Louisville, and two days later arrived at Chicago for final muster and discharge. At this date it numbered, all told, only 686 men of the 1,350 which it mustered at one time in 1861.

The following is a list of the larger battles in which the 10th was engaged: New Madrid, Island No. 10, Tiptonville, Farmington, Corinth (May 8th and 28th, 1862), Tuscumbia, Columbia, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost and Rocky Face, Resaca (May 14th and 15th and October 14, 1864), Rome, Dallas, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Nickojack, Chattahoochie River, Peach Tree Creek, Before Atlanta (thirty days), Jonesboro, Snake Creek Gap, Oliver Station, Pooler, Savannah, Rivers' Bridges, Bennaker's Bridge, Cheraw, Fayetteville, Bentonville.

ELEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

The 11th regiment was organized at Springfield, and was mustered into the three months' service on the 30th of April, 1861-two weeks after the President's first proclamation calling for volunteers. following is the original roster:

The

Colonel, W. H. L. Wallace; Lieutenant-Colonel, J. Warren Fillers; Major, Thomas E. G. Ransom.

Co. A--Captain, Smith D. Atkins; 1st Lieutenant, M. E. Newcomer; 2d Lieutenant, Silas W. Fields.

Co. B-Captain, Fred. W. Shaw; 1st Lieutenant, Greenbury L. Foot; 2d Lieuten. ant, J. M. McClanahan.

Co. C-Captain, A. L. Rockwood; 1st Lieutenant, S. P. Jones; 2d Lieutenant, J. C. Jewell.

Co. D-Captain, Garrett Nevius; 1st Lieutenant, R. A. Bird; 2d Lieutenant, Wm. D. E. Andrews.

Co. E-Captain, T. E. G. Ransom; 1st Lieutenant, Lloyd D. Waddell; 2d Lieutenant, Alvin H. Morey.

Co. F-Captain, Wm. T. Hopkins; 1st Lieutenant, Samuel Elton ; 2d Lieutenant, George S. Doane.

Co. G-Captain, J. Warren Filler; 1st Lieutenant, John H. J. Lacy; 2d Lieutenant, Geo. W. Parks.

Co. H-Captain, Theodore C. Gibson; 1st Lieutenant, Benjamin F. Hotchkiss; 2d Lieutenant, Douglas Hapeman.

Co. I-Captain, Wm. L. Gibson; 1st Lieutenant, Joseph E. Skinner; 2d Lieutenant, E. A. Mullett.

Co. K-Captain, Henry H. Carter; 1st Lieutenant, John Dick; 2d Lieutenant, James Ireland.

For three months the regiment was stationed at Villa Ridge, Ill., and Bird's Point, Mo., doing garrison duty. During this term the lowest aggregate was 882 and the highest 933. On the 30th of July it was re-mustered for the three years' service, with the following roster:

Colonel, W. H. L. Wallace; Lieutenant-Colonel, J. Warren Fillers; Major, T. E. G. Ransom; Adjutant, Cyrus E. Dickey; Quartermaster, Guyan J. Davis; Surgeon, Owen M. Long; 1st Assistant Surgeon, Oliver G. Hunt; 2d Assistant Surgeon, Geo. H Dewey; Chaplain, Benjamin H. Pierson.

Co. A-Captain, Smith D. Atkins; 1st Lieutenant, Guyan J. Davis; 2d Lieuten ant, James O. Churchill.

Co B-Captain, Fred W. Shaw; 1st Lieutenant, Alfred R. Wilcox; 2d Lieutenant, Samuel B. Dean.

Co. C-Captain, George C. McKee; 1st Lieutenant, Geo. S. Doane; 2d Lieutenant, H. F. McWilliams.

Co. D-Captain, Wm. D. E. Andrews; 1st Lieutenant, Henry H. Doane; 2d Lieutenant, Orrin C. Towne.

Co. E-Captain, Lloyd D. Waddell; 1st Lieutenant, Harrison C. Vore; 2d Lieu tenant, Samuel C. Moore.

Co. F-(Formerly Co. K, 109th) Captain, Samuel O. Lewis; 1st Lieutenant, Rob ert B. Bartleson; 2d Lieutenant, Andrew Colvin.

Co. G-Captain, Lucius Rose; 1st Lieutenant, Wm. J. Boyce; 2d Lieutenant, Wm. M. Murray.

Co. H-Captain, James H. Coates; 1st Lieutenant, William Duncan ; 2d Lieutenant, Douglas Hapeman.

Co. I—Captain, Greenbury L. Fort; 1st Lieutenant, John H. Widmer; 2d Lieutenant, Benjamin F. Blackstone.

Co. K-Captain Henry H. Carter; 1st Lieutenant, Nathan C. Kenyon; 2d Lieutenant, Theo. H. Walrod.

At the time of re-muster the regiment numbered 288. During the four months succeeding it was recruited to an aggregate of 801, in the meantime doing garrison and field duty, and it participated in various expeditions to New Madrid, Charleston, Bloomfield, Columbus and Sikeston. February 2, 1862, it embarked for Fort Henry and took part in the campaign against that place. On the 11th of the same month it moved toward Fort Donelson, and bore a gallant and bloody part in the siege and capture of that place, losing 329 killed, wounded and missing, out of about 500 engaged. On the 5th of March it embarked for Savannah, Tenn., and on the 6th and 7th of April took part in the battle of Shiloh, where it lost twentyseven killed out of one hundred and fifty engaged. It next partici

pated in the siege of Corinth, and thence marched to Jackson, Tennessee, camping there till August 2d, taking part, in July, in expeditions to Trenton and Lexington, Tennessee. On the 2d of August, it was sent to Cairo to recruit. It remained here and at Paducah until November 20th, in the meantime engaging in various. expeditions to Clarksville, Tennessee, and Hopkinsville, Kentucky. At the latter date it started for Lagrange, Tennessee. From this time till January 12, 1863, it participated in the campaign in Northern Mississippi, having a sharp skirmish with the enemy at Tallahatchie. Halting at Memphis, on the 17th it embarked for Young's Point, where it remained till February 11th, when it moved to Lake Providence. It made headquarters here till April 20th. On the 23d, the 389 "faithful men" of the 109th Illinois Infantry [Vide history of the latter regiment] were transferred to the 11th. April 26th the 11th marched to the rear of Vicksburg, arriving May 18th. On the 19th and 22d, it participated in assaults upon the enemy's works, and then in the advance siege works till the rebel surrender. During the assaults and siege it lost one field officer (Colonel Garrett Nevius) killed and three line officers and forty men killed and wounded. On the 17th of July it moved with an expedition to Natchez, participating in another to Woodville, Mississippi, returning to Vicksburg, October 12th, making headquarters there till July 29, 1864. In the meantime it took part in various expeditions, skirmishing at Liverpool Heights, February 5th, Yazoo City, March 5th, and at several other places. July 29th, it moved to Morganzia, and remained there. till September 3d, thence by water, to the mouth of White River, Arkansas. On the 18th of October, it moved to Memphis, Tennessee, returning to White River on the 27th. From this time it was engaged in "general campaigning," till February 4, 1865, when it moved to Dauphin Island, and from the 17th of March till April 12th, was engaged in operations against Mobile, on the latter date marching into and taking possession of the city. It had a part in the investment and siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, and in the assault on the latter. On the 27th of May it left Mobile for New Orleans, from thence to Alexandria, La., where it remained till June 22d, when it was sent to Baton Rouge, where it was mustered out of service on the 14th day of July, 1865, and was sent thence to Springfield, where it was paid off and finally discharged.

Killed on the field and died of wounds received... .149.

Aggregate in three months' service.....

Total...

.2 875

The following general officers have been in the regiment: General W. H. L. Wallace, General T. E. G. Ransom, General Smith D. Atkins.

The following field officers of other regiments were members of the 11th Colonel Hotchkiss, Colonel Hapeman, Major Widmer, Colonel H. H. Dean, Major S. B. Dean, Lieutenant-Colonel McCaleb, Colonel G. L. Fort. Line officers made from this regiment to other regiments, thirty-three. The following is the roster at muster out:

Colonel, Jas. H. Coates; Lieutenant-Colonel, N. C. Kenyan; Major S. O. Lewis; Adjutant, A. A. Thompson; Quartermaster, J. W. Brewster; Surgeon, O. G. Hunt; Assistant Surgeons, Myron Hopkins, W. D. Briggs.

Co. A-Captain, O. Ingersoll; 1st Lieutenant, Jerome H. Liveland; 2d Lieutenant, R. J. Hurlbut.

Co. B-Captain, I. D. Vore; 1st Lieutenant, John Spire; 2d Lieutenant, Geo. D. Carrington.

Co. C-Captain, Geo. S. Doane; 1st Lieutenant, John W. Reading; 2d Lieutenant, Wm. J. McIntyre.

Co. D-Captain, Ira Beddo; 1st Lieutenant, Wm. H. Stalker; 2d Lieutenant, Aaron Bayless.

Co. E-Captain, S. Bostwick; 1st Lieutenant, Stevenson.

; 2d Lieutenant, John

Co. F-Captain, Robert Bartleson; 1st Lieutenant, Andrew Calvin; 2d Lieutenant, John W. Carnes.

Co. G-Captain, Wm. S. Johnston; 1st Lieutenant, Wm. C. Ginter; 2d Lieutenant, Richard Hughes.

Co. H-2d Lieutenant, M. D. Ayres.

Co. I-Captain, C. A. Peirronet.

Co. K-Captain, Henry C. Mansfield; 1st Lieutenant, Frank Ricken; 2d Lieutenant, Thomas Williamson.

Colonel Nevius entered the service as Captain of "Co. D," in the 11th, when it enlisted in the three months' service, his commission bearing date May 14, 1861. When the regiment enlisted for three years he was chosen Major and commissioned July 30, 1861. the changes following the promotions of Colonel W. H. L. Wallace and T. E. G. Ransom, he became Lieutenant-Colonel, his commis

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PATRIOTISM OF ILLINOIS.

sion bearing date February 15, 1862. Upon the promotion of Colo nel Ransom to Brigadier-General, November 29, 1863, he became Colonel of the regiment.

He was a brave, competent commander, and maintained the morale the 11th had acquired under Wallace and Ransom.

In the fearful assault of May 22d, when Ransom led his brigade, the 116th, 11th, 95th and 72d Illinois against the defences of Vicksburg [see Vol. I., pp. 468-9], where that brigade won deathless fame, when Humphrey went down stunned, where Wright was mortally wounded, Colonel Nevius was killed, and no truer patriot or braver soldier went down in that terrific charge.

His remains were borne to Rockford and buried, June 4, 1863. The last letter he is known to have written to a Rockford friend, said: “I am not afraid of death-I may fall at any moment on the field of battle. I think I am ready to meet my fate if such it should be."

TWELFTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

The 12th regiment was mustered into the three months' service at Springfield, May 2, 1861, and was one of the six regiments organized under the call for 75,000 troops. Its original roster was as follows:

Colonel, John McArthur; Lieutenant-Colonel, Aug. L. Chetlain; Major, Wm. D Williams.

Co. A-Captain, Joseph Kellogg; 1st Lieutenant, John Noyes, jr. ; 2d Lieutenant, Arthur C. Ducat.

Co. B-Captain Phineas B. Rust; 1st Lieutenant, Tyler Hale; 2d Lieutenant, Henry Stephenson.

Co. C-Captain, Samuel Frazier; 1st Lieutenant, William Maum; 2d Lieutenant, Joseph Kirkland,

Co. D-Captain, Wm. D. Williams; 1st Lieutenant, David Benson; 2d Lieutenant, Quincy McNeill.

Co. E-Captain, Vincent Ridgely; 1st Lieutenant, John W. Fisher; 2d Lieutenant, Nathaniel Sanford.

Co. F-Captain, Lucies M. Rose; 1st Lieutenant, Wallace Campbell; 2d Lieutenant, J. Bates Dickson.

Co. G-Captain, Chas. H. Brookins; 1st Lieutenant, S. B. Whetmore; 2d Lieutenant, Guy C. Ward.

Co. H-Captain, Wm. T. Swain; 1st Lieutenant, Thompson Gordon; 2d Lieuten ant, John M. Mills.

Co. I-Captain, Frank B. Ferris; 1st Lieutenant, Geo. L. Paddock; 2d Lieutenant, G. Gilbert Gibon.