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Company G came from Morrison, and was formed from a troop of cavalry that had been started in the western part of the county. Several rousing meet- ings were held until there was an enrollment of one hundred and fifteen men. George M. Cole from Fenton was elected captain, William M. Jenks first lieutenant, and Silas Jackson second lieutenant. The monotony of camp life was broken on the night of June 12 by the death of Berry, then acting as sergeant-major. Going outside the camp to ascertain tlie cause of some dis- turbance, he was shot through the neck by one of the guards, and instantly killed. His body was taken to Sterling for burial.
Farewell, my friends, farewell, my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those !
After five weeks at Dixon, orders at last came to move, and marching to the Illinois Central, twenty-two cars of men and baggage started for the long campaign in the South. Passenger cars, too, writes the historian of the Thirteenth, but the last style of that genteel transportation tlie boys enjoyed in the service. This was June 16, 1861. Caseyville near St. Louis, their first stop, and next Rolla, Missouri. Here they were held for nearly eight months, July 7, 1861, to March 6, 1862. The boys grew very tired of the "masterly inactivity" and in their letters home always closed with, "we are spoiling for a fight." It came soon enough. The winter at Rolla, too, was snowy and dis- agreeable, and it required much engineering to make their tents comfortable.
Now began a terrible march of over a thousand miles to Helena, Arkansas. When summer came on, the sun was scorching, the dust blinding. Their throats were parched. Few wells. Two dollars offered for a canteen of water. At Helena, the regiment was embarked on the steamer John Warner,
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and sailing up the Yazoo, was landed on the Johnson plantation near Vicks- burg. Sherman's army at this point, consisted of four divisions, the fourth commanded by Brig .- Gen. Frederick Stecle. The first brigade of the latter was under Gen. Frank P. Blair, and its first regiment was the Thirteenth Illinois. On Dec. 28, 1862, the brigade had a hot engagement with the enemy at Chickasaw Bayou, and Col. Wyman, while surveying operations with a field-glass, was killed by a sharp-shooter, the ball passing through his breast.
When elected colonel, Wyman was division superintendent of the Illinois Central at Amboy. He was fond of military tactics from a youth, and enjoyed the warm regard of his associates. Over his grave in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago, the men of his regiment erected a handsome monument to his memory.
The next day, Dec. 29, the brigade made an attack upon the Confederate works, but was repulsed. Then followed the expedition against Arkansas Post, and various movements about Vicksburg until its surrender, July 4, 1863. Decisive events followed in quick succession. The pursuit of Gen. J. E. John- ston, the battle of Lookout Mountain, Rossville, the fierce engagement at Ring- gold, where Major Bushnell received a bullet in the brain.
Major Douglas R. Bushnell was from Connecticut, a civil engineer by profession, and had superintended the construction of various railroads in the east and the west, and at the outbreak of the war, was residing with his family in Sterling. An ideal home. A wife of rare culture, and three young daugh- ters to gladden a father's heart. It was a precious sacrifice on the altar of his country.
Home they brought her warrior dead; She nor swooned, nor uttered cry; All her maidens, watching, said, She must weep or she will die.
Sergeant Samuel Harvey was detailed to take the body to his desolate home, and Riverside cemetery holds all that is mortal of a fond husband and father.
General Hooker in speaking of the fight at Ringgold calls the Thirteenth, "that brave regiment", and Osterhaus says they "executed the order in mag- nificent style".
New Years, 1864, terribly cold, after steady rains, found the regiment at Woodville, Alabama, preparing to stay for the winter. The boys decided to be comfortable, and made genuine log cabins with fire places and shingle roofs. Checkers and chess men were constructed for games, schools held for the negro children who were eager to learn, pipes whittled out of laurel root, foraging expeditions undertaken for corn and pork, every device employed to keep minds and hands in healthful activity.
When can their glory fadc? Oh, the wild charge they made!
The end of three years' faithful service came at last, and on Thursday, May 26, 1864, the Thirteenth started for the north by way of Decatur, Nash-
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ville, down the Cumberland, to Cairo, up the Illinois Central, to Springfield and Camp Butler, where the boys were mustered out. The Fourteenth, Fif- teenth, and Eighteenth Illinois were there, also, and the ladies of Springfield and the state officers invited the regiments to a picnic on the grounds of the new state house. Governor Yates, Adjutant Gen. Fuller and Major Gen. Oglesby made addresses of welcome. On Saturday, June 18, the boys received back pay and bounty in full, and the Thirteenth Regiment of Illlinois Vol- unteer Infantry became again plain and honored citizens of the United States.
Of the original members of Company B who enlisted at. Sterling, only three are left in Sterling, Andy Haberer, Gordon Pierce, and John Aument; and three in Rock Falls, John Davis, James Arey and Richard Arey.
Tabular view of the Thirteenth :
A B CD E F G H I K Total
Total Enrollment
118 106 106 102 107 103 110 109 111 112
1084
Mus't out end of service 44
53 52
51 11 13 .
55 49 19
43
22 164
Trans. to other Reg'ts .. 32
14 4
6 33
21 128
Woun., Killed in Battle 13
16 14 21
22
12
16 175
Deserted
1
3
6
6
11
3 2
12 2
6 59
Resigned 2 2
2
2
1 15
Andy Haberer has the original pay roll of Company B which the writer has had the privilege of examining. It is on heavy paper, and in good pres- ervation. Here it is
ORIGINAL MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY B.
D. R. Bushnell, captain, civil enginer, Conn.
N. Cooper Berry, 1st lieut., bookkeeper. Ohio.
W. M. Kilgour, 2nd lieut., lawyer, Penn. J. M. Patterson, 1st sergt,, merchant, Penn.
G. P. Brown, 2d sergt., civil engineer, N. Y. J. J. Bupill, 3rd sergt., lawyer, Mass. M. R. Adams, 4th sergt., farmer, Ohio.
A. J. Stowell, 1st corp., blacksmith, N. Y. Gideon Bower, 2d corp., clerk, Penn. S. C. Harvey, 3d corp., clerk, N. Y. John Buyers, 4th corp., farmer, Penn. A. W. Adams, private, farmer, Vermont. Jas. Simmons, private, farmer, Canada. Richard Arey, private, farmer, Ill. John Aument, private, wagon maker, Penn. Warner Banes, private, clerk, Penn. Howard Burket, private, farmer, Penn. David B. Brink, private, farmer, Ill.
George A. Blinn, private, engraver, Conn. Harvey Brink, private, farmer, Ill. Jolın Bartholomew, private, farmer, Penn. Samuel D. Chamberlain, private, farmer, Canada.
6 8 19 7 24 17 16 5 18 1 16 27 13 1 54 43 37 482
Dis. for Disability ..... 19
14 17
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John Coba, private, harness, N. Y. Solon Chamberlain, private, farmer, Canada. Alfred Carpenter, private, farmer, N. Y. Edward E. Dunham, private, farmer, N. Y. John D. Davis, private, farmer, Mass. Edward Diekinson, private, farmer, N. Y. Riehard Evans, private, farmer, England. Augustus Dickinson, private, meehanic, N. Y.
John A. Euston, private, elerk, N. Y. M. V. B. Farrington, private, farmer, Ill.
M. W. Finnarvan, private, confectioner, Canada. Levi Gilbert, private, farmer, Penn.
William H. Gavitt, private, manufacturer, R. Island.
Roseoe Green, private, elerk, Mass. Fleteher Galloway, private, farmer, N. Y. William Hagey, private, clerk, Penn.
J. J. Hollslander, private, carpenter, N. Y. Rora Herehnon, private, wagon maker, Canada. R. Heffelfinger, private, clerk, Ohio. Oliver Harnisher, private, farmer, Ohio.
Andrew Haberer, private, farmer, Germany.
Newton How, private, teacher, N. Y. Lueius E. Hawley, private, farmer, Conn. William Irons, private, farmer, Ill. Benjamin Judd, private, farmer, Ill.
Edward B. Joslin, private, farmer, Mass. Prinee King, private, mechanie, N. Y. Rudolph Kauffman, private, wheelwright, Penn. Warren Lukens, private, farmer, Ohio. John Lewis, private, linguist, England. Henry J. Madison, private, printer, England. Amos H. Miller, private, farmer, Penn. Charles Mann, private, printer, N. Y. M. H. MeMillan, famer, Ohio. Wm. Morgaridge, private, farmer, Ohio. John G. Manahan, private, lawyer, Penn. Chas. M. Maek, private, printer, Penn. Frank MeCarty, private, farmer, N. Y. Simeon Morgaridge, private, farmer, Ohio. John M. Mabbie, private, agent, Mainė. Henry C. Osgood, private, mereliant, Vermont. David Over, private, eooper, Ohio. Henry Plant, private, farmer, N. Y. Mareus Potts, private, clerk, N. Y.
David Parsons, private, clerk, Mieh. Gordon Pieree, private, earpenter, N. Y. William Pollington, private, tailor, England.
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George Russell, private, farmer, Ohio. John Rhodes, private, farmer, Ind. O. D. Reed, private, farmer, N. Y. Jesse Rood, private, farmer, England. Cyrenius Stewart, private, farmer, Penn. Nathaniel Sipes, private, farmer, Ohio. John H. Sulsh, private, shoemaker, Germany.
James B. Smith, private, farmer, Canada. Homer Sillanton, private, mason, Ill. Calvin Smith, private, farmer, Mass. . Lake Tuttle, private, farmer, Conn. William Thomas, private, farmer, Maine.
George F. Tobie, private, R. R. R. Island.
David Ustis, private, farmer, Penn. Henry Weaver, private, clerk, Penn.
Horatio Wells, private, farmer, Mass.
Francis Willard, private, farmer, Mass.
THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ILLINOIS.
To arms, to arms, ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe? March on, march on, all hearts resolved On victory or death .- Marseillaise.
On August 15, 1862, Capt. Wm. M. Kilgour received orders from Gov. Yates to take command of the volunteers who were to assemble at Dixon for organization and drill. In due time the several companies reported.
Company A was enlisted at Dixon and composed of men principally. from Dixon, Palmyra, and Nelson.
V Company B was formed at Lyndon of recruits from Lyndon, Fenton, Garden Plain, Newton, Round Grove, and Prophetstown. Company C at Morrison with members from Morrison, Prophetstown, Round Grove, Newton, Clyde, and Portland.
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Company D was started under the auspiccs of the Chicago Board of Trade, but returned to Sterling. It was composed of men from Sterling, Coloma, Genesee, Hume, Hahnaman, Hopkins, Montmorency, Portland, and Prophets- town.
Company E was raised almost wholly from the towns of Lee Center and Sublette. Companies F, G and K also from Lee county.
Company H was recruited in Sterling, Como, Genesee Grove, and Jordan. Company I was enlisted principally in the townships of Sterling, Erie, Fulton, and Ustick.
Thus it will be seen that the Seventy-fifth was precminently a Whiteside regiment, from the strong preponderance of our county boys in its member- ship. In the other regiments, Whiteside being represented simply by one or two companies. Kilgour was well qualified for drill master, having already had a year's service in Missouri with the Thirteenth Illinois.
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On Sept. 2, 1862, George Ryan of Co. K was elected colonel, John E. Bennett of Co. C, lieutenant colonel, and Wm. M. Kilgour, major. They were sworn in for three years or the war by Capt. Barri of the U. S. army.
Camp Dement now became a school of instruction. Several other com- panies were assembled, and there was regular drill in the whole round of mili- tary tactics, in everything pertaining to camp, garrison, the march, the field. Like pupils at school, the boys had to practice every motion connected with the manual of arms, position and step, loading and firing, facing and wheeling, the order of company, battalion, and brigade. This was well, and as events speedily proved, the noble boys needed all their discipline. Orders came for a movement to the seat of war, and on Sept. 27 the regiment left Camp Dement for the South. The route was by Chicago and Indianapolis, and on Sept. 29 they reached Jeffersonville, Indiana, meeting thousands of other new troops to repel the threatened capture of Louisville.
At this stage of the war the border states seemed to be the battle ground, and the rebels prepared to resist the advance of our troops from the north. Buell was in command of the Army of the Ohio with three army corps. The Seventy-fifth was assigned to the Thirtieth Brigade, ninth. Division, of the Third, commanded by Gen. Gilbert. Bragg had posted his army on a range of low, wooded hills in front of Perryville. The battle was opened on the morning of October 8 by an artillery fire from a rebel battery, but the des- perate fighting began in the afternoon and raged till dark. The carnage was awful. Men fought like demons. Rousseau's division, after being engaged for three hours with dreadful loss, was appealing for help, and a fresh brigade, Col. Gooding, from Mitchell's division, was rushed to the rescue.
When this brigade formed in line of battle, the Seventy-fifth was in the center. Soon the tremendous conflict raged fiercer than ever. The roar of cannon and musketry was deafening. A sheet of fire blazed between the opposing lines. Now it was a hand to hand grapple, now a charge with fixed bayonets. But our boys never wavered, although their ranks were thinned.
Hundreds of instances of heroism. James Blean, wounded, refused to be carried off the field, exclaiming, "I'll take care of myself; fight on; give the rebels the best you have." Crawling to the rear, he was again wounded, and expired the next day.
Make way for liberty ! he cried. Make way for liberty! and died.
Among the wounded were Major Kilgour, and Captains Whallon, Frost, and Roberts, and Lieutenants Barber, Thompson, Irwin, and Blodgett. Lieut. Col. Bennett commanding the regiment, had a horse shot, but was himself unhurt.
Compared with their other home regiments, the Thirteenth and the Thirty-fourth, the Seventy-fifth had a cruel experience. Those two were in camp or on the march for six months before a battle. Six months of soldier- ing had what may be called military acclimation, while the Seventy-fifth was rushed from the plow or the shop in five weeks to the bayonet thrust and the
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cannon's mouth. Even now the survivors spcak of the misfortune with a shudder.
Forward, the Light Brigade !
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though tlie soldier knew Some one had blundered;
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die ;
Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
It was certainly a calamity. Forty-three of the boys were left dead on the field, nine mortally wounded, one hundred and fifty received hospital treat- ment, twelve taken prisoners. All through the night the injured soldiers were brought from the field, and the surgeons were kept busy dressing their wounds.
Thus thro' the night rode Paul Revere.
Our regiment's next encounter was with their former antagonist of Perry- ville, Braxton Bragg, decidedly one of the busiest warriors of the Confederacy. It was the fierce fight of Murfreesboro, in which the 34th Illinois made a bril- liant record, and where Kirk received his mortal wound. Wlien the smoke of battle lifted, the ground was covered with mangled masses of men and horses, dead and wounded. For eight hours the conflict raged, and no regi- ment did more valiant service than the Seventy-fifth. Finally on Jan. 3, 1863, Bragg retreated, and our army occupied the town. Here the losses of thie regiment were two killed, 25 wounded, and 21 prisoners, among thie latter, Capt. McMoore of Co. D.
After Chickamauga thie regiment had its sliare in the famous campaign at Chattanooga. Bragg was on the heights, and controlled the railroads, while our army was in the town, suffering for supplies. When Gen. Grant telegraphed Thomas to hold the place, Thomas replied, "I will hold the town until we starve." Food was scarce. The half-famished soldiers ate moldy bread, picked coffee and rice from the mud, devoured greedily offal from the slaughter yards. Provision trains could not reach the beleagured city. But all this ceased when the stars and stripes on Nov. 25, 1863, floated from Old Lookout and Missionary Ridge, amid the cheers of the brave men who liad stormed the rebel entrenchments.
Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er. And the rebel rides on his raids no morc.
Winter of 1863-64 was spent at Whiteside, on the Charleston and Mem- phis railroad. Meantime Grant and Sherman liad arranged their cliessboard. Grant was to move towards Richmond, and at the same time, Sherman was to strike for the heart of the Confederacy. This was the Atlanta campaign, and the Seventy-fifth was in it. A series of stubborn figlits, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek. September 2 saw Hood in re- treat, and Sherman in possession of Atlanta. This was one of the strategic
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movements of the war, perhaps the longest running conflict of modern war- fare. Napoleon's invasion of Russia was a failure. Think of an army on forward move for four months, and one hundred days under fire.
While Sherman started on his spectacular march to the sea, Hood began a counter movement into Tennessee. The Seventy-fifth was now witlı Gen. Schofield, who had a fierce fight with Hood at Franklin. At the battle of Nashville, Dec. 16, 1864, the regiment was in the command of Gen. Grose, and after a bloody assault, Hood's army was a wreck, and fled across the Ten- nessee. Gen. George H. Thomas, the hero of the day, commanding the Army of the Cumberland, issued an order congratulating the soldiers on the glorious results of the long campaign.
Give us a song, the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding.
Hail, happy day! While the Fourth Army Corps was lying at Nash- ville, orders came for the payment and mustering out of the veteran. troops, and on June 13 the Seventy-fifth was en route for Chicago. July 1 they were paid and discharged, departing for home to resume the common duties of the American citizen, after two years and nine months in the Southland.
Then they rode back, but not- Not the six hundred.
Of the regiment, sixty-four were killed, thirty-one died of wounds, ninety-one of disease. Besides, 216 were discharged for disability, and 184 wounded. A grand total of 586, or nearly 57 per cent.
Many of the prominent officers were spared to enjoy the peace of the land they struggled to save. Col. John E. Bennett, Brevet Brigadier-General, who afterwards accepted a lieutenancy in the regular army. General William M. Kilgour died in 1887 in California. Dr. Henry Utley, second assistant surgeon, practiced his profession in Sterling until his death a few years ago. William Parker published the Rock Falls Progress until his death in Dec., 1907. Andy McMoore was a merchant in Sterling, and then removed to the south. F. A. Caughey is still living in Sterling. There are, of course, others in the county and elsewhere of whom we have no knowledge.
THIRTY-FOURTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY. On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead .- Theodore O'Hara.
Early in the summer of 1861, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk gave a party on the lawn of their elegant home, now the property of Wash Dillon, opposite the Hennepin dam. As the writer and Mr. Kirk stood on the piazza, he remarked, "It does not seem right to be quietly at home while men are needed at the front." He soon was to put his thought into execution.
Authorized by Governor Richard Yates to raise a regiment, Kirk at once
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proceeded to make arrangements, muster rolls were opened, and in a short time the companies had their complement. Edwin N. Kirk was commissioned Colonel, Amos Bosworth of the Grand Detour Plow Works, Lieut. Colonel, and Charles N. Levanway, of Dixon, Major. David Leavitt, of Sterling, Adjutant, and Francis McNeil of Rochelle, Surgeon. The various companies, except H, G and K, assembled at Dixon, September 3, 1861, took the Illinois Cen- tral, and the next day arrived at Camp Butler, near Springfield. The other companies came later.
While on a trip to Springfield that autumn, the writer visited Camp Butler, and found the boys in excellent spirits. They spoke in the highest terms of Mrs. Kirk, who had accompanied the Colonel, and took a- motherly interest in the quality of the coffee and food that were furnished.
After a month of drill, the regiment started, October 3rd, on box, coal and stock cars, with soft planks laid across for seats, for Cincinnati. Crossing the Ohio river to Covington, Kentucky, they enjoyed a bountiful supper provided by the citizens. At Frankfort hot coffee and lunch were served by the best ladies of the city. They reached Camp Nevin, near the Louisville and Nashville railroad, Oct. 11, in the midst of a chilly rain.
Gen. W. T. Sherman with headquarters at Louisville, was in command of the Union army in Kentucky, having relieved Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, who was in poor health. Sherman was soon succeeded by Buell. At Camp Nevin the boys suffered from various diseases induced by the rainy season and the change in diet, and twenty per cent of the regiment were unfit for duty. Even both of the assistant surgeons were sick. Inter- mittent fever and measles were the prevailing ailments. Camp Nevin was evacuated Dec. 9 for Mumfordsville to the south on Green river, where the regiment remained to Feb. 14, 1862, when the advance of Grant's army on Forts Henry and Donelson made necessary a move in another direction.
Few, few shall part where many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet, Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Events henceforth moved rapidly, and two terrific battles were ahead. Past Mammoth Cave, across the Cumberland at Nashville, Columbia, Savanna, up the Tennessee river on boats to -Shiloh, where the men landed at sunrise on the morning of April 7. They had marched 27 miles the day before, and were very tired, but forming their lines they were soon in the midst of a deadly conflict which had begun the day previous. Gen. Albert Sidney John- ston had marched with an army of 50,000 from Corinth and attacked Grant with 32,000 troops, driving the Union army towards Pittsburgh Landing. Johnston was killed on the first day, and Beauregard was in command of the rebels. Gunboats on the river and artillery on land covered our line of defense, the Confederates fell back, and when Buell came on the morning of the 7th with 13,000 fresh troops, the battle was renewed, a general assault made, and the rebels, after a tremendous conflict, driven from the field. It was one of the fiercest contests of the war, both sides losing in killed and
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wounded from 10,000 to 12,000 men. Major Levanway was killed by a can- ister shot in the neck, and Col. Kirk was severely wounded. The regiment lost 35 killed and 92 wounded.
Shortly after this a recruiting squad was sent north to secure men for the ranks which by battle and disease had been lessened twenty per cent in seven months. Capt. Miller of Company H, Adjutant Leavitt, and a Sergeant from each company formed the detail. Gen. Bragg was now the foe in front. After the battle of Perryville, where the 75th Illinois lost so heavily, he had retreated southward, and taken position along the railroad at Murfreesboro, his cavalry operating between that point and the outposts of Rosecran's forces, covering the pikes south of Nashville. Gen. R. W. Johnson was in command of our Second Division of McCook's corps, and Gen. Kirk in com- mand of the Second Brigade. No Christmas for the boys, for an hour before daylight, Dec. 26, 1862, the bugles rang out, and in cold and rain. the forward movement began from Camp Andy Johnson.
Soon after breakfast on the morning of Dec. 31, the advance of the enemy in overwhelming force moved on the pickets of the Thirty-fourth Illi- nois, the batteries on both sides opened, and in five minutes the contest was terrific. The rebels charged with a yell and with the dash of a tidal wave. For the Thirty-fourth it was a hand-to-hand conflict. With twelve men killed, sixty wounded, five color bearers falling in quick succession, the regiment still struggled to maintain its line. Kirk had a second horse killed, and although severely wounded in the thigh, continued cheering his men, until his strength failed, and he was borne bleeding to the rear. Col. Dodge of Thirtieth Indiana, then took command. After an operation in the hospital in July, to gain relief, Gen. Kirk seemed to rally and smoked a cigar, but he soon sank into the last sleep.
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Edwin N. Kirk was born in Ohio, 1828, and was in the prime of life. V
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