Showing posts with label 83rd IL INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 83rd IL INF. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2014

83rd Illinois Infantry

Organized at Monmouth, Ill., and mustered in August 21, 1862. Moved to Cairo, Ill., August 25-29, thence to Fort Henry September 3, and to Fort Donelson, Tenn., September 5. Attached to garrison of Forts Henry, Donelson and Heiman, District of Columbus, Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1862. District of Columbus, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to January, 1863. District of Columbus, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. Garrison of Clarksville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 5th Sub-District, Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE. – Garrison duty at Forts Heiman (2 Companies), Henry (3 Companies) and Donelson, Tenn., till September 20, 1863. Expedition from Fort Donelson to Waverly, Tenn., October 22-25, 1862. Near Waverly and Richland Creek October 23. Cooley's Mill October 23. Near Garrettsburg, Ky., November 6. Fort Donelson Road January 2, 1863. Cumberland Iron Works, repulse of Forest's attack on Fort Donelson, February 3. Right wing moved to Clarksville, Tenn., September 20, 1863. Garrison duty at Clarksville and Fort Donelson and operating against guerrillas in Northwest Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky till December, 1864. Action at Budd's Creek, Clarksville, October 28, 1863. Pine Bluff, Tennessee River, August 19-20, 1864. Garrison duty at Nashville till June, 1865. Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 26, and discharged at Chicago, Ill., July 5, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 82 Enlisted men by disease. Total 121.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1082

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

John M. Wallace

JOHN M. WALLACE, a successful and enterprising farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section 36, Green Bay Township, was born January 8, 1833, in Ross County, Ohio. His parents, John and Jane (McCune) Wallace, had a family of six children – Sarah, Caroline, Mary, Elizabeth, John and Ellen. John M. was two years old when his parents removed with their family to Jasper County, Indiana, where the father died some six years later. After the father’s death the mother and her children settled in Cumberland, Pennsylvania. John M. Wallace was reared to maturity on a farm, receiving his education at the common schools. At the age of eighteen years he went to Clarke County, Ohio, remaining there three years, when he went to Knox County, Illinois. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E., Eighty-third Illinois Infantry. He was at Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, Clarksville, and in the campaign from Nashville to Florence, Alabama. He was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, June 26, 1865, and mustered out of the service at Chicago, Illinois when he returned to Knox County, Illinois. He remained there till the fall of 1868, when he came to Clarke County, Iowa, locating in Green Bay Township, on the farm where he still resides. He has brought his land from a wild state into a well-improved farm, has erected a substantial residence, which is comfortably furnished throughout, and has good barns and out-buildings for the accommodation of his stock. His farm now contains 225 acres of choice land, under the best of cultivation, and he is numbered among the representative men of his township, where he has made his home for so many years. Mr. Wallace was married October 19, 1865, to Mrs. Priscilla (Westfall) Hall, of Knox County, Illinois, and to this union have been born five children – Frank C., John E., Jenny M., Harvey E. and Frederick E. (twins). Mrs. Wallace has two children by her first marriage – George W. and Ella S. In politics Mr. Wallace is a Republican. He has served efficiently as township trustee for two or three terms.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 338-9

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Christopher C. Perdue

CHRISTOPHER C. PERDUE, farmer, section 22 Liberty Township, was born in West Virginia, October 11, 1841, the youngest of ten children. When he was six years old his father died, and at the age of eleven his mother died. He was then practically thrown upon his own resources. August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Eighty third Regiment. His brother Daniel was in the same company. He was engaged in the third battle of Fort Donelson in February, 1863. In that battle Daniel was shot through the body, and only through the careful nursing of his brother was his recovery made possible. He was honorably discharged July 5, 1865, and returned to Warren County, Illinois, and afterward came to this county. Isaiah, member of the Ninth Iowa, died in Arkansas. Thomas, in Thirty-second Iowa, now lives in Nebraska. Christopher worked on rented land until he purchased his present home in the spring of 1869.  August 29, 1866 he was married to Miss Nancy La Follette, daughter of William La Follette, who settled in Liberty Township in 1855. Both parents are deceased, the mother dying in February, 1868, and the father in February, 1881, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Perdue was born in Boone County, Indiana, September 21, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Perdue have nine children James W., Francis M., Ella May, Clarence E., Hattie V., Giles C., Susan A., Martha J. and Mary E., twins. Ella May died at the age of two years. Mr. Perdue commenced here on wild land. He first purchased eighty acres and now owns 185, 120 under cultivation. He has held every position of public trust in the township except justice of the peace. In politics he is identified with the Greenback party.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 306-7

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Robert C. Grigg


ROBERT C. GRIGG, physician and surgeon and druggist, residing in Murray, was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky, May 14, 1838, a son of Joseph W. Grigg, of Warren County, Illinois, who was a native of Virginia. Robert C. spent his youth on a farm, receiving a good education in Hedding Seminary (now college) in Abingdon, Illinois.  He began the study of medicine with Dr. Madison Reece, of Abingdon, and later attended Rush Medical College, of Chicago, Illinois, from which institution he graduated February 1, 1871. The same year he came to Murray, Clarke County, and immediately began the practice of medicine, he having previously practiced for a time with his preceptor in Abingdon, Illinois.  Doctor Grigg was united in marriage January 9, 1872, to Miss Maria Dolph, and they are the parents of two children – Rubie Olive and Milton Fowler. The doctor still follows his profession, and has built up a good practice. He engaged in the drug business in 1879, building his two-story brick business house which is 22x72 feet, in 1881. He carries a full line of drugs, medicines, paints and oils, books and stationery, cutlery, wall paper and fancy goods, and is carrying on a good business.  During the late war the doctor enlisted in Company H, Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, for three years, and participated in the battles of Garretsburg, Fort Donelson, and other engagements. He was wounded at Fort Donelson, which crippled him for life. Doctor Grigg is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Grand Army of the Republic.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 246-7

Friday, August 10, 2012

Milton J. Cochran


MILTON J. COCHRAN, who makes his home on section 20, Troy Township, is a native of Ohio, born in Allen County, September 28, 1828. His father, Benjamin F. Cochran, was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, now deceased. He was a pioneer of Allen County, Ohio, his family being the fifth to settle in that county. He was a millwright by trade, and built the old Indian Mill at Wapakoneta, Ohio. Milton J. Cochran, our subject, was reared and educated in the common schools of his native county, remaining there till 1856.  He was united in marriage April 3, 1851, to Miss Christena Ellsworth, and of the six children born to this union five are still living – Isaac V., Bascom E., Santford W., Pascal E. and Mary C. A son, John W., died at the age of thirteen years. Mr. Cochran went to Knox County, Illinois, in 1856, remaining there till 1876, when he settled in Troy Township, in Clarke County, Iowa, where he has since made his home.  During the late war of the Rebellion he enlisted in the service of his country in Company I, Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, and during his term of service did much skirmishing. In politics Mr. Cochran casts his suffrage with the Republican party.  He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 297

Friday, September 11, 2009

Virgil W. Earp

Private, Co. C, 83rd Illinois Infantry

Personal Characteristics:
Residence: Pella, Marion County, Iowa
Age: 19
Height 5’ 10½”
Hair: Light
Eyes: Blue
Complexion: Light
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Farmer
Nativity: Morgan County, Kentucky

Service Record:
Joined When: July 26, 1862
Joined Where: Monmouth, Illinois
Period: 3 Years
Muster In: August 21, 1862
Muster In Where: Monmouth, Illinois
Muster Out: June 26, 1865
Muster Out Where: Nashville, Tennessee
Muster Out By Whom: Capt. Chickering


SOURCE: Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database