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boys at the front.

MESSAGES OF LOVE AND ENCOTTKAGEMENT.

Letters, messages of love and encouragement, were sent by
noble women from many counties of the State to encourage the
brave sons and brothers in the South. Below we give a copy of a
printed letter sent from Knox county to the "boys in blue," as
showing the feelings of the women of the North. It was headed,
" From the Women of Knox County to Their Brothers in the
Field." It was a noble, soul-inspiring message, and kindled anew
the intensest love for home, country, and a determination to crown
the stars and stripes with victory :

"You have gone out from our homes, but not from our hearts.
Never for one moment are you forgotten. Through weary march
and deadly conflict our prayers have ever followed you; your
sufferings are our sufferings, your victories our great joy.



HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 133

" If there be one of you who knows not the dear home ties, for
whom no mother prays, no sister watches, to him especially we
speak. Let him feel that though he may not have one mother he
has many; he is the adopted child and brother of all our hearts.
Kot one of you is beyond the reach of our sympathies; no picket-
station so lonely that it is not enveloped in the halo of our
prayers.

" During all the long, dark months since our country called you
from us, your courage, your patient endurance, your fidelity, have
awakened our keenest interest, and we have longed to give you an
expression of that interest.

"By the alacrity with which you sprang to arms, by the valor
with which those arms have been wielded, you have placed our
State in the front ranks; you have made her worthy to be the home
of our noble President. For thus sustaining the honor of our
State, dear to us as life, we thank you.

" Of your courage we need not speak. Fort Donelson, Pea
Ridge, Shiloh, Stone River, Vicksburg, speak with blood- bathed
lips of your heroism. The Army of the Southwest fights beneath
no defeat-shadowed banner; to it, under God, the nation looks for
deliverance.

"But we, as women, have other cause for thanks. "We will not
speak of the debt we owe the defenders of our Government; that
blood-sealed bond no words can cancel. But we are your debtors
in a way not often recognized. You have aroused us from the
aimlessness into which too many of our lives had drifted, and have
infused into those lives a noble pathos. We could not dream our
time away while our brothers were dying for us. Even your suffer-
ings have worked together for our good, by inciting us to labor for
their alleviation, thus giving us a work worthy of our womanhood.
Everything that we have been permitted to do for your comfort
has filled our lives so much the fuller of all that makes life valua-
ble. You have thus been the means of developing in us a nobler
tj'pe of womanhood than without the example of your heroism we
could ever have attained. For this our whole lives, made purer
and nobler by the discipline, will thank you.

"This war will leave none of us as it found us. "We cannot
buflfet the raging wave and escape all trace of the salt sea's foam.
Toward better or toward worse we are hurried with fearful



134 HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.

haste. If we at home feel this, what must it be to you! Our
hearts throb with agony when we think of you wounded, suffering,
d3nng; but the thought of no physical pain touches us half so
deeply as the thought of the temptations which surround you.
We could better give you up to die on the battle-field, true to your
God and to your country, than to have you return to us with
blasted, blackened souls. When temptations assail fiercely, you
must let the tliought that your mothers are praying for strength
enable you to overcome them. But figliting for a worthy cause
worthily ennobles one; herein is our confidence that you will
return better men than you went away.

"By all that is noble in your manhood; by all that is true in
our womanhood; by all that is grand in patriotism; by all that is
sacred in religion, we adjure you to be faithful to yourselves, to us,
to your country, and to your God. ISTever were men permitted to
fight in a cause more worthy of their blood. Were you fighting
for mere conquest, or glory, we could not give you up; but to sus-
tain a principle, the greatest to which human lips have ever given
utterance, even your dear lives are not too costly a sacrifice. Let
that principle, the corner-stone of our independence, be crushed,
and we are all slaves. Like the Suliote mothers, we might well
clasp our children in our arms and leap down to death.

"To the stern arbitrament of the sword is now committed the
honor, the very life of this nation. You fight not for yourselves
alone; the eyes of the whole world are on you; and if you fail our
Nation's death-wail will echo through all coming ages, moaning a
requiem over the lost hopes of oppressed humanity. But you will
not fail, so sure as there is a God in Heaven. He never meant
this richest argosy of the nations, freighted with the fears of all
the world's tyrants, with the hopes of all its oppressed ones, to
flounder in darkness and death. Disasters may come, as they have
come, but they will only be, as they have been, ministers of good.
Each one has led the nation upw^ard to a higher plane, from whence
it has seen with a clearer eye. Success could not attend us at the
West so long as we scorned the help of the black hand, which
alone had power to open the gate of redemption; the God of
battles would not vouchsafe a victory at the East till the very foot-
prints of a McClellan were washed out in blood.

"But now all things seem ready; we have accepted the aid of



HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, 135

tliatliand; those footsteps are obliterated. In liis own good time
we feel that God will give us the victory. Till that hour comes we
bid you fight on. Though we have not attained that heroism, or
decision, which enables us to give you up without a struggle, which
can prevent our giving tears for 3'our hlood^ though many of us
must own our hearts desolate till you return, still we bid you stay
and fight for our country, till from this fierce baptism of blood she
shall be raised complete,' the dust shaken from her garments puri-
fied, a new Memnon singing in the great Godlight."



Sherman's march to the sea.



On the 15th of November, 1864, after the destruction of Atlanta,
and the railroads behind him, Sherman, with his army, began his
march to the sea-coast. The almost breathless anxiety with which
his progress was watched by the loyal hearts of the nation, and the
trembling apprehension with which it was regarded by all who
hoped for rebel success, indicated this as one of the most remark-
able events of the war; and so it proved. Of Sherman's army, 45
regiments of infantry, three companies of artillery, and one of
cavalry were from this State. Lincoln answered all rumors of
Sherman's defeat with, " It is impossible; there is a mighty sight
of fight in 100,000 "Western men." Illinois soldiers brought home
300 battle fiags. The first United States flag that floated over
Kichmond was an Illinois flag. She sent messengers and nurses to
every field and hospital to care for her sick and wounded sons.

Illinois gave the country the great general of the war, U. S.
Grant.

character of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

One other name from Illinois comes up in all minds, embalmed
in all hearts, that must have the supreme place in this sketch of
our glory and of our nation's [honor: that name is Abraham
Lincoln. The analysis of Mr. Lincoln's character is difiicult on
account of its symmetry. In this age we look with admiration at
his uncompromising honesty; and well we may, for this saved us.
Thousands throughout the length and breadth of our country, who
knew him only as "Honest Old Abe," voted for him on that
account; and wisely did they choose, for no other man could have
carried us through the fearful night of war. When his plans were
too vast for our comprehension, and his faith in the cause too sub-



136 HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.

lime for our participation ; when it was all night about us, and all
dread before us, and all sad and desolate behind us; when not one
ray shone upon our cause; when traitors were haughty and exult-
ant at the South, and fierce and blasphemous at the North; when
the loyal men seemed almost in the minority; when the stoutest
heart quailed, the bravest cheek paled ; when generals were defeat-
ing each other for place, and contractois were leeching out the very
heart's blood of the republic; when everything else had failed us,
we looked at this calm, patient man standing like a rock in the
storm, and said, " Mr. Lincoln is honest, and we can trust him still."
Holding to this single point with the energy of faith and despair,
we held together, and under God he brought us through to victory.
His practical wisdom made him the wonder of all lands. With
such certainty did Mr. Lincoln follow causes to their ultimate
effects, that his foresight of contingencies seemed almost prophetic.
He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory will shed
a glory upon this age that will fill the eyes of men as they look
into history. Other men have excelled him in some points; but,
taken at all points, he stands head and shoulders above every other
man of 6,000 years. An administrator, he saved the nation in the
perils of unparalleled civil war; a statesman, he justified his
measures by their success; a philanthropist, he gave liberty to one
race and salvation to another; a moralist, he bowed from the sum-
mit of human power to the foot of the cross; a mediator, he exer-
cised mercy under the most absolute obedience to law; a leader,
he was no partisan ; a commander, he was untainted with blood ; a
ruler in desperate times, he was unsullied with crime; a man, he
has left no word of passion, no thought of malice, no trick of craft,
no act of jealousy, no purpose of selfish ambition. Thus perfected,
without a model and without a peer, he was dropped into these
troubled years to adorn and embellish all that is good and all that
is great in our humanity, and to present to all coming time the
representative of the divine idea of free government. It is not
too much to say that away down in the future, when the republic
has fallen from its niche in the wall of time; when the great war
itself shall have faded out in the distance like a mist on the
horizon; when the Anglo-Saxon shall be spoken only by the tongue
of the stranger, then the generations looking this way shall see
the great President as the supreme figure in this vortex of history.



UISTORY OF ILLIXOIS.



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THE "WAK ENDED — THE UNION RESTORED.

The rebellion was ended witli tlie surrender of Lee and his army,
and Johnson and his command in April, 1805. Our armies at the
time were up to their maximum strength, never so formidable,
never so invincible; and, until recruiting ceased by order of Sec-
retary Stanton, were daily strengthening. The necessity, however,




LINCOLN MONUMENT AT SPRINGFIELD.

for SO vast and formidable numbers ceased with the disbanding of
the rebel forces, which had for more than four years disputed the
supremacy of the Government over its domain. And now the
joyful and welcome news was to be borne to the victorious legions
that their work was ended in triumph, and they were to be per-
mitted "to see homes and friends once more."



138



HISTOEY OF ILLINOIS.



Schedule — Showiug statement of volunteer troops organized within the State, and sent to the
field, commeuciuf? April, 18iJl, aud eudiug Decembur 3t, 186j, \vith number of regiment, name
of original commanding officer, date of organization and muster into United States' service,
place of muster, and the aggregate strength^ of each organization.

INFANTRY.



Commanding officer at organiza
tion.



Col. John Cook

" Richard J. Oglesby.

" Eleazer A. Paine. . .

" Jas. D. Morgan

" W. H. L. Wallace...

" John McArthur

" John B. Wyman

" John M. Palmer

" Thos. J. Turner

" Robert F. Smith....

" Leonard F. Ross

" Michael K. Lawler...

" John B. Turchin. . . .

" Chas. C. Marsh

" Ulysses S. Grant

" Henry Dougherty —

" Jas. A. Mulligan

" Frederick Hecker. . .

" Wm. N. Coler

" JohnM.Loomis

" Nap. B. Buford

;. " A. K. Johnson

" Jas. S. Rearden

'• Philip B. Fouke

" John A. Logan

" John Logan

" Chas. E.IIovev

" Edward N. Kirk

" Gus. A. Smith

" Nich. Greiisel

" Julius White

" Wm. P. Carlin

" Austin Light

" Steph. G. Hicks

" Isaac C. Pugh

" Wm.A. Webb

" Julius Raith. .....

" Chas. Noblesdorflf .. .

" John E. Smith .

" John A. Davis

" John Bryuer

" Isham N. Haynie —

" Wm. R.Morrison...

" Moses M. Bane

'• G. W. Camming

" Isaac G. Wilson

" W. H. W. Cushman.

" Thos. W.Harris

" David Stuart

" Robert Kirkham

" Silas D. Baldwin....

" Wm. F. Lvnch

" P. Sidney'Poat

" Silas C. Toler.

" Jacob Fry .

" James M. True

" Francis Mora

Lt. Col. D. D. Williams . .

Col. Daniel Cameron . . . .

" Patrick E. Burke....

" Rosell M. Hough... .

" Elias Stuart

" Jos. H. Tucker

" O.T.Reeves

" Othniel Gilbert



June 13, 1861.
June 15, 1861.
June as, 1861.
June 18, 1861.
July 8, 1861.



Date of organization and Place where mustered
muster iuio the Unitedl into the United States
States service. service.



July 2.5, 1861.



May 21,
May 25,
May 24,



1861.
1861.
1861.



May 28, 1861



Oct. 31, 1861.



\ug. 3, 1861 . .
July 27, 1861.
Sept. 30, 1861.
Sept. 8,1861..
Dec. 31,1861.
Aug. 15.1861.
Sept. 7, 1861.



Sept. 23, 1861

Sept. 18,1361

Aug. 1.5, 1881. ..
December, 1861..

Aug. 10, 18G1

Aug, 9, 1861

Sept. 17, 1861

Dec. 16,1861

Sept. 13, 1861....
Dec. 26, 1S61. ...

Dec. 28. 1861

Oct. 1, 1861

Nov. 18,1861

Dec. 31, 1861

Sept. 12, 1861 ....
Dec. '61, Feb. '62.

Nov. 19, 1861

March. 1862

Feb. 18. 1862

Oct. 31, 1861

Feb. 27,1862

Doc. 26, 1861

Dec. 24, 1861 ,

August, 1861 â– ,

Feb. 17, 18H2

March 7, 1862....
April 10,1862



Dec. 31, 1862

May 15, 1862

April, 1862

Juno 13, 1862

June 20, 1862

June 14, 1862

July 4, 1862

July 26, 1862



Cairo, Illinois.



Dixon.

Jacksonville

Freeport

Quincy

Peoria

Anna



Joliet. . . .
Mattoon...
Belleville.
Chicago. . .
Chicago. . .



Camp Butler.



Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.



Aurora

Chicago

Camp Butler.. .

Chicago

Salem

Decatur

Chicago

Camp Butler.. .

Chicago

Galena

Camp Butler...

Peoria

Camp Butler.. .
Camp Butler. .

Quincy

Camp "Douglas.

Geneva

Ottawa

Anna

Camp Douglas
Shawneetowu ..
Camp Douglas.
Camp Douglas
St. Louis, Mo..

Anna

Carrollton

Anna

Anna

Camp Butler...
Camp Douglas.
St. Lonio, Mo. .
Camp Douglas.
Camp Butler.. .
Camp Douglas.
Camp Butler.. .
Camp Douglas.



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HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.



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ScH-EDULE — Showing statement of volunteer troops organized within tho State, and sent to the
field, commencing April, 1861, and ending December 31, 18(1."), with uumlier of regiment, name
of original commanding officer, date of organization and muster into United States' service,
place of muster, and the aggregate strength of each organization.

INFANTRY.



72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
83
86
87



Commanding officer at organiza-



tion.



Col. Frederick A. Starring..

" Jas. F. Jaquess

" Jason Marsh

" George Ryan

" Alonzo W. Mack

>' David P. Grier

" W. II. Beuuison

'• Lvman Guiunip

" Thos. G. \llen

" Jas. J. Dollins

" Frederick Hecker

" Aimer C. Harding

•' Louis H. Waters

" Robert S. Moore

" David D. Irons

" John R. Whiting

88 " F. T.Sherman

89 •' John Christopher

90 " Timothv O'ih'ra

91 " Henry M. Day

92 " Smith D. Atkins

93 " Ilolden Putnam

94 *• Wm. W. Orme

95 'â–  Lawr'n S. Church

96 " Thos. E. Champion. ...

97 " F.S.Rutherford

98 " J. J. Funkhouscr

99 '' G. W. K. Bailey

100 'â–  Fred. A. Bartleson

101 " Chas. II. Fox

102 " Wm. McMurtry

10.3 " Amos C. Babcock

104 " Absalom B. Moore

105 " Daniel Dustin

lOfi " Robert B. Latham

IO7 " Thomas Snell

10s " John Warner

lOo " Alex. J. Nimmo

lib 'â–  Thos. S. Casey

111 " James S. Martin

112 " T. J. Henderson

113 '• Geo. B. Hoge

114 â– ' James W. Judy

115 " Jesse H. Moore

116 " Nathan H.Tupper

117 " Risden M. Moore

llH â– ' John G. Fonda.. .

II9 '• Thos. J. Keuney

12(1 " George W. McKeaig —

l2i .Vever organized

122 Col. John I. Rinaker

12:^ " James Moore

124 " Thomas J. Sloan

125 " Oscar F. Harmon

126 " Jonathan Richmond

127 " John VanArman

12s " Robert M. Hudley

12!) " George P. Smith

130 " Nathaniel Nilcs

131 " George W. Neeley

132 " Thomas C. Pickett

133 " Thad. Phillips

134 " W. W McCheeney

135 " Johns. Wolfe



Date of organization and'Place where mustered



muster into the United
States service



Aug. 21,1862.,



Sept. 4, 1862...
Sept. 2. 1862..
.\ug, 22, 1862.
*Sept. 3, 1862.
Sept. 1, 1862...
Aug. 28, 1862..
Aug. 2.5, 1862...
Aug. 26, 1862..



Aug. 21, 1862..
Sept. 1. 1862..
Aug. 27, 1862.



Sept. 22. 1862. .
Aug. 27, 1862...
*Aug 25, 186^..
Nov. 22, 1862..
Sept. 8, 1862...
Sept. 4, 1862....
Oct. 13,1862....
Aug. 20, 1862...
Sept. 4,1862...
Sept. 6, 1S62...
Sept. 8, 18(32..
Sept. 3. 1^6i ..
Aug. 26, 1862. .
Aug. 30, 1802.
Sept. 2, 1862...



Oct, 2, 1862. . .
â– Vug. 27. 1862.
Sept. 2, 186^.
Sept. 17, 1862.
Sept. 4.1862..
.\ug. 28, 1862.
Sept. 11, 18G1.



Sept. 18, 1862.
Sept. 12,1862..,

Oct. 1.1862

Sept. 18, 1S62. . .
Sept. 13, 1862...
Sept. 30 18(12...
Sept. 19, 1862. . .
Nov 29. 1S62. .
Oct. 7, 1862...
Oct. 29, 1862....



Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.



4,1862..
6 1862 .
10 18G2.
4, 1862..



*Sept. 5, 1862.
Dec 18, 1862..
Sept. 8, 1862..
Oct. 25. ]8()5..
Nov. 13,1862..
June 1, 1864..
May 31,1864..



into tho
service.



United States



June 6, 1864.



Camp Douglas

Camp Butler

Rockford

Dixon

Kankakee

Peoria. .,

tiuincy

Danville

Ceutralia

Anna

Camp Butler . . .

Monmouth

t^uiucy

Peoria

Peoria

Shawueetown

Camp Douglas

Camp Douglas

Camp Douglas

Camp Butler

Rockford

Princeton and Chicago. .

Bloomington,

Rockford

Rockford

Camp Butler

Centralia

Florence, Pike Co.,

Joliet

Jacksonville

Knoxville

peoria

Ottawa

Chicago

Lincoln

Camp Butler

Peoria

Anna

Anna

Salem. ..

Peoria

Camp Douglas

CainpBuller

Camp Butler

Decatur

Camp Butler

Camp Butler

(Juiucv

Camp Butler



Carlinville..,..

Mattoon

Camp Butler...

Danville

Chicago

Camp Douglas.
Camp Butler...

Poutiac

Camp But'er. ..
Camp ^lassac. .

Camp Fry

Camp Biiller.

Cam]) Fry

Mattoon



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HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.



Schedule— Showing statement of volunteer troops organized within the State, and sent to the
field, commencing April, 1861, and ending December 31, 1865, with number of regiment, name
of original commanding; officer, date of organization and muster into United States' service,
place of muster, and the aggregate strength of each organization.

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139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
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151
152
153
154
155
156



Commanding officer at organiza-
tion.



Col. Fred. A. Johns.



John Wood.

" J.W.Goodwin

" Peter Davidson

'• L.H.Whitney

" Stephen Bronson

" RoUin V. Ankney.. .

" Dudley C. Smith

'• Cyrus Hall

" George W. Lackey. .

" Henry II. Dean

•' Hiram F. Sickles

" Horace H. Wilsie

" Wm. C. Kueffner

" George W. Keener.. . .

" French B. Woodall. . .

" F. D. Stephenson

" Stephen Bronson

" McLean F.Wood.. ..

" Gustavus A. Smith. .

" Alfred F. Smith

" J. W. Wilson

" John A. Bross

Capt. John Curtis

'• Simon J. Stookey

«' James Steele



Date of organization and Place
muster into the United '"'
States service.



:une 1, 1864...
June 5. 1864...
June 21, 18W..
June 1. 1864...
June 18, 1864..
June 16, 1864..
June 18, 1864..
June 11,1864..
Oct. 21,1864...
Junes, 1864...
Sept. 20,1864..
Feb. 18, 1865...



Feb. 11,
Feb. 14,
Feb. 25,
Feb. 1«,
Feb. 27,
Feb. 22,
Feb. 28,
March 9.



1865..
1865 .
1865. .
1865..
1865. .
1865
1865 .
1865.



Dec. 1, 1861.



where mustered

into the United States
service.



June 21, 1864.
June 15, 1864.



Centralia

Quincy

Quincy

Peoria

Camp Butler..

Elgin

Camp Butler. .

Mattoon

A'ton, Ills

Camp Butler..
Camp Butler..

Chicago

Quincy

Camp Butler. ,
Camp Butler..

Quincy

Camp "Butler. ,

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Camp Butler.
Camp Butler.

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Chicago

Quincy

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Chicago



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Col. Thomas A. Marshall

" Silas Noble ...

" Eugene A . Carr

" T.Lyle Dickey

" John J. Updegraff

" Thomas H. Cavanaugh.

" Wm. Pitt Kellogg

" John F. Faruswortli. . . .

" Al bert G. Brackett

" James A. Barrett

" Roberto. IngersoU

" ArnoVoss

" Joseph W.Bell

" Horace Capron

" Warren Stewart

â– ' Christian Thielman

" John L. Beveridge



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Aug. 24, "

Sept. 21, "

Sept. 30, "

December "

Nov., '61, Jan. ,'62.

August, "61

Sept. 18, '61

Oct. 26, '61

Nov. 2.5, "61

Dec. 20, '61

Dec, '61, Feb.. '62..



Jan. 7, '63

Organized Dec. 25, '63.
Jan. and April, '63. .. .
Jan. 28, '64



Bloomington...
Camp Butler...
Camp Butler...

Ottawa

Camp Butler...
Camp Butler...
Camp Butler...
St. t harles.. ..
Camp Douglas.
Camp Butler...

Peoria

Camp Butler. .
Camp Douglas.
Peoria ... . . .

Camp Butler.. .
Camp Butler...
St. Charles



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Field and Staff.

Capt. C. M. Willard

" Ezra Taylor

" C. Haughtaling

'• Edward Mc.Mlister.

" A. C. Waterhouse..

" John T. Cheney ...

" Artliur O'Leary

" A.xel Silversparr

" Edward Bouton

'• A. Franklin

" John Rourke

" John B. Miller

Recruits



Oct. .31,1861.
Jan. 14, '62...
Dec. 19, 'HI...
Feb. 25, "62..
Feb. 28, '62.
Feb. 20, '62..
Feb. 15, '62...
Jan. 9, '62....
Feb. 22, '62..
Aug. 12, '62



Chicago

Chicago

Ottawa

Ptaiufield

Chicago

Camp Butler..

Cairo

Chicago

Chicago

Shawneetown

Chicago

Chicago



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204
175
141
148
159
113
147
169
96
153
154
883



HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.



141



ScETEDtrLE— Showing ptatement of volunteer troops organized within the State, and sent to the
field commencing April, 1861, and ending December 31, 1865, with number of regiment, name
of original commanding officer, date of organization and muster into United States service,
place of muster, and the aggregate strength of each organization.

LIGHT ARTILLERY.



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p


Commanding officer at organiza-
tion.


Date of organization and
muster into the L'nited
States service.


Place where mustered
into the United States
service.


Aggr. Btrength
since organi-
zation.



SECOND REGIMENT— ILLINOIS LIGHT ARTILLERY.



Capt. Peter Davidson Aug. i;

Riley Madison June 20

" Caleb Hopkins Aug. 5, '61

" Jasper M. Dresser Dec. 17, '61

" Adolph Schwartz Feb. 1. '62..

" John W. Powell Dec. 11, '61.

" Charles J. Stolbrand Dec. 31, '61

" Andrew Steinbeck

" Charles W. Keith

" Benjamin F.Rogers

" William H. Bolton Feb. 28.

" John C. Pliillips June 6,

Field and Staff '