{"id":6778,"date":"2018-05-01T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2018-05-01T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:18:31","slug":"the-78th-illinois-is-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6778","title":{"rendered":"The 78th Illinois Is Coming Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6779\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/illinois-87tharriving-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/illinois-87tharriving-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/illinois-87tharriving.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In an ongoing effort to learn a little more about the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, I&#8217;ve been searching for the unit on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\"><i>GenealogyBank<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>among other sites.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">And I ran across this little gem in the Springfield, Illinois,\u00a0<i>Daily Illinois State Journal<\/i>\u00a0from 10 June 1865.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 78th was in the eastern United States at the end of the War. I&#8217;m wondering if the family John and Riley Rampley (who served in the 78th) knew they were on their way home. I&#8217;ll have to look in the Hancock County, Illinois, newspapers to see if there&#8217;s any mention of the 78th&#8217;s returning to Illinois. The majority of the men in that unit were from Hancock and Adams Counties and their return would certainly have generated local excitement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had moderate success searching digital newspapers for mention of the 78th Illinois. One has to keep in mind all the various iterations by which the unit could be referred:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>78th Illinois (the most common)<\/li>\n<li>78th Ill Inf.<\/li>\n<li>78 Ill Inf.<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>78 is not often spelled out due to space considerations. &#8220;Illinois&#8221; (or abbreviated versions) may not necessarily be near &#8220;78,&#8221; so proximity searches need to be constructed with those two terms near and not-so-near apart.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to learn a little more about the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, I&#8217;ve been searching for the unit on\u00a0GenealogyBank\u00a0among other sites. And I ran across this little gem in the Springfield, Illinois,\u00a0Daily Illinois State Journal\u00a0from 10 June 1865. The 78th was in the eastern United States at the end of the War. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}