Kane County, Illinois - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 15 of those read), 1908 (part 2 of 3)

On tlie morning of the battle of Shiloh, like all other troops upon the field, it had no premonitions of the fearful cundict t(5 follow, until the report of firearms further to the right gave evidence of that fact. The regiment, under the immediate command of Lieutenant Colonel O. Alalmborg, formed the center of the brigade, the Seventy-first Ohio being on its right, and the Fiftv- fourth Ohio (Zouaves) upon its left. After forming line in several localities contiguous to its camp, during which time it was not engaged except in skirmishing, though under the fire of Gage's rebel battery, position was taken to the left of its camp and about sixty rods in its rear along the south edge of a preci])itous ravine. Inuring the evolutions resulting in this formation the Se\enty-first Ohio ( excepting eighteen men and its adjutant) retreated.

The position of the regiment at this time was with its right resting at a point precisely five hundred yards east of Colonel Stuart's headquarters, with the Fifty- fourth Ohio upon its left. A full half mile of space unoccupied by troops existed to its right. This dangerous interval had been in part caused by the retreat of the Seventy-first Ohio. No artillery was upon this portion of the field to assist the federal troops. The Fifty-fifth Illinois had exactly five hundred and twelve men in line, and the Fifty-fourth Ohio from three hundred and fifty to four hundred.

In this position it was finally attacked by Chalmers and Jackson's Brigades of Bragg's Corps, who had been placed in positimi at this point under the personal supervision of General Albert Sidne\ Johnston, the rebel commander-in-chief.

The main attack commenced here about noon, and this position was held until between two and three o'clock p. m. b}' the two isolated regiments above named, and was of incalculable value to the ultimate success of the Union Army, inasmuch as it defended the extreme left during a vital period from a flank movement contemplated by the rebel order of battle and vigorously attempted at the period spoken of.

After being nearly surrounded and suiTering terribly the regiment retreated from point to point and took its position with its organization still complete in the last line formed in the evening near the Landing. It participated in the battle of Monday, acting on the right, and suffered some loss. During this terrific conflict, the first in its history, the Fifty-fifth lost the heaviest of any Federal regiment in that engagement except the Ninth Illinois. The loss of the Fiftj'-fifth was one officer and fiftj'-one enlisted men killed and nine officers and one hundred and ninety men wounded, being a total of two hundred and fifty men. Twenty-six men were captured.

Entered Corinth May 30, and mo\ed thence westward with General Sherman, stopping for a greater or less period at Chewalla. LaGrange. Lafayette. ]\I(iscow and Hollv Springs. On Julv 21. 1862. the regiment reached ^Memphis with General Sherman's division and remained until November 26, doing camp and picket duty, participating in several expeditions into the interior, having one man wounded. Took part in what was known as the "Tallahatchie" campaign, leaving ]\Iemphis November 26. 1862. Returned to Memphis and descended the Mississippi river to take part in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, where it lost two killed and four woimded.

Its first colonel, David Stuart, who had previously been appointed brigadier general bv the President, failed of confirmation and thereupon quit the

April 30, 1863. was with expedition making feint on Maine's Blufif. Thence it proceeded after tlie army, then making the movement in rear of \'icksburg, overtaking the same in time to be under fire at Champion's Hill, sufYering no loss. Crossed the Big Black May 17 at Bridgeport and arrived in front of the works at Vicksburg May 18. Participated in the assaults of May 19 and 22. and bore its full share during the siege, losing fourteen killed and thirty-two wounded.

It lost one man killed while scouting near the Big Black. After being present at the surrender of Vicksburg July 4, the regiment proceeded with Sherman's expedition to Jackson, wherein it lost one killed and two wounded.

Encamped in tiie vicinity of the Big Black until September zj. 1863, when it embarked at \'ick,sburg for Memphis and moved thence through Corinth to luka. Moved finally across the Tennessee and upon the laborious march to Chattanooga, arriving at that point November 21, 1863. During night of November 23. with rest of brigade, manned fleet of pontoon boats in North Chickamauga creek and during intense darkness descended and crossed the Tennessee and captured the enemy's pickets - one of the most daring operations of the war. At the battle of Mission Ridge, which followed, the regiment lost three wounded.

Marched with Sherman the round trip to the relief of Kncxville. Encamped after retmn successively at Bridgeport, Bellefonte and Larkinsville during the winter. While at the latter place, after exacting the right to elect otificers, the regiment veteranized, at which time the existing field officers all failed of election, and at the end of their term qviit the service. The veterans were granted thirty days' furlough from this point. At the opening of the Atlanta campaign the regiment took its place as usual in the Second Division of the Fifteenth Corps and shared in the manifold labors and dangers of that famous campaign, including the movement on and battle of Jonesboro, losing thirty-six killed and eighty-six wounded, being a total of one hundred and twenty-two, or about one-half of its number engaged.

The heaviest loss was at the assault upon Kenesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864, viz. : Fourteen killed, including its gallant commander. Captain Augustine, and thirty-three wounded.

Joined in the pursuit of Hood through northern Alabama and returned to Atlanta, Georgia, where one hundred and sixty-two non-veterans were discharged.

Marched the entire distance on the picnic excursion termed the "March to the Sea." Thence north, and lost near Bentonville, N(.)rth Carolina, one man killed, one wounded and six taken prisoners.

The regiment was then ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, where it remained in camp a few weeks. Thence moved by steamer to Little Rock, Arkansas, where it was mustered out August 14, 1865. Arrived at Chicago August 22, where it receixed final payment and discharge.

This regiment was engaged in thirty-one battles and was one hundred and twenty-eight days under fire. It marched three thousand two hundred and forty miles, traveled by railroad two thousand eight hundred and seventyfive miles and by water a further distance of five thousand eight hundred and fifty miles, total eleven thousand nine hundred and si.xty-five miles.

It lost actually killed in battle one hundred and eight men, and its total wounded were three hundred and thirty-nine, making an aggregate of four hundred and seventeen struck with the missies of war. There are no data to state the exact number of mortally wounded, though it is known that thirty-five died from such cause within one year after "Shiloh." Of the men who actually took the field in battle array more than two out of every three were hit by bullets. About one-third of such men lost their lives from the casualties of battle or disease. During the war this regiment had only forty-nine men captured, which speaks volumes for its disciplne and cohesion.

Its chaplain, the Rev. M. L. Haney, was all that could be desired, noted as well for his great personal bravery as for his zealous performance of professional duties.

It is not probable that any other regiment so closely followed the destiny of General W. T. Sherman. It was first in his brigade at Benton barracks, in December, 1861, and thereafter became a member of the Fifth Division, commanded by that general. Subsequently it was always a member of the Second Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, and following all the footsteps of that general except the Meridian raid. In its various marches it traversed every southern state except Delaware, Te.xas and Florida.

Owing to its extraordinary losses at Shiloh and receiving no recruits it was small in numbers at all subsequent periods and noted for its proficiency in drill.

After reorganization at the end of its three years' term, it was commanded until nearly the close of its career by its senior captain, when Captain C. A. Andress became lieutenant colonel. Its dead now lie buried in nine different states.

The Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers was recruited at Camp Douglas, Chicago. Illinois, on the iith of February, 1862. The regiment left Camp Douglas, eight hundred and eighty-seven strong, via the Illinois Central Railroad for Cairo, Illinois, and reported to Brigadier General E. A. Paine on the 1 2th. Was immediately furnished with arms and started from Cairo about midnight, with orders to proceed up the Ohio to Smithland, Kentucky, thence up the Cumberland to the vicinity of Fort Donelson, and report to the officer in charge of United States forces. Arrived near Fort Donelson on the night of the 13th and disembarked at daybreak, the 14th, having been assigned to the Third Brigade. Third Division, Colonel J. M. Thayer, First Nebraska, commanding.

Was temporarily assigned tu the Second Division, General C. F. Smith commanding. On reporting to General Smith was assigned to the brigade of Colonel Lauman, of the Seventh Iowa, and about 11 A. M. 14th was in position, subject to considerable annoyance from the enemy's shell from the fort. In the afternoon two cumpanies were deployed forward and were briskly engaged for a short time. The men suffered exceedingly from the intense cold, no fires being allowed. The men were poorly prepared for the severe task imposed upon them - very few having seen service. The arms furnished them had been condemned and thrown aside b\- other regiments and there was. in short, no confidence in them whatever. .\ few casualties occurred during the evening and night. On the morning of the I5tli was reassigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division. \\'as under fire a short time in the morning and in the evening. While attempting to secure an atlvanced and desirable position was considerably cut up and thrown into confusion by a masked battery, upon which it approached to within two hundred and fifty yards. For a few moments the ranks were considerably broken, the fire being entirely une.x]5ected. By moving to the right, howexer, a short distance, it was protected from the sweeping fire of grape and canister and reformed, though then exposed to a murderous fire from the enemy's sharpshooters ( who swarmed every tree) and skirmishers. Threw out skirmishers and drove back the enemv, and held the same. Xight now closed around. When leaving the boats the commissary was directed to bring to the regiment rations for three days, they being unprovided with ha\-ersacks. In the many changes made the commissary sergeant was unable to find the regiment and the men got no rations from Friday morning till Sunday morning, when they were procured from the division commissary at daybreak. On the morning of the 1 6th. Sunday, a white flag was seen waving over the fort, denoting its surrender.

The conduct of the men on this occasion was remarkable; raw men, without rations, and armed with the most worthless guns, they behaved as well as veterans of a hundred battles. Remained at Fort Donelson till the afternoon of Tuesday, the i8th, when it moved on about four miles en route for Fort Henry. Camped for the night and at 7 A. M. the next day resumed the march and arrived at Fort Henry about noon. The roads were almost impassable and consequently the march was a most difficult one. Remaining at Fort Henry till it embarked on the transport "Boston" and went up the Tennessee with the troops commanded by Major General Smith. Arrived at Crump's Landing, about four miles above Savannah, and disembarked. Were at once moved out about eleven miles into the neighborhood of Purdy. During the march it rained incessantly. Remained all night, returning to transports about 9 P. M. Men very much exhausted. Made a capture of a few rebel pickets. Remained on transport till morning, then disembarked and went into camp about one-half mile from the landing. Remained in camp for several days, drilling and completing organization df the regiment.

On the 2gth of March embarked on steamer and went up to Pittsburg Landing. Having been reassigned to the division of General C. F. Smith, was directed to report to Colonel Sweeney, of the Fifty-second Illinois, and was assigned to his brigade. Went into camp (juite near the river, not over one-third of a mile distant. Proceeded to change arms, secured transportation, and in every way completed the organization. On the morning of Sunday, the 6th of April, was awakened by heavy firing from the front; received orders to fall in and await further orders. About 8 :30 A. M. was moved out one mile and a half, when orders were received from General Grant, in person, to take position across a road and hold that position. Immediately changed front and took the position as directed. With some slight changes in position, mainly to the front and perpendicular to the front, it occupied tlie same ground all day. From the time of going into the fight, about 9 A. M.. it was almost continually under fire. About 4 P. ]\I. the right and left were giving way, but orders were imperative to hold the position. At length it became evident that unless some change was made the regiment would be taken jirisoners. The regiment stood alone. Charge after charge was made by the stubborn and determined foe. To prevent being flanked, the order was given to fall back to the brow of a hill in the rear. Arrived thf^re, found the enemy on our rear (now front) on all sides, and the regiment exposed to a continuous fire. Disorganized portions of regiments were then in the utmost confusion. Orders were gi\en to forward and cut its way out, which could have been done with less loss than was suffered afterward in Soutiiern prisons. About two thousand three hundred ofticers and men were captured in this fight by the enemy. The surrender did not all take place the same time. The surrender of the Fifty-eighth was made a few minutes before 6. The loss in this engagement was frightful - amounting in killed, wounded and prisoners to upwards of four hundred and fifty. More than three-fourths of those taken prisoners were wounded, and only two hundred and eighteen were taken prisoners. The fact of the regiment being taken was undoubtedly in a great measure the salvation of the army. The right and left were entirely turned, and the enemy, on one wing only, needed to know of the success of the other to press on ; but \\hile the center held out they could not know their success. And when at last this small band was forced to succumb, night closed her mantle over the scene and the hauehtv victors could pursue their advantage no further. Suffering all the privations and hardships which the rebels knew so well how to inflict on their helpless victims, for about seven months, the prisoners, or what was left of them, about one hundred and thirty men. were paroled and allowed to go north. The few men left in camp were strengthened by men returned from hospital and sent from the state as recruits, and participated, with credit, in all the skirmishes and 1 attles consequent on the siege of Corintli. Was engaged at the battle, near luka and lost twenty-three out of thirty-one in killed, wounded and prisoners.

In December. 1862, different detachments of the regiment were concentrated at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. Remained at Camp Butler, recruiting and guarding rebel prisoners, until June, 1863, when the regiment was sent to Cairo to garrison that post. Remained at that place till January i, 1864 - in the meantime garrisoning Mound City, Illinois, and Paducah. Kentucky, for the greater part of the time. Some of the companies had a skirnush near Obion River. Kentucky, in October. Companies A and B garrisoned Mayfield, Kentucky, and had several slight encounters with rebels at that place.

On the 2ist of Jaimary embarked on transjiort and went to \'icksburg, Mississippi. Was assigned to the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and on the 3d of February left Vicksburg, Mississippi, for Meridian, Mississip])i. Was the first regiment to cross the Big- Black, the first to engage the enemy at Oueen's Hill, and the first infantry regiment to enter Meridian, Mississippi. During this expedition the men were seventy hours with but one day's rations, with which they marched forty-seven miles and destroyed seven miles of railroad. Returned to \'icksburg and was sent with the troops of General A. J. Smith to participate in the Red River campaign. Arrived at Simmsport on the evening of tlie 12th of March. Disembarked to cook, etc.

On the morning of the 13th moved out from Simmsport about five miles and took possession of two field works, which the rebels evacuated on the approach of the regiment. Returned to the boats in the evening and at 8 o'clock the same night started for Fort De Russey. Arrived at the fort, which it invested, about 4 P. M. on the 14th. A sanguinary struggle ensued, but after a stubborn resistance the enemy surrendered. The colors of the Fiftyeighth were the first planted on the works. The boats having come up, the troops were embarked and proceeded to Alexandria. After great and unnecessary delay at Alexandria, moved up the river (by land about twenty miles, the remainder by water) to Grand Ecore; there disembarked and remained until the 7th of April, when the army of General Smith moved out on the Shreveport road, preceded two days by the Army of the Gulf. During the afternoon of the 8th heavy firing was heard in the advance and on arrival at Pleasant Hill learned that a severe engagement had taken place, in which the troops of General Banks had been signally defeated and were then falling back. A council of war having been held, it was decided to give the enemy battle and early on the following day the lines were formed. About 4 P. M. the rebels, fluslied with the victory of the previous day and heavily reinforced by fresh troops from Texas, threw themselves upon the line. A brigade of Maine troops on the right was speedily driven from the ground. The Fiftyeighth occupied the extreme left of the line, and as the brigade of eastern troops gave way charged on the enemy and poured upon them an enfilading and near fire, which at once turned their flank. Following up this advantage the regiment captured over five hundred prisoners and recaptured from the enemy a battery belonging to the First United States Artillery, which had been taken from General Banks' troops. In this engagement the loss was very heavy. The utmost gallantry was shown, both by officers and men, and to the Fiftyeighth is due the credit of having given the first check to the foe and of taking five-sixths of the prisoners captured during the engagement. Many of the prisoners here taken were the same the regiment guarded in Camp Butler. Though the enemy was most signally defeated, the command was ordered to retreat, and at 3 o'clock A. M. on the loth the army fell back, leaving the dead and wounded on the field, to be cared for by an enemy who was then some sixteen miles distant, retreating as rapidly as possible. Reached Grand Ecore on the 1 2th and went into camp.

Fifty-Eighth Infantry Regiment

Privates. Daniel Di.xon. Elgin; killed at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862. Edward Fitzgibbons, Geneva; deserted April, 1862. Patrick Hough. Elgin ; reenlisted as veteran. Alpheus Hannigan, Elgin; discharged June 16, 1862; disability. Peter Hinds, Elgin; discharged July 18, 1862; disability. John C. B. Hilbert, Elgin: killed at Fort Donelson, February 15. 1862. Bartholomew Kelly, Elgin; killed at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862. Joseph Leonard, Aurora ; transferred to Company A as consolidated. Daniel Murphy, Elgin ; reenlisted as veteran.

Reeruils. Barnev Carty, Aurora: transferred to Company -\ as consolidated. William L. Gage, Elgin; transferred to Company A as consolidated. Thomas Jones, Elgin: discharged June 16, 1862; disability. James Kinnev. .Xurora; transferred to Companv .\ as consolidated.

Recruits. John Benchler, Aurora; transferred to Company D as consolidated. John Elchroth. Aurora; killed at Old Town, Mississippi, July 14. 1864.

Recruits. John P. Ott, Geneva; reenlisted as veteran. Richard V. Smith, Aurora; deserted April 8, 1864. Jesse Schafer, Elgin ; transferred to Company D as consolidated.

Prii'ates. Samuel B. Cole, Elgin; transferred to Com]:iany I January 5. 1862. Cyrus Cole, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Edward Champlain, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, i862_. Thomas Connery, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Richard Collins, Plato; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Solona Ellis, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Asa Fairbanks, Aurora; died at Hermann, Missouri, November q. 1864. William Freeborn, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5. 1862. David Gifford, St. Charles; discharged May 12, 1862; disability. James Golden, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5. 1862. Charles Gibbs, Dundee; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Thomas James, Plato; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. John Oness, Big Rock; transferred to Company I March 2, 1862. William Oness, Big Rock; transferred to Company I March 2, 1S62. Edward Parker, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. \\'illiam Painter, Plato: transferred to Cnmi^any I January 5. 1862. Joe Rose, Elgin; transferred to Company I January 5, 1862. Alonzo B. Russell, Sug'ar Grove; reenlisted as veteran. Duane Smith. Aurora; deserted February 8, 1862, at Camp Douglas, Illinois.

Comp'Any

Privates. Herman Burr, Elgin; discharged; served with Company I. A. B. Foster, Elgin; died, Memphis, February 28, 1863. George Shever, Aurora; discharged April 25, 1862; disability.

Privates. David Bradley, Elgin; accidentally killed December 29, 1865. James Burns, Elgin; died at Macon, Georgia; prisoner of war Thomas Betts, Aurora; discharged March 24, 1863; wounds James Costello, Elgin; mustered out February 7, 1865. Patrick Coleman, Elgin ; discharged for disability. Joseph Copias, Elgin; discharged February 2, 1862; disability. William Dunn, Aurora; transferred to Company G February 25, 1862. Edward Galligher, Elgin; discharged August 28, 1862; disability. Michael Gartland, Elgin; drowned at Fort Henry March - , 1862. William Given, Elgin; died at Camp Douglas. Illinois, February 12, 1862. James Heffernan, Elgin; First sergeant; killed at Shiloh April 6, 1862. Dennis Hamblin, St. Charles; transferred to Company G January 5, 1862. Gregory Larkin, Rutland; deserted February - , 1863. Anthony McBriarty, Elgin; transferred to Company G January 5, 1862.

Privates. Barney Carty, Aurora; died at Greenville. Louisiana, September 17, 1865. William L. Gage, Elgin; mustered out May 20, 1865. Patrick Haugh, Elgin; mustered out April i. 1866, as first sergeant. James Kinney, Aurora; discharged April 9, 1865, day he left service. Joseph Leonard, Aurora; absent without leave since March 11, 1865. Benj. F. Montgomery, Aurora; mustered out April i, 1866. Daniel Murphy, Elgin; mustered out April i, 1866, as corporal. John O'Brian, Elgin; mustered out April i, 1866. John Savers, Aurora; mustered out May 24, 1865. John Scanlnn. Dundee; mustered out April i, 1866.

Adam Deal, Aurora; discharged July 18, 1865; disability. William Hamilton, Elgin; died at Montgomery, Alabama, July 21, 1865. Sylvester M. Johnson, Sugar Grove; mustered out June 6, 1865. Robert Love, Aurora; mustered out April i, 1866, as corporal. Robert Sommers, Elgin; mustered out February 11, 1866. Thomas Taylor, Aurora; mustered out April i, 1866.

Fifty-Xixth Ixfaxtry Reghiext

Rccntits. Thomas Hagan, Aurora ; absent ; sick at muster out of regiment. Marcellus C. Hibbard. Aurora: mustered out December 8. 1865. Hugh Patterson. Aurora: deserted June 18. 1865.

Comp.Any

Recruits Transferred from Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry. Alexander Burns, Aurora; mustered out December 8, 1865. Frank ^I. Barry. Aurora; discharged August 11. 1865. Lewis .A. Duncan. Kane county: mustered out September 5. 1865. Andrew J. Hasley. Aurora : charge of desertion removed. John S. \'. Jarstad. Aurora; absent; sick at muster out June 22, 1865. George AI. Jenks. Aurora: mustered out December 8. 1865. William Russ. Kane county: mustered out December 8. 1865. Henrv C. Scott. Aurora: mustered out December 8. 1865. \\'illiam Williams. Aurora: mustered out December 8. 1865.

Veterans. John Gibbons, Aurora ; transferred to Company H as consolidated. Kelvin Nichols, Aurora; transferred to Company H as consolidated.

Sergeants. Michael J. Dunne. Dundee: mustered out September 2/. 1862. John Cockerton, Elgin: mustered out September 2/. 1862. John Megginson, Elgin; mustered out September 2~. 1862. Calvin Loomis, Elgin; mustered out September 2-. 1862.

Corpornls. Henry T. Adams, Elgin; mustered out Septemljer 2/, 1862. John C. Russell, Elgin; mustered out September 2j. 1S62. Sibeus Sweet, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Henry W'ells, Elgin; mustered out Septcmljer 27. 1862. Albert Kinney, Elgin; mustered out September 2/. 1862. Edgar Hoxie, Dundee; mustered out September 2/, 1862.

Pri-iVfcs. S. Nathaniel Abbott, Elgin; mustered out September 2/. 1862. George Abbott, Elgin; mustered out September 2/. 1862. George Adams, Elgin; mustered out September 2/, 1862. Robert Adams, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. John Augustine, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Alexander Cannon, Elgin; mustered out September 2/, 1862. Thomas Cannon, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Charles Crane. Dundee; mustered out September 2/, 1862. John Cambell, Dundee; mustered out September 27, 1862. George W. Clark, Elgin; mustered out September 2y. 1862. D. B. Caffee, Campton; mustered out Septemljer 27, 1862. George Dunlap, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Milton Earring, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. Robert K. Florence, Elgin; musteretl out September 2j. 1862. Daniel Flynn, Elgin; mustered out September 2j, 1862. Thomas Frazier, Plato; mustered out September 2y, 1862. Joseph Flannery. St. Charles; mustered out 'September 27. 1862. David Gifford, St. Charles; mustered out September 27, 1862. Philander Gates, Campton; mustered out September 27, 1862. Danford M. Jones, Elgin: mustered out September 27, 1862. Aaron Kribbs, Elgin; mustered out September 2j, 1862. Chester Kinney, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Richard Keough, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. John McConnell, Aurora; mustered out September 2j, 1862. Peter Pocket, St. Charles: mustered out September 27. 1862. Henry Plaunty, Hampshire; mustered out September 27, 1862. Christopher Rose, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. William H. Rowe, Plato; mustered out Septemljer 2j, 1862. James Sheedy. Elgin: mustered out September 2y, 1862. William F. Todd, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. George A. ^Vebster, Elgin: mustered out September 2/, 1862. Benjamin Webster, Elgin: mustered out September 2y. 1862. Albert Ward, Elgin; mustered out September 2j, 1862. Peter Wolover, Dundee; mustered out September 27, 1862.

Recruits. Phillip Brinnan. Dundee: deserted June 24, 1862. James K. Elliott, St. Charles : discharged by the surgeon. Stephen A. Houghton, Dundee: transferred to Miller's Battery.

Prkvfcs. Wilber F. Higgins, Geneva: mustered out September 2j, 1862. William LeBarren, Geneva; mustered out September 27. 1862. James C. Long. Geneva; mustered out September 27, 1862. George Steurtr, St. Cliarles; mvstered out September 2~, 1862.

Prizxites. James E. Hollenback, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862. Hiram Kenneday, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862. Alexander Saunders, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862. Peter Stuckey, Aurora; mustered out October 6. 1862.

Seventy-First Infantry Regiment

The Seventy-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers was organized at Chicago as the First Regiment of the Chicago Board of Trade. Its first bills were put out for one company, calling itself the "Hancock Guards." on July 23, 1862, and exactly one month afterwards (August 23, 1862) the entire regiment was complete and mustered into the service of the United States for three years, or during the war. The very day of their muster they were started ofif for Cairo, where they arrived on the 24th. Their strength at that time was thirty-seven (37) officers and nine hundred and thirty men.

On the 6th day of September they were ordered out to Paducah, Kentucky, wliere they went on post duty until the 17th, when they were sent down to Columbus, Kentucky, at which point they did guard and picket duty mainly, until November 21. They were nut. however, idle in this time, but in addition to the thorough and constant drilling, which has since made them one of the finest organizations in th.e army, found time for two expeditions, one to Clarkson, Missouri, on October 6. when they dispersed a rebel camp and captured a lumiber of prisoners, horses, etc.. and the other, on October 21. to

New Madrid, which was not so eventful. On November 21 they were ordered to join General Ouimby's command, Seventh Division, Seventeentli Army Corps, at Moscow, Tennessee, and with that command they arrived on December i, 1862, at Lumpkin's Mills, Mississippi, whence they accompanied (jrant's army as far as the Yaconapatafa river. Owing to the supplies being rut off at Holly Springs, the army was forced to return, after penetrating as far as the point mentioned, and the Seventy-second was sent as guard to the wagon train to Memphis, Tennessee. There, at a distance of about eight miles from the city, on the line of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, they went into camp and remained until January 19, 1863, when they were sent into the city and quartered at the navy yard to do provost guard duty. While making Memphis their headquarters the regiment went out on an expedition to Horn Lake Creek, where they dispersed a gang of Blythe's rebel guerrillas, capturing quite a number of them.

On March i the division, of which the Seventy-second formed a part, started down the Yazoo Pass, but finding Fort Pemberton in their way and not being able to take it just then, went back. April 23 they landed at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, and from there marched up with Grant's army to Yicksburg. On May 16 they arrived at Champion Hill, just in time to turn the enemy's left, and by that movement decided the fate of the day. That was their first battle and, fortunately for them, their share in it, although a most important one, was not very severe. On May 17 they found themselves at Big Black, in the rear of Vicksburg, and on the igth this regiment was the first to open the attack on the rebel stronghold. In the desperate charge of the 22d they participated with the highest honor to themselves, losing some one hundred and thirty of their number killed, wounded and missing, but fighting a.'; bravely as men could fight until the last. From that time until July 4, when the rebels capitulated, the Seventy-second did its duty among the foremost in the siege, and on the capitulation were among the first to enter the city.

On July 12 the Seventy-second embarked for Natchez, Mississippi, where ' they landed the succeeding day, taking possession of the town, capturing a large number of prisoners, pieces of artillery, confederate government stores, and five thousand head of Texas cattle. Here they remained until October 17, doing provost duty, with the exception of a couple of skirmishes at St. Catherine's Creek, Mississippi, September i, and at Cross Bayou, Louisiana, on September 23.

October 18, 1863, they went on provost guard duty at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where they remained until October 30, 1864. During this year of comparative inaction they only went on two expeditions. The first of these was to Benton, Mississippi, on May 7, 1864, where they had a short but pretty severe fight with a bodv of rebels ; and the second was to Grand Gulf, Mississippi, on July 18.

October 30, 1864, they were ordered to report to Major General Howard, commanding Army and Department of the Tennessee, then with Sherman's army, and in pursuance of this order arrived at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 13. They there found themselves too late to join Sherman in his great "march to the sea," and were ordered to Cohuiibia, Tennessee, to join Major General Schofield's command, which they did on November 21, when Hood crossed the Tennessee river and seemed coming down "Hke a wolf on the fold." Schofield's army found it convenient to retire towards Nashville. On November 29 they evacuated Columbia, and the Seventy-second was in a severe skirmish with the enemy at Spring Hill, on the road between Columbia and Franklin. On the succeeding day they arrived at Franklin and hastily threw up some light earth works. About 4 o'clock that afternoon Hood attacked them and the battle raged from that hour until midnight with terrific fury. In that fight the Seventy-second lost nine officers out of sixteen engaged and one hundred and fifty-two men, who were either killed or severely wounded. That night they left their works and retreated towards Nashville, which they reached on December i, and here the Seventy-second was thrown on the extreme right of the Federal lines inclosing- Nashville, under command of General A. J. Smith. On December 1 5 the whole Union army was moved outside its works to give battle to Hood, and on that and the succeeding day the great battle of Nashville took place, resulting in the complete whipping of the "Rebs." From that time until January 3, 1865, they were engaged in the pursuit of Hood's army, following it up closely as far as Clifton, but Hood managed to escape across the Tennessee river. From Clifton the regiment went by boat up the Tennessee river to Eastport, Mississippi, arriving there January 13, 1865, and there remaining in quarters until February 9, making in that time but one expedition, and that a fruitless one, to luka and Corinth. Mississippi.

February 9 they started for New Orleans, where they arrived February 21. Until Alarch 21 they remained in camp eight miles below the city and then they were embarked and taken across the gulf to Dauphin Island, Alabama, where they arrived on March 17. The ne.xt day the brigade, which included the Seventv-second, crossed over to the main land on the western shore of Mobile bay. Here they remained a few days, skirmishing with the enemy, when, having accomplished the object of the e.xpedition, which was merely a feint on Mobile from that direction, they rejoined the army at Fish river, near Smith's Mills, Alabama.

On March 26 the corps to which they were attached moved, and on the morning of the 27th appeared in front of Spanish Fort. From that time until the night of April 8 the regiment was actively engaged in the siege. At 5 o'clock on the evening of the 8th the Union troops were ordered up into the first line of their works. The attack began and at near midnight the First Brigade (including the Seventy-second) and the Third Brigade, Sixteenth .\rmy Corps, charged on the enemy's works and carried them, capturing the fort. The next morning they moved out on the road to Blakely, when their division was held in support of the other divisions charging the enemy's works at that place. The place having been taken, the command went into camp here until the 14th, on which date they moved forward on the road to Montgomery, Alabama, marching over the two hundred miles tn that place in exactly eleven days. At Montgomery they remained in camp until May 2^. when they were ordered to Union Springs, Alaliama, forty-five miles from

During their term of service they received some four hundred and fifty recruits, and when ordered home they transferred two hundred and seventy of these to the Thirty-third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteers at Meridian, Mississippi. They brought home twenty-two officers and three hundred and ten men.

In an attack upon some of the regiment by a gang of drunken rebels at Yerger's Landing, on their way home, private Levi Derby, of Company E, was killed, and Sergeant Major Blake was so seriously injured by a pistol shot that his life was endangered.

Recruits. Paul E. Gros, Rutland ; transferred to Thirty-third Illinriis Infantry. David Larreaux. Rutland ; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.

Privates. Alexander Archibald. Dundee; mustered out August 7. 1865. Alfred Booth. Dundee; mustered out August 7, 1865. Edward Oertell. Dundee; promoted first lieutenant from first sergeant.

James; T. Fox, Aurora; discharged for promotion February 16, 1863. Barnett Payne. Aurora; mustered out August 7, 1863, as corporal. David Peabody, Aurora; mustered out August 7, 1863. as corporal. Jacob H. Staley, Aurora; killed at Franklin, Tennessee. November 30, 1864.

Privates. Johann Beetenschlag, Aurora; died July 26, 1864; wounds. Christian Holz, Aurora; died at Aurora, Illinois, March i, 1864, as corporal.

The Eighty-eighth Infantry Illinois \'(ilunteers was organized in Chicago, Illinois, in September, 1862, by Colonel Francis T. Sherman, and was known

Ordered to Louisville. Kentucky. September 4. and went into camp below Jeffersonville. Received arms on the nth. Moved to Covington, Kentucky. I2th. On the 15th was brigadeil with Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and Secona and Fifteenth Missouri, Colonel Greasel's (First) Brigade, Granger's Division. Army of the Ohio. On the 21st moved to Louisville and was brigaded with Twenty-first ^Michigan. Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and Thirty-sixth Illinois, Colonel Grease! commanding. Thirty-seventh Brigade, Eleventh Division, Brigadier General P. H. Sheridan commanding.

October i. 1862, marched in pursuit of Bragg. Engaged in the battle of Perryville, October 8, losing four killed, five mortally wounded, and thirty-six wounded. Marched to Crab Orchard and thence to Lebanon and Bowling Green, Kentucky, arri\ing October 30. 1862. Moved toward Xashville, arriving at Edgefield Xo\ember 7. Moved November 17 six miles south of Nashville, on Nolensville pike.

November 20, 1862, brigaded in First Brigade. Second Division, under Major General P. H. Sheridan, of the right wing. Army of the Cumberland. December 26, 1862. marched in the advance upon Murfreesboro. December 31. 1862, to January 3, 1863, engaged in the battle of Stone Iviver.

June, 1863. to July. 1863 brigaded in First Brigade, Second Division, Twentieth Army Corps. Engaged in the advance in movement against and pursuit of Bragg from middle Tennessee.

September 19 and 20. 1863. engaged in the battle of Chickamauga. October. 1863, encamped at Chattanooga. Brigaded in First Brigade. Second Division, Fourth Arm}- Corps.

May, 1864, joined in the advance upon the Atlanta campaign. It continued with the advance as part of the Fourth Corps, commanded by Major General Howard, throughout the w-hole of that campaign, up to and including the capture of Atlanta, participating in the following principal battles and skirmishes : Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca. Adairsville. New Hope Church. Pine Mountain. Mud Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camp Ground. Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. Its services in the advance movements were continuous and constant from May to September, 1864.

First M. E. Church, Elgin

November, 1864, uKJved to Pulaski, Tennessee, and thence, upon the advance of Hood, to Cokuubia, Franklin and Nashville. It was engaged in skirmishes at Columbia and Spring Hill, and in tiie battle of Franklin, upon the right center, the main point of attack of the enemy.

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 w^as such as to merit and receive the commendation of its brigade, division and corps commanders. For its conduct at Stone River, Mission Ridge and Franklin it was made the subject of special mention.

The regiment was mustered out June 9, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee, and arrived at Chicago June 13, 1865, where it received final pay and discharge June 22, 1865.

Eighty-Eighth Infantry Regiment

Prk'ates. William Dade, Kane county; deserted October 29, 1862. William J. Russell, Geneva; mustered out June 9, 1865, as sergeant. Otis B. Skinner, Elgin; deserted September 9, 1864.

The "Rail Road Regiment" was organized by the railroad companies of Illinois, at Chicago, in August, 1862. Captain John Christopher. Sixteenth United States Infantry, was appointed colonel, and Charles T. Hotchkiss. lieutenant colonel. It was mustered into the United States service August 2y.

Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky. Septeml:)er 4. and was assigned, by Major General Wright, commanding Department of Ohio, to Third Brigade, Colonel Woodruff; Second Division, General Cruft; Army of Kentucky, General Nelson. Assigned October i to Sixth Brigade, General Willich; Second Division, General Sill ; McCook"s Corps of Buell's Army.

The regiment, on leaving Loitisville, started in pursuit of the rebel forces itnder General Bragg, and, after a fruitless and wearisome march of a month, reached Bowling Green, Kentucky. At this point the tenth company, F. joined the regiment. When in the service but about four months, it took an active part in the memorable battle of Stone River, where, by its gallant conduct, the men soon became classified among the old, tried soldiers. It did well, and among the heroes who that day died in liberty's cause was Captain Henry S. Willett, of Company H.

On the -th of Januarv, 1863, Colonel Christopher, who had never joined the regiment, resigned. The line of promotion then ensuing made Captain William D. Williams, of Company F, major.

At Liberty Gap another loss was sustained : Captain Herbert M. Blake, Company K, a truly brave and efticient otTicer, fell mortally wounded. Chickamauga seemed to affix the seal of its devotion. There fell Lieutenant Colonel Duncan J. Hall, Captains Rice, Spink and Whiting, and Lieutenant Ellis, besides the scores of brave men who fought with noble heroism, and who dared to "do and die" in defense of the "old flag."

LTpon the reorganization of the Army of the Cumberland the regiment was transferred, with Willicb's command, to its new position in the First Brigade, Third Division. Fourth Army Corps. At Missionary Ridge it again encountered the foe. scaling the enemy's entrenchments and driving him from them. In this charge fell those gallant officers, Lieutenant E. O. Young. Company A. and Captain Henry L. Rowell, Company C.

It then marched to the relief of Burnside. liesieged at Knoxville. This accomplished, it moved on with the brigade, in the marches and counter marches through East Tennessee.

Early in April, 1864, it marclied with tiie command to southern Tennessee, preparatory to General Sherman's glorious campaign through northern Georgia, for the occupation of Atlanta.

With the brigade, it participated in the splendid victories of Rocky Face. Resaca, Pickett's Mills. Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and the flank movement of Atlanta, and pursued the routed enemy in his retreat to Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station.

On this campaign Lieutenant Nathaniel Street, of Companv D, and Captain William Harkness. Company A, ofl^ered up their lives a sacrifice to their country.

After the unsuccessful attempt of the rebel forces to destroy the railroad communications of the army between Atlanta and Chattanooga, the regiment rendered very important service, while on detached duty, in repairing the damages on tlie railroad inflicted by the enemy.

On the 30th of October. 1864. the regiment was ordered to rejoin the command at Pulaski. Tennessee. It participated in the brilliant achievements of Spring Hill, Columbia. Franklin and Nashville, in the latter of which fell Lieutenant P. G. Taite, of Company G. pierced by a cannon ball. Subsequently it pursued Hood's shattered forces in their flving retreat across Tennessee.

It passed winter quarters at Huntsvillc, Alabama, in January, 1865. and on the 1st of February traveled by railroad for Na.shville. and after Iving there fi\-e days, returned to Camp Green. About the middle of March, the coiumand embarked on the cars for East Tennessee, to reestablish communications through to Virginia, and prepare to repel rebel invasion.

On the surrender of Lee's army, further movements in that section were abandoned, and the Fourth Corps returned by cars to Nashville, to muster out of service its non-x-eterans.

On the loth of June, 1865. the regiment was mustered out of the LTnited States service, in the field, near Nashville. Tennessee. Left there June 10, by the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, and arrived in Chicago on the night of June 12, 1865, and was discharged at Camp Douglas, on the 24th of Juiie, 1865, making its term of service two years, nine months and twentyseven days.

Chronological Record Of Engagements

In 1864, four hundred and forty recruits were added to the regiment, making a total borne on the rolls of one thousand four hundred and three. The regiment left in the field two hundred and two recruits (transferred to the Fifty-ninth Illinois \'eterari \'olunteers), and mustered out on its rolls three hundred and eighty-one men, of the rank and file, leaving eight hundred and twenty killed in action, died from wounds, or discharged on account of disability contracted in the service. The principal losses were at the battles of

Corporals. George W. Videtto, Aurora; discharged February 13, 1863; disability. Moses Plummer, Aurora; discharged December 26, 1862; disability. J. K. Lowry, Aurora; mustered out June 10. 1865; prisoner of war. Levi C. Way, Aurora; transferred to ^". R C. September 20, 1863.

Recruits. Thomas Hagan, Aurora; transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. John Johnson, Aurora; deserted about February i, 1864. Hugh Patterson, Aurora; transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. William M. Sullivan, Aurora; deserted, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Recruits. Mathew Hellixon, Aurora; died at Nashville January 31, 1864. Henry Hottendorf, Aurora; transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. James Lyons, Aurora; deserted December 6, 1864.

Sergeants. y. W. Warren, Aurora; promoted first lieutenant, then captain. Samuel Ebersol, Aurora; died at Chickamauga September 21, 1864; wounds.

Corporals. George Shears, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865, as private. Frank Mariett, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865, as sergeant. Andrew Golden, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865. Albert Marney, Aurora; discharged April 27, 1863, as private.

Privates. Robert M. Black, Aurora; transferred to Company C. William Blackie, Aurora; deserted December 16, 1862. C. B. Brooks, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865. C. M. Bryant, Aurora; discharged April 10, 1863. J. C. Coggswell, Aurora; died at Nashville January i, 1863. Thomas W. Clark, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865. William Cousins, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865, as corporal. George Carman, Aurora; corporal; died at Ackworth, Georgia, June 8, 1864; wounds.

Edwin Goodwin, .\urora; mustered out June 10, 1865, as sergeant. Winfield Green, Aurora; transferred to V. R. C. October 22, 1861. J. T. Huff. Aurora : transferred to Mississippi Marine Brigade December 15, 1862.

Frank Myers, Aurora; died at Chattanooga January 24, 1863; wounds. Isaiah Michard, Aurora; died at Nashville December 12, 1864. P. McGrath, Aurora; discharged JNIarch 25, 1863; wounds. A. Paradise, Aurora; transferred to V. R. C. May 31, 1864. William Pearce, Aurora ; transferred to Company C. John Pinegar. Aurora: deserted June i, 1863.

G. A. Wilder, Aurora; mustered out June 10, 1865. Durkee Whipple, Batavia; mustered out June 10, 1865. James Wildrick, Aurora: mu.stered 'out June 10, 1865.

Privates. William Aikens. Blackberry: killed at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. Clement G. Bradley. Batavia: killed at Chickamauga. September 19, 1863. James Dahy, Elgin: deserted May 15, 1865. Milo Eastman. Elgin; discharged January 11, 1863; disability. Jerry 'M. Grash. Geneva ; promoted sergeant major. Andrew Hutchinson. Blackberry: discharged March 2j. 1863: disabiHty. John J. Matherson. Blackberry: mustered out June 10. 1865. as sergeant. William H. Reed. Geneva; mustered out June 10, 1865. Thomas Rogers, Blackberry; died in rebel hospital at Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 1863; wounds.

Recruits. Xoah H. Howard. Aurora; died at Springfield, Illinois, March 11. 1864. Ge<irge W. Hagedon. Big Rock: died at Loudon. Tennessee, March 12, 1864.

Patrick Hickey. Aurora: transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. John M. Murry, Aurora: transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. Palmer Fresher. Aurora : transferred to Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. Thomas W. Snell. Aurora: deserted September 20, 1864.

On the 8th moved to Camp Douglas. On the 30th left Camp Douglas for Louisville, Kentucky, arriving on the 2d of October, and, reporting to General Dumont, was attached to his division. Brigadier General W. T. Ward's brigade. On the 3d moved in the direction of Frankfort; arrived on the 9th, after a severe march. Were engaged in guard and picket duty, with occasional slight skirmishing with the enemy. \\'hile at Frankfort, made a raid to Lawrenceburg and returned. On the 26th moved, en route to Bowling Green, arriving on the 4th of November, and remaining one week, was ordered to Scottsville. November 25, moved to Gallatin, Tennessee; December 11 moved to South Tunnel; February i. 1863. returned to Gallatin, remaining till the 1st day of June, 1863, when it moved to Lavergne. From thence to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, returning to Lavergne the last of July. Moved to Nashville August 19. Was quartered in Fort Negley, doing guard duty in it and the city of Nashville. Exchanged the Austrian musket, with which the regiment had been armed, for the Spring rifle musket. Meanwhile it was attached to the Eleventh Army Corps, ^ilajor General O. O. Howard commanding.

On the 24th day of February, 1864, it took the line of march in the direction of Chattanooga, Tennessee. On the - day of March it arrived at Wauhatchie. at which place it remained until the 2d day of May, being, brigaded with the One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Twentyninth Illin.ois, Seventieth Indiana and Seventy-ninth Ohio, with which it remained during the war. In the meantime the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps were consolidated under the name of the Twentieth Army Corps, Major General Joseph Hooker commanding.

May 2 moved to Gordon's j\Iills. !May 6 marched to Leet's farm; thence to Taylor's Ridge on the 7th. May 10 moved to Snake Creek Gap. May 12 to Sugar Valley. May 13 moved in the direction of Resaca, Georgia, skirmishing that evening and the next day. The morning of the 15th moved with the corps to the extreme left of the lines, immediately upon its arrival taking part in a charge upon the enemy's works, which were carried, losing several men in the engagement. On the i6th pursued the retreating enemy, arriving at Calhoun on the 17th. On the i8th moved to near Cassville. On the 19th the One Hundred and Fifth being in advance, skirmished with the rear guard of the enemy, driving them at every point. Remained near Kingston until the 23d, when ordered forward, crossing the Etowah river. 24th moved to Burnt Hickory. On the 25th, continuing its march towards Dallas,

View Of East Elgix Stiowing Academy, 1866

Georgia, encountering" the enemy, ha\'ing- a ijrisk engagement till dark, the casualties nnmbering fifteen, including two commissioned officers.

From this time until the first of June the regiment was engaged in advancing the line, building and strengthening the works and skirmishing, losing sixteen men.

On the first of June moved to the extreme left with the Twentieth Corps. On the 2d the One Hundred and Fifth w'as ordered out as flankers, in which position it lost a most excellent officer, Surgeon Horace S. Potter, being killed by a shell. On the 3d moved around and beyond the enemy's right, encamping near Ackworth, Georgia. Here it remained until the 6th, when it moved forward and took position near Golgotha Church, in line of battle, throwing up entrenchments and remaining until the 15th, when it again moved forward, encountering the enemy behind breastworks. A steady fire W'as kept up until dark. That night and the next da}' (the i6th) was occupied in strengthening the position, by erecting breastworks, being exposed to the fire of the enemy. Lost nineteen men during the two days. The night of the 1 6th the enemy retreated. On the 17th, i8th, 19th, and 20th, followed the retreating enemy, with slight skirmishing, at intervals. 21st, severe skirmish firing; 22d moved forward about a mile, in close proximity to the enemy's works, exposed to their fire - losing eleven men. The enemy evacuated his position during the night of July 2. On the 3d moved in the direction of Marietta, Georgia. The brigade to which the One Hundred and Fifth was attached being the advance, skirmished with the enemy - losing one man killed and two wounded. Camped about four miles from Marietta, Georgia, in plain view of a portion of the rebel army. On the evening of the 4th, continued the march in the direction of the Chattahoochee river, camping within two miles of that stream, on the north side, the night of the 6th. Remained there until the 17th, when it crossed the river and encamped until the afternoon of the i8th. Moved forward about five miles and rested till the morning of the 20th. Crossed Peach Tree Creek and came upon the enemy. A line of battle was formed - a charge of the enemy was repulsed in the afternoon, and several prisoners captured; also, the colors of the Twelfth Louisiana. 21st was occupied in hurrying the dead of both sides, and collecting and turning over ordnance and other property. On the 22d moved forward about three miles, where the enemy was again encountered, posted behind the defenses of Atlanta. Litrenchments were immediately thrown up. Remained in this position until the 26th, when relieved and placed on reserve. 29th moved six miles to the right of the lines. Making the position secure by throwing up works, remained until the 2d day of August. Returned to the left and took position, which was fortified and strengthened. Constant skirmishing and artillery firing was kept up until the night of the 25th of August, when ordered to fall back to the Chattahoochee river. Here it remained until the 27th, when it took position on the north side of that stream, doing picket and guard duty.

The 2d day of September the city of Atlanta surrendered. The regiment remained in the vicinity of Atlanta until the 15th of November, when the "grand march to the sea" was begun. The One Hundred and Fifth accompanying the expedition, bore its fnll share of the trials and hardships incident thereto. Passing en the route Decatur, Sithonia. Social Circle. Rutledge and Madison, at which last named place it arri\ed on the 19th of November. From thence, marching southward to the city of ^lilledgeville. the capital of Georgia, arriving en the 22d, and remaining until the 24th. Thence to the north of the Mississippi and Georgia Central Railroad. Passing through Sandersville. Davisboro. and Louisville (the One Hundred and Fifth and part of the One Hundred and Second routing a body of rebel cavalry between the last two named places), reaching ^lilan on December 3. Continuing the march towards Savannah, passing through Springfield on the 7th, having a slight skirmish with guerrillas, arriving in the vicinity of Savannah on the loth. The One Hundred and Fifth, being the advance that day, had a brisk skirmish with the enemy's pickets, driving them within the defense of the city. Participated in the siege of Savannah. That city was evacuated on the night of the 20th of December. On the 31st of December, 1864, and January i, 1865, was occupied in crossing the Savannah river - losing one man by a musket shot from the enemy - mo\-ed five miles and encamped until the 4th of January. Marched north to Hardee's farm, and again encamped, remaining until the 17th with slight skirmishing at intervals. Moved to Hardeeville, remaining there until the 29th. when it started on the campaign of the Carolinas.

Moving northward, nothing of interest occurred until the 2d day of February, when the One Hundred and Fifth, being in advance, encountered the enemy near Lawtonville strongly posted behind barricades. It immediately charged the enemy, driving them from their po.^ition. through the town - losing eight men in the engagement.

Continued the march on the 3d, 4th. 5th. Ctli and 7th. when tlie One Hundred and Fifth again had the advance; had some slight skirmishing with \\'ade Hampton's cavalry: 8th, gth and loth was engaged in tearing up railroad between Graham Station and Williston. From thence, crossed the South and North Edisto rivers, on the road to Columbia, arriving opposite that city on the 1 6th, after a very disagreeable march through swamps and marshes. Not being able to cross the Congaree at that point, moved up the river, and crossed the Broad and Saluda rivers, which unite and form the Congaree. Marching northward, arrived at \\'innsboro on the 21st. On the 22d, the regiment, again in the ad\ance. had some skirmishing with Butler's rebel cavalr}-, and crossed the W'ateree river. Reached Hanging Rock on the 27th. rested one day; 29th. moved northward, arriving at Chesterfield iMarch 3; at Cheraw' March 6. Crossed Great Pedee and Lumber rivers, and arrived at Fayetteville, North Carolina, on the iith. Resting three days. 15th. moved in the direction of Raleigh, North Carolina, some ten miles, where it encountered the enemy, heavily entrenched, near Averysboro. Then, on the i6th, followed the battle of Averysboro - the enemy being driven from their position. The One Hundred and Fifth lost six killed and sixteen wounded.

On the 19th. 20th and 21st, took part in the engagement near Bentonville. The enemy evacuated that place on the night of the 21st. Arrived at Goldsboro on the 24th. Thus ended the campaign of the Carolinas.

Remained at Goldsboro until April lo, 1865. Continued the marcli toward Raleigh, arriving at Smithfield on the nth, and at Raleigh on the 13th, encountering but little opposition from the enemy. Resting until the 25th, moved out some fourteen miles on the Holly Springs road, in the direction of General Johnston's army. Encamped during the 26th and 27th. In the meantime, General Johnston surrendered. On the 28th, returned to Raleigh and immediately began making preparations for the homeward march.

On the 30th left Raleigh en route to Washington City via Richmond, passing through the latter city on the nth of May. Arrived in the vicinity of Alexandria, Virginia, on the igth. Took part in the grand review at Washington, on the 24th, where the regiment received a compliment for their mo\-ements in the manual of arms, and their military appearance.

Remained in the vicinity of Washington until the 7th of June, when the regiment was mustered out of the service, and started, by rail, for Chicago, Illinois, where it arrived on the loth.

Priz'atcs. Benjamin Allen, Geneva; discharged July lO, 1863; disability. Hiram W. Bowers, Batavia ; mustered out June 7, 1865, as corporal. William Kane, Geneva; discharged January 19, 1863; disability. John Kesler, Geneva; discharged December 7, 1862; disability. Thomas Spanton, Plato; mustered out June 7, 1865. Sylvanus Waffles, Geneva; died at Chattanooga August 9, 1864. Elias C. West, Geneva; mustered out June 7, 1865.

Privates. Lemuel Jordan, Burlington; discharged January 16. 1863; disability. William Jordan, Burlington; transferred to Company E, One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry.

William M. Smith, Burlington; discharged July 9, 1864, to accept promotion as second lieutenant. One Hundred and Fourteenth United States C. T.

Privates. Perry C. Hough, Geneva; mustered out June 20, 1865, as corporal. Josiah Jackson, Blackberry; discharged April 25, 1863; disability. Jacob C. Miller, Geneva; mustered out June 20. 1865, as sergeant. Harris B. Osborn, Geneva; discharged October i, 1863, for promotion to assistant surgeon, Second Mississippi Colored Infantry.

Infantry

The One Hundred and T\vent}-fuurth Illinois Infantr)- was a representative, self-raised regiment, recruited from Henry, Kane, McDonough. Sangamon, Jersey, Adams, Wayne, Cook, Putnam, Pike, Mercer and Christian counties. August 27, 1862, the first company went into camp at Camp Butler, near Springfield. Six days later all were in camp, and the field officers chosen. September 10 it was mustered into the United States service for three years by Lieutenant F. E. DeCourcey.

October 6, left for the front, which was found at Jackson, Tennessee, at 3 a. m. the gth. Was assigned to the First Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, consisting of the Twentieth, Thirty-first, Forty-fifth and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois and the Twenty-third Indiana, cohimanded by Colonel C. C. Marsh, of the Twentieth Illinois, General John A. Logan commanding the di\'ision. and General J. B. McPherson the corps. With this organization the regiment remained till April 5, 1864. In the crisp autumn air and lovely camp at Jackson the discipline and efficiency of the regiment were rapidly developed and the foundations largely laid for all the distinction it afterwards achieved.

Left Jackson November 2, to participate in the movement under General Grant, via Bolivar and Lagrange, Tennessee, and Holly Springs, Abbeville and Oxford, Mississippi, to the rear of \'icksburg. Returned from the Yacoma upon the burning of the depot of supplies at Holly Springs, and after some time spent in guarding the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, reached Memphis January 21, 1863.

A month later was a part of the command w hich moved down the Mississippi to Lake Providence, Louisiana, General I. N. Haynie being then in command of the Brigade. After two months of inactivity was a part of a force moving from Milliken's Bend. .April 25, upon what proved to be the final Vicksburg campaign, General Julin E. Smith having succeeded General Haynie, who had gone home sick. April 30, crossed the Alississippi from DeSchroon's plantation in Louisiana, to Bruinsburg in Mississippi, on the gunboat Mound City.

May I, after a rapid and hot march of about twelve miles, the regiment received its first baptism of fire in bearing a jiart of the battle of Thompson's Hills, or Port Gibson. May 12 it bore an important part in the battle of Raymond, May 14 it was at the capture of Jackson and May 16 it did noble service at the battle of Champion Hills, capturing more men from the Fortythird Georgia, after killing its colonel and major, than its own ranks numbered. It also killed most of the men and horses of a battery, really capturing the guns. The loss of the regiment in this action was sixty-three killed and wounded.

The morning of May 19 crossed the Big Black and moved on Vicksburg. Was in the fearful charge of May 22, and occupied the extreme advance position gained that day, during the whole of the siege. It was just to the right of the Jackson road, upon which and the covered way subsequently dug,.

the left of tlie regiment rested, and is said to have been the nearest camp to the enemy's works. It was immediately in front of the fort, which was mined - in large part by men of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth - and blown up June 25 antl July i. At the first explosion the regiment lost fortynine men in killed and wounded in what was called the "Slaughter Pen," being ordered into the crater formed by the explosion, two companies at a time for half an hour, all day of the 26th.

General Smith having been assigned to the command of a division. General J\I. D. Leggett, formerly colonel of the Seventy-eighth Ohio, assumed command of the First Brigade, June 2.

On the 4th of July the regiment shared with the First Brigade in the iKjuor of first entering the captured city and helping to swell the slmut that arose as the Forty-fifth Illinois ran out its colors from the cupola of the court house.

From August 21 to September 2 was absent on an expediti(jn t(_) Munroe. Liniisiana. under General J. D. Stevenson, General Logan being in comiuand oi the post of Vicksburg.

From October 14 to 20 was absent on an expedition in force against Loring, Wirt Adams and others to Brownsville and the Bogue Chittn creek. Skirmished considerable, but the enemy retreated.

November 7 the brigade broke camp in Vicksburg, where its camp had been since the siu-render, and removed to Big Black, 14 miles east. The 13th. General Logan took his farewell of his old fighting Third Division, to the regret of all, and was subsequently succeeded by General Leggett, the First Brigade being commanded by General M. F. Force. In December, Colonel Sloan was dismissed the service, and Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Howe subse- (|uentlv commanded the regiment.

januarv. 1S64, was renc'ered memorable in the history of the regiment by its winning an "Excels.'or " piize banner, which General Leggett signalized his assuming command by tendering to the best drilled and finest regiment in the division. The three brigades drilled separately, on the 20th of January the First Brigade, the One Hundred and Twenty- fourth winning; on the 21st the Second Brigade, the Seventy-eighth Ohio winning; on the 22d the Third Brigade, the Seventeenth Illinois winning. On the 23d the three victorious regiments drilled, and the One Hundred and Twentj'-fourth won handsomely, the awartl being unanimous by the committee. General McPherson presented the banner. The regiment bore the banner in triumph till the 5th of April following, including the famous Meridian raid under General Sherman from February 3 to March 4, or upwards of three hundred miles marching in the face of the enemy, and much of the time under fire, pro\'ing bv its g"ood beha\-ior and bravery in the field, as well as liy its bearing upon drill and parade, its right to the proud distinction of being the "Excelsior" regiment of the noble Third Di\-ision. April 5, through a reorganization effected in veteranizing, the regiment found itself outside of tlie third division, to which the banner was to belong, according to the terms understood in drilling for it, and so surrendered the proud trophy to Colonel Scott, temporarily commanding the di\-isinn. But the banner was never afterwards liorne bv anv command. The

The 5th of April. 1864, the regiment moved to Mcksburg again, where its camp remained till February 25, 1865. Much of that time was passed on provost duty, from which a little relief was found in an expedition of eighteen days in ;May. under General McArthur. to Benton and Yazo<j) City, and one of nine days in July, under General Slocum. to Jackson, in both of which some considerable service was seen and loss sustained.

October 13 it went up the river, ultimately as far as Memphis. But nothine noteworthv occurred, and the 26th found it back in camp and on provost duty again.

Februar}' 25, 1865, after a stay in \'icksburg and vicinity of nearly two 3-ears, found the regiment on the steamer "Grey Eagle," bound for New Orleans with orders to report to General Canby. This was done the 27th, and followed by other orders to report to General A. J. Smith, below the city, for duty in the field.

Were assigned with the Eighty-first and One Hundred and Eighth Illinois and the Eighth Iowa, to the Third Brigade, Colonel J. L. Geddes, of the Eighth low-a, commanding, of the Third Division, commanded by General E. A. Carr, of the Sixteenth Army Corps, under General A. J. Smith ; moving with the Thirteenth Army Corps, commanded by General Gordon Granger and a force under General F. Steele, against the defenses of Mobile, all under command of General E. R. S. Canby.

]\Iarch 21 crossed the bay, and on the 22d debarked on Fish river and moved on Spanish Fort. Shared actively in the investment on the 27th and the siege which followed, the Third Brigade constituting the extreme right of the investing line, and being exposed not only to the direct fire from the enemy's works in front, but to an enfilading fire from batteries Huger and Tracy, and gimboats in the river above. Bore a conspicuous part in the brilliant attack on the enemy's extreme left on the night of April 8. which terminated the siege, was among the first to enter the works, captured several guns and many prisoners, swept up the Old Fort in the darkness, reaching it before midnight, and was shelled by the Union fleet before the change of occupation was known.

Started for Montgomery, Alabama. April 13. reaching it on the 25th, and going immediately upon provost duty. Colonel Geddes commanding post, and Colonel Howe the brigade.

The 1 6th of July left for home via the Alabama river and railroad to Vicksburg. passing through IMeridian, Jackson, the battle ground of Champion Hills, and the old camps on the Big Black. On the 28th of July left Mcksburg on the good steamer "Ida Handy" and on the 3d of August reached Chicago in company with the Seventy-sixth Illinois, Colonel Busey commanding. On the i6th of August, eleven days less than three years since" the first company went into camp at Springfield, the regiment was mustered out at Camp Douglas.

Colonel Howe's history of the battle flag of the regiment, stated that it had been borne four thousand one hundred miles, in fourteen skirmishes, ten battles and two sieges of forty-seven days and nights, and thirteen days and nights respectively, and so had been under fire eighty-two days and sixty nights; the distance not including that from Montgomery to Chicago.

The regiment was one of the most fortunate in the service. It always obeyed orders, taking and holding every position to which it was assigned unflinchingly. Regiments by its side sustained fearful losses in officers and men while its numbers were comparatively intact. One officer alone was killed in the service, and he was sitting in his tent, off duty, when struck, at the siege of X'icksburg. Two others resigned from wounds, and two died. Twenty men were killed in action, twenty-nine died from wounds, five were captured when detailed on a scout, four of whom did not live to return, and one hundred and thirty-seven men died of disease. Very many others, ofticers and men, were wounded and some seriously, but they were not lost to the regiment. The regiment never was repulsed, never retreated a step in the face of a foe and never lost a prisoner in action.

The following from the pen of General M. D. Leggett. was written in January, 1886, and is thought worthy of a place in closing this history:

"As to the Excelsior Banner, it is due to the members of the old Third division that I should tell them all I know about it. When we went into the Atlanta campaign we sent all our surplus and unnecessary baggage back to Nashville for storage, in order to lighten our transportation. With such baggage the Excelsior Banner went. At the time of the siege of Nashville, in December, 1864, this baggage had its location changed and was lost, but was not captured by the enemy. I caused an exhaustive search to be made for it in the spring of 1865, but without success. If I could have found this Excelsior Banner, I should have sent it to Colonel John H. Howe, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois. This was a splendid regiment and splendidly officered, and deservedly earned the banner after a severe struggle. To be the best drilled and best disciplined regiment in the old Third Division of the Seventeenth Corps, was honor enough. This was Logan's division and McFherson's corps up to the fall of Vicksburg, and no troops did more hard marching and hard fighting. It may be truthfully said of them, they were never driven from a position, and never attempted to take a position and failed.

Sergeants. Christopher H. Keller, Blackberry; promoted to second lieutenant. Fred V. D. Vanliew, Batavia; discharged June 19. 1863; disability. Julius G. Brown, Batavia; discharged May 24, 1865, as private. James Bradley. Batavia; discharged May 24, 1865, as private.

Corporals. Thomas W. AIcAuley, Batavia; mustered out August 15, 1865, as private. Henry A. Lewis, Kaneville; private; discharged July 10, 1863. Edward L. Hunt, Geneva; mustered out August 15, 1865, as private. Salem B. Town, Batavia; discharged February 28, 1863; disability.

James D. Austin, Batavia; mustered out August 15, 1865. William A. Bingham, Batavia: discharged February 3, 1864, for promotion in colored regiment.

Samuel Ball, Batavia; died at home February 22, 1863. Theodore T. Ball, Batavia; mustered out August 15, 1865. John S. Ball, Batavia; discharged December 16, 1862; disability. Charles E. Bassett, Batavia: mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal. Franklin Boyd, Batavia; died at Memphis June 23, 1863. Ebenezer Bradley. Batavia; discharged August 20, 1864. Joseph Barrett, Batavia; died on hospital boat, August 29, 1863. Beverly \'irgil; died at Memphis, July 13, 1863.

Island, Aurora

Daniel Whipple, Batavia: discharged January 20, 1863; disability. Patrick Welsh. Virgil: mustered nut August 15, 1865, as corporal. William Walrod, Virgil; mustered out August 15, 1865. Gilbert W. Young, Batavia; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant.

Privates. Daniel Brown, Dundee; discharged September 18. 1863; disability. Alliert M. Dunton. Dundee; discharged October 27, 1864; wounds. Josiah \\'. Goodwin. Dundee ; died of wounds received at Champion Hills, Mississippi. May 16, 1863.

Thomas D. Cuthbert, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. Henry Dickson, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal. Silas W. Dunning, Aurora; mustered out June 14, 1865; was prisoner. Justus Dodge, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. Marshall Dow. Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. Sylvester D. Elderkin. Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. Sebra Emerson, Aurora; deserted October 6, 1862. Patrick M. Fitzgerald. Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant.

Recruits. Henry Ankel. Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry. Joseph Allbee. Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry. Adolph Nebring, Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.

Second Lieutenants. Theodore Potter, Aurora; promoted. Joy Jay Tarble, Aurora ; declined commission. Greenville A. Spear, Aurora; promoted. George M. Cn^nk, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant.

Sergeants. Greenville A. Spear, Aurora ; promoted second lieutenant. Joy Jay Tarble, Aurora; promoted second lieutenant; declined; mustered out May 28, 1865. as private.

Levi Morgan. Aurora; discharged July 6, 1865, as sergeant. Oliver D. Bonney, Aurora; sergeant: discharged January 13. 1864, for promotion second lieutenant Sixty-sixth United States Colored Infantry. Charles E. Otis, Aurora; mustered out June 2, 1865, as private.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry was raised under the call of President Lincoln for five hundred thousand volunteers in the summer of 1862. Company A was recruited in Kendall county; Company B, in and around Chicago; Company C, at Elgin; Company D, in Grundy county; Company E, at St. Charles; Company F, at Piano; Company G. in Chicago; Company H, about Lyons ; Company I, at Elgin, and Company K, at Aurora and Big Rock. The regiment was mustered in this service at Camp Douglas September 6, 1862.

The regiment performed a considerable amount of guard duty in Camp Douglas, where the Harper's Ferry prisoners were sent in the fall of 1862.

The command drew a full complement of English Enfield rifles in the beginning of November, 1862, and on the 9th of that month departed over the Illinois Central railway for Cairo, where it went on board the steamer Emerald, and landed at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 13th. Went into camp near the city and was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, then a part of the right wing of the Army of the Tennessee.

On the 26th of Novemljer departed on the expedition under General W. T. Sherman in pursuit of Generals Price and Van Dorn. Marched to the neighborhood of Oxford, iMississippi, where the command was reviewed by General Grant, and returned without encountering the enemy, to Memphis, on the 13th of December.

On the 20th of that month embarked on the Mississippi river as a part of the expedition under General Sherman, destined to operate against \'icksburg. Reached the Yazoo December 25 and was engaged in the operations on the Chickasaw Bayou from December 26 to January i. during which its losses were one man killed (William Elmy, of Company H) and seven wounded. A number of men soon after died of malignant measles.

The regiment was with the expedition under General ]\IcClernand, which captured Arkansas Post. January 11, 1863, and was one of the first to plant its colors on the enemy's works. Its losses in the assault were two killed, twenty wounded and nine missing.

seventli performed picket and fatigaie duty, working on the famous "canal" begun by General Butler, and during the next three months having a great amount of sickness in its ranks, and losing a large number of men by disease. At times the regiment could report scarcely a hundred men for duty.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in the expeditiini to Steele's and Black Bayous in March, liut. though suffering great hardships, returned without loss.

It was engaged in the movements to Grand Gulf, and in the rear of Vicksburg in May, and, when General Grant's army closed upon the doomed city on the i8th of the month it formed a part of tlie line of battle of the Fifteenth Corps, on the right of the army.

It was in the bloody assaults upon the Vicksburg lines, May 19 and 22, on the first day planting its colors on the glacis of the rebel works, and maintaining its position until nightfall, when the troops were withdrawn. The losses of the regiment in the two engagements were about fifteen killed and sixty wounded.

During the siege of Vicksburg the regiment was on detached duty at the Chickasaw Bayou until within a few days of the surrender, when it returned to the trenches, and was present at the surrender of the rebel stronghold July 4, 1863.

On the night following the surrender all the men fit for duty, less than fifty in number, under Major Curtiss, marched with General Sherman's command, which drove General Joe Johnston from Jackson a few days later. During these operations the remnant of the regiment was under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richmond, of Company E.

Following the defeat of Johnston, the Fifteenth Corps went into camp near Black river, about fifteen miles east of Vicksburg, where it remained rmtil ordered, in September, to Chattanooga.

After the return of the Fifteenth Corps from Jackson, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was granted about twenty-five furloughs and leaves of absence. When the regiment went into camp at Black river it had less than one hundred men fit for duty, about four hundred lieing in the hospital on W'alnut Hills, in the rear of Vicksiourg.

On the 22(1 of September the Fifteenth Army Corps, under orders from General Grant, broke camp on Black river, and, marching to Vicksburg, took steamers for Memphis, from which point the troops marched overland, three hundred miles, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where they began to arrive about the 15th of November. There was considerable fighting at Collierville, on the line of the Memphis and Charleston Railway, and in the neighborhood of Tuscumbia, Alaliama, but, in spite of all opposition, the corps arrived in splendid fighting trim in front of General Bragg's army at Chattanooga, and took part in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, November 22 to 25, which ended in the total discomfiture of the rebel forces with heavy loss. During the march through the mountains between Bridgeport and Chattanooga the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was on detached service guarding trains. Following the defeat of Bragg it formed a part of General Sherman's expedition for the relief of General Burnside, besieged in Knoxville. Tennes-

In Januar}-. 1864. tbe Fifteenth Corps was cantoned along the Memphis and Charleston Railway, tbe divisions occupying Huntsville. W'oodville. Larkinsville and Scottstero, in northern Alabama, tbe Second Division, to which tbe One Hundred and Twenty-seventh belonged, being stationed at Larkinsville.

During tbe latter part of January and tbe beginning of February, the regiment took part in the forward moxement of the corps, which crossed the Tennessee river near its soutliern bend, and made a demonstration in favor of General W. T. Sherman, then engaged in bis famous raid from \'icksburg toward Meridian. Mississippi, at the head of the Seventeenth Army Corps.

During tbe encampment at Larkinsville a number of the officers of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh sent for their wives, who visited them in cam]) and remained several weeks.

A sad occurrence, and one which cast a gloom over the regiment greater than tlie loss of twenty men in battle, was the murder of Joseph E. Corby, of Company I, who was found dead in front of our camp on the morning of January 24, 1864.

The regiment broke camp at Larkins\ille on the ist day of May, 1864. and m(jved with its division toward Chattanooga, which place was reached on the 5tb. and on tbe evening of the same day encamped on the Chickamauga l)attlefield with tbe Armv of the Tennessee, then imder command of General J. B. McPherson.

The One Hundred and Twenty-se\-enth took part in tbe series of battles around Resaca, notably tbe one on the evening of May 14, when the brigade to which it was attached carried the fortified line along the slope of Conasine creek by a desperate assault with tbe bayonet, in which the regiment bore a conspicuous part and captured a number of prisoners. Immediately following this successful charge came the return assault of General Cleburne's rebel division, which made three furious charges upon our lines only to be bloodily repulsed. In the operations in front of Resaca the One Hundred and Twentyseventh lost one man killed and three wounded.

In tbe sharp fighting among tbe Dallas Hills from tbe 26tb of iNIay to June I tbe One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was almost constantly under fire, showing conspicuous gallantry in tbe actions of the 27tb and 2gtb. Daniel T. Lane, of Company E, was seriously wounded on tbe 27th.

On tbe 4th of June the enemj- al)andoned his strong works at Dallas and fell back behind the still stronger position on and around Kenesaw Mountain and Pine Hill, where he maintained himself for nearly a month, during which period it rained almost incessantly, making active operations nearlv impossible.

On tbe 27th of June occurretl tbe desperate assault of the Fifteenth Corps upon Kenesaw Mountain, which frowned a thousand feet above tbe beads of our men. ccnered with rifle pits, strong parapets, and death-dealing batteries. In this marvelous affair tbe One Hundred and Twenty-seventh stood up srrandlv under tbe most terrible fire it had ever encountered.

On the 2d uf Jul)- the enemy aljandoned the defenses of Kenesaw and fell hack to the Chattahoochee river. On the 6th our advance was in sight of Atlanta, and on the 12th and i3tli the Army of the Tennessee was transferred by a rapid movement from the extreme right to the extreme left, and, following Garrard's cavalry column across the Chattahoochee near Rosswell, entrenched itself and compelled the rebel commander to retreat across the river into his Atlanta lines. The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in all these movements.

The whole army now crossed the Chattahoochee, and the battle of Peach Tree Creek followed on the 20th of July. General John B. Hood had been placed in command of the rebel army on the 19th in place of General Joseph E. Johnston, relieved by Jefiferson Davis, and fighting became desperate.

In the bloody engagement of the 22d of July, east of Atlanta, in which the lamented McPherson fell, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was in the thickest of the fray, the brigade to which it belonged being led into the fight jjy General Logan in person.

A few days later the Fifteenth Corps was transferred to the extreme right of the army, where, on the 28th of July, it was furiously assailed by a corps of Hood's army, which was repulsed with terrible loss, leaving no less than eight hundred and twenty-eight dead in front of our lines. The weight of the attack fell upon the Second Division of our corps. The One Hundred and Twenty-sexenth, forming the extreme right of the army, and, being mostly on the skirmish line, came very near being captured. The timely arrival of a brigade of the Fourteenth Corps, piloted upon the field by Robert Murphy, a drummer bov of the One ?Iundred and Twenty-seventh, saved the day. The losses (if the regiment on this day were Corporal John T. Bennett and William Peterson, of Comiiany D, and Alfred X. Murdnck and William Pooley, of Ciimpanv A. killed, and seventeen wounded and missing.

Aliout this date Comi)an)^ G, Captain Sewell, was detailed at corps head- (|uarters as provost guard, a jiosition which it held for several months. On the 31st of July the morning report of the One Flundred and Twenty-seventh showed only ninety-two men fit for duty carrying guns.

On the 3d of August the regiment took part in an attack on the rebel skirnnsh line to the west of Atlanta, in which it displayed its usual gallantry and lost a number of men, among whom were Sergeant Ira B. Whitney, of Company B, killed, and five men, including Captain A. C. Little, wounded. Elias Smithers, of Company E, died a few days later of wounds received.

The regiment participated in the subsequent operations around Atlanta, including the great flanking movement of August 27, by which General Sherman placed the hulk of his army in the rear of General Hood and compelled him to evacuate Atlanta on the 2d of September. During the withdrawal of the army from the lines on the night of August 26 Sergeant Major William \\'. Lawton, of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, was mortally wounded and died the same night in the ambulance. This was the only casualty in the Army of the Tennessee during the movement.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was hotly engaged in the battle of joneslxiro. below .Atlanta, fought by Logan's corps on the 1st of September, its officers and men displaying the greatest gallantry and inflicting some loss upon the enemy. In this battle the killed were Sergeant J. R. Grassmire, of Company I ; James Griffin, of Company H : Levi Mead, of Company F, and Francis H. Chappell, of Company D, and a number wounded.

On the 9th of September the army encamped around the captured city, the Second Division of the Fifteenth Corps occupying East Point, about six miles southwest of Atlanta. About this date Captain Gillette received his commission as major and Lieutenant Richmond was promoted captain of Company E.

The army remained in its cantonments until the beginning of October, during which period General Sherman exchanged two thousand prisoners with General Hood at Rough-and-Ready Station, below Atlanta. Among those exchanged were the boys of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh captured on the 22d of July.

General Hood began his famous raid upon the communications of Sherman's anny about the ist of October, and on the 3d of the month Sherman's army was in rapid pursuit of the rebel army, which consisted of twenty-five thousand infantry and ten thousand cavalry. During the pursuit of Hood and the subsequent march through Georgia and South Carolina, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was commanded by Captain Charles Schryver, of Company F, the senior officer then with the regiment. From August 14, 1864, to April I, 1865, Colonel Curtiss was absent from the regiment. A portion of this time he was in command of a provisional division under General Schofield, in North Carolina. Captain Little was also absent on furlough during the same period and was in command of four hundred men under General Schofield in North Carolina during a part of the time.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh accompanied Sherman's army on its grand march through Georgia and the Carolinas. From Atlanta to Columbia, South Carolina, it was on detached service, during which time it reported directly to the headquarters of the Army of the Tennessee. At Columbia it returned to the division, and took part in the operations, thence on to Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the month of January, 1865, it was encamped on the great rice plantations southwest of Savannah, Georgia. It was present at the capture of Columbia, South Carolina, and in the advance upon Fayetteville, North Carolina. A number of its men were engaged in a severe skirmish, in which Francis B. Imhoff, of Company B, was killed, and R. R. Parkin, of Company I, wounded. At the severe battle of Bentonville, March 19 and 20, it was for twenty-four hours on the skirmish line, but escaped without loss. At Goldsboro, North Carolina, the army encamped for about fifteen days, during which time it was furnished with a complete outfit of new clothing. At Goldsboro, Colonel Curtiss, Captain Little and forty or fifty furloughed men rejoined the regiment. Here also Sergeant James G. Naid was mustered in as adjutant, assuming his duties on the ist of April, at which time Colonel Curtiss assumed command of the regiment. Captain Little was soon after detailed on detached duty.

The army left Goldsboro in pursuit of General Johnston on the loth of April, and reached Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, on the 14th, where it went into camp in and around the city. The Fifteenth Corps was encamped during most of the time until the last of the month about one mile north of the city.

General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the remaining armies of the Confederacy on the 26th of April, and on the 29th the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, in company with the Fifteenth Corps, commenced the march from Raleigh to Petersburg, Virginia, one hundred and sixty-eight miles distant, which point was made in just six days, ecjual to twenty-eight miles a day. On the 13th of May the army passed through Richmond, and on the 2 1 St reached the vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia, and went into temporary camp on the hills west of Alexandria. The march through Virginia took the command through Petersburg, Richmond, Hanover Court House, Fredericksburg, Stafford, Dumfries and Occoquan. A portion of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh visited Fort Darling, below Richmond, and made a flying visit to Mount Vernon, the home of Washington.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in the grand review at headquarters and was specially complimented for its fine discipline and military bearing. During the next fourteen days the command was encamped near Fort Slocum, north of the city, where it was mustered for discharge on June 4 by Captain Potter, of the Seventieth Ohio Volunteers.

On the 7th of June the regiment left Washington for Chicago. It was finally mustered out on the 17th of June, 1865, after an arduous service of almost three years. The actual number of men finally discharged was about two hundred and forty, all that remained of the nine hundred with which the regiment left Camp Douglas in November, 1862.

Non-Commissioned Staff

Quartermaster Sergeants. Samuel W, Durant, St. Charles ; promoted regimental quartermaster. Ozias J. Lent, St. Charles ; absent ; sick at muster out of regiment.

Alexander Dennis, Elgin; color sergeant; wounded; died July 28, 1864. Henry Darville, Hampshire; mustered out to date June 5, 1865. Philander S. Earl, Elgin; mustered out June 5, 1865. Byron G. Eaton, Hampshire; deserted; furnished substitute until July, 1863; substitute deserted.

Priz'atcs. William D. Coulson. Big Rock; mustered out June 5. 1865; wounded. Warren Dick, Big Rock: mustered out June 5, 1865. as corporal. Harrison Horton, Big Rock: died at Camp Sherman. Mississippi, September 10, 1863.

Prii-atcs. Harley Beach. St. Charles; transferred to Company E. William Bushey. St. Charles; transferred to Company E. Adam Widner, Rutland: transferred to Companj" C.

Priz'ates. George S. Armstrong. Big Rock; mustered out to date June 5, 1865. Edward S. Bateman, Big Rock; mustered out June 5, 1865, as corporal. Samuel G. Bateman, Big Rock; discharged June 19. 1863; disability. Edwin A. Fountain, Big Rock ; corporal ; died at Walnut Hill, Mississippi, June 17, 1863; wounds.

One Hundred And Thirtieth Infantry Regiment

The One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp Fry, Chicago, Illinois, by Colonel Thomas J. Pickett, and was mustered in for one hundred days from June i, 1864.

Moved, June 6, for Columbus, Kentucky, and arrived on the 8th, reporting to Brigadier General Henry Prince. On the 15th of June moved to Paducah, Kentucky, and reported to Colonel S. G. Hicks.

Privates. John Bailey. Aurora; mustered out Oct(iber 17, 1864. George C. Baird, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. Frank Breese, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. George Betts, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. Green Bennett, Sugar Grove; mustered out October 17, 1864. Charles Clute. Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. Rollin Connell, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. James Cavenaugh, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. D. S. Darling, Aurora; absent; not mustered in. Levi Dunbar, Aurora; mustered out October 17. 1864. Robert C. Fetch, Aiu'ora; mustered out October 17, 1864. J. R. Flanders, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. F. B. Foster, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. Fred Groch, Aurora; mustered out October 17, 1864. George Hollenb,eck. .\urora ; absent ; not mustered in.

The One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp Fry, Chicago. Illinois, by Colonel Waters W. McChesney, and was mustered in May 31, 1864. for one hundred days.

HISTORY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST INFANTRY. The One Hundred and Forty-first Infantry was mustered into the United States service at Elgin, June 16. 1864. Strength, eight hundred and forty-two. Departed for the field June 2j. 1864. Was mustered out at Chicago, October 10. 1864.

Corporals. Daniel Metcalf, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Thomas Clute, Plato; mustered out October 10, 1864. George W. Salisbury, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. Abner Wight, Dundee; mustered out October 10. 1864. George Smith, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Tames Mellon, Dundee; mustered out October 10. 1S64. Henry Gillett, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Henry Nicholson, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864.

Privates. John A. Andrews, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. Charles F. Benthuysen. Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Howard Bartlett, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. Alfred Baker. Eigin; mustered out October 10, 1864. \Mlliam H. Bigelow, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. Edward Burnidge, Plato; mustered out October 10, 1864. Curtis A. Codv, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Charles Clearman, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. John Christoph, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. John Coheld, Dundee: mustered out October 10, 1864. Nelson Cart, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. John F. Critchton, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Edwin Campbell, Plato; mustered out October 10, 1864. Charles W. Cole. Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864. Joseph Daak, Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. Robert Duff, Dundee: mustered out October 10, 1864. Alexander Duft. Dundee; mustered out October 10, 1864. George A. Doolittle, Plato; mustered out October 10, 1864. Dennis Dickson. Hampshire ; transferred to Company H before muster in. Frank E. Eaton, Elgin; mustered out October 10, 1864.

Sergeants. David A. Martin, Batavia; mustered out October lo, 1864. William A. Moore, Geneva; mustered out October 10, 1864. Edgar H. Killmore, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Robert M. Town, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864.

Priz'ates. Romulus Andrews, Geneva; mustered out October 10, 1864. Montgomery Auble, Geneva; mustered out October 10, 1864. Ira M. Bly, Virgil; mustered out October 10, 1864. Amos Burton, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Joseph Burton, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Henry J. Callaghan, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Charles Chambers, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Thomas M. Clapp, Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. Lucius L. Clark. Batavia; mustered out October 10, 1864. James A. Clure. Batavia: mustered out October 10, 1864. Garrett Cotters, Blackberry; mustered out October 10, 1864. Alverado Dickerson. Batavia; mustered out October 10. 1864. Adolphus Eyando, Batavia; mustered out October 10. 1864. William W. Fowler, Elgin; drowned in Mississippi river at Columbus, Kentucky. September 3. 1864.