The 60th Illinois Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Dubois, Anna, Ill., Feb. 17 1862, on the 22nd was ordered to Cairo, and moved to Island No. 10 on March 14. It was in the siege of Corinth, and in pursuit of the enemy beyond Boonville, Miss.; was engaged in repelling the attack of Gen. Morgan on Edgefield in November, and on Jan. 5, 1863, had a skirmish with Wheeler’s cavalry, between Nashville and Murfreesboro, repulsing them. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Back in a more innocent time of Marion’s history, this story was printed in the Sunday Magazine edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch on April 8, 1928, and recounts the story of a thwarted Marion love affair. Well, today they would probably call it “stalking”. Continue reading
In 1850, the Cline family packed up and moved From Allen County, Kentucky to Williamson County, settling in Crab Orchard Township east of Marion, Illinois. Albert Cline’s father was Thomas Jefferson Cline, who followed farming and died in 1897. His mother’s name was Sarilda Jane Absher, known to many Marion citizens in her days as “Grandma Cline”. Continue reading
Brice Holland
It isn’t often you run across an individual who actually fought in the Civil War on both sides, but this appears to be one of them. Although there some disparities in dates and locations, that exist between his obituary and actual records, this man lead an interesting life.
Brice Holland was born on January 29, 1842, in Monongalia County, Palestine, W. Virginia, the son of Jacob Holland and Emily J. Tarleton, natives respectively of Virginia and Pennsylvania. His mother passed away in 1857. Continue reading
There is always a certain amount of irony in life. During the depression of the 1930’s, many Marion citizens were forced to leave the area in search of jobs so they could feed their family. That fact, coupled with a loss of income and savings by many when banks closed, forced a number of families out of their homes. This culminated in over 400 Marion homes being demolished or moved and many more vacated. Continue reading
