1st Lt. JOSEPH GORE, From Taylorville; promoted from second lieutenant September 20, 1863; was first sergeant until December 30, 1862. He was captured with the ferryboat party September 24, 1863 (Chattanooga, TN), and remained in rebel prisons till the spring of 1865. He now resides in Taylorville, Ill.

Source: History of 115th Reg ILL Vol. Infantry
By: Isaac Henry Clay Royse
2nd Lt. Co. E
Published 1900 Windsor & Kenfield Pub. Co. Chicago
Library # 973.7473R892
Terre Haute, IN. July 1900