Capt. Sylvester L Moore Name on Monument Vicksburg Company Guard Grants HQ

Capt. Sylvester L Moore 101st Illinois Infantry Co. K Company "K" assigned as provost guard at General Grant's headquarters in Vicksburg, Mississippi his Name on 101st Illinois Infantry Marker in Vicksburg Military park.
 
Early in March the Battalion was ordered down to Vicksburg, where it was broken up, and the companies assigned to various independent duties. Company K was assigned to provost duty at General Grant's Headquarters; Company A was assigned to the "General Bragg"; Company G to the ram "Switzerland"; Company D to the "Rattler" and the "Crocket"; and Company H to the “Lafayette". From this, until the final reunion of the Regiment, each company had its separate history of scouts, skirmishes and expeditions, up an down the Mississippi and its tributary streams. Company G had the honor of running the blockade at Vicksburg, for which service, after the fall, General Grant furloughed the entire company.