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ILLINOIS GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Welcome to
Piatt County,
Illinois
History & Genealogy
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Biographies
Source:
Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois
from the
Discovery of the Upper
Mississippi to the Present Time
by Emma C. Piatt
With Map and Illustrations.
1883
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Monticello -
MR. RILEY TATMAN,
Monticello. His father came to this county in 1852, when
Riley was but eight years old, and lived on what is now the
C. W. Piatt place. Mr. Riley Tatman received his
education in this county and was married in 1868, to America
Hitchens, of Ohio, who came to this county in 1864.
Maud S. is their only child. Mr. Tatman was in the
late war, and of Co. F, 54th Ill. reg. He was in the battles
of Corinth, Vicksburg, Sabine River, and was captured Aug. 16, 1864,
near Little Rock. He served in rebel prison until May, 1865;
first in Monticello, Arkansas, then in Camden, Arkansas, Shreveport,
Louisiana, and Tyler, Texas. His rations were one pint
unsifted cornmeal a day, mixed with cold water, no salt, and baked
on chips; three ounces fresh beef every third day, roasted without
salt. He was fortunate in not being wounded and reached home
in November, 1865. Mr. Tatman kept a journal on the
margins of newspapers all during imprisonment, but has since lost
it. He escaped five different times, and each time was caught
by bloodhounds. Three times he escaped through tunnels, once
by burying himself while moving from one prison to the other, and
last by overpowering the guard, shooting his arm off by slipping up
where he was asleep and putting his foot on the trigger of the gun.
After returning from the war, he finished his common education, and
taught from 1866 to 1872. For two years he was in the
drug business, then two years a carpenter, and since in abstract
business and law.
Source: Piatt County History, by Emma C. Piatt - With Map and
Illustrations - Publ. 1883 - Page 328 |
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