Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-11

The Nominee for Vice-President

Gen. John A. Logan has Tbeen before
the public since the war, in which he won
an enviable record For the past four
years he has been especially conspicuous.
He has one of those who ran the Grant
campaign, and with Conkling and Cam
eron shared the honor of heading the
memorable Grant guard at the Chicago
convention. His zeal for pension bills
and his hot oppositiontO Fitz,John Por-
ter. about whose restoration to the army
he has made some very long speeches,
have also kept him before the people
In 1923 Dr. John Logan emigrated
from Ireland and settled in Jackson
county, ILL.,, where on Feb. 9, 1926, John
A. Logan was born. His mother, who
was Elizabeth jenkins, was a native of
Tennessee. The early life of John A.
Logan was spent in jackson county,
where he obtained some education from
his father and such school-teachers as
CHANGED to teach ii the district. At the
outbreak of the Mexican war, young
Logan volunteered and was chosen
lieutenant in company of the First
Illinois Infantry AS a soldier he did
good service, and was for some time adj
iutant of his regiment. In the fall of
1913. upon his return to his home, he
commenced the study of law in the Office
of his uncle, Alexandria NJ. Jenkins,
formerly lieutenant governor of Illinois.
In November, 1S49, he was elected clerk
o. jackson county. In 1850 he attended
course of law lectures at Louisville,
KY, receiving his diploma in 1851, when
he entered into practice with his uncle.
The following year he was elected prose-
cutting attorney of the Third judicial disx
trict, and in the fall of the same year he
was chosen to the state legislature, to
which position he was three times re-
elected. In 1856 he was Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket for the
Ninth Congressional district, and voted
for James Buchanan for president. Two
years later he was elected a member of
congress from the same district, receiving
a large Democratic majority, and at the
expiration of his term he was reelected.
In the campaign of 1860 he gave his
ardent support to Stephen A. Douglas.
There have been rumors to The effect
that at the outbreak of the war Logan
was not the strongest kind of Union
man, it has been asserted, indeed, that,he
at first thought of casting his fortunes
with the South and undertook to s.raise
volunteers for the confederate army But
the story has been denounced as ma
licious invention of his enemies and it is
certain that he was among the first to
enlist for the war of the Union. He
attended the called session of congress in
July, 1861, and Immediately afterward
joined the troops going to the front. He
was in the first battle of Bull Run and
amorg the last to leave the field.
Returning to his home Sept. /, he
assisted in raising troops and Sept. Is
the 31st regiment of Illinois infantry was
organized, with Logan commissioned as
colonel. At Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Shiloh and Corinth he dis
played great bravery. As commander
of the first division of the right wing of
the Thirteenth Corps, Gen. Logan
participated in the siege of Vicksburg.
Gen. Logan succeeded Gen. Mcpherson
in the command of the army of the
Tennessee. Gen. Sherman in his report
accorded the success of the Atlanta cam
paign to Gen. Logan-and he continued
to take front rank with the bravest and
ablest generals until the close of the
rebellion. II. 1866 Gen. Logan was
elected Congressman at-large. In 1870.
Logan was elected by the Illinois legisla.
ture to the United States senate to sue
coed Richard Yates. After serving his
term he was defeated by the Independ-
ents, who united upon the Hon. David
Dayis as his successor, but he was again
elected to succeed Oglesby. in 1879 He
had been especially active in the senate
of late years in fighting the restoration
of Fitz John Porter to the army.