William was the son of Elizabeth Connelly and Samuel Washington McCall. He married Mary Gordon March 2, 1866 in Piatt Co., Illinois. - Taps has echoed over another soldier of 1861 here today as the body of W. H. H. McCall, one of this town's three surviving veterans of the Civil War, reposed in a flag draped coffin in his local home. Dropsy and infirmities of age had taken the life of the 89 years old soldier, a hero of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain and Sherman's famous "March to the Sea".
Mr. McCall died at his home at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon, September 21, 1930. His death had been expected after a summer of fast-fading health which had helped the veteran withstand the rigors of such an extended and eventful life.
William Henry Harrison McCall was born June 14, 1840 at Canton. On August 8, 1862 at Mahomet, he enlisted in the Union Army; and served in some of the outstanding engagements that followed during the war of secession. He saw his first action in the Battle of Perryville, KY. shortly after his enlistment, and then began three years of nothing but war, most of which took him with Union armies into the land of the Confederates. He fought in the three-day battle for Chickamauga, September 19, 20 and 21, 1863, helped in the capture of Missionary Ridge, Georgia, December 26, the same year; and went up Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864, when he saw 120 comrades of his own regiment fall in 20 minutes of the terrific fighting for the Gray stronghold.
On September 1, 1864, he took part in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, the deciding skirmish in the drive and subsequent fall of Atlanta, which marked crumbling of the Confederate opposition and opened the way for completion of Sherman's historic march of plundering and destruction that thoroughly demoralized the section. McCall's outfit was Co. H, Third Infantry brigade of the 125th IL Vol. Second division.
Following his discharge from the Army at the close of the Georgia campaign, which lasted four months from its beginning in May 1864, McCall farmed for a few years at Des Moines IA, then moved to Mansfield where he had spent the remainder of his life. He had been a brick mason in his young days.
Meanwhile, he had married and five children were born to the union. They, together with the widow, survive. They are Montgomery and Frank, both of Mansfield; William of Monticello; Sheldon of Hammond IN; and Mrs. Stella Weinhandler, of Long Island NY. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. church here, of which he was a member. Members of the local post of the American Legion, of which he was an honorary member, assisted in the services; burial was made in the Mansfield Cemetery.
Obituary supplied by Max Turpin.
Mr. McCall died at his home at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon, September 21, 1930. His death had been expected after a summer of fast-fading health which had helped the veteran withstand the rigors of such an extended and eventful life.
William Henry Harrison McCall was born June 14, 1840 at Canton. On August 8, 1862 at Mahomet, he enlisted in the Union Army; and served in some of the outstanding engagements that followed during the war of secession. He saw his first action in the Battle of Perryville, KY. shortly after his enlistment, and then began three years of nothing but war, most of which took him with Union armies into the land of the Confederates. He fought in the three-day battle for Chickamauga, September 19, 20 and 21, 1863, helped in the capture of Missionary Ridge, Georgia, December 26, the same year; and went up Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864, when he saw 120 comrades of his own regiment fall in 20 minutes of the terrific fighting for the Gray stronghold.
On September 1, 1864, he took part in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, the deciding skirmish in the drive and subsequent fall of Atlanta, which marked crumbling of the Confederate opposition and opened the way for completion of Sherman's historic march of plundering and destruction that thoroughly demoralized the section. McCall's outfit was Co. H, Third Infantry brigade of the 125th IL Vol. Second division.
Following his discharge from the Army at the close of the Georgia campaign, which lasted four months from its beginning in May 1864, McCall farmed for a few years at Des Moines IA, then moved to Mansfield where he had spent the remainder of his life. He had been a brick mason in his young days.
Meanwhile, he had married and five children were born to the union. They, together with the widow, survive. They are Montgomery and Frank, both of Mansfield; William of Monticello; Sheldon of Hammond IN; and Mrs. Stella Weinhandler, of Long Island NY. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. church here, of which he was a member. Members of the local post of the American Legion, of which he was an honorary member, assisted in the services; burial was made in the Mansfield Cemetery.
Obituary supplied by Max Turpin.
William was the son of Elizabeth Connelly and Samuel Washington McCall. He married Mary Gordon March 2, 1866 in Piatt Co., Illinois. - Taps has echoed over another soldier of 1861 here today as the body of W. H. H. McCall, one of this town's three surviving veterans of the Civil War, reposed in a flag draped coffin in his local home. Dropsy and infirmities of age had taken the life of the 89 years old soldier, a hero of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain and Sherman's famous "March to the Sea".
Mr. McCall died at his home at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon, September 21, 1930. His death had been expected after a summer of fast-fading health which had helped the veteran withstand the rigors of such an extended and eventful life.
William Henry Harrison McCall was born June 14, 1840 at Canton. On August 8, 1862 at Mahomet, he enlisted in the Union Army; and served in some of the outstanding engagements that followed during the war of secession. He saw his first action in the Battle of Perryville, KY. shortly after his enlistment, and then began three years of nothing but war, most of which took him with Union armies into the land of the Confederates. He fought in the three-day battle for Chickamauga, September 19, 20 and 21, 1863, helped in the capture of Missionary Ridge, Georgia, December 26, the same year; and went up Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864, when he saw 120 comrades of his own regiment fall in 20 minutes of the terrific fighting for the Gray stronghold.
On September 1, 1864, he took part in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, the deciding skirmish in the drive and subsequent fall of Atlanta, which marked crumbling of the Confederate opposition and opened the way for completion of Sherman's historic march of plundering and destruction that thoroughly demoralized the section. McCall's outfit was Co. H, Third Infantry brigade of the 125th IL Vol. Second division.
Following his discharge from the Army at the close of the Georgia campaign, which lasted four months from its beginning in May 1864, McCall farmed for a few years at Des Moines IA, then moved to Mansfield where he had spent the remainder of his life. He had been a brick mason in his young days.
Meanwhile, he had married and five children were born to the union. They, together with the widow, survive. They are Montgomery and Frank, both of Mansfield; William of Monticello; Sheldon of Hammond IN; and Mrs. Stella Weinhandler, of Long Island NY. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. church here, of which he was a member. Members of the local post of the American Legion, of which he was an honorary member, assisted in the services; burial was made in the Mansfield Cemetery.
Obituary supplied by Max Turpin.
Mr. McCall died at his home at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon, September 21, 1930. His death had been expected after a summer of fast-fading health which had helped the veteran withstand the rigors of such an extended and eventful life.
William Henry Harrison McCall was born June 14, 1840 at Canton. On August 8, 1862 at Mahomet, he enlisted in the Union Army; and served in some of the outstanding engagements that followed during the war of secession. He saw his first action in the Battle of Perryville, KY. shortly after his enlistment, and then began three years of nothing but war, most of which took him with Union armies into the land of the Confederates. He fought in the three-day battle for Chickamauga, September 19, 20 and 21, 1863, helped in the capture of Missionary Ridge, Georgia, December 26, the same year; and went up Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864, when he saw 120 comrades of his own regiment fall in 20 minutes of the terrific fighting for the Gray stronghold.
On September 1, 1864, he took part in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, the deciding skirmish in the drive and subsequent fall of Atlanta, which marked crumbling of the Confederate opposition and opened the way for completion of Sherman's historic march of plundering and destruction that thoroughly demoralized the section. McCall's outfit was Co. H, Third Infantry brigade of the 125th IL Vol. Second division.
Following his discharge from the Army at the close of the Georgia campaign, which lasted four months from its beginning in May 1864, McCall farmed for a few years at Des Moines IA, then moved to Mansfield where he had spent the remainder of his life. He had been a brick mason in his young days.
Meanwhile, he had married and five children were born to the union. They, together with the widow, survive. They are Montgomery and Frank, both of Mansfield; William of Monticello; Sheldon of Hammond IN; and Mrs. Stella Weinhandler, of Long Island NY. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. church here, of which he was a member. Members of the local post of the American Legion, of which he was an honorary member, assisted in the services; burial was made in the Mansfield Cemetery.
Obituary supplied by Max Turpin.
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