In memory of O. T. AndrewsThe author of the page wished to remain anonymous

Second Lieutenant Orville Andrews was born in Victory, New York about 1843. After migrating to Rockford, Illinois, he enlisted in the Union Army on May 24, 1861 as a Sergeant in Company C, 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Promoted to Second Lieutenant on September 4, 1861, he was wounded in the leg resulting in its amputation during fighting at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 6, 1862. Deemed unfit for military duty due to the amputation, he was honorably discharged on August 21, 1862 and began receiving a $15.00/month pension on that date According to the Democratic Advocate, his pension for the loss was raised to $18/month in 1884. After military service during the Civil War, Andrews remained in Tennessee and worked as a schoolteacher supporting a wife and two children, before moving back to Illinois in 1874 to work as a laborer in Chicago. Widowed by 1880, Andrews moved to Westminster where he worked as a bookkeeper. Passing away on February 14, 1884 without a burial place, he was buried in Mary Shellman’s plot for indigent Civil War veterans in Westminster Cemetery with a veteran’s marker supplied by the government.