as an efficient organizer, popular with his troops, but lacking in the hard-driving, follow-up tactics that made Grant, Sherman and Sheridan the popular war heroes. Lincoln defeated him in 1864 for the Presidency after he had quit the army to run on an "end the war" platform, which he partly repudiated as Grant and Sherman's Armies began the campaigns which won the war.

Many who became prominent soldiers in the Civil War were associated with the Illinois Central, including Burnside, Dodge, Banks, Logan, Ransom (once station agent at Farina), and McClellan, all on the Union side. Confederates who were on the southern division of the Illinois Central when war broke out included Judah Benjamin, Secretary of War under Davis, Beauregard, Walthall, and G. W. Smith. All these and some others became generals, and hundreds of other Illinois Central men attained lesser rank and fame.

10. We would have only a verbal record of this visit if White had not mailed his paper the dispatch which they did not publish until September 3. It read

We do not know why White remained over in El Paso on August 29 and 30, but it was probably to rest up in the Campbell House after the tiresome travel he had had. Joseph Medill was solidly behind Lincoln in that campaign, as in others, but he is said to have strongly advised Abe not to ask Douglas the four double edged Freeport questions.

11. This inspection trip was to evaluate the road's property, including all switch tracks and buildings. The information was to be used in defending a suit brought by the state of Illinois in an effort to collect additional taxes from the Central, claimed by the road's attorneys contrary to charter terms. The railroad won the suit, decided by the Supreme Court at Vandalia on November 19, 1859. This is not the celebrated McLean County Tax case of 1853 which was decided in the supreme court in 1856. Lincoln sued the road for his $5,000 fee in that prior case, won it, and was again representing the road which once refused to pay him his fee.

12. All prior histories give this date as 1867, which the writer used when Chairman of the Committee which erected the Campbell House marker. Since then I have acquired a manuscript by Mrs. May Gibson Fleming, daughter of George L. Gibson, who knew the Count well. She says he died in 1869. Cemetery and newspaper records have been destroyed, but the pauper records at Eureka bear out the 1869 date. In April that year is a complete set of payments that fit the Chlopicki case exactly, and there is no such record in either 1867 or 1868, and we know his final bills were paid by the county. At that time, names were omitted in such cases.

13. From Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jenkins, Sr., through their son Isaac and daughter Katharine. The elder Jenkins couple knew the old Count well.

14. We accept this date as given in the Polish Academy of Sciences biography of Ludwik Chlopicki, vol. 3, Krackow, 1937, as edited by Bronislaw Pawlowski, who sites numerous Polish authorities for his work. In Chlopicki's application for citizenship he said he was forty years of age in 1835. He was sensitive about his age and probably followed the