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was disbanded. Many of the boys enlisted in other
commands, Lempke going in Battery B, First Illinois
Artillery. Three or four, among them Tinnerholm, a
brother-in-law of Charles Sundell, joined the Chicago Zouaves,
afterward the Nineteenth Illinois Regiment.
Axel Silfversparre, a former Swedish artillery officer,
had recently resigned from that service and was at Cape
Girardeau, Mo., where lie became acquainted with
Francis De Gress, a local jeweler. The latter sold his
business and went to Chicago with Silfversparre, agreeing
to furnish the money necessary to recruit a battery.
Sparrestrom met me one day and introduced me to his
friends, Silfversparre and De Gress. They asked me to
help recruit an artillery company, offering me a
lieutenancy. I agreed to the former, but not to the latter.
Leaving Chicago, we went in search of recruits through
the chief Swedish settlements of northern Illinois, such
as Bock ford, St. Charles, Batavia, Geneva, De Kalb,
Sycamore, Princeton, Galva, Bishop Hill, Andover,
Victoria, Moline, Knoxville and Galesburg. We were
mustered in at Camp Douglas, Chicago, on February 20,
1862, as Battery H, First Illinois Light Artillery. The
battery had Silfversparre as captain, L. Mitchell and G.
Knox as first lieutenants and If, De Gress and E. Adams
as second lieutenants, whilst I became sergeant. We
w-cnt out as a double battery of four guns and eight
caissons.
The first battle in which we took part was that of
Shiloh. Wo went up the river on Saturday night, April
5, 1862. It was just getting dark and we could do
nothing except land the horses and picket them. Early
in the morning, when the battle commenced, there were
no general officers to give orders. We hitched eight
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