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James Arnold, Samuel Campbell, Charles Dillon, James Kelly, Joseph Roynes and Edward Whalin served as privates in Company F, and Loren Tyler was a musician in Company H.
At the time Company I was mustered in Lloyd D. Simpson was captain and James M. Reid, first lieutenant. Henry Scheevers, who enlisted as a sergeant, became second lieutenant on April 22, 1863, Captain Simpson having resigned and Lieutenant Reid was placed in command of the company as captain. The sergeants from Lee County were Henry Scheevers, James R. Williams and William L. Watson, and the corporals were Isaac N. Hewitt, Hassell Rambo, Benjamin F. Keck and Daniel W. Johnson.
Privates-Patrick Bain, Henry Batterman, Thomas W. Berry, Daniel Buckley, William Buss, Elkanah Chandler,. William Copeaker, Solsbery Davis, James Doyle, Archibald D. Eads, Daniel T. Feagins, Patrick Flynn, David Goldsmith, Thor Halverson, George Hutchinson, Henry Kennedy, George H. Lee, John Luder, John Morgan, James Murphy, Edward Odinburg, Solomon O'Haver, Asa B. Parker, Richard T. Persinger, Joseph N. Rees, Joseph Richard, Adam A. Rodgers, Robert Scheevers, Herman V. Vanderwall, William Ward, John White, William H. White.
In Company K were Corporal James G. Shipley and Privates Archibald Christian, William A. Gibson, Enoch Hastings, Daniel Urmstead and Alvin Westcott.
The regiment left Keokuk on March 19, 1862, moved by way of St. Louis to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and received its baptism of fire in the Battle of Shiloh, where as part of Prentiss' division it was in the thickest of the fight, losing 186 men in killed, wounded and missing, and its flag was riddled with bullets. It was next in the Siege of Corinth and was engaged at Bolivar, Mississippi. In 1863 it took part in the Siege of Vicksburg and the next year was in many of the engagements of the Atlanta campaign. Those whose time had expired were mustered out at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oc- tober 19, 1864, and the veterans marched with Sherman to the sea. Then followed the campaign of the Carolinas and the Grand Review at Washington, after which the regiment was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and there mustered out on July 24, 1865. Colonel Reid was promoted brigadier-general on March 13, 1863, and on March 13, 1865, Major Belknap was brevetted major-general, both promo- tions being made "for gallant and meritorious services."
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SIXTEENTH INFANTRY
The organization of this regiment began late in the year 1861 and the last companies were mustered in on March 12, 1862, at Davenport. Henry D. Huy was enrolled in Company B, James N. Marsh and Amos Sniff in Company F, Theodore Fridricia and Patrick M. Mclaughlin in Company G, and there were twenty-eight Lee County men in Company K.
In the last named company Michael Zettler was mustered in as captain and died of wounds received at Shiloh; George Frenun and Wilhelm Bucholz were enrolled as sergeants; William Stack- man, Christian Ulrich and Christian Strein, as corporals. On June 2, 1865, Corporal Stackman was commissioned captain. The fol- lowing served as privates in Company K: Henry Brimelsick, Peter Distel, John Eitzer, John Gost, Karl Haager, David Hanschild, Herman Hayn, George Herold, Jacob Hindscher, Frederick Kude- beh, Mathias Lentner, Peter Maushund, Nichlaus Pierris, Herman Schmidt, Anton Schmiltker, Philip Schoene, David Seguin, Her- man Smith, John Stopperer, John Stopperer, Jr., Fritz Ulrich, John A. Wiederholt.
The regiment left Davenport on March 20, 1862, and proceeded via St. Louis to Pittsburg Landing, where it arrived soon after the Battle of Shiloh had commenced. It was soon actively engaged and, although the men were raw recruits, they conducted themselves in a way to draw forth honorable mention from the commanders. From that time the services of the regiment were similar to those of the Fifteenth above mentioned. It was mustered out at Louisville, Ken- tucky, July 19, 1865.
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY
This regiment was mustered in at Keokuk on April 16, 1862, with John W. Rankin of that city as colonel; David B. Hillis, of Keokuk, lieutenant-colonel; Southwick Guthrie, of Fort Madison, adjutant; and Edwin J. Aldrich, of Montrose, as quartermaster. Guthrie resigned as adjutant in March, 1862, and was succeeded by Fletcher Woolsey, who was also from Lee County.
John L. Young was mustered in as captain of Company A; Rich- ard James was a sergeant in the same company, in which Charles W. Boyles, William Davidson, Nathaniel Tuttle and Thomas Wilson served as privates.
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The greater part of Company B was recruited in Lee County. Edwin J. Aldrich was mustered in as first lieutenant and promoted to regimental quartermaster two days later; Henry D. Nuse, second lieutenant, was promoted to first lieutenant on the same date; Alex- ander M. Charters and David Lakin also served as first lieutenant; Daniel W. Tower, John Watts and Littleton W. Huston, as second lieutenants, the last named being promoted captain on December II, 1862. The names of Adolphus Johnson, Francis H. Busby, George D. Sprague and Alonzo Diggs appear on the muster roll as ser- geants, and Charles G. Wild, Lewis C. Hampton, Samuel S. Patten, George W. Dundy, Joseph W. Aitkins, John D. Williams and John M. Burns were corporals.
Privates-Alanson D. Aldrich, Charles F. Blair, Frederick J. Bond, Elihu G. Burns, Nicholas C. Campbell, Alonzo F. M. Church, Leonard W. Cook, Ezra Davis, Jedediah D. Doty, William H. Gardiner, William M. Gibson, David J. M. Haughton, Mark Hev- ener, James A. Horton, Israel Huffman, Francis M. Jones, John A. Little, Jefferson M. Link, David Louderback, Elijah Moore, Ed- ward Murphy, Josiah Ray, Samuel T. Reese, Esquire C. Showers, Thomas J. Simpson, George L. Talbott, Reuben Tucker, Samuel Wolcott, Uriah Wooding, William W. Wooding.
Company C, the greater part of which was from Lee County, was mustered in with Sampson M. Archer as captain; Henry New- ton, first lieutenant; Samuel Pickard, second lieutenant; Luther F. McNeal, Philip Inden, Lewis R. Parker and Martin Stapleton, ser- geants; John Shellman, William H. McCumber, Albert Weaver, Jesse Nokes, John H. Berryhill and Thomas D. Hardin, corporals. Captain Archer was promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment a few weeks before the final muster out. Lieutenant Newton, Ser- geant McNeal and Private Thomas Mitchell each served as captain at some period of the company's service, and Sergeant Stapleton was promoted to second lieutenant.
Privates-Alexander Bailey, Wansley Baker, Julius Bates (pro- moted corporal), Lewis R. Bissell, Hardin Bundy, David W. Burke, Hodney Coates, William L. Distin, John Douglas, Stephen J. Ges- ford, David N. Gorgas, James G. Green, Samuel F. Hayes, John Heites, Noah Hockman, James A. Horton, Schuyler M. Horton (promoted corporal), George Huffman, Joseph D. Hummer, John F. Jackson, Andre Leffler, George Leffler, Frederick Leonhard (promoted corporal), Thomas Lorimer, Thomas McMahan, Wil- liam H. McPherson (promoted corporal), Christopher G. Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell (promoted captain), Charles Phillips, Hezekiah
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Ramsey, Silas Ramsey, Joseph N. Ruse, David G. Scroggs, John Sears, George W. Slacks, Frederick Spencer, Daniel Spencer, Wil- liam H. T. Sumner, William M. Sweezy, Ethan Thoms, William Vandyke, Richard Wadden, Cyrenus H. Watson, James White, Philip Woodmansee, Squire Worrell (promoted corporal), Franz Ziegenbein.
In Company D, Addison A. Stuart was mustered in as first lieu- tenant and was afterward promoted to captain; Moses S. Pettengill enlisted as first sergeant; James Hammond and Lewis D. Haigh as corporals; Alfred C. Craney and Jacob Botaw as musicians, and the following privates were credited to Lee County: James J. Atherton, Philip H. Bollinger, Edward P. Bradley, Henry A. Brown, Edward T. Ing, Gilbert D. Phelps, Sylvester Trout and William R. Van Hyning.
John H. Tammen was mustered in as second lieutenant of Com- pany H and was promoted to first lieutenant in April, 1863. William Vansteenwyck enlisted as a sergeant and John J. Phillips as a musi- cian in the same company.
Forty-three Lee County men were enrolled in Company I. Wil- liam Edwards was mustered in as first lieutenant; Phineas Inskeep, second lieutenant; John Inskeep, James Code, Silas N. Sawyer, Houston Smith and Patrick Martin, sergeants; James Gallagher, Thomas F. Enslow, William C. Porter, John Kern and Playford Gregg, corporals, and Charles H. Cannon, musician.
Privates-Andrew J. Applegate, Conrad Balbach, Charles K. Baldwin, Sylvanus Baldwin, Peter Brown, Nicholas Bugh, Henry Crickburn, James Forsythe, James Gilham, Samuel Glasford, John Grindle, Matthias Harvey, James F. Lein, John Leslie, John Little, George W. Lyon, John M. Lyon, Courtland W. Miller, Nimrod Milleson, Nathan J. Morgan, Barnadus B. Ramsey, William W. Roberts, Benjamin Stephenson, Lewis Stephenson (promoted second lieutenant), John P. Stephenson, John H. Thompson, James B. Vail, David Waggoner, Joseph C. Whitaker (promoted captain).
Sylvanus E. Hicks was commissioned captain of Company K the day the regiment was mustered in; Charles M. Griffith was then made first lieutenant; Thomas Beechler, Frank Orm and William T. Carpenter were mustered as sergeants; George Simmons, David Orr, David Brown, John C. Robinson and Jeptha Ackley, as cor- porals; and the following were enrolled as privates: Charles K. Baldwin, William G. Buck, John T. Cannon, Charles L. Carpenter, George Dougherty, John Fleming, James C. Halterman, Robert
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Johnson, George Leffler, Bernard McQuillon, Bartholomew Noel, John O'Neill, Hiram Sherwood, Charles E. Staub.
Three days after the regiment was mustered in, it left Keokuk for St. Louis and soon afterward joined the army in front of Corinth, Mississippi. After the Battle of Iuka it was ordered to Vicksburg and was actively engaged in the Battle of Champion's Hill. Vicks- burg surrendered on July 4, 1863, when the regiment was ordered to Helena, Arkansas, and was on duty there until early in the fall, when it was assigned to Fifteenth Army Corps, commanded by Gen. W. T. Sherman. It joined the corps at Memphis, Tennessee, marched to Chattanooga, was engaged in the military operations about that city, particularly the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and was then engaged for a time in guarding the Atlantic & Western Railroad. From the spring of 1864 to the close of the war it was with General Sherman and its history during that period is mate- rially that of the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry already described. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 25, 1865.
NINETEENTH INFANTRY
Lewis M. Sloanaker, of Lee County, was mustered in as assist- ant surgeon of this regiment on August 23, 1862, and was afterward promoted surgeon. Companies A and E were raised in Lee County. The commissioned officers of Company A at the time of muster in were as follows: John Bruce, captain; Thomas L. Spratt, first lieu- tenant; Norvill Powell, second lieutenant. Captain Bruce was pro- moted major in December, 1862, when Lieutenant Spratt became captain, and a short time before the regiment was mustered out Bruce became colonel. Lieutenant Powell was transferred to Company E, of which he became captain in August, 1864.
The sergeants of the company when it entered the service were: William Ballinger (promoted second lieutenant) ; Eugene L. Knight, John L. Schraeder and Benjamin F. McIntyre (promoted first lieutenant). Hiram W. Snyder, Bruce W. Cotten, Timothy F. Phillips, Edmond A. Dickey, Charles H. Judd, and Oscar G. Burch were the corporals.
Privates -- Howell G. Adell, John T. Adell, David G. Anderson (promoted corporal), Robert C. Anderson, Byron E. Andrews, James M. Avis, Julien Ballard, Albert Bane, John Best, Lewis N. Beucler, John M. Boyer, Lewis M. Boyer, John T. Chambers (promoted corporal), Isaac N. Clark, Samuel Cole, James M. Coleman, Joseph Cooper, Jacob Frederick, Benjamin F. Gaines, John M. Gaines,
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Isaac M. Glassford, William Glassford, Jacob Haisch, William Harrison, Elmore Heaton, George Hoffman, John Howard, Harri- son Jones, Isaac Jones, Philip Jones, James H. Huffman, David A. Lakin, Peter Lambert, Thomas Laughery, Daniel C. Lemming, George W. Link, William S. McCulley, Patrick McManis, William H. McVeigh, Thomas J. Marshall, Henry A. Montgomery, Fred- erick Parks, Thomas F. Parhan, Frederick A. N. Pearce, Alexander Quary, John W. Reeves, Thomas Rellihan, Bendie Reumer, Daniel Rider, Henry Rider, Andrew J. Riley, David A. Robertson, Jacob Root, Charles W. Sackman, Christian Schmidt, Conrad Shaefer, Andrew Sheets, Eli Sheets, John Simmons, Harmon Sortwell, Wil- liam Spain, James Sproat, Samuel M. Stephenson, John P. Stephen- son, William Stuart, Alexander M. Taylor, Charles W. Towner, Jasper Trimble, James Utley, William T. Utley, Jesse W. Webb, Joseph White, David A. Wilkins, David Wise, Charles Wright.
Company E was mustered in with William Adams as captain; William H. Gill, first lieutenant; Samuel B. Guernsey, second lieu- tenant; William Walker (promoted first lieutenant), Charles E. Gibbs, George E. Hardwick, John S. Kirk and Thomas Wilde, ser- geants; James E. Henderson, James M. Layton, Cullen H. Angel, Charles A. Vice, Elisha Ricketts and James W. McClure, cor- porals; Marshall Whinnery and Sylvanus L. Scott, musicians; Wil- liam Green, wagoner.
Privates-William H. Arnold, John C. Bonnell (promoted first lieutenant), John Bressler, Samuel Bressler, Stephen M. Bricker, Nathaniel Brockway, Samuel W. Campbell, Thomas C. Chambers, Oliver G. B. Cline, John Cochrane (promoted corporal), James R. Crossley, James Deighton, Asaph C. Dewey, George H. Dewey, Slyvester Dye, Adam Eckhart, Edwin Everett, Francis E. Farley, Henry J. Ferguson, Joseph A. Ferrell, Jacob Fitter, William T. Gray, Thomas F. Green, Martin C. Hall, Alem H. Hampton, Eli W. Hampton, Caleb C. Haskins, Joseph M. Hewitt, Elisha B. Hitch- cock (promoted sergeant), James E. Houghland, William D. Houghland (promoted corporal), Elias James, William Johnson, William C. Kent, Benjamin Kinion, William R. Kinion, Jesse B. Knight, Charles E. Liddle, George A. Liddle, Ebenezer Linn, Wil- liam H. H. McCabe, John McCannon, Jefferson R. McKaig, Thomas McOlgan, Edward Mallett, John H. Mallett, Nelson Mal- lett, John J. Marsell, George Martin, Thomas J. Matlock, Gideon Miller, James Montgomery, Edward Mooney, Abraham Morgan, Henry Morgan, Samuel Munsey, James S. Murray, Charles Nave, Mather Newby, Charles C. Paulk, John A. Peasley, Howard Pen-
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nington, Decatur Pittman, John J. Potter, Henry Rhodes (pro- moted corporal), Matthew L. Roberson, Samuel H. Rogers, Henry Sarr, Francis H. Semple, William H. Semple, Frank Sherwood, Abner S. Smally, Charles M. Smally, William J. Smally, Edwin D. Smith, Franklin D. Snell, Jasper N. Southard, John Starke, Ed- ward Stern, Joseph A. Street, Fielder Taylor, Albert Thompson, Milton Thompson, William A. Thompson, William Thrush, Daniel R. Tracy, Patrick Walch, William H. Walker, John Wallace, Wil- liam Wilkins, John Yager.
Oscar J. Burch, who enlisted as corporal in Company A, was transferred to Company G, of which he became first lieutenant, and was mustered out as sergeant major. In that company the following privates were credited to Lee County: William T. Alley, William Allen, George Gilmore and Edward Pennington. John Kelley served in Company I, and Benjamin E. Lee in Company K.
The Nineteenth was mustered in at Keokuk on August 23, 1862, and ten days later was ordered to St. Louis. After being engaged at Rolla and Cassville, it was attached to Herron's Division, Army of the Border, and was in the Battles of Prairie Grove and Van Buren, Arkansas. It was then ordered to join General Grant's army and took part in the siege and capture of Vicksburg. For a time it was then on duty in Texas; was then sent to Florida, and, after being stationed at Pensacola for a few weeks, aided in the reduction of Mobile. It was mustered out at Mobile on July 10, 1865, and was disbanded at Davenport on the Ist of August.
TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY
This regiment was organized under the call of July 2, 1862, and was mustered in at Mount Pleasant on September 27, 1862, with George A. Stone as colonel. Part of Company C was raised in Lee County. Josephus W. Brush was second lieutenant; Francis M. Dougherty and Louis Wickersham, sergeants; Fred W. Millard, George Benn, Nelson Heading and Edward V. Cox, corporals ; John B. Welpton, musician; and Andrew H. Dyer, wagoner.
Privates-Franklin Allen, George W. Anthony, Robert Anthony, Dennis Baragery, John Bowman, Samuel T. Bundy, Abner Clark, Jr., George W. Cooper, Le Roy Dorman, George F. Hayward, John W. Heading, Isaac W. Henkle, John L. Hinson, Isaac Little, Wil- liam H. Longcor, William Mattox, William Myer, Harrison S. Poulson, John L. Ritchie, William H. Short, Hiram Sweet, George
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W. Taylor, Elihu Weeks, James W. West, Robert R. Westfall, Daniel Wood, Nathan Wood.
In Company D were Benjamin Babb, John Cranmer, Luther Cranmer and Napoleon B. Eggleston.
Early in November, 1862, the regiment was ordered to Helena, Arkansas, where it joined the White River expedition. Then, as part of the Second Brigade, Hovey's Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, it took part in the engagements at Chickasaw Bayou and Arkansas Post. It then formed part of General Steele's forces in the expedi- tion to Greenville, Mississippi, after which it was on duty in Louis- iana until the beginning of the Vicksburg campaign. After the fall- of Vicksburg, it took part in the Battle of Jackson, then moved to Tennessee and was engaged in the Battle of Lookout Mountain. In the spring of 1864 it joined General Sherman's army and was engaged in numerous actions incident to the Atlanta campaign. Then came the march to the sea, the Carolina campaign, the Grand Review at Washington, and was there mustered out on June 6, 1865.
THIRTIETH INFANTRY
On September 23, 1862, the Thirtieth Infantry was mustered in at Keokuk, with William M. G. Torrence, of Lee County, as lieu- tenant-colonel. Col. Charles H. Abbott was killed at Vicksburg on May 22, 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel Torrence was promoted to the colonelcy. John W. Bond was regimental surgeon and James H. Clendening served as adjutant and sergeant major. Companies A and I were recruited in Lee County, and there were a few men from the county in other companies of the regiment.
Company A was mustered in with Rufus Goodnough, captain; William M. Stimpson, first lieutenant; Henry Montgomery, second lieutenant; Henderson C. Hall, Ezra G. Clark, Lewis I. Adams and Thomas Powell, sergeants; Thomas Berry, Charles F. Riffley, Albert Gillespie, Charles W. Armor, Samuel L. Boyd, John G. Wood and Wilson Horn, corporals; Samuel H. Moore and Joseph Bowdwyn, musicians; Alexander Nichols, wagoner.
Privates-Thomas Adams, James Aden, William C. Andrews, Edwin Astle, Albert G. Baker, Isaac H. Ball, Jasper N. Ballou, Asa Bishop, Solomon Bishop, William S. Brown, Hiram M. Carter, John Church, James Collins, Hiram Collins, Thomas Conn, Ephraim Cooper, Thomas Cooper, Wilson Cooper, Charles Crague, James P. Dodson, James R. Donahue, Samuel Ezell, Harvey Ferrell, Icha- bod B. Gifford, John Gilbridge, James Griffin, William W. Grimes,
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George D. Harmon, Lewis A. Hawk, Andrew Henagle, Lewis Hewitt, Archibald Hook, Benjamin Horton, Abraham Hoss, James Junkins, James Kelldew, Israel C. Kirkpatrick, Philip Knauf, Harry Lang (promoted corporal), Charles Lipper, Jimerson Long, Peter Luxen, Patrick McDonnell (promoted corporal), Sylvester May- hew, Harrison Miller, Wilkerson Mulligan, Malachi Murphy, Wil- liam Murphy, John B. Myers, John Nelson, Reason Penrod, John Ray, Oliver H. P. Reed, Rufus C. Reid, Jacob Rempe, William M. Robinson, Thomas Ryan, Timothy M. Scranton, William Shel- don, Wendell Shelley, Nephi Shumate, John Slinglund, Charles Smith, James Snedaker, Daniel L. Sodergreen, John J. Spain, Um- bleton Spain, Edgar D. Stoddard, John A. Taylor, David Trotter, Richard Vanosdol, John O. Weese, William West, Henry Wild, Thomas Winn, Jacob Wisler, George Wolcott, Thomas Wright.
Charles J. Maginnis was mustered in as captain of Company D, but resigned on February 3, 1863, and was succeeded by William Dixon, who enlisted as a sergeant. Daniel J. Hossleton served as sergeant in this company; Cyrus W. Hamilton, as corporal; Edward Denmire, wagoner, and the following privates were from Lee County : Charles Barry, George Bower, James Cane, John Carnahan, William H. Chandler, Clark Colvin, James H. Dimond, Nelson Knutzen, Andrew McMarlin, John D. Nash, Simeon Stockwell, Edward Shields, Alfred Shepard.
James P. Newell was mustered in as first lieutenant and Robert E. Drake as a private in Company F, being the only two men in the company credited to Lee County.
The commissioned officers of Company I were: Uley Burk, captain; William L. Alexander, first lieutenant; Edwin M. Dean, second lieutenant-all from West Point. Captain Burk resigned in September, 1863; Lieutenant Alexander became captain; Edwin M. Dean was promoted to first lieutenant. The sergeants were Prescott E. Ballard, John Mckibben, Jonas A. Eaton, Charles Wolf and Levi Steele. James Harvey, Jesse McCarmon, Jacob Ash, James Stevens, John W. Jolly, George C. Shedd and Samuel Barnes were enrolled as corporals; Reuben Sperry, Francis M. Crawford and Watson Trowbridge, as musicians, and Fenton Becraft, as wagoner.
Privates-James H. Allison, Edwin M. Andrews, George Ault, Joseph Bonser, Andrew J. Bramer, William Buchanan, George By- ram, George Cooper, William A. Cross, Michael Cunningham, Henry Diedrich (promoted corporal), Timothy Dewire, James M. Ed- wards, Joseph Farley, Thomas Foreman, Jacob Fye, Andrew M. Gay, Samuel Gay, Benjamin Green, William C. Gregg, Lemuel Harress,
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Philip Helmick, Henry Herbert, David Hoffman, James Hoffman, Levi Hosier, Henry A. Hoss, John Johnson, Daniel Jones (promoted corporal), Sylvester Jones, Lewis B. Keeler (promoted first lieu- tenant), John Klinefelter, Joseph Lawrence, George McCaffey, William McCannon, William S. McCord, Lewis J. McCoy, Alvin McNeil, Samuel M. Marsh, Thomas Morgan, John Morrison, James Mullen, Samuel Murphy, William D. Murray, William Peckham, George W. Pomeroy, Charles T. Porterfield, Lozier Pru- den, Joseph Rickshear, Deighton Roberts, James Ruark, Andrew J. Sellers, George Sellers, Abram Sharp, Frank Sharp, Jacob Shears, Heinrich Sholtz, George W. Snook, Frank Snyder, Samuel W. Southard, Hamlin Starkey, Frank Starr, Daniel Storms, George Storms, David M. Thompson, Martin V. Warson, Ira E. Whitcomb, Alfred Wilder, Thomas J. Wright.
The regiment left Keokuk on October 25, 1862, for St. Louis. After its arrival in that city it was ordered to Helena, Arkansas, and its history throughout the entire period of its service is almost identical with that of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, previously given. It was mustered out at Washington, D. C., June 5, 1865.
THIRTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY
The Thirty-seventh was called the "Graybeard Regiment," hav- ing been composed of men over the age limit for military duty, many of whom had grandsons in the army. It was mustered in at Musca- tine on December 15, 1862, with George W. Kincaid as colonel. Company C was organized in Lee County and was mustered in with Joel A. Hall, first lieutenant and Reid L. Barnum, second lieutenant. On January 3, 1863, Lieutenant Hall was promoted to the cap- taincy and commanded the company during the remainder of its service. Hiram M. Roberts, George Krampeter, John Alexander and Benjamin Walden were the sergeants; David Seamands, Lewis G. Kennedy, Daniel B. Johnson, David Garrett, Thomas C. Ware, Edward Sleigh and Jonathan Oliver, corporals; John Sivel and Matthew Stein, musicians, and Daniel D. Bishop, wagoner.
Privates-James T. Blair, John Briley, Gorrin H. Carr, Jackson Chapman, Lemuel Cooper, Warrick M. Cosgrove, Michael Cos- tello, Michael Curtayne, Williamson Dawson, Samuel Farrell, Jared N. Goddard, William T. Gully, John Hargin, John Harmon, Wil- liam Harris, George Householder, William Howard, Silas Hub- bard, Andrew J. Hughes, David Jennings, Reuben Knowles, Charles Koons, William Lewis, John W. Lyon, William L. McCready,
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Alexander McGreer, Horace V. Mann, John H. Mackie, William Newsome, John Nottage, Noah Paulk, John Peterson, John O. Petrie, William Porter, Jacob Richards, William Sanders, John W. Scherff, Thomas H. Scott, Thomas J. Scott, William Shepherd, John Sherman, John Sherrick (promoted corporal), Davis Smith, John Starke, John Stephenson, William H. Sutherland, Joseph W. Tay- lor, John Watts, Nelson White, Absalom Wingett, Daniel B. Wood- mansee, David Wright.
Kinsman D. Cranmer was enrolled as sergeant and John Deeds as a private in Company G; Henry Fahey, Samuel Farrell and John Hargin as privates in Company H; Thomas Moore was corporal in Company I, in which the following were enrolled as privates : John Appel, James H. Alexander, Adam Byram and David Rumbaugh.
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