From collection Member List
Major, 15th Illinois Infantry; wartime trunk in collections of Gettysburg National Military Park. According to GAR information: Mustered April-May, 1861 into Co. E, and elected lieutenant; appointed adjutant with rank of captain, General Turner's staff Dec. 1861; moved as adjutant with rank of major, General Hulburt's staff Feb. 1862; made acting adjutant general and quartermaster Nov. 1862; brevet colonel and brigadier general; mustered out July 1865. "Slightly wounded in the leg" and horse "killed by a shell" at Pittsburgh Landing, April 1862.
