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On Thursday evening, April 18, 1861, a rousing meeting was held at Fort Madison. Fred Hesser was chosen to preside and M. Ashby and George H. Albright acted as secretaries. In the resolu- tions adopted was the following declaration: "Forgetting the past, and resolving neither to criminate nor accuse those whose political opinions and views of public policy differ from ours, we will cooper- ate with all patriotic citizens of all parties who love their country and are prepared to stand by her in this hour of necessity."
Speeches were made by Judge Philip Viele, J. M. Beck, Dr. W. H. Davis, J. H. Knapp and others, and a committee, consisting of John H. Knapp, W. H. Davis, R. Lange, W. W. Stevens and M. Ashby, was appointed to accept enlistments.
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War meetings were also held at West Point, Montrose, and, in fact, in nearly every schoolhouse in the county. In Cedar Township, Saturday, April 27, 1861, two companies were started-one of infan- try and one of cavalry. Within an'hour fifty-four names were upon the roll of the cavalry company and fifty men had enlisted in the infantry organization. The sentiment expressed at these meetings quickly removed any doubt Governor Kirkwood might have enter- tained as to the willingness and ability of Iowa to raise a whole regi- ment of volunteers. Companies were rapidly formed and during the first ten days of May they rendezvoused at Keokuk, where the First Regiment was mustered in on May 14, 1861, for three months, with John F. Bates, of Dubuque, as colonel.
FIRST INFANTRY
Although the work of recruiting was pushed forward with all possible vigor, some of the Lee County boys went to Burlington and enlisted in Captain Mathes' company, which was mustered in as Company D, First Iowa Infantry. George Schaefer and Henry Rose were made sergeants, and the following privates were from Lee County: Ernest Becker, William Bush, Ferdinand Fahr, Philip Grunschlagg, Anton Henrichs, John Klay, Charles Knapp, John Kohler, Jack Koppenhoefer, Henry C. Kummer, Philip Lang, Frederick Leonhard, Conrad Limburg, Charles F. Limle, Adolph Lotz, Robert Merz, Andrew Nagel, Adolph Rinker, Fridolin Rom- mel, Ernest Rotteck, John Ruokert, Henry Schaelling, George Schlapp, Robert Scholtz, Charles Schulz, David Seguin, Frederick C. Soechtig, William Starkman and Frank H. Westerman.
In Company F, Conrad Balbach, Henry C. Bowen, John Brothers, Goodcil Buckingham and Thomas J. Zollars were credited to Lee County. Hugh Brady was mustered in as second lieutenant of Company I; Frye W. Thompson was a private in Company H, and John R. Teller served as first lieutenant of Company C and later as captain of Company K, after the regiment was reorganized for the three years' service.
On June 13th the regiment was ordered to Hannibal, Missouri. On the 21st it joined Gen. Nathaniel Lyon at Boonville and started on the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, where General Lyon was killed. It was engaged at Dug Springs and McCulloch's Store, and at the Battle of Wilson's Creek lost 13 killed, 141 wounded and 4 missing. The regiment was mustered out at St. Louis, Missouri, August 21, 1861.
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SECOND INFANTRY
It was soon discovered by the national administration that 75,000 troops would not be sufficient to put an end to the war, and on May 4, 1861, the President issued a second call for volunteers. Under this call the Second Regiment was organized. In the meantime the old "Keokuk Guards" had been reorganized at a meeting held in their armory on the evening of April 18, 1861, when the name "Union Guards" was adopted. Thirty members enrolled at that meeting, a recruiting office was then opened in the Belknap Building and in a few days the quota of the company was filled, but not in time to be accepted as one of the companies of the First Regiment. Richard H. Huston was elected captain ; Thomas J. McKenny, first lieuten- ant; and Sampson M. Archer, second lieutenant. With these com- missioned officers the company was assigned to the Second Infantry as Company A.
The non-commissioned officers at the time of muster in were as follows: Joseph L. Davis, first sergeant; Daniel Tisdale, Jr., sec- ond; Webster Ballinger, third; John Mackley, fourth; Jesse C. Wickersham, fifth; Samuel P. Curtis, first corporal; Ralph R. Tel- ler, second; John Taugher, third; Eli Ramsey, fourth; Thomas A. Stevenson, fifth; William A. Musser, sixth.
Privates-Samuel Anderson, Andrew Applegate, Edgar L. Beach, John W. Bird, John B. Bosworth, John Campbell, George H. Cantrill, George B. Catlin, William W. Clark, John Clough, Joseph A. M. Collins, Joseph Conley, William Cripps, John Curtis, John Day, Charles C. Derr, Harmon Dickenson, John R. Dimond, William Douglas (promoted corporal), Samuel W. Evans, Seth Farr, Thomas Feehan, John Finerty, George W. Friend, William A. Geer, John J. Gilcrist, Samuel Gillaspie, Jerry J. Goodwin, Isaac N. Griffith, Samuel W. Grover, Lander J. P. Haggard, Robert Hall, William K. Harper, Richard Higham, Franklin Hoffman, William Holt, John A. Hough, James Hutchinson, Elmore Jen- nings, Albert Johnson, Webber Jones, Henry Keevern, John Keppel, James Kerr, William Koates, John C. Leighton, John W. Long, George H. Loomas, Nicholas Mckenzie, William McKenzie, Wil- liam H. Maybery, Wallace E. Marsh (promoted corporal), Erastus Moore, James F. Nash, Hamilton Nation, William H. Nation, Wil- liam Neel, Thomas J. Parrott (promoted corporal) , James M. Patten, Granville C. Phillips (promoted corporal), Franklin Prouty, James W. Quicksell, Joseph Reedy, John Reese, James M. Reed, George Reisonier, John W. Renz, Charles Richards, Joseph K. Rickey, Wil-
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liam H. Robinson, Henry Ryan, John C. Ryan, George D. Sayler, Samuel C. Seaton (promoted corporal), Henry A. Seirberlich (promoted corporal), Franklin R. Seitz, Lewis P. Sicer, Henry Solner, Joseph S. Stark, Ira Stevens, Henry Strauss, George Thomp- son, James H. Turton, William H. Underwood, Joseph W. Vance, George Vansyoc, Richard T. Vandeventer, Victor Voretories, Ephraim B. Wilsey, James L. Wilson, William H. Wilson (pro- moted corporal), James F. Woodruff and Andrew J. Wright.
In Company B the following privates were from Lee County: Julius Benneke, Jacob Bertschi, Oliver Inden, T. G. Kelley, August Lang, James Nilson, John S. Patten, A. D. Root, Nathan Smallen- burg, Adolph Steinmitz, George W. Thornton.
Lee County was represented in Company C by Edward Corcoran, corporal, and Privates Charles F. Anderson, James A. Cease, John Fitzgerald, William W. Gordon, Joseph Hunter, Daniel Ryan and John W. Swaney.
William Bander, Lewis Eck, Thomas H. Hart and Louis Stiles served as privates in Company E; William W. Walker was a cor- poral and James McNulty a private in Company F; Azariah P. Box served as corporal in Company G, and in Company I William W. Stevens enlisted as a private and was promoted to second lieutenant; George W. Walker served as sergeant; A. S. Cooley, as corporal, and the following Lee County men as privates: W. W. Boughton, George W. Johnson, Henry Laird, William W. Morrison, Isaac Newton, F. M. Smith, Emile Schutte and Samuel Van Schock.
The Second Infantry was mustered in at Keokuk on May 28, 1861, with Samuel R. Curtis, of Keokuk, as colonel. Wells R. Marsh, of Keokuk, was regimental surgeon; Elliott Pyle, of West Point, and William H. Turner, of Keokuk, assistant surgeons. Soon after being mustered in, the regiment was ordered to Northern Missouri, where, with the First Iowa and part of the Six- teenth Illinois, it was assigned to the duty of guarding the railroads. It rendered important services at St. Joseph, Mis- souri, and in guarding the United States Arsenal at St. Louis, after which it was on detached duty at Bird's Point, Jackson and other Missouri points until ordered to join General Grant for the cam- paign against Forts Henry and Donnelson. At Shiloh the regiment distinguished itself on the second day of the battle by a brilliant bayonet charge. After that engagement it was in the siege of Corinth. It was then assigned to the Army of the Mississippi and remained on duty in Mississippi and Alabama until the beginning of the At- lanta campaign in the spring of 1864, when it joined the army com-
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manded by General Sherman. It was with Sherman in the historic "March to the Sea" and the campaign through the Carolinas, after which it marched with the army to Washington. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 12, 1865.
Samuel R. Curtis, who went out as colonel of the Second Iowa Infantry, was a soldier of two wars. He was born in Ohio on Febru- ary 3, 1807, graduated at West Point on July 1, 1831, and for the next year was on duty in Arkansas as brevet second lieutenant in the Seventh United States Infantry. He then resigned and engaged in civil engineering in his native state. On May 20, 1846, he was ap- pointed adjutant-general of Ohio, for mustering troops for service in the war with Mexico, and on June 25, 1846, he was commissioned colonel of the Third Ohio Infantry. While in the service he acted as military governor of Matamoras, Camargo, Monterey and Saltillo, and was for a time an officer of the staff of General Wool. He was mustered out in 1847 and soon afterward accepted a commission to make a survey and report a plan for the improvement of the Des Moines River.
That brought him to Iowa and he became a resident of Keokuk, where he formed a partnership with Judge Rankin for the practice of law. Later he was associated in the same capacity with Judge Mason. From 1850 to 1853 he was in charge of the harbor improve- ments at St. Louis, after which he engaged in railroad work in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. In 1856 he was elected mayor of Keokuk and the next year was an active figure in the organization of the repub- lican party in Iowa. In 1856 he was elected to Congress from the First Iowa District, which then embraced nearly all the southern half of the state. He was reelected in 1858 and again in 1860.
When the news of Fort Sumter's fall was received at Keokuk he hastened to Washington, where he received authority to aid in raising and organizing the Iowa volunteers. Returning to Keokuk, he found the First Regiment already organized and was elected col- onel of the Second. He remained in the field with his regiment until June 30, 1861, when he left the command to Lieut .- Col. J. M. Tuttle and left for Washington to attend the special session of Congress called to meet on the 4th of July. When the Battle of Bull Run re- sulted so disastrously to the Union arms, he hurried to the field and tried to rally the troops, but they were too badly panic-stricken. During the special session he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission dating from May 17, 1861. He then resigned his seat in Congress, reported to General Fremont at St. Louis, and was placed in charge of the camp of instruction at Benton
STATUE OF GENERAL SAMUEL CURTIS
THE NEW
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Barracks. Fremont soon afterward went to Jefferson City, Missouri, leaving General Curtis in command at St. Louis. When Confederate General Price invaded Missouri, Curtis was placed in command of the Union forces in pursuit. General Curtis bore an active part in the Battle of Pea Ridge, after which he was placed in command of the Army of the Southwest. On March 21, 1862, he was pro- moted to the rank of major-general. He died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 26, 1866.
SIXTH INFANTRY
This was the next regiment in which Lee County was represented. It was mustered in at Burlington on July 17, 1861, with John A. McDowell, of Keokuk, as colonel; Albert T. Shaw, of Fort Madi- son, regimental surgeon; Jacob R. Paynter, hospital surgeon, and the following Lee County men as members of the regimental band : Sigismond I. Gates, Adelbert Hawkins, James Rogers, William Madden, Richard Maddern, Morris Peck, Edward Pipe, Augustus Santo, George W. Titus, Samuel M. Titus and Julius C. Wright.
Byron K. Cowles, who enlisted in Company A, was made com- missary sergeant and later first lieutenant of Company K; Lynas Brockway was a private in Company B; C. A. Gummere, in Com- pany C; Joseph Delapp and John Martin, in Company D; Isaac McCloskey was a corporal and John Moloney and John Tobin pri- vates in Company F; Jacob A. Bowman, John H. McKiernan and A. B. Stewart, in Company F.
Company H was practically all from Lee County. At the time of muster in the commissioned officers of this company were: Wash- ington Galland, captain; Rufus Goodnough, first lieutenant; George R. Nunn, second lieutenant. The sergeants were John McCleary, Robert Sleater, Abraham B. Stevens, Samuel M. Titus (transferred to regimental band), and Leonard W. Wood. The corporals were Sterling W. Camp, Dennis Miles, Michael Bowen, John Fox, Wil- liam T. Hafford, Jesse Carter and William H. Watson.
Privates-Edwin F. Alden (promoted first lieutenant), Charles L. Allen, Joseph S. Anderson, Henry C. Barnes, James C. Batley, Levi A. Best, Aaron Bixby (promoted corporal), Benjamin Bixby, Timothy Burk, Hugh Cameron, John Carroll, Jacob Chapman, William Church, William Coleman (promoted corporal), Matthew L. Cooney, Clarkson W. Cooper, Clayton Curry, James W. Davis, Samuel H. Davis, William Emmitt, Daniel P. Fithian, Henry K. Greer, Stephen H. Hand, Theodore S. Hand, Charles Hass, Albert
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Hill, John W. Hufford, George W. Huston, Joseph M. Johnson, William Jones, George Knuck, Antone Lamott, John Lawler (pro- moted corporal), Elias Line, Fuqua V. Lyon, John McClearnan, James McCord, Thomas F. McEveny, George W. McNeely, Pat- rick Mahan, John A. Martin, William Miller, William H. Moore, Edward O'Donnell, Michael Randall, William Rider, Hiram M. Roberts, John Rogers, David Shreck, Thomas Smout, William Spain, John W. Stewart, Ray H. Stewart, James Swan (promoted captain), Salathiel A. Swiggart, William Tadlock, Hiram L. Walker, George W. Wilson.
Captain Galland, of Company H, was a veteran of the Mexican war. He resigned on June 20, 1863, when he was succeeded by Lieut. George R. Munn. He is still living (1914) in Lee County at an advanced age.
In Company K were five Lee County men, viz. : Byron K. Cowles, who became captain of the company in April, 1862, Timothy Jayne, Joseph Poots, Melville Sisson and Lorenzo H. Stewart.
Soon after being mustered in, the regiment was ordered to St. Louis and went into quarters at Benton Barracks. From September 19, 1861, to March 7, 1862, it was on duty in Missouri. It was then ordered to Tennessee and on the 16th reached Pittsburg Landing, where it was assigned to General Sherman's division. In the Battle of Shiloh Colonel McDowell commanded a brigade. The regiment lost in that engagement 211 men in killed, wounded and missing. In March, 1863, Colonel McDowell resigned and John M. Corse succeeded to the colonelcy. The regiment was then in the Vicks- burg campaign, the Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, a number of minor actions in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, and in the spring of 1864 joined the army under General Sherman for the cam- paign against Atlanta. When that city capitulated, the Sixth marched with Sherman to the sea and up through the Carolinas, after which it proceeded to Washington and took part in the Grand Review in May, 1865. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1 865.
SEVENTH INFANTRY
Lee County was represented in nine of the ten companies com- posing this regiment. John Strickland enlisted in Company A, but was transferred to Company B, in which Silas E. Mills also served as a private; Thomas Gibson and Milton McNeill were privates in Company C; Companies D and E were organized in Lee County ;
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in Company F were Patrick Devereaux, Edward R. Doolittle, Thomas Dunn, Warren Kinney and Alexander Norris; Allen D. Cameron was mustered in as captain of Company H and afterward became adjutant of the regiment; Livingston North served in Com- pany I, and Charles D. White and Moses York in Company K.
The commissioned officers of Company D at the time of muster in were as follows: James P. Harper, captain; James B. Sample, first lieutenant; Daniel F. Bowler, second lieutenant. Captain Harper was afterward appointed lieutenant-colonel of the First Ten- nessee Heavy Artillery, and Lieutenant Bowler was made adjutant of the regiment on August 31, 1861, in which capacity he served until captured at the Battle of Belmont the following November.
Of the non-commissioned officers, Benjamin B. Gale, Charles Webster, Joseph B. Morrison, William G. Ray and Benjamin Thomas were mustered in as sergeants, and Jones B. Bonney, George M. Martin, George T. Claypoole, Joseph Durfee, John Wolgamuth and James D. Hamilton as corporals. Sergeants Gale and Morrison and Corporal Hamilton each rose to the rank of captain at some period of the company's service.
Privates-Samuel J. Atlee, William R. Berry, William F. Blanchard, Sylvanus Bonnell, Charles Brown, Calvin B. Cowles (promoted corporal), Elijah F. Cowles, John Cunningham, Thomas Cunningham, Joseph Denny, Conrad Eitzer, Isaac C. Fortney, John W. Fye, George Gebel, William P. Griffith, Nicholas Gross (pro- moted corporal), Jacob Gutteman, John Heiser, Philip Heiser, John D. Huff, E. D. Ingersoll, Hiram Ingersoll, Oliver Johnston, Christian Jotter, John Knight, I. J. Knight, Alexander Krieger, Charles Lewis, Amos Logan, John Logan, John Lutz, Alvin Mc- Neill, Luther P. McNeill, Valentine C. McVey, Weit T. McVey, Frank Malcom, Joseph Miller, James Montgomery, Dennis A. Mor- rison, William B. Phillips, Henry J. Pickard, William E. Pickard, William H. Powell, William H. Quarterman, James M. Racey, Francis M. Redding, Jacob Risser, Henry Rogers, George Rollett, John Schiller, John J. Schmelzle, Jefferson Scott, William Seguin, Hoog Sheldon, George H. Smith, Andrew Somerville, Henry C. Steele, Christian Strine, Mahlon Votaw, Des Moines L. Wilson, Henry Wolbert, Charles L. Wood, Jacob Young.
In Company E, James C. Parrott was mustered in as captain; Curtis F. Conn, as first lieutenant, and Andrew J. Mefford, as sec- ond lieutenant. The sergeants were James L. Bess, John McCor- mick, Nathaniel Reed, Charles O. Bleness and Clayton Hart. The corporals were George E. Humphrey, Thomas J. Pollard (promoted
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sergeant), George W. Diggs, Thomas W. Taylor, William H. Van- sant and Morrison Zuber. Sergeant Bess was promoted second lieu- tenant on November 22, 1861, and on January 22, 1864, Sergeant Reed was transferred to the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery. Ser- geant McCormick became captain of the company on August 4, 1864.
Privates-Abner Allison, Henry W. Babcock, John C. Baldwin, Harmon Birdsall, Isaac Bunch, Parker D. Burnap, Jonathan Chan- dler, Joseph Chenoweth, Robert Criswell, Franklin Danford, Wil- liam H. Dedman, William C. Dove, David W. Duncan, Montreville Fannin, John Finney, Joseph Godeard, Alexander Halickson, Bird- sell Harmon, William Harmon, Alonzo P. Hart, Francis N. Hay- den, George B. Hayden, Peter A. Heiney, John W. Hicks, John E. Johnston, John W. Jones, John Lesly, John W. McCormick, Henry W. McDonegal, Charles McCoy, James Magee, Peter M. Miles, John Morgan, Thaddeus S. Perrigo, William H. Perrigo (promoted corporal), Henry Pipkin, Stephen Polcer, Nathan W. Pollock, Thomas D. Purcell, Henry C. Rickey, John Rollins, Homer Rose, Israel Rose, Hiram W. Russell, William W. Sapp (promoted ser- geant and adjutant of the regiment), Hiram H. Savage, Joseph Selvey, Theodore Shepherd, William Shepherd, Charles S. Sher- man, Albert Scholte, James Spratt, George T. Stewart, Earl Stock- well, Frank T. Taylor, Henry H. Taylor (promoted corporal), Walter D. Taylor, Alonzo B. Van Ausdal, David Wareheim, Ran- dolph H. Waters, Edward White, William G. White, Thomas Willi- ford, Henry H. Wilson (promoted sergeant), John W. Weyrick, Charles B. Wolfenbarger, James T. Woodruff.
The Seventh Infantry was mustered in at Burlington on August 2, 1861, with Jacob G. Lauman as colonel, and soon afterward was ordered to Benton Barracks, St. Louis. It was then engaged at Pilot Knob, Ironton and other points in Missouri, and as part of Prentiss' Brigade occupied Jackson and Cape Girardeau. It participated in the Battle of Belmont, the campaign against Forts Henry and Donel- son and the Battle of Shiloh. Colonel Lauman having been pro- moted to brigadier-general, Captain Parrott, of Company E, was made lieutenant-colonel and commanded the regiment at Shiloh. It next operated in Mississippi until ordered to join General Sherman for the Atlanta campaign, after which it took part in the march to the sea, the Carolina campaign and the Grand Review at Washing- ton. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 14, 1865.
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FOURTEENTH INFANTRY
In Company D of the Fourteenth Infantry were twenty-five men from Lee County. John S. Agey was mustered as first sergeant and on January 1, 1863, was promoted to captain. Thomas H. Childs enlisted as a sergeant and on August 18, 1862, was transferred for promotion to the colored regiment. The following served as pri- vates: Felix Atkinson, John Campbell, William O. Childs, Augus- tus Christian, William Creel, James Deniver, Cyrus Deo, John Deo, Theophilus Downs, Nelson P. Duffy, Peter Ebe, Henry C. Graham, Nathan Heald, James Hixon, David L. Houser, John A. Keeler, Andrew J. Loomis, John McCullough, Augustus Morte, Thomas Spurrier, Peter B. Taylor, John H. Thomas and George H. Winters.
The regiment was mustered in by companies in the latter part of October and the first week in November, 1861. Some of the com- panies first mustered were on duty at Fort Randall, North Dakota, until the regimental organization was completed under Col. William T. Shaw, a veteran of the Mexican war. It then took part in the reduction of Forts Henry and Donelson, was actively engaged at Shiloh, and after a varied service in Alabama and Mississippi joined General Banks for the Red River expedition in the spring of 1864. Later in the year it was assigned to Gen. A. J. Smith's command and returned to Tennessee. The regiment was mustered out on November 16, 1864, at Davenport, Iowa, when the veterans and re- cruits were organized into a battalion. In the reorganized Four- teenth Thomas B. Beach was first lieutenant of Company B; Evan J. Dobbins served as corporal in the same company, and Theophilus Downs, Jackson Miller and Peter B. Taylor were enrolled as pri- vates. The battalion was mustered out at Davenport, August 8, 1865.
FIFTEENTH INFANTRY
This regiment was raised under the call of July, 1861, for 500,- 000 volunteers, and was mustered in at Keokuk on February 22, 1862, with Hugh T. Reid, colonel; William W. Belknap, major; William H. Burnham, surgeon ; John C. Johnson, assistant surgeon, and Henry T. Felgar, hospital steward. All these regimental officers were from Lee County. A large part of Companies A, E and I was raised in the county, which was also represented in Companies B, C, D, F, H and K.
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In Company A none of the commissioned officers was from Lee County at the time of muster in, but on December 22, 1864, Roger B. Kellogg, who enlisted as a private, was commissioned captain of the company; William C. Hershberger, who enlisted as a private, was promoted to second lieutenant on January 4, 1865, and Sergt. George W. Walker was made a second lieutenant in the regular army in February, 1862. Following is a list of privates of Company A :
David W. Burke, John Diller, William Draper, William E. Elsroad (promoted corporal), William B. Finley, Patrick Foley, Charles Gift, James Hart, David Helmick, Andrew J. Hughes, John D. Moon, Nathan Morgan, Amos Newberry, Patrick Norton, Henry A. Palmer, Henry Payne, Daniel Reid, Dirk Rhynsburger, John B. Sims, James Smith, John Smith, Charles E. Stant, William H. Thompson.
John C. Brush enlisted as a corporal in Company B and on Feb- ruary 2, 1863, was promoted to second lieutenant. In this company John Fett, John Klay, John S. Oakley and John P. Polser served as privates.
In Company C Edgar T. Miller was commissioned captain on July 4, 1862, having been transferred from Company I, and George Keasling and John F. Woolkitt served as privates.
Six Lee County men were enrolled in Company D, to-wit: John Angell, Burnett Devolt, Jacob Goodman, William McDowell, George Trump and John Weaver.
Company E was mustered in with Richard W. Hutchcraft as captain; Don Carlos Hicks, who enlisted as a corporal, was promoted to second lieutenant in October, 1864; Perry A. Enslow was enrolled as sergeant, and the corporals were William Clark, John J. Wilson, Melvin Sweet, Jarrod W. Fouts and Solomon Holcomb.
Privates-Willis G. Addington, William M. Arnold, Charles L. Barnum, John Bowen, William G. Buck, William Burk, William D. Carver, Elkanah D. Chandler, Sylvester Chapman, Robert Clark, David Coovert, Benjamin Crawford, Charles Dufur, Howard El- more, James Gillham, Silas Grove, John H. Helmick, James J. Henderson, Robert Herdman, Hiram H. Hicks, John Inskeep, Wil- liam M. McCray, William Miller, George Moore, John L. Mothers- head, Christopher Orm, Jonathan F. Orm, Oliver 'Orm, Robert Orm, William Peterson, John W. Pierce, William H. Sellers, Au- gust Smith, William P. Smith, William Stewart, Benjamin Talbert, Daniel S. Taylor, George B. Thompson, Andrew Wareheim, Robert Wilson, Jesse M. Wright.
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