While researching about John Peter's 88th Illinois Infantry Regiment, I came across this name which caused me to remember a place in Chicago called McClurg Court which at one time was a theater, also a McClurg Building.
I did some research on the man in Wikipedia.
Alexander C. McClurg was a Civil War brigadier general and a partner in the A.C. McClurg & Co. publishing house, born 1832 and died April 15, 1901. He was also a noted American bookseller and military advisor.
He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pa., where his father built Fort Pitt Foundry. He moved to Chicago and became a junior partner in a bookselling house. With the coming of the war, he became a captain in the 88th Illinois, but soon became a military advisor to Union generals when his abilities were recognized.
More to Come. --Old Secesh
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