Civil War Genealogy Database
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51st Illinois Infantry
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Company Unknown
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william simmonds - Unknown
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believe he was a bandsman, but band was dissolved and he may have stayed on in another role
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Company Unknown
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John Tharp - Unknown
Contact Name:
Joshua Loren
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/18/2006
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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.
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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.
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Company B
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George W. Stevens - Private
Contact Name:
Loretta
Contact Email:
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Contact Homepage: msn
Date Added: 1/29/2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Company H
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George A Martin - Unknown
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Joined unit on Oct 4, 1864
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Contact Name:
Michael Martin
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/30/2017
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Company I
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Robert Russel Barber - Corporal
Contact Name:
Joyce Staunton
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/20/2008
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