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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John LAMBERT, dealer in coal, wood, coke, etc., Joliet; was born in Lambertville, Hunterdon 
Co., N. J., Jan. 12, 1847. In January 1862, at the age of 16 years, he enlisted in Co. D, 
1st New Jersey V. C., served one year on detailed duty in Virginia, and was discharged by 
reason of ill health; he again volunteered as a Sergeant in  Co. A, 3d N. J. V. C., serving 
till the close of the war; during the first year he was detailed as private orderly to Gen. 
BURNSIDE; afterward, under Gen. CUSTER, he participated in the Shenandoah campaign of 1864, 
including the battles around Washington, the battle of Winchester, and terminating in the 
splendid victory of Cedar Creek, the occasion of Gen. SHERIDAN's famous ride "From 
Winchester twenty miles away;" in 1865, in the battles of Waynesboro, Ashland, Dinwiddie 
Court House and Five Forks, where he was wounded by a fragment of a shell, losing a part 
of his left hand, and also had his horse shot under him; after this he participated in 
all the battles under GRANT until the surrender of LEE, and in the grand review of the 
army in Washington, where his company was reduced to but four men able to perform duty 
out of the original number of 101. He was discharged Aug. 9, 1865. Mr. LAMBERT came to 
Grundy Co., IL, in 1867, and in 1870, to Joliet. He was for six years an officer at the 
state Penitentiary, after which he served as Deputy Sheriff under Warren S. NOBLE, serving 
during the strike in Braidwood in 1877. During the exciting political campaign of 1876, 
Mr. LAMBERT organized the Republican Guards of Joliet, of which he was chosen Captain. He 
was married in April 1876, to Miss M. E. BISHOP, of Joliet, and has one child - Anna E.