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Civil War Veterans HereJttfct A MembUer that CMmmII M*d A Part la the fee* CHM War *I14LA little reference to the soldiers of the Civil war from Grinnell ought to be interesting in this edition. When the call came from Lincoln for 75,000 volunteers following /the attack on Sumter, the First Iowa Regiment mas formed- No one from Grlnnell enlisted In this regiment, but there afterwards lived here three men who served in the First Iowa and m'bo fought at Wilson’s Creek. They mere C* R. Morse and R, B. Gifford of Company K. Their home was-Dubuque and they were members of the National Guard when tba call was made and this company became a part of the First Regiment. The other member of the First who lived here subsequently was H. A. Field. When the war broke out he was attending Denmark Academy under the principal-ship of Prof. H. K. Edson. A good many of the Denmark boys went to Burlington and enlisted with the Burlington company and served during the three months and an additional extra period before they were discharged. The battle of Wilson's Creek was fought after the term of enlistment of these soldiers ended, but the First Iowa did valiant work at that place.The Tenth Infantry was organized in August and took to the front many Poweshiek County boys in Company B and Company F but the only’one in the first list from Grinnell was John Delahoyd who enlisted as a private and afterward became a second lieutenant. Salvador Hays also enlisted in Company I from Chester. There were probably no others.The Eighteenth Infantry contained a number of Poweshiek boys. In the Twenty-Eighth we find the names of Milton Bateman and Cassius Bateman,1 and Milo Morgan, who now lives here, but who enlisted probably from Deep River. 1We also find the names of James D. Evans. Augustus Skeels^, Burdette Stowe. Mathew Taylor. George Bine-gar. C. L. Roberts and several others.In the Fortieth Infantry we find the name of Samuel E. Harris from Grinnell and some others. In the Forty-Sixth. Company B was liberally enlisted from Grinnell and Grinnell college students. The Fourth Cavalry also contained a number of Grinnell and Chester people. Among them was D. F. Hays, who still lives here and many others whom most of the former Grinnell people knew.Dodge’s Brigade Band was mustered largely from Grinnell people.In this short article It is'not expected to give the names of all who enlisted from this place, hut to call attention to a small number. Of the number still living who went from this county a few still live in Grinnell. Old soldiers now living here who did noble work for their country when they were young men are:T. J. NollCkaat. Vu Dam W C. WUltaa»P. D. BurtM B. X, Stowe Jacob Kora*A. B. Colo Jae. S. Rollins Jacob Wlsecarver Robert Oantvty vT. C. White H. C. Smith Barny Reynolds Wm_ Borteli John Campbell David Lewis J. M. Kirk and J. A. Kirkpatrick of Grinnell are at the Soldiers Home.Henry Peters* still a member of the Post here lives in Illinois.
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Grinnell Herald
Grinnell, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 05, 1927
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