Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hughes, Richard June 1835 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

RICHARD HUGHES, saloon, Morris, is a native of County Mayo, Ireland; was born 
in June, 1835. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1846, and settled 
in Portsmouth, Va., where our subject was principally educated. He served an 
apprenticeship of three years at the trade of confectioner. About 1855, he 
came to Morris, Grundy Co., Ill., and engaged in farming until the breaking-
out of the war. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Seventy-sixth 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed Second Lieutenant at the 
organization of the company; was promoted to the post of First Lieutenant in 
1864, and was mustered in as Captain of Company C in 1865, at Blakely, Ala. He 
participated in about twenty-seven engagements, including the siege of 
Vicksburg, siege of Blakely, Jackson Cross-Roads, etc. He had six brothers 
also in the war, all younger than himself; one of them was killed in the 
battle of Shiloh; three of them, including himself, were wounded at Blakely, 
Ala., subject receiving two wounds. Since the war, he has been engaged in 
business in Morris; is now associated with Mr. J. O. LEVETTE, on Washington 
street; his residence is on the corner of Division and North streets, Morris. 
He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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