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MESSAGES OF LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
Letters. messages of love and enconragement, were sent by noble women from many counties of the State to encourage the brave sons and brothers in the South. Below we give a copy of a printed letter sent from Knox county to the " boys in blue," as showing the feelings of the women of the North. It was headed, "FROM THE WOMEN OF KNOX COUNTY TO THEIR BROTHERS IN THE FIELD." It was a noble, soul-inspiring message. and kindled anew the intensest love for home, country, and a determination to crown the stars and stripes with victory :
" You have gone out from our homes, but not from our hearts. Never for one mo- ment are you forgotten. Through weary march and deadly conflict our prayers have ever followed you ; your sufferings are our sufferings, your victories our great joy.
" If there be one of you who knows not the dear home ties, for whom no mother prays, no sister watches, to him especially we speak. Let him feel that though he may not have one mother he has many ; he is the adopted child and brother of all our hearts. Not one of you is beyond the reach of our sympathies ; no pieket-station so lonely that it is not enveloped in the halo of our prayers.
" During all the long, dark months since our country called you from us. your cour- age, your patient endurance, your fidelity, have awakened our keenest interest, and we have longed to give you an expression of that interest.
" By the alaerity with which you sprang to arms, by the valor with which those arms have been wielded, you have placed our State in the front ranks; you have made her worthy to be the home of our noble President. For thus sustaining the honor of our State, dear to us as life, we thank you.
"Of your courage we need not speak. Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Stone River, Vieksburg, speak with blood-bathed lips of your heroism. The Army of the Southwest fights beneath no defeat-shadowed banner ; to it, under God, the nation looks for deliverance.
" But we, as women, have other eanse for thanks. We will not speak of the debt we owe the defenders of our Government ; that blood-sealed bond no words can cancel. But we are your debtors in a way not often recognized. You have aroused us from the aimlessness into which too many of our lives had drifted, and have infused into those lives a noble pathos. We could not dream our time away while our brothers were dying
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for us. Even your sufferings have worked together for our good, by inciting us to labor for their alleviation, thus giving us a work worthy of our womanhood. Every thing that we have been permitted to do for your comfort has filled our lives so much the fuller of all that makes life valuable. You have thus been the means of developing in us a nobler type of womanhood than without the example of your heroism we could ever have at- tained. For this our whole lives, made purer and nobler by the discipline, will thank you. " This war will leave none of us as it found us. We can not buffet the raging wave and escape all trace of the salt sea's foam. Toward better or toward worse we are hur- ried with fearful haste. If we at home feel this, what must it be to you! Our hearts throb with agony when we think of you wounded, suffering, dying ; but the thought of no physical pain touches us half so deeply as the thought of the temptations which sur- round you. We could better give you up to die on the battle-field, true to your God and to your country, than to have you return to us with blasted, blackened souls. When temptations assail fiercely, you must let the thought that your mothers are praying for strength enable you to overcome them. But fighting for a worthy cause worthily en- nobles one ; herein is our confidence that you will return better men than you went away.
" By all that is noble in your manhood ; by all that is true in our womanhood ; by all that is grand in patriotism ; by all that is sacred in religion, we adjure you to be faith- ful to yourselves, to us, to your country, and to your God. Never were men permitted to fight in a cause more worthy of their blood. Were you fighting for mere conquest, or glory, we could not give you up ; but to sustain a principle, the greatest to which human lips have ever given utterance, even your dear lives are not too costly a sacrifice. Let that principle, the corner-stone of our independence, be crushed, and we are all slaves. Like the Suliote mothers, we might well clasp our children in our arms and leap down to death.
" To the stern arbitrament of the sword is now committed the honor, the very life of this nation. You fight not for yourselves alone; the eyes of the whole world are on you ; and if you fail our Nation's death-wail will echo through all coming ages, moaning a requiem over the lost hopes of oppressed humanity. But you will not fail, so sure as there is a God in Heaven. He never meant this richest argosy of the nations, freighted with the fears of all the world's tyrants, with the hopes of all its oppressed ones. to flounder in darkness and death. Disasters may come, as they have come, but they will only be, as they have been, ministers of good. Each one has led the nation upward to a higher plane, from whence it has seen with a clearer eye. Success could not attend us at the West so long as we scorned the help of the black hand, which alone had power to open the gate of redemption ; the God of battles would not vouchsafe a victory at the East till the very foot-prints of a McClellan were washed out in blood.
" But now all things seem ready ; we have accepted the aid of that hand ; those foot- steps are obliterated. In his own good time we feel that God will give us the victory. Till that hour comes we bid you fight on. Though we have not attained that heroism, or decision, which enables us to give you up without a struggle, which can prevent our giving tears for your blood, though many of us must own our own hearts desolate till you re- turn, still we bid you stay and fight for our country, till from this fierce baptism of blood she shall be raised complete ; the dust shaken from her garments purified, a new Memnon singing in the great Godlight."
SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA.
On the 15th of November, 1864, after the destruction of Atlanta, and the railroads behind him, Sherman, with his army, began his march to the sea-coast. The almost breathless anxiety with which his progress was watched by the loyal hearts of the nation, and the trembling apprehension with which it was regarded by all who hoped for rebel success, indicated this as one of the most remarkable events of the war; and so it proved.
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Of Sherman's army, forty-five regiments of infantry, three companies of artillery. and one of cavalry, were from this State. Lincoln answered all rumors of Sherman's defeat with. " It is impossible ; there is a mighty sight of fight in 100,000 Western men." Illinois soldiers brought home 300 battle flags. The first United States flag that floated over Richmond was an Illinois flag. She sent messengers and nurses to every field and hospi- tal to care for her sick and wounded sons.
Illinois gave the country the great general of the war, U. S. Grant.
CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
One other name from Illinois comes up in all minds, embalmed in all hearts, that must have the supreme place in this sketch of our glory and of our nation's honor; that name is Abraham Lincoln. The analysis of Mr. Lincoln's character is difficult on account of its symmetry. In this age we look with admiration at his uncompromising honesty ; and well we may, for this saved us. Thousands throughout the length and breadth of our country, who knew him only as " Honest Old Abe," voted for him on that account : and wisely did they choose, for no other man could have carried us through the fearful night of war. When his plans were too vast for our comprehension, and his faith in the cause too sublime for our participation ; when it was all night about us, and all dread before us, and all sad and desolate behind us; when not one ray shone upon our cause ; when traitors were hanghty and exultant at the South, and fierce and blasphemous at the North ; when the loyal men seemed almost in the minority; when the stoutest heart quailed, the bravest cheek paled ; when generals were defeating each other for place, and contractors were leeching out the very heart's blood of the republic ; when every thing else had failed us, we looked at this calm. patient man standing like a rock in the storm, and said, " Mr. Lincoln is honest, and we can trust him still." Holding to this single point with the energy of faith and despair, we held together, and under God he brought us through to victory. His practical wisdom made him the wonder of all lands. With such certainty did Mr. Lincoln follow causes to their ultimate effects, that his foresight of con- tingencies seemed almost prophetic. He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory will shed a glory upon this age that will fill the eyes of men as they look into history. Other men have excelled him in some points ; but, taken at all points, he stands head and shoulders above every other man of 6,000 years. An administrator, he saved the nation in the perils of unparalleled civil war ; a statesman, he justified his measures by their success ; a philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and salvation to another ; a moralist, he bowed from the summit of human power to the foot of the cross ; a media- tor, he exercised mercy under the most absolute obedience to law ; a leader, he was no partisan ; a commander, he was untainted with blood ; a ruler in desperate times, he was unsullied with crime ; a man, he has left no word of passion, no thought of malice, no trick of craft, no aet of jealousy, no purpose of selfish ambition. Thus perfected, with- out a model and without a peer, he was dropped into these troubled years to adorn and embellish all that is good and all that is great in our humanity, and to present to all com- ing time the representative of the divine idea of free government. It is not too much to say that away down in the future, when the republic has fallen from its niche in the wall of time ; when the great war itself shall have faded out in the distance like a mist on the horizon; when the Anglo-Saxon shall be spoken only by the tongue of the stranger, then the generations looking this way shall see the great President as the supreme figure in this great vortex of history.
THE WAR ENDED-THE UNION RESTORED.
The rebellion was ended with the surrender of Lee and his army, and Johnson and his command in April, 1865. Our armies at the time were up to their maximum strength, never so formidable, never so invincible; and, until recruiting ceased by order of Secre-
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tary Stanton, were daily strengthening. The necessity, however, for so vast and formida- ble numbers ceased with the disbanding of the rebel forces, which had for more than four years disputed the supremacy of the Government over its domain. And now the joy-
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ful and welcome news was to be borne to the victorious legions that their work was ended in triumph, and they were to be permitted " to see homes and friends once more."
DEATH OF LINCOLN.
But this work was scarcely done till a terrible event occurred at Washington. While President Lincoln was sitting in a theater with his wife and friends, an actor named John Wilkes Booth, maddened by Lee's overthrow, came unnoticed into his box, leveled a pistol, and shot the President in the head. The victim died the next morning. The assassin leaped upon the stage, escaped through the darkness, and fled. He was pursued, found concealed in a barn, and shot. The grief of the nation was very marked. No President had ever been put to so severe a test, and none, since Washington, had so endeared himself to the people. His honesty, simplicity, fidelity, and sympathetic nature, which never deserted him, had secured his re-election by a large majority. The colored people especially mourned for him as for a father. "He went through life bear- ing the load of the people's sorrows with a smiling face. He was the guiding mind of the nation while he lived, and when he died, the little children cried in the streets."
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GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
SCHEDULE-SHOWING STATEMENT OF VOLUNTEER TROOPS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE STATE,
and sent to the field, commencing April, 1861, and ending December 31, 1865, with number of regiment, name of original commanding officer, date of organization and muster into United States' service, place of muster, and the aggregate strength of each organization.
INFANTRY.
No.
Commanding officer at organization.
Date of organization and muster into the United State service.
Place where mustered into the United States service.
Aggregate strength since or- ganization.
7 S
Col. John Cook
July 25, 1861
Cairo, Illinois
1747
9
Eleazer A Paine
..
..
1265
10
Jas. D. Morgan
..
1354
12
John McArthur
13
John B. Wyman
May 24, 1861
Dixon
1112
John M. Palmer
May 25, 1861
Jacksonville
2015
16
Robert F. Smith
Quincy
1833
17
Leonard F. Ross
Peoria
1259
18
Michael K. Lawler.
May 28, 1861
Anna
2043
19 20 21
..
Chas. C. Marsh
June 13, 1861
Joliet_
IS17
..
Ulysses S. Grant
June 15, 1861
Mattoon
1266
June 25. 1861
Belleville
1164
:
Jas. A. Mulligan
June 18, 1861
Chicago
1982
Frederick Ilecker.
July 8, 1861
Chicago
989
Wm. N. Coler
1082
John M. Loomis
Oct. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
1193
..
A. K. Johnson
Aug. 3, 1861
Camp Butler
1939 1547
.. Jas. S. Rearden
July 27, 1861
Camp Butler
Philip B. Fouke
Sept. 30, 1861
Camp Butler
1878
John A. Logan
Sept. 8, 1861.
Camp Butler
1973
"
John Logan
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
1711
Aug. 15, 1861
Camp Butler
1660
Edward N. Kirk
Sept. 7, 1861
Camp Butler.
1558 1013
Sept. 23, 1861
Aurora
1593
..
Julius White
Sept. 18, 1861
Chicago
[157
..
Wm. P. Carlin
Aug. 15, 1861
Camp Butler
1358
..
Austin Light
Dec. 15, 1861
Chicago
1807 1277 1211 1824
42 43 44 45 16
..
Chas. Noblesdorff.
Sept. 13, 1861
Chicago
1512
Dec. 26, 1861
Galena
1710 2015
47
John Bryner
Oct. 1, 1861
Peoria .
2051
Nov. 18, 1861.
Camp Butler
IS74
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
1482
Sept. 12, 1561
Quincy
1761
Dec. 1861, Feb. 1862
Camp Douglas
1550
Nov. 19, 1861
Geneva
1519
March, 1862
Ottawa
1434
..
Thos. W. Harris
Feb. 18, 1862
Anna.
1720
50
=
Robert Kirkham
Feb. 27. 1862
Shawnectown
1180
57 58 Wm. F. Lynch
Dec. 24, 1861
Camp Douglas.
2202
59
P. Sidney Post
August, 1861
St. Louis, Mo.
1762
60
.4 Silas C. Toler
Feb. 17, 1862
Anna
1647
01
.. Jacob Fry
March 7. 1862
Carrollton
1385
62
James M. True
April 10, 1862
Anna
1730
..
Thos. J. Turner
May 24, 1861
Freeport
2028
=
John B. Turchin
1095
22 23 2.4 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40
Steph. G. Ilicks
Aug. 10, 1861
Salem
41
Isaac C. Pugh
Aug. 9, 1861
Decatur
Wm. A. Webb
Sent. 17, 1861
Chicago
Julius Raith
Dec. 16, 1861
Camp Butler
1902
John E. Smith
John A. Davis
Dec. 28, 1861
Camp Butler
48 49 50 51
David Stuart
Oct. 31, 1561
Camp Douglas
1287
Silas I). Baldwin
Dec. 26, 1861
Camp Douglas
1754
52 53 54 55
Isham N. Haynie.
Wm. R. Morrison
Moses M. Bane .
G. W. Cumming
Isaac G. Wilson
W. H. W. Cushman
Chas. E. Hovey.
Gus. A. Smith
Nich. Greusel
1602
Nap. B. Buford
..
Richard J. Oglesby
IS53
1759
W. II. L. Wallace
1675
Henry Dougherty.
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
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SCHEDULE-SHOWING STATEMENT OF VOLUNTEER TROOPS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE STATE .- CONTINUED. INFANTRY .- Continued.
No.
Commanding officer at organization.
Date of organization and muster into the United States service.
Place where mustered into the United States service.
Aggregate strength since or- ganization.
63 64 65 66
Col. Francis Mora
April 10, 1862
Anna
I22S
Lt. Col. D. D. Williams
Dec. 31, 1862
Camp Butler.
1624
Col. Daniel Cameron
May 15, 1862
Camp Douglas
1683
67
Rosell M. Hough
June 13, 1862
Camp Douglas
979
68
Elias Stuart
June 20, 1862.
Camp Butler
889
69 70
O. T. Reeves
July 4, 1862
Camp Butler
1006
71
Othniel Gilbert
July 26, 1862.
Camp Douglas
940
72
Frederick A. Starring.
Aug. 21, 1862.
Camp Douglas
1471
73
Jason Marsh
Sept. 4, 1862
Rockford
74 75 76 77
(łeorge Ryan.
Sept. 2, 1862.
Dixon
Kankakee.
..
David P. Grier
*Sept. 3, 1862
Peoria
78
W. H. Bennison
Sept. 1, 1862
Quincy
1028
.4
Lyman Guinnip.
Aug. 28, 1862
Danville
Centralia
=
Jas. J. Dollins
Anna
"
Frederick Hecker
Camp Butler
Abner C. Harding.
Aug. 21, 1862
Monmonth
Louis H. Waters
Sept. 1, 1862
Quincy
Robert S. Moore.
Peoria
David D. Irons
Peoria
John E. Whiting.
Sept. 22, 1862
Shawneetown
F. T. Sherman_
Aug. 27, 1862
Camp Douglas.
John Christopher
*Aug. 25, 1862
Camp Douglas
Timothy O'Mera
Nov. 22, 1862
Camp Douglas
Henry M. Day
Sept. 8, 1862
Camp Butler
Smith D. Atkins
Sept. 4, 1862
Rockford
Holden Putnam
Oct. 13, 1862
Princeton and Chicago
Wm. W. Orme
Aug. 20, 1862
Bloomington
Lawr'n S. Church.
Sept. 4, 1862
Rockford
=
Thos. E. Champion
Sept. 6, 1862
Rockford
F. S. Rutherford
Sept. 8, 1862
Camp Butler
J. J. Funkhouser
Sept. 3, 1862
Centralia.
G. W. K. Bailey
Aug. 26, 1862
Florence, Pike Co.
Fred. A. Bartleson
Aug. 30, 1862
Joliet
Chas. H. Fox
Sept. 2, 1862
Jacksonville
=
Amos C. Babcock
Oct. 2, 1862
Peoria
Aug. 27, 1862
Ottawa
Daniel Dustin.
Sept. 2, 1862
Chicago.
Robert B. Latham
Sept. 17, 1862
Lincoln
Thomas Snell
Sept. 4, 1862
Camp Butler
John Warner
Aug. 28, 1862.
Peoria
Alex. J. Nimmo
Anna
=
Thos. S. Casey
Sept. 18, 1862.
Salem
T. J. Henderson
Sept, 12, 1862
Peoria
Geo. B. Hoge
Oct. 1, 1862
Camp Douglas.
James W. Judy
Sept. 18, 1862
Camp Butler
Jesse H. Moore.
Sept. 13, 1862
Camp Butler
952
" Risden M. Moore
Camp Butler
995
Nov. 29, 1862
Camp Butler
IIOI
119
Thos. J. Kenney
Oct. 7, 1862
Quincy
952
I20
George W. McKeaig
Oct. 29, 1862
Camp Butler
844
I21
Never organized
122
Col. John I. Rinaker
Sept. 4, 1862
Carlinville
934
79 80 81 S2 83 S.1 85 86 S7 SS 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 IOI 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 IIO III
112 I13 114 115 116 117 IIS
Nathan H. Tupper
Sept. 30, 1862
Decatur
974 928 1187 961 I286 956 959 993 994 907 1285 958 1041 I265 1036 1091 1427 I206 1082 1078 936 921 9II 998 917 977 I001 1097 944 927 967 873 994 1095
Thos. G. Allen
Aug. 25, 1862
Aug. 26, 1862
Camp Butler
968
Jas. F. Jaquess.
April, 1862
St. Louis, Mo.
1694
Patrick E. Burke
Jos. H. Tucker
June 14, 1862
Camp Douglas
912
989 987 IIIO 1051
Alonzo W. Mack
Aug. 22, 1862
Win. McMurty
Knoxville
Absalom B. Moore
Sept. 11, 1862
Anna
James S. Martin
I258 990 960
Sept. 19, 1862
John G. Fonda
Aug. 27, 1862
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GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
SCHEDULE - SHOWING STATEMENT OF VOLUNTEER TROOPS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE STATE .- CONTINUED.
INFANTRY .- Continued.
No.
Commanding officer at organization.
Dale of organization and muster into the United States service.
Place where mustered ioto the United States service.
Aggregale strength since ar- ganization.
123
Col. James Moore
Sept. 6, 1862
Mattoon
1050
124
Thomas J. Sloan.
Sept. 10, 1862
Camp Butler
1130
125
Oscar F. Harmon.
Sept. 4, 1862
Danville
933
126
..
Jonathan Richmond
..
Chicago
995
127
John VanArman.
*Sept. 5, 1862
Camp Douglas
957
128
Robert M. Hudley
Dec. 18, 1862
Camp Butler
866
129
George P. Smith
Sept. S, 1862
Pontiac
1011
I30
Nathaniel Niles
Oct. 25, 1865
Camp Butler
932
131
George W. Neeley
Nov. 13, 1862
Camp Massac ..
SSO
132
Thomas C. Pickett
June 1. 1864
Camp Fry
S53
133
Thad. Phillips
May 31, 1864
Camp Butler
851
134 135
John S. Wolfe
June 6. 1864
Mattoon
852
136
Fred. A. Johns
June 1, 1864
Centralia
S42
137
.. John Wood
June 5. 1864
Quincy
S35
139
..
Peter Davidson
June 1, 1864
Peoria
S78
140
1 .. H. Whitney
June 18, 1864
Camp Butler
571
1.42
Rollin V. Ankney
June 15, 1864
Camp Butler
565
144
Cyrus Hall
Oct. 21, 1864
Alton, Ills.
1154
145 1.46
..
Henry II. Dean
Sept. 20, 1864
Camp Butler
1050
147
Hiram F. Sickles
Feb. IS, 1865
Chicago
1047
148
..
Horace II. Wilsie
Quincy
917
149
Wm. C. Kueffner
Feb. 11, IS65
Camp Butler
953
150 151
French B. Woodall
Feb. 25, 1865
Quincy
970
152
..
F. D. Stephenson
Feb. 18, 1865
Camp Butler
945
153
.. Stephen Bronson
Feb. 27, 1865
Chicago
1070
154
.. McLean F. Wood
Feb. 22, 1865
Camp Butler
994
155
Gustavus A. Smith
Feb. 28. 1865
Camp Butler
929
156
.. Alfred F. Smith
March 9, 1865
Chicago
975
Dec. 1, 1861
Chicago
935
John A. Bross
Quincy
903
Capt. John Curtis.
June 21, 1864
Camp Butler
91
.. Simon J. Stookey
Camp Butler
90
.. James Steele
June 15. 1864
Chicago
CAVALRY.
1
Col. Thomas A. Marshall
June, 1861
Bloomington
1200
2
Silas Noble
Aug. 24. 1861
Camp Butler
1561
3
Eugene A. Carr
Sept. 21. 1861
Camp Butler
2183
4
T. Lyle Dickey
Sept. 30. 1861
Ottawa
1650
5
John J. Updegraff.
December, 1861
C'amp Butler
100g
6
Thomas II. Cavanaugh
Nov. 1861, Jan. 1862
C'amp Butler
224^
7
Wm. l'itt Kellogg
August. 1861
Camp Butler
2252
8
John F. Farnsworth
Sept. IS. 1861
St. Charles
2412
9
.. Albert G. Brackett
Oct. 26, 1861
l'amp Dougla
2619
Nov. 25, 1861
Camp Butler
1934
12
Arno Voss
Dec., 1561, Feb. 1862 ..
Camp Butler
2174
13
.. Joseph W. Bell.
Camp Douglas
1759
1.4
.. Horace Capron.
Jan. 7. 1863.
Peoria
1565
15
.. Warren Stewart
Organized Dec. 25 1863
Camp Butler
1473
16
Christian Thielman
Jan. and April, 1863
Camp Butler St. Charles
1462
17
.. John 1 .. Beveridge
Jan. 28, 1864
1247
..
W. W. McChesney
Camp Fry
573
138
..
J. W. Goodwin
June 21, 1864
Quincy
..
Stephen Bronson
June 16, 1864
Elgin
542
143
Dudley C. Smith
June 11, 1864
Mattoon
..
.. George W. Lackey
June 9. 1864
C'amp Butler
880
=
George W. Keener
Feb. 14, 1865
Camp Butler
933
..
=
James A. Barrett
Robert G. Ingersoll
Dec. 20, IS61
l'eoria
2362
..
J. W. Wilson
..
..
..
..
..
..
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
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SCHEDULE - SHOWING STATEMENT OF VOLUNTEER TROOPS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE STATE. - Continued.
ILLINOIS LIGHT ARTILLERY. - FIRST REGIMENT.
Com- pany.
Commanding officer at organization.
Date of Organization and Muster into the United States Service.
Place where mustered into the United States Service.
Aggregate Strength siace Or- ganization
A
Capt. C. M. Willard.
Chicago
I68
B
Ezra Taylor_
Chicago
204
C
C. Haughtaling
Oct. 31, 1861_
Ottawa
175
D
Edward McAllister
Jan. 14, 1862
Plainfield
141
E
A. C. Waterhouse
Dec. 19, 1861
Chicago
148
F
John T. Cheney
Feb. 25, 1862
Camp Butler
159
G
Arthur O'Leary
Feb. 28, 1862.
Cairo.
II3
H
Axel Silversparr.
Feb. 20, 1862
Chicago
147
I
Edward Bouton
Feb. 15. 1862.
Chicago
169
K
A. Franklin
Jan. 9, 1862
Shawneetown
96
L
John Rourke.
Feb. 22, 1862
Chicago
153
M
=
John B. Miller
Aug. 12, 1862
Chicago
154
Recruits
ILLINOIS LIGHT ARTILLERY. - SECOND REGIMENT.
A
Capt. Peter Davidson
Aug. 17, 1861
Peoria
II6
C
=
Caleb Hopkins.
Aug. 5, 1861
Cairo
154
D
Jasper M. Dresser
Dec. 17, 1861.
Cairo
II7
E
Adolph Schwartz
Feb. 1, 1862
Cairo
136
F
John W. Powell
Dec. II, 1861
Cape Girardeau, Mo.
190
G
Charles J. Stolbrand
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
108
H
=
Andrew Steinbeck
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
115
I
=
Charles W. Keith
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butle
107
K
Benjamin F. Rogers
Dec. 31, 1861
Camp Butler
108
L
William H. Bolton
Feb. 28, 1862
Chicago
145
M
John C. Phillips
June 6, 1862
Chicago
100
Field and Staff.
IO
Recruits.
1,17I
INDEPENDENT BATTERIES.
Company.
Commanding Officer at Organization.
Date of Organization and Muster into the United States Service.
Place where mustered into the United States Service.
Strength since Or-
ganization
Board of Trade
Capt. James S. Stokes.
July 31, 1862
Chicago
258
Springfield .
Thomas F. Vaughn
Aug. 21, 1862
Camp Butler.
199
Mercantile.
=
Charles G. Cooley.
Aug. 29, 1862
Chicago
270
Elgir
George W. Renwick
Nov. 15, 1862
Elgin
242
Coggswell's
William Coggswell.
Sept. 23, 1862
Camp Douglas
221
Henshaw's
Ed. C. Henshaw
Oct. 15, 1862
Ottawa
196
Bridges'
Lyman Bridges.
Jan. 1, 1862.
Chicago
252
Colvin's
John H. Colvin
Oct. 10, 1863.
Chicago.
91
Busteed's
Chicago
127
RECAPITULATION.
Infantry
185,941
Cavalry.
32,082
Artillery
7,277
.4
Riley Madison
June 20, 1861.
Springfield
I27
Field and Staff.
7
883
Aggregate
I3
186
GENERAL HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
CHAPTER XV.
DUELS AND DUELING.
The Code of Chivalry - Bloody and Bloodless - Pistols and Coffee - Broad Swords and Long Arms - From the Field of Honor to the Gallows.
The code of chivalry so common among Southern gentlemen and so frequently brought into use in settling personal differences has also been called to settle the " affairs of honor" in our own State, however, but few times, and those in the earlier days. Sev- eral attempts at duels have occurred ; before the disputants met in mortal combat the differences were amicably and satisfactorily settled; honor was maintained with- out the sacrifice of life. In 1810 a law was adopted to suppress the practice of dueling. This law held the fatal result of dueling to be murder, and, as it was intended, had the effect of making it odious and dishonorable. Prior to the consti- tution of 1848, parties would evade the law by going beyond the jurisdiction of the State to engage in their contests of honor. At that time they incorporated in the Con- stitution an oath of office, which was so broad as to cover the whole world. Any person who had ever fought a duel, ever sent or accepted a challenge or acted the part of second was disfranchised from holding office, even of minor importance. After this went into effect, no other duel or attempt at a duel has been engaged in within the State of Illinois, save those fought by parties living outside of the State, who came here to settle their personal differences.
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