Pvt. Peter D. Porchet

Pvt. Peter D. Porchet

 

 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 as a Private.
   Re-Enlisted as a veteran, Dec. 20, 1863 and paid a $300 Veteran's Bounty then sent home on 30 days Veteran's Furlough.

   Notice; Dec. 30, 1863 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.

THE $300 BOUNTY.

   Washington, Dec. 28,-Col. Fry has ordered the three hundred dollars bounty to be paid to the 15th Illinois cavalry, of General Farnsworth's new cavalry Brigade, now rendezvoused at St. Charles, Kane county.

   Transferred, March 3, 1864 on consolidation to;

Co. K       10th Ill. Cav.

   Authors Notes;
      No Peter Porchet listed in the Adj. Gen. Report for Co. K  10th Ill. Cav.  There is a Daniel Porchet though.  Could it possibly be from Peter's middle initial?
      Not found in the 1860 Census Rolls for Plato, Ill.

      Known Actions; 
Ft. Henry, Tenn.,       Feb. 7, 1862
Ft. Donnelson, Tenn.       Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.       April 7, 1862
Briton's Lane       Sept. 1, 1862
Tullahoma       June, 24, 1863
Iuka, Miss.       July 7, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga.       Sept. 18, 1863
Mission Ridge, Ga.       Nov. 25, 1863
Resaca, Ga.       May 13, 1864
Kennasaw Mt. Ga.       June 27, 1864