General John Logan

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, July 2, 1864

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HARPER'S WEEKLY.

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"FIGHTING JOHNNY LOGAN."—[PHOTOGRAPHED BY A. S. MORSE, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.]

THE LATE REV. GORDON WINSLOW.—[PHOTOGRAPHED BY GARDNER, WASHINGTON, D. C.]

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN A.
LOGAN.

GENERAL LOGAN, whose portrait we give on this page, was originally known to the public as a member

of Congress from Illinois, and in that capacity was intimately associated with the DOUGLAS school of politicians. When secession was first threatened, LOGAN said that "the men of the Northwest in that case would with their swords cleave their

way down the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf of Mexico." It happened to be Mr. LOGAN'S privilege not only to witness but to participate in the execution of this threat. He resigned his seat in Congress at the outbreak of the war, and having raised

the Thirty-first Illinois Regiment, became its Colonel. He behaved with great gallantry at Donelson, where he was quite severely wounded in the thigh, but yet retained his post on the field ; on the surgeon's urging him to leave the field, be simply (Next page)

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