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A report from the records of the so-called Chicago Fire Guards. The 1st Regiment of
Illinois Volunteers was authorized for twenty days of service and superseded the special
police. They joined with Chicago police, other militia units, and regular soldiers, all under
Sheridan's command. The night of October 19, according to the report, went without
incident, but the next evening the end of military rule in Chicago was hastened when
Theodore W. Treat, a twenty-year-old college student on volunteer curfew duty, fatally
shot attorney Thomas W. Grosvenor when the latter supposedly refused to obey Treat's
warning to halt.
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General Sheridan in Command 