law in Columbian Law College, D.
C.

GEORGE CARROTHERS,

A quiet, faithful soldier; present in the battles of Cross Lanes, Port
Republic, and Cedar Mountain; sick in the hospital at Cumberland, Md.,
during the month of March, 1862, therefore absent from the battle of
Winchester; received a severe wound in the ankle, at Cedar Mountain, for
which he was discharged, May 13, 1863; now engaged in mercantile
pursuits.

JAMES W. CHENEY,

Present with the company in the battle of Cross Lanes, from which he
escaped unhurt; soon afterwards sent, sick with Typhoid Fever, to
Charleston, Va., where he lay long apparently at the point of death, and
was given over by the Surgeons, but by much good personal care of his
friend Chipman and others, he recovered from the Pneumonia sufficiently
to be taken home to Illinois, Nov. 1, 1861. There he recruited a
company, and was commissioned as First Lieutenant of Co., D, 49th Reg.
Illinois Volunteers, October 15, 1861. For this position he was
transferred from Co. C.

He was promoted to Captain, Feb. 13, 1862, in place of Captain J. W.
Brokaw, killed in the battle of Fort Donelson.

With this regiment he participated in the following engagements and
campaigns: Fort Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1862;
Pittsburg Landing, April 6 and 7, 1862, at the close of the first day's
battle, being Officer of the Picket Guard between the two armies;
skirmishes at the siege of Corinth, Miss., May 20 and 31, 1862;
Sherman's campaign through Mississippi, in February, 1864; capture of
Fort DeRussy, La., March 14, 1864; Pleasant Hill, La., April 9, 1864;
Clouterville, La., April 23 and 24, 1864; fifty days' skirmish on Red
River, under General Banks, in April and May 1864; Chicot Lake,
Arkansas, June 6, 1864; fight with Forest, at Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21,
1864; the campaign after Price, in Missouri, Nov. and Dec., 1864; and
the battles at Nashville, Tenn., between Hood and Thomas, Dec. 15 and
16, 1864. He was mustered out of the service, with rank of Captain,
March 22, 1865, and is now in the mercantile Firm of Cheney & Son, at
Shelbyville, Ill.

BUEL CHIPMAN,

A Freshman in Oberlin College; detached from the company, by order of
Gen. Shields, April 25, 1862, to form a pioneer corps, and served in
this capacity at the battles of Port Republic and Cedar Mountain;
returned to the company, September 29, 1862; enlisted in Co. A, U. S.
Regular Engineers, per General Order 154 of the Adj