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Meyers, P. E. C. Lally and others. It was decided to incorporate for $60,000, and to purchase twenty acres east of town at $100.00 per acre for the college, and 68 acres additional to be plotted and sold, the proceeds to go to the school.
Articles of incorporation were filed May 20, 1892. The first directors were L. M. Shaw, J. P. Miller, J. B. Romans, J. P. Conner, L. Cornwell, C. Sievers, T. J. Garrison, Carl F. Kuehnle, and H. C. Laub. The first officers were L. M. Shaw, president ; H. C. Laub, vice president; D. L. Boynton, secretary ; J. T. Haugh, treasurer.
Fisher and Lowry were the architects and George H. King the builder of the college building which was erected at a cost of $35,000.
Arrangements were made for opening the school and announcement was made in November, 1892, that the school would open January 3, 1893. O. E. Whitten was president and J. H. Holmes secretary. Courses were announced as fol- lows: Academic, Scientific, Normal, Commercial, Shorthand, Classical, Type- writer, Telegraphy, German, Elocution, Music and Art.
Something over $5000 was secured by the sale of lots in College addition, prices ranging from $18.00 to $125.00 per lot.
The Normal opened January 3, 1893, with an enrollment of thirty-five. H. H. Klinker was the first pupil enrolled, the others being Louie Kemming, Arthur G. Johnson, H. F. Michaelson, Ira E. Gilmor, Edgar Garrison, Theo. W. Carter, Peter Burke, Lafayette Biggs, Albert Anderson, Mira Harkness, Eunice Haupt- man, Nellie Johnson, Geo. A. Bauman, John P. Woodruff, Cora Walters, Howard Wilson, Walter Schultz, John Watson, Edna Simmerman, Kate M. Shope, Joseph C. Robinson, A. Rouiliard, Ruth E. Richards, Aug. Owens, C. F. Nord, Henry Meyers, Ethel Miller, Oren McAhren, Maggie Hassett, and Eva McAndrews.
The faculty consisted of Prof. E. Whitten, Prof. Schoonover, Miss Ott, Miss Green and Prof. J. H. Holmes.
Prof. W. C. Van Ness came to the school from Ohio in the summer of 1893, and has been the successful and popular head of the college ever since. The business management of the college was in the hands of Mr. J. H. Holmes until the close of 1900. Prof. Van Ness and Prof. L. C. Rusmisel conducted the school together the following year and since 1901, Prof. Van Ness has had entire charge.
The regular faculty consists of seven instructors and the regular sessions cover a period of 40 weeks, to which is added a summer term of five or six weeks. This summer school is particularly adapted to the needs of teachers in the rural schools.
The departments of the school are Normal, Academic, Commercial, Short- hand, Typewriting, Music and Oratory. In the Normal work instruction is given especially to those who wish to teach. The Academic courses prepare students for the universities and if the students wish, they can take the first year of regular college work.
Complete business college work is carried out in full in all lines of Com- mercial studies; office equipment and all necessary books and forms being provided.
The music department is equipped with separate rooms in proper conservatory plan and instruction is given in voice, piano, harmony, and full music studies.
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Oratory covers literature and rhetoric and physical culture as well as work in proper delivery and readings. Chemical and physical laboratories are equipped with all the necessary apparatus and arranged for laboratory work for the individual pupil.
A fair working library is at the disposal of the students which is supple- mented by the splendid city library. The first installment of books and cases for the college library was donated by Hon. H. C. Laub, and since that there have been generous additions.
From 250 to 300 different students receive instruction at this institution dur- ing the course of each year. Including the class of 1910 there have been 309 graduates and the class of 1911 consists of twenty-five members.
The present officers of the Normal Association are, Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, president ; Hon. J. P. Conner, first vice president ; T. J. Garrison, second vice president ; D. L. Boynton, secretary, and J. T. Haugh, treasurer.
The faculty at the present time consists of W. C. Van Ness, A. M., principal teacher of Greek, Science and Pedagogy. Miss Ruth Watson, A. B., preceptress, teacher of Latin and German. Miss Loretta I. Van Ness, teacher of Mathematics and History. Mr. Floyd Preston, B. Acc., principal of Commercial and Short- hand department. Miss Hazel McFarland, A. B., B. O., principal of department of Oratory and English. Miss Eda Critz, B. M., principal of Music depart- ment. Mrs. Genevieve A. Branno, instructor of Violin. Supt. O. E. Vogenitz. Miss Fannie Hayes, special teacher of summer term.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE SOLDIERS OF CRAWFORD IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Crawford county did its full share in the war of the rebellion. More than twenty men went from this county and they represented fully twenty per cent of the men of military age. Distant several hundred miles from the railroad at the beginning of the war, receiving their mail by pony express at infrequent intervals, struggling almost bare-handed with the difficult problems of pioneer life, with heads and hearts fully occupied with the struggle for existence, the early settlers of the frontier were outside that great maelstrom of public ex- citement which engulfed the remainder of the nation. In 1860 the pioneers gathered at the little log school in Mason's Grove and a majority of them cast their vote for Abraham Lincoln, but it was weeks before the result of that election was known, and still other weeks before the great effects of that elec- tion were even guessed at by this far-off people. Thus it was that while armies were being enlisted and battles were being fought, this little community, almost a world by itself, pursued the even tenor of its way until gradually more than a year after the opening of the war the real magnitude of the con- test, the fact that their country and their flag were in danger dawned upon the people of western Iowa. The first visible effects of the war in this vicinity came not from Fort Sumter, but from the increased hostilities of the Indian tribes. The men of Crawford county were confronted first by the peril to their own homes and their own loved ones through the direful rumors of In- dian massacres. It was not until August, 1862, that the first war meeting was held in Crawford county. Unfortunately we have but the most meager record of this meeting. We know that a second meeting was held in September, and that at this time a subscription was raised for the benefit of the volunteers, for we find in an old diary of Mr. Morris McHenry that he attended this meet- ing and that he subscribed ten dollars toward the fund. At this meeting there were two volunteers, John Appleman and A. M. Scott. Scott we know was killed in the war. The subsequent fate of the other young man we do not know. The next meeting was held more than a year later, on December 25, 1863. The call of the president had been issued for three hundred thousand additional men. Each state was assigned its quota, and the state in turn made its demand upon the counties. It was a point of pride and patriotism to meet this demand, and each county vied with the other in the promptness and com-
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pleteness of its response. The board of supervisors met to consider the call of the president and to provide the quota from Crawford county. A bounty of three hundred dollars was offered for volunteers. The preliminaries were arranged during the forenoon and in the afternoon the men of the settlement gathered in a solemn and earnest meeting, looking furtively from one to the other, asking without words, who should be the ones to go.
Uncle Daniel Howorth made a patriotic speech asking for volunteers and A. J. Bond was the first to step up to the enrollment list and inscribe his name. He was followed by six others, there being seven who volunteered at this time, but only five were accepted, namely, Chauncey Prentice, Simeon Strong, Jack Munson, Henry Franks and A. J. Bond. S. P. Gardner and a man by the name of Foster volunteered but were not accepted. Mr. Bond had serious doubts as to whether he would be taken or not as in addition to his youthful age, he weighed but 120 pounds, and his left limb was badly scarred and shrunken as the result of a burn. The physical examination was conducted by a government officer, and it was not until the next day that he learned that he would be accepted. The party of young men left Denison for Fort Dodge on the Ist day of January, 1864, at a time when the thermometer was forty degrees below zero. They started with a four-horse team and got out about six miles when they broke down. They then came back to S. P. Gardner's place and got another sleigh and another team, making two loads of the party instead of one. The first day they made Ida Grove, getting in there late at night; the next day they made Sac City, and the next evening after nightfall of a bitter cold day they made Twin Lakes, only to meet with the informa- tion that the inn was full and they could not keep them over night, but the members of the party, who carried their own blankets, forced their way into the house and demanded the protection from the weather which had been de- nied them, carrying their point by right of might. The next morning they started for Fort Dodge, at which point they arrived late in the afternoon of the fourth day. They were housed in the old courthouse, a barn of a place which had one stove in the middle of the room upstairs. The weather was away below zero. For bedding the man who had taken the contract to care for them brought a load of straw that was full of snow and ice. He did not furnish sufficient coal to keep the fire going, so the boys stole coal and tore down parts of the courthouse fence to burn and helped themselves to such an extent that the citizens of the town took the matter up and required the contractor to give them proper shelter. Their fare consisted largely of coffee essence and hard tack, on which some of the party, including Mr. Bond, got sick, and altogether there was so much complaint that they got another man on the job of attending to their physical needs. They were in Fort Dodge about two weeks, during which time Mr. Bond became acquainted with the lieutenant of Company I, Thirty-second Iowa Infantry, who was recruiting for his company, and he, together with the lieutenant's son and five or six other boys, decided to join this company, although Mr. Prentice, who was looking out for him, wanted him to go with him and join the cavalry. Finally three or four teamloads of recruits started for Davenport, and the same man who had first had charge of furnishing supplies for the volunteers, had charge
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of provisioning this party, and the same complaint was made against him as to the scarcity and inferiority of provisions that was made by the boys in Fort Dodge-in fact the boys quietly decided among themselves that they would "hang him," and whispered threats to this effect reached him, so that he concluded that discretion was the better part of valor and vamosed, reach- ing Davenport considerably in advance of the party he was to conduct. Their dissatisfaction was well justified, as on the first day out under his charge they had no dinner at all; the second day they came to a house at dinner time and refused to go further until they had something to eat. The argument with him which followed was overheard by the lady of the house, who sided with the boys and gave them all a good dinner excepting the contractor, whom she refused to serve. She would not take a cent of pay, but the boys would not have it so and each left what little change they could afford on the dining table so that they gave her quite a little sum. The next stopping place was at Nevada, to which point, Mr. Bond states, if his memory serves him right, the railroad then extended. They went to a hotel but the owners were seces- sionists and would not keep the party, so that they were divided up into groups and housed in private homes. Mr. Bond, with four others, was sent to the home of Mrs. Laura Berry, whose husband had already gone to the war, and whose womanly sympathy and maternal care quite won the hearts of all the lads who promised to let her hear from them if they came through the struggle safely. She took all their names and assured them of her in- terest in their welfare; Mr. Bond records that twenty-five or thirty years after he got back from the war he saw and talked with her, and she remembered him as being the youngest in the party. She is now deceased and her husband lost his life on southern battlefields.
Recruits gathered at Davenport from all points, remaining there until a sufficient number accumulated to make up trainloads to send south. Our party was detained there to this end for some two or three weeks. The regi- ment which Mr. Bond had joined had been doing guard duty and had not been in the field as yet. Part of them were stationed at Island No. 10 and part in Kentucky, but the regiment was reunited as a whole at Vicksburg, when it was detailed to General Banks to go up Red river, and ninety days after entering the regiment, Mr. Bond was in the midst of the conflict when the charge was made on Fort Du Rusa. His next service was on a gunboat, running the masked batteries along the Red river, in which service for nearly two weeks they were under fire. Mr. Bond served with great credit during the remainder of the war and was finally mustered out in May, 1866, after which he returned to Denison.
We have spoken at some length of the soldier career of Mr. Bond, not because he was necessarily more brave or more patriotic than the others who enlisted, but because his record is typical, not only of the hardships endured and of the dangers faced, but of the earnest determination which made these "backwoods" boys meet neglect and coldness and travel by team through the rigors of an Iowa prairie winter in order to join the armies of the union.
It is impossible to give the detailed history of all the boys in blue who went from Crawford county. Still less is it possible to more than mention the many
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veterans, who after the war made Crawford county their home. They de- serve a volume by themselves. The record of each one should be preserved and handed down for generations yet to come.
The old soldier of the union inspires our most profound respect. No mat- ter how feeble he may become, no matter how he may fall behind in the battle of life, no matter what may be his faults, or even his vices, we can never forget that he offered the supreme sacrifice of man, that of life itself, in defense of his country and his flag.
And while we honor the men who wore the blue from whatever state they come, let us reserve perhaps the highest measure of praise for the boys from the western frontier. Back in the eastern states excitement ran high, there were prodigious war meetings, flags were flying, bands were playing, officers in bright uniforms were at the recruiting stations, the war spirit was in the air, everyone was caught up and enveloped by it. It was a contagious spirit which lifted men out of and beyond themselves.
On the frontier it was different; cut off from the strong tides of public feeling with scant communication, more than a hundred miles from a railroad, with none of the "pomp and panoply" of war, with a little gathering at the courthouse, a speech, an appeal and seven young men stepped up and in cold blood signed their names to the enlistment roll. To us the very simplicity of the scene is more impressive than if it had been acclaimed by the cheers of a thousand men and the tears of a thousand women.
In the chapter on county government we have seen how the pressure be- came greater and greater, how the county made provision for the care of the families of volunteers, how at last the draft was resorted to and how the county paid as high as eight hundred dollars in bounties. In January, 1865, there were three more volunteers from this county. They were: M. Molony, Ward Goodrich and Thomas Alexander. These men went to Marshalltown to enlist, but found their regiment completed and later joined the One Hun-' dred and Forty-seventh Illinois. Five others from Crawford county enlisted in Harrison county. These men were John M. Reed, W. M. Agens, Thomas Brown and Chauncey and Jacob Prentice. Had they enlisted from Crawford county the quota from the county would have been filled and no draft would have been necessary. Toward the close of the war the draft was used and Joseph Skinner, William Spence, John Rudd, Uriah Gable and William Good- rich were drawn. There were others who enlisted who were not accepted by the government on account of age, or physical defect. Mention must also be made of Mr. A. R. Hunt, who at the very outbreak of the war returned to his Nebraska home and enlisted, serving his country with great honor.
At the close of the war some of the enlisted men returned to Crawford county, but the majority of the survivors found homes in other places. Among the many who were attracted by the glowing prospects of the new west were a large number of those who had borne arms in the union ranks. These men became honored and dearly beloved citizens of the county, and are so identi- fied with its history that we proudly claim them as our own, so that when we speak of the old soldiers of Crawford we have in mind not only those who enlisted from this county, but those who cast their lot with us after the close
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of the great struggle. There follows a list which it is hoped contains the names of all the old soldiers, whether they enlisted from this county or whether they afterward honored this county with their presence. This list has been compiled with great care, being in part that published in 1885, together with information which has been obtained through the kindness of Mr. John L. Richardson, who as adjutant and as patriotic instructor of the Grand Army of the Republic has taken great interest in this roster of veterans. We be- lieve that all of these men are entitled to a permanent place in any history of Crawford county, and we here accord it to them gladly.
The following is the roster of old soldiers :
LIST OF UNION SOLDIERS WHO HAVE RESIDED IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Abernethy, Alonzo, Lieutenant Col. 9th Iowa Inft.
Adams, John, 62nd Ohio Inft.
* Adams, Samuel
Admire, James H., 65th Indiana Inft.
Agens, W. M.
* Ainsworth, Joseph O., 32nd Wics. Inft. Died Dec. 7, 1908.
Alexander, Joseph, 57th Ind. Inft.
Alexander, Thomas
Alton, John W., 118th Ill. Inft.
Angel, H. P., 20th Iowa Inft.
Anthony, J. J.
Appleman, John
Atwood, Andrew, 62nd Ill. Inft.
Austin, I., 100th New York Inft.
Avery, W. H. H., 113th Ohio Inft., Capt. 42nd U. S. Colored Inft.
* Ailsworth, Byron, 7th N. Y. Sharp shooters. Died March 5, 1902. Bacon, Julius W.
Bachus, Frank, 3rd Ill. Inft.
Barber, John P., 14th Vermont Inft.
Bailey, J. J., 30th Wisc. Inft.
Barnes, Nathan, 83rd Ill. Inft.
Bannister, E. B., 105th Ill. Inft.
Bateman, Thos. -
Baer, S. A., 124th Penn. Inft.
Bartlett, Thos., 105th Ill. Inft.
Beedy, J. J., 27th Iowa Inft.
Bennett, Thos., 5th V. R. C.
Bennett, J. D., 112th Ill. Inft. Beck, Christopher
Beatty, L. C., 50th Pennsylvania Inft.
Bill, Jacob B., Ist Ill. Lt. Art.
Biggs, W. A., 55th Ill. Inft.
* Bidlack, E. T. Died May 4, 1910. Bleakley Tobias L., 37th Wisc. Inft.
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* Blackman J., 52nd Ill. Inft. Died Jan. 15, 1910. Blackman, G. W., 50th Inft. Bock, F., 2nd Miss. Lt. Art. Bond, L. L., 13th Wisc. Inft. Bond, A. J., 32nd Iowa Inft. Bowmann, Wilson, 3rd Mass. Inft. Boeck, Henry, 2nd Iowa Cav.
* Borden, Edward, 20th Iowa Inft. Branch, M. L., 184th N. Y. Inft.
Brown, Thos., 3Ist Wisc. Inft. Brown, L. P., 29th Iowa Inft. Brown, James E., 24th Iowa Inft.
Bronson, Isaac, Henshaws Battery Ill. Vol.
Brockett, W. R., 14th N. Y. Inft.
Brittan, D. W., 3rd Col. Cav.
Buck, Wm.
Butterworth, C. E., 13th Iowa Inft.
Buchecker, Dan'1, 25th Wisc. Inft.
Burns, Richard, N. Y. Inft.
Byam, Lorens, 28th Wisc. Inft.
Casey, P. J., Single Service
Case, B. W., 3rd Col. Cav.
Carr, L. T., 21st Ind. Inft.
Castenson, Robt. G. -
* Cheeney, Itmar, Ill. Inft.
* Chapin, David, War of 1812. Chase, R. J., 35th Iowa Inft. Chatten, John, 20th Iowa Inft. Clark, Isaac G. -
* Clark, Dan'1, 22nd Wisc. Inft.
* Conrad, F. J., 51st Wisc. Inft. Died Aug. 2, 1880. Conery, Rilan H. Conaty, Wm., 46th Ill. Inft.
Colamore, I. W., 21st Maine Inft.
Cook, Archibald, 2nd Penn. Cav.
Cook, George F., Ist Wisc. Cav. Cook, Samuel, 26th Iowa Inft.
* Colpore, T. M., Ist Wisc. Inft. Comstock, Wm., 48th Ind. Inft. Crouch, F. L., 65th Ill. Inft. Crawshaw, A., 14th U. S. Inft. Crakes, Wm., 3rd Mich. Inft.
* Crandall, Albert, 13th Iowa Inft.
* Crandall, George, 13th Iowa Inft.
* Crawford, John, 2nd Iowa Inft. Died April 23, 1903.
* Cushing, J. P., 8th Mass. Inft. Died Feb. 1I, 1881. Cue. Joseph, 65th Ill. Inft.
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* Darling, B. F., 9th Iowa Cav. Darling, Edwin, 9th Iowa Inft. Day, Edwin, 79th Ohio Inft. * Deal, Edward, 134th N. Y. Inft. * Dean, Horace F., 26th Iowa Inft. Dettmer, Henry, 10th Ill. Inft. Douglass, W. R. -
Doty, Thos., 9th Iowa Inft.
Drake, Theodore, 3rd Wisc. Inft.
Drumm, I., 12th Inft.
Dubois, F., 12th Inft.
Duncan, J. P., 135th Ill. Inft. * Duncan, Charles, 3rd U. S. Cav. Dury, James
Eaton, S. R., Sergeant
Edwards, Wm., 3rd Iowa Cav.
Edwards, John, 9th Mich. Inft.
Enright, George, 26th Iowa Inft.
* Eyer, Samuel, 45th Penn. Inft. Fackar, J. W., 22nd Iowa Inft. Facklar, Henry H., 7th Iowa Cav.
* Familton, W. R., 44th Iowa Inft. Farley, Onlon, 20th Iowa Inft. Faust, Joseph, 66th Ohio Inft.
Featherston, W. H., 14th Ill. Cav.
Fienhold, F. W., 104th Ill. Inft. Fish, Isaac J., Mexican war. Fitzgerald, Morris, 23rd Ill. Inft. Ford, Henry C. -
Francis, James, 18th Ind. Inft.
* Francis, Joseph, Ind. Inft. and Mexican war. Franks, Henry
* French, Aaron F., 3rd Vermont Batt. Died Dec. 8, 1901. * French, Ralph, 92nd Ill. Inft. Died Oct. 8, 1892. Gable, Uriah
Garlough, B. W. Garten, G. W., 59th Ind. Inft. Getty, Robt., 92nd Ill. Inft.
Gill, Dr. D. H., 2nd Iowa Cav.
* Gilmor, Isaac, Ist Lieut. 2nd Iowa Cav. Died Apr. 8, 1909. Gibson, Francis, Ist Minn. Inft.
* Gilbreath, J. S., 6th U. S. Cav. Goodrich, Ward Goodrich, Wm., IIth Iowa Cav. Golden, David - Gould, John, 132nd Ill. Inft. * Graham, S. M., 18th U. S. Inft. Died Feb. 20, 1899.
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Gregg, Robt. 188th Penn. Inft.
* Grosshart, Henry- Grimes, Lumas H., 42nd Ill. Inft. Grimes, W. R., 42nd Ill. Inft. * Gulick, H. S., 26th Iowa Inft. Died May 12, 1896. Harker, T. W., 3Ist Wisc. Inft. Hardy, Albion P., 7th Maine Inft. Hardy, L. E., Ist Maine Inft. * Hart, James P., 4th U. S. Inft. and Mexican war. Hauckett, Henry M., 21st Iowa Inft. * Havens, J. D., 33rd Wisc. Inft. Hefflefinger, R., 13th Ill. Inft. Hershberger, John, 2nd Cav. Herner, Elias, 7th Ill. Cav. Hester, George, 156th Ill. Inft. * Heston, G. W., 7Ist Penn. Inft. Died April 17, 1902.
* Hitchcock, Chauncey, 7th Wisc. Vol. Hitchcock, Charles, 31st Wisc. Inft. Hoffman, P. B., 44th Iowa Inft. Hoffman, T. J., 44th Iowa Inft.
Hoffman, John, 14th Iowa Inft.
Holmes, W. W., 15th O. V. M.
Holmes, G. W., 26th Iowa Inft. * Hover, W. W., 96th Ill. Inft. Huie, John, 4th Ill. Cav. Hunt, James, 18th N. H. Inft.
Died Feb. 3, 1909.
Huntington, G. W., 15th Ill. Inft.
Jackson, Alfred, 15th Iowa Inft.
* Jackson, W. W., 134th N. Y. Inft. Died Feb. 12, 1908.
James, John, 3Ist Miss. Inft. Jefferson, Thomas Jobe, Henry, 95th Ill. Inft.
* Johnson, Abram, 78th Ohio Inft. Johnson, Joseph, 13th Iowa Inft. Jones, S. L., 12th Penn. Inft.
* Jones, Lyman M., 19th Ill. Inft.
* Kellar, David, 15th Penn. Cav. Kelly, Pat, 10th N. Y. Inft. Kennedy, E. R., 6th Iowa Cav.
* Kenyon, W. A., Ist Minn. Inft. Died March 13, 1872.
* Kepford, Jacob, Iowa Inft. Kuykendall, J. C., Iowa Inft. Keyes, C. H., 33rd Ill. Inft. King, J. B., 27th Iowa Inft. Kingdon, W. H., Ist Minn. Inft. Klinkefus, Reinhart, 65th Ill. * Knowles, Martin
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Landon, George, 23rd N. Y. Inft. Lansar, Nathan I., 9th Iowa Cav. Laughery, Romalus, 15Ist Ill. Inft. Laughery, Joseph, 65th Ill. Inft. Laughery, Sam, 8th Iowa Cav.
Law, Francis M. * Lawton, W. H., 8Ist N. Y. Inft. Lawton, Chas A., Ist N. Y. Heavy Art.
*Lawson, George C., 31st Wisc. Inft. Leese, Jacob, 6th Ohio Inft.
*Lentz, Enos, 22nd Iowa Inft. Levan, Frank, 31st Iowa Inft. Lewis, M. B., Ohio Inft. Lewis, Edwin, 3rd Wisc. Inft. * Lewis, J. H., W. V. Art. C, Battery B, 4th Reg. Art. Died March 17, 1907. Leycraft, Fred, 124th Ill. Inft .. Linderwood, Aaron, 22nd Iowa Inft. * Linge, John, Mexican war. Lindley, George E., 103rd Ohio Inft. Loechner, John, 21st Penn. Inft.
Lorens, Christian, 13th Ill. Inft.
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