. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. y relinquished command of thecompany late in the year of 1890. At this time he re-ceived the appointment of Assistant Surgeon with therajik of Captain and on February 27th, 1891, was pro-moted to Surgeon of the regiment and commissioned aMajor. This posi
. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. y relinquished command of thecompany late in the year of 1890. At this time he re-ceived the appointment of Assistant Surgeon with therajik of Captain and on February 27th, 1891, was pro-moted to Surgeon of the regiment and commissioned aMajor. This position he retained for more than eightyears resigning on August 2nd, 1899. No appointmentwas made to fill this vacancy until December 29th, 1900,when Major Anthony was prevailed upon to again acceptthe commission. Lieut. Lawrie was commissioned Captain; 2ndLieut. Haskell promoted to the rank of ist, and Sergt. Dillon, 2nd Lieut. Captain Lawrie was twice re-elect-ed, retaining command of the company until January 5th1899 when he was elected Major of the regiment andplaced in command of the third battalion. Lieut. Hask-ell and Dillon retained their respective rank for a periodof nearly four years. In the month of October, 1894 istLieut. Haskell tendered his resignation and Lieut. Dillonsucceeded him, Edwin S. Johnson being elected 2nd. COL. (lEORGE M. MOULTOX,Inspector General. Illinois National Guards. 33 Lieut., resigning in A[)ril 1897, when J. Frank Wahl wascommissioned as such. In the spring of 1898, Lieut. Haskell organized acompany of volunteers which was a part of Geiil Clen-denins provisional regiment, but was not called into act-ive service. iii< 34 History of Companies I and E. CHAPTER IV. Returning to the affairs of Company I, it is foundseveral changes have occurred in the commissioned offi-cers. Upon the expiration of his term of service as 2ndLieut., in April 1889, John Colebaugh severed his con-nection with the Guard and during the following monthHarry T. Gu
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