HALSEY ROGERS WHALLON -- 91st INFANTRYFROM WHALLONSBURG TO JOLIET - Halsey Rogers Whallon, a Whallon from Whallonsburg, was the son of James Whallon and Almeria Shepherd and grandson of Reuben Whallon who came from New Jersey to settle in Essex County.He was put on the Draft Registration List in May 1863, and by September 1864, he enlisted in the 91st Infantry in Plattsburgh to serve for one year. He met up with his regiment in Baltimore in October after they got back from Louisiana where they had been for a year and a half. The regiment had enough men re-enlist and with the infusion of recruits like Halsey, it was able to continue.Some of the regiment remained in Baltimore, but nine companies went to the field near Petersburg and stayed there for the rest of the war. They suffered 230 casualties on the Appomattox Campaign and then mustered out on June 10, 1865.Halsey came back to Essex County and then went West within a short time. He married Caroline Brooks, who was born in New York, in Joliet, IL, in 1870 and found work as a clerk in an iron manufacturing plant. He remained in Joliet until he died at 89 years old in 1932 and was buried beside his wife in the Elmhurst Cemetery there.
