History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . 7, Lamm, Myers, Payne, Songer, Thrapp, Delay,Folger, Gibson, Liggett, and others. Some of these representativesdied in service; some returned home full of the honors of a well-rendered service, and are to day prominent among our business andprofessional men. Peter Walsh, the late prosecuting attorney; HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY. 359 William P. Black, of Chi
History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . 7, Lamm, Myers, Payne, Songer, Thrapp, Delay,Folger, Gibson, Liggett, and others. Some of these representativesdied in service; some returned home full of the honors of a well-rendered service, and are to day prominent among our business andprofessional men. Peter Walsh, the late prosecuting attorney; HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY. 359 William P. Black, of Chicago; William M. Bandy, editor of thePost, Danville; W. H. Fithian, of Fithian, Illinois; George , and many are farming in this vicinity. These are of theliving. Among the dead we recall Fitzgeral, Marlatt, Reiser, Snider,Adkins, Barnard, Hyatt, Henderson, Stute, Brewer, Conover, GeorgeJohns and Jas. Culbertson. These died without fear and THE LEFT WING OF THE 37tH ILLINOIS REGIMENT AT PEA RIDGE. Co. K. was distinctively the boys company; its recruits weremost of them under age at the time of enlistment. In the MemorialHall at Springfield, Illinois, are found only two captured flags; onewas taken from the Mexicans at Buena Vista, the other was takenfrom the rebels at the battle of Pea Ridge by the 37th 111. Vol. boys did their share wherever they went. Mustered intoservice on the 18th of September, they entered the Department ofthe Missouri the next day, and took part in Hunters campaignagainst Price in southwestern Missouri, marching to Springfield andback to Laurine Caulmint. In the dead of winter, breaking up theirencampment, they joined in Popes campaign against the the spring of 1862 the 37th set out on the route for northwesternArkansas, and participated in the bloody battle of Pea Ridge on the6th, 7th and 8th of March, which raged with especial fury on the7th, near Lee town, when the 37th re
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