. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by Review of Reviews Co. CAMP BUTLER, NEAR SPRINGFIELD, ttLINOIS. IN 186-2 May, 18G1, his usefulness had become so apparent that he was made mustering officer and aide, with the complimentary rank of June he was appointed Colonel of the Seventh District Regiment, then at Camp Yates on the State Fair Grounds at the westernedge of Springfield. On June 28th this regiment became the Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers, and on July 3d started for northern
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by Review of Reviews Co. CAMP BUTLER, NEAR SPRINGFIELD, ttLINOIS. IN 186-2 May, 18G1, his usefulness had become so apparent that he was made mustering officer and aide, with the complimentary rank of June he was appointed Colonel of the Seventh District Regiment, then at Camp Yates on the State Fair Grounds at the westernedge of Springfield. On June 28th this regiment became the Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers, and on July 3d started for northernMissouri. This photograph was taken in 1862, after Grant had left Camp Butler and was winning laurels for himself as Com-mander of the District and Army of West KEAClllNG ULT iUK THE Ki\EK These busy scenes were enacted in the late spring of 1861, by five regiments under Swift, who had been ordered bySecretary of War Cameron to occupy Cairo at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and save it from the fate of Sumter,which it was anticipated the Confederate gunboats coming up the Mississippi might visit upon it, and thus gain access to the was tedious work for the men of the Eighth, Ninth. Tenth. Eleventh, and Twelfth Illinois ^olunteers, who, began the building , cleared parade grounds, mounted guns, and threw up fortifications against the attack which never came. In the upper1 170 1
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