Pvt. Benjamin F. Webster

Pvt. Benjamin F. Webster

Attended Elgin High School.

       From the 1860 Census #334/2474
Name - Benjamin Webster
Aged - 13 Years
Born - New York
Home in 1860 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.

       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1861 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 27, 1861.

1862 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 7, 1862.

       From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois

Co. C       141st Ill. Vol. Inf.

100 Days Service

   Enlisted May 17, 1864.
   Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
   Mustered In June 16, 1864 at Camp Kane in Elgin.
   Garrison duties at Fort Halleck guarding the rail line where it crossed the Mississippi River at Columbus, Ky.
   Remarks - Died at Columbus, Ky. July 30, 1864

       Notice: July 6, 1864 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.
   FROM THE 141ST.-We learn that the 141st, our pet regiment of "hundreddazers,' has gone into camp at Columbus, Ky., but how long they will remain there is with us a mere matter of conjecture.  On their way down to Cairo, over the Illinois Central railroad, the heat was so oppressive that several of the boys fainted away.  There have been two deaths in the regiment since they left Elgin, one, TIMOTHY HAYES, a private in Capt. Herrington's company, drowned while bathing in the Mississippi river, and the other, a Swede whose name we did not learn of Capt. Beech's company of the tremens.  We hope to hear often from our 141st.

   Buried in Elgin City Cemetery.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Re-interred at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill. when the City cemetery closed.
Location - GAR section (Lot 8)

       From the Bluff City Cemetery files;
Lot – 11 * Section – GAR * Grave – 9 * Interment No. 16836

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

                Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

Militia forms filed for Elgin in 1861 & 1862.