Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . sh, Wiscon-sin, continuing in its public schools the education he had begun inhis home in Scotland. When the war came on he was studying lawin the office of Gabriel Bouck, and but for the changes caused by thatgreat event would probably have devoted his talents to law through-out his career. But when his preceptor made a dramatic appeal forvolunteers after the firing on Fort Sumter, Stuart was one of thefirst to place his name on the enlistment roll. He was mustered inas a priva
Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . sh, Wiscon-sin, continuing in its public schools the education he had begun inhis home in Scotland. When the war came on he was studying lawin the office of Gabriel Bouck, and but for the changes caused by thatgreat event would probably have devoted his talents to law through-out his career. But when his preceptor made a dramatic appeal forvolunteers after the firing on Fort Sumter, Stuart was one of thefirst to place his name on the enlistment roll. He was mustered inas a private of Company B, Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteers, andwhen the regiment went south he was first sergeant. From the battleof Perryville, Kentucky, in October, 1862, until the close of the war,he made a brilliant record that entitled him to one promotion afteranother, until he left the service as captain. He participated in thewestern and southern states campaigns, including the well known en-gagements of Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Hoovers Gap, Chicka-mauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Kenesaw. JOHN C. AMES CHICAGO AXD COOK COUNTS 841 Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and other battles on the Atlanta cam-paign ; the march to the sea and the battle of Bentonville and the sub-sequent march of Shermans army through the Carolinas and Vir-ginia to Washington. After the war he returned home, and aftera brief service as right-of-way agent for the Northwestern Railroad,entered the postal service, which turned out to be his life Stuart is a member oi the Union Veterans League, theUnited Spanish War Veterans, the L(jyal Legion, the Grand Army ofthe Republic. Lie married October 3, 1870, Miss Marie Roberts,daughter of one of the first settlers of Iowa City, Iowa. They reside at 1419 West Monroe street. John C. .Vmes, collector of customs for Chicago, ex-United States marshal for the northern district of Illinois, and an active and promi- nent Republican leader of t
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