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W. Cox, Peter M. Boyer, Joel E. Martin; corporals, William W. Sewell, Al- bert W. Jackson, Charles C. Cruser, George R. Brannock, Daniel Wise, James C. Cox, John P. Ward, Ferdinand Fensky; musician, Melvin A. Brown; wag- oner, James S. Daniels.
Privates, Henry Austin, Simeon Bird, Thomas Ball, John Brown, John E. Beatty, Henry Brothers, Chester Cogswell, L. J. Cox, Thomas C. Carrico, Henry A. Collier, John W. Clark, Firman J. Compton, Guy M. Chedester, Charles H. Drake, Benjamin Evans, Wharton English, James R. Fueman, Edward Fortune, Silas R. Green, Samuel J. Hays, George H. Hill, Herman Keil, Adolph N. Leoben, Edward Morhouse, William McConnell, William McCune, Andrew Menard, Joseph M. Melvin, Julius Mirus, Samuel J. Newman, Elisha Nossinger, William Ploppler, Herman Quass, Daniel C. Routzhan, Adam Ruth, James W. Renfo, William L. Richardson, Charles R. Sperry, William M. Stevenson, John H. Taylor, Aaron Vandeventer, Elijah T. Wright, Charles J. Wright, Henry M. Wilcox, James H. Walters, Horace H. Weston.
Recruits, Alfred N. Andrews, John W. Davidson, Joseph H. Redman.
Company H.
Captain, Benjamin Leigh; first lieutenant, James C. McKnight; second lieu- tenants, Pleasant L. Bristow, Sargent McKnight ; sergeants, William H. Shook, Julius T. Bridges, John H. Cherry, Plumer Magoon; corporals, Hezekiah S. Webb, J. W. Langley, James M. Lynch, J. L. Ryan, A. B. Canby, Nathan Francis, Joseph D. Grunwell, Albert W. Peebles; musicians, Martin Wood, John W. Brooks ; wagoner, John Hartford.
Privates, James E. Atteberry, William Abner, James H. Brown, John L. Bradley, Henry C. Bradley, Jesse T. Bryant, Julius Balkin, Jeremiah Butcher, John Brown, Richard M. Crump, Thomas Carrington, David Coon, Nathan H. Coop, Randolph W. Callis, Thomas B. Crouch, Mathias Crum, John T. Childs, William Cox, George W. Dudderar, David A. Foster, Michael Flannagan, Will- iam W. Holt, Lorenzo B. Harlan, John S. Irvin, James Jones, James B. Johnson, Gideon A. Jennings, William Jennings, William H. Lynch, Joseph Lewis, Thomas A. Landrith, Jesse W. Lee, Joseph E. McPherson, Spencer Mckinney, Johannes Muller, John Odle, James Odle, William H. Owens, John W. Peebles, Samuel W. Peter, James Pinkard, Joseph H. Rouch, James C. Rutherford, William M. Rid- dle, William Ridgway, Albert W. Shook, Hiram Sherrill, William B. Smith, Andrew J. Shores, Benjamin Scott, Jesse H. Smith, William Seaton, Isaac A. Taylor, Thomas W. Thacker, Erastus Thompson, Abner Van Winkle, John A. Walden, James J. Walden, John W. Webb, Robert Woods, Thomas J. Wilkerson.
Recruits, Isaac V. M. Bristow, Samuel R. Bingham, Isaac Butterfield, Emery W. Lynch, William M. Wilson.
Company I.
Captains, Andrew F. Duncan, Stephen T. Sawyer ; first lieutenant, Augustus M. Sparks; first sergeant, Levi Klock; sergeants, George W. Paisley, Thomas Ferguson, Elijah Lane, Edward G. Handly; corporals, John Percin, Abner H. Sawyer, Joseph D. Chapman, Hardy Sparks, Allen Y. Duncan, Samuel A. Kin-
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der, William Southard, Cyrus Tiffin ; musicians, James Sparks, Frederick Wag- oner ; wagoner, William C. Walker. -
Privates, Francis C. Burg, James W. Bess, Daniel Boyd, George W. Bar- rington, James M. Caulk, Virgil T. Cox, Jerrett Cavender, Thomas W. Duncan, S. A. Duncan, George Dix, Alanson W. Edwards, James Ferris, Robert Forge, Thomas W. Hampton, John A. Howerton, Clifton Howerton, Charles Houser, S. T. Havern, William H. Havern, Bernard Horn, William Higgins, James Holden, James M. Ivy, Charles Jennison, Richard Johnson, Arthur Jarmin, Har- vey Jones, Frederick Kardell, Jesse Kinder, Isaac N. Knight, James Luckey, T. P. H. Loveless, Thomas Mathews, Frederick Neal, James K. Polston, James Pendergress, Oscar Richtmire, Joseph J. Ramey, John M. Sanders, Hosea V. Sawyer, James W. Smith, Levi S. Sparks, Anderson Sawyer, Charles W. Smith, Clarbourne Scroggins, Peter Seaman, William H. Snyder, William E. Sharp, James P. S. Starks, James Thornton, Richard Thornton, James M. Taylor, Fred- erick Thatch, Henry Upperman, Richard Voils, Thomas Vernsdale, J. S. Val- entine, James H. Warnack, George H. Walker, James H. Washburne, Ernest Webber, William J. Westrope, Thomas White.
Recruits, William H. Anderson, James W. S. Bess, Alexander Caulk, Alvin Dix, Josiah Pruitt, Charles S. Smith.
Company K.
Captains, Josiah Borough, John S. Colter ; second lieutenants, Thomas Miller, James McKee; sergeants, Hardin Heatherford, Frank Cameron, George Craig, Martin O'Rourk; corporals, John W. Loveless, John Teeley, David Sutton, Will- iam Weatherford, James Kirby, Thomas Phillips, Daniel Kincaid, Russel Langley ; musicians, William Knowles, John Jordan; wagoner, John Shoemaker.
Privates, William Brydon, William G. Bishop, Thomas Brock, William L. Bishop, John W. Barrett, William Carnell, Hugh Colton, John S. Crane, Thomas Dier, John Durn, Andrew W. Dorman, Daniel Dougherty, David Davidson, Thomas Edwards, Jacob F. Eichin, Alexander Eller, George W. Elmore, Henry Flantje, Frank Fulton, Patrick Grogan, F. M. Greenawalt, Patrick W. Gallagher, James F. Gibson, William H. Greenawalt, William R. Greenawalt, William R. Gaston, Samuel F. M. Hicks, Edward Husman, William Kelly, Thomas Lee, John Luft, Huston Maberry, William R. Mooney, John G. Martin, James Milsted, John M. Nivans, George T. Petty, Joseph L. Painter, Robert A. Queen, James Ramey, Frederick Riser, Ernst Russell, John Redman, John M. Rue, Green W. Rogers, Solomon Simmons, Woerner Schoette, James K. P. Stone, William A. Sullivan, William H. Simmons, Joseph M. Smith, James Stark, Thomas B. Tilley, William Whitworth, Joseph W. Wright, William Wright, Payton L. Wolf.
Unassigned recruits, Elisha C. Burton, A. J. Ellen, David Hutchinson.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY.
Colonel, Thaddeus Phillips ; quartermaster, Thomas B. Clark; second surgeon, James B. Corr; non-commissioned staff quartermaster sergeant, Francis A. Vickery.
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Company A.
Corporal, John T. Anderson.
Private, Charles H. Goodrich.
Company F.
Captain, George W. Duggar ; first lieutenant, Allen Cockell, second lieutenant, Henry A. Sturgis ; first lieutenant, Samuel M. Lewis, sergeants, Charles B. Rich- ardson, Charles L. Andust, John H. Hall; corporals, John K. Tafft, Thomas M. Stephenson, Charles Dorman, Jeremiah M. Reed, John H. Partridge, William P. Keller, William D. Graham, Joseph S. McMillan.
Privates, Samuel O'Barr, Samuel L. Berryman, Lindsley M. Barnett, George Braley, William E. Bridges, Frederick D. Bailey, Charles Bodah, Samuel M. Berry, Albert C. Corr, T. B. Corey, George W. Clark, Thomas H. Church, Robert Carter, Jr., Robert Cowell, John Cashel, John W. Cummings, James M. Duggar, Nicholas Dubois, Edmond J. De Leuw, Theodore H. Ellis, Charles W. Ellis, Pat- rick Fishback, Charles H. Ferguson, Thomas J. Galbreath, Elijah Harlan, Andrew J. Harris, George W. Hall, Jacob Kessinger, James P. Kessinger, Minett J. Keeler, Charles Long, T. W. Lefton, Charles E. Lewis, Austin L. Lair, James L. Leaton, Charles H. Loud, Samuel Mills, James Morrison, William A. Nelson, Robert O. Perviance, Harvey M. Peebles, Thomas Potts, Joseph F. Penn, James Ramey, John W. Rogers, Thomas J. Rollins, Mathew Sliegack, Thomas D. Stansbury, William Schutze, Larkin Smock, Elijah D. Solomon, Morse Sterling, James W. Towney, Edmond J. Trible, William Wolf, John Wones, R. O. Wood, Samuel M. Welton, John Weed, Andrew J. Washburn, James M. Young, Howard L. Young.
Company G.
Captain, William H. Edwards; second lieutenant, Rufus C. Barnett ; first ser- geant, Charles W. Bailey ; sergeants, Thomas B. Robinson, Lucas B. Parmeter, George W. Spangle, William H. Sutton ; corporals, Dey Blenliff, David W. Camp- bell, Ebert A. Shannon, George Morrison, Lewis Martin, Timothy M. Gates, Benjamin A. Jones, John W. Bossinger; musician, David Knowles.
Privates, Aaron Armstrong, John Alsop, Hubert C. Burton, Wesley Bossinger, John A. Cochran, George W. Cochran, James P. Clark, John F. Chandler, Benton Callison, Moses Callison, James Dooley, Hiram English, George Ewing, William Elliott, Joseph C. Gates, George Hendrix, Isaac Hardin, Joseph Jacobs, James F. Missick, William H. McGovern, James McPherson, D. McDonalds, Robert S. Nelson, Isaac Osburn, H. F. Pentzer, Cyrus Puitt, Peter J. Range, Henry C. Fange, George B. Rickett, James Spangle, Hezekiah Short, Warren Smith, Leonard Simmermaker, August Sawyer, Charles F. Subby, Charles Smith, Jacob Warner.
Recruit, R. F. Gray.
Company H.
Captain, R. T. Rose; second lieutenant, James A. Young ; first sergeant, Joel H. Sauls; sergeants, John H. Rice, Samuel T. Hawkins, David H. King; cor-
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porals, Thomas J. Young, John Hulse, Elijah Cole, George W. Stewart, John C. Alford, Charles F. Alford, Richard Beatty, William J. Bates, Oliver P. Baker, George S. Cloud, William Crouch, William F. Crum, Randolph Doss, William A. Ditson, Thomas Dotson, George W. Fink, William Fink, Robert J. Graves, J. G. Graham, George W. Gray, James H. Hamilton, John L. Hodges, John H. Hanshaw, James Jones, Wesley M. King, John Lambert, Cicero Mansel, Isaac N. Morris, Mathias O'Neil, William W. Pulliam, John G. Patterson, John F. Rich- mond, Oscar L. Rose, Samuel L. Richardson, George W. Rice, Joseph N. Ross, Robert M. Rice, John B. Tucker, Dennis Turner, Joseph D. Welsh.
ONE HUNDRED FORTIETH INFANTRY.
Company D.
Corporal, Medric Holly; wagoner, Theodore Wilson.
Privates, Alfred A. Bade, George Grafton, Robert J. Dryman, Thomas Eckles, Erastus H. Fisk, Henry R. Gratiot, William Hackett, Sidney L. Morgan, John Miller, Hiram F. Moeller, Stephen. F. Oliver, David S. Page, Bruce Park, Nickham Reynolds, Gideon W. Seavey, Edward Sax, Jacob Schrock, Samuel Shaw, Julian W. Stillwell, Fletcher Seavey, Lewis G. Sartorious, William Schock, Francis Tilton, Isaac Vandervort, Edwin C. Wetherbee, John Williams.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH INFANTRY.
Company G.
Sergeant, Howard L. Young.
Privates, Herbert C. Benton, William Chappell, Joseph L. Cannon, Franklin Denham, John Elliott, Pinkley Goock, Thomas Harberson, William H. McGov- ern, Lewis Robinson, Edward Rose.
.ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SECOND INFANTRY.
Company E.
Private, Andrew Ackerman.
Company I.
First sergeant, Waddy Johnson; sergeant, Frederick D. Railey; corporals, Michael D. Rainey, Joshua D. Kerr, Harman M. Friend, Aaron D. Townsend, John B. Hubbard, Aaron Lane; musician, Theodore A. Ellis.
Privates, John Anderson, David U. Anderson, Elijah D. Bullman, William Buckman, Isa Barton, O. F. Butts, Andrew J. Bates, Frank Burger, Willis A. Conner, Martin Crosby, Thomas F. Crosby, Joseph Crouch, Alfred Davis, John W. Donaldson, Thomas J. Edwards, George H. Emmett, George Fox, John P. Fletcher, Thomas H. Frazier, George Greengal, John W. Herron, Enoch Hal- lown, James W. Hamilton, Jasper Heuron, William H. Hogan, James H. Husky, Eli Jackson, Charles E. King, Samuel M. Lewis, Johnson Linder, Jabez Lloyd, Lewis S. Lair, Hugh B. Lane, Frederick Lahman, John S. La Force, Michael Manning, D. Montgomery, James H. Mattison, Jesse P. Morris, William S. Mil-
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ler, James Martin, Isaac Mulkey, Charles D. Oliver, Harvey M. Peebles, James B. Peebles, J. G. Patterson, John Pierce, Gilbert F. Peacock, T. B. Richardson, Wil- liam E. Ryan, Edward F. Rice, Hiram Sherrel, John Shipfer, W. J. Seamon, Henry A. Stout, Isaac Tarvis, John R. Turner, Robert P. Wamach, John Wones, James H. Whitmore.
THIRD CAVALRY.
This regiment was under command of Colonel Carr. Company L was raised in Macoupin county. David R. Sparks was captain, Norreden Cowen first lieu- tenant. The regiment was organized by Colonel E. A. Carr in August, 1861. It was ordered to St. Louis in September; thence to Jefferson City; thence to War- saw; October II was in the movement against Springfield; was with Sigel's Division and was the last to leave Springfield; November 19 reached Rolla ; December 29 moved in the advance of Curtis' army; fought the first battle and won the first victory of Curtis' campaign near Springfield. On the 15th of Feb- ruary, 1862, it captured prisoners from Price's retreating army at Crane Creek and also participated in the battle of Pea Ridge; on the 18th at Sugar Creek the Third Battalion charged and routed the enemy; marched and skirmished with the enemy, losing some men; May 14 moved to Little Red river; fell back to Fairview; on the 7th Captain Sparks, who with sixty-six men, was sent out to reconnoiter and fell into ambush at a crossroads, was surrounded by three hun- dred of the enemy, but bravely led his men and cut his way out, losing four wounded and four prisoners. The regiment reached Batesville on the 11th; marched to Jacksonport ; July 5 moved with the army for Helena, reaching that place on the 15th. Detachments of the regiment engaged in scouting, including Captain Kirkbridge's raid to St. Francis river and five companies with General Hovey's raid to Grenada. On the 23d of December, 1862, Company L and five other companies under command of Kirkbridge, embarked for Vicksburg and did good service on picket and escort duty in the disastrous attack on Vicksburg, Company L being one of the last to embark. The latter was detailed to act as escort for General McClernand. The regiment took part in the battles of Tupelo, Okolona and Guntown, also in the battles of Lawrenceburg, Spring Hill, Camp- bellsville and Franklin. December 15th it was first in the enemy's works, when General Hatch turned the left of the enemy. In January, 1865, it drove the enemy across the Tennessee, being then under command of General Wilson. In May it was sent to St. Louis, thence to St. Paul; July 4 started on an Indian expedition over the plains of Minnesota and Dakota, north to the British lines; south and west to Devil's Lake and Fort Barthold. October 13, 1865, it was mustered out at Springfield, having made a creditable record.
Company L.
First sergeant, Benjamin F. Cowell; sergeants, William Snell, John A. Hig- gins ; corporals, Charles A. Damby, James Snell, William M. Mitchell, Henry Albright; bugler, Benjamin Harra; farrier, John H. Purdy; blacksmith, Charles Tittmire ; saddler, Ferdinand Bartman ; wagoners, Henry Adler, Joseph Bartman, Henry Best, Harvey Best, John Boot, John Bullock, John Brown, Charles Ben-
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ning, Andrew M. Chapman, August Dingerson, Simon L. A. Ferris, Jacob Frey, John Frey, William R. Funderburk, Abel E. Funderburk, William B. Green, Joseph Green, Samuel O. Higgins, Charles Hoffman, Charles Jackson, William Kingdon, Robert P. Louis, Gede Lombartus, George W. Marsh, Michael Morrow, John Michael, Noah W. Powers, E. L. Powers, J. B. Purdy, John Shoen, William Shultz, George H. Snell, George Sturgen, Garrett Tallant, George Taylor, Phillip M. Wagoner, Frank Wise.
Veterans, Alexander S. Robertson.
Recruits, George E. Ferris, Daniel Ferris, Monroe Higgins, John Jacobs, William S. Lockwood, James Pore, Richard W. Ripley, Allen Vanhooser, Henry Whalen.
SEVENTH CAVALRY.
Company G.
Recruit, John T. Borrow.
Company I.
Recruits, Alexander Kendall, Benjamin A. Pell.
NINTH CAVALRY.
Company D.
Captain, Lewellyn Cowen; first lieutenants, John H. McMahan, James H. Haylett; corporal, John W. Weisner.
Privates, John Feneil, James H. Hazlett, Francis Holliday, Hiram A. Haw- kins, John H. Johnson, Michael Schrieder.
Recruits, James Conner, Anthony Dumas, Thomas J. Qualls, John Stritt- matter, John C. Weimer.
TENTH CAVALRY.
Company C.
Veterans, Robert B. Clark, Michael Faun, Henry Fever, Delphi Fever, John Linneaues, James Nedo, Elmer W. Walker.
Recruits, Josiah Anderson, Stephen Davidson, George W. Eldridge, Samuel H. Enos.
Company E.
Captain, William H. Stout; first lieutenant, Henry J. Solomon ; second lieu- tenant, William J. Dorman; farrier, Byron P. Henderson.
Privates, William J. Dorman, Thomas Doty, William H. Finley, Moses L. Patterson, Henry Quinton, Henry J. Solomon, William J. Smith, George W. White.
Veterans, Jacob Mize, Jugurtha M. Shuler, Jonas M. Shuler.
Recruits, Thomas J. Baker, Edward H. Henderson, James A. Nelson, Wage Nelson, Jugurtha Shuler, William S. Stewart, Thomas Vancourt, Elias Vancourt, Joseph A. Witt.
Company H.
Private, William Larrabee.
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ELEVENTH CAVALRY.
Company A.
Recruit, Hiram Lueneman.
FIRST REGIMENT LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Battery F.
Privates, John J. Cox, Jacob Hoffman, John Reardon, Rush Shick, James Thompson, William M. Black, Franklin Conway, Homer H. Clink, John W. Deck, Alfred Eyre, Theodore Johnson, Henry W. Short, John Tombow, Van J. Thomas.
SECOND ILLINOIS LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Company B of this regiment was recruited at Girard by Captain Fletcher H. Chapman, who had gained experience as an officer of artillery in Missouri, con- nected with Palmer's regiment. Only twenty-five or thirty members were raised here and this company was consolidated with that of Captain Rolla Madison and made Company B, the latter assuming command. They were placed in charge of a battery of heavy artillery, consisting of five twenty-four-pound siege guns and one sixty-four-pound howitzer, for service in the field. It was ordered from St. Louis to Pittsburg Landing, arriving there the night before the first day's bat- tle of Shiloh. The battery opened fire from the last line about three o'clock Sun- day afternoon and did splendid service, aiding materially with its heavy fire in checking the enemy's advance. On the second day the heavy guns and the howitzer were sent to the front. The battery was hauled by oxen on the move- ment against Corinth and was called by the troops the "Bull Battery." At the battle of Corinth Captain Chapman was in command. He was afterward bre- veted major, but was never mustered. The company was stationed at Corinth until January, 1864, when it was ordered to Memphis, turned over the heavy guns and took charge of a battery of light artillery. It was ordered on the Sturgis raid and took part in the battle of Guntown. On the retreat the guns had to be abandoned in the swamp. The company returned to Memphis, whence it was ordered to Columbus, Kentucky, the term of enlistment soon expiring. They did service in two of the greatest battles of the war. They received their final payment and discharge at Springfield.
CHAPTER XII.
RELIGIOUS.
THE CHURCH ALWAYS COMES FIRST IN A NEW COMMUNITY-MANY HANDSOME HOUSES OF WORSHIP ERECTED IN THE COUNTY IN RECENT YEARS-A LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CARLINVILLE.
In the primitive days of this community, many of those who had removed here from the older settled states, being dissatisfied with the religious conditions of the times and encouraged by the leadership of Dr. Gideon Blackburn, decided to organize a Presbyterian church. Thereupon, on the 30th day of June, 1834, notice having been publicly given, a meeting was held at the court house, at Carlinville, and the following persons presented themselves for membership in the church association there to be effected: Ellen Moore, Lucy Stephenson, Julia A. White, Alice Good, Lucy N. Greathouse, Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Parks, Malvina Hoxey, Edward Plant, Elijah Harlan, James Parks, John S. Greathouse, Thomas D. Moore and Ruth Holton. These men and women, having been duly and satisfactorily examined, were regularly organized into a Presbyterian church society, by the Rev. Gideon Blackburn. The elders elected and ordained at this time were Elijah Harlan, James Parks, Thomas D. Moore, John S. Greathouse and Edward Plant. Rev. S. E. Blackburn, son of Dr. Gideon Blackburn, was chosen as the first pastor.
For a number of years the church labored under adverse conditions. The Biblical observance of the Sabbath day was practically ignored and the church felt impelled to place itself on record as standing for a higher plane of Christian living, and therefore, in 1837, appointed a committee to draft a report, setting forth its views regarding the duties of its members. That report reads as fol- lows :
"In view of the great neglect of Christian duty and obligation of church mem- bers throughout the whole of our western Zion, and also in this portion of our church, we feel it to be our duty as officers of the Presbyterian church of Car- linville, to lay before the church, individually and as a body, our views and determinations in regard to this subject.
"First, we regard the practice that exists among many church members of making social visits, traveling by land or by water and attending to unnecessary temporal affairs on the Sabbath, as un-Christian and an open violation of the
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command of God to 'keep the Sabbath day holy,' and deserving in all cases church discipline, and we hereby enjoin it upon all members of our church to be careful in the observance of the Sabbath, as we are determined in the future to exercise the discipline in all cases where the Sabbath is thus violated.
"Second, We regard the habit of using ardent spirits as a beverage by church members in this day of light and effort in behalf of the temperance reformation as contrary to the spirit of the gospel and the law of God, which says, 'Thot. shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' We therefore recommend to all the men- bers of the church to become members of temperance societies if they have not heretofore done it, and although we cannot as a session act in regard to this matter as to what has heretofore been done, still it is our determination here- after to admit no one to the church who will not agree to abstain from the use of ardent spirits as a beverage and to make violations of the temperance pledge matters of church discipline.
"Finally, We would enjoin it upon all the members of our church to be regular and punctual in their attendance upon all the means of grace, to engage according to their ability in assisting the great benevolent operations of the day, to be careful and guarded in their conversation, especially to refrain fromn speaking harshly, maliciously, or slanderously of their fellow Christians, and to live with each other and before the world worthy of their high vocation, adorn- ing their profession as Christians and letting their example have a salutary in- fluence on all around."
Rev. S. E. Blackburn remained in the pulpit two years and was succeeded by Rev. John R. Simral, whose ministry lasted one year. Rev. Gideon Blackburn frequently filled a vacant pulpit until November, 1837, when Rev. L. S. Will- iamson was called as a supply and remained until 1843. In August of that year Rev. J. A. Ranney was called as supply and served about three years.
No church records were kept from March 30, 1846, to March 18, 1848, but within this period the membership became reduced. Rev. J. S. Graves was in charge here and in 1848, a general meeting of the church was held to consider a plan for reorganizing and placing it upon a more substantial footing. It had appeared that there were not enough male members sufficient for its 'organization and for conducting the regular services. Therefore, an attempt was made at that time to dissolve the church by dismissing unfaithful members and reorgan- izing by receiving new members and electing new officers. It seems this object was consummated and in the reorganization fifteen members were secured and while the Presbytery failed to approve the proposed dissolution, the object of the active membership was secured and the church work went forward with re- newed vigor and success.
September 17, 1848, Rev. Joseph M. Grant was chosen as the pastor and served about one year.
January 19, 1851, a branch of the church was organized with thirteen mem- bers at Fairview Academy, which was a school located about six miles southeast' of Carlinville. This branch existed for some years and by reason of death and removal lost its identity.
From the record it is gathered that Rev. A. M. Dixon was pastor of this church from 1849 until in 1854. The pulpit was then supplied by Rev. E. Jenney.
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a home missionary, until July 16, 1854, when Rev. C. A. Leach was employed as supply, remaining one year. In July, 1856, Rev. Edward McMillan came as stated supply and then served as pastor until 1862. Father McMillan, as he was known, was one of the strongest characters associated with the church and built it up materially, giving the organization life and strength and his influence lasting long after his pastorate had closed. Although from a slave state, his sympathies ยท were strongly anti-slavery and for the Union. It is related of him that as a result of one of his eloquent anti-slavery sermons several pro-slavery sym- pathizers left the meeting. Father McMillan believed in standing for his .prin- ciples, and in 1862 enlisted as chaplain of the Thirty-second Illinois Volunteers, known as John A. Logan's regiment. For two years he cared for both the spiritual and corporal necessities of his regiment and then gave up his life at Marietta, Georgia, on April 27, 1864.
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