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A nice image of COlonel John B. Wyman of the 13th Illinois Infnatry.  The backmark on the image is "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway & Tenth St., New York& No. 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C.".  COlonel Wyman was one of those Union soldiers that I can call a skallywag.  Coloonel Wyman and some of his officers were involved in looting Southern farms and plantations of anything they could get and sending the property back to Illinois instead of turning it over to the U.S. authorities.  I guess you could say they were in it for personal gain.  One of their schemes involved selling Southern captured horses to the Union cavalry.  When horses were captured on raids they were to be turned over to the U.S. Army for the cavalry.  Wyman and friends would capture the horses and get someone not involved with them to sell the horses to the Quartermasters Department.  Eventually he was found out and scheduled for a court marshal in December 1862.  He was caught up in Sherman's advance on Vicksburg in late December 1862.  Fortunately for the court marshal board, a Confederate sniper killed Wyman during the attack on Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi.  All this is documented in the records which I have and will supply to the buyer.

SERVICE - Duty at Rolla, Mo., till October 10, 1861. Fremont's advance on Springfield, Mo., October 10-November 7. Action at Wet Glaize October 13. Linn Creek October 15. Return to Rolla November 10, and duty there till March, 1862. Action at Salem, Mo., December 3. 1861. Ordered to join Curtis at Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6, 1862. March to Helena, Ark., April 8-July 14. Duty at Helena, Ark., till December. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862-January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluffs December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point January 17, and duty there till March. Expedition to Greenville, Miss., February 14-26. Expedition from Mlliken's Bend to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek, Miss., April 2-14. Demonstration against Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 1. Moved to join army in rear of Jackson, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14. Jackson May 14. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Brandon July 19. Camp at Big Black till September 27. Movement to Memphis, thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 27-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. in Alabama October 20-29. Cherokee Station October 21. Tuscumbia and Barton Station October 24-25. Bear Creek, Tuscumbia, October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Captured flag of the 18th Alabama Infantry. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. Stationed at Madison Station, Ala., till May, 1864. Action at Madison Station April 17. Resaca, Ga., May 13-15 (Detachment).

Mustered out June 18, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 61 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 123 Enlisted men by disease. Total 192.