dover, Ill., having come there from Chicago, making the trip overland in a one-horse gig which, together with a coffee pot and iron kettle, he had brought with him from Sweden. He organized this church at Andover with eleven members and it became the mother church of the Augustana Synod. His work consisted not only in the care of his own flock, but also in organizing and serving other congregations in Moline, Galesburg and other places, visiting these at regular intervals, driving across the prairie in the gig, not infrequently losing his way and getting bogged in the numerous sloughs, for all of which he received the munificent salary of $300 per year. It happened at least once during the cholera years that the parsonage was at the same time the local cholera hospital. The church at Andover was built with money collected by Rev. Esbjorn, the principal contribution of $1,500 having been made by the famous Swedish singer Jennie Lind whom Rev. Esbjorn met in New York. At first this church had no organ. Rev. Esbjorn had bought in Rock Island, for his own use, a very tiny reed organ and this instrument was every Sunday placed on a wagon and hauled from the parsonage to the church, a distance of a mile and a half, and after service it was hauled back again in solemn state to the parsonage. About 1859, the need for ministers having become very urgent, it was arranged that a Scandinavian professorship for the training of pastors should be maintained at the so-called Illinois University at Springfield and Rev. Esbjorn accepted a call to this chair and the family moved to Springfield. Speaking of their connection with this school, Mrs. Esbjorn said: "My husband had been called to teach only the Swedish language and certain theological subjects, but when he arrived at Springfield, he found that he was expected to teach various other subjects as wellprincipally natural sciences. It was this fact no doubt which brought him into personal contact with the most interesting figure in American history-Abraham Lincoln, who at that time had his home in Springfield. Mr. Lincoln's son, Robert, was sent to the University at which my husband taught. The young man, however, did not make his mark as a brilliant student nor was his industry and regular attendance remarkable. He was so much interested in the exciting political discussions going on at the time that he even left Springfield and followed some of the stump speakers around from town to town instead of attending to his school duties. It seems it was my husband's duty to inform the young man's father of these delinquencies on the part of the boy and the result was that one day we had a call from the elder Lincoln. He entered my husband's study and spent some time alone with him to see what could be done to get Bob to attend classes regularly again. Whether they touched on other subjects during the interview I cannot say, nor do I know whether there was any subsequent improvement in the young man's school record. The students lived in private houses and had little boarding clubs of their own. I remember baking bread for some of them to help them along. Of course most if not all of them were as poor as poor could be in this world's goods. When sick they had no hospital to go to. I remember one of them who became sick was given a bed in the basement of the church, but not liking this arrangement, he begged to be taken into our house. We had no room but our parlor to spare, and he remained there in bed for several weeks. This Mrs. Esb young man was probably one of our wealthiest students, for when he had recovered and returned to his home near Galesburg, he sent us a present, a jar full of sausage-meat which makes me think he may have owned a little farm. I remember attending with my husband a political meeting at which Lincoln spoke. There was very little cheering or applause. I suppose the people were too much impressed with the seriousness of the situation for any noisy demonstrations. jorn's life, like that of all those early settlers, was filled with most varied experiences, all of which would be most interesting to recount. As it is, these stories, like pictures flashed upon a canvas, give us a vivid impression of the days when life on the frontier was young, when people were characterized by bravery, loyalty, generosity and hospitality, when they were drawn closer together by common pleasures and common hardships. The Indian has long since departed; the wigwam and the log cabin with its primitive equipment have given place to the comfortable modern home; the ox team and prairie schooner have disappeared. And it is for us of the present generation with our far greater advantages, to leave an impress upon our time as noble and worthy of being perpetuated as did the generation before us. Let us never forget to venerate those who planned and toiled and sacrificed and persevered that we might enjoy the fruits of their labors. They say romance died with the reverberating shriek of the first locomotive to reach the Mississippi and that ours is only a prosy, commonplace, unromantic Middle West town. But I do not agree with these. There is no locality in the whole Middle West around which clusters a greater number of interesting historical and romantic events than about old Rock Island town. And there is a witchery, a fascination about our old river, even if it is not what it used to be, that once having come under its spell, you are never quite content away from sight of its muddy waters. We love the stories of our past and we must not be censured if we sympathise with the old timer as my fellow townsman Robert Rexdale makes him say: * * * My thoughts go back to the long ago, THE THIRTY-THIRD REGIMENT ILLINOIS INFANTRY IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. (By J. H. Burnham, Bloomington, Ill.) It is not my purpose to furnish many of the details of the history of the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment. Very few Illinois organizations have been so fully described in the military annals of this State. Yet as these technical military records are generally destitute of other valuable information for the benefit of general readers, I have. thought best to furnish a few historical side lights, which must not however, be allowed to obscure the brilliant heroism and patriotism of the actors, and which it may be hoped will bring their actions into a clearer view. Those of us who remember the tremendous exertions needed during the war to fill the ranks of the army and keep them filled, are well aware that there were good reasons for the attempts that were made, especially in the largest states, to group together certain nationalities or classes of men into special regiments. Thus the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, one of the best known of the earlier organizations, was called the Chicago Zouaves, from the fact that a portion of the regiment practiced the famous Zouave drill. There was also in 1861, the well known German Regiment, the Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry, called the First Hecker Regiment, and again in 1862, during our greatest out-pouring of volunteers, the Eightysecond Illinois was often called the Second Hecker Regiment. The Forty-fifth, raised mostly in JoDaviess and Stephenson counties, was called the Lead Mine Regiment. The Seventy-third was called the Preacher's Regiment and contained a large sprinkling of Southern Illinois Baptists. The Thirty-third Illinois Infantry Regiment was quite well known for the first few years of the war, as the Normal or School Teachers' Regiment. These various designations bv nationalities or otherwise, were of great assistance to the public in their almost vain efforts to keep track of such favorite organizations as people desired to follow, through newspaper or other reports, and I shall proceed to enlarge somewhat on the early history of that regiment, in order to illustrate more fully the importance of these special designations, and the influence they exerted upon the patriotic movements of the times, after which, I shall give a brief condensation of its military history with other historical military side lights. A few months previous to the out-break of the Civil War, just as the war clouds began to threaten, the Legislature of this State was |