In a message dated 10/23/01 1:04:34 PM Central Daylight Time, ILMASON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Date: 22 Oct 2001 11:31:10 -0600 From: ellisml@yahoo.com To: ILMASON-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <MFMBM008BfFjJ9gjO080000e01b@mfmbm008.myfamilycorp.local> Subject: [ILMASON] Great Grandfather John Martin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADI/148 Message Board Post: I am searching for information on John Martin born March 10, 1821 . I do not know where. I know that they came to Mason County Forrest City Illinois somewhere in the early 1850. They had three sons C.P. 1855, Ira 1856, John H. 1860. John Martin Sr. died December 1, 1859.If anyone has information on John & Sarrah (Fisher) Martin would appreciate your help. Thanks >> This may not be your relation, but wanted to throw it out there...... pg 266 History of Menard & Mason Counties "The next regiment containing men from Menard County was the Fifty-first Illinois Infantry. As there were but few of our men in this regiment, we give but a very brief history of it. This regiment was organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, by Col. Gilbert W. Cumming, on the 24th of December, 1861. On the 14th of February following, it moved to Cairo, Ill., and thence on the 27th to Camp Cullum. on the Kentucky shore of the Ohio River. Its first actual engagement was at Island No. 10. where, on the 8th of April, 1862, is forced the surrender of Gen. Mackall, with four thousand men. On the 24th of April, the brigade of Brig. Gen. John M. Palmer, composed of the Twenty-second, Twenty-seventh, Forty-second and Fifty-first Illinois, and Company C, First Illinois Artillery, was assigned to Brig. Gen. Paine's Division. This division was engaged in the battle of Farmington, and the seige of Corinth. At Mission Ridge, the regiment lost one-fifth of the men who went into the battle. At Kenesaw Mountain, it lost, in killed and wounded, 2 officers and 54 men. During the fighting around Atlanta, the regiment lost in killed and wounded, 7 officers, and 105 privates. At Franklin, Tenn, Lieut. Thomas was killed, 3 officers wounded, 52 men killed and wounded, and 98 missing. Mustered out of service September 25, 1865. The regimental officers were all Chicago men. Company F, of this regiment, had eleven men from this county. The company officers were all from elsewhere. Of these eleven, none wee killed or wounded. One, John H. Martin, died of disease. Two of the eleven deserted, viz., Samuel Wagstaff and Jordan Shoon."