Jacob Frane Company K, 92nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry |
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CIVIL WAR INFORMATION FOR JACOB FRANE, JR, HIS RELATIVES, AND ANNA EYSTER FRANE RELATIVES JACOB FRANE JR MILITARY NOTES Anna Eyster Franes Frane Family History read to her children on her 80th birthday Jacob Frane JR was mustered into the U.S. Service, September 4, 1862 in Company K of the 92d Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was discharged July 5, 1865. Later his company was mounted and they were called Mounted Infantry He served almost 3 years. He was in several engagements at Chattanooga where his regiment was the first to enter the town. He also was at Look Out Mountain where the famous battle was fought. Once when he was carrying dispatches, the trail narrow, the night was dark, he was holding the tail of his white mule, when he came to a log across the path. . The mule jumped, kicking up his heels, leaving Jacob and his dispatches on the lower side of an almost blind trail. Other engagements he was in were at Resaca, two raids around Atlanta and Nicojack Gap where several men were killed after they had surrendered. Also several minor ones in Marietta, Georgia where his tent mate, James Bloss was shot. Jacob and another soldier attempted to carry him off the field but could not, so secured an ambulance, getting him to town. He died that night and they buried him by the light of a candle lantern and the light of the moon with fleecy clouds scudding over it. This man had lived in the pup tent with him for months. Near the close of the war, Jacob was wounded in the knee by a spent bullet that hit his horses shoulder. From various hospitals he was finally sent to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was discharged July 5, 1865. He returned to Ogle County, Illinois, and entered into civilian life, taking up, or rather resuming farming, his life occupation. Biographical Sketches copied from Biographical and Historical Record of Ringhold and Decatur Counties, Iowa by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 In August, 1862, he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion and was assigned to Company K, Ninety Second Mounted Infantry, Army of the Cumberland, and served two years and 10 months, participating in several severe engagements, including those at Chickamauga, Resaca, and Jonesboro. He was wounded near Rolla, the ball first hitting his horse and then his right leg, near his knee joint, and was in the hospital at the time of his discharge, in July, 1865.
Private Jacob Frane JR Military Record, Book Mark R and P 369330
Company Description Book: Description; age 23, 6 foot, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, born in Lycoming,County Pennsylvania, occupation, farmer,
Hospital Muster Roll of Foster U.S.A. General Hospital, New Berne, North, Carolina, ward 4 [Co 16, 92 Regt all volunteer] |
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