most plausible justification which I
have ever been able to contrive. Still, I do believe that my old friends
did not see it exactly in that light when they turned their backs upon
Chicago, the .scene of so many of their grave councils and of their happy
gatherings — when they looked for the last time upon the ever bright waters
of the lake, and bent their slow and reluctant steps to a land of which they
knew not, and in which they would be strangers; and yet there were old
men among them who could have told them that their fathers had with
bloodier hands expelled another nation who had occupied the land before
them, and that no doubt the title had been thus transferred many times,
the conveyance always sealed by the blood of the last owner.
At this last gathering of the tribe at Chicago the total number of souls
was about five thousand. While here they were well fed by the Govern-
ment; and when they went they were removed by the Government under
the charge of the late Captain Russell. By him they were transported to
their new home on a reservation assigned them by the Government in
Clay county. Missouri, opposite Fort Leavenworth. Almost from the
beginning a feeling of hostility was manifested towards them by the citzens
of Missouri, which finally resulted, at the end of two years, in another re-
moval by the Government, when they were located in Iowa, near Council
Bluffs. Here, again, their home was of short duration, and they were
removed a third time by the Government to their present location in Kan-
sas, where they have remained for over thirty years. This reservation,
however, they have now sold, and they are about to remove for a fourth
time within little more than a third of a century. Their new location is in
the Indian country south and west of Kansas. How long: it will be before
the pressure of advancing civilization will again push them on in search of
a new home, we cannot certainly predict. We may safely say, however,
that it cannot be very long. We may scarcely hope that they will ever
find a quiet resting place above the earth.
In their Kansas home, the Indians of the woods have continued to
manifest their greater adaptability to conform to the habits of civilized life.
They have there subsisted to a large extent by agriculture. Some progress
has been made in teaching them in schools, and the influence of religion
still exerts its sway over them, or at least their religious teachers still com-
mand their attention and respect. Out of seventeen hundred and fifty of
which this band still consisted, according to the last report which I have
seen, sixteen hundred are represented as subsisting by agriculture.
The prairie Indians yet remain as wild and untamable as ever. They
are still averse to the labors of the field, and enjoy the life pf indolence, or
else the excitement of the chase, by which and their annuities from the
Government they eke out a scanty subsistence. The finger of fate seems
to be pointed alike at the most civilized and the most savage. Final ex-
tinction is the end of the way down which all are swiftly rushing, and it
would seem almost practicable to calculate with mathematical certainty the
day when they will live only in memory and in history.
They left Illinois thirty -live years ago with five thousand souls. At
the date of the last report they had dwindled down to three thousand five
hundred, and at this moment their numbers can scarcely exceed three
thousand. From this each one may calculate for himself when the last day
shall have passed — when there will be no living representative of that pow-
erful people who but a century ago exterminated a nation at a single blow
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 219
at Starved Rock. The last of the Pottawatamies will then have ceased to be.
I shall close this paper with an account of the great war-dance which
was performed by all the braves which could be mustered among the five
thousand Indians here assembled. The number who joined in the dance
was probably about eight hundred. Although I cannot give the precise
day, it must have occurred about the last of August, 1835. It was the last
war-dance ever performed by the natives on the ground where now stands
this great city, though how many thousand had preceded it no one can tell.
They appreciated that it was the last on their native soil — that it was a
sort of funeral ceremony of old associations and memories, and nothing
was omitted to lend to it all the grandeur and solemnity possible. Truly,
I thought it an impressive scene of which it is quite impossible to give an
adequate idea by words alone.
They assembled at the council-house, near where the Lake House now
stands, on the north side of the river. All were entirely naked, except a
strip of cloth around the loins. Their bodies were covered all over with a
great variety of brilliant paints. On their faces, particularly, the} 7 seem to
have exhausted their art of hideous decoration. Foreheads, cheeks, and
noses, were covered with curved stripes of red or vermilion, which were
edged with black points, and gave the appearance of a horrid grin over the
entire countenance. The long, coarse, black hair was gathered into scalp-
locks on the top of their heads, and decorated with a profusion of hawks'
and eagles' feathers, some^ strung together so as to extend down the back
nearly to the ground. They were principally armed with tomahawks
and war clubs. They were led by what answered for a band of music,
which created what may be termed a discordant din of hideous noises, pro-
duced by beating on hollow vessels and striking sticks and clubs together.
They advanced, not with a regular march, but a continued dance. Their
actual progress was quite slow. They proceeded up and along the bank of
the river, on the north side, stopping in front of every house they passed,
where they performed some extra exploits. They crossed the North Branch
on the old bridge, which stood near where the railroad bridge now stands,
and thence proceeded south along the west side to the bridge across the
South Branch, which stood south of where Lake street bridge is now located,
which was nearly in front and in full view from the parlor windows of
Sauganash Hotel. At that time this was the rival hotel to the Tremont,
and stood upon the same ground lately occupied by the great Republican
wigwam where Mr. Lincoln was nominated for the presidency — on the
corner of Lake and Market streets. It was then a fashionable boarding
house, and quite a number of young married people had rooms there. The
parlor was in the second story fronting west, from the windows of which
the best view of the dance was to be obtained, and these were filled with
ladies so soon as the dance commenced. From this point of view my own
observations were principally made. Although the din and clatter had been
heard for a considerable time, they did not come into view from this point
of observation till they had proceeded so far west as to come on a line
with the house, which was before they had reached the North Branch
bridge. From that time on they were in full view all the way to the South
Branch bridge, which was nearly before us, the wild band, which was in
front as they came upon the bridge, redoubling their blows to increase the
noise, closely followed by the warriors, who had now wrought themselves
into a perfect frenzy.
220 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
The morning was very warm, and the perspiration was pouring from
them almost in streams. Their eyes were wild and bloodshot. Their
countenances had assumed an expression of all the worst passions which
can find a place in the breast of a savage — fierce anger, terrible hate, dire
revenge, remorseless cruelty — all were expressed in their terrible features.
Their muscles stood out in great hard knots, as if wrought to a tension
which must burst them. Their tomahawks and clubs were thrown and
brandished about in every direction, with the most terrible ferocity, and
with a force and energy which could only result from the highest excite-
ment, and with every step and every gesture, they uttered the most
frightful yells, in every imaginable key and note, though generally the
highest and shrillest possible. The dance, which was ever continued, con-
sisted of leaps and spasmodic steps, now forward and now back or sideways,
with the whole body distorted into every imaginable unnatural position,
most generally stooping forward, with the head and face thrown up, the
back arched down, first one foot thrown far forward and then withdrawn,
and the other similarly thrust out, frequently squatting quite to the ground,
and all with a movement almost as quick as lightning. The ir weapons
were brandished as if they would slay a thousand enemies at every blow,
while the yells and screams they uttered were broken up and multiplied
and rendered all the more hideous by a rapid clapping of the mouth with
the palm of the hand.
To see such an exhibition by a single individual would have been
sufficient to excite a sense of fear in a person not over nervous. Eight
hundred such, all under the influence of the strongest and wildest excite-
ment, constituting a raging sea of dusky, painted, naked fiends, presented
a spectacle absolutely appalling.
When the head of the column had reached the front of the hotel,
leaping, dancing, gesticulating and screaming, while they looked up at the
windows with hell itself depicted on their faces at the "cliemokomarb
squaws" with which they were filled, and brandishing their weapons as if
they were about to make a real attack in deadly earnest, the rear was still
on the other side of the river, two hundred yards off ; and all the inter-
vening space, including the bridge and its approaches, was covered with
this raging savagerv glistening in the sun, reeking with streamv sweat,
fairly frothing at their mouths as with unaffected rage, it seemed as it we
had a picture of hell itself before us, and a carnival of the damned spirits
there confined, whose pastimes we may suppose should present some such
scenes as this.
At this stage of the spectacle, I was interested to observe the effect it
had upon the different ladies who occupied the windows almost within
reach of the war clubs in the hands of the excited savages just below them.
Most of them had become accustomed to the sight of the naked savages
during the several weeks they had occupied the town, and had even seen
them in the dance before, for several minor dances had been previously
performed, but this far excelled in the horrid anything which they had
previously witnessed. Others, however, had but just arrived in town, and
had never seen an Indian before the last few days, and knew nothing of
our wild western Indians but what they had learned of their savage butch-
eries and tortures in legends and in histories. To those most familiar
with them, the scenes seemed actually appalling, and but few stood it
through and met the fierce glare of the savage eyes below them without
m > x
:
a.
Sha
BBONA
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 223
shrinking. It was a place to try the human nerves of even the stoutest,
and all felt that one such sight was enough for a lifetime. The question
forced itself on even those who had seen them most, what if they should,
in their maddened frenzy, turn this sham warfare into a real attack \ how
easy it would be for them to massacre us all, and leave not a living soul to
tell the story. Some such remark as this was often heard, and it was not
strange if the cheeks of all paled at the thought of such a possibility.
However, most of them stood it bravely, and saw the sight to the very end ;
but I think all felt relieved when the last had disappeared around the
corner as they passed down Lake street, and only those horrid sounds
which reached them told that the war dance was still progressing. They
paused in their progress, for extra exploits, in front of Dr. Temple's house,
on the corner of Lake and Franklin streets, then in front of the Exchange
Coffee House, a little further east on Lake street ; and then again in front
of the Tremont, then situate on the north-west corner of Lake and Dear-
born streets, where the appearance of the ladies in the windows again
inspired them with new life and energy. From thence they passed down
to Fort Dearborn, where they concluded their performance in the presence
of the officers and soldiers of the garrison, where we will take a final leave
of my old friends, with more good wishes for their future welfare than
I really dare hope will be realized.
MEMOEIES OF SHABBONA.
This celebrated Indian chief, whose portrait appears in this work,
deserves more than a passing notice. Although Shabbona was not so con-
spicuous as Tecumseh or Black Hawk, yet in point of merit he was superior
to either of them.
Shabbona was born at an Indian village on the Kankakee River, now
in Will county, about the year 1775. While young he was made chief of
the band, and went to Shabbona Grove, now De Kalb County, where they
were found in the early settlement of the county.
In the war of 1812 Shabbona with his warriors joined Tecumseh, was
aid to that great chief, and stood by his side when he fell at the battle of
the Thames. At the time of the Winnebago war, in 1827, he visited almost
every village among the Pottawatomies, and by his persuasive arguments
prevented them from taking part in the war. By request of the citizens of
Chicago, Shabbona, accompanied by Billy Caldwell (Sauganash), visited
Big Foot's village at Geneva Lake, in order to pacify the warriors, as fears
were entertained that they were about to raise the tomahawk against the
whites. Here Shabbona was taken prisoner by Big Foot, and his life
threatened, but on the following day was set at liberty. From that time
the Indians (through reproach) styled him "the white man's friend,"
and many times his life was endangered.
Before the Black Hawk War, Shabbona met in council at two differ-
ent times, and by his influence prevented his people from taking part with
the Sacs and Foxes. After the death of Black Partridge and Senachwine,
no chief among the Pottawatomies exerted so much influence as Shabbona.
Black Hawk, aware of this influence, visited him at two different times, in
order to enlist him in his cause, but was unsuccessful. While Black Hawk
was a prisoner at Jefferson Barracks, lie said, had it not been for Shabbona
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224 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
the whole Pottawatomie nation would have joined his standard, and he
could have continued the war for years.
To Shabbona many of the', early settlers of this county owe the pres-
ervation of their lives, for it is a well-known fact, had he not notified the
people of their danger, a large portion of them, like those on Indian Creek,
would have fallen victims to the tomahawk of savages. By saving the lives
of whites he endangered his own, for the Sacs and Foxes threatened to kill
him, and made twofattempts to execute their threats. They killed Py-
peogee, his son, and Pyps, his nephew, and hunted him down as though he
was a wild beast.
Shabbona had a reservation of two sections of land at his Grove, but
by leaving it andf going west for a short time, the Government declared the
reservation r forfeited, and sold it the same as other vacant land. On Shab-
bona's return, and finding his possessions gone, he was very sad and
broken down in spirit, and left the Grove forever. The citizens of Ottawa
raised money and bought him a tract of land on the Illinois River, above
Seneca, in Grundy County, on which they built a house, and supplied him
with means to live on. He lived here until his death, which occurred on
the 17th of July, 1859, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and was buried
with great pomp in the cemetery at Morris. His squaw, Pokanoka, was
drowned in Mazen Creek, Grundy County, on the 30th of November, 1864,
and was buried by his side.
In 1861 subscriptions were taken up in many of the river towns, to
erect a monument over the remains of Shabbona, but, the war breaking
out, the enterprise was abandoned. Only a plain marble slab marks the
resting-place of this friend of the white man.
THE GEOLOGY OF LA SALLE^COUNTY.
BY JOHN W. HUETT.
/ (In this article n stands for north; e east, &c.)
Geology has for its object a description of the structure of our earth
and of the character and arrangement of the materials of which it is com-
posed. This embraces a description of the rocks forming its outside or sur-
face, of the fossils — remains of animals and plants — shells, teeth, bones, stems,
leaves, etc., which they contain, and of the ores and minerals found in them.
In the language of Geology all the material of our globe is termed rock,
whether hard like limestone and granite, or soft and tenacious like clay, or
loose and not cohering, like sand.
All rocks are divided into two great classes, unstratified or lying in
vast irregular masses; stratified, — arranged in layers or strata. The strati-
fied roeks are divided intofossiliferous, — containing fossils; unfossiliferous,
containing- no fossils. Most of the rocks of the Central Plain are of the
stratified class. It must not be understood, however, that these strata are
of diflerent origin. The unstratified rocks can frequently be traced to
points where they are found to be stratified. Hence we are justified in
assuming that their present condition is not their original state, but has been
produced by causes acting upon them at some time since their formation.
The different strata of rocks differ much from one another. Some are
very hard and tough, others soft, and some hard and brittle. They are also
of very different colors, and vary greatly in mineral character. They belong
generally to one of three classes. Calcareous or limerocks — limestones;
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
225
arenaceous or sandy rocks — sandstones, and argillaceous or clay rocks —
slates and clay shales. Slates are rocks splitting into thin slabs, having a
smooth surface; shales are those splitting up into very thin irregular pieces.
Some shales are arenaceous and sometimes limestones are found in this form.
The rocks are divided into formations or groups, according to the fos-
sils which they contain, and these formations, also called " ages," are sub-
divided into periods. The following table will give a better idea of these
groups and their relations than any description can. It is taken from
Dana's Manual of Geology, 2d Ed., p. 142, and is the system of the !N". Y.
State Survey, with some slight changes.
AGE.
FORMA-
TION.
PERIOD.
EPOCH.
REMARKS.
LA SALLE CO. EQUIVALENT.
Age of
Man.
Quartern.
ary.
Terrace,
Champlain,
Glacial.
These strata con-
sist of sand,
gravels and
clays, contain-
ing boulders.
Well represented in La Salle
County, from feet to 60 feet
thick.
Age of
Mam-
mals.
Tertiary.
Tertiary.
Pliocene,
Miocene,
Eocene.
Clays, marls and
limestones.
Sometimes fresh
water strata.
Not represented in La Salle
County.
Rich in fossils, the remains of
huge land animals especially.
Cretace-
ous, or
Chalk.
Cretace-
ous.
Upper,
Middle,
Lower.
Chalk rock, a
soft limestone
and flint.
Not found in Illinois. Rich
in fossils.
Jura.
Wealden.
Wealden.
Noted for its
buried forests.
Absent in Illinois.
Age of
Rep-
tiles.
Jurassic.
Oolyte:
Upper,
Middle,
Lower.
Lias:
Upper,
Middle,
Lower.
Rich in the re-
mains of huge
Lizard -like
marine ani-
mals.
Absent in Illinois.
Absent in Illinois.
New Red
Sandstone
Trias.
Keuper,
Muxhelkalk,
Burt ersand-
stein.
Noted for the
tracks of birds
and reptiles.
Absent in Illinois.
Carbonif-
erous, or
Coal.
Permian.
Permian.
Contains the
most valuable
deposits of
coal.
Well developed in La Salle
County, from feet to 550 feet
thick, containing from one
to three workable beds of
coal, from 24 inches to 6 feet
thick.
Age of
Plants.
Carbonif-
erous.
Upper.
Lower.
Sub-Carboniferous.
Millstone
granite.
Upper.
Lower.
Appears to be wanting in La
Salle County.
Devonian
or Old
Red Sand-
stone.
Catskill.
Catskill.
Age of
Fishes.
Chemung
Chemung.
Portage.
Genesee.
All of these strata wanting in
La Salle County.
Hamilton
Hamilton,
Marcellus.
Cornifer-
ous.
Corniferous,
Schoharie,
Caudagalli.
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HISTOET OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
AGE.
FORMA-
TION.
PERIOD.
EPOCH.
REMARKS.
LA SALLE CO. EQUIVALENT.
Upper.
Silurian.
Oriskay.
Oriskany.
Lower
Helder-
berg.
Lower Hel-
derberg.
Saline.
Saline.
Noted for salt
deposits.
Age of
Mol-
lusks,
Niagara.
Niagara.
Clinton.
Medina.
Does not occur in La Salle Co.
or
Inver-
tebrates
Trenton.
Cincinnati.
Utica.
Trenton.
Rich in fossils.
Exposed at Homer, Covell
Creek, &c.
Lower
Silurian.
Canadian.
Chazy.
Quebec.
St. Peter's Sandstone. No fos-
sils known from this rock.
Primor-
dial,
or
Cambrian
Calciferous.
Potsdam.
Acadian.
Contains some
fossils.
Utica Cement Rock, usually
called calciferous, probably
Quebec.
Arehean.
Arehean.
It will be seen from the above that by far the larger part of these
groups are not known in our county. This is equally true of the State, and
we may say that in no one place are all these strata found laying in their
natural order. Some of the groups are always wanting. Thus in Xew
York, where the Silurian and Devonian are well represented, the carbon-
iferous, and all above it, are wanting. In the Southern States, where the
tertiary and cretaceous occupy wide areas, all below is concealed or not
present. The total thickness of all the strata at any one point is probably
not less than 75,000 feet, or a little more than fourteen mile:-.
The rocks do not lie horizontally, but are generally inclined at a greater
or lesser angle to the horizon, and this brings them to the surface at some
T • J? 1
points, however deeply they may be buried at others. It is from these
exposed edges, and from what we see in ravines and learn from excavations
for railways and mines, and from the borings for artesian wells, that we
obtain our knowledge of the structure of our globe.
The rocks of La Salle county embrace some of the oldest formations of
our earth, and none of the later, and between the strata represented there'
are great breaks, vast intervals in time, during which no strata were formed,
no progress made in building up this part of the continent.
All stratified rocks were undoubtedly deposited from water in the form
of mud or sandbanks. The arrangement of the layers, the thickening and
thinning in one direction or another, the assorting of the material, the lam-
ination of the rocks — that is, the appearance of being made up of thin sheets
of different colors — all these attest the action of water, and strongly testify
that it was the agent in transporting the material and laying down these
rocks; and if the stratified strata were thus formed, so also were the unstrat-
ified, for, as we have seen, the latter are but an altered condition of the
former.
The strata of La Salle county consist of first, the Primordial or calcifer-
ous; second,the Chazy or St. Peter's sandstone; third, the Trenton limestone;
fourth, the carboniferous or coal-bearing rocks.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 227
The calciferous strata occupy a small area in the valley of the Illinois,
near Utica, extending from east to west about 4^ miles, and from north to
south about If miles, covering about S square miles, its total thickness
being at Utica about 170 feet. Its most eastern outcrop is about a mile
and a half east of Utica, and its most western about two and a half miles
west of that place in the eastern edge of La Salle township, nearly a half
mile west of the works of the Utica Cement Co. Its most northern expos-
ure is in the bed of the Pequemsoggie creek, three-fourths of a mile north
of these works, and it is bounded on the south by the bluff south of the
river. It nowhere extends back at the top of the north bluff more than a half
mile, and seldom so far as that.
These strata for a thickness of from four to six feet on a part of the
bottom or flat are very arenaceous, and in some places flinty. They are
thin bedded, quite hard, and a band about a foot in thickness over most of
this area is oolitic in structure — that is, appears to be made up of small
round grains, nearly white. This band is of a light color, hard and tough.
In the bluff these arenaceous beds do not appear. Below these lies a thin-
bedded, grayish-blue, hard limestone, breaking with a ringing sound. This
is the waterlime rock. Below it are many feet of limestone, some of the
strata 8 to 10 inches thick, but most of them thinner. Among these are
beds of waterlime, and some strata of sandstone, one of them white, less than
an iuch thick, and hard, lying just over the first waterlime, and one
about four inches thick lying in the thick waterlime bed near the
bottom. It is coarse-grained, very hard, and dark colored. The total thick-
ness of these beds at Utica is about 170 feet. The following is a section
taken from the 111. Geological Survey, vol. III., page 281. taken at a point
about three-fourths of a mile west of Jas. Clark & Sons' cement mill. The
full thickness is not shown here.
1. St. Peter's sandstone, 3 feet.
2. Silicious and chertv beds, 12 feet.
3. Silicious and oolite, feet 9 inches.
4. Limestone, 1 foot 3 inches.
5. Sandstone, 9 inches.
6. Limestone, 2 feet 6 inches; calciferous or containing lime.
7. Limestone with flint, 4 feet 6 inches; more properly, cherty limestone.
8. Sandstone, 1 foot inches; calciferous.
9. Cement rock, good, 1 foot 3 inches; makes a good waterlime.
10. Sandstone, 1 foot inches.
11. Shaley limestone and clay, feet 3 inches.
12. Cement rock, impure, 1 foot 10 inches; not a good waterlime rock.
13. Sandstone, 3 feet inches; used for lining kilns.
14. Cement rock, 2 feet inches; impure; breaks into small, irregular frag-
ments; worthless.
15. Chert, feet 4 inches; called "flint" in "Eeport."
16. Cement rock, feet 2 inches; impure.
17. Limestone, 1 foot 10 inches; arenaceous or sandy.
18. Cement rock, 2 feet 10 inches; impure.
19. Limestone, 4 feet 8 inches; good quarry rock. (Is not worked.)
20. Sandstone, 1 foot inches; calciferous.
21. Limestone, 3 feet inches; irregular masses and broken fragments.
22. Cement rock, 6 feet 9 inches ; upper 2 feet not of first quality.
23. Limestone, 4 feet 6 inches; somewhat arenaceous and irregular quality.
228 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
2-1. Cement rock, 2 feet inches; impure. The cement rock is a lime-
stone, but not a pure carbonate of lime or carbonate of lime and mag-
nesia.
25. Limestone, 1 foot 6 inches.
26. Cement rock, feet 10 inches; good.
27. Sandstone, 1 foot inches; calciferous.
28. Limestone, 1 foot 2 inches.
29. Cement rock, 1 foot 6 inches; fair quality.
30. Limestone, 6 feet inches; upper part silicious.
31. Cement rock, 5 feet inches; good; full thickness not ascertained as it
extends below the level of the railroad. It contains two beds of 4
to 6 inches of impure stone.
This should be 9 feet inches instead of 5, and there are three bands
of impure stone instead of two, the lowest thickest; 8 to 9 inches below this
limestone again.
The quarries of James Clark & Son are in No. 22 of this section, on
the flat, from three-eighths of a mile to a mile s. w. of the railroad station.
In the Illinois Report it is stated that no fossils are found in the overlying
rock. Such is not the case, as at least ten species of fossils are found in the
surface rock at the s. w. quarry, and some of them, Murchisonia especially,
are very abundant. A small trilobite, one-half inch across, two brachio-
pods, and a coral, are not uncommon. In the waterlime only a single fossil
is found, excepting algae. This resembles a Pleurotomaria. Algae are very
frequent, but usually broken and imperfect. Some vertical holes indicate
the presence of worms, and besides these there are many anomalous mark-
ings which have been too slightly studied to allow one to form an intelli-
gent opinion as to what they are.
The strata of the waterlime on the upper surface often present a net- work
of raised lines, different in color from the body of the rock, and on the under
surface the same net-like system of lines is seen, but depressed instead of raised.
These are very different from the impressions of algae or seaweeds, both in
color and form, the lines seldom, if ever, presenting a smooth, rounded sur-
face, and forming a coarse network, while the algae are always smooth
rounded and never form a series of reticulations on the surface of the stone.
These marks were evidently formed in these strata, while in a plastic or soft
state, being exposed to the sun and partially dried and cracked, and then
being again covered with water and another layer of mud deposited. We
believe that these rocks were formed at the bottom of a shallow estuary or
bay into which much sediment was swept by a stream or streams, and that
the seaweeds, whose remains are found here, were transported hither by
currents, which accounts for their broken and abraded condition, as well as
for the state in which most of the shells are found, they having a worn ap-
pearance as if having been rolled about by the water. .Besides, in the upper
beds on the flat, No. 21 of the above section, there are many worn fragments
of stone, apparently taken from some older rock and transported to some
considerable distance by currents or waves.
2. The St. Peter's sandstone. Next in ascending order is the St.
Peter's sandstone, a deposit of almost pure silica, but in some places con-
taining a considerable amount of oxide of iron, and in others of a fine, nearly
white, tenacious clay. Its thickness at Utica is about 130 feet, and it con-
sists of a series of thick strata, varying in color from a clear white to a
bluish white. Farther east it is yellow, yellowish red, brown, and variously
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 229
mottled. Along the Fox River it is generally white, but sometimes a rusty
yellow. It is a fine-grained, soft pulvurulent rock, easily crumbling down
under the influence of frost and water. The redder beds are the hardest,
but even these are soft. At the base of the formation is a bed of hard,
coarser-grained rock, resisting the action of frost and water, and breaking
with straight edges. Below this is a singular bed, almost entirely composed
of large concretions, the outer portion of which is made of a cherty lime-
stone, the inside of chert or flint running into chalcedony at the centre,
often nearly transparent and sometimes highly colored. This is the No. 2
of the section given above, and there is some difference of opinion as to
whether this stratum belongs to the St. Peter's or to the calciferous. We
are of the opinion that it belongs to the St. Peter's, as we find some masses
of chert of the same character in the lower three feet of what is unques-
tionably the St. Peter's. Many of these masses are '6 to 4 feet in diameter.
They are very hard, the outer shells being very free from cracks and quite
hard. The inner part is very hard, but splinters under the hammer, and
breaks into irregular, angular fragments, having a sharp, cutting edge.
The St. Peter's is the surface rock of the Illinois River valley from a
point about a mile and a half east of Utica to Ottawa, with an exception to
be noticed in our next section, and on the south side of the river all the
bluff rock from two miles west of Utica for about eight miles east, and to
the bank of the river for nearly two miles east of Ottawa; while in the
north bluff it extends from a half mile west of Utica to about a mile west of
Otfawa. The valley of the Fox River is excavated in this rock, and it forms
the bluffs of this stream almost through the county. South of the Illinois
it covers but a narrow surface, only a limited area along the south bluff,
and a small tract in the northwest part of Deer Park township. North of
the Illinois it is, except in the Illinois and Fox River valleys, a narrow strip
along the top of the bluffs, covered with clays, gravels, etc., to a depth of
from 20 to 80 feet. There is also a small development of it in the east part
of La Salle township, and it covers the surface from this point east for a small
distance — 40 to 200 rods back from the bluff, and the tunnel of the C, R. I.
& P. R. R. is cut in it. The streams flowing into the Illinois between
Ottawa and Utica, as well as the tributaries of the Fox River, have cut for
themselves profound gorges in this rock, from a half mile to a mile in
length, terminating at the upper end in a series of cascades. These canons,
for such they really are, are bounded by perpendicular walls from 80 to 100
feet high, often not more than a hundred feet apart, and at the bottom
flows, except in a wet season, only an insignificant stream, but during heavy
rains a raging torrent rushes through these ravines, and at the head a series
of splendid waterfalls will be found. In this section some grand and pic-
turesque scenery may be found, as well as some of the wonders of Nature's
handiwork.
The lower strata of this formation in some places seems to be full of
water, while the upper beds are wholly destitute of it. About Utica and
up the ravine known as Clark's Run, springs are numerous, and the water
generally of excellent quality for drinking. Some of these springs are
strongly charged with calcareous matter, which is deposited in moss and in
crevices of the rock, forming beautiful incrustations. Frequently the pro-
cess may be traced from the green moss growing vigorously to a hard,
compact limestone. This is well seen at a point about 80 rods northwest
of Jas. Clark & Son's Cement Mill, under the bluff, also near the lower falls
230 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
on Clark's Run. Occasionally a spring contains oxide of iron, as well as
lime, and then the tufa becomes reddish-brown, or a deep, dull red. Some
of the springs of Clark's Run, as well as man} 7 of those in Deer Park, are
so highly charged with carbonate of lime that it is deposited in the form of
agaric mineral, (Dana's Manual Mineralogy, No. 715-2,) or mountain milk,
a light, puffy substance, milk white, and imparting a milky color to the
water. A gelatinous silicate is also thrown down by some of the springs in
Deer Park.
Deer Park, so well known for its fine scenery, and Starved Rock, so
closely connected with the early history of the Central Plain, are both cut in
the St. Peter's sandstone. To the east of Starved Rock are some magnifi-
cent gorges, (juite equal to Deer Park in beauty and extent.
Buffalo Rock is a vast mass of the St. Peter's, around which at one
time the Illinois may have flowed. Its perpendicular cliffs make it a con-
spicuous object from whatever point it is viewed. It has a slope to the
west, but even that extremity descends quite abruptly to the valley.
The St. Peter's, as will be seen from our general section, represents the
Chazy Epoch of the Potsdam. It is generally believed to be entirely desti-
tute of fossils, but a slab of sandstone found on the bluff near the tunnel on
the C, R. I. & P. R. R., near the east line of La Salle township, evidently
contains fucoids or seaweeds, and appears to belong to the lower strata of
the St. Peters.
3. The Tren ton Limestone. This rock, the lower member of the Tre*nton
group, is represented over a narrow area, covering a space in the valley of
Covell Creek, and extending thence in a narrow strip northeast across the
Illinois valley, almost to the north bluff, at a point about a mile and a half
west of the C., R. I. & P. station at Ottawa. It occurs at several points on
Fox River, especially near the mouth of Mission Creek. At Homer, in the
S.E. corner of Troy Grove, it is quarried, and at a point farther south on the
same stream — the LittleVermillion. It is also found in the southwest part of
this township, and also in the northwest part of Dimmick. It occurs at
the west end of the tunnel, La Salle township, at the entrance to Deer
Park, and Lowell on the Big Vermillion. From this it will be seen that
the exposures of this rock are widely scattered. They are nowhere of great
extent, that near Lowell being the most important — a mile and a half long,
and of variable width, but generally narrow. There is also a small exposure
of this rock on the land of Geo. Caldwell, Deer Park, and another, we are
informed by Mr. M. Fitzpatrick, of Lowell, on the land of Col. D. F. Hitt,
just in the rear of Starved Rock. Any limestone found lying directly on
the St. Peter's sandstone is probably the Trenton, and this serves as a toler-
ably fair guide to its identification, the St. Peter's not being liable to be
mistaken for any other rock, nor any other rock for the St. Peter's.
The Trenton is a dense, hard, bluish, highly fossiliferous limestone,
sometimes almost flinty, and splintering when struck into irregular frag-
ments. Some of its beds are, however, fine working, breaking with a
straight, smooth face, and coming out in blocks of fair size. The beds at
Homer are somewhat yellow, thin, and softer than much of this rock.
The strip in the Illinois valley just east of ( Htawa — it crosses west of the fair
grounds — is in its upper part shaley. breaking up into thin, irregular pieces,to
the depth of 12 to 18 inches. The lower beds are a solid rock in strata of
from 6 to 12 inches thick. At the tunnel it is a brownish rock, breaking
irregularly, and containing pyrite (No. 75, Dana's Manual of Mineralogy).
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At Covell Creek, near the bridge on the river road, it is very light colored,
especially when exposed for some time to the weather.
The Trenton is at least 50 ft. thick at Covell Creek,and about-the same at
Lowell and at the tunnel. At Homer it is about 20 feet thick. It is some-
times, as at Homer and on Covell Creek, nearly horizontal, while at the
tunnel and at the mill at Lowell it lies inclined at an angle of 40 degrees.
At the tunnel to the southwest; at Lowell to the northeast. Just east of
Ottawa it has been much disturbed, and the strata are frequently cracked,
and flexed as if by pressure from the. sides. This strip, moreover, is some-
times broken through, and is nowhere over 8 feet thick, sometimes not over
4. In the Illinois valley both the St. Peter's and the Trenton lie SO feet
below the top of the bluff, also composed of St. Peter's. That the beds in
the valley have not been simply worn away to this depth the existence of the
Trenton strata lying upon them clearly proves. Some great convulsion
has either raised a portion of these strata or sunk a part of them below their
natural level. Of this matter we shall speak more fully under the head of
Disturbance of Strata.
The Trenton is eminently a fossil-bearing rock almost throughout its
whole extent. It is not to be expected, however, that in all parts it is
equally rich in organic remains, or that they are equally well preserved.
Mollusks or shell fish, at least many of the species, are gregarious, or live in
groups like the oysters, clams and scallop of to-day, and of course, where
these "banks" were, there vast quantities of these shells were entombed,
thus photographing their features indelibly on Nature's tablets, and hand-
ing down to ages to come these mummies of perished races. Among the
species thus preserved in the Trenton strata are Orthoceros of several spe-
cies, some very large from Homer, and among others, the form called Or-
moceros, having instead of a straight a beaded form of siphuncle, or tube
connecting the chambers: The specimens are very generally imperfect, and
nice points cannot be easily settled, except from a large collection, such as
does not exist as far as we know. The best suite of specimens we have
seen is in the possession of the Ottawa Academy of Sciences at Ottawa, of
which D. S. Ebersol is president. A large spiral shell, Trochilites undatum,
occurs at Homer, also JVlaclurea magnum, Cyrtoceros, Phragmoceros, Gonio-
ceros, and Vanuxemia. In other places a maclurea, strophomena,
Chaeltetes, a fine incrusting coral, and algae of more than one species are
found. Some of the straight chambered shells from Homer appear to be
Endoceros. but we have seen them nowhere else. Of the orthoceras cer-
tainly three, probably five species are represented; of Phragmoceros
two species certainly, and of cyrtoceros we think at least three species exist,
it may be more.
4. The Carboniferous Formation. Nearly all the surface of the county
south of the Illinois River is covered by the Carboniferous strata, and north
of the river most of La Salle and Peru ; the south part of Dimmick; the
south central part of Utica; the north and east part of Ottawa, South Day-
ton, and the south part of Rutland and Manlius. "We have indicated only
the area where the Carboniferous strata actually outcrop, and that the coal
strata do not extend as far north as is indicated on Mr. Freeman's map is
now certain, as borings do not reveal coal or carboniferous strata over some
of that region. In a part of the territory indicated above, the coal may be
wanting, but carboniferous rocks will probably be found to ]cover it, and
may extend beyond the limits assigned. We shall, for reasons hereafter
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234 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
mentioned, consider these strata in two divisions. 1. The La Salle Basin;
2. The Streator Basin.
The La Salle Basin. The strata of the La Salle basin consists essentially
of shales and limestones, included in which are three beds of coal. The
strata first appears at the west end of the tunnel, resting un conformably on
the St. Peter's sandstone and Trenton limestone, dipping at an angle of about
one foot in twelve to the west. At the tunnel the lowest coal — No. 2 of the
general section is found. It is, however, somewhat doubtful whether, except
where the identity of the strata can be conclusively shown, the coals of one
locality can be shown to be connected with those of another field in time.
Neither chemical composition, mechanical structure, nor the character of
enclos ing strata, can be relied on to establish the synchronism. Nothing less
than tracing the connection of the strata, or the close correspondence of
accompanying organic remains can be accepted as proof of their being the
same.
The lower coal can be traced from La Salle to the tunnel. Here on the
bluff it is gone, the St. Peter's being the surface rock, but the coal runs
around to the north, but is not continuous over the tract bordering the
Pequamsoggie creek. East of Utica about one and a half miles it occurs
on the bluff, lying conformably on the St. Peter's. (Strata are said to be
conformable when they are parallel to each other, unco in form able when they
are not parallel.) It runs back to the north at least one and a half miles.
It is covered by from 5 to 20 feet of clay, sand and gravel, and is from L8
to 30 inches thick. It probably rnns back into Waltham some distance,
but there are no outcrops. It extends eastward through Utica, but is
nowhere explored more than three-fourths of a mile from the bluff, except
at on a point about two and a half miles north-east of Utica village, on the
land of A. O. Crosiar. Along the bluff in Ottawa to a point about two
and a half miles east of the C, R. I. & P. P. P. station at Ottawa, it is
mined — or, rather, quarried, as also on Buffalo Rock. Then it disappears
from the bluff for about two miles, and does not really appear in it
again until the bluff bends round to the north. It then comes down into
the bottom, covering a part of it for a mile on the north of the river. It has
not been discovered at any point beyond until we reach Marseilles, where
it has been found at a depth of 60 feet. South of the Illinois, on the
Vermillion, this coal is found lying on the Trenton limestone conformably,
near the north end of the Lowell bridge, and may be seen in the bank of
the. Big Vermillion above that place for a short distance, when it sinks
beneath the water. In South Ottawa and Deer Park townships it can be
traced along the bluff and in ravines across the country, to a little east of
Ottawa. The middle La Salle bed — No. 5 of the general section — occurs
over the La Salle field, but does not appear in any part of Utica or Ottawa,
but in Manlius township, at Marseilles, it occurs in the bluff. The upper
bed is not known out of the territory west of the Big Vermillion and a
line running north from the tunnel.
The following sections show the strata at Peru coal shaft, and also give
the sections found in the Illinois Geological Report:
SECTION 1.
Strata penetrated at the Peru coal shaft, Peru, 111. :
1. Clay and gravel, 29 feet 6 inches; 2. Clay shale, 40 feet inches;
3. Red clay shale, 3 feet inches; 4. Brown clay shale, 8 feet inches;
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5. Dark clay shale, 12 feet inches; 6. Black slaty clay shale, 1 foot
inches; 7. Coal, 3 feet 8 inches; S. Fire clay, 6 feet 3 inches; 9. Soft
slaty shale, 10 feet inches; 10. Blue shale, 2 feet inches; 11. Gray
and Drown sandstone, 101 feet 4 inches; 12. Shale with nodules, feet 8
inches; 13. Hard micaceous sandstone, 16 feet inches; 14. Brown clay
shale, 2 feet inches; 15. Sandy shale, 8 feet, inches; 16. Brown clay shale,
10 feet inches; 17. Lime rock, 2 teet inches; 18. Brown shale, 6 feet
inches; 19. Black bituminous, 3 feet 6 inches; 20. Blue lime rock,
2 feet 10 inches; 21. Brown shale, 2 feetO inches; 22. Blue lime rock, 4 feet
6 inches; 23. Brown clay shale, 7 feet 9 inches; 24. Coarse, indurated shale,
11 feet, inches; 25. Lime rock, feet, 7 inches; 26. Brown shale, 1 foot, 2
inches; 27. Lime rock, 2 feet 2 inches; 28. Green sandstone, 6 feet 7 inches;
29. Brown shale, 11 feet inches; 30. Black shale, 2 feet 4 inches;
31. Brown shale, 7 feet 8 inches; 32. Brown shale nodules, 10 feet 8
inches; 33. Black-slate, 2 feet 6 inches; 34. Light-gray clay shale, 16 feet
inches; 35. Coal, third seam, 4 feet inches (No. 65 of Section 2);
36. Fire clay, feet 8 inches; 37. Sandstone, 3 feet 2 inches; 38. Clay,
indurated, 6 feet inches; 39. Brown shale, 5 feet inches; 40. Black
shale, 2 feet 6 inches. Total, 375 feet 2 inches.
SECTION 2.
Section from Illinois Geological Report, pages 264-5, Vol. III.:
1. Clay, blue and shaley, ocherous toward bottom, 3 feet inches;
2. Coal, soft and rotten, 1 foot inches; 3. Clay, shaley, dark, olive-colored,
etc., 11 feet inches; 4. Limestone, argillaceous, slightly shaley, 1 foot 8
inches; Limestone, fossiliferous and argillaceous, 1 foot 6 inches; 5. Shale,
olive, black, bituminous, 1 foot 8 inches; 6. Marly limestone, fossiliferous,
2' t feet 8 inches; 7. Coal, 1 foot inches; 8. Fire clay, feet 3 inches;
9. Blue shale, underlaid with brown, 15 feet inches; Blue shale, 2 feet
inches; Brown shale, 8 feet inches; 10. Limestone, gray, 7 to 9 feet,
9 feet inches; 11. Shale, blue and gray, 1 foot to 3 feet 6 inches; 12. Lime-
stone, gray, 7 feet to 12 feet inches; 13. Shale, 5 feet inches; 14. Lime-
stone, blue, 5 feet inches; 15. Black slate, 7 feet inches; 16. Coal, Ofeet
6 inches; 17. Blue shale, 9 feet 6 inches; 18. Blue limestone, 1 foot 7 inches;
19. Blue shale, 9 feet 3 inches; 20. Blue limestone, 3 feet 5 inches; 21. Coal,
feet 1 inch; 22. Fire clay, feet 3 inches; 23. Blue shale, 17 feet 1 inch;
24. Gray limestone, 3 feet 6 inches; 25. Blue shale, 9 feet 6 inches; 26. Gray
limestone, 2 feet 6 inches; 27. Blue shale, 12 feet inches; 28. Blue lime-
stone, 2 feet inches; 29. Blue shale, 1 foot inches; 30.*Black slate, 2 feet
6 inches; 31. Blue shale, 13 feet inches; 32. Limestone, streaked, 4 feet
inches; 33. Blue shale, 2 feet 8 inches; 34. Blue limestone, feet 6 inches;
35. Brownish red shale, 2 feet inches; 36. Limestone, feet 4 inches;
37. Brownish red and brown shale, 14 feet 6 inches; 38. Sandstone, 11 feet
inches; 39. Silicious shale, 19 feet inches; 40. Slaty shale, 11 feet 4
inches; 41. Slack slate, 6 feet inches; 42. Coal, 5 feet to 4 leet 6 inches;
43. Fire clay, feet 6 inches; Dust-colored and brownish clay, 15 feet 9
inches; 44 Sandstone, 34 feet inches; 45. Black slate, 10 teet inches;
46. Coal, 3 feetO inches to 9 feet inches, usually 6 feet inches; 47. Fire
clay, 2 feet inches to 4 feet inches; 48. Shale, silicious and argillaceous,
30 feet inches; 49. Sandstone, increasing southwardly, 10 feet inches to
35 feet inches; 50. Shales, blue, brown and black, 9 feet inches;
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51. Black slate, 2 feet inches; 52. Black and greenish clay, 1 foot
inches; 53. Argillaceous limestone, 2 feet 6 inches; 54. Shales and lime-
stone, 2 feet inches; 55. Black argillaceous limestone, feet 4 inches;
56. Black slate, 2 feet 9 inches; 57. (Fire clay 5 feet inches, blue clay 6 feet
inches), 11 feet inches; 58. Argillaceous limestone, 1 foot inches;
59. Blue clay shales with nodules in bands, 22 feet inches; 60. Black
slate, 1 foot 1 inches; 61. Sandstone, argillaceous, 1 foot 6 inches; 62. Dark
clay shales with septaria in bottom, 8 feet 6 inches; 63. Black slate and
shale with nodules spherical and oval, 2 feet 2 inches; 64. Blue clay, some
shaley, 15 feet inches to 18 feet inches; 65. Coal, 4 feet inches;
06. Fire clay, thin and sandy, feet 10 inches to feet 6 inches; 67. Sand-
stone, 3 feet inches to 6 feet inches; 6s. Fire clay, light and dark blue,
6 feet inches; 69. Brown shales, bottom silicious, 5 feet inches;
70. Black slate and shale, 6 feet inches. Total, 515 feet inches.
No. 65 of this section is the lower La Salle coal, No. 2 of the so-called
general section; No. 46 is the middle La Salle coal, No. 5 of the general
section; and No. 42 is the upper La Salle coal, No. 6 of the general
section.
It will be seen that there is not a very close correspondence in the
strata at these points. No. 11 of the Peru section seems to be absent up
to No. 28. Betnnnino; at the bottom and ascending the column, there is a
pretty close agreement. The upper part of the La Salle section seems to be
wanting.
In the Illinois Geological Report it is stated that the middle La Salle
coal is wanting. How the middle coal can be cut out and the upper left
we cannot conceive. No. 7 of the Peru shaft cannot, we think, be X o. 7 of
Section 2.
In the northwestern part of Bruce township, on the bank of the Big
Vermillion, a bed of coal exists. It extends along the river nearly two
miles, and is found on the opposite side, in Bruce township, as well. It
does not appear to be of great extent north and south. It is known as the
Kirkpatrick bed, and is covered by about 8 feet of shale and 9 feet of gravel
and clay. Beyond this no coal is seen in the banks of the Vermillion until
we reach Eagle creek, where it appears in the bluff on the west bank and is
iVmnd in the bluffs of the east bank. Here it spreads out eastward but a
little; farther south it underlies the basin of Prairie creek, extending lit
it would seem) not over five miles to the east and being nowhere
more than three miles wide and prol >al >ly always under that width. It follows
the Vermillion, being nowhere found more than a mile and a half west of
it and (except in the basins of streams) not more than two and a half miles
east of it. Along Otter creek it is not found. We give below several sec-
tions of this field, kindly furnished by our friend. Dr. Edwin Evans, of
Streator, to whom we are indebted for much valuable information:
NO. 1, STKEATOK.
Section Shaft No. 1, Chicago and Vermillion and Illinois Coal Co.,
Streator, 111. 1. Yellow clay 4 feet inches ; 2. Blue clay 6 feet inches ;
3. Sand 35 feet inches, with much water : 4. Clay 1 foot 6 inches, with
boulders ; 5. Clay 5 feet inches, blue and very tenacious ; 6. Clay slate
45 feet inches; 7. Coal 6 feetO inches; 1(>2 feet 6 inches to coal; 8. Sand-
stone 1 6 feet to 24 feet inches ; 9. Coal 1 foot 8 inches, Sec. ^ mile south
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 237
of Streator, in valley of Coal Run ; 10. Clay slate, light, 9 feet inches ;
11. Clay slate, dark, 31 feet inches ; 12. Clay slate, black, 1 foot 6
inches ; 13. Clay slate, light, 11 feet 1 inches ; 14. Clay slate, dark, 4 feet
2 inches ; 15. Clay slate, black, 2 feet inches ; 16. Rock, hard, 2 feet 3
inches ; IT. Clay slate, dark, 5 feet 9 inches ; 18. Coal 3 feet inches :
94 feet inches from 1st to 2d coal.
NO. 2, STREATOR.
Section 2 miles north-east of Streator, Otter Creek township. 1. Soil
2 feet inches ; 2. Yellow clay 4 feet inches ; 3. Blue clay 7 feet
inches ; 4. Sand and gravel 49 feet inches ; 4. Shale 3 feet 6 inches ; 5.
Sand and gravel 6 feet inches ; 6. Rock 3 feet inches, very hard ; 7.
Clay slate 18 feet inches ; 8. Sandstone 3 feet 6 inches, hard ; 9. Coal
1 foot 5 inches : 96 feet inches.
NO. 3, STREATOR.
Section 2|r miles nort-east of Streator, and a half mile east of No. 2.
1. Soil 3 feet inches ; 2. Yellow clay 5 feet inches ; 3. Blue clay 10
feet inches ; 4. Gravel 4 feet inches ; 5. Blue clay 8 feet inches ; 6
Sand 5 feet 8 inches ; 7. Gravel 5 feet no inches ; 8. Sand 3 feet 6 inches ;
9. Gravel 10 feet inches ; 10. Clay and boulders 4 feet inches ; 11.
Clay slate 20 feet inches, dark ; 12. Clay slate 12 feet inches, light ;
13. Coal 2 feet 6 inches ; 14. Clay slate 1 foot inches: 102 feet 8 inches.
The coal No. 7 of section No. 1, or the Upper Streator coal, it will be
seen, is at shaft No. 1, 6 feet thick ; in section No. 3 it is only 1 foot 5
inches, and No. 4, it is 2 feet 6 inches. From this we see that in this direc-
tion the coal is thinning out, yet between these points there is about 6 feet
of coai, but as we go farther east, even on the center line of the Prairie
Creek Valley, the coal thins out and becomes too thin to work, and prob-
ably does not extend over 2J or 3 miles east of No. 3. South of No. 3 it
soon fails, and north of No. 2 it disappears in less than three-fourths of a
mile.
The coal, No. 18, of section No. 1, appears to have been reached only
at this point and is, counting from the top downward, coal No. 2 at Streator.
At Johnson's shaft about 6 miles s. e. of Streator. just on the edge of Liv-
ingston County, we get the following section. It is made up from
material obtained at three different points.
1. Soil 2 feet inches ; 2. Coal 2 feet inches ; 3. Fire-clay 5 feet
inches ;' 4. Shale 20 feet ; 5. Limestone 4 feet inches; (hard, somewhat
grayish blue to blue, fossiliferous, making a fair lime.) 6. Shaly sandstone
32 feet inches ; 7. Coal 2 feet 6 inches ; 8. Shale 1 foot 6 inches ; 9.
Coal 1 foot 8 inches. (This shale is just perceptible in the coal at shaft No.
1.) 10. Sandstone 20 feet inches ; 11. Coafofeet 1 inch ; 12. Shale 100
feet inches ; 13. Coal 2 feet inches ; 14. Clay-slate, unknown.
The limestone, No. 5, extends to the west, and at one point we saw it
in the bluff, here, back 30 rods from the river, (Big Vermillion), 5 feet
thick and looking like a roughly built stone wall. It can be traced almost
if not quite to the bridge of the Chicago and Paduca Rail-Road, but we
have heard nothing of it in any boring or cutting near Streator. It seems
to lie at about the same level everywhere, but No. 4 becomes a sandstone,
in some places thin bedded and crumbling easily, in others thick bedded
238 HISTORY Otf LA SALLE COUNTY.
but soft. No. 6 at the time of our visit, April, 1877, was full of water as
far as we examined it.
As the Streator and La Salle basins seem to run together, it would
seem and is highly probable that the great bed at Streator, section 1, No.
7, is the representative of one ot the La Salle beds. It is generally believed
to be the middle La Salle, although the identification is not complete, and
that No. 13 of Johnson's shaft is the Lower La Salle, or lowest Illinois coal.
The Upper Streator, at shaft No. 1, has in it near the middle a slight
indication of a layer of shale. At shaft No. 2 it is well defined and about
an inch thick ; at the Streator shaft this shale, in mining language parting,
is about 6 inches thick ; at Johnson's it is 18 inches, and we are told
increases in width farther south to 2 feet 6 inches. We are assured by Mr.
M. Kirkpatrick, that it attains at one point a thickness of 12 feet. It is
the opinion of some who are quite familiar with these matters that the
bed thins out and disappears. Others think that the land parts reunite
and become a single bed. This seems, in view of the sections given above,
very doubtful, but is neither improbable nor impossible, as such things do
occur in coal beds, and here where there is no exposures of the strata in
the banks of streams or ravines, the tracing of a bed is a difficult task,
especially where the rocks have been disturbed, as is the case in this region.
The strata near Streator exhibit, in the vicinity of the Vermillion
many flexures. Just s. w. of the town, on the west side of the river the
coal lies at a height of 15 feet to 20 feet above the water, covered with
shale and clay, and underlaid by shale resting on an anomalous sandstone.
A part of this rock is of good quality, works easily, and makes a very good
stone for foundations, but in it occur great nodular masses from a few
inches to many feet through, exceedingly hard and very heavy, yet when
exposed to the air, slacking down to an arenaceous loam. This rock com-
ing north soon sinks beneath the river and then the shale and coal follow,
then this sandstone reappears and forms the bed of the stream, while the
bluff on the east side shows coal. The sandstone rises a little and forms
the banks of the stream, then lies nearly horizontally for a short distance
until, as we approach Eagle Creek, it suddenly dips, the coal appears, and
in a short distance sinks below the water. To be intelligible, an article on
this subject should be illustrated, but our publishers have made no arrange-
ment for having drawings prepared, hence we must attempt to convey our
ideas in words.
Coal, as mined, is a black, stony looking substance, breaking irregu-
larly and burning with more or less readiness. It is usually lustrous
where broken, but varies much in lustre, color, and hardness. In color it
ranges from a light gray to a glistening black, and in hardness from soft,
easily breaking, to hard and splintery. It usually has the laminated
appearance, and generally parts in the direction of the lamination into
plates of little thickness. Some parts of it burn rapidly with much
smoke and flame, and leave but little ashes or cinder, while others leave
nearly their original bulk. Some coals partially melt and the pieces cohere
forming large masses in the lire. These are called coking coals and are
much used for making coke, or coal from which the more volatile elements
have been driven off by heat ; others do not coke or stick together when
heated, and are called non-coking coals.
Coals are divided into three classes. 1. Anthracite, hard or stone coal
proper, of a bright metallic lustre, and requiring a smart blow to break it.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 239
It is not found west of the Appalachian Mountains. 2. Bituminous coal,
breaking easily when broken across the laminae, lustrous, but the faces of
the laminae dull, and blacks the hands when handled. 3. Lignite or
brown coal, having a woody appearance and little lustre. Anthracite
requires a strong draught and with but little smoke or flame ; bitumious
coal with a moderate draught and with much smoke and flame ; lignite is
inferior to either of the others for heating purposes. The composition of
coal is as given below
;»
ana's Manual of G
eology.
C
H
O
N
Ash.
S
Anthracite,
90.45
2.43
2.45
4.67
0. Bituminous,
73.80
5.79
16.58
1.52
1.90
0.51
Ind. " Block,
82.70
4.77
9.39
1.62
1.67
0.45
0. non-coking Bit. Briar Hill,
78.94
5.92
11.50
1.58
1.45
0.56
111. Bituminous average,
62.44
3.66
Ind.
53.47
3.33
Ohio
60.26
4.50
Iowa
43.02
6.82
Rect.
59.71 to 50.86 5.80 to 5.27
32.7 to 42.57
2.59 to 0.77
Lime and coal co
ntai
ns besidi
2s the elements essential to it
, some
iron
in the form of bisulphide or pyrite, generally termed sulphur. It is fre-
quently disseminated through the mass of the coal in thin laminae, not
thicker than paper and of a golden yellow color. In other cases it forms
large masses, often of many pounds weight, which on being burned, yields
an abundance of sulphurous acid fumes and a heavy compact cinder. It is
very abundant in all of the Illinois coal beds, and renders them unfit for
some purposes. The less of this material a coal contains, the more valua-
ble it is for the manufacture of iron, and indeed for almost any use. The
pyrite may be utilized in the manufacture of sulphuric acid and of
copperas. The white crusts often in coal on breaking it is some salt of
lime, usually the carbonate, calcite — a very pure limestone.
The coal seams are not of uniform thickness, but vary much some-
times in short distances. At the Plumb — Peanut shaft, Streator — a remark-
able phenomenon presents itself, and is said to be observable throughout
the Coal Run mines. Tlie coal appears to lie in rolls like windrows of
hay in a field, except that the coal is never broken through, but varies from
4^ feet to 2 feet in thickness. These rolls are, by the miners, called horse-
backs, and are from centre to centre 50 feet to 60 feet apart. The coal on
the sides of these rolls has a glazed, half polished appearance, called by
the miners slicken sides, which strongly suggest pressure from above as
the cause of this phenomenon, but other considerations render this highly
improbable. West of the Vermillion, at Streator, the coal strata a short
distance back from the river are very much broken, so that the coal lies in
large, detached masses surrounded by shale or gravel and cannot be taken
out without much difficulty.
Sometimes the strata are not continuous, a part of the beds having
been in some way raised or lowered, so that the seam appears to suddenly
come to an end. This is called a fault. We have no proof any such
exists in our coal, although they certainly do in some of our other rocks,
as will be shown farther on. The strata seldom lie horizontally, but almost
always incline to the horizon, at a greater or less angle. On the Vermil-
lion the beds form great curves and lie at very high angles, 30 and 40
degrees, sometimes to the east, sometimes to the west. Strata sloping
away from a central point like the roof of a house, are said to form an
240 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
artictinal. Those sloping toward a common point a synclinal. The angle
the beds form with the surface of the earth is called their dip. The incli-
nation of the surface at right angles to the dip is called the strike.
Of the extent of the coal beds the lower La Salle is undoubtedly the
most extensive, underlying most of the county south of the Illinois, and
the part indicated above north of the river. The Upper La Salle is restricted
to the territory about La Salle and Peru, and west of the Big Vermillion,
south of the Illinois, while the middle La Salle is represented east of the
Vermillion, north of the Illinois at Marseille's, and south of the river at
Streator, but in neither locality covering a great extent of territory, prob-
ably not over 60 square miles.
The amount of coal in a 5 foot seam is enormous, when expressed in
figures, 6 square feet of surface making a ton. The coal underlying one acre
equals about 8.000 tons, and one square mile will produce 5,120.000 tons,
or 3^ times as much as was estimated to have been mined in Illinois in
1S67. Of the 1,152 sqare miles contained in the county, not over 100 square
miles is underlaid by the 5 foot bed, or the middle LaSalle, and perhaps 400
square miles by the Lower La Salle, or 4 foot bed. But this bed will not
average over 3 feet. The Upper La Salle does not probably extend over an area
of more than 40 square miles. Most of this coal could, if necessary, be
mined, but the thick beds will be first taken out, as they can be worked
more cheaply than the thin ones. Again, the roof of some of these beds
is very poor, requiring great care in working to prevent serious acci-
dents. These deposits will furnish fuel for the county for many years at
the present rate of consumption, the total quantity used in the county for
all purposes, being probably inside of 400.000 tons. The production is prob-
ably for La Salle. Peru and neighborhood. 390,000 tons; for Streator, 400,000
tons; Utica, 5,000 tons: Marseilles. 7,500 tons; Seneca. 10,000 tons; Ot-
tawa, 7,000 tons: total, 900,000 tons per year. If necessary, nearly double
this quantity could be raised. It is to be remembered that in Ottawa and
Utica the coal is quarried, not mined, the earth being entirely removed
before the coal is taken out.
A list of the principal mines is appended : La Salle and Peru, Peru
shaft; Streator, Kentucky shaft; Chicago and Vermillion Coal Co., Mat-
thies>en & Heglers shaft; Shaft No. 1. Streator, carbon shaft; Shaft JSo. 2,
south of Streator 2 miles; Shaft Xo. 3, Kenosha shaft, 1 mile south of La
Salle; Shaft Xo. 4, south east of Streator \ mile; Shaft Streator. 3 miles
south of Streator; Sharp Shaft, 2 miles north east of La Salle; Shaft Plumb,
(Peanut) -| mile south of Streator; Drift, Patterson & Co.. f mile south
west of Streator; Drift, s. w. side ot river, f mile to a mile; Shaft Chicago. ;
Pekin & Southwestern, 2|- miles north east of Streator; Shaft Marseilles,
Shaft Seneca.
The fossils found in the coal are of two kinds, vegetable and animal.
In some of the strata remains of plants predominate, and scarcely any traces
of animal life are found; while in others scarcely a trace of a plant appears,
and the mass of the rock is made up of shells or crivoid stems. At La Salle
the limestones afford a great variety of shells, and some of them in great
abundance. Among the most common is Athyris subtilita Sperifes, Came-
ratus, S. La Sallensis, Productus longispinos, Clmnetes mesoloba, Orthis
carbonaria. Phyrchonella Osagensis. Solenom^a Soleniformis, Aviculopecter
Coxanus, Hemipronites crenistria, Myalira recurvirostris, Penna peracuta,
Solenomya radiata, Athyris Royissii, bivalves, or having two pieces to the
•
OTTAWA
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 243
shell; and Orthoceus Rushensis Pleurotomaria grayvillensis, Bellorophon
Carbonaria, Nautillus Illinoiensis, Goniatites; univalves, or shell consisting
of one piece; crivoid stems. Near Lowell some crivoid heads have been
found in the limestone between the lower and middle coal. In the sand-
stone along the Vermillion, west of Lowell, Lepidodendra ot several species
are found, some very fine specimens. In the west past of South Ottawa a
remarkable bed of Lepidodendra has been discovered by Col. D. F. Hitt.
Some of the specimens are very fine, and many of them large. They are
imbedded in a soft, tenacious clay. At Marseilles Lepidodendra occurs in
some of the strata in the quarries, and in the bed of a creek east of the
village. Also some fossilliferous limestone containing shells of several species
named above. At Utica some fragments of ferns and some traces of Lepi-
dodendra occur. At Streator fragments of ferns, some Lepidodendra, and
in a limestone, as occurring just in the limits of Livingston county, Nati-
copsis Wheelin, Pleurotomaria of one or more species are abundant. The
ferns are plenty in shale below the coal on the west bank of the river. On
Covell creek, just east of bridge df C. B. & Q. R. R., and again a half mile
west of it several species of ferns are found. Of these fossils a good repre-
sentation may be found in the collection of the Ottawa Academy of Sciences
at Ottawa.
5th. The Drift. Overlying the other strata of the county are beds of
clay, sand and gravel, and fragments of rocks of which no beds are found.
In these sands and clays are found pieces of limestone differing much from
the limestone forming the beds of this region, as well as fragments of cop-
per and some specimens of golenite, as sulphuret of lead, the ore so abund-
ant at Galena. In some places huge masses of hard rock, the corners and
edges rounded and- the faces smoothed and grooved, are found lying in trains
or lines upon the surface, and also in sinking wells and in railroad cuttings,
buried in the clay. These rocks are of many colors, very hard and heavy,
and all bear marks of having been subjected to some wearing action. The
cl&ys and sands are often without any traces of stratification, the material being
very different grades of fineness, and generally present evidence of having
been rapidly deposited. Sometimes fragments of coal and pieces of wood
are found in these deposits. We saw at Streator a piece of wood found at
40 feet below the surface. In Whiteside county we were shown, by Dr. L.
S. Pennington, of Jordan township, in the bank of Elkhorn creek, a great
many trees buried 20 feet below the surface, evidently lying near where
they grew. We have been assured by an acquaintance— a man in whose
truthfulness we have confidence, that some years ago he saw some chip-
pings of wood, taken from the depth of 20 feet in the north east part of
Utica, which he believed to have been cut with an adze or other sharp tool.
They were probably the work of beavers, of which specimens may be seen
in the collection of the Ottawa Academy of Sciences, Ottawa.
These beds of clay, sand, gravel, and rock are called the Drift. It is
of variable thickness, Irom 5 feet to 60 feet, embracing No. 1 and 2 of the Peru
section; No. 1 of section 2; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section No. 1, Streator;
and Nos. 1 to 10 inclusive of No. 3, Streator. It seems to have been
formed in a period of alternations of still waters and of rushing torrents,
the clays being of Stillwater origin, deposited in lakes or pools, or over
flooded marshes, in which probably the buried trees were entombed; the
sands by swiftly moving waters near the points where the force of the cur-
rent began to weaken. The trains of rocks may have been in part borne
244 HISTORY OF LA8AIXE COUNTY.
along by torrents, and the manner in which they are disposed would favor
this idea, but they as often lie on high land as on low, and their ranks extend
across hollows on to the bounding heights. In the drift clays and gravels
very few traces of life appear, but in some localities shells are found, always
of such species as inhabit cold waters at the present time.
In some places the face of rocks, which are covered by a few feet of
earth, are found, when the earth is cleared away, to be smoothed and grooved
or furrowed, the furrows varying in size from a mere scratch to channels 6
inches deep, and 6 inches to 8 inches wide, and being perfectly parallel and
straight. Running water could not have cut these channels, nor could it
have planed down thousands of acres of hard rock and polished this vast
surface as if preparing it for a gigantic monument. Some agent more
mighty than even the all-conquering wave or the unbridled river, less easily
turned aside than they, must have been concerned in this work, and in part
through the operation of that agent much of the material now forming these
sands,clays.and gravels,was prepared and transported to where we find it now.
There is but one agency with which we are acquainted that is capable
of producing these effects — ice in the form of glaciers. Running water could
not have polished and grooved the rocks as we find it done, for it could not
have cut perfectly straight channels of uniform size, with sharply defined
edges. Ice borne by currents or tossed about by waves is not able to produce
such results, for in that case the grooves would vary in depth, and there
would be curves and angles in the grooves and variations in width. The
glacier alone is capable of planing great surfaces of hard rock and cutting
continuous furrows perfectly straight and parallel to each other for long
distances.
A glacier is a vast mass of ice usually formed from the accumulation
of snow in those parts of mountain chains above the line of eternal frost.
During the summer the upper surface partially thaws, but in the lower part
frost reigns, and the water descending through the mass converts the whole
into ice. Year after year the accumulation goes on and finally the deposit
becomes hundreds of feet deep, pressing with enormous weight on the
rocks below, every hundred feet of depth being equivalent to a pressure of
about two tons per square foot, or 2T|- pounds per square inch, and under
the influence of this pressure the ice is forced down slopes, and in all direc-
tions when the accumulation is very great, so that the movement may be
actually up hill, as is sometimes the case. Pieces of stone are frozen into
the base of the ice mass and act as chisels to cut out grooves in the rocks
beneath as it slides over them.
Stones and earth accumulate on its surface and are carried along to the
lower end of the glacier where they are dropped and form a pile called a
moraine. Many of the ridges of clay and coarse gravel mixed with boulders
mark the former termination of a glacier. The lines of glacial action varv
between 40 deg. E. and S. 40 deg. W . If these lines are run back northward,
meet in the country between Lake Winnepeg and James Bay, and in this
locality we presume the centre of pressure was located, and from it the ice
king's armies went forth on their mission. Of the amount of work done
we shall speak hereafter.
There were also in the mountains of the New England States local
glaciers, whose effects are traceable over limited areas, and are well described
in Hitchcock's Geology, which those desirous of information on the subject
will do well to consult.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 245
Some fine examples of glacial work exist in La Salle county. In the
western part of Ottawa a train of boulders — light-colored, porphyritic gran-
ites; dark, hard, tough, dolerates and diavites and some gneis — extend from
E. of N. to W. of S. for about two miles, lying on a low, narrow ridge.
Some of these are of large size — 200 cubic feet in volume, and weigh not
less than 20 tons. At -Streator, a mile north east of the town, on the banks
of the Big Vermillion, is a bed of sand beautifully stratified. It is worked,
and the character of the deposit can be seen to the depth of 20 feet. In the
northern part of the county a vast bed of sand and gravel is found just below
the soil, and is seen in ravines and rail-road cuttings. It is cut into at the
south west end oi the side-track at Sheridan, and in the cutting on the C,
B. & Q. B. B., just south west of the bridge over Fox Biver. A similar
deposit exists on the line of this road in South Ottawa, and also is seen at
Utica resting on the St. Peter's just back of J. Clark & Sons' Cement Mill.
In the cutting south west of the C,. B. & Q. B. B. bridge over Fox
Biver, near Sheridan, is found a peculiar, somewhat arenaceous, limestone,
sometimes having a conglomerate character from the great quantity of peb-
bles contained in it. It outcrops in some of the ravines near by, but is
probably of limited extent. It is solid, hard, rather brittle, light buff on
exposed surfaces, grayish-blue where freshly broken. It lies at the outcrop
generally in sheets interstratified with gravel, but several of these sheets
often unite and form a thick bed. It seems to have been formed by the flow-
ing of water highly charged with calcareous matter, through the gravel.
The surface soil has been formed since the age of the Glacial Period,
and a part, at least, of the valleys through which our streams flow have
been hollowed out since that time, draining lakes and somewhat changing
the features of the country. At that time, and probably long after, the
volume of the streams was no doubt much greater than at present, and the
work of cutting out gorges went on more rapidly than at this time.
Minerals. Copper is found in pieces of varying size, weighing from
less than an ounce to over a pound, scattered through the drift.
Lead. Galenite — Galena — 44. Sulphate of lead is occasionally found
in the drift, and also in small quantities in the Trenton limestone, a locality
being near the mill at Lowell.
Iron. Pyrite — bisulphide of iron. Sulphur of the miners — in all the
coal rocks and in the coal, also in Trenton limestone, often crystallized,
forming beautiful specimens. Some very fine at Streator Coal Company's
shaft, also fine ones in shale over coal at Utica.
Calcite 715 — carbonate of lime — in all the limestones, crystallized, and
of various colors, forming the dog-tooth spar of the grades, and the spar of
quarry men.
Gypsum — sulphate of lime — 654. Found in coal measures on Big Ver-
million, east of Lowell, as Latin spar, and near tunnel, La Salle, in crystals,
— selevite — sometimes colored and beautifully transparent; sometimes col-
ored rose-red, rust-red and brown. Not in quantity to be of any economic
value.
Iron — Limonite — 206. Brown oxide of iron, as brown ironstone, fer-
ruginous, conglomerate, etc., in many places, notably on Covell Creek,
one-half mile west of C.,B. & Q. bridge, north bank, and Streator, in nodules.
Hematite — 180 — red oxide of iron, red ochre — one mile s.w. of Streator,
east bank Big Vermillion. Carbonate of iron — clay ironstone — in concre-
tions Covell Creek, Big Vermillion, and coal measures generally. None of
46 HISTORY OF LA 8A.LLE COUNTY.
these ores of iron in sufficient quantity to be valuable. Sulphate of iron —
melanterite — copperas in incrustations on the coal strata, especially the
sandstones. This salt is formed by the decomposition of pyrite.
Other minerals are found in the drift, but have no special interest in
connection with this county, being only wanderers from "other regions.
Economic Geology. Building stone: The Trenton limestone furnishes
from its lower beds a very good article of' building stone, breaking with
square faces, and standing the action of the weather excellently. It is also
of a pleasing color, and of various shades, and does not become dark and
grimy with time. On Covell Creek an excellent article is obtained,
one-half mile south of- the bridge, on the Illinois valley road; also near mill
at Lowell; at Homer, north of fair ground; Ottawa and southeast of Sher-
idan. Near Ottawa it is burned for lime, producing a very good article.
It may be obtained in blocks up to 18 inches thick, and in length and
breadth as required. Some of the beds are thin, and make a tolorable flagging.
. The sandstones and limestones of the coal measures furnish good
building material at many points. At La Salle the limestone is quarried
both for building stone and for the manufacture of lime. The sandstone
is quarried at Streator, and when carefully selected, so as to be free from
pyrite, wears very well. Yast quantities of good stone can be obtained
from this formation for all time.
The St. Peter's sandstone furnishes an inexhaustible supply of sand
for the manufacture of glass; for all purposes where a pure sand is required.
It is largely used in the manufacture of glass, and by iron works. It fur-
nishes but little rock hard enough to be used for building purposes, only
one stratum, less than 18 inches thick, being capable of resisting the action
of the weather. It is a very superior stone.
The calciferious group furnishes some stone hard enough for building
purposes, but it is of very uneven quality, breaks irregularly, and is fit to
be used only for foundations and stoning up of wells.
The hydraulic limestones of this group are especially valuable for the
manufacture of water-lime, or hydraulic cement. It is a dalemite or mag-
nesian limestone, composed, according to the analysis given in Illinois Geo-
logical Report, Yol. I., page 151, as follows: Carbonate of lime, 43.50;
carbonate of magnesia, 30.07; alumina, (clay,) 20.00; silica, 1.00; carbon-
ate of iron, 2.00; potash, 00.18; water, 2.00.
A specimen for southwest Ohio, as given in the Ohio Geological Report,
Yol. II., page 672, yielded as follows: Carbonate of lime, 51.10; carbonate
of magnesia, 41.12; silica, 5.40; alumina with trace of iron, 1.40.
We add for comparison an analysis of the hydraulic limestone of
northern Ohio, from which a superior water-lime was formerly manufac-
tured at Ottawa City, Ottawa county, Ohio, and also of a magnesia lime-
stone, or dolomyte, from the same locality, and another from Sing Sing, N.
Y., from which the highest priced lime in the N. Y. market is manufactured:
Hydraulic Lime- Dolomyte, O. Dolomyte, Sing-
stone, O. Sing, N. Y.
Carbonate of Lime, 51.43 to 42.95 54.50 to 39.58 53.24
" Magnesia, 40.24 to 36.87 45.13 to 58.74 45.89
Silica 3.85 to 13.30 .43 to .22 .87
Alumina and Iron, 3.85 to 2.75 .68 to .42
Dolomyte Carbonate Lime, 54.4
" " " Magnesia, 45.6
Carbonate Lime. Carbonic Acid, 44.0
Lime, 56.0
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 247
By referring to the section of the calciferous strata given above, it will
be seen that there are a number of beds of water-lime, or cement rock, in
the series, and from two of these cement is now manufactured. James
Clark & Son, whose mills are near the C, R. I. & P. R. R. station, at
Utica, work the upper bed. They have been in the business since 1845,
and can now send into the market about 500 barrels per day, or 150,000
barrels per year, when running their works to their full capacity. This
cement has a high character among engineers, and is very extensively used.
The stone used by them is quarried in the fiat southwest of the village.
The Utica Cement Company's, works, located about two and one-half
miles west of Utica station, at the mouth of Pequamsoggie Creek, is one of
the most complete establishments of its kind in the country. The stone
used is mined from the lower bed of the section, here 9 feet thick, and is|a
very superior article. 600 barrels per day, or 180,000 barrels per year, can
be made. As the supply of rock is unlimited this manufacture must, as
long as there is a demand for cement, be an important industry in this
county, fuel being cheap and the facilities for transportation unrivalled.
It may seem paradoxical to speak of clays as possessing any commer-
cial value, but it may be well to remind the reader that without these man} 7
important industries must come to a standstill. Brick and pottery are
almost as necessary to civilized society as iron and steel. But all clays are
not fit for the manufacture of these articles, and those that are are worthy
of more than a passing notice.
In most places the coal rests on a clay of greater or less purity. That
below the lower coal is considered best for fire brick and sewer pipe, al-
though that lying above does well for these purposes, but shrinks more in
drying than the first. Pottery is also manufactured from it near Lowell.
Fire brick are made by M. Kirkpatrick, at Lowell; sewer pipe and fire
brick by James Clark & Son, at Utica, from clay procured in Deer Park
township, and this clay is also used for retorts by the zinc smelting estab-
lishments at La Salle, and for the manufacture of melting-pots by the glass
manufacturers of La Salle and Ottawa.
Clay for the manufacture of common brick is found in all parts of the
county, of very varying quality, some of it .excellent, some very inferior,
producing a poor brick. In general, however, clay of fair quality may be
found in every neighborhood, and brick is made at many points, Marseilles
and Streator especially. At Streator a fine pressed brick is made.
An analysis of a good fire-clay, that of Summit county, Ohio, Ohio
State Geological Report of Geology, Vol. I., page 222, is given as it is
found at Magadore and at East Liberty:
East Liberty.
7.00
62.00
24.80
Traces.
1.75
0.42
3.22
It will be observed that the iron, lime, magnesia, and potash and soda
are in very small proportion. It is the iron contained in the clay which
gives brick their red color, and the less iron the lighter the tint. Silicic
acid, a peculiar compound of oxygen and silica, and alumina, form the great
body of the clay. Both silica and alumina are very infusible, but the ad-
"Water (combined)
Silicic Acid
Alumina
Magadore.
5.45
70.70
27.70
Iron
Lime
Magnesia
Potash and Soda
66.40
0.37
248 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
mixture of potash, soda, or lime, renders the mass fusible at a lower temper-
ature, and renders the clay unfit for the manufacture of fire-clay pottery,
etc., as the articles formed of it will melt before they are properly burned.
Ordinary red brick are often seen presenting a glazed appearance, a sure
indication that the clay contains lime, potash, or soda, in some form in
considerable quantity. Soda may also exist in sufficient quantity to form
an efnoresence or crust of a white color on the surface of the brick, defacing
buildings, sometimes causin'g the brick to scale.
Sands and gravels are very abundant. The gravels are generally well
calculated for building roads and ballasting railroads. A fine bed exists at
Sheridan, and another on the line of the C, B. & Q. K R, in South Ottawa.
Sand for the manufacture of glass is obtained from the St. Peter's
Sandstone, and is already an important article of commerce. It is also
used in rolling mills and iron works. Sand lor mortar is to be had in all
parts of the county at no great distance. Sand fit for manufacturing
artificial stone is easily obtained, and this industry must with time become
of great importance, as caps, sills and mouldings, in any desired style, can
be much more cheaply made by this process than they can be cut, and they
seem to be equally durable. We were shown specimens of such a stone
by Dr. Edward Evans, manufactured at Streator, which had been exposed
to the weather for three years, and were originally rejected as imperfect.
They had worn as well as the best cut stone we have ever seen.
Coal is abundant, being known actually to exist over an era of 11,200
acres. In quality it compares favorably with that of the rest of the state,
but generally contains more pyrite than that of Pennsylvania and Ohio, as
well as being softer and making more soot in its combustion. But some of
the beds are much superior to others, and when carefully selected they
will be found well suited to almost any purpose. That of Streator has a
great reputation as a gas coal, and is considerably used for the manufacture
of that article. Some of these coals coke well, and thus the sulphur, a
most injurious ingredient can be eliminated to a great degree and the coal
fitted for uses it would not otherwise be suited to.
The zinc ores smelted at La Salle, are obtained from the Galena Illi-
nois Lead .Region, and from the neighborhood of Mineral Point, Wisconsin,
and from Missouri. About 40,000 lbs. are produced per day ; about 500
hands are employed. The La Salle Zinc Company, Matthiessen Hegler
<te R Lanyon, are the owners of the establishments. As fuel is so easily
obtained it is found cheaper to bring the ore to the fuel than to take the
fuel to the ore, and this business must become more and more important
for many years. Both Ottawa and Streator might compete in this manu-
facture.
Mineral waters. La Salle County has many springs whose waters
possess mineral properties, some of them having been proved to be valu-
able as remedial agents. Most of the waters flowing from the coal
measures are strongly charged with sulphate of iron, and with salts of the
alum series— the type of which is KO, 3.03, 3.AL2 03, 3S0.3 21 aq.
Some of these springs are very strong. One at Streator, on the west side
of the river, south of the bridge, f mile is clear, cold, sparkling, but un-
pleasant to the taste. Another quite as strong is found about 1£ mile north-
west of Lowell on the north bank of the river. Some but slightly tainted
with salt are found in almost every ravine that penetrates the coal meas-
ures, while a few, pleasantly chalybeated, flows from the St. Peter's, and also
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
249
one at least, from the calciferous, about f of a miJe west of Utica station,
close to the C, R. I. & P. track.
Springs strongly impregnated with carbonate of lime are found in
many of the ravines which penetrate the St. Peter's sandstone. In Clark's
Run and Deer Park especially, these springs abound, and immense depos-
its of tofa have been found about 80 rods north-west of Clark's Cement
Mills, at Utica, and at other points in this ravine. Also mountain milk or
agaire mineral, a white, very porous foam like carbonate of lime.
About three miles east of Utica, on the land of O. H. Buell, are three
strong sulphur springs rising from the St. Peter's, that had at one time
some reputation as medicinal agents. It undoubtedly possesses valuable
properties, and only requires capital and energy to make it a valuable
property. On the south side of the Illinois, in the north-west corner of
South Ottawa, is another spring, a preliminary analysis of whose waters
gives sulphur, soda, lime and iron as ingredients. Debolt's Spring, about
nine miles north-east of Ottawa, noted as a pic-nic ground, is a sulphur
spring, but we have seen no analysis of its waters. It appears to contain
considerable sulphuretted hydrogen gas. The most noted spring in the
county, is the Ottawa mineral spring, situated in South Ottawa, just east
of the Illinois River bridge. It has been pretty thoroughly tried in many
diseases and has gained a high reputation for curative properties. It has
been unfortunately managed and has failed to become as widely known as
it deserves. An analysis by Prof. Benj. Silliman, Jr., gives as its constitu-
ents the following substances
ANALYSIS.
Chemical constitution of the water of the Ottawa Mineral Spring, stated in grains per
gallon, viz: In column A the number of grains in one U. S. standard gallon of 231 cubic
inches ; in column B the number of grains in one Imperial gallon of 277,274 cubic inches.
A
B
A
B
Sodium chloride,
92.7995
111.3594
Iron, bicarbonate,
.0979
.1175
Calcium chloride, -
- 23.5699
28.2838
Potassium, sulphate,
5.1246
6.1495
Magnesium, chloride,
23.2687
27.9214
Calcium, sulphate,
9.6236
11.5483
Sodium, bromide, -
.3220
.3964
Sodium, phosphate,
.0045
.0054
Sodium, iodide, -
.0826
.0991
Borax,
- trace.
trace.
Lithium, bicarbonate.
trace.
trace.
Alumina,
.0117
.0140
Sodium, bicarbonate, -
.9796
1.1723
Silica,
- .5394
.6473
Calcium, bicarbonate,
- 14.3494
17.2193
Organic matter,
trace.
trace.
Total solids upon ev
aporation, A, 170.7734
U U
U
B, 204.9337
Carbonic acid, cubic in.
, at 60 deg.
Fahr.
-
25.6
30.72
Density of the water,
-
-
-
1.0022
We add also analysis of the water at Gre
en Springs, Sandusky County, Ohio.
Sulphate of lime in one
gallon,
. 105.41
Silica,
6.10
" " Magnesia
.
36.14
Alumina,
.
.98
" " Tron
6.53
19.70
Carbonate Iron,
_
Total solids,
.
216.48
" Magnesia,
.
22.39
Carbonic acid gas (cubic
inches)
96.48
Bromide potassa,
.
16.76
1.0258
Chloride
-
2.48
Temperature,
- 50 deg. Fah
From Ohio Geological Keport, Geology, vol. 1, page 609.
The salts of iodine renders the Ottawa waters particularly valuable in
all diseases of the glands, while the other ingredients are happily combined
to render it effective in a great variety of chronic complaints. This water
250 HISTORY OF LASALLE COUNTY.
deserves a more determined effort to bring it before the public. The efforts
thus far have been ill-advised and spasmodic, and so far unsuccessful.
In the valley of Covell Creek, about a mile southeast of the river road
bridge, is a spring equal to the Ottawa in quality, but at present of moder-
ate volume. It is on the east bank of the creek, about a half mile from the
bridge, also near the east side of the creek is another, sometimes covered
by the waters of the creek. On the west side of the creek, near the bridge,
is a chalybeate spring of considerable volume. The water of Peddicord's
artesian well is said to closely resemble the ( )ttawa mineral spring.
Salt springs are found about five miles southwest of Ottawa, from
which a large volume of salt water flows, forming, when the county was
first visited, a salt marsh of considerable extent. From this spring in early
times salt was manufactured, but the water is not strong enough to render
it valuable for the production of salt at present prices. Some years since a
boring was begun here for the purpose of testing the question of whether
the quantity and strength of the water could be increased. Unfortunately
-a tool was lost, and the boring stopped before a sufficient depth had been
reached to settle the question decisively.
Artesian wells. An artesian well is a boring or artificial opening in the
earth through which water flows to the surface. As water cannot rise above
the source from which it flows there must be a head of water for it to flow
from, just as if we put an elastic tube into the side of a pail filled with
water, as long as we keep the end of the tube above the level of the water
no water will flow through it, but if the end of the tube is dropped below
the level of the water then the contents ot the pail will flow out through it.
Everywhere in the valley of the Illinois artesian wells have been suc-
cessful at a depth of from 230 to 450 feet. At Utica the well of John Clark
is 232 feet deep; that of James Clark 258 feet deep. At Ottawa the court
house square well is 400 feet deep. In and about Ottawa are a large number
of these wells, the water from which rises about 25 feet above the surface.
James Clark's well was tried to a height of 42 feet, and flowed strongly at
that elevation. This well flows about 200 gallons per minute. At the
County Farm is a fine well; also at Marseilles. The Marseilles wells are
about 250 feet deep. The most remarkable well in the county is that of
J. E. Peddicord, about three miles north of Marseilles. It is 2180 feet
deep, tubed to a depth of 1799 feet, and flows about 36 barrels per hour.
It stands 128 feet above Lake Michigan, and consequently the water supply-
ing it must be at least 135 feet above the lake, and cannot be derived from
it in accordance with any law with which we are acquainted. "Water bear-
ing strata were pierced at several points. In the wells of Utica water
bearing strata, water rising to the surface, was struck at about 30 feet,
70 feet, and 200 feet. The source of the water everywhere in the Illinois
valley is believed to be the Potsdam sandstone, which lies below the calcif-
erous, and nowhere comes to the surface in the State. On the prairie deep
borings only can be expected to be successful, but occasionally shallow wells
may pierce strata furnishing a supply that will flow to the surface. Dr.
S. S. Pennington, of Jordan, Whiteside county, informs us that about three
miles north of his place there is a flowing well only 140 feet deep, while
he has himself bored 2,200 feet, and the water stands 30 feet below the
surface. At Sterling, four miles southeast of Dr. Pennington's, Harvey's
well, 1055 feet deep, flows a strong stream. The theory that water bearing
strata are spread over an extensive region at a certain depth cannot be
(deceased)
LOSTA NT
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 253
sustained. Before we can form a satisfactory theory we must have more
facts. At Mendota 2,lrt0 feet has failed to obtain water. At St. Louis,
Mo., is a well 2,200 feet deep, which flows; on the St. Louis county asylum
grounds is a well 3,843f feet deep, in which the water does not rise to the
surface; at Morrison, 111., 1,200 feet failed to bring water to the surface.
Difference of level will not account for the difference of these results. We
incline to the opinion that the water bearing strata are distributed in belts
of irregular width, but preserving a nearly uniform slope, except where
disturbed by upheavals. The whole subject is one that merits careful con-
sideration.
It is said that the flow of these wells is not regular but somewhat inter-
mittent. We are also told that the same phenomena are observed in the
water of wells rising from the St. Peter's sandstone, and it is claimed that
their level is affected by certain winds. An article by Hon. J. D. Caton, in
this volume, (see page 255), gives the facts concerning artesian wells.
Concerning the wells we have had no opportunity to investigate, and can
only say that we have the statement on good authority.
The water of the artesian wells is generally excellent, but some of
them are slightly chalybeate or irony, and a few contain some sulphurated
hydrogen gas and are hence called sulphur wells. There are some wells in
the county which discharge large quantities of inflammable gas— a carburetted
hydrogen. One of these in Allen township, not far from Ransom Station,
on the Chicago, Pekin & South Western Rail-Road, has been utilized for
lighting and heating a dwelling. The gas is furnished in ample quantity
and of good quality.
Phenomena. The Utica Anticlinal, at the tunnel, in the eastern part
of La Salle township, the strata do not lie horizontally, but are highly
inclined, dipping south-west 40 degrees. On a line running south 40
degrees east, the strata dip both ways — on one side*to the west, on the other to
the east. This line passes near Homer, about one and one-half miles west of
Utica Station, and just west of the mill at Lowell. It may be traced
farther north and well down into Livingston county. It seems to have
determined the course of the Big Vermillion, a part of the Little Ver-
million, and to some extent of the Illinois River itself. It occurred before
the deposition of the coal measures, because they lie unconformably on the
inclined strata of the St. Peter's and Trenton groups. Nor was the dis-
turbance confined to a single fold, slighter ones occur on each side of the main
axis, forming a series of anticlinals and synclinals on either side of it, the
most important to the west. That this folding was not the result of an
instantaneous application of force, is clear, from the fact that the strata are
generally not broken, but bent, as if the work was done gradually. The
lower members of the coal series seem to have been deposited while it
was yet in progress, but after the main part of the folding had been done.
The subject cannot be well illustrated without drawings.
At Lowell, the Trenton is so thrown up and so flexed, that unable to
bear the tension, it has cracked, forming a large fissure. Here we have a
proof that strata may be formed lying at a high angle, for the broken edge
of the Trenton is here covered by an arenacous limestone about a foot thick,
lying at an angle of 75 degrees, and evidently undisturbed. It occurs at
several points in the Vermillion valley, and we think on Covell creek, but
not at Homer.
St. Peter's sandstone. On the north bluff, opposite Buffalo Rock,
15
254 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
where the road descends from the bluff to the bottom, the St. Peter's has
the appearance of being veined with dark yellow, irregular veins of some-
thing harder than the rock itself. These veins are from two to five inches
thick and project from 2 inches to 6 inches above the surface. They have a
general north-west, south-east, north-east, south-west course, there being
two sets of them, the two covering the face of the rock with a coarse net
work. They have the appearance of being stratified perpendicularly or of
standing on end. We consider them to be the filling of crack caused by
exposure of the rock when soft to the sun, and a proof that it was depos-
ited in shallow water. A similar structure is seen in a green shale on
Covell Creek, and a somewhat similar one in shaley on Brewery Hill, about
nine and a half miles north-west of Ottawa. In this case, however, the
veins are bands of hard blue limestone, externally coated with a yellow
ochre and form continuous chains extending as far as the surface of the
shale can be seen.
An anomalous rock, a fragmental limestone, covering a small area,
occurs about three miles northwest of Ottawa, on the prairie, about thirty
rods north of the bluff road to La Salle, on the bank of the first ravine
crossed after leaving Brewery Hill, fifty rods west of the crossing. It is
made up of a great variety of pieces somewhat worn, but generally not
rounded, and forms a bed of hard rock, from eight inches to eighteen inches
thick. A few rods in the ravine is a singular bed of blue shaley clay, veined
with red ochre clay. In these clays are imbedded many hard, blue lime-
stone nodular masses, from four inches to sixteen inches in diameter.
An anomalous bed of clay iron stone exists in the east part of Ottawa
township, near the bluff, which can be traced a half mile. The form of
the concretions and the size of some of the masses render it worthy of
notice.
In the east part of Utica township, on the land of C. W. Esmond, on
ridge 50 or 60 rods south of his residence, we saw a bed of/ limestone
gravel very remarkable in its character. The pebbles are generally oblong,
very rough, looking as if worm eaten. There was when we saw it neither
sand nor earth mixed with it. We also saw a similar gravel deposit be-
tween Ottawa and Marseilles, in the ditch on the north side of the railroad.
One of the springs at Buell's, and the Debolt spring, are of the variety
known as white sulphur.
Such is a general sketch of the geology of La Salle county, Illinois. It
reveals vast resources; treasures more valuable than California's auriferous
quartz, or Nevada's silver bearing rocks, and speaks volumes for her future
greatness. No county in the State surpasses La Salle in mineral wealth;
none exhibits greater or more remarkable geological phenomena. To fully
present the matter would require twice the space taken up by this article,
and many illustrations, and special maps, and much more time than has
been allotted to us in the preparation of this monograph. In no part of our
State is nature's story album more fully opened for our perusal; nowhere
has the Eternal more clearly revealed His power, wisdom and goodness.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 255
IRREGULARITY OF THE FLOW OF ARTESIAN WELLS.
Read before the Academy of Sciences of Chicago, January 13, 1874, by
John Dean Caton, LL. D.
So far as I am advised, the subject of the regularity and continuity of
the flow of artesian wells has scarcely received the attention which its
importance deserves. The geologist has been interested and instructed by
a study of the strata pierced by them. The chemist has analyzed their
waters, and has been interested to observe the changes which take place as
different strata are passed through, and as found in different though con-
tiguous locations; but at last the great practical question is, water — quan-
tity — its constant and permanent supply, as well as quality, for till this is
assured investments cannot safely be made depending upon it.
At Ottawa during the last summer I sunk an artesian well in the
valley of the Illinois River, at the foot of the bluff on which my residence
stands, first through twelve feet of earth, then about one hundred and forty
feet of St. Peter's sandstone, then six feet of shale, thee one hundred and
twenty feet of lime rock, and then about ninety-five feet of Potsdam sand-
stone — in all three hundred and seventy-three feet. During the passage
through the lime rock the water commenced flowing over the surface, and
every day the quantity was observed to increase, and when finished, by a
very rude and unsatisfactory mode of measuring, the flow was found to be
61 gallons per minute, and when the head was raised 15 inches higher, the
flow was 55 gallons per minute. The well is tubed for 153 feet with four-
inch iron pipe. After various unsatisfactory experiments with small
dydraulic rams, I finally turned the water into a tank, six feet in diameter,
and holding 600 gallons; from this through a four-inch discharge or drive
pipe the water is conducted to a hydraulic ram of the largest size, located
ten feet below the upper end of the drive pipe, and over fifty feet distant.
The center of the drive pipe is eleven inches above the floor of the tank. I
soon observed that sometimes the water would only rise to the center of the
drive pipe, and at other times it would be three feet or more above it. At
first I attributed this to the ram, supposing that it sometimes discharged
the water more freely than at others; but upon observing that it always
beat more rapidly with the high head than with the low, I became satisfied
that there was actually an irregularity in the flow of the \dell — that it dis-
charged more water at some times than at others.
In order to make a commencement, in the investigation suggested by
the phenomenon already observed, I directed my gardener to measure the
height of the water in the tank three times a day, note the measurements,
and report to me at the end of the month. Here is the result of his obser-
vations made in the month of October. The measurements were of the
depth of the water in inches.
256
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
Date, 1873.
Oct. 1
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
-. - i at 7 a. ni
1° 4- f\
( at 9 a. in
16
A. M.
M.
P. M.
m
22f
23
23
...
...
18
15
25
14*
14*
m
34
20
15
14*
15*
16*
24
18
18
20*.
18
24
14i
16i
16
16
21
18
16
IT*
14*
15|
28
20
14
15
31*
14
Date, 1873.
Oct. 17
" 18
" 19
" 20
" 21
" 22
" 23
« 94
" 25
" 26
" 27
" 28
" 29
" 30
" 31
A. M.
M.
14
2SJ
16
22
14
16
14
12*
14|
19
14
29
15
23
14*
23
31*
33
15
19
16*
15*
16*
14*
14
13*
11*
20*
15
11
P. M.
18
14
12*
19
14
18
23*
13i
21
16*
16
15*
12
14§
16*
Here you will observe that the maximum height of the water was 34
inches, which occurred on the morning of the 8th, and the minimum was
11 inches, when the upper end of the drive pipe was but halt filled, which
occurred at noon of the 31st. The next highest was at noon on the 25th,
when it was 33 inches, and the next lowest was 11* inches, which occurred
on the morning of the 30th. Adding slight fractions to each for even
figures, the average of the morning measurements is 17, noon 20, and eve-
ning 18 inches; and yet the highest water observed was in the morning,
when we have the lowest average, and the lowest water at noon when we
have the highest average.
AVhile these figures, I think, satisfactorily show that the flow of this
well is not uniform — that it discharges more water to a given height at one
time than at another — I look in vain for facts to establish a periodicity in
the flow. While the conditions under which these observations were made
do not enable us to say what is the exact difference in the amount of water
discharged at diflerent times, because we do not know how much water the
ram is capable of passing in a given time, or possibly that it may pass more
water at some times than at others under the same head, it is hardly pos-
sible that it passes more water when the water but half fills the mouth of
the drive pipe than when it is three feet above it. The changes which take
place in the subterranean pressure are not only very considerable, but take
place very rapidly, as will be noticed by the observations made on the
morning of the 15th. On that morning, and on that alone, two observa-
tions were made. At 7 o'clock the water was found to be 15f inches in the
tank, and two hours later it was found to be 28 inches. What may have
occurred in the meantime we do not know. It may have been ,the two
hours raising the twelve and a quarter inches, or it may have been higher
or lower than either figure, or both, in the meantime. Enough is shown at
least to stimulate the desire for more accurate observations, and more
elements for accurate calculations. With a view to this, I directed that
the number of pulsations made by the ram should be counted and noted at
the times of the observations to be made in November. Here is the result:
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
257
Height of Water in
Strokes of
Height of Water in
Strokes of
Date,
1873.
Tank, in Inches.
Ram,perMin.
Date, 1873.
Tank, in Inches.
Ram,perMin.
Nov.
4..
xo 2
14*
16
48-48-48
Nov. 10..
20*
18
20
50-48-50
u
5..
19
11
20*
48-47-49
" 11..
2U
24*
> > •
50-51
a
6..
14
16*
19
48-48-48
" 12..
16
29i
18
48-51-48
a
7..
20
30
IS
50-51-48
" 13..
16
17*
14
48-48-88
ii
8..
44
■ • •
• • •
59 .. ..
" 14..
17
30
■ • •
48-51 ..
a
9..
35*
31*
. . .
52-51 ..
Dec. 5 . .
37
.. 52 ..
This last observation was made by myself, when I happened accident-
ally at the well.
Here we have an average of about 22 for the morning, 23* for noon,
and 17* for evening. Still we have the highest average for the noon obser-
vations, while the lowest is for the evening instead of the morning, as was
the case in October. Dut this excess for noon is more than made up by
the observation made by myself on the 5th day of December, so that if we
confine ourselves to the November observations we find the morning the
highest, whereas it was the lowest in October. When all the observations
are carefully considered and compared, they seem to indicate an absolute
want of periodicity. In the October observations we find the highest water
— 33 inches — occurred at noon, while on the morning of November the 8th
we find 44 inches, 11 inches more than was observed in October; yet it is
by no means improbable that even higher water than this occurred many
times during both months.
We observe in the report for noon of the 5th of November but eleven
inches of water — the same as the report for noon of the 31st of October.
We must remember, however, that at this stage of water that but one-half
of the mouth of the discharge pipe is submerged, so that we could hardly
expect it to come much lower than that, even at a very great diminution
of supply. Had the discharge pipe been inserted at the bottom of the tank,
we might at times have observed a much lower stage of water in the tank.
As the hydraulic ram is one of the instruments used in determining
the relative flow of the water at different times, it is proper to observe its
operation under different circumstances. By referring to the last report
we see that the strokes it gave varied from 47 with 11 inches to 59 w 7 ith
44 inches. At 13* inches it gave 48 strokes, and the same at 19 inches,
and all the intermediate heights. With 20 inches it gave 50 pulsations,
and the same at 26, and all the intermediate heights, except on the evening
of the 5th, when with 20* inches it gave but 49 strokes, and at noon of the
11th with 24* inches it gave 51 strokes. We may suspect these to have
been errors in the count, for on two other occasions with 20 and 20* inches
we have reported 50 strokes. With 29* inches we have 51 strokes, and the
same with 30 and 31* inches. With 35* inches we find 52 strokes, and
the same with 37 inches, nearly a month later; and with 44 inches we
have 59 pulsations. None of these countings can be relied upon as abso-
lutely accurate, for they were made with an ordinary second-hand watch,
and hence slight errors at least were inevitable; but they lead to the general
conclusion that the greater the head of water the faster the ram works, and
although the overflow is shorter, with the rapid action of the ram, yet it
must be more rapid in proportion to the greater momentum of the descend-
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ing column of water, and the greater impact when that column is arrested
in its descent, as it must be at each pulsation. We may not be far wrong,
then, if we assume that at least as much water is passed at each pulsation
when the ram is working rapidly under a heavy pressure, as when working
slowly in low water.
We have, then, for 11 inches of water in the tank, 47 strokes of the
ram, and for 44 inches we have 59 strokes. Assuming that each pulsation
passes the same quantity of water, then 25^ per cent, more water is
passed with the latter than with the former head, and this is the difference
in the flow of the "well at the different times. But this does not determine
the subterranean pressure by which this water is supposed to be forced to
the surface. Experiment showed that an increase of the head of 15 inches
decreased the flow from 64 gallons to 55 gallons, or say 14 per cent. Now
if we assume that a still greater increase of the head decreases the flow in
the same ratio, then an increase of 83 inches would decrease the flow by
more than 30 per cent., which was the condition when the water in the
tank was found to be 44 inches. Add this to the percentage of the
increased flow at the same time, and we have an increased subterranean
pressure above the lowest observed point sufficient to increase the flow at
the surface 55 per cent. This, of course, should be considered but the
rudest approximation, and careful and accurate experiments may show it to
be wide of the truth. Such experiments may be cheaply and easily made,
and I purpose to make them so soon as the weather in the spring shall
permit me to do so. By attaching a vertical pipe to the tubing of the
well, of a height sufficient to arrest the flow altogether, and into the top of
this pipe introduce a float with a light graduated rod, projecting above the
pipe sufficiently to allow the rise and fall to be accurately read, and at the
same time apply a pressure gauge to the pipe near the surface of the
ground, and it seems to me I shall have two modes of determining accu-
rately the subterranean pressure and its variations. Constant observation
of these, day and night, would no doubt be necessary for a considerable
time to give satisfactory results, but unless there be some law governing
this subterranean pressure which is supposed to force up the water, of
which we now have no conception, by which that variability would be
destroyed or modified when the flow is forcibly stopped, I think we may
thus obtain results at least reasonably satisfactory. For the present I will
not claim to have even approximated the truth in my estimate of the pro-
portional quantity of water discharged at the different times observed,
because of the imperfect means used ; I think, however, that I may safely
say that I have shown that there is an inequality in the flow of this well,
and that the changes are irregular and sometimes rapid. If this be so, it
should excite our interest and stimulate to further inquiry.
That there may be some occult laws affecting the flow of subterranean
water we may not be prepared to deny. Indeed, the common law has
always assumed that such is the case, for it absolutely refuses to take cog-
nizance of such flow unless a clear and distinct channel can be traced
through which the water flows. My neighbor may dig a drain on his own
land close to my spring of water which immediately ceases to flow, and yet
for this I have no remedy unless I can show that he intercepted an actual
channel where it could be seen that the water flowed to my spring. If the
water percolated through the soil or sand, the law refuses to recognize the
fact that he has taken away my water, no matter how strong the circum-
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stantial evidence may be that he has done so; and the reason assigned for
this rule is that we do not know by what natural laws the flow of subter-
ranean water may be governed. It is damnum absque injuria.
It is even possible that we may yet discover facts which may have
been known to our ancestors, but since forgotten, which may lead to the
conclusion that the flow of subterranean water is subject to some mysteri-
ous influence, to explain which the philosopher may find himself embar-
rassed. Indeed, if the observations which I have given you, do, as I think
they do, lead to the conclusion that the quantity of water discharged from
this well, from a depth of 373 feet, is very considerably larger at one time
than at another, and that these times are separated by very short and irreg-
ular intervals, we have already discovered facts not easy to explain ; at
least I am not prepared to suggest even a theory for their explanation.
There was no rapid increase of the flow during the sinking of this well, as
if an open channel of water had been struck leading from some great
fountain at a higher elevation, but the increase was gradual, as the work
progressed foot by foot, indicating that the supply is only by percolation
through the porous rock. If this be so, then no matter how great or how
rapid the changes of pressure may be on a distant fountain, the flow would
equalize itself in passing through the pores of th*; rock, even for a short
distance. No appreciable quantity of gas has ever been observed to escape
from this well, which might suggest a cause for this variable pressure.
The water is remarkably pure and soft, neither in appearance or taste being
distinguishable from Altered rain water, and it is used in my laundry
exclusively, while there is an abundance of rain water in the cistern
beneath the floor. Although it is softer than the water of Lake Michigan,
it still contains an appreciable amount of lime and a slight trace of iron.
Within one and a half miles of this well twelve other wells have been
sunk, all passing through the same geological formation, and several of
them a considerable distance into a thick stratum of lime rock underlying
the Potsdam sandstone near the bottom of which I stopped sinking. AVith
the exception of two others, none of these discharge water tit for domestic
uses. Their impurities are principally iron and sulphur, in varying degrees
in different wells. As a general rule, those furthest south have the most
impurities. There are two springs within the city discharging considerable
quantities of mineral water similar to that of the wells in the same region,
and may be presumed to come from the same source.
Whoever shall seek to explain these phenomena, must not start with
the supposition that the ordinary laws which govern matter are ever sus-
pended, but must look for a cause in harmony with these laws. The true
cause will be found in the relative" conditions of matter, perhaps not hith-
erto fully appreciated.
My object in laying before you this paper is to stimulate inquiry, and
induce others who have the means to observe whether other flowing wells
are subject to similar irregularities, and if so we may soon accumulate an
abundance of well authenticated facts, much more precise in their charac-
ter than these I now lay before you, in which the philosopher may well
become interested.
But then the inquiry possesses a practical as well as a scientific value,
in which the economist as well as the scientist will feel an interest.
Indeed, it is the great mission of science to point the way to the practical
economist, which shall lead to results beneficial to the great public. The
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diffusion of useful knowledge among men, which all may appropriate for
the good of all, is the ambition of all who are animated by the true spirit
of science, and under its influence they rarely think of the pecuniary
influence upon themselves as individuals, but contemplate with supreme
satisfaction the influence their labors may have upon the general welfare.
If our great arid plains in the West are to be irrigated and become
verdant fields, perhaps the most hopeful means to be suggested is artesian
wells. They present a subject for careful and systematic study, compara-
tively new. If pursued with the same exhaustive energy and intelligence
which is observed in the pursuit of knowledge on other subjects of scarcely
more importance, something useful will certainly be added to what we now
know. If what I have now said will tend in anv degree to awaken interest
in the study of artesian wells, which shall tell us more certainly what
reliance can be placed upon them, my present purpose will have been
accomplished.
OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
Some years since there was an Old Settlers' Society established in the
city of Ottawa, but for some cause it went down. It seemed to be desira-
ble to a large number of people who had participated in the hearty friend-
ship of earlier years to meet again and renew those old associations.
Prominent among: the originators of this movement were A. M. Ebersol
and John S. Armstrong. A call was published in the Ottawa city papers
for a meeting of the old settlers, and on the 29th day of May, 1869, about
twenty-five persons assembled at the Court House in Ottawa at 3 p. m.,
and were called to order by the election of Josiah E. Shaw, Chairman, and
A. M. Ebersol, Secretary and Treasurer.
A fter fraternal greetings had been exchanged it was decided to take
steps to make the society a permanent organization. Several gentlemen
present, among others Wm. Hickling and J. H. Fredenburg, had sought
diligently for the records of the old society, but without avail. After some
discussion it was resolved that thirty years' residence in the county should
make a person eligible for membership in the society, and all the gentlemen
present signed the roll, paying into the treasury 50 cents as a fee for mem-
bership.
A picnic was proposed, to take place some time during the coming
summer or fall, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. J. Green, S. R.
Lewis, D. F. Hitt, Wm. Hickling, J. T. Mitchell, and Wm. Palmer to
select a place and arrange for speakers and refreshments. This idea was
conceived by the Secretary, who assisted very materially in the maturation
of the plan. The following is the list of those who first signed the
roll, together with the date of their settlement and the State from
which they emigrated. J. E. Shaw, 1827, New York; A. M. Eber-
sol, 1834, Pennsvlvania; J. G. Mitchell, 1814, New York; D. Pem-
broke, 1825, New" York; J. Pembroke, 1825, New York; J. Green, 1829,
Ohio; W. N. Dunnavan, 1830, Ohio; G. H. Rugg, 1838, Massachusetts; J.
W. Ball, 1835, New York; Wm. Hickling, 1834, England; C. H. Green,
1833, New Hampshire; C. Olmstead, 1835, New York; Wm. Palmer, 1836,
; D. F. Hitt, 1830, Kentucky; D. Beers, 1834, England; J. Huston,
1836, Pennsylvania; F. C. Eichellburger, 1837, Pennsylvania; D. S. Eber-
sol, 1834, Pennsylvania.
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The first picnic was held in Judge J. D. Caton's park, the speakers
being Judge John C. Champlain and Judge Alfred Caverly, with music by
the band, and a grand dinner, after which short speeches were in order and
responded to by J. H. Fredenburg and Lucian B. Delano.
Annually, during August or September, a picnic has been held at
various places about Ottawa, which has been largety attended by the old
settlers and their friends. Relics of early days, spinning-wheels, ox-yokes,
mortars, and other implements used by them are exhibited, speeches are
made, interspersed with music, and a general good time with a picnic
dinner is the usual programme of the day. These gatherings are anticipated
with a great deal of pleasure by the members, and much that is important
in the early history of the county has been gathered from them.
The following is a list of the old settlers as taken from their records in
the possession of the Secretary, A. M. Ebersol :
Avery Joseph, P. O. Ottawa, born
K Y., settled here 1836.
Ayers Burton, P. O. La Salle, born
Mansfield, Ohio, settled here Sept.,
1828, died Sept. 22d, 1870.
Alberty Hannah J., P. O. Ottawa,
born La Salle Co. 1835, removed
to Iroquois Co.
Allen Kate S., P. O. Streator, born
Lowell, Illinois, La Salle Co. 1840.
Armstrong G. W., P. O. Seneca,
born Licking Co., Ohio, settled
here 1831.
Armstrong J. G., P. O. Ottawa, born
La Salle Co. 1836.
Armour Ann, P. O. Ottawa, born
Scotland, settled here Sept., 1840.
Abraham Isaac, P. O. Peru,' born
Delaware Co., Pa., settled here
May, 1838.
Armstrong Elsie, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ohio, settled here 1831, died 1871.
Ball James W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Tioga Co., N. Y., settled here
June 4th, 1835.
Beers Daniel, P. O. Ottawa, born
England, settled here 1834, died
July 2d, 1872.
Buchanan P. W., P. O. Ottawa,
born St. Louis, Mo., settled here
1834.
Beaubien N., P. O. Ottawa, born
Detroit, Mich., settled here March,
1831, died 1871.
Baldwin Elmer, P. O. Farm Ridge,
born Litchfield Co., Conn., set-
tled here 1835.
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Bowman W. E., P. O. Ottawa, born
Luzern Co., Pa., settled here 1837.
Brush H. L., P. O. Ottawa, born
Vergennes, Vt., settled here 1831.
Brown Charles, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ulster Co., 1ST. Y., settled here
1830, died May 8th, 1874.
Baldwin John G., P. O. Ottawa,
born K Y., settled here 1835.
Bullock J. S., P. O. Vermillionville,
born Rehoboth, Mass., settled here
1835, died Sept. 30th, 1875.
Barrickman Rachel, P. O. Reading,
111., born Lexington, Ohio, set-
tled here 1831.
Barnass A. B., P. O. Tonica, born
Erie Co., Pa., settled here 1832.
Blake Daniel, P. O. Ottawa, born
Me., settled here Oct., 1833.
Buchanan Elizabeth, P. O. Ottawa,
born Mifflin Co., Pa., settled here
1834.
Bacheller Rev. Wesley, P. O. Free-
dom, born Hampden Co., Mass.,
settled here 1836.
Burgess Warren, P. O. Lowell, born
New Jersey, settled here 1837.
Brimhall H. J., P.O. Sheridan, born
Jefferson Co., N. Y., settled here
1838.
Brimhall Jane, P. O. Sheridan, born
Huntingdon Co., Pa., settled here
1838.
Bronson Wm., P. O. Streator, born
Connecticut, settled here 1840.
Burgess Win., P. O. Ottawa, born
England, settled here 1848.
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Bullock E. B., P. O. Otttawa. born
La Salle Co., settled here 1834,
removed.
Bronson Eliza F., P. O. Streator,
born Montgomery Co., Pa,, set-
tled here 1834.
Bronson Reuben, P. O. Northville,
born Green Co., N. Y., settled
here June, 1838.
Barber Mary, P. O. Marseilles, born
La Salle Co., settled here July,
1842.
Brumbach Geo. W., P. O. Ottawa,
born Licking Co., Ohio, settled
here 1832.
Coleman T. S., P. O. Peru, born
Trenton, K J., settled here 1836.
Coleman Harriet, P. O. Peru, born
England, settled here 1829.
Cook Burton C, P. O. Chicago, born
New York, settled here 1836.
Crook Sylvanus, P. O. Ottawa, born
Clinton Co., X. Y., settled here
1834, died July 7th, 1871.
Currier John, P. O. Earlville, born
Hamilton Co., Ohio, settled here
1838.
Clayton W. R., P. O. Utica, born
ia Salle Co. 1835.
Clavton John S., P. O. Utica, born New York, settled here 1835, re-
Carter Susana, P. O. Earlville. born
Vermont, settled here 1835.
Crotty Thomas, P. O. La Salle, born
Boston, settled here June, 1841.
Carr Daniel. P. O. Troy Grove, set-
tled here 1835.
Cogswell Capt. Wm, P. O. Ottawa,
born Springfield, Mass., settled
here 1844.
Cogswell Charlotte A., P. O. Ottawa,
born Cherry Valley, ]STew York,
settled here 1844.
Courtwright J. D.. P. O. Freedom
Center, born Wilkesbarre. Pa.,
settled here 1851.
Courtwright Hannah, P. O. Free-
dom Center, born New York, set-
tled here 1823.
Cullen Wm., P. O. Ottawa, born
Ireland, settled here 1846.
Caton Hon. John D.. P. O. Ottawa,
born Utica, N. Y., settled here
1S33.
Cadwell Geo. C, P. O.
born Green Co., N.
here 1836.
Deer Park,
Y., settled
Dunavan W. L., P. O. Ottawa, born
Ohio, settled here 1S30.
Dominv Gilbert, P. O. Serena, born
La Salle Co. 1837.
Clayton Wm., P. O. Utica, born
Virginia, settled here April, 1834.
Calkins Wm. W., born La Salle Co.
1842, removed to Chicago.
Courtwright Cornelius, P. O. New-
ark, born Pennsylvania, settled
here 1839,'removed.
Clark W. H., P. O. Ottawa, born
Illinois, settled here 1840, removed.
Courtwright Susanna, P. O. Newark,
111., born Pittston, Pa., settled
here 1839.
Clavton Elizabeth, P. O. Utica, born
Maryland, settled here 1834, died
Sept., 1873.
Carter Samuel O.. P. O. Earlville,
born N. Y., settled here 1835.
Coleman John P. O. Streator, born
Richland Co., Ohio, settled here
1831.
moved to Nebraska.
Dominy Lorenzo, P. O. Serena, born
New York, settled here 1835.
Dominy Nathaniel, P. O. Grand
Ridge, born New York, settled
here 1836.
Dominy Philinda, P. O. Grand
Ridge, born New Yoik, settled
here 1836.
DeboltG. W., P. O. Ottawa, bom
La Salle Co. 1834.
Dunavan G. M.. P. O. Ottawa, bora
Newark, Ohio, setttled here 1830.
Dunavan J. A., P. O. Ottawa, born
Newark, Ohio, settled here 1830.
Dick Lucv A., P. O. Freedom, born
Onondaga Co., N. Y., settled here
1830.
Dominy Ezra, P. O. Serena, born
Clinton Co., N. Y., settled here
1835.
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Dick Sarah E. C., P. O. Deer Park,
settled here 1834.
Dunavan Nancy, P. O. Ottawa, born
Licking Co., O., settled here 1829.
Dominy Rhoda, P. O. Serena, born
Clinton Co., N. Y., settled here
1835.
Dickey T. L., P. O. Ottawa, born
Bourbon Co., Ky., settled here
1839.
Denis David G., P. O. Otttawa, born
Licking Co., O., settled here 1836.
Dickerson Mahlon, P. O. Freedom,
born Onondaga, N. Y., settled
here 1840.
Dyer Chester, P. O. Tonica, born
Berkshire Co., Mass., settled here
1836.
Dyer Mary, P. O. Tonica, born New
Hampshire, settled here 1838.
Davis Charles, P. O. Earlville, born
Niagara Co., N. Y., settled here
1844.
Dick Peter EL, P. O. Ottawa, born
Franklin, Ky., settled here 1840.
Eichelberger F. C, P. O. Ottawa,
born York Co., Pa., settled here
1837.
Ebersol A. M., P. O. Ottawa, born
Harrisburg, Pa., settled here Aug.
1834.
Ebersol D.^S., P. O. Ottawa, born
Harrisburg, Pa., settled here Aug.
1834.
Ebersol A. H., P. O. Ottawa, born
Harrisburg, Pa. , settled here Aug.
1834.
Ebersol Joseph, P. O. Ottawa, born
Harrisburg, Pa., settled here Aug.
1834, died January 13th, 1873.
Ebersol Jas. E. 0., P. O. Strawn,
born La Salle Co. 1845.
Ebersol C. Whittlesey, P. O. Otta-
wa, born New Britain, Conn., set-
tled here 1842.
Ebersol Elizabeth S., P. O. Ottawa,
born Lower Paxton, Pa., settled
here 1834, died Feb. 26th, 1871.
Edgecomb R. E., P. O. Ottawa,
born New York, settled here Oct.,
1835.
Ebersol M. Jane, P. O. Ottawa, born
Maysville, Ky., settled here 1840.
Eaton Seth, P. O. Lowell, born Mid-
dleborough, Mass., settled here
1834.
Eaton Maria C. B., P. O. Lowell,
born Pa., settled here 1832.
Esmond C. W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Saratoga, N. Y., settled here 1845.
Esmond Anna E., P. O. Ottawa,
born Indiana, settled here 1854.
Foster Amasa, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ottawa, April, 1837.
Fenton W. M., P. O. Ottawa, born
Columbus, Texas, settled here
July, 1836.
Fredenburg Henry, born Ottawa,
March, 1836, killed 1870.
Fredenburg I. H., P. O. Utica, born
New York, settled here June, 1834.
Fisher Abner A., P. O. Ottawa, born
Rochester, N.Y., settled here 1840.
Fife George, P. O. Ottawa, born
Glasgow, Scotland, settled here
1849.
Farrell Alice W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Floral Home, LaSalleCo.,111.,1847.
Green Jesse, P. O. Dayton, born
Ohio, settled here 1829.
Green David, P. O. Dayton, born
Ohio, settled here 1829.
Green John, P. O. Dayton, born
Ohio, settled here 1829.
Green Chas. H., P. O. Ottawa, born
Chesterfield, N. H., settled here
1833.
Glover Jos. O., born Penn Yan,
N. Y., settled here 1835, removed
to Chicago.
Goodell R. Eaton, born Pomfret,
Conn., settled here 1834, removed
to Chicago.
Gridley Henry W., P. O. Ottawa,
born Mass., settled here 1835.
Gibson John, born Newark, Ohio,
settled here 1839, died Aug. 2d,
1872.
Gentelman Wm., P. O. Ottawa, born
Orange, N. Y., settled here Jan.
1834.
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Gartman ¥m., P. O. Ottawa, born
York Co., Pa., settled here 1837.
Gridley Samuel W., born Rehobotb,
Mass., settled here 1834, died
March 28th, 1876.
Green Alma, born Chesterfield, N.
H., settled here October, 1833,
removed.
Gum Saintclare, P. O. Marseilles,
born Rockingham Co., Ya., set-
tled here April, 1830.
Gibson Rachel G., P. O. Dayton,
born Licking Co., Ohio, settled
here 1829.
Green Barbara, P. O. Dayton, born
Licking Co., Ohio, settled here
December, 1829.
Green Mary S., P. O. Dayton, born
Licking Co., O., settled here 1829.
Gunn Aaron, P. O. La Salle, born
Montague, Mass., settled here 1 838.
Galloway George, P. O. Marseilles,
born La Salle Co. 1828.
Gates Robt., P. O. Kendall, born
Maryland, settled here 1837.
Grove David, P. O. Ottawa, born
La Salle Co. 1829.
Hickling Wm., born England, set-
tled here 1834, removed to
Chicago.
Hitt D. F., P. O. Ottawa, born
Bourbon Co., Ky., settled here
1830.
Huston John, P. O. Ottawa, born
Pennsylvania, settled here 1836.
Hubbard John, born Courtland Co.,
N.Y., settled here 1834, died Dec.
31st, 1875.
Hoflman John, P. O. Mendota, born
Tioga Co!, Pa., settled here July
19th, 1838.
Halderman A. S., P. O. Streator,
born Lexington, Ohio, settled
here 1830.
Harvy Polly, born Syracuse, N. Y.,
settled here 1835, removed to
Elgin.
Holdridge R. L., P. O. Tonica, born
Madison Co.,N.Y.,settled here '30.
Hupp Elizabeth M., P. O. Tonica,
born Ohio, settled here Nov.,1840.
Hupp S. W., P. O. Tonica, born
Newark, Ohio, settled here Oct.
16th, 1836.
Holdridge Wm. H. H., P.O. Tonica,
born Madison Co., N. Y., settled
here 1831.
Hollister M. E., born N. Y., settled
here 1836, removed to Boise City,
Idaho.
Hays Samuel J., P. O. Ottawa, born
Litchfield, Conn., settled here
November, 1833.
Hopack John, P. O. Ottawa, born
Canada, settled here March, 1838.
Hep Jeremiah, P. O. Utica, born
Clermont Co., O., settled here '33.
Hartshorn A. J., P. O. La Salle, set-
tled here August, 1837.
Hoxie P. W., P. O. Tonica, born
Massachusetts, settled here 1840.
Holeman Caroline, P. O. Utica, born
Ohio, settled here 1833.
Hodgson Eli, P. O. Ottawa, born
Clinton Co.,Ohio, settled here '31.
Hodgson Phebe, P. O. Ottawa, born
Scioto Co.,Ohio, settled here 1832.
Hadley Lemuel, P. O. Utica. born
Clermont Co., Ohio, settled here
1838, died 1876.
Hadley Ann, P. O. Utica, born Cler-
mont Co., Ohio, settled here 1838.
Hawley Ezra, P. O. Tonica, born
Bennington, Yt., settled here 1835,
Harris Justus, P. O. Ottawa, born
Genesee Co., N. Y., settled here
May, 1842.
Hanna Sophia A., P.O. Ottawa, born
La Salle Co. July, 1837.
Hurd Hiram, P. O. Vermillionville,
born Arlington, Yt., settled here
1837.
Hurd Henrietta, P. O. Yermillion-
ville, born Arlington, Yt., settled
here 1837.
Hays Sophia W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Mass., settled here 1835.
Hoxie Lucinda, P. O. Tonica, born
Massachusetts, settled here 1837.
Ish Alexander, P.O. Peru, removed.
Jackson Giles W., P. O. Ottawa,
born New York, settled here 1837.
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Jacobs P. W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Norway, settled here Sept., 1836.
Jacobs Nancy C, P.O. Ottawa.
Jackson Hannah, P. O. Ottawa, born
New York, settled here 1836.
Jones W.L.F., P.O. Millington, born
Kutland Co., Vt., settled here '37.
Kirkpatrick Murray, P. O. Yer-
millionville, born Ohio, settled
here July, 1837.
Kellogg Philo, P. O. Prairie Center,
born Otsego Co., N. Y., settled
here 1837.
Lewis Samuel P., P.O. Ottawa, born
Washington Co., Pa., settled here
1833.
Lathrop Dixwell, born Norwich,
Conn., settled here 1835.
Leland L., P. O. Ottawa, born Graf-
ton, Mass., settled here July, 1835.
Leland Edwin S., P.O. Ottawa, born
Koxbury, Mass., settled here 1835.
Leland Margaret B., P. O. Ottawa,
born Baltimore, Md., settled here
1835.
Lewis Benjamin, P. O. Freedom,
born La Salle Co. 1835.
Lockwood Eugene D., P. O. Peru,
born New York, settled here 1810.
Lockwood Susan, P. O. Peru, set-
tled here 1840.
Lockwood M. B., P. O. Peru, born
Rochester, N. Y., settled here '40.
Lockwood Eliza J., P. O. Pern, born
Ireland, settled here 1839.
Lett Thomas, P. O. Sandwich, born
Texas, settled here 1839.
Lett Marietta, P. O. Sandwich, born
New York, settled here 1838.
Lewis Rachel, P. O. Ottawa, born
Pennsylvania, settled here 1833,
died April 24th, 1874.
McLaughlin Chas., P. O. Troy
Grove, born Maine, settled here
October, 1835.
McLaughlin Aug., P. O. Troy Grove,
born Maine, settled here 1834.
McKernan Mary B., P. O. Streator,
born Lexington, Ohio, settled here
October, 1831.
McKernan Capt. Jas., P. O. Streator,
born Kentucky, settled here 1828.
Mudge Chas., P. O. Tonica, settled
here 1840.
Mudge Eunice, P. O. Tonica, set-
tled here 1845.
Mauley Maria, P. O. Ottawa, born
Onondaga Co., N. Y., settled
here 1842.
Milliken Rebecca, P. O. Ottawa,
born Licking Co., Ohio, settled
here September, 1830.
Moore Jane M., born New York,
settled here Aug. 24th, 1838, died
Jan. 14th, 1876.
Munger Olive, P. O. Ottawa, born
La Fayette, la., settled here July,
1836.
Munson Wm., P. O. Freedom, born
Uniontown, Pa., settled here '30.
McCormick Wm. S., P. O. Ottawa,
born New York, settled here '33.
Miller Marshall, P. O. Ottawa, born
Yermont, settled here 1833.
Manley John, P. O. Ottawa, born
Clinton Co., N. Y., settled here
1837.
Moore Wm. C, P. O. Ottawa, bcrn
Pennsylvania, settled here 1835.
Mitchell, John S., P. O. Ottawa,
born Ontario Co., N. Y., settled
here May 5th, 1832.
McPherson Harvy, P.O.Tonica, born
Ripley, Ohio, settled here 1840.
McFarren J. II., P. O. LaSalle, set-
tled here May, 1837.
Morrison John, P. O. Tonica, born
Scotland, settled here 1851.
Morrison Mary, P. O. Tonica, born
Maryland, settled here 1857.
Murray John, P. O. Ottawa, born
New Jersey, settled here June
11th, 1840.
Miller John, P. O. Freedom, born
Pennsylvania, settled here 1838.
Neff Wm. D., P. O. Ottawa, born
Indiana, settled here 1835.
Neustadt Morris, born Germany, set-
tled here 1838, died 1874.
Newerson Newton, settled here
June, 1835.
268
HISTORY OP LA SALLE COUNTY.
Ney Edwin H., born Utica, settled
liere May, 1838.
Newton Geo. M., P. O. Tonica, born
New York, settled here 1835.
Newton C. S., P. O. Tonica, born
La Salle Co. 1831.
Nary Edward, P. O. Utica, born
Ireland, settled here 1848.
Nichol J. T., P. O. Marseilles, born
Washington Co., Pa., settled here
June, 1844.
Nichol Rebecca M., P.O. Marseilles,
born Richland Co., Ohio, settled
here June, 1844.
Olmstead Colman, born New York,
settled here 1835, removed.
Olmstead' J. D., P. O. Ottawa, born
New York, settled here October,
1839, removed to California.
Olmstead H. D., P. O. Ottawa, born
New York, settled here 1833.
Olmstead Mrs. E. A., P. O. Ottawa,
born New York, settled here 1840.
O'Connor Michael, P. O. Deer Park,
born Ireland, settled here 1835,
died May, 1873.
O'Neil Barney, P. O. Streator, born
Ireland, settled here 1836.
O'Donnell Edmond, P. O. Ottawa,
born Ireland, settled here 1847.
O'Donnell Mary, P. O. Ottawa,
born Ireland, settled here 1847.
Osman fm., P. O. Ottawa, born
Harrisburg, Pa., settled here 1840.
Pembrook David, P. O. Ottawa,
born New York, settled here 1825,
removed to Macoupin Co.
Patten F. J., P. O. Seneca, born
New York, settled here April, '45.
Ply mire Emily, born Ohio, settled
here 1844, removed.
Painter U. S., P. O. Streator, born
La Salle Co. 1843.
Pembrook Nancy A., born Ohio,
settled here 1838, removed.
Pembrook Calvin, born Illinois,
settled here 1825, removed to
Snatchwine.
Parr Samuel, born Newark, Ohio,
settled here Sept., 1832, died June
18th, 1872.
Parr Sally, P. O. Ottawa, born New-
ark, Ohio, settled here 1830.
Philips Thos. J., P. O. Newark, born
Lancaster, Pa., settled here 1834.
Powers L. H., born La Salle Co. 1834,
died May, 1871.
Powers Jane B., born Detroit, Mich.,
settled here 1839, removed to
Hastings, Neb.
Powell Rev. Thomas, P. O. Ottawa,
born Wales, settled here 1836.
Parr Samuel E., P. O. Ottawa, born
Ohio, settled here 1836.
Pitzer Wm., P. O. Ottawa, born
Ohio, settled here 1831.
Phelps B. T., P. O. Ottawa, born
Virginia, settled here 1828.
Palmer Wm., P. O. Ottawa, born
New York, settled here 1836.
Pembrook Jeremiah, P. O. Ottawa,
born Illinois, settled here 1825.
Pembrook Mary, born New York,
settled here 1835, removed to
Macoupin Co.
Philips J. T., P. O. Ottawa, born
Luzern, Pa., settled here 1838.
Perley Nathaniel, born Boston,
settled here 1835, removed to
Kansas.
Palmer Ransom, P. O. Ottawa, born
Tioga Co., Pa., settled here 1844.
Pickins Jas. H., P. O. Ottawa, born
New Bedford, Mass., settled here
June 24th, 1840.
Parr Adaline, P. O. Marseilles, born
Ontario Co.,N.Y., settled here '36.
Piergue J. L., P. O. Ottawa, born
France, settled here 1846.
Rugg Geo. H., P. O. Ottawa, born
Lancaster, Mass., settled here
June, 1838.
Reed Capt. H. J., P. O. Ottawa, born
Pennsylvania, settled here 1834.
Rockwood E. E., born Chesterfield,
N. H., settled here 1835, re-
moved to Indiana.
Rockwood L. Otis, P. O. Ottawa,
born New Hampshire, settled
here 1835.
Reynolds B. B., P. O. Ottawa, born
Lewiston, Pa., settled here 1835.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
269
Rice John B., P. O. Ottawa, born
Worcester Co.^Mass., settled here
1837.
Rugg Lewis P., born Lancaster,
Mass., settled here June, 1838,
removed to Pontiac.
Reed Darius, born Monroe Co., N.
Y., settled here L827, removed
to Barton Co., Kan.
Rockwood Wm. H., P. O. Ottawa,
born Chesterfield, N. H., settled
here 1835.
Russel Peter, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ireland, settled here 1838.
Rockwood Sally, P. O. Ottawa, born
Chesterfield, N.H.,settled here '35.
Rood Daniel L., P. O. Marseilles,
born New York.
Rowe Fear B., P. O. Freedom, born
La Salle Co., December, 1839.
Rowe Alexander, P. O. Norway, born
New York City, settled here 1835.
Rawling A. E., P. O. Sheridan, born
Indiana, settled here 1835.
Rood Levi H., P. O. Sheridan, born
Connecticut, settled here 1843,
died June 17th, 1875.
Robertson W. H., P. O. Sheridan,
born Indiana, settled here 1832.
Robertson Martha A., P. O. Sheri-
dan, born Indiana, settled here '33.
Richey James, P. O. Tonica, born
Indiana, settled here 1830.
Richey Anna H., P. O. Tonica, born
Ohio, settled here 1836.
Rockwood Laura, P. O. Ottawa,
born New Hampshire, settled here
1835, died March, 1874.
Roy Joseph I., P. O. Ottawa, born
New Jersey, settled here 1836.
Richy John M., P. O. Lostant, born
Muskingum Co., Ohio, settled
here 1837.
Reynolds Eleanor S., born Penn-
sylvania, settled here 1835, died
February, 1874.
Richey David, P. O. Tonica, born
Ohio, settled here 1830.
Richey M. E., P. O. Tonica, born
born La Salle Co. 1846.
Rugg Susan W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Massachusetts, settled here 1838.
Raymond Samuel, P. O. Ottawa,
born Windsor Co., Yermont, set-
tled here June, 1837.
Russell Caroline, P. O. Ottawa, born
Watertown, N. Y., settled here '45.
Swartz Zephaniah, P. O. Streator,
born Bourbon Co., Ky., settled
here 1835.
Swartz Sarah, P. O. Streator, born
Kentucky, settled here 1834.
Strawn David, born Ohio, settled
here 1840, died Sept., 1873.
Sinclaire Watson, P. O. Ottawa,
born Kentucky, settled here 1835.
Southworth A. P., P. O. Newark,
settled here October, 1838.
Seeley Frances I., P. O. Yermillion-
ville, settled here 1834.
Seeley Wm., P. O. Yermillionville,
settled here 1818.
Skinner Jos. E., P. O. Ottawa, born
Orange Co., N. Y., settled here '40.
Stilson T. S., P. O. Earlville, born
Connecticut, settled here 1839.
Stilson Sarah T., P. O. Earlville, born
Ohio, settled here 1846.
Smith Sarah R., P.O. Sheridan, born
Broome Co.,.N.Y., settled here '36.
Smith Wm., P. O. Sheridan, born
Broome Co., N.Y., settled here '36.
Sage M. E., P. O. Ottawa, born Bark-
ing Ridge, N. J., settled here '40.
Stevenson Comfort A., P. O. Bruce-
ville, born Licking Co., Ohio, set-
tled here 1830.
Sampson Stephen W., P. O. Free-
dom, born Broome Co., N. Y.,
settled here 1837.
S<]uires Susan W., P. O. Ottawa, born
Lancaster, Mass., settled here '38.
Strawn Isaiah, P. O. Ottawa, born
Sandusky, Ohio, settled here 1834.
Strawn Hopie, P. O. Ottawa, born
Franklin Co.,Mass.,settled here '31.
Sampson Ruhama S., P. O. Freedom,
born Broome Co., N. Y., settled
here 1837.
Sutphen E. D., P. O. Earlville, born
Boston, settled here 1834,removed.
Sutphen Chas. II., born Boston,
settled here 1834, dead.
270
HISTORY OF LASALLE COUNTY.
Sampson Luman S., P. O. Freedom,
borne Broome Co., X. Y., settled
here 1S3T.
Spradling Enoch, P.O. Norway, born
Tennessee, settled here 1S11.
Slater Rose Ann, P. O. Streator,
born Livingston Co., Ky., settled
here 1828.
Shaver C, P. O. Ottawa, born Ohio,
settled here 1830.
Shaver J. R., P. O. Ottawa, born
Newark, Ohio, settled here 1830.
Shaver Harvey, born Licking* Co., O.,
settled here 1829, removed to
Missouri.
Smith Frederick, P. O. Ottawa, set-
tled here 1831.
Strawn Jeremiah, P. O. Ottawa,
born Ohio, settled here 1S28.
Smith Alva O., P. O. Serena, born
Connecticut, settled here 1831.
Strawn Abner, P. O. Ottawa, born
Sandusky, O., settled here 1834.
Strawn Eli. P. O. Ottawa, born
Ohio, settled here 1837, removed.
Shaw J. E., born Xew York, set-
tled here 1827, died August, 1875.
Skinner Robt. E., P. O. Ottawa, born
La Salle Co. 1833.
Sapp F. M., P. O. Ottawa, born Bu-
reau Co., 111., settled here 1S18.
True Geo. A.. P. O. Utica, born
Boston, settled here Sept., 1838.
Tilden John P., P. O. Peru, born
Massachusetts, settled here 1837.
Tilden Nancy S., P. O. Peru, born
Maine, settled here 1839.
Tanner Maria P., P. O. Grand
Ridge, born La Salle Co. 1839.
Thatcher Enos, born New York, set-
tled here 1835, removed to
Blackstone, 111.
Thomas Esther, P. O. Ottawa, born
Franklin, IS". Y., settled here Dec,
1831.
Trumbo Matthias, born Virginia,
settled here 1830, died Novem-
ber, 1S75.
Taylor Elizabeth S.. P. O. Streator,
born Xew Britain, Conn., settled
here 1838.
Trumbo Ambrose, P.O. Ottawa, born
Licking Co., O., settled here '30.
Thompson G. L., P. O. Ottawa, born
Xew York, settled here 1830.
Vandoren C. M., R O. Ottawa, born
New York, settled here 1837, re-
moved to Washington Ter.
Whitmore W. F., P. O. Ottawa,
settled here 1S38.
W ood Jeremiah, P. O. Ottawa, born
Xew York, settled here is:', 7.
AVilson Isaac, P. O. Ottawa, born
Kentuckv, settled here 1831.
Wakefield Otis 0.,P.O. Ottawa, born
Lewis Co., X. Y., settled here '39.
Watts Philip C, P. O. Ottawa, born
England, settled here 1839.
Wallace , P. O. Earlville, settled
here 1837.
Wafer James, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ireland, settled here 1836.
Wafer Mary, P. O. Ottawa, born
Ireland, settled here 1836.
Warren Nathan, P. O. Ottawa, born
Maine, settled here 1836.
Warren W., P. O. Freedom, born
Xew York, settled here 1S36.
Warren Maria W., P. O. Freedom,
born Massachusetts, settled here
1836.
Wood James W., P. O. Vermillion-
ville, born Montgomery Co., N.
Y., settled here 1833.
Wood Rebecca, P.O. Yermillionville,
born Cattaraugus Co., X. Y., set-
tled here 1811.
Wallbridge Alonzo, P. O. Marseilles,
born St. Lawrence Co., N. Y, set-
tled here 1836, died Feb., 1875.
Warren Eliza, P . O. Freedom, born
Xew York, settled here June, '31.
Wiswall Jason, born Xorton, Mass.,
settled here 1S35, died Feb., 1875.
Whiting Jabez, ville, born Con-
necticut, settled here 1S37, re-
moved to Iowa.
Yeager Joseph, P. O. Wedron, born
Indiana, settled here 1842.
Zeek Wm., P. O. Seneca, born Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, settled here 1835.
Rev. Alfred Osgood
LOST A NT
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 273
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
The first district for Common School purposes in La Salle County was
set off in the year 1835, by the County Commissioners, and designated
Number One. From that date forward as the population demanded, other
districts were defined and provision made for the erection of School Build-
ings in each. At first these buildings were generally of logs with a stick
fire-place and chimney for means of warmth in the winter, and greased
paper or cracks in the logs provided light. Before the Common Schools
were established, a few Private Schools were maintained, the first of which
were Missions among the resident Indians. A review of the present con-
dition of the Common Schools in the County will be interesting, and will
fully illustrate their growth and prosperity. It is subjoined from the re-
port of the County Superintendent, Mr. E. Williams, and is for the year
ending September, 1S76.
Number Males in County under 21 years 17,236
Number Females in County under 21 years 17,615
Total Number Persons under 21 years 34,851
Number Males between 6 and 21 years 11,391
Number Females between 6 and 21 years 11,777
Total Number between 6 and 21 years 23,168
Number of Male Pupils enrolled 7,983
Number of Female Pupils enrolled 8,349
Total Number of Pupils enrolled 16,332
Number School Districts 298
Number Districts having School 5 months or more 291
Number Districts having School less than 5 months 7
Total Number Public Schools sustained 347
Total Number of months Schools sustained 2,843.63
Average Number months School sustained 7.58
Grand Total Number days attendance 15,865.04
Number Graded Schools 19
Number months taught in Graded Schools 834
Number Ungraded Schools 282
Number months taught in Ungraded Schools 1,291.90
Number Public High Schools 5
Number Male Teachers 216
Number Female Teachers 394
Total Number Teachers 610
Number months taught by Male Teachers 1,019.55
Number months taught by Female Teachers 2,021.75
Total Number months taught 3,041.35
Number Private Schools 16
Number Male Pupils in Private Schools 639
Number Female Pupils in Private Schools 558
Total Number Pupils in Private Schools 1,197
Number Teachers in Private Schools 27
16
274 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
Highest monthly salary paid to any Male Teacher $200.00
Highest monthly salary paid to any Female Teacher 70.00
Lowest monthly salary paid to any Male Teacher 20.00
Lowest monthly salary paid to any Female Teacher 15.00
Number of applicants examined for Teaching 521
Number of Males rejected 21
Number of Females rejected ' 61
Number Districts having Libraries 39
Number Yols. bought during year for District Libraries, 296
Total Number Vols, in District Libraries 1,461
Number acres School Lands sold during year 43
Number acres School Lands remaining unsold 593
Number School Houses built during year 3
Number Stone School Houses 1
Number Brick School Houses 21
Number Frame School Houses ." 280
Total Number in County 302
Estimated value of School Property $272,835.00
Amount of Receipts during year 266,121.72
Amount paid Teachers 135,634.84
Total Expenditures for the year 212,274.13
THE COUNTY INFIRMARY.
F~ Thef first public attempt to provide for the poor of the county was
made in 1838, when Joseph Cloud was appointed by the County Commis-
sioners, agent to purchase or rent land on which to secure a home for the
indigent. In June of that year Asher Lane was hired to board the poor,
and in September, 1839, a poorhouse was established, and Mr. Lane con-
tinued as overseer or keeper of the poor. This arrangement was continued
until 1850, when the farm which had been purchased in 1839, was sold, and
the proceeds applied to board the poor by those considered proper to take
care of them. This arrangement did not prove satisfactory, and in October,
1851, Wells Wait, Giles W. Jackson, and Sylvanus Cook were appointed a
committee to have charge of the county poor, and were authorized to pro-
vide for their keeping. They hired the old Buchanan house in South
Ottawa, and kept the poor there until September, 1853, when they pur-
chased eighty acres of Mr. J. O. Glover for $800, and erected thereon the
necessary buildings. Here the county poor were kept until the completion
of the present infirmary. The present county farm comprises one hundred
and ten acres of excellent land. It was purchased in November, 1874, and
contains one hundred and ten acres of excellent land. Tbe present infirm-
ary, one of the best in the State, cost, including its heating apparatus and
gas fixtures, $51,275. The farm cost $6,600. The superintendent is Mr.
G. W. Jackson; the warden, Mr. B. B. Arnold.
THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
On December 2, 1852, a meeting of various citizens interested in
agriculture and horticulture, met at Ottawa to consider the feasibility of
organizing a county society. At a subsequent meeting a committee ap-
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 275
pointed to devise a plan of action, reported their action, and a constitution
and by-laws were adopted. At this meeting the first board of officers, con-
sisting of the following gentlemen, were elected : John II. Hosford, presi-
dent ;MatsonY. Cox, first vice-president; Wells Wait, second vice-president;
S. W. Raymond,recording secretary; Maurice Murphy, corresponding secre-
tary, and George H. Norris, treasurer.
At the first meeting held by these officers, a resolution was adopted
asking the Legislature to pass an act creating a State Agricultural College,
and to provide for the advancement of this industry throughout the State.
The first fair was held during the last week of September, 1853, continuing
in session but one or two days. It was held in the city of Ottawa, and we
believe in the court house and court house yard. At this fair no premium
higher than three dollars was offered. After a year or two, the society was
reorganized on a better basis, and a perpetual lease obtained from J. V. A.
Hoes and M . H. Swift for ten acres of ground, where the present residence
of M. H. Swift and others in that locality is situated. Before holding the
fair here, however, it was conducted a year or two in Shabbona square. The
exhibitions were held on the grounds donated by Messrs. Hoes and Swift
until 1860, when the society purchased the present fair grounds of Mr.
George H. Norris, and erecting the necessary buildings, and making needed
improvements thereon, have conducted annually one of the best fairs in
Illinois. The State fair has been held here three seasons, — in 1872-'75 and
'76. The list of premiums for 1877 is unusually large, and promises an
exceedingly interesting and profitable exhibition.
276
HI8TORY OF LA 8A.LLE COUNTY.
OFFICIAL
RETURNS OF THE ELECTION IN LA SALLE
COUNTY, NOVEMBER 7, 1876.
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Govern 'r
Lieut. Gov.
Sec'y of State.
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HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 279
OTTAWA.
The city of Ottawa is located on a broad plateau of sandstone, on the
Illinois River at its confluence with the Fox. These rivers, whose banks
are abrupt ledges of sandstone from twenty to one hundred feet high, divide
the city into three portions. South Ottawa, which was first laid out, is
south of the Illinois, on the bluff; North Ottawa, the principal business
center, is north of the Illinois and west of the Fox; and East Ottawa, or
the residence portion, is east of the latter river. The site of the city is
remarkably well adapted for a business center. The two rivers whose waters
join in the journey to the Gulf of Mexico at this point, have been the highway
for centuries. It was at this place in an early day that Northern industry
met Southern luxuriance and fire, and the coalition thus established has
made as fair a land as the sun shines upon.
Within the memories of many of the early settlers now living the
principal means of communication with the outside world was the rivers
spoken of. Parties of exploration or trade embarked their pirogues and
dug-outs on their bosoms, and in truth it may be said, that had it not been
for them this goodly land would not have been so well and favorably known
at an early day.
With the present added facilities of canal and railroad, Ottawa must
inevitabty become important as a manufacturing and commercial center,
and should the anticipated ship canal go through as surveyed by Gen. J.
H. Wilson in 1867, Ottawa will become an unrivalled inland town for
shipping, having as it does tributary to it a large scope of rich, arable land.
The first permanent settler of Ottawa was Dr. David Walker, who
established himself here in the fall of 1826. The Pembrokes and a few
others were settled about a mile below him, where they made claims one or
two years before him, but not within the corporate limits of the first town.
His house was the departing place for travelers, as well as a trading house
for the Indians, a number of whom made this head-quarters during the
summer. Mr. Walker encouraged trade with the Indians, and his son,
Geo. W., first sheriff of the county, continued it, and in after years, when
associated with Wm. Hickling, the firm of Walker & Hickling was exten-
sively known throughout the west, and southwest, making large purchases
of sugar and molasses on the southern plantations, and bringing them up
the river to Ottawa by steamboat.
The State authorities thinking the site an elegible one for a town, along
the proposed line of the Illinois and Michigan canal, surveyed and platted
the town, by James Thompson, surveyor, and it was recorded at
the county seat of Peoria county, on the 5th day of December, 1830.
This plat included a strip of land on the north side of the river, the north
line of which was the south line of the present court house square.
When the county was organized, January 15th, 1831, Ottawa became
the seat of justice. There was no court house, and the first court was held
in a double log house, one side being occupied by the court, while the other
was used by Mr. Walker's family to prepare dinner for the judge of the
circuit, Richard M. Young; the clerk, Lenhard A. Shrader; the prosecut-
ing attorney, Strode, (Thos. Ford held this position, but was absent at the
time,) and other transient attorneys, while the juries were obliged to provide
their own entertainment. At this time it may be mentioned the only
280 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COTTNTY.
buildings in town were the house occupied by the court, and a plank trad-
ing house, owned and occupied by Geo. E. Walker, the sheriff, both of
which stood on the bluff south of the river. Mr. Alex K. Owens was fore-
man of the first grand jury. He was passing through the county, and
stopped over night at Christopher Long's, who then lived on Covell Creek.
In the morning the sheriff rode up to the house, and urged him to stay and
act as juror. Mr. Owens objected, being a stranger. The sheriff still
urged him, saying that the county commissioners were not elegible, and he
had summoned every man in the county, aud yet lacked one of filling the
two panels. Furthermore, unless he complied with the request they would
be deprived of the honor of a circuit court in the county for that year. In-
duced by these considerations, Mr. Owens consented to stay, and mounting
his horse rode into Ottawa with the sheriff, and was appointed foreman.
The jurors held their deliberations in the shade of two large sugar
trees, which stood down on the river bank but about two rods apart. At
the call for dinner a hat was passed for funds, which were sent up to Geo.
Walker's store. All that could be obtained to satisfy their inner man was
crackers. Moses Booth, the constable, borrowed a tin cup, and passed the
water, each one taking a drink as occasion required. David Walker had a
large drove of hogs which annoyed the jurors exceedingly while eating, and
inasmuch as they were not legally summoned, the constable was called upon
for legal protection against them. While he was driving them away from
one jury the other would be attacked, and they would also call loudly for
legal protection. What, with passing the water to moisten the dry meal,
and protecting the juries from the self constituted hoards of marauding
swine, the officer of the law was exceedingly glad when the dinner hour
closed.
The court took action on the clerk's bond of $2,000, and received the
two juries, grand and petit, the former of whom had only one case.
A man by the name of Dougherty, of Dougherty's Grove, since
Holderman had a daughter who had made a marriage contract with a
man, and the ladv had waited so long that she was tired, and sought to
recover damages for her blighted affections. After listening to the evidence,
a vote was taken by the jury, and no bill found. In making out the report
to the judge it was discovered that only four of the jurymen could write,
consequently the foreman was delegated to write the names for all. If the
one whose name he was writing looked intelligent he wrote a good hand,
if otherwise, the lines were scrawled along and the spelling bad. The report
when handed to the judge was complimented by him. who congratulated
them on living in such an orderly and law abiding communitv.
At the September term of the court the grand jury found bills against
Charles Jack, Geo. W. McFadden. Simon Crosair. Geo. W. and Wilbur F.
Walker, and James B. Campbell, for selling liquor without license. At a
subsequent term they were discharged, having taken out license in the
meantime.
After the Black Hawk War the population had increased, Henry
Hicks, a dispenser of whisky, blankets, and baubles to the natives, and one
or two other white men becoming citizens, besides the thirty or forty
Indians. The buildings were the fort, jail, court house, two unenclosed
frames, the dwelling of David Walker, and the trading house of Henry
Hicks.
In 1831 State's addition to Ottawa was laid out, just north of the
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present court house square. The latter and the present park, as well as the
blocks where tiie opera house and new postoffice are, were a part of the
grant, but the last were sold in 1839 or 1840 to assist in the building of the
court house.
In 1835, the only houses iu North Ottawa, were the tavern of David
Walker, and the store of Robert P. and James H. Woodworth, the latter of
which made some pretensions for the times. Major D. F. Hitt started a
stage from Ottawa, Woodworth's store being headquarters, to Boyd's
Grove, by way of Hennepin, joining the two stage lines that ran one from
Chicago to Springfield, crossing the Illinois at the ferry at Ottawa, and the
other from Galena to Springfield, with which he connected at Boyd's
Grove. For this purpose Major Hitt completed a ferry at Utica.
About 1838 or '39, Ottawa became an incorporated village, having taken
some bold strides in the forward march of improvement. The names of
the first trustees cannot be definitely ascertained, as the records were
burned in a fire while temporarily in the office of Julius Avery, Esq.
The contract for building the present Court House was let July 12th,
1838, to Wm. F. Flagg, for $20,000, but when completed in 1840, it cost
$40,000.
In February, 1839, a public library association was formed, with a list
of seven trustees, as follows : Geo. B. Macy, Chester B. Hall, Lorenzo
Leland, Joseph Hall, Madison E. Jlollister, Michael Ryan and Jesse J.
Epperson. This is the first recorded library association in the county.
An association was formed in the year 1851, to develop the immense
waterpower at Ottawa, with a limited . capital of $50,000. A company
called the Ottawa Manufacturing Company, was incorporated, to build a
dam across the Fox river, but from want of energy and capital, failed of
their purposes. In 1857, another organization of the same name, whose
capital was $100,000, was chartered, the design being to erect a dam across
the Illinois river, above the mouth of the Fox. The terms of the charter
granted two years for the completion of the work, but this association did
not prove successful, the charter expiring by limitation.
In 1865, the subject was again agitated, and another company was
commissioned by the state, to build a dam across the Fox river, between
the aqueduct and the Illinois river. This, also, did not succeed, but in 1867,
the legislature constituted Wm. Reddick, M. H. Swift, Jeremiah Wood,
George Avery and Richard Thorn, a board of Commissioners, in behalf of
the city of Ottawa, to subscribe to the capital stock of the Ottawa Manu-
facturing Company, the sum of $100,000, and issue bonds to that amount,
due in ten years. By a popular vote this action was indorsed, but the
matter rested in this condition until the spring of 1869, when a large and
enthusiastic meeting of the people was held, which compelled action. A
dam was put across the Fox river just below the aqueduct, sufficiently
high to raise the water to the level of the proposed dam in the Illinois, to
which a connecting canal was to be du£ and a dam built.
In the spring of 1876, the Fox river dam went out, leaving the paper
mill that had been erected at its side, without power. A coffer dam was
put in, which also* went out. Some years before the other dam also went
out. The paper mill was moved to Dayton.
Perhaps some estimates in regard to this water power, made when the
rivers are at their lowest stages, would not be devoid of interest. In the
four miles between Dayton and Ottawa, on the Fox river, there is a fall of
17
284 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
thirty-four feet, with a volume of 40,000 cubic feet of water per minute.
Between Marseilles and this city, a distance of eight miles, there is a
fall in the Illinois river of eighteen feet, with a volume of more than
40,000 cubic feet per minute, sufficient for any of the larger enterprises in
the country.
During this session of the legislature of 1852 and 3, a charter was
obtained for the city of Ottawa, approved by the Governor, February 10th,
1853. An election of city officers was held on the succeeding 3d of May,
when the following officers were elected. Wm. Hickling had a majority of
six over Arthur Lockwood, for Mayor :
Aldermen of 1st ward — John Lynch and Oranzo Leavens ; Alder-
men of 2d ward — S. B. Gridley and Marshall Miller ; Aldermen of 3d
ward — Hopley Drew and John Armour ; Aldermen of 4th ward — John
B. Champlains and Patrick Fanning ; Aldermen of 5th ward — Chester B.
Hall and Wm. Haskell.
On the evening of election, the City Council met for the first time and
appointed Thos. R. Courtney, Clerk.
In 1854, the Illinois Telegraph Company was organized, the article of
incorporation, bearing date December 27th, a prominent member of which
was Hon. J. Dean Caton, ex-State Supreme Judge, who has been widely
known in telegraph circles, and at one time president of the Mississippi
Telegraph Company, and one of the directors of the Western Union. A
telegraph instrument manufactory was put in operation by Judge Caton,
at- Ottawa, which employed at one time over thirty operatives, all the
different styles of registers, sounders, relays, keys, switches, in fact, all the
office implements used in telegraphing for the supply depots at New York,
Cleveland and Chicago, used by the oreat companies. The amount of
business transacted may be appreciated when we state that the factory
turned out annually, 600 relays, 600 sounders and keys, and 100 registers.
This factory has since fallen into disuse.
During the winter of 1854 and '55, a special law was passed, author-
izing the city of Ottawa to elect a BoarH of Education — one member from
each ward, to organize and regulate the public schools of the city. A
special vote of the people, in the spring of 1855, empowered the board to
levy a tax of one per cent, on the whole value of the property within the
city, for the purpose of building school houses, and defraying the other
necessary expenses of the schools. Many plans were advanced in regard
to the how and where the several buildings should be placed in the different
wards, but the one that finally prevailed was the erection of two large
three story buildings, one in the third, the other in the fifth ward, that
season, (1855,) and as soon thereafter as practicable, to put up three others,
to be located, one north of the canal feeder, one east of Fox River, and one
in South Ottawa, and then when the scholars were sufficiently advanced to
require it, the High School. Accordingly the board erected the two
buildings and furnished them, at a cost of $25,000, only two stories being
completed however, on account of the imputed extravagance of the board,
by the people. It was said that there were not scholars enough in the city
to fill the four rooms in each building, but energetic teachers having been
selected by the board, and 'specifying among other printed regulations, that
the same grade should use the same text books, and that scholars must
attend punctually or lose their seats in one month, more rooms were
needed, and the board completed the unfinished stories of the school
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. „ 285
building, which were immediately filled with waiting children, many of
whom could not be accommodated, and temporary side schools were opened,
five of which sprang into existence, two or three of them in 1859, having
two departments.
The schools were organized upon the Graded Free School System, that
affords education to every child, rich or poor. When they began in 1855,
the whole number of scholars attending school in the city, was 125, but in
1857, 1,469 pupils were instructed, at a cost, per capita, of $5.76-1000 per
annum. In 1870, there were in attendance at the schools of the city, 1,200
regular pupils, and about 1,500 on the rolls, with 28 teachers who received
salaries, ranging from $30 to $100 per month.
In August, 1855, the Gas-Light and Coke Company began operations
and have been the light of the city ever since.
The abundance of starch-producing material in the county called atten-
tion to the fact that that needed article could be made as cheaply here as at
any other point in the United States. Agreeable to this idea a company
was incorporated on the 21st day of January, 1856, who began the erection
of the large building known as the Starch Factory, completing it in about
two years, and it has been much enlarged since its first erection. It has
over three acres of floors and employs 120 men and boys, making daily
1,000 pounds of starch, and annually using 250,000 bushels of corn.
About two years after the organization of the Starch Factory, Judge
Caton conceived the idea of a system of water supply for the growing city.
South of the river on the bluff, the sandstone which underlies all this regien,
is covered with a thick layer of gravel, which is underneath the soil, and
furnishes abundance of pure water. Tapping this bed at several places, a
supply was obtained which was carried across the river and distributed in
the city. Aside from this, there are about thirty artesian wells in and about
the city, which furnish abundantly good wholesome water. The first one
of these was bored by a number of gentlemen who were seeking oil.
The glass factory was established in 1868, J*. Dean Caton, president,
and S. B. Gridly, secretary. The company turned out the first year, $1,800,-
000 worth of glass. Since 1870 another furnace has been added,and the first one
rebuilt after its destruction by fire. The sand of which the glass is made
is obtained near by, the plateau of sandstone on which the city rests being
composed of it. Practically, the supply is inexhaustable.
Politically, the county was Democratic before I860, after that Repub-
lican until 1870, and varying since then to the domination of both parties.
The city of Ottawa has almost always been Democratic. The present county
officers are, with the exception of the Treasurer, Republican: Circuit
Judge, Edward Leland; County Judge, Charles S. Miller; County Clerk,
H. A. McCaleb; Circuit Clerk, R. W. Holmes; Recorder, C. W. Den-
hard; Treasurer, S. W. Raymond; Sheriff, R. C. Stevens; Surveyor, G. W.
Brumbach.
The facilities for storing and forwarding grain at Ottawa are as good,
if not better, than any of the inland towns of the State. With the C, R. I.
& P., and the Fox River Valley R. R., and the canal, which takes the major
part of the grain, the location for an inland market cannot be surpassed,
the latter means of communication affording, through the great lakes and the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, connection easily with the great centers of
trade of our country. The average shipments of grain from this place are
about 2,500,000 bushels. Add to this the 350,000 bushels annually con-
286 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
sumed by the starch factory, and we have a grand total of 2,850,000 bushels,
which, in the more productive years, reaches the large amount of 3,000,000
bushels that finds its first market here. In 1866 the shipments reached
2,944,544 bushels, probably the largest shipments of grain ever made from
this point in one year, which, with the starch factory's consumption, would
give a total of 3,294,544 bushels, the aggregated canal tolls being in that
year, for grain shipped from here, $64,846. Corn is the staple, the amount
of wheat being very small, while that of oats averages only about 360,000
bushels annually. Emphatically, Ottawa is one of the best inland markets.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
In a corn-growing region it is natural to suppose that the principal
manufactories would pertain to the preparing, gathering, and fitting for
market the growing crop. Agricultural implement manufacturies prevail
in the city; indeed, it has become a settled fact among farmers that the
mechanical appliances they use must be made on the spot by competent
mechanics who are conversant with their wants and the demands of the
soil, climate, grain, etc., with which they have to deal. It was in this city
that Brown's corn-planter was brought out, which has worked such a revo-
lution in its department.
Prominent among the manufacturers of the city may be mentioned J.
Maierhofer, whose establishment turns out breaking plows, single and double
shovel plows, stubble plows, gopher plows, as well as four or five different
kinds of cultivators. All the several parts of the implements are built in
this shop, which ordinarily employs over thirty operatives. All the work
has a deserving reputation.
Gilman, King & Hamilton are, probably, the most extensive manufactu-
rers of agricultural implements the city. Their factory, erected in 1868, is
between the canal and C., P. I. & P. P. P., near La Salle street. It is a two-
story building, 140x40 feet, with an L 85x40, and furnishes employment
for nearly one hundred men. They turn out reapers, corn-shellers and
corn-planters, as well as the " Champion " walking corn-plow, that enjoys a
favorable reputation, their principal implement being the "Gilman" corn-
sheller.
The Wm. Stormont wind-mill is also made in Ottawa, besides a large
number of other factories, planing-mills, etc., making sickles, files, sash,
doors, blinds, table-cutlery, and general machine work, which are as deserv-
ing of mention as those already given, and just as important to the well-
being of the city, but we desist before we weary the reader.
Some years since a side cut was opened from the canal into the city,
and forming a basin and reservoir with a canal just south one block from
the court house square, and running along the edge of the river bluff, which
is here quite high. This furnishes a fine water-power, which is improved
by the starch factory, cutlery, and various flouring mills, among which
may be mentioned the Eagle Mills, J. Wood, proprietor. This mill turns
out annually 15,000 barrels of flour, as well as grinding a large amount of
other grain. The City Mill, established twenty-three years ago; the Cus-
tom Mill, the most venerable of the kind in the city.
The furniture manufactory of G. A. Pugg should not escape attention.
Mr. Rugg came to this county in 1838, from the land of steady habits,
and has been engaged in the making of furniture nearly ever since.
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 287
He has been very unfortunate in losses by fires and uncollected claims at the
South before the war, but his energy has triumphed over all.
The coffin manufactory of Patch, Watson & Co., which was recently
burned, was doing a good business at the time.
Of the business houses of this city, we may mention, Forbes &
Gehring, druggists, successors to Dr. Dimmick & Bro. They have a large
and well-selected stock.
E. Y. Griggs, drugs and books. Mr. Griggs has been a resident of
Ottawa many years, and enjoys the friendship of a large number of its
citizens.
Messrs. Osman & Hapeman, news dealers and book sellers, and pub-
lishers of the Ottawa Free Trader, the first paper published in the city.
Their book and stationary stock embraces everything desirable.
Messrs. Simon Bros., music dealers and publishers, embracing every-
thing in their branch of trade.
Peter Russell & Son, furniture. Mr. Russell has been in this trade in
Ottawa since 1848. He has a large stock.
Scott Bros, are, probably, the most extensive dealers in ladies' furnish-
ing and dry goods of any firm in the city. Buying direct, they are enabled
to make prices as low as consistent with a good article.
Smith & Rising, and A. Hess & Co. are the leading dealers in tobacco
and cigars, the latter of which they manufacture extensively.
Child Brothers, and B. B. Griffith & Son are engaged in the shoe
trade.
Jackson & Lockwood are engaged in the sale of hardware quite exten-
sively. Mr. Jackson being among the early settlers.
Bowman's Art Gallery is among the notable institutions of the city,
and one of the finest in the State; his photograph of "Starved Rock"" being
among his best efforts.
To sum up, then, Ottawa has six agricultural implement dealers,
twenty-six attorneys at law, seven bakers, three banks, six barber shops,
nine blacksmith shops, one book-binder, five book and stationary stores,
twenty-six places where boots and shoes are made and sold, one brick-yard,
one broom factory, one business college, seven butchers, five carriage-mak-
ers, seven cigar and tobacco dealers, eight clothiers, two cooper shops, five
crockery dealers, three dentists, seven dressmakers, five drug stores, sixteen
dry goods stores, seven grain elevators, one file manufactory, seven flour
and teed stores, three flouring mills, five furniture dealers and makers, one
glass factory with two furnaces, ten grain dealers, thirty-four grocery stores,
two gunsmiths, three hardware stores, eleven hotels, six insurance agents,
five jewelers, four leather dealers, three wholesale liquor dealers, five livery
stables, five or six lumber yards, three marble yards, eight merchant tailors,
seven millinery shops, three newspaper and job offices, seven house and
sign painters, three photographers, eighteen physicians, two pump factories,
three real estate agents, six restaurants, eight saddle and harness shops, a
number of saloons, six stove and tinware dealers, and nine wagon-makers.
White's Hotel and the Clifton House are the leading hotels, both well
kept and well appointed.
In the fall of 1872, the city council made arrangements for a steam
fire engine. One was sent them for use during the winter, and in the
spring the "City of Ottawa" came. After the burning of the opera house,
the council decided to purchase another, and the "M. H. Swift" was bought.
288 HISTORY OF LA SALLE county.
The hook and ladder company organized June 1st, 1877, and the truck,
costing $1,050.00, purchased by the city, came last July. There is one
horse hose cart. Following are the fire organizations of the city :
City of Ottawa, cost $4,500, No. 1 ; M. H. Swift, cost $4,500, No. 2.
The steamers are both drawn by horses kept in a stable opposite the
engine house. Chief Engineer, Henry Waif ; Assistant Chief Engineer,
L. A. Rising. Engineer of steamer, T. C. Logan ; Assistant Engineer of
steamer, F. B. Logan. Foreman of Hose Company, John Shaffer ;
1st Assistant, Wm. Raymond ; 2nd Assistant, John Ehmond It has
thirty-two members. Dauntless Hook and Ladder Company, W. H. Hull,
Captain ; Geo. Tozer, Foreman ; Charles Petti t, Assistant ; Foreman. It
has sixty-five members.
The first opera house was built in 1874, and burned December 29th,
1875. In the fall of that year, it was rebuilt in much better shape than
before. The means of egress are especially to be commended, being both
commodious and accessible.
The supreme court house for the supreme court, of the northern
district of the state, is located at Ottawa. It was built in 1848 or 50, and
has a very fine law library connected with it.
The new post office in use this year, for the first, is nicely arranged,
the reception and distribution of the mails, as well as the easy access of its
patrons.
The park, originally the gift of the state, has a fine iron fence around
it, and is plentifully supplied with trees. In its center is a fountain, from
which a shower of water pours, taken from an artesian well, near by. A
monument to the soldiers and sailors has been erected in the park, the
work of Mr. Mclnhill, of this city. It is a fine piece of work.
Among the more prominent residences, may be mentioned those "of
Judge Caton, and Hon. W. Bushnell, Judge Catons has a fine park
connected with it, in which the judge has a few specimens of the deer, the
natural history of which he has made a specialty. It is on the north Bluff.
Hon. W. BushnelPs residence is in East Ottawa, and is tastefully
arranged.
Ottawa Mineral Spring Company's Officers — Henry Mayo, President ;
Dr. J. O. Harris, Secretary.
The curative qualities of the waters of this spring, brought to notice,
some three years ago, have been thoroughly tested by a large number of
patrons who speak warmly in its praise. The analysis of Professor
Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College, place it in the front rank, as curative
agent, in a certain class of cases.
THE PRESS.
For a short period, a newspaper of considerable importance and historical
note, was published in the southern portion of La Salle county. This was
known as ''The Genius of Universal Emancipation," by Benjamin Lundy,
the anti-slavery pioneer, so-called, which was printed at Lowell. In 1835-
36, Elijah P. Lovejoy, published in St. Louis a religious (Presbyterian)
newspaper, in which he claimed and exercised the right to discuss the
subject of slavery. It was a very mild paper, and not even an abolition
Saper of the times, but his press was destroyed, and he was driven out of
lissouri. In the summer of 1836, he resumed the paper at Alton, in this
state, continuing the same name, "The Observer ;" but he was treated
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 289
none the better, but rather the worse, in a free state, as the result proved.
His press was destroyed a number of times, and thrown into the Missis-
sippi river. Making a final stand for his rights, and under the sanction of
the Mayor, he resisted by force, and on the 7th of November, 1837, he was
killed by the mob. Not many weeks after this event, when there was a
general inquiry, "who will succeed Lovejoy, the martyr, in publishing an
abolition newspaper in Illinois." Geo. I). Prentiss, of the "Louisville
Journal," announced that Benj. Lundy, the abolition pioneer, would be the
man to offer himself as a sacrifice. He had published his "Genius of
Universal Emancipation," in 1821, in Ohio, Tennessee, Baltimore, Wash-
ington and Philadelphia. His effects consisting of his printing material,
library and clothing, had recently been burnt in the Pennsylvania hall,
Philadelphia, destroyed by a pro-slavery mob. Having friends in Putnam
county, this state, and almost destitute of means, he came to Illinois, to be
the successor of Lovejoy. In 1838, his paper was issued, dated at
Hennepin, but really printed in Lowell. The sanguinary proprietors of
that town (Lowell,) had commenced the improvement of the water power
of the Vermillion, and hoped, as the name indicated, to make a large town
there. They wanted a printing press to aid them in that great work, and
so encouraged Lundy to cast in his lot with them, by the gift of sundry
village lots, and signing notes with him for jthe purchase of worn out
printing presses and type, at Ottawa. In the fall of 1838, the paper was
issued from Lowell, a small printing office having been erected, by stand-
ing plank up endwise for a frame. The next spring he was joined by a
young printer and journalist, from Massachusetts, Mr. Z. Eastman. Mr.
Lundy died very suddenly on the 22d of August, 1839, leaving his paper
in the hands of Mr. Eastman, whom he had requested to succeed him. In
1840, the paper was resumed by Mr. Eastman, under the title of "Genius
of Liberty."
This paper, by request of a committee in Chicago, was removed to
that city in 18-12, and was continued by Mr. Eastman, till 1855, as the
"Western Citizen," when it was purchased by Mr. Medill, and became the
weekly circulation of the "Chicago Tribune."
The first paper published in Ottawa, was the '"Ottawa Free Trader."
Hise and Osman, proprietors. Mr. Osman is still connected with the
paper, and seems sufficiently active for another decade or two.
December 12th, 184-1, the "Constitutionalist" was started by Lowry
and Gedney. Mr. Lowry soon went out, and Mr. Gedney ran the paper
until June 12th, 1852, when T. Hampton bought his interest and changed
the name to the "Ottawa Republican," which it still retains. It has
changed hands a number of times. Hon. Frank Corwin held an interest at
one period of its history, but it was never any better managed, or a better
paper than at the present time, under the administration of Cullen & Sapp.
OTTAWA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.
In February, 1S66, W. W. Calkins and Drs. Paul and Gibbs, met in
the latter's office, and talked over the feasability of organizing a geological
society. They concluded that the field was a good one, and that the lovers
of the sciences would rally to its support if it was broached to them. Dr.
L. N. Dimmick and J. W. Calkins were taken into their counsel, and they
all went to work canvassing the city for persons who would unite with them
for the above purpose.
290 HISTORY OF LA 8ALLE COUNTY.
In their deliberations they decided upon the plan of organization
adopted by the Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences.
They secured the following named persons: W. W. Calkins,' Dr. John
Paul, Dr. A. E. Gibbs, Dr. L. N. Dimmick, James W. Calkins, Col. D. F.
Hitt, D. S. Ebersol, Dr. C. Hard, Dr. R. M. McArthur, L. E. Gibbs, David
Walker, W. Bushnell, Rev. C. H. Force, W. H. Cushman, John B. Rice,
F. F. Brower, Thomas Orton, Col. Ralph Plumb, M. Kirkpatrick, Geo.
Campbell, and Geo. S. Stebben.
They called a meeting of the persons named, and made a temporary
organization, March 2d, 1866, by calling Dr. J. Paul to preside, and on
motion the society was named the Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences.
Col. Hitt, Dr. Dimmick, and J. W. Calkins, were appointed a com-
mittee to draft constitution and by-laws.
Dr. Gibbs, Rev. C. H. Force, David Walker, Dr. McArthur, J. B.
Rice, and W. W. Calkins, were appointed a committee to solicit money for
the purpose of incorporation. The Academy then adjourned until the 6th
of March, 1866, when they perfected a permanent organization by electing
the following officers and trustees :
David Walker, Pres.; L. E. Gibbs, First Vice^Pres.; Dr. C. Hard,
Second Vice Pres. ; W. W. Calkins, ;Sec. Trustees: Col. D. F. Hitt, Dr.
John Paul, Rev. C. H. Force, (Pres. of the Board of Trustees,) Dr. A. E.
Gibbs, (Treas. of the Board of Trustees,) J. B. Rice, W. W. Calkins, Dr.
R. M. McArthur, W. Bushnell, W. H. Cushman, and Dr. L. N. Dimmick..
Vice President L.E. Gibbs presided until June 6th, 1866, on account of
the removal of President Walker south, and on his resignation Dr. J. Paul
was elected to fill the vacancy.
Hon. J. D. Caton joined the Academy February 7th, 1867, and was
elected March 7th, 1867, to a trusteeship, caused by the removal of W. H.
Cushman from the city.
The following officers were also duly elected: Dr. J. Paul, Pres.; Col.
D. F. Hitt, Vice Pres.; Dr. C. Hard, Vice Pres.; W. W. Calkins, Sec.
As the Treasurer belongs to the Board of Trustees none was elected. March
5th, 1868, the same officers were re-elected.
The trustees engaged a taxidermist, and appointed Drs. Paul and Gibbs
curators of the museum, with power to act as they thought best, and to
their energy and perseverence the Academy is indebted for what success
it has enjoyed in gathering together specimens, etc., as they sacrificed their
time and money to push the Academy.
Hon. J. D. Caton delivered an elaborate essay on the American deer
and elk before the Academy, which was published and sent abroad, Darwin
even making use of information derived therefrom.
March 6th, 1869, W. W. Calkins was elected Pres.; W. E. Bowman,
Vice Pres.; L. E. Gibbs, Vice Pres.; Dr. J. Paul, Sec. March 3d, 1870,
the same officers were re-elected. March 2d, 1871, D. S. Ebersol elected
Pres.; Dr. Hard, Vice Pres.; Dr. L. N. Dimmick, Vice Pres.; Dr. J.
Paul, Sec. March 6th, 1872, D. S. Ebersol elected Pres.; Dr. Hard, Vice
Pres.; Dr. Gibbs, Vice Pres.; Dr. J. Paul, Sec.
The Academy suffered a severe loss in the death of Dr. John Paul,
who died September, 1872, aged sixty-seven. The Doctor was a native of
Vermont. He had been from the first one of the principal founders of the
Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences, and had given his earnest labor for
its success. The Doctor was a man of unusual energy in whatever he un-
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 291
dertook. At home or abroad he was engaged as opportunity presented in
collecting, preserving and arranging specimens or books for the Academy.
He also took an interest in all public measures calculated to promote the
welfare of the community in which he lived, and as a physician he enjoyed
the confidence of all his professional brothers.
March 6th, 1ST3, D. S. Ebersol was elected Pres.; Dr. Hard, Yice
Pres. ; Dr. Gibbs, Sec. Dr. Hard and D. S. Ebersol were elected to fill
vacancies in the Board of Trustees.
Previous to the death of Dr. Paul the Academy collection was stored
in different offices in the city, most of the best specimens in the office of
Drs. Paul & Gibbs. Soon after his demise the large room in the third
story of Cheever's Block, (southwest corner court house square,) was se-
cured, and all the specimens and property removed and placed in secure
cases, where they are always ready for exhibition, free of charge.
On January, 1874, a new organization was deemed necessary, in con-
sequence of some informality in the original letters of incorporation, when
D. S. Ebersol was elected Pres. ; Hon. C. H. Gilman, Yice Pres. ; David
Walker, Sec; W. William West, Treas. Trustees: D. F. Hitt, Chester
Herd, H. L. Mead, Geo. W. N. Cushman, and Geo. W. Brumbach.
Present acting officers: D. S. Ebersol, Pres.; C. H. Gilman, Yice
Pres.; G. W. Brumbach, Treas.; D. Walker, Sec. Trustees: D. F. Hitt,
C. Hard, D. P. Jones, W. E. Bowman, W. Bushnell. Exchanges and do-
nations solicited.
From which time to this writing (1877,) much valuable material has
been collected, and which has from time to time been acknowledged in the
city papers. Among the many contributors of the Academy we cheerfully
acknowledge the following:
Geo. A. W. Price, of Cincinnati, O., Birds of America, 36 Nos., one-
fourth size, colored to life. J. G. Armstrong, shark teeth and vertebra of
extinct mammoth from South Carolina. Prof. W. J. SteveDS, Lebanon, O.,
a fine lot of terra silurian fossils, mostly from the bed of the Little Miami,
Lebanon, Ohio. From Father Minehardt, of Homer, La Salle county, 111.,
Otherceretile ammites, etc. Hon. Judge Gilman, a large mass of native
copper, with many other valuable specimens. Col. D. F. Hitt, fossil log of
?etrified wood, with many other fine and valuable specimens, from near
'ike's Peake, Col. From W. W. Calkins, a collection of the shells of La
Salle county, properly named and labeled — a very valuable donation. D.
S. Ebersol, Hon. J. D. Caton, David Walker, Dr. Gibbs, Dr. Snyder, of
Yirginia City, Cass county, 111., Prof. J. W. Hewitt, Prof. Gunning, J. C.
Shroyer, of Cincinnati, O., A. M. Ebersol, Hon. W. Bushnell, Dr. Dimmick,
Santa Barbara, Col., have all donated valuable specimens.
Publications by the Academy: Origin of the Prairies, Hon. J. D. Ca-
ton; Land and Fresh Water Shells of La Salle County, by W. W. Calkins.
Lectures have been had from Prof. Jno. W. Cooke, of England ; from
Prof. W. Gunning, of Cambridge; from Hon. Judge Gilman, of the Ottawa
Bar.
A full and complete catalogue has been prepared by Prof. J. W.
Huett.
THE CHURCHES.
The first Congregational Church in Ottawa was organized August 23,
1839. It was served Dy the following ministers : From August, 1843, to
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Mav, 1835, by Rev. Rollin Mears ; from June, 1845, to June, 1848, by
Rev. G. W. Bassett ; and from June, 1848, to March, 1870, by Rev. M. K.
Whittlesey.
The Plymouth Church was organized on Oct. 27, 1858, and the following
have been its pastors : Rev, J. Blanchard, from October, 1858, to April,
1S59 ; Rev. Wm. C. Scofield, from June, 1859, to June, 1864 ; and Rev.
Edwin K. Lewis, from October, 1864, to March, 1870.
On the 6th of March, 1870, these two churches were united under the
name of the First Congregationalist Church of Ottawa. On the 23d of May,
they called the Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, Jr., to become their pastor, who
remained until December, 1873. After an interval of nearly a year, the
present pastor, Rev. T. J. Valentine, was called. At the date of the union
of the churches, there were two hundred and fifty-six members in the church.
The number remains about the same, with a Sunday-school of nearly two
hundred scholars. Their present house of worship was commenced in 1870,
and dedicated March 26, 1871. It cost about $35,000.
The Baptist Church was organized in 1838 or 1839, by Rev. Thomas
Powell, with six members. In the early part of their organization, they
erected a frame church on the site of the present postofiice block, which
house they occupied until I860, when they erected their present brick
church. It was not ready for occupancy, save the basement, until 1S65 ;
and during the war, the upper floor was known as u Union Hall," and in it
many entertainments were given for the benefit of various patriotic objects.
In 1865, the Lecture room was completed and occupied. The congregation
now numbers nearly two hundred and seventy members, and have a Sun-
day-school of nearly that number of pupils. The pastor is Rev. D. L.
Colwell.
The Protestant Episcopal parish was organized in 1838, by Samuel
Chase, D. D. They occupied for a season the old Court House ; then a
warehouse, and a room over a store, or private house, until 1839, when,
Dr. Chase leaving, no regular services were maintained until 1845. In
March of that year, Bishop Philander Chase re-organized the parish, and in
July, Rev. Chas. I. Kelley was called as rector. In 1849, a brick church
was built, at a cost of $2,550, and consecrated by Bishop Chase, June 23,
1850. This building is now the carriage-shop of Gay & Porter. Mr.
Kelley remained until July, 1858. In April 1852, Rev. Chas. P. Clark
was called and remained until October, 1858. In May, 1857, Rev. Thos.
N. Bennedict came. The wardens chosen then were Joseph Dow and "Wm.
Osman, the latter of whom yet remains.
The old building becoming decayed, in May, 1S66, a lot was purchased
and steps taken to secure a new house of worship. Mr. Bennedict remained
until May, 1866. During his ministry, the church received large acces-
sions to its membership. Rev. Edwin Coan was called in December, 1866,
and remained until July, 1869. He was succeeded by Rev. W. W. Esta-
brook. During his ministry work commenced on the present church. It
was completed in January, 1872, at a cost of $14,150. It is built entirely
of stone, is of the Gothic style of architecture, and very finely finished. Mr.
Estabrook was succeeded by Rev. J. L. Steele, who resigned in July, 1874.
He was followed by Rev. ^X. Speirs, who remained until June, 1S76. The
present pastor, Rev. F. B. ^Nash, was. called in February, 1877. The mem-
bership is one hundred and ten, and the attendance at Sunday-school about
one hundred.
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The Presbyterian Church was organized in April, 18G9, by Rev. L. Y.
Hayes, with thirty-two members, They immediately erected a small brick
chapel, in which they held divine service until the completion of their pres-
ent house of worship. It was erected in 1871, at an expense of $22,000,
including the lot. Mr. Hayes remained pastor until 1873, when he
resigned, and was followed by Rev J. E. Moiratt, whose ministry extended
until Jan. 1, 1877. The present pastor is Rev. Thos. Parry. The congre-
gation comprises at present one hundred members, and sustains a Sunday-
school of about ninety scholars.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized as a class as early as
1838, in Old South Ottawa. In after years, the congregation built a frame
church in the present city, which in time gave place to the present com-
fortable brick structure, finished about 1865. There are at present two
hundred and ten members, and one hundred and fifty Sunday-school
scholars.
The German Evangelical Association was organized about twelve years
ago, with six members. They were Earnest Claus and wife, Wm. Farmhals
and wife, and Natalie Rochel. The membership has increased to about
sixty, and the Sunday-school to one hundred and ten scholars. Earnest
Claus is Superintendent. The pastors of this church have been as follows:
Revs. Jacob Hummel, John Kurtz, Martin Ellis, A. Knobel, John Dengle,
and John Miller. Rev. Kurtz returned in 1876, and is still pastor.
The St. Columba or Irish Catholic Church is one of the oldest religious
societies in Ottawa. It was made a mission in 1838, and attended by priests
from the mission at LaSalle. Regular pastors were appointed first in 1844,
Rev. A. Donnell being the first, and remaining until 1851. The next was
Rev. Thos. O'Gara, who was in turn followed by Rev. Bernard O'Garris,
and he by Rev. Patrick A. Terry, who is assisted by Rev. Francis O'Conner.
The original congregation numbered thirty families ; now there are over
five hundred. The Sun«l ay- school numbers six hundred and fifty pupils.
The St Francis German Catholic Church was built in 1859, at a cost
of $2,415. Father Tusch was the first pastor, remaining until his death in
1860. Since his time, eight pastors have occupied the pulpit. The present
incumbent is Rev. Henry Wagner. The total membership is about seven
hundred and fifty. Connected with the church is a parochial school and
various benevolent societies.
The German Lutheran Society held their earliest meetings in 1855,
and five years after erected a house of worship. Their first pastor was
Rev. H. F. Fruechtennicht, who remained until 1875, when he was suc-
ceeded by the Rev. H. Sieving, the present pastor. In 1860, there were
thirty families ; the increase to this original membership lias been slight.
The Sunday-schol numbers about one hundred and thirty-five pupils. A
parochial school is supported, and a mission church in Brookfield township.
The Presbyterian Church in South Ottawa was organized in a school-
house, April 19, 1849, by a committee from presbytery, consisting of the
following persons: Revs. C. A. Williams, J. M. Clark, M. K. Whittlesey,
C. Cook, and Geo. W. Baptist. The constituent members were principally
from the Congregationalist Cnurch of Ottawa,; they were, John Rockwood,
Thos. M. Mason, Jane Mason, Wm. H. Rockwood, A. M. Ebersol, Martha
Farns worth, Emeline E. Drake, Rose Ann Hunter, Margaret Fleming, and
G. H. Rugg.
The church edifice was completed and dedicated in 1849, and the fol-
294 HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY.
lowing year the parsonage was erected on a lot adjoining the church, do-
nated by A. M. Bowen, of New York. The first minister was Rev. C. A.
"Williams, whose successor was Rev. R. C. Clark. The first pastor was
Rev. C. H. Force. Mr. A. M. Ebersol was superintendent of the Sunday-
school for many years succeeding the organization. Owing to various
causes the congregation is now in a decline, and does not support a pastor,
Rev. Mr. Parry, pastor in Ottawa, occasionally filling the pulpit.
CITY OFFICERS.
The officers at present are, Samuel Richolson, Mayor; E. G. Osman,
Clerk; E. C. Allen, Treasurer; Justice Harris, Marshal, J. W. Pettit, Health
Officer; J. B. Johnston, Attorney.
COUNCIL.
B. S. Porter, C. S. Phelps, G. W. W. Blake, H. A. Shuler, B. B. Grif-
fith, G. H. West, W. E. Bowman, J. F. Murphy, A. M. Trimble, H. J.
Logan, G. W. Jackson, J. W. Dean, A. K. McCain, John Hoban.
LODGES AND ASSOCIATIONS.
Ottawa Oommandery No. 40, A. F. and A. M. Officers: E. H.
Smith, E. C; R. A McArthur, G.; J. L. Morrison, C. G.; W. B. Titus, S.
W. ; H. C. Nash, Treas. ; J. F. Nash, Recorder. Meets at Ottawa second
and fourth Thursday evenings of each month.
Occidental Lodge No. 40, A. F. and A. M. Officers: Robert Hen-
ning, W. M.;E. Follett Bull, S. W.; Solomon Degan, J. W.; W. K.
Stewart, S. D.; H. P. Clark, J. D.; H. C. Nash, Treas.; E. H. Hobert,
Secretary. Meets at Ottawa^ first* and third Monday evenings in each
month.
Humboldt Lodge No. 555, A. F. and A. M. Officers: Henrv Koh,
W. M.; Henry Gundolf, S. W.; Paul Bernett, J. W.; S. C. Barnett, Sec;
Henry Warlich, Treas. Meets at Ottawa second and fourth Friday even-
ings of each month.
St. Elmo Lodge No. 70, K. of P. Oflacers: W. T. Phipps, C. C;
Geo. Jekyll, P. 0.; Wm. Furlough, Y. C; W. J. Pollock, P., Wm.
Trabing, M. of Y.; Chas. McDonald, M. of F.; J. F. Thompson, K. of R.
S. ; W. C. Linton, M. of A. Meets at Ottawa every Tuesday evening.
Ottawa Lodge No. 41, I. O. O. F. Organized July 17, 1848. Pres-
ent officers : I. B. Bumgardner, N. G.; W. K. Stewart, Y. G.; C. H.
Marsh, Secretary ; John Clegg, P. S.; B. S. Porter, Treasurer. Member-
ship, L09. Meets every Thursday evening, in Reddick's Block.
Ottawa Encampment No. 33, I. O. O. F. Instituted April 16th, 1856.
Present Officers : Peter Wyman, C. P. ; H. J. Logan, H. P. ; P. W.
Stocksleger, S. W. ; J. O. Harris, Scribe ; J. L. Piergue, Treas. : Geo. S.
N. Beck, J. W. Membership, 45. Meets every second and fourth
Tuesday evenings of the month, in Reddick's Block.
Lessing Lodge No. 326, I. O. O. F. (German.) Organized Jan. 10,
1S66. Present officers : Wm. Huwald, N. G.; Christ. Eisenhut, Y. G.;
Christ, Hagle, R. S.; John Hartman, P. S.; Christ. Hahn, Treasurer.
Number of members, 58. Meets every Wednesday evening.
Inland Encampment No. 111. Instituted Nov. 29, 1870. Present
officers : Jacob Christman, N. G.; Louis Hess, H. P.; Ernest Gleim, S.W.;
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John Vogel, Scribe ; Philip Schoch, Treasurer ; Samuel Dreyfuss, J. W.
Meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. Number of
members, 32.
Florence Lodge No. 1, (Daughters of Rebecca) I. O. O. F. Officers :
H. J. Logan, N. G. ; Mrs. V. E. Piergue, V. G. ; J . O. Harris, Secretary ;
Mrs. H. E. Wilkinson, Treasurer. Instituted Jan. 14, 1870. Meets the
first Friday evening of each month, in Reddick's Block. Social every third
Friday evening. Membership, 60.
Tonti Lodge No. 399. Instituted July 26, 1869. Present Officers :
John W. Nattinger, N. G. ; Thos. Tooms, V. G. ; Geo. H. Hunter, R S. ;
O. B. Grant, P. S. ; B. B. Griffith, Treas. Meets every Monday evening.
TURNER SOCIEYY.
Officers : Chas. Heydweiler, Teacher ; A. H. Strobel, President ;
Theo. Horn, Vice President ; Henry Freise, 1st Turnwarth ; Geo. Fisher,
2d Turnwarth ; J. W. Weis, Secretary ; Henry Gondolf, Corresponding
Secretary ; L. Hess, Treasurer ; Jacob Gaul, Cashier ; Fred. Bestman,
Janitor ; C. G. Lutz, Librarian. Meets at Ottawa first Thursday of each
month.
LA SALLE COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.
Organized in 1833. Regular meeting begun in 1848. Officers : Rev.
T. Bascom, President, assisted by seven Vice Presidents, and an assistant in
each township. The society has given to destitute families, eighty-seven
bibles and to destitute pers 
