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only such old type and material as could be had here and there "on time"; it now has an outfit worth, at least, $1,200, which was new last July, a good job patronage, and the best job outfit in Dallas county. It has a good cir- culation, both at home and in the adjoining counties of Boone, Greene, and Guthrie. Though Republican in its politics, it is especially devoted to the local interests of the town and surrounding county.
The Dallas Center Globe was established by Samuel G. Sloane, its present editor and proprietor, in December, 1875, the first sheet being issued on Thursday, the 31st of that month. Politically, the Globe is an independent Republican paper, with a circulation at present of 300, or upward, and is an attractive, wide-awake, eight-page, six-column newspaper, and its pub- lisher fearless and outspoken in his sentiments; devotes his energies princi- pally to the advancement and welfare of the community in which his paper is located. Just prior to the establishment of the Globe another sheet was started, called the Dallas Center Mail, edited by J. W. Jones, who at that time owned a partial interest in the Perry Chief. The press and material were owned by a joint stock company, composed of the citizens in and around the town, and the intention was to make it neutral in politics, and devote it chiefly to the interests of the new town and surrounding commu- nity. It was only issued for a short time by Mr. Jones when it was dis- continued, and the press and materials were disposed of to the present editor and proprietor, who established the Globe, as above stated. We are indebted to the present publisher of the Globe and Mr. Cole Noel, of Adel, for the above facts, the latter having been a stockholder in the original company.
WAR HISTORY.
DALLAS COUNTY WAR RECORD.
IF there is any one thing more than another of which the people of the North have reason to be proud, it is the record they made during the dark and bloody days of the "War of the Rebellion." When the war was forced upon the country the people were pursuing the even tenor of their ways, doing what ever their hands found to do; working the mines, making farms, or cultivating those already made, erecting homes, founding cities and towns, building shops and manufactories; in short the country was alive with industry and hopes for the future. The people were just recovering from the depression and losses incident to the financial panic of 1857. The future looked bright and promising, and the industrious and patriotic sons and daughters of the free States were buoyant with hope-looking forward to the perfecting of new plans for the ensurement of comfort and compe- tence in their declining years. They little heeded the mutterings and threatening of treason's children in the slave States of the South. True sons and decendants of the heroes of the " times that tried men's souls "_ the struggle for American independence-they never dreamed that there was even one so base as to dare attempt the destruction of the Union of their fathers-a government baptized with the best blood the world ever knew.
While immediately surrounded with peace and tranquility, they paid but little attention to the rumored plots and plans of those who lived and grew rich from the sweat and toil, blood and flesh, of others; aye, even trafficked in the offspring of their own loins. Nevertheless, the war came with all its attendant horrors. April 12, 1861, Fort Sumpter, at Charleston, South Carolina, Major Anderson, U. S. A., commandant, was fired upon by rebels in arms. Although basest treason, this first act in the bloody reality that followed was looked upon as a mere bravado of a few hot-heads-the act of a few fire-eaters whose sectional bias and freedom hatred was crazed by the excessive indulgence in intoxicating potations. When a day later the news was borne along the telegraph wires that Major Anderson had been forced to surrender to what had at first been regarded as a drunken mob, the patri- otic people of the North were startled from their dreams of the future- from undertakings half complete-and made to realize that behind that mob there was a dark, deep and well organized plan to destroy the government, and 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, or who, perchance, through practices of lustful natures, were half or quarter removed from the color God for his own purpose had given them.
But they reckoned without their host. Their dreams of the future-their
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plans for the establishment of an independent Confederacy-were doomed from their inception to sad and bitter disappointment. Immediately upon the surrender of Fort Sumpter, Abraham Lincoln, America's martyr Presi- dent-who but a few short weeks before had taken the oath of office as the nation's chief executive-issued the following proclamation April 15, 1861:
WHEREAS, the laws of the United States have been, and now are opposed in several States by combinations too powerful to be suppressed in an ordinary way, I, therefore, call upon the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000 to suppress said combination and execute the laws. I appeal to all loyal citizens for State aid in this effort to maintain the laws, integrity, National Union, perpetuity of popular government, and redress wrongs long enough endured.
The first service asigned forces will probably be to re-possess forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union. The utmost care should be taken consistent with our object to avoid devastation, destruction and interference with the property of peaceful citizens in any part of the country, and I hereby command persons commanding the aforesaid combinations to disperse within twenty days from date.
I hereby convene both Houses of Congress for the 4th day of July next, to determine upon measures for the public safety as its interests may demand.
By W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States.
The last words of that proclamation had scarcely been taken from the electric wires before the call was filled. The people who loved their whole government could not give enough.
Patriotism thrilled, vibrated, and pulsated through every heart. Every calling offered its best meu, their lives and fortunes in defense of the gov- ernment's honor and unity. Party ties were, for the time, ignored. Bitter words, spoken in moments of political heat, were forgotten and forgiven, and joining hands in a common cause, they repeated the oath of America's soldier and 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. Call followed call.
Then came that well remembered lull in the conflict, when sanguine men grew more hopeful, and the desponding less in despair; a time when it was hoped the war would soon end, and once more would be "beaten the swords into ploughshares, and the spears into pruning hooks." But soon was the spirit of the North again aroused, and the blood of chivalry of Dallas was sent leaping in boiling currents through veins swollen with righteous wrath, as the terrible news of Shiloh, of thousands slain and sons in Southern pris- ons, came to fathers, brothers and friends of those who had gone to the front.
The call of President Lincoln, for three hundred thousand men, met a most liberal response from Dallas. From the plow, from the workshop and counting-house, leaving the school-room, the desk, the bar, the pulpit, the press, men of every rank of life, of all ages, grey-bearded and youtli, those who showed themselves the bravest of the brave, came forth and enrolled their names among those who were ready to face the cannon's mouth.
It began to look as if there would not be men in all the free States to crush out and subdue the monstrous war traitors had inaugurated. But to every call for either men or money there was a willing and ready response; and it is a boast of the people that had the supply of men fallen short, there were women brave enough, daring enough, patriotic enough, to have offered themselves as sacrifices on their country's altar. Such were the impulses, motives and actions of the patriotic men of the North, among whom the
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sons of Dallas county made a conspicuous and praiseworthy record. Two companies were enrolled for a single regiment, besides large enlistments in other companies of the same regiment, the gallant Thirty-ninth. Those who were kept at home by age, infirmity, or sex, did noble service, too. They assisted with their hands, their money, and their words of cheer. Ethically considered, to the wives and mothiers who gave up their husbands and sons, their natural protectors, and with a passive self-sacrifice, suffered them to go to the field of carnage, an even greater debt of gratitude is due than to those brave men who then actively, and with less self-denial rendered their ser- vice, and suffered like hardships, in the preservation of that other mother- life, the nation itself.
Of the number drafted in Dallas county, we have not been able to secure a complete list. In fact, we are quite unwillingly driven to an apology for the meagreness of parts of our war history. Newspaper files could not be found covering the war period, a most important era in the history of the county, and we have been obliged to depend very considerably upon the frail memory of mortals in regard to facts whose occurrence is removed by years.
Having thus hurriedly sketched in general terms the history of Dallas in the war, there yet remains another duty for our pen. That is, to collect the names so far as possible, of those brave men who left their homes at their country's call; and to place on imperishable record, the enlistments, promo- tions, and casualties of the humblest knight in Dallasian chivalry. This is a duty we gladly perform, not alone for those yet living, but for the memory of those whose blood was made to fatten Southern battle-fields, whose loss a multitude of widows and orphans have mourned with a bitterness which no pension can ever sweeten, nor crown of glory drive away. When another generation has passed, we trust an occasional gray haired veteran, bowed with the infirmity of years, will point to these pages with the commendable pride of a volunteer of 1812, in this day; while the orphans of the slain and their children, will look upon this brief epitaph of their forefathers, as an undying witness that the blood of their loyal ancestry, not only pulsated with a patriot's devotion, but fatally left its living fountain upon the nation's battle-field.
"All hail to our gallant defenders, all hail! Our noblest, our bravest, our best; Proud peers of the world's worshiped heroes ye stand, By freedom's dear attributes blest. Ah, the voice of the past to your heart and ours, It brings in its eloquent breath The wild tones of victory, softened and blent, With the low mystic cadence of death.
But the angel of faith with her magical wand, Lifts the veil from our grief, and behold! The invisible arm of a pitying God Hath gathered them into the fold."
The following is compiled in part, from the Adjutant General's Report:
FOURTH INFANTRY.
Dallas' contribution to this regiment was composed of squads in Cos. A, C and E.
The regiment went into camp at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Aug. 12, 1861.
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Aug. 24 the regiment took the cars for Rolla, Mo., being at that time the farthest military post south in that department, where it arrived the same evening, and the following day went into Camp Lyon, two miles southeast of the town of Rolla. Here commenced the military training which gave that confidence to the men, to enable them to perform the perilous duties of a soldier's life.
On the 22d of September the regiment received its first clothing, and on the 28th of September broke camp and marched toward Springfield, but, after two days marching, were ordered back to Rolla, where they remained until Nov. 1, 1862. On the morning of January 23, 1862, it broke camp for the last time at Rolla, and became a part of the " Army of the south- west." The regiment was in the engagement at Pea Ridge, Chiskasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post. From there, the regiment went to Young's Point, accompanying the army to Grand Gulf, crossing the river and reaching Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1863. From there they marched toward Vicks- burg, and were engaged in the skirmishing with the enemy. The regiment participated in the second Jackson campaign, which was made in the middle of summer, and their suffering for want of water was intense. After their return to Vicksburg, they remained in camp at Black river until Sep. 23, when they broke camp, took cars for Vicksburg, and there embarked for Memphis, and from there took cars for Corinth. Oct. 9, were on the march for Chattanooga; Oct. 24, met the enemy under Forrest and Roddy, and for four days kept up a constant skirmish and putting them to route. They were engaged on Lookout Mountain with Hooker, "above the clouds," and were the first Union soldiers on Missouri Ridge. It was with Sherman in his "'March to the Sea," and in the battles of Columbia, S. C., and Goldsboro, N. C. It participated in the grand review at Wash- ington, and from there it was sent to Louisville, Ky., and were detained as Provost Guard, which duty it performed until July 23, 1865, when it was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, Sep. 3, 1865.
COMPANY A.
Fife Major Wm. H. Binns, enlisted June 26, 1861, in Co. C, and was promoted January 1, 1862. Re- duced to ranks July 1, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Goodale, Lucius P., enlisted Novem- ber 30, 1862.
Hughs, John, enlisted October 22, 1862, died at Helena, Ark., Sep- tember 25, 1862.
Hoeye, John, enlisted March 18, 1862.
Teal, John W., enlisted March 9, 1862.
COMPANY C.
James M. Loomis, enlisted June 26, 1861, Fifth Sargent, discharged
November 18, 1862, at Helena, Ark., for promotion.
Wm. H. Binns, enlisted as private June 26, 1861; promoted Fife Major January 1, 1862; re-enlist- ed in Fourth Vet. Inft., January 1, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Hubbard, Lewis W., enlisted June 26, 1861, discharged October 16, 1861, for disability.
Mouray, Abram, enlisted June 26, 1861, wounded at Pea Ridge, March 1, 1862.
Stiles, Joshua L., enlisted June 26, 1861.
Stram, John S., enlisted -- , dis- charged on account of wounds re- ceived at Pea Ridge.
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ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
Hays, Garrison, enlisted April 7, 1862, discharged December 1,
1862.
Lamb, Wilson B., enlisted Decem- ber 20, 1861, re-enlisted January 1, 1864.
Lamb, William R., enlisted Decem- ber 20, 1861, discharged on ac- count of wounds received at Vicksburg, May 11, 1863.
Blakemore, John W., enlisted April 6, 1862, discharged for disability September 8, 1863.
Howell, Joshua W., enlisted April 6, 1862, wounded at Chickasaw Bayou December 29, 1862, died January 23, 1863.
COMPANY E.
Daniel Rhoads, Second Corporal, en- listed July 15, 1861, promoted Second Corporal September 20, 1862, died at Paducah, Ky., Jan- uary 28, 1863.
PRIVATES.
Binnie, William S., enlisted July 15, 1861.
Gates, Alfred, enlisted July 15, 1861, re-enlisted January 1, 1864.
Pacy, William, enlisted July 15, 1861, died December 30, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.
Palmer, Walter W., enlisted July 15, 1861.
ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
Baffrey, John P., enlisted March 25, 1862.
Camery, Benjamin F., enlisted March 26,1862.
Clark, Wm. F., enlisted March 26, 1862.
Moffat, Robert H., enlisted April 6, 1862.
Moore, Jacob, enlisted April 6, 1862. Reasoner, Hiram D., enlisted April 6, 1862.
Winslow, Nathan, enlisted April 6, 1862.
TENTH INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Camp Fremont, Iowa City, in August, 1861. On the 24th of September the regiment embarked at Davenport on board of transports for St. Louis, arriving there on the 27th, and was mus- tered into the service December 6, 1861. The regiment was clothed and equipped with all possible dispatch, and from here went to Cape Girardeau, where it remained until November 12, when orders came to remove to Bird's Point; and they were among the expeditions sent out from time to time in quest of rebel bands, who were sustaining the rebel cause and annoying our troops, and performed a full share of this duty. The most vigilant guard and picket duty was performed by the regiment up to the time of its departure to New Madrid, March 4, 1862, and was one of the regiments instrumental in the capture of between 5,000 and 6,000 pris- oners, who were formerly stationed on Island No. 10. They afterward went to Pittsburg Landing, and took their place in the line investing that position. Were engaged with Rosecrans at the battle of Iuka, also at Corinth. They were with the campaign commencing at Milliken's Bend and terminating with the capture of Vicksburg, and in the battles of Raymond, Jackson, and Champion Hills. Afterward it was ordered to Chattanooga to reinforce the army of the Cumberland, and was in the engagement at Missouri Ridge, and from there to the sea. Were the
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heroes of eighteen engagements, beside skirmishes of less note, and were mustered out.
COMPANY A.
Leming, Elisha, wagoner, enlisted August 21, 1861, discharged Feb- ruary 28, 1863, on account of dis- ability.
Robbins, James M. C., enlisted Au- gust 21, 1861, re-enlisted Feb- ruary 1, 1864.
Zigler, William H., enlisted August 21, 1861, discharged August 13, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Palmer, Lewis H., enlisted February 1, 1864.
FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.
The place of rendezvous for volunteers in the Fifteenth Infantry was at Keokuk, where the first companies of the regiment appeared in autumn, 1861. Not until the latter part of February, 1862, were all the companies mustered in. In marked contrast with the enlistment of the Seventh Regiment, from the same place, the Fifteenth had had weeks of military drill, and few companies ever went out of the State better prepared for the field than those of this regiment. After several days spent at St. Louis in Benton Barracks, on the first day of April the regiment eagerly embarked on steamner for the department of the Tennessee. The regiment reached Pittsburg Landing on that memorable Sunday, the 6th of April, when the contest had already been raging for some hours. Immediately ordered to the front, on that and the following day the regiment won the praise of the commanders for its bravery and desperate fighting. The maiden sac- rifice of the Fifteenth was one hundred and eighty-eight in killed, wounded and missing. The regiment assisted in the siege of Corinth without serious loss. In reconnoitering about Bolivar, in a march to Corinth, and thence to Iuka, where the regiment was not ordered into action, the time was spent until the battle of Corinth, in which the Fifteenth took a gallant part. The loss in this battle from the regiment in wounded, killed and missing, was eighty-five.
November 2 the regiment was ordered to Grand Junction, and for sev- eral weeks was engaged in drill with other troops. The command engaged in the unsuccessful campaign against Vicksburg, and in January, 1863, went into camp at Memphis. In a few days the regiment was transported to Milliken's Bend, thence to Lake Providence, and back to Milliken's Bend in April. In the spring campaign against Vicksburg the regiment had the remarkable experience of frequent engagements and several weeks in rifle pits, without a single casualty during the entire siege. A share was taken in the movement against Jackson, immediately following
The command took part in the luckless expedition to Monroe, Louisiana, and also in the famous Meridian raid. It had in the meantime become a veteran organization, and was furloughed in March, 1864. The first important campaign participated in after furlough was that of Atlanta. Even before the battle it had lost in heavy skirmishing nearly one hundred officers and men. Most desperate fighting was done by the regiment in the battle of July 22, the total casualties for that day being one hundred
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and thirty-two. The Fifteenth was engaged in the battle of Ezra Church, but with small loss.
With undiminished bravery and fortitude the Fifteenth engaged in the "Siege of Atlanta " and the "March to the Sea." Savannah to Goldsboro, Goldsboro to Raleigh, and thence to Washington City, by way of Peters- burg and the evacuated Southern capital. The regiment next went to Louisville for muster out, and to Davenport for discharge, an aggregate travel of 8,518 miles. The Fifteenth Iowa suffered a greater number of casualties than any other regiment ever sent out from the State. Of one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three men who had been members of the regiment, one thousand and fifty-one were absent at the muster out.
COMPANY B.
Sixth Corporal David King, en- listed as private November 3,
31, 1862, died in hospital at Keo- kuk, March 8, 1862.
Waterman, Ford, enlisted October 18, 1861.
1861, promoted November 1, Gardiner, James, enlisted January 1862. 5, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Houston, Lafayette, enlisted January
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY.
This regiment rendezvoused at Keokuk and mustered into the service with Jno. W. Rankin as Colonel, April 16, 1862. Proceeding to St. Louis to receive equipage the new volunteers reached Mississippi in time to assist at the siege of Corinth. The part taken by the Seventeenth in the battle of Iuka received, probably unjustly, the censure of Rosecrans. Smarting under this, the command went into the battle of Corinth with the deter- mination to wipe out the stain cast upon its reputation. Its success is best told by the following general order, No. 145:
" The General commanding cannot forbear to give pleasure to many, be- sides the brave men immediately concerned, by announcing in advance of the regular order, that the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, by its gallantry in the battle of Corinth, on the fourth of October, charging the enemy, and capturing the flag of the Fortieth Mississippi, has amply atoned for its misfortune at Iuka, and stands among the honored regiments of his com- mand. Long may they wear with unceasing brightness the honors they have won.
"By order of Major General, W. S. Rosecrans.
" C. GODDARD, "A. A. A. G."
Notwithstanding, the whole number of casualties was but twenty-five, of whom only two were killed.
Before Vicksburg, at Chattanooga, and in the defense of Tilton, these troops fought with a bravery unrivaled. In the defense of Tilton the gar- rison was compelled to surrender, and the entire regiment, with the excep- tion of forty or fifty men, were carried away prisoners. Those who re- mained were furloughed and were a sorry looking band when compared with
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the stout nine hundred and fifty-six, who had left Iowa two and a half years before.
The regiment was mustered out at Louisville, July 25, 1865.
COMPANY G.
Third Sergeant George G. Clark, en- listed March 15, 1862, reduced to ranks.
Fourth Corporal Jacob Ollum, en- listed as private March 12, 1862, discharged June 16, 1863, for dis- ability.
Eighth Corporal John S. Willis, en- listed March 14, 1862, discharged October 14,'1862.
PRIVATES.
Bryant, Wm. C., enlisted March 12, 1862, discharged at Jackson Octo- ber 12, 1862.
Drake, James C., enlisted March 21, 1862, discharged at Keokuk Sep- tember 21, 1862.
Kimery, Geo. W., enlisted March 18, 1862.
Lee, Jesse, enlisted March 25, 1862, wounded at Iuka, captured at Trenton Tenn., December 18, 1862, discharged February 7, 1863, for disability.
Lee, Anderson, enlisted March 25,
1862, re-enlisted March 22, 1864. Noel, William T., enlisted March 17, 1862, died May 16, 1862.
Parish, Linus, enlisted March 12, 1862.
Parish, Lewis F., enlisted March 14, 1864.
Richmond, Allen R., enlisted March 12, 1862, killed in battle at Iuka, Miss., September 19, 1862.
Vaughan, John, enlisted March 12, 1862, transferred to Invalid Corps September 1, 1863.
Willis, Espy D., enlisted March 15, 1862, re-enlisted March 28, 1864. West, Elias F., enlisted March 13,
1862, wounded at Missouri Ridge. West, Wmn. A., enlisted March 19, 1862, died of wounds April 7, 1863.
Wilmot, Edgar E., enlisted March 14, 1862, discharged for disability January 3, 1863.
Yard, Samuel, enlisted March 12, 1862, re-enlisted March 28, 1864. Yard, Marion, enlisted March 12, 1862, discharged December 18, 1862.
EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY.
The men enlisting in this regiment were mustered in at Clinton, the place of rendezvous, in the early part of August, 1862, with John Edwards, of Lucas county, Colonel. The regiment was almost immediately ordered into the service in the Army of the Southwest, where, after a wearisome campaign, it was made a part of the garrison at Springfield, Mo., during . the winter of 1862-3. It had a taste of real war in the battle of Spring- field, in January, 1863, in which a loss of fifty-six was incurred in killed and wounded. The irksome duties of the garrison continued until the fall of 1863. After a vain chase in pursuit of Shelby, the regiment was again placed on garrison duty, at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
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