51st Illinois Infantry
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william simmonds Rank Unknown |
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believe he was a bandsman, but band was dissolved and he may have stayed on in another role
Contact Name: tony dalyContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 3/7/2013
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John Tharp Rank Unknown |
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No comments
Contact Name: Joshua LorenContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 4/18/2006
| Company A | |
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Harrison Renner - Private |
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Harrison Renner was in the Civil War for about nine months near the end of the war. He moved to Laclede County, Missouri in 1865 after the war.
Contact Name: ThomasContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 2/5/2007
| Company B | |
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Lorenzo Dow Brewer - Private |
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He served from 1862-1865 Discharged for disabillity. Was wonded at the battles of Resaca Georgia, and Franklin Tenn. At Franklin he was wounded in the arm and his arm had to be amputated.
Contact Name: MarkContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 6/20/2011
| Company B | |
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George W. Stevens - Private |
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No comments
Contact Name: LorettaContact Email: Show Email
Contact Homepage: msn
Date Added: 1/29/2011
| Company C | |
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Joseph W Lyman - Private |
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Enlisted as a Private on 1 October 1861.
Died as a prisoner on 12 March 1864 at Richmond, VA.
Contact Name: Eric StoneDied as a prisoner on 12 March 1864 at Richmond, VA.
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Date Added: 5/7/2010
| Company C | |
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Nathaniel Boutelle Petts - Captain |
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Nathaniel B. Petts was my great-grandfather and served in Company C and receiving a medical discharge in late 1962. He re-enlisted twice more during the war. About 1870 he moved from his home in Watseka, Illinois to Windsor, Henry County Missouri. Then to rural Benton County, Missouri and then to Warsaw, Missouri and died there in 1917 of a heart attack. Part of his family continued to live in Warsaw, including my self, my brother, James and my sister, Ann. See 'Private Smith's Journal' The Lakeside Press, 1963 for a detailed account of this Company during the war.
Contact Name: Bob DrakeContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 7/12/2008
| Company G | |
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thomas hayes - Private |
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Thomas Hayes was born in Ballyagran, Limerick, Ireland. While on furlough in late March 1864, he drowned in the Chicago River. He is buried with his family at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.
Contact Name: ron kolbContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 1/27/2006
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George A Martin Rank Unknown |
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Joined unit on Oct 4, 1864
Contact Name: Michael MartinContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 4/30/2017
| Company I | |
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Robert Russel Barber - Corporal |
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No comments
Contact Name: Joyce StauntonContact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 6/20/2008