Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Major Benjamin Franklin Monroe

Major Benjamin Franklin Monroe

Field        8th Ill. Vol. Inf.
   Enlisted June 25, 1862 as Adjutant.
   Home of record listed as Decatur, Ill's.
   Mustered In Feb. 27, 1863.
   Promoted Capt. of I Co. Oct. 18, 1864.
I Co.       8th Ill. Vol. Inf.
   Resigned Jan. 15, 1866.

       Known Actions;
Siege of Corinth, Miss. - Oct. 3, 1862
Port Gibson, Miss. - May 1, 1863
Raymond, Miss. - May 12, 1863
Champion's Hill, Miss. - May 16, 1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.
Fort Blakley

        Post war;
   Joined GAR Veteran's Post #49 Jan. 6, 1920.
   Commander of GAR Veteran's Post #49.
   Member of the Universalist Church.
   Mason.

   Obit; March 24, 1921 issue of The Elgin Daily Courier.
   Major Benjamin Franklin Monroe died in the home of his step daughter, Mrs. R.A. Adkins, 101 Monroe street at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday night after a short illness.
   Major Monroe spent his boyhood in Elgin and finished his education in Lombard college.  Until two years ago when he returned to Elgin he had resided in Quincy.
   He was born in New York 80 years ago and served five years in the Civil war.  He was a major in the Eight Illinois infantry and at the time of his death was commander of Veteran Post No. 49, G.A.R.
   Major Monroe was a member of the Universalist church and of the Masonic lodge.
   Two daughters, Mrs. Grace McLagan of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. Bernard Sinclair of Beverly Hills, Chicago, survive.
   Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 o'clock in the Universalist church and burial will be in Greenwood cemetery at Chicago.

   Buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Chicago, Ill.
Used with permission Dan Mallett
Members of Post 49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.

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