Other Notables
- First Lieutenant Elon J. Farnsworth - promoted in June 1863 to brigadier general as assigned to a brigade command; killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. Nephew of Colonel Farnsworth.
- Captain George Alexander Forsyth, later a famed Indian fighter in the Old West.
- Lieutenant Marcellus Jones, would go on to remove the Dupage County records from Naperville, Illinois and take them to Wheaton, Illinois were the present county seat is located.
- Major John Lourie Breveridge - Promoted to Colonel and commander of the 17th Illinois Cavalry, was Illinois' Governor from 1873-1877.
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