. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of the Unionforces, and believing that the war was near its close, Gen-eral Ross deemed it his duty to resign his commission inthe army and give his attention to his private affairs,which had been greatly neglected since he entered tinservice. He left the army August 3, 1863. Since thewar he has been a breeder of fine stock at Avon, Illinois,and at Iowa City, Iowa. He was collector of internalrevenue in Illinois; was a member of the RepublicanConvention of [872 that nominated General Grant for asecond term. In 1868 and 1
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of the Unionforces, and believing that the war was near its close, Gen-eral Ross deemed it his duty to resign his commission inthe army and give his attention to his private affairs,which had been greatly neglected since he entered tinservice. He left the army August 3, 1863. Since thewar he has been a breeder of fine stock at Avon, Illinois,and at Iowa City, Iowa. He was collector of internalrevenue in Illinois; was a member of the RepublicanConvention of [872 that nominated General Grant for asecond term. In 1868 and 1872 he was an unsuccessfulcandidate for Congress. He served as president of the Avon District Agricul-tural Board, vice-president of the Illinois State FarmersAssociation, and president of the Red-Polled Cattle Club of America. General Ross has been twice married, and has sevenchildren now living (December, 1892),—Joseph II., CharlesII., Adele, Cora R. Clarke (wife of C. W. Clarke), FrankP., Willis W., and Ossian M. Ross. 282 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). MAJOR ABRAHAM PETERS, Major Abraham Peters was born in Skibbereen,county of Cork, Ireland, June 20, 1822. He emigratedto America in the fall of 1845, and settled in a natural inclination for a military life, at thebreaking out of the war with Mexico he enlisted in June,1846, in the First Illinois Volunteers, commanded byColonel John J. Hardin, who was killed at Buena Peters served through the Mexican War, and wasmustered out of service in February, 1848. At the commencement of the War of the Rebellion,Major Peters was residing at Logansport, Indiana, andon the organization of the Thirty-fifth Indiana Infantry he enlisted as a private, being mustered in at Indianapolis,September 1, 18(51. From that of private, in acknowledg-ment of his abilities as a thorough soldier, he was pro-moted successively through all the intermediate grades ofrank to that of major of the regiment, which
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