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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/32017-8.txt b/32017-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68a80b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/32017-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2548 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois +Volunteer Infantry, by Andrew Brown + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry + Roster and Record + +Author: Andrew Brown + +Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32017] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + April 24, 1861. July 16, 1865. + + + COMPANY K, + Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. + + ROSTER and RECORD + + + BY + ANDREW BROWN. + + + YORKVILLE, ILL. + KENDALL COUNTY RECORD PRINT + 1894. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +At the last annual reunion of the association of the survivors of the 20th +Illinois Regiment, held in Chicago September 8, 1893, I was assigned the +duty of preparing a roster of Company K. This little publication is the +result of my efforts to perform that duty. It is intended for the +surviving members of the Company and their descendants, for relatives and +friends of deceased members and for all others into whose hands it may +chance to come, who are interested in learning about the men who fought +and won battles that secured to America liberty and union. + +ANDREW BROWN. + +NEWARK, ILLINOIS, June, 1894. + + + + +ROSTER AND RECORD. + + +REUBEN F. DYER, M. D., Ottawa, Ill. + +Born at Strong, Franklin county, Maine. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., April +15, 1861. Was elected Captain. Commanded Company at Fredericktown, Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson. Resigned commission as Captain of Company K March +13, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, with view of obtaining a +position in the line of his profession. August 25, 1862, was commissioned +Surgeon, 104th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which commission he +held till close of war, and, at close was acting Medical Director 14th +Army Corps, General Jefferson C. Davis commanding. Has practiced medicine +at Ottawa since 1865. For a number of years a member of U. S. Board +Examining Surgeons. Is not a pensioner. A republican. A Methodist. + + +BENJAMIN OLIN, Joliet, Ill. + +Born in State of New York. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., in April, 1861. +Elected Orderly Sergeant of Company. May, 1861, commissioned First +Lieutenant. Served with Company in Missouri till November, 1861, when he +resigned on account of ill health. Has been in the practice of law since +1862. At present County Judge of Will county, Ill. Is not a pensioner. Has +never applied for a pension. A liberal democrat. A Methodist. + + +JOHN N. BOYER, Normal, Ill. + +Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Volunteered May 10, 1861, at Newark, +Ill. Discharged February 15, 1864, on account of wound received at +Vicksburg. Was appointed Orderly Sergeant June 13, 1861. Commissioned 2d +Lieutenant January 22, 1862; Captain March 13, 1862. + +AT SHILOH. + +On April 6, 1862, had mumps very badly, and had neck wrapped with red +flannel. Nevertheless, went out in command of the Company. Had sword +struck by a missile and bent nearly double, and received two slight wounds +in the face. At noon was compelled to retire from the Company. When going, +several of the boys turned over their pocket-books to him for safe +keeping. Joined us, and took command of the Company, at daylight the next +morning and was in all the second day's fighting. + +AT BRITTON'S LANE. + +On September 1, 1862, was indisposed and was riding in an ambulance with +Assistant Surgeon Bailey and Chaplain Button. When first shots were heard +at Britton's Lane he jumped out, buckled on his sword and asked Dr. Bailey +to give him a strong dose of whisky and quinine and then went forward on a +run to take charge of the Company. This is a true story, because Chaplain +Button tells it. + +AT VICKSBURG. + +On May 22, 1863, while in command of the Company at Vicksburg he was shot +in the foot. On this occasion he lost his sword that had been battered at +Shiloh; also, most of his other personal effects. He was discharged on +account of this wound and receives pension therefor at the rate of twenty +dollars a month. + +A MAN OF PEACE. + +Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the +West. Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Says he can't +work much. We understand he does not have to. In one sense of the word it +is supposed he is well-heeled, although in another sense it is certain he +is very badly heeled. In religion a Methodist; in politics a radical +republican. + + +PERRY W. SPELLMAN, Fellowship, Florida. + +Born in Pittsford, Monroe county, New York. Volunteered April 24, 1861, at +Newark, Ill. Mustered out July 16, 1865, by reason of close of war. Was +appointed Sergeant in May, 1861. Detailed on recruiting service from +December, 1861, to June, 1862. Was Orderly Sergeant for a few months, then +reduced to the ranks and detailed as acting Hospital Steward and dispenser +of medicine. Was commissioned First Lieutenant March 2, 1863, and Captain +February 23, 1865. + +On May 12, 1863, during our desperate struggle behind the rail fence at +Raymond, Comrade Spellman had the command of the Company. Near the close +of that battle, when our lines were advancing through the woods, he was +hit in the side by a bullet and disabled for a time. From May 22, 1865, he +commanded the Company during the siege of Vicksburg, and continued in +command till the latter part of the siege of Atlanta. Was on detached +service as acting assistant Quartermaster 3d Division 17th Army Corps, +from October, 1864, till final muster out. + +Since the war has mostly followed business pursuits. Has lived in +Illinois, in South Dakota, and is now in Florida. On December 25, 1893, he +wrote thus: "I came to Florida in January, 1890, and will probably spend +the remainder of my days here. The climate is much more agreeable to me +than that of the chilly North. Roses in full bloom and fresh vegetables +for the table all winter." Pensioned for disability incurred in the army. + + +FAAGUST ANDERSON, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota. + +May, 1861-August 1, 1862. Born in Sweden. Came to America in 1852. Twenty +years old when enlisted. Was shot in wrist at Shiloh and discharged +because of wound. Enlisted in another regiment in August, 1863, and +mustered out in December, 1865, on account of close of war. Is pensioned +at rate of ten dollars a month for wound received at Shiloh, and other +disabilities. Has been farming since the war. Is a republican, but not a +church member. + + +CHARLES BACON, Clinton, Oneida County, New York. + +April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in Paris, Oneida county, New York. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of eight dollars a +month for disability incurred in army. Pension granted December, 1893. +Votes the republican ticket as often as he has a chance to do so, but in +religion is not very particular. Just goes to whatever church is handiest. + + +JAMES BARROWS, Newark, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 24, 1862. Born in Perry, Wyoming county, New York. Was +twenty-six years old when enlisted. Pensioned at twelve dollars a month. +Is a painter. A member of Baptist church. A republican. Was in the ranks +of Company K at Fredericktown, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Shiloh. + + +MARTIN BISSELL, Plano, Ill. + +May, 1861-October 3, 1862. Born in Addison county, Vermont. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Slightly wounded at Fort Donelson. At Shiloh was +struck with fragment of bursting shell Sunday morning, in region of hip, +while regiment was executing a retreat after first engagement with the +enemy. Soon afterwards was struck in thigh with spent ball, and later in +the battle had part of right thumb nail knocked off and bayonet scabbard +cut by another ball. At Britton's Lane was shot in right shoulder; was +discharged because of this wound, and draws pension therefor at the rate +of eight dollars a month. Since discharged has been engaged in +agricultural and mechanical pursuits. A republican. A Methodist. + + +ANDREW BROWN, Newark, Illinois. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born of Irish parents, in Kendall county, Ill. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Did not go with Company from Newark to +Joliet on Saturday, May 11, 1861, because, on that morning, clothes and +other necessaries were missing, but the next day, being fairly equipped, +he started on foot for Camp Goodell, east of Joliet, at 10 o'clock a. m. +and reached destination at 4 p. m. Was farther away from home then than he +had ever been before in his life. Had made a march of nearly thirty miles +in six hours, but was in very "light marching order." Was not encumbered +with a single superfluous article. When he reported in camp, Lieutenant +Watson ordered the Company to form ranks and then called for three cheers +for the boy they left behind them. From the day he left home till he +returned, a period of more than three years, this volunteer never slept in +a bed nor sat at a table to eat a meal of victuals. Was never on detailed +duty, never straggled from the ranks and, while a soldier, never missed a +march, campaign, skirmish or battle, except when wounded and a prisoner in +the hands of the enemy. When long roll was beat Sunday morning at Shiloh, +he had his gun off the stock and was swabbing out the barrel in a pail of +water. Was under arrest and in guard house once only. Charges preferred +were "committing depredations on private property." The "depredation" +consisted of milking a cow in canteen. Read the New Testament through +three times in the army. Has the little volume yet which Chaplain Button +presented in May, 1861. It has been out in many a storm and is badly +soaked and soiled. Was slightly wounded at Britton's Lane. Was shot twice +through leg at Raymond and captured by the enemy. A prisoner for two +months. Since discharged has been student, teacher, lawyer, farmer. Has +never been greenbacker, free-silver man nor protective tariff man. Is a +democrat, but has much regard and respect for prohibitionists. In religion +liberal. Catholic rather than Protestant. + + +JOHN CAREY, Blackstone, Ill. + +May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Limerick, Ireland. Came to America in +November, 1860. Was twenty-one years old when enlisted. + +The preliminary skirmishing of an impending battle always acted like a +tonic on this comrade, and he was never known to be out of condition +whenever a battle was on. Was as good a soldier as ever fought under the +Stars and Stripes. + +Captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and confined in Confederate prisons +for nearly seven months. Finally escaped and reached Union lines near +Wilmington, N. C., February 22, 1865. Pensioned at rate of twenty dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in Andersonville Prison. Is a +bachelor--to me it is an utterly unaccountable fact that so congenial a +soul as John Carey should choose to live alone in life. Some girl may +capture him yet. His widow would probably receive a nice pension when John +is gone. Comrade Carey claims that he votes the republican ticket, +although he is a true Irishman and a good Catholic. He did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. + + +CHARLES CLAYTON, 26 Union St., Wakefield Road, Stalysbridge, Lancashire, +England, Europe. + +April, 1861-July 25, 1862. Born in England. Draws pension at rate of eight +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Enrolled at +Washington, D. C., Agency. Certificate No. 411,108. + + +FRANKLIN CLIFFORD, Seneca, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Twenty-one years +old when enlisted. Received some slight wounds. There was no discount on +this comrade's fighting qualities. I remember that very distinctly. Was +captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner seven months and ten days. +Exchanged at Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1865. Is pensioned at twelve +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Is a laborer. He +writes thus: "I always vote the republican ticket. I suppose I ought to be +a religious man, but I am not." + + +ANDERSON CONNER, No. 2219 Messanie St., St. Joseph, Missouri. + +June 9, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Eighteen +years old when enlisted. Wounded at Raymond and captured. Sent to Libby +prison. A prisoner only seventeen days. Was then paroled and sent to St. +Louis to await exchange. Remained at St. Louis nearly four months. Was +then exchanged and served with Company K to close of war. Is pensioned at +rate of ten dollars a month for disabilities incurred in the service. His +paternal grandfather was in the Revolution and war of 1812. He says he has +two big boys that might do for soldiers if they were drafted and put under +guard where they could not run. + +From 1867 to 1893 lived in Wisconsin; was engaged in lumbering and +farming, but did not make a fortune. In June, 1893, went to Dwight, Ill.; +stayed there two months, then went west to take a new start in life. + + +JAMES COYLE, St. Louis, Missouri, No. 624-626 Washington Ave. + +May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, and +confined in Confederate prisons. Escaped and recaptured in woods with +dogs. Escaped again and succeeded in reaching the Union lines after +traveling a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. Was wounded in +trenches at Vicksburg. Is pensioned for wound. Was a very determined and +resolute fighter in battle. Since war has been in business and has been +successful. Is probably a democrat. Has a democratic name and lives in a +democratic State. Did not answer my letter of inquiry. The facts here +given are from previous knowledge. + +Since writing the foregoing I have received a letter from this comrade. He +was not mustered out with the regiment in July, but was retained in +service by special order of War Department and mustered out September 26, +1865, at Louisville. Was shot through the right hand in front of Fort +Hill, Vicksburg, May 21, 1863. When captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, +he was sent to Andersonville. On September 11, 1864, while in transit from +Andersonville to another prison he and George Wilson of Company K escaped +from the cars at midnight and were out fifteen days. Traveled at night and +lay in concealment during the day. Were finally captured and confined in a +common prison at Augusta, Ga., for three weeks. Was then sent to the new +prison at Millen. Was there only one day when he escaped for the second +time with a soldier of the Fifteenth Ohio regiment. Was out the second +time only eleven days and was again captured, and again taken to Augusta; +was there two days when he made a third escape with a Pennsylvania +soldier. "After twenty-one days by constant night travel, we reached +Sherman's army at Atlanta." + +In politics a republican; in religion a Presbyterian. + + +JEROME B. DANN, DeWitt, Saline County, Nebraska. + +June 4, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Pennsylvania. Seventeen years old when +enlisted. Captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner for several +months. Escaped and recaptured in the woods. Since the war has followed +contracting and building, and is at it yet to some extent. Health is quite +unsatisfactory. Draws pension at rate of twelve dollars a month.--Has been +connected with Congregational church for twenty years. Has always been a +republican and expects to die a republican. You may live a long time yet, +Jerome. + + +RUDOLPH FAVREAU, West New Brighton, Richmond County, N. Y. + +May, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Germany. Thirty-five years old when +enlisted. Was the company fifer. Rudolph writes thus: "Ich bin 68 Yahre +alt. Kam nach Amerika 1858, und bin ein Gartner. Ich leide an Reimatismus +und kan garnicht mehr arbeiten und muss nun von meine Pension leben von +$12 monathlich. Auszerdem gehöre ich zuder G. A. R. Post, No. 545, Port +Richmond. Ich belange zu der Deutsche Kirche." + + +JOHN T. GRAY, Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Re-enlisted +soon after discharge from Company K and served one year in U. S. veteran +reserve corps. Is not in good health. Pensioned at rate of $4,00 a month +for rheumatism contracted in the service. Since the war has done a little +of a great many different things. When a boy he associated himself with +the republican party in the days of Fremont and Dayton, and has never had +just cause or provocation to change. Just now, December, 1893, he sees a +blanked sight less cause to change his opinion than ever. In religion, a +free thinker, he professes that he is not a Christian. He does not want to +become a Christian and does not want to be classed as such. Has wife and +happy family, owns the roof above them and lives contentedly. Has never, +since his discharge, seen a single Company K man and but one man of the +regiment. + + +SAMUEL HAGERMAN, Yorkville, Ill. + +June 1, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Was +twenty-seven years old when enlisted. At battle of Shiloh Samuel's gun was +knocked to pieces by some kind of a missile. At Raymond he was shot in the +shoulder and leg, and in the Georgia campaign had a finger shot off. +Receives pension for wounds at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of +Presbyterian church. A republican. + + +NICHOLAS HANSON, Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa. + +May 8, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Schoharie county, New York. He says he +was only seventeen years old when he enlisted. Was wounded July 21, 1864, +near Atlanta. Draws pension for wounds at rate of four dollars a month. Is +farming now and has been most of the time since the war. Is a +Presbyterian. Votes the republican ticket under all circumstances. Is +willing to support anything the party puts up. "If you or any other +Company K folks are ever out this way hunt me up. I own a quarter-section +farm four miles west of town in as good a country as is around Newark. I +have never been able to meet you at any of the reunions, but I am always +glad to get a card of invitation." + + +MARSHALL HAVENHILL, Miner, Miner County, South Dakota. + +Enlisted at Newark in April, 1861. July 20, 1861, was transferred to the +regimental band. + + +GEORGE HOPGOOD, Morton, Lewis County, Washington. + +April, 1861-July 23, 1862. Born in England. Came to America in 1857. +Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Is pensioned at the rate of four +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. + +Since the war has lived most of the time at Clinton, Missouri, and has +worked as a stone-mason. Has gone west and taken a homestead and intends +to grow up with the country. Is a "republican all the way through". In +religion he is a true Christian. Adopts the grand principles of the Sermon +on the Mount. Get your Bibles, turn to Matthew vii, 12, and read the rule +that he lives by. That is good religion, George. None better was ever +formulated. Live right up to it and you need have no fear of torment or +torture in the life beyond this life. + + +EDWIN HOWES, Eola, DuPage County, Illinois. + +April, 1861-July 15, 1865. Born in State of New York. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Wounded and captured at Britton's Lane. Paroled. Captured +again near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and sent to Confederate prisons. +Escaped from prison and reached Union lines near Wilmington, North +Carolina, February, 1865. Pensioned at the rate of twelve dollars a month +for disabilities incurred in the service. Is a farmer. A prohibitionist. +Professes to be a Christian. + + +DR. WILLIAM H. H. HUTTON, Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital Service, +Detroit, Mich. + +Born in York, Jefferson county, Ohio. Enlisted in Company K, 20th Illinois +regiment, June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years; discharged +therefrom August 28, 1862, for deafness caused by concussion of cannon at +battle of Pittsburg Landing. Had participated in all battles in which +Company was engaged up to date of discharge. + +September 2, 1862, enlisted in Company D, 104th regiment Illinois +volunteers. Reported to his Company at Louisville, Ky., October 2, 1862. +Appointed Sergeant April 10, 1863. Appointed Color-Sergeant on battlefield +of Chicamauga September 20, 1863. Wounded at battle of Missionary Ridge +November 25, 1863. On account of disabilities was sent to Chicago, Ill., +March, 1864. Was chief clerk Desmarres eye and ear military hospital, +Chicago, from July 4, 1864, to March 8, 1865, at which date was discharged +from 104th Illinois regiment by order of Secretary of War. Was appointed +Hospital Steward U. S. A. March 8, 1864 in which capacity he served till +April 1, 1871, thus making a military record of ten years. As Hospital +Steward, U. S. A., he served at the following places: Chicago, Ill.; +Montgomery, Mobile, and Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama; Charleston, +S. C.; Newbern and Raleigh, N. C.; Key West and Dry Tortugas, Florida. +September 8, 1871, was appointed Hospital Steward in U. S. Marine +Hospital, Mobile, Alabama; resigned July 4, 1874. + +Graduated from Chicago Medical College March 16, 1875. May 8, 1875, was +appointed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital service. This +appointment was made on results of competitive examination. Promoted to +Surgeon October 5, 1876. As a United States medical officer has served at +ports of New York, Cincinnati, Mobile, Key West, New Orleans, Baltimore, +and is now serving second tour at Detroit. + +Has served as Medical Inspector of the Life-Saving Service, is on several +examing boards, and has had a great deal to do with National quarantine +matters, especially as regards yellow fever and cholera. On one occasion +represented the authority of the United States for several months, in +quarantine matters, on the entire Florida coast. + +This is a very brief summary of Comrade Hutton's life for nearly +thirty-three years. + + +JAMES JENNINGS, Sheridan, LaSalle County, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in state of New York. Twenty-one years old +when enlisted. Was one of the very first to volunteer at Newark; probably +signed the roll April 15, 1861. He also re-enlisted for another three +years as soon as he had an opportunity to do so, which was December 16, +1863. Is well charged with grit. Was shot in shoulder at Britton's Lane. +Was captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and sent to Andersonville; made +three escapes from prison; first and second were unsuccessful; was +recaptured both times in the woods, after traveling many nights and +undergoing great hardships. Third escape proved successful. Reached Union +lines near Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 22, 1865. Is pensioned at rate of four +dollars a month for wound received at Britton's Lane. Is a farmer. +Non-sectarian in religion; republican in politics. + +Comrade Jennings has been greatly bereaved by the loss of his wife who +died at South San Diego, Cal., April 14, 1894. He and daughter Edith +accompanied her to the Pacific coast during the preceding autumn, vainly +attempting to save her from the fatal malady to which she finally +succumbed. Our comrade's home is now desolate. + + +ELIAS KILMER, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Ill. + +April 24. 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Oswego county, New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteers, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865, by reason +of the termination of the war. Is pensioned at rate of six dollars a +month. Since the war has been a farmer. This is the way Elias writes: +"Politics, black republican. In regard to religion, my wife belongs to the +Methodist church. I suppose you preached prohibition and voted +democratic." There are very many republicans of my acquaintance whom I +would be glad to see preaching prohibition although they continue to vote +the republican ticket. No class of American citizens would be more greatly +blessed and benefitted by prohibition than republicans. + + +JOHN LEACH, Morris, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in West Virginia. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. A carpenter. A very active republican--never preaches +prohibition. Is a christian, but has not worked at the trade for many +years. Did not answer my letter, and am unable to give further facts from +memory. + + +JAMES B. LITTLEWOOD, Washington, D. C., No. 415, B Street, N. E. + +April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in England. Was struck, I think, by a spent +ball at Britton's Lane. Was a good soldier. Since war, has held clerical +positions in Washington; is now in the Patent Office. While performing +clerical duty, studied medicine and graduated from Medical College at +Georgetown, D. C. Owns a home in Washington. Is probably a democrat at the +present time. Did not answer my letter of inquiry. + + +JOHN P. MULLENIX, Fairfield, Iowa. + +May, 1861-March 25, 1862. Born in Ohio. Thirty-six years old when +enlisted. Receives pension at rate of thirty dollars a month for +disability incurred in service; has drawn pension from date of discharge. +Badly crippled; cannot go without crutches; has no use of left arm and +shoulder; rheumatism is the main difficulty. Is a Presbyterian in belief, +and a republican from principle. + + +ALBERT PIERSON, 10 Prospect Street, East Orange, New Jersey. + +June 3, 1861-November 20, 1862. In 1863, when Confederate army came up +into Pennsylvania, enlisted in a militia company, and served thirty days. +Born in Orange, N. J. Was twenty-two years old when enlisted. Had the +pleasure of participating in only one battle during the war--that of +Fredericktown, Missouri. About November 1, 1861, became very sick at +Bird's Point, Missouri. On the 20th of that month received furlough and +went to Mr. Jessup's, Na-au-say township, Kendall county, Illinois, where +he remained for six months a very sick man. In May, 1862, was sent to East +Orange, N. J., his former home, in charge of a personal attendant, and +came near dying on the journey. Remained at East Orange, sick, for four +months. In August reported to hospital, on Bedloe Island, from which he +was discharged November 20, 1862, and it is the regret of Comrade Pierson +that he was not with Company K, 20th Illinois Regiment, during the whole +war. Since discharged he has been seriously sick, and has paid out money +to doctors. "Yet, I believe there is One above who rules over all, and +when my time comes no doctor can save me." (Doctor Taylor, what think you +of this?) Comrade Pierson is a Presbyterian. He is not a pensioner; he has +never applied for pension. He is a republican; is a powerful republican, +and is in grief because of the ascendancy of the democratic party. This is +the way he writes: "O, what a great big humbug Grover is, anyway; he ought +to be in England, not America. I recall the night after the election; I +expected nothing from New Jersey--she has always been a democrat--but I +did expect good news from the Prairie state. At twelve o'clock report +came, 'Illinois is against Harrison.' At first I refused to believe it. I +had been proud of Illinois up to that time, as I had spent some years +there, but now I am in sorrow for her." Albert, I am surprised that a +grave and serious man of mature years would sit up till twelve o'clock +watching election returns. Don't do it again. Retire at nine o'clock +regularly the night after election and in the morning you will be in +better condition to hear the news. You may get bad news next time, too. As +ordered by the people, so will the result be. + +Comrade Pierson has been engaged in different lines of business since the +war--is now, and has been for some years, in the wood and coal business. +He gives this cordial invitation: "If any Company K boys ever come East, I +want them to run out to Orange and see me; about fourteen miles from New +York City, and trains run all the time. Remember!" + +In a subsequent letter, Comrade Pierson has given additional facts +concerning himself. In the spring of 1857 he went out to Illinois to be a +farmer. Was in Kendall county, Illinois, when the affair took place at +Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor, and immediately joined a Company that +was started at Oswego. That Company was unfortunate in not being accepted, +and he was obliged to go back to work. In the meantime a Kendall county +Company was organized at Newark and went into camp at Joliet. Some of the +Oswego boys went to Joliet and joined that Company and sent back word that +a few more men would be received. Comrade Pierson was full of the war, but +was reluctant about quitting work again. One day he was plowing. His team +consisted of a free horse and a very lazy one. He talked a great deal to +the lazy horse and pelted him with chunks of dirt, but all this was +unavailing and he decided to resort to harsher means. He stopped, threw +the lines from his shoulders, swung them around the plow handle and went +up alongside of the lazy animal to thrash him. But as soon as he commenced +operations the free horse jumped and away went the team. After +considerable time he caught them. He then felt very gritty and resolved to +be a soldier. He tied the horses to a fence and started. As he passed the +house he called at the door and said, "Good bye! I am off for the war," +and moved on toward Joliet. On this journey he was troubled by the thought +that he was liable to be rejected, as he was a small man and, at that +time, first-class war material was in great abundance. When, however, he +reached camp he passed muster successfully and was happy. Comrade Pierson +closes his letter thus: "When another election comes 'round I want you +fellows out there to attend to business better than you did before. Watch +New Jersey next time." + + +WILLIAM PRENTICE, Soldiers' Home, Quincy, Illinois. + +Enlisted in April, 1861; served for several months in Company K. Was +discharged for disability, and afterwards enlisted in another Regiment. Is +a pensioner. + + +WILLIAM PRESTON, Steward, Illinois. + +April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Receives pension for disability incurred in +service. After war, engaged in farming; later was in business; now +somewhat retired. Is interested in Company K matters, and is glad that a +roster is likely to be made up. + + +JAY DELOS PRUYN, Oneonta, New York. + +May 1, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Syracuse, N. Y., Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Is granted pension at rate of twelve dollars a month. Is +painter and decorator. Republican. Presbyterian. + +I am under special obligation to Comrade Pruyn for aiding me while lying +helpless and in danger of bleeding to death on the battlefield at Raymond. +He bandaged my wounded leg with his big red handkerchief, knotted and +drawn very tightly, and with my own suspenders; gave me a good drink out +of his canteen, and then resumed his place in the ranks. Comrade Pruyn was +a good soldier, a conscientious man, a man of many good qualities. My +association with him in the army will continue a pleasant recollection. + + +NARCISSE REMILLARD, Mount Taber, Multnomah County, Oregon. + +April 1861-July 14, 1864. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865. +Was born at Naperville, Canada. Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Is +pensioned at rate of ten dollars a month for disability incurred in +service. In religion, Protestant; a member of Baptist church. In politics, +non-partisan. Votes with reference to the good of the country. Does not +consider the interests of politicians. That is correct; vote as you +shot--for country and for right. + + +WARREN ROCKWOOD, Sheridan, Illinois. + +April, 1861-November 15, 1861. Born in state of New York. Twenty-three +years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a +month. Was a farmer for a number of years; now works as carpenter. +Republican. Non-sectarian in religion. + + +BERDETTE SPENCER, Elmira, New York, No. 1024 College Avenue. + +May 13, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Mohawk, Herkimer county, N. Y. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Was wounded in left forearm at Fort +Donelson, and receives pension of ten dollars a month because of wound. On +account of this wound he was away from the Company on furlough seven +months, three months at Marine hospital, Chicago, and four months at home. +During this time missed Shiloh and Britton's Lane; was in all other +battles with the Company. Is now, and has been since July 24, 1876, +employed at New York State Reformatory, which has about fifteen hundred +prisoners. Has never seen a Company K man since the war. Wants to get all +the news about the boys. Would like to attend a reunion and see them all +once more. Does not know whether to call them boys now or not. Is not a +church member; in belief, a spiritualist. + + +RICHARD SPRINGER, Chicago, Ill., No. 99 Washington Street. + +April, 1861-August 31, 1865. Born at LaFayette, Indiana. Seventeen years +old when enlisted. Shot in right arm July 21, 1864, near Atlanta, while +attempting to rescue Martin Morley, the regimental standard bearer, who +lay wounded between the lines. Draws pension for this wound at rate of +seventeen dollars a month. Since war has been student, journalist, man of +affairs, engaged in various business enterprises, now handles real estate +in Chicago. Fearless and aggressive in politics, as upon battlefields, he +has never winced under stroke of party lash. Has been liberal republican +and greenbacker. Now looks with favor upon the independent populist +movement. In religion, liberal. Protestant rather than Catholic. + + +JOHN J. TAYLOR, M. D., Streator, Illinois. + +June 17, 1861-June 16, 1862. Born in Kent, England. Came to America in +1852 with his parents when eleven years old. Came on ship Prince Albert +with five hundred emigrants; thirty-seven days on sea. Has renounced +allegiance to the British crown. Is now American through and through. Was +twenty years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in service. Suffered for about twenty +years after discharged from the army with alimentary and other +difficulties. After coming home badly wrecked he attended Normal +University with the purpose of preparing for a teacher, but was compelled +by ill health to abandon the project. Began the study of medicine for +personal benefit, afterwards adopted it as a profession. Studied medicine +at University of Michigan in 1865-6, and in 1866-7 in Chicago at the Rush. +Graduated from Rush Medical College January 25, 1867, and has since been +engaged in the practice of the profession. Is a railroad surgeon, is +secretary of LaSalle county Medical Society, and is examining surgeon for +a number of life insurance companies. Has been president of North Central +Medical Association. Has been captain of State Militia and alderman fourth +ward, Streator. + +This comrade is a very zealous adherent of the republican party; he has +great faith in the party. He thinks the republican party is right. He +thinks it always has been right. He thinks it will soon again have control +of the affairs of the government. We are in great danger of being deluged +by foreign goods from which calamity the government should protect us. + +In religion he is broad and free. Is not priest-ridden. He cordially +recognizes whatever of good there is in the "religious societies" and +spreads the wide mantle of charity over all their errors. Is very willing +and very anxious to learn in regard to the great beyond, but is not +willing to take bit and be reined by priest or prelate. Desires liberty in +regard to religious thought and action. + +"Be industrious, be honest, be clean, be true to yourself and charitable +to others, and lift like a Hercules to lighten the burden of those who are +heavily loaded and weary in the journey of life. These things are +religion."--Taylor. + +"The practice of moral duties without a belief in a Divine law-giver, and +without reference to His will or commands, is not religion."--Webster. + +Who shall decide when doctors disagree? + + +WILLIAM TODD, Illinois Soldier's Home, Quincy, Illinois. + +April, 1861-May 25, 1865. Was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, but left the +bleak, barren hills of his native land in 1849 and came to Chicago. Was +twenty-nine years and nine months old when enlisted. Captured near +Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864, and for many months confined in Confederate +prisons. + +Since putting foot upon the western continent William has been an +enthusiastic American. He believes America should be protected. We should +not break down the walls and allow the country to be flooded with goods +from foreign shores. We want work to do and plenty of it. An idle brain is +the devil's shop. Don't let the English, the Dutch or the French work for +us, howsoever cheaply they offer their services. Comrade Todd is an +idolator. He worships the republican party. He is wedded to his idol--let +him alone. + +In regard to religion, he writes this: "I am a Christian, _i. e._, a +believer in Christ and his teachings. I am not connected with any +denomination, but have a leaning to the Congregational. My father was of +that denomination in Scotland, the name for them there and in England +being Independents." Became a Kendall county man by adoption. + +"I enlisted at Champaign, Ill., April 18, 1861, but when we went into camp +at Joliet that Company had four men above the maximum number, and the +Kendall county Company lacked two men of the minimum number. I and another +transferred ourselves from A to K, and were put on the muster roll as +having enlisted in Company K April 24, 1861. So you can put me down in +roster as having enlisted at Newark, Kendall county, Illinois, April 24, +1861." + +Comrade Todd is badly broken in health. Right side partly paralyzed. He +says he "cannot write worth a continental." Is a shoemaker. Has worked at +that trade principally since the war, but has been otherwise employed and, +he writes, "I finally got in here." He receives from Uncle Sam at +Washington a regular remittance at the rate of six dollars a month. I +should think the old fellow could do a little better than that. + + +SAMUEL TRENTOR, Morris, Illinois. + +April 24, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Moundsville, West Virginia. Nearly +nineteen years old when enlisted. Sam thought that with his long arms he +could do good work with a cavalry sabre, and did not re-enlist in the 20th +Regiment, but when discharged therefrom joined Captain Collins' Company of +the 4th Illinois Cavalry and served until the close of the war. Was shot +in the neck at Britton's Lane. Receives pension at rate of twelve dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in the service. Works for a living. +Writes thus: "I am not a democrat. My religion I have not yet." + + +WILLIAM VREELAND, Maurice, Iowa. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Hudson county, N. J. Twenty-four years +old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a month for +disability incurred in the service. Was a farmer for several years after +discharge, but the condition of his health forced him to abandon that +vocation. Is now editor and proprietor of the Maurice Free Press. "A +rock-ribbed republican and a Methodist. The two things go well together, +you know." How would prohibition and Methodism go? Think about it brother! + + +AMBROSE WALLACE. + +Born in England. Enlisted in April, 1861. One day while the Regiment was +guarding a railroad near Charleston, Missouri, in the fall of 1861, +Wallace disappeared. Returned to the Company in about two months. Said he +had been captured and had been with Jeff. Thompson at New Madrid. Sunday, +April 6, 1861, he deserted from the ranks on the battlefield of Shiloh and +never afterwards appeared. He now lives in Tennessee. Was heard from a few +months ago. At that time he was not a pensioner, but he wanted to be. As +the law now stands he is barred by his record. His only recourse is to +come North and employ some available Congressman to introduce and pass +through Congress a special act granting him a pension. In all probability +it would be vetoed during the present administration, but the Executive +would be put on record as being opposed to pensions. That would be a point +gained in politics. Undoubtedly it is to the interest of Ambrose Wallace +to have a change. + + +ANDREW WEST, Cabery, Illinois. + +April, 1861-November 1, 1861. Was born in state of New York. On August 8, +1862, he enlisted in the 91st Illinois Regiment, and was discharged +therefrom January 2, 1863; afterwards joined a company of New York +Artillery, and while in this organization was seriously wounded in leg at +Petersburg, Virginia, and draws pension for wound. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. + +I was sick of measles in a hospital at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in +September, 1861. At the same time Andrew West was very sick in another +hospital close to the river. One evening, when convalescent and on the +outlook for a boat upon which to return to the Regiment at Bird's Point, I +sat beside Comrade West for nearly an hour and I thought every breath +would be his last. The Surgeon in charge said he was dying and called an +attendant, and directed him to remain with the patient, and gave the +attendant specific instructions in regard to what he should do when the +patient was dead. This attendant was Charles Halbert of the 7th Illinois +Regiment. The end did not come as soon as anticipated, and as the +attendant sat watching and waiting he reached for a sponge in a dish of +water near by, squeezed it out, and with the wet sponge commenced to rub +the dying man. After a little he fancied it gave relief. He continued the +process of rubbing the whole body, and soon became certain that his +patient was coming back to life. In the morning Andrew West was in a +greatly improved condition and the doctor was astonished. + +Why did not the dying man die? Comrade Pierson would say it was because +his time had not yet come. Charles Halbert says he saved him. + + +ALONZO WHITE, Saunemin, Illinois. + +June 11, 1861-July 16, 1865. I saw Comrade White about six years ago. At +that time he was a Methodist, a prohibitionist and was not a pensioner. He +had never applied for pension and never expected to apply. I do not know +whether he has held out faithfully up to the present time or not on all +these points. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry. I wrote to the +postmaster of his town and got this: "Yes, he is here. He runs a +blacksmith shop in this town." + + +ANDREW JACKSON WILSEY, Aurora, Illinois. + +April, 1861-June 9, 1862. Born in Madison county, New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Since discharge has followed a diversity of +pursuits. He is not a pensioner but, I think, would not object to being +enrolled as one of Uncle Sam's beneficiaries. I meet him frequently. He +has never given serious thought to religion and, I understand, has no well +defined and settled theological opinions. In politics he is a democrat, a +regular old-fashioned democrat of the Andrew Jackson type. He was not at +New Orleans, however, but he faced fury of shot and shell at Shiloh. + + +DEWITT C. WILSON, Plattville, Illinois. + +June 11, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Shelby county, Ohio. Nineteen years +old when enlisted. Is not a pensioner. Since the war has been a farmer. In +politics a straight republican. In religion aims to be a practical +christian. He believes that good works are more efficacious than loud +prayers and soul-saving sermons. He has no connection with any religious +sect. + +On the morning of June 11, 1861, his father sent him into a field with a +horse to cultivate corn with a shovel plow. After working a few hours he +tied his horse to a fence at one end of the field and started directly to +Joliet on foot to enlist. He did good work as a soldier for more than +three years. + +All will have a vivid recollection of Fort Donelson. The lack of rations, +the lack of tents or protection of any kind, the hard fighting and the +hard weather, the rain, the sleet, the snow, the cold, the long dreary +nights without fires. On one of those nights DeWitt Wilson and the writer +stood on picket guard together close up to the enemy's works. We were +posted stealthily after dark under a low bushy tree near a road which led +to and from the town. We were to remain very quiet, not to speak louder +than a whisper, and to watch closely all night. If the enemy sallied out +in force we were to fire and run to the Regiment. It was very cold. The +mercury was going down and was not far from zero. Our clothes had been +soaked by previous rains and were now frozen stiff and clanked with every +movement. We remained as posted for several hours. Finally, the +Confederates came over their works and made a vigorous assault with +intent to break the Union line. When the assault was made I was in an +almost helpless condition. I could scarcely move and was nearly captured. +I and my comrade became separated. I lost my course and went into the 11th +Illinois Regiment. DeWitt and I frequently refer to that terrible night, +the hardest in all our experience. + +At Britton's Lane Comrade Wilson and two others occupied a slight +ambuscade. He was very anxious to have the enemy show up, and poked his +cap out on the end of his ramrod. Just as he did this a glancing bullet +struck the side of his head and caused him to roll over two or three +times. His face and clothes were smeared with blood, and just then he +would not be considered a good-looking man. + + +GEORGE WILSON, Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kansas. + +"Sharon is like a wilderness."--Isaiah 33: 9. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was born at Newark, Illinois, April 5, 1838. +Twenty-three when enlisted. Was wounded in hand at Britton's Lane. Was +captured near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and confined in various Confederate +prisons for nearly nine months. Pensioned for disabilities incurred in +service at rate of four dollars a month. Is a "homesteader" in Western +Kansas, seven miles from the Colorado line. + +"I belong to the prevailing church and I vote as I shot--against the +South." "Cease firing! They have surrendered!" The men of the Twentieth +heard those words on many battle fields. Finally they all surrendered and +grounded arms. We whipped the rebels. We whipped them thoroughly. The +entire South lay prostrate and bleeding and helpless at the feet of the +conquering soldiers of the Union. Now, George, come out from the +"prevailing church," the big wicked church of the world, and be a +christian. Forgive your enemies and conquer by kindness. Bless them that +curse you. Do good to them that despitefully use you and persecute you and +say all manner of evil against you falsely. This is the true way. Consider +these thoughts seriously, and when you vote again think of something else +besides voting against the South. + + +JOSIAH WRIGHT, Akron, Washington County, Colorado. + +April, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Luzern county, Pennsylvania. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Was a non-commissioned officer and +member of the color guard. Was shot through right wrist while bearing +aloft the flag of the 20th Regiment at Shiloh. Was discharged because of +wound. Pensioned for wound at rate of sixteen dollars a month. + +Lived in Pennsylvania till 1851. From 1851 to 1871 lived in Kendall +county, Illinois. From 1871 till 1892 lived in Adair county, Missouri. +From spring of 1892 to present time has lived on a homestead in Washington +county, Colorado. Is now, and always has been, a farmer. + +In religion is a Methodist. In politics has been a populist since the date +of the organization of that party. Frequently advocates the principles of +the party from the rostrum. Is very friendly to silver. On his envelopes +he has the motto: "Silver sixteen to one." I think Jo has a silver mine on +his homestead in Colorado. + +Here is a vivid picture from Josiah Wright's pen which every man of the +20th Regiment who was on hand at Shiloh will appreciate: "I was at the +spring in camp Sunday morning, April 6. The roar of the assault on +General Prentis's division had become terrific. I heard drums beat the +long roll as the signal of alarm. I rushed to the Colonel's tent and got +the flag. In passing out I met the Color Sergeant and gave the flag to +him. The boys of the 20th were swarming out of their tents with their +guns. The Regiment was quickly formed and started on a run in the +direction of the firing. Colonel Marsh rode rapidly up and down the column +urging the men to their utmost. We did not have to go far. The +Confederates were advancing with great impetuosity and sweeping the field +before them. We took position to beat back the on-coming tide and then the +flag was unfurled and waved in the face of the foe. The Color Sergeant was +immediately shot down. I picked up the flag and was soon wounded. Another +member of the color guard then took the flag. I was sent to a boat on the +river and was nearly gone from loss of blood." + +This also from Comrade Wright's letter: "As I write grave thoughts crowd +in upon me. I go back in memory to the days of '61. I am again at the war +meeting in Newark, where I listened to the thrilling eloquence of Watson +until fired by a new born purpose I there resolved to serve my country +and, if so it be ordered, to die in the service. I was one of the first to +sign the Company roll. We are now widely scattered, but are bound together +by the strongest ties. We will hardly meet again in this life, but may we +so live that we shall meet around our Father's throne where severed ties +of earth shall be re-united in Heaven." To this closing sentiment of our +brave Comrade say I, most heartily, Amen. So may we live. Let every +Company K man, still left, use this prayer. Comrades Gray and Taylor, join +in. + + + + +Our Recruits. + + +TWO SPLENDID ENGLISHMEN. + +On the 4th of July, 1861, two young men of good appearance walked into our +camp and immediately declared their intentions. They proposed to unite +with us. We cordially accepted, and the next day the ceremony was +performed. + + +JOHN BROAD, Schell City, Vernon County, Missouri. + +July 5, 1861-November 27, 1861. Born in England. Came to America in 1859. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of four dollars a +month for disabilities incurred in service. A carpenter by trade, but now +farming. Was brought up an Anglican. At present a member of the M. E. +church, South. Formerly a democrat. Now votes with the Alliance. + + +THOMAS HOPGOOD, Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. + +July 5, 1861-July 5, 1864. Born in England. Came to America May, 1859. +Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Receives no pension. Politics, +republican all the time. Religion, Protestant, a Presbyterian. Has not +forgotten the time when we campaigned together. Remembers all the boys and +wants to be remembered by all of them. + + +TWO MORE RECRUITS, BUT NOT OF A KIND. + +About the middle of August, 1861, two large and very brave looking men, +Bishop and another[1], came down from Kendall county, Illinois, to join +Company K. We were then at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and just at that +juncture were in need of re-inforcements. A Confederate army under General +Polk had crossed the river at Columbus, Kentucky, and was threatening the +town. When the recruits arrived the camp was in commotion on account of +the expected attack. Bishop immediately got a gun, took his place in the +ranks and was ready for active hostilities. The other became sad and +pensive. He did not want a gun, and did not appear so much of a warrior as +at the moment of his arrival. He finally went on board of a boat with some +women and children and crossed the Mississippi river. After remaining in +the woods of Southern Illinois for a few days he came back to camp to get +his carpet bag. He did not want to be mustered into the army. He wanted to +go to his peaceful home, and he went. He still lives in Illinois. I am not +informed as to whether he has succeeded in getting a pension or not. His +case will require a special act. + + [1] In original manuscript the name of this recruit was given, but it + is here omitted in compliance with the very earnest solicitation of + the printer. + + +LEWIS G. BISHOP, Grand Junction, Colorado. + +July 16, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, New +York, on St. Patrick's day, 1838. Was, therefore, twenty-three years old +at time of enlistment. Was wounded in left arm and left leg at Shiloh. Was +sent down the rivers to hospitals at Paducah and Mound City. In course of +time obtained leave of absence and went up to Newark, Illinois. Was then +made aware that the people appreciated the soldiers. Was lionized wherever +he went in Kendall county, which was a source of embarrassment to him, as +he was a modest and humble individual. Was discharged because of wounds +and receives pension therefor at rate of twelve dollars a month. He is +glad that he still has his left leg, although it is not as good as the +other. He is obliged to wear a rubber stocking and use other appliances to +suppress inflammation and reduce varicose veins. + +Comrade Bishop remembers with minute particularity the events of the Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson campaigns. He remembers as though it were +yesterday the morning, when, at dawn, we discovered lines of Confederates +looking at us from their rifle pits and when Chaplain Button went upon his +knees on the ground and prayed with great earnestness for the salvation of +the souls of those who should be slain in the impending battle. He thinks +that if the Chaplain had taken a fife and stepped out and played "Yankee +Doodle" it would have a better effect. He confesses that the prayer +depressed him. In the state of mind in which he was at that time he would +greatly prefer to live than to die and take his chances for heaven. This +was probably the prevailing sentiment among the soldiers of both armies. + +Comrade Bishop came West in the spring of 1860; went as far as Fort +Larimie, Wyoming, returned in the fall to Illinois, taught school near +Newark in winter of 1860-61; in spring of 1861 went to Wisconsin and +helped to run a raft of lumber out of the Wisconsin river down to +Muscatine; in July, 1861, returned to Kendall county, Illinois. When the +disaster occurred at Bull Run he awoke to the fact that the country was +seriously menaced and resolved to be a soldier. He was acquainted with +many of the boys of Company K, had visited them in Joliet, and he decided +to cast his lot with them. He picked up his carpet-bag and went to Cape +Girardeau, Missouri, and was mustered in. + +After discharge Comrade Bishop became a student and a teacher; later he +studied dentistry, and for many years has been engaged in the practice of +that profession. + +Religion: Agnostic. He neither asserts nor denies any theological dogma. + +Politics: Anything to beat the republican party. Believes that the +principles and methods of that party should be relegated to "innosuous +desuetude." The party is owned and fenced in by syndicates, corporations +and factories, and is not worthy of public confidence. The people should +rise in their sovereign capacity and decree that capital shall cease to +dominate the legislation of the country. + +Comrade Bishop has been married and he has been un-married. He considers +that St. Paul gave first-class advice when, in his letter to the +Corinthians, he wrote, "Seek not a wife." + + +AUGUSTUS GAY, No. 902 Second Street, Seattle, Washington. + +April 5, 1862-April 9, 1865. Was born at Albany, New York, in July, 1846. +Was, therefore, fifteen years and nine months old when he enlisted. Was +the youngest man in Company K, and looked very honest. No boy in the whole +Union army had a more innocent face than Augustus Gay. He came to us at +Joliet and was rejected. He followed up the Regiment for about a year and +during most of that time had a position on Dr. Bailey's staff. Finally, at +Pittsburg Landing, the day before the battle of Shiloh, he was mustered +into the service as a member of Company K. Was mustered out at Raleigh, +North Carolina, by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment. + +Augustus Gay appeared to court danger. He went into battle with a broad +smile on his face and a twinkle of the eye as though he were engaged in +something pleasant and agreeable. Was very reckless and daring in action. +The wonder was how it happened that he was never killed. Was captured near +Atlanta July 22, 1864, and went to Anderson prison, where he spent several +months. Was finally transferred by the Confederates from Andersonville to +Savannah and was at that place when it was captured by the Union army +December 21, 1864. + +I am in receipt of a long and interesting letter from Comrade Gay in which +he gives facts concerning himself. This is dated March 26, 1894. I had +previously written him up for the roster from memory and had classed him +among the missing. He says he was very glad to hear from Company K. He has +never seen any of the Company since the war, and had never heard from any +of them. He was not sick a day while in the army and was never wounded. +Since the war he has never been so seriously sick as to be confined to his +bed. He is not a rich man and he is not a poor man. He weighs 250 pounds. +He lives well. He never chews nor smokes tobacco nor drinks intoxicating +liquors and never plays cards. He has been on the Pacific slope for twenty +years and has not been back to the States during that time. He has been +married for ten years and has now a boy more than half as old as he was +when he joined Company K. After the war he studied dental surgery and has +followed that profession continuously. Receives pension at rate of six +dollars a month. Writes thus: "I want you to put in your roster that if +ever a Company K man comes to this part of the world I want him to come +and see me." + +He says that he is Protestant. But I don't think he is a full-blooded +Protestant. If I remember correctly he used to tell us in the army that +his parents were Hibernians, and that he was half Catholic and half +Protestant, and had by inheritance all the good qualities of both kinds of +religion. + + +JAMES SPRINGER, Eighty-eighth and Throop Streets, Chicago, Illinois. + +Born on a farm near La Fayette, Indiana. Enlisted August 28, 1862, at the +age of twenty-two years. Joined Company K at Holly Springs, Mississippi, +in November, 1862, and served until mustered out at the close of the war +in 1865. + +After discharge became a student at the University of Chicago, also, law +department thereof, from which he graduated in June, 1868, and was then +admitted to the bar. Practiced law for sixteen years. For a time was +engaged in journalism. Since 1885 has followed a business career. + +In politics an independent; in religion a Methodist. + + +LAMBERT CONNER, Braidwood, Illinois. + +Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. I think he enlisted in the spring of +1863. Was then eighteen years old. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Receives +pension at rate of sixteen dollars a month for disabilities incurred in +service. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry. + + +FOUR KIDS. + +Four nice boys, in a bunch, came into our camp at Big Black river, +Mississippi, about the first of April, 1864. These were Pease Barnard, +Charles Hall, Luman Preston and Fayette Scofield. They were all +"Suckers," were separated from their mothers for the first time and, to +the old campaigners of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, they, appeared +very fresh and innocent. They had been mustered in several weeks before by +a recruiting officer in Illinois, and fitted out with Uncle Sam's +uniforms, and were now ready to assist in winding up the war. + + +NATHANIEL PEASE BARNARD, Newark, Illinois. + +February 25, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in LaSalle county, Illinois. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Served in Georgia, went with Sherman +from Atlanta to the sea, and helped to eviscerate the Carolinas. Pensioned +at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of M. E. church. An active member +of republican party. A lawyer by profession. + + +CHARLES HALL, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota. + +February 24, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. July, 1864, in Georgia campaign, was +shot in the neck, and for a time was supposed to be dead. This recruit was +built of good material for a soldier. Did not answer my letter. + + +LUMAN PRESTON, Dixon, Illinois. + +February 16, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. Is in business. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. Is probably very busily engaged attending to customers. +I meet Luman occasionally. He is always in good shape and happy. I think +he is a democrat. Is of the bluest Puritan blood, but has the figure of a +Teuton. + + + + +Our Missing Members. + + +The following four Company K men I cannot find. If any Comrade can give me +any information concerning any of them I desire to have him do so. They +may be living, but I think it is more probable that they are dead: + + +GEORGE ADAMS. + +June, 1861-October 14, 1862. Born in England. + + +JOHN CONSTANTINE. + +May, 1861-August 29, 1861. Born in Ireland. Came to America when one year +old. Claimed to have been discharged from the regular army a short time +before enlisting in Company K. Was an intemperate, boisterous and +quarrelsome man. Was dismissed from the army by sentence of a court +martial. + + +LOUIS MINTZ. + +April, 1861-August 24, 1863. Born in Portugal. In religion was supposed to +be a Hebrew. I think he came to Newark as a peddler and there joined +Company K. He was a good soldier, but was very excitable. On one occasion, +when advancing on skirmish line through the woods, he fired into a dead +rebel who was hanging on a fence. Comrade Mintz was overheated at +Raymond, from which he never recovered, and on account of which he was +discharged. + + +JOHN PEPOON. + +May, 1861-December 16, 1862. At time of enlistment he lived in Oswego +township, Kendall county, Illinois. + + + + +OUR DEAD. + + +For many years earth has held the ashes of our fallen Comrades in its +bosom. We have kept their memories in our hearts. + + +Slain in Battle. + + +ANDREW WILSON, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Ohio. Enlisted June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years. +Shot through the head at Fort Donelson, and instantly killed, February 15, +1862, while the Union line was advancing on the enemy. + +Early on the morning of the 16th the Confederates surrendered. I was on +the detail sent out that day to bury the dead of our Regiment. We went to +the place where we had position in the line and there, on a hard hill, +through stones and roots we dug a grave. This is the only grave I have +ever helped to dig. It was thirty feet long and a little more than six +feet wide. When of sufficient depth two men remained in the bottom, and +others handed down, one by one, eighteen men of the 20th Illinois +Regiment. Andrew Wilson was one of the number. When they had all been +placed side by side across the grave, good Chaplain Button spoke solemn, +earnest words in exhortation and prayer. Our dead were covered with earth, +three volleys were fired over them as a parting salutation, and we then +filed away into camp, weary and sad. + + +CURTIS WANN, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1843. Enlisted in Company +K, April, 1861. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Shiloh, Sunday, +April 6, 1862. I have a clear recollection of Curtis Wann on the morning +of that dreadful day, when we were going forward to meet the enemy. His +face was aglow with eagerness and courage, but alas! he was the first to +fall. + + +JAMES CRELLEN, Newark, Illinois. + +Born on the Isle of Man. Had not been in America many years. Was a +shoemaker, and worked at his trade in Newark. Was well thought of by +everybody. He was one of the first to sign the Company roll. He said at +the outset that he wanted to be killed if he could not come out of the war +entire. He dreaded mutilation more than death. At Shiloh, Sunday, April 6, +1861, he was shot through the neck and killed instantly. I had my eyes +squarely upon him when he was struck. He dropped to the ground and never +moved. Did not even quiver. While lying dead upon the battlefield he was +again shot through the face. + + +MARCUS MORTON. + +Enlisted at Joliet May, 1861. Was shot and mortally wounded at Shiloh +April 6, 1861. Died in a few days after the battle. + + +ISRAEL WATERS, Plattville, Illinois. + +Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861. Was shot and instantly killed May 12, +1863, in the battle of Raymond. While we were engaged in the desperate +fighting behind the rail fence I turned my eyes on Waters and he was +cheering and shouting defiance to the enemy. In a few moments I looked +again and he lay perfectly dead. A bullet had passed through his brain. + + +WILLIAM SHOGER, Oswego, Illinois. + +Born in Germany. Came to America in 1855. Enlisted in May, 1861, at the +age of nineteen years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond +May 12, 1863. Was brought up and confirmed a Lutheran. Later withdrew from +Lutheran church and became an active member of Evangelical church. + + +DAVID BARROWS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in New Hampshire. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of thirty-five +years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. +Was a married man and left a wife and three little girls lonely and sad. +If I were asked who was the best soldier in Company K the first man I +would think of would be David Barrows. He did not waste much powder. A +good marksman, and level-headed under the most trying circumstances, he +aimed and fired in the heat and fury of battle with the precision and +accuracy of target practice. + +Comrades Waters, Shoger and Barrows were at my right. They were all shot +through the head and, when killed, lay touching each other. + + +BENJAMIN ADAMS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Killed in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Comrade Adams was +shot at the very beginning of the battle, as we lay in the woods waiting +for the skirmishers to rally in, and before we fired a gun. At the close +of the battle he was still living. A comrade paused over him and said-- + +"Can I do anything for you?" + +"No." + +"Ben, you are badly hurt. Won't I stay with you?" + +"They are running, are they not?" + +"Yes, we have them on the run. Won't I stay with you?" + +"No; go on." + +He was taken by an ambulance to the field hospital and died in a few +minutes after reaching that place. + + +HENRY MITCHELL, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +Born of English parents on Prince Edward's Island January 31, 1836. Came +to Kendall county, Illinois, in 1845. Enlisted in Company K May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Killed in the battle of Raymond May 12, +1863. + +Henry Mitchell was in every sense a large, strong, brave man, and was +highly regarded by all such as have regard for what is true and noble in +human life and character. He was scrupulously correct in all his habits. +Never played cards, was never profane in speech, and never had any use for +whisky, tobacco or beer. He had five brothers in the Union army, all in +Company C of the 7th Illinois Regiment, namely, Anthony, William, George, +Robert and Samuel. These five in the 7th Regiment and Henry in the 20th +were all in the battle lines at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. I do not believe +that there is in the whole range of history another instance in which six +brothers fought in the ranks of any army in the same great battles. I have +read of Roman patriotism and Grecian valor, of Spartan mothers sending out +their sons to battle with the injunction to come back either victorious or +dead, but I have never read of anything that is equal to the case of the +six Mitchell brothers in patriotism, devotion and valor, all of whom +responded at once to their country's first call for volunteers. + +Of these six brave brothers only three now survive, namely--Anthony, in +Kansas, and Robert and Samuel, in Colorado. George was slain on the second +day at Shiloh. "We were all within six feet of George when he fell," +writes Anthony. That is, the other four of the 7th Regiment; and Henry was +close by in the 20th Regiment. William contracted disease in the army, +came home sick and died. + + +ROBERT TAYLOR, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in England. Came to America when a child. Enlisted in Company K, +April, 1861, at the age of about twenty-three years. Shot through hip and +mortally wounded in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Lived a few days after +the battle and died in extreme agony. I lay near him in the hospital. His +suffering was the most terrible that I have ever witnessed. + + +WILLIAM READ, Newark, Illinois. + +Was a recruit. I think he came to the Company in 1862. Was shot in head +and mortally wounded in battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863. Lived a few days +after the battle. + + +JOHN WOODRUFF, Oswego, Illinois. + +Enlisted in May, 1861. Shot and mortally wounded in the battle of Raymond, +May 12, 1863. Was shot in leg below the knee. Three different amputations +were performed, one below the knee and two above, but each was followed by +unfavorable results. He and I were in the same hospital, and not very far +apart. I witnessed the amputations. The patient in all his suffering +exhibited the most incredible fortitude. He lived nearly three weeks and +never groaned nor sighed. At last when informed that mortification was +advancing and the end was near, he called an attendant, paid him for extra +service rendered and then turned over to the attendant his pocket-book and +some other personal effects to be sent to his sister at Iowa Falls, Iowa. +This was done with perfect deliberation. He manifested no fear of death. I +remember him very distinctly in former battles. He was a very brave +soldier. + + +RICE BAXTER, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +May, 1861-October 13, 1861. In a few months after being discharged from +Company K he enlisted in another Regiment and was killed in the battle of +Arkansas Post, January 10, 1863. I have been unable to obtain any +information concerning Comrade Baxter from any of his relatives, although +I have made persistent efforts to do so. + + + + +Died in the Service. + + +THOMPSON BRISTOL, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted in April, 1861, at the age of nineteen years. Went into camp at +Joliet, became sick, went home on furlough and died June 16, 1861. Buried +in Millington. Let his grave be decorated. + + +WILLIAM ASHTON, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born of English parents in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted April, +1861, at the age of nearly twenty-one years. Died at Cape Girardeau, +Missouri, September 2, 1861. + + +STEPHEN JENNINGS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in State of New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died of typhoid fever in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, October +15, 1861. + + +RICHARD CONNER, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Enlisted June 12, 1861, at the age +of twenty years. Died of measles in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, +December 23, 1861. + + +FRANK LEHMAN. + +Born in Germany. Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Bird's Point, Missouri, +January 11, 1862. + + +JOHN R. MCKEAN, Newark, Illinois. + +Was one of the first to volunteer in April, 1861. Had been in the regular +army and, I think, for a short time in the Mexican war. Took a very +active part in organizing the Company and drilling the boys. Was elected +Second Lieutenant. A very efficient officer. Died at Bird's Point, +Missouri, January 23, 1862. + +Does any comrade know anything about Lieutenant McKean's burial? If so, +report to me, please. + + +GEORGE MALLORY, Newark, Illinois. + +Born at Rome, Oneida county, New York, November 10, 1835. Came to Kendall +county, Illinois, in 1838. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died at Bird's Point, Missouri, January 28, 1862. + + +WILLIAM CROWNER. + +Enlisted in May, 1861. Died in hospital at Mound City, March 10, 1862. + + +EDWARD ATKINS, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, March 11, 1862, while home +on furlough sick. + + +AARON PAXSON, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, May 4, 1862, while home on +furlough sick. + + +WILLIAM BENNETT, Adams Township, La Salle County, Illinois. + +Born in England January 4, 1837. Enlisted at Newark April, 1861, at the +age of twenty-four years. His vitality was overtaxed at Fort Donelson. He +broke down and never recovered. Was sent down the river and died in +general hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May 5, 1862. + + +ALBERT WILCOX, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Illinois, January 21, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861, +at the age of twenty years. Died in hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May +13, 1862. + + +OTIS CHARLES, Bristol Station, Illinois. + +Born in Bristol township, Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Overcome by the strain at Fort Donelson he +went home on furlough sick, and died at his home June 1, 1862. + + +WILLIAM SMITH, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted May, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Died at Paducah, Kentucky, August 23, 1862, while on +detailed duty in the Signal Corps. + + +JOSEPH SPRINGER. + +Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1831. Enlisted as a +recruit in Company K August 30, 1862. Died at Lake Providence, Louisiana, +March 18, 1863. Was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. Belonged +to the society organized at Millbrook, Kendall county, Illinois. Was +married, and when he went away to the war left at home a wife and three +boys, whose respective ages were seven, five and about two and one-half +years. His widow, Mrs. Ann Springer, now lives at Firth, Lancaster county, +Nebraska, from whose letters I make the following extracts: "I am glad the +survivors of Company K are hunting up the records of those that never +returned, as well as the records of those who were spared to come back. I +have been weighed down and almost crushed with sorrow and affliction. I +have never re-married, and, of course, draw pension at the rate of twelve +dollars a month. I have lived with my boys, the oldest of whom was taken +away when nearly sixteen years of age. The other two are still spared. I +had four brothers who went out to fight for the dear old flag. Two of them +never returned. One was William Bennett of Company K. He responded to the +first call and enlisted at Newark, Illinois, early in the spring of 1861. +Another brother, who was in the artillery service, was killed in the +battle of Stone River. God bless the soldiers; they did a noble work; they +are the saviors of the country. If the Company K Roster is published I +want a copy." + + +ALFRED GRISWOLD, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April 1861. Died at Berry's Landing, Louisiana, March 20, 1863. + + +SUMNER COOK, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, of typhoid fever, +July 20, 1863. + + +GEORGE SLEEZER, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Ill. Enlisted as a recruit for Company K September +26, 1864, at the age of eighteen years. Became sick at Camp Butler, near +Springfield, Illinois, and died at that place November 13, 1864, before he +reached the Company. + + +WALTER LANDON, Fox Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +Volunteered as a recruit for Company K October 3, 1864, and died in a +short time afterward at Camp Butler, Illinois, before reaching the +Company. + + +GREENBURY LEACH, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in West Virginia. Enlisted April, 1861. Captured near Atlanta, +Georgia, July 22, 1864. Confined in Confederate prisons from date of +capture until the following spring. Died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, +April 30, 1865, just after being exchanged and while on his way to the +north. Was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. While in the army +always attended whatever religious service was conducted in camp. Was a +regular attendant and participant at regimental prayer-meetings. + + + + +Died Since Date of Discharge. + + +NELSON DAYTON, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of eighteen years. Discharged for +disability November 27, 1861. Died March 4, 1862, at Newark, Illinois. + + +ROBERT LAWTON. + +May 1861-August 17, 1862. Born in Lancashire, England. Came to America in +1852. Died in Kendall county, Illinois, of the disease for which +discharged from the army April 14, 1864, at the age of twenty-five years, +three months and eight days. Robert was a good soldier. I remember him +distinctly on the battlefield of Shiloh. During the terrible fighting of +the first day he turned over his pocket-book to a member of the Company +who retired on account of wounds. He did not want his money to be taken by +the rebels if he were killed in the fight. + +Comrade Lawton's remains were interred in the little cemetery at +Plattville. The slab marble which marks his final resting place has fallen +down and is broken. When the flowers of May each year come, let patriot +hands decorate this grave. + + +GILBERT MORTON, Oswego, Illinois. + +Enlisted May, 1861. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Promoted to Quartermaster +Sergeant of the Regiment at the outset and, I think, held that position +during the entire war. After discharge he became a railroad official and +had a highly successful career for about ten years. But evil days came, +and he finally died by his own hand at a hotel in Chicago. This was about +the year 1876. + + +LONGEN MERKLI. + +Born in 1829 at Damsingan, Baden, Germany. Went into German army in his +youth, and was thoroughly trained as a soldier. Participated in active +warfare in 1848-'49. He handled sword and bayonet with great dexterity. +Few men could stand before him with these weapons. After his service in +the German army he spent several years as a student. Was a good latin +scholar, and had a knowledge of the French language. Pursued a course of +study in surgery and medicine in a German University, and, by members of +his profession, was considered an expert anatomist. Had been reared in the +faith of the Catholic church, but became a doubter of the fundamental +doctrines of Christianity. Came to America in 1860 and engaged in the +practice of medicine at Milford and Newark. Was one of the first to enlist +in April, 1861. Served in the ranks of the Company for about a year and a +half. Was in the battles of Fredericktown, Fort Donelson and Shiloh. Was +shot in the foot at Shiloh. Was a remarkably brave and fearless man. About +July, 1862, he was detailed to serve in a hospital at Jackson, Tennessee. +When negro soldiers were enlisted he was offered a commission as assistant +surgeon of a negro Regiment, but declined it. He continued on detailed +duty and served as a medical man in various hospitals until the expiration +of his term of enlistment. Was mustered out in July, 1864. After the war, +located at Bristol, Illinois, and pursued the practice of medicine. In his +best years he was unable to control his appetite for strong drink and, as +time advanced, his appetite steadily increased and he became an abject +slave. He died at Bristol, Illinois, August 20, 1879. + + +GEORGE WATSON, Newark, Illinois. + +I doubt whether any man did as much as George Watson toward getting up +Company K. He was a lawyer at Newark, was a democrat, voted for Bell and +Everett in 1860, and was an enthusiastic Union man. He was a fluent +off-hand speaker and was the main figure at all the war meetings in +Newark. Had been in Pennsylvania militia and Mexican war and was a good +drill master. Was elected First Lieutenant. About the first of June, 1861, +he withdrew from the Company and joined Mulligan's Regiment in Chicago. +Was captured with that command at Lexington, Missouri, in 1861. After this +he served on a gunboat and, still later, had a commission in a +Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. He was gifted with talent of a high order, +but an uncontrollable appetite for intoxicating liquor barred all +possibility of success in life. It caused his ruin and downfall and death. +He made many spasmodic attempts at reformation, and at these times was a +successful temperance talker. But all his efforts at reform ended in +failure. From the United States Soldiers' Home at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I +have received this: "The records show that George W. Watson served in +Company K, 20th Illinois Infantry; Company E, 23d Illinois Infantry; +Company F, 2d Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in U. S. Navy. He was admitted +here December 15, 1877, and was killed by a railroad train in Milwaukee, +Wisconsin, at about 3 o'clock p. m., August 21, 1879." + + +FAYETTE SCOFIELD, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in DuPage county, Illinois, January 25, 1847. Enlisted as a recruit +for Company K February 25, 1864. Discharged July 16, 1865. Killed in a +railroad wreck in Missouri February 17, 1881. + + +AMON HEACOX, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in Oneida county, New York, June 6, 1817. Enlisted in Company K, May, +1861, at the age of forty-four years. Mustered out July 14, 1864. Was the +oldest man in the Company. I have been informed that he was slightly +wounded at Britton's Lane, but I have no recollection of it. I remember +him very distinctly at Fort Donelson. He was a good man and a good +soldier. Was a member of M. E. church. Was one of six, many years ago, to +organize a Methodist Episcopal church in Lisbon, Illinois. He died in the +Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, April 23, 1889, in the seventy-third +year of his age. Is interred in the cemetery at Lisbon. + + +HENRY HAVENHILL, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in LaSalle county, Illinois, June 17, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861. +Discharged for disability April 27, 1862. Died in Chicago, Illinois, of +paralysis, June, 1889. + + +FRANCIS CROWELL, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Tompkins county, New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +eighteen years. Was wounded in the Georgia campaign July, 1864. Mustered +out July 16, 1865. Died at Waterman, Illinois, of a complication of +diseases, September 17, 1889. The address of his widow is Mrs. Mary A. +Crowell, Waterman, Illinois. + + +THOMAS GARNER. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in England. Had been a British soldier, +and saw active service in the Crimean war. Deserted from the British army. +Captured and branded with letter D. Deserted again in Canada and succeeded +in escaping to the United States. + +Thomas Garner was one of the best marchers and fighters in the Union army. +He was always at his post. Never straggled from the ranks and never failed +because of sore feet or anything else. Whenever there was fighting on hand +Tom was in it. His great failing we all know, but, notwithstanding that, +he was the best beloved man in Company K. Some years after the war he went +back to England and, in time, returned again to the United States. Soon +after his return he walked from Buffalo, New York, to Morris, Illinois, +and then came to Newark and Sheridan looking for Company K folks. He found +none and went away very despondent. These facts I learned from his friends +in Morris. I have received a communication from the Pension Agent at +Buffalo, New York, which informs me that Thomas Garner, Company K, 20th +Illinois Regiment, was on the rolls of that agency as a pensioner at the +rate of six dollars a month, and that he died during the year 1892. He +drew pension to July 4 of that year. His address at that time was No. 58 +Commercial Street, Buffalo, New York. This is the most definite +information I have succeeded in obtaining. + + +WILLIAM MINARD, Oswego, Illinois. + +Born at Walbrough, Ulster county, New York, September 26, 1840. Enlisted +May, 1861. Became Commissary Sergeant of the Regiment. Mustered out July +14, 1864. Died at Chicago, Illinois, of disease of kidneys, January 10, +1894. Interred at Graceland. + + +GEORGE CONNELLY. + +May, 1861-September 8, 1862. Born in Ireland. Had been a soldier in the +regular army. Was a brave man. Was wounded at Shiloh. Was discharged on +account of wound and pensioned therefor. He is now dead. Date of death not +ascertained. + + +JAMES HAGARDORN. + +Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861, and, I think, served about a year and a +half. Was discharged for disability and became a pensioner. After the war +lived in State of New York. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + +JAMES LORD. + +May, 1861-March 5, 1863. Was an actor. Came to Newark, Illinois, in the +spring of 1861 with a theatrical troupe and there enlisted in Company K. +He was a very intelligent man and a good soldier. Was wounded at Fort +Donelson. Was discharged for disability and became a pensioner. He is now +dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + +RALPH PRATT. + +May, 1861-November 27, 1861. Discharged for disability. Became a +pensioner. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + + + +REMARKS. + + +The names of those who served thirty days with Company K in the State +service but who declined to join the Company for three years in the United +States service do not appear in this roster; neither do the names of +drafted men and substitutes who were assigned to the Company during the +last few months of the war. + +The dates after a name indicate the time when the soldier first +volunteered and the time when he was mustered out or discharged. Those who +did not enlist for a second term of three years were nearly all mustered +out July 14, 1864. Those who re-enlisted were mustered out July 16, 1865, +on account of the close of the war. Those discharged at other dates were +discharged for disability resulting from wounds or sickness. + +The names of 108 Company K men are herein given; 56 are living, 52 are +dead. 4 are missing; of these four I have not been able to obtain any +information whatever. I know not whether they are living or dead. + +Of the 56 men living, 41 receive pensions; 7 receive no pension. In regard +to the others, it is not ascertained whether they are pensioners or not. +32 receive pensions for disabilities incurred in the army; 9 for +disabilities not incurred in the army. + +Of the 56 men here reported as living, 23 at least were wounded in battle; +13 draw pension for wounds. + +Eight Company K men were buried at Raymond--Shoger, Barrows, Waters and +Mitchell were buried in the same grave with others of the Regiment on the +battlefield, near the rail fence. Adams was buried near the field +hospital. Taylor, Reed and Woodruff were buried in the graveyard near the +town. Crellen and Wann were buried on the battlefield of Shiloh. None of +these graves are now marked or known. + +For courtesy, and for information furnished to assist me in tracing lost +members of Company K, I am under special obligations to the Hon. WILLIAM +LOCHREN, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. I also acknowledge my +indebtedness to many postmasters, to newspaper editors, to pension agents +and others. + +If any Company K man dies or changes his place of residence I desire to be +informed of the fact. In this way we will know where every man of the +Company is located. Remember, please. + +A more lengthy sketch is given of some Comrades than of others. The reason +is I have had more information in regard to some than in regard to others. +In many cases what is said about each one of the living is his own letter +to me re-cast and abridged. I have not intentionally slighted or +misrepresented any. I may have made errors. If so, I hope they are few and +not of a grievous nature. + + + + +A BIT OF HISTORY. + + +When the news of the President's first call for volunteers reached Newark +the people were wild with excitement. "That night," writes Dr. Dyer, "I +could not sleep. The next morning I was out very early. I went into +Fowler's drug store and there with pen and ink drew up a company +muster-roll and signed it, and united with others in calling a war meeting +for that evening. I was called to make a long ride in the country and upon +my return found five names on the muster-roll in addition to my own. I +wish I had that paper now." This was the beginning of our Company. +Volunteers continued to come forward and in a few days the requisite +number had signed the roll. April 24, 1861, is on record as the date of +our Company organization. We were not accepted under the President's call +and were sorely disappointed. However, most of the boys continued to meet +in Newark and were drilled by Lieutenants Watson and McKean. On May 11, +1861, our Company left Newark for Joliet and went into camp. The 20th +Illinois Regiment was there organized and the Kendall county boys became +Company K of that organization. After that the history of the Company +became part of the history of the Regiment. June 13, 1861, we were +mustered into the United States service for three years, if not sooner +discharged. About the 17th of June we took the cars for the South. Stopped +three weeks at Alton, Illinois, and drilled constantly. Early in July we +went into camp for a short time in the United States Arsenal at St. +Louis, Missouri, and were here armed with Enfield rifles and received new +blue uniforms. We now had a very extravagant opinion of ourselves, of our +fighting qualities in particular, and did not take the least pains to +conceal that opinion from others. This is what a St. Louis paper said of +us: + + ARRIVAL OF COLONEL MARSH'S REGIMENT FROM ALTON. + + At 11 o'clock a. m., of Saturday, the steamer, "City of Alton," from + Alton, landed at the Arsenal the Twentieth Illinois Regiment, Colonel + C. C. Marsh commanding. The boat brought also the entire camp + equipage and stores of the Regiment. The spontaneous greeting + tendered by our Missouri soldiers was hearty and enthusiastic. Cheers + upon cheers of welcome rent the air and were responded to by the + Illinoisans in magnificent style. The guests were assigned the + western lawn of the Arsenal grounds for their camping site. Tents + were speedily pitched, baggage distributed, and the newly arrived + volunteers were soon perfectly at home. They are aching for active + service wherever desired, and, we understand, are already under + orders for "a forward movement." Other Regiments in Illinois are also + in eager anticipation of lively "business" in Missouri or Arkansas. + + Colonel Marsh's Regiment is evidently in first-class condition and + consists of strikingly vigorous and hardy men. They are brim full of + health and energy and fun. The Regiment numbers nine hundred and + sixty-one men rank and file. Success and joy to them. + +We left the Arsenal in a few days and for six months were engaged in +"business" in southeast Missouri. On October 21 we met the Confederates in +force, under Jeff. Thompson, at Fredericktown and succeeded in thoroughly +convincing them that they were whipped. + +February 6, 1862, we entered Fort Henry and ten days later marched in +triumph into Fort Donelson. April 6 and 7 we had position in the Union +lines at Shiloh and after that took a hand in the siege of Corinth. +September 1 were engaged in the sharp little battle of Britton's Lane. In +the winter of 1862-3 were in the campaign in the mud in northern +Mississippi. Were at Oxford when General VanDorn took Holly Springs and +burned our supplies. In the spring and summer of 1863 we participated in +all the battles of the Vicksburg campaign and in the siege of that +stronghold. + +Were out on the Meridian expedition for twenty-nine days in the month of +February, 1864, without tents or other protection from the elements except +what every man carried on his back. + +In the spring and summer of 1864 were in the Georgia campaign and siege of +Atlanta. In the fall went from Atlanta to the sea. + +In 1865 was in the campaign in the Carolinas and marched through Virginia +to Washington after the Confederate armies had surrendered. + +On the 16th of July, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, the Twentieth Regiment +Illinois Volunteer Infantry was mustered out of the United States service +and disbanded, and the boys went home. + + + + +INDEX. + + + PAGE + + Adams, Benjamin 44 + + Adams, George 40 + + Anderson 6 + + Ashton 47 + + Atkins 48 + + Bacon 6 + + Barnard 39 + + Barrows, David 43 + + Barrows, James 6 + + Baxter 46 + + Bennett 48 + + Bishop 34 + + Bissell 7 + + Boyer 4 + + Bristol 47 + + Broad 33 + + Brown 7 + + Carey 8 + + Charles 49 + + Clayton 9 + + Clifford 9 + + Connelly 56 + + Conner, Richard 47 + + Conner, Anderson 10 + + Conner, Lambert 38 + + Constantine 40 + + Cook 50 + + Crellen 42 + + Crowell 55 + + Crowner 48 + + Coyle 10 + + Dann 11 + + Dayton 51 + + Dyer 3 + + Favreau 12 + + Garner 55 + + Gay 36 + + Griswold 50 + + Gray 12 + + Hagerdorn 56 + + Hagerman 13 + + Hall 39 + + Hanson 13 + + Havenhill, Marshall 13 + + Havenhill, Henry 54 + + Heacox 54 + + Hopgood, Thomas 33 + + Hopgood, George 13 + + Howes 14 + + Hutton 14 + + Jennings, Stephen 47 + + Jennings, James 16 + + Kilmer 16 + + Landon 50 + + Lawton 51 + + Leach, Greenbury 51 + + Leach, John 17 + + Lehman 47 + + Littlewood 17 + + Lord 56 + + Mallory 48 + + McKean 47 + + Merkli 52 + + Minard 56 + + Mintz 40 + + Mitchell 44 + + Morton, Marcus 43 + + Morton, Gilbert 52 + + Mullenix 18 + + Olin 3 + + Paxson 48 + + Pepoon 41 + + Pierson 18 + + Pratt 57 + + Prentice 20 + + Preston, William 21 + + Preston, Luman 39 + + Pruyn 21 + + Read 46 + + Remillard 21 + + Rockwood 22 + + Scofield 54 + + Shoger 43 + + Sleezer 50 + + Smith 49 + + Spellman 5 + + Spencer 22 + + Springer, Richard 22 + + Springer, James 38 + + Springer, Joseph 49 + + Taylor, Robert 45 + + Taylor, John 23 + + Todd 24 + + Trenter 26 + + Vreeland 26 + + Wallace 26 + + Wann 42 + + Waters 43 + + Watson 53 + + West 27 + + White 28 + + Wilcox 49 + + Wilsey 28 + + Wilson, Andrew 41 + + Wilson, DeWitt 29 + + Wilson, George 30 + + Woodruff 46 + + Wright 31 + + + Preface 2 + + Remarks 57 + + A Bit of History 59 + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. + +The following misprints have been corrected: + "accompauied" corrected to "accompanied" (page 16) + "doctor's" corrected to "doctors" (page 24) + "religous" corrected to "religious" (page 29) + "Novembe" corrected to "November" (page 50) + "Pennsylania" corrected to "Pennsylvania" (page 53) + +Some of the dates seem obviously incorrect; however, they are presented +in this text as they appear in the original. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Company K, Twentieth Regiment, +Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Andrew Brown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT *** + +***** This file should be named 32017-8.txt or 32017-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/0/1/32017/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry + Roster and Record + +Author: Andrew Brown + +Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32017] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<h4>April 24, 1861.<span class="spacer"> </span>July 16, 1865.</h4> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h1>COMPANY K,</h1> +<h3>Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry.</h3> +<p> </p> +<h3>ROSTER and RECORD</h3> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h4>BY</h4> +<h3><span class="smcap">Andrew Brown.</span></h3> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h4>YORKVILLE, ILL.<br /><span class="smcap">Kendall County Record Print</span><br />1894.</h4> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p>At the last annual reunion of the association of the survivors of the 20th +Illinois Regiment, held in Chicago September 8, 1893, I was assigned the +duty of preparing a roster of Company K. This little publication is the +result of my efforts to perform that duty. It is intended for the +surviving members of the Company and their descendants, for relatives and +friends of deceased members and for all others into whose hands it may +chance to come, who are interested in learning about the men who fought +and won battles that secured to America liberty and union.</p> + +<p class="right">ANDREW BROWN.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Newark, Illinois</span>, June, 1894.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h2>ROSTER AND RECORD.</h2> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">REUBEN F. DYER, M. D., Ottawa, Ill.</p> + +<p>Born at Strong, Franklin county, Maine. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., April +15, 1861. Was elected Captain. Commanded Company at Fredericktown, Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson. Resigned commission as Captain of Company K March +13, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, with view of obtaining a +position in the line of his profession. August 25, 1862, was commissioned +Surgeon, 104th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which commission he +held till close of war, and, at close was acting Medical Director 14th +Army Corps, General Jefferson C. Davis commanding. Has practiced medicine +at Ottawa since 1865. For a number of years a member of U. S. Board +Examining Surgeons. Is not a pensioner. A republican. A Methodist.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">BENJAMIN OLIN, Joliet, Ill.</p> + +<p>Born in State of New York. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., in April, 1861. +Elected Orderly Sergeant of Company. May, 1861, commissioned First +Lieutenant. Served with Company in Missouri till November, 1861, when he +resigned on account of ill health. Has been in the practice of law since +1862. At present County Judge of Will county, Ill. Is not a pensioner. Has +never applied for a pension. A liberal democrat. A Methodist.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN N. BOYER, Normal, Ill.</p> + +<p>Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Volunteered May 10, 1861, at Newark, +Ill. Discharged February 15, 1864, on account of wound received at +Vicksburg. Was appointed Orderly Sergeant June 13, 1861. Commissioned 2d +Lieutenant January 22, 1862; Captain March 13, 1862.</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">AT SHILOH.</span></p> + +<p>On April 6, 1862, had mumps very badly, and had neck wrapped with red +flannel. Nevertheless, went out in command of the Company. Had sword +struck by a missile and bent nearly double, and received two slight wounds +in the face. At noon was compelled to retire from the Company. When going, +several of the boys turned over their pocket-books to him for safe +keeping. Joined us, and took command of the Company, at daylight the next +morning and was in all the second day’s fighting.</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">AT BRITTON’S LANE.</span></p> + +<p>On September 1, 1862, was indisposed and was riding in an ambulance with +Assistant Surgeon Bailey and Chaplain Button. When first shots were heard +at Britton’s Lane he jumped out, buckled on his sword and asked Dr. Bailey +to give him a strong dose of whisky and quinine and then went forward on a +run to take charge of the Company. This is a true story, because Chaplain +Button tells it.</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">AT VICKSBURG.</span></p> + +<p>On May 22, 1863, while in command of the Company at Vicksburg he was shot +in the foot. On this occasion he lost his sword that had been battered at +Shiloh; also, most of his other personal effects. He was discharged on +account of this wound and receives pension therefor at the rate of twenty +dollars a month.</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span><span class="smcaplc">A MAN OF PEACE.</span></p> + +<p>Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the +West. Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Says he can’t +work much. We understand he does not have to. In one sense of the word it +is supposed he is well-heeled, although in another sense it is certain he +is very badly heeled. In religion a Methodist; in politics a radical +republican.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">PERRY W. SPELLMAN, Fellowship, Florida.</p> + +<p>Born in Pittsford, Monroe county, New York. Volunteered April 24, 1861, at +Newark, Ill. Mustered out July 16, 1865, by reason of close of war. Was +appointed Sergeant in May, 1861. Detailed on recruiting service from +December, 1861, to June, 1862. Was Orderly Sergeant for a few months, then +reduced to the ranks and detailed as acting Hospital Steward and dispenser +of medicine. Was commissioned First Lieutenant March 2, 1863, and Captain +February 23, 1865.</p> + +<p>On May 12, 1863, during our desperate struggle behind the rail fence at +Raymond, Comrade Spellman had the command of the Company. Near the close +of that battle, when our lines were advancing through the woods, he was +hit in the side by a bullet and disabled for a time. From May 22, 1865, he +commanded the Company during the siege of Vicksburg, and continued in +command till the latter part of the siege of Atlanta. Was on detached +service as acting assistant Quartermaster 3d Division 17th Army Corps, +from October, 1864, till final muster out.</p> + +<p>Since the war has mostly followed business pursuits. Has lived in +Illinois, in South Dakota, and is now in Florida. On December 25, 1893, he +wrote<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> thus: “I came to Florida in January, 1890, and will probably spend +the remainder of my days here. The climate is much more agreeable to me +than that of the chilly North. Roses in full bloom and fresh vegetables +for the table all winter.” Pensioned for disability incurred in the army.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">FAAGUST ANDERSON, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-August 1, 1862. Born in Sweden. Came to America in 1852. Twenty +years old when enlisted. Was shot in wrist at Shiloh and discharged +because of wound. Enlisted in another regiment in August, 1863, and +mustered out in December, 1865, on account of close of war. Is pensioned +at rate of ten dollars a month for wound received at Shiloh, and other +disabilities. Has been farming since the war. Is a republican, but not a +church member.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">CHARLES BACON, Clinton, Oneida County, New York.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in Paris, Oneida county, New York. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of eight dollars a +month for disability incurred in army. Pension granted December, 1893. +Votes the republican ticket as often as he has a chance to do so, but in +religion is not very particular. Just goes to whatever church is handiest.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES BARROWS, Newark, Ill.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 24, 1862. Born in Perry, Wyoming county, New York. Was +twenty-six years old when enlisted. Pensioned at twelve dollars a month. +Is a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> painter. A member of Baptist church. A republican. Was in the ranks +of Company K at Fredericktown, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Shiloh.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">MARTIN BISSELL, Plano, Ill.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-October 3, 1862. Born in Addison county, Vermont. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Slightly wounded at Fort Donelson. At Shiloh was +struck with fragment of bursting shell Sunday morning, in region of hip, +while regiment was executing a retreat after first engagement with the +enemy. Soon afterwards was struck in thigh with spent ball, and later in +the battle had part of right thumb nail knocked off and bayonet scabbard +cut by another ball. At Britton’s Lane was shot in right shoulder; was +discharged because of this wound, and draws pension therefor at the rate +of eight dollars a month. Since discharged has been engaged in +agricultural and mechanical pursuits. A republican. A Methodist.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ANDREW BROWN, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born of Irish parents, in Kendall county, Ill. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Did not go with Company from Newark to +Joliet on Saturday, May 11, 1861, because, on that morning, clothes and +other necessaries were missing, but the next day, being fairly equipped, +he started on foot for Camp Goodell, east of Joliet, at 10 o’clock a. m. +and reached destination at 4 p. m. Was farther away from home then than he +had ever been before in his life. Had made a march of nearly thirty miles +in six hours, but was in very “light marching order.” Was not encumbered +with a single superfluous article. When he reported in camp, Lieutenant +Watson<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> ordered the Company to form ranks and then called for three cheers +for the boy they left behind them. From the day he left home till he +returned, a period of more than three years, this volunteer never slept in +a bed nor sat at a table to eat a meal of victuals. Was never on detailed +duty, never straggled from the ranks and, while a soldier, never missed a +march, campaign, skirmish or battle, except when wounded and a prisoner in +the hands of the enemy. When long roll was beat Sunday morning at Shiloh, +he had his gun off the stock and was swabbing out the barrel in a pail of +water. Was under arrest and in guard house once only. Charges preferred +were “committing depredations on private property.” The “depredation” +consisted of milking a cow in canteen. Read the New Testament through +three times in the army. Has the little volume yet which Chaplain Button +presented in May, 1861. It has been out in many a storm and is badly +soaked and soiled. Was slightly wounded at Britton’s Lane. Was shot twice +through leg at Raymond and captured by the enemy. A prisoner for two +months. Since discharged has been student, teacher, lawyer, farmer. Has +never been greenbacker, free-silver man nor protective tariff man. Is a +democrat, but has much regard and respect for prohibitionists. In religion +liberal. Catholic rather than Protestant.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN CAREY, Blackstone, Ill.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Limerick, Ireland. Came to America in +November, 1860. Was twenty-one years old when enlisted.</p> + +<p>The preliminary skirmishing of an impending battle always acted like a +tonic on this comrade, and he was never known to be out of condition +whenever a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> battle was on. Was as good a soldier as ever fought under the +Stars and Stripes.</p> + +<p>Captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and confined in Confederate prisons +for nearly seven months. Finally escaped and reached Union lines near +Wilmington, N. C., February 22, 1865. Pensioned at rate of twenty dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in Andersonville Prison. Is a +bachelor—to me it is an utterly unaccountable fact that so congenial a +soul as John Carey should choose to live alone in life. Some girl may +capture him yet. His widow would probably receive a nice pension when John +is gone. Comrade Carey claims that he votes the republican ticket, +although he is a true Irishman and a good Catholic. He did not reply to my +letter of inquiry.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">CHARLES CLAYTON, 26 Union St., Wakefield Road, Stalysbridge, Lancashire, England, Europe.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 25, 1862. Born in England. Draws pension at rate of eight +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Enrolled at +Washington, D. C., Agency. Certificate No. 411,108.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">FRANKLIN CLIFFORD, Seneca, Ill.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Twenty-one years +old when enlisted. Received some slight wounds. There was no discount on +this comrade’s fighting qualities. I remember that very distinctly. Was +captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner seven months and ten days. +Exchanged at Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1865. Is pensioned at twelve +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Is a laborer. He +writes thus: “I always vote the republican ticket. I suppose I ought to be +a religious man, but I am not.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">ANDERSON CONNER, No. 2219 Messanie St., St. Joseph, Missouri.</p> + +<p>June 9, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Eighteen +years old when enlisted. Wounded at Raymond and captured. Sent to Libby +prison. A prisoner only seventeen days. Was then paroled and sent to St. +Louis to await exchange. Remained at St. Louis nearly four months. Was +then exchanged and served with Company K to close of war. Is pensioned at +rate of ten dollars a month for disabilities incurred in the service. His +paternal grandfather was in the Revolution and war of 1812. He says he has +two big boys that might do for soldiers if they were drafted and put under +guard where they could not run.</p> + +<p>From 1867 to 1893 lived in Wisconsin; was engaged in lumbering and +farming, but did not make a fortune. In June, 1893, went to Dwight, Ill.; +stayed there two months, then went west to take a new start in life.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES COYLE, St. Louis, Missouri, No. 624-626 Washington Ave.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, and +confined in Confederate prisons. Escaped and recaptured in woods with +dogs. Escaped again and succeeded in reaching the Union lines after +traveling a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. Was wounded in +trenches at Vicksburg. Is pensioned for wound. Was a very determined and +resolute fighter in battle. Since war has been in business and has been +successful. Is probably a democrat. Has a democratic name and lives in a +democratic State. Did not answer my letter of inquiry. The facts here +given are from previous knowledge.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>Since writing the foregoing I have received a letter from this comrade. He +was not mustered out with the regiment in July, but was retained in +service by special order of War Department and mustered out September 26, +1865, at Louisville. Was shot through the right hand in front of Fort +Hill, Vicksburg, May 21, 1863. When captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, +he was sent to Andersonville. On September 11, 1864, while in transit from +Andersonville to another prison he and George Wilson of Company K escaped +from the cars at midnight and were out fifteen days. Traveled at night and +lay in concealment during the day. Were finally captured and confined in a +common prison at Augusta, Ga., for three weeks. Was then sent to the new +prison at Millen. Was there only one day when he escaped for the second +time with a soldier of the Fifteenth Ohio regiment. Was out the second +time only eleven days and was again captured, and again taken to Augusta; +was there two days when he made a third escape with a Pennsylvania +soldier. “After twenty-one days by constant night travel, we reached +Sherman’s army at Atlanta.”</p> + +<p>In politics a republican; in religion a Presbyterian.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JEROME B. DANN, DeWitt, Saline County, Nebraska.</p> + +<p>June 4, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Pennsylvania. Seventeen years old when +enlisted. Captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner for several +months. Escaped and recaptured in the woods. Since the war has followed +contracting and building, and is at it yet to some extent. Health is quite +unsatisfactory. Draws pension at rate of twelve dollars a month.—Has been +connected with Congregational church for twenty years. Has always been a +republican and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> expects to die a republican. You may live a long time yet, +Jerome.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">RUDOLPH FAVREAU, West New Brighton, Richmond County, N. Y.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Germany. Thirty-five years old when +enlisted. Was the company fifer. Rudolph writes thus: “Ich bin 68 Yahre +alt. Kam nach Amerika 1858, und bin ein Gartner. Ich leide an Reimatismus +und kan garnicht mehr arbeiten und muss nun von meine Pension leben von +$12 monathlich. Auszerdem gehöre ich zuder G. A. R. Post, No. 545, Port +Richmond. Ich belange zu der Deutsche Kirche.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN T. GRAY, Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Re-enlisted +soon after discharge from Company K and served one year in U. S. veteran +reserve corps. Is not in good health. Pensioned at rate of $4,00 a month +for rheumatism contracted in the service. Since the war has done a little +of a great many different things. When a boy he associated himself with +the republican party in the days of Fremont and Dayton, and has never had +just cause or provocation to change. Just now, December, 1893, he sees a +blanked sight less cause to change his opinion than ever. In religion, a +free thinker, he professes that he is not a Christian. He does not want to +become a Christian and does not want to be classed as such. Has wife and +happy family, owns the roof above them and lives contentedly. Has never, +since his discharge, seen a single Company K man and but one man of the +regiment.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">SAMUEL HAGERMAN, Yorkville, Ill.</p> + +<p>June 1, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Was +twenty-seven years old when enlisted. At battle of Shiloh Samuel’s gun was +knocked to pieces by some kind of a missile. At Raymond he was shot in the +shoulder and leg, and in the Georgia campaign had a finger shot off. +Receives pension for wounds at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of +Presbyterian church. A republican.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">NICHOLAS HANSON, Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa.</p> + +<p>May 8, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Schoharie county, New York. He says he +was only seventeen years old when he enlisted. Was wounded July 21, 1864, +near Atlanta. Draws pension for wounds at rate of four dollars a month. Is +farming now and has been most of the time since the war. Is a +Presbyterian. Votes the republican ticket under all circumstances. Is +willing to support anything the party puts up. “If you or any other +Company K folks are ever out this way hunt me up. I own a quarter-section +farm four miles west of town in as good a country as is around Newark. I +have never been able to meet you at any of the reunions, but I am always +glad to get a card of invitation.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">MARSHALL HAVENHILL, Miner, Miner County, South Dakota.</p> + +<p>Enlisted at Newark in April, 1861. July 20, 1861, was transferred to the +regimental band.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE HOPGOOD, Morton, Lewis County, Washington.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 23, 1862. Born in England. Came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> to America in 1857. +Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Is pensioned at the rate of four +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service.</p> + +<p>Since the war has lived most of the time at Clinton, Missouri, and has +worked as a stone-mason. Has gone west and taken a homestead and intends +to grow up with the country. Is a “republican all the way through”. In +religion he is a true Christian. Adopts the grand principles of the Sermon +on the Mount. Get your Bibles, turn to Matthew vii, 12, and read the rule +that he lives by. That is good religion, George. None better was ever +formulated. Live right up to it and you need have no fear of torment or +torture in the life beyond this life.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">EDWIN HOWES, Eola, DuPage County, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 15, 1865. Born in State of New York. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Wounded and captured at Britton’s Lane. Paroled. Captured +again near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and sent to Confederate prisons. +Escaped from prison and reached Union lines near Wilmington, North +Carolina, February, 1865. Pensioned at the rate of twelve dollars a month +for disabilities incurred in the service. Is a farmer. A prohibitionist. +Professes to be a Christian.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Dr.</span> WILLIAM H. H. HUTTON, Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital Service, +Detroit, Mich.</p> + +<p>Born in York, Jefferson county, Ohio. Enlisted in Company K, 20th Illinois +regiment, June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years; discharged +therefrom August 28, 1862, for deafness caused by concussion of cannon at +battle of Pittsburg Landing. Had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> participated in all battles in which +Company was engaged up to date of discharge.</p> + +<p>September 2, 1862, enlisted in Company D, 104th regiment Illinois +volunteers. Reported to his Company at Louisville, Ky., October 2, 1862. +Appointed Sergeant April 10, 1863. Appointed Color-Sergeant on battlefield +of Chicamauga September 20, 1863. Wounded at battle of Missionary Ridge +November 25, 1863. On account of disabilities was sent to Chicago, Ill., +March, 1864. Was chief clerk Desmarres eye and ear military hospital, +Chicago, from July 4, 1864, to March 8, 1865, at which date was discharged +from 104th Illinois regiment by order of Secretary of War. Was appointed +Hospital Steward U. S. A. March 8, 1864 in which capacity he served till +April 1, 1871, thus making a military record of ten years. As Hospital +Steward, U. S. A., he served at the following places: Chicago, Ill.; +Montgomery, Mobile, and Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama; Charleston, +S. C.; Newbern and Raleigh, N. C.; Key West and Dry Tortugas, Florida. +September 8, 1871, was appointed Hospital Steward in U. S. Marine +Hospital, Mobile, Alabama; resigned July 4, 1874.</p> + +<p>Graduated from Chicago Medical College March 16, 1875. May 8, 1875, was +appointed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital service. This +appointment was made on results of competitive examination. Promoted to +Surgeon October 5, 1876. As a United States medical officer has served at +ports of New York, Cincinnati, Mobile, Key West, New Orleans, Baltimore, +and is now serving second tour at Detroit.</p> + +<p>Has served as Medical Inspector of the Life-Saving Service, is on several +examing boards, and has had a great deal to do with National quarantine +matters, especially as regards yellow fever and cholera.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> On one occasion +represented the authority of the United States for several months, in +quarantine matters, on the entire Florida coast.</p> + +<p>This is a very brief summary of Comrade Hutton’s life for nearly +thirty-three years.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES JENNINGS, Sheridan, LaSalle County, Ill.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in state of New York. Twenty-one years old +when enlisted. Was one of the very first to volunteer at Newark; probably +signed the roll April 15, 1861. He also re-enlisted for another three +years as soon as he had an opportunity to do so, which was December 16, +1863. Is well charged with grit. Was shot in shoulder at Britton’s Lane. +Was captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and sent to Andersonville; made +three escapes from prison; first and second were unsuccessful; was +recaptured both times in the woods, after traveling many nights and +undergoing great hardships. Third escape proved successful. Reached Union +lines near Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 22, 1865. Is pensioned at rate of four +dollars a month for wound received at Britton’s Lane. Is a farmer. +Non-sectarian in religion; republican in politics.</p> + +<p>Comrade Jennings has been greatly bereaved by the loss of his wife who +died at South San Diego, Cal., April 14, 1894. He and daughter Edith +<ins class="correction" title="original reads 'accompauied'">accompanied</ins> her to the Pacific coast during the preceding autumn, vainly +attempting to save her from the fatal malady to which she finally +succumbed. Our comrade’s home is now desolate.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ELIAS KILMER, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Ill.</p> + +<p>April 24. 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Oswego county,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteers, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865, by reason +of the termination of the war. Is pensioned at rate of six dollars a +month. Since the war has been a farmer. This is the way Elias writes: +“Politics, black republican. In regard to religion, my wife belongs to the +Methodist church. I suppose you preached prohibition and voted +democratic.” There are very many republicans of my acquaintance whom I +would be glad to see preaching prohibition although they continue to vote +the republican ticket. No class of American citizens would be more greatly +blessed and benefitted by prohibition than republicans.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN LEACH, Morris, Ill.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in West Virginia. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. A carpenter. A very active republican—never preaches +prohibition. Is a christian, but has not worked at the trade for many +years. Did not answer my letter, and am unable to give further facts from +memory.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES B. LITTLEWOOD, Washington, D. C., No. 415, B Street, N. E.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in England. Was struck, I think, by a spent +ball at Britton’s Lane. Was a good soldier. Since war, has held clerical +positions in Washington; is now in the Patent Office. While performing +clerical duty, studied medicine and graduated from Medical College at +Georgetown, D. C. Owns a home in Washington. Is probably a democrat at the +present time. Did not answer my letter of inquiry.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN P. MULLENIX, Fairfield, Iowa.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-March 25, 1862. Born in Ohio. Thirty-six years old when +enlisted. Receives pension at rate of thirty dollars a month for +disability incurred in service; has drawn pension from date of discharge. +Badly crippled; cannot go without crutches; has no use of left arm and +shoulder; rheumatism is the main difficulty. Is a Presbyterian in belief, +and a republican from principle.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ALBERT PIERSON, 10 Prospect Street, East Orange, New Jersey.</p> + +<p>June 3, 1861-November 20, 1862. In 1863, when Confederate army came up +into Pennsylvania, enlisted in a militia company, and served thirty days. +Born in Orange, N. J. Was twenty-two years old when enlisted. Had the +pleasure of participating in only one battle during the war—that of +Fredericktown, Missouri. About November 1, 1861, became very sick at +Bird’s Point, Missouri. On the 20th of that month received furlough and +went to Mr. Jessup’s, Na-au-say township, Kendall county, Illinois, where +he remained for six months a very sick man. In May, 1862, was sent to East +Orange, N. J., his former home, in charge of a personal attendant, and +came near dying on the journey. Remained at East Orange, sick, for four +months. In August reported to hospital, on Bedloe Island, from which he +was discharged November 20, 1862, and it is the regret of Comrade Pierson +that he was not with Company K, 20th Illinois Regiment, during the whole +war. Since discharged he has been seriously sick, and has paid out money +to doctors. “Yet, I believe there is One above who rules over all, and +when my time comes no doctor can save me.” (Doctor Taylor, what think<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> you +of this?) Comrade Pierson is a Presbyterian. He is not a pensioner; he has +never applied for pension. He is a republican; is a powerful republican, +and is in grief because of the ascendancy of the democratic party. This is +the way he writes: “O, what a great big humbug Grover is, anyway; he ought +to be in England, not America. I recall the night after the election; I +expected nothing from New Jersey—she has always been a democrat—but I +did expect good news from the Prairie state. At twelve o’clock report +came, ‘Illinois is against Harrison.’ At first I refused to believe it. I +had been proud of Illinois up to that time, as I had spent some years +there, but now I am in sorrow for her.” Albert, I am surprised that a +grave and serious man of mature years would sit up till twelve o’clock +watching election returns. Don’t do it again. Retire at nine o’clock +regularly the night after election and in the morning you will be in +better condition to hear the news. You may get bad news next time, too. As +ordered by the people, so will the result be.</p> + +<p>Comrade Pierson has been engaged in different lines of business since the +war—is now, and has been for some years, in the wood and coal business. +He gives this cordial invitation: “If any Company K boys ever come East, I +want them to run out to Orange and see me; about fourteen miles from New +York City, and trains run all the time. Remember!”</p> + +<p>In a subsequent letter, Comrade Pierson has given additional facts +concerning himself. In the spring of 1857 he went out to Illinois to be a +farmer. Was in Kendall county, Illinois, when the affair took place at +Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor, and immediately joined a Company that +was started at Oswego. That Company was unfortunate in not being accepted, +and he was obliged to go back to work.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> In the meantime a Kendall county +Company was organized at Newark and went into camp at Joliet. Some of the +Oswego boys went to Joliet and joined that Company and sent back word that +a few more men would be received. Comrade Pierson was full of the war, but +was reluctant about quitting work again. One day he was plowing. His team +consisted of a free horse and a very lazy one. He talked a great deal to +the lazy horse and pelted him with chunks of dirt, but all this was +unavailing and he decided to resort to harsher means. He stopped, threw +the lines from his shoulders, swung them around the plow handle and went +up alongside of the lazy animal to thrash him. But as soon as he commenced +operations the free horse jumped and away went the team. After +considerable time he caught them. He then felt very gritty and resolved to +be a soldier. He tied the horses to a fence and started. As he passed the +house he called at the door and said, “Good bye! I am off for the war,” +and moved on toward Joliet. On this journey he was troubled by the thought +that he was liable to be rejected, as he was a small man and, at that +time, first-class war material was in great abundance. When, however, he +reached camp he passed muster successfully and was happy. Comrade Pierson +closes his letter thus: “When another election comes ’round I want you +fellows out there to attend to business better than you did before. Watch +New Jersey next time.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM PRENTICE, Soldiers’ Home, Quincy, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted in April, 1861; served for several months in Company K. Was +discharged for disability, and afterwards enlisted in another Regiment. Is +a pensioner.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM PRESTON, Steward, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Receives pension for disability incurred in +service. After war, engaged in farming; later was in business; now +somewhat retired. Is interested in Company K matters, and is glad that a +roster is likely to be made up.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAY DELOS PRUYN, Oneonta, New York.</p> + +<p>May 1, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Syracuse, N. Y., Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Is granted pension at rate of twelve dollars a month. Is +painter and decorator. Republican. Presbyterian.</p> + +<p>I am under special obligation to Comrade Pruyn for aiding me while lying +helpless and in danger of bleeding to death on the battlefield at Raymond. +He bandaged my wounded leg with his big red handkerchief, knotted and +drawn very tightly, and with my own suspenders; gave me a good drink out +of his canteen, and then resumed his place in the ranks. Comrade Pruyn was +a good soldier, a conscientious man, a man of many good qualities. My +association with him in the army will continue a pleasant recollection.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">NARCISSE REMILLARD, Mount Taber, Multnomah County, Oregon.</p> + +<p>April 1861-July 14, 1864. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865. +Was born at Naperville, Canada. Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Is +pensioned at rate of ten dollars a month for disability incurred in +service. In religion, Protestant; a member of Baptist church. In politics, +non-partisan. Votes with reference to the good of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> the country. Does not +consider the interests of politicians. That is correct; vote as you +shot—for country and for right.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WARREN ROCKWOOD, Sheridan, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-November 15, 1861. Born in state of New York. Twenty-three +years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a +month. Was a farmer for a number of years; now works as carpenter. +Republican. Non-sectarian in religion.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">BERDETTE SPENCER, Elmira, New York, No. 1024 College Avenue.</p> + +<p>May 13, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Mohawk, Herkimer county, N. Y. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Was wounded in left forearm at Fort +Donelson, and receives pension of ten dollars a month because of wound. On +account of this wound he was away from the Company on furlough seven +months, three months at Marine hospital, Chicago, and four months at home. +During this time missed Shiloh and Britton’s Lane; was in all other +battles with the Company. Is now, and has been since July 24, 1876, +employed at New York State Reformatory, which has about fifteen hundred +prisoners. Has never seen a Company K man since the war. Wants to get all +the news about the boys. Would like to attend a reunion and see them all +once more. Does not know whether to call them boys now or not. Is not a +church member; in belief, a spiritualist.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">RICHARD SPRINGER, Chicago, Ill., No. 99 Washington Street.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-August 31, 1865. Born at LaFayette, Indiana. Seventeen years +old when enlisted. Shot<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> in right arm July 21, 1864, near Atlanta, while +attempting to rescue Martin Morley, the regimental standard bearer, who +lay wounded between the lines. Draws pension for this wound at rate of +seventeen dollars a month. Since war has been student, journalist, man of +affairs, engaged in various business enterprises, now handles real estate +in Chicago. Fearless and aggressive in politics, as upon battlefields, he +has never winced under stroke of party lash. Has been liberal republican +and greenbacker. Now looks with favor upon the independent populist +movement. In religion, liberal. Protestant rather than Catholic.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN J. TAYLOR, M. D., Streator, Illinois.</p> + +<p>June 17, 1861-June 16, 1862. Born in Kent, England. Came to America in +1852 with his parents when eleven years old. Came on ship Prince Albert +with five hundred emigrants; thirty-seven days on sea. Has renounced +allegiance to the British crown. Is now American through and through. Was +twenty years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in service. Suffered for about twenty +years after discharged from the army with alimentary and other +difficulties. After coming home badly wrecked he attended Normal +University with the purpose of preparing for a teacher, but was compelled +by ill health to abandon the project. Began the study of medicine for +personal benefit, afterwards adopted it as a profession. Studied medicine +at University of Michigan in 1865-6, and in 1866-7 in Chicago at the Rush. +Graduated from Rush Medical College January 25, 1867, and has since been +engaged in the practice of the profession. Is a railroad surgeon, is +secretary of LaSalle county Medical Society, and is examining<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> surgeon for +a number of life insurance companies. Has been president of North Central +Medical Association. Has been captain of State Militia and alderman fourth +ward, Streator.</p> + +<p>This comrade is a very zealous adherent of the republican party; he has +great faith in the party. He thinks the republican party is right. He +thinks it always has been right. He thinks it will soon again have control +of the affairs of the government. We are in great danger of being deluged +by foreign goods from which calamity the government should protect us.</p> + +<p>In religion he is broad and free. Is not priest-ridden. He cordially +recognizes whatever of good there is in the “religious societies” and +spreads the wide mantle of charity over all their errors. Is very willing +and very anxious to learn in regard to the great beyond, but is not +willing to take bit and be reined by priest or prelate. Desires liberty in +regard to religious thought and action.</p> + +<p>“Be industrious, be honest, be clean, be true to yourself and charitable +to others, and lift like a Hercules to lighten the burden of those who are +heavily loaded and weary in the journey of life. These things are +religion.”—Taylor.</p> + +<p>“The practice of moral duties without a belief in a Divine law-giver, and +without reference to His will or commands, is not religion.”—Webster.</p> + +<p>Who shall decide when <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'doctor's'">doctors</ins> disagree?</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM TODD, Illinois Soldier’s Home, Quincy, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-May 25, 1865. Was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, but left the +bleak, barren hills of his native land in 1849 and came to Chicago. Was +twenty-nine years and nine months old when enlisted.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> Captured near +Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864, and for many months confined in Confederate +prisons.</p> + +<p>Since putting foot upon the western continent William has been an +enthusiastic American. He believes America should be protected. We should +not break down the walls and allow the country to be flooded with goods +from foreign shores. We want work to do and plenty of it. An idle brain is +the devil’s shop. Don’t let the English, the Dutch or the French work for +us, howsoever cheaply they offer their services. Comrade Todd is an +idolator. He worships the republican party. He is wedded to his idol—let +him alone.</p> + +<p>In regard to religion, he writes this: “I am a Christian, <i>i. e.</i>, a +believer in Christ and his teachings. I am not connected with any +denomination, but have a leaning to the Congregational. My father was of +that denomination in Scotland, the name for them there and in England +being Independents.” Became a Kendall county man by adoption.</p> + +<p>“I enlisted at Champaign, Ill., April 18, 1861, but when we went into camp +at Joliet that Company had four men above the maximum number, and the +Kendall county Company lacked two men of the minimum number. I and another +transferred ourselves from A to K, and were put on the muster roll as +having enlisted in Company K April 24, 1861. So you can put me down in +roster as having enlisted at Newark, Kendall county, Illinois, April 24, +1861.”</p> + +<p>Comrade Todd is badly broken in health. Right side partly paralyzed. He +says he “cannot write worth a continental.” Is a shoemaker. Has worked at +that trade principally since the war, but has been otherwise employed and, +he writes, “I finally got in here.” He receives from Uncle Sam at +Washington a regular remittance at the rate of six dollars a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> month. I +should think the old fellow could do a little better than that.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">SAMUEL TRENTOR, Morris, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April 24, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Moundsville, West Virginia. Nearly +nineteen years old when enlisted. Sam thought that with his long arms he +could do good work with a cavalry sabre, and did not re-enlist in the 20th +Regiment, but when discharged therefrom joined Captain Collins’ Company of +the 4th Illinois Cavalry and served until the close of the war. Was shot +in the neck at Britton’s Lane. Receives pension at rate of twelve dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in the service. Works for a living. +Writes thus: “I am not a democrat. My religion I have not yet.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM VREELAND, Maurice, Iowa.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Hudson county, N. J. Twenty-four years +old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a month for +disability incurred in the service. Was a farmer for several years after +discharge, but the condition of his health forced him to abandon that +vocation. Is now editor and proprietor of the Maurice Free Press. “A +rock-ribbed republican and a Methodist. The two things go well together, +you know.” How would prohibition and Methodism go? Think about it brother!</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">AMBROSE WALLACE.</p> + +<p>Born in England. Enlisted in April, 1861. One day while the Regiment was +guarding a railroad near Charleston, Missouri, in the fall of 1861, +Wallace disappeared. Returned to the Company in about two months. Said he +had been captured and had been<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> with Jeff. Thompson at New Madrid. Sunday, +April 6, 1861, he deserted from the ranks on the battlefield of Shiloh and +never afterwards appeared. He now lives in Tennessee. Was heard from a few +months ago. At that time he was not a pensioner, but he wanted to be. As +the law now stands he is barred by his record. His only recourse is to +come North and employ some available Congressman to introduce and pass +through Congress a special act granting him a pension. In all probability +it would be vetoed during the present administration, but the Executive +would be put on record as being opposed to pensions. That would be a point +gained in politics. Undoubtedly it is to the interest of Ambrose Wallace +to have a change.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ANDREW WEST, Cabery, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-November 1, 1861. Was born in state of New York. On August 8, +1862, he enlisted in the 91st Illinois Regiment, and was discharged +therefrom January 2, 1863; afterwards joined a company of New York +Artillery, and while in this organization was seriously wounded in leg at +Petersburg, Virginia, and draws pension for wound. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry.</p> + +<p>I was sick of measles in a hospital at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in +September, 1861. At the same time Andrew West was very sick in another +hospital close to the river. One evening, when convalescent and on the +outlook for a boat upon which to return to the Regiment at Bird’s Point, I +sat beside Comrade West for nearly an hour and I thought every breath +would be his last. The Surgeon in charge said he was dying and called an +attendant, and directed him to remain with the patient, and gave the +attendant specific instructions in regard to what he should do when<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> the +patient was dead. This attendant was Charles Halbert of the 7th Illinois +Regiment. The end did not come as soon as anticipated, and as the +attendant sat watching and waiting he reached for a sponge in a dish of +water near by, squeezed it out, and with the wet sponge commenced to rub +the dying man. After a little he fancied it gave relief. He continued the +process of rubbing the whole body, and soon became certain that his +patient was coming back to life. In the morning Andrew West was in a +greatly improved condition and the doctor was astonished.</p> + +<p>Why did not the dying man die? Comrade Pierson would say it was because +his time had not yet come. Charles Halbert says he saved him.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ALONZO WHITE, Saunemin, Illinois.</p> + +<p>June 11, 1861-July 16, 1865. I saw Comrade White about six years ago. At +that time he was a Methodist, a prohibitionist and was not a pensioner. He +had never applied for pension and never expected to apply. I do not know +whether he has held out faithfully up to the present time or not on all +these points. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry. I wrote to the +postmaster of his town and got this: “Yes, he is here. He runs a +blacksmith shop in this town.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ANDREW JACKSON WILSEY, Aurora, Illinois.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-June 9, 1862. Born in Madison county, New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Since discharge has followed a diversity of +pursuits. He is not a pensioner but, I think, would not object to being +enrolled as one of Uncle Sam’s beneficiaries. I meet him frequently. He +has never given serious thought to religion and, I understand, has no well +defined and settled theological opinions. In politics he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> is a democrat, a +regular old-fashioned democrat of the Andrew Jackson type. He was not at +New Orleans, however, but he faced fury of shot and shell at Shiloh.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">DeWITT</span> C. WILSON, Plattville, Illinois.</p> + +<p>June 11, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Shelby county, Ohio. Nineteen years +old when enlisted. Is not a pensioner. Since the war has been a farmer. In +politics a straight republican. In religion aims to be a practical +christian. He believes that good works are more efficacious than loud +prayers and soul-saving sermons. He has no connection with any <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'religous'">religious</ins> +sect.</p> + +<p>On the morning of June 11, 1861, his father sent him into a field with a +horse to cultivate corn with a shovel plow. After working a few hours he +tied his horse to a fence at one end of the field and started directly to +Joliet on foot to enlist. He did good work as a soldier for more than +three years.</p> + +<p>All will have a vivid recollection of Fort Donelson. The lack of rations, +the lack of tents or protection of any kind, the hard fighting and the +hard weather, the rain, the sleet, the snow, the cold, the long dreary +nights without fires. On one of those nights DeWitt Wilson and the writer +stood on picket guard together close up to the enemy’s works. We were +posted stealthily after dark under a low bushy tree near a road which led +to and from the town. We were to remain very quiet, not to speak louder +than a whisper, and to watch closely all night. If the enemy sallied out +in force we were to fire and run to the Regiment. It was very cold. The +mercury was going down and was not far from zero. Our clothes had been +soaked by previous rains and were now frozen stiff and clanked with every +movement. We remained as posted for several hours. Finally, the +Confederates came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> over their works and made a vigorous assault with +intent to break the Union line. When the assault was made I was in an +almost helpless condition. I could scarcely move and was nearly captured. +I and my comrade became separated. I lost my course and went into the 11th +Illinois Regiment. DeWitt and I frequently refer to that terrible night, +the hardest in all our experience.</p> + +<p>At Britton’s Lane Comrade Wilson and two others occupied a slight +ambuscade. He was very anxious to have the enemy show up, and poked his +cap out on the end of his ramrod. Just as he did this a glancing bullet +struck the side of his head and caused him to roll over two or three +times. His face and clothes were smeared with blood, and just then he +would not be considered a good-looking man.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE WILSON, Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kansas.</p> + +<p class="center">“Sharon is like a wilderness.”—Isaiah 33: 9.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was born at Newark, Illinois, April 5, 1838. +Twenty-three when enlisted. Was wounded in hand at Britton’s Lane. Was +captured near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and confined in various Confederate +prisons for nearly nine months. Pensioned for disabilities incurred in +service at rate of four dollars a month. Is a “homesteader” in Western +Kansas, seven miles from the Colorado line.</p> + +<p>“I belong to the prevailing church and I vote as I shot—against the +South.” “Cease firing! They have surrendered!” The men of the Twentieth +heard those words on many battle fields. Finally they all surrendered and +grounded arms. We whipped the rebels. We whipped them thoroughly. The +entire South lay prostrate and bleeding and helpless at the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> feet of the +conquering soldiers of the Union. Now, George, come out from the +“prevailing church,” the big wicked church of the world, and be a +christian. Forgive your enemies and conquer by kindness. Bless them that +curse you. Do good to them that despitefully use you and persecute you and +say all manner of evil against you falsely. This is the true way. Consider +these thoughts seriously, and when you vote again think of something else +besides voting against the South.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOSIAH WRIGHT, Akron, Washington County, Colorado.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Luzern county, Pennsylvania. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Was a non-commissioned officer and +member of the color guard. Was shot through right wrist while bearing +aloft the flag of the 20th Regiment at Shiloh. Was discharged because of +wound. Pensioned for wound at rate of sixteen dollars a month.</p> + +<p>Lived in Pennsylvania till 1851. From 1851 to 1871 lived in Kendall +county, Illinois. From 1871 till 1892 lived in Adair county, Missouri. +From spring of 1892 to present time has lived on a homestead in Washington +county, Colorado. Is now, and always has been, a farmer.</p> + +<p>In religion is a Methodist. In politics has been a populist since the date +of the organization of that party. Frequently advocates the principles of +the party from the rostrum. Is very friendly to silver. On his envelopes +he has the motto: “Silver sixteen to one.” I think Jo has a silver mine on +his homestead in Colorado.</p> + +<p>Here is a vivid picture from Josiah Wright’s pen which every man of the +20th Regiment who was on hand at Shiloh will appreciate: “I was at the +spring<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> in camp Sunday morning, April 6. The roar of the assault on +General Prentis’s division had become terrific. I heard drums beat the +long roll as the signal of alarm. I rushed to the Colonel’s tent and got +the flag. In passing out I met the Color Sergeant and gave the flag to +him. The boys of the 20th were swarming out of their tents with their +guns. The Regiment was quickly formed and started on a run in the +direction of the firing. Colonel Marsh rode rapidly up and down the column +urging the men to their utmost. We did not have to go far. The +Confederates were advancing with great impetuosity and sweeping the field +before them. We took position to beat back the on-coming tide and then the +flag was unfurled and waved in the face of the foe. The Color Sergeant was +immediately shot down. I picked up the flag and was soon wounded. Another +member of the color guard then took the flag. I was sent to a boat on the +river and was nearly gone from loss of blood.”</p> + +<p>This also from Comrade Wright’s letter: “As I write grave thoughts crowd +in upon me. I go back in memory to the days of ’61. I am again at the war +meeting in Newark, where I listened to the thrilling eloquence of Watson +until fired by a new born purpose I there resolved to serve my country +and, if so it be ordered, to die in the service. I was one of the first to +sign the Company roll. We are now widely scattered, but are bound together +by the strongest ties. We will hardly meet again in this life, but may we +so live that we shall meet around our Father’s throne where severed ties +of earth shall be re-united in Heaven.” To this closing sentiment of our +brave Comrade say I, most heartily, Amen. So may we live. Let every +Company K man, still left, use this prayer. Comrades Gray and Taylor, join +in.</p> + +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> +<h2>Our Recruits.</h2> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">TWO SPLENDID ENGLISHMEN.</span></p> + +<p>On the 4th of July, 1861, two young men of good appearance walked into our +camp and immediately declared their intentions. They proposed to unite +with us. We cordially accepted, and the next day the ceremony was +performed.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN BROAD, Schell City, Vernon County, Missouri.</p> + +<p>July 5, 1861-November 27, 1861. Born in England. Came to America in 1859. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of four dollars a +month for disabilities incurred in service. A carpenter by trade, but now +farming. Was brought up an Anglican. At present a member of the M. E. +church, South. Formerly a democrat. Now votes with the Alliance.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">THOMAS HOPGOOD, Clinton, Henry County, Missouri.</p> + +<p>July 5, 1861-July 5, 1864. Born in England. Came to America May, 1859. +Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Receives no pension. Politics, +republican all the time. Religion, Protestant, a Presbyterian. Has not +forgotten the time when we campaigned together. Remembers all the boys and +wants to be remembered by all of them.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">TWO MORE RECRUITS, BUT NOT OF A KIND.</span></p> + +<p>About the middle of August, 1861, two large and very brave looking men, +Bishop and another<small><a name="f1.1" id="f1.1" href="#f1">[1]</a></small>, came down from Kendall county, Illinois, to join +Company K. We were then at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and just at that +juncture were in need of re-inforcements. A Confederate army under General +Polk had crossed the river at Columbus, Kentucky, and was threatening the +town. When the recruits arrived the camp was in commotion on account of +the expected attack. Bishop immediately got a gun, took his place in the +ranks and was ready for active hostilities. The other became sad and +pensive. He did not want a gun, and did not appear so much of a warrior as +at the moment of his arrival. He finally went on board of a boat with some +women and children and crossed the Mississippi river. After remaining in +the woods of Southern Illinois for a few days he came back to camp to get +his carpet bag. He did not want to be mustered into the army. He wanted to +go to his peaceful home, and he went. He still lives in Illinois. I am not +informed as to whether he has succeeded in getting a pension or not. His +case will require a special act.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">LEWIS G. BISHOP, Grand Junction, Colorado.</p> + +<p>July 16, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, New +York, on St. Patrick’s day, 1838. Was, therefore, twenty-three years old +at time of enlistment. Was wounded in left arm and left leg at Shiloh. Was +sent down the rivers to hospitals at Paducah and Mound City. In course of +time obtained leave of absence and went up to Newark, Illinois. Was then +made aware that the people appreciated the soldiers. Was lionized wherever +he went in Kendall county, which was a source of embarrassment to him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> as +he was a modest and humble individual. Was discharged because of wounds +and receives pension therefor at rate of twelve dollars a month. He is +glad that he still has his left leg, although it is not as good as the +other. He is obliged to wear a rubber stocking and use other appliances to +suppress inflammation and reduce varicose veins.</p> + +<p>Comrade Bishop remembers with minute particularity the events of the Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson campaigns. He remembers as though it were +yesterday the morning, when, at dawn, we discovered lines of Confederates +looking at us from their rifle pits and when Chaplain Button went upon his +knees on the ground and prayed with great earnestness for the salvation of +the souls of those who should be slain in the impending battle. He thinks +that if the Chaplain had taken a fife and stepped out and played “Yankee +Doodle” it would have a better effect. He confesses that the prayer +depressed him. In the state of mind in which he was at that time he would +greatly prefer to live than to die and take his chances for heaven. This +was probably the prevailing sentiment among the soldiers of both armies.</p> + +<p>Comrade Bishop came West in the spring of 1860; went as far as Fort +Larimie, Wyoming, returned in the fall to Illinois, taught school near +Newark in winter of 1860-61; in spring of 1861 went to Wisconsin and +helped to run a raft of lumber out of the Wisconsin river down to +Muscatine; in July, 1861, returned to Kendall county, Illinois. When the +disaster occurred at Bull Run he awoke to the fact that the country was +seriously menaced and resolved to be a soldier. He was acquainted with +many of the boys of Company K, had visited them in Joliet, and he decided +to cast his lot with them. He picked up his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> carpet-bag and went to Cape +Girardeau, Missouri, and was mustered in.</p> + +<p>After discharge Comrade Bishop became a student and a teacher; later he +studied dentistry, and for many years has been engaged in the practice of +that profession.</p> + +<p>Religion: Agnostic. He neither asserts nor denies any theological dogma.</p> + +<p>Politics: Anything to beat the republican party. Believes that the +principles and methods of that party should be relegated to “innosuous +desuetude.” The party is owned and fenced in by syndicates, corporations +and factories, and is not worthy of public confidence. The people should +rise in their sovereign capacity and decree that capital shall cease to +dominate the legislation of the country.</p> + +<p>Comrade Bishop has been married and he has been un-married. He considers +that St. Paul gave first-class advice when, in his letter to the +Corinthians, he wrote, “Seek not a wife.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">AUGUSTUS GAY, No. 902 Second Street, Seattle, Washington.</p> + +<p>April 5, 1862-April 9, 1865. Was born at Albany, New York, in July, 1846. +Was, therefore, fifteen years and nine months old when he enlisted. Was +the youngest man in Company K, and looked very honest. No boy in the whole +Union army had a more innocent face than Augustus Gay. He came to us at +Joliet and was rejected. He followed up the Regiment for about a year and +during most of that time had a position on Dr. Bailey’s staff. Finally, at +Pittsburg Landing, the day before the battle of Shiloh, he was mustered +into the service as a member of Company K. Was mustered out at Raleigh,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +North Carolina, by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment.</p> + +<p>Augustus Gay appeared to court danger. He went into battle with a broad +smile on his face and a twinkle of the eye as though he were engaged in +something pleasant and agreeable. Was very reckless and daring in action. +The wonder was how it happened that he was never killed. Was captured near +Atlanta July 22, 1864, and went to Anderson prison, where he spent several +months. Was finally transferred by the Confederates from Andersonville to +Savannah and was at that place when it was captured by the Union army +December 21, 1864.</p> + +<p>I am in receipt of a long and interesting letter from Comrade Gay in which +he gives facts concerning himself. This is dated March 26, 1894. I had +previously written him up for the roster from memory and had classed him +among the missing. He says he was very glad to hear from Company K. He has +never seen any of the Company since the war, and had never heard from any +of them. He was not sick a day while in the army and was never wounded. +Since the war he has never been so seriously sick as to be confined to his +bed. He is not a rich man and he is not a poor man. He weighs 250 pounds. +He lives well. He never chews nor smokes tobacco nor drinks intoxicating +liquors and never plays cards. He has been on the Pacific slope for twenty +years and has not been back to the States during that time. He has been +married for ten years and has now a boy more than half as old as he was +when he joined Company K. After the war he studied dental surgery and has +followed that profession continuously. Receives pension at rate of six +dollars a month. Writes thus: “I want you to put in your roster that if +ever a Company K man comes to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> this part of the world I want him to come +and see me.”</p> + +<p>He says that he is Protestant. But I don’t think he is a full-blooded +Protestant. If I remember correctly he used to tell us in the army that +his parents were Hibernians, and that he was half Catholic and half +Protestant, and had by inheritance all the good qualities of both kinds of +religion.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES SPRINGER, Eighty-eighth and Throop Streets, Chicago, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born on a farm near La Fayette, Indiana. Enlisted August 28, 1862, at the +age of twenty-two years. Joined Company K at Holly Springs, Mississippi, +in November, 1862, and served until mustered out at the close of the war +in 1865.</p> + +<p>After discharge became a student at the University of Chicago, also, law +department thereof, from which he graduated in June, 1868, and was then +admitted to the bar. Practiced law for sixteen years. For a time was +engaged in journalism. Since 1885 has followed a business career.</p> + +<p>In politics an independent; in religion a Methodist.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">LAMBERT CONNER, Braidwood, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. I think he enlisted in the spring of +1863. Was then eighteen years old. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Receives +pension at rate of sixteen dollars a month for disabilities incurred in +service. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">FOUR KIDS.</span></p> + +<p>Four nice boys, in a bunch, came into our camp at Big Black river, +Mississippi, about the first of April, 1864. These were Pease Barnard, +Charles Hall,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> Luman Preston and Fayette Scofield. They were all +“Suckers,” were separated from their mothers for the first time and, to +the old campaigners of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, they, appeared +very fresh and innocent. They had been mustered in several weeks before by +a recruiting officer in Illinois, and fitted out with Uncle Sam’s +uniforms, and were now ready to assist in winding up the war.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">NATHANIEL PEASE BARNARD, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>February 25, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in LaSalle county, Illinois. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Served in Georgia, went with Sherman +from Atlanta to the sea, and helped to eviscerate the Carolinas. Pensioned +at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of M. E. church. An active member +of republican party. A lawyer by profession.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">CHARLES HALL, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota.</p> + +<p>February 24, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. July, 1864, in Georgia campaign, was +shot in the neck, and for a time was supposed to be dead. This recruit was +built of good material for a soldier. Did not answer my letter.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">LUMAN PRESTON, Dixon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>February 16, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. Is in business. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. Is probably very busily engaged attending to customers. +I meet Luman occasionally. He is always<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> in good shape and happy. I think +he is a democrat. Is of the bluest Puritan blood, but has the figure of a +Teuton.</p> + + +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<h2>Our Missing Members.</h2> + +<p>The following four Company K men I cannot find. If any Comrade can give me +any information concerning any of them I desire to have him do so. They +may be living, but I think it is more probable that they are dead:</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE ADAMS.</p> + +<p>June, 1861-October 14, 1862. Born in England.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN CONSTANTINE.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-August 29, 1861. Born in Ireland. Came to America when one year +old. Claimed to have been discharged from the regular army a short time +before enlisting in Company K. Was an intemperate, boisterous and +quarrelsome man. Was dismissed from the army by sentence of a court +martial.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">LOUIS MINTZ.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-August 24, 1863. Born in Portugal. In religion was supposed to +be a Hebrew. I think he came to Newark as a peddler and there joined +Company K. He was a good soldier, but was very excitable. On one occasion, +when advancing on skirmish line through the woods, he fired into a dead +rebel<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> who was hanging on a fence. Comrade Mintz was overheated at +Raymond, from which he never recovered, and on account of which he was +discharged.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN PEPOON.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-December 16, 1862. At time of enlistment he lived in Oswego +township, Kendall county, Illinois.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>OUR DEAD.</h2> + +<p>For many years earth has held the ashes of our fallen Comrades in its +bosom. We have kept their memories in our hearts.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>Slain in Battle.</h3> + +<p class="center">ANDREW WILSON, Plattville, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Ohio. Enlisted June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years. +Shot through the head at Fort Donelson, and instantly killed, February 15, +1862, while the Union line was advancing on the enemy.</p> + +<p>Early on the morning of the 16th the Confederates surrendered. I was on +the detail sent out that day to bury the dead of our Regiment. We went to +the place where we had position in the line and there, on a hard hill, +through stones and roots we dug a grave. This is the only grave I have +ever helped to dig. It was thirty feet long and a little more than six +feet wide. When of sufficient depth two men remained in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> the bottom, and +others handed down, one by one, eighteen men of the 20th Illinois +Regiment. Andrew Wilson was one of the number. When they had all been +placed side by side across the grave, good Chaplain Button spoke solemn, +earnest words in exhortation and prayer. Our dead were covered with earth, +three volleys were fired over them as a parting salutation, and we then +filed away into camp, weary and sad.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">CURTIS WANN, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1843. Enlisted in Company +K, April, 1861. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Shiloh, Sunday, +April 6, 1862. I have a clear recollection of Curtis Wann on the morning +of that dreadful day, when we were going forward to meet the enemy. His +face was aglow with eagerness and courage, but alas! he was the first to +fall.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES CRELLEN, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born on the Isle of Man. Had not been in America many years. Was a +shoemaker, and worked at his trade in Newark. Was well thought of by +everybody. He was one of the first to sign the Company roll. He said at +the outset that he wanted to be killed if he could not come out of the war +entire. He dreaded mutilation more than death. At Shiloh, Sunday, April 6, +1861, he was shot through the neck and killed instantly. I had my eyes +squarely upon him when he was struck. He dropped to the ground and never +moved. Did not even quiver. While lying dead upon the battlefield he was +again shot through the face.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">MARCUS MORTON.</p> + +<p>Enlisted at Joliet May, 1861. Was shot and mortally wounded at Shiloh +April 6, 1861. Died in a few days after the battle.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ISRAEL WATERS, Plattville, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861. Was shot and instantly killed May 12, +1863, in the battle of Raymond. While we were engaged in the desperate +fighting behind the rail fence I turned my eyes on Waters and he was +cheering and shouting defiance to the enemy. In a few moments I looked +again and he lay perfectly dead. A bullet had passed through his brain.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM SHOGER, Oswego, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Germany. Came to America in 1855. Enlisted in May, 1861, at the +age of nineteen years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond +May 12, 1863. Was brought up and confirmed a Lutheran. Later withdrew from +Lutheran church and became an active member of Evangelical church.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">DAVID BARROWS, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in New Hampshire. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of thirty-five +years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. +Was a married man and left a wife and three little girls lonely and sad. +If I were asked who was the best soldier in Company K the first man I +would think of would be David Barrows. He did not waste much powder. A +good marksman, and level-headed under the most trying circumstances, he +aimed and fired in the heat and fury of battle with the precision and +accuracy of target practice.</p> + +<p>Comrades Waters, Shoger and Barrows were at my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> right. They were all shot +through the head and, when killed, lay touching each other.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">BENJAMIN ADAMS, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Killed in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Comrade Adams was +shot at the very beginning of the battle, as we lay in the woods waiting +for the skirmishers to rally in, and before we fired a gun. At the close +of the battle he was still living. A comrade paused over him and said—</p> + +<p>“Can I do anything for you?”</p> + +<p>“No.”</p> + +<p>“Ben, you are badly hurt. Won’t I stay with you?”</p> + +<p>“They are running, are they not?”</p> + +<p>“Yes, we have them on the run. Won’t I stay with you?”</p> + +<p>“No; go on.”</p> + +<p>He was taken by an ambulance to the field hospital and died in a few +minutes after reaching that place.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">HENRY MITCHELL, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born of English parents on Prince Edward’s Island January 31, 1836. Came +to Kendall county, Illinois, in 1845. Enlisted in Company K May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Killed in the battle of Raymond May 12, +1863.</p> + +<p>Henry Mitchell was in every sense a large, strong, brave man, and was +highly regarded by all such as have regard for what is true and noble in +human life and character. He was scrupulously correct in all his habits. +Never played cards, was never profane in speech, and never had any use for +whisky,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> tobacco or beer. He had five brothers in the Union army, all in +Company C of the 7th Illinois Regiment, namely, Anthony, William, George, +Robert and Samuel. These five in the 7th Regiment and Henry in the 20th +were all in the battle lines at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. I do not believe +that there is in the whole range of history another instance in which six +brothers fought in the ranks of any army in the same great battles. I have +read of Roman patriotism and Grecian valor, of Spartan mothers sending out +their sons to battle with the injunction to come back either victorious or +dead, but I have never read of anything that is equal to the case of the +six Mitchell brothers in patriotism, devotion and valor, all of whom +responded at once to their country’s first call for volunteers.</p> + +<p>Of these six brave brothers only three now survive, namely—Anthony, in +Kansas, and Robert and Samuel, in Colorado. George was slain on the second +day at Shiloh. “We were all within six feet of George when he fell,” +writes Anthony. That is, the other four of the 7th Regiment; and Henry was +close by in the 20th Regiment. William contracted disease in the army, +came home sick and died.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ROBERT TAYLOR, Lisbon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in England. Came to America when a child. Enlisted in Company K, +April, 1861, at the age of about twenty-three years. Shot through hip and +mortally wounded in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Lived a few days after +the battle and died in extreme agony. I lay near him in the hospital. His +suffering was the most terrible that I have ever witnessed.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM READ, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Was a recruit. I think he came to the Company in 1862. Was shot in head +and mortally wounded in battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863. Lived a few days +after the battle.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN WOODRUFF, Oswego, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted in May, 1861. Shot and mortally wounded in the battle of Raymond, +May 12, 1863. Was shot in leg below the knee. Three different amputations +were performed, one below the knee and two above, but each was followed by +unfavorable results. He and I were in the same hospital, and not very far +apart. I witnessed the amputations. The patient in all his suffering +exhibited the most incredible fortitude. He lived nearly three weeks and +never groaned nor sighed. At last when informed that mortification was +advancing and the end was near, he called an attendant, paid him for extra +service rendered and then turned over to the attendant his pocket-book and +some other personal effects to be sent to his sister at Iowa Falls, Iowa. +This was done with perfect deliberation. He manifested no fear of death. I +remember him very distinctly in former battles. He was a very brave +soldier.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">RICE BAXTER, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-October 13, 1861. In a few months after being discharged from +Company K he enlisted in another Regiment and was killed in the battle of +Arkansas Post, January 10, 1863. I have been unable to obtain any +information concerning Comrade Baxter from any of his relatives, although +I have made persistent efforts to do so.</p> + + +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p> +<h2>Died in the Service.</h2> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">THOMPSON BRISTOL, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted in April, 1861, at the age of nineteen years. Went into camp at +Joliet, became sick, went home on furlough and died June 16, 1861. Buried +in Millington. Let his grave be decorated.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM ASHTON, Lisbon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born of English parents in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted April, +1861, at the age of nearly twenty-one years. Died at Cape Girardeau, +Missouri, September 2, 1861.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">STEPHEN JENNINGS, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in State of New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died of typhoid fever in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, October +15, 1861.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">RICHARD CONNER, Plattville, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Enlisted June 12, 1861, at the age +of twenty years. Died of measles in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, +December 23, 1861.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">FRANK LEHMAN.</p> + +<p>Born in Germany. Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Bird’s Point, Missouri, +January 11, 1862.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOHN R. <span class="smcap">McKEAN</span>, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Was one of the first to volunteer in April, 1861. Had been in the regular +army and, I think, for a short time in the Mexican war. Took a very +active<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> part in organizing the Company and drilling the boys. Was elected +Second Lieutenant. A very efficient officer. Died at Bird’s Point, +Missouri, January 23, 1862.</p> + +<p>Does any comrade know anything about Lieutenant McKean’s burial? If so, +report to me, please.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE MALLORY, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born at Rome, Oneida county, New York, November 10, 1835. Came to Kendall +county, Illinois, in 1838. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died at Bird’s Point, Missouri, January 28, 1862.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM CROWNER.</p> + +<p>Enlisted in May, 1861. Died in hospital at Mound City, March 10, 1862.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">EDWARD ATKINS, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, March 11, 1862, while home +on furlough sick.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">AARON PAXSON, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, May 4, 1862, while home on +furlough sick.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM BENNETT, Adams Township, La Salle County, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in England January 4, 1837. Enlisted at Newark April, 1861, at the +age of twenty-four years. His vitality was overtaxed at Fort Donelson. He +broke down and never recovered. Was sent down the river and died in +general hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May 5, 1862.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">ALBERT WILCOX, Lisbon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Kendall county, Illinois, January 21, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861, +at the age of twenty years. Died in hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May +13, 1862.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">OTIS CHARLES, Bristol Station, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Bristol township, Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Overcome by the strain at Fort Donelson he +went home on furlough sick, and died at his home June 1, 1862.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM SMITH, Plattville, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted May, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Died at Paducah, Kentucky, August 23, 1862, while on +detailed duty in the Signal Corps.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JOSEPH SPRINGER.</p> + +<p>Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1831. Enlisted as a +recruit in Company K August 30, 1862. Died at Lake Providence, Louisiana, +March 18, 1863. Was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. Belonged +to the society organized at Millbrook, Kendall county, Illinois. Was +married, and when he went away to the war left at home a wife and three +boys, whose respective ages were seven, five and about two and one-half +years. His widow, Mrs. Ann Springer, now lives at Firth, Lancaster county, +Nebraska, from whose letters I make the following extracts: “I am glad the +survivors of Company K are hunting up the records of those that never +returned, as well as the records of those who were spared to come back. I +have been weighed down and almost crushed with sorrow and affliction. I +have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> never re-married, and, of course, draw pension at the rate of twelve +dollars a month. I have lived with my boys, the oldest of whom was taken +away when nearly sixteen years of age. The other two are still spared. I +had four brothers who went out to fight for the dear old flag. Two of them +never returned. One was William Bennett of Company K. He responded to the +first call and enlisted at Newark, Illinois, early in the spring of 1861. +Another brother, who was in the artillery service, was killed in the +battle of Stone River. God bless the soldiers; they did a noble work; they +are the saviors of the country. If the Company K Roster is published I +want a copy.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ALFRED GRISWOLD, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted April 1861. Died at Berry’s Landing, Louisiana, March 20, 1863.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">SUMNER COOK, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, of typhoid fever, +July 20, 1863.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE SLEEZER, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Kendall county, Ill. Enlisted as a recruit for Company K September +26, 1864, at the age of eighteen years. Became sick at Camp Butler, near +Springfield, Illinois, and died at that place <ins class="correction" title="original reads 'Novembe'">November</ins> 13, 1864, before he +reached the Company.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WALTER LANDON, Fox Township, Kendall County, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Volunteered as a recruit for Company K October 3, 1864, and died in a +short time afterward at Camp Butler, Illinois, before reaching the +Company.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> </p> +<p class="center">GREENBURY LEACH, Lisbon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in West Virginia. Enlisted April, 1861. Captured near Atlanta, +Georgia, July 22, 1864. Confined in Confederate prisons from date of +capture until the following spring. Died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, +April 30, 1865, just after being exchanged and while on his way to the +north. Was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. While in the army +always attended whatever religious service was conducted in camp. Was a +regular attendant and participant at regimental prayer-meetings.</p> + + +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<h2>Died Since Date of Discharge.</h2> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">NELSON DAYTON, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of eighteen years. Discharged for +disability November 27, 1861. Died March 4, 1862, at Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">ROBERT LAWTON.</p> + +<p>May 1861-August 17, 1862. Born in Lancashire, England. Came to America in +1852. Died in Kendall county, Illinois, of the disease for which +discharged from the army April 14, 1864, at the age of twenty-five years, +three months and eight days. Robert was a good soldier. I remember him +distinctly on the battlefield of Shiloh. During the terrible fighting of +the first day he turned over his pocket-book to a member of the Company +who retired on account of wounds. He did not want his money to be taken by +the rebels if he were killed in the fight.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>Comrade Lawton’s remains were interred in the little cemetery at +Plattville. The slab marble which marks his final resting place has fallen +down and is broken. When the flowers of May each year come, let patriot +hands decorate this grave.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GILBERT MORTON, Oswego, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Enlisted May, 1861. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Promoted to Quartermaster +Sergeant of the Regiment at the outset and, I think, held that position +during the entire war. After discharge he became a railroad official and +had a highly successful career for about ten years. But evil days came, +and he finally died by his own hand at a hotel in Chicago. This was about +the year 1876.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">LONGEN MERKLI.</p> + +<p>Born in 1829 at Damsingan, Baden, Germany. Went into German army in his +youth, and was thoroughly trained as a soldier. Participated in active +warfare in 1848-’49. He handled sword and bayonet with great dexterity. +Few men could stand before him with these weapons. After his service in +the German army he spent several years as a student. Was a good latin +scholar, and had a knowledge of the French language. Pursued a course of +study in surgery and medicine in a German University, and, by members of +his profession, was considered an expert anatomist. Had been reared in the +faith of the Catholic church, but became a doubter of the fundamental +doctrines of Christianity. Came to America in 1860 and engaged in the +practice of medicine at Milford and Newark. Was one of the first to enlist +in April, 1861. Served in the ranks of the Company for about a year and a +half. Was in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> battles of Fredericktown, Fort Donelson and Shiloh. Was +shot in the foot at Shiloh. Was a remarkably brave and fearless man. About +July, 1862, he was detailed to serve in a hospital at Jackson, Tennessee. +When negro soldiers were enlisted he was offered a commission as assistant +surgeon of a negro Regiment, but declined it. He continued on detailed +duty and served as a medical man in various hospitals until the expiration +of his term of enlistment. Was mustered out in July, 1864. After the war, +located at Bristol, Illinois, and pursued the practice of medicine. In his +best years he was unable to control his appetite for strong drink and, as +time advanced, his appetite steadily increased and he became an abject +slave. He died at Bristol, Illinois, August 20, 1879.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE WATSON, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>I doubt whether any man did as much as George Watson toward getting up +Company K. He was a lawyer at Newark, was a democrat, voted for Bell and +Everett in 1860, and was an enthusiastic Union man. He was a fluent +off-hand speaker and was the main figure at all the war meetings in +Newark. Had been in Pennsylvania militia and Mexican war and was a good +drill master. Was elected First Lieutenant. About the first of June, 1861, +he withdrew from the Company and joined Mulligan’s Regiment in Chicago. +Was captured with that command at Lexington, Missouri, in 1861. After this +he served on a gunboat and, still later, had a commission in a +<ins class="correction" title="original reads 'Pennsylania'">Pennsylvania</ins> Cavalry Regiment. He was gifted with talent of a high order, +but an uncontrollable appetite for intoxicating liquor barred all +possibility of success in life. It caused his ruin and downfall and death. +He made many spasmodic attempts at reformation, and at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> these times was a +successful temperance talker. But all his efforts at reform ended in +failure. From the United States Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I +have received this: “The records show that George W. Watson served in +Company K, 20th Illinois Infantry; Company E, 23d Illinois Infantry; +Company F, 2d Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in U. S. Navy. He was admitted +here December 15, 1877, and was killed by a railroad train in Milwaukee, +Wisconsin, at about 3 o’clock p. m., August 21, 1879.”</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">FAYETTE SCOFIELD, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in DuPage county, Illinois, January 25, 1847. Enlisted as a recruit +for Company K February 25, 1864. Discharged July 16, 1865. Killed in a +railroad wreck in Missouri February 17, 1881.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">AMON HEACOX, Lisbon, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Oneida county, New York, June 6, 1817. Enlisted in Company K, May, +1861, at the age of forty-four years. Mustered out July 14, 1864. Was the +oldest man in the Company. I have been informed that he was slightly +wounded at Britton’s Lane, but I have no recollection of it. I remember +him very distinctly at Fort Donelson. He was a good man and a good +soldier. Was a member of M. E. church. Was one of six, many years ago, to +organize a Methodist Episcopal church in Lisbon, Illinois. He died in the +Soldiers’ Home at Quincy, Illinois, April 23, 1889, in the seventy-third +year of his age. Is interred in the cemetery at Lisbon.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">HENRY HAVENHILL, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in LaSalle county, Illinois, June 17, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861. +Discharged for disability April<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> 27, 1862. Died in Chicago, Illinois, of +paralysis, June, 1889.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">FRANCIS CROWELL, Newark, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born in Tompkins county, New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +eighteen years. Was wounded in the Georgia campaign July, 1864. Mustered +out July 16, 1865. Died at Waterman, Illinois, of a complication of +diseases, September 17, 1889. The address of his widow is Mrs. Mary A. +Crowell, Waterman, Illinois.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">THOMAS GARNER.</p> + +<p>April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in England. Had been a British soldier, +and saw active service in the Crimean war. Deserted from the British army. +Captured and branded with letter D. Deserted again in Canada and succeeded +in escaping to the United States.</p> + +<p>Thomas Garner was one of the best marchers and fighters in the Union army. +He was always at his post. Never straggled from the ranks and never failed +because of sore feet or anything else. Whenever there was fighting on hand +Tom was in it. His great failing we all know, but, notwithstanding that, +he was the best beloved man in Company K. Some years after the war he went +back to England and, in time, returned again to the United States. Soon +after his return he walked from Buffalo, New York, to Morris, Illinois, +and then came to Newark and Sheridan looking for Company K folks. He found +none and went away very despondent. These facts I learned from his friends +in Morris. I have received a communication from the Pension Agent at +Buffalo, New York, which informs me that Thomas Garner, Company K, 20th +Illinois Regiment, was on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> the rolls of that agency as a pensioner at the +rate of six dollars a month, and that he died during the year 1892. He +drew pension to July 4 of that year. His address at that time was No. 58 +Commercial Street, Buffalo, New York. This is the most definite +information I have succeeded in obtaining.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">WILLIAM MINARD, Oswego, Illinois.</p> + +<p>Born at Walbrough, Ulster county, New York, September 26, 1840. Enlisted +May, 1861. Became Commissary Sergeant of the Regiment. Mustered out July +14, 1864. Died at Chicago, Illinois, of disease of kidneys, January 10, +1894. Interred at Graceland.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">GEORGE CONNELLY.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-September 8, 1862. Born in Ireland. Had been a soldier in the +regular army. Was a brave man. Was wounded at Shiloh. Was discharged on +account of wound and pensioned therefor. He is now dead. Date of death not +ascertained.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES HAGARDORN.</p> + +<p>Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861, and, I think, served about a year and a +half. Was discharged for disability and became a pensioner. After the war +lived in State of New York. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">JAMES LORD.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-March 5, 1863. Was an actor. Came to Newark, Illinois, in the +spring of 1861 with a theatrical troupe and there enlisted in Company K. +He was a very intelligent man and a good soldier. Was wounded at Fort +Donelson. Was discharged for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> disability and became a pensioner. He is now +dead. Date of death not ascertained.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">RALPH PRATT.</p> + +<p>May, 1861-November 27, 1861. Discharged for disability. Became a +pensioner. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<h2>REMARKS.</h2> + +<p>The names of those who served thirty days with Company K in the State +service but who declined to join the Company for three years in the United +States service do not appear in this roster; neither do the names of +drafted men and substitutes who were assigned to the Company during the +last few months of the war.</p> + +<p>The dates after a name indicate the time when the soldier first +volunteered and the time when he was mustered out or discharged. Those who +did not enlist for a second term of three years were nearly all mustered +out July 14, 1864. Those who re-enlisted were mustered out July 16, 1865, +on account of the close of the war. Those discharged at other dates were +discharged for disability resulting from wounds or sickness.</p> + +<p>The names of 108 Company K men are herein given; 56 are living, 52 are +dead. 4 are missing; of these four I have not been able to obtain any +information whatever. I know not whether they are living or dead.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>Of the 56 men living, 41 receive pensions; 7 receive no pension. In regard +to the others, it is not ascertained whether they are pensioners or not. +32 receive pensions for disabilities incurred in the army; 9 for +disabilities not incurred in the army.</p> + +<p>Of the 56 men here reported as living, 23 at least were wounded in battle; +13 draw pension for wounds.</p> + +<p>Eight Company K men were buried at Raymond—Shoger, Barrows, Waters and +Mitchell were buried in the same grave with others of the Regiment on the +battlefield, near the rail fence. Adams was buried near the field +hospital. Taylor, Reed and Woodruff were buried in the graveyard near the +town. Crellen and Wann were buried on the battlefield of Shiloh. None of +these graves are now marked or known.</p> + +<p>For courtesy, and for information furnished to assist me in tracing lost +members of Company K, I am under special obligations to the Hon. <span class="smcap">William +Lochren</span>, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. I also acknowledge my +indebtedness to many postmasters, to newspaper editors, to pension agents +and others.</p> + +<p>If any Company K man dies or changes his place of residence I desire to be +informed of the fact. In this way we will know where every man of the +Company is located. Remember, please.</p> + +<p>A more lengthy sketch is given of some Comrades than of others. The reason +is I have had more information in regard to some than in regard to others. +In many cases what is said about each one of the living is his own letter +to me re-cast and abridged. I have not intentionally slighted or +misrepresented any. I may have made errors. If so, I hope they are few and +not of a grievous nature.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> +<h2>A BIT OF HISTORY.</h2> + +<p>When the news of the President’s first call for volunteers reached Newark +the people were wild with excitement. “That night,” writes Dr. Dyer, “I +could not sleep. The next morning I was out very early. I went into +Fowler’s drug store and there with pen and ink drew up a company +muster-roll and signed it, and united with others in calling a war meeting +for that evening. I was called to make a long ride in the country and upon +my return found five names on the muster-roll in addition to my own. I +wish I had that paper now.” This was the beginning of our Company. +Volunteers continued to come forward and in a few days the requisite +number had signed the roll. April 24, 1861, is on record as the date of +our Company organization. We were not accepted under the President’s call +and were sorely disappointed. However, most of the boys continued to meet +in Newark and were drilled by Lieutenants Watson and McKean. On May 11, +1861, our Company left Newark for Joliet and went into camp. The 20th +Illinois Regiment was there organized and the Kendall county boys became +Company K of that organization. After that the history of the Company +became part of the history of the Regiment. June 13, 1861, we were +mustered into the United States service for three years, if not sooner +discharged. About the 17th of June we took the cars for the South. Stopped +three weeks at Alton, Illinois, and drilled constantly. Early in July we +went into camp for a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> short time in the United States Arsenal at St. +Louis, Missouri, and were here armed with Enfield rifles and received new +blue uniforms. We now had a very extravagant opinion of ourselves, of our +fighting qualities in particular, and did not take the least pains to +conceal that opinion from others. This is what a St. Louis paper said of +us:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class="center">ARRIVAL OF COLONEL MARSH’S REGIMENT FROM ALTON.</p> + +<p>At 11 o’clock a. m., of Saturday, the steamer, “City of Alton,” from +Alton, landed at the Arsenal the Twentieth Illinois Regiment, Colonel +C. C. Marsh commanding. The boat brought also the entire camp +equipage and stores of the Regiment. The spontaneous greeting +tendered by our Missouri soldiers was hearty and enthusiastic. Cheers +upon cheers of welcome rent the air and were responded to by the +Illinoisans in magnificent style. The guests were assigned the +western lawn of the Arsenal grounds for their camping site. Tents +were speedily pitched, baggage distributed, and the newly arrived +volunteers were soon perfectly at home. They are aching for active +service wherever desired, and, we understand, are already under +orders for “a forward movement.” Other Regiments in Illinois are also +in eager anticipation of lively “business” in Missouri or Arkansas.</p> + +<p>Colonel Marsh’s Regiment is evidently in first-class condition and +consists of strikingly vigorous and hardy men. They are brim full of +health and energy and fun. The Regiment numbers nine hundred and +sixty-one men rank and file. Success and joy to them.</p></div> + +<p>We left the Arsenal in a few days and for six months were engaged in +“business” in southeast Missouri. On October 21 we met the Confederates in +force, under Jeff. Thompson, at Fredericktown and succeeded in thoroughly +convincing them that they were whipped.</p> + +<p>February 6, 1862, we entered Fort Henry and ten days later marched in +triumph into Fort Donelson. April 6 and 7 we had position in the Union +lines at Shiloh and after that took a hand in the siege of Corinth. +September 1 were engaged in the sharp<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> little battle of Britton’s Lane. In +the winter of 1862-3 were in the campaign in the mud in northern +Mississippi. Were at Oxford when General VanDorn took Holly Springs and +burned our supplies. In the spring and summer of 1863 we participated in +all the battles of the Vicksburg campaign and in the siege of that +stronghold.</p> + +<p>Were out on the Meridian expedition for twenty-nine days in the month of +February, 1864, without tents or other protection from the elements except +what every man carried on his back.</p> + +<p>In the spring and summer of 1864 were in the Georgia campaign and siege of +Atlanta. In the fall went from Atlanta to the sea.</p> + +<p>In 1865 was in the campaign in the Carolinas and marched through Virginia +to Washington after the Confederate armies had surrendered.</p> + +<p>On the 16th of July, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, the Twentieth Regiment +Illinois Volunteer Infantry was mustered out of the United States service +and disbanded, and the boys went home.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="Index"> +<tr><td> </td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td><td align="right"><span class="smcaplc">PAGE</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Adams, Benjamin</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Adams, George</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Anderson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Ashton</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Atkins</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Bacon</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Barnard</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Barrows, David</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Barrows, James</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Baxter</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Bennett</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Bishop</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Bissell</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Boyer</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Bristol</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Broad</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Brown</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Carey</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Charles</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Clayton</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Clifford</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Connelly</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Conner, Richard</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Conner, Anderson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Conner, Lambert</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Constantine</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Cook</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Crellen</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Crowell</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Crowner</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Coyle</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Dann</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Dayton</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Dyer</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span>Favreau</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Garner</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Gay</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Griswold</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Gray</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hagerdorn</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hagerman</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hall</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hanson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Havenhill, Marshall</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Havenhill, Henry</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Heacox</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hopgood, Thomas</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hopgood, George</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Howes</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hutton</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Jennings, Stephen</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Jennings, James</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Kilmer</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Landon</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Lawton</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Leach, Greenbury</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Leach, John</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Lehman</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Littlewood</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Lord</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Mallory</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>McKean</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Merkli</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Minard</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Mintz</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Mitchell</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Morton, Marcus</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Morton, Gilbert</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Mullenix</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Olin</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Paxson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Pepoon</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Pierson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Pratt</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Prentice</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Preston, William</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Preston, Luman</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Pruyn</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>Read</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Remillard</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Rockwood</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Scofield</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Shoger</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Sleezer</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Smith</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Spellman</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Spencer</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Springer, Richard</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Springer, James</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Springer, Joseph</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Taylor, Robert</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Taylor, John</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Todd</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Trenter</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Vreeland</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wallace</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wann</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Waters</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Watson</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>West</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>White</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wilcox</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wilsey</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wilson, Andrew</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wilson, DeWitt</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wilson, George</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Woodruff</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Wright</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Preface</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Remarks</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>A Bit of History</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><b>Footnotes:</b></p> + +<p><a name="f1" id="f1" href="#f1.1">[1]</a> In original manuscript the name of this recruit was given, but it +is here omitted in compliance with the very earnest solicitation of the printer.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<p><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b></p> + +<p>Some of the dates seem obviously incorrect; 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry + Roster and Record + +Author: Andrew Brown + +Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32017] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + April 24, 1861. July 16, 1865. + + + COMPANY K, + Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. + + ROSTER and RECORD + + + BY + ANDREW BROWN. + + + YORKVILLE, ILL. + KENDALL COUNTY RECORD PRINT + 1894. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +At the last annual reunion of the association of the survivors of the 20th +Illinois Regiment, held in Chicago September 8, 1893, I was assigned the +duty of preparing a roster of Company K. This little publication is the +result of my efforts to perform that duty. It is intended for the +surviving members of the Company and their descendants, for relatives and +friends of deceased members and for all others into whose hands it may +chance to come, who are interested in learning about the men who fought +and won battles that secured to America liberty and union. + +ANDREW BROWN. + +NEWARK, ILLINOIS, June, 1894. + + + + +ROSTER AND RECORD. + + +REUBEN F. DYER, M. D., Ottawa, Ill. + +Born at Strong, Franklin county, Maine. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., April +15, 1861. Was elected Captain. Commanded Company at Fredericktown, Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson. Resigned commission as Captain of Company K March +13, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, with view of obtaining a +position in the line of his profession. August 25, 1862, was commissioned +Surgeon, 104th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which commission he +held till close of war, and, at close was acting Medical Director 14th +Army Corps, General Jefferson C. Davis commanding. Has practiced medicine +at Ottawa since 1865. For a number of years a member of U. S. Board +Examining Surgeons. Is not a pensioner. A republican. A Methodist. + + +BENJAMIN OLIN, Joliet, Ill. + +Born in State of New York. Volunteered at Newark, Ill., in April, 1861. +Elected Orderly Sergeant of Company. May, 1861, commissioned First +Lieutenant. Served with Company in Missouri till November, 1861, when he +resigned on account of ill health. Has been in the practice of law since +1862. At present County Judge of Will county, Ill. Is not a pensioner. Has +never applied for a pension. A liberal democrat. A Methodist. + + +JOHN N. BOYER, Normal, Ill. + +Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Volunteered May 10, 1861, at Newark, +Ill. Discharged February 15, 1864, on account of wound received at +Vicksburg. Was appointed Orderly Sergeant June 13, 1861. Commissioned 2d +Lieutenant January 22, 1862; Captain March 13, 1862. + +AT SHILOH. + +On April 6, 1862, had mumps very badly, and had neck wrapped with red +flannel. Nevertheless, went out in command of the Company. Had sword +struck by a missile and bent nearly double, and received two slight wounds +in the face. At noon was compelled to retire from the Company. When going, +several of the boys turned over their pocket-books to him for safe +keeping. Joined us, and took command of the Company, at daylight the next +morning and was in all the second day's fighting. + +AT BRITTON'S LANE. + +On September 1, 1862, was indisposed and was riding in an ambulance with +Assistant Surgeon Bailey and Chaplain Button. When first shots were heard +at Britton's Lane he jumped out, buckled on his sword and asked Dr. Bailey +to give him a strong dose of whisky and quinine and then went forward on a +run to take charge of the Company. This is a true story, because Chaplain +Button tells it. + +AT VICKSBURG. + +On May 22, 1863, while in command of the Company at Vicksburg he was shot +in the foot. On this occasion he lost his sword that had been battered at +Shiloh; also, most of his other personal effects. He was discharged on +account of this wound and receives pension therefor at the rate of twenty +dollars a month. + +A MAN OF PEACE. + +Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the +West. Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Says he can't +work much. We understand he does not have to. In one sense of the word it +is supposed he is well-heeled, although in another sense it is certain he +is very badly heeled. In religion a Methodist; in politics a radical +republican. + + +PERRY W. SPELLMAN, Fellowship, Florida. + +Born in Pittsford, Monroe county, New York. Volunteered April 24, 1861, at +Newark, Ill. Mustered out July 16, 1865, by reason of close of war. Was +appointed Sergeant in May, 1861. Detailed on recruiting service from +December, 1861, to June, 1862. Was Orderly Sergeant for a few months, then +reduced to the ranks and detailed as acting Hospital Steward and dispenser +of medicine. Was commissioned First Lieutenant March 2, 1863, and Captain +February 23, 1865. + +On May 12, 1863, during our desperate struggle behind the rail fence at +Raymond, Comrade Spellman had the command of the Company. Near the close +of that battle, when our lines were advancing through the woods, he was +hit in the side by a bullet and disabled for a time. From May 22, 1865, he +commanded the Company during the siege of Vicksburg, and continued in +command till the latter part of the siege of Atlanta. Was on detached +service as acting assistant Quartermaster 3d Division 17th Army Corps, +from October, 1864, till final muster out. + +Since the war has mostly followed business pursuits. Has lived in +Illinois, in South Dakota, and is now in Florida. On December 25, 1893, he +wrote thus: "I came to Florida in January, 1890, and will probably spend +the remainder of my days here. The climate is much more agreeable to me +than that of the chilly North. Roses in full bloom and fresh vegetables +for the table all winter." Pensioned for disability incurred in the army. + + +FAAGUST ANDERSON, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota. + +May, 1861-August 1, 1862. Born in Sweden. Came to America in 1852. Twenty +years old when enlisted. Was shot in wrist at Shiloh and discharged +because of wound. Enlisted in another regiment in August, 1863, and +mustered out in December, 1865, on account of close of war. Is pensioned +at rate of ten dollars a month for wound received at Shiloh, and other +disabilities. Has been farming since the war. Is a republican, but not a +church member. + + +CHARLES BACON, Clinton, Oneida County, New York. + +April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in Paris, Oneida county, New York. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of eight dollars a +month for disability incurred in army. Pension granted December, 1893. +Votes the republican ticket as often as he has a chance to do so, but in +religion is not very particular. Just goes to whatever church is handiest. + + +JAMES BARROWS, Newark, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 24, 1862. Born in Perry, Wyoming county, New York. Was +twenty-six years old when enlisted. Pensioned at twelve dollars a month. +Is a painter. A member of Baptist church. A republican. Was in the ranks +of Company K at Fredericktown, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Shiloh. + + +MARTIN BISSELL, Plano, Ill. + +May, 1861-October 3, 1862. Born in Addison county, Vermont. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Slightly wounded at Fort Donelson. At Shiloh was +struck with fragment of bursting shell Sunday morning, in region of hip, +while regiment was executing a retreat after first engagement with the +enemy. Soon afterwards was struck in thigh with spent ball, and later in +the battle had part of right thumb nail knocked off and bayonet scabbard +cut by another ball. At Britton's Lane was shot in right shoulder; was +discharged because of this wound, and draws pension therefor at the rate +of eight dollars a month. Since discharged has been engaged in +agricultural and mechanical pursuits. A republican. A Methodist. + + +ANDREW BROWN, Newark, Illinois. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born of Irish parents, in Kendall county, Ill. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Did not go with Company from Newark to +Joliet on Saturday, May 11, 1861, because, on that morning, clothes and +other necessaries were missing, but the next day, being fairly equipped, +he started on foot for Camp Goodell, east of Joliet, at 10 o'clock a. m. +and reached destination at 4 p. m. Was farther away from home then than he +had ever been before in his life. Had made a march of nearly thirty miles +in six hours, but was in very "light marching order." Was not encumbered +with a single superfluous article. When he reported in camp, Lieutenant +Watson ordered the Company to form ranks and then called for three cheers +for the boy they left behind them. From the day he left home till he +returned, a period of more than three years, this volunteer never slept in +a bed nor sat at a table to eat a meal of victuals. Was never on detailed +duty, never straggled from the ranks and, while a soldier, never missed a +march, campaign, skirmish or battle, except when wounded and a prisoner in +the hands of the enemy. When long roll was beat Sunday morning at Shiloh, +he had his gun off the stock and was swabbing out the barrel in a pail of +water. Was under arrest and in guard house once only. Charges preferred +were "committing depredations on private property." The "depredation" +consisted of milking a cow in canteen. Read the New Testament through +three times in the army. Has the little volume yet which Chaplain Button +presented in May, 1861. It has been out in many a storm and is badly +soaked and soiled. Was slightly wounded at Britton's Lane. Was shot twice +through leg at Raymond and captured by the enemy. A prisoner for two +months. Since discharged has been student, teacher, lawyer, farmer. Has +never been greenbacker, free-silver man nor protective tariff man. Is a +democrat, but has much regard and respect for prohibitionists. In religion +liberal. Catholic rather than Protestant. + + +JOHN CAREY, Blackstone, Ill. + +May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Limerick, Ireland. Came to America in +November, 1860. Was twenty-one years old when enlisted. + +The preliminary skirmishing of an impending battle always acted like a +tonic on this comrade, and he was never known to be out of condition +whenever a battle was on. Was as good a soldier as ever fought under the +Stars and Stripes. + +Captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and confined in Confederate prisons +for nearly seven months. Finally escaped and reached Union lines near +Wilmington, N. C., February 22, 1865. Pensioned at rate of twenty dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in Andersonville Prison. Is a +bachelor--to me it is an utterly unaccountable fact that so congenial a +soul as John Carey should choose to live alone in life. Some girl may +capture him yet. His widow would probably receive a nice pension when John +is gone. Comrade Carey claims that he votes the republican ticket, +although he is a true Irishman and a good Catholic. He did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. + + +CHARLES CLAYTON, 26 Union St., Wakefield Road, Stalysbridge, Lancashire, +England, Europe. + +April, 1861-July 25, 1862. Born in England. Draws pension at rate of eight +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Enrolled at +Washington, D. C., Agency. Certificate No. 411,108. + + +FRANKLIN CLIFFORD, Seneca, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Twenty-one years +old when enlisted. Received some slight wounds. There was no discount on +this comrade's fighting qualities. I remember that very distinctly. Was +captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner seven months and ten days. +Exchanged at Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1865. Is pensioned at twelve +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. Is a laborer. He +writes thus: "I always vote the republican ticket. I suppose I ought to be +a religious man, but I am not." + + +ANDERSON CONNER, No. 2219 Messanie St., St. Joseph, Missouri. + +June 9, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Eighteen +years old when enlisted. Wounded at Raymond and captured. Sent to Libby +prison. A prisoner only seventeen days. Was then paroled and sent to St. +Louis to await exchange. Remained at St. Louis nearly four months. Was +then exchanged and served with Company K to close of war. Is pensioned at +rate of ten dollars a month for disabilities incurred in the service. His +paternal grandfather was in the Revolution and war of 1812. He says he has +two big boys that might do for soldiers if they were drafted and put under +guard where they could not run. + +From 1867 to 1893 lived in Wisconsin; was engaged in lumbering and +farming, but did not make a fortune. In June, 1893, went to Dwight, Ill.; +stayed there two months, then went west to take a new start in life. + + +JAMES COYLE, St. Louis, Missouri, No. 624-626 Washington Ave. + +May, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, and +confined in Confederate prisons. Escaped and recaptured in woods with +dogs. Escaped again and succeeded in reaching the Union lines after +traveling a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. Was wounded in +trenches at Vicksburg. Is pensioned for wound. Was a very determined and +resolute fighter in battle. Since war has been in business and has been +successful. Is probably a democrat. Has a democratic name and lives in a +democratic State. Did not answer my letter of inquiry. The facts here +given are from previous knowledge. + +Since writing the foregoing I have received a letter from this comrade. He +was not mustered out with the regiment in July, but was retained in +service by special order of War Department and mustered out September 26, +1865, at Louisville. Was shot through the right hand in front of Fort +Hill, Vicksburg, May 21, 1863. When captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864, +he was sent to Andersonville. On September 11, 1864, while in transit from +Andersonville to another prison he and George Wilson of Company K escaped +from the cars at midnight and were out fifteen days. Traveled at night and +lay in concealment during the day. Were finally captured and confined in a +common prison at Augusta, Ga., for three weeks. Was then sent to the new +prison at Millen. Was there only one day when he escaped for the second +time with a soldier of the Fifteenth Ohio regiment. Was out the second +time only eleven days and was again captured, and again taken to Augusta; +was there two days when he made a third escape with a Pennsylvania +soldier. "After twenty-one days by constant night travel, we reached +Sherman's army at Atlanta." + +In politics a republican; in religion a Presbyterian. + + +JEROME B. DANN, DeWitt, Saline County, Nebraska. + +June 4, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Pennsylvania. Seventeen years old when +enlisted. Captured near Atlanta July 22, 1864. A prisoner for several +months. Escaped and recaptured in the woods. Since the war has followed +contracting and building, and is at it yet to some extent. Health is quite +unsatisfactory. Draws pension at rate of twelve dollars a month.--Has been +connected with Congregational church for twenty years. Has always been a +republican and expects to die a republican. You may live a long time yet, +Jerome. + + +RUDOLPH FAVREAU, West New Brighton, Richmond County, N. Y. + +May, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Germany. Thirty-five years old when +enlisted. Was the company fifer. Rudolph writes thus: "Ich bin 68 Yahre +alt. Kam nach Amerika 1858, und bin ein Gartner. Ich leide an Reimatismus +und kan garnicht mehr arbeiten und muss nun von meine Pension leben von +$12 monathlich. Auszerdem gehoere ich zuder G. A. R. Post, No. 545, Port +Richmond. Ich belange zu der Deutsche Kirche." + + +JOHN T. GRAY, Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Re-enlisted +soon after discharge from Company K and served one year in U. S. veteran +reserve corps. Is not in good health. Pensioned at rate of $4,00 a month +for rheumatism contracted in the service. Since the war has done a little +of a great many different things. When a boy he associated himself with +the republican party in the days of Fremont and Dayton, and has never had +just cause or provocation to change. Just now, December, 1893, he sees a +blanked sight less cause to change his opinion than ever. In religion, a +free thinker, he professes that he is not a Christian. He does not want to +become a Christian and does not want to be classed as such. Has wife and +happy family, owns the roof above them and lives contentedly. Has never, +since his discharge, seen a single Company K man and but one man of the +regiment. + + +SAMUEL HAGERMAN, Yorkville, Ill. + +June 1, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Was +twenty-seven years old when enlisted. At battle of Shiloh Samuel's gun was +knocked to pieces by some kind of a missile. At Raymond he was shot in the +shoulder and leg, and in the Georgia campaign had a finger shot off. +Receives pension for wounds at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of +Presbyterian church. A republican. + + +NICHOLAS HANSON, Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa. + +May 8, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Schoharie county, New York. He says he +was only seventeen years old when he enlisted. Was wounded July 21, 1864, +near Atlanta. Draws pension for wounds at rate of four dollars a month. Is +farming now and has been most of the time since the war. Is a +Presbyterian. Votes the republican ticket under all circumstances. Is +willing to support anything the party puts up. "If you or any other +Company K folks are ever out this way hunt me up. I own a quarter-section +farm four miles west of town in as good a country as is around Newark. I +have never been able to meet you at any of the reunions, but I am always +glad to get a card of invitation." + + +MARSHALL HAVENHILL, Miner, Miner County, South Dakota. + +Enlisted at Newark in April, 1861. July 20, 1861, was transferred to the +regimental band. + + +GEORGE HOPGOOD, Morton, Lewis County, Washington. + +April, 1861-July 23, 1862. Born in England. Came to America in 1857. +Twenty-one years old when enlisted. Is pensioned at the rate of four +dollars a month for disabilities incurred in service. + +Since the war has lived most of the time at Clinton, Missouri, and has +worked as a stone-mason. Has gone west and taken a homestead and intends +to grow up with the country. Is a "republican all the way through". In +religion he is a true Christian. Adopts the grand principles of the Sermon +on the Mount. Get your Bibles, turn to Matthew vii, 12, and read the rule +that he lives by. That is good religion, George. None better was ever +formulated. Live right up to it and you need have no fear of torment or +torture in the life beyond this life. + + +EDWIN HOWES, Eola, DuPage County, Illinois. + +April, 1861-July 15, 1865. Born in State of New York. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Wounded and captured at Britton's Lane. Paroled. Captured +again near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and sent to Confederate prisons. +Escaped from prison and reached Union lines near Wilmington, North +Carolina, February, 1865. Pensioned at the rate of twelve dollars a month +for disabilities incurred in the service. Is a farmer. A prohibitionist. +Professes to be a Christian. + + +DR. WILLIAM H. H. HUTTON, Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital Service, +Detroit, Mich. + +Born in York, Jefferson county, Ohio. Enlisted in Company K, 20th Illinois +regiment, June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years; discharged +therefrom August 28, 1862, for deafness caused by concussion of cannon at +battle of Pittsburg Landing. Had participated in all battles in which +Company was engaged up to date of discharge. + +September 2, 1862, enlisted in Company D, 104th regiment Illinois +volunteers. Reported to his Company at Louisville, Ky., October 2, 1862. +Appointed Sergeant April 10, 1863. Appointed Color-Sergeant on battlefield +of Chicamauga September 20, 1863. Wounded at battle of Missionary Ridge +November 25, 1863. On account of disabilities was sent to Chicago, Ill., +March, 1864. Was chief clerk Desmarres eye and ear military hospital, +Chicago, from July 4, 1864, to March 8, 1865, at which date was discharged +from 104th Illinois regiment by order of Secretary of War. Was appointed +Hospital Steward U. S. A. March 8, 1864 in which capacity he served till +April 1, 1871, thus making a military record of ten years. As Hospital +Steward, U. S. A., he served at the following places: Chicago, Ill.; +Montgomery, Mobile, and Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama; Charleston, +S. C.; Newbern and Raleigh, N. C.; Key West and Dry Tortugas, Florida. +September 8, 1871, was appointed Hospital Steward in U. S. Marine +Hospital, Mobile, Alabama; resigned July 4, 1874. + +Graduated from Chicago Medical College March 16, 1875. May 8, 1875, was +appointed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital service. This +appointment was made on results of competitive examination. Promoted to +Surgeon October 5, 1876. As a United States medical officer has served at +ports of New York, Cincinnati, Mobile, Key West, New Orleans, Baltimore, +and is now serving second tour at Detroit. + +Has served as Medical Inspector of the Life-Saving Service, is on several +examing boards, and has had a great deal to do with National quarantine +matters, especially as regards yellow fever and cholera. On one occasion +represented the authority of the United States for several months, in +quarantine matters, on the entire Florida coast. + +This is a very brief summary of Comrade Hutton's life for nearly +thirty-three years. + + +JAMES JENNINGS, Sheridan, LaSalle County, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in state of New York. Twenty-one years old +when enlisted. Was one of the very first to volunteer at Newark; probably +signed the roll April 15, 1861. He also re-enlisted for another three +years as soon as he had an opportunity to do so, which was December 16, +1863. Is well charged with grit. Was shot in shoulder at Britton's Lane. +Was captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, and sent to Andersonville; made +three escapes from prison; first and second were unsuccessful; was +recaptured both times in the woods, after traveling many nights and +undergoing great hardships. Third escape proved successful. Reached Union +lines near Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 22, 1865. Is pensioned at rate of four +dollars a month for wound received at Britton's Lane. Is a farmer. +Non-sectarian in religion; republican in politics. + +Comrade Jennings has been greatly bereaved by the loss of his wife who +died at South San Diego, Cal., April 14, 1894. He and daughter Edith +accompanied her to the Pacific coast during the preceding autumn, vainly +attempting to save her from the fatal malady to which she finally +succumbed. Our comrade's home is now desolate. + + +ELIAS KILMER, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Ill. + +April 24. 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Oswego county, New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteers, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865, by reason +of the termination of the war. Is pensioned at rate of six dollars a +month. Since the war has been a farmer. This is the way Elias writes: +"Politics, black republican. In regard to religion, my wife belongs to the +Methodist church. I suppose you preached prohibition and voted +democratic." There are very many republicans of my acquaintance whom I +would be glad to see preaching prohibition although they continue to vote +the republican ticket. No class of American citizens would be more greatly +blessed and benefitted by prohibition than republicans. + + +JOHN LEACH, Morris, Ill. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in West Virginia. Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. A carpenter. A very active republican--never preaches +prohibition. Is a christian, but has not worked at the trade for many +years. Did not answer my letter, and am unable to give further facts from +memory. + + +JAMES B. LITTLEWOOD, Washington, D. C., No. 415, B Street, N. E. + +April, 1861-July, 1865. Born in England. Was struck, I think, by a spent +ball at Britton's Lane. Was a good soldier. Since war, has held clerical +positions in Washington; is now in the Patent Office. While performing +clerical duty, studied medicine and graduated from Medical College at +Georgetown, D. C. Owns a home in Washington. Is probably a democrat at the +present time. Did not answer my letter of inquiry. + + +JOHN P. MULLENIX, Fairfield, Iowa. + +May, 1861-March 25, 1862. Born in Ohio. Thirty-six years old when +enlisted. Receives pension at rate of thirty dollars a month for +disability incurred in service; has drawn pension from date of discharge. +Badly crippled; cannot go without crutches; has no use of left arm and +shoulder; rheumatism is the main difficulty. Is a Presbyterian in belief, +and a republican from principle. + + +ALBERT PIERSON, 10 Prospect Street, East Orange, New Jersey. + +June 3, 1861-November 20, 1862. In 1863, when Confederate army came up +into Pennsylvania, enlisted in a militia company, and served thirty days. +Born in Orange, N. J. Was twenty-two years old when enlisted. Had the +pleasure of participating in only one battle during the war--that of +Fredericktown, Missouri. About November 1, 1861, became very sick at +Bird's Point, Missouri. On the 20th of that month received furlough and +went to Mr. Jessup's, Na-au-say township, Kendall county, Illinois, where +he remained for six months a very sick man. In May, 1862, was sent to East +Orange, N. J., his former home, in charge of a personal attendant, and +came near dying on the journey. Remained at East Orange, sick, for four +months. In August reported to hospital, on Bedloe Island, from which he +was discharged November 20, 1862, and it is the regret of Comrade Pierson +that he was not with Company K, 20th Illinois Regiment, during the whole +war. Since discharged he has been seriously sick, and has paid out money +to doctors. "Yet, I believe there is One above who rules over all, and +when my time comes no doctor can save me." (Doctor Taylor, what think you +of this?) Comrade Pierson is a Presbyterian. He is not a pensioner; he has +never applied for pension. He is a republican; is a powerful republican, +and is in grief because of the ascendancy of the democratic party. This is +the way he writes: "O, what a great big humbug Grover is, anyway; he ought +to be in England, not America. I recall the night after the election; I +expected nothing from New Jersey--she has always been a democrat--but I +did expect good news from the Prairie state. At twelve o'clock report +came, 'Illinois is against Harrison.' At first I refused to believe it. I +had been proud of Illinois up to that time, as I had spent some years +there, but now I am in sorrow for her." Albert, I am surprised that a +grave and serious man of mature years would sit up till twelve o'clock +watching election returns. Don't do it again. Retire at nine o'clock +regularly the night after election and in the morning you will be in +better condition to hear the news. You may get bad news next time, too. As +ordered by the people, so will the result be. + +Comrade Pierson has been engaged in different lines of business since the +war--is now, and has been for some years, in the wood and coal business. +He gives this cordial invitation: "If any Company K boys ever come East, I +want them to run out to Orange and see me; about fourteen miles from New +York City, and trains run all the time. Remember!" + +In a subsequent letter, Comrade Pierson has given additional facts +concerning himself. In the spring of 1857 he went out to Illinois to be a +farmer. Was in Kendall county, Illinois, when the affair took place at +Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor, and immediately joined a Company that +was started at Oswego. That Company was unfortunate in not being accepted, +and he was obliged to go back to work. In the meantime a Kendall county +Company was organized at Newark and went into camp at Joliet. Some of the +Oswego boys went to Joliet and joined that Company and sent back word that +a few more men would be received. Comrade Pierson was full of the war, but +was reluctant about quitting work again. One day he was plowing. His team +consisted of a free horse and a very lazy one. He talked a great deal to +the lazy horse and pelted him with chunks of dirt, but all this was +unavailing and he decided to resort to harsher means. He stopped, threw +the lines from his shoulders, swung them around the plow handle and went +up alongside of the lazy animal to thrash him. But as soon as he commenced +operations the free horse jumped and away went the team. After +considerable time he caught them. He then felt very gritty and resolved to +be a soldier. He tied the horses to a fence and started. As he passed the +house he called at the door and said, "Good bye! I am off for the war," +and moved on toward Joliet. On this journey he was troubled by the thought +that he was liable to be rejected, as he was a small man and, at that +time, first-class war material was in great abundance. When, however, he +reached camp he passed muster successfully and was happy. Comrade Pierson +closes his letter thus: "When another election comes 'round I want you +fellows out there to attend to business better than you did before. Watch +New Jersey next time." + + +WILLIAM PRENTICE, Soldiers' Home, Quincy, Illinois. + +Enlisted in April, 1861; served for several months in Company K. Was +discharged for disability, and afterwards enlisted in another Regiment. Is +a pensioner. + + +WILLIAM PRESTON, Steward, Illinois. + +April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Receives pension for disability incurred in +service. After war, engaged in farming; later was in business; now +somewhat retired. Is interested in Company K matters, and is glad that a +roster is likely to be made up. + + +JAY DELOS PRUYN, Oneonta, New York. + +May 1, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Syracuse, N. Y., Twenty-two years old +when enlisted. Is granted pension at rate of twelve dollars a month. Is +painter and decorator. Republican. Presbyterian. + +I am under special obligation to Comrade Pruyn for aiding me while lying +helpless and in danger of bleeding to death on the battlefield at Raymond. +He bandaged my wounded leg with his big red handkerchief, knotted and +drawn very tightly, and with my own suspenders; gave me a good drink out +of his canteen, and then resumed his place in the ranks. Comrade Pruyn was +a good soldier, a conscientious man, a man of many good qualities. My +association with him in the army will continue a pleasant recollection. + + +NARCISSE REMILLARD, Mount Taber, Multnomah County, Oregon. + +April 1861-July 14, 1864. September 5, 1864, enlisted in 146th Regiment, +Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged therefrom July 5, 1865. +Was born at Naperville, Canada. Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Is +pensioned at rate of ten dollars a month for disability incurred in +service. In religion, Protestant; a member of Baptist church. In politics, +non-partisan. Votes with reference to the good of the country. Does not +consider the interests of politicians. That is correct; vote as you +shot--for country and for right. + + +WARREN ROCKWOOD, Sheridan, Illinois. + +April, 1861-November 15, 1861. Born in state of New York. Twenty-three +years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a +month. Was a farmer for a number of years; now works as carpenter. +Republican. Non-sectarian in religion. + + +BERDETTE SPENCER, Elmira, New York, No. 1024 College Avenue. + +May 13, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Mohawk, Herkimer county, N. Y. +Thirty-three years old when enlisted. Was wounded in left forearm at Fort +Donelson, and receives pension of ten dollars a month because of wound. On +account of this wound he was away from the Company on furlough seven +months, three months at Marine hospital, Chicago, and four months at home. +During this time missed Shiloh and Britton's Lane; was in all other +battles with the Company. Is now, and has been since July 24, 1876, +employed at New York State Reformatory, which has about fifteen hundred +prisoners. Has never seen a Company K man since the war. Wants to get all +the news about the boys. Would like to attend a reunion and see them all +once more. Does not know whether to call them boys now or not. Is not a +church member; in belief, a spiritualist. + + +RICHARD SPRINGER, Chicago, Ill., No. 99 Washington Street. + +April, 1861-August 31, 1865. Born at LaFayette, Indiana. Seventeen years +old when enlisted. Shot in right arm July 21, 1864, near Atlanta, while +attempting to rescue Martin Morley, the regimental standard bearer, who +lay wounded between the lines. Draws pension for this wound at rate of +seventeen dollars a month. Since war has been student, journalist, man of +affairs, engaged in various business enterprises, now handles real estate +in Chicago. Fearless and aggressive in politics, as upon battlefields, he +has never winced under stroke of party lash. Has been liberal republican +and greenbacker. Now looks with favor upon the independent populist +movement. In religion, liberal. Protestant rather than Catholic. + + +JOHN J. TAYLOR, M. D., Streator, Illinois. + +June 17, 1861-June 16, 1862. Born in Kent, England. Came to America in +1852 with his parents when eleven years old. Came on ship Prince Albert +with five hundred emigrants; thirty-seven days on sea. Has renounced +allegiance to the British crown. Is now American through and through. Was +twenty years old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in service. Suffered for about twenty +years after discharged from the army with alimentary and other +difficulties. After coming home badly wrecked he attended Normal +University with the purpose of preparing for a teacher, but was compelled +by ill health to abandon the project. Began the study of medicine for +personal benefit, afterwards adopted it as a profession. Studied medicine +at University of Michigan in 1865-6, and in 1866-7 in Chicago at the Rush. +Graduated from Rush Medical College January 25, 1867, and has since been +engaged in the practice of the profession. Is a railroad surgeon, is +secretary of LaSalle county Medical Society, and is examining surgeon for +a number of life insurance companies. Has been president of North Central +Medical Association. Has been captain of State Militia and alderman fourth +ward, Streator. + +This comrade is a very zealous adherent of the republican party; he has +great faith in the party. He thinks the republican party is right. He +thinks it always has been right. He thinks it will soon again have control +of the affairs of the government. We are in great danger of being deluged +by foreign goods from which calamity the government should protect us. + +In religion he is broad and free. Is not priest-ridden. He cordially +recognizes whatever of good there is in the "religious societies" and +spreads the wide mantle of charity over all their errors. Is very willing +and very anxious to learn in regard to the great beyond, but is not +willing to take bit and be reined by priest or prelate. Desires liberty in +regard to religious thought and action. + +"Be industrious, be honest, be clean, be true to yourself and charitable +to others, and lift like a Hercules to lighten the burden of those who are +heavily loaded and weary in the journey of life. These things are +religion."--Taylor. + +"The practice of moral duties without a belief in a Divine law-giver, and +without reference to His will or commands, is not religion."--Webster. + +Who shall decide when doctors disagree? + + +WILLIAM TODD, Illinois Soldier's Home, Quincy, Illinois. + +April, 1861-May 25, 1865. Was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, but left the +bleak, barren hills of his native land in 1849 and came to Chicago. Was +twenty-nine years and nine months old when enlisted. Captured near +Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864, and for many months confined in Confederate +prisons. + +Since putting foot upon the western continent William has been an +enthusiastic American. He believes America should be protected. We should +not break down the walls and allow the country to be flooded with goods +from foreign shores. We want work to do and plenty of it. An idle brain is +the devil's shop. Don't let the English, the Dutch or the French work for +us, howsoever cheaply they offer their services. Comrade Todd is an +idolator. He worships the republican party. He is wedded to his idol--let +him alone. + +In regard to religion, he writes this: "I am a Christian, _i. e._, a +believer in Christ and his teachings. I am not connected with any +denomination, but have a leaning to the Congregational. My father was of +that denomination in Scotland, the name for them there and in England +being Independents." Became a Kendall county man by adoption. + +"I enlisted at Champaign, Ill., April 18, 1861, but when we went into camp +at Joliet that Company had four men above the maximum number, and the +Kendall county Company lacked two men of the minimum number. I and another +transferred ourselves from A to K, and were put on the muster roll as +having enlisted in Company K April 24, 1861. So you can put me down in +roster as having enlisted at Newark, Kendall county, Illinois, April 24, +1861." + +Comrade Todd is badly broken in health. Right side partly paralyzed. He +says he "cannot write worth a continental." Is a shoemaker. Has worked at +that trade principally since the war, but has been otherwise employed and, +he writes, "I finally got in here." He receives from Uncle Sam at +Washington a regular remittance at the rate of six dollars a month. I +should think the old fellow could do a little better than that. + + +SAMUEL TRENTOR, Morris, Illinois. + +April 24, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Moundsville, West Virginia. Nearly +nineteen years old when enlisted. Sam thought that with his long arms he +could do good work with a cavalry sabre, and did not re-enlist in the 20th +Regiment, but when discharged therefrom joined Captain Collins' Company of +the 4th Illinois Cavalry and served until the close of the war. Was shot +in the neck at Britton's Lane. Receives pension at rate of twelve dollars +a month for disabilities incurred in the service. Works for a living. +Writes thus: "I am not a democrat. My religion I have not yet." + + +WILLIAM VREELAND, Maurice, Iowa. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Hudson county, N. J. Twenty-four years +old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a month for +disability incurred in the service. Was a farmer for several years after +discharge, but the condition of his health forced him to abandon that +vocation. Is now editor and proprietor of the Maurice Free Press. "A +rock-ribbed republican and a Methodist. The two things go well together, +you know." How would prohibition and Methodism go? Think about it brother! + + +AMBROSE WALLACE. + +Born in England. Enlisted in April, 1861. One day while the Regiment was +guarding a railroad near Charleston, Missouri, in the fall of 1861, +Wallace disappeared. Returned to the Company in about two months. Said he +had been captured and had been with Jeff. Thompson at New Madrid. Sunday, +April 6, 1861, he deserted from the ranks on the battlefield of Shiloh and +never afterwards appeared. He now lives in Tennessee. Was heard from a few +months ago. At that time he was not a pensioner, but he wanted to be. As +the law now stands he is barred by his record. His only recourse is to +come North and employ some available Congressman to introduce and pass +through Congress a special act granting him a pension. In all probability +it would be vetoed during the present administration, but the Executive +would be put on record as being opposed to pensions. That would be a point +gained in politics. Undoubtedly it is to the interest of Ambrose Wallace +to have a change. + + +ANDREW WEST, Cabery, Illinois. + +April, 1861-November 1, 1861. Was born in state of New York. On August 8, +1862, he enlisted in the 91st Illinois Regiment, and was discharged +therefrom January 2, 1863; afterwards joined a company of New York +Artillery, and while in this organization was seriously wounded in leg at +Petersburg, Virginia, and draws pension for wound. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. + +I was sick of measles in a hospital at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in +September, 1861. At the same time Andrew West was very sick in another +hospital close to the river. One evening, when convalescent and on the +outlook for a boat upon which to return to the Regiment at Bird's Point, I +sat beside Comrade West for nearly an hour and I thought every breath +would be his last. The Surgeon in charge said he was dying and called an +attendant, and directed him to remain with the patient, and gave the +attendant specific instructions in regard to what he should do when the +patient was dead. This attendant was Charles Halbert of the 7th Illinois +Regiment. The end did not come as soon as anticipated, and as the +attendant sat watching and waiting he reached for a sponge in a dish of +water near by, squeezed it out, and with the wet sponge commenced to rub +the dying man. After a little he fancied it gave relief. He continued the +process of rubbing the whole body, and soon became certain that his +patient was coming back to life. In the morning Andrew West was in a +greatly improved condition and the doctor was astonished. + +Why did not the dying man die? Comrade Pierson would say it was because +his time had not yet come. Charles Halbert says he saved him. + + +ALONZO WHITE, Saunemin, Illinois. + +June 11, 1861-July 16, 1865. I saw Comrade White about six years ago. At +that time he was a Methodist, a prohibitionist and was not a pensioner. He +had never applied for pension and never expected to apply. I do not know +whether he has held out faithfully up to the present time or not on all +these points. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry. I wrote to the +postmaster of his town and got this: "Yes, he is here. He runs a +blacksmith shop in this town." + + +ANDREW JACKSON WILSEY, Aurora, Illinois. + +April, 1861-June 9, 1862. Born in Madison county, New York. Twenty-one +years old when enlisted. Since discharge has followed a diversity of +pursuits. He is not a pensioner but, I think, would not object to being +enrolled as one of Uncle Sam's beneficiaries. I meet him frequently. He +has never given serious thought to religion and, I understand, has no well +defined and settled theological opinions. In politics he is a democrat, a +regular old-fashioned democrat of the Andrew Jackson type. He was not at +New Orleans, however, but he faced fury of shot and shell at Shiloh. + + +DEWITT C. WILSON, Plattville, Illinois. + +June 11, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Shelby county, Ohio. Nineteen years +old when enlisted. Is not a pensioner. Since the war has been a farmer. In +politics a straight republican. In religion aims to be a practical +christian. He believes that good works are more efficacious than loud +prayers and soul-saving sermons. He has no connection with any religious +sect. + +On the morning of June 11, 1861, his father sent him into a field with a +horse to cultivate corn with a shovel plow. After working a few hours he +tied his horse to a fence at one end of the field and started directly to +Joliet on foot to enlist. He did good work as a soldier for more than +three years. + +All will have a vivid recollection of Fort Donelson. The lack of rations, +the lack of tents or protection of any kind, the hard fighting and the +hard weather, the rain, the sleet, the snow, the cold, the long dreary +nights without fires. On one of those nights DeWitt Wilson and the writer +stood on picket guard together close up to the enemy's works. We were +posted stealthily after dark under a low bushy tree near a road which led +to and from the town. We were to remain very quiet, not to speak louder +than a whisper, and to watch closely all night. If the enemy sallied out +in force we were to fire and run to the Regiment. It was very cold. The +mercury was going down and was not far from zero. Our clothes had been +soaked by previous rains and were now frozen stiff and clanked with every +movement. We remained as posted for several hours. Finally, the +Confederates came over their works and made a vigorous assault with +intent to break the Union line. When the assault was made I was in an +almost helpless condition. I could scarcely move and was nearly captured. +I and my comrade became separated. I lost my course and went into the 11th +Illinois Regiment. DeWitt and I frequently refer to that terrible night, +the hardest in all our experience. + +At Britton's Lane Comrade Wilson and two others occupied a slight +ambuscade. He was very anxious to have the enemy show up, and poked his +cap out on the end of his ramrod. Just as he did this a glancing bullet +struck the side of his head and caused him to roll over two or three +times. His face and clothes were smeared with blood, and just then he +would not be considered a good-looking man. + + +GEORGE WILSON, Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kansas. + +"Sharon is like a wilderness."--Isaiah 33: 9. + +April, 1861-July 16, 1865. Was born at Newark, Illinois, April 5, 1838. +Twenty-three when enlisted. Was wounded in hand at Britton's Lane. Was +captured near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and confined in various Confederate +prisons for nearly nine months. Pensioned for disabilities incurred in +service at rate of four dollars a month. Is a "homesteader" in Western +Kansas, seven miles from the Colorado line. + +"I belong to the prevailing church and I vote as I shot--against the +South." "Cease firing! They have surrendered!" The men of the Twentieth +heard those words on many battle fields. Finally they all surrendered and +grounded arms. We whipped the rebels. We whipped them thoroughly. The +entire South lay prostrate and bleeding and helpless at the feet of the +conquering soldiers of the Union. Now, George, come out from the +"prevailing church," the big wicked church of the world, and be a +christian. Forgive your enemies and conquer by kindness. Bless them that +curse you. Do good to them that despitefully use you and persecute you and +say all manner of evil against you falsely. This is the true way. Consider +these thoughts seriously, and when you vote again think of something else +besides voting against the South. + + +JOSIAH WRIGHT, Akron, Washington County, Colorado. + +April, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Luzern county, Pennsylvania. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Was a non-commissioned officer and +member of the color guard. Was shot through right wrist while bearing +aloft the flag of the 20th Regiment at Shiloh. Was discharged because of +wound. Pensioned for wound at rate of sixteen dollars a month. + +Lived in Pennsylvania till 1851. From 1851 to 1871 lived in Kendall +county, Illinois. From 1871 till 1892 lived in Adair county, Missouri. +From spring of 1892 to present time has lived on a homestead in Washington +county, Colorado. Is now, and always has been, a farmer. + +In religion is a Methodist. In politics has been a populist since the date +of the organization of that party. Frequently advocates the principles of +the party from the rostrum. Is very friendly to silver. On his envelopes +he has the motto: "Silver sixteen to one." I think Jo has a silver mine on +his homestead in Colorado. + +Here is a vivid picture from Josiah Wright's pen which every man of the +20th Regiment who was on hand at Shiloh will appreciate: "I was at the +spring in camp Sunday morning, April 6. The roar of the assault on +General Prentis's division had become terrific. I heard drums beat the +long roll as the signal of alarm. I rushed to the Colonel's tent and got +the flag. In passing out I met the Color Sergeant and gave the flag to +him. The boys of the 20th were swarming out of their tents with their +guns. The Regiment was quickly formed and started on a run in the +direction of the firing. Colonel Marsh rode rapidly up and down the column +urging the men to their utmost. We did not have to go far. The +Confederates were advancing with great impetuosity and sweeping the field +before them. We took position to beat back the on-coming tide and then the +flag was unfurled and waved in the face of the foe. The Color Sergeant was +immediately shot down. I picked up the flag and was soon wounded. Another +member of the color guard then took the flag. I was sent to a boat on the +river and was nearly gone from loss of blood." + +This also from Comrade Wright's letter: "As I write grave thoughts crowd +in upon me. I go back in memory to the days of '61. I am again at the war +meeting in Newark, where I listened to the thrilling eloquence of Watson +until fired by a new born purpose I there resolved to serve my country +and, if so it be ordered, to die in the service. I was one of the first to +sign the Company roll. We are now widely scattered, but are bound together +by the strongest ties. We will hardly meet again in this life, but may we +so live that we shall meet around our Father's throne where severed ties +of earth shall be re-united in Heaven." To this closing sentiment of our +brave Comrade say I, most heartily, Amen. So may we live. Let every +Company K man, still left, use this prayer. Comrades Gray and Taylor, join +in. + + + + +Our Recruits. + + +TWO SPLENDID ENGLISHMEN. + +On the 4th of July, 1861, two young men of good appearance walked into our +camp and immediately declared their intentions. They proposed to unite +with us. We cordially accepted, and the next day the ceremony was +performed. + + +JOHN BROAD, Schell City, Vernon County, Missouri. + +July 5, 1861-November 27, 1861. Born in England. Came to America in 1859. +Twenty-two years old when enlisted. Pensioned at rate of four dollars a +month for disabilities incurred in service. A carpenter by trade, but now +farming. Was brought up an Anglican. At present a member of the M. E. +church, South. Formerly a democrat. Now votes with the Alliance. + + +THOMAS HOPGOOD, Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. + +July 5, 1861-July 5, 1864. Born in England. Came to America May, 1859. +Twenty-six years old when enlisted. Receives no pension. Politics, +republican all the time. Religion, Protestant, a Presbyterian. Has not +forgotten the time when we campaigned together. Remembers all the boys and +wants to be remembered by all of them. + + +TWO MORE RECRUITS, BUT NOT OF A KIND. + +About the middle of August, 1861, two large and very brave looking men, +Bishop and another[1], came down from Kendall county, Illinois, to join +Company K. We were then at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and just at that +juncture were in need of re-inforcements. A Confederate army under General +Polk had crossed the river at Columbus, Kentucky, and was threatening the +town. When the recruits arrived the camp was in commotion on account of +the expected attack. Bishop immediately got a gun, took his place in the +ranks and was ready for active hostilities. The other became sad and +pensive. He did not want a gun, and did not appear so much of a warrior as +at the moment of his arrival. He finally went on board of a boat with some +women and children and crossed the Mississippi river. After remaining in +the woods of Southern Illinois for a few days he came back to camp to get +his carpet bag. He did not want to be mustered into the army. He wanted to +go to his peaceful home, and he went. He still lives in Illinois. I am not +informed as to whether he has succeeded in getting a pension or not. His +case will require a special act. + + [1] In original manuscript the name of this recruit was given, but it + is here omitted in compliance with the very earnest solicitation of + the printer. + + +LEWIS G. BISHOP, Grand Junction, Colorado. + +July 16, 1861-August 9, 1862. Born in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, New +York, on St. Patrick's day, 1838. Was, therefore, twenty-three years old +at time of enlistment. Was wounded in left arm and left leg at Shiloh. Was +sent down the rivers to hospitals at Paducah and Mound City. In course of +time obtained leave of absence and went up to Newark, Illinois. Was then +made aware that the people appreciated the soldiers. Was lionized wherever +he went in Kendall county, which was a source of embarrassment to him, as +he was a modest and humble individual. Was discharged because of wounds +and receives pension therefor at rate of twelve dollars a month. He is +glad that he still has his left leg, although it is not as good as the +other. He is obliged to wear a rubber stocking and use other appliances to +suppress inflammation and reduce varicose veins. + +Comrade Bishop remembers with minute particularity the events of the Fort +Henry and Fort Donelson campaigns. He remembers as though it were +yesterday the morning, when, at dawn, we discovered lines of Confederates +looking at us from their rifle pits and when Chaplain Button went upon his +knees on the ground and prayed with great earnestness for the salvation of +the souls of those who should be slain in the impending battle. He thinks +that if the Chaplain had taken a fife and stepped out and played "Yankee +Doodle" it would have a better effect. He confesses that the prayer +depressed him. In the state of mind in which he was at that time he would +greatly prefer to live than to die and take his chances for heaven. This +was probably the prevailing sentiment among the soldiers of both armies. + +Comrade Bishop came West in the spring of 1860; went as far as Fort +Larimie, Wyoming, returned in the fall to Illinois, taught school near +Newark in winter of 1860-61; in spring of 1861 went to Wisconsin and +helped to run a raft of lumber out of the Wisconsin river down to +Muscatine; in July, 1861, returned to Kendall county, Illinois. When the +disaster occurred at Bull Run he awoke to the fact that the country was +seriously menaced and resolved to be a soldier. He was acquainted with +many of the boys of Company K, had visited them in Joliet, and he decided +to cast his lot with them. He picked up his carpet-bag and went to Cape +Girardeau, Missouri, and was mustered in. + +After discharge Comrade Bishop became a student and a teacher; later he +studied dentistry, and for many years has been engaged in the practice of +that profession. + +Religion: Agnostic. He neither asserts nor denies any theological dogma. + +Politics: Anything to beat the republican party. Believes that the +principles and methods of that party should be relegated to "innosuous +desuetude." The party is owned and fenced in by syndicates, corporations +and factories, and is not worthy of public confidence. The people should +rise in their sovereign capacity and decree that capital shall cease to +dominate the legislation of the country. + +Comrade Bishop has been married and he has been un-married. He considers +that St. Paul gave first-class advice when, in his letter to the +Corinthians, he wrote, "Seek not a wife." + + +AUGUSTUS GAY, No. 902 Second Street, Seattle, Washington. + +April 5, 1862-April 9, 1865. Was born at Albany, New York, in July, 1846. +Was, therefore, fifteen years and nine months old when he enlisted. Was +the youngest man in Company K, and looked very honest. No boy in the whole +Union army had a more innocent face than Augustus Gay. He came to us at +Joliet and was rejected. He followed up the Regiment for about a year and +during most of that time had a position on Dr. Bailey's staff. Finally, at +Pittsburg Landing, the day before the battle of Shiloh, he was mustered +into the service as a member of Company K. Was mustered out at Raleigh, +North Carolina, by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment. + +Augustus Gay appeared to court danger. He went into battle with a broad +smile on his face and a twinkle of the eye as though he were engaged in +something pleasant and agreeable. Was very reckless and daring in action. +The wonder was how it happened that he was never killed. Was captured near +Atlanta July 22, 1864, and went to Anderson prison, where he spent several +months. Was finally transferred by the Confederates from Andersonville to +Savannah and was at that place when it was captured by the Union army +December 21, 1864. + +I am in receipt of a long and interesting letter from Comrade Gay in which +he gives facts concerning himself. This is dated March 26, 1894. I had +previously written him up for the roster from memory and had classed him +among the missing. He says he was very glad to hear from Company K. He has +never seen any of the Company since the war, and had never heard from any +of them. He was not sick a day while in the army and was never wounded. +Since the war he has never been so seriously sick as to be confined to his +bed. He is not a rich man and he is not a poor man. He weighs 250 pounds. +He lives well. He never chews nor smokes tobacco nor drinks intoxicating +liquors and never plays cards. He has been on the Pacific slope for twenty +years and has not been back to the States during that time. He has been +married for ten years and has now a boy more than half as old as he was +when he joined Company K. After the war he studied dental surgery and has +followed that profession continuously. Receives pension at rate of six +dollars a month. Writes thus: "I want you to put in your roster that if +ever a Company K man comes to this part of the world I want him to come +and see me." + +He says that he is Protestant. But I don't think he is a full-blooded +Protestant. If I remember correctly he used to tell us in the army that +his parents were Hibernians, and that he was half Catholic and half +Protestant, and had by inheritance all the good qualities of both kinds of +religion. + + +JAMES SPRINGER, Eighty-eighth and Throop Streets, Chicago, Illinois. + +Born on a farm near La Fayette, Indiana. Enlisted August 28, 1862, at the +age of twenty-two years. Joined Company K at Holly Springs, Mississippi, +in November, 1862, and served until mustered out at the close of the war +in 1865. + +After discharge became a student at the University of Chicago, also, law +department thereof, from which he graduated in June, 1868, and was then +admitted to the bar. Practiced law for sixteen years. For a time was +engaged in journalism. Since 1885 has followed a business career. + +In politics an independent; in religion a Methodist. + + +LAMBERT CONNER, Braidwood, Illinois. + +Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. I think he enlisted in the spring of +1863. Was then eighteen years old. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Receives +pension at rate of sixteen dollars a month for disabilities incurred in +service. He did not reply to my letter of inquiry. + + +FOUR KIDS. + +Four nice boys, in a bunch, came into our camp at Big Black river, +Mississippi, about the first of April, 1864. These were Pease Barnard, +Charles Hall, Luman Preston and Fayette Scofield. They were all +"Suckers," were separated from their mothers for the first time and, to +the old campaigners of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, they, appeared +very fresh and innocent. They had been mustered in several weeks before by +a recruiting officer in Illinois, and fitted out with Uncle Sam's +uniforms, and were now ready to assist in winding up the war. + + +NATHANIEL PEASE BARNARD, Newark, Illinois. + +February 25, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in LaSalle county, Illinois. +Seventeen years old when enlisted. Served in Georgia, went with Sherman +from Atlanta to the sea, and helped to eviscerate the Carolinas. Pensioned +at rate of eight dollars a month. Member of M. E. church. An active member +of republican party. A lawyer by profession. + + +CHARLES HALL, Westport, Brown County, South Dakota. + +February 24, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. July, 1864, in Georgia campaign, was +shot in the neck, and for a time was supposed to be dead. This recruit was +built of good material for a soldier. Did not answer my letter. + + +LUMAN PRESTON, Dixon, Illinois. + +February 16, 1864-July 16, 1865. Born in Kendall county, Illinois. +Eighteen years old when enlisted. Is in business. Did not reply to my +letter of inquiry. Is probably very busily engaged attending to customers. +I meet Luman occasionally. He is always in good shape and happy. I think +he is a democrat. Is of the bluest Puritan blood, but has the figure of a +Teuton. + + + + +Our Missing Members. + + +The following four Company K men I cannot find. If any Comrade can give me +any information concerning any of them I desire to have him do so. They +may be living, but I think it is more probable that they are dead: + + +GEORGE ADAMS. + +June, 1861-October 14, 1862. Born in England. + + +JOHN CONSTANTINE. + +May, 1861-August 29, 1861. Born in Ireland. Came to America when one year +old. Claimed to have been discharged from the regular army a short time +before enlisting in Company K. Was an intemperate, boisterous and +quarrelsome man. Was dismissed from the army by sentence of a court +martial. + + +LOUIS MINTZ. + +April, 1861-August 24, 1863. Born in Portugal. In religion was supposed to +be a Hebrew. I think he came to Newark as a peddler and there joined +Company K. He was a good soldier, but was very excitable. On one occasion, +when advancing on skirmish line through the woods, he fired into a dead +rebel who was hanging on a fence. Comrade Mintz was overheated at +Raymond, from which he never recovered, and on account of which he was +discharged. + + +JOHN PEPOON. + +May, 1861-December 16, 1862. At time of enlistment he lived in Oswego +township, Kendall county, Illinois. + + + + +OUR DEAD. + + +For many years earth has held the ashes of our fallen Comrades in its +bosom. We have kept their memories in our hearts. + + +Slain in Battle. + + +ANDREW WILSON, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Ohio. Enlisted June 17, 1861, at the age of twenty-three years. +Shot through the head at Fort Donelson, and instantly killed, February 15, +1862, while the Union line was advancing on the enemy. + +Early on the morning of the 16th the Confederates surrendered. I was on +the detail sent out that day to bury the dead of our Regiment. We went to +the place where we had position in the line and there, on a hard hill, +through stones and roots we dug a grave. This is the only grave I have +ever helped to dig. It was thirty feet long and a little more than six +feet wide. When of sufficient depth two men remained in the bottom, and +others handed down, one by one, eighteen men of the 20th Illinois +Regiment. Andrew Wilson was one of the number. When they had all been +placed side by side across the grave, good Chaplain Button spoke solemn, +earnest words in exhortation and prayer. Our dead were covered with earth, +three volleys were fired over them as a parting salutation, and we then +filed away into camp, weary and sad. + + +CURTIS WANN, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1843. Enlisted in Company +K, April, 1861. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Shiloh, Sunday, +April 6, 1862. I have a clear recollection of Curtis Wann on the morning +of that dreadful day, when we were going forward to meet the enemy. His +face was aglow with eagerness and courage, but alas! he was the first to +fall. + + +JAMES CRELLEN, Newark, Illinois. + +Born on the Isle of Man. Had not been in America many years. Was a +shoemaker, and worked at his trade in Newark. Was well thought of by +everybody. He was one of the first to sign the Company roll. He said at +the outset that he wanted to be killed if he could not come out of the war +entire. He dreaded mutilation more than death. At Shiloh, Sunday, April 6, +1861, he was shot through the neck and killed instantly. I had my eyes +squarely upon him when he was struck. He dropped to the ground and never +moved. Did not even quiver. While lying dead upon the battlefield he was +again shot through the face. + + +MARCUS MORTON. + +Enlisted at Joliet May, 1861. Was shot and mortally wounded at Shiloh +April 6, 1861. Died in a few days after the battle. + + +ISRAEL WATERS, Plattville, Illinois. + +Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861. Was shot and instantly killed May 12, +1863, in the battle of Raymond. While we were engaged in the desperate +fighting behind the rail fence I turned my eyes on Waters and he was +cheering and shouting defiance to the enemy. In a few moments I looked +again and he lay perfectly dead. A bullet had passed through his brain. + + +WILLIAM SHOGER, Oswego, Illinois. + +Born in Germany. Came to America in 1855. Enlisted in May, 1861, at the +age of nineteen years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond +May 12, 1863. Was brought up and confirmed a Lutheran. Later withdrew from +Lutheran church and became an active member of Evangelical church. + + +DAVID BARROWS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in New Hampshire. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of thirty-five +years. Shot and killed instantly in the battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. +Was a married man and left a wife and three little girls lonely and sad. +If I were asked who was the best soldier in Company K the first man I +would think of would be David Barrows. He did not waste much powder. A +good marksman, and level-headed under the most trying circumstances, he +aimed and fired in the heat and fury of battle with the precision and +accuracy of target practice. + +Comrades Waters, Shoger and Barrows were at my right. They were all shot +through the head and, when killed, lay touching each other. + + +BENJAMIN ADAMS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Killed in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Comrade Adams was +shot at the very beginning of the battle, as we lay in the woods waiting +for the skirmishers to rally in, and before we fired a gun. At the close +of the battle he was still living. A comrade paused over him and said-- + +"Can I do anything for you?" + +"No." + +"Ben, you are badly hurt. Won't I stay with you?" + +"They are running, are they not?" + +"Yes, we have them on the run. Won't I stay with you?" + +"No; go on." + +He was taken by an ambulance to the field hospital and died in a few +minutes after reaching that place. + + +HENRY MITCHELL, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +Born of English parents on Prince Edward's Island January 31, 1836. Came +to Kendall county, Illinois, in 1845. Enlisted in Company K May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Killed in the battle of Raymond May 12, +1863. + +Henry Mitchell was in every sense a large, strong, brave man, and was +highly regarded by all such as have regard for what is true and noble in +human life and character. He was scrupulously correct in all his habits. +Never played cards, was never profane in speech, and never had any use for +whisky, tobacco or beer. He had five brothers in the Union army, all in +Company C of the 7th Illinois Regiment, namely, Anthony, William, George, +Robert and Samuel. These five in the 7th Regiment and Henry in the 20th +were all in the battle lines at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. I do not believe +that there is in the whole range of history another instance in which six +brothers fought in the ranks of any army in the same great battles. I have +read of Roman patriotism and Grecian valor, of Spartan mothers sending out +their sons to battle with the injunction to come back either victorious or +dead, but I have never read of anything that is equal to the case of the +six Mitchell brothers in patriotism, devotion and valor, all of whom +responded at once to their country's first call for volunteers. + +Of these six brave brothers only three now survive, namely--Anthony, in +Kansas, and Robert and Samuel, in Colorado. George was slain on the second +day at Shiloh. "We were all within six feet of George when he fell," +writes Anthony. That is, the other four of the 7th Regiment; and Henry was +close by in the 20th Regiment. William contracted disease in the army, +came home sick and died. + + +ROBERT TAYLOR, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in England. Came to America when a child. Enlisted in Company K, +April, 1861, at the age of about twenty-three years. Shot through hip and +mortally wounded in battle of Raymond May 12, 1863. Lived a few days after +the battle and died in extreme agony. I lay near him in the hospital. His +suffering was the most terrible that I have ever witnessed. + + +WILLIAM READ, Newark, Illinois. + +Was a recruit. I think he came to the Company in 1862. Was shot in head +and mortally wounded in battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863. Lived a few days +after the battle. + + +JOHN WOODRUFF, Oswego, Illinois. + +Enlisted in May, 1861. Shot and mortally wounded in the battle of Raymond, +May 12, 1863. Was shot in leg below the knee. Three different amputations +were performed, one below the knee and two above, but each was followed by +unfavorable results. He and I were in the same hospital, and not very far +apart. I witnessed the amputations. The patient in all his suffering +exhibited the most incredible fortitude. He lived nearly three weeks and +never groaned nor sighed. At last when informed that mortification was +advancing and the end was near, he called an attendant, paid him for extra +service rendered and then turned over to the attendant his pocket-book and +some other personal effects to be sent to his sister at Iowa Falls, Iowa. +This was done with perfect deliberation. He manifested no fear of death. I +remember him very distinctly in former battles. He was a very brave +soldier. + + +RICE BAXTER, Na-au-say Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +May, 1861-October 13, 1861. In a few months after being discharged from +Company K he enlisted in another Regiment and was killed in the battle of +Arkansas Post, January 10, 1863. I have been unable to obtain any +information concerning Comrade Baxter from any of his relatives, although +I have made persistent efforts to do so. + + + + +Died in the Service. + + +THOMPSON BRISTOL, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted in April, 1861, at the age of nineteen years. Went into camp at +Joliet, became sick, went home on furlough and died June 16, 1861. Buried +in Millington. Let his grave be decorated. + + +WILLIAM ASHTON, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born of English parents in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted April, +1861, at the age of nearly twenty-one years. Died at Cape Girardeau, +Missouri, September 2, 1861. + + +STEPHEN JENNINGS, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in State of New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died of typhoid fever in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, October +15, 1861. + + +RICHARD CONNER, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Enlisted June 12, 1861, at the age +of twenty years. Died of measles in hospital at Mound City, Illinois, +December 23, 1861. + + +FRANK LEHMAN. + +Born in Germany. Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Bird's Point, Missouri, +January 11, 1862. + + +JOHN R. MCKEAN, Newark, Illinois. + +Was one of the first to volunteer in April, 1861. Had been in the regular +army and, I think, for a short time in the Mexican war. Took a very +active part in organizing the Company and drilling the boys. Was elected +Second Lieutenant. A very efficient officer. Died at Bird's Point, +Missouri, January 23, 1862. + +Does any comrade know anything about Lieutenant McKean's burial? If so, +report to me, please. + + +GEORGE MALLORY, Newark, Illinois. + +Born at Rome, Oneida county, New York, November 10, 1835. Came to Kendall +county, Illinois, in 1838. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of twenty-five +years. Died at Bird's Point, Missouri, January 28, 1862. + + +WILLIAM CROWNER. + +Enlisted in May, 1861. Died in hospital at Mound City, March 10, 1862. + + +EDWARD ATKINS, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, March 11, 1862, while home +on furlough sick. + + +AARON PAXSON, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted May, 1861. Died at Newark, Illinois, May 4, 1862, while home on +furlough sick. + + +WILLIAM BENNETT, Adams Township, La Salle County, Illinois. + +Born in England January 4, 1837. Enlisted at Newark April, 1861, at the +age of twenty-four years. His vitality was overtaxed at Fort Donelson. He +broke down and never recovered. Was sent down the river and died in +general hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May 5, 1862. + + +ALBERT WILCOX, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Illinois, January 21, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861, +at the age of twenty years. Died in hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, May +13, 1862. + + +OTIS CHARLES, Bristol Station, Illinois. + +Born in Bristol township, Kendall county, Illinois. Enlisted May, 1861, at +the age of twenty-five years. Overcome by the strain at Fort Donelson he +went home on furlough sick, and died at his home June 1, 1862. + + +WILLIAM SMITH, Plattville, Illinois. + +Born in Centre county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted May, 1861, at the age of +twenty years. Died at Paducah, Kentucky, August 23, 1862, while on +detailed duty in the Signal Corps. + + +JOSEPH SPRINGER. + +Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1831. Enlisted as a +recruit in Company K August 30, 1862. Died at Lake Providence, Louisiana, +March 18, 1863. Was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. Belonged +to the society organized at Millbrook, Kendall county, Illinois. Was +married, and when he went away to the war left at home a wife and three +boys, whose respective ages were seven, five and about two and one-half +years. His widow, Mrs. Ann Springer, now lives at Firth, Lancaster county, +Nebraska, from whose letters I make the following extracts: "I am glad the +survivors of Company K are hunting up the records of those that never +returned, as well as the records of those who were spared to come back. I +have been weighed down and almost crushed with sorrow and affliction. I +have never re-married, and, of course, draw pension at the rate of twelve +dollars a month. I have lived with my boys, the oldest of whom was taken +away when nearly sixteen years of age. The other two are still spared. I +had four brothers who went out to fight for the dear old flag. Two of them +never returned. One was William Bennett of Company K. He responded to the +first call and enlisted at Newark, Illinois, early in the spring of 1861. +Another brother, who was in the artillery service, was killed in the +battle of Stone River. God bless the soldiers; they did a noble work; they +are the saviors of the country. If the Company K Roster is published I +want a copy." + + +ALFRED GRISWOLD, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April 1861. Died at Berry's Landing, Louisiana, March 20, 1863. + + +SUMNER COOK, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861. Died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, of typhoid fever, +July 20, 1863. + + +GEORGE SLEEZER, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Kendall county, Ill. Enlisted as a recruit for Company K September +26, 1864, at the age of eighteen years. Became sick at Camp Butler, near +Springfield, Illinois, and died at that place November 13, 1864, before he +reached the Company. + + +WALTER LANDON, Fox Township, Kendall County, Illinois. + +Volunteered as a recruit for Company K October 3, 1864, and died in a +short time afterward at Camp Butler, Illinois, before reaching the +Company. + + +GREENBURY LEACH, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in West Virginia. Enlisted April, 1861. Captured near Atlanta, +Georgia, July 22, 1864. Confined in Confederate prisons from date of +capture until the following spring. Died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, +April 30, 1865, just after being exchanged and while on his way to the +north. Was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. While in the army +always attended whatever religious service was conducted in camp. Was a +regular attendant and participant at regimental prayer-meetings. + + + + +Died Since Date of Discharge. + + +NELSON DAYTON, Newark, Illinois. + +Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of eighteen years. Discharged for +disability November 27, 1861. Died March 4, 1862, at Newark, Illinois. + + +ROBERT LAWTON. + +May 1861-August 17, 1862. Born in Lancashire, England. Came to America in +1852. Died in Kendall county, Illinois, of the disease for which +discharged from the army April 14, 1864, at the age of twenty-five years, +three months and eight days. Robert was a good soldier. I remember him +distinctly on the battlefield of Shiloh. During the terrible fighting of +the first day he turned over his pocket-book to a member of the Company +who retired on account of wounds. He did not want his money to be taken by +the rebels if he were killed in the fight. + +Comrade Lawton's remains were interred in the little cemetery at +Plattville. The slab marble which marks his final resting place has fallen +down and is broken. When the flowers of May each year come, let patriot +hands decorate this grave. + + +GILBERT MORTON, Oswego, Illinois. + +Enlisted May, 1861. Mustered out July 16, 1865. Promoted to Quartermaster +Sergeant of the Regiment at the outset and, I think, held that position +during the entire war. After discharge he became a railroad official and +had a highly successful career for about ten years. But evil days came, +and he finally died by his own hand at a hotel in Chicago. This was about +the year 1876. + + +LONGEN MERKLI. + +Born in 1829 at Damsingan, Baden, Germany. Went into German army in his +youth, and was thoroughly trained as a soldier. Participated in active +warfare in 1848-'49. He handled sword and bayonet with great dexterity. +Few men could stand before him with these weapons. After his service in +the German army he spent several years as a student. Was a good latin +scholar, and had a knowledge of the French language. Pursued a course of +study in surgery and medicine in a German University, and, by members of +his profession, was considered an expert anatomist. Had been reared in the +faith of the Catholic church, but became a doubter of the fundamental +doctrines of Christianity. Came to America in 1860 and engaged in the +practice of medicine at Milford and Newark. Was one of the first to enlist +in April, 1861. Served in the ranks of the Company for about a year and a +half. Was in the battles of Fredericktown, Fort Donelson and Shiloh. Was +shot in the foot at Shiloh. Was a remarkably brave and fearless man. About +July, 1862, he was detailed to serve in a hospital at Jackson, Tennessee. +When negro soldiers were enlisted he was offered a commission as assistant +surgeon of a negro Regiment, but declined it. He continued on detailed +duty and served as a medical man in various hospitals until the expiration +of his term of enlistment. Was mustered out in July, 1864. After the war, +located at Bristol, Illinois, and pursued the practice of medicine. In his +best years he was unable to control his appetite for strong drink and, as +time advanced, his appetite steadily increased and he became an abject +slave. He died at Bristol, Illinois, August 20, 1879. + + +GEORGE WATSON, Newark, Illinois. + +I doubt whether any man did as much as George Watson toward getting up +Company K. He was a lawyer at Newark, was a democrat, voted for Bell and +Everett in 1860, and was an enthusiastic Union man. He was a fluent +off-hand speaker and was the main figure at all the war meetings in +Newark. Had been in Pennsylvania militia and Mexican war and was a good +drill master. Was elected First Lieutenant. About the first of June, 1861, +he withdrew from the Company and joined Mulligan's Regiment in Chicago. +Was captured with that command at Lexington, Missouri, in 1861. After this +he served on a gunboat and, still later, had a commission in a +Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. He was gifted with talent of a high order, +but an uncontrollable appetite for intoxicating liquor barred all +possibility of success in life. It caused his ruin and downfall and death. +He made many spasmodic attempts at reformation, and at these times was a +successful temperance talker. But all his efforts at reform ended in +failure. From the United States Soldiers' Home at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I +have received this: "The records show that George W. Watson served in +Company K, 20th Illinois Infantry; Company E, 23d Illinois Infantry; +Company F, 2d Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in U. S. Navy. He was admitted +here December 15, 1877, and was killed by a railroad train in Milwaukee, +Wisconsin, at about 3 o'clock p. m., August 21, 1879." + + +FAYETTE SCOFIELD, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in DuPage county, Illinois, January 25, 1847. Enlisted as a recruit +for Company K February 25, 1864. Discharged July 16, 1865. Killed in a +railroad wreck in Missouri February 17, 1881. + + +AMON HEACOX, Lisbon, Illinois. + +Born in Oneida county, New York, June 6, 1817. Enlisted in Company K, May, +1861, at the age of forty-four years. Mustered out July 14, 1864. Was the +oldest man in the Company. I have been informed that he was slightly +wounded at Britton's Lane, but I have no recollection of it. I remember +him very distinctly at Fort Donelson. He was a good man and a good +soldier. Was a member of M. E. church. Was one of six, many years ago, to +organize a Methodist Episcopal church in Lisbon, Illinois. He died in the +Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, April 23, 1889, in the seventy-third +year of his age. Is interred in the cemetery at Lisbon. + + +HENRY HAVENHILL, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in LaSalle county, Illinois, June 17, 1842. Enlisted April, 1861. +Discharged for disability April 27, 1862. Died in Chicago, Illinois, of +paralysis, June, 1889. + + +FRANCIS CROWELL, Newark, Illinois. + +Born in Tompkins county, New York. Enlisted April, 1861, at the age of +eighteen years. Was wounded in the Georgia campaign July, 1864. Mustered +out July 16, 1865. Died at Waterman, Illinois, of a complication of +diseases, September 17, 1889. The address of his widow is Mrs. Mary A. +Crowell, Waterman, Illinois. + + +THOMAS GARNER. + +April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in England. Had been a British soldier, +and saw active service in the Crimean war. Deserted from the British army. +Captured and branded with letter D. Deserted again in Canada and succeeded +in escaping to the United States. + +Thomas Garner was one of the best marchers and fighters in the Union army. +He was always at his post. Never straggled from the ranks and never failed +because of sore feet or anything else. Whenever there was fighting on hand +Tom was in it. His great failing we all know, but, notwithstanding that, +he was the best beloved man in Company K. Some years after the war he went +back to England and, in time, returned again to the United States. Soon +after his return he walked from Buffalo, New York, to Morris, Illinois, +and then came to Newark and Sheridan looking for Company K folks. He found +none and went away very despondent. These facts I learned from his friends +in Morris. I have received a communication from the Pension Agent at +Buffalo, New York, which informs me that Thomas Garner, Company K, 20th +Illinois Regiment, was on the rolls of that agency as a pensioner at the +rate of six dollars a month, and that he died during the year 1892. He +drew pension to July 4 of that year. His address at that time was No. 58 +Commercial Street, Buffalo, New York. This is the most definite +information I have succeeded in obtaining. + + +WILLIAM MINARD, Oswego, Illinois. + +Born at Walbrough, Ulster county, New York, September 26, 1840. Enlisted +May, 1861. Became Commissary Sergeant of the Regiment. Mustered out July +14, 1864. Died at Chicago, Illinois, of disease of kidneys, January 10, +1894. Interred at Graceland. + + +GEORGE CONNELLY. + +May, 1861-September 8, 1862. Born in Ireland. Had been a soldier in the +regular army. Was a brave man. Was wounded at Shiloh. Was discharged on +account of wound and pensioned therefor. He is now dead. Date of death not +ascertained. + + +JAMES HAGARDORN. + +Enlisted at Joliet in May, 1861, and, I think, served about a year and a +half. Was discharged for disability and became a pensioner. After the war +lived in State of New York. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + +JAMES LORD. + +May, 1861-March 5, 1863. Was an actor. Came to Newark, Illinois, in the +spring of 1861 with a theatrical troupe and there enlisted in Company K. +He was a very intelligent man and a good soldier. Was wounded at Fort +Donelson. Was discharged for disability and became a pensioner. He is now +dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + +RALPH PRATT. + +May, 1861-November 27, 1861. Discharged for disability. Became a +pensioner. Is now dead. Date of death not ascertained. + + + + +REMARKS. + + +The names of those who served thirty days with Company K in the State +service but who declined to join the Company for three years in the United +States service do not appear in this roster; neither do the names of +drafted men and substitutes who were assigned to the Company during the +last few months of the war. + +The dates after a name indicate the time when the soldier first +volunteered and the time when he was mustered out or discharged. Those who +did not enlist for a second term of three years were nearly all mustered +out July 14, 1864. Those who re-enlisted were mustered out July 16, 1865, +on account of the close of the war. Those discharged at other dates were +discharged for disability resulting from wounds or sickness. + +The names of 108 Company K men are herein given; 56 are living, 52 are +dead. 4 are missing; of these four I have not been able to obtain any +information whatever. I know not whether they are living or dead. + +Of the 56 men living, 41 receive pensions; 7 receive no pension. In regard +to the others, it is not ascertained whether they are pensioners or not. +32 receive pensions for disabilities incurred in the army; 9 for +disabilities not incurred in the army. + +Of the 56 men here reported as living, 23 at least were wounded in battle; +13 draw pension for wounds. + +Eight Company K men were buried at Raymond--Shoger, Barrows, Waters and +Mitchell were buried in the same grave with others of the Regiment on the +battlefield, near the rail fence. Adams was buried near the field +hospital. Taylor, Reed and Woodruff were buried in the graveyard near the +town. Crellen and Wann were buried on the battlefield of Shiloh. None of +these graves are now marked or known. + +For courtesy, and for information furnished to assist me in tracing lost +members of Company K, I am under special obligations to the Hon. WILLIAM +LOCHREN, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. I also acknowledge my +indebtedness to many postmasters, to newspaper editors, to pension agents +and others. + +If any Company K man dies or changes his place of residence I desire to be +informed of the fact. In this way we will know where every man of the +Company is located. Remember, please. + +A more lengthy sketch is given of some Comrades than of others. The reason +is I have had more information in regard to some than in regard to others. +In many cases what is said about each one of the living is his own letter +to me re-cast and abridged. I have not intentionally slighted or +misrepresented any. I may have made errors. If so, I hope they are few and +not of a grievous nature. + + + + +A BIT OF HISTORY. + + +When the news of the President's first call for volunteers reached Newark +the people were wild with excitement. "That night," writes Dr. Dyer, "I +could not sleep. The next morning I was out very early. I went into +Fowler's drug store and there with pen and ink drew up a company +muster-roll and signed it, and united with others in calling a war meeting +for that evening. I was called to make a long ride in the country and upon +my return found five names on the muster-roll in addition to my own. I +wish I had that paper now." This was the beginning of our Company. +Volunteers continued to come forward and in a few days the requisite +number had signed the roll. April 24, 1861, is on record as the date of +our Company organization. We were not accepted under the President's call +and were sorely disappointed. However, most of the boys continued to meet +in Newark and were drilled by Lieutenants Watson and McKean. On May 11, +1861, our Company left Newark for Joliet and went into camp. The 20th +Illinois Regiment was there organized and the Kendall county boys became +Company K of that organization. After that the history of the Company +became part of the history of the Regiment. June 13, 1861, we were +mustered into the United States service for three years, if not sooner +discharged. About the 17th of June we took the cars for the South. Stopped +three weeks at Alton, Illinois, and drilled constantly. Early in July we +went into camp for a short time in the United States Arsenal at St. +Louis, Missouri, and were here armed with Enfield rifles and received new +blue uniforms. We now had a very extravagant opinion of ourselves, of our +fighting qualities in particular, and did not take the least pains to +conceal that opinion from others. This is what a St. Louis paper said of +us: + + ARRIVAL OF COLONEL MARSH'S REGIMENT FROM ALTON. + + At 11 o'clock a. m., of Saturday, the steamer, "City of Alton," from + Alton, landed at the Arsenal the Twentieth Illinois Regiment, Colonel + C. C. Marsh commanding. The boat brought also the entire camp + equipage and stores of the Regiment. The spontaneous greeting + tendered by our Missouri soldiers was hearty and enthusiastic. Cheers + upon cheers of welcome rent the air and were responded to by the + Illinoisans in magnificent style. The guests were assigned the + western lawn of the Arsenal grounds for their camping site. Tents + were speedily pitched, baggage distributed, and the newly arrived + volunteers were soon perfectly at home. They are aching for active + service wherever desired, and, we understand, are already under + orders for "a forward movement." Other Regiments in Illinois are also + in eager anticipation of lively "business" in Missouri or Arkansas. + + Colonel Marsh's Regiment is evidently in first-class condition and + consists of strikingly vigorous and hardy men. They are brim full of + health and energy and fun. The Regiment numbers nine hundred and + sixty-one men rank and file. Success and joy to them. + +We left the Arsenal in a few days and for six months were engaged in +"business" in southeast Missouri. On October 21 we met the Confederates in +force, under Jeff. Thompson, at Fredericktown and succeeded in thoroughly +convincing them that they were whipped. + +February 6, 1862, we entered Fort Henry and ten days later marched in +triumph into Fort Donelson. April 6 and 7 we had position in the Union +lines at Shiloh and after that took a hand in the siege of Corinth. +September 1 were engaged in the sharp little battle of Britton's Lane. In +the winter of 1862-3 were in the campaign in the mud in northern +Mississippi. Were at Oxford when General VanDorn took Holly Springs and +burned our supplies. In the spring and summer of 1863 we participated in +all the battles of the Vicksburg campaign and in the siege of that +stronghold. + +Were out on the Meridian expedition for twenty-nine days in the month of +February, 1864, without tents or other protection from the elements except +what every man carried on his back. + +In the spring and summer of 1864 were in the Georgia campaign and siege of +Atlanta. In the fall went from Atlanta to the sea. + +In 1865 was in the campaign in the Carolinas and marched through Virginia +to Washington after the Confederate armies had surrendered. + +On the 16th of July, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, the Twentieth Regiment +Illinois Volunteer Infantry was mustered out of the United States service +and disbanded, and the boys went home. + + + + +INDEX. + + + PAGE + + Adams, Benjamin 44 + + Adams, George 40 + + Anderson 6 + + Ashton 47 + + Atkins 48 + + Bacon 6 + + Barnard 39 + + Barrows, David 43 + + Barrows, James 6 + + Baxter 46 + + Bennett 48 + + Bishop 34 + + Bissell 7 + + Boyer 4 + + Bristol 47 + + Broad 33 + + Brown 7 + + Carey 8 + + Charles 49 + + Clayton 9 + + Clifford 9 + + Connelly 56 + + Conner, Richard 47 + + Conner, Anderson 10 + + Conner, Lambert 38 + + Constantine 40 + + Cook 50 + + Crellen 42 + + Crowell 55 + + Crowner 48 + + Coyle 10 + + Dann 11 + + Dayton 51 + + Dyer 3 + + Favreau 12 + + Garner 55 + + Gay 36 + + Griswold 50 + + Gray 12 + + Hagerdorn 56 + + Hagerman 13 + + Hall 39 + + Hanson 13 + + Havenhill, Marshall 13 + + Havenhill, Henry 54 + + Heacox 54 + + Hopgood, Thomas 33 + + Hopgood, George 13 + + Howes 14 + + Hutton 14 + + Jennings, Stephen 47 + + Jennings, James 16 + + Kilmer 16 + + Landon 50 + + Lawton 51 + + Leach, Greenbury 51 + + Leach, John 17 + + Lehman 47 + + Littlewood 17 + + Lord 56 + + Mallory 48 + + McKean 47 + + Merkli 52 + + Minard 56 + + Mintz 40 + + Mitchell 44 + + Morton, Marcus 43 + + Morton, Gilbert 52 + + Mullenix 18 + + Olin 3 + + Paxson 48 + + Pepoon 41 + + Pierson 18 + + Pratt 57 + + Prentice 20 + + Preston, William 21 + + Preston, Luman 39 + + Pruyn 21 + + Read 46 + + Remillard 21 + + Rockwood 22 + + Scofield 54 + + Shoger 43 + + Sleezer 50 + + Smith 49 + + Spellman 5 + + Spencer 22 + + Springer, Richard 22 + + Springer, James 38 + + Springer, Joseph 49 + + Taylor, Robert 45 + + Taylor, John 23 + + Todd 24 + + Trenter 26 + + Vreeland 26 + + Wallace 26 + + Wann 42 + + Waters 43 + + Watson 53 + + West 27 + + White 28 + + Wilcox 49 + + Wilsey 28 + + Wilson, Andrew 41 + + Wilson, DeWitt 29 + + Wilson, George 30 + + Woodruff 46 + + Wright 31 + + + Preface 2 + + Remarks 57 + + A Bit of History 59 + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. + +The following misprints have been corrected: + "accompauied" corrected to "accompanied" (page 16) + "doctor's" corrected to "doctors" (page 24) + "religous" corrected to "religious" (page 29) + "Novembe" corrected to "November" (page 50) + "Pennsylania" corrected to "Pennsylvania" (page 53) + +Some of the dates seem obviously incorrect; however, they are presented +in this text as they appear in the original. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Company K, Twentieth Regiment, +Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Andrew Brown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT *** + +***** This file should be named 32017.txt or 32017.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/0/1/32017/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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