The One Hundred Days' Volunteers
Illinois Staats-Zeitung, May 26, 1864
Lieutenant Colonel Shimp is helping Captain W. B. Lawson of Bloomington organize a company. The latter has already enrolled forty-five men. Captain Pflaum has enlisted seventy-nine men; Captain Lochbieler, seventy-seven; and Mr. Stromberg, and Mr. Cronside, sixty-eight each. Captain Ries' company is under full muster and has already taken the oath of allegiance.
