Capt. Fredrick A. Raymond

Capt. Fredrick A. Raymond

Washington Continental Artillery

    Listed in the 1857 Elgin Directory as a Clerk living at 15 Chicago St.

Elgin Continentals

   Enlisted April 22, 1861

1861 Elgin Class I Active Militia

   18 year old Clerk

A Co. 7th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Fremont Rifles

   Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
   Armed with .69 US Altered musket taken in the Geneva Raid
   Mustered In for 3 months service at Camp Yates in Springfield, Ill. April 25, 1861 as a Sgt.
   Mustered Out at Mound City, Ill. July 25, 1861.

Elgin Union Grays

   Enlisted Aug. 8, 1861

A Co. 36th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

Fox River Regiment

Steedman's Brigade

Sheridan's Division

Fourth Corps

   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 at Camp Hammond in Montgomery, Ill's. as a Pvt.
Issued .577 1857 P-53 Enfield Rifled musket.
   Reduced and returned to A Co.

The Elgin Company

I Co. 127th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

Elgin Sharpshooters

   Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862
   Commissioned at Camp Douglas in Chicago Sept. 5, 1862.
   Court Martial charges preferred July 6, 1864 for refusing to come up onto the line of battle with his men.
   Dishonorably Discharged July 19, 1864.

Known Actions;
Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.   Dec. 26, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Tuscumbia, Ala.         May 13, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss.         May 19, 1863

Post war;
   Member Elgin GAR Post #260.

   There are indications that the charges were dropped and he was reinstated but I've found no paperwork to support this as yet.

Photo by Diana Gough

Ken Gough in the uniform of the Washington Continental Artillery militia.

From the collection of Ken Gough

US Altered Musket

Model 1816 Springfield / dated 1827

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Elgin Continentals in their grey Illinois style uniforms made for them by the Ladies of Elgin just before mustering in as A Co. 7th Ill.  Photo taken at either Camp Yates in Springfield or Camp DuBois in Alton.