Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 117th Illinois
Infantry. Place and date: At Nashville, Tenn., 16 December 1864.
Entered service at: Lebanon, St. Clair County, Ill. Birth: 1840,
Lebanon, St. Clair County, Ill. Date of issue: 22 February 1865.
Citation: Captured flag of a Confederate battery while far in advance
of the Union lines.
Wilbur Moore was my great-great grandfather. I still have the
battered muzzleloader that he carried at Nashville.
