On Victor's Soldiers-- Part 2

The main regiment of soldiers from DeKalb County was the 105th Illinois Infantry, which had six companies of soldiers from the county.  The others were mostly from DuPage County.

It mustered in at Dixon, Illinois, and did training at Camp Douglas and then duty in Kentucky and Tennessee.  Took part in the Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea and Carolinas.

There were also a lot of DeKalb County companies in other regiments.

Two of the soldiers from Victor died in March 1865, one in Pittsburgh, Pa. on March 17 and the other in Louisville, Ky. on March 30.  The 105th was at the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina on March 17-19 and Goldsboro on March 24 and then the advance on Raleigh in April, so, unless the two men were on other duties, it is not likely they were in the 105th.

One man died in Alexandria, Va., on April 23, 1861, which was pretty early in the war and before the 105th was mustered in September 2, 1862.  So it is not likely he was in the 105th.  Alexandria wasn't occupied by Federal troops until May 24, when Col. Ellsworth was killed.

The other Victor man died in Alexandria as well on January 26, 1862.

So, not sure of the circumstances of their deaths.

--Old Secesh