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Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veterans
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This is a collection of certificates required by the
State of Illinois and issued by the County Clerk for U. S. War
Veterans who died in DeKalb County. The intent of the State was,
"to provide for the registration of burial places of soldiers and
sailors serving in all United States Wars and for locating such burial
places and reporting them to the Federal Government and transporting
to such burial places and setting up headstones provided by the
Federal Government". The collection is not complete. The
information on the certificates is similar to that information on a
death certificate. Click here
to see sample and list of names. |
Soldiers of the War Of 1812 Buried in
DeKalb County
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HistoryCentral.com describes
the War Of 1812 as "one of the forgotten wars of The United States".
The war
lasted for over two years, and while it ended much like it started; in
stalemate; it was in fact a war that once
and for all confirmed American Independence. The offensive actions of the US
failed in every attempt to capture
Canada. On the other hand, the British Army was successfully stopped when it
attempted to capture Baltimore
and New Orleans. There were a number of American Naval victories in which
American vessels proved themselves superior to similarly sized British vessels. These victories coming
after victories in the Quasi War
(an even more forgotten war) launched American Naval traditions.
View This List
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Papers of Civil War
Soldiers from DeKalb County
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This is a collection of papers related to an
individual's service in the Civil War. The collection includes
receipts, enlistment papers, discharge papers or general
correspondence of some other sort. Some of the papers are
written in the hand of the commanding officer or soldier and may
contain the soldier's signature. Copies are available.
Click here to
request a copy. |
TO FIND YOUR SOLDIER'S NAME
Use this handy Go-To bar
to navigate to the name you are seeking.
Grand Army of the Republic
Potter Post No. 12 Pictures
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Potter Post No. 12 was the name given the DeKalb County
branch of an organization of survivors of the Civil War. The
Potter Post assembled a collection of photographs of it's members in
1892. These photographs were originally on the rotunda wall of
the Sycamore Public Library. Obituaries and other historical
information have been added to the collection. Information about
the individual careers, locations and ancestors of these men is also
included in this collection. Click here
to see the list of names. |
Grand Army of the Republic
Potter Post No. 12 Reunion Encampment Database
After the Civil War had ended and the
soldiers who survived the war had gone home, some of these veterans
began to miss the friendships and camaraderie that they had shared
during the war. Veterans’ clubs began to spring up all around the
country. Many were local and most did not last very long, but a few
went on to become nationwide organizations. One of these was the Grand
Army of the Republic.
The Grand Army of the Republic, often referred to as the GAR, was
founded at Decatur, Illinois on April 6, 1866. Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Stephenson founded the organization on the three cardinal principles
of Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty and these principles guided the
GAR throughout its existence. To become a member of the Grand Army a
man must have served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or
Revenue Cutter Service (today’s United States Coast Guard) between
April 9, 1861 and April 12, 1865. He must have been honorably
discharged from the service and have never taken up arms against the
United States of America.
Local organizations were called Posts and it was to a Post that a man
applied for membership in the G.A.R. The Comrades or members of the
Post would vote to accept or reject each applicant and if a man was
rejected from one Post he was banned from joining the organization.
Posts from a state or region joined together to form Departments and
the Departments formed the National Organization. Departments and the
National Organization held conventions called Encampments each year.
Encampments were the ruling bodies of the GAR and delegates would
decide the business of the organization at these meetings.
What started as a veterans and fraternal
organization evolved into a potent political force. The process
started when Gen. John A. Logan was elected Commander-in-Chief in
1867. Gen. Logan is best remembered as the man who established May 30
as Memorial Day. His General Order Number 11, which created Memorial
Day, is still read every year during many communities’ Memorial Day
services.
Source:
http://garmuslib.org/
DeKalb County had an active GAR post.
Hand written attendance records span the years 1886-1908. Not
all years were recorded. The organization appears to have been
very popular with county Civil War veterans as the names of 19 men who
had never attended a previous encampment were recorded in 1908.
The database contains 859 names of
soldiers and guests, the soldier's company and regiment, the GAR post
they were associated with at the first reunion they attended and the
years of attendance.
The Joiner History Room has no other information on these encampments
other than some newspaper articles. The original record cannot
be photocopied.
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Discharge Records of World
War I Soldiers
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Discharge records of the men and women who served in
the World War I have been indexed and archived. Because
supplying the information to the County Clerk was voluntary, the
collection is not complete. Click here to see the list of names. |
Spanish American War
"Honor Roll" Book of World War I Soldiers
Described in the book, "containing a pictorial record
of the gallant and courageous men from DeKalb County, Illinois, U. S.
A., who served in the Great War 1917-1918-1919. Information possibly
available includes a picture of the soldier, his service history,
pictures of other individuals who served in other capacities such as
nurses, war bond drives, etc. There are a number of instances in
which neither the photograph nor the information could be secured.
These names will have a page number of 165-169. Contact the
Joiner History Room for copies of this material.
Click here to see an alphabetical index
of this book. |
World War II Army Enlistment Records
Documenting the Period ca. 1938-1946
World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army
and Army Airforce Personnel from Illinois
Korean War
Vietnam Conflict
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This is a copy of an article from the November 1988
DeKalb County Magazine talking about the DeKalb chapter of the VietNow
organization. It includes a list of names of the men from DeKalb
County who died in Vietnam during the Conflict.
Click here to see the article. |
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