The Prairie Boys Go to War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865

Supplementary Material: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry Roster

 Fifth Illinois Cavalry Roster Rhonda M. Kohl, compiler The following roster of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry offers the most comprehensive data on the soldiers who made up the unit. This information was garnered from several sources, including company and individual muster rolls, soldier descriptive rolls, regimental returns, returns of casualties and discharges , Illinois adjutant general data, census data, first-person accounts, county and family histories, obituaries and grave markers, and the Illinois state archives online muster roll database. Some soldier data may differ from that documented in the Illinois Adjutant General report, because contrary information was located and confirmed through other sources. Dates shown in the table conform to the year/month/day format. The rank column lists the highest rank an individual soldier achieved during the war. The age column reflects the age at enlistment taken from muster rolls and the census. Some men, especially the very old and the very young, gave false ages when they enlisted to thwart age requirements . If the census age differed from that given in the muster rolls, the former was used. All counties are in Illinois, unless otherwise noted. The death column provides the most accurate information on the demise of Fifth soldiers during active service. Data include date and cause of death and, when a soldier died from wounds or was killed in action (KIA), the place he received his mortal wound. In many cases, the cause of death for those who died of disease remains unknown, due to the lack of scientific inquiry and documentation during the war. The Helena hospital records, however, contained diagnoses for many soldiers who died between July 1862 and June 1863, illustrating the types of illnesses these soldiers faced every day of the war, including malaria, typhoid, dysentery and diarrhea, and murine typhus. The men may even have been suffering from simultaneous infections of two or more of the diseases. Many of these illnesses shared common symptoms, including high fever, body rash, debility, and bowel disorders; therefore, the physician ’s diagnosis, which was based only on outward symptoms, should always be questioned. If you would like to know more about an individual soldier or would like to share a soldier’s story, please contact Rhonda Kohl at 5illinois@gmail.com. Kohl is also interested in obtaining any information about the soldiers’ wives during the war and the postwar lives of Fifth soldiers. FiFth illinois Cavalry roster  co name rank county died cause age nat UPDEGRAFF, JOHN J. col WILSON, HALL col SANGAMON CO 30 ENG MCCONNEL, JOHN col SANGAMON CO 39 NY WILEY, BENJAMIN lt col JACKSON CO 40 OH APPERSON, THOMAS A. lt col CUMBERLAND CO 42 VA SELEY, ABEL lt col MARION CO 40 VT BUTLER, SPEED major SANGAMON CO 21 IL HARRIS, EDWARD P. batt adj SANGAMON CO HOWES, THOMAS batt adj ST. CLAIR CO 36 ENG EVANS, SETH R. qm COLES CO 43 ENG HIGGINS, CHARLES W. surgeon MARION CO 37 OH ENSEY, JOHN B. surgeon PIKE CO 38 OH KENDALL, CHARLES B. surgeon COOK CO 24 IL MILLWOOD, TOMPKINS hosp stew COLES CO 27 NY REECE, JAMES M. hosp stew CRAWFORD CO 26 ROTROCK, MANFRED W. hosp stew RANDOLPH CO 18 MS TURNEY, DANIEL M. adj COLES CO 36 KY A ABRAHAM, ALEXANDER pvt CUMBERLAND CO A ADKINS, RODNEY pvt CUMBERLAND CO 36 OH A BADGER, RICHARD C. pvt EFFINGHAM CO 19 NJ A BALLARD, JOHN L. pvt DOUGLAS CO 26 OH A BARDEN, LEWIS pvt CUMBERLAND CO 23 OH A BARNUM, PRESLY E. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 26 IL A BARTLOW, JACOB pvt CUMBERLAND CO 21 PA A BEALS, REUBEN cpl CUMBERLAND CO 38 IN A BELL, HENRY H. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 22 IL A BENNETT, JOHN M. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 44 OH A BENNETT, WILLIAM A. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 23 IN A BOLIN, GEORGE pvt CUMBERLAND CO 64/11/8 disease 18 IL A BOLIN, HENRY pvt CUMBERLAND CO 64/11/13 disease 25 IL A BOLTON, DAVID pvt VERMILLION CO 18 IN A BOYD, JAMES H. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 64/11/20 disease 38 TN A BROWN, CHESTER pvt CUMBERLAND CO 44 OH A BROWN, NICHOLAS pvt CUMBERLAND CO 22 OH A BROWNING, ASBURY J. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 63/4/20 small pox 31 OH A CARRELL, HENRY pvt CUMBERLAND CO 40 IN A CHIDSTER, WILLIAM A. pvt CUMBERLAND CO 18 OH A CHILDERS, JOHN W. bugler COLES CO 20 IL A CLARK, LYMAN major MCDONOUGH...