People from Livingston County, Illinois - People from Streator, Illinois, Clyde Tombaugh, Worthy S. Streator, Jerry Weller, Darell Garretson (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Streator, Illinois, Clyde Tombaugh, Worthy S. Streator, Jerry Weller, Darell Garretson, Albert Cashier, Jan Bach, Dan Rutherford, John Kochurov, Kevin Chalfant, Burt Baskin, Ed Walker, Thomas W. Ewing, Clay Zavada, Doug Dieken, Natashia Williams, J. Leonard Reinsch, Edward Hebern, Moira Harris, Edward H. Plumb, George "Honey Boy" Evans, Mary Lee Robb, Ralph Plumb, Walter Reeves, Ken Sears, Karen Tallian, Bud Clancy, Harold Jensen Christopher. Excerpt: Albert D. J. Cashier Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish -born soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Cashier was born female bodied, but lived as a man. Early life Hodgers was born in Clogherhead, County Louth, Ireland . According to later investigation by the administrator of his estate, he was the child of Sallie and Patrick Hodgers. Cashier's later accounts of how he moved to the United States and why he enlisted were taken when he was elderly and disoriented, and are thus contradictory. By 1862, Cashier was living in Belvidere, Illinois .Enlistment On August 6, 1862, Hodgers enlisted into the 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment using the name Albert Cashier and was assigned to Company G. The regiment was part of the Army of the Tennessee under Ulysses S. Grant and fought in approximately forty battles, including the siege at Vicksburg, the Red River Campaign and the combat at Guntown, Mississippi, where they suffered heavy casualties.Other soldiers thought that Cashier was just small and preferred to be alone, which was not that uncommon. He was once captured in battle, but escaped back to Union lines after overpowering a prison guard. Cashier fought with the regiment through the war until August 17, 1865, when all the soldiers we...