The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-22

the three months service, on the 2Sd of April, |
1861, and was elected captain. His company |
was the twelfth in the state that was accept |
cd. On the 18th of April, he was elected
major. Upon the expiration of the three
month"; term the regiment was organized In
tho field, whom Phillips was reelected major.
The Ninth Illinois was one OF two regiments
in September, 1861. Ia November, MAJOR
Phillips was promoted to the beutenant-coi-
oncy. He was with his regiment at Fort
Donelson, where eight companies OF that reg
iment whore in action, out OF which two hun
dred men and officers were killed OF wounded.
Ia this battle Colonel Phillips had his horse
shot under him He was also with his regl.
msnt at Shiloh, where, out of five hundred
and seventy men, over three hundred and
fifty were killed and wounded. In this en-
gagement Col. Phillips received three severe
wounds and had horse killed under him.
In March, 1868, the regiment was mounted
and Phillips was in command of it during
the greater part of the remainder of the ser
vice, the Colonel Mersey) then commanding
q brigade.
Col. Phillips was engaged in the fight at
Tupello, under Colonel Cornyn; also the
prominent raids in the Tuscumbia valley and
| in the affair at Florence. He was in COM
msnd of the expedition that captured Grena-
| da, when sixty-one locomotives and several
hundred cars were destroy ed to prevent their
use by the enemy in the transportation of
| troops and supplies. His command in that
expedition consisted of division composed
| of nine regiments. Col. P, was engaged in
between twenty and thirty skirmishes in
Northern Mississippi and Northern Alabama,
| in one of which, at Wyatt, Miss, he had q
horse killed under him. He was in command
| OF the cavalry that led the advance of the
| Army of the Tennessee, under the gallan,
Mcpherson, In getting possession of Snake
| Gap, in Georgia. to turn the right OF Resaca,
May 9th, 1864. In this engagement he was
severely wounded and had another horse shot
under him.
| Col. Phillips, after the brilliant service re
corded above, rejoined his regiment at Ros
well, Georgia. on the It'll of July, 1864. Ill
was acting as aid to Gen. Dodge. com mandins
the left wing of the 10th Army Corps, durint
tho memorable action of the 9th of july
So conspicuous was the service of Col. Phil
lips at this time, that Gen. Dodge, in his of
fetal report, paid high compliment to hi
bravery and meritorlous conduct. He was q
| once placed in command of brigade of in
fantry, which he fought with rare courag
| and skill in the action before Atlanta on th'
. 2Sth Of July. The term tor which Col. Phil
lips regiment had enlisted expired upon tn
> | ZOLu, QQk COl. Il TeLuhlH6u IN COnIudHu u
the recruits until the first of September. Al
, ter the capture of Atlantis, the war being sub
stsntially nver, Col. Phillips resigned and re
turned to his home in HIlsboro. Ii is her
proper to mention that he was tardily oreve'
ted colonel and also brigadier e neral, but W
have not the date of these commissions.
t Col. Phillips, throughout his service in tn
war, had the reputation of being one of tn
! best and hardest fighting men in the army
This would be difficult to gainsay. consider
ing that ne received four severe and two con
fused wounds, and had four horses killed IN
: der him and two injured by the enemy
, Though he is somewhat SCARED, and halts
little in his walk, lie still! stands erect an
> has an imposing presence There is fire il
! his eyes and not particle of cowardly ia
oobinism in his heart. The colonel is goo
tslker, and will be heard from during tn
canvass.-S. Louis Republican.