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FIFTH INFANTRY.
Jones, Nathaniel B., corporal, Company B; enlisted Dec. 1, 1861 ; wounded at Iuka, Sept. 19, 1862; died of wounds, Sept. 21.
SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Cornelius, John, Company F; enlisted July 24, 1861.
Eirp, Wm., Company G ; enlisted Dec., 1861 ; died Aug. 1, 1864. at Marietta, Ga
EIGHTH INFANTRY.
Gwinn, John R., Company G; enlisted Sept. 3, 1861 : captured at Shiloh, April 6, 1862; died at St. Louis, July 20, 1862.
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Gaumer, Levi, Company G; enlisted Sept. 3, 1861 ; captured at Shiloh, April 6, 1862 ; discharged Oct. 14, 1862.
Marks, Joseph, Company G; enlisted Sept. 3, 1861 ; captured at Shiloh, April 6, 1862; died March 2, 1865, at Memphis.
THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
McLaughlin, Geo., first lieutenant, Company I; enlisted Oct. 11, 1861 ; pro- moted to captain Febr. 3, 1863; wounded at Atlanta, July 24, 1864; mustered out Dec. 20, 1864.
Benninger, G. M., Company I; discharged Oct. 12, 1862.
Beason, Wm. L., Company I; died Aug. 28, 1863, at Montezuma,
Byers, John T., Company I.
Hudson, Andrew J., enlisted Nov. 1, 1861 ; promoted first lieutenant, Febr. 3, 1863; wounded July 22, 1864, at Atlanta; died of wounds at Nashville, Aug. 16, 1864.
Myers, Andrew S., Company I; discharged Febr. 6, 1863.
Satchell, Joseph W.
Sheley, Alonzo, Company I.
Sheley, Horace, Company I; enlisted Febr. 17, 1864; captured at Atlanta, July 22, 1864.
Sanders, Selkirk, Company I; died Jan. 6, 1862, at St. Louis.
Watkins, Theophilus, Company I; promoted to fifth corporal; wounded at Shiloh, April 6, 1862.
THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY.
Fagan, Wm., wagoner, Company D; enlisted Aug. 14, 1862.
TWENTY-SEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Dryden, Cary ; enlisted Aug. 9, 1861, Company G.
SECOND CAVALRY.
Collins, John P., Company L; enlisted Sept. 13, 1862. Munger, Reuben C, Company L; enlisted Sept. 13, 1862.
SEVENTH CAVALRY.
Ayers, Wm. C., Company D; enlisted March 11, 1863.
Barris, John K., Company D; enlisted March 11, 1863.
Lockard, George W .; Company D: enlisted March 11, 1863.
White, Louis J., Company D; enlisted March 11, 1863.
Hillman, Chas. D., fourth corporal, Company H ; enlisted May 4, 1863. Crozier, George W., Company G; enlisted Dec 6, 1864.
NINTH CAVALRY.
Chapman, O. J., Company A, Nov. 4, 1863.
Adams, Francis M., Company B, Sept. 5, 1863.
Beason, Martin, Company L, Oct. 12, 1863.
Henrie, Jeffries J., Company L, Sept. 23, 1864; died Sept. 30, 1865, at Pine Bluff, Ark.
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Rogers, James W., Company L, Oct. 6, 1863.
Wright, Richard N., Company L, Oct. 12, 1863.
DODGE'S BRIGADE BAND.
James H. Porter, leader, Sept. 12, 1862.
Frederick W. Porter, Aug. 22, 1862.
Alonzo P. Loveland, Nov. 4, 1861. Frank Wyatt, Aug. 22, 1862.
LIGHT ARTILLERY.
William Rakestraw, fourth battery; fifth corporal, Aug. 19, 1863.
THE FORTIETH INFANTRY.
The Fortieth was the last Iowa regiment that enlisted for three years. It was mustered in November 15, 1862, at Iowa City. Its Poweshiek county men were in Companies B and D and were the following named men :
Frank T. Campbell, captain ; commissioned Nov. 18; resigned Jan. 13, 1865. (Later Lieutenant-Governor of lowa.)
John Morrison, first lieutenant, Nov. 15; resigned March 3, '64. Simeon J. Dalbey, second lieutenant, Sept. 9; discharged Feb. 27, 1864.
Achilles W. Ballard, first sergeant, 13th; promoted to sergeant-major Nov. 7, 1862; transferred June 18, 1864, for promotion to captain Company G, 6th Arkansas Infantry.
Benj. B. Griffith, second sergeant, 14th; discharged Oct. 28, '63.
James M. Dryden, third sergeant, 14th; discharged Aug. 28, 1863.
Joseph Klinker, fourth sergeant, 15th ; died April 1, 1865, at Ft. Smith, Ark. Alfred N. Nelson, fifth sergeant, 4th ; transferred May 1, 1864, to invalid corps. John Larkin, first corporal, 15th.
Morgan S. Kisser, second corporal, 15th.
Wm. Wright, third corporal, 15th.
John W. Farmer, fourth corporal, 15th; promoted to first sergeant; to first lieutenant, Jan. 14, 1865.
Charles Larkin, fifth corporal, 15th.
Charles Phillippi, sixth corporal, 22d.
John A. Beason, seventh corporal.
Edward H. Day, eighth corporal.
PRIVATES.
Allen, Chas. W., 6th. Allen, Daniel M., 10th. Allen, Thos. J., 22d. Boltzle, George, 22d.
Burrows, Albert, 14th. Booze, Paschal, 14th; died Aug. 20, 1863, at Montezuma. Bryan, Alanson, 22d. Cheshire, John W., 22d; discharged May 26, 1863. Deardorff, Pleasant, 14th.
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Darland, Martin, 14th ; discharged Aug. 22, 1863.
Daley, Oliver P., 14th; transferred March 12, 1864, for promotion first lieu- tenant Company H, Sixth Arkansas Infantry.
Davis, John, 18th; died Aug. 23, 1863, at Duvall's Bluff, Ark.
Draper, Clark R., 14th.
Day, Stephen A., 15th.
Ewing. Samuel, 14th.
Fauquer, Owen H., 18th.
Garsuch, Ezekiel W., 14th; discharged Oct. 7, 1863.
Garsuch, Thos. B., 13th.
Garsuch, Thos. R., 14th; died Oct. 20, 1863, af Memphis, Tenn.
Graham, Francis M., 14th.
Guffy, Wm. S., 14th; promoted first lieutenant, March 4, 1864; to captain, Jan. 14, 1865.
Hillhouse, W. K. S., 1Ith; discharged Oct. 7, 1863.
Harris, James A., 15th.
Harris, Samuel E., 21st.
Hall. John, 22d.
Heinberger, George, 21st.
Hiatt, John W., 22d; discharged March 25, 1863.
Hiatt, Absolom, 22d; died Dec. 13, 1863, at Little Rock, Ark.
Hiatt, James M., 8th.
Jones, Lewis, 21st.
Kisor, Cary M., 15th; died Aug. 20, 1863, at Helena, Ark.
Kiser, John H., 14th.
Klinker, John, 15th; died April 1, 1865, at Ft. Smith, Ark. Lamond, John, 13th.
Lynes, Charles R., 21st.
Lyons, James M., 22d.
McAllister, Able J., 20th.
Mulliken, Jands G., 12th.
McNeal, Thos., 20th; died Aug. 7, 1863, at Mound City.
Neff, Andrew S., 22d.
Popejoy, Wm. R., 26th.
Peagan, Leonidas, 13th; promoted to hospital steward, March 19, 1864.
Parker, Hobson, 14th.
Parker, Edwin W., 22d; discharged Dec. 28, 1864.
Powell. James M., 22d.
Pexton, Wm., 20th.
Rayburn, Amos F., 14th.
Shipley, Johnson, 14th; died Sept. 22, 1863, at Memphis.
Stillwell, Andrew J., 22d ; died Nov. 16, 1863, at Memphis.
Skeels, Leander W., 22d.
Sargeant, Daniel K., 18th; transferred April 1, 1865, for promotion to sec- ond lieutenant, Eleventh U. S. colored infantry.
Schooley, Eli M., 22d ; died Aug. 27, 1863, at Duvall's Bluff, Ark. Schooley, Aaron B., 22d; died Nov. II, 1862, at Iowa City.
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Swena, Flavel, 19th; died Oct. 21, 1862, at Little Rock, Ark.
Sheperd, Ephraim, 5th; discharged Nov. - , 1863.
Thompson, John J., July 28.
Upton, David, Ist.
Vestal, Helery L., 22d.
Vestal, Fletcher, A., 22d.
Watkins, John E., 13th; died July 8, 1865, at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation.
Whiteacre, William, 13th; discharged Dec. 23, 1863.
Wheeler, Ezekial, 13th.
Wright, Joseph L., 13th ; discharged Oct. 26, 1863.
Wilkinson, John P., 14th. Wilcox, Stephen, 18th.
Whitney, Norman, 20th.
Wright, Wm. H., 14th, died at Iowa City, Oct. 27, 1862.
ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
Barrell, Seth H., Aug. 15th ; promoted to commissary sergeant, Feb. 20, 1863.
Bryan, John M., Jan. 18, 1864; died March 6, 1865, at Ft. Smith, Ark.
Beason, Timothy, Jan. 18, 1864.
Carnelius, Edward F., Jan. 11, 1864; died Oct. 18, 1864, at Little Rock, Ark. Canada, James, Sept. 1, 1864.
Farmer, Louis W., Feb. 24, 1864.
Graham, John Wesley, Feb. 3. 1864.
Hiatt, Abijah, Jan. 2, 1864.
Klinker, Wesley, Feb. 3, 1864.
Larkin, David H.
Rutledge, James M., Nov. 25, 1862 ; died March 17, 1863, at Paducah, Ky.
Tuttle, Van Rensellaer, March 31, 1864.
Whittier, Cyrus B., Jan. 11, 1864.
Company D.
Reed, James.
Wolf, George WV., died March 24, 1863, at Paducah, Ky.
Its regimental officers were: Colonel John A. Garrett, of Newton; Lieutenant Colonel S. F. Cooper, of Grinnell; and Sherman G. Smith, of Newton. Colonel Garrett had seen service in the Fourth Indiana in the Mexican war and entered the war of the rebellion as a captain of Company - of the Tenth Iowa In- fantry, was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Twenty-second Iowa Infantry and then placed at the head of the Fortieth Infantry, gathered from Jasper, Poweshiek, Marion counties. Lieutenant Colonel Cooper enlisted in Company E, Fourth Iowa Cavalry. Major Smith received his com- mission, September 16, 1862, and served two years.
These officers were popular with their regiment and often complimented by their superiors for their fidelity and distinguished service. Of Colonel Cooper, the only one of these from our county, Colonel Garrett says: "And right here it occurs to me, as due a deserving officer, to state, as a part of last year's history,
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that Colonel Cooper commanded the regiment from Paducah, Kentucky, to Haines Bluff, Mississippi, including the expedition to Satartia. I joined the regi- ment on the 14th of June from duty at Columbus, Kentucky, and while I was home sick, Colonel Cooper was in command from Helena to this city, leading the regiment (which was the first to cross over the river in the face of the en- emy), and though sick and almost delirious with fever, was not willing to quit his part of danger until the day was won." A serious attack of fever followed.
The regiment suffered greatly from measles at Columbus, and from malaria at Helena, Arkansas, and at Haines' and Snyder's Bluffs. They rendered special service at the siege of Vicksburg, and had a sharp battle at Jenkin's Ferry.
FORTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
The year 1864 was one of great peril and of great activity. Sherman was drawing in the veterans from posts along the Mississippi in Tennessee, Missis- sippi and near the river that he might make his famous march to the sea, and he was making the march while Grant was hammering away in Virginia at a fear- ful cost of life. Then, too, the Knights of the. Golden Circle were most active and most thoroughly organized as a military force and claimed that they had from 800,000 to 1,000,000 members. Vallandingham claimed about 500,000 members and that 340,000 effective men were ready to move against the Con- federate prisons in the north, to set the prisoners at liberty, and to enroll an im- mense army north of the Ohio to open "a fire in the rear" whenever the Union forces should suffer a great defeat.
Governor Stone of Iowa, and other Union governors of the northwest, urged the president to call for "hundred days'" men to meet this emergency. They met the president, his cabinet, Generals Halleck and Stanton. They urged with vigor.
"Let us have your opinion, General Halleck," said the president.
"No faith in it at all," said Halleck. "Volunteers won't earn their clothes in a hundred days."
Stone interrupted, "But look at Wilson's Creek. Iowa's hundred days' men won that battle. Look at Donelson, stormed by men who never fired a gun be- fore."
"You are right," said the president. "Mr. Chase, can you raise the money?" "Yes, the money can be had," said Chase, "and there are the figures."
Stanton, too, so often rugged and apparently contrary, favored the idea. The call was issued. Stone came home. He issued his appeal for men. The women offered to take the places of young men who should enlist, and to accept their wages. Young men needed no further urging. They dropped their yard sticks in the stores and their books in college. About 4,000 men were soon ready in Iowa.
Company B of the Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry was made up chiefly from two colleges, Tabor and Iowa (now called Grinnell). Tabor college sent a chaplain, unsurpassed in our acquanitance, and a group of capital fellows for the ranks. Grinnell College furnished a professor and every student left here who was liable to military duty. James H. Tilton was at home in Montezuma on sick furlough, and interested in raising the company. As soon as he heard the pro-
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fessor had enlisted he hastened to offer his services in completing the comapny and in making the professor captain. "No sir. You shall be captain of that company," was the response. "You have had years of service, become an in- valid and you must have the honor and the emoluments of the office."
The young women in the college assumed extra labor cheerfully and a sister of our secretary of agriculture, Hon. James Wilson, like many another, went home in harvest to drive a reaper.
The regiment was stationed at Memphis and Collierville, where a detach- ment had a brush with the Confederates in attempting to release two prisoners of an Illinois regiment, and where Captain Wolf and three of his men were wounded, the captain severely. It lost three men in battle, twenty-three by dis- ease and twenty-one were wounded as reported in the list of casualties.
The Poweshiek company was made up almost entirely of young men. It was not anxious for rank but for service. From it the colonel chose his regi- mental clerks, two college "boys,"-Stephen H. Herrick, who has become mayor of his town, a wealthy California fruit raiser and has given $10,000 to his col- lege; and James Irving Manatt, who has been consul to Greece, chancellor of Nebraska University and is now a professor of Brown University, an LL. D., captivating writer and an eloquent speaker. No wonder that they sent the best reports received at the general's office when they were young. That was their morning. Their day has reached its meridian since. Few regiments lost so many men in so short a service.
The following is from the Roster of Company B.
FORTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
Company B.
James H. Tilton, captain.
Leonard F. Parker, first lieutenant.
Charles Scott, second lieutenant.
Edward Hall, first sergeant.
William A. Chapman, fourth sergeant. (Later a physician.)
Calvin R. Eaton, fifth sergeant.
Flint S. Boynton, first corporal.
George W. Lancaster, second corporal.
Garland M. Johnson, third corporal.
John C. Morgan, fourth corporal.
James E. Ellis, fifth corporal; died at Memphis, -- 16, 1864.
Homer R. Page, sixth corporal. (Later a physician.)
Frank L. Rouse, seventh corporal.
Jacob P. Lyman, eighth corporal. (Later State Representative. Now Judge of Superior Court.)
Charles W. Hobart, musician.
PRIVATES.
Adams, Geo. M. Acord, Joseph. Bailey, Chas. M. Billings, Burton A. Vol. 1-14
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Bodurtha, Henry J.
Bailey, Chas. L.
Cox, Chas. E.
Cooper, Chas. N. (Later a physician.)
Copeland, Levi N.
Crain, Theodore F.
Cook, Clement A.
Duffus, James.
Dunlap, Sylvester M.
Eaton, William J.
Francis W. Ford died soon after reaching home.
Fuller, Evelin M.
Foster, William A.
Fuller, Thomas.
Findley, Dennis.
Farmer, John A.
Grinnell, Geo. P.
Hill, Gershom H. (Later Professor and Superintendent of Iowa Insane Asylum.)
Houghton, Wm. U.
Herrick, Stephen H., Regimental Clerk. (Later Mayor of Grinnell.)
Hamilton, Chas. L.
Johnson, Zimri S.
Kaifer, Johann Michael.
Kerr, Adam. Korns, Jacob C.
Manatt, Irving J., Regimental Clerk. (Later Consul to Greece, Chancellor of Nebraska University, and now Professor in Brown University.)
Manatt, Samson C.
Mills, Robert W.
Morgan, Wm. G.
James M. Martin, wounded at Colliersville, Tenn., and died July 19, 1864. Morrison, Frank Henry.
Nosler, Wm. L.
Oxley, Wm. E.
Phelps, Loyal C., Jr.
Parks, John. (Later a portrait painter.)
Reed, Chas. F.
Sanders, Daniel M.
Sharp, Webster.
Geo. D. Smith, died at Benton Barracks, Aug. 29, 1864.
Sheley, James.
Wolcott, Martin P.
THE FOURTH CAVALRY.
The Fourth Cavalry was mustered in at Camp Harlan, Mt. Pleasant, No- vember 25, 1861, and mustered out, August 10, 1865, at Atlanta, Georgia.
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Poweshiek county furnished eighty-seven soldiers for Company E, nearly all of that company, and three for Company C. The others of the regiment came mainly from other counties, including a good number from the college at Mt. Pleasant. During its time of service it had only two colonels, though a major was frequently in command while the colonel was rendering other service. Their first colonel was Asbury B. Porter, of Mt. Pleasant, commissioned Oc- tober I, 1861, and his resignation was accepted. March 19, 1863. Their only other colonel was Edward F. Winslow, of Mt. Pleasant, who was made colonel, June 20, 1863, although his muster in was delayed till September 2, 1863, because the regiment was too small to be entitled to have a colonel. He reinlisted with his regiment and rose rapidly in their admiration and in that of his superiors until he became brigadier general by brevet for gallantry in the field, December 12, 1864, and was often in command of more than his own company.
Other regimental offices were held by those from this county, such as A. B. Parkell, of Grinnell, and E. W. Dee, of Brooklyn, as inajors, William Robinson, of Grinnell, as surgeon, and John Carney, of Madison county, commissary sergeant.
The historian of the regiment, Adjutant W. Forse Scott, speaks most favorably of the officers and the men. The field and staff "were composed of men of the highest standing in their several communities. The colonel, one of the majors, the adjutant and others had fought with Lyon at Wilson's Creek. The lieutenant colonel was a brilliant officer of the regular cavalry." He might have said that in this regiment, as elsewhere, the appointments to office too often illustrate that "to err is human," nevertheless here, too, some appointees did high honor to themselves and to all above or below them.
During the earliest part of their military life there was little opportunity for winning distinction, and the same lack of opportunity for doing anything helpful. In a cold winter at Mt. Pleasant they needed clothes and guns, and habitually active, healthy Americans will assuredly rebel against enforced idleness until dis- content becomes disease.
In the spring they seemed completely armed in St. Louis, but-such arms! The danger point seemed rather at the breech than the muzzle of their rifles. At length lighter arms were furnished them and were more effective. Each soldier was loaded down with extra clothing, means for securing his horse while eat- ing, blankets to cover himself at night in rain and save him from wet, cold ground. When a cavalryman was on his horse with his belongings piled up before him and behind him and hanging down from his shoulders, it was a ques- tion how he could ever get out of such a pile, and when he was out, it was a great wonder how he could ever get in again. It was a joke that a derrick was used to lift him out or in, or that he would clinch a tree and drop down into the abyss from a limb of it. Be that as it may, the Poweshiek cavalry were "equal to any device known to the profession." At any rate, the piles grew smaller as the years of enlistment increased. They fought at Pea Ridge, were sick at Helena and drifted around to Vicksburg to keep Pemberton in the city and Johnston out of it in 1863. On an occasion one hundred and fifteen of them went out beyond the reach of help to fill a road with trees and were hemmed in by 600 Conferedates. "No boys," said Major Parkell in command, "it is Andersonville or to cut through those three lines yonder." Eli Allen and
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Henry Black took out the breech of their howitzer and concealed it and then they all dashed into the deadly lines around them, but only a third of those who left their camp ever reached it again.
John Carney, regimental commissary, writes very pleasantly and eulogistic- ally of Major Parkell as an able and a valiant officer and of his good soldiers, Eli Allen, Henry Black, yes, of all the regiment. "After the fall of Vicksburg Colonel Winslow took command of the regiment, secured better arms and led the brigade in the search for Johnston, although half who went should have been in the hospital. There was just the dash in it which pleases the born soldier. Rail- road communications were cut, rebel detachments sent flying and raids were made into Confederate regions where no Union soldier had ventured before. Eight hundred men marched two hundred and sixty-five miles through Canton and Granada to Memphis, made the Mississippi Central railroad useless and cap- tured four times as many as they lost."
The call for a veteran regiment reached the Fourth Cavalry in November, 1863. They were asked to reenlist for three years or during the war. The reply came by the organization of the First Iowa Veteran Regiment on the following Christmas day. The answer was very prompt and hearty and their patriotic promptness made them very popular in the army. The First Veteran Regiment -what could be better ?
But these veterans are among the very best, of course. They are ready for any service, to enlist at once, and to face all the perils of war through coming years. They have known its toils, its hunger, its hospital sufferings, its mes- sages of farewell from the dying whom they may never meet again, and have seen the trembling lips of comrades as they entrusted tender good byes to be communicated to fathers and mothers, wives and children, whose hearts will break as they read them in the loneliness of grief. Perhaps it was poetic when they enlisted. It need not be so now. Yet they reenlist.
"But don't go now. Meridian is a railway center and a military depot. Help us capture that before you leave us. We are helpless without you. We must capture Jackson"-was in the mind of Sherman.
Winslow's Brigade was off in February, 1864, on that Meridian raid with Sherman's army. The Fourth and two other cavalry regiments constituted the brigade. They fought their way through a battle nearly one hundred and fifty miles long, through Bolton, Jackson, Hillsboro, Morton, Tunnel Hill into Me- ridian. The army accomplished its object, large military supplies were destroyed and the railroads running into Meridian were torn up. Boys in such regiments are likely to reenlist and boys with red blood in their veins are likely to want to enter such regiments. Their numbers ran up to 1,350 in April, although they became the First Iowa Veteran Regiment as early as the previous December. But, alas! in a search for Forrest they found him in June, 1864, at Guntown, when that military infant, General Sturgis (although a West Pointer), was com- manding the army, of which Colonel Winslow's three regiments were a part. Incompetence never displayed itself more completely, or was it something more liquid? He completely blockaded the road with his supply trains, then sent just enough into the battle at a time to be easily whipped until the entire army was on the run for Memphis. The cavalry alone rushed between Forrest and the
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flying Unionists and saved the infantry from annihilation before it reached the city.
The last raid by the Fourth Cavalry was made into Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia and was a very remarkably successful one. It was just when the Con- federacy was collapsing, meeting with discouragement everywhere, and with failure. Lee and Davis were anticipating failure, Lincoln and Grant were an- ticipating success. Union victories were sustaining the anticipations of both. Lincoln's second inaugural was firm, patient, confident. The Confederate mili- tary evacuated Richmond at midnight between April 2d and 3d, 1865. Later Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox and received most generous terms. Events moved rapidly.
Lincoln was assassinated, April 14, 1865, and it made the soldiers very sensitive. Captured Confederates could easily by an unkind word, have aroused a bloody opposition.
Davis and his cabinet sought most earnestly to escape. They set out south- ward, aiming to reach the Florida coast in detachments of twenty or so. All Union forces were keeping a sharp lookout for the famous fugitive and at last Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard of the Michigan Cavalry found he was halting to allow his men to rest at Irwinville, Georgia, a short distance away, and found him in his camp the next morning, and took him prisoner. It is possible that he threw some of his wife's clothes over him. At any rate it does not seem very amusing. He had no time to be very particular about his wardrobe.
The Fourth Cavalry were so fortunate that Sergeant Albert Longbridge, then of Oskaloosa, and of Company F, captured Alexander H. Stephens, at Athens, the vice president of the Confederacy, another detachment under Captain Fitch of Company H, Stephen R. Mallory the secretary of the navy, Benjamin H. Hill, senator and general at La Grange, another from Company L, Herschel V. John- son, who had been candidate for vice president with Stephen A. Douglas, and Captain Exum R. Saint caught Robert Toombs, a member of the cabinet and general. Three of these were started for New York for trial under the care of Sergeant Charles F. Craver but discharged without trial. Toombs slipped away from a guard insufficiently careful. Probably these captors and guardians never had a more important work to do than that here mentioned. These are all well known in this county.
They were certainly in distinguished company for a time. Their children and their children's children will remember with self gratification that their an- cestors improved such an opportunity so faithfully as the Civil war closed. It was their last opportunity of being so polite to President Davis and his eminent friends.
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