Sgt. Joseph Tynell (Tyrell)

Sgt. Joseph Tynell (Tyrell)

     Member St. Mary's Parish.

   From the Adjutant General of Illinois, Revised in 1900 by Brig. Gen. J. N. Reece.

Co. I       58th Ill. Vol. Inft.

Lyon Color Guard

   Enlisted Dec. 20, 1861
   Mustered In Dec. 21, 1861 as a private.
   Residence, Rutland, Ill.
   Unarmed the regiment is placed on the train south for Fort Donelson were the battle has started that day.
   Re-armed with acceptable muskets on April 1, 1862 at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.
   Captured at Shiloh during the retreat from the Sunken Road.

   Article: April 23, 1862 issue Elgin's Weekly Gazette.

THE SURRENDER OF THE FIFTY-EIGHT ILLINOIS.

   The surrender of the Fifty-eight Illinois was an involuntary affair.  The Brigade of which they formed a part was surrounded on all sides by the rebels, who were subjecting them to a terrible fire.  In this **** division was an Iowa regiment, the Eighth, we think.  Col. Lynch of the Illinois Fifty-eight, proposed to the troops to form for a bayonet charge, and rushing upon the enemy cut their way through.  His regiment seconded his proposal, but a printer of the Iowa regiment histingo (sic) a white "handkerchief on his bayonet waved it in token of surrender.  Col. Lynch cut it down with his sword, the lieut. Conolen (sic) of the Iowa regiment however again raised the white flag, and said that while giving credit to Col. Lynch for his bravery, he felt it to be his duty to spare the lives of the men entrusted to his command, and he would therefore surrender.  By this time the rebels had closed their lines so effectually around the division, that a surrender was inevitable, and the gallant men were marched off prisoners to the rebels.  In this surrender was included all but about two hundred of the Eighth Iowa, four hundred of the Fifty-Eighth Illinois and part of the Twelfth Illinois, Col. Shortland.

   Paroled in Oct. of 1862.
   Exchanged in Dec. 1862, the regiment reforms at Camp Butler in Springfield, Ill.
Known Actions;
Fort Donelson, Tenn. Feb. 13, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn. April 6, 1862
   Remarks, Mustered Out, Feb. 7, 1865 as a Sgt.