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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WILMETTE RESIDENT DIED IN MILITARY SERVICE CIVIL WAR JAMES A. MULLIGAN Colonel, Twenty-third Infantry Illinois Volunteers Colonel Mulligan "fell while commanding a division of the Army of West Virginia at Kernstown, in Shenandoah Valley, July 24, 1864, and perished while in the hands of the enemy, July 26, of three desperate wounds, received while at the head of his own Regiment." When his troops tried to carry him to safety, he repeatedly insisted, "Put me down and save the flag." When they followed his orders and went back for him after the battle, he had been taken by the enemy. His wife, staying with other officers' wives in Cumberland, Md., requested permission to see her husband from Confederate General Jubal Early. He gave her a pass to cross the lines, as did a Union officer, but Mulligan died before she arrived. His body was returned to Chicago. Following a large funeral, he was buried at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, in an unmarked grave. In 1883 the State of Illinois erected a monument on his grave, visible from the front entrance of the cemetery. Mulligan was posthumously given the rank of brigadier general. Survived by-- Wife, Marion, and three daughters Mother & stepfather, Mr. & Mrs. Linder He was born in 1830 in the Grosse Pointe area, which was incorporated as Gross Point Village in 1874, and annexed by Wilmette in 1924. He lived with his mother and stepfather and attended school there. For various reasons, including a desire to continue his study of law, he established his home and life in Chicago and became a lawyer (probably self-taught). Mulligan became a member of the 23rd Infantry, under the popular name of the "Irish Brigade," at its inception. It was organized in Chicago on June 15, 1861, immediately upon the opening of hostilities at Fort Sumter. It first occupied barracks known as Kane's brewery on West Polk Street. On the 18th of September 1861 the 23rd commenced a Continued on next page. -2-