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The trustees may reduce, but not raise the death assessments or annual dues.
All matured certificates and amounts due on certificates of deceased members, shall be paid within ninety days after proof.
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The indebtedness of the association shall not exceed $10,000, except on endowment certificates.
This association may be dissolved and its affairs wound up at any time when four- fifths of the trustees are of the opinion that it would be of advantage to the members, or upon the written petition of two-thirds of the members, and all the
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CHAPTER XV.
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THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
The institution of slavery was always a source of trouble between the free and slave-holding States. The latter were always troubled with the thought that the former wouldl eneroach upon their rights, and nothing could be done to shake this belief. Compromise measures from time to time were adopted to settle the vexed question of slavery, but the fears of the slaveholders were only allayed for a short time. Threats of secession were often made by the slave-holding States, but as soon as measures of a conciliatory character w. re passed, no attempt was made to carry their threats into execution. Finally came the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the adoption of a measure known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill. This bill opened certain territory to slavery which, under the former act, was forever to be free. About the time of the passage
of this act, the Whig party was in a state of dissolution, and the great body of that party, together with certain Democrats who were opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska bill, united, thus forming a new party to which was given the name of Republican, having for its object the prevention of the further extension of slavery. The people of the South imagined they saw in this new party not only an organized effort to prevent the extension of slavery, but one that would eventnally be used to destroy slavery in those States in which it already existed.
In 1860 four Presidential tiekets were in the field. Abraham Lincoln was the candidate of the Republicans, Stephen A. Douglas of the National Democrat, John C. Breckenridge of the Pro-Slavery inter- ests, and John Bell of the Union. The Union party was composed principally of
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those who had previously affiliated with the American or Know-Nothing party. Early in the campaign there were threats of secession and disunion in case of the election of Abraham Lincoln, but the people were so accustomed to Southern bravado that little heed was given to the bluster.
On the 20th of December, 1860, South Carolina, by a convention of delegates, declared "That the Union now existing between South Carolina and the other States of North America is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has re- sumed her position among the Nations of the earth as a free sovereign and inde- pendent State, with full power to levy war and conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do."
On the 24th Gov. Pickens issued a pro- clamation declaring that "South Carolina is, and has a right to be, a free and inde- pendent State, and as such has a right to levy war, conclude peace, and do all acts whatever that rightfully appertain to a free and independent State."
On the 26th Major Anderson evacuated Port Moultrie and occupied Fort Sumter. Two days previously he wrote President Buchanan's Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, as follows:
"When I inform you that my garrison consists of only sixty effective men, and that we are in very indifferent works, the walls of which are only fourteen feet high; and that we have within one hundred and sixty yards of our walls, sand hills which command our works and which afford admirable sites for batteries and the finest
coverts for sharp-shooters; and that be- sides this there are numerous house's, some of them within pistol shot, and you will at once see that if attacked in force, headed by any one but a simpleton, there is scarcely a possibility of our being able to hold out long enough for our friends to come to our succor."
His appeals for re-inforcements were seconded by General Scott, but unheeded by President Buchanan, and entirely ignored by John B. Floyd, Secretary of War.
On the 28th South Carolina troops ocen- pied Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, and hoisted the palmetto flag on the ramparts. On the 29th John B. Floyd resigned his place in Buchanan's cabinet, charging that the President in refusing to remove Major Anderson from Charles- ton Harbor, designed to plunge the country into civil war, and added: "I cannot con- sent to be the agent of such a calamity." On the same day the South Carolina com- missioners presented their official creden- tials at Washington, which, on the next day, were declined.
On the second day of January, 1861, Georgia declared for secession, and Geor- gia troops took possession of the United States Arsenal in Augusta, and Forts Pulaski and Jackson.
Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, seized the forts at Beaufort and Wilmington and the arsenal at Fayettville. On the evening of the 4th, the Alabama and Mississippi delegations in Congress telegraphed the conventions of their respective States to secede, telling them there was no prospect of a satisfactory adjustment. On the 7th, the conventions of Alabama, Mississippi
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and Tennessee met in secession conclave. On the 9th, Secretary Thompson resigned his seat in the cabinet on the ground that, contrary to promises, troops had been sent to Major Anderson. On the 9th, the "Star of the West," carrying supplies and reinforcements to Major Anderson, was fired into from Morris Island, and turned homeward, leaving Fort Sumter and its gallant little band to the mercy of the rebels. On the same day, the ordinance of secession passed the Mississippi Con- vention Florida adopted an ordinance of secession on the 10th, and Alabama on the 11th. The same day (the 11th) Thompson, Secretary of the Treasury, resigned, and the rebels seized the arsenal at Baton Rouge, and Forts Jackson and St. Philip, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and Fort Pike at the Lake Pontchartrain entrance. Pensa- cola navy yard and Fort Barrancas were surrendered to rebel troops by Colonel Armstrong on the 13th. Lieutenant Slem- mer, who had drawn his command from Fort McRae to Fort Pickens, defied Arm- strong's orders, and announced his inten- tion to "hold the fort" at all hazards. The Georgia Convention adopted an ordi- nanee of secession on the 19th. On the 20th, Lieutenant Slemmer was besieged by a thousand "allied troops " at Fort Piekens. Louisiana adopted an ordinance of secession on the 25th. On the 1st of February, the rebels seized the United States mint and custom house at New Orleans. The Peace Convention assem- bled at Washington on the 4th, but adjourned withont doing anything to quiet the disturbed elements. On the 9th, a provisional constitution was adopted at
Montgomery, Alabama, it being the Con- stitution of the United States "re-con- structed " to suit their purpose. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was chosen Presi- dent, and Alexander II. Stevens, of Georgia, Vice-President of the " Confed- erate States of North America." Jeffer- son Davis was inaugurated on the 18th, and on the 25th, it was learned that Gen- eral Twiggs, commanding the Department of Texas, had basely betrayed his trust, and that he had surrendered all the mili- tary posts, munitions and arms to the authorities of Texas.
Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated March 4, 1861, in front of the capitol, the inaugura- tion ceremonies being witnessed by a vast concourse of people. Before taking the oath, Mr. Lincoln pronounced in a clear, ringing voice, his inaugural address, to hear which there was an almost painful solicitude, to read which the whole Ameri- can people and civilized world awaited with irrepressible anxiety. With that address, and the administration of the oath of office, the people were assured. All doubt, if any had previously existed, was removed. In the hands of Abraham Lincoln, the people's President, and him- self of the people, the government was safe.
Traitors were still busy, plotting and planning. Troops were mustering in all the seceded States. On Friday, April 12, the surrender of Fort Sumter, with its garrison of sixty effective men, was de- manded and bravely refused by the gallant Major Anderson. Fire was at once opened on the helpless garrison by the rebel forces, numbered by thousands. Resist- ance was useless, and at last the National
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colors were hauled down, and by traitor hands were trailed in the dust. On Sun- day morning, the 14th, the news of the surrender was received in all the principal cities of the Union. That was all, but that was enough. A day later, when the news was confirmed and spread through the country, the patriotic people of the North were rousted from their dreams of the future-from undertakings half com- pleted-and made to realize that behind that mob there was a dark, deep, and well organized purpose to destroy the govern- ment, rend the Union in twain, and out of its ruins erect a slave oligarchy, wherein no one would dare question their rights to hold in bondage the sons and daughters of men whose skins were black. Their dreams of the future-their plans for the establishment of an independent confed- eracy-were doomed from their ineeption to sad and bitter disappointment. Every- where north of Mason and Dixon's line, the voice of Providence was heard :
"Draw forth your million blades as one ; Complete the battle now begun ; God fights with ye, and overhead Floats the dear banner of your dead. They, and the glories of the past, The future, dawning dim and vast, And all the holiest hopes of man, Are beaming triumphant in your van. "
"Slow to resolve, be swift to do ! Teach ye the False, how fights the True ! Ilow buckled Perfidy shall feel, In her black heart the Patriot's steel : How sure the holt that Justice wings ; How weak the arm a traitor brings ; How mighty they who steadfast stand, For Freedom's flag and Freedom's land. "
On Monday, April 15th, President Lin-
coln issued the following proclamation :
" WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have for some time past, and are now, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed. in the States of South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mis- sissippi Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals ; now therefore, I, Abra- ham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Consti- tution and the laws, have thought to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
The details for this subject will be immedi- ately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. 1 appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and to aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and existence of our National Union, and the per- petuity of popular government, and to rev ress wrongs already long endured. I deem it proper to say that the first services assigned to the forces herehy called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consist- ently with the object aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country ; and I here- by command the persons composing the combi- nations aforesaid, to disperse and retire peacea- bly to their respective abodes, within twenty days from this date.
Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both llouses of Con. gress. The Senators and Representatives are, therefore summoned to assemble at their respec- tive chambers at 12 o'clock, noon, on Thursday, the fourth day of July next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as in their wisdom the public safety and interest may seem to demand.
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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 Washingtou, 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- 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 politieal heat, were forgotten and forgiven, and, joining hands in a common cause, they repeated the oath of America's soldier statesman : " By the Great 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 Rebellion. 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 which insolence meets inso- lenee, but with a firm, determined 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 ion, and stood ready to sustain the authority of their representative and executive officers to the utmost extremity.
Tama county was behind no county in the State in the exhibition of sublime patriotism. 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 Supervisors, it will be seen what was done in an official way. In an unofficial way the people took hold of the work, aided enlistments, and furnished a large amount of sanitary supplies.
The first company raised in the county was Company C., Tenth Infantry. It was organized in Toledo, about the 12th of August, 1861, in answer to the President's call for 300,000 men. The officers elected were : A. Stoddard, Captain; T. B. Martin, First Lieutenant; T. W. Jackson, Second Lieutenant. As the company left Toledo, for the place of rendezvous, hundreds of people were present and many were the tears shed and the hearty "God bless you," over the departure of the loved ones.
Shortly after this company had left, the companies under Judge Leander Clark,
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and W. II. Stivers, as Captains, were organized. Judge Clark went through the war and was promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel. W. II. Stivers only remained in the service for a short time, when he resigned and was succeeded as Captain by George Pemberton, of Scott county. About the same time, Company F., Twenty- eighth Infantry, was organized, with John A. Staley as Captain.
In addition to these, there were a large number of enlistments of men in different companies raised in adjoining counties, and for old companies whose ranks had been thinned by disease and war. Tama county was represented in nineteen regiments. and fifty companies. There were forty- two killed in battle, ninety-one wounded and eighty-three died from various natural causes.
In this connection has been compiled from the Adjutant General's report, the name of every soldier from Tama 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. The following is the record :
SECOND INFANTRY. COMPANY I. Private : J. G. Bowen.
FIFTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY D. Corporal: L. D. F. Lewis. Privates: M. Carter, F. E. Strong,
A. D. Eaton, Riley Wescott,
W. L. H. Jack, David Sullivan,
John O. Matthews.
This regiment was organized with William H. Worthington, of Keokuk, as colonel, and was mustered into the service of the United States, at Burlington, July 15, 1861. It was engaged at New Madrid, siege of Corinth, Iuka, Corinthi, Cham- pion's Hill, siege of Vicksburg and Chicka- manga, doing brave service.
EIGIITH INFANTRY.
COMPANY D.
Privates:
Ilenry D. Thompson. John S. Hopkins.
COMPANY G. Corporal: S. A. Dobson.
Privates:
E. P. Allen, John Lewis,
W. E. Appelgate. J. D. Fuller.
The Eighth was mustered into the United States service September 12, 1861, at Davenport, Iowa, with Frederick Steel, of the regular army, as colonel. It was engaged at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson and Spanish Fort.
NINTII INFANTRY.
COMPANY G. Corporal: James H. Sipe.
G. B. Sharp,
Privates: Joseph Vincent, Samuel Sharp.
This regiment was organized with William Vandever, of Dubuque, as Col- onel, and was engaged in the battles of Pea Ridge, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Ringgold, Dallas and Lookout Mountain, was also in Sherman's march to the sea.
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TENTII INFANTRY. COMPANY B.
Privates:
W II. Iluff, J. W. Porter.
COMPANY C Captain : Albert Stoddard.
First Lieutenants:
T. B. Martin,
Wm. Il. Stoddard, G. H. Conant.
Second Lieutenants:
T. W. Jackson, G. W. Conant, W. II. Stoddard.
Sergeant:
G. H. Corant,
L. B. Nelson,
John M. Stebbing,
Dorson Chase,
K. Dexter, J. W. Jones.
Corporals:
Frank W. Crosby,
A. Davis,
J. B. Hancox,
J. R. Lux,
Wm. J. Carson, N. P. Gray,
Joseph Kellogg, N. P. Stephenson,
Angello Myers, E. A. Jeffreys,
J. H. Richardson,
Thos. S. Brannan,
J. H. Smith, B. J. Howard.
Musicians:
C. L. Palmer, C. W. Woodward,
Wagoner : William Watts.
Privates:
C. L. Bailey,
S. D. Newton,
E. B. Bailey,
M. Rhoads,
Thos. Clem, John Sawyer,
J. W. B. Cole,
E. M. Stevens,
G. W. Guilford,
U. P. Stevens,
II. L. Bigg.
P. Piggins,
S. Walker,
Wagoner :
C. Maholm,
J. W. Appelgate,
P. Daily.
William Appelgate,
Thomas F. Fee,
Privates :
C. L. Bailey,
C. T. Davis,
George Buchanan, P. D. Daily .
Freeman Bixby,
David Clement, Francis Fee,
Thomas Brannan,
T. Griffin,
J. H. Fee,
J. L. Croskrey,
Charles Bunce,
A. B. Harman,
D. B. Mason,
G. N. Cooper,
E. B Bailey,
S. Haworth,
B. S. Myers,
Henry Cooper,
Joseplı Budka,
J. P. Ilenry,
W. H. Byrou, C. J. IIerrick,
Dorson Chase, Peter Higgins,
Eli Clark, John Hillmon,
Thomas Clem,
B. F. Howard,
J. W. B. Cole,
W. T. Hiatt,
James Connor,
E. A. Jeffreys,
R. D. Crosby,
A. II. Kellogg.
Benjamin Dunbar,
James H. Lorimer,
James Fairbank,
Thomas Laughlin,
A. J. Filloon,
Jacob Lux,
George MeCall, Ilenry-Levin,
Jasper Fisher,
Cyrus Maholm,
N. N. Myers, E. A. Southard,
George Newport,
E. M. Stevens,
S. D. Newton, F. Omwake, William II. Stoddard,
C. W. Peck,
F. Tice,
II. R. Pugh,
A. Tice,
· Philip Ramsey,
S. W. Tompkins,
Wesley Randall,
James Turner,
William W. Reed,
N. Van Horn,
Jacob Reiney,
George Vau Riper,
M. Rhoads,
Samuel Walker,
J. H. Richardson,
James Walton,
A. M. Roberts,
W. W. Yarman,
J. C. Rouse,
James Young,
C. Ronband,
Joseph Kellogg,
John Sawyer,
James Newport,
J. II. Smith,
Charles D. Bailey,
James Smith,
D. B. Mason,
Wesley Camp,
Van Buren Rugg,
II. R. Free,
C. T. Davis, Luke Camp,
N. B. Myers,
E. Evans.
COMPANY D.
Corporal :
Charles Bailey,
O. Baldy,
G. W. Guilford, Andrew Goodwin, George N. Gray,
D. N. Reedy,
C. Arnold,
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V B. Rugg.
W. J. Newport,
J. Walmut,
J. F. Bartlett,
G. W Buchanau,
J. N. Paxton.
COMPANY F.
Privates :
J. N. Paxton,
Jacob Yeiser,
J. C. Kellogg.
COMPANY H.
Privates :
D. II. Anderson,
II. P. Straiu,
S. Shreeves,
W. Strain.
B. T. Beller.
COMPANY K.
Adjutant :
T. Walter Jackson.
Quartermaster S .:
Frank W. Crosky.
Privates :
.J.W. Paxton,
P. Ilerrington,
J. N. Paxton.
TENTII INFANTRY.
The Tenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, recruited under the President's proclama- tion of July 23, 1861, were enlisted from quite a large number of counties, but chiefly resided in Polk, Warren, Boone, Tama, Washington, Poweshiek, Green, Jasper and Madison. The regiment was organized at "Camp Fremont, " near Iowa City, whither the most of the companies proceeded in the latter part of August; and where eight of them were mustered into service by Captain Alexander Cham- bers, United States Army, on the 6th and 7th of September. One company was not mustered till the 28th, and the last till the 13th of October. When thus completely organized, the regiment had upon its rolls an aggregate of nine hundred and thirteen men.
Having remained only a short time in rendezvous after organization, the regi-
ment moved by rail and steamer to St. Louis, where it was supplied with arms, clothing, and equipage, upon the receipt of which it at once proceeded down the river to Cape Girardeau. In the early part of November, they had their first campaigning in the field. The notorious Jeff Thompson was about this time creating a considerable sensation, and with his band of "butternuts, " as they were called, was doing no little damage and causing much annoyance to Union citizens in southeastern Missouri. He had his head- quarters at Bloomfield, distant nearly forty miles, in a southwestern direction, from Cape Girardeau. The Tenth lowa was ordered to march on Bloomfield, and disperse Thompson's band. The eom- mand marched rapidly thither, but the bird had flown. The regiment captured a large quantity of property which the marander had acquired on his plundering expeditions, but found no armed opposition. It accordingly countermarched to Cape Girardeau.
On the 13th of December the regiment moved down to Bird's Point, and there went into winter quarters. On the 8th of January, Colonel Perczel received orders to march with his command, by night, to Charleston, twelve miles distant from Bird's Point, and surprise and capture a body of rebels understood to be posted there. Colonel Perczel immediately pro- ceeded to the execution of these orders, and as soon as it was dark had his regi- ment on the march. The night was exces- sively stormy, and dark as Tartarus. The rain fell down in torrents, and the road, passing through swamps, was at this time perfectly horrible Nevertheless, the
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command groped its way along as best it could, the men being in that peculiar kind of spirits, which, we frequently observe, seems to be the effect of commotion among the elements. While they were thus feeling their way, and as they were passing through a dense forest, they were suddenly fired upon by the enemy in ambush. In the darkness, the command was thrown into momentary confusion, or rather, it was momentarily paralyzed by the suddenness of the attack. Officers and men, however, immediately recovered their presence of mind, and fought as well as it was possible for them to do at that time and at that place. They could only know the enemy's position by the flashes of his guns, into which they fired, and no doubt inflicted loss upon the men behind the flashes, who, at any rate, were entirely dispersed. The regiment marched on to Charleston and beyond, and returned next day to Bird's Point, having lost eight killed and sixteen wounded in this its first rencontre with the enemy.
The next campaign in which the 10th participated was that against New Madrid. The regiment was the first to enter the place. They found that the rebels had left their suppers untouched, their candles burning in their tents. They could not have fled more precipitately had they been warned of a coming shower of ashes, such as overtook Sodom and Gomorrah. They left all their artillery, fiekl batteries and siege guns amounting to thirty-three pieces, immense quantities of amunition, tents for an army of ten thousand men, horses, mules, wagons-all had been left to fall into our possession, and make the victory most complete and wonderful.
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