Continued from May 18th. McClurg was in the same regiment as John Peter, who I wrote about earlier this month as a Union veteran from McHenry County in Illinois.
McClurg spent most of the war as an advisor to a series of generals. After the war, he returned to the bookselling house as a junior partner and eventually became senior partner in it and later that company became known as the A.C. McClurg & Co..
At the outbreak of the war, he enlisted as a private in Co. D, 16th Regiment Illinois State militia, which was disbanded after several months and McClurg returned to the bookselling company., but reenlisted with the Crosby Guards, which was merged into the 88th Illinois and he became a captain.
Within a few months, the 88th saw action at the Battle of Perryville.
Shortly after the unit arrived in Nashville, he was named Judge Advocate of the General Court Martial. When Union general McCook met McClurg, he saw his military ability and appointed him assistant adjutant general. Acting as an advisor, McClurg helped plan the Tullahoma Campaign.
--Old Secesh
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