Pvt. William Henry Tuck

Pvt. William Henry Tuck

 
       From the 1850 Census #122/964
Name - William Tuck
Aged - 8 Years
Born - Pennsylvania
Home in 1850 - Plato Township, Kane Co., Ill.

       From the 1860 Census #730/4894
Name - William Tuck
Aged - 19 Years
Born - Pennsylvania
Home in 1860 - Plato Township, Kane Co., Ill.

       From the Academy Civil War Monument
Attended the Elgin Academy.

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

Co. K       52nd Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

The Lincoln Regiment

   Listed home of record as Plato, Ill's.
   Mustered In Oct. 25, 1861 at Camp Lyon in Geneva, Ill's.
   Issued .58 Rifled musket.
   Messed with Charles C. Robinson.
   Wounded in Action at Shiloh.
   Died of his wounds June 1862.
   Buried at Elgin City Cemetery.
Known actions;
Ft. Donelson, Tenn. Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.         April 6, 1862

   Re-interred at Center Cemetery in Plato, Ill. when the City Cemetery closed.

Roll of Honor has him buried at Bluff City Cemetery with a date of death as April 26, 1862.
Bluff City Cemetery has a file card listing date of death as May 26, 1862 at St. Louis, Mo., aged 21 years interred at Lot 48, Section 6 with a private purchase headstone.  Note that this is the same location given for Rueben W. Tuck.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

From the collection of Ken Gough

1861 Springfield Rifled Musket