Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Campbell, John William 1842 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 19, 2007, 8:40 pm Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) John William Campbell, Civil War veteran, of Kechi, Sedgwick county, Kansas, is a native of Illinois, where he was born on October 14, 1842, in Adams county. His parents were I. F. and Pauley (Brittan) Campbell, both natives of South Carolina. The father was reared in the state of Tennessee and moved to Illinois in 1849, locating in Adams county, where he lived until his death on April 17, 1882. He was a farmer during his life and both he and his wife traced their ancestry to Scotland. John W. Campbell received a limited education in the old log school house in Adams county, which he attended up to his eighteenth year, when he enlisted in Company D, Fiftieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was equipped at Quincy, Ill. The regiment made many moves until it reached Pittsburg Landing, where it was in the heat of the battle, and also took part in the battle at Corinth, Tenn. It was then sent into east Tennessee, where it went into winter quarters at Glenview, afterward participating in the battle of Lookout Mountain, where its colonel and lieutenant colonel were shot. The regiment then went with Sherman on his march to the sea, and after going through some hard campaigning was sent to Washington, D. C., where Mr. Campbell was discharged. The Fiftieth was known as the crack regiment of Illinois volunteers and went through the most severe fighting of any of the regiments equipped in that state. At Louisville, Ky., where it competed in drill with several other regiments from Illinois, it obtained valuable prizes on account of its splendid discipline. After his discharge, Mr. Campbell returned home to Adams county and on March 9, 1866, at Quincy, Ill., was married to Miss Mary M. Lyons, a daughter of John W. Lyons, of Adams county. After his marriage, Mr. Campbell moved from Illinois to Missouri, where he lived for fourteen years as a farmer, and then moved to Denver, Colorado, where he lived for four years. On February 17, 1884, he moved to Wichita, Kans., and afterwards to Kechi township, and three years afterward moved to Kechi, where he now lives in his comfortable home. Mr. Campbell and his wife are members of the Church of Christ. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the G. A. E., and in politics is a Republican. Additional Comments: Extracted from History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/campbell248gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb