Was born in Washington County, Pa., April 29, 1833. Enlisted
as a private in Company I of the 11th Illinois Infantry, August 14, 1861, and
along with his regiment was immediately sent to the front, and took a prominent
part in the battles of forts Henry, Donelson, and the siege of Corinth; was
three times wounded, one of the bullets which struck his left hip has never
been extracted; was once captured and taken to Nashville, but recaptured after
10 days’ confinement; was mustered out and honorably discharged November 25,
1862, at Cairo, Ills., on surgeon's certificate of disability. Comrade Iliff is
a member of Woodruff Post, No. 113, G. A. R., of Wasburn, Woodruff County,
Ills., of which place he is a resident.
SOURCE: William H. Ward, Editor, Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1886, p. 395
