The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-05

mated as the 9Th Illinois VOL Cav. Regl- |
ment, of which he was colonel through the
war. At the desperate battle ofsStewart's
Plantation, Jackson county, Arkansas,
where the enemy were defeated, Col.
Bracket was severely wounded, on the
9th of June 1862. The next month he
received his majors commission in the lst
U. s., Cavalry and was Aid de- Camp to
the governor of Illinois. In 1863 he was
chief of cavalry of department of Mis-
souri,, and mastering and disbursing Off
Ger at st, Louis. In 1864 he was
Assistant Inspector Gen'l of Cavalry, De-
partment of the Cumberland, and engaged
in the battles in front of Atlanta. Georgia,
and the battles of Nashville, Tenn. He
was breyetted Major for gallant services in
the Arkansas campaign; Lieut.. Col. for
gallant and meritorious services in the
Atlanta campaign; and Colonel for gallant
and meritorious services during the war.
In 1865 he was in command of LIST U. S.
Cavalry at New Orleans, La. In the year
1866 he proceeded to California Uia Pan
anna, and in that year and the succeeding
years of 1867 add 1868, was commanding
posts Of Preside, Drum barracks and Camp
near Los Angeles, California, Fort Church
i'll and Districts of Nevada and Summit
Lake in Nevada, Fort Vancouver in Wash
ington Teri June 9th, 1868, he was COM
stoned Lieut.. Col. End L. S. Cavalry, and
went on service in Arizona. In 1869 he
commanded the End L. s. Cavalry at Fort
Pherson in Nebraska, and led a battalion
of that regiment to Fort Ellis, Montana
Terri, to distribute supplies to Crow In
dams on the Yellowstone, and remained in
command there to close of the year. At
Omaha Barracks in the year 1870. In 1871,
commanding at Fort Steele. In 1872, com
handing at Fort Bridger, Wyoming. At
Camp Stansbsugh. Wyoming. in 1873, and
in 1874 and 1875, at Fort Saunders, Wy
oming Teri. In the year 1865, Col Brack-
EFT published, through the Harper Brothers,
New York, History of the U. S. Cavalry,
He is now with his brother, VIM. Bracket,
Esq, i'll Chicago, and is in poor health, but
hopes soon to be able to join his regiment.
He never fancied the hard application to
details in the Office Of newspaper, but he
was good writer and man of brains and
culture. AS brave and gallant soldier
bic raoord 10 ohova raDrooob
RAYMOND AND WHARTON.
The 4AdUertiSer, of Sept IA, 1858, con-
tsins the yaledictory of Mr.. Bennett, who,
since the retirement of Col Bracket,
about year previously, had been the sole
editor and proprietor. The same issue
also contains the introduction of the new
proprietors, Thomas r. Raymond and
Oliver P. Wharton.
Mr.. Raymond was born in 1919, 10 Pots
dam, NY; educated in a common school,
aud at the St. Lawrence Academy, founded
by his father, and lastly in a printing
office at Potsdam, and afterwards worked
at Ogdensburgh, Utica, Rome and Canaan.
daigua, n. Y. He removed to Ohio il
! 1882, 10 which state he resided for seven
| teen years, and during this time he was at
different periods interested in the publica-
ton cf papers at Urbana, Gambler, Sidney
| and twice at Cincinnati, q. He moved t
Chicago in the fall of l849, and from there
to Rock Island in spring of 1853, where hi
resided six years, during which time ~
was twice connected with the AdUertiSer, il
company with O. p Wharton. After BIZ
first dissolution with Wharton he opened I
job printing Office in Gothic Block, over tht
stores now occupied by Joseph Baker anC
by Geo. L. GUST, in Buford's Block. From
here he went to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1859
and from thence returned to Chicago il
the fall of 1861, where he remained
ten years. Soon after tho great fire il
1871 he removed to Lake Superior, residing
at Bayfield, and Ashland three years, from
thence, in the fall of 1874, to Colo
RADIO, and is now residing at COLORADO
Springs near Pixies Peak.
u Mr.. Wharton was born in Muskinguu
county, Ohio, May Goth, 1880, near tn
town of Cumberland, in Guernsey county
} aud educated, principally, in the common
, schools, but once attended what was calle
an Academy couple Of sessions, wher
he learned a very little latin, some of tn
higher branches Of English, and consider
able of what is known as ''devilment.
After he was Is years of age he attende,
school no more, but cerked in a countr
store till the spring of 1913, when be wen
to learn the printing business in Cam
bridge, Ohio, with man by the name o
Richard Hatton, with whom he Remained
till he was able to ''set up" as Jour
printer, in 1851 or thereabouts He cam
, to Rock Island about the end of Septem
Der, 1858, and, with I. r. Raymond, bough
r the "AdvertiSer" Of Frank Bennett, The
started "Ihe Tri aoeekly Adrertiser" Dec
, Sd, 1853. The partnership continued
: September Is, 1854, when it was dissolve
! by mutual consent, Wharton moving tn
news Office to the third story of Lees hard
. ware and stove store, then called cit
Hall, " and Raymond opening a job print
+ ing Office in Gothic Block--afterward tn
: Register Office.
f Mr. Wharton started The Daily AZ
, oertiser," on the 18th of September, 1855
3 and he writes that he stood under an
= over the enterprise till the spring of 1855