Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Capt. Amos W. Wilbern (Welbern)


Capt. Amos W. Wilbern (Welbern)

       From the Dundee Reserved Militia Rolls
1861 Dundee Class II Reserve Militia
   Signed the roll July 31, 1861.

       From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois
I Co. 52nd Ill. Vol. Inf.
Three Years Service
The Lincoln Regiment
   Mustered In Oct. 25, 1861 at Camp Lyon in Geneva, Ill's as a Sgt.
   Home of record listed as Dundee, Ill's.
   Issued .58 Rifled musket.
   Re-enlisted Jan. 8, 1864 as a Veteran and paid a $300 Veterans Bounty, then sent home on a 30 day Veterans Furlough.
   Promoted March 27, 1864 to 2nd Lt.
   Promoted Dec. 17, 1864 to Capt.
   Mustered Out July 6, 1865 in Louisville, Ky.
Known actions;
Ft. Donelson, Tenn.            Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.                    April 6, 1862
Iuka, Miss.                       Sept. 19, 1862
Corinth, Miss.                  Oct. 3, 1862
Lay’s Ferry. Ga. May 15, 1863
Resaca, Ga.                    May 13, 1864
Nickajack Creek, Ga.      July 2, 1864
Jonesboro, Ga. Aug. 31, 1864
Allatoona Pass, Ga. Oct. 5, 1864
Decatur, Ga.                 Oct. 26, 1864
Rome Cross Roads, Ga. Nov. 10, 1864
Savannah, Ga. Nov. 23, 1864
Columbia, SC               Nov. 24, 1864
Bentonville, NC March 19, '65
 
   Listed in the 1867 Dundee Directory as a Cheese Maker.
      
       From the Post #49 Files
   Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 Feb. 4, 1879.
 
   Member in good standing 52nd Ill. Veteran's Association, Sept. 1897 living in Elgin.

       Obit: Oct. 13, 1906 issue The Elgin Daily News.
   Capt. A.W. Wilbern, for nearly seventy years a resident of this vicinity, died at 1:30 Friday afternoon at his residence, No. 606 North Spring street.  Tuesday the veteran was seized with a severe stroke of paralysis, from the effects of which he never rallied, and the end came yesterday.
   Mr. Wilbern was born July 13, 1836, at Champaign, Clinton county, New York and when but two years of age came west with his parents.  The family settled at Dundee, and there he grew to manhood.  When the civil war broke out he was one of the first to enlist at Dundee, and he served throughout the war, returning home after four years of strife as captain of company D, 52nd Illinois volunteers.  After the war he returned to his home in Dundee, and in 1867 he was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Stone, of Barrington.
   The captain then came to Elgin to reside, and engaged in the restaurant business, being for many years the manager of the Town's block restaurant.  He later left that and conducted a boot and shoe store, in which business he was last engaged.
   Five children were born to Capt. and Mrs, Wilbern only two of whom, Mrs. Amy Erickson, of Elgin and Mrs. Edwin Wolaver, of Dundee, are living.  He also leaves several brothers and one sister, Mrs. Mary Hubbard, of Marble Rock, Iowa.  He was a member of the G.A.R., of the Knights Templars, and a life member of Loyal L. Munn chapter, R.A.M.
 
       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Interred at - Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.
Location - Lot 1, Section 3
Issued a Gov't Headstone
 


Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.



Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.
From the collection of Ken Gough
1861 Springfield Rifled Musket

Used with permission Dan Mallett
Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.

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