1st Lt. John Short

1st Lt. John Short

Washington Continental Artillery

   Listed in the 1859-1860 Elgin Directory as a Cabinet Maker living in the Union Hall Block.

       From the 1860 Census #328/432
Name - John Short
Aged - 31 Years
Born - Maine
Home in 1860 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Cabinet Maker

       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1861 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 27, 1861.

Old Continentals Militia 

(Home Guard) from 1861 to 1862.

       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1862 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 7, 1862.

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

Elgin Guards

   Enlisted June 4, 1862 as a 1st Sgt.

B Co.        69th Ill. Vol. Inft.

Three Months Service

   Mustered in June 14, 1862 at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
   Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
   Guard duties at Camp Douglas guarding rebel prisoners.
   Mustered Out Sept. 27, 1862

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

5th Ill. Light Artillery

Renwick’s Elgin Battery

   Enlisted April 27, 1863.
   32 year old Cabinet Maker.
   On the resignation of Capt. Renwick in May of 1863 Capt. Andrew Wood takes command and the battery is renamed;

Wood's Battery

       Notice: Dec. 16, 1863 issue Elgins Weekly Gazette.
   ELGIN BATTERY.-Lieut. Short, of the Elgin Battery, arrived home last Monday on a short furlough.  He reports all the members of the Battery from this vicinity well, and in fine spirits.  They had a brush with the rebels on the 21st of November, and it is matter of pride to all the friends of the Battery, that officers and men alike acquitted themselves nobly.  The men all speak in the highest terms of the Captain, A.M. Wood.

   Member in good standing of the Elgin Temperance Union in 1864.

   Discharged March 7, 1865, reason not listed.
        Known Actions;
Kingston, NC           Nov. 24, 1863
Mossy Creek, Tenn. Dec. 28, 1863
Wise’s Forks, NC      March 7, '64
Bennett’s House, NC April 26, 1864
Raleigh, NC               April 13, 1865

   Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.

       From the 1870 Census #237/346
Name - John Short
Aged - 43 Years
Born - Maine
Home in 1870 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill

   Joined GAR, Col. John Bryner Post #67 in Peoria.

   Died July 26, 1907.