Illinois Volunteer Infantry
By Henry J. Aten, 1901
Page 364
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Corporal Warren Tippey, aged twenty-one, enlisted from Fulton county, and was chosen corporal at the organization of the company. He served with the command until killed at the battle of Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 19, 1864. Is buried at No. 1913, in the national cemetery at Marietta, Ga.
Corporal Abner Eveland, aged forty-one, enlisted as a farmer from Fulton county, and was chosen corporal at the organization of the company. He served through the Kentucky campaign, and was discharged for disability, April 22, 1863. He returned to Fulton county and engaged in farming, and died near Sepo, Ill., in about 1875.
Corporal Joseph K. Bishop, aged thirty-three, enlisted from Mason county, and was chosen corporal at the organization of the company. He served to the close of the war and was mustered out with the regiment. He returned to Mason county, and was living in Havana when he was killed by lightning November, 1888.
Corporal Ellis Bowman, aged thirty-eight, enlisted as a farmer from Fulton county, and was chosen corporal at the organization of the company. He served through the Kentucky campaign, and was discharged for disability, February 8, 1863. He returned to Illinois, resumed farming and died near Sepo, in Fulton county, in about 1875.
Corporal Thomas C. Eaton was born in the County of Kent, England, September 29, 1838, and emigrated with his parents to Illinois in October, 1850. He enlisted as a farmer from Mason county, and was chosen corporal at the organization of the company. He drove team occasionally on the Kentucky campaign and while at Nashville, Tenn., he was detailed to drive the brigade headquarters team, and drove the team through all the campaigns the command was engaged in, and was mustered out with the regiment. He returned to Mason county and engaged in farming and grain dealing, has seven children and thirteen grand-children, owns a thousand acres of land, has served on the drainage commission, and has long been the treasurer of the regimental association. He resides in Havana, Ill.
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