The regiment was finally mustered out of the United States' service at Houston, Texas, on the 29th of May, 1866, and ordered to proceed to Camp Butler, Springfield, for payment and discharge. It left Houston on the 2d of June, and arrived at Springfield on the 14th, and was paid off on the 18th-the last regiment from our state to return home.

The following is the muster-out roster of the regiment:

Colonel, Hamilton B. Dox; Lieutenant-Colonel, Andrew H. Langholz; Major, Anthony T. Search; Adjutant, William Crookes; Quartermaster, Asher B. Hall; Surgecn, Asa Morgan; 1st Assistant Surgeon, Ralph D. Parsons; Commissary, Henry M. Stahl.

Co. A-Captain, Isaac Conroe; 1st Lieutenant, Joseph A. Addington; 2d Lieutenant Frank G. Miller.

Co. B-Captain, Henry Lossburg; 1st Lieutenant, Edwin Kolkow; 2d Lieutenant, Oscar Charles.

Co. C-Captain, William H. Redman; 1st Lieutenant, George R. Stowe; 2d Lieutenant, Frank Meacham.

Co. D-Captain, John J. DeLacey; 1st Lieutenant, Patrick Mahar; 2d Lieutenant, Robert Canfield.

Co. E-Captain, Edson H. Pratt; 1st Lieutenant, Solomon P. Emden; 2d Lieutenant, William H. Estep.

Co. F-Captain, Edmund Luff; 1st Lieutenant, Charles L. Amet; 2d Lieutenant, Allen C. Hartwell.

Co. G-Captain, Abraham Donica; 1st Lieutenant, Henry Martin; 2d Lieutenant, David W. White.

Co. H-Captain, Robert Gray; 1st Lieutenant, Jesse C. Rodgers; 2d Lieutenant, Henry Richardson.

Co. I-Captain, Edward Mann; 1st Lieutenant, Andrew J. Norton; 2d Lieutenant, James E. Sterling.

Co. K-Captain, William D. Wardlow; 1st Lieutenant, Benjamin J. Arnold; 2d Lieutenant, Cornelius W. Sparkes.

Co. L-Captain, John F. Wallace; 1st Lieutenant; Sacia F. Taylor; 2d Lieutenant, Edwin E. English.

Co. M-Captain, Charles H. Bussum; 1st Lieutenant, John Few; 2d Lieutenant, Frederick Walker.

General Hasbrouck Davis was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, April 23, 1827. His father, Hon. John Davis, was United States Senator and Governor of Massachusetts. Young Davis came to Chicago in 1855, and commenced the practice of law, and had very fair success till the war broke out, when he joined with Colonel Voss in raising the 12th Illinois cavalry, closed his law office and left for

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the seat of war as Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. He remained in service till August, 1865, when he resigned as Brevet BrigadierGeneral. He made an honorable record for bravery and sagacity, for courage and unflinching constancy to the country.

He is now one of the Editors of the Chicago Evening Post, an evening paper of this city, is a successful journalist, and sustains with his pen the policy for which he fought with his sword.

Thus in our country the citizen becomes the soldier, and the soldier is merged in the citizen. War calls up an army line a million strong, while peace finds so many accessions to her sons of toil!

General Hamilton Bogart Dox, was born in Albany, New York, April 28, 1827. He resided there until 1848, when he removed to Buffalo, New York, where he remained till 1854, and then took up his residence in Chicago. Here he was Cashier of the Exchange Bank of H. A. Tucker & Co., until 1860, when he was appointed Cashier of the Bank of Milwaukee. He returned the same year to Chicago, to take the cashiership of the Marine Bank. In the fall of 1863, he was authorized to recruit three companies for the 12th cavalry, which duty he performed, and joined the regiment with a battalion, on its return home on veteran furlough, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel. On the resignation of Colonel Davis he was commissioned Colonel and commanded the regiment from August, 1865, until its muster out. He was subsequently brevetted a Brigadier-General for gallant and meritorious services-a promotion he richly deserved.

CHAPTER XXIV.

GRANT'S ARMY-VICTORY.

GRANT'S ARMY-SIEGE OF PETersburg-FutilE EFFORTS OPENING OF SPRING-LOSSES -GRANT'S STRATEGY-REBEL Iron-clad DASH-EXTENSION OF UNION LEFt-SheriDAN'S COMMAND-HIS GREAT RAID-REACHES WHITE HOUSE-LEE'S DASH ON FORT STEEDMAN-RECAPTURED-REBEL PRISONERS-IMPORTANT POSITION GAINED-ADVANCE ON THE UNION LEFT-FIFTH AND SECOND CORPS-FACE NORTHWARD-WHITEOAK ROAD-FIVE FORKS REACHED AND ABANDONED-SHERIDAN REINFORCED-LONGSTREET COMES TO HELP LEE'S RIGHT-AYER'S DIVISION BROKEN-GRIFFIN AND HUMPHREYS THE REBEL LION AT BAY-SHERIDAN AGAIN AT FIVE FORKS-DEVINS AND DAVIES-ENEMY CONCENTRATE ON SHERIDAN-NIGHTFALL-AYERS' DIVISION-SHERIDAN'S ADVANCE-FIVE FORKS AGAIN-ORDERS TO WARREN-HIS REMOVAL-UNION ASSAULT VICTORY-PETERSBURG-PARK'S ASSAULT-WRIGHT-HUMPHREYS'-GIBBONS TAKES GREGG AND ALEXANDER-MILES GOES TO SHERIDAN-ENEMY DRIVENSUTHERLAND'S DEPOT-HILL KILLED-LEE'S RIGHT WING GONE-TEN THOUSAND LOST-DESPERATION-LEE'S TELEGRAM TO DAVIS-EXCITEMENT IN RICHMOND-WEITZELL-ENTRANCE INTO RICHMOND "RICHMOND OURS!"-EXCITED AFRICAN-THE COUNTRY-GRANT'S POLICY-LEE ATTEMPTS RETREAT-CHESTERFIELD-AMELIA COURT HOUSE SHERIDAN REACHES JETERSVILLE-CUTS DANVILLE RAILWAY-DEEP CREEK— PAINE'S CROSS ROADS-DEATONVILLE-CROOKS-EWELL'S CORPS CAPTURED-ORDGENERAL THEODORE REED-LEE OVER THE RIVER-HUNGER IS KING-LEE'S OFFICERS SAY SURRENDER-BLOODY FIGHTING-GRANT DEMANDS THE SURRENDER OF LEE'S ARMY-LEE'S ANSWER-GRANT'S TERMS-SHERIDAN MISTAKEN-LEE HEADS TOWARD LYNCHBURG-CHANGES AND COMES BETWEEN LEE AND SUPPLIES-APPOMATTOX STATION -LEE PROPOSES DIPLOMACY-ATTEMPTS TO CUT THROUH SHERIDAN'S CAVALRY"WHAT! INFANTRY!"-WHITE FLAG-GRANT'S ANSWER-LEE PROPOSES SURREN DER-CORRESPONDENCE-THE ARMY OF "NORTHERN VIRGINIA "-GRANT GOES TO WASHINGTON-HIS REPORT-HIS PLANS SUCCESSFUL.

THE

Efforts had been

HE siege before Petersburg went slowly on. made and failed to secure the South-side Railroad, and Hancock sustained a severe assault from Lee, but repulsed it. The army of the James attempted to drive the enemy on the Williamsburg and York River railroads, but failed, though a work of considerable importance was carried, and so the army rested from any grand movement from October until the opening of the spring campaign. The army under Grant and Meade had lost from May 5, 1864, to