Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1920 — WAS MADE SERGEANT AT 16 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAS MADE SERGEANT AT 16

Capt. J. L. Hegins One of Youngest Veterans of Civil War. Capt. J. L. Hagins of thia cit), whose picture appears below aa a soldier boy of 16 years, when be entered the service of the Union in the civil war, while going up to Chicago on one of the early morning 'trains recently to visit his daughter, recognized in Conductor McCullough a frequent passenger on the old horse car line of the north division of Chicago on which Mr.

Hagins was conductor from 1875 to 1880, and they had a mice visit together. / In 1880 Mr. Hagine resigned his position with the street ear company and took a place as palace car conductor with the Pullman company, receiving many letters of

recommendation frow prominent citizen* of the north aide. He served with the Pullman company from Jiune, 1880, until November, 1908, when he came to RenaseDaer, where he has since resided, t'he Pullman company 'having retired him am a pension. Mr. Hagins served in the civil war from 1861 to ’65 in the Bth Indiana cavalry and was sergeant of his company at the age of 16, The last engagement in which he took part during the wfar was at Upton station, Ky., with Morgan's raiders, claimed to have been the first after they had crossed the Ohio river; Perryville, Ky.; Shiloh; Stonee river (was captured in the engagement here and spent three months in Libby prison); Jonesboro and Chickamauga. He joined Washington poet, Chicago, in 1885. While Capt- Hagios Is beginning to show the weight of years, he is' still as straight as an arrow and is almost as active as many men of 50.