Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kane County, Part 137

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FOX RIVER REGIMENT-THIRTY-SIXTH ILLINOIS-On August 14th Governor Yates, by General Order No. 139, promoted Nicholas Greu- sel, then Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh In- fantry, to the Colonelcy of the "Fox River Reg- iment" and, only four days later, the first com- pany of this new command marched into "Camp Hammond" on the line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, between Aurora and Montgomery-so named in honor of Colonel Hammond, the patriotic Superintendent of the road. On the 22d of the same month, Captain John Webb, United States mustering officer, examined the rolls of eight companies, and veri- fied them by parading the entire body of men in double line and calling the roll by companies. As each man answered to the call of his name, he advanced three paces into a new line; and, when all had responded and the new line had been completed, with bared heads and uplifted right hands, they united in this impressive cath: "I do solemnly swear that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all enemies and opposers whatever; that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and all officers appointed over me, according to the rules of the army of the

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United States, so help me God." And so, in one momentous instant, these patriotic men volun- tarily laid off their free citizenship and became the sworn subjects of the most arbitrary despo- tism. Sublime self-abnegation, heroic sacrifice for you and for me, for the Nation and for pos- terity!

On the 12th day of September Col. Albert G. Brackett, of the regular army, paraded the complete regiment, and had each company marched slowly in sigle file before a board of inspecting surgeons, when those in whom the slightest defect was detected were subjected to more careful scrutiny and, if found deficient, rejected. When the inspection was finished, the recruits received and the correctness of the rolls carefully verified, he administered again the same oath, and in the same manner, to the whole regiment of ten companies, as well as to the line and field officers. Now it was a part of the United States army designated as the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry. On September 24th, under marching orders for St. Louis, Mo., it broke camp, and, boarding cars of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, bade farewell to Kane County.

EIGHTH CAVALRY .- On August 12th the Hon. John F. Farnsworth received from the Secretary of War authority to recruit and equip a regiment of twelve companies of cavalry, and very soon thereafter recruits began to arrive at the camp which he had established in the southeast quarter of the village of St. Charles. The largest formal muster of this regiment into the United States service occurred on the 18th day of September, 1861; but enlisting and fre- quent musters continued until its departure un- der military orders for Washington on or about October 13th. It took to the field about 1,150 stalwart and well mounted young men, as the Eighth Illinois Cavalry.

LINCOLN REGIMENT - FIFTY-SECOND ILLINOIS INFANTRY .- In the same month of August, 1861, Judge Isaac G. Wilson obtained from the Secretary of War permission to or- ganize a third Kane County regiment. This he christened the "Lincoln Regiment." Estab- lishing its camp on the Fair Grounds at Ge- neva, on the south side of State Street just at the present city limits-named "Camp Lyon," in honor of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, who had just fallen in action at Wilson's Creek, Mo .- he be- gan the work of organization. His official cer- tificate is preserved, stating that Companies

"I," from Dundee, and "K," from Elgin and Plato, were accepted for service by him on the 6th day of September. It is known that the company trom Kaneville marched into camp the day before. In recognition of its first arrival in camp, it was given the position of honor on the right of the Regiment as Company "A," and, for like reason, the companies above named being the next to arrive, became the "color companies," "I" and "K."

Colonel Brackett officially certifies that, on the 25th day of October, 1861, he mustered into the service four companies of the regiment with John S. Wilcox as its Lieutenant-Colonel. At two different dates in November Lieutenant John Christopher of the regular army complet- ed the mustering of this regiment, and on No- vember 28th, with 945 as fine young men in its ranks as ever marched beneath any banner, the Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry left "Camp Lyon" forever, under marching or- ders, boarding cars of the Chicago & North- Western Railway for Benton Barracks, St. Louis, by way of Chicago.

It would be extremely interesting to trace, even briefly, some of the deeply touching inci- dents of these camps-to recall something of the strangely mingled emotions of lofty enthus- iasm and deep anguish; the extravagant hilar- ity (often forced) and the silent grief, the laughter and the tears; the greetings and the partings, as the fondest ties were severed, the dearest hopes deferred-perhaps forever-and the dreaded separations, toils and perils of dreadful war which were then assumed. Since history began, such have been war's prelude and concomitant, touching the loftiest heights and lowest depths of human emotions.

SERVICE .- The Thirty-sixth received its first real baptism of battle at Pea Ridge, Mo., on the 6th and 8th of March, 1862, in which action it suffered a loss of six killed and thirty- two wounded. Its service was in the South and Southwest. It took to the field, originally, 965 men, received 221 recruits, and lost in killed, wounded and by the hardships incident to the service about 700 men. It passed, by rail and . boat and marches, over fully 10,000 miles. It served under ten different commanders and par- ticipated in ten battles, beside innumerable minor engagements and skirmishes.

The Eighth Cavalry served in the army of the Potomac, and its record was brilliant in the extreme. Its original strength was about 1,150

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daring riders, and its mount and equipment were the best. It received over 400 recruits to its ranks. Its achievements are an honorable part of the history of the "Army of the Poto- mac." Its Colonel was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, and served with distin- guished ability in the Congress of the Nation. It was claimed that John F. Farnsworth was the only member of the House that the auda- cious Ben. F. Butler avoided challenging to debate. One of its captains, Elon J. Farns- worth, was also promoted to the rank of Briga- dier-General, and was killed at Gettysburg.

The most disastrous campaign of the Fifty- second was in the winter of 1861-62 along the western end of the Hannibal & St. Jo Railroad, in Northwest Missouri. It was at Donelson and, from that victorious struggle, brought about 5,000 prisoners to Camp Douglas and 2,- 600 to Springfield, From there it hastened to Shiloh's bloody field, where it first experienced the terrible shock of battle. It participated in about twenty engagements and very many skir- mishes, and, in garrison, march, bivouac and battle, displayed an orderly bearing and valor, that gave it public recognition by army com- manders as one of the best regiments in the field. It marched with Sherman to the sea, and through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washing- ton, where, with "Sherman's Bummers," it par- ticipated in the last Grand Review.

Two companies of cavalry were recruited with the Thirty-sixth Infantry, one with the Fifty-second and one (called the Kane County Cavalry), was organized by Capt. Christian B. Dodson, of Geneva. The company organized with the Fifty-second was mustered October 25, 1861, as Company H, of the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry. The other companies served as es- cort of various Generals and on detached duty but with no regimental organization, until by order of Governor Yates, in compliance with authority from General Halleck under General Order No. 250, issued at Springfield on Decem- ber 25, 1862, these three companies, with other detached organizations, were united to form the Fifteenth Regiment Illinois Cavalry. Captain Gilbert of the Fitty-second was promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in this new command, his company becoming Company G; Captain Sher- rar, of Company B in the Fifty-sixth, received the rank of Major, his company being desig- nated Company K in the Fifteenth. Company A of the same regiment became Company I in

the new regiment, and Captain Dodson's was lettered Company H. January 25, 1865, the Tenth and Fifteenth Cavalry Regiments were consolidated and reorganized as the Tenth Reg- iment and Captain Willis was promoted to the rank of Major. A number of changes and pro- motions also occurred among the line officers from Kane County.

SEVENTEENTH CAVALRY .- On September 13, 1863 the War Department authorized Gen. John F. Farnsworth to organize still another regiment of cavalry in Kane County, and on his recommendation, the colonelcy of the new organization was tendered by Governor Yates to Major John L. Beveridge of the old Eighth Cavalry. Colonel Beveridge at once established its camp of rendezvous at St. Charles, upon the grounds formerly occupied by the Eighth, and pushed enlistments with such vigor that eight companies were mustered into service on January 22, 1864, and four more-completing the regiment-on February 12th. Six hundred and fifty horses were procured, and on May 3d the regiment moved by rail, under orders to report to Maj. Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis, Mo. It took about 1,100 men to the field. Its ardu- ous service was principally rendered in the Department of the Missouri under command of Generals Rosecrans, Grenville M. Dodge and John Pope. It was the last cavalry regiment organized in the State, and was not mustered out until February 6, 1866.

Early in the spring of 1864, the patriotic Governors of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio tendered the President 85,000 men to serve 100 days, with a view to relieving from guard duty the veterans needed at the front. Of these, Illinois furnished thirteen regiments of infant- ry and two battalions of cavalry. One of these infantry regiments rendezvoused at Elgin and, at the request of Governor Yates and Adjutant- General Fuller, John S. Wilcox commanded the camp of organization until muster. Mrs. Lucy S. Lovel tendered the use of beautiful grounds where the great Cook Publishing House now stands, and the camp was there located and named "Camp Kane." This regiment was mus- tered into service June 16, 1864, with 842 men, and was mustered out October 10, 1864. So opportune and vital was the service of these commands of 100-day men that, in special or- ders, the President extended to them the thanks of the Government and Nation for their patri- otic and effective discharge of duty. Thus it

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will be observed that Kane stands well at the beginning and at the close of the great conflict -and with two companies in the first regiment of infantry organized for the war, while in her central city was organized the State's last regi- ment of cavalry.

In the various commands organized within the State, we find Kane County men holding commissioned rank as follows-not mentioning successive promotions, but only the highest rank attained:

In the Thirteenth Regiment Infantry .- Lieu- tenant-Colonel, Benamin F. Parks; Captains, George H. Gardner, Ethan A. Pritchard and Edwin Went; Lieutenant, Jesse D. Pierce.

Twenty-third Infantry .- Lieutenant, Anthony McBriarty.

Thirty-sixth Infantry .- Colonels, Nicholas Greusel, Silas Miller and Benjamin F. Camp- bell; Lieutenant-Colonels, Edward S. Joslyn, Albert Jencks and Porter C. Olson; Majors, Alonzo H. Barry, George D. Sherman and George G. Buddolph; Surgeons, Delos W. Young, Jethro A. Hatch, Sidney B. Hawley; Adjutant, George A. Willis; Quarter-Master, Isaac N. Buck; Captains, Melvin B. Baldwin, Leverett M. Kelley, William Dugan and Aaron C. Holden; Lieutenants, Edward S. Chappel, Le- roy Salisbury, Joseph M. Walker, George P. Douglas, Owen Hughes, William S. Smith, Sam- uel Hitchcock, Lewis C. Belden and Aaron C. Holden.

Forty-second Infantry .- Colonel, Edgar D. Swain; Major, Henry K. Wolcott; Captains, Og- den Lovell, John S. Hedges and Joseph Hud- son; Lieutenants, Wesley P. Andrews, Charles E. Smiley, Joseph Voller and Charles A. Liv- ingston.

Forty-sixth Infantry .- Lieutenant, William H. Howell.

Fifty-second Infantry .- Colonels, Isaac G. Wilson and John S. Wilcox; Lieutenant- Colonel, Jerome D. Davis; Surgeons, Leland H. Angel, Edgar Winchester; Chaplain, Ben- jamin Thomas; Adjutants, Ethan J. Allen, Ed- ward S. Wilcox and Charles H. Hill; Quarter- masters, Charles B. Wells and Fulton Gifford; Captains, Smith G. Ward, George E. Young, Charles Barnett, Jacob Grimes, D. Carlos New- ton, Francis H. Bowman, William H. Wilcox, Jay Hamilton, Alvah P. Moffatt, Luther C. Lee, Maurice J. McGrath, Henry C. Williamson, Jo- seph T. Brown, Thomas H. Thompson, Amos W. Welburn, Alphonso Barto and Henry New-

ton Patchin; Lieutenants, Charles R. White, Thomas W. Mack, George L. Kinnear, Harvey O. Perry, Lewis H. Evarts, Joseph J. Kessler, Lawrence W. Wolcott, George Rice, Arthur P. Vaughn, James Davidson, William Shattuck, Cornelius Snyder, Charles T. Orr, Alfred Bil- lings, Elijah Perrigo, John W. Acker, G. Lucius Beckley, LeRoy Powers, Henry S. Doty, John M. Vote and Charles Isbell.

Fifty-fifth Infantry .- Captain, Charles Taze- well; Lieutenant, William R. Halligan.

Fifty-eighth Infantry .- Colonel, William F. Lynch; Lieutenant-Colonels, Jonathan Kimball and John Murphy; Major, Thomas Newlan; Quartermaster, Nicholas T. Roche; Surgeons, Henry M. Crawford, Emery A. Merrifield and George F. Heideman; Captains, David J. Lynch, Gustav C. Kothe and Philip R. Heelan; Lieu- tenant, Robert H. Winslow.

Seventy-second Infantry .- Lieutenant, Benja- min F. Leonard.

Eighty-ninth Infantry .- Major, Bruce B. Kid- der; Surgeon, Samuel F. Hance; Captain, John W. Warren; Lieutenants, John B. Watkins, Rob- ert Miller, Jacob N. Hopper, George M. White and Oscar C. Pease.

One Hundred Fifth Infantry .- Captain, John M. Smith; Lieutenant, James S. Hasburgh.

One Hundred Twenty-fourth Infantry .- Lieutenant-Colonel, Adin Mann; Major, Rufus Pattison; Surgeon, Leland H. Angel; Captains, Edwin F. Stafford, William B. Sigley, Reese L. Merriman and John W. Kendall; Lieutenants, Fernando C. Van Vlack, James H. Blackman, William H. Anderson, Justin D. Andrews, Theo- dore Potter, Greenville A. Spear, Freeman L. Campbell, Christopher H. Kellar, Henry J. Brockway, Osborn Wilson, Joy J. Tarble and George M. Cronk.

One Hundred Twenty-seventh Infantry .- Ma- jor, Frank C. Gillitt; Surgeon, Anson L. Clark; Adjutant, Addison A. Keyes; Quartermaster, Samuel W. Durand; Captains, John S. Riddle, William Warner, James F. Richmond, Charles Schryver, Frederick A. Raymond, Nelson H. Merrill, John H. Lowe and Alexander C. Little; Lieutenants Thomas Clark, Lucian B. Patchin, Frederick Knight, Ira F. Hall, Jeremiah Evarts, Alfred Darnell, Horace Perry, Benjamin C. Wil- kins, Edgar Percival, Amasa Stuart and James S. Soper.

One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry .- Captain, Charles Barker; Lieutenant, H. A. Hinckley.

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One Hundred Forty-first Infantry .- Lieuten- ant-Colonel, Thomas Clark; Adjutant, Edward C. Lovell; Quartermaster, Alonzo H. Barry; First Assistant Surgeon, Francis C. Hageman; .Chaplain, Samuel S. Kimball; Captains, Philip H. Carr, Alexander Grimes, Samuel H. Hunter, Bryant D. Beach, Charles Herrington, Robert H. Winslow and John Gillman; Lieutenants, Thomas W. Tefft, Charles D. F. Smith, Michael J. Dunne, Hiram Sargent, Edward W. King, Charles S. Gregg, James B. Robinson, Henry A. Ferson, George E. Gillman, Daniel W. Coan, Chester Stuart, Henry C. Dodge and Charles Ferson.

One Hundred Forty-seventh Infantry .- Lieu- tenant, George Gillman.

One Hundred Fifty-third Infantry .- Adju- tant, John Gillman; Quartermaster, N. J. Wheeler; Captain, Edward C. Lovell; Lieuten- ants, Michael J. Dunne, Oliver P. Chisholm.

One Hundred Fifty-sixth Infantry .- Captains, Thomas L. Johnson, Washington I. Kerry; Lieutenants, John W. Blake, Richard F. Mc- Cabe.

Eighth Cavalry .- Colonel, John F. Farns- worth; Major, William G. Conklin; Adjutants, Robert W. Sill, Edmund Gifford and John Fi- field; Quartermaster, George G. Stevens, James S. Van Patten and Bradley L. Chamberlain; Surgeons, Abner Hard, Samuel K. Crawford and Eugene Nelson; Captains, Patrick G. Jennings, Rufus M. Hooker, John M. Southworth, Hiram L. Rapelye, A. Levi Wells, Elon J. Farnsworth and Francis M. Gregory; Lieutenants, Bryant Beach, Leonard Y. Smith, S. Spencer Carr, Charles Harrison, Azer W. Howard, Aaron W. Chase, Nelson L. Blanchard, Benton Van Dyke, John Weed, John Cool, Judson A. Stevens and Ralph B. Swarthout.

Tenth Cavalry .- Major, George A. Willis; Captains, William Duncan, Albert Collins and Daniel Dynan; Lieutenants, Charles M. Har- vey, John H. McQueen, Jerome B. Marlett and George Gunter.

Twelfth Cavalry .- Lieutenant-Colonel, Thom- as W. Grosvenor; Captain, Franklin T. Gilbert; Lieutenants, Charles O'Connell and Theodore G. Knox.

Thirteenth Cavalry .- Captain, Robert H. Fleming.

Fifteenth Cavalry. - Lieutenant-Colonel, Franklin T. Gilbert; Majors, Samuel B. Sherer and George I. Willis; Captains, Albert Collins, Christian B. Dodson, William C. Wilder, Thom-

as J. Beebe, Albert Jencks, George I. Willis, Francis E. Reynolds, William Duncan and Dan- iel Dynan; Lieutenants, Ebenezer C. Lither- land, Azariah C. Ferris, Samuel Chapman, Nel- con Dedrick, John C. Bundy, John S. Durand, Henry C. Padelford and Edward M. Barnard.

Sixteenth Cavalry .- Major, Charles H. Beers; Chaplain, Cornelius R. Ford; Captains, William P. Gibbs, John Q. Hattery.

Seventeenth Cavalry .- Surgeon, Samuel K. Crawford; Lieutenants, Charles D. Larribee and James B. Reed.

Second Artillery .- Lieutenant, Jabez H.

Moore.

Renwick's Elgin Battery. - Captains, George W. Renwick and Andrew M. Wood; Lieutenants, Caleb Rich, John Short, Lorin G. Jeffers, Joel H. Wickers, Henry E. Tower, Wal- do W. Paine, James N. Boutwell and William C. Clift.

Twenty-ninth United States Regiment Col- ored Troops .- Lieutenant, John J. Gosper.

Thomas Clark, of Geneva, was Captain and Frank Clark Lieutenant in a colored regiment, and James H. Mayborne, Esq., was a Paymaster in the army with rank of Major.

The General Field Officers, whose homes were in Kane County, were: Brigadier-General John F. Farnsworth; Brigadier-General Elon J. Farnsworth; Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth Cavalry and brevetted Brigadier-General Thom- as W. Grosvenor; Colonel Fifty-second Infant- ry and brevetted Brigadier-General John S. Wilcox, and Colonel Eighth Illinois and bre- vetted Brigadier-General William F. Lynch. By this list we find that Kane County furnished two Brigadier-Generals, three Brevet Brigadier-Generals, five Colonels, eleven Lieu- tenant-Colonels, fourteen Majors, fifteen Sur- geons, ten Adjutants, eleven Quartermasters, two Chaplains, eighty-five Captains, and 129 Lieutenants-in all, 287 commissioned officers.

Of one of these Quartermasters, Captain Charles B. Wells, it is known that over $26,- 000,000 of Government property and money passed through his hands; yet he entered the army when in the comfortable financial cir- cumstances of a very fairly successful lawyer, and he surrendered his commission and lived and died in the same honorable and happy con- dition with no breath of suspicion that the slightest portion of this vast amount was ever appropriated to his personal use. His record is also that of his companions in arms from

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Kane County, whose position and duties in- volved great property trusts and responsibili- ties.

Careful study of the published reports of the State Adjutant-General accredits to each of the townships of Kane County the following num- ber of volunteers. As in many instances the place of enlistment is not given, the number here stated is more probably too few rather than exaggerated: Aurora, 1,297; Batavia, 288; Geneva, 229; St. Charles, 453; Elgin, 1,138; Dundee, 249; Sugar Grove, 53; Kaneville, 124; Campton, 46; Plato, 171; Rutland, 39; Big Rock, 63; Virgil, 43; Blackberry, 162; Burling- ton, 72; Hampshire, 148-making a total of enlisted men of 4,338, and of commissioned offi- cers, 287-grand total, 4,575. There were en- listed in the regular army and accredited to Kane County fifty men, making a grand total of 4,625 young men volunteering from a popu- lation of about 30,000 in 1860. Classifying these figures, there were 3,365 men credited to the county in the infantry service, just .1,000 in the cavalry, 210 in the artillery and fifty in the regular army.

It is sincerely regretted that the scope of this brief work does not permit giving an hon- orary roll of the names of those heroic and pa- triotic men in the ranks, hundreds of whom actually died for their country, and each one of whom voluntarily surrendered all

that life holds dear

and, for months and years, amid the toils and perils of war, again and again, times almost without number, tendered life itself in defense of the Union and of liberty. It is eminently proper and well to emblazon high upon the roll of immortal fame, the names of those match- less soldiers who, with steady advance, rose by demonstrated ability to the topmost summit of military success and renown in the conduct of our stupendous war; yet it was the patriotic devotion, the steady valor and the resourceful intelligence of the vast host in the ranks that, under the directing orders of the profoundest military genius, marched to final and complete victory. Generations yet unborn shall say with exultant pride, "My ancestor was a soldier in the great war that preserved the Nation."

As an indication of the quality of the men who filled the ranks of the Kane County volun- teers, it is recalled that one soldier who carried a musket in Company "A," Seventh Illinois In- fantry, subsequently became Superintendent of

Public Instruction in the great State of New York; another is now Deputy Commissioner of Pensions at Washington, and a third was Paymaster with rank of Major in the late war with Spain. So, also, in the last regiment re- cruited in Kane County (the One Hundred For- ty-first Infantry), one of her boys, John M. Hamilton, marched with his musket upon his shoulder and, in later years, occupied the Gov- ernor's chair of our own grand State worthily and well. By direction of President Lincoln a gold medal bearing the following inscrip- tion was awarded a brave Kane County soldier, now residing at Monticello, Minn .: "The Con- gress to Sergeant Andrew McCornack, Co. I, 127th Ill. Vols., for gallantry at Vicksburg, Miss., May 22, 1863."

In a list of names of soldiers receiving the special thanks of Congress for meritorious service, we find that of private and Captain Leverett M. Kelley of Company A, of the gal- lant Thirty-sixth. In grateful recognition of his patriotic services, the great Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Railroad Company presented Col. Nicholas Greusel of the Thirty-sixth a life- pass over all the lines of their system, beauti- fully engraved upon a plate of solid gold.

It has long been the custom of nations at peace to send the most complete and powerful of her armored vessels on visits of comity to the open ports of the world. It displays the mailed hand of War clad in the silken glove of Peace. The United States was at peace with Spain when, early in 1895, the Cuban revolu- tion began. For three long years, while our ears were assailed with authentic reports of Weyler's atrocious cruelties perpetrated against the Cuban people; while the cruisers of other nations paid the usual visits of courtesy to the Spanish ports in Cuba; not once during this period did the unhappy people of the beautiful island behold the inspiring flag of liberty float- ing from the masthead of an armored vessel in Cuban waters. Early in President Mckinley's first administration official suggestion was made that these national courtesies be resumed; and, a little later, Admiral Cervera brought the gracious greetings of the Queen Regent of Spain to the President of the United States, and his majestic battleship, the Viscaya, was moored in the harbor of New York. He was received with every salute and ceremony of naval honor, and himself and officers enter- tained with the most elegant hospitality, while

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every safe-guard against accident or injury was given his splendid vessel. At sunrise of the 25th of the following January, 1898, the United States battleship Maine, Captain Sigsbee com- manding, returning the visit of comity and honor, steamed slowly into the Spanish port of Havana and was anchored at the mooring indi- cated by the Spanish official harbor master. She was courteously received with the custom- ary naval and military salutes and the exchange of ceremonial official visits, as required by na- val etiquette, yet with thinly concealed hatred. At 9:40 o'clock on the evening of February 15th, a terrific submarine explosion shattered the magnificent ship instantly to an utter wreck, hurling two of the ship's officers and 264 brave seamen to an instant and horrible death.

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kane County, Part 137

Author: Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 950

Author:
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 950