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| REGIMENT:
Co. H, 21 IL Inf. |
MUSTER-IN:
June 28, 1861 |
| RANK:
Lt./Brevet Major |
WHERE:
Springfield, IL |
| AGE:
24 |
MUSTER-OUT:
July 2, 1864 |
| HAIR:
Light |
WHERE:
Unknown |
| EYES:
Blue |
BIRTH:
1837 |
| COMPLEXION:
Light |
DEATH:
Dec. 22, 1890 |
| HEIGHT:
5' 11" |
BURIAL:
Dec. 23, 1890 |
| OCCUPATION:
Merchant |
SECTION:
G |
| NATIVITY:
Illinois |
LOT:
707 |
| RESIDENCE:
Darwin, Clark Co., IL |
GRAVE:
N ½ |
| ENLISTED:
June 14, 1861 |
MARKER:
GHS |
| WHERE:
Marshall, IL |
CONDITION:
New |
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 First Lieutenant of Company
H, 21st Illinois Infantry, was the only winner of
the Congressional Medal of Honor who is buried in
Collinsville, Glenwood Cemetery. He earned the Medal of
Honor during the Civil War for heroism. His
citation reads “Conspicuous in the charge at
Stone River, Tennessee., where he was three times
wounded. At Liberty Gap, Tennessee,captured
colors of 8th Arkansas Infantry (C.S.A.)”.
After the war he
resided in Collinsville on Church street, and was
a stock agent for the railroad. His next door
neighbor in 1880 was Oliver C. Look, also a Civil
War Veteran who had served in Co. F, of the 117th
Illinois regiment.
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| Edwardsville
Intelligencer December 24, 1890 |
| Col. N.S. McKeen,
aged 53, years, after an illness of three weeks,
died at his home on Church street, Sunday night,
of congestion of the brain. He was stock agent of
the National Stock Yards for many years. During
the late war he was one of the officers who dug
the tunnel under the Libby Prison walls, by which
they made their escape. |
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 Index of Civil War Veterans |
| Oliver C. Look - Co. F.,
117th IL (1826-1900) |
| U.S. Civil War
Soldiers & Sailors System (Outside Link) |
| 21st Illinois
Infantry - Dyer's Compendium (Outside Link) |
| "My Charge at
Stone River" by 1st Lt. C.H. Kirk of 15th PA
Vol. Cavalry (Outside Link) |
| Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (Outside Link) |
| The Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Outside
Link) |
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