Kane County, IL in the Civil War
Here's a list of the men from Kane County who served in the Civil War and held commissioned rank. This list shows the highest rank these men attained without mentioning the successive promotions they may have had.
©Transcribed by Kim Torp
| 13th Regiment Infantry: | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel: | Benamin F. Parks |
| Captains: | George H. Gardner, Ethan A. Pritchard, Edwin Went |
| Lieutenant: | Jesse D. Pierce |
| 23rd Infantry: | |
| Lieutenant: | Anthony McBriarty |
| 36th Infantry: | |
| Colonels: | Nicholas Greusel, Silas Miller, Benjamin F. Campbell |
| Lieutenant Colonels: | Edward S. Joslyn, Albert Jencks, Porter C. Olson |
| Majors: | Alonzo H. Barry, George D. Sherman, George G. Buddolph |
| Surgeons: | Delos W. Young, Jethro A. Hatch, Sidney B. Hawley |
| Adjutant: | George A. Willis |
| Quarter-master: | Isaac N. Buck |
| Captains: | Melvin B. Baldwin, Leverett M. Kelley, William Dugan, Aaron C. Holden |
| Lieutenants: | Edward S. Chappel, Leroy Salisbury, Joseph M. Walker, George P. Douglas, Owen Hughes, William S. Smith, Samuel Hitchcock, Lewis C. Belden, Aaron C. Holden |
| 42nd Infantry: | |
| Colonel: | Edgar D. Swain |
| Major: | Henry K. Wolcott |
| Captains: | Ogden Lovell, John S. Hedges, Joseph Hudson |
| Lieutenants: | Wesley P. Andrews, Charles E. Smiley, Joseph Voller, Charles A. Livingston |
| 46th Infantry | |
| Lieutenant: | William H. Howell |
| 52nd Infantry | |
| Colonels: | Isaac G. Wilson, John S. Wilcox |
| Lieutenant-Colonel: | Jerome D. Davis |
| Surgeons: | Leland H. Angel, Edgar Winchester |
| Chaplain | Benjamin Thomas |
| Adjustants: | Ethan J. Allen, Edward S. Wilcox, Charles H. Hill |
| Quartermasters: | Charles B. Wells, Fulton Gifford |
| Captains: | Smith G. Ward, George E. Young, Charles Barnett, Jacob Grimes, D. Carlos Newton, Francis H. Bowman, William H. Wilcox, Jay Hamilton, Alvah P. Moffatt, Luther C. Lee, Maurice J. McGrath, Henry C. WIlliamson, Joseph T. Brown, Thomas H. Thompson, Amos W. Welburn, Alphonso Barto, Henry Newton Patchin |
| Lieutenants: | Charles R. White, Thomas W. Mack, George L. Kinnear, Harvey O. Perry, Lewis H. Evarts, Joseph J. Kessler, Lawrence W. Wolcott, George Rice, Arthur P. Vaughn, James Davidson, William Shattuck, Cornelius Snyder, Charles T. Orr, Alfred Billings, Elijah Perrigo, John W. Acker, G. Lucius Beckley, LeRoy Powers, Henry S. Doty, John M. Vote, Charles Isbell |
| 55th Infantry: | |
| Captain: | Charles Tazewell |
| Lieutenants: | William R. Halligan |
| 58th Infantry: | |
| Colonel: | William F. Lynch |
| Lieutenant-Colonel: | Jonathan Kimball, John Murphy |
| Major: | Thomas Newlan |
| Quartermaster | Nicholas T. Roche |
| Surgeons | Henry M. Crawford, Emery A. Merrifield, George F. Heideman |
| Captains: | David J. Lynch, Gustav C. Kothe, Philip R. Heelan |
| Lieutenants: | Robert H. Winslow |
| 72nd Infantry: | |
| Lieutenants: | Benjamin F. Leonard |
| 89th Infantry | |
| Major: | Bruce B. Kidder |
| Surgeon: | Samuel F. Hance |
| Captain: | John W. Warren |
| Lieutenants: | John B. Watkins, Robert Miller, Jacob N. Hopper, George M. White, Oscar C. Pease |
| 105th Infantry: | |
| Captain: | John M. Smith |
| Lieutenants: | James S. Hasburgh |
| 124th Infantry: | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel | Adin Mann |
| Major: | Rufus Pattison |
| Surgeon: | Leland H. Angel |
| Captains: | Edwin F. Stafford, William B. Sigley, Reese L. Merriman, John W. Kendall |
| Lieutenants: | Fernando C. Van Vlack, James H. Blackman, William H. Anderson, Justin D. Andrews, Theodore Potter, Greenville A. Spear, Freeman L. Campbell, Christopher H. Kellar, Henry J. Brockway, Osborn Wilson, Joy J. Tarbel, George M. Cronk |
| 127th Infantry: | |
| Major: | Frank C. Gillitt |
| Surgeon: | Anson L. Clark |
| Adjutant | Addison A. Keyes |
| Quartermaster | Samuel W. Durand |
| Captains | John S. Riddle, William Warner, James F. Richmond, Charles Schryver, Frederick A. Raymond, Nelson H. Merrill, John H. Lowe, Alexander C. Little |
| Lieutenants: | Thomas Clark, Lucian B. Patchin, Frederick Knight, Ira F. Hall, Jeremiah Evarts, Alfred Darnell, Horace Perry, Benjamin C. Wilkins, Edgar Percival, Amasa Stuart, James S. Soper |
| 132nd Infantry: | |
| Captain | Charles Barker |
| Lieutenants: | H.A. Hinckley |
| 141st Infantry: | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel: | Thomas Clark |
| Adjutant: | Edward C. Lovell |
| Quartermaster: | Alonzo H. Barry |
| First Assistant Surgeon: | Francis C. Hageman |
| Chaplain: | Samuel S. Kimball |
| Captains: | Philip H. Carr, Alexander Grimes, Samuel H. Hunter, Bryant D. Beach, Charles Herrington, Robert H. Winslow, John Gillman |
| Lieutenant: | Thomas W. Tefft, Charles D.F. Smith, Michael J. Dunne, Hiram Sargent, Edward W. King, Charles S. Gregg, James B. Robinson, Henry A. Ferson, George E. Gillman, Daniel W. Coan, Chester Stuart, Henry C. Dodge, Charles Ferson |
| 147th Infantry: | |
| Lieutenant: | George Gillman |
| 153rd Infantry: | |
| Adjutant: | John Gillamn |
| Quarter-Master: | N.J. Wheeler |
| Captains: | Edward C. Lovell |
| Lieutenants: | Michael J. Dunne, Oliver P. Chisholm |
| 156th Infantry: | |
| Captains: | Thomas L. Johnson, Washington I. Kerry |
| Lieutenants: | John W. Blake, Richard F. McCabe |
| 8th Cavalry | |
| Colonel: | John F. Farnsworth |
| Major: | William G. Conklin |
| Adjutants: | Robert W. Sill, Edmund Gifford, John Fifield |
| Quartermaster: | George G. Stevens, James S. Van Patten, Bradley L. Chamberlain |
| Surgeons: | Abner Hard, Samuel K. Crawford, Eugene Nelson |
| Captains: | Patrick G. Jennings, Rufus M. Hooker, John M. Southworth, Hiram L. Rapelye, A. Levi Wells, Elon J. Farnsworth, Francis M. Gregory |
| Lieutenants: | Bryant Beach, Leonard Y. Smith, S. Spencer Carr, Charles Harrison, Azer W. Howard, Aaron W. Chase, Nelson L. Blanchard, Benton Van Dyke, John Weed, John Cool, Judson A. Stevens , Ralph B. Swarthout |
| 10th Cavalry | |
| Major: | George A. Willis |
| Captains: | William Duncan, Albert Collins, Daniel Dynan |
| Lieutenants: | Charles M. Harvey, John H. McQueen, Jerome B. Marlett, George Gunter |
| 12th Cavalry: | |
| Lieutenant- Colonel: | Thomas W. Grosvenor |
| Captain: | Franklin T. Gilbert |
| Lieutenants: | Charles O'Connell, Theodore G. Knox |
| 13th Cavalry: | |
| Captains: | Robert H. Fleming |
| 15th Cavalry: | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel: | Franklin T. Gilbert |
| Majors: | Samuel B. Sherer, George I. WIllis |
| Captains | Albert Collins, Christian B. Dodson, William C. Wilder, Thomas J. Beebe, Albert Jencks, George I. Willis, Francis E. Reynolds, William Duncan, Daniel Dynan |
| Lieutenants: | Ebenezer C. Litherland, Azariah C. Ferris, Samuel Chapman, Nelcon (alternate spelling: NELSON given by Marlene Johnson, his gg-gd) Dedrick, John C. Bundy, John S. Durand, Henry C. Padelford, Edward M. Barnard |
| 16th Cavalry: | |
| Major: | Charles H. Beers |
| Chaplain: | Cornelius R. Ford |
| Captains: | William P. Gibbs, John Q. Hattery |
| 17th Cavalry: | |
| Surgeon: | Samuel K. Crawford |
| Lieutenants: | Charles D. Larribee, James B. Reed |
| 2nd Artillery: | |
| Lieutenants: | Jabez H. Moore |
| Renwick's Elgin Battery: | |
| Captains: | George W. Renwick, Andrew M. Wood |
| Lieutenants: | Caleb Rich, John Short, Lorin G. Jeffers, Joel H. Wickers, Henry E. Tower, Waldo W. Paine, James N. Boutwell, William C. Clift |
| 29th United States Regiment Colored Troops: | |
| Lieutenant: | John J. Gosper |
The General Field Officers, whose homes were in Kane County, were:
Brigadier-General John F. Farnsworth
Brigadier-General Elon J. Farnsworth
Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth Cavalry and brevetted Brigadier-General Thomas W. Grosvenor
Colonel 52 Infantry and brevetted Brigadier-General John S. Wilcox
Colonel 8th Illinois and brevetted Brigadier-General WIlliam F. Lynch.
By this list, we find that Kane County furnished two Brigadier-Generals, three Brevet Brigadier- Generals, five Colonels, eleven Lieutenant-Colonels, fourteen Majors, fifteen Surgeons, ten Adjutants, eleven quartermasters, two Chaplians, eight-five Captains and 129 Lieutenants - in all, 287 commissioned officers.
Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (Edited by Newton Bateman, LL.D.
and Paul Selby, A.M.) and History of Kane County Edited by Gen. John S. Wilcox. Chicago; Munsell Publishing Company,
1904, pp. 691-692
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