History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 53

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875

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There were two small companies of regulars, consist- ing of 115 men, enlisted here in the winter of 1847, by Captain C. C. Sibley, of which, no record is to be found. They were assigned to companies B, 16th Infantry, and D), 3d Infantry. Mr. D. L. Juergens, then and now a resident of this city, was one of the last-named company, and is authority for the statement that they were pushed

to the front with all possible dispatch, being in all the battles from San Antonio and Contreras to the City of Mexico, which they helped to take September 14, 1847. He says that two-thirds of the number were killed and died of disease and from wounds received in battle, He names the following, which he remembers as from Chi- cago: Bernard Althower, Theodore Bohnenkemp, - Fond, William Heldman, - Hacks, - Greenhard, Marahan Jansen, D. L. Juergens, John McKinney, John Moriarty, G. W. Savory, Fred Schmidt, Phillip Schweit- zer, Theodore Tehts, William Wolf. There is no record of either of these companies in General Elliott's report, and they were all Illinoisans, The following is the number of officers and enlisted men that went to Mexico to serve in the war with that country from Illinois, to wit:

First Illinois Regiment 763

Second Illinois Regiment 737

Third Illinois Regiment 924

Fourth Illinois Regiment. 817

Fifth Illinois Regiment 1.000

Sixth Illinois Regiment. 1.046

Mounted Volunteers

490

Regulars, etc. ..

458

Grand total of all troops from Illinois. 6,315

The record of the War Department shows total num. ber of volunteers from Illinois 6, 123, which number is 226 in excess of those reported by the Adjutant-General of our State. The records of the War Department as to our own volunteers are undoubtedly correct. It is safe tu assume that one-eighth of the enlistments, including those for the regular army and also those who enlisted under the ten regiment act, were from Chicago and Cook County, or 790, officers and men.

This county did its full share in furnishing men for the Mexican War. Of the 790 young men that went into that struggle from this county not more than 500 re- turned to the homes they had left in 1846 and 1847 and of these soo not more than 62 are survivors at this time.

Company F, the Chicago company in the Fifth Regi- ment, lost by death many of its best men, and among the number were William A. Black, who died at Santa Fé October 9, 1847 ; James H. Allen, who died in Socoro, on the Rio Grande, December 10, 1847 ; James 11. Godfrey, who died in Santa Fe January 29, 1848; Robert Croft, May 31, 1847: William Daniels, August 19, 1847; Hendrick Hattendorf, June 11, 1847; Spencer Pratt, September 19, 1847 ; Edgar Poole, September 30, 1847 ; Jeremiah Styles, November 3, 1847 ; John W. Wheat, September 29. 1847. Thas was ten per cent of the company wiped out, while on foreign soil, by disease and death.

The havoc by death since that time would seem almost incredible, nevertheless the following statement is thought to be strictly true. Of the staff officers, Colonel Newby, Colonel Boyakin and Major Donaldson are dead. The Hon. William H. Snyder, now of St. Clair County, this State, who was the Adjutant, only sur- vives. Of Company F. Captain T. B. Kenney and Lieutenants R. N. Hamilton, Alvin V. Morey, James N. Hunt, and John A. Knights are dead. Hon. Murray F. Tuley, First Lieutenant Company F, still survives, and is one of our honored Judges at the present time. No doubt the same ratio of disease and death has pre- vailed among the officers of the other companies of the Fifth Regiment of which the writer has no definite knowledge.

Three of Company F deserted, tu wit: Luther C. Hager, Alexander Freeman, and Daniel Martin. During

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the last days of October or early in November, 1847, seven companies of the Fifth Regiment Illinois Volun- teers, Easton's Battalion of Missouri Volunteers and a battery of artillery of six pieces with supply trains were ordered to move out of Santa Fé and to march souther- ly down the Rio Grande. This news when known by the various companies that were to go was hailed with delight, as it was thought that they were to take the route of Colonel Doniphan, who with his regiment had preceded them but a short time, and whose cam- paign in Mexico, as subsequent events proved, stood second to none in that service.

A paymaster was ordered to accompany the expedi- tion which boded a long journey for the command. All being in readiness, they started off with banners flying and all in the highest spirits. They hoped that they were en route for Chihuahua and further on toward Saltillo, where they expected to join the army of Gen- eral Zachary Taylor. Major Donaldson was in com- mand of the expedition, Colonel E. W. B. Newby re- maining in Santa Fe, where he was in temporary com- mand of the Post and the Department of New Mexico. In seven weeks they made but one hundred and seven- ty-five miles, or a trifle more than four miles per day, arriving at Valverde, below Limitaa, near the entrance of the desert which had to be crossed before reaching El Paso, about the middle of December. This long time had not been consumed in marching, as the time was principally spent in the various camps, watching the decimation of their ranks by disease and death, caused by the prevailing fevers of the country. During Janu- ary, 1848, General Sterling I'rice arrived in Santa Fé and took command of the Post and Department, at once relieving Colonel Newby. The Fifth still remained in camp near Limitaa. They were ordered back to Santa Fé during the winter much to their disgust. Easton's Battalion and the artillery company went forward, and the writer thinks that they reached Chihuahua, where it was reported they had a fight. It was the last battle of the Mexican War, and, of course, they came out vic- torious. No part or parcel of the United States Army was ever whipped during that war. It was a series of victories from beginning to end.

The Fifth remained in Santa Fe until late in the spring of 1848 when a detachment, about three hundred strong, was ordered mounted and were sent something like three hundred miles west of Santa Fé to conquer a peace with the Navajo Indians, who were killing the Spaniards in the valleys, carrying off into bondage their women and children, plundering, and running off their stock. The detail took in a large portion of Company F (the Chicago company). It was an interesting cam- paign. The marauding Indians were found in their strongholds, three hundred miles west of Santa Fe, thoroughly whipped and subjugated and brought back to Santa Fe together with the captured women and chil- dren. A treaty of peace was negotiated with the tribe and a guard detailed to escort them back to their coun- try. The writer was one of the guard, Judge Tuley, of Chicago, being in command of the same. The guard accompanied the tribe seventy-five miles into the Jamaz Valley, where it bid them adieu, when they took to the mountains and the escort returned to Santa Fé. News of the peace reached the regiment early in August, when preparations were begun for the return of the reg- iment to the United States. Trains for the transporta- tion of the commissary and company supplies had to be got in readiness before it could leave for the recrossing of the plains. In the meantime many of the officers and men of the regiment applied for their discharges,

.n order that they might proceed westerly to California, or elsewhere as they might determine. Many of the Chicago company were among the number, to wit : First Lieutenant, Murray F. Tuley; Second Lieutenant, James N. Hunt; Sergeant, John D. Goodrich; Corporal, Levi R. Vantassell; musician, George Carson; privates, Peter Backman, Stephen Emory, James R. Hugunin, John W. Hipwell, Jacob Kesling, James D). Morgan, Lorenzo D. Maynard, Charles J. McCormick, Phineas Page, Valentine (. Shaw, Thomas Seacor. Sergeant Alvin V. Morey was elected First Lieutenant ; John A. Knights, Second Lieutenant. Charles C P. Holden was appointed Sergeant and James Rote was appointed Corporal, before the return march commenced.

Everything being in readiness orders were given for the regiment to report at Fort Leavenworth and Alton, Ill., for final discharge from the service of the L'nited States Government, and on or about August 20, the command, in three detatchments, left for home, and re-crossed the plains to Fort Leavenworth, where trans- ports were in waiting. The regiment in detachments, reached Alton. Ill, where they were mustered out of the United States service October 18, 1848. Many of the best men in the regiment, and in the Chicago company, had died in the service of their country and lay buried in their graves in the valley of the Rio Grande, in the mountains and on the plains. Such was life in the army in Mexico in 1846-47 and 1848.

The Chicago Evening Journal in its issue of October 28, 1848, said :

"The Fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, under Colonel Newby. were mustered out of the service at Alton, Monday last, October 18. General Churchill remarked : 'It is with much reluctance that I award to any soldiers more credit for good, orderly and soldier- like conduct than I have heretofore ascribed to the regiments com- manded by the lamented Colonel Hardin and the gallant Colonel Bissell ; but I feel constrained by a sense of justice to say, that ! have never in my life mustered a regiment superior in sobriety and good order and conduct to that I have just been engaged in mux- tering out of the service. Both officers and men can equal the finest discipline found amongst old regulars.'"

Under same date the Journal also said :

"Captain Kenney's company of volunteers recently mustered out at Alton, have returned to their homes and we recognize many an old face, etc." "Steele, of the Exchange, tendered them a ban- quet on their return."

Colonel Richard J. Hamilton, who had done so much in raising this company, gave a magnificent din- ner to a large number of the company.

There were many soldiers in the Mexican War from Illinois who subsequently became noted for their fame as officers in the late war or as statesmen, or both, and a few may be mentioned as among the many from this State, to wit :

General U. S. Grant, zd Lieut. 4th Infantry.

Major-General John Pope, zd Lieut. Regulars.

William II. Bissell, late Governor of Illinois, Colonel 2d Illi- nois General Edward D). Baker, Colonel 4th Illinois. Ferris Foreman, Colonel 3d Illinois.

William .A. Richardson, Major Ist Illinois. General Isham N. Haynie, late Adjutant-General State of Illi- nois, 1st Lieut. Company C. 51h Illinois. General Richard J. Oglesby, late Governor of Illinois, Ist Lieut. Company C, 4th Illinois. General W. II. L. Wallace, Adjutant ist Illinois,

General Benjamin M. Prentiss, Captain Company I, ist Ill- inois. Murray F. Tuley, tst Ileut. Company F, 5th Illinois. General John Morrill, private, Company 1, 1st Illinois.

James L. D. Morrison, Lieutenant-Colonel, 2d Illinois.

R. E. Goodell, private, Company I, Ist illinois.

T. Lyle Dickey, Captain, Ist Illinois.

General John A. Logan, 2d lieut. Company H1, 5th Illinois. John A. Prickett, Lieutenant Company E, 41h Illinois.

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Lewis W. Ross, Captain Company K, 4th Illinois.

General James D). Morgan, Captain Company A, Ist Illinois. James T. B. Staff, Adjutant 3d Illinois, Major-General Michael K. Lawler, Captain Company G, 3d Illinois 1846, and Captain Lawler's Cavalry 1847.

George C. Lamphere, Lieutenant Captain W. H. Staff's Cav- alry. John S. Hacker, Captain Company F. 2d Illinois. John G. Fonda, ad I.icut. Staff's Cavalry Company. Arthur I. Gallagher, private, Company G, 2d Ilinois. Colonel Daniel G. Burr, Sergeant Company 11. 4th Illinois. Captain W. 11. U'rsey, private, Company C, 4th Illinois, W. J. Wyatt, Captain Company G, ist Illinois. John W. Hartley, Drummer, Company .\, 6th Illinois. General Jame. B. Fry, late l'rovost Marshal-General, Lieuten- ant in Regulars.

George W. Prickett, Ist Liem. Company 1, 2d Illinois. Benjamin F. Marshall, 2d 1.ieut. Company C, 5th Illinois W. R. Morrison, private, Company II, 2d Illinois. John Reddick, Lieutenant Ist Illinois. James S. Martin, Sergeant Company C, 5th Illinois. William H. Snyder, Adjutant sih Illinois. Thomas 1 .. Harris, Major 4th Illinois.

John Moore, Lieutenant-Colonel 4th Illinois.

William B. Fondey. Adjutant 4th Illinois.

Captain George R. Webber, private, Company A, 4th Illinois. Dudley Wickersham, Corporal Company .\, 4th Illinois.

General Stephen G. Ilicks, Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Illinois. Major Samuel D. Marshall, 3d Illinois.

The conquest of Mexico in 1846-48 by the army of the L'nited States, composed as it was of regular and volunteer soldiers, is a matter of great pride to all the survivors of that army at the present day, and to none more than to those who went into that service from Illinois. Chicago and Cook County too, may well look back with pride to the part taken by their sons in that conflict-a conflict out of which came so much to their common country. First, Through that war the bound- ary line between Mexico and Texas was definitely settled and established, and a long contest of deadly strife on the western boundary of Texas decided. Sec- ond, There was acquired by the treaty 937,000 square miles of territory, consisting of mineral, agricultural, timber and stock lands, the richest and best in the known world, all of which was so much added to the public domain of this country. Third, The acquirement of this vast domain made possible the construction of railroads and thereby the connection of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans hy bands of steel never to be severed, which, without the acquisition of this territory, never could have been done. Fourth, There has been taken from the mines of the States and Territories acquired through that acquisition more than $2,000,000,000 in gold and silver. Fifth, There has been paid into the Treasury of the United States over and above all ex- penses for collecting the same, for custom dues and in- ternal revenue, from the Pacific States and Territories which were acquired through the Mexican War $220,- 505,217.19, which fabulous sum is a clear gain to the revenues of this nation, for without that vast domain there would have been nothing to have taxed. Sixth, Improvements have sprung up in all parts of the ac- quired territory that surpasses all belief, including some of the foremost cities of the nation, and also the con- struction and operation of more than 9,000 miles of railways, running to many parts of that vast domain. All this was acquired through the Mexican War.

The army that went to Mexico consisted of a trifle more than 100,000 regulars and volunteers. To have belonged to that great army in those perilous times and on the distant soil of a foreign and treacherous foe, to have accomplished so much for our common country, should be cherished as honor enough for any American citizen who participated in that national conflict.

LOCAL MILITARY COMPANIES.

REGISTER OF REGIMENTS .- After the close of the Mexican War a long season of peace ensued. Not again, until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, was the militia called into requisition for any work more serious than to quell some local disturbance, or to add to the impressiveness of some holiday parade. For two years after the close of the war there was hardly suffi- cient military enthusiasm to keep alive any military organization in the city. In 1850, sufficient interest was evolved in military matters to result in the organization of a few new companies. The old Sixtieth Regiment still held its position on the records of the State Ad- jutant-General, and in 1854 was supplemented by the Washington Independent Regiment. Some of the companies attached to these regiments did not survive long enough to be tried by the stern test of actual war ; others-indeed nearly all-were practically extinct by the close of 1860, but all those retaining even a nomi- nal organization, aroused by the peril that threatened the country, and drawing fresh vitality from the great flood of patriotism that swept over the country, answered to its call, and, with solid ranks, marched with more en- thusiasm to the battle field, than ever in the listless days of peace to the holiday parade or drill.

Following are the rosters of these regiments, and all military companies which had a recognized existence in Chicago, from 1848 to the close of 1860, so far as these records are to be obtained :

SIXTIETH REGIMENT-Second Brigade, I. S. M., General J. HI. Hleaubien.

(1848-49.)

Colonel, J. B. F. Russell ; Major, William L. Church ; Adju- tanı, George Raymond : Quartermaster, George A. Rumsey ; Sur- geon, W. B. Herrick.

(1850-51.)

Colonel, J. B. F. Russell : Lieutenant-Colonel, D. S. Cady : Major, William L. Church.

(1852.)

Colonel, William 11. Davis; Major, James M. Donnelly. (1853.)

Colonel, James M. Donnelly : Major, Matthew Conley ; Adju- lant, Rudolph Wehrli : Quartermaster, William S. Davis ; l'ay- master, Thomas Shirley.

(1854.)

Colonel, James M. Donnelly : Major, Matthew Conley : Adju- tanı, Thomas Shirley ; Paymaster, Theodore O. Wilson.

(1855-58.)

Colonel, James M. Donnelly : Lieutenant-Colonel, Matthew Conley ; Major, John E. Kimberly ; Adjutant, Joel H. Dix : com- missary, Joseph HI. Martin.

(1859-6t.)

Colonel, Ezra Taylor; lieutenant-Colonel, Herman D. Booth; Senior Major, Frederick J. Hurlburt ; Junior Major, Elijah W. Hadley ; Adjutant, Joel 11. Dix ; commissary, Joseph H. Mar- tin.

COMPANIES OF SIXTIETH REGIMENT.

Montgomery Guards (Organized in spring of 1842, by Captain Patrick Kelly).

(1848.)

Captain, W. B. Snowhook : 1st Lieut., Michael O'Brien : 2d 1.ieut., John O'Neill ; 3d Lieut., Eugene O'Sullivan.

(1849.)

Captain, T. J. Kinsella ; Isi Lieut., Michael Gleeson : 2d I.ieut., Eugene O'Sullivan ; 3d I ient., M. Cooney ; ensign, Pat- rick O'Mally.

(1850-52.)

Captain, Michael Gleeson ; Ist Lieul., Bernard Curran ; 2d Lieut., l'atrick Coffey; 3d Lieut., Michael Cooney.

(1853.)

Captain, Michael Gleeson ; Ist Lieut., Patrick Coffee; zd Lieut., Daniel McShellop : 3d Lieul., James McMullen.

(No record 1854-56. Officers in 1857.) Captain, Michael Gleeson ; Ist Lieut., Patrick Coffee ; 2d

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Lient., Michael Hickey; Ensign, Matthew Lynch ; Sergeant, Will- iam Lewis.

(1858.)

Captain, Michael Gleeson ; Ist 1.leut., Michael Hickey ; 2d Lieut., James Stenson ; 3d Lieut., l'atrick Nugent.

(No farther record until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when the company was reorganized and entered the United States service as Company B. 23d Illinois Infantry.)

CHICAGO HUSSARS AND LIGHT ARTILLERY. (Organized November, 1847.)

Captain, R. K. Swift ; Ist Lieut., James Smith : zd Lieut., Nelson Buchanan ; 3d Lieut., C. F. Howe ; cornet, John A. Rei- chart.

(1849-51.)

Captain, R. K. Swift ; tst Lieut., Nelson Buchanan : 2d Lieut., C. B. Welsh ; 3d Licut., John A. Reichart ; cornet, Ru- dolph Wehrli.

(1852-1853.)

Captain, R. K. Swift ; Ist Lieut., Nelson Buchanan: 2d Lieut., C. B. Weish.

CHICAGO LIGHT ARTILLERY. ( Organized May 5, 1854.)

Captain, James Smith ; Ist Lieut., Ezra Taylor ; 2d Lieut., E. W. Hadley ; commissary, H. S. Spears.

( 1856-1857.)

Captain, James Smith ; tst Lieut., Ezra Taylor ; zd Lient .. Amos Grannis : 3d Lieut., Darius Knights ; Sergeant, C. T. Brad- ley ; 2d Sergeant, Alex. Davidson ; secretary. T. A. Hoyne ; treasurer, John R. Botsford ; commissary, David Horen.

(1858-1860.)

. Captain, James Smith : Ist Lient., Amos Grannis : 2d Licut., Darius Knights ; 3d Lieut., C. T. Bradley ; Orderly Sergeant, C. J. Stalbrand ; secretary. Charles Horeu ; treasurer, John R. Bots- lord ; commissary. David Horen.

( The "Chicago light Artillery " was re-organized by Ezra Taylor in the spring of 1861, and was afterward known as " Old Battery A " and " Old Battery B ".)

WASHIINGTON JÆGERS, GERMAN.

(Organized In 1847.)

Captain, Frederick Schaefer ; Ist Lieut., R. P. Denker : 2d 1.icut., Christian Kotz ; 3d Lieut., Jacob Eich ; Surgeon, F. C. I lageman.

CHICAGO J.EGERS. (Organized September 7, 1847.)

Captain, Michael Diversey : tst Lieut., Jacob Eich ; 2d I.icut., Anthony Iluck : 3d Lieut., F. Manch ; 4th Lieut., M. Best.

In November, 18449, these German companies or- ganized in two battalions, each made up of "Grena- diers " and " Jægers," and known as the Chicago Bat- talion and, the Washington Battalion-the two form- ing the "Chicago German Odd Battalion" [20th, which remained attached to the Sixtieth Regiment until 1854, when it was transferred to the newly formed " Washington Independent Regiment No. I.")

CHICAGO GERMAN ODD BATTALION. (1850.)

Major, Michael Diversey; Adjutant, Arno Voss; Surgeon, C. A. Helmuth; Quartermaster, Jacob Eich; l'aymaster, P. Schut- tler.

CHICAGO BATTALION. (1850.)

Captain of Grenadiers, Frederick Schaefer; tst Lleut., Joseph N. Becker: 2d Lieut., Henry Lutzi; 3d Lieut., Nicholas Barth. Captain of Jægers, Jacob Eich : 1st Lieut., Anthony Iluck ; 2d Lieut., Dietrich Moench: 3d Ileut., Martin Ilest.

WASHINGTON BATTALION. (t850.)

Captain of Grenadiers, Theodore Weiler: 1st Lieut., John E. Webber; zd lieut., Louis Bacher. Captain of Jagers, Christian Kotz; tst Lieut., George Feiler; zd Lieut., Louis Ilorn.

CHICAGO BATTALION. (1852.)

Captain of Grenadiers, Anthony Huck: tst Lieut., John Di- versey: 2d Lieut., Henry Lutzi; 3ct l.ieur., Nicholas Barth. Cap- tain of Jægers, F. Manch ; Ist Lieut., Fred Kurth ; 2d Lieut., Ilenry Stupp; 3d Lieut., J. Barbien.

WASItINGTON BATTALION. (1852.)

Captain of Grenadiers, Theodore Weiler; Ist I.icut., John Schneider; 2d Lieut., Jacob Tull. Captain of Jagers, George Feiler; Ist Lieut., Louis Horn; 2d Lieut., Fred Mattern.

RINGGOLD GUARDS, ( Organized in 1847.)

Captain, William H. Davis : Ist Lieut., J. J. Russell ; zd. Licut., J. Sherman : 4th Lieut., George Davis.

( This company was short-lived.) GARDEN CITY GUARDS. ( Organized August, 1853.1

Captain, Thomas Shirlecy : Ist Lieut , David R. Crego ; 2d Lieut., Elijah Leran ; 34] I.icut., M. H. Baker,

(James Beldin was the second Captain of the Company. No further record.)

JACKSON GUARDS. ( IRISH.) (Organized March 7, 1853. [

Captain, Francis McMurray ; ist Lieut., John Dunlap : 2d Lieut .. William Heffron ; 3d Lieut., George Stewart.

( No farther record of this company until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion. It was then re-organized and entered the service under Captain MeMurray, as Company C, 23d Illinois Volunteer Infantry.)

Cincado Liant GirARD. ( Organized February 22, 1854.)

Captain, John B. Wyman : ist Lieut., Frederick Harding : zd Lieut., 11. Il. Loring : 3d I.icut., 11. ]). Booth ; 4th Lieut., William 11. Rass ; Orderly Sergeant. J. E. Kimberly ; Surgeon, W. B. Ilerrick.

(1856-1857.1 Captain, John B. Wyman ; Ist ].jeut., Herman 1). Booth ; 2d Lieut., George W. Gage ; 3d Lieut., F. Sherman.

(1858.)

Captain, Herman D), Booth : 1st 1.jeut., George W. Gage ; 2d Lieut., F. Sherman : 3d .ieut., Philip Wadsworth ; 4th Lieut .. J. 1[. ]>ix : secretary, I1. M. Flint ; treasurer, G. S. Thurston ; Surgeon, William B. Egan ; commissary, William R. King.

(1860 )

Ist Lieut., George W. Gage ; Commanding Orderly Sergeant, Frederick Harding.

EMMET GUARDS. ( Organized May 15. 1854. [

Captain, Patrick O'Connor ; tst Lieut., John Murphy : 2d Lieut., Daniel M. Ward ; 3d Lieut., Thomas Dolen.

( 1855.)

Captain, James A. Collins ; ist Lieut., Michael Kelly.

( 1856.)

Captain, I), C. Skelly ; ist Lieut., Michael Kelly : 2d Lieut., John Clary : 3d Licut., l'atrick McGuinness.

(1858.)

t'aptain, D. C. Skelly ; txt Lient., O. Stuart ; zd Ileut., Patrick McGuinness : 3d Lieut., A. E. Skelly ; ensign, P. Cor- coran ; Orderly Sergeant, P. J. Ilolohan.

( No farther record of the company.) NATIONAL GUARDS. (Organized April 25, t854.)

John Lewis Peyton, Major ; E. B. Stevens, Sergeant-Major ; W. W. Danenhower, Sergeant ; J. C', Morfit, M. D., Surgeon ; E. C. Henderson, enlor-bearer : E. R. Smith, Adjutant ; W. 1). Wilson, Quartermaster ; J. A. Thompson, Paymaster ; C. W. Hunt, M. D., Surgeon's-mate.

Company A. Thomas Shirley, Capt .: G. S. Wright, Ist Licut .: J. T. Baker, 2d Lleut .; M. P. Roberts, 3d Lieut. ; W. W. Kennedy, 4th Lieut.

Company B. Sylvester Sexton, Capt .; William McMillan, Ist Lieut. : George Glasner, 2d Lieut. ; W. D. Lawyer, 3d Lieut. (No farther record.)

SHIELDS GUARDS (Organized November 25, 1854. [

Captala, Charles E. Moore: Ist Lieut .: James A. Mulligan; ad Lieut., James Quirk : 3d Lieut., B. S. Dolan.

(1858.)

Captain. Charles E. Moore ; tst lieut., James A. Mulligan ; zd Lieut., John Reiley ; 3d tieut .. John S. Quin ; ensign, Daniel HIarrington: Quartermaster, William H. Savage : Surgeon, Martin J. Bray; commissary, James Barry; paymaster, Charles O'Connor.

Civil Officers -- President, J. J. Sullivan : vice-president, John Sweenie ; recording secretary, John Hickey ; corresponding secre- tary, Jantes A. Mulligan.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 53

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas Number of Pages: 875

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875