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J. A. T. Hull.
1,736
George M. Walker. 895
A. B. Keith.
768
A. W. Hall.
4
Circuit Judge.
J. W. Freeland
1,731
H. C. Traverse
1,634
Clerk of Courts.
E. E. Clark
1,729
G. W. Cullison.
1,645
Recorder.
C. G. Nelson.
1,712
D. D. Shirley .
1,662
Supervisor.
S. H. Moore.
1,732
A. K. Robertson
1,667
Revising Constitution.
No.
1,577
Yes.
7.54
Striking Out " Free White."
For.
I,122
Against.
1,083
OCTOBER 11, 1881.
Governor.
Buren R. Sherman 1,347
D. M. Clark. 887
L. G. Kinne.
483
William Johnson.
3
Lieutenant-Governor.
Orlando H. Manning.
1,377
James M. Holland. 838
J. M. Walker.
508
John M. Kent.
3
Representative.
George McCulloch.
1,265
202
Samuel Wright.
1,063
William McHenry
367
Auditor.
H. H. Lusher.
1,311
395
George M. Finley
916
J. M. Given.
483
Treasurer.
Humphrey West.
1,32I
475
W. A. Morgan.
846
J. A. Harper.
525
Sheriff.
John M. Read.
1,268
B. F. Jared.
960
B. B. Cravens
467
County Superintendent.
J. D. Johnson.
1,308
468
W. Swift. .
840
William Dotts
544
Supervisor.
Burris Moore.
1,339
499
M. J. Kinser.
840
Robert Kelso.
5.36
Coroner.
D. A. Huston.
1,365
John Jamison.
SII
B S. Evart.
514
Surveyor.
William P. Steele.
1,338
500
M. H. Richman.
829
R. L. Blakely
5.50
NOVEMBER 7, 1882.
Congressman.
Wm. P. Hepburn.
1,469
167
David M. Clark.
1,302
Lewis Bonnett.
273
Secretary of State.
J. A. T. Hull.
1,524
T. O. Walker.
818
William Gaston
717
Circuit Judge.
E. L. Burton.
1,548
38
Henry L. Dashiel.
1,510
District Attorney.
W. A. Work.
1,553
Samuel Jones.
1,507
Clerk of Courts.
W. M. Littell.
1,537
54
R. L. Blakely
1,483
Recorder.
William Jackson
1,583
I17
S. F. Shields
1,466
Supervisor.
Daniel Kelso.
1,561
Jonathan Alexander ..
1,497
64
846
841
97
84
50
65
823
139
460
539
97
121
I18
1,056
308
554
706
46
504
Restraining Stock.
Yes
1,178
No 1,135
OCTOBER 9, 1883.
Governor.
Buren R. Sherman 1,509
L. G. Kinne. 1,06 I
James B. Weaver.
534
Lieutenant-Governor.
Orlando H. Manning.
1,541
Justus Clark. 1,031
Sanford Kilpatrick
538
Senator.
Lewis Miles.
1,609
S. L. Bestow.
1,466
Representative.
Samuel Wright.
1,617
J. A. Johnson.
1,447
Auditor.
D. G. Duer.
1,543
H. H. Lusher.
1,542
Treasurer.
Humphrey West.
1,565
James W. Fletcher.
1,531
Sheriff.
John M. Read.
1,596
J. N. Davidson.
1,498
Supervisor.
H. L. Evans.
1,552
William Lawson.
1,550
County Superintendent .
J. S. Shepherd.
1,542
J. W. Hook.
1,509
Coroner.
Isaac Porter.
1,558
J. P. Hartley
1,544
Surveyor.
W. P. Steele.
1,529
M. H. Richman
1,523
NOVEMBER 4, 1884.
President.
Grover Cleveland.
1,681
James G. Blaine.
1,672
John P. St. John.
19
Benjamin F. Butler
9
Congressman.
S. R. Davis.
1,701
28
Secretary of State.
James D oley.
1,698
12
Frank D. Jackson.
1,686
Circuit Judge.
H. C. Traverse.
1,692
S. S. Caruthers.
1,691
3
W. H. C. Jaques
1,688
Dell Stuart ..
1,675
Clerk of Courts.
W. C. Browning
1,749
143
W. M. Littell.
1,606
Recorder.
William Jackson.
1,711
53
Josiah C. Wright.
1,658
Supervisor.
W. A. Morgan
1,695
26
John H. Rakes.
1,669
NOVEMBER 3, 1885.
Governor.
William Larrabee ...
1,648
16
Charles E. Whiting.
1,632
Lieutenant-Governor.
J. A. T. Hull
1,650
E. H. Gillette.
1,626
Representative.
J. R. Bradley
1,629
IO
Samuel Wright.
1,619
Auditor.
2
B. W. Van Der Veer.
1,674
D. G. Duer
1,556
Treasurer.
W, L. White.
1,654
22
J. W. Rankin.
1,632
Sheriff.
B. F. Jared ..
1,651
75
T. W. Passwater
1,576
County Superintendent.
J. W. Hook
1,649
52
J. W. Frame.
1,591
Supervisor.
J. S. Alexander.
1,691
107
Daniel Kelso.
1,584
Coroner.
Charles Williams.
1,677
41
T. J. Hancock.
1,636
Surveyor.
W. P. Steele.
1,667
J. M. Barnett.
1,623
44
William P. Hepburn
1,673
43
448
510
145
170
I
34
98
33
14
6
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HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
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OFFICIAL REGISTER.
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OFFICIAL 'REGISTER.
HE following register of the names of those who have held office in Wayne County, with years of office, has been prepared from the records of the county, and is accurate :
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Talbot Rockhold, William B. Hart and Joseph De- vine, 1851. Duties then devolved on
COUNTY JUDGES.
Seth Anderson, 1851-'4; J. K. Starr ; 1854-'5; Daniel Payton, 1855-'7; W. E. Taylor, 1857-'9; G.I. Wade, 1859-'61 ; J. W. Freeland, 1861-'3; A. A. Power, 1863 -'5 ; Martain Read, 1865-'S. Office abol- ished.
SHERIFFS.
Isaac W. McCarty, 1851-'3; Marion Edgeman, 1853-'5; Charles W. Wells, 1855-'7; B. H. Kelley, 1857-'61 ; James Carter, 1861-'3 ; Marshall Nelson, 1863- '5; W. M. Littell, 1865-'9; John N. Wright, 1869-'71 ; Samuel Wright, 1871 -'5 ; William Robb, 1875-'7; B. T. Raisor,
1877-'S1; John M. Read, 1881-'5 ; B. F. Jared, 1885 -.
TREASURERS AND RECORDERS.
Daniel Payton, 1851-'4; J. H. Crawford, 1854-'5; John Hayes, 1855-'7 ; C. Rus- sett, 1857-'9; Samuel L. Vest, 1859-'61 ; William Boyle, 1861-'3; H. G. May, 1863 -'4. ยท Offices separated.
TREASURERS.
.Joshua Prugh, 1864-'7; B. S. Jones, 1868-'9; G. W. Dean, 1869-'73: Jacob Brown, 1874-'7 ; D. A. J. Sargent, 1878- '81 ; Humphrey West, 1882-'5; W. L. White, 1886 -.
RECORDERS.
A. R. Meredith, 1864-'72 ; C. G. Nelson, 1873-'8; Ed. Dale, 1879; C. G. Nelson, 1879-'82 ; William Jackson, 1883 -.
CLERKS OF COURTS.
Thomas McPherson, 1851-'2 ; John Al- len, 1852; Andrew J. Morrison, 1852-'4; Charles C. Jackson, 1854-'6; William Jackson, 1856-'60; L. D. McKinley, 1861 -'4; E. W. Fullerton, 1865-'8; Martin Read, 1869-'70; George Albertson, 1871 -'6; E. E. Clark, 1877-'82; W. M. Lit- tell, 1882-'4; W. C. Browning, 1885 -.
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HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.
George Wright, 1859-'61 ; A. A. Power, 1862-'3 ; David Kirk, 1864-'7; W. H. H. Rogers, 1868-'9; Enos Rushton, 1870-'1; W. G. McColm, 1872-'3 ; William Dotts, 1874-'5; J. W. Walker, 1876-'7 ; J. H. Ware, 1878-'81; J. D. Johnson, 1882-'3 ; J. S. Shepherd, 1884-'5; J. W. Hook, 1886 -.
CORONERS.
James Hamack, 1851-'5 ; Thomas M. Bowen, 1855-'7; W. Boswell, 1857-'8; Josiah Fisher, 1859-'61 ; Hiram Mason, 1862-'3; Benjamin Barker, 1864; Morgan Parr, 1865-'7 ; N. Brown, 1868-'9 ; E. W. Fullerton, 1870-'I; A. Nelson, 1872-'5; N. Rogers, 1876-'7 ; S. K. Rinard, 1878- '9; O. B. Sutton, 1880-'I ; D. A. Huston, 1882-'3 ; Isaac Porter, 1884-'5; Charles Williams, 1886.
SURVEYORS.
M. H. Richman, 1851-'55 ; Josiah Davis, 1855-'7 ; James Phillips, 1857-'63; Burris Moore, 1864-'73; Josiah Davis, 1874-'5 ; Burris Moore, 1876-'81; William P. Steele, 1882 -.
SUPERVISORS .- (TOWNSHIP SYSTEM.)
1861 .- David Tharp (Chairman), Samuel Fry, Simeon Veatch, Samuel Merres, Jacob Prince, John H. Nichols, A. W. Sharp, William Speer, Thomas Richardson, Will- iam E. Swanson, H. B. Duncan, John Fulton, William Willis, Josephus Gard and Sylvester Greenlee.
1862 .- Fred Sommerschue (Chairman), Thomas Richardson, E. W. Fullerton, Samuel Wright, C. Hornnocker, William Wade, Van B. Smith, John Dimer, Charles Barker, William E. Swanson, Simeon Veatch, A. W. Sharp, David Tharp, Will- iam Speer and Samuel Merres.
1863 .- Fred Sommerschue (Chairman), Joseph Conner, Oliver Ferguson, Jacob Leighton, Pailman Allen, William Toliver,
Morgan Parr, Garret Albertson, Samuel R. Gwinn, B. H. Kelly, C. Hornnocker, W. E. Swanson, Thomas Richardson, Van B. Smith and Charles Barker.
1864 .- J. M. Gwinn (Chairman), Peter Ruark, Milton Hutchinson, C. Hornnocker, G. W. Wilkie, Eli Fletcher, John Shriver, B. H. Kelly, Oliver Ferguson, Joseph Conner, Jacob Leighton, Pailman Allen (resigned and place filled by D. P. Reece), Morgan Parr, Samuel R. Gwinn, William Toliver, Joseph Conner and Hiram Evans.
1865 .- Hiram Evans (Chairman), C. H. Austin, Oliver Ferguson, Joseph Conner, A. D. Garton, Morgan Parr, James Taylor, T. J. Miller, Eli Fletcher, Jeremiah Bower, J. Herbert, John Shriver, T. Rogers, Peter Ruark, William Toliver and C. Horn- nocker.
1866 .- Hiram Evans (Chairman), Peter Ruark, J. H. Surbaugh, L. Marick, James H. Crawford, Joseph Ballman, A. Standi- fird, John Clark, Joseph Adams, D. M. Clark, Elijah Morrison, Oliver Ferguson, James Taylor, Joseph Conner, H. L. Evans, T. Rogers and T. J. Miller.
1867 .- Simeon Veatch (Chairman), D. G. Slavens, Thomas Rogers, D. M. Clark, S. H. Albertson, M. Nelson, J. T. Sharp, J. W. Hopkins, Joseph Adams, Joseph Ballman, A. Standifird, Peter Ruark, J. H. Surbaugh, James H. Crawford, Hiram Evans and L. Marick.
1868 .- Simeon Veatch (Chairman), Peter Ruark, James Caldwell, N. Grabill, A. V. Kellogg, J. Lovett, S. L. Vest, Sam- uel Wright, J. L. Martin, D. M. Clark, M. Nelson, J. H. Crawford, J. T. Sharp, S. H. Albertson, A. Standifird and Thomas Rogers.
* 1869 .- A. Standifird (Chairman), E. Up- ham, S. K. Gwinn, Joseph Conner, D. Pechin, Samuel Wright, E. E. Barker, T. J. Miller, Peter Ruark, M. Nelson, James Caldwell, J. H. Crawford, N. Grabill, A. V. Kellogg, J. Lovett and S. L. Vest.
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1870 .- M. Nelson (Chairman), L. S. Bambrick, Greenwood Wright, Thomas Brooks, J. Prugh, Z. J. Baldwin, E. Jenni- son, J. D. Wasson, James B. Ormsby, E. Upham, S. K. Gwinn, D. Pechin, Joseph Conner, Samuel Wright, T. J. Miller and E. E. Barker.
SUPERVISORS .- (PRESENT SYSTEM.)
1871 .- Marshall Nelson (Chairman), E. R. Higley and Greenwood Wright.
1872 .- Greenwood Wright (Chairman), E. R. Higley and Hiram Evans.
1873 .- E. R. Higley (Chairman), Hiram Evans and V. T. Riley.
1874 .- Hiram Evans (Chairman), V. T. Riley and D. H. Comstock.
1875 .- V. T. Riley (Chairman), D. H. Comstock and J. D. Hasbrouck.
1876 .- V. T. Riley (Chairman), D. H. Comstock and J. D. Hasbrouck.
1877 .- V. T. Riley (Chairman), J. D. Has- brouck and William Ferguson.
1878 .- V. T. Riley (Chairman), William Ferguson and Samuel H. Moore.
1879 .- William Ferguson (Chairman), Samuel H. Moore and J. C. Clayton.
1880 .- Samuel H. Moore (Chairman), J. C. Clayton and Elias Jennison.
1881 .- Samuel H. Moore (Chairman), J. C. Clayton and Elias Jennison.
1882 .- Samuel H. Moore (Chairman), Elias Jennison and Burris Moore.
1883 .- Samuel H. Moore (Chairman), Burris Moore and Daniel Kelso.
1884 .- Burris Moore (Chairman), Daniel Kelso and H. L. Evans.
1885 .- Daniel Kelso (Chairman), H. L. Evans and W. A. Morgan.
1886 .- H. L. Evans (Chairman), W. A. Morgan and J. S. Alexander.
SENATORS.
John J. Selman, 1850-'1; Amos Harris, 1852-'3; Nathan Udell, 1854-'5 ; John W. Warner, 1856-'9; William E. Taylor, 1860- 'I; E. F. Esteb, 1862-'3 ; Ziba Brown, 1864 -'5 ; E. E. Edwards, 1866-'7 ; J. D. Wright. 1868-'9; Edward M. Bill, 1870-'1 ; Martin Read, 1872-'3; Lloyd Selby, 1874-'5 ; Henry L. Dashiel, 1876-'9; David M. Clark, 1880-'3; Lewis Miles, 1884 -.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Reuben Riggs and Samuel Riggs, 1850- '1; Abraham Putnam, 1852-'3 ; S. P. Yeo- mans, 1854-'5 ; Thomas M. Bowen, 1856-'7; Alonzo W. Sharp, 1858-'9: Hartley Brace- well, 1860-'3; Elijah Glendenning, 1864-'5; Samuel L. Glasgow, 1866-'7; William Glasgow, 1868-'9; Lewis Miles, Jr., 1870- 'I ; James H. Crawford, 1872-'3; Alva Humeston, 1874-'5 ; Elijah Glendenning, 1876-'7 ; Greenwood Wright, 1878-'9; A. C. Reck, 1880-'1; George McCulloch, 1882-'3; Samuel Wright, 1884-'5 ; J. R. Bradley, 1886 -.
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HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
IFE CIVIL WAR
HE people of the North- ern States have just reason to be proud of the glorious record they made during the dark and bloody days when crimson- 3. handed rebellion threaten- ed the life of the nation. When war was forced upon the country by rebels in arms against. the Govern- ment, the people were quiet- ly pursuing the even tenor of their ways, doing what- cver their hands found to do-working the mines, making farms or cultivating those already made, erecting homes, building shops, founding cities and towns, building mills and factories-in short, the country was alive with industry and hopes for the future. The people were just recover- ing from the depression and losses incident to the financial panic of 1857. The future looked bright and promising, and the in- dustrious and patriotic sons and daughters of the free States were buoyant with hope, looking forward to the perfecting of new plans for the ensurement of comfort and
competence in their declining years; they little heeded the mutterings and threaten- ings of treason's children, in the slave States of the South. True sons and descendants of the heroes of the " times that tried men's souls" -- the struggle for American indepen- dence -- they never dreamed that there was even one so base as to dare attempt the destruction of the Union of their fathers -- a Government baptized with the best blood the world ever knew. While immediately surrounded with peace and tranquillity, they paid but little attention to the rumored plots and plans of those who lived and grew rich from the sweat and toil, blood and flesh of others-aye, even trafficked in the offspring of their own loins. Nevertheless, the war came, with all its attendant horrors.
April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter, at Charles- ton, South Carolina, Major Anderson, U. S. A., Commandant, was fired upon by rebels in arms. Although basest treason, this first act in the bloody reality that followed was looked upon as a mere bravado of a few hot-heads-the act of a few fire-eaters whose sectional bias and freedom and hatred was crazed by the excessive indulgence in intoxi- cating potations. When, a day later, the news was borne along the telegraph wires that Major Anderson had been forced to sur-
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render to what had first been regarded as a drunken mob, the patriotic people of the North were startled from their dreams of the future, from undertakings half com- pleted, and made to realize that behind that mob there was a dark, deep and well- organized purpose to destroy the Govern- ment, rend the Union in twain, and out of its ruins erect a slave oligarchy, wherein no one would dare question their right to hold in bondage the sons and daughters of men whose skins were black, or who, per- chance, through practices of lustful natures, were half or quarter removed from the color that God. for his own purposes, had given them. But they " reckoned without their host." Their dreams of the future, their plans for the establishment of an inde- pendent confederacy, were doomed from their inception to sad and bitter disappoint- ment.
Immediately upon the surrender of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln, America's martyr President, who, but a few short weeks before, had taken the oath of office as the nation's Chief Executive, issued a proc- lamation calling for 75,000 volunteers for three months. The last word had scarcely been taken from the electric wires before the call was filled. Men and money were counted out by hundreds and thousands. The people who loved their whole Govern- ment could not give enough. Patriotism thrilled and vibrated and pulsated through every heart. The farm, the workshop, the office, the pulpit, the bar, the bench, the college, the school-house, every calling offered its best men, their lives and fortunes, in defense of the Government's honor and unity. Party lines were for the time ig- nored. Bitter words, spoken in moments of political heat, were forgotten and for- given, and, joining hands in a common cause, they repeated the oath of America's soldier-statesman : "By the great Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved!"
Seventy-five thousand men were not enough to subdue the rebellion. Nor were ten times that number. The war went on, and call followed call, until it began to look as if there would not be men enough in all the free States to crush out and subdue the monstrous war traitors had inaugurated. But to every call for either men or money, there was a willing and ready response. And it is a boast of the people that, had the supply of men fallen short, there were women brave enough, daring enough, patri- otic enough, to have offered themselves as sacrifices on their country's altar. Such were the impulses, motives and actions of the patriotic men of the North, among whom the sons of Wayne County made a conspicuous and praiseworthy record. Of the offerings made by these people during the great and final struggle between free- dom and slavery it is the purpose now to write.
April 14, A. D. 1861, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, issued the following :
PROCLAMATION.
" WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been and now are violently opposed in several States, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordi- nary way ; I therefore call for the militia of the several States of the Union, to the ag- gregate number of 75,000, to suppress said combinations and execute the laws. I ap- peal to all loyal citizens to facilitate and aid in this effort to maintain the laws and the integrity of the perpetuity of the popular Government, and redress wrongs long enough endured. The first service assigned to the forces, probably, will be to repossess the forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union. Let the ut- most care be taken, consistent with the object, to avoid devastation, destruction, interference with the property of peaceful citizens in any part of the country ; and I
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hereby command persons composing the aforesaid combination to disperse within twenty days from date.
" I hereby convene both Houses of Con- gress for the 4th day of July next, to deter- mine upon measures for public safety which the interest of the subject demands.
" ABRAHAM LINCOLN, " President of the United States. " WM. H. SEWARD, "Secretary of State."
The gauntlet thrown down by the trai- tors of the South was accepted-not, how- ever, in the spirit with which insolence meets insolence, but with a firm, deter- mined spirit of patriotism and love of coun- try. The duty of the President was plain, under the Constitution and the laws, and above and beyond all, the people, from whom political power is derived, demanded the suppression of the rebellion, and stood ready to sustain the authority of their rep- resentatives and executive officers.
The absence of the files of newspapers in this county, from 1861 to 1864, renders it impossible for the historian to do full justice to the spirit and patriotism of this people in the early days of America's gigan- tic and bloody struggle against rebellion, and their liberal contributions to maintain the integrity of this nation.
Though remote from the capital and large cities which were made rendezvous for volunteers, Wayne County was prompt in responding to demands made upon it. The first few volunteers from the county did not go as a body, but were scattered in different commands. The first large body of Wayne County volunteers was raised late in the summer of 1861, and be- came Company I of the Fourth Infantry. In 1862 another company was organized here, which became Company D, Twenty- third Infantry. The Colonel of this regi- ment was Samuel L. Glasgow, of Corydon. Company F, of the Thirty-fourth Infantry,
was from Wayne County, which also con- tributed some thirty or forty men to the Third Cavalry, an equal number to the Eighth Cavalry, a number of men to the Thirty-sixth Infantry, two-thirds of a com- pany to the Forty-sixth Infantry (100 days), and twenty-five or thirty men to the Eight- eenth Missouri Infantry, besides a few in other organizations. In all, it is not an overestimate to say that 600 volunteers were at one time and another enrolled in active service from Wayne County.
The first action taken by the Board of Supervisors in recognition of the claims of the families of volunteers was on Septen- ber 3, 1861, when J. M. Sullivan, A. W. Sharp and S. Maris were appointed a com- mittee "to draft a plan for the relief of families of volunteers who are now in the service of the United States." They pre- sented their report the same day, and it was adopted. After declaring that relief is to be given only where actually needed, it was
"Resolved, That each member of this board shall act as a committeeman in his own township, to whom all applications for such assistance shall be made, and shall report the same promptly to William Speer, of Corydon Township, who shall act as chair- man of said committee, and who shall pay out of such money as may be appropriated by this board for the purpose above men- tioned such amounts as the committeeman of each township shall in writing certify as necessary for that township, keeping a list of the names and amount paid to each in- dividual, and shall report the same to this board at its next session ; and the said committeeman of Corydon Township shall also be empowered to exercise his own dis- cretion in the payment of money for the relief of his own township, but shall fur- nish to this board a certificate of such ex- penditure as is required by the committee- men of other townships. And also be it
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further resolved that the committeeman of each township shall be required to report to this body at its next session from per- sonal knowledge what amount will be nec- essary to expend in his own township for three months next following such meet- ing."
At this meeting $50 was appropriated for this purpose.
October 13 Mr. Speer reported the ex- penditure so far of $39.50, and the board appropriated $150 more. At the January term it was reported that $86.50 had been expended. Subsequently different amounts were appropriated. By an order made in October, 1862, the parties needing assist- ance were not required to make affidavits of their needy condition, but the committee- men were left to their own discretion in each case that might come before them.
By a statute of Iowa the soldiers in the field were allowed to vote at general elec- tions. The soldiers' vote in 1862 credited to Wayne County numbered 214.
Early in the war the counties in Southern lowa raised and organized a "Southern Border Brigade," one or more companies in each county, designed to protect property and life from attacks by disloyal Missouri- ans. This brigade was never called to- gether, but each company, under orders from the Colonel or Adjutant-General, did a certain amount of duty at or near home. Way ie County contributed a company (B, of the Third Battalion) under the command of Captain E. F. Esteb. There were at no time serious disturbances in this county, and partisan views prevailed as to the need of such an organization. Most of the Re- publicans favored it, and their political op- ponents considered it a useless expense.
At a session of the Board of Supervisors in January, 1863, C. Hornnocker and E. W. Fullerton proposed the following me- morial, which was adopted by a vote of 12 to 4 :
" His Excellency S. J. Kirkwood, Governor of Iowa :
" We, the Board of Supervisors of Wayne County, Iowa, would respectfully recom- mend that Wayne County Company of Border Cavalry for southern border of Iowa be disbanded, as we consider it en- tirely unnecessary and consequently a great expense to the State."
Each supervisor was directed to obtain petition in his township to forward to Governor Kirkwood, and as a result the company was disbanded. A law was about this time passed compelling all able bodied men of proper age to enroll themselves in the militia and organize by companies. A census of Wayne County showed 582 mem- bers of the militia, which was organized into eleven companies.
In June, 1863, the authority for aiding volunteers' families was placed with the township trustees, and the bills were to be footed by the respective townships. This plan proved unsatisfactory, and in August, 1864, each supervisor was again directed to judge of the needs of volunteers' families, and supply them aid, not to exceed $50 each. At the same meeting a proposition to pay bounties to volunteers was rejected. Without deciding as to the deserts of the soldiers from Wayne County, it is certainly much to the credit of the county that it was not necessary to pay the high bounties by which other counties were scarcely able to avoid the draft.
Following are sketches of the regiments in which Wayne County was most largely represented.
FOURTH INFANTRY.
This regiment was one of those enlisted in the summer of 1861, and became one of the most famous Iowa regiments in the service. It was made up of volunteers from Southern lowa, Wayne County con- tributing one company, I. W. E. Taylor
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HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
was its first Captain, Samuel L. Glasgow, First Lieutenant, and G. S. McCune. Second Lieutenant. Glasgow resigned and afterward became Colonel of the Twenty- third. Fred Crathorne became First Lieu- tenant and then Captain. George A. Robin- son became First Lieutenant, in which capacity he resigned. Robert Laing was promoted from the ranks to Second Lieu- tenant, and then First Lieutenant.
The Fourth Infantry left the State of Iowa, August 9, 1861, went immediately to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and stayed there until August 24, when it went to Rolla, Missouri. The regiment left Rolla, January 22, 1862, with the army of the Southwest, and was continually on the march, save now and then a few days, un- til its arrival at Helena, Arkansas, July 14, 1862. The regiment fought at Chickasaw Bayou on the 28th and 29th of December ; then embarked and went up the Arkansas River and fought at Arkansas Post on the 10th and 11th of January, 1863; then re- turned to the front of Vicksburg, landing at Young's Point, January 22, 1863. April 2 the regiment embarked and went 150 miles up the Mississippi River to Greenville, whence it went on the celebrated raid in the Deer Creek Valley, returning again by the river to Milliken's Bend, from whence it started on the active campaign against Vicksburg on the 2d of May, via Rich- mond, Louisiana, and Grand Gulf, Missis- sippi, to Jackson, where two days were spent in tearing up the railroad. Thence the Fourth moved on Vicksburg, arriving on the 8th and commencing the memorable siege of that stronghold.
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