The Jasper Weekly Courier

JOHN A. LOGAN,
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENCY.

The candidate for Vice-President is almost as well-known throughout the country as the head of the ticket. General Logan has moreover the advantage of a military record and no insignificant popularity among the soldiers. In 1833 Dr. John Logan emigrated from Ireland and settled in Jackson County, Ill., where, near Murphysboro, February 9, 1826, John A. Logan was born. His mother, who was Elizabeth Jenkins, was a native of Tennessee. The early life of John A. Logan was spent in Jackson County, where he obtained some education from his father and such school-teachers as chanced to teach in the district. At the outbreak of the Mexican war young Logan volunteered and was chosen a lieutenant in a company of the First Illinois Infantry. As a soldier he did good service, and was for some time Adjutant of his regiment. In the fall of 1848, upon his return home, he commenced the study of law in the office of his uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois. In November, 1849, he was elected Clerk of Jackson County. In 1850 he attended a course of law lectures at Louisville, Kentucky, receiving his diploma in 1851, when he entered into practice with his uncle. The following year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Judicial District, and in the fall of the same year he was chosen to the State Legislature, to which position he was three times re-elected. In 1858 he was Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket for the Ninth Congressional District, and voted for James Buchanan for President. Two years later he was elected a member of Congress from the same district, receiving 15,878 votes, against 2,796 for Phillips, Republican. At the next election he was returned by 21,081 votes as against 5,439 for Linegar, Republican. In the campaign of 1860 he gave his ardent support to Stephen A. Douglas.

IN THE WAR.

Mr. Logan attended the called session of Congress in July, 1861, and immediately afterward joined the troops going to the front. He was in the first battle of Bull Run. Returning to his home September 1, he assisted in raising troops, and September 15th the Thirty-first Regiment of Illinois Infantry was organized with Logan commissioned as Colonel. March 3, 1862, he was made Brigadier General, and participated in the siege of Corinth as commander of the First brigade in General Judah's division.

When the attempt to take Vicksburg began in the fall of 1862, General Logan was in command of the First Division of the right wing of the Thirteenth Corps. On the arrival of the command at Memphis, December 31, 1862, the Seventeenth Army Corps was organized, and on January 11, 1863, General Logan was assigned to the Third Division, in which position he remained until the fall of Vicksburg, when he was assigned to the command of the Fifteenth Army Corps.

In the movements about Vicksburg from February, 1863, until July 4, when General Pemberton surrendered, General Logan with his command was actively engaged.

FROM ATLANTA TO THE SEA.

On July 22, 1864, Logan, as commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, was ordered in pursuit of the enemy south of Atlanta. In the hard-fought battle that followed General McPherson was killed, and General Logan succeeded him in command of the Army of the Tennessee. The success of the battle was accorded to Logan by General Sherman's official report.

On January 20, 1865, the campaign of the Carolinas was commenced, the movements being for the purpose of encountering Johnston's Army of the Potomac. The command passing through Columbia, Goldsborough and Fayetteville, until it reached Raleigh, near which the surrender of Johnston took place, and the campaign was closed.

IN PUBLIC LIFE.

After the close of the war General Logan was offered the position of Minister to Mexico, but declined. In 1866 he was elected to Congress as a Republican from the State at large in Illinois by a majority of 55,987, and in the Fortieth Congress was one of the managers of the Impeachment of President Johnson. In the next, the Forty-first Congress, Logan began to make his mark in various kinds of legislative work.

In 1870 Logan was elected by the Illinois Legislature to the United States Senate to succeed Richard Yates. After serving his term he was defeated by the Independents, who united upon the Hon. David Davis as his successor, but he was again elected to succeed Oglesby in 1879.

He has always taken an active part in all the legislation of the Senate, and has introduced many useful bills. The General is the fortunate possessor of a charming wife, whose efforts have contributed materially to the success of his public career.