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In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and sixty-one, and of the independence of the United States the eighty- fifth.
By the President,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State."
The last word of this proclamation had scarcely been taken from the electric wire before the call was filled. Men and money were counted out by hundreds and thou-
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sands. The people who loved their whole country could not give enough. Patriot- ism thrilled and vibrated and pulsated through every heart. The farm, the work- shop, 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 a time ignored. Bitter words, spoken in moments of political heat, were forgotten and forgiven, and, joining hands in a com- mon cause, they repeated the oath of America's soldier stateman: "By the Greut 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 seemed as if there were not men enough in all the free States to crush out the Re- bellion. But to every call for either men or money there was a willing and ready response. The gauntlet thrown down by the traitors of the South was accepted; not, however, in the spirit with which insolence meets insolence, but with a firm, deter- mined spirit of patriotism and love of country. The duty of the President was plain under the constitution and laws, and, above and beyond all, the people, from whom all political power is derived, demanded the suppression of the Rebel- lion, and stood ready to sustain the authority of their representative and ex- ecutive officer to the utmost extremity.
Franklin county was behind no county in the State in the exhibition of sublime patriotism. Being without railroad or telegraph facilities, the news did not reach
the people of the county in time to be numbered in the first call of the President for 75,000 men, but in the second and every succeeding call, it responded with its noblest and best men, some of whom went forth never to return. The record of the county at home or in the field is a noble one. By referring to the chapter containing the action of the board of su- pervisors, it will be seen what was done in an official way. In an unofficial way the people took hold of the work, aided enlist- ments, and furnished a large amount of sanitary supplies.
In this connection has been compiled from the adjutant-general's report, the name of every soldier from Franklin county. If any are omitted it is not intentional, for great care has been exercised in the com- pilation, and none have more veneration for the brave soldier than the author of this volume. So far as it could be done mistakes in spelling names have been cor- rected.
Franklin county was first represented in the 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. The following is the record:
THIRD INFANTRY.
COMPANY G. Private. Orlando A. Lesh. FIFTH INFANTRY. COMPANY E. William E. Conway. SIXTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY C. Lieutenant. Hezekiah C. Clock.
Sergeants. Russell T. Knight, Curtis R. Boyles.
Corporals.
James Carrn, Daniel J. Boyles.
J. Derin.
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Privates.
J. W. Brown, W. W. Scott,
Charles F. Roberts,
G. F. Scott,
M. H. Ross, C. C. Shobe, John K. Addes.
NINTH INFANTRY. COMPANY I. Sergeant. E. H. Sporling. Corporal. Jolın G. Mitchell.
Privates.
Amos II. Halstead,
E. A. Miller,
II. H. Mead,
M. B. Jones,
Silas G. W. Peters, Herman C. Leggett,
Fernando T. Reeve.
TENTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY D. Corporal. James M. Paige. TWELFTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY E.
Privates.
David Creighton, P. N. Hart, Iliram F. Coon.
John C. Jones,
Elias Moon,
SIXTEENTII INFANTRY.
COMPANY I. Private. George W. Soules. TIHRTY-SECOND INFANTRY. COMPANY H.
Captains.
James B. Reeve, Rufus S. Benson,
First Lieutenant. Orlando A. Leslı.
Second Lieutenant. Rufus S. Benson. [Captain after January 24, 1868.]
Sergeants. J. B. Nelson, Bartley Mechan, John S. Love, B. H. Pound.
Corporals.
John Nichols, E. B. Criley .
Cyrus Wyatt, John B. Woodward,
Alpheus Jones, L. P. Berry,
G. S. Merriss, H A. Clock,
Joseph Ward, George W. Ross,
W. S. Hausberry. Musicians.
Miles Birkett,
L. M. Stoddard,
Elijah Jones. Wagoner. Daniel E. Greeley. Privates.
Allen, D. C ,
May, William,
Avery, John C.,
McVey, Reuben,
Armstrong, C M.,
McCord, Harrison,
Baker, John D.,
MeCord, Ira,
Ballou, Washington,
Merriss, Arba A.,
Ball, William,
Mitchell, W. R. C.,
Boyles, Cyrus,
Morris, Thomas,
Bradshaw, John J.,
Murphy, John,
Bridgeman, A. H.,
Neff, J. G.,
Brooks. Jacob,
North, Daniel M.,
Brotherton, H. A.,
North, J. W.,
Bullis, Charles,
Penney, Newton,
Caldwell, E.,
Phinney, A. E.,
Cole Daniel W.,
Roberts, C. F.,
Clinesmith, Oliver,
Robinson, Solomon,
Collins, Loren,
Ross, Geo. W., Shobe, Clark,
Creighton, Henry,
Crosby, E. W.,
Shobe, Morgan,
Culver, Levi,
Silence, Edmund,
Fry, George W.,
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Smith, H. W.,
Grandon, Isaac,
Smith, Charles, Tilghman, O. II.,
Hartwell, S. W.,
Herman, T, I.,
Walker, James,
Horner, B. F., Woodward, J. B.
Horner, W. C.,
Whitesell, John,
Hubbert, Hurd, J. S.,
Mechan, John, Justus, Isaac,
Jones, Alpheus,
Lord, R. A.,
Brotherton, Hiram, Bushyager, J. G.,
Bullis, German,
Creighton, S.,
Jones, Alex.,
Ilartgrave, D. L., Horner, Jesse, Ingraham, W. N.
Manifold, William,
Mulkins, J. C., Mulkins, Willard,
Capron, S. K.,
Kitiell, Warren,
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Penney, Richard. Baker, Samuel, Hunt, G. L., Shobe, Charles W.
William Wood,
Theodore H. Reeve, James II. Riddle.
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with thirst, plunged in and drank greedily of the filthy water.
The two trips from Duvall's Bluffs to Brownsville, as guard to the Cavalry train, were trips of hard marching in hot weather, and of suffering for water for man and beast, and from heat and dust. The sick on this march certainly received no extra care, at first shipped to Helena, and then to Clarendon, on White river.
About the 21st of August, a small steamer, a stern-wheeler, sailed up the White river loaded with sick and conva- lescent soldiers. It was one of the hottest of August days in this climate, when she run from Clarendon to Duvall's Bluffs,forty- five miles, in four hours. Not a spot on that boat, from the border deck to the hurricane deck, but was covered by a sick man. Sick men were piled away on that hurri- cane deck in broiling sun, wherever a man could be laid. Is it any wonder, on that run of about four hours, twenty-six men died on that boat ?- one of them a corpo- ral of company G (Carter).
On the 25th day of August another march of that twenty-six miles across those prairies of Prairie Co., Ark. About 11 o'clock that night we filed into the little court house yard at Brownsville. Just as we filed in, General Davidson stepped to the fence and said, "Boys, lie down quick- ly and take some rest, for I will need you at an early hour." Then turning to an- other officer, he said, "These brave boys have marched 500 miles, and kept up with my Cavalry " By 3 o'clock next morning we were astir; at 4 o'clock were in line and on the move. A march of nine miles brought us to the rebel outposts, skirmishing three and a half hours to the brow of the hill,
and after maneuvering, etc., half a mile to the bank of the Bayou Metaire. The whole movement during the day was only a bushwhacking affair. In the evening we fell back to the top of the hill to sup- port a battery. There dark found us. The battery and all other troops had left. One detachment alone was on the field, with the rebels closing around us, when we withdrew and fell back that night to a corn-field near Brownsville; and about 1 o'clock at night, at the word halt, the boys dropped on the ground and lay down be- tween corn rows. No alignment encamp- ment was made. The night was dark, as dense black clouds o'erspread the sky, and soon the rain came down in torrents; but there the boys lay-what else could they do? About 9 o'clock, A. M., it broke away, but, oh, the mud, mud! We had no ra- tions, but soon found a patch of sweet po- tatoes and had a sweet potato breakfast.
The detachment remained two days in camp in the timber near, and then moved to the old Cavalry camp north of town, where our sick boys had been kept in a double log house on the edge of the prairie, and at a little grove of a few scat- tering oaks, and near a pond of stagnant water.
On the 31st of August, 1863, the day was very hot, and hence the train was or- dered to go through to Duvall's Bluffs in the night. All the detachment was ordered to go as guard. The whole detachment able to go was ordered on the trip. We could raise only forty men, and some twelve or fifteen of them were unable to march, but were ordered to go, as they could be piled on the wagons, and could use their guns in case of an attack This
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was a serious camp ground to the detach- ment. A few days and not a well man was in that camp, and not many men able to care for the sick. It had been used as a Cavalry camp until the very ground was crawling with filth. Every nook and corner of the old house, every spot on the floor, porch and hall, was covered with a sick man. Everything that could be done under the circumstances was done for the sick by those who could do. But we were in advance of the main army and supplies. No sanitary or sutler supplies had reached us, and much of the ordinary soldier's fare was unfit for use. Much of the hard-tack had too much life. I can now see some boys breaking their hard-tack into small bits and blowing out the things of life.
On the 6th of October, occurred the first death. Then William A. Spurlin, one of the brightest and best of young men, was laid in an humble soldier's grave. On the 8th he was followed by Henry Canton- wine. On that day we moved to another camp south of town, in a nice little grove. One day's rest there, and the command was ordered to Little Rock. The sick were brought and laid down on the sand in the hot sun before the old log tavern hospital. That very sand was crawling with graybacks. As the command moved away George Macy lay on a cot under a little tree dying, and soon another of the young men of our company, Wilson Bond, was added to that group of humble graves. There we laid four of the young men of our company, side by side.
Their young lives were ended, Their young spirits fled, And now they are sleeping In peace with the dead.
Every spot in that old log tavern that could be occupied, was covered by a sick man How many of those brave boys were buried in that little grave yard, I never knew.
On the removal of the detachment to Little Rock, it was relieved for a time from all guard or other duty, except the care of its own sick, by order of Gen. Davidson, adding that the care of its own sick in camp, was all that it was able to do. But death had then fastened his cold, icy hand upon a number of boys. Calvin M. Sayre, John L. Sayre, Jesse Shultz, Nathan R. Austin and Ira G. Christian were soon numbered with the dead. Lit- tle Rock proved to be a very healthy place for us, and while there, the company, con- sidering its reduced condition, improved very rapidly. It may not be generally known that that Arkansas expedition of Gen. Steele's was one of the most de- structive of life of any campaign of the war. Steele started with 1,200 men; he received reinforcements of at least three brigades, making at least 15,000 effective men; 100 men would cover all his loss in killed and wounded, and yet by the time he had possession of Little Rock, and was settled down to his gambling and horse racing, he had barely 5,100 effective men fit for duty. And of Gen. Steele I will say that he had no sympathy in common with the Union soldiers save his opposi- tion to the abstract idea of secession.
Gen. McPherson, medical director, af- terwards at Vicksburg, said that the send- ing of our four companies through on that campaign to keep up with the Cavalry, was a burning shame, one of the outrages of the war, and no wonder that the men
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were used up; they remained at Little Rock until the middle of October, when it moved to Benton, twenty-five miles dis- tant. It returned to Little Rock, where they remained until January, 1864, when it started for Memphis, which place it reached on the 5th of February. Here it was ordered to report to Brig .- Gen. A. J. Smith at Vicksburg. It reached Vicks- burg on the 9th, and remained there till the 27th, when it marched out to Black river to await the army on its return from the interior.
Meanwhile, Col. Scott established his headquarters at New Madrid, and assumed command of the post. On the 17th of December, 1862, he sent out a detachment of 100 men, under Capt. Peebles, who went as far as the St. Francis river, bringing back several prisoners, much public property, and valuable information.
On the 28th of December, Col. Scott destroyed the public property, and evacu- ated New Madrid, by order of Gen. Davies, after which he proceeded to Fort Pillow, reaching there on the 29th. They re- mained at Fort Pillow for nearly six months, in the performance of garrison duties. The command embarked for Columbus, Ky., on the 17th and 18th of June, 1863, in detachments, and went into camp there on the 19th, and there the regi- mental headquarters remained for more than seven months, Col. Scott being most of the time in command of the post.
On July 10, Union City, in Tennes- see, was captured by the rebels. The command hastened to that place, but ar- rived too late to find the enemy; but buried the dead and cared for the wounded,
and returned. The command was, soon afterward, again divided into fractions. Companies B and I, under command of Capt. Millier, alone remained at regi- mental headquarters; company C was at- tached to the 4th Missouri Cavalry; company E was placed at Fort Quinby, not far from Columbus, whilst companies II and K, Capt. Benson commanding, proceeded down the river to Island No. 10. From this time forth, until Jan- uary, 1864, the history of each of these detachments, except that of company C, is devoid of remarkable events. This detachment was most actively employed during most of this period, and the la- bors of officers and men were arduous in the extreme. They scouted a wide extent of country infested by guerrillas; marched oftentimes a considerable dis- tance from Columbus, going out in all weather, by night as often as by day. They braved many perils and endured many hardships.
In the month of January, 1864, these six companies were brought together, and soon embarked for Vicksburg, where they were assigned to the second brigade. Perhaps there was not a single organiza- tion in the whole army under Maj. Gen. Sherman, that so gladly commenced that singular campaign, as the command under Col. Scott. If the battalion left Vicks- burg joyfully, its return was still more joyful, for here were found Major Eber- hart and his four companies, and the whole regiment was together for the first time since November, 1862. The re-union brought great satisfaction to officers and men. Shortly after the re-union of the regiment it was ordered to the department
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of the Gulf, and there accompanied the disastrous Red River expedition.
In this expedition the 32d Iowa suffered more severely, perhaps, than any other regiment in the expedition. It formed a part of Gen. A. J. Smith's command, con- sisting of 10,000 Infantry and three batteries of artillery, which left Vicks- burg on March 9, on transports, accom- panied by gunboats. At the mouth of Red river this fleet was joined by Admiral D. D. Porter, with a large fleet, including several iron-clads. Some miles from where the Red river enters into the Mis- sissippi it separates into two streams, which come together again very near the mouth; from the southern one of these two streams flows Achafalaya river. The fleet entered Red river by the southern stream, and passed thence into Achafalaya, proceeding as far as Semmesport, where the troops disembarked on the night of the 13th, and immediately commenced a march on Fort De Russey. The halt was not ordered till the army had marched some seven mules. It was twenty-eight miles from here to Fort De Russey. Nev- ertheless, the army marched that distance the next day, constantly harassed by rebel Cavalry; delayed once two hours at a stream over which a bridge had to be made; attacked the fort and carried it by storm before sundown, and before the gunboats arrived. In this assault, the 32d was on the right, and "the men on the right took the fort," said the prisoners. Col. Shaw, commanding brigade, speaks in unqualified praise of all the officers and men in his command. The loss was slight on either side. Of the 32d, one man was killed and two were wounded.
At Fort De Russey, re-embarked and proceeded to Alexandria, where the troops again disembarked, and remained nearly two weeks. At this point the column un- der Gen. Smith formed a junction with the column which had marched from New Orleans. The boats could not be taken over the rapids while laden, so the troops marched to Cotile Landing, some twenty- five miles up the river. Here our regi- ment had its first battalion drill, with all the companies in line, since leaving Du- buque, in November, 1862. On April 3, the command again embarked, and reached Grand 'Ecore on the next evening, where it remained till the morning of the 7th, when it marched to the front of the battle of Pleasant Hill, where the brigade to which the 32d belonged, commanded by Col. Shaw, of the 14th Iowa, stood the brunt of the fight, being the first in the battle, fighting longer than any other, in the hardest of the contest, the last to leave the field, and losing three times as many officers and men as any brigade en- gaged.
"Of Col. John Scott, 32d Iowa," says the brigade commander, "it is sufficient to say that he showed himself worthy to command the 32d Iowa Infantry-a regi- ment which, after having been entirely surrounded and cut off from the rest of the command, with nearly one-half of its number killed or wounded, among them many of the best and prominent officers, forced its way through the enemy's lines, and was again in line, ready and anxous to mee the foe in less than thirty min- utes." It is certain no- regiment ever fought with a sublimer courage than did the 32d on the battlefield of Pleasant Hill.
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Its heroism and its sacrifices were worthy of a better fate than a retreat from the scene of its splendid daring and its glory. The fame of its gallant conduct spread all over Iowa, as it would have spread over the whole country had the commanding general accepted the victory which the troops had given him. But sad losses be- fell the regiment. Lieut. Col. Mix was slain on the field, also many of the officers were either slain or wounded. The regi- ment lost, in all, 210 officers and men, killed, wounded and missing; most of the missing were also wounded-any so re- ported, no doubt slain. Iowa gloried in the fame of her honored sons, and wept for their dead comrades who fell on the stricken field. The following beautiful lines were written by Mrs. Caroline A. Soule, upon hearing of the sad losses sus- tained by the 32d at Pleasant Hill :
Cold are the sleepers Wrapt in their shrouds- Pale are the weepers The battle has bowed ; Softly they slumber, Our soldiers in death-
While hearts without number Cry, with hushed breath -- O God, are they dead !
Pale are the sleepers, Like marble they lie --- Sad are the weepers, Tear-stained their eyes ;
Quiet they slumber,
Soldiers entombed,
While hearts without number, All shrouded in gloom, Cry-O, are they gone !
Calm are the sleepers, Taking their rest -- Sad are the weepers, Joyless their breasts ;
Softly they slumber, Our soldiers to-day, While hearts without number Cry, only this way, Can our battles be won ?
Colonel Shaw's brigade covered the retreat of the army to Grand 'Ecore, when the 32d regiment, after a move- mert up Red river 10 aid the fleet in escaping from imminent peril, went into encampment. It joined in the retreat down the Red river on the 21st, and frequently met light bodies of the enemy in skirmish. The retreat from Alexan- dria to the Mississippi was also harassed by the enemy,and considerable skirmishing took place at Bayou La Morge, Marksville and Bayou de Glaize, in both of which the regiments took part. Colonel Shaw in his report of the latter battle, says to "Colonel Gilbert, 27th Iowa, Major Eber- hart of the 32d Iowa, Captain Crane of the 14th Iowa and their commands, is due the safety of the army. Had they failed to move into the position assigned them ( although a difficult one, that of chang- ing front under fire ) with less celerity, or failed to hold it steadily after taking it, our left and rear would have been envel- oped by overwhelming numbers, and noth- ing could have saved us-not even the fighting qualities of the Sixteenth Army Corps."
The regiment reached Memphis on the 10th of June, from there the command moved to Moscow, and thence to La Grange in the latter part of June. From this point it marched with General Smith's forces on the Tupelo campaign. It re- turned to Memphis, and having encamped there about ten days, joined in the Oxford
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expedition. The next active campaign, in which the 32d took part, was in Mis- souri in the pursuit of Price. It was a campaign of severe marching for the Infantry, but not of battle. The regiment, not well provided for such a campaign, marched at least 650 miles, averaging twenty miles a day. It marched across the State and back again. Halting a few days at St. Louis, it moved to Cairo by steamer, arriving Nov. 27.
From here it moved to Nashville, which was soon afterwards besieged by the rebel General Hood. In the battle of Nash- ville, December 15 and .16, the 32d, fighting in General Gilbert's Brigade, was warmly engaged, and won great credit for daring, efficient behavior. It captured a battery of five guns and many prisoners, and lost about twenty-five killed and wounded. With the pursuit of the defeated rebels, elosed the campaigning of the regiment for the year 1864, in face of the enemy.
Early in 1665, the regiment marched to Clifton, T'enn., whence it moved by steamer to Eastport, Miss. Its next and last campaign, was that of Mobile, under Major-General E. R. S. Canby. Through- ont those laborious and difficult opera- tions, the 32d performed its part faith- fully, skillfully and honorably. It remained in Alabama some time after the fall of Mobile, and was mustered out at Clinton, Iowa, Aug. 24, 1865. Returning to Iowa, the 32d Iowa was in due time disbanded, the officers and men left from the ravages of three years service, receiving everywhere along the line of their journey the kind greetings and
hearty welcome of a grateful people, whose hearts had been with them through all their hardships.
FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
( 100 day men ) COMPANY G.
Second Lieutenant. Daniel W. Dow.
Privates :
J. C. Button,
Matthew McCord,
Jesse R. Dodd, L. S. Sayer,
D. C. Knapp, J. W. Yost.
Ilarrison McCord.
FIRST CAVALRY
COMPANY C.
Privates :
Michael Seyb
COMPANY G.
Privates :
George F. Wass.
COMPANY M.
First Lieutenant : E. A. Dunham.
SECOND CAVALRY.
COMPANY A.
A. J. Dalrymple.
COMPANY F.
Private :
Lorenzo Cobb.
FOURTHI CAVALRY. COMPANY L.
Quarter-Master Sergeant : George W. Thompson.
Sergeant : Thomas H. Davis.
Corporal :
Thomas G. Weston.
Privates :
James II. Beed,
C. A. Bald
Thomas Il. Davis,
A. Gillett,
Charles Gillett,
A. P. Peabody,
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Emile Myers, John Shill,
Richard Miller, Richard Davenport,
Orin A. Thatcher,
James Staley,
D. O. Waters.
SIXTH CAVALRY. Privates :
Jesse R. Dodd, L. R. Foby. EIGHTH CAVALRY.
COMPANY G. Second Sergeant: John W. Miller.
Private: Riley Miller.
NINTH CAVALRY.
COMPANY G.
Fourth Sergeant:
William B. Johnson, Hiram F. Coon,
M. V. Johnson.
THIRD BAT'RY IOWA LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Privates:
William Murphy,
G. W. Soper,
John H. Scott, John Swanagan.
NORTHERN BORDER BRIGADE.
COMPANY C.
Privates:
Samuel N. Guilliams, Franklin Osborn.
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following comprises a list of those gallant soldiers who left their homes, and took up the musket for the defense of their country's honor, never to return, who laid down their lives in defense of the Union. "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country," should be engraved over the grave of each, in characters that will remain throughout all coming time and proclaiming to all the future gener- ations their noble sacrifice:
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