. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . , Illinois ; also served as enrolling officerunder provost-marshal, Third Congressional District,Illinois. Under the call for troops of December, 1864, recruitedCompany B, One Hundred and Forty-seventh IllinoisInfantry, and commissioned captain March 13, 1865, torank February 18, 1865; promoted major July 13, assigned in March to First Brigade, SecondSeparate Division, Army of the Cumberland; in skir-mishes at Spring Place and Pullens Ferry, Georgia. On May 12, 1865, General Wofford, commanding Con-federate
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . , Illinois ; also served as enrolling officerunder provost-marshal, Third Congressional District,Illinois. Under the call for troops of December, 1864, recruitedCompany B, One Hundred and Forty-seventh IllinoisInfantry, and commissioned captain March 13, 1865, torank February 18, 1865; promoted major July 13, assigned in March to First Brigade, SecondSeparate Division, Army of the Cumberland; in skir-mishes at Spring Place and Pullens Ferry, Georgia. On May 12, 1865, General Wofford, commanding Con-federate States forces in North Georgia, surrendered hiscommand of several thousand men to General Judah, atKingston, which included all rebel troops in NorthGeorgia not included in Johnstons surrender to as aide-de-camp to Colonel Lewis Merrill inparoling said troops. Regiment moved to Albany, Geor-gia, in July, and to Savannah in November. In commandof regiment while at Albany, and for a short time serve. 1as sub-commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, V reed-. men, and Abandoned Lands. At Savannah served onmilitary commission convened under Special Order , District of Savannah, General J. M. Brannan com-manding. Discharged, with regiment, February 6, 1866,at Springfield, Illinois. In February, 1867, appointed postmaster at Morrison,Illinois, on recommendation of Hon. E. B. Washburn,and served until March, 1887 ; carried on insurance busi-ness at same time, and afterwards at Joliet, Illinois, andTacoma, Washington, and is now special agent in Cook-County, Illinois, for the Phcenix, of Hartford. He was commander of Post 118, G. A. R., at Morrison,for four years, and delegate to National Encampment atDenver, in 1883, and Milwaukee, 1889. Assistant adju-tant-general, Department of Washington and Alaska,, 1891 ; member of National Council of Adminis-tration, same department, [892. In Illinois National Guard, commissioned first lieuten-ant Company I, Sixth Regim
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