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A record, compiled in 1876 by Senator J. A. Fitchpatrick for Colonel John Scott, to be used by the latter in his Centennial Oration at Nevada, in that year. shows that Story County was represented in the following lowa Regiments: First, Second, Third, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth. Thir- teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty- third. Thirty-second, Thirty-seventh, Fortieth, Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Infantry and in the Second and Fourth Artillery, and also in the Second, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Cavalry. The county was hardly large enough to furnish full complements of men for very many independent commands ; and the consequence was that squads were en- listed here from time to time and became attached to companies that were being organized elsewhere. Hence in many cases it was difficult for the county even to gain credit for the men it had actually furnished. The dis- tribution of the Story County contingent through so many commands, ren-
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ders it impossible now to follow the career of all of them even generally, but to those commands in which any considerable number of them served, it will be endeavored to give at least some detailed attention; while as to four commands, there should and will be given about all the attention that space permits and material at hand or to be had, makes possible. These four commands were Company E of the 3d Infantry, Company B of the Second Cavalry, Company A of the 23d Infantry, and Company K of the 32d Infantry.
Of these four companies, E of the 3d and K of the 32d, were organized in Nevada-the complement of Company E being in considerable part made up from men enlisted in Boone County, and K having some who had come from Marshall County. B of the 2d Cavalry was organized at Marshall- town, but a large part of its members liad been enlisted in Story County by Attorney Paul A. Queal, who became First Lieutenant of the company, was afterwards its captain, and died in its command. A of the 23d was organized at Des Moines, but more than half of its members were enlisted in Story County by D. P. Ballard and S. P. O'Brien, the former of whom was elected first lieutenant and became captain, and the latter of whom was afterwards second lieutenant. These four companies, all of them saw splendid service. E of the 3d was at Shiloh and Corinth, went through the Vicksburg campaign with Grant, met fearful losses afterwards in the as- sault on Jackson, was later divided, those who had not veteranized remain- ing in Tennessee, and the others going with Sherman to Atlanta. Toward the end of the Atlanta campaign, the 3d Infantry had been so reduced that it was consolidated with the 2d, and in this condition the two were nearly wiped out again when the rebels, for the moment, turned Sherman's flank at Atlanta. Company B, as being a Cavalry Regiment, was in more small fights, but not so many big ones. Its hottest engagement was at Farming- ton in the Corinth campaign, where it charged and captured a rebel bat- tery, and it shared fully in the glories of Nashville, where Thomas virtually destroyed the army of Hood. These two companies, E and B, were both enlisted in the first year of the war. The 23d and 32d regiments on the contrary, were raised and organized in 1862, the 23d in September and the 32d in October. Company A saw its hardest service in the Vicksburg campaign. It missed getting really into the fight at Champion Hill, but at Black River Bridge it bore the brunt of the fight, and, charging in column, cut off a large number of rebels from the bridge over which they were endeavoring to retreat. The losses of the regiment in this engage- ment were very heavy, but its glory was correspondingly great. Later, the regiment was sent, by boat, to the coast of Texas, where it helped to hold the country. The 32d was Col. Scott's regiment, and for the first year and a half of its service it had the misfortune to be divided, holding posts in southeastern Missouri or across the river in Kentucky. It was united in 1864, and went on the Red river campaign. Its great engagement was at Pleasant Hill, where it failed to get orders to fall back when the rest
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of the army did so, and held its ground until the fight had passed beyond it. The remnants of the regiment ultimately reached the Union lines in safety, although the losses had been nearly half of the men engaged. Be- fore this experience, the regiment had served in Mississippi, and was with the 2d Cavalry at Tupello. Its last campaign was that in lower Alabama, where it participated in the sieges of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely.
These four Story County commands had very varied experience, but this experience had the common quality that in due season, they all got into hot places and acquitted themselves with very notable gallantry. Yet through all their trials, they had some survivors who remain yet in the county of their enlistment and from whom the editor has received in- valuable assistance in the compilation of this history. Harry Boyes has written of Company B of the 2d Cavalry. T. J. Miller has written of Company A of the 23d and S. P. O'Brien has added to the story. In respect to Company K and the 32d, we have had only the present benefit of an interview with Silas See, who was in the company from its enlist- ment to its muster out ; but Col. Scott left a History of the Regiment, from which we shall draw as seems practicable. Also a letter of Captain Child that had slept for many years, has come to hand and gives most enlighten- ing information concerning the experience of the command among the bushwhackers and slave drivers in western Tennessee.
But the most abundant material pertains to Company E of the 3d. This was the first company; its service was the most protracted; it happened to be engaged in conflicts which have most attracted the attention of the historian and commentator, and somehow, it is the one of the Story County companies concerning which it has always been easiest to get information. Col. Scott was its first captain and the lieutenant colonel of the regiment. J. A. Fitchpatrick served with it from its enlistment until he was captured at Atlanta. Guilf Mullen got away at Atlanta and continued with the com- mand until the grand review. Captain Robert J. Campbell, who is famed among the old timers here as having forced George Helphrey, at the point of a gun, to take off, throw away and stamp on the butternut he was wearing, was with it also from the beginning to Atlanta; and again, after his escape from rebel prison, he was with it at the close, as captain of one of the three consolidated companies of the 2d and 3d Iowa. Col. Crossley was orderly sergeant when the company went out, and came back with a field commission. All of these men, from time to time, have had stories to tell of the 3d Iowa Infantry, stories which reveal more of the soldier life of the Story County Boys in Blue than is to be learned from any other source. From this source, we purpose to quote at very considerable extent, not with any suggestion that the Third Infantry was, or could have been, any more gallant than any of the other commands in which soldiers from this county served with varying opportunity for distinction, but because from this source we have the most material, and because this material pertains almost as much to the service as a whole as to the particular com-
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mand ; and because from it, we can see perhaps as well as is possible, at a distance of nearly or quite fifty years, what it meant to have been a Story County soldier in the beginning and to have continued as such until gun- shots, disease, the disabilities arising in the service. the expiration of terms of enlistment, the terrible misfortunes of becoming prisoners of war, or the final glories of peace achieved put an end to the service in the field.
Another very material circumstance had aided in the personal under- standing by the author of the story of Company E and the 3d Infantry. Two regimental reunions of the 3d lowa have, at different times, long years apart, been held in Nevada. The first was in 1885. only 20 years after the war, and the boys, who were yet only fairly along in middle life. attended in large numbers. The observer of their proceedings and the listener at their campfires was very fortunate. Colonel Scott, their old lieutenant colonel, was then the most prominent citizen here, and managed somehow to have his comrades feast in turn at his table. Twenty-one years later, in 1906, they came again. There were not nearly so many of them, and those that did come appeared very different from those that had ap- peared on the occasion of their earlier visit ; but the second visit recalled vividly the memories of the first, and the two together are to be recorded as the only regimental reunions ever held in Story County. Once. as a compliment to Colonel Scott, it was voted to holl here a reunion of the 32d, but before the biennial period rolled around. the old regimental com- mander had moved to Des Moines, and the program for the meeting was therefore changed; so by reason of its earlier enlistment, slightly longer service and occasional returns, there is no injustice to other commands in according to Company E of the 3d the position of a special attention among commands, all of which reflected so much of honor and credit upon the county of their enlistment.
STORY COUNTY ENLISTMENTS IN THE WAR.
For convenience of reference it seems best to group together here the enlistments from Story County in all the commands, rather than to scatter the names amid the later summaries of regimental service. The list of enlistments, however, is not complete nor, so far as we know, is there to be had any complete list of such enlistments. In compiling the following. however, we have had the best help that is here and now to be had, And though the list is not complete we have assurance that it is more nearly so than any other that has yet been compiled. Similarly, as to the further lists of deaths in the war of Story County soldiers. it is feared that there will be found omissions here also. But the list should be published and recorded for what there is of it in order that recognition may be paid where payment is practicable. With such apology there is therefore sub- mitted the following list of Story County enlistments and of deaths in the service.
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First Iowa Infantry, Company K .- Jason D. Ferguson, Addison Davis, Ilarrison H. Boyes, George F. Schoonover.
Second Iowa Infantry, Company D .- E. D. Fenn.
Third Jowa Infantry, Company E .- Jesse Bowen, Robt. J. Campbell, Thos. D. Casebolt, Wm. H. Casebolt, John J. Cottle, Elisha B. Craig, Geo. Crossley, Sam'l A. Daniel, Thos. M. Davis, Michael D. Deal, Thos. Dent, David H. Dill, Jacob N. Dye, Chas. F. Ellison, Jas. H. Ewing, Joseph A. Fitchpatrick, Wm. W. Fitchpatrick, Geo. W. Grove, Henry J. Hockerthorn, Henry H. Hadley, E. F. Hampton, Nathaniel Jennings, George Jones, Wm. McCowan, Jos. H. Miller, Chas. B. Maxwell, Guilford Mullen, Wm. J. Mul- len, Isaac Riddle, Mons J. Riddle, John U. Schoonover, John Scott. John Sessions, Wm. B. Taylor, Asa Walker, Wm. C. White, Wm. R. White, Wm. A. Wise, Jesse R. Wood, Lewis M. Vincent.
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 lowa Infantry, Company E .- Joseph P. Alderman.
Tenth lowa 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, Samtiel 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 lowa 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, MI. R. Cochran, Joseph Whitson, James Whitson, L. B. Shook. Milo McCartney.
Same Regiment. Company 17 .- Elijah Wyre. Wm. Wilson.
Fourteenth lowa 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 Jowa Infantry, Company F .- Marion Bell, W. O. Robison. Seventeenth lowa Infantry .- Elias Shearer.
Eighteenth Iowa Infantry .- Rob't B. Campfield, Jerome Hay, Harry Hunt, James Brouhard, James Blackman, Ilenry 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 HI. 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 I .. 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 1. 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, Win. 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, lowa .- Thor Fatland. Second Cavalry .- Capt. P. A. Queal, Achilles M. See. Seventh lowa Cavalry .- Wm. Keltner.
Eighth Iowa Cavalry .- A. G. Briley. S. B. Shaw. Ninth Iowa Cavalry .- Wm. C. Evans.
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 lowa 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 Jowa 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 1 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 Jowa troops. llarry 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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this battle Schoonover, who was next to Boyes, was hit by a rebel grape- shot, but without serious consequence.
But they did not save southwestern Missouri. In the battle of Wil- son's Creek, the Union forces were greatly outnumbered, and though they fought most gallantly, their general was killed, some of their guns captured, and the army compelled to retreat. They made their way back to the vicinity of the Missouri river, and there were so fortunate as to meet a new outfit of uniforms. By this time the Iowa boys were in a very ragged condition. Their original uniforms had been made for them by the women of Cedar Rapids, and were not of a sort to stand indefinite campaigning, even under favorable circumstances. Also they had by this time made the acquaintance of the live stock, afterwards familiarly known as "grey- backs," and when the time came for making the necessary change, the arrangement was that the boys were marched to one side of a creek, the uniforms were placed on the other side and they were not to carry any- thing across. The new outfit consisted of a padded coat, pants, and shoes, with no shirts, and it was an extraordinarily hot time in August. But they got along somehow until they reached St. Louis and were furnished with other supplies.
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