Showing posts with label Julius Raith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julius Raith. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Colonel Julius Raith's Meerschaum Pipe: Visitors Center Museum, Shiloh National Military Park


Colonel Raith brought this Meerschaum pipe from Germany.  It was picked up by a Confederate cavalryman on the battlefield and returned to Raith’s grandson.

Colonel Raith was mortally wounded leading a charge of his Illinois troops near Shiloh Church on April 6.

SOURCE: Display at the Visitors Center Museum, Shiloh National Military Park.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Headquarters of Col. Leonard F. Ross: Duncan Field, Shiloh National Military Park


U. S.

* * *

HEADQUARTERS, 3D BRIGADE,
1ST DIVISION,
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE;
COL. L. F. ROSS, 17TH ILLINOIS.

ESTABLISHED MARCH 21ST,
1862

* * * * *

COL. JULIUS RAITH,
COMMANDING,
APRIL 6TH, 1862.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Mortuary Monuments of Shiloh National Military Park

Commanding the Confederate Army

Commanding the 2nd Division,
Army of the Tennessee

Commanding the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division of Bragg’s Corps,
Army of the Army of the Mississippi

Commanding the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
Army of the Tennessee

Colonel Everett Peabody, 25th Missouri Infantry, US
Commanding the 1st Brigade, 6th Division
Army of the Tennessee

Friday, June 22, 2012

Julius Raith


COL. RAITH.

Julius Raith was born in Germany in 1819, and came to this country with his father's family in 1836. They settled in St. Clair county, Illinois. When about 18 years of age, he went to Columbia, Monroe county, where he learned the trade of a millwright, and became an expert in that occupation. On the breaking out of the Mexican war he enlisted in Col. Bissell's regiment, and was commissioned as Captain, winning laurels at Buena Vista and in all the engagements of his regiment, which showed itself to be one of the most gallant and meritorious in that campaign. Soon after Captain Raith's return from Mexico, he married a daughter of Hon. John D. Hughes, of Belleville, taking up his residence in St. Louis, where he remained in the pursuit of his occupation as millwright, until 1860, when he removed to Illinois, and built a large flouring mill in O'Fallon, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, which is still operated in the name of Julius Raith & Co. He constructed some of the best and most noted mills in Missouri and Illinois, and was widely known to millowners and mechanics in the West.

During the summer of 1861, Capt. Raith raised the 43d Regiment, and entered the service as its Colonel in October. At the battle of Shiloh, Col. Raith was in command of the 3d brigade, composed of his own regiment, the 17th, 29th and 49th Illinois. Whilst leading his command, on the first day of the conflict, he was wounded by a minie ball in the leg above the knee. He lay on the battle-field for twenty-four hours, when he was picked up in a feeble and exhausted condition. He was placed on board the steamer Hannibal, and on the way to the Hospital at Mound City, Illinois, suffered the amputation of his leg. He died from tetanus, or lock-jaw, produced by his injuries.

Colonel Raith's wife died in the latter part of 1859, being survived by two sons, one of whom is now ten and the other seven years of age.

SOURCE: James Grant Wilson, Biographical Sketches Of Illinois Officers Engaged In The War Against The Rebellion Of 1861, p. 43

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Mortuary Monument of Colonel Julius Raith: Shiloh National Military Park




U. S.

COLONEL JULIUS RAITH, 43RD ILL.

COMMANDING

3RD BRIGADE,
1ST DIVISION,
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED HERE
AT 10 A. M., APRIL 6, 1862
DIED ON STEAMER HANNIBAL
APRIL 11, 1862


  • For a biographical sketch of Julius Raith see HERE.