Biography of Captain Almon R. Stevens, pages 937 / 938. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. Captain Almon R. Stevens, merchant tailor, Waterloo, Ind., was born in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., Conn., April 8, 1830, a son of Amos and Flora (Warner) Stevens, native of Connecticut. His paternal grandfather was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. His maternal grandfather, Benj. R. Warner, held a commission in the war of 1812. His father was by trade a carriage maker. He died in 1874. The mother died in 1878. Their family consisted of one son and two daughters. Our subject learned the tailors’ trade in his youth. In 1850 he went to Troy, N.Y., and worked there and in other towns as a journeyman till after the breaking out of the Rebellion, at that time living in Utica. N.Y. In the spring of 1862 he raised a company of volunteers and was commissioned Captain of Company H, One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Infantry. They were stationed near Washington till April, 1863, when they were sent to Norfolk, thence to Suffolk to meet Longstreet, and participated in several skirmishes; were then ordered to Folley and Morris Islands under General Gilmore, and participated in the capture of Fort Wagner. The command was then ordered to North, and arrived in time to engage in the battle of Cold Harbor, where their loss was heavy. They were also in front of Petersburg, and when on the first advanced Captain Stevens was wounded in the right arm, the ball burying itself in the bone. He was sent to the hospital at Fort Monroe, a three day’s journey, and the fatigue and discomfort of the journey nearly cost him his life. As soon as he recovered sufficiently to travel he was sent to Utica, N.Y., and thence to the Officers Convalescent Hospital, Annapolis, Md. While there he received a letter from Roscoe Conklin, requesting him to come immediately to Washington, but replies that there was an order prohibiting officers from coming to Washington without an order from the Secretary of War. He soon after received a telegram from Dana to report in Washington at once. And another from Conklin that it was all right. He was appointed one of the Election Commissioners and was sent to the armies of the James and Potomac and to North Carolina where troops from his own county were stationed, and in November returned home to vote, taking his documents with him. Soon after he was ordered back to Fort Monroe, where he again had his arm examined, thinking the bone had become diseased. In the meantime he received permission to visit his company on the James, and soon after was appointed by General Curtis, Inspector General of the First Brigade, Tenth Army Corps, and served as such until the winter of 1863-’64 when his brigade was sent to Fort Fisher. While on the second expedition and soon, after the Fort was taken, he was (though the youngest Inspector in the Division) promoted to Inspector General of the First Division, Tenth Army Corps, which position he held till mustered out of service at the close of the war, when he again commenced working at this trade. In July, 1869, he removed to Waterloo, Ind., and became established in the tailoring business, and has built up a prosperous business and is considered one of the best tailors in the county. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com