From collection Member List
Private, first lieutenant, captain, 140th Illinois; colonel, 150th Illinois Infantry, 1864-5. (Unfinished Catalogue) [Photo, Carlisle, uniformed]; PGD magazine says private May 24, 1864 for five months; four months later, enlisted 150th Illinois; elected captain [more likely lt. colonel] 24th February 1865. Commissioned colonel the following December. Mustered out January 16th, 1866.
Charles Franklin Springer. DAR# 161. "Lawyer. A.B. 1858; A.M.. 1861. Born, August 10, 1834, Sullivan, Ind. Member of Constitutional Convention of Illinois, from Madison county, 1870; lieutenant-colonel and colonel One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 1864-65. Married, October. 1867, Miss Adelaide Isbell. Died, November 13, 1871, Edwardsville, Illinois." Son of Rev. Thomas B. Springer, Morgan Co. Illinois. Initiated September, 1856 after the founding. Helped reestablish the chapter, June 8, 1857. Chapter treasurer June 8, 1857 to July 1, 1858. Read law in Edwardsville; admitted to the bar 1859. Brother of William McKendree Springer, initiated into Beta Theta Pi at Asbury in 1856.
Charles Franklin Springer. DAR# 161. "Lawyer. A.B. 1858; A.M.. 1861. Born, August 10, 1834, Sullivan, Ind. Member of Constitutional Convention of Illinois, from Madison county, 1870; lieutenant-colonel and colonel One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 1864-65. Married, October. 1867, Miss Adelaide Isbell. Died, November 13, 1871, Edwardsville, Illinois." Son of Rev. Thomas B. Springer, Morgan Co. Illinois. Initiated September, 1856 after the founding. Helped reestablish the chapter, June 8, 1857. Chapter treasurer June 8, 1857 to July 1, 1858. Read law in Edwardsville; admitted to the bar 1859. Brother of William McKendree Springer, initiated into Beta Theta Pi at Asbury in 1856.