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gfneral black a fighter.3H St.Irpfc?pro?metwa.APr%The Xext Pension Commissioner andHis Civil 'War Record,General John C. Black of Illinois, who is to succeed Eugene F. Ware as United States pension commissioner, has a fine war record and lias been a dashing figure in public life. He is reiT popular in the Grand Army of theRepublic and was recently commanderIn chief of the order. General Black was born in Jlisslssippi fa 1839, but his family removed to Illinois when he was a boy, and he was educated at DansvIIIe, in that state, and at Wabash eohege, Crawfordsville, Ind. When the cml war broke out he enlisted in theai:hnorphjr_ingjt *t#47BikP?;r*GENERAL JOH3f C. BLACK.Eleventh Indiana regiment which was finder command of General Lew WabThSfr T1 116 *'ith ^Thirty-seventh Illinois, rising to be a colonel On the close of the war he was brevetted a brigadier general.fnr k distinguished himselfHe lr!r77:lt Pea *“«* Ala., to 1S62;He was ordered to have his regiment sme ana hold , vital point Sy Wsth**5 a comraaDaer ^ stemmedthe tide of apparent defeat, held therSSnt «drove tbe eDemy from *During the engagement one of hisX hT* Sh;rtteiect bnt be W»med with bis troops until the victory wasfieht-n ,cr tbe same 3’ear- whilefighting at Prairie Grove, Ark., withmlUVed arm ™ a ?J1ng. his* other arm was wounded and crippled Indescribing the fighting at Prairie Grove an eyewitness has written:BIack was holding his Jfroimd. He kept his raen as if theywere on dress parade. He tore up anddown the line, ctying in clear tones tobe accurate m the aim, to be carefulL SniJg Upon the ground. He saved the day at Prairie Grove”wft6VIJe,war Gcneral B]ack readlaw and tooK up the practice of that profession. * In 1885 President Cleveland appointed him pension commissioner, and he served until 1889. He has since been a congressman at large from Illinois and United States attor-PrLSr tbe*°Itbeni dilt;5tr'ict of Illinois. President Roosevelt appointed him asthe Democratic member of the civilservice commission, which position he now holds.
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Iowa City Daily Press
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1904
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