Augustus Louis Chetlain
Augustus Louis Chetlain
- Born Dec. 26, 1824, St. Louis, MO to Swiss parents; family settled in Galena in 1826
- Educated in local schools; established a successful mercantile business
- Married Emily Tenny in 1847; she died during the birth of their first child. Married Annie Smith of Rockford, IL 18 year later
- Assisted in raising Galena’s first volunteer company, the “Jo Daviess Guards,” April, 1861
- Commissioned Captain, Company F, 12th Illinois Infantry, April 1861; promoted Lieutenant Colonel, May 1861
- Promoted Colonel, for Gallantry at Fort Donelson, April 1862; Commanded Federal Post at Corinth, Mississippi
- In charge of raising 17,000 black troops in Tennessee and Kentucky, for which given rank of brevet Major General, June 1864
- Commander at Memphis, Tennessee and Talladega, Alabama, 1865-1866
- Appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the District of Utah, 1867
- Appointed U.S. Consul to Belgium, 1869; returned to Chicago, 1872; engaged in banking business
- Died in Chicago, March 15, 1914; buried in Galena’s Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery Galena, Illinois