History of Illinois Sturgis Rifles

Illinois Sturgis Rifles
Regiment History


Adjutant General's Report

This was a separate company organized at Chicago, armed, equipped and 
subsisted for nearly two months by the patriotic generosity of Mr. 
Solomon Sturgis.

The Company was organized in April 1861, and was mustered into service 
May 6. It was armed by its patron with Sharpe's rifles. About the middle 
of June 1861, the Company was ordered to West Virginia to serve as a 
body guard to General McClellan. The Company reported to General 
McClellan at Parkersburg and accompanied him in the West Virginia 
campaign. It participated in the battle of Rich Mountain and marched 
with General McClellan to Washington, where he went to assume the 
command of the armies.

Washington was reached on July 26, 1861, and the Company did guard duty 
until March 10, 1862, when the "forward march" was ordered. It 
accompanied the General on the march upon Yorktown and during the siege 
of that place, thence into the seven days battle of the Chickahominy. At 
the close of the campaign the Rifles returned to Washington. Many of the 
members of the Company had been detached as foragers, scouts, etc. A few 
of the Company were in the battle of Antietam. The Company left the Army 
and Falmouth and on November 25, 1862, it was mustered out of service at 
Washington.


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