Wagoner Julius V. Pratt

Wagoner Julius V. Pratt

   Attended the Elgin Academy.

1861 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 27, 1861.

? Co. 12th Ill. Cav.

Co. B       36th Ill. Dragoons

Re-Designaged as,

Co. K       15th Ill. Cav.

Clinton's Rangers

   Enlisted, Aug. 17, 1861.

   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.

   Residence, Plato, Ill's.
   Mustered In, Sept. 23, 1861.
   Discharged due to Disability Dec. 18, 1861

Post war;
   Listed on the 1870 Ill. State Census #237/499 as aged 33 years, from New York living in Vergil.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.