Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-01
Col. j. A. HuiIigan.

We find in the Detroit Advertise
yesterday sketch of Col. Mulligan, Whid
Is, 10 the extent IL goes, So nearly accurar
that we publish it as generally reliable
Col Mul igan some ye ,rs agp aec"mpahh
Stevens ON one of his expeditions iiruHn
Central America. His graphic de.cri,-
tions of the events of that Journey We hGr
Listened to many times with the creates
pleasure. As an orator he has Few slEe'.
US; his command of language, his earnat
ness and his commanding voice. all ssrs
to make his addresses peculiarly impre,slR
As ii writer he possesses great foree-brii-
liant. eloquent, and at times when oeeasiI
requires II, intensely bitter We ezn o..
firm from personal khovleise al thss '
SAID # his personal cilaracte- and babi.
The following sketch ofC.,l. ,tasA rs.
ligan, the brave defeBuer of Lexin ion, M
We learn from a gentleman Of this city Eto
has been intimately acquainted with BIZ
for the past five or six year:
Col. James A. MulIgan was born in d,
cry of Utica. New York, in the wear lS12
and Is consequently in his Ihirty-seoAi
year His parents were naiives Of lresht
llis mother, after the death If his flibs.
which t""k place when he was child r.
novel 10 Chicago, where she has Te.i-.
with her son for the past twentS-ih1-
years. She married a respectable int
American in Chicago. named Michse L.
try. who has steadily watched with isls-
er's solicitude the expanding mind Of ~
brave young soldier. He was educated ii
the Catholic College Of North ChieagO. Ct
der the superintendent of the Rev. W
kinsellsr, now Of New York CITY. lie
was a strict member IF the Catholic cbuFSt-
In 1852, 1853 and 1854 he resd law 10 10
Office of the Hon Isaac N. Arnold, Coz
gresham from the Chicago district. ~
short time he edited the Western 7Ots
semi weekly newspaper. In ls56
was admitted an attorney at Law in Chlezf
At this time he held the position Of seed
lieutenant in the Chicago Shields Quart
one of the companies attached 10 the Ira
Brigade now in Missouri, and which hS
done so we'll at Lexington.
In the winter of 1857 Senator Fitch ID
Giana, rendered him a elerksbi2 in The "
partment of the interior. lie aceeptedh
position and spent the winter at Wsshlrf
ton. During his residence in Washinea
he cnrresponded with the Utica TekggP
over the Nom de Plume Of Santa" Ahs
bis return from Washington he was eleds
captain Of the Shields Guards. On the Den
arriving Of the bombardment Of Fort s0a,
ter, he threw bis soul into the DstIoot
cause. The Irish American companies be-
a meeting. Of which he was chafnsl
Shortly afterwards he went to WashintN
With letter, written by the late Sen''i
Douglas On his death bed, to the Preslc.i,'
rendering a reg ment to be called the,
Brigade" He was elected colonel, and ~
mediately went to work with Will "
course of the "brigaie," up to zoe os'tf
at Lexington, is well knorB,a has n0S'
bravely, and honorably done its duty.
Col. Mulligan is worthy Of all praise
purer, better man does not live in The sI
of Illinois. Since he was able to tell
difference between ale and water gss
spirituOus or malt liquor has not Pas"
his lips lie is rigid Temperance ni-
although he is jocund and whole sonis'
fault lie is six feet three ibebe
height. with wiry. elastic France.
lustrious. hazel eye-an open. frsnftn
face, stamped with courage, pluck $50
dependence, surmoun'ed with bsshI T.
fusion of hair. tincthred with gray.
orable in all relatious-respected BY
he has won his way by unuirg indu.sii
and unques: phal,le courage. On tne
day Of October. 1859, he was marr'eo
Miss Marian Nugent, by the Roman O'D
Ole Bishop of Chicago. -r.,,
A fine scholar. u good speaker, orill-
writes, promising lawyer, was be ~.
the banner of.ths Union was insulieo. y
he is long may he continue so-1n'
the brave defenders of the Union. -
of his last letters received by the gs'!!lssI1iS
above allowed to, be says: "If de- nlx
in defence ofoHr laws and eonstitonO.
my example be followed by all by s ,,I
man who loves the fame aud seDown u -
fathers who made us great and h0'"'
people,"
II is only those who have done eo'Ns
who can fancy they ear do everything