Monday, January 24, 2011

The 51st Illinois regiment . . .

. . . which was to leave Chicago last week for Cairo, contained a Rock Island company, commanded by Rev. J. T. Whitson, of Port Byron, and then company was raised in that vicinity.  Our sister county is well represented in the army.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 1

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