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51st Illinois Infantry
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william simmondsRank Unknown
believe he was a bandsman, but band was dissolved and he may have stayed on in another role
Contact Name: tony daly
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Date Added: 3/7/2013

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John TharpRank Unknown
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Contact Name: Joshua Loren
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Date Added: 4/18/2006

Company A
Harrison Renner - Private
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: Thomas
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Date Added: 2/5/2007

Company B
Lorenzo Dow Brewer - Private
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: Mark
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Date Added: 6/20/2011

Company B
George W. Stevens - Private
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Contact Name: Loretta
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Contact Homepage: msn
Date Added: 1/29/2011

Company C
Joseph W Lyman - Private
Enlisted as a Private on 1 October 1861.
Died as a prisoner on 12 March 1864 at Richmond, VA.
Contact Name: Eric Stone
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Date Added: 5/7/2010

Company C
Nathaniel Boutelle Petts - Captain
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 Drake
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Date Added: 7/12/2008

Company G
thomas hayes - Private
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 kolb
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Date Added: 1/27/2006

Company H
George A MartinRank Unknown
Joined unit on Oct 4, 1864
Contact Name: Michael Martin
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Date Added: 4/30/2017

Company I
Robert Russel Barber - Corporal
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Contact Name: Joyce Staunton
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Date Added: 6/20/2008

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