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Company K, 13th Illinois Infantry, Civil War
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Adam L. Dirr was born in Ohio in 1839 and moved with his family to Illinois. The family was farming in Naperville in 1850 and in 1860 was farming in Kankakee. Adam was a 22-year-old farmer when he enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 13th Illinois Infantry in 1861. He also was present for the battles of Arkansas Post, Jackson, the Siege of Vicksburg, Look-Out Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. He mustered out in June 1864 and returned to Naperville. While he was in service, Dirr kept an extensive diary in which he talked about life in camp, people from Naperville, letters he received from friends and family in Naperville, and battles his regiment was engaged in. He was injured on December 29, 1862, at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and mentions being injured; however, he evidently wasn't too badly wounded as he carried on in his military duties and did not appear to require hospitalization. He does, though, mention that a bullet came dangerously close to his head and that a shell fragment ripped into his hat. Dirr died in 1875, when he was just 35, the victim of a freak accident when he was digging a well on a farm one mile east of Naperville. Coincidently, others in the family died tragically: his father in 1861 in a threshing accident near Kankakee and his brother, Hiram, during the Civil War at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Submitted by Barb Hower
Company K, 13th Illinois Infantry, Civil War
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Adam L. Dirr was born in Ohio in 1839 and moved with his family to Illinois. The family was farming in Naperville in 1850 and in 1860 was farming in Kankakee. Adam was a 22-year-old farmer when he enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 13th Illinois Infantry in 1861. He also was present for the battles of Arkansas Post, Jackson, the Siege of Vicksburg, Look-Out Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. He mustered out in June 1864 and returned to Naperville. While he was in service, Dirr kept an extensive diary in which he talked about life in camp, people from Naperville, letters he received from friends and family in Naperville, and battles his regiment was engaged in. He was injured on December 29, 1862, at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and mentions being injured; however, he evidently wasn't too badly wounded as he carried on in his military duties and did not appear to require hospitalization. He does, though, mention that a bullet came dangerously close to his head and that a shell fragment ripped into his hat. Dirr died in 1875, when he was just 35, the victim of a freak accident when he was digging a well on a farm one mile east of Naperville. Coincidently, others in the family died tragically: his father in 1861 in a threshing accident near Kankakee and his brother, Hiram, during the Civil War at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Submitted by Barb Hower
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Company K, 13th Illinois Infantry, Civil War
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Adam L. Dirr was born in Ohio in 1839 and moved with his family to Illinois. The family was farming in Naperville in 1850 and in 1860 was farming in Kankakee. Adam was a 22-year-old farmer when he enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 13th Illinois Infantry in 1861. He also was present for the battles of Arkansas Post, Jackson, the Siege of Vicksburg, Look-Out Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. He mustered out in June 1864 and returned to Naperville. While he was in service, Dirr kept an extensive diary in which he talked about life in camp, people from Naperville, letters he received from friends and family in Naperville, and battles his regiment was engaged in. He was injured on December 29, 1862, at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and mentions being injured; however, he evidently wasn't too badly wounded as he carried on in his military duties and did not appear to require hospitalization. He does, though, mention that a bullet came dangerously close to his head and that a shell fragment ripped into his hat. Dirr died in 1875, when he was just 35, the victim of a freak accident when he was digging a well on a farm one mile east of Naperville. Coincidently, others in the family died tragically: his father in 1861 in a threshing accident near Kankakee and his brother, Hiram, during the Civil War at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Submitted by Barb Hower
Company K, 13th Illinois Infantry, Civil War
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Adam L. Dirr was born in Ohio in 1839 and moved with his family to Illinois. The family was farming in Naperville in 1850 and in 1860 was farming in Kankakee. Adam was a 22-year-old farmer when he enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 13th Illinois Infantry in 1861. He also was present for the battles of Arkansas Post, Jackson, the Siege of Vicksburg, Look-Out Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. He mustered out in June 1864 and returned to Naperville. While he was in service, Dirr kept an extensive diary in which he talked about life in camp, people from Naperville, letters he received from friends and family in Naperville, and battles his regiment was engaged in. He was injured on December 29, 1862, at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and mentions being injured; however, he evidently wasn't too badly wounded as he carried on in his military duties and did not appear to require hospitalization. He does, though, mention that a bullet came dangerously close to his head and that a shell fragment ripped into his hat. Dirr died in 1875, when he was just 35, the victim of a freak accident when he was digging a well on a farm one mile east of Naperville. Coincidently, others in the family died tragically: his father in 1861 in a threshing accident near Kankakee and his brother, Hiram, during the Civil War at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Submitted by Barb Hower
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