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While this command was eminently useful in guarding posts and various kinds of service, it was not its lot to see much of the real tragedy of war, and perhaps the comedy was equally as full of amusement to the men composing it. Only one officer of the regiment was from this county, and that was Lieut.
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Col. John M. Hurt, of Athens, who died at Pine Bluff, Ark., November 18, 1864. A company from this county-Company K, consisting of 102 men -belonged to this regiment. The first Captain of this company was Alonzo E. Currier, of Athens. He resigned June 15, 1863, and was 'succeeded by George Collier, of Petersburg. But, only eleven days after, Capt. Collier died of disease, and was succeeded by Lieut. John A. Hurt, of Athens. On the 28th of March, 1865, Capt. Hurt was honorably discharged, to be pro- moted Major. Lieut. Samuel H. Blane then became Captain and served to the close of the war. He is now a popular lawyer in Petersburg. Ill. The other officers, in the order of their service, are as follows : First Lieutenants, George Collier, John A. Hurt, James D. McCam, Samuel H. Blane and Gage S. Gritman ; Second Lieutenants, John A. Hurt, S. H. Blane and Enoch B. Smith. All of these, except McCam, Gritman and Smith, were promoted. Of these 102 men, besides the officers, 20 died of disease, viz., James McCam, Jesse Stone, Henry C. Black, Andrew Gunstenson, Calvin Goodell, Homer Goodpastine, John C. Goff, Samuel II. Hardin, James C. Hurst, James H. Jackson, James W. Kincaid, James McClary, Thomas H. Metteer, Francis Rice, James E. Roberson, Odd A. Roe, William A. Smith, Terry Tuckleson, Francis A. Vanaman, George D. Brockway and David S. Rice. None were killed or wounded in action, nor did any desert. Through a singular Provi- dence, or fatality, as some of them regarded it, they were given no chance to exhibit their great prowess on the ensanguined field. But we doubt not that the motive prompting them to enlist were just as pure as that of those who stood where the fight was hottest; and, if opportunity had presented itself, no doubt they would have won as many laurels as any who marched under the Stars and Stripes. As said before, it was no fault of theirs that they were not in the thickest of the fight, for both officers and men enlisted to fight.
Of the regiments we have named, there is not one of which an Illinoisan need be ashamed; but there were some that had better opportunity to write its deeds of daring in crimson letters than others. Among the Illinois regiments that will live in the memory of man, we may name the gallant One Hundred and Fourteenth. This regiment was composed of six companies from Sanga- mon County, B, C, E, G, H and I; two from Cass County, A and D ; and two from Menard, F and K. The regiment was made up in the months of July and August, 1862, and was mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois, on the 18th of September following. It was at once ordered to Memphis, Tenn., and there did picket duty until the 26th of November, when it started on the Tallahatchie campaign as a part of the First Brigade of Brig. Gen. Lanman's Division. During the winter, it marched to College Hill, and then to Jackson, and thence back to Memphis. On March 17, 1863, it was trans- ported down the river to Young's Point, and soon after went into camp at
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Dnekport, La. On the 2d of May, the regiment broke camp to take a posi- tion in the rear of Vicksburg. and. on the 14th of May, engaged in the battle of Jackson, Miss. Reached the rear of Vicksburg the 18th, and took part in the siege. Just one mouth after the fall of Vicksburg. Col. James W. Judy. of Menard County. resigned. This was August 4, 1863. he having served eighteen days less than one year. He was succeeded by Lieut. Col. John F. King. Samuel N. Shoup acted as Colonel after May 11. 1865. The regiment participated in the battles of Wyatt, Mississippi. Guntown, Tupelo, Harris- ville. It was on the long and tedious pursuit of Gen. Price in Missouri, marching from the Arkansas border. to Kansas City and back to St. Lonis. At both Guntown and Harrisville, the regiment was highly complimented for bravery. Having returned South, on the night of the 13th of April (the very right that President Lincoln was shot), the regiment was ordered to attack Forts Tracy and Ilugee, situated in Mobile Bay. The attack was made in pontoon boats, but when the forts were reached, they were found to have been entirely evacuated. After the surrender of Mobile, the regiment marched to Montgomery, Ala., arriving April 24, and bridging the Alabama River with pontoons, remained on duty at the bridge until the 17th of July, when it was ordered to Vicksburg, to be mustered out. On the 3d of August. 1865, it was mustered out, and reached Camp Butler, Illinois, August 7, and were paid off, and discharged August 15, 1865.
Company C. though not credited as a company to Menard County, had thirty men from that county in its rank and file. Out of the thirty. four were killed in battle, viz .. William M. Blue, James Griffith, John W. Langston and William Bumford. Two died of wounds, James HI. Mitchell and Benjamin F. Sever. One was severely wounded but recovered : this was William Lawrence. Two died in prison, viz , Simeon Little and Charles S. Parker : two others. who were in prison, lived to be exchanged, viz., William H. Holland and William Staples. Six deserted. Thirteen died of disease; these were William Cantrall, George H. Broaderick, Young M. Cantrall. David S. Dris- call. Charles Frisby, Jacob B. Hutchinson, Isaac N. Halladay, Henry Parks, William O. Smith, John W. Sampson, Peter Sebriney, Charles C. Tufts and John W. Wilson.
Company F' mastered fifty-six men from Menard County. Capt. Absalom Miller, of Menard ; First Lieutenant, Willett B. Taylor, of Cass, and Second Lieutenant, Joseph T. Workman, of Menard, were the company officers. Two of this company, George A. Bell and Charles P. Carson, were killed in action ; Thomas R. Humphrey and Robert J. Clarke died of wounds ; James S. Smith was severely wounded but recovered : two died in prison, viz., David Monroe and William H. Penny. Seven out of this company were for a time prisoners but were exchanged ; their names are as follows: Jacob Brown, Jasper I. Campbell, William D. Colby. A. J. Etherton. George H. Hoff. John A.
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Kinner and Russel B. Thrapp. Died of disease, twelve, viz., Richard Smedley, Thomas S. Armstrong, James W. Bell, Thomas D. Fuller, John A. Hurd. John McNeal. Michael Spinner, William A. Smith, William Tippet, George M. Wilson, Lycurgus Workman and John A. Conyers. There were also two deserters from this company. but we will not record their names on these pages.
Company K, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth, was also raised in this county, and ninety-two of her citizens were enrolled in it. The company offi- cers were all, save one, from this county. They were: Captains, Samuel Estill and Robert Hornback, First Lieutenants, Lucian Terhune and Ezra Fish, Sec- ond Lieutenant, Henry C. Rogge. All of these, except Fish, were from Men- ard. Of the men, Joseph Denton was killed in battle; James Morris and John M. Ilart died of wounds received in battle, while Jesse Knoles lost a leg at the knee, but recovered. Four were taken prisoners : these were William J. Allen, Henry Beekman, Evan McLean and Samuel S. Knoles; the last named, now editor of the Petersburg Democrat, was in Andersonville for nine months. Not long before he was taken prisoner, while in the heat of battle, he was hit square over the heart with a minie ball, but having a large bunch of letters in the breast pocket of his coat (letters from the girl he left behind him, perhaps), the ball lodged in the center of the letters and he escaped with a thorough shaking-up and a severe bruise. Fourteen of the company died of disease ; these were David F. Estill, Louis P. Moore, William J. Denton, George W. Powell, Isaac F. Estill, William Johnson, Harman Meyer, Joseph Oswold, Isaac Snodgrass, Rhodes Snodgrass, John W. Trumbo, Walter Taylor. Arthur Thomas and John Yelkin. Eight of the privates, full of chivalry and patriotism, took " French leave," that is, they deserted ; their names we will not give at present. This completes the record of this regiment, so far as we have space to give it. Menard County had 178 men in the ranks of this brave body of men. Many are sleeping on the hillsides of the Sunny South, while many others, having almost forgotten the arts of war, are here enjoying the liberties for which they fought, showing the same fortitude and courage exhibited by them in battle.
The One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois Infantry will now be noticed briefly, as among its men we find quite a number from this county. But had there been none of our volunteers among them. we would be almost led to state a few facts concerning it, as it merits a place wherever a record is made of Illinois soldiers. The One Hundred and Fifteenth was ordered into the field from Camp Butler, Illinois, on October 4, 1862, having mustered in the 18th of September of the same year. It went to Cincinnati, and, the same day. crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky. It was assigned to the Second Bri- gade, Second Division, Army of Kentucky. It was never actively engaged in battle until it was ordered to Franklin, Tenn .. in March. 1863. But the
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mortality, on account of exposure, hard marching and a diet to which they were unaccustomed, with the change of elimate, was fearful. Up to that time, more than two hundred men had died or been permanently disabled by disease ; they had died by scores. After driving Gen. Bragg's army across the Tennessee River, on the 24th of June. 1863, the brigade had a respite from battle until the 19th of September. On this day, it engaged in the bloody conflict of Chickamauga. In this battle, the loss of the One Hundred and Fifteenth was very slight. On September 20. it crossed to the support of Gen. Thomas, on the extreme right. leaving camp at sunrise. At 1 o'clock P. M., it engaged the rebels of Thomas' right with Steadman's division. ten regiments reserve corps. After a most fearful and sanguinary struggle, it held its posi- tion until night put an end to the day's carnage. But it was held at a fearful sacrifice, more than one-half the command being cut down on the field. The regiment took part in the battles of Chattanooga, Mission Ridge and countless skirmishes.
In the campaign around Chattanooga. the regiment lost 235 men and 10 officers, among them being Lient. Col. Kinman, of Jacksonville. After this, it fought at Dalton, Resaca, Atlanta and other points, and finally was in the pursuit of Hood from Nashville. It was mustered out of service near Nash- ville, on the 11th of June, 1865. and reaching Camp Butler, Illinois, on the 16th of June, there received final pay and discharge June 23, 1865.
Company K of this regiment was made up in part of men from this county, there being forty-three among the privates and three of the company officers from Menard County. The company officers were as follows: Cap- tains-James Steele and Alanson Pierce, both of Menard, and Philip Riley, of Springfield : First Lieutenants-Sylvester M. Bailey, of Salisbury ; Philip Riley and Samuel Alexander, of Menard ; Second Lieutenant-Philip Riley. This company had killed in action, two, James B. Strode and William B. England. Three of its number died in prison, Lewis J. Ferguson, Edward R. Center and William H. Buingardner. Two were for a time prisoners, but were at length exchanged ; these were Andrew J. Hall and Jacob A. Allison. The following persons, six in number, died in prison : James P. Moran, Will- iam Bailey, William Ferguson, William L. Hyde, Smith A. Marshall and Law- rence Newhart. Six. also, were deserters. In one or two other companies in this regiment, there were one or two men from this county, but the reader will find a list of these scattered individuals at the close of this article : it is unnec- essary to speak of any of them in this place.
The One Hundred and Thirty third Illinois Volunteer Infantry was organ- ized at Camp Butler by Col. Thaddeus Phillips, and mustered into the service for one hundred days on the 31st of May, 1864. On the 3d of June, it was removed to Rock Island Barracks, and was there assigned the duty of guarding prisoners of war. This duty it faithfully performed during its term of service, and, on the 24th of the following September, it was mustered out of service at
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Camp Butler. The regimental officers were: Colonel, Thaddeus Phillips ; Lieutenant Colonel, John E. Moore ; Major, James F. Langley. Company I, of the One Hundred and Thirty-third contained twenty-three men from Menard County. The company officers were : Captain, Alfred Orendorff, of Lincoln ; First Lieutenant, Ethan A. Norton, of Petersburg ; and, Second Lieutenant, Samuel A. Rannels, of Murrayville. Of the twenty-four men of this county, counting Lieut. Norton, not one died or deserted ; and, as they were never in . action, of course none were killed or wounded.
The One Hundred and Fifty-second Illinois Infantry was organized by Col. Ferdinand D. Stephenson, at Camp Butler, and was mustered in for one year's service on the 18th of February, 1865. On the 20th of the same month, it moved to Tullahoma, Tenn., by way of Nashville, and there reported for duty to Maj. Gen. Milroy, February 28, 1865. The regiment was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., on the 11th of September, 1865. It reached Camp Butler, Illinois, September 19, 1865, and received final payment and discharge. The regimental officers were : Colonel, Ferdinand D. Stephenson, of Groveland ; Lieutenant Colonel, Jasper Partridge, of Whitmore; and John N. Nale, of Blue Mound. One company of the regiment was partially raised in this county. This was Company A. Of the company, forty-eight men and two officers (fifty, in all) were from Menard. The company officers were : Cap- tain, William S. Slocumb, of Groveland ; First Lieutenant, Merritt Hurst, of Menard; and Second Lieutenant, James N. Barger, of Menard, also. None were killed, wounded or prisoners, the only reduction of the company being from disease and desertion. Four died of disease, viz .: Andrew J. Brown, John Flemming, Noah L. Weaver and Stephen L. Wilson. The deserters were three.
This closes the record of the part taken by this county in the infantry ser- vice, but the cavalry had several representatives from Menard County, a record of which we will now give very briefly. The Tenth Cavalry was the only cavalry regiment in which any considerable number of men from this county were enrolled. The Tenth Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, on the 25th of November, 1861. Dudley Wickersham was appointed its Colonel on the 15th of May, 1862. On the 20th of December, 1861, it moved to Quincy, Ill., and, on the 13th of March following, it was ordered to Benton Barracks, Mo. From this time on, this regiment saw hard service until it was mustered out. It was made up of a fine lot of men, who were ever ready for the fray. It was finally mustered out of service at San Antonio, Tex., on the 22d of November, 1865, and ordered to Springfield, Ill., for final pay and discharge. The regimental officers were as follows : Colonels, James A. Barrett, Dudley Wickersham and James Stuart ; Lieutenant Colonels, Dudley Wickersham, James Stuart, Samuel N. Hitt, Egleton Car- michael and Thomas D. Vredenburgh ; Majors, T. D. Vredenburgh, George A. Wills, William A. Chapin and Tabner B. Pierce. Of these officers of the
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regiment. none were of this county. Two companies of this regiment were made, partially, at least. in this county. These were Companies A and E. Of the first of these, thirty-two men and two officers were from Menard. These were Capt. Christopher H. Anderson, of Sweetwater, and Second Lient. Samuel F. Russell. of Athens. None of Company A were killed in battle, although Samuel Montgomery died of wounds received in action. Seven died of disease. These were Bradley V. Atwood, Joseph MeReynolds, Joseph L. Markwell, John C. Rogers, George W. Reding. Elisha Hall and Selathiel G. Leach. Company E mustered sixty-six men from Menard County, and one officer. The company officers were : Captains, Henry Reily, Samuel J. Byrd and William HI. Stout : First Lieutenants, Columbus Cross, William II. East, S. J. Byrd, Henry J. Solomon and Samuel B. Garber ; Second Lieutenant, William J. Darman. Of these officers, only Samuel B. Garber was from Menard County. Out of this company, none were killed in action. Simon P. Sampson died of wounds received in a fight. Four died of disease. viz .: Levy Shaw, Michael Bolson. James M. Reed and William Young. From some unknown cause, the number of deserters was excessively large in proportion to the numbers, there being no less than ten of the sixty-six who did not
" Fight an I run away To live to fight another day : '
but they ran away before they fought a battle.
This brings us to the artillery. Only three men of Menard County were in the artillery, so far as we can learn, as the Adjutant General's Report shows. James Ward, of Athens. Menard County, was mustered in as an unassigned reeruit, into the First Artillery. on the 20th of March. 1864. Edward L. Bingley, of Petersburg, enlisted as a reeruit in Battery B. of the Second Artil- lery. on the 8th of March, 1864 ; and was mustered out July 15, 1865. Albert Albertson, of Petersburg, enlisted in Battery K, of the Second Artillery, on the 27th of January, 1862. He re-eulisted as a veteran, and served till the close of the war. He served most of the time, while in action, as No. 1 or No. 2, that is, either placed the cartridge in the mouth of the gun, or rammed it home. Albertson was in a number of battles, his battery being charged more than once, and many of the men cut down at their guns. Mr. Albertson still resides in Petersburg, a respected and industrious citizen
It is beyond our power to give a full list of those men of Menard County who belonged to commands belonging to other counties ; we will mention a few of those who were officers. Charles E. MeDougall, now a merchant of Peters- burg, was Captain of Company E, in the Sixty-first Infantry. He enlisted in Greene County. James C. Tice, of Menard County, was First Lieutenant in Company G. of the Seventy-first Infantry. As before stated, quite a number of enlistments from this county, in companies from other parts of the State, cannot, by any possibility, be found.
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Below we give a tabular view of the enlistments, officers, deaths from vari- ous causes, the wounded, deserters, etc., etc., from the county. Had space allowed, we would have given the place, date, circumstances, etc., of all the cas- ualties of soldiers from this county, during the war from first to last :
SUMMARY OF THE WAR RECORD OF MENARD COUNTY.
REGIMENT AND COMPANY.
Number
Enlisted.
Killed in
Action.
Died of
Wounds.
Killed by
Accident.
Wounded.
Died in
Prison.
Prisoners
Released.
Died of
Disease.
Deserted.
Fourteenth Regiment, Company E.
80
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Regiments, Company A ..
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company F
107
5
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company K.
39
I
1
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company C.
24
·)
Fifty-first Regiment, Company F
11
1
·)
Seventy-first Regiment, Company G.
30
3
4
10
10
Eighty-fifth Regiment, Company E.
102
20
One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Co. C ...
30
1
1
13
6
One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Co. F ..
56
2
1
12
One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Co. K ...
92
1
1
1
1
14
43
23
48
4
3
32
1
7
66
1
4
10
Second Artillery, Battery K
1
1
1
Total Privates
980
21
19
21
8 15
117
50
Total Officers ..
31
2
5
Total Privates enlisted elsewhere.
73
B
9,
Total
1084
26
19
2
26
S
15
129
50
Total deaths of officers and men from all causes, 184. A great many of those who returned home have since died, so that soldiers of the late war are not numerous in the county, even though over one thousand entered the service eighteen years ago. The record of the names of all who enlisted should be given, that the future generations should know who they were that came to the rescue in the hour of the country's peril. A few years in the future and the Report of the Adjutant General will be out of print, and the great mass of those who suffered and bled and died will be forgotten.
SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 IN MENARD COUNTY.
Of course this county sent no soldiers into the last war with England : but as this part of Illinois began to be settled up only a few years after the close of that war. a great many who had served their country at that time, settled here, and made this their home ever after. But nearly all of these have long since gone to their final rest. In our cemeteries, we frequently see inscription-
-
Tenth Cavalry, Company E.
Second Artillery, Battery B
First Artillery. Battery E
75
3
fi
2
.1
One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Company K.
37
1
Seventy-third Regiment, Company F.
1
1
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company D
12
Thirty eighth Regiment, Company G
24
2
One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment, Co. I ..
One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Co. A .. Tenth Cavalry, Company A
One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Co. K
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telling the fact that some of these men sleep in this part of the State. Only a year or two ago, one of these old patriots was laid to rest beneath the leaves and flowers of Rose Hill Cemetery. He was well stricken in years, but, at the mention of the days of trial he experienced in the war, the old fire would come back to his eye, and, for a time, he seemed to have regained all the fire of his youth : but. at the change of the theme of conversation, he relapsed again into the apathy and weakness of extreme old age. He was buried by a detachment of the State Guard with the honors of war. We can learn of only three per- sons now living in the county, who were soldiers in that war, and these are, of course, all very old men. Mr. Tarleton Lloyd, living on Rock Creek, some six miles south of Petersburg, was a man of, at least, thirty years of age at the beginning of that war. When war was declared, he was living with his family in one of the Southeastern States. Notwithstanding the fact that he had a wife and children at the time, he unhesitatingly responded to the call of his country, and enlisted in the army. He served faithfully till the fall of Gen. Packen- ham and the close of the war, having been in several engagements. and then returned to his family. In 1820, he settled on the place where he now lives ; reared a large family (several of whom are still in this part of the State), and still lives, a hale and hearty man considering his age. He remembers facts in his earlier life remarkably well, and nothing pleases him better than for the younger people to listen to his stories of the war, and the early history of Illi- nois. There are conflicting statements concerning Mr. Lloyd's age. Accord- ing to his own statement, he is now about ninety-six years of age. But those who have known him long, say that he has claimed to be of that age for several years. Those who knew him forty or fifty years ago, say that according to the account he then gave of his age, together with his appearance at that time, he is now, certainly, several years above a century old. William Estill, liv- ing on Indian Creek, five miles east of Petersburg, was also a soldier in the late war with England. Sometime after the close of the war, he removed to Illinois, and has lived ever since within'a few miles of his present residence. His first wife was a Miss Williams, sister of John Williams, one of the leading capitalists of this county. She died many years ago, and some years later, he was married to a widow lady-Mrs. Eliza Hayden. By his first wife, he reared a large family of children, among them were Capts. William J. and Samuel Estill, of the war of the rebellion ; Lient. Isaac and a younger brother, both of whom died in the service : and also, Joseph and James Estill (both farmers) living in the eastern portion of the county. Besides these sons, he has two daughters still living. These are Mrs. Luther Jennison, living near Greenview, and Mrs. William Price, near Athens. " Uncle Billy," as as he is generally called, is now eighty-five years of age, and, with the exception of considerable suffering from rheumatism, is in remarkably good health for one of this great age. He became a professor of religion in early life, and has, for about half a century, been a Ruling Elder in the Cumberland
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Presbyterian Church. He is a man of deepest piety, and, perhaps, no man in this part of Illinois has exerted a greater influence for good by a con- stantly devoted and consistent Christian life than he. In fact, among all classes, he is held in the highest esteem, and regarded as a model of devoted piety. The third soldier of the late war with England, living in this county, is Mr. Lewis MeKay, living on Rock Creek, seven miles south of Petersburg, and in the same neighborhood with Mr. Tarleton Lloyd, spoken of before. Mr. McKay is now eighty-two years old ; as straight as a boy, and, with the exception of a defect in his hearing, he seems to be in the enjoyment of excel- lent health for one of his years. Unfortunately, we have not had the means of learning the history of Mr. McKay. He went into the service in 1814, hence, was not more than seventeen years old at that time. He served till the close of the war, and then settled down to the practice of the arts of peace. He is a perfect gentleman in all his deportment, and is honored and respected by all who know him. He, at present, makes his home with his son-in-law and daughter-Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Golden. We should delight to honor those old men who have done so much for our country. They are almost all gone. Here and there one still lives, but a few years from now-in less than a decade -the last of them will have gone to the journey's end.
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