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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
One Hundred Forty-first Infantry.-Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas Clark; Adjutant, Edward C. Lovell; Quartermaster, Alonzo H. Barry; First Assistant Surgeon, Francis C. Hageman; Chaplain, Samuel S. Kimball; Captains, Philip H. Carr, Alexander Grimes, Samuel H. Hunter, Bryant D. Beach, Cnarles Herrington, Robert H. Winslow and John Gillman; Lieutenants, Thomas W. Tefft, Charles D. F. Smith, Michael J. Dunne, Hiram Sargent, Edward W. King, Charles S. Gregg, James B. Robinson, Henry A. Ferson, George E. Gillman, Daniel W. Coan, Chester Stuart, Henry C. Dodge and Charles Ferson.
One Hundred Forty-seventh Infantry.-Lieutenant, George Gillman.
One Hundred Fifty-third Infantry.-Adjutant, John Gillman; Quartermaster, N. J. Wheeler; Captain, Edward C. Lovell; Lieutenants, Michael J. Dunne, Oliver P. Chisholm.
One Hundred Fifty-sixth Infantry.-Captains, Thomas L. Johnson, Washington I. Kerry; Lieutenants, John W. Blake, Richard F. Mc-Cabe.
Eighth Cavalry.-Colonel, John F. Farns-worth; Major, William G. Conklin; Adjutants, Robert W. Sill, Edmund Gifford and John Fi-field; Quartermaster, George G. Stevens, James S. Van Patten and Bradiey L. Chamberlain; Surgeons, Abner Hard, Samuel K. Crawford and Eugene Nelson; Captains, Patrick G. Jennings, Rufus M. Hooker, John M. Southworth, Hiram L. Rapelye, A. Levi Wells, Elon J. Farnsworth and Francis M. Gregory; Lieutenants, Bryant Beach, Leonard Y. Smith, S. Spencer Carr, Charles Harrison, Azer W. Howard, Aaron W. Chase, Nelson L. Blanchard, Benton Van Dyke, John Weed, John Cool, Judson A. Stevens and Ralph B. Swarthout.
Tenth Cavalry.-Major, George A. Willis; Captains, William Duncan, Albert Collins and Daniel Dynan; Lieutenants, Charles M. Harvey, John H. McQueen, Jerome B. Marlett and George Gunter.
Twelfth Cavalry.-Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas W. Grosvenor; Captain, Franklin T. Gilbert; Lieutenants, Charles O'Connell and Theodore G. Knox.
Thirteenth Cavalry.-Captain, Robert H. Fleming.
Fifteenth Cavalry. - Lieutenant-Colonel, Franklin T. Gilbert; Majors, Samuel B. Sherer and George I. Willis; Captains, Albert Collins, Christian B. Dodson, William C. Wilder, Thomas J. Beebe, Albert Jencks, George I. Willis, Francis E. Reynolds, William Duncan and Daniel Dynan; Lieutenants, Ebenezer C. Lither-land, Azariah C. Ferris, Samuel Chapman, Nel-con Dedrick, John C. Bundy, John S. Durand, Henry C. Padelford and Edward M. Barnard.
Sixteenth Cavalry.-Major, Charles H. Beers; Chaplain, Cornelius R. Ford; Captains, William P. Gibbs, John Q. Hattery.
Seventeenth Cavalry.-Surgeon, Samuel K. Crawford; Lieutenants, Charles D. Larribee and James B. Reed.
Second Artillery.-Lieutenant, Jabez H. Moore.
Renwick's Elgin Battery. - Captains, George W. Ren wick and Andrew M. Wood; Lieutenants, Caleb Rich, John Short, Lorin G. Jeffers, Joel H. Wickers, Henry E. Tower, Waldo W. Paine, James N. Boutwell and William C. Clift.
Twenty-ninth United States Regiment Colored Troops.-Lieutenant, John J. Gosper.
Thomas Clark, of Geneva, was Captain and Frank Clark Lieutenant in a colored regiment, and James H. Mayborne, Esq., was a Paymaster in the army with rank of Major.
The General Field Officers, whose homes were in Kane County, were: Brigadier-General John F. Farnsworth; Brigadier-General Elon J. Farnsworth; Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth Cavalry and brevetted Brigadier-General Thomas W. Grosvenor; Colonel Fifty-second Infantry and brevetted Brigadier-General John S. Wilcox, and Colonel Eighth Illinois and brevetted Brigadier-General William F. Lynch. By this list we find that Kane County furnished two Brigadier-Generals, three Brevet Brigadier-Generals, five Colonels, eleven Lieutenant-Colonels, fourteen Majors, fifteen Surgeons, ten Adjutants, eleven Quartermasters, two Chaplains, eighty-five Captains, and 129 Lieutenants-in all, 287 commissioned officers.
Of one of these Quartermasters, Captain Charles B. Wells, it is known that over $26,-000,000 of Government property and money passed through his hands; yet he entered the army when in the comfortable financial circumstances of a very fairly successful lawyer, a.nd he surrendered his commission and lived and died in the same honorable and happy condition with no breath of suspicion that the slightest portion of this vast amount was ever appropriated to his personal use. His record is also that of his companions in arms from
