Pvt. Justice J. Stinger

Pvt. Justice J. Stinger

  

       From the 1860 Census #706/4733
Name - Justice Stringle
Aged - 20 Years
Born - Illinois
Home in 1860 - Plato Township, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Farm Hand
Post Office - Udina

 

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

 Co. B       36th Ill. Dragoon's

   Re-Designated as;

Co. K       15th Ill. Cav.

Plato Cavalry

   Enlisted, Aug. 17, 1861

   Residence,Plato, Ill's.

   Notice: Sept. 11, 1861 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.
   With the Fox River Regiment, in camp below Aurora, all our readers are well acquainted.  From the moment of its conception to the present hour it has gone right on to a full and complete success.  It is now 1200 strong and will, no doubt, be ordered to St. Louis in a few days there to be equipped and put into the Grand Army.

    Mustered In, Sept. 23, 1861
   Discharged, July 18, 1862 due to Disability.
      Known Actions; 
Ft. Henry, Tenn.,       Feb. 7, 1862
Ft. Donnelson, Tenn.       Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.       April 7, 1862