Cpl. George W. Paddelford
Attended Elgin High School
Listed on the 1860 Census #315/2325 as a 22 year old Lawyer from New York living in Elgin, Ill.
Washington Continental Artillery
Elgin Continentals
Enlisted April 22, 1861.
1861 Elgin Active militia
A Co. 7th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Fremont Rifles
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.Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
Notice: July ?, 1861 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.
FROM CAIRO.
(Correspondence of the Chicago Times.)
Cairo, Ill., June 29,
If the troops of this brigade are not paid off before the expiration of the three months for which they enlisted, a very large number of them will refuse to be sworn in for further service. A considerable number of them will go home anyhow, but the per cent will be largely increased by further neglect in the matter in question. Few of them, indeed, can communicate with their families or friends for want of three cents wherewith to buy a postage stamp.At Camp Joslyn yesterday, Col. Cook's regiment, I learn, stacked their arms and declared that they would neither drill nor parade again until they got their money. Their wants, in a thousand ways, are exceedingly pressing, but not a single dollar have they to relieve them. The men became satisfied with fair promises however, and reconsidered their rather hasty determination.
Mustered Out at Mound City, Ill. July 25, 1861.
Post war;
Listed on the 1870 Census #290/70 as aged 31 years, from New York, living in Fulton, Ill.
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| Photo by Diana Gough |
Ken Gough in the uniform of the Washington Continental militia.
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| From the collection of Ken Gough |
US Altered Musket
Model 1816 Springfield /dated 1827
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| 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.
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