The following description of the operations of the Eighty- seventh Illinois is copied from the report of The Adjutant General of the State of Illinois. "The Eighty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers, was enlisted in August 1862. It was composed of companies A and E, from Hamilton county, company H, from Edwards, company D, from Wayne, and companies C,B,F,G, I, and K, from White county. In the latter part of August, 1862, the companies went into camp at Shawneetown, Ill., where the organization of the Regiment was effected. It was mustered in October, 3, 1862, the muster to take effect from the 2d day of August. January 31, 1863, it embarked on the two transports Freestone and May Duke for Memphis, Tenn., arriving there February 4th. It was very inclement weather, and during this transfer and its first camp at Memphis, the measles broke out and prevailed with great virulence in the Regiment. This disease cost the Eighty-seventh 250 men in dead and disabled. While at Memphis, the Eighty-seventh, in company with the Sixty-third Illinois, made a raid on Hernando, Miss., capturing a great deal of property, and putting a stop to the incursions of Colonel Bligh's partisan Confederate Cavalry. May 9th, 1863, the Eighty-seventh, and Sixty-third Illinois Regiments embarked on the steamer Crescent City from Memphis, and arrived at Young's Point, La., May 11th. At this place the regiment was actively engaged in picket and fatigue duty, repairing the corduroy road, until the night of the 21st of May, when it crossed the Mississippi river at Warrenton, and went into bivouac in the hills above the town. the next morning the Eighty-seventh and Sixty-third Illinois Regiments, in Brigade commanded by Colonel McCown, of the Sixty-third Illinois, were assigned to General McArthur's Division, on the left of the line of battle. Here they closed up the gap on the extreme left of the line of investment, and remained for six hours under a steady fire of shot and shell from the enemy's works. On the 23rd the whole Regiment was on duty at Warrenton, where it remained until June 23rd, when it was assigned a position in the Second Brigade, General Slack's; Twelfth Division, General Hovey's; Thirteenth Corps, General John A. McClerand's; and took its place in the trenches, until the capture of the city. On the night of July 4th, it moved out on the road to Jackson, Miss., and participated in the battles before and after reaching that place. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723