 Complete the following phrase:  Farnsworth organized the 8th Illinois Cavalry at President Abraham Lincolns direction and was commissioned its first colonel. He helped secure a lieutets commission for his 24-year-old nephew Elon John Farnsworth, who would die in action at the Battle of Gettysburg. The older Farnsworth also was instrumental in raising the 17th Illinois. He led the 8th Illinois Cavalry during the Peninsula Campaign, seeing action at the 