”144TH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

During the four years and four months of arduous service, this regiment marched 4,490 miles, traveled by rail 2,330 miles, and by river 4,490 miles, making in all a grand total of 11,670 miles.

The men from Jersey County who served in the Fourteenth regiment were as follows: Company F, …Nathaniel Ware,…”

”N. Ware was killed April 6, 1862.”

Reference Data:

History of Jersey County, Illinois, by Oscar Brown Hamilton, 1919, pages 275 and 291