Lemuel Fuller (1832-1913) was a 30 year old farmer when he enlisted at Rockford on 8/9/1862 as a Private in Co. F, 74th Illinois Infantry and was mustered out on 6/10/1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Of his war experience, an obituary in the Rockford Daily Register-Gazette (20 August 1913) states that though he was never wounded, he was in several severe engagements. He spent about 18 months in a hospital suffering from smallpox and was a prisoner of war as well. He was captured at Jonesboro and was then sent to Andersonville, where his comrade Roger Brown was a prisoner at the same time. After leaving Andersonville, he was taken to Savannah, then to Florence, South Carolina and was exchanged at Charleston. He fell ill shortly after the Battle of Stones River.
Lemuel was the son of John Fuller (1800-1858) and Lucy Wilder (1808-1895) of Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois. He never married and carried on the farm that his father started in 1839.
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