Military Base Closures: Overview of Economic Recovery, Property Transfer, and Environmental Cleanup

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...was almost a hero before he went to the war. His patriotism was of that uncontrollable variety which could only be satisfied by some kind of active service against rebels. He had lost an eye and an arm years before the war, and was perhaps the only one-armed soldier among the Illinois troops. He was admitted to the service by a special order from Preseldent Abraham Lincoin. He was killed in battle, December 5, 1862, being the only member.of his regiment killed in that fight. A Grand Army Post in LaSalle County has been named in his honor. Capt. John M. Longstreth, of Leroy, went out as captain of Company L in the Fourth California, but was compelled to resign within less than a year. The regiment saw service at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Vicksburg and other places. Company 0, Fifth Cavalry, was organized in the fall of 1861, with Capt. William P. Withers as its first captain. He was followed by Capt. Francis A. Wheelock, and he by Capt. C. W. Wheelock, both of McLean. This Company went out ninety strong and was joined later by thirty recruits. As in the case of most of the cavalry muster-rolls, Bloomington has received about all of the credits, but it was a well known fact that the McLean County cavalry were mostly from the country. Capt. Longstreth's company in the Fourth Cavalry, as well as most of the men from this county in the regiment, were credited largely to Leroy, Cheney's Grove, Hudson, Gridley and other towns. It is quite certain that other cavalry companies were partly made up from all over the county, though it appears to be forever too late to make the requisite corrections. Company K of the Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry was made up at the end of 1861 and at the beginning of 1862, and will appear under the head of...