Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-22 | Page 1 | Recalls War Days

oo Meeting of.Survivors of First Illinois Troops to go to the Front Chicago, April 22. Survivors of the Cairo expedition of 025 men, the first Illinois troops to go to the front In ' the Civil war, met In their fourth and , probably last reunion -esterday. . It was Sunday night, fifty years aso, that the six companies of Infantry and one battery marched to tho Illinois Central depot and took trains for the south. Eyery ten vcars singe 1S81 tho i survUors havq held reunions. Ye3- terday two score' of gray-halred men gathered in Memorial hall and gave ; scattered rospouces o the roll calls I of the original companies. . By their arrival In Cairo, April 22, ' the Chicago tioops prevented Its oc- I cupation by Confederate troops. Cairo commanded navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. on