| COL. P. SIDNEY POST. | LIEUT. COL. C. H. FREDRICK. |
| LIEUT. COL. CLAYTON HALL. | MAJ. J. M. STOOKEY. |
| DR. H. J. MAYNARD. | ADJT. FRANK CLARK. |
| CAPT. MINNETT. | CAPT. J. C. HENDERSON. |
| Lith. by Wm. BRADEN & Co. Indianapolis. | |
THE HISTORY OF THE FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT
ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS,
OR A THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGN THROUGH MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI,
TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY,
TOWNS, SKIRMISHES AND BATTLES—INCIDENTS, CASUALTIES
AND ANECDOTES MET WITH ON THE WAY; AND
EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR
LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAITS OF THE
OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT.
BY DR. D. LATHROP.
HALL & HUTCHINSON,
PRINTERS AND BINDERS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
1865.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eighthundred and sixty-five,
BY DR. DAVID LATHROP,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, forthe District of Indiana.
HALL & HUTCHINSON, STEREOTYPERS, PRINTERS AND BINDERS.
INTRODUCTION.
Early in the month of May, 1861, C. H. Frederick and David McGibbon,two prominent citizens of St. Louis, Mo., called on General Lyon, andproffered to raise a regiment of infantry, to serve for three years, orduring the war. C. H. Frederick, having previously served his countryin a military capacity, and being familiar with military tactics, wasdeemed by General Lyon, a very suitable person to engage in theundertaking, and immediately authorized to recruit and organize aregiment, and to have command of the same.
Colonel Frederick, at the breaking out of the rebellion, was engaged ina lucrative business in St. Louis, but at the call of his country hesacrificed his profitable interests, and gave his energies to thepreservation of the Union. After an immense amount of difficulty,Colonel Frederick and his co-worker, Major McGibbon, working night andday, succeeded in enlisting enough loyal friends in and around St.Louis, to enable them to accomplish their purpose. By the middle ofJune three companies, and a nucleus of the fourth, was collected andrendezvoused at the St. Louis arsenal. Captains Hale, Renfrew, Veatch,and Elliott commanding.
About this time Captain S. W. Kelly was induced to become a recruitingofficer, to assist in filling up the regiment. By the 24th of June hehad recruited seventy men in his own neighborhood, and on that day anelection was held, and S. W. Kelly was unanimously elected Captain,John Kelly First Lieutenant, and H. J. Maynard Second Lieutenant. Onthe 6th day of August, 1861, Captain Kelly numbered on the muster rollof his company, (F,) at the St. Louis Arsenal, seventy-one men; andthrough his influence three other companies had joined in theorganization of the regiment. Captain Stookey, of Belleville, Ill., hadrecruited a large company of men for the service, and was now inducedto join this regiment, thus making nine companies in rendezvous at theArsenal on the 6th day of August.
As soon a