DeKalb County, Illinois - Chapter 7: The Resurrectionists (1 of 2 so headed), 1868

Chapter 7: The Resurrectionists

Grave robbing at St. Charles. .James Lovell's discovery. .The watch . .The pursuit. ..The robbers arrested. .A vacant grave. .To Richard's Institute. .The lock of golden hair. .Richard's brutality. .The country in arms. .March to St. Charles.. An angry altercation. .Assault on the Institute. .Its Defenders shot. .The building riddled. .No corpses . .A night Conference. .A Retreat. .Raising the body.. It is returned . .Arrests by both parties. 95

One Hundred And Fifth Infantry Volunteers

Organization.. In Camp at Dixon.. Field and Staff. At Chicago. .To Louisville. .Great march to Frankfort. .To Shelby vide. .Bowling Green. . Scottsville. . Postage currency.. Changes.. To Nashvil'e.. Pappy Ward. Murder.. March to Lookout.. Lost in a cave. General Hioke.. Battle of Resaca.A rebs letter. To Kingston and Burnt Hickory. A Fight. Death of Surgeon Potter. .Fight at Golgotha. .At Marietta. .Battle of Peach Tree Creek. .Terrible scenes. .How the rebs did'nt gather acorns - JMege of Atlanta- - The dead and wounded. .Herman Furness' adventure. .Atlanta captured. .Colonel Dustin in command of a Division. . Other changes.. Off for Savannah. .Atlanta burned. .Contrabands and Bummers. .Madison and Milledgville. .Railroads destroved. .Fun and Foraging. .Vinum Antimonia. .Savannah Off again.. Committee of the whole on the State of South Carolina. .Bummers in clover.. Forty days more. .North Carolina. .Battle of Averysboro. .Gallantry of the One Hundred and Fifth. .AtGoldsboro. .Richmond Surrenders ..Johnson Surrenders. .On to Richmond and Washington. .Grand Re view.. Home again. .Generous Pittsburg. .Shabby Chicago.. The Roster. 113

The Eighth Illinois Cavalry

Cavalry needed. . Colonel Farnsworth Commissioned. .The rally. .At St» Charles. .To Washington. .Greetings on the route. .Farnsworth's Big Abolition Regiment.. At Meridian Hill. .Grand 'Reviews. .No fight. .Camp Sumner. .Five Hundred Sick. .To Alexandria. .General Montgomery. .How the rebs lnvedus. .Spring opens. .On to Manassas - Wooden Guns. .Scouting. .Back to Alexandria. . Siege of Yorktown . .Williamsburg. .Black Creek Bridge. .Richmond in sight. .Reconnoisances and Picketing. .Fair Oaks. .Captain Farnsworth's dinner party.. Page 220.. The Seven Days Fight. .Change of base. .The horrors of the retreat.. At Haxal's and Harrison's. .Malvern Hill.. Back to Yorktown and Alexandria. .Fight at Barnsville. .George M Roe. .Frederick City.. South Mountain. .Boonesboro. .-Antietam-. . The Rebel army escape.. Dash into Shepherdstown. .Memorable march to Martinsburg - Alter Jeb Stuart - Page 230 - -Markham Station

Contents The Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry

Ewmg - -Race for the Capitol - The Price raid-- -Defence of the Capitol - -Honor and danger - Price's Retreat - -After him - Boonesville - - Mine Creek - -Fifty-six hours in the Saddle - -Six Hundred horses lost - - Jack Houghton - Price Escapes - -Cape Girardeau - -Jeff. Thompson surrenders - To Kansas City - -Fort Larned - -Fort Leavenworth - Trouble in Camp - -Roster. 252 of Fort DeRussey . . -Up Red River. .Sabine Cross Roads. .Pleasant Hill. .The Fifty-eighth save the army. .Still retreating. .Damming Red river. .Yellow Bayou. .Desperate charges. .One hundred and ten men killed and wounded . . Re-enlisted . . Fight at Columbia . . Fight with Forest at Tnpello. .To Missouri. .The Price raid. .To Northville and Eastport-. .New Orleans-. .Mobile-. .Montgomery-. .Home again-. . Roster. - 2(JH

The Tenth Cavalry

Captain Carr's company. .The first company raised in Illinois. .To Cairo . .Fortifying and garrison duty. .Re-organized for three years. .Raid in Kentucky. .Sykesville. .Birds Point. .Captain Carr killed. .Island No. 10.. Siege of Corinth. .Booneville. .Fighting our way to Nashville. .Besieged. .No rations. .Built Fort Negley. .Campaign through Alabama and Mississippi. .Wheeler's cavalry. .Mission Ridge. .Pursuing Hardee. .A midwinter march without blankets, shoes or tents.. to Chattanooga. .Rossvillc. .Veteranized - To Atlanta. .Grand march to the Sea. .Crossing the Salkehatchie. .Forty men lost. .Gallantry at EdistcTo Columbia, Cheraw, Fayetteville and Goldsboro. .Battle of Bentonville.. Hardee whipped. .Sixty men lost. .To Raleigh, Richmond, and the grand review. t}84

The Thirteenth Infantry

Enlistments discouraged. .Sandwich and Sycamore companies accepted - Premiums for places - Gray uniforms - Banner presented - At Dixon - To Rolla - March to Springfield - Fremont's Flying Infantry - Back to Rolla - Jesting and death - To Pea Ridge - Indian corpses - Terrible march to Helena - Assault upon Vicksburg - Death of General Wyman - Arkansas Post-Jackson - Siege of Vicksburg-On Chattanooga - Capture of Lookout Mountain - Ringold Gap - Pat Riley - Death of Major Bushnell and Captain Blanchard. .Meridian Station. . Sixty - eix men captured. .Resume. .Roster. 2U2

The Fourteenth Cavalry

Recruiting. .Consolidation of three Regiments. .At Peoria. .The officers ..To Glasgow.. Skirmishing at Celina. .Camp Boyle .. Pursuit of Colonel Hamilton. .We capture John Morgan. .Twenty-one hundred miles ride. .Join Burnside. .Surrender of Cumberland Cap. .Guarding Railroads. .Fight at Zollicofter, .At Blountville. .Dog-tents. .Siege of Knoxville. .Driven. .Bean Station. .Dandridge. .Thomas' Legion. . Death of Horace Capron. .Cittico. .General Stoneman. .On Atlanta. . The Great Stoneman Raid. .Seven dys and nights in the Saddle.. Massacred asleep. .The Regiment destroyed. .Major Davidson. .Fighting Forest. .Pursuit of Bragg. .Mustered out. 208

The Forty-Second Infantry

Company K. .Poster. .To Tipton. .Terrible march to Springfield. .Two hundred men disabled. ..Winter at Smithton. .To St. Charles. .Fort Holt. .Columbus, .island No. 10.. Siege of Corinth. .Booneville. . Captain Butts. .Battle of Farmington... of Columbia. .Stone River. . 22*5 men lost. .The Chattanooga campaign. . Chickamauga . .184 men lost. .Mission Ridge, 45 men lost. .East Tennessee campaign. .Veteranized. .Home. .Atlanta campaign.. Ten battles, 116 men lost.. To Bridgeport, Chattanooga, Athens and Pulaski. .Fight at Spring Hill and Franklin, 169 men lost. .Battle of Nashville. .To Decatur, Blue Springs, Johnsonville, Texas, Port Lavaca. .Mustered out January 3d, 1866.. Roster. 318

The Fifty Second Infantry

Organized. .At Geneva. .To St. Louis and St. Joseph. .Exhausting march to Quincy :To Kentucky. .Colonel Sweeney. .Fort Donaldson . .Guarding prisoners. .Shiloh. .Major Stark. . Death of Captain Knapp . .One-third of the Regiment lost.. Siege of Corinth. .Sickness and sufferings. .Battle of Corinth.. To Iuka and Burnsville. .Corinth. . Gallantry of the Fifty-second. .Hard marches. .Bear Creek.. After Forrest. .Exhausting marches. ..To Pulaski. .Veteranized and home . .To Nashville and Chattanooga. .Siege of Atlanta. .To Savannah. . South Carolina. .Fall of Richmond. .Surrender of Johnson. .Washington, Louisville, Chicago. .Roster. 328

Part Third

1835. .Immigrants pour in - Indians. .Mode of traveling - Mode of life . . Making claims. .First houses. .Hope and Ambition... The Claim Association - First Justices - -Part of La Salle County. .Religious services established. .Winter of is 5. . Shabijona Grove. .Peter Lamois and the Whisky trade. 350

1836. .A year of gloom. .Provisions scarce .. Clothing worn out. Sickness. .Election of Madden. ..Chicago. .Kane and DeKalb. .towns started. 358

1837. .Act, creating DeKalb County.. Septennial wet season. .The financial crash. .What Shabbonu says. .The new Villages. .C. Sharer &Co. Coltonville. .How the County was set off from Kane. .The first Election. .Officers chosen. .The County Court.. Its first acts. .Precincts created. .The County Seat located. .The struggle. .Why Orange was selected. 360

1838.. First Circuit Court at Coltonville. .Names of Jurors. .Tavern licenses. .Regulation of prices. .The first County tax. .Election of Commissioners. .Attractions of Coltonville. .Captain Barnes' Enterprise. .Madden and Col ton. .Act for removal passed. .Courting and the County Seat. .Removal voted down. .The first Criminal. .County Town Surveyed. .Coust proceedings. .Deer Stalking. 374

1839. .Sickly season. .New Court House built.. The Mansion House.. Removal of Court. .Elections. .The Polish grant. .Another act for Removal of the Seat of Justice. .Carried. .Kellogg arrested. .Taxes raised. 383

1840. .Increase of population. .Poverty of the People.. Life at Squaw Grove. .Thieves and counterfeiters. .The Nunnery. .Election of Harrison. .The Courts. .County Seat voted back again. .Winthrop Lovelace. .Boarders and prisoners. 385

1842. .First steel plows. .E. L. Mayo. .The County Town. .Three years Taxes. .The State and County bankrupt. .Rich Recorders. .Elections ..Courts. 391

1846. .War with Mexico. .Captain Shepherds company. .Shabbona precinct. .Financial situation. .County Officers and Justices elected.. First brick dwellings built. 400

1849. .Contract for new Court House. .Size. .Donations to be paid back ..The Subscribers. .Oft for California. .Officers elected. .Township Organization. .Salaries ot Officers. .Division of the County into Towns. .The original thirteen. .County tax. 403

1851. .Inauguration ball. .The Septennial flood .. Two feet of snow I in April. .Poisonous wheat. .Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. . St. Charles plank road. 407

1854. .First Newspaper published .The Maine Liquor Law issue. .Vote of the County. .Lands all entered. .Newark Station. .Poli'ical Mass Meeting. .Organization of the Republican party. .County Fair. . Elections. .Assessments. .Swamp Land Grant. .DeKalb Village.. County tax. .Afton. 413

1858. .Papers in the County.. Hard times.. A meteor. .Taxes. .The Septennial flood. .Sycamore A Cortland Railroad. .Teachers fnstitute I lard times . . Taxes suspended . . Tornado . . Meteor. 421

18!i:j. .Pecuniary prosperity. .Fire proof County Offices. .Beautiful School Houses. .600,000 troops called out. .Volunteers enough. .Bounty Legislation. .Jurisdiction of the County Court. .Sorghum culture. 435

1864. .The great January storm. .Return of the veterans. .H. W. Fay. . William Young. .Destruction of shade trees. .Money abundant. .The Wheat crop destroyed. .More troops called. .County bounties. .The draft comes at last. .Quotas tilled. .Elections. .Union League. .Railroad monopolies. .First foreign appointment. 435

1885.. The County Seat contest. .Quotas of towns demanded. .The draft. .Heavy taxation. .Peace at last. .Men furnished by each town . .Fall in gold. .Wet season. .Elections. .Census. 438

1866. .Prosperity. .Elegant churches built. .Desolating hail storm.. Cholera. .Failure of Sycamore Bank. .Election. .Taxation. .Bounties on wolves. 441

Town Histories

Genoa. .Its attractions. .First settlers. .Thieves and counterfeiters .. E. P. Gleason's history. .Mass meeting in 1838.. Origin of the name.. Largest Village in the County. .Population. .Genoa in the war. .Her martyred dead. .Supervisors. 450

Kingston. .The Indians. .First white settlers. .Poverty of early times ..How they lived. .Population. .Fearful tornado. .Luke Penwell. . George Magenety killed.. Her soldier boys.. The dead. .Numerous officers . . Supervisors. 455

Franklin. .Woods, streams and quarries. .First settlers. .Hicks' Mills. . Kishwaukee City. .Poverty. .Dr. Hobart. .Land in market in 1838. . General Tom Humphrey . .Other officers.. Dead ot the Rebellion.. Tornado. .The killed. .Indianidol. .Population. .Supervisors. 463

Mayfield. .Its natural attractions. .First settlers. .Coltonville. .Indian village. .Dr. Madden. .A distillery. .Sarpents and other game. .Claim wars. .Population. .Boys in Blue. .The roll of Honor. .First religious meetings. .Supervisors. 463

South GiiOAE..Its soil and surface. .Owens' Creek. .Indian trail.. Orput's and Driscoll's Grove. .Mills. .Its inhabitants. .The Driscolls ..First settlers. .Schoolmaster By ers. .Schools now. .How to build School Houses cheaply. .Churches. .Camp meeting. .Hell of a Christian..Post Office. .Hotels. .Profits of farming. .Hercules helps.. Fine houses. .Noble farms. .Favorite crops. .Population. .Its men in the Army.. Its Supervisors. 467

Sycamore. .Timber and streams .. Norbo .. Charters .. The New York Company. .Bursted bubbles.. The old Town of Sycamore. .Captain Barnes. .Sycamore in 1840. .Churches. .Lawyers. .Population. .Sycamore in 1855. .James' Block. .Sycamore & Cortland Railroad. .Leading citizens. .Supervisors.. .Incorporation of the village. 475

Cortland. .Indian village. .The prisoners. .Ohio Grove. .Palatial Hotel Luce's Corners.. The railroad village.. The population. . Richland... Pampas. .Public schools; the first and the last.. Her soldiers. .The roll of her martyrs. .Captain R. A. Smith. .Supervisors. 482

DeKalb. .Woodland and streams. .First settlers. .Troops in camp.. Jenks & Co.. ..Russell Huntley's claims. .First Election. .Hard times ..DeKalb for sale cheap.. Town organized. .First called Orange.. The life giving Railroad. .Magical growth. .1857. . Agricultural Society grounds. .School Houses. .Churches. .Newspapers. .Lawyers. .Bank . .Leading citizens. .Supervisors. .Soldiers. .Population 486

Malta. .Settled in 1851. .Station established in 1854. .Milton. .Etna. . Storm of 1857. .Steam Mill. .Recent rapid growth. .Future prospects . . Census . . Soldiers . . Supervisors. 493

Milan.. The youngest town.. Lewis McEwen..Deer and wolves.. Rapid settlement. .Advance in the price of lands. .School Section and Schools. .Town Hall. .Norwegians. .The willows. .Population. .Assesment of property. .Its Soldiers. 494

AFTON..The first emigrants mistake. .Sweet Afton.. First settlers.. Organization as a town.. First town officers. .Its uniformly Noble Supervisors. .Its Schools. .Its Churches. .Its Elections. .Its Population ...Its wTar record . .Its dead of the war. 496

Clinton.. Its grove and streams. .First Inhabitants. .Its territory.. Selection of a name. .Population. .Schools. .Churches. .Claim wars. . Hard times.. Its martyred dead. .Captain Pritchard. .The Marsh Brothers and the Marsh Harvester. .The Supervisors. 499

Pierce. .Sulphur springs. .Wheat raising. .Nativity of its inhabitants First settlers. .Schools. .Organization in 1853.. Its name. .Contributions to the war. .Population.. .Supervisors. 501

Squaw Grove . . The first town settled . . Origin of the name . . Sebree and other first settlers. .Mode of life. .Taxation. .First birth and death. .Schools. .Its present wealth. .Population. .Soldiers. .Supervisors. 506

Paw Paw.. Natural characteristics. .First inhabitants. .Origin of its name . . Shabbona . . Waubonsie . . Le Clair . ..The banditti . . Bill Rogers . .Treasure trove. .Town organization. .First Election. .Supervisors. . Seminaries. .Churches. .Population. In the war of the Rebellion.. The dead. 508

Victor. .Organization in 1853.. First immigrants. .The railroad.. Nativity of its population. .The Little Indian. .Leland. .Schools. . Population. .Its soldier boys. .Their dead. .Supervisors. 514

So \ion auk. .Description. .First house in the County. .Early settlers.. Poverty and hardship. .Worship. .The mails. .The, railroad. .Sandwich. .How started. .Manufacturing. .Its grain trade. .Its newspapers . .Its Churches. .Somonauk village. .Rapid growth. .Its war record. . Leading citizens.. .Underground railroad. 519

Shabbona. .The Grove.. The Big Indian Creek.. Early prospeiity.. Old Shabbona. .Treaties. .Sells his reservation to Gates. .Sale void. . The sale at Dixon. .The Whispering Smith's attempt. .Investigation ..First house.. First settlers .. Game - Sibiqua - Presest situation - Masonic - Its soldiery - The dead - The Supervisors 524