Capt. Co. K. 50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

T. D. McGillicuddy
1835-1911
Capt. Co. K. 50th Ills.V.I
"When I have passed away I wish my monument
to be in the hearts and memories of my
comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic"

He may have wrote or said that, but it has been an hundred years since he "passed", and all those comrades have been long gone. The stone remains (on the side are the dated of his parents). On many veteran markers there is notice of their regiment. Records of muster are available now on the internet, before they were in libraries and elsewhere. They give some more detail of the men's lives that often are absent from the stone, and gives them a tiny biography that the name, and dates of birth, and death do not.

In 1884 he wrote from Akron to the National Tribune of Washington D.C. describing part of the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1862. After the war he became a military historian, and an officer in a military lodge.

Timothy was born in Louisville, Ky; grew up in Cleveland, O.; graduated Central High. He left for Hannibal Missouri. Fort Sumter S.C. was fired upon on April 12th, 1861. On the 17th he enlisted. The regiment was assigned to the Army of Tennessee which continued to the March to the Sea, ending in Savannah, Georgia. After the war he settled in Akron, O.