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Second Iowa Cavalry, Company B .- Amos A. Bartine, George Brou- hard, George W. Boyes, Harrison H. Boyes, Thomas Booth, John W. Clark, Frank Coffelt, H. F. Ferguson, Curtis Knight, Jas. McCollister, John C. McHone, Elijah Purvis, Philip H. Ream, Julius C. Robison, Achil- les M. See, Wm. Schreckendcarl, Wm. Thomas, John M. Tanner, James A. Wheatly, Thomas Wheatly, Porter Webb, Paul A. Queal.
Fourth Iowa Infantry, Company E .- Joseph P. Alderman.
Tenth Iowa Infantry, Company A .- Joseph Jones, James May, D. W. Ballard, Henry Ballard, William B. Crumb, Wm. Horner, David Jones, Jeremiah Presnall, John Hawks, George W. Kelley, Wm. Tanner, James Howard, Lewis W. Smithheart.
Same regiment, Company K .- Thomas Hoy, Willis Hopkins, Samuel Kelley, John Kelley, John O. Johnson, John Johnson, Torres T. Scott, W. C. Shockley, Iver Twedt, Samuel Olson, Iric Iglin, James W. Ball, James Brown, Amos P. Ball.
Twelfth Iowa Infantry, Company D .- Jason D. Ferguson, James D. Ferner, F. D. Thompson, N. G. Price, Geo. V. Price, Henry W. Bailey.
Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, Company B .- Giles Swan.
Same regiment, Company E .- James Bales, Geo. W. Ketchum, Wm. A. King, John R. Hall, Jackson C. Brown, Henry C. Cameron, Sereno Chand- ler, Michael Dougherty, A. B. Griffith, Watson Humphrey, Geo. B. Kinsley, James Ludvig, Cyrus D. Casebolt, Rob't D. Casebolt, Silas D. A. Allen, Thomas Barret, Joseph Brown, Geo. Bigelow, S. D. Baird, Rob't T. Bales, Peter Brown, D. N. Duke, B. Halley, Wm. R. Moore, James T. Mount. Geo. W. Sessions, M. R. Cochran, Joseph Whitson, James Whitson, L. B. Shook, Milo McCartney.
Same Regiment, Company F .- Elijah Wyre, Wm. Wilson.
Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, Company G .- Jos. J. Aldredge, Eugene Willis, I. J. Davis, Addison Davis, Geo. Lowell, John Evens, T. J. Jorden, Cornelius Joor, S. W. Jenks, John L. Martin, Turner McLain, Thomas Snell- ing, Isaac Walker, Osmond Anfenson, L. D. Woodward, Henry Spangler, John F. Shumaker.
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Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, Company B .- John C. Elliott, Eli Elliott, Ethan Post.
Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, Company F .- Marion Bell, W. O. Robison. Seventeenth Iowa Infantry .- Elias Shearer.
Eighteenth Iowa Infantry .- Rob't B. Campfield, Jerome Hay, Harry Hunt, James Brouhard, James Blackman, Henry Leonard, John E. Fry, George See, David See.
Twentieth Iowa Infantry, Company F .- Q. A. Boynton.
Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, Company A .- Nathaniel A. Alfred, Geo. C. Baldock, Devillo P. Ballard, Charles M. Banning, Henry P. Banning, J. E. Banning, Thomas F. Barton, James Bevington, John O. Booth, Jacob Boren, Ira Briley, Pierson Brown, Andrew E. Chamberlain, Isaac H. Craig, James Deal, Nathan V. Foot, David B. Foster, John E. Foster, Samuel W. Gossard, Jacob A. Grove, Thomas J. Harrison, Toor Hegland, Israel Helfry, Peter Helfry, Abraham Hiestand, Harvey J. Hiestand, James Howard, Calvin Hussong, James P. Jenkins, Richard Jones, Adolphus Kinsley, Daniel McCoy, Richard May, Chas. P. Miller, Thomas J. Miller, Christopher Ness, Stephen P. O'Brien, Thomas Opsted, Oliver Scott, George W. Smiley, Collins Snyder, Levi J. Stratton, Geo. W. Taylor, Severt Tesdall. Chris Torkelson. Daniel J. Waters, Oliver Weeks, John J. Wilsey, Powhattan Zenor, Henry D. Ballard, Gilbert Barber, Henry Barber, Nehemiah F. Elsbree, James C. Lovell, Halsey M. Rhoads, Rob't H. Robinson, Geo. F. Schoonover.
Same regiment, Company B .- Wm. Mercer.
Same regiment, Company C .- Geo. R. Yocum, Chester Hunt, James W. Bright, John J. Harrison, John Yocum, Joshua Harrison.
Same regiment, Company E .- Elias Ersland, A. B. Ellingsworth, David F. Minton, David A. Breezley, Elnathan Blackmore, Burgess Childress.
Same regiment, Company K .- Silas I. Shearer, C. P. McCord, Isaac N. Shenkle, John See.
Thirty-second Infantry, Company K .- Jos. Cadwalader, George Child, Vincent Tomlinson, Jacob Burger, Nathaniel A. Mount, Isaac S. French, Francis M. Anderson, Elias Modlin, Jonas Duea, Wm. M. Edwards, George H. Dunlap, Cyrus Davis, Isaac N. Alderman, Adolphus Prouty, Alba O. Hall, Hezekiah Applegate, James M. Applegate, Lewis F. Brown, Smith M. Childs, Nathaniel A. Cole, Osmund Egeland, Wm. M. Edwards, Henry Eliasson, Peter Egeland, Riley French, David Funk, Elihu A. Grubb, Jo- seph L. Harkness, Henry B. Henryson, Edward Hefley, George F. Hilton, Henry S. Halleck, James A. Howard, Joel R. Hand, Jacob B. Jacobson, Asa Josleyn, Thomas A. Lein, Erick R. Larson, James P. Meecum, Wil- liam McGuire, David A. Moore, Josiah Middleton, Wm. Mccullough, John Nelson, Nels L. Nelson, John C. Russell, John Ritland, Thomas I. Spiller, Silas N. See, Charles M. Sellers, James S. Stark, E. L. Sheldahl, Joseph F. Smith, John S. Wood. Frank S. Daniels, W. S. Lemon.
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Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry, Company B .- W. J. Veneman, E. S. Mc- Kenzie, Frank Lowell, Mathew Hanks, French Corey, Wm. H. Allen, Mar- cus D. Corey, D. Wornack.
Forty-seventh Iowa Infantry .- Thor Fatland.
Seventh Iowa Cavalry .- Henry Tetwiler, Wm. Keltner.
Eighth Iowa Cavalry, Company I .- Levi Chandler, Wm. Brown, John M. Fitchpatrick, Albert G. Briley, Milton McCain, David H. Mackey, John O'Neil, I. D. Arrasmith.
Ninth Iowa Cavalry .- Wm. C. Evans.
Second Iowa Battery .- John B. Alderman, Deacon J. Whitaker.
U. S. C. Troops .- W. A. Wier.
Additional enlistments, (service not ascertained.)-I. M. Dill, Chas. G. Smith, Eli Blickensderfer, Chelsey W. Baker, Geo. W. Hackerthorn, Chas. S. Cadwallader, Joseph Bates, Ervin Harritt, John T. V. Croy.
MORTUARY LIST OF STORY COUNTY SOLDIERS.
The following, so far as can now be ascertained is the list of Story County soldiers who died while in the military service. Some were killed, others died of wounds, still others from the hardships of prison life and more from disease :
Third Iowa, Company E .- Nathaniel Jennings, Elisha B. Craig, Geo. W. Grove, Henry H. Halley, Wm. B. Taylor, Lewis M. Vincent, Asa Walker, Wm. R. White, Thomas M. Davis. .
Tenth Iowa .- Wm. Crumb, Wm. Tanner, B. F. Craig, H. Howard, G. Kelley.
Twelfth Iowa .- Jason D. Ferguson.
Thirteenth Iowa .- R. D. Casebolt, James T. Mount, S. D. Allen.
Fourteenth Iowa .- Sam W. Jenks, J. J. Aldredge, David C. Vail, Thomas Snelling, Jno. F. Shumaker, Henry Spangler, J. L. Martin, Geo. Lowell, Z. F. Martin.
Fifteenth Iowa .- E. Elliott.
Nineteenth Iowa .- H. Hunt.
Twenty-third Iowa .- Harvey J. Heistand, Chas. P. Miller, Geo. W. Smiley, James Bevington, Pierson Brown, David B. Foster, Jno. E. Foster, Jacob A. Grove, Thomas J. Harrison, Toor Hegland, James P. Jenkins, Adolphus Kintzley, Daniel W. McCoy, Christopher Ness, Oliver Scott, Levi J. Stratton, Collins Snyder, Oliver Weeks, Henry Barber, August B. Illingsworth, Elias Ersland, David A. Breezley, Wm. Sunday, Jno. Ballard, Wm. Mencer, Jno. Yocum, John See, I. N. Shenkle, Chas. E. Culver.
Thirty-second Iowa, Company K .- N. A. Mount, O. Egeland, E. Modlin, Wm. C. Ballard, D. J. Bloes, F. S. Daniels, H. Eliason, Peter Egeland, H. B. Henryson, E. Hefley, J. R. Hand, Wm. L. Lemon, Wm. Pierce, C. M. Sellers, J. Sorter, N. A. Tichenor, Jno. S. Wood.
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Thirty-ninth Iowa-Marcus D. Corey, F. Lowell, D. Wornack. Forty-seventh, Iowa .- Thor Fatland. Second Cavalry .- Capt. P. A. Queal, Achilles M. See. Seventh Iowa Cavalry .- Wm. Keltner. Eighth Iowa Cavalry .- A. G. Briley, S. B. Shaw. Ninth Iowa Cavalry .- Wm. C. Evans.
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CHAPTER XIX. STORY COUNTY IN VARIOUS REGIMENTS.
FIRST IOWA INFANTRY.
In response to President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand men for three months' service there were multitudes of enlistments, and companies were promptly organized, one or two, for each of the fairly settled counties of the state. But one regiment, however, was Iowa's quota under this call and the first ten companies which it was practicable to raise and get to the Mississippi river were the ones that were organized into the First Iowa Infantry regiment. There was no Story County com- pany able to get into this organization; but it did happen that four young men from this county were enlisted in the Linn County company. Three of these four were students at Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, and the fourth was George F. Schoonover. All four of them served for the three were Jason D. Ferguson, Harrison H. Boyes and Addison Davis, and the fourth was George F. Schoonover. All four of them served for the three months' term of enlistment of the. regiment, and all four of them saw later service in other regiments. Ferguson expected after his return to join Company B of the Second Iowa Cavalry, which had been organized in Story and Marshall Counties before their muster out, but which had not yet left Davenport for the South. But at Cedar Rapids he was per- suaded to stop and help raise a company there, the invitation to do this, coming from Captain Stibbs, who had been orderly sergeant of their Company K, in the First Iowa, and who at this time became captain of Company A, of the Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and later became colonel of that regiment. Ferguson became first lieutenant of this company and was killed at Shiloh. Jason D. Ferguson, Post of Nevada, G. A. R., is named in his honor, and Captain E. B. Soper, who later commanded the com- pany, pays to him a tribute which will appear further on. Boyes, like Ferguson, started for Davenport, and there overtaking the Second Iowa Cavalry, he joined Company B according to the original intention of them both, served for four years in that company and was mustered out as its second lieutenant. Davis about the same time reenlisted in Company G, of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, served through the war, was mustered
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out as first lieutenant, removed after the war to Kansas, where he pros- pered for many years, and died in 1902 at Santa Barbara, California. Schoonover did not reenlist so promptly, but he returned to Nevada, bought out here The Advocate, which was the only newspaper in the county, and for nearly two years conducted on extraordinarily vigorous republican sheet. He sold out the paper in the fall of 1863, and soon after became a recruit in Company A, of the 23d Iowa. He served out the war in this company, and returning home was, in 1866, elected recorder of Story County, in which office he died after a service of three months. The only survivor of the quartette is Boyes, who like Schoonover, was elected county recorder in 1880, and served for six years in that office. He has spent most of his life in Howard township, and has only recently removed to Nevada to make his permanent home. Viewed in the light which their subsequent records afford, it is evident that this quartette was constituted of four quite exceptional young men, and none worthier could possibly have been found to make up the absolutely first rank of Story County soldiers in the Civil war.
Mr. Boyes is the one who now can tell and does tell something of the story of the service of this regiment, beginning fifty years ago the month in which we are now writing, May of 1861. The three months for which this regiment was enlisted was a short term in which to get into the field, do actual service, and return home again, and the actual time from enlist- ment to muster out was about four months. The service was almost wholly in Missouri. The first assignment was in the vicinity of Hannibal, to guard the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad, which road was very likely to have its bridges burned or right-of-way obstructed by bush-whackers, gathered from the intensely "Secesh" population of northern Missouri. Before long, however, the regiment was put into the campaign of General Lyon, the purpose of which campaign was to preserve southwestern Mis- souri for the Union. Along with other volunteers and more regulars, the regiment was transported partly across the state, and then started over the hills and vales of central Missouri afoot, in the direction of Joplin. The orders of march, however, were several times changed, and in due time the regiment arrived in the vicinity of Springfield, and engaged in the battle of Wilson's Creek. In this campaign the regiment did some extraordinary marching and one day it covered forty-seven miles. In this day's march the Iowa boys out-footed the regulars, took the lead from the cavalry, and along in the evening came up out of a swamp, singing, "Ain't I Glad to be Out of the Wilderness." It was a great march and at Wil- son's Creek, they fought as zealously as they had traveled. This was the first battle of the war for any Iowa troops. Harry Boyes says that he thought in the battle he was perfectly cool, but that he found after awhile that he had his mouth full of the ends of cartridges that he had bitten off for the old fashioned muskets, not having thought to spit the ends out. In
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the county was well represented in companies A and K of that regiment. If the two squads had been in one company they. would have made up nearly one-third of its complement. But the two squads being of about equal strength were neither of them large enough to secure the recog- nition to which together they might have been entitled.
The regiment was mustered at Iowa City in September 1861 with nine companies and Company K, which was the tenth, joined it in October. The colonel of this regiment was Nicholas Perczel, a Hungarian from Davenport, and one impression that we get of him is that he was a good fighter but not so adept at getting his name in the newspapers as were the lawyer colonels of some other regiments. But the record shows that the regiment saw the most genuine service. It was at Island Number Ten, at Corinth, at Iuka, where it won the distinction of repeatedly stopping the rebel advance with very small loss to itself; in the Vicksburg campaign and in the thick of the fight at Champion Hill where it fought at close range until its ammunition was exhausted and lost nearly one-half of its men engaged; the assault at Vicksburg, with Sherman on his march to the relief of Thomas at Chattanooga and with Sherman again to Atlanta, Sa- vannah and up through the Carolinas. It is a record without blemish.
TWELFTH IOWA INFANTRY. .
The Twelfth Infantry was a regiment in which Story County had a small representation. But this representation was notable because of the fact that it was headed by Jason D. Ferguson, who had served in the First Iowa, became one of the organizers of Company D, of the Twelfth Iowa at Cedar Rapids, was elected its first lieutenant, was mortally wounded at Shiloh and has given his name to the Grand Army Post at Nevada. The chief organizer of the company was Captain John H. Stibbs of Cedar Rapids, who later became colonel of the regiment, and a later company officer was Capt. E. B. Soper who has, through the favor of Col. Rood, furnished special tribute to Lieutenant Ferguson. In this command also were F. D. Thompson and Jas. D. Ferner, both of whom were in after years postmasters of Nevada and the former of whom has contributed to other portions of this history. The tribute of Captain Soper to Lieutenant Ferguson was as follows.
"Jason D. Ferguson enlisted with other students at Mount Vernon, April 18, 1861 in Company K, Ist. Reg. Ia. Inf. Vol., for three months, and during his service displayed soldierly qualities besides conspicuous gal- lantry at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. After the muster out of the regi- ment upon the expiration of the term, Ferguson was invited by Captain Stibbs to assist in the formation of a company for the 12th Iowa Vols., at Cedar Rapids, and they secured as many of their comrades of the Ist Ia. as were willing to enlist.
"When the war broke out Nathan G. Price, a friend and boon com- panion of Ferguson's, was seeking for gold about Pike's Peak, and he hur-
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ried home as fast as an ox team could hurry down the Platte river valley and across the state of Iowa. Ferguson and Price had both planned to join their Story County friends in the 2d Ia. Cavalry at Davenport, but first Ferguson and then Price were prevailed upon to enlist in Co. D of the 12th Ia., and upon organization of the company, Ferguson was elected first lieutenant and made a most competent and acceptable officer. He served with credit at Fort Donelson and distinguished himself at Shiloh, receiving, the evening of April 6th, 1862, about the time of the surrender of his regiment, a mortal wound.
"On the march to the position assigned to the command, a premonition of certain death, that day, came to Ferguson, and he communicated it to his friend Price and possibly others; yet he conducted himself with great gallantry, and between attacks of the enemy upon the position of the regi- ment at the Hornet's Nest, he imparted to his friend Price messages to his family and kindred and also specified articles he desired sent to each. When surrounded and while attempting to break through the rebel lines toward the Landing at the camp of the 3d Ia. Inf., a bullet passed through his body inflicting a mortal wound. Upon learning the fact Price asked permission to care for him, and the privilege was granted and a confederate guard placed in charge.
"During the night, Price and his guard were employed, not only in car- * ing for Ferguson, but other wounded of both armies. The night was in- describable, rain falling, groans of wounded and dying, bursting shells from the gun boats exploding on them but nevertheless both faithfully worked, bringing water and ministering to the sufferers. When the Federals ad- vanced in line of battle on the 7th, causing a retreat of the rebels, Price, in order to escape being taken from Ferguson and compelled to join his comrades in a southern prison, wrapped bloody garments about him and groaned in feigned agony, as the confederates' rear guard gathered up those who were able to travel. After the advance of the federal lines the wounded were gathered up and transferred to the landing to be placed on steamers, but Ferguson died soon after reaching the landing, during the forenoon of the 7th; and Price, regaining his Enfield rifle and equipments, where they had been hastily thrown at the time of the surrender, fought to the end of the battle with an Illinois regiment belonging to Buell's army, and has the distinction of being the one man of the 12th Iowa that fought both days in the thick of battle at Shiloh.
"Nathan G. Price lived to fight in every battle his regiment was en- gaged in during the war and was one of the bravest men in the 12th Iowa; and now surrounded by his children, on their highly improved farms in Jewell county, Kansas, he enjoys the comforts that come from affluence acquired by a clean life and honest toil.
"Ferguson was a young officer of promise, a born leader of men, and a man of high moral character, pure motives, prompt intelligence and efficiency. His loss was deplored by his company and regiment. His com-
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rades buried him near the camp on the high bluff overlooking the Tennes- see river and his body now rests in a known grave in the beautiful national cemetery at Pittsburg Landing."
THIRTEENTH IOWA INFANTRY.
Story County had a strong representation in Company E of the Thir- teenth Iowa. The company was made up chiefly from the eastern part of the state and it does not appear that the Story County squad received spe- cial consideration; but there were at least thirty from the county in the company. This regiment is distinguished in the beginning from the fact that its first colonel was Marcellus M. Crocker, a very distinguished young lawyer of Des Moines. He was promoted to be brigadier general and rose to the command of a division and might readily have risen still higher if his physical strength had been proportionate to his abilities.
This regiment was in the thick of the fight at Shiloh and when on the afternoon of the first day's fight and the disorganized portions of the Union army were reforming according to their own notion for the repulse of the last rebel charge, the remnants of the Thirteenth attached themselves to Colonel Tuttle's division and shared in the final victory. Later the regi- ment was at Corinth, Iuka, all through the Vicksburg campaign, in the Meridian campaign, and with Sherman from Chattanooga to the Carolinas and Washington.
GENERAL CROCKER.
General Crocker during the Vicksburg campaign, and perhaps at other times, had in his brigade or division the Third Iowa and other regiments in which Story County was strongly represented and probably he had under his general command, at one time or another, more Story County troops than was true of any other Iowa officer. This fact gives pertinence to vari- ous stories about him to which reference is probably now as appropriate as at any time. The general died at Washington City in August, 1865. A few weeks before that time, he had been in Nevada to take the cars on his way from Des Moines to the national capital, and his visit was the occa- sion of respectful attention. He was then in delicate health and we had been holding a command in Arizona; but he tired of service there and returned to Iowa. Hence he went first to Washington, and the climate of that city in August brought his troubles to a conclusion. His body was brought from Washington back to Nevada and hence was taken across
the country to Des Moines. This was the general's last passage through the village where he had often practiced as a lawyer and where were many of his warmest admirers. The contemporary report of this visit said: "The remains of the late General Crocker arrived on Saturday in a special car under military escort and immediately went forward to Des Moines. The car used by the Northwestern Company was properly draped in mourning
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and surrounded by United States flags. The seats were removed from the center of the car and the coffin rested upon an appropriately trimmed plat- form."
Many years afterwards, Senator J. A. Fitchpatrick, writing from the point of view of a Third Iowa veteran, wrote of General Crocker as follows : "At the beginning of the war M. M. Crocker was the most noted criminal lawyer in the state. As an advocate he was brilliant and effective, seldom losing out in a case. He was born in Johnson County, Indiana, February 6, 1830, son of Col. Joseph G. Crocker. He removed to near Fairfield, Iowa, in 1844 with his father, and in 1846 Senator A. C. Dodge secured for him the appointment as a cadet to West Point. But after remaining at the military academy about one year he was obliged to return home to care for the family on account of his father's death. He tilled the little farm, taught school in winter, studied law during spare moments and in 1851 was admitted to the bar, got married and located at Lancester, Keokuk county. He removed to Des Moines in 1854, entering at once upon a stren- uous practice in a territory radiating at least fifty miles in every direction from his home. All the old settlers in Story County knew him well. He was a genial, whole-souled fellow and the life of any kind of a crowd. In politics he was a democrat, but seldom took an active part in party gather- ings. Shortly after he entered the service, however, in congratulating Gov- ernor Kirkwood on his message, he took occasion to say that he had be- come convinced that slavery was the cause of the war, and there could be no lasting peace between the two sections of the country until the system of human slavery was eradicated, and that the war ought to continue until that was accomplished. At the first call for troops in April 1861, he or- ganized a company and tendered it to the government and it became Com- pany D, of the 2d Iowa Infantry. Upon the organization of the regiment he was made major and afterward lieutenant colonel. In the fall of that year he was commissioned colonel of the 13th Iowa. In November, 1862, he was nominated as a brigadier general, but for some reason this nomina- tion was held and not confirmed by the senate until the March following. He was then in command of the famous Crocker's Iowa Brigade. He re- ceived his commission just at the time General Grant was crossing the river for the rear of Vicksburg, and was temporarily assigned to the command of Quimby's division of the 17th Corps. He was actively engaged by the side of General Logan in the several fierce battles following, displaying such courage and skill that General Grant, who seldom complimented a volunteer officer, speaking of the battles in his Memoirs, Vol. 1, Page 497, says :
"'I regard Logan and Crocker as being as competent division com- manders as could be found in or out of the army, and both equal to a much higher command. Crocker, however, was dying of consumption when he volunteered. His weak condition never put him on the sick list, when there was a battle in prospect, as long as he could keep his feet.'
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