Aaron Dunbar

After the war Aaron taught school during the winter months and engaged in farming during the summer. He married Emily Thompson three years after the war and had three daughters. His journals, which were written during the war, were used to complete the History of the Ninety-Third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry published October 5, 1898.

T.J. Lockwood, a.k.a. Thomas J.

T.J. returned to his hometown and despite his blindness, he prospered. Aaron Dunbar's History of the Ninety-Third Regiment records the following: "He is one of the leading business men of Buda, Ill, and does many marvelous things, in the way of business, for a blind person."

Trick, a.k.a Patrick Kane

Trick survived his wound and continued on the long trek south with the 93rd Illinois Volunteers, and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea. He returned to Buda after mustering out with the rest of his Regiment in June, 1865. Margaret Schmitt, Trick's grand-daughter and past curator of the Sheffield Museum in Illinois, remembered well how Patrick held his grandchildren on his lap and told the story of how his boyhood friend, T.J., carried him to safety during the Battle of Champion Hill.

U.S. Grant

After the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Grant was promoted to General in Chief of the entire Union Army. By executing aggressive strategy and tactics that he used effectively in the West, he brought General Robert E. Lee to terms at Appomattox Court House 0n April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War. In 1868 he was elected to the Presidency and finished two terms in the White House. He completed the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant a few days before his death of throat cancer in 1885. His Memoirs are considered by scholars to be one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language

Ely Parker

Ely Parker continued as U.S. Grant's military secretary until the end of the Civil War. He was promoted to Lt. Colonel and later became a Brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers. At Appomattox he transcribed in fair hand the official surrender papers for Robert E. Lee. Later in life he became the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He died in 1895 almost ten years after U.S. Grant, his good friend from Galena. His funeral in Buffalo, New York was attended by dignitaries from around the Country including Fred Grant, son of General Grant, and leading men and women of the Iroquois tribes

Congressman Elihu Washburne

After the Civil War, Washburne's most notable assignments were U.S. Minister to France and President of the Chicago Historical Society. In his retirement he wrote Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. He will always be remembered for his lobbying effort with Lincoln and Congress for the promotion of his U.S. Grant, his Galena neighbor, to the rank of Brigadier General.

Abraham Lincoln

America's greatest President since George Washington, Lincoln kept the Union together for four long years, but was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just days after Lee's Surrender at Appomattox. Illinois' greatest citizen, Lincoln was a man of gentle spirit who rose from the backwoods of Salem to Springfield, Illinois and then to Washington, D.C. His interesting life, history, and contributions to America have filled thousands of volumes since his untimely death on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater. Without question, Lincoln, as subject matter, will continue to fill thousands more volumes for many years to come.

Colonel John M. Loomis

After Missionary Ridge, perhaps due to the disastrous attack and devastating Union losses at the Tunnel Hill fight, Loomis' career in the military was ruined. Letters written to Lincoln and Grant on his behalf requesting promotion to Brigadier General were ignored causing him to resign on April 14, 1864 exactly one year before Appomattox. In a letter to General Sherman on the same day he writes, "The pride and self respect which I cherish is so hurt by the continual promotion over me of my juniors."

Colonel Holden Putnam

Fire Marshall and later Colonel, Putnam lies buried in City Cemetery, Freeport, Illinois. The epitaph on his Memorial reads: "Thy Name be thy Epitaph"

Elmer Ellsworth

Elmer was the North's first casualty of the Civil War and he became an instant Martyr for the Union cause. The devastating news of his death saddened thousands of admirers across America. The Lincoln family openly mourned him as his body lay in state at the White House.

General John E. Smith

After Missionary Ridge, John E. marched with Sherman to the sea. During this time he was promoted to Major General and eventually commanded the District of West Tennessee. After being mustered out of volunteer service in April, 1866, he accepted the Colonelcy of the 27th Infantry - Regular Army serving during the Indian Wars until retiring in May of 1881. He died in Galena, Illinois on January 29, 1897.

Alfred T. Smith

Alfred, like his father, John E. Smith, had an illustrious military career. After serving in the US Army 4th and 8th Infantry in Eastern campaigns of the Civil War, he became Colonel of the last Civil War regiment raised in his home State, 156th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Later, he followed his father's footsteps and served at various western posts during the Indian War period dying shortly after retirement from military service at the age of sixty-seven.

Albert D. J. Cashier

Private Cashier continued through the War unsuspected as being a woman. After Vicksburg, she fought with the 95th Illinois during the Red River Campaign, Brice's Cross Roads, and at the Battles of Franklin and Nashville. After the War, she returned to a hero's welcome at Belvediere, Illinois and then worked as a handyman and farmhand in Saunemin. She never married and continued to disguise her gender until 1911 when her leg was fractured in an automobile accident, and when during medical inspection, the attending physician was shocked to notice her true gender. Her secret was kept for awhile but was exposed two years later causing a sensation in Northern Illinois and across America. She lived another two years in the limelight and then passed away on October 11, 1915. She was buried with full military honors at the Saunemin Cemetery leaving her legacy as the only documented women in the Civil War to fulfill an Army enlistment.

Willy Lincoln

Willy died in the White House in 1862.

Tad Lincoln with Father

Tad died nine years after Willy.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Four years after Tad’s death, Mary Todd was committed to an insane asylum by her oldest and only son Robert. She was released several months later and traveled abroad for seven years. She died in Springfield, where her fondest memories were, in July, 1882.

Captain Luther Cowan

After his courageous charge at Vicksburg, Luther was buried in his home town of Warren, Illinois. The local newspaper, Warren Independent, wrote on May 31, 1864, “The funeral of Maj. Cowan took place yesterday and was largely attended. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the church was full and overflowing.”

General John A. McClernand

Removed from command after issuing a bombastic congratulatory order to his men without sending it through Grant's Headquarters. He was reinstated to command of the XVIII Corps long enough to damage his reputation before retiring for health reasons.

Elliott N. Bush Captain Co. G 95th Illinois Vols

Killed June 10, 1864 at Guntown, Mississippi

Lieutenant Colonel Maltby 45th Illinois Leadmine Regiment

Promoted to Brigadier, he became the military governor of Vicksburg in September,1867. He remained in that position until his death the following March.

Captain Charles F. Taggart

Captain Taggart, good friend of Colonel Putnam, continued on Sherman's March to the Sea. He resigned in January, 1865 due to health. After returning to Freeport, he became a postal clerk and lived fifteen more years. His obituary in the Freeport Bulletin read, "Capt. Taggart enjoyed the fruits of a well spent life surrounded by the blessings vouchsafed to him in a happy home and children of whom any father might be proud."

Fred Grant with Family (Standing in Middle of Photo

After witnessing major Civil War military campaigns with his Father first-hand, Fred Grant at the close of the War was appointed to West Point. After graduating he was aide-de-camp to William Tecumseh Sherman in Europe. Later, as a newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel, he joined George Armstrong Custer during the Black Hills expedition.

He resigned from the Army in 1881 to assist his Father in preparing his famous Memoirs. Throughout his career he held lofty political, civic, and military positions as Minister to Austria, New York City Commissioner of Police, Brigadier General of Volunteers during the Spanish American War, then Major General of the Regular Army. Fred, like his Father, succumbed to cancer. He died on April 12, 1912 and is buried in West Point Cemetery.

Charlie (Charles Flint Putnam)

A few years after his father's death at Missionary Ridge, Charlie moved with his sister Jenny and his mother, Leonora, to Chicago. Following in his Father's footsteps, he chose a military career and accepted an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at the tender age of 14. After graduation from the Academy in 1873, at his request, he served in the Asiatic Squadron in the Far East and then later conducted rescue missions for stranded expeditions to the North Pole. Just one month after his 27th birthday, he followed his Father's fate and perished in the line of duty. A Monument today stands tribute to Charlie on the Naval Academy grounds, which reads: