The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-29

january lZtn. loSO, tO JdHudry Nn, 1SS9. January 10th. 1904. he was appointed a vice Commission, as Democrat, by Pres ident Roosevelt, and was at once elected by his Republican associates to be Pres- ident of the Board. which position he now holds He removed from Danville to Urbana, thence to Champaign. Illinois: but has been a permanent resident of chicago since May, 1883.
 He was married in 1867 to Miss Ada line M. Grig,ys. of Urbana, Illinois, and Mrs. Black who accompanies him, Is sought for a speaker and singer at army camp-hres and banquets as often as her gifted husband.
 Record in Great War.
 The history of the 37th Illinois regi- ment is General Blacks history. The regiment was organized in September, 1861. and Mrs Jesse Benton Fremont, wife of the noted 'Pathfinder," who was then in command of the Western army, presented it's battle flags at St. Louis. In February, 1862, 1t became part of the Army of the Frontier under Generals Cur tis and Heron. At the battle of Pea Ridge it formed part of the Uuion army of 15,0o0 which defeated Prices army of 35.l0 and saved St. Louis.
 During that summer. under command of Lieutenant Colonel Black, the regiment defeated a large force of Confederates and Indians at Neosho, Missouri, taking over 300 prisoners, and a large number of horses, mules and wagons, to accom- plish which 1t marched 100 miles from Cassville and fought the battle in two days. It guarded the frontier through the summer of 1882. having frequent fights with rowing bands under Coffee and Quantrell.
 In October 1862, it was in action at Newtonia, Missouri, and Fayetteville. Arkansas. One account of its rapid marching qualities and that 1t was always on the march in pursuit of the enemy when not actually engaged in bat tie with 1t, the regiment gained the sobriquet of The Illinois Greyhounds," by which 1t was known all over Mis- souri and Arkansas.
 While at Camp Lyon. Missouri, the regiment was ordered to proceed to the relief of General Blunt. then besieged at Sugar Hill, Arkansas. Leaving the bag gage to follow. the regiment marched a distance of 112 miles in three days, and on the morning of December 7th, 1862. engaged its enemy at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. The battle lasted all day and was one of the most hotly contested and bloody of the war. considering the number engaged. The regiment return ed to Prairie Grove and spent the winter and spring of 1893 in marching from point to point In Missouri and Arkansas, having numerous skirmishes with the enemy. until April, 1863, when it proceed ed to St. Louis and thence to Cape Girardieu. Missouri. where 1t drcve Its enemy across the ,sunken country to Chalk Bluffs on the St. Francis River.
 12 1Q62 the TeRiuAnt went to Vicksburg and took a prominent part in the siege, marching with every man into the captured city, July 4th. 1863. July E, 1863, the regiment pro- ceeded to Yazoo City and captured that place, after a hard fight, taking many prisoners. thence to Port Hudson and New Orleans where 1t arrived Septem- Der 29th. 1868. In battle at Morgan's Bend. October l. 1ss3 and in an other engagement on the 11th.
 Colonel Black was then placed in com- mand of a brigade composed of the 18th Indiana. 20th Iowa and 37th IllinoiS October i3. 1883. with his brigade. Colonel Black took possession of Brownsville, Texas From that date until Februa- ry, 1864. 1t guarded the Rio Grande.
 April 3D. 1884. the brigade engaged with General Forrest. whom it forced to re- treat. Ruturhing to Memphis, the bri- gade constructed the celebrated Steam boat Bridgev over which General Banks escaped from General Dick Taylor. June if. 1864, it was attached to the 18th army corps. When this corps went east the 37th was attached to the 18th army corps in General Lawlers division. Octo- her 7 1864. for the first time went Into winter auaters at Duvalrs Bluff. Arkan- sas. January 4. 1865, the regiment went to New Orleans, thence to Barrancas, Florida March II. 1865. marched to Pen sacola, as part of the 1st brigade. End division. 18th army corps General Steele commanding. Marched across bridges built by themselves to Pollard. Alabama.
 On April 9th. 1865 1t stormed and cap hard fought battle. April 14th, 1865, en- tered Mobile. April goth, 1865, em- parked in steamers and proceeded to Cahaba Ala Had an action with bushwhackers near Selma. Reached Montgomery Ala. April 29th, 1865 May lst returned 10 Selma; reached Mobile May 18th, and Galveston, Texas, July 1, 1865, thence to Sabine Pass. Beaumont and Houston, stationed along the rail- road landing out of Houston.
 General Black resigned August 18th, 1865, and the regiment was mustered out at Houston. May 18th. 1866, having been fin service four years and ten months, participated in thirteen hard fought bat ties and sieges, and innumerable skirmishes, and marched distance of I7.s4s miles, 4,560 by steam and 3,2S6 on foot.
 In Lambs Biographical Dictionary Is found this statement about General Black:
 Throughout the war he displayed qualities that commanded the admira ton and commendatfOn not only of his immediate command, but of his superior officers. He was prominent with his regiment in thirteen battles and skirmishes and in two great sleges Al the close of the war he resigned his commission and returned to his home in Danviiie, Illinois. Took up the study of law at Chicago Elected to the Fifty-third Congress as Representative a, large from Illinois, as a Democrat. Here he commanded the attention of the House by his exhaustive and able speeches on the tariff. the Federal eleG. ton law, pensions and the Hawaiian im- broglio He took exception to the pur- chasing clause or the sherman silver biI | and voted for the coinage of the seign"r- age as contemplated by the Bland bill | He was a consistent, but conservative | advocate of silver
 Gen. Black and Gen. Gordon.
 The following extracts from advance | shee.s If the journal of the thirty-seventh | National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at San Francisco Tn August, 19O3 shows the relations that existed between General John B. Cor don and General Black:
 At the meting of the National Coun- ,F ipte ra