When war came he at once offered his services to the government. He felt his vocation was war until peace should become honorable, and that one who had so fully made arms his study should now make arms his vocation.

He was commissioned Colonel of the 13th, but was retained for a time in the office of the Adjutant-General, and did not join his regiment until the 14th of June, 1861.

A reference to the movements of the Confederates, and a glance at the map will show the importance of Rolla in the early part of the war. It was the terminus of the southwestern branch of the Pacific Railroad and was the point d, appui of southwestern Missouri and Arkansas. On holding it and its approaches, depended questions of subsistence and transportation. There was much to be done, and the military skill and business capacity of the commandant was to be severely tested. Colonel Wyman was ordered to that post and with his regiment arrived there July 7, 1861. For eight months he performed its duties to the satisfaction of government.

The regimental sketch given above shows how much he was called to endure and do, as he led the 13th along its many miles of travel, and into the midst of battle. He became commander of a brigade of picked troops, including his own regiment. As is stated above, he fell at Chickasaw Bayou on the second day of the battle. His remains were brought home for burial. He was a brave man, and competent commander. In battle he was fearless; on the march he was careful for the comfort of his men.

His successor, Colonel Adam B. Gorgas, retained command until the regiment was mustered out of service. The 13th was fortunate in its line officers.

SECOND CAVALRY REGIMENT ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS.

The following is the original roster of this regiment:

Colonel, Silas Noble, of Dixon; Lieutenant-Colonel, Harvey Hogg, of Bloomington; Major, Quincy McNeil, of Rock Island; 2d Major, John J. Mudd, of Chicago; 3d Major, Daniel B. Bush, jr., of Pittsfield; Adjutant, Wm. Staddin; Adjutant 1st Battalion, John R. Howlett, 2d Battalion, Livander W. Patterson, 3d Battalion, Joshua Rodgers; Quarter-Master, Jerome W. Hollenbeck; Commissary, Lewis Aubere; Surgeon, J. B. Cutts; Assistant-Surgeon, Andrew J. Crane; Chaplain James R. Locke.

Co. A-Captain, John R. Hotaling; 1st Lieutenant, Frank B. Bennett; 2d Lieutenant, Albert J. Jackson.

Co. B-Captain, Thomas J. Larrison; 1st Lieutenant, Alfred U. Stone; 2d Lieutenant, Jerome B. Tenney.

Co. C-Captain, Hugh Fullerton; 1st Lieutenant, Calvin Terry; 2d Lieutenant, David Solenberger.

Co, D-Captain, Franklin B. Moore; 1st Lieutenant, George Lebold; 2d Lieutenant, Thomas Brown.

Co. E-Captain, Samuel P. Tipton; 1st Lieutenant, Edwin F. Babcock; 2d Lieutenant, David H. Porter.

Co. F-Captain, Reuben Bowman; 1st Lieutenant, Mellville H. Musser; 2d Lieutenant, Neil T. Shannon.

Co. G-Captain, Benjamin F. Marsh, jr.; 1st Lieutenant, John G. Fonda; 2d Lieutenant, Thomas Logan.

Co. H-Captain, James D. Walker; 1st Lieutenant, Silas C. Higgins; 2d Lieutenant, John C. Reynolds.

Co. I-Captain, Chas. A. Vieregg; 1st Lieutenant, Henry Bantling; 2d Lieutenant, John H. Cacy.

Co. K-Captain, Presley G. Athey; 1st Lieutenant, Thomas W. Jones; 2d Lieutenant, Benjamin F. Garrett.

Co. L—Captain, Sterling P. Delano; 1st Lieutenant, James K. Catlin; 2d Lieutenant, Joseph L. Lawyer.

Co. M-Captain, David Sollenberger; 1st Lieutenant, Henry B. Crawford; 2d Lieutenant, Wm. A. Mattice.

Company A was enlisted in Ogle County, Company B in Logan County, Company C in Mason County, Company D in Madison County, Company E in St. Clair, Company F in Piatt, Company G in Hancock, Company H in McDonough, Company I in Champaign, Company K in Pike, Company L in Adams, and Company M in Mason County.

The Second Illinois Cavalry rendezvoused at Camp Butler in July, 1861, and was mustered into the service August 12, 1861, numbering eleven companies, and the December following Co. M was added, making the regiment twelve companies strong.

Before leaving Camp Butler the regiment was scattered, and in September we find four companies at Metropolis, Ill., six companies at Cairo, Ill., and one at Fort Holt.

Early in the winter following they commenced active service. Co's. A and B participated in the battle of Fort Donelson and the preliminary engagements. At this memorable battle Major, now

Colonel, Mudd was dangerously wounded. A portion of the regiment, under the gallant Lieut.-Col. Hogg, entered the town of Columbus, Ky., before the enemy had fairly left it, and held it until next day, when the gunboats and Gen. Sherman came in and found it occupied. The Donelson battalion took part in the battle of Shiloh and the advance on Corinth.

During the time intervening between the first of June and the last of August, 1862, the regiment was engaged in many skirmishes and encounters with the guerrillas and bushwhackers of West Ten

nessec.

At the battle of Merriwether's Ferry, in August, 1862, Lieuts. Terry and Goodheart, of Co. C, were killed, and at the battle of Middleburg, on the 29th of August, Lieut.-Col. Hogg and Lieuts. Shannon and Lieb, of Co. F, met the same sad fate. To Lieut.Col. Hogg was due to a very large extent the credit for the discipline and efficiency of the regiment, and in his death it suffered an irreparable loss.

In October the regiment routed and broke up Colonel Hayward's band of guerrillas near Woodville, in Hayward County, and participated in the battles of Hatchie and Lagrange. In December it accompanied the advance of Gen. Grant's army as far south as Oxford, Miss., and then returned to Holly Springs to aid in the defence of that place. On the 20th of December, 1862, VanDorn made a descent upon Holly Springs, the infantry, about thirteen hundred strong, surrendering without resistance, the cavalry, five companies from the Second Illinois, made a bold and determined resistance. After many charges and counter charges they broke through the enemy, by whom they were surrounded, and passed out, followed by five times their number.

The regiment lost-Lieut.-Col. McNeil, captured; two Captains and two Lieutenants wounded; thirteen enlisted men killed; fortyone wounded, and ninety-seven prisoners, including sick and wounded. Major, now Colonel, Mudd and Major, now Lieut.-Col., Bush were the only field officers at the post not captured. General Grant complimented the regiment in general orders on this occasion. It joined in the pursuit of Van Dorn in his retreat southward.

At the opening of the new year, 1863, we find them at Memphis,

Tenn.

They were the first cavalry from the army of the Tennessee to join Gen. Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and led the advance during the whole of that campaign. They were in the battles of Richmond, Port Gibson, Champion Hills and Black River, and the siege of Vicksburg with its skirmishes, in one of which Col. Mudd received two severe wounds.

After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment led the advance of Gen. Sherman's army in the march to Jackson, Miss., and with the 6th Missouri cavalry, under Major Fullerton, of the 2d Illinois cavalry, made a raid to the south, destroying the railroad for sixty miles towards New Orleans, driving out the rebels and liberating many conscripts.

In August, 1863, they were ordered to the Department of the Gulf and accompanied Gen. Franklin on his grand expedition up the Teche Bayou and back. They were with Gens. Herron and Dana when they made their move on Morganza, and participated in the many battles and skirmishes occurring at that time. After a great deal of the best fighting, without any apparent object or aim, the expedition returned to New Iberia in December, with a loss of more than one thousand men, the regiment worn out with severe duty and being obliged to subsist on damaged food. By extra care it had been kept up to eight hundred, and was now both the oldest and fullest cavalry regiment in the service, and the best mounted in the Western army, if not in the United States.

In the spring of 1864 the regiment asked the War Department to concentrate the companies, and give them a chance to re-enlist as a regiment. But no attention being paid to the request, and the officers and men feeling that it was a reasonable one, determined to make that a condition precedent to re-enlistment. Some efforts were made, but in only one company was the requisite number obtained, and the regiment seemed likely to be lost to the service after the expiration of their term of enlistment. They suffered as did other cavalry regiments from the habit of detailing orderlies and escorts. Their officers were usually powerless to prevent it, as they were in nearly all cases placed under command of infantry officers who knew little of that arm of the service, and were not careful of its wants.

One battalion, commanded alternately by Major Larrison and Captain More, remained for more than a year in Western Tennessee, where they were engaged in guerrilla hunting. They were with Gen. Smith on his celebrated march to Okalona, upon which expedition Lieut. Catlin, of Co. L, fell into the hands of the enemy, supposed to have been mortally wounded. The Second Cavalry deserves much at the hands of a grateful State, for it has wrought well in its service.

Colonel John J. Mudd was born in St. Charles County, Missouri, January 9, 1820. His father died in 1833, and in the same year his mother with her six children moved to Pike County, Illinois, with the object of raising her children free from the curse of slavery.

In 1849 he made the overland journey to California taking the route by the way of Soda Springs, Fort Hall and the Falls of the Cumberland and Truckee River, and home via the Isthmus and New Orleans. And again in 1850 he made a second journey to the "land of gold," via Salt Lake and Carson River, and returned home in 1851 via the Isthmus and New York. In 1854 he moved to St. Louis and entered into the commission business in the firm of Mudd & Hughes, but in the great financial crash of 1857 failed, and shortly after removed to Chicago where he was engaged in a prosperous business at the breaking out of hostilities in 1861.

He was at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, December 1, 1860. The chivalry were then commencing hostilities and were firing the Southern heart by lynching Northern men and driving off their female teachers. To avoid a difficulty he left the hotel having been informed by his room-mates--Southern men-that the vigilance committee had been notified of his presence. He told them that he would return some day when he could tell for whom he voted without fear of being murdered by a drunken mob. And there, at the close of 1863, he witnessed for the first time in his life an abolition meeting.

In September, 1861, he entered the army as 2d Major of the 2d Ills. Cavalry, served at Cairo, Ills., under Gens. Grant and McClernand, at Bird's Point under Cols. Oglesby and Wallace, and Paducah, Ky., under Gen. Smith.

IIis first encounter with the enemy was on the 9th of February,