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"The company officers repeated the orders- the line swung round and then stood fast, and again the rolling 'fire by file' ran from right to left.
" 'The battle's won, by God!' shouted the astonished aide, and plunging his spurs in his horse, swept away to Taylor to report.
"This was the type of soldier that Illinois sent out in those days. Buena Vista was one of the most wonderful conflicts in the annals of civilized warfare, and this was one of the most wonderful feats done in it, little, if at all, noted in current histories, but none the less wonderful for all that."
After the battle of Buena Vista, the Illinois troops participated in the triumphal entry into the City of Mexico. For gallantry there, Lieu- tenant Nathaniel Niles was promoted by Gen- eral Wool to the captaincy of an independent company of Texas foot and Lieutenant-Colonel James L. D. Morrison was presented with a sword by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois.
THE CIVIL WAR.
Of the 225,300 soldiers sent by Illinois to the Civil War, 4,396 were from St. Clair County, which contributed also many to Missouri regi- ments. These soldiers included many of the German citizens of the county, among them Messrs. Hecker, Koerner, Kueffner and Wan- gelin.
NINTH INFANTRY .- Within a week after Presi- dent Lincoln's proclamation in April, 1861, St. Clair County sent six companies. April 25, 1861, these companies were mustered into the United States service, at Springfield, as the Ninth Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers, under Col. Eleazer A. Paine. A majority of the members were from this county.
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These volunteers took a prominent part in the war until the Confederate surrender, participat- ing in no less than one hundred and ten en- gagements. At the outset, they were enlisted for three months, and, July, 1861, after that time had expired, most of them were re-enlisted for three years by Captain Pitcher, of the United States army, and in August they were reorganized at Cairo.
The Ninth was engaged in the following bat- tles and minor engagements:
1861-Saratoga, Ky.
1862-Fort Henry, Tenn .; Fort Donelson, Tenn .; Pittsburg Landing, Tenn .; Siege of Corinth, Miss .; Battle of Corinth, 'Miss.
1863-Cherokee, Ala .; Lundy's Lane, Ala .; Town Creek, Ala .; Buzzard Roost, Ala .; Good- low's, Ala .; Second Battle at Cherokee, Ala .; Tupelo, Miss .; Florence, Ala .; Hamburg, Tenn .; Mud Creek, Miss .; Jackson, Tenn .; Grenada, Miss .; Henderson Station, Tenn .; Salem, Miss .; Wyatt's, Miss .; Byhalia, Miss .; Rocky Run, Ala .; Athens, Ala .; Decatur Junction, Ala .; Mooresville, Ala .; Brown's Ferry, Ala .; Lime- stone Creek, Ala .; Lamb's Ferry, Ala .; Ruckers- ville, Ala .; Shoal Creek, Ala .; Florence, Ala .; Lawrenceburg, Tenn .; Cypress Creek, Tenn.
1864-Athens, Ala .; Brown's Ferry, Ala .; Florence, Ala .; Pride's Ferry, Ala .; Third fight at Florence, Ala .; Bainbridge, Ala .; Lucas Ferry, Ala .; Courtland, Ala .; Nancy's Creek, Ala .; Moulton, Ala .; Somerville, Ala .; Flint River, Ala .; Courtland Road, Ala .; Siege of Decatur, Ala .; Second fight at Flint River, Ala,; Bear Creek, Ala .; Snake Creek Gap, Ga .; Resaca, Ga .; Roam Cross Roads, Ga .; Ustenoola River, Ga .; Dallas, Ga .; Kene- saw Mountain, Ga .; Nickajack, Ga .; Chatta- hoochie River, Ga .; Pumpkin Vine Creek, Ga .; Decatur, Ga .; Second fight at Decatur, Ga .; Utoy Creek, Ga .; Owl Rock, Ga .; Sandtown, Ga .; near East Point, Ga .; near Atlanta, Ga .; Lovejoy Station, Ga .; Jonesboro, Ga .; Van Wert, Ga .; Cave Springs, Ga .; Coosaville, Ga .; Coosa River, Ga .; Cassville, Ga .; near Rough and Ready, Ga .; Social Circle, Ga .; Buckhead Sta- tion, Ga .; Park's Mills, Ga .; Eatonton, Ga .; near Milledgeville, Ga .; Buffalo Swamp, Ga .; near Sandersville, Ga .; Sandersville, Ga .; near Louisville, Ga .; Fort Harrison, Ga .; Monteith, Ga .; near Savannah, Ga .; Number Three Sta- tion, G. R. R., Ga.
1865-Combahee River, S. C .; Turner's Creek,
S. C .; Whippy Swamp, S. C .; River Ridge, S. C .; Little Salkahatchie, S. C .; South Edisto, S. C .; North Edisto, S. C .; Cannon's Ridge, S. C .; Congaree Railroad Bridge, S. C .; Saluda Fac- tory, S. C .; Broad River, S. C .; New Cheraw, S. C .; Society Hill, S. C .; Florence, S. C .; near Darlington, S. C .; Floral College, S. C .; Fay- etteville, N. C .; near Fayetteville, N. C .; Black River, N. C .; near Bentonville, N. C .; near Neuse River, N. C.
During the first three months of the service " of the Ninth, the United States Government furnished no uniforms, so the men of the Ninth Infantry either wore uniforms furnishd by pub- lic-spirited fellow-citizens or had none at all. In July, 1861, the State furnished a gray uni- form, as it could not get cloth for the regula- tion blue. After the battle of Fort Donelson, however, that uniform was discarded as being too nearly like the Confederate uniform. Dur- ing the three months' service General Prentiss had command, but after the reorganization General Grant succeeded him. From Septem- ber, 1861, until February, 1862, the regiment remained at Paducah, Ky., under Gen. C. F. Smith, reconnoitering the surrounding coun- try and drilling. Companies B, H and I of the Ninth, each filled up by volunteers to 100 men, under Maj. J. J. Phillips, went by steamer up the Cumberland and marched to Saratoga, Ky., where, in a skirmish with a force of 200 Southern cavalry, they won a victory, and cap- tured twenty prisoners. This was the first fight in which any company of the Ninth Regi- ment had engaged.
Meanwhile, Colonel Paine had been promoted to be Brigadier-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Mersy, as Colonel; Major Phillips, Lieutenant- Colonel; and Captain Kuhn, Major. On Feb- ruary 4, 1862, the Ninth ascended the Tennes- see River for Fort Henry; February 5, landed five miles below the fort; February 6, marched up on the opposite side of the river and helped capture the fort; February 12, crossed the Tennessee and joined the army in the march against Fort Donelson. Colonel McArthur's Brigade, to which the Ninth Regiment be- longed, formed a part of Gen. C. F. Smith's Di- vision; and, supporting the First Division un- der Brigadier-General McClernand, was en- gaged, February 15, on the right of our army, when the fighting was most severe. This regi- ment had eight companies in the action, in-
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cluding about 600 men. After the fort had sur- rendered to General Grant, the Ninth, together with the Second Iowa Regiment, was given the honor of first entering the Confederate strong- hold. The regiment lost in this engagement thirty-eight men killed on the field and 179 wounded.
February 22, the Ninth, with part of the vic- torious army, went up the Cumberland to Clarksville and Nashville, then back to Pa- `ducah, to start the expedition against Corinth, Miss. It went by steamer to Pittsburg Landing, thirty miles from Corinth, and camped on the west side of the river. With all reinforcements, Grant's army numbered 40,000. Early Sunday morning, April 6, 1862, the enemy attacked the camp. The regiment did not know of the at- tack until 8 a. m. Then the brigade was formed under General McArthur and hurried to the front, and went into action where the exposure was most serious and the fighting was fiercest. Only about one-third of the Ninth was neither killed nor wounded; and this third fought bravely, in different positions, all dur- ing the battle. Out of twenty-six officers and 520 enlisted men who went into battle, twenty officers and 324 men were either killed or wounded, and eleven missing.
Gen. C. F. Smith, the old Division Command- er, was taken sick and died before the battle. Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, who succeeded him, was mortally wounded, and was succeeded by Gen. T. A. Daviess. General McArthur was wounded and was succeeded by Gen. Richard J. Oglesby. Soon after the battle, General Hal- leck superseded General Grant. Corinth still remained the objective point of the campaign, and about the beginning of May, the Unionist forces, by this time being heavily reinforced, began the advance on that stronghold.
During the summer of 1862, the Ninth re- mained in camp near Corinth and at Rienzi; in September it was recalled to Corinth, where, October 2, it rejoined its old brigade under General Oglesby, and next day, in Daviess' Di- vision, met the enemy northwest of Corinth. Captain Britt, of Company F, was killed, and Capt. E. M. Lowe and Capt. G. G. Lowe and Lieutenant Hughes and Lieutenant Uhlen were captured. In the fray, the regiment lost nine- teen men killed and eighty-two wounded.
The Ninth remained near Corinth till March,
1863. Mounted on mules, it was active during the remainder of the war, until it was mustered out of the service at Louisville, July, 1865.
Col. August Mersy and Quartermaster Charles A. Spatee, staff officers of this regiment, were St. Clair County men. On its non-commissioned staff were Sergeant Major Francis K. Wagner, Quartermaster Sergeant William J. Johnson, Commissary Sergeant Eben N. Burgess, Hos- pital Steward William Manchester, Chief Mu- sicians John Olinger and Herman Wetter.
On the muster-rolls of the different companies appear the names of the following officers from St. Clair County :
Company B: Captains-William C. Kueff- ner, John Mallman; First Lieutenants-Hamil- ton Lieber, Louis Grieser; Second Lieutenants -Fred C. Vogeler, Louis Fischer; Sergeants- John Mallman, Julius Hoffman, Louis Grieser, Albert Heinecke, John Schmidt; Corporals- Louis Fischer, Frank Zugenbuehler, Lorenz Ackerman, Augustus Wurmb, Paul Martin, John Echenberger.
Company C: Captain-Dietrich Tiedeman; First Lieutenants-Oscar Rollman, George Ben- der; Second Lieutenants-Charles Scheve, Eu- gene Hanke; Sergeants-Charles Hahle, John M. Salzman, George Bender, William Langen- berg; Corporals-Joseph Schweitzer, Charles Ehrlick, Henry Kiesel, Frederick Staab, George M. Luther; Musicians-Frank Baumer, Edward Steven.
Company D: Captains-Rudolphus Becker, Edward Krebs; First Lieutenant, Henry Weber; ond Lieutenant, Fred E. Scheel; First Sergeant, Henry Weber; Sergeants-Adolphus Cornelius, Gottfried Guckes, Francis Baumann; Corporals -Henry Goessel, Philip Sauer, Anton Wolf, Louis Truttman, Amos Smith, William Heuer, Christian Rahn, Adam Reitz; Musicians-Fred- erick Brandenberger, Peter Schneider.
Company E: Captain, Alexander G. Hawes; First Lieutenant, Roswell B. Patterson; Second Lieutenant, Lewis C. Bornman; First Sergeant, Lewis L. Troy; Sergeants-Lewis C. Bornman, Henry R. Challenor; Corporals-Silas Bunker, Frederick Dilg, Philip Anderson, William G. Triplet; Musicians-Samuel Williams, George W. Rose.
Company F: £ Captains-Loren Webb, Wil- liam Britt; Second Lieutenant, W. C. Hawley; First Sergeant, Charles F. Saltmarsh; Sergeant,
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Fred E. Scheel; Corporals-Andrew Webster, A. J. White, James A. Fike; Musician, Perry C. Coffer.
In the Ninth Infantry, as consolidated, were the following named men from St. Clair County : Adjutant, Lewis L. Troy; Non-com- missioned Staff-Sergeant-Major, Francis K. Wagner; Hospital Steward, Francis M. Swyer. In company B-Captain, Fred Dilg; Second Lieutenant, James W. Crosby. In Company D- Captain, Francis Wagner; First Sergeant, Lewis Troy; Sergeant, Henry Kremer; Corpor- als-Louis Valentine, William Morgenstern and Charles Wright. In Company F-Sergeant, William Moore; and Corporal, John Fruind.
TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY .- This regiment was organized at Belleville, May 11, 1861, and mustered in for three years, at Caseyville, by Capt. T. G. Pitcher, United States army, June 25, 1861. It was in the battle of Belmont; in the reconnoisance in Missouri under Grant, January, 1862; in the movement of General Paine to Tiptonville, to intercept the retreating army from Island No. 10; in the battle of Farm- ington; in the siege of Corinth; in the battle of Stone River; in the battle of Chickamauga; in the storming of Missionary Ridge; in the two days' fight at Resaca; joined Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and was in all the bat- tles of that campaign except that at Rocky Face Ridge. It was mustered out at Spring- field, July 7, 1864. Men of this regiment whose terms had not expired were consolidated with the Forty-second Infantry.
First Assistant Surgeon John Fitzer, of the Twenty-second, was a St. Clair County man; Ehnstein Balzer was a musician in Company C, and James McCurry, First Sergeant in Com- pany E. The county was represented in Com- pany K by Captain Thomas Challenor, Second Lieutenant William Leishman, Sergeants J. Riddle and John Edwards, Corporals Isaac Boal, Elisha Mayo and John Holmes, Musicians Fred- erick Killiam and Wagoner William Defoe.
TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY .- This regiment, known as "the first Hecker regiment," was or- ganized at Chicago and mustered in July 8, 1861. It fought at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and in other engagements in the Atlanta campaign. It was mustered out at Chicago, August 6, 1864. A company composed of men whose terms had
not then expired was attached to a brigade in the Fourteenth Army Corps and mustered out at Chicago, August 6, 1865. Theodore Lan- ner was principal Musician in this regiment, and Christopher Alheim a Corporal in Com- pany C.
TWENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY .- Mustered into the service at Springfield, Ill., August 31, 1861; vet- eranized after much gallant service; mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1865, having participated in twenty-eight pitched battles. Wash. W. Woolbard was Captain and Samuel T. Moore Sergeant in Company H.
THIRTIETH INFANTRY .- This regiment, organ- ized at Springfield, August 28, 1861, was mus- tered out July 7, 1865. It took part in the bat- tles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Medan Station, Raymond, Champion Hills, Big Shanty, Atlanta, Savannah, Pocataligo, Orangeburg, Columbia, Cheraw and Fayetteville, and in the sieges of Corinth, Vicksburg and Jackson. Philip B. Fouke was its Colonel, Williamson F. Boyakin its Chaplain and George W. Davis its Hospital Steward. The muster-roll of Company E bore these St. Clair County names: Captain Linzey Steele, Second Lieutenant Thomas Ireland, Cor- porals George Brevin and Jesse Bauerman. In Company K was Corporal John Hotts.
THIRTY-SECOND INFANTRY .- This was known as "Col. John Logan's regiment." It was organ- ized by Colonel Logan at Camp Butler, Ill., and was mustered in December 31, 1861. Originally, it consisted of ten companies of infantry and a battery. A large portion of Company G and a few recruits of Company H were St. Clair County men. After marches in Missouri and up the Tennessee River, the regiment joined the First Brigade under Col. I. C. Pugh, of the Fourth Division (Hurlbut's), February 23, 1862. It camped near Pittsburg Landing, fought at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, was in the advance on Corinth, fought at LaGrange and Grand Junction and, October 5, at Meta- mora; was in battle at Harrisonburg; surprised and captured 100 Confederate cavalrymen at Lamar, Miss. From March to May, 1863, it remained at Memphis; later, for a short time, it did garrison duty at Grand Gulf. It was en- gaged in the siege of Vicksburg until June 27, 1863, was stationed at Warrenton for a while, and marched with Sherman's army toward Jackson. At Vicksburg, January, 1864, it was
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mustered as a veteran organization, and it was on furlough from in March to April 28, 1864. After marches in Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, it served under Sherman in opera- tions against Kenesaw Mountain. July 18 it was transferred to the First Brigade, under Colonel Logan. Forty members of the regiment were captured while foraging at Marietta. The regiment was attacked near Kenesaw Moun- tain. It fought at Nickajack Creek and at Allatoona. November 13, 1864, it joined in the "March to the Sea," and took part in the siege of Savannah. February 5, 1865, Gen. Giles A. Smith's Division, including this regiment, drove the enemy from his strong line of defense on the Salkahatchie River. The Thirty-second fought at Columbia, Cheraw and Bentonville, was in the Grand Review at Washington, May 24, 1865, and was mustered out at Fort Leaven- worth, September 16 following. An idea of the amount of fighting it had done has been fur- nished the reader. Besides, it had traveled 11,000 miles in the service of its country.
The official muster-roll of Company G was as follows: Captains-Jonathan Moore, Thomas Tinsley, Benjamin Beevis; First Lieutenant- Robert H. Stevenson; Second Lieutenant-Da- vid W. Jennings; Sergeants-Richard Rapier, Jared C. Milum; Corporals-William Andrews, William Lyman, Thomas B. Tinsley, Michael Connelly, Andrew C. Smith, James Webb, Thomas Bragg, Thomas Boswell; Musician- Henry Walton-all St. Clair County names.
THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY .- This regiment, which, in Companies A, D and H, included a few men from St. Clair County, was organized at Camp Butler, September, 1861, under Col. Charles E. Hovey, and in the course of the war participated in battles at Fredericktown, Mo., and Port Gibson, Champion Hills and Black River Bridge, Miss., and took part in the cap- turę of Vicksburg and in the siege of Jackson. It was engaged at Fort Esperanza and in the expedition against Mobile. January 1, 1864, many of its members re-enlisted as veterans, and in October, 1864, its non-veteran members were mustered out at Camp Butler. In March, 1865, the regiment joined the Sixteenth Army Corps. It was in the battles at Spanish Fort and Mobile. From April to November, 1865, it remained at Vicksburg, where it was mus- tered out of service November 24, 1865.
FORTY-THIRD INFANTRY .- The Forty-third was composed largely of men from St. Clair County. It was organized at Camp Butler, September, 1861, by Col. Julius Raith, was mustered into service, eight companies strong, on October 12, and immediately removing to St. Louis, re- ceived its equipment for the field at Benton Barracks. Soon it was assigned to garrison duty at Otterville, Mo. January 19, 1862, with the Twenty-fifth Indiana, it formed a brigade which General Sherman, as post commander, put in command of General Strong, and Companies I and K were added to it. February 6, the regi- reached Fort Henry, and February 25 was at Fort Donelson. At the latter fort it was at- tached to General Ross's brigade. It moved to Bell's Landing, thence to Savannah, Tenn., and thence to Pittsburg Landing. It fought with distinction in the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862, where Colonel Raith, Chaplain Walther, Captain Grimm, Lieutenant Lindroth and Lieu- tenant Sacher were killed and Lieutenant Ed- vall was mortally wounded. The regiment now participated in operations against Vicksburg. In June, 1862, it became a part of Ross's bri- gade, Logan's Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Tennessee. It moved to Bethel, and thence to Jackson, Tenn., engaging in skir- mishes. From the vicinity of Jackson, with two other Illinois regiments, under Colonel En- gelmann, it went toward Lexington, meeting portions of the Eleventh Illinois and the Fifth Ohio, which had been driven back from that point. The next morning, Colonel Engelmann's men met 500 of the enemy, pursuing the Union troops, and defeated them, killing and wound- ing sixty. The Forty-third reconnoitered in that section December 21-26. In the spring of 1863, two hundred men of this regiment did good service mounted, commanding post and capturing guerillas. May, 4, at Satartia, it re- pulsed the enemy under General Adams. In June, it moved to Haines's Bluff; in July to Big Black River, Snyder's Bluff and Helena. In August it was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Arkansas expedition, and, un- der command of General Steele, went to Helena, Clarendon and Duvall's Bluff. In September, under Engelmann, it went to Little Rock, which the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry occupied after forcing the enemy to evacuate the town. The Forty-third was the first Federal infantry or- ganization to enter the captured city. March
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13, 1864, it became a part of the Third Bri- gade (under command of Col. A. Engelmann), Third Division, under General Solomon. April 10, the Forty-third routed the Confederates at Prairie d'Anne. At Jenkins's Ferry, the Unionists were attacked by the enemy under Kirby Smith, losing 700 men, but came off vic- torious, inflicting a loss of more than 2,000 on the enemy. January, 1865, by order of Maj .- Gen. J. J. Reynolds, the term of service of the Forty-third having expired, it was organized into a battalion of seven companies, each of maximum strength. After that, it skirmished and did garrison duty till November 30, 1865, when it was mustered out at Little Rock. It returned to Springfield for final pay and was discharged December 14 following.
The staff of the Forty-third was as follows: Colonels-Julius Raith, Adolph Engelmann; Lieutenant-Colonel-Adolph Dengler; Majors- Charles Stephani, Hugo Westermann; Assistant Surgeon-Alexis K. Hartmann (discharged) ; Wagon Master-Frederick Exter. St. Clair County men on the muster-rolls of the differ- ent companies in the Forty-third were:
Company A: Captains-William Erhard,
Henry Millitzer; First Lieutenant-Peter Druckenbrodt; Second Lieutenants-August Fritz, Wilhelm Zeigler; Sergeants-Adam Gra- ber, George Krig, Joseph Deitz; Corporals- Charles Kampmann, Henry Ross, Jones Cash- ner, John Danmuller, William Bruder, Nicholas Frank, Lewis Seigman, Jacob Enge; Musicians -Frederick Wagner, John Gruenewald.
Company B: Captain-Samuel Schimmin- ger; First Lieutenants-George H. Hoering, Henry Strassinger, John Wolz; Second Lieu- tenant-Adam Pfaff;
First Sergeant-John Wolz; Sergeants-Louis Dressler, Louis Weil, Adam Pfaff, Frederick Reichert; Corporals- Adams Arres, Joseph Rieth, H. Liebig, Henry Schultz, Conrad Lang, Frederick Keil; Musi- cians-Frederick Rath, Frederick Bolte.
Company D: First Lieutenant-August Fritz.
Company F: Captains-Peter Druckenbrodt, Ernst Wuerfel; First Lieutenant-Adam Sat- tler.
Company G: Captains-Franz Grimm, Charles Hoenny ; First Lieutenant-Charles Storck; Second Lieutenants-John Lindroth, Frederick Exter; First Sergeant-Charles Storck; Sergeants-Theodore Schneider, Charles
Doll, Ernst Schneidig, Arnold Grob; Corporals -Charles Siegrist, Herman Wiegand, Henry Kremer, Frederick Behlock, Henry Schroeder, Edward Schaeffer.
Company H: Captain-Samuel Westerman; First Lieutenants-Louis Westerman, Joseph Fuess; Second Lieutenant-George L. Hox; Sergeant-Henry Burghardt; Corporals-Pius Keuen, Bernard Luckner, William Young; Mu- sician-William Druckenbrodt.
Company I: Captain-Charles Stephani.
Company K: Captain-George H. Hoering.
These St. Clair County names appear on the roster of the Forty-third Infantry, as consoli- dated: Colonel-Adolph Dengler; Lieutenant- Colonel - Hugo Westerman; Major - George H. Hoering; Adjutant-George L. Hox; Ser- geant-Major-Clemens Neicksch; Quartermas- ter Sergeant-Louis Hofmann; Hospital Stew- ards-Charles Meyenn, Richard Fischer; Prin- cipal Musician-Wenzel Meyer.
Company C: Captain-Ernst Wuerpel.
Company D: Captains-Charles Hoenny, Frederick Exter; First Lieutenants-Charles Storck, Clemens Nicksch; Second Lieutenant- H. Ross.
Company E: Captain-Joseph Fuess; First Lieutenant-Emil Kochler; Second Lieutenant -Bernhard Lokner.
Company G: Captain-George H. Hoering; Second Lieutenant-C. Schaler.
Company I: Captain-Frederick Exter; First Lieutenant-John Gruenewald.
FORTY-NINTH INFANTRY .- This regiment was organized at Camp Butler, by Col. William R. Morrison, December 31, 1861, was ordered to Cairo and assigned to the Third Brigade, Mc- Clernand's Division, at Fort Henry. It was engaged at Fort Donelson; at Shiloh it lost seventeen killed and ninety-nine wounded. It took part in the siege of Corinth, and in Gen- eral Steele's movement on Little Rock in the campaign against Meridian and in the Red River expedition, fighting at Pleasant Hill. January 15, 1864, three-fourths of the members of the regiment re-enlisted and were mustered in as veterans, after which they were fur- loughed and returned to Illinois. The non-vet- erans fought at Tupelo. The Forty-ninth took part in the battle of Nashville and was mus- tered out at Paducah, Ky., September 9, 1865. The regiment served under command of Mc-
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Clernand, Logan, Steele and Sherman, partici- pating not only in the battles and operations above mentioned, but in many minor ones.
Among the regimental officers were the fol- lowing; Colonel William R. Morrison; Lieu- tenant-Colonel Thomas G. Allen; Major John B. Hay; Adjutant William Martin; Quartermas- ter William Heinzelman; Commissary Sergeant Thomas Sowman; Musician Jacob Hear.
Company E: Captain-John G. Berry; First Lieutenant-Martin T. Lynch; Second Lieuten- ant-James Mitchell; First Sergeant-James Mitchell; Sergeants-Cornelius Casey, Edmund Hermens; Corporals-Sebastian Fahrenback, William Miller, Jeremiah Sullivan, David S. Welch; Musicians-George Beale, William Sla- ton; Wagoner-William Martin.
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