The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-09-15
The Democratic Candidate for
state Treasurer.


Among those whom the radicals are now
denouncing as 'copperheads,' "rebel sympa'
thizers," &c, is Col. Jesse J. PHlLLIPs, the
democratic nominee for the Office of State
Treasurer of Illinois. We find in the St
Louis Republican the following military rec-
ord of this modern "rebel: :"
Among the three Union soldiers nominated
by the Illinois State Democratic and Con-
dav. was Brevet Brigadier General JESSE J..
PHILLIPS, for the Office of Treasurer. Turns
ing to our military biographical scrap>boOk.
we find that his record is very notable
and honorable one. He enlisted ia the 9Th
Illinois Infantry at Hillsboro, Montgomery
county in the three months service, on the
23i of April, 1861, and was elected Captain
His company Was the twelfth in the Stat
that was accepted. On the 10Th of April, be
was elected Major. Upon the expiration or
the three months term the regiment was
ganizcd in the field. when PHILLIPs WAS re-
elected MAJOR. The Ninth Illinois was one
of two regiments that under IRAST, took pos
session of Paduceh in September, 1861. In
November, Major PHTLBIPs was promoted
to the lieutenant Co.ouelcy. He WAS With
his regiment at Fort Done.on, where eight
companies Of that regiment we're in action,
out Of which two hundred meu and officers
were killed or wounded. In this battle Coll
onel PrIrLIPs had his horse hot under him
He was also With his regiment at Shilo, when
out of Of five hundred and seventy men over
three hundred and Fifty were killed and woun-
ded. In this engagement Col. PHILLIPs
received three severe wounds and had horse
killed under hi in. la March 1868, the regi-
ment WAS mounted, and PHlLLIPs WAS IN
com mmand of 1t during the greater part OF the
remainder of the service, the Colonel MER-
sEY) then commanding q brigade.
Col PHILLIPS WAS engaged ia the fight at
TupelIO under Col. CoaXYS: also IN the
prominent raids in the Tuscumbia valley and
M the affair at Florence. He was in com
mand Of the expedition that captured Grena.
da, when sixty one locomotives and several
hundred cars Were destroyed 10 prevent their
use b. ,thc enemy, IN their transportation of
troops and supplies. His CON nand in that
expedition consisted Of a division composed
OF uine r gimenis. Colonel T. was engaged
IN between twcu,y aud thirty skirmishGs IN
Northern Ms>Issi vi and Northern Alabama,
in ona Of which, at Wyatt, Miss, he had "A
horse killed under him. lie was in command
OF the cavalry that led ',e advance of the Ar
my Of the TenncSsee, u:des the gallant M
Pherson, III gettiu- possession of Suke Gap,
in Georgia, to turu the right Of Resacs, May
9th, 1864. Ia this euEa cement he was severe
" wounded and had another horse shot un>
der him.
Colonel Phillips. after the brilliant service
reco- led above, rejoinei his regiment AT Ros-
wei, Georgia, o. the eth OF July. 1854. He
was acting as aid to General Dodge, COM
/ -. l. l., IL a.
during the memorable action of the 21th of
July. so conspIcuous was the service of
Colonel Phillips at this time. that General
Dodge, in his official report, paid high cou-
pIIment to h.s bravery aud meritoriuus con-
duet. lie Was at once placed Ia con mani
of a brigade Oi infantry, which lie ipn-h; with
rare courage and skill in the acii"n before
Atlanta on the 2Sih OF July. The t-rn i.r
which Colonel Phillips regiment had enlisted
expired upon the 10Th, but Colonel Z. remain
ed In CON .naud Of the recruits until the first
of September. After the capture of Atlanta,
the war being substantially over, Colonel
Phillips resigned and returned 10 his hJme
ia iliil,bgro. 1t is here proper to mention
that he sa, tar,iiiy brevetted Colonel and also
BrI "a her General, but We have not tire date
OF these commissions.
Colonel Phillips, throughout his service in
the war, had the reputation of being one Of
the bes, aud hardest fighting men in the army.
This would be difficult to gainsav, considering
that he received four severe and t~ o confused
wounds and had iour horses killed under
him and two injured by the enemy. Though
he is somewhat SCARED. and halts Little in
his walk, he still stands erect and has an i'm.
POSING presence. There is fire in his eyes
and not particle of cowardly Jacobinism in
his heart The Colonel is good talker, and
will be heard from during the canvass.