Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-10-04
From the Detroit Advertiser.
COL. JAMES A. mULLUCAN.

The following sketches of Col. James A.
Mulligan, the brave defender of Lexington,
Mo-, we learn from gentleman ofthis city
who has been intimately acquainted with
him for the past FIVE or six years.
Col. James A. Mulligan was born in the
city of Utica, New York, in the year 1929,
and is consequently in his thirty-second
year. His parents were natives of Ireland.
His mother, after the death of his father
which took place when he was a child, re-
moved TO Chicago, where she has resided
with her son for the past twenty-three years.
She married respectable Irish American
in Chicago, named Michael Lantry, who
has steadily watched with fathers solici-
tude the expanding mind of the brave young
soldier. He was educated at the Chicago
College of North Chicago, under the super
intendence of the Rev. Mr.. KinseIlar now
of New York city. He is a strict member
of the Catholic church. In 1852, 1853
and 1854 he read law in the Office ofthe
Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, Congressman from
the Chicago District. For short time he
edited the Western Tablet, semi religious
weekly newspaper, in Chicago. In 1856, be
was admitted an attorney -at-law in Chica-
go. At this time he held the position of
Second Lieutenant in the Chicago Shields
Guards, one Of the companies attached to
the Irish brigade now in Missouri, and which
has done so we'll at Lexington. In the
winter of 1857, Senator Fitch, of Indiana,
rendered him clerkship in the Depart
ment of the Interior. He accepted the po-
sition and spent the winter at Washington.
During his residence in Washington he cor
responded with the Utica Telegraph, over
the Nom de Plume Of "Satan." After his
return from Washington he was elected
captain of the Shields Guards. On the
news of the bombardment of Fort Sumter,
he threw his soul into the national cause
The Irish American companies held a
meeting, of whom he was chairman. Short
! ly afterwards he went to Washington with
letter. written by the late Senator Doug.
las on bis death bed, to the President, ten.
dering a regiment to be called the "Irisl
Brigade" He was elected Colonel, and
Immediately went to work with will The
course of the Brigade" up to the battle o
) Lexington, is we'll known; it has noblr
bravely, and honorbly done its duty.
Col Mulligan is worthy of all praise. A
purer, better man, does not live in tn,
State of Illinois. Since he was able to tel
the difference between ale and water, glas
Of spiritous or malt liquor has not passe,
his lips. He is rigid temperance man, al
!, though he is jocund and whole-souled to
fault. He is six feet three inches in high
; with wiry, elastic frame-a large, lustrou;
hazel eye-an open, frank Celtic face, stamp
ed with courage, pluck and independence
surmounted with a bushy profusion of hai
tinctured with gray. Honorable in all re
lations-respectod by all--he has won hi
way by untiring industry and unquestiona
BILE courage. On the 26th day of October
1859, he was married to Miss Marian NJ
gent, by the Roman Catholic Bishop {
Chicago.
A fine scholar, good speaker, brilliau
writer, a promising lawyer, was he whe
the banner of the Union was insuted.-
Now he is-long may he continue so-on
of the brave defenders Of the Union. I
one of his last letters received by the gen
!, tleman above alluded to, he says: "If die
ifI fall in defense of our laws and Constitu
ton, let my example be followed by all
by every man who loves the fame and re
nown of the fathers who made us grea
and honored people,"