. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . hsuffering greatly from shattered health. Of the riot at Charlestown,Coles county. 111., the report of Maj. and Acting Judge-Advocate A. to President Lincoln, says : That the insurrection was not morewidely extended and did not assume more threatening proportions isdoubtless owing to the vigorous means taken by Lieut-Col. Oakes andCol. Mitchell to crush it at its inception. On April 29, 1879, having
. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . hsuffering greatly from shattered health. Of the riot at Charlestown,Coles county. 111., the report of Maj. and Acting Judge-Advocate A. to President Lincoln, says : That the insurrection was not morewidely extended and did not assume more threatening proportions isdoubtless owing to the vigorous means taken by Lieut-Col. Oakes andCol. Mitchell to crush it at its inception. On April 29, 1879, having beenin service for over thirty-three years. Col. Oakes was placed on the re-tired list on his own application. He belongs to the Military Order ofForeign Wars, to the Aztec Club of 1847, the Military Order of the LoyalLegion, the Grand Army of the Republic,—George Meade Post No. i ofPhiladelphia, Pa., the Order of the Indian Wars of the United States,the United States Cavalry Association, the Military Service Institutionand the National Geographic Society. Among his classmates at WestPoint were the following who attained distinction on one or the other Biographical Sketches 31)1. side of the great national conflict: Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, Gen. Stone-wall Jackson. Gen. l)al>ncy H. Maury, Gen. Geo. E. Pickett and Stiiiicnian. Odell, William S., a well known attorney of Washington, D. C, wasborn in the year 1844. On Aug. 7. 1861, he enlisted in Hendricks county,Ind., as a private in Company B, 7th Indiana infantry. On Dec. 13, i862, he was promoted to corporal on the tield atFredericksburg, and again on the tield atSpottsylvania, May 9, 1864, he was promotedto sergeant, l)oth promotions liaving l)eenmade for gallant and soldierly conduct. The7th Indiana was with the Army of the Po-tomac throughout its term of service, andamong the engagements in which participated were Greenbrier, Win-chester. Kernstown, Port Republic, Cedarmountain, Rappahannock Station
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