JOHN HILL FERGUSON (son of JOHN)was born January 29, 1829 in Newton-Stewart, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and died May 13, 1910 in Hutsonville, Crawford Co., IL. He married JANE (CORRELL) Rodgers July 23, 1865 in Clark Co., IL, daughter of HIRAM CORRELL and AMANDA. She was born November 1833 in OH, and died 1922 in Hutsonville, Crawford Co., IL.
John Hill Ferguson, a 32-year-old immigrant from Scotland, enlisted with his younger brother James in the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment late in 1861. Their older brother William enlisted in 1862 and died of pneumonia 6 weeks later. John served with the unit until the end of the war, returned home in 1865, married, supported himself and his family by farming, and lived until 1910. In the last three decades of his life he suffered from a lung ailment contracted during the war. Tuberculosis and was listed as the cause of death.
Beginning early in 1862, Ferguson recorded his experiences in small pocket diaries.
Notes for JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
September 15, 1862 - Killing of two Federal soldiers near Nashville; an entry from the diary of John Hill Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Monday 15th orders given for no man to be passed out without a pass 2 soldiers belonging to the 19th Ills was both shot threw the head with a revolver by a citizen by the name of Fields a lot of the 19th boys caut him the first set fiar to his house and then see him up a hill and had the roap around his neck and was about to hang him in spite of the officers the officers promised he shuld have a trial and if gilty he should hang tomorrow the soldier said the[y]would let him await his trial providing the[y] would get to gard him the[y]ware insured of the punishment the[y] declaired if he was not hung tomorrow every man in the regiment would stack their arms.
John Hill Ferguson Diary, 1862.
Janet Correll Ellison, a distant relative of his wife,edited a book, On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers, 2002, Univ. Neb. Press, Lincoln, NE. She quoted passages from volumes 3 & 4 (1864-1865) when Ferguson and his unit participated in the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the March Through the Carolinas.
Diary IV 1 January to 13 September 1864 10 diary iv a splended brackfast was soon served. Decatur Saturday 23ed We had our furloughs filled out at day light and ready to go to the train. A salute was again fiared as they returned to there homes. After supper in the evening, Old Mr Brown latly of Walnut Prairie [a small town near Ferguson's hometown of Darwin] came into the taverin and incisted on us going to his house. We under took to cross over on the ice, but 3 of them that started over first brock through, and as I had something of a load I concluded I would stay until day light.
FERGUSON, John, Civil War, Army/1/SGT, Co G 10 IL INF, Died: 1910, Buried: lot #112 New Hutsonville Cemetery, Hutsonville, Clark Co., Illinois.
More About JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
Census: 1870, Clark Co., Illinois with Jane, Ella, Arthur Rogers (her son), 14, Marlin (or Martin Coryll) Coyrell, 11 and George Coryell, 2 or 21
Emigration: 1849, at age 20 as listed in 1900 Census
Individual Fact: 1870 Census, Listed his family as Jane 37, Ellen? 3, Arthur Rogers 14, Martin Cargell (Coryll) 11, and George Coryll, 2 (or 21)
Military: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Was promoted to orderly Sergeant April 1864
Naturalization: 1900 Census says "na"
Occupation: farmer
Pension: 1877, Retired from farming due to ill health
Religion: Obituary mentions he was long-time Presbyterian
Residence: 1850, Lived briefly in Morristown, Morris Co., NJ (where brother William was married to Mary Ann) before moving to IL.
More About JANE CORRELL:
Census: 1860, Listed as a widow living with her father and her young son, teacher
Child of JOHN FERGUSON and JANE CORRELL is:
ELLA MADORA FERGUSON, b. November 1867, Indiana; d. July 13, 1934, Pasadena, CA.
John Hill Ferguson, a 32-year-old immigrant from Scotland, enlisted with his younger brother James in the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment late in 1861. Their older brother William enlisted in 1862 and died of pneumonia 6 weeks later. John served with the unit until the end of the war, returned home in 1865, married, supported himself and his family by farming, and lived until 1910. In the last three decades of his life he suffered from a lung ailment contracted during the war. Tuberculosis and was listed as the cause of death.
Beginning early in 1862, Ferguson recorded his experiences in small pocket diaries.
Notes for JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
September 15, 1862 - Killing of two Federal soldiers near Nashville; an entry from the diary of John Hill Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Monday 15th orders given for no man to be passed out without a pass 2 soldiers belonging to the 19th Ills was both shot threw the head with a revolver by a citizen by the name of Fields a lot of the 19th boys caut him the first set fiar to his house and then see him up a hill and had the roap around his neck and was about to hang him in spite of the officers the officers promised he shuld have a trial and if gilty he should hang tomorrow the soldier said the[y]would let him await his trial providing the[y] would get to gard him the[y]ware insured of the punishment the[y] declaired if he was not hung tomorrow every man in the regiment would stack their arms.
John Hill Ferguson Diary, 1862.
Janet Correll Ellison, a distant relative of his wife,edited a book, On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers, 2002, Univ. Neb. Press, Lincoln, NE. She quoted passages from volumes 3 & 4 (1864-1865) when Ferguson and his unit participated in the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the March Through the Carolinas.
Diary IV 1 January to 13 September 1864 10 diary iv a splended brackfast was soon served. Decatur Saturday 23ed We had our furloughs filled out at day light and ready to go to the train. A salute was again fiared as they returned to there homes. After supper in the evening, Old Mr Brown latly of Walnut Prairie [a small town near Ferguson's hometown of Darwin] came into the taverin and incisted on us going to his house. We under took to cross over on the ice, but 3 of them that started over first brock through, and as I had something of a load I concluded I would stay until day light.
FERGUSON, John, Civil War, Army/1/SGT, Co G 10 IL INF, Died: 1910, Buried: lot #112 New Hutsonville Cemetery, Hutsonville, Clark Co., Illinois.
More About JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
Census: 1870, Clark Co., Illinois with Jane, Ella, Arthur Rogers (her son), 14, Marlin (or Martin Coryll) Coyrell, 11 and George Coryell, 2 or 21
Emigration: 1849, at age 20 as listed in 1900 Census
Individual Fact: 1870 Census, Listed his family as Jane 37, Ellen? 3, Arthur Rogers 14, Martin Cargell (Coryll) 11, and George Coryll, 2 (or 21)
Military: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Was promoted to orderly Sergeant April 1864
Naturalization: 1900 Census says "na"
Occupation: farmer
Pension: 1877, Retired from farming due to ill health
Religion: Obituary mentions he was long-time Presbyterian
Residence: 1850, Lived briefly in Morristown, Morris Co., NJ (where brother William was married to Mary Ann) before moving to IL.
More About JANE CORRELL:
Census: 1860, Listed as a widow living with her father and her young son, teacher
Child of JOHN FERGUSON and JANE CORRELL is:
ELLA MADORA FERGUSON, b. November 1867, Indiana; d. July 13, 1934, Pasadena, CA.
JOHN HILL FERGUSON (son of JOHN)was born January 29, 1829 in Newton-Stewart, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and died May 13, 1910 in Hutsonville, Crawford Co., IL. He married JANE (CORRELL) Rodgers July 23, 1865 in Clark Co., IL, daughter of HIRAM CORRELL and AMANDA. She was born November 1833 in OH, and died 1922 in Hutsonville, Crawford Co., IL.
John Hill Ferguson, a 32-year-old immigrant from Scotland, enlisted with his younger brother James in the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment late in 1861. Their older brother William enlisted in 1862 and died of pneumonia 6 weeks later. John served with the unit until the end of the war, returned home in 1865, married, supported himself and his family by farming, and lived until 1910. In the last three decades of his life he suffered from a lung ailment contracted during the war. Tuberculosis and was listed as the cause of death.
Beginning early in 1862, Ferguson recorded his experiences in small pocket diaries.
Notes for JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
September 15, 1862 - Killing of two Federal soldiers near Nashville; an entry from the diary of John Hill Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Monday 15th orders given for no man to be passed out without a pass 2 soldiers belonging to the 19th Ills was both shot threw the head with a revolver by a citizen by the name of Fields a lot of the 19th boys caut him the first set fiar to his house and then see him up a hill and had the roap around his neck and was about to hang him in spite of the officers the officers promised he shuld have a trial and if gilty he should hang tomorrow the soldier said the[y]would let him await his trial providing the[y] would get to gard him the[y]ware insured of the punishment the[y] declaired if he was not hung tomorrow every man in the regiment would stack their arms.
John Hill Ferguson Diary, 1862.
Janet Correll Ellison, a distant relative of his wife,edited a book, On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers, 2002, Univ. Neb. Press, Lincoln, NE. She quoted passages from volumes 3 & 4 (1864-1865) when Ferguson and his unit participated in the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the March Through the Carolinas.
Diary IV 1 January to 13 September 1864 10 diary iv a splended brackfast was soon served. Decatur Saturday 23ed We had our furloughs filled out at day light and ready to go to the train. A salute was again fiared as they returned to there homes. After supper in the evening, Old Mr Brown latly of Walnut Prairie [a small town near Ferguson's hometown of Darwin] came into the taverin and incisted on us going to his house. We under took to cross over on the ice, but 3 of them that started over first brock through, and as I had something of a load I concluded I would stay until day light.
FERGUSON, John, Civil War, Army/1/SGT, Co G 10 IL INF, Died: 1910, Buried: lot #112 New Hutsonville Cemetery, Hutsonville, Clark Co., Illinois.
More About JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
Census: 1870, Clark Co., Illinois with Jane, Ella, Arthur Rogers (her son), 14, Marlin (or Martin Coryll) Coyrell, 11 and George Coryell, 2 or 21
Emigration: 1849, at age 20 as listed in 1900 Census
Individual Fact: 1870 Census, Listed his family as Jane 37, Ellen? 3, Arthur Rogers 14, Martin Cargell (Coryll) 11, and George Coryll, 2 (or 21)
Military: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Was promoted to orderly Sergeant April 1864
Naturalization: 1900 Census says "na"
Occupation: farmer
Pension: 1877, Retired from farming due to ill health
Religion: Obituary mentions he was long-time Presbyterian
Residence: 1850, Lived briefly in Morristown, Morris Co., NJ (where brother William was married to Mary Ann) before moving to IL.
More About JANE CORRELL:
Census: 1860, Listed as a widow living with her father and her young son, teacher
Child of JOHN FERGUSON and JANE CORRELL is:
ELLA MADORA FERGUSON, b. November 1867, Indiana; d. July 13, 1934, Pasadena, CA.
John Hill Ferguson, a 32-year-old immigrant from Scotland, enlisted with his younger brother James in the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment late in 1861. Their older brother William enlisted in 1862 and died of pneumonia 6 weeks later. John served with the unit until the end of the war, returned home in 1865, married, supported himself and his family by farming, and lived until 1910. In the last three decades of his life he suffered from a lung ailment contracted during the war. Tuberculosis and was listed as the cause of death.
Beginning early in 1862, Ferguson recorded his experiences in small pocket diaries.
Notes for JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
September 15, 1862 - Killing of two Federal soldiers near Nashville; an entry from the diary of John Hill Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Monday 15th orders given for no man to be passed out without a pass 2 soldiers belonging to the 19th Ills was both shot threw the head with a revolver by a citizen by the name of Fields a lot of the 19th boys caut him the first set fiar to his house and then see him up a hill and had the roap around his neck and was about to hang him in spite of the officers the officers promised he shuld have a trial and if gilty he should hang tomorrow the soldier said the[y]would let him await his trial providing the[y] would get to gard him the[y]ware insured of the punishment the[y] declaired if he was not hung tomorrow every man in the regiment would stack their arms.
John Hill Ferguson Diary, 1862.
Janet Correll Ellison, a distant relative of his wife,edited a book, On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers, 2002, Univ. Neb. Press, Lincoln, NE. She quoted passages from volumes 3 & 4 (1864-1865) when Ferguson and his unit participated in the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the March Through the Carolinas.
Diary IV 1 January to 13 September 1864 10 diary iv a splended brackfast was soon served. Decatur Saturday 23ed We had our furloughs filled out at day light and ready to go to the train. A salute was again fiared as they returned to there homes. After supper in the evening, Old Mr Brown latly of Walnut Prairie [a small town near Ferguson's hometown of Darwin] came into the taverin and incisted on us going to his house. We under took to cross over on the ice, but 3 of them that started over first brock through, and as I had something of a load I concluded I would stay until day light.
FERGUSON, John, Civil War, Army/1/SGT, Co G 10 IL INF, Died: 1910, Buried: lot #112 New Hutsonville Cemetery, Hutsonville, Clark Co., Illinois.
More About JOHN HILL FERGUSON:
Census: 1870, Clark Co., Illinois with Jane, Ella, Arthur Rogers (her son), 14, Marlin (or Martin Coryll) Coyrell, 11 and George Coryell, 2 or 21
Emigration: 1849, at age 20 as listed in 1900 Census
Individual Fact: 1870 Census, Listed his family as Jane 37, Ellen? 3, Arthur Rogers 14, Martin Cargell (Coryll) 11, and George Coryll, 2 (or 21)
Military: Bet. 1862 - 1865, Was promoted to orderly Sergeant April 1864
Naturalization: 1900 Census says "na"
Occupation: farmer
Pension: 1877, Retired from farming due to ill health
Religion: Obituary mentions he was long-time Presbyterian
Residence: 1850, Lived briefly in Morristown, Morris Co., NJ (where brother William was married to Mary Ann) before moving to IL.
More About JANE CORRELL:
Census: 1860, Listed as a widow living with her father and her young son, teacher
Child of JOHN FERGUSON and JANE CORRELL is:
ELLA MADORA FERGUSON, b. November 1867, Indiana; d. July 13, 1934, Pasadena, CA.
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