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Show Emil Frey. Emil Frey, president of the Swiss republic, was a soldier in an Illinois J regiment during the war of the rebellion. rebel-lion. At the beginning of hostilities he was employed near Chicago as a farmhand, farm-hand, and on July 8, 1861, he enlisted as a sergeant with Company E of the Twenty-fourth Illinois infantry. For a time he was held as a hostage by the Confederac)' and confined in Libby prison. pris-on. He left the. army a major writh a record for distinguished service, but with a shattered constitution. Chicago Mail. |