Company Unknown
Private
Peter Erwin was my Great, great Grandfather. His oldest som William Peter Erwin, Color Sgt., enlisted in the 115th Ill. Reg and was killed at the Battle of Chattanoga.
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46th Illinois Infantry
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Company A
Private
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Company A
Private
Israel is my great-great grandfather. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1837 and relocated to Stephenson County Illinois in the early 1850s. He was a wheelwright and mechanic who worked on and made wagons. He returned to Stephenson County until he died in 1905.
Company A
Private
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Company B
Private
46 Illinois Infantry. 46th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Company B, Private, UNION U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Company B
Private
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Company B
Private
46th Infantry Company B From Rock Grove, IL After War lived in Vermont, IL rest of life.
Company B
Private
My great grandfater.
Enlisted when he was 16 years old.
Company B
Private
Wounded at Shiloh, mustered out 12 July, 1862. Re-enlisted, K co. 46th Illinois Inf.
For brothers see also David Jerome Warner; K co. 46th Illinois Inf. and Daniel Warner; 12th Iowa Inf.
All three at Shiloh. William wounded in arm and leg, Daniel caputred and died of disease in Macon, GA., and David served through to mustering out at Baton Rouge, LA.
Company C
Corporal
Like any Info on Cpl. Johann Wolff of company C 46th Ill.
Company F
Sergeant
My Great Great Grandfather Jonathan Blair enlisted at age 41 and left his wife and 6 children on the farm in Clay Co., Illinois. He trained at Camp Butler near Springfield and was engaged with the 46th Ill. at the Battle of Ft. Donelson in Tenn. He also fought at Shiloh, but contracted chronic dysentery and died at home in Illinois on August 24, 1862.
Company G
Musician
Died at National Military Home in Marion, Indiana in 1904.
Company G
Private
My husbands great grand uncle
Company H
Private
No family notes have been added.
Company I
1st Sergeant
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Company K
Private
Great grandfather's half brother
Company K
Corporal
For brothers see also; William Wallace Warner; 46th Illinois Inf. and Daniel Warner; 12th Iowa Inf. All three at Shiloh; William wounded in arm and leg (serious), Daniel captured and died of disease in Macon, GA. David served through till mustered out in Baton Rouge, LA.