Weekly Gazette
Elgin, Illinois
September 11, 1861

Regiments in Kane County

There will soon be three full Regiments in camp in this county. With the Fox River Regiment, in camp below Aurora, all our readers are well acquainted. From the moment of its conception to the present hour is has gone right on to a full and complete success. It is now 1200 storing and will no doubt, be ordered to St. Louis in a few days there to be equipped and put into the Grand Army.

We have at last good news for the Lincoln Regiment. After being buffeted awhile they have rec'd directly form Gen. Cameron, an order to go into camp at Geneva, at one.-Capt. Wilcox, of this place, Capt. Gilbert, of Clinton, and Capt.---- of Dundee, have their companies ready for the men to eat, for nothing discourages new recruits like an empty stomach. As soon as this great rain is over we want to see this fine regiment together.

Farnsworth's Regiment is now gathering to their encampment at St. Charles, near the residence of their Col. Several companies are on the ground now, and all of them will probably be there by tomorrow.

Capt. Gifford has ordered his men to be in camp to-morrow and the McHenry company will be down on the train to-morrow morning.

Probably no county in the state can show such a sight as these regiments make. Kane County took the lead in the beginning of the war, and intends to keep it.