Sgt. John A. Pride

Sgt. John A. Pride

From the Ill. Adj't. Gen's. Report

Co. I        8^th Ill. N. G.

Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill.

Enlisted – June 28, 1898

Mustered In – June 28, 1898 at Camp Tanner, Springfield, Ill.

Remarks – Absent sick in Cuba, Ordered Discharged April 3, 1899 as a private.

Notice – July 10, 1898 issue of the Elgin Morning Dial.

More Rockford Recruits
     Capt. R.R. Jackson of the Eighty regiment wants more colored soldiers to fill out the regiment.   He expects to get twenty recruits from the colored population of Rockford.   The colored regiment lacks 150 men.   There are 1,222 at Springfield.

                            Washingron D.C. Aug. 9, 1898
Governor Tanner, Springfield, Ill.
     The Secretary of War appreciated very much the offer of the 8th Ill. Vol. Inft. For duty in Santiago, and has directed that the regiment be sent there on steamer Yale leaving New York next Tuesday.   The main trouble with out troops now in Cuba is that they are suffering from exhaustion and exposure incident to one of the most trying campaigns to which soldiers have ever been subjected.
                                                           H. C. Corbin
                                                           Adj't. Gen.


Notice – March 30, 1899 issue of the Elgin Daily Courier.

Notice – March 31, 1899 issue of the Elgin Weekly Courier

Obit – April 29, 1899 issue of the Kane County Democrat