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Owing to the age of the members, the regiment was employed chiefly in guard duty at the St. Louis Arsenal and by detachments elsewhere. During its entire term of service it lost but three men killed in action and four wounded. It was mustered out at Daven- port, Iowa, May 24, 1865.
FORTY-FIFTH INFANTRY
When the campaigns opened in the spring of 1864, a call was issued for several regiments in different states to serve for 100 days. One of these was the Forty-fifth Iowa Infantry, which was mustered in at Keokuk on May 25, 1864, and was composed chiefly of young men, many of them being under twenty-one years of age. Lee County was represented in five companies of the regiment.
Company C was mustered in with Campbell K. Peck, captain; David B. Hamill, first lieutenant; John L. Day, second lieutenant; Edmund H. Jones, William H. Barrell, John N. Irwin, James Vin- cent and Willis C. Cooke, sergeants; George M. Hoffla, George P. Durkee, Andrew LeFevre, Ephraim M. Ingersoll, Antoine Lefaivre, William Collier, Calvitte C. Thompson and John C. Jeffries, cor- porals; John C. Fry and George W. Peters, musicians, and Samuel B. Gafford, wagoner.
Privates-James R. Anderson, Constantine S. Bassett, Napoleon B. Bong, David Bozarth, John Brady, William Brady, Rezin Bridges, Eugene E. Bronson, Arthur G. Buck, Asaph Buck, Joseph Buryan, Edward S. Carter, Frederick Caisser, James T. Cooney, George H. Corwine, Simeon C. Crane, Edward G. Creel, John S. Devon, Edward A. Diggs, James B. Diver, George H. Fairchild,
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Patrick H. Finerty, William Fletcher, Charles F. Foster, James I. Fry, John P. Gleason, James Griffin, John W. Griffith, John H. Hamel, George N. Hart, Lewis Headley, Lewis Hedden, Charles S. Higham, William Hoeter, Samuel L. Howell, Jerry Jacob, George C. Johnston, Alphonzo Jones, Jacob Jones, Michael Kelcher, August Kellmer, George Knaggs, Charles H. Lane, Samuel N. Lane, Peter Lemaster, Charles H. Lee, George B. Leonard, Swan Lind, Elijah Luke, Isaac F. Lyman, Oscar Messick, William Millis. Lycurgus Rickey, Frederick Rudd, Charles Sellers, David I. Smith, James Smith, Norman L. Smith, Myron H. Stockwell, Daniel T. Summers, Henry A. Taylor, John Tomlinson, Simon Vogel, Paul Wallet, Lewis Weyand, Samuel White, Leopold W. Zindel.
In Company E. Albert C. Smith was mustered in as first lieu- tenant; Asa Culver, second lieutenant; James Kennedy, Jacob G. . Heaton, John F. Liddle and Edmund A. Dickey, sergeants; Louis G. Kiel, William Thornburg, Jeptha S. Miller, Jonathan Coffindaf- fer, Peter M. Miller, William N. Devol and Martin S. Dickey, corporals; Edwin Bonnell and Rinehart Lober, musicians.
Privates-William D. Alexander, Ira W. Anderson, Isaac R. Atlee, Charles Barnum, John T. Barr, Welcome Beach, Thomas A. Bell, Addison Caldwell, Albert B. Case, Jackson Chapman, James F. Clark, George W. Coleman, Samuel P. Cowles, George Dawson, Francis Denny, Hiram A. Dufur, George S. Dyer, William En- dersby, William Fagan, Jacob F. Garver, Luther Gill, Amos D. Gray, Azariah Gregg, Leonidas C. Grubb, Alexander B. Hampton, James Horton, John Holmes, Townsend B. Huff, Rolandus Hyde, William H. Jones, David H. Mason, Thomas H. Mason, John W. Miner, James Moody, Samuel D. Morrison, Clarkson Newby, Charles Overman, Jonathan Phelps, Francis O. Shamb, Hiram Sherwood, William Tomson, George W. Tremaine, Watson B. Turner, Elwood Votaw, Henry Weise, James S. Welpton, Jacob Whitinger, Eli S. Wilcoxon.
Fourteen Lee County men were enrolled in Company F. George T. Collins was a sergeant; Hibbard H. Shedd, Pierson H. Bristow, Orson V. Montgomery, corporals; George F. Case, Horatio Case, William G. Field, Robert C. Henry, Amos H. Hill, Amos W. How- ard, William H. Howard, Samuel G. Kelley, Theodore J. Loomis and Jacob Wissler, privates.
Henry A. Field and Thornton S. King were enrolled as privates in Company G; William W. Dollings was a sergeant in Company H, in which Moses Hammond, George Miller and Leroy Miller served as privates.
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The regiment was first ordered to St. Louis and from there to Memphis, Tennessee. It was employed chiefly in guarding the line of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, being engaged in a few slight skirmishes with the enemy and losing two men killed and one wounded. It was mustered out at Keokuk on September 16, 1 864.
FORTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY
Twenty-four Lee County men were enrolled in Company D, Forty-eighth Infantry, which was also a 100 days' regiment. Aaron Colliver was first lieutenant of the company; Henry H. Freed, Charles Phillips and James R. Fitch, sergeants; John C. Chapin, John W. Fletcher and Henry Black, corporals; Nathan D. Daniels, musician, and the following served as privates : Francis M. Arnold, Ezra Bailey, Andrew J. Brown, David A. Brown, Thomas A. Brown, Jotham P. Clark, Henry Coleman, Eli Denney, William W. Dudley, Thomas J. Guyon, Isaac D. Hale, Thomas E. Jefferson, John E. Johnson, William Kimble, Isaac Lambert and Aaron F. Thompson.
The regiment's service was similar to that performed by the Forty-fifth. It was mustered out at Rock Island, Illinois, October 21, 1864.
FIRST CAVALRY
The First Cavalry was organized under the call of May 3, 1861, and was mustered in at Burlington and Davenport during the months of July and August, with Fitz Henry Warren as colonel and Charles E. Moss, of Keokuk, lieutenant-colonel.
Company A was recruited in Lee County and at the time of muster in was officered as follows: William M. G. Torrence, cap- tain; Alexander G. McQueen, first lieutenant; Robert M. Reynolds, second lieutenant. Captain Torrence was promoted to major on October 26, 1861, Lieutenant McQueen became captain and after- ward rose to be lieutenant-colonel, and Lieutenant Reynolds was promoted to first lieutenant. David A. Kerr, who enlisted as first sergeant of Company A, was made adjutant of the regiment in Octo- ber, 1862, and John M. Coggeshall, of Montrose, was commissioned chaplain in June, 1863.
The sergeants of Company A were: John A. Bishop, David A. Kerr, Andrew S. Hamilton, Alexander P. Boyse, Hugh Martin,
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John C. Van Hook and Walter S. Gray. John A. Bishop, who was mustered in as quartermaster sergeant, and Andrew S. Hamilton were both promoted to second lieutenant, and Sergeant Boyse to first lieutenant.
James P. Turner (promoted second lieutenant), Brainard Bridges, Joseph C. McCandless, James Robertson, Joseph S. Van- sant, William Goodin, Clayborn F. Driskill and John Wright served as corporals; Henry Wisner, bugler; William K. Reeves, farrier ; George Reafler, saddler; and Isaac Ferrell, wagoner.
Privates-Harvey Adair, William C. Andrews, Benjamin Blair, William Blair, Bartlett Brown, William O. Burns, William Carter, John P. Cochrane, George W. Collins, David Conley, Oliver L. Conn, Milton Copp, John W. Cross, Francis M. Davis, Thomas C. Fletcher, Lewis H. Foster, Hiram Gabriel, Ambrose Gallagher, Owen P. Gore, George W. Green, John Henkle, Frank Herwick, John Herwick, James Hill, Henry Hoagland, Edward Hollings- worth, William Horton, Herman J. Huiskamp, Thomas S. James, James E. Johnston, Alexander Kennedy, William Linn, James Mc- Cutcheon, George McKee, Charles Mckibben, James F. McKinley, George R. Miller, Charles E. Moss, Andrew Neel, Peter Nelson, Andrew O'Bleness, Laban O'Bleness, Thomas J. O'Bleness (pro- moted captain), Eli R. Oiler, Thomas N. Pond, Samuel Pone, William Pone, Josiah Ray, Elmore Reed, Daniel Reibold, Prosper A. Rose, John L. Russell (promoted first lieutenant), Anglos F. Sala, Orlando P. Sala, William Scheyli, James Scott, Jacob M. Shook, Lewis E. Short, Moses Short, John Skinner, James Smith, John Smith, Zachariah E. Thomas, William F. Thorndike, Pleasant A. Timberlake, Davis C. Turner, Addison Walker, George Welchy- ner, Andrew J. Wilson, Harrison F. Wilson, Walker Wilson, Lewis B. Wisbey, Andrew J. Wisbey, Andrew J. Wright, John Wright, William Wyatt.
Lee County was represented in Company C by Albert F. Dean, second lieutenant; Elijah W. Majors and Otis S. Whiting, ser- geants; Clinton M. Turner, Paul Hendricks, Michael Seyb, cor- porals; George Hook, bugler, and the following:
Privates-Malcolm S. Andrews, Alexander C. Brice, Joseph Brees, Hiram Brown, Jerome Carpenter, Charles Chickering, Doddridge W. Cook, Jesse Cooper, Curtis M. Copp, Thaddeus J. Dean, George Delfeller, William Harper, George C. Hawkins, William H. Hendricks, John L. Hill, Henry Jefferson, Alfred J. Lyther, Michael McCreary, Charles U. Martin, Horace Payne, Joseph C. Ritchey, William S. Steele, Granville L. Stockman, Allen
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Stoddard, Abraham H. Stutesman, Rufus Underwood, Alfred Walker, George E. Wilmarsh, Thomas Zingre.
Thomas McClean served as private in Company D; Joseph H. Arnold, Benjamin F. Best, John J. Buffington, William L. Gantz, Andrew L. Jay, Lindley F. Joy, Berryman Roberts and Thomas S. Shampnoi, in Company E. Thomas H. Hart and Stephen M. Sex- ton were corporals in Company F, in which the following Lee County men served as privates : George Hart, Ray S. Hart, John C. Hunter, Marx Klein, Bernard C. Reiley and Thomas J. Reed. In Company H were Ezra Harrington, Adam R. Hartzell, Henry E. Johnson, Zachariah P. Murry, Frederick H. Purrington and Andrew J. Smith.
Russell G. Curtiss was enrolled as a private in Company I; Edward Barron and Joseph Benedict, in Company K; Charles L. Barnum, George Hoskinson, Daniel H. Hughes, David Jack, James E. McCalligan, Joseph Moody, Joshua Seward, Joseph Stenger, David B. Sterrett and John D. Tedro, in Company L.
On the last day of September, 1861, six companies of the regi- ment were ordered to St. Louis and later in the fall were engaged at Milford and Silver Creek. All through the summer of 1862 the regiment was in Missouri, though hardly ever together, the com- panies being on detached duty. It was then ordered to Arkansas, where it took part in the battles of Cane Hill and Prairie Grove. In the spring of 1863 it was part of the force opposed to the Con- federate under General Marmaduke. About the close of the year it was veteranized and the men received their furlough. Returning to Arkansas, the regiment was reorganized and continued in active service in that state until February, 1865, when it was ordered to Memphis, Tennessee. It was next with General Custer in Louis- iana and Texas until mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 15, 1866.
THIRD CAVALRY
The greater portion of the first battalion of this regiment was raised in Lee County. When the regiment was mustered in on Sep- tember 14, 1861, at Keokuk, Carleton H. Perry was major of the battalion ; Dudley E. Jones, battalion quartermaster; David L. Mc- Gugin, regimental surgeon; Christopher C. Biser, assistant surgeon ; and Pearl P. Ingalls, chaplain. John W. Noble, who entered the service as first lieutenant of Company C, was promoted to the colo- nelcy of the regiment on May 23, 1864. Other Lee County men Vol. I-14
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who served as line and staff officers of the regiment were: John R. Woods, commissary sergeant; Euclid E. Fuller, hospital steward ; Alfred R. Hitchkiss, commissary sergeant; George A. Jackson, quartermaster sergeant; Israel M. Wickersham, chief bugler; Howard Perry and Thomas H. Brown, battalion commissary ser- geants.
Company A contained four men from Lee County, viz .: Samuel Barr, who was promoted to first lieutenant; William Carney, An- drew Goucher and Emery S. Goucher, privates.
The muster roll of Company B shows John Q. A. DeHuff, first lieutenant; Aaron H. Gage, Samuel Barr, Andrew J. McRacken, John P. Talbott and George N. Anderson, sergeants; John A. Jef- ferson, Clinton C. McChord, James S. Alexander, Jesse W. Bayles, John H. Perry, William F. Jones, James Pain and Edwin M. Burr, corporals; Abram Edwards, farrier; August Remerman, saddler; Gardiner A. A. Deane, bugler; and Artemus Clumis, wagoner. Sergeant Gage was promoted to the captaincy of the company in July, 1865, and Clinton C. McChord was promoted to second lieu- tenant at the same time. Samuel Barr was transferred to Company A and promoted to first lieutenant.
Privates-Amos Addington, Milton Anders, William H. Ander- son, James Barr, Horatio L. Birdsall, Samuel N. Bishop, William. H. H. Black, William Breitenstein, Alexander Brownlee, Alfred Burge, David Carroll, William H. Chidester, Gottlieb Christian, Alexander Coleman, Asa E. Coleman, William Cowles, James Cox, Hiram C. Diggs, David Finley, Samuel S. Finley, Samuel Frow, George Galloup, James K. Galloup, Jerry Galloup, William W. Gordon, Benjamin F. Grant, Salathiel Hannan, Edward V. Hol- land, Austin Hollowell, Jasper Hollowell, John H. Horn, James House, Henry Keime, William Kerns, Peter Kerr, Isaac H. Kinley, Lemon Mc. Logan, Thomas B. Logan, George W. Longley, John W. Love, John W. Lyon, Asbury B. McChord, James D. McCully, Robert T. McDonald, Orlow H. McPherson, William McQueen, James S. Matthews, John C. Matthews, Marshall P. Matthews, John W. Mendenhall, John Merritt, Jasper O'Neil, Allen Overman, Thomas Parker, George Parsons, Jonathan Parsons, Samuel Par- sons, Gaston Pease, John W. Pullman, Ralph Rigby, George Rich- ardson, Bernard Ringland, Thomas N. Rye, Albert G. Saxe, Ben- nett S. Shaug, Benjamin A. Smith, Thomas Stillwell, Kinsey T. Talbott, Elwood Townsend, Henry D. Townsend, James Vancyoc, Henry L. Weeks, William West, Hiram C. Wilcoxson, Robert Wil- son, Calvin S. Woodworth.
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Company C was mustered in with Israel Anderson, captain; Erie J. Leech, first lieutenant; William Wilson, second lieutenant ; Henry A. Winther, quartermaster sergeant; Thomas Cowley, Jr., commissary sergeant; David A. Day, Ralph H. Millard, Ambrose L. Jenks, Josiah A. Jackson and Thomas W. Brice, sergeants ; James Linch, Glenn Lowe, Obadiah M. Crane, Hubbard Stone, Robert Lemaster, John Leddon, William Gilcrist and James W. Cox, cor- porals; Louis Anslyn, bugler; Fleming C. Wilson, farrier; John M. Read, saddler; Henry Deppen, wagoner. Corporal Lowe was promoted to captain and Corporal Linch to first lieutenant.
Privates-Thomas Ackley, Thomas P. Ackley, Charles Ander- son, Perry Armitage, John S. Beebe, Louis Berryhill, Andrew A. Brown, Israel Brown, Isaac Bunch, George W. Burgman, Robert Cassidy, Ephraim Cobb, Lewis Conn, Charles Conway, Lisbon A. Cox, William Curtis, Henry Delaplaine, Lawrence Dugan, William E. Durfee, William H. Duvall, Jehu Elliott, Ephraim Fauquier, John Field, Robert Forbes, Charles H. Forman, William H. For- man, Dixon Gibson, John F. Gibson, William D. Gibson, Thomas H. Goodwin, William Guthrie, Andrew J. Hardin, John W. Hard- wick, Oscar D. Harvey, John A. Hendrickson, Milton Herron, Alexander Hinote, Henry P. Hockman, Franklin Horn, Joseph Hyde, James G. Jeffries, James Johnson, Perry Johnson, Charles Jones, James Jones, William Keteon, William King, William G. Kramer, Israel E. Leake, William Lowry, Elias Luke, Morgan Lynch, Samuel McEveny, Edward Y. McLarning, William Mc- Laughlin, William O. Mackie, John Malia, William Martin, Wil- liam Matheney, John H. Miller, William Miller, William J. Moneymaker, Clark Murch, Henry Ostrander, Samuel F. Ostrander, Calvin Peterson, Albert Phillips, Lindsey P. Price, John R. Quick- sell, Herman Rankin, Johnson Rankin, Joseph Rhodes, Daniel Riggs, Alfred Roberts (promoted first lieutenant), Silas M. Rock- well, Thomas B. Russell, Joseph Samuel, John S. Critchfield, Leroy Seaton, William Seeberlich, Williamson Sells, Perry Shay, Samuel Shultz, Thomas Simpson, George C. Smith, Henry H. Smith, James Smith, John Smith, William Smith, Isaac Snyder, Henry Sprague, Josiah Spaulding, Isaac Stamper, Oliver C. Stevens, Peter I. Stevens, John Stone, Francisco Stump, Charles Tackaberry, Washington Talbott, Charles W. Taylor (promoted second lieutenant), Morris Tisdale, Barzillai Townsend, Jacob Tryon, Thomas L. Vann, James A. Virts, Francis H. Waste, Charles Watson, Edward Welchman, Samuel Wheeler, Harwood Whitney, Albert Williams, Matthew
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D. Williams, William M. Williams, John R. Woods, Wesley J. Worley, Jefferson Worster, Daniel B. Wyatt, Anderson Zugg.
John Campbell was a corporal and Adam Dunn and Justin B. Harlan were privates in Company D; Harvey N. Upton and Nelson Vansteensburg were enrolled in Company E; Matthew Roderson was a private in Company F; and Abraham Berger, William H. Cole- man and William H. Matkin privates in Company G.
Twenty-three Lee County men enlisted in Company H. Thomas R. Herndon held the rank of sergeant; Martin V. B. Sigler, Michael W. Mitchell, John W. Smith and Thomas N. Gosnell were cor- porals, and the following served as privates: Andrew Balbach, John Balbach, John H. Beucler, Peter F. Beucler, Emerson Butterfield, William Clark, Cyrus G. Hawkins, James S. Hewitt, James A. Light, Joseph Myers, Howard Perry, Jackson Sigler, Jeremiah Sig- ler, George Smith, William H. Spitler, Nathan Tuttle, John W. Vandevanter and Selby Vandevanter.
In Company I were Joseph C. Fletcher, Jacob Graft and John Smith. Dudley E. Jones served as first lieutenant of Company L, in which Clinton D. Cooper, Alonzo Britton and Edward White were enrolled as privates, and in Company M Benjamin M. Belville, William H. Bryant, Robert Hendricks, James H. Johnson and Shadrach Rinkle were credited to Lee County.
The first service of the Third Cavalry was in protecting the southern border of Iowa against invasion. On November 4, 1861, it was ordered to St. Louis, where it was divided into detachments and for the next few weeks the men "lived in the saddle." Parts of the regiment were engaged at Moore's Mill, Florida, Kirksville and other skirmishes, after which the Third was assigned to the duty of guarding the frontier from the Iron Mountains of Missouri to the Boston Mountains in Arkansas. It took part in the Battle of Pea Ridge, fought at West Plains, and in December, 1862, was assigned to the cavalry division of the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Gen. C. C. Washburne. For a time it was on duty at Helena, Arkansas, but early in June, 1863, it was ordered to join General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg. It formed part of Sherman's advance in the march to Jackson and after the battle at that place was engaged in destroying the Mississippi Central Railroad. It was then ordered back to Arkansas, where many of the men reenlisted and received their veteran furlough. After a visit to home and friends in Iowa, the regiment was ordered to join the expedition to Gun- town, Mississippi, and was then in pursuit of General Price through Missouri. When Price was driven out of the state, the Third joined
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Gen. J. H. Wilson's cavalry in Tennessee and was on active duty in that state and Georgia until mustered out at Atlanta on August 9, I865.
FOURTH CAVALRY
The Fourth Cavalry was mustered into the United States service at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, January 1, 1862, with Asbury B. Porter as colonel. John B. Leclerc served as a private in Company C; Samuel Peterson and Jabez Sibley in Company F, and more than half of Company G came from Lee County.
Company G was mustered in with Thomas C. Tullis as captain and James J. Brown as first lieutenant, though the first non-commis- sioned officers were from other counties. The following privates were credited to Lee County : Thompson Armor, Francis H. Ayres, Lycurgus E. Ayres, George M. Barnes, William C. Barnes, James F. Berry, Louis Burke, Arestes M. Cale, William Cale, George W. Clark, Henry Cowles, James E. Cowles, George B. Crossley, Law- rence Crossley, Alonzo Cunningham, Francis M. Davis (promoted captain), Delarma Douglas, Philip Ehart, Wykoff W. Endersby, William H. Entler, Solomon Ezell, Charles H. Fagers, Thomas C. Fletcher (promoted bugler), James Frazier, John Frazier, Charles A. Gillham, Robert P. Gilmer (promoted second lieutenant), Frank- lin Groesbeck, William Hardy (promoted corporal), Aaron Hoss, John Ingersoll (promoted sergeant), W. Wilson Ingersoll, William J. Ives, Cornelius W. Jackson, Theodore S. Jackson, Theodore H. Jennings, William P. Jennings, Daniel Johnson, Lewis Johnson, Thompson Jones (promoted corporal), David Laird, Almon M. Levee, George L. Levee (promoted quartermaster sergeant), Charles B. McCarthy, Horace McDannell, James S. Mason, Samuel J. Mason, William C. Mason (promoted corporal), William Murray, Zephaniah Murray, William Osborn, William Pitman, Alexander Riddle, Alexander Rodgers (promoted captain), George Scovil, Amiel Shotta, Edwin Sigmon, Robert Skiles, Nicholas Snider, Edward Stubbs, James Thornton, Polk E. Tibbetts (promoted sergeant), Hugh Valiant (promoted sergeant), Sensel Watts, George W. Welch, Henry S. Wheatley.
On March 10, 1862, the regiment was ordered to Rolla, Missouri, thence to Springfield and from there to Helena, Arkansas. During the early service of the regiment the companies were chiefly on detached duty, scouting and occasionally skirmishing with the enemy. Company F captured a steamboat loaded with sugar and molasses and
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a train of about one hundred wagons loaded with provisions. On November 25, 1862, the Fourth joined Gen. A. P. Hovey's expedi- tion toward Grenada, Mississippi and destroyed several miles of railroad. On the last day of April, 1863, it joined General Grant's forces at Milliken's Bend and started on the campaign against Vicks- burg. It was in the engagements at Haynes' Bluff and Mechanics- burg, and after the fall of Vicksburg took part in the battle of Jack- son. Toward the close of 1863 many of the men reenlisted and re- ceived a veteran furlough. After that it was with General Grierson on the raid through Mississippi and was engaged in numerous battles and skirmishes in that state and Alabama. The regiment was mus- tered out at Atlanta, Georgia, August 10, 1865.
FIFTH CAVALRY
Although this regiment was designated as the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, it contained one company from Omaha, Nebraska, two companies from Minnesota and one from Illinois. It was mustered in at St. Louis from September, 1861, to February 11, 1862, and when fully organized was placed under the command of William W. Lowe as colonel. Joseph Bendler, Henry O. Dudley, Charles H. Kummer and C. August Ulrich, of Lee County, were members of the regi- mental band; George Friedenrich served as battalion commissary sergeant; Frederick Dietrich was regimental saddler.
Company F, composed chiefly of Germans, was raised in Lee and the adjoining counties. It was mustered in with John A. Smith as second lieutenant; Charles Haenel, quartermaster sergeant; Gustave Krusch, George H. Meier and Charles F. Limle, sergeants; Caspar Buschmeier and Charles Rothe, corporals, and John Seidel, bugler.
Privates-George Anthes, Roman Boechle, Fritz Brecht, Jacob Deutsch, John B. Dingman, Ferdinand Fahr, Henry Fosterling, Fritz Geldmacher, Bernard H. Hinken, August Johns, Stephen Kliewe, Philip Lang, Henry Luecke, Leo Marder, John Martin, Henry Moellers, Henry Nolte, Frank Rohde, Bernard Rottman, Joseph Saar, Robert Santo, August Scherfe, C. F. August Schelland, Philip Schneider, Henry Schowalter, John Schomacher, F. August Schubert, John L. Shier, Robert Scholtz, Louis Silverheisen, Bernard Slange, August Soechtig, Christian Stauffer, John Tieken, Sebastian Viox, Frank Wagner, William H .. Wagner, Benjamin Ward, Charles Werner, Franz Werth, William Westphal, Henry Wichard, Frank Wiggenjost.
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The regiment first saw service in Missouri, after which it was in Kentucky and Tennessee as part of the cavalry of Gen. L. H. Kous- seau. In the summer of 1864 it joined General Stoneman for the raid to Macon, Georgia, and destroyed many miles of the Atlanta & Macon Railroad. It covered the retreat of the army from Love- joy's Station and when General Hood started northward the Fifth returned to Nashville with Gen. George H. Thomas. As part of the cavalry division of General Thomas' army, it took part in the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, and in the pursuit of Hood's shattered command. It was mustered out at Nashville on August II, 1865. The original Fifth Cavalry was consolidated with the Fifth Iowa Infantry on August 8, 1864, after which the regiment was known as the Fifth Veteran Cavalry.
EIGHTH CAVALRY
Fourteen Lee County men were enrolled in this regiment, which was mustered in at Davenport, Iowa, September 30, 1863, under Colonel Joseph B. Dorr. Eleazer B. Doane entered the service as first lieutenant of Company E and was promoted captain on April 5. 1864. In the same company Andrew J. Baker was mustered in as sergeant; Charles W. Smith, Lewis Richards, Charles L. Dorson and Jonathan F. Doane, as corporals, and the following were enrolled as privates : James D. Childs, Isaiah J. Clark, John Clark, John H. Davis, Samuel C. Laughery and Charles Rye. The other two Lee County men were Henry Edmondson and Herman Heiser, who were privates in Company M.
On October 7, 1863, the regiment was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there proceeded to Nashville, where it was assigned to the duty of guarding the line of the Nashville & North- western Railroad. Next, as part of McCook's Cavalry Division, it was engaged in scouting and skirmishing in the vicinity of Chat- tanooga. In the spring of 1864 it joined the army commanded by General Sherman for the campaign against Atlanta, and after that city capitulated it remained on duty in Georgia until mustered out at Macon on August 13, 1865.
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