COL. P. SIDNEY POST.	LIEUT. COL. C. H. FREDRICK.
LIEUT. COL. CLAYTON HALL.	MAJ. J. M. STOOKEY.
D^R. H. J. MAYNARD.	ADJT. FRANK CLARK.
CAPT. MINNETT.	CAPT. J. C. HENDERSON.
Lith. by W^m. BRADEN & C^o. Indianapolis.

THE HISTORY OF THE FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT
ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS,
OR A THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGN THROUGH MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI,
TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY,
TOWNS, SKIRMISHES AND BATTLES—INCIDENTS, CASUALTIES
AND ANECDOTES MET WITH ON THE WAY; AND
EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR
LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAITS OF THE
OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT.

BY DR. D. LATHROP.

HALL & HUTCHINSON,
PRINTERS AND BINDERS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
BY DR. DAVID LATHROP,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Indiana.

HALL & HUTCHINSON, STEREOTYPERS, PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

INTRODUCTION.

Early in the month of May, 1861, C. H. Frederick and David McGibbon, two prominent citizens of St. Louis, Mo., called on General Lyon, and proffered to raise a regiment of infantry, to serve for three years, or during the war. C. H. Frederick, having previously served his country in a military capacity, and being familiar with military tactics, was deemed by General Lyon, a very suitable person to engage in the undertaking, and immediately authorized to recruit and organize a regiment, and to have command of the same.