Illinois Civil War Muster and
Descriptive Rolls Database:
Higginbotham, Albert H. -
Pvt - Co B - 65 IL US INF
Residence, Joliet, Will Co, IL; Join,
26Apr1862; Age, 30; Born, NY
Height, 5' 7"; Hair, brown; Eyes, blue;
Complexion, fair; Single; Clerk
Trans to Non Com staff 3Oct1864 as
Quartermaster Sergeant
Higginbotham, Albert H. - QMSGT
- HQ 65 IL US INF
Mustered out, 10May1865
Headstone Readings - Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, IL , Section
11
Albert (H. or N.)
Higginbotham Nov. 5, 1831 - Dec. 12,
1887 - FATHER
Ella E. Apr. 13, 1841 - Dec. 20,
1912 - MOTHER
Will County Illinois USGenWeb
Necrologist Reports (© 2002
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On
Dec. 11,
(1887), died Albert N. Higginbotham,
in the fifty-seventh year of his age. He was born in Otsego county, N.
Y., in
1831, and came with his father's family to Illinois in 1834, The
family
settled on the farm near the Red Mill. At the breaking out of the late
war, he
enlisted in the 65th Illinois infantry,
served four
years and came out a captain. Previous to the war, in 1852, he went to California, where he
staid until
1858. On his return from the war, he entered the employ of Field,
Leiter &
Company. In 1877 he returned to Joliet, since which
time he
held a position at the penitentiary until his death.
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