The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31
BIOGRAPHICAL.

BIOGRAPHICAL.
General Logan's career has been an interest
ing one-even a romantic one. He was bora in
Jackson County, ILL.,, February 8, 1926.
General Logan was first heard of out
of the ordinary routine of rural life when at
the age of twenty, he enlisted in the First Hi
nois Regiment and started for the Mexican
war. He came out Of it a Lieutenant aud
Adjutant A few years later on, after
studying law and getting admitted to the bar,
he was elected district attorney of Jackson
County. which was his first entrance INTO
politics. AT that time, as is well known,
General Logan was Democrat. 10
gan was warm advocate of Stephen A Doug
las, and an adherent of his fortunes. He Was
warm friend, devoted champion and q hard
hitter, and these qualities soon brought h. N
to the notice Of Douglass who at once touh
great interest in him, and finally, in 1888,
after several terms in the Legislature,
got him nomination and election TO
Congress. Logan was thirtythree years old
when he took his seat from the Southern Hi
nois district. He served two years, and in 1859
was reelected, and in 1851 met with the Con-
gress which was called by President Lincoln
IN extra session, at the time the war cloud
had burst and the storm was upon us.
General Logan began his career in the war for
the Union when he left his seat in the House of
Representatives, shouldered an Enfield rife,
and marched as an unenlsted and ununliormed
volunteer to the field of Bull Run in April,
1861. He resigned his seat, came to Illinois,
and took the stump for the Union. His stirring
eloQuence was such that he soon had a regi-
ment raised which was designated the Thirty
firstIllinois Infantry, and Logan was commits
stoned its Colonel 1t was ordered to join a
brigade under command of General John A. Nc
Clernand. The regiment numbered ,132 men,
and its first duty was in the attack on Belmont,
Mo-, where the young Colonel had a horse shot
under him.
Logan next appeared with his regiment in
the army in the attack on Forts Henry and
Donelson. In assaulting the latter stronghold
the Thirty-frst was literally cut to pieces the
loss being something like $50. The Lieutenant
Colonel was killed, and Logan himself was shot
in the breast and was carried off the field for
dead 1t was his gallantry in this action tina
won him the single STAR and in March, 1862, h
reported to Grant at Pittsburg Landing, Brig
adier-General.
In November, 1883, Grant was detached from
the command of the Army of the Tennessee,
and Sherman succeeded him. Shermans old
corps, the Fifteenth was at once assigned to
Logan, and he held command OF it until the
close of the war. At the battle of Dallas May
q, 1854, he was again wounded by a shot in the
left arm; nevertheless, he continued Il the
field. carrying his arm in a sling.
But it was on the 22d of July in the great bat
tie in front of Atlanta that Logan most dis
tinguished himself. He was second in command
of the Army of the Tennessee in that desperate
fight. When Mcpherson, his chief, was shot
down at his side Logan at once assumed COM
mand, and riding furiously up and down
the lines, reused the troops to such deeds
of valor as fairly carried every thing
before them.
This was about the end of Logans hard
work, though he accompanied the famous
March to the Sea- and in the movements
which attended the investment of Joe Johnson's
army in North Carolina. Soon after the grand
review in Washington, at which Logan
again commanded the Army of the Tennessee,
he resigned his commission, saying that
as the war was over his duties were
ended He came back to Illinois, was elected
to the Fortieth Congress as a member at large,
and then began a pol. tical career which stamped
him as one of the leading men of the times. He
at once took front rank as debater, and was
at the very lead in the discussion of all the
great measures for the reconstruction of the
Union.
Logan was elected to the Senate from Illint is
in 1871, succeeding Dick Yates. He served one
term, but was defeated for reelection by means
of a combination, which resulted in the election
of David Davis. His return two years ago,
after the Presidential campaign, when it was
supposed that for time at least his public lie
was at an end, is well remembered. In the
Senate he welded no little influence, but his
persistent fight on Fitz John Porter was not
successful.
General Logan was, as nearly every body
remembers, nominated for Vice-President
in the National Republican Conven
ton of 1884, and, being defeated, was
chosen United States Senasc- after stub
born little contest at Springfield in January 81
General Logan married at the beginning of
his career Miss Mary Cunningham, daughter OF
Major CUNNING hhm. of Jackson County. She is
brilliant woman. an active Christian worker
and sagacious and loving counsellor. Gen
eral Logan owed much Of his success in life to
the warm support and gentle influence OF his
cherished wife. They have two childred, one
daughter, married to Major w. F. Tucker,
paymaster in the army, and the other son,
Manning Logan, lad OF nineteen, now In the
real estate business N Washington.