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OTHER FIRST THINGS.
The first assessment of taxes was made by the Peoria county authorities in 1830, before Warren county was regularly organized. The taxes collected under it amounted to about $31, which was about the cost of collecting them. The first assessment by order of the Warren county authorities was made in 1831 by County Treasurer Thomas C. Jennings.
March 7, 1832, Elijah Davidson, then County Treasurer, was authorized and directed to levy a tax of one-half per cent. "on the following species of personal property, to-Wit: Slaves, or registered or indentured negro or mulatto ser- vants; on all pleasure carriages; on distiller- ies; on all horses, mares, mules and asses; on all neat cattle over three years old; and on all clocks and watches and their appendages," for the year 1832.
The first deed recorded in Warren county was one for the northeast quarter of section 17, in township 10 north of range 4 west. This township is now a part of Henderson county, and Biggsville is located in it, and
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very near if not on the section described. The deed was given by Wm. Downing to James Ritchie, under date of Oct. 5, 1830, and was filed for record by James Ritchie, April 4, 1831.
The first deed for lands in what is now War- ren county recorded in Monmouth, was for the southeast quarter of section, 21, in Monmouth township. R. H. Peebles was the grantor and Peter Butler the grantee. The deed was dated Jan. 22, 1830, and filed April 11, 1831. Several other deeds were filed the same day, but this was the first recorded.
The first lot sold in Monmouth was bought by Charles Dawson, June 6, 1831, for $4.25. It was lot 4 in block 5,-the second lot north of Archer avenue on the west side of North Sec- ond street.
The first marriage in the county was per- formed by John B. Talbot, acting as a justice of the peace under appointment from Peoria county. The couple were David B. Findley and Miss Jane Ritchie, both of Sugar Tree Grove. It was in 1829.
The first marriage after the formal organiza- tion of the county was that of Samuel S. White and Hulda Jennings, and Justice John B. Tal- bot performed the ceremony May 10, 1831. Their license was also the first issued in the county. It was dated May 5, 1831.
The first divorce granted in Warren county separated Martha Williams from Richard Williams. The charge was desertion, and the case went by default. The divorce was granted May 11, 1835.
The first county order issued was dated July 9, 1830, and was in favor of Adam Ritchey, Jr., one of the County Commissioners. The amount was $3.
The first will filed was that of Adam Ritchey Dec. 24, 1832.
The first road viewed was from the lower Yellow Banks ( Oquawka) to or near the south- east corner of section 36, in township twelve north of' range one (Kelly). It was viewed by S. S. Phelps, David Findley, Jr., and Allen G. Andrews, and their report was accepted and the road ordered Dec. 6, 1830.
The first auctioneer's license was issued to W. F. Barnes January 27, 1838, to sell goods, wares and merchandise at auction in the town of Monmouth for one year. The fee charged was $5.00.
The first sermon in the county, it is said,
was preached by a Methodist minister named Finch. The first Sabbath school was opened at Oquawka in 1830 by Daniel McNeil. The first public school was opened in Monmouth by Robert Black in 1831.
The first physician in the county was Dr. Galland who located at Yellow Banks. John Miles was the first lawyer. He lived on a farm in what is now Kelly township.
The first woman naturalized in the county was Mrs. Agnes Peebles of Roseville, who took out her final papers in circuit court in Octo- ber, 1891. She renounced allegiance more par- ticularly to Queen Victoria, having been one of her Scotch subjects.
Aleri Rodgers, father of Hon. C. M. Rodgers of Hale township, and his brother Andrew in- troduced the first reaper west of the Alleghen- ies. It was shipped from Lynchburg, Va., via Richmond and New Orleans, up the Mississippi to Oquawka, and thence by wagon to the Rod- gers homestead. It was of the McCormick pat- tern, and its first trial here was witnessed by many interested spectators.
Rockwell & Buffum built a sawmill at Denny in 1830-31, probably the first in the county. Chester Potter rented it in 1832, and added burrs for grinding wheat and corn. He made the burrs himself out of prairie boulders. The next year Potter moved to Kelly township and erected a mill of his own on Henderson creek. The Rockwell mill known to the pres- ent generation was built in 1835.
CHAPTER IX.
Four Road Districts Created December 6, 1830- First Road Viewed Ran from Yellow Banks to Monmouth-How Early Roads Were De- scribed-The Rock Island Road. Macomb Road, etc.
Much of the work of the County Commis- sioners in the early days was the establishing of roads for the convenience of the settlers. No pains were taken to follow section lines, but the roads were established in every direction wherever request was made and the men ap-
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pointed to view them thought practicable. With the making of roads came the necessity of su- pervisors to care for them, and on Dec. 6, 1830, the first road districts were created. Dis- trict No. 1 was made to include that part of the county lying north of Cedar Creek and east of the west line of Spring Grove and Mon- mouth townships. Andrew Robison was ap- pointed road supervisor. District No. 2 com- prised what are now Sumner, Hale and Tomp- kins townships, and the part of the present Henderson county lying between these town- ships and the river. James Ryason was the supervisor of this district. District No. 3 was the part of the county south of Cedar Creek and east of the west line of Monmouth, Lenox, Roseville and Swan townships, with Sheldon Lockwood as supervisor. District No. 4 in- cluded Roseville and Swan townships and on west to the river, and the supervisor was John Eberman. An additional district was created the next April, composed of two tiers of town- ships across the north end of the county, from the Knox county line to the river, with Matthew D. Ritchie as supervisor. As more roads were opened and the duties of the super- visors became heavier the districts were re- arranged and their number increased. Under the arrangement now there are no road dis- tricts in Warren county, but the highways are under the control of three highway commis- sioners in each township.
September 6, 1831, the first road was ordered viewed. It was to extend from the steamboat landing at the lower Yellow Banks, "crossing Henderson creek above J. Smith's house," on to Broadway in Monmouth, and "through the first point of timber east, leaning south of east to the line between sections 25 and 26, and on to the county line." Wm. R. Jamison, Peter Smith, Adam Ritchie were named as viewers of the road. Their report was received and the road established, three rods wide, Dec. 6.
As stated before, the commissioners appoint- ed to "view" the roads usually followed the course which would quickest bring the traveler to the desired destination. A report on the loca- tion of one of these roads is given as a sample. It was viewed and laid out from Monmouth to Chester Potter's mill, on the northeast corner of Section 22, in Kelly township. The commis- sioners were John Humphrey and Thomas C. Wallace, and they reported that they had done
the work, by "commencing at the north end of Water (Second) street, thence in a northeaster- ly direction to a tall black oak, on the west side of Swarts' grove, which we marked, thence through said grove, blazing the timber to the northwest corner of Samuel Hogue's field, thence by the southeast corner of John Ken- dall's field; from thence we marked the tim- ber until the intersected prairie east of Es- quire Talbot's field, and west of where George Jones formerly lived, thence by Andrew Rob- ison's, thence from the east end of Robison's lane to the southeast corner of Thomas C. Jennings' field, thence through the timber a few rods north of I. Peckenpaugh's house, thence by the northwest corner of H. Ad- cock's field, thence through the timber to said mill." This report was accepted, and the road opened fifty feet wide.
The Macomb road, about as it is now, was 'ocated in 1834. December 3 of that year, Field Jarvis, Cleveland Hagler and Elijah Dav- (dson, viewers of the road, reported that "we have performed that duty as follows, viz .: commencing at the stake on the McDonough line where the viewers appointed by that county fixed the road to Monmouth, thence nearly north the way that Mr. Garret staked out his. house, thence on about the same direction to where Mr. Sutton is now settled, passing by the east end of Peter Scott's pasture, thence on a straight direction as may be to the Hickory grove, crossing the branch at said grove below the mouth of the small branch on the north side of said branch, thence nearly Dorthı the way which is now traveled by the mail carrier to the Pickayune grove, crossing the branch at said grove below where the small branch comes in on the north side of said branch, thence nearly north to the south fork of Henderson, crossing the same on a straight direction to Monmouth, thence on the same direction to Monmouth at the south end of Main street." The report was accepted and filed and the road established as a public road, and to be fifty feet wide.
The Rock Island road was laid out by John Humphreys of Warren county and Isaac Mil- ler of Mercer county, under an act of the leg- islature of March 2, 1837. It was to extend from the center of the public square in Mon- mouth to Stephenson, the county seat of Rock Island county, about three miles north of the present city of Rock Island. The plat of the
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road is copied in the records of the County Commissioners of December 5 of that year, and shows the distance from Monmouth to Spring Grove postoffice, six miles; to Grand- view, long since forgotten, ten and one-half miles; to Rock Island City, forty miles, and to Stephenson, forty-three miles.
Another early road was "from the bridge south of Elijah Davidson's door (just east of Monmouth), east past Peter Butler's, through Butler's farm, south of Wm. Whitman's, along the south side of McKee's field, then east toward Henderson" (the name by which Knoxville was then known).
One road is described as running from An- drew Robison's in Kelly township to Rock- well & Buffum's mill, thence to Craig's ford, and on to the Yellow Banks. Another from Mon- mouth toward Carthage began at the south end of Main street, ran southwest to Hickory Point on South Henderson, south to Field Jar- vis's, leaving Jarvis on the left, across Ellison creek, southwest to the county line, leaving Daniel Klauberg's on the right. Another ran from the south end of Water street in Mon- mouth to the center of Section 32, Monmouth, thence south along the township line to the end of Pearce's lane, southeast through the timber, then to Section 16, Berwick, southeast to Cedar fork of the Spoon, then to the county line in the direction of Ellis's mill.
In March, 1836, a road was viewed "from Monmouth on the Oquawka road to Jonathan French's new house, straight to the southwest corner of John Quinn's field, nearly north to the point of the grove, crossing the branch where it enters the grove just below where two branches come together, straight nearly northwest to Arthur McFarland's dam, across the branch running through Sugar Tree grove north on line between William McCoy and James Martin, across Cedar creek north, north- west to the southwest corner of Hamilton Brownlee's place, north along Brownlee's field, west to Main Henderson one-half mile below Cannon's grove, and west of north to county line."
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Another road was described as follows: South from Little York on the section line to McFarland's carding machine, south to a post, southeast to the northeast corner of J. Snod- grass's, southeast to the north corner of James Campbell's field, to Rev. James Bruce's south- west corner, southeast to the northeast corner
of the Henderson Associate church lot, to a bridge east of the church, southeast from the bridge south of William Williamson's to a post forty rods southeast of the bridge, thence to a post sixty rods north of the southwest corner of Andrew Gibson's, south to the corner, southeast to the east side of the branch on Jonathan French's west line, thence east to Monmouth.
CHAPTER X.
Roster of County Officers-Men Who Have Served the People of Warren County from Its Organization to the Present Time.
A complete roster of county officials of War- ren county is as follows:
County Commissioners-John B. Talbot, 1830- 34, 1836-38; John Pence, 1830-32; Adam Ritchey, 1830; Peter Butler, 1830-32, 1840-44; Jeremiah Smith, 1832-34; James McCallon, 1832-34; Rob- ert Gilmore, 1834-36; William Whitman, 1834- 36; W. S. Jamison, 1834-36; Samuel G. Morse, 1836-39; Alexander Turnbull, 1836-38, 1844-46; James C. Hutchinson, 1838-40; John C. Bond, 1838-42; James P. Hogue, 1839-43; James Tucker, 1842-45; H. Brownlee, 1843-44; Thomas Griffee, 1844-46; James Drain, 1845-48; H. E. Haley, 1846-47; Jonn B. Junkin, 1846-49; Josiah Whitman, 1847-49; John W. Giddings, 1848-49.
County Clerk-Daniel McNeil, Jr., 1830-38, 1843-48; Elijah Davidson, 1838-43; William F. Smith, 1849; Ephraim S. Swinney, 1849-61; W. J. Thomson, 1861-65; W. G. Bond, 1865-73; W. H. Sexton, 1873 --.
Circuit Clerk-Daniel McNeil, Jr., 1830-41; Ira F. M. Butler, 1841-48.
Recorder-Daniel McNeil, Jr., 1830-43; Eph- raim S. Swinney, 1843-48.
Circuit Clerk and Recorder ( consolidated)- W. B. Stapp, 1848-49; R. S. Monroe, 1849-50; H. S. Hascall, 1850-51; William Billings, 1851-56; William Laferty, 1856-64; T. M. Luster, 1864-68; J. L. Dryden, 1868-80; Geo. C. Rankin, 1880-91; L. O. Tourtellott, 1891 -.
Probate Judge-Daniel McNeil, Jr., 1831-37. Probate Justice-William F. Smith, 1837-39;
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George C. Lamphere, 1839-43; Erastus Rice, 1843-49.
County Judge-Ivory Quinby, 1849-55; James Thompson, 1855-57; John Porter, 1857-65; Jo- seph K. Ripley, 1865-73; Elias Willits, 1873-81; James H. Stewart, 1881-90; W. C. Norcross, 1890- 94; T. G. Peacock, 1894 -.
County Court (old style)-Ivory Quinby, county judge, and these associates: John Riggs and Joseph Hogan, 1849-53; John Riggs and William Lair, 1853-54.
County School Commissioner-Alexis Phelps, 1837-39; W. S. Berry, 1839-43; Samuel Wood, 1843-47; A. C. Harding, 1847-49; James G. Mad- den, 1849-51; W. B. Jenks, 1851-53; W. F. Smith, 1853-55; A. H. Tracy, 1855-61; A. B. Cox, 1861-65.
County Superintendent of Schools-James I. Wilson, 1865-69; James B. Donnell, 1869-77; W. E. Watt, 1877-81; J. P. Higgins, 1881-82; Maggie L. Wiley, 1882-86; John S. Cannon, 1886-90; Helen Nye Rupp, 1890-94; Mary E. Sykes, 1894 -.
Coroner-John Ritchie, 1830-35; Alexander Turnbull, 1835-36; George H. Wright, 1836-40; H. C. George, 1840-42; David Smith, 1842-46; Joseph McCoy, 1846-50; Robert Thompson, 1850- 52; William Talbot, 1852-54; Robert Grant, 1854-60; Samuel Douglass, 1860-64; John R. Webster, 1864-68; W. L. Cuthbert, 1868-70; R. B. McCleary, 1870-78; Henry B. Young, 1878-80; George H. Breed, 1880-82; William S. Holliday, 1882-84; Samuel M. Hamilton, 1884-86; E. C. Linn, 1886-88; Warren E. Taylor, 1888-92; E. C. Linn, 1892-96; J. R. Ebersole, 1896 -.
County Treasurer (also Assessor until 1855) -James Jamison, 1830-31; Thomas C. Jennings, 1831; Elijah Davidson, 1831-36; Gilbert Turn- bull, 1836-43; R. N. Allen, 1843-49; George Bab- cock, 1849-53; James W. Butler, 1853-55; R. S. Thompson, 1855-61; Draper Babcock, 1861-65; William Shores, 1865-67; Daniel D. Parry, 1867- 75; James H. Herdman, 1875-79; John F. Wal- lace, 1879-82; Robert S. Patton, 1882-86; W. T. Gossett, 1886-90; W. H. Hartwell, 1890-94; W. A. Mitchell, 1894-98; Samuel F. Allen, 1898- 1902.
Surveyor-Peter Butler, 1831-35; William C. Butler, 1835-39; Benjamin Thompson, 1839-43; Joseph Paddocks, 1843-55; E. E. Wallace, 1855- 59; Thomas S. McClanahan, 1859-65; Albert S. Crawford, 1865-69; John A. Gordon, 1869-71; John B. McCulloch, 1871-75; Thomas S. Mc- Clanahan, 1875-79; John F. Wallace, 1879-82;
Thomas S. McClanahan, 1882-88; J. Ed Miller, 1888-1901; Thomas S. McClanahan, 1901 -.
Sheriff-Stephen S. Phelps, 1830-32; Peter Butler, 1832-34; John G. Haley, 1834-36; Ira F. M. Butler, 1836-40; Samuel L. Hogue, 1840-41; John Brown, 1841-50; R. N. Allen, 1850-52; Charles L. Armsby, 1852-54; James McCoy, 1854-56; C. M. Mills, 1856-58; Seth Smith, 1858- 60; David Turnbull, 1860-62; David C. Riggs, 1862-64; David Turnbull, 1864-66; William Arm- strong, 1866-67; W. L. Cuthbert, 1867-68; Cyrus Bute, 1868-70; J. A. Boynton, 1870-72; W. L. Cuthbert, 1872-74; J. A. Boynton, 1874-76; Will- iam G. Bond, 1876-82; John W. Bolon, 1882-86; Arnold T. Bruner, 1886-90; David Turnbull, 1890-94; Fred U. Glass, 1894-98; David Turn- bull, 1898-1902.
State's Attorney-Thomas Ford, 1832-34; W. A. Richardson, 1834-36; Henry L. Bryant, 1836- 38; William Elliott, 1838-50; H. G. Reynolds, 1850-54; William C. Goudy, 1854-55; Alfred M. Craig, 1855-56; James H. Stewart, 1856-64; James A. Mckenzie, 1864-72; William Marshall, 1872-76; George Snyder, 1876-80; John W. Mat- thews, 1880-88; Edgar MacDill, 1888-92; Charles A. Mclaughlin, 1892-96; Louis H. Hanna, 1896 -.
Circuit Judges-Richard M. Young, 1830-36; James H. Ralston, 1836-39; Peter Lott, 1839-40; Stephen A. Douglass, 1841-43; Jesse B. Thomas, 1843-45; N. H. Purple, 1845-49; William A. Min- chall, 1849-50; William Kellogg, 1850-53; H. M. Weed, 1853-55; John S. Thompson, 1855-60; Aaron Tyler, 1860-61; Charles B. Lawrence, 1861-64; John S. Thompson, 1864-67; Arthur A. Smith, 1867-94; John J. Glenn, 1877 -; George W. Pleasants, 1879-97; Hiram Bigelow, 1894-97; John A. Gray, 1897 -; G. W. Thompson, 1897 -. The terms of office of Judges Glenn, Gray and Thompson will expire in 1903.
CHAPTER XI.
Warren County Quick to Respond to the Call for Troops at the Breaking Out of the Civil War-The Companies and Regiments-Cap- tain Stapp's Mexican War Company-The Spanish-American War-Reunion Associa- tions-Memorial Hall.
Warren county proved its loyalty to the Union in the dark days of the Civil war by promptly furnishing its full measure of men for the
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army. April 18, 1861, four days after the news of the taking of Fort Sumter reached Mon- mouth, a public meeting was held at the court house to take into consideration the alarm- ing condition of the country. Judge John Porter presided, and C. Coates was secretary. A committee composed of Solomon Borroughs, Ivory Quinby, Dr. Martin, James Thompson, William Laferty, Reuben Grames, William Fleming, Sr., A. H. Swain, P. E. Reed, John S. Clark, Charles Jamison and A. H. Holt was chosen to draft resolutions, and reported at an adjourned meeting April 29. The resolutions which were adopted deplored "the divided and disrupted condition of our country," and de- clared "that we repudiate all party distinctions and are for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the Laws." Chauncy Har- din, Judge Porter, Ivory Quinby, James Thomp- son and William Laferty were appointed to raise funds for equipping a company for the war, and also to render assistance to the families of those who might volunteer.
About this same time the First Company of Monmouth Volunteers was formed. The roster bears the names of ninety privates, and twelve officers. The principal officers were: Josiah Moore, captain; J. R. Charter, first lieutenant; Charles C. Williams, second lieutenant; William S McClanahan, orderly sergeant; R. Hobbs, ensign. The company left Monmouth for Peoria May 13, 1861, where it was mustered into the service as Co. F of the Seventeenth infantry.
A company organized as a home guard was called the Silver Gray Rifle company. It was made up of the older men of the city and com- munity, with M. D. Campbell as captain, Elisha Nye and Samuel Wood, lieutenants, and William Gowdy, orderly sergeant. The roll contains the names of thirteen officers and sixty-seven pri- vates.
A company of cavalry was also organized and called the Monmouth Dragoons. It went to Quincy July 1, 1861, and became Co. G of the First Illinois cavalry. George W. Palmer was captain; Samuel Douglass and John Porter, lieutenants; and there were thirteen other of- ficers and sixty-eight men.
The Monmouth Reserve Guard was another company formed for active drill and to be in readiness to answer the country's call when their services were needed. E. B. Goodrich was captain, and H. E. Paine, Jr., and J. P. Thompson lieutenants. There were seventeen
officers and sixty-two men on the roll of mem- bers.
A company of cadets was organized and called the Monmouth Cadet Guards. Guy Stapp was captain and William M. Mitchell and James Babcock lieutenants. There were sixteen of- ficers and thirty-two men in the company. An- other company of cadets was organized at the college and called the Cadet Blues. R. W. McClaughry, who had graduated at the college in 1860, was captain.
The Cedar Creek neighborhood furnished a company called the Cedar Creek Rifles. James B. McNeil was captain, and John P. McGaw and George N. Samson lieutenants. This company was not called into service as originally or- ganized, but most of the members enlisted in Captain Baldwin's "Young America Rifles," afterwards Co. C of the Thirty-sixth infantry.
There were a number of other companies or- ganized for drill, and to be in readiness when needed. They were never called out as origin- ally constituted. Among these were the Rose- ville Rifles, Captain Talbott; the Union Rifles, Little York, Captain Maley; the Lincoln Rifles, Captain Nathan Smith; Captain McCormick's company, Ellison; the Warren Guards, Utah, Captain Parsons; the Rifle Guards, Ionia, Cap- tain Hickman; Captain Meier's Rifles, Spring Grove, and the Sumner Cavalry, Rev. Samuel Millen captain.
A company was organized in July, 1861, to go to western Virginia. They failed to secure the place for which they had enlisted and disbanded two or three weeks later, thirty-eight going to Burlington to join a company of fly- ing artillery. O. W. Gamble was captain of the company and W. M. Gay and John Martin lieutenants.
Co. B of the Fifty-ninth Infantry was made up of volunteers from Monmouth and Young America (Kirkwood) and mustered into service in July, 1861. Hendrick E. Paine and James Johnson were captains of this company during its service, and John H. Johnson, James John- son and Robert D. Irvine were lieutenants.
The Kirkpatrick Invincibles, so named in honor of A. G. Kirkpatrick, were mustered into the service as Co. I of the Fiftieth infantry, an Adams county regiment, in September, 1861. Joseph D. Wolfe, John T. Cuzzins and Francis J. Dunn served as captains of this Company, and George W. Eliott, Philip S. Douglass, J. S. Winbigler and William Brownlee, lieutenants.
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Warren county contributed a good number of troops to Bob Ingersoll's regiment, the Eleventh cavalry. Co. I was raised in the south part of the county by Captain Worden, and was at first called the Swan Creek cavalry. Co. K of Ingersoll's regiment was also from War- ren county. It entered the service November 1, 1861, commanded by Captain John McFar- land. Richard A. Howk, Thomas Paul and Gustavus Cole were lieutenants. Lieutenant Cole was promoted to captain of Co. L of the same regiment, and Lieutenant Howk trans- ferred to the Twelfth cavalry and made cap- tain of Co. L of that regiment, afterwards consolidated and called Co. G. A part of Co. H of Ingersoll's regiment went from this county, and also a few scattering members of other companies.
The county was represented in Co. L of the Ninth cavalry; Cos. D, G, H and L of the Seventh cavalry; Cos. C and I of the Fifty- eighth infantry, and Co. H of the Fourteenth infantry. Leonard Peck was captain of the last named company.
The One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois infantry was organized at Camp Wood, Quincy, by Colonel John W. Goodwin, and mustered in June 21, 1864, for 100 days. It was assigned to garrison duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in July, and later Cos. C and F occupied the post at Weston, Missouri. The regiment was mustered out of the service at Springfield October 14, 1864. Cos. A, C, D and E were largely Warren county men. John W. Good- win was colonel of the regiment; A. H. Holt, lieutenant colonel; and John Tunison, major. Co. A was commanded by Wm. S. Mcclanahan, captain, and Guy Stapp and John A. Finley, lieutenants; Co. C by Jasper N. Reece, captain, and Wm. B. Moore, first lieutenant; and Co. E by George D. Sofield, captain, and Benjamin C. Davis, second lieutenant. There were a few members also in Co. B. In the closing days of the war some of the boys of this regiment re-enlisted in Co. H of the Forty-seventh in- fantry (reorganized). William F. Gowdy was captain of this company, and John A. Finley and James B. Brent lieutenants.
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