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THE FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
The neleus of the Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry eon- sisted of four companies of cavalry, which were recruited as personal escort of Major General Blunt, in the spring of 1863. The necessity of raising an additional force for frontier service was so imperative that the recruiting of a whole regiment was authorized, and the work performed during the summer and fall, Major T. J. Anderson serving as reerniting officer. The organization of the regiment was partially completed in November as follows : Field and Staff-Colonel, Charles W. Blair, Fort Seott ; majors, Daniel II. David, Charles Willetts and John
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G. Brown, Leavenworth; adjutant, William O. Gould, Leavenworth ; assistant surgeon, Albert W. Chenowith, Lecompton. The Fourteenth took part in the peculiarly dangerous and wearing service on the border and in the campaign against Price. It was mustered out at Lawrence, August 20, 1865. After the numerous guerrilla raids of 1863, under Coffey, Rains and Quantrell, had eulminated in the terrible massacre at Lawrence, Governor Carney immediately commissioned Colonel C. R. Jennison to recruit a regiment of cavalry for the express purpose of protecting the eastern border of Kansas. Rendezvous was established at Leavenworth, and in a month the required companies were raised, and the Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry was organized under the following officers: Colonel, Charles R. Jennison, Leavenworth; lieu- tenant colonel, George H. Hoyt, Boston, Massachusetts; major, Robert HI. Hunt, Leavenworth ; adjutant, Joseph Mackle ; quartermaster, George W. Carpenter ; surgeon, Augustus E. Denning, Topeka ; chaplain, Benja- min h. Read, Leavenworth. The regiment served in Missouri and Kansas, taking part in repelling the Priee raid.
The Sixteenth Volunteer Cavalry was organized during the latter period of the war, and was officered as follows: Colonel, Werter R. Davis, Baldwin City; lieutenant colonel, Samuel Walker, Lawrence ; major, James A. Priee, and adjutant, Philip Doppler, both of Weston, Missouri ; quartermaster, William B. Halyard; surgeon, James P. Erickson ; chaplain, Thomas J. Ferril, Baldwin City. This regiment was out against Price, and participated in guerrilla and Indian warfare in Missouri.
ONE HUNDRED DAY MEN.
In response to the president's eall of April 23, 1864, for troops to serve one hundred days, five companies were recruited in Kansas and organized into a battalion, which, July 28th, was mustered into the Seventeenth Kansas, at Fort Leavenworth, under the following offieers: Lieutenant colonel, Samuel A. Drake; adjutant, D. C. Strandbridge; quartermaster, D. B. Evans; assistant surgeon, George E. Buddington, all of Leavenworth. This regiment, the last raised in the state, served with credit to the end of the struggle.
THE NEGRO REGIMENTS.
Six companies of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry were mustered in January 13, 1863. The organization was completed with four additional companies, May 2nd, 'under these officers: Colonel, James M. Williams ; lieutenant colonel, John Bowles; major, Richard J. Ward; adjutant, Richard J. Hinton; quartermaster, Elijah Hughes; surgeon, Samuel C. Harington. It performed good service in the southwest, and was mustered out at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, October 1, 1865.
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The Second Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry also served on the border. It was organized in the summer of 1863, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, under the following field and staff officers: Colonel, Samuel J. Crawford, Garnett; lieutenant colonel, Horatio Knowles; major, James HI. Gillpatrick, Junction City ; adjutant, John R. Montgomery, Little Rock, Arkansas; quartermaster, Edwin Stokes, Clinton ; surgeon, George W. Walgamott, Lawrence ; chaplain, Josiah B. McAffee, Topeka. It was discharged from the service at Leavenworth, November 27, 1865, having, as did also the First Colored Infantry, nobly performed its duty, and by its faithful service proved the bravery and efficiency of colored soldiers.
The First Kansas Volunteer Battery has left meager records. Its first officers were mustered in July 24, 1861, about fifty artillery men enlisting that month. The organization was as follows: Captain, Thomas Bickerton ; first lieutenant, Norman Allen, both of Lawrence ; second lieutenant, Hartson R. Brown; first sergeant, John B. Cook, Auburn ; second sergeant. Shelby Sprague, Prairie City ; corporal, John S. Gray, Mound City. Many recruits were added to the battery during the early part of 1862, and it participated in the battle of Prairie Grove. It left Rolla, Missouri, July 9, 1863, for St. Louis. In consequence of the death of Captain Norman Allen, who was promoted February 25, 1862, and who died at St. Louis July 10, 1863, the command devolved on Lieutenant Thomas Taylor, Lieutenant H. R. Brown having been mustered out February 15, 1862. Directly succeeding the death of Captain Allen the battery was ordered to Indiana, and took an active part in capturing Morgan's guerrilla band, then on its raid through that state. After this it was ordered to St. Louis, and subsequently to Columbus, Kentucky. It served with distinction in all the principal actions in which the armies of the Tennessee and Mississippi were en- gaged, and its numbers were greatly reduced by the casualties of war and by disease. It was mustered out of service at Leavenworth, Kansas, July 17. 1865.
The work of organizing the Second Kansas Volunteer Battery was commenced in August, 1862, under the supervision of Major C. W. Blair, of the Second Kansas Cavalry. Its organization was completed on September 19th following, its officers being as follows: Charles W. Blair, Fort Scott, commanding; first lieutenant, Edward A. Smith; first lieutenant, David C. Knowles, second lieutenant, Andrew G. Clark, all of Fort Scott; second lieutenant, Aristarehus Wilson, Mapleton ; first sergeant, William Requa, Mount Gilead; quartermaster-sergeant, Wil- liam II. Boyd, Mansfield. At the time the battery was mustered in at Fort Scott, its entire foree was one hundred and twenty-three officers and men, two twelve-pounder field howitzers, and four six-pounder guns. The battery was assigned to First Brigade, General Soloman, First Division, General Blunt, of the Army of the Frontier, then consolidated
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under General Schofield at Pea Ridge, and participated gallantly in the warfare in the southwest. It was mustered out of service in August, 1865.
THE THIRD BATTERY.
The military organization afterward known as the Third Kansas Battery was originally recruited as a cavalry company, by Henry Hopkins and John F. Aduddell, in the latter part of 1861, and on the formation of the Second Kansas Cavalry, February 28, 1862, was assigned to that regiment as Company B, its officers being as follows : Captain, Henry Hopkins, and first lieutenant, John F. Aduddell, both of Albion, Illinois; second lieutenant, Oscar F. Dunlap, Topeka; on May 15, 1862, the latter was succeeded by Bradford S. Bassett. Captain Ilopkins having been ordered to the command of Hollister's battery, Lieutenant Aduddell succeeded to the command. This organization served in the southwest, principally in Arkansas, latterly under the command of Lieutenant Bassett, and was mustered out in January, 1865, except about fifty men who were attached to the Second Battery.
Three Indian regiments were actively engaged in the United States service during the War of the Rebellion, which were officered and entire- ly recruited in Kansas. The recruits were chiefly from the loval Seminole and Creek Indians, who had taken refuge from the encroach- ments of hostile Indians under Stand-Waitie, in the southern border of the state. A few were resident Indians, having homes and families in Kansas.
THE RECORD OF KANSAS.
A synopsis of the reports of the adjutant general's department gives the following as the record of the seventeen regiments of cavalry and infantry and the four batteries :
OFFICERS
ENLISTED MEN
Killed in battle
34
762
Died of wounds
12
192
Died of disease
26
2,080
Deserted
2
1.988
Discharged for disability
8
1,849
Discharged dishonorably
1
94
Dismissed
43
Cashiered
4
Resigned Missing
281
35
The heaviest losses of life in battle were sustained by the First Colored Infantry which lost four officers and one hundred and fifty-six enlisted men. The First Infantry, which was next in order, lost eleven officers and eighty-six enlisted men.
CHAPTER XIX.
WYANDOTTE IN THE CIVIL WAR.
THE COUNTY'S RECORD-FIRST REGIMENT KANSAS VOLUNTEER IN- FANTRY-OUR BOYS IN THE SECOND-INDIANS IN THE FIFTH CAVALRY- THOSE WHO JOINED THE SIXTH-COLONEL WEIR'S MEN-THE ILL-FATED TWELFTH-A FIGHTING CAVALRY-THE SIXTEENTIE'S ROLL OF HONOR- THE KANSAS COLORED REGIMENTS-THE BATTLES THEY FOUGHT- FIGHTING IN THE OZARKS-POWELL CLAYTON'S COMMAND-PROTECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER-WHEN COLONEL CLARKSON WAS CAPTURED- THE TWELFTH CAVALRY'S MANY BATTLES.
Wyandotte county and Wyandotte city had weathered the storm and stress of the Border warfare and the long struggle for statehood. But the end was not in sight. Peace did not come with the admission of Kansas into the Union as a Free State under the Wyandotte constitu- tion. There were battles to be fought and won or lost before the slavery question was settled. The census of 1860 had given Wyandotte county a white population of 2,420. A few hundred more had been added-perhaps 3,500 were here-when the Civil war broke forth with all its fury. And the citizens of Wyandotte were ready. Many stanch pro-slavery men hurried across to Missouri to join the Confeder- ate forces, but the citizens generally arrayed themselves on the side of the Union. When the call for volunteers came, sixty-seven men of Wyandotte county marched to Camp Lincoln near Leavenworth to join the First Regiment of Kansas Volunteer Infantry. From that time on men were going to war from Wyandotte and Quindaro and from every seetion of the county.
THE COUNTY'S RECORD.
The reeords of the adjutant general's office at Topeka give Wyan- dotte county credit for volunteers in the Kansas regiments as follows: First Infantry 67
Second Infantry 22
Fifth Cavalry 21
Sixth Cavalry 64
Tenth Cavalry 23
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Twelfth Cavalry
88
Fifteenth Cavalry 73
Sixteenth Cavalry 119
Total white volunteers ineluding a few Indians 477 In the Colored Regiments 483
Total volunteers for Wyandotte county 960
Practically an entire regiment of soldiers from the smallest county in the then newest state in the Union! A proportion sneh as no other eounty of a corresponding population ever gave to war.
But this was not all. There were the Home Guards-a little band of brave and loyal men who stayed to guard the homes and families of the soldiers who went to the front.
FIRST REGIMENT KANSAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
Sixty-seven men from Wyandotte county were mustered into this, the first Kansas regiment. William Y. Roberts was first captain, then a major, then a colonel. George H. Chapin and Avery G. Norman served as regimental quartermasters, and Dr. George E. Boddington and Dr. Joseph Speck were regimental surgeons. Sylvester T. Smith was promoted from lieutenant to captain. Lientenants in the different companies from Wyandotte county were John P. Alden and John W. Dyer. The latter was killed in the battle at Wilson Creek. Hubbard H. Sawyer was first a sergeant, afterwards a lieutenant. Aaron W. Merrill also was promoted while in service from sergeant to lieutenant. Others serving as sergeants were Jason Morse, Philip H. Knobloek, Theodore Bartles, Thomas Grady, Orson Bartlett. George C. Brown and Velmoor C. Clemmons were promoted from corporals to sergeants. The corporals were George Ingersoll, John Warren, George W. Garno, Dennis Costello, William Lloyd, John O'Donnell, Patrick Collins, John O'Flaherty, John Johnson, Richard Burland, and Henry J. Fairbanks. John Farrall, a corporal, died at Vicksburg of wounds received in battle. Valentine Reichneeker and John Moody were musicians. The privates from Wyandotte county were Jaeob Arnold, Joel Armes, Henry Boyle, Cyrus Bowman, William S. Camps, William J. Carlisle, Daniel Collins, Henry Cooper, Joy Casey, Dewitt C. Dennison, Daniel Donahue, Daniel Emmons, David Flemming, Hugh Gibbons, Robert Good, Joseph Guilford, Jacob Heiter, Brian Henry, Leopald Hipp, John Killen, August Kreiger, Martin Lawler, William H. Nichols, Joseph Muenzen- mayer, William Ridler, John Reheis, Adam Reinoehle, John Roeser, Gustav Sells, Fred W. Smith, Franeis Tracy, John Van Fossen, John Wilson, Charles Wilstoff and Ely L. Zane.
Lieutenant John W. Dyer was killed in battle at Wilson ereek.
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John Farrall died at Vicksburg of wounds received in action. Daniel Donahue died at Trenton, Tennessee. Martin Lawler, Joel Armes and Adam Reinochle either were killed outright, or died of wounds in the battle at Wilson Creek. Francis Tracy died at Natchez, Mississippi and John Roeser was drowned in the Missouri river. £ Eleven of the soldiers from Wyandotte in this regiment were discharged from the service on account of wounds and disabilities.
OUR BOYS IN THE SECOND.
The Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry contained twenty- two men from Wyandotte county. Dr. Joseph P. Root, Dr. George B. Wood and Dr. Ivan D. Heath were regimental surgeons; Joseph Sanger and John Burke, sergeants ; Theodore Praun, a corporal. The privates in the regiment from Wyandotte were: William T. Ainsworth, Wesley Boyles, Squire Boyles, Elias Boyles, James Boyles, Pembrook IIarris, Dionysius Harris, Wendelin Krumm, Jacob Hammelman, Augustus Luke, John Myers, Michael MeLain, Engelhardt Noll, Joseph Praun and John Rusk.
William T. Ainsworth was a prisoner of war, captured near Fort Gibson. Dr. George B. Wood resigned because his health failed him. Joseph Praun was mustered out from the general hospital in Little Rock, while ill, and four others were discharged for disability. Two were deserters.
INDIANS IN THE FIFTH CAVALRY.
Wyandotte county had twenty-one representatives in the Fifth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Alfred Gray was quartermaster. The privates were as follows: Riley Alley, Linneus T. Bancroft, Rusha Chaplog, Tally Beverly, Moses Denna, Richardson Hill, Simon Hill, William HI. . Jones, Zacharai Longhouse, Harrison Love, Four Miles, John Moonshine, Philip Mature, Little Shaughai, Thomas Puneh, Thompson Smith, Christian Snake, James Thomas, George Williams and James Wilson.
Of these twenty-one Wyandotte soldiers, most of whom were In- dians, eleven were transferred to other regiments and eight deserted, one was dishonorably discharged, and of one there is no record when he was discharged, transferred or mustered out.
THOSE WHO JOINED THE SIXTII.
The Sixth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry was a popular regiment for Wyandotte county men. Many of the sixty-four volun- teers from this county were Wyandotte and Delaware Indians. John
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A. Johnson, first a lieutenant, won promotion to the rank of major. Jacob H. Bartles was quartermaster sergeant. Vietor Leivanx was veterinary surgeon for the regiment. Thomas Crooks rose from ser- geant to lieutenant and then became a captain. Nathaniel B. Lucas was a captain; Matthew Cleary, Thomas Darling. Daniel Brayman, Ebenezer W. Lucas, Samuel J. Martin and John F. Smith were lieu- tenants: Lemuel P. Ketchum served as commissary sergeant, and the sergeants were William H. Wren, Samuel J. Martin, Joseph E. Powell, Granville Freeman, George A. Carleton, James II. Cadell and Benjamin F. Reck. The corporals were Benjamin T. J. Bennett, Robert W. Robetaille, Henry W. Freeman, Benjamin W. Hurd, Jacob J. Klein- kneht, and John Cotter; Wallace Higgins was a bugler, and the follow- ing were the privates who enlisted from Wyandotte county: Thomas Alsup, James E. Bishop, Jackson Bullet, George A. Coray, George Cum- mings, Frederick Dodd, Joseph R. Donnelly, Jacob Dick, James W. Duncan, George Evans, John Dunean, Theodore Grindel. John File, James Hicks, Silas Greyeyes, Emmanuel F. Heisler, Jaeob High, Joseph Hanford, Charles R. Hanford, Southerland Ingersoll, Isaac Johnnycake, Benjamin Johnnycake, Thomas S. Kames, Lemnel P. Ketehum, William R. Ketchum, Beverly Lancaster, Timothy S. Lucas, Jacob Linneas, Solomon Love, Yellow Leaf, James Peacock, Benjamin F. Russell, Wil- liam P. Pedigo, William X. Pedigo, David N. Rogers, Raif Steele, Joseph Thorp, Peter White, John W. Whitman, Allen T. Wright, Josiah Won- setter and Alvatus Williams.
Granville P. Freeman died May 11, 1864, at Dardanelle, Arkansas, of wounds. Corporal John H. Cotter was killed by guerrillas near Fort Smith. George Evans died of consumption. James Hicks was a prisoner of war. Captain Nathaniel B. Lucas was transferred to command a company of the Eighteenth United States Colored Volun- teers. Two Wyandotte soldiers deserted the regiment.
COLONEL WEIR'S MEN.
Wyandotte county sent twenty-three men to the front with the Tenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, headed by Colonel William Weir. John J. Lannon was sergeant major; James HI. Harris, eaptain; Wil- liam C. Harris, first lieutenant ; Anderson W. Nicholas and Mortimer C. Harris, corporals, and George B. Reichnecker, musician. The privates : Charles E. Armour. David Ernhout, Andrew Franz, John Galvin, Charles C. Johnson, Charles Klinefogel, Thomas Lannan, Wil- liam Molton, Richard C. Powell, Samuel P. Parsons, James A. Riel, Thomas H. Tracy. John Tracy, George Tremblett, Benjamin F. Saylor, and George C. Waddle.
Six of the twenty-three Wyandotte volunteers died of disease while in service. They were Charles Klinefogle, William Molton, Samuel
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P. Parsons, David Ernhout, Charles E. Armour and Richard P. Powell. Three men deserted and Colonel Weir was dismissed from service by General Order No. 123, dated at St. Louis August 20, 1864.
THE ILL-FATED TWELFTH.
Wyandotte county gave to the Twelfth Regiment Volunteer Caval- ry many of the bravest and best men who fought with the command in Arkansas. Among these were many Wyandot and Delaware Indians. Of the regimental officers, William Sellers was for a time chaplain. The roster of Wyandotte men who served as officers in this regiment follows: Orlando S. Bartlett and James D. Chestnut, captains ; Fletch- er Hedding and Samnel M. Stephens, sergeants; Gustav Tauber, com- missary sergeant ; Thomas H. Gahagan, William Hazlett and George W. Newell, musicians; James Summerwell, Rufus W. Foster, William Selers, James P. Killen, Silas Adams, John S. Heald and John E. Marutzky, corporals. The privates were William Armstrong, Orrin Baldwin, Isaac Bigtree, Christian F. Bowen, William C. Blue, Chad. Brostwick, Louis Bigknife, Frederick Britton, Jacob Carhead, Joseph Charloe, Cornelius H. Creeden, Edward Clinton, David Charloe, Henry . Chrysler, Sebastian O. Downey, Peter Donnika, Peter Dailey, William Day. Moses Dougherty, Abraham Demerest, Charles Edwards, William Ellis, Conrad Grespacher, Jessie Giaury, Jeremiah Harrison, Edward Hollevet, George A. Horning, William Hazlett, George Hanford, Wil- liam Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Austin Kroop, William Johnson. Thom- as Jacklin, Thomas A. Kirk, Henry Kersey, William Lewis, Seth A. Leavitt, Isaac Littlechief, William II. Lindsey, Samuel MeCowan, Elias B. Myers, James Mature, John McCain, John Murphy, David Matthews, Henry W. Miller, John P. Nickell, Almond Noble, Smith Nicholas, Wil- liam Nicholas, Edward O'Hare, John N. Poe, Gideon B. Parsons, Henry Puckett, John Porcupine, Josiah Puckett, Thomas Payne, Joseph Pea- rock. William Parker, John A. Randall, John Rodgers, James Smith, Joseph Streatmater, Christian Santer, Rudolph Wiltz, William White- feather, Jaeob Whitewing, Sebastian Waller, Lewis Wengartner, Frank Whitewing, William Walker, Patrick Whalen, and Michael Youngman.
This was a regiment that suffered by exposure in the Ozarks and by hard fighting. Of the eighty-eight men from Wyandotte sixteen died of disease. three were killed, fourteen were discharged for disability and twelve deserted. Those who died from disease were George W. Newell, Fletcher Hedding, Silas Adams, Elias A. Myers, Gideon B. Parsons, IFenry Puckett, John A. Randall, Joseph Steatmater, James Whitewing, Edward Clinton. Isaac Littlechief. James Peacock, Henry W. Miller, William Parker and James Smith. An accident caused the death of George Hanford, musician, at Fort Smith, guerrillas killed William Whitefeather, and William Johnson died of wounds.
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A FIGHTING CAVALRY.
The call for volunteers for the Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry was responded to by a body of seventy-three Wyandotte county patriots. The list follows: John T. Smith and William H. Il. Grinter, first lieutenants; John W. R. Lucas, quartermaster sergeant; Alexander Zane, William II. Worrell, John Jordan, Erasmus Riley, Dennis F. Lneas and William A. Long, sergeants; John Kanally, James M. Thorp, Adam Wilson, Carroll S. Evans, Timothy II. Carlton, Eldridge H. Brown and Josiah Thorp, corporals; David Thomas, Henry Runne, John ITohenstenner and Riehard L. Warrell, buglers; Gilbert Lewis, wagoner; James M. Long, saddler; David N. Baker, farrier. The privates : Henry J. Armstrong, Edward M. Alexander, Peter Broham, William B. Bushman, Doctor Block, Rusha Chaploy, John Coon, Moses Denna, William Cheeley, William Driver, John Freeman, Byron Gan- nett, Henry Groh, Ilenry Gibson, John Gillis, Samuel Glass, Andrew B. Ilovey, Sylvanns Harless, Jacob Higgins, William II. Jones, Charles W. Ketchum, Charles E. Learned, Daniel Long, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Lewis, John Longbone, Zachariah Longhouse, James Logan, Philip Mature, Big Moccasin, John Martin, James II. Murray, James Moody. Elijah Owens, George Pemsey, Winfield Pipe, Thomas Puneh, .James Rowe, James Roberts, James Shanghai, Wilson Sareoxie, Thomp- son Smith, Lamon Scott, Thomas Shields, Joseph Shorter, Beverly Tally, Frederick Vickers, James Wilson, Hiram Young and Ethan L. Zane.
Although the Fifteenth did some hard fighting at the Battle of the Blue, only three of the seventy-three officers and privates from Wyan- dotte county were fatally wounded. These were John Kannally, John Longbone and Joseph Shorter. Two were discharged for disabilities and six deserted. Those who died of disease were William Driver, Henry Gibson, James Logan, John Martin.
THE SIXTEENTII'S ROLL OF HONOR.
In the Sixteenth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, organized in the winter of 1863-4, Colonel Werter R. Davis of Baldwin City en- rolled many volunteers from Wyandotte county. The list of officers follows: Sergeants, William Sweeney, William MeDonald. William MeDowell, Morton Wallace, David B. Johnson, Charles S. Williamson, William Brown, James Brenner, Morgan MeIntyre, Samuel T. Han- nan, Henry Gray. Charles B. Morgan, William Moore, Isaae G. MeGib- bon, James W. Powell, John E. Renfro, Thomas Maloney, Franklin W. Patterson ; corporals, John Hogan, James C. Barnett, Robert Bayles, Thomas Brereton, John S. Waddel. Francis N. Kennedy, Newton J. Myers, Frederick Oltens, Dunean Kieth, John Kyle and John W. Woodman. The privates: James Abbot, John B. Akers, George Alli-
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son, Abraham Arms, William Anderson, James B. Barnett, John F. Beavers, Reuben Brown, Dennis Buckley, John D. Brown, Jr., Newton Butler, John D. Brown, Sr., William Beamish, Samuel S. Beebe, James M. Barnes, Jeremiah Burrus, Ransom Beach, Alfred Briggs, William Bryson, John Coyle, Peter Cunningham, James Cregg, James Cobine, Joseph C. Coakley, Benjamin Crim, John Carr, M. D. S. Collins, Wil- liam Clary, Oliver Dorris, Arehelaus Doxsee, William B. Dunear, Nicholas Dedier, Richard Frost, Michael J. Fox, Daniel Fitzgerald, Michael Fitzpatrick, John L. Green, Jacob Hayden, Elias J. Hampton, Eli Hargis, John W. Hampton, William Hunter, John Harris, Henry Jarvis, John M. Kennedy, Benjamin Keen, James H. Knnekols, James Lewis, Daniel P. Lucas, Milton L. McAlexander, Dennis Murphy, Bernard McDermott, Ruben Mapes, John Mitchell, William A. Mc- Laughlin, James McTour, Charles H. MeLaughlin, Michael Mccarthy, John W. Maine, James Noble, Goodlip Oleman, Peter Onnerson, Frank- lin W. Patterson, John Punch, George W. Patton, Andrew Priddy, Jerome Payne, Henry Perry, Paschal Pockett, John W. Pearson, Wil- liam Reed, James R. M. Renfro, George W. Ratliff, Jefferson C. Saylor, George W. Spicer, William M. Sears, William J. Sears, Luther Shork- man, Thomas Sullivan, John R. Smith, John Thayer, Herman Thayer, Edwin E. Willis, Joseph Whitecrow, Jackson Wiletrout, Alphonse B. Wolf, James C. Wilkinson, Ephraim B. Warren, John Wahlenmeyer and John S. Waddel.
Of the one hundred and nineteen officers and men from Wyandotte county who served in the Sixteenth in the two years of its existence nine died from disease, six were discharged for disability, eleven deserted and the remainder were mustered out on December 6, 1865. Those who died from disease were Edwin E. Willis, George Allison, Henry Gray, James MeTour, Luther Shorkman, Jeremiah Burrns, Richard Frost, Elias J. Hampton and John W. Maine.
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