Service Record:
Enlisted as a Sergeant Major on 26 September 1862.
Enlisted in Renwick's Light Artillery Regiment Illinois on 15 Nov 1862.
Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 27 Apr 1863.
Discharged from Renwick's Light Artillery Regiment Illinois on 7 Mar 1864.
Residence at enrollment, Elgin IL
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Name: John Short
Residence:
Elgin, Illinois
Enlistment Date:6 Apr 1862
Rank at enlistment:1st Sergt
State Served: Illinois
Survived the War?:Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, Illinois 69th Infantry Regiment on 14 Jun 1862.
Mustered out on 27 Sep 1862.
Death Date:26 Jul 1907
Sources:
Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
GAR Dept of Illinois: Death Rolls
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First married Anna Bell Conover 1859 in Kane Co?
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Captain John Short Short, Captain John; Retired; Richwoods Township; born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 9, 1832; son of Hugh Short, born in Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Rebecca (Russell) Short, both of English descent. Hugh Short was a carpenter and architect. In 1849 he went overland to California and never returned. Rebecca Short died in 1838. John Short received his education in the Boston public schools. When seventeen years of age he came to Illinois and located at Waukegan, afterwards removing to Chicago, where he remained a few years, and in 1857 went to Elgin where he became manager of a furniture factory. During the first year of his residence at Elgin Mr. Short personally organized the Elgin Continentals, and in the following year (1858), he organized the Washington Light Guards, of which he was made Captain. This organization was mustered into service as Company E, Fifty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Tazewell, Captain Short being made First Lieutenant. They went to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where Lieutenant Short was, for a time, commander, and posted the first guards at Camp Douglas. On account of the conduct of Captain Tazewell, Lieutenant Short resigned, and, in October, returned to Elgin. January 1, 1862, Mr. Short again enlisted at Elgin in Company B., Sixty-ninth Illinois Infantry, being mustered in as First Lieutenant, and again went into camp at Camp Douglas, where he assisted in drilling the company. The regiment remained on duty guarding prisoners at Camp Douglas until September 26, 1862, when it was mustered out. On the same day he re-enlisted as a private in the Fifth Illinois Independent Battery, and, November 15, was mustered in as Sergeant-Major. January 9, 1863, his command left for Jeffersonville, Indiana, and in March was ordered to Glasgow, Kentucky, where, for meritorious service, he was promoted to First Lieutenant, April 1, 1863. He took part in the Burnside expedition, engaged in the battles of Salina, on the Cumberland River, Montgomery, Loudon, Kingston and Knoxville, Tennessee, and chased guerillas in Kentucky. He was brevetted Captain by Governor Yates, and March 7, 1864, was discharged by order of the Secretary of War for physical disability. Captain Short returned to Elgin, where he remained until December, 1875, when he removed to Peoria. September 24, 1876, Captain Short was married to Martha E. Colliers, who was born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1850. They have one son, Walter Scott, born September 28, 1880. Captain Short is a Republican, and was elected Township Clerk for the ninth time in the spring of 1901. He is a member of Chapter 67, Royal Arch Masons, and has been a Knight of Pythias for twenty-six years, having passed all the chairs.
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Peoria County, Edited by David McCulloch, Vol. II; Chicago and Peoria: Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers, 1902.