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Civil War: 28 Illinois Infantry- While in the trenches before Spanish Fort in Mobile Bay, the regiment was joined by companies G and H from Camp Butler. (Company H was raised chiefly in Henderson and Macoupin Counties, th former furnishing about 30, mostly from around Olena, Terre Haute, Warren and Dallas.)
This number consisted largely of veteran discharged soldiers and was recruited by Capt. James Fritz, formerly of Co.F 16th Ill. Inf. and assisted by James O. Anderson, later to be county sheriff.
Early in March this squad was taken to Quincy and thence to Springfield where it joined the men from Macoupin County.
The group then proceeded by rail to Cairo and by river to New Orleans.
A gulf steamer took them to Fort Gaines at the mouth of Mobile Bay where they marched to rejoin the regiment.
1882 History of Henderson County