Macoupin County, Illinois - Chapter 11: Civil War, 1911

Chapter 11: Civil War

The distinction of being the first regiment organized in the state of Illinois under the first call of the president for three months' troops is claimed by both the Seventh and the Eighth Infantries. Companies F and K of the Seventh were recruited in Macoupin county. J. F. Cummings was captain of Company F, and William O. Jenks and C. F. Adams were first and second lieutenants. Richard Rowett, afterward general by brevet, was captain of Company K and his lieutenants were Manning Mayfield and George Hunter. The Seventh was mustered into service for three months at Camp Yates by Captain John Pope, U. S. A. The regiment was sent to Alton, St. Louis, Cairo and Mound City and was reorganized and mustered in for three years, July 25th. It did duty in Missouri and went into winter quarters at Fort Holt, Kentucky. It was at the investment and siege of Fort Donaldson, February 13, 14 and 15 and was in the last charge on the enemy's works, when it lost three killed and nineteen wounded. On the 2ist of the same month, 1862, it left for Clarksville, Tennessee, Major Rowett commanding. It was ordered to Nashville and Pittsburg Landing, and was engaged in the two days' battle of Shiloh, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Rowett. Its loss was two officers and fifteen men killed and seventy-nine wounded. It was engaged both days in the battle of Corinth with a loss of two officers and six men killed and forty-six wounded.

On the 1 8th of June, 1862, the regiment was mounted by order of General Dodge and did most excellent service on scouting expeditions under Colonel Rowett, being engaged in many severe skirmishes and making an enviable record for bravery and efficiency.

December 22, 1863, the regiment reenlisted as veteran volunteers. They did valiant service under Sherman and were with him in the battles around Atlanta and on the memorable march to the sea. The regiment was mustered out July 9, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, and arrived at Camp Butler, July 12, 1865, for final payment and discharge.

Eighth Infantry Regiment Fourteenth Infantry

This regiment was first called into state service for thirty days under the -"Ten Regiment Bill," Colonels John M. Palmer and Cyrus Hall commanding. It was mustered into service May 4, 1861, and on the 25th of May was mustered in for three years by Captain Pitcher U. S. A. It remained at Jacksonville for instruction until the latter part of June and then proceeded to Quincy, thence to Missouri. It was with Fremont on his campaign to Springfield after Price and went into winter quarters at Otterville. It was ordered to Fort Donaldson, reaching that place the day after its surrender. Palmer was promoted and Major Hall of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry was promoted to colonel.

From Fort Donaldson it proceeded to Fort Henry, when it embarked on transports and proceeded up the Tennessee. The first battle in which it took part was at Pittsburg Landing on the 6th and 7th of April, 1862, where it lost in killed and wounded one-half the command, and the regimental colors were pierced with forty-two bullets. General Veatch, commanding brigade, in his official report made the following statement : "Colonel Hall, of the Fourteenth Illinois, led with his regiment that gallant charge on Monday evening, which drove the enemy beyond our lines and closed the struggle of that memorable day." It took an active part in the siege of Corinth, thence went to Memphis and later to Bolivar, Tennessee.

October 4, 1862, the Fourth Division, under Hurlbut, was ordered to proceed to Corinth to relieve the beleagured garrison, but before that place was reached Rosecrans had punished the enemy and they met the retreating rebels at the village of Matamora, on the river Hatchie. The Fourteenth Illinois in its eight hours' fight, sustained its high reputation. After a march into northern Mississippi under McPherson, it went into winter quarters at LaFayette, Tennessee. It was at Vicksburg and in the expedition to Jackson. After arduous marches to Natchez, thence across to Harrisonburg, it captured Fort Beauregard. After the return a large portion reenlisted as veterans. After a furlough it formed a part of the advance on Atlanta. Here it was consolidated with the Fifteenth into the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Illinois Veteran Battalion. In October, 1864, when General Hood made his demonstration against Sherman's rear, a large number of the battalion were killed and the greater part of the remainder were taken prisoners and sent to Andersonville. Those who were not captured were mounted and acted as scouts on the march to the sea. At Goldsboro, North Carolina, in the spring of 1865, the battalion organization was discontinued. The two regiments were filled up and Colonel

Hall was again put in command of the Fourteenth. After the capitulation of Johnson, the regiment marched to Washington and on the 24th of May took part in the grand review of Sherman's army. It then proceeded by rail and river to Louisville, thence by river to Fort Leavenworth, and to Fort Kearney and back, and was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, September 16, 1865, arriving in Springfield, Illinois, on the 22d of September, where it received final payment and discharge.

The aggregate number of men belonging to this regiment was 1,980; aggregate mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, 480; during the term of service it marched 4,490, traveled by rail, 2,330, and by river, 4,490 miles, making art aggregate of 11,310 miles.

In the fall of 1861 General John M. Palmer, first colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment, was appointed brigadier general. He served in the army under Hunter and Pope in Missouri and also commanded a division in Pope's expedition against Island No. 10. His command formed a part of Pope's army, when he joined Halleck's command in his operations against Corinth in 1862, and also participated in the battle of Farmington. After the battle of Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862, he was promoted to major general, where he distinguished himself and also did signal service for his country in the battle of Chickamauga.

Twenty-Fourth Infantry Regiment Twenty-Seventh Ilinois Regiment

Company F of the Twenty-seventh Regiment was composed of Macoupin county volunteers and was first commanded by Jonathan R. Miles, who later became colonel of the regiment. This company was organized at Camp Butler, August 10, 1861, was ordered to Jacksonville, thence to Cairo and in September was in the battle of Belmont. It was the first to land on Island No. 10 and was engaged in the siege of Corinth and in the battle of Farmington. In July, 1862, it was ordered to luka and in December, under General Palmer, it crossed the Tennessee at Decatur, Alabama, and made a rapid march for Nashville,, reaching that place on the I2th. It distinguished itself in the battle of Stone River and suffered heavy loss at Chickamauga, was in Chattanooga during its investment and did valiant service at the storming of Mission Ridge. It made a forced march to the relief of Knoxville, returned to London, Tennessee, January 25, 1864, and on the i8th of April, was ordered to Cleveland, Tennessee. From the latter place it moved with the Army of the Cumberland on the Atlanta campaign, was engaged at Rocky Face Ridge, May 9; at Resaca, May 14; near Calhoun, May 16; Adairsville, May 17; near Dallas from May 26 to June 4; near Pine Top Mountain, June 10-14; battle of Mud Creek, June 18; in the assault on Kenesaw Mountain, June 27; -skirmished about the vicinity of Chattahootchie River, was in the battle of Peach -Tree Creek, July 20 ; in the skirmishes around Atlanta ; was relieved from duty August 25, 1864; and ordered to Springfield for muster out. Its veterans and recruits consolidated with the Ninth Illinois Infantry. During its time of service the regiment lost in those killed or dying from wounds, 102 ; died of disease, 80 ; number of wounded, 328.

Twenty-Ninth Infantry Regiment Thirtieth Infantry

Company H of this regiment was recruited by Lieutenant Colonel William C. Rhodes. After his promotion, Henry W. Strang became captain. The regi- ment was organized at Camp Butler, August 28, 1861, Colonel P. B. Fouke commanding. On the ist of September it moved to Cairo, forming a part of McCIernand's Brigade. November 7 it was engaged in the battle of Belmont, doing gallant service and capturing Watson's New Orleans Battery. It was in Oglesby's Brigade at the capture of Fort Henry and took part in the siege of Corinth, and in the siege and capture of Fort Donaldson. On the ist of September it marched toward Medan Station. Four miles from that place it met six thousand cavalry under Armstrong and after four hours' hard fighting gained a brilliant victory. After hard service and marching from place to place it reached Memphis January 19, 1863. In May it was in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi, and on the 1 6th of that month was in the battle of Champion Hills, where it met with a heavy loss. It participated in the siege of Vicksburg until June 23, then moved to Black River under Sherman, to watch Johnson; was with Sherman in the investment of Jackson, after which it returned to Vicksburg July 25. It was mustered in as a veteran organization January i, 1864; was under Sherman on the Meridian campaign ; March 5 left Vicksburg on a veteran furlough, arriving at Camp Butler March 12. It left Camp Butler April 18; left Cairo on the 28th with the Tennessee River Expedition under General Gresham ; joined Sherman at Acworth ; was in the battle near Atlanta, July 21, and on the 22cl was engaged and lost heavily. It was actively engaged until the fall of Atlanta and Jonesboro; Ocober 4. 1864, moved north in pursuit of Hood; returned to Atlanta and on the 1 5th of November participated in the march to the sea. It took part in the capture of Savannah, December 21 ; moved by water to Beaufort, January 13. and took part in the capture of Pocotaligo; on the 3Oth marched to Goldsboro, North Carolina. March 25, 1865, was engaged during the march in the capture of Orangeburg, Columbia, Cheraw and Fayetteville, and arrived at Raleigh on the I4th, where it remained until Johnson's surrender. It arrived at Alexandria. Virginia. May 19, and took part in the grand review. It was mustered out of service, July 17, 1865, arriving at Camp Butler, Illinois, July 20. It was discharged July 27, 1865.

Thirty-First Infantry Regiment Thirty-Second Infantry

Companies A and C and a portion of I were recruited in Macoupin county by Colonel John Logan. Henry Davidson was captain of Company A, and Thaddeus Phillips captain of Company C, while Samuel Cummings from this county served as first lieutenant. This regiment was mustered into service, December 31, 1861. It bore a distinguished part in the battle of Shiloh and lost in killed forty, while two hundred men were wounded. It was engaged in the advance on Corinth and on the 5th of October, 1862, took part in the battle at Matamora. It did good service here and lost seven killed and five wounded. On the 8th of November in a forced march southward from Lagrange it surprised and captured over one hundred rebel cavalry at Lamar and routed the enemy. After many hard marches, part of the time being on short rations, in March, 1863, they moved to Memphis and remained until May n, when they moved to Young's Point. On the isth they joined the division ten miles below Vicksburg; from there went to Grand Gulf, where they were detained a few days as garrison; June 12 the post was abandoned and the regiments joined the division on the lines around Vicksburg; engaged in the siege until June 27, when Colonel Logan with his regiment, the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio, and one section of artillery, was ordered to command the post at Warrenton, which was the extreme left of the line. It rejoined the brigade on the 4th of July and on the 5th marched with Sherman's army toward Jackson, a very trying march. After hard service and skirmishing and the capture of a battery of nine pieces of artillery, on the 3d of January, 1864, it moved to Vicksburg, where it was mustered as a veteran organization. It went on a furlough and on the 28th reassembled at Camp Butler, moving thence to Bird's Point, Missouri. June 12, 1864, the siege of Kenesaw Mountain commenced and the Seventeenth Corps occupied the left of the line and the Thirty-second Regiment occupied the exposed position on the advance. July 2d, 4th and 5th, it was transferred to the right of the line, and on the 5th when the Fourth Division assaulted the enemy, the Thirtysecond was the first to plant its colors on the works. July i8th the regiment was transferred to the First Brigade, of which Colonel Logan took command. While guarding supplies at Marietta a party of fifty men under Lieutenant Campbell, while foraging, after a spirited resistance were captured, only nine escaping. On the 3d the enemy attacked the line near Kenesaw Mountain, killing and capturing twelve men. The regiment remained near Marietta until the march to the sea began, when, on the I3th'of November, it moved from that place and moved from Atlanta, November 15, 1864. In the siege of Savannah Captain Lawson and four men were wounded. The regiment suffered greatly from lack of food. It remained in camp at Savannah, Georgia, until December 5. 1865, when it embarked at Thunderbolt for Beaufort. February 3d the division waded the Salkahatchie river, two miles wide and from two to five feet deep and ice cold, and after a half hour's skirmishing on the opposite bank, compelled the enemy to evacuate their strong line of defense. Colonel Logan was absent during these two campaigns on court martial duty at Louisville, Kentucky, and Captain Rider, afterward lieutenant colonel, commanded the regiment. It took part in the grand review at Washington, May 24, 1865. It then moved to Parkersburg, Virginia, thence to Louisville, thence westward by way of St. Louis and Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, arriving on the I3th of August. It returned to Fort Leavenworth September 2d and on the i6th was mustered out there and ordered to Camp Butler for final payment and discharge. While in service it traveled 11,000 miles and its record makes glorious a page of the history of the state.

Forty-Ninth Infantry

Company E of this regiment, Colonel Morrison commanding, was the only one which was composed of soldiers from Macoupin. John G. Berry, of Belleville, was the captain, he being succeeded by Henry W. Kerr, of Carlinville. The regiment was organized at Camp Butler, December 31, 1861 ; February 3d, it was ordered to Cairo, and on the 8th moved to Fort Henry. It fought at Fort Donaldson, losing fourteen killed and thirty-seven wounded ; was in the two days' battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, losing seventeen killed and wounded ; after good service in the siege of Corinth moved, August 21, to Helena, Arkan- sas, to join Steele's expedition against Little Rock; November 10, participated in the capture of that place; January 15, 1864, three fourths of the regiment reenlisted and were mustered as veteran volunteers; January 27, moved to Vicksburg and accompanied Sherman in the Meridian campaign and returned to Vicksburg; March 10 was assigned to the Red River expedition; on the i4th participated in the capture of Fort De Russet, Louisiana; April 9 engaged in the battle of Pleasant Hill. After returning to Memphis, it was ordered to Illinois on a furlough, June 24. The detachment of non-veterans remained, being commanded by Captain John A. Logan, participating in the battle of Tupelo, July 14 and 15, 1864. After the expiration of the furlough they rendezvoused at Centralia, Illinois, and proceeded by way of Cairo and Memphis to Holly Springs ; August 12 participated in the Oxford expedition, returning to Memphis, August 30; September 30, arrived at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis; moved to Franklin and drove the enemy from that place ; moved with the army in pursuit of Price and returned November 18, 1864; arrived at Nashville, Tennessee, December i; took part in the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16; December 24 was ordered to Paducah, Kentucky, to muster out non-veterans. It performed garrison duty until mustered out, September 9, 1865, at Paducah and arrived at Camp Butler, September 15, 1865, for final payment and discharge. This was a gallant regiment and won high reputation.

Fiftieth Infantry Fifty-Ninth Regiment

Company I was recruited by Captain Alfred W. Ellett, of Bunker Hill, who was made brigadier general, November i, 1862. This regiment of Illinois men was first accredited to Missouri, Illinois' quota being full, and was known as the Ninth Missouri Infantry. It did good service in the latter state. On the I2th of February, 1862, the name was changed to the Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. It participated in the battle of Pea Ridge and after inarching and skirmishing arrived at West Plains, April 28. Captain Ellett, three lieutenants and fifty men were ordered to report for duty to Colonel Charles Ellett's ram fleet. After service in Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri, under General Jefferson C. Davis, and later, General Robert B. Mitchell, on the 3d of September it left Murfreesboro and began the westward march with Buell, arriving at Louisville, September 26. On the ist of October it moved in pursuit of Bragg; October 7 engaged the enemy at Chaplin Hills ; on the 8th it lost heavily, out of three hundred and sixty-one men going into action there being one hundred and thirteen killed and wounded. On the loth it pursued the enemy and on the I4th had a skirmish at Lancaster ; was in the Stone River campaign with the Army of the Cumberland and in the Tullahoma campaign during the siege of Chattanooga, and was constantly under fire of the enemy's batteries; November 23, 1863, it started on the Lookout Mountain campaign. The Third Brigade, of which the Fifty-ninth was a part, was led in the assault on the Mission Ridge by this regiment. January 12, 1864, it was mustered out as a veteran organizaiton. May 3d the Atlanta campaign was begun, and on the /th it supported the attack upon Tunnel Hill, while on the 8th the attack on Rocky Face Ridge began, which lasted until the I3th. The regiment was in action at Resaca, Adairsville, Kingston, Dallas. Acworth, Pine Top, Kenesaw Mountain and Smyrna Campmeeting grounds. From July 12 until August 25 it was under fire night and day before Atlanta ; it fought at Lovejoy Station, and after skirmishing and doing arduous service, reached Nashville, December i. On the iSth the battle of Nashville took place. The Fifty-ninth was in the first line of the assaulting column and planted the first colors on the captured works. It lost one-third of its men in killed and wounded, this being, the last notable battle in which the regiment participated. After being on duty in various parts of the south until December 8, 1865, at New Braunfels, Texas, it was mustered out and ordered to Spring- Held. Illinois, for final payment and discharge.

Ninety-Seventh Infantry

This regiment was recruited principally in the counties of Madison, Cumberland, Fayette, Jasper, Jersey, Calhoun and Macoupin. It was organized at Camp Butler, September 8, 1862, by Colonel Rutherford and was mustered out September 1 6. Company A was from Macoupin county and was raised by L. D. Martin, W. H. Willard and P. H. Pentzer, at Gillespie, Bunker Hill, Staunton and vicinity. L. D. Martin was made lieutenant colonel, William H. Willard was made captain of Company A and P. H. Pentzer was made sergeant major of the regiment. Richard Wood was made first lieutenant and Alexander Atchison second lieutenant. The latter was killed at Vicksburg, May 22, 1863. In the spring of that year Captain Willard resigned and Lieutenant Wood became captain. W. E. Best, who was sergeant major was promoted to the captaincy of Company C. Company A made an enviable record for bravery and heroism. Captain Pentzer of Company C had the color company during three years. To this company belongs the honor of having surprised and captured General F. M. Cockrell, later United States senator from Missouri.

October 3, 1862, the regiment was moved from Camp Butler to Cincinnati and assigned to A. J. Smith's Division at Louisville. On the i7th it left Louisville for Memphis and went into camp; left Memphis, December 20 and landed near Walnut Hill, on the Yazoo, being on the extreme right during the operations on Vicksburg. When the attack was abandoned January i, 1863, it moved to Arkansas Post and took part in the battle at that place; May ist was engaged at Port Gibson and on the loth fought at Champion Hills ; May 19 arrived in the rear of Vicksburg, taking part in the hardships and dangers of that memorable siege until July 4, when the stronghold fell. It took part in Sherman's expedition to Jackson and returned to Vicksburg, where it remained until August; it embarked on the 25th for New Orleans and went into camp at Carrollton, Louisiana. It was mustered out of service July 29, 1865, at Galveston, Texas, arriving at Camp Butler, August 13, 1865, where it received final payment and discharge.

First assistant surgeon, Constantine M. Smith ; non-commissioned staff-sergeant majors, Patrick H. Pentzer, William E. Best, William Mathie, Hugh R. Johnston ; commissary sergeant, R, R. M. McLeary.

One Hundred And Fourteenth Infantry One Hundred And Twenty-Second Infantry

This infantry was commanded by General John I. Rinaker. All of this regiment with the exception of Company C was organized at Camp Palmer, Carlinville, August, 1862, where it was drilled for a month and mustered in September 4. About the 6th of October, 1862, the regiment was ordered to report to General Dodge at Columbus, Kentucky. It went on duty at Trenton, Tennessee, where Colonel Rinaker was placed in command of the post. November 12, the right wing of the regiment - Companies A, D and F - was ordered to Humboldt, Tennessee, where, with a part of the Fifty-fourth Illinois and Seventh Wisconsin Battery, it constituted the force on duty at that place under command of Colonel Rinaker. December 16, 1862, a large force of mounted infantry under command of the enterprising and daring rebel, General Forrest, had crossed the Tennessee river near Clifton for the purpose of tearing up the railroad and destroying the bridges between Jackson, Tennessee, and Columbus, Kentucky, while a cavalry force under the rebel general, Van Dorn, was moving from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to attack and destroy the Mississippi Central Railroad from near Jackson, Tennessee, to Holly Springs, Mississippi. The design of these operations was to frustrate and prevent the movement of the Army of the Tennessee under General Grant, then moving by the inland route to capture Vicksburg. General Grant's army depended for its supplies upon the line of railroad between Columbus, Kentucky, via Jackson, Tennessee, and Holly Springs, Mississippi, and thence south as he advanced. There were at all the stations along the line of road small bodies of troops, most of them infantry. These detachments at any of the points were not of sufficient strength to repel an attack. General Sullivan commanded the district of Jackson, Tennessee, including the troops from the Kentucky line toward Columbus to Bolivar, Tennessee, and as Jackson was at the junction of the Memphis, Charleston and Mississippi Central Railroad Company's said line, on which supplies must move, and as there was a large accumulation of military stores at Jackson and as Forrest had defeated and captured the cavalry force belonging to that district at Lexington, on the i6th of December, General Sullivan ordered all the effective troops on the line to move at once to Jackson. On the I7th Colonel Rinaker, therefore moved his command, consisting of the right wing of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Illinois, four companies of Fifty-fourth Illinois, and half of the Seventh Wisconsin Battery, from Humboldt to Jackson, Tennessee, where the rest of the One Hundred and Twenty-second arrived the same day. On the night of December 2", with a part of the Thirty-ninth Iowa, Fiftieth Indiana and one-half of the Seventh Wisconsin Battery, all under Colonel Dunham, were ordered to move out from Trenton to intercept Forrest's command on its return from the vicinity of Columbus, Kentucky, to the Tennessee river. After a forced march they reached Huntingdon, Tennessee, on the night of December 29. The next day additional troops arrived and General Sullivan assumed command. Nine companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, with the rest of Colonel Dunham's command took the advance to intercept Forrest's command, which was moving around to the south and east of Huntingdon, seeking to avoid righting and to recross the Tennessee river. Two days later, December 31, the battle of Parker's Cross Roads took place. The loss to the One Hundred and Twenty-second was one officer and twenty-two men killed, two officers and fifty- four men wounded. At this battle Colonel Rinaker was severely wounded. Here they captured seven pieces of artillery and five hundred prisoners. Major James F. Chapman, Captain Balfour Cowen and Lieutenant W. W. Freeman, quartermaster of the regiment, and sixty enlisted men sick in the hospital at Trenton, were captured by the enemy under General Forrest. It moved on the 1 7th of February, 1863, to Corinth; on the 25th was engaged at Town Creek, thence to Saulsbury in June ; thence to luka in October, Colonel Rinaker commanding the post at each place ; thence it moved to Eastport, thence to Padticah and on the igth of January, 1864, to Cairo. Companies E, H, and K were engaged in defending Paducah against Forrest's attack, on the 24th of March repelling three attacks on Fort Anderson. The regiment moved to Memphis and La Grange and was assigned to the First Brigade. Third Division, Sixteenth Corps, commanded by A. J. Smith. In the battle of Tupelo, on the 1 4th of July, the regiment lost Captain Josiah Burroughs and nine men killed and thirty-three wounded. It was engaged in the campaign in Missouri after Price; left St. Louis for Nashville and engaged in the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16, capturing four pieces of artillery and a battle flag by the skirmish line, commanded by Major Chapman; February 18, 1865, embarked for New Orleans ; thence to Dauphin Island, Alabama ; on the 23d moved with the fleet up Fish river to Dorley's Landing, and thence to Spanish Fort. Colonel Rinaker was in command of the First Brigade; was en gaged in the charge of the gth on Fort Blakely, losing twenty killed and wounded. The regiment was mustered out of service July 15 and received final payment and discharge at Camp Butler, Illinois, August 4, 1865. This was one of the best of the Illinois regiments and its colonel was breveted brigadier for meritorious service.

Colonel, John I. Rinaker, promoted brevet brigadier general, March 13, 1865; lieutenant colonel, James F. Drish; major, James E. Chapman; quartermaster, William W. Freeman ; surgeons marines, W. Seaman, William A. Knox ; first assistant surgeon, John P. Mathews ; chaplain, John H. Austin ; non-commissioned staff, sergeant majors, John N. McMillan, James W. Gardner ; quartermaster sergeants, Hugh Colton, John H. Cherry, John Craggs ; commissary sergeant, John C. Miller ; hospital steward, Daniel Wise ; principal musicians, George Lee, James P. Lair, Martin Woods, David Coon.

One Hundred Thirty-Third Infantry

Colonel, Thaddeus Phillips ; quartermaster, Thomas B. Clark ; second surgeon, James B. Corr; non-commissioned staff quartermaster sergeant, Francis A. Vickery.

Third Cavalry

This regiment was under command of Colonel Carr. Company L was raised in Macoupin county. David R. Sparks was captain, Norreden Cowen first lieutenant. The regiment was organized by Colonel E. A. Carr in August, 1861. It was ordered to St. Louis in September ; thence to Jefferson City ; thence to Warsaw; October n was in the movement against Springfield; was with Sigel's Division and was the last to leave Springfield ; November 19 reached Rolla ; December 29 moved in the advance of Curtis' army ; fought the first battle and won the first victory of Curtis' campaign near Springfield. On the I5th of February, 1862, it captured prisoners from Price's retreating army at Crane Creek and also participated in the battle of Pea Ridge; on the i8th at Sugar Creek the Third Battalion charged and routed the enemy; marched and skirmished with the enemy, losing some men; May 14 moved to Little Red river; fell back to Fairview ; on the 7th Captain Sparks, who with sixty-six men, was sent out to reconnoiter and fell into ambush at a crossroads, was surrounded by three hundred of the enemy, but bravely led his men and cut his way out, losing four wounded and four prisoners. The regiment reached Batesville on the nth; marched to Jacksonport ; July 5 moved with the army for Helena, reaching that place on the isth. Detachments of the regiment engaged in scouting, including Captain Kirkbridge's raid to St. Francis river and five companies with General Hovey's raid to Grenada. On the 23d of December, 1862, Company L and five other companies under command of Kirkbridge, embarked for Vicksburg and did good service on picket and escort duty in the disastrous attack on Vicksburg, Company L being one of the last to embark. The latter was detailed to act as escort for General McClernand. The regiment took part in the battles of Tupelo, Okolona and Guntown, also in the battles of Lawrenceburg, Spring Hill, Campbellsville and Franklin. December i5th it was first in the enemy's works, when General Hatch turned the left of the enemy. In January, 1865, it drove the enemy across the Tennessee, being then under command of General Wilson. In May it was sent to St. Louis, thence to St. Paul ; July 4 started on an Indian expedition over the plains of Minnesota and Dakota, north to the British lines; south and west to Devil's Lake and Fort Barthold. October 13, 1865, it was mustered out at Springfield, having made a creditable record.

Seventh Cavalry Ninth Cavalry

Recruits, Thomas J. Baker, Edward H. Henderson, James A. Nelson, Wage Nelson, Jugurtha Shuler, William S. Stewart, Thomas Vancourt, Elias Vancourt, Joseph A. Witt.

Second Illinois Light Artillery

Company B of this regiment was recruited at Girard by Captain Fletcher H. Chapman, who had gained experience as an officer of artillery in Missouri, connected with Palmer's regiment. Only twenty-five or thirty members were raised here and this company was consolidated with that of Captain Rolla Madison and made Company B, the latter assuming command. They were placed in charge of a battery of heavy artillery, consisting of five twenty-four-pound siege guns and one sixty-four-pound howitzer, for service in the field. It was ordered from St. Louis to Pittsburg Landing, arriving there the night before the first day's battle of Shiloh. The battery opened fire from the last line about three o'clock Sunday afternoon and did splendid service, aiding materially with its heavy fire in checking the enemy's advance. On the second day the heavy guns and the howitzer were sent to the front. The battery was hauled by oxen on the movement against Corinth and was called by the troops the "Bull Battery." At the battle of Corinth Captain Chapman was in command. He was afterward breveted major, but was never mustered. The company was stationed at Corinth until January, 1864, when it was ordered to Memphis, turned over the heavy guns and took charge of a battery of light artillery. It was ordered on the Sturgis raid and took part in the battle of Guntown. On the retreat the guns had to be abandoned in the swamp. The company returned to Memphis, whence it was ordered to Columbus, Kentucky, the term of enlistment soon expiring. They did service in .two of the greatest battles of the war. They received their final payment and discharge at Springfield.