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And now let it be your endeavor and mine to see that the prestige of your good name, so dearly won, shall not suffer ; that when the history of
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your regiment shall be written it shall be truthfully said that for brave deeds of heroism on the field of battle, for soldierly qualities in camp or on the march, and for the number of good citizens that shall be returned from its ranks to the state. it was not surpassed by any regiment in the field.
And now you owe to the memory of those brave comrades who so heroically gave their blood and their lives to aid you in earning that good name to see that its prestige, so dearly won, shall not suffer."
Brilliant as is this record of Colonel John Davis, it alone is an inade- quate explanation of this commemoration hour today. We are here be- cause of the man that was back of the colonel.
A man, first, was disciplined by pioneer experiences, tempered by hardships, trained in the school of labor. Born in Meadville, Pa., in 1824, of stalwart parentage, he was born westward on the crest of that wave of emigration to which the self-reliant and the independent trusted their destinies. When he was but fourteen years of age his father settled in the woods of the Rock Run bottom on government land and the young boy bent himself, not only to the task of making a farm and building a home, but of creating a community, building school houses, organizing town- ships, shaping county governments, making the State of Illinois. Upon him the school room closed its door when he left Meadville, but, not- withstanding this, his biographer is able to say :
When he died few men of his age were so well versed in the history of his country, so deeply read in political science, so intimate with all the branches of knowledge. Colonel Davis was one of those farmers who have raised themselves to positions of honor by their own efforts. Well read, industrious, active and energetic, he was the chosen leader in his party and often held positions of honor and trust. As a member of the legislature he was known throughout the state; among his constituents no man was more popular than he.
In the second place, John Davis was a man illumined by the ideal, inspired by the poets. He lived on the highlands where reformers dwell. He breathed the atmosphere of poetry. Shelley, the immortal child, Burns, the minstrel of democracy, the lyrist of common life, Whittier and Long- fellow, were his favorites and familiars. The former, I am told, repre- sented his first love and greatest joy. "The Cloud" and "The Sky Lark" and "The West Wind," which Shelley saw, felt and heard, hung over the Illinois farms, sang in the Illinois trees and swept over the Illinois prairies when farmer John Davis plowed corn or harvested the golden grain.
We celebrate the man back of the colonel this morning for the third reason : He was perforce a liberal man; nay, that adjective is too trite: it is worn out. He was a liberated man, a free soul, an open mind. He could say with his Shelley in the "Sensitive Plant":
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
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That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odors there, In truth have never passed away : 'Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed ; not they. For love, and beauty, and delight There is no death nor change: their might Exceeds our organs, which endure . No light, being themselves obscure.
John Davis loved the reformers. He was not afraid to think; and this of necessity made him a lover of liberty. Truly does the Memorial Tablet say : "He died, 'that the slave might be free'." He took his orders from within ; was not afraid of the defeat or the reproach that wait upon those who stand in the advance line. He was at home with heretics; took no note of the color and was not afraid of a black skin, for to him
A man's a man, for a' that, and a' that.
In my hand I hold a faded letter bearing date of November 11, 1862, written to the stricken widow only a few weeks after John Davis had been gathered to his fathers, by Gen. J. W. Shaffer, from the Office of the Chief Quartermaster of the Government, New Orleans. In this letter we read :
I knew your dear husband as but few knew him ; we were on the most intimate terms for several years, and among all my friends there were none for whom I had a higher regard than for him. I loved him for his un- faltering devotion to right and justice and fair dealing; I loved him for his high moral courage, ever ready to espouse the cause of those he conceiv- ed to be in the right, however unpopular; I loved him because in all re- spects he was truly a man, and his death bears witness to his bravery and devotion to his country. You have lost a devoted husband ; your child- ren have lost an affectionate and loving father ; our country and freedom have lost one who was always ready to defend them, either in legislative halls or on the field of battle; his acquaintances all have lost a dear friend. * You are the mother and only guardian of his children : upon you depends their education and raising. You have but to teach them to be as was their father and they will be a comfort to you and an honor to both father and mother.
This leads me to the last count: John Davis, the man, made the colo- nel glorious because he was deeply enmeshed in the safeties and sanctities of the fireside. He was a home-maker and a home lover. There is peculiar fitness in the dedicating this day in the Abraham Lincoln Centre of a Guest Room to the memory of John Davis, for he was "given to hospital- ity." In the ante-railroad days the old Davis farm was on the main- traveled road between Beloit and Freeport, and without commission, with- out pay, it became the half-way house. It carried not the sign of an inn but travelers instinctively and by force of habit presumed that here was sure shelter and hospitality for man and beast.
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He was beloved of his neighbors. As a boy he led the debating club in the school house. As a man he became the leader of the community and when the fatal shot on the Hatchie river laid him low, his biographer says :
The news of his death filled all hearts with sorrow, draped the whole community in mourning. He was one who was near and dear to the hearts of all our people. The regard felt for him was something more than of friendship and esteem; he was loved by the people, by his virtue and able qualities, and loved as a brother by those who knew him well, who knew him as he was. Those who knew him intimately, knew his social and po- litical life, knew him as a public servant and private citizen, will all agree with us when we say that his was a rare character, guided purely by a sense of strictest integrity, actuated by love of humanity, broad and deep. John Davis, whether in public or private life, knew no policy but honesty; basing his opinions on premises that his judgment pronounced to be cor- rect and just, he was firm as a rock in maintaining them.
Clearly, this reader of good books, this man whose lips grew eloquent with words fired by living coals taken from the altars of Shelley and Burns, was a great lover; love was the central motive, the mainspring of his action, the directing spirit of his life. I am told that his favorite poem in his Longfellow volume was "The Golden Mile-Stone," which he loved to recite :
From the hundred chimneys of the village, Like the Afreet in the Arabian story, Smoky columns Tower aloft into the air of amber. * *
By the fireside there are youthful dreamers, Building castles fair, with stately stairways, Asking blindly Of the Future what it cannot give to them, * *
Each man's chimney is his Golden Mile-Stone ; Is the central point, from which he measures Every distance
Through the gateways of the world around him. Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march of the encroaching city, Drives an exile
From the hearth of his ancestral homestead .. We may build more splendid habitations,
Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures; But we cannot
Buy with gold the old associations !
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A SOLDIER HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE.
BY A SOLDIER.
(The following was first published in the Ohio Statesman. In the last letter Mrs. Col. Davis ever received from her husband, he enclosed these lines, clipped from some paper in his possession. It will be seen that they were peculiary adapted to his case, even to the "two fair haired children" who may "never again hear the tones" of that fond father, who fell
"In the battle's front by a traitor's hand.")
You knew by the light in my deep dark eye, When I heard the beat of the mustering drum, That I never would fold my arms and sigh, O'er the evils that were to come ;
...
You knew that the blood of a patriot sire
Coursed through my veins like a flame of fire ;
So you took my hand and bade me go,
But I never dreamed that it grieved you so. '
Two fair haired children I left with you,
Who lisp my name at eventide-
The very hour when upon my knee I used to fondle my pet and pride ; Alas! they may never be blessed
With a father's care in the old home nest;
And I never again may hear the tones,
Or kiss the lips of my little ones.
I know I have answered my country's call,
That my breast is bared at a high command,
But your heart will break, I know, if I fall In the battle's front by a traitor's hand ! Yet I murmur not though my tear wet eyes Attest the worth of the sacrifice ;
'Tis a husband's free gift-two lives in one -- In the name of God and Washington. Perhas when the maple leaves are red,
And golden glories of harvest comc.
You shall wake some morning to hear my tread,
And give me a warm heart's welcome home, To kneel with me in fervent prayer. Thanking our God for his watchful care, Who upheld the flag of our cherished land, And shielded my heart from the rebel's brand.
Says his wife:
At the war meeting held in Davis town hall my husband made a speech. He was an effective talker; I knew what was coming; I felt I must, like him, think only of country, and so I said on the way home: "John, if I were a man there is nothing would keep me at home at such a time." Quick was his response: "The hardest battle has been fought and won ; to leave my home is the hardest task I can ever meet; all the rest will be easy.'
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ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
While recovering from the severe wound received at Shiloh, Colonel Davis sought for a time a shelter at the Kenosha Sanitarium where Mrs. Frank Leland, well known as a writer of verse in those days, was so- journing. She is the author of the lines "Death of Colonel Davis," with which I introduced the service this morning. I quote from a letter written by the author twenty years after, to the daughter of Colonel Davis :
An impulse prompts me to tell you what you may not know, that Mr. Leland and subsequently myself became acquainted with your father at the water-cure of Kenosha and were fast friends. After they had been acquainted a while they were speaking of poems, and your father took one from his vest pocket and said: "Here is a poem I found in a paper while in the army and I cut it out ; have read it many times, thinking it one of the most touching poems I have ever read." It is entitled "The Dead Soldier." My husband said, "My wife wrote it," and the incident pleased him much. For this reason I have placed the poem next to the one to your father in my printed volume.
It is a poem that reveals the depth of the heart, which can only be discovered in the grim days that "try men's souls."
Tenderly, Soldier ! handle with care -- Pass your hand lovingly over his hair ; Hair that his mother's hand often hath pressed, Curls that his sister hath often caressed- Tenderly lay him in that narrow bed; Carefully pillow his early bowed head. Tenderly, Soldier ! see you the smile Death from his ruby lip could not beguile? Hushed to him now is the battle's wild storm, In its last sleep lies his beautiful form; Bravely he fell for his country that day, Fell for the Union-in battle array !
Lieutenant Jones has given us John Davis' last speech, but here in the back-handed script of the but recently disciplined left hand. is the last letter he ever wrote. It is out of the heart of love, in the calm before the battle. The forty-five intervening years may justify a loving publicity to the holy privacy of the hour :
My dear Wife :- I have been sitting before my tent this beautiful moonlight evening until bedtime. The taps have been sounded, the camp i- quiet, and I am tired and Sleepy. But my thoughts are with you and the children. Oh, how deeply I love my home and its household gods. I feel as if I could not retire until I had written to you. There is nothing new here; everything is quiet .* * * It is good to feel that I can get a com- munication to you or from you in an hour's time should circumstances de- mand it. I am getting along well; I sleep well nights and thank God every morning when I awake that I have again passed the night in sound and refreshing sleep. I shudder to think of the months of long, painful, sleepless nights I have passed. *
* Kiss the children for me, and * know that now, in the future as in the past, there is one heart that beats all alone for you. Good night.
John.
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This was on the last day of September. The third, fourth and fifth of October were the terrible days of Corinth, and on the tenth a peace, passing the peace of the moon-lit hour, touched him.
The military career of John Davis was closed on the tenth of October, 1802, but the 46th remained. The beloved first Colonel fell at the opening of its career. Its tattered banner was carried through four and a half long years; it'was torn by minie ball and shell, stained by the rain, snow, wind and dust of over ten thousand miles of travel. Says its historian :
Nearly two thousand men first and last, were members of the organ- ization ; 329 died in the service; its graves are scattered from Fort Donel- son to Vicksburg; from there on to Mobile, New Orleans and Baton Rouge; and since the return of John Davis' boys have occupied places of honor, of responsibility and of danger.
"Tom, I carried the flag," said Charles F. Bowers, of Company B, with his countenance lit up with animation, as he lay dying from his wounds on the battlefield.
"Boss, be you Linkum sojers?" asked the old darkey of Lieutenant Jones of the 46th, way down in Mississippi.
"Yes, daddy, we are the genuine article."
"Well, boss, is we free now?"
"Yes sir, you are all free."
"Bress de Lawd! You are de next thing to the Lawd Jesus Christ!"
"O no! not so good as that !"
"Yes you is! Clar to goodness you is; every bit of it!"
Herein we discover the glory of the 16th, the conquering power of the name of John Davis. Not following the flag, but following the flag at its highest ; not a readiness to die, but a readiness to die for a worthy cause, the noblest of causes. Shailer Mathews in his last book on "The Church and the Changing Order," just out, confesses that the church in these days "is failing to exploit the new moral situation"; that "it is growing in- capable of producing leaders"; that "the largest problem in education to- day is how to prevent young fellows from losing their early ambitions during their college and university course." He further says: "Theolog- ical safety never begat a real leader." Leadership can be exercised "only by men whose faces are set to the future."
John Davis was worthily married. The wife of his youth, with a clearness of vision worthy of her young love. in the fulness of venerable years dedicates to the memory of Colonel John today not a dumb shaft of marble among graves, but a Guest Chamber that will offer rest and re- newal to the prophets of progress. Here saints and sages will find shelter and rest as they go about life's work, as they travel on their earthy pil- grimage.
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Today again John Davis opens a recruiting office and calls for volun- teers to enlist in the army of progress. Still there are Shiloh and Corinth unconquered.
The sword of the spirit requires finer courage and higher renunciation than the sword of steel. There is an element of self-denial now as then, and always will be, in the fields of religion and morals. The slippered ease, the cushioned elegance, the enthusiasm suppressed lest it may grow ex- pansive, the thrift that turns away from the banners of the ideal when they lead onto the fields of self-denial, have no part nor parcel in the traditions of heroism, in the annals of nobility, in the ranks, living and dead, of those who were loyal to the flag of their country and the cause of their God, which is the cause of equal rights to men and women, to black and white ; the cause of equal opportunity to high and low; the cause of the cordial fellowship and the hearty love to rich and poor.
To such a service we are summoned today by the spirit of John Davis. The ranks of the 46th have been sadly depleted ; there is a call for new re- cruits.
In his name I call upon the young to fall in --
Rally 'round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom !
Following Mr. Jones, "Tenting Tonight" was sung by Mrs. Helene Carnes, the congregation joining in the chorus, and the impressive service closed with singing to the tune of "America," "Gone Are the Great and Good."
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JOHN A. DAVIS POST No. 98, DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. July 5, 1881.
Pursuant .to a call of the Secretary, a number of old soldiers met at the Armory, July 5, 1881, for the purpose of organizing a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. And for this purpose Col. Sherburne, of Chicago, accompanied by Ass't. Adjutant General Bennet and others, was present.
After being mustered, the Post consisted of forty-six men. The Roster at present is as follows :
Name Co. Reg. State
Residence
Name
Co. Reg. State
Residence
Andre, John J. G
93 11
f11.
Ellis, Eli
A
46 111.
Adleman, Milton
Engelmau, John
Aston, Charles
G
7 N. Y.
Eder, Jonn H. B 8
Il1.
Aurand, John J. D
46
Il1. 111.
.. Cedarville
Figeley, Wm. F. A
Brandt, Abram
E
45
Ili. Rock City
Fosselman, Philip D
F
15 Ind.
Ill. Buena Vista
Buckman, H. M.
G
147
Il1. Freeport
Goetz, Andrew C
F
147
I11. I11.
Freeport
Benson. D.
12
I11.
Omaha, Neb Freeport Dakota
Geiger, Benjamin Graham. G. W. Halen, James F. A
93
Ill. Freeport
Burrell. D. W.
F
142
Ill.
Freeport
Held. Fred C.
C
46
111.
..
Beine, Carl F.
C
92 82
Ill. Pa.
Ridott
Hockman, Henry G
Hoebel. Jacob
C
46 46
I11.
Brady. W I.
14
Pa.
Freeport
Herrold, Michael
Hawn, Isaac
D H
67
Il1.
Buena Vista
Best. Hiram C. A
Pa. Rock City
Burton. R. W.
46
111.
Freeport
Boop, W. H.
45
111.
Hennick. Wm.
26
I11.
16
Buckeye
Hart, Albert W.
I
142
Ill.
F
45
Ili.
Davis Freeport
Bongye, Daniel
A
87
Pa.
Freeport Freeport
Joy, Benedict
A
46 46
Il1.
Chicago Freeport
Bongye, F. D.
12
Freeport
Krape, W. W.
A H
46 215
I11. Pa.
Clark. Benjamin
H
79
B
Iil.
Davis Dakota Cedarville
---
Keck, If. S. K
46 15
Il !.
Dean, Joseph
Kessey, James
B
90
Pa. Mass.
..
Demuth. Fred'k Dommell.
46
I11.
..
Knoeller. George
40
I11.
..
Drener, Fred
11
Ill. Ill.
..
Kee er. N. F.
G
92 46
Il1.
..
Dilcher, John
A H
46
Ill.
..
Kautenberger, P.G.C | Kamerer, Christ F
16 III. cav
..
Burrell, Henry
G
15
I11.
Freeport
Bentley, William
A
11 111. 4 U. S. A. Chicago
French, D. H. A
Garman, Henry C. G
45 46
Il1. Cedarville
Blosser, W. H
H
166
Pa.
Galbraith, Benj.
D 2 Md. B. H.B.L. RIdott
Bowman. Win. H.
34
Il1.
Iowa Freeport I11. Cockrell
Hayes, John R.
E
135 93
Pa.
..
C
47
G
54
Pa. Pa. Rock Run Freeport ..
K Harnish. Andrew Haas, Charles Hoyman, Henry A
Hayes. Thomas Hamilton, John S. Hoffman. Charles
13 62
N. Y. Il1.
Burkhart. John
C
46
Freeport Ill. Russell, Minn
King, E. M. B
Curran. John K
46
Pa. Ill. Pa.
..
K
46
G
46
I11.
Clingman, Jason
Clogman, Wm. M
142
Ill.
Casford. John
11
I11.
..
Clingman, John T. A Cummins, Jas. R. B
126
Il1. Pa.
Cedarville Freeport
Keith, Bowen
F
F
118 15 x
Ind. I11.
..
Dennison. N. W.
Ill.
..
Kellogg. A. S.
10
Ill.
Cedarville Freeport
Cornelius, Sam'l
26 =
Ill.
93
Ill. I11.
. .
A A M
2 Wis, cav Freeport 46
45
I11.
..
IL.
..
Christer. W. J. A
Kauffman, T. M. Kostenbader. D. Kenke Rudolph Kleckner, Geo. S. Koym, Frederick Knettle, Jonathan Keister. Christian E
D C A
16
Ohio
Brown. E. S.
D
12
I11.
Beadle, J. yo'm'n.
U.S.ship
D
I
93
Pa. I11.
..
Bitner. Conrad
K
Baird, James
I 21
..
Baker, Lambert
A
92
Ill.
I11. Freeport
Bates. A. J.
C 46 46
.. Ford, W. G., musician 24 N. Y. Freeport
Arno, Philip
| Frisbie. Charles G
11 13 Ind.
Freesman, John
Fetzer, Christ. D
46 11 Il1- Baileyville
Bertsch, John A.
Baker, W. H. H. A
92
Il1.
H
117 N. Y.
Il1.
Beldler. David S. Bitner Nelson
16 I11. 12 Wis. bat
E G
Baker, E. D. Bair, Francis B 26
A L Wis. h art
Il1. Freeport
Eaton. Nelson H. B 26 I11. Freeport
Atkins, Smith D.
--
92 I11. Red Oak
46 Il1. Baileyville
K E F
92
Ill.
..
..
..
..
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ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
Name
Co. Reg. State
Residence
Name
Co. Reg. State
Residence
Knecht, Philip
C
46
I11. Ill.
Freeport
Reltzell. W. J.
B
46
111.
Freeport
Keller, Henry
46
55
Il1.
..
Ropps, William
C
105
Ill.
..
Kyle, Uriah
B
31
Wis.
..
Reineke. Joseph
C
46
I11.
..
Kena, Charles
G 5
207
Pa.
..
Rodemeier, Jos.
A
57
I11.
..
Leigh, Jesse R.
A
92
Il1. Pa.
..
Stewart. William
B
26
Il1. Freeport
Lee, L. H.
A
46
I11.
..
Sheckler, James,
1
74
Ill.
Davis
Lizar. David
P
78
N. Y. Pa.
Solt, Israel
I
III.
Lathrop, J.S., musician Lott. W. W. 4
11
Ill.
Seymore, Oliver G
I11.
Long, George
138
Pa.
Sheckler. O. P.
E
15
Il1.
Luedeke, Henry
46
I11.
Smith, Isaiah
H
46
111.
McLees. Robt. C.
G
46
I11.
Snyder. J. H. A
15%
Pa.
..
McElhaney, Wm. B
45
Ill.
Stewart, Jonathan I
15
III.
..
Moersch, John
B
14 Ill. cav
Schlegel. Julius
C
92 203
Pa. Buena Vista
McMurray, C.I.
F
2 Mich. cav
Schwarz, John F
2
Ill. art
Freeport
Madden, W. J.
142
I11
Selle, Charles D
8
I11.
Mansfield. G. S.
U. S. signal corps 95
..
Taggart, Chas. F. D
IF
93 2
111. cav ) ..
Messinger, J. W.
B
26
Ill.
Mogle, Samuel
B
45
Il1.
Thompson, P. R.
B
95
I11.
..
Miller, Ambrose
46
[1].
Rock City
Turneaure, G.B., musician 93 111.
12
111.
..
Musser, John W.
D
46
III.
Vore, John G
46
Il !.
. .
Newcomer. B. F.
G
33 U. S. Inf.
Waddell, John K. A
46
I!1. Il1.
Needham, Thomas B
A
11
111.
Winslow. Wm.
104
Freeport.
Ott, Andrew
K
81
IIl.
..
Worrick, J. F.
5 B. W. L. A.
Prince. Jacob
C
46
111.
..
Wernike, Henry C
46
III.
Pietrick, Paul
G
46
I11.
..
Williams, Henry
8 Ind. L. B. N. Y. ..
Palmer. L. H.
F
12
111.
..
Wardlow, Robert
93
Il1. Kock Run
Penticoff. Daniel F
92
Ill.
..
Weinhold. W. S.
G
90
Pa. Freeport
Runner, Z. T. F.
Il1.
Weifenbach, John C
46
Il1.
Romaine. HomerF.1)
Weisser, Fred
25
Mass.
Rank, Daniel
I
202
Davis
Williams, Hugh
I
3 Wis.
Reedy, Patrick
D
65
Eleroy
I Wentz, Phillp W.
G
46
111.
..
Rasbach, F. F.
C
13
Il1.
..
Kloepping. Aug.
A
3
Wis.
..
Rodearmel. A.
142
I11.
..
Kiefer. George C
46
I11.
..
Rotzler, John
D
93
I11.
Freeport
Lineweaver, H. D. D
93
72 & 112 N. Y.
Stukenberg. A. H. H 15 15
Il1.
..
Leid, Edwin
A
11
Ill.
Stober, William
C
Mallory, I. N.
B
46
Il.
Smith, John H.
Miller, Jacob
I
16
Ohio
Snook, Wm. E.
Sieferman, Lorenz C
46
111.
Morse, George C. K
Miller, Israel A 46
Il1.
..
Thayer, W. H. I
12
Wis. Y ..
Marle, George
F
92
Il1.
Freeport
Voss, Henry
Webb, O. P.
B
46
.. Dakota
Newcomer, A. C.
A
13 Ill. cav 26 I11.
..
Winter, Wm.
F 142 III.
Il1.
Il1.
G
46
Il !. Dakota
Lattig, A. P.
B
51
..
Spitler, Wmn. H. D
F
29
N. Y.
..
Roberts, Albert
Kasten, William
.
Kauffman, Alex
92
Il1.
Sieferman, B
46 31
Il1.
62 Ohio ..
..
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GENERAL INDEX.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Battlefields, National Cemetery
and Park, Description of ..... 241-245
Biographies of Generals and Field and Staff Officers. 18- 35
Biographies of Worthy Women .. 355
Building Barracks 15
Chapel Tent, The 11
Col. Davis' Surprise 16
Company 36- 43
Company B 44- 53
Company C. 54- 57
Company D.
58- 60
Company D. New Organization. 60- 62
Company E.
63- 69
Company F. 70- 76
Company 77- 83
Company H 81- 90
Company
91- 94
Company K.
95- 99
Company Cooks 15
Expedition into Lousiana. 199
Expedition to Springfield.
15
Field of Operations. 156
First Active Operations of the 46th Regiment 151
First Call for Troops 5
Fort Donelson, Capture of.
151-155
Grand Army of the Republic
246-247
Hurlbut on the Hatchie
188
Illinois State Monument.
245-246
Incidents as Told by the Boys 215-236
Introductory.
3
Jackson Expedition
204
John A. Davis Guest Chamber. Dedication of .. 359-377 John A Davis Post No. 98. G.A.R. 378-379 March to Ft. Henry 155 Memorial Day Services, May,1907 359-377 Musicians, The. 146-148
National Cemeteries. 255
Origin of Memorial Day, Poems, etc. 246-266
Fart Second.
202
Presentation of Regimental
Colors.
12
Quotations from Rev. VanHorne 342-352
Recruiting the 46th Regiment .... 7
Rendezvous, The.
8
Reunion Association, History of. 267-272
Reunion of 1887.
272-298
Reunion of 1889
29S-313
Reunion of 1895
313-325
Reunion of Company F, 1900.
326-329
Reunion of 1906.
330-340
Roster of Regiment.
101-145
Sham Battle between 46th and
49th Regiments.
16
Shiloh, Battle of.
160-180
Sickness in Camp.
10
Tablets Used to Mark Shiloh Bat-
tlefield ..
178-180
Tribute to Ladies of Freeport 312
Tribute to the Noble Women of
America
340-342
Tribute to Soldiers Under Trying
Circumstances.
352-355
Vicksburg Campaign.
192-197
Yazoo Expedition
202
Index-Biographical Sketches.
PAGE
PAGE.
Addams, Hon. J. H 239
Allen, Lieut. Thos. 83
Ankeny, Capt. Rollin V 46
Arno, Capt. Phil 5.5
Boyer, Samuel V
67
Bradshaw, Dr. Benj. H 33
Buchanan, Capt. Samuel 81
Bullock, Capt. Hezekiah H 9.3
Buttler, Lieut. Louis C.
93
Barnes, Capt. Walter G
95
Barr, Licut. John W
72
Bobb. Lieut. Isaac M 52
Boyd. Chas. 76
Arnold, Capt. Isaac A.
37
Appleton, Michael J
79
Baker, Ellas I). 148
Ballard, Lieut. James.
92
Byrne, Lieut. Alvin T
75
Biographical Sketches -- Continued.
PAGE.
PAGE ..
Carter, Lieut. John L. 74
MeCracken, Maj. J. M 30
Clingman, Maj. Joseph. 30
Mckibben, Lieut. Joseph MI. 97
Clingman, Mrs. Maria 357
McLenahan, George 147
Cooper, Capt. Robt. T. 50
McPherson, Major-General James B 237 Miller, Capt. Francis O. 61
Crane, Capt. J. W. 61
Cravens, Harry H. 75
23
Moore, Lieut. Wm. R. 39
Musser, Capt. John. 37
57
DePuy, M. D., Elias C. 32
Oinhausen, Lieut. Andr
56
Dickey, Lieut. George 38
81
Pieronet, Thos. A.
89
Dornblaser. Gen. Benj. 25
Plantz, Lieut. Wm. A. 64
Dornblaser, Mrs. Benj. 356
Pride, Capt. David S. 91
Reitzell, Capt. Wm. J. 49
Reynolds, Lieut. Wmn 39
Roush, George S. 51
Roush, Lieut. Henry 47
Haney. Lieut. Wm. M
67
Harberts, Lieut. Harbert
55
Schadel, Col. Samuel P. 41
Seizick, Albert 67
Shaw, Lieut. John.
74
Hershey, Sergt .- Maj. J. E
34
Hight, Lieut. Wm. H
92
Slade, Thos. 146
Smith, Capt. Robert 80
Snyder, E. A. 88
Stanley, John C. 75
Starring, Maj. Fred A 29
Stevens, Capt. John 85
Stewart, Capt. Wm 96
Terry, Lieut. Uriah J. 93
Thom, James C. 98
Thompson, Lieut. Moses R. 79
Trotter, George W. 146
Veatch, Gen. James C. 21
Wagner, Herman L 148
Wakefield, Milton. 76
Wakefield, Capt. Thos 72
Welsh, Peter. 68
76
Wilder, Capt. Wm. F 58
98
Wike, Edwin 55
Winters, Darius 40
Winters, Harriet Stanton 358
Woodbury. A. A. Gen. H. H. 31
McArthur, Gen. John 19
McCauley. Lieut. Aaron 53
52
Kemper, Capt. Adamn. 39
Kemper, Grandma. 357
Kennelley, Henry G. 93
Krape, Dr. W. W. 42
Laird, Lieut. Thos. C. 82
Lane, Lieut. Wm. 63
Lewis, Hezekiah R. 3-4
Logan, Gen. J. A.
237
Lollar, Francis M.
73
Long. Lieut. Robert 57
Marble, Capt. John M 63
Marsh, Capt. Fred. H. 66
Wright, James B. 34
Young, Capt. Wm. 77
Hood, Lieut. Thos. M. 78
Howell-Hight, Mrs. Sarah 356
Hughes, John Allison 87
Hurlbut, MajorGeneral Stephen A .. 20
Ingraham, Lieut. W. S 73
Johnson, Capt. Oly F. 97
Joiner, Lieut. Thos. E 83
Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel John J. 23
90
Hathaway. Lieut. Thos. J 48
Faust, Lieut. Emanuel 49
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S 18
Pike, Capt. Frederick W
89
Mogle, Samuel. 147
Davis. Col. John A.
Davis-Winship, Mrs. Col. 355
Dement, Col. John 238
Neese, Emil.
Diffenbaugh, D. D.
Ewing, Henry E. 35
Hall, Cyrus 22
Saxton, Lieut. Wm. O. 38
Hardy, Wm. P.
Shiffer, Solomon A 91
Holmes, James W 59
Jones, Lieut. Thos. B
Wheeler, Michael J.
Wilson, Lieut. John
Index to Portraits.
PLATE.
PLATE.
Addams, Hon. John H XXVIII
Kemper, Mrs.
XXXI
Allen, Lieut. Thomas. XX
Kennelly, Lieut. H. G.
XXIV
Ankeny, Capt. R. V.
Krape, Dr. W. W.
VIII
Arno. Capt. Phil ... XI
Laird, Lieut. T. C.
Arnold, Capt. I. A. VII
Lane, Lieut. Wm. XV
Atkins, Gen. Smith D XXXII
Lauman, Gen. Jacob G.
Baker, Elias D
XXVII
Lewis, Chaplain H. R.
Barnes, Capt. W. G.
XXV
Lincoln, Abraham
I
Barr, Capt. John.
XVII
Bobb, Lieut. I. M
XIV
Boyd, Sergt. Charles.
Long, Lieut. Robert
XII
Boyer, Lieut. Samuel V
XV
Marble, Capt. John M
XIV
Bradshaw, Dr. B. H. V
Marsh, Capt. Fred. H XIV
Buchanan, Capt. Samuel.
XIX
McArthur, Gen. John.
LI
Bullock, Capt. Hezekiah H
XXIII
McCauley, Lient. Aaron
XI
Buttler, Lieut. L. C.
XXVI
McCracken, Maj. John M.
IV
Carter, Lieut, J. F. XVII
Mckibben, Lieut. J. M
XXVI
Clingman, Maj. Joseph. IV
McLenahan, Geo
XXVII
Clingman, Mrs. Maria. XXXI
Cooper, Lieut. M. J. XXI
Cooper, Capt. R. T. IX & XI
Crane, Capt. J. W XIII
Moore, Lieut. W. R
Musser, Capt. John VU
Neese, Lieut. Emil. XII
Dement, Col. John XXVIII
Olnhausen, Lieut. Andr XIII
DePuy, Maj. E. C. V
Pieronet, Lieut. Thos. A XXII
Dickey, Lieut. G. S.
Pike, Capt. F. W. XXII
Diffenbaugh. Capt. D. D XX
Plantz, Lieut. W. A. XV
Pride, Capt. D. S. . VI & XXIII
Reitzell, Capt. Wm. J IX
Roush, Lieut. G. S x
Roush, Lieut. Henry Y
Rutledge, Rev. Wm. J XXIX
Seizick, Lieut. Albert. XVI
Shadel, Col. Samuel P. VIII
Shaw, Lieut. John. XVII
Shiffer, Sergt. Solomon A XXIV
Slade, Thomas W XXVI
Smith, Capt. Robt. M. XIX
Snyder, Lieut. Ed. A.
XXII
Holmes, Sergt. J. W. XXIV
Hood, Lieut. Thos. MI. XXI
Howell-Hight, Lieut. Wm. H XXIII
Hight, Mrs. Sarah. XXXI
Hughes, Capt. J. A. XXII
Huribut, Gen. S. A. II
Ingraham, Lieut. Winfield S. XVII
Johnson, Capt. Oly F XXV
Joiner, Lieut. Thos. E. Xx
Jones, Brevet-Colonel John J. IV
Jones, Lieut. T. B X & XXXII
Kemper, Capt. A. VII
x
Held, Fred. C. XXXII
Hershey, Sergt .- Major J. E
Stanley, John XVII
IV
Stephenson, B. F XXIX
Stevens, Capt. John XXI
Stewart, Capt. Wmn XXV
Terry, Lieut. U. J XXIV
Thom. Lieut. Jas. C. XXVI
Thompson, Lieut. Moses R. XXI
Trotter, Geo. W. XXVII
Veatch, Gen. J. C.
II
Wagner, Herman L XIII
Wakefield. Sergt. Milton XVIII
Dornblaser, Gen. Benj. III & XXX
Dornblaser, Mrs. Benj. XXX
Ewing, Sergt .- Major Henry A. VI
Faust, Lieut. Emanuel XI
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S II
Haney, Lieut. Wmn. N XV
Hall, Col. Cyrus
Harberts, Lieut. H
Hardy, Lieut. Wm. P. XXIII
Hathaway, Lieut. T. J.
McPherson, Maj .- Gen. James B .. XXVIII Miller, Capt. F. O. XIV
Mogle, Samuel, XXVII
Cravens, H. H. XVIII
Davis, Col. John A III & XXX
XVIII
Logan. Gen. John A XXIX
Lollar, Capt. F. M XVI
Starring. Maj. Fred. A
Index to Portraits~Continued.
PLATE.
PLATE.
Wakefield, Capt. Thomas
XVI
Winship, Mrs. A. D.
XXX
Washington, Geo.
Winters, D.
IX
Welsh, Peter
XVI
Winters, Mrs. Harriet.
XXXI
Wheeler, M. J
XIX
Woodbury, Henry H.
Wike, Capt. E.
XII
Wright, Jas. B
Wilder, Capt. Wm. F
XIII
Yates, Richard.
I
Wilson, Lieut. John
XXVI
Young, Capt. Wm
XIX
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