Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . the most celebratedmilitary pageant ever seen on the western hemis-phere. .\t Washington transportation was fur-nished to the regiment to Chicago but the musterout occurred in the capital city. Of the originalten himdred and ten men who formed the OneHundred and Illinois at the be-ginning of its service in 1862 but ninety-five weremustered out at Washington, D. C, the othershaving been killed in battle, died from ordischarged because of disabilitv prior to thattime. Mr. .Swarthout participated in
Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . the most celebratedmilitary pageant ever seen on the western hemis-phere. .\t Washington transportation was fur-nished to the regiment to Chicago but the musterout occurred in the capital city. Of the originalten himdred and ten men who formed the OneHundred and Illinois at the be-ginning of its service in 1862 but ninety-five weremustered out at Washington, D. C, the othershaving been killed in battle, died from ordischarged because of disabilitv prior to thattime. Mr. .Swarthout participated in seventeenof the most important engagements of the warbeside many skirmishes. .A week prior to thesurrender of \icksburg he became ill withtyphoid fever and after the surrender of the citybe was taken to the hi>s]iital at Memphis, beingthere graiUed a furlough. He returned to hishome in St. Charles, Illinois, and by the exten-sion of his furlough for thirty days he reinainedat home for about three months. He then re-joined his regiment at Larkinsville, .Mabama, and. ISAAC SWARTHOUT AND FAMILY PAST AND PRESENT OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY. 323 continued at the front until hostilities had ceasedand the flag of the Union was planted in thecapital of the Southern Confederacy. Following his return home Mr. Swarthout se-cured employment in a foundry in St. Charles,Illinois, where he remained for three years andin 1868 he removed to a farm in Harlem town-ship, on which he spent five years. In Septem-ber, 1872, he located in the village of Harlem,where he embarked in general merchandizing andwas also appointed to the position of conducted his store until December 6, 1904,when he sold out the business and resigned theposition of postmaster because of failing had been very successful as a merchant andhad carefully conducted his efforts along honor-able and enterprising business lines, so that aliberal patronage was accorded him and he gainedthereby a gratifying competen
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