Pvt. Henry Nelson

Pvt. Henry Nelson

   Listed on the 1860 census #296/2201 as a 30 year old Laborer living in Elgin, Ill's.

? 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.
   Re-enlisted as a veteran Feb. 29, 1864 and paid a $300 Veterans Bounty, then sent home on 30 days Veterans 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 of the Regt. to,

Co. K       10th Ill. Cav.

   Served as Military Police in New Orleans.
   Mustered Out, July 15, 1865, Furlough.

      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

Post war;
   Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.
   Member Elgin GAR Post #260.
   Listed on the 1870 Census #237/329 as aged 36 years, from Sweden, living in Elgin, Ill.

   Obit: April 19, 1877 issue The Elgin Daily News.
   The funeral services of the late Henry Nelson were largely attended, and were in charge of the G.A.R., of which the deceased was a member.

   Buried in Elgin City Cemetery.
   Re-interred at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill. when the City cemetery closed.