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DISTRICT COURT.
The first term of the District Court for Polk County commenced April 6th, 1846, at Fort Des Moines, in a room occupied by Miss Davis, for school purposes. The records of this Court exhibit a singular combination of the elements belonging to County and Federal Government. This sin- gularity was caused, doubtless, by the fact that the ma- chinery of Government in those days was operated, to a great extent, by agents of the United States. The officers on this occasion were: Joseph Williams, of Muscatine, Judge; Thomas Baker, U. S. District Attorney; John B.
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Lash, U. S. Marshal; Perry L. Crossman, first District Court Clerk; Thomas Mitchell, Sheriff.
Que of the first duties to perform was to secure a tempo- rary seal, with which to give official sanction to the business of the Court. Elsewhere it has been stated that the County Court selected for its seal the eagle side of a half dollar, American coin; and after due deliberation, the District Court adopted, by way of distinction, the eagle side of a quarter of a dollar.
It was found that there was no legal Grand Jury, and no legal Sheriff, as Mr. Mitchell was not qualified until next day. Some one acting as Sheriff, whose name does not ap- pear in the minutes, returned, by order of Court, the fol- lowing names, from which to constitute a Grand Jury : William Lamb, Samuel Dille, Newton Lamb, Benjamin Saylor, Peter Newcomer, John Baird, Thomas McMullen, George B. Warden, J. B. Scott, Jeremiah Church, J. M. Thrift, Thaddeus Milman, Samuel Deford, A. Brannon, Samuel Shaffer, G. B. Clark, W. W .. Clapp, Wm. F. Ayres, J. D. Parmalee, James Davis, J. J. Meldrum, Thos. Leon- ard, and Lewis Whitten, Bailiff. The Jury having been thus organized, by selecting the legal number from the ve- nire, they were set to work; but as no bills of indictment were found, and as no business of importance was pre- sented, the Court, on the second day, adjourned to the Sep- tember term.
The District Court convened again on the 28th day of September, 1846, with the same officrs present. The Sher- iff aud U. S. Marshal returned the appended names, with which to form the jury: J. B. Mallett, John Thompson, George Maggs, John Q. Deacon, James Campbell, Alexan der Sumner, Mormon Ballard, Stephen K. Scoville, Thomas H. Napier, William H. Meacham, Samuel Vanatta, William Lamb, Benjamin Saylor, T. K. Brooks, Samuel Shaffer, Samuel Kellogg, John Rose ; and Lewis Whitten, Bailiff.
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During this term, Perry L. Crossman resigned the Clerk- ship, and Alfred D. Jones was appointed to the vacancy.
The following gentlemen were admitted to the bar:
Wm. D. Frazee, R. L. Tidrick, A. D Jones, and P. M. Casady; the last of whom was admitted on motion of Thos. Baker, Prosecuting Attorney. Lewis Whitten was ap- pointed Deputy Clerk.
JUDGES AND OTHER OFFICERS.
During the May term, 1847, Jas. P. Carleton was Judge; and for the May term, 1848, Cyrus Olney is reported on the Bench. Thomas Baker was still Prosecuting Attorney, and Jacob Frederick, at the latter term, was foreman of the Grand Jury. There is no record of the other officers.
During May term, 1849, the name of Wm. Mckay ap- pears for the first time in connection with the Judgeship of the District Court. At the same term the following gentle- men were admitted to the bar: Lewis Whitten, Amelius Reynolds, Barlow Granger, J. E. Jewett, Hoyt Sherman, and John Barnard.
At the October term, 1849, the same Judge presided. L. P. Sherman was Deputy Clerk; and O. R. Jones, W. W. Williamson, and Curtis Bates appear as attorneys.
OFFICERS AND ATTORNEYS.
During the May term, 1850, Judge Mckay presiding, Madison Young, J. M. Perry, and Byron Rice were admit- ted to the Bar. It is proper to say here of Judge Rice, that the county is largely indebted to him for the important im- provements he made in our local records when he was in office. He literally brought order out of confusion, making it easy for the historian to follow his entries.
During the September term, the same Judge presiding, John W. Rush was appointed Deputy lerk.
At the April term, 1851, Judge Mckay still on the Bench,
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Charles McKay was admitted to the Bar; Samuel Bell was appointed Deputy Clerk, and Benj. Bryant, Bailiff.
At the September term, 1851, still the same Judge, Alfred M. Lyon is reported as Sheriff, Byron Rice as Prosecuting Attorney, and Samuel W. McCall as Foreman of the Grand July. C. Ben. Darwin, and Lewis Kinsey were admitted to the Bar.
During the March term, 1853, D. O. Finch and A. Y. Hull make their first appearance as attorneys ; and Peter Myers is reported to have been admitted at the same time.
FIRST MURDER, ETC.
At the September term, 1854, Judge McKay, after having served on the Bench several years, was succeeded by C. J. McFarland, who had been the successful Democratic candi- date at the previous election; his Whig opponent having been W W. Williamson. At this term, T. E. Brown, Will Tomlinson, and Hezekiah Beecher were admitted to prac- tice law. It was at this term, also, that Pleasant Fouts was indicted for the murder of his wife. Messrs. Bates, Parish and Finch were counsel for defendant. A change of venue was taken to Jasper county, and Judge Wm. Mckay was appointed to assist in the prosecution. This was the first murder case in our judicial record.
ATTORNEYS ADMITTED.
J. H. Gray, B. D Thomas, W. J. Gatlin, Will Porter, and Thomas Kavanaugh, were admitted to the Bar. The name also, of M. M. Crocker, of the firm of Finch & Crocker, appears for the first time.
T. A. Walker was admitted to practice law at the March term, 1856; and at the ensuing August term, Dr. J. G. Weeks, and John Mitchell, were admitted.
In June, 1857, S. V. White, J. S. Polk, M. B. Hoxie, M. D. McHenry, J. M. Dixon, and J. M. Elwood were admitted
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to the Polk County Bar, and during the same year T. F. Withrow, and S. Sibley were numbered among the attorneys.
Judge Gray was re-elected in 1862, and died in office in 1865. He was succeeded by C. C. Nourse, appointed by Governor Stone. The reader is referred to the Election Record in another place, for information in regard to the other officers of the Court.
U. S. LAND OFFICE
The U. S. Land Office was opened at Fort Des Moines, January 28th, 1853. The first Register was Geo. S. Night- ingale, who served from the date above given, until June 7th, 1853. The first Receiver was Eliphalet Price. R. L Tid- rick was the second Register, discharging the duties of his office from June 7th, 1853, until May 31st, 1854. For the . same period, Col. T. A. Walker was Receiver.
Col. Walker held the office of Register from June 15th, 1854, until September, 1857, during which time P. M. Cas- ady was Receiver. Robert Brown was Register from Sep- tember, 1857, to May 15th, 1858; and during this time Isaac Cooper was Receiver.
Isaac W. Griffith occupied the Register's Office from May 15th, 1858, to July 31st, 1861. For the same time, Isaac Cooper was Receiver. Stewart Goodrell was Register from July, 1861, until February 1st, 1864, during which time J. G. Weeks was Receiver.
Thomas Seeley, of Guthrie County, was Register from March 1st, 1864, to April 1st, 1868, during which time Stewart Goodrell was Receiver.
F. G. Clarke, the present incumbent of the Register's Office, commenced his term of service April 1st, 1868; and G. L. Godfrey, the present Receiver, came into office May 5th, 1869. Col. Godfrey recently resigned his office, and was succeeded by Capt. H. H. Griffiths.
'The land sales in early times, were simply enormous, fre-
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quently amounting in one day, to twenty-five thousand dol- lars in gold. The offices of Register and Receiver are lo- cated in the P. O. builiding on Court Avenue.
POLK COUNTY SOLDIERS-SECOND AND THIRD INFANTRY.
The confined limits of this volume will not permit us to give anything like a full history of the companies organ- ized in Polk County during the war for the Union. In the synoptical report which we propose to give of our soldiers, we are aided materially by an interesting volume entitled " American Patriotism," written by our fellow-citizen, Leonard Brown.
Company D, Second Iowa Infantry, was enrolled in May, 1861, and discharged in July, 1865. The commanding offi- cers were: M. M. Crocker, N. L. Dykeman, N W. Mills, and Edgar Ensign. This Company was really in existence in 1860, befor the war, at which time it was known as the Capital Guards. The old flag of this organization, now at the State Arsenal, was the first of Iowa banners to wave over a rebel fortification, which it did at Ft. Donelson.
The following members received commissions during the war: M. M. Crocker, N. W. Mills, E. T. Ensign, E. L. Marsh, N. L. Dykeman, S. H. Lunt, G. L. Godfrey, E. C. Tunis, John Lynde, W. L. Davis, P. D. Gillette, W. E. Houston, L. B. Houston, D. M. Sells, J. H. Browne, Robert Allen, jr., T. G. Cree, William Ragan, W. H. Hoxie, J. H. Looby, and John Watson. The Second Infantry was gal- lantly led into the fight at Donelson by Colonel, afterward General J. M. Tuttle. Nathan W. Doty and Theodore G. Weeks, of Company D, were among the slain. The re- mains of these brave soldiers, who faced death and died as heroes die, were brought to Des Moines for interment, March 11th, 1862. They formed the vanguard of that ghastly train of stricken and dead soldiers, whose bodies are reposing in every burial place in the County! The 15
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solemnities attending the funeral ceremonies in this city will never be forgotten by those who witnessed them.
Major General M. M. Crocker was born in Johnson coun- ty, Indiana, February, 6, 1830. He was educated at the Military Academy at West Point, after which he studied jaw. He came to Des Moines in the spring of 1855, and practiced his profession until he went into the army in 1861. His brilliant military qualities made his promotion rapid. He died at Washington City, in the summer of 1865, and his body was brought home for burial. In his younger days, he provided for his widowed mother, sisters, and brothers in their indigence. As a citizen, he was honorable and exemplary; as a lawyer, he was accomplished and pop- ular; as a son, husband, and father, he was affectionate and devoted; as a soldier, he was brave even to rashness; as an officer, he was capable and chivalrous; and as a sufferer from disease, he was always hopeful and patient.
Colonel Noah W. Mills, brother of Frank and Jacob Mills of Des Moines, was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, June 21, 1834. He defrayed his own expenses while attending Wabash College. Becoming a printer, he associated himself in business with his brother in this city in 1856. He went to the army as Lieutenant of Company D, and had just succeeded the lamented Colonel Baker in command of the Regiment at the battle of Corinth, when a wound received in the foot terminated his life, Sunday afternoon at sundown, October 12, 1862. He was truly a christian soldier and patriot, the fragrance of whose precious memory remains with those who knew him, and knew him but to love him.
Captain S. H. Lunt, a true soldier and gallant officer, died of disease at Mobile, Alabama, July 28, 1865. He enlisted as a private very, early in the war.
Lieutenant John Watson, an Englishman by birth, once Marshal of Des Moines, became Second Lieutenant of
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Company F, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, and died April 9, 1862, from a wound received at the battle of Shiloh. He was a brick layer, and helped to build Sherman Block, and the Court House in Des Moines. His devotion to General Crocker as a friend, was unbounded. Just before his death, he desired that his dog, which had followed him affection- ately through all the perils of his military experience, should, along with his gun, be sent to Alexander Bowers of this city, as the only testimonial of his friendship which he was able to offer. From some cause, the presents were not for- warded.
Lieutenant Robert Allen, Jun., nephew of B. F. Allen, and son of Gen. Robert Allen of the Regular Army, enlist- ed as a private in Company D, at the age of twenty. He was soon promoted to a First Lieutenancy in the First U. S. Cavalry, Army of the Potomac. He was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, was captured, and taken to Libby Pris - on, Richmond, where his wounded limb was amputated. He was then exchanged, and died shortly afterward in New York, from the effects of the wound and a second amputa- tion. He was a scholarly young man, and beloved by all who knew him.
Orderly George F. Bachelder, a brave and faithful soldier, detailed to serve with the First Alabama Cavalry, was killed by ambushed enemies, near Rome, Ga., Sunday, July 17, 1864.
James Edwin Robbins, a splendid fighter in a dozen bat" tles, was killed by foes in ambush on the Tennessee river in 1864.
Thomas Stewart Birch, of Saylor Grove, a pious and ad- mirable young soldier, who read the Bible through while in the army, died suddenly of disease of the heart, after hav- ing stood guard all the previous night at Corinth, August 8, 1862.
J. M. Moles, formerly well known in Des Moines, was
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killed instantly by a ball in the temple, at the battle of Cor- inth, Saturday, October 4, 1862. He left a young wife, to- whom he had been married but a short time.
In addition to the above names are the following: Ser- geant Bradley Greene, a young man of fine character, died at Newtonia, Mo., October 8, 1862, of a wound received near that place from concealed enemies. Casper S. Brady, of Saylor Grove, a childlike, innocent drummer boy, and a native of Iowa, died of erysipelas, caused by a wound in the knee, received at the battle of Donelson. Hand- some marble stones were placed at the head and foot of his grave by his parents, in Saylor Grove Cemetery. Andrew Slatten, an eccentric young lawyer of East Des Moines, and at one time Justice of the Peace in Lee Town- ship, died of wounds received at Donelson, during the latter part of April, 1862. His remains lie beside those of Weeks and Doty in Woodland Cemetery. Sergeant Hiram Calvin Cook, a young man of great personal worth, died of ab- scess of the lungs, at New Hartford, Conn., March 28, 1862. Armin Young died of consumption, February 12, 1862. Austin B. Rush, who learned the printing trade with Will Porter in Des Moines in 1857, died at Vicksburg in 1862. He was Hospital Steward at the time of his death. He is very well remembered by the old citizens of the county. Adjutant Joel Tuttle, of Company F, Second Infantry, died at St. Louis, May 13, 1862. He was a brother of Gen. J. M. Tuttle, and his remains were interred in Woodland Cemetery, where a fine monument was erected to his mem- ory.
James H. Ewing, of the Third Iowa Infantry, was killed in the battle of Shiloh, April 6th, 1862. He had just been chosen Second Lieutenant, but his commission failed to reach him before his death. John Harrison Smith, Sergeant of the same Regiment, was killed in the same battle. He had been in the Mexican war, and served his country faith-
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fully and well. John Lewis Woods, Third Iowa, was mor- tally wounded at Shiloh on the 6th of April, 1862, and died on the 9th of the same month.
COMPANY "E," FOURTH INFANTRY, &C.
This company was mustered into service at Council Bluffs, August 8th, 1861. Its commanding officers were Capt. H. H. Griffiths, and Lieutenants W. S. Simmons and Isaac Whicher. The Adjutant of the Regiment was James A. Williamson, who came to East Des Moines in May, 1855. He was associated for a time, in the practice of law, with M. M. Crocker, and afterward went to merchandising in the city. He became Colonel of the Fourth Infantry, by virtue of meritorious services. In the charge at Chicasaw bayou, which was a perfect death-storm to our soldiers, he dis- played, as he did on all other occasions of a like character, the utmost coolness and gallantry, leading his men amid a shower of hostile bullets. He is now Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington City, and enjoys the rank of Brigadier-General, which he worthily won in his country's defense.
Captain H. H. Griffiths was transferred to the First Iowa Battery, May 15th, 1862. He was, after the war closed, elected Clerk of the District Court of Polk County, as our Election Record shows. He was a practical and accom- plished officer in military times, and was an efficient clerk. He is still a resident of Des Moines. Captain W. S. Sim- mons, who succeeded Capt. Griffiths in command of Com- pany E, was a private, at one time connected with the pub- lication of the Homestead newspaper. He is now living in Ohio.
The other officers of this Company were, John E. Sell, Seldon C. Treat, Emerson Bramhall, Richard Ross, Felix T. Gandy; Assistant Surgeons, Alex Shaw and D. Beach. Ser- geant Jas. A. Moore, a lawyer by profession, well known in
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Des Moines, was drowned while attempting to step from the steamer Hannibal City, into a barge, August 12th, 1861. He was clerk in the United States Land Office in 1857. Francis P. Yokoner, a printer by trade, a German, and a young man of rare accomplishments, died of disease at Rolla, Missouri, October 12th, 1861. He left a wife at Des Moines, to whom he had been married a very brief time.
James N. Needham, of Saylor Township, died of pneu- monia at Rolla, January 4th, 1862. Sergeant Edwin Wes- ley Barnum and Hiram Cornish, the former of whom left a young wife at Des Moines, were killed at Pea Ridge, March 7th, 1862. Oliver Perry Kelley, James Alfred Mott, and Hiram D. Cornish, all started to war from under the same roof in Walnut Township, the first of whom was killed on the 28th of June, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain. Mott was killed at the siege of Vicksburg, by a sharpshooter; and Cornish, as stated, at Pea Ridge. Jeptha W. Bell was wounded at Pea Ridge, and died Sunday, March 9th, 1862. For some time he had been acting Adjutant's Clerk. He was buried in the same grave with Barnum and Cornish. Samuel H. James and John C. James, brothers, gave their lives to their country. The former was mortally wounded at Pea Ridge, and the latter died of disease at Des Moines in 1864. Henry A. Barrett was wounded at Pea Ridge, and died when but fifteen years of age, at Cassville, Mo., April 12th, 1862. Gerard M. C. Case, a drummer boy, fifteen years of age, was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol, May 24th, 1862. His father, Larned Case, came to Polk County in 1847, settling on Agency Prairie. Reuben P. Billsland died of disease on the hospital boat, Die Vernon, near Helena, Ark., January 19th, 1863. His brothers, Isaac and James, were also soldiers in the Union army, the latter dying after his return from the war. Wm. Prichard died of disease at Helena, Ark., Dec. Ist, 1862.
George Gentle died a prisoner at Andersonville, August
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8th, 1864. Benjamin Crow and John Lewis Crow, two of four brothers in the army, all of Walnut Towship, died in the service, the former in Andersonville prison, and the lat- ter at Nashville, Tennessee, February 26th, 1865, of disease, when but fifteen years old. Robert S. Yount, brother-in- law of Dr. W. H. Ward of this city, died at home Septem- ber 29th, 1864. Cornelius M'Kean died November 26th, 1864, at Louisville, Kentucky. Thomas Costello, an Irish- man by birth, died in Texas, while trying to rejoin his reg- iment. Lawrence A. Gregg, Seventh Iowa, died at Bel- mont, Mo., November 7th, 1861. Joseph B. Evans, same regiment, was killed at Belmont the same date. He was a brother-in-law of Newton Lamb, one of the pioneers of Agency Prairie.
TENTII IOWA INFANTRY, ETC.
The officers, Chaplains, and Surgeons belonging to the regiment from Polk County, are as follows: Nathaniel Mc- Cally, Dr. J. C. Bennett, Robert Lusby, Wm. P Davis, Jno. O. Skinner, Ebenezer E. Howe, C J. Clark, Jno. G. Hanna, Hezekiah Van Dorn, William G. Swim, Josiah Hopkins, William P. Meekins, Jonathan J. Wright, Geo. M. Bentley, Steele Kenworthy, John W. Wright, Julian Bausman, Wm. Rahm, and William C. Baylies. Dr. W. P. Davis, Regi- mental Surgeon, was for many years a resident of Des Moines. He was a large, portly man, finely educated and accomplished. He served his county in both branches of the General Assembly. He was a prominent member of Fifth Street M. E. Church, and died in 1866, lamented by all who knew him. His son, John S. Davis, member of Company A, (34th) and Hospital Steward, a genial and pleasant young man, died at Chicago, February 11th, 1863 Captain Robert Lusby, clerk for many years in the employ of Mills & Co., died at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, from poison accidentally taken, February 20th, 1865. At the
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time of his death he was on General Crocker's staff. He was a brave, good man, and a capable officer.
Dr. J. C. Bennett, first Major of the Tenth, was a Mor- mon General at one time, belonging to the Nauvoo Legion. He was one of the early inhabitants of Polk City. We re- fer to him elsewhere. Josiah Hopkins, of Hopkins' Grove, was an efficient soldier and a devoted Chaplain. He was one of the first to respond to his government's call for troops.
The privates of Company A, reported dead, are William Spencer, Caswell Murray, Gideon and Isaac Fletcher, Ed- ward S. Dinwiddie, George W. Courtney, Stephen S. Bean, John Baker, John Bard, James Lewis, Isaac Nussbaum, Thomas and Andrew Murray, Lemuel Terrill, John 'T. Rule, Sergeant Peter B. Mishler, Jonathan Williams, and George Skidmore. Want of space forbids farther amplification in reference to these dead heroes.
The dead of Company B, same regiment, are, George M. Bentley, John F. Fink, William F. Stanton, Robert Over- ton, Thomas H. Reed, John Keeney, Jacob K. Davis, Jerome Updergraph, and Ephraim Pierson.
The dead of Company G, are Joseph Miles and John Lafayette Replogle. The dead of Company H, is Sergeant Oliver O. Mosier, brother of the talented and genial short- hand Reporter, C. A. Mosier. The dead of Company E, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, are Robert Lindsley, Robert Woodward, and John L. Milton.
COMPANY B, FIFTEENTH IOWA INFANTRY, ETC.
This Company was organized in July, 1861, with Wilson T. Smith and A. G. Studer, of Des Moines, commanding officers. Captain Smith has been a resident of Des Moines, a score of years. He is a gentleman of fine address, and he was a competent officer. A. G. Studer was a brave and fine officer, having been educated at a military school in his
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native country, Switzerland. He is now on a Federal Em- bassy in that country. The commissioned officers of the Company, were, W. T. Smith, Adolphus G. Studer, Chris. E. Lanstrum, William H. Goodrell, David King, Rees Wilkins, John S. Green, and Robert Lyon.
The list of the dead is as follows: Sergeants William Stanberry and George L. Reese; Corporal Jacob R. Kelsey, Charles Beekman, Henry P. Taylor, Conrad Wertzel, Ben- jamin F. Stoughton, John W. Guthrie, William L. Close, Andrew J. Burge, Samuel Mardis, Jasper N. Newland, LeRoy S. Conner, James H. Mathias, Anson D. Morgan, David R. Winters, John S. Green, Samuel and Joel Foster, Calvin Lloyd, Levi Wells, M. J. H. Parker, and Franklin Spotts. All these soldiers, or nearly all of them, were from townships outside of the city.
Levi R. Hester, Sixteenth Iowa, died of wounds received at Iuka.
COMPANY F, SIXTEENTH IOWA, ETC.
Madison R. Laird, youngest brother of Frank and Jacob M. Laird of this city, was eight months in a rebel prison from which he escaped. He died December 4, 1866. John W. Dewey, Q. M. Sergeant, and Thomas J. Allaway, are also numbered among the dead of this Company; also J. F. Redman of Company K.
COMPANY B, SEVENTEENTH, ETC.
The list of dead is as follows: William M. Gipson, Amos Kiser, Francis M. Wakefield, Wilson Rickbaugh, Mahlon Freeman, and Daniel Hardsaw; also, John W. M. Young, of Company K; also, William J. McCoy, Nathan Thornton, and Jason L. Ellis, of the Eighteenth Regiment.
Of the Twenty-Second Regiment, the list is: Isaac W. Winterhalter, Samuel Story, and James P. Mccullough.
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TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
This Regiment rendezvoused at Des Moines, and was mustered into United States service September 19th, 1862. The following citizens of Polk County received commiss- ions in this Regiment: Charles J. Clark, Leonard B. Houston, William H. Ward, Matthew C. Brown, Joel M. Walker, Robert W. Cross, William Merrill, Arthur J. Bar- ton, Theodore G. Cree, Stephen Waterbury, Henry Crab- tree, Chancey A. Williams, Francis Weitman, James C. Gregg, J. A. T. Hull, Benjamin Jennings, Lyle A. Garrett, William H. Downs and William E. Houston. This list embraces officers whose names are as familiar as household words to our people. They were men who did their whole duty on the tented field, and in the battle storm; and in the walks of civil life they are known and honored of their fellow men.
The names of the dead are: Alfred M Lyon, Charles S. Hepburn, Francis M. Burgett, Andre Thompson, John B. and James A. Saylor, Donald C. Sharp, George C. Stevens, William Mosgrove, John Virtue, John Filmer, Henry H. Beeson, William P. Johnson, Benj. F. Nussbaum, Geo. M. Nicholas, Randolph Foster Harber, Geo. W. Grigsby, Lau- rence Leonard, Enoch Beighler, Daniel Condit, Elijah Koons, Henry J. Millard, Thomas McDowell, Benjamin W. Henkle, Clark Wilson, Lorenzo D. Dunwoody, John Mer cer, Sergeant William Benell, John Milton Juvenall, Benj. P. West, Smith C. Robison, William R. Harvey, John Brown, David Melson, John Gardner Webb, Lemuel M. Carison, Sergeant James O'Bleness, Lieut. Wm. H. Downs, William and John T. Bull, Samuel Enfield, Sergeant Wm. Kysar, James Scarbrough, Wm. H. Vice, Lewis M. Daily, Henry C. West, Corwin Brown Frederick, Porter N. Dar- ling, David and William Henry Mattern, John W. and Elisha C. Sherrill, John H. Journey, William Sunday, John
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